skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
disclosure: I used to work at Galvanize as an instructor, a couple years ago.

I don't have any connection to Galvanize now so I don't feel the need to defend or promote bootcamps, but I do feel like I have some knowledge on the situation. When I was instructing I was constantly worried about there being enough jobs for my students. This was also when the startup market was "hotter" than it is now. The thing that I came to realize looking back is that there is actually still a huge amount of steady demand for software engineers.

It isn't necessarily startups though. I have definitely heard from startups that they feel like they are inundated with bootcamp grads. I think part of the reason is because working at a cool startup is part of the picture that is painted to perspective students.

The less exciting (to the graduates) opportunity is working with big companies that are replacing their previous outsourced staff with internal junior engineers. They also didn't want to hire one or two grads, they were interested in hiring five to ten.

To me at least it seems like larger companies are trying to adjust their staffing to accommodate a more fluid staff that comes and goes rather than the longer term employees of previous generations. Which includes always having a broad opportunity for new employees, which dovetails into the bootcamps constantly producing graduates.
You've been posting a lot of unsubstantive or uncivil comments. Could you please re-read the guidelines and stop doing this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Still relevant, as well.
I find creating UI in Xcode, with Autolayout and IB, far better than using Android's tools. Mainly because IB actually shows me what I'm working on, and what it's going to look like. The Preview window in Android studio routinely errors out, telling me it can't preview my layout because of some error, often caused by something from Google's own compatibility library!
What? What is with all the twisted analogies in this thread? First google is a victim of an HOA and now it's a mislabeled sex offender? Let me think, what else are HN's favorite topics of anger... I know next Google will be a young worker who can't afford a house because of NIMBYism and zoning laws!

I'm fine saying Google's actions were immoral.
Future of symmetric warfare, sure. Future of asymmetric warfare looks a whole lot like Skynet sending robots to kill humans, but Skynet takes a mandated 15 minute coffee break every two hours.
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haven't got root?
"Allies, we encourage you to take a quick tally. Over the past 3 months, count the number of co-workers you’ve hung out with outside of the office. Meals. Coffees. Drinks. Baseball games. Rounds of golf. Poker nights. Then count the number of women and underrepresented minorities from your company at these gatherings.

If you’re not happy with your ratio, we’re counting on you to improve it."

lol?
Relevant and amazing link: http://eahart.com/prius/psd/

Did a project based around the Prius PSD in my Mechanical Dynamics and Vibrations class. Very cool, really opened my mind to the power of gears.
Whenever I see a young gullible engineer, all twinkly-eyed and bedazzled by the MongoDB hype (or any other NoSQL hype), I'll send him a link [1] on a rather interesting talk by a very thoughtful Turing award winning engineer named Michael Stonebraker. It takes a couple of days for the charm of NoSQL to wane off, but eventually they'll always see how they have been fooled into believing without a sane level of critique.

[1] https://youtu.be/KRcecxdGxvQ?t=2072
Mirror: http://evolver.fm/2012/10/04/guest-opinion-why-24192-music-d...
Is that because of the HQ audio, or because the processing software introduces less artifacts at those sample rates/bit depths? I.e. could you get the same results by up-sampling CD quality audio?
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Google isn't being punished for being big, but for how they use their dominant position.
Well, Google already piggybacked off of DARPA ;-)

Also, combat zones != California suburbs.
Either you're hillariously sarcastic or not the sharpest instrument trying to rationalize their undying, partisan team promotion for glowing consumption.

Assuming the former: GoT isn't "TV," it's multiplatform, third-party, ad-free, cable HBO.

How is:

- arranging your life around schedules of broadcasts

- sitting through long, pointless ads wasting one's limited life

- sitting in one place because a service isn't completely available except within an old, outdated, building subscription service framework

- watching local lazy or "must carry" propaganda or in-bubble-centric, watered-down, biased national/cable news that doesn't address real issues (VICE and Democracy Now are good)

"wonderful?" Is that anything like Trump "wonderful" or Apple "wonderful" when they charge $750 to "repair" a $0.25 part by throwing away a fixable board.
> It's pretty obvious that the EU is only doing this because Google is a US company.

If it is obvious, it will be easy to explain the reasons for it

> I am quite sure that google considered simply pulling entirely out of Europe. It wouldn't affect them as much as you think - it's the internet, you can run a website from anywhere.

I'm quite sure that Google is glad to not have people like you as CEO.

> And it's not like the EU would prevent their citizens from buying ads from Google

Tell me how a company like Google, or Apple or Microsoft can do business with the EU without being there. And please, no't give nonsensical reasons like internet is everywhere, that just shows that you don't know much about economy.
The ethics of asymmetrical warfare with one side nearly completely autonomous seem like very murky water.

