skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already have too many lawyers for the number of law school graduates.

A huge chunk of routine legal work is going to be automated, similarly to how millions of people use TurboTax for their taxes.

There's a reason why so many banks are investing in blockchain technology: they'll be able to eliminate many thousands of humans currently involved in clearing and settlement in financial institutions.
Little rant on UUIDs:

Notice how the author assumes UUID v4[1] in the conversation. There are very few reasons to use the other versions but we are still paying for their price in code complexity all the time.

Look at this UUID parsing code: https://github.com/sporkmonger/uuidtools/blob/master/lib/uui...

What it really should be is `[uuid_string.gsub('-', '')].pack('H*')` (for non-rubyists: remove the dashes, decode the hex back to binary).

Their representation is also not that good since hex encoding is not very compact.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that UUIDs are often used as a default unique identifiers but they are actually not that good.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...
Minecraft still doesn't have a storyline. Unless you count the achievement system, I guess. Or the separate point-and-click that has nothing to do with the actual game.
What a load of rubbish.

Ever heard of a thrift shop? Hand-me-downs?

There are plenty of ways for poor people to get clothes that don't involve buying stuff produced in a Bangladeshi sweatshop.
rustc will omit the frame pointer if you add "-C debuginfo=0".

example::count:
popcnt eax, edi
ret
CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra 17.0.1806.60 and Keygen Is Here
Algoritmo que diz se você está prestes a morrer
The doctors in charge of my uncle didn't and that is the largest issue.

Other researchers did, a good percentage did, some didn't but I can't expect 100% time spending for my email so that's ok. I was surprised but you're right they do answer a few times.

Back to the issue: if first medical caretakers don't listen, then your family won't listen, because they trust the hospital religiously, albeit schizophrenically too [1]. Which means someone will die sooner than necessary.

[1] scary disease put everything back to primitive human emotions. My family, and even I, were constantly dancing between "they don't do enough" "thank you so much". My aunt even thought nurses would poison her husband if she rubbed them the wrong way. But in the end, hospital gets the vote, and somehow when death wins.. doesn't matter who was right or not.
> Imagine if users were frustrated that after listening to the music clips, it was not easy to "source the brand of guitars or drums". Well, most soundcloud music is uploaded by musicians and not music gear manufacturers.

This analogy does not hold because nearly any musician will jump to the opportunity of sharing their gear and setup. It was pieced together passionately over a decade, after all; the proud basis of the musician's success.
HR's view point is that the candidate has a right to privacy and their personal problems are none of the hiring manager's business.
Wait, does this mean that these cancers were cured? If this drug makes the cancer completely visible to the immune system, wouldn't that mean that every last cancer cell would eventually be destroyed?
What type of questions users usually asked?
Linux would provide support for old hardware far in excess of what Apple provides. It's an OS for the many, not a priviledged few; and needs your support.

It's​ also a big security gamble downloading these hacked OSX images from questionable sources.
Playing with variables in Python
L2 is an experimental programming language that maps efficiently to machine code (like C). I think it is interesting because I have not seen
1) control flow primitives that are like Scheme's continuations but that are also efficient
2) L2's variant of s-expressions that do not need a symbol or string data type
3) a macro system that is equivalent to but operates differently from Common Lisp's
Most of the questions are about how they can customise the look of their site, unfortunately most are out of the theme capabilities.
The teal trouble there is the ougtragrrous salaries, since thrrre is no correlation at all between performance and huge compensantion
I don't agree. I can deliver a good CRUD app quick and cheap -- 10-20k in 2 weeks -- because I've done it so many times.

I'm not bored of it. It pays the bills. I still learn stuff all the time.

Point is, you're right in the sense that you probably want people who have good domain knowledge. However, there's nothing special about technical founders without that.

