skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think native apps are doomed for most smaller companies where the cost just doesn't make sense, but there will always be a place for native apps for popular services that need OS level permissions. I do wonder how many native apps for smaller companies that end up costing more money than they are worth, but I'm sure at this point some companies are invoking the sunk cost fallacy instead of creating a proper web app that would save them money in the long run. Or the "we have to have this because our competitor has this," even if their competitor is experiencing the same problem. It will be interesting to see how long it takes for that to shake out.

On a whole it's not doomed, but it's a bit silly to have 2-3 dev teams that have to keep platform parity in native apps instead of just having one app that has the same experience across all platforms. Even solutions like Xamarin haven't really removed this rigidity with continual delivery and feature parity.
Wouldn't one have to abandon US citizenship? From what I understand, that's a very long uphill struggle, and likely impossible if you have significant debt.
Yes, about five 9's of recruiters don't understand the tech on the resume or the job description. That may prevent them from responding.

But in general, they rely on you to self-qualify. So they are far more likely to call you and run through the list of requirements verbally so you can tell them if you have them or not. That also gives them a chance to pitch other jobs. Of course, if you say no to something the hiring manager said was a must have, you disqualified yourself, but that's on the hiring manager, not the recruiter.

This comes from being in a tight labor market. Think of it this way: how often are you contacted for jobs you're totally unqualified for, but they think you are? In this market, I see that a lot more often than the opposite.
Releasing half-assed trivial tech demos with shit-ton of hype generating marketing? I'd say it's bread and butter of the industry - startups and big companies alike. It's a reason I'm really starting to hate programming as a job.

People say that a programmer should focus on meeting business needs, not on typing out code. But if business needs are this level of bullshit, it's really hard to focus on them and retain even a modicum of self-respect as an engineer.
Or in other words, "Nobody was ever fired for suggesting they buy from IBM."

In the absence of alternatives, marketing money goes to advertising.
We don't need student debt reform (and I say that as someone who has a lot of student debt). Student loan debt is a middle/upper middle class problem. 2/3 of millennials don't have a college degree, disproportionately in the lower and lower middle class. The majority have no student debt. Public money spent on college or debt reform would be a regressive benefit to those who are already better off than the median person. It would be better to spend that money figuring out how to improve the plight of working class people for whom college isn't in the cards.
Well, it's still a subsidy, it's just much less of one than completely free tuition would be. If the Government wasn't loaning that money interest-free, it could in principle reduce its issued bonds by that amount, so the subsidy is the value of the bond rate faced by the NZ Government - plus the present value of the expected defaults.

The idea of linking repayment to income is called an "income-contingent loan". It's a great idea for University tuition, because it reduces the loan to a system for reclaiming a proportion of the private benefits that accrue to the student from the additional education. This removes some of the risk faced by the student that they might put a lot of resources into education but then fail to realise the expected benefits (eg. through serious illness, a broader economic collapse etc).
The article mentions that to write for Intels Xeon Phis, its x86. I imagine this is mostly accurate but is creating writing for this as simple as creating another thread? That seems naive

Looked into it, [0] looks like you add some compiler instructures before code you want to outsource to the coprocessor. It doesnt look extreme, mostly naming which variables need to be sent and to where. Ive never worked with cuda so I dont know if its a pain or not. Looking into it, it seems instead of x86 code it is cuda prefixed functions that will offload. Granted, there are speed advantages to having direct accessbto memory, I dont think Api is the biggest selling point.

Im quite interested in seeing if nvidia thinks this is a threat and how they will respond. New systems may stay with nvidia just because the experience and failures have been there. Though if the speed gains are even 25% I would bet there would be a migration

[0] https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/ee/4e...
The concern with long-term storage in places like WIPP is the possibility that future subliterate humans may access the site without being able to understand the warnings. But if we store the waste in Antarctica, that's not a realistic possibility. No one can go there without access to significant intellectual and technological resources.

And it's unreasonable to suggest that nuclear waste couldn't be safely stored on the moon. Any future civilizations who can travel to the moon will almost certainly be acquainted with nuclear physics themselves. However, launching high-level waste into space has obvious risks of its own. It will also make it hard to recycle it later, if future technologies are able to extract more power from it.
I don't think it is, to allow blur between the society and the individuals is not something without consequences.
For those who are looking for a more detailed understanding of the algorithm and the choice of functions involved, I recommend http://staffwww.itn.liu.se/~stegu/simplexnoise/simplexnoise....
Things like this can only be endorsed by malicious or very stupid people (if you are getting excited about this and have Minority report pop into your head -- you're of the latter).
The remarkable distances you can travel on a European train in less than a day
Agreed. That's the same core problem with the US health care system as well.

