skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a valid point one way, huge multinational corps got paid.. but so did all the soldiers and employees of those corps (that are American). And the medicare budget would also give a huge slice of cash to different massive corps...

So, the difference may not be much... But consider it's the cost of the entire war every single year, that's just insane at any level.

I think the only solution is to lower the actual costs. No where else in the world does it cost so much. Something is fishy...
The system isn’t closed - you’re exchanging energy and entropy with the shaker.
I'd really rather use my 2% savings account than the 1.61% from short term treasuries, 1.65% from intermediate term treasuries, or 2.1% from long term treasuries.*

Or maybe you're making snarky comment on how large banks were bailed out in 2008 by the Fed by which the Fed traded a portion of it's "good" treasury debt for bad bank debt (CDOs). If that's the case than I agree because I dislike how the Fed bails out the banksters more than the common man.

*Source for annual interest rates on common bonds: https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/list#/etf/asset-class/mont...
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Do you have a tutorial or book you'd recommend for how to pursue this kind of workflow? I'm definitely interested as I dabble in more languages and am beginning to struggle with some of these kinds of environmental details
I think it's actually detrimental. You will lose opportunities if you stick with any language but English for programming related things. Your translations won't be perfect. You won't be able to communicate with people in other countries. You will miss new important developments and discussion all of it happening in English. It's just much more efficient for everyone to swallow the pride and accept English as the language of programming/computer science.

I am not a native English speaker. I am not very talented when it comes to learning languages. It took me many years to be able to understand written and spoken English. Still I am very grateful that once I got there the whole world is open to me. I can read every important publication, participate in discussions and read code other people write. Doing it in my native language is just putting artificial barriers out there. It doesn't make sense. Learning about computer science in my native language just makes it less efficient and introduce problems like quality of the translation or terms lacking necessary context and usage patterns (as there is less published in that language).

I feel efforts to translate to other European languages will be detrimental to general level of education and communication in future businesses. Publish only in English, it forces people to learn it. It's better for everyone in the end. If you know you had to learn it to be a competent programmer or scientist or other IT specialist you will and by doing so you will contribute to removing barriers that exist in EU which Americans don't have to deal with. I believe it's one of the big advantages US IT sector has over Europeans.
In CA you have a right to whatever you create your own time. In Texas (IIRC) and some other states your employer can claim a right to anything you create while under their employ. It's a state by state thing.

Note the claim here seems to be that he utilized Apple time and resources to work on his new project.
If you have an account of some kind with them (cloud services, for example) then I'd imagine they're retaining PII on you (name, billing address, etc).
Guy threatens domain owner and his friends over domain name.
Domain owner ends up dead and Guy now owns domain.
Everything documented.

I think it'd be an easy case. I'm just glad it didn't come to that and the domain owner is alive and well, all things considered.
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Or maybe "don't work at Apple if you plan to spend dozens of hours of company time on the phone with your startup cofounders and use proprietary HR information to poach employees while still employed yourself."
To me, an important aspect of Snowden's revelations was to confirm that many "conspiracy theories" were actually fact.

To understand events, I like to examine different groups' motivations. What would be in their interest? For government, wanting to maintain control and power over its citizens, especially citizens with power, money, and influence, monitoring all conversations is obviously in their interest. Hiding this monitoring is also in their interest. So of course, they do both. It seems very obvious, but without Snowden's evidence, it's very easy to label this as "tin foil hat" conspiracy theory: "Of course the government is not monitoring everyone's phone calls. They could never keep that a secret for so long!" But as we have found out via Snowden, they actually can keep secrets for a very long time.

So an important aspect of his disclosure to me is to make it less easy to label something as conspiracy theory or being a paranoid nut job, just because there is no evidence to support a "wild" claim - yet.
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Let's say this adds 10 pounds to each seat times 150-400 seats. No way the airlines would go for it they are trying to cut weight from the planes to scrape every ounce of fuel economy out of the airframe. It is a non-starter.

Airlines also have zero incentive to increase passenger comfort because most airlines operate near capacity (all flights full/overbooked) on most routes because of deregulation. You have no alternative, so why would they spend money?

The best time to fly was immediately after 9/11. Airlines were failing because people stopped flying. Half of every flight was empty, and the airlines were fighting for your business adding technology, entertainment, and cutting fares. The airlines cared about you when they had to fight for your business. Within 10 years they were profitable again, at capacity again, and massively started to cut services (food, baggage, etc.)

