skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just can’t put my finger on it, but in VSCode I very frequently end up in a weird vim state where I just have to hit escape until it resets to normal mode. There just seems to be a lot of corner cases or something that I end up hitting frequently.

And I’m fairly certain that is not on my part seeing as both vim itself, Spacemacs and Atom’s vim mode work superbly for me. It’s one of those things where VSCode just ends up irking me too much and I switch back to other editors :/
I am ok just trashing all forms of copyright. software, music, movies, books etc.

Because that's how people make money breaks down when a most small artists are supported by donations or sales of original works. Copywrite, would have been bad for Shakespeare, and likely does more harm than good.
> The former is a pretty accurate summary, the latter a sign of delusion.

No, both sentences rely on a metaphysical belief.

Unless you can demonstrate with absolute certainty that there is no God, then the first and the second sentence are to be treated on the same level.

On the other hand, I think that the right thing to do, is to bring the discussion on a physical (rather than metaphysical) level, so we all can contribute.

> The question is not really "what precisely is their doctrine", the question is "why would they accept that doctrine as true"

Then I was replying to a different question. I was commenting on this:

> I haven't asked him for details [...] But it worries me, because as far as I can tell Pope Francis is quite keen on being nice to people, and showing mercy and forgiveness. I thought those were central tenets of Christian teaching.

It turns out, as I showed, that there is something more central.
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A “six figure” salary indicates 100,000 to 999,999 of whatever currency. It does not automatically represent the very top-end of the range.

999,999+ would be “seven figure”, the university in this case can only off low- to mid- five figure salaries.
If industry wants better teaching, is acedemia the best set of institutions to support? To what degree is it true that focusing on teaching over research is a ticket to tenure denial?

(If someone can provide broader context on https://tuftsdaily.com/news/2017/08/29/professor-computer-sc... and http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N28/tenure.html, I would be grateful.)
As a former grad student, I strogly sympathize with the urge to get the hell out of there and make real money. But on the flip side, I'm pretty dubious about the idea of abandoning your program just because the grass is greener in industry. The Ph.D. improves your chances of getting to work on interesting problems down the road, even if you leave academia. Selling that out for a few years of big money isn't something that should be done lightly. Especially when we're in the middle of such an obvious bubble -- what's the plan for 2-5 years from now when it pops?
I'm curious, how does the law, for example in Germany where it is required, call double opt-in/confirmed opt-in?
Indeed. But being a professor doesn't mean you are good at teaching either.
> I’m not monogamous with my code editors

I’ve always wondered why some people seem so married to a single editor. Based on the file type or context I might bounce between a number of them.

I used to use Sublime Text a lot, but that’s been completely replaced for me by VSCode.

I use IntelliJ IDEA predominantly for Java, Groovy, Python, Kotlin, PHP. I’m not a fan of its type hinting for JS or suggestions for HTML/SASS/CSS so I use VSCode for all my ‘web’ work.

I’ve also found VSCode to be faster/nicer than IDEA for random things like JSON, SQL, Dockerfiles, Vagrantfiles, Bash scripts.

IDEA generally supports these well enough, but is too noisy (constant bugging about connecting to a data source when opening a SQL file, etc.) or is just lacking a little something compared to VSCode.
I have to use it at work too. I don't use the IDE. I use Sublime Text with a couple of Delphi plugins. Compile from the command line. Debug with message boxes.
They don't have to compete on pay though.

But they do need to pay enough to stop the poor buggers feeling like paupers in an expensive city. Much more importantly, though, is that there need to be genuine and clear opportunities for career advancement.

Somehow, we've got ourselves in a situation where some of our brightest people are paid crap, in crap conditions with crap prospects. And then are surprised when they are attracted elsewhere.
Do you have any other papers that would give me karma I mean that are interesfing?

Also, which FMRI papers have real results that you think are significant?
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Professors are actually getting lower pay than a lot of AI specialists in the industry. Universities really can't afford to compete.
it's comparing apple to oranges. At the risk of stating the obvious, academia is not a good way to get rich imho. That is hardly new :)
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The toy itself is not very fun. Even pretty annoying sometimes (like the stupid daily calibration task). It has no brain, you have to dedicate a smartphone to this. It's a very wrong move I think, though I understand the cost benefits. But the worst part is that almost every interaction with the robot goes first through the smartphone UI (like triggering a request for a game). It totally kills the experience, and makes it painful for parents of small kids, too young to have a phone. I have read somewhere that they hired some expert game designers and hollywood concept artists from Wall-E to design the actual experience. My harsh feeling is that it's the worst idea ever, it feels very much like a bad hollywood blockbuster, no subtlety but only misplaced costly special effects and tricks.
I had little expectations though, I bought it to tweak it (someday). It uses a python SDK, you have to connect a dedicated smartphone to your computer, and the python SDK connects to the Cozmo app on the phone to send commands. Apparently the SDK is good, and the team seems serious about supporting this.
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> In fact I haven't heard any other Catholics I know criticize him.

