skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Works good for me on the East Coast. People say things like that but I haven't experienced them in my travels or day to day life. My older kids have gotten different carriers and they don't seem to have a magical new network experience when we travel together. They have Verizon and AT&T.

I live in Pennsylvania and travel to Connecticut and West Virginia all the time. I don't see coverage issues and in fact in the back woods of the country Sprint has better coverage due to a few acquisitions it has made in that area.

TMobile has a real problem on the East Coast. Coverage is bad in my city. Doesn't work in WV and when my son was sick with cancer CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) in the Surgery Wait Room they tell you that they can't call you if you have TMobile, which means you can't leave the waiting area at all.
Even gradual events have recognizable tipping points or points of no return. I think that is what he is calling 2017 for the gradual transition from CPU dominance to the future of GPU/FPGA dominance. Or just CPU irrelevance.

Don't know how that article you link has any relevance to the facts and analysis he presents here.
You are right and I was wrong. They changed the rules in 2013: https://communities.usaa.com/t5/Other/USAA-Changes-Membershi...

They've grandfathered in existing members who wouldn't qualify today.
If you want to grab the system audio stream to apply DSP effects such as dynamic compression on it, is it allowed by XCode? Last time I checked it was not allowed, presumably because a user could rip music from iTunes to mp3 - yet by banning it they are limiting interesting audio effect apps.
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You USED to be correct. I'm not military and I have a USAA bank account. For a couple/few years they opened accounts to civilians, but then reversed that decision about a year or so ago. Now bank accounts are only offered to military again.
There's another field closely related to Computational Sociology called "Computational Social Science" - an area/community which I was a part of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_social_science

There are many universities like Stanford, Cornell and Columbia which have dedicated working groups for Computational Social Science.

https://iriss.stanford.edu/css

http://as.cornell.edu/block/computational-social-sciences

http://datascience.columbia.edu/computational-social-science
Sometimes I favorite threads about bad articles because the threads themselves contain good discussion. I suspect that at least some proportion of undeserved upvotes comes from people favorite-ing the thread without thinking or bothering to unvote.
Makes working in states that allow NC less desirable - maybe the VC/PE industry needs to not invest in states that have NC laws.

Or just set up companies such you are employed by company in CA.
On Github: https://github.com/StrumentiResistenti/Tagsistant
Well…. the drop-in replacement for petrol tax would really be a per-km tax. Not the easiest to implement, but not impossible either.
Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1.
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"Really easily" and "only works for seven days and you can only have a few of them installed at once" are mutually contradictory. Getting a paid developer account doesn't eliminate the restrictions, either, it just raises the limits some.

Sideloading does not exist on iOS except as a gimmick, an annoying workaround for people who really need it and are willing to spend a lot of time maintaining it, or an unsanctioned use of enterprise signing certificates that go against Apple's terms and can be shut down at any moment if they notice what's going on. (ipadsigner.io is the last one.)
Why not offer dorms for people to live there on a daily to weekly basis? It looks like a fantastic place to work but it seems like not a lot of people live near there.

It would be totally awesome to get a group of developers together and hack away at stuff not having to worry about going home for a few days.
It's unlikely to affect surge pricing. You can think of surge as a tool to move drivers to where the riders are. Even if you knew there would be heavy demand, you need to incentivize drivers to actually go there. Why would I, as a driver, go 20 minutes out of my way to be in Katy Perry concert traffic when I can keep picking up passengers at a reasonable clip on the other side of town?

Surge is only really solved once autonomous vehicles can be preemptively positioned near demand.
Looks like the title has been amended
Elon Musk was at the 2015 conf, so you might like that too.
It's the same as calling 20XX "year of linux" for the n-th time.

Sure there is a gradual shift and things are getting better, but X86 is not dead, just like windows is still doing fine.
I agree...though one must admit it has a clever ring to it. :)
Potentially. They'd have to weigh both the legitimacy of the non-compete and their ability to either fight it or eat the costs of losing a new hire. But it's also good full-disclosure, since they could probably dismiss you on the same grounds.

