skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true. I've read all the Watson Special Edition papers numerous times[1].

The original Watson work was very good, and adding neural-network based models as alternative question parsers and answer rankers is a clear way forward.

It's a pity IBM decided to use the Watson name for everthing they do in ML now.

[1] http://brenocon.com/watson_special_issue/
That, in fact, is the normal case which is why people are surprised by typed nils.

For example:

func returnsNil() error { return nil }

x := returnsNil()
// x is of type nil and value nil.
Also work for MS I have an office, but wouldn't care if we went open. I worked for wall street for a while and was used to it.
"Google is a very selective employer, and so it is highly probable that Google’s selection processes have led to Google employing women who are, in specific traits, uncharacteristic of women as a whole"

Its strange how nobody until now addressed this almost certain phenomena and what it means in relation to the memo.
I think you forgot that while Americans can and should save (a megawatthour ISN'T, or at least shouldn't be the average per month per house, vide the article), the rest of the world is way, way behind.

Are you telling Indians or Africans that they cannot even have electric cooking? Coal stoves kill thousands each year. Remember, you guys only have like 5% of the population.

You can limit your consumption -- it is grotesque -- but much of the rest of the world don't even have one lightbulb.
Great job. Thanks for sharing. It doesn't recognize me though

> Hey undefined! Interested in exercising more? Great! I'm here to help!

I'm following _kaizen_ technique to improve my reading skills (eg. reading 20-30 pages, everyday). Would be interested if your bot support more than exercise
I have two project which make zero money but I love doing them. I learn so much from writing code for them and use them as a playground to try out and apply new technology in a production environment, Yes, they are production environment because they are severving real customer, just that no one pays me so far.

https://noty.im An uptime monitoring tool

https://betterdev.link a news letter and from there, I spin up a link sharing service https://one.betterdev.link with full text search for content of link as well.
As software engineers in America, you have quite a great deal of financial freedom. No one is coercing you into accepting a job offer because life is hard and you just don't have the time to shop around for job offers.

If both parties sign an agreement with complete agency, who is getting abused? How can it be "unfair" if you both parties freely agreed to the exchange?
As far as I understand, Uber IS Travis. I'm not trying to say he is God or anything. This "generation" (Uber, snap) to me seems adamant in fixing the errors of the last generation where founders lost control too quickly (Angie's list).

I'm not saying Travis is a good person. I'm just saying that in a war between founders and investors, it is usually a safe bet to side with founders.
You're saying that Qt is not well designed because it's accessibility support does not include certain apis needed for the JAWS screen reader? That's a very narrow definition of "not well designed". I personally find Qt 5+ with QtQuick (not the older QWidgets) very well designed and I've looked into a large number of GUI frameworks over the years in a variety of languages.
Real type safety is sum types. If I need to express something that is present or missing, I should use a Maybe monad.

Having an extra field for "missingness" is less safe because the type system won't enforce that it is either missing or set, you could have it set to a value but marked as missing which is still ambiguous.
No different than shopping for a car and buying the first one you see. You HAVE to shop around for your career. Holy crap, it's the biggest investment of your life. If you don't care, it's nobody's job to care for you, and it shouldn't be. ALWAYS shop around or don't complain when you find out you're being paid below market.
I think getting bootstrap 4 to this stage will have been quite the task already, the maintainers may want to rest awhile on their laurels once it is released!

If I was going to offer a contribution myself, it might be to work on removing the jQuery dependency.
Yet another item to add to my list-of-reasons-of-why-not-to-use-Go. Thanks
The need for low barrier to entry programming tools will always be there. Now we have stuff like https://developers.google.com/appmaker/ but it's more Crystal Reports than VB5/6. Still, there are alternatives.
Yours sounds way better.
It's pretty obvious what choice you prefer. You're part of the problem.
Oh, that is truly hipster's concept - more than one nil. similar to -0 and +0.

Public cosplay of [presumed] intelligence as a new smoking.
I worked there for a time and can tell you that many of the creatives I worked with assumed that if Watson won Jeopardy, then it could do literally anything (indeed talking to you like a human), so a lot of the creative concepts were pretty far fetched.
Why not filter the analysis only to profiles with keywords like"engineer" or "operations". Otherwise the analysis is unlikely to be directionally correct.
On the contrary, it's a sign of our "evolution" that sexist ideas like the one in your second paragraph are now increasingly subject to fierce rebuttal.
Google could invest a bit more money in R&D. They sit on awesome pile of money and yet aren't a significant player in energy. Why? Not smart enough? Don't think so.

Oh, i forgot. Google is here to make money. They might write some blog posts about CO2, but will not use their leverage to change things. That would damage the bottom line.

