skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see the user better informed of hot (active) tabs. Just like there's an audio icon to help the user track down which tab is making noise, there should also be some mechanism to let the user know that a tab is more active than usual.

I'd recommend a different background color for the tab, except that I'd also like to see (sign in) profiles have distinct background colors to aid the user in keeping their profiles straight.
Since when does a divide by zero error push too many items onto the stack?
There should be a way to force-enable this for tabs, even foreground tabs. Some sites are just terrible.

I'd also appreciate it if nothing the website can do can override that. If I mute the audio, then it shouldn't be a signal, and you'll want to avoid using signals which the websites can trigger without user action.

Honestly, I'd prefer if there was some way to entirely suspend event processing on a tab, or at least timers.
No. Because increased density goes with less reliance on individual cars. The majority of people (by far) in NY or SF don't have a car already. Traffic is not bad in the densest cities of the western world, because we have much more efficient ways of moving people around: public transit.

But you also need density to sustain public transit. So you have sour spot where there's not enough density to have good public transit, but enough to create bad traffic.

Edit: see below, it's actually the majority of new households that don't have a car in many large American cities, except for NYC, in majority car-free.
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Parse Shutdown is pretty close. Where you guys are going to?
As I understand it the incentive to automate is to 1) reduce costs and to 2) increase quality by standardizing the execution of complicated tasks.

If this is true then as a general rule automation is going to target jobs of highly payed, semi-skilled workers. I think we can expect that these positions will become scarcer and scarcer as automation technologies are adopted.

One area where there's a glut of highly paid and semi-skilled workers is longshoremen (dock workers). I suspect that in the near future we'll be seeing these jobs disappear as well.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-do...
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I would agree with you 100%, but first you'll have to convince Comcast to lift my 1TB data cap. :)
How to build the next Trello and sell it for $425M or more
The footer indicates a series of alleged inventions in the pharma space by Shkreli / "Pharma Bro". I thought he was a Hedge Fund / Wall Street hack who hustled his way into the Pharma industry all the way up to CEO.

Any facts on the authenticity of these inventions he claims?

Here's the list.

- Co-Inventor of a new series of pantothenate analogs for the treatment of pantothenate kinase associated neurodegeneration, a lethal pediatric illness

- Licensor and innovator of sparsentan, the first endothelin antagonist for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a rare pediatric kidney disease

- Co-Inventor of a new series of molecules for the treatment of Canavan Disease

- Co-Inventor of a new series of molecules for the treatment of Lafora Disease

- Inventor of a fusion protein platform for the treatment of several rare genetic disorders

- Co-Inventor of a potential treatment for SLO Syndrome
> How would your hypothetical New York attorney with an appliance in a safe validate control over the example.com name?

By letting it connect to the internet and check for its challenge number on the target site.

Also, I'm not imagining lawyers, but all notaries. I actually think a 7-11 clerk could handle the job.

> All of them today require the CA/B Baseline Requirements plus whatever else takes their fancy. Issuing these certificates violates the Baseline Requirements, because the subscriber did not in fact have control of example.com, and probably not of these testN.com domains either

Sorry, I missed the story about the bonded guy losing his million-dollar bond and not ever being allowed to have a similar job. They are bonded, right? Because if not all the yada yada is worthless.

> This is the Internet, nobody cares that you've shown some balding guy who works above a liquor store a fake driving license in the name Bob Smith

This is actually a large deterrent. Because of the notary actually checking ID you know you've got a picture of the bad guy. This is the part where we stop the attack from scaling.

> - we need to know if you're really ycombinator.com or hsbc.com.hk or a-eon.biz and so the BRs require that Certificate Authorities have an effective way to validate that.

Some things you say sound like you work in the industry, and some don't. Please describe the complicated cryptographic process you think a CA employee uses to personally verify ownership of a domain...
Historical examples include the European commons system and the Mexican ejido system. I'm not an expert, but generally common resources are seen as owned by the community as a whole and there's some mechanism for jointly deciding how to use them.

As a familiar example, one could look at state and national parks. A state park is owned by the people and maintained by the government; use by individuals is controlled and negotiated. You want to camp? Great, book a spot. You want to do some logging? Maybe, but you'll need a permit. You want to clear cut and build a strip mall? Nope.

Your example of an exclusive vacation home doesn't fit well with that approach in that you're not part of the Hawaiian community. You want to control the land even when you're not there, which is ownership.

Giving up ownership for vacation property would be something more like Die Naturfreunde. My understanding is that they maintain a set of communally owned and operated guest houses around the world. There's one just north of San Francisco, a lovely hostel and beer garden in Muir Woods. If you want to be a member there, you have to consistently contribute labor to maintaining it.
How come? The tax base rate resets at the time of the transaction, and California real estate market is very robust with both new construction and resales. Many California markets have not (or have barely) recovered to pre-2008 levels, if you look at San Bernardino, Modesto or Fresno counties, also anywhere east of Sacramento and parts of Central California where property value is derived from agricultural land value, which did not do well under drought.

