skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bill Maher isn't a hero and is largely considered in the circles I run in to be the trashfire alt-left sort who I'd be happy to see the back of. He is emphatically not "my people" and never has been. So I'm not really sure what you're getting at there.

Yiannopoulos got a little more attention, which he wanted, because he decided to spend a lot of time being a scumbag to get people to look at him. And it bit him because that attention unearthed some real bad stuff. Your garden-variety possibly-a-war-criminal conservative (hi, John Yoo) gets op-eds in the New York Times, not "witch hunts".
>> delayed gratification is not always a bad thing.

It's not so much about delayed gratification -- when you're talking about a specific game (especially one that is online) on a specific platform, it's more like no gratification at all.
Yes for some areas, no for others.

I think we'd consider new grads for backend and web (assuming you have experience and some good open source contributions or portfolio pieces), but probably not for iOS but don't quote me on that.

If you're interested, submit an app at the link above and our in-house recruiter will triage it/reach out to you.
The Day Amazon S3 Storage Stood Still
Your bottleneck should probably be managing your requests, not saving the document/assets. I'm dismissive that language speed is non-negligible in scrapping. Rate limiting and being smart about how you're fetching data should probably be your concern. ... sure, if you don't mind slamming a server with concurrent requests, your language choice might start to matter if your IP isn't blocked first.
You already offer it to me on my screen.

If you render to a canvas rather than generate plain text, then I have to use screen readers with built-in OCR to perform "copy," which is a pain. It doesn't protect you, but it makes my experience worse.

What we're learning from music and movies is that any movement to try to restrict users just leads to user flight; any movement that opens up and enables users to have a great experience with your IP, leads to user delight.
> I think you're probably not used to the extra estrogen then.

This reads like a personal attack—a cheap, low, and shocking one to see on HN. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt because your comment history doesn't show anything else like it, but it's an obviously bannable offense, so please don't do it again.
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> "We conclude that the main barrier to progress towards natural TTS lies with duration and fundamental frequency prediction, and our systems have not meaningfully progressed past the state of the art in that regard."

Who is working on this problem, and how?
Coding bootcamps commit to transparency in reporting around job placement
This may well be the reason of the very fact that India has more kids with IQ>120 than the U.S. has all kids combined.
Yes, they'll need an adaptive system. This is a (mostly) solved problem already - just look at your Gmail spam folder.
Inventor of li-ion battery unveils breakthrough for fast-charging, 3x capacity
You could have each logo price decrease by $2 per day it remains unsold. The starting price would follow the current rules, increasing $2 for every sale.

Each logo should naturally go for a fair 'market' price (for that logo), and presumably will eventually be sold by the time it reaches $2. It prevents the service usage from leveling off as the price goes too high: at some point, it is cheaper to pay for a custom logo designed to spec.

Plus it increases traction, especially for designers that need logos for clients: now there's incentive to come visit the page occasionally even if you don't currently need a logo, because there might be a gem sitting there for a good price.
“Oldest record of life on Earth” found in Quebec
This is a commonly-observed phenomenon, in linguistics it's called code switching[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching
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The most important part of making this happen is revising the Soviet-era CFAA and the Copyright Act for the digital age.
Ah, I see it now. Apologies!
I might be able to give you an actual moral reason.

Let me start with the concept of free participation in labor markets. I think there's a strong moral case to be made that people should be free to choose what they wish to study, and how and where they wish to work, in response to market signals. Nobody owes you a job, nobody owes you an employee. If you aren't paying enough to entice people to work for you, you need to pay more or improve working conditions. If you aren't able to entice people to pay you what you want, you need to improve your skills, accept worse working conditions, or change fields.

We tend to frame this in economic terms - it's best when workers are free to choose higher value jobs, but sure, I see it as a moral issue. Telling people that they must work as software developers in the valley as a condition of living and working in the US is a moral issue. If that person would prefer to open a sandwich shop, sell real estate, write novels, or clean teeth, that's that person's business. To me, if they prefer to do this over writing software for Facebook - or UCSF - that is a sign that the market is working just fine. Economically, I don't like the idea that corporations would gain control over the immigration system to coerce would-be immigrants into certain jobs. But morally, absolutely, it's a violation of basic human rights and dignity to tell them they aren't allowed to quit their jobs and do something else in response to their personal interests and market signals.

I've framed this in terms of immigrant rights, but yes, of course, it absolutely hurts US citizens and permanent residents who currently work as software developers or other IT role, when the government creates a parallel immigration system, run and controlled by corporations specifically designed to bring in workers from overseas who are allowed to work as IT specialists but not in other fields. And again, yes, I think there's a moral case to be made that it is wrong to single out IT workers for this sort of marketplace disadvantage.

I don't really think American IT workers are asking for special government protections. They're just asking for the ordinary protections that cover every other field - that the conditions for coming to the US as an IT worker be the same as a drywall installer or dental hygienist. Immigrants come to the US and decide what to study and what professions to pursue. Some may go into IT, some will go into other fields. So far, I see no problem at all.