In no way am I advocating another 9/11 just to be clear. I am only reflecting on my own experiences flying.
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If it does get made for you, don't take it personally. Just like dating, there's a better fit out there for you.
Thanks for pointing this out, and you're right that there is good information out there. I meant the popularly reported unemployment numbers which show things as "better than ever". They don't match people's actual satisfaction with the job market.
Google has had a Machine Learning Crash Course up for about a year already, has it been updated or is this the same thing?
Thanks. I'm familiar with CustomsForge, and there are a lot of interesting things about it.

But you don't need anything nearly as complicated as Rocksmith files or CustomsForge to import songs into FATpick. FATpick already accepts Guitar Pro files, so there are thousands, maybe 10s of thousands of scores you can download from ultimate-guitar and other sites to import into FATpick.

Also, while obviously not as convenient, free software like TuxGuitar can convert other formats (MuseScore, MusicXML, etc.) into GuitarPro, so you can import pretty much any machine-readable score into FATpick (modulo proprietary formats like Rocksmith/CustomsForge, but you need to jump thru hoops to "extract" data in that format in the first place).
I remember a journal club where we read a paper in which they demonstrated the inverse brazil nut effect (http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2007/ph210/spector2/). The scientists built a physical nut shaker- like, a huge tube that they bounced. that's when I realized I had picked the wrong field (theoretical biology instead of experimental physics).
Last month had thirty days. That's 720 hours. You're prioritizing something that takes less than 1% of your time. Looking for an alternative will take more than that. Hiring someone will take many many times that much. Might be better to roll up your sleeves and just do what needs to be done. Good luck.
Oh yes, I never meant to imply that nature vs nurture has some important moral implications. Ultimately it doesn't matter if something is the result of nature or nurture, we wouldn't let people murder if there was a "increased murder likelihood gene" because our genes does not decide what is correct.

The real fallacy has always been people who think that if something can be proven to be nurture rather than nature, that means it's "naturally right" and should thus be encouraged, and deviancy from that norm "corrected".

It's totally okay for boys to play with dolls even if it turns out nature makes boys favor toy cars over dolls on average.
I think you forgot to say "According to Google". Of course Google says they did nothing wrong.
> if we ever did it would be quite obvious and detectable that we had done it.

It's running in your device, you don't have to trust them if you have technical skill.
Ah, the argument of efficiency.

Nowhere does it say that the most efficient method beats the constitution.
It's not just whether or not vote-trading schemes are a good thing or not, but the unfortunate issue that if voter secrecy is weakened to allow for vote trading, then abuses such as forced voting, blackmail or coercion also become viable.
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This is common but not universal. The agreement I have with google, by contrast, gives them a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive right to use anything I create while I work here. This is not the same as owning those things.
This may be an example of the equivocation fallacy[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation
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How do you feel about individuals that have money, but arguably lack talent themselves. That is, people who have acquired resources through inheritance / luck, then grown them through investment strategy executed by those with talent and the simple nature of exponential growth?

I feel like this type of wealth in particular is commonly used for personal empire building and doesn't benefit society much at all as it ends up being hoarded for future generations of the same family (or passed back and forth between wealthy families) and not circulated amongst the general population. I see no reason to think that these empires will not be increasingly strengthened by time without outside intervention.

If you happen to work in a growth area then you may catch some relatively minor benefits of cash infusion, but the overwhelming trend seems to be using money to buy more money to insulate and protect oneself rather than using money to improve the quality of all human existence. Money currently flows to where the biggest ROI is and not necessarily where the biggest impact in standards of living can be made. To me, this seems tantamount to running up the score at the expense of everyone else when you've already won.

I think this is just normal human behavior that won't change without incorruptible regulation.
I find that complexity of a Makefile isn't necessarily a function of its size. Ideally, one should be able to reason about each target individually, specifying its dependencies without consideration for how they are generated, whether they already exist etc. In such an ideal situation, it doesn't matter how large the Makefile is. Maintenance problems IMO happen when you can't trust tasks to fully specify their dependencies or that task commands only generate the target output.

Over all I agree with your argument, though.
Apple's pissing on what made it and the Valley great.
The first section of Godel Escher Bach has a very intuitive description of L-systems with exercises. Can't remember if that's what he called them in the book though.
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I know this is broad - but I cant find much information on how Google Maps or any GIS is made. Does anyone have any links/direction that explains this better?

Edit/Clarification: I am asking from a technology/programming standpoint
California has laws explicitly prohibiting the latter. If you work on your own time with your own equipment, then the company doesn't own the IP. Technically, you're supposed inform your employer of the work, but I have no idea how that works in practice.
Which scare stories are you thinking of?

