skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a good example. Self driving car side swipes a bus at ~25 mph. You can see the driver of the bus throw his hands up in the air in disbelief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9T6LkNm-5w

From a human's perspective it's a stupid mistake. It seems stupid because computers think differently than people do. On the other hand a computer would probably think a human were stupid if it saw a human make a mistake when calculating the logarithms of every number between one and a million.
On Android, typically the dialog closes when one makes one's minutes selection. If I make a mistake, I typically just start over since it is at most one or two extra taps.

On the Web, I would expect the dialog to go back to hours after selecting minutes. Or to change colour to indicate that it is inactive and allow re-activating it with another click (starting again from hours).
I actually went ahead and bought the Motivation Hacker before seeing your reply here from the link in the article as it sounded interesting.

Motivation is a complex beast though, the evidence seems to be mixed on the degree to which it is a limited resource / can be increased through training but it certainly seems to be finite. I don't think the difficult of applying so many of these techniques consistently in practice comes down purely to motivation but it is no doubt a factor.

When it comes down to it, a lot of this stuff is just straight up hard. Certainly there are little 'hacks' that I've picked up over the years that help in various areas but overall it is just hard, slow work, results are very difficult to measure in any way scientifically and there are always limits in time and other resources.

Not to pick on GTD but just to use it as an example, it is not in fact very cheap or easy to try it out and see how you get on. It is difficult and time consuming to start the way it is recommended in the book, it is difficult and time consuming to stick with consistently and it is difficult to objectively measure its actual effectiveness. I'm not aware of any strong scientific evidence that people who are able to apply it consistently are actually more productive even.
I suggest you spend more than a few moments on it as my arguments seem to have sailed completely over your head.

Did you read any of the primary source documents in the article? If not then this is going to be a waste of time. If so, please reconcile your arguments with the fact that Jarlstrom initiated contact with the board in an attempt to push a city authority around, and then broke the agreement he made to abide by Oregon's code when it was explained to him absent any kind of bureaucratic sanction.
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I'm not too surprised. During Android's early years it was chasing a moving target as the standard mobile computing paradigm shifted from Blackberry/Treo type devices to iPhone clones. Then tablets got added to the mix and mobile SoCs outpaced Moore's Law for a while. The higher-level elements of the platform were inevitably going to be subjected to a degree of churn that Windows hasn't needed to deal with in about 20 years. (Of course, Windows has opted in to some churn with the revolving door of UI frameworks, but that's entirely self-inflicted.)
This is what everybody who employs a vanity interview question tells themselves. You can use this logic to justify any question, and the result is an entirely subjective interview process that occasionally and randomly admits candidates based on their knowledge of trivia.
Ohhhhh. zip is cool! And I wondered whether "fst" was "first" and "snd" was "second"... is there a "trd" and "fth"?

Also - is [] a list (or mixed type) and () an array (or same-item type)?
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As to "evidence" (not all of it necessarily court-admissible -- but certainly enough preponderance of indication that it may have been Uber's fault, enough to warrant further investigation):

But at Uber, Thomas struggled in a way he’d never experienced in over a decade in technology. He worked long hours. He told his father and his wife that he felt immense pressure and stress at work, and was scared he’d lose his job. They urged him to see a psychiatrist. He told the doctor he was having panic attacks, trouble concentrating and near-constant anxiety. All suggested that he leave his job, but he was adamant that he could not.

“He was always the smartest guy in the room,” said his father, Joe Thomas. But while working at Uber, “he went down the tubes. He became someone with very little confidence in himself. The guy just fell apart.”

“It’s hard to explain, but he wasn’t himself at all,” said Zecole Thomas. “He’d say things like, ‘My boss doesn’t like me.’ His personality changed totally; he was horribly concerned about his work, to the point it was almost unbelievable. He was saying he couldn’t do anything right.”

And:

In the case of Joseph Thomas, medical records from two East Bay psychiatrists he visited in the weeks before his suicide show that he reported job-related “high anxiety,” panic attacks, difficulty concentrating and insomnia.

About a month before his suicide, Joseph Thomas disclosed his work stress in a Facebook chat to a close friend of more than a decade, Neil Mirchandani.

“Man words can’t really describe. I’m not dead but I wouldn’t describe myself as ok,” Thomas wrote, according to screenshots of the chat provided by Mirchandani.

“The sad thing is this place (Uber) has broken me to the point where I don’t have the strength to look for another job,” Thomas wrote.
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When I describe to them what "engineering" is like in this industry they snicker and guffaw. The two fields are quite far apart. Mainly this is because software "engineering" is still quite immature. "Real" engineering has been something humans have worked on for literally millennia, so in this sense it's hardly a fair comparison.

