skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey jacalata, thanks for pointing this out. I've reproduced the issue as best I can, and AFAICT you should see a link on that page which says "Change you answers".

Clicking it should display a list of the answers you've chosen, and the top one should be your location. Clicking that should let you change your location.

If that doesn't work, drop me a line at jcrompton@infoxchange.org -- I'd love to get enough info from you to properly reproduce the bug so we can fix it.

Thanks!
The SAP ecosystem is its own little world. Nothing to do with age: Python has been around since the late 80s (even though it's only been popular for shorter).

I once did an internship at the SAP mothership. They have good food.
Money a city gives towards a stadium should be returned in the form of shares in the team. Otherwise no deal. St. Louis should be selling their shares to LA for a profit right now...
Sports are a form of entertainment....entertainment can and does drive spending.... and spending can contribute to more jobs and more tax revenue. Seems fair that sports are, in turn, a public concern.

That isn't to say that building a stadium or hosting the Olympics is inherently a profitable affair.
Not yet. We have been asked to compare ION to Flatbuffers, Cap'n Proto, Thrift, Avro, Transit, BSON and several other encodings. However, writing the benchmarks and going through the features systematically is a lot of work, so we have not yet had the time to go through them all.
How does this compare with what Google[x] has been developing in the RF gesture recognition? In the videos they are using a Leap Motion while G is "suggesting" using your fingers as support.
Relationship between some improvement in health services and economic collapse? No. I think the economic trouble is due to a bigger, wider mismanagement. Health and education are just a drop of water that could (and should) remain untouched even after the prices of oil went down.

When I talked about an increase in health and education expenditures, I was talking about increase in the percentage of the budget, so they were done at expense of other things, and it began before the increase in oil prices. The years previous to Chavez, the health budget was 3.5-4.5% and it went up to 6.0%, and remained above 5.0 up to 2010. As you can see, these are not exorbitant expenses, and they are below other countries' expenditures like Uruguay, Tanzania or Uganda [1].

The economical crisis is not because the government increasing expenditures in some basic human needs, but because there hasn't been a cut down anything at all. There are a lot of valid criticisms that can be done to Venezuela's government, but expending a little bit more in its people is not one, in my opinion.

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS
I think it's pretty clear that the bar for safety must be much higher (10x) than human-level for these to be accepted by consumers. Auto accidents are very common, and the first time someone has an accident with a car like this everyone they know will hear about it. It will be terrifying. If these are only as safe on average as a human driver then nearly everyone is going to have at the very least a 2nd-hand negative experience.

The emotional response to these accidents is not going to be entirely irrational either. If I have a minor accident with my traditional truck, I'm going to probably have a good understanding of what went wrong and how I can prevent future collisions. With an autonomous vehicle... software upgrade? I'd rather take responsibility for my own safety if that's the case.
Exactly. Isn't technical mastery what art is supposed to be about? I'm pretty sure we won't see a "selfie artist" anytime soon.
That second link is this one..
D.

* C/C++ like familiar syntax.
* as fast as C++ (faster in some, slower in others)
* type inference (auto keyword)
* Garbage collected language by default.
* Multiple compiler implementation (DMD, GDC, LDC)
* Debugging symbol support
* Package management with versioning and pkg repo
* IDE/Editor support - Visual studio/xamarin/emacs
* Very easy C FFI
* compile type function evaluation
* meta programming
* The concurrency story is more "mainstream" than Go's (no "goroutine" and other fancy stuff).
* Multiple new books on the topic

D has a lot going for it, except for breathless fans :) (not knocking breathless fans here. D can use some)
I don't think I can agree that things should be months long. You build in discovery at different points in the project, aka spikes. It should be possible to come up with tasks that can be accomplished in roughly two weeks.

If you break it down, you probably already do this: 1) get build for project going, 2) get initial config/entrypoint for system up, 3) implement stubs for API, etc... you can break it down, but each of those is a constrained set of work. It might be part of a very large project that can't "ship" at the end of two weeks, but you can verify different components along the way. It also is a helpful exercise to allow for multiple people to collaborate on different portions of the problem.
"I've been paying very close attention to the responses of my body to different foods, etc."

Your personal anecdote is not a rigorous scientific study.
I'd be ok with this argument only if the leagues were nationalized.
Sports aren't an inherent public concern, but the idea is that there will be a future return.

I don't claim that building a stadium/arena for a professional sports team will generate profit for the city. It's supposed to be an investment. The city foots the bill for the stadium. The team generates revenue over X years to cover the costs, and it also provides jobs for the city's residents. It's an idealistic win-win.

