skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the relative price of human time decreases, while the relative price of land and resources increases. So wealth moves to people who own resources.

Another problem is that the standard deviation of the price of human time is increasing. The typical example is someone of average intelligence who was an accountant but her job got automated. In general, jobs requiring an average intellect are disappearing and people who did these jobs are more often moving down (manual labor) than up (programmer, designer, etc.).

So the real problem of automation is not unemployment – you can always find a slave-like job for a few bucks per hour – but wealth inequality.
I only use that one feature from ToffeeScript as shown in my example. Obviously much cleaner
ebay has 30k workers? no way.

they don't have inventory, they don't police listings, they don't do support by email anymore

what exactly are all those 30k people doing?
As a white educated male I have never no will I ever take part in the politically correct circlejerk that is the "blogosphere". I could care less about the state of the "blogosphere" and the narcissistic parasites that inhabit it. Although I fully accept my part in the blame for making it so bad for women.
True, I made a minor grammatical mistake, and when information gathering I read the author's work instead of meditating on her reproductive organs, but that is utterly irrelevant to my claim about the article. I still claim I was correct when I identified the article as a well written general audience tutorial although in my personal experience, tutoring works best as an "extreme customization" presentation not "here's something very general from someone who happens to be your sibling". I don't see any particular reward or advantage in distracting from that analysis of the article.

I do disagree with the interpretation, that doubling down, would have been changing the focus of the article analysis yet again, to something even more gender oriented and even less article oriented such as "the most important topic to discuss right now is if vcrash is male or female? Because that's apparently important somehow other than to vcrash's partner?"

flyingbrotus's reply about the RODBC package was awesome because it was on the topic of the discussion and relates directly to the article and busting thru the vertical learning curve of R.

I may very well be an idiot; I'm OK with that.

However, being an idiot would (appear to) have nothing to do with "That's a good article; also, here's another strategy that's worked slightly better". If that specific individual claim about the article were dumb, discussion of my idiocy would be completely on topic.

On the other hand, grammar errors and irrelevant research errors may very well indicate I'm an idiot, but it has nothing to do with the topic. That's why I was pretty cool with it. I'm never going to be hired as a proofreader by anyone not totally desperate and I'm cool with that.

Fomite puts one space after each period. That is wrong, and henceforth we will solely discuss that yawn inducing aspects of that topic. Or maybe not. I'd rather talk about the article, or learning R, or teaching R, or teaching people, or teaching siblings...
Libssh 0.6.0 released
After another development cycle, this time of 2,5 years, the libssh Team is proud to announce version 0.6.0 of libssh. This versions offers a truckload of new features and it is a really stable release.

The most important functionality which has been added is a new callback-based server API. Also we added ECDSA support and a new algorithm called curve25519-sha256@libssh.org for key exchange to have something better than the NIST curves. OpenSSH also uses curve25519-sha256@libssh.org as the default for key exchange. For this there is a complete new API for public key management available. Also a big improvement is Kerberos support which has been tested by Red Hat engineers with FreeIPA and gssproxy.
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When I got to University, I had very, very little background in the subject for which I eventually got a PhD.

Thank god you're not in charge.
A Turing machine is not a computer, it's much closer to a mathematician writing down a proof: read a couple of symbols, scratch head, write down symbol, go back again. It's a mathematical model for following a sequence of steps and closely tied to logic, much more so than it is similar to a computer.
Rather than use a BR to make sure that a group doesn't compromise on quality, why not just have interviewers interview candidates outside of their group, or interview them for a generalist pool which are assigned to groups later, or randomly? That prevents the BR from inserting subjective bias into the process. Everyone has bias, but the best way to cancel it out is to distribute influence, not concentrate it, nor attempt to "fight" the influences of other interviewers.
In the past I had 4 very attractive female employees. I hired one...and then she brought her friends around and one-by-one I ended up hiring them. At trade shows(and expos) the customers assumed they were 'booth babes' and not our actual employees. It was frustrating to say the least.
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http://www.flir.com/flirone/

is the more direct link.
Google has various patents on self-driving car technology.
Right, so the ice is not a snowflake, but the snowflake is made of ice. Similarly, organic chemicals are not a consciousness, but a consciousness emerges (we think) in a lump of organic chemicals. Do you disagree?

P.S. A snowman isn't exactly an emergent property. Now, an avalanche system might be...
The companies know sex sells.
The photographers from the media know sex sells.
The media publishing the photographer know sex sells.

Science knows that sex sells. http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/sex-sells-what...