Imagine Iraq occupied with pretty much only machines and Iraqis never actually see an American. And if this removes the threat of death from one side, what does that do to the cost of war? Could it actually make it more common because it is less politically risky? It feels inevitable, but it also scares me.
It makes prefect sense. Why help your competitor by being a customer?
> Its playback fidelity is slightly inferior to 16/44.1 or 16/48, and it takes up 6 times the space.

The article is highly technical. Does anyone have a way to describe this phenomenon intuitively?
You always have to maintain an explicit schema -- it's just defined in your code instead of the database. And depending on your tooling, it's not easier/faster to maintain that schema in code vs. the database.

What is worse for schemaless databases is schema versioning. Your code will forever have to support every schema that has ever existed in production data. I have code to support schemaless data that was entered well over a decade ago. If I had simply used a relational database I would just have a single schema to deal with.

During development, schema changes are quite frictionless. It also provides extra safety and documentation that any friction is completely worth it.
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It's not about the brand of car, it's that it was a dealership and not a low end used car lot. "Buy here, pay here" is a thing, they're in bad neighborhoods and run ads about how no one is denied because they do the financing themselves.

They're essentially loan sharks handing out cars instead of cash. They make a lot in interest, but they really make a lot by selling the same car again and again through very quick reposession (they do not mess around, weekly payments are standard). The same lot will sell many different makes, even higher end sometimes.
Yeah, this post title should be dated, I definitely read this exact post years ago.

I mean it references Steve Jobs in the present ffs.
True, but at least the WhopperCoins are backed by food (on-demand food at that) which will always have value to the human race, thus be in demand and have some market value. Not sure if the same can be said for the ruble. As long as WhopperCoin can't hyperinflate, they may have something here. Haven't looked at WhopperCoin's issuance algorithm yet so no idea if that's the case.
only true when your population is stagnating
You'll be glad to know that it is not true
less military casualties
What's wrong with my posting of this summary?
likely that developers will just focus on Apple's ARKit

Most likely someone will just build and offer an abstraction layer on top of ARKit / ARCore and solve the problem that way.
Probably with less casualties overall...

Civilian casualties have been a big part of war. It seems too soon to say an automated army won't have the potential to massively increase civilian casualties given that it lowers the cost to the attacker and robot don't care if they engage in atrocities, etc.
tl;dr Married man has affair with a woman. By chance they both go to Burning Man and have another episode of the affair. Both are totally self absorbed, have tons of personal problems, and basically sum up the Burning Man attendee stereotype.
For me the slowness of JIRA means I loathe going into it. It feels soooo clunky, so 90s in performance and UX. I’m moving to JIRA from trello and it’s night and day. Even something as basic as having a notification inbox with read markers is a paid plugin for JIRA, and everything else seems to require many many clicks (each with their own several second load time). It’s horrible.
Ask HN: Can we prevent someone from teaching a neural network how to feel pain?
And then spin up millions of instances of this network just feeling pain indefinitely?

Would this pain be equal to the pain we humans feel? Or can we ignore it?

Just a thought in my head.
Something to keep in mind is that cumulative toxicity is important. The regimens typically used in non-human primates were 5.0mg/kg doses twice daily for 4 days taken subcutaneously instead of orally. A regimen of 2.5mg/kg given orally (p.o.) to Rhesus Monkeys once every 2 weeks for a total of 8 doses over 4 months produced no detectable effect on 5-HT and 5-HIAA levels.

Its likely that the monkeys that are seeing neurotoxic effects are taking something like 4-8+ doses at once and doing that twice a day for four days straight. That would fry anyone.

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I've always been able to tell when something on Spotify I've heard before is lower quality now. I can instinctively tell in my car when that's the case. It's mostly due to how loud certain parts of the song are or how it sounds at higher volumes. I guess, given what he says, that wouldn't be the case if made sure they were the same dB.
If jury duty is random why not political duty? I think your idea (is it your idea?) deserves a lot of attention. Maybe 2 years of service. 4 is a lot. That combined with Swiss-style direct democracy would go a long way I feel. And universal basic income.
Docker works fine, but I prefer to run a vagrant machine with ansible to setup postgres + everything else for development. In production I just use RDS.

This is the ansible role I use:
https://github.com/ANXS/postgresql
Thanks! We've updated the headline.
There are pluses and minuses. There's more to think about, true. That can slow you down. On the other hand, you don't write the bugs you used to write. You don't create the garbage architectures you used to create. You don't write the unreadable code you used to write. That all turns into work you don't need to do later to fix the problems.

So maybe the question is, do you have management that looks only at how long it takes to crank out the next feature? Or do they look at how long it takes to get the feature reliably, solidly working?
"Diminishing returns"?
"Assigning probabilities to rare events is meaningless unless you a) have data over a much longer time period than the recurrence time"

This is probably the most important factor nationwide in the US. There simply aren't written records of the weather in the vast majority of land in North America which cover the past 500 years. I wouldn't even be surprised if more than half the land in NA didn't have meaningful data over 200 years old.