But a system controlled by corporations that can be used to force would-be immigrants to work in IT or software development as a condition of living in the US, that can be revoked by the corporation and result in deportation for the worker?

Sure, I can make a moral case against that quite easily.
Lyft is a great competitor to Uber, and I use it more myself, but the businesses have grown very different in the past couple years.

Uber is very international while Lyft is only in the US, Uber has all of these side businesses beside transportation like UberEATS, which is the most reliable food delivery service in my experience.

I've been thinking about the two like: Uber is building the transit infrastructure, and Lyft is building the best personal transportation experience.
This is great news, if nothing else then because it actually allows programs to grow their heap. Previous emscripten-based solutions have suffered severely from either running out of RAM, or requesting more than they need (and then sometimes not even being able to start because of fragmentation.)

The web browser is still a second-rate user interface toolkit compared to a native app, but at least this gives us a slight step forward. Whether that's enough, or whether most application development will be made using native toolkits in walled gardens, remains to be seen.
I'm all for building tools to explore CS. However I believe the question they responded to expected a replacement for what I understand to be a very "pragmatic" development environment.
Why do you people continue working at a second rate company like this? Horrible culture, long hours, low pay, and you're getting paid in worthless stock options. All promises and bullshit. You can be sure management will do everything they can to prevent you from cashing in those options and forcing you to stay at the company for as long as possible.
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I hope Jason recovers in time for DefCon.
Fwiw I like yaml as well but it's just got a few too many issues these days.

While you are thinking maybe look at this

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

and how people could leverage it when using your format.
The power of the monopoly to crush competitors and remove user choice.
Probably just means not to expect similar salaries then you'd get in the US. Most IT jobs pay quite a bit less than other countries (UK, US, Aus) hence why most NZ IT people leave.
Did the need for edge server arise from the fact the a service like https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/applicationloadb... didn't exist back then ?
My opinion is: not necessarily, and probably unlikely. Airflow and Luigi are overkill unless you have a certain level of complexity in your system.

For perspective, the company I work at has tried both (as in we built products using each, and the one with Luigi is still in use). We operate on data in the < 10TB space used primarily for machine learning applications. Luigi and Airflow both introduced complexity that simply wasn't useful relative to our data flow. They both ended up getting in the way more than they helped and introduced developer overhead that wasn't justifiable.

However they are both very nice tools, and it's easy to see how they can help reduce complexity overall with very large numbers of distributed mostly-static task graphs. If that's how you consume/transform your files and data, either tool might be worth looking into.
I didn't downvote so I don't know why people are doing it directly but I just checked and Squarespace has a very low glassdoor rating. Similar to that of Theranos before the scandals. There might be some hints there.
What's a good open-source alternative to Google Hangouts and Skype?

I'd really love a video call tool the quality of Mumble; a few basic features, reasonable call quality, low-latency and fast reconnects. Skype and Hangouts never came close to that for me.
Actually I tried it a few weekend ago, just downloaded and executed a few demos.

It looks nice.
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Yep, the reality about social safety nets is you have to have an adult in charge of the accounting for it to be sustainable.
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I think this is already happening. In fact most AI pessimists don't consider that "man + machine >> machine." Consider chess. Kasparov's defeat happened in mid-1990s. Machine is considered > man. Yet, in freestyle chess, where players are allowed to consult machines, we have achieved ever greater heights of performance. In chess today, any sufficiently advanced chess engine can be incorporated into a (man+chess-engine) player to perform better. Similar things will happen in Go, Poker, etc. The handicap of not using a computer to inform your moves exists to make things more competitive, it doesn't mean that we are worse off!

Taking this further, most technology we use daily (word processors, email, the Internet, etc.) are enhancements of the man+machine organism and enhance our performance as well as the 'machine''s.
Hockey Night in Canada, with Mr. Chapared Shot
Yes, reading and absorbing the feedback.

The current charts are a starting point. To re-emphasize (from the linked blog post) I would love it to evolve to an community/expert consensus based on transparant arguments.
Those are the best kinds of headlines for most informational writing. Look at a newspaper from the early 1900s. You can skim just the headlines in a minute and have a pretty good idea what's gone on.

EDIT: see: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/New_York...

Basically an unbeatable news consumption interface. Notice even the smaller headlines down the page, which are either independent lower-importance articles or minor articles related to the major ones above. You can read ~15-20 words on each the give you the basics of what happened, very quickly because it's called out in larger type and because the authors were competent and weren't trying to drive clicks, but to deliver value.
California, the state with the strictest gun laws, and among the lowest per capita of gun owners in the US thinks it is going to secede? Given the Constitution's ambiguity on this subject, the actual only path to resolution is armed conflict. Anyone who thinks this President won't follow the same path as Lincoln is gravely mistaken. The United States can't afford to let the 5th (or is it the 12th) largest economy in the world to detach.
Who is this about? I read a well-written and beautiful story, I just have no idea what the context is.
Ah, sorry. That's a more reasonable request. I shouldn't have responded so petulantly.

