skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We used to do this in a school - it wasn't creepy - hear me out:

We had labs of iMacs and if anything happened to a machine, kids would (more often than not) just yank the power cord. Occasionally this would foobar the machine entirely and create unnecessary work. We couldn't catch the culprits.

So, if the machine managed to boot up successfully, after an unexpected power loss, we would take a photo using the built in camera and send it along with a ticket to the job queue, as well as do a complete re-image of the machine (automatically).

The number of funny photos we collected of kids just starting at the computer with WTF looks on their faces. But - from these photos we at least had the opportunity to educate the individuals about how to look after the computers a bit better.
I wonder if you might be a coworker of mine or this is just becoming a common strategy for companies these days.
i think you're missing the reference to a "roguelike". Assuming it's meant the same way "vim-like" is a noun not an adjective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike - "A roguelike game is one belonging to a subgenre of role-playing video games characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated game levels, turn-based gameplay, tile-based graphics, and permanent death of the player-character. "
If you mess up stating earnings, you go to jail.
If you are really serious, your goal should be to be net positive, downgrading won't get you there, never.
It really annoys me that these are deployed in public spaces where you essentially can't opt-out or fight the tracking like you can online (ad blockers, script execution control etc).
The future was here in 1995....

I worked for the U.S. Postal service for a time doing data entry (here as a matter of fact... http://www.sltrib.com/news/3445651-155/the-first-and-last-of...).

That job measured the number of keystrokes per hour of each employee. You had to maintain a 10,000 keystrokes per hour minimum data entry rate, they also spot checked for accuracy. Capturing the data you were suppose to enter (a scan of a piece of mail) what you entered, and what should have been entered.

While there was no question about goofing off... they used commodity hardware, but nothing else was general purpose (no internet, no email, no solitaire, no obviously general purpose OS), and no phones, talking., etc... they were very much watching for speed and accuracy during the entire time you were clocked in.
Yes. And you can get a decent studio for less actually.
If people will work for 5 USD then they should find other jobs rather tech jobs. These people are exploiting the market
Wow, nice! I don't know if he was one of the 12 in 1977, but he would have been if this is the number he used. Woolworth's totally makes sense. If he were alive, he would poop purple Twinkies at that story. Thanks!
Yes: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup

http://image.ox.ac.uk/list?collection=all

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/browse....

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.h...
I like to give obviously fake numbers. Like 12345 for a zip code or 212-555-1234 for a phone number. Most people don't care enough to have a reaction, now and then you get a laugh, and rarely you'll get someone who calls it out as bogus. My standard retort is somewhere between "Are you saying I don't know my own phone number?" and "Are you calling a liar?!" depending on how surly the response.
PEMDAS
Mathematical order of operations.
Parenthesis, exponent, multiply, divide, add, subtract.
I only learnt this a year ago and it's almost embarrassing how much my maths or ability to understand math has improved from this(I'm 28 and never gotten taught this in schools general maths so I used to find math really difficult).
I'm sure a lot of them use Buffer or something to multipost.
Couldn't you just identify the user by their logon?
Maternalism even.

Funny how paternalist is pejorative, when mothers can be just as controlling, especially about sex.
Early on, it's meant spending months on implementation, hand-holding the first few users so they can become evangelists within the company. It's not a lot of work, it's just over a long period of time.

I track usage metrics every day and routinely message power users to ask what may be keeping others from adopting, asking non-users if they've been trained, and asking execs if they have evangelized from the top down.

So, you have to hit everyone over a long period of time.
I've heard of pushdown techniques including function, predicate and aggregate pushdown in distributed relational engines before.

Another interesting idea I read about (I can't find it anywhere online) was called "join zippering". Basically you first request the cluster to solve a join by querying and streaming the key columns from a join predicate back into the cluster itself to identify which nodes have matches and then streaming the results from each node in parallel, and doing the join in the stream.

This is hard stuff but so cool too :)
It's worth noting the 2002 movie Minority Report is based on a shorty story of the same name published by Philip K. Dick in 1956.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minority_Report
Perhaps I'm not understanding the argument. My interpretation is that y'all want me to dump all my excess power during the day into the grid, to power other homes that don't have panels, instead of charging a battery. And that's somehow better for environment.

But ... when night falls, and I'm not generating any more power, where am I supposed to get power? Do I just live without power every night? And everyone else does too? Cause the only alternative is to burn fossil fuels to power everyone's homes during the night. Fossil fuels being perhaps the most inefficient solar batteries available to us.

And yes, fossil fuels _are_ batteries. Solar batteries in fact. It's just that they have an unimaginably terrible conversion loss, not to mention they're highly destructive to the environment, and take millions of years to charge. If they ever do recharge, which is unlikely, since our planet is not likely to revisit the eras that gave rise to significant quantities of them again.

