skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote about how I improved here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11316187

That's mostly about improving the reading of body language. Send me a message if you want to know more about the other aspects, probably a bit long to write here. Contact info it in my profile.
He's an American, writing for an American audience, and thus he's using the units Americans use. There's absolutely nothing more scientific about one set of units or another (although different sets of units may be more convenient in different situations).
>> "...what if other manufacturers turn out to have better or cheaper self-driving cars?"

Cheaper, certainly. Everyone will have cheaper SD cars than Benz, just as everyone has cheaper cabs than an S-class today. But better? If history is any guide, German luxury will be the gold standard of automotive UX for our lifetimes and beyond.
There's a lot of "what you love" that pays above starvation and isn't programming.
Yesterday, we had this article on YC [1], from some economist at the anti-regulation Mercatus Institute, claiming that a drone strike was very, very unlikely. That guy assumed that drones are distributed randomly across airspace. In practice, they tend to be near where people live, which means cities and airports. I posted the FAA's list of drone sightings near LAX yesterday. Today, this.

The pilot of the aircraft, a Lufthansa A380-800, reported seeing the drone above him. The reported near miss distance of 200 feet is very close for an aircraft with a 260 foot wingspan and a tail tip 60 feet above the pilot.

WTF is someone doing flying a drone at 5000 feet over downtown LA in the LAX approach path? That drone operator needs to be found and arrested.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11290674
While both are horrendous, I think we can say that having intimate photos of you taken without your knowledge being spread is worth than having photos you took being spread. The reason being that in the first case your rights to privacy were actually violated twice.
This response makes me wonder why you don't just tell the candidate the range you're willing to pay and let them tell you if that works for them.

I definitely understand the need to be efficient with everyone's time, but "have the candidate share their desired salary" is only one way to do that.

I have heard this reasoning from recruiters many times, but haven't heard a good explanation as to why they don't just tell the candidate the range they're willing to pay.

(This is a genuine question) Why not just tell the candidate your range if your concern is to respect everyone's time?
The Gawker case is an instance where the force of law is required as a disincentive.
Google Self-Driving Car Will Be Ready Soon for Some, in Decades for Others
Scarborough doctor's book says insulin makes you fat, fasting makes you thin
Yep. Someone from Microsoft - where I work - posted here that they're making $115K at a level below mine, which is just a tad less than I make. Also, I've realized from recent conversations with coworkers about taxes, savings and investing that I make significantly less than them.
What brain region did they stimulate? And what kind of TMS parameters？It must have been repetitive TMS, at what frequency？
If the government is required do something for you ("inform you of your rights", in this case), then wouldn't it be reasonable to say you say that you have the right to that service?

Miranda created the right to have the government inform you of your rights.
I listened to Bill Bryson's self-narrated (and truncated) version of A Short History of Nearly Everything. It was my first time listening to an author self-narrating their book. It's probably one of my favorite narrations (I've got over 120 audiobooks under my belt now). Bryson set the bar pretty high.

Then I listened to Leonard Mlodinow's "The Upright Thinkers"; Oh god. Euclid's Window by Mlodinow was absolutely fantastic, and it was narrated by the slightly pompous-sounding -- but fitting -- Robert Blumenfield. Leonard had a somewhat slow, drawling voice, and he often stumbled over words. This was pretty disappointing because he seems like such a smart dude. He just shouldn't narrate his own books :)
Yeah. The way a person communicates tells you a lot about their ability to lead a company. Most people would pitch us ideas and we wouldn't even vaguely get a sense of what they were trying to sell—native english speakers too. Not surprising at all—but people who had chances to get funding were those who were clear & concise. Those who's pitches who we didn't understand immediately were for the most part mentally discarded and never acted upon by us.
Based on the assumption that the least you would accept is your current salary, it is safe to assume that the lower range is same as your current salary i.e. using your example, a recruiter can deduce your salary is $75k.
Phantom's can get quite high:

http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-watch-a-stupid-drone-...
Enjoyed the writing style, and had to laugh at; "A fairly select group of entomologists, including several specialists at the USDA’s Insect Behavior and Biocontrol Research Unit, have thus spent the past twenty years investigating the acoustic detection of insect noise."

I love how incredibly broad and infinitely "specializable" our economy is. Scale enables such wonderful focus.
And Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba and Nicaragua. Or: everywhere in Latin America where the so called "21st Century Socialism" took hold in the last decade or so. Luckily, the pendulum is swinging back...
Frankly setting a precedent that allows people to sue for egregious exposure of private data seems long overdue. I hope this is another step in developing a body of law that protects privacy in the digital age. Next up is negligent exposure of financial and health data.
Well it was taken down because it was representative of an atrocity, not because it was stolen.

