skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only about half the glyphs to recognize.

This is not really a big deal. Some writing systems require you to recognize a few thousand symbols, and I read (i.e. "effortlessly recognise") three alphabets and with some concentration two more (the grammar is a bigger deal for the latter...my overall fluency in those languages is, at best, poor and I am sure will never get better. But symbol recognition is not the barrier).

This is because I put in the effort to study these languages, but many people, without much formal education, can read that number of alphabets (much better than I can) simply because they live in (typically border) regions where that is reality of daily life. My own mother grew up in a town where four writing systems were in use, plus used a different alphabet in her home.

Don't mock that older writing by the way. Most people were illiterate; Especially anything in paper was the writing of some pretty sophisticated folks.
Faster[1] than Java (glacial, albeit with warmer weather recently) or C (continental drift), slower than Swift, PHP (which truly has become a "kitchen sink" language equal to C++'s reputation for the same) or Python, about the same as Javascript.[2]

[1] By which I mean the languages themselves and minimally-conforming standard libraries rather than ecosystems or quasi-standard libraries like J2SE (Java), Cocoa (Swift) or the browser DOM (Javascript). C++ has a fairly slow-moving (but mature) ecosystem and its "quasi-standard" libraries (Boost, common compiler extensions, Windows and POSIX APIs) aren't as tightly-coupled to the language as the previous three examples.

[2] Both hindered by standards-body bureaucracy and the need to keep backwards compatibility with mistakes, but both popular enough that bigcorps are incentivized to keep things moving along; Javascript is more popular but that's offset by C++'s more efficient de facto process for standards-tracking library improvements (get them into Boost first).

Javascript actually probably moves a bit faster but Internet Explorer compatibility (still likely to be relevant for another 5 years or so) is an even bigger drag on adopting bleeding-edge features than waiting for (your company adopting) new Visual Studio/CentOS GCC/[Some embedded architecture] GCC versions is for C++.
You didn't even suggest that:

OP is claiming some locations are hidden, not their main office.

The main office is well marked giant office complex next to the public cryptographic museum.
>built in larger quantities

That's the whole ball game in electronics.
> Which is trivially verifiable, if you look at the respective incarceration rates by race.

This assumes that incarceration rates should be equal for all races, which probably shouldn't be the case. There's a correlation between low socioeconomic status and incarceration. Black Americans tend to have a lower socioeconomic status. Murder rates are also much higher among blacks than other races in America.

> Prisoners are, by design, excluded from minimum wage laws.

Right. Prisoners are being exploited, but that's not why they're being imprisoned. They're being imprisoned because of drugs, violence, and thievery/burglary for the most part.
No but it would explain why so many have difficulty. This isn't all that interesting to be honest. We've known for a long time that energy levels have a direct effect on brain function. That self control is a "function of the brain" is obvious and subject to the same principals.

Garbage in, garbage out as the saying goes. Proper diet will improve brain function and "self control".

From the paper:

"Resisting the temptation to eat the cookies presum-
ably depleted an energy resource that could otherwise have been
used to persist on the subsequent task"

To your point, the best way to diet then would be to avoid the temptation which would mean less use of glucose in the resisting of it.
Lotus Improv was one of the best programs I've ever used, and I wish it would come back in a modern form. It was much more sophisticated than just having "names" instead of row/column coordinates. It had an easier to use and in some ways more powerful version of PivotTables. Man, I miss Improv.
Could that cause a race condition with multiple processes using epoll on the same file descriptors?
Important to note that there's a lot of literature surrounding ego depletion, but it's been called into question for whether it can be replicated:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_...
FYI, it isn't. If you are referring to the "email" field, that isn't public.
Unequivocally yes.

I'd also highly recommend using multiple larger (>20") displays for a notable productivity boost.
>So there could be some cognitive benefit

This is only really the case for phonetic writing where you learn to recognise the shape of groups of letters (this is how you are reading this text). For logographic/pictographic writing it is much less of a benefit.

And as I wrote above, even for alphabetic writing like Greek it doesn't really matter if all you read is the occasional monumental inscription.
Are there any concerns about privacy? I mean now you have applications that will use a platform that Google is known to scan for information.

I know everyone has heard this before, but I would like to see what people think. A couple of days ago, people were all up in arms about phone companies selling your website traffic. What makes Google better than god forbid AT&T or Verizon?
FWIU most of the ogalalla problems wouldn't be problems if we replaced just the non-human-feed corn with almost literally anything else.
> Yet the theory breaks down once you look at a breakdown of race, gender, and SES.

