skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former employer who didn't pay very much, or at least not as much as I would have like to have paid, I'll just offer this... the employees who got paid the most were the ones who realized the company itself was trying to become more efficient & bring in more money, and the company didn't always know how to do that without employee input. It's incredibly hard to build a business. Employees who get that, and can help grow it, are invaluable. Any sane employer will do whatever it takes to keep an employee who makes the company for profitable.
Like hit and runs?
+1 for this idea!
Looks like Linux is what you're looking for…
Sure but Uber has one big ace up their sleeve... they could go public anytime they want.

The last best sucker is the stock market.
I wish these companies published their expected longevity at launch. e.g., "We'll be in business from 2015-2017," so you could plan to migrate your data to the next newness ahead of time.
Great tutorial!I like the detailed explanation.
I think this should always be the first question: how does my code behave on mobile? Considering that most (or a huge percent of) people are accessing the web on mobile now and that thos is targeted towards them, this is a kind of a blocking issue that would prevent me for using it.
People will just drive over textured bumps, I've seen it. You need to design the road such that people will damage their vehicle if they drive dangerously (things like on street parking, concrete bollards, tall curbs etc).
That's a really good point. I'm not a fan of Internet Archive ignoring robots.txt, but if I'm really unhappy about it I can block their robot in Apache using .htaccess rules (as long as they continue using archive.org_bot as their user agent).
> Why would it be bad?

Because agglutinative languages have much more sophisticated systems and morphemes for expressing complicated ideas. This reads more like Mark Twain's satire about German (https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html).
Thanks for that. I snowboarded at Cuchara a couple of times. I had a great time, but even then my general impression was that they were keeping the lifts going just long enough to sell off the rest of the adjoining condos and cabins...
"Electric cars just pollute upstream"

Not quite true - generating upstream is much more efficient, since the power plant doesn't have the weight restrictions that a car (which needs to haul itself around on four wheels efficiently) has. So even if power plants didn't ditch fossil fuels, electric cars are largely a step up.

That said, we are moving heavily towards renewables, and charging isn't time-critical so peaking power sources like Wind will be more than good enough.
Tesla has saved people as well by being able to roll out this tech widely. Our eyes are passive and they work. Teslas do have radar sensors.
Here are some resources I used to learn a bit earlier this year before I gave it up because there are other languages that I want to learn.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuYLhuXt4HrQIv3xnDxZq...

http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/okamasona.php

https://aiki.pbworks.com/f/tp+in+76+lessons+English.pdf

http://rowa.giso.de/languages/toki-pona/english/toki-pona-le...

http://rowa.giso.de/languages/toki-pona/english/dictionary.p...

There are also memrise lessons.

forums & facebook group

http://forums.tokipona.org/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/
I had to laugh at this point:

> Numbers are also minimal. Lang initially only had words for one (wan), two (tu), and several (mute). Many Toki Pona speakers have expanded the word luka (hand or arm) to mean five, and mute to mean 10.

Being a barely-used conlang, it already starts to behave like a real language and sprout random exceptions that non-native speakers will struggle to understand. I can picture the dialogue:

"See, luka is hand, or arm, but sometimes it's five. It makes perfect sense!"

"Okay, but when I hear luka how do I know if it is a hand or five?"

"Oh that's easy. Pick one that seems natural."

"Sure, yeah that's easy and natural to you: you speak the language. I don't!"
It effectively does. All concurrent requests are halted.
Maybe Nim would be a good GC included C++ replacement then? Its GC can reliably be constrained to a maximum run time of 2ms, and it has strong macro support.
Google filing seeks energy alternatives to Warren Buffett’s Nevada utility
Any idea the year this was published? I don't see a date, and I googled the title and found several references (even on wikipedia) without a date mentioned.
A neckdown or narrow lanes do not make a road less safe. Instead we see the opposite, traffic naturally slows down and thus the road becomes safer.
Cpanel supports sftp too. Ftp it's just one option and can be disabled.
And HN's oblivious whiteness shows itself again
Uber isn't the guy that left two kids behind.
macOS supports true vector assets, so I'm guessing it reduces the need for such measures. But coming back to your question: I'm not sure, but both iOS and macOS use the same asset filetype, so I'd assume so.
Anyone think most JPEG implementations will ever move to arithmetic coding now that the patents are up, or is Huffman going to stick around in JPEG forever?

