skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really machine learning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_scheduling_problem

Above is a nice example. There has been some nice contests with the above problem and the ILP solvers work extremely fast and great and solve them to optimality. Although Staffjoy constraints might have been more general.

Either way you could easily attack any custom problem with an ILP solver. It depends how long it would take to get a feasible solution and then how long to minimize the costs or fit the budget.

In order to speed up the solver you might use ML but that would require previous data. Probably the only way to speed up the solver is to learn it through reinforcement learning on a batch of data. Takes time and time and time. Not to mention that your ILP solver has to be equipped to merge with any ML machinery you are using.
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> "Christ, that's not an octopus, that's a
Cthulhu merge"
Nice meme: #prehistoricsupermarket

Reminds me of the Terence McKenna quote: The scene opens on a world that appears totally primitive. People are naked, people are orgiastic, people are nomadic. But when they close their eyes there are menus hanging in space. Culture has been internalized. Culture is supposed to be internalized. All this talk about virtual reality - people don't seem to notice - this is a virtual reality. These are all ideas - ideas that have been forced into matter so that we could live in a reconstruction of our imagination. And de-constructing these virtual realities in which we live is the only way to get back to some sort of baseline of what it is to be human.
Man they aren't even lasting 2 years nowadays? I think it's official: the startup bubble is over in 2017 officially.
.. and didn't fight net neutrality in 3rd world countries.
Agreed. I'm genuinely curious as to why anyone would start accepting Swift Coins as payment for anything.
> Heterodox Academy's stated mission is to advocate for more conservatives in academia.

Heterodox Academy advocates for ideological heterogeneity in departments, which in the context of the academy as it exists today means conservatives. It was created by Jonathan Haidt[0] who is not and has never been a conservative. Considering the results of the study, it would be impossible for any significant number of conservative social psychology professors to be a part of the organization (there are no significant numbers of conservative social psychology professors).

If you choose not to read the studies that I've cited, that's your own partisan anti-intellectualism and it's a perfect example of how partisanship (even left-wing partisanship) prevents the search for truth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt
Is there any feedback if investors would prefer to get some of their money back or see you roll the dice on another pivot?
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The only way I could read this is the the author has some kind of personality quirk or anxiety issue. Strange (to us), but understandable (he/she isn't alone).
No, the suck factor is greater when you're old as opposed to when you're younger, that is unless you live about the same way all your life. Imagine how a professional athlete feels.

Additionally, why is a restricted diet healthy if it lowers one's definition of quality of life? I read a study somewhere that showed that castration helps men live longer. Not my definition of healthy.

Don't know why comment was downvoted.
You need glfw3.

sudo apt-get install libglfw3 libglfw3-dev
That quote implies that the only ambition for an English PhD is a professorship. If that's the case, how could that ever be sustainable?
Not all people are socially able to do that. Each people have their fear ... Some are heights , dogs , cats , fire , gun ...

It's not rationnal but it's how it is ....
Has anyone asked Laxman Dewangan what he was up to with that initial commit and merge thing?
> The main joke, as explained by PewDiePie, was to "prove that the modern world is crazy and will do anything for 5 dollars"

People should make an effort to understand that this is an excuse he came up with after realizing what a bad idea this was, not a real, legitimate reason for doing something.

This is a person who gets paid enormous amounts of money to just do whatever he wants and talk about what he thinks. Is it that far-fetched that someone with so much money and so much free time and free will would get bored and watch poor people dance and embarrass themselves for his amusement?

Note, this is not meant to be an attack on PewDiePie's character (his actions speak toward his character just fine). This comment is mostly about providing insight into why a person might do something like this for no real reason and genuinely see nothing wrong with it.
It does seem a bit apocryphal, but I think that's okay if you take the story as more of a learning parable than an account of facts.
I have! And I will... I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

The main takeaway is specific to my use-case: writing a dynamic library that can be called from within Python code. The main positive and negative are two sides of the same coin: since Nim compiles to C, you get to use all the existing tools designed for doing C FFI in Python, and don't have to write any C wrappers. And since Nim isn't C, there's still a little bit of detective work involved in replicating all the argument types, GC behavior, etc, that is involved in Nim and the specifics of its realization in C.
>they visit someone doing the CRON diet and run tests.

This is not very convincing. A blinded clinical study would be much better. I guess it's not very practical though.
California voters roundly approved a similar law in 1994. It even passed in Los Angeles County.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_187
I don't know what labor market you're talking about, but this STEM "surplus" is not very believable. Even if the exact match isn't always there, the people graduating with a degree in Biology or Civil Engineering are still more marketable from the skills it takes to get those degrees than many other graduates. The issue with "unemployable" college graduates has more to do with humanities majors who probably should have gone to technical or junior college and got a certificate in something practical than too many "STEM" graduates.

