skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a more recent description of the Actor Model and associated work, see the following: https://www.amazon.com/Inconsistency-Robustness-Studies-Logi...

Also, those who will be in London on November 9 can come to my Code Mesh Keynote. See https://plus.google.com/+CarlHewitt-StandardIoT/posts/BXSZ7Y...

It is fair to say that the implementation of Actors is still in its infancy. There is a startup in Silicon Valley that is attempting to remedy this situation. They are looking for expert programming language and run-time implementers ;-)

Older publications are obsolete and unfortunately many of them have errors (including my own!). I wrote the Wikipedia article on the Actor Model but am no longer allowed to update it :-(

Actors are very well defined up to a unique isomorphism by axioms.

The reason that Actors can perform computations that Turing Machines cannot is that the Turing Machine model left out message passing.
From the doctors I know, there are far more women than men working less than 40 hours a week (for what passes for full/part time in the medical industry, which can have some heinous working hours in any situation). I attribute this to the following metric - if you're in a career where even part time work is >100k USD a year, having free time soon becomes more valuable than extra money. Women seem to understand this, or at least aren't stuck in the "your job is your life" rut to burnoutville that many men get stuck in.

It seems like the solution here is "get more doctors through medical school if some want to work part time", but instead they came up with this discriminatory solution.
That's how we do it for Japan and Germany.
The contract is, by extension, guaranteed by violence. You can have private security firms. (I'm not saying that it's good or bad, just that it's a possibility).
I do not disagree with you that there is a huge vacuum in the market for a good meme making app and that this will be extremely profitable for whoever gets it right and is able to execute and build a large user base.

That being said, as someone who has been making memes for 6+ years I can tell you hands down no mobile app will ever compare to the power of photoshop, or GIMP for that matter. Even if it was possible for a mobile app to do everything photoshop can do, the small screen size and touch screen interface is a huge issue that can't be solved without plugging a mouse + keyboard into a tablet, at which point, just use a computer.

There is an interesting phenomenon that the younger generation is so enamored with mobile apps and devices that many of them don't realize how certain use cases/work flows simply are always going to be way better on a desktop or a laptop. I would characterize your comment as saying its possible to profit off of the ignorance of a certain subset of today's 15-25 year old's when it comes to this fact.

I know there are so many brilliant people in this generation who are going to be sick nerds one day. But lots of others only interact with computers via their phones and don't even realize how silly they are being by refusing to make memes on a laptop.
Unfortunate that an otherwise strong article slips up with "accent removal" - there's no such thing as speech without an accent, even if the idea is common (presumably due to faulty inference by naive individuals about what an accent is!)
True. "blazing-fast" sounds almost like a pidgin variant to me.
I thought it was cold that did that? Or is it both?
> what's our goal for today?

The same as it was yesterday or whenever the last planning session happened.

Like TFA said, the team, as a whole, shouldn’t be changing priorities like socks.
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Seen some of this before, but glad to see it again.

Your site is well done - I particularly like the timeline overview of your life. Everyone should do one of those. I've been obsessed with 1995 era Yahoo/DMOZ link directories lately - your site reminds me of a little directory to your life. I don't know if you track heart rate and stuff like that, but I was honestly glad it was more of a summary than an exhaustive data dump.

Thankyou.
Agreed. I have read a bit about Skunkworks and they are really good at building planes quickly but the SR 71, the U2 and F117 are all very difficult to.maintain and/or tricky to fly. Not suitable for mass production and use.
Japan does have a rapidly declining population because of the extremely low fertility rates and the increasrd aging putting its workforce into welfare reliance. I suppose desperate times call for desperate measures?
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Hello :) First off, glad you like the idea! You nailed it! One of the pains in my previous agile teams was exactly this, dropping audio / choppy videos, interrupting standups. Everybody still standing, waiting for our manager to make a new call. Opening a new app for the video call, etc. This would be happening way too often, and we'd be like "oh, man".

For the part of devs not bothered to watch it: soon audio will be coming, and maybe —depending on feedback— audio to text could come too. Also, "seen" flags are coming too, so the team manager and the submitter will be able to see who's watched the updates.
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Bring a color-print out of your projects. This worked wonders for me when I was applying to jobs.

For reference, my website is here: https://www.alexpetralia.com. I printed out the first page, then could talk about each project quite tangibly with the print-out in hand.

You still need a portfolio, you just also have to SHOW it. It is your job as an applicant, not theirs to research every candidate that comes by.
I guess with American processed foods being what they are, it's entirely plausible that the average ice cream contains additional sweeteners or at least HFCS instead of sugar. If memory serves HFCS tastes sweeter than the equivalent amount of sugar, which may be part of what you're observing?

