skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My issue with Alacritty is that it is attempting to be a GPU-accelerated terminal in the space that urxvt operates in (bare-bones, few configuration options, etc). One of the things I like about iTerm 2 is the ability to configure so much of it (even just small things like having multiple cursor styles to choose from, and configuring cursor blinking).
I recommend using SonarQube instead of just PMD to prioritize technical debt. SonarQube includes PMD rules as well as multiple other sets of static analysis rules. And it has reports to help identify and prioritize problem areas.
Yeah, there's no way it was just VW. All the other companies making diesel engines must have known, or at least suspected, what was going on with the VW TDIs. There are pretty fundamental reasons why diesel engines have to choose between efficiency and emissions, and when VW announced that they built an efficient engine without a urea device everyone else must've scrambled to find out their "secret", until they realized there wasn't one. The fact that they didn't blow the whistle is pretty compelling evidence that they're up to the same stuff.
"Now that I've got the degree, I'm in much better shape to pursue further learning on my own."

Could you explain a bit more what do you mean with this statement? Is it that you feel better prepared to study advanced topics (like advanced ML/Data Science) or was the degree a requirement for something else you wanted to pursue?

I'm curious about what other "doors" having this degree opens, other than the bump in salary mentioned by others.

Congrats for completing the program btw.
Are you denying he had any choice in what areas of discovery to pursue? And that there were no trade-offs involved? If not, then you are stuck on semantics.
Can confirm it happens in IT and financial also
This is probably CVS partnering in paying for an expansion in manufacturing capacity (or promising to make some payments if they don't meet some sales goals) and is really a drop from $150 (the previous price point of generic Adrenaclick). I wouldn't count on further drops in price, at least not without other generics coming to market.
You'll need to expand on "choice of applications" because most things are UNIX or UNIX-like compatible and nearly everything I use on Linux is Linux/Mac compatible. If anything, Windows is lacking and using things like Cygwin isn't good enough for many things.

xCode is walled garden specific. If you're developing for Apple products it might make sense to use Apple products that will be designed to make developing for Apple products easier. I don't see how this is a "plus" to any developer who isn't developing for Apple products. There are plenty of devs who don't work on code related to Apple products at all!

Similarly, iOS integration is moot. What if they use Android? Don't need awesome iOS integration if you don't wall yourself off into Apple's garden.

I like polishing my own interface because I absolutely detest the design of Mac. That's a flavor and is not "factually" better. Many of the design decisions from Apple make me scratch my head in confusion.
Better: Train the same model for all twenty language pairs (http://opennmt.net/Models/#multi-way---fresptitrofresptitro).

Even better: Use OpenNMT to do the OCR too (https://github.com/opennmt/im2text).
Well, have you?
I am not sure. I heard about the Mill some years ago and watched some presentations about the belt and my feeling was that it would be simpler to map functional languages onto it.

Maybe that was more wishful interpretation, but if I remember correctly the idea is to put more logic into the compiler (good old "sufficiently smart compiler") to do the optimization than do it at runtime in HW. IMHO this implies less logic in the HW which might make the implementation simpler (I am SW guy so my computer architecture knowledge might we skewed).

Further more I believe that we might be able to infer more and more bounds about runtime behavior that could possibly give rise to more aggressive optimizations. In particular the Mill provides more predictable performance than traditional architectures which is a feature in itself as it e.g. simplifies (again IMHO) real-time programming.

So that's why I believe the implementation hasn't to be at least harder than traditional architectures.

I am really looking forward to see some results and admire their effort.
rad_decentralization

permaculture

sustainability

ethereum

nim

futurology (quite a bit of spam though)

Not all of them are really insightful but still cool

foodporn

startups

conspiracy

shittykickstarters

proceduralgeneration

agi

mountaingoats

marshallbrain

DIY

simulate
So basically these are not jobs, they are "jobs".
Housing supply is catching up to demand
why aren't these things refillable?

My understanding is that these need to be replaced yearly, but you replace the whole thing.
I also confirm this works fine for me on Safari and iOS 10.2 (iPhone SE, not that I think it matters).
That's kind of a fun juxtaposition there. A product withdrawn because it didn't work and a rant about complex regulation of products that consumers expect to be 100% reliable.
The standards escalated way too fast though. They were asking for essentially multiple orders of magnitude improvement in a single generation.

Even the dirtiest of the cheating VWs would have passed the previous standards (from not that many years ago) with flying colors.
No serious economist should be measuring things in "productivity" today without a number of asterisks behind it. This is pretty well accepted. As a rule of thumb, it's generally safe to ignore anything that uses old measures of "productivity."

But that doesn't get clicks.
eReader market is smaller than tablet market, and they're both smaller than phone market, so safe to assume a good amount of reading is done on phones and tablets, which, unless set up properly, will bombard the reader with opportunities for interruption.
How PVS-Studio does the bugs search (What is inside?)
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I think there's beauty in the best you can do with a very simple implementation.

