skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make. I was under the impression that normal doses of Tylenol taken infrequently after drinking alcohol is not measurably dangerous.
Please don't make such unsubstantive inflammatory comments (aka trolling) here. We're all trying to have a civil and thoughtful discussion in which we can learn something, and this is a sure-fire way to prevent that.
Honestly. The taxes are only half the story.

The other half is that there are simply no company with massive revenues competing for engineers. Nothing to drive price up.
It sounds like you don't think that is a question worth asking. Why?
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We are literally in a forum discussing tech worker salaries.

Yes, I make an amount of money that puts me in an extremely high percentile relative to the world population. But pointing that out in a context where it's completely relevant is just conversation, not bragging.

Do you think I go around showing my W2 to random financially struggling strangers, or something? I don't.

By the way it's not as atypical as you might think, for top tech/finance jobs in the Bay Area or NYC. I know lots of people making these salaries, at companies other than mine.

As an aside: I didn't make any claims at all about whether I thought my pay was high or low, fair or unfair, whether I deserved more, how it compared to anyone else's in any other industry, etc. etc., so why exactly are you claiming I "lack perspective"? I don't think I displayed either perspective or lack thereof with my totally neutral statements.
No. Do FDA trials involve elaborate administrative procedures designed to overcome that problem? Yes, and most of the time they work OK. Go on, tell me how easy it is to rig an FDA trial.
I've lived my whole life in the United States, lived I two very different and distance parts, traveled around the country.

I've never heard this. like ever.
People mention the lack of VC, infrastructure, tax or other issues, but to me the biggest problem is the lack of talent. I would say that in terms of business skills, there's a surplus of "salesmen" type of founders, but technical founders are missing. France engineers are very smart and engineering school are among the best, but unfortunately I find their curriculum still oriented towards hard engineering (civil, aerospace, nuclear, etc.). On the other hand you can go to a classic university instead of the engineering school and get a computer science degree, but then you don't get as much of the engineer mindset training. Instead you get something leaning towards the pure science training, and due to the lower prestige of the universities, the computer science teaching is lagging behind a US computer science school.

Either the universities could invest more in a better computer science degree, but finding good fundings is probably difficult for public universities whose budget is decided by the government. Or the engineering schools could join the 21st century.

French billionaire Xavier niel recognizes the problem and tries to address it with his "42" school[1], I wonder how much impactful this has been

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(school)
Yes, this includes stock, which is effectively the same as cash to me since I always sell it immediately when it vests. (Not because I don't believe in my company, but just because I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket)
> In the U.S.?

Try reading the bit which says "universal" again before answering next time.

And how do you run your own SMS server for family and friends off the internet? What a worthless suggestion.
Finance use to be a big draw. Not sure if it still is. I am tempted to move to finance...
While I agree that free content isn't inherently better (and usually worse), I disagree that good content will emerge in free venues. Social media has crowd-sourced the costs of discovery. You don't have all day to separate the good free content from the bad, but some teenager does.
I've only briefly been in the UK, but I really liked the rail system. It's far better than that of other countries I've lived in. I've gone London-Manchester and back and found it a delightful experience.
There's one in Texas attempting to do so: http://www.texascentral.com/project/

Serious hyperloop contenders may well emerge soon, too.
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I registered when it was called called Vector and recently started using it more seriously. It is freaking fantastic. Voice/video calls actually works and the Android app is very good. It was long since I had such as strong feeling of "this is it".

When it comes to protocols (as opposed to "services"), they're seldom replaced. I mean, we're still using IRC for open source projects. Matrix/Riot gives me a glimpse of the future.

I recommend reading this: http://www.titus-stahl.de/blog/2016/12/21/encrypted-messenge...
You're right in the last point, the raw data has such a high rate that they have to process it on the fly, which has its drawbacks. The reason that these instruments output so much data is that the process of correlating the signal between each unique pair of antennas is O(n^2) in the number of antennas. Now 36 antennas (when complete) is not very large, that's approximately the size of the VLA[1], but because of the very unique phased array feeds on ASKAP mentioned in the article, each antenna has not just one receiver, but a little camera of receivers. So if it's an 8x8 feed/receiver array, that's 64 times the data rate of a 36 antenna system. For comparison, I've had projects on the VLA that are about 10 GB/S, but they have only a single feed/receiver. At ASKAP I believe they have to process/"reduce" the data on the fly, which in the most extreme case (likely necessary for the real Square Kilometer Array) is to not store the raw correlations between antennas at all but to convert it to images immediately, which is lossy. Normally this reduction to images is optimized by carefully tuning the imaging parameters and iterating to find the best, but this can't be done if the "visibilities"/correlations have been thrown away.

