skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was actually really fascinating to me. I loved to see all the words that are important:

- nsfw - This one is hilarious. Of all the internet terms (e.g. AFAIK, AMA, LOL), this is the most used.

- laiditontheline - Why is this important in 2016? Does "Laid it on the line" have a particular meaning?

- idriselba - This one is great too. Stringer Bell!
A reasonable choice to be sure, but I do disagree on the weather and mass transit part. Atlanta's urban sprawl means that fewer residents live near a transit stop than in most cities of comparable size. And the weather - obviously that's a personal choice, but for me the heat and humidity in summer is debilitating.
No reaction emojis? That's such a useful feature to avoid :thumbup: / yes / no / me too / haha messages.
In bigger groups it's also a really nice and lightweight way to do quick polls.
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Yeah, I think that is the right way to think about it. I had always considered that in terms of mining power, not in term s of network control, but it is effectively the same incentives and consequences, just with different players.
Unfortunately, the founder of ZeroMQ, Pieter Hintjens passed away (due to cancer) [1]. He was a regular on HN [2].

ZeroMQ still works great and the open source community is still maintaining it on GitHub [3]. I just think people are also looking at other technologies. A lot of interest popped up in things like Apache Kafka and Samsa. I still think ZeroMQ holds a unique place due to its lightweight and simple nature.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11547212

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=PieterH

[3] https://github.com/zeromq
Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor (2008)
That is to say, you want to limit your mobility to that which is directly and entirely under the control of legislated authority with no possibility of circumventing laws for one reason or another.
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Slack messages that notify you (mentions and DMs) should be for time-sensitive things. Obviously that can still be abused, but I think the social expectations are much clearer than when a team uses email for everything.
The total amount of CO2 we have added to the atmosphere is ~1 trillion tonnes[1], or 280 billion tonnes of carbon. That's roughly equal or at least similar to the mass of all of the carbon in plant and animal life on land. Obviously it's impossible to double the amount of plants, animals and bacteria on land.

If you add in oceanic biomass, we'd only have to increase biomass by 25% overall. This is is still practically impossible and we are at a historic loss of biomass and biodiversity. Ocean acidification also makes this impossible.

The scale of global warming is entirely beyond planting trees or anything else. There are 3000 tonnes of CO2 in the air for every person on earth.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...
Is that really what the headline said? Because now it is: "Opioid Use May Explain 20% of Drop in American Men’s Labor-Force Participation"
In the bridge analogy he implies that software engineering cannot be more like civil engineering due to changing requirements. He stretches the common analogy of building bridges by suggesting it's normal to add a car-wash to the middle of the bridge before you've finished developing it. This is the norm in software development so there's no way we can engineer a software solution with the same rigour as other, proper, engineering disciplines!

I do believe software engineering can be more like civil engineering and that there are organizations around the world which will license capital-P engineers in software. Just because requirements change does not mean we cannot write mathematically precise and robust models and definitions of systems. It also doesn't mean we cannot, a priori, build software that is as robust to operating conditions as a bridge.

What we're doing as an industry when we run software in production without clearly known limits is simply taking risk. We could know what the tolerable limits are of a particular server are or precisely define the probability that a given change will reach quorum within a particular bound of time. However for a good number of projects we're comfortable accepting that our customers will discover those omissions for us and no one will get hurt.

However if you're writing software to control robotics that help people walk or air-flight control software to safely land multi-million dollar jets you're probably going to take more precautions to design and test your software and create detailed, precise specifications.

Update: To take the bridge analogy in a different direction: it's more common in the software industry to build two bridges: the one most people use but could fall down at any time or the bridge that costs a significant amount more but there will be a small team of developers waiting to help you get up if it does.

update update: The point is you can write sound models of your abstractions and prove properties about them with sufficient tooling. Much the same way that a blueprint is an abstraction of the bridge that is built, we have ways of writing blueprints of software systems.
Google just went down this road with Motorola a few years ago, How is this time going to be any different?
Does this have a canonical form? It seems like the same number has multiple possible encodings that don't sort at the same place.
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I downvoted you because your comment is offensive and demeaning.

The OP said men are attacked as rapists. There is just no way to interpret that as "decline of the acceptance of rape".

As background, see:

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/538974/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/06/devos-plans-title...

