skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When I talked to drivers, I came to the conclusion that the drivers are paid more than the passengers are charged"

That isn't true in general for an Uber driver. What you might have been seeing is that when Uber goes into a new city they guarantee a minimum amount of pay per hour for a driver during certain times if they are logged into the app accepting fares. It is only a temporary measure until they get established in a local market. Once they stop subsidizing earnings for drivers drop precipitously.
That is damn impressive on both pilot's accounts, thanks for the link
I certainly wouldn't argue against skepticism, even of claims supported by what you consider to be science. My point is that there is no other group of people that I'm aware of who are doing reserach on the economy that you do consider to be scientific.
Calling people out is not appropriate behavior on HN. Please stop.
That sounds unlikely. We don't yet know the structure of the human brain in full detail, nor know everything about how it grows and develops, so how can you possibly replicate it?
This is called Trade Adjustment Assistance, and AFAIK it's near criminally ineffective. I hope you can imagine a few reasons why that might be inevitable.

But hey, I'll pay for tens, maybe hundreds, of billions of dollars for largely ineffective programs if it's the price of substantially freer trade.
Wouldn't C# interface only with compiled il code and not directly with F# so any tail call optimizations in F# wouldn't depend on what you later do in C# compiler?
It would also be helpful to know the numbers by race. If eye color discrimination ever becomes a problem people are discriminated on, then that should also be included.
> I don't think people have a good conception of just how incredible life will be in a world economy where the average Chinese or Indian worker produces and earns as much as the average American worker today.

The problem is that's only going to happen because of American wages going down significantly; something Americans aren't going to think is so incredible. When the world lifestyle normalizes out eventually, the result will be the India's and China's lifestyle stepping it up a bit and the American lifestyle being reduced drastically. The whole planet cannot live the American lifestyle, we don't have those kind of resources.
You also want to make sure your heavy car falls off the leading edge of the bridge before you raise the support structure for that part. So you're sure you're not building unnecessary bridge parts.
This is much more a tech thing than it is a BigCo thing.

Finance is a funny duck; they historically allocate a huge percentage of revenue to variable employee compensation, but it is not generally issued as stock. Note that "finance" is a bit bigger than "banks" -- the Banking Associates or whatever they call them at Bank of America are not receiving either huge stock awards or huge bonuses.

Elsewhere in the economy, many companies have employee stock-ownership plans where they will facilitate employees purchasing the stock at market or at a slight discount to market (which is, effectively, compensation if the plan allows you to sell shares immediately), but rather few issue meaningful amounts of compensation in shares.
When your Swift code breaks the compiler
Question - why ltd and not self employed?
> You seem to be discussing climate scientists, actually.

I thought what he said applied to both climate scientists and economists. :-)

> I guess the NYT shouldn't take their consensus seriously either?

Exactly.
if/when mcdonalds gets dinged with amounts more suitable to a mom 'n pop shop, they give zero shits.
Just left a DARPA grant for an AI project. They've been one of the biggest AI funders for some time.
Ask HN: Going Corporate or Startup Direction in Europe?
I am about to graduate in Computer Science + Business in couple of months and I am still thinking which is the right way to go. Either corporate and get some experience for couple of years or try to make a startup even though I lack some experience?

What are your thoughts?
Have you considered mxroute.com?
Yeah that is low compared to the major tech hubs but sounds calibrated to the area you are living in.

It only takes one person to set a price provided they honestly believe in they value... and that person can be you.
I disagree. In absolute terms we have never been richer. And that's really what counts. Relative richness is "just jealousy" and not a real measure of wealth. Though people do of course compare themselves through relative means..
If it could be set up, I'd be happy to bet several thousand dollars that you're wrong.

It's probably not that hard to take what amounts to a proxy bet by investing in, say, US construction companies.
I don't agree with that I don't feel like I'm underpaid or overpaid, however, I know of great unjust between gender and ethnicity and all I want is equality for all.
>lacking legitimate control groups?

There are legitimate control groups for this particular issue. There are states that do not adopt some semblance of free trade. Like Venezuela, for instance.

Also, how do you know they didn't account for those things when forming their opinions?
I found it strange that Martin suggests that the gaps in TDD-style tests with regard to dealing with bad input should be filled by integration tests, which due to their complexity seem more likely to cover the happy path, rather than fuzz testing or quickcheck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck) style tests.
Well, it's a matter of knowing a few people most of the time; a few agents you can 'trust', and then a small pool of returning clients who'll ask you to do stuff once a year or so...

The networking is always important, even as an employee -- always brush up your network, it might save your ass next time there is a shakeup at the company you work for, and might also give you the occasion to slam the door and move on if necessary.

