skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally get your point! It is also hard for me to read articles by Non-German people. In our SAP community network (SCN) we all share what we know in English, most of them are not English native speakers. I can't tell the difference what is right or wrong. I will try to get native speaker help for Medium and learn a thing or two along the way ;-) Thanks!
That claim needs a citation from a trustworthy source.
Sure. Search for "structured interview meta-analysis validity" and you'll find a slew of the research on this topic.
You'll probably get more mileage out of asking this at torrents.reddit.com or trackers.reddit.com or whatever.
> If others were screwing it to build their economy, other countries also should have that ability

Because of course building one's economy matters more than screwing the planet we all live on ?

What Poland is doing (as others did before) is very understandable, but it doesn't mean it's acceptable.
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I don't think he's being pedantic, it's the opposite of the general usage. The bus factor is the number of people that have to be hit by a bus to cause real problems for your project. Higher is better.
There is a "Forth, PostScript" section.
Point taken, although in this case I didn't buy a "bike-shaped object", but something that cost about US$1200 (apparently that's not enough to spend for a decent e-bike).
> After all, human errors literally kill over a million people a year, whereas the statistical likelihood of dying from a self-driving car is like falling off a building and being struck by lightning on the way down.

I don't see any evidence for this. While I'm sure self-driving cars have the potential to be this safe, the death from Tesla's autopilot suggested the risk of death from self-driving cars might currently be similar to that of human-driven cars.
Automatic brake system prevented higher death toll in Berlin attack (German)
> Opinions are just... Opinions. If a shop was asking around for what is essentially gossip about me I would run for the hills.

This is insane. By this logic one would never take any advice about how to work productively with someone, what someone's strengths and weaknesses are… centuries of management theory have been reduced to "opinions and gossip".
Another Delphi person!! Yay! I spent so much of my life writing Delphi code. As a teenager. Basically from 12-18 I wrote Delphi/Pascal. Hundreds of stupid little Windows apps (and some stupid big ones).

I ran into the same sort of thing you did re: Delphi jobs. I was pretty sad, honestly, having started in the original Delphi days (version 1!) and going to 6 I had gotten pretty good at it...
I am really interested can you tell more about how to build it ?
There are plenty of signals. Price is rising. Activity on Bitcoin forums is growing (r/Bitcoin users grew from 173,000 to 198,000 in a year, bitcointalk.org activity grew from 5900 posts/day to 6700 posts/day in a year, etc). Bitcoin remittance usage is growing (one example: http://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitcoin-remittances-20-percent-...). Bitcoin trading is increasing (especially in China, look at the volume starting in Q4 2015: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/okcoin/btccny). More wallets are created (not a 100% "vanity" metric, but I agree the number of used or active wallets would be a better measure). More venture capital poured into Bitcoin year after year (https://news.bitcoin.com/venture-capital-all-time-high-new-r...). And more.

If a single metric was increasing this wouldn't be a reliable indicator. However all of the above are growing.
Tell that to the rug weavers of a century ago.

Creative work will be automated as well - at the very least most production work and all acting will be, since all of the sets and actors will be entirely digital as soon as it becomes feasible. We've already seen the beginnings of that, and software generated music, literature and art already exist. Entire multimedia campaigns centered around a single property could be generated and distributed by AI at once. The movie, the novelization, the soundtrack, the video game, heck even the sockpuppet accounts shilling it online - all of that can be automated.

Creativity isn't magic - any human process can be simulated with sufficient power, and made efficient and automated with sufficient time.
Out of interest, could you give some examples of these epiphanies?
AppDynamics posts long-awaited IPO filing with $150MM in revenue past 3 Quarters
Right, I love it when people do work for me. It's a bit different in larger projects, but on small side projects, it's a lot better to get people more involved rather than less so.
The OS that the author is pointing toward
I sell and install security systems as a side-gig (fell into it and its high margin/low effort sale). People demand easy to remember passwords. Ive tried to somehow get them to use better passwords but they always call me to change it. I still try to get them to use a strong password, though.
Python 3 was to some extent a reaction to the constant breakage that people were complaining about at the time. It was decreed that backwards incompatible stuff would go into 3 and 2 would remain relatively static. Eventually it was announced that 2 would remain entirely static.

