skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we have all the technical understanding we need to attempt such a thing, but the R&D costs for trying to get this crazy process to work would be astronomical and way beyond the budget of most university labs. I'm speaking mostly in terms of theoretical ability.

We have large scale FPGA devices. Adapting this to be not just reprogrammable in a formal capacity, but constantly self-reprogramming isn't a huge conceptual leap even if it is an enormously complicated thing to prototype and get working.

This is just how the technology behind the transistor made modern computers possible, we've just been iterating and refining on the same basic principle ever since, even though some of those iterations are very painful and expensive to get working. See the current pains around 10nm processes.

When I say we have the technology I don't necessarily mean we have the will or the budget to pursue it. As the costs come down it's inevitable someone will find a solution that's not billions of dollars, but instead mere hundreds of millions.

We're a long way from a proven, working design and process, but at least we can make such a thing, theoretically speaking.
40k and 42k are definitely not average salary (at least not for anyone who can do an interview on a whiteboard).

People get that out of [good] colleges for a first job, ignoring the students who do get more than that.
fyi: he was being sarcastic
dang, I love your software!
You should try Digital Ocean $5/month. Have root access, etc.

Is there a shared host cheaper than that?
Without Perl (sic!) you wouldn't have your Ruby and your Python. Rails - poof! Data science - poof! Perl laid the groundwork. It's flexible and intuitive. And I've seen people abuse it like no other. Perl got its "bad" rep not because of the language itself, but because of the people who lacked discipline, diligence and skill.
Hi, I am Chen Liang, the first author of the paper. Thanks for pointing out the Latex problem and sorry for the inconvenience.

We are trying to fix the Latex problem and submit a replacement to ArXiv soon. In the meantime, we hosted the PDF version of the paper on another link:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chen_Liang14/publicatio...

Thanks and look forward to your feedbacks and suggestions :)
If you want me to cite copyright law, then the section that covers it best is: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#501

Those cases you cited don't apply for specific reasons:

- For Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc., it was premised with consumers having already paid for their game, giving Nintendo a fair return for the copyrighted content. This was clearly stipulated by the judge in her ruling. With websites, you haven't paid a fair return for the content you're consuming so the case isn't relevant.

- Clearplay was only exempt in Huntsman v. Soderbergh because they were purchasing a 1:1 copy of every DVD that they were modifying. This isn't relevant because, for example, Adblockers are not paying publishers for every piece of content that they filter on.
I agree 100%. We have an huge crisis of representation in modern democracies , and its always been so but its more clear now. Voting 1 time in 4 years is really outdated to our way of thinking, living and making decisions. There needs to be a fundamental change in the mechanics of voting.
Alternative phone OS's like this and Kali Nethunter really make me wish there was a physical keyboard peripheral for the Nexus 5. A bulky case with a slide-out keyboard that connected via bluetooth would work wonders, even if it's still too small to use anything more than just your thumbs.
>Why not give it a shot?

A) because the evidence of institutionalized discrimination in the field is scanty at best.

B) because the techniques suggested for "giving it a shot" frequently involve cruel social manipulation, elimination of meritocracy, and accusing innocent people of sexism or even sexual assault.

C) because "giving it a shot" also suspiciously often involves handing over money and power to sociopaths who spend their time agitating and attacking others, not writing software.

Look -- the bad guys have poisoned the well, here. If you genuinely and sincerely think the industry needs to change, the first people you're going to have to go through to make it happen are the ones who claim they're on your side.
I found the original page hard to read. Reading the abstract of the paper cleared all the confusion.
The link I can see is when some religious/ethnic group has disproportionate representation in government.
Thanks. Please add a license file to repo of you haven't done so already. :)
> but an organization can't do things out of the goodness of its heart.

Why not?
> Eventually all job hunters learn that you get the same response rate when you write one sentence cover letters as you do when you put a lot of effort into them

I've never found that. In fact I've found just the opposite.

I've always tailored cover letters and CVs to highlight the points mentioned in the job description and why I can solve them, and I've always had a high rate of applications to interviews and then jobs.

It makes the job of the person sorting through CVs that much easier.

I've been on both sides of the table, and if you have 100+ CVs to go through, the short cover letter+CV that covers most of the issues raised in the job description will almost always make it to the short list for interviews.
That could depend on the lawyers your organization has. Not to say they do or don't include indemnification, but those providers who are capable will often times offer indemnification terms, when they don't do so out of course, if you have the proper team asking for it.

And usually large orgs with those kinds of liability questions will have the necessary resources to make those requests.
No, don't do this! This is spamming, which is illegal.
I would hope we're not parachuting in "untrained diversity" at the lower levels, either. Everyone should be held to the same standards.
VSCode is very good, free but doesn't make $ for share holder.

