skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could combine it with every source of movies that I have access to.
I was specifically replying to your "non-whites are invisible" remark. Just because this article clearly concentrates on the white non-college educated demographic that doesn't make non-whites "invisible".
Luckily, I had two choices for unlimited high speed internet - Comcast business - $120 for 50/10 - and AT&T Gigapower (1000/1000) for $70/month.

With Google still nipping at AT&Ts heel in my area, hopefully it will keep everyone honest.
No, the load is not on the critical path, so it is not normally part of the overhead.
How is that different from normal trading? Swapping something you don't need much for something you do, while your trading partner does the same. It's always been done, but some players (ebay for example) made it a bit easier. "Pay people for stuff more easily" doesn't sound as new and trendy as "the sharing economy" though.
This is fantastic! Before going back for my PhD, I taught college, including the groan-inducing "Intro to Computers", where students basically learn Microsoft Office. I'd been a big complaint of mine that the course I was teaching was just filling a checkbox and not necessarily teaching people how to use the computer.

While I think word processing and spreadsheets are prime candidates, things like Access or the level of unnecessary detail that we'd go into on some topics (like formatting to make it look nice) were unneeded and could be better spent on different topics, like researching online and even graphics.

Its refreshing to see something like this that doesn't force any brand to teach the CORE concepts.
The insurance industry was on the taxi industry's side in the lobbying effort, so as to reduce insurance fraud.

Freeloading hurts everyone.
So far, the vast majority of people I have heard complain about Uber are people that don't rely on public transportation.

Fortunately, I think we've gotten past the point in the argument where everyone realizes that it's great for the consumer (Uber running a loss to make it so) right now, but few people are talking about what it's like for the drivers as well. There's valid arguments made about how much/little they're making, at times, but that's not an inherently Uber thing. Talk to anyone in a warehouse, corner store, gas station (and a seemingly uncountable many more occupations) across the country and you have the same conversation. Market forces are driving wages down, everywhere, for everyone, doing unskilled work.

One of the key differences I'm seeing is that Uber appears to be the pinnacle of voluntary, elastic, labor - at the discretion of the laborer. If the driver doesn't want to work today, or tomorrow, or all next week; they just don't turn on the app. I'm not aware of any backlash from Uber when drivers don't log in. Try finding any other job that allows that level of autonomy. That's the most free kind of work environment I can think of, and that's value that shouldn't be ignored.
> standardized test scores

I think H1Bs should only be used for highly skilled specialist roles with a minimum pay grade like 150k (adjusted for local cost of living). In that scenario, a standardized test would either be no more useful than measuring by degree possession, or would not be able to aid the search to employ highly skilled niche specializations.

I am personally upset because my employer successfully hired an unskilled and unqualified H1B "masters degree" (who also is not fluent in English) to perform the duties equivalent to a 3rd year computer science student. Either this person should have never been hired, or if they should have been hired, they should have been hired by a better employer. Either we imported a bad candidate, or we imported a good candidate and squandered his talent for work we should have hired literally any fresh BS in CS candidate for. Of course, my employer is happy because he's paying less than fair market value for entry level work. This has undisputedly displaced a local citizen from work.

What upsets me the most about this is that there is a company willing to pay to import a 150k+ highly skilled, rare, and valuable candidate and my employer may have been responsible for blocking that.
That's a big "+" on your figure - it's about 300 Watt-hours per mile, or 3600W constantly, if you're going 60 mph. For comparison, one horsepower is about 750 watts - a Tesla is a very low-drag car.

Anandtech reported [1] that the TDP of the whole board is around 250W. The Tegra SoCs are probably around 10W, but that doesn't get you much in the way of GPU horsepower.

1: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9903/nvidia-announces-drive-px...
Thank you. But what would be the preferred way to load the installed libraries then? (Sorry, I rarely read style books.)
A little bit slow on my mobile
Cool/interactive logo on the web page -- how is that done ?
Am I the only one to think that HN just needs anyway a little revamping?
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message me at "somid3" at google's email service for consumers.
On the one hand, I'm inclined to think not. Having said that, I do wonder if the rapid improvements (and sometimes impressive results) in certain narrow domains are misleading a lot of people to assume that all that's needed is continued incremental improvement.

As a case in point, while voice recognition has indeed gotten quite good with the right kind of microphones (e.g. Amazon Echo), the natural language processing and other "smarts" to use that as a basis for even a subpar by human admin standards digital assistant seems to still be reasonably far away. And that doesn't even require interfacing with the physical world.
Haha, I'm sure some intern at Palantir is now also writing a Java SWT to Blueprint translator. The poor soul.
"I very much doubt anyone at the time thought the killing of a minor European royal would lead to the death of 17 million people."

I've seen that mistake made before, but coming from someone who claims knowledge of history, it is galling!

