skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're taking about the distinction between named functions and anonymous one, whereas I believe eridius was talking about the distinction between anonymous functions with or without captures.
Yeah, did the article really address this at all? I think everyone agrees that most countries suck and it'd be great if every human could enjoy benefits like e.g. Canada. But it's not like "good" countries are magical. If you moved most of Africa and Latin America to North America, it seems unlikely all the services would just scale. After all, if that was the case, we could "just" make other countries better.

Also, personal anecdote, but out of the people I've met in Guatemala and expats in the US, essentially all of them recognize the US or Canada is way better and would prefer to live up North. The exceptions are the more better off, higher educated folks. And even then, it just takes a few reminders of the constant violence and insecurity to remind them and make them change their minds. <Generalization disclaimer>
Thanks, on all counts. :)
We were actually interested in moving to Raleigh, NC before we knew Rally had an office there. It's 8-9 hours to drive from Raleigh to Akron, it's 2 hours to the beach, and anytime you already have friends in an area, it helps.
I think the city has a terrible mayor. The city is full of homeless, its streets and sidewalks are disgusting, there are few public trashcans, public transportation is 'just okay' at best, cost of living is sky rocketing, and to top it all off taxes are huge!

Ed Lee, what in the world are you doing!?
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It does? I never learned it that way. Using the ring finger is much more ergonomic for me than using the pinky finger.
In the US there are states which would benefit from high immigration as opposed to the more popular coastal states.

I wonder if there is some way to use this as a way to ease some immigration laws.
Can't not note--I recently put up a parallel radix sort and quicksort for Go at https://github.com/twotwotwo/sorts if you're into such things.
It would be helpful to me if I had the option to disable posts from third party agencies like Yoh and Kforce. I prefer to apply directly to the employer.
Hmm, so they've simulated an ISP of 6,500. That's pretty close to what you'd want. Man, it's really cool to see all those years of research into fusion power create these technologies for use by something else. I wonder what the potential for U238/D-T power reactors would be? Since you've still got fission byproducts the main advantage is that you can convert a lot of the energy produced directly into electricity via charged particle/magnetic field interactions without having to go through a heat engine.
Didn't know about the quota. Thanks a lot, the paper is far more detailed than the PF preview.
I lived in Chile for several years. I think this is a bad idea for several reasons.

First off, one of the things that makes Chile great is that its education system is independant of the government. It results in chileans who are markedly better at critical thinking than americans. (While there one of the things I did was work with high school and college students and of course got to know a lot of chileans.) Their schools are all about education and keeping the people sending their kids there happy-- by educating them.

There is a real effect where the person paying the bills calls the shots. When government is paying the bills, turning out good citizens is the goal. This is why the football players are the heroes of most schools and the computer nerds are beat up. This is why schools are enacting absurd zero tolerance policies. This is why standardized tests and teachers tenure and unions are so bad.

There really is something to the market incentive to provide a better experience at lower cost...

The socialists are in power in chile right now but I don't think that will last long, and the reality is the Chilean constitution is pretty well protecting capitalism. Consequently the government runs a surplus does a great job of providing services and mostly stays out of peoples way... and Chile is the south american economic miracle as a result.
Liberalization of international investment and trade since WWII have been justified in part to promote peace through economic connection. While the article focuses on human rights and social justice, liberalization of global immigration would arguably have the same impact.

There's another issue that makes open global immigration more attractive to wealthy nations. Free investment and trade move jobs to nations with competent workers who demand less pay, leaving behind industrial decline and unemployment. Open global immigration would ameliorate that.
I, for one, am very curious to hear what happened next... I came very close to accepting your offer to work at AgileZen three years ago ;) Good luck with the new startup!
It's the most expensive compared to the average salary in the country.

In response to your other points: Chilean government fails a lot and the president has 25% rating. So at least they're trying to reset the government.

Also you're looking at "virtual" education from NA/EU perspective but Chile is digitized very poorly compared to "on the edge" countries. Online services are like 2001-2003 US ones.
Yeah it was very heavy on the emotional argument. Some folks in Guatemala even tried to claim asylum for all women on the account that Guatemala's a violent place. (Although the homicide rate against men is about 6x than women.) It sucks, but importing people isn't a real fix. (Now, the US taking over GT and running the government and all services... That'd be a real start, but folks get offended by that workable suggestion.)
It's tangential to the article, but if you like(d) SimCity, you should definitely check out Cities: Skylines [0][1], it's a really well designed game.

