skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who is actually hiring (not on the HN thread), has actually hired people in the last few weeks, is actively interviewing new people, and has had the "you're not actually hiring" accusation leveled at them, please consider that maybe they are really hiring, but:

- are swamped with people applying in addition to trying to build a product,

- may actually have hired someone, and that person may actually be a better hire.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience. I really am. That doesn't mean there's malice at play. Also, please try not to kill the messenger; it is entirely possible that even if malice is at play, the person you're talking to isn't the perpetrator. It would not be the first time that a hiring manager believes there's an open rec until they try to fill it.

I don't know what you are referring to with "SV pedigree nonsense", but I'm assuming you mean that people aren't willing to hire you because you haven't been in the right SV scene. That's certainly possible. I can also tell you that my team currently has zero people in SV, people across the US and outside of it (as in transatlantic), and we still had the issue I described above. That doesn't mean that isn't what happened in your case, of course.

(EDIT: formatting.)
> Even at the time I'll be making 10M profit a year, I'm sorry but this is privacy, I should be free to choose with who I share this information.

Too bad. If you want our money, that's the deal.
I use it for dev to more closely mock prod, as well as ensure repeatable builds. It allows me to run all the services we use locally without a separate vm for each.
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I can try and do it, as I already pushed for company to go from 1/12 to 8/12 in Joel's test, at least for my "team" (since there's 2 of us with sometimes 3rd joining in).

I'm going to try and Manage-up for now, hope the work will be noticed and others will join in.
Vanilla JS is nice, but I like Vapor JS better. It has some famous people behind it. Check it out https://github.com/madrobby/vapor.js
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Well, I think using the green button to go to full screen is an improvement. It gives me more space on my laptop screen, and lets me focus on what I'm writing, with less distraction. For example, as I write this comment, do I need to know that Google Drive has synced, and that Onedrive is still syncing, and that Bluetooth is on? Do I need this information every second I'm using my computer? No. It just distracts me from what I'm trying to do.

As for the analogy with the car, that actually is a downside of my car — it doesn't improve over time the way OS X does. And I'm happy OS X is improving, as opposed to giving in to change-averse users.
Yeah that's what I was thinking when I joined, but everyone here seems to have accepted the status quo. As I said down, I'm going to try and Manage-up for now, hope the work will be noticed and others will join in.
I wonder how the HN commentariat would feel about this if it was a government agency behind this rather than a fellow hacker...
> So a Pittsburgher with a passion for rust? Color me surprised.

Guilty as charged :)
Red light cameras increase rear-end collisions as well as injury because people would rather lock up their brakes one car length before the intersection than get a ticket.

I haven't seen any information on the effect of cameras at merging sites, though.
Why the fuck is this being downvoted? Fucking retarded idiots in your moral high horse.
Indeed it is!
This would be awesome to catch people not cleaning up after their dog. Great idea.
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Link to top of page rather than comments: http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10884918/i-bought-my-mom-a-...
It's one thing to just get the data and make an argument (in this case, "slow down") - it's an entirely separate thing to do that and start issuing citations or impounding vehicles.
10 MPH ?

That's ridiculous, elsewhere it is 10% because that is the legal requirement of the speedometer
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/2014/12/d-c-area-...
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You aren't alone. I am a tradesman and run my own business, people are always surprised when I don't use angieslist, homeadvisor, etc.

I always thought my word and a handshake was better than any internet deal, and I have built a successful business on that.
Nowhere in my posts did I seek to reject UBI. In fact, I am excited at the possibilities it may bring.

The claims made by davidgay are flawed and if UBI is a good policy, it should work despite those claims.

Making weak, unsubstantiated claims about anything is a good way of undermining it.
My criticism here is to stop muddying of the waters and focus the discussion on the core arguments around how social protection should be done.

For a pretty balanced fictional treatment of a future with UBI I recommend James S. A. Corey's novel series "The Expanse" (now a SyFy TV show). Specifically, the novella "The Churn" deals with characters living in a society with universal basic income, and to a lesser degree "The Vital Abyss".
This is gross, and reminds me of the nosy old ladies that 'patrol' the neighbourhood around here, only this guy knows C.
Can we please instead unlearn XX century?

Build like this again:

http://nesiditsa.ru/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/228.jpg

3-6 floors, organized in blocks, one after anothers, with lot of nice details.

I fail to grasp why architects still propose those hideous buildings nobody want to live near? All kinds of glass blocks? Displayed out of context because they stick out surroundings.
You're also relying on the reflexes of someone who is sitting in their car literally watching traffic for hours at a time.

