skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very pathetic to me how desperate people are to label Trump a Nazi, simply because he criticizes Islam and wants to scale back immigration (which the public never even voted to approve in the first place.)

Towards your main point: https://us-east-1.tchyn.io/snopes-production/uploads/2016/03... -- Most politicians talk about making their countries great or better, obviously.
IBM Bluemix got an IaaS layer as well. It was previously called softlayer, but is now wrapped under the Bluemix brand.

https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/info/softlayer-i...
From my brief interaction, I';d be amazed if they were aware of the concept of QA
Hearthstone is built with Unity.
Threatening a country that is threatening us isn't exactly genocidal. Killing families of terrorists is deeply immoral and murderous - but it's also in keeping with current U.S. policy (see Anwar al-Awlaki - both Trump and Obama administrations have killed Awlaki's children). Terrorists aren't a race though, so wanting to kill them and their families isn't genocide.
Well this is true, but it’s certianly a far cry from the high employment prospects i was brought up believe STEM fields offered.

My sister is on her second post doc; while the money is perfectly adequate, if she ever burned out she would be stuck up the creek without a paddle.

Personally, it’s the precipitous drop in tenured positions that scared me away. Too risky of a time investment!
What I've seen proven wasn't massive. If people can be convinced that non-massive social media spending is as effective as is currently insinuated, they'll likely spend. Mission accomplished.

There "culture wars" are approaching cold civil war status. Great times to be a virtual arms dealer...
> but 90% of it is garbage.

That's inherent to the process of all creation and business starting. 90% of everything is garbage. That's a case where there's nothing unique about Silicon Valley. I'm sure you're at least vaguely aware of the very high failure rate of all new businesses within just a five year span.

Or see: last 200 years of industrial history. There were hundreds of automakers just in Detroit in the US, experimenting with just about everything they could. Most of it was garbage. It's a required part of the process of experimentation. If someone stands up and proclaims that aspect is stupid and a waste and they know better (they'd never make such mistakes, they'd never need to perform such wasteful experimentation), well, at least then you know who you're dealing with.
Um it sorta didn’t work by the second example
Cloud Job Discovery -- ML Job Search and Discovery
That’s either five or six words depending on whether you count machine learning or machine-learning as one or two words
Seriously ? Lying on Hacker News will only bring you troubles.

Your title say "free" while the pricing on the platform says not free !
https://www.girlsaskguys.com/sexual-behavior/a25414-the-alph...
> Last I heard, NYC is literally running out of pavement space for pedestrians, let alone vehicles

That's news to me, as someone who lives and works in the two busiest and most crowded neighborhoods in the city

> and increasing the supply of housing still hasn't brought prices down.

Yes, but that's because of the way new housing has been constructed (skewed towards luxury buildings, which are purchased by foreign speculators as ways to park money essentially tax-free). That means that many of these new units that are constructed don't actually increase the supply of housing, because speculative purchasers tend not to rent out the units (it's not worth it, given their goals).
Yes it's simplistic because it's a HN comment not a a doctoral thesis, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. The fact that most software is very cheap favors companies/VC's that already have money... because it means you have to go for scale over margin. That's a game for people with deep pockets.

Example. Joe Smith builds innovative software. He sells this to 10 local businesses for $5K/mo each. He is able to take care of his family, hire a couple folks and live the american dream... no VC required. Then someone goes to his website, signs up, studies what he's done and copies this innovative software and sells it for $2.5K/month profitably because they don't have to incur the R&D costs or the lifetime of work experience Joe needed to come up with his innovations. Joe is forced to cut prices dramatically or be out of business. Joe's default path now is he must grow to $200K/month at all costs... sell a portion of his business to VC, then try to grow it to millions a month. Then sell more to VC. Rinse, repeat. This is nuts. People should be able to have innovative businesses that aren't copied and don't have the aim of scaling to infinity to enrich VC's. This is important because unlike other businesses such as construction the marginal cost for providing software is so close to zero you can (and many companies do) round it down to zero.

I don't care if any of you agree with me. ...but ask yourself... is the tech landscape serving the guys in the garage right now? If not why not? I believe part of the reason is there is no strong protection for IP anymore. This case was an example of an egregious rip off and the offender was rightly penalized to the tune of $80m, then that penalty was upheld by an appeals court. I think that is a just outcome based on the limited info I have about it... and I am encouraged by the precedent. I hear many of you disagree, and you're certainly entitled to your opinion.
It says it works on-premise, but both the video and FAQ make it sound like it is only for amazon right now.

