skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I give you a ride to work, for free --- then give you a ride to work, but you pay me, what is the functional difference requiring more regulation on the second part?
Is your safety affected any different? Aside from the basic protections built in to any business when it comes to collecting money, etc, what extra rules need to be in place.

In the first instance, both parties can refuse, and can drive in any way they want. One-off rides (or paying for part of the gas in a carpool) aren't much of a worry. This is basically as safe as driving yourself somewhere. Of course, they could be a really bad driver with minimal insurance, so hopefully nothing bad happens. In addition, in these situations, you are usually on a friendly basis with the person - minimally a coworker.

Your safety is different when you start to ride with someone that does it for a living. You don't know the person, so you are trusting they know what they are doing and can drive in a way that is safe for you. The more folks drive, the more likely they are to be in an accident (this is why insurance increases with your commute). Minimally, they need to know how to combat this. I'd prefer them to have a more comprehensive driving test, including things like passenger safety and minimal regulations on driving record/background check. Unlike your friend, I'm pretty sure a taxi service has to have adequate insurance in case of an accident. Many places also have policies about pricing because of shady pricing policies in the past.
> in federal elections non-dictatorship is an irrelevant consideration, as information-scarcity prevents a voter from leveraging his unique position as the deciding vote

If non-dictatorship were being violated, you'd know. The non-dictatorship criterion states that the following situation is impossible:

- Out of all the voters, there is one in particular, who we'll call K.

- The election outcome is always identical to whatever K voted, no matter what anyone else voted.

So, if it isn't possible that a single person ranked candidate A first, the rest of the country ranked candidate B first, and the election nevertheless ranked candidate A first, then the election system does not violate the non-dictatorship criterion.

With that in mind, I am totally confused as to the point you're trying to make? The reason we don't worry about dictatorship is that we don't use systems that exhibit it, not that we have one but nobody knows who it is.
American car brands are not competitive because they are poorly managed.
From this paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2853669

> On the basis of meta-analytic findings, this paper presents the validity of 31 procedures for predicting job performance and the validity of paired combinations of general mental ability (GMA) and the 29 other selection procedures. Similar analyses are presented for 16 predictors of performance in job training programs. Overall, the two combinations with the highest multivariate validity and utility for predicting job performance were GMA plus an integrity test (mean validity of .78) and GMA plus a structured interview (mean validity of .76).
>yesterdays 'peak' is tomorrows cut-off

Obviously such a rule could not be applied for more than a few days. Humans have physiological limits no matter how hard you twist the psychological ones!

I am guessing it is somewhere in between. What may have started as a clever manager's way to motivate employees became another bureaucratic hoop for people to jump through.
Yes, you are correct, in that Symantec's customers will care.

I am saying the customers of banks don't give a damn about EV or not. It's not in the literature. It's hard enough to train them not to click through; even I as an IT guy would probably not notice the lack of EV unless there were a modal or bubble saying "Hey! This is different!"
If you have a short-let in NYC I would suggest considering international travel for a bit. Can help clear the head, give you a new perspective on your depression and perhaps more importantly, give you some sense of agency.

It doesn't suit everyone but might be worth thinking about.
> Really? Huh. If it's all propaganda, then why did Democrats enact the legislation that protected our privacy?

Because it serves the interests of the tech companies that support democrats. Ask yourself why the FCC didn't make it illegal for everyone to profit off customers' private information.
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Since nobody replied; yes they do.

At least my Precision 5520 had the option not to include the GPU, and even if you get it you can do hardware switching so battery life is unaffected essentially.
Window, Menus, clipboard, etc.. (not just being able to write to a file) https://electron.atom.io/docs/api/
I didn't know Postman had a proxy. I was about to pay to use Charles proxy.
SpaceX's planned satellite network could fix that eventually… if it's ever actually constructed.
> share context of whatever you see with others in seconds

ITYM "within seconds, share with others the context of whatever you see". Yes?
You can say this about many/most human-led organisations, right?

I've wondered when we might see someone pitch to YC a technical solution to what unions do, without the cruft that can come from human influence (losing sight of purpose, developing corruption, etc). Is there even a way to do it?
== yes but probably not ===
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And in the act of teaching Koko to talk - we changed Koko.
It's a native binary executable with standard access to system APIs, so in the technical sense, yes.
oh.snap()
New Zealand could be in trouble if ocean acidification happens or weather patterns cause more drought (~80% hydro for energy generation and the arable land relies upon high rainfall).
>Also, I'm genuinely curious why Bloomberg has taken up this story.

