skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Staying in China right now and heavily use WePay. As a counter point to the article my experience has been that it totally sucks compared to a credit card. Credit cards offer consumer protections, convenience and don't require your cell phone to be charged. Given the choice they're a way better option. I would not characterize mobile payments as an "advancement".
An implication of your observation is that all the classical impossibility results, like for example the halting problem, concretized to the machine at hand become solveable theoretically, and maybe even practically. The turing machine abstraction is too idealized, I think.
Ask HN: What skills does a good Front End Architect need to have?
Freedom of certain kinds of speech is foundational to a society like America that has always been quickly changing demographically, technologically, and economically.

We are making up the rules of society as we go along, and we are going to make mistakes, and circumstances will change such that old rules don’t work anymore. In order to figure out what new rules should be, we must be able to discuss them. If the proponents of one set of rules are able to prohibit the discussion of anything else, you had better hope they have the best possible set for all time, because you’re stuck with them. Collapse is inevitable if anything significant ever changes.

The reason to hold the line and do things like defending Illinois Nazis is because two sides on a contested issue will always want the other side to shut up. The powerful side will always come up with some excuse as to why the weak side must urgently be silenced in the name of safety. Strong principles are powerful because they give moral authority to help the weak stand up against the powerful. If there are obvious, clear exceptions like yelling fire, it’s probably OK, but it still gives the strong side a toehold to draw an analogy and silence the weak.
https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/937223816358412288

Don't blame me if you can't get in or something.
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Exploring science fiction concepts using currently known science.
In the UK you get everything for free regardless of work history or other factors. Every prescription has a £12 charge, topping out at a maximum of about £150 a year. Dental treatments are also normally charged at a low rate.
Ah. In that way. True, most of the talent moves abroad. On top of my mind, Vue.js did originate from China and baidu is good at AI.
There does seem to be a threshold beyond which paying more doesn't make sense. There's another threshold below which the quality is too poor. For me, something like Gap has enough quality/price balance to make it worthwhile.
Etleap Is Hiring Senior Java Developers
Etleap came to be out of the frustration with how much time data wrangling takes away from the actual analysis. We were just tired of spending time building and maintaining data pipelines. Then we noticed, so is everyone else! That is why we're creating an intuitive ETL tool that easily enables the data analysts themselves to integrate data from any source. This way data analysts can do their most significant work faster than ever before.

Now we are looking to add engineers to our core engineering team to help build the infrastructure that modern data teams depend on to create and operate their data warehouse! It shouldn't take a CS degree to use big data effectively, and abstracting away the difficult parts is our mission.

Are you ready for the challenge?

What you are going to do:

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What we want to see in you:

- Coding in Java is second nature to you
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Big plus if you have the following:

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You should also ask "how often, recently?".

I did ask my surgeon and he answered. But he is pretty exceptional in a number of ways.
I am the author of the project. If you've got any questions, just drop me a line.
They may be right, but they have a very strong prior interest in this matter (that there can exist no objective measure of a teachers competence), so not the best arbiter of objective insights here.
I have received a follow up email by them in a very timely manner:

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The Ackles Ass Equation
But if you do, and take unreflectedly the results of computer science about computability for granted, you may get wrong conclusions.
Last link doesn't work for me. The others focus mostly on the expectation of privacy that an employee has. Which makes it certainly harder to assert that a device was used for private purposes. But these articles don't really establish that private "fair" use is by definition allowed. I'd argue that if the employer had a way to determine in a noninvasive way that you used the computer for private purposes, that these articles hardly apply. How about some endpoint security scanner that asserts that you have illegal MP3s... in a folder called "Private"?

What you and I both found is that employers need to treat employees equal, when asserting private use, and that it's a tough case in court anyhow, but that's not the same as it being legal.
I was interviewing someone who one their CV had no real qualifications for the role they were applying for (sysadmin, this was back in 2012) Basically they were a social worker for both young and old in spain (this was a UK position)

However they were reasonably promising on the test, so as part of the "getting to know you" part of the interview we went over where they got their knowledge. Home labs, ebay, second had stuff. Do I expect _everyone_ to have a home lab? fuck no. Do I explicitly ask about them? no.

