skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who haven't been, Toronto is a really wonderful city. Safe, great food, and has an awesome art and music scene. Lots of cool cultural events as well.

If it wasn't so hard to emigrate as an average America, I'd live there in a heartbeat. They do have a really good working holiday program for people in Asia and some parts of Europe.
I'd say Seattleites are some of the most arrogant,
standoffish, and surface-polite people I've met
anywhere in the world.

Could you perhaps expand on this observation? I genuinely find it interesting. This is the sort of thing you don't see measured in those "most-livable cities" indices you see from time to time [1]. Tricky to capture I agree, but doable. It would greatly simplify one's choice when deciding where to build a career.

[1]The 10 most livable cities in the world
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-10-most-livable-cities-...
Not really need an API to quickly build a tool for this. Could as well just send a proper request and parse the response, not too much of extra work for this service.
The more I learn about physics and math, especially with regards to quantum theory, I start to get really freaked out. The amount of "neatness" to the universe is staggering. How there's no "inbetween" at the smallest scales. Everything is discrete.

The fact that simple arrangements of symbols on a screen can perfectly describe this behavior is mind blowing. It leads me to think there's no possible way we're not living in some type of computer simulation.
You can't argue with libertarians like that. If you distill his argument, he's basically saying that he would rather let people die than have their basic needs met by income redistribution. "I got mine, so fuck you", is basically it.

That view is completely antithetical to the core belief system of progressive liberals and it's not something you can really have a discussion about. It's like arguing over whether God exists.
Looks like Game Maker (a tool for creating video games using scripting). Very interesting stuff. Anyone knows if other ports of TLV, e.g. SNES, use the same virtual machine?
The 1040EZ doesn't allow one to deduct home mortgage interest. You need a 1098 and a Schedule A and the long-form 1040. That has nothing to do with whether you're filing from a single W2 or multiple 1099 forms.

IIRC you can't deduct relocation expenses, wardrobe for work, books and training materials, or a whole bunch of other stuff on a 1040 EZ.

So sure, as long as you want to overpay your taxes you can file in about 45 seconds.
Throughout human history there has never been a time where those in power, regardless of how obtained, didn't turn to violence and subterfuge to maintain it.
What the EU27 wants from Brexit
I suspect he failed mostly because he tried to get the legislature to adopt it after the initial budget-centered rollback (which was before recent changes to the budget process which made budget impasses of the type exploited to kill it initially unlikely), rather than using the initiative process. While money certainly effects the initiative process, it's usually a much better way to get something whose benefits are simple and easy to understand to the average person and broadly distributed but where there is entrenched narrow institutional opposition passed in California. It's not cheap, but it would be dirt simple to raise the money necessary to get this on the ballot and get a decent campaign for it. (Intuit/Norquist would still fight it, but convincing voters is different than convincing politicians.)
By "field" I assume some area in IT.

My primary source of breaking news is Hacker News. The links provide me with a good general overview of what is happening overall in IT.

In my specific niche (MBSE/PLE/GenProg/IoT/CPS) I visit http://modeling-languages.com for field specific general (isn't that an oxymoron?) news. Other than that I read IEEE and ACM journals and papers published by practitioners whom I follow. I also read the blogs of a small number of people who have genuine knowledge to share.

As far as programming languages and frameworks go, I only deep dive on an as needed basis (which is rarely). There is way too much conflicting information, especially in the area of JS frameworks.

IMHO many programmers are caught up in the jack of all frameworks / languages / tools drama. We are paid to deliver dependable solutions to real problems on time and on budget. The many distractions only reduce our effectiveness.
From Ohm's README file:

> Like its older sibling OMeta, Ohm supports object-oriented grammar extension. One thing that distinguishes Ohm from other parsing tools is that it completely separates grammars from semantic actions. In Ohm, a grammar defines a language, and semantic actions specify what to do with valid inputs in that language. Semantic actions are written in the host language -- e.g., for Ohm/JS, the host language is JavaScript. Ohm grammars, on the other hand, work without modification in any host language. This separation improves modularity, and makes both grammars and semantic actions easier to read and understand.