I think there is nothing worse in life than waking up realizing you have to go to work to a job you hate, with people who are beepheads for a product that is a failure and going to the wall.... while knowing you don't have the freedom to just go.
I worked on a project (customer recommendation stuff, not that interesting in and of itself) that used Stanford's CoreNLP.

Due to the project not being written in Java, we obviously needed a way to communicate with CoreNLP without the cost of calling java for every job.

The solution in the end was to fork an existing (Java) project that wraps CoreNLP and exposes it over HTTP.

The fork adds:

- support for JSON (the original was XML only)

- packages it for Debian

- defaults to "today" for relative dates

- adds a utility class 'RegexNERValidator' to allow testing/quoting of mapping files for CoreNLP's RegexNER, to allow checking a file can be used by RegexNER before the main CoreNLP process is restarted.

The result is at https://github.com/Koalephant/StanfordCoreNLPHTTPServer

Please note: I do not usually work in Java, so I'm well aware there are likely better ways to achieve some/many/all things this project does. If you feel inclined to improve it, send a PR (preferably with some indication of why its an improvement, if its not an obvious bug/feature improvement).
I'm an optimist in this area - people like Wait But Why and XKCD (eg - https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/) - show that most complex subjects can be explained in simple language that most people with an average education can understand. (An aside: I recently wrote an article about the use of D-Wave quantum computers on Wall Street and that experience gave me a sense of how tremendously difficult it can be to simple summarize an inherently technical topic. I estimate it took about five hours of study to be able to write a couple of accurate sentences I felt comfortable with.) Whether the general public has the inclination to take the time to understand this stuff is another question entirely!
It's like that line from the Grizzwalds movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eRtv-d8k6g

You can't force fun. You can't force invention or innovation.

Money is useful, of course, but it does not guarantee results. Look at Asimo, probably the single most expensive and impressive joke in humanoid robotics.
> CUDA is designed to help NVidia to sell more chips so I don't see it as a big risk.

Don't you see it as a risk to marry your project to a proprietary API of a company that actively and intentionally cripples their implementation of the standard for no other apparent reason but to hold back progress of OpenCL and essentially ensure vendor lock-in and create a disadvantageous situation for competitors relying on the aforementioned standards?
Yep, I'm going to change all my embedded controllers to be compatible with it and blog about it. Home Assistant also led me to OwnTracks and I love that too.
"Animation is not 'extremely' important and never has been or how would we have survived all these years?"

Animation definitely has an important role to play in interface design and it's been used in applications for decades. For example, this video snippet of Mac OS 7 (released in 1991 - over 25 years ago) shows the animation that occurs when a new finder window opens.

https://youtu.be/f_GBeKVijWQ?t=2m16s

Can you imagine minimizing and maximizing windows without some subtle effect to show the window shrinking or expanding? Without animation, the transition would feel clunky and abrupt.

Animation can be overdone of course (even for minimising a window). And that's the real problem with animation in UI design: when it's used purely for decorative puposes or if it slows you down, it quickly becomes irritating.

Previously, animations were subtle and focused on individual actions (and limited by what the hardware was capable of). Today, animations are smoother, faster but also longer (hence the term "Motion UI") and actions are conveyed with multiple, simultaneous animations. It means that sometimes the UI can feel too busy and overdone with movement.

But maybe it's also a generational thing? Taste and fashion change and perhaps users today aren't fazed or distracted by fast motion graphics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXgCzxEnw
"Then, several days later, he noticed Mr. Pavelski tweet a link to Medium, a popular blog for cathartic, personal essays. In a post titled, 'How to Lose Your Mind and Build a Treehouse,' Mr. Pavelski wrote about feeling burned out at work and wanting to rebuild a childhood treehouse as therapy. The first line read, 'I said that I was leaving town for a funeral, but I lied.'"

If employees feel that they need to make up a fictitious funeral to be able to justify a week's vacation (which they're probably entitled to by company policy), that suggests a work environment where management doesn't value work-life balance. No amount of "aggressively playful vibe" at work is a substitute for being able to take time off for yourself when you need it.
That's because trickle-down does work to some extent (which isn't to say it's not still a socially regressive economic idea). A larger share of the global economy going to someone in your town raises all boats.

But in towns where parent's trade-exported jobs predominated, there's only pain without the benefit. Hence the resentment of the policy.

Which is good. People getting pissed off about that and making political choices based on that fact should be happening due to the fact that we haven't allocated the increased wealth due to trade around fairly.

... Honestly, we're essentially running knowledge/tech trickle-down economic policies now. In that if you aren't one of that class, then hopefully some of that wealth might get down to you... eventually...
“Anonymized” data really isn’t—and here’s why not http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-live...

