skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know almost nothing about this, but:

(1) IP cores can be bought as "binaries with API", not as source. This is cheaper, but much harder to inspect.

(2) I think that "compiling"[1] the source to some fab's process is not completely automatic (they "recompile" or "handcode" some "functions" to optimize power usage or max frequency), so you need to verify the "binary" is faithful to your source, including on the analog level. Then you need to verify the manufactured chip is faithful to the tape out[2] you verified, as a 3d apparatus, not just the xray.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_and_route

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape-out
Good catch! There's a bug in the link generation for the auto-cross-referencing that I have yet to fix - thanks - I'll edit to work around that.

Cheers!
It's not too late to edit your post :)
I think you're right, and in that sense, maybe "accuracy" isn't the best word. "Reliability" might be the better word here.
It is very much so. It's a form of capturing rent. Look at how crazy the taxi companies go to protect this revenue stream. They keep this because they are tenacious 1 issue voters. (And in NYC, the current mayor was elected on the basis of unions and 1 issue voters like this)

In my view the taxi licenses should be of fixed length. It's ok to say "The roads only allow for 13K (or however many) taxis." It's wrong to give people a lifetime annuity based on it, and create a barrier to entry in the industry. Better to have a fixed term like 5 or 10 years. Long enough that it's worth investing in the business. Short enough that others can enter. And the total # should be flexible, perhaps linked to traffic and population.
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How is surge pricing "evil"? You are free to use Uber or not. When surge pricing is in effect, you have to agree to it before going forward in the app.

It's not hard. If you don't like the price of something, don't buy it.
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How bad were the Navigation Acts really?
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This happened to me with Uber X. The driver was in an MLM company and was pitching me on it. He was a nice guy and I gave him 5 stars but I thought it was out of line to be pitching network marketing to your passengers, and he said that was the main reason he drove for Uber was to meet people.
> I actually think its overly long, wordy, rambling, poorly conceived and short any novel or important ideas.

Yes, it's written like the draft of an academic research paper that might or might not make it to peer review. Unfortunately, that description also matches the bulk of published papers.
I was following Scott's posts for a while. Most notable feature of those posts: everything he says is predictable. Blog is designed to appeal to the liberal academic establishment, which knows answers to all important questions, and is never in doubt.
I don't remember a single example of Scott's opinion which could be deemed controversial in any sense. "Eigenconformism" would be a better name for his blog.
It's a moronic policy, but it is the IRS.
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pqpf/conus_hpc_pqpf.php
Books and Wikipedia articles are sources too. I didn't say anything about single newsfeed style sources.

I find the linked-to article to be a gem of lucidity amidst a barrage of mostly noise, busywork, and lottery-playing. Not only that, but the topic of the foundations of morality is going to become a central issue soon, with multiple strong global trends taking us towards that difficult issue.

The article you linked to is nice, but Curry-Howard isomorphism is neither novel nor as important as the topic covered by the original article.

As fragile agents inhabiting a ball of mass and fire organized in billions of partly-autonomous somewhat-intelligent resource-sharing systems flying through space and time, just recently coming up with scarily and growingly powerful new ways to rearrange control which may destroy existing controlling systems, including us, we should care very, very much about this.

And the article provides powerful new tools to tackle this.
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Ok, here's why.

Many other businesses have incredibly slim margins and chargebacks hit them hard. Airlines where I live in australia charge big extra fees for credit card payments, but no transaction internet banking payments are free. These payments are actively encouraged. These don't work for international payments and are clumsy even for australians. If bitcoin becomes mainstream enough to offer a minimal fee alternative to credit cards (and over time the 1% bitcoin processor fee will get smaller and smaller as it is a competitive market) then it will get widespread acceptance on many low margin merchants.

At this point, a number of people will adopt bitcoin to avoid the obvious extra credit card charges.

At that point, my stash of bitcoins will suddenly be worth $10000+ each, and THAT is why bitcoin supporters are obsessed with getting rid of credit card fees.
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My primary memory of my first Singapore visit a few years ago is how nearly impossible it was to find a taxi in the afternoon/evening. Ended up spending an hour walking back to the hotel instead.
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You missed my point: as capital makes labor ever more redundant, it will be more and more difficult for labor to secure enough capital to live off of. The present value in dollars of said quantity of capital will decrease over time, of course. But I see no reason to believe that the value in terms of man-hours (or anything else that labor actually possesses) will decrease, and every reason to believe that it will increase.

Why? Because we've heard this one before:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/sep/01/economics

and history has proven it wrong. The increase in productivity happened, but whoops! All the increases went to capital, diluting the pool so that it was just as hard as ever for the working class to jump to the capital class, despite the increased productivity! Funny how that works. Now Marc Andreessen is trotting out the old canard again. Fool me once...

