skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you drastically overestimate his name recognition; he's famous in the tech bubble, outside of that few would know his name. Everyone knows facebook, that doesn't translate to everyone knows Zuck. Beyond that, he's on record saying all his users are idiots and he has virtually no social skills; Zuck is not a politician and probably couldn't be.

Trump didn't win on name recognition anyway, he won on racism, pure and simple. He tapped into white middle class racist conservative American's anger about losing their place in the world by saying what they think and normalizing their racism. That his opponent was a women also helped due to their misogyny that he also tapped into. This isn't the kind of thing Zuck or any left leaning billionaire can replicate.

Zuck has the power and influence to be a king maker, but he'll never be King, he's not suited for it. In fact, Trump nor any business titan is suited for it, government isn't a business and the president isn't a CEO and Trump is only proving that truism; the president is a diplomat and requires a professional diplomat, not a businessman.
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I found it wonderful that McCarthy has avoided conflating the brain with the mind. I get very frustrated trying to read through the literature on this subject (a passion of mine, was my career track before I dropped out of academia and learned how to program) and seeing the cult of the brain taking over. McCarthy is not so encumbered with materialist scientism. He is willing and able to discuss the mind in all its ethereal glory.
This is a really interesting engineering problem. You have plenty of constraints with competing interests with a defined set of inputs (teams) & sets (weeks). There needs to be parity within the matchups and across the season. Teams must play the other teams in their division twice. Stadiums may not be available due to concerts or other sporting events. Beyond that, you have the human factor of high-leverage games & television networks. It's also something that's quite testable against many of the non-human constraints.

The NFL actually has quite a prolific GitHub organization [0]. I recommend looking through if you have a few minutes.

[0]: https://github.com/nfl
This is good advice!
> Machines are totally unnecessary.

Machines are actually worse than free weights; you don't get a full body workout, especially all those stabilizer muscles that help prevent injury.

> hardened against injuries.

I can second this; while I've not become extremely strong, I credit strength training for my lack of broken bones after taking a 600ft tumble down a hard pack snow slope. Strength training in recovery also helped me heal faster.
The local public state college I attended was roughly $150/credit hour. So about $1800/semester was my cost.

Books were up to $300 per class. Sometimes I could find a used one, but often it was a previous "edition" which didn't quite match the teacher's latest edition.

I spent around $500/semester in books, sometimes less, sometimes more. Which is about 1/4 of my total cost(yes I know the actual tuition was subsidized)
I was just about to ask, isn't that how data science works?
A world without trucks: underground freight networks (2008)
To contradict this a little bit (and this is not 100% relevant because it involves exactly one participant, so who knows whether it would ever work for anyone else) this remains one of the most interesting weight loss related things I've read on the internet: http://edwardjedmonds.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Stewart...

The study participant went from 456 to 180lbs through the course of a year, and when they checked on him five years later, he weighed 196lbs. Obviously this is an extreme case, but it is one tiny and yet super interesting datapoint on the subject.
The idea is you need to allocate and resize larger if your initial buffer was too small. It doesn't matter what inconsistent length you start with as long as you scale it up as needed.
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> There is every reason to believe these price drops will continue as more resources are put into scaling production and more companies enter the game of component design and production.

Why? We literally never see that with top shelf products. This isn't an arduino solder job. This is going to be an integrated software and hardware package that will rival an aircraft autopilot/navigation. Please check you facts on the cost of these things.

I don't want walmart brand, everday low price components on my self-driving vehicle. I want top of the line if my life is in the balance.
In case you're wondering, the study's authors point out:

> Our goal is not to extend the current limits of viability, but rather to offer the potential for improved outcomes for those infants who are already being routinely resuscitated and cared for in neonatal intensive care units.

One of the biggest current problems with pre-term babies, the study notes, is a respiratory condition called bronchopulmonary dysplasia:

> an arrest in lung development secondary to premature transition from liquid to gas ventilation

So having the lambs (and, eventually, the preterm infants) remain in a liquid environment allows their immature lungs to continue developing, so that when they eventually transition to gas ventilation (breathing air), their lungs are able to function correctly.
so you can be cute and have a reason to enforce no top level arrays with the added benefit of ajax security... but really why would you dirty your key that allows fast lookup with type information and keep yourself from using : in keys
I wouldn't get too comfortable with the "easier to build" bit, either - Seattle has a strong far-left presence, and as we've seen in SF it's very easy for homeowners to convince them (against all reason) that more housing means higher prices and get them to start blocking new construction across the board (whoever thought up the "100% affordable or not at all!" bit is a genius at playing progressives like a fiddle, and is probably making a killing on a ton of SF property). Meanwhile, the office buildings that are actually luring more people to the city and driving prices up keep getting built, because they're not in the neighborhoods that NIMBYs care about.
A high profile "failure" like this also means she won't be able to get a job for awhile so you're compensating her for that.

