skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One guess is that most truck drivers were freelance (and many still are), owning their truck and getting paid per mile. Perhaps the rest of the industry standardized around that model regardless of the relationship the truck driver has with the parent company.
And to be clear, although Base is a more recent alternative, Core: https://github.com/janestreet/core has been the standard library for Ocaml for a while.
Yes but State Law is separate from Federal Law. Texas can't pass a law that says only patent troll-hating Texans can sit on a federal jury, no matter how friendly Texas is to business.
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>what they are experiencing is now sea level rise as a result of climate change. The trend towards inundation is clear and accelerating.

>Why then would you invest at Bay Area-level prices for a condo in a building which cannot keep its lobby dry, already?

>WTH are people thinking?

Because the people of Miami simply don't believe you and don't believe that there's any climate change happening. And it's now the official position of the US government that there's no climate change.
With today's apps, it's possible to solve that problem while still paying fairly. Maybe even without apps.

But why ? why not dump the risk of delays at the weak party in this transaction ?
They are totally different things. Sure, Siri can't parse that and yet we have working* self-driving cars and autopilots for planes.
Arbitrary and capricious.

while (1) { for user in userlist {
# Top .01% of users are abusive and we boot them
if usage_distribution_top(user, .0001) {
disable_account(user);
send_acctdisabled_notice_to_user(user, "Excessive usage of unlimited storage");
}
} sleep 1; }

Hours later: "How have we lost half our customers? We only ever removed the top .01% for their 'abusive' usage of our unlimited service!"

If the concept isn't clear to some people, the problem is this: You can't repeatedly cull the outliers — the top x% of the distribution — because by culling you shift the distribution to create more outliers.

I'm sure businesses recognize that, intuitively if not explicitly in their planning meetings, and therefore cull rarely enough that it doesn't impact the bulk of users (in part due to influx of new users). So you cull the top x%... who decides what x is, and why, if you state in your promotional material that the service is unlimited? "If we set x to .001% and cull monthly, it'll help our bottom line. Those users are scum data hoarders anyway and we won't serve their kind with our 'unlimited' storage service." That should be lawsuit-worthy.

Companies in this situation should be forced to specify a fixed usage limit (exactly what these companies don't want to do), or live with the outliers.
My solution is:

go through every chat that you had in the last 2 years, and "mute" it.

That way you won't get the red dot notifying you about it when you log into Facebook, and you can blissfully ignore any message there. You might still want to check messages there every once in a while (every couple of weeks, maybe)

If you have other contacts (advertised on your Facebook about page, even!) and you let your friends know to avoid contacting you on Facebook, I think they shouldn't expect you to be alert and quick to reply to their messages on such a platform
Then you'd have to do your business in the district of Eastern Texas, which may well be punishment enough.

The major cities in the district aren't Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso, San Antonio, and Austin. They are Beaumont, Lufkin, Marshall, Sherman, Texarkana, and Tyler. There are four US districts in Texas, and pretty much anywhere you'd want to run a major business is in one of the other three.
Remote as in working for US companies...
but buying Bitcoin was something anyone conceivably could have done had they merely followed the news (there were plenty of headlines about Bitcoin as early as 2011) and bought some in 2010-2013 and held, so the lotto analogy doesn't hold.
There is the whole "I stop working when I hit my hours, because they are explicitly set at 30 hours" deal... that's been working for me.

Like, I'm on 10-4MF, and they give me a check every two weeks. They have some good will from me so if I have to put out a fire at 9pm and I can, I do it.

But I'm not a "full time" employee. If the responsibilities don't get met in the time allotted, they aren't going to get met. It's not like I get to work less if I figure out how to get my work done in less time... I don't see why I'd work more just cause they give me assignments that take more than 30 hours a week.
This doesn't seem to be true. This site [1] lists many agencies (based in the US, UK and other countries) that will sell you a passenger ticket for a cargo ship.

Availability is probably limited though, as each ship can only take a few passangers: "Cargo ships can carry a maximum of 12 passengers although most vessels only have accommodation for 4 to 6 passengers" [2].

[1]: http://flightlesstravel.com/plan/cargo-ships/

[2]: http://www.cargoshipvoyages.com/WhatToExpect/
I'm currently working on a device that tracks employee's brain waves to make sure they are working. Any period of daydreaming is deducted from their daily timesheet. I already have 600 million USD in preorders.
I probably should have been more clear that they are completely opaque to the x-ray systems commonly in use in airports for carry-on screenings at their standard intensity setting(s). But that's a mouthful.
These types of posts are preaching to the choir. Most managers don't get this. They'd rather have you sitting and doing nothing but being in their line of sight instead of being up and about and thinking.

