skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well as I stated in the same column where I provide the link, I've not read it, I doubt you have in this time either.

That said, the system creates these imbalances so I would not look to simply treat the symptom.

Progress depends on a deficit of cheap labour to encourage automation. Globalisation has seen companies move manual low-skill jobs to other countries. Meanwhile land prices are up and so are rents. People must take what they can get whilst the usurers run rampant.
Harvard does have income-blind admissions. Admissions officers don't look at your financial aid information when you apply and it's not a factor.

Of course, there's still the factor that wealthy parents can pay for a better education. Also that intelligence is largely hereditary.
>it incentivizes the worker to do well at their job

The entire point of being a server is to offer the customer a pleasant dining experience.. that is literally the major job qualification in customer service. Are you saying that people that work in retail aren't incentivized to do their job because they don't receive tips. I think its absurd, because if you ever work retail, you take much more crap from customers on top of working just as hard.
The term "heart attack" is often mistakenly applied to cardiac arrest. Defibrillation is only useful in (some) cases of cardiac arrest.
If we had solid safety nets, this wouldn't happen

It depends on their form. People aren't on drugs because they don't have enough money. People are on drugs because their lives lack meaning, and simply getting a government check won't change that. A man cannot provide for his family by simply being alive to cash a check.

There are things that look a lot like welfare to the government that don't look like it to the recipients, though. Wage subsidies could keep a lot of the people who are below the threshold of self-sustainment actually engaged with their communities.

And, for better or for worse, most people engage through their communities with employment. Unemployed people, especially unemployed men, do not suddenly become poets or volunteers for Meals on Wheels.
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>we are seeing an increasingly damaging trend – people are still “chasing” more money.

that viewpoint basically summarizes all this HR development.
There was a CGI young Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator Salvation, in 2009. Admittedly, that scene did not require many facial expressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7YYfgx_cHo
I was mostly focusing on entities (schemas). Is there way in Swagger to use something else except JSON Schema for those?
Except it's blatantly unrealistic.

Death is not 'a part of life', but a nuisance. Not all species 'die' (e.g. jellyfish, hydra, possibly lobsters, flatworms).

And 'the Force' is fictional and does not apply to Carrie Fisher.

As long as we have our species, it is enevitable we will be achieving immortality.

My point being - every death is a tragedy.
Android is "free" to the consumer, but the payment is that if you want all of the Google apps (which are no longer part of the open source stuff) and the consumer uses the Google apps (likely), all of the search revenue goes to Google.
ive never seen a square display without a no tip option, and I'm pretty sure the restaurant is who decides what options are there
Oh. I was confused until I realized the publishing site was Microsoft. Apparently "Everyone" only refers to Windows programmers, and Unix/Mac/whatever programmers do not exist in this universe.
Book Deserts and the Widening Literacy Gap
Pointer? My understanding was that economy 10Gbps transit would be closer to $4-5k/month.
Yes. But if people choose to , like me, go to a safer language that reduces congnitive load around bugs etc, it's easy enough to use the FFI of Rust to utilize any existing C libraries out there.
> I really doubt "getting fitter" increased the likelihood of a heart attack!

Weight loss != getting fitter. You can be an unhealthy weight.

Not sure if this was the case though.
I don't know what "more or less organic" means here. Using the prime age (25-54) employment rate filters out that noise, and it shows that we've retraced about halfway from the worst of the housing crash.

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300060

edit:

...which is really terrible if you look at it in the longer term:

http://www.epi.org/blog/prime-age-employment-to-population-r...
That has generally not been my experience... but I have never spent $500 on a meal before, so my experience is with the lower to mid-tier priced establishments.
> Things like your personal contact details though are subject to privacy violation laws if they are used without your consent, I believe.

Far fewer laws about that exist than most people think, especially in the US. Some law and case law exists, but fairly narrowly. "Public disclosure of private information" doesn't apply here, since you posted the information publicly. "Intrusion of solitude" and "false light" don't apply. You could perhaps make a case for "appropriation" (using someone else's information for commercial gain without consent), but submitting that information to Github (and thus granting permission to Github under their terms, which they can choose to further grant to others) would negate that.

In any case, making legal threats doesn't seem likely to help here, and seems like overkill given the current state of the situation.
If you try hard you can make it so they don't see it but usually they will. When I see people click through far enough to get to that point they almost universally have left 0% which IMO speaks to that psychological impact. They don't want to leave anything but feel bad not doing so.