[1] Edit: saying that the Very Large Array does not have a very large number of antennas is actually pretty ironic.
FYI: Paris has the same estate than London, considering £1 = €1
You forgot the irony quotes.
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But that just begs the question: does Broadcom have any parts on the shelf such that, if they tweaked them and sold them to the RPi project at cost, they'd fulfill those requirements? Broadcom and the RPi project can do some things in conjunction that Nvidia, for example, cannot.
I like his ideas, especially the one about consciousness being reinforcement learning, and self being emergent by the process of data compression.
What wonder drugs are on the market in other developed countries that US consumers are dying to get hold of? If this is a big problem it should be easy to name several.
Why 4.669 is famous?
You can't have an open ecosystem when part of the ecosystem is hundreds if not thousands of full-time security experts and 24x7 opsec analysts. It is an integrated software and operations system. The software alone doesn't get you anywhere.
This kind of statement helps people understand the challenges France is going to have in luring the top software-engineers away from America. I know it hurts people's ego when they hear someone with less experience making more than them, but put that aside and recognize that it adds to the discussion.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Compute_Project
http://opencompute.org/
Of course it's important whether it's a sexual organ or not.

Instagram removes pictures with female nipples (and hence breasts) for the same reason they would remove a picture of a penis or a vagina: because it's a sexual organ.

Feminists from the "free the nipple" initiative want to put a stop to that, and want Instagram to consider a female breast not to be a sexual organ, so pictures with breasts in them are not removed.

My comment meant to say that this initiative is really stupid, because conventional wisdom says a female breast is a sexual organ, while a male breast is not.
Am I not allowed to criticise it?
Can you elaborate on "real skills"?
It's quite rare to see people advocating high-speed rail for such short journeys as typical London commuter belt. Could you elaborate how you see this working? Remember you're accelerating 1000 tonnes of steel to 200mph at each station you need to stop at.
We Used to Have 6 More Letters in Our Alphabet
That's a pretty recent thing. IIRC going topless is still technically illegal in NYC. A court case from the late 80s or early 90s carved out a narrow exception (nakedness is not automatically lewdness) without voiding the entire law.

A lot of this back n forth has to do with how patchworks of private or local arrangements get vaulted into the global arena by the internet. Instagram is forced to define and enforce (via programming!) a clear social norm for everyone everywhere, where previously there was not and could never be one without making someone upset.

Ditto the previous hyperventilation about what is and is not a "real" name.
Definitely step away from the screen(s)!

Highly recommend getting yourself a musical instrument at a pawn shop. Maybe reading about unihemispheric slow-wave-sleep.
Mandatory XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/863/
The Economics job market has actually been much better than the Physics or Math job market. Marketing and Accounting are good too.
Socialism is a political system where all the means of production pertains to the state, a social democracy is a capitalist system where the means of productions are private
Even though they might be foreign companies, they do tend to be built in the US. IIRC Alstom in California made all the cars for the new Florida high speed line that starts running this year.

It takes a while before you can start building rolling stock domestically. Melbourne just started making their class E trams a few years back, which they tout as being "made entirely in Victoria" and yet they've had the largest tram network in the work for decades.
I don't think you disagree with your parent.
You can argue that it's impractical or misogynist, but does it really baffle you? The double standard exists because (in American society) female nipples are sexualized in a way that that male nipples are not.
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Acquia retrospective 2016
Meanwhile, San Francisco spent 13 years on an Environmental Impact Report for one bus line:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/transit-officials-approve-final-ei...
Netflix Has No Rules Because They Hire Great People
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You might want to take a walk outside and then read your and my comments out loud to yourself, once you've calmed down.
It's kinda hilarious in that. CLRS is the gold standard recommended introductory text for algorithms, but it's so dense and over-stuffed that it's overkill, so better for reference. Skiena has a lot of stuff you don't need, but is comparably more succinct and light to read.
Weren't a some people pushing for more people to talk about their compensation?

If he or she works for a Google or a Yahoo, lives in a place like NYC, and has an advanced degree, it might be quite average.

I, for one, would appreciate it if more people would talk compensation.
The FDA does excellent work on safety from a first-do-no-harm perspective. From that perspective, everything is great.

Still, more than 100 million people die every year from diseases. Even with the best available health care, few live beyond 90. So the very best outcome imaginable has not been achieved.

