skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm ready to throw American culture into the garbage.

That "American culture" is actually a by-product of the automotive industry. In the early 1900s the automobile manufacturers managed to turn around the image of cars being child killing machines, which they were, into it being the fault of the kids.

Drive down that cul-de-sac at the speed limit and if you run over a kid, the kid wasn't looking properly, you're not at fault! How could you be when the child wasn't looking?

The driver should almost always be responsible for hitting something. In North America the sad truth is killing someone with a car by "accident" is actually less of an inconvenience than getting a root canal. You pay a small fine, you go on with life as if it never happened.
Well a lot of people got behind Bernie, who has that whole, old-man-get-offff-myyyy-lawwwwn-socialist-curmudgeon, image going.

I think a team of handlers could prob mold Zuck into presentable shape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO/Linux_controversies
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The default nature of society is are rich and poor. There is by default no middle class. It has essentially always been this way in society. This is because capital accumulates, and rent seeking will always scale better than labor.

America had the prosperity of the 20th century due to explicit programs to create a middle class. Beginning immediately following the 1929 stock market crash with the New Deal, and through the social welfare programs of the 40s of the GI bill and mortgage lending we intentionally created a middle class and society prospered.

If we as society want a middle class we need to create it. In action will remove it as things fall back to historical normal, and actively working against activities that build and support the middle class (like destroying unions) will end it faster.

The other issue is the difference between short term and long term economic efficiency. Optimizing for capitol over labor will almost always provide more short term efficiency. Adding more cheap labor will almost always increase profits. But longer term our society will be always be better off if a larger percentage of our population can be educated, and financially stable enough for invention and improve productivity through technological innovation.

The more people who can have an idea and join the capital class, the more efficient our economy will be. A middle class is exactly what provides this.

Long term economic productivity is dependent on a middle class. Look back throughout human history, times of huge social and technological innovation almost always follow a sudden increase in free time for the average person (ie time beyond the work needed for survival).
We're in immoral waters here:
1) NDA's prevent most human's getting closer to the truth.
2) Selected audiences (the drinking friends you share details with) know that companies x, y and z are scammers and criminal, but most don't.
3) As a consequence companies that are immoral and fronted by the most skilled marketing liars thrive too much.

I say not doing evil to the rest of mankind trumps protecting the evil few.

Leaking systems that work seem like the moral road?
TJSON requires arrays be homogenous, and this is presently accomplished by specifying the types of arrays up-front in object member names and rejecting the array if any of the contents don't adhere to the type signature.

With toplevel arrays, in absence of this type information being explicitly specified in an object, implementations would have to rely on detecting homogeneity at decode time.

This is certainly possible, and in fact the serialization logic does it. But it seems like a sharp edge to include in deserialization logic in a security-oriented format. The format aims to keep the deserialization logic free of any sort of "guesswork".
I got curious about whether these were mainstream beliefs with muslims. Muslim culture is so varied as it's very large.

Here's a breakdown:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/27/muslims-and-...

The parent is correct in that most muslims, broken down by country, do support sharia law when surveyed.

Edited because I was wrong about numbers.
Proper data science (for example, bayesian analysis done right) takes that into account, and would generally not score random finds as remarkable.

But doing that is hard, so most people don't even try ...

yes, practically, that's how modern data science works.
recursion and embedded structures has been posited by some linguists as one possible explanation for similarities between languages cross-linguistically, however, controversially, Dan Everett's work on Piraha claims that this does not exist in Piraha. The mainstream community disagrees with him however.
Perhaps bringing up that exact saying wasn't the best choice. My purpose was to illustrate that it is factually illegal to say certain things.

Other examples besides claiming to be a doctor/lawyer while giving advice include: remarks that constitute credible threats to someone's life.

By the way, and appropriate to this thread, I am not a lawyer.
Well, yes and no. While Shariah is generally in line with your description, there are plenty of Muslim countries that have secular law - though they may still have blasphemy and/or apostasy laws on the books. And there are theoretically Christian countries with blasphemy laws, too[1]

1: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/29/which-countr...
Context matters. The job listings you are finding are not implying they are traffic engineering positions.
As someone who once tried to write a WebDAV server I cannot with good convince recommend it. It's Bizarre extended HTTP protocol that should not exist.
The most mentioned study on this topic that I've seen is: http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi...

Multiply the percentages out and it does not paint a favourable picture of the actual interpretation of Islam, as believed by most users.

It's odd that you're downvoted. It'd appear that most of the people in those countries would agree with your statement exactly. They are devout, and that is literally what they believe.
I bet it would be a huge success.
Apple is an interesting example of large company that is extremely labor efficient. I imagine Exxon would be another one.