That's my underlying feeling as well. Software Engineering seems like a futuristic discipline, like being a Nanobot Technologist. We're just not there yet - why bother pretending?
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The journalist presumably didn't have time to hang around for the next 5 years to see how it will work out.
I am definitely also a functional strength advocate, and I'm not gung ho about needing to deadlift 500 lbs or something to be athletic. I personally prefer olympic lifts, because they force you to be explosive and I'm training for a sports that involve pure speed and jumping ability. I try to do all my other lifts explosively too. And I can't stand the dudes on their phone in the gym -- I can tell I make them uncomfortable even with the relentlessness of my workouts!
> Apple used Carbon on a lot of its own built-in apps (such as Finder), didn't it?

Apple wrote the Finder in Carbon as a dogfooding exercise, to prove to third party developers that Carbon was a first-class fully supported framework. The Finder has since been re-written in Cocoa.
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> "Unauthenticated SSH" is basically what the git:// protocol is.

git:// is usually unencrypted (people have run it over TLS, but not commonly).
As to (1) see my post above, please.

2) HN guidelines specifically prohibit questioning whether someone read an article.

Noted, thanks. But general principles dictate one should also be more circumspect in addressing the circumstances of persons who have committed suicide (apparently after suffering a great deal of anguish). It seemed the person I was responding to was belittling those circumstances, in this case.
Some public roguelike servers use SSH with a single account and posted private key in place of telnet.
Exactly. Debugging is just the application of the scientific method (or rationality) to a specific domain. I have been beating this drum for years now...
I just now realized I owe nelsap.org a debt of gratitude. I _stumbled upon_ this site back in 2004/5 and, for some reason, was inspired to ride my bike down Neutaconkanut Hill in Providence. The "trail" was pretty much non-existent and that trip wasn't particularly fun, but it did give me a taste of what mountain biking _could_ be like. Afterwards, I decided to explore other biking trails in the area (Lincoln Woods, Burlingame, Weetamoo Woods, etc.) and I've been mountain biking regularly ever since.
Suicide Six is apparently still there: http://www.woodstockinn.com/ski-area

MIT used to have a house in basically the backyard of Suicide Six that Laurence Rockefeller (who also owned the ski area) donated. Living groups and others would rent out the place. We usually skied at Killington but we'd put in short days at Suicide Six as well.
Once you know some basic principles of photography, this actually shouldn't be all that surprising. The Google Nexus 6P uses a 1/2.3 inch type sensor that measures 6.17 x 4.55 mm. That gives us ~28 square mm of sensor area. The initial example image was taken with a full-frame camera with a sensor that measures 24 x 36 mm, yielding 864 square mm. That gives the DSLR ~30x the sensor area of the Nexus. Then with the same amount of light per square mm per second (measured by the f-stop of the lens) the Nexus needs to expose the image for 30x longer than the full-frame camera to gather the equivalent amount of light. It just so happens that this approach used 32 exposures - it makes sense that the results look comparable to a full-frame camera because the phone gathered just as much light.
I would call them alive. They might not be happy everyday. There is always time to be sad, and to be angry, and to just stare into the void and realize how screwed up life is sometimes, but I would say that if you have a higher calling, it's much easier to be happy in a less hedonistic way.

Actually: yeah, I just basically described contentedness. Though there is definitely a difference between contentedness and complacency.
Reminds me of of emoji almost. Ambiguous, short on vocabulary, but you can get ideas across. An advantage over Toki Pona is that everyone already "speaks" it, but I assume TP has more in terms of linguistic structure
The math in this paper is beyond your average Hacker News poster. So no wonder these comments are just name calling.
I've found I can only know one programming language at a time.

However, I can go back to languages I've used before and relearn them more quickly the nth time around.
Here's what happened to these companies:

- They started asking algos and datastructs in the 00s because not too many people had the resources to study it. This served as a proxy for intelligence and was vaguely related as compared to other IQ tests or puzzles

- In this decade, more and more CS graduates and bootcampers started studying the same algo and datastruct problems

- Unable to reject anyone (because everyone could solve those problems), they started increasing the difficulty of the problems and started fretting over stupid things like variable names, arcane data structures and solutions, culture fit, ability to handle pressure etc.

- Today, it has devolved into a nerd show off event where the entire goal of interview has become diluted.

The goal of the interview was to open a requisition, find a smart candidate to do the job, close the requisition.

Nowadays, they'll open a req/have a pipeline of candidate, grill them over unnecessary questions and keep interviewing candidates until they get bored/really need to close this req.

