skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like many things depends on where you live. China you say, In a brick /mud farmhouse? Goodluck not being crushed. Some place like the USA with good building codes, it's other stuff that kills you.
I don't believe there's any requirements for the data to never cross borders on transmission, just that it must be stored in Canada.
I don't think that is necessarily true. I am hard pressed to think of anything out side of search that Google has released that has really pushed a futuristic envelope.

I feel their current approach is sensible. Research at a for profit organization has to have a path to profitability. Long term this will enable them to more efficiently distribute their funds to projects that will see the light of day, generate revenue, and feedback into the cycle.

M(r)?s. Porat is merely efficiently carrying out financial accountability, which is what your CFO should be doing. Their job title should simply be "Boring Buzzkill", which if they live up to it they are doing a fantastic job!!
After passing the ProctorU portion of the test, I was flown in and did more computer exams, as well as interviewing with some people in person.

In chatting with people while I was there, it sounded like it was very expensive to fly everyone in for the entirety of the computer interviews, so they started outsourcing the first part to weed people out.

For what it's worth, I did have to do a "logic" assessment that felt very IQ test like, though I have never actually taken an IQ test
Given that MS Office is priced at $99 per year, your pricing seems very high.
Trek wasn't made for logical consistency. They could duplicate Riker with a transporter accident, but they couldn't make another Data that way, they had an entire episode about deconstructing him, then another about him constructing a 'child' robot.
Well. I guess the "No Politics week" wasn't going to last.

This goes to the core of socialized healthcare, Social Security, Universal Basic Income, and the dismantling ofsaid systems that exist.

The Baby boomers pulled the ladder up when they climbed up, and left us all in the lurch paying for them. You know, "Get the government outta my life, but dont you dare touch my medicare".
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I had a teacher who was narcoleptic -- sure it was funny when he would fall asleep in the middle of class, but when his wife died he wasn't in a position to take care of all five of his children, so his 17 year old daughter had to forego her dreams of college in order to take care of her siblings. This probably isn't the best venue to say this, but it really saddens me when people's lives are ruined because there isn't a profit in helping them.
The mere act of using Signal is suspicious. But if usage is universal then that suspicion can not be acted on.

The suggestion that the motivation for this article is profit for the NYT or Moxie is quite destructive.
AMD has been competitive on the low-mid range CPUs, and very competitive on power utilization (mobile devices).

I agree on the drivers though, Nvidia drivers have always worked much better, I've avoided the past 2 generations of AMD graphics because of this. They may have gotten better.

Just upgraded to a GTX 1080 a few months ago when I went back to single monitor (40" 4k) from two 27's... works very well, just needs a little more oomph in gaming at 4k though, next gen should be great at 4k though. I don't really game much, so it's been great for me.

I'm not sure what will come out of AMD, but think they are ahead of intel for integrated cpu/gpu though.
Trendeing with Anh Dao
Why bother with emulation? The only app I use with any amount of regularity that doesn't run well on arm is spotify.

EDIT: I forgot you where talking about windows, still, if you stick to open source *nix stuff then you really don't have this problem.
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At the risk of making a redundant post, this is surely one of the most pertinent questions in the thread.
Relatedly, if you want to impress people with the ability to "read binary", and you know that something is plain ASCII text represented in binary, just look at the rightmost 5 bits of every byte. They will be the ordinal position of the letter.

"Hello" is

01001000 8 (h)

01100101 5 (e)

01101100 12 (l)

01101100 12 (l)

01101111 15 (o)

And when you see all zeroes, it's probably 00100000, the space character.
This is awesome. For anyone who's starting a company, Clerky is by far the best way to do all the legal legwork. I've used a number of companies to try to save time (including Stripe Atlas, which is kind of a disaster) and wish I'd just done everything through Clerky.
From the title I was expecting this to be some math post about strange factors or something. I was really disappointed. Is the youth today really fascinated by merely translating ASCII strings into numeric translations?
The biggest benefit I've been seeing from unit tests is in writing more of them inside a code base sorely lacking them. In that case there's a big side-effect of making the underlying code unit-testable (that is, if you don't totally cheat every time with something like PowerMock). Some tests may get blown away in refactoring, but testing the new code has the same benefit. In many cases this makes the implementation uglier but doesn't hurt its clarity much (oftentimes it can improve it), especially with IDE assistance.

