skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of that depends on how much time you have. If you're posting this FROM a hackathon, where presumably you need to get to work NOW, then some basic research online is probably the best you can accomplish.

- Is there a need for it? Are people asking for something like this publicly?
- If you or someone on your team has a substantial social following, try kicking a quick question or survey out to the world and see what kind of responses you can get quickly.

If you have more time, then building a test page (even something as simple as a launchrock page) and seeing what kind of response you can generate would be a smart first move in validating. We did something similar to test a couple of our assumptions for our newly-launched product. We created a sign-up form that had 2 ways to sign up (allowed us to test one vs. the other) and then followed that with a one question survey that allowed users to respond as to which features seemed important to them.
Given the way the City works, do you really want us to not include bonus?
the part they missed is that they also want indentured workers as well, as in, workers that can't switch jobs for 3-4 years while they get their green card.
It also depends what kind of neuron you're talking about. Plenty of neurons have unmyelinated axons. In particular, most of the neurons in the grey matter on the surface of the neocortex don't have myelin sheaths. It's the fat in the myelin that gives white matter its lighter colour.
Very nice work!

It seems like this is only fast on large files, though, because the text needs to be copied from the main RAM memory to the GPU, which introduces latency. I wonder what latency would be like if this algorithm was instead run on the kind of unified memory architecture that you see in e.g. the PS2 and XBox One.

Also, I don't quite follow why they're compiling the finite automata on the GPU. To me their explanation that they didn't want to copy the automaton node per node sort of sounds like there's a lot of room for optimization here. E.g. maybe the regular expressions could be compiled to OpenCL code.

Then again, they did also find that pattern matching is a memory bound problem so maybe emitting native code is pointless. Anyone know if there are regular expression engines that compile emit native x86 code?
They do have the option; walk away from the Euro.
An excellent summation.

I'd add a few more things, at least from the 70s/80s (I left the relevant social circle in the 90s when I left the Boston area):

A near complete lack of personal security and safety awareness and savvy, which wouldn't matter so much to others except:

No respect for others' relationships with SOs; the ham-handed way he'd hit on your girlfriend was mostly a bit annoying, best avoided by having your girlfriend's other SO on the other side of her and you both going into "alpha male don't fsck with us" physical projection mode ^_^ ... BUT: it put him and some fellow diners in jeopardy when he hit on a gangster's moll in the late night Boston Chinatown restaurant the circle frequented (as related to me by a reliable 1st hand witness).

It was said, albeit denied, that RMS took a technical disagreement with Dan Weinreb to the point of purging MIT-AI backup tapes, and this was why Dan left for LLL and the S-1 project. Now, as I note Dan denied this, but the very fact it was credible during the period Dan was absent tells you how abrasive he can be in technical matters.

Somewhat troubled, yes (it doesn't make my deeply troubled threshold, at worst we're talking the personality disorder level of mental illness and to my knowledge and observation it didn't rise to that level though the '80s), and note most of these observations are from before he became really famous.

(See my disclaimers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804156)
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Why isn't there a union for software engineers?
Our wages are so varied, it's nauseating. Am I the only one that thinks we should unionize for better wages and rights (ie. ergonomic chairs n whatnot) Our health and productivity depends on it.
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Limeade (http://limeade.co) aggregates music videos from a curated list of music blogs. I work on this from time to time, mostly just adding a new blogs to the list of sources.
Of course large corporations want immigration reform!

They don't want to pay for mediocre talent in the US when they can get someone just as good overseas. The reality is that technology is eating the world and there aren't enough good engineers to create everything we need.

I think some reform is definitely necessary. The need for top engineer talent is just going to get worse (and not just in the US...all the countries will need them). If immigrants want to come to the US I feel we should welcome them.
The problem is about distribution, not production. Not everyone will own these magical means of automation, and owners will have no incentive to share with non-owners, because non-owners cannot offer anything that owners need.
"At least 200k" full-time, wow. For anyone who's on that type of salary, what role and industry is it? CTO-level?
The problem isn't with the state of this utopia; the true difficulties lie in transition process - when more and more things get automated, but the overall economy still forces you to have an income or starve. The real challenge of our times is how we get from here to there without a huge mess and a lot of suffering in the middle.
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That hit close to home for a lot of people.

