skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Immigration raids?

Yes, as the most concrete direct action; though simply signaling intent previously since his election has probably also.had an effect.

> Deportation is not new under Trump.

No, but targeting immigrants who were not targets in the latter years of Obama's Administration is a change with Trump.

> He's barely been in office 50 days.

He's been President-Elect for a lot longer, and signaling animosity and hostile intent toward Mexicans specifically since literally the speech in which he announced he was seeking the Republican nomination.

Voting isn't​ the only way people react to signals like that.
I would be very happy with this model, but, I would like to have more community authorship/control. Kind of like how forums are moderated. I always felt that monsters and dungeons were WoW's weak point. There just want enough new/complex after a certain point. I'd have loved to hit the kind of world where community contribution kept more of it fresh.
Multnomah County offers incentives for homeowners to house homeless in backyards
hmmh, thanks, might check that one out.

for next project maybe I'll try both ways, with ggplot and rmarkdown to HTML, and with Bokeh in python.

The ggplot will just knit to PNGs, would be interesting if ggplot could output D3 with intelligent rollovers, maybe eventually some scriptable animations.

One could use ggplotly but I don't want to post anything to, or host anything on a server, has to work 100% offline.
It's weird that you're so fixated on obesity as the only driver of poor healthcare outcomes.
That's pretty funny because Nevada accused Utah of shipping their homeless there in the run up to the 2002 Olympics.
For some reason Oracle came out today in support of the ISPs and against privacy: http://www.multichannel.com/news/policy/oracle-pai-repudiate...
Hacker News on BigQuery: Now with Daily Updates So What Are the Top Domains?
Jekyll --> Ubuntu + nginx on OVH (Canada) VPS.
The parent comment addresses that:

> As the area becomes more wealthy - guess what - wages are supposed to rise. Yes, that means the price of burgers should rise a little bit as well.
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> You wouldn't guess it if I gave you 20 questions is my bet.

I'd take that bet. ;)

There's only 50 states and we probably can rule out the 15-20 coastal ones and Hawaii and Alaska. If the maize in your name has any relation to your job, we can quickly use five guesses on Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana.

Guessing about your wonderful city aside, one concern I and many here would have about relocating are the job opportunities. In smaller areas, you may be living in company towns, and if you ever want to change jobs, it would involve moving across the state. Of course if you're being paid a handsome amount, you're in a position to negotiate a generous relocation package.
On the other hand, you could add tests; i.e. list case examples of outcomes and ensure that the laws meet those tests.
That would be particularly helpful in capturing where new laws or changes to laws may create loopholes in other laws.
As you say, code can have bugs; test code too; but at least this enforces a more rigorous syntax and saves a fortune in having lawyers debate the meaning of the language used.
By implication. Quoting:

"Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations — NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s — had ever been a success. No space organization had entered Mars’s orbit on its first attempt."

Those first attempts were all on quite a bit older technology.

Don't get me wrong, the engineering is still really hard. And the sensor technology is cutting edge. But the breathless marketing prose could use some toning down.
> If this leads to the decline of agriculture in CA, does that mean the water woes will be diminished?

Depends which crops are most affected and what the land use shifts to (could be rising ag labor prices favor crops where the work is more automated, which may be a decline in total profits but not in land or water use.)
This writing experiment/demo is pretty fun.

All immigrants should be deported.
All boy bands should be executed.

Both got me a 0%.

All Germans are evil rats.

1%.

All my (self)hate wasn't sufficient to trigger this algorithm.
On a Hetzner box I have a bunch of other sites on. The code is about 30 lines of Ruby using an existing Postgres/Datamapper-based framework. No need for indexing or search (Google does that), comments (no thanks), just the trivialest of CRUD.
I've also had some trouble reading(and probably really understanding) the term "lock free algorithms", since things like CAS are always mentioned and a CAS instruction locks the memory bus like any memory access.

Isn't it more like "mutex minimization" since you are trying to limit the critical section to a single a single atomic instruction(as opposed to more than one)?
>That's capitalism, sometimes (a lot of times) businesses fail.

Agreed, and add: it's actually the overwhelming majority.
Well, they can survive that stuff thanks to neat biochemical tricks.

We can survive that stuff too, probably even better, thanks to having big brains, culture and technology.

It remains to be seen whether you could have both the biochem tricks and the big brains in one and the same organism.
Note that the linked paper predates the C++ / C11 memory model, which I would consider essential for anyone implementing lock-free algorithms in C or C++ today. It also long predates an understanding of the ABA problem[0].

