skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious about this embedded tweet:

> I've been twitter following the careers of people we interviewed but passed on at my last gig.

> Turns out we were almost always wrong.

I wonder how they established that they were wrong. How do you evaluate someone's performance at their next employer from their tweets alone?
Sounds like you may like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16597329
That’s weird... I live in NYC and get my Vyvanse prescription delivered by Capsule. Haven’t had to drop off a paper prescription in years. Different local laws? Or maybe it’s because she’s a minor? That sounds frustrating, sorry you have to deal with that.

P.S. While we’re on the topic, if anyone’s interested in a libertarian perspective, check out Jessica Flanigan’s 2012 JME paper “Three arguments against prescription requirements”: https://jme.bmj.com/content/38/10/579
The question we have to ask ourselves is: "Is emotion perfectly aligned with our incentive maximization?".

By now, we don't have an coherent answer as our main method of value assesment is money (whose value is shared as a belief).

Also, before we proceed we should try to strip our incentives of every trace of emotion, which we'll assume as flawedly disposed against us, as it lags by millenia behing our rational brain, which makes most emotional feedback futile nowadays.

We should first strive to develop a framework that encompasses and evaluates every aspect of existence (which money can't capture yet), and then deny our emotions and work towards achieving the goals of said framework. That or wander aimlessly on this planet guided by our hormonal responses and never leaving the Solar System, just living by our feelings. Unless, of course, we'll manage to reduce the lag of experience-emotions to one comparable to that of reason.
Ideally, you want both.

That's a perfectly reasonable question for the candidate to ask. Why would you want to do that? You'd want a damn good reason to go "off the reservation" and build something like that. Plus, the reason and detail for wanting something like that a) might be the wrong approach or b) might have an impact on the final solution.

Either way, it should lead to an intelligent discussion.
They are!
This is the result of AT&T's massive debt and the corruption of US politicians. AT&T is able to bribe the state and local governments to prevent any broadband competition and has gone far into debt to gobble up competition.
So what you’re saying is, learn from those most likely to get into car accidents, rather than the least likely?

https://article.images.consumerreports.org/prod/content/dam/...
I don't think that 'slow' is the problem here: C++ developers use shared_ptr almost everywhere, which is just reference counting and hence slower than if they were to use a garbage collector (yes, there are garbage collectors for C++).
I think the problem is that the cost is unpredictable. They want absolute control over _when_ things happen.
I actually agree that we need an underlying moral framework.

Just for fun, what is your underlying moral framework?

Mine would be population and economic growth, environmental protection, and disaster avoidance.
From a consumer adoption standpoint, the only thing standing in Amazon Register's way was a lack of marketing.

As a merchant, it was amazing. They offered promotional rate of 1.75%, which is basically impossible to beat for any small business.

For context, Square and most "simple pay per swipe" merchant service providers charge 2.75%. If you go out and get a really good deal from a intrchange+ provider, you might be able to get your rate down close to 2%. But Amazon Register got you below that with significantly less hassle, no subscription fees and a $0 equipment cost.

My wife used it at her small business for a year, and during that year I loved getting proposals from other banks and merchant service providers. Many had an offer like, "Let us audit your merchant fees, and if we can't beat them, we'll give you a $200 gift card."

I always gave them the opportunity to try, but with the caveat that there was no way they could beat our current rates, and I wasn't going to take their money when they failed. Mostly, I just never heard back after they realized I wasn't BS'ing about the fees we were paying.

If Amazon Register had been more widely promoted, they could/should have been able to get every credit-card-accepting small business in the country signed up at least for the promotional period. I'd love to see some kind of post-mortem to explain why they didn't.
I used to be an Apple fanboy when they were the only option in town for a usable UNIX laptop. Which, quite honestly, hasn't been the cause for a long time.

I love my Dell XPS Dev. Edition (9350). All stock intel hardware, everything works (except the track-pad touch detection, can be flaky sometimes) and Manjaro Linux absolutely flies on it.

The build quality of the laptop is outstanding. The only thing that I'm not in love with is the webcam placement, but not a deal-breaker.

It cost me $999 2 years ago and feels as snappy as my 2015 top-of-the-line Macbook Pro that I use at work.

I'm not saying it's better than the Apple/OS X combo in every way, but it's a great overall machine and Linux doesn't suck on laptops anymore. There's no need to put up with Apple selling you 2016 hardware at 2018 prices and an OS that isn't that special anymore.
It depends too much on the context to give a general answer what to do with it. It can easily not even be an "error," like in the first example on this link where you're simply testing the strength of a PRNG. Another would be if you're writing something to represent reals in decimal and you want to see where your number loops, like 1/7 = 0.(142857).