Although, arguing down that route, war spoils are a tricky thing to discuss historically. "Stolen" is very different from "appropriated after successful war". Like I've said above, history and modern morals don't always mix. For that matter, current events and modern morals don't always mix. Take the Iraq oil situation, a bit more than a statue worth there.
Hmm. Alright, you might have just talked me into it.

I'll do a rewrite first since it's getting scrappy, and then add a couple of important features (e.g. reply notifications). I'll start sourcing from reddit comments, since that's going to be the easiest to scrape, has a significant amount of content and is probably enough to start with.

Open source syndication is an interesting idea and not one I'd thought of.

Thanks for the suggestions, really helpful.
Toward Fair Pay – Evolving How We Evaluate and Compensate Employees
Try 2 minutes 4 seconds in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FISDgcaBSYQ#t=2m4s
Inch / foot / yard / mile is a really small range compared to what metric can handle (anything), so in practice most science is done with metric units.
This is actually an excellent point, and I can't believe I didn't think of this.

If I am the first one to bring up salary, and I request a range because I want to make sure that nobody is wasting their time, then they clearly get the message that I am expensive to hire, and they can efficiently reject me if needed. If they give a number and it's too low, then I can politely tell them it's best for everyone to discontinue the interviews.

But, if they don't want to give a range, presumably because they might be willing to pay a high wage if they liked me, then it puts me in a much better position to avoid stating what I am seeking.

Then I could say, "OK, it's alright with me if you don't want to explicitly tell me the range ... I just want to be sure that the position is offering compensation in the range that I am seeking. If you prefer to leave the salary discussions for later, that is perfectly understandable."

Now, if they press me for salary info, I can say the same thing they said and refuse to answer.
So I see a lot of journalists on twitter defending Gawker. In my opinion Gawker is making journalists look bad at first place. I believe in press freedom but is "revenge porn" freedom of press ? If an unknown party leaked that sex tape, most journalists would condemn that and not label it "freedom of speech" so why the double standard ?
Advocating for them, or for their parents? Don't forget what happened to Down's Syndrome once prenatal testing became available.
If you google "Mount Ararat Archaeology", all of the top results are about Noah and his famous Ark
Ask HN: Do you add webapps/websites to home screen?
Lately, I've been opting to use more webapps and websites instead of installing apps from the app store. I simply create a shortcut on my homescreen and done. No install, no storage space, no shady permissions.

Do you do the same?
Aren't wifi and a mobile app essential for their target market? The impression I get from this article, and from going and taking a look at the Kickstarter campaign, is that a big part of the audience is supposed to be people who don't know very much about computers and networking. A lot of these people have a home network that is entirely wifi, running off the wifi router built into their ISP provided cable modem.
Disagreed, the answer isn't aimed at engineers or actually at any science-oriented people, it's directed at the general public who don't even care what IEEE is.
> project based learning, and relationship-based learning

You could also go to a university that emphasizes those aspects of learning (e.g. http://www.olin.edu/). Admittedly, there aren't many of them, but I feel like it's the best of both worlds.
Well, technically it has, considering all the laminated wood beams used in low rise buildings...
A branch of physics used to be taught a long time ago called "numerical analysis" to deal with this issue.

We even used to be careful about the difference between 'precise and exact'.

Pi = acos(0) is absolutely exact. But computer don't know about symbolic calculus. So to put the value in a register we used tricks.

Pi as a the converging value at the infinite of the Taylor development is awesome. But computer don't know about infinite.

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971 is precise.... it has a lot of digit and people loves that.

In ana num 3.15159 +- 0.00001 is exact. It bounds your result. Hence you can estimate your error and its propagation.

Because we thought humans were smart we thought that 3.14159 would be so meaningful people would understand that a constant should be considered to be exact with the implicit meaning that 9 was the last significant digit and people would be wise to use upper and lower bounds to estimates their results.

Then Computer Science was taught in university.

People not understanding why they had to study math and physics to simply program 2 + 2 and thought, stop bothering us. We just compute TVA we don't send a rocket to mars. Why learn boring math (integration, derivation, Newton's methods for approximation, Taylos's development, Cauchy Suites, condition of converging Suites, Integration in the complex field to compute generalized integrals, simplex, LU/RU matrices ....)

Yes people loves recurrence. They cannot apply the reasoning to simple maths series.

And that's how we have funny stuff like a lot of coder not understanding why :

1.198 * 10.10
12.099799999999998

Yes ... why are computers' maths so odd. What can we do about it?

Having a look at HP Saturn opcode makes you wonder if the lack of solution is because it does not exists or because people forgot.
http://www.hpcalc.org/details.php?id=1693
There are videos of a Phantom 2 drone, which is under $500 used ($1300 new) reaching almost 11,000 feet.[1]

[1] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/11000ft-dji-drone-flight-record-att...
Cheers. Sorry, I haven't given mobile use much thought since Chrome extensions aren't supported and I've only just rolled out the Firefox extension.
Isn't the succinct term (since at least Pam Anderson) "sex tape"?

