skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brilliant question I also would like the answer to. For context, I have lived and worked in Ireland, UK, US, France, Germany, Cyprus, Japan and Singapore. I really like Singapore for the low tax, great weather, amazingly safe and crime-free environment (particularly appreciated by my wife) and tech-heavy leanings - although if you are a political blogger it might not be the place for you! It is also by some measures now the richest country on the planet (GDP per capita). It has a reputation for being expensive but if you are willing to live without owning a car (really not necessary in Singapore) and not buying a property (artificially expensive for a non-local) it really isn't that bad - certainly cheaper than central London or Manhattan. Hope this helps :)
I have worked a lot in international teams with many different cultures, but predominantly US. Being born in NL and based in DE currently, it has always amazed me what a low standard of living my american colleagues had compared to us. The elections provided me some more insight into the debate surrounding Bernie Sanders' plans and I just can't understand the seeming lack of understanding of how nice it is to have true (imho) quality of life. Free time, insurance, working roughly 35 hours a week, fresh air, exercise, good food, etc . etc. I don't want to engage any political discussion, and I see similar mindset with some europeans. It somehow just baffles the crap out of me to see people want to, and be proud of, overworking / sitting in a car 2-3 hours a day / breathing polluted air / eating prefab sandwiches or other junkfood. Meanwhile labelling any alternative as 'communism' Had a bit of that for the first few years of my working life. Never again.
My last linux laptop would have the it's backlight levels change randomly over time, every workaround and fix (changing the acpi settings in grub, different kernels, different xorg settings) did not work

all of this only happened a few window managers (xfce4 was fine as I recall)

I forget the details but it ended up being some rogue xcb messages or something

All of this has lead to just using linux for my desktop and keeping it off my laptop
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(I'm a master student Computer Science Engineering)

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We work in small, tightly-knit agile squads (5-7 team members) including a dedicated product owner and design resource. Our offices are in SOMA, there's well-stocked kitchens and weekly lunches.

It's a great place to work - you even get a budget for attending live events each year, any you choose! I'm a product manager here and I love it. You can even (if you want) go on-site to work at music festivals and venues to learn more about how what you build is impacting our customers.

Email brad+hn/at/ticketfly.com if you've got any questions about the positions posted.
Good story. I completely agree that all of this auto-curation will bury the eclectic collections and poison discovery.

That is one big reason I started my side project, curabase.com[1], to simply enable anyone to curate their own list of bookmarks. (Not a new idea, but it is MY idea based on this singlular thought -- that human curation will always be better, and NO. I don't have data to back it up :-)
Ha! Yeah, well we're not quite at the 10 million mark, and not sure who would pay that amount.

We actually use Sendgrid for transactional emails and should probably revisit for marketing. They didn't have the list manangement features when last we looked and there's a little integration dev that'll need to be done, but you've prompted me to take another look at it. May be worthwhile now. Thanks.

But, even with those guys going from 100 emails to only 4 million (highest quoted on the site), the price goes up a couple of orders of magnitude from $9.95 to over $1600. That's hardly "barely growing costs" and for a bootstrapped startup, the difference may be prohibitive. Hopefully, you've got some revenue or funding by the time you hit that subscriber base. But, don't want to gloss over the fact that you will pay significantly more as your list grows substantially, even if it's less than with other channels.
Thanks for the feedback. Sorry it didn't work out for you.

FYI, the SpiderOakONE app and the backend storage service received a refresh in 2016, and another one is underway right now (now all needed libraries are Python3 compatible!)

The existing UI is oriented toward power users, and is a bit complex for most people. The upcoming refresh simplifies many things while retaining the flexibility under "advanced" settings.
This comment is satire right? I thought so at first, then saw that the comment's children are taking it seriously, or even going along with it. Now I'm not sure anymore.
Much money goes around in Switzerland. Let's wait and see what happens now that the bank secret is no more.
Former Apple employees try a different management approach at Pearl Automation
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Don’t tax labor to give money out to UBI loafers. Instead, snag society’s capital income, which is already paid out to people without regard to whether they work, and pay it out to everyone.

Also known as nationalizing all investments.