"b) the mechanism causing flooding is not changing."

This is probably the biggest factor in Houston's extraordinary reoccurence of "500 year" floods. While Harvey's level of rainfall is truly unprecedented in all of American history, the other floods can easily be blamed on the fact that the rapid growth of Houston's sprawl has turned a gargantuan amount of land area into a concrete swimming pool. Like other posters have mentions, undeveloped land is very effective at slowing and absorbing water but a gutter is nothing but an aqueous superhighway. Flooding isn't just caused by the total volume of rainfall, it's caused by the speed with which that volume reaches natural outflows (rivers, creeks, estuaries, etc).
One step closer to the utopia dictators and despots have dreamed about for millennia. No longer will they have to depend on the loyalty of Praetorians or armies to protect them and put down the unruly peasant and proles. Soon they will have legions of obedient killer robots to ensure their rule.
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You've sufficiently attacked the source, but I'll reiterate that I'm not looking to pick a fight here, I'm asking for actual evidence or even a supportive argument for what you're saying. I've heard for many years that money laundering is common with online currencies, but as I've said I'm not an expert. If you're that much less clueless and have more understanding please share it. There's a lot of discussion in crypto threads that assumes the opposite of what you're saying so it'd be nice to have the tools to disprove incorrect assumptions.

Bitcoin mixing is also pretty expensive but people still do it, and prior to bitcoin or bitcoin mixing existing presumably people were using a more expensive alternative.
Thunderbolt displays will only work with a Thunderbolt port. Apparently you can adapt the Thunderbolt display's Thunderbolt 2 mini-display port connector to the newer Thunderbolt 3 connector via Apple's adapter. But you're going to have to research OS support outside Mac OS.
Is it only Tango?
> it's actually quite likely that at least one of them could have a pretty high probability of experiencing one in 500 chance of something each year.

This is the key point here, and it's called the fallacy of multiple endpoints. If there are 500 observable cities, then somewhere among them should occur a "500-year event" every year. It's just that nobody ever notices the big bulk of the population that hasn't yet had any 500-year event in its recorded history.
> "Home backup solution"

Do you mean some kind of _managed_ on-prem NAS or a NAS hooked up to Backblaze online storage?
The experiment is great. It provides a method for more efficient testing of nuclear fuels without the huge expense of a full on tokamak or laser confinement rig. However calling it a breakthrough in fusion is generous.

Fusion is an excellent prospective power source in the long run. But I swear if I see one more boy who cried wolf article trying to get me to believe "it's really happening this time" I'll puke.
non-paywall: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/doj-investigating-whether-ub...
I've been very happy with Borg[0] combined with the B2 command-line tools for Linux backups. I switched from Duplicity + AWS and it reduced the cost as well as made the backup process simpler - Borg doesn't have the same full vs incremental difference to think about, you just take a full backup each time and it dedupes everything automatically.

0: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
But storms aren't people with randomly distributed cities to flood so you don't get the combinatorial effect. It's not like there are a fixed number of 500 year storms every 3 years that have to flood a uniformly distributed list of cities. The floods are supposedly independent (even if our estimates of likelihood are bad) so there's no binomial coeeficient.

The simple calculation is P=1-(1-1/500^3)^N and the probability is less than 1:10000 assuming independence and even given 6000 cities of a million people (the entire world population is in a similar city).

If it was birthday like (every possible 500 year storm for 3 years is in a room choosing out of 100 random million person cities), the probablility would be reasonable. You can use a Poisson distribution to estimate the 3 person birthday problem. P=1-exp(-3choose100/500^2)=48%
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Someone will still have to control and maintain these robots.
These are separate machines from the OBC that wire into the ignition system. As best I can tell, they are simple timers that reset when they receive a text message over the cellular networks. A friend of mine was warned not to go camping in the boonies near their payment date.
My favorite Burger King stunt was: Delete 10 Of Your Facebook Friends For A Free Whopper

It did so well that the FB team actually got involved. I always wondered why apps don't do this to each other. "Delete UBER get 1 Free Lyft Ride!"

http://geekologie.com/2009/01/the-burger-king-whopper-sacrif...
Running Go on Low Memory Devices
The bright side is I don't mean "work is better" I mean "life is better".

Having an hour or so before leaving the house in the morning is a gift. It changes the focus of getting up away from "must get to work".
No software update in the world is going to help when there are thousands of different sensor configurations in use. Apple only has a handful and can test against all of them with ease.
Phrased another way, "you cannot leverage your success and privileged position in one industry (Internet search) to give you an advantage unattainable by a competitor"

Neither Amazon, nor any other online retailer, can gain the advantage of being the featured result on Google search.
Anonymouth. There is a github link at the very bottom of the article.
The fun for me's in getting all the intonation and emphasis just right. You don't have to "do the voices" or anything over the top, but just try to read it how a good narrator might.