Examples where it's not desired, and what to do: Detecting infinite redirects in browsers and stopping the loop. Detecting thread deadlock and terminating the process. Detecting looping references in an Excel spreadsheet and showing #ERROR in the cells instead of letting the process hang forever.
How Twitter came out of it's tough time in 2015/2016
Just yesterday I was talking with my teacher about how he was tired of students (and parents) asking if he would add x and y languages to the curriculum.
Immigration laws? Sufficient social mobility to build the requisite contact network? It's not quite as easy as hanging a resumé out on github.
Basically, the US is a good place to stay and work and make a lot of money that you can save up, but it's a terrible place to have a family. So if you're a foreigner, it pays to just retain your foreign citizenship, stay in the US a while and save up a big nest egg, then eventually go back home to settle down and have a family and enjoy living off your nest egg.
I have personally become weary of ridiculous patents over extremely trivial items that the average person considers obvious. These pissing contest stifle new and improved technologies built upon older ideas and makes it impossible for new startups to enter the field.

The entire idea of patents is sound, but the rules we play by need to be revised... hopefully our nations lawmakers will one day see how destructive the current rules are.
Well what other "economics" are there if not "trickle-down" economics? How else, exactly, does wealth get from the rich to the poor if not through employment?
I don't think this a dumb question, ELBs on AWS are stupid expensive for what they do.
Nothing medical, just investor fraud.
Most parsimonious explanation; conservative adherence to old fashioned liberalism (aka "I disagree with what you say, but fight for your right to say it" kinds of sentiments), which is no longer really a part of the left.
Any. "Architecture" has nothing to do with that. SELECT COUNT(*) is usually "slow".
> The query translation and hydration overhead of transforming the data into objects even in a fast language are always going to be problems

No they are not. Have you measured this in a real-world application? This overhead is negligible compared to the cost of the query itself. And without an ORM you still have to load the data into some kind of objects or data structures before you pass it to presentation, you will just have to write the code yourself.

But yeah, lazy loading in a loop will kill performance. So don't do that.
It's used in micro controllers, drones, some cameras etc. the whole point of my post is that apple should make a line of laptops that caters to people like artists, photographers, engineers, etc. They used to, and it was called the MacBook Pro.

A perfect example of this: I was recently at EDC, a massive music festival in Nevada, and one of our lighting displays had its controller stop working. I had my laptop with me, though, so I installed the control software on it. The comical part was that I had to plug I first a dongle to get USB, and then ANOTHER dongle to get Ethernet (controllers like this talk over artnet).

It was just really annoying. It felt like I was using a fashion device for work.
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More like franchisees.
I also was a "power user" with some Nokia/Symbian bullshit that had "thousands of apps" and it was absolute garbage compared to my first iPhone. For a normal person.

Let's stop romanticizing the cell phone market pre-Apple/Android - there's a reason the rest of them folded and effectively died or went into obscurity within a few years.
Wow, my first HD was 420 MB, and it fit Windows 3.1, the Office suite, and a lot of games...
Those have ubiquitous replacements. USB and flash memory don't.
Yea.... no thanks. It doesn't even have vital social features like looking up a past event (because pictures). I tend to have to use the website. I uninstalled the Android app and now I just use the mobile website in a browser. I do have messenger installed cause that's what I actually use.
It does. The only problem is getting more granular - if you have a medication that is administered throughout a day, you'll have to handle that yourself.
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I wonder if any of these folks will have a hand in improving the Github commit graph, now that Microsoft owns it?

As great as Github is, I've never understood why they still have such a hard-to-read, horizontal commit graph while competitors like Stash/bitbucket/gitlab have all had beautiful vertical graphs (like shown in this article) for as long as I can remember. I think this is especially valuable for newbies who are less inclined to get similar viz at the command line, but still useful for vets when they (inevitably) end up in weird branch situations.
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> Western Europe and most of the Anglosphere are very socialistic

Literally none of the Western European countries are socialist. They are all market economies. As the Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said:

I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore, I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.

Similarly Jeffery Sachs notes:

The eastern countries must reject any lingering ideas about a “third way”, such as a chimerical “market socialism” based on public ownership or worker self-management, and go straight for a western-style market economy...The main debate in economic reform should therefore be about the means of transition, not the ends. Eastern Europe will still argue over the ends: for example, whether to aim for Swedish-style social democracy or Thatcherite liberalism. But that can wait. Sweden and Britain alike have nearly complete private ownership, private financial markets and active labour markets. Eastern Europe today has none of these institutions; for it, the alternative models of Western Europe are almost identical.

> Countries like Venezuela and Argentina have been a mess under... "economic liberalism".