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/hey-lawyers-lea...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/07/1...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/07/2...

http://helpsaveoursons.com/category/court-wins/

The typical University holds kangaroo trials for students accused of rape. Normal behavior includes:

* denial of due process

* refusing to see exculpatory evidence

* "independent investigators" who assist the plaintiff

* allowing the plaintiff to have representation, while denying it to the accused

* refusing to let the accused question the plaintiff

The accusation of rape is so evil that the universities fall all over themselves to violate their own investigative processes in order to convict the accused.

These students (overwhelmingly male) lose everything. They lose not only time at university, they lose grants, membership in university organizations, jobs, etc. Their entire life is destroyed.

So it's offensive for you to read that "men get attacked as rapists", and somehow turn that into a man-hating comment of a "decline in the acceptance of rape".

Do you really hate men that much, that you think they're upset that rape is no longer "accepted"?
I wonder if they burn better or worse than wood pellets.
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All the seats are full.

Are you suggesting that seats should be price at free?

The airline's use dynamic pricing algorithms based on supply/demand.

Are you suggesting they have their IT team turn it off for a few days or weeks?

Another function of dynamic pricing is to make sure that people have better chance of getting what they wanted.

I would be pretry upset to find out all the airline seats were given away for free to all the homeless and left me with no option to buy a seat for any price.

How do you propose airlines price their seating and change their algorithms? Any papers to cite that can show a good balance?
Indeed. More intriguing is how the aristocracy has fallen. Naively it might seem that at the dawn of industrial revolution the aristocracy held most of the cards in their hand, but somehow fumbled massively and allowed industrial magnates to overtake them in wealth (and power). Now they are barely a shadow of their former selves. Interesting question is if aristocracy would even been able to utilize their massive capital (that was mostly bound to land ownership) to reap the benefits of all the new industry that popped up.
Not a huge fan of this idea. For example, people who analyze twitter data can get very small p-values because they analyze millions of tweets even though the effects they find are very small. See https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1336700
Correct, but it's people's perception of value that ultimately drives the current stock price.

Take Amazon as an example, in 2016 its net income was $2.4 billion, yet it currently trades at a total market capitalization (the value of all outstanding shares) of $471 billion (or approximately 196x its net income) [0]

Compare that to Ford Motor Company, in 2016 its net income was $4.6 billion, yet it currently trades at a total market capitalization of $45 billion (or approximately 10x its net income) [1]

So Ford was actually MORE profitable than Amazon in 2017, but it's market capitalization is only 10% of Amazon.

So what's driving the differences? People's perception of value. People perceive that Amazon will be more profitable than Ford Motor Company in the future, even though objectively Ford is more profitable than Amazon right now.

[0] Amazon Financials - https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN&fstype=ii...

[1] Ford Financials - https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AF&fstype=ii&ei=z...
The rest of the world manages to get by on the 15% of the world's opioid supply that's left after the US uses 85%.

Opioids have never been found effective at managing chronic pain.
So... what the academics did wasnt very helpful, but at least they didn't do much of it?
A clear case of premature optimization.
It can hurt, in that it can slow the spread of information. If you perform 70% fewer different types of experiments because you have to hit p=0.005 instead of p=0.05, then you explore in fewer directions.

This is a classic tradeoff between exploration and exploitation in active learning.

If your view of the world is that there are only a very few hypotheses worth exploring, and you have a good lay of the scientific land, then requiring higher bar of proof is probably good.

If it's a new field that's extremely complex and where very little is known of the governing principles, then requiring very high stats could severely slow progress and waste lots of research dollars.

I completely agree that rather than setting arbitrary barriers for significance, it would seem much better to let people actually understand what was found, at whatever significance it was. Even setting up the null model to get a p-value requires tons and assumptions. The better test is reproducibility and predictive models that can be validated or invalidated. That's where the science is, and not in the p.
I give Angular the benefit of the doubt having been on the other end. It's easy to just merge PRs. It's much harder to make sure those contributions fit a bigger vision, don't break existing code bases, work in a backwards compatible way, are documented and expose proper public API's etc. It's risky. Should they have reviewed it earlier? Perhaps, but that's easy for us to say.
Atlassian has a new app https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/atlassian-launches-stride-...

By the way, what's wrong with electron or similar wrappers? Size? Performance?
The U.S. Government’s long road to adopting the cloud
Girl, Game, Money, No Risk
Try out eul:

https://eul.im

It'a native desktop client built for professionals with a focus on performance. It supports Slack, Skype, Gmail, and will soon support Stride as well.
My claims have been all about the people that need the help. Stop, take a deep breath, go back and actually read my last few posts.