Me? I'm a sucker for those things. For one I admit that I don't want to seem like a cheapo, and then on top of it it's often at most a buck or two that we're talking about, not a big deal. So I fall for the scam and click the button that leaves money.
There is considerable upward pressure on that, with many recommending an 18% or 20% norm (and restaurants themselves are actively part of this with the tip hints they provide on bills.)
The comment I was responding to was written by a moderator, who saw my comment and edited their comment to hedge their incorrect claim. They messaged me but my comment was not reinstated.

I don't think that a subreddit that bans links to Wikipedia can be considered a good source of information.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. That map, at least at first glance, makes Duck Dynasty look like a giant hit in Oregon. You have to read the fine print to find out that it's essentially just because a bar in Burns has a satellite dish.
I am new to programing (well new in the sense that I have been doing it sparsely for years) and only have written code for microcontrollers, is rust a good replacement for C in that domain?

I don't know much about other languages, but it seems C is pretty well tailored for doing all bit-level stuff. Is rust the same way?
She has spoken publicly about her struggles with cocaine addiction. Significant cocaine use can do irreversible damage to the heart (I'm not suggesting that there was any recent use, just that use earlier in her life may have impaired her heart's ability to cope with the aging process).
I wouldn't want TSA employees reallocated towards rebuilding our bridges and tunnels. That would cause extreme anxiety for me, at the very least.
I think he just defined it as any job not fulfilling a direct need: food, shelter, reproduction. So, most jobs are transemployment. It doesn't seem like a super useful distinction.
>"Medicine on the other hand has the problem that you can't really afford large enough sample sizes to have sufficient statistical power."

This really isn't the major problem w/ modern medical research. In fact, if they had properly powered studies there would be far too many "discoveries" and the real problem would become obvious.

The real issue is that the efforts to come up with and study models capable of precise predictions (eg Armitage-Doll, SIR, Frank-Starling, Hodgekin-Huxly) have been all but choked out in favor of people testing the vague hypothesis "there is a correlation". There is always some effect/correlation in systems like the human body, so it is only a matter of sample size. As explained long ago by Paul Meehl, this is a 180 degree about-face from what was previously called the scientific method: http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/staff/christianb/downloads/me...
I feel that you underestimate how large the world is. Niche art easily entertains millions.

Niche art in popular art forms, such as cult films and cult TV shows, easily reach tens of millions (eg Firefly). It's still totally niche compared to Star Wars, but I'm not sure that you can say in any way whatsoever that it loses power because "only" tens millions of people worldwide have seen it.
C has this mystique of being hardcore, but it's not really that hard. I actually think languages like Ruby are more difficult because they hide so many (important) details from you. I would agree that C can be inconvenient, but its not hard.
For what it's worth, Mon Mothma was played by an actress cast for Revenge to play Mothma (who was only seen in deleted scenes from that), and ended up aging to nearly the look of Caroline Blakiston in Return.

No CGI trickery here.
I'd be more interested to know which of the areas has the highest median fanbase of all the shows. Based on the conclusions this article wants us to draw, certainly that would be the "least culturally polarized" place in the U.S? Or is this just more data noise with very little signal value...
As logical as that might sound the tipping percentage is a matter of cultural norm and not about maintaining a status quo. In metropolitan areas 20% has long since been the standard and is arguably increasing. The rest of the country has been steadily catching up.
I didn't realize the drivers won that suit, good for them!
There was a thread a day or two about about a book called The Scientist's and Engineer's guide to digital Signal Processing which I think is the best-written technical book I've ever encountered. The other one that springs to mind is C: How to Program by Deitel and Deitel. They've done multiple programming cooks but that's the only one I've owned.
It's a great question. Reminds me of Uber and its new policy of monitoring location of customers few minutes after drop off "to improve service".

It is also true that if Alexa was listening in on conversations so as to have "social conversation context" for "improved processing of commands" ... well.
Italy here.

Speaking of restaurants (not "cafe's") i.e. where you actually have lunch or dinner, (which means normally at least two courses) the number of servers is function of the level of the place, it is more or less "coded".

The range goes from "bad" or "slow" service which is 1 server every 25 people to "excellent" or "fast/responsive" which is 1 server every 8 people.

You won't find 1/25 if not in really cheap places, nor 1/8 if not in really expensive ones, average is 1/12 to 1/16.

Leaving the table free after having eaten is exclusively cultural, no waiter will ever dare to tell you to free the table or bring you the bill if not asked for, with the rare exception of long time customers with which there is confidence, in which case the waiter may ask this as a personal favour, on the other hand any long time customer will notice that the place is full and leave the table free as soon as possible.