That created an odd situation where the version that people were expected to transition from became a much better place to do new development in that it was a stable target. Heck, in a sense it is still better to target Python 2.7 for new development as the people running the reference implementation (cpython) have promised to stop changing things as a matter of policy. Your 2.7 based app could run basically forever with no changes.

So you are dammed if you do and dammed if you don't. There is no definite answer here.
> I predict that in the US, where culture of entrepreneurship, (relatively) less government intervention, and individualism rules, that UBI is completely dead on arrival no matter its merits/demerits, whatever the facts.

i agree with your premise, but not your conclusion. UBI is (much) less gov intervention that our current welfare state. and UBI allows more entrepreneurs to take risks on their great ideas. and moving social welfare from a three party system (individual, employer, gov) to a two party system (individual, gov) is in support of individualism. so the US should love UBI!
They are at a disadvantage trying to find work on the other side of the country due to currently being homeless on the West Coast. People look for work starting nearby and then at increasing distances because that is the practical way to find work and minimize the risks and costs (financial and otherwise) of moving.

But if they were guaranteed a life in Illinois or North Carolina, maybe they would move? You and I don't know, but there is no reason to suspect they are simply being stubborn or foolish. It's entirely natural and rational to want to live, with your kids, in roughly the same region continuously.
Cool on the Black belt. I did Shotakan, too. I stopped just before Brown since I discovered Bruce Lee's teachings along with Ninjutsu & military styles. Pivoted into those to learn different things. I keep recommending martial arts to people in general sense the mental agility, toughnes, & determination pays off in other areas.

Including I think in programming when trying to solve problems or especially debugging failures that lead others' libraries you just had to use.
The Chord Progression section feels a bit odd to me, like it's upside-down, with chord I at the top and chord VII at the bottom. For example, a transition from chord IV to chord V is represented on screen as moving down (towards the bottom of the screen), whereas I think most people would tend to think of it as moving up (i.e. towards the right on a piano keyboard).
I don't think we can assume that, unless the participants were specifically asked this.
How will the world not know that it's accident-free? Those statistics are freely available.
It still makes creating a ToC and index slow, painful and somewhat unpredictable. 20 years ago it was straightforward and utterly reliable in Wordperfect.
It might be hard for Van der Kolk specifically to get funding. The article mentions that he's kind of a pariah because he endorsed the "recovered memory" stuff that led to a lot of lawsuits based on very questionable allegations of child abuse. The leading consensus on this phenomenon is that recovered-memory therapy mostly creates the "recovered" memories. See also the Mandela Effect/Berenstein Bears/Shazaam stuff, where people have seemingly done this to each other spontaneously.
That wouldn't necessarily change the premise, and if anything would bolster it because the author isn't a robot either, and therefore is prone to the same human error he's complaining of.
I don't see any reason not to use TypeScript as all of the type safety is totally optional depending on how you configure. So you can write freely but start adding types for critical pieces of code when it becomes worthwhile.
If you want to try out that branch, do note that lisp functions are either explicitly JIT compiled with the `jit-compile' function or JIT can be enabled globally by setting `byte-code-jit-on' to non-nil.

In my own testing I've found that global JIT seems to not help very much, and may actually be slower because of repeated compilations. Selectively compiling specific functions can give a decent speedup, though.

Also, check out Burton Samograd's emacs-jit[1], which uses a very similar technique.

