skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't hesitate to try the API out by pasting some examples to the white box on the site and pressing the "Try it out!" button, it's interactive

Sweet, I didn't realize it was interactive. I'll give it a try!
Is that sad news? Surely he would enjoy the silence...
They're fortunately uncommon enough in my city that whenever I do encounter them, I make a mental note never to visit that particular gas station again.
That alas is the sort of thing that works 80% of the time and fails the other 80% of the time.
What was so impressive to me in that meeting was not the drama so much as it was that Steve Jobs made a decision on the merits to side with John on a technical issue rather than his longstanding and trusted graphics engineer. He overcame his original distaste for the T-shirt and made the right call. Most CEOs would have dismissed John’s comments or paid them lip service.

In terms of diplomacy and tone, Steve Jobs doesn't do well in this story. However, for intellectual and engineering integrity, he's in entirely different league from most US politicians. From what I've seen, the typical US politican would rather puff up and pretend their constituent's majority position is scientific fact than actually engage with science, fact, and expertise.

I think this is a good way to sum up his genius abilities: 1) An ability to see past consensual illusions to engineering and design truths and first principles. 2) A low ability to transmit such insights in a diplomatic way. (Though, given a position of power, his messages are unambiguous and highly persuasive. Effective != moral, however.)
What about Firefighters???
For seq read/write I've observed up to around 15000/2900 MB/s on i3.16xl and 2750/1400 MB/s on GCE w/4xlocal SSD
Scala + ML ... what are you using for this?
It was found, and now everyone is using that code base to iterate on new weapons.
Interesting point, but I don't think you give the Bible enough credit. (For the record, I am not a believer, but I take religion quite seriously.)

First, I don't think any Christian would agree with you that "The Bible is a series of stories, genealogy and poetry, not an argument, or a dialogue that attempts to illuminate the truth, or at least points of disagreement over the truth." Of course the Bible is an illumination of truth -- that is its very foundation! The reason that the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) are also called the "revelatory" religions is that they are predicated on the idea that God reveals something true about the world, something that merely human knowledge would otherwise never be able to obtain. This is what makes religion so attractive in the first place -- it promises us a truth we could not know ourselves.

Second, this revelation of truth encompasses both the "why" and the "how," to use your terms. You are correct to say that it gives a story for "why" one might want to live a righteous life (i.e., to achieve salvation and be judged in heaven). But it also gives a explanation for "how" one should live such a life. The most obvious example of this is the Ten Commandments, but also consider other popular maxims like the ones contained in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount. Or think about how Aquinas writes an entire treatise about the differences between natural and divine law, and how the latter is given by God and instructs us on the proper way to live. The Church doesn't just make this stuff up out of thin air -- most of it is grounded in the Scripture.

So, finally, is the Bible so different from a text of ancient philosophy after all? You say that it is not remotely like the Nicomachean Ethics, but insofar as both teach something about both the "why" and the "how" to live a good life, I am not so sure. (To use your criteria of evaluation.) If you're unconvinced, perhaps consider either Plato's Republic or the Gorgias instead. In both those texts, Plato presents elaborate reasons for "why" to live in a particular way, but then concludes with an elaborate myth at the end (the Myth of Er and the Judgment of the Naked Souls). Why does he do this? Perhaps because he knows that, for many, reasoned arguments are not enough to convince. Something like a religion (i.e., a myth) is necessary to compel the masses into living in a way that is good for them. Is that so different from Christianity?
Is whiteboard interviewing so bad that people would go out of their way to avoid it? I mean, I've encountered / can imagine horror stories for all the usual alternatives: a) take this 3-day long mini-project, do it using all of our preferred technologies (some of which you'll be using for the first time) and get it back to us - it should only take you 4 hours! Or b) do this on site, using our machines and environments which will be unfamiliar to you. Or c) speak to some random invigilator over Skype. Or d) do a written test, or e) take us through your GitHub collection, which may or may not exist, etc.

My preferred way of testing people was usually to try to get them to show me that they have thought about why they develop software in the fashion that they do. I would prefer to do this in person, at a very high level, but it often ended up being a written test (where necessary, the language was your choice, or pseudocode). Is this wrong?
Maybe get the touchpad instead then.
Last time I used a whiteboard was when I was re-architecting some classes and I mapped out the class and function names and how they interacted with each other. This enabled me to see what changes I would need to make/add to get the desired effect.

