skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I have not found a way to do url pasting in a way that looks clean and simple. It's the main thing keeping me from building big projects with Elm.
Yes. Just about everybody at the elite schools (e.g., Harvard) gets a significant amount of financial aid.
Sorry, redid my math. Even if you assume 5.4k/person from oil with zero costs there is a 30k/person per year difference in nominal GDP. And a much larger gap in PPP.
FWIW, here's a fun solicitation from pg from nearly 10 years ago: "Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

There are more than 1,700 comments (which would be a ton of comments on any thread today)...so I only skimmed through, but I think I saw way more suggestions that sound good that, for whatever reason, aren't implemented today.
> Don't boxing refs stop the fight when they think the fighter can't continue (e.g. can't answer/focus)? I'm pretty sure I've seen that.

No. In Boxing, the ref has a mandatory 8 count.
I too program professionally (shock of shocks), and I also enjoyed solving the problem. However, I'm torn on how informative this question would be in an interview setting.

On the one hand, I kind of abhor gimmicky interview questions. On the other, it could provide some valuable insight into the candidate's thought process & reasoning. Also, I honestly feel like any competent engineer should be able to narrow the solution down to 3 possible dates with some thought and effort - even while in the interview hotseat.

It would be unfair to deny someone a position solely on the basis of a logic / word puzzle, but if someone really is incapable (with some light guidance) of tackling at least part of 'cheryl's birthday' then I would want to dig a little deeper to figure out what's going on.
OK, at exactly 501 you get a little down arrow (doesn't appear at 500).

dang already confirmed it below, but at least I got to feel like a camgirl for 5 minutes.

Thanks for playing!
This looks to be a variant of the point about applying infinities to human lives in public policy.

Basically, a tiny non-zero chance of death still means a finite numbers of lives killed by the policy. And any police encounter has some tiny chance of escalating to lethal force by either side.

But the obvious implication, to me, is "hey, everything has a cost in lives, that shouldn't be a dealbreaker". However, the author uses it in a way that implies that it's some useful heuristic for which laws are good, rather than a trivial point about the ever-present risk of death.

(I expected it to be a point about how, if you want to enforce any law, you have to apply increasing escalation against those who resist it. Refusal to comply -> arrest; resistance of arrest -> force; resistance of force -> death)
Quoting the article, quoting Carter:

Libertarians argue that we have far too many laws,
and the Garner case offers evidence that they’re right.

And in the same paragraph:

But fewer laws would mean fewer opportunities for
official violence to get out of hand.
Autplaying videos infuriate me. I've given up after trying to configure chrome to stop autoplaying videos. Now I just turn off javascript and only enable it for the sites I need javascript.
Since collapse persists on page loads, hopefully it is better now. Then again, we can un-vote now, so I think we're back to having the behavioral advantages and disadvantages being close enough that it's a toss-up what any particular user thinks is more of a problem.
SO, a car breathalyzer that allowed only automatic driving if too high, would definitely be an improvement we could all get on board with?
These self-driving cars are a good start though. It makes sense - to me at least - that more self-driving cars on the road means fewer accidents. Imagine if nearly every vehicle was autonomous and wirelessly networked with other nearby vehicles. We'd see little to no accidents, assuming everything is secure and working correctly.
If you're alluding to the Philando Castile shooting, he wasn't pulled over because of his tail lights, which were actually working[1]. Rather, the police officer thought that Castile looked like a robbery suspect[2] and the tail light thing was just a pretext.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3681591/That-taillig...

[2] http://www.kare11.com/news/police-scanner-audio-1/267042738
Whew, I'm pretty sure I only want to be able to do 205 MPH if I'm in the sky! ;)
The name reminds me of the Solitaire cipher from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, which is calculated using a deck of playing cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher)
> Facebook is obviously not a "knowing collaborator" with a terrorist organization.

I don't doubt that's what the evidence would show at trial; OTOH, the legal system quite deliberately is designed not to operate based on prejudgements about what evidence will end up showing.

> They have hundreds of millions of users, and some of those users are evil. Policing all of them on an individual basis is impossible.

The plaintiffs' claim is that, based on Facebooks own statements in its Data Usage Policy and its own descriptions of how it selectively promotes content, that it does, in effect, actively police its users, and that the promotion of terrorist content is the result of that active policing.

I'm inclined to think that this position is, in fact, incorrect, but I would be less quick to dismiss the complaint as failing to make a colorable legal claim.

> The spirit of this is to try to use a hastily written anti-terrorism bill to do a run-around on 230 for profit, and it's not going to work.

Perhaps, perhaps the intent of this is to use the Anti-Terrorism Act as a lever to get Facebook to change its business practices to reduce the utility of the platform as a vehicle for terrorists.

