skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see some common ground between us. I, too, got roped into being a generalist early. After 15 years it's an advantage (you can call yourself a consultant), but can be trying before that.

I suggest you pick the stack you enjoy the most, pick a project that gets you excited, and stop learning new things until you've mastered one (well, one set).

If you're not sure which that is yet, pick a newer technology that no one can claim deep experience in. I've seen people get involved in projects early on, start blogging and talking about it, and next thing they're being flown around the world to present at conferences with a good stream of consulting income. Pretty sweet gig. Does require excellent communication skills, but they can be learned and pay off forever.

When I read that you are using analytics to make improvements, I see an opportunity missed: quantify your impact in dollars. Engineers are usually bad at this, but managers are good (assuming a top down push for metrics, which is common), so talk to yours and find out how you're earning your keep. Then put that on the resume and see how it helps things.
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Good post. I am currently writing my seminar paper on NLP (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) in regards to quarterly earnings reports and stock price :) good stuff.

Just remember this: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
Also Esther Dyson, Jason Calacanis and Crunchfund (Arrington) seems to be doing pretty well.
It's not $300 a day. It's $300 on launch day. Sales always, always drop far below launch day unless you have other factors which keep the app in the news or on a "top 10" chart.

My apps have usually dropped to maybe 10% of the launch peak.
You're right that the provincial NDP and federal NDP have very little to do with each other.

However, the winds of change are here in Alberta. Not saying we'll vote overwhelmingly NDP in the federal election, but you could see some change. Country-wide, support for the Cons is wavering. They lose a few here, in BC, lose a bunch in Ontario (this is pretty much a given), and they could be in trouble.
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In addition to that, OP should provide a URL for his geocoding project. It's more convincing if there's an actual demo to look at.
4m? Hrrm. That's close enough for a drone strike...
Regarding the -icc=false option, if you want to do it by default to all containers, just modify the docker daemon's options adding --iptables=false [0] and restart the daemon.

[0] https://docs.docker.com/articles/networking/#between-contain...
It's a noble attempt at compromise, but at that point, you're not talking about UBI anymore. The entire point of UBI is a rejection of the notion that a person must contribute before they have permission to live. It's a statement that the right to life is inherent to every individual, details on the morality of suicide or abortion aside, and that if we can't simply provide those necessities, then we can at least provide the means to get them through guaranteed income.

Basic Income is, by itself, already a compromise. To compromise again is to no longer be a separate concept.

At the point you're talking about, it's not actually different from the situation as it stands now: what you're really saying is that the minimum wage needs to be sufficient for living expenses. Nothing more.
It might be (more) common if: your BIOS has a wonky config (memory timings), not enough cooling or not a great PSU

I wouldn't do 'hard work' on a machine that doesn't pass a Prime95 and Memtest (or similar programs) run.
Go's net/context and http.Handler
That paper does not implement training, only testing. Low-power testing is good to have e.g. for mobile applications, but it doesn't increase the capabilities of our algorithms. What we need to advance the field is faster training of larger nets. That's where the really interesting applications will be discovered.

A convnet-optimized chip could clearly be much faster and more power efficient than a convnet running on a CPU or GPU. The move from CPU to GPU brought a 10x speedup already, but GPUs are hardly ideal for running convnets. For one thing, they have tons of graphics-specific hardware that's useless for convnets and could just be deleted in a convnet chip. For another, GPUs are much more flexible than necessary for convnets. The main operation you need to perform is convolution and you could make fixed-function convolution units that would be much more power and area efficient than generalized GPU shader cores. For yet another thing, there's no reason to believe that 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point is the best power/precision tradeoff for convnets. I'm willing to bet that you could go much lower. You could even experiment with approximate arithmetic; 0.5 ULP precision is probably not necessary.
I'm not talking about removing Uber. I'm not, and I don't get the idea DigitalSea is, in a position to "remove Uber". I'm not talking about any overarching ideology or abstract reasoning. I'm not "trying to help" people, either. I mean, it is what it is, right? What I take issue with is the reasoning that you and I almost have a moral imperative to go with the cheapest option, even though we are intelligent and well-informed, and can see that it's just not working out.

I'm talking about individual choice.

I also don't agree with your language, by the way. Uber's drivers are not using Uber; Uber are using them.
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The horror movie tie-in practically writes itself.

It may just be a better idea for a horror movie than an actual game.
Wow. That's a classic example of the lack of investment into App Engine. Filed 7 years ago, acknowledged, and still open with no one assigned to it.
I agree, embedding a browser doesn't seem lightweight at all. What it does give, however, is a common and comprehensive framework for laying out and styling your UI elements. Every web developer can now be a game UI designer.