The risk with the current FDA is that by minimizing the risk of being harmed by new drugs, we've locked in the current life expectancy of ~75.
Netflix in the Bay Area?
When Google has its networks compromised and is routinely compelled to comply with NSLs, I'd say that counts as abusive.
The landing pages (most likely multiple, targeted and tailored differently for different incoming traffic) are a big part of doing things right - for many people in this thread, a big part of what they are doing wrong is where they send the traffic. Many successful ad campaigns would have negative ROI if they simply sent people to the product home page.
Perhaps one of them can be surgeon-general. I'm actually sort of surprised la Holmes hasn't shown up in the lobby of Trump Tower yet.
Breasts are for feeding children and do not have inherent sexual function. Please keep your women-objectifying views out of this. This is not an argument to censor based on sexuality, but instead to highlight the misoginy laced in your original comment.
I never read the War On General purpose computing being about centralization as much as DRM restrictions on content and restricted developer support. In other words, it's not about deploying to the cloud versus deploying to a billion individual devices. It's about not deploying anywhere at all.
Snowden didn't reveal anything even suggesting this "front door access". He's got some PowerPoint slides that say prism and some that have Google logo on them. All meaning of these materials has been supplied by internet conspiracy theorists.
GDP only benefits 5% of the population? Oh really. That doesn't sound right at all given the fact that the US median disposable income is far higher than France.

Not to mention the median wage growth is four to five times faster in the US than in France. So much for your theory.

Demographically France is about 80% white. The US median white household has an income of $73,000 as of 2016 ($108,000 with a college education) and a median net worth of nearly $150,000. Both higher than France. I use the direct demographic comparison, because it would be absurd to compare an 8th generation French family to a first or second generation Latin American family in the US (the US is 63% white by comparison, with far more immigration on a percentage basis in the last 40 years than France has seen).

The US has a superior university education system. It's not even remotely close. That has been the case globally since WW2. The rest of the world has been trying to catch up and copy what the US accomplished with its universities, for decades. The top 50 US universities put France to shame.

The US has a far lower unemployment rate. The US is a high innovation economy, France is a low innovation economy, which you can witness across nearly every economic area in comparing the US to France. The US is superior to France in: manufacturing, agriculture, aerospace, software, Internet broadly, mobile, medtech, biotech & pharma, and energy. The US has a far more dynamic small business economy than France does, with a much more liberal entrepreneur culture. The US has less air pollution than France; NYC has dramatically cleaner air than Paris.

Per the OECD better life index, the bottom 10% in the US are far better off than the bottom 10% in France. The US poverty line is also much higher than it is in France.

Better infrastructure in France? Eurozone spending on infrastructure per dollar of GDP, is now below that of the US, and that's really saying something because the US level is far too low. How long do you suppose France can continue to maintain what it does have, with such persistently low wage growth, such persistently low GDP growth, such high taxes and high regulation?
Instead of the FAA we should have a Yelp for airlines. After a few plane crashes the market can easily decide who's the safest!
That's my take exactly. They needed an answer to CHiP and Orange Pi stat. When everything is tabulated, I expect they actually lose a tiny bit on each one. I even suspect they called it the "Zero" because it was going to be sold for BOM+Assembly (thus netting zero).

Its an advertisement. Not a product. Giving them away in a magazine was brilliant.
There's additional screening in Spain too. Though I recall it was a token effort.
With Google's RAISR, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing detail
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I'm not trying to compare US and EU because I haven't lived in US, I'm just talking about France in the context of EU (although after Brexit things are a bit different). And I'm mostly asking this stuff as a counter point - I'm not making a definitive statement - again I've only looked in to France superficially before when I was looking for a country to move to - maybe I was wrong - but the arguments he presented don't appeal to me at all.

I feel like there are countries with better social security (and seemingly more politically stable than France, again this is just the stuff I pick up from the media) and better pay range (at least that was the case last time I was looking where to move ~2 years ago).

And most importantly - the language barrier - programmers have to speak English so English speaking countries don't have this problem.
Why can't the rust compiler introduce a hidden temporary variable for the let name = jill.name().first_name() example instead of requiring the developer to explicitly declare and use one?

Edit: To clarify, I am a Rust neophyte and have only begun to scratch the surface of the language.

Edit2: Also, "There is no reason a person should know which class they are in, nor should a class know which people are enrolled in it. "

I know what the author is trying to say but when you read that at face value it comes across as a little humorous.
No, but my guess is that they pay similarly well.
undone, maybe not directly but indirectly. it is quite easy to keep on deferring maintenance until a line is not viable. this will be key to determining if this is a successful expenditure. what gets cut first
The reason for recent battery issues have been primarily because manufacturers are pushing for tighter tolerances to make more energy dense batteries and smaller safety spaces in battery compartments. At the point they build in a fire extinguisher, why not go back to roomier batteries and compartments? Does this built in fire extinguisher impact the battery size and tolerances or does it replace existing materials? It was disappointing to not see that covered in the article.
Your centralised energy supplier can't monitor what you're doing with the energy, or exfiltrate your results, or even stop you from doing it.
Without an exploit, how does one run unsigned code on an iPhone, exactly?
Embrace being a generalist.