So if you answer this, don't answer honestly, because your employer can probably ID you with just salary and zip.
Oh, yes of course. I meant to say that I came to this conclusion for the super cheap pools which this question was about (Lyft had (has?) $5 rides in SF, Uber had something similar).
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I agree, we might do OK with less than the power of the brain. On the other hand Hinton also says that we need to invest more computation in order to achieve AI with common sense. So, it would seem, even if we don't need as much power as the brain has, our road ahead is still tied to the advancement of computation. It's not a matter of guessing the right learning algorithm.
if someone decides to sms bank account info to their spouse, is it then appropriate that their account info is published, because they have no expectation of privacy?
The bit about respecting everyone's religion reminded me of my old company. They would celebrate everyone's birthday with a cake. As we gained more employees, we ended up having a cake day nearly every day of the week.

Whether you like it or not, with more stories like this, many employers will eventually just avoid hiring millennials altogether. I honestly wouldn't want the hassle and there are plenty of people willing to follow the rules and actually work.

It's also pretty easy to get an idea of a person's work ethic on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites.

The environment described here sounds like a place that probably won't get much work done (and will not stay competitive). No discipline and workers that clearly have no respect for the bosses that hired them.

With a 'frat-like' work environment, how are they not getting sued out of existence?
Are you the guy that says stuff like "How hard can it be?" and "It shouldn't take that long" in meetings?
I'm saying it's not that hard to give away a desktop PC as a gift.
> In absolute terms we have never been richer.

Simply not true; there was a time in this country when a middle class lifestyle worked on one income leaving one parent free to raise kids. Those times are over, the middle class has been virtually destroyed and two income families are now the norm just to get by. That's not a relative comparison, that's an absolute decrease in lifestyle. That technology has progressed making computers cheap means diddly squat.
>Any candidate campaigning on trade sanctions or the like is a loser

Yeah, just look at Trump trail in the polls.
The Japanese government tried this exact same idea for AI in the 1980s:

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/fifth-generation-...

These 5 year targeted research (IMO an oxymoron) plans are always a waste of money, especially if they involve private for-profit companies. Take that money and spend it on 20 years of grants for basic computer science/robotics research in universities and then you will actually get new discoveries. South Korea's approach will only be effective in grifting tax dollars to the country's industrial conglomerates.
Just like the 1980s A.I. boom. Everyone jumps in.
In general you should follow Demeter's law and not expose types behind value types if you can avoid it.
I think that's a good attitude -- to a point. Wait until the right moment, okay, but don't give up your own dreams completely.

I think you should go ahead and tell your founders about your aspirations. They may very well be supportive; I've definitely read that many YC founders encourage their employees to do their own startups. Telling them will give you and them a chance to work out a plan for what you should get done before you start applying to YC or other accelerators in earnest.

And if they're not supportive, well, maybe they weren't so deserving of your consideration as you thought. I find this hard to imagine, though. It's not like you're quitting outright.
A 1000$ PC will probably be able to run games at 1080p at ~60 FPS while the console will run at 30 FPS. One must compare the same games, in which case one will find that the FPS and resolution in consoles is less. So then the comparison is between paying more for better resolution and/or FPS vs paying less for lower resolution and/or FPS.

Also, if you don't upgrade your console, you won't get to play newer games, but if you upgrade your PC every 3 years or so, you'll be able to play newer games, so that isn't a correct comparison. You can always play your old games on your PC forever, without needing to upgrade anything.
I think the situation may be different now that AI is actually working.
Personally, I trust practitioners of economics more than economists.
I disagree that today's products are "cheap trash". Consider the automobile, today's entry level Camry is faster, safer and more comfortable than a 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa. Air conditioning is in over 100 million homes [0], a significant increase from even the 1980s. TVs, telephones and appliances are the same story. The only reason that there is a perception of cheap things is that low cost items didn't exist in the past and were limited to the well off.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/reports/2009/air...
They do sometimes work, see the Manhattan project for proof.
That reminds me of what an engineer said about Quaero[0], a Franco-German attempt to create a competitor to Google search:

> Going head-to-head with Google with a project involving well-funded, energetic entrepreneurs would be foolish. Attempting the same with a multigovernment collaboration is beyond description.[1]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero

1: http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/loser-whats-the-la...
There are too many termites in the trade system.
I wonder if AI could turn into a race like the space race in the 60's.
Agreed. I'm just glad some of the knowledge and know-how was adsorbed by Google before BD ends up as part of one of the military behemoths.
Its actually much easier then it sounds, we had an undergrad write an entire windowing system on-top of implementing the rest of the OS for undergraduate operating systems at UW in a single quarter (2.5 months~).
I just came to post something similar. Typical "Enterprise Java", much like Jenkins.