Do any of the open browsers support it yet?
The oldest part of the continents are probably what you're looking for. South central Africa, corresponding parts of Brazil, Australia, and parts of eastern Canada are all very old, multiple billions of years old. But really, these are VERY old areas. Lots of things have happened to them in that much time. Some of them were undoubtedly wet.
" Or checking the Windows version with a "9x" wildcard, giving us the jump from W8 to W10 over a decade later."

This is just a rumor made up on reddit. It's completely false. Windows returns its version number as a series of integers. And even if it was a string, they could've just called it "Windows Nine".
Will AI Create as Many Jobs as It Eliminates?
Father kills infant daughter on Facebook Live
The first link loaded a PDF for me.
Epicurus' 4-part cure: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapharmakos
I think it depends on the interviewer intentions. If the intention is to judge whether the candidate knows such and such algorithm (aka they have used or read about it) then it is obviously stupid. On the other hand it could be about how you approach the problem, how you start with a simplest possible solution and then engage in a thought process (along with conversation about what you are thinking) to improve the solution. In this case the final solution doesn't matter, what matters is your thought process.
Incremental Architecture, a Cure Against Architecture Astronauts
Everyone dies. Savage humans at least had the benefit of a lesser ability to ponder and comprehend the permanence and inevitability of ceasing to exist.
I find it incredibly convenient because I don't need to go through the browser trying to find the same spot in the code.
> While I understand your exhaustion, I wonder why they aren't suing companies providing certifications with 'Engineer' in the title.

...

quoting from a comment above from someone who is on the same side of the argument as you are.

"By reviewing, critiquing, and altering an engineered ITE formula, and submitting the critique and calculations for his modified version of the ITE formula to members of the public for consideration and modification of Beaverton, Oregon's and "worldwide" traffic signals"

Seriously. what. the. fuck. is wrong with you.
Yeah he has eccentricities. Still he's doing ok for 86 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThHzIJUm-So
Even if you are up front about how iffy your stuff is. You cannot just call out 'self-help advice with barely any evidence' and then repeat said advice without batting your eyes.

I was hoping to see some actual evidence, but instead I found product advertisements and cheap motivational shit.
>When the speed limit is correctly set at the 85th percentile speed, the minority of drivers that do conscientiously follow speed limits are no longer driving much slower than the speed of traffic. The choice of the 85th percentile speed is a data-driven conclusion -- as noted Lt. Megge and speed limit resources like the Michigan State Police’s guide -- that has been established by the consistent findings of years of traffic studies.

>This is important because, as noted in a U.S. Department of Transportation report, “the potential for being involved in an accident is highest when traveling at speed much lower or much higher than the majority of motorists.”
They did, to some extent. Plug in almost any piece of standard consumer hardware and it'll probably mostly just work without a network connection. All those drivers don't take up zero space, but the benefit when my mom plugs in a printer and it just works makes it worth it.
Ahh, it looks like I didn't notice the PDF link. My mistake.
Epicureanism and Stoicism start from very different principles, but they kind of get to the same place. As for me, apathy isn't all that appealing, and a philosophy based on seeking something seems better than one based on avoiding something.
Traffic calming doesn't make roads less safe.

Advocates of traffic calming measures aren't trying to literally make roads as unsafe as parking lots. What makes parking lots unsafe is the constant threat of someone pulling out in front of you, no one is advocating simulating that.

