skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some is from productivity gains, but some is significant shift in sectors, towards less labor-intensive sectors where competition with low-wage countries is less of a problem. For example the U.S. used to be a net exporter of steel, but is now a large net importer. It's not that the U.S. steel mills got more efficient through productivity gains and are still producing at high levels but with fewer employees. Rather, they did indeed largely close and move overseas. The U.S. now imports much of the steel it once produced domestically, and U.S. manufacturing has moved into other sectors instead.

I suppose you can consider realignment of a country's industry mix towards areas of competitive advantage to be a kind of productivity gain (at the macro level it improves the ratio of output to labor inputs), but it isn't precisely the same as productivity gains within a sector, caused by e.g. improved processes or automation.
The US has far better medical facilities, better supplies, better communication tools, better handling procedures for corpses and a society that doesn't stigmatize infectious diseases. Taken together, an outbreak here would look very different than an outbreak in Africa, even if a sick patient was dropped into Times Square.
Thank you! Any ideas for whom a reputable, neutral third party might be, that would be interested in an experiment like ours?
Can anyone realistically make a meaningful impact in a big company in less than 6 years, especially when one is just starting out in the industry?

Also isn't it only fair that if a company that's gonna spend all this money on changing your fortunes forever (i.e. sponsor your green card), then it should be able to get as much value out of you as it can? So the burden falls kinda on the employee to make the best of that period and propel her career.
Pretty much every country has limits on immigration. It is hardly unique to the US. There are different cultures and traditions in the world. It takes for people to adjust to a new country and the country to adjust to them.
Wow - this deserved a downvote?
Sorry but the Amiga was much more than a toy. You had Deluxe paint, multitrackers, accessible programming languages, and an OS that was 5 years ahead of anthing else you had on the market.
It's likely easier to control in the U.S. where there are a lot of resources and people are less likely to engage in a lot of physical contact with the infected, and where trust of doctors is a lot higher.

There is also a much more extensive public health system that is alert to the risk of an infected person entering the country.
In 1981?
I want one of these in my home kitchen in ten years. Further, I'd love to see the same effort applied to many many common dishes: a pasta-bot, ramen-bot, sandwhich-bot etc..

This company hopefully does the work to ID each bot-module needed for dishes that are just a combination of separate ingredients that require little preparation at the time you're assembling the dish.

Also, this thing is IDEAL for stadiums and high-density events. Every stadium should have one.

This will also be awesome for food trucks. Every military will probably invade for this.

THis device will succeed assuming it is real, but that doesnt mean it would replace fast food restaurants.
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Why Google Prediction API?
So what of the statements by venture capitalists with $100+ million funds and founders/employees at venture-backed startups that couldn't make payroll without investor money? When they argue that there is no bubble and the startup economy can only go up and to the right, should we not note that their arguments are self-interested too?
Fair point, but given the trope I'm looking to invoke ( http://medriscoll.com/post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-v... ), I'm okay with the baggage.

Is there a female version of neckbeard? Or a gender-neutral word with the same connotations?

I fear the obvious wordplay is offensive for the wrong reasons: neckbroad?
You're right, I revisited the article that gave me that impression [0], and it's very clear that staffing is the resource that is exhausted. Nonetheless, it's an excellent organization and a worthy cause in my opinion.

[0] http://www.msf.org.uk/article/ebola-official-msf-response-wh...
Yeah that is basically what I was imagining, but there's no failure condition that matches that in reality. You might get unlucky and fail to converge for 10 iterations, but not for say 10,000.

It is sort of Byzantine in that the "system" is inserting very specific message losses with knowledge of the algorithm.
Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system
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This is very clever. Of course, coming from Ward it's hard to expect anything less :)

Again, I'd like to plug http://www.ledger-cli.org. It's similar in spirit, with a reporting program reading a lightly formatted text file.
It's been years since I've used StumpWM, but I believe you can accomplish a similar setup using SLIME (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/StumpWM).
Yes, I've tried both Handbrake and ffmpeg (and mplayer), and spent a lot of time tweaking the settings. I prefer MPEG Streamclip for this process—its ability to add new files to the queue after I've already starting the encoding process is particularly useful. Handbrake sometimes chokes on the DVD files generated by the legislature (I have no idea why), which is a dealbreaker For basically any other video encoding/decoding task, I use ffmpeg or mplayer Thank you, though!
Thanks for the analysis. Book publishers (vs. Amazon-as-hub) should take a lesson from the airlines in avoiding pure hubs :)

Hopefully the newer versions of smaller aircraft will be as quiet (inside and outside) as the A380.
I don't think this is the future of 3D printing. They are not nearly as general-purpose as computers. They can be put to excellent use in certain applications in all sorts of industries, but these are all fairly niche. The general-purpose tools required to make art, to fix things, and to make new things, have existed for centuries.

