skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think so. I think we are seeing this with Uber already, which I am afraid Uber will become the eventual too big to fail, but it can fail if nothing done right since in 2016 Uber has lost $3B already. Like I said, SC's failure wouldn't be a huge loss for investors. It's going IPO.
"still feel strongly that if your app is large and serious you are going to need that stuff."

My approach usually is, start minimalistic and if you need additional stuff, you can usually add it later. That is why I like React. For example if I need router, I can choose from many implementation, but there are also cases when I don't need it all.
Most people just need their car to get around and will migrate to whatever is the cheapest option with the capabilities they want. Right now, electric cars cost more. Eventually, they will probably be cheaper than gas. When that happens, the market for electric vehicles will be essentially the same as the market for vehicles. (Gas may still be needed in the medium-near-term for things like pulling a trailer up a long hill.)
Just used a robot to mail a parcel at the post office. Automatically weighs and sizes the item, takes payment, prints a label, and accepts parcel drop off.

A happy employee came to check if I needed any help with the new technology. Knowing the robot I just interacted with was going to replace their employment was sobering. I couldn't figure out what to say.

The robots are coming to services.
I see so something like "abac" is basically mapped to 0 1 0 2 by mapping the lowest-order element in that sequence to 0, and the others following suit. In which case, it would be expected that, say, "xyxz" could be used in place of "abac".

"Auto-indexifying" a sequence in this way does seem like a useful little operation to have.
I think right now we are at the tip of the iceberg.

In 5 years, once average computers are very fast, you will get something like.

len -> did you mean size()

based on the fact that so many other people have entered that.

I am sure there are other ideas besides that haven't even occurred to us.
> Honestly, I think you need to find people who find emotional shelter at work, so you could ask if there is any personal trauma they are trying to avoid.

This is actually great insight I've never heard before. When I threw myself into 18 hour days 7 days a week it absolutely was an attempt to avoid personal trauma.

Better than a drug addiction I suppose in that it got me places, but probably damaging in many of the same ways.
This is why people don't trust news media and government.

This stuff was 100% obvious back in the 90s days, when the left wing people were protesting globalism, what was left of manufacturing imploded, and big agribusiness crushed Mexicos economy.

Since that time, we've been told time and time again by economists that we're all wrong, the service economy is great and life is great... just go to college for retraining.
Ah, thanks for explaining that ! I thought the Ember team had started an entirely new project instead of reusing something that already existed. If they extracted it, that makes much more sense to me now.
What are the pay rates like compared to other countries, particularly the US (outside of Silicon Valley)?
I prefer loop/recur to TCO. You know exactly when you are, and are not, in tail position (which can be a bit obscure) and the compiler won't let you recur from non-tail.
That's splitting hairs a bit. If I boot into an programming system that lets me operate the computer, I'd call that an operating system. I don't see a significant difference between ColorForth (or other native forths) and e.g. home computer Basics, Oberon or even Lisp Machines.

And more to the point, I wouldn't assume that kOS would be closer to Unix/Windows than Forth/SmallTalk/Mesa etc.
I think you underestimate the level of automation at a german car manufactures (e.g.: https://youtu.be/VreG1iC65Lc?t=1m6s).
It would be in the general interest of society if I took some time off to volunteer my efforts in aid to those in need in other countries (or maybe my own). Maybe I would rather do that than have kids. Should we create a special category of time off for that?
We built this with glimmer. https://mcast.io/katgraham-exclusives/
Trump apologist? Nah from part 3 it just seems that he accepts Trump as distraction. Especially when he compares Trump to the placated Mule.

Conspiracy Theorist? Damn this guy is way off the deep end.
To move to a more automated manufacturing industry and to expand the service industry the US needs more educated people. You can't do hi-tech manufacturing with high school graduates.

I think US needs to fix it's education system first to make sure that all deserving people get a chance to go to college without incurring debt. It can easily be done considering the money the government spends on defense and other (I'd call useless) agencies like NSA, DEA, etc.

One of the first steps could be to pay college tuition for students matching certain criteria (I'm not sure what the criteria could be - maybe GPA - but I'm certain that some elibility criteria can be defined).
It employs nearly half the people, and makes about five times the money. That's a 10x spread.
> Or is it an abuse?

It's not like slave labor or something, in theory they could quit, get more education or whatever, and find a different job. Hard to see at-will employment as an abuse by the employer.
If holding people accountable for their actions kills a joke, the joke wasn't very good. This is one of the points slowbeef makes in the essay; part of the reason YouTube let's-players end up offending is the nature of the project doesn't leave them time to simmer jokes long enough to be good.
> Wow, wait? We're not a "bromance company" and I'm not even sure how to respond to this and I think it's vaguely insulting.

