skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More details here:

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/minutes/2017-05...

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/minutes/2017-05...

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/minutes/2017-05...
Exactly my thoughts. This is pure gambling. Lots of people will end up losing money while a small amount of people will make millions from these scams.
Looks very nice. Looking forward to what's coming.

I tried to share a document via mail, clicked on "Get Share Link" and allowed public access and then closed the window with "Ok". I'm still asked to log in. When I click on Share again my share link is gone. So this doesn't seem to work currently.
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• Click prediction: How do you accurately predict if the user will click on an ad in less than a millisecond? Thankfully, you have billions of data points to help you.

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• Offline testing: You can always compute the classification error on model predicting the probability of a click. But is this really related to the online performance of a new model?

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They do but it is still slower than paying by card.
I've worked with old programmers who are great and old programmers who suck. Most of the points in the article are obviously wrong.

"Anyone who is still a programmer in their 40s has to have developed some good communication skills."
"Old programmers are dabblers."
"Old programmers have judgement."
"We can pick up any new language because we’ve used so many over the years."

I've met old programmers who are counter examples to all these points.

A steelmanned version of the article would argue why older coders are more likely to have these skills than young coders. It also needs to talk about the average difference in ability relative to the variance in each group. If old coders are on average 0.1 standard deviations better than young coders you should focus on hiring the good old or young coders. If old coders are on average 1.5 standard deviations better than young coders you should just focus on hiring the good old coders and exceptional young coders.
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> and trying to market cryptocurrencies as 'independent from government control' is likely a losing proposition

Seems to be winning in China. I'm sure other countries with strict capital controls will experience similar things.

Joe will probably be the last one to join the crypto takeover - but he'll still have exposure via pension funds and ETFs.

I think governments portraying crypto as being for "criminals" is the equivalent of marketing a truck as "military strength".
No, we had middleware back then. It was ugly text over sockets, or worse, DCOM, but it worked. That was more ISAPI than classic ASP. If nothing else, we could create a queue table in a database and have a Windows Service pick it up.
Very interesting, more details, please. This matches one case I've heard about.

Who is the well known manufacturer being counterfeited? Abracon? How did the fake crystals look like?

Which PHY is it in question?
Solar + gas?

In any case, even if there aren't any, the question still stands. Being poor is no defense against the effects of climate change.
Unicorn Hunt is definitely the best place to look in the UK. Many of the other job boards are just full of agency posts.
Really sorry for the unexpected "welcome note" on the open demo, we'll be improving on the demo process :)
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Nobody said anything about honey - just bees. The only fine we should be talking about is the fine for what these people have already done. There would obviously be and has been a massive deleterious effect from the loss of so many pollinators. Monsanto's shareholders and other like minded criminals should fined out of existence as a warning to others who would seek to destroy our world for profit. Show absolutely no mercy and go after even private holdings for good measure. Change the law if needs be and act retrospectively. The world must act in concert against the cynical and greedy polluters be they corporations, individuals or states.
OP here. I specifically left that part of my CV in because it represents a war story about webOS. Anyone who was a webOS fan knew what I was talking about and agreed with me. It has been a conversation starter with recruiters several times.
> Not until they can really explain to the average Joe why cryptocurrencies are such a good thing.

"Look at all these people getting rich without any work, you can too! Just buy this convenient financial product I happen to be selling!"

I'd have hoped the mania would die out once the supply of people with technical skills was exhausted, but it looks like people are hard at work extending the bottom of the pyramid to cover the usual victims.
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http://www.cde.com/resources/catalogs/AEappGUIDE.pdf
Well strictly speaking the free market would say "you're on your own, you're not our problem". And then you'd hopefully look cute, and do some neat tricks to get a benefactor to voluntarily help you pay for your needs. Otherwise, sorry, the needs of the many outweigh, you.

The reality is, the only thing that makes for-profit free market people alter their perspective, is if they or someone they care about gets really sick and is subject to the bad aspects of the for-profit system. It's like anti-gay uncle who finally starts to moderate once he learns he has a gay nephew. Oh really, hmm, guess I need to moderate my total ignorance of the complexity of the world and things aren't so simple afterall.

I attribute this to lack of imagination identifying with other people. People confuse that with feeling sorry for others, or pity. John Rawls "veil of ignorance" thought experiment should be a political test. If you aren't willing to imagine yourself or a family member directly subject to the deleterious side effects of policies you want made into law, you're incompetent. Instead of having "regular Joe Bob" as politicians, they should be professional, interdisciplinary, ethical, and be auditable.
True. I don't know if this system is really any better than the system of the 90s. We do know that that one led to a market crash and the current one hasn't (yet). But we very well could have more innovation if companies still IPOed early. I really don't know.

My comment was intended to establish a yardstick to judge them by. Society doesn't value free market enterprise because it's great at enriching a small number of people. We don't like that Dropbox exists because it turned its founders and investors into millionaires and billionaires. We value capitalism because it encourages people to bring new products to market. If society's goal was to enrich a small number of people, then we should've stuck with feudalism. But society wants to enrich society.
I definitely missed the point; that's why I asked what the point is.

Thank you for clarifying that the thing you want that this software provides is the ability to synchronize saved content across multiple devices of different platforms.
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>a non touchbar Mac with a touchid power button.

That would make too much sense, Apple haven't done sense for a while now - people have called Apple form over function for a long time except now it's actually true, at least WRT their laptops.
Could be some failing/wrongly triggered web application firewall or other security feature that blacklists his home IP.
>small percent of personal computers.

I certainly consider my phone to be a personal computer nowadays.

It has a few orders or magnitude more powerful hardware and can do things my first few PCs could not do.

