skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask your customers how they'd feel about a character in the logo, they're a better audience to poll.

And if you don't have customers to ask, then that should be your #1 priority instead of worrying about your logo. Github launched and worried about their octocat way, way later.
Mr Drury's specific quote may be just that company's hiring expectations. Even if that is the case, though consider this context:

"A municipal program to fly in 100 developers next month — wine them, dine them and offer them jobs — was expected to draw 2,500 applications. But the recruitment effort, called LookSee Wellington, was besieged with more than 48,000 entries, including workers at Google, Amazon, Facebook, M.I.T. and NASA. At one point so many people checked out the program that the website failed."
Oh not 'actual' techies that envision the world embracing a new information era, we just want the code monkeys that know enough to pursue the profit motive for us and have internalized the idea that such a role is so in-demand that we can thus get them to do cheaply

come now
5 steps I used to build my first SaaS product
Free tennis results and stats databases
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> Uber and Lyft's greatest competition in my life is a small Google product where people pick up people on their daily commute to and from work and the drivers are compensated only for gas money.

When I first heard about Uber I never thought about it as a replacement for the traditional taxi system but more of this. People on the way to their destination who can take some people there. Not some guy waiting around for the next person who needs a ride.
EMS was originally for the 286. It wasn't emulated by the CPU like you could on the 386. You bought an add-in board that contained the extra memory and handled memory requests on the bus for the bank switched area and accepted commands to change what areas the banked switched areas pointed to.

When the 386 came out, it was common to have more than 1MB on the motherboard, but the motherboard (typically?) didn't natively emulate the EMS bank switching scheme, probably because at about that time, everyone figured that people were going to stop using DOS and switch to OS/2, and be running 32 bit code that could natively address higher than 1MB.

When that didn't happen right away, Quarterdeck came out with QEMM/386, which used the Virtual 8086 features of the 386 to emulate EMS in software. Microsoft then shipped a not quite as good clone of QEMM as EMM386 with DOS 5.0.
The complexity of the tax code is completely unrelated to the cost of running your country, which is what taxes have to cover.

Increased complexity doesn't mean lower taxes or higher taxes, in principle, it just means complex taxes.

In practice, it actually leads to higher taxes to pay for an army of people to check the code is being applied correctly.

In Taiwan they have a system where you can choose to do manual deductions (A), if you think that's in your interest. Or you can take (B) 'the average deduction+10%'. Then you have a 1-page declaration of your income, no deductions marked, but they calculate what the guys who use (A) get, take the average, add 10%, then knock that off your tax bill.

No false claims, no evidence to supply, nothing to check, both sides win, each tax official can manage 100x as many Bs as As.

It's a practical example of how simpler tax codes can result in lower taxes by reducing (needlessly) big government.
Quibble: having multiple phones is not gaming companies; they're independent contractors, remember? You work for whoever provides the best compensation at that moment.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.
A black box neural network attempting to draw inferences from a human-biased dataset - potentially even more biased because it can't understand subtexts - and then verifying that conclusion through an ad-hoc set of "morality checks" entirely independent from how it reached the conclusion sounds like a recipe for disaster.

That's even before the marketing people get involved and start claiming the system is free from human biases...
You can read the law and it's quite clear.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/250.2b

Carriers to request volunteers for denied boarding.

In the event of an oversold flight, every carrier shall request volunteers for denied boarding before using any other boarding priority. A “volunteer” is a person who responds to the carrier's request for volunteers and who willingly accepts the carriers' offer of compensation, in any amount, in exchange for relinquishing the confirmed reserved space. Any other passenger denied boarding is considered for purposes of this part to have been denied boarding involuntarily, even if that passenger accepts the denied boarding compensation

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/250.5

Amount of denied boarding compensation for passengers denied boarding involuntarily.

Compensation shall be 400% of the fare to the passenger's destination or first stopover, with a maximum of $1,350, if the carrier does not offer alternate transportation that, at the time the arrangement is made, is planned to arrive at the airport of the passenger's first stopover, or if none, the airport of the passenger's final destination less than two hours after the planned arrival time of the passenger's original flight.

(c) Carriers may offer free or reduced rate air transportation in lieu of the cash or check due under paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section, if -
(1) The value of the transportation benefit offered, excluding any fees or other mandatory charges applicable for using the free or reduced rate air transportation, is equal to or greater than the cash/check payment otherwise required;

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There's a section about volunteers, which may be compensated in any amount (literally the phrase "in any amount" appears), and a completely separate section for how much you have to pay people involuntary denied boarding, which specifies something that looks like a fixed amount. And even if you're involuntarily denied boarding, you may accept non-cash compensation that equals or exceeds the statutory minimum.

