skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'm one of those weird outliers who has a use case but still won't use the service. My wife works nights and rarely remembers to fuel our vehicle. I commute via Uber or bus so I never have it either. $15/mo is still too much for the service. Sooner or later my wife will run out of gas and then she'll do a better job of remembering to fuel the truck.
Average is such a misleading metric to use here.
Summed up by the author's question "Would we really accept higher statistical safety, if that came with new risks and accident types that we could easily avoid today?"

Who would say no to this?
Dunno much about trains but how far away from the traffic light would the button be? Certainly not more than 256 x wagon.length. I.e. in the unlikely case of a train with 256 wagons the light will signal green (unfortunate) but while it does so there will be a train passing by the crossroad. So in that case only (257 wagons won't do it - they'll merely cause a green blip) you'd need to have a really pedantic driver at wheel to try to pass because light went green.
We should worry because of the blurred responsibility. Have you ever seen large company responsible for death? This is how it works, you will die and there will be nobody responsible for this.

Tesla is not safe car, it is as safe as Honda Civic, with ~40 deaths per million cars. Do the math if you don't believe me.
Yeah, you could always override the method in the Fitbit library that implements that requirement.
Can you expand on what you mean?

IMO JS hits all of the points of the unix philosophy:

1. Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".

2. Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don't clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don't insist on interactive input.

3. Design and build software, even operating systems, to be tried early, ideally within weeks. Don't hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and rebuild them.

4. Use tools in preference to unskilled help to lighten a programming task, even if you have to detour to build the tools and expect to throw some of them out after you've finished using them.

Following that, babel reducing its "main" code down to a "useless on it's own" core, and allowing all functionality via plugins fits perfectly in that ideal. Then there are "presets" which can be built on top of them to include many of those plugins as one dependency, and a package to polyfill things that can't be "compiled" at compile time (babel-polyfill).

If i don't care about optimization, i can just throw everything in there and it'll work. If i want to cut down on the size, i can look at my target browsers and drop things (like babel-polyfill, or in some cases even most of the plugins from the babel-preset-es2015), and can install and run only what is needed.

it also makes writing new features into something like babel simple as hell, you can do it in a 10 line plugin. That makes it extremely simple to avoid bloating other plugins with options/features and instead encourages new plugins that do what the option/feature wanted.
Laszlo Bock was interviewed on NPR last month[1] and part of the interview discussed the hiring process. They know they have created really unpleasant interviews for candidates. Starts around 14m25s.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2016/06/07/480976042/how-googles-laszlo-b...
I ask because I'm debating between trialing TypeScript or Elm for a personal project (I primarily work in Rust and Go on the backend/infrastructure), and iteration times are important when trying to get a frontend UI "just right".
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"Transform data into the desired custom format by taking into account semantic relationships and relying on a novel concept-oriented model of data"

Way too complex for an introductory line.
I had to read it multiple times to get a faint idea of what you might be doing.

Screenshots and illustrations might work even better.

The design does not look professional. You might want to look at other SaaS sites and themes from themeforest or somewhere to get ideas on the page design.

The tools is interesting. What is your target market ?
Who are your users ? What are some use cases ?
How do you plan on marketing the application ?
Just to be clear, leaving the bay area doesn't mean giving up on technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano,_Texas#Economy
How Healthy Is Soylent?
Remarkable how Wolfram can turn any occasion to a celebration of his own achievements and preoccupations.
Yep, they still couldn't drive because they could never obtain a valid drivers license. Blind & Disabled people can be killed in crashes right now when they're passengers.
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I agree with your last paragraph in principle, but I think that the pressure of the situation is very different from pressure during the actual work - even if the latter can be higher if one could give a value to "pressure". Interview pressure seems to me to be much more debilitating and destructive to people's problem solving abilities. I'm happy I do reasonable well and have little fear of interviews (which is good since I'm a freelancer), and yet looking at myself I can cope with normal job pressure, no matter how much, far better than with that during interviews. I miss so much obvious stuff that I'd never miss on the job. So I disagree that the interview pressure can be rationalized with "it tests if you can cope with work pressure". I take any amount of the latter over the former with pleasure.
Yes, in fact about $100k worth in order to learn about the very subject you're incorrectly making a snarky comment about!

A down payment on a loan? That makes zero sense. I think you're talking about unsecured loans (i.e when there isn't an asset that can be repossessed if the debtor defaults). The fact that the loan is "unsecured" is precisely why the resulting interest rate will be higher. I am paying to borrow that money, and it's more expensive to borrow because of the increased risk assumed by the bank.

