skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These arguments were constantly going on in the 80s and 90s, where (assembly-enthusiast) people vehemently argued that machines (C compilers) will never optimise things as well as humans.

I still argue this way. But these kinds of optimizations are tedious and time-intensive (thus costly). Also dependent on the architecture, i.e. when some extensions (say new SIMD instructions) are added to the instruction set, the compiler sometimes is able to use them automatically (though typically in a very sub-optimal way), while hand-optimized assembly code has to be rewritten (costly). Also if you port your program to a new CPU architecture (say Intel -> ARM or ARM-A32 -> ARM-A64) hardly anything can be reused. Finally tight hand-optimized code tends to be much harder to add features to than more high-level code (say, C code).

So I believe these vehemently arguing people are right (and have always been). But this does not contradict the fact that in many cases a very suboptimal code generated by the (say C) compiler is often fast enough and C is much more economical to use.
See also: ubiquitous depictions of bright red shrimp, crabs, and lobsters swimming around in the ocean.
Keep in mind nacl/pnacl, as a more mature technology, is ahead of WebAssembly wrt features, such as threads, simd, etc.

I know these are coming to WebAssembly, but who knows how long it'll take.
https://github.com/airbnb/javascript
455GB is too low?
Urban Dictionary: T.R.A.P
No, it's pretty clear that Ross himself ordered the hits. He did it of his own volition, and he is the sole person responsible for doing so.
The Best Performing Cryptocurrencies of 2017 Thus Far
These:

- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja by John Resig (my favorite)

- Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke
>corporations shouldn't be able to engage in political speech

Corporations should be able to engage in political speech, as long it is done through their CEO or anyone that represents them officially, who then would be nothing more than just another citizen who happens to own a company, defending its interests. By all means, have an interesting debate, explain your point of view, reason as to why you'd like X or Y.

Money is _not_ speech. By allowing those citizens to contribute financially, in an effectively unlimited way through superPACs and other setups, you are throwing away the very foundation of democracy and equality amongst citizens when it comes to being represented.

>unions shouldn't be able to engage in political speech

Go ahead, same thing, debate! Make yourselves heard, in the streets or on television. But, once again, money can fuck right off.
With respect to healthcare isn't it more complicated? As regulations/laws can interfere with a negative right like the ability to self medicate?
Your response may not be as productive as you intended, it sounds a little dismissive.

>>Free Will has an agreed upon definition

It may have definitions, but used in isolation it's actually ambiguous as hell. Even between science and philosophy the discussions can be pretty divergent.

>>you should reconcile your beliefs with reality, not argue that the understanding of essential nature is incomplete or wrong

Quite wrong I would say. Our common goal is to interpret our existence in a way that provides the best life possible for us, and hopefully for those around us.

If a person can lead a happier life and do the most good for others only by not accepting a scientific principle then I would not discourage them from that.

In fact, if I could somehow unbelieve some science and be guaranteed my family would be happier I might consider it.

Some of us are just made in a way we can only worship at the alter of objective truth no matter what the cost or the pain. I don't think there's any way to change that, but I certainly don't want anyone to join the club at the expense of the most important goal we have.
Zuck dropped the offer because Yahoo lower the price to ~$700 million. He has famously said he would have sold FB if yahoo kept the $1 billion tag.

Buying companies for billions and billions of dollars is a skill in itself and requires a vision also which is not very common. I mean to say only people like Zuck can do it

Edit - Added some more meat
Build Services on a Backbone of Events
Valuentainment (how to videos for entreprenaurs)
> These are collisions that produce more power than is radiated as light by all the stars and galaxies in the universe at any given time.

Astounding, especially given that these are happening at regular intervals in our "neighborhood".
Well then there's the intonation, so let's call it bay-JING (likewise not IPA, just some characters on the screen).
Haven't had cable TV in as long as I've lived on my own (more then a decade). First off, I don't get a whole lot of value from it to justify the price. Second, I don't have time to arrange my schedule around shows I like ... frankly if it's not on demand on my schedule I don't watch it. Yeah, I could DVR it... but it's 2017 and the vendor should just do it for me.

Also, I'm unwilling to subsidize a handful of folks who watch sports channels (who collect the biggest fees) largely driven by the NFL. Doesn't help that I find NFL as an organization somewhat despicable too.

I've stuck with Netflix for the occasional movies / TV shows. I don't mind seeing them late as I don't want to wait artificially for next weeks EP (around my schedule not theirs). Occasionally when it took a while to get to Netflix/Amazon I bought a season and was happier for not having to be bother with OTA scheduling.
Yet another example of "nothing matters like success." Since 1989, China has gone on to have great success - both economic and diplomatic, and is on the verge (if not already achieved) super-power status.

