skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nonpartisan means not associated with a political party.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisanism

If the entire Trump administration disagrees with it, I think it it's fair to say that his political party is not on board.

The article/report is leveraging one Republican (moderate Susan Collins) to label it as nonpartisan.
A lot of people forget that fascism had an overtly anti-capitalist attitude, espoused in propaganda and racial imagery (take a look at what a factory boss looked like in Nazi propaganda and you'll understand what I'm trying to say). And a program, too, that of subservience to the State. However, I'm not saying it wasn't capitalistic in effect, or anything like that.

Only that a system breakdown leads people to seek out extremes. In the late 19th and early 20th century there were ideologies in Europe and the U.S. that were available to cling on to, whether you were a union member, a soldier returned from a devastating war, or a deeply religious person, something was there to explain the order.

Today we have Facebook news (60%, is it, of Americans get their news primarily from there?). We have programmatic advertising, a feedback loop of information being sent to our attention and our behaviors being tracked and sending back datapoints for further optimized tracking... I'm not sure what this says about the state of ideology and the tremendous disunity in western society compared to 100 years ago, in the sense of people coming together under the banner of coherent ideas... But it'd make an interesting thesis paper.
> you secure then obscure

pillage THEN burn
Thanks. I was wondering whether this would be some neoliberal hellhole or something actually interesting.
Define "enough".

I don't think this solution really works. For some folks, nothing is ever enough. Then you also need to consider that it is less about money for some and more about friends and power. Maybe I don't do what corporations ask because they are going to pay my campaign. Maybe I do it because it makes me feel like a big man being the person they all come to for favors. Maybe I do it to gain acceptance into an aristocracy. I don't know how you can compete against that on a government salary, no matter how big.

Donald Trump is supposedly worth $3.5 billion. Do you think paying him more money would change the way he governs? I only use him as an example because he is the richest US politician, but there aren't too many poor ones at the federal level.

I guess I just don't see how you could ever pay a politician enough to be "indifferent to corrupt forces".
Relations between the west and the Soviet Union were more complex than that:

>...The United States government was initially hostile to the Soviet leaders for taking Russia out of World War I and was opposed to a state ideologically based on communism. Although the United States embarked on a famine relief program in the Soviet Union in the early 1920s and American businessmen established commercial ties there during the period of the New Economic Policy (1921–29), the two countries did not establish diplomatic relations until 1933. By that time, the totalitarian nature of Joseph Stalin's regime presented an insurmountable obstacle to friendly relations with the West.

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/sovi.html
I feel like they should allow me to try their designer without having to sign up. I'd recommend they split test that against their current onboarding flow.
The petroleum era is ending, time to create a modern society...
Wow, I wish there was an easy way to pay back star teachers or mentors.
Report summary: we spent over $350 B in the last 10 years on disaster recovery, we expect that to continue to be very expensive in the future. They expect the cost by 2055 to be consistently $35 B / yr, though it appears this is mostly just a guess, and at best "really bad weather periods are expensive" which is obvious.

Article: mostly just attacking Trump's administration, entirely non-constructive.

I don't understand why this is on HN.
This is a good idea in theory, but the problem in practice is that for every Emily or Anthony, there are a hundred students at 2nd and 3rd tier universities who, partly through their own failures and partly due to the unfortunate circumstances they’re in, are completely incompetent. I often find that those who are so keen on “hiring broadly” have never worked in a company that hires primarily from Podunk State - your expectations of your employees have to be so much lower.

The key is not to focus on the schools (rather than to focus extra on state schools). Instead, develop methods for identifying talent based on its own merits, regardless of where it is or what university it went to.
That brings up an interesting thought. Self-driving cars are going to have to come with automated tests that must be passed for the car to even start. You won't be able to make a choice about whether to drive around with a slightly broken car part like that. Some parts of the system will have to not only work, but work near perfectly or require service.
Are you talking about etree.HTML() being garbage? And what are your thoughts on parsing it as xml (e.g. etree.fromstring(), etree.parse() )?
Sorry to bother you, but the translation of your comment is pretty good (English -> Spanish -> French -> English):

No, it's not learning new classes of objects from a single image or a few images is very difficult. See
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1332.short
The machine translation is a joke.
Put comments on this page by translating Google into another language and go back to English and see what you get.
I did a little part of you. Just human level for just a simple little prayer.
> But even if you do not make this assumption, identifying the object involves spitting the distance from the performance of the human level.

