skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco isn't Silicon Valley. It has never been the center of the tech world, and to whatever extent it's tech-heavy now that's less than 20 years old. These pictures act like SF was churning out silicon and code starting in the 1980s (based on the age of the pictures) which isn't even close to true or accurate.

Even during the last dot com bust it was mostly just marketing companies in sf - all the tech was south of Menlo Park.

I actually really hate that people try to retcpn SF into this visionary of technology and futurism. Almost all of that was and remains in the South Bay, as much as SF startup peeps hate to admit it.
If I remember right the first (and maybe only) comment in the TECO source code was "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here".
It depends on the country. It ranges from much easier (compared to the other way around) to quite hard. There may be quotas but no lottery involved though.
> The point being that you get a different price point when you maximize societal good and when you maximize revenue.

In a competitive market, the equilibrium price will maximize total social surplus: http://www.colorado.edu/economics/morey/2010/2010BookChapter.... And as Netflix, Amazon, HBO, etc. are showing, the entertainment industry is highly competitive. They're toppling the giants by creating competitive products (original shows and movies).

You have to remember that this is a coupled system. At the margin, lowering price will increase circulation (and thus consumer surplus), but it will also reduce producer surplus, and in the long run the incentive to produce.

E.g. Netflix has a 30%+ profit margin. They could cut prices significantly and still make a profit. But that would also dramatically reduce their incentive to invest $5-6 billion per year creating new content: https://www.wired.com/2017/01/netflix-investing-original-sho....
> It's a bit awkward to read on large screens. Long lines and whatnot

For years and years and years I always had a half-screen-width browser window, precisely because it's easier to read text that way. But then site authors started assuming that I'd have a full-width window, and using CSS to waste half the window width.

I still think that the correct response to 'window too wide' is 'shrink the window,' but it's a losing battle.
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3 hours and nobody Linus Torvalds? I must be getting old...
Is this actually evidence or lack of proof against?
Flatpak supports per-user app installations. Snap currently does not.
Self-centered American here, but wouldn't it make sense to weight it by population, or even population of likely attendees? Not clear why, say, Suriname (to pick a country out of a hat) should rank equally with Japan.

That said, I think the point of your post (and the original post) is just to call out how ridiculous and sad the US's sudden policy swerve is. I hate how often the US compares unfavorably with the rest of the developed world on all sorts of indices; we're so strange. Strangely illiberal, even before November. (I mean 'illiberal' in the political theory sense of the word, not left/right political sense of the word.)
I don't think yummyfajitas is.

I don't like Trump but I still agree that racist is now used as a general slur.
Nope, not fake. Just another way to look at it. From the paper:
"One of the deepest insights about
quantum gravity that emerged in recent times is that it is
expected to be holographic
[1–3], meaning that there
should be an equivalent description of the bulk physics
using a quantum field theory with no gravity in one
dimension less. One may thus seek to use holography to
model the very early Universe."
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They've actually inadvertently included a bunch of Mizrahi Jews in the ban, too.
Actually this is the most pervasive problem with on-boarding. It comes from lack of understanding of role you will be performing from business side, and from the developer side, mostly tech people who were advanced to role of tech lead, different cto's and vp's have very poor management skills and are just faking it.

And all of actual developers are suffering because of it.
Yeah, but then you have to go get in your car, drive to the corner store, get out, wait in line, browse to find your movie, pay, get back in my car, drive back home. Ugh!

I know I know, #firstworldproblems ... but some markets like where I live in Orlando, FL, driving is a pain in the arse (not a walkable city), so I just pony up the $5 for the digital rental to save me the hassle.
Holographic theory is not the same as the universe being a simulation. I have only done basic reading and following of the idea but as I understand things, the "holographic" universe is about figuring out how our experience is encoded in the fabric of the cosmos. It's another step in trying to find the universal equation that works at the big (gravity / relativity) and the small (quantum).

If the holographic information is itself a simulation is another level of discussion entirely!
when americans talk about privilege, they never realize how big of a privilege it is to be american and to live in the us.

i love my country and my city, but my life would be a lot easier if i lived in the us.
IANAP, but no, it's saying that our current 4-dimensional spacetime is a holographic projection from an earlier 2-D phase of our universe. Not that it is currently 2-dimensional.
You cannot just shows up, you have to register first.
You have to pay some fees for insurance and the likes, I think it was something like 6 euros a day but it might have changed.
It occurred to me that we only seem to see the same couple dozen of actors in the most highly advertised movies any more. Why is that? Surely there are plenty of actors who could cover many of these parts. I mean, good for these actors if they're enjoying the work and want to be overbooked all the time, and I'm sure they're perfectly competent for the jobs, but it does feel to me like Hollywood keeps shoveling out the same thing over and over again, and it's not just the scripts and CGI.
YouTube too. Just pick any Sargon of Akkad video at random, it's almost guaranteed to be about either "virtue signalling", "moral busybodies" (i.e. the people mostly engaging in virtue signalling) or "cultural Marxism".
While Millett and Tune's book is generally good, it too is very repetitive about the fundamentals.
> If I do not trust an employer, I am fortunate enough to have enough savings in the bank to be able to say no to the job offers and walk away until I find someone I can trust.

