skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The economics behind women earning less just don't add up. If I'm a CEO and know I can hire women who do the same work as men for 20% (or whatever the figure is) less money, I'd only be hiring women. If the pay discrepancies are that great, why isn't this happening?
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"heavy shock" is much easier than "electrotetanize"
Reading the article, I come to the opposite conclusion. Of course I need GraphQL! I want these problems solved out of the box. I want to build on the shoulders of smart people who already solved them.

APIs are contracts. As a method of expressing those contracts, REST just doesn't have enough vocabulary and it is too simple. You have to make too many decisions on your own. That is where the "ful" comes from in RESTful :) Plenty of effort has been put into fixing this, but those tools never really received enough traction. They also fail to solve all the problems outlined in a single cohesive way. JSON-API is maybe the closest thing that currently exits.

Contrast that with GraphQL's explicit typed vocabulary. A more rigid and explicit language for API contracts. It is a godsend for writing complex APIs. Everything works out of the box. The developer friendliness also is fantastic (GraphiQL is the killer app). GraphQL places a high priority on developer and consumer UX which is something that previous iterations like SOAP and WSDL were lacking.

TLDR: GraphQL makes building complex JSON APIs easy. Sure you might not need it. But you probably want it.
When are we going to stop the insanity around credit card points and get to a system where credit card usage is no-frills and cheaper across the board?
what if the marketplace doesn't care? they only care about cheap rides
Actually, probably. My parents are in very rural TN, and they get their telephone and internet from a rural co-op [0]. A few years back, that co-op got a grant (though, federal I think) to roll out fiber, which blew everyone's mind. They can get up to a 100/100 internet package for $130/mo now after having been stuck on dial-up well into the 2010s.

It's not going to do anything for cities, but there are alot of people who don't live in major cities. It's all the areas outside that that have no broadband of any sort that this bill is helping.

Check out http://www.tnelectric.org/members/ for a map showing all the land areas served by electric co-ops who would now be able to provide internet and apply for grants, and that's not including places that have telecom co-ops for their internet but get power via a city/county organization.

[0] - http://wktelecom.coop/
I'm not aware of a single company in the city where I live that provides such perks. Some companies might offer a few, but not at Google or Facebook's level. This is in a metro area with over a million people.
> Multiply this by millions and you see

I would be curious to know how many websites have millions of paying subscribers.
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Thoughts From Jeff Bezos: Amazon 2016 Letter to Shareholders
Update: The author is always using a collection of 1,000,000 entries. The horizontal axis is the number of lookups, into a collection of 1,000,000 entries, e.g. always ~ 20 entries in the tree. So the x-axis is logrithmic, but the y axis is linear and we expect the graph to be linear.

Original comment: Good question. The x-axis is logrithmic, the y axis is linear. Without cache effects, std::map and lower_bound should take logrithmic time, so should be a straight line on the graph. Also, unordered_map should be constant time, independent of size. So its either cache effects (including swapping / thrashing), or there's some other overhead that's dominating the whole thing, and the author isn't measuring what they think.
Games depend on sales and they're extremely complex, so they take a very long time to build. You don't know if the game is going to sell well before you make it. They're just like movies in this respect; it's a "hits business", and only a few companies last very long under such arrangements. Additionally, people are desperate to be employed by a game company, so the competition for stable/permanent employment is fierce.

Most software developers are employed to write custom software for internal use by their employer, which is expected to last for years and will generally receive a lot of continuing investment. Almost every company of substantial size has such a project, so there are plenty of stable employment opportunities. If the company doesn't want to use its old software anymore, they keep their employees onboard because they have useful knowledge about the business and what does/does not work from the prior package. None of this is really relevant or true of game companies.
Has everyone watched the video? There is a point in the video where "things went wrong" and it happens right before the officer makes the decision to physically touch the passenger and begin to assault him in order to remove him.

Immediately before that point, there are a multitude of things that could have been done or done differently. The choice was made by that one individual to physically take hold of the passenger who was ultimately, peacefully, declining to deplane.

For example ... the officers could have:

1. Explained to the passenger and everyone around him about how he is single-handedly delaying everyone else's arrival home right now.

2. Gave several warnings, spaced out appropriately over time, that increased levels of escalation will be involved, up to and including the point of physical removal. In other words, telling him he will be forcefully removed against his will for not obeying the law.

... and so on with certainly more creative approaches that I wouldn't necessarily expect a typical police officer to think of and/or employ.
Just out of curiosity (it's not my field), what are those 3 renderers that matter right now?