And a much better question: is the problem that we're letting too many immigrants in, or that capital has had control of the laws and culture so much that labor can't fight to get their fair share? Immigrants don't write the laws, they don't make the business decisions, all they do is sign up for a space in the H1B lottery.

If your field isn't getting its share, maybe it's not the immigrants who should be getting the blame for this.
This looks really interesting. I think I get what you are trying to do. Just want to give a bit of feedback:

Even after clicking through "Learn More" and your FAQ, I still wasn't sure what this is or how it works. I am familiar with online currencies and basic income, so I would imagine a visitor to the site less familiar with this stuff would be even more confused.

I get it's an "experiment" and TNSTAAFL and it's still very new. But maybe a sample explanation of how a new user might sign up, receive coins and then use them somewhere would help clarify things.
There are plenty of cost effective traditional alternatives. Banana leaves, hand made leaf plates, machine made leaf plates, in the worst case paper plates.

Plastics are just convenient and cheap, if the environmental costs are not considered.

Edible cutlery
http://www.bakeys.com/
How does the fetch part know which objects to grab? (Answer: because it cared about the DAG first.)
I would probably compare Dynamo to Google Datastore (released.. 8 years earlier?), or even to Bigtable, which went GA last summer. I'm not sure Spanner matches up with anything AWS at this point.

(work on google Cloud)
Agreed that it would be tragic. After completing a few marketplace transactions though I think the writing's on the wall that Facebook's out to unseat CL. They've even put the app center-stage on the native nav bar.

CL has the benefit (and costs) of anonymity, as well as more diverse content. Hopefully they can keep the network effect going.
> Is any labour of love worth your potential future?

Kind of a funny question on a site for people doing startups.
Walmart is cheap and doesn't have locations in the city. Target will occasionally pick a city site and not bother with parking.
It's not exactly that there wouldn't be some kind of safety nets in Europe. It's more that those safety nets become traps for some people.

We don't need to and we should not make employment unpleasant and stressful. The point of this article was that the current system is increasingly making employment unpleasant and stressful, and this is largely due to the dichotomy of having either strongly protected, "permanent" jobs, or non-protected temp jobs. The more protected these permanent jobs become, the scarcer they get. Added regulation does not really help, it will just make even those temp jobs more scarce as companies (and even government organisations) get more and more careful about hiring because of the high stakes and big commitment you make with the hiring decision.

Years ago, when I was freshly married and we had our first children, I was on a string of temp jobs - all with the same employer. The company lost significant markets, there were layoffs; the local union guy publicly said "we should throw out those temp guys to protect the permanent jobs".

I did not like that, and I have somewhat distrusted the unions (including mine, of senior salaried employees) ever since (even if I'm a member). One of the things that makes life so stressful is that employment becomes a game, something where you think you should manipulate other people and some artificial criteria, and build relations and scheme, to keep your job.

It would be less stressful just to have what you call "race to the bottom" and actually have a system where you try to do your job well and if there's need for that job, then do it.
What it will do is encourage MSFT to drop the cost of MSSQL licenses in Azure.
Rock bands may have been in their prime back then but their fan base has probably yet to reach peak wealth.
I frequent many Israeli forums and every Israeli forum I visited, the users HATED the video and found it highly offensive. I am really curious what Israeli forums you're visiting...
Huh. Is there a good, open, secure encryption messaging system you can get on Android?
How valuable is that bundling to Amazon, against Walmart's free shipping ?

Considering it's only $10/month, and there are a lot of digital services offered for this money, very little(maybe $2/month per user) is left to support the e-commerce business. Is that such a big deal, in a fight against Walmart, which itself can play that cross-subsidy game, using your grocery bill ?
As a libertarian I would rather see these social services getting abolished rather than putting more burdens on businesses.
Who needs to "iterate" so quickly that several minutes added to your build time becomes a huge issue?
Deletionist culture is also a big problem in the Gnome UI. For a long time they were deleting features like crazy. Same goes for Systemd.

I think people like deleting features because it's easy and seems like progress. It's a bikeshedding phenomenon.

