skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe because plumbing and HVAC aren't growing at the same exponential rate as IT. Few fields are.

Maybe because by pure statistics[1] or by anecdote men tend to have greater upper body strength than women. This matters when replacing 50x 10kg condenser coils or carrying 10 meter long segments of steel pipe up stairs. But it doesn't matter at all when solving problems in front of a keyboard and a compiler.

[1] one example in hand grip strength - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17186303
haha ya I was thinking the same thing! They are already here!
Now you've hit my area of expertise. This might help enable large retrospective cohort studies but would not be sufficient. In order to do that the universal system would need to do several things which are unlikely: 1)Universal clinically meaningful data model 2) Extensive use of standard terminology codes 3) good model of timeline 4) user interface which encourages the entry of discrete data over free text
Remote work is still an option, as is moving back or wherever (since this specific worry is predicated on moving to start with, arguments that moving is 'not always possible' seem weak).
I wouldn't expect somebody taking a survey to distinguish between "not looking for work [because X reason that counts as willfully unemployed]" and "not looking for work [because gave up on finding employment]".

We use the numbers and information that we have access to. They're all flawed, they're mostly better than nothing.
I think you are really reaching on the Stranger Things connection. The main protagonists were about 13 years old, even a 13 year old in today's times that is aware they might not be in a location with a lot of social mobility does not have a lot of choice in the matter. Even the show's high-schooler supporting characters in the same demo would most likely wait until college to make a move to a different area.

I think Stranger things had to be set in the 80s cause if you were about to be killed by an inter-dimensional monster you'd be live streaming it on Facebook to the very end which throws a kink in the narrative.
It's simple... I was responding to: "Valve has made more money catering to traditional video game types than Fee2PlayRobbery#8816732 ever has or will."

I disagreed with that statement, and still do... it's that simple. Valve has not been a force for "traditional video game types" as much as they've been a forerunner of F2P models. You're welcome to split hairs between "Abusive" and merely "Scummy"... I'm utterly disinterested in that.
Nice work, now time to dust off AVL trees in MIX. :)
February 2017: Earth's 2nd Warmest February and 4th Warmest Month in History
Good!

How does that saying go? "If you can't pay your employees a living wage, your business shouldn't exist"?

And maybe it's about time consumers learned the true cost of the goods they buy, without the artificial price suppression of abundant, cheap labor.
I mean, neither of your comments added anything to the conversation.
Not just Chinese ISPs. I've had Cox inject HTML/Javascript into my HTTP streams for a "test of their emergency messages system" and once for a customer survey.

The survey might have been a DNS redirect instead as by the time I noticed I had already navigated away from the original page and that was one of my few machines that can sometimes use my ISP's DNS.
The emergency message test was HTML/Javascript directly injected into a random non-encrypted page I had loaded.
Well honestly with the shit storm Yahoo is going through it looks like they had to sweeten the deal to attract any capable candidates that don't mind have their name tainted by the sinking ship.

They could've hired a transpecies bovine CEO and still have had to pay him her or it enough money to take the risk.
I think spinlock is used when the critical section is relatively smaller where the threads are likely to perform small amount of work after acquiring locks. Thus locks are not expected to be held for longer duration. The other threads contending for the lock prefer to just spin and poll (and of course burn CPU) with the hope that lock will soon be relinquished by the owner thread. This way spinning threads avoid the overhead of context switching as well.

Goes without saying, spinlocks are not useful on uniprocessor machines or single core machines.
Couldn't industrial corporations become demand drivers?
I think right now the answer is no, the controller might work through Bluetooth but the screen doesn't forward. You have to hit a key to change the main output window to show what would be on the controller's screen.