You can read all about it here:
https://github.com/harc/ohm
What an amazing find. The collection spans 69 years, from 1926 to 1995 (with a few breaks).

There is a bit more info in the (easy to miss) About tab[1]. Petapixel has a few highlights[2]. I'd love to read more about what lead to the archival process and how it was done.

[1] https://archive.org/details/sovetskoe_foto&tab=about

[2] https://petapixel.com/2017/03/21/can-browse-437-complete-iss...
Yep. Bezos owns around 16%. He recently sold about 1% in May 2016 (May 3-5), then another 1% in August 2016 (Aug 2-4). These caused roughly a 1% and 2% decline in the stock, respectively. In both cases it recovered within 3 days.

Obviously if he continued to liquidate his stock at around 2% absolutely per year, he'd reach zero in eight years. Bezos owning zero Amazon shares would be very weird if he was CEO, though. I imagine he could comfortably get down to owning 4-5% of Amazon without damaging the stock too much.

Disclaimer: I own Amazon through VFINX, and if you are Jeff Bezos and taking advice from my comment, uh, don't I guess.
Try raw cookie dough. Hardly healthy, but far less volume to consume
The problem is the distribution of wealth. Mankind doing "less work" could be great for all or great for a few and terrible for the rest.
Not necessarily, but I'm against people not being able to feed their families more.
Then don't be surprised if they storm your house and take your stuff.
Linkerd-tcp: A lightweight, service-discovery-aware, TLS-ing TCP load balancer
As much as I loved my HP-15 an HP-41, I think you have a rosy recollection of that time.

Back then, HP calculators were seen as expensive and pretty much reserved to wealthy people. Regular people stuck to TI. And for that reasons, HP calculators were rarely seen in classrooms.

And when they were seen, nobody knew how to use them (I was often asked to lend mine and when they saw it was an HP, they said "oh you have one of these weird ones,never mind").
These Are the Numbers Behind the Thorniest Issues for Brexit Negotiators
Why should VCs get a 30-50% return on what they put in, but engineers don't get a 30-50% return on the salary they sacrificed to actually do the damn work of the startup?
That's an awesome idea. I'd love to try that one day.

Your command isn't valid because it's missing a control character after 'bar', such as ';'. Bash rejects it as well:

$ bash -c "foo() { bar }"
bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
I'm not considering US to be a moderately sized country.

While you are technically correct (the best kind of correct),
this was kind of a brain-fart on my part and not really important to the point.

The point is that net worth includes the assumption of future earnings in the valuation. GDP is just one year's production.

Bill gates is orders of magnitude less wealthy than Ukraine, for example, even though his net worth is similar to Ukraine's GDP.
And the pilot actually proved that it was workable in California, as well.
The `1/e-law of best choice` mentioned on there was interesting, and helped me accept the conclusion regarding finding love. With the previous examples, love and similar concepts didn't seem like they would work well when N could theoretically be infinite. Though, after some help understanding the wiki explanation [1], applying the rule over the finite _period of time_ during which you see options, rather than the total number of options, makes much more sense and seems more agreeable.

[1]: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/840196/how-to-use-th...
As an example that most automatic doors don't have to deal with, but is essential for railways:

The door must detect a 1-2cm obstruction (e.g. fingers, child's wrist) and be sufficiently weak that a child can pull their hand/wrist free. The door must not prevent a train from departing if only a hem of a skirt/trousers/coat is trapped. They must be strong enough to prevent anyone falling from the train while it is in motion, and must not be able to be forced open between stations.

Otherwise, approximately one person per year will die.

How much would you charge, to make doors to this specification?

And, some time in the next five years, an accident will happen, somewhere in the world. Your next door will need to prevent that situation, too.