With productivity falling in the last 10 years [1], companies that are labor intensive can't grow as quickly those that can grow faster by automating their production.
https://www.bls.gov/lpc/prodybar.htm
In the UK many towns have 20mph on residential streets. It is not just signs though, there are humps to drive over "sleeping policemen" and other obstacles that would make it harder to drive faster.
When you see someone look down on another's thoughts because they aren't "critical thinking enough, you'll find someone (or a culture) that assumes they have all the facts, and have considered all possibilities. That is hubris.

I find people who are truly open don't hold so desperately to facts, because they tend to change over time.
The amusing thing is this article suggests people running red lights are a problem, but makes the exact same argument that people make against traffic light cams - "people are going to run red lights anyway, stop ticketing them"

Ticket them and make money for the municipality. Don't engineer new solutions that cost tax payers money and make rodes less safe for people not in cars.
> [Has] one very valid use case left: easy file sharing, especially for shared hosting.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Not easy. Not secure. Not user friendly. Not anything good. Have an iPhone and need to FTP something? Don't have installation rights on your Windows workstation and need to FTP something? Unpleasant if not confusing as all hell.

Dropbox or a Dropbox-like program is significantly easier to get people on board with.

Any "ecosystem" built around FTP is rotten to the core. Blow it up and get rid of it as soon as you can.

Some vendors insist on using FTP because reasons, but those reasons are always laziness. I can't be the only one that would prefer they use ssh/scp/rsync with actual keys so I can be certain the entity uploading a file is actually them and not some random dude who sniffed the plain-text password off the wire.
There's Bittorrent. It's anonymous and not web based.
I think it's just the overall road maintenance that is better.
What do you mean #1?

Christianity has a lot more adherents (numbers wise) than Islam.
> These are the guys who consistently tell you how they are incidentally connected to someone who has actually done something - why? because that's all they know how to do. Worthless.

On the whole I agree with you. However, that's not completely worthless. There is some amount of value in being able to connect people. However, you need to be able to make meaningful connections. And that's where people with no vector and no capabilities have trouble. You don't have to have done something worth connecting to. But you do need to understand enough about the details of what the people you're connected to have to done to be able to make a meaningful connection.
I am interested in working on an application focused on personal use that can be self-hosted. Using Airtable in the meantime.

Agreed that most apps in this space are huge and focused on business and sales. I am more interested in software that helps cultivate personal, offline relationships -- as opposed to ScaleMail and such.
> he only has to shift a few hundred thousand voters in the right places.

That's a solid point. Most people don't realize this, but Trump's path to re-election is really just a handful of key counties in a handful of key states. So long as he brings jerrrbbsss to those areas, he's going to win.

If Zuck starts building FB data or operations centers in flyover, America, that'll all but confirm his intentions to run.
You are missing the key point: that agreement was not signed when Otto was acquired by Uber, it was signed days after Levandowski left Google, before there should have been any discussions with Uber regarding the acquisition of a startup that didn't exist yet. That is really bad optics.
Crazy, I never would have guess some of these I live very near. thanks for this.
So now we have a place where you can self-identify as an opposing gender but not as a profession you practice. I'd duplicate his letters to the same recipients, if I could.
I'm really curious how Alphabet even suspects that Levandowski signed this doc days after he quit. Anonymous/confidential tip?
Cult-driven intellectual authorities believe that designing and firing rainbow glitter embedded bullets of absolute power at rebels is a justified path to social control. Tech such as FB's is misused accordingly.
The same reason any of the biggest countries with sharia law are always surrounded by human rights violations (Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, etc); because the justice system became a tool to protect ideas from citizens instead of aiming for the well-being of all its citizens (as in, prioritizing coexistence).
Not necessarily improved, because in real world photos you can have what I would baptise as "the voynich effect".

Plants in Voynich manuscript aren't real, can't even be classified in a family, but strangely still look familiar to us because they are "frankenplants". You can have exactly the same problem in photos of wild plants. It only takes the leaves of a climber growing over the flowers of other plant, or different flowers and fruits mixed together; and you'll have a new species. A very tricky one to identify. After scratching the head for a while humans can sense that something is wrong... machines normally can't see the problem. An (in)famous case is the photo of two juxtaposed black people arranged casually in a geometry that was tagged by the machine as 'gorilla'.
While probably not wrong, such lists about how to optimize my lifestyle make me anxious if anything. It kinda suggests if I don't start my fitness diary, self-improvement plan and life goal milestone list right now, I'm wasting my time.
It is an Islamic country and blasphemy is indeed punishable by death in Islam.