My memory of that time is that the nationalists were making a lot of claims during the campaign that they'd not laid any groundwork for, and which didn't hold water. Mostly of the form "after leaving the UK we'll still have access to X" or "Y won't change" but they hadn't actually asked anyone in the British government, so there was a lot of public back and forth over that, in particular, what it'd mean for Scotland to keep using the pound. Because they talked about future hypotheticals it is hard to say whether they were 'debunked' or not.

One claim I remember very clearly was that post-independence Scotland would be able to keep funding its much higher levels of government spending because of high oil prices. The media did question this claim, and it turned out rightly so: oil prices collapsed just months after the vote and never recovered rendering the SNP's financial plans irrelevant. Independence would certainly have meant rapid and dire cuts in spending.

However nothing I saw would have risen to the level of "disinformation", whatever that means. It was just people disagreeing on the relative merits and probabilities of things.
That's true, although I suspect if Google keeps firing people on trumped-up accusations whenever they criticize management, more people may feel they want an organization set up to defend them.
One contract that was handed to me from an established company even included a clause that any IP created by even up to 5 (FIVE!) years AFTER you're no longer employed belongs to the company. Vaguely defined as anythikng related to the 'core business' (technology). Ridiculous and thankfully at least under CA laws completely unenforceable bully tactics.
There is a huge gap between playing werewolf-type games and poker. The article seems to imply that by beating one it should be able to beat the other.

Prove it.
Here I was this morning just thinking about this - weird how that happens.

My wife got this gift recently, that at first looks like a snowglobe, but actually has fine sand and seashells inside. You can kind of shake it or rotate it about, and the seashells that "rise" to the top on the sand change as you do it.

For some reason, that got me thinking about this topic. Then I see it on HN...
Here's 3 reasons:

- Makefiles are a de-facto standard. People know them and those who don't can read how they work in 2000 tutorials. They shouldn't have to read your (and everybody's) custom (and different) script to build a project they've downloaded.

- Makefiles are specialised to the tasks of building, running tests, etc. A scripting language is general purpose. As such, it encourages adding all kinds of crap, from overcomplicated steps, to security issues.

- Makefile just needs make which is part of the core set for any distro and works fine on Mac and Windows (WSL or elsewhere) as well. Users shouldn't have to install a scripting language (or even a specific version of one) just to build a project.
Markecap is a meaningless value for a "currency".
Comparing it to the marketcaps of companies is even more meaningless.
And comparing Bitcoin trade volume with stock trade volume is another meaningless thing.

It's very common in the crypto space to use all kinds of correctly calculated nonsense.
There's a proof...

...but then again (1) nobody has ever seen an idealized perfectly competitive market; (2) it's by no means clear that an idealized perfectly competitive market even serves as a useful approximation to the ones we have; (3) efficiency (in the narrow sense defined by efficient markets) is not the goal we want to be pursuing anyway.
I don’t think I agree with your premise that Apple should allow employees to moonlight and poach their talent.
I believe that's incorrect under GDPR. There is a legitimate interest to keep records for fraud use, and also they must not delete anything that's required for regulatory compliance. GDPR is very clear on that.
Okay, I know a lot of us just post this:

https://outline.com/aqUgJ6

What are the ethics of posting this? Did I prevent people from paying for a paywall? Does the author expect to get paid from that? Or is medium just forcing me to sign up, and there is no money being exchanged?

Should I not feel better about giving a way around a sign up? Even if its not monetary, am I depriving medium of value?
I love Apple's products as a consumer, but as a tech worker, their entire history has been a dumpster fire.

People venerate Jobs for being they stereotypical drive-people-to-death toxic boss, but he was also the "take credit for everyone else's ideas" toxic boss.

They are famous for destroying anyone who leaks. It's admirable that they don't leak, but their methods for cracking down on leaks are draconian, to say the least. This includes illegally spying on employees.

They participated in the cartel that engaged in wage-fixing and limiting employee mobility. They were sued by employees for denying breaks that were mandated by law.

And on and on.

It is unsurprising that they are harsh to former employees. When you look at their stance relative to their current employees, it would be surprising if they took a "live and let live" approach to those who leave.

People say that using Apple products is a cult, and liking their products is "drinking the kool-aid.". I say that working for Apple is joining an abusive, tyrannical cult, and if you don't know where the expression "drinking the kool-aid" came from, you ought to find out before working there.
> There is an exception, though, which is that female engineers may still get promoted into management (...not going to speculate on reasons right now).

