skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still, there's a difference between not delivering to a place that's out in the boonies with a low population, and not delivering to a place that is literally completely surrounded by places you do deliver to.
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For those curious, they ended up going 18-22 in the second half of the season. This was still good enough for a second place record of 44-33 overall, out of four teams. In the playoffs against the first place San Rafael Pacifics, they came close but lost 4 games to 3.

http://papbl_wtt.bbstats.pointstreak.com/standings.html?leag...
Starting up a consultancy is much more complicated for people with immigration issues. It might not be impossible, but I don't think anyone I know on an H1B would be eager to try to navigate U.S. immigration law without the support and legal resources of a stable company.
> It'd be interesting if you could collaborate and bid for your salaries as a group and/or make sure everyone got at least a minimum. It would be a failure if everyone in the group got the same amount.

This might or might not be a failure. The central cast of Friends legendarily all pulled very high salaries because they formed an informal 6-person labor union, a key principle of which was that everyone got the same pay.
It's a funny world when Elon Musk will openly display "$90M to send 6.4mT of your shit into geosynchronous orbit"[0] and yet millions of businesses selling things that are far less expensive and far more fungible want you to "contact our sales team for a quote".

[0] http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities
They do alienate customers, and for a lot of companies this is on purpose. Try finding a price for one of Oracle's or IBM's enterprise products on their website - you won't - their products aren't designed for the casual browser, they are designed for directors who have budgets in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars range (where strangely the price ends up pretty similar to the budget). This is the type of person they want as a customer, and so all their marketing and sales process targets this type of person. It's not worth it for them to target the small fish, so they purposely push this type of customer away.

I do hate when small companies do it though. I'm looking for a new AC unit and so few dealers will just give me a price straight away. I just want to enter my credit card and have it delivered.
Yes, AI and art has been around for a while now, but I thought they were going to show Minecraft running with enhanced textures. I saw the still shot at the end of the article, and was curious. When I went further, and saw a class being offered, I was really excited only to find out it started October 15th 2015, and still has the sign-up listed. Then I tried to possibly join, but after seeing I would need to spend upwards of $388 per year to listen to a conference recording, I bowed out. I am not against paying, but as a hobbyist, I would venture $120 / year for access to conference and broadcast recordings, resources and forums. I can see sandboxes and courses being additional.
The AMS chip itself is probably FCC compliant, since the output power is so low (10-13dBM, IIRC). The problem arises when you add an external PA to get the full 30dBm output power permitted by the FCC; then you need to re-certify.
Not only that, the article doesn't even consider the question posed in the title.
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fully diluted eps?
I wonder if I will ever get to read Caro's LBJ books. They've been on my to-reads for ages.
Why USA has not flagged suspicious transactions?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interban...
The basics at WF's are reasonably priced. I want to hate stores, but the CEO did a good job lowering prices on certain items. 1/2 gallon milk is $2.29. Some bread is reasonable. Their store brand (nature someting) is a good deal. They got a $2.49 bottle of wine that's a lost leader.

Everything else is priced for Thurston Howell III.
Of course it is relevant. It is perfectly adequate to explain the demise of Netscape. Microsoft didn't make Netscape crash, Netscape did.

Ironically, I use Chrome now because IE crashes constantly when accessing github.com.

I presume you mean the "anti-competitive practice" of including it with Windows. Windows is full of utilities that come with it, ditto with every other operating system before or since. Why is a browser special? Why are other companies entitled to not have competition from Microsoft? What do you make of Linux coming bundled with huge swaths of quality free software?

> As you can't seem to tell the difference

You're quite right :-)
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Not necessarily true. If you're part of a team you really like, being able to guarantee that you can work with people you like at a new job is a pretty big upside. And if you're really good and are confident in your interviewing skills, then you can afford for the team interview to not work out, because you can probably find just as good a job somewhere else (or reapply as an individual).
The best manager I ever had was great at this. He was a former developer who understood the tech but knew how to speak the executives' language. You could convince him with a good tech story and then he'd turn around and sell to his bosses with a good business story.
According to my co workers it won't happen or be a problem.

Because!

The level of deny is really... Annoying..
well, something has REALLY gone wrong then. i am sorry
I believe the post you are talking about is "Mr. Fart's favorite color". https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177...
This is fucking amazing
And an incredibly lazy iteration of it, at that. Business Week was much better reading before Bloomberg bought it.
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With XP SP2 you're going to encounter a combination of sites disabling SSLv3 in the aftermath of POODLE and SHA-2 support not being available until SP3.