> it's a hedge that has positive expected value even if this scenario does not pan out, so I really don't see the problem here.

I save. You save. Most people that can save do save, because everyone already knows what you're saying. Every gradeschool and every highschool in the US repeatedly burns the lesson of compound interest into the minds of our kids. They even use an interest rate that doesn't take into account inflation or reserve policy so as to exaggerate the effects of saving, if anything.

Some people lack the self-control to save, but they're in the minority. The majority don't save not because they don't know that it's a good thing but because they can't. They're barely scraping by. If the car breaks, there go their savings. If the toilet breaks, there go their savings. Labor these days simply doesn't have the leverage required to carve out a livable chunk of the capital pie, and your suggestion that they have the leverage but not the self-control or knowledge of how compound interest works is patronizing in the extreme.
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There are always unintended side benefits. A few degrees of warming and our friends in Washington will be producing better wine than Napa.
I have some experience with building large (2-3 foot rotors) quadrocopters. They are _heavy_. With batteries and motors and no payload, our copter weighed ~10-30 pounds depending on the battery loadout. I wouldn't want a 10 pound object falling at whatever the copter's terminal velocity is, smacking me on the head.
This is basically a way of obfuscating your C code. If you want to write obfuscated code, C++ has extensive support for this. I think it's actually a strength of C to not have many features. It ultimately makes code more readable and reliable.
Eep. Hats off to you; my first instinct would have been to tell him that I'm not paying him to give me a sales pitch and that if he doesn't stop immediately, I'm getting out of the car and leaving him a 1 star rating.
I guess their answer would be, if there are archeological items under the ice that is receding, there must have been a time period a long time ago where the glacier didn't exist. Since the industrial revolution is only from the past 200 years, something else must have caused the glaciers to recede and advance. Maybe it's the same thing happening today?
> The problem is the complete lack of benefits for customers.

Costs of acquisition and spread will decrease as bitcoin adoption rises as it is a competitive market. And then low margin merchants will actively encourage bitcoin usage with discounts.
I know that's what he's saying - that's what I find kind of off putting.
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Nicely done! I remember getting the original game for Christmas one year as a kid, and it was lots of fun. This brings back memories. Kudos!
MortenK, these are great pieces of feedback. It's disappointing that job marketplaces like oDesk/elance don't incorporate these heuristics into their process in attempt to raise the quality bar. In terms of better developers, there are a few companies like toptal (high quality temp placement) grouptalent, and ooomf, etc.

My experience (co-managing ~$300k on oDesk) is communication / expectation alignment is one of the biggest reasons a project fails. Project managers, for example, don't know how to vet computer vision experts. Screen sharing is good for seeing that someone is typing something or "appearing" to do work, but most PMs have no idea if the researcher is programming a canny line detector versus AAM. More importantly, just because they know what they want to build doesn't mean they have experience or knowledge to manage an application lifecycle.

Really, the PM should be able to tap into a software pipeline which compliments/augments the expert's natural workflow. Source code management should be a requirement, enforced by the platform, not something one has to vet for. Roadmapping and proposals should be a paid deliverable and a discrete step within the process. And I don't think continuous integration + test cases should be the exception, they should be the norm. Using such a pipeline is self-selecting as programmers who don't understand these concepts will easily be discovered.

Sorry if this is a shameless plug, this is something we've been addressing for a while at Hackerlist.net (we're in private beta). We've open sourced a good potion of our stack in case others want to use these tools to manage their own software development projects.

To support to your list of tips, MortenK, we've also found github to be a reasonable selector. If a SWE has a github account with several projects, this at least demonstrates rudimentary source code management understanding and an interest in open source. It's also an opportunity to review code. We ended up designing an internal search engine for handling discovery / evaluation as vetting great hackers at scale is a big challenge.
yup, and if you're not involved, you're losing out, because a lot of people are making MILLIONS
I've not tried it in really hot weather, and haven't found it to be really uncomfortable, but certainly more that I judged worth it for my pretty low current threat level. I do wear it very occasionally when I have to go out late at night. (Level II-A from a company I've never heard of, 1994 manufacture, didn't go to any great effort to get something good or well fitted (it's oversized at the belly, no doubt making that area a lot stiffer due to overlap), it's more insurance for disasters and the like than anything else.)

And thinking about it, if you ignore an ... adventure or two of my youngest brother's with shoplifters while he was working retail at a men's clothing store, none of my nuclear family have experienced any stranger face to face crime, as you might put it.