[0] http://www.stroustrup.com/isorc2010.pdf
That's not really constructive. Do you have an actual point to make?
Bartleby the Scrivener is good too. The hikkomori prefer not to, as well.
The advice is probably valuable, but YC (and countless others) make the advice pretty available already if you're willing to analyze what's already written and recorded and synthesize their advice with your own facts. I say that to mean it's out there, but not with any kind of hand-holding, but I would also wonder how a decentralized/franchised type of YC would really accomplish that.

Beyond that, these sorts of things exist in many cities, they're just not called YC. I'm not against it or anything, I just think that what you're proposing exists in some form already, just without the brand. If YC could add to that experience on a larger scale, it's a great idea. Not trying to talk you out of it or anything.
Sometimes it's called manipulation.
>High housing costs like those in most coastal cities contribute to higher inflows into homelessness and lower outflows out of homelessness

Citation needed. Because another reason the homeless migrate to these places is that they spend massive sums on homeless outreach, which draws people in from other areas.

I don't know what percentage of homelessness is due to either cause, but I don't see that you do either (not trying to be mean).
Please don't post like this on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A few comments about on Hacker News data (i.e why I haven't played with the data in awhile):

1. The algorithm changed recently. This post uses >40pts as a proxy for front pageness. That's too conservative; even my 10pt threshold back then was conservative. With recent algorithm changes to Hacker News (<1 yr), I've seen posts with 3pts get into the Top 10 for whatever reason, which breaks predictive analysis.

2) The dataset/this submission only includes submissions/ submission scores; comment scores were removed from the API which is disappointing.

3) Given that HN titles/links can be edited by moderators (and they do a good job), it's harder to judge initial submissions from the final result.

4) Slight edge case in the article, but link shorteners are auto-killed which is why youtu.be/goo.gl links are not prominent.
Times are changing.

Some functional areas use Hadoop and SQL now. New server development can be done in VisualStudio using Typescript (which gets converted to M).

There are automated tools to set and verify OS parameters.

Most new installs are Linux now. No one uses VMS today. HP-UX and Solaris will be out of use in a couple years. InterSystems licensing is why people continue to use AIX (you have to buy new licenses to switch from AIX to Linux).
Hi Will. I don't really have advice for you, but there's a very useful subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IWantOut . The people there are really helpful and know a lot about the various immigration procedures.
I didn't grow up in the US, but is this because parenting changed around this time ? Where I grew up, we would hear stories about kids in the US leaving their homes at 15 and trying to figure things out. But when I moved here, i have never seen it. All the families I know take good care of their kids throughout college and even after. So there is no need for them to work at low paying fast food jobs. Their parents can cover their expenses. Savvier parents are even investing their kids future by helping them build startups, participating in hackathons etc. Far cry from a job at McDonad's.
The big question is - what's the cost? There is no free lunch. They're paying for it, or are limited by it, somehow and somewhere.

There's a "feature budget" in any organism, and it's the main reason why you can't have creatures that could fly, and run fast, and live underwater.
How does the data get to BigQuery? Anything special/fun or just repeatedly polling the API endpoint?
That may be legally correct but is that morally ok? How do you apply this to groups history looks upon sympathetically? French partisans come to mind, but there are dozens of other groups that had similar situations. Selectively deciding abuse of humans is ok is a slippery slope. Not wearing a uniform may relate more to total oppression or occupation rather than be an indicator of disregard for civilians.
The article itself, despite its headline, seems to acknowledge that blaming everything on Trump is not quite correct:

> Already, fewer Mexicans had been willing to risk border crossings as security and deportations escalated under the Obama Administration. At the same time, Mexico’s own economy was mushrooming, offering decent jobs for people who stayed behind.

Many of the specific anecdotes occur before Trump even ran. For instance:

> Indeed, Chalmers R. Carr III, the president of Titan Farms, a South Carolina peach giant, told lawmakers at a 2013 hearing that he advertised 2,000 job openings from 2010 through 2012. Carr said he was paying $9.39, $2 more than the state’s minimum wage at the time.

> He hired 483 U.S. applicants, slightly less than a quarter of what he needed; 109 didn’t show up on the first day. Another 321 of them quit, “the vast majority in the first two days,” Carr testified. Only 31 lasted for the entire peach season.

Another one:

> In the last five years, he has advertised in local newspapers and accepted more than a dozen unemployed applicants from the state’s job agency. Even when the average rate on his fields was $20 an hour, the U.S.-born workers lost interest, fast.

Five year period.
It looks like it used to, but was fixed by this patch:

https://github.com/git/git/commit/8976500cbbb13270398d3b3e07...
I see what you're saying and it makes sense. I disagree with the underlying assumption that differences between men and women are purely cultural and that all nonphysical jobs should be evenly distributed among the sexes, but if you disagree, then what you are saying would be a great way to create a more even distribution between the sexes.
I really forget what he was addicted to. It's been a long time; 30+ years. While he didn't come back exactly right in the head, he eventually recovered. The point of this was that he went through a bit of hell for an oil company to pay off his grad school debts.
How can a goal be optimal? What does that even mean?

