skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's assume Tensorflow has basic symbolic computation graph expressiveness. What you would do is to build a symbolic representation while executing your graph inline, your symbolic representation doesn't need to have any control structure, it is simpler than that. You execute while loop in Python as usual, and your symbolic representation won't have TF.While at all, it will simply be the execution you performed so far (matrix mul 5 times).

Once you have a reasonable symbolic computation graph library, you don't need to explicitly build a "tape" because the symbolic representation will record the order of execution and reverse AD even graph optimization (applying CSE etc) come naturally as well.
I have some quotes that might provide insight:

> Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

- purportedly by John Steinbeck

> It is a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: “If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?

> Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times.

- Kurt Vonnegut

> If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

- Lyndon B. Johnson
Sounds more like a wager based on rationalizing laziness than a wager informed by knowledge of the research on the factors that contribute to longevity.

So what if she has the genes? You have no information indicating whether or not her active lifestyle added 1 year or ten or twenty or zero. We do know that the research shows a causal relationship between activity level and longevity.
> Quiet title actions are the standard and prescribed process to identify all potential co-owners, determine ownership, and ensure that, if there are other co-owners, each receives appropriate value for their ownership share.

Basically doing the state's work for them, getting rid of that state's antiquated cop-out law.
This story is extra sensationalized here. I am sure Zuck will let go a $100 Million investment to avoid negative publicity. We cam all wait and see how this pans out. If anyone is a culprit here is the middle party aka realtors, as usual.
While we're being condescending, it seems like some people have Zuckerberg derangement syndrome. Guess Aaron Sorkin's quasi-fictional biopic was effective. I don't see how anyone who reads this article will think Zuckerberg is hurting anybody. A bunch of people who previously owned useless fractional shares are going to get some cash.
I actually saw his property when my GF and I were in Kauai a few months ago and visited the beach in front of his lot for fun.

So his property is adjacent to a land reserve so it is much more secluded than just the land he owns. He is building a massive wall in front of the house that is obstructing some of the views of people on the other side of the street which they are not happy about (you can google to see it) and many of the houses are now for sale. As for the beach front, by law all beaches in Kauai are open to the public. However... his property is on a hill and it appears that many people plant these extremely thick bushes that create a thick thorned wall of shrub (many dozens of feet wide) that prevents access (in addition to requiring you to walk up a steep slope). Just getting down to the beach from the public access point took 15-20 min.

That said, I don't think the beach can be accessed by boat efficiently (very rocky once you get past the sand) and swimming in it is very dangerous. For those of you who have not visited, there are very aggressive undertows in Kauai that can easily kill a kid or novice swimmer.
Now that I read up on what Shift+upload is supposed to do, I wish it worked.
I live outside of Seattle. But nearly all of the work I do with USDS requires me to be physically present. So I travel a lot (4/5 days a week). You aren't going to find a badly broken technology project in the Federal Government that is able to leverage remote people effectively.
Simple divide-and-conquer. The 1% retain/grow their power by convincing 49.5% of us that the other 49.5% of us are the bad guys.
> One of the USDS project selection criteria is that we prioritize work that based on what will do the greatest good for the greatest number of people in the greatest need

The USDS is a taxpayer-funded public entity. The "greatest good..." is determined by the law, written by our duly elected representatives. You don't get to serve the public and selectively reject the law. If the Congress passes a law you disagree with, you must follow it or resign--those are the only options, per your civil service oath.
Fragility? Those exhaustive compiler checks are anti-fragile. There's a binary - either your compiler tells you early on where you need to adapt your code, or your automated test suite / customers will tell you in integration / production. Your code is likely to break either way, the question is how early / cheap would you like the fix to be. Code which is cheaper to fix is less fragile QED
Assuming you aren't joking, why would you trust the members of the tribunal? I have yet to see any evidence that humans have found a way to overcome the principal-agent problem in governing bodies.
The article makes it clear that this is standard procedure in Hawaii. No new case law is being created.
This is one of the things I have marked as an issue to elaborate a bit more on.

https://github.com/jakerockland/go-vs-swift/issues/8

Thanks for the link! :)
> Without getting into weeds too much, there's lots of good work happening to make it easy to join the federal government or enlist in the military.

Why is it good to make it easy to enlist in the military?
What rubbish!

This is the thinking of someone that lives in a country with a philosophy that puts country before individuals.

