skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that can be eaten by software will be eaten by sufficiently advance software eventually.

I can't think of any substantial value-adds from sales/marketing in the future to necessitate adding jobs there. High value (e.g. Apple) is currating a brand and most value is added at the top (average Genius salary looks around $45k [1]). Low value (e.g. Android OEMs) doesn't have the profit margins to support a larger human-sales/marketing team. And commodity (e.g. McDonald's) is high-level strategic branding with essentially no low level value add.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Apple-Mac-Genius-Salaries-E...
Consider the imperial vs metric debate: the costs are humongous, the resistance immense and the advantages dificult to justify.

In addition there's a sense of pride in all those things that makes us different. It's one of those tasks easier to accomplish in a declining empire indeed.
I laughed out loud that they settled on red for protein and green for carbs. Isn't red=stop, green=go more universal?
Isn't the premise, unbearably absurd even by the standards of the rest of the movie, that humans are used as a power supply?
The causation is clear. If you have free time, you spend it.

There might be an indirect causation which is homework vs games, but I suspect that students with less encouragement from their parents to do their homework spend the time on games.

So forbid homework and make the schools take responsibility for actually learning their students something.
How long do you want to adjust the height of your chair? Setting up the dev enviroment often takes ages. Why wouldn't it be the first thing to do? There will be enough progress bars while updating something like visual studio to finde time to re-adjust the chair.
Oh in general I agree. But, as you say, the stakes are a lot higher. With a car, the main serious concern is liability. Even if the company is good for covering you financially, who wants to get into a traumatic legal situation?

Bad things do happen with housing rentals even if they're rare (whether they're intentional or unintentional doesn't really change the final result). e.g. https://twitter.com/GPellegrini/status/867540860782739458
If I call my T-Mobile voicemail I can leave a message on someone else's T-Mobile line. Definitely possible.
It's hard to imagine a startup allowing themselves to die because they're trying to patiently re-train and educate someone.

I know startups are a limit case, but we didn't bother to make those sorts of distinctions for this article, so it's worth considering.
Actually INI files are usually in a predictable place. It is registry entries that are spread all over the registry and are not cleaned-up when an application is uninstalled.
I guess I should restate my comments to be clearer: I don't think people are willing to sacrifice anything when it comes to privacy, specifically I do not think consumers will pay money to avoid tracking.

The study you linked to asked people "whether they would take discounts in exchange for allowing their supermarket to
collect information about their grocery purchases" and found 43% of people said yes, but I believe that the conclusion you would draw if you asked people "would they pay more to stop their supermarket from
collecting information about their grocery purchases", you would get different data.

In the same way that people dislike price discrimination more when it is framed as raising prices on some people rather than giving some people discounts.

And I'm sure this behavior will change further when you actually ask people for money and not just whether they would hypothetically pay money.
Are you trying to tell me you understand what any of those mean without a legend? The only one that's decipherable is "kcal", all the others could as well be scary aliens.
The method (at least here in my country) is really simple (and not really a secret):
The voicemail can be reached from a special number. This number is easy to derive from the actual phone number (usually inserting one or two digits, depending on the provider). When the "owner" calls the mailbox, he gets the "admin" functionality. Anyone else calling it can only add messages. The rest is just simple call forwarding.
So all that is needed is finding out the number of the mail box.
You need a particular kind of personality to do well in sales and most people don't have it. Most sales people end up dropping out.
I had a minor collision as well within months, as well as two tows. A lot of the renters did not correctly follow GetAround's 24 hour restriction-free street parking policy as well and so I got a lot of street cleaning tickets. Even when they did, if street cleaning often was in 25-48 hours, so I had to repark my car multiple times per week.

The thing that made me leave was that GetAround Connect started drained my car's battery like crazy and started requiring jumpstarts every few days. I think there might have been a short. Meanwhile, GetAround support insisted that this was normal.
The suggestion was to use XSLT to transform Scheme syntax
This level of indirection is used in nature. Gene Regulatory Networks (modeled mathematically as ANNs) fine tuned by evolution control the neural development of the Neural Network which gives you the general architecture then further fine tuned by learning.
First customer support hire at Riley (YC W17)
Looking to bring someone on board to lead customer support/love.

We're based in SF. $60k/year + equity. Lots of room for growth/evolving/learning. Know anyone who would be interested to join the Riley family? :)

Start date would be July 1. Any referrals would be really appreciated!

Contact: daniel@getrileynow.com

P.S. Here is an article to learn more about Riley in case that is helpful(just closed $3.1m in funding, team of 6): https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/26/riley-seed-funding/
> Zipcar which is probably a generally better experience for the renter in any case.

