skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After 20 years of working I've learned: answer quickly (to the emails that you intend to reply to) even if the only thing you can say is "I have read this and will get back to you".

I used to fuzz and wait until I had the ultimate, perfect reply.. usually like 12-48 hours later. Turns out that is the wrong approach - for the reasons outlined in this article.

> On the other end I commit to read every emails.

That was my defense too! I iterated it over and over to my team (my bosses would get preferential treatment...), but noone would believe me - unless I responded. People tend not to believe invisible things.
Because flexbox has been around long enough and allows you to hit 97.12% of the market with prefixes and 85.11% unprefixed.
Perhaps they did not create the beast, but they wholeheartedly wanted federal government to be bigger.
Your homepage pushed my CPU to 75% and resulted in an early click on the red cross of the tab. (latest chrome stable/osx 10.11)
You should do better.
What are you talking about?

- bootstrap contains a grid layout

- semantic-ui contains a grid layout

- bulma contains a grid layout

- purecss contains a grid layout

- tachyon contains a grid layout

- skeleton contains a grid layout

- milligram contains a grid layout

- spectre contains a grid layout

and the list goes on.
To add to that, you've got to buy a sketchy 3rd party HDMI adapter to plug your used Wii into a modern TV.
What's so bad about crazy?
Do what makes you happy OP, what else is there?
I'm not who you're replying to but I'll interject anyway:

Retraining for millions of jobs in the skilled trades. This is the program championed by Mike Rowe [0]. It also happens to dovetail perfectly with Trump's so-called $1 Trillion infrastructure plan. If he actually puts his money where his mouth is, he stands a good chance of being the most popular Republican president in history (while simultaneously being the most hated).

[0] http://profoundlydisconnected.com/
Trump didn't go on Fox News and promise to stack the Supreme Court with conservative justices specifically to overturn the ruling that allowed straight people to get married, because, like long golf putters, he doesn't think they are natural.

> For many people, Tuesday's election was a literal life-and-death struggle!

As it was for all the people who are only alive due to the Affordable Care Act allowing them to get medical treatments for their pre-existing conditions. And possibly for the 20 million Americans that stand to lose their coverage. Whether or not he actually repeals it, that's what he claimed he would do in his first week.
Graph-Based Machine Learning – Community Detection at Scale Part 2
Show HN: Adjust an image's colors to easier distinguish for the color-blind
Wow - wish I could upvote this more than once, it's a sad day when someone suggests that some knowledge is within reach and they're downvoted because what they suggested is "too hard"
And when going shopping with the car: put everything back in the shopping cart, take the cart to the car, load everything in the car (e.g. in boxes in the trunk), 0 bags and 0 carrying needed.
>they’re automatically a public utility //

Is that your assertion or is that through legislation where you are (which is where?)? Thanks.
Wanted to say this as well. Definitely a deal breaker.
> Uber basically figured out how to be a cab company without having employees

Take a look around and you'll find that basically every company has been trying to do that in America for a long time.

The administration staff at many businesses is all outsourced to staffing agencies.

Hiring almost everywhere is outsourced to recruiting agencies.

I know a number of multi-billion dollar corporations pumping hundreds of millions into their tech divisions, where > 95% of the employees are staffed from IT staffing agencies/consultancies.

Nobody employs a landscaper, unless they're a landscaping company.

It appears to be a big secret, but everyone contracts out everything these days. Uber is doing it on the most individual scale, in the most streamlined way I've ever seen. I don't happen to think that's as bad as everyone else does.
You can't call other users morons here.
The argument reasoning I've heard goes like this;

People drive reasonably well using vision primarily and with imperfect visibility of their environment.

Computer learning networks can classify imagery at least as accurately as humans and sometimes more so.

A computer using imagery that is well classified from an array of visual sensors with near perfect visibility should be able to drive as well, or better, than a human driver.

