skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I have a coworker who commutes on HSR1 from Ashford meaning he lives closer to France than he does to the office and he still has a less painful commute than half of my coworkers.

Building high speed rail in London would alleviate a lot of commuter stress and pain and it could be used to regenerate a lot of the more run down areas on the outskirts of London if they suddenly had a ~12-15 minute commute to the center.
You pay higher taxes in Australia which probably offsets the cost of the "free" health insurance you receive.
There are some Median Wealth figures on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...

The US apparently has about half the median wealth of many European countries, although notably not Germany, which is comparable to the US on this metric.

But I'm not sure how meaningful this is or what factors might be affecting the numbers. (And I'm not even exactly sure what's being measured.)
there are plenty of similar things available, when playing drums I use these, which is a similar concept

http://remoteaudio.com/products/hearing/high-noise-headset/

they seem to be available at several online stores and are fairly comfortable to wear, although at work I prefer simple foam earplugs.
The book 'Snow Crash', which popularized the term 'avatar', could be considered illegal in many jurisdictions because it includes a sex scene between a minor and an adult.
“Luckily, the freedom offered by the Internet offers a chance to resurrect the idea of writing for love, not money,” waxes Rahim. “So far online self-publishing has been the preserve of fan fiction and erotica but it can’t be long before high-quality fiction starts to emerge.” In two thousand years, we have not strayed far from Pindar’s long-ago complaint: “Men used to write for love alone; now they write for money.”

Yeah but they are not mutually exclusive. You cannot write for money if your quality is total crap, because no one will pay you a respectable amount of money (and I'm not counting o-desk where you get paid $1 for 500 words).
A lot of them said that at the time. They added a clause that said you couldn't blame the ACA unless you could prove it was the ACA's fault, and they all quit blaming it.
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Hi, Navies. It's not an issue. It's intentional
Postdocs at most universities pay little - often less than many engineers with a BS degree will make.

Eventually you need the money for retirement...
The fasecious answer is to startup in a (edit)country with universal healthcare

Edit: before the downgotes get too wild, it is actually a valid solution that shouldn't be dismissed off the cuff. Do the math.
For more details, refer to Schmidhuber's own website: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ and his excellent review paper, "Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview": https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.7828.pdf
Most commercial office spaces play white noise like this, called sound masking [1].

From HBR [2]:

> 3. Mask the sound by increasing background noise. It seems counter-intuitive, but adding more sound to an environment can actually make it seem quieter. Research suggests that noise itself isn’t distracting, but unwanted speech noise is. However, words that are incomprehensible are less likely to be distracting. By adding a continuous, low-level ambient sound to an environment (such as white noise, which sounds similar to the sound of airflow), sound masking can help make conversations for listeners that aren’t intended to hear them unintelligible, and therefore much easier to ignore.

It also raises the interesting point as to why I find it so easy to work at coffee shops in foreign countries.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_masking

[2]: https://hbr.org/2015/03/stop-noise-from-ruining-your-open-of...
That sphere's awesome, though :D
agreed re: #7, heres another project I use that just does that: https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent
Personally I'd rather make a presentation in HTML than in a magic GUI. Also works on a broader array of platforms. But your mileage may vary.
I wasn't really aware this was an issue, but I guess in the US it is, seems like countries with free healthcare ( like where I am, New Zealand ) should have a Startup Visa program where people can come here and do a startup.
Here you go: Phones that range from $13,300 to $31,700

http://www.vertu.com/us/en/collections/signature/shop-collec...

The most expensive phone on that page is $31,700:

http://www.vertu.com/us/en/collections/signature/shop-collec...

I believe they come with their own concierge service.
Without disrespect I insist that you are wrong about that. The spin degree of freedom is "internal", unrelated to the position of the particle. The pilot wave does not influence that spin, and if you have a big ball on top of a wave, that wave does not care about the angular momentum of the ball. The ball is big and classical, hence its angular momentum is (practically) not quantized.

The thread got a bit long, but if you are really interested in learning about this I would be happy to continue the discussion through email (stefan.krastanov@yale.edu). You probably also need proof of some kind of qualification on my part - my online profile does prove that I work at a respected institute doing research on that topic.
It's fine in Singapore, and they're always happy to replace an unsatisfactory order.
Halogenated fire retardants are some of the worst persistent organic pollutants, so like you I looked up triphenyl phosphate to see if it's likely to become a problem in its own right. It looks pretty safe to me when you consider all factors.