They are simple, inexpensive, versatile hand tools. Files, hammers, chisels, knives, saws, drills, etc. But still, many people have only a meager collection of tools, stashed in a drawer in their kitchen. They don't want to spend them time to mend or create things. They buy replacement parts, they can hire someone to do the work for them, they can buy brand new things, and they can stick with what they know.

3D printers can't win there. They're finicky, they're expensive, their build size is limited, their materials are limited. Barring absolutely monumental improvements in versatility, cost, and usability, 3D printers aren't going to bring anything more than fleeting novelty to the average home.
China did do an excellent job going from not having an export economy to being a huge exporter. So there is a sense where the US lost a lot of potential new manufacturing business to China.

(Global iron and steel production tell this story. Over the last 30 years the U.S. remains relatively flat in absolute terms but goes from ~10% of global output to ~5%

http://www.worldsteel.org/statistics/statistics-archive/annu... )
Actually white Americans don't seem to mind immigration from fellow white-majority countries, especially if it's from the developed ones. But that's an understandable phenomenon.
Having a predictive tool is interesting but is it (HealthMap) believed enough to influence decision making?
Singapore, Dubai, and Qatar are increasingly becoming important business destinations. Plus, airlines like Emirates/Etihad/Qatar are partly commercial ventures but also partly prestige projects by Arab royalty, similar to owning football clubs (like PSG and Man City, coincidentally sponsored by Emirates and Etihad respectively) or bribing FIFA into awarding them the World Cup.
You got down voted because it's the context of the 6-7 years, not the duration that matters.
I've been living in Seattle for 1.5 years and I have a hard time with this "we rarely get proper rain" everyone says. I've seen proper rain countless times. Sometimes it really pours. I thought I'd be able to walk around in the drizzle and not get very wet, but my experience is that it's not really drizzle and I get soaked after a number of minutes outside.
I miss looking north and seeing the mountains in Vancouver.
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Nice map/presentation, but I fail to see what relationship these metrics are suppose to have with one another. There' doesn't appear to be a strong correlation between them and it comes off as rather sophomoric.
...or just move to Madagascar.
See my sister comment. U.S. steel production in 2011 and 2012 compares reasonably to most of the 1980s.

Not all that much new capacity was created in the U.S. though, and the population did grow almost 50%.
Is there a Darwin award for online behavior?
StumpWM's defaults can be very unusual, I remember the first time I used it was like the first time I tried to use Vim. But after using it for a while, it's become almost unthinkable to drop it for something else. This is in part due to the fact that Common Lisp is the language I know best, but Stump really is a very pleasant environment to work in.
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This is incredible. By watching the hyper lapse versions of the mountain climbing, you can clearly see which path is taken, are able to get glimpses of whatever paths are available. This would be a huge advantage for people learning how to rock climb. I can image that a similar situation would occur for many other activities. Great work!
Counterexample: https://www.google.com/search?q="becausw"
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Embed it in OneDrive - let you apply it to your saved videos and add a watermark to it ("Hyperlapse Beta").
ah, thank you
My wife and I are seriously considering moving to Canada after she graduates from college. We love Washington, but the Green Card system is just awful. We estimate it will still take us 3-4 years till we get ours (we're Brazilians on EB-3 - side note: I never thought I'd regret dropping out from grad school, but now I do, every single day). Until then, our stay here is at the mercy of not getting laid off.
I doubt it. I thought about posting it to HN early on in the outbreak (when it was already in the news headlines) as a way to monitor events - I had gone looking for a tool like this, and was surprised not to find Google doing it in Maps - but I decided not to other because the Healthmap data seemed too 'fluffy' to be really informative. It's a great project but I'm not sure how you distinguish between real outbreaks and localized panics based on rumor.
Claiming not wanting open borders == xenophobia is, well, good luck with that, champ.
And it's perfectly fine to disagree on that context. Using that as a reason to downvote a comment is pretty much an abuse of your downvoting power. But carry on.
Wouldn't robots fix the "without a lot of care" aspect?
Disregard what I said.
awww. I always have mixed feeling about a new microsoft funded tech. Something really really cool that I will never get to use/exploit/play with/anything.