Somehow I read your comment as V-Ray is not among them as being last-gen. I remember that years ago there was a lot of buzz regarding Arnold (and it was justified to some extent AFAIR, at least judging by opinions of pleased 3D crowd), but maybe it's last-gen too now? Many years ago there was Brazil, but quick googling shows it's only for Rhino now? I haven't heard about Redshift till now, though.
I checked a few months back in Brooklyn and it cost $550/mo for a desk with a door. No windows, and not enough room for two people to stand in...at least it made me appreciate my home office more.
I think they're one of the better VPN companies but they're under US jurisdiction, which makes them vulnerable to NSLs and other forms of government surveillance. Yes they don't log, so they can't be subpoena'd for past information but they can be compelled to provide ongoing interception.

I'd be interested to know however whether the US government can intercept traffic to/from:

- Servers located in the USA but operated by VPN companies incorporated and staffed outside the USA.

- Servers located outside the USA but operated by VPN companies incorporated or staffed inside the USA.

It seems to me that as long as you're using a US-based VPN server, there's always the risk the cloud or transit provider can be compelled to intercept traffic regardless of the owner's jurisdiction.

The question of how well protected non-American servers operated by Americans are still seems to be unanswered too. Microsoft seems to be winning their case against handing over overseas data[0] but Google seems to be losing[1].

[0]: https://secure.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/01/mi...

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Revolution in trust at the heart of fintech's success
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I didn't mix Z and Parsi. I didn't even mention Parsi. I just can't find anything online which suggests Indian Zoroastrians accept converts. Just (dispassionate) explanations that they don't. And that's fine with me.

I've no doubt that there are some deracinated Parsis in the West that claim that "nobody minds" in order to make Z fit in with other religions. But that strikes me as almost a form of group suicide. If you feel that way about other groups it would end with their erasure. Why not just concrete over North Sentinel Island and turn it into a startup hub?
For the whole pipeline, you should also connect:

Tinder + your calendar app + Opentable

to automate the dating process.

The output of that can be the input of this.
> If you're describing Parsis, then likely no.

I'm also from a community that combines a religion with a tribal identity, so I left the question purposely vague since I have no idea which of these carries how much importance to Parsis.

[0] Yes, the guests of King Koroush.
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So basically none of the results are remotely relevant to real use. Except maybe that unordered_map is faster on large data sets than map.

Another thing I noticed is it starts with the example of a type column on a database, then proceeds to use graphs with a logarithmic scale on the x axis but not the y axis, so you can basically only see two data points, which are for millions of strings. He also only uses long strings, where I would expect the type column to be the opposite

This means even if the benchmarks were valid, I still wouldn't know what to use if I wanted to map 2-10 different short strings to numbers I wouldn't know what the right answer is. Of course the real right answer for that case, which I'd guess is a perfect hash function, wasn't tested.
Nobody is talking about conscious computers here.

The issue is recorded conversions from your home being made available to the government: https://www.inc.com/joseph-steinberg/amazon-alexa-recordings...
Agreed. I avoid the box where I have the DVD of "Threads" still.
Great article. 100% agree. Especially the category theory example.
https://threepanel.com/t/cube-drone/18/157
I would disagree with this. Facebook definitely has no problem creating an endless stream of content with >5% ad density.
One of the issues is that destroying a nuclear submarine is an ambiguous operation with respect to nuclear war. Are you really going to launch nuclear missiles in response to a sub sinking? With land based ICBMs, it is unambiguously a nuclear attack and you would respond appropriately.
Physical wedding invitations are still tradition such that people may get offended if they do not get one in the mail.
"At around 1,000,000 elements our unsorted vector takes around 32 minutes to lookup a string."

I don't at all believe that C++ can only iterate through 2000 strings a second. Python takes an imperceptibly small time to iterate through an array of a million strings when I test it out in my repl, and I imagine C++ would either be as fast or somewhat faster. This number is so ridiculous that it makes me very skeptical of the rest of the article.
It's not like I've eaten at BK in last 40 years. But this is the kind of thing that pushes a company into my "never do business with them ever" category. Currently only Comcast and AT&T have that distinction.
I ran fdupes on a random directory once, very interested to see what it would do. After spending an extraordinary amount of time checksumming everything (I don't even remember if it had a progress bar) it spat out a very confusing text file I wasn't able to make sense of at all.

My plan is to write a multithreaded disk [re]indexer (since full indexing sadly seems to be the only solution at the moment; no filesystems have a "fast dump" mode yet), along with a bunch of utilities that try to make sense of the generated index.

