skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for New York. I've never been there. My experiences are that of portions of the Midwest in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Missouri. Larger places will have Walmarts and will have grocers and more industry.

What I see time and again our little towns that are too small to support even a Walmart or a grocery have one or two Dollar Generals. I'm not an economist and not sure what to make of that other than that a Dollar General seem to be pretty cheap to set up pretty cheap to stock and I guess and implicit acknowledgement that these markets are failures for anything other than dinky stores.

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Right, right. But they had a powerful, oppressive force: the Church. They would also burn you as soon as you affirm planetary motion doesn't come from god, that earth is not the center of the universe, or anything that slightly contradicts their vision of the world. But not before torturing you until you accept everything you said was a lie... As you can see, there was a lot of innovation going on, Europe was totally a fertile ground for scientific discovery :^)

Philosophy changed that, and you might want to take a look at where that philosophy came from, who translated it and when.
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Brilliant analogy
I believe Tyler refers to not wasting resources on acquisition channels that you don't have expertise on. That hurts the bottom line and profit margin at the end of the day if you try and fail at a lot of things but also may imply that the business "can't be grown" because the current owner "tried it all". If you are confident in outcome you should always try to maximize total revenue and MRR/ARR metrics.
Awesome! Great to see that Mozilla gets the approval, respect and support from such big players.

Looks like there is hope for a free and open Web! Well done Mozilla!
I would agree the point of college is to push you into unfamiliar territory.

But, that's why we have dedicated classes that challenge you. This language is meant for a course to try to bring everyone to the same level. Some students enter the course having done CTF's since middle school and others just took the AP exam. C0 is used only for one course, and the course that follows it uses C in depth.
I can't help but feel like you're the exception there!
Yes, but for whatever reason, people who have the means tend to prefer 'higher end' stores, even if there is no reason to, in the purely economic/material sense.
Top Secret? Microsoft Opens Door to Government Blockchain Use
Same thing with Harbor Freight. It's fast to go in and grab a tool, they're cheap, and they have everything.
Getting Started in Character Recognition
https://deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero-learning-scratch/
AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
I've worked with bootcamp grads who have been pretty good, and hadn't already learned how to code. I also have friends who started out as non-coders, went through bootcamps, and are now doing really well.
It's that feeling of being watched - yes.
I can't quantify it but since I've been accidentally promoted into an office (only managers are supposed to have offices in this company but my department's been budded off from the mothership) from the bullpen I feel more productive, stay later each day, and generally feel more confident and at peace all day long. One of my cow-workers who's still under the all seeing eye has a mirror on the aisle-facing wall of his cube. That would probably help had I tried it. My old cube was not only on the middle aisle but had one of those smokey camera housings mounted on the ceiling allegedly facing the door to the outside.
Science seems to support this view. From https://tedsummaries.com/2014/09/05/paul-piff-does-money-mak... :

> Paul shows us footage of a psychological experiment – a rigged 2 player monopoly game where they randomly pick one player to be more wealthy. The wealthy player starts with more money, gets double the income for passing GO, and moves more often. [...] After the game they were asked why they won – and they’d talk about their own actions & strategy, rather than reflecting on the advantages given at the start.
Could you please comment only if you can do so civilly and substantively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is a great start. Now let's integrate caniuse into every single MDN page.
The stuff Dollar Tree sells is reeeeally low quality. Take a cheap, dishwasher-safe, plastic cup for example. I can get those in bulk from Alibaba for $0.10 / cup. Dollar Tree might sell something like that for $1.00 -- there's a bunch of additional overhead, of course, but I think it makes perfect sense that they'd profit on stuff like that.

Also would not be surprised if they shrugged those losses off as marketing (brand recognition / visibility) costs.
I greatly enjoyed The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Reading it caused me to buy collections of folk tales from several different cultures.
MDN is an AMAZING resource, and I'm glad that it's getting the attention it deserves (both from Mozilla and the rest of the internet). Really hope this effort lasts over time as the effort put into MDN by volunteers, besides Mozilla employees, is tremendous!

Hope MDN becomes the go-to Wiki for the web (It practically is for me already)

Kudos to the team! :)
Though accurate to the title, the post name is misleading (in my opinion). Possibly useful would be revising to refer to VLF?
From what I've read (admittedly not enough) Pilot Wave theory is very deterministic and have some other weird quantities for example the observer does not really affect the result of double-slit experiment (if I understand correctly)
Interesting that there is no Apple representation.
this has been my experience exactly and a great summary. starting your own business vs being an employee is not about being your own boss, it's about trading one boss for many bosses (your customers, your investors, the bank, etc).
I remember interviewing for them on site and saying "no thanks I'm not a good fit" after the first interview. They sounded so corporately boring...
I'm so happy to see this! MDN has always been my go-to resource for any JS/CSS help
in the long term it can work out. can.
and not a suitable solution if it doesn't work out short or mid term, yes.
For me, as an experienced front-end-focussed developer, MDN has been my go-to website for quick spec references. MDN has all I need to know, and I know my way around. However, I've been in teams where the less-experienced developers went to W3C Schools to see how they should implement some feature. And to be honest, I cannot completely blame them. W3C Schools shows directly what you need to know and how the API you are discovering works. This is mainly because of the playground with possible implementations on top of every specification page. I hope MDN can make their site more appealing for less experience developers without cutting in on the feature-completeness.