So yes, my guess is the booth babes help raise product awareness, product exposure, and desire for the product.
My friend left the bay area recently to work on visual effects for movies. These are real challenges with concrete ways of assessing if you're doing your job (does it look good?) Also requires heavy math and computer science skills.

That might be an option for some of you with a similar background.
Amazon is so desperate for employees that you often see the same person interview multiple times until they get in

This doesn't make sense to me. Wouldn't they hire them first time around if they were truly desperate?
Doesn't disclosing it to a third party count?
What do you mean, less expressive?
There are also reasons they stopped using it in the first place[1]:

Some problems with this method were that the receiver could be triggered accidentally by naturally occurring noises, and some people could hear the piercing ultrasonic signals. There was an incident in which a toy xylophone changed the channels on such sets because some of the overtones from the xylophone matched the remote's ultrasonic frequency.

While each specific problem could be worked around with modern methods, it looks like a technique reserved for situations where you don't have a better option.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control#Television_remot...
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This is very amusing. The G1 had barely enough RAM to load the system, with very little left for apps. I have one (my first Android phone when it first came out!) and it is still in perfect condition, only useful for testing apps on the absolute minimum of hardware to see if they run OK.

This is saying alot about the performance of Firefox OS!
Oh yeah, I'm very interested in historical circumstances and matter combinations that have seemingly given rise to consciousness.

But saying "[when] you pile up a certain number of neurons at a certain complexity you get consciousness" is begging the question. What is consciousness. What is it in the neurons that makes it? What is it about the universe we're in that allows for the phenomenon to emerge from it? This has always been how science has explained it to date: it just emerges from the complexity. But that doesn't explain anything >:|
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That's very interesting, didn't know that. Thanks.
Seems so much fun.
What would be the Hackers News's features for this robot ? :)
I think your analysis sounds about right then. I remember walking around area (Potts Point in Sydney) and not finding any sort of reasonable breakfast that wasn't insanely priced. I think I broke out laughing at one place that was offering a special of two pieces of toast, an egg and a cup of coffee for ~$15.

We do have good steaks in the U.S., sorry about your Texas steak experience! I'd expect to pay $15 on the low end for an "ok" steak to $35 on the high end and then $3-9 for sides. Add in some beer or wine and you can hit a pretty price per head in the States. But if you just want to hit a roadhouse and get a steak an potato and a beer, I'd expect to do it for under $30.
I have a 100 year old house that I've been remodeling, and this would enable me to easily find air leaks. I'm skeptical that it will enable me to find studs through horsehair plaster (they show visible studs in the gallery), but it will certainly make it easier to locate the position of forced hot water pipes in the walls and ceilings.
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You're intimidated to talk to her, but she definitely catches your attention. Booth babes are eye candy. If people interact with them, better, but I'm sure the company won't mind if people want to hangout around the booth just because of the beautiful girls. There's people other than booth babes who can pitch and sell products.
You'd pay a premium over those that exclusively use auto-pilot. That premium should still be lower than what you pay now. Reason being, you'll still be driving yourself, but now you're surrounded by auto-pilot vehicles. Therefore, you should be involved in less accidents as auto-pilot cars react faster to your mistakes, avoid following you too close, avoid merging into your lane, backing into you in a parking lot, etc. So, driving on auto-pilot might be 90% safer, and driving without auto-pilot, in a world where the majority use auto-pilot, you might be 60% safer than today. Either way, less accidents, safer roads, lower insurance.
You might be thinking of the "fast resize" which isn't an option if your hypervisor is full.
Source: My girlfriend does promo modelling from time to time.

Here are a few things that I found interesting:

* Bikini modelling (perhaps obviously) pays the most. Numbers are in the $50-75/hour range.

* For non-bikini modelling, liquor gigs pay the most. About $35/hour. Non-liquor gigs are roughly $20-25/hour.

* A lot of girls do this full-time.
I wrote most of those already, if anyone needs them, help yourself. Haven't had the need for a bit set, but I guess I can add it to the TODO list :)

https://github.com/cosn/collections/

That being said, I completely agree that the author chose the wrong language for the problem at hand.
That's not easy. It's the definitive essence of things. To give an example, when you know something, and write that down. The written words are physical, but the essence they convey (the concept, the information) is not physical at all. When others read that, they don't consume the physical words (though they use them as a medium). They consume information which they contain.

Here is a good article on this subject: http://philpapers.org/rec/MATBEA
i had my reservations too, but then somebody told me that GOPATH is like a virtualenv for python and then everything was nice again.
But upon the initial release in 08, Android had already been in development for some 5 years.
> ... the general consensus is that those 'B' candidates can't survive the break-neck pace of innovation ...

