skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An article has to be pretty special in quality for that level of exclusion to be worth using it instead of a similar article elsewhere.
I feel like this is a trick of statistics. Very few people, in general, are 7' or taller, and very few people are the best at basketball.

See (1), and replace "have disease" with "7' or taller", and "test comes back positive" with "good at basketball".

1: https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/30002.6.shtml
Its interesting to consider if Google is innovative when you take a bucket of corporate innovation and divide by the (immense) number of employees. I'm not asking if they purchase innovative new/little companies, I'm well aware they do that. I'm not claiming no innovation comes out of Google HQ, why I'm sure they output at least as much innovation as perhaps a 1000 person research lab, maybe even twice that, of course the whole point of the problem is they have 60K employees...

All I'm claiming is you pour the innovation out of Google Corp Hq into a bucket and, um, how about MIT Media Lab into a bucket, and measure the two buckets on a scale. I feel MIT wins handily. But for the sake of argument lets say Google kicks the MIT Media Lab's butt to the tune of 10x as much innovation. There is still a slight problem in that the MIT lab is about 100 people (to one sig fig) and Google Corp is just under 60K according to a Google search. Assuming similar quality of "human resources" Google should be consistently producing 600 times as much innovation per year as MIT Media Lab. Maybe when you factor in Google's company purchases, after which all innovation at the purchased company traditionally ceases...

Isn't Google fundamentally on the scales of justice more of a profitable advertising sales boiler room than a source of innovation?

If as a company, its mostly about being a sales boiler room, then it should look like a sales boiler room, shouldn't it? Perhaps there is less inconsistency between what is observed vs theory after all.
I developed and ran social networking features for a fashion site with an almost entirely female audience, age range 20-50. I was fully expecting bad behavior but was surprised as it grew that people were unfailingly nice, supportive and encouraging to each other, with only a few exceptions. Of course I'm aware that females, like anyone else, can be nasty to each other, but it barely happened here with membership in the thousands. It would be an interesting social experiement to replicate that on a larger scale while limiting the demographic by gender, age, and so on to see how it affects the behavior of the group.
> You reap what you sow – in this case by having people confused over needlessly controversial choice of title for a blog post.

Never mind that the author greatly contributed to the whole problem way back when...
Cool, totally get this argument. I was mostly curious if you were thinking about something in Rust, but then found the libraries lacking, as we're trying to work on filling in gaps here.
I worked for Skybox [Google] in 2015 as a contactor. A very good set of people who, at the time, were still getting used to integrating into the Google machine. I imagine that the past few years have been and will be a continuous sea of change such as this.
His comment made me slightly sadder than I was before I read it, so from that viewpoint it is accurate.
Since they had rolling expiry of messages, based on what I've seen, a couple of years of forum posts for less popular movies, and a few months worth for more popular ones.
If anyone has any Canada-specific suggestions along these lines I'd be interested to hear them.
This comment is disturbingly inhumane.
I've seen talks where Rob Pike describes Go as being "light on the page" vs. "noisy", meaning (I think) that it doesn't have lots of sigils and annotation bits around the code.
According to my friend, no; it could definitely do a "better" job to select the best grain. But obviously no one is interested in rejecting grain that could be legally sold.

Further, I'm guessing that there will always be some trace amounts of heavy metals, poisons and such in any grains so it's necessarily about setting a limit and optimizing the mix for the largest clean yield (in itself an interesting problem since the regulations are not for each grain but instead for all of the grain taken together).
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> Why the hell is there a postal service in every country

Because delivery of packages to rural areas is terribly unprofitable.

Certain things need to be socialized in order to keep a country connected and enable development.

