skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do well in rain but snow remains a problem, not due to icy roads (at SXSW Chris Urmson said they do well on slick roads) but that the "better than GPS" LIDAR-based location tracking stops working when snow is on the ground.

The car simply cannot figure out where it is when there's a significant layer of snow on the ground because the reference maps stop looking like what the car is seeing.

https://youtu.be/Uj-rK8V-rik?t=46m22s
The problem is that when you share your salary people who make less than you start despising you and people who make more than you start looking down on you.

It's less of a corporate conspiracy but more "this is why you can't have nice things". People just can not handle it in a mature and responsible way, which is why the 'don't talk about money' "common sense" developed.
What do you make of this Uber playbook for negotiating with regulators?
Never heard it stated that way. Can you elaborate on "the smallest possible distance is Plank's length"? Is that the smallest observable distance?
Exactly. "Thank you for letting me know well in advance that you intend to let me go."
> That's the kind of thinking that gets you atrocious policy, especially in the judicial sphere

Er, he's calling them a bottom feeding tabloid rag. What does that have to do with policy or precedent?

(notably that post was from four days ago, not in reaction to the ruling)
>> Mineserver™ -- A $99 Home Minecraft Server by Mineserver LLC

That's just a factual description.

>the creeper face

I don't know, the pixelated smile is a pretty clear riff off the iconic creeper frown, not a copy.
It's even cooler since you could even do this retroactively if you had the original footage of the dubbing voice actor.
The post i replied to started off with "If you know the diameter of the observable Universe" but if the result it depends on the size of the observable universe then you ought to say "given the size of the observable universe".

Starting with 'if' would imply that the result only requires you 'knowing' the size of the obsv. unv. but does not depend on its actual size.
> Autocratic states ultimately can't work with democratic ones. Its unfair to expect one group to 'follow the rules' and another to go off willy-nilly when it serves them.

Libya's "no fly" zone, Iraq, Kosovo, nationalistic coup against a democratically elected president.... etc etc etc

I don't even what to say when reading texts like this. It's like democracy is the racism of the 21st century. White infallible democrats versus autocratic niggers.
I'm curious, how do you both read subtitles and watch that the sound is properly synced to an actor's lips? I can't read that fast, so I spend 80% of my time "watching a movie" simply reading text on the bottom of the screen.
A hard sell: the industries that can't get millennials buying
We do that too. We don't have a preference either way, because for us it only serves one purpose, which is to determine if we should continue the interview process.

Surprisingly, very few candidates ask us upfront what the position pays. In fact, we've only had one candidate who tried to play the "salary game" (if you will) and turned the question back on us when we asked what their salary range was. Like I said though, we just reveal it. To us, it's not a game, but rather two parties exchanging information in a fair and transparent manner.
Finds out all the social and professional data of the person behind an email.
IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1
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Keep in mind that there are definitions for these terms.

"near miss" means coming up on 200 meters distance between two objects if > 400 meters up, otherwise it means whatever the tower decides it means (and presumably for them it means being in controlled airspace at all, e.g. having a drone above the airport building itself)
Wow! Eerie photographs. Reminded me of the game Zork, circa late '90s.
I was speaking with another company, but unforeseen family matters took precedence and I ended up not taking the job there. Another ex amazonian did accept an offer from the same company I was speaking with and in hindsight it was for the best, it did not work out exactly smoothly form him so...

And yes, the office was exacly in front of the Kilmainham Gaol, unfortunately the office was quite depressing, so much so that it was an inside joke that the Amazon office was 21st century Gaol.

Luckily they moved in a much better place now.
Consider contract employment. You agree to work for me for x months. In exchange, I agree to pay you $y. The contract outlines reasons that I can fire you and reasons that you can quit. And, if either party violates the terms of the agreement, we can go to court.
Eh... no.

Most markets are for items there are many of. There are lots of apples, people see friends enjoying them, people buy one, like it, buy another, a price is established. Key facts: you get to buy it more than once, more than one person gets to buy it, you can tell in advance it is worth something. Take too many of those away, and the market goes away.

An idea (for a venture) is: unique (a close variant missing a key part has completely different value), you would not pay for it twice, and selling it to multiple people diminishes its value. Why would you think the value of an idea would be well captured in a market?

You do realize a market is just one mechanism for expressing value, right? or is air value-less?
Really I think they should be more like google+ circles (I don't like much about g+, but I do think that particular idea is well suited to twitter). They should be part of the home page presentation, allowing you to filter your main view down by list.

Personally, almost all the time I look on twitter I'm looking at a list. Either the one that's basically "these are the people I want to see all the tweets of" or topical ones (politics, infosec, etc). I spend very little time on the 'firehose' main feed.
So let's see. Hulk Hogan is worth $25M according to the interwebs. His reputation is in tatters for the video of him doing something he did. So he gets awarded almost 5 times as much for lost earnings, as he is worth total?