The state police can use radar so the floor goes down to 6 over the limit if they are enforcing.
Speeding—especially on residential streets—causes real injury and death. I think it's great for citizens to use inexpensive technology like this to put pressure on their local authorities for better street design and proper enforcement.
To me, it represents the point where glorification of the lead architect became more important than the function of the building or practice of architecture. So you get monumental architecture that in addition to being horrifically ugly, is usually non-functional and doesn't wear well, with lots of flat roofing and poor planning for water displacement.

In my city, we have an old high school built in 1905 whose interior was refurbished and remains in service as part of a university. The replacement high school, built in the 70s, is a brutalist dump infested with mold and falling apart. The 1970 building will be torn down at great expense soon, while the 1905 building has a good chance of still being in use in some form 100 years from now.
The term busybody normally refers to someone who's trying to force an opinion into a situation, not actual actual violations of the law and definitely not when the problem came to you without having to seek it out first. Beyond the different seriousness of the two things you're conflating – did you notice the bit about him doing this after a kid was hit? – both of those are actually illegal and endanger other people.
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I'd love to catch all the people who don't clean up after their dogs here on the streets of the Netherlands. This is a high-tech country, they should do something like this to remove a well-known public annoyance.
Great? Speeding on a residential street is dangerous, especially to those walking or cycling.
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At my last job I had the chance to use OpenCV quite a bit. Every time I would discover new things in OpenCV my brain just fired off with ideas. I remember trying to write a blur function and then finding about integral images, that was awesome.
This is the best idea ever. This is totally the most inspiring thing I have read all day. Putting my computer in a software distribution box will be a truly life-changing experience. And turn it into a Linux box just by turning it upside-down and putting an extra box over! It is so ingenious. So amazing!
This, this, and this again.

I just don't understand how lending to banks at negative interest rates is tried before basic income. Or better, I can imagine a few reasons, none of them good.

Really, I don't get how people even accept bank settling rates that are smaller than the short term government bonds. That's just taking money from the people, and sending it for free to banks - no strings attached.
I see one gap of about 250 years, at a time irrelevant to the idea in question. And note that continuity is not required, merely commonality: if two distinct civilizations observe the same astronomical event then that gives you a point to synchronize their calendars.

Failing to record eclipses doesn't seem very remarkable. There are on average about 1.5 lunar eclipses per year. Clearly people throughout history were not recording every single one. Even the densest parts of your graph are missing most of them.

Edit: also note that this graph is "timed" eclipses only. I take that to mean that it only includes eclipses which were not only observed and recorded, but for which the record includes the local time of day of the event. This is necessary for measuring the Earth's long term change in rotation, as that slide does, but unnecessary for synchronizing calendars.
One of the amusing aspects of Game of Thrones is that while constructing an intricately detailed timeline going back thousands of years, George RR Martin then leaves clues that the timeline may be off by thousands of years.

https://books.google.com/books?id=tYUsrknjhbEC&pg=PA46#v=one...

"Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend."
- Hoster Blackwood, to Jaime Lannister
I live in Va, just not that part, and the rule of thumb is anything less then 10mph over and you generally won't get a ticket. The only exception to this is places like school zones.
I like crank theories as much as the next guy, but only good crank theories. This particular theory requires you be entirely ignorant of Chinese history. Muslim history, too.
Let's open source it!
Been using this for a few weeks, and it is great! I'm sure that, compared to Evernote, it misses features that are important to some, but it adds a few of its own and is so much faster to use it's in another league entirely.

Looking forward to the upcoming iOS version. The one feature I miss the most, besides that, is something like Evernote's menu bar app, for quick entry/scratchpad.
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I think when comparing grunt and gulp to webpack, that they solve different issues.

grunt gets complicated easily, by including a bunch of plugins and defining their configuration in a declarative manner. Gulp solves those issues by letting the user determine how to configure it himself, so the user can load in the package.json to load constants.

While webpack also does that, It imo has a more sensible definition.
Instead of the grunt/gulp approach, where you would say, do these actions with this folder, and this with that folder; webpack allows you to say, "if it's a jsx file: do this, and it's extension becomes: .js"
There's a lot less configuration needed for projects involving webpack, because it just lets you define transforms. Usually everything is turned into js (including images/css). But it also allows you to expose some files in the output to be loaded externally.