By almost every and any measure, we are all better off than 30, 40 or 50 years ago - Chinese, Americans, Indians, Europeans, almost everyone. There IS a subset within those places that has benefited less, or even gone backwards, no doubt.

But even for those people, what is the economic value of the wonders of the modern, internet and mobile phone age? When for the cost of an internet connection, people have access to millions of free flash games? Is that a better life than 1970s Harlem? I'm not sure either way, but it is a lot closer run thing that life is worse for the "losers" of globalization than people realize, and that is the comparison for the small minority that have missed out in the modern world, not the mean or median experience.

The only way people are worse off is if they compare the best of 1960s living - e.g. have only the husband work, own a 4 bedroom house in the burbs, make a decent salary without a degree - and ignore the things missing that are present in the modern lifestyle. Because in the 1960/70/80s west, people ate only basic food (nothing "foreign" like Thai or Indian), very few had cable TV, and went out at most once a week to the movies. They never bought an espresso, never owned a modern electronic device like a computer, never got to use the internet to settle an argument or play a computer game, unless they were extremely well off and got to play Pong circa say 1980.

If that sounds like a life people prefer - a big house, no lifestyle, no electronics, basic cable if lucky and only white people food - then I reckon most people could live like that even today if they so chose. But man, that isn't a life I'd be happy with. Not even slightly.

If that is "losing" - better lifestyle, better food, better (and cheaper) entertainment and slightly smaller living conditions and more people working, man, "winning" would have been insanely good.
You are making many arguments on the 'philosophical anarchist' spectrum. Michael Huemer's "The Problem of Political Authority" may be of interest to you.
Thanks, Brandon. And thank you for your service on healthcare.gov!
Came here to quote this.

Personally when I see the phrase "working conditions" I immediately think of hours worked, aka "work/life balance." And from everything I've heard, hours at Silicon Valley companies are far from the best in the world.

Either the author ascribes a much different meaning to "working conditions" than I do, or my perception of those working conditions are way off base.
Why isn't that enough?

Ted Turner would say that's not enough.[1]

[1]https://qz.com/615048/these-are-the-10-biggest-landowners-in...
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> Maybe it's because the king enables those above the peasants to retain that position?

Surely its nothing compared to Govts with multi-trillion dollars in (extorted) revenue because thats what have been my observation.
TL;DR, the mini program is basically WeChat's own chrome web store, web app with proprietary API to interact with WeChat.

Didn't know why this is hyped so much, and there is nothing revolutionary about this. It makes the Chinese internet even more becoming WeChat's own walled garden.
Look, donating a small percentage of ill-gotten gains, however impressive the number sounds, does not change anything. At all. How expensive has Facebook's ecosystem of control been to humanity? Surely more than a morsel of that very institution's stock?

And donations are always so ambiguous. For one, I wish someone would attempt to quantify how much less a donated dollar helps than a dollar made at the expense of the population hurts (ounce of prevention vs. pound of cure). For example, what percentage of that donation is going straight to that organization's advertising budget? Moreover, what is Zuckerberg getting in return? Political clout? Further control over the city?

And if this is how he justifies kicking people off their land (which, yes, clearly he is), it simply doesn't add up on the existential scales.
This explains a lot. Zuck, essentially, is: http://blogs-images.forbes.com/kathleenchaykowski/files/2016...
Pushups are great, but don't just do pushups - you definitely want to integrate pull-ups to get a balance between chest & back. If your chest muscles are overdeveloped relative to your back, you are exacerbating the bad computer posture of shoulders rolled forward and forward head posture known as upper crossed syndrome.
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This "weird land practice" is likely meant to protect native Hawaiian people from being forced out of their homeland

That seems like wild speculation on your part. Any evidence to back up your claim?
Fellow public servant and former Skyper here. I can fully see where you are coming from. Keep up the good work, a lots of folks are looking up to what the USDS is doing!
> The builtin generics are a mess.

Could you elaborate on this? I must not have used arrays, slices, maps, or channels enough to find that there's some common issue with all of them, other than that the user can't write her own functions generic over them.
We have a volunteer corps. For a lot of people, the military is one of the best job options as it also offers paid education via the G.I. Bill.
Mods should remove the word brutal from the title.
This sounds like the sort of thing where you have to sue someone to force the court to sort out legalities. Sort of like the RIAA/MPAA suing Joe Does that are associated with an IP to figure out who is on the other end of it.