[This is the situation in "wealthier" Europe, where it's pretty difficult to die on a train. Other countries may vary.]
Rich People Who Are Horrible with Money Can Teach Us a Thing or Two
This is just not true, never did any current "AI" more than the imagination of it's creators.

What is this mystical "future AI" that makes every software developer or engineer suddenly obsolete. Maybe creative thought requires a brain and nothing will ever beat human reproduction in producing engineers.
Does well, but goes only so far. I fed the command sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/example.com/html and the tool wasn't capable of recognizing what $USER:$USER is doing.
The article writer's inability to grok Chiang's work is an amusing illustration of (among other things) the divide between Snow's "Two Cultures".
It seems unlikely that (South Korea - North Korea) >> (Denmark - US)? You want me to justify it?

Just in case you didn't read my previous post backwards, I'll take a stab at it. /wiki/List_of_countries_by_Social_Progress_Index lists countries by "social progress", which they define as basic human needs, foundations of well-being (whatever that means), and opportunity. (I didn't cherry-pick the source; this is the first one I found that included North Korea.) The data are from 2015. On this ranking, Denmark is 8th, with a score of 86.63, the US is 16th (82.85), South Korea is 29th (77.7), and North Korea is 134th and last, with a score of 20. (Something like 60 countries didn't supply enough data to be ranked at all.) North Korea is 11.42 points behind second-to-worst (Central African Republic). So by this measure, (Denmark - US) = 3.78, and (South Korea - North Korea) = 57.7. So, yeah, I'd say that my statement that " the difference between Denmark and the US is massively less than the difference between South and North Korea" is quite accurate.

You could also look at the Satisfaction with Life Index (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfaction_with_Life_Index), except that it doesn't seem to list North Korea at all...
One of the aspects of The Fair Tax, which is basically a flat tax, is the idea of a "prebate" - a sum of money (between $4-7K if I recall) that is paid to each taxpayer every year to help cover the basics like bread and milk.
We're very much alive! Thriving, even. And yes, we merged AdPacks, Yoggrt, Fusion, and Carbon into just Carbon. Been growing the network ~20-30% or so year over year. The simplicity of the model still works well.

Where we deviated from The Deck's model is that we made some changes a few years ago that are working quite well. On the advertiser side we started selling on a cost per thousand impression basis vs a fixed monthly price per "slot". And on the publisher side we started paying them a dynamic rate based on traffic and performance of the ads vs. a fixed monthly amount. Hope that doesn't come across the wrong way - just a fundamental difference that I believe is one of the reasons why an otherwise incredibly similar business can work well for one, but not for the other.
YouTube’s Ad Problems Finally Blow Up in Google’s Face
It runs 24 hours and extensively covers 4 of the 5 boroughs. Yes, it's dirty, but the coverage + availability is what makes it a great system - it's certainly unparalleled in the Western hemisphere. Everytime I go to San Francisco I realize how awesome the NYC subway really is.
Here the rule for paper is clean paper (no wax, no food residue, etc) and only corrugated cardboard (no boxboard). That's based on how useful the materials are so I guess is a pretty common standard.
You should join us at Carbon :)
The only thing that automation does is decrease the cost of things you can have towards zero. Everything else is the same.

It used to be that fresh fruits were rare, sometimes even priceless. A huge number of people were required to grow, tend, harvest, transport, and sell fruit, especially in the off-months.

That's all automated now. So the price of fresh fruit is tending towards zero. All of those people are not that doing that any more. Those people are still working, just not in jobs that are as heavily automated.

There will always be something you cannot automate. Because you can't, it will be expensive. Because it is expensive, people will want it. It is not logical, but it is the way our species operates. So people do stuff, other people like it, then it's automated, then they find other stuff to do that's harder to automate.

If your thesis is that there is some sort of universal automation coming? Maybe 300-500 years out, when the Great Singularity occurs (because these two events are the same thing). But no time soon.

