skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you should rewrite your life in Rust.
I'm pretty sure data engineering can be extremely lucrative, and can be easier for a backend engineer to jump into. Think of it as backend development on steroids, where you architecture and build the infrastructure for "big data".

Personally I'm also excited about Apples ARKit [1]. Some of the demos built on it seem like magic to me [2].

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/arkit/
[2]: http://www.madewitharkit.com/
Well I'm in your situation, and I disagree. Under the current socioeconomic system and pricing I'll likely never afford to own where I live, but things which make house pricing more efficient aren't the enemy.

I'd kill stamp duty (uk tax on buying/selling properties), push for higher urban density, push for wealth taxes because there are underlying problems, trying to bluntly manipulate the market doesn't generally have great outcomes.
This is exactly how DHL started btw:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/13/how-dhl-pioneered-the-shar...
Do you have an example of that?

My experience on HN is that there exists a small minority of users who might shout you down, but I've never seen or heard of a user being banned for discussing something like this in good faith.
You need to think it through. Imagine the worst case scenario, that you do all the hard work, and then someone really does come along and gain all the benefits. Then what happens? You will still get the experience from doing the hard work, if not the money or recognition. The only thing that matters when it comes to getting things done is experience. Fame and fortune come later, if at all. Eventually, with enough experience, you will be so good that it will be impossible for anyone else to take credit for your work, even if that isn't true now. Have faith in yourself and your future.
This is great for the ICO market.
Its partially what hollywood, games and news-media transport as terrorists image.
The give them sort of a dark glamour, justifying the expensive military thrown at them.
If they where depicting the screw ups- the prematurly exploding bombs, the wonky egos and stupid pride, the burning out flats destroying plans- the love-storys ruining suicidal bombers for the job.
Al Quaida could make a comedy number, if it werent for the memorys of the hits outshadowing the many misses.
Create an experience you want, the way you want, using an online platform
You’re facing the exact problem I am right now in my life.

I am 21, and work in the same Technologies you do. I founded a company in web services a year ago (http://Bigdrop.io) which is pretty much self sustainable today. I don’t find a lot of interest in the domain any more and tire of new projects easily.

I however realised that my true passion lies with creativity, and it isn’t limited to the web or to programming.

I am currently working with India Accelerator ( http://indiaaccelerator.co ), which gives me the chance to interact with start ups, discuss and design products, play a high level technical role, meet new people, etc.

We could possibly come up with something to help you out, you can reach out to me. naved@bigdrop.io
Ah, I didn't notice that. Good catch.
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I'm not sure there's great evidence that zoning actually has positive outcomes, I remember reading long articles on how places with less zoning can often turn out better. American zoning has entrenched cars and made sterile neighbourhoods allegedly.
No one is interested in real data ;-)

This was posted on HN and looks interesting: https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-...
Three reasons you're not going to see a change like this in the algo:

1) Recommendations are somewhat economic substitutes, not economic complements. Which is to say, most people look at the Amazon page for a given book, then look through the associated recommendations, and (generally) choose only one of the options.

2) If enough people actually bought Silent Spring after reading the Three Body problem, then the Silent Spring would already show up in the recommendations, because Amazon shows you recommendations based on what customers most similar to you also bought

3) If Amazon had shown you Silent Spring BEFORE you read the Three Body Problem, would you have even wanted to read it? Or would you have been like wtf Amazon how is this related? My bet for the average customer is the latter. Amazon can't make money by recommending you things that you won't even want until two weeks later
Learning the knick-knacks of strangers you dont know in the slightest FOR A PRICE is a weird feeling i have with airbnb. It feels intrusive, and it's creepy, but we don't admit it because it's convenient. This is the wrong way to satisfy our need for intimacy.
>Did/does your building have the equivalent of an HOA? I know my neighborhood has banned short term rentals.

Part of the problem is that landlords are able to charge so much more for AirBnB here that none of the landlords really want to rule out the possibility of getting in on the gravy themselves, hence the stat about half the rental market being on Airbnb.

Most buildings have an owners association of some kind, but it doesn't have the power that HOA's seem to have according to the Internet. As far as I know (and I'm not very knowledgeable on this), if there was any kind of major disagreement, such as some owners trying to stop others from doing short term rentals, ultimately it would have to end up in court to force someones hand.
Diversity is about giving people equal opportunity. The core sentiment is that in the work place, in social environments, people should have equal access to show that they can excel to the best of their ability.
Hacker News: where anonymous cowards belittle the scientific effort of nations while making racist overtures
Frankly, I think we need MOAR flaming input boxes as a clear indication that someone, somewhere, probably a user, has done something incredibly wrong.

Like, broken-the-universe wrong.

Seeing a flaming input box should leave the user crying out in despair, begging the cosmos to forgive them for whatever unholy thing they did.