This is one of those things I'd not go out of my way to bring up, for obvious reasons, but yes, I've noticed this too. Best I can tell it's because more of them (as a percentage) have entering management as a primary goal and actively work toward it from day one, which just means that, for most non-FAANG companies, they're playing the making-money-and-gaining-status game smarter than their male peers, so it's not even a dig, really—kinda the opposite.
>Now I'm a little worried that if my situation doesn't change, my career would suffer. I've started to watch a few videos online about design. But I'm not sure if they're going to really help as they usually talk about very basics which doesn't help in real world coding.

Check the PRs and read the existing code from others inside the company. Presumably those meet the company's standards, and will give you hints how to structure yours.

Read a couple of industry standard books like Clean Code and Code Complete too.
With IPv4 space running dry, why are so many organisations still not IPv6 ready?
Please open source this if you can!
The Maxeler hardware claims to be dataflow, and there is some in these parts. However, I couldn't find out much about it except that it doesn't seem to support languages with a Lucid/SISAL-type heritage.
That gets the event of the person who's phone it is, not the people in the photos.
I said before that Apple needs to produce and rent servers that can run high-performance Metal. Maybe the Nuvia guy sees it the same way but could not convince anyone at Apple of it.
Is this paralyzing or enabling me?
I think there is a misunderstanding of what 'iOS', 'OS X' and 'Linux' are.... you're saying they wanted to port their operating system to another operating system....?
That was my interpretation initially - I'm guilty of judging people based on this in college. I usually perceived folks in my CS classes that had large 17 inch gaming laptops as being less competent than the folks that had Macbooks. I even recommended a few of my friends switch to Macbooks because of this (which they did).

Though in retrospect, this ended up being a pretty valid heuristic.
>The historically "correct" way to do it in English was just to default to masculine unless the person in question was known to be a woman.

I realize the implication of you putting "correct" between quotes but I want to point out that it really depends what time frame you have in mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Older_usage

The prescription that "he" be used as gender-neutral is, in the grand scheme of things, fairly recent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Older_usage

>The earliest known explicit recommendation by a grammarian to use the generic he rather than they in formal English is Ann Fisher's mid-18th century A New Grammar[...]

Meanwhile gender-neutral singular "they" has been used by some authors for much longer:

>"Eche on in þer craft ys wijs." ("Each one in their craft is wise.") — Wycliffe's Bible, Ecclus. 38.35 (1382)
Pour one out for everyone who's had to include reCAPTCHA. I had to do it many times in a row. I was sure that I was a robot by the end.
It's like corporations are comprised of people, and each person has its own personal motivations and will power to navigate the rules to get what they want.
Why is it unfortunate?
What ever happened to “two wrongs don’t make a right?”
And has been for the last few years. I'd be surprised if they back off willingly.
I edited the post to make it clear I don’t think Crome has a better engine having seen many issues on android phones. I was simply saying if they had advantages on other platforms you can’t assume they will carry over.

Anyway, I still test and find different issues with Crome on Android tablets, phones, and desktop due to significant market share and I would do that for iOS Crome. Sure, Chromes developer tools helps fixing some of these but I have had various CSS issues not replicate.

However, most companies don’t do this so adding more rendering engines with slight bugs seems to make things worse for consumers. There may be short term benefits, but long term it’s a net loss as many developers would only support a subset of iOS users.
justice.gov does not have a paywall... Not yet at least.

So not sure what you're talking about
If Bill Shockley sued Robert Noyce for taking the traitorous 8 with him to found Fairchild Semi, none of us would be here commenting on a YC powered forum about a computer company started in a Garage in Santa Clara suing people for doing the same thing.
Right but you just mentioned siri, which is included on every iphone. People do carry that around and don't expect it to be listening.
It's simply not true that if EV is positive, you should bet all of your money. There's a classic formula called the 'Kelly criterion' to calculate how much of your money should be bet given your expected edge. The original paper (which came out of Bell labs, based upon noise over a transmission channel!) is a good read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

http://www.herrold.com/brokerage/kelly.pdf
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Thank you! From a person who falls asleep and hits his head at airplane's wall every time I sit near the window. This thing would definitely help.
A reminder to you all that the flag button still works, and that if as many people who are complaining about this article were to hit it, it would be off the front page right now.
I meant to port OSX/IOS from Darwin kernel to Linux kernel.
Add a gif demo. That’s the first thing I look for in things like this.
Can you explain what you mean by "fully-simulated genre?"
You are 100% right that my view is clouded by the relative youth of the software industry. Achieving seniority is a much longer road elsewhere.

My main point was that when you've just spent 4 years in college learning and accumulating debt, it's very disappointing to look around and find nobody willing to invest in you. I have friends and family graduating from good 4 year schools ending up doing email customer support for startups and making next to no money. That's employment, but it's not what you want/expect.
Why wasn't "Polo" done for conspiracy to murder