I still think it's not going to work out. There aren't many moderators, and fixing the titles on this site is a huge amount of work. For instance, it's also probably not reasonable to expect the mods to read every story on the site, or even just the stories with broken titles.

A thing you can do to help is, when an article has a title that doesn't follow the guidelines, suggest a better title. The mods often use those suggestions as the replacement title.
We are a bit offtopic, but you may know that you cannot write down Latgalian identity in the Latvian national passport. Latgalians are prohibited to officially exist in Latvia 2.0.

And you very well can fix officially your Latgalian identity in Russia, surprise! Isn't it strange?
The screen resolution is the same but the resolution of the image can change. If a system's output renders to the entire screen then just imagine a 1 pixel output would make the entire screen the same color. 4 pixels could have 4 quadrants of colors. 16x8 pixels would have 128.... etc. The max resolution would be the max resolution of the display. Though a topic of interest may be sub-pixel rendering where a system/font/game can take into account the RGB color pixel layouts in an LCD screen into account in order to improve the visual quality of the max resolution.

So a system can have double the resolution of another and games can even choose to render at different resolutions depending on how intensive it is. Some games will choose lower resolution but more polygons and some might choose higher resolution with fewer polygons, among other choices. There are even modern cases where console games will change the resolution they run at to keep framerates solid https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/6e35355aecdf4fd0ac...
My "Fake News" comment aside, I think what y'all are doing could be transformational for many reasons. Imagine a scenario where a person loses a loved one, and similar technology is able to allow them to "have conversations" with the deceased as a form of healing and closure. Not to mention, this could add a personal touch to assistant bots that will make them a pleasure to use.
One of the key differences is that Jobs may have personally been hard to work with at times and done childish things, but the companies that he ran (Apple and Pixar) were very professionally run and progressive companies. Uber's culture is fomenting harassment throughout the entire organization.

Uber is now big enough that most employees will never meet executives, so they won't be personally harassed by them, but if middle managers feel empowered to harass employees, that's a huge issue.
Similar result for me if I put the term remote in the first input box. I get a job in London, England but nothing else. HTH
The Man Behind 5-Hour Energy Thinks He Can Save the World
Luigi is nice, because it is really simple to get started and it gradually allows you to do more complex things like (custom) parameter types, custom targets, enhanced super classes and dynamic dependencies, event hooks, task history and more.

One thing that I missed a bit was automatic task output naming based on the parameters of a task, so I wrote a thin wrapper for that [1]. This helps, but mostly for smaller deployments.

Airflow and luigi seemed to me like two side of the same thing: fixed graphs vs data flow. One fixates the DAG, the other puts more emphasis on composition.

That said, I am excited about the data processing tools to come - I believe this is an exciting space and choosing or writing the right tool can make a real difference between a messy data landscape and an agile part of business and business development.

[1] https://github.com/miku/gluish
In my opinion, too complicated, and people would use it to editorialize.
This article is one giant [Citation Needed]. For example:

> California's crumbling roads and bridges sometimes resemble those of the old rural South. The state's public schools remain among the nation's poorest. Private academies are booming for the offspring of the coastal privileged, just as they did among the plantation class of the South.
Why input type search no longer shows cancel button (x) under iOS?
Type-checking doesn't really have any bearing on weather a language is functional. Functional languages can be statically or dynamically typed.
Actually based on the Hype Cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
MonoGame will be on Nintendo Switch
Taller people have higher intelligence than shorter people on average because, brain size is positively correlated with height, and brain size is positively correlated with IQ.

>Studies on over 700 participants show that individuals with larger brain volumes have higher IQ scores. About two dozen studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure the volume of the human brain have found an
overall correlation with IQ of greater than .40

>Within each race, cranial capacity correlated with IQ
scores. By age 7, the Asian American children averaged an IQ of 110; the White children, 102; and the Black children 90. Because the Asian American children were the shortest in stature and the lightest in weight while the Black children were the tallest in stature and the heaviest in weight, these average race differences
in brain-size/IQ relations were not due to body size.

>Overall, MRI studies show that brain size is related to IQ differences within race. Moreover, the three-way pattern of group differences in average brain size is detectable at birth.
https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jense...
Internity: For revolutionising learning for Skilled India
Well, given that Google is giant, unbelievably powerful, and have a very significant share of email market - they could've pulled just about anything. If OpenPGP isn't good (and it's true that it has issues), they could've implemented and proposed a whole new standard that addresses existing shortcomings, evangelize/market it - and it's very likely others would've followed.
I've had to pay a bribe in Southeast Asia but the officers were friendly and nice about it and it's expected. Likewise, I lived for 4 years in China and needed to register at the police station whenever I came back in the country but it's easy and it's not a huge issue.

I know what to expect in those countries and I know that there won't be any issues so long as follow the official or unofficial (in the case of southeast China) rules.

In the US, I don't like the arbitrariness of the border agents , I'm never sure if I might have an issue or not (like the article about the French academic). And, while not all US border agents are agressive, the most agressive agents I've met were all in the US.
I'd like to see country of origin for tweets/accounts. I know this can be worked around with a vpn, but it's a start.