[1] https://github.com/burtonsamograd/emacs-jit/
the tragedy is, the people who will benefit most from automating jobs are already living that way :(.
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/how-tesla-autopilot-works/

The human-driven fatality stats are here - https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

Very near, indeed, at least for now
I can't find the /sarc tag anywhere in your post - I assume you forgot to include it?
These are not curveballs though. Nowadays it's just another category of interview questions - System Design. There are tons of resources to prepare for this type of questions just like with the Algorithms & Data Structures problems.
Do the fingerprint readers on phones check if there is a pulse?

I believe that most biometric readers for security (e.g., offices and such) look for a pulse or other indicator so using a severed body-part would not work. Always annoys me when I see that done in movies.

(One office I worked in had fingerprint access. The bathrooms were outside the secured area, and I soon got into the habit of rubbing my hands together after washing to warm them up, as a cold finger wouldn't read.)
Was there any kind of statistical correction applied when the data were partitioned into MOOC + top school vs MOOC + no top school?
But evernote isn't only about notes. It's about clipping web pages and other content.

And it's about search.
I blame language. As with all models, the further we move from blissfully perfect abstraction the less certain we can be about our model's predictions. But our language isn't very lenient with expressions of uncertainty.

We speak about a single psychology study's findings with the many of the same words of concrete certainty that we do with the deepest mathematical theorems because that is what is most natural. We say something is true when we really mean that we're pretty sure something is true under certain conditions. We assume that everyone understands the touch of chaos underneath the words based on the context. But they don't. And we don't either. We know better but we fool ourselves more or less by accident and repetition and it shakes us when contradictions inevitably arise from messy reality.

And on the other end of the spectrum, if any uncertainty at all is spoken of it seems to cast the whole statement into doubt.

The language of statistics and uncertainty is cumbersome and unnatural. If I could wish for anything and have it come true for the sake of advancement of humanity it would be for a standard modifier or tense for levels of uncertainty. I would trade that increase in complication for the reduction of confusion.
Then please don't spread FUD.
The JS code is written in ES5 so this syntax is not available.
I think this is a much more appropriate use of the technology present in Tesla cars than allowing it to self drive. I'm firmly in the "shouldn't have worked that way" camp of Autopilot -- no matter what Tesla or Musk says, the first thing I would think of as someone who is not a trained pilot is that Autopilot is a self driving feature of a car, and believe that the wording and marketing, combined with the reckless use of simple technology like cameras, instead of stronger technology like the radars here, caused crashes. I'm glad that even though they have stronger tech they are still toning down the marketing and the use of any self driving features, so kudos to Tesla (it might have been due to bad PR but still).

However, I have to wonder why this is news. Other cars have had similar technology for a long time but when they prevent a crash it's not news. Is the only reason this is news is because it's Tesla and that they've had high profile crashes in the past, so they're spinning up the PR machine?
No, it makes sense, go for the thing that will reasonably make you enough money to be comfortable and independent.

It's funny though, for me an education in computing was the practical thing. I have a science degree too but I had next to no intention of being a professional scientist.
The comment was on the lighter side, may be a smiley would've done the trick
>> the death from Tesla's autopilot suggested the risk of death from self-driving cars might currently be similar to that of human-driven cars.

You can't extrapolate from a single incident like that. If you look at statistics, they strongly suggest that self-driving cars are significantly safer, and will become even more so the more vehicles out there are self-driving.

edit: so many tesla haters downvoting! :D
Why Not?

I see a problem that I can fix, I do that, and then send it back to the original maintainer, making sure that I'm not breaking tests if they exist, and providing a good description of the change. Then it's up to the maintainer to either merge it, or throw it away.

Of course, I don't have any problem with getting my PRs closed, I'm not the one who would end up maintaining the code.
> (you don't have to pay this back, and there also is no tuition)

You likely pay taxes....

No qualitative judgment here, except against a view that conflates "no explicit costs" with "no costs".
"IF"
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I heard about 10.000 lines of code in one function at a job interview. I did not accept that job offer and I am quite happy that I don't have to maintain this... This is a serious lack of craftsmanship! A little bit of Clean Code for every programmer please... But I am drifting a bit off topic now.
To me, intellectual curiosity is basically "learning for the sake of learning". In other words, picking up a skill or researching a topic that interests you without having a real need to apply said skil/knowledge professionally or personally.