For those interested: Behold, the W3C Schools hider extension. https://github.com/Spetnik/W3Schools-Hider
I guess since the land is cheap and they built the building they operate out the operating cost isn't much higher like it would be were they renting space in a developed urban area. Plus it is like they are investing in the real estate as I've seen a few small towns grow a lot in population after Walmart moved in.
Not in any appreciable way.
Games. I like low latency and garbage collection. I feel like, hey, it's 2017, those things (along with performance within a reasonably small multiple of C's) really should go together.
I hope Intel would try to integrate this with existing ML libraries like Tensorflow and Caffe, rather than to make their own separated ecosystems.
U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, Papers Show
That whole...uh...homestead act thing
The sharing economy’s next frontier: Scooters
> Whether or not people ARE NOTICING YOUR EVERY MOVE.

Yeah, for me the feeling of being implicitly watched and judged all day causes low-level anxiety.
Rust is too complicated for me to learn and be productive with in a reasonably short period of time, and the CLR is not good at keeping GC pauses down. :-(

I have high hopes for Pony, though.
Representation? You've got an app for that ;-)
Somehow I had more luck with stackoverflow and others when looking for a quick hint/example.
Enormous TIF subsidies, mostly.
God, considering how much that'd be worth if invested it'd have to be a hell of a payoff from my kids to make up for it. Plus we're nowhere near done spending yet, and could easily spend a lot more.

[EDIT] by which I mean we could spend more to improve their prospects and educational outcomes, especially on housing or directly on school itself. The sky's the limit on that stuff, at least until you reach absurd levels of wealth at which point it does taper off (i.e. it becomes easy to afford the very best, and there's nothing more expensive than that)
Doubling Bug Bounty rewards
Does anyone know of papers and/or example implementations of similar DNNs for accoustic modeling using tf or some other framework?
I love daiso - the Japanese dollar store.

It's amazing.
Uh, Concorde was a quadjet? ETOPS didn't apply (and ETOPS didn't exist when Concorde entered operation).
We live in a country with ~300 million citizens, and ~10 million illegal immigrants. That means that illegal immigrants only make up about 3% of the population, which doesn't sound like much! However, illegal immigrants are spread _very_ unevenly across the country[1], creating pockets where lower-class American wages are suppressed[2]. The effect of illegal immigration isn't nearly as strong as globalization and anti-trust legislation removal, but it is there, and is definitely felt in those areas affected.

The "decimation" comes from the cumulative effect of all of those factors(globalization, anti-trust legislation removal, illegal immigration, and automation) pushing jobs out of the area and lowering wages.

[1]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2274081/Pew-Hispanic...

[2] https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21705699-who-ar...
> _expect_ access given how prevalent it is.

> Maybe they should even have an external arbitration for such situations (I don't think it's at the level of the courts _yet_).

That expectation would be a false one. It seems like a reasonable expectation but nonetheless the user is powerless if FB decides their social network is better off without you. Why on earth would they allow an external arbitrator to meddle with their property? Why give up any of that power and control?

The only reason FB needs to be reasonable is out of fear of emerging competition if you boot enough people w/o cause.
I watch over people’s shoulders as they use the application in various devices and makes notes when they get frustrated.
Haha, I would be shocked if they don’t reinvent the wheel, but let’s hope they don’t.
Working for businesses that are "fast paced and agile" is my red flag. No management or no desire to be good at IT because "we're not an IT company". So you're always short changed, behind and not meeting their needs, when they haven't even been defined.

Oh and Sally & Chuck saw you leave early the other day, we can't have that. Even though you're putting in 50-60 hour work weeks. Oh Sally & Chuck are admin assistants as well, so their opinion matters in this company that runs like your high school social groups did, except less efficiently.
Once upon a time nobody seriously thought JavaScript would ever play any role outside of the browser, and even the role in the browser was small enough many people preferred to disable it.

Then we got a very fast JIT, and suddenly you could do reasonable compute heavy stuff very fast, and then it became viable to also write the server side in JS, because of programmer efficiency and library reuse and other reasons.

The "right tool for the job" can seriously change when tools improve and develop, and just because there already are other tools for the same job should not stop anybody from trying.