Contrary to what people might think India too has blasphemy laws and people are regularly jailed even for academic work on religion (mostly Islam) or even private comments that insult the prophet. [http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/29/which-countr...]

I looked up the history of India's blasphemy laws it is indeed a creation of British to outlaw criticism of Islam in India to maintain peace in their colony though now mostly used by Hindus. (Islamists simply hack people to death or put a bounty on people's head. They do not bother with courts).

http://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2014/02/banning-wendy-donig...
Out of curiosity: why did you try to write your own WebDAV server? Apache ships a pretty much works-OOTB implementation - the only thing I never managed to get working was to assign uploaded files the UID/GID of the user who authenticated via HTTP auth to an LDAP server.
Hard to reconcile this with the existence of the kyouiku mama, the education mother. I also wonder if this also isn't ignoring all the students who don't do cram schools and who aren't salarymen capable, which is a lot of japan. Sometimes there's too much focus on the elite.
What is "naturally?" At some point in technological progress, we need to build machines to have children. But go a bit further along the line, and maybe we'd find the human body automatically building the machine that builds the human body—in effect, laying eggs.
> In North America the sad truth is killing someone with a car by "accident" is actually less of an inconvenience than getting a root canal. You pay a small fine, you go on with life as if it never happened.

This comes off as incredibly flippant. Is this something you've personally experienced? Would you elaborate on what you mean by a small fine? Going on with life as if it never happened? I fortunately have not been through anything like this, but I've never come across anyone who considers vehicular manslaughter insignificant.
The author of the article already pointed out and rebutted your precise argument. Can you counter his rebuttal? If you can't, you've added exactly nothing to the debate.
Most Americans support a ban on flag-burning too.
No. It's about public safety. Do you want anybody calling themselves Doctors and making surgery without proper training? How about civil engineers building bridge? How about software engineers that work on medical devices that can kill?

If you are building iOS apps you are probably a developer, not an engineer.
Github probably trust their CDN with their TLS key.

For Debian, packages are secured by PGP in combination with checksums so it's not relevant for them. The debian repos are often HTTP only.
Glass, Windows and Glazing Hardware Online Store in Canada
Ask HN: Is asking obscure algorithms any test of programming ability?
A friend of mine is being interviewed for Big 4. In the first round of screening, (s)he was asked about a linear time algorithm to find all the maximum element in a sliding window in an array.

Now this is a simple problem for anyone who has taken any DS or Algo Undergraduate level class since it involves the important concept of the priority queue. However, it is my understanding that to do this in a linear time is neither trivial nor straightforward and unless that person is really gifted. (Its something called Monotone Priority Queue which is not present in any standard Algorithm textbook) So my question to the general populace is: Are knowing obscure algorithms like this any test of a person's programming ability ?
Professional licensing exists to protect the public at large from fraud. Would you want a public building, say a sports stadium, designed by someone without the proper training? Engineering licenses add a layer of protection and assurance that the person performing the work is truly capable of performing the work.
There is a reason why.

Are you also vexed every time a story has "Apple" in the title?
Thanks for the reply.

I guess what it comes down to is that a good landlord doesn't want to be exposed to destruction of a property he or she takes pride in, and a good renter doesn't want to get hosed on move-out, jerked around with slow maintenance throughout their time, or have their lives made unpleasant by other, out-of-control tenants.

Both renter and landlord probably expect similar distributions: almost all experiences fall between tolerable and good, with just a few outliers way out in "hellish nightmare." Unfortunately for renters, the signs of a conscientious landlord who's been burnt before can look very much like those for an aspiring slumlord in the way both shield themselves. And a conscientious renter who's been burnt before probably comes off similar to one who's really planning to abuse the landlord's patience.

A couple silly questions, if you're still watching this and care to answer:
1. Regarding the black smudges on the wall from furniture, is discovering several of those grounds for charging against deposit, an annoyance that you just take in stride, or something you expect of everyone?
2. Have you had tenants request additions or modifications to your contract, and have you accepted them?
>There's nothing really like it anymore - you can't have anonymous sftp.

Strictly speaking there's nothing stopping someone from writing an anonymous sftp server that lets anyone log in as a 'guest' user or similar - it's just that nobody has (as far as I'm aware).
Which is funny, because all of the things I hate about Microsoft and Windows have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not they provide bloated binaries, containing PNG images that are bundled with extra XML tags and descriptors.

Gee whiz! What a world!
True. Just because Oregon board has a narrow view of what the word 'engineer' means I do not think this gentleman should be harassed this way. I find this immoral.