The only people who are freeloading under Prop 13 are those who owned their property for 20+ years, and they are freeloading in a very special way where they have been paying those property taxes for 20+ years to build those neighborhoods into desirable areas.
It mostly happens in developing nations...

You wish. You see the same crap in regional universities - faculty must do "research" with undergrads and "publish" the stuff. Back then you had campus journals run by students, but now you have predatory journals. What you don't have is administration with a clue.

Administration entered working life sometime in the early 1990s with maybe one or two papers out of their PhD, they worked their way up the ranks and have no notion what they are doing. They may even think that someone who paid OMICS Open Chemistry to print the paper they wrote about the fluff in their belly button did good work. They may even require n papers for tenure. OMICS will provide! Junior faculty need tenure too!

The axe can't fall soon enough. You can't trust academia to police itself, we need academic administrators on a separate career track to police the bloody lot.
Not directly answering your question, but Lowell HS[1] is the only high performing public HS in SF. Its admission is performance-based and is mostly Asian (56+%).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_High_School_(San_Franci...
Texture projectors don't work outdoors in bright sunlight. It's a fundamental limitation of the tech.
The real question here is what is so special about the visual input that it causes a seizure?
The real implication here is that Java behaves funny because of backwards compatibility. We're quite a distance away from < jdk1.5 days... What's the weather like to update the Java memory model or type system to take care of these obscure cases? We managed to add a new opcode to the JVM (invokeDynamic) and the world survived!
Definitions matter too. "Privilege" has lost much of its meaning [0] if "living in multiple places" is acceptable criteria.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_(social_inequality)
Ah, I used to love this article back then during my Lisp honey moon.

Today it reads like fedora tipping neckbeard porn.
Including me, thanks for the tip! First time I've ever heard of this feature.
The Computer Brain Interface Products of Today and Tomorrow
Snapchat Effects: Lenses and Filters for Face Effects
If you're still on your quest (as I am), may I suggest a few books:

- "A Course of Higher Mathematics", V. I. Smirnov.

- "Differential and Integral Calculus", N. Piskunov.

- "Problems in Mathematical Analysis", B. Demidovich.

These are amazing, great, books. Demidovich's book is a collection of more than 3000 exercises. Smirnov's book is a course that takes you from what a value means, to advanced topics (5 volumes, in 7 books). Piskunov's book is in-between (course and exercises).

These are the books we've used and went to during the first two years of Engineering.
If a page signals it's desire to opt-out of aggressive throttling, the user should be notified of this, perhaps by an icon in the tab, so that we can either close it or force the throttling.

I'm a laptop user and CPU-hungry background tabs are a huge drain on my battery life. If something is opting out of or otherwise excluded from throttling, I want to know about it.

Thanks.
That might be true, but same question :)
Existential proof by contraposition: I would attempt to disprove you, but I don't wish to sit up from the couch or put down my guitar. Therefore, you are correct (about me at least).
The principle of supercavitation continues to intrigue torpedo designers
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One of the primary functions of unions in the Netherlands is collective bargaining. Every sector has sort of a "base contract", and the union negotiates basic raises and job perks for everyone employed in that sector.
Tool pushing is an extraordinarily dangerous job. If it can be replaced by robotic handling equipment then good for humanity, I say.I'm honestly shocked there isn't more death on rigs...

I have a family member who was a tool pusher for a number of years. These jobs pay a lot because there's a lot of risk, a lot of pain and a real need to retire/transition early because of the damage to your body.
Akumuli Markedly Outperforms InfluxDB in Time-Series Data and Metrics Benchmark
Asking them to whiteboard out software design thoughts, risks, etc, for things we all commonly encounter can be revealing. Things like an ATM, slot machine, bank of elevators, red light cameras, and so forth.
Senior PM at [Open Source Enterprise Software Company]

Degree in EE --> Internship as Program Manager at Microsoft --> Moved into enterprise products --> Moved to smaller company for larger scope.

Unlike development, it's quite difficult to create small assignments for product managers that is not trivial except at large companies. A key skill in PM is being able to see the complete picture (i.e. Market, Industry, Company, Organization, Team, Person and the interactions between all these different groups) in order to make the right trade-offs for a product.