> Even if the lawsuit succeeds, congress will quickly fix the loophole in a mostly unanimous vote. The alternative would be a horrible tech recession as essentially all social networks and ISPs shut down due to unmaintainable legal risk.

I don't think there is near-unanimity in the US Congress that "social networks and ISPs" (even if both were at risk; the particular style of charge here is applicable to the former but not really the latter) are a more favored group than "Israeli victims of Islamist terror groups".
Same lol.

1314, 1313, 1311, 1314....
Because a road is a safety intensive commons and establishing basic minimum safety standards works.

As was said ad infinitum when I was learning to drive - it's a privilege and not a right.
For reasons of safety?!
Feature request: a "fold all/none/random" button (top level, a single "link" cycling through would be fine.)

Rationale and further spec: "ain't+anyone+got+time+for" reading 400+ comments, not if they're doing anything else. Setting a profile value for the N comments I'm willing to look at in a first pass would help, and a random sampling would probably be fine.

Snag: desired behavior is folding off a single comment (i.e. hiding its text, leaving the id and time), not all those beneath, as current hierarchical folding obviously works.
Yes, to their customers. With Getaround you need to go to a gas station and refill the car to a specified level (typically full) every trip, no exceptions ever, even if you only used it to move your groceries 10 blocks. OTOH, the hourly price is lower.

With Zipcar you must return the tank at least 1/3rd (maybe it's 1/4th) full, but there is a gas card in the visor. They're apparently using some kind of fleet management system, because the gas pump itself prompts you for the odometer value and your "driver ID" number (on your Zipcard) before fueling. Same interface at competing gas stations, so it's apparently a standard thing.

It's a bit unpleasant because you can't cut the reservation time too close to your needs - need to allow extra time to go to a gas station and back.
No, I think this is them wanting to ensure android is the preferred local platform. That anything else is a second alternative. Now, of course, that doesn't mean some devs will not jump and dev for other markets --but remember, like China, this market has huge _yuge_ potential.
> Can't share code between client and server

The question was about using haskell on the back end. Also, previous attempts at sharing client and server code in other langs are sophmoric at best. In reality, there will always be a boundary that requires differences in front end and back end code.

> Haskell is not Elm

Doesn't answer the question, circular reasoning at best.
I wanted to upvote that comment and so I did!

Then later I changed my mind because really, it deserved a downvote.

Anger passed and facing the consequences of my actions I was nothing but a broken man. I brought back equilibrium and removed that downvote.

This is when I realized that the timing was perfect for a self-centered comment.
List of IMF ranked countries by GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IMF_ranked_countries_b... Has different numbers.

Though, several other places don't seem to agree with those numbers. So, they may be off.
Just takes a bit of practice! Anyone can do it.

http://www.speedcubing.com/

I, personally, love this book and have it on my nightstand https://www.amazon.com/Speedsolving-Easy---Follow-Step---Ste...
Selling Side Effects: Big Pharma's Marketing Machine
> Will someone sue the Internet next?

No, because the Internet isn't a juridical person that can be the target of a lawsuit.
Doesn't it seem like kind of a dick move to give no equity to any of the 75 employees?
It was just pure coincidence.
That's a great site, I love the design and utility.

I have a question: Where do the photos actually come from? Do you yourself run around taking pictures of people's offices? Or do you work with the designers to be featured on the site? How did you initially source your images, get the copyright to show them, in order to entice the designers to work with you?
By and large, most of Gary's fights were outside the UFC, and his fights in the UFC were in the early days, where there were a lot fewer rules.

In Pride, Soccer kicks to a opponents head were allowed, and Gary sought to fight in various promotions well passed his prime.

If you look at other MMA fighters of his era that have displayed signs of CTE, they spent a considerable amount of fights outside the UFC.
Good job launching (and good on you for finding a good chance to drop the link!). :)

I don't have much use for it now, but I have worked in marketing heavy organizations in the past where I would have loved to have something like this.

If I could give you some advice though, it would be to really carefully figure out who you are selling this to and then target your website to that person. Right now, it seems to be mostly targeted to me. That's great, but to be honest, it's pretty trivial for me to set up my own database. And, when I set up my own, I don't have to worry about things like your backup policy, your privacy policy, where you and your servers are located, etc.

I think that you'd have more luck if you targeted it to marketing types. You get close to that in your blog (posting an HTML form with Captcha), but I'd love to see your conversions if you targeted the whole thing to non-technical marketers who work in technical fields.
Literature in Castro’s Cuba
The problem isn't just on the sell-side of outsourcing. Presumably the uninformed, inexperienced, not-design-savvy, people buying cheap outsourcing are happy with the results or they wouldn't have accepted the sludge they got. The buy side needs help with design, understanding capabilities, code quality, product management fundamentals, etc.
Same here. I recall a "give pokemon go access to your google contacts" dialog (or similar), which I denied.
With Elm you don't have to import 80 things and active 10 language extension to get anything done. :p
Rollocam Works on a Cool Affordable Motorized Camera Platform
Seriously. Is it really that painful to stop for gas like twice a month?

