skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps we should have more of these:

> When you have a patron that wants you go out and follow your curiosity, where ever it might lead, that is great.
Which thankfully got IBM banned from Queensland government use. [0]

[0] https://www.itnews.com.au/news/queenslands-ibm-ban-lives-on-...
“It comes down to the luck of where your ancestors settled,” Wilson says. “Or where you bought ground.”

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/08/vanishin...
As someone who as managed large off shore teams in India I am just going to file this one away under "duh".
I'm not so certain I agree. For one, I don't think corporations this large should be able to entirely subsidize entire mature businesses (and control them) period. That's the force they exert in the market that's anti-competitive. If an alternative isn't economically viable, than the business just isn't there.

Given the little I know about Facebook's server infrastructure, they don't really have the capability to deliver a "Baby Youtube" anytime soon. They don't have the physical space available for the hardware they'd need and if they did it would rapidly be absorbed by their larger teams who need it already. Plus they just don't do high quality video well. That combined with the visibility limitations of the feed don't really make it a great platform for self-branding, unless you're willing to shell out major cash for promotion.

Amazon makes more sense as Twitch is already a good analogue for Youtube. It also pairs well with their budding media empire. That said, Twitch actually brings in money -- it doesn't depend entirely on subsidy to function.

I think what I'm getting at, ultimately, is that hosting your own video content probably shouldn't be free. I'm sort of tonedeaf to complaints over the streaming Adpocalypse because these streamers/person-brands exist purely through advertising subsidy in the first place. If the quality of your content is good, it's worth paying for distribution (and/or self-hosting) because you will see a return.

So it turns out that Vimeo is probably the right choice. Reviewing their content guidelines, it seems as though most of the commercial content that has been kicked off other platforms fine as long as it isn't spammy or sexually explicit.
> The only high level language at the time was FORTRAN, but this system was apparently written in assembly language.

No direct insight to the actual system used, but FWIW IBM mainframe assembly IMHO seems 'surprisingly' user friendly due to the large amount of standard macros/routines provided, clear/direct integration with JCL, and the minimalist ethos of the OS. Take a look at some youtube videos for some examples, it actually looks like a fairly interesting/productive, if arcane, environment. Writing clean/well architected applications in it doesn't actually look like it would necessarily be a ridiculous notion.

Of course, how well any given production system was constructed and what cruft has accumulated in it over 50y is probably another story..
Well, there's an in-between sort of status, where you're not a "developer" or a "software engineer" but you're not a "network/system admin" either. Maybe your title is "programmer analyst" or "systems analyst" for instance.
Network effects?
IT != SWE
Yeah it might add up to a few thousand dollars. Maybe 10. Oh and a week or three of time. No need to send a sizable team of people. I'm being a little flippant but really - it's not an insurmountable expense. Contrast that with how much time and effort tracking down obscure sources across all of western pre-industrial history?
A friend of mine left a profitable company because he was tired of dealing with offshore engineers. The company's strategy was to have a few people in the USA and have other work done for cheap in India; where they got what they paid for...
Exactly, I think the semantics & interactive mode of programming have a lot of value, and it’s a shame they seem to get less attention than they deserve just because the notation is inscrutable to newcomers.
Looks like the perfect solution to my resume. The latest iteration is in HTML/CSS, because it allowed me to easily get the exact layout I wanted (so painful in LaTeX...), but getting a consistent PDF was a challenge.
Because you think he would eat a healthy meal otherwise and only has that kind of junk from McDonalds?

> “on Trump Force One there were four major food groups: McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza, and Diet Coke.”

> Trump was also apparently demanding of the in-flight snack selection. The plane was regularly stocked with “Vienna Fingers, potato chips, pretzels, and many packages of Oreos because Trump, a renowned germaphobe, would not eat from a previously opened package,” the Post reports.

https://www.eater.com/2017/12/4/16733356/trump-fast-food-die...

I'm sure he's such a healthy eater even though people who have worked for him say otherwise, that and the fact that he is obese.

http://kwotable.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_6083-1280...

How can you offer an opinion to the contrary when you don't take 5 seconds to google "fast food" and "trump".
I doubt Randall Munroe of XKCD created it, but he certainly popularized it on internet with his free speech comic.