Again - this doesn't always work as intended.
C# is not interpreted, and the CLR has a generational GC on par with the JVM. Many C# games are built on game engines like Unity which are implemented in C++, anyway.
I responded on Medium as well, but you can also enable this setting on LinkedIn, though admittedly it's tucked away. :)

1. Log into your account on linkedin.com.
2. Hover over your photo in the upper right, and go to manage Privacy & Settings.
3. Select the Account tab.
4. Set the option “Show/hide profile photos of other members.”
> designing and maintaining the UX

I did not say a word about design, I was talking about development. UX design is probably among the most complex problems out there, since it is not solved yet and there is even no glimpse of a distant hope.

> Amazon.com

Well, this one was obviously designed by a drunk cobbler, and he could not have spent more than half an hour overall, judging by how miserable the user experience is.

> Is Physics 'harder' than Psychology just because it's 'more hardcore' or 'more pure'?

Physics is solvable, Psychology is not, the latter is in an early phenomenological state of development. So, on this scale, it is harder to apply it (because one have to operate with a much bigger amount of information), but it is much easier in terms of models.

> You cannot really make comparisons like that.

Of course you can. Complexity is a very well-defined and objective thing.
I'm not surprised the head of Google self-driving cars thinks Google's approach is the only way to do it.
Do we expect computer assistance to make much of a difference? Right now they handle the easy tasks like highway driving which don't account for many accidents, as far as I know.
OK, the tradeoff they're making that I missed is that it's not a compacting collector. So eventually your heap can fragment to the point where allocation gets expensive or impossible. Unusual design choice.
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Could overfitting also be addressed by sharing and optimizing hyperparameters over multiple datasets? For example, could initialization be shared across multiple handwriting sets?
I think that your analogy is slightly off, though true enough. I'd say that writing a low level library is more akin to actually drawing a typeface than it is to mucking with the spacing of an existing one. You won't learn a lot about what goes into properly spacing a typeface just through kerning, as you would by examining a lower level protocol and writing an implementation.
That is also, if I recall correctly, remarkably similar to an internal slogan printed on a banner at Innitech, in Office Space.

I'm not certain that I would be able to suppress a fit of the giggles any time I saw it in an actual, real-life office.
At risk of sounding like a Go advocate when generics come up, the lack of interfaces doesn't bother me because interfaces themselves are a bit of a hack. When you have inheritance, object variants, generics, and a strong template/macro system, what's left for interfaces to do? I'd much rather have all of these other things than interfaces alone.
Well, it's from some time that I've been looking for a modern and open source email client, but N1 looks very promising.

Little question: do you plan to support PGP?
Fair enough. There are real and powerful emotions at play.

But it's a bit of a stretch to suggest an employee at a company founded 5 years ago has "poured their life into."

Personally, I'll reserve evocative language of loss for things beyond a strategic shift at the office - but I shouldn't judge others who view things differently.
OK, some sort of extra- or pseudojudicial rendition, then.
Click-bait speculation.

Word in the industry was that after two failed attempts to move from AWS to Facebooks metal failed spectacularly and massive attrition after vesting -- no one was left to make it work and Facebook lost the will to keep going.

The more important lesson was that a failure to port a stack from AWS to FB servers caused Facebook to take a $1B write-down. Startups should reconsider their metal, as future acquirers will likely heed this lesson strongly.
Do you subtract those hours from how much time you'd be in the office or do you spend 12 hours a day away from home every day?

I do about 2 hours a day when I'm not biking, but because we have a strong remote-work culture, I find myself working from home more and more, and expect to be fully remote pretty soon.
google is only capable of designing things that look they were made by and for 5 year olds
You make an incredibly good point - whilst any safety improvement at all is obviously and unquestionably a good thing, we can take this opportunity to step back and analyse the situation we've found ourselves in, and decide that the status quo is far from good enough and we should in fact be aiming to do much, much better.

A convenient advantage of regulating for self-driving vehicles is that we can put minimum safety standards into law quite easily, and enforce them meaningfully - because the prize for reaching and adhering to those standards is so great for the players involved, and because we have a relatively clean regulatory slate because of the clear step-change in the technology.

As well as the most important factor, safety, it could also be possible to step back and consider the other disadvantageous side-effects of the current status quo with cars, particularly in cities - noise, traffic congestion, wide roads with thin pavements/sidewalks for pedestrians, indeed a general culture of cars having priority over pedestrians in various situations where the number of pedestrians is much greater than the number of people in the cars.