There's plenty of research debunking this claim, which is a myth generally propagated by groups with explicit white supremacist agendas.
Especially when you're part of the non-favored ethnic group that perpetrates and celebrates the routine murder of innocent men, women, and children. Murder that is some times committed using construction equipment.

Now if you were a cop, and just received a photo of what looks like a member of the non-favored ethnic group with a murder weapon, saying "kill them" I'd bet you wouldn't just shrug it off. You take action to save innocent lives. Ask questions later.
That's pretty much what communism/stalinism is. The party leader is the godhead and everything is managed by technology (aka, bureaucrats).

Being arrested for blasphemy is really no different than being "re-educated".
Just taking the FAQ at face value it seems like they will have free reign to decide what the laws are surrounding issues like this inside Zeom. Just going by the language there they'll be able to set their own laws about those issues.

Of course that could all be just fluff and come to nothing but I think they know it's in their own self interest to open up and give this area more autonomy than the special economic zones in China in order to appease and attract investors/tourism without having to change the culture of the actual country.
Frankly that statement puts the whole company into poor light; if you are building an Excel competitor, you better know Excel pretty well. If your chief frustration is battleship coordinates then that does not exactly evoke the feeling Excel expertise, or that they have done sufficient market research. Or maybe they are not really targeting Excel as hard as the article posits?
In my experience, Gadgets have been languishing for a while. We developed one to integrate Gmail with our issues tracker (it created an issue from the email content), yet after we tried to deploy an update, now using the new control panel, it simply never showed up again.
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I don't mean to denigrate the wonderful contribution that the teacher in question made, as it's truly a selfless commitment with life changing impact. However -

One distinction may be that the star teacher scales better. What if there were two students with this problem? Should the teacher stay late? Should teachers not take lunch? What if someone needs help in math, etc.

A star teacher may be able to reproduce this effect for a large number of students. Perhaps using technology, recorded lectures, practice apps, etc. Perhaps organizing study groups for kids to teach and learn from each other.

A caring teacher may sacrifice her lunch. A star teacher may not need to.
I don't think eye candy is killer app.

Distributedly consistent spreadsheets maybe? Make inner mechanics of a complex sheet easier to tackle? Add persistence and database capabilities that blend in?
This is true not just for engineering hires. I recently experienced this with more evolved roles such as PM and PMMs.

Diversity and inclusion biases go beyond educational background. I have noticed the big tech firms (experienced this with a social network giant) are more biased to hire from a big consulting firm like McKinsey or Bain.

Despite having the requisite experience & education for the role, I got the boilerplate response without even talking to anyone. Some sleuthing revealed this big tech firm tends to recruit heavily from McKinsey. Most people at the role had this trajectory BA at Ivy League --> 2 yrs work exp --> MBA (Top 10) ---> Big Consulting ---> Big tech.

This seems to bode well who could afford either an ivy league education and an expensive MBA. Leaves little room for folks with street experience. On the other side, maybe it calls for long-term gorilla marketing tactics to really sell your personal brand.
Amazing, how does one write such an app? Is it mostly done with canvas? I’d like to make something like powerpoint in the future, but not sure where to start.
You're right. If you don't count the services that still exists today, Google has killed almost all its products.
I ended up at a no-name school because I got a terrible financial aid package at an elite school that I'd applied to early decision. So bailed and went to a state school for almost free.
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That alone doesn't get you an admission. When 2 students has equal test scores, GPA and everything else, your family association definitely helps. This doesn't mean, they accept not so smart people because their parents went to the same school.
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> You've decided the only way Venezuela can emerge through this is by collapse and rebirth

No, I have not. There are three ways a sovereign can deal with its debt: taxation, inflation and default. Chavez nationalized everything he could. Maduro inflated away the locally-denominated debt [1]. Dollar-denominated debt is immune to Bolivar inflation, so what's left is further taxation or default.

Maduro is choosing further taxation. ("Taxation" refers to the government's take rate of economic activity. Democracies publish tax rates. Dictatorships seize.) I'm arguing they should default. This would be good for Venezuela but bad for Maduro's regime, which appears to use dollar debt for patronage.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Venezuel...
>People do not want hearing aids (typically they do not even want to accept they have a hearing loss). You need to spend an awful lot in communication and marketing and humans you can talk to in a store to convince them to try one.