I use Zipcar for everyday boring stuff. RelayRides and Turo when I want a nice car to drive.
Sounds like a technique taught at The Pirate School of Management.
fair enough... but... down-voting isn't to ignore. To ignore is the right way if you have nothing to say.

I like your comment. In my defence, I responded within the context and referred to original rules by PG rather than trying to dictate the terms myself. Thanks for the upvote and the response.
When I bought my new game laptop I was playing Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and on Linux I use to play rouge-like game ToME, I've also play Adom but I was cheating by copy the whole game directory to restore the game when I was killed.
I put my car on Getaround for a few months in Oakland, got tired of it smelling like weed and McDonalds eventually. Damn device also ended up draining my battery.
If these malicious miners you speak of "change the rules", it creates a fork in the blockchain. Even if they have a majority hash rate, if the economy does not support their decision, the market value of that forked chain will be low while the unchanged fork will keep the market. A group of malicious miners can do very little to destroy bitcoin.
Ah yes, indeed you are. I had to go further up the tree it appears.

I don't disagree. Not a good life.

People live on a buck here and there and change they find in vending machines as far as a "living" goes. Technically they are "alive" but it can't be nice way to live.

Kind of makes one wonder exactly what level of "living" is acceptable. I suppose preferences vary.
People still use voice mail? I don't believe I've encountered one in at least a decade...
What a nightmare vision that gives me; Automation and lucky people who randomly chose the right skillset work, producing more and more of the core economy, and the rest of the meatbags are left selling stuff to each other?

What happens when many business services are selected from automated markets... I guess we all sell custom hand-made widgets to each other?
Right or wrong, I imagine a lot of hosts figure they can weed out problematic guests through the profile/interview process.

Personally I'd never want to rent my stuff out through either service.
In what way does the same logic not apply to banks?
Domain experts sometimes don't realize when their knowledge is out of date.

To wit: HDMI does allow for 0-255 (or 1023, etc) "full range" quantization instead of the default "limited range" of 16-235 for most CEA-861 formats, if the sink's EDID allows a selectable YCC quantization range and the source sends AVI YQ=1.

Or even getting to the "plain black image full #000" remark that prompted this thread, images are basically always full range where black is 0 and there is no "superblack" concept. If it's being transmitted over HDMI, it's up to the GPU to do range conversion and RGB/YCbCr conversion as necessary, and up to the OS to do ICC colorspace conversion as necessary.
I'm a VC, so I'm definitely biased here.

On the one hand, I want to be a good person and to do the right thing, so I do my best to be one of the good VCs and not one of the bad ones. (I.e. I don't leave when things get bad.)

On the other hand, when VCs leave at the first sign of trouble, why is that so terrible? I think giving bad advice -- advice that a lot of founders will listen to because they often assume a VC knows what they're talking about -- is much more dangerous. If a VC gives bad advice, that can sink a company that could've been successful otherwise. If a VC walks away or stops being involved, then that seems much closer to neutral than to bad. They no longer try to help, but so what? You have their investment and that is valuable by itself -- especially compared to not having had an investment in the first place.

As an analogy, let's say you go to a doctor for a rare medical condition. They suggest a few treatments, and none work. They're out of ideas. Would you rather a) have them walk away so that you can look for another doctor or try to educate yourself on your condition, or b) have them keep seeing you and either wasting your time or giving you dangerous prescriptions?
Ditto. I suspect they could have gotten better international recognition by just using the English words.

It would have pissed off the French of course, but that goes in the win column. ;-)
You're right. I rather meant to say "people were manipulated into buying...". It's always the same, people don't understand because they lack education and some rich guy will take advantage of that. The movie "The Big Short" [0] sums it all up very well.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363
Where abouts are you? Here in AU, it seems everyone uses voicemail for their mobiles.
Again, they bundled it with other loans.

Now, it probably isn't as bad as it initially sounds. But, it is more complicated.
On the other (anecdata) hand, my wife has been severely allergic to peanuts for decades, and still is... she can tell if someone is eating peanuts nearby.
You made an interesting point about how a stay-at-home partner might have different needs and different experiences of the same living area. I can see how that would be the case.

What I disagree with is the (incredibly old-fashioned) implication that a man is somehow duty-bound to provide the material things that his wife requires.

I am not "hanging my crap" on anyone.
It affects the value of buying a used car vs buying or leasing a new car.
Thanks for posting that I had a memory of the series the other day which I presumably saw 24 years ago and couldn't for the life of me remember what the thing was called.
It won't be a problem* unless we make more of us. Political and religious leaders that oppose education and planned parenthood are the long term problem.