To provide a counter to the idea that "bringing back manufacturing" will be a panacea to that which ails the middle class. I think the article is transparent in its agenda.
Sooner this evening I had to open a 144'000 lines CSV file, 3.5MB. This is not big, but it is the kind of file I have to open from time to time for my work. No noticeable delay to open the file in VSCode, the cursor moves smoothly, and scrolling with the minimap through the whole 144'000 lines is also smooth. The VIM plugin for VSCode start to have troubles over 10M it seems, but if I have to edit files bigger than this I can open them with spacemacs anyway. I spend most of my time in small text files like Python, CSV or Makfiles, so this is not a problem. Of course if you have other requirements, like you are passing a lot of time in big files, then VSCode is not the correct tool.

I would suggest you to try VSCode for curiosity, if you have not done it yet. You could be surprised. Maybe it is not the right tool for you, but it is quite well made, and compared to atom, bracket or other web-based text editor, it feels like a supersonic jet.
Sorry, I misread that this was talking about the bill rather than the administrative rule change that happened first.
> Even the end result UI design look & feel is butt ugly.

Only when developed by those devs that never bothered to read books like "Filthy Rich Clients".
Your math checks out. Seems like a fairly cheap measure.
Why do you keep saying 'the politicians'?

This was a straight party-line vote. There's a single party here working very hard to centralize and corporatize the internet. There's another party working against that.

I have to say I find it a bit hilarious when something like this happens and it's the result of a select, easily identifiable group and Americans then throw their hands up and declare, "The whole system is corrupt!"

I mean come on.
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A roadmap for rapid decarbonization
My precision 5520 has a pretty standard ANSI layout, idk what the ISO varients look like though.
I don't think Bloomberg founded a news agency for the profit from ad impressions.

News organizations have agendas, particularly when they share the name of a nationally known politician.
Why go out of our Comfort Zone to be Successful
A half-life describes an asymptotic curve. You don't just divide a "lifetime" by 2.
Can we not conflate "native" and "electron" applications? Thanks.
Why not if they have promotions or otherwise cheap fares? I'd love VC-subsidized cab rides.
Is there a fundamental soullessness to certain cultures? Or is it endemic to all?
Music streaming firm SoundCloud raises $70M in debt
What part of the US do you live in? I'm looking at at the very least around $6.50/lb for a half a steer in the Bay Area.
As someone who maintain other peoples code I really don't look forward to deal with js a few years from now:

What build system did they use?

Where is that package? Does it even exist anymore.

Etc.

Had similar problems trying to maintain a delphi project as an almost fresh from scool developer. At that point I understood the value of Java and Maven.
Gold standard? Slack is 380 megs in size, and when its open it somehow seems to constantly use about 5% CPU usage (which probably knocks out a few hours of battery life, since the CPU can't properly sleep). Every so often I catch it sitting on 100% cpu usage (this is all while in the background). Restarting slack fixes it.

I know that programmer time is more important than CPU time, but its my CPU and my battery. I can only imagine explaining to someone from 15 years ago what software looks like now. "Oh yeah in the future we all use IRC, except its a proprietary IRC implementation and supports animated gifs. The client is 380 megs" "Calm down - I know thats bigger than your hard drive. No its not 3d or anything - it just has nice colors."

I don't understand why people hate on apple for not making laptops with 32 gigs of ram, but they have no problem using apps like slack which waste resources like it was water.

Thankfully slack seems to be much more lean when run inside a safari browser tab.
Nice notation. Looks like a grammar with a bit more fancyness thrown in. I have a tool that does this kind of stuff: https://github.com/norswap/whimsy/blob/master/doc/autumn/REA...

I should try to implement something like this, to see how hard it would be (I think not too much, but I might overlook something).
Oh, lets be professionals and not pay for our tools like everyone else does, who needs money anyway!
You'll be fine.

If you care about your offspring, try not to reproduce. With the various positive feedback loops (permafrost methane, arctic albedo, antarctic ice shelves), things are going to get ugly.
I was doing vue.js 10 years ago with knockout, it's the perfect example of unnecessary churn the parent was referring too.
Nobody really cares about whether work can be done in a "productive and enjoyable way". If your company or engineering manager thought they could get away with turning you into human machine because that's your only option then they most likely would or someone else would eventually.

Be very thankful software developers are in such high demand because there will be a time when that little competition will not be viewed as some sort of team morale boosting exercise but just another bit of frivolous spending to be eliminated. It may not happen in mine or your working career, but it will happen eventually.
You can't think about this like Democrats vs Republicans, They are both bought out by lobbyists. This is people vs corporation.

In the case of Trump, he IS one part of corporate America. He is benefiting himself and his slice of corporate America.

"Now, big corporations (the New York Times, etc.) are what stand between Trump and his agenda."

There are shades here, not as easy a statement to make as you have made.

While trump would definitely scare the American corps because of his protectionist, destabilising economic policy,
the republican establishment is still behind a metric ton of the laws/bills etc that are bandied about, and they are corporate owned.

They still have the pockets of the politicians, they just don't like some of the other stuff. The weapons industry as a softball example would be jumping for joy at Trump.