I think the author may not quite have a grip on capitalism.
That really sucks. Thanks for sharing.
There are a lot of laptops like that in the PC market, more skewed towards gamers. I like Dave 2D's youtube reviews (no affiliation) of laptops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLsDn59fxdQ

He has a whole bunch more on his channel about others similar to that lenovo.
opensuse tumbleweed is also pretty slick
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Actually, with the UK out the EU might (finally?) turn into a military union at some point. The UK was the main force against going in that direction, in that the UK didn't want their foreign policy done by Brussels. The smaller roadblock that remains will be to convince the Nordic countries that flexing the EU's military muscle is OK for purposes other than strict humanitarian purposes (or France and - to a lesser extent - Southern Europe the other way around).
Erm... Netscape->Mozilla?
"For example, in 2010, Mitt Romney, whose total income was $21.6 million, paid only $3 million in taxes, or a tax rate of about 14 percent, which is amazing when you consider this is the same tax rate American families earning wages from about $16,750 to $68,000 paid in 2010."

So Mitt Romney payed $3M in taxes, and the american family that made $68K paid $9,520. Yes, 14% == 14%, but 0.14x != 0.14y. Liberals need a new boogeyman, this one is getting overused and makes no sense.
Carve out 50 minutes blocks during the day dedicated to working towards a predefined goal. I tried 25 minutes and 5 minutes break but 50 minutes work and 10 minutes break seems to work better for me. I track them in excel just to keep myself on track. I generally shoot for ~3 of these blocks if I have other matters to attend to (lectures/TAs etc.). In a full day of studying I can easily rack up 8-10 hours of studying using these 50 minute blocks but I prefer to study ~3 hours over more days spaced out than cram 10 hours a day.
You folks perennially have these same open positions listed and nobody from your company ever follows up :(
Warning: I had a close friend apply for this position about a year back and it was a bit sketchy. They said remote in the posting and then on the phone said the position was on-site. Additionally they said a salary number on the posting, and then on the phone said a lower number, with a promise to raise salary to the previous number after some amount of time. Then they lowered the number again in a second phone call.
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We're seeking a control systems engineer, entry level is ok. Typical tasks include developing GUIs and process control logic for manufacturing systems, database administration, web services development, and system commissioning. There is a lot of overlap with more "general" programming disciplines, CS, etc., and while a technical background is great, a technical degree is not a requirement.

Remote work is fine, along with travel to customer facilities when necessary for commissioning.

We're also looking for a sales/marketing person to help develop our marketing processes and content to drive new business. This includes written content for our site and industry publications, working with our customers to develop case studies, and developing video content for our projects, side projects, and general shenanigans.

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I am Gustavo and love to find vulnerabilities or bugs in software, usually improving or building new tools ( i.e, mutational / generational fuzzers, using symbolic execution, etc). I have experience reporting all kind of issues in parsing of text and binary formats in open source libraries.
Also, I have also 4 years of experience with Machine Learning: in fact, I am finishing my PhD. thesis right now in vulnerability discovery using Machine Learning. I am fluent in English and Spanish.

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It could. If lifespans were so long as to be nearly immortal (which may happen in our lifetimes), then the birth rate that would lead to stable population level would be one per couple. At that rate, a population of N would asymptotically approach 2N.

Absolute immortality isn't a plausible scenario, but it's important to consider that as longevity increases, the reproductive rate that leads to a stable population must go down.
Like many public officials that hold a 'digital' portfolio, Oettinger is completely unqualified to hold it.

This is the man who recently called Chinese people 'slant eyes' and now he's been promoted to another EU role to oversee budgetary matters. It dents your faith in the EU Commission when people like this can crawl to the top.

More on Oettinger:
http://www.politico.eu/article/the-strange-successful-career...
Sorry but this is simply "the grass is greener" syndrome.
Lets not picture a Switzerland as a model country because it is not. Switzerland does a lot of evil things that hurt economies of the other states of EU (lets ignore the rest of the world for a second).
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We are looking for great engineers who are interested in joining an early-stage startup in NYC. We are now a team of three and have some exciting news that we will be sharing later this month. Even if you don't think you are an exact fit for one of our current openings, we'd still love to talk. We are always looking for well-rounded engineers that have expertise in AWS, Ansible, Terraform, Swift/Objective-C (iOS), Java (Android), Django, visual design/UI/UX, and/or security.

