skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering this the other night will looking at the bar chart at the top of the "Democratic Primary Results" query result. Bernie's behind for sure but if you removed the superdelegate portion, which they've had in there from day one, it looks much less like a runaway lead.

Rather maddening as a Bernie supporter, but I guess that's the way the game gets played.
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I could see a trim package, but if autopilot hardware is only a few thousand dollars, it would behoove Mercedes to put it in all of its vehicles. At that point, any startup could build an interface to allow any Mercedes owner with the hardware to lease out their car through a P2P ridesharing platform.

Bye Uber.
That was my thought actually - but reversed: Why on earth would they need that amount of cars when self-driving cars are just around the corner?

If these are self-driving cars, it makes sense to me, otherwise it doesnt.
To be clear, here's the relevant text:

"Sue just called back and theblockwill staythroughMonday"

I don't get why this would be considered evil or even underhanded. It's normal operating procedure for various government organizations to ask media outlets to postpone publication due to time sensitive events.

For example, say the NY Times is going to publish a piece on civilian causalities in Afghanistan by CIA operatives on the ground. The DOD might come in an ask for a couple of days to prepare deployed forces that there might be some sort of retaliation. This saves lives and isn't censorship--the piece is still published--but is a necessary interplay between media and government.

In this case, where early reports say that violence and riots are being spurned on by the availability of a video online and you have local assets there, why is it wrong to block for a couple of days?

I would argue that this is exactly what should have happened in the state department given the amount of knowledge they knew at the time.

This isn't a partition issue. I would expect that every administration since WWII would have made similar requests to media organizations.
What I find interesting is that the post is getting upvotes (indicating that people enjoy it, I assume) but nobody's talking about it.

This seems like it could be a later revision of Amy and Sheldon's Relationship Agreement (from "Big Bang Theory").
If I understand correctly, it's possible that someone in the State Department asked Google to temporarily take down a YouTube video, which they believed was actively inciting murderous violence against our embassies.

I'm okay with that.

If the government had attacked a private individual's server, and taken it down, that's different in my mind. But YouTube does and should reserve the right to not host content, yes?

Perhaps the Terms of Service have changed (they probably have), but they currently include rules like:

Violent or graphic content - It's not okay to post violent or gory content that's primarily intended to be shocking, sensational, or disrespectful. If posting graphic content in a news or documentary context, please be mindful to provide enough information to help people understand what's going on in the video. Don't encourage others to commit specific acts of violence.

Hateful content - Our products are platforms for free expression. But we don't support content that promotes or condones violence against individuals or groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, nationality, veteran status, or sexual orientation/gender identity, or whose primary purpose is inciting hatred on the basis of these core characteristics. This can be a delicate balancing act, but if the primary purpose is to attack a protected group, the content crosses the line.

Perhaps in the heat of the moment (and with lives on the line), everyone made a bad decision. The video is actually currently available, so maybe they have changed their minds about some or all of this.

But yeah, I'm okay with this. I may change my mind when more evidence comes out.
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The deal is probably similar to the way an airline buys planes. E.g consider when Ryanair bought 200 737s for $22Bn [1] which is about the same in it's entire market cap.

An order like this is probably:

* For a delivery spread over 10+ years

* The vehicles will almost certainly be leased/finance

* Each vehicle will probably assume a 5+ year working life and have a residual of about perhaps 25% of list after 5 years given the likely mileage

* There will be a big initial discount given the size of the order

So assume each car, is $100k new, but given an order that size is perhaps a 40% discount. So that's a $60k sale. After 5 years, the car is perhaps worth 20k.

So the unit economics are that each car costs (before financing costs) 40k over 5 years, or $8k a year. This is a relatively low cost given the number of rides it can take and the cost of the driver who will be driving it.

On that basis is doesn't sound that expensive.

[1] http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/14908-ryanair-places-...
I have started to develop mobile applications with NativeScript and I am absolute in love with it. It has an Angular feel to it (I despise all things React). Before, I had only been doing backend work and I still have only taken care of the Web API portion of our NS app, but I hope to do some GUI soon. I am extremely impressed by NS.
Would shooting a powerful laser to heat the air in the path before launch help?
The deal could be structured like contracts for planes.

Uber placed an order for 10,000 vehicles with the option to purchase 90,000 more.
This is the (German) article this is based on:

http://m.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/autoindustrie/a-1082...