I must take issue with discriminatory, the whole point of an interview is to discriminate against people who are not capable of the job role.

What you are talking about is social bias, and that frankly has nothing really to do with home labs, and a lot to do with people being arseholes.
Machine Learning – Generating Black Metal and Math Rock
Advent of Code 2016 Day13: A Maze of Twisty Little Cubicles
Girlfriend picked up a Neo about six months ago and used it extensively during Nanowrimo this year (National Novel Writing Month). They're cheap enough I'm considering picking one up for me as well. The battery life is crazy on those things.
> with a motivated choice of training data

Intent is not required.

> only going to have evidence-based biases

That includes historic institutional biases. For example, many US cities are still highly segregated by race. This was done intentionally as a workaround for forced-integration rulings with indirect methods such as redlining, blockbusting, and restrictive covenants. While most of these methods were eventually banned, the results of those methods still exist today[1].

Since school funding usually depends on property taxes, these policies also impacted the school system. It may be a fact that one group of people performs worse on some metric, but how much of that was caused by racist housing practices decades earlier? Unless you're accounting for all of the embedded biases already present in the facts, you are laundering those biases into your results.

[1] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-9-most-segregated-c...
Definitely. Incomes and growth are starting to pick-up in Europe and Japan (finally) as well. Much of the globe is in sync on this expansion. I'm not sure if that means we're getting close to the next recession pull-back, or if the global economy is finally fully pulling out of the great recession era. There are some indicators aggressively pointing both ways right now. I'd like to see it continue for a while yet just so workers can see a meaningful net wage gain vs 10-15 years ago. At least in the US, corporations can afford to give up some margin due to a tight labor market, given the profit boom over the last decade (plus the inbound corp tax cuts).
ELI5 – Map-Reduce-Filter
I actually wonder if it really is a normal distribution.

A lot of people think any distribution with spread is a "bell curve". In a lot of fields like this the tails are a lot fatter than they should be in a normal distribution.

And doctors (author is a surgeon) don't get much statistical training. I was once told by a doctor that all random distributions are normal curves.
Every feature considered harmful: debts in software development
That's why usb-c is failing. You simply can't know what that port can do.

Is it power, video, data? Do I need a special cable for it? Nobody knows.
You don;t have to look at the cars, you just need to look at the database of registered owner/drivers.
Finally, some good news. Nowhere near enough, and they were told about these problems before making it law, and once they leave the EU they won’t even have this level of oversight, but it’s better than nothing.

I know from trying and failing to convince two MPs that they absolutely do not understand the danger they introduce by forcing the ISPs to have the ability to snoop on users instead of banning ISPs from doing so.
Important: do not overuse important
Afaik, yes, he's been arrested, there was some post on it in one of the TempleOS subreddits.
You are saying one thing, but describing another.

We want people to always have good opportunities to bootstrap themselves out of a terrible situation (your gutter and wallmart situations). But we don't want to remove all the rewards from turning time into value.

"brutally enforced system of authoritarian capitalism" think you have a few opinions there that are deeply rooted in feelings ...

When you are alone on an island, the world rewards you when you spend time changing things for the better (eg hunt for food). If in that situation you have the opportunity to trade you will be even better off.

Things only go south when free markets also create a free labor market. Then the power of markets pushes strongly on those wages. Even if there is no evil intent by anyone, companies not ignoring this push will not be around for long ...
Can you name some extensions that are not compatible with each other. I can't, off the top of my head, and I've been using Haskell for some years. (I don't deny there might be some, but I'm finding it hard to think of any.)
But this is different, because you already have:

- the method's signature and spec

- the changes in behavior you want
You still need to get on at some point. Plenty of people are willing to wait a few hours to get confirmed so the price never hits zero. Further, even if it did work you would make your mixing transactions stand out more while also vastly lowering the number of them.
As a contractor I can see different approaches across companies. Some go for quality over delivery, some for delivery over quality. What I rarely see is balance. There should be a sweet spot somewhere there.
Great developers though will produce quality code right off the bat but these developers are costly and you'd need most of your team to consist of those. Its possible to get things done and deliver quality code at the same time. You just need to know which corners can be rounded and when.