I wrote it the way I did, which I don't think was that bad, because out of about 40 posts, two used the term (which I had never heard of before in this sense) "nonconsensual porn", and they were both by the same poster.

What does non-consensual mean in this sense BTW? Does it mean someone is recorded without their consent, or a site publishes someone's video without their consent?

And the downvotes keep coming, and for sp332, for simply agreeing and suggesting an alternative, and for my reply to sp332, so it's clearly not simply about how I phrased the question. Some weird people here.

Edit: Hahaha. Someone's upset, downvoting every post of mine here.
>esp. in the anglo world

oh god, you think it's bad here in the anglo world? Don't look at Korea and Japan then.
I was complaining on the other thread that as an SDE II I'm making just about the same as an SDE I who posted there. But you, my friend, are underpaid :(

You can switch to another company on H-1B, but if you've already started the Green Card progress, it will get reset.

BTW, I was hired as an SDE I even with 6 years experience.
Url changed from http://kottke.org/16/03/how-many-digits-of-pi-does-nasa-use, which points to this.
Yea, but even in American high schools the metric system is taught for physics.
Market making as a strategy is more like providing a service on the markets than it is like investing.

I was pointing out that 'Market Making' is not always a good thing. In the broadest ters it increases costs for some trades, and decrease costs for others. So, it's not always good for the market.
This is an insane answer, I know.

When we're at a point in the super far future when automation does everything that a below average intelligence human can do, maybe we could raise the average. Maybe through genetic engineering offspring.

How insane is that I wonder?
Also, to clarify, I'm the author :D
I have heard, but never done the math the verify, that with 50-ish digits of pi, one's error on a circle the size of the Universe would be smaller than a plank length.
The American people are more creative than you give us credit for. The Supreme Court strikes down popular laws all the time, and somehow we've managed to carry on.
Wow, you should make an HN submission out of that talk in its own right. Would be perfect for this weekend.
If you know the diameter of the observable Universe and you want to calculate its circumference with the accuracy of the diameter of a proton, the number of digits of pi that you need is 43.
What exactly is the atrocious precedent here? This wasn't speech about someone, it wasn't noteworthy speech of someone's actions, it was speech about someone's very private actions. In many states it's illegal to record a private conversation unless both people consent, and yet somehow making a sex tape without someone's knowledge and releasing is a worse precedent?

There is no slippery slope here. Free speech advocates should look in another castle.
This is a classic misdirection tactic used by the far left against the West for decades.

To compare drone strikes on jihadist camps in foreign countries, and wiretapping of calls entering and leaving the country, with the total suppression of the human spirit by the Castro regime, is ridiculous and irrelevant.

Unfortunately, people are increasingly buying into this narrative. Moral relativism, moral nihilism I call it, is an unfitting ideology for a nation built on a strong belief in human dignity and freedom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
What are the First Amendment ramifications?

Distributing naked pictures of someone without their consent has never been legal. The fact that they were taken in the cameraman's home is no defense. This is no different than a frat boy putting a hidden camera in the frathouse bathroom before a party and then distributing pics of freshman girls with their pants down.
Hand-held calculators might have been carried on many NASA missions, but not the early ones. The first missions started in 1961 and hand-held HP calculators weren't invented until more than ten years later. By that time we had already been to the moon 6 or 7 times.

The first actual hand-held calculator I every saw was a Bowman Brain (simple 4 function calculator) it was for sale in 1971 at the MIT COOP (the bookstore). I only knew one person that bought one; the rest of us continued carrying around our slide rules (they came in handy leather holsters with belt loops.) The HP that came out about a year later was a real scientific calculator.

Years before that, sometime between 1965 and 1968, on an episode of Lost in Space (a TV program with a family of early space explorers lost in outer space) the son, Will Robinson, was carrying around a large device about 3 inches thick and a foot tall that looked like a calculator. I thought the idea quite marvelous and went to bed thinking about it and how much better it would be than my slide rule for playing around with calculations. (I was a weird kid.)
Wikileaks just released searchable Hillary Clinton email archive
Wide ranges of values are handled exactly the same way in imperial units as in metric: multipliers. You write "0.00023 inches" or "5.48e4 miles", etc. It's just not as pretty.
The real answer:

As many as it takes.

Also, what about the quest for finding the largest prime? #keepthedreamalive
$70k is severely underpaid for final comp. The OP said in a follow up comment that his total comp is close to $130k which is a very good wage.
I've been using it for a while and quite like it. it isn't as flexible as OpenHAB, but I actually think that's a positive because it is a million times simpler to set up and tweak. Home Assistant really feels like the fully realized version of the various scripts and dashboards I had made myself before finding it.
Be good with money
What about a railgun or some similar accelerator prior to the first stage?
From the first link (105).