Even if you can improve "prettiness" with heroic technical efforts, I think the end result would be uglier. There's something special about simple rules coming together to address just the most important needs.

In the tech world, we tend to put more finesse into things... because we can. But as a result, most software is over-finessed and therefore not finessed at all. A great example is how tortured we let our CSS rules get, rather than allowing a design to relax a little into the constraints of the layout engine.

A hand-set newspaper isn't beautiful because it overcame every constraint, it's beautiful because it accepted its constraints, and made hard tradeoffs in service of a goal.
Exhibit A: The "blind trust" that is anything but.

Exhibit B: Mass-terminating appointees before they're formally replaced leaving huge parts of the government rudderless for months.

Nearly everything about this presidency is off the charts batshit insane. There is no way this thing would pass a political breathalizer.

Have you listened to anything he's said? Did George W. Bush teach people nothing?
No, those it'll probably still report (although I don't know, Jeff could forbid it: it's his personal blog, he will print what he wants).

It'll just stop taking things out of context and manufacturing outrage to generate clicks.
We redesigned it, but indeed it might be among the first time tracking web applications out there. It was never shown on HN before.
Startup employees do just as much bullshit to make it seem like they're busy. Their main incentive is to keep their job, not make the company successful.
glad to see the groundswell!

However I made a more efficient approach at solving this : http://TrumpTweets.io

The manifesto : http://TrumpTweets.io/manifesto
I've been saying this for years: science is far too conservative, dogmatic, and risk-averse.

The reality is that genius minds are intellectually fearless. Newton was into alchemy and fringe theology. Edison tried to build a machine to contact the dead. Many of the great minds of the 60s who at least envisioned everything you're using now were into all kinds of "crazy" stuff: parapsychology, psychedelic consciousness expansion, shamanism, etc.

Was some of that stuff silly? Sure. Was some or even most of it a dead end? Sure. But that's not the point. The point is that great minds fear no idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSolPNn0G7M
Perhaps The degree matters to people who are transitioning in from a 0 experience background?
Sounded like $109 was for a 2-pack. Is that Belgian price maybe a single?
Wow, thank you for sharing this. It's one of the more entertaining essays I've read, especially since I've recently come into contact with some of the literary critics and deconstructionists he's writing about.
Signal is built with Electron? I thought it was a Chrome App, not a standalone app.
Wow. Someone needs to tell the EPA about the inverted pyramid.

You can't blame me for missing that when they bury the lede in the very last paragraph.

That aside, the headline here still says the opposite of what it means to say. Exceeding the standard is a good thing. Exceeding the emissions limit is a bad thing.
Don't forget to find hosting that doesn't buckle when you get front-paged.
Software Fail Watch 2016
The point was that the effectively cheaper loans with make the product more expensive. House or university. It has nothing to do with selling the loans.
The author says that $70k seems a lot to build the app.

I don't know how long it took, but depending on the size of the team etc, it sounds pretty cheap TBH - certainly not enough $ there to make something secure and supported.
After reading the "poem guide" there I have to agree, WOW. My mind is blown. Despite destroying what it meant to me for 30 years, the older me appreciates the poem even more for its subtlety.
I am surprised at your surprise. All I'm saying is that for me, what the author proposes would have been strongly counter-productive. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. I'm sure some students would benefit, I'm sure others, equally, would not.

I just wanted to be sure that the complementary point of view was expressed, especially since it affects me personally.

The title might be hyperbolic,
but it's effective.

Actually, I disagree with the title. Mathematics has a life and soul of its own separately and independently of its history. The real problem is that in school one doesn't actually study mathematics anyway, one mostly does arithmetic and manipulation. Perhaps for many students the problem lies not in understanding the history, but in not doing mathematics to start with.
Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview [pdf]
There are multiple issues at play here, but it all comes down to mis-management of available funds.

1. Parent's (or grandparents) and student's not appropriately preparing for debt that a student will incur. If you know there is going to be a large debt in the future, stop buying and save. No one need's x-mas presents, no one need's that $30k car, no one need's to go on vacation. We as a culture are in the habit of spending and then complaining about our college debt.

2. Paying for college tuitions that we really don't need. If you don't have the available fund's to pay $20k a year for your undergrad, then don't. Go to a community college and pay 1/3 of the cost. Or better yet, take half the classes, live at home, create a budget, and pay for your school (or at least books) as you go. I have never heard of anyone being turned down for a job because of their undergrad being from a no-name college. Usually it's because the students want the "college experience" and then have to reap the cost of it later.

