skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It happens all the time with consumer devices (smart phones, laptops) and larger game launches at least.

On the business/productivity side, those aren't mass market products so why waste money marketing to the masses who aren't going to buy anyway? Though there is all sorts of other nonsense that goes on here too. Just look at all of the not-too-secret courting of reviewers and YouTubers that nVidia and AMD did around their recent GPU launches, for example. (none of this is surprising: it's called marketing. But it is important IMO that it be disclosed regardless of what's being pitched or who it's being pitched too)
saw this on my fb feed this morning and tbh, was glad the fsu actually got some headline room. personally not connected to fsu but I see so many MIT... that some of these other institutions doing big things get lost in the shuffle.

also really liked the search strategy. first try all the things already approved by the fda to find something, even if not 100% ideal since its so much faster than seeking fda approval of something new. Curious how this will change in the near future given the prevalence of deep learning and with some of the opentrons type testing systems.
Hmm, that's strange, I can still access the files despite being in incognito mode on Chrome. I'm fairly certain the professor doesn't mind this being spread around, but I don't know HN's policies on sharing stuff like this, so shoot me an email (it's in my profile) and we can discuss it.
I can find thoughtless humor anywhere. I like HN because the comments tend to be more "meat & potatoes" and less "cotton candy". The ratio has definitely gotten worse over time, and I wish moderators would detach and sink the Twitter-style one-liners.
Oh, for sure! Being totally script free (and cloud neutral) is the goal of this effort. As you see above, there's absolutely ZERO script/bash/automation/etc.
"geographically inspiring" are places that generates tourism simply by the dynamic nature of its landscape and geographical features.

Kansas City doesn't fall into that category for me.

Keep in mind I'm caveatting my statement by this narrow definition alone. However for many people, this is a major criteria
I think you are right. Insightful humour is very difficult to produce, especially if it should be with technical focus to it.

I guess that's why Dilbert or xkcd works well with the HN crowd.
Why? There are many many tradeoffs that are made to day about your safety. They're not built as massive as they could be in the name of fuel-efficiency. They don't use the strongest known materials to keep production costs low. And active safety systems that override your stupid decisions are more likely to be found in expensive cars, i.e. cheaper ones again make a tradeoff for price.

But none of these are really important because they only apply in events that already have a relatively low base rate: accidents.

Any ethics system that may or may not have to sacrifice your life for a school bus full of nuns will only be forced to make decision with an even lower baserate: accidents + a bunch of additional conditions where the only way to save your live would be risking others, with a reasonable confidence to boot.

Elevating this small aspect over everything else seems silly.
I agree with your general sentiment, but wonder where you get the idea that Britain is somewhat backward when it comes to civil rights. Whilst challenges to civil rights will continue to exist and be resisted, it should be noted that the European Convention on Human Rights was influenced by the UK's approach to civil rights:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human...

If you have concrete examples of poor civil rights in the UK, by all means share them, I'm not pretending things are perfect here, and would be happy to get a better grasp of where things could be improved.
If you don't mind me asking, why not use Amazon S3? It's cheap and -- importantly -- somebody else is on-call for its uptime.
If it we were in 2012 that would be true. There are multiple competing mapping suppliers now which are perfectly good enough for taxi navigation, including Uber's own system, not forgetting Tomtom's third party stuff, AAPL's heavy investment, etc. This looks like too little too late.
Every driver I've asked has said they make more with Uber than they did as a taxi driver. I don't know if it's a decent wage, but it's more than they were getting.
Once they have a critical mass of robberies, stabbings, etc., then the machine learning can easily filter out undesirable drivers. Not a problem.
The Uber driver probably made more than the taxi driver would have because they don't have to pay the hefty daily cab rental fees or rent a medallion. It's not like taxi drivers were rolling in cash before Uber came around.
I'd amend that to "...important hubs for what is left of telecom." It's just the Schumpeter cycle at work.

The amount of money dumped on the area, SarbOx regulation changes, even Enron[1], and the overt abuse of the H1B visa left it crippled relative to what it once was compared to the span of say, 1985 to 2005.

[1] these things came up in funding meetings at various times in the area. "you do know that Enron is Houston, right?" "It's still Texas."

I know of no healthy telecom firms left.

I (willfully) know nothing of gaming.
PhxSQL: high availability, strong consistent MySQL Cluster
If they are on AWS or similar, their IP range may be <all of AWS>, at which point your firewall is not doing much walling.
People would hate having something akin to #ad in the movie itself. I don't really mind so much paid product placement (I more mind places not showing brands because of copyright, as it is unnatural).

But there are other ways to reign this in - through regulation. Italy, for example, requires placement to be natural in the narrative of the movie, and there are other regulations in places. I think one of the more helpful things would be to list the companies paying for placement OR a list of the products placed in a prominent place at the beginning of the end credits or as a screen in the beginning credits - say after the studio logo.