Ok, but when is that compensation enough? At 10x your lifetime spending needs, or 20x? She just got paid enough for generations of her descendants to be on easy street for life. It's absurd.

Edit: I'm not angry at Mayer at all, I just don't understand why companies agree to golden parachute deals like this for failure. She took a career-ending risk, that's worth some compensation, but the scale seems disproportionate.
Google, Uber need to work on regulations together for self-driving cars
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What city/area did you move to? That sounds like midwest level affordability.
And as less and lass cater to your now fringe activity, you will be herded into a specialty insurance, and it will go up. It will be a 180 from 100years ago. The rich will pay to drive themselves.
>No, treating your women colleagues as if they are inferior merely because they are women is wrong.

Here's the thing: asking them to make him a coffee doesn't mean he thinks they are inferior. At worst, it assumes that this is something that they'll gladly do -- which is more about the era, than about himself. Many others would do the same without anybody thinking twice about it, we just magnify this anecdote from the 50s and 60s because he's famous. Heck, in the same time they had different seats and toilets for blacks and whites and people were OK with that, it was the law even...

>It is not merely bad manners, any more than racism or xenophobia are merely bad manners

Racism alone is not even bad manners -- it's just BS thinking (finding differences in races). Lots of old white elders for example can be racist but otherwise good people (and kind even to people with different skins they're thinking in racist ways about). It will have to translate in some actual harm to become actually (instead of merely potentially) bad.

In other words: people can think whatever they like, as long as they are not putting it in action that hurts others. The same thing, that is, that one might grant to artists with violent tendencies and visions that put that in their art. Some prudes might complaint, but as long as they don't actively hurt real people, what's the problem?
I agree it's a very hard problem to solve. GIS is far from perfect. But expecting this app to be any better is a real long shot.
If only I had to scan each of my bottles with a 700 dollar device before I drank anything. Id be so much safer from dairy
The late Bill Machrone coined Machrone's Law which stated that "the computer you want always costs $5,000." This hasn't really been true for 5-10 years. You can build a $5K computer but you have to really push it. But saying that the figure is still at least $2,500-$3,000 is probably fair.
> A high profile "failure" like this also means she won't be able to get a job for awhile so you're compensating her for that.

Pure speculation, but I highly doubt that someone as highly touted as Marissa Mayer will be out of job offers for quite some time. A lot of people will attribute the failure to turnaround Yahoo on Yahoo itself rather than on any of the reported shortcomings of the CEO.

Certainly, I think the odds were stacked against her, but if the stories from various reports from inside sources and journalists over the last few years are true, I'd be cautious about absolving her responsibility from the eventual outcome.
Hi HN!

Super excited to open source this — I'm trying my best to bring design & engineering closer together at Airbnb (and in the world), this has been a super useful project.

I'll be hanging out in this thread all day if you have any questions / want to flame me :)
Your comment assumes that the goal of sending a kid to college is to have them learn some body of knowledge.

A more common goal is acculturation and networking, which sending them to a foreign school will actively work against.
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Did you try putting a landline phone number in? Many times they'll check their database and see that it is a landline and use an automated call system instead of a text. Just don't be on a VOIP connection because that's what spammers use.
As a point of reference, you can buy a new 3,000+ sq ft house on 5+ acres of land just 30 minutes outside Minneapolis for that!

Not impressed.
Drugs already in medicine cabinets may fight dementia, early data suggests
Not too long ago, I built a tool that aggregates various information form the US Census, American Community Survey, and a few other sources.

At one point, I decided that I wanted to track the cost of living of every place, so I started delving into American Community Survey data to find what I needed. I wound up picking three variables to display: median annual income, median monthly housing cost, and median housing cost as a percentage of income.

I had to aggregate a bunch of stuff together for this, as the data was divided up between renters, owners with a mortgage, and owners without a mortgage.

Here's the query I made against the ACS API to pull the data I needed: http://api.census.gov/data/2015/acs5?get=NAME%2CB25106_001E%...

For the purposes of this post, I'll call the pieces of data this gives me by the following names (I don't remember if this is in the same order the API call returns... I'm copying and pasting this from notes I took when I was coming up with my calculations):

housingunits

renters

owners

ownersmortgage

ownersnomortgage

grent

smocmortgage

smocnomortgage

annualincome

First five variables are totals, the next four are all median values. SMOC stands for "selected monthly ownership costs", which is basically mortgage (if applicable) + property taxes + average utility payment. Grent stands for "gross rent" and is rent + average utility payment.