Gelato is decadent. I've always found american ice cream to be kind of bland and watery in comparison, like drinking skim milk vs. whole milk.
Potato potato. They could modify the test by adding the question "What is your gender?" where the only correct answer is "male", à la "literacy tests" in the US.
You can't move faster. You're also not past it. You're going to have to relearn it, but relearning it is faster than learning it the first time. It's going to be frustrating at first, but it's going to come faster than you fear it is.
"The fiber that transported the signal consists of 30 light-guiding cores", so actually not a single fiber?
I just wanted to be down-voted.
Education is only “expensive” because people choose to overspend on it. The cost of my education was less over 4 years than a lot of people paid in one year. There were plenty of people sitting right next to me at 25 years old in tens of thousands of student loan debt making the same amount I was.

I was accepted to a well known engineering school. I chose to go to a much cheaper state college and stay at home. Looking at the salaries reported by the engineering school for graduates three years out, I was making the same.
No. The "points system" has specifically been ruled unconstitutional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratz_v._Bollinger
I know absolutely nothing about last mile logistics, but it's strange to me that (at least in the U.S.) we literally have someone going to practically every single house and business 6 days a week (postal carrier), and yet this is still a problem. I would think leveraging the human already coming to house every day would be the most efficient?
Wild!
>Warren Buffet for some time said that he thought Apple was undervalued. I have no idea what he currently thinks, but it is probably still a reasonable value.

He currently owns ~5% of the company.
I thought it was obvious (to kids it is) that I was talking about the sum.

"Do that process twice"
"Perhaps after you're done putting apples "
"..."

the point is, that the process is never finished ... just like you can never have a biggest number...just like the table has no end.

Defined as infinity.
Kids do get that.

What they usually don't get are abstract mathematic concepts.
Here is mine!

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> If you are shunting one or two hundred calories a day to cooling yourself off, that's a bunch of calories your body can't throw at creating chronic conditions.

... or fighting off chronic conditions either.
There is always the alternative to die out. In the face of that a little influencing does not seem so bad at all.
Seriously? He gets this worked up explaining the difference between "the water is pulled out at the earth moon line" and "the water is pushed from the poles towards the earth moon line"? The net effect is identical.
Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment
Rich folks are effectively subsidizing access for the poor. This is an advantage of Google's business model which is often overlooked by richer folks (who can easily afford subscription fees and Apple products).
I've been living in Seattle for several years and I miss actual rain. Rain you need an umbrella for. Rain that makes you pause under shelter. Rain that has thunder and lightning now and then.

Seattle, clouds just come sit on the city and you have to go about your business inside them.
Who will you even "avoid"? It's in the interest of every major country to do surveillance.
It's amusing to me how out of touch executives are. Some executive makes a decision for this and everyone is too scared to tell them it's a stupid idea.

This happens where I work, too.

They could have had the employees deliver for 10 hours of their 40 hour shift so they aren't exhausted while driving. Have the employees do it during the shift rather than after which is likely during rush hour. Give employees consistent routes they are familiar with. If there's a package to deliver ok that route...great. if not, then do the regular associates job. Company vehicles to reduce burden on your employees who make $11 an hour. Buy some Chevy Bolt that can be charged at Walmart. It's also hatchback so store lots of stuff. Plaster Walmart ads to increase visibility of the service. A clean looking new car will increase branding.

This is the largest retailer in the world...don't act like a poor startup.
> After a week one employee said she got $100 after ~12 deliveries.
Desperate measures would be the government establishing, using the scientific method, that yes indeed there is a birth rate problem that is severe enough to justify drastic action, and then establishing an actual effective solution that did not inequally infringe on citizen rights.

If this article is an acceptable form of desperate measures, I think an equivalent would be Exxon deciding there are too many rich black people, and thus paying black engineers less. (private organization using unfounded information to take an action that doesn't make any sense outside the generally accepted social contract)
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So what does the smart contract bring that the regular written contract doesn't?
> Not everyone is great at self-selling, and people who move up in the company are the ones who hype their personal brand, not necessarily those who are the best at their roles. I don't know how to solve this as it's a personality issue, but I do think it can be a problem for a lot of businesses and teams.

Oh! Just don't give the show people a stage.