The whole point of the interview process is so lost. As a person who is employed in one of these companies, I hate to see what it has become. We regularly reject candidates who are clearly more passionate than their interviewers, have better experience and bring something new to the table.

But because these mediocre interviewers (my peers) interview candidates on some arcane crap (that they obviously can't solve in 30 mins) these smart guys get rejected and I'm relegated to working with these retards.

It is one thing to ask coding questions to filter out the complete losers. It is completely another thing to hire only people who can solve these stupid questions.

Sad!
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"populace", not "populous" (an adjective meaning "highly populated").
> “What is a car?” Lang mused recently via phone from her home in Toronto. “You might say that a car is a space that's used for movement,” she proposed. “That would be tomo tawa. If you’re struck by a car though, it might be a hard object that’s hitting me. That’s kiwen utala.”

So then how would you tell other people that you were struck by a car? Would you say you were hit by a "kiwen utala"? "I was hit by a hard object". Okay, does that mean a book fell on your head? Or someone bumped into you?

And if "towo tawa" is a "space used for movement", then how would you distinguish it between any of the other spaces used for movement, like a bus, train, airplane, elevator, shipping container, bobsled...

One of the values of a word like "car" is it can be used to refer to something independently of how it's being used, which is helpful when things can be used in more than 1 way, and you want people to understand you're talking about the same object in each case.
No it's stupid. Like asking an iOS engineer a question involving a tree data structure. It is stupid and irrelevant because at the end of the day our job is to build products/features. If you think at a student level you will never learn anything past college. Companies think that by default everyone can write code and build product. So they focus on stupid obscure stuff.

I believe it's the opposite. We all went to college and got the same freakin CS degree. We don't know anything about building products when we graduate. Building a product from the ground up without the help of a designer and PM is a tough exercise. Most engineers would fail. Guess what, that's what we do all day in the real world. 10 years later I still get algorithm questions as if my job is %100 about algorithm. That's %5 of my Master's program by the way.
Toki Pona inspired a fantasy non-linear hieroglyphic system, reminiscent of Mayan carvings: http://www.jonathangabel.com/archive/2012/artworks_lipu-lawa...
I think the reason scientific code is spaghetti has more to do with different incentives than time management. you don't need scalable production quality code. you need a minimal working example of something even its a kluge. correct and ugly and novel will win over optimized and pretty and commented and non-novel...
> It really astounded me that we had to pay a third-party for-profit company to get access to our homework.

I went to undergrad in the 90s & it was true for me then as well.

Most textbook companies are for-profit, and I needed the texts to complete the assignments.
In the United States, at least, you are specifically exempt from deportation if your spouse abuses you, but I have no idea how you'd pursue such a case. I'm given to understand that the Philippines made it mandatory for women going abroad to marry to take a course explaining their rights.
No, with the sole exception of interviewing for a research position where new algorithm variants on the sliding window might be developed.

What an interviewer focusing on specifics can pick up on is near term familiarity with a topic. But someone who can deliver value is also able to propel knowledge into novel areas, and can explain and debug the solution they came up with. They aren't there to be a student passing an exam.

Familiarity tests are often "weeder" filters that clear out candidates with no knowledge of the domain problem. This is a mixed blessing as it can find senior people if you drill deep enough with the right problems, but it can also make the overall skillset and wisdom of the team brittle if they are overfit.
That's what always happens. People who like upvote and move on (or do nothing). People who are critical comment.

It's really hard to do a voting ring on HN. The algorithm is very sensitive. We've triggered it accidentally before, just because friends of ours, who we didn't ask, upvoted it.
What would you say about your experience with SJSU engineering in general? It's one of my top 5 schools right now.
Anonymous within this context refers to unauthenticated clients, not communication privacy.
It is an amazing place - it has been consistently ranked as the best children's hospital in the US, though at that level it ends up depending more on specialty and who's doing the rating.
Is riding the bus finally becoming cool?
I really don't understand how anyone that is sound of mind can be anti-capitalist. Maybe critical of capitalism I can understand but being "anti-capitalist" after looking at history probably indicates that you have some developmental issues.
My ex is Filipina who I met while working/living in Manila. We moved back to my home country and we both where heavily involved with the Filipino ex-pat community here. Your sentiments and concerns match mine.

Although the internet has empowered mail order brides to some extent, there are still a long ways from guaranteed happily ever afters. From what I've observed the power balance is still heavily against women and such "transactions" fail and largely to the disadvantage of the women involved.

