skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upvotye, but I wonder about this statement:

> The decision-making needs to be developed (at some core level) by a human.

With neural nets you essentially throw a ton of data at them, and then they get better and better at recognizing certain patterns, and then can then 'see' them in new data you provide. As this gets more and more advanced (less training data, and yet less and less false positives), we will start to stray into the area of 'emergent behaviour', where we really are no longer in charge of making the decisions.
At least some of these devices don't have that option.
> a multiagent environment has no stable equilibrium

It does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy
It's not only firing, it's also taking back money already paid. Imagine the company had particularly good year, you get $LOTS_OF_MONEY, you spend it on $LUXURIES, and then next year something goes wrong, and the board decides it's your fault, and suddenly you owe $LOTS_OF_MONEY back. And you've already spent it, or invested it in some illiquid asset. Maybe very uncomfortable situation, much worse than plain firing. People aren't used to take that level of risk, so many may be reluctant, especially if other options are around.
The memo specifically discourages weekend bender type behavior. You're reading too much into what should be not interpreted as more than lighthearted communication.
That's true. Desktop UI has a set of requirements that is still not achievable in modern browsers (and inherently in Electron).

Conceptually there are still no ways at the moment to reproduce full set of canonic layout managers from AWT: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/visua...

Partial attempts to introduce flexibility in CSS were made only recently - flexbox and grid specifications.

But even those attempts look quite random and far from being well thought. For example concept of flex (portion of free space) in flexbox is defined by property flex, but in CSS Grid module the same concept is defined by 'fr' free space units. Yet the same entity in HTML was initially known as * (asterisk) units (<frame> and <table> metrics). (All these are expressed by * units in Sciter in their initial meaning).

I suspect that such no-one-is-responsible-for-overall-architecture in CSS was one of major motivations in XAML/WPF appearance.
> Anti-Pattern: Direct Use Of Pods
> Kubernetes Pod is a building block that itself is not durable.

Kind of.. but you can set `restartPolicy: Always` and will always restart in case of failure.
> Ford, or GM, or whoever can buy a mostly competent company and then roll out vehicle after vehicle

Those manufacturers have perverse incentives in this game.

GM, especially, was a forerunner in "planned obsolescence"[1], which was how they grew by taking advantage of perverse incentives in the early days of car manufacturing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
> CEO's are much more often psychopaths than average.

I'm betting you can't back that up with a significant study that provides actual proof of that common claim. I've seen this statement made routinely for two decades online and have never once seen it supported with anything concrete.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but form other people I only get the flu or a cold.

Maybe you can explain what kind of disease you expect to get from touching objects other people have touched?
Soon, you won't be able to if WebAssembly becomes popular.
and who do you think is paying for your cheap Lyft trips? Does not matter which ride sharing company you use right now. It is all VC money. Stop the whole Lyft has higher ethical moral ground BS. It is all about capitalism and supply demand.
It's already been done in the Bay Area: https://twitter.com/i/moments/689241776549269504?lang=en
Can't help but wonder, would you call startup investors "pieces of trash" in the event of a bubble popping? What if they asked the government for assistance, would they be actual pieces of trash then?

What if it was the web devs requesting assistance, due to thousands being laid off when said bubble popped - would they be actual people made of refuse then?

You don't sound the least bit saddened, quite the opposite.
In a some countries national ID numbers are good primary keys, but that's only when they're designed (and used internally) as such by governments. e.g. Finnish, French, or Israeli ID numbers. Even then, though, using them limits you to people who are in the system - no dealing with international customers, for example.
The law was more like, "You must have a medallion to operate a cab. We only issued 10k medallions (or whatever). The medallions are transferable. We're not issuing new ones."

Combined with the supply of cab labor, that had the effect of, "if you want to operate a cab, you need to buy one from an owner at the current absurd market price".
No, I don't agree. Where did you get this idea? Did you see Antoni Gaudí's organic arcitecture in Barcelona? I find them so soothing. I think our rectangular inclinations stems mostly from what we can afford.
Illinois is just more effective at catching and prosecuting criminals like that.
> its nice to add a breathing quality to a line by adding some kind of cyclical dynamic, then also being able to add a crescendo on top of that, or being able to decrescendo while still maintaining some kind of pattern of accents or dynamic phrasing.

Love that. As a singer that's what I've trained all my life, even when it's a just a single marking on the page, you read it within the context of, is this on a phrase, what's the emphasis of the words/syllables, how does it relate to the pitch of the line (e.g. a lot of time a dim on an ascending line merely means "don't be an amateur and get louder"), what's happening with the other voices/instruments. Nuancing a crescendo from one large section to another while also giving respect to phrases within. Fun challenges.
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Not quite. You can fly below 400 feet AGL as long as you stay out of the immediate part of the class B,c,d airspace that touches the ground. While a lot of the bay is regulated airspace, there is plenty of area below 400feet that is not within he class b/c/d. SFO is class B, but most of the others are class C and do not extend quite so far.