Edit: Just to be clear, nobody sets out intentionally and says "lets favour delivery over quality" or vice versa. Its an approach manoeuvred by the personalities in charge and the team as a whole.
Does anybody know why DP cables are so incredibly expensive? It's like 20$ + shipping.
That’s a description of reality. 88% of neighborhoods that had more sedans than pickups lean blue. I don’t see why that would be offensive? Seems in line with each group’s general culture.
By the same token, you can just lay off having sex, since you are just wired biologically to want it ;-)
Non-tech company in Seattle: Code quality be damned, we need new features made quickly by outsourced teams with no code-review. Then hide them with a feature flag for three months.
Sister falls down stairs (prank)
I have:

o Zotac dual nic with pfsense
o netgear 24 port switch with vlans (no PoE, too expensive)
o i5 NUC
o quadcore atom ZFS storage box
o 2x unifi AC APs
o Many raspberry pis for environmental sensors/control and the like

There are a number of VLANs some for public things like cheapy chinese CCTV (don't want that seeing the internal network) media and the spouse(s)

Everything was controlled with puppet, now migrated to ansible. I was tempted to replace most of it with an old HP z600, but that would blow the power budget (all the compute when on consumes < 45watts) a z600 with dual CPU pulls about 100-130.

There is an hosted Atom box that provide website, VPN and backup coordination.
Let's see how they will make IPA compatible with GDPR.
>, at the expense of undermining the entire point of Unicode.

I'm not a Unicode history expert but did the author (Nora Sandler) accurately represent the philosophical intentions of Unicode?

Specifically, she quotes: "Unicode provides a unique number for every character,"

Is "every character" underspecified? What's the philosophy of Unicode? Is it to:

a) map a codepoint for every semantic character?

b) map a codepoint for every visual character?

Here's a non-CJK example of the single tick (′) character U+2032 [1]:

That has 3 different semantics:

1) foot mark e.g. 3′ to a yard
2) prime mark e.g. f′(x)
3) coordinates minutes e.g. 48°51′24″N

In each case, the character's rendering to screen and printer look identical so Unicode used the same codepoint for 3 different meanings. Even if Unicode created 3 separate codepoints for 3 separate meanings of (′), semantic fidelity would be lost anyway since authors would often choose the first glyph visually that "looked like" the tick mark they wanted. Or they'd probably just use U+0027, the traditional ASCII apostrophe (') since it's the easiest to type on a keyboard.

Put another way, was Unicode intended to create codepoints at the level of characters-the-visual-look or at the level of language character sets? It looks like Unicode chose the visual look which is why 3 uses of tick marks and many Han characters collapse to single codepoints. If the "entire point of Unicode" was for the 1-to-many mapping of codepoints to map to language sets, that means that there would be a contiguous array of Han codepoints for Chinese and another set of Han codepoints for Korean -- with many duplicates. Is there evidence that that was the "correct" idea for Unicode and somehow politics or technical debates de-duplicated the CJK characters?

Yes, there are some duplicate characters such as math symbols and Greek language letters so maybe Unicode philosophy has no single consistent idea of what a codepoint maps to.

[1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2032/index.htm
Fonts are copyrighted. That's why you don't have Microsoft Office fonts on Linux for instance. Look at fonts from the 3 major OS, you'll notice that there is little overlap.

In a similar topic. The fonts renderers are copyrighted too. Maybe you remember some weird-looking unsmooth text on a java app running on the openjdk, that's why.

Last but not least. No, you can't create derivatives just because you want to. Derivation is very well covered by the law.

P.S. By "copyrighted", I mean whatever legal protection applies to these things, which may not be copyright law.
The problem with this is that except for some really routine stuff, a lot of operations are really custom-tailored to the patient. This might be a 100th time the surgeon is removing a certain type of tumor, but first time doing it in an obese person, or a child, or someone with rare blood condition, or million other things. Once you get to the real life-saving stuff no two operations are the same, even though on paper they might seem like they are. That's why it's hard to put a number on it.
This appears to not affect programs like Tempora operated by the GCHQ (the British NSA), which intercepts all internet traffic in Britain. Instead, local & federal police are the ones who will have their own mass spying programs slightly impinged, with a new agency called the Office for Communications Data Authorizations taking requests and vetting them.

