skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If 5% of the population is "disabled" for the purposes of a handicapped parking sticker, do we need 5% of the parking spaces reserved for them? No. All the disabled people can't be in all the disabled spots at the same time. You must consider usage rates. If all 5% of the handicapped population is using only 10% of the handicapped spots at any one time, we would only need .5% of a parking lot to be handicapped spots.

This program has good intentions, but it needs to be more precise about how many parking spots are actually needed, and who actually needs them.
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As a personal reminder, I agree. No one else cares, until they do.

And when they do, any little thing in your past can and will be used as a social cudgel against you.
My wife's family, which is from York County, Pennsylvania, makes rhubarb pie. York County isn't very far north, but the Mason-Dixon line is its southern border.
Can you explain further? SMS spam bots can still exist, right?
Yes, it's a non-local theory.
This is already a thing and has been for quite a while. One of my former coworkers used to live in really, really nice homes. He was able to do that because he was acting as caretaker for what would have otherwise been unoccupied properties.
It's too late. We have universities pumping out tens of thousands of C.S. graduates every year in the United States alone. Sure they aren't all amazing but it isn't that hard to implement most dark patterns within say, a Django environment. Even in the most important space machine learning is having it's barrier to entry halved every five years and eventually most small machine learning tasks will be done with only minimal training.
MIT’s walking speed measurement more accurate than Fitbit
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Midwest based developer with a lot of front end experience. Have worked with companies of all sizes and various technologies. Working on Alexa skills, Chrome Extensions, and web apps in current role. Looking for full time if possible and would love to connect with any companies looking for Midwest or remote developers.
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I had to smirk at this one:

> none of us would ever consider opening a Laundromat or a stationery store

I've actually fantasized numerous times about selling it all and buying a laundromat or two. The dream was all around the "virtually passive income" fantasy. The guy who owns the laundromat I use stops in a few times a week, and counts his money.

That isn't to say it isn't completely free, he's got issues with local homeless people (one guy lit a fire in one of the driers and turned it on), he's got ongoing maintenance. But for the most part he isn't around. People come to his place, drop off money and leave.

I could imagine having a job where you spend a couple hours a day or maybe a day or two a week, then spend the rest of your time pursuing hobbies and hanging out with family and friends. Or volunteering & playing with fancy technology.
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AMA - will hangout different time slots to answer.
Curious. ANI seems to me like an abstract form of graph-parallel programming, where the language itself is the scheduler.

There are some production-ready schedulers for GPP, like Intel's TBB[1] (C++), but learning to be effective with this requires a major shift in thinking about code - essentially thinking in graphs.

[1] - https://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/tutorial-intel-tbb-f...
Thanks I'll have to check out that book.

I agree, a public forum really complicates the issue.
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We are hiring senior data scientists to change the way eBay does advertising. eBay's old advertising strategy was 3rd party focused (Ads that sent people off eBay). Our CEO said during our last earning call that strategy has changed. eBay needs ads that keep people on eBay and offer better choices for our buyers. We are the team blowing up the old strategy and doing something better. You can move the needle when it comes to eBay's profit. We operate like a small startup but can impact eBay's 100+ million buyers. This is a unique opportunity to learn search engine and recommendation technology which rank eBay's 1+ billion active items. We apply cutting edge machine learning techniques on petabytes of data and thousands of Spark/YARN nodes. This includes deep learning, XGBoost and multi-arm bandits. Our interview consists of two phone screens. Then you come onsite to meet the team and do a code test.
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Come build Machine Learning/Algorithm Development tooling in collaboration with Data Scientists at Stitch Fix!

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Apply using the careers page, but include that you saw the posting on Hacker News.

Interview process would be a technical phone screen(s) & a full day or two half day on-sites.

Me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skrawczyk

Questions? Comments?
Yeah, there is definitely this trail of well-documented cringe that gets left in everyone's social media footprints.

I'm going to take a contrarian view that this is not necessarily something that we need or want to keep associated with ourselves. There are groups like Archive Team and IPFS who talk about how ethereal components of the web cause vanishing history and a lost cultural heritage, while neglecting to note that the web is first-in-its-kind because it makes pedestrian, routine conversations to be transcribed and accessed from all over the world.

