skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
really hard to find good materials, here are few I found

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo1.shtml

https://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2016/12/13/overview-of-the-v...
This can't really be solved by individual consumers. Instead, the government should introduce laws to ensure that drivers make at least minimum wage (after fuel, maintenance, taxes etc). If that is not enough, it might be necessary to raise the minimum wage.
Website Yellow Pages. Take a look at the categories list for an idea of how sites were cataloged:
http://rdf.dmoz.org/rdf/categories.txt
There's no reason to. First, you're incentivizing people to leave if you offer to buy their stock - its one form of golden handcuffs. Second, its generally such small percentages that it's not worth the time.
Talking with a cfo, the only time you'll likely see this is if the company raises a new round and asks the new investors to earmark some of the money for existing employees. But the percentage will be limited, and won't be given to people who already left.
Perhaps you'd prefer Nicholas Eberstadt's recent article in Commentary: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/our-miserable-21...
Which, I'll point out, would be a vast improvement for our environmental impact...
If the evidence at that point was damning he wouldn't have been biased (don't know enough, but I suspect I very well could have been) rather than operating from the evidence.
The number one reason you don't use Lyft is because of tipping? What do you use instead, Uber, taxi, or do you drive? If it's the first, how do you justify using Uber when its practices are significantly worse than an optional tipping for the users? If it's the second, how do you justify using a taxi when tips (in the US) are almost mandatory?
And then they can deport you for doing paid work on a tourist visa!
I am utterly speechless. I would completely fail if this was asked of me after traveling 23+ hours and jetlagged and not to mention being unprepared. Software Engineers in the Bay Area are given weeks to prepare for questions like balancing a BST.
> Pleurisy seems to be the catch-all default diagnosis for when they can't find anything wrong and just want you to go away. There isn't actual evidence in favor of pleurisy, just the inability to find something else wrong

It's a valid diagnosis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis_of_exclusion

I once waited four hours to see a doctor because of a sharp pain in the left side of my chest when I breathed more than shallow. The doctor told me it was probably a muscle spasm and to take some Advil. I thought "what an asshole" as I left.

About 20 minutes later, someone told me a joke, I laughed, and was cured. Turns out the doctor was right.

If you had ECG, x-ray, CT scan, echo, and everything looks fine, then the treatment is the same regardless. If you think you had a panic attack or hurt your back, then communicate that to your doctor. It's important.

Edit: thought I'd mention: my wife is currently diagnosed with pleurisy. She went to the ER due to shortness of breath and chest pain a month ago. We've done all the tests possible. She's still in quite a bit of pain. Pleurisy usually takes months to resolve. If you were diagnosed and it disappeared within a day or a week, then you were likely misdiagnosed. However, it does not necessarily mean the prescribed treatment was erroneous.
I guess it's slightly better than sending seventeen 1.44M floppy disks in the mail. Slightly. ;-)
> I'm absolutely in favor of Uber/Lift charging whatever is necessary to pay their drivers properly.

Ok, great, but they don't, so the practical effect of your stand against tipping is less money for these drivers.

And why? Because you find it socially awkward? That's why it's better to have it in the app. You just get out of the car and it drives away. Then you select the tip in the app. Way better than Uber's system of "hand the driver some ones."

> The signal that hiding tips away sends is "the service provider is being compensated already", and if you want to make an extra effort to pay them more you can, but it's not required of you.

I agree that's the signal, but that doesn't mean it's true.
The Alternate Universe without a computer mouse
please check for existing discussions before submitting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13757628

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13760405
What’s it like to work at Quip as a Software Engineer?
Have you tried using IntelliJ?
That is a terrible idea, for many reasons, and it would not reduce CO2 emissions... probably the opposite.

A much better idea would be to reserve petroleum and natural gas for production of high value products such as plastics, instead of using it as an energy source now that renewable energy is competitive on cost.
I.e. Windows 95, more or less.
Bezie has some overlap, but the use case is a bit different. There are a couple of VSTs like LFO Tool and MIDIShaper that allow you to create a fixed width shape and toggle how many bars it should stretch over. In Bezie, if you select 8 bars, you'll literally get 8 bars to automate. As an example, if you wanted to map a couple different parameters to play with a song transition or drop, it'd make sense in Bezie, not so much in the others.
Ask HN: What's the most expensive physical item that can be bought online?
- There has to be a URL to a webpage indicating that a particular item (not a quantity or bundle) is for sale, along with a specific price.