Saying Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a minor royal is a tiny bit like saying that Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, was a minor royal. Franz Ferdinand was very likely going to be the next Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary.

While heir presumptive to the throne might not be quite as good as being heir apparent, it's still far from being some kind of minor figure. Also, one influential Austrian statesman had been clamoring for war for quite some time. And he was held in check mostly by Franz Ferdinands opposition to his war plans. Not a feat to be accomplished by a nonentity. You couldn't have killed anyone better suited to finally kick off that war. It's absolutely true, though, that it kind of got out of hand.
Juno takes only 10% I believe. It's a worker cooperative where longtime drivers are given shares
Context switches are cheap because context switches are cheap. You can, with enough finnegaling, make the "indirect costs" of anything arbitrarily high.
Some of those surprise me. I would have expected to see sources like NYT and NPR as more popular with the right than sources like MSNBC and Huffington Post.

edit: I suppose there might be a selection effect. The large networks are watched by everyone, and the smaller ones are sought out.
> But why should it be tried at national level? Real progress would mean letting individual schools innovate.

Because then the new schools can be discriminated against, thus skewing the data on the effectiveness of this approach. No such problem if everyone has the same background.
Pretty much the same situation in Germany. That paper really only applies to the US, in Europe the whole shopping culture is so different it's hardly comparable.

Starting with the fact that Europe is much less car focused, which leads to more trips with smaller amounts being bought each time. The more condensed European cities lend themselves to that kind of behaviour, since the trips are going to be pretty short and likely to be made on a bike, walking, or using public transport.

From my experience, I would estimate maybe 20% of checkouts include a 10c bag, the rest just use their own backpacks, cotton bags or the reusable sturdy kind of plastic bags. I don't even know when I last saw someone buy multiple 10c bags to carry their groceries.
It's whataboutism to remember - in response to a post about the "freedom" of the nascent and noble USA (that politicians these days of course just walk all over) - the historical reality that even some of the people who signed the Declaration Of Independence did not live by or rule by the ideals within the document?

It's pretty laughable, actually, that some people here are so thin skinned as to take issue with or dismiss actual facts, because they fly in the face of the fantasy version of history they want to believe.
I've never been as busy as the past 4 months. I don't reply to emails that requires lengthy text. If I can reply by "Yes", "No" or any of the derivatives then you'll get an answer from me.

If you have a problem, what do you think is the solution? If you need something, what exactly do you need? You want to contact me, what's your phone number and when are you available? You don't feel great, why? How can we solve the problem?

It's super important to not hurt people feelings and speak right and that takes a lot of my time (especially as a non-native English speaker.)

On the other end I commit to read every emails.
I feel some sarcasm here, but honestly I agree with you. It's difficult to talk about it usually.
Mostly agree, though worth pointing out in your analysis that the median household (not person) makes an aggregate of $25/hr, not $60. The average American is over twice as poor as the assumption you made in your calculation. In the bay area alone it's better, but still only around $35/hr, about 50% poorer. Median household income is like 70-75k in the bay area.
This browser extension organizes your PDF files on the fly
They are using deep learning and also other sensors may contribute to the depth map (assuming they have one).
Disclaimer: not only did I upvote you but I totally agree with you. HOWEVER, it's not clear to me whether people are comprehending the tradeoff you describe. That is CRITICAL.

I keep hearing about Hadoop and Spark for graphs and models, but in actual practice (WHICH DEPENDS ON THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF THE DATA), an awful lot of data-feeding problems are more easily solved by columnar data stores, or graph data stores. For text mining and NLP, you are almost certainly better off with redundant unstructured storage due to the fundamentally unstructured nature of text and communications. For massively parallel model exploration sometimes it's better just to spin up a bunch of huge EC2 instances. Hadoop and/or Spark aren't necessarily critical aspects of solving the problem. Once you get a redundant, distributed infrastructure to run things on, you may not need to jerk around with name nodes and boring HA grunt work. Sometimes an existing purpose-built implementation (often on top of well-oiled infrastructures) does the trick. Sometimes not.

One interesting project I've kept an eye on (OK I lied, I'm a contributor) is storage of genomic data against a distributed, graph-structured reference. It's really fucking hard. Even with Google, UCSC, the Broad, and the usual heavyweights involved, the milestones have occurred on a timescale of years, and the eventual adoption is projected on a scale of decades. This is with some of the best in the world working on it, in every time zone. Again: DECADES.

So... I'm not against distributed computation. But you had better damned well know what you're getting into. I worked at Google. I work on GA4GH. If you can afford to take the long view, maybe your problems are complicated enough to invest in that sort of infrastructure.

But maybe they aren't, and Amazon or Google or Microsoft has already built what you need because they needed it too, and they hired a hundred graduates from the best engineering schools in the world to support their implementation. Is it worth reinventing the wheel when there are people racing at Formula 100 level out there? Only you can answer that.

