skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely. To think otherwise is ridiculous and tunnel-visioned.
Besides FICA and Healthcare none of those things are mandated by law. Companies provide them to compete in the labor market.
The research is clear that Community Land Trust work, for both land management and for affordable housing. We need more CLT's and Co-ops all over this country.
We are seeing increased action on environmental compliance in China. Our SaaS company offers tools to help businesses comply to environmental (and safety and quality laws). We recently bought a company in China that is in the same business and I can tell you that the citizens are very happy with government initiatives and companies are taking this seriously. (Separate post coming about SaaS in China).

I have lived in China for 1.5 years in 2005, 2010 and returning a lot now and I have travelled pretty much everywhere in the country, in my humble opinion, China is on a very interesting path that will make it hard for the US and EU to compete in a variety of sectors. We shall see. https://www.nimonik.com and http://www.envitool.com are the companies in question.
Probably off-topic - One of the schools I studied in was a sell out for this trash of a company SAS. They shoved their analytics software down our throats, and I had a whole module where I was forced to use their shitty software.

I vehemently refused to use it and did all my analyses on Jupyter notebooks w/ Python. Simply because the software sucked so bad to the point of being unusable. For starters, it ran ONLY on windows and to complete my assignments, I had to use bootcamp on my Mac just for this shitty software. It was not a cloud based interface and it seemed like it was built specifically for Windows. And to add to the pain, it would randomly crash, throw out irrelevant errors (uploaded too large of a data file? Here's an error stating something about the file extension) and really looked like it was developed in the 90's.

I was blown away when I realized people were paying millions in just licenses for this crap. Over time, even the school realized everything was moving towards the cloud and started advocating the use of Jupyter more and more.

I for one would seriously hope this company burns down to ashes. Simply because they're sitting on top of millions and yet can't afford to make usable software for the amounts they charge and yet, still have the audacity to shove it down at people's throats. Fuck SAS.
I think this speaks to a change in direction to VR/AR systems. It seems pretty clear that long-term tracking solutions will include face/body tracking. Oculus hopes their camera-based tracking can be extended to track full bodies and arbitrary objects. Headsets are getting eye-tracking for foveated rendering.

I'll miss the kinect but it doesn't play nice with newer tracking systems. They confuse each other. That makes it difficult to use in combination with a Vive. I'm guessing they aren't very reliable multi-camera systems either. Unlike the Vive, they don't have a timing mechanism to avoid confusing each other.
How do you produce a CUDA clone if you can't explore any CUDA implementations or read any CUDA specs without first obtaining a licence.
Amex seems to charge between 2.3 and 3.5% [0]. There's no bank in the loop there.

[0] https://www.cardfellow.com/american-express-discount-rate/#P...
agree, it is evil to steal and copy with deep pockets, buying competitors are bad, but not as bad as stealing.
India FinTech Awards 2017: Meet the Top FinTech Startups
Pre-approved districts and "Free Building Zones" is a great idea. Coupled with initiatives to reclaim abandoned living spaces, re-purpose abandoned factories, etc seems key to re-vitalizing neglected but once thriving communities.

But alternatively, why not just directly inject privately raised funds into shelters and temp housing services? It seems this is where the brunt of the demand is. Increase transitional accommodation supply. It can even be minimal in regards to amenities. And offer employment counselling in one go. As well as partnering with region medical hospital systems to provide a network of low-cost out-patient clinics.

A single model that works in any political environment. Not just for the largest cities, but post-industrial towns as well. It would also compress the time scales from years to months. And although in no way a long term sustainable solution for growing families. It would provide immediate relief for those in emergency situations.

And thanks for your efforts! This is crucial work you are doing, and I'll certainly be rooting for you ;)
Disagree. They are all using the same kernel and nothing is being emulated. So they are as native as anything else. I think the confusion comes from people not understanding containers.

It is simply some extra properties in kernel data structures that allowing multiple views. But a container is just a process no different than any other.
Then certainly it’s replaceable, no? Could just as easily say it’s not about the whiteboard, the whiteboard is an artifact and a conversation piece.
I just bought and returned two used Kinects from gamestop. They were $28 each.

Tried to use the native Windows 10 3-d scanning program with both and hotrible results. It was nothing like the MS demo footage.

The color image would not map properly to the point-cloud. The second camera was better, but still 'off'.

I wonder how reliable the miniaturized Apple version will be, particularly being knocked around.
To intimidate others who might speak up in support of those who speak against injustices committed by federal employees.
You don't want your gig job? Man you have to HUSTLE. You have to have the ENERGY. You have to want to be SUCCESSFUL more then you want to SLEEP. Bill Gates HUSTLED. Steve Jobs HUSTLED. Kobe Bryant HUSTLED. If you aren't successful its YOUR fault.

