skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best kind of work is flow: immersed in an activity with energized focus and involvement, seeing progress, learning and achieving goals. That just isn't a concept that machines or automation can take away. But, yes, it does seem like virtual reality will step in to offer this if actual reality has no more to offer.
It will not solve itself eventually. I have a friend who immigrated to the US and went this route, and he basically lost a few years he could have used to build a credit history, which hurt him ten years later when he wanted to buy a house.

So when I immigrated to the US, I started with a secured credit card as fast as possible. Mine was free to have, and you could set it up so it was paid automatically, in full, from your checking account every month. That way you just need to charge something to it each month, and you'll slowly build your history.
Many fields require serious professional certification. You can't become a doctor unless you go through a board certification that includes simulated patient interaction. Likewise, you can't build a bridge or a dam without engineering certification.

IMO, this article demonstrates the need to certify software engineers; using a process similar to the interviewing process described. Therefore, when hiring, we can skip most of the "do you know how to code" and get down to cultural fit and mutual interest.
Assuming the stress/money ratio is good enough, you can try this "Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000332.html

I think that monitoring is an easy target because it's isolated and it will not "slow down" the rest of the team.

The next step could be automated texting for your new code and later for all new code (and much later, for old code).

(Documenting the development environment is still in my todo list :) )
You have no idea. Unless Windows start shipping with a Linux kernel, Linux containers will always be slower on Windows.
What if the new capital is creativity? The new model for "work" is OSS? Replace money with creativity in the definitions of capitalism. Material possessions are socially discounted; creating new designs, new originals the new currency to excel.

If so, the first classes we now cut in schools: advanced mathematics, chorus, art, music, etc. are the areas we need to emphasize the most.
>We further warrant for ONE MILLION YEARS that within a Euclidean plane, the square of a right triangle's hypotenuse will equal the sum of the squares of the two remaining legs. //

Can't you break this with Lorentz contraction; it seems that would be equivalent to non-Euclidean geometry but legally within the terms. It's all about frames of reference I imagine. Though my inclination is that it might hinge on the meaning of "within" used.
except that his Nobel prize winning work is in sharp contrast to the <ahem> stuff </ahem> he is writing these days...
I had a some what similar issue in immigration law a number of years back. In short, my Client was convicted of a crime in NJ, after serving the sentence, he was detained by ICE and transferred to Krome Detention Facility in Miami, FL. He sat there for over 18 months detained waiting for the removal (deportation) proceedings, there are no speedy trial rights in deportation.

The real irony here is before I took the case, the Client tried to waive the proceeding motioning the Court for voluntary departure [1], basically agreeing to pay his own way back to his home country without trial, but ICE objected because they wanted to win at trial and have my Client barred from reentry. The twist is, without an attorney my Client won the trial because by law was clear the underlying crime did not subject my Client to removal proceedings...and of course without any legal justification ICE appealed which is around the time I took the case pro bono...after everything my Client still wanted to just voluntarily leave the Country, forego the appeal just to get the hell out of Krome/detention and even having lost the trial ICE and not much of a chance on appeal, against my advice I motioned again for Voluntary Departure and ICE still objected.

[1] http://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/voluntary-departure
Slice API: Connecting your users with their purchases
We've had something similar since the 60's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_X-Jet

From the info I've found it looks like it was never adopted because it didn't fill a niche that helicopters or unmanned vehicles didn't do better. I also read that it required quite a bit of concentration to fly it. Nowadays that would be a non issue if we parked some sensors and software between the pilot input and the control surfaces.
I had a similar experience last year applying for a major technology company. Although I still lightly code in the devops sense (process automation) and to do typical management data analysis my day job is managing people, processes and crises.

If you have billion dollar trading systems and need a cool-headed guy who can talk to VPs or directors in one breath and SAs, DBAs, SAN, Network, etc guys in the next I'm your man.

I applied to head a global support organization, with teams in (from memory) North America, India and Asia Pacific. I'm pretty sure day-to-day would be a mix of employee career management, forward planning with my application development partners to make sure we were prepared capacity and training-wise to take on whatever's next, and crisis management of production issues and the like. Business as usual as they say.

Yet I found myself answering computational complexity questions about hash map insertions. To be fair, before I became quite so management-centric I've found plenty of badly performing code via the usual tools (dtrace, strace, thread dumps), and sql queries using analogous database tools, but at some point you have to rely on technical people to do their jobs.

Am I wrong to think if I'm going to manage a 60-100 person organization across three timezones I don't really need to be under the hood in the code any longer? Or am I clueless?
Not to mention a surprisingly large amount of people don't know what Reddit Enhancement Suite is - so they're going directly to the Imgur page when viewing.
Routinely spiking your insulin levels through excessive carb intake is what leads to insulin resistance.

