skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then what is the point of asking for buy-in? As opposed to 'Interesting views everyone, thanks. I'm gonna go with option B.' Then there's no ambiguity about who took the decision.

I didn't remember it when I commented earlier, about 15 years ago I was in a job where boss walked in when I was with clients and asked me to proofread some ad copy. I did and made one minor correction (with a pen, I didn't talk about it). He called me into his office a few moments later and reamed me for 'undermining him in front of clients' because I had failed to understand that his intention was to show off rather than actually have me proofread the copy. He became so abusive (threatening violence and so on) that I quit on the spot.

tl;dr don't ask an open-ended question if what you actually want is validation of your decision.
Oh, sorry, I missed that part of your comment!
> Why would anyone in their right mind fly United any more?

If they're like me and they don't live in a major metropolitan area, oftentimes the choice of airlines is limited and one airline might consistently be a lot cheaper than the other choices you might have depending on the airline network and required flight connections.

That's why when I see things like this happen I view it as obviously bad PR for United but it seems like consumers don't have much choice in many scenarios unless they want to pay substantially more per ticket.
The author is reasoning along the premise that the universe is lifeless; he didn't declare it with absolute certainty (and in fact he specifically addressed the possibility of aliens and how they'd interact with his point).

Frankly I'm glad someone is publishing thoughts on bigger topics... we could use more of this and less myoptic focus on the latest my-tribe-other-tribe cultural dominance outrage circus.
Why is there not more media coverage on that district in eastern texas that allows all these patent trolls to exist?
AMD has a different but equivalent thing called PSP, or "platform security processor", which is ARM's TrustZone.
Agreed. These kinds of competitions or coding interviews may cause over-fitting.
'self' is also the global variable when you are in a WebWorker context, so it's sort of like overwriting 'window'. When you are in a window context 'self' is also identical with 'window' but people don't usually use it there.
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The ghost of continental strikes again
I think he was discriminated against because he was gay.
Apparently Willy Staley of the New York Times missed all the satire in KotH. Someone in the critical analysis business who understood towns like Garland, TX well wouldn't dismiss the satire in KotH offhand. Shows can be relatable and funny and still be misunderstood.

And I don't think cities necessarily corrupt people somehow. Obviously Garland itself is part of the DFW metroplex! It's probably more that people with a certain brand of cosmopolitan ethnocentrism end up in (or stay in) coastal cities.
I've had extremely concerning test failures with -Ofast, disastrous calculation errors involving floating point numbers between 1 and 1,000.
1. This is actually a big deal. Look on Shodan and see how many systems have the CIFS port open, bannering on Win8 and older.

2. There are other risks: pivoting, RDP, etc.

3. Greenwald's entire point of founding The Intercept was to capitalize on bombastic Snowden leak stories without intermediaries such as The Guardian. It seems like it would be counterproductive for the editors to write something measured or that give NSA any benefit of the doubt. Readers should expect alarmist journalism from The Intercept as much as they should expect anti-conservative viewpoints from the NYT.
How do they verify leaks to ensure no part of the leak is made up? If they can't, it's just a leak. Authenticity can only be confirmed by further leaks (unlikely) or newspapers and other organizations work in fact checking after release.
You could always incorporate SWEET16 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16) to support 16 bit math.
But almost all of that left SV decades ago.
Repeating what I said further down this thread, but I've had this compiler flag break things involving computations with numbers in the range of 1 to 1,000.
they have adopted a fully authoritarian mentality because they have been given arbitrary authority with zero accountability. this is the Stanfrod Prison Experiment except in real life and in a crucial service industry. we're fucked.
Would this drive to more or larger IP holding firms (One of the complaints of Trolls is they don't actually make anything)?

You create something patent-able. Knowing you will not see any money for 17 years you sell your patent to someone for a lump sum. You get your cash for making for thing, they get their payday after a 17 year wait. End result (which jump to my mind) is patents are turned into financial products managed by companies that "don't actually make anything" enforcing their terms as it will increase profits at the end of the investment period.

Just wondering how that would be any different to what we have now apart from the people creating the "inventions" patents are tied to probably getting a worse deal then they are now as there is a 17 year wait for "payday".

EDIT: Also Who would manage the escrow accounts? Would there be fee's to pay? Any interest earned? If so who pays / receives those? Will they be payable at/receivable at the end of the term or throughout. What if if the patent is dismissed? Do the interest/fee's get passed back to those who paid the licensing fees? What about appeals? And what about inflation?

First thought it sounds like a nice idea, refund everyone if a bad patent gets though, but I can see it just hurting the inventors more then patent trolls.
>People like having a purpose and being part of something greater than themselves. What could be greater than the entire universe?