I personally always thought the screen on the controller was dumb, I owned a Dreamcast and thought it was annoying then, so it didn't bother me. But you might feel different.
Pelican is great. I have it installed on a local vm which I use for composing then I push the static files to the webserver (ramnode). (www.adammelton.com)
Dead neutral citizens can't be forced to go to war, I guess...
GitHub pages, and I use nginx to add SSL and proxy to it through one of my servers.
I would expect his target audience doesn't spend much time on the internet.
your faith in Microsoft and Google is heartwarming and hilarious. I've been hearing this for over 20 years, as soon as the real smart tech people get involved we'll have this problem solved lickity split. Well, both those companies have tried to lick healthcare and both ran away with their tails between their legs after they took a crap on the bed.

Healthcare information tech sucks because it's innately more difficult than most other problem spaces
Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPxAvHdrK6U for a nice video. Although not as much snow, there are still locations in Norway where you can find similar conditions.
Sorry. I try not to give too much info.

You wouldn't guess it if I gave you 20 questions is my bet. When I got the offer for an interview the wife and I almost passed entirely on the opportunity (I didn't apply for it they recruited me) because we thought "We don't want to live there" and I had a solid offer in Seattle and Portland, where we thought we wanted to move.

I flew out anyway as a courtesy to the VP who reached out to me because we had a long history and he told me I needed to come see what they had to offer.

Flew my wife out the next day, she was super skeptical "I'm not going to like it!" (She is also in tech). She fell in love. We bought her dream house a month later. Still in our honeymoon period with this new city, but we have never been in love with a city like this before.
> Hauling apples and hay isn't going to get you a spot at a tractor design firm.

Of course not. This is a change in required qualifications and education, not just a move up the ladder.

I don't know about agriculture jobs, but in food service your career prospects were to go from flipping burgers to managing/supervising/leading others who are flipping burgers (at increasing scale - store, regional, national, etc). While it's not as nice as any kind of engineering there is a way forward there. Of course moving up like this gets competitive because of the sheer volume of people "at the bottom" hoping to move up.
Also, there is no such thing as farming, because the terrestrial carbon cycle is zero-sum
> holding people and companies accountable for wrong behavior

That's the question, right? Is this wrong behavior? It's legal, that's for sure. Just because you don't agree with ICE's actions doesn't mean every Palantir employee agrees with you.
Right now, I'm using WordPress.com since it's pretty simple to use and the editor works really well.

I'm looking into a better way to host a blog, but it will be a while until I do.
As a solo founder: my main advice is just do everything you can to create value and hustle. I don't want to paint a rosy picture --- being a solo founder is a hell of a lot of really, really hard work. It's not enough to just be good at writing software. My top recommendation is to find a cofounder you have worked with before that you really trust, and barring that, make sure you have a solid support network of friends and (hopefully) a supportive partner. The emotional rollercoaster is real and it can f_cking hurt.

The number one skill you can have as a solo founder is a tremendous amount of self-awareness and self-reflective ability. You're not going to have a business partner telling you when you're f_cking up, and you can't rely on really early stage investors too much for this, either (even after they've invested) because as empathetic human beings it's often better to give somebody the chance to figure it out on their own than risk alienating them. So be the person that figures it out on their own.

Aside from that, listen to the advice people give you, and take it seriously, but judge them by their motivations and actions, not necessarily the content of the advice at face value. A question from a prospective investor like, "how do you compete with [X]" isn't necessarily looking for an answer - if their action is they don't invest, it's probably more of a signal that the story you're telling them is raising red flags about [X] and you're not going to convince them today and move on. Figure out how to take [X] out of the equation in your story. (But it's good to know, for the sake of the business, how you plan on dealing with [X]. Storytelling-by-pitch is only a high level overview of a robust business strategy.) Similarly, keep in mind many active founders have motivations around self-interest of talent / IP acquisition first and foremost --- there are many, many helpful ones but at the end of the day they all have a business to grow just like you do.

Finally, with all of that in mind, trust your gut. If you believe in what you're building, and you're creating value for your customers, that's all that matters. Find believers. They're out there. Love others and accept love that others are willing to give. Listen to your believers when they speak. (Early investors, employees, etc.) They've already made actions you can trust (re: above), so their words are an order of magnitude more valuable.