Without things like the post office, rural electrification, and the Eisenhower Interstate system, vast swatches of the US would have zero economic output.
Seems like a lot of that can be solved by simply not moderating or censoring anythng.
That may fly if you are single. Otherwise everybody will assume that if you are at home, you are here to go shopping, take care of kids, let in guests, cook meals, do cleaning, take out trash, etc. ect, and lets not start about other household members distracting you with loud noises.
PACS developer here - I asked the same thing a few years ago when I started in pACS about automation. I was told it's the need to have someone to sue that holds back the automation, not so much the technology.
and two other times even more recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13425159

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10661581
Speaking of legally accepted limits, a college friend told me of his first engineering job as a chemical engineer where the factory refined sugar and graded it based on impurities sold at different prices. Sometimes a batch turned out too good so his manager would insist on pouring an amount of sand into the mix to make sure it would meet the agreed upon impurity target.
The movie Ratatouille captured the sentiment much better, "a great chef can be anyone". Which is not the same as "anyone can be a great chef".

The movie Ratatouille presented that statement without any evidence, and imo it is incredibly misleading, the preponderance of psychological evidence goes against it. This paper is a good starting place: http://cogprints.org/656/1/innate.htm
Where has my disk space gone? Flame graphs for file systems
If people were happy with Windows XP in 2003, why change it and install Linux? We deviated from what was good enough 15 years ago! Let's put XP back on the clients and Solaris back on the servers! /s

When I started using Linux, it was about thinking out of the box and about change. It had many exciting window managers that put everything in Windows to shame when it came to customizing and style.

Nowadays I have the feeling, Linux has become the resort of the grumpy and disenfranchized, clutching to whatever was cool when they were young. The levelheaded and progressive jumped ship to OSX and are now probably contemplating switching to Windows 10 after Apple dropped the ball for them. This leaves all Linux progress like Gnome and Systemd maintained by inept pompous hipsters.

/rant
That whole approach would just make you an analytic philosopher. It wouldn't even work with so-called `continental philosophy'.
Some people need different accommodations than others and companies need to accommodate these requests, in many cases, by law. These include desks and chairs in addition to electronics. Many companies are still too cheap to buy proper desks and chairs for their engineers, let alone monitors and other peripherals. Almost none of the dozens or hundreds of open office plans I've ever seen promote healthy computing, often foregoing proper desks, chairs, and monitors for some kitchen table with a crappy chair and everyone working on laptops. That isn't healthy nor acceptable, and I hope that people realize that they don't have to accept such conditions (at least in the US). If employers are too cheap to listen, perhaps a continuing rise in worker's comp claims and ergonomic workstation prescriptions will get them to start listening. While this problem isn't exclusive to open offices, I see much more of this in open offices, especially at startups. If companies can't even get these basics right, it's unlikely they'll get anything else about the office right either, especially since they're not trying.
Motorola Mobility.
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Denuvo forgets to secure server, leaks years of messages from game makers
I started in the 80s, and the trend this whole time seems unidirectional.
They're just much harder than people thought.

It's weird that people thought you could just bolt comments onto a webpage without problems, because we had all those years of Usenet to show that it wasn't that easy.
The Misunderstood Genius of Russell Westbrook
The legal limits probably don't specify rejection criteria on a per-grain basis - they probably say something like "No more than x.x% trace of fungus Y in a given batch", so being able to calibrate on the fly is pretty important.
Breaking your feature branch isn't breaking the build anymore than breaking the build on your local laptop is. "Breaking the build" means breaking master or a release branch. Those are the ones that inconvenience others and limit response time to critical production issues.
I feel as if it is also somewhat true in that regard. I have been extremely passionate about music for more than half my life yet I am still horrible. I believe the same applies with many other skills in life.
Compressor with ratio similar to zip/zstd/brotli at faster decompression speed
Sounds like an excellent opportunity for a legal startup.
> if you can't poke directly at memory when you need to then you're going to have a heck of a time working on the Systems Programming space

That's possible in go with unsafe.Pointer. Go's runtime, GC and memory allocator are written in Go and make use of this.
Steve Bannon’s own words show sharp break on security issues
Helicopter pilot's view of laser pen
Starship Technologies has a similar robot.[1] They asked the Redwood City city council for permission to operate this on Redwood City sidewalks. This was granted. Startship made a video of a delivery from La Tartine, which is a downtown bakery. But I asked the clerks at La Tartine, and they haven't seen the robot again since the video was made months ago.