Because of that success, there is not much anybody can do about human rights abuses, so most people don't pay much attention to it.
And impact wise fast default on content blocking is the feature that gives the biggest bang for your buck. It makes for a nice, fast and more secure browsing experience, plus it is a differentiation Chrome might be reluctant to enable (without crippling it too much).

Browser benchmarks should include how long does it take to watch a 30 sec youtube video from application start to finish or how much 3rd party feature/bloat/mal/adware it downloads connecting to $major_site.
+1 Same here. And I assume Youtube TV knows this as well as they are the only streaming service I know of pushing to include NBC, FOX, CBS, ABC local channels. "Stream live TV from ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN"
Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning (Winter 2017)
His own chat logs show him ordering hits.
> Netflix streaming, in my opinion, has degraded significantly in terms of programming choices.

One exception I'd say is that Netflix Original Programming is getting quite good. Narcos, The Crown, and Stranger Things are all fantastic.

But yes, in general their selection of quality 3rd party titles is horrible. It's rare to browse Netflix hoping to find a specific movie and not be disappointed.
There's a slide about what companies people would trust with their healthcare information.

There's also data about WhatsApp popularity and usage.
PlushCare |Full Stack Engineer|San Francisco|Full Time|Onsite

PlushCare is looking for motivated and talented individuals to join our engineering team. We're passionate about helping people and bridging gaps in a bloated healthcare industry that doesn't put patients first.

We’re well funded and backed by respected investors like GGV Capital (Airbnb, Square, Slack, Soundcloud) and Lightspeed Ventures (Snap, Grubhub, Nest), putting us in a unique situation to deliver much-needed features and services in the healthcare space.

Here are some of the meaningful problems we're working on solving:

- Aggregating scattered healthcare data to provide doctors with better tools for diagnosing and treating people

- Creating seamless and intuitive user interfaces for both physicians and patients

- Writing software that smoothly ties together components in a fragmented insurance industry

- Delivering on our mission to make a positive impact on people's health

We've had success hiring from hacker news in the past, so please don't hesitate to reach out to careers@plushcare.com if you're interested.
I wonder if it works with the ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable CableCARD Tuner. I'm still running it with Windows 8 Media Center Edition w/o any problems after 7 years of continuous use!

Edit: I just saw their Supported DVR Devices and Antennas web page[1] and ATI isn't listed :(

[1] https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/225877427
This is a bit unorthodox, but I personally got a lot out of taking the LISP code in Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and mentally translating the examples and solving the exercises in Javascript. There's apparently versions of the text around with the exercises pre-translated, though translating it myself was valuable to me.

Obviously, this will more teach you how to write good code that happens to be in Javascript, rather than taking an already-solid programmer and showing them the nitpicky details, idiosyncrasies, and browser APIs of Javascript.
I can tell you exactly why I'm not using FF: due to extremely poor support for switching between multiple profiles. Oh, it's possible, but compared to Google's seamless support for the same, its very awkward, even if you install an extension (which is only available from a third party).
> are the rates of black holes per volume well-constrained at all?

There are estimates. But two of the three LIGO detections are of black holes that are more massive than we had expected to exist (~ a few tens of solar masses). Previously we had convincing examples of black holes with <~ 10 solar masses and others with >~ 1e6 solar masses. But since we didn't have any convincing observational detections of BHs with ~20-40 solar masses, it's safe to say that the volume density is poorly constrained for that mass range. At the high end we have a reasonable estimate of the volume density, because we think all galaxies with spheroid components have a black hole and that the black hole's mass is linked to the spheroid.

> I was under the impression that it's a possibility that dark matter consists prominently of primordial BHs?

It depends on what you mean by "primordial". Micro-lensing experiments (when a star is brightly made brighter by the gravitational focusing of light from an object passing between us and the star), mostly looking towards the LMC/SMC [e.g., 0] have tried to address this. My recollection is that there aren't enough stellar mass black holes around to account for all of dark matter. Assuming Hawking radiation exists, low-mass primordial black holes should have evaporated by now, leaving only the more massive ones. There's a range in between the two, but I'm not sure if you can fit enough of them in a galaxy to account for dark matter while still being consistent with the sensitivity of the microlensing surveys.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Gravitational_Lensing_...

> The truth or falsity of this would seem to have a big effect on rates.