Judging by the stream of Kindle regressions, Amazon could use a bunch of slow, reliable engineers grinding out the innovations of the 80s.
How about data provided to the business on who their customers are? This seems especially genius in that it doesn't even require the extra step of "checking-in", but can provide the business with the same data.
I don't know, 3840 is fairly close.
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How is it true in the long run when we have robots that can walk talk and think as well as our bottom 40% but take one tenth the cost in food / shelter?
Many of us went into college without the privilege of having a good idea of what we wanted to do with ourselves.

Yes, it's quite silly that college is mandatory rather than somewhere you go for the purpose of learning something in further depth.
This isn't contradictory at all. What they mean is that they would like to be engaged as people with their own thoughts, ideas, and opinions -- not hit or creeped on.

I know that the irony there is that they are marketed and dressed in a manner to appeal to the male sexual mind, but I'd like to think we've evolved beyond that (chuckles heard in the audience).

"Tell me more about what you're doing/this product." seems like a good start.
I think part of the safety boost of self-driving cars is that they don't get impatient, and neither will you since you're reading a book/email/facebook/whatever.

Self-driving cars ought to also be capable of driving like grandmothers. That's part of why I expect them to be safer. The idea that you can drive a car to the brink of a high-speed collision and then magically expect it to out-react a seasoned driver into avoiding an essentially unavoidable accident is juvenile fantasy.
Someone noticed, and gently corrected you. If you had wanted to, a very simple edit would have been the end of it. Instead, you went on some weird tangent about sexism filters and how it's A-OK, and now you're upset that we're on the tangent?
A self-driving car system might be statistically safer than a human drivers in overall conditions, and still be prone to failure in an exceptional situation a particular driver wouldn't have been. If you have the potential to be that driver in that situation, I could understand feeling the scare quotes are warranted. Which percentile of the population does an automated system need to outperform to be safer rather than "safer"?
The author is not embarrassed about pushing an agenda, either:

'Would she classify them as desperate nerds? She laughs a bit nervously. "I guess so."'

So we're getting the author's words coming back out of the models' mouths. This is of limited interest.
What's the point of a life not enjoyed?
Many astronomers don't have to use or deal with telescopes, just like not all particle physicists have to know much about accelerators.
To your points about pipelining, there's a reason it doesn't get compared. It's not usable - https://insouciant.org/tech/status-of-http-pipelining-in-chr...

Head of line blocking is so well documented that there are many common web performance techniques to get around it, like domain sharding: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/05/12/sharding-dominan.... It'd be very interesting to see where you get your data that head of line blocking is not a problem.

I'm not sure where you are getting your info that SPDY was designed largely by one recent college grad. I don't think of Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon as the same person, much less recent college grads :) Maybe 40+ year olds still counts as "recent"?
It is not that Bar Raisers get away with just the Veto. Usually the process involves discussion between every one involved in the interview loop, including the manager, BR, other engineers, and the HR. A final "hire" or "no hire" call is made based on "data-points" collected over the course of the interview / interactions had with the candidates by the people present in the interview loop.

As evident, BRs clearly have a final say in the hiring process, but they don't always go about vetoing every candidate just because they can. They usually justify it with valid "data-points" and if one or two others have "data-points" to make a compelling argument against what the BR says, then they usually do so. And BR do listen to others who have contributed to the interview loop... they aren't in the mold of dictators exactly.

Even BRs get evaluated for performance... since the HRs are also involved in the discussion, one can be sure that no HR would tolerate discrimination, let alone 4-8 other engg or managers on the interview loop.

Again, just my take on things, I do not speak on the behalf of my employer.
This happened to me. I got pretty far into a TPM interview and had a couple interviews with people that were so far out of my area they may as well have been working in a different company.

I still had fun and don't regret not working there, but thought it was odd that somebody who interviewed me for logistics backup plans had anything to say in my hiring process.
Because the interview process is structured to "raise the bar" but is also highly random. As with any tech company, you have to run the gauntlet to get a hire. It's politically easier to have candidates reinterview when they fail rather than get permission from executives to "lower the bar."
Click noises have no real tone character so could probably work. My keyboard already makes those anyway.
"Fast and Furious 1X" will be starring self-driving cars i guess.
Bertrand Russell hoped for a similar future back in 1932:

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
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Ask HN: Which is best SaaS API documentation you've come across?
For me, Stripe's API documentation is an example of an API documentation done well. It has:

* Clear API references
* Usage examples
* Easy to read layout

What is another good API documentation you've come across? And what makes an API doc better than others for you?
Accidentally unsound is a problem, but intentionally unsound just means that they balanced soundness against other design criteria such as completeness, complexity, and tooling capability, then decided that they were willing to trade soundness for other things.