Yet in both cases, education and health care, control of costs is pretty much not discussed at all. The only narrative we seem to hear is along the lines of "find more money to pay for it".
There aren't any. The Times bent over backwards to stab Clinton in the back at every opportunity, to avoid accusations of bias.
Because it's blindingly obvious this was within technological capability of mildly sophisticated people for the last 10+ years? It may not had an obvious business use, so that's why it's late to the market compared to image and video manipulation techniques. But it's not that people discovered signal processing last year.
How is that relevant to this post? This post isn't asking you or anyone else to get a BS in CS.
I agree with you except I am not sure about two conspiring forces at work here: Technology eating into professional jobs like xray techs, lawyers, etc., and colleges giving the degree in name only (nominally) were graduates more and more are not sufficiently trained and educated despite the degree. This makes for a spectacular bubble when the defaults and nonpayments reach critical mass.

Edit: P.S. this is just my guess and any data on this would be interesting.
This function works surprisingly well in practice.

IIUC, it's a hash function defined over 3D space with tunable gradient between points.

The cool thing about the the marble vase example is that marble texture continues on the inside. So if you look on the inside of the vase the texture will still be there. automatically [http://cims.nyu.edu/~perlin/doc/vase.html]

Here's an example I made [lots of copy pasta btw :)] when learning this to get a wood texture [a simple application of Perlin noise, btw :)]. If you cut through the wood, the texture will still be there.

http://shaderfrog.com/app/view/828 [the dividing factors in line 236 tune the gradient]
Agreed: "It seems that my techniques found their way into the various software packages" leaves the how completely to the imagination :)
Such an arrogant thing to say about computer scientists. It's like saying why don't mathematicians know how to write an app?
> The worst move the environmental movement did is let the environmentally sensitive product be associated with consumption by a rich liberal urban elite.

I'm pretty sure this move was made by the 'anti-environmentalists', including big industry and those fighting the ideological war against 'liberalism'. They would have found a way to discredit it among their followers - if not this way, than another.

Even these terms are from their propaganda, but lots of people repeat them as if they have meaning and represent something real.

> rich liberal urban elite.

> limousine liberal
There is no independent data set used to validate the model(s). We have no idea how the models will generalize beyond this data set.
Also TV series. They have taken over movies (and other activities like reading).

In fact, most of them are mostly not series any more: they are serials. That's infinitely more addictive.

In a series you can watch a random episode, almost or fully independent from the other ones (so you don't care so much about missing one episode now and then), that has an introduction, a progression and a conclusion. The continuous background is weak, sometimes almost non-existent, just to give a little bit of matter to the characters.

In a serial, you cannot miss an episode because it's just one long story cut in chapters, and the episode theme is more and more secondary nowadays. When you start a serial, you're hooked, you need to see all episode to be able to follow (and even if you happen to get bored, you want to finish the season to know the final word). Also, instead of cooling down after the climax as in a series, each episode ends with a cliffhanger ; that means your consumption becomes compulsive, you want another episode right away, or as soon as possible.

In fact every 'cultural' production nowadays aims at binge consumption and is tailored for this unique purpose.
I think a better twitter would literally be twitter but instead of a feed, it would be a dashboard of all your follower's most recent tweet.

Then if you get bored you can click on a username to view a complete (chronological) feed.
Because it cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. So there is no incentive for the lender to make sure your degree will earn you enough money to pay it back.
> The fact is that what happens in the world is usually due to the collective action of many different people and groups

Thats exactly what I mean, it seems like most conspiracies stem from the idea that some person or a group of persons is able to manipulate world events. In the fake news world, it is insinuations that circumstances have a very simple cause->effect relationship. Rather than having to comprehend the huge number influences on events, it is boiled down to a simple "they did it." narrative, which is appealing because its not challenging.

Also I think calling it vector math is misleading because the number of datapoints and the complexity of the system makes any discrete analysis impossible, short of inventing psychohistory[1] for real.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)
>the act of renouncing U.S. citizenship does not allow persons to avoid possible prosecution for crimes which they may have committed in the United States, or escape the repayment of financial obligations, including child support payments, previously incurred in the United States or incurred as United States citizens abroad.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal-considerati...

I guess if you successfully renounced you could just try to avoid having any contact with the US ever again...
The original post misses the visibility point.

To me, Twitter benefits from being public discourse and an open forum for replies. On the other side of the coin, Facebook benefits from being a private forum (as most people use it).

Solutions that don't facilitate these use cases aren't going to be successful. Understand why people chose the services they did (discounting network effect) and then try and build something to compete.
I hear what you're saying about the spam/fake news. However it is not black and white. Sometimes even the 'good guys' make mistakes.