Good restaurants (and capable waiters) can understand from a number of signals if you are in just for a quick meal or if you are in for a meal at leisure and serve you accordingly.
It _is_ the holidays and the right course of action really is to simply take a breath and chill out. I'd agree with you.

This post isn't really for the purpose of shaming though. It's to bring up the issue of such sites doing this kind of thing.

This topic could have been easily brought up after the holidays... but why wait? It's a topic to be discussed.
Makes me wonder why these microcontrollers aren't using Forth in the first place if code space is so critical.
> You don't need to mandate tips from everyone and their brother to do it.

Tips are never mandated.
New job listing suggests YouTube wants to develop next gen mobile video effects
As others are posting here, the Echo is obvious about when it's recording: when the onboard hardware detects the wake-word, the LED rings light up blue and it begins streaming audio to Amazon until the Alexa service determines that the query has been completed or that there's nothing more to hear. People have monitored the network activity of their Echoes to verify this (and if you don't trust that, well, nothing I say will help you.)

Sometimes the wake-word detection is mistakenly triggered and some unrelated audio gets streamed to Amazon, but the LEDs will still light up, and at times it'll even reply to a query that was never intended (I've been watching TV when my Echo will hear something and reply that I don't have any timers set, or whatever) but these recordings would still be covered by the link I pasted in the help text above.

I think a lot of the HN paranoia about these devices is overblown. All of this functionality is provided by devices that you already own, including hardware wake-word detection on all modern smartphones, which I assume everyone here carries around everywhere and recharges daily without much concern.
It's a tax on generosity.
He asked for your list of best games, instead you gave a critique of the industry. So of what YOU have played, what do you consider the best?
There is no such thing as a zero-cost abstraction.

While it would probably be incorrect to claim zero cost across the board, there are abstractions that can be optimized to zero cost. For example, in Rust you don't use pointers that can be NULL, but the Option type which can be None. In the usual case, the optimizer translates this to the same assembly as using a raw pointer with NULL instead of None. So in the usual case, there is such a thing as zero-cost abstraction.
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No, you can definitively pass an environment variable to a single instance.
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The garden shed full of helping hands
My point was that if the service was bad enough to not leave a tip, complaining to the manager might result in you not paying for the food, either.

You can demand that the bill be discounted or waived entirely (or that what you paid be refunded) if you didn't get what you were expecting. For instance, if you walk out of a movie because the sound was a half second out of sync and the picture was out of focus, you could just eat the price of the ticket, or you could find a manager and get your money back for the low, low cost of just voicing what was wrong with your experience.

What else would you do? Angrily write a bad Yelp review in your car?
The most terrifying part (to me), is that those people vote!
> As the article states, it's resurgence is bc of restricted small devices, but that's not because it's a great language.

To be fair, it's an amazing language, but if you're coding to get things done with a deadline (or with an unknown set of specs), of course you should go for the nailgun instead of making custom hammers.
People know when you're making fun of them and tune out.
While playing Empires in Arms, a mega-wargame that requires 7 players and 18 months of 1-per-week play to finish, we'd play side games of Nuclear Destruction, which is fluffy card game. Both kinds have always existed.
"The trouble with that is that trends in general don't continue. Look back on the future predictions of 50 years ago, from any moment in time you choose as your reference point, "

My favorite is one of the first of such modern predictions:

"I have an asthma that the doctors have warned me should give me great consideration regarding my future health. My only consolation is that the total of medical knowledge has doubled during the last 7 years, and should our venerable surgeons continue to gain as they have up till now, those in the future will suffer less than I. Indeed, if my parents could only have so arranged their affairs such that I was born 25 years later than I actually was, then I believe I would live in an era where medical knowledge should have a cure for my ailment."

That was Laurence Stern, writing in 1759 (in Tristam Shandy). He was dying of tuberculosis, which he referred to as an "asthma". In fact, if he had been born 25 years later, he still could have easily died of tuberculosis. The first antibiotic (not counting some minor sulfa drugs) was Penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928.

That was 169 years later than Stern was writing. Quite a bit more than the 25 years that he thought would be necessary.
Individual businesses shrinking and closing isn't the same as entire industries and professions being automated or "globalized" away. For example, plenty of tech startups fail, but that doesn't affect the market for programmers in the Bay Area, because plenty of tech startups are being created, too.

Now, let's say the VC money dried up somehow, or we invented an AI capable of programming anything based on a vague description. Lots of programmers would be out of a job.
In the short term I suspect that's more likely. But what that turns into is a diminishment of the skills required to do the job (for a value of "skills" that includes "staying awake and driving a truck for hours at a time along lonely Interstate highways", which may not be everyone's cup of tea, but certainly acts as a barrier to entry). That generally means more competition in the job market, and more competition on the labor side of the equation means less upward pressure on salaries.