So the corps are not standing between Trump and his agenda, but they definitely would have preferred a normal republican candidate.
Counterpoint...

I grew up and lived in Chicago for most of my adult life. I moved to the Bay Area in 2013. My main reasons were weather, crime, and jobs.

For some people, living with gray skies half the year with not-infrequent temperatures below zero or above 100 takes its toll. Also, the violent crime rate has gone through the roof in recent years, even in generally good neighborhoods.

On the jobs front, I'm in marketing and a more technical marketer at that. The job options in Chicago were largely unappealing, but more importantly was the major difference in culture. There are obviously exceptions, but Chicago seems to have a much more "conservative" corporate culture on the average. This means less competitive pay, 2 weeks of PTO, 2 weeks paternity (if that), stricter 8 or 9am start times, less free on-premise food, fewer perks overall, less competitive benefits, etc. Again, you can find exceptions, and large tech companies tend to have offices there as it is a hub (particularly for media companies like Google). But on the balance, due to the extreme concentration out here, it seems many Bay Area companies are forced to up their game and be much more in favor of the employee with regards to comp, perks, culture and benefits if they want to be competitive with the local giants.

I get very sad when I think about the cost of housing out here, but TBH, I'm not sure I could go back. Whenever I get off the return flight from a trip home and step out the doors at SFO, all of the color, sunshine etc. makes things look like technicolor compared to the ugly red brick, gray skies and black slush of Chicago.

Don't get me wrong--it will always have a place in my heart and I dearly love many things there. But depending on your priorities, in some cases there is no competition if you can afford enough to make it manageable.
Perhaps. There are people on the left whose goal is to make jobs unappealing.

"Jobs Americans won't do" so corporations can hire illegal immigrants and pay them pennies, or ship the jobs overseas and pay workers there pennies.

There's profit in that, I suppose. If so, is the agenda of this article, as you see it, to send those jobs to Asia or Mexico, where labor is cheap and OSHA has no authority?

Or perhaps laying the groundwork for Democrats to reach out to blue collar workers (many of whom turned to Trump in the 2016 election) with a push for worker safety?
There's a Heisenberg Compensator in Star Trek transporters [0]

[0] http://www.startrek.com/database_article/heisenberg-compensa...
I've read my share of gwern reviews, and he does double-blind testing on himself and all, but there's an obvious bias that all the tests are done on gwern. Similarly, if you let people submit their own data you're still only getting data from those people, and in this case it wouldn't even be blinded.

A real experiment has access to much better populations, tendency of psych experiments to be done on psych students aside.
anybody taken this course? reviews?
New Zealand? Real players build their own islands.
Actually then, in accordance with Zawinski's Law, one will be able to use that web browser to read mail. (-:
Our grandchildren are in for tough times. Unless a political miracle occurs. Even then, it might be too late.
I was just on a call to a Federal agency in DC today to discuss research related to green house gas emission reductions. The staff were excited but quick to point out that anything related to climate change means "substantial pressure from the White House". They were reluctant to even publicize the findings and this was for good news ("easy" to do, potentially saves industry millions) so I can imagine the reaction to bad news.

What good does convincing people do if the government won't even admit climate change is real?

The "huge" savings for our industry are minimal in the grand scheme of things. It's depressing to realize how we are past the prevention phase of climate change and rapidly passing through chances to more easily mitigate the impacts.
If you need something predictable, you'll usually use a vector in Haskell. Nothing obligates you to use a list.

I regard it as more of a pleasant surprise and something that surprises/confuses people when they benchmark `String` (which is `[Char]` under the hood) against `Text` (which is an `Array` under the hood: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-1.2.2.1/docs/src/Dat... )

I've had `String` come out faster than `Text` in benchmarks plenty of times, including for a colleague when we were writing up this post https://lorepub.com/post/2016-12-17-Haskell-Pitfalls

What I'm not going to do is perform free labor for a man with a bad attitude who is 100x wealthier than I am. I'm not saying you should design a performance oriented language around short-cut fusion, but the "cost" of using Haskell is generally not what people think it is.

The span of applicability for Haskell, IME, ranges from Java/Golang to Ruby. It's no replacement for C++, but it does come close in some applications that aren't hard/soft real-time.
GDI is a dead worse, already replaced by better solutions for anyone that cares to use them, yet it still scales better than most web stuff.
No, there was no concrete evidence. There were a few emails from DNC staffers that stated they would prefer Clinton. That is it. There was no actual actions taken.

And OMG, someone told Clinton that there would be a question about Flint's drinking water during a debate held in Flint, Michigan. You'd have to have ESP to predict that.
Can confirm, Lego on k8s is really pain-free to use. Following the official documentation meant that I was able to have HTTPS running on our Google Cloud load balancer within 30 minutes.
> It's not just mass culture that the Internet makes available.