Building up small oases of dumber/more verbose code that has unit tests seems like the best way to wrangle legacy code into something that anyone else on the team can understand and not mess up 6 months from now when it's their turn to have to touch it for the first time. Of course no one wants to touch that 200-line, 10-levels-of-indentation monster method, but bringing just a little bit more and more of it under unit test over time will help a lot. Every other benefit of unit testing that you listed besides the time saving aspect (e.g. why launch a big e2e test if you can test the same thing in an xunit-like context? even if it's not strictly a "unit" test) pales in comparison of the benefit of making crap code nicer to work with. A corollary is that if your code is already nice to work with, and you have a system to keep it that way, unit tests won't be very valuable. (Though other tests, which may or may not be in an xunit-like context, may still be quite valuable.)
Should military recruitment be focused on maximizing recruits?
WebRTC is a browser spec, it's not part of ECMAScript the language. That's what this submission is referring to.
The emphasis that the link was a link to Github created an expectation. That expectation was stronger because the project is about Github. The link and it's presentation did not meet my expectations because they are contrary to the values I associate with Github...e.g. open source.

For someone considering your project, the experience may be reading the title and thinking "Github, that's good"; looking at the issues link and thinking "Github, that's good"; and then following the link and thinking "WTF? where's the code."

That's kind of my experience, except that I was not investigating tools, just looking at your post. If I had been investigating tools, it would probably have been enough to stop looking at yours even if I closed source tools were acceptable. The reason is that there's a 'sense' that it is a violation of trust.

Anyway, good luck again.
It looks like they applied CPI directly to the cost of housing. That is not correct.

CPI has a component of "owner's equivalent rent", which should be removed before cost-correcting the price of housing. Otherwise, you are removing the increase of the item you are searching for an increase of (Housing accounts for 1/3 of the CPI correction.) Their graph is instead showing that the buying power of a dollar is roughly constant when 1/3 of the CPI basket-of-goods is corrected with CPI.

Calculated Risk has a more sane analysis, you will note that the graphs are corrected with "CPI less Shelter": http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2016/11/real-prices-and-pr... He doesn't include price/sqft, but note that there is a 44% increase in real prices between the 90s and now. Square footage has not gone up by that much in 20 years.

As a side note: AEI is a fairly political org, I wouldn't rely on their accuracy for anything involving stats, or math in general.
You can find some real treasures on Ebay, if you come across some lots where people are selling uncategorized tubs and don't know what they've got. I picked up one lot that had about $500 worth, if you were trying to buy them on BrickLink, of complete, partially disassembled sets for $40.
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> Once again the Supreme Court has stepped in to curb the Federal Circuit Court and bring a level-headed interpretation

Surely you don't count Alice among the "level-headed" opinions? Supreme Court opinions relating to patent law almost invariably feel (to me) like they're written by a bunch of people who don't know much about patents and don't care to learn.
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I agree. I just gave them an idea just in case if people trying to fog their advertising data
Doing a first version of almost anything I've tried in Node is usually much faster than alternative platforms.

Do you say this because of the libraries available for it? (curious, wanting to jump to node).
> A balance between surface and simplicity. Kinda like pixel art.

Check out the architecture series: https://www.lego.com/en-us/architecture

They use mostly basic shapes, and not many colors, but I think have found a nice balance between representation & abstraction for the buildings they model.

Another thing going on is, I think their model designers have gotten a lot more skilled at using pieces in novel ways in their models. They've gotten better at representing details, so more details show up.
Life is not hard for the rentiers extracting labour for your right to exist in said apartment.

Where is all your labour going? Food? No. Transport? No. Energy? No. Rent? Bingo.

Why is this happening? Because we came off the gold standard and there is no limit to the expansion of fiat money, therefore it expands via mortgage lending to mop up all productivity gains. Get the women out to work! Land prices up. Efficiency gains? Land prices up.

We bid for land. The more we have available after basic living costs the more we can pass over to the rentiers.

We need land value tax to suppress rentier activity.
Wasn't their agreement long term, until patent expiry? (http://investor.nvidia.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1193125-11...)

Or am I missing something?
This applies to any west coast market.

You'll encounter it yourself if you ever shop for a home out here.
We know that the distribution of wealth is not that extreme (the 1% are not enough to make the 50% change required given that comparisons are relative to parents). I agree with you in principle, but I don't believe that it's a significant factor in this case.
I've been using babel to great effect on client-side apps which have to be transpiled/bundled anyway, but I've been avoiding it on the server side in an attempt to avoid the mental overhead of another item in the build toolchain. So far it hasn't been enough of an issue to warrant adding another tool, but I'm eagerly awaiting native async/await in NodeJS (scheduled for version 8 AFAIK).
I'm a backend web developer (Django, Postgres, Redis) and I get paid right around 100k USD (plus some extra money in bonus and pension contributions). My understanding is that this is actually on the low end for SF/Silicon Valley.

I've interviewed for some UK jobs, and the best I've been offered was 60,000 GBP (which equates to about 75k USD at current exchange rates). I routinely see job postings requiring quite a bit of experience and expertise, and offering salaries in the 40-50k GBP range.