Not to mention many people like to stop for gas for an excuse to grab a snack or drink.
Of course it will affect price, I never said that it wouldn't. The argument is that it doesn't have an effect large enough to negate the extra income.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Account Hacked
I think I got the gist of OP's comment... Computer programmers make higher than the average salary. If you're barely making ends meet as a programmer your significant other is probably NOT making ends meet. Living together and sharing expenses saves some money but you'll probably be just about back where you started once you're married and co-habitating with your spouse.

Then comes kids...
Oracle’s rising open source problem
Extra inefficient for two trains going in the same direction... gotta wait for the next train in the opposite direction
Millennials will work forever–but they may be happier for it
What about one of the major cellphone carriers when they discover some terrorists use them? As a business how do you keep "terrorists" from using your service? I doubt even FB has the capabilities to monitor every single user, same with the carriers. You can't profile them and refuse them service, by law, so what's there to do, except just operate as the $1B as an "operating cost?"
Just curious, how many years did they want indemnification for? I cannot imagine it being an indefinite arrangement...
Ugh. Yes. I especially hate how online courses feel they have to put everything in as a video without the (cheaper, pre-existing) text/pdf version.

At most, they'll have slides that lack critical content from the lecture.
Oh yeah, for sure, there are plenty of other ways a nefarious app could scrape a user's credentials during OAuth on iOS.

If UIWebView didn't allow the app access to the DOM then it wouldn't be possible this way. But,of course, the user has no way to know how the UI is implemented.
I have to wonder why a relation algebra language isn't actually algebraic. What about projections in the form of something like c := a x b etc? Nooo, they had to make it look like COBOL.
Cops operate with the logic of predators[1]. If something "looks fishy" they figure it is fishy.

Most of the problems with police/citizen interaction have to do with citizens not behaving in a manner that supports the severe information asymmetries of those encounters.

[1] I don't mean they ARE predators, but that the information processing they use looks like what predators use - a detail out of place will trigger interest in further evaluation.
>>Paying a startup $15/mo to reclaim even 40 mins a month of my personal time is a no brainer.

Just asking, how do you wish to spend those 40 mins you are likely to save per month? Which you will likely get in installments of 20 minutes per 15 days(avg 1 minute/day).
I'd go with a spin coating, easiest to create. However coming up with a material that could be easily spin coated that would be a bit harder. There is a lot of math involved [1] :-). There was an excellent "Secret Life of Machines"[2] video about tape which made magnetic tape by sprinkling ferrous oxide (rust) over "sticky tape" (which in the US is often called 'Scotch Tape' as that is the dominant brand).

[1] http://ecee.colorado.edu/~mcleod/teaching/EandM3400/Lab%20Bo...

[2] http://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/secret_life_of_the_video...
That is no excuse for a death sentence. Many cyclists do this in the Netherlands too and in the period that I have lived there, I haven't seen them treated that way on the roads.
So, instead of "don't support laws you aren't willing to kill to have enforced", perhaps, "don't support militarized police" would be the better recommendation.

Since, after all, that's the root of the problem.
Go to a poor country. See how people go about the days. It's as if there is a "place" and people "know" their place.

If you don't believe in having a stationary "place" you seek more, you tell your progeny there is more, if only they try. Go, don't be like your father or mother, go make something of yourself.
>Individuals don't care about their ability to change their percentile, they care about their ability to change their total income. I think most individuals would prefer a "non-mobile" $60k increase in income versus a "mobile" $40k increase in income. You can't spend percentiles.

I highly dispute this. Take it as a completely different world view but I think if people were given a choice:

1 >a nominal income of $100k for you and a nominal income of $200k for all your neighbours

2 >a nominal income of $75k for you and a nominal income of $60k for all your neighbours

A lot of people would opt for choice 2. I myself am not sure whether I'd go for 1 or 2.
We don't have an API yet that something like automatic can report your gas gauge to. Though it's something we're thinking about.

However, the way that the service works now, it wouldn't save you anything in the average case. We come by and fill your car up regularly (usually once or twice a week) without you having to "order" when you need it. Unless you take a long trip and need a fill-up off-cycle, you shouldn't need to ever use the app to call for gas once you are setup.
I'm more worried about my daughter getting hit by a car (because she walks in front of it, or because the driver is playing) than I am about my google account being hijacked!
Thank you for this. It may be too basic for most of the HN crowd but for me it is a good read for my further development.
> For that reason, it makes no sense to hold GMO food to even higher standards than non-GMO food

Normal food has the advantage that we already know it has no disastrous ecological consequences, by virtue of the fact that is has coexisted in its environmental niche for a while. The more food is altered, the less sure we become about that.