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15429862

Not to debunk your claims, just interesting to see how good translation works (even if it's not human-level, I can understand what you say).
That midwestern corn is unfit for direct human consumption, but it shows up as a number of filler ingredients in highly processed (junk) food. So it's in your cows and chickens, but also in every soda you drink and in your kid's breakfast cereal. And pretty much every commercial baked good (modified food starch).

And the mills smell awful. Like someone took a paper mill, and took out the sour part of the smell and replaced it with moldy gym socks.
Problem definition really is the issue. Even appealing to the Turing test is less than satisfying. I’m fairly sure I’m a human, but Siri and similar will likely outperform me in certain categories like place names and popular music.
I think the term you may be looking for is "Noncentral Fallacy"

http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...
Another datapoint: iPhone 4, iOS 9.3.5 does not exhibit the bug.
An interesting observation I made last week was that the poor synthesis of French street names in English mode was worse than American-mispronouncing-French level. I wonder if that exposes some level of mismatch between how the synthesis engine models language and how humans do.
I don't think "donate your voice" will ever work. They should incorporate it in a product and add a checkbox to share your voice/statistics to improve the system.
That's the lesson you took from this!? This is an article demonstrating the brutality of Britain's colonialism and how we backed the losing side in another country's civil war and your take-away was "Socialism is bad"?
Diversity has departed from it's root meaning. Or else is currently being used in in a more limited context. For example: Lesbian is diversity. Appalachian accent or over 50 is not diversity but poor cultural fit.
Seems like an obvious point, and yet. And yet.
Aren't these things paid for with taxes?
There are many projects aimed at making Excel "a thing of the past" but they focus on different needs:

I think this is why Excel/Google Sheets still dominate and will continue to.

All of these products do one or a few things things that Excel or Google Sheet do, but perhaps they make it little easier for a novice. I think what people don't understand about Excel (and to a lesser extent Google Sheets) is that it's an IDE. A novice can build interesting things, a power user can build incredible things.

The only way to make Excel a thing of the past would be to make a blow-away awesome replacement that does everything excel does but better. There's plenty of blue ocean around Excel and I think each of the products you listed could do just fine.

I would love all of Excel's power available to me but delivered like Google Sheets. That would definitely kill Excel. So far neither Microsoft nor Google seem really committed to this. Google Sheets is nice but just grabs the low hanging spreadsheet fruit. Office 365 is anemic.

If I had the time and funding I'd love to make a true Excel killer that was a faithful recreation of ALL of Excel's capabilities but delivered in a modern way. I'd pay good money for this. I believe many would. Excel may be a dinosaur, but it's still the apex predator.
That's why we're really proud of what we do at interviewing.io. All students have to go through a series of practice interviews, so by the time they talk to companies, we know they're great, and so far, most of the students we've presented have gotten offers, independently of their backgrounds.

With our model, we free up companies from having to worry about exactly what you described because we incur the vetting.
I don’t know that the people making the decisions care all that much. Even though programmers are expensive, most managers seem to prefer to hire a dozen programmers where far fewer would get the job done if given access to better tools. They look better leading a bigger team regardless of the teams output.

The incentive exists for the shareholders, but they are not the ones making hiring decisions and choosing tools for programmers to use.
I don't know why this got downvoted; true, I was referring to the infinite loop case, but this is a legit (if not C++-specific) case of a benefit of for over while.

Likewise do...while is in retrospect, a mistake, because it documents the control strategy in a bad place from a humans-understanding-code point of view.
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I'm not surprised you suffered gastro-intestinal upset when you added fiber to a keto diet. Your gut biome was adapted to a low fiber, high fat diet. Rapid changes in dietary composition will frequently cause this issue. One solution to this problem is to consume your fiber along with a probiotic supplement, or preferably a live culture fermented food such as unpasteurized sauerkraut/kimchi/greek yogurt. Beans (particularly lentils) are the most nutritious fiber source, but if you want to stick with the keto diet, you should use inulin instead of psyllium husk, as there is more research demonstrating its efficacy. You may still encounter some GI upset even with a probiotic, but it should decrease as your gut biota adapts over the course of a week or two.

For references, there are plenty. Specifically want to look for material related to short chain fatty acids, particularly butyrate, and their role in modulating the immune system, and as histone deacetylase inhibitors. Here are a few reviews to get you started:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4259177/
http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v39/n9/full/ijo201584a.htm...