However, fractional reserve banking is entirely functionally different.
> but otherwise, it's just bald monopolism.

Since when does a "mark" create a monopoly? Who would stop Sri Lanka from selling the same species of tea?
I imagine UFC fighters will have bad brain damage when they get older so while "Voluntary" and "lots of money" are decent arguments...

Do these people know what they are getting themselves into and how does that compare to Porn?

Feel free to answer however... I'm genuinely curious.
At that point, I was 2 1/2 years in - that was a year ago. That was a rarity I think, although there are numerous stories of Netflix paying $300k+ now.
I can stop for gas, go in for a cup of Starbucks and be back to my car that now has a full tank in less than 5 minutes.

Would I pay $15 a month for this even though my normal routine doesn't suck? Maybe. But what about the actual gas cost? That's more important than the $15 subscription fee if the spread is large enough and I'm guessing it is since they have to pay for the drivers, carry some kind of insurance I presume, and whatever other costs are involved.
Generally I'll copy it to the clipboard (usually `pbcopy < file.json`), fire up Chrome, Cmd+Alt+J, then paste into the console. Instant, attractive, collapsible rendering of the content. Usually when I do this I'm interested in performing some sort of transformation on the data, and this way I can prototype it without any further steps.
It's funny you mention class and respect considering that aside from promoting events you'll never see a higher level of sportsmanship outside the UFC. "In Octagon" behavior really doesn't even compare. (Watch Conor McGregor immediately after he lost to Diaz)
Vdiff: a tool like vimdiff for Emacs
So you pay a healthy 20-year old the same as a bed-bound disabled 60 year old? I don't think the needs are the same.

You have no choice to maintain some of the other social welfare programs since not everyone can live off just UBI (unless it's really high).
Even at the companies (both big and small) that utilize this method for interviewing/hiring, generally aren't having their engineers work on these types of problems day-to-day. You utilize tools to solve business or technology issues and advance the company, it's much more satisfying than a puzzle (for those who don't like puzzles).

If you'd like to solve real business challenges, practice and get good at this kind of puzzle, algorithmic interviews, decomposing technical problems. Approach them in the spirit they are intended: to showcase your skill. Get past the interviews and work on real problems. Then when you're in a position to influence how your company hires, switch to a interview style that works for you. I prefer 1:1 real-world pair coding exercises on a computer with Google and I specifically test for the ability to look things up on SO.
Megaupload coming back? Founder Kim Dotcom plans a relaunch in 2017
I saw Bloomberg doing this quite a while back so it is growing not shrinking. If it is auto-play, the content doesn't actually exist for the consumer, it is there to tell the advertiser they are buying an ad for content.

It is like a more advanced version of old school blackhat SEO scripts which would scrape content and then mash it up so it would appear original and unique to Google. In some cases these publishers may not even have real humans watching those ads.
Or is there?

http://www.wnyc.org/story/say-goodbye-manhattans-gas-station...
I'm glad I grew up in the age of Karate Kid movies, when having a black belt was enough to scare kids from beating me up in school. I remember how the first UFCs utterly demolished the movie-mythos of Kung fu/karate, as Royce Gracie and other grapplers made strikers look rather impotent. I kind of missed the early days of UFC, when things were much more no-holds-barred. There weren't rounds or time limits or weight classes (for the most part), which meant that Royce had to beat an opponent 80 pounds heavier for the championship (Dan Severin, but I swear I thought Gracie had to beat even heavier opponents [0]). The flip side was that watching 20 minutes of one guy sitting atop another was not very compelling, and probably unfeasible as pay per view TV.

[0] http://www.gracieacademy.com/news/gracie-breakdown-royce-gra...
This may work for some things, but fails spectacularly for creative and learning tasks.
I know he's not building a moon base, but I want one.
I was wondering about that as well since TC makes no mention on what the fall out was from that. There was a joke going around about the "Farm Service startup, big trucks full of fertilizer and diesel fuel going from farm to farm to top up their supplies. What could possibly go wrong with that?" But more seriously, there are three things here that I can see from a public policy/safety viewpoint that have to be controlled for; Spillage (fuel is a hazardous substance), fire (you really need to control open flames when you're refilling, so you need to control the location), and transport (are your supply vehicles adequately protected in the event of a crash, are they marked so that first responders can understand the risks).

It isn't something we do a lot of but sometimes when we are on our way to camping our motor home is running its fridge on propane. There is an open flame somewhere that is feeding the heat pump. We turn it off when we go into a gas station but if someone parked next to us, they would probably not know that it wouldn't be a good place to have their car refueled. Hard to know what is going on exactly in your environment.
The article is just responding to the level of intelligence of arguments saying we should all soon stop driving and have automated driving everywhere.