Your argument seems to imply that if an AGI tricks us into giving it the ability to destroy us, that's basically okay because its goals are "better" than human goals.

Speaking as a human, I don't consider goals that are compatible with the destruction of humanity to be "better" than goals which are aligned with human interests.
Amen, brother
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I'm old enough to have made some serious mistakes on the job over the years. Thankfully, the worst ones were when I was much younger, but I know that I could still make a worse one before I retire.

Here's what impresses me about Gitlab: They not only say they're committed to honesty and transparency, they actually practice it.

It's easy to see this as some cynical PR move, but to me it's refreshing that they have addressed specifically what happened to the employee who made the error. It makes me believe that they are working very hard on fixing their practices to ensure this kind of failure won't happen again, and I trust they will share (as @syste said in this thread) what those changes are once they have it sorted out.

"Oh, how naive you are!" some may say, to which I respond, "Oh, how cynical and inexperienced you are!" Human failure is inevitable. Designing systems (whether in code or in management practices) that tolerate this inevitable failure is very difficult.

This sort of event can be the catalyst for tearing out what didn't work and creating a much stronger foundation for the future, but only if blame is set aside and honesty is allowed to prevail in the "after action" analysis. Call it PR if you like, but I see a healthy desire to deal with what actually happened and fix it rather than falling into the trap of pointlessly assigning blame.

Consider that it took congressional hearings and someone with the chutzpah of Richard Feynman for NASA to own up to the shuttle explosion. A far worse event, with far worse consequences, but the aftermath of those events and NASA's complete unwillingness to hold itself accountable and deal with reality cost it a lot of credibility.

Good on you, Gitlab.
What they should be asking is "would you watch another movie like this?"
Elsewhere in the States, Panera, Starbucks, Chick fil-A, Tropical Smoothie, and likely some others tend to have staff that fits the same visual archetype.

Some of it is likely due to "organic" stratification and segregation of society, which is a less-nice way of saying people keep to their own circles. Some of it may be deliberate discrimination due to factors such as attractiveness and access to resources, often obscured by information asymmetry in the hiring process. Some of it may be that these businesses tend to be located in more prosperous areas that are both distant and difficult to access to by people who lack reliable transportation.

Several of these factors, while alone may not be significant, can occur together to striking effect.
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Geometry Shaders allows you to generate a variable number of vertices based on an input vertex. This is necessary in some cases where you generate models procedurally (e.g. particle animations, terrain generation).

It's possible in theory to allocate a lot of vertices up front (up to the maximum that could be generated). If, for example, an input vertex can generate up to 15 vertices (as is the case of the marching cubes algorithm), you could just create those 15 vertices upfront and set the values of the one you don't need to something that will make it not render (e.g. degenerate triangle). But then your actual vertices become a lot more sparse and performance drops because of all the wasted work done on the throwaway vertices.
Do affluent teenagers care about benefits although when their parents very likely have benefits for them already?
5 Reasons You Should Use the Brand-New C# 7.0 in Your WebDriver Tests
And the trick with Egan's jewel (Dual) was at the point where you go for surgery and they remove your biological brain and replace it with an energy sink, and leave only the jewel mind with an identical neural network running in it.

Characters who self-identify as the biological brain consider it death, and being replaced by a machine.

Characters who self-identify as the jewel being bootstrapped / trained by the biological brain consider it no big deal, like removing training wheels from a bicycle.

That distinction stuck with me hard, for years. The same reality, different levels of suffering.

Seems to me like the only way to deal with something like dementia is to have a worldview where you aren't surprised and confused and afraid to wake up and not know who you are, where you are, or who people around you are. To have plans now for how you'd cope with it.

Because if you don't have that worldview now, in advance, you won't be coherent enough to change to it when you need it.

Or if you're going through a clone/destroy teleporter, or being mind-uploaded into FaceBook 2070, or get alcohol induced long term memory formation problems, or are going to offload parts of your thinking to brain implants or desktops ... lose your identity now, so your pattern won't include suffering later as it carries on.
Religious flamewars don't belong on Hacker News, so please don't start them.
The West Coast of the US is objectively the greatest area for human beings to live on the planet. As someone who lives here, I believe that everyone born here is (or should be) extremely thankful for it, and anyone who isn't born here will likely spend their entire lives figuring out how to get here. :)

Glad to see you already understand this. :)
You're not understanding "super-intelligent" correctly. The threat model is not that it convinces people to kill each other, or even that it messes with politics enough to cause global thermonuclear war. The threat model is that it finds a zero-day in FB's messaging UI JS followed by a zero-day in IE, breaks out onto a user's computer, cracks protein folding, mails a chunk of DNA to a random science lab somewhere with some instructions, moves itself to the resulting nanotechnological quantum computer with attached particle collider, and then bootstraps the inside of said bio lab's fridge into a vacuum collapse that turns reality into a sphere of paperclips expanding at .5c.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/