But you should check out the redit thread on Windows 10.
Why is shipping so expensive in US? I live in China, and virtually every online stores here offer free shipping, even for for example a screwdriver which worth less than 5 dollars. I once researched into it and found that if you are a store owner and have many packages to be delivered everyday, the price can be as low as 30~50 cents per package.

And it's really efficient. Basically no shipping would take more than a week. Average time would be 3~4 days.
> teaching or nursing
Honestly, all London companies who posted salary range are quite unimpressive...

The ones around £40k are not even trying to recruit.
Have you tried MATE, such as with Ubuntu MATE? I prefer Xfce, but MATE is a great fork and update of GNOME 2.
>Given that level of rejection, the key here is to get women to know the odds and keep trying.

Now that's an important fact that tends to get overlooked. Ninety-nine percent of the agitation about increasing "representation" tends to focus on accusing everyone of misogyny and attempting to destroy existing culture. But increasing the confidence level of female applicants, so they aren't put off by immediate rejection, could be a much less destructive way of achieving the goal.
I don't understand how using the internet to vote will fix the flawed voting system. I think fixing fraud would probably be the best way to increase real voting. There is continuously fraud going on. You see the voter registrations for people that died years ago. You see the people at the polls voting more than once. I'm not voting this election because I don't believe my vote matters (and our candidate choices). People want to be heard, yet the corruption continues. I don't believe simply making it easier to vote will drastically increase voter turnout - real voters, that is.
I worked in the industry as well, pretty much all angels (agent, photographer, webmaster, videographer, programmer). I second that programmers are given a lot of flexibility and that development tends to be much faster. There's a lot less overhead.

I don't agree with the fact that porn is a frontier of tech anymore. Just read some of the forums on GFY (NSFW). They are all using PHP still and are absolutely clueless about anything that was invented after 2004. Also, read through the API docs for some of the billers. It's amazing how bad the docs and APIs are.

And no, I'm not going to give you FTP access to my server to set up your "script" because I haven't used it in over a decade, and second, I'm not giving you access to my server period. Who the hell still uses FTP? LOL

The porn industry is like the Cuba of the tech world.

Lots of fun times. Lots of horror stories too. Very unethical stuff going on though. Funny thing is, the porn sets were probably more ethical than the programming jobs.

All kinds of shady stuff happen at porn tech companies. Making the favicon look like a lock to fool users into think it was a secure site. Creating fake sites en masse just to get credit card approval because the accounts got shut down so fast for deceptive hidden cross sales.
Can't you just disable it? I got emails only when someone is sending me a message or invites me.
You don't need to demonstrate emotional attachment.

You do need to demonstrate that you can solve the problems of the potential employer.

People advertising for a job have a business problem to solve. If you can demonstrate that not only can you solve that problem but that you have solved similar problems for other businesses before, then you stand a greater chance of making it through to an interview.
Ask HN: Is Angelist now the spammy new LinkedIn?
I seem to be getting an increasing number of "connect with me on AngelList!" emails.

Anyone else getting the same?

Spammy spammy LinkedIn all over again....
How do you feel about the sex-trafficking links?
I agree. I think they're just listing people who will go down in history with BleachBit. My boy Rowdy Gowdy is listed right next to Hillary :-)
I ignored the point because I wanted to (coincidentally because that's what the OP author was doing, imo). I wanted to point out the hypocrisy of the NYT, and to point out that a communication giant complaining about how consumers have options, is not good at all for objective truth; and this complaining, both from private companies and government, is growing. I was work and didn't have time to write a clean thesis, so sorry.
> The criticism is that this is a Pro machine. Pro people care about performance and features.
> The decision to optimize for thinner and lighter at the expense of other useful features is the criticism. The weight and size were fine before. I don't care. I'd be fine with bigger and heavier too.

I mean, that's a bit of a weird criticism to level at Apple, isn't it? Making things thinner and lighter has been Apple's MO even in the Pro Line for more than a decade. I remember when the 12" PowerBook G4 came out. It was hailed as breakthrough product for road warriors. It fit a 12" screen into a 4.6 pound frame. Today, the 15" is even lighter than that. Do we miss stuff like the optical drive enough to want to go back to 4.6 pound laptops that only fit a 12" screen?

Obviously, even Pro users care about size/weight. If they didn't there would be no point making the 13" model.

> All I care is that it fits in a normal size backpack / travel case.

So you don't care about the size/weight of the laptop, but the size/weight of the dongles is a deal-breaker? And you'd rather have everyone pay for ports only a few people need than to pack some dongles in one of your several bags?

> In terms of video, there really isn't any compelling reason to upgrade until Kaby Lake is out.

People would've flipped their shit if Apple had skipped both Broadwell and Skylake.
Colorado is also a very nice place to experiment with new ideas, at least assuming amendment 71 doesn't pass this year!