Honestly, I don't understand it. It seems like London tech firms are competing in the same market (in some cases, they literally are satellite offices of the same companies) as the US firms, so how do they get away with offering so much less money?
Not the ES spec; one is JavaScript the language, the other (WebRTC) is part of the browser ecosystem.
Agree. I'd like to see more spam in favor of Amazon if that's your experience.
What's the benefit against just visualizing it on the screen?

If it was somewhat independent of any particular tool, it's possible that I could diff faster and more conveniently. If I can do it 5x faster than with a desktop tool, then I would probably use diffs a lot more often. It's the kind of change that happened with git vs. svn: certain information became much easier to use, and so the way that information was used fundamentally changed.

I'd also use such a tool differently. Instead of going statement-by-statement or character by character, I'd want to see at a glance the degree of similarity, then transition to a desktop tool to look at details.
"2009: A Colgan Air (Continental Connection) Dash-8 Q400 crashed outside Buffalo. Fifty people were killed, including the occupant of a house struck by the plane."

"2006: Forty-nine people perished when a Comair (Delta Connection) regional jet crashed after attempting takeoff from a too-short runway."

I'm not sure, maybe "major" has an official cut off number, but 49 or 50 doesn't seem "minor". It's a long way from 260, but it's far from 0.
NOTE: I agree with your comment as a whole but I want to give some counterpoints to some things you've said. These counterpoints all do require more "advanced" FP ability, but as FP becomes more popular, these techniques will become less "advanced."

> Functional programming does not work well in programs which handle a lot of states.

I've rewritten stateful, greedy, backtracking algorithms from Java to Scala. Scala (scalaz in particular) made this algorithms much simpler with no noticeable performance penalty. The backtracking in particular became trivial thanks to immutability and the State monad.

> It does not work well in programs which have high requirements for performance or memory.

There is a cost to immutability, but mostly it doesn't matter. When it does, FP has a lot of ability to encapsulate mutability/ugliness etc used for performance improved in different ways. Haskell in particular is great at this. It has ST for mutability, and rewrite rules/inline pragmas for performance gains. There still is a lot of room to improve here however.

> It does not work well for programs which have to do low-level stuff.

Haskell itself isn't ideal for low-level programming (low-level as in microcontrollers and FPGAs. Raspberry Pi isn't low-level and can handle Haskell fine). But Haskell has EDSLs that compile to C/VHDL/etc (C: Ivory, VHDL: Various Lava variants). With an EDSL approach, you end up using Haskell as a macro language for your low-level language. And unless the CPP, Haskell is a powerful and easy to reason about macro language!
“No one wants to face the reality that this is an advertising company with a bunch of hobbies.”

Remember Nokia. They produced mobile phones with excellent quality, extreme ruggedness, good battery life, and good voice quality. Their manufacturing was highly automated and their costs were low. They focused on their core business. Recently, their CEO said "We did everything right, and we lost anyway".

On the other hand, Google has repeatedly failed to develop a second big money-making product. They failed at social. They failed at fiber-to-the-home. Android is a loss leader to drive ad traffic. Automatic driving may pay off, but that is being a component supplier to an car company, not a high-profit business. Google's second venture into smartphones might be a success, but that remains to be seen.
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A few years ago there was all this talk about the discovery on the effects of sleep on the glymphatic system, where the brain is able to flush out metabolic toxins that build up during the day. [1][2]

I remember one of the things I read was a scientist saying that this might be one of the, if not the, primary functions of sleep, and that, now that we know what it was, we might be able to invent drugs that target it and allow the process to happen without sleep.

This would allow people to remain awake without the fatigue, bleary-headedness, or risk of death, that might all be caused by these toxins. (Learning and memory might still be affected if you don't sleep at all, of course.)

I don't know whether people are still researching that -- it was only fairly recent after all, so no surprise that we haven't heard much more.

1. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/10/sleep-ultimate-brainw...
2. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sle...
Well, spray it in your chest cavity more than drink it.
I respect you enough to suspect you might be better than this comment.

Nowhere in my post did I infer this things of you, but rather suggest that I disagree strongly with your perspective on this sites culture.

Seeing as you just got done bemoaning knee jerk commentary, it is however darkly comical to see you immediately respond with such a transparent misrepresentation of the point.

Planks and eyes, and all that.
It's free.
Yes, that's my point. There's not much specifics because there's not much other details that need to be provided to explain the claims. IE. The claim basically just says "look at the pictures".
Good point, they have part of what I mentionned, but these are restricted less playful sets.
> This goes to my contention that the CSI effect isn't just 'I believe it 'cause I saw it on the toob'.

I don't think that is the case in general, either.

The problem is that "I saw it on the toob" has secondary effects, that attenuate as they propagate, but can still go a long way. Basically, you might not believe that DNA testing is 100% correct because you saw it on TV; but you you believe it to be 100% correct because "everybody knows it", and the reason why they do is because "everybody knows it", and so on, until you actually get to a much smaller minority who believe it because they personally saw it on TV.