Think about roundabouts, they force you to slow down because they prevent you from driving directly though an intersection. They are statistically much safer than 4 way stops.
How maps and machine learning are helping to eliminate malaria
FTP is used to exchange files, a task that HTTP/HTTPS and/or email and/or IM and/or XMPP and/or Skype and/or Slack and/or a hundred other services can do just as well if not better.
That doesn't give me a rolling window to archive my inbox, and you can't create a filter with just "older_than" or "newer_than".
Trump Plans to Seek Tax Rate of 15% on Owner-Operated Companies
Lovely explanation, I always find them fascinating. I really need to get around to coding some of them sometimes, but I find most of the itnerest in the mathetics.

That said, early higheschoolers knows jack about binomials unless they are particularly smart. I would venture a majority of college students (in subjects other than engineering and science) would find this too daunting. I think by downplaying the complexity it actually turns people off from trying to learn. Which of course is a shame.
It should probably have "Show HN:" pretended, but otherwise it seems reasonable.
Sounds like how many people talk about Marijuana today.
I liked Hackpad better when it was named "Bachmanity".
> I still don't see the argument, because I don't see where writing the letter translates to me claiming anything

The letter is a written statement which (whatever else.you may claim in it) is, un fact, from you, asserting various facts, including that the writer of letter is a lawyer.

The claims in the letter are made by the actual author of the letter, not the (potentially fictions) person that they are claiming to be when they wrote it.

> When does a text change from fiction into a claim about reality

When it is presented either with intent that it will be taken as a claim about reality, or when a reasonable person would see it that way. What you write in a novel is an overt work of fiction that no reasonable person, in context, will, in the general case (barring special circumstances), see as a claim of fact. If someone else copies part of it out of context and presents it differently, thats a different story, but has nothing to do with you.

When you send something that you have written to someone with the intent that they view it as what it purports to be on its face, than any knowing falsehoods in it are knowing false claims made by you, the actual person who composed and sent the communication with the intent to deceive.
Insurers will be able to 1. pay out less, and 2. sue auto companies if the car crashes, since they wrote the car's driving program.
> The fact that there's an obscure algorithm to optimally solve this doesn't mean it's not a good test of someone's ability to think through an algorithmic problem - as long as you don't make it an algorithm memorization test.

From my read of the description, the OP implies that the candidate provided (or at least, if OP were the candidate s/he would have provided) a O(n log n) solution using PQs. The task was to specifically to make the algorithm O(n), which required an obscure data structure discovered in the late 90s. So I think this is more of an algorithm memorization test.

There are very few practical problems where an O(n log n) solution is completely unacceptable, and an O(n) is essential. And in those situations, many engineers can do the relevant literature study and come up the MPQ solution.
I know Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and PHP. I often work in all of those in a given month. PHP is my weakest of the four.

If I could choose a new language to know, I would choose Clojure. I want to know a lispy functional language, and I'd get a lot of the benefits of the java ecosystem.

C or Java or C# might be a better choice, though. They would enable me to do a lot of things I can't currently do, and I'm not entirely sure Clojure would do that.
I've installed the latest Ubuntu in 2016 to find my mouse, wifi, and printer did not work. And my Cinema Display was stuck at 1024x768.
James Hamilton comments on TPU and hardware acceleration of cloud workloads
Well put! "Vanity interview question" reminds me of "vanity business metrics" in not just name but also utility.
The shared belief rose from them being laws first, and people growing up with those laws as normal.
This is a battle that repeats itself ever so often. Same deal with kubernetes config files.

It's the same opinionated positions of puppet vs chef/ansible. Building the tooling in the form of an embedded programming language (lua for nginx, python for ansible) is so much better.

But that is a much more polarising position to take. It's politically untenable. Ruby engineers will say no to python and vice versa... So you start arriving at Json or XML based configurations which are a programmatic neutral ground.

