skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Better' is dependent on the viewpoint. Russian tanks were simpler mechanically, ran on diesel, which made them less flammable and in the early years the T34 was actually better than anything the wehrmacht had. The Panther is almost a direct copy of the T34 design. But you are right, at the end the quantities prevailed, it was a war of economies and Russia, having transferred most of its industry far east and out of reach, was going to win, even without the help from west. Most of the german generals knew they were toast after the initial blitz failed in the winter of '41.
> "If you believe, as I do, that the federal government has no business intervening in the news, then we must stop the federal government from intervening in the news business,” Pai said...

But... this isn't about that. We're eventually going to reach a media (internet, tv, news, etc) singularity. How is that good for _anyone_ except investors?
They elude to it in these blog posts:

https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-part-1-a...

https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-part-2-a...

https://medium.com/@jonathanhsu/diligence-at-social-capital-...

https://medium.com/@jonathanhsu/diligence-at-social-capital-...

https://medium.com/@jonathanhsu/diligence-at-social-capital-...

https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-epilogue...
An Actual Playable Tortilla Record Etched with a Laser Cutter
Having occasional domestic help has been typical of the middle class in capitalist societies for a long time; in early capitalist societies, often full-time rather than occasional, but with smaller staff than the upper class.
>I will NEVER move again without Walnut.

Well, that guy's boned.
Probability in High Dimension [pdf]
As long as apollo the client stays good and opensource, does it really matter if the devs also start doing more commercial projects?
I assume your process creates a relatively dilute aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide? So you'd still need to concentrate it, I assume by distillation? That's a risky process. Will you do that yourself?
I'm a hiring manager, and I've been dying for someone to ask me a question like that. I'm proud of the mentoring I've done, and I have a whole bunch of folks I'd love to have candidates talk to to see how I am to work for. But noone ever asks (understandably), and it feels pretentious to force the issue.
It is absurd; its roots lie in world war II wage controls and then once the interests were entrenched, it stuck. Plus a change in the rules on health care profits in, IIRC, the 1980s.
Thank you for the explanation. With that number of refineries that helps give scope to the problem.
However, there's another decision that doesn't seat with me either. US Copyright lay says:

> person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs

Courts have generally chosen that a EULA clause can override this provision of the law, which seems pretty backwards to me, especially considering that the validity of shrink-wrap licenses hasn't been established very firmly (although I'm not sure about the nature of the EULA in this case)
If the only what you have are static images then it does not matter is it HTML or anything else - it will be rendered fast enough as images are on GPU side already.

For the note, here are two HTML layers and one DirectX layer rendering on the same DXGI surface: https://sciter.com/sciter-and-directx/

In tests it showed 400 fps or so ...

I mean that HTML rendering is in principle not different from rendering by any other means. You just need to know how particular browser in that particular version does that and optimize for that...
One thing I found out the other day is that Sinclair actually gives right wing "talking point" snippets to its local news stations called "must runs"! Wtf?

https://nyti.ms/2ra6y15
Israel is not in Europe; nor is it in Africa.
For those interested in calling their own believes and get a market perspective on public land and private ownership, I highly recommend PERC, The Property and Environment Research Center [1].

They are not evil capitalist but rather passionate environmentalist with a head quarter in Bozeman Montana.

This podcast is quite good with one of the main people from there: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/08/terry_anderson.html

[1] https://www.perc.org/
Asus Eee PC 1005PE
There's several companies dedicated to moving ultra high net worth individuals. It's hard to believe there's no market between that and the cheapest options.

Sounds like their marketing wasn't great or they ran out of runway.
Your understanding of Coase is pathetic and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Why look at "laboratory earthquakes" when we have plenty of data about actual earthquakes? We sort of accept that after a big earthquake, there is likely to be smaller earthquakes nearby and a short time later. By looking at all the available data on all the major and minor earthquakes in a region over time, I'm sure there would be other patterns found, even if the predictive power is not actionable.
Not trying to take away from your point but I think the company that made TBH were trying to make a hit app since 2013 when they did their seed round:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tbh

It took nearly 4 years of probably not making much before they hit pay dirt with TBH.
Probably convenience. Plastic surgery clinic may not be so worried about being hacked.
Machine learning, bro. The models have way more parameters than we can possibly justify. Our predictions are meaningless outsisde the extrema of our training set. It's the future. It's a /revolution/ in AI. It's so far beyond statistics that it's not even the science anymore.
the definite article
Those are the people who matter in this world.
Sounds like a business opportunity!
Read back to the context of my question. Two drunk people coming together to "make out" at a camp out -- this is a "conference" like Burning Man is a conference -- if this is in and of itself is creating a "hostile work environment" I think that words are losing their meaning.

