skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article, I saw this line: "That finding suggests corporate leaders need to think more about employees’ well-being, Ms. Twaronite said."

I can think of one way to force them to be more responsive to their workers' well-being: a union.

This is an organizational method that's had a lot of success in the past, and works well in other countries. It's a way for workers to band together and demand changes to the business that benefits them, and can be structured however the workers decide it.

It doesn't have to be a "your pay is tied to seniority and it's impossible to fire louts" kind of thing; everyone involved gets a chance to have their say in how it works. (though, of course, not everyone uses it, just like how not everyone votes when they have the chance to.)

I only bring this up because Ms. Twaronite seems to have a lot of faith in corporate leaders to be good to their workers. It's those corporate leaders who put their workers in this "your hours are going up, your salary stays the same" hard spot in the first place.

What would make them change their minds now?
In Germany at least there is a big initiative backed government. See industry 4.0 and mass customization. They see it as the next thing that will give then a competitive edge
If you're just here for the karma, you're going to have a bad time.

Also in the pictures they are completely different titles. I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to prove.
I took Andrew Ng's course and dropped it half-way upon discovering that it was nothing mind blowing beyond the 'constraint optimization' courses I took in grad school when I attended Carnegie Mellon. I strongly remembered enjoying the introduction lectures but realized that it wasn't what I was looking for once a 'cost function' was mentioned. 'Constraint optimization' was before people slapped : machine learning, deep learning, NN, CNN, and A.I on every gradient descent algorithm.

I have no faith that Strong A.I/AGI will come from the above efforts as they are anything but General. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts and the current crop of weak A.I algorithms are a small part of a bigger whole.

As far as fear of AGI/Strong A.I. Listen, you can't stop something whose time has come. When it comes and it will, no million dollar consortium of businesses who have leveraged weak A.I to line their pockets will be able to stop it. We can postulate to the ends of the earth about what it will be and how we must prepare for it or we can focus on creating it.

Those who are most likely to create it aren't worrying to the ends of the earth about its dangers. They aren't funding million dollar initiatives to make 'tests' for something that isn't even understood yet. They are out there thinking deep and far and working through what it takes to create it... Likely : Thinking Different than the current crop of people centered on capitalizing (increasing profit margins) on a very productive discovery : Weak A.I. The fear that arises from this group is in knowing that AGI will trump Weak A.I (their cash cow). Thus, the fear propaganda.

So, where do I feel AGI will likely crop up from? The basement dwelling loner asking the deep and general questions about life, matter, energy, information without a particular profit maximizing goal in mind. Their goal being to more deeply understand the very nature/fabric of life, intelligence, and this universe...

Otherwise, hey.. I could sit back and believe that wisdom just emerges when you've dumped enough money in the laps of A.I experts.

Think different. You're not going to achieve anything new and ground breaking thinking and looking at the problem the same way everyone else is. Sure, there will be many failures but therein lies the risk/reward of going beyond the herd.
Google Tweaks Cloud to Tackle Data Balkanization
When you have cops on film choking a man to death for selling cigarettes, on film shooting a man in the back then planting evidence on him (and, worse, having his original lie backed up by his fellow officers), and so on, and so on, it's quite a stretch to say that the cop-hate is the thing that's out of control. It seems more like it's the cops.

Yes racism is bad. But...

Oh, yeah, there it is.
Even when I've ordered Apple products long after the Christmas season they've always been delivered from Shenzhen too fast to be by sea.
Households with firearms suffer more injury due to accidents than they prevent via deterrence.

I think you're mistaking correlation for causation.

Consider: a household that's more likely to be in danger is also more likely to have a gun. For example, a drug dealer is frequently in dangerous situations, and so is likely to have a gun. He's also more likely to be injured or killed than your or I. Is that because he owns that gun? It seems unlikely. Many more legitimate professions and activities carry risks like that.

So simply showing that correlation isn't anywhere near sufficient to demonstrate that the gun owner would be safer without his gun.
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Is Salesforce really that bad? =(

Curious to hear people's thoughts on it - particularly on their Service Cloud product? What are the issues people are having?

Also, can you extend it easily, or code plugins (or whatever they are) for it easily?

(If I have to deal with it, keen to hear what I may be in for).
Ask HN: Based on your experience is the series Silicon Valley close to reality?
Now i know that this is only a comedy series and merely meant for entertainment. But as someone who really doesn't know how the business side of development work, i'd like to know if it'is close to the real thing. And if so, i have to say, it's pretty terrifying
Going through the whole standardized testing regiment last year, I did not notice a need to spend large amounts of time or money on preparation. Although I am sure a few people waste a lot of resources on these exams, many of my peers in the running for top colleges can easily achieve in the top percentiles with little to no effort.
Cross-platform mobile app screencast (Ionic and Firebase)
> Life appeared on Earth early pretty much as soon as conditions arose that would support it (as soon as the planet cooled enough). So that would point to life being "easy" to form.