Another instance I can recount is here where a woman was banned from touching horses.

http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/17/woman-could-go-to-jail-for...
I noticed that the story has salient omissions. Clickbait, possibly. Miscarriage of the public interest, probably.
The article seems to indicate the document was signed days after his departure from Google, presumably before Otto was a paper entity. That seems a little unusual.
That's not relevant. You said:

> you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.

To refute this, it's sufficient to present a counterexample. Since many studies exist, and they are reputable, the only argument is whether the people in them are average.

You say they are not, because they lost weight. But that cannot be your whole argument, because if we assume average people don't lose weight we assume the premise you have taken up to prove.

So again: other than the fact that these people lost weight, what exactly is exceptional about them?
I assume that Otto execs indemnified Uber with respect to the intellectual property, given that it was a primary value in the acquisition. If so, Uber can claw back the $680M they spent.

If not, it would be the worst IP miss since Ebay acquired Skype for $2 Billion, only to find out that they didn't own Skype's IP or have access to the source code [0].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/18/new-lawsuit-brings-clarity....
My abstract algebra course is using a system called mathweb currently, it works reasonably well.
So I work for a very large company, and there's many projects going on throughout the business. This only describes one particular project, but the entire system is a multi-billion £ business, and this project is replacing the customer-facing part of the system, so it will ultimately serve hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of customers. There are about 30-40 projects in the business that I know of, and there about 25 infrastructure/platform engineers working on these projects.
Land is defined as everything not supplied by human effort. It is thus perfectly inelastic in supply.

Bringing land into use is a service ie Labor.

Hope this helps.
Penny Pinching in the Cloud: When a VM in the Cloud Isn't What You Want
You don't. It's kind of a "HN trope" that the typical Silicon Valley engineer makes that much in total comp. Everyone on HN seems to know that one guy who's brother's nephew's roommate works at Google and makes $400K, but it is a far, far, FAR outlier in terms of total comp for a mid-senior level engineer at a mid-tier company.

There seems to be ample [1] data [2] about [3] this.

1: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-senior-soft...

2: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Senior_Software_Engi...

3: http://www1.salary.com/CA/San-Francisco/Software-Engineer-II...
> Trump didn't win on anti-establishment, he won on racism pure and simple and that was born out by the numbers.

This is why the left lost. They can't see past racism, sexism, ___ism.

Remember that many of the key swing states Trump won, went Obama 4 and 8 years ago.

I'm not denying that racism had a role in his victory, I just don't think it played as critically of a factor as you think.
The test isn't about whether you know the algorithm – quite the opposite. The test is about seeing how you approach a problem you haven't (possibly) solved before.
My mistake - it's just the fastest growing and the #2 religion.
No, Yahoo did by not keeping up the pace and evolving. It was static because Yahoo was under terrible leadership that never could figure out whether to shit or get off the pot.

To quote some execs I had a meeting with at Yahoo when we were acquired by them "we don't innovate: we copy what others do and make it better".

Not only is this an idiotic strategy, but it was one they consistently failed at. They never made anything better. I did point out at the time that I thought they were being delusional.

I left in 2005 because it was obvious the company didn't have any actual leadership. Just indecision and half measures. I left because I used none of the products anymore.

Yahoo handed the victory to Facebook.
and it does checksum for you.

edit: thinking about it not sure I agree with the anonymous part considering the swarm can be monitored. the access log is essentially publicly distributed.
In my experience, companies do often plan things, yes.
In 10 years electric cars will be the cheapest cars. We're at the beginning of this transition right now, still in the early-adopter stage.
The worst offenders are hotels. As a rule of thumb, what you end up paying for a hotel in the US is about double the quoted price, mostly because of taxes. The hotel chains take advantage, too, by adding "surcharges" that read like taxes but are in fact just part of the hotel's price.

When I was vacationing in Germany I expected the same sort of thing and was pleasantly surprised to find I'd budgeted twice as much for lodging as I needed.
The scenario illustrated in the GP happens because the the rightmost lane is subject to merging traffic from onramps and offramps, and also tends to be the lane where trucks and vehicles obeying the speed limit (or both) congregate.

Meanwhile, the leftmost lane attracts people wanting to drive faster than traffic, the people who just want to get one car ahead, as well as the people who just want to drive without having to let cars in all the time.

If there's only two lanes -- like on most rural interstates -- and sufficient volume exists to prevent the left lane from actually clearing out cars, this creates a tragedy-of-commons situation in the left lane where there's more empty space in the right lane than in the left. A subset of people will then use the empty slots in the right lane to try to get ahead, making the situation even riskier.

But this poster's right; the root cause is not enough lanes to ensure a high level-of-service.