skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I also think another big reason for personal car ownership is having kids. With the increasing ages/weights recommended and/or required by law for car seats, that can be a hassle if trying to use a ride sharing service. It increases difficulty with increased number of kids at varying ages. For those without kids, while it's not crazy difficult to install a car seat, it can still take upwards of 5-15 minutes (depending on the style of seat). This amount of time lost can be a big hindrance.

Yes, I know that Uber has started to tackle this problem, but as far as I know it only provides 1 car seat, and a car equipped this way may not always be nearby. Maybe this will be a completely solved problem soon, which would be great!
The secret to befriend a legionnaire is to do baaa (sheep sound) behind their back.
Hi, TJSON creator here.

I have certainly studied XML and think XML Schema did fantastic work specifying datatypes:

https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#built-in-datatypes

I briefly considered adopting this work wholesale:

https://github.com/tjson/tjson-spec/issues/37

If you'd like to see that happen, please make a note of it in the issue. Thanks!

Also note: I'm not a JS hipster, I'm part of the Rust Evangelism Strike Force.
"The camera cannot handle exposure times longer than two seconds."

What's the reason for this? Is it a hardware restriction? I suppose an artificial software restriction could be removed by using root / other camera software.
Using a billion miles of real world experience to decide that that technology was insufficient is, in fact, progress.

It may have gone the other way. Remember, the primary sensor technology in 99.999% of cars out there is two front facing visual-light cameras pointing the same way on a swivel and couple of mirrors.
Copying and Repetition
For the photographers, it was 500px or VSCO that replaced Flickr.
Ah, the point of that paragraph is that raising taxes didn't prevent economic growth.
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Why would your grandchildren want to view several thousands of your photos? Just find the best ones, and backup to multiple locations. Print the best of the best and make a physical album. Scribble some notes under the photos with an actual pen. Your grandchildren will love it. By doing that you are giving importance and meaning to the images, which otherwise would be absent in an ocean of dropbox archives.
So any form of advice is now dismissed as just being a sign of survivor bias?
Occurs in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14190069
Interestingly, there are FCC restrictions that make it hard to continue as a popular radio announcer while running for office (something like the Fairness Doctrine applies in that case), but that hasn't caught up with someone whose popularity is through a different medium (social media, in this case).

http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2010/02/articles/leaving-the...
They wouldn't even give my parents' account back when I offered to send pictures of their drivers license / social security cards / passport in. All because they forgot a dumb "secret answer" question. Yahoo has beyond terrible customer service.
Interesting insight into the emoji approval process (podcast): https://food52.com/blog/19350-why-is-there-no-pie-emoji

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11958682
If you're talking to a hiring manager, it's literally their job to hire you. It's probably at least a third of what they're responsible for at their company. You're basically asking them for a "people review" instead of a code review.

What you absolutely should do is lay out the basic information quickly and completely for them.

"""
Hi Name,

My name's X and I #{was referred to you by Y, heard about you on Z...} and I'm looking for a $ROLE job. You're interesting because Q.

I'm in your area and wondering if you'd be interested in having coffee to talk about the role? I've attached my #{resume, linkedin, github with a note about what project to look at for a code example.}

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

~ $NAME
$CONTACT_INFO
"""

That's the information I want to figure out if it's going to be a good use of time or not.

You can send me a practice email personally to earl@apolloagriculture.com and I'll give you some feedback, or if you're in Nairobi by some fluke chance we can grab coffee.
>The mainstream media is fake because enough people believed it to be so? Are you serious?

Uh, no? I didn't say this.

Insofar as they were reporting on the people's will during the 2016 election, the reality they painted was disastrously inaccurate and it was colorfully and blatantly disproven on election night. It's hard to believe that honest people could've gotten it so wrong. The MSM lost huge amounts of credibility, and the "fake news" crusade is their attempt to salvage some by pointing the finger somewhere else.

When the subject of the report is the aggregate state of the people's will, then yes, the people's will, the real state of that variable, is the determinate factor in its accuracy.

>Hitler was elected, does that make everything he said true because people believed it?

I have to congratulate you on a seriously hyperextended invocation of Godwin's Law.

The media is supposed to be a neutral entity that gives "just the facts" and allows the reader to make up his mind. The veracity of any political arguments are immaterial to the quality of the reporting.

The MSM all but guaranteed a Clinton victory on election night. They sold it hard. They thought there was no way Trump could win and dedicated much airtime and page real estate to discussing this. The NYTimes Election Map started out with Clinton at a 99% likelihood of victory -- leaving the marginal 1% chance only for plausible deniability.

The MSM was blatantly, absolutely wrong, and you cannot get around that no matter how often you try to shoehorn a long-dead dictator into the dialog. Now they believe they have the authority to label which news is "fake".