It says they plan to buy "a six digit number of cars", and they're only interested in self driving cars.
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It happened all over the country before he was born.

Should the children of murderers and other criminals feel guilt over the actions their parents have directly engaged in?
I have a feeling this is also really depending on the hardware. The demos were probably designed around the specific brand of watch and cellphone since they'd need to know exact distances between the microphones/speakers.

It's a really cool concept. I wish they'd open source what they have, or at least have plans to open source it. However if this came about via University funding, they'll probably claim IP on it. If it was a student's own fellowship, he/she/they might decide to create a start-up out of it.
Too much to ask for "Benghazi" to be spelled correctly? Also, this is overblown, doesn't mention Clinton, and DOES mention that this email was already voluntarily given to House Select Committee on Pretending That Benghazi is a Real Issue (aka Gowdy-Doody Time).
YT bans videos all the time. Why does this incident make Clinton or Google "evil"?
My comment probably seems dismissive because I'm taking issue with the singular premise of BI, as opposed to pontificating about its many possible effects. (And I guess that "lazy" - originally it was directly describing SV's popular centralized information architecture, but it really is applicable to all centralizing thinking)

Do a thought experiment - imagine claims on future BI were allowed to be sold. There's currently a lucrative trade in turning structured settlements into immediate lump-sum cash, and it's often looked down on as exploitive. What economic incentive keeps BI payments from being deannuitized in such fashion?

If your immediate thought is to pass a law prohibiting that, then you seem to agree that it goes against current economics. My fundamental point is to think about that economic gradient, what makes it so, and how that underlying problem can be reformed. Because otherwise BI just seems like adding fuel to the fire, regardless of laws to make the burning less efficient.
I think we are the opposite, I have found nothing nothing but frustration in the apple music. Shitty interface, short samples, bloated as a three day dead whale AND proprietary.

I however love bandcamp and soundcloud. They have changed the way I discover music. Not so much listen to music, that's still a download it and play it myself sort of thing.
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Funnily enough, vanilla is actually very dark. The bean itself is dark-brown-almost-black, and the extract is also a dark brown liquid. Vanilla ice cream is white because milk is white, and because it doesn't take a lot of vanilla to flavor it. If you have a good vanilla ice cream, you'll see little black specs in it; that's the vanilla.
> though that doesn't seem to be a big deal in practice

Gotta be careful there chief. In practice is usually refers to "your experience" (but might not be mine).

My experience is on the flip side: end-to-end tests are super slow due various reasons...
if OP has the same modem as I do they are internal. I use to have this on/off war with comcast as the SSID kept getting turned back on.

I finally just bought my own modem and was done with it.
> The fundamental flaw that prevents the Thinker and Doer model from living up to its recruiting hype is the assumption that there exists an army of soulless non-mediocre Doer engineers who eagerly implement the ideas and vision of data scientists.

There's a large, active community of engineers who specialize in data, whose job is to technologically enable data scientists the means to perform their analyses. I know these people exist because I'm one of them, and I work with them, and I've met them at meetups and conferences. I don't know why the author doesn't think these types of engineers exist. Not all of us who code want to work with the web.

> If you read the recruiting propaganda of data science and algorithm development departments in the valley, you might be convinced that the relationship between data scientists and engineers is highly collaborative, organic, and creative. Just like peas and carrots.

Almost every data team I've worked with is structured this way. I work daily with data scientists. I have a data scientist sitting to my right, two data scientists sitting across from me. Our teams are highly integrated and I can't imagine it working any other way. If the teams the author is familiar with don't operate in this manner, then I can see why he'd think the endeavor is hopeless.

I also disagree with the author's conclusion. The data scientist's job is to analyze and interpret data. They should not be spending any time thinking about how to get that data. They should not be concerned about where the data is coming from. The more time scientists have to spend thinking about ETL, the less time they have to do what their training is in, statistical analysis.
I know Uber calls their service "Black". But in hot climates white cars make more sense. Burn less resources keeping cool.
> Freeing people from work also "frees" them from the income stream that allows them to feel secure.

That's why I suggested taxing the companies and using it to supply these people with a basic income.
If it is arrogant to believe you are right and the rest of the world is wrong, then every genius or great leader in history is arrogant. Thankfully so, or we would never have made any progress whatsoever.

If you are right, then arrogance is a wonderful thing.
But doesn't test redundancy reduce the risk of a test isn't testing the thing you thought it was?