And the galactic expanse will uncaringly not reply in the slightest.

It would be metal.

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Yes, it's a useless response. I gave my brain the day off today, mostly.
Would you feel the same way if the author--instead of focusing on sex differences instead chose to focus on eugenics? What if s/he argued that the reason blacks/African-Americans were under-represented in tech/at Google was because of eugenics?
Maybe everyone is stupid. Not really -- some are malicious, for example, this medium post starts with a bald-faced lie.
> So far, the company, which is backed by William Joy, a pioneering Silicon Valley computer designer, has demonstrated up to 400 recharge cycles for its prototypes.

Skepticism is certainly warranted, but Bill Joy is no fool. Here's hoping this comes to something.
This has actually happened to me (host not there) but

a: we just booked a cheap shitty room for the night
b: AirBnB responded well and ensured we were taken care of in terms of refunds/reviews
c: it was partly our fault I think because we didn't contact them in the week before we turned up, in future I'd always double check and confirm the plan.
Clueless implies they didn't know what they were doing, or what the outcome of doing that would be.
So they are late only 80 years? Congratulations, Ghana! lmao
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Trump and Putin met twice in Germany
Why so? Do the owners provide any value?
Google’s disappointing response to the “manifesto”
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14941624
> I don't know exactly how to react to this...

Not like that.
Ask HN: Best noise cancelling headphones for developers
Do you use noise cancelling headphones? If so, which are the best ones? I am mainly interested in the noise cancelling feature.
Absolutely right.

Sadly, though: Screw folks by raising the cost of a life-saving drug by 5000%, business as usual. Screw over investors, go to jail.
Too bad for Space X and company, I guess.
Well, what matters is the ratio of opinions. Is there anything to indicate that a majority of employees back him? Those that wanted him gone had no reason to speak up.
Bootstrapped Saudi dev reaches #1 in appstore w/ 3MM+ users in 2 mths
If you're still interested in tech but want to move away from programming there are definitely options. A few I've seen before:
- moving to a product/project management role (more talking to people and a lot less coding)
- a hybrid sales/engineer role on a technical product (helping the sales team and customer figure out how the product can be most useful to them)
- Developer support for a technical product (v.useful to have engineers who like communicating externally in these roles)

Otherwise people career change entirely. E.g. I studied law at university, realised I didn't want to be a corporate lawyer, then did sales/vc work at an equity crowdfunding start-up, left there to learn to code, spent just over a year building prototypes & on contract in some bigger tech co's, then started my own co which I'm now a year into (I'm 25).

So try and work out what interests you and see if you can move within the company you're at to start with to test it out.

I also wrote up the transferable skills from law > programming. It definitely goes the other way too - https://hackernoon.com/how-studying-law-helped-me-with-progr...
The way they're making it now doesn't account for all the costs, so your question is moot. The current manufacturing process ignores the costs that are externalized to the Government and the individuals exposed to the chemicals.

Of course it's competitive.
It's still a mystery to me how it is possible, from a merely logical point of view, that two groups are more diverse internally than between them. Especially (but not necessarily) when all the elements of one group are different from the element of the other group for at least one constant characteristic.
I always believed that the way crypto currencies will succeed is primarily for these reasons. In some ways it mirrors how porn pushed important technology. While it isn't nice that crypto currencies enable criminals in the long run I think this will benefit us as it will increase usage, add more services, keep liquidity etc.
An office :)
I don't think that you can actually call increasing property prices a negative externality. It's a natural consequence of making that tourism more efficient. It's like someone invented a way to turn fruit into gold and you're complaining that it drives the price of fruit up. Well, OK that has some bad effects but they're almost by definition (like, how economics works) less than the positive effects of now having more gold.
Yes! Email conversation threads! I'd forgotten that one. Also a +1 for UX.

You might quibble about this but recognizing that fast search is better than foldering is also UX. It seems obvious to us now but maybe it wasn't that obvious in 2006 (or maybe it was, I didn't know anything about UX or design back then). Yes making the search go fast is a technical feat and without good tech you can't have a good user experience even if the design is good (see WebOS).
> Some 58 percent of all offers on Airbnb in Germany are entire apartments or even apartment blocks - meaning professional landlords are effectively the core of Airbnb's business.

Someone working a full time job, who owns a primary residence as well as a secondary one for vacation. Does renting that secondary location means they are "a professional landlord" ? If someone who owns an apartment but is going abroad for a bit for vacation/work and have a family member take care of renting the place on AirBnB, are they "professional landlords" ?