Ok, slaughtering is a problem, but I think it will sort itself out eventually.
Leaky by Design
That's what ZipCar did.

FlightCar shut down because it offered monthly parking at the SFO airport for free, on the condition that you rent your car out for them. I did this because I wanted to keep my car, but I did not want to pay $400/month for a parking spot in SoMa, and my car hardly got rented out.

They eventually started doing some shady things like moving some of the cars to Oakland behind owners' backs. I ripped them a new one when I found out they did this to mine, but still stayed with the service because it was such a sweet deal.

When FlightCar finally kicked the dust, I went to pick up my car and saw a lot full of barely-used other cars from other people presumably exploiting the monthly parking in a similar way that I did.
Ethereum's biggest failure is its name. It sounds like a kid came up with it for a syfy video game. How can an investor or new user take it seriously? "Send me some Ethereum honey, I'm going to the grocery store". Nope.
If the startup is large enough to have employees who can be fired then it's large enough to train/educate them. 5 whys may be too many for a small startup but 1 is certainly too few.
Thanks for mentioning that Sam, I appreciate it. Speaking for just myself:

I personally don't care what tools or frameworks people use to get work done and have repeatedly suggested people use whatever works best for them.

It also wouldn't make any sense to hoard any good stuff internally if we wanted to provide a useful framework that people wanted to use externally.

We actually don't have a huge amount of tooling internally that we hold back. The only tooling I really use is the [timeline](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/f488419cd6d925...) for debugging performance (not the EEG tool in the whitepaper, I've never used it). That's available externally though, as you can see.

On some of the comments in this thread in general, I'm pretty sad at the lack of scientific rigor in the community, and that goes for any person who publishes code that differs from the results they claim, regardless of affiliation. I am happy about projects like OpenAI's RL baselines, as I know others are too.

Most of the papers and articles comparing performance of frameworks have lots of bugs and aren't even comparing the same model computation between frameworks. In fact, CNTK's article points to an external benchmark showing CNTK in a good light, but those benchmarks have bugs in them rendering the comparison incorrect (we've been sending PRs to fix them). I find it disappointing that the culture of the organization promotes calling others out for being 'irresponsible' except when it suits them.

The TensorFlow team hasn't published many articles comparing performance directly to others because it's honestly a lot of hard work to verify that you are comparing fairly. Of course, I do think TensorFlow needs to improve performance out of the box for people, and the team is working on that.
Video games are cheap compared to other entertainment. I can buy a good enough PC for $400 and I can clock almost an infinite amount of game-time on it with friends all over the world. Most other activities - playing pool, eating out, bars, most sports, vacationing - cost a lot more per hour of possible entertainment.

So if you don't have the money and you have the time you should choose activities that provide the most entertainment for the least $

Previously unemployed people would watch a lot of TV for affordable entertainment, an they probably still do it a lot. However video games can be more cognitively engaging and more social, so they might be actually an improvement.
"your first day's task will be to learn how to use them by putting them to the heads of our best revenue-generating sales people and pulling the trigger. don't worry it's safe, we'll check back in with you at the end of the day."
Video games also provide a quality sorely lacking in real life. They try very hard to prevent cheating, because if there's too much cheating, or too much inequality between players, no one will play.

Hmmm...
Don't worry. Your job will be automated away pretty soon, and you'll be able to enjoy your Halo whole day.
In the uk we have had the ability to send direct voicemail for years, one operator actively marketed the system before text messages took off as a method to message another orange customer without having to ring their phone.

EDIT: just called my voicemail and the option to direct leave a voice mail for someone else is right on the main menu (Three UK).
I love use-package, has made my emacs init.el config file sooooo much more maintainable from its prior... lets just say mess.
Look nobody makes you buy anything. But RE is different in that the market isn't completely rational. Your options are rent, own, or sleep in your car. When I was out visiting a town in the Midwest you couldn't rent. There were no houses for rent. Even if a developer started a multi unit rental right now it would still be 6-9 months until it was rentable.
Typically (or perhaps always) in EU countries, both kJ and kcal are specified on nutrition labels. And in my experience most people only ever talk about calories (kcal), much like in the US.
They wanted them to be used for processing, but producers: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116473
> Don't get me wrong, but I just don't see the point in this.