Often the research may be tangentially related to their work, but it doesn't have to be in order to be 'credited' as intellectual curiosity.

Outside of CS, demonstrating curiosity can be almost anything. A non-CS person learning a technical topic is actually a decent example. Non-programmers that buy Arduino and do some home automation project.

It can be almost anything I'd think. Many people don't dedicate much personal time to learning. Demonstrating that learning can be challenging.

I have clients that require interviewees to do a presentation on anything at all during the hiring process (both non-tech and tech employees). Some have demonstrated game strategies they've studied.
I'm not sure. If an insurance company can make a profit by charging me $500/year (random number) for car insurance now why would I be forced by them to switch to a driverless car?

Sure the people with driverless cars only pay $100/year but my risk hasn't increased.
> I can't help but think about how much this would alleviate traffic congestion

Especially given that I do not see how self driving cars could decrease traffic congestion problems. A self driving car takes as much space as a "regular car", so only ways I can imagine autonomous cars reducing traffic are:

1. People ride less with cars.
2. People share rides more.
3. Autonomous cars are significantly more efficient finding free parking spaces, so they reduce the amount of cars looking for a free parking spot.
4. They do not need to be parked, so parking space is given to moving cars (and this actually helps, not increases, congestion).
5. Autonomous cars can drive in less space and/or are smaller.

Of course, any of these claims being wrong attribute to increased congestion due to autonomous cars. And to be honest, I find it unlikely that any of those claims would be correct in the sense that it would materially reduce the congestion problems.

(Well, maybe one more option came to my mind that might actually help. If the autonomous cars would be able to increase the capacity of crossroads by somehow communicating with each others like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pbAI40dK0A )
I don't see how a robot psychologist wouldn't fall into an uncanny valley. Though, the automaton from Pohl's Gate seemed friendly enough.
Definitely a reasonable critique. What I didn't originally realize is that medium is more than blogging software. It promotes community among writers. You can also create an account and just follow people. (Yes, I know this is obvious to most)

I'm of the opinion that when you're developing an app that will be used regularly, it is justifiable to have an expensive initial load time, provided it allows for a better experience on following uses.

I understand there are purists out there that disagree with this, but... "Yeah, well, that's just like... their opinion man". There are always trade offs. You just have to make tradeoff decisions based upon the needs of your primary user base.
Generally speaking, politicians don't control grant money for research. They set the budgets for agencies who solicit proposals that are reviewed by domain experts. The exception is what is known as "pork", but that usually involves large projects.
Industrialization and automation took us to 40h weeks. Obviously it was progressive forces that did the work but it wouldn't have been possible if it weren't for increased productivity making it possible for workers to call for reduced working hours.

I think most of the developed world will adopt a 35 or 30 hour work week within a few years.
It may have, but I haven't encountered the issue with my device.
this is a good idea, creative commons so it's ok to scrape I think...

I'm interested in using nodejs to replace bash scripting, I loathe doing any kind of logic in bash and I just want to excise it. No maven or gradle for build tools. I'll revisit later.

Good domain name as well, easy to memorize, good job.
When people behind don't respect the safety distance (and, for me, 1s is my level of tolerance), I switch on my warning lights. I keep them on for 20km if necessary. I know it's illegal, but if that's what it takes to make others respect my safety distance, I think it's worth it. And it's better than other (bad) solutions like hitting the brakes to test the guy's safety distance...

We should just be allowed to carry police-verified dash cams which issues fines in live ;)
Or it might just have a higher expected value. Dead people don't eat dinner.
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Easy passwords are better than default passwords.
I think these fears are grossly exagerated. Our society has a remarkable capacity to preserve manual work way after it should have been automated.

