skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think REI's pretty expensive, but it's midrange (see below).

If you do a lot of backpacking, you find you don't really need much specialized gear anyway -- in fact you probably have a lot of what you need lying around the house already. So the overall cost isn't that high. So it was worth buying a very expensive winter sleeping bag for sub-zero conditions, but for the summer I don't even need a bag at all. I wear the same hiking boots for any long walk.

When I say REI is "midrange": they are a great place to get basic stuff (I found the outdoors stuff at Dick's or Bass Pro to me cheap but mostly worthless crap). After the rebate, prices aren't bad and stuff tends to last a long time. They don't sell the super high end stuff (custom boots or sleeping bags) but the market for that is vanishingly small anyway, and like I said, typically you only need one or two pieces of expensive gear.

My locally-owned discount camping place (Redwood Trading Post in Redwood City) is my go-to just because it's locally owned, but they have some clunkers (e.g. their ropes).

One thing I've noticed is that REI do stock a lot of gimmicks (outdoor themed playing cards, heavy stoves for car camping, cheap knives) which I assume are the bulk of their profits. I haven't seen that stuff crowd out the "real" gear. Cabellas used to have really good gear too, but they couldn't make a go of it and the crud-laden Bass Pro bought them so we'll see what happens.

Oh, and another note on "midrange": I am referring specifically to backpacking, cycling and skiing (though I don't buy ski/snowshoe gear there). I am intimidated by the rock climbing gear and have no way of knowing if it is crap or ultra-high end.
I disagree. Idiocracy IMHO was designed to show one possible result - in satirical form - of the race to the bottom that we see every day.

If it's a "cheap way to feel smart", then perhaps those that feel smart merely by watching the movie don't realize they are part of it.

Others don't need to feel smart, and simply find it funny and disquieting. I thought it was a brilliant satire when I watched it some years ago.
Don't know where you live, but my old neighborhood in NYC had a Jewish police force - the Shomrim.
You can combine the two, creating a closure for private variables and using proper prototypes. The easiest way now is the ES2015 class keyword and its syntax, but for older versions of JS there are patterns and practices (and about a zillion helper libraries) to do so.
You busted me. I have never programmed with Arduino, just Atmel boards. I wrongly assumed they were similar. I guess Arduino is leaps and bounds easier.
Regardless of where you raise them there are experiences they will miss by living there, and experiences they can only have by living there. I can only speak for myself but I wouldn't fret over it.
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking! I don't recall ever seeing (or searching for) an explanation on how EMS and XMS really worked until today.
Mastodon was 30k last week, over 200k now. At that rate it looks like it might reach critical mass.
I know Mastodon is only for super-nerds right now and probably won't become big. But if it does it'll be SUPER interesting, since it can't be bought. Sorta misleading to mention Mastodon without noting that.
Regarding interviews I hardly get any algorithm questions that are found in CTCI.

Most of the technical interviews ask me practical knowledge on languages or tools, like how would I write a query for some problem, build a simple splash page with X set of features, etc.

It may be more of a west coast thing to ask CTCI questions. Interview styles might be like hip hop or food styles...it probably varies by reason. Local companies don't ask them much. The only companies that asked me those are Amazon and TripleByte.

I don't know of any resources for mock interviews.. my friends and family aren't familiar enough with my work to do a proper one. There doesn't seem to be much of a market for professionals to do mock interviews, which I find interesting.

Also, looking into the future, when I get my next job, what can I do on the job that will keep my interview skills fresh?
Especially given the importance of teamwork. Competitive people tend towards tedious one-upmanship. It's something you want to screen out in the hiring process.
Totally, one-hundred-thousand percent agreement from me.

Bret Victor liked to point out that we're completely ignoring the potential of the medium we're dealing with. We're using a dynamic medium made of magic ink to present static, non-interactive content. We're just delivering "information to be consumed" instead of creating "an environment to think in"[0].

If picture is worth a thousand words, then an interactive model is worth a thousand pictures. This is one good thing that could come out of proliferation of features in our browsers, as well as make tablets actually useful as a learning tool - that is, if more people bothered to use the medium to its full power. There are only few of those who try; some of their works can be found in [1], which is a lovely resource to sink your time in and see the yet untapped potential of digital technology.

--

[0] - http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/

[1] - http://explorableexplanations.com/
Google offers their consumers as products to data-mining/ad companies. This is like telling the farmer that ignoring the angry "moos" of their cattle is censorship.
> How is NSA TAO not being held criminally irresponsible by our administration

Hate to break the news to you about the new administration...
They are well known for being the cheapest domestic airline, and the only one to turn a profit every year for the last 30+ years, and thus have never gone bankrupt or been bought out like every single other American airline.