Both Gita and Starship have the feel of a startup with a great video, but problems delivering the product.

These robots don't have the speed and range for a suburban environment, and they can't deal with doors, stairs, and elevators in apartment buildings. That leaves a narrow market niche.

[1] https://www.starship.xyz/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW16O6UWtSc
As can about anything capable of carrying things, including people themselves...
Imagine I gave you reddit gold
Rancher + SpotInst is an amazing combination of convenience and cost effectiveness. I'd encourage everyone to give it a shot.
Just picked a movie at random (Rogue One) and the top featured message board posts are:

Krennic or Hux?

I want a Chirrut Imwe & Baze Prequel

What other genres could be transplanted to the Star Wars Universe?

Just saw the film tonight - It was OK.

To me, that's a pretty random collection of fringe topics or opinions. Are these really the top things up for discussion about the movie? How about an AMA with the moviemakers? Seems like a lot of potential here not being used.
But they kept the patents.
You can accomplish the same thing by creating a subsidiary LLC with its sole member as the Parent LLC. As a wholly owned subsidiary, it is a disregarded entity for tax purposes.
Aerospace Engineer - Enhanced Flight Vision Systems

TLDR: Fancy fused infrared (LWIR/SWIR) and visible spectrum camera systems may 'soon' be on a passenger airliner near you.

Using infrared cameras to see through fog/haze to land aircraft has been happening for a while now, but only on biz jets or on FedEx aircraft with a waiver. The FAA has gained enough confidence in the systems that they have just opened up the rules to allow these camera systems to be used to land on passenger aircraft.

Combine that with the fact that airports are transitioning away from incandescent lights to LEDs (meaning a purely IR sensor system is not longer enough), and you get multi-sensor image fusion work to do and a whole new market to sell them to.

Here is a blog post (from a competitor of ours) talking about the new rules.

https://blogs.rockwellcollins.com/2017/01/17/worth-the-wait-...
4chan seems to do ok. Or maybe not, depending on your perspective. There are a ton of smaller chan style boards that are awesome and don't seem to have the problems everyone is talking about here.
I'm not rebutting anything. I mostly agree with you that we have inherent tendencies to be self-centered and selfish.

I was just giving you the straightforward answer to your question. You asked if we can escape the human condition. I think it's pretty easy and we'll all accomplish it; we'll die. That's the escape.
Isn't that consistent with a system of 'corn A / corn A / soybean B / repeat'?
It's the exception, though, rather than the rule. Prestigious architect/politician-driven projects always have problems and are, by default, plagued by incompetence. The only way to avoid cost overruns and delays is to not build them. There are problems with these kinds of projects even in Norway, which I suspect is the least corrupt country in existence.

The BER is ridiculous, though. The specification, organization, execution and communication are all amazingly bad.
How cool that they actually don't need implants! The existing hardware can be hacked to provide sonar capabilities.
I can't say that Java has improved me in any language, but Go and Python have improved my Java. But any time you learn new idioms in a new language, your understanding of programming gets better I suppose.
Sure. Just have boards filled with childporn and dick picks. Let me know how that goes.
Probably an interested and intelligent community never developed because the commenting and threading tools are so poor. Any discussion of a movie on reddit is 1000x better.
Meet the First Woman to Win the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics
Because they are calibrated not to measure innate intelligence, but our own cultural norms. The canonical example might be, imagine you were lost in the Australian outback. Would you rather have Albert Einstein as your guide, or a skilled Aborigine? The Aborigine would likely get a low score on logic puzzles, but at highly skilled activities like way-finding and tracking game, he would beat Einstein hands down.