If you people want politics here, I guess you'll get it. But you won't get politics and a quality site about hacking and startups.
Maybe this bot should be updated to post of the first Monday or Tuesday of every month (which isn't a holiday); the number of replies to this post seems really low, maybe because it's a weekend.
I can confirm you can use libc++ with gcc. I've already built a couple projects with it. It was the only way I could get past the linker step, once I included any c++11 standard library functions...
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Edit: I know you said without benefits, etc. but I included it for others as well. Just look at the £85k figure if you want a hard number.
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Oh great, now even Intel's gone with a "flat design" logo.
> There's no such free market in software engineering labour.

Can you explain this a little bit? Not trying to sound combative, just would like to hear your thoughts!
> I worked with a retard programmer, he thought that learning Django was a feat of strength.

Maybe it was for him?

You shouldn't be so hard on someone else. I'm sure there are people here way smarter than you or I, and they don't call us "retard programmers".
I think a significant part of SV's problem, is that there's an "old boy" mentality, just with different trappings. I bet a lot of the actual people who lived in the milieu portrayed in Mad Men believed they were living a sort of heightened humanity and were helping to make the world a better place. I also think that is exactly what many in SV and the Bay Area actually do; that's not a justification to look down on and prejudge fellow human beings, however. Sometimes, I wonder if I'm getting a little flavor of what pre-revolutionary Paris was like.
The available options suggest this too. OP should probably edit to clarify though.
Report Shows Just How Wrong Silicon Valley Is About A Tech Worker Shortage
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I remember the exact same confusion. But the backgrounds are computer animated, with Max himself (Matt Fewer) was a real person with plastic appendages to his head.
You are making decent money compared to SF. According to the poll, not many are though. Does the UK not value intellectual workers?
Very strange article.

Before reasoning further you need to answer very simple question "From where wealth comes?". If your answer is "from employer", "from the bank" or "from the VC". Please, think again. I'll wait.

Money always come from customers. Who are the customers in this bipolar model of the world?

Jobless class cannot be sustainable customer. All the money they have comes from elite class. It is very strange from the side of elite to donating jobless. Jobless can pay for elite's product by elite's money. Oh, miracle, elite can has all their money back! It is stupid cycle. If there is no spoils in process, elite has no reason to start it.

Elite as a customer is a more gloomy variant.
Yeah, but the question is, where are these economic gains from automation and AI going? They don't just go into the ether - they'll accumulate to whoever financed the automated whatsit, and rightly or wrongly that person will not willingly share their vastly increased income with a superfluous zero-leverage former workforce. This is exactly what is happening now as massive productivity gains over thirty years have failed to translate into an increase in real wealth distributed across the population. The technological solution creates a social problem.
I just always assumed this was the case, since everyone talks about wanting to hire only "A" engineers.

But I'm not so sure we Americans should be "offended" by this. This article says:

> The view from Silicon Valley is that a lot of the US talent, while bountiful in number, just doesn't stack up. But Silicon Valley doesn't want to just come out and say this, since it will sound offensive to a lot of American-born grads.

I mean, of course, only 5% of American engineers are going to be in the top 5% of American engineers, for example. It's not a national failure. It's not offensive. That's the entire conversation about "A" engineers. Any country needs to look outside its borders for additional top engineers.

Then, the article goes on to paraphrase Silicon Valley:

> "Hey America, please raise the visa limit. There's a shortage of STEM talent that is willing to work for what we'll pay that also meets our high standards.

I'm not really convinced that pay has anything to do with it. The general problem really seems to genuinely be finding engineers that are good enough, just in the recruitment process period -- at least in many cases.