> GreyCat's personal recommendation is simple: don't use set -e. Add your own error checking instead.

> rking's personal recommendation is to go ahead and use set -e, but beware of possible gotchas. It has useful semantics, so to exclude it from the toolbox is to give into FUD.
It prevents mistakes when we all use the same units and the SI are agreed by an international committee of scientists and engineers. It's one less thing to go wrong.
Yes, I've heard the "ideas are worthless" meme, I just don't entirely believe it. Ideas are easier to have, so a bigger fraction of them are worthless, but that's not actually a good measure of the "relative worth" of ideas and implementations, precisely because the mechanics of producing them is different. Good ideas, e.g. actual market opportunities, problem-solving breakthroughs, are rare and valuable. Insight is valuable.

You can execute as hard as you want, but if you're headed in the wrong direction, the only good thing that's going to happen is that you're going to learn when ideas really are important.
I remember back in high school physics when we were calculating the volumes of a few stars and my teacher said "Just round out 4\pi/3 to 4". I completely understand why we'd do that -- the error terms in the radius of the star completely drown out that approximation -- but goddammit it still feels wrong. I guess I'm a mathematician and not a physicist for a reason.
>Russia is not at war with Ukraine. Russia is just running a covert action in Ukraine in an attempt to destabilize it's democratically elected government.

This is correct, although it's not so covert. Russia has built in Eastern Ukraine a full-scale army of 40K troops with 600 tanks and thousands of APCs. It sends hundreds of railway cars with military supplies across the border. The army is better equipped and trained than many NATO countries in Europe. At this scale it simply can't be covert, and it's certainly a war.
Don't forget the awesome Gabe Snyder in your list. I felt like the editorial integrity fell off a cliff right after his departure.
We must be about the same age. I went through college with a leather holster for my slide rule. I saw the first TI calculator after graduating from college in '71. I lusted after it and later I went to work at HP and got an HP. I was a super-fan of reverse-polish at that time. HP stayed with RPN for some time.
Conversely, risk and financing of sea voyages delayed utilisation of the lateen rig sail -- the triangular sail familiar on sloops, as opposed to older square-rig designs -- until about the 13th century.

This risk-aversion actually increased risks and costs of sailing: shipping could only occur from March through November, even across the relatively calm waters of the Mediterranean, and ships could only sail before the wind, not into it.

There's a brief discussion of this in James Burke's Connections (1977), though I'd expect more complete coverage in his sources.

This makes me think of financing and risk controls and their effects over technology adoption.
As a software engineer, though, I find this answer way more interesting. That one part in 10^15 ends up being ~an inch on the scale of the solar system is thoroughly unsurprising.
Although this really should have been posted 4 days ago,
2pi x 3x10^8 x 40x10^10 / 1.6x10^-35
is just over 10^54 so that's about all the digits you need to memorize. Unless you're looking for a really strong password, reciting 100,000 digits is probably more than necessary:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-much-pi...
Clarifying, not disagreeing; The ROC constitution has historically insisted the territories of mainland China and Taiwan are administered by the ROC. The stance is exactly the same as the PRC.
That all sounds very good to me :)
> However the problem is that actual credit for
> success REALLY belongs with the
> people who did the work.

> And I didn't say that the doer always
> deserves the credit.

You kind of did.
You only need one job. It doesn't matter if you exclude 1/3rd of all recruiters to get that one job. If you are disclosing your salary requirements first you are restricting yourself on the high side, and each person has to weigh what that is worth to avoid lowball offers.
I want to finish what I started first. I think I owe that to them
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I listened to the first quarter. All this squeaks and creaks have just enough rhythm to induce living form presence lurking closer, which stresses me out.
I can see why it's better for you if the US government doesn't tax you, but why is it better for the US? It is a nice place, and I hope you're able to become a citizen at some point if you desire to, but until then the priorities of the US are with its own people.

"Taxation without representation" doesn't apply here, because you aren't forced to live or work here. You do have representation in your own government, which is exactly what the founders of the US fought for. They did not fight for the right to go work in other places, like the UK, untaxed.
I can't speak for other nations, but they still teach numeric analysis in Chinese universities as an undergraduate course. In my university it is a required subject. Many of us have countless dreadful memories of Runge-Kutta method, Euler's method, Newton's method, rate of convergence, numerical stability and error margins, just to name a few of the dreads...
I don't know. Sam was at a bunch of our parties/events, and has tweeted about us. My CEO and cofounder are great friends with a lot of the partners. Hopefully you're right, I just don't want to apply without telling them and they find out from that. But also telling them I'm thinking of leaving is hard too
This might be a naive question, but what would happen if a hobby drone collided with a jet? As long as it doesn't hit the engines, wouldn't the damage be negligible?