Linux is certainly doing very well there. ;)
GNU/Linux might not be, but that's a different story.
Usually this kind of blatant negativity would be down voted to oblivion but for some reason HN has a special place in it's heart for crypyocurrency haters.
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It doesn't work with Firefox, right?
I would question whether this is actually true. Stats on Field medalists have to be taken with a grain of salt, given that it is awarded at 40 years top in the first place
Bear in mind that with €53,836.50 in Paris you can rent 40/45m² (if you're alone).
10 years ago I paid $140 per month ($1,500 per year) for a great healthcare plan. Last year, my employer (w/over 5k employees, so I am hoping some discount) paid 10k for a great health plan. Both are California numbers.
Hopefully you lot took it as your own failure and not the poor intern dropped into the field with one of the most over complicated technologies and 'magical thinking' tooling.
Please avoid archive.is if possible, it makes accessing the articles extremely annoying if you are using tor or a proxy.

How about archive.org instead?
Tweeting with Confidence, authored by a certain D. Trump. http://imgur.com/a/exBrf
16 science fiction, fantasy, and horror books to read this July
I read the blog post but I didnt quite understand it. Specifically the coding part. Can someone break it down for the noobs please?
When you've invested 4 or more years in Ph.D. research, there are powerful motivations to "find" results that support your thesis. Perhaps they are subconscious, but they are powerful.
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The parody is amusing, but I think a good "Guide Text" really adds the finishing touch.

For instance:

- Developer's guide to pretending to work.

Okay, might be kind of amusing.

Now try:

- Developer's guide to pretending to work: a definitive guide

And it is much better.

In fact, the joke could be in the guide text:

- Developer's guide to pretending to work: [TBD]
Austrian economics is just an outdated theory. Principles of Economics and Das Kapital were written within about four years of each other and while time was poking holes in Communism it was doing the same to Austrian economics. Here's a good argument against the Austrian school if you're really interested.

http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm
You also end up with situations where people drive all day from the UK and back to do some interior decoration/carpentry/whatever over the weekend, because the locals are so expensive that you can pay extremely well for non-French EU professionals and still be better off.
While I agree with you, there is always the option of firing people responsible for the decisions.
> bypass those types of interviews

Can you elaborate a bit? I hear this all the time (get the job through contacts and networking not by applying and interviewing) but nobody will go into step-by-step detail about how one actually can manage to "bypass" a company's interview process.

Company: "Thanks for your interest in working here. Your resume and application are impressive, and you have great references! Obviously you are skilled, so forget about having to interview. How's $180K plus benefits sound, and can you start in a week?"

I've been in tech for close to 20 years and that scenario just sounds absurd to me.
Maybe we shouldn't? Thomas Metzinger on the ethical aspect of conscious AI:

What would you say if someone came along and said, “Hey, we want to genetically engineer mentally retarded human infants! For reasons of scientific progress we need infants with certain cognitive and emotional deficits in order to study their postnatal psychological development - we urgently need some funding for this important and innovative kind of research!“
You would certainly think this was not only an absurd and appalling but also a dangerous idea.
It would hopefully not pass any ethics committee in the democratic world.
However, what today’s ethics committees don’t see is how the first machines satisfying a minimally sufficient set of constraints for conscious experience could be just like such mentally retarded infants.
They would suffer from all kinds of functional and representational deficits too.
But they would now also subjectively experience those deficits.
In addition, they would have no political lobby - no representatives in any ethics committee.

If they had a transparent world-model embedded in a virtual window of presence, then a reality would appear to them.
They would be minimally conscious.
If, as advanced robots, they even had a stable bodily self-model, then they could feel sensory pain as their own pain, including all the consequences resulting from bad human engineering.
But particularly if their postbiotic PSM (phenomenal self-model) were actually anchored in biological hardware, things might be much worse.
If they had an emotional self-model, then they could truly suffer - possibly even in degrees of intensity or qualitative richness that we as their creators cannot imagine, because it is entirely alien to us.
If, in addition, they possessed a cognitive self-model, they could potentially not only conceive of their bizarre situation but also intellectually suffer from the fact that they never had anything like the “dignity” so important to their creators.
They might be able to consciously represent the obvious fact that they are only second-rate subjects, used as exchangeable experimental tools by some other type of self-modeling system, which obviously doesn’t know what it is doing and which must have lost control of its own actions long ago.
Can you imagine what it would be like to be such a mentally retarded phenomenal clone of the first generation?
Alternatively, can you imagine what it would be like to “come to” as a more advanced artificial subject, only to discover that, although possessing a distinct sense of self, you are just a commodity, a scientific tool never created and certainly not to be treated as an end in itself?
The name itself is a bit scammy.
Yeah, but long term, living that way is hard as hell. I've made that mistake quite a few times, and digging myself out is painful, every time.
Two words - "base load". In developing economies, sufficient base load power doesn't exist. Solar and Wind do nothing at scale when a stable base load power supply doesn't exist.

SolarCity is experimenting with batteries powered by intermittent power supply in small islands but nothing at scale really exists a practical proven tech.

Natural gas requires high security LNG terminal infra if you're not a producer
Physical attractiveness as a phenotypic marker of good health (N ≈ 15,000)
See the reasons behind the justified death of Idea Sunday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693961
How to do nothing
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I work at a big company where my manager is always 100% booked in meetings all day, and so are all the people he has to interact with. I never talk with him except for quick slack questions. Meanwhile we are finally pushing the biggest release ever of one of our apps to the app store this week after working for more than a year on our part, yet the next big release is supposed to be code complete next week already. I took one day off Friday and paid for it by having work on my day off today due to yet another problem at the last minute. Yet executives expect arbitrary dates for things without regard for how much pain it costs. Every release is filled with last minute problems fixed in a hurry to meet iron clad schedules. This isn't sustainable.