skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the USA, there won't be any major anti-trust initiatives while Trump is President, so the main worry that Facebook has to think about is whether the European Union might take action. But in Europe they've so far been willing to regulate American tech giants, without attempting to break them up. There's also little precedent for the European Union actually breaking apart a company that is headquartered in the USA. I can foresee some fines for Facebook, but nothing they can't manage. They'd probably be happy to pay some fines, so long as they get to keep their monopoly.
Well, I'm guessing you've never used bitcoin before. Any idiot can understand how to use something like coinbase or an online wallet.

You don't need to know how bitcoin works internally to be able to use it, just as you don't have to read the minix book to be able to use an Operating System.
Some additional data taken from the National Center for Education Statistics (https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_318.30.a...)

Bachelor's degrees by sex from 2013-2014:

Mathematics, general: 43.9% earned by women (7,420 out of 16,914)
Chemistry, general: 47.7% earned by women (6,556 out of 13,730)
Physics, general: 18.7% earned by women (1,124 out of 6,002)
Computer Science: 14.5% earned by women (1,914 out of 13,220)

It seems like all of the gender differences pointed out about women in the diversity memo would apply equally to Physics and Computer Science as they do to Mathematics and Chemistry, but they gender ratio of Mathematics and Chemistry degrees is much closer to 50/50. So why the big difference?
It would help the project greatly if there was a description what Jerakia
actually is, what data it can (is intended to) store, and how/where one would
want to use it, instead of merely comparing it to Puppet's Hiera. If somebody
has never used Hiera, he wouldn't guess what Jerakia is about.

Also, don't call your Ruby API a domain specific language. It's not, it's just
Ruby, which is a generic prorgamming language.
I'll never understand how stupid you have to be to think government healthcare is a bad idea. Especially if you're pretending to give shits about other people's children.
How do you check that your votes were actually taken into account? Even if you can do that, how do you check that no votes were added on top of legit votes?

If the actual votes are printed, how do you make sure no one can prove their vote to third parties and so be paid for it?
isn't a factor that the "open office" subscription costs typically an order of magnitude less than the private office?

(thinking of wework)
I believe that .NET Core is not a subset of the .NET Framework; e.g. .NET Core might have things that are not yet in .NET framework.

I believe that the things that go into .NET core eventually go into .NET Standard (and thus the framework), but at a slower pace.

Thus it would be:

.NET ECMA Spec ⊆ .NET Standard ⊆ (.NET Core ∩ Mono ∩ Xamarin ∩ Unity ∩ .NET Framework)
It's really about bringing any language that can target LLVM IR to the web, and that's more than just C++.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM#Front_ends

C++ just happens to be a popular choice because there are many useful C++ libraries, and the compiler already produces very optimized code, so the performance benefit is most noticeable. In particular, I'm excited to get the Lua interpreter, written in C, on the web in a performant way.
Awesome service so far. The Continuous Deployment flow is awesome with deploy previews, CDN, custom routing, Automatic SSL from Let's Encrypt. The SSL can be improved to be true automatic without a provisioning step (first hit issues a cert)
I don't quite agree, FWIW.

SC2 does seem to be at its twilight in Korea, and I agree progamers and fans there are super interested in Remastered.

But I don't think Remastered will be very popular outside KR. The SC2 "war chest" promo appears to have made more money than expected, as measured by hitting its funding ceiling within a few days.

So I don't think it's "Remastered replaces SC2", I think it's a divergence into KR playing Remastered and non-KR playing SC2, and the number of progamers and players doesn't have to be zero-sum: it could enlarge the population playing either game, too.
Longer travel is inherently less efficient. It's much better to build denser close to existing transportation hubs.

Proposal: Pass a law that cities can't prevent permitting of mixed developments up to 8 stories within 1500 feet of existing trail r stations or freeway exits, and see where that takes us!

(Also, doubling down on BART, Caltrain, SMART and the boats would be quite helpful.)
We've banned this account for violating the HN guidelines.

In general, also, we ban accounts that use HN primarily for political or ideological battle, since that's destructive of the mandate of the site. Would you please not create accounts to do this with?
That is terribly dangerous logic. There have been times after terrorist events where evacuation couldn't happen fast enough and more people will killed. It is unfair to play Monday morning quarterback with public official's decisions when people's lives are in the balance. Shutting down the city when a bomb goes off which was targeting a mass amount of civilians seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Sure, plus there is another money flow: low long term borrowing costs, with borrowers looking for a way to invest with higher return.

