skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Contrast that to countries like most of the West, where at least a solid proportion of people consider it socially unacceptable to discriminate socially based on someone's looks or origins..

Those things are also socially unacceptable in Japan. My experience is that the often discussed "micro-agressions" against foreigners happen about as often in Japan as they do in my own country (US, grew up in Texas).

Of course, the only complaints that foreigners in Japan can make is about trivia. The US is so fucked up that we cannot seem to stop shooting unarmed black men, we're separating mothers from babies, and as of last week now tear gassing families at the border. So not sure if you are American, but many of the foreigners in Japan that complain of discrimination are, and I just want to say that I think it takes a lot of balls for an American in Japan to be like "hey, you guys can do a lot better with the discrimination thing."

As horrifying as someone being impressed with your ability to use chopsticks is, it's not quite so horrifying as being literally shot for walking on the street.

Many people in the US freeze up if a black person so much as walks by them on the street. And on the other side of the pacific? Ask a random stranger for directions; 9 times out of 10 they will stop whatever they are doing and walk with you to wherever you are going.
Are words like "epistemology" (or "philosophy") scary for American students (or teachers?). French and German kids have philosophie or Ethik from an early age.
Have you tried hiring one lately? Oracle experience out the wazoo, but PostgreSQL experience is much harder to come by.
No, the problem is that you are looking for a unicorn in the first half of the requirements, then subverting it by asking for someone with only one year of experience in three things, then double-subverting it by suggesting that you want an academic who has nonetheless designed microservices and done machine learning. And it doesn't really help that you're in a large stodgy bank.

Let me rewrite this into two different job openings:

1. Junior Machine Learning Software Engineer

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience /
At least 1 year working with statistics, mathematics or engineering programming /
At least 1 year programming in Python and one or more of Ruby, R, Matlab, C++, Scala or Java /
At least 1 year of experience working on full stack solutions

2. Machine Learning Software Architect

Master's Degree or PhD /
At least 2 years of experience with cloud software design using microservices /
At least 2 years of experience with machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow, Pytorch or Keras /
Demonstrated original research in this or related area

Do you see how different those two are? But you set up the ad to switch between them.
Echoing the epic Kasparov v Karpov rivalry from 30 years ago perhaps. Pity that 's' and 'r' in the third letter had an off by one error in that case though.
Yes, sites are the best way to get information for weddings IMO.

What we did was: send out an invitation and it had the date + website (no other info) so people HAD to go on the website to get that information.

I love the idea of the couple inviting everyone in person, I would've loved to do that too. We invited close family and friends so would've been obvious.
For intuition on complex numbers, you could try playing with http://wry.me/math-toys — though it’s in a hacky state I haven’t had the energy to fix. There are much better complex-function plotters, but I was aiming for a more tangible UI.
> privatization of schools

Hmm? There has always been private schools. Nothing is new about them
One prominent recent example that destroys the myth that economic expansion is very tightly bound to population expansion, is the US.

2008 pop: 304m people. 2018 pop: ~327m people. A 7.5% increase in population across a decade.

2008 GDP: $14.72t ($17.64t inflation adjusted). 2018 GDP: $20.5t. Approximately a 17% real increase in GDP.

The US added an economy close to the size of Germany in just ten years while only adding 23m people (Germany's population is 83m). That's courtesy of increasing output per capita far more than it is population growth.
So close. We almost did it guys. One day without facebook spam.
Not at all, I don't argue for "winning at all costs" not in sports. But I do argue for winning in a fair game. And Carlsen won a fair game.

Chess is a harmless game so boxing would be a better example. Imagine a boxer that uses dirty tactics or uses PEDs ... that's "winning at all costs." But a boxer that has an elusive style that's considered boring by fans because fans like a lot of action ... I applaud this person if the style is superior in getting results.

You can see my point is different fans appreciate different aspects of the game. I loved the way Carlsen took it to rapid. You didn't and I can understand why.

In boxing I see the beauty in elusive tactical style of Mayweather, other want to see a slugfest. Because boxing places your health at risk I look down on that to be honest and I value a victory with minimum risk.

I sympathise with your good intentions but you misrepresented my words.

I never argued for "winning at all cost." I believe ability to win, regardless of how unimpressive (as long as it is ethical) is a virtue.

I do not live in Bay Area nor the US, I wish you all well though :)
If you start drawing with the pencil and your line is erased before you finish, a new line looks to be started, with different properties (black and a certain thickness).
Fusion 360, which looks like is what is being used in the article, has a free license as long as you're a hobbyist or your business makes less than $100000. Fusion 360 has its quirks, but it remains my favourite tool for this type of work, and it's relatively simple to learn (though like any powerful tool it can also get pretty complex).
Students aren't reviewing the quality of their campus on-site gym when they review their professor.

