skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since these systems all attempt to extrapolate future performance based on past experience, they are almost by definition an affront to free will.

The problem is that when something as important as someone's livelihood depends on factors outside their control (like someone else's subjective impression of their performance) then it opens the system up to corruption/gaming/extortion.

It's probably valid to keep a log of someone's employee history. But it must be under that person's control and they must have avenues for disputing its contents or expunging it in its entirety (similar to a bankruptcy).

If we go down this road, then it must be balanced by employer ratings such as payment followthrough.
Right but what if we didn't have to code anymore? Who would be reading it? Meaning, we don't worry about compiler readability anymore, we used to when assembly was fine tweaked etc. Just a thought. I work on full stack including front end animations etc but frankly its tiring and time consuming work to do that. Imagine if code was just you talking to it or showing it some whiteboards, then you would just talk to it again or show it other whiteboards. Code doesn't matter in that case.
Congratulations! I hope the product continues to be here in the future. The blogpost seems to be reassuring, but with acquisitions you never know.
MZ or ZM works

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_MZ_executable
Cool! We currently use dndbeyond in our campaign, and the DM manages some things for us. Would be cool to have this sync / import from DnD Beyond! This gives you a so much better overview of your character
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I enjoyed the article. Just want to point out briefly that the explanation given in the article of how airplane wings create lift is incorrect.

http://www.explainthatstuff.com/howplaneswork.html
Author is bad at math--says father is "in his 9th decade" but is only 82 and I have a hard time believing the guy painted starting at infancy.

Other than that, if creativity were the sole metric, I'd be sitting pretty, but no, I am judged by many lesser traits such as communications skills and other things that I totally suck at.
I'm not actually.
Open world semantics means that you can never assume that a fact that hasn't been explicitly given doesn't happen to be on some
server that is just temporarily unreachable.
If you combine this with a monotonic query language and inference engine, which never retracts facts, you get a GSet with pretty powerfull operations.
You can even arbitrarily cache facts without worry of conflicts.
ReasonML has two compilers -- a compiler that goes to JavaScript, and a compiler that goes to native code (the OCaml compiler, since Reason and OCaml share an AST/etc.) So if you want to use ReasonML with a web server, you have two options:

1) A native web server, or
2) NodeJS.

Because Reason can compile to JS, you can use with Node just like any other compiles-to-JS language. The claim here (which I have no opinion on either way) is that using a particular native OCaml web server with ReasonML is faster than compiling ReasonML to JS and using it with Node.
>Humans tend to eat always roughly the same amount of food (except if they can't afford it). So food prices generally inflate with wage increases.

Quite the opposite. Over the long term, food prices have deflated, and the variety has dramatically increased of foods available at a given price and a given distance from the point of production.
Yes. They might also get more sleep and sleep is pretty important for cognitive functions. The fact that sleep deprivation is a normal on campuses and even in hs is a travesty.

Not sucking at scheduling would also do wonders.

Also, some space to interact with the topic the way I want. Tell me whats needed by the end of the semester and let me study for it my way.
Yep - a 6.4 in central Italy with lots of old stone buildings would be very deadly. In Japan, it'd do much less damage.
You're right, and my grammar was indeed incorrect: I did not mean to say that it measure the impacts but instead that it measures the amplitude of the quake, and also describes the impacts (which may or may not originally be true, but is how I've always seen it taught in classrooms, at least where I'm from). I guess I did remember it being closer to the model of the Beaufort scale for wind strength (which is more about the description than an actual measure of speed, originally).

And of course it does not give a precise description of the actual impacts for a given event, but I don't think it's generally far off the bat. But I'm no seismologist.
Who is hiring R&D roles in the autonomous driving industry?
One could argue that autonomous driving is the ultimate proof that AI `works`. Hence it could be a much sought-after role for new grads and more experienced ML/AI professionals. However, with a myriad of companies betting on it, I'm not aware of a complete overview of all companies (startups included) working on achieving level 4/5 autonomy. This thread is dedicated to list all companies and startups hiring for both new grad and experienced R&D roles in the autonomous driving industry. Please include company name, job description, location, experience level - akin to the regular Who is hiring threads.
What are you using for UI, any framework (Polymer, D3) or just plain WebComponent?
The article mentions : These are the Instagram plugins you can rely on: Instagram Feed – the best plugin to create galleries and portfolios with pictures from Instagram;

If you read the deprecation notice, this will not be possible anymore after December, 11, 2018.
This would just give me huge anxiety. One reason I write things down in a todo list is to remove the anxiety of having to remember everything. I am happier with triaging my todo list myself, but everyone works differently.
There is Cheerp.
https://www.leaningtech.com/cheerp/
It's permission-less because you participate as a node in the network without anyone granting you permission to do so.