Why is it that all the big companies are 100% driven by short term profits? Maybe our understanding of capitalism isn't so great after all.
We need more responsibility.
EuroClojure 2017 videos
What is AI about Haiku? Is .ai just the new .io ? It just looks like a web component designer.
If the fact that the applicant population is slanted towards a particular gender means (or is caused by the fact) that it is harder for the other gender in that field, then the smaller population will in fact be better on average than the larger, because it will have taken them more motivation, determination, work and ability to win over others just to get them to where they are.

At least, this seems like the most likely explanation for the fact that individuals in the much smaller group of female startup founders outperform the male startup founders that has been reported in a number of places. e.g.

> For growing start-ups, those with female founders almost universally outperformed their male-only counterparts. The fastest-growing companies at 200%+ growth, are 75% more likely to have a female founder.

https://www.tinypulse.com/startup-culture-report

> Once again assuming a normal distribution with neither men nor women over or underrepresented in skill level

This is probably wrong, and if your hiring practices assume it in a scenario where it is harder for one gender to even make it to the applicant stage then they are unfairly discriminatory.
I said the girl could smile about it to indicate that she's one tough bitch. Not some wuss that pisses her pants over breakfast. This increases the plausibility that Googlers who took a day at home really did feel offended, to a substantial degree that made them stay home, and were not " quote offended unquote" as the parent post suggested.
This is required to support one of the most peculiar features I've ever seen--method dispatch on the concrete type of object that isn't there.
> The business strategy is to crush every small retailer by operating at slim to no margins, purely to make it impossible for anyone else to compete.

Large retailers compete against each other. Small retailers can't do much anyhow. (Especially in heavily car based areas, if you have to go just a few more minutes and you can find more and cheaper products, why would you stop at a small shop?)
Leigh Phillips of EARN on behavior change and fintech/nonprofits
I submitted a request; my company's not huge but I hope it helps.

Timescale looks like the most promising replacement to InfluxDB on the market. Influx has been a source of pain, data corruption and other various issues; what a world it would be if we could use timescale!

The main blocker for us is Grafana support actually. I know Grafana is working on a Postgres connector; I am quite excited about this.
Sketch Palette Generator: Output a JSON Color Palette to Sketch
$6000 Gaming Laptop with GTX1080 SLI
Right! It should have been called NULLABLE and default to false.
> My policy is 'Fuck Chesterton Fences'(FCF). I don't want to live in a world of rusting fences.

I remember that policy from the time of rampant privatization here in Europe. "Why should the government provide this service .." - well, a few years later we knew why.

It's also quite often the mentality of people that say "you know what? Our software sucks and the architecture is stupid, I will build a new, far better one!" ... yeah, that usually doesn't work either.

I saw a comment the other day which sums the problem with that attitude up quite nicely (paraphrased, cannot find it right now): "Without inside knowledge it's hard to distinguish stupidity from good engineering"
Being local and together on the same team discussing the same problems from the same location can have a multiplier effect on the productivity of a project. In particular for complex domain-driven industries. Our job as engineers is to translate domain-specific problems into solutions through code. There's a lot of context there that can be lost in translation across borders.
I would like to believe that if he had worded things better, things would have turned out differently. I don't know that it's true though. Sadly, I think a lot of the most vocal critics calling for him to be fired never even read the memo. And a lot of the reporting seemed to just cherry pick (and misrepresent) the most controversial parts.

Seems to me that his undoing was having a thought that couldn't be expressed in 140 characters.
My SP3 was bent by the dock until the screen broke

Left one day with it docked, came back to a broken screen
Constructing Domain Specific Languages with Petri-Nets
It's an unpopular opinion, but I'm convinced that the reason women are under represented in tech has more to do with an inherent disinterest in it, than structural barriers to it.

We can do more/better to ensure that the women who do find their way to technology face less barriers though, ending the 'brogrammer' culture, making sure women are paid a fair and equal salary, and honestly some sensitivity training (on both sides) to help improve us geeks with poor social skills, getting rid of predatory leadership is also a required element.

I'd also suggest not framing this as "incapable", that's a gross disservice to everyone, different should never be treated as inferior - and also, there is no universality here.
does bs4 now have an easy way to add spinning icons to a button?

in bs3, there was no easy way, you had to basically use javascript to achieve it.

<button class="btn btn-default btn-spin">Click Me</button>

I been waiting for something like this to be achievable for some time now.

