skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if there's much of a leap required, honestly. The games that I play (Overwatch, Starcraft 2, and Dota 2) can all be played well (if not at a pro level) without great twitch reflexes.

I'd be surprised if we ever saw oldsters at the top of any popular esport, but I have no chance of going pro, and I can still enjoy myself and improve. I very much hope to run into older folks on the various ladders.
The suits will probably be settled in the single to double digit millions.
Previous Discussions in last few days:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15985775

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15981338
You could also experience these effects if you were trying to build weapons. Or a monopoly. Or lots of things.

The reason you haven't seen compelling evidence that regulation adds anything to technological progress is because it doesn't, almost by definition. Regulation serves to protect citizens - entrenched special interests too. That protection means funding space races and intense times of technological progress, or dampening an out-of-control feedback loop of wealth/power accumulation, or a bunch of things in between.
From the age - a fresh college graduate recruited into the consultancy employee/meat grinder.
Yeah this is so timely. I've been lamenting lately about the UI train wreck that is the current status of the web and about how it's nothing but a massive direct marketing platform.
The USA convinced every nation it's at odds with that they should pursue nukes when it toppled Gaddafi after he voluntarily quit pursuing them.
As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't fucking make him understand something his worldview depends on him not understanding.

Maybe that's not such an old saying, but I think it makes the point. In this day and age, a lack of basic scientific understanding usually denotes that the person simply does not want to understand. Maybe they work in oil and gas and want to believe their jobs are secure, or maybe they love Donald Trump, hate 'fake news' and are tired of naysayers saying nay.

Whatever it is, you likely can't convince them. But, even more frustrating, if your ideas scare the people you're trying to convince, there is a very good chance that their brain will enter a state where it would be very hard for them to learn.

So, if I were in your shoes, I'd just enjoy the holidays and change the subject. Then, if you're still feeling feisty, go home and listen to The Idiots Have Taken Over by NOFX.

As Fat Mike says in that song (and as you allude to in another comment), "there's no hope for democracy when ignorance is celebrated." It's sad and I wish that we could all do something, but shit, it's hard enough to convince people to pay attention when they're driving...

Good luck!
It's worth checking out Treemaker by Robert Lang. He is an origami master and his is the first of such programs. It's great to see paper-folding algos reach Blender 2.79, but I have immense respect for pioneers in the field.

http://www.langorigami.com/article/treemaker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15993345
Jingoism as in "Make America Great Again"?
Cancers occur naturally so you need an exposure model to give you an idea of what to expect, and then compare that to the background of normal cancer. Even assuming that he checked mortality records which I assume he must have, he still had to apply statistical filter to make it meaningful.
Well, if medications had more unique names wouldn't hurt either. Two separate antidepressants: Escitalopram and Citalopram. And pronounced, they sound almost the same as well.
Interesting. I used to work in a UPS hub in Colorado as a unload manager. As I was in "management" I was explicitly not in the union. Actually, having been a manager, even though 20 years has passed I can still never rejoin the union at UPS.

One time in my area a yard driver had backed up to the unload bay with one trailer door open. Trucks were usually loaded so full that opening both doors to a trailer would allow the packages to start spilling out. So they'd carefully open a single door to the trailer and back it to the bay and then an unloader would remove a few rows of boxes, giving sufficient clearance to open both doors without spilling. After those few rows were removed, we'd call the yard drivers and they'd come back and and pull the trailer out a few feet, open the other door, and then back the trailer back to the unload bay. We'd then unload the entire trailer.

During one of these movements, a few packages fell out of the trailer onto the ground. The driver simply unhooked the trailer and left it about 15ft off of the unload door with the packages just sitting on the ground. They weren't supposed to pick up packages. That was an unloaders job. I, as the manager, was supposed to get one of my guys out there to move the packages, and then call the yard drivers to come back, re-hook to the trailer and back it in.

Well, this time, I simply went out there and threw the packages back in the trailer myself. All of my guys were deep into unloading other trailers and there is constant pressure to get those trailers emptied and moved, so pulling a guy out of one trailer to come outside and pick up a couple of packages no small disruption.

Not 5 minutes later there was a driver and a union steward yelling at me with a grievance in hand. I was taking work from union employees by picking up these packages and thus had to allow the union employee his grievance worth 2 hours of his pay.

I'm actually shocked that management is out there delivering packages.
Will be quite awhile before that is as cheap and has as much bandwidth as those cables. The other disadvantage(s) is/are broadcasting your communication emissions in open air, weather or otherwise other types of interference (naturally occurring or deliberate).
> Actually, the battery in a phone is more comparable to the entire fuel delivery and ignition system in a car, not just the battery. Even fewer people could handle that work on their own.

