skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know "jobs" are a goal with good intentions, but I have to disagree. While it's political suicide to claim otherwise, aiming for job creation simply plays into the idea that more jobs are the things we desire, when what we really want is a comfortable existence and a sense of fulfilment.

What new consensus might we converge on if we continue to automate away jobs quicker than retraining can reasonably be expected?

Personally, I'm excited when technology can expose the lie that 40-hour-per-week paying jobs are required to be a contributing member of society. Unfortunately, exposing that lie likely involves some period of high unemployment before a critical mass of people start to reject the premise that holding a job equates to worthiness in society.

I've recently come across the term "accelerationism" on HN, and it seems to at least partially describe the above position:

> Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies.
The TLSA record is going to come from wherever the DNS hierarchy says it should come from.
After the second interview I had an entire email written out that I was going to send to their lead, but honestly, given that the app that they asked me to develop prior to the interview was well done, detailed, commented and modern, complete with a PR flow that me and one of their devs went through via GitHub, I felt that if they were willing to pass due to me obviously locking up on a Skype + Google-Doc shared whiteboard, and on the most basic of JavaScript skills (which were clearly elaborated upon within the project), then it wasn't the right fit anyways.
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The part that really gets me is that Universal isn't even trying to help people "do the right thing". In the email from Greg Morris he states:

"The problem I'm having is the ambiguity of the feedback. For example, on the first strike you just said "Universal Music" said I used one of their tunes. The set started with an Ellie Golding song which I thought was the problem. So I removed that and re-uploaded. It was then taken down again. You're not even telling me which songs are infringing."

That is infuriating. He is trying to oblige to the request to remove a copyrighted song, but Universal isn't even telling him how he is in violation.
The way I read it, they don't care how many companies would employ the workers. It's about discovering new demand and a way to fill it that involves people. This is interesting precisely because most start-ups are trying to displace people with technology. Note that this isn't a negative judgement on either side: having people work on things they don't need to be working on can be bad at the same time that finding new things to work on can be good.
This. And the API.
US health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers in 2012
I have donated twice, and I hope everyone here donates as well. This is the first step toward fixing our democracy. If you want to get corporate bribery and cronyism out of politics, it's time to put your money where your mouth is.
> a very strong correlation between cholesterol and CAD

to imply a causation between high cholesterol and CAD is categorically and demonstrably false
It looks like some search terms are blocked. If you type "my penis" or "my boobs" nothing happens, but for "my finger" or "my toe" you get some results.
That process is happening right now, and it is interesting. But will it continue, aka is it a viable long term workaround? Articles being removed is new and in a sense exciting for the press, Google, and the public- that probably won't be so in a few months or years.
> Ok, here is my last reply. Clearly, you don't want to consider any opinion other than your own:

I'm happy to consider your opinion, I just don't understand what you're trying to say.

> Prove it. Provide sources. This is contradictory to the past 100 years of civilization.

This is a purely logical statement that does not require sources to prove. Imagine a society with 9 people, and 90 units of production, each person getting 10 units. Then imagine an improvement where total production goes up to 120 units, but the extra units are distributed so that each of the top three people get 20 units. Thus, not all changes that increase overall production necessarily improve the lot for the median person.

> Have you ever heard of "Tyranny of the Majority"? What if the majority wanted slavery? We don't live in a democracy in the US--it's a simple way to communicate public participation in society, which is needed.

You've got it backwards. We don't just have public participation in society, we have rule by the will of the majority, through elected leaders. The phrase "tyranny of the majority" is not synonymous with "majority rule." Rather, it refers to the exceptional case in which the majority uses its authority to abuse minorities. In the U.S. protections exist to prevent such abuse, but those are exceptions to the general rule that the majority is in charge.

In a system of limited government, the majority can express it's will through the government only in certain limited ways. But in the U.S., the "government" (state and local together) have nearly unlimited scope. In the U.S., the majority can express its will in nearly any way it wants, limited only by certain individual rights.

> Finally, I'm confused with your last assertion that policy that reduces overall production but leaves the median person better off could be rational. How is that rational?