How are you going to look someone in the face and tell them that they should be glad that the service they need is now not available for any price, right when they need it most?
Thank you, I did not realize at first that the link you posted is so complete! I PM'd you on reddit a little while ago asking for the dataset, but didn't have the time to play with it yet. Thanks again for your time and consideration.
Wait, do the natural numbers and rational numbers have the same ordinality? It seems not because of the whole 'a number in between every 2 rational numbers'. But then what is the ordinality of the rational numbers?
If I had to guess, the D.C area might already be too big? They'd be competing with all the military contractors/consulting groups that exist out here for talent, housing, and transit access. Their best bet is a city that hasn't been "techified" to having exorbitant rents.
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> I care about others because I care about the person I am.

When someone says that I ask them "Have you donated everything you made this month above the poverty level in your country to some kids who can't afford to eat say in Bangladesh per chance or its equivalent?" They typically respond with a "No" followed by a very convoluted explanation why it is the empathy that matters as in their view situational empathy should stop the moment such actions inconvenience them.
from the article

> We developed ONNX together with Microsoft to bridge this gap and to empower AI developers to choose the framework that fits the current stage of their project and easily switch between frameworks as the project evolves.

ML workflows tend to be very heterogenous with people using everything from sklearn to DL4J to play with data. standardized serialization formats make it possible to bring results from those experiments back into a hardened productionized environment for serving the model.
That's weird, because Electron's BrowserWindow class emits a few events which should make this possible: 'minimize', 'hide', etc...

https://electron.atom.io/docs/api/browser-window/#event-hide
Here is the extended interview: https://www.marketplace.org/2017/09/06/tech/source-code-will...
how about prime age men are taking anymore more of your bullshit, and we quit. we are waiting for you all to die. you will. we're fine.

you're all idiots.
Do they use the same BSD+Patents license that's used for ReactJS?
Clever, and driving my OCD side mad. The uncomfortable mug doesn't look too bad though, I can imagine a mittened hand slipping through the handle.
Look me up, 575061. =)
I was being pretty damn condescending and spoke out of line without regards to the context. It's been a hard lesson learned. I honestly regret the whole exchange, and posting it online was inappropriate as well.

Nah. Relax. It was gauche, but not that bad. The responses you get are largely driven by the fact you got egg on the face of a tech Golden Boy. Also, social norms say you shouldn't air private conversations that expose the failings of a (potential, current, or former) employer.

Almost everyone will admit that tech hiring practices are an ongoing dumpster fire and comedy of errors, they just prefer a less dicey context and framing for that conversation.

You're new to the world of applying for jobs and how hiring works in professional contexts. I don't hold this against you. But this does lower my opinion of Facebook. Don't buy into the meme that programmers are dorks and therefore always carry 100% of fault for any social interaction that doesn't go magnificently.

See if your school has a career services office, they can give you a crash course in all the ceremony and fuss around building a resume and getting interviewed.
It sounds like the written language is more similar to vocal musical instructions; and also like the 'spices' analogy that I was making is how the changes in display and connecting forms work.

With so much complexity and variability present at the time in history that the written form becomes fixed, I can't imagine any solution actually being easy, and can only think of editor software offering an emoji like list of likely 'accents' for a given 'word' (and breaking it down per character for corrections).

Such a system sounds incredibly tedious for user and programmer alike. I am glad that written 'western' languages became 'fixed' many centuries ago.
Interestingly enough, a similar chromatin-based mechanism could be responsible for long term memories in animals.
If that is the case, this could mean interesting times for, say, cryonics or even psychiatry.
The packages aren't published on npm but deployed by other means (before npm is used to install additional public packages), hence 'private' is deliberate.
Except that I want to live in Atlanta even less than I want to live in Seattle. It has a kind of psychic oppression field over it that makes me want to immediately turn around and leave.

Atlanta looks good on paper. It always does. But actually being in the city tells me a different story.

That said, I think only Atlanta, NYC, Chicago, or Boston could absorb the extra demand for skilled employees without sucking the wind out of the other local businesses' sails. The Texan cities could, too, but I don't think Amazon will go there, for some reason.

If Amazon plopped down in Chattanooga or Harrisburg, or even Indianapolis or Detroit, it would exhaust the local talent pool immediately, and cause a local inflation bubble.
Author here.

If you know of any other sites that use Disqus, please send me a link. I'm trying to gather up other domains to do a deeper dive and see how far this goes.
Sure, but having a great university down the street means they get first crack at interns.