I then can do the following intermediate calculations:

rentpct = renters / housingunits

ownerpct = owners / housingunits

mortgagepct = ownersmortgage / owners

nomortgagepct = ownersnomortgage / owners

monthlyincome = annualincome / 12

And get the data points that will be displayed on the model's UI:

housingcost = grent * rentpct + (smocmortgage * mortgagepct + smocnomortgage * nomortgagepct) * ownerpct

housingcostapi = housingcost / monthlyincome

("api" here stands for "as percentage of income", and the acronym is used heavily within the American Community Survey's documentation of their income data, so I picked it up as wlel)

(and I'm displaying annualincome as well, which is just raw data from the ACS and not a calculation)

I've found that nicer places tend to have a lower housingcostapi, but within a narrow range. A wealthy suburb might be around 20%, while the ghetto might be around 30%. But there are tons of exceptions... middle-class suburbs tend to run a really wide gamut all over the 20s, so I wouldn't consider things like "20% housingcostapi = filthy rich people" to be gospel.

I'm not comfortable linking my census tool here because I've yet to set up safeguards to prevent my server from getting hammered by crawlers (my tool has a very large amount of dynamically-generated graphics that are CPU intensive to generate and are then cached... and there are so many possible permutations that a crawler could easily exhaust my disk space), but I might consider sending the link privately to people if I think they won't share it publicly.
Yep, this is misleading.

"file descriptors" taken _literally_ don't exist (they are just the interface exposed to user space programs). Linux uses `struct file` internally as the generic file tracking, and multiple file descriptors can refer to a single `struct file`. `struct file` in turn refers to a `struct inode`, which represents an actual "something" on disk. Each file system driver stores a bunch of info in the `struct inode`.

In addition to that tracking, there is generally a bunch of fs-specific data structures to handle lookup of names (in the typical case, these are essentially cached versions of what is stored on disk).
Uber targets 2020 for on-demand VTOL demo flights in Dallas and Dubai
Great work, y'all
If nobody's opening your emails, try this
For fungus you could try https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pingou.cha...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/champignouf/id1227854971

I made it as an experiment, results vary and can be awfully wrong but it's funny to see the confusions the neural network can make.
Funny until somebody eat a deadly mushroom because of me, I guess.
I already put plenty of warnings, so fingers crossed, but it's hard to be sure it won't be misused.
On a related note, the BBC made a very interesting article about how the Premier League fixture list is created each season.

"...The whole process starts upwards of a year in advance when Fifa and Uefa release their match calendars but work starts in earnest in the final months of the previous season..."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_t...
Yes, I know about that white truck death. By 'directly' I meant situation when autopilot 'went crazy' because of some bug and sent your car in a spin on a highway etc. Probably should have used different wording.
It can actually be a lot worse - entire countries will be held ransom when car networks gets compromised. Beyond disabling a countries transportation ability, a remote hacker could weaponize every car to attack passengers and pedestrians.
Agree in a lot of ways, but there's darker sides to this pro depending on context and who you are. One of the things that makes the Bay Area priceless to me (visibile minority) is that I'm consistently treated like a regular person/with friendliness by strangers instead of with general hostility/coldness like I was back home in the Midwest.
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must be in the Sun Belt

I'd try to sell you on Minnesota except for this :-)

Well, we do get tons of sun (similar solar insolation numbers to Houston, TX), but it can be bright and sunny and still -25F
Yahoo was an awesome company in 2007

I know nothing about the company, but in ~2003 I remember associating yahoo with elderly people who didn't know how to use their computer. Granted, this could have been a side effect of doing tech support for a dial up ISP.
Are you saying you have no skills or interests or abilities that you could share? And that you don't know any people at any level. Work colleagues, neighbours, people you meet/met in school/college/university. As for "things tovgive". - almost everyone has time, and can talk/be a pair of arms or legs, or can read something or drop something off.
That's a DOS in the kernel waiting to happen.
To be fair, it seems like it would be very difficult to guarantee you own the account without access to your email or phone number.
Yes, asking someone to make you coffee is in fact treating them as "inferior". Firstly, in the sense of superior versus inferior: master versus servant. Secondly in the sense that your own work is too important to be interrupted with the preparation of coffee, whereas theirs isn't, or not to the extent that yours is.
Yep, this article is a re-hash of what Dale Carnegie started teaching over 100 years ago. My main takeaway from that class was to ask enough questions when I meet someone so that I can to steer the conversation toward a mutual interest. After that the personal connection is made and conversation is fun and easy.

The best way to make an impression on someone is to ask questions about them until you find some
Many photographers I know won't touch Facebook since their attribution at the time was incredibly permissive and photographers are touchy about that.
Ruby has some of the best concurrency support: Fibers and threads are all well-established features. JRuby and Rubinius can handle native threads, no Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) at all.