In active batteries triphenyl phosphate remains separated from humans. In proper recycling processes it remains separated from humans. In improperly landfilled batteries it can escape containment, but it has negligible vapor pressure at ambient temperatures so it won't spread by air. It rapidly biodegrades in the presence of water so it won't lead to human exposure through waterways or groundwater plumes if a landfill leaks.
Hi ohstopitu,

Slides.com is an great tool. WebSlides is a solution for making presentations, landings, and long-forms. It's also a starting point for building custom CSS frameworks.

For more on why I decided to build WebSlides check out this post: https://medium.com/p/fa7a9e37ff97/ Thanks!
I second your recommendation - a great film. The Saturn V launch sequence is always extremely impressive.

I'd also recommend "In the Shadow of the Moon" [1], which focuses on the more recent recollections of the Apollo astronauts, including Gene Cernan.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/
> I don't need income to drive on the highway.

Don't need gas?

> Some services are important enough to be socialised, so that the service is open to everyone, irrespective of their income, wealth, or lack of.

And they continue to operate so long as there are enough people who _actually pay for these services_. Maybe you don't fall into that category, fine. But there are a lot of people who do, and it all comes straight out their paycheck. It is not free for them by any stretch of the imagination.
Looks like they found that number here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies#Impact_of_fos...
I attended my first NIPS this year, and found Juergen to be a very engaging speaker, with the RNN symposium organized by him and his colleagues being my favorite part of the conference. A popular phrase that was being thrown around during the conference was "learning to learn" or "meta learning", with one of the papers even being titled "learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent"[1] Juergen seemed very passionate about the subject and he gave a cool talk around his Godel Machine[2], and sparked interesting conversation during the panel discussion. I wouldn't be surprised if "learning to learn" or "meta learning" replaces "deep learning" as the AI-word of 2017.

[1]https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6461-learning-to-learn-by-gradi...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_machine
Not OP, but I think what he's saying it to learn more CS fundamentals.

Algorithms, Data Modeling, Patterns and more can be carried across domains from "web dev", to mobile, to embedded systems, etc.
The rail doesn't have to be profitable itself (which is a benefit of being state-owned). The more important thing is the bigger picture, is how much economic advantage it generates.
I don't see any evidence of saturation and as a hiring manager with a couple hundred person organization, I'm sure not budgeting for cuts or dramatic shifts downward in engineering labor cost.

As for programming jobs regressing to day-to-day job compensation, I don't see that as likely. In a good case (not even the "best" case), programming can create substantial multiples of the value created by a regular job. There's no reason for me to think that if we suddenly got more truly qualified engineers (that's a big "if"), that we wouldn't discover even more things that would demand qualified engineers to do and still be +EV for the companies.

Let me turn it around. What if you did know, with certainty, that programming jobs would regress in compensation. What would you do about it?
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Interestingly enough, Googling "Father of AI" yields several results including John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, and Alan Turing.

Google's provided results point at McCarthy while the first mention of Schmidhuber is at the 9th result from the New York Times.
Ok, so our experiences differ. Not a big deal.
I enjoy your vision, it's unique.

The only real question is how does the innate property of humans, greed, come into this. Surely this machine would need some interested corporation to construct it. Whatever company will, in essence be defunct by design and only exist in the short-term no?

EDIT:
I guess other questions emerge, why won't such a power be wielded for capitalism, it seems pretty easy to create a false-scarcity market if only corporations owned such a machine.

Again, this is a post-scarcity scenario so I guess the moment that any one person not happy with keeping the status quo got their hands on one it would all be over.
The stupid (or corrupt?) thing is that if a company (especially smaller ones) who want to avoid that administrative overhead of dealing with health insurance nonsense can't simply reimburse the employees some amount for their health insurance without it being subject to tax.

This gives larger employers an advantage over smaller ones, and quite frankly keeps up this stupid tradition of having your employer tied to your health care. The right way to conduct this healthcare subsidy experiment we're doing in the US is to have everyone purchase insurance through healthcare.gov and eliminate the pre tax benefits period so as to level the playing field and expose the costs more clearly.

Sources:

https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/employer-health-care...

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-13-54.pdf
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I think your point is generally valid for the US. However, Chicago-NYC might be a bad example, since it actuality might be viable. The Shinkansen goes ~200mp/h and thus would be able to go back and forth in 4-5hrs. Given that trains are less weather dependent, can drop you off on there middle of the city rather than the outskirts and don't come with the same security theater you probably come out with a comparable time frame and more reliability on that connection. Things like connecting the west coast to anything but itself are completely unviable though because of the reasons you gave.
The machine already exists, it's called Shenzhen. The humans live in the machine though. You've taken normal human commerce, removed some parts and called it "the machine" I don't see the value. The questions of labor and capital distribution have been debated in depth and well for thousands of years, I don't see the value of this abstraction.