IMHO lua-jit occupies the same political neutrality as XML.
Papacy?
It's just needlessly exclusionary. One of the greatest things about "the web" is it's pretty accessible by anyone with a browser that's at least semi-mostly-standards-compliant.
You can also send faxes from iOS. What's your point?
Islamic laws are also from the shared beliefs of their constituents.
Fascinating article. Thanks for all the work.
Cymbal crash from one the size of Saturn's rings
Isn't the absence of user-defined abstractions the problem here? You cannot seriously program in BF, but you could program in lambda calculus or combinator logic, and it has just two primitives.

Maybe if there existed BF where you had a macro system for user-defined sequences, it would be possible to program in such a language.
> (Apparently that was common on 68000 based personal computers.)

I wouldn't say it was very common, but there are some notable examples, such as Amiga BASIC which was incidentally written by Microsoft. As a result it needed a patch to run on machines with the bigger M68k CPUs (which had 32 address lines vs. 24 address lines on the 68000), but it was so awful it died a swift death in any case.
I wish there was a paid version without the heavy duty support cost built into it . The pricing scale up is massive. The cost of a single license in the lowest paid tier is 2500$.

I understand it's because of the support cost - but it makes the adoption very hard. You cannot go from 0$ to 10,000$ overnight. And that's the problem.
JPEG is a archival format at this point. There are a bunch of codecs moving forward that support arithmetic coding. FLIF (using MANIAC) and BPG (using HEVC) are the big ones.
Oh gosh. This is when Mark Zuckerberg​ sounded just like a more stupid and ageist version of Donald Trump.
Yes, a different problem. But at the other end, it is already possible and even routine to raise fertilized ova into implantable embryos in vitro.

This new method however does fill a medical need, or at least shows the road to filling that need, meaning the problems of raising prematurely born infants.
> They would enable me to do a lot of things I can't currently do

What kind of things?

C for low level work and c#/Java for?
How leverage Local Storage to build lightning-fast apps
Uber looks to soar with flying taxis by 2020
It's very interesting. I'd worry most about one thing: that the free enterprise system is inherently flexible, and will allow for new inputs its "designers" never considered.

It'd be a very poor outcome for a neural network that it refuses to consider a new industry that it wasn't trained on... imagine a network trained in the 1950s introduced to the technology of today. (Though perhaps a different way of framing things would let this fall away.)

In general, a market of prices is a useful system for measuring how much people want things. Without a price system, we'd need some new way to measure this...
So it's Auto Trader, except all the copy on the site is written in broken English?
Just-Right Consistency – Closing the CAP Gap
Where is the kickstarter for this?
Also very interesting in the comments -- "AWS has deep investments in custom silicon and we are installing many 100s of thousands of these custom ASICs each year. Machine learning workloads are a big part of what we run at AWS today and it’s my belief that these workloads are going to just keep growing and I expect that in 10 years, ML will be more than 1/2 of the worlds server side foot print. All other workloads will continue to grow as they are today but ML will eclipse them all."
Well, here in Sweden the 30km/h roads are often enforced by speed bumps if the cars wouldn't slow down enough by themselves.
Is it conceptually similar to ESB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_service_bus)?
The quote of interest (being able to be tested in months) references another article where nothing has been committed but could be done in 6 months.

On one hand it's great that this is being reviewed and tested. The other hand, that it's not getting properly tested in space where it really can make a difference is somewhat saddening. Can anyone point to a committed space trial?
>If they don't cause harm, then they shouldn't be penalized, at least not by the law. If they cause harm, they should.

I think that drunk driving checkpoints are often taken advantage of to work around the 4th amendment, but making it legal to drive drunk unless you harm someone is insane. Drunk driving directly causes around 10k deaths per year in the US.

What if I decide to walk down a crowded sidewalk swinging a sword over my head, under your system is that fine until I actually hit someone? Do you have no legal recourse to stop me?

Is it OK for me to drag race down a residential street at 120mph as long as I don't hit anything?

Lets say the guy next door decides that he's going to build a nuclear reactor. Do you have to wait until your hair starts falling out to stop him?