The technical video breaks down some of the techniques they used. Global match graph is particularly interesting. This technique alone could lead to a big improvement in timelapses, by trying to select consistent changes between frames.

http://cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/aigaion2root/attachments/FastSimila... <- maybe this?
See that doesn't really apply to basic fonts like Times and Arial though. If you we were talking about rare fonts I can understand why you would want to embed them. But with these two all systems will have an equivalent font to render. For instance on Mac it will use Helvetica. On Linux it will probably have Arial or Helvetica depending on user's choice. And this applies for every OS I can think of.

What I'm saying is not that they should ignore user's but that it's probably not an issue in the first place. They use basically boilerplate Serif and Sans-Serif fonts.
So, we are going to try to open up untapped sources of energy in the Arctic? Isn't that the place we are worried most about in terms of climate change? If the Arctic melts, won't water levels rise throughout the world and drown various coastal cities? Seems like a bad place to bring a lot of attention and investment, regardless of the scope of reserves available. I was under the assumption that the world was beginning to move beyond oil because of the excitement that Tesla and other companies alike have created.
I have a Yoga 2 Pro and can at least confirm that Linux compatability isn't wonderful, though it is usable. The main problem is that HiDPI is a serious issue for lots of software that I use everyday, like Chrome and Android Studio. I almost wish I would've bought a MacBook Pro.
Agreed. The visualization doesn't help to identify whatever correlations there may be.
Don't know why you are getting downvoted, it's a fair point. Belgium is known for welfare; however, I think that most countries in western Europe do not fall very far. I don't really know much about the situation in eastern Europe (say everything east of Germany, excluding Scandinavia).
Hey, it only rains from November to April.

Also, rent isn't so crazy here, you just can't buy anything for a reasonable amount.
One of my professors had once told me that the people handling cutting edge technology in every era were inevitably into music, and that's why music tech has always sat at the cutting edge of tech. Still remember that, 2 years on!
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I don't think it's necessarily a bad strategy. The coalition to pass immigration reform is a mixture of immigration-rights activists on the left-ish side of the spectrum, and business advocates on the right-ish side of the spectrum. If you produce some cutouts narrowly addressing the staffing needs of some of the more influential businesses, they drop out of the coalition (because their own needs are satisfied) without the overall system having been really fixed.

(Plus, philosophically, I don't really support more H1B-type programs. If immigration is to be expanded, it should be proper immigration, not tied to employers, with a reasonable path to citizenship.)
Neat. I'm also building a general purpose grid for an app I'm building. From the demo it appears the entire table data set must be loaded for the pagination to work. I'm not sure how practical it is for real use.
Jeez that's such a confusing name to pick. NIME (http://www.nime.org/) is an annual conference in music tech!
Good work. Why are you using Google Prediction API?
I can't think of a better way to OCR video though. You have render a frame to scan for text. And he automates it. You could hypothetically do that on more frames if you see it missing text.
Cool :), glad it's supported, at least for the simple case of line-wise transforms.

Some things can't be done without reading everything. But there are still a number of operations on "all of stdin" that can safely be done lazily. I'm particularly fond of "divide stdin into chunks of lines separated by <predicate>" [0]. Which does need context, but only enough to determine where the current chunk ends (typically a few lines).

`py` seems to be aimed at a single expression per invocation (nice and simple), while `piep` recreates pipelines internally (more complex but also means pipelines can produce arbitrary objects rather than single-line strings). So I'm not really sure how you'd do the above in `py` anyway.

[0] http://gfxmonk.net/dist/doc/piep/#piep.list.BaseList.divide
But what if poor people in America get Ebola? They can't afford health care, so may end up hiding their illness to avoid the insane amounts of debt they would get themselves into.
Plenty of construction workers still dig holes. Plenty of movers still move big heavy objects around. I wouldn't be so sure as much has been replaced as you might think. And it's not hard vs. easy but cheap vs. expensive.
> Hence, from the perspective of anyone living in West London, you have to wonder why airlines would buy anything else.