>you're looking at covariates in a disease state

Insulin resistance as a discrete state is useful for experimental purposes but everyone has insulin resistance to some degree.
To build on epistasis's comment a bit, this creates a private network for all containers on all hosts that reside in the same /16 network. So if you have a VPC of up to 65k machines, each machine can run up to ~250 containers that can all talk directly to each other by just relying on basic network routing. This is better than your typical private NAT bridge networking because containers on different hosts can talk to each other without having to set up port forwarding or discovering what port that particular application server is running on.
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No. Re: Sweden.
Hopefully not - there's a lot less leverage and a lot less flippers, and house prices are more sane. (At least, I think they're more sane, but I don't have data to prove it.)
Building modern web applications with Tom Dale of Ember.js
There's also https://github.com/tgwizard/sls
Gmail Formally Adds ‘Undo Send’ Option
Sorry, dang, I wanted to clarify this here, as my word choice was poor. I was not 'threatened' in a reasonable definition of the word.

dang responded to me in a thread about Google (linked in this thread) regarding 'personal attacks', when I was responding to a troll. His comment appeared only addressed to me, however, and I felt that in the context of the discussion, it was targeted and unfair. I also simultaneously dropped 50 karma, and got heavily rate-limited, and I felt particularly unwelcomed.

I've conversed briefly with dang over email, I wanted to clarify it here, and thank him for letting me respond here.
Media plays a part as well. It's hard to trust your neighbors when you're constantly seeing and hearing about people doing horrific things to each other on the nightly news.
Blogspam?
I wonder how much effort the CPU implementation saw. I'd expect 1 socket, 4 memory channel Haswell CPU to be able to filter 40+-10 GB/s of rows per second, if row data can be in column major order. SIMD is pretty often memory bandwidth limited, whether we're talking about CPUs or GPUs.
This is only for containers communicating with each other within the FAN. Any traffic bound to external networks would have to be NAT'd, which is fine.
Recruiters routinely charge 30% of salary. For an employee who is a proven fit in a company, immigration fees are not unreasonable.
I make no claim about the article's opinion. I haven't made up my mind on the issue, but it doesn't matter. I am only criticizing the post I was responding to for having a rhetorical style that I despise.

The article is a single story, which is evidence to but not justification for a blanket claim that the DoJ is an ongoing embarrassment. I want a post that assumes agreement on that claim to provide a lot more of a narrative than one example.

And I still want to protest against the use of poisonous rhetoric like "Obama's DoJ", which immediately shuts down any rational debate, as I argued above.
Yes, the only thing that's lost is live migration of IPs between hosts. Which may or may not be a big thing for containers, depending on things are clustered.
Here's another really interesting documentary about the Black-Scholes formula

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmvxZgnwwD4
Google-Backed Sidewalk Labs Acquires Control Group and Titan
I think it depends on the project. I'm looking to switch roles, and some projects are very small: solve a simple algo question. Should take less than an hour, which is less than the average interview, anyway! So no problem.

Other projects are enormous. 40-80 HRs. of work, easily (write an entire web-app!) I did one of these... did not get the offer. I would not want to complete another.
Measuring one fiat currency bubble to another fiat currency bubble isn't a valid method or metric. IMO most world currencies are in a race to the bottom.
WebGL maps using emscripten (SimCity like)
I would want to object and say "There is IPv6 in the cloud!".

We have developed re6stnet in 2012. You can use it to create an ipv6 network on top of an existing ipv4 network. It's open source and we are using it ourselves internally and in client implementations since then.

I wrote a quick blogpost on it:
http://www.nexedi.com/blog/blog-re6stnet.ipv6.since.2012

The repo is here in case anyone is interested:
http://git.erp5.org/gitweb/re6stnet.git/tree/refs/heads/mast...
How about a car? Then it is obviously worth the applicant's time and since a professional can deliver or destroy a Bimmer's worth of corporate value on any given decision it easily pays for itself in identifying good candidates and weeding out bad ones.
I would guess that that the NREC engineers were paid locally-competitive engineering salaries in Pittsburgh, which would enable them to live a very decent lifestyle. Doubling their salaries probably was a change from $80k a year to $160k or so— from Pittsburgh to Silicon Valley pay.

For reference, $160k can buy a nice house in a nice neighborhood or suburb in Pittsburgh.
> The really exciting point comes when we can re-run all this analysis, basing it on actual job performance, rather than interview results.