These are all things which, depending on the city and the culture, can be really significant problems and which I'm sure would never be tolerated had they not crept up on us over decades. Regulating both for and with the capabilities of self-driving vehicles might give us opportunity to vastly improve the status quo in these areas, too, in a relatively short period of time.

It could be quite important to take advantage of the opportunity to realise such optimistic targets now, starting green field, as it can only get more difficult and become much slower to implement after the first set of regulations has been put into effect.
>How does that number compare with humans? Well, regular people in the USA have about 6 million accidents per year reported to the police, which means about once every 500,000 miles.

Aren't accidents only reported to police if there is a hit & run, or some other criminal activity?

Seems like the wrong metric for comparison, given the way they define the self-driving "accidents" and that the majority of human fender benders are not reported.
I think she means it in a day-to-day sense. People will make comment and put forth actions that could come off as rude or malicious, but it's more likely they don't understand where you're coming from (a culture clash which could lead to discussion, or to fights, depending)
This just shows how difficult it is to avoid hidden dependencies without a complete, cleanly isolated, testing environment of sufficient scale to replicate production operations and do strange system fault scenarios somewhere that won't kill production.
How to design robust organizations at scale. And how to quantify the stability and robustness of a given organization. I agree, it's an interesting topic. At the nation-state scale, it could be that we don't have enough data points.

And to take the question to its extreme, it's hard to answer what kind of life-forms/civilizations might be likely to become space faring (or even intelligent) with N=1.
The explanation I heard is that professional sports are a key element of "urban pacification." It makes sense to some extent, in a panem et circenses kind of way.
I would say that I think there needs to be a more upfront accounting of ballpark figures for 'contact sales' moments. Working as a SysAdmin, I've come across points where you call, they want to set up a trial, you ask them how much it's going to cost, and they keep saying 'well, depends on which options you get and this and that, so it's hard to say'.

And I just wanna know if it's a four, five, or six digit figure for God's sakes.
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Agreed, when I'm on the train its just not as bad as driving, even when it takes longer.
I believe you're correct in that marketing did have a strong sway in the decision.

But the fundamental principle behind Google has always been engineering and especially for something as crucial as safety, they should have stuck with something bland and nonchalant imo.
Your first concern often comes up in Dropbox threads. Of course they could easily offer a plan at 0.5TB / $5 or some such. They just don't want to. They'd lose more revenue from existing customers dropping from $10 to $5 than they'd gain by new customers going from $0 to $5.

It's not that Dropbox can't offer less space, it's that they're not interested in making the baseline price anything lower than $10. Put another way, Dropbox is perfectly happy to get along without customers who think the difference between $5 and $10 is something to care about.
For a professor of economics at a major university, this is a remarkably shoddy piece of thinking. The author finds great significance in the fact that Tom Brady's diet is about the same as the average American's. How about Tom Brady's health care? If he gets cancer, will he likely be bankrupted by it? Or his financial security---if he can no longer work, how much will his lifestyle change? Other examples are similarly flawed: he's impressed because his new Suburu is almost as good as a Mercedes! Well, perhaps he should try driving an '88 Corolla with no muffler and 300,000 miles on it for awhile.

The debate over income equality isn't about a falling standard of living in any absolute sense. It's about how the world's increasing wealth is distributed. And more and more of it is going to the top 1%, despite the complete absence of any evidence that they are actively generating a greater proportion of it than they have in the past. The reality is that wealth gets distributed along social networks, and the idea that this distribution corresponds to value actually created is a fantasy.
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So what happens to the Edward Jones sponsorship?
True statement for some Google products but not necessarily all.
Ask HN: Do you use an alternative keyboard layout like Dvorak?
I tried to switch to Dvorak and as an Emacs/Evil user I was really frustrated to have "easy" shortcuts like M-x, $, C-c C-f suddenly becoming cumbersome to perform (note that copy/cut/paste in everyday programs also became unwieldy).

How did you manage to get past that stage of "omg-why-is-everything-so-unfitting"?
Not necessarily. Major accidents will have the police involved, small fender benders might be handled with just an exchange of insurance information. If there's substantial damage though, the police will probably get involved since a police report makes collecting on insurance easier.
Honestly, you should change all the words except "Done". When people are using "simple" email software, they don't want to have to think about dictionary/uncommon words like "defer" and "delegate".
The little Google cars (not the Lexus SUVs) were specifically designed for pedestrian safety in case of a collision, which can hardly be said about any other car, aside from Volvos.
Thanks for sharing. Wish it wasn't hidden but regardless we had fun putting this together.
There might be no need for faster-than-light travel because time passes very slowly for near-lightspeed travellers. They just can't expect to see their friends again once they return.
> without explaining any of them in a satisfactory manner.

