skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That comic is pointing out that the kind of behaviour that you're engaging in is obnoxious. The downvotes you appear to be accumulating? That's what that is about. It's not simply disagreement, though I expect you'll blame it all on that anyways.
This is totally not obvious. No visual clue hints at this, except maybe the changing cursor shape, not very helpful.
It's the opposite actually. The specific activity that tends to be talked about here is Euro clearing. London clears transactions in currencies from all over the world, including US Dollar and Renminbi transactions. Nobody cares about this because it's just not a big deal. Except the EU, which has some weird hangup about having euro clearing be physically done in the eurozone.

Note that the EU has already tried to force this business out of the UK even before Brexit. The UK Government took the Commission to court and pointed out that their new regulations blatantly violated the EU's own commitments around discrimination, and won.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-wins-court-case-with-ecb-on-...

The EU is no friend of the UK, or bankers. They see finance workers as resources to be fought over and pumped for tax revenue, nothing more.
Fair point.

NB: generalization should be one of, if not the first thing you think about and plan for in any ML project.
> It's why in the long run, I suspect the answer to the problem isn't a centralised platform that hosts a lot of different communities, but a system that connects individually hosted communities into a 'network' of sorts with similar features to Reddit.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this just a protocol?
The NYT one is good. If you need more features, like adjusting for renting a room, the Michel Blue Jay one is great too:
http://michaelbluejay.com/house/rentvsbuy.html
Sam finishes by saying that: "the most interesting and successful people I know seem to all have strong ideas about what the future will look like."

If you have your own idea of the world and what the future will look like you will most probably have some ideas on what the world will need to get there.
Hotel Sunrise guests would certainly connect to APs advertising that SSID. It would be pretty shady for them to set up their own APs with that SSID however.
While they have the best intentions, these kinds of initiatives can backfire badly. 2 years ago, I was partnered on a project with a woman who did not how to code a single line of C++ in a senior-level computer science course. Whenever I would arrange for us to work together in lab, she would call in sick. This happened about 3 or 4 times. I told this to my professor, who was a HUGE social justice guy, and after investigating our version-controlled project he found that I had written 98% of the lines. I got an A on the project, she got a B, so she still passed, but the whole time I'm wondering: is this really helping her? Is it really going to help her in her long term career to push her through the classes without learning anything to push a statistic that the college can later brag about. Of the couple girls I know who graduated in my class, one works at Google, but none of the rest of them are working in a remotely computer science job. I think the proportion corresponds to the ratio of girls who would naturally take computer science (the one that works at google now and perhaps a few who just preferred other things) vs. the people that were pushed through (the rest).

This also causes problems for the whole school as well: I learned through a friend that a google recruiter was talking about how students from my school often have great resumes and then fall apart during technical interview questions. So I think it is plausible that these kinds of initiatives hurt EVERYONE from the school in question.

This is all anecdotes, but I'm convinced this is a real problem, causing REAL harm, all for the college to look better in social justice statistics. This is why I'm writing about it instead of just shrugging my shoulders.
Yes I suppose the real question is would those employees "elect" for a 6 hour day with a 25% pay cut, or not...that would give you something of a feeling for whether the benefits out weight cost, as it were...
you're not even using the word the same way as the post you replied to. it's like you're talking to a different person entirely.
Originally there were two versions, but I think there is only one now. The touch cover looks more like a ring binder cover. (random link I found, no connection) http://www.alphr.com/features/378001/microsoft-surface-touch...
Is "occifer" a pun or just a mangling of "officer"?
Wouldn't homogeneous teams make "jelling" easier?

In my opinion, no. It's been my experience that a large portion of programmers are the type to easily lose track of the real goal (delivering a product that generates business value) in favor of relatively unimportant details.

To make this short and blunt: I've watched a pair of mega-nerds geek out for a week, over-engineering and prematurely optimizing an unimportant feature. I've also watched an adult have an absolute emotional meltdown over curly brace placement.

In my opinion, diversity is a method of keeping this sort of thing in check.
This is exactly what I wondered about. So what exactly is the function you are training for? Is it basically like "if the screen (showing the track) looks like this, apply these controls"?
As much as I really don't care for the energy waste associated with mining, when parents at the bus stop started talking to me about production block chain deployments they were working on, it's obvious the block chain will be adopted by the enterprise.
I'm not familiar with this particular case, but innocent people confess more frequently than you might think. Investigators put tremendous pressure on suspects during interrogation, and they can often feed details of the case to the suspect, resulting in a 'detailed confession'. Many times, the investigator is not intentionally trying to get a false confession.
Do you agree with @harryh that the article is marketing material?

I don't know what answer you're looking for beyond what I've just expressed above:

I disagree with the contention that the Pearl Automation article is a paid post or "obviously paid content marketing material".