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You might be right, or you might not be.

I chose our current house in part because of the slate roof and unpainted structural brick exterior (both very low maintenance). I admire your search for low operational cost housing; I hope that your eventual house comes out just as low cost as your optimistic projections above.
Leonard Susskind said in his book that "the universe is the inside of a black hole" is the #1 theory of cranks that reach out to contact him. The stuff written to popularize physics really has almost no correlation to the real thing, it's all analogies and stuff, so I would be careful.
> or came out of non-traditional backgrounds.

That was me! I can say without a doubt I quickly learned to only work for small companies where I reported to the owner directly. This enabled me to get 50% raises YoY when starting out - where my corporate job was limited to the typical "well, that wouldn't be fair to the rest of the group" style politics.

I would say it's vastly more important to the hypothetical vulnerable high-performer than the guy graduating MIT or Harvard working for Google. They start at an extremely high salary and will do fine no matter what. The high performing high school dropout needs rapid massive raises just to eventually get to par with the other group - assuming similar performance.

I can almost guarantee you that if salaries were transparent it would have been a huge scandal in a few of the companies I worked at since I was making 2-3x the wages of those next to me. It would have been untenable for those managers to pay me that, even though/if I were worth it - they'd have done nothing but deal with politics and fallout from it. I still believe I was underpaid in most of those positions compared to the folks they had working there.

Egos are easily bruised. When that 19 year old high school dropout is making more than the 45 year old with a degree people start to complain. Loudly. They don't even look at work output or performance - it's utterly irrelevant to most.

I see both sides to this, but I'm relatively certain salary opaqueness helped me through the start of my career. Now? Maybe not as much. It's much harder to stand out at an exceptional level once you reach a certain point.
And that's precisely the subjective part. If neither party knows the worth, neither can objectively argue, so we deal with emotions on both sides.
Probably, but I've seen a few signs that we're polite and clear about what was public and what was private.
haha yes, we do hear recurring revenue here. Enzymes are indeed fragile relative to metals and have limited lifetimes. However, even metals like palladium leach, sinter, get poisoned, etc. In the current process, many facilities have to continually regenerate their palladium catalysts. The beauty of working with enzymes in the here and now is that we have the tools to continuously optimize them and continuously make them cheaper. We are improving our enzyme lifetimes with each new batch, and we envision being able to release new and improved enzymes to our customers every year
I wondered this myself 2 years ago and went with fat binaries (uber jars, actually.) Unfortunately fat binaries aren't an option for many languages...
One relevant reaction to this paper (especially because there was no direct agreement with the article by any scientist) is here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07136

"Every now and
then some confused authors use wrong, non-covariant, definitions of velocity, acceleration
and gravity, based on their vague Newtonian intuitions and hidden in a superficial, often
purely semantic, relativistic disguise. A recent example of such a confusion (Gorkavyi &
Vasilkov, 2016) is discussed at the end of this Note."

It concludes:

"The paper by Gorkavyi & Vasilkov (2016) is not even wrong, it is simply
a nonsense. The only question that may be of interest here is — how such
a paper could possibly slip into the Monthly Notices of the Royal astronomical
Society? I may offer just one explanation. I was told a story, perhaps
apocryphal, about a famous referee report (many years ago) by Jim Pringle:
“The paper is so obviously wrong that it should be published as it stands”."

Regarding Gorkavyi's linking of EM drive and his hypotheses, he tried the same with the Pioneer anomaly, but the anomaly was eventually explained completely without that, so it really seems that he looks for anything "unexplained" at the moment to popularize himself, knowing enough formulas to casually appear as he knows what he talks about, but inventing his new semantic out of thin air.
Scalable Session Synchronization in Dart
> You think a society where some votes count more than others is better?

2.5% of voting age Americans cannot vote, because of felony sentences. In some states (Florida) it can be as high as 10% of the population. Is some states (e.g. Florida, Alabama, Virginia, Mississippi) over 25% of voting age black male population cannot vote.

In most European countries, also felons and prisoners are allowed to vote.
He's a man down right now and probably very emotional. Just a guess, but should have listened to his lawyer.

Also, U.S seem to have strange views on what is sexual assault. I don't know who is quilt or who is lying, but reading some of them are things I would avoid women over the ocean all together.
Oh no, not subjectivity!!!
The stupidest thing about ivory seizures is that they destroy the ivory (sometimes millions of dollars in a blaze), creating market scarcity and fuelling further poaching by thus subsidizing prices. Elephants should be farmed and their Ivory should be harvested periodically. Obviously prohibition has not and will not work.
Sounds like they're saying they're going to programmatically invest in companies based on metrics alone.

Which is probably a bad idea, because there's almost always more to the picture than a few statistics can convey. And the relevant statistics vary by what the business does.
>Some graphical FTP clients might download a list of files, but certainly not all.