Without concerted pressure this is not going to change any time soon. IBM just recently announced it wanted all employees to be on-site. It is a tactic to cut back their workforce but the fact that they can do this unchallenged means something about worker rights is broken.
So the question now is, if you opt in and later delete your data, does the data actually get deleted, or just disconnected from your account and left only with "anonymous identifiers"?
If I left work midday and said "I have to walk my dog," people would definitely look at me askance.
Its interesting as we are seeing a similar scenario play out in the energy sector with the shift away from coal. So far the government response has essentially been to ignore it or to use it as a scape goat for relaxing environmental protections.

As far as having a real plan dedicated to finding people decent paying and more importantly fulfilling jobs, i believe the answer is for the most part no. Finland beginning a limited basic income trial is the closest I have seen.

It is a kick the can scenario that has the possibility of massively reducing the quality of life of tens of millions of people.
A heuristic. No common magic header and poor compressibility? Likely encrypted.
> ... lives in Japan, which - in the eyes of the true geeks on here - grants him bonus points

Is this for real? I mean, do true geeks prize "living in Japan" more than living somewhere else?
Doesn't seem that hard to mix the two.

We know a route from X to Y is $miles . Detours happen, but Google is getting to the point of calculating realtime incidents. But time could be fairly compensated, as could the miles on a vehicle.

If you took a way longer route, it's on you. But if you're traffic jammed, it's not your fault, and should fairly be compensated.

You know, that's what Unions are for.
Can you give me an example of how my freedom, integrity or privacy have been wasted? They're not taking anything I haven't willingly given them.
Ask HN: How do you generate your changelogs?
Manually, by markdown or do you have a dedicated app, or via some github solution?
This is the reason DF sprang to mind for me, too. From what I gather, tools like Dwarf Therapist work by directly manipulating the game's memory. If it were open source, I'm sure there would be some halfway sane plugin system by now.

Also, having the source code would mean that one could compile it for ARM devices...
Copy the Danes: Mass-approve Chinese visitor visas, and lonsters will go extinct before you can say "Please take our lobsters"
Sinclair is close to buying all of Tribune’s TV stations
Thanks, we've updated the title from “Google Assistant now can use two devices at same time for a voice command”.
In theory comma placement has something to do with the natural cadence of speech, and that varies quite a lot between different people (even within the same language, much less different languages).

There's a popular meme about it:

http://imgur.com/gallery/ljjibpM
Iron.io has been acquired
List of whatsapp groups of all Masters(MS) universities in US or other countries
This is an odd post and topic and source for an HN post, but it's relevant and important. Recent de-regulation in media by Trump's administration could result in massive political bias and in US TV viewership.

From the article:

> Two of the biggest TV-station owners in the US are nearing a deal for a multibillion-dollar merger that would blow past ownership limits long set by communications regulators, several sources told The Post.

Other relevant information:

> Sinclair Requires TV Stations to Air Segments That Tilt to the Right

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/business/media/sinclair-b...

> Since November 2015, Sinclair has ordered its stations to run a daily segment from a “Terrorism Alert Desk” with updates on terrorism-related news around the world. During the election campaign last year, it sent out a package that suggested in part that voters should not support Hillary Clinton because the Democratic Party was historically pro-slavery. More recently, Sinclair asked stations to run a short segment in which Scott Livingston, the company’s vice president for news, accused the national news media of publishing “fake news stories.”

And some commentary from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6cneol/two_of_the...
I see it's available outside Africa for 10UKP:

https://www.solar-aid-eco-shop.co.uk/collections/products/pr...

Which isn't bad, there are plenty of cheaper LED lights, but I haven't seen any others with solar charging and headlamp / tasklamp functionality.
This completely failed to work. It charged up OK, but when connected to a cellphone or touchpad, it charged them for no more than a minute before switching off. Repeated attempts failed. I had an Anker charger before and that worked OK.
They've done a great job with tough competition, which isn't discussed. Apple is pretty easy to undercut, but there are a lot of competitors like Belkin, especially AmazonBasics. It's hard to stay on top of a commodity space for a long time. (especially when your distributor is a potential competitor with its own massive supply chain, a great brand, and real-time data from you and all your competitors)
It's amusing and sad that you honestly think leaving Facebook is the same thing as cutting people out of your life.

I've been Facebook free for several years now. It feels great, and I didn't have to cut anyone out of my life to do it (who I wasn't otherwise already communicating with). Much less noice, more productive, both in my life and in my relationships.
Bill Gates reading list (2017)
What they can do is say that you can upload and download Unlimited bytes... At a maximum transfer rate of 1Mb/s.
no it's not over. the personal essays have moved to Medium
If you do something like 3 ten hour days, that makes it much less likely that you will drift into working more than you signed up for. Ten hour days are already longer than the standard 8 (so less social pressure from leaving early or arriving late) and your days out of the office create a bright line that is easier to maintain.
>has there been much change in retail/restaurant lobster prices?

