skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web dev chiming in with a similar experience. Last month I interviewed three people claiming multiple years of PHP/MySQL experience, not one of them could tell me what an SQL transaction is.
Were you reading it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13142327 ? There's a couple of mentions of courts siding with employees and courts in California siding with employees.
Went to SF, lost a lot of money living there trying to get investors only to find out they want MIT graduates and already-invested startups. Being "brown" didn't help.

Learned my lesson, hopefully I will make them regret it, but probably not.

But if US picked Trump I guess I'm entitled to make big stupid mistakes as well.
oh I didn't even think about that. fraud either way :)

I think outsourcing is one thing - but being an employee who is on payroll and physically shows up to warm a butt in a seat, goes a lot farther. Regardless of whether the cube guy paid someone to do his interview, or the guru hired a body double after getting hired, it's pretty insane. do you have any links to anyplace you read about the same thing?
Dissertation help
Google, Facebook, amazon machines are busy making money for them so they can pay salaries to their employees. Unlike the chums at NSA they cant steal money from your pocket in the name of fare share.
Because he/she worked for the NSA and figured early "that shit was broke."
I'm talking about random violent crime, not suicide or domestic violence.

I also explicitly stated two conditions AND substance abuse. This is an established fact, not an attempt to vilify sick people. From the first search result, an often cited JAMA article:

"risk was mostly confined to patients with substance abuse comorbidity (of whom 27.6% committed an offense), yielding an increased risk of violent crime among such patients (adjusted OR, 4.4; 95% CI, 3.9-5.0), whereas the risk increase was small in schizophrenia patients without substance abuse comorbidity (8.5% of whom had at least 1 violent offense; adjusted OR, 1.2; 95% CI, 1.1-1.4; P<.001 for interaction)"

Your other statement is ridiculous. That company took a strong stance to protect employees against sexual violence. I have people close to me who have been victims of this particular crime -- the aftermath is truly horrible and not some sort of joke.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13192518 and marked it off-topic.
It's the electric company charging different rates depending on the brands of your appliances (even if they use the same amount of electricity). They can also charge the brands themselves for good placement on this list. And they have their own private brand, which gets the lowest tier of rates. They initially present this as a special discount, and raise the price of everything else later to compensate.
I never said it wasn't still an ad. But as I explained, it has essentially none of the problems that are associated with ads. Ergo, complaints about it are more that it offends your special snowflake sensitivity against ads, than that there's an actual problem that needs to be addressed.
I agree. Probably 90% of my Uber usage is from BART to wherever I _actually_ want to go since BART doesn't go there and bus service is infuriating.
It is unclear how the existing insurance system will translate to a future where all liability is concentrated on the manufacturer. Currently major fatal accidents often result in bankruptcies and may even incur criminal charges. They are not fully covered by insurance.

All precedent is that auto manufacturers are responsible for manufacturing defects that lead to injury or death, not the owner or driver. Even the term "operator of record" has new meaning in the fully autonomous era. Bottom line if software bugs cause injury it's the software writers that are responsible.

You mention many problems with human drivers. But software has been known to have bugs too, and the world is an almost infinitely complex learning environment. It is most likely that the safer future will involve the intersection and mutual augmentation of these two control systems, not the swift replacement of one by the other. As is the case for example with aircraft.
I quite agree with millstone's comment below: interesting analogy, but not sure it is quite right here. And an off-topic, comment: I do agree with the sentiment that some things may be more easily expressed in nonstandard analysis. For an interesting experiment in that direction, see https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/books/rept.pdf .
Defense will never be perfect, however that is no excuse for not having dedicated organization training, audits and enacting and enforcing regulations strictly. While all of this may happen in bit and pieces, there is no single organization doing this and measuring their success by the number of attacks they prevent or failed to prevent.

NSA on the other hand wants backdoors and weakened cryptography tools...
The Heisenberg picture and the Schrodinger picture the same, sometimes using one basis is more useful and more intuitive than using the other.

Pilot Waves, on the other hand, are pretty much always superfluous. Please link me, if you have seen a situation where using Pilot Waves simplifies a calculation.
What, because he worked for the NSA? I don't think so ;)
Your contributions in this thread have been extraordinarily clearheaded, and levelheaded too. I'm a moderator here and want to thank you for that. It isn't easy to keep your balance this way when a large internet community is dissecting every grain of what you wrote, let alone on such a difficult topic.
> If someone suffers depression from opiate withdrawal, we call them an addict. If someone suffers depression from going through a breakup, it's just par for the course. And yet both scenarios are withdrawal from a pleasurable stimulus. Why is one acceptable and the other not?

If someone doesn't get food or water and is deprived of sleep for a few days they will develop the symptoms of depression.

