skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the current price I don't think it's really worth it, no. Really few games manage to take full advantage of 4K (Doom '16, as I mentioned, is one of them). Too many console ports with low texture resolutions and terrible optimizations these days. Older games will of course fare much better but the additional sharpness in the graphics is probably not worth the price of the hardware. For gaming I think 1440p and a high framerate are a better compromise at the moment.

That being said I have some trouble going back to my 1200p screens at work after being used to 4k at home. Surprisingly even for emacs and other work-related things 4K makes a pretty huge difference in my experience. Everything remains razor sharp even with a small font. I can split my screen and display a few full page datasheets and schematics alongside my code. No need to zoom in or anything. No aliasing, no pixels, I find it very relaxing.
They are strong claims because current drug laws cost people their lives in large numbers. If there wasn't plenty of evidence to support that, I could accept that it might be excusable, but the evidence is there to the point that I have taken to at the very least consider politicians that oppose drug reform (who we should be able to expect to inform themselves) to be morally no better than murderers.

In fact, for the most part they are worse - most murderers do not cause further harm after a single death (it is exceedingly rare for people to commit more than one murder); most politicians who oppose drug law reforms continue to cause harm.

Sometimes we reach inflection points where certain views become so outdated by the availability of evidence that they become repugnant. Consider slavery (yes, I am making that comparison).

Our eras drug laws will come to be remembered as the same kind of barbaric oppression of - and violence against - weaker members of society.
My understanding of this role is that one who is a data engineer extracts data and maintains it such that the data scientists can consume it. So one would need skills in data management like knowledge of SQL or nosql,ETL, maybe even some devops stuff to create pipelines for things.
I've been very happy writing Kotlin backend code for the last fourteen months or so.

Definitely excited. It's an awesome JVM language.
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My point is: these creatures evolved more specialised senses to improve their food-gathering, but they also all have eyes. Perhaps eyes convey a general advantage, regardless of how you find food?
> Does Java programmer in India command US $100,000?

2500 USD to 15,000 USD

http://www.payscale.com/research/IN/Job=Java_Software_Develo...
It requires almost nothing. The training process requires large amounts of test data. But once the system is trained, the actual set of weights needed is tiny and running the recognition itself is cake. The whole reason all voice recognition is server-based is purely for business reasons, to lock people into their service, to provide new sources of consumer data to mine and sell, etc.
Not just cars. Also (especially) ships. I think vessels of any sort actually. Don't forget that we name boats and some people name their cars too.

See also: Christine (Stephen King)
Especially their messaging services, they officially promote at least 3 at this point? Just pick one and work on that you jerks.
When there's a real queue, all bets are off indeed. In semi busy situations though (say 1-2 cars at each pump), i stand by my statement.
Georgia Tech is a great school, but I don't think there's been many graduates of this program yet since it's only about four years old.
Ask HN: Would you pay $25 to get an answer to a programming question?
Imagine that you are just starting with web development and get stuck somewhere, or you are an experienced developer but want advice or a second set of eyes.

Would you be willing to pay, lets say $25, to get your question answered? How about less or more?

There is Stack Overflow, you might say. But on Stack Overflow, there are rules and guidelines to follow, an account to create, specific questions that are allowed and not allowed, a sometimes unwelcoming environment, etc. (https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.28828d28e).

What do you think about this?
To me, HI seems more like a discussion between two friends. It works really well because of Brady's reporting background and interviewing skills. In Cortex, however, Myke has said that he started the podcast because he wanted to see how Grey worked. As such, the podcast is just kind of a continuous explanation by Grey, to Myke about the way he works and what he is doing to improve his productivity. Myke then explains what he is doing off of Grey's advice and Grey improves it.
You have eyes + aren't active while finding food/avoiding predators in an environment with limited visibility & great sound conduction.
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> I don't know what magical spell has India cast over Americans that all American politicians have become totally stone blind

Trump and every other American politician do not talk about it because the trade deficit between India and USA is not as big as China. Also, 9 out of 15 top internet companies in India are from USA. So like China, India is not a protectionist country and this outsourcing is a part of free trade.

Btw,Welcome to Capitalism!
Wouldn't that be better served by a notch on the ring that rotates as time goes? An inner ring could do minutes and small/large bumps can help identify the time down to the closest 5 minute increment

The machinery to translate scalar time into discrete bump movement is going to be complicate, fragile and costly, while rotating a ring instead of the single arms is feasible, has been done already and only need tactile feedback for feeling the relative positioning.

Edit: there http://www.perkinsproducts.org/store/748-thickbox_default/br...

