skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excel spreadsheets aren't maintainable, but in context there are some subtleties. If the process is upgraded to a full-blown piece of 'real' software, now you need a full-blown software dev to maintain it. A better result from more resources isn't a clean improvement, it is just a change.

Straddling the line between 'technically best outcome' and 'cheapest workable outcome' is what businesses strive to do. In most mature businesses change should be approached extremely cautiously; everybody loves changing things and the costs are frequently big.
The author is a speech-writer for Democratic candidates. (Huffington Post reports this.)

Meanwhile, MSNBC has this title today:
"An open letter to Congress signed by 137 economists supporting GOP tax reform bill"
Since Vincent is reading these comments-

This quote popped out at me from the interview:

> In general, we want CoderPad to mirror a modern development environment as closely as possible, and we jump through a lot of hoops to make that happen.

I'm curious about your thoughts on Floobits, which provides a shared buffer using the developer's native IDE. If your goal is IDE parity then it seems like they'll always have you beaten.

I think that as an interviewee I would prefer my familiar IDE. And as an interviewer I want my interviewee to be as comfortable as possible. I don't do whiteboard coding, as it introduces a artificial barrier of difficulty that interferes with my evaluation. I think the same argument applies to making the candidate write Scala code without being able to determine the type of an expression at a keypress or step through line-by-line in a debugger, or even just to be unused the unfamiliar keymappings.

So what's your pitch for CoderPad in the face of Floobits? Reliability? Ease of set-up? The replay over time feature in CoderPad is really neat for the interviewer but I'd rather the candidate feel a bit more at ease than to have that feature.

BTW, love your product. We use it where I work! :)
AWS Cloud 9
If you work for Uber, it's not surprising that you only hear from drivers that do some work for Uber!
Wow, that's amazing. I've been following the GTD related space since I first got on IRC (about 15 years ago) and find more analog solutions (Hipster PDA etc.) so fascinating, but this one really wins.
Hi, I'm in Beijing, I have been here for ten years. We can meet in person if you want. I could be your local guide for free because I want to improve my English. My email is me at cpp dot io .

For your first question, you can setup an openvpn on Azure or AWS before you leave. Are you using iphone or Android? From what I know, it only works on Android and PC.
It's a civil suit, the burden of proof is only preponderance of evidence, likely decided by a jury.
Thank you, that helps a lot.
There are a number of add-ins that do just that. I've never used any of them, so I can't speak to the quality.
because your brain runs on same CNN software i.e. doing pattern matching, not image matching.
Yea...I should've asked in addition to that.
Both Xilinx and Altera^H^H^H^H^H^HIntel provides gratis tools for their lower end FPGAs, but those are plenty to implement an SoC, even one that can boot Linux. In particular Cyclone V A9 is a pretty impressive FPGA. Sadly, Intel decided to _not_ provide gratis support for their Cyclone 10 GX :(
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15821130
Ask HN: How do I build a chatbot for websites?
I have seen dozens of chatbots/NLP's SaaS which are great for integrating them into existing social channels such as Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Slack, etc. However, is there a simple solution to implement NLP such as Dialogflow or LUIS, IBM Watson for websites, which works "out of the box" in terms of cross-platform availability (Desktop: Windows IE, MacOS, Mobile: iOS, Android, and App SDK) and that is flexible in terms of UI?
You're saying that no drivers avoid Uber? How do you know that?
I've tried many times to switch to OneNote, but the clipper often fails to capture pages. That rarely happens with Evernote.
The article misses the key point which is worrying the Pentagon - if NKorea launches a missile, the trajectory goes over Russian airspace (the world is a sphere, so the shortest distance between NKorea and USA is over mainland Russia). If the USA had a missile which can intercept the ICBM, it would have to launch it very early and towards Russia if it stands a chance of hitting it while it is at it's most predictable trajectory and slowest speed. What do you think the Russian Nuclear deterrence program will do when it detects a USA missile heading towards Russia? Hint - it will fire 2000 projectiles back. There was a serious panel by serious military analysts about 3 months ago where they discuss the impossibility of stopping a NKorean missile since it's trajectory goes over Russia.
Microsoft AI
But its generating unique content in those areas...
I'm in withdrawal from giving up YouTube. What websites do you check daily?
This doesn’t render very well on mobile. I wish the Git team would write their docs as a .md so GitHub could render as HTML with word wrap in all its glory.
There will never be a new generation of offline neural nets. AI will need more and more horsepower as it evolves and that is more then what a normal household would want to spend. Cheap end devices are what the average buy is looking for.

Internet bandwidth and speed are increasing and cheaper which was the main reason for offline in the past.