Of course we all know this will go to appeal, where the real fate will be decided. Gawker does not have 115M to pay, and Hulk is not likely to find himself 5x richer.

The real question is where does the First Amendment end up with this ruling? That is the change (or not) that would matter most to the average citizen.
Inventions are worth money, ideas are not.
i wonder if interest in measuring error of previous calculations is what encouraged this direction of computational rigor

respecting accuracy encourages a self awareness with an almost conscious stead ignorant error

i am always intrigued when it is discussed how a calculation began and the error of the initial values

the first known attempt at measuring the speed of light(o) had an ignorant error of ~26%

the first known attempt at measuring the circumference of the earth(i) had an ignorant error of ~15%

> our planet Earth.. the circumference ..
> .. would .. be if you used the limited version of pi above?
> It would be off by the size of a molecule.

our conscious error is the size of a molecule, but what will our ignorant error be? how will its significance manifest?

the ignorant error is a result of the tools of measure, in this case observable measurements and numerical approximation

for those who calculated using pi equal to 22/7, for the circumference, their error would only be ~.04% of the 15 digit rounded value

>>>2*(22/7)*(7926/2)>>> 2*(22/7)*(7926/2)
24910.285714285714
>>> 2*(3.141592653589793)*(7926/2) #from the article
24900.2633723527
>>> 24910.285714285714/24900.2633723527
1.0004024994347707
>>> (1.0004024994347707-1)*100
0.04024994347706645

(o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light#First_measureme...

(i) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes#Measurement_of_th...

.. edit, percentage error, left out the *100
For the people complaining that it's slow: what plugins are you running?

My contribution:
Community packages used most often:
api-workbench, fonts, language-sql-mysql, term3, vim-mode
Others:
dash, export-html, language-docker, linter, markdown-pdf, markdown-preview-plus, markdown-preview-plus-opener, markdown-scroll-sync, markdown-writer, stash-tabs
The video made me feel very uncomfortable, and it takes a lot to make me feel that way.
Would someone like to explain the downvotes? Claiming that the use of Cuberite is not "true" open source is like someone in 2011 claiming that a webserver with SPDY can't be "true" open source because Chrome is proprietary.
Thanks! I like the overview discussions over at LessWrong about AI too. That's where I learned some of the more fine grain distinctions in the Artificial Mind pantheon.

I'm more in the dedicated and subservient personal assistant ecological niche as a good place for artificial minds. They learn about you, help you when they can, recover from mistakes quickly, etc... A la Jarvis in the Iron Man world or Jeeves to his Berty Wooster. There's a great portrait in the Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy of novels by Robert J. Sawyer. The "companion implants", just perfect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neanderthal_Parallax#Gover...
She wants mass firings of people like me and you for no other reason than our sex and the color of our skin.
I was speaking with a friend of mine who recently graduated med school about this topic. An insightful point he made was that with some careers, you need a lot of education before you can start working, like being a doctor. In other areas you're able to be productive in a workplace with less "education" than you find in a university program.

As a former bootcamp instructor, it has been amazing to watch the careers of some of my students. Bootcamps are more about setting up a student's learning trajectory than making them a computer scientist. I think most software developers would say that this is the kind of career which requires continuous improvement and learning, if you give a student the tools to learn and improve then you've set them up on a good path.

Can you become a software engineer in 12 weeks? Probably not, but I've seen a good number of my students become fairly successful engineers within 1-2 years of completing the program I worked at.
You are actually citing examples of execution excellence and IP, rather than "ideas" as the word is used in early stage VC circles. For example the idea of making a low radar cross section aircraft is not new or valuable since right after radar was first developed. However executing on that idea to create the stealth fighter design produces something very valuable.
The reason is because the first person to say a number is at a slight disadvantage, and recruiters and managers don't want it to be them.

It is true that making sure you are on the same page salary-wise is a good idea, but it doesn't always have to be the interviewee to establish that.
Mathematics? The people trying to find solutions of an equation by solving them?

Mathematicians is a weird education I hardly understand. The last PhD I met from Mc Gill university ignored the existence of non euclidean geometry. His excuse? He was on formal proof.

I am sorry, I have a hard time with people that never were challenged to make equations spit their solutions in order to make something actually work in the real world with limited time and money.

It is the same difference I see between athletes and ergotherapists, or Einstein and Poincaré.
My opinion only, but if I had to bring an outside offer to get an inside raise, I'd take the offer. "We'll pay everyone what we can get away with, except the few who we need for the moment that make a stink." But then, I make too big a deal about personal relationships, and I forget that it's just bidness.