I work a lot with the finance dept of a large bank where 90% of the work should have been automated years ago. No need for AI, just a little bit of coding and good communication between IT and the business. But the business is not in a rush to destroy its own jobs, and IT consistently misunderstand what the business actually does. (Also we often have to deal with "bottom of the basket" IT, but it will be the same with AI).

And with the people currently in charge, it won't change anytime soon.

So I think the time where AI will have automated every single manual job is nowhere near. Like software has not automated every single manual task yet, far from it. The only thing I can see AI taking over are the jobs that are standardised enough, and accessible enough for programmers to understand, and on a large enough scale that it makes sense to have a lots of ressources dedicated to training and tuning algos for someone to bother deploying AI.
The modes are the sequence of seven notes you're choosing from. If we're counting in half-steps (where 12 half-steps is an octave and gets you back to the same note), the different modes would look like...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Lydian: (R, R+2, R+4, R+6, R+7, R+9, R+11)
Ionian (Major): (R, R+2, R+4, R+5, R+7, R+9, R+11)
Mixolydian: (R, R+2, R+4, R+5, R+7, R+9, R+10)
Dorian: (R, R+2, R+3, R+5, R+7, R+9, R+10)
Aeolian (Minor): (R, R+2, R+3, R+5, R+7, R+8, R+10)
Phrygian: (R, R+1, R+3, R+5, R+7, R+8, R+10)
Locrian: (R, R+1, R+3, R+5, R+6, R+8, R+10)

Melodic: (R, R+2, R+3, R+5, R+7, R+9, R+11)
Harmonic: (R, R+2, R+3, R+5, R+7, R+8, R+11)

Then, once you have your mode, you form chords by picking a starting note (from one to seven) and then stacking every other note from there. We're only building triads, so stop after stacking three notes. So, if we're in Ionian, the chords would be...

I: (R, R+4, R+7)
ii: (R+2, R+5, R+9)
iii: (R+4, R+7, R+11)
IV: (R+5, R+9, R)
V: (R+7, R+11, R+2)
vi: (R+9, R, R+4)
vii: (R+11, R+2, R+5)

Instead of playing the three notes simultaneously, the arpeggiator here is playing them one at a time in different orders and octaves.

Hope that helped!
I should say I'm envisaging an electric-assist bike so (some) losses would be fine since they are made up by the battery. Of course if it's 10x the loss of a regular bike that could be a problem - I've no idea if your figures are correct or represent the state of the art.

> Likewise, I don't see how you'd have 2 side by side wheels on a "bike" that's designed to go 30mph+, how would you stop quickly without cartwheeling?

I guess you'd stop the motor and the electronic self-balancing would do the rest (in a very hand-waving way, but Segways are an existence proof that something like this is possible, although perhaps not at 30mph).
We will know, when the price of insurance goes down, assuming the market is competitive.
I see all these talks about AI coming for our jobs and how awesome post scarcity society will be. But I never really hear people talking about the transition. Because what do you do when 10-20% of people are unemployed? Because isn't the end goal to have a majority of labor done by machines? What jobs can replace? How do we deal with high unemployment?
When you say you're receiving something for nothing, you're making an extraordinary claim. Got any evidence?
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Hello other Delphi person !! Such a pity that we had the same sad Delphi fate...
You might be interested in the work of Frithjof Bergmann.

http://newworknewculture.org/about-frithjof-bergmann/
http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2013/10/10/ep83-frithjo...
I like your insight. Is that the main message conveyed in [0]? (I haven't read it)

What do you think is going to happen? Can society do something to prevent mass concentration of wealth into the 0.00001% of people via the march of technology and innovation, or is this an inevitable outcome?
There are several other examples which show both ES6 and ES5 syntax, there is no reason the better ES6 syntax couldn't be shown here as well.
It needs to be spine strict for that to work, but the amortization for finger trees doesn't work without laziness
True, but not when the easy password is 12345abc. :(
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