If you consider good press to be marketing material, then yes, but I don't think this is an proper understanding of "marketing material". Or is it the idea it wasn't paid for? Even then, I don't think this article is the result of anything unethical, which I understand the label "marketing material" to imply. If you know of actual evidence that indicates such, I'm open to be convinced otherwise.
>No one suggests that we should go and macho-fy teaching or nursing or literature so we can get more men in those majors.

Yes they do.

https://www.jacksonvilleu.com/resources/career/men-in-nursin...

>The American Assembly for Men in Nursing (AAMN) is encouraging men to enroll in nursing school, with a goal of increasing male enrollment in nursing programs to 20% by 2020.

>Recruiters for schools and hospitals are placing targeted ads in publications and on websites that see more male users.

>The Oregon Center for Nursing undertook a recruitment campaign in 2002 titled, “Are You Man Enough to Be a Nurse?” which has recently been the focus of new attention.
Where is all that Lithium coming from?

Top producing countries, US is #8:

http://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/energy-inv...
Thank you, a very detailed answer.
Same here. The US definitely has a lot of problems, but the criticisms are often devoid of any context and only serve to further some narrow agenda.

> In societies including the US...

Oh, so the other unnamed "decent" societies must have figured it (their social and cultural problems) out then. And you've chosen to focus on "digital interactions"... why??
If you never allocate, escape analysis doesn't have anything to do.
> And supposing that we are playing more and more video games why is that sad?

No more or less sad that some upperclass Victorian types reading more and more novels. Or even before that, some medieval upper clerics overindulging in rich foods.

Doing it sparingly is good, - the well earned prize after a long day of hard work, perhaps. Doing it more is even better, - meaning you are actually successful at your more productive pursuits and can spare the time/resources to indulge. But doing it "more and more" implies an unhealthy detachment from both your responsibilities and all other goodies the rest of the world has to offer.
>you can keep up to $250,000 of capital gains from your home, tax free

And I'm pretty sure it is $500,000 for married couples:
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-250000500000-home...
Excel is such a highly valued skill compared to machine learning in the mind of bankers, they think their job can't be replaced by AI as did the Luddites of the 18th century when industrial revolution took over.
the HN reaction to this post is further proof. This thread was flagged and has only 17 points.
He had safe-cracking skills, apparently. Also, he was a well respected person that could have pulled off social engineering.
Harnessing Evolution
I hate to be "that quantum consciousness guy", but one of the first sentences of the first lecture stood out to me:
For a computer to be a quantum computer the physical systems that encode the
individual bits must have no physical interactions whatever that are not under the complete control of the program.

What if we relaxed/paraphrased this as:
For a biological system to be a mind the physical systems that underlie the mental substrate must have limited/circumscribed physical interactions that are not under the complete control of the mind.
For my money, a better C++ is in development: it's called C++20.
This will likely be true in the short term. But experience with other professions shows that the phenomenon will likely be transient. For example, despite the fact that law school is gated by an entrance exam where men outperform women by about the same margin as they do on the SAT Math,[1] law schools have even gender ratios with similar admissions chances for each gender. That wasn't necessarily true back when law schools (and med schools) took affirmative measures to equalize gender ratios, but the very process of equalization removed barriers keeping women from considering the field.

Fundamentally, most sensible people do not want to create additional hassles in their lives by choosing to become a minority. If life in Bangladesh had been as great as life in the U.S.A., my parents certainly wouldn't have moved to a place where they looked different from everyone around them. When women consider going into male-dominated fields, that's essentially what they're signing up for. That dissuades a lot of candidates who would otherwise be promising.[2]

[1] While men and women perform similarly on average on both tests, there are significantly more men who score in the top 1% on each test (for whatever reason). In the numbers-driven world of law school or med school admissions, that factor is outweighed by the fact that women tend to have better GPAs and as a result have similar admissions composite scores.

[2] The same is of course true for men considering women-dominated fields. There are many men who would be phenomenal teachers, nurses, child-care workers, which are solid jobs with good pay, who very reasonably do not want to put up with the hassles and skepticism that would come with being a man in a women-dominated field.
Please do not use the "you're a white male" line on me, because you know nothing about me.
I think when he referred to "authentic choice", to be about the choice of being normal and boring.

Right now we have lots of choice, but not meaningful ones.

For example: a medieval peasant was "fated" to die peasant, and do peasant things...

Yet, that medieval peasant, had a great probability of being able to complete life cycle, of being born, be someone's apprentice, date, have fun and mess around, sometimes with lots of free time, work hard, marry, have kids, and eventually die.