In olden times, even personal letters would generally include significant news or interesting updates, and these were never intended for a non-personal audience. The high cost of committing information to a fixed medium like paper, as opposed to the ethereal domain of air in which conversation naturally abides, would cause self-selection that made for only the elements considered most significant by the authors or artists to be committed. I am not convinced that archiving every comment or writing that gets published is a necessary or even beneficial part of preserving a cultural heritage. In some cases, like Geocities, the benefit is obvious, but I doubt the value of treating every conversation or exchange as a prized historical artifact.

There are several reddit auto- and back-deleters already. Check out shreddit [0], which I've used with some success in the past, and which can be configured to retain certain high value posts (posts above a user-specified score threshold or that have been awarded gold). I think it's good to keep this running on a continuing basis so that unless the comment is exceptional, only the last few months of comments are available.

This is particularly important/valuable if you have any slightly controversial opinions on anything. Over the years, it's easy to accidentally leak a little information here, a little there, and when a psycho decides to go on a vendetta against you because you insulted the species of grass they just installed in their front yard, it's too late to go back and plug those little leaks.

[0] https://github.com/x89/Shreddit
Is the author of this piece the disabled police? People's disabilities don't have to be apparent by looking at them to be real. My dad probably doesn't look disabled but he has the lingering effects of the damage caused by a childhood ankle injury which became chronic and the surgery to make it better had the side effect of further limiting his ankle movement making walking much more difficult. He's ok if he walks a little bit but too much and he's out of commission and further aggravates the damage.

Someone with MS probably has limited mobility that isn't apparent as well.
This is already a thing. You just post an ad on craigslist but the monthly amount you post is actually paid to you. Problem is, you have to make that amount reasonable relative to the other people doing the same thing in your area, otherwise nobody will email you.
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Nope. I will empty my life savings into the campaign account of whoever is running opposite. I don't care who it is. I do not want Mark Zuckerberg running anything, let alone this country. Something about the guy just screams sleaze.
The past, present, and future of design in Silicon Valley
Makes too much sense, isn't courageous enough, and certainly doesn't have a high enough margin. I'd love this, however with an updated case.
This kind of strategy is also useful for taxes as well, because losses carry over to following years but profits don't.

So, 4 years of losses and 1 year of profits could be better than 5 years of even (but smaller) gains.
Wasn't this use case exactly what was part of their justification for switching to Intel?... the ability to keep up faster.
It's very easy to romanticize the past. What does it help?
>It's not just design, there's also a heavy reliance on Mac only (or at least Mac and Windows only) pro video and audio programs.

It's even more so in programming. Go to any developer conference, whether it's for Rails, C, Java, Haskell or whatever: a huge percentage there will have MacBook Pros, much much more than the percentage of Mac users in the general market (e.g 10% in the general market and 40 to 60% in developer circles).

Which goes to say how silly the notion that "Mac's are for users who don't know about computers" is.

Macs are for users who want a working GUI and/or a UNIX subsystem, and don't want to do any self-building and/or tinkering.
A more detailed Boston Globe article on the shutdown [1]

Bridj was a service that was interesting as it hit a point somewhere between traditional bus services and on demand Uber/Lyft style transportation options.

1 - https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/04/30/bridj-local-...
Is it useful in writing drivers ? or mostly for application code ?

And what are the drawbacks? Why aren't everybody using it?
> A doctor’s certification is required to obtain a placard or plate, but 73% of the applications that were reviewed "did not fully describe the disability."

Is it the DMV's responsibility to review medical claims and determine eligibility, or does the doctor determine eligibility and the DMV simply fills the request? If it's the latter I don't see any reason fro DMV paperwork to describe the disability at all.

> Also, 18% of the doctors’ signatures did not match those on file with state health boards. The auditor questioned whether 260,000 placards issued over a three-year period were valid.

What's the point of requiring a signature if it's not going to be verified? These should be investigated and if the doctor didn't sign them, that's fraud.

> A lot of placards that exist were issued to people now dead. They haven’t been canceled. The DMV catches many by checking state death records, but could identify thousands more by also examining federal data. The auditor figures at least 35,000.

I can't imagine this is costing the taxpayers any money or that people are using their dead grandmother's handicapped placard.

> As of June, there were 26,000 people age 100 or older holding placards, based on DMV data. But there are only an estimated 8,000 centenarians living in California.