Welcome to finance...

Financial feels so full of decoy material, designed to keep minds weak and preoccupied so the elites can do their thing without interference...
Seriously. I'm kind of surprised about this.
There has been a major shift as of late where IPOing at those mid-late rounds just isn't the trend anymore. Public markets are a cruel beast where companies are living and dying by quarterly reporting so these skyrocketing growth startups have less incentive to let the public judge them. They also don't want to leave too much growth opportunity on the table when going public anymore.

So it makes sense why companies would want to stay private if someone is willing to give them the cash they think they need. Problem is, those investors also want to make a huge return, so a 20B valuation is going to come with some nasty liquidation preferences/ratchets etc. to protect the money.
I feel it was good incident for the Open Source community, to see how dependent we are on GitHub today. I feel sad whenever I see another large project like Python moving to GitHub, a closed-sourced company. I know, GitLab is there as an alternative, but I would love to see all the big Open Source projects putting pressure over GitHub to make them open their source code, as right they are big player in open source, like it or not.
> Different state, but a TX judge ruled very, very similar action against PP a crime.

No, the indictments against the video makers weren't for anything analogous to what "ag-gag" laws address; the indictments were for criminal violations of generally-applicable laws that apply whether or not a video is being made and whether or not the purpose of the act is to present information about a particular business: they were for falsifying government documents with intent to defraud, and for violating a law prohibiting offers to purchase human organs.

This is very different from laws which directly prohibit actions because they are taken to publicize (whether accurately or in a distorted manner) what a business is doing. This is just saying that an intent to make a video doesn't exempt you from generally applicable criminal laws.
That is a big risk. If she does she is likely to stay with STEM. Computer Science or Math + Statistics. That lowers the risks some. We have and will continue to have conversations about them risks.
Author here -- this seemed to spark some interesting discussion and momentum on Twitter, so I thought the wider community might appreciate it or it might at least start a decent conversation. I'll do my best to follow along here, but feel free to comment on the article as well.
It's not uncommon to contact the police so that a quick statement can be made and the paperwork logged. It seems to help with the insurance stuff and getting a third-party's eye on the scene.
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Does the school pour the foundations too? It is clear from the article they frame it, but it is unclear overall what is and is not included in what the students do (electrical? plumbing? interior walls? kitchen/bathroom installation? etc).

A project like this wouldn't shock me in other countries, but knowing how litigious the US is and the potential liability, I am surprised it got green lit. From other articles I've read even a lot of fieldtrips in the US are denied because of the supposed "danger."
They want to get people used to the idea of sharing the road with self-driving cars. People will be a lot more comfortable with them and have a lot fewer misconceptions if they've seen and recognized enough of them for it to stop seeming noteworthy.
If only Bitbucket could give such comprehensive reports. A few months back outages seemed almost daily. Things are more stable now. I hope for the long term.
You're probably already aware, but if not you should share this in https://www.reddit.com/r/VoiceActing/
And yet cities and states are often in the business of luring large employers to their area, and tax advantage is almost always the bait.

Everybody complains about sweetheart deals that so often go along with the seduction of an employer into their area, but almost nobody complains about the jobs. Perhaps in San Francisco the situation is reversed, but almost anywhere else is happy to accept your runoff, even if profitability isn't in the short term agenda.

More jobs means more people employed which in turn drives up employee competition, and hence wages, which equate to increased tax revenues and better quality of living.

I think that the stadium deals tend to be overboard, but not only is it not a net negative, it is at least more straight-forward plot than the backroom deals done as enticement for businesses.
Given the dependency in question is Redis, such a solution is probably exacerbated by the fact Redis hasn't really had a decent HA solution.

This is also hidden by the fact that Redis is really reliable (in my experience at least). In my experience it usually takes an ops event (like adding more RAM to the redis machine) to realize where a crutch has been developed on Redis in critical paths.
> The difference there is that the videos told an entirely fabricated story.

That's not actually the relevant difference, even if it is a difference. The difference with the PP videos case is that the charges there were for things that would be a crime whether or not the purpose was gathering information for publication and whether or not there was secret filming going on, unlike ag-gag laws which directly target gathering and publicizing information (whether the story they is accurate or distorted.)
It turns out that it's even hard then. Complex systems, by their very nature, fail in unexpected and unpredictable ways. If that weren't bad enough, hindsight bias makes it way too easy for us to look back with perfect knowledge and opine "That was so obvious, how could they have missed such a rudimentary issue?"

If only things were that easy.
The idea that humans learn well from accidents stands contrary to all available evidence.