skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the new workers don't displace jobs as much as they also create them."

I doubt immigrants raise wages. They increase the supply of local labor without commensurately increasing local demand (immigrants habitually save and/or remit their disposable income, spending as little as possible to get by).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13977554
> people who are used to pasteurised think UHT tastes worse, people who are used to UHT don't notice the difference, or notice but don't mind either way.

Personally, I prefer the taste of UHT. De gustibus non est disputandum.
Australia has high immigration levels, and so a larger pool of younger workers to do menial jobs. Japan does not - quite deliberately.
It's a matter of time and importance.

Sure, I'd love to live forever so I could take the time to fully understand everything, but unfortunately I have to optimize my time, and learning the ins and outs of an engine just isn't that important in my day to day life.
Your ire is focused on the symptom not the cure.

Take a look at india and china, they have this exact same problem, and it's a result of immense demand for STEM engineers, no matter what.

Marketing employees will have gone through a STEM education on a regular basis.

The way it unfolds is this -

1) If you aren't a degree holder, you aren't employable, there's millions of degree holders fighting for a job

2) you are a degree holder? Well there's 1000s fighting for your position, are you a hard degree or soft degree?

3) HArd STEM? What's your pedigree?

In short - allowing the system to take root (degree as pre requisite for jobs), sets of a vicious cycle.

This cycle only begins when you have a large group of unemployable humans.

To compete and be employed they increasingly turn to signaling. Eventually the old signal (actually interested In learning) gets overwhelmed with people who just want a job.

it's a jobs problem not an education problem.
You can't make mozzarella with UHT milk. One nice thing about regular pasteurized milk is that it forms curds easier and has higher yield. I love going to the store and buying a gallon to turn to fresh mozz.
And http://www.whywork.org/action/lifestyle/money.html
Great work! As a demo, could you make a Reddit comment or thread search engine based on document embeddings? It would be interesting to search through the treasure trove with word vectors. The comment dataset is already available in the wild.
> South American carrier (I forget which) to have significantly different prices depending on whether the website is in Spanish or English

That's certainty true of Brazil's main airline TAM (now called LATAM). You often pay about 50% more as a foreigner. Note that Brazil speaks Portuguese, not Spanish, so your experience may have been with another South American airline doing the same thing.

Even if you use LATAM's Brazilian portal where you have to navigate in Portuguese, you won't get the cheaper Brazilian price. That's because they have this great little trick to determine if you're a foreigner. They demand that you enter your CPF number, a Brazilian national identity number, to buy the cheaper ticket from the Brazilian portal. And you can't make one up, or use the CPF number of a Brazilian friend, because they query a government database to verify that the CPF number matches the purchaser's name.

It's discussed in more detail here:

http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Booking_a_domestic_fl...

Collecting the CPF number is not dictated by the government. You can buy a ticket in person at a travel agency in Brazil or at the airport without a CPF number. As far as I can tell, this CPF business is LATAM's way to get a higher price out of foreign visitors for online purchases.
he uses the phrase "anti-fragile" which as far as i know was coined by nassim taleb in his book "anti fragile" kind of an economist or chaos theorist idk good book regardless
MetaFilter still kicks ass.
> being illegally indefinitely detained and denied due process

This is a mischaracterisation. If Assange wanted due process, he could leave the embassy and face the British (and then possibly Swedish) court systems. The only person choosing to arbitrarily detain Assange without due process is himself.
Very awesome, thanks for the extensive list!
Yes, this "xfinitywifi" public hotspot is enabled by default on many (all?) leased Comcast router-modems. Seems like many people in my complex are unaware or leave it open. I turn mine off.
https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...

For those that didn't google her. The first hit I got was a blog post about her sexual harassment at Uber.

After reporting the incident:
"I was then told that I had to make a choice: (i) I could either go and find another team and then never have to interact with this man again, or (ii) I could stay on the team, but I would have to understand that he would most likely give me a poor performance review when review time came around, and there was nothing they could do about that. I remarked that this didn't seem like much of a choice, and that I wanted to stay on the team because I had significant expertise in the exact project that the team was struggling to complete (it was genuinely in the company's best interest to have me on that team), but they told me the same thing again and again. One HR rep even explicitly told me that it wouldn't be retaliation if I received a negative review later because I had been "given an option". I tried to escalate the situation but got nowhere with either HR or with my own management chain (who continued to insist that they had given him a stern-talking to and didn't want to ruin his career over his "first offense")."
Five Ways Consortia Can Catalyse Open Science
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022

Corresponding Hacker News submission.
Indeed, I often use the term "magic" to describe something that happens for very arbitrary reasons or through an extremely complex and counter intuitive set of steps. I.e., code that uses gotos, hard-to-understand reflection, or code/language that has a large amount of esoteric assumptions and rules in the background.
I like the content on lobste.rs, the signal-to-noise ratio is great if you are looking for technical discussion only. It seems to be slowly picking up steam, too. I truly hate to ask, but if anyone would send me an invite to be able to contribute I would appreciate it.
I share your concerns, but I absolutely disagree with your last proposal: Universities should stay universities. There's a reason why civil engineers aren't pouring concrete and installing cables etc in a new hospital, for example. There are vastly more competent people for the tasks, and they all went to technical school (electricians, etc).