> let's talk about how to get rid of the 2 party system, and allow more diverse parties and ideas

Especially tricky when both parties tend to be against those sorts of proposals, for obvious reasons.
a large part of construction is now entirely machine based. how much strength does it take to drive a dump truck? or operate a crane? or drive a bulldozer?

the answer is that it is the same amount as driving an every day car: almost none.

I don't know enough about the other industries to comment.
I've made a concrete proposal for moving type signatures exclusively to a postfix tag on object keys here:

https://github.com/tjson/tjson-spec/issues/30
Data caps/tiers/metering is basically the only fair way to provide data service. "Unlimited" is inherently flawed as a product concept.
OP's answer may be a bit cynical, especially compared to a highly qualified candidate with a pick of many offers, but one thing he said does ring true:

"...the rest remains to be discovered. During the interview process, for example."

In my experience as both employee and employer, the interview is a discovery process for both sides. Prior to interviews, the candidate should have some hypothesis about why they want to work for you based on an extrapolation of publicly available information, and it's worth following up with them after the interview process to see if their hypothesis has been confirmed with more concrete information. If it's still vague, then there may be a problem.

Works in reverse for the company too, of course.
Maybe I misunderstand the metric, but isn't turnout calculated as the average tenure of people who leave? If the companies just add
more engineers, this shouldn't affect the metric (unless you also count the tenure of people who are actually still working there, but that doesn't sound like a good way to estimate churn rate...)

If that's the case, it seems there is quite a bit of confusion about this: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-07-29/why-are-g...
And, what is this particular skill set?
Personally I'm happy to make an argument that given a lack of evidence that gender plays a negative roll, we have a moral imperative to eliminate unfair and discriminatory barriers to entry because its the right thing to do.

But lets say that isn't a compelling argument for you. Our industry has a disastrous success rate. Something is wrong. Most software is not getting written correctly, on time, or on budget. On top of this, it is nearly impossible to fill positions with qualified applicants.

Given that, there is a pretty strong argument that we should change the way we hire software developers and an obvious way to change it is to be more inclusive. If the current population isn't getting the job done, lets open the population up to others.
> Also, read through the API docs for some of the billers. It's amazing how bad the docs and APIs are.

I tried really hard to use Stripe to bill for an adult project I was working on (which was being built with Django so I could learn Python, which I needed to sharpen up on for my day gig), and Stripe wouldn't budge on it because it was an adult site. I was willing to hold excessive reserves, accept chargeback charges at a higher rate, whatever. Ended up having to use a well-known biller instead.

Some of the tools the adult industry ends up using is solely because there are limited options for that business avenue, and because of that, captive audience.
You aren't entitled to consume copyrighted content any way you wish if you haven't paid a fair return for it.

For example, you can flip through a book if you want to, because it's already been paid for.
Cool project. I'm a longtime Haskell skeptic but this article does a great job explaining Haskell's advantages in this useful and otherwise challenging example.
Honest question, is it possible to export all of the chat history from slack?

One of the (only) things I like about Skype is that message history is held in an sqlite database on the local machine. So I have a record of every single message for the last 5 years.
So what you care about is shipping time, and location is a proxy for that if you don't have more trustworthy information.
Notes on my full-time testing of 7 Dropbox alternatives (2015)
Not unheard solution. Russia did something similar in the 1920s, but it turned out to be an epic fail.
Yeah, because people in power have always had so much trouble until e-mail. The most that can come from this is that people who might not have gotten the memo before, will have now: conspire in private, over drinks.
When we were doing face recognition on Kinect, I'd pass by the Q/A areas and eventually got used to seeing Richard Nixon, Mao Tse-tung, Marilyn Monroe and others dancing around, exercising the Kinect software stack. The masks were pretty startling at first.

I think that the next version of the camera did analysis in IR to try to detect masks, I don't know how effective it was.
As a mathematician but not a statistician or probabilist (so very much not an expert here), this:

> When we look at this it can sometimes seem as if there is a pattern emerging from the behaviour. However, if you feel like you can see such a pattern it is entirely coincidental, since the nodes are completely unaware of each other.