The execution strategy appears to be to run classification and command prediction all the time, and while the human is in control consider it supervised learning.

The argument against LIDAR is just this in reverse, humans don't need LIDAR to drive, why should computers?

LIDAR is an engineering solution to the problem of creating a representation of the 3D space around the vehicle. It is a stand in for the less well understood human ability to do the same just by looking around. As a result if the "looking around" solution being proposed by NVidia and Tesla meets the engineering requirement, I don't see any reason that the car should have LIDAR.
Paper [1] quotes the system's efficiency at 1.2 mN/kW.

Hall thrusters, a propellant-throwing electric engine, perform at 60 mN/kW. Non-propellant systems like light sails, laser propulsion and photon rockets perform around 0.0033 to 0.0067 mN/kW.

If it works, this isn't how you get people to Mars. It's how you move cheaply freight (and probes) around (and out of) the Solar System.

[1] https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/11/09/q_thruster.pdf
This looks really nice.

However, what I really want for React is a style-agnostic component library that basically extends the regular set of HTML elements, but comes with no "visual" styling (other than really basic styling like the browser's default styling for <input>, <select> and the like). Only styling that is necessary for the component to function should be included.

Of course, optional themes would be fine. Also, non-visual styling should be completely inlined. Themes could inject "visual" styling via context. User-defined styling would be passed via class or style props.
The "misleading photos of visible trash" are even more trash in the ocean , in addition to the miles and miles of plastic particles.
I wrote about this a long time ago here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8698986#8699260

I think most of what I wrote is still valid.

I believe the below reference:

http://www.decal.org/file/2945

and the book Heard on teh street are also great refresher's for the type of material you'll need.

https://www.amazon.ca/Heard-Street-Quantitative-Questions-In...

To be honest most of this won't matter, the number one qualification for becoming a quant is a Phd from a top tier university.

I'm one of the very few quants i've met that doesn't have a Phd, if you don't have one then its going to be a tough road ahead. YOu'll often hear people call themselves a quantitative developer if they come from a computer science background.

That might be the most over used phrase on wall street:) It's kind of akin to calling yourself an architect, in that one firms architect is another's junior developer. The term really means nothing and is given out like water, sort of how the engineering term gets tossed around in software dev firms.

I've got a pretty long back list of emails from hacker news to get through but if you have any questions about the job, please feel free to email. Just keep in mind that between year end, the US election and life a reply might take a while.

EDIT sorry I see that someone used the term quant dev while I was typing. No insult intended. There are some amazing quant dev people on the street.
For tens of millions of low skilled middle aged workers that will afford them a good standard of living?

No. Can you?
Audi had a car that would drift up Pike's Peak years ago. http://www.autoblog.com/2015/02/16/stanford-audi-tts-thunder... Ford is making headway on snow and rain http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3399315/The-d... Last I checked, this was mostly a sensor problem. The dynamics of driving in slippery conditions is pretty well-studied.
I whole-heartedly agree. I wasn't making a serious argument either for preserving the domestic surveillance or against the second amendment. I just found the wording amusing, and I wanted to get people thinking about the distinctions you spell out.
No. Men are still dying more than women.

But women attempt suicide more often than men. And women have started using more lethal means than they used to. And the combination - more suicide attempts, more lethal methods, is worrying.
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I'd say the end of the Cold War.
No, men die of suicide at 3.5x the rate of women. But there have been similar articles about the general trend of increasing suicide rates, and the highest rate being among white men. Whenever there's a gender or race break-out, there's opportunity for specific articles as people dig deeper into the data and start finding out the rates for other sub-populations.
I've advocated killing nobody and no one. Nor have I accused anyone of being racist or sexist except Trump.

Trump has said he will ban all Muslims entering the USA. That is discrimination on the grounds of religion.

He has repeatedly characterised Mexicans as rapists. That is racism.

He has repeatedly made disrespectful comments about women based on their appearance and questioned their ability to do their job based on whether they're on their Period. That is sexism.