I would assume professional landlord = landlord whose full time job is to take care of the rentals, I don't understand the jump from "this listing is an entire apartment" => "This is a professional landlord"
As do I, but that's not what marketing teams advertise for ;-) I suppose doing something like specific offloading makes for a great cloud case, but being able to run the baseline at home will at least guarantee a degree of control that will keep you going.
Tolerance is not a moral precept
coming from a country that didn't and still probably doesn't have a dedicated space institute, I would like to let you know this this is a fantastic thing that they did.

Kids need encouragement, they need role models.
> I'm no friend of Tcl at the moment, I'm not sure if that will change.

Languages don't really seem to "come back" that much. At some point being for too long out of the mainstream weighs against you.
He claims men handle stress better. Working long hours is stressful. Working long hours is hard work. Therefore he believes women can't work as hard.

Question to you is how do you interpret what he said?
Not too sure how well his retention efforts are going, but his growth is impressive
http://imgur.com/a/b46vt
I'm aware of the origin of the phrase, and how it relates to white flight, urban deindustrialization, housing policy, specifically public housing policy, and housing discrimination, particularly as it affected the urban core of major cities. It absolutely does have it's origin in geography, which itself can often be weaponized as a tool for segregation. LA has it's own set of problems regarding these issues, but I've never heard then described as "inner city" problems, that's all I was trying to point out.

On the other hand, if the poster I was replying to meant to imply that you can't be around poor black folks without being robbed, I'd prefer they come out directly and say that, rather than hide behind coded euphemisms.
> James Bessen of Boston University has provided suggestive evidence that rent-seeking behavior has been increasing. In a 2016 paper Bessen demonstrates that, since 2000, “political factors” account for a substantial part of the increase in corporate profits. This occurs through expanded regulation that favors incumbent firms. Similarly, economists Jeffrey Brown and Jiekun Huang of the University of Illinois have found that companies that have executives with close ties to key policy makers have abnormally high stock returns.

I honestly don't understand the point of reporting such "phenomena" in such stilted, euphemistic, academic terms. Every time I read such a milquetoast description of corruption, I'm reminded of this essay discussing the ways in which well-meaning "discoveries" in economics and political science serve mostly as a prophylactic against the immediacy, urgent, and valid claims made in other epistemic registers.

It really feels like some people just don't want to "give credit" to the angry mob for realizing something that eluded them for so long, so they come up with these strange parallel constructions that quantify, and "prove", what was already obvious to everyone else, but in slightly different/more mathy ways, to make it seem like fresh knowledge. However, in doing so, they de-legitimize the ways that other people used to arrive to such conclusions, such as a cursory reading of Marxist literature.

It's such a weird dance.

https://clrjames.blogspot.ca/2014/04/ideas-whose-time-has-be...
The efficient guy in me agrees with the overall sentiment, though not with the tone.

My inner nerd had a big, fat smile on his face when reading the story and, if I was the person to receive the letter, I'd probably have "wasted" the 10 minutes the response took because I would not be who I am today if not for highly paid scientists encouraging me. And I'd have put in 10 minutes unpaid overtime to make up for it - I'd not be surprised if the respondent did the same.

Kids are import and they really matter for us humans: They'll solve future problems if we invest the time to love and encourage them.

EDIT: Ffs, please unflag the parent comment - do we really only want to read comments that fit into our own bubble? What happened to discourse?
In fact, probably the only reason NASA still exists is its significant effort at educational outreach - just sticking their head down and working on their projects without communicating with the population that funds them would result in the "NASA does nothing relevant today" meme overshadowing the work it does.
I thought he vowed to not have anything to do with tech or consumerism or something like that a while back.

[Edit] nvm. Looks like it's covered in his Wikipedia page. I guess he's trying to invest in green tech as a means to curbing the negative effects of tech.
Didn't downvote you so I can really only guess, but my guess is that you were downvoted for the argument that you were implying.

After all, even if the statistical female population does have a higher baseline for neuroticism, would that fact actually weaken the argument for gender diversity?

How would it be any different from the fact that men on average are taller?
Article not really related to Machine Learning. Rather clickbaity story about how the author wants to see book referenced in a book to be recommended to him prior to buying any book.
What are the odds the whole thing is an elaborate joke?
My question exactly. I would think there are millions of opportunities like this out there, but my gut feel is that any company that has any sort of a budget for a project would already have some sort of an IT department who would very carefully protect their "environment" (read: jobs) from any sort of an external entity who would introduce efficiency.