They only buy a single type of plane and fly it back and forth between the same city pairs. Thus their main competition used to be bus service. Often they would advertise one-way fares for $39 or even $19 as a promotion. Today you can still fly for under $100 between many cities (I live in Texas where they were founded so maybe my experience is different from yours).

As for hiding fares from aggregators, it turns out that there is a global booking system served by only a few companies, the largest I think is called Sabre, and in order to list on that system you need to pay a big annual fee. So in another example of cost cutting, Southwest refused to pay the fee and just sells tickets directly to customers, cutting out travel agents.

They were the first to have unassigned seats, the first to eliminate meals from flights, and they even used to have provocatively dressed stewardesses before that became uncool. Today the flight attendants sing songs over the intercom.

They even used to shave off a few minutes of turnaround time by having everyone out on the tarmac for boarding when the plan pulled up. It was a big game of musical chairs and apparently people found this fun.
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> My hope is that they one day expand their scope [...]

The “they” who make Wikipedia are just volunteer contributors. Go make it happen!
These folks aren't the same. I can't comment on whether or not Lincoln worked too much as I know little about his working habits compared to the standard of the times. Mandela and ghandi are both not quite your normal workers - and honestly outliers. Most folks who helped free slaves are forgotten, after all. As are most people, regardless of what they did with their life. This isn't cynical, just reflective of reality.

Jobs is the closest to what folks would model themselves after. And sure, he was successful and world-changing. But most folks aren't: Again, he's an anomaly. It isn't that that sort of path is impossible, but realistically speaking, most of us won't get there. And I do think he probably worked too much, as do most CEO's. I hope he was happy, but I've never found such a thing to be so.

"That language makes it seem like you fall into, stumble across, or get "lucky" to work for another man or woman (ie: a JOB)"

The truth is, this sort of job is what most people have. It isn't that folks don't put in work or try. It is that a lot of "making it" depends on things outside of your control, such as where you were born, the government where you live, how rich your parents were, the quality of school you went to, whether or not folks like you, health, timing and other such things I'm sure I forgot. It isn't that you can't do things, but realistically not everyone can get to where any of the folks you mentioned were. Most of us are average, working average jobs for some average manager.

This isn't even a bad thing: I've enjoyed most jobs I have had. I liked working at a school kitchen. I liked working at a pharmacy, and find retail to be fun as much as frustrating. I liked being a CNA at a nursing home - especially that (and too bad the pay is usually low and you feel overworked at 40 hours/week). These things don't have paths to riches or to anything on the scale of the people you mentioned. Fufilling or not, I'd still not work any of these for 60-80 hours a week. It is still work.

Of course, it might just be that I chase different sorts of dreams, and have never really found a field that both has actual opportunity for decent money and I like enough to do that much per week. Even then I would refuse: My favorite thing is producing artwork, but doing so for 50-80 hours a week puts me at risk of not being able to use my dominant hand well later in life, as artwork is really hard on the hand, wrist, and elbow joints. I already am reaping that "reward" with mild tennis elbow that occasionally flares up, and I'm only in my late 30's. Oops :)
Your example didn't had any assumptions.
What you are assuming then? If you need to reuse variable in Go then it will also copy it inside the map so your point is even more invalid in that case.
Zsh-autosuggestions
This was a good idea, but people use them largely for whimsical purposes and they add a lot of visual noise. There isn't an option to disable them, but if you use Slack in a browser, you can do this in a custom stylesheet:

.feature_user_custom_status .current_status,
.feature_user_custom_status .message_current_status {
display: none !important;
}
Interest rates here are way above inflation. according to the below reserve bank site inflation is 1.3% (stated in text, looks higher in that graph at closer to 2%) and the cash rate is 1.75%. This translates into interest on a mortgage being somewhere between 4.7% - 6% depending on fixed term duration etc. Mortgages here always have very short terms with a maximum of about 5 years.

http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/statistics/key-graphs/key-graph-infl...

http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary-policy/official-cash-rate-d...

https://www.asb.co.nz/home-loans-mortgages/interest-rates-fe...
It seems that you use children development stages as inspiration for AI development. Can you explicit your approach?

You can also see my question as a rebuttal to the "it is useless" argument.
That makes it clearer where the German "Schach" probably came from. I wondered about it when I learned that word.
I'll second the recommendation on that video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...

Highly, highly recommended for anyone who wants to actually understand linear algebra. If you're studying the material or need to use linear algebra in applications or are just curious watch those videos. It's not a huge time invest and it's a huge "force multiplier" to actually have an intuition for what's going on under the hood instead of seeing things as just collections of numbers and magical sequences of operations that "do stuff" for who knows what reason.
Can someone explain how GAAP would consider only Uber's share of an UberX revenue, but the entirety of an UberPool as revenue? This doesn't really make sense to me.
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Mobile phone motion sensors can be used to crack your PIN
As someone who used to host many Drupal installs - all of them.