It's not as bad as having your job automated out of existence, but it's still not good for people in that market. And I think there are likely to be a lot of jobs that are like that: not eliminated completely, but made in some way easier or less onerous, such that the labor pool is bigger.
Not the OP, but I would have had Arkham Horror: The card game on this list. It came out fairly late and hasn't ended up on many best of 2016s, although Quinns from Shut up and Sit Down had it as his #1 this year. If you have any interest in the LCG format and/or coop games I would check it out.
I used to think techno-optimists were delusional but history is on their side. You could argue there is a phase shift happening and this one will be different but I doubt it. Like the author says we'll make up new jobs.
Certainly bribes (or "tips" as many Americans call them) are illegal for U.K. Citizens.
I recall seeing different behavior between the C runtime and CommandLineToArgvW. I don't remember what the difference was, but I remember it driving me nuts.
How would they be "in trouble"? You mean the IRS is going to ask them scary questions? Or does the IRS really go around fining people with no more evidence than "Well, we think that maybe you earned more in tips than you reported, because someone else reported that they earned more..." Any CPAs or tax attorneys care to share their experiences? I can't see how the latter could be legal.
Probably right. She suffered what medical professionals call a "witnessed arrest" and while the chances of survival are slightly greater than "unwitnessed arrest" (no bystanders; 100% fatal), the odds are only slightly higher. To survive, she would have needed exquisite CPR with no-pause compressions, followed by AED as quickly as possible. Any pauses in CPR would most likely result in brain death.
Agreed. For people who don't know, HR is't like "Internal Affairs" like you see in movies, they are employed by the company to do a few things:

1. Create benefit plans.
2. Keep the employer from getting sued.

#2 is particularly important. They are very risk averse, so they will take the quickest path to safety. Post something on social media that someone could take out of context or misinterpret? Fired. Shortest path. Criticize the company or your boss in some way? Fired. Shortest path. Say something overheard by someone else that might offend them? Fired. Shortest path. A potential hire says something odd to the HR manager during an interview? Denied, to risky.

Something funny, at a company I worked for years ago, HR created a questionnaire to gauge morale in the company compared to other software companies. Every department was well below the average (meaning low morale) except the HR department which was well above.

Beware.
Actually, for me this year has been one of the greatest years of my life. So to see people say "fuck <the year in which my son was born>" over B-list celebrities, yes, it can be a bit of a problem.

Where were all these not-Star-Wars Carrie Fisher fans before she died? Where were these George Michael fans before he died? This is not to say they aren't deserving of being mourned. This is to say, the people who take 5 seconds to post on social media are transparent and only cheapen the mourning of these people's real families.
It's great, but it's a mess - a heap of articles, github repos, books and such. A new learner can't deal with that. What a new learner needs is an interactive system to guide a learner through the process. Not a static list - one size doesn't fit all. I might know Python and not know math, another one might come from stats and Matlab but not know Python. One might know about SVMs and Naive Bayes but not about neural nets, another might have played with Keras neural nets but neglected to read up on basic ML. We need an adaptive learning system. Who's going to make one?
I would expect B-trees to outperform binary trees even in a persistent data structure. The necessity of binary trees comes when you need stable iterators/references.
Defibrillators are used in cases of ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. These are lethal heart rhythms where the heart is either quivering uselessly, or beating too fast to allow the heart to fill with blood between beats. In both of those cases, the patient will have no pulse. A defibrillator will never shock someone who has a pulse (weak or otherwise).

Asystole is when there is no electrical activity in the heart. You are correct that that asystole cannot be shocked, but it definitely won't result in a 'weak' heartbeat (nor should you do CPR on someone with a weak pulse).
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

Kind of seems like the inevitable conclusion of the hard-sell of the American Dream
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I appreciate you poking holes in my assumptions and suggestions, seriously, because I don't know how to solve this.

I know I don't want parents/grandparents ODing on heroin in a parking lot with a child in the back of the car. [1] So where does society start to fix this? How do you give people purpose and the means to embrace that purpose?

What good are self driving cars/trucks, machine learning/AI, and all that comes with it if you've hollowed out any substance your species had? EDIT: Maybe the Amish had it right the whole time. Social fabric above "progress".

[1] http://ktla.com/2016/09/09/ohio-police-post-photos-of-adults...
I wonder if I can use gestures like I do on macOS for things like switching desktops.
Unlike TV would have you believe, if you reach a stage where you need resusciation, the likeliest outcome is an uncomfortable quick death, not years of high quality life.