skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Having a girlfriend from here and sharing an apartment with her (she also makes 6 figures) rather than strangers makes things a lot easier.

She's an EU/US dual citizen so she could move to Europe with me, but opportunities for soft skills people are hella scarce on that side of the pond. It's hard enough over here.

And 2 million capital vs 300k capital is big difference in "amount of things available" ;)

I'd prob wanna move to Paris or Berlin or NYC eventually. All cheaper than SF.
Not to mention the fact that Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse, has strict employee protection laws and strong unions.
I heard or listened to an anecdote about how credit reporting would actually be a perfect application for ML, but ML companies are fearful of stepping into a minefield of "you can't do this" regulations.

If an algorithm found some correlation between your "credit worthiness" (however their proprietary IP chooses to define it) and race or color of skin (or some proxy of), then using that information would be (legally) discrimination, say most legal experts speculating on a hypothetical (but bound to happen eventually) case. The fact is, yes, ML could probably discover a bunch of novel correlations that increase effectiveness by 7.8%, but since we can't really describe what "model" or way of thinking about our world the deep neural net is using, it's too easy to build a racist and discriminatory credit report. Kinda like that microsoft twitter chatbot that had to be taken down because it was learning from (and repeating) the racist garbage that a bunch of trolls were feeding it. Point is, it's a minefield.

But it's going to happen. Someone's going to try it.

And that's what the dark side of these companies like CoreLogic is: when real people's life events are influenced by the outcome of these databases, what's a societally-acceptable error rate? And what mechanisms are in place to check it?

Not saying CoreLogic is using racist ML credit bots. Not even saying the problem here is racism. I'm saying we've decided to put rules in front of credit reporting companies because, even if it's unintentional, it can lead to outcomes we all decided "you know, we have these ideals we're trying to strive towards and this isn't it." You also don't need a conscious conspiracy to output a racistbot -- microsoft didn't set out to make one, they just didn't think to build in a troll filter.

So yeah, CoreLogic isn't scamming renters out of such small amounts, but they are benefitting from an environment that allows such scams to exist.

Put another way, if there was some pending legislation that would make it harder for these scams to work (eg CoreLogic being legally obligated to also publicly report how many inquiries an inquirer has made with CoreLogic for the purpose of this specific property), do you think CoreLogic would spend lobbying money protecting their interests and preventing this at the expense of the consumer? Of course they would, reporting regulations are a huge operating expense! (wait... aren't you a company specializing in reporting...?)

That's why the author made a few swipes at the less-regulated corner of the credit report industry.
> Well, whoever made it is really serious about providing support.

They sure folded early in this case.

In the tech support jobs I had back in the day, the customer calling the product a piece of shit was just a form of greeting. Surprisingly often, we were able to win them back. We didn't have the option of being this thin-skinned.
Does android have a patch mechanism OEM's can use to distribute the patches or do they have to distribute a whole new image?
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Here's an interesting case from the open-source world.

Apache holds the "Apache Maven" trademark. Apache Maven is a build management/automation tool which uses a lot of "plugins".

The peculiar part is that Apache won't let you name your plugin "maven-<foobar>-plugin" whereas "<foobar>-maven-plugin" is allowed. The wording is:

"Calling it maven-<yourplugin>-plugin (note "Maven" is at the beginning of the plugin name) is strongly discouraged since it's a reserved naming pattern for official Apache Maven plugins maintained by the Apache Maven team with groupId org.apache.maven.plugins. Using this naming pattern is an infringement of the Apache Maven Trademark."

https://maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/guide-java-plugin-dev...

To be clear, we're talking about technical naming here, similar to how you'd name a package or an executable file. These names are actually composite, the full plugin name consists of a "groupId" like "com.acme.foo" and "artifactId" like "<foobar>-maven-plugin". For non-"org.apache.maven.plugins" plugins groupdId is mandatory, so "com.acme.foo:maven-foobar-plugin" makes it pretty clear that it's not an Apache development.

I'm a plugin developer who had the bad luck naming my plugin "maven-<foobar>-plugin" before this convention was established. There's an established user base, a lot of documentation, StackOverflow tags etc. There exists also an alternative plugin named "<foobar>-maven-plugin".