As Taleb has pointed out, our standards for danger should match the risk/reward involved. (E.g., we're ok with fast-tracking unproven cancer treatments because the alternative is death. Likewise, we have high standards for a common cold treatment because the alternative is inconvenience.) Unfortunately, we have no backup plan for the planet, so we must be extra careful with what we introduce to it.

To me, saying we don't need more stringent standards for GMOs is like saying we can definitely burn $X billion more oil reserves and not worry about global warming.
original source https://developers.google.com/training/programs/india/
America as 'beacon of progress' for globalization: Microsoft
The new features notification bar at the top was really nice. Maybe it could be used again in the future when the topbar goes black in memoriam?
"Scott is[...] an excellent programmer with a meticulous eye for detail, and a thoroughly decent human being"

Worked with Scott, can confirm he is both a great programmer, and great human being.
> Or why don't we ship the whole plant? :)

Ship the whole plant...and then send it back to grow more tomatoes? I'm not sure about production-scale tomato farming, but in my garden, the same tomato plant will continue to grow fruit, and you don't want to uproot it just for the fruit currently on it.
>"Individuals don't care about their ability to change their percentile, they care about their ability to change their total income"

This is completely wrong. People care intensely about their pecking order (looks, money, accolades, etc). Beyond this, there are purely functional reasons to care about your relative income. Limited resources lead to competition.

Nobody cares if their GPA is higher than their parent's was. They care if it's higher than their peers who are trying to get into the same universities. Ditto for housing prices. What matters isn't the dollar value of the property you can afford, only whether or not you can afford to be in a top school district. Politicians don't win by being able to spend more on campaigns than politicians of the previous generation either. They care if they can spend enough to win against their current opponents.

In human society, the relative comparison dwarfs the absolute.
Show HN: Deeplearning4j 4.0: Cudnn Wrapper, Multi-GPUs, Spark
One of the core ways to model this is to have a process running the cart itself and another with the data. If you wish for that cart data to be persistent, used DETS (writes to disk) just in case.
Fixing outsourced projects is almost bad enough to induce PTSD.

Hey, at least I got my job because my employer had been bitten too many times trying to go the "cheap" route.
Stocking racing gas would be awesome. (Sunoco SS100 is street legal in California, too.)
In my country (Belgium) no one would make that association. As far as I know, there has been one policr officer killed violently on duty in the past decade, and that was in a confrontation with organized crime.

There's something weird with the culture of violence in the US.
Well, as someone whose life in .fi hasn't been so terribly great so far, I find the hype a bit irritating. Everything is so amazing, except for those for whom it isn't. Opportunities certainly aren't equal. "The Nordic approach of basic universal social policies—that allow everyone to fulfill their potential, allow everyone to work, allow true equality of opportunity" is just bull.

And just like a lot of other European countries now, we have a bad unemployment problem (and the statistics lie; they coerce people into various programmes that result in them not showing up as unemployed, even though they don't have an actual job). There are signs that suggest the social "safety web" won't hold up; government budget is really tight and cuts are made here and there. Benefits are not increased as cost of living gets higher. I don't know what the statistics say, but there are lots of alcoholics. And again not sure what the statistics say today, but afaik .fi has ranked pretty poorly with regard to cases of depression and suicide. Maybe all is not so well?

And then there's this touchy wtf-worthy subject of the generation that boomed after war retiring. Supposedly there aren't enough of us to fill their positions so we need immigrants. Meanwhile, as I said, unemployment is pretty sickening.
I'm not even sure what you're saying.
Isn't it? You don't have secret ballot in your country's elections?
Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Your observations actually confirm that it is not the best idea to do everything yourself. In fact, I pivoted three times during the last several years:

1. Windows (WPF) application targeting approximately the same users as Excel, PowerBI, Tableau, Qlikview but providing self-service data wrangling functionatliy (rather than visual analytics). Problem: after finishing 90% of work I understood that I have to do the next 90% - UI development ate all my time.

2. Java framework for complex analytical data transformations targeted as the same users and tasks as, for example, Apache Spark, but providing higher performance at run time and development time (in-memory column-oriented approach). Problem: again, difficulty to attract attention which is necessary to get critical mass of users. Probably the market of classical big data technologies is too tough nowdays.

3. StreamCommandr. Same as previous but focused on in-stream analytics (instead of batch analytics) and IoT. This market seems to be empty (very rare event) and I want to provde the technology as a cloud service (PaaS), say, in IBM Bluemix, GE Predix or AWS. The users of the in-stream analytics service are supposed to be solution/application developers who want to analyze their data (e.g., from devices) in real time. So I am working on this third hypothesis by taking into account my previous mistakes and collected experience. In particular, I am going to maximally simplify everthing even if I sacrify significant pieces of functionality. Time is more important than quality.