Go back to the second scenario above. 9 people, 120 total units of production, with everyone having 10 except the top 3 people who have 20. In the next year, the people vote to change the rules so that total production is 111 units. However, that production is distributed so everyone has 11 units, while the top three people have 15 each. Thus, you have a scenario in which overall production is lower, but six people are better off and three people are worse off than the year before. In a democratic society, this is a totally rational policy.
Your comment is unfortunate but true. Hopefully one day someone will think up a better way to do things.
I don't really seeing 'thick' keyboards as being a pain-point for anyone buying mechanical keyboards, but the size of the actual board is. A lot of people start with a full board like this, then transition to a tenkey-less board or an even more reduced layout. The Das boards don't offer TKL/Reduced layouts, and even dwarfs most other full-sized boards as well because of that stupid bezel around the board. Das makes good quality boards, but they are just too big and clunky for me; I don't think being thin is going to help that at all.
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What do you feel is the one thing that the author "considered negative" which was used to ridicule the points of view of the presenters, and what do you feel are ad hominem attacks made by the reporter?
I don't understand, what is the advantage over using Chrome's history menu?
I know it's not what sama meant, but these are the only employers that have 1MM+ employees (excluding the DOD, the PLA, the NHS, and the Indian armed forces):

Walmart	2.1 million (United States)

McDonald's 1.9 million (including franchises) (United
States)

China National Petroleum Corporation 1.6 million (People's
Republic of China)

State Grid Corporation of China	1.5 million (People's
Republic of China)

Indian Railways	1.4 million (India)

Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) 1.2 million (Taiwan)

Note that Indian Railways, the State Grid Corporation of China and the China National Petroleum Corporation are state-owned.
That's a great point. At the moment it only records what's in the DOM (stripped of all HTML) after the first page load event. I'm working on how to include AJAX content but it's not nearly as straight forward.
With someone else staring at the screen seeing every letter as I type it there have been cases where I become paralyzed and my mind goes blank on problems that I could have easily solved on my own (without resorting to Stack Overflow, of course).

It's a combination of nerves and needing to suppress a part of my natural coding process that occasionally involves a brief frenzy of guess-and-checking and pattern recognition to get my bearings on possible solutions. That part of the process is unconscious and intuitive, kind of like how athletes don't think about what they are doing. If I slow down to consciously relay those early steps of the process it breaks the spell/flow and I go blank.

I think the problem is that I have a habit of letting rapid ad-hoc intuition guide my coding, rather than being a rational agent following a pre-planned 'waterfall'. In-the-moment intuition somehow (surprisingly) produces nicely workable and even readable code much of the time, but also entails some amnesia about the steps I took along the way. I occasionally have doubts - am I built to be an engineer? By nature I am a very logical person, why can't I always conceive of a whole answer (or at least a clear direction) before "putting pen to paper"? Working memory deficiency? ADHD? Lack of practice? However, my doubts about programming potential are quelled when my friends and I look at the code I can write and the problems I have solved.

Practice makes perfect as they say. I really look forward to using this service.
You are right! I'm working on a fix.
> Google must delete "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" data from its results when a member of the public requests it.

Could Google legally get around this ruling by claiming that recent deletion requests inherently make the data in question relevant? Since the right to be forgotten is important news, the stories about people requesting the deletion of their data (and what kinds of data are being deleted) is very relevant. It's the equivalent of the "every number is interesting" paradox.

Edit: proper quote from the ruling is actually "inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive"
I haven't been paying detailed attention to every game, but I am under the impression the elimination round has been exceptionally predictable.
I do not think your attitude or position are indicative of the majority of developers. They also require a huge time investment up front by the interviewer. Even if your individual Github profile (or whatever) is organized, comprehensible, and relevant, it doesn't say anything about the vast majority of developers whose profiles are largely scattered, obtuse, and frankly not even representative of their own work.

If you are a recognized leader in a particular field your situation is obviously different, but you can't expect me as a interviewer looking for a web developer making a mostly standard CRUD app to have the time to delve into your personal history and divine your technical expertise without asking you about it.
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Go Dan!!!!!!!
Chrome doesn't index the contents of the page and is limited in how much history it records. This does full text indexing of the pages you visit and lasts forever. It's backed by elasticsearch.
What's remarkable to me is that the provisions this law makes (must name the specific patents infringed, and list how a product infringes) aren't already common practice. At least it's codified now in Virginia, and we can now know what a proper assertion of patent infringement must contain.
Yes,it really was. I am an old, classic, get off my lawn style person who never signed up for twitter or Facebook and still uses a dumbphone. But somehow I got onto SC and discovered a lot of great music there, which has led to a few hundred dollars of amazon purchases.

So it is something special, and I hate to see them mucking around with it ...
From the paper...