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The argument the author uses is invalid. NNs are equally strong at modelling sparse signals, provided that they could be mapped into a continuous space, what is commonly referred to as an 'embedding'.

The premise of the article is valid though, in that NLP is a hard problem. The reason is partly because NLP is ill-defined; how do you define language understanding?

NNs are very effective at learning mappings of y=f(X), given enough examples. One of the reasons that they're so effective at modelling speech, vision, translation, etc., is that such mappings exist in high volumes. Because of the above-mentioned ambiguity of NLP, it's harder to come up with such pairs for 'understanding' a language. How do you come up with a dataset of sentences and their 'meaning'? Probably the best you could do is to map them to some action. And critics will readily disregard such attempts as 'not really NLP'.
Or the author just disagrees with capitalism.
So, essentially, abolish property rights? Just have government seize the capital from people who currently own it, or rather, seize the proceeds of the capital which is effectively the same thing, because why would you bother owning the capital if you weren't going to have access to the income it produces?

I'm all in favor of Universal Basic Income, but what happens when everyone who currently invests their money to produce this passive income decides to simply spend it instead since they wouldn't get to use any return from their investments?
At the age of 70 Arnold has probably consumed more meat than an average sized U.S family will in their lifetime. It's nice that he's changed his tune on meat consumption, but it's come rather late in his life. Arnold has had his fill and then some and now he wants to make the planet better by suggesting others limit their consumption.
The description is similar in most of western Europe, while SF/NY wages sure seem tempting, i could never give up all the benefits of Europe for it.. 5-6 weeks vacation beeing a minimum (5 is the law, 6 is the norm) and a 37 hour work week. (Denmark)
Hi Brian,

For the mobile engineer role, would you consider someone who is a junior dev? I'm open to learning different technologies, although I am an iOS developer.
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>> You do not need your body after you are dead.

> How do you know? Have you ever been dead? Do you know any people who have died?

As soon as anybody comes back from the dead to object, I'll reconsider my opinion. Until then I have no cause to believe that I or anybody else will need their body after we are dead. The living, however, most certainly do.

>> This is good for society.

> You don't know that either, unless you know the future. In this particular case, you can't rely on the past either.

Of course I know it's good for society: less people die due to donor organs. That's not up for debate. This will not change in the future either, until we can grow our own spare parts.
I can also confirm that I've noticed after a very stressful period of over 4 years that my memory was completely shot.

When I entered the workforce, at first I noticed I couldn't remember names at all, I would have to either concentrate on the name while ignoring the conversation in front of me, or I pay attention to the conversation but have an almost certain chance I will forget the name.

I've noticed in general that I had poor short term memory, but I never realised this issue when I was in college.

The worst part was not being able to remember what tasks I accomplished just a few hours before at work, boy that always made me feel good.

It's been driving me nuts for years, I'm unsure how much I have recovered if at all.
Sorry, typo, was going for 2020
It's interesting to see that the burden of insurance falls upon the manufacturer.

That's what makes it all work without detailed regulation. Otherwise, there would have to be detailed technical regulations and pre-deployment testing. This way, the manufacturer is responsible. Period.

Volvo's CEO originally proposed that.[1] Volvo Car Group President and CEO Håkan Samuelsson said in 2015 that "the company will accept full liability whenever one of its cars is in autonomous mode." That's now US policy. Tesla and Uber probably hate that; both have tried to evade liability for bad autonomous driving. GM, Ford, and Chrysler seem to be OK with it; they've all survived big vehicle defect lawsuits and recalls. It's going to lead to much safer cars.

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/10/07/volvo-liability-self-driving-c...
Well. I just attended a private presentation from a popular e-commerce company. They said they were sending 15 emails per months to a customer in average.

That's a lot, but they've tested it and they got more revenues for every email, until that much.

The emails include: Sale confirmation, payment confirmation, recommendation to buy something again, please come back to rate this, discounts, etc... (it's not all spam).
Thank you for the clarification. I really appreciate all the hard work you guys do in trying to combat unwarranted breaches of privacy.