I am all for self driving cars, but the common statistical argument (lower number of deaths than humans) for them is just silly for a number of reasons.
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The article you linked provides the apt justification of the happiness survey. The very next paragraph gives many examples that show that the employees are living arguably better lives.

So, at the cost of growing a little less quickly than they might have, the employees that are building the company up are enjoying a drastically improved quality of life.

The company isn't failing, the investors aren't losing their shirts, and the human beings who are making the day-to-day operation of the company possible, are better off. Sounds like a win-fucking-win to me.

> Employee turnover fell 19% last year compared to the average of the past six years. Gravity has been flooded with 30,000 applications, up from an average 3,000 or so a year. A monthly company survey that gauges employee happiness found a bump just after the announcement but then a drop to pre-$70,000 levels – consistent with a widely-held theory that people return to a baseline level of happiness despite positive or negative life events.

Still, Pirkle says the raises have allowed employees to move closer to the office and cut commute times, and plan for the future without living paycheck to paycheck. Retirement account contributions are up 130%, more employees are buying first homes and 10 are expecting, up from a typical zero to two each year.
The long-term effects on UFC athletes (most of whom are throw-away, and will never be known) is going to make boxing look like handbags at twenty paces.

Admitting the technical and athletic virtuosity of many of the participants, and the honorable nature of many of the fights, it is a disgustingly violent sport.
Considering that the majority of humanity does not have to worry about being attacked by wild animals or leave old/sick relatives behind on the march to the next food source, I would say we are hardly living in times as violent as you might think.
Ask HN: What's your favorite browser game?
Correct. I have no problem with voluntary violence. To many in the sport becoming a great fighter is no different than aspirations in this community to start a great startup. The only difference is people on HN wouldn't do what they do at their salary. Value is relative.
lol, that's amazing if true.
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Thin is the good case. It's thick parts that have problems. At TechShop, things seem to crack around 2cm-3cm thickness.
Update: I tried to contact support to see what was the best way to send them the documents they needed for unblocking my account. This was their response:

Thank you for your interest in Coinbase. Our primary goal is to make our platform safe and secure for our customers. Coinbase is a regulated Money Services Business under FinCEN (FinCEN.gov), and as part of our responsibility, we are legally obligated to implement regulatory compliance mechanisms.

We regret to inform you that we are no longer able to support your Coinbase account as well as any other accounts you may have created. Please note, we have not blocked access to the balance currently in your Coinbase account; while we can no longer process brokerage orders via our banking relationship, you may still send your balance offsite to an external address.

Please be careful when dealing with this company, and remember that even if you're in the US there are many alternatives (LocalBitcoins, Circle and Gemini come to mind).
There's a bit more to it - it took me a while to realise that I still needed kubectl and the rest of the binaries on the host. I have had a heavy day though so may just have missed that bit.

Love Kubernetes though, this'll be a superb way of spinning some test stuff up!
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How does that make the permission creep OK? If they were part of Google, and already had access to the data, that's one thing. But they aren't, and they don't.
I imagine it's quite a bit more than $15 a month. They probably bake some healthy margins into the price of gas.
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I can see this being a great service. Yeah maybe bike packed, dense SF is not going to be their ideal market, but places like LA where there are more cars than sands on a beach can definitely benefit from a service like this. An average commuter in LA has to fill up their tank every one or two weeks. Not having to think about gas ever is a game changer. I also never really enjoyed going to greasy gas stations.
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You could just use TypeScripts ES6 output directly during development, using a browser that supports ES6 natively, then add Babel to the build chain for public builds that need to work on older browsers.
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Effective tax rate would come out to about $100k, not 180. Income tax brackets are marginal... https://www.taxact.com/tools/tax-bracket-calculator.asp and https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#CZ1Kw...

You also just kinda snuck in a random 72k/year for something that was never discussed.

How about a spouse who also works? Would likely cover that 72k right there. 300k was a single person's income in the context above.

How about public school? How about just not sending them to the most expensive private schools possible?
Well, it's a fun game. I dropped a lure near my place and a few people showed up and we had a nice chat. Pretty compelling story TBH.

What I'm concerned about is the disturbing lack of attention towards game economics management. (read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_economy)
>Someone who just draws a complete blank when faced with decomposing a problem like that into parts may not be suited for programming.

I feel like the above statement contradicts what you said.