But we do have a couple of incidents of sitting in front of a red light at an intersection and BANG! Something like that also happened to my father CORRECTION: while avoiding a head on collision with a Pepsi truck who's driver was asleep, his company car, fortunately, got a non-disabling hit in the rear left quarter. He did teach all of us to drive very defensively ... but there's not much you can do when in front of a red light.

Nitwits indeed.
When a competitive industry cuts a large expense out of their manufacturing process, they increase profit and make cheaper goods. That's why Amazon is so successful, because they used technology to trim costs. Amazon also has small profit margins; they make up for small profit margins with high volume, which they get because of their low prices and convenience.

To assume the size of the market is fed by the size of the population is to assume that human appetites for goods and services are finite. That is most definitely NOT the case. Some people want 100 fancy cars that they put in a garage or other ridiculous things. The size of the pie is what is available for consumption that people happen to want. Robots increase the size of the pie by making goods cheaper and more plentiful. That means people can consume more with the same amount of money... their money is worth more, so they're richer in real terms. For instance, if fancy cars were $10 each, you would be richer even though you have the same amount of money.
Please note that what follows can be interpreted as criticism, but it's not intended as such. I found this article quite interesting, and for me, it was the starting point for a lot of different thoughts about game-theoretical approximations of morality. So what follows is a somewhat tangential addition to the article, and not a critique of it.

My problem is not with the "eigenmorality" concept, nor with the various takes on playing it out across consecutive Prisoner's Dilemma sessions. That aspect is extremely interesting. Rather, my problem is with the Prisoner's Dilemma as a valid ground on which to test something like morality.

The Prisoner's Dilemma is a foundational, theoretical framework for evaluating human behavior. And it's a wonderful, elegant framework. But it treats humans as emotionless agents, and the "punishment" as an abstract, theoretical, rationally navigable scenario. Place real human beings into the Prisoner's Dilemma, with real-world consequences, and you get all sorts of unexpected results. The Prisoner's Dilemma is notorious for holding up perfectly fine in vitro, but less so in situ. Cultural conditioning plays a huge role in how real people act in the game. So do emotions, and irrational heuristics like overemphasizing loss aversion. (Tversky and Kahneman's work has a lot to say about the latter.)

Using the Prisoner's Dilemma as a proving ground, I think you'd arrive at an abstract model of morality -- but you wouldn't capture how morality actually plays out with quasi-rational, emotional, circumstantially driven, human agents. And, philosophically speaking, that's where morality actually counts the most.
The last three items on the list are very true but don't really have anything to do with SCRUM, that's just the way it is and you probably already knew this before you started using SCRUM. :)
Looks like you have your answer.
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> I do hope that you have enough moral consistency that if or when things get nasty, you don't pester your "gun nut" and "prepper" acquaintances but accept the fate your unpreparedness would normally dictate.

What are you talking about? If Armageddon comes, we're obviously going to murder you and take all your supplies. I mean, "moral consistency" is nice and everything, but it's nothing weighed against the survival of my family.

Maybe you should invest more effort in shoring up our civilization, instead of eagerly anticipating its downfall.
1) Freelance $30/hour is absolutely not equivalent to a salary of 5400.

2) Assuming 100% utilization is completely unrealistic. Does this frontend dev ever want to take vacation or take a sick day? Does the time that they spend searching for new clients not count towards utilization? Etc..

3) Every actually good developer with excellent English skills I've ever run across from lower cost markets like Eastern Europe, Asia and South America all charge full high cost market rates.
As a counterpoint, Alex Stepanov (the primary designer and implementer of the C++ Standard Template Library), had this crucial insight about the C programming language pervasiveness:

Let's consider now why C is a great language. It is commonly believed that C is a hack which was successful because Unix was written in it. I disagree. Over a long period of time computer architectures evolved, not because of some clever people figuring how to evolve architectures---as a matter of fact, clever people were pushing tagged architectures during that period of time---but because of the demands of different programmers to solve real problems. Computers that were able to deal just with numbers evolved into computers with byte-addressable memory, flat address spaces, and pointers. This was a natural evolution reflecting the growing set of problems that people were solving. C, reflecting the genius of Dennis Ritchie, provided a minimal model of the computer that had evolved over 30 years. C was not a quick hack. As computers evolved to handle all kinds of problems, C, being the minimal model of such a computer, became a very powerful language to solve all kinds of problems in different domains very effectively. This is the secret of C's portability: it is the best representation of an abstract computer that we have. Of course, the abstraction is done over the set of real computers, not some imaginary computational devices. Moreover, people could understand the machine model behind C. It is much easier for an average engineer to understand the machine model behind C than the machine model behind Ada or even Scheme. C succeeded because it was doing the right thing, not because of AT&T promoting it or Unix being written with it.
> proponents of TISA aim to further deregulate global financial services markets.