You don't have to spend thousands to be a bitcoin miner. You can use any old computer. Making a profit is a different story. Still, resources can be pooled together to buy a competitive mining rig for a few grand.

Even then, a few thousand dollars is realistically not a large entry fee for anything. Wiring your house for Internet access would cost around that much if it wasn't subsidized.
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A paradigm shift could happen and what's cool is that it could be entirely something new. This reminds me of the early days of the WWW when the first programming paradigm was Perl/CGI, then Cold Fusion, then Legacy ASP, and then ActiveX, and so on.

The possibility of some company creating, from scratch, a new web development paradigm, given everything we know today, is exciting.
GitLab has been doing an excellent work of integrating CI/CD tools with their code hosting solution; I'm guessing thats what you're talking about.

Specifically for Github, I believe they want to focus on hosting and developing (reviewing and managing) code and not on owning the CI/CD tools. They do provide many many integrations with different tools (TravisCI, Jenkins etc.). Which is a good thing: I want Github to be working on making code development better and remain agnostic of pipeline tools, which come and go as fashion dictates (OK I'm being a little harsh but my point is that I should be able to choose my CI/CD tools while having all my code live in Github).
So, what there is about visualisation?

I read your docs, and found nothing about how to actually render stuff to the page.
People tend to forget information that is not useful to them. The age old problem with school curriculum is so much of it doesn't apply to day to day or even professional know-how. Getting students to retain more information is pointless if there is no value in retaining the information beyond final exams.

The better pursuit is for schools to work on constantly realigning their curriculum towards what is necessary for modern life and employment. Drop the overpriced, poorly executed general education classes and stop hindering students from learning more about what they're interested in.
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I have a VPN at home.
I'm visiting Taipei at the moment. Received these alerts on the phone a few minutes before the earthquake woke me up around midnight:

https://i.imgur.com/v08yD9l.png
A simple but fun design.
The Peter Principle
I addressed Hyperloop elsewhere, but RE Mars:

> It wold have held more water, if they said it after making real tech breakthroughs

Going to Mars is literally the only reason they're in the rocket business. Like everything behind their breakthroughs, which they had a few - including landing and turnaround times - is meant to enable the Mars mission. They've been explicit about this since day one.

> stunts like landing a rockets

This is not a stunt. It's the real, practical, working, cost-effective rocket reusability. For the first time ever. Not sure what do you expect; em-drive? Because SpaceX booster landing is exactly how a technological breakthrough looks like (as opposed to fundamental science breakthrough).
His point is that if you are smart and have a good product, you don't need this book. If you aren't either of those things, Y Combinator doesn't want you and this book is helping you cheat.
> You really think people would be talking about "blockchains" if bitcoins wasn't worth thousands of dollars? Is there currently any notable application of this technology beyond cryptocurrencies?

Academic cryptographers and computer scientists specializing in Byzantine fault-tolerant distributed systems have been working on blockchain technology for several years now - since one Bitcoin was worth merely hundreds of dollars.

To put this gently: you're being very snarky and combative in this thread, but you do not appear to be familiar with the basic academic literature and engineering that has gone into very legitimate blockchain technology research. Obviously there has been an influx of uninformed, trend-following funding recently, but it's a serious mistake to conflate those parties with the totality of work in the field. In fact, I gave two specific examples in a reply to another of your comments.
Congrats! I've used codeship for awhile now. Was sad to see the live chat/help go.
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Amazing, despite the fact that some heavy-lifting is done by highcharts and hypergriid.

What's missing for this to effectively kill all typical BI tools like PowerBI, Tableau?
The target of this service is very much NOT people who would know how to use IRC and know where to go on IRC to ask a question, nor is the type of question which this service is aiming to answer easy to ask over text.
Will defer to texodus on that - he is the front end expert here.
So basically Google looks at the terms of the software license that applies (GPLv3) and throws them out. Well that's a bit chilling.

My question is, would they fight to protect the GPL licensing of Android if someone infringed it? To be consistent, Google would have to say no, but it's going to be one hell of a hard sell to convince me that Google would let that go.
>"Is there any intrinsic meaning to life?" - a nihilist would answer 'no', and it seems to me that 'mu' would be an obvious copout.

Yes, it does seem to me that "mu" would be a copout. A binary question about a well-specified (you could say, meaningful, ahaha) concept should not be answered with "mu".

>Is your point that the word 'meaning' itself is meaningless?

No, more that the kind of people who ask "is there a meaning to life?" are underspecifying the word. I think it would be useful to have a companion here to "mu", meaning, "Your question is so vague as to be meaningless."