3. Mis-management of available fund's after college. College debt is debt. It may be a little more flexible than a credit card, but debt is debt. Live in the smallest house you can find, buy older cars, no vacations, no eating out. Pay off the debt that you agreed to, and then move on. I've seen too many people buying large homes, new vehicles, buying junk, and then complaining that they still have student debt.

4. Only go to college for a purpose, not because you feel the "need" to. Stop going to college just to go. Go to college with a purpose that will impact your life later in your years. So many people begin college no knowing at all what they want to do, change majors, and end up doing nothing related to their education.

5. Spend on your degree based upon your expected return. If you are getting your degree in liberal arts, do not spend $80k on your degree - you will not receive a balanced return on your investment.

Now, this article really has to do with parents and grandparent's co-signing for students and how the parents/grandparents are now on the hook for this debt. If there were required curriculums in high schools on how to manage money and how to manage debt, a lot of these types of articles would disappear. Or better yet, if people were not allowed credit until their student loans were paid.

Some just can't afford to pay off loan's quickly, and I feel for them. But if you are making $70k a year and cannot pay off your loans, you are mismanaging your money.

In regard's to the elderly in this article that are on the hook for this student debt, I have no remorse. They have lived long enough to understand money management and debt. If they allowed their grandchildren free access to debt using their credit, then they should either have a plan in place for repayment or been willing to bankroll the debt themselves.
For that, just divide yearly_salary by monthly_rent (for the same type/size of housing). You can also check crime data and other such things on http://www.city-data.com .

Many move from the Bay Area to Austin, Seattle, North Carolina, etc, especially when they're ready to buy a house. Unless something special is waiting for you, I'd say San Francisco will be a step down. I'd definitely recommend visiting first.

If you're moving for career reasons, then you should first see if the Bay Area company will allow remote working.
Wait, I thought alchemy and theology were pretty mainstream back then? How was it risky? Just because they turned out to be wrong, I don't think it was crazy for someone to be studying these things back then. Seems like a modern example would be someone studying something like string theory or dark matter and later we discover these things are wrong... but there is no reason to think that today.
Newton had an epic insight into combinatorics. The calculus work he did during the university quarantine shutdown is great to page through. I wonder how much farther Newton, Gauss, Euler, and Erdos would have gotten if they knew how to code.
The google search spider literally loads webpages in a specialized browser to analyze them, a little instrumentation or even a brute-force comparison would let them detect bad behavior (and monitor load times).
> Has there been any attempt to orchestrate an income based repayment program?

Such an option has been available for many years, though the main loan servicer has been accused of directing people into temporary deferments instead.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/state-prosecutors-navien...
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I am quite sure that apple's is more constrained by appearances than the coupling of hardware and software. the mac pro design while very unique is so constraining that they may have simply painted themselves into a corner and had no graceful out.

if they had kept the previous incarnation then updates could have proceeded yearly or even once every two years.

I do agree this proposal lacks a lot, it certainly has no Apple vibe to it
> (they just took a number from Fox News and ran with it).

I don't know what you think that case study was about, but it isn't about whether the number was true or not. It is about whether that number represents something that is in line with the point of the article.

> And I am not sure what to expect from a statistical course build around TED Talks, blog posts and NY Times articles.

I wouldn't either, but it isn't a statistical course and it isn't build around TED Talks.

It is not about learning what they are saying in a TED Talk, but about dissecting the TED Talk and understanding why you shouldn't just accept the content of it.

All the case studies are examples of bullshit.
For a new release if a hard copy of the book is priced at $20, the e-book is priced at $16 or so. When I'm done with hard copy, I typically either sell it on Amazon marketplace at roughly $12-14, while e-book's resale value is $0.

I am not penny-pinching, but there are very few e-books that I want to actually own in order to re-read later, and I'd rather not have the digital junk pile up.
Security Through Transparency
I implemented AMP on my own project and we implemented it at some clients ... all regret it.

The bounce rate, time on site, average page views of AMP pages is always worse than on the responsive version. And as we now have responsive webpages + an AMP version to maintain the overall project costs got higher. Additional the AMP pages are already falling behind as devs and management just hate them.

And outside of the news vertical we haven't seen any major positive traffic impact (and as stated above, the usage values of the AMP-traffic is crap.)

Also we spoke with some users and they all were confused of "what happened to our site...".

AMP is a horrible idea with an even worse implementation.
Hey Sasha, I took the NLP course with you at Columbia when you covered for Michael Collins 2-3 years ago. I vaguely remember either you or Michael mentioning that it wouldn't really be feasible to do multi lingual translation by mapping the input text to some universal intermediate language (embedding space) and then decoding into the target language (this was in the context of pharse based systems).

It's great to see that the MT field has made such great progress in the last few years and that the latest NMT models are doing just that.
I think alchemy at the time was just another domain of science than anything else. To them it was like today's dark matter and dark energy or figuring out cold fusion or reaction-less drives.