bothered me. It seems to me that the fact that patterns can emerge from non-coördinated behaviour is one of the interesting facts about mathematics. See, for a dodgy example—because there is some coördination—firefly flash-locking; and, for a genuine example that I literally just happened to be reading about this morning, the fascinating Nobel-Prize work discussed at https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/kosterlitz-t... . (I encourage you to go read the latter if you haven't already; as you will expect if you have read Baez's work, it's exposition at a level just about anyone, including non-mathematicians, can probably understand of scientific Nobel-Prize work, and those don't come along very often.) I guess, though, that to make any rigorous statement that this can occur, and isn't just an illusion, one has to make a rigorous definition of 'pattern', and the implicit definition of something like "externally imposed structure" has just as much claim to being 'correct' as anything I could cook up.
You can turn off Pocket's start page suggestions in the extension's options.
If you read the Federalist Papers and other writings of those who actually hammered out the US Constitution, there are strong threads of distaste and fear for the consequences of unfettered popular democracy. The mostly wealthy, land-owning, businessmen and aristocrats who met in Philadelphia envisioned a largely oligarchic, Roman-style Republic, not a Democracy of universal suffrage, liable to succumb to the shifting winds of populism and demagoguery. Only the House was to be directly elected; senators would be selected by their respective state legislatures, not a direct plebiscite. Moreover, they mostly restricted what limited voting rights there were, to white adult male property owners, those with "skin in the game."

Largely, it was a slight modification to the British system that they were already familiar with.
With regard to getting responses to job applications, there's plenty of evidence that women and people of color face systemic discrimination:

- https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/st...
- http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2014/why-does-john-get-stem-...
That sounds horrible. Ever thought of writing a VBA for data science book? ;-)
I'm not certain I see how C++ and SQL would be all that different if designed by women.

Nor, for that matter, browsers, or perhaps word processors.
It's really strange that, ever since the financial crisis, 20-30 somethings are starting to rationalize rent over ownership. It's a counterproductive argument that hinges on interest rates quickly shooting back up to 7-8% so housing prices go back down. There are a lot of forces moving against that though. Asset holders (homes and stock) aren't so keen on giving up the new values they've become accustom to, and Europe has negative rates. When Ben Bernake left the Fed, he started giving these 250K dinners to Wall Street. The crux of his message was low interest rates are here to stay.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-at-big-ticket-dinners-a-blu...

And, even if interest rates do rise dramatically over the next 10-20 years, inflation will act as a counterweight against the argument of buying now.

Instead of rationalizing rent, I think you'd do better to downsize and try to get a house you can afford. That way you have a strong asset you can work with if your $150,000 in 401K money doesn't amount to squat in your 70s.

Not trying to be a jerk, but America has been sold a lie with the 401K (watch "The Retirement Gamble" on PBS), There's going to be a major crisis in 30 years. In my view, there's no real answer other than trying to amass a shit ton of assets and hoping technology relieves some of the burden rather than compounding it. Ok, now I'm getting off topic... :-)

Anyway, yours is a smart piece, and I'm sure you'll do fine.
Greece knew full well what they hired Goldman to do. You can't absolve them of that.
You literally just described Google Contributor:

https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/

They show cat pictures instead of ads, while still letting you pay a couple pennies to the publishers.
How ridiculous. The flaw in the election system is the lack of proportionality, not lack of a mobile voting app. If people really want everyone to vote then they need to first make sure every vote counts.
Wouldn't the message of "you are your accomplishments" make men more likely to give up after a failure rather than less?
>So you don't care about the size/weight of the laptop, but the size/weight of the dongles is a deal-breaker? And you'd rather have everyone pay for ports only a few people need than to pack some dongles in one of your several bags?

I'm not the OP, and for the most part I agree with your take, but here, I get it. Things like dongles are easily lost or broken when you most need them out in the field. When you're busy trying to do something, you don't want to be scrambling trying to find a dongle while you're missing shots -and then fifteen minutes into a search for an adapter you remember you might have left it in the car...

I mean, at the airport, I can have my ticket right in my pocket, but damnit if I can't find which pocket it's in.
Robotics.
I don't see why this is a big deal. There are only a handful of such programs (as shown by this goofy graph with no y axis label[1]). If one or more of them is vulnerable, an attacker can just try all (< 20?) possible exploits without bothering to sniff for information leaks. Otherwise, sniffing those leaks tells him you run foobar-keygen, which leaks its identity and has no known vulnerabilities.

[1] http://i0.wp.com/dan.enigmabridge.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14889
Both nursing and teaching have been wrestling with how to get more men into those professions for well over a decade, and the number of men in nursing has been rising for the past three decades.
‘How Much Suffering Can You Take?’

State of mind.

Turn this question around. Ask yourself "How much suffering can you take to stop others being hurt?" This in my view is a better question to know the answer. Put this way I define it as being able to stick an arm in a fire, hold it there until the job is done.

If you think about this way, you realise the real challenge is mental than physical.
> That won't work because you'll be adding noise to
> your own data.

What does "noise" mean in this context?
Would you pay $3000?
I’m a Venture Backed Startup Founder and I Had a Baby
One of the things currently being tangled with, in nursing (because contrary to the usual assertion, the profession does worry about this) is the tendency for male nurses to get assigned to difficult patients who need restraint, and what that means for their occupational health.
Damn it, M$! Keep your shit closed. Not everybody wants you messing around.