I actually think Universities do a disservice to their students if they promise them a curriculum that "leads to a job". You should go to University if you want to continue your formal education, not "to get a job". If you just want to get a piece of paper that lets you get a job, mentor with someone, go to a technical college, learn to "do" something. But Universities should teach how to think, that's about it, IMO. If you can find a job after should have no impact on the curriculum.
Why believe in a model that you can fit to whatever data you want?

I leave you with Feynman noting that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIN_-Flswy0&feature=youtu.be...

Your model seems to fit that description.
Adding data types to JavaScript with Closure
That's what I did for a client.

When a client sends an email it's parsed by an AI to find things that could be answered automatically (because the user can't be bothered to read the faq) it replies to the user.

It tells the user that it was answered automatically and ask him if it answers his question, if he says something negative it's forwarded to a human support
Thirty years ago the BASIC languages of the 8-bit computers used non-IEEE 754 floating point math (most typical I've found is 5-byte version---one byte for sign, one for exponent, three for mantissa).
My favorite is Lobsters: lobste.rs
This is simply thinking about thinking, which is allowed (at least in Zen) as long as one doesn't think about thinking about thinking. In other words, holding irrational beliefs and spreading those beliefs in a viral way, either in the population, or inside one's own head, creates suffering if there is no means to end holding the irrational beliefs.
If you want a lobste.rs invite, email me. sylvie / bit-booster.com
I live in NYC. That used to be a frequent problem, but I haven't had that happen to me recently. Whenever it did happen, I would cancel, contact support, and get my $5 back. It only takes a few minutes to contact support from within the app.
One of the nice things being back in New Zealand is the quality of the milk here - maybe it's just because I grew up drinking it, but it tastes vastly better to me. It has a much fuller flavour than anything I found in California - could be because all the cows here are grass-fed?

UHT is available here but for most people it's emergency use only.
Don't Outsource Software Maintenance
> Most of their travel traffic is from the leisure segment anyway, so them not getting business traffic isn't the end of the world

This. Southwest (and the other LCCs) can't really compete with the 'kickbacks' provided by traditional carriers. If you're responsible for a lot of corporate travel, or you do a lot of corporate travel yourself, carriers like AA effectively make it so you never have to buy a personal ticket, and get upgraded to a higher level of service on many of your flights.
Not all arts makes it to a world class museum or an international record release. The rest are bad arts with lesser acceptance but with more producers of such art! Hah!
Translation isn't "translation". It's rewriting a work or source in another language. Very few people can write in their native language, even, so finding a good translator is difficult.
I imagine this is highly region specific. I've lived in the us for 6 years now and I can't think of any near me. On the other hand I could easily locate a number of urgent care clinics.
Sadly still only providing download speeds, as Netflix (understandably) doesn't care about upload speeds.
And the 8086 (on up), the 68000 family, and the VAX also had BCD instructions. When I wrote my own 6809 emulator [1] the DAA instruction was the hardest one to get right [2]

[1] https://github.com/spc476/mc6809

[2] Specifically the condition code results.
It's way overhyped, but there's still a ton of potential. People are making progress on a ton of fronts, and there's lots of incredibly lucrative not-so-sexy stuff happening you won't see on HN. There's way too much hype on the promise of sci-fi like "AI" but people are coming up with novel ML/stats all the time. If there are practically useful AI-ish breakthroughs (the kind we may not see coming), that's cool, but not necessary to keep motivating investors/grant-writers to throw money at all it all.

As for deep learning, it doesn't feel like the well is starting to dry up or anything.
It's the drivers. If you read /r/uberdrivers one discovers that there are a host of tricks designed to game the system.
The article mentions that smallcheck doesn't qualify as property based testing. However it's hard to see what it is from its description. Any ideas what smallcheck does?

> SmallCheck is a testing library that allows to verify properties for all test cases up to some depth.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/smallcheck
I've built several fb groups I built from the ground up, but cap membership at 200 members.

