skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well they eventually had two rounds of layoffs, 40% and 30% of entire company (respectively)
I can tell you one thing: I really don't care to ever find a wife and don't care to leave my parent's house anytime soon. College is just too expensive to live anywhere but my parent's house. I need to get loans from them because student loans only cover half of my tuition.
I just got out a 1 year relationship. Even that cost alot to clear up, just having them move in. Clearing that up was very difficult. Something I think with caution now.
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(Next moon landing I hope the mission lays down an enormous silver blanket that can be seen by amateur astronomers and ordinary people are encouraged to come out and look through a 'scope for themselves!)

OT, the old moon landing joke comes to mind:

Astronaut: “Houston, we have a problem.”
Houston: “What?”
Astronaut: “The Russians painted the moon red!”
Houston: “Well, do you guys have white paint with you?”
Astronaut: “Yes. Why?”
Houston: “Write Coca-Cola on it.”
That was me for 4 years. Just got out of my contract at the end of football season and it was a nightmare. Our bill was $300/mo during football season and I think around $240 outside of that. It was just too much to justify.

I was jerked around by their customer service on cancellation, which seems to be part and parcel of anything related to AT&T. I would love to see their entire business model completely upended.
Your proposed solution externalizes all of the things I said. Instead of teaching humans how to human, it sounds like you're proposing to pawn off that role.

That's why it's a UX problem: to make us more human, not less.

You know the phrase "First learn to do it right, then learn to do it well"? Maybe let's hold off on externally augmenting humans until we've learned to human properly.
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Host on Azure and use Microsofts patents against the when they sue you
We should also note that Dave Chappelle has been married for over 15 years.
I assume they are talking about things like the truetime clocks used in spanner, which are not available on commodity hardware
I never understood Twitter's TNF streaming. I couldn't watch it on the phone, and when I tried the website, I saw a small video (no audio) of the game, with live tweets. I was genuinely confused and turned off by the experience. I wanted to watch the game, just like I would have on television, but instead I got this neither fish nor fowl experience, that was the worst of both.

Twitter should have never gotten the contract at all, because they don't have a video client that runs on my television. Facebook doesn't either, and that's why Facebook shouldn't have gotten it either.

Watching video in a browser is lame when I have 55 inch display literally feet away. I want my content there. That's where I watch OTA television, Netflix, and Hulu. If you can't provide it to my television, you've failed. (Yeah, you can hook your computer up to your screen via HDMI, but it's janky as hell, and a horrible experience. It's the 21st century equivalent of taping a magnifying glass to your television and calling it a "big screen" http://www.tvhistory.tv/TV-Magnifying-Lens.JPG)
How does a non-developer know how to document or design an API?
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He's saying that it's so reliable and the throughput is so high that sometimes you have to convince yourself that your computers are halfway across the planet.
Figured I'd mention since I saw the author and an editor in here: in footnote 4, the LaTeX isn't rendering (chrome, OSX).
Missed that! Thanks for correcting me.
Well I mean for the moon landing hoax debate one can not only look at stuff left behind on the moon's surface let alone the fact that you can bounce a laser off of mirrors left on the surface to measure the distance from the Moon. It is also high unlikely that such items were placed there using automated methods.
Wasn't that fact debunked (oh look fake news from the 80s! Nothing new under the sun I guess)?
Though your point still stands- the attack on marriage was successful I suppose.
This is the important bit:

> However, much more interestingly, we see that the implementation for [vendor-specific] command #4 seems relevant to our current pursuit. First, it does not require the existence of a TDLS connection in order to be processed!
Wait, really? Why?

The point of public transit is to reduce congestion. Private shuttles don't do this, so why should they get a public subsidy?
See Albert Camus' "Sissyphus", I guess.
Hardcore sci-fi fans like to draw a distinction between the fantasy and science fiction genres. They would probably decompose your list like so -- Fantasy: "Star Wars", "Buck Rogers", "Back to the Future"; Science Fiction: "ET", "Close Encounters", "Battlestar Galactica". I've never seen/read "Space: 1999" so I wouldn't know where it belongs.
> mocking the US military

See, I have never agreed with this interpretation. I think Verhoeven is mocking society at large and how we celebrate appearances and shallowness rather than appreciate independence and quality of thought. There's plenty of vitriol for everyone and everything, of course, but to me the movie is driven by the idea that society is happy to be sheeped around by lies and propaganda. In contrast, the military is a place where stupidity (yours or someone else's) has consequences.
I don't understand your comment. What's wrong with private companies profiting from providing public services?