If the same situation is tested in 2 different ways, a bug in one test might cause the test to fail to correctly handle all case, but the second test might still catch.

Maybe auto-generation of test cases would be a better technology?
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The one time I posted an amzn affiliate link in a comment I got something like $3.

I'm not sure if we should feel betrayed by this sort of behavior, if you're going to post a link to a book anyway.
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A chat like Miaou wouldn't really make sense with a lesser protocol. People come to Miaou to be sure no ping is ever lost, that the guy in front of them can directly see the game in progress, that the external proven identities are displayed before entry in private rooms (Miaou is mostly used today to coordinate game teams), that other users correctly see the tabular data being shared (or that they can edit in place the whiteboard), etc. The common set of enhancement is what makes Miaou, not something that can be progressive.
>risk and ambiguity necessary to be an entrepreneur.

UBI removes the risk.

>We're really talking about finding ways to give structure and meaning to those folks, the large middle class in America.

Firstly I disagree that people need baby sitting. If they do then that is a huge cultural problem. The beautiful thing about UBI though is that your statement won't matter because the slightly more industrious will round up the bored and make projects and people will partake because it gives them meaning. I think you are underestimating the power of the crowd.
How does your agenda view differ from the default?
Awesome. Now I just have to convince them that all my home HW is for open-source and my time is very valuable.
> April 18, Capt. Brian Udell, an F-15E fighter pilot from Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, will acknowledge the second anniversary of that fateful day. There will be no celebration, because he lost a friend and coworker - weapons systems officer Capt. Dennis White. Yet on that bitter-sweet night, Udell miraculously survived one of the fastest known ejections in history at more than 780 mph.

http://www.ejectionsite.com/insaddle/insaddle.htm
Helpful context, since Jane Street may be an unfamiliar company to HN users: Jane Street is known as one of the companies with the most technically difficult interview processes, so that gives then a unique perspective regarding tech hiring.
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"But this year it seems like the seal is broken, and we've seen major companies delivering internship and full-time offers with 2 week (and less) hard deadlines. Other companies now routinely deliver expiring bonus offers for signing early. Many of these offers circumvent or outright break the guidelines set down by schools, and if past matching markets are a model for this one, next year will come with even earlier offers and worse conditions."

Will you name the companies, and give further specifics? Otherwise it's hard to tell what really has changed.

I'd say this is not new, nor unique to tech. Finance, consulting et. al have been dealing with this for years - both with new grad offers, and with banking/consulting to PE/HF offers (often analysts have their next job within 6mo of starting their first job).
I wonder if anyone at Google would resign over something like this, or if everyone has already rationalized it away and now just keep their head down for the next paycheck.

Some people definitely do go in with very strong principles, but those seem to dilute quickly.
This is less ham-handed than TBBT.

Personally, I'm curious whether these sorts of things might actually take off. It's satire now, but so were hamburger headphones... until they became an actual fad product.
Title should have been "Engineers Shouldn't only write ETL." I agree with the author's statement of the problem, but not with the proposed solution. Succinctly, I think the problem is compartmentalization and specialization. These are qualities that are sometimes promoted by management so that it is easier to maintain control over the organization and to hire people who won't require much training to do their jobs. Unfortunately, compartmentalization and specialization both lead to unhappiness in the workers, and are net negative for production. I believe the solution is fostering a wholistic approach among the specialists. Data scientists (who should be statisticians or machine learning experts) should interact regularly with software development engineers that have to productionize their research and they should also both interact regularly with systems and database administrators who make it all work in production. Rather than being separate teams working on parts of the same goal, they should all be one team. By working together through the poroblems faced in each area, they can learn more about each other's areas of expertise and will create a better solution faster. This isn't true just for data science, but throughout technology, where operational software developers should work together with product development, marketing, testing and operations to break down the divide and get all team members working towards the same goal.
In order to develop those skills, most of them had to be at least born to families that weren't poor. The number of true 'rags to riches' stories is small.
I'm with you. I hear people reflexively dissing ETL (and other aspects of front-line data engineering) all the time, but I've come to suspect they don't really know these systems are actually about.
That's kind of a waste of time if you're only going to run it once and verification with a REPL or otherwise by hand is easy enough.
"Miaou" is the french word for "Meow", and "chat" in french means "cat".