There is also the fact that they don't have to support outdated or multiple versions of a server or distribute updates. The end devices like Google home, Echo and the video fire stick, Chromecast are basic input > send to server > output. That is cheaper to support. Plus you get all the data to improve your product.

When I was young I setup up my first Home Server. Much like an enterprise server. It had share folders, computers backup to it, print server. Though it was the future and in a decade every house would have one. Now a days they don't but they do have stuff like Google Drive and Google Cloud Print and many more options that give you those options in the cloud.
Uber Investor Shervin Pishevar Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women
Managed to elude that, though I did meet Pajitnov at GDC years later.
This will go as well as all the "Group Discussions" that many companies conduct go (aka not well). You are expected to treat other interview candidates as your friends and peers while you all know you are competing with each other. But you can't show that, so you resort to fake over-niceties and all to look friendly and sociable.

At the same time, everyone feels pressure to prove themselves over the others, so they will want to say something so that they appear intelligent and don't get lost in the background. Not everyone can do it equally well, so the more extroverted types will dominate and make the others feel like shit.
> Us programmers don't always make life easier for end users.

I'd go so far and say: We programmers often make life more difficult for end users.
ok.. this is revolutionary. Using the architecture as a way to capture an image prior hints at how network structure and captured invariance are related. By analogy it leads to thinking of brain areas as both hard coded prior knowledge through their natural arrangement and plastic learning structure. Turning the problem on its head shines a new light to how we could conceive network architectures.
It costs $4k/lb to get something into orbit. Maybe mining for use in space is the way to go.
I hear SpaceX might have some plans to build stuff in space in the coming years so there might be a ready buyer.
Not the same talk, but she's a treat to listen to - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42cvUqmEg2c
> I don't want to hire engineers who can only mimic.

How is a binary search not mimicry? Probably only 1 in a million people could figure out how to do it if they didn't already know how it is done elsewhere. The only reason most people know how binary search works is because they were taught it somewhere along the line.

Ask an interviewee how to Voronoi diagram the surface of a sphere or something. Then you'll see how things look when people don't do mimicry. You don't get original ideas by asking first-semester programming puzzles.
Export to excel is a great solution.
> ( assuming she is native born )

That's the key point. How do you prove this if your documents are shoddy?
For many years I was the contractor that came in to work with the Subject Matter Experts (SME) using Excel and Access, bypassing the IT department. My role was to review with each user their Excel and Access usage and make sure that we could make life simpler for them. If this meant automating some process they did with Excel then that's what I did.

Pharma company - took the manual Excel process and automated the living daylights out of it so that what the departing analyst took days to do would now be done in minutes.

Petrochemical company - took the reports being done in Excel by a petroleum engineer (each taking 2 hours to do each) and automated to allow him to do the reporting for 50 client companies in under a minute.

Whether Excel or Access, these tools will be used by the SMEs and nothing any IT department does will change this. What IT needs to do, is make sure that the models used are accurate and that the spreadsheets and databases are correct.

Most people who use either Excel or Access make interesting blunders in their creations and end up basing decisions on incorrect output from their creations. It takes an experienced and clue-in developer (IT person) to speak with and then analyse the creations to make sure they actually match what is required.

For those of us who do this kind of work, we must understand that the SMEs are those trying to use Excel and Access and that we are there to help them achieve the SME's desired outcome. The SME's need to understand that they are NOT SME's when it comes to Excel and Access, which most seem to never get this point.
Truthfully, I really just wanted to buy something instead of making CoderPad. I imagine it's certainly possible for floobits, or atom teletype, or something else entirely to get enough adoption to render our product mostly useless. We're nowhere near there, but I wouldn't mind that happening. We'll make something else or I'll switch careers.
Historic agreement on High Arctic commercial fishing ban
137 economists supporting GOP tax reform bill
You may be able to get away without re-recording most of your videos. The IDE itself is very similar to what was on c9.io (minus the extra new features and AWS integretions). But once you navigate in to an open environment, your tutorials would be easily followable. (fyi I work for cloud9)
Trump has been doing more to support the rebels (I'm not sure why the parent put that word in quotes) than Obama. Until very recently, at least, the U.S. under Trump has been using rebel groups as ground forces in the fight against ISIS. Obama declined to arm the rebels in any significant way, in part because weapons tend to end up in the wrong hands, and he great restricted air support to protect civilians. People on the right criticized him heavily for both and Trump loosened restrictions on both. I saw reports that the rebels welcomed Trump's election in order to be rid of Obama's restrictions.

I've never seen anyone with expertise say that arms sent to the rebels significantly helped ISIS, or that supporting the rebels undermined the fight against ISIS. I did see plenty that indicated that the support of the rebels was ineffective and/or insufficient.