The solution to this is to have a flexible module system so people can have their almost nothing "non-bloated" system and other people can have features. Same could work for wikipedia. You could have the core wikipedia and the alt hierarchy. It could work like usenet.
Sports and luxuries for students have absolutely become the focus of universities. It's hard to sell an ethereal "better education." It's easy to show off your new athletic dorms and massive scoreboard. I know that's absurd, but that's how administrators seem to think.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/15/athleti...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/runnin...
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Has anyone used this or anything like this? Any notes on the extra js affecting page performance?
If memory serves, you get $5 free when you sign up, and after that you pay per article, which ranges from 30 to 80 cents.

It's worth checking out if you have a separate email for things like that.
For Muslims, it is recommended to fast on Mondays and Thursdays. Also for the whole month of Ramadan every year.
I never said the standard required the compiler to remove the redundant check; just that it is allowed to, and I gave an example of why it might.

But since the compiler is allowed to, programmers have to act accordingly.

*

Yes, this does lead to a situation similar to what C.A.R. Hoare described:

"Now let me tell you about yet another overambitious language project. ... I was a member and even chairman of the Technical Committee No. 10 of the European Computer Manufacturers Association. We were charged ... with ... the standardization of a language to end all languages. ... I had studied with interest and amazement, even a touch of amusement, the four initial documents describing a language called NPL. ... Each was more ambitious and absurd than the last in its wishful speculations. Then the language began to be implemented and a new series of documents began to appear at six-monthly intervals, each describing the final frozen version of the language, under its final frozen name PL/1.

"But to me, each revision of the document simply showed how far the initial Flevel implementation had progressed. Those parts of the language that were not yet implemented were still described in free-flowing flowery prose giving promise of unalloyed delight. In the parts that had been implemented, the flowers had withered; they were choked by an undergrowth of explanatory footnotes, placing arbitrary and unpleasant restrictions on the use of each feature and loading upon a programmer the responsibility for controlling the complex and unexpected side-effects and interaction effects with all the other features of the language" ( http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs422/2014/bib/hoare81emperor... , pg. 10).

In The Design and Evolution of C++, Stroustrup mentioned that occasionally when designing a feature, he could think of multiple possibilities: often one would involve convoluted rules that the compiler could enforce, and the other would be a simple rule (or set of rules) that the compiler couldn't necessarily enforce. He said he generally chose the simple rules, even if he didn't know how to have the compiler detect violations. So C++ ended up with things like the One Definition Rule (and violation is undefined behavior). I've never seen any similar statements from Ritchie or Thompson, but I suspect they followed a similar approach. Of course, today both languages are governed by committees, so how they balance trade-offs may have changed.
Slight article nitpick: a distribution that 'looks like a straight line' in a log-log plot is often not power-law distributed.

One could say that the distribution has a fat one-sided tail though.
Yeah server-side rendering hasn't been a focus for us. Currently, I don't think it is a great solution for server-side-rendered apps. I'm not exactly sure how much it would take to improve things here.

If you have any thoughts around multiple requests or server-side rendering feel free to submit an issue on Github to discuss! https://github.com/amplitude/redux-query/issues
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I've been to a few right wing rallies recently and every one I've gone to I was harassed, threatened, people expressed racist and nationalist sentiments towards me in a very aggressive faction. I feared for my life much of the time.

This, in my experience, is how every right wing rally is. Left wing rallies, on the other hand, have always been very pleasant and highly enjoyable.

Thank you for your perspective.
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> After a year there have been 0 Ops hires, it's all Devs.

You say that like it's a bad thing. If you want DevOps to be successful, you don't hire a "DevOps team". You hire a team of devs to make ops tools that are so easy to use that all the other devs can manage their own ops.

The idea is that doing "good ops" is so easy that everyone in the company does it.
On our team at https://resin.io every engineer takes turns on customer support, something like a 5-day week with a 4-hour shift each day (and each day 4 of those shifts distributed across people), and repeat every few weeks. Sometimes it feels it's a big drain on people's time (for those weeks half your time is on support), but the end result is an amazing amount of learning across the entire team. What are the most important issues at any given time, what improvements would have the biggest impact, etc. It also feels that it makes it very easy to ask help across the whole team to debug any issue you find, as people are very open, supportive, and aware of what this "support-driven" approach requires to work. I'm only half on the technical side, but can find me doing support too. ;)
And one server will only ever be one server. For many deployments it makes more sense to have several smaller nodes distributed between different geographical areas than one big node in one datacenter. And/or multiple nodes in a a single datacenter so you can perform rolling upgrades.
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Triggers on writes to update a counter? Basically you spread the cost of COUNT on INSERTs and UPDATEs. It might be a good tradeoff or a horrible one depending on your workloads.
> who are these guidelines for?