Now, this could go one of two ways. Hopefully, OCDA will thoroughly vet each request, rejecting most of what is currently rubber stamped and do limited interception of specific citizens connections for short durations.

Alternatively, this could become another rubber stamp FISA kangaroo court, where the OCDA doesn't have the manpower, tooling nor the inclination to do much more than sign nearly every interception request form.

I'm hoping for the former, but betting on the latter. Despite that, Brits are still having their data stolen by the GCHQ.
I'd like to see a chart by bitcoin as well as incidents.
Now Beijing is 寸土寸金, which is Chinese for "real estate is really expensive". Yet there's still ghost malls. The herd mentality is real.

That said i enjoy Taobao for how i can get out of town prices inside of Beijing. But that pales in comparison to the sheer amount of stuff you can get on there. Want a chair? Done. Want beta-amylase in a 20kg bag? Done. Want socks? Done. Want a reverse osmosis system? A rotary evaporator? 12kg of chicken wings? Done, done, done.
British law may temporarily comply, then once out of the EU, they could roll back the changes and collect everything for law enforcement use.
The Growth of the Chief Data Officer
Whole range of attitudes actually. Worked in places where all stakeholders were interested exclusively in a working deployed feature and where architecture refactoring "featureless" periods were considered as bumming around. Worked in places where the test setup was choking down development to the extend that it was difficult to complete a feature, and in such cases person was disciplined by overzealous Scrum Master/QA and snitched to the manager.
Ya, that does seem excessive — though I realise there’s generally a loading dock, Security, reception, post office, kitchens, cafeterias, meeting rooms, and restrooms. But that is 1.5 football fields per person.
Did the MPs you contact at least get back to you, even with a form letter toeing the party line? I wrote to my MP and tried to contact him through Twitter and, at the time, made my letter public. I never got a response.
Could be. Also Uber pays top end salaries so it would make sense with these very high offers as they probably had to at least match but preferably beat his current Uber package (and potential counter offer).
While I'm sad my favourite channel has officially ended, I still feel so grateful cause they made me look at movies in a different light.
On recent performance, they’ll scream about how unfair it is until they’re blue and then give in completely.
I can't decide which of the parent comments this is referring to.
How can PayPal spoof emails so easily to say it comes from someone else?
My 0.00000173120 BTC: a practicing macroeconomist’s unsolicited views on BitCoin
If you look around, you will find that info quite easily.
Here is just one example of good analysis on that topic: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/11/legato-brexiteers-fa...
I'm a woman, and I absolutely agree with the OP. There is nothing in the world like the mother-child bond!

Sure it's risky and is painful and it makes me scared sometimes, but the thought of some artificial womb producing my baby gives me the shudders.

Would it even be "my" baby, if I didn't carry it? Similarly, I don't think I could have the same kind of love for an adopted child as for my biological. I'm sure you can love it just as much, but differently.
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Speak at China’s World Internet Conference
I like to have the "perfect" setup. Of course, that definition is relative and ever-changing. In reality, I end up spending an insane amount of time adjusting, switching to different software, or trying to get the last 1% of a feature working. It's not always enjoyable :-)
Thanks for mentioning Wire! Although I guess the question was about applications and not "services". FWIW, our backend services are almost exclusively written in Haskell.
Perhaps I work for too huge a company, but I'd say it varies greatly from team to team.
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State Bank of India is that country's largest commercial bank. They are providing job opportunities. For that visit www.sbi.co.in/career.It is an Indian multinational financial services company.
I'm a freelancer. Customers usually want to meet deadlines no matter what. Even the ones that agree to delay deliveries usually do it only when they understand that something new happened. A recent example: an integration with a banking API which is still under development is delaying a project. Force majeure.

Almost nobody understands or cares about good engineering, tests and the like. That's not where they are making money from, at least in the near future. However I did have some pleasant experiences.
Depends on both countries. If I understand correctly, if you’re from the USA you owe taxes on worldwide income regardless of where you earned it. I have no idea if that applies to capital gains or not, nor how other nations treat worldwide income — not even my own nation.