I can not think of a better example for that than JavaScript.
A new Lego set honors the women of NASA
The problem is there is no magic wand the Android SOC manufacturers can wave to match Apple on chip performance. It's a multi-front war.

Firstly yes Apple is well ahead in CPU core design and has been since 2013 when they brought out the first 64-bit ARM chip. And yes I know 64 bit by itself doesn't account for the performance increase, but the 64-bit ARM core architecture is much more streamlined and efficient than 32-bit which had accumulated all sorts of cruft over the years. The A7 wasn't just 64-bit, it was step change up in performance creating a gap that the other ARM vendors have never caught up with.

That's not the whole story though, core design alone isn't the only reason Apple chips are faster, another is they have dramatically more cache memory on chip that other designs. The A10 had a total of 7MB of L2 and L3 cache, more than double the maximum configuration for the 835. Apple SOCs are massive, which makes them expensive.

Finally, they can build in customised capabilities in hardware to support specific high level features, such as the secure enclave and the neural engine in A11 Bionic to support image post-processing effects and face recognition. This is clearly what Google is trying to do, but in an add-on chip because they're not (yet?) up to designing their own SOC.

So it's not just the the Apple SOCs are faster, the reasons why they are faster are on several different axes. Some SOC vendors apparently say their profit margin lies in shaving off just one or two square millimetres of die size. Market forces like that would never produce a chip like the A11. So really this approach by Google of designing their own custom co-processor, and maybe eventually their own SOCs, could be the only way to close this gap.
How machine learning is helping us better understand the brain
Ok, let's assume that you're willing to go through 10 feet of snow for hours, uphill both ways.

To really change C, you need to at least get your changes in clang, not only in gcc. And let's not even talk about msvc. Or God forbid, actually creating a new standard version.
I'd love to investigate what's going on with your results. Could you save the results from a few runs and share them in a github issue?

> I also has a feeling that the time to first paint and time to load are impacted by current load on the machine

This is certainly true of any performance test. But it shouldn't be a significant problem unless you're multitasking during recording.
> How has illegal immigration decimated rural america?

I wouldn't say it's "decimated" rural America, but it's hard to argue that a flood of low-educated, low-skilled illegal immigrants does not have an adverse effect on the low-educated, low-skilled US citizens who must compete with them for jobs.

And with automation shrinking the number of manual-labor jobs these people are capable of doing, it's only going to get worse for them.
Thanks for the advice.
You're not saying anything revolutionary, but it's good to hear some perspective from the outside. I'm in a place where I think having the needed conversation could be pretty volatile. A bridge burning situation. And I guess that answers all my questions.
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Maste...

This book seems to be a classic for programmers.
I'm betting it shares a lot with the Movidius Neural Compute Stick and uses Caffe for the ML.

https://developer.movidius.com/
Thanks for the tip! I'll keep an eye on it.
Agreed - recently quit a job at a SV type company where the average age was late 20's, single with no kids, in an open office. In my 30's and also child-free and unmarried, I wasn't unnecessarily out of place, but the fact that everyone seemed to feel that work was equal to life, and everyone had something to prove by how long they could stay late or work on weekends, encouraged by the management (who had nice big offices, btw), left me feeling like I couldn't ever escape being on the clock.

I went back to my contracting job in an industry that is truly diverse - not just a few token 28 year old women team leads or POC, but actual diversity: middle aged men and women with kids, older devs in their 60s nearing retirement, naturalized citizens from all over the world (instead of the few big countries supplying H1Bs).

It's a much better environment. I'm happy to cover for my 45 year old coworker when she picks up the kids, and she does the same when I need to 'clear my head' by working at Starbucks for the afternoon. We don't stay late and play XBox or have happy hours, and that is fine with me. We're a good team during the day, and content to socialize a few times a year at the holiday party or few other office events.
For what logical purpose would a non-programmer be reading your source code and only be able to accomplish whatever their task is if you adequately comment it?
Can you burst 80 frames @ 60fps of 12 bit 12 megapixel RAW and save all that output, together with the output of gyroscopes and accelerometers timed to the start and end of exposure of every row of the image?

If you can, you might be able to postprocess it... But as far as I know, no DSLR cameras even have gyros, nor sufficiently high burst rates, so that kind of photography is out of the question.

It comes out to over a gigabyte of data per image... and you can't compress it before processing...
I think you underestimate the scale and magnitude of the industrial, steel, and auto industry dominance in some of these areas, and then the precipitous decline since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt

“Before World War II, the cities in the Rust Belt region were among the largest in the United States. However, by the twentieth century's end their population had fallen the most in the country.”

Knowing nothing else about the particulars of why this was the case, it’s easy to see that this change would have drastic consequences for these areas.
Go to Conferences ... I only reached a critical mass of serious acquisition offers after attending my first Micro-Conf in Las Vegas.