The downside is most Ruby code bases are reluctant to take advantage of it, or even be thread-safe or fiber-aware, which can make writing apps more challenging than an environment like Node.js where there's established standards and expectations.
Yes, there are still issues with electricity generation. Expressing this as just pollute upstream ignores or dismisses the efficiency improvements of large scale power generation over per-vehicle internal combustion engines.
Haha, fully agree - vapour ware, from a toy company. But they claim they'll be operating a taxi service in Dubai this July, in 3 months! Let's see...

The battery life issue (vis-a-vis reserve requirements) is common to all electric VTOL aircraft, and can be mitigated: Batteries will continue to improve (though probably slowly), and regulation seems to transition from strict specification-based rules ("x minutes reserve") to performance-based rules ("enough to ensure safe landing").

Yet, I dislike the eHang 184 particularly for the irresponsible marketing with lots of hype but few facts, the rotors placed to break your knees, the lack of redundancy, etc.

I'm somewhat more positive on the Volocopter (disclaimer: I've invested 1000 EUR via crowdfunding) - what do you think of it?
Anybody knows the reason for the drop in mobile/android postings?

Less demand in general?
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Try to gauge the potential deal flow. The initial interest usually comes from an already established network. Otherwise, it's an uphill battle. You don't want to quit your job just to find out you're bad at getting deals.
It's very interesting to see so many people on the Internet complaining about Marissa's golden parachute. Honestly, the only remarkable thing about it is that she's a woman. These types of rewards are handed out all the time to CEO's of failed companies. Failed CEO's get them too, and frankly, I don't think Marissa failed.

Frankly, she did what she was supposed to do: sold the company, satisfied Carl Icahn, and improved internal morale. From what I heard anecdotally, she took an internal culture of rot and at least made it a place where people didn't dread going into work every morning. It's kinda like she pulled the teams out of the swamp, and rested them on a muddy, cold bank of the river. At least they weren't drowning anymore.

The pivot to mobile-first was a big deal, internally. They really lived and breathed that change, as is evidenced by the tremendous amount of engineering they put into simple things like their mobile weather app. It didn't ultimately work, but it was the right direction to be going, honestly.

Was it all misguided and doomed from the start? Sure! Yahoo! was the new AOL, and it was a miracle the company didn't get sold off to a media firm. But then, Verizon is kind of building its own media arm, and it already owns AOL. The fact that anyone bought Yahoo is a testament to Marissa's leadership. Would you have bought it, given the opportunity? I probably wouldn't have either. But she made the sale. If nothing else, that golden parachute is a commission just for ending the damn place as a going concern.

One of the things that really killed Yahoo, that no one talks about, is that they had these security people called Paranoids. They were great, super smart, always available, BUT, they held sway over everything and it was very very easy to just say, "naw, forget that 6 months of work, throw it all away, the Paranoids say we can't put it on production machines."

This was evidently an entirely acceptable thing to happen, internally, and it's why so many things were killed. It's also why you don't hear about constant data breaches at Yahoo! anymore, though.
Imagine it's April 2018 and Waymo releases this statement:

"In the past year our autonomous cars have driven a total of 50 million miles in real-world conditions. Over that period there were 4 collisions, plus an estimated 12 which would have occurred if our trained staff in the drivers seat had not intervened. Insurance analysts estimate that if human drivers had driven under similar conditions there would have been 51 collisions."

Would that be sufficient for you to support the introduction of Level 4 automation?
> From what I heard Ensure doesn't aim to be nutritionally complete. It's designed to replace unhealthy snacks with a healthier alternative.

The main Ensure product on the market does not, but there are versions that are used for literally this exact purpose. I forget whether Ensure (the brand) produces it or if it's under a different company/name, but it's definitely there. You just have to read the label - it'll indicate if it's meant as a complete food substitute or not.
Google has started to ignore an amazing number of search terms. For example, I googled "Olympus EPL3 launch button broken", and the first result was "League of Legends launch button not working". To add insult to injury, Google tells you which of your keywords it's ignoring for each particular result.
This resonates a bit with me. The relationship with my mother defined who I am, things like my work ethic, perseverance and so on came from her. She sacrificed her career giving up being printer to work a as a janitor, delivering mail, a security guard just to make sure she was home when I came back from school. Saved money for quite a while out of the little we had to buy me a computer I've been wanted. If it wasn't for that I would been where I am now. Most of all it was just about knowing no matter how hard things got I knew I could always come home and she'd be there. She cared about my grades, asked questions about school. She rarely yelled or forced me to learn, but I could see she was disappointed a bit if she saw I didn't try hard enough. A bit of that desire to see me succeed came from her experience of being force to abandon school after 7 grades and having to look after her siblings. Then having to watch them get advanced degrees and good jobs while she was left mopping floors and washing toilets.