skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if you arrange an interview for a person (who is great on paper), and they turn out to be the most toxic person you've ever met. What if your luck is truly awful and you interview 100 of these people?

The costs of this interview are higher but then so is the relative gain of a good hire if they're bleeding talent internationally. The fundamental nature of the gamble is the same.
I've kept saying this to everyone who supports closing/limiting H1B (or other immigration forms): if companies cannot hire here (at a reasonable price), they will hire there. Moving an IT department is easier than ever. Startups are now doing it too - I know many having a R&D location in India, China, East Europe. All these new policies against immigration will accelerate the process of "hiring there".
While A in ADSL stands for Asymmetrical, it is primarily name of the used DMT-based technology, S(H)DSL is completely different thing (in fact it is related to 1000-Base-T, but with significantly smaller symbol rate) that does not work across non-dedicated lines (and usually needs carefully selected pairs to work reliably).
There is a startup that has designed an ultrasonic wind field sensor that can make many measurements of the wind field above the instrument. The instrument is on a smallish trailer, towed by a pickup to the test site. Once there, it can take measurements of the wind field up to 200m or so above the trailer. The idea is to make a cheaper replacement to the met towers that wind turbine site surveys use today.

Its much more expensive than a ground-level mechanical anemometer, but also much less expensive than a tower with an anemometer.
Hi Amirbehzad, Many apologies, it looks like I missed that one from you.
I will reply to you today.
I blame a busy inbox :)
But parent comment is using this as an example to complain about experts from different fields wasting people's time or whatever. But this is a terrible example to use. Feynman brought new insights that never would have occurred to computer scientists. And of course they were cautious at first. But they ended up trusting it enough to go through with manufacturing it. And he was right in the end.

Additionally parent comment complains about people like Feynman not being able to communicate. But there is nothing about that in the story. It goes on and on about how Feynman was a great communicator and explained his ideas clearly.
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Their status page says so anyway - http://metastatuspage.com/incidents/lb3rpt031vmx
Regarding insurance, I wonder if you would have gone in if you were Keith, who at 35 is working sales at a department store. He might not even have been insured.
Aha, wow. That is somewhat convincing.
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"The PUT is merely a small optimization that is now obviated by the spread of HTTPS."
The Switch is basically a high-powered tablet with proper gaming controls. I'd love it if it could actually replace "real" tablets. As it is, we're going to have two separate classes of tablets: those that are actually good at gaming (Switch), and those that are good at everything else (iPad, etc.).

That said, it's easy to see why Nintendo's focusing on gaming: it's their core competency, nobody else in the tablet space does serious non-casual gaming well, and it would be a tremendous undertaking to make the Switch into a real iPad competitor.
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That's something that never occurred to me. Even in cities, US gas stations have plenty of room to turn around if you need to approach a pump from the other side.
Ah, thanks for the correction. In that case yeah that's quite a long time to implement something important.
Google 2FA, AWS S3 encryption at rest and its integration with the micro services, ModSecurity integration for Varnish, E2EE for SSL/TLS, infrastructure and micro service security, etc.

I had to build this into Cachoid from day one. No funding and no extra help. I think it boils down to putting oneself in another's shoes and ask: would I use this service myself if it was best-effort work?
You're in luck. I made a video.

https://goo.gl/photos/98fPZHRhaBofQqo47
Someone will train a pigeon to break captchas some day just for fun. In reference to pigeons being trained to diagnose cancer in X-rays.
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If you enjoy making sure your peas don't touch the carrots, then sure, strong typing is great in the data space. But when you get woken up because a spreadsheet comes through as 11.0 rather than 11 or you have to type

Double.parseDouble(x) == Double.parseDouble(y)
/* instead of pythons */
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27 times to get a feed file parsed, then I'd say that the tools are lacking basic useability. And especially primitive in light of the handwriting reading, photo tagging, go playing,supermario winning possibilities of ML.
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My highest appreciation for Dr. Sonny Palmer. He went above and beyond his duties and I truly believe he is not the exception, but the norm.
This is an epic resource. Thanks for sharing.

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First evidence of life on Earth 'found'
Thank you. I have used Quantopian but they are geared more toward a day-trader type of mentality:

https://www.quantopian.com/allocation
'We are looking for algorithms that turn over their portfolio between 12 and 500 times per year (e.g between once per month and twice a day).'

I hold my stock picks for one year, so Quantopian definitely doesn't work for me.
This is for colourblind people.
Baidu estimates it takes ~20 ExaFLOPs to train a deep net. Consider that it's not uncommon to churn through ~100 hyperparamter combinations (let alone architectures), especially for something high end as this, and you realize that deep learning is no escape from the compute problem!