Right now there are millions of millenials, even ones already old enough to be grandparents if they were in medieval era, that can't have kids, can't have jobs that sustain themselves, and are forced to live with their parents.

Is life more confortable, with TV, games, modern medicine, and truckloads of information?

Sure yes, from that perspective life never been better, we are the apex of civilization.

But is that truly important? When people have even a instinct that drives them to want to marry and have kids, what is the point of the future when all you can do is stay unemployed in your parents home and have only fleeting relationships?

Is the modern amount of boatloads of sex with random stranger pleasurable?

Yes, a lot.

But... is it useful? Is it a choice that most of the population actually wants, even if they don't know in their 18s?

We have now lots of choices, except the choice that was the default for most of human history: have a boring job, marry, have kids, see the kids have boring jobs themselves, and die.

It wouldn't surprise me if the future got rid even of the "die" part, maybe when someone discover immortality they might make it mandatory, people would of course agree that being immortal is awesome and great... but that doesn't mean it would be actually better.
I"m also curious about this
Now witness the power of this fully operational Gigafactory :).
Given that there are only 7.5 billion humans on the planet, and that rather significantly fewer than 1 in 20 people are PyPy-using developers, perhaps those numbers should be taken with a grain of salt?

The message I would take from those statistics is that needing a fresh download of Pypy is less common among 3.x users than among 2.7 users, who apparently needed to reinstall from the web at least a few times a day during 2016.
These are Tool-Assisted Speedruns. That means that it's a human player using things like slow motion, mem dumps and other mechanisms to play perfect games. It's more an example of human's abilities when augmented with computers than AI discovering those glitches itself.
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Knowing who the murderer was and having enough evidence to arrest the murderer are two different things.
>This is all anecdotes

NHS did a study on female doctors who drop out of workplace at way higher rate than men and all the social/economic implication of it given the huge cost invested into medical education.
Ask HN: How do you used to write notes on a computer science lecture?
Blender's UI is great, highly productive and ergonomic, the way Vim UI is great.

It does have a learning curve. But the same applies to 3DMax or whatever else you might consider using professionally.
It might be, but that it is usually a consequence of not knowing any better or making use of existing libraries.

Just like people learned 8-bit BASIC and went on to do business applications and games on it. I went Z80 ASM instead.

Personally I would only use Python for shell scripting and advise for using Julia instead.

Of course, others see it differently.
same experience here. Now 10 years later. Not a single person (man or woman) who was not a cs geek before uni started is into hands-on development
It is quite affordable until you have many files / objects.
Well, at their scale, the answer would be pretty obvious -- from all of those places probably.

Although interestingly, US production isn't far from the factory and has an undisclosed volume, not strictly the 8th largest
Five African inventions to look out for in 2017
while also taking...a good while longer :)
The company put the code on GitHub, and the company has the rights to do so. The developer who signed the NDA doesn't have the rights to do that. And if the code was actually stored elsewhere and the developer decided to create their own private repo and upload the code there, that would be a violation of the NDA.
Digging through [0] (and matching my experience), NYC appears to average summer highs of mid-80s and winter lows in the 20's There are plenty of days outside of those ranges in Feb and August, but there are a solid 6 months/year of reliably comfortable cycling weather.

As to your footnote, both of your geographic problems are avoidable by knowing the city better. Both the Hudson River Greenway (low) and Riverside Drive (high) provide very convenient ways to avoid the 125th St Valley on the west side, and St Nicholas Ave does the same on the east.

Further, what self-respecting (and sane) cyclist would take the Brooklyn Bridge when the Manhattan bridge is __right__ there and in every way nicer to ride on?

[0]: https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KJFK/1972/1/2/P...
This is a video I took of Obama's (empty) motorcade passing through Walthamstow in North East London on it's way to collect him at Stanstead Airport:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHXH2fEyUnc
If you'd like to experiment with an open-source FaaS server that doesn't require Docker, I'd suggest checking out: https://github.com/stackvana/microcule
Your previous Show HN has an unanswered question pertaining to ping-only probes. While I understand that the OP had confused your copy's ping with an actual ICMP type of ping, you probably want to clarify it with an example (https://app.nines.ws/ping).

Good luck!
OP doesn't give enough specifics to speculate regarding automation, other than mumble mumble machine learning.

How about investigating reports of abuse as they're surfaced, like most companies do?
It seems likely to me that Rust is your better C++. I'm also quite positive that there is (more than) enough oxygen for Rust to succeed.

As for D, I think it has numerous other issues, that don't apply to Rust.
Odd that he didn't mention the Life-Model Decoy they had running. Other than a hiccup on September 11th, it seemed to have functioned quite well.
Those 6 were already enough to learn how "portable" POSIX actually is.
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As mentioned elsewhere in this message, it depends on the job really. Nursing staff in a nursing home might benefit more from shorter shifts. Someone that is sitting at a desk taking phone calls or entering data might benefit from a bit longer of a day.