Ugh. That's my dad. He seems to be willing to spend the rest of his life making everybody around him repeat what they said at a higher volume so he doesn't have to try a hearing aid.
Having attended an average-at-best school for my undergraduate degree and a name-widely-recognized-as-one-of-the-best school for my graduate degree, and teaching several classes at both:

The top students at both schools were quite close in ability, drive, motivation and talent. There may have been a couple a very little smarter at the name school, but not many, and not enough to make a material difference.

But the mid and bottom students at the average school were quite a bit worse than the mid and bottom students at the name school. And it wasn't even close.

So, in my experience at least, there are definitely students worth hiring at both places, but you have to sift through quite a bit more students at the average schools.
What suprizes me is that you ask "why is it necessary to have car if you have kids?" and when I answer why you switch to theoritizing about how the world should be.

So either we discuss the reality where the next available pediatrician is in the next city (1h with two busses, imagine this trip with a sick child on your hands).

Or we discuss the fantasy world of "everyone should be able to get everywhere they want to go easily". But then stop asking, what is it about children that you need a car.
If something is going to be better than Excel because its "40 years ahead of it" it ought to be a native app and be more powerful than Excel. Excels value comes from its power features and ability to finesse with fine detail - simplicity isn't always the answer.
Right, they're more precise and less accurate.
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Firebug taught me css. I'll miss it. I hate the built in tool.
Or, easier without popups, logging to a div (hidden or at the bottom) that you could expand/open up to see output.

Firebug was revolutionary not only for the console but the inspect tool was very needed as layouts and CSS progressed where outputs weren't enough.
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I recently have been trying out open source solutions for voice recognition for a personal project and you are very correct that it lags very far behind proprietary solutions. Pocketsphinx is still very limited and Kaldi takes quite a bit to setup in a usable fashion. There were a few other options I looked at that I can't think of from the top of my head but were all in similar condition.

As the article says latency is still a problem and it's a huge problem in current open source solutions, some stuff I was testing was easily 5 seconds. I know that can be improved with configuration, but when dealing with libraries of 10 words or so, that's pretty bad.

I feel like anyone who is seriously interested in this space has been scooped up by all the big companies and the open source solutions have really seemed to linger because of it. It's one of the first areas I've seen where open source alternatives are really behind the proprietary solutions. Kind of bummed me out.
I am not sure it's possible to solve this problem generally. Doing so would require the kernel be able to predict the future.

Also, IIRC this is a proxy. If you run out of CPU copying data between file descriptors before you run out of bandwidth, I'd be very surprised. I think sendfile(2) makes it especially cheap.
> They just don't understand that some people like me, who can get into the (mostly private) elite schools choose to go to a "long tail" school

Can you really expect any different from a company founded from within the halls of Stanford, and then staffed primarily from there?

On the other hand, I bet if you sat down and ran the numbers, recruiting from state schools isn't productive. For better or worse, school selectivity is tied with rankings -- for every Anthony topping the charts of state school is a graduating class of Anthonys at the elite schools. Cherry picking your one Anthony per school is likely harder than showing up to Stanford where they picked cherries 4 years ago.

Moreover, Google recruiters are likely already flooded with new grad applicants from non-elite schools, while every year GoogFaceAmaple is pushing forward their recruiting funnel earlier than the competition. Eventually, I imagine they'll simply interview candidates the summer between receiving their college acceptance letter and fall semester freshman year.
Well, that is the "normal" MS DOS network driver/client, not the MS-NET you linked to on Wikipedia, which is much earlier and was (mainly) "server side":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-Net

>The system also supplied the program REDIR.EXE, which allowed transparent file access from DOS machines to any MS-Net based server.
A mirrored letter still looks very similar. Most people learn the letter topologies first, and only later pin down the chirality. Just think of all the mirrored N's you probably used to write!

So it's definitely not twice as much work, I'd say it's not more work at all, you basically just don't worry about the chirality and that's it.
An acre foot is a volume of water one acre, one foot deep, used over a year. In gallons, that’s 325,851 gallons per year per acre foot.

The poster then can use about 4 million gallons of water per year for his land.

When spread out over this amount of land, that’s about 66% of the amount of water needed for a suburban grass lawn in a hot climate.
Would be interesting if cells of groups of cells in a spreadsheet could show a subset of the UI of another graphical program on the system. If it could allow user interaction with that graphical program then even better. That could allow users to build a dashboard of their running graphical software. Has this been tried before?
It shouldn’t even take 10 seconds to `sed -i s/22/24/ /etc/ssh/sshd_config; systemctl restart sshd` to do this.
IIRC there are multiple audio codecs in the standard (and of course different versions of standard), some of them really old. So with certain device combinations you may get better result than with others.