I think I'll stick with lithium cells with their "conversion loss" of 80%, that take up a small portion of a wall in my house, and last for decades.
Could you clarify what you mean by "integration with other development environments"? I assume you're in data science -- could you describe how Emacs solve your need?

Also, am I correct in thinking that ESS company-mode autocomplete does not autocomplete data frame's variable names when using tidyverse's pipe?
Especially when, in hindsight, it's anything but vague.
There are plugins to do that stuff in Vim, but you're right, they are still clunky.
Thats the historical average.
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How about ELI15? Touching a conductive surface reduces voltage in that area. Place sensors around the perimeter, and rotate the source of voltage to triangulate the location.
Both my parents are career wardens in a supermax. (two different ones) But I'm sure Google has taught you more about prison than what they've taught me.

I'll be sure to examine things with more detail, lmao
I would love to see VS on Linux :)
> Q: As you point out yourself in the book, natural monopoly can also be a positive thing. For instance, in the cases of the telephone and the telegraph. What is the difference between those natural monopolies and digital platforms?

Of the interview, this was by far the most interesting question and he didn't really answer it.

It could be argued that at the root of the net neutrality crisis is that cable companies don't have to risk a race to the bottom. If they did, they'd sing a different tune, if only to use "we will deliver everything to you without playing favorites or selling your data" as a sales pitch.
Notice that the site is not affiliated with Emacs.
Having met Alex (founder/CEO @ Owlchemy) a year ago, this strikes me as a no-brainer. Owlchemy has put in the time and work to start to develop a new language for the new medium that is VR. They are not just porting over old tropes to a new platform. When I met Alex, he explained his vision as wanting to continue to create this new language, and to sell devtools that would help other folks build VR-first experiences. Congrats, folks!
I did well... it said I was an angry 33 y/o male. Well, I am male... I'm almost 50... and I didn't think smiling at the camera conveyed anger... but who am I to question our AI overlords ;-)

(edit)... on the other hand they probably were just trying to sell product so thought flattery was the right approach...
It said I was 35 years old and yet I am 23 so I don't think it is just you
I was attributing this bit to the film...I suspect the digital signage scene wasn't from the short story.
Wow thanks, that's a much better intro to the ones I cam across like this (http://mbreen.com/m4.html). I may have to reevaluate it.
Whoa, I had no idea - thanks! Should have mentioned that IANAAstronomer.
Nice to see your perspective, this is gold! I've worked in the B2B and risk management side of Construction and I'd like to chime in - as a verification - of the market in Construction. It's a multi-billion dollar per month industry in every major City. Property and development and investment are where big money plays. REITs and up.

Two things Construction cares about: Safety & Shrink.

Safety in the human cost of skilled labor - and settling workplace claims of deaths on the job / innocent bystanders / loss of property (on and on and on) - is a giant consideration. Claims are more expensive than, well, anything because they're unpredictable. Can technology help? Yeah, but looking at a tablet ain't gonna do it, unless it's like 30 cameras on the job site...which leads to...

Shrink. That's what it was called in the Big Box store. Losses due to theft. It could be something small, or something kind of big. Or maybe somebody on the job site tipped off a local relative with a good crew who have the brass ones to haul off a couple generators if they're not lifted up on a crane over the weekend...again, there's a nice middle ground of disruption for technology, but it has to be grounded in real world learning.

Sketching out a few ideas on a white board will probably not be anywhere close to the 3 years I consulted with Field Safety Managers, Claims Managers, Managing Directors who speak at Conferences to this day...I was the guy who could write it down, put it in images, because Construction people have their own world.

I'll never forget one story a highly accomplished team leader said on a conference call about Safety: "Last week at the new XXXX auto plant, installing a 4 ton brace that was freshly painted, the crew was so worried about scratching the paint that one got jammed between the brace and the wall and lost his life. Priorities are our concern."

TL;DR: Nobody makes a good brisket in a microwave.
It's significantly more complicated, but at Opendoor we act as a market maker for real estate by doing this.

We sell our homes far faster than the market in Phoenix, without sacrificing on price.
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Is this unethical if everything is done locally and no data is stored or resold?
And I suppose you're not?
Agreed. Tough to put into words how I feel about the situation. Ostensibly, no rights lost, but everyone in the WH is doing their darndest to make that happen.
At Opendoor we go a step further and actually purchase and sell the homes based on the prices our algorithms produce
early 40s, tells me I'm late 20s. Must be the good "jeans" :P
Real estate is not liquid enough that a 'correctly' priced house will sell immediately. You have to wait for a buyer that wants the exact featureset that house is offering.