Still want to build out cronofy.com integration to help members connect/meetup in person.
Hey don't forget - that poor Indian kid is still better off for it.
One of my greatest days also, but my take was that the explanation was good all along and I was finally able to understand.
As a person sensitive to the taste of milk (am I the only adult who just drinks it in a glass as opposed to putting it in other stuff?), I can also vouch for High Lawn - it's delicious. I don't really milk often, but when I do, I have no problem splurging for the good stuff.
Best April fools prank trending on producthunt
I'll usually call some technology thing "magic" when I mean to say that something is useful to me, but that its usefulness to me doesn't require me to understand it at any deep level (or even shallow level sometimes). Wifi is kind of like that: very useful to me, I use it every day... have almost no understanding of the ins/outs... it's PFM (pure fucking magic) to me. And I don't have much interest in learning about it more than than I know.... I've got other fish to fry. Same thing about my car's motor: I only know the most theoretical background of internal combustion engines... have me diagnose an engine problem? Ha! Everything in front of the firewall and under the hood may as well been conjured by Merlin himself.

Life is short. I spend it miserly on those things I have to or want to care about and wifi and car engines aren't those things (now).
> "What do you say, do we have a nice class-action on our hands?"

No.
>"Though unengineered Cas9 it's not great at editing a genome (we're not entirely sure why what it does even works) - but some 2-10% of the time it can actually edit a genome with fidelity."

Can you expand on the part I italicized, preferably also linking to some journal articles?
In Praise of Slowness
Many of us are interested in foreign affairs?
The politics seem to have gotten heavier on MeFi in the past few years. Now if you're not firmly on the Left you're really not welcome there.

It's still good for some culture stuff though.

HN is probably better on politics because there is real diversity of opinion.
Invest where you think you might end up. Or just invest everywhere; as a youngish American my (very small) future retirement stash is 50% broad-market US and 50% international (Vanguard VXUS). I think this is a reasonably prudent allocation for someone who isn't totally sure where they'll end up, which describes me.
Not the op, but probably because it is a confidence game, and con persons are more likely to have such traits.

ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
Interview with U. of Toronto professor and counterespionage hacker Ron Deibert
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Elon preaches the safe AI bible but somehow misses the obvious issues with linking your brain to a computer.
I believe you're right about the blame issues. I came here to post about that.

One other wrinkle... Having an algorithm strictly following rules and procedures to the T means that we're taking moral/human decision making out of the mix. This matters in situations where two different diagnoses may have the same treatment, but different outcomes on the patient's livelihood aside from their health. E.g., a human doctor may note that a tumor is just big enough to be considered cancerous, but marks it down as "pre-cancerous" in their official diagnosis. The treatment is still the same, but it keeps the more serious diagnosis off the patient's record, which can help them when dealing with insurance.

One follow-up argument to this may be that humans would have the final say in a given diagnosis, but I bet this wouldn't always be the case, particularly in lower income scenarios.

The final question to me is if the risk of the loss of moral agency outweighs the risk for incorrect diagnosis. I think there's going to be variance in the machine/human accuracy rates, and the need for a deeper understanding of the human condition.
OP is serious:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/insane-food-prices-...
I just wanted learn those keep myself update. As i am passionate about that
Apparently the explanation in the linked article originally came from a Hacker News comment a year and a half ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10560130
Dark Souls 3: DLC shield becomes the ultimate troll weapon
Replaced my Motorola/Arris SB6121 with a Zoom cable modem, going from 4 channels down to 16.

A month later, I saw that Comcast was billing me $10/month for not returning "their" modem. Called and raised a little hell because I've never rented a modem from them in 20 years of service. Got some minor credits for the next 3 months.

Got the Zoom because I figured it would deliver more consistent bandwidth when the family is doing lots of Netflix at the same time. No real problems with the SB6121.
Or, alternatively, build the power to try to prevent special interests from raiding the public treasury, be they pampered millionaires or public sector unions. Equal prosperity, instead of equal misery.
wonder (i) anything for mac and xcode based trial and (ii) any programmer suggested.

all just for hobby and my attempt to understand. have beadboard exprience and follow a course that use windows xp and M3 and a propeiority tool from TI.
There is. We don't need to consume them at all, as in, they are not beneficial AT ALL and they affect our bodies in a negative way. Dietary cholesterol contributes to clogged arteries and shit, like saturated fat, giving you type 2 diabetes, strokes and shit down the road, the hormones from meat and especially milk is found to give man-tittils, infertility and all kinds of stuff you probably don't want.
There was a PhD thesis that appeared on HN a few weeks ago - Algebraic Subtyping (which I still have open in another tab because I've been making my way through it at a dreadfully slow pace) and its core claim is that traditional type systems start from a simple interface, which results in a needlessly complex model, whereas starting from a simple model enables the development of a slightly more complicated, yet still elegant and simple interface.

The similarities between that claim and this one are striking.
False flags are inexpensive, sometimes free and they are deployed a fair amount. I am being serious when I say that it's suspicious that the media just with with their mile-wide inch-deep coverage of our air shooter and we're supposed to just follow them with their "see what fake news does!!!!" spin around the block. Nah. Like I said, I'll stick with my skepticism on this one until the media goes deeper into our shooter. Looks like our shooter's family has some political connections besides. Until then he seems like more of a convenient patsy to me. Gut talking there.