Re: YC specifically, I can't be helpful there, but thought I'd jump in. I hope Michael has valuable advice about timelines and such.
Milking is becoming automated.[1] Milking robots are production, not experimental technology, with at least four manufacturers. This video is amusing, showing the cow's view of meeting robotic milking for the first time.

Milk cows want to be milked, to relieve the pressure. So, given the freedom to use the robotic milkers any time they want, they get milked about three times a day. Milk production increases a bit. The cows are tagged and monitored, so any cow with a problem is quickly flagged.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Q1LoxK5mE
Careful not to cut yourself on that edge, sparky. :|
Same thing a person grown on vegetables and fruits might say. Thousands of choices, all different in textures and tastes and can be combined into extremely delicious meals.

The quality of life is subjective and taste can easily be acquired in a way that one can continue feeling satisfied with the foods they eat.

What you might need is a tastebud reset, which can easily be accomplished and after that you'll find anything extremely delicious.

You mentioned that you've just tried an ingredient and didn't like it which isn't even comparable to your dietary regime which was filled with meat during an extremely long period of time. To acquire taste takes effort or some out of the ordinary measures (a week or two of one ingredient diet to reset the taste buds, or that alchohol trick repetatively etc.).
Hugo + Github is killer. So is Jekyll on Github, I just prefer Hugo because it's easier to setup locally and also allows greater theme control.

my site: https://cmp.is
repo: https://github.com/0xcmp/cmpis.github.io-hugo
This feels like the perfect thing to try to stuff in RenPy and gain minor internet fame\notoriety.
Are you kidding? Last I recall (years ago, to be fair), cats multiplied like cockroaches. Of all the things you could need, that would be trivial.
I'm using Jekyll + Firebase Hosting on my blog[0]. Currently looking into switching to Hugo[1] as it doesn't require Ruby and claims to generate pages much faster.

[0]: https://citrusui.me/blog

[1]: https://gohugo.io
I've wondered before about whether Taylor series can allow one to impose the non-linearities of a NN on homomorphically encrypted data, but I've never been quite convinced. I work with deep learning, but I'm certainly no expert on homomorphic encryption, so hopefully someone here who knows more can tell me whether this is valid or not.

The reason the Taylor series argument makes me uncomfortable is that pretty much any function can be written as a Taylor series. But my understanding is that homomorphic encryption only works for a very specific set of functions.

In a little more detail, if you're computing tanh(x), the unencrypted number needs only the first few terms of the Taylor series. But I could imagine that to get the decrypted number back, you actually need many terms of the Taylor series, because if you're off by even a little bit, you could end up with a very different answer after decryption.

To put it a little more formally, if we have that y = encrypt(x)

tanh(x) \approx x - x^3 / 3 + 2 x^5 / 15,

tanh(y) \approx y - y^3 / 3 + 2 y^5 / 15,

and

tanh(x) = decrypt(tanh(y)),

but it doesn't necessarily follow to me that

tanh(x) \approx decrypt(y - y^3 + 2 y^5 / 15)

Is this worry unfounded? I suppose if you have a limited number of decimal places and you can guarantee that your Taylor approximation is valid to that precision then this wouldn't be a problem.
That's Racket. You have to pay to avoid getting sued by Microsoft
Hostgator, I starting using it a bazillion years ago and it hasn't broken yet. I'm almost certainly hackable, but it works.
Tor and VPN up. If this is how ISPs feel we should be treating encryption/privacy as a self-defense thing, kinda like insurance or home security.
Isn't "reduces spread sizes" a fancy way of saying that when a big pension fund decides to move a billion dollars from Coke to Pepsi, they pay slightly more to do so than they would if HFT didn't exist? That's what people mean when they complain about HFT affecting retail investors (as opposed to someone selling 100 shares of something on Etrade).
It's really not. Feel free to justify your position, though. As I already more than adequately pointed out, making a hypothesis about someone else's state of mind is a necessary but not sufficient condition for 'projection'. Projection is specifically taking your own mind-state and extrapolating it to someone else's. This is very, very clearly not what happened here
> The economics, politics, and logistics are brutal.