I don't really care what kind of narrative Scoble is trying to make. I have no knowledge of the specifics of his situation or his encounters, and couldn't care less about passing judgement on him.

But I was very curious about this idea that, which seems to be stated throughout this thread, someone can become so influential in an industry that any non-professional contact they have industry-wide could be sexual harassment.

And again, and again, I have to say, if there was assault that is just a completely different issue entirely.
Stills orders of magnitude more productive than killing people and destroy nations.
The problem I see is that politics in America has essentially devolved into merely 'entertainment' and not rooted in economic reality - so even if they wanted to, it is hard to make your proposal to the American public, especially with 'America first'. With respect to the Bannon comment, America has unequivocally benefited economically with China; it is merely how America has chosen to distribute the wealth that was the problem. [1],[2] How America chooses to distribute it's wealth has nothing to do with China.

> Although increasing trade with China might have contributed to the decline in demand for production workers, it clearly wasn't the primary force behind the trend. [3]

It is merely politically convenient to exclaim "China" when talking to the public like during the Zambian elections with Sata. "Michael Sata called Chinese “infesters” rather than “investors,” threatened to kick out Chinese workers, and pledged to implement foreign exchange controls that would prevent Chinese firms from repatriating their profits [...] One month later, Sata told the Chinese ambassador to Zambia and a group of Chinese businessmen, "My dear sisters and brothers from China, you are very welcomed in Zambia because we are all-weather friends." During a one-week visit to China in April 2013, Sata signed several investment agreements and requested that Chinese companies invest in railways, agriculture, and mining. On his return, he proudly announced to residents of a rural district that Chinese companies would develop Zambian wetlands for rice production." [4]

Same with American politics, we just shot nebulous words and concepts like, "Freedom", "democracy", etc. without understanding the underlying implications. The press highlights the any negative news about China, but how often do you hear things like this from American leadership in the mainstream media:

> “I want everybody playing in Africa,” President Obama stated during a press conference in South Africa in late June 2013. “The more, the merrier. I think that’s good. . . . It gives Africans leverage” to ensure that such economic interactions are “good for Africa.” [4] (pg. 106)

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2017/may/impact-ch...
[2] https://piie.com/publications/policy-briefs/payoff-america-g...
[3] https://piie.com/commentary/op-eds/us-needs-invest-minds-not...
[4] http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR521.html
Thanks for such a detailed answer.

> I think that you are attempting to address several distinct problems that would be better addressed separately.
For example, catalog of shared facilities/equipment across groups is a useful thing to have, but it can be centralised without centralising group web sites (and constructing a list by simply aggregating lists of what individual groups have will miss facilities shared at the department/division/university level).

Our experience with how labs operate tells us otherwise. I think that close integration of various aspects of research activities will be valuable not only from the networking point of view, but also it will allow us to add "feature layers" for improvement of the process itself.

> - will continue operating for (at a minimum) several decades

Same as with other major networks, you will be able to download all you data. This feature is on our to-do list.

> - will continue providing the service for free, and not start charging

This is contrary to the purpose of the platform. The core functionality will always be free. We want it to be free. We plan to monetize advanced features and analytics that will be built on top of the core features.

> - will not add adverts

My co-founders and me are strongly against advertisements.

> - will not redesign or remove a feature that I rely on

Good point. We will have to make sure to gather extensive feedback before we make big/breaking changes.

> - not loose data (how should I backup a Labit page?)

This feature is on our to-do list.

> as you grow, your costs increase, and network effects cause people to feel 'locked-in'?

Also a good point, but a bit premature in our case. As of now we are focusing on delivering a good product to users who need it.

> - several pages are empty for many of the showcased sites, suggesting that they are not necessary, but cannot be removed (e.g. Gallery)

Yes. Believe it or not, I raised this question on our meeting recently. We are working on this.

> - details of people on the 'Members' page are displayed only on a modal panel after clicking on a person's face. It also doesn't seem to show the destinations of alumni, despite the medium article saying you want to help career planning.

Thanks for the suggestion.

> - it is common (at least in certain fields) for papers to have a dedicated page on the group's website, grouping together the abstract, embedded demo video, links to supplementary material, etc. This doesn't appear possible with Labit.

Awesome idea!

jamessb, thank you for taking your time to write out such a detailed reply.
I am curious, would you mind explaining why you dislike PDF?