It is possible to run VB6 / VS6 on later versions of Windows.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/10501908/269773

http://nuke.vbcorner.net/Articles/VB60/VisualStudio6Installe...
Many large corporations have internal homebrew packages. You can learn company secrets by getting a list of packages that are being installed.
I am convinced. Ban trucks.
So is it like wikipedia then?
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Google cars are going no more than 25 mph and are lightweight. Different thing all together.

Here is the big thing - the driverless truck has to operate in a uncontrolled environment that can result in human death. Who is the responsible party? The trucking company? The software developer?

Additionally we are talking situations where a computer can't have any reaction interruptions for hours and hours. No reboots. No garbage collection pauses. No panics.

Can this be done? Maybe. But at what cost? It might be that the best role for the computer is helping a truck driver be safer -- not to replace the truck driver.
Agree with reposts killing the stream. I made this as a hacky solution to keep my using the service:

https://github.com/kyranb/SoundCloud-Feed-Cleaner

Many friends/other people online have all expressed the same frustration. I've reached out to Soundcloud but have had no response. If any SC engineers are lurking here, can you shed any info on why there's no built in toggle or navigation pane to only show original content and not reposts?
> All of this comes at cost to human workers - but it's inevitable.

I disagree. Specifically, you are assuming that the human workers will quietly accept their fate.
A different angle is player health. The Golden State Warriors are known for resting top players when they're in Denver because they found it can take a player up to a week to fully recover from the effects of playing at altitude.
I'm the same and it doesn't really make any sense. Ok food is physical and tasty, but you enjoy it for maybe 15 minutes vs a game that could provide 100s of hours of entertainment?
> "most people are shocked when I tell people that pilots are required to let the plane auto-land under very bad visibility conditions."

As a commercially-rated pilot I would be shocked, too - since few airport runways are certified for Cat III landings, and that's only under restricted wind speeds.

And even after autoland in fog, a pilot still taxis up to the gate.
Yes, the article correctly points out that Sichuan pepper is native to Sichuan and that the people have been using it as spice well before the arrival of the chili pepper:

>To counteract the soggy weather, the Sichuanese have historically spiked their diet with warming foods like garlic, ginger, and Sichuan pepper (a spice unrelated to the hot pepper that creates a numbing sensation on the tongue). When the chili pepper arrived, the Sichuanese plugged it seamlessly into their preexisting palate.
Yep. There's so much bullshit you hear about elasticity of demand and extracting the most amount of profit from your customers.

Yes, if I charge 3 times more, and lose less than two thirds of my customers, I'll make more profit in the short term.

But long term, network effects and the size of my customer base is very important for my ability to make money. Personal recommendations are a very important marketing factor, and having three times the number of customers is worth something even if you make the same profit.
>But the article states what it thinks the reason is.

Oh, does it? When you read this:

"...this person received horrific threats because she's good at her job and out teaching others how to use an up-and-coming programming technology."

it seems reasonable to you? Do people generally receive "horrific threats" because they're good at their jobs?

I don't see any point in speculating about what's actually going on here. It's pretty clear whatever it is isn't in the article, though.
And that's the difference between me and Hitler--I value all human Life.

Other than that reply, I'm going to ignore your Hitler comment.

How much intrinsic value do you place on the life of a mosquito? Would you die to save all mosquitoes? To save half of all mosquitoes? A million mosquitoes? What would you sacrifice to save the life of 1 mosquito?

>I just don't think it's ok to eliminate a species. Intentional extinction of any species is not ok with me, even if it is a mosquito.

Do you value humans more than mosquitoes?
Would you eliminate mosquitoes if it meant saving the human race? What if it meant saving half the human race? Saving a billion people? A few million a year?

How about viruses? Do you think we should reintroduce smallpox to the wild?

Maybe you don't consider viruses to be truly alive, so how about bacteria? Are you opposed to eliminating the bacteria that causes anthrax?

How about a more complex lifeform? What are your thoughts on eliminating malaria parasites?
Salted bombs have always been the weapon of choice for evil bastards who wanted extinction level events. Salted bombs are designed to maximize radioactive fallout and render an area uninhabitable for 20+ years by "salting the earth" so to speak.

Salted bombs were considered for use as a deterrent and were speculate to be the doomsday weapons that was central to the plot in Dr. Strangelove due to the potential to wipe out all terrestrial life on the planet bigger than a rabbit. Smaller devices were also considers as a method to permanently close an choke point to invading troops such as the Fulda gap. Russia "leaked" plans last year for a drone controlled submarine that carried a large salted (cobalt) bomb which would surface at a port and depopulate anything down wind.

I had a friend in college who's Dad worked who helped test or design nuclear weapons. I guess the minimum number of weapons required for an extinction level event had been calculated at some point. The weapons would need to be positioned correctly but eight salted weapons were the minimum needed for an extinction level event. My friend said her Dad was always proud that he knew the exact number.