So you know, there was a point in time where I just replaced my phone's battery. I bought the battery, opened the back cover, and replaced it. And it worked great. :)

The reason people take their cars to a service shop is one of convenience for things like batteries, not because it's a necessity created by the design of the vehicle.
I think it would even be fine to ask for help here.

You wouldn’t have to just ask for a mentor which is a pretty broad request, but could start by asking a couple of focused questions.

This would require a little careful thought about what are the biggest or next obstacles you’re up against.

Is it about the fastest way to get up to speed on a tech? Are you already good at backend work but trying to figure out the resume chicken and egg problem?

The point is just that, who here could give you some good advice might depend on the question, and it might be a useful excercise anyway to refine your focus on how you want to proceed.
That is an amazingly bad design.
I’d say that’s “autocorrect” rather than “spell check”
Author here. The plugin doesn't simplify the model. They don't match up because they are pictures of different pages.
> But are you saying there is NO way to improve one's position in life and income?

I never stated that was the case.

> That, if a path can't be shown repeatedly and reliably in a double-blind clinical study, there is no value in attempting to improve oneself?

Money, beyond a basic level of ~$1k/week is mostly useless other than speeding up retirement.

> Do you believe income is fixed, and that if you can't hit a five figure mark, well -- you might as well not try?

You seem to think money = improving yourself = important.

I'm honestly more worried about you as a fellow human being and the misalignment of your goals than I am about whether I make $10k a week or $1k a week.
DDoS Attacks in Cloud Computing: Issues, Taxonomy, and Future Directions
The last time I spoke with Google HR / recruitment was in 2015 and it was a mess.

Halfway through the process of doing eight interviews I was transferred to a new recruitment manager who wasn't given any of my information and essentially I started the process again.

The last and most senior technical interview I had consisted of the person asking me to write pseudo code into a static google document while I could clearly hear them answering emails / writing text messages with their phone. The technical interviewer also asked me if I had ever used Github before, which is ironic because I was cold contacted by their recruitment team due to my open-source contributions on Github.

Never again.
Did you mean Saddam Hussein?
> Also: He understands this, though believes Google still should have hired him. (Maybe they should: but probably for UX, not software engineering)

There is an insightful reply that touches on this: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...

As a former Google SWE, I pretty much agree with all of it, especially this:

> The being a dick part is an issue, if you were serious about that :).

Which is a good reminder that technical skills alone can be outweighed by attitude.
Ask HN: Is Java worth learning?
Or maybe you can suggest me some of bright-future programming languages, I just started learn programming last year.
Why does this keep getting re-posted?
Does anyone know if the data flowing across cables like these is typically encrypted? Does the infrastructure itself provide any defense against a submarine hacking into a cable and installing a device that can monitor traffic?

I would hope that the infrastructure could add its own encryption across the link to defend against unauthorized interception.
Please stop feeding this conversation between the two of you. Neither of you is engaging in good faith, and carrying it across threads is even worse.
Again, we keep asking you for proof and citations and links to your sources, and you keep calling people liars and deflecting from answering the questions. Until you post links to sources that actually prove what you say, instead of reciting anecdotes about how some mean old scientist ignored you 15 years ago, there's no reason for anyone to take you seriously, and there's a lot of evidence explaining why you're treated like an anathema.
look at page 17
PROOF OF EXISTENCE: Certify Documents on Bitcoin BlockChain
It was probably written, added, or altered by an editor, not the reporter.
Oh, I wish Chrome was the standard. Safari is such a crap browser with dev team unable to comprehend basic security models.
I've seen open houses for 1bdrms in Oakland, not all apartments but some of them would have them. From my experience they tented to be smaller and cheaper units that would rent easily.
Because the parent poster basically is ok with throwing money at it. But that won’t work. Not even close.

The NY Times started this earlier this year:

“Parts of the system are more than a century old; replacing everything would cost upward of a trillion dollars.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/nyregion/subway-service-m...
Languages are competing for attention and mindshare. It's important to consider new user experiences both from a marketing as well as a product improvement standpoint. Right now, javascript is winning.
Same with prop 13, you can make 2million/yr and pay $5000 in property tax on your (current market rate) $3M house.
I have seen multiple doctors, including sleep specialists, about my insomnia, and all they wanted to do is put me on prescription sleep meds for life. Those meds are addictive. I didn't want sleep meds. As a software engineer I was more interested in finding and fixing the underling problem -- there has to be one -- as opposed to the quick fixes the doctors were offering me. But that's not how doctors think, at least the ones I saw.