Why do I need an API key with NVIDIA?
I agree about their communication and support. It does seem like they put all their support behind the few big labs in the UK that are actively using nanopore (free R&D for them I guess). I get a sense of "if you can't get this to work, then you are just a bad scientist" vibe from them.
How Facebook, Google, and Twitter 'embeds' Helped Trump in 2016
This guy works in HR.
I don't think asking a researcher in AI why they couldn't work in industry that is willing to pay them tons more $$ is a bad question to ask. Its certainly not the same as asking a public servant to learn coding.

Living in the CS bubble, a lot of us forget that outsiders think of programming as some kind of black magic that they could never figure out ever. And are baffled that those who know it are not milking it as much as they can.
The biggest cost of running math department is travel costs, but then again, biophysicist probably spend just as much on that.
>Leslie Waters, prof of European History at Randolph-Macon College, said: “It definitely is a symbol that a lot of Hungarians would associate with racist ideology and anti-Semitism but plenty of Hungarians also associate it with some sort of generic patriotism and anti-communism.”

Or he wore it to reflect his family history and as an anti-communist symbol....
I agree that there are nice options in the US and you'll have a much more comfortable life. But if you want to learn as much as you can, if you want to have as many options as you could possible have, and quiet frankly earn as much as you could, you'll likely should move to SV and no other place in the US will even come close to that. The bleeding edge of technology is and will be in SV and China (and China is not really an option for most people).
It's called "Nvidia GPU Cloud", but it's actually just a set of container images.

Having ready-to-use, properly optimized TF images is convenient, but calling that "Nvidia GPU Cloud" is a little bit overdicked.
> Censoring the speech of the President is probably not something that they want to get engaged with.

Then they shouldn't get engaged in censoring anyone's speech on their platform (unless, of course, the free market value of the President’s special treatment on Twitter is reported and treated in law as either a corporate gift by Twitter to Donald J. Trump or an in-kind campaign donation to his re-election campaign, or a campaign expenditure coordinated with the candidate. Of course, any of these has significant legal consequences.)

We have laws governing gifts of anything of value to political office holders and candidates for a reason.
Why not link directly to the full story [0]?

[0] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/new-zealand-foreigners-buy...
I wonder why Chicago isn't more of a major destination for tech companies. The city is highly walkable, has excellent transportation infrastructure, and low cost nice housing is plentiful within an hour commute by train or car. You can get a nice house for less than 200k, apartment rent is around 600 - 1000 a month. In the city, there are a lot of old 3-4 story houses that have been converted to each floor being a rental unit, for about 1200.
Ebay doesn't charge a listing fee for the first 50 items per month. If the buyer never pays you should open an unpaid item claim after three days, then call ebay after four days and have the claim closed in your favor. If more sellers did this the buyers would get filtered out of ebay. In the future you can use buy it now and require immediate payment to prevent this entirely. Verifying the authenticity of commonly faked items does not have an easy solution and I would not buy or sell anything like that on Ebay. Any place that allows the sale of items like this will have tradeoffs.

Some alternatives to Ebay are Ebid, Etsy, Rakuten/buy.com, Amazon, Bonanza(allows cross listing with Ebay), Swappa for phones, uBid, Jet.
SMS is really hard. While my name isn’t Twilio Engineer, it might as well be SMS engineer.
Good ideas. I usually let Github Issues handle #1, usually if I don't answer within a few days someone else will :). #2 is great.
Sounds like a large retailer that wanted the same for an interview. The job I found out later went to a kid of one of the managers.

That they declared bankruptcy this year has been a tasty bit of schadenfreude.
Here's a list

https://www.techinasia.com/china-top-well-funded-startups-20...

Didi has raised over $10bn.
> It is rare for any to publish corrections

It happens all the goddamn time, but there are also reasonably stringent editorial controls that prevent blatant mistruths from getting through. RT never corrects the record after it has been shown to publish government-manufactured stories.

> When Edward Snowden wanted to leak information about massive dishonesty and conspiracy by the NSA in domestic surveillance, he did not go to the NY Times. That tells us all we need to know.

No it doesn't - it just describes the very particular evidence (the possession of which constituted a federal crime) and the knowledge that it was safer in the hands of journalists overseas.

> Oddly in all of the coverage of Assange amid these allegations, the NYT did not think it relevant to mention this very important difference in the legal meaning of the word rape in Sweden vs the US.