There's a reason people don't swat flies with Buicks. Sometimes all you really need is a flyswatter.
I will be a little sarcastic - using sub-optimal/locally-optimal algorithms everywhere in ML due to time complexity, why would you expect it would bring nice/predictable results? It's more like a miracle if you find something that works, otherwise you will be hitting the usual hard problems from optimization and end up in a "catch-as-you-can" situation where even Monte Carlo randomness is a good guess. And way too many people assume ML is just applied statistics, always keeping their minds in this frame and missing out on the large data ML capabilities where statistics is irrelevant and you can directly ask and find answers to many fundamental questions in your dataset.
Yes, I've told him the same and he already realized before I told him. He happens to be an aspiring programmer in his early 20s but never seems to have the time to actually learn programming, chasing his tail to keep rent going and helping his partially employed mother. I imagine other Uber driver's having similar or other reasons of being locked into a cycle of just getting by. I was luckier as I had plenty of time to read and do homework working at a very unbusy gas station in my youth. Driving Uber takes up too much of your attention and time, definitely making you sleepier and unhealthier, sitting all day and eating fast food on the road in an often stressful environment.
They did not change the css since a loooonnng time I guess.
Had my first bad experience with Airbnb just recently. The property turned out to be in a horrible state (I could write a long list) even though it had very good reviews. I did book three months in advance. Bad idea. When the issues started becoming apparent, I was already behind the one-day limit for the Guest Refund Policy to be applicable (that is, if you encounter any issues, you must inform AB on the check-in day, or the policy doesn't apply).

So I lost a lot of money. Long term policy specifies that you must pay 30 days starting from the cancellation day.

And I was stuck in Morocco with my 12 month old.

Luckily we found a better property. However, Airbnb not refunding me showed that 1) They have no actual understanding of the state of the property 2) They don't care.

The disproportion between the reviews and my experience and their unwillingness to be fair totally ruined my faith in Airbnb.
More than a little for my LG G3
Have you worked in education?

By self-directed, I don't mean let the kids roam the streets. For example the teacher and student would decide on a project individually or in a small group, then pick any resources the student might need ahead of time and limit them to those resources in a quiet room. This should include access to a Linux laptop with educational websites and online apps whitelisted. Being self-directed is an important skill to have in life, and I'm surprised that so many people here are mystified as to why kids and adults alike don't have it -- because most school systems don't teach it!
The documentation page does render legibly on mobile. It looks nice but that doesn't bode well for the library...
When I was taking the MIT analog circuits class, they were showing the differential equation for RLC circuits and the teacher explained that these were figured out via "guesswork". Apparently these equations are not solveable using a step by step simple transformation. If you plug them into Mathematica, it won't know how to solve them. Some really smart mathematicIan figured them out intuitively.

This is what machine learning to me feels like. We just hook this stuff together and some really smart guy with a fractional Ramanujen worth of natural intuition says it will work and it does, especially for the really complex image recognition models. Have you guys looked at Google's "inception" architecture? It's a huge rube Goldberg machine of many many layers and it does work, but there's not a lot of reasoning about why it was designed the way it was.
Xiaomi's Mi Mix Has the Best Battery Life on Any Smartphone I've Ever Seen
Free market doesn't mean that the government wouldn't be allowed to set basic standards which must be complied with.

When I read that the income for Uber drivers goes as low as 8 US$/hr after deductions/costs, I think regulations are not uncalled for.

(Regarding Merkel, it's difficult, won't comment)
I recently offered an Excel for Farmers email-based video course. 279 sales. Avg price of $21.

It's been a good way to generate a bit of revenue for my bootstrapped business. But maybe more valuable as a way to generate leads for our software business (spreadsheets can't do everything!).

https://www.harvestprofit.com/blog/excel-for-farmers-course
The man browses the web by sending email requests to a special gateway and reading the replies when they come back. The only real difference between him and a more run-of-the-mill technophobe is that his cutoff for acceptable technology is around 1985 rather than 1950.
If it were unilateral action by China, the impact on China might be big. But if they can could a couple other big economies to go along, and if they all stopped both exports to and imports from the US, then the impact would just be the size of their trade surpluses with the US, not the size of their exports to the US, and much of their exports that would have gone to the US could go to other countries to replace the US exports to those other counties.
It's incredibly freaking amazing if they are using deep learning to drive via mainly cameras only 98 percent of the time. No one else can do that. 98 percent is obviously a lot.
I always try to use the same keyboard at home and at work (mine is a Qpad 85 with cherry mx red), typing on a laptop is a real pain.
It's identity politics on the right too you know.
White christian identity.
For infrequently updated websites at aren't very popular (so their new articles wouldn't show up on your Facebook or Twitter feeds), I don't think there are good alternatives to RSS: I guess you can stop reading them or remember to visit them every now and then.