This is probably why you aren't running a massively successful multinational company.
Take My Bitcoin...Please!
Assuming the CTO was honest about what happened.
Uninterrupted fast internet could help airlines avoid turbulence and reduce delays
Quite likely - some of the more recent thinking is that it is linked to a loss of gut bacteria - which makes sense for our case as our boy had antibiotics young, and first reacted to nuts at 4 months.
For some years now I've stopped bothering with database passwords. If technically required I just make them the same as the username (or the database name, or all three the same if possible). Why? Because the security offered by such passwords is invariably a fiction in practice, I've never seen an org where they couldn't be dug out of docs or a wiki or test code. Instead database access should be enforced by network architecture: the production database can only be accessed by the production applications, running in the production LAN/VPC. With this setup no amount of accidental (or malicious) commands run by anyone from their local machine (or any other non production environment) could possibly damage the production data.
I haven't been able to find it, but I remember a comment here on HN by a guy who basically said that gaming saved his life by helping him to zone out during a period of severe depression.

I guess it's a form of mindfulness, in a way.
That's very common in Big Data™
uh, no, the bank will loan you the money no matter what, as long as they think you can pay it back or you can put up collateral to forfeit in case of default.

they're not in the speculation game, they're in the loan making game.
Who is?
Again, yes that partially diversifies away credit risk. But you're still losing money if you compare to the risk free rate, which is the 5 year treasury on a 5 year loan. Let me just repeat that such a loan is being offered below the risk free rate! It's impossible for bundling to add yield, only decrease credit risk.
Accidentally destroyed production database on first day
NEO: The human body is the most inefficient source of energy you could possibly imagine. The efficiency of a power plant at converting thermal energy into electricity decreases as you run the turbines at lower temperatures. If you had any sort of food humans could eat, it would be more efficient to burn it in a furnace than feed it to humans. And now you're telling me that their food is the bodies of the dead, fed to the living? Haven't you ever heard of the laws of thermodynamics?

MORPHEUS: Where did you hear about the laws of thermodynamics, Neo?

NEO: Anyone who's made it past one science class in high school ought to know about the laws of thermodynamics!

MORPHEUS: Where did you go to high school, Neo?

(Pause.)

NEO: ...in the Matrix.

MORPHEUS: The machines tell elegant lies.

(Pause.)

NEO (in a small voice): Could I please have a real physics textbook?

MORPHEUS: There is no such thing, Neo. The universe doesn't run on math.

[0] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/is-the-basic-...
From TFA:

> “We realize that some of the visuals may not already be strongly linked in consumer minds to the nutrient they
are meant to depict in all markets.”

> “We intend to promote understanding of the images through supporting materials in Europe, from web sites
to images explained on tray liners and via in-store displays,”
...

> “After repeated exposure to these images,
customers should eventually grasp their meaning, with or without printed labels next to them.”
Objective-C also has a runtime.
Ask HN: Kicked out of Trader Joe's for photographing nutrition labels?
For the last 4.5 years, I have been building tools in my spare time that allow me to quantify the nutritional content of the foods I eat while doing my shopping. I believe that nutritional analysis should be part of the shopping experience (i.e., before the food is purchased), so I take photos and allow my smart phone to crunch the numbers before making any decisions. I used to be over 300 lbs, and I know that my tools are the only reason I don't blow up like a balloon again.

While shopping at the Trader Joe's in Santa Monica, CA this morning, a manager walked up and asked if he could help me. When I politely declined, he informed me that Trader Joe's does not allow photographs of food items.

Is this a common policy for grocery stores? It seems absurd this would happen in "Silicon Beach." Should I issue a press release for my users to avoid Trader Joe's? Any advice would be appreciated.
That's a good way to articulate why I couldn't work at a large company. And I never thought about them being related before, but maybe part of why I don't play games so much anymore.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14476421
Same here, my amount of (somewhat compulsive) gaming is directly related to generic emotional and psychological well-being. Less well being -> more gaming, with gaming clearly being the effect and not the primary cause.
My mistake then. You can still use car, cdr, cadr etc. to accomplish more or less the same thing as XPath. S-expressions are a completely valid serialization format. You can't easily manipulate JSON or YAML data while preserving formatting and comments with any library I've used (though it is possible), that doesn't mean JSON and YAML are invalid.
I think it's hard to beat books for economical. But certainly games are in reach.
One has to put in a lot of effort to render a residence unusable (not talking about having to replace carpet, I mean irreparably ruined).

One only has to not pay attention for 30 seconds at the wrong time to do the same to an auto.
Your absolutely right, but the loan issuers were facilitating people coming to those decisions. I remember when my wife and I bought our house just before the bottom fell out. The loan officer couldn't believe we were only getting pre-approved for a mortgage that was a maximum of 10% of our gross income. She tried (somewhat) to upsell our Max loan balance, but we stood firm.
Organics also use pesticides which are not a s effective as synthetic ones and therefore need to be applied more often so they it can be more harmful