(Not a big surprise, the developer is from Lyon, France)
Yeah, I think you are missing _something_ ;)
I have noticed before that most of the home automation sw available on the web is in python. I wonder if there is a reason.
These look great, thanks.
A protocol is a contract for interpretations of messages. "Backticks should be formatted as code in clients when they receive them in text messages" is part of the 'protocol' of Slack, even if it's implicit.

(More specifically, you can think of each message body as having a content-type, probably something like "text/x-vnd.com.slack-slackrichtext".)
Southern too. There are tons of Merc taxis in Greece. Beemers or Audis not so much.
Just changing the colors and the header image would go a long way.
Oddly, the article fails to mention the UK government attempt to railroad into prison the directors of the UK company asked to make the pipe components, by covering up the fact they had approved the export using 'public interest immunity' certificates to hide evidence from the courts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms-to-Iraq
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Retro-fitting. They buy plain old cars and then slap their sensor suite on top.
It Daimler can deliver cars that are able to handle Uber rides without a driver, including driving empty to location (considering Uber would send a destination location) then 100k vehicle does not sound like a lot.
That feels like a big if, though.

Having a deal in stock rather than cash also makes sense: it is unlikely that many people would buy cars from Daimler or anyone if Uber charges at cost (gas + maintenance).
Method accessibility is enforced statically, but it's still a message send, so you can override the static checks in a number of ways to send the message anyway.
We are already sharing the value created by some people to other people with no more justification other than the other people being human too, and living in the same society as the first.

We say that noone should starve, and we redistribute wealth to food stamps.

We say that noone should die of preventable disease or injury, so we redistribute wealth to medicare and medicaid an emergency care.

We say that everyone should have an education, so we redistribute wealth to provide free public schools.

I'm not saying this country is doing a very good job of the above, and I'm not saying there's no opposition even to these measures, but we commonly accept this redistribution of wealth with no regard given to the value-adding abilities of the people receiving it.

So UBI is not some brand new thing we have to justify, it's more of the same, and the justification is the same.
I think the tests should adapt to the design, not the design to the tests..
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>I don't get why this would be considered evil or even underhanded. It's normal operating procedure for various government organizations to ask media outlets to postpone publication due to time sensitive events.

It's a form of censorship, so it's both evil and underhanded. The government does this kind of stuff all the time, and it's really just a tactic to prevent ugly things from coming out whatsoever, though they claim it's temporary. Certain reports have been "requested" to be delayed for well over a year. This is standard procedure, but it's illiberal and undemocratic because it presumes the public doesn't deserve to know what is going on during the time period in which it is possible to change course. In criminal court, we call this tactic "distancing", because it allows tempers to cool off due to the temporal distance between the offense and the trial.

From your perspective, it's the US government looking out for itself-- but your perspective is not the only one. Consider that people were willing to riot over this information that was blocked. Do you think that they consider the blocking to be a beneficent act in order to save lives? No, they view it as an empire protecting itself by covering up things it doesn't want seen.
Why are people so concerned with what is built-in vs contributed? On the Atom repo people continually post that an add-on package should be built-in even though it takes seconds to install and doesn't even require a reload.
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The draft system was replaced by the SSA it's slightly different now basically they can only draft registered individuals but they also compel individuals to register with the SSA.

As far as I know there is not requirement for an act of congress to actually draft people under the SSA and for anything else a presidential order is sufficient.
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I've been reading up on D lately and it seems interesting to me. Here is a good overview: https://dlang.org/overview.html. While I haven't used it in anything substantial, it seems to fix a lot of the problems people have with C/C++ while still retaining their good features (close to the hardware, easy to understand how it will be compiled, imperative, etc.). It appears like D programs can also be made type and memory safe fairly easily (albeit by restricting your use of the language somewhat). So it seems that D fits into that sweet spot that Rust and Go are trying to target, but I don't hear about it being used much. Do any of you have experience with it and if so what are your thoughts?
Getting the raw data into BigQuery or another tool is an ETL problem in itself. You have unstructured log files, you have external APIs such as SalesForce, you have various relational databases, etc etc. Someone has to come in and transform this data into a unified format that can be inserted into BigQuery.
I suspect that just a simple search for the class name would be sufficient for 99% of existing cases.
Not my experience either. And in 2016, email-as-username should be default and work flawlessly out of the box.
Sure, but that's a strawman solution when there are plenty of other possibilities to consider, such as building more housing.
> in these hostile markets

"markets where regulations are enforced"