Free but very buggy.
So a lot of trans and gender-questioning people, once they get onto the "wtf is gender anyway" question, realise that while their brain likes running on testosterone or estrogen, and they might like or dislike their body in different configurations... eventually they realise that they exist outside the gender binary - they feel that they're neither entirely on one extreme of a "spectrum" of gender, nor the other.

Some people wind up being genderqueer - others genderfluid - and yet more agender. All of these people don't fit in either "male" or "female" categories, and usually tend to fill out forms as either "other" or "I don't want to tell you". It's currently at the point in my country where some banks allow the title of Mx - a title for people who don't fit into the binary.

And of course other people just really don't want to tell people their gender if they don't have to.
I don't understand ELO and game ratings, but I find it funny that after about 10 matches, Google AlphaGo is now rated as 2nd strongest player in the world.
No, I'm sorry but you are wrong. Calling Venezuela a control for free trade in the United States is absurd. The number of variables that differ is insurmountable, from colonial history to Marxism. There are no controls in the study of economics like there are in pure sciences. That is why economic analysis is so inherently flawed.
Or the 1960s space race.
> Which really is a shame because philosophically I think I'd prefer the OpenBSD camp

The friendliness of the FreeBSD community is why I wouldn't even consider going over to OpenBSD.
> people are willing to pay a lot of money for those courses.

No, people are willing to have the government pay a lot of money for those courses, in the form of financial aid. People who actually have to pay for the courses themselves are far more likely to study something with actual practical value.
What hurts the bottom line is the company paying you the maximum that they would be willing to, rather than as minimum for which you'd still accept. Either way they come out ahead, they just come out more ahead in the latter case.
> I find it ironic that publications such as the NYT which often (rightfully IMO) put a lot of weight on the scientific consensus on issues such as climate change, are much more reactionary when it comes to issues such as free trade, relying more an personal antidotes and political rhetoric.

That's because economics is a social study, not a science.
This gets into more abstract and ideological concepts about citizenship and moral duty and so forth, but at the end of the day an American company still needs to pay taxes, and so the idea would be taxes on revenue from free trade would go to alleviating the state of unemployed workers. If the employers don't like it, they can reincorporate in Mexico.
> because things were seriously getting out of hand.

Whatever that means.
The arguments for free trade are based in logic and reason.

How could someone be better off with fewer choices as to where and from whom to trade with?

On an ethical standpoint, how could making goods more expensive for everyone in order to benefit a few justifiable?
AlphaGo is only two years old and is one of a handful of computer AI programs, but humans have had millions of years of evolution. So it's not fair to compare. Computers have evolved too, maybe even more dramatically than biological life, to lower and lower levels of power usage.

In Chess no top player can beat his/her cell phone. This milestone will be eventually achieved in Go too.
The root problem is not jobs moving to poorer countries it's that manual labor is losing its value and will continue to do so as technology advances. A huge problem with capitalism is that it has no solution for what to do with the masses once a days labor is no longer worth a days living expenses. We are heading in this direction and are already there in many parts of the world. Education is a good solution but at some point demands for higher-level skills outpace the capacity of the average human brain. I'm not a big advocate of government run welfare but pure capitalism leaves many the gutter.
Standing can also be bad for you, says scientist studying desk set-up
>Hitler was nothing at all like Allende; the fuhrer was elected but his rule wasn't a democracy and nobody in his right mind would call him democratic.

Allende's regime was not democratic. He was ruling by diktat and ignoring court rulings and acts of congress. That's textbook dictatorship.

>I strongly recommend you abandon the "let's say Pinochet wasn't so bad" strategy because it's beyond wrong and ridiculous. Just pick any other strategy, but not this one. Also, don't compare flawed but democratic governments to Hitler.

What's ridiculous is that you're either unwilling or unable to engage with the concept of a choice between evils. You keep dishonestly portraying my argument as a defense of Pinochet. It is no such thing. Indeed, I would have liked to see Pinochet executed for his crimes, including not handing power back to the democratic institutions after ejecting the dictator. He was still the better of these two evils.

>It's cool that you've shown your true colors and don't consider democracy to be "the be all and end all". Unfortunately, this undermines your criticism of Cuba and pretty much everything you say. You lose the right to criticize Cuba because it's a dictatorship or because it suppresses dissidents or because it doesn't respect the rule of law, because Pinochet did all of this and way worse, but you "prefer him".

Do you really think that democracy is the be all and end all? So you would have no problem with genocide as long as a majority approved of it? I'd love to see you try to defend this absurd stance.