The time before that was for a database migration where I mapped out each step that had to be done and in which order.
Responding to your basic thesis that the ancients (by which I assume you mean the Presocratics through Plato and Aristotle) were right, what do you make of the numerous problems for which they proposed different answers? For instance:

- Plato's ideal government is radically communist, Aristotle prefers something more in line with contemporary common sense

- Plato's universals (i.e., ideals) are objects in a super-real universe, Aristotle's universals don't have such a privileged reality, and are debatably socially constructed

This is to say nothing of the various physical and cosmological theories that these philosophers had: each was (exaggerating slightly) fantastic, incompatible with any other, and impossible to reconcile with what we know about science in the 21st century.

These philosophers are incredible for their originality and intellectual vitality, but I don't know how wise it is to say that philosophy ended with them. I think the SEP's opening remarks on Aristotle's logic are representative of the attitude one ought to have for a lot of ancient philosophy:

> Aristotle’s logical works contain the earliest formal study of logic that we have. It is therefore all the more remarkable that together they comprise a highly developed logical theory, one that was able to command immense respect for many centuries: Kant, who was ten times more distant from Aristotle than we are from him, even held that nothing significant had been added to Aristotle’s views in the intervening two millennia.

> In the last century, Aristotle’s reputation as a logician has undergone two remarkable reversals. The rise of modern formal logic following the work of Frege and Russell brought with it a recognition of the many serious limitations of Aristotle’s logic; today, very few would try to maintain that it is adequate as a basis for understanding science, mathematics, or even everyday reasoning. At the same time, scholars trained in modern formal techniques have come to view Aristotle with new respect, not so much for the correctness of his results as for the remarkable similarity in spirit between much of his work and modern logic. As Jonathan Lear has put it, “Aristotle shares with modern logicians a fundamental interest in metatheory”: his primary goal is not to offer a practical guide to argumentation but to study the properties of inferential systems themselves.

> (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/)
Best job board marketing I've seen in a while.
Interesting that - a license is not required to purchase a car, nor is a car required to be registered unless operated on public streets. Even then, there are exceptions.

Insurance is not required in many states. In Virginia, for instance, one may put up a bond in lieu of maintaining insurance. There are no states to my knowledge where insurance is required to merely own a car.

Oh, and the penalty for failing to do any of the above is like $35.
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When my company posted a data science job we received something like 300 applications on the first day. When looking at them most were people with no experience but a fresh degree or bootcamp grad plus all the other people like you who want to change careers from software with portfolios of data science projects.

The field is absolutely saturated with people who want to be a data scientist but have no experience. This is where some of that gate keeping comes from.

The people who have it easy are the ones with a MS or PHD and years of experience doing data science work at companies under their belt. There are very few of these people right now.

There is this idea that data science is needed everywhere and there is a HUGE supply of jobs. As an example if you search for data scientist jobs at glassdoor.com in San Francisco there are ~2000 jobs. If you search for software engineer in San Francisco there are ~9000. Similar ratios can be found in any major tech city. Data science does not scale like software engineering in companies but the narrative out there is that this is the job to be in and there is this huge unmet need. It is all hype.
I've had something close to that, in the Mojave. Your footsteps are loud.
There are huge numbers of -80 freezers scattered all over first world countries in research labs and medical centres.
After it had dismantled a whole countries nuclear weapon program...
I work in recruitment within the EU and you are completely wrong.

Probably you can redact it so that it doesn't include the actual names of which interview panellist said what.
This isn't actually a new feature, but at least the thread is giving it some more exposure. It's been implemented on many browsers for some time already. I've for example used it for doing quick data-binding. It's really useful and more people should know about it.
Gifting this to a private company like spotify because they have more eyeballs and could invest more is shortsighted. Spotify won't be the leader forever by allowing anyone to listen the music it can he spread to more places and used in newer ways. Youtube creators, indie tv shows, corporate training videos, ringtones are current platforms that could use this music.
Can someone identify what font is used in the screenshots?
Enigmail 2 was not affected.
The ROI for compliance is you get to do business with EU citizens and businesses.

What EU security directive are you thinking of, regarding IP addresses?
What really gets me is when you pass all 6, only to be told that you did great but there are no suitable positions open.
The phrasing of this question is absurd. The most reasonable interpretation is "should ISPs be allowed to charge more for higher speeds", which is already the case, and has nothing to do with net neutrality.

Honestly, it's actually phrased in a way that applies to CDNs as well, which again aren't controversial or really related to net neutrality.