That's quite a stretch.

> Biogenesis only happened once (as far as we can tell), so that would point to [a] life being hard to get started, or [b] life was seeded from space (panspermia).

Neither one of those conclusions is justified; the first (as I've said elsewhere in the thread) is unjustified because the creation of life changed conditions on the planet -- and its quite possible that it changed them in a way which made it much less likely for biogenesis to occur again.

The second is just a completely unconnected conclusion to the premise that supposedly supports it.

> It took a really long time for multi-cellular life to appear. So this step appears to be very hard / unlikely.

Multicellular life appears to have emerged independently at least several dozen times, so it doesn't seem to be that hard/unlikely (and given the incomplete nature of the fossil record, its possible that it had brief emergences -- possibly early than the known ones -- that didn't last and haven't been seen.) And there has been lots of reversion from multicelluarity to unicellularity that we know of. So, maybe, multicellularity alone doesn't offer much clear a major benefit, so while its not that hard to emerge, there's no real pressure to keep it, until it coincides with the development of some other feature.
Yes they are waiting for their employees (congress) to pass another "one time" tax break that will let them repatriate all that cash tax free.
Pseudoanonymous or unilateral anonymity, since I'm almost certain that Yik Yak keeps track of post and users and with the current state of machine learning it is trivial to later pinpoint a person with said posts. Don't like the word anonymous being thrown out there and making users think that they have true anonymity, to me it almost feels like false advertisement.
Sometimes I think about how even the number 40 is totally arbitrary. If we made the norm 30, would things be that different? It's such a sad thought that ~half (if not more) of the time we are alive, we spend at work, mostly doing something we don't like. Then I look at this from a cosmic prospective, where we live in this tiny little planet inside a huge universe we barely know anything about, and yet we were able to create a system of living with one another that requires us to do something we don't want to most of the time!
Probable cause just outlines a set of situations where use of power is authorized. It is the line between authorized and unauthorized use of power more than it is a check on abuse. If an officer pulls someone over just for the heck of it, their lack of probable cause isn't going to stop them from illegally searching the vehicle.

I see what you are saying about limits on power and trust being mixed together, if someone is literally 100% trustworthy there is no need to limit their power. I still think it is reasonable to consider whether police can reliably testify that they smelled something (this should at least be a goal for a just system) separately from the question of whether they should be allowed to act upon smelling something.
Metro AG owns Media Markt and Saturn[1], both sell electronics, including computers. Judging by their stores, most of these computers are PCs (although they do sell Apple computers as well).

Media Markt, is Europe's largest retailer of consumer electronics[2].

Saturn is one of the big retailers of consumer electronics in Germany, and have stores in some other European countries[3].

So perhaps Microsoft could have won that one, but at what cost? Pissing off one of their biggest retailers? I don't know for sure, but it seems very likely that Microsoft wouldn't want to do that and made the decision to back off instead.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Markt

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(store)
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I think the title is wrong, they didn't register with FinCen or comply with BSA AML. Money Transmitter stuff is a really different thing, did I miss something?
> What I don't agree with is making that determination based on concerns about fabricated statements about smelling weed.

The concern about fabrication by the government underlies much of the Constitutional restriction on government power in the criminal domain. I'd say that restricting government based on that concern is generally legitimate, and has a strong tradition in the US.
That seems less like a pitch deck and more a professionally polished brochure for a product, or maybe the introductory section of a prospectus. I don't see how an investor evaluate the company in that deck; I can't see:

* Go-to-market, or even a price point (did I miss it?) or COGS estimates, or a plan for distribution

* Traction, up-front sales commitments, or a sketch of target customers

* Competitors and substitutes --- not having competitors is not usually a good thing.

* An "ask" and a use-of-proceeds summary; what is this deck actually raising?

* Why this particular team (also: the connections between the logos on the bottom and the people listed aren't clear)

If you look at the Mixpanel, Airbnb, and Buffer decks: they're not pretty. They're dry and factual and cut to the chase. Those decks probably work (to the extent decks matter) because they do a good job of surfacing exactly the facts investors care about when evaluating a deal.

I used to sweat decks the same way this designer did, and I'd get compliments on them. Now I feel like I spend more time talking my friends down from sending decks like these to prospects.
Savvyist: Personalized Makeup Site for Your Skintone and Features
We have a fully working version of the creation tools, which would output all of the files required for fabrication. We had created all of the custom electronics, and were able to produce a number of functioning prototypes.