- You have to be able to add it to a shopping cart and checkout with payment by cc or wire transfer.

- You take delivery and physical possession of the actual item, and that is the end of the transaction.

- Must not require any interaction with a salesperson, no extra contracts that need to be signed, etc

- No equities, real estate, or intangibles.

- Must be multiple available (no one-of-a-kind items, no bay, etc). Enough for anyone in this thread who can afford one to be able to get their own.

- No simple pricetag mistakes.

- The price can be in any currency but should be converted to USD in the comment.

- Must be able to order in the U.S.

- Extra credit if they accept bitcoin or international orders.

This rules out all of the entries on the "most expensive things ever purchased online" lists and everything else that comes up from a cursory search.

The best I've found so far is a 1 kilo gold bar: http://www.jmbullion.com/gold/gold-bars/ for $40k
Haven't checked that out - I'll take a look. Thanks!
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The relation might not be linear though.
Interestingly this article on HN last week addressed the finding that while stents are often prescribed for chest pain symptoms it is doubtful they have a more favorable outcome than other treatments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13713563#13716162
I have never used the any of the 3 services you describe except the bus, can you or someone else explain how the driver makes less when taking on more passengers? Surely that works in an opposite way to the bus. The more paying passengers using the bus service simultaneously, the greater the margin per vehicle. But for some reason Uber turns this on its head?

Note: I am a country bumpkin who grew up in the sticks and still lives in the sticks, I had to learn how to bus as an adult. Forgive my ignorance.
Hopefully us former employees see some liquidity before driverless wipes these companies out. The value of ride dispatching aggregators is in the driver network. Apps and cars are easy to make.
A lot of gas stations here ask "Do you want a car wash for $x.xx" directly on the gas pump after you slide your card. If gas stations just added "Do you want carbon neutral for $x.xx" I think many would push yes in the right markets and a reasonable $x.xx value.
I didn't say the rating wasn't also awkward. Though that's sort or convenient in its way, once you understand its unwritten social rule, since that boils it down to me just having to make a snap decision of "was this ride bad enough that I want this driver to get fired? If so... 4 stars."

(Yes, I think the 1-5 star rating scheme has its own notable flaws based on how Uber seems to use it.)
Both organisations' underwriting credits raise plenty of questions.

For much of the 1970s and 1980s, major PBS programming was funded by oil companies (Mobil in particular, if you watched Masterpiece Theater). Today, Nova receives heavy funding from Koch sources. Even nonprofit sources are tainted -- the John Templeton Foundation (look it up) has a very specific agenda, and there is/was a two-part series, "The Real Adam Smith", which was essentially a straight-up, full-on propaganda piece put out by the Mont Pelerin Society / Atlas Network, funded by Templeton, and with Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW's name specifically attached to the production. The content is highly slanted, and I found (and find) the whole matter exceedingly questionable.

I'm not saying there isn't a lot of good work coming through PBS, NPR, PRX, and similar sources. Or that the quality isn't, generally, vastly superior to commercial media. But that bar is set miles below floor level, and the problems with co-option of public media have been increasing with time.

Part of that I attribute to "Woozle's Epistemic Paradox": because of a high percentage of the population being present, there is now substantial power to be had by influencing the discussions that take place.

A problem which attaches to other (really, any) media, including online: BBSes, Usenet, Geocities, Facebook, Reddit, HN.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5wg0hp/when_ep...
I'm going to disagree with you hear. The list provided is absolutely non-essential. I mean, are you kidding me? To believe otherwise absolutely astonishes me. We think of it as an extravagance if we pay $50/month for our daughter to take a dance class. $200/month maybe, if all the kids are in a single class of some sort, but $2000?! Not happening, even if we could afford it.
I suppose somebody had bad experience with them. Don't know whether it's the case here, but often the downvoted post indicates that the company does not bother answering to applications or posts advertisment of a position for months but not really looking for anybody or something else is wrong.
I never said adults stop learning. It would be terrible if we did.

But spoken language, absolutely true. For example, my wife speaks three languages fluently. But she dreams in Bulgarian, because that's what she is. I've been programming since I was six. Now, almost 50, I see virtually everything as a process (which is not a good thing, just as my wife). I strongly suspect that I think as I do because of what I've been doing every day for over forty years.