Someone caught behind a harsh-and-enforceable noncompete could certainly find getting hired very tricky. At that point they might well have to move - for instance, to California where out-of-state noncompetes are (usually) void.
I do work from home in the past probably 5 years (working technical lead job for a big telco), I just decided one day there was no more fun in the office and told my boss I'll work from home since my team is spread around the country anyway, so no point to waste 30 min each way to drive to the office...
The point is if you perform well and can be trusted, you can work from home... My next goal is to work from another country for long periods of time, but here I think the problem is different employment laws and probably the health/life insurance...
you might be interested in this http://lesswrong.com/lw/nu/taboo_your_words/
Interference in interstate commerce and arguably on human rights grounds Article 13 and 23 for example.
What is MBaaS and why you should use it when building your apps
They used to do it for summer interns in the Valley back a few years ago. It was indeed a huge perk and removed a lot of hassle.
I had a similar situation some years back and decided it wasn't worth the potential legal battle...

They: Experts Exchange (IT technical help)

Mine: Expert Sex Change (For people seeking reliable resources for transgender surgery)
It's the same word as "find", but yeah, a bit funny.
And that's why I left Sweden to the Netherlands because the Netherlands offers huge tax discount - 30% rulling. In other words, Sweden lost me as a software developer.

And it looks like it's not only me how doesn't like high taxes in Sweden:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/spotify-founders-blast-swedens-...
> Attracting and keeping human capital is a very difficult problem not just in tech.

It is easier to do that if you are not fixed to the people in a 50km radius and can choose the cream of the crop of the world
History of Computing at Bell Labs (1997)
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If it's repeated in coming years, you should go to this summer school: https://www.russellsage.org/summer-institute-computational-s...
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I think bigger, what percentage of workers in all industries throughout the world are covert government agents of one form or another. Not just US on top of that. I'm willing to bet it's much higher than one would think.
Yeah, ZMA makes it worse. I have crazy intense dreams. Also, vitamins tend to make me feel depressed, even Vitamin D.
This is important. There's a backlash right now against companies that _demand_ such work hours, which is totally understandable.

But - some people _choose_ to work at 2AM. They could be people still working at 2AM after starting at 10AM (I hurt for those people, but to each their own) or they could be people that started work at 9PM after a 6 hour break from working from lunchtime to 3PM.

Such is the beauty of the remote-working culture. Working at what some might consider "crazy" or "unhealthy" hours might actually be the result of having a healthy work-life balance, spending the "regular" waking hours with your family and enjoying life.
>> I drive 5-10 thousands miles a year, and at $2/gallon gas

I assure you that even at nearly $8/gallon over here, an electric vehicle still didn't make much sense when we were buying a new car last year. Even the cheapest Leaf was so much more expensive than a well specced VW Polo that it made no sense to go electric, we did the calculation and the difference in price would not be returned in the savings over the time we are likely to keep the car for.
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It's a fascinating subject. Worth reading this entry for more details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku_solving_algorithms

And apparently quantum computers can solve them using sheer brute force alone, but these articles don't go into enough detail (i.e: can they solve the 'evil' puzzles?)

https://www.engadget.com/2007/02/14/worlds-first-commercial-...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-commercial-...
I agree that local monopolies is the major problem, but I could still see the value of net neutrality if that problem was fixed. At least I as a consumer want companies to compete in efficiency of service, economies of scale, technology, etc, and not compete in whoever can sell me out the most or force services I don't want down my ISP subscription.
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I think the best minds work on "Wall Street" mathematicians, physicists, CS, you name it, they are working for the big money...
Thanks! I'll totally give it a try.
Indeed! Here is Sudoku, formulated as a SAT problem. You can use for example SICStus Prolog to run it:

sudoku(Rows) :-
length(Rows, 9), maplist(same_length(Rows), Rows),
maplist(row_booleans, Rows, BRows),
maplist(booleans_distinct, BRows),
transpose(BRows, BColumns),
maplist(booleans_distinct, BColumns),
BRows = [As,Bs,Cs,Ds,Es,Fs,Gs,Hs,Is],
blocks(As, Bs, Cs), blocks(Ds, Es, Fs), blocks(Gs, Hs, Is).