I once looked into these and got the impression that main goal is to make it possible to produce standard compliant devices as cheaply as possible.

Edit: I had written down some of the stuff I found: http://juhap.iki.fi/misc/qc35-windows-bluetooth-audio/
Glucose depending on performance of a task seems pretty obvious as does performance of a task being dependent on glucose levels; is there any reason to believe that the tasks being rooted in self-control has any bearing on the results here? I would expect to see similar results with any mental tasks, and these self-control related tasks are seemingly chosen only to make for an attractive headline (taking advantage of controversy around ego depletion and the layperson's interest in matters of ego in general).
Why would they make their own. I wish they took over firebug.
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Right. Also more notes and links here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/12/book-review-willpower/
Another way for a CW lidar to work is to use diffraction optics trick of some kind, some smart coding scheme, and a lot of computing power to do a lot of Fourier transforms.

Continuous ToF calculation from a specially coded continuous signal is already used in Chinese military rangefinders (coded continuous signal is hard to spot unlike repetitive pulses)
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Except that there are hundreds of schools that fit this description. Sending recruiters to any one of them isn't that expensive, but sending recruiters to all of them is quite expensive.

Which isn't to say that there aren't students there worth recruiting.
I suspect that it’s widely recognized that getting incremental advances in speech synthesis is really hard and, unlike potentially speech recognition, it doesn’t really solve a problem that people have. For business services and consumer devices slightly better voices are valuable but, for example, the improvements in the latest Siri voice don’t make any new things possible. But it’s part of the fit and finish of an expensive phone.
I'm not sure how to respond to this. You're asking if Tesla had the power to see extra-dimensional structures? I guess I'm fairly secure in assuming that Tesla was experiencing hallucinations, in ways that are common among people experiencing hallucinations (unexplained lights are fairly standard), rather than possessing extra-dimensional superpowers that would, as far as we know, be completely unique to him.

Unless you're positing that anyone experiencing these types of symptoms are in fact viewing extra-dimensional objects. In which case, good luck with that.
Indeed, some folks prefer to live in a third world shit hole with skyrocketing rents.
Allowing non-technical or semi-technical staff ssh access to computers is engineering malpractice.
Real diversity is like fine art: you hold some attributes constant and vary other attributes.

For instance, you can keep a similar texture and color palette and use unexpected patterns and geometries; or keep the structure of a symphony but use unexpected instrumentation.

If you stick to expectations too much you will be boring. If you vary too many attributes, it will be chaotic and meaningless.

Similarly, if you choose a random collection of people from around the world and try to make a business, it won't go anywhere. But if you hire all people who followed a prescribed life path, you probably won't be very innovative.

Interestingly, even a single person can be diverse in their ideas. Consider Steve Jobs or Elon Musk.

"Diversity" is such a loaded political word now and lost all meaning. It's just cover to whitewash lazy thinking in political correctness. It's common now, in the same breath, to want both diversity and equality of outcomes, which shows how ridiculous our politics have become.
"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 find myself wondering at your definition of "2nd tier school". If you mean community colleges or something, I'd understand. But there's plenty of "tier 1 schools" for learning computer science outside of the "same five schools" in question.

I don't see a list of the five schools in question from a quick skim, but is the University of Michigan "second tier"? University of Waterloo? Any of dozens or possibly hundreds of Division I schools with high quality programs?

Let's be honest... running a fairly good undergraduate computer science program is not rocket science. It's not that hard. For all the sound and fury of the industry, it has visibly not shifted all that much in curriculum in the 20 years since I took it. I know, I look over the intern's shoulders sometimes when they do homework here and I could almost hand them my own homework solutions from 1998 as a cheat sheet. [1]

The very elitism the article is deploring is on full display when people seem to assume it's these top five schools, then a country full of drooling morons. That is not in fact how it works. It's not even close to how it works. It is offensively wrong.

[1]: This is mostly a good thing, not a complaint. The curriculum should be stable. Bits of it need to be updated here and there, but the whole is solid. AI really needs an update, though; it was long in the tooth when I took it in 1999 or so and it hasn't gotten much better at the local schools. The whole "search the solution space" is certainly a bare minimum to understand the field but almost everything has gone in a very different direction since then.