There is also the possibility of complete existential freedom. Freedom to choose meaning can be very frightening. Humanity is still driven by the meaning and purpose programmed by evolution and slightly modulated by cultural evolution. When technology advances, it will become possible to modify personal or collective meaning at will or fulfill evolutionary desires more directly.

Creat Filter Hypothesis:

The reason why it's difficult to meet technically advanced aliens in the galaxy is because technology enables direct ways to get meaning and satisfaction that far surpasses anything the real world can offer. Each civilization develops to the point where they can produce technology that short circuits the evolutionary drive and replace it with something better (It can be 'Enlightement', 'Soma', 'immersive neural lace games and soap opera', or 'permanent intellectual, physical and existential orgasm by brain fungus') or alternatively they start to
modify their core utility function that gives them meaning and purpose.

Intelligent agent can't derive meaning from rationality or intelligence using deduction. Self preservation is not more logical than being happy, it's provided by evolution. Those who explore universe have not fallen into this filter or have not opted to remove this desire.

Civilizations that pass this Great Filter are puritans
I took a vegetarian Thai cooking class when I went to Chiang Mai and I love cooking those recipes. The great part is that I can do all the prep on Sunday evening and the meals take about 10 minutes to assemble/cook. The recipes also work really well for cooking individual or 2-person meals, so I've got it a ton of flexibility during the week.
I would guess two things...

Less potential defense for a civil case from the passenger if they can't claim trespass. They could, for example, be more liable for the injuries even though they did not inflict them directly.

Then, if violating some common carrier requirement, also subject to fines. Like the multi million dollar ones doled out for leaving passengers on the tarmac for hours.

It may also serve to educate airport police in the future as to how involved they want to get in a contractual dispute.
The main problem is totally technical! Robot cars can barely deal with following white lines on the road. How about rain, construction, poorly marked roads, fallen trees, badly parked delivery trucks, emergency vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, etc? Can cars read roads signs and understand them? We'll have full-on AI before self-driving cars are for real.
Is there really risk in being particularly adept at algorithm design?
Please go on and elaborate on that point, would you? The folks at home fret about recycling while the Sun is busy wasting 99% of the energy we might ever be able to use.

Surely, the star at the center of our solar system is the biggest polluter. Can you argue otherwise?
This isn't about undefined behavior. It's about ignoring the way that floating point math works like real numbers. That lets you assume things like addition are commutative, which enables things like loop invariant code motion, reordering of operations, and generally doing
me too. one of the things I'd like to see them do with the iMac is offer overclocking and better cooling (i do a lot of work that doesn't benefit much from multiple cores. i need single-thread speed.)

i doubt they will though.
The United States is only one of the many countries that Google and Facebook operate in. They have to follow the laws of the other countries as well, and they have done so in the past. Furthermore, if humans are still able to recognize the ads as ads after they are not explicitly marked as ads, a perceptual ad-blocker might be able to detect them too.

If the adtech companies modify the ads enough that the ads are indistinguishable from non-sponsored content, this xkcd applies: https://xkcd.com/810/.
Totally. It often helps to depersonalise the message by saying "this project isn't working because the requirements weren't gathered from the right users" tho.
It is possible for something to be true, yet dishonest in its presentation or as a result of bias. Wikileaks is a political organization with political goals, most of them anti-American. While you probably can take what they reveal as fact, you cannot take their interpretations, their existence, or their stated goals as such.
In my yuppie group of friends, a CSR is a pretty strong wealth signal. we're probably just overly competitive and shallow, but some people definitely pay attention
Don't forget Windy Hill, which has a trailhead that starts at flatground rather than up an additional 20 minute drive up Page Mill Road. :)
Yes, but not really.

Google search was the first one to find a business model for pure search (adsense i.e. advertising based on your search terms).

That allowed them to build the best pure search experience they could and was so profitable that they could spend more money building it than anyone else. That's a virtuous cycle.

Their competition at the time was moving away from pure search (because it was unprofitable for them) into yahoo-like portals, because that's where the money was (also ads but non-contextual display ads).

Which is why that's not a good analogy for uber.

In U.S. there's really Uber and Lyft. Every time Uber is discussed, "no lock-in" comes up but why no one even tries to compete with Uber and Lyft in US?

It does seem like people who actually have the money to potentially mount an attack on Uber or Lyft came to the conclusion that it would be a foolish waste of money.

Uber and Lyft have a clear business model: they are better and cheaper than taxis and have global presence (while taxi companies are historically local and don't have the capital to go global).

Customers in this market do care about price and better service, so it's rather obvious that Uber and Lyft will win over taxis (arguably they already won given that they're 100x bigger than any taxi company).