I'd even say most times their skills at getting an app out quick and fast (and good) are probably not that great, which is important for startups.
Using physics to investigate physics. Fallacy!
Linux ran on 80386 until not long ago. Now it requires an 80486.
I'm not a python or R dev (Scala dev actually whose day job consists substantially of re-factoring python and R code written by data scientists and data analysts to run on the JVM on prod servers). Sure python is easier to grok for up-stream ETL/data processing, but that's commodity work (or it should be anyway) and not a solid basis to compare R vs python. R has far more packages than the "scientific" python portion of pypi and for certain domains the quality (and quantity) of the packages in R makes the better choice; examples: signal processing (or any more-than-routine time-series analysis; seismic interpretation, finance, experimental design, chemo-metrics, etc. And with strict use of the datatables package--coercing dataframes as datatables and using that package's syntax to manipulate your data, R is very fast. Ignore the smack and leave those folks to their "serious" work
> seems many people now simply outsource the mvp, fail, think it was the idea and move on.

People have been saying this here. I've been involved in a few of these products, and you're right, they do happen.

In my experience it's just tough to run a business. The outsourced product can be great, but it is going to be an MVP. You need to focus on it.
You should be trivially able to secure your company against an ex admin, though -- why was this ex-admin's credentials not revoked immediately after their employment ended?
I know the focus is on neural networks and music, but there's an underrated art of data curation and preprocessing of which this is an interesting example.
Goldberg vs. john cena who will win
What's the idea?
This is an interesting kind of game. The drudgery of all the clicks and drags make you long for a more efficient way to get to the payoff of seeing new combinations. But the more efficient the mechanics are, the less of a game it is and more of just a spreadsheet showing the combinations.

You need a way to make the actual discovery process fun. So you could build a factorio-style pipeline that makes discovery more efficient over time. So that way the mind stays engaged for longer. I wonder what minimal set of game mechanics would fall out if you kept working on it.
But I got rich starting a high-frequency alt-coin hedge fund because I created value in the sense that I found a way to enrich myself. Now I'm going to pay these politicians comparatively small amounts (but far above what you could afford to stop me) to protect my interests.
Oh. Our infant formula powder is a full scoop. I can see how the two industries might be rather different!
Ah nice! I'll submit some more in that spirit in that case!
Re: matplotlib

You have other options like bokeh and plotly
"After taking pembrolizumab, 66 patients had their tumors shrink substantially and stabilize, instead of continuing to grow. Among them were 18 patients whose tumors vanished and have not returned."

BUT

"Just 4 percent of cancer patients have the type of genetic aberration susceptible to pembrolizumab. [But that adds up to a lot of patients: as many as 60,000 each year in the United States alone, the study’s investigators estimated.]"

and from the abstract of the paper itself:

"Objective radiographic responses were observed in 53% of patients and complete responses were achieved in 21% of patients."
i thought this Thumbtack's vertical (which i assumed includes the vetting via ratings history, etc.)
He wouldn't have bough the cattle if it wasn't delivered same day?

And as Amazon grows, percentage of tasks done by humans shrinks. In this case and time amazon grows faster enough to employ more, but with a bit less growth and a bit better AI this caculation might be totally different.

(and as others mentioned, one has to look at the net jobs beyond amazon)
That's just the placeholder implementation that will work on any platform and even with the interpreter.

If you look at the openjdk9 sources you will notice that it is annotated as intrinsic candidate[0]. But earlier versions also have intrinsics for that[1], it's just not annotated as such.

[0] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/file/23721aa1d87f/s...
[1] https://gist.github.com/apangin/7a9b7062a4bd0cd41fcc#file-ho...
I generally load up a few Amazon Fresh disposable coolers with TJ products as gifts for friends in Vancouver whenever I drive up -- Kerrygold butter is really hard to get in Canada, and has much better omega 3 ratio than grain fed butter.
I think someone at the org needs to be responsible for not ensuring former employees' access is not revoked, but that doesn't mean an employee who takes advantage of that lapse isn't responsible for his/her actions.

Put another way, someone at Verelox screwed up and left the door unlocked, but that doesn't mean that the person who walked in broke stuff is in the clear.

