skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He also was the main technical guy at Google for self-driving cars, and in fact his company 510 Systems was bought by Google because he was the one who actually built the hardware that went on the cars.

Uber has, by a huge margin, the best talent working on self-driving cars.
That was a good response! I hope you get there too.
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So what features don't work for you?
The obvious reason why the rmb could become a global currency is lots of companies buy and sell stuff from china, imports and exports, so they come to accumulate it. They want to trade it for other things, so the rmb comes to be used and more. Of course it doesn't float free, and the country limits transactions across borders. But I could see it slowly becoming more used as a universal currency, if they stop controlling the exchange rate and stop limiting capital flows. Those are 2 big changes, but the more they slowly relax those controls, the more likely they will succeed.
I try to be fair. It also drives me crazy when people compare USA or EU with much larger countries like China or India. Also driven nuts by "Chinese food". FYI.
In VC world there are only Limited Partners (LP who give money) and general/managing partners (who invest money), everything else is non-essential.
This is really cool, but I don't understand why they'd be more popular than local currency if they're not the dominant world currency like the dollar is.

Still, what a fascinating chunk of currency.
To quote the SMS I got from DHL on Monday, in Denmark:

"Your DHL Express shipment #### from #### is expected to be delivered to you today between 9-20. If you are not at home, you can give DHL power of attorney to deliver the shipment to your address without signature. Reply PROXY and specify location"

Though I actually used their other option, which was to have it delivered to the collection boxes in the nearby supermarket.

I've had other deliveries left with my neighbour, but most seem to end up at the post office.
> How exactly is it that TC knows that Apple has indeed fallen behind?

TC is not alone in saying this. It's a very common sentiment in the machine learning community. So much so that Apple recently did a big PR piece in Backchannel just to try to refute it. https://backchannel.com/an-exclusive-look-at-how-ai-and-mach...

> there were more or less objective (err, almost objective) benchmarks [...] This is not the case with ML/DL.

You are completely wrong about this. Microsoft, Facebook, and Google have all participated in public, objective ML competitions such as ILSVRC. They also all publish academic papers with results on standard ML benchmarks, and often running code as well. They even publish their own benchmark datasets such as the widely used MS-COCO or today's YouTube-8M. Apple does none of this, and that's where the perception that they are behind comes from.
"An empty cart rattles loudly."
Sounds like you and Coinbase were both better off for not working there.
Has Wikipedia ever pursued the idea of giving scholarships on important articles?

Seems they're perpetually short of funds, but a "funded by X" tag at the bottom and some branding of the effort might make a go of it. And Wikipedia seems weaker on the "History of the Roman Empire" type of articles that you need to spend time in dead-tree libraries to do correctly.

... sad to say, history majors who didn't go into law aren't exactly expensive.
They recently acquired an AI/ML startup called Turi - I think they see the need to remain competitive.

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/exclusive-apple-acquires-turi-m...
For starters, a huge set of security vulnerabilities are not possible. Ex: buffer overflow, double free, reading uninitialized memory.
Will it revoked today or tomorrow? Certainly not. But with the proper amount of contemplation and dialogue, will we get the point that we can decide upon more optimal policy? I believe so.

At any rate, I'll always fight for dialogue upon the BEST policies before settling upon a compromise, as this will guide us in the right direction.
Depends on how smart your supervisor gets doesn't it but sure, why not? Many times processes can be restarted in microseconds...
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Very cool! I created a similar project, ktmpl[1], which does require a template (as the name implies). It's a client side implementation of the proposal for templates[2] that has been accepted for implementation in the Kubernetes apiserver directly. The benefit is that ktmpl will eventually be obsoleted by Kubernetes itself, but you can use the same templates.

[1] https://github.com/InQuicker/ktmpl
[2] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/pr...
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Is well understood that that apply to function/classes/types, etc.. not the non-sense example you pick.

And by the way, a + b + c is not more clear than Int + Int + Int... or sum(customer, products) vs. sum(Customer, ProductArray)
Red Hat refused the project initially.
Man, I'm always surprised there aren't more pissed off BB developers. It was a horrible experience, and I agree that it's their stubbornness and unwillingness to improve and go all the NIH-syndrome that ended them up here.

If anything, their hardware wasn't bad, it's their software that was rotten.
Health insurance starts at around CHF 280/month for a 35 year old currently: https://en.comparis.ch/krankenkassen/grundversicherung/krank...

You can reduce that if you opt for less choice (e.g. you can only use particular doctors) to around CHF 235/month.
I am skeptical of all of the replies so far implying that the threat of imminent starvation is what drove people to discover weird foods. We're intelligent omnivores, we like finding and trying new foods. Finding as many food sources as possible is one of the essential tasks of a group of humans living in subsistence conditions. Note the distinction between subsistence and starvation.