(In general, it's amazing how many popular "common sense" things are blatantly false, but they keep getting repeated and propagated as part of ambient noise of society, because "everybody knows it".)
Interesting. I wont belabor the affair. The relationship some have with words is an interesting one to me, more so lately than ever.
Great question - there's nothing stopping you from doing it at incorporation. But it's pretty rare. Very few companies will have enough negotiating leverage to keep it when they raise money. So rather than complicate things from the start, I think the majority view amongst startup attorneys (there are differing opinions on this) is to go with the standard setup, then add in super-voting later on if the company is in a strong position.
It absolutely is as bad as 'KirinDave says it is, although the article does a bad job of showing it. Node shines at IO-bound applications, sure, but let's say you want to do one big computation on 16 cores all at once.

With Node, you'd have to serialize data and pass it between child processes. And that really, really sucks. Haskell's parallelization story extends way past the "embarrassingly parallel" request handling.

A good data point based on a less contrived example is how handily Haskell web frameworks demolish Node.js at JSON serialization... and not much else (https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r13&hw=...).

Finally, if you're looking to do something truly and extremely CPU-bound, I'd tell you to write it in a C derivative and bind it to Node or Haskell, regardless of what your favorite language is. Optimize for speed in some places, and programmer happiness in others. A one-size-fits-all approach isn't usually appropriate.
When it comes to issues I care about most (mass incarceration, surveillance, war, poverty, torture and corruption) both parties are effectively identical.
And it's not only ad revenue, it's also tax-avoided profits.
I don't believe that accurately labeling poor behavior is uncivil, but I should have used a phrase like "showing cowardice" (more in line with my phrasing of poor judgment) to make it about the specific behavior (and faults with it), rather than a comment about you. I also will, in the future, pick less emotionally charged synonyms or phrases, because they're clearly distracting.

I appreciate the time you've taken to engage with me and explain your thinking (though I disagree with your choices still).

I hope you'll make a post explicitly about the experiment, so we can talk more fully (and civily!) about why I disagree with you.

Have a good day!
It's weird how the brain works.

I know very well that airliners are safe, and I'm aware just how much work goes every day to ensure they stay safe. And yet, every time I'm flying, I have this uncontrollable thought, "maybe this is the day we all crash and die". I always get a little anxious during takeoff and landing, I listen to all the noises and worry about them. "This doesn't make sense, the plane didn't usually make that sound". "Oh shit, the lights blinked, wiring must be damaged." Stuff like that. It usually takes me few minutes after liftoff to get those thoughts out of my head.
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The quality of available food in the US is a big part of the problem. A recent TED speaker postulates 74% of food in the average US grocery store is spiked with added sugar [1]. We also eat too few vegetables and too much meat in our diets. And those foods are often raised with harmful pesticides and hormones respectively.

I am a discerning shopper, avoid fast food and still get surprised by food that is not good for me. For instance, I put a tiny amount of unflavored, low-fat half & half in my coffee in the morning. I checked the label today and see that it contains corn syrup. In my head, it was just skim milk and cream. Silly me.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2016/11/18/502171330/how-worried-should-w...
Why should we consider life expectancy in the dialysis, nursing-home and hospice era to somehow be a positive measure of societal health?
Furthermore, fatalities are still in the hundreds world-wide, often with the same equipment flown by US airlines.

This number tells us that the FAA+NTSB, despite some other criticism, _usually_ has its act together where it counts the most. They iterate on identifying safety problems and force the airlines to adopt solutions.
They're counting Major US airlines, not including regional carriers

FTA:

>To be clear, there have been a handful of tragedies involving regional carriers and freighters [...] It’s the majors that set the standard, and it’s only fair that we measure from there.
Chrome looks really ugly, like it was designed by a programmer.
Wow, seriously? I had to shoot down a ProctorU interview at one point because I had some hardware and internet stability issues that were going to scuttle the thing (and I couldn't go to a library or anything in light of all these rules).

But it didn't even occur to me that Amazon might be using an interview service that can't handle Linux. One of the best programmers I knew in school was exclusively on Debian, and spent a semester on a cheap Arch machine when his main laptop died. An interview process that completely excludes him is a jaw-droppingly bad one...
Interesting to note: The Andreessen-Zuckerberg friendship goes a bit deeper. Andreessen's wife, Laura Arrillaga, advised Zuckerberg and his wife on making the $100MM gift to education in New Jersey. Now that Zuckerberg would like to sell his shares for philanthropy, there's probably a good chance they'll continue to go through the Andreessen's for advising. In which case, the Andreessen family will still be making money (not to say that they aren't making money now...) as I'm sure the advising is not free. Win-win.
I don't see how I'm agreeing with you when you said "This is way better than most TTS systems, including Google's."

WaveNet is Google's, and I'm saying that this is significantly worse.