He has boasted about being able to get away with uninhibited sexual contact because of his position of power and money. Women have corroborated his own claims and have stated that it was unwelcome. When both he and they are making consistent statements the balance of probability is that they're both telling the truth.

The idea that non-protest counts as consent is massively dangerous especially if one party has all the power and if the contact in question has already happened and finished.
He has a problem with two women. It's you that made it ambiguous by claiming he had a problem "with women".
That's kind of the opposite of the point of the article.
Not too far off the average SPA experience.
They do accept education as a value and just like the parents of the author try to send their children to colleges. Although the skilled tradesman career path can potentially be more lucrative so there's that.

Speaking of "sensitivity" - from my experience minorities (blacks, latinos) are actually more conservative/pragmatic and less "sensitive" in general. The only time they play the "sensitive" card is when dealing with whites, appealing to "white guilt" etc when justifying THEIR entitlement.
The headline reads confusingly to me. It sort of sounds like it's saying the system is five years in future but what he meant is that Telsa itself is five years ahead of the competition in this area. (Off-the-cuff verbal speech is often a bit hard to follow when written down exactly word-for-word)
I was asking about the articles he referred to.
Only one comment here mentions visual pollution. I've never seen paper bags snagged on a barbed wire fence. You can see plastic bags on fences a mile away. Much worse than cigarette butts.
Stallman is the man, and you have to admire him, but wow - is there anything that he can actually use/buy/compile/browse? It's like his universe of potential activities runs through a filter() which always returns false.
Serious question... do people really enjoy working on this stuff? Do most quants go to work thinking it is fun to work on mathematical models to optimize financial transaction. Or is it just a job that pays really well towards long term financial independence to do what they really want?
[video] Machine intelligence makes human morals more important
Narwhale.io+Skin/Color+Randomizer
Indeed. And when all those truckers lose their jobs, that's not just going to affect their lives. They're going to be retraining and competing for your jobs next. And they don't have to be nearly as skilled as you, if they're willing to do the work for half the cost. Which they will be, because they'll be desperate to feed their families. And thankfully for employers, us programmers have been doing our best to make programming easier and easier. The people looking to take our jobs will certainly appreciate that.

We need to start talking about a post-work economy and how that will work. Because that's going to happen. If automation pushes us there without the appropriate policies in place, it is going to be absolutely devastating.

And as this article touched on, the working-class generation is going to be deeply troubled by the idea of anyone getting anything without working hard for it. The concept of "if you don't work, you don't eat" is deeply ingrained into their psyches. So it is going to be a very uphill battle.
The continued use of the term "Liberals" is problematic to my agreeing with some of your otherwise valid points.

If you split the Left-wing into the authoritarian (Clinton/DLC and unfortunately, Obama) and libertarian (ie, Sanders/Warren), you'll see why most of your complaints irk those of us who agree with right-libertarians on lots of points.

Using a 2-dimentional compass to orient the political map is a lot more helpful: https://www.politicalcompass.org
Uh, I think you are reiterating my point. Because people just think that open source is maintained "by someone else", it becomes a tragedy of the commons issue.

If we stop perpetuating the idea that it's something different than regular software that anyone can modify, then maybe we can get more contributions.
I was about to give up, but I found in documentation, one of the last link on the side bar, is Components, there you can see a demo of good list of components. http://blueprintjs.com/docs/#components
Not every economist ignores the inequality costs if labor being forced to race to the bottom
> according to a Washington Post analysis of federal health data.

I wish they'd released this.
Same here on mobile, completely unusable. I wonder if the logo (unnecessary) animation is the culprit.
I'd been using it ever since it was announced, then it got so slow so I switched back to gmail.
> If you have a problem, what do you think is the solution? If you need something, what exactly do you need? You want to contact me, what's your phone number and when are you available? You don't feel great, why? How can we solve the problem?