We've had the capability to wipe humanity off the planet since the late 50's. Kind of warms your heart that we haven't done so.
Rockefeller might have done some good with his wealth, but he was neither obligated to do so, nor was it inevitable that he do so.
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Hey, thanks for that pointer! I'm an iOS developer who will start working with a bunch of C# developers, and this is just the thing I needed!
All I had to do to "enable" it was not have Flash installed. Their site has continued to work properly with no issue.
What, precisely, does Disney have a monopoly on? Last I checked there were at least several major movie studios, TV stations, and animation houses doing very well for themselves independently of the mouse.
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I love svn, but appreciate some git things as well. Particularly the way you can do a couple of commits before pushing; I don't think there's any equivalent in Subversion?
Yeah, there are positive and negative externalities. And both are examples of specific market failures.

And no. Plastic Bags cost $0 from the grocery store under normal circumstances. If it weren't for the bag tax of $0.05, I wouldn't be paying (or being discouraged) to use recyclable bags. Why would I buy a $1.00 reusable bag if all the plastic bags are free?

On the other hand, if plastic bags cost $0.05, then the reusable bag becomes useful within 20 trips to the grocery store (moreso, because in my experience, the reusable bags can hold two or three times as much. So maybe only in about 7 trips or so it makes up for it).

This reduced pollution and overall created a better situation for my municipality. Most importantly, the bag tax works as far as getting rid of plastic-bag pollution.

If you were actually familiar with the argument, you'd have made a sane counterargument by now. But instead, you've only claimed that this bag pollution example is "not a market failure" or "not an externality".

I do get that you want to play with definitions all day long, but I'm going to hammer this point until you come up with a cohesive argument.

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If you disagree, please tell me the free-market approach. And explain why the free-market approach failed to occur for 40+ years straight (ie: until the creation of the bag tax).

Hint: there's no free-market enterprise who is going to be able to make money while cleaning up polluted rivers. In particular, no one can "profit" from the cleanup of the The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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

Very few people are even discouraging the use of plastic bags and plastic water bottles that contribute to the pollution.

Come on man, the environment is the CLASSIC market failure. The easiest way to deal with it is to incur a minor tax on plastic goods that end up in the patch, to discourage its growth.
It would be awesome if they could interview as a team instead of individually.
> The 2600 had sprites, but they had limitations.

Saying that the 2600 had sprites is like saying "Roman galleys had engines..." -- definitely no fun at all :-)
It won't be a perfect fit for all types of trucking (say, delivery drivers), but many loads can certainly be transported place to place without a person needing to babysit it. Example: I imagine Amazon would love to be able to move loads around distro centers with automated trucking.
It's still amazing to me how huge iPods were about ~10 years ago, considering that they are basically museum pieces now. They gave Apple credibility with people outside of 90s Apple fan(atics). The ads with silhouettes of people dancing were Apple's best in my memory.
We needed this letter for a founder who didn't have a VISA before we're invited...

It's very simple and brief, one page, just says my co-founder was invited to an interview for funding, says when the interview will take place, says the request is urgent and explains what YC does and has the partner contact info for questions.

Hope you are not trying to forge one! They will be really quick to issue one if you need it (for legit reasons).
Fred Wilson just does not seem to be a fan of Apple in general. He rage-quit their shares entirely during Steve Jobs' illness and blogged about it. Some sample posts:

Fear and Loathing Is Not a Great Brand Image (2007) - http://avc.com/2007/11/fear-and-loathi/

Does Apple Have A Blind Spot About Flash? (2009) - http://avc.com/2009/02/does-apple-have-a-blind-spot-about-fl...

Selling Apple and Google Today - http://avc.com/2009/01/selling-apple-a/

Android and iOS (2013) - http://avc.com/2013/08/android-and-ios/
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> But the last mile is where driverless trucks are most useful. For long haul, you can just use trains.

And yet the highways are full of semi trailers...
Mickey Mouse.

Intellectual property is considered a monopoly assigned by the government.

My example aside, is it really so hard to believe that successful companies can influence regulation? Monopolies are exceptionally successful companies.
I meant in terms of their article promotion. They surely must spend on getting reach for their articles, particularly given how much they get shared.
? You linked to another Levine article, about Goldman.

Where's the Morgenson article?
It doesn't help that most cities outside Manhattan have parking requirements and often quite high ones, to the point where the parking for an office building takes up as much floor space as the offices themselves. And since elevators can't really transport cars very efficiently, your 100 story building will need to be surrounded by 10 10-story parking garages (or, more typically, you'll have a 30 story building with lots of surface parking around). If you factor in all the surface parking, you don't end up with very much density in the end.
Been a bit since I bought a gallon of milk, but I distinctly remember it being <$3. How is $2.29 for a half gallon a reasonable price?