So there's no more 'gulp task' to run, now I'm just using npm scripts (npm start, npm run build, enz)
I believe Ubuntu click packages have been developed exactly for this purpose. That isn't to say alternatives aren't good, but maybe you can draw inspiration.
Is it allowed in the USA for an individual to film public space?
But the growth problems of Japan is largely an illusion and myth caused by population decline. Growth per capita in Japan has been completely normal in the supposed terrible years. It is the population decline which causes the overall GDP growth to look anemic.

Naturally it is growth per capita which matters as this is what improves the living conditions of people. There are many countries with high GDP growth but which also has higher population growth causing everybody actually to get poorer. That is not something anybody should want to emulate.

But of course low total GDP growth looks bad to business because the markets for their goods does not expand.
It felt a bit surreal reading that, and reading the comments here. I know that many of us seem to spend more and more of our time seeking validation online (a state of mind I already struggle to understand), but this is a lot darker than I'd imagined.
This happened to me, about 6 years ago, and it was a fairly widely-known phenomenon then, too. Fortunately, I wasn't on the hook for the bill -- the only key to my apartment had been ruined by Home Depot while cutting a copy, during a series of mistakes on their part. They are generally the first listing you'll find when Googling something like "locksmiths near <your city>"

The only negative part was that, of course, he announced after pretending (badly) to work on the lock for a bit that the (very standard, relatively low-security) lock on my door was "too difficult" and he wouldn't be able to cut a key for it, so he had to drill it out and give me new keys, which I then had to distribute to my landlord. Other than that, I got in, was reimbursed, so win for me.

I hired a legitimate lock smith a few years later to create a missing key for my motorcycle, and the difference between the two was VAST. He had a key-cutting facility in the back of his van that was better-stocked and had more tools and machinery than the ones you sometimes find in brick-and-mortar lock smith shops.
'Unintentional injuries', among which car crashes are a leading type, are the most common cause of death among those ages 1-44:
http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/leadingcauses.html
A pretty common sight around here (western europe) which seems to work pretty well are dynamic reminder signs: electronic signposts with a speed radar, which simply displays your speed in green if you're under the limit, orange if you're a bit over and blinking red if you're way over (using fairly bright led arrays so it's visible in most conditions)

Anecdotally, it seems to work pretty well, drivers do slow down when they approach the sign and don't seem to speed back up afterwards. I do not know if it's the personal reminder or the shame of showing your speeding to everybody around.

Sign've been here a while and seem to keep their effect, they don't seem to become part of the scenery and ignored over time as regular static signs are wont to do. And that applies to both car and bus drivers.
HN users are well known for their lack of sense of humor.
At Google, AI does seem to unite almost everything they do, from search, image recognition, self-driving cars, and ad placement. Of course all their revenue is from ads, so in revenue, they're an advertising company, but in products, they're an AI company.
This seems like it would be harder. Would you have to lock onto the tires to catch a certain number of frames without movement?

I would thinking rolling through a stop sign (especially at an intersection that is not a 4-way stop) would be much more dangerous than going 30 in a 25.
For years I have been infuriated by the window auto-resizing to match the video resolution issue, despite there being a checkbox to prevent resizing. Despite just quickly testing now and seeing that it seems to work (as it has on most prior occasions) I would happily bet a sizeable sum of money that no, in fact it isn't actually working and some future video I open will resize the window to a brazillion x gazillion. I really wish this would be fixed completely once and for all some day.
>His real life and his virtual life were completely separate.

Whoa, whoa, whoa - that's maybe something a person like Eris would say, as some kind of defense, but even after faking suicide, getting a fresh start, and going back? No, they're not separate. That's an addiction[1].

This whole story reads like a functioning heroin addict who finally can't hold it all together anymore. I completely understand there's a great deal of trauma and history to acknowledge - depression and physiological issues are not minor things to be brushed aside in discussion. Context does matter.

All that noted, what a selfish way to go through life. What a perfect example of lessons to teach young people about interactions online, in that shared community values (morals? ethics?) aren't baked into the online experience - in fact, quite the opposite. The freedom can be abused, and having some personal buffer zones is important, otherwise a person will end up lying to themselves and others like Eris, saying that they have a real life, which is just one of the many lies they will tell to make themselves feel better.