These are going to seem constructive criticisms for people with whom you share communications preferences. That ought to be a lot of the people who read HN. Information-driven people, in a sense.

Outside of that group, good luck if you ever have a boss or colleague who prefers rapport and empathetic communication over the more direct, rational style you prefer. You are going to continually wonder why that boss expects you to read their mind. They are going to continually wonder why you can't consider others' needs from time to time, and put yourself in their shoes.

A tough reality for those with a strong "just the facts" bias, but a commitment to read every email is laughable in this context. Without stepping outside of your comfort zone and learning to accommodate different communication styles, you are vulnerable to the sort of emotion-driven problems that come crashing down right at the most inconvenient time.
They will be harmed by their parents' decision to break the law. The same thing would happen if their parents violated any other law. Why would this be different?
Unfortunately for them, Opera has already done that.
>> # Elixir + Phoenix is the future -- Python/Ruby/Java are too mainstream for us

>> vi main.ex

>> # No tests needed thanks to BEAM ;)

>> git add -A

>> # No need for descriptive commit messages; we spend our time on the important stuff ;)

>> git commit -m 'New commit'

>> # Rockstars push straight to production

>> git push origin master

Am I doing this right?? /s
There are exactly 2 choices that are possible for any first-past-the-post voting system.

Change that (which I support) and we can talk 3rd parties.

I supported Sanders 2016 primary and his 2012 primary threat to Obama, after having voted for Obama in 2008. Once the options became Obama (and now Clinton), I voted for those simply because the alternative means more coal, less regulations, and more religious right.
Actually, this would be a neat function in a mail client. Let's call it "Not now" - an action that:

a) pre-composes a reply with a canned response (but lets you edit it)

b) reminds you if you don't end up replying within some time (perhaps even parses that time out of what you ended up writing in that response)
I go with 211 feeds in a desktop app. It allows me to group news and take a quick look from a lot of sources. I don't follow news orgs that don't use RSS.
Sqlite Performance
That's nice but their idea of grid is to hand you a bunch of fixed-sizes CSS you can slap on elements. That has very little to do with the actual layouting a UI toolkit like Qt provides for.
This is very well done. If they provided a React Native one as well, that would be even cooler.
A PM is what companies used to call a business analyst. These days companies inflate titles so everybody has manager in their title.
what is the background required for quants these days? I have a Master's in math but no formal training in econmics or finance. Also I graduated 10 years ago
I'm a designer at Palantir (also write some code), and yes, it's used pretty much everywhere.
Thanks for this I see a great value on this, you got my github star.
If you like math and strategy of course it's fun (and I really don't see how someone who doesn't like these things could work as a quant). You're getting paid to use skills you have to solve puzzles essentially.
> the answer is always along the lines of "just try a load of stuff and pick the one that works best"

Forgive the naive question, but why couldn't ML figure out its own best "stuff"?
The usa already have a 500% tarrif on Chinese steel.

I dont think were gonna get rid of that in the next 4 years.
For those who speak french : https://www.amazon.fr/101-quizz-banquent-Math%C3%A9matiques-... by Pr. Gilles Pagès (LPMA).
Am i the only one that sees the massive problems with this ?

>But with the new basic school reform all children will also learn via periods looking at broader topics, such as the European Union, community and climate change, or 100 years of Finland’s independence ...

>The concept of “phenomenon-based” teaching – a move away from “subjects” and towards inter-disciplinary topics – will have a central place in the new NCF.

>The answer is that educators in Finland think, quite correctly, that schools should teach what young people need in their lives rather than try to bring national test scores back to where they were.

I'm all for teaching with current-time examples, but making them the central point ? Teaching children "what they need in their lives" (the what) instead of the how ?

Well they have money so i guess a general education is not that important for them.
Styling is still "unsolved" with react IMO.