The beta was intended to do a few things:

1. Measure interest in the platform and generate traction for investors.
2. User-test and see what was/wasn't working
3. Get a sense of what parts and materials were most popular, to ensure we properly handled inventory.
That's absolutely a decision I would rather leave to EMS workers rather than cops.
Did the old grooveshark have a direct link to the mp3 file of the song before? I missed that one.

Also, how is this running with that feature? Is this hosted on the moon?
Doing more on diversity
Just went to install this app. Asks for identity, Location (understandable given the nature), photos, media, files, device ID and call information, and wi-fi connection info.

No thanks. How can you call your app anonymous and require my identity and contents of my device?
Considering that the sales pitch of Coding House and every other bootcamp I've yet seen is "give us $$$$ and we'll land you a job making $$$$$$," I wouldn't be surprised if bootcamp graduates got a negative, mercenary-like reputation amongst their peers, who overwhelmingly got into programming for the love of it. Obviously you can't blame someone for trying to improve their standing in life, and not everyone discovers programming in childhood or young adulthood, but I don't really understand why code schools are needed when self-education has long been an established, effective alternative to a CS degree.

The whole bootcamp movement smells of opportunists cashing in on the naive and uninformed.
...That's kinda stupid. Maybe no one was in a position to loan that much money. Or maybe nobody wanted to? Could be any number of things.
Interview: Dave Chronister of Parameter Security
A Recurrent Neural Network Based Alternative to Convolutional Networks
On a statistical side almost anything else is likely to kill you. There's probably more people killed each year by ladders than some perceived external threat, and I don't see a war on ladders happening anywhere.
George: Cops. I don't even care about cops. I wanna see more garbage men. It's much more important. All I wanna see are garbage trucks, garbage cans and garbage men. You're never gonna stop crime, we should at least be clean.

Jerry: I tell you what they should do, they should combine the two jobs, make it one job, 'cop\garbage man'. I always see cops walking around with nothing to do. Grab a broom! Start sweeping. You sweep sweep sweep... catch a criminal, get right back to sweeping.

http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheChineseRestaurant.htm
Yes but on the plus side there's a lot fewer parentheses.
Programmed trading on the stock market doesn't take human response times. In fact, its designed to react and communicate trades as near the speed of light as possible.

AIs (that don't exist yet) are going to be in charge of controlling electronic systems (examples given). They will behave with a time-constant that is unrelated to human reaction times. They will be able to do harm, and compound that harm, at rates mere humans will be powerless to react/
"If Groucho Marx were alive, he'd say "I refuse to join any club that would care about my Klout score""

No, he wouldn't. His original line was self-deprecating, yours is self-aggrandizing.
> I can only hope someday you feel the wrath of the thin blue line and are made to pay, then maybe your opinion might change.

That's a dick thing to wish on someone.
Yes, there's tons of overlap in all of these (sequencers and multi-track recorders were the first to begin to blur the lines, but now basic loop-based features are creeping into sequencers and both FL and Ableton can be used for nearly any basic sequencing task), but the focus of the tool makes a difference in workflow.

And, the tools that pros use for specific tasks can also be indicative. You won't be surprised to find ProTools in a high end recording studio, and you won't be surprised to find a film soundtrack composer using Logic or Cubase. Likewise, you won't be surprised to find an EDM producer using Ableton. There's less overlap in what pros use than in what the tools are capable of in the hands of someone really good with that specific tool.

Anyway, doesn't matter. My point is that there are several different categories of program called DAW. The way they display and receive data varies wildly, and the use cases for them is pretty diverse, and I think it's weird to call them all the same name.
He probably doesn't consider it due to group think... Probably the biggest thing limiting lots of individuals from ushering in a new paradigm. Truthfully stated and functionally so, the biggest contributions/changes come from someone thinking outside of the accepted (limited) view: the basement dweller not following the herd.. Many could be horrible wrong but all it takes is one to be right. Meanwhile, in the box, no one sees beyond it or its limits.
90 degree turns is a power up :)
Some of us aren't just "saying" we love programming; we do. If I were a billionaire, I would no more pay someone to do my programming than pay them to take my vacations.

I think your talk of "the trenches" is telling, though. The more money I have, the less I have to work on other people's projects and the more I can work on my own. Just as travel-lovers with more money can do less business travel to unpleasant destinations and more personal travel to favorite places, those of us who love programming just dream of doing more projects of our own choosing, not of escaping this terrible chore called programming that we only "say" we love.
Ah. There were two rankings when I took the tests - math and language. Those ranking 99th in both were offered admission. That was a smaller group.
'Rigged' makes it sound like you're trying to win / earn something from participating here. What's your goal in participating on HN?
I don't think much official punishment is likely. I do think you underestimate how effective peer pressure and caring about your reputation can be.