>I feel this article is trying to "Stir up a storm" with sensational language. There is little behind this in my opinion.

While i can't speak about the part of catholics you know, nor about conservative wings of the catholic church (and the size of said wing), there are atleast some US-Conservatives claiming to be catholic with grievances about the pope:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/12/04/pope-francis-is-ca...
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Try getting the training dataset they used.

For anything, actually.

They train all their networks on data taken from users, and publish neither the data nor the models. And the scientific world doesn't have the resources to replicate anything close to it.
> Neither of those are even close to better.

You just failed the "being civil" part of the interview. I think I'll let the GP judge whether those are better. At least I'm trying to help instead of just slinging stones at others' attempts.

> Exponential outcome maybe?

Seriously? You complain about "more letters" and muddying the waters then you vomit up that monstrosity?
This is great, the usual problem in academia is senior faculty clogging all the positions and blocking young researchers.
Nuget. Can't remember last time i had issues.
Google is investing a ton of money into their cloud offerings, and it seems like Firebase is a part of this strategy.
Going along with everything you've said, the fact that the wealthy now control such a vast share of assets and capital is a super not-good thing in the event of a hard recession. Honestly our situation now looks so much like the Roaring 20's, a certain segment of the population getting a shitload of everything, while everyone else goes hungry (and famously, the roaring 20's tapered off nicely and we all came out better- oh no wait, it was the Great Depression and we had to participate in a World War to get out of it).

Income Inequality and Lack of Social Mobility are a cancerous tumor growing inside the United States and many other developed countries too. This shit is a powder keg and the wealthy need to realize that if they keep pushing to get that next dollar, eventually all their money isn't going to keep the pitchforks at bay.
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MS biz is azure-based, so I think the worse can happen is to ship vscode with integrated azure tools...
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Testdrive:
https://makepad.github.io/makepad.html
Source:
https://github.com/makepad/makepad.github.io
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Definitively don't judge Econtalk by the episodes with Mike Munger, they're more informal and less structured, since he's a friend of the host.
"It probably has to do with the extensive use of symbols (=~, -s, -d, s/ ...) that makes code quite unreadable..."

I hope you're not a fan of Haskell, which is so beloved on HN -- as Haskell's use of symbols makes Perl look restrained and moderate in comparison.

Also, there are English-language equivalents of a lot of those symbols in Perl (for instance $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR for $/), and Perl programmers are strongly encouraged to use them.[1]

[1] - http://real-world-systems.com/docs/perlEnglish.html
the other side of the coin. who would invest in such a company? a few people maybe but most probably not.
Same as for anyone else 2-5 years of experience in real company, doing real stuff, making real money. That train ended? Migrate to a slightly different field.
You pay them more if they are deployed (hazard pay, family separation allowance) plus you pay more in medical care when people are getting blown up with IEDs not to mention death benefits to families.
> I'm too much of a skeptic to believe it's just so developers have a warm fuzzy feeling associated with Microsoft...

Given that the development is very-very cheap for Microsoft, even this single thing could make worthwhile for MS to continue the project. VS code appears on HN regularly, it connects to a demographic that's very different from MS's core dev audience.
> having a home for your family to live in is a necessity

Yes, I agree with you that having (not necessarily owning) a home (of some sort) is a necessity. However, my point was that owning the sort of city townhouse that would interest foreign millionaires is a luxury and a choice.
I think “insane” is unnecessarily caustic. Instead, it’s better to argue (as you are doing) that it’s “inefficient” or perhaps “unhealthy.”

Also, it’s far too easy to cast stones in glass houses. I have a close friend who is ultra-low-budget traveling around the world who could justifiably call you and me “insane” for pushing forward in our careers (whatever they are).
In Turkey, I'm using a bank called Garanti. They give you one virtual MasterCard, linked to your normal cash accounts. Allows you to transfer money to the card and back, no charge and instantly. And I haven't encountered anywhere where I can't use it, unlike my debit card where only a few online places accept it.
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Economies bounce. Boom and Bust cycles have been with us since the beginnings. The lack of regulation though and the rolling back of financial policies in the last few years have created an environment where a whole lot of people are in a whole lot of risk that they themselves aren't entirely responsible for, and haven't agreed to.