(I'm an academic and I'm used to PDFs and I like them myself.)
John Oliver covered that and more about Sinclair Broadcast Group in a segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc
This is a good example of why public policy should, in principle, just do the right thing for the people merely for the sake of doing the right thing--most of the time it works out in your group's self interest.

Sometimes in public policy it seems like we forget that we evolved to care about right and wrong for our own survival.

And yes, there are contentious topics which reasonable people can disagree on, but many are essentially the people vs special interest groups (pollution, healthcare, military expansion, etc)
Maybe WAMP[0] meets your needs?

[0]: http://wamp-proto.org/
They had a security breach in 2011. Private photos (including Zuckerberg's) were released.
2 new CRISPR tools overcome the scariest parts of gene editing
Wut. Time off does not correlate to dev quality. I, and many others, do their best work outside of the normal parameters.

It sounds like you think if Twitter engineers worked harder Twitter would be doing better. Besides your anecdotal observation about laid back engineers, is it not plausable that the company doesn't have a vision that contributes to monster growth?
>> I am referring to the much more general notion that I deserve to live anywhere at prices that preserve my relaxed lifestyle and refined tastes. This is false.

I dont think i saw anyone argue that. Do you have a source?

>> (I live in Marin County, in the SFBA, and I employ quite a few service workers from Sonoma/CC/Napa counties)

How long are some of your service workers commutes?
"Launched in 2010 with a $500 million marketing campaign"

I am very, very, far from being a MS apologist but I think that dropping Kinect is a really stupid idea, strategically.

MS have dropped quite a few balls recently and this is another one. No doubt in the boardroom this will be an obvious slash to balance the books but it is a bloody stupid idea when you look a bit wider.

This thing was/is a bit of a game changer - not really new, per se, but very useful in quite a few areas. Quietly, many groups in many areas of research and development have used this thing to do things that border on sci fi.

I hope Kinect is dropped somewhere else - it is just good enough to work well.
Yep, pretty much this. If the interviewer didn't think a person who had side projects was waiting in line behind you for the next interview slot, they wouldn't have passed.

I tend to be skeptical of most forms of software engineering interview tactics, but work samples is not one of them. Strong side projects is a strong indicator of skill. FWIW, for those who do not have projects like the OP, its important IMHO to offer a take-home variety. If you do not have side projects, and are not willing to do a few hours of take home work, then I usually screen you out since there are plenty of other candidates that fit in either bucket and will be easier to make an informed hiring decision about.

A strong work sample is an unnecessary but largely sufficient condition for assessing hands-on-keyboard coding skills (a subset of the skills needed to be a good software engineer), so screening out people who don't have them, when there is a glut of supply of skilled labor, as it might be in Austin, is a rational strategy.
Fifty cents on the dollar versus negative fifty cents on the dollar. With the first approach, you lose 50 cents but you still have 50 cents.
Isn't this going to make it easier to spread "fake news"? Maybe Trump will try to kill it.
There is a diagram of African deaths by country. Egypt had 297 deaths out of 2600, which is 11%.
Internet has made both over the air TV and printed newspapers fairly weak. I’m not so sad to see the regulations go.
> So you are admitting you are bad about making decisions about people? Luckily you have something empirical because you are no good at judging someone.

This is almost entirely the point of take home assignments. In fact, this is almost word for word what my response would be to anyone who doesn't like take home assignments!

> Thanks for admitting that, the first step is accepting you are no good at evaluating people.

Step two is admitting that, in general, evaluating people using non-empirical means is an enterprise fraught with peril.
ELI5: How does a database handle 1B users?
This is sad news.

I love playing dance games with Kinect. The "Dance Central" series is brutally accurate in its judging. I remember seeing a demo of Project Natal, which was Kinect's codename. It deeply impressed me because it looked like technology from the future.

In fact, I bought an Xbox 360 instead of Xbox One because I wanted to play those specific games and they like other original Kinect titles are only supported on the 360 Platform.
El Faro wasn't unseaworthy because it was old. There are plenty of old seaworthy vessels at sea today and there are also newer coffin ships. In fact, flags of convenience and competition between international Classification societies has driven down standards in shipbuilding. There's a long, exhaustive PDF on the subject, written by a veteran of the oil shipping industry, available here[0]

Without the Jones Act the American merchant marine would not exist. It would be entirely driven out by third world shipping. Nobody who tries to maintain a first world workforce can compete. For Neoliberals that would be a great victory. Replacing American merchant sailors with Chinese or Filipinos on the Mississippi or the Great Lakes would be a great boon for them because it would undoubtedly reduce costs.

Personally I don't buy it. Bottom dollar prices are not always the most important thing. Most countries place restrictions on operations by foreign shippers between internal ports (look up cabotage).

