skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Shopping Express already does this - I get my 50lb. bag of rice delivered on-demand to my house.

Uber would need to start understanding how ordering of goods works, returns, and service/quality complaints.

They could do it, but there are a whole lot of domain specific problems and approaches to resolve and it's not clear that's it's long-term viable.
Yeah the money goes to beeminder. I've paid several times but it's been worth it since I can make a credible commitment to myself to do something. And the enforcement is very forgiving - if you decide you don't want to do something you can let yourself quit in a week. Also every time I've had to talk to support (I forgot to put data in or there was some issue) they've been pleasant and refunded me completely.

At this point I know my limits fairly well and set goals I'll actually want to achieve. I still pay for the premium features, though, which let me use beeminder as a capable generalized scheduling and tracking system for irregular tasks (e.g. remind me if I haven't called my grandmother in three weeks).
It takes a lot of chutzpah to make that kind of defense of the IC in 2017. It is also incredibly insulting to imply that nobody was aware of or upset about any of this before Snowden. What's clear to see is that when these concerns were being hashed out, the Tom Drakes and Bill Binneys lost. What won was so bad that we haven't even discovered the bounds of their malfeasance. The mistrust that the IC has rightly earned won't go away with such a trite dismissal. There is no proper oversight, not for any reasonable definition of the word. We wouldn't be here today if there had been.
> you (practicing for 10,000 hours) are going to be better than somebody who practiced only 1,000 hours no matter how talented they are.

There's a lot of counter-examples that contradict that statement, at least in areas like sports, chess, probably music as well, were a very "talented" individual achieved in one year what other people haven't in ten.
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"Clearly, it doesn't follow the 'intent' of the parties."

And who is deciding what that intent?
Right now, the mob, so the parent is right :)

Your analogies to courts defeats the entire argument against that.

Courts were, in fact, set up as deciders of that thing called "law".

If code is law, so to speak, you don't need them. There is no intent.
That's funny. Even after two years off, 2 bachelors, and a masters I still didn't know what I wanted to do! I have a bachelors in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, a second bachelors in Linguistics, and a masters in Educational Psychology. But I work as a web developer for the sales team of a large company. I was actually about four years out of college before I started getting a feel for what I might want to do with my life (i.e., about 12 years post high school). I'm very happy with what I do now so it all worked out.
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The last sentence was sarcastic.
> Taxes should be only spent on people living in the US legally. Not certain why people have a problem with that.

So, you're saying we should get rid of ICE because it's tax money being spent on people who are not legal residents of the US?
> To clarify, I know more great programmers that went to college.

That makes much more sense, even from a purely prior probability point of view. Thanks for clarifying that.

I also agree with your point that personal interest and initiative ultimately determines success in this (or any) field.
> He’s kept looking for computer programming work, and bought a book on Java, but the life of the poor is hard, and erratic bus driving schedules coupled with living paycheck-to-paycheck makes learning programming hard, especially without a decent computer.

I hate to be unsympathetic because I won the birth lottery by far. But these days it seems like you could learn python or java on a $50 used tablet or raspberry pi. Is it really so hard to learn to program for the poor? (serious question, not being critical)
The headline makes it sound like "blacks who get out of prison with no criminal record have same success getting jobs as whites". That's how I read it, anyway, and I was wondering how you get out of prison without a criminal record. :)
There are studies that show that given names associated with black culture are less successful in the job market.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

Not only in the job market but, also receive a worse treatment at schools and libraries.
https://github.com/robtweed/EWD/tree/master/m_apache
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"Why do we discriminate? The big factor isn’t overt racism. Rather, it seems to be unconscious bias among whites who believe in equality but act in ways that perpetuate inequality."

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Aliefs[1] are a useful concept here. i.e. You may believe in equality but, thanks to the culture you live in, act against that belief unconsciously. There are a lot of reasons for people to alieve that blacks are less employable. Take, for example, Gangsta rap and it's continuing popularity. Here you have an art-form that glorifies materialism, violence, and lawlessness and is dominated by black artists. Few employers are likely to explicitly believe it is logical to fear or mistrust black job applicants because of gangsta rap, but its popularity nevertheless plants aliefs that contribute to the difficulties faced by black job-seekers.

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"Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, an eminent sociologist, calls this unconscious bias “racism without racists,” and we whites should be less defensive about it. This bias affects blacks as well as whites, and we also have unconscious biases about gender, disability, body size and age. You can explore your own unconscious biases in a free online test, called the implicit association test."