Look, someone, without authorization, accessed a former employer's network and maliciously destroyed data. That's a crime. Sure, the CFAA is overly broad and is abused, but this is not one of those cases: this is a textbook example of something that should be prosecuted under the CFAA.
'It makes me wonder how many other brilliant minds are wasted on trivial pursuits and how we can better engage them on major problems of our increasingly complex world.'

How can you objectify the term 'wasting' (their lives)?

I mean to you the only people that their lives are worth something are scientists?

If you aren't a scientist you have wasted your life?

I think that people that enjoy trivial persuit or chess or whatever it is, haven't wasted anything by doing what they love.

If the only thing you see in life is 'the evolution of science' then I feel sorry for you. There are far better things in life than that. But again each to their own goal, you might enjoy being a scientist and discovering something new, other people might just enjoy living by the beach and have nothing to do with tech. Noone is wasting his/her life.

Also another point, people that can't AI or be good at maths etc doesn't mean they can't have a great mind!
Hashcat v3.6.0
This was a cool little game and even after I gave up at 32 and checked here (https://littlealchemyguide.com/) for how to make stuff, it still amused me.

I kept seeing Ice in the random hints, and I'm like HOW DO I MAKE ICE??

So I typed Ice into the guide and it gave me Cold + Water. Duh, but how do I make Cold? Human + Rain. WTF?

So how do I make Human? I can't even make Plant! And this spiral started(I chose a combo that I had at least one of):

Human = Earth + Life

Life = Energy + Swamp

Swamp = Grass + Mud

Grass = Earth + Plant

Plant = Earth + RAIN..... Facepalm.

The combinations are also an interesting look into the developers minds and can be pretty funny. For example, Bird + Ocean = Seagull. Of course! Bird + Earth? Ostrich. Haha
"And yet, the countries which had sweatshops, like China, India, Vietnam, etc. have had huge success in bringing their population out of poverty."

Most of the countries that have moved from 3rd to first world status have done so only after a massive wave of strikes to improve pay and working conditions in sweatshops (usually brutally suppressed).

"The countries which didn't, like most of Africa"

Correlation != causation and yes, there are sweatshops in Africa. Africa's struggle to escape from poverty is hampered by a lack of good governance and infrastructure - coincidentally two things sweatshop owners also want.
Datomic [0] uses SQUUIDs [1] (Semi sequential UUIDs) to work around this:

Many UUID generators produce data that is particularly
difficult to index, which can cause performance issues
creating indexes. To address this, Datomic includes a
semi-sequential UUID generator, Peer.squuid. Squuids are
valid UUIDs, but unlike purely random UUIDs, they
include both a random component and a time component.

[0] http://www.datomic.com/

[1] http://docs.datomic.com/identity.html#sec-6

edit: formatting
Any links to implementations?
>This analogy does not hold because nearly any musician will jump to the opportunity of sharing their gear and setup.

They'll share info on music gear forums[1] but not on Soundcloud. One could visit 10 rappers' soundcloud page and leave a comment asking "what microphone did you use for your rap vocals?" and you usually won't get a reply. That's normal. A lot of musicians upload their music but don't engage with the comments left by users. Musicians aren't being secretive on Soundcloud; they simply don't view it as a Q&A platform.

In any case, what I meant by "items not easy to source" for Soundcloud analogy is that there is no "add to cart" or url for the products you hear in the song. E.g., there is no button that says "Buy the Shure SM58 vocal mic you're hearing". In contrast, Pinterest has direct and obvious hotlinks to retailers' websites.

Therefore, getting frustrated that SoundCloud "doesn't make it easy to source the music gear you're listening to" is to misunderstand what SoundCloud is about.

[1] gearpage, harmonycentral, gearslutz, etc: https://www.google.com/search?q=music+gear+forum
Calling a situation in which an employer trades you money for your time and effort "slave labor" is a disgusting metaphor and an affront to actual slaves. You should be ashamed.

I enter into employment agreements knowing full well that it's a business transaction. The business and I have agreed to an amount of money (and other benefits) in exchange for my labor.