>Would you accept courts that worked this way or business decisions made like this?

Courts DO work like media should. An impartial forum gives both sides the opportunity to make their case, cross-examine witnesses, etc. etc. In the end, after a fair hearing, the jury makes their determination. The MSM plays the role of the "court" in this analogy, and it failed disastrously.

>What would happen if science and engineering worked on the same principals?

It'd work fine. If you're reporting on the will of the people, and the will of the people is not anywhere close to what your reports said, you should lose credibility.

Unfortunately, far too often science and engineering don't work this way, because people want to believe certain things instead of believing the true things that the data bares out. This is what we see when people try to insist that it's someone else's fault the MSM was ridiculously incorrect, and that we should allow them to dictate truth arbitrarily so that they're not bitter anymore.
The initial usecase we built it for was generating templates for our design system (color palettes, components etc). At our size, keeping them in sync with the production state-of-the-world was super difficult. So we scripted it, using our production components.

It also led to some exciting new uses:

- component pickers / editors for Sketch that are backed by real components rather than Sketch symbols (build your own UI)

- automatic accessibility checking / internationalization

- using real data in Sketch with real GraphQL queries etc

- as a building block for using Sketch as a canvas for the design tools of your dreams, whilst maintaining compatibility with the tooling your designers use today
Indeed. Something akin to superfund sites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund) but extended to more than just those extreme cases.
Chris is an amazing person who takes the time to get to know you.

When we were fundraising, instead of having us do a regular pitch he took me to an event where Peter Thiel was giving a talk about his new book. We were a chess education company, so he thought it would be good for us to talk with Thiel as he's a chess master himself.

He didn't end up investing in us but my experience with him was much more memorable than any of the other meetings we had while fundraising.
Hey dyngts, sorry I have not used GCP load balancers extensively and was not sure if this is supported.

Manigandham's post below confirms it though with all the necessary information.
You're just being flippant at this point but here goes:

You will never achieve the same reliability, scalability, performance, and security, at the same cost, by doing it yourself. And it's fine to layer 2 services together to get all the functionality needed. That's completely normal - like how you can use multiple APIs to build an app - unless you have a specific scenario, like security regulations, to avoid a managed solution.

Maybe building all that means you're a "hacker" but most users are acting on behalf of businesses and there are far better things to spend time on than creating a worse solution to a solved problem.
> That seems hard to believe. It would inefficient to look for a file for each e.g. write(). I guess a filesystem defines its own implementation-defined open-file handle and the kernel translates that into an (integer) FD.

At least in BSD, the syscall layer calls into the kernel virtual filesystem, which translates file descriptors into file objects. File objects have fo_read/fo_write methods implemented by different kinds of file object.

Files backed by filesystems have an associated "vnode" (virtual inode object). Then the fo_read/fo_write layer invokes the VOP_READ or VOP_WRITE (for example) method on the vnode. VOP ("vnode operation") methods are implemented by individual filesystems. Multiple user-level file descriptors can refer to a single vnode.

The filesystem's inode object hangs off a pointer from the generic vnode. Vnodes are unique (1:1) per real file (inode).

So:

read(fd, ...) ->
sys_read -> kern_readv ->
fget() (translate fd number into struct file object;
check that the descriptor was opened read/write as appropriate for the operation)
dofileread() ->
fo_read() ->
vn_io_fault() (fo_read method for vnodes) -> vn_read ->
VOP_READ(vnode, uio, ioflags, ucred)
(vnode for the file, an io descriptor ("uio"), io flags, and user credentials)

So yeah, at the filesystem layet (VOP_READ), you no longer have the fd (or even the file object) in the BSD model.

Linux's model is similar, but not completely identical. They call "vnodes" "inodes" instead, and may not have the intermediary file layer.
Was going to link to the National Weight Control Registry, thanks! I'll just add that all those studies in GP seem to prove is that A) weight loss programs (especially fad diets) don't work and B) it is a psychological issue. There are plenty of people on MFP, /r/loseit or just counting calories themselves that have successfully kept off weight for years. I'm one of them.

In case someone out there is serious about losing weight and not making excuses, here's how you calculate your actual TDEE: https://www.reddit.com/r/leangains/comments/2rv09z/this_is_h...
I think it's a California state test. So you could compare to a top school in a wealthy California suburb, but not to a school outside the state. I think.

Another thing is range. 10/10 is nice, but as you can see, a bunch of SF schools got it. Kind of how the Math GRE (used to?) top out at about 95%ile (ie., 5% of the people taking the test got an 800/800).

So this leaves open the possibility that even the best elementary schools are far behind the other 10/10s in other parts of the state. Kind of doubt it, since Lowell is clearly extremely competitive with top public and private high schools around the country. But I can't make the comparison directly at the elementary school level.