Just add a second ring and you're basically done.
Ah okay, even if it's old, I still think this form of representation is misleading.
But you are describing an office use case in gaming-related topic. I have dual screens at work and it's actually better than single screen - clear distinction wht is left and what is right.

I am still waiting for a single person to state that for casual gaming, going ultra-wide over traditional monitors with similar surface (+ added extra width) was really worth the hassle and massive costs on hardware side. And I mean true added value well after the initial wow-effect.

so far, i have nto been persuaded.
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> However, it is revealed there is now no one left at the company with deep expertise in the system (the person who worked on it for 20 years was let go during the offshoring) to interface with offshore IT experts. And of course nothing was documented.

I've lived this a couple of times. If given time, the newbs can usually figure it all out, on the companies time (and $$$), and at the expense of forward momentum in the market and customer good will. Oh that IE6 client? Yeah that REALLY has to change now.

But these costs are hard/impossible to quantify, and who wants to pay these high priced developers anyway?
It's still okay, just not as good as I first thought...
Scala's build times are legendarily horrible. Kotlin has similar compile times to Javac.
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I planned to use it for therapeutic purposes or soft health improver. So no heavy usage and possibly zero smoke/combustion.
You're right and wrong at the same time:

- Technically REST and HTTP are two different things, I totally agree with you.

- Historically, before REST became popular, people where doing complete nonsense on top of HTTP, with no respect of the spec whatsoever (see my comment above). This madness was stopped because of REST ! It's only when REST gained in popularity that people started to learn HTTP, and since then people developed a lot of semantically valid HTTP interface and called them REST API.

To sum up my previous points : REST as imagined by Roy Fielding never caught, and the word REST is now almost unanimously used to describe «HTTP-compliant API». May HATEOAS rest in peace :)
I've never used a hose that wasn't rubberised - that's in the UK and a few other western European countries. What material are the hoses you use made of (and in what country)?
I'm skeptical of licensing as a means of determining ability.

No other engineering discipline uses licensing (with the exception of PE roles, for obvious reasons) to determine ability. Think about how mechanical engineers get hired, for instance. "What were some technical challenges you had in your last project? How did you solve them?" would be a couple of leading questions into technical discussions with a candidate.

Note that those questions are not specific to mechanical engineering: they are applicable to every engineering and software role.

In the interviews I have conducted, asking these types of questions exactly has generally given me a pretty good sense of the technical ability of every candidate, with no whiteboard session or coding homework required. It only takes 30-45 minutes, and I have also found that this amount of time is enough to get a sense of a candidate's culture fit as well.

Whiteboard interviews only test how much of a candidate's memorized corpus overlaps with the question presented; as a result, I find that process is only 5-10% as effective as a technical discussion. I want to know if and how (and how well) a given candidate thinks, not if they know the same things I do.

Code homework is only marginally better. Most (better) companies have a 90-day probation period anyway. After hire, if a developer is not performing up to expectations for a given role, they can be let go. This is exactly how it happens in every other engineering profession.
A reprint of it is in the book Feynman and Computation edited by Anthony J.G. Hey. You can find it in Amazon or your local library.
Of course they can afford it. They choose not to.

$30 mil over 5 years is almost rounding error for UCSF.

Here's the public budget for UCSF : https://www.ucsf.edu/about/ucsf-budget

EDIT: With $1.3B of their income coming from government money, it seems pretty sleezy to turn around and send some of that income out of the country, especially when you have the slogan: "UC San Francisco is a thriving contributor to the local economy"
Maybe those hashtags are cutting deeper than I expected? :D
This would be grounds for termination for a mere peasant. When you're the boss at Uber, however, you can just apologize for condoning sexual harassment and move along your merry way.

This is a good reason for people who think sexual harassment is wrong to remove Uber from their phones.
Can you explain in what way is it easier to reason about separating the search operation from the validation operation?

I can argue that it is easier to reason about simply hashing and then looking up because once hashed, the lookup does not leak any timing information, whereas in your solution the lookup does leak timing information.

Can you refute my argument?
I disagree that it shows proportionality. Since we don't know where the zero would be with "thousands of cars", it could be way off the bottom of the chart, which means car numbers are relatively constant, even as stock price falls to a few percent of it's starting value.

The graph does show that both variables are decreasing, and that they both have a knee in the middle where the rate slows. But that's about all they clearly have in common.