On the contrary. Those countries have fared much better under economic liberalism.
Hi Jon,
Thanks for the great release!
Your post mentions support for JupyterLab, but getting Plotly working in JupyterLab is not working smoothly at the moment (see https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-renderers/issues/132). Is this something you guys are looking into?
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I was thinking about that too. Maybe because that candidate moved on to another company doing XYZ, and they tweeted about it or already made an impact somewhere else.

EDIT: But really, I think its subjective or FOMO thinking on their part.
Also, an up to 80% reduction in the biomass of fish stocks over the course of the past couple of centuries.
Reason (an alternative syntax for ocaml developed by facebook) has special support for react and soon react native (https://github.com/jaredpalmer/reason-react-native-web-examp... and https://github.com/reasonml-community/bs-react-native)
Source?

That doesn't make sense. They would then need to make sure "Real Good Fakes" products are cheaper than what they send... At anytime "Real Good Fakes" can ask for his stuff back and that has to be "Real Good Fakes" stuff or there may be a big problem (used vs refurbished vs new).

They automate everything, there's no way there's no barcode for this kind of thing.
Is the entire idea of software/design patents sound?
Haha wow, thanks... now I'm going to freak out every time I feel gentle hair on my body!! :-)
Anyone has thoughts on 'quiet eye' and programming in general. What is the focus scope ?
Hi Jon,

Just want to say I absolutely love plotly. It's made data science and visualization fun again. Thank you for all your hard work!
I was tickled to see that the multicore memory allocator they're implementing is based on the multithreaded memory allocator I worked on in grad school (http://www.scott-a-s.com/files/ismm06.pdf; https://github.com/scotts/streamflow/).
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Consider Macbook Pro waking up from sleep.

The screen may appear and the mouse may become responsive: that's time to interaction.

The box input will still be inactive and/or touchid will not yet work: time to first input.

It's very important to know when or how users are hindered from/during using your product
They were interviewing for the "social media handler" position
Why would I move to any of those places when everyone that already lives there is getting exactly what they wanted when they chose not to build a dense, livable city? The residents of those cities chose to build a place that I don't find desirable. It's pretty unreasonable of you to expect me to move to one of those places and immediately start campaigning to change how those people want to live to suit my lifestyle.

In contrast, the place that I actually want to live, Seattle, has everything that I need in a layout I like except that I can only afford to live on the outskirts in a crappy neighborhood. If they would let people build 6-story buildings in better neighborhoods then it would be perfect.
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Anyone else seeing something weird with the scrolling and layout in this article? The big black bar at the top covers about half the page.
> Remember when the eclipse was happening and they actually did a pretty good job of removing all glasses which weren't safe?

Only after people let them know they were not safe and not within a reasonable timeframe for people to order replacements.
Build a Google Home App with PubNub Functions
Bird has officially raised a whopping $300M as the scooter wars heat up
Congrats on agility !

Is there a specific algorithm name i should look for for this degree of "background color being so damn right" feature ? I plan to add the feature to my app also.
I'm tempted to print it and put it on the wall.
OP did not imply that someone making 5M/year was not better at capital allocation than the government, but rather just implied a different measure of "better".

For example, there is a good chance that said individual would invest the money in more regulatory-capture extraction schemes. In this case, we would be better off if those resources were just straight-up wasted by the government proper.

Of course there's also a good chance that the government would use it to fund their own citizen-hostile totalitarianism (eg the NSA). The point is that the general heuristic of government inefficiency is inapplicable.
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> When they ran the resulting code, they found it was 40% faster and used half the memory. This points to a persistent myth that Fried has heard: Python 3 is slower than Python 2. That may have been true for earlier releases of Python 3, but it is definitely not true now, he said.

I wonder why that is? My theory is that it has to do with the new Unicode encoding; if 99% of your strings are ASCII compatible, the new encoding will be twice as efficient. Seems unlikely that would account for all of it though.
Personally, as a customer, the "new" way of doing it is irritating, usually somewhat broken, slow and usually unreliable.

I wouldn't be surprised if non-techies couldn't give a toss if you're using a traditional MPA with a sprinkling of ajax for the bits that really need to be responsive or a total SPA.

I'm beginning to suspect the only people who want a SPA are the programmers. Has anyone even got any proof that a SPA is better than a MPA in terms of customer satisfaction? It seems to have all originated from a technical need rather than a customer need. I still prefer doing most thing server-side and then sending snippets of html to update the bits on the page that need updating, occasionally using client-side view templates/JSON, depending on the case.
My mother, sister and I are applying for Italian citizenship so we can move and work in an EU country more easily. My brother is a university student in Germany with no plans to return to the USA.