Another semi-related thing, I'm curious if/when we'll live in a time when every decision is run on some world simulation before being "implemented". Does anybody know how often/if Expert Systems[2] are used in politics/business? How would you approach designing such "simulation", what would be the hardest problems?

[0] http://www.citiesskylines.com/

[1] Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJb7C2OE9xM

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
A "garbage collection leak" is a leak if you have a reference to an object that you don't really need anymore.

Consider a Document Object Model tree with 20 MB of memory. Each child holds a reference to its parent. If there are no references from outside the tree to anywhere inside it, it will eventually be collected. But one single reference to a DOM node from anywhere outside the DOM, and you've leaked twenty meg.
I came in here to make exactly your points 2 and 3. They cannot be overstated: they haven't even gotten the budget math to work out yet.

Given unlimited resources, sure, who wouldn't want free universities. But making it work within our real-life constraints means something else is going to suffer for that, and in today's reality it's going to be really hard to make the case that this is a priority. (Especially when many high school graduates are still basically illiterate, so only elite graduates will make it in, which means we'll be further subsidizing the elite).
I wonder if this would make a good server. Aside from storage, it has specs comparable to a $5/month Digital Ocean droplet: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Talk to employees and you may hear differently.
If college is free, then admission is strictly on academic grounds. There is nothing wrong with that: in fact, it is ideally the way it should be.

If you examine it honestly, you will see that your argument boils down to, "though I'm not rich, and certainly cannot afford private university, I do have some money and that should give me an advantage over applicants who are better qualified, but poorer."

By the way, even if tuition is free (and even if supplies like books are), there is really no such thing as absolutely free. You have to live somewhere, clothe yourself and eat. There will still be those who don't have time to go to school because they have to struggle to eke out a living.

Free universities are still difficult for the poor because to make the cut, you have to work hard and that requires support. In the world, having more money than someone else will almost always given you an advantage in one way or another.
Most likely. The UX should be great if it's a direct extension. They really nailed the interaction feel.
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In the podcast, I mentioned tensor as a multidimensional array to simplify the concept and introduce it to a wider audience. Our algorithms certainly treat tensor as a multilinear map and we design efficient decomposition methods. Most importantly, we do not form these tensors, meaning we do not instantiate them as multidimensional arrays. Instead, we implicitly manipulate the data to obtain decompositions of tensors that model higher order relationships in data.
Why does Java have Maven, Haskell have Cabal, or Python have pip? So you can grab some old code written by someone no longer at a company, build it, fix bugs, and complete your task in a reasonable amount of time.

Without version constraints it's much harder to even say "I can build this program" much less "I can fix this bug".

> that's unlikely to happen and as you have the packages as git repos you can just git reset it back to a commit when it was stable

You seem to be assuming you are the one who wrote the code. I'm more speaking in cases where someone you don't know and can't contact wrote the code. Have you ever had to reverse engineer a very large dependency chain? It is absolutely no fun :/
I am wondering this too. Is it flat with a handful of executives on top?
Is this good for the poor people who can not afford it? Will it make a difference? Certainly.

Will this result in a more highly skilled, and a more highly educated population? Yes.

People should still be able to afford private schools if they can now.

The American idea that you can't mix socialism and capitalism is absurd! (urg, just saying these words makes me feel like I'm using outdated old ideas from the 1800's!)

Societies much better than USA are mixing them well with great effect. Selling out your young people with debt is really silly. Having 45% illiteracy in the USA only benefits the people currently in power.
I think a better test wouldn't be whether or not there is sushi-so-bad-you-can-tell, it's whether a chef with 2 years of training can make sushi indistinguishable from a chef with 15 years of training. The pizza equivalent is quite different from what you suggest. That's not what I had originally thought of though, so your example is definitely a good point. I'm pretty sure I, at least, would be hard pressed to tell the pizza equivalent of guessing the less experienced chef.

Also, both chefs should get access to the same ingredients to test if the training is the important part.
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A comprehensive autobiographical video interview with Knuth from a few years ago:

http://www.webofstories.com/play/donald.knuth/1
You see them at the author's blog https://pchiusano.github.io

He's posted screenshot's and videos about this project. He has allocated 3 months to this project to see where it goes.
Yes, it's fair. Just like a lot of public works and services are funded by taxes even if you in particular don't use them.

More importantly, fairness is a trade-off. Granting free universal access to certain things benefits the poor and those with lower incomes, even if it's not particularly beneficial for people with higher incomes. That's a good trade-off in my opinion, and in the opinion of progressive governments.
Which doesn't really detract from my point: no matter how you want to slice the causation, it's not an environment conducive to trust.
Well, the service is intended for people who don't do it manually. People who are lazy about their finance.