But still once in a while I get contacted by someone (from Apache or totally unrelated) who educates me on how the name of my plugin infringes on the Apache Maven Trademark.

I strongly disagree with this and my position was ever since that if Apache wants to enforce this trademark, they are totally welcome to send me a "Cease and Desist" letter. I'll print it out, hang it on the wall and then shut down the project.
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I love FPS but hate multiplayer. Firstly, my ping sucks so I get killed very easily. Second, I dont play that much so get killed by the kids who are playing all day. Hence I rarely play multiplayer if I can avoid it.
One thing for a software or services based company, but if you are a product based company that needs significant capital investment to get production started, and you haven't got any credit history to be able to get a bank loan, then crowd funding seems to be a legitimate way to go. Plus you get the added bonus of getting marketplace validation from your actual customers if they fork out the money to subscribe to you.

First responder to this thread was pretty much lambasting all projects that opt for the crowd funding pathway, which I think is a grossly unfair judgement call.
This seems a bit like altering the terms of the sale after the sale has completed.

He bought the product, he's entitled to the product -- a refund is not sufficient since the purchase cannot be rolled back.
Thank you! I am searching for an idea.
Is Hadoop/MapReduce still as relevant now as it was a few years ago?
What stack would you set up today for a standard Big Data processing system?
It was a typo you silly men.
I can't believe people are still buying any "cloud powered" crap for their homes

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice...

Don't buy anything "cloud powered/IoT stuff" unless you know what you are doing and the product has been vetted by the general public and you're aware that there will be breaches

Right now the number of IoT stuff I intend to buy is Zero
Amazon lets far worse things go unnoticed, like fake medical products. Why? Because of the money.
To be fair, the Zune was Steve Ballmers baby, I'm convinced Satya Nadella (I thought it was a woman for the first year or so) would make a better product in that regard.
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If only Gimp wasn't so odd to use as a verb. Perfect time to start a "Adobe says don't photoshop it" campaign :)
You're asking the wrong person; I am assuming OP is not intentionally misrepresenting the situation.
"Senior Developer" is the new "Entry-level developer". Now we have job title inflation.
> They don't get proper investment for a reason.

That's not always true. Ergodox-ez.com has an awesome product (a keyboard) they funded through indiegogo. Not to mention basically every 3d printer company, even the VC funded ones.

Crowdfunding (and pre-ordering in general) helps hardware startups raise the cash they need to manufacture a batch of product. Without it, they'd have to raise the full cost of the batch in advance, (which is probably a lot,) on the hope that customers will buy it up. I can't think of many startups that have that much goodwill from investors.

It makes sense to be extremely skeptical when giving your money to an early-stage company, whether as an investor or a pre-order customer. But writing off crowdfunding in general means you're writing off almost every hardware startup, including some of the great ones.
It would cause problems if the customer wanted to continue using the product after leaving the bad review.
I think one of the hard things about academia (by ways of "pure research"), is measuring impacts. In some positions there are metrics which are more representative of real progress than others. My belief is that measuring an academic's "impact" is a very fuzzy thing in the long term, especially when you bring in people who don't specialize in the same field. That's a reason this can't be generalized fully, though you can probably find corollaries.

But, your last sentence to me, seems like a good one. Presumably, that would be an excellent topic to pursue research in, considering we clearly don't have a working theory on it (but that's not my specialty so who knows, maybe there's a bunch of smart people being ignored about it). Thus, it's hard to measure progress in, and we institute perverse incentives per the article.
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It has much less to do with money than you think. There are people who would be very dangerous if they had leisure time, rich or poor, for we're all the mob.
> you can search for a job with an employer who would be willing to sponsor an H1-B

What is wrong in doing that?
> Judging someone's character based on a single incident isn't a great thing to do.

By the same token, publicly castigating someone because you couldn't get their software to work on your device isn't a great thing to do either. Perhaps the developer sells his gadgets so he can house sick kittens, and he was up all night trying to nurse a particularly sick kitten when the angry email came through??
Well, it might not. Can you clue me in to the specific scenario you're thinking about?