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It's important to draw a distinction between acting on racist beliefs and racist aliefs. Some would say the latter is being racist without knowing it, which is offensive to most and probably counterproductive to say. At present, racists are popularly viewed as demons to be mocked and punished. Even if there is a basis for calling someone acting on their aliefs racist, doing so is going to offend and hurt them and likely turn them against you. Subtler language is required here.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alief_(mental_state)
> why not stop the forming of Waymo initially

You mean Otto?
Everything else they're invested in. Subsidizing rides (in new markets I think they sometimes pay the drivers more than the passenger pays) maybe. But new R&D, lik building self-driving cars, doesn't come cheap.
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Generally, I think that a vouching queue looks like another way for people who like the sort of submissions that HN tends to flag to further promote that content.

I don't think flagging is creating problems in terms of HN's quality. As I indicated, there were lots of reasonable criteria under which to flag the previous post. To me, this post has characteristics that meet those criteria as well.

Where vouching might have a role is a quality story with very few points that is flagged dead based on misunderstanding or malintent. A story that hits the front page has had many eyeballs upon it and if it is killed from there by organic means, that's the way the system is supposed to normally work. Even when I think the story does not deserve it.
So making it denser + cheaper would mean more people could be packed in -> prices rise again
Hmmm... interesting idea. I wonder it autonomous vehicles would enable this even more? I wouldn't mind paying a little extra tax to my local government to enable them to maintain a fleet of self-driving vehicles that I could summon with an app.
Thank you for this detailed summary.

My point wasn't that Google doesn't have data; my point is that they want to use it as evidence.. but said evidence has been created by themselves!
But they also don't have to pay the drivers at all. It's a pivot from making the drivers foot the bill but its not obviously untenable as a business model. I think the part that should raise eyebrows is Uber's claim they can actually build the cars before they run out of money.
Yes! That is the quote I was looking for.
Interesting, hadn't thought of this, nor the previous comment's theory.
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Why not watch the original SICP lecture videos?
I'm more of an example of the latter.
Blinding.

An example is orchestras. They use a screen so that the people deciding between musicians can't see the person auditioning.
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What did 1999 feel like and how did it feel different than today?
I feel like we are in boom times but the fundamentals are bad. I see a lot of Greed and some bad things as a result: fake news, click-bait etc. How did 1999 feel? Did it feel different than now?
The term that you would want to use in place of "learning treadmill" is "continuing education".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_medical_education informs me that many states in the US require some form of CME in order for a doctor to remain licensed. It's easy to imagine why this might be the case; as the state of medical science changes, so to would a doctor's recommendation.

edit: I can imagine that lawyers probably need to stay abreast of recent decisions as well, since precedent makes for a compelling argument.
> Now, they've proven that the enterprise route doesn't work.

Well, no... I don't think we proved it didn't work, only that we lacked the expertise to make it work. With more time and some good hiring I think we could have fixed the problem, but the investor money ran out, so...
React Native is definitely more aimed at applications that tend to use the typical mobile UI controls, rather than games. If you're building a 2D or 3D mobile game and you want to get the cross-platform efficiency of React Native, you might want to check out Unity instead.
I'm pretty sure that /ad-.jpg or something like that is already a blocking pattern. But you're correct: I'm seeing ads on some smaller sites that host the ad banners on their own servers. And you know what? I'm okay with this. I explicitly use uMatrix instead of uBlock since blocking trackers and malware is more important to me than blocking ads. (Getting rid of the more annoying ads is a bonus, though, and I might change my mind if first-party ads become annoying, too.)
React Native or something like it is almost definitely the future. It's totally unreasonable to write two totally separate copies of your app using languages that take a while to build and compile.

React Native basically solves this and solves it well, and can perform well in most cases.

And if there is some screen where it doesn't (ex. if you were building Snapchat and were going to work on live video filters), you can implement that in Swift/Java/Obj-C and just make that a native module that's part of your RN app.

My personal prediction is that almost all apps will be started in RN in the medium term future and most will end up mostly RN.
The drivers are being paid more per ride than riders are paying for a ride.

Let's say an Uber ride costs a passenger $10, and the driver is paid $15. Uber loses $5.
Turns out it was important business information after all.
Why couldn't his father self-teach some other languages?

Presumably a belief that he would fail so the effort would a waste. The same belief stops me ditching coding to become a hedgefund manager; rightly or wrongly I assume I'll fail, so I don't try.

Don't assume everyone is entirely rational all the time.
This is more like a clojure macro in that it runs via a compiler extension to avoid the runtime call overhead of something like get-in.