The joke around the ops/security team was Drupal is a remote shell with a bonus CMS attached to it.
The ceiling on compensation to pax is $10,850, based upon a quick quote I got from executivejetmanagement.com for booking a 7 pax small jet in the next 3 hours, ORD-SDF. They quoted me a range $7,590 - $10,850, so this is the worst-case scenario.

So UA's policy is possibly based upon a "stay below some non-market-related amount" internal goal versus recognizing that they were throwing away perfectly useful pricing signals every time they enacted these kinds of policies. If they reached $2712.50 per seat for those four deadheading crew members in the auction with no takers (highly unlikely), then that is not just signaling it is cheaper to charter a private jet, but also signals pricing information to inform their route planning and marketing teams.

I see this all the time in business when helping clients implement their policies into software. There are often policies set for what amounts to someone with policy making power within the organization trying to game the metrics they are compensated by, and it ends up blinding the company to valuable market information that they then turn around to spend a minor fortune upon obtaining a very low-fidelity equivalent in lengthy, futile sales and marketing efforts.
Which social media giant do you suppose will buy/copy* them before they become too much of a threat?

* - edit
Thanks. Yeah I've been making my way through the video -
"Elephants on Automatic: HA Clustered PostgreSQL with Helm"

and its discussed at the 15:57 minute mark here if anyone else is interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CftcVhFMGSY

Cheers.
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“We’re fortunate to have a healthy and growing business"

$2.8bn "adjusted net loss" on $6.5bn revenue is healthy?
Apple is finally going to test self-driving cars
Some places I've worked allow the withholding to be a bit more accurate by specifying conditions like spousal income. The end goal is to make the refund as small as possible.
This is probably basically about the fact that driver portion is more complicated in UberPool than in the rest of their services.

It's to Uber's credit that on an ordinary ride, they don't try to claim that they have revenue equal to the entire fare. That would be an easy way for them to make their top-line financials look way more palatable than they actually are (ie, that they lost about $3B on $20B, rather than $3B on $7B).

But it may be genuinely hard to report on just the share of UberPool revenue that does not go to the driver, as my understanding is that the calculation is much more complicated in that case.
When you are a kid you can get into the wrong crowd and easily want to explore stupid things (bullying, drugs, bias, prejudice, etc.) Adults don't have the luxury or excuse of youth to say, "it was a stupid thing to say, but my thoughts were immature and my mind and self are still developing". There are some things that one as an adult should not "get away with" where non-adults should, in my estimation.
There's also an interesting difference in philosophy here: the EU and its member states have, reasonably consistently, been moving in a direction of more privacy and safeguards for personal data in recent years, and this has been significantly influenced by a perception that the tech industry can't or won't self-regulate to a level that was in the spirit of the previous laws.

Now, the EU doesn't always get this right. Some of the rules already agreed at that level, which will in due course become enforceable in member states, are obviously awkward or outright broken to anyone familiar with the actual technologies involved. There are some obvious contradictions (a cynic might use the word "hypocrisy") particularly in areas around potential surveillance by government agencies.

Still, compared to the kind of laissez-faire attitude adopted particularly in the US, the EU is practically living in a different world, and the difference is getting wider almost by the day. Moreover, I suspect a significant fraction of the US public would prefer a more EU-style arrangement (witness the arguments in the EFF report here). Obviously a lot of US businesses would not, though others, particularly those whose reputations rely more directly on being secure or trustworthy in some sense, might disagree.

Unfortunately, given the lobbyist-centric and partisan nature of current US politics, it seems inevitable that this fundamental divide will cause increasing amounts of grief all round, and the unknowns are more about who will be hurt more.
Exactly - how many falls has that rope / nut / etc. taken? Obviously some things are not dangerous used (chalk bag, crash pad), but I agree completely, don't bargain-shop for things that your life depends on.
Hi, I founded park.io and built it from scratch by myself - not sure why you listed my site here.
Why would you? How is knowing (and understanding) all that worth 350k per year? It shows that you are sharp and know your algorithms...is that all it takes to solve "350k yr" class problems? What do those problems look like? I suppose if they look just like hacker rank or something, then yes...

Certainly some companies put all their faith in those type of demonstrations of skill, I grant you...I'm just wondering if you or others really believe you are "Google material" by that measure.
I'm really surprised that the DOS extenders weren't the first solution to appear…
Law is literally enforced group-think
Yes, and they would take a corresponding gross margin hit as the driver's payment comes from revenue rather than being accounted for before it.