blocks([], [], []).
blocks([N1,N2,N3|Ns1], [N4,N5,N6|Ns2], [N7,N8,N9|Ns3]) :-
booleans_distinct([N1,N2,N3,N4,N5,N6,N7,N8,N9]),
blocks(Ns1, Ns2, Ns3).

booleans_distinct(Bs) :-
transpose(Bs, Ts),
maplist(card1, Ts).

card1(Bs) :- sat(card([1],Bs)).

row_booleans(Row, Bs) :-
same_length(Row, Bs),
maplist(cell_boolean, Row, Bs).

cell_boolean(Num, Bs) :-
length(Bs, 9),
sat(card([1],Bs)),
element(Num, Bs, 1).

This uses the sat/1 constraint to denote Boolean satisfiability.

Here is an example Soduku problem, taken from Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming:

knuth(b, [[1,_,3,_,5,6,_,8,9],
[5,9,7,3,8,_,6,1,_],
[6,8,_,1,_,9,3,_,5],
[9,5,6,_,3,1,8,_,7],
[_,3,1,5,_,8,9,6,_],
[2,_,8,9,6,_,1,5,3],
[8,_,9,6,_,5,_,3,1],
[_,6,5,_,1,3,2,9,8],
[3,1,_,8,9,_,5,_,6]]).

Sample query and result:

?- knuth(b, Rows),
sudoku(Rows),
maplist(portray_clause, Rows).
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9].
[5, 9, 7, 3, 8, 2, 6, 1, 4].
[6, 8, 4, 1, 7, 9, 3, 2, 5].
[9, 5, 6, 2, 3, 1, 8, 4, 7].
[7, 3, 1, 5, 4, 8, 9, 6, 2].
[2, 4, 8, 9, 6, 7, 1, 5, 3].
[8, 7, 9, 6, 2, 5, 4, 3, 1].
[4, 6, 5, 7, 1, 3, 2, 9, 8].
[3, 1, 2, 8, 9, 4, 5, 7, 6].
That'd have to be one hell of a PowerPoint!
Decades
> I've been freelancing and telecommuting the past five years. I've built my workstyle around chat bubbles, slack channels, video calls, and emails whether 2PM or 2AM.

If that's the tradeoff I think I'll keep commuting.
One of the engineers from my company, Nanobox (a micro-PaaS), compares a few of these tools and others in context of how well they cover the development to production workflow: https://content.nanobox.io/development-to-production-workflo...

Tools included on this chart include:
- Heroku
- Kubernetes
- Flynn
- Nanobox
- Openshift
- Dokku
- Rancher
- Convox
- Mesosphere
- Hyper.sh
> in my experience, the biggest complaint about doctors (and from doctors) is the lack of time they get to spend on a patient.

If you talk to someone with significant health issues, it rapidly becomes, "The doctors don't have the answer".

Nobody wants to spend longer with the doctor - they want healthy, productive life outside the doctor's office.
Ribfest partners with WotNow app to tell you what your friends are up to?
Ribfest Music Festival concerts in Naperville, IL are on events app WotNow. This will let people know if their friends are also at either the same concert or event. Some of the bands on WotNow app include: Better than Ezra, B-52s, Collective Soul, Flock of Seagulls, Toby Keith and Wallflowers. WotNow app is available on both Android and iPhone.
I take it this way. How many problems can you solve using knowing mostly exact cover. Not very many. But, if we can build ML systems that can solve mostly any problem(we can't today) even without giving any insight, I would say it will be one of the things whose impact will surpass anything. Note, I am not getting into AGI, just saying a system that can solve objective problems. And while sudoku is not a very good example, but I think it shows we can do many cool things from neural networks. Neural networks are the most sure bet for such a system.
Because that's an extremely expensive project that nobody would use in addition to the already super expensive space that they are closing because nobody uses it.
It would be good to see your claims backed up with data and benchmarks. I would love to see you run the Jepsen test suite against GUN also, so it's clear how it behaves in weird circumstances.
I agree. I was a bit surprised that this approach worked as well as it did.