Also alot of cultural disconnects between Phils and OECD nations. Reflecting upon my past relationship, neither of our needs were being met in any meaningful way; by standards of relationships I've had since and currently enjoy. It wasn't a healthy relationship for either of us and when I observe many other Filipino/foreigner relationships I see alot of similarities with my own direct experiences.
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> Most Doctors are not grossly negligent, but if you find one that is what are you gonna do? There is no one to complain to without professional orders.

Um, the legal system? Have you honestly never heard of the legal concept of malpractice? "Gross negligence" is very much included in it.
Also, of notable mention is DDS [1]. It's standardized by OMG (what's not to love about that name?) not IETF.

It's a really interesting pub/sub style IPC. But really it's like a swiss-army knife. CORBA lovers (and haters) will recall IDL, it's used as the description for the interfaces used. IMO the commercial implementations are more feature complete than the open source ones.

If you looked at CORBA in the 1990s and have a sour taste in your mouth, don't hold it against DDS. It's a really great approach. It describes interfaces with a dynamically negiotiated Quality-of-Service among participants. The set of reactions to QoS policy violations effectively create hooks for all of your interesting cases.

IMO DDS works best when all of your participants share a broadcast domain, but it's not necessary to set it up that way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Distribution_Service
Check out the Facebook Purity add-on. It gives you the control to filter out just about anything if you use a web browser to access Facebook.

http://www.fbpurity.com
> Results show that the average risk of severe injury

I'll stop you right there.

We are talking about how to prevent accidents, not how to make them less serious.

I have often heard cited, the fact that force scales with acceleration in a non-linear way, as the reason for speed limits. That is not the case, nor should it be.
I wonder why they chose C++ and not Go.
> Microsoft could have fixed it with Win 64bit (Win64).

Ha, they wouldn't even rename System32 when converting it to 64 bit. There was no chance of an API cleanup.
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I've read arguments that 20mph is the max theoretical running speed for a human. The argument goes evolution has finely tuned us to deal with anything below that speed, but above it, not so much.
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For the last time, these are not separate issues and treating them as such is erroneous. Section 13 establishes the context in which the facts in section 14 were evaluated.

I'm exhausted trying to explain this and frankly annoyed that I've wasted most of my afternoon trying to provide legal insight to people who refuse to listen to reason that contradicts their preconceptions.

WHY do you think section 14 should be interpreted in isolation from section 13? Do you think that makes it like a new function or procedure in which all the scope rules are reset? Why are you ignoring 672.007?

It's really frustrating that programmers seem to think that working with logical constructs makes them lawyers. Maybe you would take me more seriously if I charged you $250/hour?
A Monotone Priority Queue is neither sufficient nor needed to solve this problem (as it does not give a linear time solution). Instead the proper solution just needs a deque, see http://techieme.in/maximum-element-sliding-window/.

So yes as you can see knowing algorithms is important, as if you don't you will attempt to use an overly complicated data structure to come up with a suboptimal solution.
I designed something similar for general fault injection [1] (and to learn rust). There's no intercept written for time syscalls yet, but it's on the issues list.

[1] https://github.com/androm3da/libfaultinj
Aren't those two systems vastly different in the long term?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I wouldn't expect "Sugar Babies" to be looking for potential husbands on those online platforms. Whereas mail order brides seem to be in for a longer commitment.

If the two value propositions are so different (essentially a hot temporary girlfriend vs a wife), there is no real competition, and the bargaining power should not be too affected.
I actually do this.

I try to follow a low-carb diet and it's really easy to follow when you spend a Sunday cooking everything at once, then the rest of the week, reheating from that same menu.

Don't drink coffee, alcohol, or eat sweets/desserts except for fruit. Exclusively drink water, unsweetened almond/coconut milk.

I've asked some of my friends in college and for them, the notion of eating the same things every day is unfathomable. At least for someone who doesn't value food highly or today's culture around food, the benefits are immense.

The time you save that you'd usually spend casually browsing "where to eat" and "what to eat" is substantial. The time saved cooking along + just thinking about food in general.

It just takes one morning to cook it all together and prep for the week. Potatoes are a nice comfort and chicken is roasted whole.

Breakfast: 2-3 eggs, baked potatoes, 2 strips of bacon, with two corn tortillas.

Lunch (if needed, usually skip): Small bowl of homemade chia seed pudding with dark chocolate + strawberries and/or apple.

Dinner: Chicken, potatoes, broccoli/bacon/onion/carrots.

I walk on average 6-10 miles/day and run for 4 every other. Try to eat more fats/protein. Don't crash with this menu and can eat x2 volume if particularly hungry that day without worry.

Originally inspired by - https://www.fastcompany.com/3059116/this-y-combinator-startu...