My understanding (you'll find some of my work quoted here, and I contributed a small amount before that this was public) is that this resource is for individuals who want to be involved in open source, either as contributors or maintainers, to learn about how it works. That is, a lot of open source development is sort of a shared, "oral" history; this resource spells out a lot of things that those of us who have been in the scene for a while just know, but you have to learn at some point.
> Where do you get that the government didn't allow them to make up the shortfall?

Planning permission is a thing. Again, do you have evidence that there is a significant number of planning permissions going begging that no one is applying for?

> What you're claiming is that the planning permissions were tightened just enough so that despite twice the demand there was no real increase in housing built?

Yes? I mean, it's pretty obvious that's what happened, right? It's right there in black and right when you graph it. There has been no radical increase in the granting of planning permissions.

> Housing is something that is too important to leave to just market forces because it isn't really a market.

Given the hash of it the government is making, I think there's a much stronger argument that it's too important not to leave it to the market. Something which, moreover, hasn't been tried; there's no functioning market due to the planning permission system.

Again, if you pass a law saying that needed houses cannot be built (which has been done), and then the houses aren't built (which they are not) how can you point fingers at anything except the law?

> they now have to pay market rents further inflating prices.

Only because they've choked off the supply. We don't complain about welfare inflating food prices, because we don't pass laws stopping farmers from growing food. Food is cheaper now than ever before, not despite the fact that food is supplied by market forces, but because of it.

> Everyone is better off if they just go back to building houses.

Or they could just let other people build houses. You know, like how every single country without a housing crisis does?

> Just saying build in the green belt will not achieve much. It'll divert developers from building on brownfield and lead to even more of a sprawl than there currently is in cities like London.

The government building houses will add to the sprawl too, of course.

But what really matters isn't who builds it or where, it's that units are built. And that means identifying restrictions and removing them.
Can I buy slots and use them from your Cloud Resource Pools, (e.g. for $10/mo on top of the $6/mo for the Pool)? That's an interesting configuration...
Honestly I couldn't slog through the video. It started off with "let's use letters" and immediately got to things like "the right letters for this case are 'df' and 'dt'". This just feels like "here's a bunch of magic that you'll just have to memorize". Reminds me of my favorite quote:

> And then Satan said "put the alphabet in math".

When I learned the basics of calculus it was via simple problems that we wanted to answer. And for a while we estimated the answers by brute forcing approximations. I still drop back to this when I can't remember how to do something and need to re-discover parts of calculus.
I thought about trying to clarify this, but "power law" is the term that's been thrown around to describe this effect in software systems for many years. Really, I only care about the fat-one-sided-ness (for its practical implications); I don't care so much about the precise mathematical formulation.
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But once you get into the modeling of how many customers come in at what hour and how likely they are to purchase how much conditioned on the staff present, it's a learning problem.
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And trying to enforce it won't really help. It'll just drive away even those temp jobs, if the employers cannot find legal ways to go around requirements.

The fundamental problem is that employment law tries to treat the employer as a nasty exploiter, not as a provider of something good to those to whom it pays salary. The law often starts from confrontation and zero-sum game, not from having shared goals and interests.
The Code of Conduct at Contributor Covenant is specifically designed to force politics on other people inside and outside FOSS projects. Its creator describes the ideology here:

https://medium.com/rx3-magazine/why-hackers-must-welcome-soc...

ESR represented meritocracy instead in the post below. One was written to counter the other but don't remember what order. I link to an example Code of Merit as well to show how simple it is:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918

https://medium.com/@jmaynard/a-contribution-policy-for-open-...

The manipulative tactics they use are often called SJW by critics. The combo of pushers aiming for political dominance and sophist tactics to achieve goals means anything like that CoC should be rejected totally and quickly. It will just be leverage later as it's intended to be. A good write-up on how that works where they act like their claims aren't controversial but argue with or censor each other all the time on it is below. So is an attack on Ruby community by non-contributors pushing the CoC & politics with Coraline herself dropping smears in support. Starts nice enough but they show true colors as resistance continues. ;)

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-word...

https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

Note to all: This is a draft of a reference reply on this issue since it comes up a lot. Many people new to CoC's don't know they're openly meant to be political. If any have a clearer set of links, I'm interested in them. If you like this set as an intro, tell me so I can turn it into a Pastebin or something.

Edit to add: Anyone wanting to discuss this further just email me or something so this topic doesn't get polluted with politics.
All too often it seems US restaurants do the quick calculus of going 100% disposable cutelry/etc, making a decision we'll still be dealing with 50 years from now....

I am very supportive of these types programs, even if hard to enforce.