That assumes that all customers flying into LHR are long-haul customers; BA has a large number of domestic flights from LHR (including some wide-body 767s to EDI/GLA, but mostly narrow-body) and they undoubtedly have an effect on the loading of the A380 flights (if BA decided that the LHR-GLA flights weren't profitable because of the cost of landing slots at LHR, I'd simply fly via somewhere else, hence decreasingly the loading on the A380s).
And one could combine it with closed-captioning of the audio track for a pretty cool searchable result.
Ah, I was thinking of action figures although now that you mention it I was into painting wargaming/roleplaying figurines myself as a teen. In fact one of the first things that got me interested in 3d printing was my good memories of things like building model aircraft and so on, but that also made me pay attention to how crude FDM is :-/
Great idea. I just started using React and was wondering if there was a repository of components so I didn't have to reinvent the wheel for just about everything. It might be handy to add tagging functionality so the components can be easily browsed through in the future.
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The internet is a good example of a culture than can exist if you do away with artificial barriers between groups of people. Modern immigration policy is not inherently correct and it wasn't devised during an age of hyper connectivity.
Note that many business jets derived from passenger carrying aircraft sell themselves as being quieter — they just take the extra weight in sound insulation, which decreases the freight capacity of the aircraft (which is incredibly lucrative) as that's not something most owners of business jets care about.
This is highly subjective. Looking at the list[1] you really need feet on the ground to evaluate it correctly. Seattle/SF might be technically more humid than other cities, but they get coastal breeze and constant air movement. Anything with dense treelines (SE US) or in a valley might have lower humidity but stagnant air means sweat never evaporates and even businessmen run around w/ pit stains. It's prob just lack of residential AC that makes it seem hot at times, but it's definitely got nothing on a VA/GA/MD summer.

The drizzle combined w/ high latitude create very dark winters though.

[1] http://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/US/most-humid...
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I can get it to 2.63896 down from 2.82843, assuming a unit square, but there may be a better trick.
Note: Original article title is "A Move to Go Beyond Lists for Content at BuzzFeed", which is not particularly explanitory, which is why I changed it in the submission.
> Nobody wants OpenGL on XBox

You mean MS doesn't want it. MS is not everybody though. Xbox is one of the ways they can keep DirectX around in the face of potential competition as you said yourself:

> Direct3D is a competitive advantage for them

Though I'd call it an anti-competitive advantage.
An algorithm that "identifies" outbreaks by assigning positive likelihood to each report from "local press" will:
a) always identify outbreaks before WHO
b) incorrectly identify substantially all cases by falsely indicating a positive
c) be no more valuable to public health than a sensationalist supermarket tabloid

A misleading and inaccurate article.
Would have to agree. The future of Microsoft is one development platform across Windows, Windows RT, Windows Mobile and XBox.

If as a developer I could have one codebase and target all three platforms it would be pretty compelling.
A lot of it is also regional. The situation in California is different from that in Michigan or Ohio.
You're still only at $247,715

The reality is that the more the income gap grows between the servers and those served, the less profitable automation becomes. There is a reason low wages jobs are growing, not shrinking in the US.
"The sky is falling"

Maybe it is, or maybe not yet. Regardless, the article is awfully light on actual data and reads more like scaremongering gossip.

0/10 would not read again.
BTW, I think Charles can do something similar. And it's got a very nice interface. I even used it to "cheat" tinder by swiping yes to all matches (https://gist.github.com/philangist/e5f94bfb887f56958667) by reverse engineering the tinder api.
> You mean MS doesn't want it. MS is not everybody though. Xbox is one of the ways they can keep DirectX around in the face of potential competition as you said yourself:

As far as I'm aware, devs aren't too keen on it. No other maor consoles are using it anyway, so the X-platform argument doesn't really apply.
> "I'd happily send some taxpayer money"

We already do that. Remember how some people were criticizing Wal-Mart because some of its workers were also receiving government benefits?

When you set the "minimum" to be 100% of a living wage, then people have to make the jump from pure-government-funded to pure-self-funded without any intermediate stepping stones. They have to show up and be ready to produce at a level that completely supports themselves on day one. Whereas a minimum that's set at 50% (or 25% or 75%) of living wage means someone can show up and be semi-productive and earn some of their own way, and then either step up to 100%, or stay at the level they're at as long as they need to based on their own abilities.
Why don't you want open borders? You haven't said why it's bad.
The Japanese automotive industry is always a topic of interesting discussion back in my university days [1]. One thing that's permanently ingrained in my head about Honda since all these years: Know your core competencies. In regards with Honda, it's making good engines.

[1] - I went to business school, not computer science.
Our current usecases are oriented towards classification algorithm on unstructured data (customer inquiries, social profile). We chose GPA, because it gave good results in those.
Data visualization should be informative and intuitive, at its basest. This is neither, especially with the distracting, unnecessary animations.

Data visualization can be well designed, yes, but it's not necessary, and it should definitely not come at expense to ease of interpretation.
The Mac used to plop down icons of the extensions it was loading as it booted. Does anyone remember the "vanity icon" extension that you could put a lot of other cool looking icons into, and it would plop those icons down, delaying between each, as it booted?
I'd go with "leading a consultancy". It pretty much says it all.
apparently, it's some kind of cloud messaging service like iMessage so you can send text chats via data connection between MIUI devices instead of SMS.

I am OK with this approach but XiaoMi's problem is that it's enabled by default and it's unencrypted.