After much research I believe I have succeeded in finding the root cause. Cells in your body need calcium to go into ON state, and to turn OFF magnesium needs to go in and displace the calcium. Stress depletes magnesium. When your body runs out of magnesium your cells can't turn off. Then your muscles become stiff and when your brain cells can't go into OFF state you can't sleep. The solution that works well for me: magnesium supplements, especially magnesium l-threonate, which can pass through what is known as the blood brain barrier. This solved my insomnia as well as muscle stiffness.
I've seen people argue that autocorrect is part of the input mechanism of on-screen smartphone keyboards. The rationale goes, with a physical keyboard of respectable size, you make much fewer typing mistakes than with a virtual keyboard on flat glass where the touch targets are tiny. To compensate for the inferior precision, autocorrect comes in to figure out what you meant.

As a thought experiment, consider voice input. Voice input is often used when a screen isn't even available for feedback, so the computer has to figure out if it thinks it transcribed you correctly. To make the usability bearable (and to keep the computational difficulty down), contemporary systems don't ask you for clarification; they just try to transcribe your sentence against a dictionary. For the voice-controlled systems of today, "autocorrect" is definitely part of the input mechanism.
200 BTC * $15k/BTC = $3,000,000

You have $3m of BTC?
> Well, if medications had more unique names wouldn't hurt either. Two separate antidepressants: Escitalopram and Citalopram. And pronounced, they sound almost the same as well.

The names only sound confusingly similar to people unfamiliar with them - for physicians and pharmacists, it's rare to confuse them.

The similarity in the names is actually intentional and a feature. For example, erythromycin and azithromycin have the same suffix and similar prefixes, which is an indicator that, not only do they belong to the same class, but one is a derivative of the other.

It's been a while since I studied this, but based on the names alone, I would be willing to bet that Escitalopram is an S-enantiomer of Citalopram - ie, a mirror image of the drug (or an isolation of one of the two mirror images present in the latter). If you say it out loud, it's almost a mnemonic pun.

I could also guess that's an SSRI based on the "pram" suffix, though admittedly you made that easier by mentioning it was an antidepressant in the first place.

INN names (like citalopram) are actually incredibly well-designed for the intended user (a pharmacist or physician, not a patient). I wish engineering terms had the same level of consistency.

Edit: Turns out I was right. Both are SSRIs, and the former is the S-enantiomer of the latter.
Would you please consider that not everyone works in the same field as you?

I worked on a trading floor with a trader, early 30s, very profitable and well respected. Took a week off to go to the Mediterranean with his girlfriend (from what I hear, he proposed to her on that trip). Had his mandatory two-week vacation the next month. While he was away on that two-week vacation, I heard several people, including the group head, criticizing him behind his back for taking so much time off -- despite every trader on that floor having four weeks of vacation, two contiguous weeks of which were mandatory.

Just because something hasn't happened in your own experience, doesn't mean that it doesn't happen in other sectors. This guy was the right-hand man to his boss and he still got criticized for taking his mandatory vacation.

I once took a single day of vacation to finish moving into my new apartment, and I was made fun of publicly and criticized for it by a number of semi-senior people who weren't even in my chain of command.

Not every company has a culture of asynchronicity, and not every career path offers a healthy balance of work and life. There is also a difference between having vacation days, and being able to take them without hurting your reputation and compensation.

If people are depending on you to be perpetually present, prepared, and profitable -- whether as a trader, an executive, or any other role -- there's social pressure to minimize vacation. And that pressure is amplified in the culturally dog-eat-dog industries, I reckon.
Your were a student at a major university and they didn't assist with your immigration documents? Granted, I'm from Canada but when I was in grad school I don't know anyone of the other international students who had visa issues like that, although we didn't try to get other jobs beyond school, maybe that is the issue.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Blockchains (Part 2/2)
What cross thread conversation? My comment was about the general downhill movement of governments and that in effect what we see in China is being reflected everywhere.

I don't recall any specific conversation with DonHopkins.
I've taken to calling it autoincorrect. The prediction model for phone text seems to only consider word frequencies and blindly replace "were" with "we're" or its with "it's" every time it is encountered without regard for grammatical context. It's incredibly frustrating to type the correct word only to have it mangled by an algorithm that is less sophisticated than MS Word 95.
I found keras provided pretrained networks such as VGG-16 that worked well.
Makes sense if you let the locals control zoning decisions, if you have a house in your nice quaint suburb and are extremely selfish you probably would try to block condo developments.
Exploring Type Class in Scala: Conclusion
> Consultants with relatively high rates are not unicorns, any more than lawyers or doctors with high rates are. This is not just repeatable, this is a fairly reasonable career path, much like “work at AppAmaGooBookSoft” is a lucrative but well-trod career path. (Which, btw, have in-the-door offers for mid-career professionals which are reasonably competitive with running a full-time consultancy at $30k/week.)

You are seriously going to engage me with the argument that $600k+ (20 weeks of paid engagements @ $30k/week) a year in income + benefits is common?