I've had my reservations about companies that make such bold claims as yours but I will look into your platform more and give the free trial a whirl.
I agree that the regulations should be tailored to the facts; it isn't appropriate to apply the same fire code to a small home (even where it is used for AirBnB) that applies to a large hotel building.

I would add in support of your argument that AirBnB should not have an economic advantage as a result of the different regulations. I do think commerce benefits from having fair and equal playing field / rules and suffers when companies can benefit from regulator arbitrage.
I made the jump a few months ago. I'm contracting software design and development services (modern front end and back end, but mostly back end) and focus on startup clients. My site is linked in my profile if you're curious.

Plenty has been discussed on this before, but here are the biggest pros and cons from my experience.

Pro: Time flexibility. I wanted to be able to dedicate more time to non-dev things like reading, writing, creating, and learning things just for the hell of it.

Con: You don't get paid for time in several situations where employees do, for example, paid vacations and holidays. Another would be long lunches. As an employee, I never thought about the length of my lunchtime. As a contractor, I tend to eat as fast as possible so I can get back to business.

I think the benefits and drawbacks really vary by one's personality. I'm a very autonomous person and have always worked best when I can control my day and working hours.

Increasing income was not a direct goal for me, but it will probably happen. It's not quite that simple though — you need to make about 30% more to cover self-employment taxes and various startup costs like creating a company, legal, accounting, web services, etc.

Once you consider: (1) that you don't get paid vacation and holidays, (2) that you probably won't have 100% of your desired hours every week for 52 weeks out of the year, and (3) that you have certain time-consuming activities that aren't billable, like invoicing; it's probably more like 1.5x to net more overall at the end of the year vs being an employee. Note that this also ignores any equity you might have vested as an employee.
Are all your software engineering positions at the senior level? It's hard to tell what (Sr./Staff/Principal) means by the job title
I don't have a newer one to check right now, but on the Tx30 series they had both the ThinkLight and the newly-introduced backlit keyboard, with lighting cycling from off - keyboard dim - keyboard bright - ThinkLight.

ThinkWiki is unclear on its presence - The T460s is listed as a model with it, but the Tx50 models seem absent.
My general tips (not always possible or applicable, but hey):

- Highlight the cost of doing what he says. There is always a cost, but either you or him/her may be misunderstanding or miscalculating it.

- Ask why it needs to be done.

- Offer alternatives.

- Keep in mind he/she has more to lose than you if the conversation goes bad.

- Stay polite.
Switzerland is the biggest representative of Western Europe hypocrisy. Their society claims how developed and humane they are but at the end of the day almost all of their wealth comes from money laundering, tax evasion and exploiting weaker economies with their corporations.

USA is at least honest about all of it :-)
Indirectly, this raises a concern I have with so-called "Artificial Intelligence" or "Deep Learning".

My first thought about this moving sofa problem is that it would yield an answer to brute-force analysis.

If not, then what about a long series of brute-force approximations to establish increasingly narrow upper and lower bounds? Which might yield an insight about the maximum pattern?

And then this thought occurred to me: if we have such amazing tools nowadays, for doing pattern analysis, and Big Data analysis, how is that we are not able to find patterns in a problem such as this? I mean, could we not find patterns in the ways we find upper and lower bounds, and then use techniques of Artificial Intelligence to see some underlying pattern in the bounds?

This problem is not like "What is the incidence of tuberculosis in Peru?" where we work with incomplete data. This moving sofa problem is an issue where we can work with perfect data.

And yet out current Big Data tools are unable to find a pattern that would provide a conclusion about the maximum?

Problems such as this help establish the limit on what our current Artificial Intelligence can do. If our pattern finding tools can not find patterns in numbers, where we work with perfect access to unlimited data, then we should not think that AI is going to achieve dramatic breakthroughs when working with imperfect data in the real world.
> It somehow just baffles the crap out of me to see people want to, and be proud of, overworking / sitting in a car 2-3 hours a day / breathing polluted air / eating prefab sandwiches or other junkfood. Meanwhile labelling any alternative as 'communism' Had a bit of that for the first few years of my working life. Never again

Wtf lol. America isn't necessarily like this. You just had a shit job.