Certainly, most? I can't think of any FTP GUI application I've ever used not displaying a list of files stored on the remote host upon connecting.
i find it interesting that the possibility of facebook being hacked is almost never discussed -- ive never really seen it held up in these comments. everyone discusses endlessly what might happen if a financial institution, an email service, or something else is hacked. equifax is the latest example. the result of these hacks is the disclosure of tons of personal and sensitive data. so why is it never brought up that facebook, like any other company, might be hacked? since they spy on all their users, they must in some way or another store in an unsafe manner all of the chat logs, pictures, private messages, not to mention the damning meta-data extracted from it. i havent used facebook for almost a decade so perhaps im incorrect in assuming that people say private things in private messages?

there ought to be an alternative
I really have no expertise in this area but with the amount of lawsuits that occur these days it feels like as soon as someone was paralyzed or killed accessing this land you would be on the hook for not preventing them from accessing it. I would hope that this isn't the case but it just feels like the way thinks are going.
Previous thread on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15543404
>The European Reinassance was essentially the assimilation of the cultural wealth amassed by the Islamic empire.

Nice try at telling lies and re-writing history. See "A History of Western Philosophy" (Bertrand Russell).
Thanks, I failed at reading comprehension there. So it's not only spendable there, but it is a good incentive.
"Ever wonder how China was able to emerge from decades of regressive economic and industrial policies in a short span of time? International investors were willing to pour capital into post-Mao China because there was a strong central government presiding over an orderly society in which cheap labor was plentiful. "

Whaaaaaa?

No, no.

'Foreign Investment' was not the reason China did well in the 1980's forward.

In fact, China is still kind of a sketchy 'investment' as there is no transparency in accounting, you do not have effectively the 'rule of commercial law' because senior gov. officials are corrupt etc..

You have the opposite: companies invest heavily, and suddenly find themselves trapped in a bureaucratic dead end, while a government-backed competitor leapfrogs them.

China was able to redevelop in the 1980's because they chose to end the decades of Maoist Communist / Centrally Planned insanity.

The colonial interventions, and post revolution years are seen as a 'blip' in Chinese history wherein they were held back.

What see now in China is simply a 'return to the norm'. Not really a new development.

"Rule of law and enforced property rights are everything. Absolutely everything."

They are critical, I agree but they are not quite everything.

As for the article, I might tend to agree with their points - we can do much better than dump money into dysfunctional systems where the money only amplifies the dysfunction.
"Typically we call those folks high performers, and they aren't generally the ones having issues getting paid well :)"

I know plenty of high performers who suck at negotiating.
Gotta be the most archaic language still in common use.

I mean not saying it doesn't have legitimate uses, fast well tested and a few procs with the right options can accomplish a the equivalent of a lot of Python, and I only ever learned enough to run a few datasets and port some old code to python/r/vba, but observing the crazy ass shit people did to implement any kind of logic or data transformation was enlightening. Many many "wait people actually do this" moments. Like an entire ancient programming paradigm I never knew existed.
Wait, you think bitcoin etc is going to reduce the harmful effects of capitalism?
The real problem is that prohibiting reverse engineering is an allowable license clause.

Imagine a hammer that was sold with a license that prohibited hammering a competitor's nails.

After you sell me something you should not be allowed to place restrictions on its use.
And what about a decentralized passwords manager. Just enter the platform name, your master key and a PIN and boum ! You got your password back :-)

It's free, fast and secure. Try ANPM:

https://teddybear06.github.io/ANPM/
Will it be a rival to the new Cairo mega-city?

http://www.cnn.com/style/article/egypt-new-capital/index.htm....
So you're just saying it's effectively illegal to reverse engineer pretty much anything. So long as the company in question put a magical paragraph of text in their EULA?

I just don't buy this. There is literally no way to build a CUDA clone without testing output against both your clone and CUDA itself.

With this reading, EULA's have effectively banned cloning any form of software.
Democracy, or that standards of living are so high its not worth it to deviate from the status quo? With no political science knowledge, I'm willing to have my view challenged and changed. I think there are 2 elements that are more important than democracy in and of itself.

1. High standards of living that alter the risk-reward ratio for making a political change

2. The rise of Corporations - these days, people view the government as a bureaucratic, slow, and useless entity with decent, but low pay. People aspire to work and move up the ranks in private corporations. The role of the government has been greatly reduced in the ordinary lives of citizens. That means the necessity of making a grand political change is just not as important as it was historically.
I mean sure, but there are difficulties with doing so, no? I mean,even the military has only really relatively recently been using AESA radars.
Previously the world was made from Earth, Water, Fire and Air. Then quarks and electrons. Now they are talking about how the entire universe is a computer, and how each Plank area is just a qubit.