I didn't mean to offend. Clearly adults can learn and many can reach professional level with strong dedication. You are obviously one of them. But I still suspect that the children the OP teaches will get far more out of the lessons than the parents if they are taught in the same manner. Ask yourself if you ever think, count, dream etc in Arabic?
Uber. It's just mentally easier to deal with. After spending time in other countries, I have come to dislike tipping. Having to decide --do they deserve it, do they not? I don't want to deal with it. Tipping used to be an optional thing in transactions but it has become pervasive. Tipping jars. Just charge me more and pay the barista a wage a highschooler or recent graduate can live on.
The same ones who were dumb enough to invest in Uber I guess.
Same here as a happy Wii U owner. Skipping the Switch unless there's some very compelling content and I don't know what that would be. It's essentially the Wii U all over again but you can take it out of the house. I don't care about that.

It might be a little more compelling if they kept the processing in the dock and the handheld was a thin-client, requiring a home network or internet connection to stream from it. Battery life would improve at least.
IMHO the title coming from mods sounds better. Your title seemed like you're explicitly advertising for BigQuery.
<quote> Want to disrupt the heart attack market?</quote>

Might be a good idea! Just don't stop there and be more ambitious. Kill the heart attack market as much as you can by making this technology widely available to those that need it at no cost. Find different ways to earn something from it...

If there is one thing that has been proven over and over again, it's that the market and health care don't go together in terms of efficiency. I'm not even touching the ethics angle here...

When I hear the n-th iteration of the basic income discussion and the "useless" class, health care strikes me as the area to make a real difference in, much more than "basic income". Because even the "useless" class will find ways to sustain itself, given adequate health.
MIDI notes are definitely out of scope for Bezie - I've had a couple of ideas, but they all make sense as separate utilities.
In Eiffel, a value type is known as an expanded class and it can be given as default class attribute, or when declaring a variable. So generic instantiation will do the right thing depending on the class attributes.

Modula-3 supports value types just like any Algol language, you just need to provide the types you want when instatiating a generic module interface. Modula-3 generics work at module level.

Here is an example for numeric types, with a generic module for all numeric operations:

https://github.com/modula3/cm3/blob/d31f6ca184c66755317ba990...

Specialized to LONGINT.

https://github.com/modula3/cm3/blob/d31f6ca184c66755317ba990...

https://github.com/modula3/cm3/blob/d31f6ca184c66755317ba990...

It is a bit convoluted, but it isn't easy to track down a simple example.
Out-of-office email patent
Bad information. From the noaa website [0], a more scientific assessment reports:

"It is premature to conclude that human activities–and particularly
greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming–have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity."

So no detectable increase (even statistically, which I consider to be a much weaker requirement than actual subjective experience).

[0] https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
Not in Germany, kernels and routers need! To be locked by law.

I accidentally updated without know. Now I'm locked...
It's amazing for sales of heavy/bulky products. We're selling rather simple apps that just visualize a product on a nicely produced marker to manufacturers of all sorts. Workflow for their sales teams is pretty much...take marker to customer or event, use iPad or another tablet to show it. Sometimes we add simple interactions like tapping on things to change colors and the like.
We keep raising the price and still haven't reached the point where sales get hard.

This is pretty much the simplest possible AR (one object via marker and handheld device). Decent AR glasses are quite good in warehouses etc...basically think heads up display. Mixed reality seems to be focused on meetings/conversations in all the samples but I'm sure there's other interesting applications. We've experimented with tracking buildings and so on and I can see adding stats and info to real world objects.

The tech isn't quite there yet (FOV), interaction will remain a big barrier for quite some time (imo). There will also be some interesting ethical questions that need to be asked once we really "get there" and the objects get so real that they are hard/impossible to distinguish. Think about facial recognition+overlays of different faces etc.
To me, it's fairly obvious that it can be stressful having to choose between a number of options in cases where the social expectations are unclear. It's partly for this same reason other situations can be stressful, like first dates, job interviews, encounters with police, discussing bad news, etc.

Now, I don't think that's sufficient to say that all tipping is to be avoided, but I certainly understand the urge to avoid it, ceteris parabus.
Maybe not for heart disease, but stress should be number one for health overall because it affects all the other things you mentioned: sleep, appetite, exercise, and smoking.

With the principals being able to work 18h days, I think their discipline plays a huge part, as you wrote, and maybe they're outliers who naturally cope with these demands better than the average person. I personally can't sustain 12h days for more than a month.
Uh, daycare wasn't on the list. After school care was. Different animal.