For instance, if you outsource mechanical maintenance for your firetrucks, is that wrong also since a company can profit from it?
>don't burn bridges

Once you get ejected from the cool kids' table enough times for random reasons, you see how not worth it is to put up with their bad behaviour. In the case of TFA, sometimes it's someone else that burns the bridge and there isn't anything you can do. I doubt this post is going to make him any less hireable, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

However, employers should be uneasy about things like this, and not just because of him. Employees have these things called "opinions" and they will happily voice them if given a platform. If we want to continue having a culture where we can hire inexperienced executives and just let them do whatever, we have to be ready to accept the risks associated with it.
There's no way that Argentina was richer than the US in 1917, when American manufacturers and bankers were busily sucking up the wealth of the Entente powers by supplying war materiel and loans.

Not even ten years ago, Venezuela was the darling of the NY Times, among others, under Chavez. Of course, gasoline was close to $4 a gallon then.
If life has taught me anything it is that present me has very little idea about what future me wants.
Looks like a solid concept and a great team. Very sharp, with an ambitious goal of providing a lot more than typical venture capital market overviews. Look forward to seeing how it progresses.
Sports blackout rules are pretty much the definition of absurd.
Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillette_Stadium
I'd bet the has 4K TV and doesn't have Amazon Prime segment to be pretty small.
I agree in general, datagrids usually mean "we have absolutely no idea what our users workflows are", but I'm not sure the credit risk example is a good one. If the credit risk is one of dozens of fields on a generic client edit table then it's awful. If it's a much more specific "adjust credit risk" form with relevant information to that specific workflow then it's fine.
He was not screwed. He was contractor and contractors typically do not get any options at all. After one year, GitLab offered him options as an incentive or bonus with standard four year vesting - similar to how big companies award you stock options/RSUs annually.
Interesting tidbit: marriage rate has dropped by about 30% while living with child rate dropped by only 15%.
I believe this is because public universities have lost corresponding amounts of public funding, that they've had to make it up on tuition.
> What's wrong with private companies profiting from providing public services?

Simply: Tax money is wasted. Already rich investors end up enriching themselves further, tax money ends up in the taxes of the rich instead of improving the life of the poor.

Sometimes it makes sense (see economies of scale), but often it does not, because the private contractor has to design one system that works everywhere, and has to deal with a lot more complexity due to that than a local system. Often expenses also occur elsewhere that wouldn’t in a local system.

And paying out to investors is also a common example of additional expenses. Especially if the state has to provide a guarantee the company will be a specific amount of money in profit from the riders of the project.

That’s also why in Germany right now there’s lots of protest against privatizing the Autobahn.
Sci-fi has always been mainstream in Hollywood. It's the foundation of Arnold Schwarzenegger's career...Terminator, Predator, Running Man, Total Recall. I wont mention the 6th Day and Eraser
> The point of public transit is to reduce congestion.

That is only one of the points of public transit. Another couple points is to provide services to people who can't afford cars or have special needs (paratransit) or who can't drive (children and seniors)

Public transit in many parts of the country (not big cities) has very little to do with reducing congestion.
Amazon paid $50M for the worst game of the week.

Unless they're ready to move up 2 orders of magnitude, they're not getting close to the kind of money the NFL is looking for.
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Also, Panama would still be a malarial pesthole without the Canal.

Reading up on the various canal schemes in different regions of that era and the French and then American efforts to build the Canal is very interesting.
Ummm its hard for me to find an attractive chick, especially on dating apps. The average to attractive to hot women are getting bombarded and us not so hot guys are getting filtered out. We could go for the unattractive ones all day, but yeah right.