Seeing how verbose and painful it looks, it's also an interesting commentary on macros in JS.
That's because racism is just the extreme version of difference intolerence. Doesn't matter what the original group has in common, they will gang up on who is different, whatever the difference. The conversation shouldn't be limited to racial matters, the problem is lack of awareness that difference in and of itself causes the unaware to oppress.
Hopefully everything someday. VB6 is a pain to maintain/add new features to.
Yeah, you have to wonder if the LiDAR employee had realized the similarities and eventually one day just decided to let it leak 'accidentally'.
"Aliefs" are what I think of as the "privilege" in "white privilege." It's very real. We have distinct, systemic advantages that influence how we interact with others who aren't white, and one way this manifests is through this sort of "racism without racists" concept.
What you said — writing it down to free your attention — is one of the main points from Getting Things Done.

They have a good lists of mind sweep / brain-dump triggers [1] that I think benefit everyone even without ever doing everything one writes down.

[1]: http://gettingthingsdone.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Mind...
> The initial operating segment was going to be Stockton to Fresno until people complained about how stupid that was, and then they added San Jose.

Since we're discussing how the existing project is being built and is planned to be operated, and not historical plans that have been rejected as suboptimal, that would be irrelevant in any case. It's also, AFAICT, not true; in both the final 2014 Business Plan with the Merced to Burbank IOS, and the draft 2016 Business Plan (they are done in even numbered years) which shifted to the San Jose to Bakersfield IOS, Stockton was not only not part of the IOS, but not even part of the Phase 1 SF-to-LA plan, only the Phase 2 expansion to Sacramento and San Diego, which is more of a vague concept than a concrete plan.)
No one wins because of the software (code quality). They win on marketing and that software (UIx) doing a needed task people are willing to "pay" for.

HN tends to be rather myopic in that programmers exist to program. Nope. Programmers exist to use a tool to solve a real world problem. The best way to do that is with the minimal amount of design and time required to accomplish the task at the desired level of reliability. Very few projects require anything resembling the "code quality" talked about on HN - in most cases I would say trying to enforce such principles generally result in worse outcomes and folks would have been better off spending 1/10th the money on a 16 year old off elance.com and simply fixed problems as they came up.

Typically the thing that is done the quickest wins, even if the implementation would make you cry. The fact is from a business standpoint - it truly rarely matters. Very little is as critical as people think.

I've noticed the industry becoming vastly disconnected with this fact recently.
It could have also been a simple mistake. Several Otto employees came from Waymo. Not hard to send email to John Smith <jsmith@google.com> instead of John Smith <jsmith@otto.com> by mistake if you were in regular contact with that person as part of their role at a previous job doing largely the same thing.
>I suspect those are constitutional when the are properly targeted to a specific event/person/etc. The tactics used to implement the search isn't limited by the warrant.

Almost every no knock is executed in such a way that 'proper' targeting is impossible.

A warrant cannot magically excuse police from their improper conduct. It took a deaf dumb blind and ignorant bench for that.
Would you invite me?
I don't mean to sound insensitive but why is it the institution's fault that it took someone without passion or drive 6 years to graduate and why wouldn't the same problems which persisted during college not continue to persist after graduating?

I know plenty of folks that went to Towson and the only thing that they could do after freshman year was funnel a beer. I know a few that went on to pursue respected middle class careers in tech, legal, education, and health care.

When will our youth finally start taking responsibility for their own actions or lack there of?
> To be fair, the new apps do suffer with reliability issues in periods of high loads

This is where someone should come in and offer business software that is easily branded to handle the technical aspect of the business, and just sell it to the new entrants. This is a great market for shovels.
Youtube ads can be blocked when you whitelist domains. I never see Youtube ads in my uMatrix-equipped browsers with a whitelist of:

youtube.com apis.google.com script allow
youtube.com googlevideo.com * allow
youtube.com gstatic.com * allow
youtube.com s.ytimg.com script allow
youtube.com ytimg.com * allow
as a long-suffering user of Meditech, I would say you dodged a bullet...it still looks like you are using MS-DOS. Shoehorned into Citrix to get it to run on modern machines...
In your database always store time as seconds since the Epoch (or milliseconds since the Epoch if you need more precision). Forget about SQL date/time types, they are useless. Then convert to "civilian format" only in the presentation layer. You can't go wrong with that.

Seconds since the Epoch is unambiguous, eschews time zones, daylight savings time and other man-made concepts (it makes sense to Martians too). Plus it only requires an INTEGER type in the database which every RDBMS provides (so is migration safe). You also create demand for your future colleagues (or future self) around 2038. Or you can use BIGINT if that bothers you.
Far too small sample size. This research needs to be redone with a lot more farts.
You can only get so far with this, that's the problem. Eventually the candidate will show up and people will make snap judgements.

"He's wearing gang clothes" or "I thought he was a rapper" and you're going to have massively skewed data.