You know a stage — like daily standups or so…
disapprobatory throat-clearing noises http://forum.beeminder.com/t/natrium/4122
Ummm... it's not just Internationalization you need to worry about. Sometimes you should look at the logo from all angles. Literally, in the Office of Government Control's case...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1901656/OGC-unveils-new-log...
They should be designed for us. The idea is supposed to be that there are limited times that developers are negotiating with the outside world about what exactly they are working on. The rest of the time, nobody gets to interrupt and demand that they drop everything and jump on to their latest crazy idea.

But yeah. I currently have to wear both the PO and dev hats, and, when I'm wearing the PO hat, I also see advantages: It means that I get to have a rhythmic schedule that I can set my calendar to. That makes all the orchestration crap so much easier.

Which, incidentally, I also like from a developer perspective. The less time I have to spend on that stuff, or get randomly interrupted by that stuff, or randomly interrupt people with that stuff, the more time I get to spend on actually building stuff.
ASK:Beginner friendly Discrete math MOOC and/or book
I want to learn about algorithm [teaching myself CS - 3 years plan to be decent enought CS guy'; however, i need to first learn DM. I have not been able to find decent MOOC and/or book.
MIT one does not have any solution and seems difficult for beginners.
Any suggestions?
jehu garcia made an electric VW van, but i don't know much about it.

a couple also made a solar powered van, but as people say, it's probably very short on mileage (basically move a bit and rest while it charges.
Yeah I concur wirh this. Apologies if I've for the intent of this wrong but stand ups are intended to be a team sync point where questions are asked, mutual understanding reached and I doing a 1way update seems counter to the intent of a stand up.

It definitely has its place to provide opportunity where you can't all meet together but it you'd to rely promote questions and discussions following this by all team members to avoid it being a box tick
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Yes, but not with modified test scores, as that is explicitly illegal. Instead, schools consider softer criteria which leave wiggle room for race to be de facto weighted as a factor:

https://www.npr.org/2015/06/23/416736883/race-conscious-admi...
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I'm still flabbergasted by the state of US ISP. From the historical leader of computers, the 'free market' .. you get crippled pricey access. It's beyond me that nobody managed to tilt the status quo yet.
They just added that language 24 hours ago?
The most surprising number in article is that the US % of female doctors in only 34%. The percent of med school grads has been near 50% for at least 15 years. I couldn’t find numbers going back further then that, so there must be a very large historical imbalance clearing out or a real career dropout problem. I suspect the former, but still.
Not a daily thing. I do the "Rite of Passage" workout from the book "Enter the Kettlebell". Lots 1 arm military presses, cleans, and pullups.

It uses a rep scheme called "ladders". Ladders allow you to sneak in a high number of reps overall, even using heavy weights. Plenty of rest between sets. On the heavy day you end up doing 75 clean/press with heavy weight per arm. And 75 pullups. I never realized there was so many reps until i actually added it all up.
I was definitely confused when I clicked. I thought my monitor wasn't level for a second.
> date/time library

> leftpad

Yes, there is a difference between these.
> (SR-71 is his work)

One unfortunate trait of the original Lockheed Skunkworks culture was to make Kelly Johnson (brilliant as he was) the only face of the organization. As just one such example, many know of the clever inlet system on the A-12/SR-71, but it, like many things Skunkworks in the pre-Rich era, is incorrectly ascribed to Johnson. The real person who deserves the credit as the chief for that system is David H. Campbell, but how many people know his name?
The depth of your site is mind-blowing. I will have to return and read through some of the longer comics. I love the style of Parallax.
I said "effectively". There are other ways of implementing a racially discriminatory policy than explicitly adding 20 points for minorities.

Let me put it this way: Tokyo Medical University was rejecting women who it would have accepted if all other things were equivalent except their reported gender was male.

Don't some US universities do that with Affirmative Action? Reject Asians or whites that it would have accepted if all other things were equal except their reported race was black?
Can you explain what transitive closure is and how your prolog snippet accomplishes it?
PCL is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Search for the string "braid" in the sources.
And if you scroll down you will see that one of their customers is Me Undies :)
> Yes this runs of linux and macos now.

That's technically true, but unlike any framework that actually runs on linux asp.net stuff can only run on microsoft's kestrel webserver, which requires being behind a reverse proxy.
Static site regeneration and focusing on what's important
The elementary school filters probably block all the gimps.
>"Instead of worrying about women quitting jobs, they should do more to create an environment where women can keep working," Maeda said in a statement, according to The Associated Press. "And we need working style reform, which is not just to prevent overwork deaths, but to create a workplace where everyone can perform to the best of their ability regardless of gender."
Did you roll your own recording front-end as well or is it done by file upload?
Okay, so the end result is the same, in that some applicants have their outcomes flipped from accepted to rejected(or vice versa) due to no other factor than their race. That is what I meant when I said 'effectively' in my original comment.
/should/ be free means they increase the taxes you pay today so you have a "free" college later on.
Mathematics require the exact type of abstract thinking machines suck at. Machines can execute things fast, learn things fast (provided we have well stablished rules), but than can't (at our current moment in time) come up with useful abstractions to help solve new problems.