I myself have gone through a similar dilemma, being a generalist allows you to make informed decisions that sit between two disciplines. When the problem concerns both sides you ARE the expert. This is a specialist skill in itself.

If you are looking for something specific I'd highly recommend working in R&D this will give you the opportunity to work in a role where being a generalist really helps.
The end of enterprise IT
(Being a Chinese grew up in Canada, and now working/living in the Bay)

In my opinion, most people in the valley or in North America still refuse to give up their lifestyle. They look for something like self-driving cars, all electric-powered "personal" vehicle to invest. And those still drive on the same road/interstates/highway infrastructure and don't give you the benefits compare with high-speed rails.

They don't recognize the real priorities - how to transport millions people everyday efficiently, cost-effectively, and most environmentally friendlies.

They also don't recognize local economy, local businesses thrive with these connected network. It is proven to be the case in China and Japan.

High-speed rail network is what people want - to get from point A to point B quickly. It's not something even the most efficient self-driving car with the best MPG electric-powered vehicle can scale for millions of people everyday.

Instead of investing into some new technologies, they seem like they refuse to take decades of proven technology and just use it in US (high-speed trains were first invented in Japan in the 60s)

But as I understand very well in the culture here, the politics, the corruption, and the oil/automative conglomerate will never make this happen for the actual good for the people.

I would without a doubt to say the US is in its downfall as it didn't pick the priorities to fix the root of the problem.
At least in my experience, there was a shift around the late 90's at US corporations away from having a set number of no-questions-asked paid sick days (which often went unused) plus a fixed amount of vacation (which you were strongly encouraged to use); to having a fixed number of "Personal Time Off" days (PTO) accruing every month, and anything you did other than work used them up.

This, predictably enough, had the effect of people coming to work sick, because if you took the day off you'd lose a vacation day.

Now it seems the new trend is to have no specific number of free days, but leave it up to the employee to take however many days off he/she feels are necessary. Then it's up to their manager to deal with it if they take "too many."

This lets you tell people they can take vacations, while not carrying any liability to pay them for the unused vacation if they quit or are laid off / fired.

The downside is that there is no longer any incentive to take any specific amount of vacation (after all, it's not accrued and can't expire). So if you're really busy, maybe you'll never take more than a couple days at a time.

The upside would seem to be that if you're a top performer and manage your time very well and have a cool manager, you can potentially take a LOT of time off without violating any company policy. I have however not heard any stories of this being done.
> That's a pretty recent thing. IIRC going topless is still technically illegal in NYC. A court case from the late 80s or early 90s carved out a narrow exception (nakedness is not automatically lewdness) without voiding the entire law.

No, being topless in NYC is definitely legal (specifically: women can be topless anywhere men can be topless), and that's been the case for a couple of decades, if not longer. It's generally not practiced except at certain events like the Pride March. Public nudity, though, is not permitted.

For example, note that the issue in this case is not whether they have the right to be topless in Times Square, but whether they have the right to solicit money in Times Square while being topless: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/nyregion/topless-in-times...

The issue is that Times Square requires performers to be licensed, but performance art is also protected by the First Amendment, and there are laws around working while topless (e.g. strip clubs, which are very strictly regulated in New York - they can't serve alcohol, for example, though there's a loophole some use).
I use it currently. It's mostly good. They have SAN storage, so you are not limited by what's attached to the thing directly and you also get reliability. The control panel is mostly good. The boxes are speedy and bandwidth is good.

The bad: their ARM boxes don't get IPv6. At all. The VPS's get 16 IPv6 addresses, which is really dumb.

The badder: their ARM boxes and their VPS boxes can't be shut down. You can reboot them, or you can save their local state into block storage, which even for a small box takes many hours (up to a day in one instance for me). You also can't force-detach a volume from a box, so if say your box/VPS got borked, but you had a data volume you want to save, you are SOL.
Some of the best writers I know think that writer's block is a myth.

Their theory is that if you are experiencing "writer's block", it means you need more ammunition. You need to do more research or thinking on the specific subject you're trying to write about.
Overprescription of opiates is also a cause for "junkies", not just a consequence of their skills in emotional manipulation.