skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hold on - would you say unpacking something packed by e.g. UPX by hand (silly example) wouldn't be reverse engineering? This is just unpacking a packed program, which definitely is reverse engineering.
>The poorest member of that society would live like a king from our present day world.

You forget things such as: meaningful work, respect from society, crime, cultural differences between the poor and the rich, interclass upward mobility (see any sociology textbook), intellectual stimulation.
Platform ports was the main line of business for the company I was talking about. It was very much a feast or famine situation.
I attended a (London-based) bootcamp and all we really covered was developing CRUD apps with a decent-ish UI and API integration. On the one hand it did feel very superficial but then a lot of web development jobs don't require much more in terms of skill.

Everyone on the bootcamp had a list of things they'd have liked to cover as well but there simply isn't time for everything. When planning the bootcamp's curriculum you have a difficult balancing act between giving people a firm grounding and teaching them things that are going to be directly helpful for getting jobs (which is most people's priority, given that they're not earning).

Students on my bootcamp who had been able to put together a portfolio of decent (albeit simple) websites that met users' needs didn't have trouble getting jobs. No, they weren't engineering roles at large tech companies but they're the first step in a new career.
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Excellent, thank you. I'll get on it right away.
This is a very smart way to do things in certain industries. This scales fairly well with local businesses because what you did for one homebuilder in Topeka, you can do for another homebuilder in Billings and not run into too many conflicts of interest.

The vet space is a bit different though. Vets are often times well-booked but would like to see more revenue per booking.
As the author mentions, the CS231n course notes may be what you want. They build up many of the neural network primitives using just numpy and basic operations, so it's very easy to see exactly how it works at the code level.
The counter-point to this is that if people remain unemployed due to unwillingness to accept available jobs at the available pay...at what point do they have to re-examine their own market value?
Full service gas pumps are still mandatory in some states in the US.
There are places around the edges that need major work. Our population is expanding, that means we need new houses for the new people. Once in a while houses burn down or is otherwise destroyed. Likewise water treatment plants need maintenance and upgrades, and sometimes we need a new one; but for the most part people have perfectly safe water.

On the whole though there are a lot of perfectly good roads and houses that just need a little work to keep them up. It is better to not build more than we need. I could tear down my perfectly good 2000 sq ft house and build a 4000 square ft house - but my current house is big enough for my needs so I'd rather sit back and relax.
I think they're much more similar than AI and flight. We've been promised AI for decades and it's always just around the corner. Yet even today we don't have even simple worm level AGI. We have game-players and cool-picture-makers and maybe some categorization and function-approximators which are useful to business tasks but in general it's a bunch of playthings and fluff.
Ask HN: What are good non-programming jobs for someone with a statistics degree?
My wife recently graduated with a mathematics degree, majoring in both actuarial sciences and statistics. She doesn't want to be an actuary, and she isn't too fond of programming (even using R). A data scientist role is clearly a bad fit, as it usually involves a lot of programming.

Additionally, being a recent grad, being able to work with others who are doing the same thing as her would be best. She would like to learn from others who are more experienced, as opposed to being the only one in the company in her role.

What are good jobs, job titles, or industries that value a statistics degree but don't require a lot of programming?
Is there room to carry personal gear/bags or is the entire cargo area filled with the supplied gear?

From a safety and security standpoint; you should probably add a true partition between the cab and cargo area. In an accident or abrupt stop the aluminum/zip-tie/mesh organizer isn't going to stop gear from coming into the cab and from the looks of it (https://i0.wp.com/campistry.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/I...) could probably collapse into the cab. If someone were to break in, they don't really require anything more than scissors or a knife to access the gear.
Legal questions aside, this should have been an online form that creates a zip file containing the generated privacy policies in various markup languages and a configuration file. I don't know about you, but the barrier to entry here is too high. You have to run a PHP instance yourself, at least momentarily.
This strikes me as a massive overgeneralization. States are just an organizational structure of institutions, tasked with operating a society. They are not intrinsically inclined towards building concentration camps any more than they are intrinsically inclined towards providing healthcare or delivering a basic income. States operating under an ideology of madness will operate as if mad. States operating under an ideology of reason will operate reasonably.

And for me at least, the main take-away from the image of the concentration camp is clear: elections have consequences, so take your vote seriously. Form a functional coalition with others to elect the least terrible person you can. If you don't, you may end up handing the machinery of the state - capable of harm on a massive scale - over to the unsavory or the insane. That's the lesson of the concentration camps and the lesson of recent history.