What went through their mind? Perhaps that milk spoils way too quickly and food that you can store for long periods of time is vital for survival. They probably would have known a great deal about the preparation and preservation of food in general, like the use of fire or that drying and covering food makes it last much longer.

Their tolerance for food with strong unpleasant flavors would have been much higher than yours or mine and they would have had knowledge on how to test potentially dangerous substances to see how edible they are.

If you stored milk in a stomach, it would coagulate very quickly. The substance would be solid: something you can dry! Aha. This could be a good way to store surplus milk.

Early homo sapiens were pretty smart and had skills few of us today possess.
That's assuming city services go to all neighborhoods evenly, which certainly isn't the case unfortunately. Most of Brooklyn is covered now, but only 1/3 of Queens and none of The Bronx other than highways have been converted.
I know.. It's almost like the people who came up with these ideas 40 years ago didn't think of everything.

There are plenty of ways to do things better with basic text interfaces - a more standardized header format for example.

If most tools just output tabbed separated values with a header, or the same thing vertically.. ie..

foo bar baz
1 2 3
4 5 6

or

foo 1 4
bar 2 5
baz 3 6

It would have been a lot easier to write more "universal" tools that worked with this data.

Or at least more tools like 'ifdata' that is part of moreutils.

$ ifdata -pa wlan0
192.168.1.2

Instead of the mess people come up with to parse ifconfig output.

Bryan Cantrill even said in a presentation something like that it should be "Write programs to handle json text streams, because that is a universal interface" these days.
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I have been in this boat (as far as I can judge from your story--I wouldn't tell anyone "I know how you feel"), in February it'll have been 10 years. Overworked myself during university (which took way longer than it should have, but everyone kept telling me "oh I feel like that sometimes too"--never did I realize they didnt have to deal with it every minute, every day). When the student loan ran out (back then very generous in NL), I got a coding job, two days a week (trying to finish my study, except I was mainly recovering most of the week), after two months something snapped, I couldn't read the code on the screen anymore, scared the shit out of me (been coding since I was 9). Completely broke down.

I have tried so many things (therapy, meds, alternative therapy, physical checkup, coaching). No solutions. Anti-depressants make it more bearable, but they also seem to suck motivation (and have side-effects) so I use them on and off (for longer periods of course otherwise they don't make sense), recently I've been in a bad place so I'm back on again (which works but it's no progress either).

I wish I had some solid advice to give you. Your story is in fact the first time I hear something quite as similar to my experience (cause it's not quite like a burnout, is it?), except I never got myself to work the hours your post suggests you did, instead using--I dunno--intellect to make up for it, which just leads to perfectionism and pushed me over the edge just as well[0]. Except I wasn't aware I was asking too much of myself.

Going to re-read this thread tomorrow, maybe some of the replies have some good advice that I haven't tried yet (or might be worth to re-try). Never stop fighting, life's too amazing, even if you can't live it like all the other people.

Currently I'm doing the best I can, volunteering at several youth-centres, teaching kids as much computer / computational science I have learned, trying to put my education and knowledge to the best use as possible (also, turns out that teaching and working with kids is a passion of mine I never discovered in comp.sci). Even though I only have the energy to do it 12h/wk, I know I'm doing something amazing for these kids who will remember me when they're old. I also realize I'm super lucky to live in the Netherlands, in the US I'd be on the streets (this resonates http://www.iquilezles.org/blog/?p=2659 ), and possibly a dead junkie.

I wish you the best of luck and to somehow some day find happiness. If there's anything you like like to talk about, my email's in my profile.
The point is that unless you use JVM hot reloading (not recommended in Production) you will need to take down your whole app to upgrade that JAR. Now what if your microservice was something minor like a black word filter. Is adding a swear word worthy of a potential outage ?
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I think you are correct. I've attributed the fact that UPS and USPS employees will stand around and chat, and Fedex employees run in like their tail is on fire and run out to this point. I know that Fedex is mostly an express service, and UPS and USPS aren't, but I think the union/non-union thing contributes.

Not that the speed in any way sours my opinion of unions. I'd burn out working under Fedex-like conditions.
Tc needs to be banned on hn
Really depends on the person. There are people who think somewhere in Ohio is awesome because of the cheap houses and low COL, and there are others who would be suicidal living there.