Information for the Italy regulation came from: https://www.pwc.com/it/it/publications/assets/docs/product-p...
Utilizing Apache Beam: Same Code, Several Execution Engines
the ones that have hard requirements of tech experience or skills seemed to do alright.
This gets into an insane grey area, and is completely subjective, but I think for movies, often the entire point of a film is suspension of disbelief, to transport the viewer somewhere else for two hours. A "#ad" in the corner every time a product placement shows up would be jarring and ruin the effect, ruin the _art_, if you want to put it that way.

Tagging a single Instagram post with "#ad", on the contrary, doesn't detract from other non-ad photos in the feed. Obviously if the feed is mostly advertisements, some people might find its value overall go down.

But yeah... I can argue it either way.
African proverb: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

Startups are designed to go fast and cash out. The founders make a fortune and move on to something else, life doesn't really change for anyone else. A business with real longevity will go more slowly but everyone in the business will share in the ride.
This is a very old argument that goes way back to the beginning of the entire field with Douglas Engelbart and his augmented computing project. At the time he was an outsider who thought the future of computing was enabling humans to do more as opposed to creating a general AI that would do it for us.

Some interesting reading: https://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Per...
I can't believe that I got downvoted so much just because somebody in a reply misconstrues my point and then others jump on the bandwagon.

Check again the starting comment: they make an analogy in which every month a new sprinting record is set. I then point out that such perceived "records" can be deceiving when it comes to climate because they might be local phenomena. I do this by giving a counter example to whatever "record" the OP was alluding to, namely that some parts of the world have not seen similar effects. My comment is not confusing weather and climate but is actually implicitly point it out: a series of new temperature records over the period of one year does not imply much in terms of climate.

I can't help but feel that the reason I got downvoted was not my comment but the way others reacted to it.
Cache-Coherent Multiprocessors, Lecture by Forest Baskett
Anything as long as it is not exploitative (I personally have no concerns over this regarding Uber but I certainly include it as a criterion) and does not involve tipping. Tipping is described as an opportunity to "reward excellent service" but in reality it satisfies the parts of the brain that respond to being given the opportunity to temporarily act as a financial master over other human beings.
What's wrong with #4?

Assuming that we continue to require resources, then #4 will continue to be true.

Granted: as technology improves, we need to work a lot less to achieve the same quality of life.

But there's still a requirement to produce those resources; it is incumbent upon someone to work to produce them, be it a farm labourer or an engineer designing farm robots.
Yep, surprisingly, research is done here. We don't just have a football team.
Careful with your 3 laws. If you prioritize safety above all else then your car locks you in once you enter, then orders food online so you won't starve.

Not driving around minimizes the chance of accidents after all.
Google had to get in at some point. They should have entered a year ago may be but I think this is a good enough time. Google can afford to not take a cut for their service and hurt Uber quite a bit. If they are not taking a cut they can also reduce the price for the rider.

However, how can it be viable to the driver. I understand if someone is already going in that direction they can make a little money but if I want to live on it (like Uber is pitching) will the price be enough?
At least they are Irish...
I'm getting obliterated by the google-salaried herd. Anybody out there (preferably not Google employed or Google-surrogate) care to give me an upvote? :-) Or at least tell me where I'm wrong!
The trolley problem obtains its ethical considerations from the lethal outcomes. When you are driving you can easily prevent a lethal outcome by slowing down. Even a child is unlikely to die when struck by a car going 20 MPH or less. So yes, slowing down does fix this problem. If you are driving down a street where it is possible that a child will suddenly leap out, completely unseen by you, then you should be driving 20 MPH at most.
There are a whole bunch of .54/mile commute carpool apps out there. Uber & Lyft have them / have had them too. Usually they don't pan out because it's not enough money for the hassle.
We use riak and riak-cs in production and in fact we are one of biggest riak users.

If you use riak in production you probably do want their (Basho) support. Their product when works, works great, but when there is a problem it's a bit hard to troubleshoot it without knowing erlang and being familiar with riak's source code.
One of the defining thing about MythBusters was that they'd take a myth, build an experiment with at least some notion of control, and then carry it out, so you can actually see the results.

Instead this site seems to be "regurgitate myths". e.g. http://mythbusters.js.org/workflow/boolean-conditions.html

"Avoid using >= and <= unless necessary. It’s faster to use a simpler comparison." There's a trivial code example, and then absolutely no evidence to support the claim. No benchmarks, nothing.
If it's not obligatory to tip then it should be obligatory to pay people a living wage, in any context.
>Fraud drives down conversions/click, which in turn drives down the amount of money one is willing to spend on a click, which in turn reduces demand and drives down the price/click of advertising.