I will grant you that we currently have no freaking idea of what the economy in 2050 will look like. I believe this is the cool part of being mortal in our age -- things are always so goddamned different between when you're born and when you die.
So Startups need to pay more? Either in cash or equity?

I don't see the problem.
> any less intelligent or hard working

Not necessarily true. Luck plays a big role in things like this but Bezos is clearly in the elite when it comes to effective professionals.
Its request should still be denied. I notice you have not in any way attacked my historical foundation, secessionist states. The implication that the UK would detonate a nuclear bomb over this is laughable on its face.

Its request should be denied.
What? Why can't you just cook a meal for one? Chicken breast and veggies takes like 15 minutes.
The way most of them are delivered makes them more like native advertising. As long as a percentage of listeners engage, it has value, and that percentage is higher than engagement via sidebar ads on the Web it seems.

There's also a certain remaining level of novelity in podcast advertising that helps it command a premium, although I suspect this is beginning to diminish.
In California, I suspect the issue was not intractable, just approaches wrongly. After the initial defeat in the legislature, lobbying the legislature to reverse course as the wrong approach: with the successful pilot, clear moneyed-interest-vs.-common-sense narrative, this is an ideal use of the initiative process.
Including the original latin would have been more interesting.
I'm surprised the app dev I do hasn't been automated away already.
Tesla Model 3 will only have a center screen
It's free software as well! https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex (AGPL)
Build a strong portfolio on GitHub and a record of lots of contributions to open source projects.

To be honest with you, DBA's no longer exist at many companies. Most modern databases are easy enough to use that all you need is developers. My current company has a single DBA for 7 development teams.

If you want to break into software dev the low hanging fruit is usually web development with something like PHP.

You're going to be competing with a ton of people that have degrees and experience so try not to get disappointed about your search. If you can't land a developer job straight away, I know many who have gotten into dev by starting as testers and building their knowledge laterally within the company.

It take the average candidate with experience and a degree maybe 4 interviews to get an offer, you will probably have to do at least triple that.
Putin kinda has '>... his own airforce, navy, army'.
> It leads me to think there's no possible way we're not living in some type of computer simulation.

I find this line of reasoning inadequate. In the 19th century, would you not be compelled to believe that the universe was made of mechanical pulleys, levers, and pipes because the universe operated with the perfection of a well-designed machine?

OK, so there are some phenomena that correlate (bear a resemblance to) with how computers behave. well, there are phenomena that correlate with a great many number of things; we shouldn't be surprised that computers and information theory are one of them
It's not uninteresting but it's a fast "argument" that really just dresses up George Moore's Intuitionism IMHO, which itself remains in disrespect. Google it, don't buy the book. It has many followers not because it's a great argument (assuming it qualifies as that) but because there simply aren't better arguments for Moore's side of the debate.

I am biased though, I've met the man and we really didn't like one another, our values were far too opposed when we met. From my brief exposure, in life he seemed to be a mandarin who played the academic system expertly for his own benefit, with a public persona crafted to help with that. His private and public opinions could diverge to a staggering degree, but at least he did sometimes share some of his private opinions with youngsters, even if he wouldn't own them in any other context. A conscious hypocrite, I give him that.
Ask HN: Mid-level developers, what does it take to qualify as Mid-level?
I'm currently in the interview process for a Mid-level position, but my experience situation is kind of different from most as I interned for several years while going to school to make enough to provide for my family. I've got 1.5 years professional experience after that at the same company. I was asked if I have have the skills of a Mid or maybe somewhere on the fence between Jr and Mid. My current salary requirement needs the pay of a Mid but I don't want to jump into something if it ultimately ends with being put on an improvement plan (that's what I was told would happen). Having no clue how I compare to other Mids, as I work only with Sr devs who know more than me. I told them that I would trust their assessment.

So if I am not up to par with Mid skills, what can I do to get there and be truly qualified? What is the difference between a Mid and a Jr?