Net neutrality doesn't mean ISPs can't change more for better service; it just means they can't differentiate their service based on the type or source of the data that they transmit.
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I work for Apprenda. Sure, support contracts are an option but the Kismatic Enterprise Toolkit (KET) is completely Open Source and free. And you can get community support via the Slack channel: kismatic.slack.com
Didn't they buy Linksys? Don't they make their own line of home routers and modems/set top boxes?
I've got one better. Submitted an application for a company, didn't hear back. Got a new job in the meantime and about 2 months after I submitted my application, I got an e-mail from their head of HR, like not from a no-reply address but a persons specific e-mail at the company, saying they really enjoyed their time interviewing me and thanking me for coming out to their office. Only I never did any of that, never had received anything outside of the original confirmation e-mail that they had received my application. Probably the strangest experience I've had while looking for jobs. I actually e-mailed the person back in a reply letting him know he never actually interviewed me nor did I ever visit the office. His response was something like "Thanks for the heads up." Didn't even apologize.
Which is why they didn't invent the internet.
I ascribe this to a lack of understanding of how Internet protocols work and how the Internet works in general. Non-technical people tend to see the Internet as its services -- Facebook, Netflix, etc. -- and don't understand that protocol and traffic selectivity will have a massively chilling effect on the ability to innovate beyond those services.
Majority of those surveyed who are connected to the Chicago School. Literally the classically liberal school of thought of Friedman. So, we'd probably have to check if they're OK if they said anything else.

Also, I have issues with the whole premise of the question, as net neutrality isn't really about "for the right to send that traffic using faster or higher quality service". There's no magic go faster lane that they want to turn on, but can't because of regulations. It's about not allowing the ISPs to slow down other traffic.
Read the title - so disappointed this was not an Avengers - Aliens crossover.
GPDR solved
Look into pinboard.in

It’s what I use to manage my bookmarks, way better than delicious.
I agree it got quite crazy. I had several years experience as a data scientist and 2 years of PhD work in machine learning and after a few years not in software (running a non profit) it was incredibly hard to get call backs. I ended up getting totally burnt out on the search and the field in the end.
Its amazing to see people go crazy about this worm -- I mean how can someone think that that's the "most" sophisticated software. Come on, people.
It's interesting to see the comments of the disagreeing economists, which can be summarized as "paying for a fast lane would be okay if the broadband market was competitive."

So the problem isn't neutrality so much, it's the distribution layer itself.
HN crowd loves GDPR, so get ready for this never making to the front page.
I don't think there is any requirement to use real names.
Which other violation could cost me a 20 million dollar fine ?

Sure, they will probably don't give that fines, but they could, what if I run a small business that interferes with the activity of some other business run by for example someone that is friend or can corrupt the people in charge of doing the fines ? They will fine me for 20 million dollars, sure I can appeal, a normal trial in my country lasts at least 5 years, in this time I will probably go out of business...

The fact that they could it's a big problem, they should have specified a proportion between the size of your company and the maximum allowed fine.
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While it's nice to have more evidence, isn't this mostly accepted from just following general anthropology?

E.g. - homo-sapiens are considered smarter than homo-erectus and neanderthals despite having smaller brains .. evolution of the hypothalamus, etc.
I procrastinated my core courses and took Philosophy my last semester of uni at 22.

I'm so glad I took it that late. It was easily one of the best courses I ever took, of course with the professors to thank for that.

What did I get out of it? It got me thinking about all sorts of concepts, especially concepts I never would've thought about on my own. How do you quantify that? Who knows? I still think about Callicles from the Gorgias and how he'd observe some modern social phenomena and such.

But I think your posts are the sort of overfixation on "getting anything out if it" that the OP is talking about. It's a tempting question because it's usually unanswerable except in the obvious cases. But, for example, learning long division isn't helpful because you do it in the field (I haven't done it since school), rather it's helpful because you're exercising problem solving. Just like philosophy can exercise rationalism.
The thing that (finally) worked for me was to pick a language that I wasn't using at work (C in this case), and do a project in it using exclusively vim.

Once I learned the basics, I only use vim itself for commits and small scripts, but this made using vim /modes/ in spacemacs and VSCode practical.

Without the basic vocabulary it just feels like turning on 'cripple mode' while you're trying to get work done.

I'm still not an expert; I heavily reuse the same ~15 commands. I've found learning that vocabulary to be very much worthwhile.
Skid row 2.0 here we come.
The way the question is phrased seems likely to lead to misinterpretation to me.
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Look I see your point and I agree. However, having worked in a number of big companies I am really at a loss as to what is the right way to coerce a number of humans into the "right" direction. I have sat in meetings where ignorant executives have blabbered on and on about nothing because the company and CEO felt it was important to hear everyone out. This works if everyone at the table is knowledgeable and able to swallow their ego. You get people making ridiculous statements like we need to replace our database that runs the whole organisation. I have also worked in a company where the CEO cut people who were blabbering short, mostly rightly but rudely so. I think the two approaches have a time and place. There is probably no need to be rude but I don't know how one cuts someone off without being rude.
Really want to try kak but the lack of IDE plugins stops me completely. I pretty much exclusively use IntelliJ or VSCode with the vim plugin, especially in IntelliJ the auto completion is just so much better and so much less effort to set up than a million vim plugins.
I do not mind whiteboarding at all. I have three whiteboards at home for brainstorming. I draw the line at doing take home tests.