Input rate limiting + known key size should provide a concrete search space.
When can I play this?
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if they had even just said "you are a jerk and no one in this company is paid enough to deal with you; here's how to return your device for a full refund and here is a list of our least favourite competitors for all your internet-of-shit needs" i would have been 100% on their side. effectively bricking his device was beyond the pale, and says that you can't trust them to control your gadget from their servers.
Totally agree with you!
Blogspam of

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even years ago, a model s was as expensive to own, all costs accounted for over the span of seven to ten years, as a honda odyssey minivan. they are about to release a car that costs 35000 dollars.
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> HW resources: games run on extremely tight HW budgets

Come on, you could have decent AI back in the day that pinned me down and made me run for cover, then had me at that cling gling oh shit moment when a perfectly timed grenade lands at your feet just as you were starting to take a breath†. Today we're stuck with scripted sequences and playing whack-a-mole with sniper rifles.

† only HL1, Halo and FEAR seemed to manage that.
Basecamp and Gitlab seem to be off to a good start. Github also is extensively remote.
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Not buried with it, you'd have a bell tied to you as you sat on a gurney waiting to be buried. They'd leave you for a period of time in case you awoke. There are instance where people were buried with poisons to take in case they woke inside the coffin - at that point its pretty much over for you.
yes blame the ping
Blogspam of

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with actual author credit (Kara Manke) ripped out.
The reality is that as long as companies keep building campuses and requiring people to come into the office in the Bay that many people can't move.

I work remotely, only because our building was shut down due to a natural disaster. And when management realized productivity actually increased for the three months all 500 of us were working remotely,they never reopened the office.
If it isn't fed the information then it can't discriminate. The meat and potatoes of the issue seems to lie in the "some proxy of" clause. Is unknowingly using some proxy for race really discrimination though? I'd imagine several things could be used as this proxy to varying degrees, everything from income to criminal history.
When I was in college, I bought used books and sold them online as soon as the course was over (unless there was good reason to think I'd use the book again). $29/month is a lot to spend unless you have the time and preexisting skills to use them to make that money back.
I guess you missed out on the original Deus Ex. It's still one of the deepest story-driven games ever made, let alone first person shooters. Every situation in that game had multiple, radically different approaches. The story had some significant branches based on your decisions, too.

The AI was a joke, though, but that now seems to add to the charm. It goes really well with the campy voice acting and over-the-top characters.

It's a game I'll keep recommending over and over again. The sheer amount of player choice, customization, and environmental openness and interactivity is tough to beat, even today.
haha. 200 USD the best I and my friends can do can do in my corner of the world. but ofc, "Weeer all living in Amerika, Amerika, AaMERika! Is wunderbar!"
I see Fenix wouldn't give autodidacts with no degrees a chance.
> I propose "the bigger the print, the stronger the statement". Therefore, if you make one claim in 24 point and then attempt to rescind or modify it in 8 point, the 24 is legally binding

The EU has a ton of regulation like that..
For example you can't say "free" if it's associated with a subscription or other tricks.
You must advertise the complete price if selling phones with binding subscription, etc..

IMO, there is still many shady business practices to kill.
But the EU is doing a great job at this.

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Good luck in the US, maybe you should just start by targeting the payday loan industry...
But not sure the current President is going to help Elizabeth Warren fix anything.
I think there's a wonderful game in this. You are trying to escape from a virtual reality world created by a computer that doesn't understand how our world works.

Make it procedurally generated and allow people to share the best ones they find.
This was an era where everything really technical was being done via IRC, FTP, and Usenet. WinAmp had yet to be released—let alone Napster.

Nesticle was important because it turned something that was once very hard into something quite easy, which is why it moved emulation away from a purely gray area. The same thing happened even more dramatically with MP3s just a couple of years later.

Soon enough, the gray couldn't stay gray anymore, because too many people were doing it.
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It's worth pointing out that the "big four" tech companies aren't the only tech companies worth working at. You could very well have a higher upside working at a small, remotely friendly company, from Chiang Mai or Bali where the cost of living is 1/15th of SF, and still have a relative mass of expats doing similar things.

Speaking from experience, I'm much more relaxed working from Bali, and I get paid only 20% less than I did in SF. Instead of spending 35% of my net pay on rent, I only spend 2.9% and have a higher quality of life in general.