Second, to make the comparison as unbiased as possible, we coded the same algorithm in each language without adapting it to the peculiarities of each language (which could reflect more about our knowledge of each language than of its objective virtues).

They have invited others to fork the code on github and write the fastest possible for each language.
After reading your link, it sounds like peter understands it just fine.

He did say "send takedown request to Google".. and that's exactly the situation that is described in your PDF when discussing the case. The article says the court decided that the newspaper archive would be kept intact, and Google would need to delete the links -- and this was the correct balance of the public's right to know.

In fact, from my reading of the article, I'm having a hard time thinking of a case where Google could refuse to delete a link -- since Google only links to other people's content, and that content will be available even if Google's links to it are deleted.

Edit: the quote:

The case itself provides an example of this balancing exercise. While the Court ordered Google to delete access to the
information deemed irrelevant by the Spanish citizen, it also emphasised that the content of the underlying newspaper
archive should not be changed in the name of data protection (paragraph 88 of the Court’s ruling). The Spanish citizens’
data is still accessible but is no longer ubiquitous. This is enough for the citizen’s privacy to be respected.
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The stochastic growth model, which is the workhorse of modern economics, cannot be easily vectorized, and usually requires tight inner loops to get good performance, or rewrite the computational kernels in C. Codes such as Dynare (http://www.dynare.org) do exactly that. In my opinion, this is where Julia shines - it provides high performance in a dynamic language, much at the level of R or MATLAB. Then again, being a co-creator of Julia, I am probably biased, but this is exactly the kind of thing that motivated work on Julia in the first place.
-In elementary school when you were learning to do algebra did you say...

Chill, he said 'so'. i think he was just saying he looked up the answer but that persons answer was faster
It is very hard to define exactly what "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" means and if Google refuses to delete an entry upon request the person asking for the deletion can sue them if they disagree with Google (which they probably would since they asked for the deletion in the first place).

This could potentially result in thousands of expensive cases for Google which means they will probably just follow through with most of the deletion requests. This in turn means that many fear cases like this, where somebody could be trying to clean up their past, getting rid of entries that display them in a negative light, if justified or not.

At its core the idea of the law is probably desirable but the current wording and its subsequent implementation mean that is a powerful weapon for everybody trying to clean their past from the web.
People tend to respond negatively to bad outcomes regardless of good intentions, and I'm not so sure the intentions are good in the first place. Additionally, the law showcases an utter misunderstanding of how the internet works and unfairly singles out a single company that many people are generally in favor of.
Chrome should fix this. There should be a way to have an app (in a tab) and also to show the bookmarks bar on that one page. Then an option in the app could turn it on and off. Beyond this apps control, probably.

A link isn't enough. I need one click access to my bookmarks.
A greater variety of gTLDs allow better descriptions of a site's purpose and function than the traditional gTLDs. I like them and hope that we see more in the future. Are there any downsides that I am missing?

I am currently utilizing both a .email and .io address.
LOL. I'm actually on the reverse side of you. I heard about PostGIS and never knew MongoDB can be used for spatial queries. The main appeal to me is that since I need SQL anyways, PostGIS would be a simple add-on instead of having to manage another datastore. I guess my choice is more of an accident of history than any specific reason. Had I started with MongoDB first, I think I would have gone your route as well.
Huh. That looks like what I remembered, but I don't actually see any policies that use that form in the cached consensus.
That is very good to know. That reassures me a little.

I was really impressed with the speed difference they noted between Python and R and the fact that Numba wasn't too much slower than C++ implementations. However, given the state of the R code I became wary of accepting the benchmarks at face value.

I haven't made the jump from R to Python for statistical applications yet. So, this article gave me something to think about. In terms of programmer happiness, I'm willing to live with a little slower performance in Python and not have to spend hours in C++.
"I felt that if they were willing to pass due to me obviously locking up on a Skype + Google-Doc shared whiteboard, and on the most basic of JavaScript skills (which were clearly elaborated upon within the project)"

Or it could be a simple miscommunication, or they thought somebody else done the app given your performance on the interview. Reaching out and asking will cost you little compared to potential windfall.
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Pretty much the same thing happened to me a year ago, I was at an onsite interview, did really well 4 out of the 5 rounds, but 1 round I just completely choked some basic linked list question and looked like an idiot.
Parrella boards and cray xmt both are probably the closest you get to connection machines today.
In the mean time you might want to check out Nimrod or D. These are some other languages in a similar space - compiling to native binaries, but with the amenities of modern languages.
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There's a lot to an interview besides just coding questions. Interacting with an actual interviewer lets you get all of the human interactions, talk in-between problems, using problems to showcase talent, etc... all this stuff I'm told I should do but have no idea how to actually do, basically.
Given that Mac keyboards are mechanical keyboards (i.e. mechanical contacts, not membrane switches), I am not sure they can back up this claim.