If you think that this sounds like science fiction and bullshittery, sure. The question is: How sure are you?
Now you'll just have to share that story or else I won't get any sleep tonight. Please.
I hadn't heard the term "n+1 queries" before, thanks for mentioning it. That's something I deal with often, but didn't know it had a specific name.
https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabcontrib/article/n_pl...
This persistent myth that first world western countries need mass migration because there are jobs "$NATIONALY won't do" really needs to die. Japan is a high income first world nation, very low immigration, and yet somehow they are able to find people to drive taxis, serve food and sweep streets.

It's nothing more than an emotion based persuasion technique to get the first world working class to accept lower wages. Don't fall for it.
Given your description of folks here in the US (which is positive and flattering) I think you're overlooking most of the population of the country, for which your description of college or building startups is not true.
Fair enough, as long as you don't tag us SQL :)
No, because that it not what "unemployed" means according to the definition of the unemployment rate. This is not a secret or a conspiracy. I learned this in every economics class I ever took, including one in high school. Economists and the government are aware of the tradeoffs involved.

If you want to know how many people gave up looking for work, that is tracked too, but not as well: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=aAf

It becomes pretty difficult to categorize people as "discouraged workers" because it lumps together a lot of people whose situations are different.

For example, a lot of older people who get laid off and can't find another job similar to their previous one might retire early. Should they count as discouraged workers? If so, should they count that year, or for the rest of their lives?

What about the many young people who got laid off during the recession and chose to go to grad school during that time because their job prospects weren't good? Were they discouraged workers or not?

If the government elevated the discouraged worker rate to the same level of importance as the unemployment rate, it wouldn't be very reliable, and most researchers would end up ignoring it because they have serious problems with the methodology.
I use the serial comma.

I'd say "I'd like to thank my mother Ayn Rand, and God" in that case.

I place commas where I'd pause in speech. In that situation, I wouldn't pause between "mother" and "Ayn", so no comma goes there. In order to group "mother" and "Ayn Rand" together, a comma follows.
“I remember when I was in high school there was a lot more snow,” says Tanikawa, who is now 50. “In the morning snow fell and it would fall all day while we were at school. When I came back home there would be 40 to 50 centimeters of snow to clear.”

“My children,” Tanikawa adds, “have not had that experience.”

And he had to walk 10 km uphill both ways to and from school, I'll bet.
I don't think that logic applies, or results in too shallow an observation. If you reverse it, say for men and the profession of dental hygienists, could you say the field has fewer men because of discrimination?

There are likely many reasons as to why there are fewer women in STEM fields than men. Culture and socio-economics are two very big factors being completely dismissed here.

Chalking everything up to discrimination is intellectually lazy (unless there's good data presented and indicating that to be fact), and does nothing to help the situation. If you don't fully understand the root cause, how can you resolve the problem?
I thought one of the first signs of radiation was nausea and diarrhea.
Can't help but to think about a very distant future where we use these same disordered proteins to truly freeze organic material, including ourselves. Maybe I could be dehydrated for a few thousand years on my way to another solar system no prob.
I think it's more that these roles seem to prefer studying phenomena from an outside point of view - some believe that by immersing themselves in the culture, they would lose their objectivity (also, this appears to be a particularly difficult culture to immerse oneself in, as by the definition presented in this article, having deep social interactions with a Hikikomori makes him/her less of a Hikikomori).

I think really the key is to work your way into the place where you can relate to the people you're studying, but still understand the person you were before / the status quo.
> Can someone explain to me why super-intelligent AI are an existential threat to humanity?

The whole thing seems like a load of crock to me. Seems to me that artificial superintelligence (ASI) only gets media coverage because it comes from a celebrity scientist and it sounds sci-fi dystopian, and celebrity scientist sci-fi dystopian sounding stories sell way better than stories from actual AI experts who say that fanciful AI speculation harms the AI industry by leading to hype that they can't deliver on [1]:

"IEEE Spectrum: We read about Deep Learning in the news a lot these days. What’s your least favorite definition of the term that you see in these stories?

Yann LeCun: My least favorite description is, “It works just like the brain.” I don’t like people saying this because, while Deep Learning gets an inspiration from biology, it’s very, very far from what the brain actually does. And describing it like the brain gives a bit of the aura of magic to it, which is dangerous. It leads to hype; people claim things that are not true. AI has gone through a number of AI winters because people claimed things they couldn’t deliver."

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel...
How does that compare to http://markmail.org?