> we did not get a clear and accurate accounting of the nature of the alleged act from the NYT

That's bollocks. If you bother to look, they're there: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/world/europe/29iht-letter2... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/world/europe/19assange.htm...
> Hmmm... no -- labor input reduction is a benefit, sure - but I am under the impression that we use many of these to protect yield, which has been sought to be increased through the use of other petrochems.

>we will still use pesticides and weed killers when fully automated harvesting/tending is a thing to still protect yield.

I think you might misunderstand how agriculture works.

For thousands of years people manually pruned, watered and removed animal and vegetable pests from plants. The use of chemical pesticides (against bugs etc) and herbicides (against nonproductive plants that consume resources i.e. weeds) reduced the labor input immensely and increased yield both of which increased the total economic value.

The best way to think of a modern farm is as a factory; the manager is always looking at ways of reducing inputs. Nobody uses these chemicals for fun.
This is something hard to automate. Maybe you can ask a befriended HR person.
You're email is (not currently) in your profile. I'd be happy to take a look. I was a tech recruiter for 9 years, and am now a developer. My email is in my profile.

One thing I can tell you right now is that a key to interviewing well as an engineering manager is demonstrating an ability to make people happy (or at least content) with all the money/resources that get spent on your team. Who you need to keep happy depends on the level of the position. It could an owner, client, investors, CFO, VP of Eng., etc.

Think about asking "who needs to understand why we're spending all this money on software?", imagining the answers you'd get to that question, what you'd do to help peoole understand where all the money went, and how'd you'd get them to give you(r team) even more money when the time comes.
Right now the economy, by most all of the normal metrics, is doing extremely well. Yes real wages are flat, but the stock market is hitting record highs and accelerating, unemployment (even more realistic measures like U6) is lower than it's been in a long time, inflation is stable, and so on. So I don't think it's really reasonable to take as an assumption that people behave in a certain way during a bad economy and imply we're in a bad economy. I would completely agree with you [about the state of the economy], but this is not a majority view so we can't extrapolate outward.

And a bit of a tangent here but the "it doesn't matter if my neighbor makes more than me as long as I'm improving at a decent clip" is also a bit dubious. One social study that has repeated and reproduced countless times is that people are happier being the king among rats than a pauper among kings. People ought care about themselves objectively. In reality we measure ourselves relatively. Kind of a bad trait for a species seeking to make global progress, but again - that's all a tangent that's way out there!

As for my own view, the way to "cure inequities" is to ensure equal opportunity. It turns out time and again the medicine is rather worse than the disease when we start working to ensure equality of results. I'm actually in favor of this law since I see no positive result from employers asking for employee past earnings. What's offered to somebody should not be based on what they earned in the past like some sort of soft caste. It also takes another burden off applicants. However, I would be rather shocked to see this have any meaningful effect whatsoever. An employer is going to have a high price and a low price. I don't see removing one tidbit of information making all that of substantial changes to either, or the applicant's ability to more effectively hit the high. But I would absolutely love to be proven wrong.
It was an observation, not a normative statement. The only part anyone really cares about is the 10%, so if your goal isn't to have an ecosystem that is always churning through stuff, that aspect isn't a huge advantage.
Top 5 Things I Learnt at the IEEE Women in Computing Summit
China is a different case. Any successful tech company will be ruthlessly copied and scaled in China by mercantilist policies which work quite well.

But there are no Chinese brands that are widespread household names out of China. Even if a billion Chinese use renren the rest of the world uses Facebook (and maybe vk). Even if a billion Chinese use Baidu the rest of the world uses google (and maybe yahoo, in Japan, for some reason).
Jake from TileDB, Inc. wenc and srean are right. techniques such as those used in zfp and fpzip wenc mentioned are also used to compress real world las file (point cloud) datasets. For the moment we are only focused on lossless compression (scientists are paranoid about losing data), but there is definitely room to explore integration with lossy compression as well. Machine learning applications often do not need full precision so intelligent forms of lossy compression are useful.

Another cool research application of TileDB that extends the storage library with the VP9 codec can be seen here: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~magda/papers/haynes-sigmod1...
The constitution makes him the commander in chief and delegates war authority to congress. The AUMF signed after 9/11 was poorly drafted, contained no expiration, and has ceded control from congress to the executive in extraordinary ways. Nuclear authorities that allow one man to destroy the world have always been egregious since we instituted them.