As for notices, if you are working near airports with drones commercially, filing a NOTAM is a good idea. If you are Within the airspace, you will need to get permission from the control tower, which requires advanced filing. (Up to 90 days ahead of time). Calling the local tower/airport as a hobbyist is a bad idea. Instead, just fly somewhere else, and NEVER fly above 400 feet or within regulated airspace.

Note that apps like AirMap can help figure this stuff out, however, there are a lot of helipads in the city that make things problematic. Some of which are not actually still there, but which were never removed from the FAA records. However, the UCSF medical center is one which is active. Also, IME tourist/ sightseeing helicopters regularly fly too low in the bay. If a drone causes an accident, even if the pilot of the helicopter is flying illegally low I doubt anyone would side with the drone operator.

Finally, even as a hobbyist, it is worth getting verifly if you are flying in busy areas. Being able to buy spot insurance for flights is great if you are flying somewhere unfamiliar, or testing a new drone.
Sure, and I can see that, but my argument is that natural keys which depend on business logic are subject to definitions that can change given a long enough time frame.
> We are fortunate that terrorists, by and large, are dumb.

How so? Drive a van into a crowd of people, and it's spread across the papers and people talk about it for ages. Cut regional power briefly and it's forgotten before next week.
Even to this day some forms of parliamentary systems use voice voting only going to a show of hands or card votes if the outcome is not obvious
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First off super cool project with impressive results!! I am not a musician but I was fairly reliably (>75%) able to identify the NN. It took listening to a few examples but I quickly realized that smoothness was the give away. Humans make much more significant jumps when going from soft to aggressive or visa versa where the NN tended to smooth out these changes. I'm going to have my sister (a classically trained pianist) take a listen and see what she thinks.

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The point of my post was there's not much upside that integrated DRAM/logic has that TSVs don't, but plenty of downsides. Regardless of Venray's claims, there's a reason modern high performance parallel architectures go with TSVs and interposers (Knights landing, new GPUs, some deep learning platforms, etc...) instead of logic in DRAM.
This may sound strange - but I don't think what the CEO of United did should be a crime or is at all unethical - the unethical conduct was the demand of what amounts to a defacto bribe by the head of the Port Authority.

Even then - 50 years ago it was commonplace to use cross-subsidization to fund routes like this - the ICC would do it - "Okay, so you want to offer a route from Newark to Los Angeles? Sure, we'll grant it, but you have to offer service between Los Angeles and Tuscon, Santa Fe and Flagstaff as well."

Now admittedly, this doesn't pass the smell test - because the demanded service was probably not in the public interest - but this kind of thinking was used in the transportation industry for quite some time.
USB-style sockets could require less force to insert than a typical card, so they're less likely to break, but that's also a function of design. A plastic sleeve to guide the card into place and ensure a good fit isn't that hard a concept.
I must be weird. I travel over 100 days a year. I do a lot of walking, sometimes rent cars, take public transportation, etc. I take taxis etc. relatively rarely.
Same applies for Lyft. The rides are cheap because of VC money. It is a good thing to have competition to keep the prices in check.
Servo source is also on DXR, which is a lot nicer than the github source viewer since it understands Rust (and other) languages (using an LLVM compiler plugin): https://dxr.mozilla.org/servo/source/
Pyjion looks good, once it is easy to build in Linux it will probably attract some users and even possibly some extra developers.
I just did some investigation. The first batch seems to be sold out, after a TV segment featured Toio a couple days ago. Pre-orders are now for November delivery.

Still interested?
The socket compoonents would have to be manufactured as one part that's soldered down into existing holes not unlike how the slot itself is a single component.
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Ask HN: Yahoo's stock market cap is $53B, how Verizon bought it just for $4.4B?
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> “The real story of your mother being a whore?” Left said.

> Leznik settled on TheRealExpressScripts.com, then asked Left for his credit card to buy the URL.

Got curious and visited http://www.therealexpressscripts.com/

It's indeed up and running, with a link to a single Infographic... this one => http://www.therealexpressscripts.com/the-confusing-world-of-...
Sure, you can see that. But in the real world, outside of a thought experiment, nobody would.
I don't think it's realistic to expect this company to now treat their employees less like replaceable cogs than they were previously (to the extent they were at all). What is far more likely is that this company will now just have more red tape in place to ensure that this doesn't happen again.
Sorry, forgot about mentioning the very language the OP was about. That was stupid.