The best way I can describe my current ability is that I've been able to recognize that I didn't know all that I thought I did and I try to approach problems and knowledge with no assumptions that I know but rather realize that I can give insight and discuss strategies but I'm not intelligent enough to frequently give the best approach to problems so I definitely discuss approaches and opinions with others to learn from them.

So maybe a better question might be what level are you at once you've discovered you're ignorance and you start to use that to your advantage to really learn stuff (but definitely not someone to write a non-erroneous book on programming topics)?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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I think the offset into the elected (or otherwise) ruler, by name. Confer the inscription atop the Pantheon "M Agrippa L F Cos Tertivm Fecit" where the gist is M Agrippa <whenever L F Cos the third> made (it).

From Wikipedia's page on the Pantheon:
"M[arcus] Agrippa L[ucii] f[ilius] co[n]s[ul] tertium fecit," meaning "Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, made [this building] when consul for the third time.
Make him an offer. How much do you think you'd have to pay him to give you all that stock? That's how much it's worth.
I tried to edit it to something like that, but the form didn't work. And now I don't even see an edit button.
ah ok, no worries - I think it's similar to Redux largely, which unfortunately includes being severely incompatible with nested state values.
It offers finer grain control than simple mutexes. One can write lock-free data structure easily with it.
How about kindergarten?

https://qz.com/826748/the-math-gender-gap-between-girls-and-...

There are people who hear "gap X starts in kindergarten" and think "oh, well it must be because of unequal access to preschool, lack of nutrition, etc," basically trying to look earlier and earlier for where the problem starts until they end up trying to blame stuff like maternal nutrition during pregnancy. Well, there may be factors like that at play, but if you start with such a strong preconceived notion that everyone's brains are wired the same way, no amount of evidence is going to convince you of the contrary.
I think it is important to the point, that one man is worth the annual GDP of countries that have millions of people. A country is not a person...it's millions of people, and it's nonsensical to say, "Oh, it's not such a big deal, because a nation of millions makes as much in a year as this guy's whole net worth."

That's a terrible argument for why the amount of money Bill Gates has is not absurd.
Non Google-AMP link: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/03/28/new-toronto-inst...
> During the Roman Republic [509 BC–27 BC], years were named after the consuls, who were elected annually (see List of Republican Roman Consuls). Thus, the name of the year identified a consular term of office, not a calendar year. For example, 205 BC was "The year of the consulship of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus and Publius Licinius Crassus", who took office on 15 March of that year, and their consular year ran until 14 March 204 BC. Lists of consuls were maintained in the fasti.

> In the later Republic, historians and scholars began to count years from the founding of the city of Rome. Different scholars used different dates for this event. The date most widely used today is that calculated by Varro, 753 BC, but other systems varied by up to several decades.

I'd have to assume that one of those systems would apply here.
The alternative -- paying for more roads, somehow -- is probably much more expensive.
How does that follow? If you have a below-average diet and replace foods from it, you're likely to do better simply due to regression to the mean. You could replace a shitty diet with one with different foods but the same macronutrient distribution and likely end up improving things.
Have you experienced violence from those in power? Its so easy to spread fear when you haven't used your brain.

And have you considered how much of your lifestyle, the best parts of your lifestyle, is impossible under any system other than capitalism? I can't think of a better vehicle for diversity and indeed there certainly isn't one. It's almost insulting when people so casually dismiss these things.
funny thing is.. announcement to be made later
Google is also building an AI research lab in Montreal, which is supposedly a talent center for AI. According to this article from Wired: https://www.wired.com/2016/11/google-opens-montreal-ai-lab-s..., Google "donated about $13 million CAD to academic research in the country and about half was earmarked for AI research."
Carbon Ads has pretty solid CTR, ads perform, advertisers renew, etc. It's not all doom and gloom for online advertising when you respect users and work hard to combine quality advertisers and publishers.