Bulma has this perfected and it really is handy.
Mysterious company is offering up to $250,000 for VM #Hacks through a #bugbounty
I've presented this from the perspective of the U.S. but I think the same position could be argued for a lot of countries. Further, India and China are doing better in terms of pollution per capita as you've pointed out. However, the counterargument would be that both natiuons' populations are the result of their own domestic policies. There's no reason for other countries that have successfully managed to restrain their own potentially explosive population growth via domestic policy to give China and India a pass because of raw numbers. If China and India are concerned about the difficulty of regulating their nations' pollution in lieu of their massive populations that shouldn't be everyone else's problem. If they want to make trade agreements based on their pollution output that's one thing. But arguing that looking at raw output is unfair because of their per capita output ignores decades of irresponsible population management on their part.
Or to encapsulate a nil in a Maybe monad, so that you only have to deal with it in contexts where you explicity denote acceptance of nils. Then the type system won't let you get away with ignoring the possibility of a nil.
It’s past midnight by me and I’m heading to bed, but I’ll pop back here tomorrow to answer questions and follow up with folks. Thanks for the kind words so far, and any and all feedback coming our way :).

Huge thanks to the contributors and our team for pushing so hard recently. Feels amazing to have a beta out finally.
It's mostly a question of negotiating position.

If you have some savings, you can take longer to search for a new job, or you can give yourself the upside option of starting a new business. If you're broke, you basically have to take whatever you can find before food runs out.

At the moment, there's pressure on people's budgets coming from rent. Asset prices are inflated thanks to cheap money (in several places around the world), and that pushes up rents as well as mortgages. This adds to everyone's burn rate, and transfers both actual wealth but also opportunity people who owned homes before it all went crazy.

(Another thing that ate up opportunity for the masses was that they didn't let the economy fail.)

> "That feeling that I am actually the one making this work, and I'm also perfectly capable of talking with people and selling it"

I've come to this conclusion as well. It's narrow minded, but I do tend to think that technologists are actually the only people making the world better.

Organisers (leaders, management, bureaucrats, sales) have existed since the dawn of civilisation. What do they do? They use influence to manipulate some group of people to behave in some way that they like. Sometimes it works for everyone, sometimes it works just for them. But they've always been around, and we've never lacked for people who thought they were good leaders.

Technologists, by contrast, make new things. That's in the word. And by making new things new ways of organising society arise, often benefitting a lot of people.

What's interesting about our time is that there's a perception, pretty much unfounded, that technical people aren't social. And with that the idea that there are certain people (called BSers when they do it badly) who are naturally more social and thus better at handling relations such as sales. It is of course totally wrong; you can practice social skills as much as you can practice algorithms.
There are some revenue based taxes. (For example municipal corporate taxes in Hungary, about 1% of annual revenue.)
It's not a random impulse at all.

At the individual level you have very little choice over who will try to control your speech.

Maybe today it's someone who agrees with you, but maybe tomorrow it will be someone who disagrees with you, and because you have limited control over that it's better to make sure that you don't allow people to limit speech - even speech you disagree with.

And this is why you have the ACLU defending Milo: https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/how-could-you-represe...
I've been gradually swithing to DDG over the last 2 years. Initially only my main browser now all of them( on all devices) and I would say it hasn't decreased my productivity.

The only big change is that now every now and then I would double check the search results with !g if I am not happy with DDG results.

Overall I would say DDG or Google is more about habits and comfort zone than anythting else and Google gives better search results mostly because of the search bubble.
I misread your comment indeed. And I agree that it has not the best currency characteristics. But indeed, I concur with you, if something means something to someone (even if it just were fancy pebbles), then it can be put to a price higher than its real price. A symbolic price might actually be a powerful one.
Maybe. I think the parties he had to write it for were the cherry-pickers. Leave them no cherries to pick, first and foremost. As soon as that fails, you lose. If you clear that hurdle, now you at least have a good chance of people reading the paper. The next hurdle is to get them to actually reading it without flipping the bozo bit due to being offended by the voice in their head telling them this person is a bigot, etc.
From the simulations website:

"A megawatt-hour of electricity is about the amount a household uses in a month."

That is the elephant in the room. Our household of three adults can comfortably live on about one sixth of that amount.

Who can tell me with a straight face that living comfortably on three times our electricity consumption is impossible, even in a harsher, less moderate climate? That alone would reduce US household consumption by 50%!

I applaud Google for coming up with this tool. I also hope it will open its eyes to the feasibility of changing people's consumption patterns.
Nice redesign! :)
CSS Grid – Fail?
Sorry, but your ideas seems extremely narrow minded. Yes, there are areas designed from the ground or evolved over time to be used without personal vehicles, but that is by no means the general case.

Firstly, if doing without personal vehicle works for you, it is great. I do see many situations where it could work. But remember that Uber drivers use personal vehicles, they are by no means part of public transit. Hourly car rent services are not public too.