But in both cases these people (investors, borrowers) will want to get their money back eventually..
We did a a paper last year on a scientific web app; we specifically told reviewers up front that if they visited the actual page, they would show up in the logs, and gave them code+instructions for running it on localhost if they cared about that. I don't think most people are even aware; referees are domain experts, not web devs.
ByuN's reaper micro!
How ADP Adopted a Container Mindset
You are correct, it was my mistake. The medium article (posted elsewhere and often in response to this) counters several of the points and is reasonably cited. However, I noticed that there are few responses to #1 (the medium author writes "I’ll leave that to someone else" and I haven't found anyone else take that up).

I'll grant that I had a kneejerk reaction of "that can't be accurate" and assumed there must be lots of literature to back me up, but it isn't easy to find it. Personally I neither support nor oppose this manifesto, but I think given the very expectable backlash and damage potential, drawing such concrete conclusions without stronger grounds was a bit too risque to be considered scientific.
Speaking of AoE 2, I really hope this research ends up benefiting that game. The AI in it has always been so bad but it's still my favorite game of all time.
I needed a ListMultimap a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately it had already been implemented for me because my language doesn't prevent that.
Author's title is "Why A Lifestyle Business Beats a Startup" which implies that no one should be pursuing a VC-backed startup, in favor of lifestyle businesses. That would leave all of these (subjectively) great ideas by the wayside.
Let's say this is about the Google memo.

Let's just say this - whatever one thinks about Google's snap decision to fire that guy, he ain't no Kolmogorov. Or even a "little Kolmogorov". And as to the suggestion that there might be some thematic overlap between his "struggle for the truth" and the struggles against Stalin or the Nazis... let's please not go there.

No one stopped and offered a third option: actually discussing his argument, acknowledging where he was right, and discussing what he got wrong.

Probably because it wasn't cogently presented, and has some quite glaring gaps in the basic logic of what it does present. And in its tone, was more than a bit inflammatory.
So? Unless you are a graphic designer, why would that matter?

It might be convenient, but hackers for decades had just had 14" (or less) monochromatic monitors and they've built masterpieces on them.

If "dual 27 inch monitors" are so important to your work, then (a) I don't see how you'd be able to be a programmer in the 80s and 90s when those things either didn't exist or costed a fortune, (b) fine, don't travel.

The "very heavy" part (for the 17" laptop) doesn't matter, as you're not supposed to backpack everywhere with it. Just keep it at your hotel/rent house/bangalow in the different cities you visit and work from there. You can still visit the city and explore all the other hours.

Besides, if it's that important, then anywhere you go and stay for a month or more (and nomads can spend several months on each country or more), you could buy a $200 24" monitor -- and then just give it away to some friend you've made, charity or sell it.
Its not equal distribution of all capital, its a guaranteed minimum to live which still allows for capitalism to operate and for people to get rich. In theory at least.
> 1. It used strawman arguments. Notably that the world is looking for a 50/50 split in gender ratios. Most reasonable people believe that even in ideal equilibrium state that this is not the expected outcome (although I'm sure there exist some people that push for 50/50 or greater). But that the current ratio is not the ideal equilibrium state. The author of the paper seems to point out that 50/50 isn't likely the expected ratio -- and then jumps to trying to dismantle affirmative action.

What is the expected outcome? It's somewhat of a rhetorical question, but I am curious. I guess it's somewhere between status quo and 50, but how do we know if we have reached equilibrium?

If anything, isn't status quo an equilibrium based on all current inputs to the system? So at what point do we stop tweaking inputs to the system and declare done? I would love to hear some kind of target/KPI that the Google diversity initiative is trying to hit.

Edit: also, if we don't know what the expected outcome is, how do we know when the process has been over compensated and is actually skewed in the other direction?
Short term - more buses, alternate day driving, increase incentives for no car ownership (tax rebate), increase penalties for car ownership (increase parking fees/fines, increase number of no-parking tow-away zones).

Medium term - Build bike lanes, convert streets to promenades, build light rail, build traffic calmers (narrow streets, speed bumps, lane bollards)

Long term - Marketing programs to encourage different business lifestyles (city vs. country, remote vs in-person). Tax incentives for moving out of the city.
So what? React is one library in the ginormous pile of tiny little dependencies that come with any JS project that's large enough, and those don't have the same policy and are subject to the incessant churn of the ecosystem.

I've been using pretty much the exact same packages for a 5-year-old Django project with no need to migrate needlessly.

I've had to migrate JS apps that were just one year old and tiny, and the amount of pain was far larger than upgrading a 50k LOC Django project.
The new thing to do is put employees on a contract agreement for 30 days such that even IF you complete the ridiculous interview gauntlet, you are still a "tentative" employee and have to prove yourself. I did this for a YC company this spring and it was awful.
Blizzard and DeepMind Turn StarCraft II into an AI Research Lab
I'm one of the developers on Cloud Functions for Firebase and would be happy to answer any questions you have. I'll try to keep my responses to my product alone since I think other team members are more qualified to answer those.