I do not think this a shell game to make the revenue number larger. The way drivers are paid while driving UberX vs. Uber Pool is different, and that probably has accounting rule impact.
I hope you're not ascribing that notion to me, as I am unsure why you chose to introduce it to the discussion.
Yeah, this is fascinating. I thought the prior understanding was that Shadow Brokers had found/located a TAO box which had unintentionally been left with a full pen suite.

That was an interesting error already, but this implies either a ludicrous screwup (how would you even package those together?) or some much deeper compromise.
It may not mention Reddit, but you can be sure that all the social networks used core ideas from it.

Community voting in general was popularized on Reddit (and Digg before that) and then the big guys started implementing it on their own networks in the late 2000's. I'm talking about all those thumbs up/down functions that eventually showed up on Youtube, Facebook, etc.

I just recently launched a SaaS that is now trying to do the same for traditional bloggers since they've been left behind more than anyone.
There are reasons for the body to feel tired. Deriving yourself of that feeling could have malignant long term impacts.
I recall reading circa Stuxnet that the NSA had recruited criminal malware coders. In particular, that a notorious botnet coder was consulting for them. So I wonder whether some of their consultants left backdoors.
I suppose, they also fudge and break more than while asleep.
Well the refund is nice to hear about.
Accuracy might mean "positively" right, as your post suggests, but that doesn't necessarily mean "normatively" right.

From what I understand, the fear surrounding embedding human stereotypes into ML systems is that the stereotypes will get reinforced. In some way or form, there will be less equality of opportunity in the future than exists today, because machines will make decisions that humans are currently making. Societal norms evolve over time, yet code can become locked in place.

Is your takeaway from this paper that we, as the creators of intelligent machines, should allow them to continue to making "positively" right assumptions simply because that's the way we, as humans, have always done them? Is "positively" right, in your opinion, in all cases equivalent to "normatively" right?
The article is just not doing a very good job of identifying social networks. Whatsapp is BIG. There are also many non-US base social network, like WeChat, that was not on their radar screen.

EDIT: I should explain myself more.

For my mom, her social network is a paper address book and her phone. That's the technology she use to get in touch with her friends.

Whatapps has the necessary technology and feature. What makes it a "social network" in this context is the adoption. If a large number of your peers are using it as a main way to get in touch, it is their "social network". You may not think of it as such because it looks different than Facebook. But this will become more apparent if you are aware how much penetration it has in some communities.
Thank you to introduce my page to the world. I've just found this thread and understood why the traffic suddenly peaked.
I'll add several link/books/courses here to the page.
Thank you for all.
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For those interested -> TopCoder annual competition just started (Marathon track which is usually 2 weeks length optimization problems):
https://community.topcoder.com/longcontest/?module=ViewProbl...
I was weirded out by this line: "Some tools, IDEs in particular, tend to assume that you should fix all your TODOs before you commit anything."

Holy crap that's fragile!

I'm still looking for the value add of an IDE. I'm not negative toward them (I know many many people use them and get a lot of value out of them) but I personally have never found one that was easier than simply writing and compiling code. Could be my use cases (the kind of code I write/projects I do).
Drivers are charged a percentage-fee for Uber's share of the ride in UberX. In Uber Pool, the driver is paid by Uber (as opposed to just through Uber) a variable amount that is not as easy for us on the outside to calculate as the percentage model.
Even just the one running thread of "propane and propane accessories" through King of the Hill paints a deep satirical portrait of middle class salesmanship, an equal to (if not a successor/better) "Death of a Salesman". I'd even possible put it up against Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions for levels of grim pathos and determination despite broken systems that don't allow for advancement while claiming that they do.

All of that seems like hyperbole perhaps, but it's an admirable trait to King of the Hill that it can inspire such questions and discussions... and that's just one of the many long-running satire threads in King of the Hill.
I don't see the problem. Tell them their question is a good one, but one that's very difficult to answer while providing a simplified answer (if you have a toy in one hand, and nothing in the other and you put them together, how many toys do you have together?). Critical thinking skills can be taught in way that's age appropriate. What's important, or so I believe, is that young children are taught to be curious and that it's OK to ask questions and be skeptical. They won't always get an answer, but that doesn't mean asking was wrong.
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Again, per the article "bias refers generally to prior information, a necessary prerequisite for intelligent action (4)." This includes a citation to a well-known ML text. This seems broader than the statistical definition you cite.

Think for example of an inductive bias. If I see a couple of white swans, I may conclude that all swans are white, and we all know this is wrong. Similarly, I may conclude the sun rises everyday, and for all practical purposes this is correct. This kind of bias is neither wrong nor right, but, in the words of the article "a necessary prerequisite for intelligent action", because no induction/generalization would be possible without it.

There are undoubtedly examples where the prejudiced kind of biases lead to both truthful and untruthful predictions, but that seems beside the point, which is to design a system with the biases you want, and without the ones you don't.
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