The confusion seems common to America, where the constitution is seen as the source of the rights, rather than as a document referencing pre existing ideals.
Texas is more diversified from Kansas' farm economy, in addition to having a huge agriculture base, Texas is probably #1 or #2 in energy production/consumption in the USA. As long as oil is not in a slump, Texas can coast while other places without the natural energy resources would suffer. A large number of decent middle class lifestyles can be supported with or without a college degree with work around the oil fields. Even with this natural advantage, there was a staggering amount of underfunding for public schools statewide in Texas over the decade that the GOP has been in power in Texas that will mimic what happened in Kansas. The legislature continuously moves more and more of the onus of public funding to local property taxes and decrease the amount of funding from the state.
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/28/texas-am-lori-taylor...
This is just a matter of perspective. Usually the hypothesis you set up is indeed the null hypothesis, and an observation to disprove the null is what you "seek".
I have no idea how good this “study” was or representative, but there’s a clear agenda in the “reporting.” I’m sure there’s validity in looking at the Tata’s of the world with skepticism and abuse of visas, but no one with credibility could look across the top talent of Silicon Valley and say it’s not important to get Indians work visas.... or those from any country, really. It’s a strategic advantage to get the world’s best talent in and wanting to stay in the US.

Also, when the word “IT” does not exactly sound like top engineering talent.
The 95% number seems high. I'd be interested in seeing the test, but I'm sure it's proprietary.

>Over 36,000 engineering students from IT related branches of over 500 colleges

Well they're students. In my experience you build most of your chops "on the street." I would hope they wouldn't include freshmen or sophomores who haven't even really dug into the major curriculum (assuming their colleges work the same way as our accredited ones).
That's not really a specific counter point is it? The backing foundation is a non-profit that is backed by individuals, presumably they need a day job (not remote?) in order to be able to keep the organization running.
If you say "all basic research is good and needs no justification", you can't thereby get rid of the threshold for what gets funded. You're just refusing to talk about what the criteria may be and what they should be.
Scuttlebutt Regarding Apple’s Cross-Platform UI Project
Eltoo: A Simplified Update Mechanism for Lightning and Off-Chain Contracts
I spent 9 years at my first FT job out of college at a hedge fund known at the time for culling the bottom 10% of performers annually at the time. That long of tenure at a place with that reputation has openned more doors than it has closed, especially within the finance industry. Lately, I've been getting 4-6 emails from local recruiters per week.

An aside, even when you spend that long in a single position, you do need to keep learning on new and relevant technology; I attended every on house training seminar I could, which helped a lot, and spent a good portion every day reading. I spent 7 years at that company in the same effective role, and never changed job titles, but saw a >200% increase in take home pay in that same period.
Oh, I thought that gene was Irish. Best way to get me to do something is to forbid it. I started flossing the day they stopped recommending it.
How do those claims not mean anything? They sound pretty clear to me.
I don't know where "here" is for you, but any systems person that's been employed in the last 5 years should be able to write syntactically and logically correct code. At least that's my experience and expectation from working in the North Eastern part of North America.
Regarding the latter point: one of the goals of modernizing the system is that it should give the IRS the capability to implement a modern fraud detection system, or calculate your taxes for you (if Intuit ever lets that happen.)
I don't think a normal founder would refuse $19B acquisition offer - it is a very big number. I don't know anything about Jan Koum, but he has already pocketed his billions. So whatever signal he gives by leaving is pretty clouded.
Its not confusion, its a specific talking point used to advocate pro-censorship ideology. Arguing against the 1st amendment would be arguing against american values - this conveniently side steps that association.
How can the problem of limited resources to support scientists be improved by increasing the number of scientists?
I work on compilers for a living, which means I have a first-hand impression of the fallout of "the semantics seem clear until you actually think about all of the corner cases." I also have an appreciation for compilers blindly doing the wrong thing when you start mixing weird constructs together, and bitfields are very much a weird construct.

The last rule is a recognition that bitfields are weird constructs, and their interactions with other weird constructs are likely to cause problems. One example: try using a bitfield in a ternary lvalue operation, especially with clang.
It happens in other VMs. It can happen without a VM if whoever wrote your platform’s memory allocation system hasn’t read anything from the last thirty years (“first fit” versus “best fit”).

I remember hearing about a server program that worked around this problem by creating two memory arenas. All allocations came from, say, arena A until it was full, then they came from arena B. That’s the whole strategy. Things were still deallocated normally. The basic idea was that by the time arena B was full, everything in arena A would have been cleaned up normally and the memory allocator would have coalesced adjacent free memory; in other words, the strategy was to guarantee the allocator had a chance to clean up fragmentation (usually the allocator doesn’t need the help, but this approach guaranteed correct behavior as long as everything was eventually cleaned up; i.e., there were no classic leaks).
Reduced or flat revenue (most likely online ads) not being enough to sustain the German and Spanish editions. English / international website is probably the only one that is still profitable or breaking even.