No. Anecdotally, and also supported by data there was an article at some point about it. The worst part is a lot of restaurants use rock lobster instead of Maine lobster
>This sounds just like a religious argument. "What if we do the good things that some religious book says we should do, avoid the bad, be decent human beings, and help others, and there's no afterlife to be rewarded by?"

The problem is that the religious books want you to do a bunch of things that really are bad and awful. Aside from the bits about murdering unbelievers and apostates, and stoning your disobedient children, and not eating pork (which is actually good for the pigs I guess if you follow it), they'd also have you do things like forgo all contraception, leaving you with a bunch of children you're not prepared to take care of, or being celibate, which really isn't fun or healthy, and basically living like they did in Victorian times (see the other article here today about the "scandalous" behavior at Victorian beaches with some men and women actually swimming together--the horror!). If there isn't a really good reason to enjoy various human activities that really aren't harmful, then why shouldn't you?
Is the puffer machine a thing? Or you just came up with it?
Considering the amount of tooling and or services on AWS that relies on Java this is a great fit. I wonder what kind of services he could help AWS create (a cloud service that would support J2EE and also be lower cost / integrated)?
but you're not passing it the argument '(1 2). Lisps are usually (always?) strict evaluation, so the form `(list 1 2)` or `(quote (1 2))` would return the form (1 2). First applied to this form would return 1. The specification is correct that first applied to (1 2) would return 1. The fact that this means most invocations would look like `(first '(1 2))` is irrelevant since the argument to first here is not '(1 2) but is actually (1 2).
Yep, Taleb's Medium account is a great place to go if you value any kind of expertise and want to raise your blood pressure.

However, this is one of the very few pieces by Taleb I sort of like. He makes an important point: if you work for an organization, and you aren't financially independent, you are not a slave iff that organization needs you more than you need them. In some ways, he independently discovered the concept of leverage here in 2016.

But there is a danger in this line of thinking that he gets close to when he talks about Putin. It reminds me of the logic of "pick-up artists": the idea is that simply acting independent substitutes for the reality of being independent.

That really doesn't work in most cases, although there are always many people who can't see through the facade, which may make it a useful tactic in politics. If this kind of bluff is used in employment, it relies on the assumption your employer is gullible, which is not a safe assumption to make.

And if you actually do have the reality, I see no reason to boast about it. "Any man who must say, 'I am the king' is no true king", and all that.
No one is talking about the US as a whole but how low it has sunk in some places and/or for some citizens.

Flint is not an isolated case, it's distinctive because it got bad relatively quickly due to clear mismanagement (with a big serving of partisan politics on top). How's this for a headline? "Reuters finds lead levels higher than Flint's in thousands of locales." [0] All it took was searching for "lead worse than flint."

[0] http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead-...
Well it is Bloomberg, after all. That doesn't fit their narrative, or support the established biases of their audience.
You may want to take a look at the formal spec here as well: https://webassembly.github.io/spec/

There's still some work to be done, but it is quite far along already.
We've bet big time on Github, and we have a lot built on it. Part of our business depend on it. We're thankful for all that GH has given us, but it'd really really help us to know an estimate when the V3 API is going to be deprecated.

We're a small business and planning the work ahead of time is our only hope.
"Every commodity system that has tried to do without PMMUs has failed..."

I would like to read about these. Anyone have any pointers?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14390869 and marked it off-topic.
I think the topics of privacy and tech monopoly should be separated out a bit more in discussions. Different people object to different issues.
Best HN comeback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
You clearly don't know what communism is.
Ask HN: Recommend me a linux compatible laptop
Looking for a new laptop. I do full stack development so needs to be powerful. I would prefer a laptop that supports a dock that I can plug in and use it to power 3 monitors (2 1440p Display port monitors and 1 1080p hdmi, will upgrade to another 1440p soon) and run ubuntu or mint. Would like to stay under 2500 if possible. I haven't looked at laptops since I got my last MBP but want to go full linux and hate the lack of dock and ports for MBP
I agree to a point but I think it is a different scenario today as you have unprecedented concentration of wealth in the top 1 % as well as the means of production. I have a hard time seeing how 5% of the nations workforce suddenly transitions to jobs that did not exist before.

You also have an increase in the cost of living where most households require two incomes compounding the issue.

With agriculture new jobs were created as people moved to cities and new communities were created. those cities already exist. Short of a sudden civilization focused effort to colonize mars, I just don't see it.
If you really are a talented machine learning specialist, you don't have too much to compete with in San Francisco. A lot of "ML engineers" and data science people in SF dont actually have the background or expertise to call themselves career machine learning specialists. They take free courses and started using tensorflow once it blew up. I know because I was one of those people (fwiw im going back to school to actually learn the fundamentals now).

Also, I know people in the situation you describe, and its a grind like every other bonus incentivized gig on wall street. People may tell you otherwise, but they're probably sugarcoating. I know a few people who burned out early and started their own companies, and a couple who are continuing the slog for huge bonus payouts. The no free lunch theorem holds true.