An easy way to see the issue is to ask: what would it be like (whether that's what we really experience or not) for there to definitively be meaning in life? If you can't answer that, can't ground such a basically humanistic question in even potential human experience, then I charge that the question has become meaningless, and should thus be either refined or discarded.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312501
Do you think the accusations against McKinnon are rubbish?

Under alleged crime: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon
Might be worth mentioning gumshoe[0] as well, which is fantastic. I use it to capture bindings without thinking about it (using the automatic plugin for development mode - no overhead for production!).

Often times I run a long-ish/effectful function (web request, network request, etc.) and wonder what the value was somewhere in the function, but unfortunately I didn't have the foresight to do a (def -my-value value) ahead of time.

With gumshoe, it's all automatically captured, so I can pop the values into my repl and play with them to understand what happened.

A few examples:

user> (deft add-ten [num]
(+ num 10))
#'user/add-ten
user> (add-ten 2)
12
user> -add-ten-num
2*

user> (deft destructure-example [{:keys [a b] :as args}]
a)
#'user/destructure-example
user> -destructure-example-a
1
user> -destructure-example-b
nil
user> -destructure-example-args
{:a 1, :c 2}

Anyway, it's quite surprising how often this saves my bacon. And it pairs very nicely with cider indeed!

[0] https://github.com/datodev/gumshoe#gumshoe
The fundamental problem with schools is that they’re run by professors and teachers, who have almost a pathological aversion to teaching people anything useful.
True, but I was also hinting at the fact that the other reported article does not really provide much in terms of reporting.

Also, this is HN: pedantry is built-in. Not saying it's a feature, but I guess it was a manufacturing defect I've gotten accustomed to. I don't mind. To each to have their own filter :)
comparing the biggest crypto exchange by volume to a nigerian scam is kind of extreme imo. The tech is there and they have always delivered. Yes they don't have an audit and I hope they produce it but govs do crack down lately.
You are right, you never know. I think CloudBees is trying hard to do it the right way and ensure that the result is better products for our customers. That means doubling down on both, Codeship and Jenkins and figure out ways to align the products more (eg. Codeship pipeline configuration and Jenkins pipeline configuration).
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Yes, but there's a "see first" option and you can turn on notifications on activities:

https://imgur.com/a/xZTQk
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What if GP was working for Grammarly and wanted to avoid detection?
Kind of related to this, what do people think frontend developers will be doing in five years, or, where will they migrate to as frontend (either via tools like this or like AirBnBs SketchToCode) becomes more automated?
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Page wide, Precision core.
Great catch. The site was quickly hacked together this weekend and I should've just localized the assets. I'll fix that up.
Sorry replying to my own thread... I was just thinking, it all comes down to your will. Who will have the greatest will and orchestration of all these AIs combining them together. That will be the next thing, well its already happening.
> Drop the overpriced, poorly executed general education classes and stop hindering students from learning more about what they're interested in.

I remember more from my first-year philosophy/communications/ethics classes then I do from half of my CS curriculum. I didn't have much of a classics education, but presumably, the value of it is not in learning the classics (Nobody actually gives two rat's asses about the the themes of the Illiad), but in learning how be analytical.

The purpose of general education classes is to turn us into better people, and the purpose of specialization classes is to make us employable. I think Silicon Valley could use a lot more of the former.
> I personally stay far away from password managers

I am curious how you manage your passwords.
He also indicated he understood that one might not want to detail their network security measures in detail. ;)
A lot of indices are something like "Top [N] stocks weighted by market cap in [industry/region/country]". You could call those stocks 'picked', but it's not as though someone is doing some deep analysis of the companies' fundamentals or trading history in order to decide which stocks make it into the index. I think that type of analysis is the kind of thing most people think of when they hear about 'stock picking'.

Yes, no index is perfect. But most of them provide more diversification than the average person would be able to achieve by manually managing a portfolio.
One thing I don’t see acknowledged in the enthusiasm for rail-based public transit is its propensity for cascading failure. A road network has the very nice property that a disabled vehicle can coast off the road, or only block a subset of lanes, leading to a “graceful” degradation and creating backpressure that encourages other drivers to take different routes, which exist. It isn’t fun, but it’s a pretty amazing resilience story compared to alternatives. Many commodity parts, failing in ways that the system as a whole recovers from. You would think software engineers would be more positive about that.

We build train systems in such a way that if any component fails, the entire network is fucked. There’s only one way to get between A and B, and if it’s blocked by an emergency situation or the failure of some bespoke part, no trains will pass until the situation is resolved. From a distributed systems perspective, that’s horrifically bad engineering.