Sorry, no offense intended - I was reading between the lines. Basically if you expect people to be able to always stay after hours, then you are excluding pretty much everyone with a family for example.

It risks creating the typical monoculture of guys (yes unfortunately) between 25 and 35.

People have different ambitions and different needs. The time when I could stay at an office to 6PM is over. I might be willing to do it again in 15 years but now I'm expected to put dinner on the table at 6. A ton of people are in this situation, much too many to ignore even for a startup. They might not seem like a good fit for your phase of startup but I think that mode of thought is counterproductive. A varied set of people will be best. That also means you'll have people with different needs. Cater to those needs and be open with expectations.

Needing people to occasionally work more is normal. Even having an emergency meeting on a Sunday is normal. Just be clear with what the situation is, what is expected, and make sure that the plan is to never have 50h weeks or weekend meetings. The problem is having the "constant crunch time" culture.

> I've never heard a candidate employee express anything close to "I'm in at 9AM and expect to be out by 5:30"

Not sure I understood the problem here, was it that you would have preferred that to surface in the interview, but it didn't, which caused friction down the line when someone turned out to not want to work more than 40h weeks?
I agree with you as well, even if your position isn't a popular one.

My employer has a strict 9 to 5 attendance policy (which I disagree with for a number of reasons), but one thing that really bugs me about it is that it applies to days when the roads are hard to navigate due to winter weather. Even if there's a state of emergency and the roads are "closed", we're expected to be here because our customers are all around the country, and they didn't have a snow storm, so we need to be here to support them.

Employees with children tend to get leniency in terms of coming in late on days like that, typically because they had to arrange alternative care for their kids with schools closed. But I have no kids, so if I get stuck behind a snow plow and end up getting to the office at 9:05 I'm probably going to get a lecture on how being late is me being disrespectful to the boss and the company.
To me "kanji" is an English word but "hanzi" isn't. I never saw any problem using "kanji" in a Chinese context, since "kanji" seems to be a Japanese sounding of the word "hanzi". But unfortunately some pedants (or one pedant with many usernames) complained when I used "kanji" so nowadays I stick to "Unihan" when writing in a technical context.
Yup. We often write code like normal programmers, but sometimes we do build up vocabularies more, even when not using `parse` to write DSLs.

"Red or REBOL" = Redbol (sounds like Red Bull) :) And where Perl has Mongers, Ruby has Rubyists, Python has Pythonistas, and Rebol has Rebolers, Red has Reducers.
Big picture software testing
Not sure how they plan on competing against Steam. Unless there was a way to pull off OnLive somehow on Twitch. I fail to see the significance of this announcement.
Also, I don't clear things with Meetup organizers before including their events. The system finds, classifies, and includes them itself anyway.

But I have gotten exactly one complaint from an organizer who ended up with 2x the expected attendees. Many other organizers have written thank you notes and spread the word.
That reads like "enabled by default, denied only on request"
Webshop with 1 product, just went into the newspaper today ( quite pleased about this)

Getting projects from personal connections is pretty easy ( eg websites, shops, ... ), got some money on a webapp ( not much though) and hosting off course.
Some jobs are always being automated away (looms taking away weaver's jobs, etc.). This can be very painful for the affected, but often benefits the society in the long term. We could use more teachers instead of conveyor belt workers and janitors (to train for new skills). And more custom builders, physical therapists and nurses (aging population), etc.

IMO instead of lament automation taking jobs (at least those that we would not want our own kids to do) we should improve the learning and training options to make those affected employable elsewhere. Not BS 1-day clinics "how to write your resume", but longer full time technical or human skills classes and workshops to improve on skills in demand today.

And maybe beef up the safety net, especially on the medical side. Do not fight progress, leverage it for good causes.
I disagree that you can infer anything about impact because they were found in an audit. That just means they weren't publicly known, it does not mean they weren't known to someone.
Originally, Facebook likes/shares (that displayed on news feeds), and -- believe it or not -- StumbleUpon. I put the Facebook button on the page, but the StumbleUpon wildfire was done by a user.

From there, growth was organic/"viral," in that people shared it amongst themselves. I've also had some traditional media (NYTimes, Toronto Star, etc.) cover the site, but that was after traffic was already pretty high.
US Congress votes to shred ISP privacy rules
You can build your Common Lisp programs from a set of files like any other programming language. "asdf" is the most common system which provides loading complex lisp system. I actually use a makefile to build my Common Lisp based executables from my set of files, no neeed to build up an in-memory state.