You'll have to figure out what you want out of a place besides just low COL. You can't just mitigate your disdain for a place by looking at your savings account. That's one positive about my time in NYC, the city really forces you to figure out what you want in a place to live.
> If you don't have enough calories the body will switch to starvation mode

This is a myth which has been proved to be absolutely false. You are simply wrong if you are basing any conclusions at all of of this.
I mean, you could do it with Flowroute or Twilio. I already pay $1.25/mo for a DID for my home from Flowroute, if I cared enough about security buying another isn't going to put a dent in my pocketbook and I could just have a small little flask app somewhere forward them to a prepaid phone.
In italy there are a bunch of people retired in the early 40es, until 3-5 years ago retiring at 60 was normal for EVERYONE.
And until about 15 years ago the pension cheque was a very high fraction of the last salary earned, regardless of how much did you contribute in your entire working life.
There are stories of newly promoted generals just a couple of month before retirements so that their monthly pension would be substantially higher because of the "retributive" rule.
Politicians get a pension after 2 years and half in the parliament regardless of their age.
And this is with today rules. With the previous rules there are actually people that get a pension even if they were elected and stayed in charge for something like 3 days.
Believe me, you have absolutely no idea of what incredible huge mess is italy pension system.
Chicago. Affordable rent[1], dense, car optional, highly walkable, good transit, best biking city in the country[2], phenomenal restaurants and beer. I've met several visiting New Yorkers that refer to Chicago as a "smaller, cleaner New York." I've been here 8 years and have never had trouble finding a new programming job when I wanted one.

People will decry the violence (of which the vast majority is confined to the disadvantaged parts of the city[3]) and the weather (which you get used to and should stop being a wimp about), but I find the salary / cost of living ratio far outweighs the disadvantages.

[1] https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/chicago/the-l-rent-map-w...

[2] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-bicycli...

[3] http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/homicides
That quote wasn't from the article, it was from the org website (http://www.partnershiponai.org/faq/).
Is OpenAI planning to be a part of this?
> Mississippi's GDP per capita being similar to that of France, Italy or Spain

And that's why GDP per capita is so useless.

You have a few multi billionaires running your country, and you have tens of millions of people in abject poverty, tens of millions with no health insurance, etc.

Don't look at GDP per capita, it tells you noting about life for the average person.
Sounds reasonable. Any ideas why no one has ever done this?

Kind of reminds me when the behavior of rm -rf / was changed in solaris.

I can't find the article, but basically someone pointed out that they couldn't change the behavior of rm -rf / because posix defined how it should work. Someone then pointed out that the spec says that trying to remove the parent directory(i think?) should fail, and since rm -rf / includes removing the parent directory, it was within the spec that it should fail.
>The key to avoiding age discrimination is looking for a boss your age or older. //

So age discrimination is how you avoid age discrimination ... hmmm.
Royal Mail offer a guaranteed next day delivery service [1]

UPS in the USA do [2]

[1] http://www.royalmail.com/personal/uk-delivery/special-delive...

[2] https://www.ups.com/content/us/en/shipping/time/service/next...
Exactly. Every single monolithic application I've seen has a utilities package that has classes shared amongst components.

With micro services you could have different versions of those utilities in use which would not be possible in a monolithic app.
I wonder how long it took to develop this tool, how many devs working on it and man hours. Any info from the developers?
One of the coins has a classic hole punched through it. I've seen these as punched circular holes, but this one seems to have been done with a blade. You can almost see the outline of a one-sided blade. This screams to me that the coin was once worn as jewellery, an image of the emperor worn around the neck on a strip of cloth. So this may have been brought by a traveller, even a tourist far from home. Coin collectors might dismiss it as damaged, but to me it's far more interesting because of this possible backstory.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/n-old...

edit: after looking at the pic and how small the hole is, could the strip of cloth have been anything other than silk? That means the hole was punched in the east, not in the west where silk would be too expensive for such utility.
Oh they definitely do. It's just a different flavor and the debt scales differently. Ideally the debt amortizes across the services so you can solve a problem across multiple places. This is obviously really difficult to discuss or analyze without a specific scenario.

It's probably not worth discussing unless you're actively feeling either perf or coupling debt pressure.
Care to explain which bits Erlang/Elixir doesn't do or at least provide a solution for? As the sibling show you may need to be smart about certain things but the OTP definitely provides ways of solving the above things.
The word 'values' often has a strong connotation with bullshit. Probably because of it being used in superficial ways, counterfeited values. This is one of those things that you cannot 'fake until you make it'. They are there or they are not.

Despite these associations of subjectivity, obfuscation and vagueness, it is very important. The power of this to attract people to your banner can never be underestimated. It is something that resonates deeply in our brains, that makes us work together in a way nothing else can.

Musk would be nowhere close to where he is today without having enough people believe in his company. People are willing to work harder, for less money, to be part of the story.
If they go that route would anyone have any recourse to like antitrust suits? Any precedent close to something growing all encompassing like this? I'm all for them taking an end to end approach, its like with any third party delegation where quality issues arise, you end up being stuck with the reputation hit.
Not to mention the permutations a human living in subsistence conditions would try. What if I cook it? What if I dry it? What if I soak it for a while? And so and and so forth.
Almost everyone in NLP adopted hypothesis #1; I believe hypothesis #2 is true.