For me, I'll finish up this degree and see where things are headed. I'm definitely not set on SV or WS yet, but it'll probably be one or the other.
The reason why it is this way is because it is better for the employer if the employee must shoulder the financial burden of dead time.
Google cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:04az_uB...
Neat! I did my own javascript lisp after Norvig's too: https://twitter.com/llimllib/status/857410209102299136

Then, instead of adding variables, I wrapped most of the functions on a canvas in the env and used it to generate my talk's slides: https://github.com/llimllib/adhocteam.club/blob/master/slide...

Then I let my coworkers graffiti the slides with the same lisp as I gave my talk, as it was an open web server where you submitted them. A tiny demo is left running at https://www.adhocteam.club/ , but I should write it all up.
Site is slammed, but I think this is from a couple years ago. -- Ah, it's been updated.

Is there anything better now than the GTX 1080 Ti?
Portland is the cheapest city of its size on the West Coast excepting possibly Sacramento (which exports its richest people to Tahoe/Napa/SF). If you ask me the reason people there complain about costs is that the wages aren't high and it used to be even cheaper.

I had a friend a few years ago who -- unemployed -- drove across the country to Portland, took a job fixing inventory at a music store, and got a room within walking distance of the train. Try pulling that off in the Bay Area!
But what's the advantage of Facebook over email and/or texting? I feel like for anything other than wasting time Facebook is sluggish compared to either. If you're a Facebook user you have a cellphone and/or a computer, and can do everything Facebook does: share pictures, plan events, check-in with friends, family, and groups of people. And not share data* or be peppered with garbage advertisements.

* I personally pay for Fastmail and have migrated all my communcations to email and texting (and feel the better for it). Obviously it is a personal decision, but realize everything you do is a vote towards a certain state of things.
This is the primary reason I use it. It annoys my girlfriend (who posts regularly) that I don't read what she posts (sometimes I do, but that leads to a time sink when I see everything else I've "got" to read). 99% of my use is to post event announcements, and respond to event invites from friends.

If I could trust people to properly respond to emailed invites, I would, but most people I know have 1k+ unread emails. They'll never notice it. FB replaced my email+SMS+(various messaging app) approach from before, but caught almost all my intended audience in one place. There may be other services I could use, but people would have to create yet another account, which isn't likely.
I don't know about the code, but the basic model behind F.E.A.R's AI has been explained in a couple of presentations, afaik.

Cf:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear.pdf
The news cycle really started once Bitcoin went over $1 but it was still limited to technical. I think the first mention of BTC was in 2010 on HN.

The first real bubble was the rise to around $50 and then fall to $2-3 in mid 2011. BTC started to get mass media attention then.

I know because I mined some coins (in a pool) in 2011 then stopped when the price dropped below my price of electricity.

So someone could have bought BTC for $2 in 2011 for a nice profit but not the insane one.

1000x is nothing to sneeze at but the real profits were made when it was just pennies in 2009-2010 and only crypto guys knew about BTC.
> I suspect the results in this paper could be improved with more modern gather techniques on newer x86-64 processors.

By that, do you mean the AVX2 'gather' type instructions? If not, I'd be interested to know what those techniques are.

As for AVX2 gathers, I had to look this up recently and it sounds like they're about as fast as manually unpacking the vector and performing scalar loads. That is to say, they're decidedly not fast. On the other hand, it sounds like (as of Skylake) they're bottlenecked on accesses to the L1 cache, so they're about as fast as they reasonably could be.

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21774454/how-are-the-gat...

Not sure about performance on Zen, but I would imagine it's similar?
Notice our backups failing over the weekend. Set up a new account with backblaze and re-ran the backups.

It sounded to good to be true, fortunately we were still on the trial.
Since encrypted data is indistinguishable from random noise, I think poor compressibility is actually zero compressibility, isn't it?

There are tools to search for TrueCrypt / other encrypted partitions on disks, so it's a solved problem to detect encrypted data.

It would be unfortunate if services ban the ability to upload encrypted secrets, though. On the other hand, that'd be good for Tarsnap. I wonder how much it'd cost to store 10TB on it?
Current pricing is often reflected to at least a certain degree in authentic lobster shacks on the Maine coast. However, in general, lobster is still priced in many places as this premium good. (I'm looking at you Legal Seafood with your $26 lobster rolls.) And, even worse, it's still common to hide the pricing behind "market price."

(It's fair that lobster pricing does fluctuate more than other proteins but "market price" is at least as much about reducing pricing transparency.)

So, the short answer is that lower lobster pricing doesn't seem to have led to widespread lower pricing in most places.
It's always the engineers. People just can't bring themselves to hate the business people involved, somehow.
GraphQL library for Erlang