And yes, I'm going to be normative here and suggest as a society we do an awful lot of offloading our kids into the care of others. And if we're doing that, why the hell did we have them in the first place?
This is a lot lower than I expected. I wish governments would just add this as a tax directly. But seems almost impossible in the current political climate.
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So I take it you develop in QBASIC?
the sbt config has been the worth part for me. I could never fully understand the syntax (or let say API because it's scala, but really those operators ...).
Their messaging is a bit strange. They write:

> For the last twelve days we've been reviewing our logs to see if there's any evidence to indicate that a hacker was exploiting the bug before it was patched. We’ve found nothing so far to indicate that was the case.

right after they explain:

> Cloudbleed is different. It's more akin to learning that a stranger may have listened in on two employees at your company talking over lunch. ... you can't know exactly what the stranger may have heard, including potentially sensitive information about your company.

So they say they've found no evidence after explaining that the situation is analogous to a case where no evidence can be found even if information were stolen.
I don’t think using different tools (which a drill and impact driver really is) is what the OP mean’t. He was more along the lines that must people don’t care whether you picked a Bosch impact driver or a DeWalt impact driver to fix their problem.

And if you explain to someone the difference, they usually get it. Even my daughter when she was five could understand why I had two similar looking things when I was working with them..
Totally agree. Besides, in many states kids are allowed to supervise younger kids starting somewhere between 9 and 12. I.e., if your oldest is 9 in Utah, you can indeed legally leave them home alone with their siblings.
It's almost like Uberpool could be a privately run bus service using larger vehicles and transporting more people at once, instead of private taxis. Depending on the angle you view it from, perhaps the Uberpool service isn't too cheap, but simply a bad idea from the start, without the infrastructure or a suitable class of vehicle to make it viable.
Both TouchOSC and Lemur already exist and do this over Wi-Fi. I believe Lemur allows for XY parameter control but I'm not sure if it offers curves. (TouchOSC is more limited.)
What if you left your fiance to sleep in a car for 3 months?
Yep. I've got one word of advice: move!
I would go further than that. Even if you try to keep up, it's becoming difficult to follow where everything is going now. I highly doubt that many people even here have a deep understanding of many subjects in the CS wider field outside of their niche. I don't think it's a stretch to say ycombinator represents a very skilled subset in the field. What about all the rest of those programmers who don't come here or worse they have a family which sucks away a few hours of study time every day. Much of the industry still produces stuff like CRUD apps and toils away in layers of abstraction in "Enterprise Software"

Additionally we are facing the reality that being a good programmer is not enough anymore near the upper percentiles and this will trickle down in time to the rest of the industry. You can't just be a programmer, you have to be a statistician with a strong understanding of a hard science like biochemistry/genetics.

Given all this how the hell is a 40 year old married steel mill worker with kids supposed to just switch jobs to something that fills these requirements. At most the government might pay for an undergrad and that is quickly becoming not enough, not that places are eager to higher fresh young graduates from anywhere but Stanford anyways. How is the average younger graduate supposed to compete when we are now weeding out more and more of the top 10% for even basic hireability. Where getting a masters degree at a B/C list school might as well have you be wearing a dunce cap. This is completely ignoring issues like the pedigree system we have set up where if a new graduate takes a job at a boring Java shop they might get passed over by top companies later for being "Not good enough"
- I'd like to have relative folders showing up when doing the CMD+P within a folder.

- Autocomplete when moving a file.

- There's 'select' but not 'unselect'. It's easy to work around but it was tedious to use.

- I like having some visual shortcuts or spatial information about he dirs. Now I go into a dir and the top one is kinda lost. Just my opinion.

- Maybe let me use CMD+O to open folder/file instead of Enter, which should rename it. At least it would follow macOS pattern.

Seems fine but not sure if I'll be using it. Maybe.
Autonomous cars solve transportation problems. Autonomous cars improve safety and saves lives. Drivers don't get tired, and drunk people don't control them. Autonomous cars increases accessibility and reduces the cost of transportation; a fleet of them can patrol the city 24/7, servicing people who would otherwise be ripped off by taxis/uber or stranded because local transportation means stop late at night (subways, buses, trains).
Sort of an open-sourced alternative to the original Yahoo concept -- back when that was Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, essentially a set of nested links directing you through the Internet, circa 1995 - 1997.

After Yahoo (mostly) retired that in exchange for Search, Netscape created a crowdsourced version. AOL acquired that when they bought out Netscape.
That's exactly why I like it. This either tip or living wage thinking is so American! How about both!?

I want the easy option to tip someone for exceptional service, but I also want them to get payed well enough to not feel obliged to.