There's genuine concerns that should be reasonably heard. One example is slowness in grading homework/exams/etc. What happens is professors get backlogged, and you have multiple homework/exams and the student missed on understanding some concept they were later graded on. If the student had regular grade updates, they would know where they needed to focus more on the course material to master it. Instead, those misunderstandings snowball and you end up doing worse on a final exam since you didn't know what course concepts you correctly understood and missed.

I agree broadly with the wholistic assessment of what American colleges have become. But the review process is still germane-- classes are the core offering of college.
Are women banned on HN now? I think I missed that ToS change.
Solidworks is quite popular; it's not THAT hard to pick up, but make sure you have a real mouse as the middle button / scroll wheel are important.

They have an educational version for $150. https://store.solidworks.com/studentstore/default.php

They also apparently have a 'startup / entrepreneur' program.
While Fox News's twitter may not actively generate revenue i would think that it adds value to the company that's not easy to measure.
Interesting! I assume most of the invitees live locally then?

My wife and I sent invitations to friends and family in 6 countries on 3 continents, so inviting everyone in person would have been impractical. We didn't expect eg. her extended family in Chile to actually show up, but we wanted to formally invite them anyway so they would know we were thinking of them.

We did actually have attendees from two continents and four countries though.
The US went in because it facilitated terrorism and led to the direct death of 3000 Americans. The rise of religious extremism was well before the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. Am I for US intervention as "world police," absolutely not. I don't agree with our presence in Iraq, but there is certainly a point where US presence is warranted and needed. Anything else is just a naive world view. I was like that when I was in my early 20s, then I grew up and realized how complex the world really is.
AWS App Mesh – Service Mesh for Microservices on AWS
I’ll take your word for it, but the ads for Sandals resort I saw on tv twenty years ago sure seem a lot like what I observe walking through NYU’s campus every day.
You don’t necessarily need to eliminate them but make them more efficient (words/documents translated per translator per hour). If they were previously hand changing company specific terms and now they don’t have to, it’s a pretty big productivity win.
Well. They’re google.

Also the redox team knocked out rust versions of most of the standard utilities in a few months.
Like with healthcare recipients, students don't necessarily know what they need and therefore aren't able to accurately rate providers.
My oddest experience when learning Dutch was standing in line at the Post Office and hearing the woman berating the non-Dutch people in the queue in front of me for not learning Dutch. Then when I got to the front and asked for postzegels in OK Dutch, she replied immediately in English..., I told her she was a hypocrite...
Any good analogies for eigenvectors and eigenvalues?
In addition to the other suggestions, you might consider something like SketchUp. It's not going to do as much as the software professional engineers are using, but it's also not going to be as hard to learn.
I suspect the reason you haven't seen much about Hololens lately is that it was released in 2015. I think it's been covered pretty extensively here over the years, though. If you're curious about other sites, you could check out https://lobste.rs/
An Interview with Chandan Lodha, Co-Founder of CoinTracker
In that case I've recently discovered that the setting that disallows websites to choose their own fonts, browser.display.use_document_fonts = 0 , available in the advanced fonts dialog in the user-facing settings, seems to thread a middle ground of generally blocking web fonts, but still allowing icon fonts (perhaps due to icons fonts being Private Use Area codepoints that won't have local fonts?).
El Chapo’s drug high life: Swiss clinics, mansions,zoo, gambling sprees in Macau
This is the attitude man. I love huge legacy codebases, dive in and get dirty.

This is the job, just shut up and get on with it.
how does SolidWorks compare to Fusion 360 if you happen to know? Is it designed with more 'engineering' focused projects with plugins to support microcontroller modules/embedded systems?
It’s an incentives problem.
How Helen Keller Learned to Talk. [vid]
Why is that bad?

If the system works, and is fast and efficient enough for the task (which is clearly is), and supports the needed features (there was an article on the things you could do in COBOL a while back that went over this), then what is the benefit?

Sure maintaining something is not as "fun" as writing a new thing, but that doesn't make it better.

Anyway, the "obscure mainframes" isn't true - yes there are cases where the easy path was simulate to emulate a PDP on modern hardware - but there are, for example, COBOL implementations the target .net, in addition to regular unix and windows targeting compilers.

Edit: and I forgot my original reason for replying: the use case for mainframe software is drastically different from consumers.

The big scary mainframe software is generally designed to be essentially a few users, running on a restricted set of homogenous hardware and system software. They are generally specialized so that's all they have to do.