I'm more in the latter camp and my colleagues and I have been talking about doing 4x 9.5 hour days and just rotating who gets Friday's off vs the rest of the week. I could easily come a bit earlier, leave a bit later and get tons of benefits from 3 day weekends.
What's the advantage of writing an interpreter? Go already has an excellent runtime (scheduler, GC, etc)--why should this project reimplement it?
How entitled can you be ? Why are they required to do anything of the sort ?
New Western frontier, conquered by China
Musk will yet again need to kick those nay sayers butt with sheer awesomness. Maybe when we will have a colony on mars will they start believing..
But probably not.
What are the realistic expectations of in-office presence? Are there core hours when everyone is more or less expected to be present? Or is it accepted to hop in to the office every other day for a couple of hours of sync, and code from home otherwise?
Oops, I meant 8260. That's what I'm using.
I think most would say that functional analysis is a generalization of linear algebra and that you absolutely need your linear algebra first. (Functional analysis is often thought of as infinite dimensional linear algebra.) Moreover, (finite dimensional) linear algebra is sufficient for learning theoretical quantum computing where there is a finite number of states.
Hmmm, this makes me wonder whether the scores reported on Credit Karma are real or "educational"...
I heard that much of it for this factory is coming from Mexico: http://fortune.com/2015/08/28/tesla-lithium-mine-mexico/
money is fungible, and SS benefits are extremely extremely loosely proportional to how much taxes you paid.
The Surefire Way to Never Find Anything New in Science
The jobs of bankers, lawyers and businessman is to negotiate and evaluate risks. They do that all day along.

The jobs of an engineer at a startup... oh wait is that a job? I thought they were just naive kid fucking around and making money for the board[1].

[1] Don't worry. You'll understand when you'll see your CEO negotiate £8 millions more shares while children are taking the job for less than 4k and they think it's a good deal. Best day ever! :D

You can't fix other people but you can choose whether you want to be a naive child or a business man.
The super successful people I know spent a very long time pursuing their ideas, way past when most people would have given up.

Not to take away from his advice on giving up but is there survivorship bias in this statement? How many people persist for just as long (or longer!) and still fail?

I think it might be more useful to look at success/fail rates for various levels of persistence.
> I would love to know how big the codebase is.

Sorry, can't be very specific, but rewriting all the frontend code would take a lot more effort than writing a new Python runtime :)

> It seems like writing a translator to deal with all the use cases is so much more work and risky than iteratively rewriting portions (in whatever faster more concurrent language) and using some form microservice/process message passing to communicate with legacy pieces.

We do iteratively rewrite components as well. We are pursuing multiple strategies.

> Love to know how they compose async operations currently? Is it some sort of object (e.g. Futures, promises, observables, etc)?

Most async operations are performed out-of-process by other servers.

> Is Grumpy going to have some sort of language difference (to Python) to compose async stuff (e.g. async and await)?

I'd love to support async and await at some point.

> Of course being biased towards the JVM (since I know it so well) they could get really fast concurrency if they want with Jython today. Most of the Python tools already work with Jython (assuming 2.7).

We did also do an evaluation of Jython but there were a number of technical issues that made it unsuitable for our codebase and workload. One such example is this longstanding issue: http://bugs.jython.org/issue527524. I just noticed the very recent update on that thread that implemented the workaround outlined in 2010 by Jim Baker. We tried that workaround and found we got a huge performance hit on affected code. There were a few other general performance problems as well but I can't recall all the details.

Please note I'm not at all bashing Jython, I think it's a great project with a sound design, it just wasn't right for us.

> With Jython you could always drop down into Java (or any other JVM lang) if you need more speed as well C for cpython (or even C from Java). It is unclear what you do with Grumpy with performance critical code. Can you interface with Go code or is the plan C?

You can interface with Go code directly, e.g. from the blog post:

from __go__.net.http import ListenAndServe, RedirectHandler
handler = RedirectHandler('http://github.com/google/grumpy', 303)
ListenAndServe('127.0.0.1:8080', handler)
> past the event horizon for human understanding

I think this phrase is going to pop up more and more frequently.
Doesn't work for everything, but you can subclass a namedtuple:

from collections import namedtuple

class Foo(namedtuple("Foo", "a b c")):
@property
def sum(self):
return self.a + self.b + self.c

f = Foo(1,2,3)
print f.sum
Sure, but you can also consider things like coding, designing new products, talking to users, meeting like-minded people, reading about technology, etc. as "not work". You don't have to expect a payoff from them, and it's often less depressing if you don't.