That's why I kind of put it as a question... what's your guess? Are the 10/10 elementary schools in SF notably worse than top elementary schools in Colorado? Like I said, I seriously doubt it, but I can't be sure.
The argument that it is substantial once you account for employer and employee taxes is purely fictional. Remember that we are talking about a yearly salary so in terms of net income per household, it does not add much. The idea that redistribution of CEO pay will lead to SUBSTANTIAL (keyword here) improvements in the lives of employees is NOT ALWAYS true. Sometimes it is, and this is not one of those times.

> What happens if the money is distributed according to effort and productivity?

It is. Just not according to what YOU think is just or fair. And here is the kicker, what you think is fair is not in-line with what the board and shareholders think is fair. Do you think any employee @ yahoo has created more value than Marissa? if so who? She clearly didn't steal that money but instead created the opportunities under which such a deal was constructed that allowed her to capture that sum.

From the outside, it is rather easy for you to make some fictional judgement. But it is important to understand that her pay, just like all other employees, is a function of how much value she can capture of the total productivity/profits she bring in.
>Soylent claims to be nutritionally complete-- as in, you could theoretically live off it alone-- and Slim-Fast does not.

Soylent can claim what they wish. When it comes to my health, I think I'm going to hedge towards the side that doesn't purport to be everything your body needs for nutrition in powder form, crafted by people with little nutritional science background.
Right, I agree 100%. Support should be able to direct the communication to where it makes sense. I cannot be hanging out on Snapchat or follow them on Twitter or things like that, I just need support for my issue.

It truly is a world for the rich - money makes money. Censor and sue everything that goes in your way. Get bigger, sue more. Get richer. Disregard everything in your path.
http://www.gardenanswers.com app has the ability to automatically identify plants. If you can't find your plant, because it isn't blooming or is immature, or just isn't distinctive enough for image search, you can ask a horticulturist for a small fee.
No access to restrooms is the norm with any short-term on-site construction work. Industrial products exist (in the form of bottles and buckets) to serve the need.

If a porta-potty is needed on-site, it's the customer who ultimately pays the cost, and it's easy to find the expense hard to justify, even on multi-day projects.
Given the effective tax rate in CA and the outrageous rents I would assume you have no housing costs to manage this.

That or you live on the streets
To be critical is to be thinking, but I read this article more as a concept and take the emotional responses that it seems to elicit as a stronger guage of the idea than its factual evidence.
I still use it. Not enough but occasionally. I do like looking through what the 5 people I "follow" post once and a while. Plus I like the occasionally email that people have posted new photos.

Generally I find them strong high quality photos.

I find Instagram is more of "I am here" kind of photos.
Yep. You get better SEO for lengthier, "more comprehensive" articles and often freelance writers get payed per word.
Yes, that's unusual. Think half that for someone only a few years out of college. And that's for software dev at a large company. The vast majority of employed people in the Bay Area do not make six figures (source: I've lived here for several decades).
That's why society needs rich people. They buy emerging tech first, then the tech drops in price as initial capital costs are recouped, manufacturing costs come down, and the tech improves.

Remember when LCD screens came out and very few people could afford them? We were complaining then too about how could people possibly afford this and who will buy it??!
Building a GameBoy with CSS (and JS)
Know what your stock options are worth
Demo : https://baumannzone.github.io/gameboy-css/

Video (Speed code) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G_4hoLzoVc

Medium post (Spanish) : https://medium.com/@baumannsito/dibujando-una-gameboy-con-cs...
The the tech realm: drink coffee and/or alchohol (much more effective).

It's getting better but these are often prerequisites to spending time with people outside of work.

Edit: I agree with a lot of this discussion: Do startups have a drinking problem? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723133
Please email us at hn@ycombinator.com if you have concerns—we're more than happy to help. Posting like this is a continuation of a personal dispute and those don't belong on Hacker News.
I didn't even allude to who is worthy. What I said was in fact the same thing as you are saying. I am in no position to say who is worthy and NEITHER ARE YOU!

It is up to the board and shareholders to decide what level of compensation they are willing to put up with. But talking about redistribution of CEO income leads to substantial raise in living standards is MOST OFTEN purely fictional!
This is very depressing :(

As someone trying to lose weight myself, calorie tracking has so far yielded about 5% weight loss over a period of several months but I'm realizing that if I stop counting calories there's a strong possibility of gaining that back. This just lends some credence to that idea.
That would make for some very expensive lookup operations on subdirectories (you have to scan the entire hash table) and would entirely preclude hardlinks. So yeah, usually people do not write byzantine filesystems :-).
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There's a lot to debate. If you're running a TOR node, you have child porn traversing your system. You also have a whistleblower's traffic who might be beaten or tortured if found.

Does the existence of the latter negate the former?