We already have the machines you describe, they just require humans in them doing the work.
From what my former classmates told me, for profiles that are roughly equivalent, it looks like to be closer to 40k. But then they are not in consulting companies.

And I'm too much of a lazy ass to look for another job. Also I have few reason right now to seek a higher salary.
Check out Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows with the Venus Project. Quite a bit of thinking has gone into a similar idea already. I'm a huge fan of the Venus Project.
Based on a bit of casual research, my sense is that you are drastically overstating the post-ACA cost growth, and significantly understating the pre-ACA growth. And, putting that aside, when looking at pre-ACA coverage you have to factor in actuarial value (insurers could quietly reduce the value of their insurance while holding premiums constant; part of the post-ACA cost increase is that there's now a floor on actuarial value, so premiums most more closely reflect value).
Contributing a fixed amount will control healthcare costs but it's going to make you less attractive to employees since all you are doing is passing the uncertainty on to them.
Agree, but doing so requires changing our economy to not be based on capitalism. How do you see that happening?
A lot of stuff from this made it's way into the chromebook. There's a verified boot process, hardware assisted key management, rollback protection, ...

And it's all open source and nicely documented for anyone who cares to look. With a bit of work you can actually create your own chain of trust and run your own verified boot process.

It's very cool.
Is there a chart or other representation available which shows comparable insurance plan cost over time?

I am not asking you to prove your point (as I disdain "citation needed" responses), but would be interested to take a look at a chart if someone has it handy.
A few points.

I spent 7 years in grad school, then quit without a PhD. I don't regret it for a minute. I managed to spend 7 years studying topics that interest me, that I will not get to study had I gone straight into industry. Sure, while working you may have some spare time to study some math/physics. But nowhere near at the level you could/did in grad school. There's really no comparison.

If you're not happy in grad school, perhaps:

1. You don't like your research topic.

2. You don't like your advisor.

As an example, I did not have a very pushy advisor, so I learned what I did in a very relaxed manner. Bad idea if I were to end up in academia as a career, but it worked out great for me.

It does suck not finishing the PhD, but once I was in industry, I saw the jobs that most PhDs in my research topic would have ended up with - and most of those jobs are horrible. I worked with them for 4 years, and moved into programming. While the satisfaction of solving really challenging problems is no longer there, the programming job overall really is much better: More autonomy, more creativity, better work schedule, etc.

But bottom line: Grad school is for learning the stuff you are passionate about. If you're not doing that, either change your topic/advisor, or leave.
Reminds me of the end of Manna when the main character gets to Australia which has a society powered by Machines: http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
This is a simple idea, but I love it. I think it'll be possible with machines like Baxter.

And even if you don't want to live in that kind of community, it's nice to know that those kinds of communities would exist, as sort of fail-safes.

A potential issue is shelter.
Motivations matter too.

I took three years of German in high school and a semester in college. I could never get the der/die/das stuff to stick. Later on I started reading German fiction for fun and then I got frustrated because I know the verb but not who did what to whom and then I got a lot better in the grammatical agreement area quickly.

I have gone through many years of on and off anime fandom without formal schooling. When I do pick up a book about the Japanese language, I often think "that is obvious" or alternately realized I'd heard the phrase many times without understanding it.
I'd say so, yes. Mostly just because HTML is ubiquitous, it means your presentation continues to live on after your talk by uploading it to your site. Plus your slides can be responsive, accessible, searchable, linkable (if you build them correctly of course).
A government agency can't declare bankruptcy.
I have too, but I dream for more of an OQO style. I've wondered at some point how difficult it would be to get a quality case created that all the parts could go into.
The value is getting the humans out of the machine, for the most part. And from turning it from an abstraction to reality.
I'm fairly confident you can assume they're referring to pixel devices.
To misappropriate what Stephan Zweig is said to have said about Brazil:

Flying cars are the transport of the future, and always will be.

Nitpicks:

1. Ready for a demo flight, maybe. To get it in production takes ages in aviation: The amphibious ICON (iCon?) A5 was first flown in 2008, the first production aircraft was out in 2014, but customers have not yet received any actual deliveries [1].

2. Flying cars? Very few of these new concept aircraft are actually cars, i.e. designed for extended time on the road. (Exception maybe the Terrafugia Transition: first flown in 2009, deliveries expected "between 2015 and 2016" according to Wikipedia [2].).