So maybe online dating and apps are also having an affect on marriage?!? Whether you have so much choice and there's always another hot one around the corner and or your like me and get filtered out of the average to hot chicks message list.
Feds OK Boston-area Green Line extension costs, securing project’s future
Sunday Ticket got much better this year with the addition of the Apple TV app. I'm a happy subscriber. Also, it's billed monthly and works out to ~$300 for the lowest tier (which still includes all games).
In exurban areas, the purpose of public transportation is to provide mobility for people who do not own & drive cars. Congestion is not an issue there.
Actually, no. People just don't care when white trailer trash get gunned down.
Better birth control is probably a major factor that is often forgotten. The efficacy rates of a Progestogen IUD paired with a condom are high enough to eliminate fear of an unexpected child. I assume eliminating that fear removes a marriage incentive for many people.
What you don't realize is that the solution you suggest won't work if famous people like TBL publicly support DRM.

People wouldn't care about your opinions much, some would even call them dumb just like you call others opinions dumb. But when a respectable person like TBL says something people tend to take his words seriously.

This is why people were worried about what TBL did. A very few would have cared if you or I did such a thing.
"Google has one of the largest peering surfaces in the world, exchanging data with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) at 70 metros and generating more than 25 percent of all Internet traffic. "

Wow.
That's one point. Another is to reduce the burden of owning a car. In smaller towns where congestion isn't really an issue due to population size and low population density, efficient public transport is also difficult because you get minimal people using each individual route yet have to provide many underused routes to cover the area.

In that instance, ride hailing solves that problem by being point-to-point. It also means you're not sinking a significant sum of money into the ownership and maintenance of a car if you're only using it a couple of times a week, e.g.: for shopping and maybe going out somewhere on the weekend.
The xkcd thing is compelling except not sure the data source and I've seen conflicting data. Rest of post not compelling.
We have hundreds of APIs, and we use RAML + json schema.

Since Swagger (OpenAPI) seems to be gaining ascendancy, I recently (some months ago) looked at migrating off of RAML, but at that time the Swagger guys had a philosophy that they would only support a subset of json schema.

I get their reasons - they want to be able to generate code. But the things they didn't support (like oneOf - needed whenever you have a set of resources of varying types) are a show stopper for many APIs with even moderately complex payloads.

For us at least, its more important to have a single source of truth for our APIs than to be able to generate code from the specs. Hence we remain on RAML (which seems great - just looking like its losing the popularity contest).
Reading the article it just feels like the author and the company just drifted apart over time. Something that happens very often in life. When the number of people involved in a certain thing are few, their goals and purpose typically are aligned. Over time, as more and more people get involved, it's practically impossible to have all of them aligned to the same goal and expect their purpose to be the same.

After a while, some of the early passionate team members have to compromise with the situation or move on to something else.
By that argument, no one should outsource anything. You suppose that every company should handle its own janitorial services because their contractor is making money off of them.
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Building distributed systems makes you aware of how unreliable things are at the large scale, e.g. the network. The parent comment implies that Google's network is so fast and reliable that it becomes tempting to ignore best practices and work as if it's a non distributed system.
I'm sure this will be poopoo'd, but after performing countless phone screens I decided to make a software engineer screening service. I'm using Azure ML to adapt the screens in real-time as the candidates work through the assessments. It will decide if we should stick with a topic a bit longer and if we should dive a bit deeper into a certain subject. Right now it is just academic and code reading multiple choice questions. I'm currently working on the code editing portion.

There are other services that are similar, but I'm specifically targeting the screening market and offering more detailed reporting. Also as a bonus, candidates receive a "study guide" based on the questions they missed.

As for pricing, I'm forgoing the subscription for a "credit" based system where you trade 1 token for a screen (buy in bulk or on demand). No contracts, nothing to cancel, just purchase what you need.
It's a bit more complicated than that. At a high-level: views + auto-sizing of tables + fast insert path + time-based query optimizations + (upcoming) cluster support (+ more).

We do not currently support bitemporal constructs.

What's an example of a temporal foreign key query that you need?
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Was any explanation given as to why it was cancelled? Zero-Net is a critically important censorship resistance technology . . . especially these days!
Even if it is under patent protection, Google is unlikely to sue you, unless you sue them first.
Quick back of the envelope calculations. For AC Transit (the primary Bay Area bus system):

The Annual number of riders is: 54,987,132 [0]
The average trip is: 3.1 miles [1]
The budget is: $398.4 Million [2]

This means the cost per passenger mile on AC Transit is: $2.33 (398,400,000/(54,987,132*3.1))

According to [3] the cost of an Uber trip in San Francisco approximately: "$2.20 plus $0.26 per minute plus $1.30 per mile" (I don't use Uber so don't know how accurate this is.