There's a reason why the big DL players hire lots of HPC guys for deep learning. And also, parallelizing SGD is a highly non-trivial task, until very recently, you had to linearly lower the learning rate as you added new workers, and keep in mind that bandwidth is far more expensive (both economically, temporally and energy-wise) than compute.

That being said, many people are already exploring deep learning for weather simulation (such as Yandex I believe) and it has worked very well, and is near, or beating SOTA iirc, so I definitely think there's a future there.

For the record, I think exacsale is achievable, but not with the current architecture (admittedly I'm biased, as a deep learning chip and supercomputing chip startup founder), but I think my objective evidence is pretty strong that with a new architecture, exascale is possible. On the other hand, zettascale may be the end of supercomputer scaling. Moore's law, Dennard Scaling, et al are no saviors either, since communication and scheduling logic now dominates the cost of computation.
hNews Microformats:

http://microformats.org/wiki/hnews

Support this. ALL MEDIA, please.

Actually, I'd love to see Google require this (and possibly, additions), for qualifications for Google News listings.

Most especially: reputation tracking of reporters, authors, editors, and publishers, most especially on accuracy (inclusive of corrections, which reduce but don't eliminate error penalties).
I believe the color of the green buttons also changed.
That would be wherever the cheapest servers can be bought. Or just random open proxies.
But such player independent formats already exist. This is not a new idea. It's just another format.
That's the sad shit the US is in. I am sorry :(
This would seem to require the identifiers to be attached to records in perpetuity (i.e. it would basically require client-generated IDs everywhere), so that the server can reliably verify that this operation has already produced a record. I can see it working, but it's a far-reaching change, that may not be easy to adopt for existing data storage schemas.
You are supporting my argument with the evidence you provide.
The most promising ones are ring.cx and tox.chat. Just note that they are in development and not stable yet.
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Still doesn't make it look good. If thats an issue they could always have an optional setting to enable colorblind mode.
http://HockeyBias.com is not - sorry...
Maybe you can fix their search box while you're at it.
That's not the case. Truly terrible titles - ones that are outright misleading or clickbait get rewritten. "I can't instantly tell what this thing is about from the title" is not really a forum-damaging problem.
I really need to toughen up! I'm not on a boat or a plane right now.
Flash had an scheduled loading scheme, so the timeline specified when an asset would be sent as you played a Flash animation. Macromedia had authoring tools which would try to slot the assets in the timeline so they'd be available when needed, while staying under a bandwidth limit.

You could, in theory, do that with WebGL. Google is all fired up about "preloading" lately. This is an authoring tool problem, and if WebGL games get serious, there will probably be author-side tools for this.
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The way that you manipulate this is by adjusting your risk profile. If you want potentially higher returns, you accept more risk. If you want predictability, you accept lower returns.

Self-selecting a bunch of stocks increases your risk profile compared to using an index fund of the whole stock market, but you incur significantly more trading costs as a result. If you want to increase your possible returns at greater risks, there are cheaper ways of doing it.
yeah the ALB provides that feature as well. I just checked. it was released in Aug 2016. So clearly before that time your setup makes a lot of sense.

I am wondering if the ALB would be the preferred method now, if you were to redo it ?
Honestly, like you point out, I think it's happening at micro-levels already. Certainly entire societies have voluntarily cut themselves off largelt from technology altogether - not just Amish, but modern off-grid people as well.
However, just like some "bush people" will bend the rules and return to modern technology in diar situations (e.g. they need an insulin shot), I'd bet dollars to donuts that medical needs will drive many situations where self-declared "AI-free" people will opt for an AI product, since there are certain to be many AI-generated medical treatments currently out of the reach of limited human brains to develop.
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Because the server has more computational resources, for example. It's a very rare scenario in general, but it does happen.

Why distinguish? Because if you know that the results are not affected by server state, they can be cached much more aggressively.
I'm currently wearing a Zio Patch, which generally is used to track and monitor arrhythmia over a 2 week period. The last time I got the results back there was a section for something along the lines of "cardiac arrest" or something (which had a nice 0 next to it for me). Whether the patch itself has the computational power to both sense and interpret a cardiac event like that, or whether they can only do that after in the lab, I don't know, but I bet it could be modified to start squealing if it detects a heart attack. It's basically a 2 week EKG.