The difference with Common Lisp is, you are not limited to this build model, but while your whole code is loaded, you can keep redefining functions for development. This creates the minimal cycle of editing and testing any single function in your program. This is a big asset in development, but in no way means you have to build your systems that way. Actually the contrary, I can only recommend to restart your lisp image frequently to ensure the system loads and builds from file rather than depending on the image state.
High Dimensional Probability [pdf]
That's great to hear :)
The reality of the matter is that as governor he has a moral obligation to keep all of his citizens as safe as possible. He, at one point, chose to reduce the safety of his citizens, and at another chose not to protect his citizens. These choices of his directly led to the outbreak.

Whether you are unhappy about this reality being stated is no concern of mine, since, as stated elsewhere, nothing i can say will actually have an effect on the situation.

I'm just a dude who's watching a country prepare to send multiple of his friends to the chopping block just because they had the misfortune of being born in a place where "socialist" is an insult.
I have no idea what this means since he's selling for a loss to minimize the amount of money he returns to society in the form of taxes.
not having product/market fit because you don't have a product but acted like you did needs to be audited.

Note that this is different from not having product/market because of lack of demand. which sums up SV startups.

It's one thing to rip people off, it's a whole another to build an entire company around a non existent product. The latter takes some Talented Mr. Ripley level of Machiavellianism ( or/and being born to a rich white connected sugar daddy).
This is currently done; it's part of the filtering and annotation process that happens at the tale end of the secondary analysis. Everything I'm talking about comes after that. This is part of why the human interpretation part takes hours to a day, instead of a day to several days.

However, it's far from perfect and can always be improved. That's one of the things we're trying to help with, is to do further pre-processing on the knowledge-base of all genomic information contained in all published literature, to try to drive the current hours-to-a-day timeframe down to minutes-to-an-hour, or just minutes.

One issue though, is that it's a constant tug-of-war optimizing between false-positives (giving you too many variants to manually review) and false-negatives (removing variants due to some data threshold which may have been clinically significant).
Here:

http://www.fast.ai/2017/03/23/focus-on-coding/
Hmm, pretty heavy use of ES6, too (async/await, decorators etc.). Is there any "modern" library left that lets you use the browser's JavaScript engine directly, without transpiling?
It is instantly but you can not use it to transmit information.

Say you have a pair of entangled spins in a superposition of the two anti-parallel states first spin up and second spin down or first spin down and second spin up with equal probability for both states, i.e. each spin is up or down with a probability of 50 % but the two spins always have opposing orientations.

If you measure one of the spins, then there is no time, no matter how far the spins are separated, in which you could measure the second spin to have the same orientation as the one you just measured because the result of the measurement somehow had not yet enough time to reached the second spin, supposedly because this state change is limited to travel at the speed of light.

It is as if the spins had secretly picked on of the two possible outcomes when they were created but you just do not know which one until you perform a measurement. But this is not the case, this is what is called a local hidden variable theory and is ruled out by Bell test experiments. The spins have no definite orientation until you measure the first one but after the first measurement both spins instantaneously have a definit orientation no matter how far separated.
I can see how that would be confusing. They should probably show things a little more densely when zoomed out.
I'm all for Tesla to succeed, but I was very shocked when I drove in a Model S. It feels like a budget Volkswagen inside, it's several levels behind Mercedes/BMW/Audi cars of the same price. The dashboard tablet feels like a cheap 2010 android tablet. It can't even scroll a grid of images without severe lag. Very disappointing.
Red will have GC, but it's not there yet. Soon. Red/System is a C level language, where you have to alloc/free yourself.

Why do you think it's pointless to learn without knowing how it handles memory?
Plenty of businesses make those mistakes.

FWIW, there is a learning curve to it all. I won't deny having some painful lessons in my past.
Not working behind a http-proxy. Dealbreaker for me.
Personally, I've found The vehicle itself to be very reliable. But they need to scale out service operations. I can call an Audi dealer and have my car brought in within a couple days (or go to one of many third party shops). With Tesla, they're typically booking 1-2 months out (and that's in the bay area, where we have like 3 service centers). Luckily, the only times I've had to bring in my Tesla, it was something super non-trivial.
Pretty sure removing regulations on energy development (and therefore, cost) are an effort to supporting manufacturing, and Trump has taken an aggressive stance at repealing as much regulation especially in the energy sector, as he can[0][1][2].

Those are just a few citations, but just look up some of his executive actions and orders, as well as some recent legislation he's signed. Some of these addresses repeal of regulations (Using the Congressional Review Act).

The GOP border-adjustment tax is being worked on currently. While debatable in how it does or does not favor imports or exports, at the very least seems to favor establishing business in the US and eliminate tax benefits of incorporating outside the US.[3]

This, and his general desire for a slashing of the corporate rate, should incentivize corporations (manufacturing and otherwise) to move, stay, and hire in US, and move US from one of highest rate countries to one of the lowest.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2017/03/28/tr...

[1] http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/02/trump-to-sign-repeal-of-ob...

[2]http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/319488-trump-si...