That's certainly not enough, but it is something.
I was said, it isn't for everybody, but what is?
More votes doesn't mean front page.

Surely you would agree that the algorithm should consider other factors, such as time between votes, who voted, and so on?
A lot of things may factor into that. Even if the increased police numbers are 100% responsible, we would still have to have a discussion about the diminishing return on that investment in order to maximize social good.
I think the parents contention was that likely in your case and your peers, those resources had already been spent, and that this is a useful signal.
Best practices and the joy of programming
Based on the name... It seems impossible that the people behind this site are not aware of what happened to the real Grooveshark. In fact, they probably have messages and communications about it.

That means when the RIAA and friends go after them, they will have a strong case to pursue willful infringement. That's not something to mess around with.
> I don't really understand why code schools are needed when self-education has long been an established, effective alternative to CS university education.

There's probably a real utility to vocationally-focused coding schools; OTOH, there's also quite a lot of opportunity for those who are sharp salesmen without a lot of training or technical acumen to take fleece the naïve who are aware of the high pay in the industry and aren't equipped to evaluate the quality of the institutions.

Unregulated, unaccredited educational programs (heck, even with regulated, accredited programs, less-than-stellar programs of this type are still a problem, though there are more checks and balances to identify and weed them out) promising to get people into highly-paying careers have always been a problem.
That sort of actual confusion analysis in the US is done at the court level. Just because you can get it past USPTO doesn't mean Apple won't be able to get you to stop.
Those aren't the only choices. You can simply manufacture them 25 days later, and owe your suppliers 25 days later as well. I'm sure Apple tracks and manages their stock as well if not better than anyone in the business. It helps that their product line is so slim.
You can do it a bit shorter and easier in Nim as well:

import macros, strutils

macro abcProcs(n: varargs[expr]): stmt =
result = newStmtList()
for c in n.children:
result.add parseStmt("proc $1 = echo \"$1\"" % $c)

abcProcs("A","B","C")

proc execute(order: openarray[int], callbacks: openarray[proc]) =
for i in order:
callbacks[i]()

execute([0,0,1,2,1,2], [A,B,C])
I'd have none sitting around at all, and produce an amount that closely matches demand
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Skyward Drones and Aerial Robotics Intelligence Interview at OTAs
Ah, thanks! It even looks like Pure Data is already embedded (says it's linux-only for now). According to Pd's homepage it looks like you can even use "externals, i.e. objects developed in another programming language" as part of your workflow.
Great fun, just prevent people from choosing the same color as the grey background -- can be hard to see!
«The funnest thing about these is how quietly and slowly they creep on.» Same goes for a lot of thing. «Describe the first time you were racist».
I appreciate that you have a fair number of choices in building these systems, but they are about double the price of similar NUC boxes.
Not clear who this was and what they were selling.
Why?

French and Italian [0] are considered romance languages, because among other things they sound pretty. Russian [1] (and I suppose most Slavic languages) just don't generally sound pretty. For what its worth, I speak Russian; not terribly well, but I speak it. Russian really isn't a language that sounds "pretty" or "silky", or whichever adjective you'd prefer.

The reason I decided to respond to you comment was a little more abstract than that though. People liking or disliking things about other kinds of people isn't racist. Some people just don't like things. I don't like black licorice (no idea who invented it, but I don't like it). I don't particularly care for traditional German food (I'll eat it, its just not my go to for food), and I don't think I'd ever wear a kilt to a wedding (I'm mostly Irish, then Italian, then Native American).

I don't think those things make me racist or xenophobic. At least, I don't think less of anyone who prefers any of those things. I just don't like them for me.

I think if we start claiming that not liking something like a language is racist, we're on a slippery slope indeed. For example, I don't like the color red. I don't like traditional Mexican music. Do either one of those things make me racist?

I'm not trying to attack by any means, I'm sincerely curious.

[0] http://www.orbilat.com/General_Survey/List_of_Romance_Langua...

[1] http://www.russiaslam.com/2012/stories/the-russian-language-...
Somewhat of a cheat I've seen, someone using a color very close to that of the background. Or is the color auto-assigned?
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If your point is that your link with 7 upvotes was not promoted to the front page like another link with 7 upvotes, then... I'm afraid it's not rigged at all: the rank algorithm has more inputs that just upvotes. Which should be obvious: otherwise the article that had the most upvotes in history would still be ranked #1.
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If you're in the Bay Area and want your kid exposed to less sheltered play spaces, there's the Adventure Playground in Berkeley, where kids can get tokens for collecting rusty nails and then trade them in for paint to paint all the play structures. http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/adventureplayground/