So I think the distinction between the nature of the state and the nature of its citizens is important for effective democratic participation. If you are so cynical that you think that 'concentration camps reveal the nature of the modern state,' why would you participate in such a thing? If we are collectively down on the very concept of the state, there's no way to run a good one.
The USA. Look up what's going on in Flint.
The 10M figure does include Gear VR yes. It's less capable than a Vive but ignoring its success while prophecising VR's doom seems weird to me.
In other words, true AI is magic.
Very nice article, covers all the frontiers captured by AI in recent years.
Awaiting a follow-up with more such instances.
> Insurance companies, largely offer the same products and "differentiate" on customer service.

UK market, so somewhat different. A large proportion of our insurance sales go through various comparison websites who are the new "zero value add" broker. This leads to a large number of decisions being largely price based.

I have no idea whether this transition occurred in the states?
No. Rights define what governments can and cannot do in democracies. It's amazing how many people from America of all places, that now fail to understand this.
> Go just takes it to the extreme until you can't read an entire function on a single screen but have to scroll through piles of code and error handling all mucked together.

That's the cynical way of looking at it (also sounds like you haven't read or written much go code). As someone who has written go code full time for 2 years, here's another perspective.

It's not about "the programmer is too dumb", it's about people of varying skill levels working on really, really large code bases. A junior, mid, and senior can all work on the same business problems. Conversely, if you have a senior ruby dev, they will write these terse, elegant, functional-chained methods that require much time to digest and conceptualize. This leads to wasted programmer time. All the elegance and terseness I have seen in the wild, it has never once saved anyone time, minus the few 10's of seconds it saved the programmer who wrote it who thought they were being "clever" because they wrote that if statement in one line instead of three. Code is maintained and read more than it is written. Go encourages writing code for the reader.

Also, "piles of error handling" is preferred. Go treats errors as values that you can program around. It took a while for me to shed the bad habits of languages prior (ruby, python, javascript, java and c#) but afterwards I fell in love. Handle your errors -- right there where they happen. Never again do I have to deal PokeMon try/catching.
Finding grounds to appeal a UK train penalty fare
A defense implies an attack, so someone has to start bashing PHP before anyone has an opportunity to defend it, however, I don't regard asking for specifics as a defense.
That's really interesting.

As a kid I once rescued a humming bird that got tangled in a spiders web. I walked around with it for a few minutes and carefully cleaned the web off. Then suddenly after realizing it was ok. The bird was all too happy to fly off.

It must have been fun to have a bird stick around like that.
But if you are unemployed in the UK and relying on benefits to survive, if you try to negotiate salary and get turned down for a job offer your benefits will be sanctioned and you will have to rely on food banks for X weeks until the sanction expires, so negotiating on salary becomes a very risky proposition.
> Wayfair: The home goods e-commerce company was profitable from its first month of operation because they skipped brand advertising and bought up hundreds of domain names that were exact matches for common search terms.

I remember buying a TV stand from TVStands.com about a decade ago.
What happens inside Amazon when one of its AWS hosting services goes down
> Biggest waste of public funds in a generation

A certain little jaunt through the middle east would like to have a word with you.
Very interesting way of thinking about it, I'd enjoy to read a much longer fleshed out version of this.

Also, is there a name for the "persuasion technique" you've used here? The idea of taking an understandable scenario and then reducing it? I have a similar technique that starts with an exaggerated and unavoidably rhetorical question, and then work back towards the topic at hand, when someone has a mental block and simply won't budge. I've always wondered if there's a name for it so I could become more effective at it.
As SamBam noted, this does not use machine translation but relies exclusively on the good old approach of hand-crafted translations done by humans.

As you said, one should probably not use machine translation for any legal-related stuff, at least not in today's state of machine translation.
Understanding Investors'Required Return
> It's also not clear to me that most vets really need a custom website.

I know next to nothing about this space, but that was my first inclination as well. What value is that really adding, unless the practice offers some particularly unique ("custom") service?
LFU policy sounds really interesting!
Yep. Dokku is another option since you've work with Heroku before. But Heroku is so expensive.
So there was no separate text mode at all, it seems (which is what I assumed looking at the video). Did it make the text scrolling sluggish?
if you can manage people, you will become a ceo
Do you have any examples of these jobs that are now more vs less productive? I'd say the average Starbucks / fast food worker are significantly more productive while making less comparatively.

Labor's share of income vs capital's has not remained constant. Not even close.
Exactly. Thanks for the explanation!
At least it's not further wrapped in cat shit, I guess?
Glad that you find it helpful.
Labor's share of income vs capital's has not remained constant. Not even close.