Humans need food, water, sleep, and social connections to thrive. When one of those is temporarily thwarted, mental and physical pain is a signal to take action. It's not always pleasant, but it will keep you alive and your genes in the game. This is unavoidable and often useful pain.

Recreational opiate use on the other hand is an extremely dangerous short circuit of the brains pleasure centers that very often results in physical dependance, legal problems, and death.

Part of maturing is understanding that you don't always have to mask pain and chase pleasure. It's ok and even healthy to feel like shit sometimes.
That system sucks :(
Could you share a bit more about public speaking? It's my fear too.
If I go to the NSA website it says "How We Protect the Nation" - So I infer that they do some work to protect something, but the US government was hacked "5.6 million fingerprints stolen in U.S. personnel data hack" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/23/us-govern...

The Democrat and Republican computers recently hacked, you will say they are not specifically government since they are political parties.

Many more US government hacks and leaks on a large scale I don't need to list.

So I assume from your answer that they are tasked at protecting USA government assets, but it seems they don't do a good job.
Yeah my wording is a bit loose. There's a lot of clever stuff that RyuJit etc. do for performance. I believe the JVM has even more clever stuff although I haven't dedicated much time to learning what it does better or differently.
There's one major shortcoming that the answer doesn't seem to touch on: pilot wave theory doesn't explain relativity whatsoever, while quantum field theory does. We've experimentally confirmed relativity, so at best, pilot wave theory is incomplete.
I don't think it's done in any JVM as far as I know.
I think this game is much more openly recognized in SV without too much cynicism. The average tenure is probably around 3 years, and people move between companies often. This serves both the employee by diversifying their skillset, and it serves companies by facilitating knowledge transfer for certain techniques, particularly around scaling and operations for larger tech companies that individuals can't get through mere education or even small-scale work.

Consider that we openly talk about Bus Factor as a way of explicitly quantifying the indispensability of certain people; but the solution is not to get rid of them, it's just to train more people on those aspects. Of course there's still some amount of Machiavellian maneuvering, but at least while talent is thin on the ground employees still have enough leverage not to get screwed—not as badly as most non-unionized employees anyway.
Engineers won't have the say here. The public will. And the public does not care about statistics.
Are you sure PayPal works as we actually use PayPal as our payment processor for small payments and the Indian customers told me the payment would not go through? I have a feeling for it to work you have to have it linked to one of the tiny number of Indian credit cards that allow international payments.

Edit. This quora link suggests it is a known problem [1] and this link goes into more detail [2].

1. https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-make-international-payments...

2. https://www.isaumya.com/paypal-google-wallet-indian-debit-ca...
Please don't use all caps for emphasis.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For example, the double pendulum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_pendulum.

That said, the phase space of a double pendulum is bounded.
You (quite reasonably) don't want homeless people to piss in public, and you recognize that they don't have anywhere else to piss. I'm not clear why "therefore, give them a better place to piss" isn't your first demand, instead a distant second after "therefore, illegalize homeless people." (Which you know very well is the only possible result of banning people from public spaces who don't have any access to private spaces.)
Building a Facebook bot in Ruby. Beginner's tutorial
You can import 6 Ladas cheap and weld then together. The combine should horsepower would match the 911.
The problem is some of those people won't want to stay in the hospital, and sometimes their habits are such that for regular hospital it'd be very bad match. And involuntary commitment is a very problematic proposition, it's a very dangerous tool esp. when used against people who can't explain themselves well, have no other people who can help them, and no knowledge or ability to help themselves.
From 2015.

Interesting discussion from original submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10263183
Comments on divisive topics that go "I imagine" and "Sorry but" have a strong tendency to make these conversations worse.

You're indeed imagining a tremendous amount here, and projecting it into a situation you have no direct knowledge of. Well, we all can imagine a lot of things. This is not substantive contribution, it's borderline trolling. Please don't do this on HN.

Edit: you've also been using HN primarily for ideological rhetoric. That's an abuse of this site, and we ban accounts that do it, so please don't do that either.
The first "intelligence" news reader? You mean a news reader for classified "intelligence" material for the CIA, NSA, etc...?

Or did you mean the first "intelligent" news reader, in that it uses machine learning to figure out what articles you like and what you don't?
I lived in KC for a bit, but moved shortly before Google Fiber. When TWC came to install internet, the install guys (4 of them for some reason?) laughed at the modem they gave me- "We still have these?!".

When I cancelled and returned my modem, the customer service department was behind bulletproof glass.