That said, I did get a raise once with an outside offer. But I left just inside a year later.
If you have some time to spare, watch this talk "The astonishing simplicity of everything" by Neil Turok. He explains all this so beautifully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x9lgX8GaE
Yes, perturbation methods are still taught and are still recognized as important. The first math course I took during my graduate degree (Intro analytic methods) covered it, for example.
Sorry this is off topic.

Is there a way into machine learning without doing going and going an Ms or PhD?

Im working my way through a coursera course on it but I'm not sure that is enough. All the positions I see are looking for academic experience or 5+ years doing it. Neither of which are doable for me.
Don't work at Amazon, but..

Social Security(Baltimore)

Sr. UI/UX Dev

Govt. contract at $75 an hour no benefits

In this area you should strive to move your Dev career towards govt. work; govt contracting being the best in terms of hourly pay.
> Many are referencing Patrick's blog (kalzumeus.com), which is a great way to bump up your dollars.

Which posts exactly? What is that blog known for? First time I see it referenced.
> According to the generalized uncertainty principle (a concept from speculative models of quantum gravity), the Planck length is, in principle, within a factor of 10, the shortest measurable length – and no theoretically known improvement in measurement instruments could change that.

At least according to Wikipedia, it seems it is indeed the smallest observable distance. Although it has never been proven and follows from the theoretical generalized uncertainty principle.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length#Theoretical_si...
> 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.

As a US citizen, I'm looking forward to the day the US government as a healthy respect for the dignity, privacy, and freedom of its citizens. That day is not today.
Yep, it does and installing shellcheck took about four seconds for me.
For TN you need a job offer. Specifically, when you try to enter the US on the TN status (it's not a visa technically), you'll be asked to show an offer letter from a US company that clearly states your intended role and salary.
Still in first year.

Position: SDE 1
Location: Seattle
Base: 110,000
Signing: 25k over two years
RSUs: 40k when stock was high in 300s
That seems like the least safe thing that could happen. If a drone hit the wing or windshield it would just break and fall to earth.
After kim kardashian, jennifer lopez sex tape leaked
I think you should try grouping random individuals as an experiment. They should each already have a project, and be capable of implementing it, but obviously they'll have to choose one when they get together.

My two most successful lab final projects in college were randoms. One of them won the annual award for best undergrad lab project, and the other won the in-course competition. These were late-course groupings, after as many as half of each class's starting participants had already dropped out, so it was already pretty selective.

Bad: We didn't know each other ahead of time. There were always weaker and stronger participants. In one 4-person team, one teammate just completely flaked, but the rest of us stepped up.

Good: We didn't have relationship baggage that could have come from partnering with friends on a very stressful project. I think it really helped us focus on the projects. We were thrilled with any success.

I used to think it was just good luck finding outstanding teammates. But perhaps it was because they had already independently made it through the hard first half of the course without having close friends also enrolled in the class. As a counter-datapoint, another course had a lottery-based grouping, with no pre-harrowing, and my teammates and I never gelled.
No. Any distance of up to 1,000 meters is "near miss" for uncontrolled (by tower) object around the passenger plane.
There is no "but I was far enough" bs.
Person than do not flight A LOT or do not pilot PASSENGER planes will never understand of the risks, stress and increasing field for error.
Pilot, when preparing for landing is suppose to be 99% concentrated on whats below him.
Frederick Hayek makes this argument in his famous book, The Road To Serfdom. Fascism isn't the capitalist response to socialism, it's the right-wing version of socialism. In Germany, it only came about because socialism had wiped out [classical] liberalism.

I don't think Trump is a murderous totalitarian (though I guess he could be), but fascism is actually an accurate label for his political ideas. He doesn't have a problem with state authority, he just thinks he could do it better, and would encourage nationalist social upheaval instead of SJW social upheaval. This is why the conservative movement hates him.
Anybody know what the protocol is in the event of a blown out windshield/windscreen?

Would the pilots be sucked out even at a low altitude such as 5k feet? Whether they are our aren't, how will the plane be landed?
Amazon.com seems to strongly encourage the companies it acquires to use aws. Apparently, woot.com is fixing to rewrite the website in Java or something just so they do not have to use Windows. Apparently, it makes sense to them.
What does 59/60 mean?
By federal law, an employer cannot discriminate or retaliate against employees for discussing compensation.
One of the good things that unions made happen in the past before they made themselves their own worst enemies.

Some companies treat this as "you can discuss internally but it's a company trade secret externally" which I don't know how the courts have actually treated it (if at all.)
A former Gawker editor on the Hulk Hogan verdict
> 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

"Lower bound you'd accept" != "Lower bound you SAY"
>nobody wins and Gawker closes

I'm pretty sure the Hulk Hogan team would consider that a victory. If they are able to bankrupt and shutter Gawker, they will be vindicated.
Kenneth Cain, a former UN human rights lawyer, wrote a piece in a similar vein: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/apr/03/theobserver1 It was written over a decade ago but some of the points mentioned still feel very familiar today.
Written like someone who has never worked support. Customers are idiots. It's unfortunate that communication from them is necessary.
I think the meaning of "If you know," in this case was more like, "If you take as an input."
"Strange, that kind of restriction must make it very difficult for you to find good talent. OK, how about you enter $999,999. It's an such an obvious placeholder that it won't fall through the cracks and it'll be easy to fix it later."