Some of the benefits I see with HTML+CSS(+JS) based UI:

* Comprehensive feature set
* Easy prototyping
* Easy modding
* No recompilation required
* Web full of documentation & examples
* Common skill for developers/designers

The main disadvantage is probably the performance hit of having a full-blown browser engine in your game, but it seems to work OK for AAA games. I believe Anno 2070 uses Awesomium for some of its content: http://www.posidyn.com/games/anno2070/anno2070-09.jpg
"Economists typically assert that cartels dissolve naturally after members cheat or become irrational."

Really? Most economists I know acknowledge OPEC still exists and is still a functioning cartel. And they acknowledge that many economists predicted otherwise when it formed and were wrong. I'm pretty sure even those who made such predictions (Milton Friedman from memory for one) have acknowledged they were completely wrong.

"As everybody knows..." Was how such falsehoods used to be prefaced in the bad old days in the Soviet Union, so I'm told.
FWIW, I had to use hackerrank for an interview some time ago and it worked ok, so I'd consider that possibly the specific platform you used (i.e. Go 1.x.y or Ruby 2.x.y or whatever) might have been poorly tested.

But I wouldn't discount a company just for using that or anything like it, I think there is a reasonable use case for tools like it, i.e. as a glorified FizzBuzz to weed out obvious non-hires, which is what it felt like when I had to use it.
The problem with this solution is it would then become the optimal strategy to simply buzz as soon as the answer is being read in the hopes you know the question once the host has finished reading the answer. That would make the game far less interesting for everyone involved.
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Doing an undergraduate applied science degree, one of my lecturers taught me the phrase "In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice, there is."
I wish more discussions of the values of FP were this pragmatic. FP has brought some very valuable ideas into the mainstream, along with a few bad ones and many for which the jury is still out. I get a little tired of the people that see Haskell, for example, as the One True Way when it's clear it's a language design with its own set of tradeoffs, just like all the rest.
I agree mostly with all your points.

Regarding lazyness by default, although you are right, I would say the lazy modifier found in Scala/ML derivatives/C#/D and the use of sequences/ranges kind of help half way there.
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WWII-era soldiers may not have been as fearful of the fun that is mercury as we are today.
> you can just write "mercury" on the flash and you can be sure no-one will dare to touch it.

Remember we're talking about 1940. Whoever discovered it might very well take it off the shelf to play with it. ;)
> Fast forward and my last purchase was an Intel for the first time in my life for no other reason that AMD just couldn't keep up, not even in the same realm.

How happy are you with your Intel GPU?
Their memory card filled up unfortunately.
Same here in germany. I am frequently in the 140-150/90-95 range especially when in the doctors office, but he checked everything extensively and told me i should first try to workout more, eat healthier and then come back in a year because pressure was normal overnight.
He also encouraged me to do marathon training as ultrasound scans and stress ECG showed that everything seems alright with my cardiovascular system. Personally when i get a high reading it still freaks me out a bit though, but i don't want to start taking meds at age 32, so i double down on my sport and eating habits.
I did, a year and a half ago. I decided upon FX-8320, as for me, more cores was better. In my PhD I'm doing automatic parameter tuning of optimization algorithms, and I thought it would be handy to have as many cores as possible also back home (the actual runs are of course run on a monstrous computation server somewhere in the basement of the university). To have 8 separate cores has proven to be handy every once in a while. Just yesterday I did some parameter tuning on a machine vision side project.

Back then the difference in bang-per-buck was even more striking than it is now:
http://paulisageek.com/compare/cpu/

Also, by choosing AMD I avoided the minefield of missing virtualization and overclocking support of some mid level Intel models.
But without the identifying marks, how would they know where they had come from or who had sent them? Wasn't the overriding concern the protection of the two Laureates?
OT, but this other Quora question is one reason why I want problems with CEOs like Yishan Wong to be fixed:

http://www.quora.com/What-should-I-do-about-employees-that-c...

(I want at least this startup and it's CEO to be able to be named for example)
Yes, lasers. Even with the higher accuracy and more expensive real time dGPS systems the vertical accuracy isn't as good as horizontal. When you're looking for a very shallow gradient in a field for irrigation GPS just isn't as good as a laser level.

Much of the problem is geometry, while you're likely to have a good spread of satellites around your receiver horizontally they're all on one side of the vertical solution your receiver is calculating.
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I'm just doing programming as a hobby right now, though slowly making my way towards getting some education in it...