Consumer software is not as forgiving - generally a user expects software they bought 20 years to still work, and likewise will assume that their 10 year old machine should still be able to run new software "because it still works". Look at the commentary on Apple deprecating 32bit software. Or the complaints about Windows N breaking legacy software, while also laughing about the things MS does to keep old things running.
> This event is no way close to ethnic. The bride & groom would like to have some "shots before the knot". With booze flowing down the floor and the western attire on, everyone would be busy showing off their new moves on the stage which they have finely honed. Lastly, expect some beer pong matches & karaoke for sure.

The money quote. I would have loved to have gone to this wedding!
I was surprised to see them also announce "Amazon Comprehend Medical" which is NLP for a specific vertical: https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/medical/
I had something similar with German. The company paid for us all to have German lessons which was nice.
>* The complaint against "inline" is nonsense. The only thing inline impacts is function linkage. Literally nothing else.

That's not actually true. At least in clang it lowers the threshold at which a function will become inlined. You can see that happening in this wonderful demonstration by Jason Turner: https://youtu.be/GldFtXZkgYo
Sign up for a free Fusion 360 license and watch a lot of YouTube tutorials. If you're good with spacial relationships, you'll start to work it out pretty quickly.

Of course, there are also online courses, but for the most part the software is so good it's not necessary.
Anecdotally, I've seen people who only started taking school seriously (studying, not goofing off, etc) once they actually had to pay for it.

Certainly feeling entitled to a good grade is a possible consequence of having to pay for it yourself, and there will always be those who react that way, but I think it is a socialized response that depends on other factors.
Grades are relative to other people. That's the point of places asking for GPA. If you were just evaluating your effort / learning, your grades could just say "learned a lot" or "made a good effort". But GPA is a way to discriminate between potential candidates for schools/businesses, and thus needs to be quantifiable and comparable.
Yes. Mood Media is a company that bought Muzak, Inc - the original elevator music company (and the reason we sometimes talk about disposable music like this as “muzak”). They are a substantial business now owned by private equity. They acquired Muzak for soemthing like $300m a few years back.

Background music is actually quite difficult, commercially. Someone needs to write and arrange it, and they need to be paid - either royalties each time it is played which is why a lot of companies don’t use “known” music for telephone hold and so on - it’s too expensive. If it’s not on a royalty basis then the writer needs to be bought out - which can be expensive.

So having algorithmically generated music is actually really interesting because there is potentially no author to be paid. This is actually an emerging area of music copyright law. If an algorithm writes music who owns the copyright to that music? The computer? Probably not, not a legal person. The people who wrote the algorithms? Possibly - but did they actually create the music? Or does no one own it - meaning anyone can use it without payment? If a label commissions an algorithm to write hits who owns the music publishing?
If the inputs and outputs and the use cases are understood and it’s akready working, create an anti corruption layer and treat it like a 3rd party binary blob.
There's no gender specific wording anywhere on the open sourced website, or in the parent post, so the parent's regex works regardless of who's doing the regexing.
BaaS (Boss as a Service)
I think badmouthing the developer who came before you is not good. But, a long succession of good developers, can jointly produce a codebase which is awful. Part of this is simply the fact that it has changed hands many times. Part of it is decisions made that the developers were not able to control. There are many other possible reasons. But, although most developers are trying to do a good job, and I think it is bad form to badmouth the developer before you, it is often quite simply the case that a large and old codebase is, in fact, truly awful.
i really wish the "considered harmful" meme/trope/whatever would take a nap.
Lots of good stories. How to decide, rewrite or maintain?

I liken maintaining large, old, arcane code to the care and feeding of a dinosaur. Maybe a Brotosaurus. It's sitting there cropping the treetops happily, farting occasionally.

You want it to do something else, you have to poke it, prod it, yell at it and it slowly gets up and takes three steps. Then it sits down again.

You'll never get very far that way, and it'll never do much more than it does. If that's cool, ok. If not, then its time to consider another approach.
Actually women have been promoted to a supervisory role when it comes to wedding planning, so likely the groom would be tasked with the grunt work of dealing with the website.
If you want to encourage more exciting games then you need to reward those who play them. E.g. have judges subjectively award points like it's done in sports like gymnastics.
Reverse it ...
You’re misinterpreting it. After the gender neutral pronoun discussion yesterday, everything is now genderless.
LA is excited about many things, but a pointless tunnel to nowhere that can't fit any reasonable amount of traffic while permanently forestalling any options that could--that's the kind of boondoggle that people get excited to oppose. Elon's still proposing to build a Dodger Stadium tunnel. While similarly pointless from a traffic perspective (a single bus would get more people to the game in 20 minutes than the proposed Loop system would in an hour), it at least has the possible use of being a tourist destination and justifying its existence in that fashion. (And due to the nature of the geology between the proposed end points, a mass transit rail option of the scale Metro normally operates on that pathway is unfeasible.)
I think they mean the word "Fiancee" which refers to a woman that is engaged to be married.
To be honest, I'm not sure how teachers get and keep their jobs, but as students are graded on their studying skills, I feel like teachers should be graded every fews years on their teaching skills.