(By "[re]indexer" I mean that, if you pass the indexer an old database, and any file has the same size and mod/ctime as what's in the old database (or matches any other rule you specify), the checksum for that file won't be recomputed. You could also pass in an old database and simply tell the indexer to scan a specific set of subdirectories on disk that you know have changed, and the indexer would copy simply copy the old database to the new for every path/file outside the ones you've specified.)

Building an index and then working off of that has a lot of benefits - instantaneous visualization without needing to rescan the disk on every program start, realtime similar-file searching, listing every file with the same checksum as you browse around, etc.

Obviously this tool will wind up on here when I eventually (:P) do write it. I probably should think about starting on it already but in all seriousness I'll likely be motivated to start working on it once it looks like I'll finally be able to put my ZFS pool together. (Hopefully that plan doesn't backfire, and I don't get the remaining $ all at once and abruptly wind up with a bunch of disks and no tool... and we wind back to the first approach, of just starting now)

Local storage is definitely the goal, once I can afford it (expensive medical issues that prevent me from straightforwardly getting a traditional job are really fun, FYI xD). I don't really find cloud storage flexible enough for my requirements at this point.

Sadly the NBN has been sufficiently politically meddled with that it's not likely to be 1Gbps - and indeed current installations are only 100Mbps with no path past that. But I heard recently on a news story (on the radio of all places) that if people need an upgrade path with the NBN, that that will be available. Nobody mentioned how much said upgrade would cost, but I'd be willing to drop a few hundred on it once I have a job. What on earth issues do you have with your connection?! lol
Well-played! I was testing you! Not really; I made a mistake. Still, though, I'm not doubting that packaging in aggregate isn't a problem, but as far as anyone individually is concerned, a few bits of plastic are the least of the planet's concerns.
You're no fun at parties then.

You should be upset that someone querying those things can feasibly scare you about triggering some kind of investigation.
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Yeah, one person flying to your wedding would do much more than all the paper invites combined.
Maybe, if the words were actually informative, there'd be less jumping to conclusion.

As it stands, the blog post just isn't very transparent. It mentions PIA "provid[ing] us with opportunities and resources going forward, including an operating budget", and that it is "now officially part of the PIA family".

So you have money changing hands, and property changing hands. That doesn't sound like a sale, it's what it is.

Unfortunately, it's rather thin on substance regarding future intentions. But I guess it could indeed make sense purely as a pro-bono project with a bit of a PR windfall for PIA.
Productions such as the faux-BBC video and "The Day After" remind me that the word 'obscenity' is utterly wasted on pictures of naked people, when it applies perfectly to high-altitude nuclear mushrooms created by global banking interests.
Here's an old Soviet joke for you:

"Comrade Stalin, I heard you collect political jokes."

"Yes, I do, comrade."

"How many have you collected?"

"Three and a half labour camps' worth."

If you want an uninteresting life, expect that the police have no sense of humour.
Very cool stuff. I was going for some kind of javascript GPGPU utility with https://github.com/amoffat/gpgpu.js
> What happens next time FBI decides it was [sic] google to leave its device "always awake" on some person of interest ?

It seems like figuring out how to exploit these types of devices to be "always-on listening devices" is exactly the type of thing NSA, et al., would be interested in doing.
> Groovy is a quite lovely dynamic language and it's actually the best solution for BDD using Spock

There's something wrong when a testing framework hacks into a language parser to make the language statement labels have special meanings like function names do, and overload the `|` operator in expressions so data will appear as a table in the source code. "Lovely" isn't the word for that sort of thing.
Legally allied is a bit vague, no?
It comes down to cost. Shipping with FedEx would likely break their unit economics.
You think it's simple, but you're ignoring all sorts of error handling and alternate process paths.
Why do you need to "automate" an action you're expecting to perform, in the happy case, once in a lifetime?
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for banking or credit?
I don't understand the mentality expressed in the article, where environmentalism is only observed for tiny pieces of waste that don't matter. These same people (like you mentioned) fly dozens of people on airplanes, which is so much worse. Or they have kids or don't update their home's insulation or drive a gas-guzzler. At the end of the day, there's only so much you as an individual can do (and certainly the CEO of ExxonMobil is way more complicit in climate change than Jane Doe walking down the street), but as far as carbon footprint is concerned, paper invites (which are biodegradable) are barely a blip on the radar.
Blender currently has the best UI I have ever experienced in a desktop app. Their design philosophy is highly modular. But have you tried an older version from the Blender UI dark ages? Things weren't always so intuitive and everything was a big unstructured mess.