The coincidence that this picture emerges at the same time as current fads in tech is too great to ignore.
ChromeOS is already running containers. I personally run GNU/Linux in a container on ChromeOS. Just install GNUroot or termux. I then use XSDL in a container for display. They are both Android apps.

The problem is they use a fake Chroot so somethings do not work. Here Google would use the KVM to soleve that issue.

BTW, Google does run all Android apps in a single container. Plus there is a weird issue where the IP is hardcoded in the container which if use the same IP elsewhere will cause issues.
We do, it's called taxes. The noble economist Elinor Olstrom refuted the Tragedy of Commons by showing that the communities who are the most dependent on a resource are best folks to manage it. We need more local advocates engaged, and more pushback, we need to shame these fuckers and I hope this article gets people angry.
Yep, I did mean "at-will". Thank you!
>Its not free work, its a demonstration of skill.

Was it paid? If not, then it's free work. Call it whatever you want, in my experience the people talking about passion the most are those that are just looking to pay the least they possibly can.
I agree; I mainly use my Amazon Prime card (5% on Amazon, 2% at restaurants, 1% otherwise), and this card is much better - plus there's an extra $50 back from subscriptions which is nice.

I'll wait for the Lyft one though.
If you click the two links, it explains in more detail the how. Essentially they have developed a set of GAAP-like metrics for early-stage companies, such as MRR, which they use for evaluation. It appears to be similar to investment firms using GAAP to evaluate public companies.
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This is pretty unforgivable. It's like ok great, I'm paying 50 people to make an app and NONE OF THEM EVEN USED IT?!
> there is no way to have an equal negotiation

This is true in every negotiation in every part of your life. What does equality even mean in such a context?

Epistemologically, there is no way for you to have enough context about either the other party or the other party's other counter-parties to inform your negotiation in a meaningful way. The only facts available to help you price your services are what others will pay for it, but this is not the same as pay transparency. Pay transparency is the price of other people's services, not yours, and it doesn't take into account your context.

Ethically, only you can know the value of the transaction - which is not the same as the amount of money exchanging hands. By that standard, employers are nuts to ever employ anyone, since employees don't pay their employers (except in North Korea and some unions). Only the employer can know the value they get out of you, in the totality of benefit your provide - though even then their information is very limited. And only you can know the value you get from your employer - again in the total benefit they provide both in cash and non-pecuniary factors.

To put it another way, you wouldn't ask for the same income from, say, Pornhub, Phillip-Morris, Google, and Watsi. So why do you think those companies should treat their employees like an undifferentiated mass of goop?
And that xml file is anything but structured in a plain and simple way. To understand it and all it does, it’s be impossible to accomplish in a way that people didn’t load a given file in excel and diff the two. Same for OpenOffice.
Tech Companies Pledge to Use Artificial Intelligence Responsibly
At first glance it actually looks like a pretty good card in terms of rewards. If I didn't have 3 cards that provide basically the same rewards, I would get it. 4% on dining, 3% on travel and 2% on online purchases is very nice. The $100 credit for $500 spent in 3 months is also generous. No annual fee.

You can also use the points for Uber credits.
Pretty soon everything will be software-as-a-service, and can't be reverse engineered. They may even be able to detect attempts to reverse engineer and stop you.

Software might mean the complete destruction of private property as a concept.
The main dysfunction I see with interviewing is that we’ve abstracted the interview further and further from what you will be doing day to day.

Code on the white board? Why not on a computer? Why not work on some real code for the project? Sign an NDA and work on an actual feature. Try to get closer to what you expect the candidate to do on a daily basis.
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Assuming a 'no trespassing sign.'

Closed gate with no lock, can't pass.

Closed gate with locked lock, can't pass.

Closed gate with unlocked lock, can pass.
This seems like it would be very susceptible to manipulation by overfitting what the algorithm finds to be "investible" at the expense of actually being a sound investment.

I suppose the human version of this is exploitable in the same way.
This breaks the HN guidelines, which ask you not to go on about downvotes, or any votes— because it's tedious and the conclusions people jump to are imaginary.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

More on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15545122
The $10bn figure is from 2 years ago, it's likely higher today https://www.ft.com/content/324d82c4-2d60-11e6-a18d-a96ab29e3...
I don’t understand... doesn’t GraphQL encourage embedding full queries into the client app? It’s not SQL but it’s equivalent. Isn’t this a road of pain for any project that is long-lived or scaled.

I guess I can see it sitting between a data cache — that is filled by a set of relatively large-granularity fixed queries that can have a decent cache validation mechanism — and the client UI. Maybe that’s how it’s actually implemented? But then it seems like that would often be better (at least much of the time) for that data cache to be client-side.

You do want a way to pass user filter conditions back through the data access pipeline (but not business logic where-clause conditions) all the way back to the data store, but those should still be constrained.