The fake news/spam thing might be straightforward. But what people are objecting to is the black list. Who decides what is one that blacklist?? That is the problem. What happens if the developer goes rogue/gets hacked/sells to a shady interest?? What happens if the developer is in favor of a certain parties biased news? Or even more insidious, what if they dont recognize their bias??

And in anticipation of the crowd sourced/decentralized argument I have heard elsewhere: lets talk about bitcoin. It is decentralized, under no one's control, right? A while back there was talk of increasing the block size to make transfers go faster. (the technical details are irrelevant, sorry if I made a mistake). One developer resigned because the other couple wouldn't make the change. Who controls bitcoin? ~4 people. This is why people are worried about blacklists.

As a side note, the book Fahrenheit 451 is super relevant right now. This is what we are scared of. FWIW, it was the only book I read in school that I remember/had an influence on me. Please read everyone! Thanks
Haven't used AWS/Google yet for the same set up, we've customized the Azure set up to include tens of TBs of disk space, over 100 compute nodes with quite a bit of RAM. I'd say for any reasonably sized start up or company, it's a good choice - plus the Mesosphere stack also helps avoiding lock-in to one vendor. (would love to see them making multi-cloud tooling)
> I'm curious why we treat student loan debt as being special.

Because you can no longer declare bankruptcy to erase student debt.

> If your degree of choice is unlikely to yield the kind of return that will pay for it, then you should be required to save up for it, rather than getting a loan, just like there are qualifications for other loans, like auto or mortgages which look at both the value of the asset vs its sale price, and your ability to pay.

Now only the rich can send their kids to art school.

> TL;DR - When handing out student loans, we should consider aptitude (how likely is the person to graduate) & the career potential of the degree as qualifiers.

So people like my wife who didn't do that great in high school because of poor family environment would never be able to prove their true abilities in college. She was the valedictorian of her masters program. Without student loans, she'd be making 1/5th of her salary but you couldn't tell that a decade ago.
That just means your parents wealth will dictate your future even more.
Exactly. They get to choose what's on their platform, and we get to choose whether to use it.
Could be talking about this story from today?

Google Bans Hundreds Of Pixel Phone Resellers From Their Google Accounts
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/11/20/0727240/google-bans...

Google has since "reviewed banned users' appeals and re-enabled their accounts," reports The Guardian.
> Conservatives are unlikely to be OK with someone knowingly and intentionally exposing people to fatal levels of radiation in the way they are OK with adverse ecological systems.

I don't think that's true. They defended the cigarette industry, for example. They oppose laws and regulations protecting people in the workplace. They support and encourage law enforcement's abuse of the poor and minorities.

> It needs to leave the intellectual space of optional or preferential discourse and enter the one of rights and crimes.

That would help, but for many it's about ideology and greed and not about rational debate.
The End of the End of History
When will DeepMind be good enough to detect YouTube perverts?
That's what I'm saying. They have rights to their platform, and we have the right to use it or not. That's why I linked to an alternative.
How about this - different people respond well to different organizational methods? Perhaps like many things there is not a one size fits all solution.

For me, todo lists in the form of a Kanban board with columns that hold longer term "need to remember" tasks really help so I don't forget those things. And when I am sitting idle wondering what to do next, I have a list ready (unless something else pops up that is higher priority).

I think over scheduling might lead to its own inflexibility and paralysis as well. But it might work great for some people!
Unfortunately, yes. Most people do not understand the importance of protecting even the speech they disagree with.
What the fuck is wrong with people.
Different tools for different cases. What I find helpful (as long as I'm in a mood to stick to it):

- Writing down all the things in my mind (i.e. mind dump) - tremendously reduces my stress and clears my head; a good mind dump makes my mind feel temporary empty, unburdened. After doing that I usually quickly review what I wrote down and make a conscious decision about what to do with each item (e.g. put it on a TODO list, ignore it, shoot a mail about it and forget), so that those things don't start immediately cluttering my head again.

- Big todo lists - mostly useful to keep track of random errands that I'd otherwise have to remember. I'm e.g. happy to tell that I don't remember when my rent is due, or when I have to remind a friend about sending me the details of a project - but I'm confident that my todo list will remind me at the appropriate moment.

- Improvised, throwaway todo lists - help me focus on a difficult task through the process of breaking it down into steps small enough I can execute them one-by-one without getting a panic attack.