I think you have a greatly inflated opinion of what the top 25% of software developers get paid let alone what is reasonable and repeatable.
Pretend you're the CEO of Functional Programming. Isn't this precisely the sort of user feedback you want to hear, to gain traction and marketshare? Your competitor, Javascript, is winning.
All true statements. I've been working at it, but then I watch my boss who is also excellent at it, and I realize I'm a novice still. In comparison I just get frustrated and wind up frustrating them as well.
This is a follow up to:
https://unwttng.com/what-is-a-blockchain
previously discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15497729
If you do raise that then it's no longer an argument against partial application or "high[er] order functions", since you can't really call `fn` partially applied if fn and x => fn(x) aren't equivalent.
They seem to have no problem autocorrecting brand names and trademarks. Why wouldn't they do this for something as important as medication?
I was recently trying to write HSA into Excel (as in "Health Savings Account"). Unfortunately HSA is auto-corrected to HAS. In Excel there's no way to undo the auto-correct, even if you backspace and retype it re-corrects. Even putting quotes around it in the cell ("HSA") will auto-correct to "HAS".

So now my user experience with Excel is going to Options -> Proofing -> AutoCorrect Options -> [Find HSA on the long list] -> Delete. I took the opportunity to delete them all.

Honestly if this software was written today I don't believe Auto-Correct would be implemented the way it is, it is super lazy with no room for false positives.
Nuclear weapons are currently our best bet if we need to get off the planet for some reason or defend it from an asteroid. For that reason alone I'd be wary of letting the tech rot completely.
I wonder how many people have already received the wrong drugs because of this.
And you can't withdraw anymore. [0] The whole trick was that Bitfinex could claim to have a price for USD, because they have a price for USDT, and the ratio of USDT/USD is 1. But since they've printed over 1 billion USDT without any assurance that they have USD to back them up, and now you can't withdraw at the source for the USD that they supposedly have backed in a bank somewhere, expect the value of USDT/USD to plummet on exchanges. Fun times.

[0] https://tether.to/wallet-service-and-platform-update/
[1] https://wallet.tether.to/transparency
NoScript+images off turns many sites into low bandwidth text.
New management. There was a reorg (coup) where tech is actively excluded, yet still the target of blame.
While the definition of working class (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/working_class) does seem to include everyone who works, it points out that it is "especially in manual or industrial work". Wikipedia consensus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class) also disagrees with your definition in that the working class are engaged in manual labor and not in any wage generating employment.

Further, most people who have adequate capital to sustain them are basically financially independent and could effectively retire, unless they are 60-70 and have been saving for years this isn't an accurate representation of the middle class, upper middle class, possibly.
Autocorrect is one reason why I am certain we won’t have working self driving cars any time soon.

Once I see typing correction that’s better than useless, then I’ll know to look out for driverless cars outside of the Bay Area..
If I recall correctly, the secret incantation to suppress auto-correct in MS Office is control+Z right after the correction occurs.
I'm talking about number of people able to do it rather than the specific individuals who have gotten into that position.
Non-functional for me as well. :(
Should be an Ask HN. And I'd probably look into Rust.
Facebook is mostly blue because he is colorblind
Command-line tool that reads a file and injects them as env vars
MAD worked when nation-states thought that nuclear weapons and their secrets should be protected at all costs.

If a nation-state is doing it's dirty work through a terrorist organization, MAD no longer works.
This seems similar, but somewhat different than UV auto-layout in terms of the restrictions on the map. For this mapping to produce a buildable object, each flattened face must have the same area as the 3D face, and the mapping from 2D to 3D must be globally bijective. In UV-mapping, given a set of artist-specified cuts, I do not think it is always possible to obtain an area-preserving and globally bijective map. Most industrial-strength UV tools also allow artists to rescale and deform certain faces (to make it easier to paint under fine geometry, for example), which would be wouldn't make sense given the end goal of this algorithm.
Take Walmart out of the equation for a second. Let's say an 18 year old breaks into an old man's house to perform some routine youth mischief, and in the process trips and breaks his leg. The old man catches him. He has a choice: call the cops and report a break-in, giving the kid a record, or sternly rebuke the lad and tell him that if he fixes the damage he caused and comes back to perform some other maintenance on his house, a little painting and power washing, mowing the grass for a bit, he'll accept the guy means well and just write it off what happened as a wayward joke.

Because what's really at stake here is that this crime is defined by acting against the victim's consent over his property. It's not that Walmart (or the old man) is empowered to dispense criminal justice; it's that the prosecution need the property owner to confirm on record that there was a violation of property in order to have any case at all.
It seems to be linked.

http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/recruiter.html
The better question is why the media is starting to distract you over there in USA with UFOs and Russians again.
Fedwire is AT MOST a day...usually immediate.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fedfunds_about...