[3] https://taxfoundation.org/faqs-border-adjustment/
Unions are great. It's also great the whole world isn't run by unions. Meaning, I don't understand why a less union friendly city in the US, china, UAE, anywhere, doesn't pick up his equipment and run with it. After years of drug testing perhaps other cities like NYC will be ready for human trials.
In some of my projects I have 2 scopes: A framework scope and a component scope.

The framework scope has all the composeable classes and standard forms like lists, shadows, colors, grids, cards etc.

Then, when the framework doesn't cover everything, I use component scoped css to complete it, without having to worry about a naming scheme like BEM. It just makes things easier when you have css that is really only relevant to one component. Just like programming, I can always make the code abstract and move it up to the framework.
Looks to me like all of those articles are about the Louisville, Kentucky GE Plant where they negotiated lower pay for their workers.

I'd say that's an example, not a trend. Companies have been looking at overall cost of production for a long time. That's how they've calculated margins and filed a 10-K for the past 50 years.

The bottom line is until overseas workers demand increased standards of living or US consumers show a willingness to pay a higher price for locally manufactured goods, this trend will continue.

My question is, what does the end-game look like for a fully automated economy? You're either an entrepreneur with a fully automated supply chain, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and finance organization producing a good that is highly demanded by other fully automated businesses, or you starve?
Back when I stayed at the office after normal hours, it was mostly because I didn't have decent heating and air conditioning at my apartment. Beyond that, it was also because my life outside of work was incredibly boring.

I could go home, watch TV, sweat, and listen for the mice getting into my ramen and oatmeal, or I could stay at work and maybe help do something cool that the CEO could sell to investors.

I pretty much stopped the instant I made a new friend in my new city. That person got me to buy a window AC unit, and keep restaurant reservations, and go to movie theaters, and move to an apartment with fewer freeloading rodents in it.

So you could probably also alleviate their suffering by giving them a reason to leave work at quitting time, and keeping them out long enough to discourage going back.

Nowadays, I only need about 75% of a half-baked, tissue-thin reason to not be at work, to want to leave the office early.
That worked. It is actually pretty easy once is works.
Thanks.
Kubernetes v1.6.0 has been released
If the monkey is the industry, then sure but I was thinking of the monkey as the company and the industry was a cacophony of failed block-thru-hole puzzlers. Either way, thanks again -- I shared this with my coworkers and they appreciated your sentiments.
Which browser? http://caniuse.com/#search=async%20functions
You were almost certainly running Amdahl UTS.
The climate pause never happened: https://skepticalscience.com/ipcc-global-warming-pause.htm

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-pause-in-ocean...

That's not really a theory (southern warming -> release co2 -> increase northern warming), that is well-established physical and biological processes.

Why should there be a similar 800-year lag today? The past CO2 increases were due to natural processes whereby as the temperature increased more biological activity was occurring and thus emitting more CO2. The historical lag makes complete sense from that perspective.

Currently, were artificially adding sequestered CO2 (which is known to trap heat) to the atmosphere and the temperature is increasing, with a fairly strong correlation, as a result.

here's some further reading for you: http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/
I think we are in agreement.

If you don't own a meaningful amount of the company, you aren't going to be very interested in the company's success and frankly the company is demonstrably uninterested in your success. By all rights you should feel perfectly comfortable moving on when a better offer comes your way.
I really recoment the tutorials from:

https://nodeschool.io/

They are run from the command line, they will make you think and they have from super simple tutorials to more complex stuff. You can also learn the ES6 syntax or other fancy things when you know enough javascript.
Curious, did Tesla published updated stats ? or anyone else for that matter. The announcement numbers were way above expectations, but it's not much if half of that evaporated after the hype.
And you enjoy the work you are getting? Gosh, I'd love to know how you got so connected and got so busy. This is like my dream. Having a strict schedule of work set up and getting billed an hourly rate.
You could do hi-tech manufacturing with high school graduates if they actually studied a high-tech curriculum or had the opportunity to apprentice for 2-3 years.

College is not (and should not be) required for everyone who wants a decent middle class job.
In practice the answer was traditionally "unions". The United Auto Workers won't let you eliminate all pensions and benefits and pay minimum wage, but they can't stop you from building a factory in Mexico, so what happens?

In theory we could try to compete with Asia on labor costs, but nobody really wants that. It's better to have middle class jobs than a larger number of subsistence-level jobs, especially when the output is the same.
Agree. Over use of animation. All these are good examples.

If Google has 50+ projects, then it's best to just have a page with multiple rows, each row is a category, and upon click can expand down to what #3 looks like. Or perhaps just GitHub README... it's pretty nice to read.

[1]: https://netflix.github.io/
[2]: http://twitter.github.io/
[3]: http://etsy.github.io/