I call it "FU Money" - because when you want to walk away, you can tell 'em and leave. It's a great position to be in.
It creates an image. Think of it like taking a screenshot of the website.
"Back in the day" Redbox didn't exist. :-D I've gone to Redbox and have the same problem.

I feel that queuing up a guaranteed watching experience from Amazon is worth the hassle of an extra few bucks compared to getting in my car and driving somewhere. (Yes, I assume I could walk or ride my bike. I've never actually been to a nearby RedBox so I don't know how far it is.)
Addressing religion as a whole is nonsense IMO. It doesn't exist by itself and you certainly cannot attribute the same qualities to every single religion.

The major religions are a mix of philosophy + politics. Philosophy in general is certainly grounded in critical thinking. These religions obviously serve as a method to deliver the results to the masses.

Nationalism is just as bad if not worse than religion in terms of causing death and war.
Thank you for answering. The intent of H1-B visas is only to offer immigrants jobs that cannot be filled by Americans.

American firms have been misusing H1-B visas to instead lower their STEM wage rates of American workers.

We don't need more STEM funding in the US. There are plenty of STEM graduates and the funding is already substantial for not only undergraduate but graduate (eg. fully funded STEM PhDs including living expenses).

In theory, giving employment for spouses would double the number of immigrants displacing American jobs from 85,000 to 170,000. Moreover, firms might choose a man (or woman) with a spouse in STEM that they can also employ. Thus, the number of spouses employed under President Obama's "back door" should be decremented from the 85,000 allocation.
I'm talking about 8-bit microcomputers in general, from the late seventies to the mid-to-late eighties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer#Notable_home_com...

EDIT: I owned a Commodore 64 and a TRS-80 in the eighties, and used an Apple IIe at school. These were all programmable in Basic, and although the C64 was clearly the most powerful, they were all similar in power compared to, say, an Amiga.
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I would imagine that LEDs will work fine as-is. They generally come mounted on something much sturdier than a thin tungsten wire.
1. Unemployment nubmers do not adequately count the number of people unemployed.

2. The people who show up are not necessarily unemployed.
> 5$ for a "rental". Is that a joke?

Pretty much. Redbox rents new release DVDs for $1.50/day; if you are in the US, you probably have a few boxes near you.
Part of the problem is their model is based on people really wanting to see a movie. Then they fail to produce movies people really want to see. Star Wars 8 may be profitable, but Disney failed to make Star Wars 7 awesome and people are just not jumping through hoops for the next one.

There are plenty of stories worth telling, but Hollywood tends to lag between what people want to watch and what they started making 5 years ago. Making great movies is hard, and playing it safe never works for long.
I prefer an office with a good team of colleagues. Some past jobs had this, some didn't. But reality is that I can't find a comparable job close to home, and commuting for 2 x 2 hours is not preferable to being in an office. So I work from home, second job now, about 7 years in total.

I have a bunch of friends on IRC that work in unrelated (though usually IT) fields. I don't ever feel lonely. I don't think I would last without IRC, though.
Masaya Nakamura didn't have a reality distortion field.
On a related note, Canettis main work deals with the 20th century phenomenon of the "mass" and its constituents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowds_and_Power
To offer an alternative viewpoint, I moved away to a place where I knew nobody and had no existing connections. There's nothing wrong with having social connections with your work colleagues (you spent all day with people in school/university only to want to spend more time with the outside those situations, why is the workplace any different?), and there's plenty of other ways to meet people. meetup.com, sports clubs, pub quizzes, coffee shops, gym. Sure, it's not as simple as just picking up where you left off with friends before you moved, but it's possible, and can be rewarding!
> I get that is how capitalism works, but that logic doesn't make sense to me for digital goods. They are practically zero cost to distribute once they are manufactured and your competition is people pirating them. If you're worried about audience size, lower the cost. You'll enable a lot more people to see a lot more movies.