If Zuck is using the court to force a sale, then it's a total asshole/dick move. If he's using the court to sort out ownership of land so that he knows who he needs to deal with to buy it (as a normal transaction), that's another story.
"Three Zuckerberg companies — Pilaa International LLC, Northshore Kalo LLC and High Flyer LLC — filed eight quiet title lawsuits Dec. 30 in state Circuit Court on Kauai."

Hmm.. so the man who wants all of us to "open up" on his conglomerate of social networks - sometimes even if we don't want to [1] (it is not for him, you see, it is for this grand vision of connecting the world together) is troubled by a reduction of his privacy.

Even more priceless stuff:

"Defendants have 20 days to respond to the legal complaint after being served with a copy. If they don’t respond, they get no say in the proceeding. If they choose to participate, it could be expensive if they want to be represented by an attorney."

Hmm.. I wonder if the timing of the court filing might have to do with some other major event happening around the 20th of January which might drown out this "not-fake" news. Like, say, the inauguration of the President of the USA?

It is very interesting that by the time this news shows up on HN - the 20 days are already up. Is it possible that FB could have suppressed this news in the name of stopping fake news from spreading? I can't prove that the suppression happened, but can you prove with certainty that it didn't?

The best part in all this is how tuned out FB employees are about these kinds of things. I bet they don't even see the connection between what they claim is good for everyone (a private entity purporting to connect the world as its grand mission and violating all manners of decency in the process) and what they claim is good for their boss (an individual who knows exactly what it is like to be on the receiving end of privacy invasions). "Do as I say, but not as I do". But it is important to show how tuned out they are, because otherwise you can bet they will come back a little while later claiming that they had no idea these things are going on.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12588449
An old article, I'd like to see the results today now that America has gone through the latest recessions. But from 2003, "Nineteen percent of Americans say they are in the richest 1 percent and a further 20 percent expect to be someday." [1]

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/opinion/the-triumph-of-hop...
As far as Go goes, I believe neither the Plan 9 OS nor the MIPS CPU architecture have a production-ready JVM. Go supports both.
Yeah, of course, I was replying to a post about the concern about a website getting your entire 1password database.
Can you explain the purpose of your '_unconstructable'?
This was an awesome episode with great questions from everyone (John, Casey, Marco).

Massive respect for Lattner and his long, multi-year, persistence to making amazing world-changing software and actually caring about open source.

One of the best ATP episodes in years!
CBP/ICE already collects retinal scans and fingerprints of people with visas from many countries. Plus there's the FBI face recognition database.
Wow thanks for sharing. I'm glad to see that an apocryphal quote can have a source backing it up empirically.
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But there's the opportunity cost and extreme risk in investing in something you have very little information on. Hopefully you're maxing your 401K and personal savings/investments before this.

In the end though it might be wise to hedge a bit and at least buy some of your options as you go if you believe the company is worth something eventually.
It's not illegal to ask about race; it's illegal to discriminate by race. Companies usually avoid asking such questions because they can be used as evidence of race-based discrimination should the candidate decide to sue. The same applies to other fedaral protected classed (sexual orientation, religion, etc)
WA beach owernishp is to mean low tide. Not sure how socks work but I know in most places in the places in the Puget Sound won't let you build bulkheads out into the beach anymore to protect the environment.
While there may be no legal entity making a decision on the question "how much is enough," people are allowed to make value judgements on the actions of others based on how much they personally think is "enough" for said others.
Your math is little wrong.

1%: The Politicians, Bureaucrats & Friends.
19%: The Rich paying with money.
80%: The Poor paying with freedom.

Guess who takes shelter in tax havens like rich but at the same time pretend to be altruistic to/for poor.
> For a lot of people, the military is one of the best job options

How do you weigh that against the risk of injury, death, or PTSD, as well as the civlian casualties of US wars?

To be specific - do you believe Iraq Body Count or the Lancet surveys, and how many civilians would have to have been killed in the second Iraq war for you to think it would be a net ethical negative to make it easier to enlist?
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Well that depends if your ideal society is one that optimizes for rights or one that optimizes for good land use.
> Perhaps an array is better than a slice, so `immutable [...]byte`

Slice is the right choice, I think. Were they to choose array as the alias, the language would need to "bubble up" the "array length" type parameter to the string type, which would make strings of different byte lengths incompatible types. But hey, Go is already pretty clearly inspired by Pascal, so maybe we'll see that after all :-)
Perhaps your inability to see a difference is a personal problem, not a cultural one.
Maybe I'm just overly paranoid but I've never understood the appeal of Slack - I personally don't want to ship all of my internal proprietary business communications offsite to a third party.
"referral bonuses that encouraged its heavily Asian workforce to recruit other Asians"