But then again, I also balk at paying >$1 for a loaf of bread so maybe I'm just a cheapskate.
We are using docker for developing and testing services in the same environment they are put in production in: Debian.

My personal docker ID is chrisbuchholz.
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If you were able to dispense with the cab and any human interfaces/amenities, that would cut out a big chunk of weight and drag. It would look radically different but just think of all of the components on a truck that are only there for the driver. No need for a cab, AC system, heater, pedals, steering wheel and linkages, airbags, seats, pretty much all of the glass and windows, doors, etc. The added sensors, telemetry, and computational requirements necessary for an autonomous vehicle suddenly don't look so pricy compared to the savings of removing a huge chunk of the vehicle, nonstop operation or maintenance, no salary for the driver, lower insurance costs, lower fuel costs, and other assorted savings. Really it's looking like more and more of an inevitability in my opinion. Once the control problem is solved, I doubt it'll be more economical to continue putting a trucker behind the wheel.

Of course if you need to provide all of that to allow for someone to drive it manually around town a lot of those benefits are gone. Who knows, there will probably be some transitional period where all automated trucks are still equipped for manual control but I doubt it'll stay that way for long.
How does that blocking even work? How does nflx know I'm using a VPN?
Definitely can't remotely operate a 40 ton truck. Wireless network latency is a bit high even under ideal conditions, and latency spikes could easily cause disastrous accidents.
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And I'm sure someone was friends with a confident stagecoach driver before automobiles took over. Computers have taken over tons of ridiculous and complicated tasks already, it's silly to think your specific niche is the special case.
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Thanks for linking, but you're right I think that's only for extending a pi cam. I'm looking at gopro hdmi out going to pi csi port. should be possible - digital -digital imaging.
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This "Nirvana" of the driverless truck is focusing on long distance trucking.

There are a number of issues with this. The biggest one is that there is already a solution to the long distance safe movement of goods with minimal human involvement.

It is called a t-r-a-i-n.

Trucking companies already use long distance trains as alternatives to long distance truckers. It is far cheaper and less technologically risky to simply increase the amount of long distance freight that moves via railroad.

With driverless trucks, :

* each truck needs complex (expensive) electronics that need to be kept repaired and up to date
* regulatory hurdles
* liability issues

What happens when a computer has a memory corruption issue and shuts down halfway across Nevada?

For driverless trucks to be a real thing, the very real competition from the railroad industry needs to be addressed.

Based on past history, the railroad industry is going to be reminding all the regulators of how dangerous trucking (and now unmanned trucks) can be --- and how safe and proven the railroad alternative is.
Presumably most jobs do not pay very much then.
Sure - I'll give you my real world example. Apologies in advance for the long story.

I was "poached" into another company in a relatively large company in finance as a linux admin along with a PM coworker who I viewed as a good person and incredibly technically savvy. She was brought on by the AMRS CTO of the previous company. In a lot of ways, when we joined, we were viewed as a single unit with a single agenda by many of the other folk at the company. I tried steering of it as hard as I could, but it got pretty hectic for the entire company when the two "agendas" didn't work that well together. It might've just been the culture, but a few other things at the company gave me an off feeling that threw an enormous Machiavellian vibe all throughout, but that's a different story.

The guy who brought me in, though. He pulled me to the side after they decided that the dynamics were too much and switched me to a different team where my old PM coworker would act as my boss. The idea was nice and I had more freedom (they never took away my root access), but he completely confirmed that people can, and do, take advantage of "teams" to push an idea. He told me three things all paraphrased, but not inaccurate things:

"You're my fall boy. If something happens, I want you to fall in my place."

"I want you to outperform all of the other teams in the company." No pressure, right.

"You're here to push my agenda." I believe that his end goal with his 'agenda' was to become CTO, which.. thankfully.. didn't happen. Instead, [edit: very large company]'s head of tech stepped into that position.

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The reason this gets to me and how I can see that attitude being incredibly expansive if adapted, is because this is a well known name in finance right now with increasingly large names from other companies coming in. Nobody's really batted an eye at it. This also isn't the first time I've seen this kind of attitude before. It's incredibly systemic finance and I see the same attitudes in SV. It doesn't seem like a leap of faith to say that the same bleedingly charismatic and moralistically dead attitudes exist there, too.

There's a certain attitude and behavior from those who feel that they're at the top that distorts the way they act. Watching House of Cards felt all too familiar. It was all very creepy, and I don't see that behavior going away any time soon.

My 2c.