This echoes a drunk-blog that I wrote once, but basically I believe our current economic model no longer makes sense when talking about digital goods. We baked the manufacturing-cost of a product into each individual item, when it cost money to make an individual item. With digital goods, it only costs money to make the first item, every duplicate is essentially free. I think Kickstarter and the like are great examples of this, because they more accurately reflect how the costs actually influence the creation of the product.
It also peaked about 15 years ago.. there's been some inflation since then. I hate grocery shopping, I'm not sure if I'm just old, or if everything is getting to be too expensive.
Which is why the parents specifically are just talking about upsampling the image, though
This tool helps to identify clickbaits right inside Facebook using deep learning
We don't have a world government.
But of course it's not that simple.

From the wiki:

>Mateen's ex-wife, however, claimed that his father called him gay while in her presence. Speaking on her behalf, her current fiancé said that she, his family, and others believed he was gay, and that "the FBI asked her not to tell this to the American media"
If the evolution of soma interests you, check out the work of this photographer https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/janet-delaney-south-ma...
You need to do the groceries in the morning, shortly after shops open. There's usually less long waiting lines than at 6pm, too.

The main problem, in my experience, is making appointments.
Is this a scam? It doesn't have any information on who is putting up the money, etc.
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Using Obama's "Iraq refugees ban" to justify Trump's action was a weak argument anyway, but the time window for the argument's viability has passed hours ago.

Now you will have to find out cases when Obama ordered government officers to ignore court order.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/customs-bord...

> Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents defied the orders of federal judges regarding Donald Trump’s travel bans on Sunday, according to members of Congress and attorneys who rallied protests around the country in support of detained refugees and travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Can't wait for this Virtue Signaling circle-jerk to be over.

STOP BELIEVING MEDIA LIES. Instead of reading second hand sources, why not ACTUALLY READ what Trump said in his own words, 17 hours ago, right here:

“America is a proud nation of immigrants and we will continue to show compassion to those fleeing oppression, but we will do so while protecting our own citizens and border. America has always been the land of the free and home of the brave.
We will keep it free and keep it safe, as the media knows, but refuses to say. My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months. The seven countries named in the Executive Order are the same countries previously identified by the Obama administration as sources of terror. To be clear, this is not a Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting.
This is not about religion - this is about terror and keeping our country safe. There are over 40 different countries worldwide that are majority Muslim that are not affected by this order. We will again be issuing visas to all countries once we are sure we have reviewed and implemented the most secure policies over the next 90 days.
I have tremendous feeling for the people involved in this horrific humanitarian crisis in Syria. My first priority will always be to protect and serve our country, but as President I will find ways to help all those who are suffering.”

d- Donald J. Trump - 17 hours ago.

source:
https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/10158567643610725
AKA the unix philosophy.
> There shouldn't be a work visa that doesn't lead to a green card/permanent residency within two years. Anything less is merely legalized human trafficking.

Note that it isn't a flaw in the visa, but rather in the green card application process. A European citizen on a dual-intent/immigrant visa will be able to get permanent residency within 2 years. Not true for Indians, Chinese, ... no matter their visa.
Certainly will power is an aspect, there's no doubt about that. But how many people really know that it's not healthy? After all, it's advertised as low calorie or sugar free, isn't that good? I don't think common sense about food is as common as you think it might be.
Yes, you can make text become image
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Fabrice Bellard: http://www.bellard.org
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Indeed. It sounds like you'd need the advanced skills to come up with the various diagnostic tests (similar to cars), but at the end of the day they're going to plug it in and say such and such a sensor needs replaced. No math needed. Maybe some very moderate computer skills.
When you run `sudo snap install kblocks` it uses the Ubuntu Snap Store.

Also to create a snap you have to use Ubuntu 16.04+ (or run its image via Docker).
I wonder if this theory supports the idea that the universe inhabits a black hole, or at least the surface of one.
Meh, you're better off reading this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Need_for_Roots
> This sounds an awful lot like there's no good music/books/films/TV any longer which various people have been saying pretty much forever.

No. People in the know have noticed the decline in originality in Hollywood, and predicted it would get worse, and they were right:

http://www.gq.com/story/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris

Don't get me wrong, the plethora of film available now is astonishing and nice, but you really have to dig for the gems, especially as it seems they are not advertised. It doesn't help if, like me, you browse TVTropes and watch "Honest Trailers", "How it Should have Ended" and "Everything Wrong With" on Youtube. You start to realize how truly bad and cliche the vast majority of movies are.
They were both initiated at approximately the same time (git commits at the end of 2014), so no I don't personally think it's NiH syndrome.