There is simply no basis for the claim that an airline can't offer more than $1,350 in vouchers during a search for a volunteer. It's plainly refuted by the text of the law.
Thanks for the library! It's super awesome, useful, and easy to use. And yes, it made writing this ridiculously simple, it's borderline embarrassing how little code I wrote, but that was also part of what made it neat to me.

This was just a "let's spend a few hours playing with the Natural Language API" hack day type thing. Robbie's comment perfectly explains the context behind it. Google search pointed me to your library, which fit the need perfectly well, so that's what I used and I really appreciate that you wrote it and gave it permissive license!
I'd throw that into the "you made your own bed" category. Either change the carriage of contract (if you can, being a common carrier) to account for it in the future, or make offers until you get a volunteer. Everyone has a price.

Certainly when the situation is reversed, airlines have no problem with you losing your unrefundable/non-transferable ticket price when unforeseen circumstances force you to cancel plans. And they cite the contract if you complain.
I can just imagine holding some weird auction that 95% of people are unfamiliar with in a crowded boarding area full of annoyed passengers :-) That will end well.
If you look at the primary ways they keep their market it looks closer to a CPG than a technology company in that it's almost 100% brand recognition and sentiment.

Totally different long term business model and why they are pushing so hard for driverless cars, because that's more of a platform.

I expect that they want to really be an infrastructure player more like Verizon than anything in the very long term where they have lock in through municipal or state mandate for contract vehicles and driving infrastructure.

Given their less than positive relationship with governments I could see a city/state starting with autonomous buses and then moving to cars in a hub and spoke type system for public transport level fares. Uber probably would want those contracts more than anything.
The US has an incredibly wealthy continent at its disposal, full of mineral wealth and fertile farmland, with centuries of infrastructure, close to global trading hubs.

New Zealand has a couple of mid-sized islands, neither of which are particularly good for agriculture or mineral wealth, are a very long way from trading hubs, and has the shortest history of built infrastructure of all western democracies.

But if you want "historical immigration policy", the US's population has tripled since WWI while NZ's has quadrupled; similar growth with NZ having a bit more.
The Compaq Deskpro 386-20 is the most powerful PC an executive can buy
Google hire
4 people I graduated with in 2013, plus my wife (who went to work there more recently) all work at AWS, and they all love it. More anecdotal evidence.
Yes, but that's backwards. There are many many modules that don't have that stamp but that are distributed via the site and besides I strongly believe that security is not something you just vet for after the fact but that should go in to the design of your product.

If you don't do that it becomes a 'find the last hole in the cheese' exercise and very likely there will be many holes that you don't find that way that would not have been there in the first place had the whole thing been designed from day one with that in mind.

On the whole I think 'let amateurs build it and experts vet it' is better than just 'let amateurs build it' but it doesn't come close to 'let experts build it and experts vet it'.
Small fix, I believe it's "Generative" Adversarial Networks.
Slightly related question from a non-expert in ad-blocking: is it possible to block interstitial ads? While the freedom to render a page as you wish seems to come with controlling the browser on your computer, I can't imagine any way to circumvent the ads the obstruct the entire page and force you to wait for a few seconds before seeing content. Obviously you can just choose not to render them, but if the server can just delay serving article content until X seconds after the interstitial loads, it seems like the fundamental advantage here lies with the publisher and not the user. While submarine ads and lobbying are obvious responses to the Ad-blocker proposed above, wouldn't interstitials (which personally bother me much more than sponsored facebook posts) also gain popularity?
Does the Australian government pay interest on the over withheld amount? If not, then it is nothing to rejoice to get a refund. If you are getting a tax refund it means that you not only paid the money you shouldn't have paid in the first place but you also loaned it to the government interest free. The government hands you your money back a year later with no interest and in a depreciated form (because of inflation). Over withholding is financially sub-optimal decision for the tax payer.
As mentioned above, keep in mind the US has a higher total population precisely because it has had higher historical levels of immigration. Suppose the US had a total population of 500 million and NZ only 2 million. Would that mean NZ is looking even better? How about a billion? By your way of measuring, the more a country grows through immigration, the more immigrants it is required to take in to meet a per-capita measurement.
On the other hand, I seem to recall EMS in virtual86 mode being critized because the virtual86 mode caused a lot of very slow traps for that emulation. Not sure if true, but if the emulation was inefficient then I could see XMS being faster even if it means copying memory around.
I own a physical copy of Savov's "No BS Guide to Math and Physics" and am very pleased with it. I found it particularly useful as a refresher on things I learned long ago, but no longer regularly use. The focus on practical application is of particular value in a quick reference role. I've also recommended it as a reference for students transitioning from a Technologist program to formal studies in Engineering. I've ordered this latest work just on the basis of that experience (and the recent specter of not remembering how to use eigenvectors when it come up in an obscure graphics problem).
Apple’s self-driving car project now has a permit in California
Sadly this entirely skips the user registration, which probably includes the brain-dead variant of "security questions", essentially forcing you to choose from a fixed list of both questions and answers.