Side topic, St. Louis recently had a pizza incident make the news. Odd.
I work in the industry, and I disagree. If we want to be more exact, most of the airline volume is through Global Distribution Systems (GDSs). I'd say that truly "direct" sales are in a minority.

But sales through aggregators have soared (mostly using the Amadeus GDS)

As mentioned in other comments, corporate travel does not buy direct and, along with luxury travel, are the two last holdouts of travel agents - I agree with the article in that agents are becoming more irrelevant for non-corporate bookings, although they're fighting back :) .

See for example:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/3110756-global-distribution...

"market share loss due to disintermediation, which was starting to become a problem for GDS companies, has slowed considerably, according to Amadeus.

Airlines have realized that the reach GDS companies provide -- especially to business travelers -- cannot be matched by the airlines themselves.

Low-cost carriers (LCCs) like RyanAir (NASDAQ:RYAAY) and Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) didn't use GDS to sell their tickets. After their initial growth period, during which they tapped deal-seeking customers, their growth slowed down. They couldn't access the higher-margin business travelers. Hence, most of the LCCs, including Southwest, RyanAir, and jetBlue (NASDAQ:JBLU), had to come back to GDSs to increase their growth rates."
"We as a country need to have a conversation about patents..."

People keep saying this about whole host of issues, and it makes me wonder if that's ever happened about anything. Have Americans ever "had a conversation" about any issue and decided anything collectively like that?
If you take surgeons, they are trained for one thing. I know a bariatric surgeon who is an expert in medical weight loss but he could not define the word ketogenic. He told me I was foolish for going on a high fat diet (despite the fact that he's overweight).

Also my oncologist didn't know if some vitamins could actually help my cancer and he was skeptical that my diet could effect my IGF1 levels. He couldn't tell me how I got cancer and couldn't tell me any way to prevent it.

It makes me think there's a future potential problem of Establishment AIs vs contrarian AIs? How would it determine what is best with contradictory information?
Indeed. I became HOA president of my loft building as a defensive measure.
One experience I had with a bank that was hard in the past was querying specific account information, specifically routing numbers. Either search would tell me where to look on a check (great let me go find those) or give a generic FAQ. A chat interface can provide that without having weird navigation to boot. To be fair the bank did fix that search recently so it shows me my actual routing numbers now.

Also I just spent 50 minutes in chat with either a bot (or possibly human named Anil) with Comcast trying to sort out a billing issue. Spent 20 minutes trying to point out the lines in the bill I was disputing though I got the credit but I'm not sure if they actually knew why they were giving it. I'm not sure if it would have been faster to call by phone (usually not) but I thought I'd try the chat interface. I wonder if a good bot might be able to figure out context and get a human involved and give them relevant context faster and sped that interaction up.
If you're of a rationalist / philosophical bent you might like http://lesswrong.com

"Less Wrong is a community blog
devoted to refining the art of
human rationality."
Who is "Casey Neistat" and why should anyone give half a flip. Especially on HN.
Skit in hindi. funny
And Comcast only guarantees speed on wiring directly to their modem. Their Wi-Fi is generally unable to put out the full bandwidth you'll get off Ethernet.
Two ideas:

1) Coupons or discount codes in print and tv/radio ads (or using a unique URL, phone number, etc.)

2) Simply watching to see if leads traffic (however you define it: foot traffic, hits to website, calls, etc.) surges in the period post ad campaign (assuming you stagger your campaigns for better individual campaign tracking)
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2.- Send
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I would argue that's a different type of advertising.

Some campaigns are designed to increase some tangible result: more leads, more sales, etc.

Other campaigns, such as your Olympics example, are more general brand awareness and brand reputation/prestige building.
This must have been a long time ago. In my local super market it is harder to find UHT milk than fresh milk in the fridge. Which by the way has a two week shelve life because it is highly filtered.
Cas9 finds, then cuts both strands of DNA. Now you have to flat edges of a braid you must rejoin. This is called Non-homologous end-joining of DNA (NHEJ). The recognition, repair, fidelity, and correct repair during NHEJ is not well understood. Cas9 does no joining, no ligation, no pasting, it only does the snipping. The joining is done 'on it's own' by the cell at some rate, sometimes correctly, sometimes even uptaking an insert into the process. So insofar as Cas9 is doing any 'editing', the repair process is entirely an accidental after-effect of Cas9's targeted DNA breakage.

Here is CRISPR breaking DNA and creating the insult:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27866150

Some recent work on understanding how those double-stranded breaks actually repair themselves:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27924007

Some basic research in Yeast:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27915381

Double-stranded break repair in breast cancer:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28053956