>> That doesn't mean ISIS took the U.S. by surprise,

> Obama says it did

You said in the GGP, "I don't believe that something like ISIS took us completely by surprise", and I was allowing that you might be right.
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I'd encourage you to give others the benefit of the doubt. Without other evidence, that "perception of being passive-agressive" is only that, a perception.
Umm, dice rolling is in serial order in Settlers, but everyone has to pay attention in each turn.

And any one can get a come back at any time. Hasn't this ever happened to you? You get a lot of sheep/wool, you build a 2:1 sheep port, and exchange all the sheep for stone, etc to upgrade to cities, and so on?
Stop looking at my file system!
Thanks for the reply! So you can push an update to the python code that allows you to push an update to the firmware without prompting? Sounds like we still rely on the security of your systems to prevent malicious firmware from being pushed.
> "Naturalized citizens can be deported from the US."

Naturalized citizens cannot be deported unless the government first proves in an Article III Federal Court that they obtained citizenship fraudulently and the court revokes their citizenship.

Source: https://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/Print/PolicyManual-Volume...

> "Most americans have state IDs"

State IDs don't prove citizenship. IDs from States that don't comply with the REAL ID Act don't even necessarily prove legal presence.

> "But for american born citizens, that isn't a worry. It's a worry for immigrants - legal or illegal. Not for native born citizens."

Why would it be reasonable to have a system that "worries" legal immigrants? Should legal immigrants, especially naturalized American citizens, be harassed by the government?
Maybe the number of bad rides is low but the severity of a single one can be career ending. Didn't some politician recently get fired because she berated a driver and said, "Who are they going to believe? You or me?"

Policy is to address the combined impact of frequency and magnitude.
That is also a defining game mechanic, which sets it apart from other games.
Is OpenShift backed by Kubernetes now? I used them years ago and it was... not great
A lot of Googlers in Boulder went to school of mines so it can't be that bad.
Excellent article on the challenges of amateur detection of pulsars: http://neutronstar.joataman.net/technical/amateur_challenges...

It's possible, but you have to have your shit together.
How Easy and Cheap It Is to Manipulate Reddit Discussions
Certainly, but I'm actually questioning the efficacy of the barcode system in preventing shirking, not this individual's questionable choices.
I wish this was the School of Mimes wanting to launch the first Space Miming Program.
One of the best questions I've ever been asked in an interview is: "Can you explain what a RESTful API is and pretend I know nothing about programming but am familiar with web surfing." For the simple reason that it asks the interviewee to show mastery by using use clear, simple language to explain something that can quickly turn into a bunch of rabbit trails.
There's honestly nothing impressive about copy+paste data and basic cell manipulation and formatting - you could do that in Google Docs. Where Excel is really entrenched is in VBA scripts and macros that are written and shared

ie. what Shkreli is doing there most would do with MSXML + SEC feeds or with the Bloomberg Excel Add-On
Internet service providers like Verizon and AT&T are private companies as well, and recent events make clear just how comfortable we are asserting a "right" to fair treatment of all traffic through their service (as we should).

Google indexing fairly is every bit as essential to the maintaining equal opportunity for websites and businesses on the internet as net neutrality is.
By structure, we are simply referring to the number of layers, the number of neurons in each layer, and the specific connections between neurons in each pair of neighboring layers, right?

So in this paper, they carefully chose a certain structure, set the weights randomly, and then what happened after that? I understand that they did not then train it with a training data set, but I'm not quite getting what they did with the single distorted image.
Despite having obsessed with it for a while, for casual players I wouldn't use Dominion. Its main downside is that serious play requires too much strategy, resulting in too much heads-down thinking about your hand and not enough interaction. I'd rather start people off with Carcassonne.
Or AMD, or ARM
Yeah, that part is important but it’s not everything. A good interviewer would result in hires who perform their jobs very well, but as always the question is how to measure all that.

We don’t want to admit to ourselves that the choices right now are either strict adherence to a rubric (which likely has all sorts of false positives and negatives), or woo (which we convince ourselves isn’t woo by means of different obfuscations).
As cloud9 reaches more regions in AWS there should be very low latency options for everyone. I'm in Australia right now and on the old c9.io the closest servers were in Taiwan and it had a bit of latency. But if you're in remotely the same area then there isn't really any perceptible latency.
The main downside to switching the hash function is that, when explaining why developers should stop worrying about hash conflicts, we'll need to calculate a new analogy to replace the standard, 180 bit "every member of your programming team being attacked and killed by wolves in unrelated incidents on the same night" scenario.
A nice part of the Coderpad experience is zero-setup for the interview candidate. Being web based is a huge advantage here. I wouldn't want to waste any time debugging plugin issues, firewall configuration, etc.
Box, Dropbox, etc solve much of the problem
Key quote:

> "Some of the women who shared allegations of Pishevar’s misbehavior with Bloomberg had originally agreed to be identified by name. After his lawsuit, they withdrew their names, citing the legal risks of speaking out."
The t2 family are probably closer most of the time. Once you factor in burst credits and the fact that it's pretty rare to be running your cpu at 70-100% all the time on your macbook either, it suddenly becomes a lot cheaper.