I don't have much to contribute to the price discussion- just can't pass up the chance to tell a KC TWC story.
I am getting promoted from QA Automation Engineer to Full time Software Engineer position starting in January 2017. Counting as an achievement in 2016 because it was just confirmed yesterday.
Incompetently written article. There are commercial applications you can download for free, with the Oracle JDK, that you need to licence if you plan on using them commercially such as Flight Recorder and Mission Control.
We could call it the 911-B program. I suppose we should write the law such that you have to prove you checked out the local dealerships first. You could even pay someone to look and then not bother checking to see if they actually did:

http://www.cringely.com/2013/07/18/so-thats-how-h-1b-visa-fr...
For every Fedora release, the Documentation Project prepares a new version of the System Administrator's Guide[1] and of five other high-quality manuals. These manuals are usually up-to-date, accurate and comprehensive, and since they are maintained in the DocBook format (which is very superior to wikimarkup for technical documents), they can be converted into HTML (for the version on docs.fedoraproject.org), PDF (for printing or viewing in a PDF reader) and EPUB (so I can put the guides on a e-reader and read them comfortably). The documentation is even translated in multiple languages.

[1]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/System_A...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13192378
You can't blame them for not keeping up with the latest Amazon offerings.
Finishing 111-114 books this year is probably my big one(not sure how many more I'll finish hence the range).

Other stuff that's happened: managed to move out of a big city for the first time in 15 years, spent almost no time arguing about bitcoin online which was a huge time sink for me, used selfcontrol to block reddit on my laptop for close to 9 months of the year(still use it on my phone), started a new company which is progressing well, gotten a lot better at money management, become more focused on my fitness with gym+running almost everyday now.

Made a plan for 2017.
Good lord, I've gotten nothing done this year. Mad attempts maybe, but they all failed. I've already made adjustments and will continue to in respect to lessons learned, but at this point I'm just `weathering it out` until my butt is on the plane for the holidays.
FYI, I'm downvoting you for the "hurt your feelz" business. This isn't Reddit.
What a bad article, unclear contents and based on only one source - which by the way wants to sell his services.

Going to the Oracle Java site the menu says:

Java SE
Java EE
Java ME
Java SE Support
Java SE Advanced & Suite
Java Embedded
Java DB
Web Tier
Java Card
Java TV

IANAL The article seems to be about "Java SE Advanced & Suite" including JRockit VM and other advanced tools.

The license on the Java SE download page

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...

here

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/...

does not include the words

intelligent systems
general purpose computing

so it's unclear of what download TheRegister is talking about.

[Edit] After downloading the Windows JDK the installer says "The Java Mission Control ... is now available as a part of the JDK". There is an app "Java Mission Control" after installation. There is no click through EULA during installation. There is also no linked license in the app which I could find.

Is the term in the click-through EULA of the installer?
Its important to read that line in context:

>There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

The zen of python isn't saying "only have one way to do anything" it says "have at least one obvious way, and preferably only one obvious way to do this".

There can be lots of ways to iterate over a list:

[x for x in l]

for x in l:
x

while (x for x in [1,2,3]).next():
...

Only one is obvious for a given situation.
You're right. If anything, the DMV needs to put greater oversight on Uber, especially after the red light speeding accident. Paying $150 and submitting itself into the permit application process is only the beginning.
Regardless of how bad someone else's comment is, you can't be uncivil or call names here. Please (re-)read the site guidelines and don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13192987 and marked it off-topic.
You want to put every single traffic regulation to a vote?
I have exacts problem as nodesocket in language section of analytics, right now solve through filter and view setting, but need permanents solution, can anyone have??
That's probably it. And I'm in California so I probably only paid attention to that bit.
I call bullshit on the premise that Uber is undermining public transit. A lot of places have had crappy public transit and crappy taxi service long before Uber showed up. A lot of places will continue to have it. Blaming it on Uber because it's there is lazy and unfair.

> But much of the confusion arises because people sincerely don’t understand how narrow the range of opportunities is for ride-sourcing to improve on fixed route transit’s efficiency.

As if I cared about improving abstract "efficiency". I care about being able to get a ride within 5 minutes at any point in the city. Whether or not that improves some abstract metric invented for completely other reasons carries no importance to me.

> We know Uber is unprofitable, which means its prices are unsustainable.

No it actually doesn't mean that. Profitability has other dimensions than consumer prices, such as investments, capital costs, etc.

> Uber’s behavior often looks like an intentional effort to undermine competitors and thus reduce customer choice

I haven't seen any behavior aimed to reduce customer choice. The only people trying to reduce the customer choice are those inventing reasons to ban Uber (and similar service), often at explicit prompting and for direct benefit of incumbent stakeholders.