Both Uber and Lyft are still in the phase of aggressive expansion and growth, they still enter new markets, subsidize the service to increase usage density (which makes the user experience better), they experiment with things like Uber Pool, being alternative to busses etc.

None of the above is cheap so it's understandable that they loose money today.

But at some point the growth will stop, their costs will go down and one of them (or even both) will be very profitable companies.

The only thread for Uber and Lyft are self-driving cars (i.e. Google, Tesla, GM) because they'll drive costs down by 5x. Whoever wins that race wins the taxi business, which is why Uber spent $680 million on Otto and GM $1billion on Cruise and Google was apparently paying $120 million to a single individual in charge of self-driving cars.
> Given how common it is for members of Congress to become mega millionaires over a few decades on a job that pays ~$200k/yr

Can you provide a source for this? Don't know much about the topic but I've always assumed that, in general, Congressmembers who are wealthy were already wealthy before they were elected to Congress.
Seems more likely to me that the AI and machines we build will colonize space. In that lens the fate of humanity is less critical.
In general, that is not the law, nor is that common IRD practice, as the many, many, many kiwis who spend time in Australia could tell you.

At a guess, your ex's family managed to stay resident in NZ (or the IRD may have incorrectly believed them to be so), or they spent too much time in NZ, or didn't spend enough time in the US, or the IRD just screwed up the paperwork, etc.

But the law is quite clear, and is explained in detail on the IRD's website: http://www.ird.govt.nz/international/residency/dta/double-ta...
> "Good schools" has been code for non-integrated schools for a very long time in this country.

Citation needed. I have lived in this country for a long time, and have never hear it used in this manner, and Google searches turn up nothing.

> pretending like the comment is "injecting" race into the discussion ignores American history

"Pretending". Way to jump to conclusions. If you're proposing that an innocuous phrase like "good school" is forever tainted by history, that is a small and petty view of the world. That's like saying "honky tonk" has racist connotations because of the word honky.
I don't know much about engines nor cars but I am guessing that even with electric motors one needs gears? If so then there would be a need for gearbox oil.
For older folks, the weather is great compared to the northern states or countries (ex: Canada) that they originally come from. Lots of retirement communities that provide the social circle and activities they can engage in. No state income taxes is a bonus.
I live in Christchurch and that's news to me. The central city is best avoided for other reasons: the 2010-2011 earthquakes disproportionately affected the old buildings there and the rebuild means it's a constantly shifting maze of closed roads and detours. This is now hardly noticeable in most of the rest of the city.

I found an article [1] about it which contradicts your understanding of the crime here. Auckland is much worse as a city overall, but Cathedral Square in Christchurch is dangerous compared to the rest of the country. I can't find a good comparison of actual crime rates between countries, but did find articles saying the perception of crime risk is way off here compared to reality.

1. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/79704084/New-Zealand-rates-f...
The rollout started a number of years ago. They're already over 70% of the way towards the 75% target.
Actually, I'm hoping this will be the future - ads hosted by the server instead of fetched by the client. Then when an ad service hosts malicious code it'll infect the server instead my my goddamned machine.

What with foreign tracking cookies and ads and whatnot, the ability to refer to content on another domain within a website seems to be a user-hostile feature in the end, as much as allows for creative infrastructure models for providers.
Makes one wonder if his next door neighbor was the inspiration for the character Lawrence in Office Space.
Grew up here and went to elementary school ~ HS here.

At least for HS, MV High has come a very long way since my time and would probably lead the "affordable good school" category in the area.
Really? The TiVo peanut is still the best I've used. The ability to scrub with the Apple remote is really nice and Siri can be useful but the shape is a disaster and I really miss physical buttons for moving around the interface.
>Chromecast cannot possibly be considered usable by most because it follows a weirdo, google-style, controlled-by-the-browser (but only Chrome) model. It is the most absurd way to watch TV ever invented. I use it sometimes, sure, because it's the only Linux-friendly HDMI dongle (Chrome runs on Linux), but can't imagine anyone actually liking it.

This only makes sense if you completely disregard the fact that almost all the major VOD providers (excepting Amazon Prime Video) provide Chromecast support in their Android and iOS apps. It's extremely convenient for me; open the app, cast to the TV, and select the video.
yeah. i see the same thing.

another option besides buying from Apple or building one yourself: go on craigslist and search for hackintoshes.

you may find an experienced hackintosher who can build one for you. it's still a little dicey, but there are individuals out there who can create reliable beasts far more powerful than anything Apple sells today. (i'm certainly not one of them. much too conventional. i just buy from Apple.)
witchcraft is illegal here in the states
Wow! Congratulations that is very cool! Is there any reason why that would not work on an iPhone Plus?
This is the much better analogy for the Uber business model.
Same but I use: cat | Mk1 eyeball

In all seriousness, the great thing about a standard like this is that it is tool agnostic.
Nice rig, everything work? You have a BT 4.0 for Handoff?
You wouldn't be allowed to build a new house today without proper insulation and double glazing.
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Even the medium isn't truly informative in terms of purchasing power within a geographic region.