I quite like the manifest approach to snaps(snapcraft) as oppposed to a tree approach in flatpak but that could be personal preference. In reality there is little difference to the end user, they get apps delivered. From a developer perspective slight difference.
the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau shall include questions to determine U.S. citizenship and immigration status on the long-form questionnaire in the decennial census
Learning a human's actions in most cases is probably a supervised learning problem. But in that case, you actually don't even want to look at the rewards. You just want to know what a human did given a specific scenario.

However, any time you have a reward signal (like the score of the game) in a multi-step decision problem, like a game where you take actions sequentially (e.g. once per turn), you need RL machinery to make sense of the data. Maybe you take an action now, and you might only reap the reward of that action in the future. So how do you "label" the action right now? You label it with some measure that takes into account the future of the reward signal.

So some human plays a game and gets a super high score. You only see that they got a high score at the end of the game. How do you go back and label the 150 actions that led you to the score? That's the part that is RL.
I think it useful when learning a new language or framework. When you are completely new you can spend 90% of the time just searching for trivial answers. It also takes longer to search because you don't know really how to frame the question. I find it more useful to go quickly go through a book or online course and try to memorize some of the basics from the book before starting. Not reviewing earlier topics results in very little retention.
You're still missing the point the parent was making.
People continually fall for clickbait and as Wired in it's article mentioned Whether you think clickbait is on the rise, obscurant and self-negating, not such a big deal, or the root of all evil, one thing is clear about it: It’s increasingly hard to pin down.

A lot of editors use clickbait in an effort to manipulate you or grab your attention. The difference with clickbait is you’re often aware of this manipulation, and yet helpless to resist it. It’s at once obvious in its bait-iness, and somehow still effective bait.

But with this small chrome extension using deep learning one can easily identify whether an article is clickbait or not on Facebook.
I think this kind of windowing system matches nicely with mobile-first design. This kind of UI becomes even more powerful when you can fit several full apps on the screen at once. I think in the long run, all tools will be designed to fit a mobile form factor, and larger screens will just be for looking at multiple items at once, and for better zooming. Kind of like a newspaper.

"Desktop" apps that put more UI in a single module than could fit on a phone screen are basically unlearnable for the majority of users anyway. At best, they learn a familiar "trail" through the app and ignore most of the UI. Might as well break it up on purpose, since that's how people use it.
Not one of them has to be.
"Before you upload...

Please agree to the following Terms of Service:

Terms of Service

ENTER TERMS OF SERVICE HERE"

Who the Hell is this, anyway, and why should we trust them with this information?
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That's an interesting proposition.
I've installed MAME but I need to hunt for the BIOS.
> These pictures act like SF was churning out silicon and code starting in the 1980s (based on the age of the pictures)

Looking at the cars I would guess most of those pictures are somewhere in the 40's/50's.
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I think you're missing the point about making tools onsite. Surely there aren't many other places from which to get historically accurate tools via trade. If they want it, they probably have to make it themselves.
I actually think we suffer from false equivalency in the US. The two parties are radically different, the rhetoric is radically different. It's not that we suffer from a lack of consensus, it's that the right in the US has swerved sharply right, while the left has meandered a little left lately (but rightward across a ~30 year time span).

The first source I could find, it's not universally agreed upon, but here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/yes-pola...

It's really easy to try to be bipartisan and blame both sides, but the Republican party has been changing rapidly. You could argue the Democrats haven't been changing fast enough... but whatever is going on, it's not symmetrical.
> didn't involve substance abuse

Didn't you ever see a cabinet that had a bunch of melted plastic around the controls due to people leaving their cigarettes there?
> Though no one would admit it here I bet a lot more people would jump at that opportunity than you think.

I'd strongly consider it, especially if I were younger. But you're right--it would never happen so no way to test the idea.
They both evolved in parallel from previous technology
Fitbit will lay off 110 employees amid challenges in wearable market
I have limited knowledge of this world, so I'm curious: higher salaries compared to what segment? And boring compared to what segment? Run of the mill non-SAP software that runs on some corporate intranet? Consumer-facing crud apps?
arXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04878
Doc Bailey had custom software. I had the pleasure of working with it on a bunch of films in combination with some rendering software I wrote.

Doc Bailey passed away quite some time ago now though and he never released the source code to my knowledge: https://vvvv.org/blog/richard-doc-bailey-(spore)-passed-away
I would argue this is an unduly negative take on following the work of other developers. Following the work of one of your peers in your field does not have to become a cult of personality. It can help you discover what kind of open source work or intellectual direction is actually useful, especially at the beginning of your career. It's totally reasonable to not follow other developers but I also wouldn't want to cultivate the perception that following the work of others is a failure to be busy enough on your own.