For onlookers, here's a lucid explanation of soundness and completeness in type systems: http://eschew.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/sound-and-complete/

The author of that article argues that soundness is more important than completeness, but concedes that there are other ways to view the world too.

The bottom line is that most ad-hoc lint tools are both unsound and incomplete, but they are still useful for finding bugs!
To preemptively answer your burning question: yes, I'm available for work.

I also made a PDF version (http://www.dougkoellmer.com/resume.pdf) using wkhtmltopdf for attaching to e-mails.

I know it's probably a little too radical overall, but let me know how you think companies large and small would respond to this.
> So the buyers of the product have extra money to spend ...

Until they get spooked and cut back discretionary spending just in case. So-called service economies are not stable.
- Tell me more about what you're doing.
- You know, just standing here half-naked, attracting penises to this booth.
"You need to scale things while they're rendered, and as long as you only do vector graphics like drawing lines and rectangles, that's fine."

Yes, I'm with you so far ... my confusion is, I thought that is what the "ready for 4k blah blah" improvements in iOS and Mavericks, etc., were.

I thought that was the whole problem they solved, and I am surprised to see it is not. I can see various apps being broken in this way, but the OS elements should all be scalable arbitrarily...
> A kernel without drivers is useless.

So... that means that the kernel is not written in C then? I'm confused.

> It is not irrelevant. Code compiled by a C++ compiler is C++, regardless how C fans try to bend it. Having this discussion since 1993.

Except they don't compile it with a C++ compiler, it simply can be compiled with one.

However, what would you call this, C or C++?

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
char line[256];
fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin)
puts(line);
return 0;
}

> What other OS, non UNIX based with the same maturity as the list above, can you point out being done in C?

Windows. Already did that. This discussion is now feeling circular.
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That would be well worth testing, so I hope you or someone else does find time.
In her book Quiet[1], Susan Cain claims that introverts are more sensitive to external stimuli[2]. This would probably make them less able to tune out distractions and thus more stressed out by noisy workplaces where there are lots of people talking.

She also explicitly discusses workplace issues as they relate to introverts and extroverts.[3]

It's an interesting book, especially for tech people, a lot of whom tend to either be introverts or work with lots of introverts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet:_The_Power_of_Introverts...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet:_The_Power_of_Introverts...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet:_The_Power_of_Introverts...
That's one of the ideas often toyed with in Amazon. It hasn't worked out so well in Amazon because of rapid expansion of the company. As an SDE/SDM you have only so much time to devote to hiring, and with lot of pressure to hire, people like to devote time to hiring for their own team. Hence, the BR becomes the "balancer" to the process.

A BR can not be a "bar raiser" on his own team's interview loops.
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Do humans "hallucinate" what is in front of them? It's fairly well understood that our visual cortex is the product of evolution. So we will see things as they are meant to be seen, by our visual cortex. This is completely different from what is really there.
It depends on which part of the Amazon organisation.

The ones in Amazon Instant Video in London are useless. Particularly in identifying suitable candidates for the AIV Retail Website stack. They've burned out their hiring credibility in London to the point that the three hires to London in 2013 have been from East Europe. Plus churning and burning through university interns. It's been a desperate mess for a good two years now.

I hear positive things about the AWS hiring process.
> Currently we exist in a "low unemployment present" ...

By historical metrics, unemployment in the U.S. is over 50%.
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Right - each countries choices would be: 1. drastic wealth redistribution 2. revolution

Working under the premise (2) should be avoided, I favor discussions around basic income.
Most of Go's feature decisions seem to have something to do with compilation speed or how it fits in with the concurrency features and GC.

Inheritance is overrated, and the factory pattern is often overused. Both of those happen with generics.
Ok, if Windows 8 were like how this dude wrote about it, I'd be using win8 right now. Period.
Yes, but realistically, we are no where near strong AI. We're getting pretty good at making AIs to handle single specialized tasks, even ones that we consider very difficult, but making a generalized AI that can handle any task a human can is probably not going to happen in the near future.
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Very interesting! I like the layout, though wondered why the buttons along the bottom of each panel didn't do anything.

Edited to add: it's always worthwhile when people try things like this. The single-page paper résumé is a format suited to hanging folder jackets and personnel files and needs updating for this environment. I'm not saying that's true for every job category, but for hackers working across multiple companies and open source projects, your example is...just right.
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The rates for manual drivers will be a function of how safe that pool of drivers are. If a large portion of the manual drivers do it for fun and are more reckless than the current average driver, their rates may in fact go up.