Additionally, I should note that blue zone diets are all high in fermentable carbohydrates, and increased concentrations of short chain fatty acids have been observed in the stool of centenarian populations:

http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/8/9/564/htm

Which supports evidence in model organisms such as yeast and fruit flies that butyrate (a short chain fatty acid) extends average lifespan:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S2079057013010153
You mean RDB? I thought AOF can be configured to fsync at every write.
Agree, though at least in America those two things are more related than your comment would appear to suggest.
My work space is very clean, tidy, and I feel productive for hours. Skipping breaks because I'm in my mode, but I also try to get work done at home and it doesn't feel the same level, and it's much harder to get into the zone, it's like your original small cluttered desk/chair.
Speech Recognition, beside transcribing phonemes and match to a NN of possible words, is not solved because speech is highly integrated with the human context: who is speaking, to whom is speaking, where is the speech happening, why is the speech initiated, and so on.

My kids needed 5-6 years of continous daily talking until I could say they understand a conversation almost completly. Every single word or phrase I directed at them was spoken in a certain context and had a certain role in communicating with them when from the context it wasn't clear what my intentions were. Of course, they had their fun, throwing words away and repeating endlesly some funny word or phrase or terribly spelling them. It is interesting that you as an adult need too learn their own prononciation, at some moment in time I even wrote a small dictionary.

Again, speech recognition will simply stay at recognizing phonemes/words only for a very long time, until we have a true AI Assistant that walks with us, sees with us, and hears with us in the same time. Then it can apply some semantic and other context based related NN.
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I had the fortune to see Wes Jackson from the Land Institute give a presentation about his research breeding prairie grass attributes back into cereals. He explained the goal of developing perennial hybrids that could make agriculture somewhat less dependent on energy-intensive annual crops. He also brought in a tuft of 1 meter tall grass, showing how its ~3 meter deep root system would do wonders to retain water and reduce flooding on Mississippi downstream.
KAUST is nearby. Founded in 2009 so it's still new but it has the sixth-biggest endowment in the world.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_University_of_Sc... :

"It was founded in 2009 and provides research and graduate training programs using English as the official language of instruction. It was announced in 2013 that KAUST had one of the fastest growing research and citation records in the world and in the 2016 Nature Index Rising Stars was ranked #19 in the world of the fastest rising universities for high quality research output. KAUST was ranked as the world's top university in citations per faculty ranking indicator as per QS World University Rankings for 2015-2016 and 2016-2017."
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I was an undergraduate at a no-name university for various personal reasons. A Google, Microsoft and other big tech co offices were nearby. Throughout my undergrad, not a single event, talk or recruiting opportunity emerged. I understand this: the top people are the same everywhere but it does not economically make sense to do events to potentially hire 1-2 people.

I am now at a world famous grad school and there are talks, events, opportunities every week. I would say the best 5% at the undergraduate school were approximately at least as good as the average undergraduate here.

Unfortunately, economically it makes sense to focus recruiting events only at certain schools.

How could companies reach the great students at unknown schools systematically?
Everything looks perfect, we only need to find perfect humans to complete the project.
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I have to say, I feel productive in a clean setup. It helps me not get distracted by the mess, and also makes it easy to find stuff
Same five schools. How about we first even just address the stunning level of group think that comes from 90+% of faculty being Liberals. Some here in particular may make excuses for that, but I can tell you that if that issue is not fixed ... if it's not even already too late ... it will crater our university system as "online" universities become better over time.

The age of kleptocratic administrative layers at Universities importing communist and muslim subversive faculty and foreigners being given preference over Americans due to "diversity" needs to come to an end before it totally brings the USA to collapse, and with it, so would also go the rest of the world. This is a lagging effects type of situation here. You have to be able to project effects into the future. If you had your pulse on matters in the past, you would see that things have progressed even worse than ever anticipated back just 15 or 20 years ago. The tea leaves do not look good at all right now.
To universally label the move from on-prem, perpetual licensing to SaaS as pure rent-seeking is to misunderstand how different kinds of software products are purchased and used by different users.

As far as enterprise/business customers go, SaaS has been huge in reducing vendor lock-in and enabling customers to choose the best fit for their use case. SaaS has removed the huge costs of PoCs and initial adoption, meaning it's easier to evaluate vendors and switch when you're ready. You no longer have to buy the hardware to get the service up and running, or allocate as many employees to maintain the hardware and software. The explosion of vendors and competition in the SaaS space has forced more interoperability and customer-focused feature development than ever before.