You can't underprovision and resize local hardware, but you could start with a smaller instance and resize later if it turns out to be an issue.
I agree completely, and it applies equally to software engineering. It's how I interview. Now, if it becomes clear that there are gaps in their knowledge, I will spend some time on those areas so I (or the relevant hiring manager) can make a decision regarding if the trade-offs are something I (or they) can live with.

For engineers, that can sometimes mean an algorithm problem--but something they haven't likely seen before. The key here being that I don't want to see someone regurgitate a solution, but to understand how they think. If they can't solve a problem fully but can come up with a list of 10 extremely pertinent questions I intentionally failed to mention, that is good information to have.
I've seen such kind of "control rooms" where everything was running on VMs anyway and the individual computers were just remote desktops. It's like they say, when it gets too difficult, just add a layer of abstraction. They just went up to software.
It looks like they fit a (multinomial?) logistic regression. Unfortunately, the interpretation of the model coefficients is difficult because each coefficient is a log likelihood - therefore on a weird metric.

I would suggest to look at the odds ratio column for a coefficient that is more interpretable. An odds ratio of 1 represent equal odds of being accepted. A coefficient greater than one represents better odds of acceptance (e.g., a paper from a university is 1.5 times as likely as a paper not from a university to be accepted or, said in another way, a paper for a university has is 50% more likely than a paper not from a university to be accepted).

Coefficients less than 1 have a similar but opposite interpretation. For example, women are 0.78 times as likely as men to be accepted (or 22% less likely).

I wish they had reported marginal probabilities of acceptance because odds ratios can be misleading when marginal probabilities are small or large (e.g., if group 1 has a marginal probability of acceptance of 1% and group 2 has 3%, their odds ratio will be 3 but the marginal difference is basically negligible).
It is interesting to see this analysis about the progress a student sees throughout their career since the situation is fairly analogous in mathematics. Although I make the more audacious claim that a "standard" pure mathematics educations (at least in the U.S.) is not even geared toward preparing students adequately for graduate school and this is somewhat intentional. Throughout the hundreds of conversations I've had with professors in my department they have routinely espoused the opinion that all of their students are lazy, stupid, and do not deserve anything resembling a quality lecture. Many of the classes taught are simply a regurgitation of proofs in some textbook on the board with absolutely no intuition, examples, etc. given. If someone asks a question in an attempt to clarify a point, or even ask for basic help, I've found extraordinary pushback from faculty members. Typically this is done through moralizing the value of hard work, but what they end up actually saying is "get the hell off of my lawn!".

What's even more sad is many of the students hold the blind belief that the school will provide them with a quality education, but in reality the professors look to cut corners at every possible step. The students who then go on to accelerate their own education are generally looked down upon as well, unless of course they act as propaganda pieces as well and make sure not to go too far so that the professors don't look bad.

It's a depressing situation which will only be remedied by figuring out how to democratize mathematics education completely. Unfortunately, I've only seen such efforts at extraordinarily high levels so that only beginning researchers who have been lucky enough to get advisors as a top 10 university will be able to readily access these materials.
It's unproductive to make suggestions like this completely absent evidence of any sort.
> The rides that I have taken are not subsidized. Maybe it's not statistically significant but I have yet to see the subsidy in the major cities that I have traveled in.

How do you know that?
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Sure, at the price of violating the 5th Amendment (eminent domain clause). Also probably at the price of the future productivity of those 30% of companies (government owners usually turn out to not be very efficient managers).
I started off as a Physics major in the 80s before switching to Mechanical Engineering. I was pretty far along in the Physics curriculum before making the switch and one of the most interesting things to me was the different approaches to the respective upper division Mechanics courses.

The Physics version was the hardest course I experienced, spending hours coming up with closed form solutions. Rarely were any actual numbers used when solving these problems. On the M.E. side, once a sufficient set of equations were derived to model the problem we would use a computer to come up with a numerical solution that was close enough.

The Physics course had no tests and consisted of roughly 30 problems we had our whole college career to complete. The M.E. course had tests where we were under time constraints to present a numerical answer.

While the M.E. course was more "practical", the the I remember about the topic in general are retained from the Physics course.

All that to say that I think there is a ton of value to a classic Physics curriculum but most of that value is indirect.
it's different now but historically quants were not well versed in software engineering. If anything it would have been R 10-15 years ago.