Totally my guess btw, not what Engadget said (or didn't say) in their post.
Thanks for the references. I'll read them when I get time.

On a side note, it seems bizarre to me (as a layman) that economists still debate the the nature of banks and the creation of money, given they are the foundation of the economy. Kind of like physicists not understanding thermodynamics, or something.
I found it in the YouTube playlist from the event: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL055Epbe6d5aP6Ru42r7h....
The portion of network and system administrators that can write compliable, functional code is high. Amongst those that hold degrees, it's likely near 100%, as almost all courses include multiple programming modules.
Wittgenstein's achievements are unparalleled in twentieth century philosophy.

Who else in that period can say that they comprehensively ruined the discipline twice?
Isn’t answering a question functionally the same as falsifying one of the possible hypotheses held in he question? Yes falsifies one half, no the other.
Today a graphic chip is also good to compute ultrasound images. I suspect that you can even do it on a CPU. I'm not sure if it is that practical to process in a FPGA if you want to compute non-potato image quality: you would need to handle tons of data by the FPGA, so either use a gigantic one (with a ridiculous price) or somehow page the data (but that's quite complex to do then...) -- this seems way more difficult than simply addressing the GiB that are avail in any modern CPU/GPU.
Thank you (Percona Founder)
The old saying goes: "if you can put a price on your morals, then most likely you didn't have any morals in the first place"
If you try to scrape the bottom of the barrel pay-wise, you’re making the wager that someone good enough to write solid code doesn’t know enough math to know that they could get a 3-5x raise by going to a company paying a locally competitive wage.

We get excellent results overall from our teams in India, but we also pay quite a bit over the bottom of the market there...
The psychomotor vigilance task (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychomotor_vigilance_task) is the gold standard for alertness testing. It's practical for the police to administer it during a traffic stop.
They did a great job avoiding taking too much funding though!
It is on point, as people are able to telecommute to cooperate and produce a large, complex product.

The fact that it is organized differently than a traditional manager/worker org chart may be an interesting factor in its ability to successfully operate in a decentralized manner.
I realize it's kind of a popular opinion on HN to shit on managers as only valuing "face time" and poo-pooing telework, but as an individual programmer, I find working at home without face-to-face interaction with product managers and designers a major pain in the ass. I can have a design discussion much more effectively with an in-person session than remotely. Of course, when I just want "get shit done" time I love working at home, but if I actually need to have a lot of interaction with other people I find it much more efficient to do it in person.
An amazing portable US is soon coming from Butterfly Network. The transducer plus DSP is on a very large integrated circuit, and it can do breathtaking stuff for a device of this size and cost, like real time Doppler US (show blood flow in the image).

https://www.butterflynetwork.com
> the industries that made these cities what they are are mostly gone now
These cities often have attractive qualities for other industries, and with enough foresight these cities can position themselves well to succeed in the future. Many have been; e.g. Pittsburgh shed its steel roots and now is home of a leading health care industry, and a burgeoning tech one.
Business insider says 327k drivers were active in the month of Sept 2015

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-doubles-its-drivers-in-2...

and WSJ says there were at least 160k by Jan 2015.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-touts-its-employment-oppor...
http://www.businessofapps.com/data/uber-statistics/

Not much hard US-specific data after that, but lots of people speculate it's around 1M drivers now.

https://therideshareguy.com/how-many-uber-drivers-are-there/

In any case, these 103 sexual assault cases were over 4 years, or about 26 cases per year. Uber was giving 1.67M rides per day in March 2016.

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-says-its-profitable-in-t...

That works out to 608M per year. By now, it's probably doing at least a couple of billion per year, but even if we use the 2016 numbers that's one case of assault every 23M rides. The average ride is about 6 miles and the fatality rate from driving is 1.25 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles, so that means one traffic fatality every 13M miles.