(I still think it would fail spectacularly on "super-human" sudokus.)
Depending on how you classify him (as an economist or a sociologist), Thomas Schelling's work on residential segregation has likely informed policy over the last decades.

Recently a nice animation of his dynamic models of segregation processes was posted here: http://ncase.me/polygons/
I think systemd timers may provide something like that but everyone seems to be against systemd because it tries to do things correctly. Shonky text-based configuration files and fragile integration is clearly better.
Where "take the piss" includes things like "have a toggle to hide NSFW subreddits in your Reddit client," "track drone strikes," "feature Buzz Aldrin with his enthusiastic permission," "mention the existence of Android on your support page on your web site," and "a lock screen widget that lets you take notes."
Brick and stone buildings have mostly been kept clean the last 15 years or so, and they don't darken as quickly as they did in the 20th C when both transportation and industry produced far more soot.

That said, I've seen buildings that were nearly black with 100 years of accumulated soot at the end of the 1980s undergo deep cleaning (sandblasting) in the 90's and come out off-white. It's pretty remarkable.

25 years later, those same buildings are now almost exactly the same color they were immediately after the cleaning, without any further maintenance.
A quick guide to making quick changes in MirageOS (2015)
"it can be very difficult to get things done when you're waiting on input (or output) from a co-worker who's not on the same schedule as the rest of the team"

That sounds to me more like a poor problem deconstruction and task distribution. For problem deconstruction though, I agree that team discussion might be desirable, thus -- availability requirement.
> but my point is that the actual rules in place today reflect a regulatory equilibrium rather than a self-consistent moral philosophy

I guess since people's morals are so varied, it's too hard to agree on a self-consistent moral philosophy. As an extreme example, just look at cases where people will ensure the right for a child to be born, but then not ensure rights to continuing health/nutrition/education. Beyond outliers like that there's a spectrum of every kind of opinion
Also I can't imagine many people want to be at work for days at a time and not go home
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Oh, please. Lack of an extensions platform is not evidence of an intent to suppress your specific pet extension.
.notes aren't standardized so I don't know of a good strategy to highlight and decode them.

IIRC .note.gnu.build-id is just ascii text so it should be pretty easy to understand anyway.

I would think many others are also just text, but I don't know much about .notes in general because I was focusing on standardized, general ELF stuff.
My son has been going through Swift Playgrounds, and I think the text selection and editing has been one of the things slowing him down.
Or, if the pay rate is flat regardless of location, you rationally decide to live like a king in Minneapolis instead of in my crappy apartment in Queens.
Great, but irrelevant to this thread.
Absolutely - I cannot emphasize enough how damaging these policies are to the organization. Not only does the noncompete piss off existing employees and stifle creativity, it turns off the better class of potential hires. People absolutely decline to sign these, and hiring is hard enough as is.

And they don't even win when they bring it up in court; iirc, last time they tried this they wound up having to pay a full salary for the time that they wanted to prevent the ex-employee from working.

I don't like to generalize, but business lawyers are soulless asshats.
I think more generally the issue is that most of us are "skimming" off the work of others, in the so-called "service economy" or "knowledge work". Being a lawyer, banker, insurance agent, accountant, professor, etc, is not dishonorable in itself; these services are necessary in some amount to make the economy work. But there's no need for 50% or more of the population to be doing such jobs. A small town with ten banks isn't going to be any richer than a small town with two. A small town with ten manufacturing companies would be much richer than a small town with two. Napoleon once mocked the English as "a nation of shopkeepers" at a time when England's economy was largely profiting off "real work" done in its remote colonies. I think the USA and I daresay most rich nations today could be zinged with the same insult today. We seem to have lost some of our vigor and competency when such an overwhelming number of young people aspire to do cubicle jobs instead of, say, engineering.
I've never seen anyone complain about Git on the grounds that it _isn't_ full of leaky abstractions.
Are you playing with a cheap laser engraver off ebay?
They do 'allow' that 'side loading'... it's already there. You can already do that with a free developer account and free Xcode. Anything you download or write you can then send to your iPhone, iPad, iPod etc. and you can use it.
I just want to point out that you brought the word "evil" into this discussion. I forget which logical fallacy that is... The one where you hyperbolize the other's position to draw attention away from their actual argument.