Sure it has:

https://taxfoundation.org/walkthrough-gross-domestic-income
It can be done in principle (proof: our existence). But there is no proof yet that we ("human intellect") are capable (smart enough) to get it done. There might be a hard barrier to our intellectual capabilities we can't see or didn't hit yet.
Why would it matter? Surely if the Chinese government was able to MITM the JS to do bad stuff, they could also MITM the HTML to serve Javascript even if you originally weren't?
Don't just use Stripe
Minor nitpick: case classes in Scala are product types, not sum types. I think you meant "sealed traits".
Photographer behind 'monkey selfie' is broke after years-long copyright battle
FWIW Basecamp (disclaimer: used to work there) never had anything other than a pay monthly SaaS model, and IMO it makes sense given the amount of time people actually spend pulling dynamically updated web pages from the server and is more akin to Github in the usage pattern than something like MS Project or Quickbooks (It's secretly a communications tool).
You're right, for demo purposes, an additional form that just sends all its output to the script would probably be helpful. Will definitely consider this going forward. Thanks!
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Natural selection will take care of this eventually, either genetically or memeticly. I suspect the outcome will not be as happy as what the traditions we flouted provided. The birth rate is likely the most telling critique of western society.

Our revealed preference is our civilization is not worth perpetuating.

As of now only those who deliberately desire children and those unable to follow the instructions on the back of contraception packaging reproduce. It will be interesting to see how this works out long term.
Thank you, there is more info in this blog post: http://antirez.com/news/109
I've seen 4-year-old's play with their food.

It's not going to go well under our new Raven Overlords.

My only hope is to taste like chicken fingers and therefore die quickly.
In addition to ytview; mpsyt (https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube) is a great tool for finding, creating playlists, and playing audio from youtube.

And for Pandora, there is Pianobar, a console based pandora player: https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar
Sales is a science. The writer is doing a great job of categorizing "objections" to the sale. That's terminology that any trained salesperson should understand.

This categorization helps the salesperson do two things:
- De-prioritize leads whose objections they're unlikely to overcome
- Craft responses to objections they are likely to overcome and prioritize these leads

In this particular case they're unlikely to convince a soon-to-retire or luddite vet -- they should de-prioritize these, maybe put them in the CRM to ping in six months to see if anything has changed. They should also be aware that their target market doesn't include these vets, so if the proportion is high enough they might want to find a different market.

For the others, it seems they're already crafting responses to the objections - presumably they'll get a sale fairly soon if the market is big enough.
Can Venture Capital Be Saved? (Mitch and Freada Kapor)
Kids aren't the only ones. Most of us in the wealthy West now have so many entertainment options that we ignore even many of the ones we've already paid for, or are continuing to pay for. Half the time I forget I have Prime Video at all, and I've temporarily got Showtime for Twin Peaks but despite knowing there are probably tons of other shows and movies on it (and not on Netflix/Prime) that I'd enjoy I've not even looked at the rest of their catalog aside from ~5min scanning through it when I first signed up.

I have a total of probably 60+ entirely unplayed games for the PS2, PS3, Xbox360, Gamecube, and Wii, picked up cheap used or in digital PS+ freebies or sales but not touched since. Hundreds of hours of entertainment which I'd probably enjoy and many of which have at least some artistic merit but they sit unused. We recently picked up a PS4, so now games are accumulating for that too. Don't get me started on Steam/GoG. My to-read list of just books I own is solidly in the 3 digits. We've still got a couple DVDs kicking around that we bought over a decade ago for next to nothing used, never watched.

I've never found time to catch up on all the music I pirated 10+ years ago, sometimes in large dumps of material from friends who were more into tracking down The Good Stuff than I was (keeping up with all that meta-reading to learn what's worth your time itself takes tons of time) let alone listen to much new music aside from a handful of CDs purchased and listened-to after live shows over the years. Spotify and such can go to hell, I don't got time and the last thing I need is another way to find things I like but won't have time to pursue.

I end up seeing a more-or-less random 25-50% of the movies that are probably excellent and I'd likely really enjoy that come out every year. There are hundreds of culturally and artistically important movies from the last 100+ years still on my to-watch list, but the ones I miss each year keep making the list longer rather than shorter. Most are easily available. Some of them I could go watch right now (Netflix, et c.)

I'm still meaning to read Sandman and a dozen other acclaimed, important comics, to say nothing of all the ones I'd probably enjoy as pure bubble-gum entertainment. I've barely scratched the surface on that entire format.

Plus I've got all that stuff in life that's not just "consuming" media.

I've truly got more excellent art/entertainment readily available than I have time for, by a large margin. We live in strange times.

[EDIT] Oh, and let's not forget the ~a billion hours of free entertainment on Youtube, podcasts, archive.org, and so on, much of it good. I'm not much into that stuff because wow do I ever not have time to sort wheat from chaff let alone enjoy said wheat, but it's all right there and I could seek it out any time I please.
It's based on considerably more. Literally everything about the design of Bitcoin only makes sense in the context of the anarchocapitalism of the Cypherpunks list and its successors. They largely accepted goldbug crank economics as completely normal.