Possibly. Though in order to emit GWs, pairs of black holes have to become bound to each other. If black holes make up the dark matter halos, they probably have large velocities relative to each other, which would limit their ability to form bound pairs (though it is possible with 3-body interactions). I am not aware of estimates of the BH pair-formation rate in halos _if_ DM haloes are in fact made of black holes. But the event rate probably can't be extraordinarily high, otherwise we might expect to see dark matter halos becoming less massive as the Universe ages. Though there are many confounding factors that might hide such a signal.
The standard advice here is to throw your KeePass vault onto Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive, but I agree, keeping everything sync'd is a PITA. It's a problem that needs solving, but KeePass itself is probably not keen on solving it.
Is the software engineer position onsite only or are you open to remote?
Mirillis Action 2.5.2 Crack and Serial Key Free Download
That, Or they change their terms to suit EU laws..
React Native Six Months In
I reject your premise entirely. And I reject any notion of the idea that anyone else, aside from the person in question, gets to make the decision on whether they're out or not. That is my final say in the matter.
John Conway and Simon Kochen would like to have a word with you: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0604079
The numbers here are just staggering:

- Black hole merger occurred 3 billion light years away

- Two solar masses were converted to energy

- Briefly 10^34 megatons of energy were released every second

This is hard to intuitively wrap your head around because we think of space as constant. Something like this can distort space itself. Amazing stuff.
Lol good point. Nicely peeved out, well done.
I mean, it's only appealing to those of us not living under an oppressive regime. If I were in Stalinist Russia I would have been in no mood to appreciate that style.
Are you familiar with the newer mips revisions?

They have been​ modernizing the architecture during the last 10 years.
>> When you sell too early you don’t realize the full potential.

For every company you can find that sold too early, I can probably find 10 companies that had a good chance to sell that they should have taken.
Kind of a personal story, but my fiancé is from Beijing. She found out about Tiananmen square about a year ago. She only knew that she shouldn't ask about the Tiananmen incident growing up and that it was a bad thing that happened.

She has been in the states for several years now and when she found out what really happened with our even blurry images and stories we have now it really changed her perspective on things.

Even though its 28 years old, many of the younger generations don't know a thing about what happened, regardless if it's censored in their country or not.

History should not be censored like this. You should not have to move out of country to know what your country has done. I am extremely grateful for the brave photographer preserving his images for the world.
Apple Park's tree whisperer
Not only that, but if you are making UWP packages (for the windows store? I'm not sure if they are standalone as well), you can ship both x86 and ARM binaries together. I'm probably butchering the details, but the presentation and accompanying HN discussion was interesting[1]. The video is pretty cool, as they demo real running x86 and ARM binaries on the same system, and explain some seriously cool stuff WRT x86 emulation.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14318406
totally agree on this....for years my SO has pimped me out because I work in Info Tech....the first time i said "NO" to a simple task of copying some data off a HD for one of her mates.......she got pissed..and I got relief! was like a form of freedom....and if someone chooses to view this as 'unreliable'...fug'em. that is their own issue.
Smartcar API | Frontend, Backend, Sales | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com

We're a small team (9 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes since its inception. We believe the future of transportation is Autonomous, Electric, Shared and Connected. Smartcar is building an API platform to solve the "connected" part of it.

We recently launched https://teslabot.ai to show a sneak peak of what our platform can do.

The positions we are hiring for:

+ Sales Manager with 2+ years of experience selling to enterprise.

+ Frontend Software Engineer with 2+ years of experience with any modern frontend framework (React, Angular, Ember, ...). Our backend stack is Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Docker, AWS.

If you are interested in helping us modernize transportation and enjoy working in a collaborative environment, we'd like to meet you. Compensation is $95K to $130K + equity.

If you want to learn more, email me at sanketh@smartcar.com or call me at 530 475 2882. No recruiters.
Black holes have mass, just like any other object in the universe - like a star, or a planet, or the sun.

Consequently, they follow orbits just as any other mass would. In some cases, they're the local most massive object and any other masses move more in response. Other times they are near other black holes, and they orbit one another until they collide and merge.

What makes black holes different is their density. The mass a black hole has is confined in a point of zero height, width and length called a singularity. The consequences are as we know, not fully understood by current models of physics.

edit: spelling

They do indeed move. It's conceivable that a black hole of mass X could be observed orbiting a red super-giant star of mass 100X. I don't think this happens much though, but the universe is big so who knows.
I have a similar setup, with the exception that I haven't been able to get Comskip to run in a headless way. It's been great.
As a supplementary resource rather than a primary learning guide, I found this site[1] to be profoundly helpful. It explains a lot of the intricacies, oddities, pitfalls and points of confusion in the language.

[1] http://bonsaiden.github.io/JavaScript-Garden
Great way of putting things: "I’ve discovered that most people are really good at finding obstacles."
Needs "in California" or something.