If the next Bust goes as badly as some are saying, that could be the death knell of Fiat currency. This isn't the first time it's been mismanaged to a degree bordering on straight insanity, and it probably won't be the last either.
So your argument is they should stay and work for pennies, hoping to get an "interesting" job in the future, instead of getting an interesting and highly paid job right now?

It's also not obvious at all it's a bubble. AI field is already much more complex than the regular CS field, which already suffers from talent shortages. AI is the future, and the demand is here to stay.
Biggest headache in machine learning? Cleaning dirty data off the spreadsheets
> when it pops

Get a PHD.
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Yes you are correct :) it reminded me of that paper.
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> oil is by decree traded in USD

This is patently false.

OPEC quotes oil in U.S. dollars, because people tend to have U.S. dollars lying around as a result of the massive American consumer base (as well as deep and open financial system), but e.g. North Sea oil is sold for pounds sterling and Bakken shale oil is sold for loonies.

Oil is quoted, future and spot, in every major currency FX traders can think up. Wall Street would love if crude were quoted in more currencies. It would mean FX revenue. Sadly for it the world has some sense.
Football coaches at American universities are frequently paid much more than heads of state. Paying professors more doesn't seem like a travesty, at least compared to that.
Maybe they really can? They set the salaries, and determine the overheads.
I don't get it. What does Report URI do? Their landing page doesn't say. And Troy Hunt's blog post tells me this:

* Set up CSP headers
* Somehow, magically, Report URI will tell you things

Wait what? How does that work? I feel like I'm missing a step. Unfortunately https://report-uri.com/ doesn't really explain either, or have integration docs of any kind.

I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm considering to become a customer.
Nah. CME futures are notorious for increasing volatility. See: the flash crash [1]. And: a bazillion other examples. These "professional" traders aren't playing any kind of fair game.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
>If there was a way to evaluate a candidate based on how well they would do at their actual job, in an hour or less, that couldn’t be gamed or cheated, we’d all be using it.

Right, because there's currently a ten million dollar bounty up at way-to-evaluate-a-candidate-based-on-how-well-they-would-do-at-their-actual-job-in-an-hour-or-less-that-cant-be-gamed-or-cheated-bounty .com - which everyone knows about and has known about for decades, and checks regularly. The site can't be gamed and it's run as a public service. Literally within a day, and I mean a day, that anyone ever uses the winning method a single time, God himself will write up the method and submit it on the interviewer's behalf (invisible hand hypothesis), the site will judge it correctly and approve it (just world hypothesis), and the next day we'd all be using it. Oh also there's a genie that makes people use the winning entry I forgot to mention that, otherwise people might not all use it even once it's well-known.

I mean just consider the wildly implausible set of circumstances it would take for not everyone in the world to be using the best interview process in the world!

It's clear that it just doesn't exist. How could it?

/s

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Edit: someone didn't like this. Just imagine what method you suppose by which everyone would learn the perfect interview method from each other. If that method exists, why would everyone know it?
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I agree that it’s the best of its sort, at least compared to the other popular options I’ve used, but it’s not being compared to much. The rest seem barely usable at best and just designed to get you to buy any font whatsoever.

I still occasionally use it when I’m totally stuck but have had pretty crappy luck with getting an exact match.

What it’s been pretty good for is getting me close enough to look for other things that look similar to it’s suggestions and branching out from there.
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What literal iceberg would that be?
recruiters even suggest apply to even things that are close to a fit. To me that's the difference between required and preferred skills.
How is ISIS top 2 on your list of threats to humanity? They are at best a regional threat. Google can do considerably more damage on a global scale.
They compete on other dimensions. (Job security, etc)

I have no sympathy for academic labs that underpay. For 99% of academic fields there is a gross oversupply of workers.
So because open(2) is implemented in C in the standard library, I should only call it via C, and never invoke the wrapper function open() in python or whatnot?

“Hybrid” does not mean what you think it does. The platform may be built on code in many languages, but to program for that platform, you only have to know one.
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That attitude became prevalent long before the Presidential election. SJWs were calling for people to be fired back in 2013, perhaps earlier. I might also argue that that attitude has been prevalent in some circles - particularly academia - for decades, and spread from academics to their students (the SJWs) to Republican backlash against the SJWs to widespread Democratic backlash against the Republican backlash.

Still, I'm optimistic, because I have seen softening after the recent incidents of violence, and some mainstream rejection of leftist extremism.

For example, this CNN article treating the plight of their ideological opponents with sympathy rather than gloating.
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The problem with that though is that it becomes a precedent (not in legal sense) and it might be tempting to just use images without paying the copyright owner, since you just need to settle for market value or a little more at the time that you're sued. It is a huge effort to go through media to make sure that your content is not being used without your consent and most independent people won't be checking it vigorously since they need the time to actually work.
>I don't feel it's overly burdensome on candidates.