An yes, scaling is of course necessary. It's translating that's the problem. I shouldn't have said scaling in my first post.
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For US cars, I used to see mostly left side gas caps but now see them all over the place due to global sales. I'd rather have the gas cap on the driver's side. It makes pulling into gas pumps easier and is just a little closer to the door. It's just convenient. My 2006 Nissan has it on the right, I hate it. My 2000 Ford had it on the left. My 1991 Ford had it on the left too.
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That's the difference between "university IT" and "research computing". Those are typically two separate groups. Think of it as the difference between running the IT (helpdesk, support, backups) at a tech company vs. running a cloud datacenter. You need both, and they are both "technically" IT, but they require very different skill sets. What they are talking about here is pretty standard corporate IT. I'm not sure if the outsourcing contract involves the hospital's EMR or not, but for those numbers, I'd guess not.

In my experience, once you start using the terms "high performance" or "cluster" university IT starts to push the problem back on to the lab or over to research computing. If the university doesn't have a research computing group, then you have a whole lot of other issues.

There are still plenty of research computing staff at UCSF.

Edit: slight wording change about IT (see below)
Yes, all of the above.

IANAEE (I am not an electrical engineer).

Something nice about GPUs is that graphics rasterization is a very parallel problem. If you can handle thermals, power consumption, memory bandwidth, etc. that go with it, you can pretty much just add more of the parts that do the processing (in this case, CUDA cores - 3,584 of them) and get a more powerful GPU. A 1080 TI has 12 billion transistors. The 1080 had 7.2 billion. The 980 had 5.2 billion.

CPUs handle more branching problems, so it's harder to get improvements by just adding cores.

They're also smaller than the pre-1080 - 16nm down from 28nm, which lowers power consumption and therefore heat. It's a huge help and it's part of what allows them to just add more transistors in the first place - but in this area, GPUs will run into the same problems CPUs do. It's hard to shrink transistors.
Electron is awesome. And with webassembly, I think electron will be even better. Electrons success is because it offers a single Dev experience across all major platforms, windows, macOS, Linux and the web.

It's a great container for reducing the work to deliver code across platforms.

JavaScript is a necessary evil right now; it's the least common denominator for delivery. I would probably choose typescript if I were starting a new app right now to target it, though I want to play with Rust and webassembly soon.

It's success is not bc of JavaScript; it's because it merges the cross platform Dev experience.
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There are apps out there for phones and smartwatches that will vibrate text messages in Morse code. With any sort of determined study someone can pick up basic (~5 WPM) Morse code in about a week.

Unfortunately the best way to increase speed with Morse code is to learn to recognize entire letters as one object and not count "dots" and "dashes", which is much easier with sound over flashing lights or vibrations.
I wish to hell there was a good alternative where I live. I'd pay more for it.
I wouldn't say it's dirt cheap. The Medical Center in particular is in a very wealthy area of Houston and is across the street from Rice and a neighborhood of $1M+ homes.

The dirt cheap homes are 20 miles out in the suburbs or in very high crime areas.
>How the heck can IT folks from US/Canada/UK and other such nations compete with India

They can compete by doing a better job. A lot of people who have outsourced to India have run into problems and regretted it.
I'm sorry but any good exec coach can point you to Patrick Lencioni or whatever... That man does not need leadership help, he needs how to act like a human help.
Go is a rising multi-purpose programming language, primarily used for server-side applications because of its speed, concurrency and ease of use. It has a built-in and production-ready template engine and a HTTP server, which makes it an excellent choice for web applications.
I'm investigating Kotlin. Do you have references, blogs etc to suggest ?
I think they may have meant fp16, which is of interest to machine learning programmers.
I recently moved to France, and see the same in the towns around here. Small towns that have a mall or hypermarket close by are invariably dead. Interestingly, I visited Sete, which has a mall and hypermarket about 15km away, and the town center is vibrant and alive. I certainly think that this phenomena is mostly due to the availability of malls.
Is any aspect of your product open source? Doesn't look like it; this makes it a bit of an apples-vs-apple-pie comparison.
Good examples of the difference between "you'd better believe me" and "I hope you believe me". The latter case is of course more common.
kotlinjs is very interesting to me - anyone have experience with writing kotlin and typescript and can compare?
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I don't love cars, but I _love_ Top Gear. It's got that tone you describe, sort of breezy and light but about something real.

Like the sister comment said, maybe it's vessels, because aviation news can be similar. I don't know why, but it's one of the last things untainted by politics and division.
But who pays for the infrastructure of the sports, from what I've seen of stadium and amenities investments it's almost always the public that pays for that, and in that case the state does pay a lot to the athletics funds. One have to be real careful when thinking that the abstract budgets are not related.
Thank you so much for sharing all that you've learned throughout your journey and for sharing your architecture.

Curious but with a working web app, what was the motivation for building an external REST API?
Interesting. I use uBlock Origin for Chrome on my iMac, but most browsing I do is on my iPad, so having Brave ready to go with its ad blocker is a must some days.
Because the charging receptacle isn't a safety hazard in an impact, it can be placed in a central location, such as the middle of the front or rear.