The only problem is my insurance pays 1000$ every time I wear it.
Not only that but why would you change the clean top bar? The dark one that is live for weeks now is worse than the old one.
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.NET and .NET Native work perfectly fine with COM, in spite of having a GC.
I don't even really know Russian, I've never studied it; but I have learned the alphabet, and I can typically understand some part of newspaper articles etc simply because there are so many loan words from languages I know (English, German, Swedish and Finnish).

There is a movement to "purify" Russian language of loan words, which sounds silly:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/20/russia...
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I didn't do a formal estimate beforehand. by feeling, I underestimated my net earnings. Take home was probably somewhere in the 50/yr range. Keep in mind that I didn't "buy a new car" - I drove with my own car that I'd had since 2010. The whole thing put on about 100k miles; but the car is still running more or less fine, a year and a half later.
Hi! Seeing that the search script on the post just shows the number of jobs that meets certain criteria and not the jobs per se, I decide to build a better search and filtering engine. You can find it here:

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This is just a search and filtering app so if you need a map or some other options, the https://whoishiring.io page by xando is a very good resource!

Hope it helps! Feedback is welcomed.
I'm not sure about firefox, but in chrome it requires you to install an extension with all sorts of unrelated permissions to share your screen. I nope'd out when I saw that.
Why? As long as they come along with facts and data, then that's a good thing.
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Actually Netbeans is also quite good for JS, it is a pity it gets so little love.
And rather than rely on the moderators having to sift through comments and hope they see a suggested better title, email them directly with the HN submission link/id and your suggested better title.
How so?

If the states with lower IQs have a higher percentage of African Americans than the other states, they will have a higher rate of infectious diseases due to the propensity of infectious diseases among that group with respect to others.

PS: The two states with the lowest rate of infectious diseases, Nevada and West Virginia are respectivelly the 2nd and 7th lowest IQ states. #1 lowest IQ, Hawaii was deemed an outlier because of latitude and excluded from the results of the study you linked to.

http://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/2016-annual-re...
I wrote 900p@30fps for a reason ;) The Wii U version runs at 720p, and the frame rate is a bigger problem (both versions aim for 30fps, but “dips” happen much more often on Wii U, from what I’ve read). In addition to that, loading times are much faster on Switch due to the switch to cartridges.

And if that’s not enough, there’s also the “fact” that many of us want to play other Switch games this year, so why wait?
New Zealand is pretty great (actually sounds interesting)but the 12 Hour time difference is horrible.

I would need a week just to adjust, and then talking english all the time is a major drain that to.
So now you'd be outsourced to a manager, analyst and a "code slinger" in India? (and your manager too)

It is always a question of price and achievable quality. One works against the other, partly.
I love it! Everything is suddenly so readable. And no, I am not colorblind.
This is a very cool idea, definitely one to bookmark, and I'm glad you made the project. I would like to see some description / separation on the page about which charts are based on objective data vs which are more subjective opinions.
I was meaning to use the idiom "to boot", you cut off a word.

Perhaps my grammar wasn't correct there though.

In any case, check out the blackhat presentation about using Google's image recognition to solve the image based captchas. There are a wide variety of fairly advanced image recognition tools but a surprisingly small number of complex text recognition ones.
So my hacker brain says anyone looking into this who's coming from somewhere far away (like the US, Europe) should maximise their opportunities by hopping over to Australia and doing some job interviews there too.

The long flight to NZ is covered. You're only paying for a short NZ/Aus return flight.
I was talking specifically about the Scheme-like syntax that JS originally had. That syntax was a minor obstacle. BF-like syntax would be a far bigger one. Although what would probably have happened then is the same thing we saw with JS anyway - someone would have made a transpiler from something more sane - except it would have happened much faster.
Was talking with colleagues about cloudbleed and S3 problems yesterday.

I don't feel like many people are actually concerned of the implication of having an internet that isn't an internet anymore, but merely a handful of big companies hosting everyone.

Or maybe it's me who don't understand.
https://mpas-dev.github.io/

This is a model that didn't quite make it as the replacement for the GFS in the US. It had broad backing from the research community, and if you follow their references back you'll find a wealth of research.
I don't find it strange at all, it plays very well into the "divide and conquer" approach to ethnic politics that Russia has put to use both in the past and more recently in Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and elsewhere. For what it's worth, I disagree with there being ethnic markings in the Latvian Passport to begin with. I am in complete favor of removing them, not least because it would prevent Russian state from winning such cheap propaganda points.
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Perhaps they mean they wanted a more traditional winter than what Auckland offers?

I grew up there (and Christchurch) and remember being excited when their was a frost - it was the closest to snow we ever got.

It's an amazing place for sure but everytime I look at moving back to NZ I just get depressed about housing costs.