- Scheduling - works for me if I schedule blocks dedicated to particular task or project - like "work", "project X", "random", "HN break". Helps me focus without triggering my otherwise usual anxiety attacks. Also I make sure to schedule "random / shallow work" blocks regularly, which exist to ensure I do process my todo lists, that would otherwise go stale.
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I wonder if you could use opal?
"Cue", like in the theatre.
Eugenics.
In theory it's an obstacle in practice if you have no significant assets it's easy. Remember all those undocumented immigrants into the US other countries have the same thing.

Now, sure you can't come back to the US without problems. But, plenty of countries are happy to take young well educated workers looking to start over.
Pick up a copy of George Dyson's Turing's Cathedral, and you may be left wondering whether this notion even makes sense.

Before even Babbage, Leibniz was obsessed with developing a notation for a universal language that could be used to program a mechanical structure using marbles.
I've always loved the demoscene stuff I've seen. How would you recommend getting into it? Both the community and creation
Counterpoint: if it provides a false sense of security, then it might have made things worse.

Also, confidence in the press is at an all time low, so there is already awareness. [1]

1. http://www.gallup.com/poll/192665/americans-confidence-newsp...
> Why we treat student loan debt debt as being different

Where is the collateral? You buy a house, don't pay... you lose the house.

You buy an education, don't pay... you... lose the education?

No bank is going to give money for degrees without a realistic change of getting paid back. They have no fear of getting paid back because you CANT remove the debt via bankruptcy.

I think there needs to be a different approach because it IS different... but the "you can never remove this debt" is too much.

My personal opinion:

Give some sort of limit - 10/20/30 years? - and some sort of max% of income - 10%?. If the loan isn't paid off by the end of the limit at a max % of income, then the loan can then be discharged by bankruptcy.

That would remove loans for "crap" courses (finger painting) except for those that pay for it out of pocket. Banks would still give loans for courses that lead to real jobs. Kids could still take shit degrees if they can pay for them (although, those would dry up).
What does parent wealth have to do with it? I watched this documentary years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC_RYgkkmcM I totally agree with this film.

Apparently back in the old days you could work a part time job, and pay for college at night debt free. If the gov keeps handing out loans, then what incentive do schools have to keep their prices low and compete with each other?

Oh and then the presidents of some colleges are paid more than the president of the United States. I guess appointing 4,000 people, managing the military, a bunch of departments across the country, etc is easier than managing a bunch of kids by their logic. Oh and don't forget we gotta build a nice stadium so I can put my name on it too!
Interesting idea. But that seems pretty tough unless the new grad has a much sought after skill and speaks the language in the destination country.
So, I am not at all an expert in finance, but there are claims (from Jill Stein for example) that the real cost of the bailout was much, much higher.

Here's a Mother Jones article that takes this position:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/behind-real-size...

Can someone with more knowledge break down whether or not this is accurate?
And also made a billion dollars for Notch. Perlin noise is the basis for minecraft terrain generation.
A couple years ago, I gave up using my cell phone while on the toilet for Lent. It was surprisingly one of the toughest habits I've ever had to break.
I concur. If you schedule in advance, it's much easier to break through the initial emotional barrier of starting the thing you're anxious about.

I used to hate scheduling, now I swear by it. The change was entirely in my understanding what "scheduling" means. I used to treat this as iron-strong commitments. Those made me dislike scheduling because I felt I'm losing autonomy over my own life. Now, I treat scheduling in advance as my best-effort plan for efficiently doing what I want, subject to revision at any point I deem necessary. I found allowing myself to shuffle the schedule around as I need made it feel liberating, and my worries about losing autonomy pretty much disappeared.
I guess when your fetish is so weird it's not even really sexual, you can trick kids into doing something that is pornographic only to a very small number of people. Like, it is really disturbing that some creep is able to ask a kid about if she's ever stepped on any bugs and that he's getting off on that. On the other hand, I'm not really that concerned about it. I do agree that you absolutely should not be contacting a minor for sexual gratification, even if they and 99% of the population don't understand how it can be for sexual gratification. But so long as they're not stalking the kid, sending messages back and forth asking for details where they live, or really doing much of anything, there are probably far more dangerous sexual predators on the internet to be worrying about.
I wonder how much money could be saved if the US got rid of its general education based system.
That was 2014, it has accelerated greatly in 2016.
I can't begin to express the disgust I have over ever-increasing tuition. From what I can tell, a lot of it goes towards pointless fancy buildings, costs for other activities other than learning and the ever present college textbook scam.

There was an interesting episode on Planet Money why college textbooks cost a ton but not high or middle school.
I feel like I've heard this before...
By automation you mean in many, many years, right?
But the corollary of that law is "try and figure out what works for you". So test the different approaches, instead of assuming they won't work for you; evaluate them honestly, and stick to those that produce results.