When all your hard earned money goes to just maintaining social status or staying in a trendy neighbourhood, what have you got to show for it?
I agree with you, and I don't condone the bricking. I am sure that the rep regretted his/her actions in the cold light of Sunday morning. But I wish that users would also take some responsibility for keeping the conversation civil. I don't like that the user is seemingly always excused for being angry and irrational, but the company, be it a one man shop or a large mega corp is always expected to be a cold, faceless, emotionless entity.

ALL interactions are essentially a 1 person to 1 person interaction where simple things like common respect, politeness, understanding and constructive dialog should be considered.
For me the default colors on ubuntu were never welcoming. Changing them would be great. Hopefully with Unity 8 they choose better and warmer colors
After reading this, I immediately thought of the xkcd comic about the tiniest open-source violin. [1]

I find these cloud-connected ways of augmenting our home are really neat, but I think examples like these are why I wouldn't want the technology being proprietary or requiring a company's cooperation just to open a door.

[1] https://xkcd.com/743/
The biggest grouse I have with most linux desktops I have is the font rendering. I understand that it is to do with the patents on cleartype etc, but its been so many years with this problem
Ahh, Bloodlust Software. Noggin Knockers 2 and Timeslaughter. The pic in the tweet is of "Buddy" from those games. The character was hidden and was accessed by pressing the down arrow repeatedly on the character select screen until his "down syndrome" caused him to be selected. I'm sure the games suck but I LOVED them when I was 10.
It would be a strategically bad idea if CVS did allow purchases with Amazon bucks. I'm assuming the FAQ is just badly worded, because I couldn't imagine CVS making such an awful strategic blunder. It would be bad for CVS because:

- Amazon would be able to see what CVS customers are buying, for what price and in what combination. That would make it pretty easy for Amazon to pick off CVS customers.

- If a large enough percentage of CVS' sales were settled in Amazon bucks, it would put Amazon in a position where they could 'tax' one of their bigger retail competitors by jacking up 'transaction processing' fees.

You really don't want to be reliant on a wholesale monopolist who also happens to be a retail competitor.
Nice, I didn't know GOAP. I will try the game, generally I don't like to play against AI because they are so stupid.

Anyone with a good idea for my next game? :)
Yep. It usually turns out better that way.

(except I'm not sure how I feel about asking them to change their review at this stage)
> As a best selling author, he became a celebrity.

I thought the book only became a best seller after 1933, or am I wrong?
The "Lego Community" misses the point, arguing over the pluralization instead of realizing the company doesn't want you using the word to describe the blocks at all.
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I thought it would be interesting to see what are other people working on. Those projects of course might not be ready to be shown you can only describe them and the main problem though.

Project: I am building a neural network which should be able to generate few frames of the video given the preceding and following frames. Currently I am feeding the network with simple videos I have created where is only a single moving pixel. Since I do not have much experience with neural networks I thought this could be good start.

Problem: Up until now I have not realised how hard is to find simple video datasets.
i would say this is the epitome of followers vs leaders... a significant portion of devs are introverted, and don't have a life outside work, hence being in a social setting like the office is how they make friends and communicate with the world... yes i used to be one of them...

but once you have other avenues of creativity and life, suddenly working in an office is little more than mundaneness... i've been working remote for over 5 years, and usually do my best to hang out with my team ever few months, mainly to bond on a more personal level which can only be achieved in real time. but a week or two every few months is enough to gain that perspective. working remote is blissful.

there are two major problems. most companies are scared of remote workers because they don't have the trust that remote workers can integrate into the culture, and a large portion of people just can't handle working remotely. it's an art to be able to work without a definite schedule (like being at the office for x hours).

open space work environments are bullshit, read the actual studies done and all of them point to more controlled settings, which allow devs to get into the flow which allow them to produce some of their best work and allow the to be the most fulfilled by their work.

my dollar goes way father than the devs living in sf. i can visit when i want and then bail. i'd rather invest in my family, my house, and my hobbies than paying rent in sf or nyc. and yes there are plenty of cities that offer similar awesomeness for way lower price.
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This is because the Steam game actually includes the base game and both expansions (even though they are shown as separate items in Library, Steam downloads the files for them).