IQ doesn't measure intelligence, it measures artifacts of intelligence that appear in our culture.

Also, it's a mistake to think that IQ is static. There have been studies that show wild swings in IQ over time, especially in teenagers, and even changes in the collective IQ of a culture (the Flynn effect).

In addition, it seems likely that a person could study and improve their IQ score.

The counter-argument is that although IQ tests have flaws, they are still to some degree a predictor of success in life.
Check out valcu.co (founded by a former Gunderson Dettmer attorney). You can set up a venture capital ready C Corp for $19. It also has amazing document automation tools.
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I haven't seen such a useless 'take a look' video

edit: second video
It is a graphics card in the sense of the "ReTargetable Graphics" (RTG) system. I ship drivers for the Picasso96 API (which also emulates the competing CyberGraphX API). All OS friendly Workbench/Intuition GUIs can then be used on a high resolution (up to 1280x720@60hz, 1920x1080@30hz) and color depths of 8 (Palette), 16 or 32 bit. A bunch of open source games like Doom, Abuse, ScummVM have been ported as system friendly applications, too, so these run fine. Old games that bang the hardware still go through the custom chipset of the Amiga and are output through the 15khz RGB connector, not via my card. But I'm currently working on an expansion that scan-doubles and upscales the classic video output, too.

(Edit:) On the hardware side, I implemented the Zorro bus protocol in the FPGA (in Verilog) and hooked it up to a SDRAM controller/arbitrator and DVI/HDMI encoder. There is also a simple blitter in the code.
>In comparison, hard sci-fi takes into account and weaves a story about the human effects of technology...

I find two problems with the above analysis.

Oftentimes soft sci-fi (PK Dick for example or even someone like Frederic Brown) identifies the "human effects of technology" far better than someone from the "hard" camp, such as Clark or Asimov.

Second, the article specifically covers bad predictions made by hard sci-fi and concerning use and impact of technology itself.

>The other problem is in the "The authors polled a range of experts". Asking my plumber about theology or my lawyer about physics is obviously dumb

Not that obvious to me. That's a great way to overcome systematic bias and domain blindness and get some outsider insight. You talk about being silly to talk to a "plumber about theology", but I've heard that a carpenter is supposed to have made some great contributions to the field, as did some fishermen.
My advice for young devs is to pay very close attention at interview time to who's using those perks.

Ah nice k-cup machine collection but no k-cups have to bring those from home. Nice bar with beer keg tap, pity its a firing offense to drink on the job and that kegger is only for sales execs to woo customers. Nice couches in the meeting rooms, those managers and directors sitting in meetings sure look comfortable sitting there. I worked at a place with a genuine foozball table and getting caught playing foozball was a euphemism for getting downsized the next quarter, the thing seriously had dust on it like it was cursed. Maybe it was. All of that stuff is supposed to be for the trendy software dev, but its not.

Its sort of the democratization of the executive washroom. We no longer have solid marble and gold plated toilets for the executive washroom, that's so last century, today we have couches that only director level and above can sit on during meetings and kegerators that only customers can drink out of and foozball tables that no one uses. Looks nice though, doesn't it?
Not that I know of, but Go is super easy to learn. You will get a grip of the basics and be productive over a few hours or weekend at most, and one or two hobby projects later you'll learn to appreciate the stuff I'm talking about.

BTW I've only felt I really knew the language and its inner workings and idioms deeply - after much longer, maybe a year and 2-3 big projects. But you get very productive very fast.
Theoretically (if the thesis of the article is correct and widely accepted), a company willing to invest in closed offices should have a major competitive advantage in hiring engineers (who would be attracted to the quality of work life in the space).
A fascinating proposition!
Add to your point: the vast majority of 7' tall people are not very good at basketball.
Did anyone else that watched the video feel extremely uncomfortable with the comparison of a sherpa to a robot?
Voat was really cool initially, but it's become a cesspool or racism and hatred. That echo chamber is almost as bad as the Reddit echo chamber.
So you go there and they're already all taken.