No on the economics, yes on the politics and again no on the logistics.

> Say you build out to the whole city of Baltimore, and get 40% to subscribe at a cost of $5,0000 per subscriber.[1]

How did you get that $5,000 number? It's far more than Verizon paid for FiOS and I can't get it to line up with EPB's numbers either.

> Say you charge $70 for service, and 60% of your revenue goes out the door in maintenance and customer service.

60% is far in excess of what maintenance and customer service costs. A brand new fiber network does not require significant maintenance and customer service is a small fraction of the monthly cost.

> 30-year bonds may be practical for a school building, but not so much for a telecom network where you'll need to make ongoing capital expenditures to upgrade the network.

30 year bonds work just fine for fiber networks. Upgrading active equipment is a minor effort, covered by your operating budget, unlike building the network which is CAPEX heavy.

> It's a political non-starter to issue city bonds to build a network you lease out to private ISPs to sell $70/month internet service that poor people and the elderly can't afford.

Yes, politics is a problem, but the above isn't what's stopping builds.

> And then there is logistics. Who do you pay to maintain said fiber network?

You outsource it like everybody else, unless it becomes cheaper to do it in-house. This is a solved problem.
> loosing

It's spelled "loosening", btw.
Unidump: hexdump for your Unicode data
It doesn't seem particularly hard to me. You raise taxes slightly to claw back the UBI from people making significantly larger amounts of money.

Actually, how I would implement it is as a refundable tax credit in place of the basic deduction. In other words, if you have no income you receive your full UBI. However, you are taxed on your first dollar of income (rather than getting a tax free threshold as you do today). There is still an incentive to work as you still get to keep 75% (or whatever) of every dollar you earn on top of the basic income, but at some point the amount of tax paid exceeds the amount of UBI received, and you become a net tax payer.

EDIT: The point is that by working the numbers, you can have everyone wind up in roughly the same financial position as today except without the overhead of the various social programs.
> CA is facing a mass exodus right now.

No, it's not. It's facing a slowing rate of inward migration, but it still has net inward migration, not an "exodus" at all, much less a mass one (and a lot of the slowing is part of the national net out-migration of undocumented immigrants—the only a mass exodus involved—offsetting in-migration of others.)
Dang. Unfortunately I am not vulnerable, and I use default ohmyzsh.

This is a neat bug, though. Lots of package managers have similar problems, and I would not be surprised if there's a lot of git/shell/environment problems left to find.
So the good news is that individual neuron activations often stay within a relatively narrow range. I think empirical evaluation is really needed to be able to tell how robustly this approach works. I think that that is certainly the greatest source of noise during training (and the first thing to break if you choose unstable hyperparameters). Great comment.
I tend to do my recruiting two ways:

1) From people I know well who make a solid recommendation.

2) At major tech conferences.

Hiring is a very risky and high stakes proposition. A new hire easily costs us a million or more if it doesn't work out. We are very cautious, and I take our hiring process very seriously.

Junior positions we typically recruit from Univerisities in the region with top CS and ECE programs since they are less likely to be skeptics of fly over country.
Turkish ü is similar to German umlauted u and the French u. Here the theory that Turkish is part of a big Altaic-Uralic family that may include also Korean, Mongolic and Japanese is taught at schools. IANAL but AFAIK the general view is that Altaic and Uralic are separate, and Korean and Japanese are not Altaic languages.

Note that Uralic-Altaic and the like have been the fruit of an Anatolian Turkish nationalism and tend to speculate for nobilising the language.
"Hardcore" gamers play Zelda? I thought they were too busy playing LoL and other "competitive" games and screaming at each other like children.
bash-git-prompt is vulnerable.
The "official" git prompt[1] is safe on Bash; the script doesn't run.