Clearly there is a limit where a behavior is inherently dangerous enough that we've decided to outlaw the behavior before it causes harm. Does drunk driving not cross that threshold for you? Where is the limit for you personally?
Given the incredibly risky maneuvers that drivers take on 101 in the Bay Area, I'd say that Waymo cars are experiencing the "real world."
Thanks for digging up some citations. It's a shame there isn't a centralized place that tracks these. Open data helps set policy.

I found it really hard to find cases of people actually being convicted because most articles mentioning a fatality and an aggressor never yielded much in terms of court records. It's like they just shrug and move on. It's the worst.
1. studies consistently are showing that this seems to produce thrust without expelling any matter

2. we know that can't be possible

I think most people are excited about this not because they think we just proved 2 to be wrong, but instead because we know 2 must be true, so what the hell is going on with 1???

Most likely we will find out that we are NOT violating the known laws of the universe, but we're "not violating" them in a very interesting way.
Insert Page Breaks, Auto-Fit Single or Multiple Rows, Columns in Excel Worksheet
That's still a better idea than juicera.
Reminiscent of Walker Percy's essay "The Delta Factor", in which he theorizes that the essence of human-ness derives from the "linguistic triangle" (thing + word + human brain).
Spark ignition engines suffer from pumping losses when throttled. So it is a pretty broad generalization to throw that number out. Fuel economy will depend on rolling resistance, gearing, and aerodynamics.
Do you think it'd be possible to choose to "demonize knowledge", in a world where we know that the only way to reproduce requires technology? I would expect our biological imperative to reproduce would get the better of that attempted social more quite quickly.
Oh man, they put ads in between my photos. You would see some three photos then an ad. That's when I removed all of my content, my account, everything (try doing that on fb).
Judge blocks trumps order on sanctuary cities
Positive Psychology Lessons from an Olympic Medalist and Navy SEAL
I use Jekyll for most static sites where I present information (most of them are internal websites for specific projects inside companies)
And I use middleman when I want a little bit more custom things to happen.
So if the beliefs change then islamic law can change? What makes it Islamic law then?
> Sorry, its makeup has nothing to do with "Trump's election".

Yes, it does. It's not a 3 seat commission, it's a five seat commission, and the Senate blocked the renomination of a Democrat whose term ended in December to keep the seat open for Trump to name a replacement, and Wheeler resigned at the end of Obama's term, as is customary (but technically not required) for FCC chairs at a Presidential transition unless asked to stay on.

Had Trump not been elected, the FCC would either be in a 2-2 deadlock (had the Senate blocked Rosenworcel's renomination despite a new Democratic administration waiting in the wings, which would be unusual but not implausible), or still a 3-2 Democratic majority.

This is Trump's FCC, even if he hasn't appointed the two members (only one of which can be a Republican) he can to fill vacancies.
Thats the nature of the beast; everyone wants to release new garbage; which itself was clean until it had to put just a few bits of old rubbish in until it became trash.

Can't find it now but someone posted a Linux mailing list where Torvalds ripped a Dev for breaking something that impacted a user. The dev responded something like the parent: It's a 3rd party app/not Linux responsibility.

The OS has to be stable and the users experience is Paramount. Even a technical crowd (based on the thread) is 50/50 split on this being a Microsoft issue. A non-technical users response: "this software is shit, these idiots broke X in [this version] Microsoft sucks"
I wrote a custom FTP server once (it was database-backed instead of filesystem-backed - e.g. you could do searches by creating a directory in the Search directory) and I added in insulting error messages if a client tried to exercise one of the more antiquated features of the spec (e.g. EBCDIC mode)
I had no idea what GFE stands for and had to track down [https://medium.com/@jerub/the-production-environment-at-goog...] in order to get a good answer.

Envoy bills itself primarily as a service mesh (seeming closest to GSLB / Global Software Load Balancer), but also as an edge proxy (seeming closest to GFE / Google Front End).

Is there any reason to think that it's more like GFE than it is like GSLB?
Isn't BPG lightyears ahead of FLIF?