Not sure what's a good name for these new ones, maybe VSVA (very small VTOL aircraft) or EPA (electric personal aircraft) or something.

Ehang [3] and Volocopter [4] are testing multicopters ("drones") already, for 1 and 2 pax, respectively. Personally, I don't like the low rotors of the Ehang - looks like a recipe for disaster to me. Lilium looks interesting, too [5]. I hope some of them materialise soon at reasonable prices -- though we might need some more breakthroughs in battery technology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICON_A5

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrafugia

[3] http://www.ehang.com/ehang184

[4] http://www.volocopter.com/index.php/en/

[5] http://lilium-aviation.com/
FWIW, that's lower than the US, and not that much higher than the UK (and we don't really know what is a good debt/gdp ratio).

Also, those numbers are not directly comparable (e.g. in Germany a lot of what used to be counted as gvt is now private: the work done is the same, as are the obligations, but it appears in a different "bucket").
Great footnoted history....I will reference this when younger developers ask me the "WTF messaging" question, which happens a couple of times a year. I suspect it will be useful for many years to come.
Probably the latter, I've forgotten what it means to live a miserable existence. I grew up in a family of four with a combined income of $30k, which linearly grew over 15 years to $100k and plateaued while I was in high school. It wasn't miserable, but I was sheltered by my parents. Bills were stressful.

While I was in law school and my girlfriend was in medical school, we were pretty damn broke and racking up debt. That was miserable.

Fast forward. I start working, and she is a resident. We're making $200k combined and it's a struggle. Student loan debt allowed us to realize these salaries, but they also inhibit financial growth. Trust me, there were no luxurious purchases or apartments.

And then ... I brokered a deal that netted me 8-figures and paid off all debt, bought a house, etc. The end.

For others making $200k while paying off student loan debt, the struggle is real. You'd be able to considering focusing on retirement after 10, 15, or even 30 years of student loan repayment. But I figure that the LAST thing a person would want to do is willingly continue to divert large sum of income to future financial well being after so many years of pinching.
Have you (or someone else on here who owns active noise canceling headphones) ever A/B tested them against a cheap closed-back set of headphones, like the $25 Sennheiser HD202?

I ask because I've used some HD202s for five years now in the office, and when listening to low/normal levels of music, I literally cannot hear a person standing next to me saying my name loudly; people have to tap my shoulder all the time. Even with no music at all, they remove a lot of sound/noise and I have to take them off to talk to people.

I'm now looking to upgrade to the ~$150 AKG K271s, these are closed back recording studio headphones specifically designed to not bleed whatever you are listening to into the microphone you are singing into. I'm told they give a good comfort boost over the HD202s, which are a bit uncomfortable after 3-4 hours, as well as a sound quality boost.

The same goes for professional DJ headphones; imagine the need for sound isolation for someone doing live mixing of music at a nightclub. Neither DJs nor studio applications make use of active noise cancelling, which tells me you can get very far without it.
I will ask citation on that one, as that's not my experience at all.
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Email survived because it is adopted as main identity provider, similar for SMS
If you want to write your talks / presentations in plain text w/ markdown formatting I put together a ready-to-fork jekyll (github pages) theme called jekyll-talks-themes -> https://github.com/henrythemes/jekyll-talks-theme (using the s6 (html) slidekit -> https://github.com/slidekit ).
If that's the case surely it doesn't matter if you have the barriers for Shenandoah, as it's written in C++ for HotSpot. Wouldn't you have to rewrite it from scratch in Java for SubstrateVM?
The whole thing looks quite a superficial overview to me.

So many statements are debatable...
I was a CS student who (personally, not a critique of all CS teaching) got tired of the way CS was taught at my school, which focused so much more on algorithms (which is good) and how to implement them (which can also be good) but tested the knowledge in ways I thought were only semi-useful. Fractions of a second of performance were more important to your grade than full correctness and good style. Collaboration was highly discouraged, which to some degree makes sense, but led to students who were inevitably terrible at group projects in senior year.

This eventually drove me to take a year off and then resume as a Physics major. I'm almost done now with my BS and am so happy I made this choice.

Despite switching to a Physics major, I'll probably end up working in a programming position eventually. It's a far easier career to get into.
For a Rust practitioner, there is no fight against the borrow checker. It's like saying a Java developer fights the type system.

Is the borrow checker painful to grasp at first? A little. But the safety and assurance it gives you is immeasurable. Write enough Rust, and before long, you'll know when your code won't compile as written.