I love being able to solve a problem. Figuring out how to do something, and then building it, fixing it as you figure out what's wrong with it is great.
I'm 46 and super excited about coding and learning new stuff even after 26 years. I feel no different to my 25 year old work mates.
I agree, so I asked my material scientist friend. Based on the strand thickness in that microscope image being approximately 8 microns, a single strand can hold about 250g. So a web would probably hold a spade, depending on how well it sticks. Incidentally, if you need a material scientist, OracleCarbon hangs out in IRC in #xkcd on the Foonetic network and is happy to answer stuff like that.
Oh, Mercury poisoning has been known for a very, very long time, and certainly well documented since the late 1800s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning
This Bill has brought the grassroots out of the soil, myself included - lots of the people I've been working with were not politically active until C51 was tabled. The NDP win in Alberta is making people realize that change is possible. The NDP stand a real chance of winning a majority government this fall.
Yeah, my jew friends call each other kikes and own it. They're all millionaires now.
I would be interested in reading more details about the technology. How does it work? How much power does it need? What makes manufacturing expensive? Can you make it bigger (holodeck sized)? Does it track the user's head position somehow or does it work for N users simultaneously?
I've been wondering how hard it would be to do "poor-man's-fixed-point-gps" with two android devices. Put the devices on top of each other on the ground. This is your fixed point (wathever gps reading their each have, is "local zero").

Now pick one up. The one on the ground is your fixed point, the other unit is what you use for measuring. I wonder if doing it like that (possibly with two or three "anchors") -- would give increased precision? I haven't really looked in to what makes cheap gps "unreliable".

The units could communicate via bluetooth/mesh wifi for low latency, or over the internet (wifi/gprs/4g/dial-up...) -- if one just needed "point-to-point" measurements. Eg measuring a foundation or something related for construction.

I wonder if it would be "repeatable" (possibly only with the same units). And if one might get cm precision that way.

[ed: Not sure which part is "hard". Maybe (just for science experiment fun) one could drop a phone at one end of a 100m running track, an another at the other end - to get an exact 100m baseline (+/- 10cm?). I wonder if that might be useful in order to calibrate two or more units to work in pairs -- if there is some kind of predicable source of error in addition to just gps/signal noise etc].
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Yes if you care about 3D programming, their GPUs run circles around Intel, which still doesn't know how to write proper drivers.

Maybe it fails your definition of recently, but I bought an Asus Netbook around three years ago and am quite happy with it.

The current generation of the said model is Eee PC 1215B with an AMD Brazos and integrated ATI Radeon HD 6310* or 6320*.
Thanks to the Stan team for making the modelling feasible! http://mc-stan.org
When I'm driving, bikers are annoying. When I'm biking, of course, I hate drivers. Similar thing here. I can empathize with wanting to control a product and public image. At the same time as an individual person out living in the world, it incenses me to be censored or restricted in what I can share about my own real-time experiences. The PGA, the boxing match they mention, etc. - no one will ever think it's cool or ok to censor people who want to take photos or streams or whatever of their life as it happens. I always wonder, are they (PGA, etc.) aware how slimy it feels and just do it anyway? Is it truly just lost on who ever is calling the shots or what?
The NDP won because the conservative vote was split between two parties (PC and Wildrose) and the voting system is single-member-district plurality (FPTP).

Federally, there is only one conservative party and several viable opposition parties (mainly NDP and Liberal), so I wouldn't be surprised if the Conservatives win the next election, for exactly the same reason.
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This is driven by profit and no banks are interested in people saving money when they could rather be charging interest and fees through debt.

Also this seems to be more of a failing of the education system. Young people should learn the proper financial skills in school instead of relying on corporations to just help them out. All these loans are voluntary and help plenty of people who need a way to borrow.
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Just like "The Spider", a villain in Rat-Man:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat-Man_%28comics%29#The_Spider
It can't climb walls, but has acquired human personality traits: selfishness, greed and cruelty.
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I go back and forth on this. There's always a ceiling. For a doctor, banker, corporate lawyer, or salesperson, the ceiling is some multiple higher. But are they better jobs? An MD would require many years of study first, a law degree would burn $100k of your net worth and likely leave you underemployed, you're probably not cut out for sales, and so on.

You really only escape the ceiling going into business for yourself. And there probably has never been a time where it's easier to go into business than the last decade, because of the relatively low cost and high reward of developing software. Maybe that's why programmers are often restless, because the path to wealth seems close at hand (even when it's much harder than it seems, and requires many more skills than just programming).
Cognitive Biomimicry applied to extending human lifespan which will solve for extended space travel.
So it might have negative effect on some people (who feel it as insult on their intelligence), but if twice as many people don't notice it and are positively affected, it's still a net gain.
It's like you're saying "it's your fault, here's what you should have done". Someone came up with a good term for this sort of HN answer the other day, "hindsight snark" or similar. In fact, any way you look at it a company with decent cash and an ounce of self respect should not be out there screwing industry peers over for time and chump change when it wants to expand.