Speaking of which, do electric vehicles even have a hood?
People name lots of other things. My violin teacher names all her instruments. She is a bit eccentric though. :)
-Oh, I wasn't concerned about accidentally filling diesel on a gas powered car; more that the truck diesel comes gushing out much faster than it would from a 'normal' pump. (Though I have to admit, having never tried, I don't know whether the truck diesel nozzles are even larger than the regular diesel ones. (that would make sense, though.)
It's all PR. The CEO statement, their businesses plan so far, etc.

It's all PR until they IPO and stop subsidizing rides.

Then, we'll see if they'll really survive as a taxi company.
There is a difference between summer and winter time, especially in places which depend enormous on summer tourists, just like this f* lil island ;-) So check again in two month, when summer is coming. Just me 2 cents.
It has extensions like "Message carbons" and "Message archive management".

Google Allo is launched in late 2016 and it is strictly bound to single device. This is marketed as feature, because only geeks and rocket engineers use workstations, normies do internets on cellphone (and only terrorists and drug dealers have more than one cellphone).
For 3D the biggest improvement is you have more pixels to render objects at long distance, which is huge for games with large camera viewing distance. For example, you can spot enemy much easier in Battlefield.
There's a big difference between calculation and automation though. This article starts with an operation that's a bit of both, but the big underlying theme here is the automation of data digestion.

For all the pomp and pedigree of banking, it's mostly just moving data or digesting data. Because of how complex banks are, they're easily a decade behind the times and still HEAVILY reliant on manual processes in excel. Any real "streamlining" of processes is done through patchwork fixes with no systemic reworks being done.

This article is implying systemic reworks. Banks live and die on their NII, and would gladly gut their back and middle office personnel (most have done so by outsourcing to India and Hungary) with automation. Truth be told, rightfully so given the menial tasks of those jobs.
The efficacy and safety of the treatments are not the issue. The issue is when government uses the threat of violence to prevent people from accessing substances that cause no harm to others.

I agree that people should not use it as treatment without seeking help, but there are far more dangerous substances you can buy over the counter.

E.g. acetaminophen/paracetamol causes a range of deaths via liver failure every year, yet not only do we allow it to be sold, in many countries it is now allowed to be sold mixed with codeine - a highly addictive opoid, creating an incentive for addicts to push the limits of their intake of highly toxic compound.

And yet people worry about cannabis - a substance where the LD50 is so high we don't know what it is, or if there is one (short of choking on it...)

Attack quackery, sure. But if you are to go after quackery, then go after current drug laws too, because they are not based on a concern over science, efficacy or safety.
> Nim, C++, D (and Rust in a very limited fashion) all have compile time function evaluation, but not remotely with such a low overhead syntax.

What is high overhead about D's syntax for compile time function evaluation?
I suspect that was the last Uber he'll ever take. Too scared to face criticism from the drivers.
Are there not taxis where you live? They may be slightly less convenient (or they might not be!) but sometimes that's the price for doing the right thing.
This guy has Gavin Belson written all over him: super-polished and charismatic when the Valley is watching him, and coldly detached when they're not.
Maybe he should do a Larry Page thing and hand off a lot of day-to-day stuff for a couple years.
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He didn't apologize for the sexual harassment stuff, even.
I made the mistake of introducing some friends and team members to the game. Their productivity has gone to shit.

Of course, it's only a corollary that they now spend too much time playing Factorio. Their productivity was liable to go to shit anyway; I simply gave a purpose to it haha
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Absolutely. If your job is data in -> data out, your job will be taken by a computer. Most of the work lawyers do is just this. Human lawyers will be relegated to client relations and high level strategy. Most documents will be first drafted by a computer, then edited by a human. So law firm partners will still have work, but the need for associates will dry up as computers take over
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I wonder why he is even apologizing. I assume he can't be fired because of dual class voting structure. I don't think he actually cares about the driver.
It seems in my area at least most fillers are on the driver's side. My car has its filler on the passenger's side, and I've had to wait out of the way a few times because every single pump had people filling on the driver's side.
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No, it's easier, faster than free to just google the problem and find the answer on stackoverflow
> Trump and every other American politician do not talk about it because the trade deficit between India and USA is not as big as China. Also, 9 out of 15 top internet companies in India are from USA. So like China, India is not a protectionist country and this outsourcing is a part of free trade.

The day we hear Indian companies have outsourced jobs in India to outside of India, then your point will be valid.

This is not capitalism and is certainly not free trade - it is simply one-way trade and the problem lies with the Western World who have propped up the Indian economy by handing over jobs that should have remained in the West over to India.