To claim that is an answered question is myopic to me.
Every male has to register for the selective service (the draft) at 18 in the US allowing the government to draft you. If you got a student loan from the government in the US, you registered. You can't get federal loans without it.

Just because they can do it at any time doesn't mean they ever will. We have a large and expensive professional army and people reacted badly to the draft in 1960s I can only imagine what today's kids would do if they were drafted. It would be political suicide to enact a draft.

So technically yes the state can forcefully draft any male between 18-28 to go fight in a war. But practically no, it will never happen again.
Agree with this. Outside of the normal complaints wedged against Flickr, people moved into a mobile-first world and left Flickr in the dust.

If flickr wanted back in the game they'd have to jump in the mobile market and re-design their traditional web platform.
All atrocities are committed by "only human" representatives of our species. It's not an excuse.
lol, very very good response.
Keith Ferrazzi's "Never Eat Alone" compares networks to gardens that must be actively maintained along with attendant and relevant gardening analogies (care/attention, pruning, growing, etc).

I read Never Eat Alone about 10 years ago and, similar to yourself, didn't like the idea of maintaining a massive network. But many of these ideas can still be positively (not necessarily profitably) applied to your smaller social graph, resulting in stronger relationships amongst immediate or extended family, and friends you make a conscious effort to stay in touch with.
I assume compiling/translating globs to regexp also takes some time. I wonder if that could be meaningful in some pathological cases?
Userspace is responsible for constructing paths. Also, Hurd has some interesting views on what belongs in the kernel (and anything to do with paths probably doesn't). (I don't use or hack on Hurd, it's just an interesting example for PATH_MAX.)
>What worries me most, and why I stopped Soylent, is that the quality is not in their hands, but in the hands of their suppliers.

Yep. We kicked around startup ideas based on the supplement industry, but the liability surrounding selling products you can't fully control seemed a bit rough for a small business.
Check out this graph about airplane accidents:

http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/images/2...

Since 1970 total airplane casualties have halved, while there are now 7 times the number of passengers. Much of this improvement has been due taking decisions away from pilots and into the hands of 'unfeeling' automated systems.
> Maybe on different OSes,

Perhaps on a mainframe OS or something that doesn't have a VFS, but all VFS pretty much work the same way conceptually (BSD/nix, Linux, Windows).
The problem was caused by the underlying political problems - namely, people didn't necessarily want to ban it, there was just a very ruthless political organisation that essentially destroyed any politicians who opposed the bans, regardless of what the constituents wanted. Politicians were forced to pass it.

If the alcohol ban had arisen organically - namely, as a genuine result of democratic support, the prohibition wouldn't have been such a spectacular failure.
Cafes and bars do sell other beverages. Drink juice, or soda, or sparkling water. Order a virgin cocktail.
> they test the cars in very controlled but unrealistic environments

Are you sure about this? Google has had self-driving cars in Austin for years and I'm pretty sure there's never a good time to be driving here.
Hurd doesn't define PATH_MAX at all:

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/porting/guidelines.ht...
Search algorithms can't fight a semantic-level threat, they are just blind term-to-content conversion, like e.g. regex doesn't care if it finds something bad. Google can't use more expensive algorithms that actually can classify and understand the content, so their solution to this is human censors/curators. They get shamed regularly, and with recent youtube crisis(advertisers started to pull out) they probably started to take this issue seriously.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-de...
It's an interesting read if you're into the nuts and bolts of modern warfare. The key assumption is that the DPRK actually has any ambition of attacking the ROK though. They'll scream and carry on until they get their sanctions lifted and, in their minds, come out of the whole thing a nuclear power.

Now those running tomorrow's senate briefing on the other hand...

Edit: it's also worth noting that they're playing a somewhat "smart" long game here. They won't likely do much until they're confident that they can convince the world they have ICBM capabilities. At that point, they no longer have to just menace the ROK or Japan but can realistically extort anyone they want.
(3) makes me deeply uncomfortable. Facebook already has a terrible reputation on respect for its users. How could I possibly trust it if its leader is running for President and now has a huge motive to make sure he's seen positively on his own platform?

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I think I'd need to see Zuckerberg completely divest himself of Facebook before I'd vote for him. Trump already has enough conflicts of interest. The last thing we need is for the next President to actually control the way huge swathes of people receive the news.

I'm also very uncomfortable with the notion of Zuckerberg mining private user data on FB in order to very precisely target voters in a way that no other Presidential candidate can. I think this sets a dangerous precedent and creates all the wrong motives for future candidates if it works.
Except that with a self-driving car you'll never get a parking ticket in the first place!
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Weight loss is difficult because dieting isn't a train you get off once you're at your target weight. It's basically a way of life to maintain your target weight. I don't know too many people that are capable of rewiring themselves to that kind of degree for the long-term