In an ideal world, yes, but it can also cause businesses to spend _more_ on pointless things like redesigning their ads, buying more ads for other keywords, etc. Then there is the fact of new businesses popping up as other businesses cease to exist. Information asymmetry ensures that not everyone knows about click-fraud, whether it is currently affecting them, how to avoid it, etc. The real world is too messy.
And yet Uber still uses Google Maps.
"Living wage"? Are you suggesting that uber and other drivers are all dead?

\s

(I know "living wage" is the hip buzzword, but it is a poor phrase, is hyperbolic, and creates a false picture that when these workers finish their shift they are going to go find some secluded gutter to die in from malnutrition)
Also keep in mind that 50% of users as a whole may not equate to 50% of your users.
I didn't write that comment, but in my opinion net neutrality is mostly a solution in search of a problem. Hypothetically, ISPs could try extorting and controlling the entire internet, but realistically it's not going to work.

I'm more concerned about app neutrality. Apple is extorting 30% from app makers and enforces rules to ensure their dominance over my phone.
Ask HN: Small town lots of FiOS infra. no residential FiOS keep pushing?
My small town has a lot of fiber infrastructure (conduit etc.), almost the entire city has conduit laid for a fiber based CCTV/Traffic monitoring system.

I contact the city council to see if anyone had contacted them about doing residential FiOS: they referred me to a systems administrator, he stated that the city was a missing piece of "link" between the two major piece of conduit and that he thought it would be another 2 years before it was complete.

This was the extent of his answers. He did not think anyone had "contacted them" about using the existing infra. for residential FiOS

I've been very interested in community-based FiOS initiatives and I'm wondering if I should keep pushing them (the city council)?

Perhaps there is a company/group that can do a feasibility study- but I don't know what to look for on the internet so I can contact them and find out the costs of doing a study like this to submit to city council? Or should I just drop it? A bridge too far?
Why is this being downvoted? Honest question.

After Glass, G+, Fiber and possibly Boston Dynamics, I'm failing to see any moonshots living up to the hype as well. At least up until now.
So... they are admitting they fired her for cause - which, given the cause, is illegal under CA law?

Yeah, some real geniuses at work here. No wonder they took it down.
Looks good!

I don't do too much front end development but I like Typescript for another reason: the language is very readable and I have started to use it as executable easy to read 'pseudocode' when I write, specifically for many of the examples in a new book I am writing on cognitive science. Concision and readability are important. I have started using Julia for the same reasons: the code is very concise and readable.
6 months of Kubernetes in production
Well sure it could turn out like Google+ vs Facebook or it could turn out like Google Maps vs Mapquest or Gmail vs Hotmail.
"European Commission tells Apple to spend €13B arguing against them"
Technical question: does anyone know if FB can easily answer why X was recommended to Y? That is, do they have to manually check or can they query this easily and get the precise answer why a recommendation was presented(for example: the reason why X was recommended to Y on date d, cannot be that X is connected to Z and and Z to Y, if X connect to Z on d+1; I assume bad inferences like this will probably happen often if such questions are answered manually).
Windows Phone site marked as “may be hacked” by Google
> high level point of view

> Avoid using >= and <= unless necessary

Is this an elaborate troll?
As long as the non-dom resident income tax rule is real, that is enough to attract the non-british super rich to the UK in droves.

And we know the lack of property tax rule is real.
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What about giving a discount to customers who let me use their testimonials on my site?
It's a well known fact that certain ISPs in France will not peer with YouTube and thus their connections are congested.

This is not a technical problem, but a business decision. The at only solution is to vote with your wallet and chose an ISP that sucks less.
Networking can be hard when you don't already know someone. I'd imagine that for the people you describe, having someone handle the first contact pushes their career forward very quickly.
Is this principally in the web space? That would be why I don't see it then. BuiltInAustin has ... probably a couple-three hundred positions open, no more than 100 per job description.

Edit:s/1000/100/stupid fingers...
LinkedIn has had similar issues. Not news.
I'm not so convinced that there is a great difference among people of different age groups.
I hesitate to predict how it will play out, but the article reports "the company has said it aims to make fares low enough to discourage drivers from operating as taxi drivers," which seems fundamentally different.
Uber also subsidizes your ride sometimes. I had a ride that Uber paid the driver about $60 for (we were talking about the economics of the service and this came up), and I paid only $3.
Google knows everything. A person's search/browsing history is more revealing, and arguably more predictive, than a dated background check.

They have the ability, but whether they actually violate everyone's privacy is hopefully a theoretical matter.
I am at work so I could only skim the article. I am unsure about the ethics and I doubt they will succeed but it's certainly very interesting.
I think it's not really interesting if you disagree with an article simply by using a different understanding of the same words.