The best advice I got was from a panel done by Scott Wiltamuth (then PM director of VS) who mentioned that PM is an apprentice discipline. The only way to learn is by sitting and watching someone else who is very good at it and learn from them.
Britain starts to accept passport photos taken on mobile phones
About 30% of households in San Francisco do not own cars.[1] That's not the majority "by far." NYC is the only city in the US where the majority of households do not own a car (~56%). But "by far" still only really applies to Manhattan.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_...
Give them the same patent term but not don't start the term until it's in use rather than when it's discovered. That way their patent window is just as long when it's really needed. Pay them some small lost income type of fee to keep from selling it for widespread use until it's needed.
Building a Macroservice on Rails with RabbitMQ and Sneakers
I've hired a person without even a bachelors. They competed in Kaggle competition relevant to what we were working on, and were one of the top competitors. I reached out, hired, and it worked out well for all sides. Eventually, they left to do a startup. But we got our money's worth, and they got a decent salary for a while, and a decent spot on their resume.

I don't think the emphasis should be on Ph.D so much as on demonstrating your competence. A thesis is a way to do that. Kaggle is another. A startup is another. So is doing some interesting crunching on data sets and writing blog posts or articles. Another way is to work up from Analyst to Data Scientist to ML (or other jobs -- you might be able to start in ML at a startup at a low salary).

But if you have no track record, you'll need to get one somehow. A single course degree isn't sufficient. That's 1/32nd of a Bachelor's degree, 1/8th of a Master's, or 1/25th of a Ph.D.
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> When in the history of economics has changing nothing but making a resource _cheaper_ lead to consumption of that resource _decreasing_?

Autonomous car price will be higher, maintenance will be higher due to more costly electronics, insurance will be lower due to lower collision rate. Given these 3 unknown variables, how have you definitively concluded car price must be lower?

Finally, your economic argument is incomplete. When renting a resource is much cheaper than purchasing it outright, renting always wins.

Owning a car will be the domain of car enthusiasts, not the typical consumer.
Community works pretty well at the small scale. I know plenty of people who jointly own and use land and it works out as fine as any other social thing. E.g., cohousing, shared vacation property, areas owned by extended families, condo buildings with common areas.

It has always failed scaling it up, but maybe that's just a sign we shouldn't try to scale it up.
might want to have a learning start button which allows pausing and negative points if you buy an answer. I have a second grader that I think would play it.
VR 20 years ago was hampered by the same reasons that video game and professional graphics were: you couldn't render visually convincing detail in realtime, which greatly limited the "reality" portion of the name. Today, the graphics problem is no longer an issue.
I think the initial investment and the lifetime investment are quite different.

They are probably evaluating: 'So, what do I feel about learning Rust stuff for the next 10 years?'
I agree. I used to look at contracts as a series of logical statements with conditionals, inheritance, etc.

After going through an extremely nasty contract dispute I learned that contracts have limited value and that I should never trust anyone, even if 4 lawyers reviewed the terms.
This sounds a lot like the arguments in the 80s about how GUIs were bad because they let anyone use a computer. Empathy makes it easier to write good software.
Some of my favs when I was recruiting, all meant to probe attitude more than knowledge.

What was the worst requirement you had to meet?

Where would you store 100Mb user data? 10Gb? 1000Gb?

Preferred deploy to production strategy?

Worst process you followed? ..what did you do to make it better?
It depends.

My upload speed is awful (~30KB/s), so I limit it to 5KB/s

For higher speeds you can probably get away with limiting it to 50-90%
Even if you're not pirating stuff, it seems very difficult to automatically seed things you download. Even if you have the legitimate right to download something that doesn't necessarily mean that you also have the right to distribute it. Everything you download would have to have an appropriate licence.
> So I think doing accurate 3D requires simulating the way in which the brain picks out objects at different depths, but this can't be done simply by offering one depth of field for all viewers, since our eyes can't bounce back and forth alternately focusing a near and far object and creating the increased acuity we get in normal vision.

Depth of field isn't the only way for a cinematographer to to lead the viewer's gaze. There's also lighting, movement, scene (art direction)... Tricks that have been used in live theater for centuries. The depth issue really boils down to a lack of cinematic artistry, probably due to the lack of experience that filmmakers and audiences have with 3D.

Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" is probably the most artistic use of 3D I've seen to date.
More european ones? Nets maybe?
Firefox. Maybe chrome has it as well, but Firefox does look like Chrome if you're not looking closely these days.
SDKs for experimenting and launching new features
Cisco unveils Spark Board, a digital whiteboard for brainstorming and presenting
The problem I have with these boards that pop up is that they get announced, they aren't quite compatible with the popular alternative (the Raspberry Pi), so you buy one and it ends up sitting in a shelf somewhere. I still remember the whole Intel Edison disaster.