You would use the "New" constructor function pattern in this case, using a higher order function called at injection time to keep it reusable and hide everything. I also prefer keeping the struct it returns as unexported so you get full encapsulation, but golint doesn't like it. I guess this is a personal issue.
covfefe

So THAT'S what it means!
Huhwah? I've never even heard of them. Am I that out of the loop?
I'm with you. I've thought a lot about how technology could be used to increase the amount of detail in architecture (rather than decrease it), but I'm not a designer, and my daydreams never go anywhere (I think you just can't beat old brownstones and 17th century Dutch houses. They're not even that ornate, but the quality of materials were high). New construction in my city looks like cardboard boxes taped together, and that's for a $1,000,000 house.
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You will never get away from a bad job. You cannot depend on anyone else. It never gets better.
The key verbiage is "unfettered discretion". It's a big leap from that to "if convicted of a crime". Yes, I would hesitate to work for an employer who could recoup my pay at their sole discretion.
I agree, $4 billion is at least 2x-3x more than I would have expected. Housing and everything connected to it is obviously a wildly lucrative industry if you can find a way to skim a sliver out of any of the various layers. That's essentially what Houzz has done, injected themselves as a middle-man referral engine (no different than a Priceline or Kayak).

Zillow is chasing down $1.x billion in sales for the next four quarters. Seems remarkable as well.
What do you mean by incoherent?
To be fair I think the number of 16-bit applications still in use would surprise a lot of people.

The author responded to a comment I left on the blog about 16-bit applications and he seemed confused about when development of 16-bit applications would have ended. He seemed to think around 1988; however, the Win32 API wasn't rolled out to the desktop until 1995 with Windows 95. Internet Explorer was available in a 16-bit version until IE5 which was released in 1999. Most of the 16-bit applications I see still in production had last releases in the early 2000s.
I feel that I've lived so long in the Bay Area now that I'm starting to take nice things for granted. While I wouldn't drive to another state for it, I'll drop by Trader Joe's today and be thankful =)
Maybe it is "fair". But the problem is that the market doesn't care about "fair".

Personally, I would absolutely refuse to sign such an agreement.

You can't force people to accept your contract. If all the good CEOs look at your contract and run away.... well now you are stuck with only bad CEOs who were desperate enough to agree to your contract. That is the market speaking.
When AT&T Park in San Francisco was opened some 15 years ago, festive mylar balloons killed the power in my office building nearby.
I've actually used hangouts at the previous company (so roughly 2012-2015 or so), and it worked fine I guess. I don't remember what were the reasons not to use it instead of Skype, but I'm sure there were some.

But I guess we don't really need the video calls that much (After all, who'd want to see video of engineers working mostly from home, right?) and the ability to self-host and integrate Mattermost with the issue tracker etc. is quite neat.
I've switched the check to js and I no longer pass the card data to the server at all. Thanks for the concern; got me to fix it.
I'm surprised by your assessment of Matt Levine. He has great insight into the world of finance and has shed light on many complicated issues (for example this great article about Dell going private: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-01/michael-d... ). And HN isn't just about tech - finance has been a topic of many discussions here.
Can you comment at all on the many frustrated users who wish to file their Houzz finds away on Pinterest, but are unable to due to all of the ways you try to prevent that?

While I enjoy content on Houzz, I have zero interest in splitting that information across platforms as I keep all of that in Pinterest and share boards with my wife.

Frankly I find it very off-putting how blatantly it is blocked, and it makes me want to engage with Houzz less because I fear what else you might do in the future that is anti-user. With a massive round of funding comes massive investor expectations. For an advertising/affiliate model like Houzz has, that obviously means the users are the product and not the customer, so I see this as magnifying those existing concerns.
I do not believe that for one single second. There is absolutely zero reason whatsoever to disregard safety in manufacturing.
Yep the Seek Method for pagination as suggested there would cause you to be sorting by UUID.

SELECT uuid FROM t where filterable_field > $whatever and uuid > $lastSeen limit $pageSize

with a covering index on (filterable_field, uuid)
no way electrons speed is at centimeters or even millimeters per second, electrons travel at or close to speed of light.
I've wondered if it would be possible to design a dual GPU setup to handle VR applications more efficiently? VR tends to be kind of hard on current GPUs due to needing to render the scene from two viewpoints. With a dual GPU setup you could effectively dedicate one GPU per eyeball.
Interesting. This has some feature overlap with Bookmark OS which I use daily. How does it let you select what info you want to scrape? What if the underlying structure that is being scraped changes over time?
You may have many different loggers, and different loggers for different parts of an app. For example, you don't want to log certain database or password related stuff explicitly as it creates a security issues.