SaaS has been great for pretty much all business customers. At this point, I don't think any but the largest companies, most specialized companies would rather build their own services at this point than try to purchase off the shelf when possible.
I'm not sure I understand your argument here. If we cut through the clutter, you're essentially advocating that you hire people on an individual basis and shouldn't weight at all what school they come from. No?
I'm not so optimistic. I think we've only begun to properly supplement the power requirements with solar power, etc. It'll be a while before the petroleum era ends.

Maybe start talking about petroleum era going away when say, 10% of vehicles in US are running on electricity?
Totally agree, but as another commenter suggested it is difficult to measure socioeconomic status. I think the bigger issue is -- why are negative points applied to Asian applications on my affirmative action schemes, rather than negative points evenly distributed against the entire non-preferred pool? Is anyone seriously arguing that Asian applicants have it easier than caucasians?

Having grown up quite poor in NYC, I was always dismayed by not being able to take advantage of affirmative action programs...but getting selective negative points is just plain unfair.
> I absolutely abhor the network panel in Chrome.

What do you mean? There are plenty of ways to filter down the activity tab in Chrome if the problem you're experiencing is that the volume of requests is too high to be useful.
I signed up to try Webflow. Unfortunately Firefox is not supported. I guess the "Only works in Chrome" really is the new "Works best in IE6".
I agree with your point. It can be hard for a US native English speaker to recognize a Scottish accent.

But, other Scottish people certainly don't have trouble with understanding a Scottish accent. So I view that as a certificate that we should be able to build a speech recognizer which can recognize Scottish accents.
Yes they are. And depending on your political beliefs, taxes are slavery, theft, or violence, and if you're ideological enough, you can see taxes as the moral equivalent of Lenin promising a share of the aristocrat's land.
100% libertarian, I'm sure.
I have a huge desk, an oversized "executive" office chair, a foot rest, full size keyboard, and plenty of open space around me. My sitting position is highly optimized towards what I consider comfortable, both physically and mentally. My desk rolls between pristine and cluttered with lots of papers.

Compared to working on a laptop, literally on my lap, the difference in productivity is infinite as I can't get anything done in a cramped environment.
Honestly, I searched for the definition expecting to disagree. I posted it when I realized parent was right, and figured I'm not the only person who hasn't studied feudalism in a while.
The major downside of fail2ban is actually that it punishes you for using keys. If you have different keys for different machines and haven't configured your SSH client to pair them up you might attempt to login several times with the wrong key before getting in. You won't even notice this normally but fail2ban will trigger and ban you from the machine.

https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/1263
Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross have really left their mark. I wonder from time to time what they would have created if Facebook didn't acquire Parakey back in 2007. Hopefully, they will collaborate again in the future.
That's nothing compared to the income concentration in Old Kingdom Egypt.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
There are “mass gainers” (basically diet drinks with more carbs and protein) that accomplish the same thing and are more cost efficient if you’re looking for alternatives. Lean Body is one.
While I am sympathetic to the cultural forces at play, it seems that most of the anti-city sentiment is from a position of...pickiness? you might call it? If it was literally a choice between starving and moving to a City, I suspect the choice would be much easier. But for most of rural America, the choice is between the misery that you know, and the alien world of 'the city'.
the theory that we might at some point in time love a pigeon (or any other living creature) as much as we love each other (humans) is not that far off ... if you think about it.

we are all the same, all part of one. if you love yourself and you love "one" you automatically love pigeons and all the other living creatures.

perhaps its our next evolutionary step and he was many years ahead of all of us...
And I'm sure it will be super great for trans women and queer people in general...
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You should look up the costs of supporting rural living. They're heavily subsidized, at least in the US. Living in rural communities is cheaper to the individual right now, but significantly more expensive to society overall. If you can find data to the contrary I'd be interested in it.

Lots of utopian plans for city designs and such revolve around spreading people out farther and having lots of "green space" and farmland interspersed with living and business districts, but fail on closer examination because it's really hard to be more efficient (cheaper) and more environmentally friendly than having very dense cities yielding, as quickly as possible (i.e. minimizing sprawl and low-density suburbs/exurbs) to farmland. If you can find data supporting the case for lower-density living as cheaper (overall) and more environmentally friendly than denser living, again, I'd be very interested in seeing it. People come up with those spread-out hypothetical cities for a reason—agrarian (even faux-agrarian) living is appealing, if difficult to advocate given the economics of it.
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A bit of both. When data doesn't exist, people aren't motivated enough to create the open source tools which would leverage it. While Librispeech is okay for academic research, it's not enough to create a good production-grade speech recognition system.
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