Maybe there’s some way to make rail networks more road-like in this way, or to build better bus systems that people will enjoy and embrace, but as it stands, the differences in failure modes motivate drivers to stay in their cars.
Reading my comment again I explained rather poorly. I was thinking each user would have an income of 1 help token a day, which they could then use as a reward to those who help them, and the helper could then use the points they earned as a bounty to encourage others to help them in turn. Maybe something between Yahoo Answers and Steem?

Hopefully if the tokens had a somewhat stable value, it would be somewhat difficult to convince people to give you the token versus being able to generate them easily.

So say those dozen freshman have 100 tokens saved up, and give you 5 a day for a week of tutoring, you wind up with 420 and can then reward someone later for a somewhat proportional amount of help. But if I just pool my tokens together with someone else, we only generate 14 tokens over the week.
You know, I'm not sure that I consider unions to be the gold standard for economic advice for the country. For what's good for the unions, sure. For the country as a whole? Not so much.
J.P.Morgan is not "the stock market" and financial companies are not software companies. They are not selling software. They are selling financial services.
Not all tasks are designed to be done in one day, or the same day. For that reason I won't be using this app, but appreciate and respect its purpose and possible utility to others.

However, I think other todo apps could use this as a great April Fool's joke to put people into a momentary panic to get them thinking about all the stuff they should have done. When they logged into the app they it would be blank with a "what happened to my stuff?" link which directs them to an announcement they allegedly received in email about the changes taking place and then after a minute it could revert with the April Fool's message. That might get people thinking about their procrastination.
I'm in Denver and would love to help out.
Are they from a specific service, or it's a national/governmental system?
The Greatest Leap, part 5: Saving the crew of Apollo 13
This is why excel is king. just give me a grid with all the data and a pivot table
I'm not sure that slowing things down would necessarily work well in science or math fields, but I can name what I think would: focus on doing rather than reciting. The best calculus courses twin it with basic physics, showing not only how the material is used in-context, but its aesthetic qualities and what it sets the stage for.
I think the only part of Android that's under GPL is the Linux kernel. The rest is under the Apache license.
Yes.

This goes to basic misunderstandings of the goals of education. At the collegiate level, the goal (opinion statement) of education is creating deep understanding, higher level thinking, and life-long metacognitive and learning skills. While this may incidentally occur via a philosophical model of pedagogy that is driven by transmitting information, that approach is massively inefficient.

Giving more information is not the same as creating better understanding. Creating better understanding requires time and practice. The phrase of art in educational research is Deliberate Distributed Practice...DDP.

But you have to structure courses around it. The best method known is backwards design. Backwards design involves clearly identifying learning goals in advance and then backing out from that the appropriate content, pedagogical approaches, and assessment measures to achieve those goals. These things must by systematized and cannot be simply flipped on by teaching a faculty member basic elements of using active learning in the classroom. That won't work because such faculty members still hold a view of education as transmitting content, which is an entirely different paradigm in which lecturing actually makes rational sense.
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Keylogging is just the beginning. Any (and many) browser extensions have the ability to record everything you do on every page you visit. All it takes is specifying the <all_urls> permission in the extension’s manifest and adding some event listeners.

It has to work this way or browsers wouldn’t be truly extensible. Be mindful of which extensions you install.
Does it fallback if Window.WebAssembly doesn't exist, or does it fallback if WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming fails?
Presumably, the point of using WASM and service workers is for performance, but I see no benchmarks. I also have trouble imagining that this actually improves performance, unless you’re doing all of your compute in the browser and it’s CPU bound (this seems like bad design).

What is the performance of doing it this way vs. without WASM and workers?

Until we see numbers, this smells like a recruiting play.
Wish we could see more software being developed like Bret does it. Been looking for years and still haven’t encountered anything with that degree of freedom and flexibility. His platform game demo is amazing!
Honest question: is anyone else sensing some defensiveness here? The timeframe is open to debate but what's more controversial is whether html/css is near the frontier of solvable problems. After AlphaGo, my worldview is changed forever. Glad to be still being valued for something I started out of joy but in no way feel it's not disruptable. Sometimes I even wonder why it hasn't advanced further since it's quite well defined, digital data in/out.
>I remember more from my first-year philosophy/communications/ethics classes then I do from half of my CS curriculum.

Davka to disagree with you, I think that might just mean you had more life experience before going into those classes than most people do. IME, formalized humanities material really needs to build on, well, some basic foundation of personal worldliness.
on one hand, I'm pretty ok with this, it helps more understanding that "hey, you're several security patches behind!" rather than just hiding the information in a build number.
what's not really clear at least from the article, how will new APIs be rolled out with this faster release cycle?