Yes, this is when you have something real.
> Probably younger people with good eyes won't be able to understand the reasoning behind it ;-)

Serious question, have you tried reading glasses? You don't have to just deal with bad eyes as you age, you can wear reading glasses. This what I do now.
Thanks! I really want to use it so Ill be looking out for future releases
I’m a female scientist, and I agree with Tim Hunt
They could just pay you less and say that you will get so much in bonus after working there for z years.
Having worked in Advertising for the last 10 years including a tiny bit with Apple (freelancing) I have a hard time believing this was a 'PR hoax'. Advertising and PR at that level is extremely conservative and taking a risk like that would get someone fired even if the result was beneficial.

Look at Apple's campaigns and you see well designed but generally very conservative creative direction that goes through so many reviews it dulls any edge.

They are risk averse enough they will finish multiple spots with the intent of choosing one (because they aren't 100% sold on creative direction) rather than risk reaching a deadline without having approved deliverables (the only account I've ever worked on that does this). This doubles and triples a campaign's production budget without any tangible benefit.

They will become even more conservative as they move more of their Ad creative in house.

The other evidence that goes against the 'hoax theory' is the fact that Taylor's 1989 album still will not be available on Apple Music at launch (from everything I've read). If they were designing this huge PR stunt wouldn't it end with Taylor agreeing to release her latest album on their service?
LOL You care about startups? Then you should care about their investors....which are the music labels.
My particular issue with extreme downvoting, is it seems (at least from my observation) to be tied to rate-limiting your ability to comment on posts. I was unable to comment on this thread, for example, for a fairly decent period of time. The other contention is that it sucks to be downvoted (a system I dislike in general) while being unable to downvote comments you believe are low quality yourself.

The actual magic internet points, as you say, aren't really a big deal.
From this data, you can see that reddit is stil highly dependent on the US market. The international part must be the other English speaking countries I suppose. There is still some huge work to do to have a better international coverage. (and also a good potential for further growth).
If (not when) that happens, it could threaten the dollar's status as the global currency. But that's a much larger "if" than I suspect you give it credit for being...
The speaker was explicit about FB's preference for IDEs and IDE features, and their belief that these features make them more productive. So in that respect their internal majority has already spoken.
Not the parent, but:

From the perspective of the students, yes, there is a financial transfer to the U.S. However, from national perspective, there is an economic transfer to the other nation. The U.S. university system represents the product of decades (centuries in some cases) of public and private investment. Foreign students and the societies they return to get the benefit of that investment - a better educated than could be trained locally - without having made it themselves. Hence, an economic transfer from the US to the other nation.
Is this less affecting valuations and more affecting acquisitions using debt-issued bonds to fund the process. So many of the big deals were funded by cash and debt. These types of deals will disappear (IMO).
Yes, of course, but the number eight means more than just music.

Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine that people keep thinking that GNU Octave has something to do with music.
All candidates did both screens (quiz and fizzbuzz). The correlations were calculated against the same population. Now, I agree that survivor bias could affect the quality of these results (we know nothing about the significant % of people who dropped out). But it's not really possible to solve that problem outside of a lab. I don't think it's an argument to not do analysis. For now we're simply trying to minimize the dropoff rate, and maximize correlation. The quiz was better at both.
It would also decrease prices and thus raise living standards. Customers would then turn their attention to better goods and services, increasing the demand for labor. You're committing the lump of labor fallacy.

Think about it this way, if two countries were to merge, would everyone be worse off because of the increased competition on the job market? No, people would be better off due to the increased amount of trade.
I think this is a poorly written essay that has all sorts of interesting things to say. I say that because I feel about half the comments here seem to miss the point and are focusing on nitpicks.

I wish he had looked at the hamburger making machine that was being developed rather than "a machine that makes gourmet meals". When talking of that concept to friends and family, I realized for many people that caused them to think of the plight of minimum wage workers, and I literally found out who of my friends and family had Luddite reactions to that and argued they shouldn't be built and shouldn't be legal if they were to be, just for the sake of preserving jobs.

I also wish he spoke to the current state of music and/or video. We literally are in the Star Trek universe with music and video. I can open my computer and find enough music and movies that I couldn't watch or listen to them all in my lifetime. We can imagine a button on our stove that you could press (or voice activate) and it would duplicate an apple for you. Meanwhile we literally have a machine that will duplicate music for you, at near zero cost, and we've had many people do all sorts of things to restrict usage of them. The head of the MPAA compared the video cassette recorder to the Boston Strangler in terms of how much it would destroy society.

There have been many economists who have argued that people will find always find new jobs. After all, there is always something more to do, or at least at jobs I've worked at, although not always money or will to hire more people to do more stuff.