A coding interview conducted via online chat only, no voice, could be educational, but it might also over-select those used to texting and online chatting.
This is something they don't teach in college but you realize once you're in your 30's and start interacting directly with upper management.
They literally do this. It's also not that great. Want to pay $12.00 for a cold $8.00 sandwich? Safeway has its own delivery service in some markets and so does Amazon. Instacart does Costco delivery as well. Costco itself has business delivery at least and possibly other delivery options.
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That depends on your criteria.

In Europe once you are allowed in you get access to more or less the whole European welfare system where as in the US you have to pay for everything yourself more or less.
Cordova comes to mind (in the "write 'native' apps like web apps" sense, at least).
He links to a study on unjust school funding:

http://viz.edbuild.org/maps/2016/cola/resource-inequality/#s...

The analysis here is flawed. An example that doesn't make sense is NYC. If you use the dropdown to go to New York and checkout NYC, your conclusion would be that all NYC students are unjustly funded and have much less than everyone else. But.... that makes no sense. New York City has some of the best public schools in the country.

Yes, the funding is imbalanced and unjust. But it doesn't support his claim that it's biased towards whites and asian-americans. Asian-Americans are in many poorer neighborhoods in NYC but perform well in test scores despite the lack of funding.

I should clarify - I'm not saying that school funding shouldn't be more balanced, or that imbalanced funding doesn't have a strong impact in other municipalities. But suggesting a one-to-one mapping of school funding to education quality by race is ridiculous. And yet, people make that lazy argument all the time. No one wants to dig into root causes.
I don't think what he means by real world corresponds to what you think it means.

It's likely that he meant things like policy making, some basic economics, knowing how democracy works, being able to recognize fake news, being able to figure out (faster) who you need to talk to about a problem (be it a person, or an institution), being able to state a hypothesis, gather evidence and update your beliefs, better understanding of systems and what makes them function and a plethora of other things. The pattern here being that these things are very general, allowing the person to do do anything they want, and be able to get better faster.
On Health Care Compensation: Methods of Allocation:

"The public may yet regard as commendable the Chinese custom of paying the physician only during the period health is maintained, all emoluments ceasing during sickness."

Albert Abrams, Nervous Breakdown, Hicks-Judd Company, San Francisco, 1901, p 5

https://archive.org/stream/nervousbreakdown00abrarich#page/4...
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At my employer I can easily imagine deploying react native apps for a variety of uses, especially as we do service design : being able to run real experiments with, say, gov't services with real apps or companies looking for mobile assist on new service offerings is a huge win.

At the same time, I'm sceptical that RN has escaped the earlier performance ghettos of Appcelerator, Phonegap et al., which aren't just in games, but also in complicated UIs with a lot of elements. On building a simple sudoku app, I ran into noticeable micro-lag that seems to come from overuse of Views to structure the grid--and noticeably, the performance was better on a non-retina device, causing me to remember the swamp that Java's AWT got caught in with its 'native peering' arrangement, namely that cumulative overhead killed performance in virtually all non-toy cases. React's virtual DOM is an obvious plus in the browser; I'm not so sure where native apps are concerned.
As someone in the CDN industry, that was a smart aquihire.
I heard about https://weex-project.io/ by way of the Vue docs. There might be other projects too
Likely never, LLVM IR uses SSA form. This means that optimisations are easier, but the "assembly" is significantly higher lever than assembly a la MIPS. IR is for doing optimisations not executing code (although LLVM does have interpreters if that's what ya need)
Growth is how much something improves by. Socialism doesn't destroy the knowledge that has been built up. It destroys the ability of society to accumulate new knowledge.
Flutter - https://flutter.io/ , but it's in Dart!
Email?
It's a phrase that I've usually encountered in the past tense. Google Ngrams shows that in 1800 "held forth" was used about three times as frequently as "hold forth" [1], but this ratio decreased as both uses became less common.

[1]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=held+forth%2Ch...
dear god...it's about time[1]...except I shudder to think what their concept of "the web" might be

[1]aside from being a long-suffering user of Meditech, I am also a long-suffering user of Epic, who had the misfortune of going through "mandatory Epic training" at 4 separate institutions that were transitioning to it from Meditech, or pencil and paper. I am still not sure which of the three systems were the most technologically advanced...
My friend is a professional ghostwriter, if you ever consider a book seriously. Sounds like an interesting read.
I was under the impression the API is also unstable between releases. Has the API broken less often than the text format over the last few releases?
Just for some more data, Swift is (Possibly still in the process of, but I don't follow swift so they could have finished years ago) moving to a higher level IR, for similar reasons to Rust and Haskell.
That's true, but do you think a developer with 10 years of Java would ever get offered a C job if their only experience of it was self-learning? Unless they have other exceptional skills beyond code, or they're very lucky, they're stuck doing Java.
Because then you would just be a boring successful business and not a unicorn.