> no doubting the value of these companies in the lives of fortunate people who can afford to use their services routinely

Oh, those fatcats that can afford to shell out whole $9 for a ride! Who cares about those, they probably each own a park of helicopters anyway.

> and many welcome regulation precisely to plug that gap.

Which regulation, to do what? No mention of it. Why bother? Of course regulation is good and no regulation is bad. Terrible article, full of FUD and calls to "do something", without bothering to outline what and for what purpose.
In many places, total value of compensation of a civil service gigs is way higher than you think.

A senior IT guy makes like $110k where I live. Sounds shitty, but then again you get primo healthcare that costs $100/mo for family, retiree health coverage, 60% pension at 55 in many cases, high PTO accumulation, etc.

I helped a friend calculate total compensation when he was looking for a job. The pension present value alone was $4M. When you combine it with the PTO, it made total value of his compensation more like $190k. If you price in the retiree healthcare, you could probably add another $10-20k of value.
What would really make reflection fast is the dual operation of typeof(T) -> Type, that is, Type -> T.

Then you can do all kinds of neat but efficient things by exploiting the CLR's runtime generics [1]. This is something that would be easily done in the CLR itself, a sort of hidden universal method that could perform a single, maybe double, dispatch into the correct generic overload, but alas, we are left only to simulate this using poor imitations of inline caches.

[1] https://github.com/naasking/Dynamics.NET
Made it to my father’s 75th birthday get-together. (3 days)

Was able to serve in a friend’s wedding.

Made it to the out-of-state wedding of friends. (2 days)

Attended the funeral of a friend whose greatness as a person was matched by the reach of his work. (2 days)

Was able to visit my mentor before he moved back to Europe after 18 years in the US. (2 days)

That accounts for 9 of the 14 days off I’ll have this year, which makes me grateful my off days were well spent.

No friendships were lost—even the distant ones that can slip through the cracks of life—a number of new friends were gained. Can’t remember failing to come through for anyone when they reached out in need, whether for little things like a tech support question to the more notable existential issues we can face.

My company will have about 40% growth in sales volume, and comparable growth in revenue. Still, it’s a small company. Very small. But the lone employee I have has received multiple raises and a few thousand in bonuses.

Some things will remain on the to-do list, even if I’m pleased with the improvements made lately: read more, improve empathy and listening skills, get better control of my emotions, further my awareness of the breadth of my ignorance. That’s not an exhaustive list, but doing better with those will enhance specific areas, like my customer service, serving as an employer, benefiting friends, understanding how better to take care of myself, etc.
Java isn't going anywhere. C#, though, does seem to be dying.
I had a baby. Well technically my wife had a baby.

Tech-wise, I made pretty significant progress on a hobby project, and revamped my personal website.
Take a look at the Google book corpus. I used it several years ago by renting the largest disk/RAM server Hetzner rents and collecting the most common 1gram, 2grams,...5grams in the book corpus. Many classification, summarization, etc. systems that rely on simple bag of words approaches can be improved by including ngrams. For a simple example, to label sentiment of text, considering 2grams lets you correctly handle 'not good', where considering one word at a time, ignoring word order, etc. is not so good.
I am not suggesting that we exclude the homeless from public space, but that we allow everyone else to continue using modes that provide more separation from our broken society while society gets its house in order.
Orlando has a commuter train and I love it. Takes me from the north suburbs into downtown Orlando for work everyday, and gives me good time to read, nap, play games, etc without having to deal with traffic.

It's also been popular enough they started testing it on weekends and building more track for more destinations.
Only when the management's time horizon is short.

It probably would have been prudent to do a long term ROI on those layoffs. Slashing the executive bonus pool may have reduced those layoffs significantly and saved the company far more down the line.
Shutting down the product and cancelling my order seems like a poor way to conduct a "smooth and positive" transition".
I changed paths from marketing to UX design but haven't built up enough credibility to get a full time position. Looks like I'll be freelancing for a while longer.
I finally updated PoopLog for Android after 3+ years..

https://www.pooplog.xyz/

https://medium.com/@kefsco/i-finally-updated-pooplog-for-and...
Talking about the time it takes to get something, passports in the U.K. are ridiculous. I had mine stolen a few years ago while abroad, and had to get a replacement from my embassy. They gave me a one-time-use 'emergency passport', which looks basically the same as a normal passport except it's smaller and I guess doesn't have biometric features - inside it looks the same. It took them a total of 1 hour to make it.

When I came home I needed a new one as I was supposed to be moving abroad a couple of weeks later. The earliest appointment (which is supposedly faster than doing it by post) they could give me was after 1 month, and after that I still had to wait a week for it to arrive.

My wife is from Lithuania (EU country) and when we got married she went to the passport office (just walk in and wait) and got a new passport the next day.