This seems like it overlaps most of the prior point.

> There is no limit on the number of replacement placards a holder can receive if one is "lost" or "stolen." Auditors found several people who had received 16 or more placards over a three-year period.

Imagine that, someone who is elderly and/or disabled misplaced a placard they may only used once a month when they go grocery shopping.
I believe HN title convention is to remove the number of list items ex. this title should be just "Programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding".
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MS degrees
as little experience as possible
the pair should have worked together before

we're developing a developer tool for OSX
the programming is in C

we'll pay you enough to maintain a subsistence lifestyle
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That's huge.
I'd like to think this (too), but I don't believe there's any evidence to support this claim.
"Sell the amazing $3.50 croissants with pride. The people who crave it will come no matter the price."

Everyone must conform to the logic of capital. Even if, as a charitable and willing business owner, you want to remunerate your employees more than what the market suggests, or set prices lower than what consumers are willing to pay because you don't want to profit too egregiously, you will be forced into adapting and doing what the market wants you to do.

It's hard for a very scrupulous person to accept this. Many lousy software developers have more prestige than more talented ones, because the latter are seemingly unable to accept just how much they are expected to charge for their time, and therefore seem cheap by underselling themselves. The question of "How can I make so much money, when people I know working so much harder in teaching or social work, make so much less?" is expected to just be squelched or dealt via charity.

It's very interesting.
The best Twitter bot imo is @tiny_star_field. It's a beautiful concept, and it was the first one I came across to generate 2D/spatial tweets.
Exactly this. Mixed with all of the RA's going on at IBM, IMHO, this appears to be a smoke screen to justify their search for a cheaper workforce. The talent is there (or was there, in the expensive, experience employees). They just do not want to pay for it.
The purpose of handicapped spaces is to make it easier to physically disabled persons to get to where they're going. If you can hop out and sprint to the door, that space isn't for you (whether you have a legitimate placard or not), unless you're picking the person who owns the placard.
Some forums I frequented 10 years ago have avoided the veteran retirement by having a private forum for veterans.

That has its own issues but has been really nice for me to keep in touch with the old familiar faces.
MTV - Viacom

History - A&E networks (subsidiary of Hearst and Disney)

A&E - take a guess

Discovery - Discovery Communications

TLC - Discovery Communications

SyFy - NBC

this is called "race to the bottom" and also "media collusion".
Let's say they _can_ be carried over, but the vast majority of people playing MMOs are not developing serious leadership skills that they can put on their resume at least :)
zsh + oh-my-zsh + agnoster zsh theme + powerline
Paradise, Nevada -- an unincorporated town [1] under Nevada law in Clark County, which host all of the famous casinos of the Strip between Sahara and Mandalay Bay, as well as over 200000 people -- is definitely a real place, yet all domestic mailing addresses that are in Paradise, in ZIP codes like 89109, 89119, 89169 need to say 'LAS VEGAS'.

In Virginia, Henrico County, which surrounds the City of Richmond on three sides, petioned the US Postal Service in 2008 to allow 'HENRICO' as an acceptable label for affected ZIP codes that were used on its territory. Establishing a shared identity was a factor, but so was the fact that in some cases collected taxes were misappropriated to the wrong jurisdiction on account of a label lookup from the mailing address [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unincorporated_towns_in_Nevada [2] http://www.henricocitizen.com/index.php/news/article/address...
>Historically, additives such as lime or animal blood were used to stabilize it, while modern construction adds lime, cement, or asphalt emulsions.

Curious to know what filler material is practical on Mars. I suspect animal blood is out of the question, unless of course, we consider the human settlers. I can see some potential for an amusing modern-day Modest Proposal with the problem of colonizing Mars.
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Gaming the Search Results on Udemy
Basically cross Uber/Lyft with shuttle bus.

They had an app that let you schedule a pickup and destination. Its seemed to have a flexible schedule but routes. I never used it but saw them driving around.

The hospitals and universities in Boston all run their own shuttle bus service to augment the existing public transit system.
It's not a rumor. The first news articles discussing the event said that Paulson won big because he arrived late to the bet. It's just that the market stayed irrational longer than the initial naysayers could stay solvent.

"The Big Short" shows Michael Burry arguing with his LPs as they try to bail too early.
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