The biggest problem with recruiting tech people to live in Cincinnati is that most people are unimpressed when they visit. Cincinnatians like nasty food and get excited over utterly boring events. So when visitors come, people recommend they try Skyline and go to the fireworks or something and it generally leaves a bad taste in the visitor's mouths.

Columbus seems like a better choice.
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This is pretty fascinating, and, truth be told, I am very much not into Clojure or anything related (quite the opposite, really). I wish there was more thinking and reasoning about the basics of abstraction, naming, etc.
Try out eul:

https://eul.im

It'a native desktop client for Skype, Slack, and many others. It's only 4 MB, it has minimal CPU usage, and can handle hundreds of thousands of messages without lag.
From my brief reading around that 31B USD number:

"makes money for Google in two ways: adverts supplied by Google shown on Android phones, and revenue Google takes from its mobile app store, Google Play." [1]

So, for sure, they're making money from/via Android. But not from Android itself, or from many of the Google apps directly.

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/01/21/googles-android-genera...
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> It becomes an alerting system, task tracker, logging system, code review system and I could go on...

I haven't had this problem at all. We do have certain notifications trigger Hipchat alerts, but they also send out emails, etc. - Hipchat is just a convenience for that.

Maybe it's a Slack problem but not a Hipchat problem?
"In recent months, we’ve seen further improvements to the state of the art in RNN language modeling. The current state of the art results are held by two recent papers by Melis et al. and Merity et al.. These models make use of most, if not all, of the methods shown above, and extend them by using better optimizations techniques, new regularization methods, and by finding better hyperparameters for existing models. Some of these methods will be presented in part two of this guide."

Am I right in saying that the recently publicised Google Transformer [1] Neural Network is actually the state of the art now, over RNNs?

[1] https://research.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-ne...
Title is misleading, this isn't a CIA project:

>The Protego project is a PIC-based missile control system that was developed by Raytheon.
The Google Drive app for PC and Mac is being shut down in March
As a specialist in, among other related fields, "social welfare law and policy" her social views are the substance of her career. If a mathematician believed that 1 + 1 was 3, I'd want her fired. This is similar.
Why James Lovelock changed his mind on climate change
This is fine, but without other simultaneous changes, will do harm to young scientists. We need credit for publishing null results, or stop judgment on the basis of publication number. Would lead to larger, more well powered studies (good), but this tends to lead to acquiring multiple measures which can be inappropriately data-mined, and leads to large grants to established investigators, but fewer grants to new investigators.
> A business news organization seems like it would be biased toward explaining unemployment as a symptom of drug use rather than the other way around.

Why? There's plenty of money to spread around in the drug wars too.
Regarding websockets (admittedly off-topic re Mongrel though), I recently found out about Pushpin[0], which seems to be an elegant way to translate WS into HTTP, should it be of interest to someone. Basically a proxy-server that takes care of accepting either websockets or HTTP on the front, and talking only HTTP on the other side.

[0] http://pushpin.org
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> academia was a bastion of the male WASP elites that didn't have much pretense of serving the broader public

Have things really changed? I suspect there are fewer males, but any job that demands 20 years of full-time concerted effort is likely to be dominated by men. Similarly, the western world is overwhelmingly caucasian, so again... the best predictor (now as then) is that white male professors will be represented disproportionately.

> at least you didn't have the torrent of mediocre papers that you see today.

That certainly is true. Stats for the humanities and social sciences are that 80% of the papers have zero citations. i.e. they have no contribution to the greater body of human work.

In Physics (my background), most papers have 2-3 citations, and only a small percentage have 1 or fewer.

I would say that if a discipline is dominated by uncited papers, then that discipline is probably a waste of time. And the professors who work in it are a net drain on society.
I think you make the fundamental mistake that businesses are people that pay taxes. People pay taxes, so when amazon pays taxes, either investors, consumers or employees pay those taxes.

So when amazon finds a way to lower its tax burden, either investors, employees or consumers, and most likely all of them,which are citizens, pay less taxes.

Taxes are not a means to reduce profits, if that were to be your desired result.
The former. I'm not sure how to determine the amount of damage so I won't rank them.
That's not the point. Landowners don't make profits from automation as much as corporations do. As automation grows, we capture that savings and redistribute it to the working class and unemployed class equally.

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Tailor and manage access to content for users by location
Does the major version bump signify any major changes? The blog post and changelog don't seem to describe any.