These are not really bets, it's all what Newton was, a man's passion, life and legacy.
CompCert C: a trustworthy compiler
Startups are not much risk, though. You start out without, you try to make something, if it doesn't work out just having the experience as long as it wasn't a total catastrophe makes you hirable anywhere you want or you try again.

The most you might lose is the support of friends and family if your dreams aren't fully realized. Which can be a lot, but that is why the people who have the most to lose don't try startups.
i can't speak for everybody or for all book consumption. in New York City book consumption is unevenly distributed.

there are places like Strand Bookstore where thousands of books in carts are left out in the street. I found a copy of the CLRS Algorithms textbook for $1 or $2.

there are places in the Bronx where book consumption is more limited. in fact with the close of Barnes and Noble there will be no bookstores in the Bronx.
I read it as they charged one customer $70k. I imagine they plan on having more customers at some point.
Interesting. My path has been Windows -> Linux -> Windows -> Mac -> Linux -> Mac -> ?
But how, exactly, is productivity measured? In dollars of GDP produced per hour worked, right? The problem is that so much of what's being produced doesn't show up as dollars of GDP.

Take Wikipedia, for example. Back in the day, a set of encyclopedias cost hundreds of dollars. Now Wikipedia is free (if you don't donate to them), and has more information. That produces value to a huge number of people. But how much does it show up in GDP? I suspect it shows up as zero dollars.

Or take Linux. Or Google. Both of those contribute far more value than they earn in dollars.

I suspect that there's a lot of that in the information sector - more value than GDP being produced. And this makes us "richer", not in dollar terms, but in terms of information and tools available for us to use.
More than 80% of those were low skills service jobs. The jobs Trump is creating and the factories he saved are high skilled high paying jobs.
Volkswagen, a German company, admitted wrongdoing, is paying $4.3bn in fines and will see its executives, domestic and overseas, jailed by the U.S. government [1]. Curious if Fiat Chrysler will see those checkboxes--admission of wrongdoing, material fines and jailed executives--filled.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/US/volkswagen-pleads-guilty-pays-43-bi...
Why do people persist in beliefs that are wrong – and even harmful?
more importantly, they're more cpu intensive and slow to deal with large files
I often wonder why did they decide to introduce such complexity with all independently developed runtimes with unrelated versions and all if they went fully open source. This problem that they have solved in their own unique way has been solved before countless times. Python is a great example, since you have your standard library with some rather carefully selected OS-specific APIs and then you got a bunch of runtimes all under the same version; no confusion whatsoever.

Now we have so many different versions to follow that I am really worried it will be impossible to keep any level of uniformity and compatibility between them. There are .NET Standard, Canadian, .NET Core, Mono, .NET Framework with .NET Standard's compatibility shim and .NET Core tooling. I hope I didn't forget anything else. It's already crazy as it is.

I am a long time .NET developer and I also was confused in the beginning of .NET Core about what was going on and I think their rush to release an unfinished product was to blame.
This, so much. My first deep dive into it I ended up in async hell.

Definitely start one call at a time in a small corner of a small application. Once you understand async Task Method() vs async Task<Result> Method(), then how the async methods all chain back together, you can expand it.
That seems irrelevant here -- Facebook is a web app that needs you to log in, and displays user-specific info in a very dynamic way. It's not the kind of thing that could ever be cached, whether by Amp or any other generic CDN.
Memorization vs Context based Learning
Do we really need to memorize things? .Real life learning is context triggered recognition based ?
Where Blender is vim, Wings is EMACS.

It's also just a modeling package, whereas Blender is a full suite including video editor and compositor.
While I agree that using GUIDs here would work to solve the issue, I wouldn't blindly use GUIDs without looking at the performance impact. The use of GUIDs as the primary key in something like SQL Server for large tables could cause read performance issues down the line.
I love cooperative mesh networks, but they can't really compete on speed and latency with regular internet connections.
That looks great! How are you encrypting communications between nodes?
"Mister Squishy" by David Foster Wallace
Sorry, I meant that as an additional reply to

"If so, this change amounts to not protecting user privacy as much as insisting that only the NYT can monetize their users' privacy."

The cookie is now hidden from the MITM. Before, not only could they see what pages you see, but they could login as you.
I am skeptical that this program will be a good signal for hiring analysts. In my experience, there are two things you need to select for:

(1) Understanding statistics. Hopefully this program will take care of this requirement, but it's not hard to find these people anyway. There is an infinite supply of science PhDs fleeing the academic job market.

(2) Behavioural/personality. People who will do well at the actual job. Example: can you tell when a PM is asking you to answer the wrong question, and how do you handle it?

You can easily find (1) with screening questions, (2) is the hard part.

But, I guess if you think you have (2) as a future analyst, this program could be a good way of getting (1).