And the goal is for them to get automatically an email every week or month with basic information about:

— How much did they spent or win last month?
— How much savings do they have in all their bank accounts?
— How did their finances progressed in the last months?
— How much do they normally spend each month?
— For how long could they live with their current savings?

About having an API. You should check: plaid.com. That's the API service I am using on sssaving.com to get all data.
The quality issue is already happening in the US. With the loans available to almost anyone in conjunction with a "college = success" attitude, everyone who wants to go to college pretty much is, regardless of the ultimate down the road cost.

And these colleges want to retain students for the full 4+ years to get the maximum amount of loan money, so they make the course work easier and easier to keep retention high.
Excuse me, but you're too fast on making conclusions. Also you're totally ignoring the lack of vertical social mobility in the Chilean society because poor people have no chance for education and better jobs for their kids.

> It results in chileans who are markedly better at critical thinking than americans.

This statement is too generalized. But even if it's correct then you can't pinpoint it to education. There's a whole culture behind

> Consequently the government runs a surplus does a great job of providing services

That's simply not true. Chilean government is criticized a lot and the president has very low ratings.

> Chile is the south american economic miracle as a result.

Chile is resource-cursed country with quite small population and low corruption. It's not the government's achievement.
Is the government truly paying the bills, or the population?

If public university is autonomous, like in Argentina, you won't have this problem of the government calling the shots.
I think that was onenote which has real time syncing.
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My first thought was "only 27%? The US has a 35% corporate rate and can't afford this".

My second thought was "oh, right, the US effective rate is around 12%".

How will they actually guarantee they collect this rate, as opposed to just scaring off corporations or having them offshore/tax-haven their way to maintaining profits?
I fully agree with you re 8-bit SoundBlasters and phones. I was talking about the music recorded for CDs, 16-bits. Converting that to ADPCM was certainly not a process that was guaranteed to automatically give the good results but it was at least possible to produce reasonably good sound and save some space.

I'd be of course happy to hear something more about the work you did.
You have to keep in mind that Germany has strong apprenticeship programs which include practical on-the-job training half of the time and vocational school the other half. Those are not included in the numbers above.
Your underlying assumption is that the people in Western countries have both the duty and the right to close their borders to foreigners.
>As far as I understand Harvard and other universities operate schemes like that.

Harvard is one of the richest non-corporate entities in the world, currently holding a ~$30 billion endowment. Saying "well, Harvard manages to do it" is not useful when talking about higher education on the whole, particularly public education.

>Make the access to university too easy and you have idiots like me taking up valuable resources because they were not forced to make a proper decision about what's good for them.

Even in for-pay schools, intro classes are full of idiots. People willing to sign up inherently have the motivation. If they don't also have the intelligence they should fail and not get to take subsequent classes. If your complaint is that dumb people are allowed to take classes, I don't think that's a problem, unless schools are somehow forced to grade on a curve or otherwise pad the work of students who are not performing well enough.
Right now we just have simple exports in various formats like Google Doc or a PDF resume. We are looking to embed structured data with the PDF that we are creating for users so that the data is always tied to their application and it makes for really simple resume parsing.
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It would be very helpful not only to me, but to people like me, were potential employers to comply with the labor laws. Specifically, the various state laws regarding age discrimination - in Oregon, one may not discriminate for reasons of age against people over forty. There is also the US Americans with Disabilities Act. I am dead certain that I lose work because I link to two essays about my mental illness right at the top of every page of my website.

My Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder was diagnosed in 1985.

I started my first salaried coding job in 1987.

I was hired as a Product Development Manager in 1990.

I graduated with a BA in Physics in 1993.

In 1994, I invented a novel, unobvious lossless bitmap graphics compressor.

In 1995, I was hired as a Senior Engineer at Apple Computer, where I worked as a "Debug Meister".

In 2000, I was married to a woman who knew all about my illness. We purchased a nice house with money I earned as a consultant.

In 2015, I can't get a job because I have grey hair, and I am openly public about being mentally ill.
Yeah, the root problem is everybody wants to move where everybody already is. Big cities have large immigrant communities because cities are walkable or transit-able and have, at the edges, cheap housing stock, so you don't need a car or large funds—you can just move in and start your life over. Then, when you move there, more people from where you were will move there and you will help them get acclimated, then those people will help more new people, then before you know it, where you set down roots is now "Little WhereICameFrom."