1. "Body" in the paragraph means "the rest of the body, excluding the brain". It is not used to mean, "the entire body, including the brain".

2. This is incorrect. The acquisition of matter is not always called eating. I'm not talking about drinking—we can group that with eating—but there are alternative ways to acquire nutrients and there are also other ways to acquire matter that do not involve nutrients. Having a nutrient IV would not involve eating, and if you got a good source of nutrients this way, it would bypass many of the biological problems involving nutrient absorption through the GI tract. Problems with nutrient absorption in the GI tract account for a worrying number of health problems in older individuals. (You can also attach matter to your body with surgery.)
I think an ominous red Cylon eye would not be desirable though.

I think it would be okay, if they played this theme on speakers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNyXYPhnUIs
It probably isn't a big issue if you are looking for something to drink. But say you are wanting to buy a larger investment item or one you don't know much about. Kitchen appliances are a good example. Let's say a coffee grinder.

Perhaps you've bought a couple, and they haven't lasted long or been sup-par in quality, or maybe you had one you liked, but they no longer make it. You bought the same brand, but behold, it quit sooner or it doesn't do nearly as well. And you'd really like to have one that is decent, even if you spend a bit more money. If you can't sort out which reviews are paid endorsements and which ones are heartfelt reviews, you are none the wiser. Something that is basically an ad isn't nearly as trustworthy in this case. The ads might not have been false, per se, but they aren't exactly going to give the bad with the good.
All drivers I’ve talked to (mostly in the London area) told me they are very unhappy with their pay, but because Uber is so cheap, they can’t drive for their old cab companies anymore (all business moved to Uber).
Are you ironic? Do you see what's strange in that? Machine learning isn't exempt of racism. Google has a lot of background on people, but it's generally accepted as unethic to filter undesirable people based on generalizations, even if they were statistically correct.
...wait a minute, that sounds a lot like SRE.

If you don't know, SRE is a DSL in scheme that is essentially an alternate syntax for regex that does this, originally implemented by SCSH, and now most popularly by irregex. It looks like this:

(w/nocase (: (=> name (+ (or alnum ("._%+-")))) "@"
(=> domain (: (* (or alnum (".-"))) "."
(>= 2 alpha)))
eos))

I don't know if that's exactly what you were talking about: It's an alternate syntax, not a set of functions, which is what combinators usually imply.
Seems that the requirement being due to the Widener family donation is apocryphal[0], but still an interesting idea. Also, that source suggests that there was a swimming requirement for all students only from fall 1970 to spring 1975. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that it wasn't officially required in 1976 but was effectively compulsory for anyone without a "legitimate" dispension.

[0] http://asklib.hcl.harvard.edu/faq/81791
There seems to be an overwhelming opinion here that all ads must declare themselves as such. Why is that? I hate ads as much as the next guy, but forcing media to label itself one way or another seems morally suspect, and could certainly run afoul of the principles of free speech and artistic freedom.
Probably because it's a middlebrow dismissal that's barely even middlebrow.
It's a good idea, and in Georgia there's a program to pay you to car pool (http://gacommuteoptions.com/Save-Your-Commute/Earn-Cash.-Win...).

I see this as something similar. But I was never able to find someone to car pool with.
A true Body of Theseus problem.
I'm a big fan of Papier for chrome. It doesn't save to your Google account so my notes on my home computer are different than my work computer, which is just how I like it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/papier/hhjeaokafpl...
I'm going to guess that it is part of the "on premises superstition" where companies feel that the stuff they own is more secure somehow. Obviously, this is not often true in practice, but 5 years of research/consulting has taught me that they feel this way all the same.

Occasionally, there are laws that also mandate certain controls that cloud providers in general did not have. That is also becoming rarer as time goes on.
Babili: An ES6+ aware minifier based on Babel
Assuming access to quality foods, but activity and metabolism keep them skinny (that is, this is a healthy skinny, not a malnourished skinny), in what ways are below-average weight people's quality of life sacrificed?
Genome assembly: the art of trying to make one big thing from m. of small things
there are no bad ideas. even this one.
That certainly depends. But just because a cost is fixed doesn't mean it's free or low.
The reasonable explanation will be offered when the research is published - no researcher has time to sit down and explain every anomalous data point to the public.

It would take much more than 10% of a researcher's time to explain research concepts in a way that would let the public truly understand it. Otherwise they are just giving out meaningless soundbites that will be misinterpreted.
You could say the same about your bank - even though you don't really know how they invest your deposit money, you try and gain an intuition based on other factors (stock price, professionalism, reputation, prestige, etc). Not saying these factors -> a good analysis of the creditworthiness of a financial institution but you get the idea.