Nonetheless, Commander in Chief ≠ Command of Twitter. A private entity doesn't have to indulge him and such dissent is protected by the 1st amendment.
The amount of cringe is literally unfathomable. Django huh, what happened to the super complex tech stack? This company is a joke.
You seem like a person who knows the deal. Is there illegal market for Monsanto seeds? Let's say people smuggling the product out of USA to countries that they can't go after the IP etc? Could North Korea use secretly their seeds to have better output or are those seeds so very specifically engineered?
You're missing the point; it's not about whether or not they have the capital-- either way, the employee inevitably gets canned right before that maturity date. That's how "probationary periods" are gamed here in the US.
No doubt about it. People made it through 4 years of my CS degree from a good university, and couldn't code a line. However these people all found their place in the workforce which suited their own skills.

I'm not sure how much can be done at the teaching level, but like you, it's something I'd also like to help correct.
A professor of mathematics noticed that his kitchen sink at his home leaked. He called a plumber. The plumber came the next day and sealed a few screws, and everything was working as before.

The professor was delighted. However, when the plumber gave him the bill a minute later, he was shocked.

"This is one-third of my monthly salary!" he yelled.

Well, all the same he paid it and then the plumber said to him, "I understand your position as a professor. Why don't you come to our company and apply for a plumber position? You will earn three times as much as a professor. But remember, when you apply, tell them that you completed only seven elementary classes. They don't like educated people."

So it happened. The professor got a job as a plumber and his life significantly improved. He just had to seal a screw or two occasionally, and his salary went up significantly.

One day, the board of the plumbing company decided that every plumber had to go to evening classes to complete the eighth grade. So, our professor had to go there too. It just happened that the first class was math. The evening teacher, to check students' knowledge, asked for a formula for the area of a circle. The person asked was the professor. He jumped to the board, and then he realized that he had forgotten the formula. He started to reason it, and he filled the white board with integrals, differentials, and other advanced formulas to conclude the result he forgot. As a result, he got "minus pi times r square."

He didn't like the minus, so he started all over again. He got the minus again. No matter how many times he tried, he always got a minus. He was frustrated. He gave the class a frightened look and saw all the plumbers whisper: "Switch the limits of the integral!!"
It's a little arrogant, but the commenter is probably more or less correct.

Twitter is bloated.

Their headcount has expanded quite a lot over the last few years - and for what? Their service has remained the same and 'scale' beyond a certain point does not matter.

What is 'labour intensive' - sales? Sure. Maybe some support staff? I doubt they're full time, more likely in Phillipenes off the books.

I don't doubt for a second that they didn't need all those staff members - I've worked enough 'fast growth' places to see how 'hiring for the sake of hiring' happens, it's a political orientation, not really an economic one.
You can learn an unbelievable amount sitting in your room in your underwear and work with and on world class projects. There are more free resources than ever before, location is not a constraint.
They've been shitty for 10 years now. I had a bunch of bad experiences with their 7200.11 drives too. I swore off Seagate forever after the 3 TBs started shitting the bed and I literally haven't had another drive die prematurely since then. It's not worth the risk, I'll pay an extra 10% for Toshiba or WD thanks.
I find it distrubing that some of the most widely used arguments against Monsanto can be myths. It makes me really question the information I get whether supportive/critical. That aside they are pretty evil.
Does this optimise the hierarchy as the environment changes? For example when cooking, I unpackage food as needed, but when it starts to clutter the workspace I make a decision to fit in a 'clean up cycle' while waiting on some other food to cook.
Ruby Warrior?

https://www.bloc.io/ruby-warrior#/
This has the feeling of a hard problem because it involves a distributed system combined with human behaviour.
No but apparently they have to bake your gay cake. can't have it both ways.
disabled population is a tiny percentage of the overall population and isn't large enough to drive a profitable business model at Amazon/Walmart scale.
>It's obvious it was not meant literally.

Yep, and that's why I acknowledged it was hyperbole. There is no need to then say he needs to be thrown down some stairs.
Also, not mentioned on that list is DJI, which is pretty dominant in the drone space, and it was only founded in 2006. I know it's not a software startup, but you'd be hard-pressed to say it's not a tech company.
Ronald Reagan used the same campaign slogan in the 80s get a fucking grip. It is a short memorable slogan and it is simply good marketing.

Hitler was a vegetarian and liked dogs. According to your logic that makes you a nazi.

Also you probably don't remember, but everyone called George W Bush a nazi when he was elected. It is complete fucking bullshit and tbh I think it is pretty disgusting to demean the real meaning of things like racism, fascism etc when you clearly don't understand what that really means or the implications.
I wish we had Mueller on this case.
terrible weather? lack of real feeder schools for tech entrepreneurialism ?