But, NYC breaks down if another 8 million people move into it. San Francisco is 1/10th the size of NYC and it already can't handle the people it has.

The only way fully open and accepted and world-wide immigration works is under unconscionable "living area restriction" schemes limiting already overly-popular areas. You either pick an "open" area (Idaho! North Dakota!) or slot new people into some pre-allocated catchment areas/states with restricted residency/transit for the first 5-15 years of their relocation? But, that sounds a bit too ghettoy.

China can build new cities in the blink of an eye, even if some of them end up going completely unused. The US can't maintain the cities it has and spends $30 billion to dig a new 2 mile subway ($5 billion towards cost, $25 billion towards corruption). There are solutions to "everybody wants to live in a better place" problems, but it takes organization, time, resources, a vision for a better future, and generosity. The world isn't currently offering those as a packaged deal. Be 70s forward-thinking-by-30-years-ahead California, not 2010s only-plan-for-6-months-later California.

But, that's assuming "aspirational" immigration where 30 million to 300 million people would want to move "to the west" for a chance at a better life. What about "i got mine, i just want to move" immigration? NYC<->London? Sydney<->Chicago? Something between an educated worker visa and an investor visa? We don't have an answer for that. You are just incidental to a combination of where you were born and where your parents had citizenship at the time you started breathing outside the womb.
It's the most expensive compared to the average salary in the country.

Source please.

Chilean government fails a lot and the president has 25% rating

Exactly! so most likely the whole thing will fail before it even begins.

Chile is digitized very poorly compared to "on the edge" countries

Completely agree. So why not start with free Internet access for everyone instead (which should be way cheaper), and then negotiate with organizations like Coursera, MITx, KhanAcademy, Duolingo, Classroom.tv (Chilean), eClass (Chilean), etc to provide access to quality content, in spanish to all of Chile.
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Here in Argentina, We have since 1821 the University of Buenos Aires, free of charge.

There are many public and free of charge universities across the country.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Buenos_Aires
> Enjoy your $9 computer. 15 years ago a machine with these specs would have cost 1 month of an engineer's salary... I love technological progress!

I was about to dispute that statement, because I remember that used Dell Latitude C600 laptops (with 512 RAM and 20 GB HDD) were going for about $700 on eBay around 2002. But, that same laptop cost over $4000 just two years prior. So, indeed, that could have been a month's wages for an engineer. Still, it's amazing that something can go from "prohibitively expensive" to "impulse buy" in the span of 3 years.
It's just we see so many parallel collections, parallel streaming, parallel map, parallel for-loop efforts, and they always rely on the problem being embarrassingly parallel in the first place!
How will they actually guarantee they collect this rate, as opposed to just scaring off corporations or having them offshore/tax-haven their way to maintaining profits?

Exactly, they can't, and it already didn't work. Now they are looking to create additional taxes to collect more money.
Hey. Yahoo is still around? I wasn't aware until I saw this post.
Sorry, this isn't true in Argentina either (someone already mentioned it's not true in Uruguay).

We have excellent public and free university. Some of its faculties are very demanding, some are bogged down by endless red tape, but the education level is pretty good (according to who you ask, ranked among the best in South America). And everyone can get into university, no grades from high school requirements. The "hidden" fee is that university can be pretty demanding, and if you're poor and have to work to support yourself or your family, it's exhausting and very hard to keep up with your studies; this causes many students to drop out.

Here in Argentina there are plenty of private universities to choose if you wish, some cheap, some expensive. Everyone who's honest acknowledges public university has the better quality (with a few exceptions), but some people just can't have a job and afford the time/dedication public education takes, so they pick a private university with lower dedication demands. And that's a perfectly acceptable choice.
Loss leader? They're also selling a load of (presumably) high markup accessories like the display adaptors and the PocketC.H.I.P. which is apparently worth $40.
> it's absolutely true that it not the responsibility of people in Western countries to help the billions of poor in this world by importing them

Do you feel that it is the responsibility of rich people to help poor people generally, if they have a good reason to believe they have an effective way of doing so?
Figuratively, not literally.

Maddeningly, at least one dictionary disagrees: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally (2)
It's a great place to work. There, you can no longer say "you never heard it's a great place to work". Sample size of 1, but I love it.
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Moving people from poor to rich nations does not do anything to help make the poor nations less poor

Yes, they do. There are hundreds of billions of dollars every year being sent as remittances from those workers to their families in those poor countries.