Your feedback is both fair and something we're diligently working to fix. In response to each of these points:

1. [Local testing only works for HTTPS]. For better or worse, our product is built in layers. There's the core Cloud Functions product and the "for Firebase" add-ons. You can already see some public changes we've made to the core Cloud Functions emulator that include some support for event-handling Cloud Functions as well as improvers in debugger support. We definitely want better "in house" support and are in the user testing stages of some generational leaps in local testability with the Firebase toolchain. You can reach me at my handle at google.com if you'd like to be considered for some of the user testing.

2. [Debugging feels like a murder mystery]. Yes, this is another thing we are working on. Cloud Functions integrates with Stackdriver Debugging[1]. There are very real issues with the integration today. TL;DR: If you have a steady stream of requests, it will work. If not, the ephemeral instances won't be alive/unthrottled long enough to fetch watchpoints. This is a huge concern to many of us within Google and we're working hard to improve the way it works.

3. [No cron jobs]. Again, a huge feature request and a high priority. You don't need to use your own machine; you can use GAE's free tier to kick off cron jobs for you[2]. Still, a more tightly integrated solution is obviously ideal and is coming.

Closing: We take these issues very seriously. I'm sorry we don't have the solution to your problems today, though all three line up with active development on the team. We are focused on delivering infrastructure required for mature apps with high volume and mission critical traffic. Keep an eye out for our product as it crosses into generally available and beyond.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/debugger
[2]: https://github.com/firebase/functions-cron
Question...
Legally, how does the digital nomad thing work? Specifically WRT travel visas. Are you entering countries on a holiday visa and just working anyway? Establishing some sort of residency? Are you taking contracts in those countries, or working for US-based companies? Or, just blogging on your own and making a living through affiliate links, etc? Where do you pay income taxes?
My problem with most of the cryptocurrencies is that they are so thinly traded (150k average) and many buyer naive that prices could be easily manipulated by professional Currency Traders or Hedge funds.

It not normal for prices to fluctuate up and down 50% so quickly.
I think it's a stretch to say that the peninsula will remain majority single family home cities. Everywhere I look all I see are new apartment complexes being built.
Search in YouTube comments and sort them by LIKES, DATE
x2.

Pretty much every blue collar tradesman runs a "lifestyle business" or "freelances"
> I never see articles that encourage: "Here's why you should dedicate your life to starting a company and try to dominate an industry."

Try to look for older articles. There is a reason so many people are replying to them, it's because they not only existed, but even used to claim that either a "lifestyle business" in IT was impossible or that nobody would want it.
This is one of those things where details matter, and that's why terminology is different. It's like if I went to England and someone told me "Parliament is like Congress" and so I go around thinking "Oh, you have two houses just like us, and you have political parties and elected representatives, must be just the same", blissfully ignorant that the way parliament operates is very different from how the U.S. Congress operates, and the different mechanics lead to very different emergent effects (I had no idea what this coalition government thing in the last election meant, for example; such a concept doesn't exist in the U.S.).

Whether you have a pension or a 401(k) has a very big impact in how you organize your career in the U.S. If you have a pension, you're strongly incentivized to stay with one employer for a lifetime, because you lose it if you leave and your benefit usually depends upon length of service. That in turn means that you don't care how your resume looks to the outside world, you don't invest as much time in professional development, and you generally accept whatever advancement schedule is available in the organization.

If you have a 401(k), you're strongly incentivized to maximize your earning potential, because you only get out of it what you put into it (plus investment returns). That usually means switching jobs, which means you need to consider how your professional experiences will look to the outside world. It means that you need to be constantly up-to-date with how the industry is changing around you, and with how the financial markets are doing, and manage your own finances & career development. On the plus side, you take your 401(k) with you if you quit or move, and so you have greater flexibility. And you're not exposed to the risk that your employer could just die and take your pension with it. You are exposed to the risk of the stock market crashing, though.

Because life strategies are so different based on the different retirement schemes, people will assume certain things about you if you say you have a pension, and they'll assume other things if you talk about your 401(k). If you say you have a pension when it's really a 401(k), those assumptions are likely wrong, which leads to awkwardness all around. That's why they're different terms in colloquial usage.
Sorry if this is obvious, but why not use multiple drives?
The deeply ironic thing about California HSR is that it's basically going to be most useful for business travelers. Who the hell else needs to go from SF to LA on any regular basis? If you spent that money on regional rail instead, you might actually help out working class people.

In cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, tons of middle class people ride the train to/from what used to be streetcar suburbs. Caltrain/BART is a joke in comparison, and $68 billion would go a long way towards making that not the case.
Why, though? Assumably the replication would be the interesting part, and presumably both teams work would be equally valuable showing the same result.