Mainly because this person may just not like toy problems but like you enjoys "real" problems. Also if it were true that a systematic way of solving a problem couldn't be learned then perhaps they might not be suited for programming. That being said there are books that do teach a systematic way such as How to Solve it by Polya.
>Why is silicon valley more expensive to rent in?

Because supply and demand. High salaries attract a lot of people to the bay and communities systematically refuse to build new housing to meet the demand so the price goes up.

You can do whatever you want to the banks but that won't change the fundamental of 2X people trying to live in X houses.
Late reply from me, but:

1. Introduction to Algorithms/CLRS (~The~ algorithms book)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms

Also, Skiena's "Algorithm Design Manual" for something a bit lighter.

2. I chose to use Python when possible for technical interviews, as it allowed me to focus more on the algorithms/solution, rather than boilerplate. I rarely use Python in my actual job, but I still prefer it for interviews.
If anything, it looks less dangerous than regular boxing, or an NFL wideout going over the middle and getting laid out by a strong safety.
The visceral nature of MMA and the blood makes many people dislike it, but compared to the long, slowly developing brain damage induced by boxing, MMA is a far more humane sport.
> > let x = (id: number, name?: string) => { return; };

> hmm, it would make more sense if it was written like that

> > let x = (id: number, name: string?) => { return; };

> But I guess it's more or less ok. But I definitely feel inconfortable with the ! .

I think the point is that typescript currently supports the shown optional parameter syntax, JS could be extended in a conflicting way to that as well.

In the end, if you are using something that extends JS and you expect that any code you write will continue to work in future versions and that the tool will be altered to stay as close to the standard JS as possible as extended features are incorporated into vanilla JS, you're most likely deluding yourself. Much better to accept that the tool should either try to match vanilla JS, in which case you must accept that you may need to refactor to update occasionally, or that it will eventually diverge, but your code will continue to work, and choose a tool that implements whatever strategy is acceptable to you.
I am a huge fan of Elixir and Phoenix even without OTP, don't get me wrong. It's my go-to framework now, replacing Rails. I just ended up hitting the OTP chapters in Programming Elixir and Programming Phoenix, and just kind of wondered why I was doing what I was doing, and why anyone would ever have or want to do this.

That's been covered pretty well by other commenters, but it seems like it's something you have to experience yourself in order to really understand.
Seriously? What happens if I delete the app? Do I delete all of my progress?
https://www.supergiantgames.com/games/bastion/
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The bed-bound 60 year old's expensive needs would presumably be covered by the universal health insurance. His non-health-related costs would actually probably be lower than a 20 year old's, since he of course doesn't do anything and probably doesn't eat as much.
For people in a constant time crunch, this service is quite appealing. You always seem to wind up short on gas at the worst possible time, or notice that your tire is low on air when you are not able to make a stop.

As the parent of a two-year-old, I can definitely see a need for this. It would be a great gift for new parents, for example. The price seems a tad high for me personally, but as can be seen by them already being profitable, clearly many people are willing to pay for it.
Our price per gallon is competitive with gas stations in your area (actually a bit below the AAA average).
Looks like this is the case for anyone using iOS: https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/4saz5f/pokemon_go_h...
Conclusion: Namecheap can't be trusted. And I am now looking for a provider to transfer my 25+ domains.
Why are redditors and ycombinators so annoying? A new version has been released and instead of discussing what is important and notable about this new release,you all go off on a tangent discussing the pros and cons of Elixir.

Why don't you guys take the discussion elsewhere so that interested readers can focus on what is new and relevant about this release? The subject of the post is about a new release,not about people showing of their knowledge and opinions about computer programming and languages etc.

It just makes this forums intolerable especially those which are about new releases new products etc.
I've yet to try that, but I can. I'll report back in a few. Having trouble logging into my iPod... will see if I can get my coworker to remove it from his older device.
For larger graphs than ~100 it's better to precompute it.
If you want to make all vis, then I will still use precomputed as a seed.
Right. I just meant that if you sell a counterfeit painting that could come back to bite you twenty years later. But sell tilapia as red snapper for a week, then wait a month, and you should be in the clear.
Interesting ... any enterprise oriented use-cases ?
At some point, all programming languages are syntactic sugar over assembly. :)

But I hear what you're asking. I'm not really familiar enough to answer, but I've seen plenty of articles that say it's more than just a familiar syntax, e.g., http://devintorr.es/blog/2013/06/11/elixir-its-not-about-syn...
California is ill-prepared for “the Big One”
Not true, don't worry :)
Compared to boxers the UFC guys experience much less brain related trauma because fights usually end after a single blow to the head instead of 10+.