This is why Bitcoin economics is so weird and doesn't work in the real world. The process is:

1. If you buy into this weird ideology, you'll get rich for free!

2. Don't worry if you don't understand it or it doesn't make sense - just keep doing the things and you'll get rich for free!

This is why the worst Bitcoin advocates come across as fanatical cultists, and why they got the social reputation they have.
The excellent "Two Scoops of Django" is now on version 1.11.

https://www.twoscoopspress.com/products/two-scoops-of-django...
Self-Consciousness
Aren't you ignoring all the unfilled positions the article is suggesting would be filled if employers paid fairly?
A self-sufficient Mars colony isn't easy, but it doesn't seem impossible. And the lack of FTL doesn't really limit us to this solar system either: generational starships with nuclear pulse propulsion [1] could get us to the next star with around 100 years travel time. Not exactly something we want to start tomorrow, but fairly feasable.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion
Basically when new games are made for VR first and traditional games (PS4/XBOX/Nintendo) are more for niche gamers.
A popular book on the subject is The Two-Income Trap, by Elizabeth Warren.
That's a good point. A lot of bad reviews are clearly user stupidity: I even see ones where they obviously bought the wrong thing, had unrealistic expectations, etc., and then gave a poor review based on this. Or reviews where the merchant (usually Amazon) screwed up somehow, so they give a poor review to the product.

On the other hand, positive reviews are frequently either lies or fluff, so you're exactly right to weight them much less. A lot of them look like they're written by shills, some of them even clearly say they got the product for free or cheap in exchange for a review, and many are written shortly after acquiring the product so they really haven't had enough time to fairly test it and see if it's reliable long-term.

Also, well-written negative reviews will go into great detail explaining exactly why the product is crap, so look for those. I'm remembering a great (and long) review I read for an automatic cat litterbox which attaches to a toilet here, and sometimes ends up cooking cat turds...
While I agree that we have a problem with population growth, the author has very traditional views on marriage and its requirements for a society/population to function - there's much more to it than that.

Also thanks for calling my existence "illegitimate" in 2017.
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They may understand it in theory, but I wonder how many middle-managers still have a gut-feeling that they're hiring that "super-smart AI guy who won Jeopardy" to work for them?
Once you get down to one assistant (or a handful), it is not about replacing employees. It is about helping them help customers by reducing paperwork/overheads.

For example: Maybe the vet is 100% booked, but cancellations mean they are idle 10% of the time, or maybe waiting room wait times are above average / bursty due to poor predictions of how long each appointment will take.
If we can't make it work on a literal Garden World, then we have no chance of making it work in the frigid void, or on an irradiated hellworld.
The real elephant in the room is not a single platform, we already have that (Linux+Gnu+X11).

What is missing is STABILITY. The kind of stability we see over at Windows where win32 binaries from the 9x era can run on Windows 10.

The kind of stability one have achieved with the bedrock of Linux (and that Torvalds gets ragged on for defending), but that the DE devs piss on every time they make a new weekend project.

App stores are a distraction, single platform (more like distro monoculture, it seems to me) is a distraction, And Gnome+Wayland is the last people you want to entrust with anything related to stability (you can get Qt working on things that get GTK screaming about missing dependencies).
The Road Ahead for B2B Software Companies
Electricity was magic a couple hundred years ago.
There's no need to draw a line; it's a risk continuum. With no due process at all, China is a higher risk option than three US.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Dzone yet.

https://dzone.com/
Better link here but I can't edit: https://github.com/vscode-icons/vscode-icons/
Some perspective: the average NBA Player makes $5M a year, arguably overpaid > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeYmY83QXOk

Relative to the bubble. The market has been long overdue for a correction. Squirreling away cash is a smart play.
It seems to me that hypothetical graph would be one of GDP increasing and, as a consequence, relaxing protectionism in selected sectors.

If you don't have a development plan, capital just create bubbles and then left the country in search of bigger profits. What is important is the creation of infrastructure and knowledge in the country that will work for its citizens. I don't know why this is a proposition so disputed. It seems that having a plan is always good except if we talk about economy.

Almost all the increment in the world reduction of poverty are due to China, but it's sold to us as a consequence of less protectionism.

Maybe, at the end of the day, what make China successful is that is too big to be bullied.
I feel like one day I'm going to land on Hacker News and I'll read Team of Ravens Beat Lee Sedol 4-1 in Latest Go Championships
Right, that's the disclaimer that has been put up there, both for the safety of the authors and for the safety of any potential users.

I hope that disclaimer is not deterrent. It's simply the truth: For legal purposes, you should never rely on any online resources without talking through this with a lawyer of your choice, if you want to be on the safe side. No matter if those resources are a manual guide or a computer tool.