I also highly recommend trying out the Pie Menu addon addon in the settings. It's more or less becoming an official part of the Blender UI flow
Book pins corporate greed on lust bred at Harvard Business School
The importance of emotion in AI systems
Numerai leverages power of distr. intelligence, machine learning, blockchain
These devices absolutely engage in interstate commerce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY

Really interesting documentary from Wired that tangentially touches on this mentality.
RaaS? Relationship as a Service.
As a kid Threads terrified me in a way which still resonates. I never understood what the big deal about Te Day After. When I watch it now I actually find it somewhat amusing. Threads, not so much

Considering the relative difference in our reaction to TDA I'd concur you shouldn't watch Threads. It's that much more intense.
Also, re: invites-

Everybody seems to forget paper is a renewable resource. Cutting and re-growing as it is practiced in the regulated world (ie. all countries with stable governments) is actually good for the environment.
> I also don't necessarily think of Comcast as a design we should follow

I think when Comcast does it better, people should consider that the bottom level they need to achieve.

I do imply it will cut people off. People need to think about these issues as soon as "free" dies. I await the various Netflix-for-news attempts.

Just as the next level of problem is the bank-less. That is one more step down the line. A lot of the bank-less have jobs that pay above minimum wage but had a bad streak. Walmart understands this given their financial services. I'm starting to think with ads going down the tube someone dealing with web content better start walking through the implications.
And to find what percentile your individual income is at: http://graphics.wsj.com/what-percent/
The same kinds of people who admonish you for taking an elevator because it's bad for the environment, even when your legs are sore from cycling to work.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14100989
I've been running my affiliate business for a long time on several cards, but have so far found amex gold / platinum to be the best if you have any measure of marketing expenses.

The gold business card gives 3X points on Facebook/google ads, while the business platinum gives 1.5x points on purchases over $5k (useful for equipment purchases). You also get 50% points back on preferred airline travel bought with points directly through amex.com

I do realize that not everyone has credit sufficient to get these two, but if accessible they are great.
Yes and computers run on magical energy dust.
And yet, we live in the present. The rate of software bloat is outpacing improvements in commodity hardware.
I feel like there always a background acceptance of this which younger people will never understand. I've had this conversation and they always say "yeah, it's like the threat of terrorism" and I try to make the point that global destruction was something a bit different.

Much like terrorism though you didn't live in constant fear, but there was a certain gallows acceptance
Magic AI: These are the optical illusions that trick computers
If you're gluten intolerant then you're also in the minority.
Why Wine Tastes Better on a Plane
This does not particularly concern me, as Alexa only transmits when you trigger it and stops transmitting soon afterward. If that's too much for you, I'm not going to try to change your preferences. All I'm saying is, I'm OK with a device that is constantly listening for a trigger, and I'm OK with a device transmitting messages at my request, but that doesn't mean I'm OK with advertisers attempting to exploit the device.
You can check out https://aframe.io for easy way to do WebVR content creation.
No the article is right OData offers most of what graphQL has now since 2012. Honestly aside of the HATEOAS principle (see ion).

But the key difference is the community engagement and corporate sponsorship, OData had only a lukewarm support from Microsoft and others like SAP. And aside Apache Olingo there isn't much left in library support. (Trust me I'm sad to have to write this).

GraphQL on the other hand is drawing both community and corporate support including full support from FB. Time will tell if this will diminish, but the support seems to mimick the success with golang.
I guess it's a kind of armchair environmentalism: it's easy to "go green" by switching to canvas bags (which _does_ help, a little), but then not make large, more sacrificial changes that would _actually_ benefit the environment. I don't know. It's tough, though, because to a large extent we're forced into lifestyles that are bad for the environment. You can't just decide to stop using the electricity produced by the coal power plant in your city, for example.
Just to note that this (to run scripts/executables you must specify the cwd in the cli invocation)is also the case for PowerShell. So, not unknown in the Windows world.
I had this comment from a recruiter on LinkedIn:

The CCNA Security only costs $180. It's a very small investment and I don't see why anyone serious about security wouldn't spend the money to get certified

It's like they viewed it as being completely outside of any actual training and development time - even the person hiring saw it as a sticker you were meant to buy.

Edit: Interestingly, this vendor specific cert is far more valuable in my country than anything like CEH if recruiters are anything to go by
"Files that just close": Ironically, VSCode adopted that feature from Sublime, and it works exactly the same. They're "preview" tabs, which you can recognize by the fact that the title is rendered in italics. You can make the tab permanent either by editing the file, or by hitting Cmd-K-E (on macOS, no idea about other OSes).