None of the boxes here are pink that I can think of. Lots of white and yellows.
No, my background is entirely in CS. This is the first circuit and electronics work I've done, though I have two friends much more acquainted with electronics than I who have been giving advice.
Administrate (https://www.getadministrate.com) - Edinburgh, United Kingdom

We're one of the fastest growing tech companies in Scotland, looking for engineers and people in sales.

We provide an EdTech solution that helps training departments and training companies manage their operations. We have beautiful office views of the castle from our city centre location, and we work a 4 Day, 32 hour workweek. You can read more about that here: https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/21/four-day-week/

Looking for:
* Software Engineers
* Designers
* Testers
* Smart people who get things done
I think we don't measure productivity of knowledge workers well, so we can't see how much progress we make based on IT changes. How do you measure the improvements that come from me sitting at my desk and coding up the OS? You measure second and third degree effects. You could argue windows doesn't matter compared to linux in productivity, but in either case the lives of pharmacists and ability to dispense drugs are much higher today than they were in the 50s. You can have robots count out the pills. The doc doesn't call my pharmacy, a computer manages telling them the prescription. We do have more drugs being prescribed, but I am convinced (I do need some evidence though) that the reason the economists claiming persistent lack of productivity growth is because we don't measure it accurately in the modern age. It's more that more comfort for pharmacists.
Possibilities with smart real-time location events
Still, I gots to know what happened to tank dude. I gots to know.
SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely.

16 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/macOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion.

* App maintenance. Bug fixes, enhancements, keeping track of iOS upgrades

* Building of SDKs

Experience working across timezones.

More details: http://hboon.com/hire/
Boost AI | Multiple Positions | Stavanger, Norway | full-time | ONSITE | http://boost.ai

We have created a virtual assistant for the European finance sector. Our virtual assistant understands over 1600 intents related to banking and insurance, and it understands most of the nordic languages plus english and spanish. We are a young company that just celebrated one year with a team of 25 people, 18 of them has been hired this year.

Our tech stack is Java, Grails, Python, Flask, Vanilla Javascript, HTML5, Canvas, PostgreSQL, Lua, Torch, Linux and AWS.

AI trainers: Help training our virtual assistant in new languages and domains.
Salary: 425000-475000 NOK + Bonus

Junior developers: Front-end, back-end, SQL, API's, infrastructure.
Salary: 425000-600000 NOK + Bonus

Senior/Principal developers: Front-end, back-end, SQL, system architecture, infrastructure.
Salary: 600000-1200000 NOK + Bonus

If you live in Norway and this sounds interesting, email us at: job at boost dot ai
Potential is defined pretty loosely as "1/200 chance of being worth 10 bil plus" based on their track record so far.

You might be able to do that if you had enough amazing people / companies offering you equity.
from my experience, contracts work like this:

- some person in the organization - usually some PM or VP or some other management type - politics for getting budget. some finance person approves budget. the person who requested the budget "hires" you.

employment works like this:

- the same person politics for headcount, reads resumes, employs some kind of interview process, gets HR involved. HR has quite an opinion on who can be hired and who can not, and they are not at all about ability.

If you move from a contract to employment, you still go through HR. HR won't even touch your contract situation. Doesn't matter to them.

That being said, if anything, you should earn MORE on a contract than on fulltime employment. Employment is cheaper than contracts.

If 85k would be your target salary, they should be paying you an easy 60/hour on a contract.

If I was you, I'd understand this as 3 months of cheap labor into "sorry bro, HR nixed the headcount, good luck".

You NEVER budge on compensation. Maybe if Elon interviewed you for neuralink and gave you 3% of the company. Because you know its going to be worth a trillion dollars some day. That'd be the only reason I'd ever leave some cash on the table.

Don't let these clowns fool you into believing that you should earn less working remotely. You should be making more, if anything. When you work remotely, they save office space and office space is expensive. If you save them office space, that should go in your pocket. It never will, but thats how you should think about it.

edit: promises are worse than worthless. youll only get exactly whats in your contract, and nothing more.
You're declaring the function within that scope. You can do this in other languages too. In Javascript, I can declare a function within a scope too:

function myFunc () {
var myFunc2 = function () {};
return myFunc3().then(myFunc2);
}

This isn't some Python-specific thing.

> At that point the difference is just syntax.

Isn't that the case with most things? If I said that I missed curly braces, that's "just syntax" too.
> If you're getting 10 events/second with a device like this, you probably overpaid for sensitivity

Aside from issues processing and disentangling the overlapping events in a situation with that high of an event rate, more events would not be bad, so I'm not sure I'd call it "overpaying". Imagine the kind of population demographics that could be built up if we were detecting that many events.