I do. After doing a couple of these "2 hour" projects from companies I have a suspicion were not even really serious about hiring and not even receiving a courtesy rejection email I swore off them forever.

These days I just point the company to my github and am explicit that if that isn't enough to grant me a face to face I probably don't want to work there.
I think there is a good chance that you’re making assumptions about that correlation. You’re probably also overlooking all of the Japanese people who derive tremendous existential justification via devotion to work.

By counter-point, depression, drug use, and suicide is a serious issue in Hawaii. People are living in “paradise,” yet there is a crisis.
I don't get why people believe that Apple is so much better than any of the other big ones..

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-iphone-app-secret-access...

Apple always refuses to comment on bugs, security holes and basically anything they can not use for marketing. You WANT to believe that Apple is better.
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> Nope. See Russell's Teapot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

That is exactly my point: All empirically observed facts are perfectly consistent with the existence of Russel's teapot. That does not get you anywhere with actually establishing any rational belief in its existence. Same as for universe-creating unicorn-pixies and for the creator you proposed. Consistency with observed reality does not get you anywhere.

> Unlike many who make the God-of-the-gaps argument, I don't assert that you should believe my conjecture; I simply point out that the conjecture is not an irrational one and that it has at least some evidentiary support.

Now, it's not irrational as a conjecture. Any wild hypothesis you can make up is essentially rational as a conjecture. But that's mostly useless to even talk about, as you can, as explained above, trivially generate new hypotheses. What is irrational, though, is your supposition that the consistency of your conjecture with empirical observation would be even a minor reason to consider it anything more than a completely unsupported hypothesis.

> I agree, but only for some values of "just make up anything in addition to that." Much progress has resulted from our making conjectures, i.e., "making something up," and then successively refining those conjectures as they're tested against extant- or experimental evidence.

Yes, I am strictly talking about making claims about reality.

> In any case, we all make bets in life based on our mental models.

True, and the closer those models align with reality, the less risky those bets, would you agree?

> My personal mental model includes (A) the existence of some kind of Creator who kicked off some kind of Great Project

Does that "creator" have any properties besides having kicked off the universe?

> I don't insist at all that anyone else adopt that mental model; I simply note that I find it useful.

Does that mean that you care about having a model that is as useful as reasonably possible? If so, how do you try to ensure that you will discover flaws in your model?
Funny this was posted today, I literally just had this idea about an hour ago, after coming across https://reddit.com/r/identifythisfont

Glad to see the smart people aren't slacking in being smart.
AI is currently less complex than many CS fields that pay far less.

This is basicly the boom times when most companies want a website but don't have one. Once the obvious applications are built these bubbles tend to burst as matence pays far less.
Here in the US we do have "Reverse 911" (though I forget what number it calls from).

I live in Virginia, but was in Louisiana and I got a call about a hostage situation with a shooter that was happening somewhat near my home address.
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> some don't like the electron-based thing/performance

It's mostly not liking Electron-based, performance is very reasonable for VSCode, I think.

As for the end-game: it's most likely luring you into Azure. Tight integration with a proper editor/IDE might give it an edge over competitors.
Alpha Go (the earlier versions) was trained on publicly available games.
I think a good work environment (and that includes competent coworkers) is in everyone's interest. What if you can take the test but the employer doesn't know the result?

I'd trust my employer enough not to use interview questions as my performance evaluation. If you don't, the level of trust appears to be very low.
I completely agree - People have a right to demand payment (salary, benefits, and - in the context of universities
- an oft-overvalued investment in their future like academic certification) commensurate with their ability to generate value. Grad students are not getting that.

But I think you're overestimating how much these professors are paid. Universities feeling a crunch between their income and the value of their employees on the outside may have chosen to screw over their expendable grad students first, but professors aren't that much farther up the totem pole.

Part of the problem, though, is that Apple can use the scientist's skills to generate >>$1M/year in revenue. Private industry will happily pay them $250k/year, hire secretaries and managers to be crap-catchers and crap-umbrellas under and above them respectively so the scientist can be most effective, and otherwise take care of the goose that's laying golden eggs.

But the university isn't cashing in on this revenue-generating potential. They're (ostensibly) using the professors and grad students to teach undergrads, and also using them to do research that doesn't generate revenue. The existence and function of the university does provide a valuable service to society, but they're not being appropriately compensated for that service if it's worth so much on the outside - and they're squandering a lot of that societal contribution by letting it be siphoned off to the firms providing the student loans and the administration of the university.