Also it's a lot easier to test logging, or anything that you would us a global object for, if it's DI based. That said, you can always pass a config object that holds what would normally be global variables but allows you to override.
> I think it is extremely important to the vast majority of people that any enormous change in transportation occurs for the benefit of society

There's a lot of people who would disagree with you. They are called libertarians. What matters first and foremost is freedom - individual freedoms should not be overridden for the sake of improving society.
Uh huh, and after those 20 people dropped out, I'd be willing to bet there would be another 200 right behind them ready to pick up the reins.

CEO is a position anyone can equally be successful or terrible at. So why do we insist putting the absolute most importance into it?
Even DNA changes!

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/whoami/findoutmore/yourgenes...
And because those clothes are so cheap, your country isn't able to get it's own textile industry going. Thus killing jobs.
I like this strategy more than commitment to either.
I do r&d. Indirect networking and the hope to spot niche market opportunities that may go big in a not too distant future.
Not an architecture expert, so maybe somebody can help me out, but the early modern architecture was often still complex and humane (I'm thinking 1930s - Amsterdam School and WPA post offices). Only later did modernism become an excuse for big, cheap, and ugly.
The same could have been said of Brin and Page. Why were they not working for yahoo improving their search algorithm? Some people will have the hunger and drive to disrupt the incumbent.
Supposedly Lyft is on its way to profitability [1]. Twitter is still not yet profitable, but it shouldn't stop me from using the service if I find it useful.

> and who do you think is paying for your cheap Lyft trips?

Mostly my own contribution, and partially VC money.

1. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/12/pipsqueak-lyft-could-reach-pr...
Reality is a mindset, you make your own decision, you create yourself. If you "can never get away from a bad job" or "it never gets better" is because you tell yourself that.
"Happy City" (mentioned in the article) is a terrific book, and surprisingly down-to-earth.
This is factually false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity
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PostgreSql has a dedicated UUID column type. Those are fast and the storage difference is insignificant.
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Drinks? Fun. But the one area I would like to push back on your assertions is that:

"these systems will be operated by individuals"

maybe and maybe not. In some major sense, even today's systems are bigger than any one individual.

Just because something was designed by people doesn't mean they will be operating it years from now.

There was a period where "centaurs" - combinations of grandmasters and computers - would beat computers. Judging by Kasparov's latest book, he still thinks that's the case. But where is the evidence?

Eventually doctors will just press a button and a diagnosis will come out, and dietary program. They will have a very vague idea as to why. This is actually too conservative. There will be no doctor and no button. The system will know exactly when and where to intervene. Humans will live on a zoo being taken care of like animals do now. And this is the rosy picture.

Already, Watson can outperform people and we don't have a great way to
explain why. Any more than the proof of the 4color theorem is an explanation why.

Explanations are reductions to simple things. We humans derive meaning from relatively simple things with few moving parts. Something that requires 10000000000 moving parts to explain may as well be "chaotic" or is not really explained. But if predictions can be made far beyond simple explanations then that's a major thing.

I think that humor, court arguments, detective work etc. can all be automated in this manner. And then there is also the access to all the cameras and so forth.

I'm just saying that our systems were designed with the idea that an attacker is inefficient. That assumption is going to break down.

It doesn't have to be the terminator. It just means computers will write better books, jokes etc. a million times a secod and devalue everything we hold dear. They will first be wielded by individuals - at least that's a comfort. But later, the automated and decentralized swarms are the scariest part because they are so totally different from us in goals and everything else too.
Ask HN: What are interviews like in non-software engineering professions?
Currently going through the hackerrank/algo DS process.

What is it like for other fields, especially other engineering fields?
The barriers to entry with ride sharing are absurdly lower than anything else on that list. The network effect is pretty weak, because it doesn't cost consumers/drive more time or energy to keep multiple apps on their phone.
Because VZW did not buy YHOO, they bought Yahoo's US business. YHOO still has Yahoo Japan and their investment in Alibaba.
Each of those options is perfectly fine for transportation if you planned and or intended to use them, what I mean is that whenever I've used a taxi or taxi-like service, car rental and/or public transportation would not have been a valid substitute or even possible.

Car rental because you have to pick up the car and later drop it off and the costs are significantly higher than a taxi, and public transportation because it's slower, more crowded (therefore more difficult with luggage) and doesn't always go directly where you want to go.

On a city-wide scale you can't expect car rentals and public transportation to be a valid replacement for a taxi/taxi-like service.
I'm no expert on pcie signaling, but I have some general idea,

problems are how to take care of the electromagnetic noise, that's why PCIe uses differential pairs wiring (both positive and negative wires are next to each other on board) instead of single-ended (single wire with common ground, negative) which were used in original PCI and PCI-X so the if some noise hits the first wire, same noise hits the second differential wire.

improvements in coding and decoding the signals with error correction also help recovering any errors caused by the electromagnetic noise.
How big a deal is this on Postgres?