So a passenger is at least twice as likely -- and probably more like 10 times as likely -- to be killed in an accident than to be sexually assaulted by the driver.
This is why I don’t like when emoticons are automatically replaced with emoji or graphical emoticons. If I had wanted a standard face I’d’ve used one! It’s definitely a hack, but you can illustrate a lot of nuance with textual emoticons/kaomoji that you don’t get from standardised emoji. Unfortunately, emoticons also suffer because systems weren’t designed for them—for example, I use :P in a sans-serif typeface to express exasperation, irony, “oh come on”, that kind of thing, but in a serif typeface it looks like it’s smiling, which changes the tone completely—and sadly, this has become the standard way of rendering it as an emoji. If there were an easy way to embed small images in digital “plain text” we could do this kind of inline illustration with much more reliable conveyance of tone & intent.
What do you do for wifi?
I wish atlas allow transferring over our Delaware c Corp to them. They launched around 3 months after we incorporated :(
It's old news. It starts out saying: "A new report by Aspiring Minds.." The report is not new. It is a year old. Can you get that into your head?
Is there any information regarding methodology or is this just shilling for their assessment services?

The stats show that most programs had syntax errors. I don't think it's fair to ask someone to write strictly correct Java/C#/C++ using pen and paper.
I've created probably over 100 video courses, hundreds of tutorials (written and video), for networks like TutsPlus (Envato), DigitalTutors, Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com, and my own site / yt channel.

I've always been a huge proponent of example-based learning, and less about theory and generalized concepts.

Still, though, I think the online tech ed space has a lot of growing up to do. In time, we'll all wise up to provide better experiences for learning. Until then, for the most part, we're stuck with:

1. Google: "How to do X in Y"
2. Watch 3 different videos or read 3 different articles
3. Apply it.
4. Run into a snag.
5. Google / Stackoverflow
You'll find living this way to be difficult and frustratingly annoying.
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There's no shortage of adwall sites, which is pretty much the evolution. Outsourcing of ad fraud is their bread and butter.
Modern bike seats pretty much eliminate this issue.
Los Angeles Metro to launch UberPool like service
Isn't this essentially the uuid() function that many databases support natively (even the black sheep MySQL)?
Facebook monetizes Whatsapp by limiting its growth. You can easily think of all the “social” functionality Whatsapp could have added in competition with FB and Messenger.
I am invisible in my mind when I'm riding. In fact, the one thing that catches me off guard is people yielding when they shouldn't be yielding - drives me crazy, and throws off my game.
this is a (poorly) written article about bob dylan.

why did you share this. this is insipid.
If there is really nothing we can still do, the best thing to do is to go on with our lives, and forget about it.
T-Mobile and Sprint: all the news about the merger
Watson is a brand name. Specifically It's the Machine Learning brand name. Watson Developer Cloud is the product suite and it's just a set of pre-trained classical, machine learning, and deep learning based APIs for a variety of tasks. NLU(UIMA) text identification, NLC(Fuzzy String Matching), Visual Recognition, Tone Analysis(VADER), Discovery (Document Database + NLU + Knowledge Graph), Speech (STT/TTS), Text Translation (Literal not Semantic), Assistant (Conversational State Engine with embedded linguistic neural net). We're ahead in some aspects and a bit behind in others. There is also a generic Machine Learning Service which allows you to train Classical or Deep Learning algorithms and push them to a rest endpoint for production use. Ultimately the "Watson" from jeopardy was sliced up and pieces stuffed into various products. Anything with a smattering of AI/ML gets the Watson brand on it. I personally hate the Watson commercials as people who don't know anything about the subject think Watson is this singular sentient entity. Those who do know about AI/ML know we have the same general tech as everyone else. One benefit we do have though is petabytes of training data and expertise in just about every line of business on the planet.
There is another side to MyRocks/RocksDB Story - Compression

With a lot higher compression than possible with Innodb MyRocks can be in memory (File Cache) when Innodb workloads are already IO bound. Plus you can save a lot on disk storage (and IO if you're paying for it)
Who is alive today who is representative of life 500, 1000, 10000 years ago?
Gorogoa: The Design of a Cosmic Acrostic
Yeah it's pretty hard to tell as a bunch of factors are mixed up and interact. I kind of know the deal with Buffett - he did well partly due to strategy and partly due to being very smart and working very hard. The letters to shareholders are kind of an after effect.

Also he's changed strategy over the years as the low hanging fruit in the areas he's operated in have disappeared.
HEARING IS BELIEVING innovation provides a richer browsing experience for blind
The benefit of LSM for Write workloads is a lot higher with large data sets. Optimizing BTREE in memory is cheap, BTREE on disk requires a lot of IO

LSM however does not require as much disk IO for inserts even if data is much larger than memory
Visual Studio 2017 roadmap now available
Aiming to fill skill gaps in AI, Microsoft makes training available to public
What was the motivation for 10 year vesting vs the more widely used 1 year cliff/4 year vest out?
Yeah. Innodb is heavily optimized for PK lookups.