Innovation is overrated; maybe we should just pay scientists more to do inglorious but immensely valuable work. I was certainly repulsed from lab sciences because I had no desire to do the work that's in demand—pulling results out of your ass to get more funding.
> You don't lease a 15K car to someone at $800/month and lose money.

It seems easy to imagine how you can: the driver rents the $15k car for 6 months, paying $4.8k in total before they stop making payments and Uber repossesses the vehicle. Uber hope to make themselves whole by selling it for $10.2k...except...they can't sell it for $10.2k because cars depreciate fast and anyway this one has 30,000 more miles on the clock than it did at $15k.

Only the cars initally cost $20k instead of $15k, Uber had to pay ~4% interest on the money they used to buy the car, the driver paid closer to $400 than $800, not all the cars are in fully working order and there are 40,000 cars.
I think you're vastly underestimating the role publicly funded science (and science conducted and funded by private individuals not primarily concerned with commercial benefits) has played in that advancement.
On the other hand, bots are starting to beat professionals at (thousands of hands of repeated) Poker, so I think we can't say that imperfect information is something that's especially intractable for maching learning algorithms.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel...
>This same logic applies to GMO, which has been around since the nineties.

Yes, I can see how "since the nineties and regulated" gives the same guarantees as "for millennia".

>And that is bad because...?

Because they don't know the side-effects of what they're doing on top of it.
> You think so?

It's an absolute fact. Here are a few things that reduced the necessary repetitive action count considerably compared to SC1:

1. Larger control groups
2. Worker queues (including sending them to the resource patches)
3. Smart casting (no longer have to select individual units to correctly chain cast certain AOE spells)
4. Pathfinding actually works now so no need to click 15 times to get a unit where you want it to go.

> I played SC1 more on LAN, and there wasn't all the metagame going on.

Oh, I see. So you never played competitively?
Ummmmm, where is the data to support either argument? How will and how much buses need to be added to support just the current population in the current cities? How does that follow up on expanding population? How does that match with new construction and available land close by. What is the distance and driving time for buses between work hubs and housing. While housing can be built relatively fast, work hubs take a lot more time for various reasons.
> What would you say if the results were essentially the same as the status quo?

OK, I'll bite. I'd say that's both surprising and interesting. Then I'd ask why the status quo is even relevant. "Best qualified" at the time of taking the test might not mean "most productive a year hence" when a candidate's circumstances might have kept them from reaching their full potential. Indeed, circumstances might have kept them from making it as far as the test at all. When there are statistically valid predictors of these things likely having happened, why couldn't - or shouldn't - Google take advantage of that knowledge? Also, no individual test can account for the common phenomenon of diverse teams outperforming monoculture teams. Hiring the best individuals is not the same as building the best teams.

Thus, even if such a "unicorn test" could exist, and even from the most hard-hearted "Google shouldn't consider social justice" perspective, the test would only be one input for selecting candidates. There would still be sound business focused reasons for overriding its results some of the time.
I think "cultural" is a better term than "paradigmatic"; the latter typically refers to ontological revolutions, not process revolutions.
Not to mention that if your study is irreproducible, because you made a mistake in experiment design, or failed to control for some variable, running your experiments twice may not necessarily catch this issue.
> Stop the madness! The answer is not to transit at all. Live near your job, walk or bike to work. Build more housing dammit! Why the fuck does a software company need to be in the middle of big city? All you need is electricity and internet, move out to the country!

The average time of employment in the tech sector for people under 40 in tech is under 4 years. Your plan is untenable because it involves frequent personal relocation to make feasible.
Can you clarify what you mean by "transit oriented development"? As a general rule of thumb, 10-20 story tall buildings are an eye sore. I don't think it makes sense to make things denser if it's going to be so ugly that no one wants to live there.
What it feels like to conduct an auction
A lot of people here seem to be underestimating the difficulty of this problem. There are several incorrect comments saying that in SC1 AIs have already been able to beat professionals - right now they are nowhere near that level.

Go is a discrete game where the game state is 100% known at all times. Starcraft is a continuous game and the game state is not 100% known at any given time.

This alone makes it a much harder problem than go. Not to mention that the game itself is more complex, in the sense that go, despite being a very hard game for humans to master, is composed of a few very simple and well defined rules. Starcraft is much more open-ended, has many more rules, and as a result its much harder to build a representation of game state that is conducive to effective deep learning.

I do think that eventually we will get an AI that can beat humans, but it will be a non-trivial problem to solve, and it may take some time to get there. I think a big component is not really machine learning but more related to how to represent state at any given time, which will necessarily involve a lot of human-tweaking of distilling down what really are the important things that influence winning.
https://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime seems to agree with you. The median there is 215ms, which probably includes some unmeasurable rendering and input latency.

In Jeopardy, though, people can anticipate the moment the buzzer becomes active.
naming behavior what it is is the problem?