"Superior ML performance as a pain signal to be carefully listened to", as it were. I'm in camp #2, also.
> We don't think that there is a direct link between the Roman Empire and Katsuren Castle

Well I'm glad that's cleared up!
The one I had did not work so I am happy to have systemd now.
https://ripple.com/
Or just has these delivery issues treated more seriously. Amazon knows exactly which orders they reship and the complaint that the customer makes, they could directly track that metric against delivery drivers.
> Simply put, what value do we get from human interaction in a dining setting?

Sorry if there's a running theme here - using Japan as an example where automation, pre-made foods and very hands-on service are all widely available: automated services mean that whatever ingredients you're using need to be consistent in flavor, size, shape etc. Humans have greater capacity to adapt with what resources they have. Pre-made foods are relatively bland as a result of this. It's like the difference between McDonalds, which has very tight processes and a largely inflexible menu, versus a gourmet burger joint which might be using a different cheese, grade of bun, larger patties, more or less condiments from one day to another.

Another example would be micro-brewed beers versus macro-brewed beers. Micro-brewed beers tend to be more exotic in their flavors and styles while sacrificing consistency, whereas macro-brewed beers tend to be very consistent in taste at the expense of flavor.

Judging from your personal preferences this probably means little to you but, usually for hedonistic reasons, it's important to most other people. The above also ignores peoples needs for social contact, desire to appear more wealthy or sophisticated than they really are etc. It's illogical but humans use these aspects as breeding tools and to trigger dopamine release. Sex and drugs.
> What if I drive 5x better and safer than the "average driver"?

How do you know that you're actually 5x better than the average driver and not just deluding yourself?
No. I'm sorry, but that is just wrong.

That someone can lift 100 kg is an objective attribute of that person.
While I can't find a source at the moment, the story I heard is that some early Google hire had ties to ETH. It's also that Google is in many ways not structure like an engineering company. Being closely connected to a school fits their management methodology quite well.

> I think in the grand scheme of things, Zurich/Switzerland has a lot to offer.

Actually no and this is the problem. If you can either stand being an expat or manage to conform to a fairly inflexible Swiss life style then it has a lot to offer.
Exactly. And we have decades of experience with monolithic apps where encapsulation is not adhered to.

So yes it is heavyweight. But it also works.
I've read around here that static linking allow compilers to remove dead code (unused symbols) from the relevant libraries. The same cannot be done for shared libraries, because you never know which symbols are unused —if any.
pity it's such a shitstorm of conservative religious interest group pandering with a touch of racism, xenophobia and homophobia at present :(
FYI: jd.com (used to be Chinese clone of Amazon) did the same a few years ago.
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AGIs aren't necessary to drive safely; a sufficiently advanced ANI will do.
I wonder if branding strategies keep their numbers down. I don't ever see a sidebar ad for Coca Cola.
I'm not sure there is any kind of exceptional software engineering cluster in Zurich compared to other major European cities.

But even if there were, it wouldn't matter to Google. There are no major network effects or cross-pollination with the ecosystem. Practically everyone who goes to work at that office is relocating from elsewhere. And if people leave, it's rarely to work at some other company in Zurich, but usually to move to another country.

I'm not saying that ETHZ and EPFL aren't great universities. I just don't see any reason to believe they are a major factor in this particular case, directly or indirectly.

(Just to give an idea of where my comments are coming from, I worked at Google Zurich for 4 years, and then another 4 doing a Zurich-based startup).
I am not referring to mysterious binary blobs retrieved from torrents or such but open source projects such as https://github.com/thermatk/FakeGApps (http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.thermatk.android.xf.fakeg...).
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Vocaloid's English support has gotten absolutely fantastic. If you're curious, here are a couple of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMc4kw45e5g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmifuQvFu8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQKGUgOfD8U

They're not for everyone, and the voices are still mechanical, but I've become a huge fan of English Vocaloid, especially Gumi.
Sounds like it: https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/781243032582578177
Yes. As far as productivity is concerned Android or iPhone did not match my blackberry. I remember typing out entire class assignments on my phone during train journeys and sending hundreds of BBM messages every day. I barely do it with iPhone. There are simply too many distractions.

I think Blackberry is a bit like Yahoo! where they focused too much on sales and marketing and did not invest well in engineering and product design. When even Gingerbread Android could detect dates in emails and let me create Calendar events based on that Blackberry could not do such a simple thing.
I think that's more gold and silver.
Actually, enormous deep-pocketed companies with good credit, like Apple, are treated very favorably by landlords. The credit behind the tenant on a leased property determines the yield. So, a building tenanted by Apple on a 20-year lease can sell for a 2% cap rate while the same building tenanted by Joe's Plumbers Inc on a 10-year lease will sell for 6%+. Apple knows that so they can negotiate cheaper price per SQM.