It might be worth exploring the ideas if those economists are wrong and we do end up in a world where you can have a computer make you a hot earl grey tea from nothingness, but few people can afford it, when the hardware is completely locked up under patent laws and the inventors insist on being compensated for creating such an impressive thing.
Verizon Acquires AOL (including TechCrunch, Engadget and HuffPo)
IPv6 is hard. It's hard to optimize, it's hard to harden, and it's hard to protect against.

One small example: How do you implement a IPv6 firewall which keeps all of China and Russia out of your network? (My apologies to folks living in China and Russia, I've just seen a lot of viable reasons to do this in the past).

Another small example: How do you enable "tcp_tw_recycle" or "tcp_tw_reuse" for IPv6 in Ubuntu?
This still doesn't sound fair. It's still an economy based on luck (those fortunate enough to be creative types) in a land of abundance. In a land of scarcity, prioritizing efficiency and rewarding based on getting things done (even or especially creative things) makes sense, but not if robots are producing all the necessities of life.

It makes sense that creative work will continue to be rewarded, but something more fair (in terms of human dignity, not in terms of meritocracy) will be needed.
Here's a link without some unnecessary endpoints
http://www.amazon.com/The-Physics-Wall-Street-Unpredictable/...
If I had to guess I'd say that the mounds are related to the water volcanoes we saw earlier.
This is an article about a different trade agreement.

Nobody is arguing that trade agreements never force the US to change their laws. That would be a silly argument! (Are the US's laws just "always right"?) And, indeed, as I've said repeatedly, a big part of the point of the TPP is to get other countries to harmonize their IP laws with those of the US --- so certainly nobody has argued that the TPP doesn't change laws in other countries.

But you just made a direct appeal to the idea that the TPP would change US law, and backed it up using a section of the DMCA is an example.

Can you find a source specifying how the TPP would change US law?
Hi Falcolas, this is Derek Thompson, the author of the piece.

1. The quick answer is that we don't know how much of the misery of not working is from the financial shortfall of unemployment, vs the failure to meet a cultural expectation to work, vs some inherent need to feel productive, because it's just very hard to tease out the difference in reliable studies. How, eg, would you test this for prime-age adults at a time when income is tied to work and there is a cultural expectation that everybody work?

That said, my best guess is that about half of the psychological misery of losing a job and being unemployed comes from the non-money stuff, like being bored and failing to meet a cultural expectation to work. (This is distinct from people who choose to stay home with kids, who have chosen to immerse themselves in an essential activity and often feel great pride -- and stress! -- in these jobs, even though they're not compensated with income). As I said in the piece:

"The post-workists argue that Americans work so hard because their culture has conditioned them to feel guilty when they are not being productive, and that this guilt will fade as work ceases to be the norm. This might prove true, but it’s an untestable hypothesis. When I asked Hunnicutt what sort of modern community most resembles his ideal of a post-work society, he admitted, “I’m not sure that such a place exists.”"

2. The fact that unemployed men seem to be less social overall suggests to me that their rise in leisure is about more than the daytime unavailability of peers. Because otherwise, wouldn't they just go drinking with buddies every night? This suggests, to me, some shame of being unemployed that leads to self-imposed isolation. In any case, the misery of unemployment suggests that we're just not very good, as a culture (and particularly men), at finding non-screen-based things to do with our time when work goes away.

3. Crime has fallen by A LOT in the last few decades so I didn't want to go too deep into predicting a rise in crime at a time when violent crime seems to be in structural decline. That said, for young, less educated black men, there are a variety of barriers to their participation in the labor force including racist bosses not wanting to hire them, an abundance of low-paying service sector jobs that seem feminine (they're in health care, government, and education), and the cultural and economic allure of the black market and gangs in some areas. This is a really short summary, but I think the allure of gangs and crime is very complicated.

4. One of the biggest differences between 1977 and today is certainly the decline in crime. Crime didn't spike during the Great Recession, surprisingly.

5. I thought that's what the piece was about! :) But seriously, the section labeled Government: The Visible Hand tries to address this question (or at least this question as I understand it) head on.
Should the OK button be on left of the Cancel button or vice versa?
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OK, so I get that this patch is a joke, but I don't use Grails (or Ruby, or Groovy, or Rails) so I can't tell if this entire project is supposed to be a joke or not. It was merged in, and there was already a SearchableGrailsDomainClassCompassClassMapperFactory in the codebase, so I'm guessing yes? But a lot of the commits don't really seem like jokes...
I'd really like to see a write up of how this works and what you did.