It's not about the American dream. It's not about "slave labor". It's about you give me money for services I provide. When either of us decides that deal isn't advantageous for us anymore, then we end that agreement.

Stop being edgy.
Morally, I'd say the ex-employee doesn't have a leg to stand on. If the employee had been wronged and their actions only negatively impacted the employer, then I'd be sympathetic, but all of Verelox's customers have been damaged, some of them perhaps irreparably, by this. Getting back at your employer with such huge amounts of collateral damage is never acceptable.
486 was released 28 years ago
Software engineers – are they really difficult, or just different?
Is the code for generating the reactions from the LSTM hidden units posted anywhere? That was the best part for me and I'd love to use it in my own projects.
Scientific Methods in Computer Science [pdf]
Who's saying they weren't? I'm sure that administrator would have been able to plant subtle backdoors, or find and not fix vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, during their time there. In which case it wouldn't matter that their credentials were revoked.
The life of that Shepherd doesn't sound trivial at all. And neither does pursuing a life of chess mastery unless that pursuit doesn't bring one personal growth and satisfaction.
You're assuming he hasn't built in back doors.

At my one and only sysadmin job, the network was secured from likes of this guy by the senior engineer, a Vietnam vet with trust issues and whose talents weren't only technical.

Nothing says "web of trust" like knowing your boss could show up at your door with a shotgun demanding answers.
An automated assembly line for Visual Studio Code on ARM
Designing a Digital Traffic System for Commercial Drones
Source is here:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit

More background here:

https://ianmiell.github.io/shutit/

This is used, for example, to automate kubernetes cluster tests for Chef scripts for OpenShift:

Chef scripts:

https://github.com/IshentRas/cookbook-openshift3

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit-openshift-cluster

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/a-complete-ope...
Sketching Sparse Matrices
You can't learn WPF and XAML in a tiny amount of time, it is substantial.
VW has record sales.
At least at the federal level, no they don't. Unless they decided not to hire you (or fired you afterwards). Then they only have to provide "a notice that includes a copy of the consumer report you relied on to make your decision" - https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/background_checks_emp...
Apple really need a SKU that is step up from the mini using full fat processors in a SFF case - if they did I think our place would defiantly buy them as replacements for our aging mac minis.
The five biggest tech stocks lost nearly $100B in value on Friday
Show HN: Visual Studio Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi, Now on GitHub
Curious: How does that differ from GCP's Cloud Endpoints/Apigee Edge -> Cloud Functions -> Cloud Datastore?

Disclaimer: I work for GCP.
Socket.IO module for Angular 2 and 4
"The kind of people who benefit most from being able to buy cheap clothes made in sweatshops is not Silicon Valley professionals, it's poor people."

The benefit they gain through slightly cheaper clothes is more than offset by the benefits from the jobs they could have had if the manufacture of clothing (like everything else) was not offshored.

The real winner is Stefan Persson and the $28 billion he made from H&M's sweatshop labor arbitrage.

"There is no easy answer."

There is. Make trade deals contingent on good labor and environmental conditions and ruthlessly enforce that. That will bring jobs home and improve working conditions in 3rd world countries.

Then, deal with the fact that that new top is going to cost $4 more and Stefan Persson won't be quite so spectacularly wealthy.
Yeah but spare a thought for people who can't afford CPUs that recent. What's my pop-pop with his 386 gonna do?
It's trivial to the people around him, and in my own eyes he is way more successful than demis, you or me will ever be. Because success isn't valued in money, achievements, fame, discoveries.
If you do believe that success is only measured in those above, then am sorry about the life you have chosen to live.
Well, the thing is sharing background issues is not limited to rogue or obscure companies. For example if you search the archives of WSJ it comes up reliably at some well known places.

To be clear I don't think a lot of this stuff is right. It drives me nuts to see someone ace technical interviews and then not be hired for some insignificant drug related issue. How do companies not realize this probably hurts them more than the candidate? A lot of tech companies don't do drug tests at all, I'm guessing because they've figured this part out.
Ohh ok, the single part is an integrated circuit. Isn't that cheating?
Sam Panapoulos, inventor of Hawaiian pizza, dies aged 83
The fact you think 'the existence of leftpad' is an issue itself suggests you didn't really understand the incident.