So I think it's going to stay relevant.
Just snagged this, thanks for the recommendation!
Story points are like BMI: They're meant to be accurate enough that, when you aggregate them over a whole bunch of items, you end up with a reasonably reliable time estimate. But they're a terrible measure of time to complete an individual task. They were never meant to be such a thing in the first place.

That's why the canonical Scrum books always say that the PO can use story points to (roughly) estimate completion dates, but the development team should never use them to figure out how many items to accept into the next sprint.
All of my responses in this thread have thus far been enumerating them.
Don't underestimate structural pregnancy discrimination. One half of the parenting pair finds the deck stacked against them when children arrive.
79% Young Women/Girls Are Core/Hardcore Gamers; LoL and FO4 Among Favorite Games
>Not everyone is great at self-selling, and people who move up in the company are the ones who hype their personal brand, not necessarily those who are the best at their roles. I don't know how to solve this as it's a personality issue

You need a strong manager or leader willing and able to reign individuals in. This person needs to open the discussion space to others and prevent the loudest (and it sure seems often like the most opinionated) from interrupting.
EV Startup Xpeng Gets CN¥4B in Series B+
I crunched the math earlier and it's something like... 35c a day for a reasonably standard North American tech worker workyear?

Doesn't seem that bad, especially to avoid the hassles of coordinating remote teams' standups (hell, even some colocated teams could benefit from this).
And how to avoid squatting?

People started buying up tons of obvious namecoin names while they were cheap, as speculators.
The only time I was ever asked about "portfolio" type stuff was when my resume was extremely short (1.5 years of not-super-interesting work). Landed a job that was way more interesting solely on the strength of some research-y stuff I'd done in school while contemplating going to grad school.
> there must be a very large historical imbalance clearing out or a real career dropout problem.

Or, the US has lots of male doctors from non-US medical schools.

(I actually think all three are factors.)
Here's mine: h12n.nz

Possibly a bit grandiose. Any feedback much appreciated.
This is still very generous, given that we're many orders of magnitude away from even being close to being as safe as human drivers when it comes to autonomous driving.

Coming from a crowd that is probably intimately familiar with the limitations of Google Assistant's ability to understand the English language, I feel like we're being overly optimistic here.

I don't doubt that eventually we will be able to create safe autonomous vehicles, in the same way that eventually we will be able to treat cancers much more effectively than we do today.

However, I find it odd that posters are not applying same
level of optimism to other fields, nor applying the same level of skepticism to this field that they would apply to something like cancer research. Especially given that a breakthrough in cancer treatment could effectively save tens of millions of lives annually, versus the one million lives that could be saved if we completely eliminated automotive deaths. Which, again, is a moonshot given that autonomous processes in other industries still have an annual death toll.
As yodon explained, those benefits are handled just as well by ordinary contracts. I've still never got a straight answer from anyone about what smart contracts _actually_ bring to the table.
This was the archive I raided for source code when I wrote my BASIC interpreter in Java (http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html)
I don't think it's a genuine comparison to compare 8 * small item to 1 * big item. Even in the same bigger supermarket, there's always going to be a substantial saving when buying a gallon of milk vs 8 individual cartons.

For food & veg, people are much better off buying smaller portions when they need them - even if that means paying a premium over what they would have paid if bulk buying.
Spoiler alert: They didn't pay their employees enough for the deliveries, and these employees ended up averaging about $7/hour to make deliveries. If they fixed this (seemingly) basic problem, I wonder how well this would work.
I was just about to say the same. This is unethical at best, probably closer to "laughably bad looking".
Not sure what the output of Java Mandelbrot supposed to produce - it really does a number on the terminal.

Anyway, the original version spends half of it's time writing to stdout, verify by replacing

OutputStream stream = new BufferedOutputStream(System.out);

with

OutputStream stream = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("./mandel_out"));

The time can be cut in half again by not using AtomicInteger (it is heavily contended) and having every thread operate on it's own chunk of the out array without any synchronization.
To put it in a slightly different context: part of the change is that women actually get to be doctors before starting families, and maybe after. This was not as common before due to birth control pill being accepted in Japan only in 1999! It changed the view for the recent generation a bit.
> That being said, as someone who has been making memes for 6+ years ...

This made me smile