That whole discourse assumes things about actualized humanity that cannot be taken as granted. Who's to say that earning a simple living, caring for a family well, and being virtuous isn't perfect in itself? Who's to say that seeking pleasure and avoiding pain isn't a form of perfection? Who's to say that the human perfection isn't a distraction from the commands of a perfect deity?

> The catch is that you can't engage in high culture without access to high culture

That presumes that "high culture" can't be simple, commonly available, or digitally transmitted. It also presumes a one-size-fits-everyone kind of culture and not a more atomized, long-tail description of how cultures are formed, evolved, and maintained.

In more concrete terminology, why should large orchestral pieces be high musical culture? Maybe perfection is really about inclusion, peace, and affection. In that case, a receptive crowd, a guy with a guitar, and some lively tunes is all you need. Or even just a good playlist.

And that's why I push back against all the "life is clearly better in mega-cities" attitude. It's a zero-sum game to only evaluate culture in relative terms. I don't think we're doomed to live in a world the poorest and least connected wallow in cultural poverty and the wealthiest and best connected are privileged with cultural riches. I think life is simpler and better than that.
Modular, open source robotics kit lets you hack your own 3D printer
AppKit/Cocoa is very good too, if not cross-platform. Consistent, dynamic, extensible, and there's so much your apps get for free, and new features often become retroactively available for past apps, like when NSDocument got autosaving, and now tabs for multi-document apps, the wide-gamut-aware color pickers and so on.
Brendan Burns on joining Microsoft, where we’re really at with containers
That's nice of you to say, though I'm not sure I earned your compliment.

Re experience - yes, if you're interviewing for someone with deep Java or ML knowledge certainly make sure the interviewer can assess that.

Logic puzzles are not perfect - I used to be really good at solving them and if I ever have to interview on them again, I'd definitely have to practice first, to get up to speed.
But I do think that being able to solve them is a meta skill. If you get really good it entails that you are good at reasoning and solving complex problems, or at least a specific class. If you are good with trees you'll likely be able to answer a trie question. It doesn't mean you're just good at that, but that you can apply knowledge to new problems - which is exactly why you are hired.
An equivalent real question I got in Java was how to access a private member of a class. If I knew the answer it would mean I have some random bit of trivia in my head. If I solve it using Java knowledge it means I can apply my domain expertise in a new way - that's compelling proof of problem solving skills. If I ask why would you want to do that, it indicates reflective and critical thinking skills.

A seasoned engineer in ML or Java should, imho also be able to solve puzzles. They are, in many ways, better proof of abstract thinking abilities and problem solving skills than specific knowledge.
But I agree they are both important - if I want to build a search engine I prefer to have a seasoned ElasticSearch lady lead the project than an equally smart person with no background.

Re your friend, if it helps, I interviewed at a lot of companies and probably failed about 70% of interviews in the first week or two. I got much better after a few weeks, which proves your point that interviewing is also a skill. And I mean for both tech and behavior questions.
That's normal, I think.

Re Google, while I don't represent the company, there are public statements that they'd rather have a false negative rate rather than false positives. It's better to say no to a great applicant (politely) than yes to a bad one. If you've ever had to let someone go, or deal with a bad team member, you know what I'm talking about.
Of course there's the occasional interviewer who asks a silly question or gets something wrong. Do you never make mistakes? It's impossible to ensure everything goes perfectly in such a large company, but I can tell you, as someone who works here, that people try really hard to do a good job at it, and leave everyone with a good impression. It's the rational thing to do: if you treat people poorly 1. You're and asshole and 2. They'll hate you. Nobody likes assholes especially at Google, and I can share that I haven't met one yet. That's pretty amazing given the size.
Thanks for engaging in this discussion, I really enjoy it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/611ici/what_smal...
Your app looks great! Thanks for open-sourcing your code, the swipeable component looks promising, I hope I get the chance to use it.

I like that

- you've made a video showing all the features

- every interaction has nice animations (which library did you use?)

- the goal of the app is simple but very useful

I can imagine that you can build many specialized todo apps using this as a boilerplate.

Do you have any resources you've used for this project? - https://github.com/VctrySam/AirBnb and https://github.com/fbsamples/f8app were very helpful for inspiration, do you have any recommendations?
Vinyl records, perhaps?
There was still plenty of java and c# (and still is) on the backend. In 06 rails was only just becoming known.
That just makes the platform native, which doesn't say anything at all. Presumably the app itself is still written in javascript, so its not native at all - its just bundling its own (native) copy of chrome.
>it's just we're by default lazy thinkers

Thinking is expensive. Somewhere around 20% of our bodies energy use is our brain working. It's probably been an evolutionary advantage in many cases to offload our thinking to the right people for most of history.
Ghostbusters game on c64 had it when I bought it used in 1991 or 92 I think.