This may seem like a conspiracy theory to some, but it is extremely consistent with my observations from over 20 years in the industry. I see inefficiency and incompetence everywhere I look, I simply cannot believe this is mostly accidental, there must be forces acting to keep things this way.
This Guy Vlogs About His Business
This isn't just about the workplace. It is about behavior in general and where this behavior comes from. Even feminists have admitted to me and other feminists have written articles describing that they find the opposite of what they advocate attractive, and if they are unable to socially engineer themselves there is little chance with society in general. Gendered behaviour is incentivised that way. You find reinforcement of gendered behaviour problematic but forget the most powerful reinforcer.
There is some truth to it. Everyone wants a developer with extensive public portfolio (github/stack overflow/open source contributions) and ideally great performance with algorithmic brain teasers, but don't realize that such people are quite literally celebrities. Do you really need George Clooney for your soap opera? Is the budget of your soap opera sufficient to hire George Clooney? Another thing - for the dirty stuff the celebrity will need a double;)
BSD derivative systems have a lot better isolation than mondern Linux systems. In fact, one Docker "port" for FreeBSD is an interface over their jails functionality and it can be difficult to tell uourr even in a jail at first. They all have a much richer history of supporting multi-user machines.

Linux's route to multi-user is a very different history with very different use cases. It's also got a much richer history around single user machines (and the performance, efficiency and support gains you get from focusing there).
Fascinating how this has barely more than 7k views on Youtube
I started TAing last year and moved up to teaching just recently at a coding bootcamp after realizing I really enjoy working with people in that way and that I have some aptitude for it. Really enjoying it, it's part time on top of a dev day job at the moment but I know people who do it full time and make good money.
I remember trying Tcl/Tk many years ago during high-school: the syntax was interesting and building GUI applications was extremely easy. I don't know why Tcl is not popular today, but there is one pretty cool Unix tool that uses/extends it called Expect [1]

Expect lets you automatize user interaction with terminal applications. And then there is DejaGnu, a testing framework, that uses Expect and Tcl. Probably the most important software project using DejaGnu right now is the GNU Compiler Collection. A not so significative project that also uses it is the interpreter of my toy language :) it took me a little bit to understand how to integrate it with Autotools but now I really like it (here is an example: https://github.com/pera/ad-hoc/blob/master/testsuite/ahci/dg...).

[1] - http://expect.sourceforge.net/

[2] - https://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/
This reminds me of another recent story, about a language that doesn't use left or right, but uses compass directions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html

Imagine yourself saying the fork is east of the plate, for example. It requires a different kind of mental map, and knowing what direction you're facing. And everyone does this, it's part of the culture. Part of the language.

Makes me wonder if they have the same jokes about how men don't ask for directions and women can't read a map in that language.
Likewise,

Hacker News: where anonymous cowards call others anonymous cowards and make baseless accusations of racism

Apologies for the meta-discussion, but this sort of comment is unbecoming of hacker news. Instead of calling anonymous commenters names, we should discuss their ideas.
I played with TECO on Unix for a while many years ago as well as a similar character editor (I think it was called SPEED) on the Data General MV8000 Eagle at Texas A&M. Editing with those editors is like solving a puzzle. It was fun, but I always moved back to a screen editor to be more productive. However, I imagine on a slow Teletype, TECO was a good way to go because it is so terse.
Would you please not make the thread even worse by throwing in a personal attack? Your comment would have been just fine without that bit.
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> Languages don't really seem to "come back" that much.

Objective-C came back from obscurity with a vengeance.
Similar previous discussion, where most recommended the Bose QC35

Ask HN: What are the best noise cancelling headphones? 3 months ago, 11 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226574

while here there are other options named

Ask HN: Which headphones do you use while working? 4 months ago, 36 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13978072
I don't see how that's clickbaity, or unrelated to machine learning. No, it's not a technical post, but it still raises an interesting point about what recommendation systems are actually optimizing for and what's missed.
Neat but not self-hostable nor open source :(
Yes, in the land of TLAs (three letter acronymis) or FLAs that is IT, having to pronounce TCL or TK is really hard :)

Speaking of which, is it "sequel" or "S.Q.L"? Is it "gooey" or "G.U.I"? I heard people also dropped SQL and GUI because they were confused by the pronunciation...
It is common knowledge that we are all the same, just as it was common knowledge that the earth was flat a few 100 years ago.

People don't argue for common knowledge, it is common knowledge.

Here is a interesting case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVaTc15plVs
Does anyone have any proof of this? Seriously I'd love to see some. Bug reports or anything?
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Damn interesting. Though I didn't quite get the whole dissolving-lozenge-as-a-timer thing. How would that work?
It's a triangle. Terrorists, Media, Authorities. All three get something out of blowing this out of proportion (ok, bad pun).
Thanks. Since that one is the more substantive article we'll leave it up.
(tuturto responded to the parent of this comment at https://engineersjourney.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/history-of... )
Some companies certainly, but far from all. Some place I've been the architect/technical lead doesn't actually do much day to day coding. They're more responsible for defining tasks, and making sure they get delegated and completed to a high enough standard. Sure they'll keep an eye on the code and come with suggestions, but they only very rarely get their hands bloody (to extend the metaphor).
Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is Doomed for the Worst Reason: Regulations