Every technology company I have worked at used referral bonuses to find qualified applicants. This common recruiting practice is now considered discriminatory by the DoL if a company's workforce is "heavily Asian?" Unbelievable.
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I think you posted the wrong link. I'm assuming you meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10395046
Quite possibly the first time I have agreed with everything in a post on HN! Just because a new paradigm exists doesn't mean it will solve all of your problems and will likely introduce several more!
I think it's more of a knee jerk reaction to the "wealthy people are evil" narrative that is quite common in the media. Some people just read the headline and immediately assume it's another instance of this, whether they are right or wrong.

Personally, this kind of article doesn't "gratify my intellectual curiosity" and I don't think it belongs on HN.
Two things feed into the echo-chamber pattern, and both are chilling effects. One can be easily augmented and the other cannot.

The first is the voluntary tendency people have about providing their IRL identities. For some this is largely optional, for others, less so, for example when a celebrity is participating as themselves. Real identities means there's some skin in the game for at least some people, requiring a heavier hand in moderation. This part can only be augmented so much, and requires individual users to self censor, disengage, and conceal their own identities when posting an unpopular sentiment. Humans being what they are, this reality will never go away.

The other is the karma system, and this can be changed. And karma really is an unnatural ranking value, since one can pick up on inconsistencies after enough lurking. Whether it should change (or be changed) is arguable. If it's as harsh as it seems, and the effects are that chilling, it may just be an expression of actual human behavior. In which case, it's an early warning alarm, and an analog for what goes down in face-to-face meetings, but remains unspoken. We may not like echo-chambers, but they take shape in the real world too, in which case every social circle carries a shelf life that can probably be quantified by the manner in which this feedback loop widens and deafens its participants by jamming all signal with a noise that drowns out everything else.

I'd hope that last part isn't true (being slightly depressing as it is), and that tweaking the numeric validation could tune the ambient personality of the community's behavior, such that it doesn't drift into irrelevance. It sounds easy enough, but maybe poor execution would warp and deny certain aspects of reality, to produce yet another fiction with unintended consequences.

Anyway, I'm just gonna keep doing whatever.
Aha! You haven't hit the LOC barrier that starts to make swift & xcode/source kit act like bsaul described. At around 100kloc you will start to get that experience with swift. While an equivalent 100-200kloc line app written in objective c will work quite fine with xcode. You'll start noticing some degradation as you get to 60-70kloc. You also have a simple module structure, which makes things better.

You can see it happen pretty plainly with a simple codegen script creating a bunch of dummy code up to X lines of code.
I'll tag on here to compliment the usds.gov/join site. Great job at outlining everything upfront to make it easy for people to figure out if it's right for them. Might lift some inspiration from it. And thank you for serving!
God forbid it become as useful and ubiquitous as C++ or Java.
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By "culture background" do you mean non-technical users in general?
The "fair price" is what the current owner is willing to sell it for and not the price set an auction where only Zuckerberg and the original owner would be willing to bid.

This is basically employing eminent domain to strength Zuckerberg's little fiefdom.
Sure if the President ordered the USDS to do it, they would have to (I believe they are under the executive branch?) But I don't believe that direct of control is generally taken by the office.
Does true Privacy play hand in hand with any country?

Since I don't live in China, should this bother me?
> By almost every and any measure, we are all better off than 30, 40 or 50 years ago - Chinese, Americans, Indians, Europeans, almost everyone.

I bet Iraqis, Syrians, Libyans and countless others beg to differ.

IMO the west got better at the expense of the rest of the world.
When you say, "...lawsuits can be targeted at whoever one wishes" it is evident that you are male, white. A bit of background on who and why may help...

It is the Federal government suing these companies. Blame Obama. But not to worry, Trump will redeem male whites.
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>I notice an interesting trend with a large chunk of the discussion being centered towards why [rich person's] [behavior] is not [as bad] as you think.

As opposed to inherently thinking anything rich people do must be evil? And that all your problems are caused by the "1%" ?

Maybe most people just take responsibility for their own lives and their finances.
the Facebook CEO is trying to enhance the seclusion of his property by filing several lawsuits aimed at forcing these families to sell their land at a public court auction to the highest bidder.

With a friend, you could really push up the price and make a ton of money.
> heavy BI work with huge datasets

Because of single threaded query execution, lack of MPP, or something else?