Secondly, we do not live in corporate owned factory-cities, layout with well defined living quarter areas and workshops. I see no way to arrange efficient public transport system for everyone in organically grown areas, though we can probably make it work for majority. We have much more job varieties than factories - large concentrations of workforce. Take kindergartens and primary schools for example. As a parent, you want them to be as close to home as possible. You want the best educators there. Unless you assume that the best educator-children fit will be with educators from your district (for which you must assume that there are educators in your district in the first place), you need transportation for them. There are travelling salesmen, home deliveries, non-peak (home-work, work-home) traffic to theatres, eating out, hospitals, friends. Unless you want army of robots, I see no way to do without personal transportation altogether. Without personal vehicles altogether, places several kilometres away from public transport stops will be out of reach for less mobile: disabled, elderly, families with babies, etc..

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As for vacant properties... I do not even know where to begin. This idea has already been tried in Soviet Union, except they took it even further - there was per person space quota and space exceeding that quota would be taken away. Like one room in a flat would be given to someone else. Your children moved away? Say bye-bye to half of your property. Your family member passed away and you inherited their property? Better do something with it quick or risk losing it. Residents moved from you rental property? Better find anyone to rent it for any sum or risk losing it. I just don't think these are the values of democratic republic. It may be me, though.
I’m not sure I follow why this would be desirable. As a sender of a packet, why would I care who routes my (encrypted) packet to its destination? Why would I want to restrict the number of possible routes from me to the receiver?
> 2. Say “This topic is harmful to people and we shouldn’t discuss it” (a little draconian maybe, but at least intellectually honest)

This is so wrong in so many ways. Don't call back in question that the universe was created in 7 day, that the earth is flat, global warming etc. Because it is harmful to believers ?

It's not just a difference in personality. It's a difference in behavioral and intellectual capability. Denying or repressing it is plain stupid. This essay proves that something is totally wrong in the way people handle this issue. But this is sadly not a surprize.
I can only assume you earn much more as a contractor.

Yet I always try to see through different angles. Are there any drawbacks of being a contractor, in comparison to full time employee?
yeah, ok... but I mean, really, do you care what he said?

I mean, do you really care if people misinterpreted it? Is that what is important here? What someone did or didn't mean when they did or didn't say something?

I honestly couldn't care less if they were 'wrong' interpretations.

I mean, really, honestly, I don't give the slightest damn about this guy or what he says or thinks. Really. I don't know him, I don't care.

...but maybe the issues he's raised are worth talking about? maybe? I'm not sure.

...but that's certainly more interesting than digging over this document and what he may or may not have meant.

Forget what he said. Think on your own for a second.

Do you think that diversity programs necessarily result in lower quality candidates filling some roles, even if the program only forces a quota into the interview process?

Do you think that's a bad thing, that it has tangible negative outcomes for businesses?

How do you propose to address the issues around this stuff, or is diversity something you don't think is worth having?

Forget the darn document and have an opinion of your own for goodness sake (and be prepared to defend it and talk about).
> He concluded it before he started writing it. So call "conclusion" that what you want but I call it as the premise.

Fair enough.

> Then you'll understand the ways in which acts like this hurts them so deeply.

I'm self-reflective enough to know that I'm unlikely to ever be as good at predicting emotional reactions of others as most people.

That said, I have been deeply hurt by statements that made me feel less valued than I thought I deserved. That does not mean that they were hate speech. Even at the time, I was fully aware that they were justified, which made them hurt even more.

Amusingly, trying to think of an instance of this reminded me of the time in high school when I was supposed to write an essay on gender roles in the work place. I made an evo psych argument that gender specific division of work made sense in the ancestral environment, but that conditions had changed and attempts at segregation were failing to realize this. My teacher marked me down for "not engaging with the question" (or something like that, my memory is hazy). I was so mad at myself for going off on that tangent.
You could use Font Awesome with bootstrap, it includes classes for some neat icons and also classes to make them spin; http://fontawesome.io/examples/ see "Animated Icons"

Implementing that .btn-spin yourself wouldn't be too hard either, couple lines of CSS...
FWIW I've switched back to Firefox from Opera/Chrome because of FF 57. The speed improvements made in 55 and 56 are simply mind-blowing, and I'm sure this will continue improving in the following versions as well. I'm running Nightly without any issue. And there's that feel-good vibe of supporting a positive actor of the internet, which is always a nice feeling :)
I have a cooking/recipes website http://cookarr.com — it doesn't make any money, and I didn't even want to put advertisements there, because it's my stress-reducing project :-) And kind of a recipe book I made for myself (and others)
Spinners are coming in 4.1: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/22960
Fixed! Sorry about that :).