Yep. Never seen an open office company with enough of those. It's a curse.
Google publishing the SRE book.
The difficulty of manually managing memory isn't necessarily to do with how many lines of code it takes to allocate or deallocate. The difficulty is in managing the scope of the rest of the program that is now susceptible to memory errors, which extends far beyond those initial ten lines of code if encapsulation is done inexpertly.
Clerky is who YC uses to form c corporations.
Hi all! I am a co-founder of Trakt and I thought you would all like to know our thoughts on this.

We are planning on significantly revamping our community engagement experience. In fact, it is our most significant project for 2017 and we sketched out the plan over a weekend last month.

Trakt has a form of threaded discussion on our web app today. But of course, it has a long way to go before it can fill the shoes of IMDB. The feedback we are seeing here about what people appreciated about IMDB is extremely helpful, so please do keep it coming, or feel free to reach out to us directly. That said, our approach will be different from traditional forum-style discussions because we see an opportunity to vastly improve the experience by following the lead of today's well-executed communities.

Of course, our intention is to facilitate discussions within Trakt that are categorized within specific media like a TV episode, a movie, and likely more options such as directors and actors. While doing so, we have two major priorities that I hope will set us apart from what you previously had available to you:

1) A community built on respect and reputation. A great example is Product Hunt, where I can always count on having a productive discussion should I decide to provide feedback to a maker or hunter.

2) A composition experience that helps you make beauty out of words. Of course, Medium has done a wonderful job with this and I hope to apply some of the lessons learned from their platform as it has evolved.

In the meantime, if you're interested in seeing your IMDB data imported to your Trakt account, there are multiple members of our community who have built wonderful tools to enable you to do this. Here's one: https://github.com/damienhaynes/TraktRater

Thank you!
This is probably my resentment speaking, but I resonate with this Paul Graham essay about school years being miserable primarily due to school, not puberty.

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
That's scary considering the vast "overflight" area claimed by the US:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Overflight_Fee_...
Don't forget management and guests being able to walk in to see if everyone is working.
How to translate emotion and psychology into engineering and product design
I was re-reading Snowcrash (a novel by Neal Stephenson).
In this book there is a tangent about how aweful it is
in the future to work for the government.

He goes over how horrible the work conditions were,
with open offices, bosses always watching you,
no fixed assigned spacing, first come first serve
everything being tracked by computers. If you are late
everyone knows it because your sit in the boonies.

When I read it for the first time I remember feeling a revulsion at it. Now when I read it, I was like
"Um.. that is my job now"

At my company they have, /on purpose/ too few spaces for the number of employees. So early birds get all the spaces with powerplugs, monitors, network etc. The rest must fight it out on bench seats with no power etc.

I guess for the big bosses who spend all days in meetings its ok, but for grunts it sucks.
I've seen almost no trolling here, it seems to get shut down pretty quickly.
Seems like theft might be an important practical concern for autonomous delivery.
Hypermedia: don’t bother
Vanity height: how much space in skyscrapers is unoccupiable?
Yes, that's exactly right. And Go takes a relatively strict stance on making the _how_ obvious to the programmer. It goes out of its way to avoid hiding O(n^k) loops behind language sugar like map or fold, for example.
Then there should be programming licenses:

Level 1: let interns use Go(-karts), like their parents did with Basic.

Level 2: most languages. Proper training required and you still have to be careful.

Level 3: C, C++, critical code, kernels, crypto code. Training a commercial airline pilot takes years; and while this stuff is not hip enough for some, there's plenty of demand.
Yeah, but people require a lot more investment to get them to the point where they are useful.
Having only read the wiki page about dialetheism, it seems a lot more like philosophy than math or logic. Meh.
That's my favorite setup too. Three people sharing a room. You can collaborate and also have some good private conversations without the whole company knowing.