Real estate has sort of a weird duality where it's viewed as a commodity in aggregate - but it is definitely not a commodity good to the individual buyers looking at houses.
Roughly 5% median absolute error. 90% within 20% nationwide.
You are wrong :)
I challenge you to come to Opendoor and beat the algorithm over a large set of homes :)
I noticed a few typos here and there (submitted corrections using Send Feedback) but overall, I like it.

There've been a few services I've tried to use that blended different styles (To Do, Kanban etc) but I found most of them a bit lacking.

I guess it's one of those things where I kind of would want everything including the kitchen sink (or in this case, time tracking, Github integration and so on.

Anyway, I look forward to trying it out with some personal projects
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You're assuming there were usernames and passwords. For consumer grade devices in decades past, that was not the norm.
Why do you need failover if you have global multimaster like Spanner?
> What ever happened to plain old RPC?

IDK. Whatever happened to plain old REST HTTP?
It's been a while but I don't think the old iMacs at my elementary school had individual user logins at the system level. For things like the reading test program there was a login I think but not for the whole machine.
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The U.S., Canada and Mexico are buying more job-killing robots than ever before
[aws.moe] a nice short URL for Amazon AWS (owned by Amazon)
Different roots here, but same results.

Gradually worsened up until ~25, though. Vastly improved after a couple of years, and seeing the tail ends ~30
Tesla has an error somewhere. I checked their website calculator vs their source of Google project sunroof, and Tesla thinks my roof is 5 times bigger, with an electric bill nearly twice as high!

Doing some quick math, I can confirm that Google's number are reasonably close on both, while Tesla's are just plain wrong.

The result is a Tesla roof that would cost roughly $170,000. Worse, that's about half the value of my house!

I know - early days - but, wow, surprised by the estimate!
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> you do realize that initiating nuclear war is suicide, right?

Given there are plenty of suicidal humans, that's not entirely comforting.
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CAP only talks about the uncommon unhappy path (given a network partition, what is tradeoff between availability and consistency). PACELC theorem builds on CAP to describe that even in the absence of a network partition, there is a trade-off between latency and consistency (in other words, describing the tradeoffs associated with BOTH the common happy path and uncommon unhappy path).

Azure Cosmos DB offers 5 well-defined consistency models for you to choose from, so that you can choose the right tradeoffs for a given application or scenario. This way, you aren't stuck choosing between the hard extremes of Strong and Eventual consistency.

See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/documentdb/documentdb...
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Wow, that's cool. TLA+ is the same formalism that Amazon uses to verify (some of) their cloud services.
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Just about all of them tried drug prohibition too. Don't underestimate the power of USA's poor example...
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Bearded male here, and it got me exactly right the first time - 33 yr old male, 100% happiness.

The second time it thought I was 28, which increased my happiness even more.
Would you count compression schemes as valid answers to your question, or are you asking about the raw data not having any redundancy?

There're no channel formats or clever equations I'm aware of that avoids the redundancy part. But your question totally reminds me of Greg Ward's RGBE format, which is a high-dynamic range format stored in 8 bits per channel, with an extra 8 bit exponent channel. http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~bjw/rgbe.html

RGBE isn't doing exactly what you're asking about, but it's similar in a way. Instead of storing 16 bits per channel separately for each channel, what you really get instead is 16 bits (sort-of) for the brightest channel, and the other 2 channels in 8 bits each - discarding the extra bits. You can't see them because the bright channel will prevent you from seeing anything super dark in another channel, so you can discard the extra color resolution in the darker channels.

If you count compression, then pre-multiplying would help the situation. Anytime the alpha value gets low or goes to 0, the color channels do too, so run length encoding or DCT or whatever else will collapse large transparent areas into all zeroes.
So everyone here is right, you can issue new shared no problem at all, BUT no one has mentioned tax implications.

If you gift someone shares they have to count them as income. On day 1 when you valuation is arguably $0 this is NBA. 50% of $0 = $0 but today 10% of your business at a conservative 5x multiple is closer to $200k. Might be more, might be less, but that's income and your partner needs to pay taxes on it.

This could be the worst/best gift they receive. Typically what you're describing is done with stock options. That is, granting him the right to buy shares at a future date at a fixed (low price). No matter what people tell you options != equity. You can approximate what the right number to give him are but it'll never be the same as having 50/50. If you want to give him 50% you should issues shares, but make sure you give him a big cash payout (hint: also taxed!) so he doesn't end up underwater.
Yes, it is insane.

Universities have become sweatshops. There are a handful of tenured foremen/women, but everyone else is busking it.

The students are psrt of the cash crop, investment income, donations from alumni, and grants make up the rest.