Pretty much everyone told United the end effect is pretty much eliminating any security, but they simply don't care.
> This feels a lot like a submarine article

How is it a submarine article? The people and agencies involved in the campaign are upfront and explicit in what their roles and goals are.

It isn't one of those "the suit is back" articles.
This is the reason why in the USA you will see commercials for medications ("Ask your doctor about XYZ; you know, instead of letting your doctor decide what's best.")
You don't get to claim you won the arms race until you've actually released your thing and it's got some significant adoption.

Otherwise you are just landing punches on an opponent who doesn't even know he is getting touched.
I don't even know how to approach this question.

There are grammatical typos. The poster appears to have little professional experience in an area they're attempting to get reinforcing opinions for their stance from HN for, and the entire question seems both shallow, stupid and ridiculous.

Someone with apparently no experience in branding or marketing wants to override their experienced colleague and thinks it's going to mean the difference between a 'unicorn' and a... moderately successful company?
TL;DR: You don't have to convince the designer of anything---you can "disagree and commit" and spend time on other decisions. Maybe some help:

> Third, use the phrase “disagree and commit.” This phrase will save a lot of time. If you have conviction on a particular direction even though there’s no consensus, it’s helpful to say, “Look, I know we disagree on this but will you gamble with me on it? Disagree and commit?” By the time you’re at this point, no one can know the answer for sure, and you’ll probably get a quick yes.

> Consider how much slower this decision cycle would have been if the team had actually had to convince me rather than simply get my commitment.

From Jeff Bezos' Annual Letter (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312517...)
Well how are we supposed to assess this without knowing anything about your product or target demographic? Will it be used by quirky individual geeks, or are you aiming at market position in an established industry or...?

If you're offering funeral services, for example, even the world's cutest cartoon skeleton might not be an appropriate logo element. Your HN bia says 'builds software for chemical diagnosis' - sounds like your target demo is doctors and hospitals but I'm just guessing. I presume you wish to be different from other firms competing in the same market, but different isn't always better.

In short... can you compare the success of top products who feature a character in their logo and top products which do not. e.g which one maximizes the probability of a 'unicorn'.

I could...what are you offering in return? Right now it sounds like you want other people to do stuff for you for free so you can get what you want, which isn't a very compelling come-on. That might be why everyone is taking your designer's side instead of yours, hm?
As have I for almost 2 decades now, some variation of a hosts file and an ad blocker.

My most downvoted comment ever on reddit was concerning not seeing ads. I had forgotten they existed (I didn't use mobile at the time).

It's been a solved problem forever, and yet so few people seem to know about it.
> How does HN pay the server bills, etc.?

I believe it's two relatively simple servers running the Arc code of HN, and Cloudflare as CDN.

HN does not need much processing power or bandwidth - 5 assets (cacheable+versioned CSS/JS, three tiny gifs) and thanks to gzip usually two-digit KB sizes of content. The only real expense is the manpower needed for moderation.
Doesn't seem to be a policy that's working out well for them though, when factoring in things like this happening.
You're selling Tulsa short - it has the same number of wild emus as NZ does.
I am fine with ads that are subtle enough to pass by an AI guardian. What I want to kill is stuff that dominates the page space, can't be ignored, follows you down the page as you scroll, autoplays video, runs so many scripts that my cooling fan spins up to full speed...