Disclaimer: I've had similar experiences with Google... outright missing interviews, saying one thing and doing another, failing to communicate entirely. Most of my own career has been at smaller companies or starting them myself. That's my resolution... just avoid big companies!
In some markets there are medallions that are owned by individual owners and other that can be owned by corporations. Looking at NYC these are both still worth a lot, but they are falling in value thanks to uber and co [1].

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/upshot/new-york-city-taxi-...
So he uses the phrase instead of "distributed systems?" (shrug)
> So why can't, just like with strong crypto, Mr. Wilson place his drawings behind a web form where you certify that you are within the United States and will not export the drawings?

Having read other articles about Cody he believes that all information should be free, global, and non-censored. Similar to the cypherpunk philosophy. His decision to use potentially dangerous information as an example of this idea had the intended side-effected of drawing out ideological opponents. Such as the media and regulators.

As a result, the public is now forced to seriously question the limits of free flowing of information thanks to the internet/3d printing/decentralize file sharing/etc. As we know from media piracy, attempting to suppress information on the internet usually results in the opposite effect. Which is what happened to Cody's files, tons of people reposted it all over the internet immediately after the regulatory legal threat was issued.

Anyone could check that box saying they're American or use a VPN. Then distribute the file via torrents. Which makes the whole regulatory process seem like a public spectacle rather than an effective deterrent.

The crypto wars from the 1990s is certainly analogous.
What's with all the hate? Wishing that AIs were tame, slow, manageable tools is all fine and good; but I just pointed out that there's a very high speed-limit to how fast they'll be able to think. Why waste your venom on me?
Limiting yourself to one language however wide spread it is, is damaging. It limits you way of thinking about problems and narrows your vision when designing solutions.

Don't get into the "It CAN be done in JS therefore it SHOULD be done in JS" mindset that many people on HN seem to share. Teach yourself to use different tools and always choose the most appropriate one for the task at hand.

I am a software developer in the UK and I have used C++, Python, Java, Lua and JS (all in the last 2 years) and all of them have their place.
Better than previous state of the art on a standard machine learning dataset. Check some leaderboards here: http://rodrigob.github.io/are_we_there_yet/build/#datasets
He was quoting Yogi Berra.
I have a home+working desktop.
I wanted it to be as compact as possible, so no GPU card, while still retaining 3D capabilities.

I think in this use case, AMD's APUs are still competitive.

For the sake of precision though, this assumes that any Intel+GPU card combination consumes more (and it's more noisy) than a comparable AMD CPU, for 3D workloads.
Not likely. Currently it's just guerrilla tactics from Salesforce. They want to increase stock prices and let everybody know they are willing to sell.
By removing Uber, I mean boycott it. If the alternative to the drivers is worse, I don't see how can boycotting it be portrayed as helping anyone.

I do agree that we don't have a moral imperative of choosing the cheapest option, but who said we did?

I also don't agree with your language, by the way. Uber's drivers are not using Uber; Uber are using them.

I meant the drivers are using Uber, the app. Whether the drivers are being "used" is a consideration I'm happy to leave to someone else.
I'm a bit late to the topic but it seems to me that equitable inflation does result in some sort of "wealth redistribution". I know it's a little bit extreme but let's assume there are 3 people in the economy who respectively own 1, 1 and 100 units of currency. The person with 100 units is 50 times richer than the other two combined. However, if the inflation is set at 1000 units, after one cycle of inflation, the amounts are 1001, 1001 and 1100. The person who started out with 100 units is now poorer than the other two combined and only slightly richer than them individually.
Interestingly the spider silk of 5.4 GPa has higher tensile strength than the specimens of "pure" carbon nanotubes of 2cm measured in labs at 3.6 GPa. The theoretical limit of cabon nanotubes is said to be at 300 GPa, and it's assumed that materials with about 130 GPa of tensile strength would be needed for the "rope" of an space elevator.
And yet my parents (both born in the 1960's) both played with beads of mercury on their desks in school on numerous occasions... It was pretty common
Your view of the tech field sounds a little pompous. Medical and law are well known life-consuming professions.

I think any dedicated professional will have issues at some point unplugging themselves from their profession to pursue other facets of life.
I am 57, been programming professionally since '79, still doing it on a part-time basis, which is perfect for me. Taught me some Angular awhile back. RethinkDB looks interesting. I agree with all who have said that now is the best it's ever been for a dev; web, OSS, cloud, so much power and leverage. I can't see myself not doing some software development well into the future.
Companies are buying AMD CPUs/APUs for low-end products just to use as a negotiating tactic with Intel. It sets a floor to AMDs sales.
The ability to create whatever my heart desires.