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/gi...
Take the idea that tyranny among leaders leads to revolt among followers. Confucius said something like this, using Chinese words appropriate to the Chinese Spring and Autumn period. Locke said it, too, using English words appropriate to his time. And Foucault said it, in modern French. The truth of the statement rests on human nature, which hasn't changed that much since the time of Confucius. The words, however, have changed a lot, as have the cultures. So you say what is more universally true using the word-meanings that are current for your culture. But just because the word-meanings are only valid within your culture, that doesn't mean that you can't make statements whose truth transcends your culture.
Confirmed that default bash-it Git shell prompt is vulnerable on OS X.

https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it
I'm not sure how much illegal tax evasion happens at the top. The way I look at it you only need tax evasion at lower income levels because of the huge risk associated. Once you have the money you can just buy the tax codes you want.
We already tried subsidizing corporations to convince them to build more infrastructure. They pocketed the money and never laid the wires.

If you want to do something like this it needs conditions, and the conditions have to have teeth. There needs to be a regulator in charge of making sure the money is actually used to build infrastructure and not to give even larger bonuses to the top management. But that's the antithesis of Pai's agenda, so it is highly unlikely to happen.
What about dealing with the AI only via an expert system? This system would consist of formally proved bug free code, and have a limited protocol for dialogue (and basically be dumb as a bread). We pose interesting questions through it. The AI could try to convince the ES about anything but would not get anywhere with it. We could then ask safe questions like "in what interval of eV should we look for new particles with our new accelerator?". We would instruct our ES to only accept answers to this question in the form of a number interval. If we follow the suggestion and find a new particle, great! If we don't, at least we're safe from the AI.
Funny enough, many Mexicans who come to work in the U.S. plan to earn enough money to start their own farm back home.

There are quite a few young people who would like to own a farm, often not farmer's kids. It would be almost impossible to "make it" as a farmer without getting experience in the biz in one form or another.
Use of CC BY 4.0 licensed data in OpenStreetMap
Probably a generational difference, but RPG definitely doesn't imply video game to me. Back when I was young, I saw CRPG (Computer RPG) used for bards-tale style games, and JRPG (Japanese RPG) used for DQ style games. I haven't seen CRPG used since the late 90s, but JRPG is sometimes still seen.

While we're discussing RPG terminology, more serious players of systems that do not place emphasis on tactical combat might also object to the term "tabletop" as a catchall for the non-computer RPGs, as that term historically refers to RPGs with roots in tactical war-games, such as D&D (though you do need some place to put your wine glass for a truly authentic of "The Extraordinary Adventurse of Baron Muchausesn").
Neat. My fancy Git prompt is a program I wrote in C, though. I'm sure it's vulnerable to something, but not to this. Maybe it should escape shell metacharacters in branch names, though.
I seriously doubt it. While I don't doubt it will aid in some mobility it will not be significant enough to let people simply pull up stakes and move. Plus with dual income families someone always gets the shaft when it comes to commutes.

I think a more likely scenario is companies will pop up who cater to providing the needs of UBI dependents. Think about it, if UBI is enough to cover home and food then you could package these together. Welcome to extended stay from hell.

Lets be real, UBI might protect you from going homeless but that ain't the same as having mobility and choice. With more people participating in the market for housing its going to get tight for awhile and you could end up with more sprawl.
I clicked rewrite cv and landed on a blank (white) page.

"we have delivered 1000+ CVs in a very short time since our inception and have more than 90% CV shortlisting rate."

How are you measuring this?

You should raise prices. I'm looking at the senior package and I'd feel less worried about booking it if it was in the $150 range. $45 sounds cheap. If that would make it prohibitively expensive for the indian market, you could price based on geography. nothing wrong with that.
webfaction is great
From my limited experience working with them, the general aviation insurance industry seems ripe for startups. Data science is a huge deal in insurance, but the companies insuring Cessnas and Pipers don't seem to have fully caught on.
Nothing gets past Linus