My girlfriend is studying in a distance university, so she basically never meets any of her teachers. This year she has to do practices at a chosen company, and she got a teacher assigned to her who is supposed to "help" her. In her study guides it is written that the teacher has to give her classes every week. After first contact the teacher said that she will give every information by email (or other kind of online communication), and won't waste the students' precious time with classes. At first this sounded awesome, because my girlfriend has a lot to do in her last year. BUT... Since then 2 months have passed, the teacher has been repeatedly asked to keep at least a few classes, because things are not moving forward. She ignores her messages for days, answers in very short sentences, and although it is mandatory for her to keep the classes, she is always "busy" at those times and doesn't offer any other dates, so it is impossible to meet her. My girlfriend spends crazy hours combing through PDFs hoping to find information on how to do her practices, what she should prepare, how to write her work diary, etc.

And the other day, when she tried to contact the teacher's higher-ups to do something about this, one guy basically shouted at her, on the phone, saying that she is making her teacher look bad, even though the said theacher works really hard, and she should just listen to the teacher and let her be. After some of this preaching he just put the phone down.

It has been a really frustrating experience for us.
If this does not show up dead, then I think you can assume the answer is "no."
You don’t need to be so snarky and sneering at someone just trying to help others when they make a mistake. Try to say things constructively instead.
Over the last several decades, US public colleges and universities have generally seen a declining share of funding from the chartering governments, relying more on business activity plus student fees.

This is probably what is being referred to.
The regex said "fiancéename", implying the person doing the regexing is a male with a female fiancée. It works for lesbian couples though
Well no, that particular office didn't. The office I was a part of did. Suffice to say their DevOps-fu was slightly weak compared to the rest of the organization.

I was the one who actually set out to build the VM image.

Not a trivial task at all to get the VB6 side of it running. Which is the exact reason we are supposed to do things like making VMs for development environments.

It would be nice to be at all places in all points of time with perfect knowledge in order to stop bullshit from happening in the first place but I can only be here and now.
Oh, are heterosexual marriages the only ones allowed on HN now? /s

Seriously, this type of outrage over a minor wording change is really not necessary.
That's a really good point, I was guesstimating very quickly when I wrote that. Depending on what your doing for the alarm and how they measure reads it may well be a lot less.

Let's say the read is 1MB instead of 1GB, that's now $1.44 a day and $525 a year. Query pricing becomes not so bad.

From my own experience, the 100 metrics per server estimate I was giving above is pretty low, though. Once you factor in different combinations of tags closer to 1000 is more realistic. That potentially brings up the write pricing quite a bit.
Strict thresholds don't usually work. My school had public metrics, and teachers preferred classes made a huge difference. The teachers that taught the harder classes (component design rings a bell) always got significantly lower scores than the ones teaching easier classes (physics I, circuits for Mechanical Engineers)
It really wasn't very complicated... basically just some queries to search a database and a front-end to display results.

I still don't know how the preceding mess got to the point of being such a baroque cobbled-together monstrosity, but it was enough copy-pasta to keep an Olive Garden supplied for a year, and a raft of incomprehensible stored procedures that did SELECT * FROM table WHERE xyz in bizarrely complicated ways involving multiple casts and nested temp results.
And yet Wikimedia foundation reported an increase of $22 millions in net assets in 2016 alone, totaling $120 millions sitting in the bank. [1]

So my suggestion stands: There are lessons to be learned by looking at how Wikipedia manages without ads.

[1] https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/financials.html
yes I felt the exact same way in the same year
I don't think that's "hedging". Indeed, they're arguing that observed branching angles can distinguish wet climates (72 degrees) from dry climates (maybe ~45 degrees).

> Also interesting are the exceptions. In arid places like New Mexico, networks branch narrowly, at around 45 degrees. That second angle “took me a long time of trying and failing” to explain by theory, Seybold said. They still haven’t solved the specific angle, but the team argues that in arid regions, occasional surface runoff carves steeper channels with narrower junctions.

> That then opened up a new possibility. If wet climate might brand river networks with the 72-degree signature of Laplacian growth, could that signature’s absence also reveal the existence of a different kind of climate?
The things on word of mouth aren't things that the professor would consider anyways.

Personality, difficulty, ability to teach (relatively), understanding the student's pressures etc.

When I say difficulty, I mean easiness (people take the class to improve the gpa) or difficulty as in: the professor wants to make an example.

Student's pressures: Does the professor demand more than a reasonable amount of time from the student?

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All of this being said: I haven't seen a pragmatically taught course before. (As in the professor looks at the course as a means and is the person that helps facilitate the student through it) I think that's what students really look for.