Just curious, what types of activities did you do at MicroConf? Did you speak/present? Did you attend sessions (which ones)? Did you just talk to people and network? How did you plan to approach people at the conf? What worked, what didn't?

I once paid to attend an industry conference for a product I was working on, it was a complete waste of time because I basically did nothing, could not get out of my shell, and didn't know what to do. So any guidance you have here would be very valuable!
I am a developer spending 10+ hours a day on my old macbook pro (2015 model). It is without doubt the best pc I've ever had. And I am treating it with even more care now.

I really don't want the new model as replacement, for more reasons. I don't expect Apple to recover from the loss of Steve Jobs, at least not in terms of quality. I see they are trying to remain a financial success.

Which laptop will be an improvement compared to the one I have now? I don't want Windows, but a Linux distro would be great if the OS happened be as robust as OSX in all respects. I tried Arch, Ubuntu flavours, etc.. none of them compare in many ways. I actually never had a touchpad on any other laptop that behaved as smooth as the mbp one for example.
The full context tells us a little more.

>“It reminds me of a craps table,” Brown, the commercial real estate analyst, says. “Essentially what the dollar stores are betting on in a large way is that we are going to have a permanent underclass in America. It’s based on the concept that the jobs went away, and the jobs are never coming back, and that things aren’t going to get better in any of these places.”

To it sounds like he doesn't understand that:

1) Being able to exist in places other stores cannot lets DG capture a ton of sales that would otherwise be rolled into a planned trip somewhere else.

If you need more toothpaste and your options are Walmart that's 1hr away or DG that's 30min away where are you going?

If DG or some other store can pay the bills the month that nobody happens to run out of toothpaste ahead of schedule they are around to turn a profit on a good month.

2)Rural areas are sparsely populated by definition. They do not have enough customers to support many stores that sell the same thing.

In suburban and urban areas some stores turn a profit with volume by attracting poor people with razor margins and other stores run thicker margins (or have higher costs) which make the poor people shop elsewhere but they make it back because the people who don't want to shop among poor people shop there instead. There just aren't enough customers to sustain this in a lot of rural areas.

3) You don't have to be poor to want to buy things at low prices.
One can see why they chose a more-safe version of C for an intro course- beginner C programmers can fall into a wide variety of difficult to debug pitfalls (memory leaks, out of bounds reads and writes, undefined behavior) that can make the task of teaching and grading a nightmare.

My university opted to use C++ as the introductory programming language, since it is somewhat more safe. Now they are transitioning to even safer languages like Python and Javascript. While I don't agree with it, I can see why it is necessary to reduce the headache for instructors.

C0 seems like a good tool to use for teaching, although it may lead to bad habits later.

To wrap it up, in my opinion students should definitely be exposed to the concepts of the C family of languages early on: imperative programming, pointers, dynamic memory allocation, et cetera. All the pitfalls associated with these concepts also need to be explored.

The language doesn't necessarily matter as long as the students are allowed to make mistakes and learn from them.
Yikes! As an Agile Coach, I'm sad to hear this. Though I can imagine where the perception comes from. Weaponized Agile is a real problem, one that I combat actively, but it's quite hard to convince leaders that self-management is the goal, not micro-management!
Thanks for the advice.
Regarding the imposed date, every single time it comes up, I push back, saying "I have not, and cannot, make a promise that we can deliver by that date." The fact that the date keeps resurfacing in our conversations tells me this person isn't listening.
It is a harmful belief to hold when it affects policies that keeps underprivileged people that way.
Why isn't Microsoft mentioned in the same sentence as these four? Have people already written them off?
Don't most religions basically teach this? "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth"?
Farming used to take a lot of manpower. So, the industry was largely what's going on between these small towns.

Cars reshaped the landscape as stores / restaurants / movie theaters etc could draw from a large enough population to support themselves. However, farm automation drastically reduced the number of jobs causing young people to move out. Eventually you can't really support much, but the travel distance allows for some shops in these nano towns.

Remember, 80 acres used to be a viable small farm. Now 800 acres are generally just a hobby unless your raising livestock and buying a lot of feed.
Great, while they are at it can Google please downgrade the extremely spammy w3schools or at least allow me to remove certain websites from my searches. There are so many better resources out there...
I’d say you’re right, it wasn’t that different. I think what made the difference for C was Unix (and a very good introductory book).
> Exhausting

No kidding! Here I am complaining about 18-24 month moves and the OP was moving in 1/3rd to 1/4th of the time. Whatever uppers he's taking can't be good for you. Either that or he has the best spouse in history.

Still, honestly, it's a yellow flag. If the guy is good, 6 months may be just fine. But it's a cautious interview I'd think.