But...

> The draft Financial Services Annex sets rules which would assist the expansion of financial multi-nationals – mainly headquartered in New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt

These multi-nationals are purely a product of regulaiton (in this case, more specifically, regulatory capture). Without regulation, there would be thousands of healthy medium-size banks in the US, as there apparently used to be.

Overall, to characterize this as "deregulation" is completely sloppy thinking. We are never going to get a better situation when people think sloppily like this. To do so is, in practice, a moral crime. It supports maintaining the status quo through confusion.
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That's neat, but without closures I don't really see how you could do much with it outside of toy examples. Going off the examples -- how often do you write something like a foreach or a map or reduce that doesn't reference its enclosing scope?
Yes, this exactly. I should have been more direct.
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These areas have always been habitable, for some value of habitable. They just used to have a lot of year-round ice that has now melted off. Caribou craps on the ice, hunter looses a spear, snow covers it up, snow turns to ice. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Secret agreements are automatically suspect but this seems like more of the same rather than a change in direction.

This is partly a result of the move to multi-lateral trade talks (bad idea but when WTO rounds take a decade it's not unexpected), and partly inertia - there is little common agreement on how to prevent the next crash, so without a better idea we seem to follow the inverse of Einsteins quip - "the definition of insanity is repeating the last mistakes but hoping for a different outcome

Minor thought : this leak is still a pretty big deal. But it feels like wikileaks is the wrong place for this - like the main media organisations should have already got their investigatory acts together and made wiki leaks irrelevant.

Just wondering ...
I don't think I can agree more with your comment.

C++ in fact is only usable (in a team) if its features are pruned and limited in a team. Really

Throw in some fine preprocessor magic and you'll end up with completely unmaintanable and impossible to understand code.
They have plenty of answer, and they'll be more than happy to share them to you. They're wrong answers, but that won't stop them for a minute.
Wow: "The mathematical verdict of both eigenmoses and eigenjesus is unequivocal: the 98% are almost perfectly good, while the 2% are almost perfectly evil." The author says this diverge violently from most people’s moral intuitions, but actually this result is PRECISELY what moral relativism predicts. See, there are 2 school of thoughts attempting to explain where morality comes from:

- either morality is an absolute concept (things are inherently good or evil, theists might say this good/evil is defined by a god or gods). This is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_absolutism

- or morality is relative, defined by people, defined by cultures (what one culture might consider immoral, another culture will consider it moral, and nobody is inherently right or wrong). This is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism

If moral relativism is right, it would be absolutely expected that the 98% are "almost perfectly good", since they do things that the majority consider good. What a fantastic essay...
Let me put it like this. I did an oDesk rate analysis. 5 star developers in my niche charge SIGNIFICANTLY less than I am right now, and I'm considering raising rates.

You might be making a fine living. But I suspect that if you're a good developer on oDesk, you'd be making a lot more off of oDesk.
I haven't looked at the numbers. I should, but there are too many other things to do, and we worry about quality more than quantity.
I wasn't really trying to judge anyone's preferred method of learning (though I see how I came off that way), just arguing that the "guy who takes tons of notes but learns very little" phenomenon has nothing to do with typing skills. I had a few people in mind from my school days who would practically transcribe each lecture, producing pages of minutes and never putting their pen down for a moment, yet understand less by the end than the stoner in the back who slept through half of it.
The successful religious schools were, for the most part, run by some of the older and slightly calmer institutional religions like the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. With academies, the Government deliberately let random Christian fundamentalist businessmen with interesting religious views run them on the basis that their religion and business skills would make them suitable owners. They didn't actually expect them using this opportunity to teach kids creationism but it was fairly inevitable under the circumstances.
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I like it a lot! Will definitely give it a spin.
They lost me when they tried to blame the Connecticut shootings on the "hum".
Who are the people negotiating and agreeing to these 'agreements'(this, ACTA, etc) and what could their justification for keeping them secret possibly be?
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Let's put it this way. Working in my country, Bolivia - I used to make $X/month.

Switching to oDesk and raising my rates immediately helped me land $X+400%/month. Immediately. It was just astounding to me. I'm sure I could earn more on other websites, and as a matter of fact I'm currently attempting to join TopTal.com

I've heard great things about that site and the way they operate.
Like I said, that much wealth inequality is not ideal. I just think that considering what maximizes the mean/median of world prosperity is as important, if not somewhat more important, than considering how wide the standard deviation of wealth distribution is. We should consider both things.