These days, the primary decider of which board I'll use is how big the ecosystem is. The Raspberry Pi ecosystem (as well as the Arduino ecosystem) is huge, so that's definitely a big plus. Other alternatives, for example the ESP8266, that are compatible with the "big player" (in this case the Arduino), get this advantage for free.
One day seems easy. How does that transfer to keeping an interest in long project(months/years) ?
Voodoo Manufacturing raises $1.4M to make a factory full of 3D printers
I see online many negative comments about Rockchip, anyone have numbers or know how Rockchip would affect development, compared to a RPi?
I did a basic UI design for a site that would produce the place on Earth that a user would most like to live, based on a lot of tunable parameters. It's a very big project and I'll never get to it, but maybe you can find some ideas that are interesting enough to implement. Shoot me a mail and I'll send you the ppt.
Why don't we have a test for big subset?
Businesses can and will adapt to the age of populism
If there really is a disgust for his treatment of the press. I think the press could start by ignoring his twitter feed and "alternative fact" stories. His strategy is to make us distrust our information sources and the "media" is playing into it directly. It would be best for all involved if the press began reporting on facts and not comparing them to the rubbish he and his administration says. Especially when they are about things that are seemingly important to only Trump (inauguration turnout, who's a loser, etc.). At this point I would go as far as to say that any coverage of press conferences would be best to just provide direct full quotation with hyperlinks to other direct quotations or measurable facts from trustable sources that are contradictory. The only way to fight back is to take the higher ground. If he treats the press the way he does now, the best strategy is for the press core to END the press conference by ceasing questions and leaving. If all he's going to do is avoid, insult and lie then there's no news, he's been doing all of that since long before he ever thought of running for president.
Not right now.

Maybe in the future. Especially 'hardware and software to run the self-driving system' will cost a few dollars (small computer, zero amortized cost of software)
Develop them on a prize basis or as government IP is one way.

Another way is to shelve the start of the patent window along with the drug. If we know it works but it's not needed yet, don't start the countdown to patent expiration until it is needed.

The former perhaps lowers costs for the drug more effectively. The latter gives more incentive to the drug companies to keep doing their research.
You forgot about protecting minorities. What do you do when the majority of the people in a jurisdiction like (eg.) Mississippi consistently vote down land use by black people? Just accept that the people have spoken and that black people are unwelcome in that jurisdiction?

This is not a theoretical exercise. This happens everyday in America in co-op boards, HOAs, etc and it doesn't require anybody saying out loud why an individual is being rejected. The current US president got caught doing this in the 1960s. If you want to redesign land use rights wholesale I would hope you wouldn't make this kind of discrimination more common... maybe that's just me.
Main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13472553
> Wellll, 33% of your revenue being cut means a lot of people get fired and services degrade so I would not say it's symbolic.

And if they have borrowed, then immediate bankruptcy
Equivalent sensors are available from various mainstream manufacturers retail for cheap....

https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Kinect-...

https://www.asus.com/ca-en/3D-Sensor/Xtion_PRO_LIVE/

(launching soon:)

http://click.intel.com/intel-realsense-developer-kit-r200.ht...
It is worth pointing out that it is the exploratory, fracturing and 'setting up' of a well that demands the most work and labor. Once they're pumping, you don't need nearly the same amount of help.

After the pricing downturn, the number of exploratory/new wells and re-fracturing of old wells declined remarkably, so it's not like they actually 'need' as many people on the oil field. If oil goes back above, say 60$/barrel you'll start seeing more hiring/exploration in ND. Right now they can profitably pump extant wells, but new wells will wait for demand...
I live in a developing country, and I assure you it's much worse here. I know it _also_ happens in the developed world, that's why I wrote "mostly" in developing nations. The problem exists everywhere, though, and tends to increase.
FYI: The leak first appeared on Reddit on Jan 12, 2017: https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/5nk69m/presto...
A good counter to this problem for the interviewer is to pick something that is extra-domain to your problem space. A previous employer I worked with used "Design the object model of a Chicken" as a starting point. The interviewers would then act as a potential client and we'd go back and forth with the candidate over their approach.

Definitely rough on candidates, but it does give a reasonable window into their thought processes and who the interact with other people.
Linus: “Today we're half-way between Linux 4.0 and 5.0.” (2016)
What were the locals doing in Tokyo? I think you may have been experiencing more an issue of being an outsider (and possibly being shunned a bit for that) than of actually experiencing an insurmountable issue.
That's not really fair, the Tea Party (and a broadening coalition of conservatives) did an amazing job of using activism to increase their influence.
I think that possibly the amount of land he's claiming for personal use could be a problem as well. But this too is an option available to him under the law.
My background is that I did my undergrad at JHU, then did applied Machine Learning research for two years at Amazon, and now I'm a PhD student in ML/DL. I was very into ML during undergrad, so overall I have ~7 years of experience.

My view is that Machine Learning is a deep field which could take decades to fully appreciate, but which is also easily accessible, especially if one is interested in building applications.

I think that a good litmus test for ML expertise is asking someone what % of all NIPS papers from last year they'd be able to understand well enough to reproduce after a quick reading.

https://nips.cc/Conferences/2016/AcceptedPapers

Even though I have ~7 years of experience doing ML, I would say that I could probably only fully appreciate ~10% of all NIPS papers.