"Too open-ended? Then how about you just put in the lowest/highest amount YOU'D be willing to accept and we move from there."
Back to school because entrepreneurship leads to mastery of nothing
The editing on Audible books is amazing, so thank you!

If you don't mind my asking, when people want to do their own reading and are willing to get training, how are they trained?

I ask because (like every geek) I sometimes think about doing a podcast some day, plus I just want to be a better public speaker, and there seems to be a lack of options between free/cheap resources focused on basic skills (like Toastmasters) and intensive training for people who want to do voiceover for a living.
Position: SDE1 Tenure: <1 years Base Pay: $110k Signing Bonus: $20k Gender: M Native English Speaker: Yes

Beat my best bay area offer overall, so quite good with the low cost of living here. It does seem like you have to move companies every 2 years to keep climbing the salary ladder.
My experience is that people tend to hate the employer, not the employee.

Less, "You make more than me? You earn too much!" and more "You make more than me? I should be paid more!"
Dropbox's recent gamble and failure with Carousel has to be a big blow. Especially considering how successful Google Photos has been so far.

When they launched Carousel I had hopes that they'd really capture the market [1]. But nearly 2 years later I think Google ended up out Carouseling Dropbox [2].

[1] https://medium.com/@jmathai/thoughts-on-dropbox-carousel-e5a...

[2] https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin...
Trời nồm ảnh hưởng đến sức khỏe như thế nào?
Don't you think that the fact that webapps don't have interoperability, open interfaces, or datastructures, nor even a way to execute them under a debugger or own infrastructure or even read the files they create ...

Don't you think that for companies like Google, Microsoft, etc. this is a feature, not a bug ? Microsoft would lose too many customers if they went full-on webapps, but everyone else won't.

And customers like it ! Wtf ? But it makes sense : no install troubles, no running out of diskspace, no losing files (of course on occasion someone else loses your files. Like Amazon did a few months ago), ... But there's many false advantages, too. Webapps are most definitely not virus-proof (just ask any online banking security guy. Poor suckers), as a client side virus can change what's on the screen or just take over the browser window when you close it, or proxy the webapp, or ...

But if you sell someone a program that works and they install and use it, ... well that's it. You got paid but that's the end of it. You get someone to run their business on a webapp, in the next negotiation you have the power to kill the other company's access to their own financial data. Or designs, or ... You got them by the throat.
Funny. The ancester of UN (LN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations#General_weak...) failed with the same symptoms.

Created after WWI to prevent another WW it was disbanded after failing to prevent WWII

So, is anyone here implying we go for WWIII ?

Let me guess.... Milgram experiment is about the submission to authority.... The biggest problems right now is about the impoverishment of the workers and the "rich getting richer", but at the opposite of the time between WWI and WWII no one is proposing to prevent what generated WWII. (Mussolini and Hitler were elected notably to break the unions to help the companies stop losing values on paying these greedy workers diminishing the dividends)

So .... you really want people to go in the streets and ask that one hour worked should be payed, that tax are equally applied and demand that government do what the people ask?

You want the revolution in China, Europa, USA, Canada, Africa .... everywhere except Buthan maybe?

Seriously. This world is fine. With a 300$ phone in your pocket and the right app you can solve everything.
Near miss: "The drone flew 200 feet over the aircraft, the Federal Aviation Administration said."
4+ yrs, syseng II, ~107k salary and stock push my total comp to ~145k.
Charging him on 3 counts of explosive property damage when it is their own property....Deluded and malicious
Yes, the outcome is fair based on their actions. I'm not disputing that in the slightest. (I added the no-ad-hominem qualifier to avoid getting the comments on this submission derailed. Which was wishful thinking in retrospect.)
One of his contributions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem

And an application that builds on his work;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Resident_Matching_Pro...
I think you misunderstand, the mastery _is_ entrepreneurship. The ability to do whatever it takes to solve problems and be profitable, picking up skills along the way is just a means to an end.
Linux binaries will still run. There's a question of whether or not X has changed their API, but I doubt it given how old a lot of X applications are. So I guess that it should be possible with minimal tinkering.
This isn't flight control software. It's a blog post. There aren't any "mistakes" to prevent. The website is not going to crash into Mars.

Good writers write for their audience. His audience is accustomed to thinking in miles.
I think he means that any news/documentary source needs to provide an important qualifier like "believed-to-be".