Keeping a semblance of an American merchant marine in place is still important, if for no other reason because the military often needs to rely on commercial shipping. American merchant men are consummate professionals who uphold the best standards of seamanship (I know this from personal experience) and they deserve respect. And Americans have the right to demand that the government protect nation's middle class and working class from being crushed by hyperglobalization.

[0] http://www.c4tx.org/ctx/pub/tromedy2.pdf
Not at all. Sexual harassment describes different behavior than assault, and is not a crime. The same behavior which may be sexual harassment in one context could be entirely appropriate in another context. And all that is to say, there is a necessary context to sexual harassment.

Scoble claims that any sexual advances he made lacked the necessary context to be considered sexual harassment. He may not even be wrong.

I referenced the UN fact sheet on "What is Sexual Harassment" in another comment but perhaps I should quote it directly;

Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical
conduct of a sexual nature _when_ (emphasis added):

· Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or
condition of an individual's employment, or

· Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as a basis
for employment decisions affecting such individual, or

· Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an
individual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or
offensive working environment.
DOJ's insanely broad subpoena aside, this is the real lesson. If you're going to harass, even in a joking way, an FBI agent and their family, don't do it using your real name!
Darn, I was hoping it was a service for remotely scratching car paint by drone.
Three Engineers Allege Uber Underpaid Women and Minorities
People that use dating apps become the most shallow versions of themselves by and large. Women all go for men that are 8s and above and even women that are 5s and below get it so they never settle for men below that in the hopes they can one day get the 8 again.

It is a ruined system that will never work. You have to fix this problem away from electronics.
Yes, and then if you ever try to use those recordings it gets even creepier.
How often are weather forecasts updated?
The same pollution drifts to Los Angeles.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/03/518323094/...
You can use user-defined literals for a portable way to write four-character codes:

constexpr std::uint32_t operator "" _4CC(const char* str, size_t len) {
std::uint32_t result = 0;
for (size_t i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
result = (result << 8) + (std::uint32_t)(unsigned char)(str[i]);
}
return result;
}

auto const movie = "MooV"_4CC;
It's hard to know what they are actually doing since the blog post doesn't explain what Capital-as-a-service is. But, if this works for them, I bet it is because it increases their deal flow. With this system and their marketing of it they can get more founders to submit company data to them and see companies that are outside their network. It would be much easier to filter through a bunch of business data submitted via a web form rather than going through pitchdecks that founders e-mail them.
For something as well known as shortest path, no. One thing about LP/MIP formulations though, is that it's arguably easier to extend. Not to say there aren't tricks to modifying existing algorithms, but most of the time, there is no need to spend all that time, when adding in a few variables or constraints will do the trick for this one problem that you will probably not need to revisit for quite a while.
The thing that shocks me is how easily it all could have been prevented by laying a slightly more conservative course a few days before. Just a reminder of how an early course correction has so much more effect than heroic efforts later on. It's amazing how many places this is true: shipping, retirement plans, and orbital dynamics to pick just a few examples.
When you put it like that, it's actually crazy how much money he's making...
I didn't have to sneak the tips. I simply walked up to them and paid. The boss wouldn't care. He was tipped too. Of course, we don't show the boss how much we tipped the workers.

When it comes to insurance, yes, that sucks, this is where we need one-payer system, which will make insurance available to everyone. Also, the current Affordable Care Act does not require a company less than 50 people to provide insurance to employees. I also do not believe half of the "professional" local contractors have more than five full-time employees if I were to bet. The ones we did hire (because we couldn't find a qualified one in our Chinese community) run the business with at most 2-3 guys, and are usually family-owned. Subcontractors are hired if the contractor is given a bigger job. You don't need twenty people to renovate a house or fix a sewage pipe. It is not economical for most contractors to have too many full time employees waiting around. The competition is huge.

Also, I think these workers aren't always underpaid. Freelancers can make good money. I don't have any evidences to prove, but if they work 5 days a week, and make $200 per job, they can make $4000 a month. See, the pair we got had two jobs in one morning, so they probably made more than $200 that day along with some tips. I am not defending underpaid, but I am sure these movers make good money in the end. Extremely hard work, but they can make good money. Walnut can't even exist if there were only a hundred jobs a day in NY. I pass by a barn truck lot everyday, and I can say with confident at least 3-4 days a week the lot is mostly empty, so there must be enough demand for a barn truck business to survive. So should the moving industry.
I find it amusing that you use "Uber" and "Altruistic" in the same sentence.
It’s only “fake” if he disagrees with it.