Original thinking and game-changing research have been deprecated.
They're very different things. It's like wanting an in-depth comparison between SQL Server and Redis.
Not much, but enough that I see plenty of solar installations on nearby roofs, and the financial incentives here are fairly good. I checked a "standard" provider that provides regular or integrated panels [1] and their estimate for my house is a tax free return on investment of 4.2% to 5.5% (integrated or regular panels respectively) when factoring in feed in tariff and maintenance.

[1] http://www.solarcentury.com/uk/
An interesting thing to point out is the current beta for Cloud Spanner does not have multi-region deployments... and instead, allows you to do single-region deployment in your choice of 3 (not >30) regions:

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/instance-configuration
Are you implying only females can be sexy?
I'm a 25 year old male, bald with a full beard, and it thinks I'm a 33 year old woman. At least it could tell I was happy?
Databases is one area that Amazon is way behind Google and Microsoft. DynamoDB is thoroughly awful so good to see some competition.
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Hah, looking through all those looks reminds me of the captcha problem though: computers won't be able to detect your face, but neither will people.
> They apparently have 2,360 employees doing who knows what (not growing the user base).

I don't understand what all these people do all day. Same with Twitter, they have 3860 employees according to their website. It seems like 10X as many as needed. I've worked in a few offices with less than 100 employees total, and while I have no idea what it takes to run a service with that much traffic, Snapchat runs on Google's cloud service.

> “Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn’t mean they’re Google.""

Maybe it will be a classic in the same genre as Ballmers answer to what he thought about Apple's new product the iPhone.
Does the replication work cross-region, say US-East and US-West? or even cross continent? It sounds like the timing requires very short latency and might not work in these scenarios
And that's the issue. Most engineers don't understand HTTP. Just the amount of people who confuse PUT and POST is pretty high. Getting people to remember that media type exists is hard. Add in the rest, it's just not happening.

But the unicorn "properly designed REST api" is quite nice.

Since i can't trust anyone to do it right though, I'll just use GraphQL because its easier to get people to do right.
Perfect region for the NSA to make use of GCP!
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There is a kaggle competition right now to predict house prices in russia. If you can do it better than anyone else, you can win tens of thousands of dollars.
I completely believe this. I was far more sophisticated in my late 20's.

In my late 30's I learned to stop being such a douche... and I became far simpler.

We all see through the Matrix as we get older...
My neighborhood is the opposite. Zillow will value a house at, say, $650k and it sells for $520k. It's not the condition of the house, either, since it's pretty consistent.
You are correct. I have not tested this yet, but they are most likely strings prefixed with their lengths. I was trying to be too smart and assumed they used ASCII control characters.
The entire industry is just people who are very wrong hitting critical mass until no one remembers what was right.
Google sends you to other websites, Facebook tends to keep you within their walled garden/echo chamber.

Now, I am not saying google is the perfect answer, but I consider it a hell of a lot better than facebook.
I too support Equal Rites for all but a minor correction. Pratchett specifies that it is the eighth child of an eighth son, not seventh.
Not even close. Enormous borrowing and investment raising allowed them to ramp up production capacity.
Yes, I really enjoyed it!
"Just because you're not a quarterback doesn't mean you can't know when the team sucks."

This is a great, meaningless, soundbite :)
I was serious. People just dismiss the complexity out of hand, without even bothering to think that it might be harder than they think.

Heck, if you want to go with your analogy:
It's like saying "this team is too expensive to run" with not even the slightest idea of what actually goes into running a team.

That isn't a thing you can do with any real sanity.
you can't just stare at the small little piece you think you see and say the whole thing is a waste of time and money without any idea what is actually involved.
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Then what would be the purpose of collecting that data in the first place?
Everyone knows the NSA is an AWS shop.
Millions of people have some degree of hearing loss. Not all hearing loss requires a hearing aid but I have been wearing hearing aids since second grade.

My very first hearing aid was a "behind the ear" model and it was very uncomfortable when I also wore glasses. The technology then was not great as it simply just amplified sound. Further, it was very visible which made me conscious about my disability.

Later in high school, I moved to an "in the canal" model. This was less visible to others and the technology was a bit better. The hearing aid would be abel to help filter out background noise which made hearing people in loud settings easier.

My current pair of hearing aids are also "in the canal" but it does a much better job filtering background noises, can be environment aware to automatically adjust volume. There are models that even have bluetooth support.

I wrote an article several years ago on what I would like to see a future hearing aid be like: https://michaelcarrano.com/blog/google-should-develop-a-hear...

One thing that isn't talked about much, to my knowledge, is that no insurance will cover the cost of hearing aids. Good hearing aids are not cheap, the model I currently have cost somewhere around $8,000 for my pair.
This is valuable information because it's much easier to stop something like this before it's officially announced.

It might be but HN is not really focused on delivering timely warnings to potential travelers.