It really boils down to your relative earning power vs your professional peers (including non engineers) in the direct geographic vicinity of you, in a supply constrained bidding war situation like desirable real estate.

Let's say the average primary care physician's salary has been matching inflation for 20 years while that of the software engineer has outpaced it. Well even if a physician is doing just fine vs his physician peers, the rapid rise of sw eng salaries and the dramatically increased number of such people will have reduced his or her relative earning power and the standard of living he or she can afford, over said 20 years.
I'd disagree with your last point: 'Getting ahead', and the instinct behind it seems to me to be the main driver behind New Zealanders being generally much more entrepreneurial than their European counterparts (anecdotal is not the plural of data, notwithstanding). Additionally, working in Wellington yields a London rate but without the equivalent expense (I'm a contractor); so attainment of 'ahead' is well within the grasp of someone competent and reachable for those who aren't, at least as far as I can tell. While I am in no position to comment, my experience has also lent itself to the deduction that the education system here isn't as rigorous as it is in other places, but this is entirely anecdotal also, so should be taken for exactly what it is worth.

I guess if I'm being picky, I'd also pick you up on the point prior; fatty foods aren't necessarily correlated to obesity, but I'm guessing that's not exactly what you're driving at.

Thank you for making me think a little more!
Back when I built a Hackintosh in 2007/8, all the tutorials I saw encouraged people to buy a legitimate copy of OSX (and I did - $79 seemed fair to support the OS I wanted to use). Do I can definitely answer "yes" to this question.
Don't you remember when libdvdcss was so illegal you had to run a script (that Ubuntu shipped) to download it? The horror!
There is 0 evidence of life outside earth.

There is also Drake's equation.... your opinion on that is probably already formed, so why discuss it?
> Salaries

Are salaries that bad? I know a bunch of developers in the Wellington area (and used to be one), and most are making around ~100k USD a year. Yea, it isn't Bay Area Google money, but also not terrible.

> the size and quality of the roads

I can't speak too much for the south island, but on the north island the roads seemed fine. The roads in San Francisco and Oakland where I live now are way worse then I ever experienced in NZ.
Supply (particularly in Auckland) has been a big issue. The government has recently been working to rezone more land for development/higher densities.
London is very much the same. The recent large expansion of cycle routes along the Thames and the resultant roadworks has increased the us vs them sentiment unfortunately :(
While looking back at it, my comment was a rather vague as to the target... Apple's customer support is spotty if you factor in their B2B (?assuming being an app developer puts you in that position?). I don't want to trust my mode of transportation to them as a result of my experiences.

In this situation, a self driving car is a combination of hardware and software. As you said:

> it's probably being driven by apple software, which is sometimes iffy and buggy and downright crappy

Whether it rolls well is one thing, but I question the consistency of the software from them, as well as their consistency on policies (app rejections)
No you don't need a gearbox.
What does motivation look like in AI? Why would AI care about anything? What does an AI caring even mean?

AI is just a bundle of humanity's fears/hopes about being replaced. Silly humans! There is nothing more human than a human.
Neither. My background was all C family until I read PragProg and then stumbled over Elixir in a search for another language for edification.
Wow. I like your take on this. Reminds me that the regular populace is still in support of fascist ideas as long as the notion isn't obvious on the surface.
Does WikiLeaks have a shred of credibility left at this point? I thought it had become very clear by now that Assange is in bed with Putin and that WikiLeaks is simply an arm of his propaganda machine.
Doing parchment salmon tonight. I got a pound of salmon scraps from Berkeley Bowl for $6. Lay that out on parchment paper. Peel and slice a lemon. Slice up an onion and drape the onion + lemon on top. Asparagus sliced lengthwise on the bottom. Maybe basil leaves. Salt and pepper and maybe some olive oil (salmon is already oily, this is for taste). Wrap it up into an envelope. Bake at 400 for 20 - 25 minutes. Potato side or if you boil and slice you can put that in too.

You can eat it right out of the envelope. Baking salmon this way is bulletproof. Infinitely better than broiling. Very little cleanup, very forgiving.
The price just isn't on the ticket.
Pudding. Pudding mix that is sold in the store is just cornstarch + sugar + flavor. You can make it yourself at 1/10 the price and not much work. (I'll Nep you up!)
It really frazzles me to see the the same presumptuous seeds that fruited in multiple genocides getting "happily" sprouted once more on such a potentially endless scale...