[1] Speaking from experience in online gaming community multiplayer Half-Life, which was a significant social outlet in conjuntion with the GamersX and eventual stand-alone [R]age Board for Elites. A lot of this story is familiar, both good and bad memories. RIP Neo Babson Maximus.
Do you have an objection to government-run cameras enforcing a safe speed limit? In my experience, an awful lot of drivers are really, really bad at driving. Speeding, in particular. If there is no other way to ensure idiots behind the wheel stick to a safe speed, then I'm all for it. This is merely a step towards fully-automated vehicles, anyway, which will be literally incapable of breaking the speed limit.
NB if you use a dash cam, realize that it can also be used to very precisely calculate your speed in exactly the same way. Good if you are fighting a speeding ticket you didn't deserve, bad if you get into a wreck and were speeding.
That's ridiculous. A 35mph collision with a pedestrian would almost certainly result in a dead pedestrian. 25mph is usually survivable.[1]

A 20mph speed limit, strictly enforced would drop pedestrian fatality rates to essentially 0.[2]

1: http://humantransport.org/sidewalks/SpeedKills.htm
2: http://www.visionzeroinitiative.com/
Wow, this is horrible. I guess I just don't have the mentality that people can be assholes.

> The founders were lucky enough to find a niche that could support a company held together with tape and sticks.

Yeah,exactly this.
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The guideline I was taught was <10% over on surface streets and <14mph over on controlled access (interstates, etc).

FWIW, I've never been pulled when I was following those guidelines (driving in GA + SC).
There's a stop sign near my house that is often ignored and when I watch people blow through it (while obviously speeding) I wonder how much fear for letting our children wander is reinforced by behavior like that and how a lack of children playing reinforces that behavior.

As far as speeding goes, I generally stick to the limit in a residential but when I'm being tailgated I'll speed up to 30mph. I'd rather only have to worry about stopping the force of my vehicle if a child runs out in front of my car. But it rarely makes a difference, most people want to go 40-45mph and become visibly irate at anything less than that. Things like that make me happy that self driving cars are somewhere on the horizon.
I'll copy a very interesting comment by Anton Largiader http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/22908-locust-aven...

> One very interesting approach I have seen overseas is a traffic light that turns red if you are speeding as you approach it. It's incredibly effective; instant feedback on your behavior, and immediate loss of any time you gained by speeding. No ticket, unless you run the light. Drivers quickly conclude they're better off by not speeding.
Yes! If not to catch violators, at least to collect data for use in enforcement. In cities and towns with lots of pedestrians, the stop sign case is key. People check for other cars by habit, but often overlook pedestrians waiting to cross at a stop sign and put them at risk.
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The article shows evidence for the contrary, the city actually installed such a sign. It slowed motorists for a while, but they eventually sped back up again.
If I were a "survivor", I would still rush to find a job elsewhere ASAP, while I'm still competing with the early round of layoffs (mostly below average) rather than with everybody else (the "best and brightest").
What's the point of waiting until the situation gets worse?
The major question for me would be data retention – if they monitor speed (or failing to stop at a red light or stop sign, etc.) but fundamentally aren't doing anything different than if they parked an officer there with a radar gun, it doesn't bother me.

Saving the data for later mining, OCRing license plates to build a record of cars traveling around town, etc. would be a different story because that affects everyone whether or not they're choosing to break the law and spans more than a single incident in time.
That solution doesn't sound very simple, particularly for non-programmers.
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Generally it seems you may photograph and film public property, assuming you believe Wikipedia.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law#Public...
Or the retiree condo commanders going around measuring people's shrubs to make sure they comply with condo bylaws section 4, subsection 65, paragraph 5. For some people, ubiquitous rule enforcement is a utopia, not a Orwellian nightmare.
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British usage is a mess, they were the units I found. I didn't really think about it. I also can no longer find the table of stopping distances I found this morning.

The official rules for driving cars in Britain have the same daft combination of units: https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/559afb11e...
Why? C is a very high level language. It is not that dramatically different from Pascal, which, in turn, is almost a pseudocode from your algorithm textbooks. You can learn fairly abstract concepts with C without caring at all about how it maps to the hardware.
I feel the same way! Especially since this makes me a little more comfortable with the language, I might be more inclined to use it later too!
> ... Instrumented code or sampling profilers?

A sampling profiler would be helpful. Although most hash map related samples would likely fall on atomic ops it presumably uses for synchronization. On the other hand, you'd know whether you need to optimize this in the first place.

Instrumented profiler would yield garbage data for a lot of reasons, I wouldn't use that, except maybe over a large group of hash map operations.

> ... I'd first reach for the CPU performance counters

I count CPU performance counters as profiling.
http://www.linux.sh/loadlin.html

in 2003 you still could install linux on a FAT32 system and boot from windows, you could even share your swap space with the file windows was using for the same purpose.

So an autoexec.bat with a menu and loadlin called in the process. It was not even a big penalty.

We were real hackers like this :
http://www.tsgk.net/cowboyz/tdc.html
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