I cannot interview a company if I am doing a take home assignment. With whiteboarding, I get to also assess my potential co-workers abilities by seeing if they are asking interesting questions.
Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction
1917 US infant mortality was 14.1%, 2011 was 5.9. more kids are surviving overall.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4575212?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/252064/us-infant-mortali...
that's why I don't bother ML/data tracks at conferences. What's the point of these "ML for everybody" tracks?
This is a grossly oversimplified view of this issue. Next up: survey of economists show that our civil rights are hurting the economy!
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Back then, Americans didn't see it that way. There was a widespread suspicion that Catholicism was incompatible with democracy.
I think there's two different complaints at play in this thread. Surely you're not suggesting that candidates be exempt from proving themselves. The number of developers who become incompetent over time is high. I think the question is whether they should prove themselves through algorithmic questions. I'll never higher anyone just because they have credentials. A Computer Science degree is a credential, yet so many with that credential cannot write the simplest of programs.
If you have a side project that siphons personal information from people for no reason, then maybe the gdpr isn’t the problem...
You could turn that argument around and say "we had neutrality and got corporate giants like FB, Google and Netflix" so let's try something else now. If the internet providers could make more money by making Netflix pay that money could be invested to do other stuff.

Not sure I believe that line of argumentation either, though.
It seems many of the responses with comments base their arguments off of serving high-bandwidth users.

The question, IMO regarding NN is: "Is all bandwidth equal, and therefore pricing based purely upon metering usage, or is some bandwidth more/less valuable than others?"

In principle, I think all bandwidth is equal. But if you've got 2 or 3 companies using 80% of bandwidth (made up a number for sake of argument) then it damages the other 20% to charge equal pricing bit-for-bit because ISPs have to increase capacity solely to serve the larger groups. So I think the answer is cloudy.
I never said the regulations were bad. I just said that the guy closing his service is just one guy. If one person ran a soup kitchen by themselves and -- because of new regulation -- decided it was too onerous, I would say "Thank you for running the soup kitchen as long as you have. Have a well deserved break." I feel the attitude in this thread is "You ran a service by yourself for X years, and now you're finding it too onerous. You must continue running the service, because i said so". This seems like a weak argument.
So proud to be included in this. A lot of solopreneurs started with WordPress and moved to SaaS. I went the other way and still see so much opportunity in WordPress plugins, plugins-as-apps, and SaaS.
The linked page does not anywhere say what the editorializing HN headline does, that a majority of economists are “against Net neutrality.”

The question asked was:

“Considering both distributional effects and changes in efficiency, it is a good idea to let companies that send video or other content to consumers pay more to Internet service providers for the right to send that traffic using faster or higher quality service.”
This human ad cattle factory powered by Facebook is yet another scary, sad and unethical epitomization of the modern web.
Twins' genetic disorder corrected in the womb
Well it looks like an entire society decided that. Why does your view get to override theirs?
Basically because devops doesn't change much of the need for info on systems architecture - some (like using ELB or DO LBs) but not much. In the presence of proof of a change in HN, and the absense of evidence for a sudden adoption of AWS, I'll apply Occam's razor.
I think you can successfully migrate to vim modes by using less than optimal vim habits initially. I don't think anyone is going to go through the entire action list and instinctively remember all of them, and be able to use them at a moments notice.

As an example, my transition was something like this: I'd use a vim plugin, and use say 5- 7 basic actions + movements like `cw`, `c$` `i`, and keep it limited to that for a while. If you're frustrated, simple insert mode (`i`) is all you need to get back to your comfort zone. Pretty soon, you get those ingrained, and then start looking for other tricks to learn. A few years later, it's second nature and you're probably slightly more productive. Bottom line is that it shouldn't take you 2 months to break even, hopefully.
What value does a bachelor’s degree have if some kid can just learn ruby and JavaScript on his own and go make $100k/yr at some startup? Of course a degree has value but it is possible to provide value without one. This is especially true in 2018 when anyone can learn pretty much anything online, and download whatever papers they want online and read them. Your mistake is in thinking that somehow a degree makes you special. It doesn’t. It just means you paid for a head start. Anyone can learn anything you already know and they can surpass your skill, whether or not you have a piece of paper certifying your knowledge.
Think it was this book, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028529.do