For my partner and I the drive to move to the EU is the opportunity to have a good family life. A reasonable commute (30 mins or less, and the option to bike or take public transit), a modest home, reliable childcare, and predictable healthcare. Your current life is our goal!
Sure, but it isn't biased censorship. It is censoring attacks against individuals regardless of their origin.

If the Clinton campaign ran an ad that was targeting Trump in a similarly negative way and Twitter allowed that, then it would be bias.

But so far I haven't seen that counterexample.
And caused a sea change for the industry and Garmin's business model.

Garmin's automotive segment revenue has dropped from $2.5-billion in 2008, to $700-million in 2017. [1]

They've been able to largely make up for it with revenue from other sources, [2] (mostly outdoor/fitness) [3], but I'm sure that shift and innovation was driven by the event you mentioned.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/217901/net-sales-in-the-...

[2]https://www.statista.com/statistics/217907/net-sales-of-garm...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/217905/revenue-distribut...
I didn't claim it was rocket science nor that developers shouldn't learn these skills; only that optimizing a database is out of bounds of what most would consider "basic relational database theory". But beyond that, lots of developers aren't interfacing with a relational database. In a past life, I worked on embedded electronics. Other people work on operating systems. Others specialize in compilers or graphics or etc. Databases are a good skill to have, but it doesn't mean everyone should train like a web app dev either.
>> We've positioned machine learning as a replacement to curation, but what it really does is put forth the least objectionable content.

> I don't think the problem is with ML. You could easily train a net to make boulder selections with an appropriate data set. I believe what you are seeing is an accommodation for the average person. Most people aren't adventurous, and it makes business sense to get algos working for the middle majority than to cater to tail ends.

You literally just said the same thing the GP did while ostensibly disagreeing with him: ML curated content caters to the lowest common denominator - i.e. the content that most people would be okay with.
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How about "obsolete"? "Deprecated"? "No longer supported on this hardware"?
I was a happy user of Arch+i3wm on MBP 2015.
Interesting? Do you just use a Bayesian model? Or do you have something more complicated?

Also I'm in Canada and your service is going for the interesting price of "CNaN / month"

https://i.imgur.com/VUPc1oM.jpg
Insurers already do that and also limit how many prescriptions they will cover outside of mail order delivery.
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I haven't looked into this specifically. Using the FigureWidget approach in 3.0.0 doesn't actually require the current @jupyterlab/plotly-extension. It's all contained in the new plotlywidget extension.
Sadly, this occurs far more often than you might think. Large companies especially do it to themselves given how they structure their teams with developers and DBAs being on different teams and reporting to different managers. (i.e. you can trace their respective management chain separately until just below the C level) These reporting structures are problematic since large companies tend to hire people with very narrow skillsets which makes it vital that these groups work together. The end result is that you have teams throwing things over the wall to each other not knowing or caring what is happening on the other side of the wall... dysfunction by design.
> Makes sense that these small Alpine valley cultures want to speak the language their ancestors have evolved over the millennia, not some newfangled mashup.

That sounds reasonable, except for the fact that many, if not most, of the modern European national languages are in fact, newfangled mashups. National language standards are by and large the invention of the past few hundred years, where they either took a single regional language and called it the language language (such as French) or they kind of "mashed up", artificial standard (such as German). And yet somehow, these languages eventually took hold.

If Romansch doesn't die out in the next century, it's highly likely that a single standard will emerge.
How I wish I lived in that world. Here in the US, my wife recently had a nightmare situation where the insurance company insisted that they didn't cover a certain cost because they didn't know what it was sure, the hospital insisted that they had never assessed the cost and so couldn't explain it to the insurance, and yet somehow everyone seemed to agree that the never-assessed cost nonetheless absolutely had to be paid.
How is it based on the political opinion rather than a choice to keep negative attack ads off of their platform.

If they apply the same approach to different political campaigns it doesn't seem politically motivated to me.
Cool - Houston, then.
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Usenet's classic problem was that it amplified the most extreme voices in any conversation. Extreme voices and unpopular opinions are different things. You can be extremely polite in expressing an unpopular opinion, and get upvoted on HN.
Oh, that's a great improvement in and of itself then. Thanks!
> anybody from any background could have gotten into the same advanced degree program

Well, I assume there were some residency and academic requirements. (a taxpayer funded program that only benefits those of us smart enough to get into grad school constitutes a "privilege," but I digress)

> In fact, the program was super diverse in terms of race, gender, and socio-economic background... very intentionally so.

It sounds pretty great. I think, circling back to the "am I living in a bubble?" question, you need to realize how unusual that really is. It sounds like the kind of thing people who are concerned about this stuff would really like to expand and make available to more people.