If these numbers are accurate and generalize to other US transportation networks, public bus systems in the US are massively inefficient and are ripe for disruption/better solutions (note that Taxi's which aren't massively VC subsidized, are also ball-park cost competitive with the price of AC Transit on a per mile basis);

(Of course an Uber/Taxi has huge advantages for the user over buses in general, not the least of which include for most points of origin/destination pairs the large time savings compared to a bus.)

[0] http://www.actransit.org/about-us/facts-and-figures/ridershi...
[1] http://www.actransit.org/wp-content/uploads/designing_with_t...
[2] http://www.actransit.org/about-us/facts-and-figures/budget/
[3] https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-Uber-charge-passengers-f...

(sorry that these numbers may come from different years, don't have a unified source)

Edit: Also when calculating the cost effectiveness of the Uber/Taxi you should divide by the average number of riders. It's probably close to 1, but even something like 1.1 on average would result in a 9% savings on a per passenger mile.
I think an online version of this has the potential to be sufficiently different that we can call it "new". Dynamic routing based on real time customer location is pretty fascinating.
> It was a fair request to have a key member link to GitLab.

This leads to situations like what Microsoft used to be (and perhaps still is) - that Everything Had To Be IE And Bing. There could be no acknowledgement of the other brand by name.

> Employees can be told what to do.

On company time, certainly. When representing the company, for sure. Even perhaps if it's sufficiently controversial where you're bringing the company into disrepute by association.

But when none of that applies, then no.
Probably.

Vizio's TVs are pretty much all Smartcast (Chromecast) now. Chromecast doesn't work with Amazon Video, which is the main reason I don't watch it despite having Prime.
So much beauty in the presentation.
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> Simply: Tax money is wasted.

That is similar to saying that you're wasting money by paying a plumber to fix your pipes, instead of buying all the tools and fixing it yourself.

If the government doesn't have the capital, expertise, or budget for investment in infrastructure, it makes perfect sense to outsource it.

Why would a county pay a bus driver, mechanics, and invest in a fleet of buses when it's less expensive to outsource it?
Pick someone else's niche making money, tweak it to make it your own, implement. Rinse, repeat until you achieve success.
Depends on commodity. You can just buy GPS slaved rubidium clocks with PTP output.
Strange that I have worked with so many designers over so many years that ignore basic research like this. In ecommerce it is a constant battle against block caps for every title, every product name and every banner. It is also a constant battle to get copy in a legible font with sensible line heights.

Recently I switched some fonts from the designer fonts to native font stacks with sensible line heights and the conversion rate improved considerably, although I was not able to measure this as there were external factors, e.g. sales promotions, that make this not so clear cut. The consensus is that the faster, easier to read site is winning sales, nobody cares with such emotion about the exact font now it is totally different on all devices, things have gone from being exactly specified to whatever it happens to be on the native font stack, there is almost no way of knowing if that really is 'San Francisco' or not. What I have not explained to my critical colleagues is how the 'SF' font changes from 'text' spacing and font to 'display' spacing and font above 19pt. So the font automagically adjusts itself for optimal legibility and clarity. I think the NASA typography guys would have approved of this approach when designing for displays - use the best fonts on the device. I also think Tim Berners Lee would approve, the original web was supposed to be with the device doing the look and feel.
I've seen the assumption that the brine dissipates quickly challenged.

Fluids can remain subbornly un-mixed, over large distances and for long times. Given that brine is heavier than seawater, it will almost certainly tend to sink and flow along bathymetric contours, perhaps pooling in local low spots. And sealife can be exceedingly sensitive to changes in temperature, ion density, salt content, etc.

This reminds me of a book in which an ecologist described a discussion with a chemist over the concentration of some pollutant in seawater. Roughly, "Assuming a well-mixed solution..." starts the chemist. "How are you planning to stir the oceans?" asks the ecologist....
Interesting. What are the tax implications, if any, for doing something like this? If it's an American giving a grant to another American, would it be treated as a gift (and thus be tax-free), or would it be treated as income?