The article tries to use statistics to show that some STEM majors go on to other fields. But saying that 18.7% of CS majors aren't working in their field because of pay/promotion/working conditions doesn't strike me as unreasonable at all. I mean, maybe they're the "C" engineers or something, and they decided they're better at something else. Or they just enjoy something else more. The article certainly isn't proving that they're the "A" engineers everybody wants, and that they've gone on to brain surgery instead because that's more lucrative and has better working conditions.
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Why do people make comments like these when deep down they know it's not true?

>They never get away.

This is false. I've personally watched los angeles based car chases where the person gets away even though there was a helicopter and units on the ground right behind him.

He was able to get underneath a lot of trees in a neighborhood, jump multiple fences in a row, and completely evaded the helicopter and police units on the ground.

Why do people like you make false statements like, "they never get away" when clearly people do? Do you live in some sort movie fantasy world where the "good guys always win"?

Anyways, running makes sense if you already have multiple felonys and/or know your crime is large enough to meet federal prosecution.
The only SE roles I know if that sort of salary range is in financial services for a couple of the top guys in the company. No way is that anywhere near standard salary for 99.99% of employees.
Brings back memories of an in-house correspondence application I once encountered - 16 million TIFFs in a single directory.

The lead dev responsible for the app was also fond of hard-coding IP addresses and wouldn't even entertain talk of doing anything differently.

I got out of there ASAP.
"When we read about great changes coming, we should be thinking about the great opportunities we're going to have and how to adapt to meet the future, not about "what to do when your job is gone" That's self-fulfilling horse hockey."

I think this overlooks a very real problem. There are a large number of real people out there who lose their jobs because of this. Essentially their skills are no longer valuable, so they need to learn new skills. How are they going to afford the insane cost of going back to school? It's a tough situation, and even tougher if they have a family. And if both spouses worked in the same labor market, they could easily fall into poverty trying to feed their children.

Of course structural changes won't "doom us all". It does doom many people who suddenly find themselves in expired labor markets with no way out. We need technological advances, but we also need to find ways to adapt to those changes better in order to minimize the collateral damage.
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Speaking as a proud Canadian, you're absolutely right. It's aboot time we get those new fangled horseless carriages!
Ask HN: How do you develop on Macbook Air
Looking to see what tools the community use to do development on os x

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2) Using virtual box - VHD on same HDD as where OS X is installed.
3) Using virtual box - VHD on storage other than main HDD where OS X is installed
4) Using Vagrant - VHD on same HDD as where OS X is installed
5) Using Vagrant - VHD on storage other than main HDD where OS X is installed
6) Using VMware - VHD on same HDD as where OS X is installed
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I don't know enough about all the countries to say either way, but if FI/SE were the only two countries with this policy (not saying they are - I've no idea) then it would still be accurate to say that the opposite is true in the vast majority of the EU.
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Newer versions of PCRE have a JIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_Compatible_Regular_Express...
Sony officially states that PlayStation 4 will not have DRM against used games
He was killed by a high-speed police chase.
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Well to sabotage myself, there's no free market in anything. "Free market" is a fuzzy set.

Import quotas are well studied. When you limit the number of foreign cars, foreign commodities etc that can enter your country, you drive up the price. Local suppliers of those goods will benefit at the expense of local consumers of those goods.

But humans, unlike cars or bananas, come with lasting and deep impacts on a local society. It is a very human thing to wish to control who belongs to your ingroup, even if that ingroup is an abstraction of continental scope and with hundreds of millions of existing members.

But the fact the immigration restrictions arises from ancient social logic doesn't change its economic nature, its economic morphology if you will. And immigration restrictions are isomorphic onto any other import quota. They artificially raise the price of local suppliers (US citizens) at the expense of local consumers (US companies).

As an Australian this is less of a problem for me. We have a special secret backdoor into the US engineering market in the form of the E-3 visa.
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