I don't object to the existence of advertising. I object to advertising that is intrusive and/or resource-intensive enough to impair site usability. (And malware served over ad networks, of course, but that's a bit different as a problem.)
Just on case, there is a `this super` construct in Sciter's Script for that purpose:

function Foo() {
return function() {
(this super).Bar();
}
}

this super, when used in inner function, returns this passed to outer function call.
Sure, it's a good gig. They're entitled to full pensions once they've been in office for 5 years, they have indemnity health care plans for them and their family(the best money can buy), and they collect a 174K a year in salary. But other than that they are just regular working millionaires.[1]

http://time.com/373/congress-is-now-mostly-a-millionaires-cl...
Man, modern journalism is really lame.

> Videos also show a clearly injured Dao returning to the plane, walking up and down the aisle and muttering that he needed to get home. He was then escorted off the plane a second time.

A gonzo journalist would write: "show Dao returning to the plane, walking up and down the aisles, then staring into space, muttering that he needs to go home, and repeating 'just kill me' over and over in an urgent tone, hair matted, toilet paper wedged against his bloodied face. He had the near-death shock of an asian tourist who'd gotten lost on the way back to his hotel after leaving a bar usually patronized by a "certain type" on the outskirts of Acapulco, only to be kidnapped, strip-searched, and terrorized for 48 hours by paranoid men with AK-47s snorting cocaine and sporting "ZETAS" tattoos. He was then escorted off the plane a second time."

Also - "vicious memes" ? Ripping someone out of their seat and dragging them through a plane can be vicious, but jpegs cannot.
So you start a company to produce two networks with GAN techniques, then sell them as separate products, to the opposing sides...
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Why one Republican voted to kill privacy rules: “Nobody has to use the Internet”
Maybe you're thinking of MemMaker.exe (bundled with MS-DOS starting around version 6)
Thanks, your answer is great!
If you aren't aware, there is abundant outdoor activity including water recreation in the bay area. You seem to think we have to stay in the valley
For what it's worth, comments like these here on HN tend to be seen as "sore loser" comments and find their way to the graveyard.

Congratulations on your foresight, however I think the chorus you should expect from this audience is "they did it better than you, so get over it."
Birds will also play jokes.

Example: A bird may call your attention to a near-empty water dish. You fill it up. The bird uses bathing behavior to splash you with the water, and then mimics human laughter.

Source: a caique with whom I am acquainted.

But birds are also not very sophisticated as comedians. Sometimes their funny prank is indistinguishably similar to a nasty trick. But really, if the bird wanted to be mean, he'd just pretend to be chill, and then bite you in the webbing between your fingers. They do that sometimes, too.
I've been in boarding areas where this happened. The offer started at $400 and ended up at $1,000 by the time they got enough people to accept. No one was outraged (and I was quite happy to get 2x$1,000 in vouchers in exchange for a minor inconvenience).
You are currently not adding any value to my question and I did not force you to answer.
I'd buy that used too.

You know there are climbing gyms where you're using both dynamic ropes & carabiners used by thousands of people before you? Those places aren't death traps.

Ditto mountaineering tours etc. for newbies that usually have every incentive not to report if they damage some of the equipment.

Carabiners, ropes & the like are tested when they're manufactured. Any damage likely to damage their structural integrity is usually going to be quite obvious. E.g. the carabiner won't close, or the rope will look like shit (although puncturing the core of a rope with crampons can be a subtle exception).

All other things being equal you're likely to be better off with brand new equipment, but you're also probably way better with used equipment where you spent that extra $500 you saved on some safety course & expert instruction, than skipping that and buying a brand new rope & carabiners.

Failing to properly secure a knot to a used carabiner is a way more likely cause of death than the carabiner itself failing.
Hahah Actually its worse, "Ask your doctor about XYZ, and if your doctor did not tell you about it, We will find out! Since we know her name and how much XYZ she prescribed vs generic ABC!"
> a huge part of hit work

Freudian slip of the most correct kind. It really was a hit, very odd to ignore it (fellow Texan here).
I'm having a hard time drawing a connection between your opening sentence and literally anything else in your post. Did you forget to factor in the passage of decades?
Your point is reasonable, but you are calculating rates from a vastly different denominator. At some point, I do think that sheer scale has to factor into the analysis.
Employees traveling gratis as a perq are not the same as crew positioning for duty. The latter have valid reserved space issued by the company travel department, and their boarding priority is "must ride"

United's screwup was trying to remove the passenger. If he had been denied boarding there would be no issue.
The "they" who decide the content classes which will be handled by the project (enforced as rules of the wiki) are nonprofit organizations I'll never be on the board of, so basically what cgriswald said.