I also don't see what that has to do with 'comfort zones'.
So this is Electron before Electron existed? Does it have File IO APIs?
You mean like rent a pod or like a random SaaS app that uses k8s? I know of many of the latter but none of the former. Maybe some cloud logger guys have sidecar deployments you can use.
This was actually how I pitched it to my ASP.NET dev team: "React Components are WebControls for the front-end"
Deployments are key. One annoyance is now some of the lower units feel more clunky. Is there roadmap to say let you do a stateful set as a Deployment? Obviously a bit tricky and rolling deploy could never surge...
Atelier 1.1 Roadmap
I did not say wasting their lives. I said their brilliant minds are wasted (from doing something that could be both more fulfilling and impactful).

Personal mastery is good and enjoyable for the person. What if the person can achieve that as well as having a positive impact on others?

I believe humanities, arts, and philosophy have a great deal to offer to the world.

(Tangential: When you say you are sorry for your viewpoint/life/.., as you did twice in this thread, are you being condescending while assuming a lot on the people you talk to?)
And for options utilizing grammar of graphics (really worth knowing, even if you're not coming from the R world) you have ggplot and plotnine, which are both sort of ports of ggplot2 from R.
you can agree with senders to disclose their items beforehand. otherwise, you don't have to!
I take it you're one of those folks who doesn't care for the whole "innocent until proven guilty" concept.
Ignoring any ethical concerns you may have...

Advertising has often been comparing yourself to other brands. As one real world example: The Pepsi Challenge from the 80s. People drank Coke and Pepsi blindly and chose which one they liked better.

It is not illegal in the US and not inherently a misuse of trademark law. I'd be surprised if you were to tell me that Uber and Lyft are not buying ads against each other's search terms.
You're either making the future happen or you aren't. And Demis is definitely making the future happen.

There's nothing wrong with ordinary lives like yours or mine, but let's give credit where credit is due.
Its not the law here HR is working for you as the hiring manger so dam right I want to see the docs - and BTW I have more experience in IR/HR issues than many junior HR.
We don't know that "this drug makes the cancer completely visible to the immune system". It could easily be that, say, 0.1% of the cancer cells don't become visible for some weird reason, or they accidentally develop a protection against the immune response. It would look like complete elimination of the cancer on scans and in blood markers, but could come back in a few years.

Only way to know for sure is to wait.
> Engadget reporting is so … underwhelming for a site with such financial backing.

Yeah seriously. I couldn't believe this line:

"Backward compatibility means that manufacturers won't have to redesign old systems, either"

What does that even mean? That you can take a PCI-e 4.0 device and plug it into an older slot? Isn't that universally the case with computers, otherwise the bus would be called something else...

I'm unaware of any hardware vendor that puts effort into redesigning a product they're already shipping, if not to resolve a deficiency (and even then, it'd better be important to re-spin the hardware).
The nature of problems is different, but fundamentally the two questions of "how to distinguish between 1 and 0 in the presence of noise" and "can the reciever and transmitter change state fast enough" apply.

Optical PCIe would be hugely handicapped by lack of a standard optical PCB construction method. You'd have to print waveguides onto the PCB. And then it stops working if you get dust in the socket.
[spoilers:] When hearing the first human I also thought, that it shows some artistic choice with a few strong notes, but overall is not played well. Still the AI version is impressive!
Run for better code
I agree with the long lead times, I don't agree that the length of lead and breadth of capacity would grow very slowly.

> Modern weapons are just too accurate and destructive to make long wars of attrition possible any more.

I think this I agree with and it renders the rest of the argument moot.
To add, I've been a happy iPhone user since the 3 came out but the iPhone outright cost / battery life has become an issue for me.

I generally use SMS, calls, Spotify, occasionally camera - the extra functionality of the latest iPhones go not seem worth it for me.
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