Inline styles feel wrong, CSS alone isn't encapsulated enough to work with components correctly, CSS modules are TOO encapsulated which makes global styles and themes a royal pain, and adding another layer ala SASS or LESS feels like more of a "patch" vs a real solution.

And none of them really solve style inheritance in any way that I'd call elegant.

I end up using SASS and overriding default styles with weird hacks like using `.button.button.button` or (even worse) using `!important`, but it still feels wrong and doesn't scale very well at all.
Don't forget to git push --force to resolve conflicts!
I think the majority doesn't think of this at all. And for many of us, it was never acceptable for Apple, Google, MS, the telecoms, or IoT products to do this either. That's why many of us use FOSS and encrypt everything and use VPNs to mitigate these companies' access to our data.

You, like many others in this thread, are trying to point out hypocrisy and ideological inconsistencies where there are none, as some sort of "gotcha" so you can justify the belief that your political opponents are somehow worse than you are.
Modern journal doesn't involve "courses".

Copying Hunter Thompson , initiating "gonzo" style, has been the rage for quite a while -- it's more fun than being honest and careful
> So if we make a law banning somebody from competing with us, they'd be "illegal" and thus bad.

You're still missing (or strawmanning) the order of the events parent is referring to.

An analogy would be closer to the US deciding headlights were a required safety feature. Then at some point after that Chrysler realizes they can duct tape glow sticks to the bonnet and cut costs.

Doing so is illegal, they knew it would be illegal, and they still chose to make it their business model.

Whether the laws being broken serve a societal purpose is another question, but one that can't be hand waived away by saying "Some laws are bad. AirBnB has legal troubles. Therefore the laws AirBnB is breaking are bad."
Docs are utterly broken on mobile.
Compare "argparse", in Python.[1] There are a number of argument parsers like this. They have some way to describe the expected form of the command line, and check it. Errors result in a "usage" message which shows the desired form of the command line in the usual "help" style.

Github has at least three C++ implementations of "argparse". Here's a header-only one.[2]

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html
[2] https://github.com/hbristow/argparse
Hi jstanley great article I'm running similar system at https://inthebitcoin.com for few months and it works great for me. No need for any third-party payment system. Space (101GB) is cheap this days !
conservative justices specifically to overturn the ruling that allowed straight people to get married

Typical bluster from Trump. As a public figure, he acts in a very unprofessional way. This is part of his appeal to the working class, who have been chastised by professionals for years and then forced to pay for it out of their own pocket. I honestly believe that working class folks do not care if gay marriage is here to stay forever, as long as they get their jobs and their dignity back.

Whether or not he actually repeals it, that's what he claimed he would do in his first week.

Trump's already walked back his promise on that. I think he realizes he hadn't really thought that one through. His heart was in the right place when he promised it though. The people within his base saw their health insurance premiums continue to go up under the ACA. They were rightfully angry that the rich created a program to help the poor and then pushed all of the costs onto the working class. This is exactly what the article talked about.

A YUGE part of the whole debate over Trump can really be summed up by the pithy statement: "Take him seriously, not literally."
I can't edit anymore but I want to add that I regret my tone above, I think it's overly combative. I now think my original mistake was thinking that the model that the photogrammetry would generate would 'obviously' be a mesh or point-cloud without color/texture data and so the images being entirely computer rendered didn't fully cross my mind.
This "may" and "could be" was in the original title.

I was just (attempting) to simplify it.
Feinstein voted to support the initial passage of the PATRIOT Act, and voted to reauthorize in 2006. She's been on the same (IMO wrong, but YMMV) side of this since the get-go.
As an elixir dev the "no test needed" hurt. As someone that had to deal with explaining why VCS is important it burns.

But elixir does not have main file so it is ok :p
I ran Team Overbot.[1] We were way overdesigned for off-road and underdesigned for going fast.

[1] http://www.overbot.com
I don't think you understand what is a grid layout as defined in QT,GTK+,WPF ... we're not talking about CSS grids with CSS box model.