[EDIT:] I was wrong. Tore open my mac keyboard, and it's still a membrane switch, just one with good scissor workings to remove a number of the downsides of membrane switches.

Even for the claim of slimmest cherry switch keyboards, I believe they'll end up fighting against Corsair [0] over that right.

[0] http://www.corsair.com/en-us/vengeance-k90-performance-mmo-m...
Reducing the codebase by an order of magnitude is possible. I've done it twice.
A really good, honest read. Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you for the note. I hadn't visited the github yet.

I will be interested to see whether people can whittle down the respective benchmarks.
Somebody is burned I think. Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA62iVIAIP4
I would say that it is a good thing that the core courses are static in time. It means the field is mature enough to support an undergraduate program at all. Physics and Chemistry majors spend most of their time at school catching up to the historic state of the art up to early 20th century. If they want to know the most up to date advances they have to either pursue a self directed continued education, or enroll in a graduate level program.

As a matter of fact, a rapidly changing curriculum would be at least a yellow flag. In the worst case, it's the pseudo sciences that go up and down, chasing the passing fade du-jour. This is more like a smell test than an objective indicator. The correlation is there, but it is not well understood. Not necessarily every rapidly changing curriculum is a pseudo-science, but a closer look is probably due.

That was probably the state of the art of Computer Sciences ~65 years ago. The Foundations were already known, but the field was still too much of a virgin land to be settled by undergraduates. It was rather a diverse group of mathematicians, scientists and (mechanical and electric) engineers who were just exploring the territory. It eventually coalesced into what we have today, so it is a good thing that the pace has slowed down by now.
OK, but this baggage claim story only makes the case for animations during wait times. That wasn't exactly the impression I got from your blog post.

Unrelatd to UI, giving the air traveler a distant baggage claim might shift the travel annoyance from waiting to navigating the airport? That's kind of a dick move to make someone walk farther to baggage claim just so they don't notice the baggage time. They could have just put an estimated wait clock on the carousel and solved the problem that still exists at baggage claim.
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I think you're being awfully generous to the conference-goers, and a little unfair to the author of the article. That article highlights far more than "one thing she considered negative."

How about, in addition:

>When the conference’s MC, Robert O’Hara, asked a woman in the audience a question and she responded with a no, he quickly shot back “Doesn’t no mean yes?” The audience burst into laughter.

> Molyneux said that because 90% of a child’s brain is formed by the experiences it has before the age of 5, and women have “an almost universal control over childhood,” violence exists in the world because of the way women treat children.

> Women who choose a–holes guarantee child abuse . . . All the cold-hearted jerks who run the world came out of the vaginas of women who married a–holes. . . . Women worship at the feet of the devil and wonder why the world is evil. . . . And then know what they say? ‘We’re victims!’

I have no doubt, having taken a look at avoiceformen.com and related websites, that these were only the highlights.

Maybe it's debateable whether these statements are offensive, unreasonable, inappropriate, or incorrect. (Though I would contend emphatically that they are all four.) But I think it's fair to say that these statements reasonably contributed to Roy's negative experience.

And, on the other hand, I think there is little in her article that is fairly described as "ridicule." In fact, I was pretty surprised by how restrained and, on some points, openminded Roy was in her article. Her closing is representative:

> When you talk to someone like 68-year-old Steve DeLuca, the legitimate need to remedy some of the issues raised by men’s rights activists becomes more evident. A Vietnam veteran who was injured in combat, DeLuca spoke movingly to me about the two brothers he lost to suicide, and the unfathomable toll the high suicide rate among men can take. There are men out there, like DeLuca and Brendan Rex, who have a real stake in the movement’s success. The paranoia and vitriol of its leaders can’t possibly do anything for them.

So, yeah, as Roy points out, there are a lot of serious issues affecting men that could really be helped by the movement's success. But there comes a point when it comes with so much objectionable baggage that a person can't simply be expected to ignore, e.g., the rape jokes, for the sake of getting at the "real" issue.

I would think that the burden should be on the presenters at the conference to refrain from that sort of nonsense, and not on Roy to ignore it all.