Certainly the stop-reading-those-websites option is easier to setup than an RSS reader. Maybe that's the "solution" most people adopt?
Some of what you outlined aren't rights. Some are really issues of equal protection under the law. Sometimes political groups try to mischaracterize these issue as rights but they are overextending.
Alibaba Singles' Day festival generates more sales than Black Friday at Amazon
> who've bought or rented their homes with the expectation of a residential area, not living next to a hotel.

Well, if you are xenophobic then maybe you should buy a farm somewhere nowhere when you won't be seeing strangers.
Key points (for the TL;DR):

- The White Working Class (WWC) liked Trump

- Manly dignity is a big deal for most men. Trump promises to deliver it.

- Brookings Institution argues that men must resign themselves to working in “pink collar jobs” — those known by the acronym HEAL, for health, education, administration and literacy. Not manly

- WWC women voted for Trump over Clinton by a whopping 28-point margin — 62% to 34%.

- WWC men want stable, full-time jobs (not minimum wage) that deliver a solid middle-class life to the 75% of Americans who don’t have a college degree. Trump promises that.

- Obamacare delivered health care to 20 million people. WWC see it as just another program that taxed the middle class to help the poor

- Class conflict now closely tracks the urban-rural divide. In the huge red plains between the thin blue coasts, shockingly high numbers of working-class men are unemployed or on disability, fueling opioid use

- Free-trade deals bring net positive GDP gains, but overlook the blue-collar workers who lost work as jobs left for Mexico or Vietnam

- Massive funding is needed for community college programs linked with local businesses to train workers for well-paying new economy jobs. Clinton mentioned this but didn't stress it

- Don't write off WWC anger as nothing more than racism. It's more class cluelessness

- If we don’t take steps to bridge the class culture gap, when Trump proves unable to bring steel back to Youngstown, Ohio, the consequences could turn dangerous.
Looks ok, but why not lift states to the type level and define transitions as extension methods? Then attempts to make an invalid transition are compile-time type errors.

Edit: ha, just noticed a comment on the blog saying the same thing. The example can be encoding C# too using extension methods and generic parameters.
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With a Cuckoo’s Journey from China, a Mystery Is Solved
One can use quicklisp bundles so that the user doesn't have to install quicklisp and download dependencies themselves

https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/bundles.html
This is impressive, I can cover lot's of UI scenarios with it. I also like the first class CSS/HTML API that they have, so I could use them without React. And they seem to have Accessibility covered (need to dive in a bit more), but this is super important. And at last, I dig the visual style, which has good affordances. A nice contrast to Material Design.
OpenBazaar – Truly Free Trade Through Crypto
This article gave me (Bay Area dude) some great perspective on what motivated people to vote Trump.
What I like the most is that the UI is just really nice and clean
GM will help you lease a car to drive for Uber in San Francisco
D3.js in Action 2nd Edition, Updated for D3v4
Here’s a Major Health Reason to Get Outside During the Wintertime
So women are now committing suicide at the same rate as men?
A little bit slow on my laptop, nevermind mobile. Not good signs.
Show HN: A PC case made with Lego
"alsa-lib-1.0.29.tar.bz2" is part of the OSS compliance download package they released.

(See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938817)
This looks great. Nice to see a complete UI toolkit with context menus, sortable tables, hotkeys and editable text along with all the normal tooltips, navs, and UI widgets. Bonus points for both sass and less support. Looking forward to trying this out.
Arguments shouldn't be disqualified based on their source alone, but at the same time they shouldn't be accepted just because they appear academically rigorous, have charts, etc. This comes from Reason which is a right-wing think tank funded by the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil, among others. So, definitely some close examination is needed before accepting any of their conclusions.

Have any of us taken a close look at the arguments contained within? I noticed that on page 44 where it finally gets into the meat of the argument in environmental impacts, it actually noted that given the projections of San Francisco's office of the comptroller, the ban actually has positive effects. Then it constructs its own "scenario 2" under which is would have negative effects. And then as far as I can see it never argues which scenario is valid! It just jumps to a conclusion later on (p56) that things are "uncertain" so a ban is therefore "irrational".

That just smacks of propaganda draped in the clothes of academia. For some counter arguments see: http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/10/08/californias-plas...
HyperNormalisation trailer [video]
I wish web based UI-toolkit creators would focus on WebComponents. They can easily be used as leaf-elements in almost any framework.
"nearly 1 in 4 white women ages 50 to 64 is taking an antidepressant, according to federal health officials."

This is the saddest thing. My wife remarked that there was a weird sense of expectancy that if you were a white female of middle age you were expected by your peers to be taking anti-depressants.
Canvas.
very neat, i am definitely going to be trying this out on a new side project