Try reading them adult books (if you're not already—and especially classics, they tend to have really nice prose that you want to run your eyes over several times just for the sensation, anyway) or classics of children's literature (e.g. The Jungle Book). Might help. Lots of childrens' books are just plain bad.
With SQL you can denormalize all that (and should) to create that snapshot. But with NoSQL you can't normalize and get back a way to quickly query the number of products sold per month over the last 5 years.
24/192 can capture audio well beyond what we can hear. These sounds can, though, lead to distortion that is within our hearing range, depending on the equipment used.

Therefore, rather than just being useless extra data, it can be actively harmful to the listening experience.
FTA: "192kHz digital music files offer no benefits. They're not quite neutral either; practical fidelity is slightly worse. The ultrasonics are a liability during playback."

I would expect the samples to be interpolated before the final DA conversion takes place, so no extra ultrasonics should be involved. And there would be filters for them anyway, we still have to use them for 44.1, 48, 96 etc.
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>The only thing I find to be less valuable [...] is popular media editorials interpreting research results

In this case, the medium is not the message here. That page wasn't an "editorial" in the sense that a dilettante newspaper editor put his own spin on research he didn't know.

Instead, Levitt himself was writing an article that was short enough for the editorial space alloted. His longer text is chapter 5 in his Freakonomics book. (In other words, the so-called "editorial" was advertising hype for his book.)

I just linked the USA Today page because I thought it was more convenient than trying to deep-link a copyrighted book.[1][2]

It was a government study so presumably, Levitt got the raw data and reports from here: https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/getpubcats.asp?sid=024

[1] best link I could do but it's not the whole book so it's incomplete: https://books.google.com/books?id=pGJ-BwAAQBAJ&pg=PT25&dq=fr...

[2] Google Books doesn't let you deep-link to Chapter 5 of Freakonomics: https://books.google.com/books?id=wNPnl5zYA-cC&printsec=fron...
The destinction is that amazon is not using it's position to enter another market, which is what this whole thing is about.

The EU argues that people use the google search function to search for items to buy (but not necessarily from google itself), google has a monopoly on search so this is a reasonable assumption.

The problem is then twofold, google shows it's own (and, argued by the EU, inferior) results above that of established competitors. And that's the rub.

Amazon does not abuse it's monopoly in the sense that people who go there explicitly go there to shop already, amazon itself is already an established seller.
I'm not sure if AMD could offer Thunderbolt, which might be a deal breaker for Apple.
> The fact that I still need my phone around to use the webclient just sucks.

Exactly, I never got this about WeChat and WhatsApp. If I have my computer (which has a 4G connection) with me, I shouldn't need to carry my phone with me.

I usually run WhatsApp and WeChat inside Android virtual machines to solve this major design flaw.
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One thing they could do to extend the life of the existing hardware would be to cost reduce the middle tier $699 2.6GHz 8GB RAM Mac Mini to the $499 price point. I have to think that at least some of the memory and drive components have dropped in price over the past 3 years.
Even if the parents are the cause of the problem, it is still better for the children to recognize the problem and change their lives accordingly.
Basically, the sampling theorem says you can reconstruct the exact waveform with a certain number of samples. Adding a bunch more samples bulks up the file, but you didn't need them to restore the exact waveform. However, the unnecessary samples are in the file between you and the next sample you do need. At high enough levels of waste this creates an I/O bottleneck that hampers performance.

Another way to look at is that digital audio is not like digital imaging. There aren't pixels. Increasing the data rate does not continue to make the waveform more and more detailed to human auditory perception in the way that raising the pixel density does for human visual perception.

To describe it intuitively, forget your intuition that audio is like visual and start from "there is no metaphor between these two things."
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Super-high sample rate could make a difference if you're sampling it and pitching it down heavily to make a bass-line. But in practice, I think most such audio has very little information above 20kHz. Ordinary microphones are designed for audible frequencies, and ultra-sonics are easily lost in production. What music actually contains interesting ultra-sonic information for slowed-down listening?
There’s now this dev myth that everything is faster in chrome. Not so anymore. I wish more people would take other browsers more seriously. Personally I find safari the fastest on my Mac, and prefer its font rendering as well.
How is Google "advertising" anything? Have they bought Bloomberg recently?
I disagree; I think it made the response be entirely condescending and removed any point they had.

For what it's worth, I have about as much experience as they do, and I disagree with them. While the tools have improved, they still have a long way to go.
Funny given their headline :)
Oh, and no touch screen that I know of yet...
I bet you will love KFC's newest VR-endeavour [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3PJQ_E7Se0