From what I can tell, without said misrepresentation your comment amounts to "yes, my relative success is fully explained by and my fathers merits"?
I did that as well! The outcome was an improved way of working.
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Thanks, website (tagsistant.net) seems reachable but unresponsive
It's what I don't get about the whole outsourcing, tech sector debate; if bay area tech employees are so expensive, why not hire people that are equally or at least sufficiently as qualified in other parts of the USA, where you could get away with paying them less even though it would provide them with wildly higher quality of life than they would get anywhere in the Bay area from most perspectives. Essentially the question is why the heck outsource to places like India, where people don't speak proper English and the technical skills are lower in many ways, which is only compounded by communication issues, let alone why hire H1B visas from, e.g., India at Silicon Valley rates; when you could have hired net far better Americans in the long run. Western and American society suffers from a shortsightedness that will end up destroying not just the USA, but the advancement of all of the rest of humanity through that kind of mentality. You can only live on the inertia of others for so long before momentum ceases.
I see there are similarities, but there are probably also a lot of people fine with using an App Store that are also big advocates of Freedom of Speech, Press, Privacy, etc. when it comes to the government.
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And if you're having trouble accessing the page (like I am), Google's cache can help: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Usually I prefer to link archive.is, but it didn't manage to capture the page before it went down this time around.
VLC is notoriously buggy in general. I'd put a lot more stock in how mplayer (or whatever the popular option is these days), xine or even ffplay behave.
"You’ll be able to get the device unlocked on Essential’s website for $699"

So, which is it? Is it exclusive to Sprint, or available unlocked?
> Getting a paid developer account doesn't eliminate the restrictions, either, it just raises the limits some.

The day limit is raised from 7 days to 365 days, and the max installed sideloaded apps is raised from 3 to unlimited. I agree with you that there shouldn't be limits at all, but the limits for the developer account are quite generous.

Sideloading on iOS works great overall, if you agree that even sideloaded apps should be required to be signed.
> against systemd because it tries to do things correctly.

There are good sides to systemd, and bad sides. Pretending the issue is one-sided like this is naive at best.
There's no text in the HTML itself. It seems like it's all being pulled from a server using JS as the page is loaded. I can't read it in Lynx or Firefox with NoScript.
"Your emails may not be as private as you think". When has email ever been private? Even if you're using PGP there is still the issue of metadata leaks and people who don't understand PGP and reply with the unencrypted text in the reply (botching your attempts at secure comms). Not to mention people storing their whole life in a single email account and making it easier to build up a dossier of the person over time.

https://satelliteobservation.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ech...
Most places have zoning restrictions where commercial property is not authorized for use as a dwelling. I would imagine they would need a fight a zoning variance battle to set up something unconventional like that.
Sad to see this flagged off the frontpage...
I suspect the site is suffering the HN "Hug of Death".

As linked elsewhere[0], on github:

https://github.com/StrumentiResistenti/Tagsistant

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14537805
Yeah, for a week, then it turns into a pumpkin, and you're limited to three apps at a time. This is not a realistic solution.
Not only is it expensive, it's often difficult and cumbersome to deal with zoning and occupancy laws in a office or area that was set up mainly for business use
The article claims they had 5 people visiting the office regularly. That does not sound much compared to 550 employees. However, according to their map [1], there are only about 10 employees in SF itself, a few more in the surroundings.

Maintaining a 15,000 square feet office in that area for the amount of employees seems oversized in any case.

[1] https://automattic.com/map/
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This seems to be in very early development with the first commits in late March and a single line readme. Interested to see where it goes and what problems they encounter.