skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like your optimism, and every octogenarian who can stay sharp is an inspiration to us all.

But if you look at aggregate data on chess players' ratings as they get older, or university professors' publication rates (and citations on the papers they do publish), it's really hard even for strong-willed thinkers to stay on top of their craft in their 60s and beyond.

For every Warren Buffett in business, there are a lot of Sumner Redstones ... holding on to power, but quite erratic as age takes its toll. Getting old is nasty stuff.
I understand. Still, if it ain't broke...

Check out Max Kanat-Alexander's piece on over-engineering (10 minute Google video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxyOng0-14

In other words, if you're not having maintainability issues with it now, leave it be... once you start having issues, you can re-design (when you actually need it). =)
It was not too long ago that in Germany a political artist was prosecuted for a poem insulting a politician.

In other words, governments have already repeatedly proven they should not have authority over what speech is acceptable, even in Germany currently.
There's nowhere you're going to get $500 billion per year for anything. Entitlement costs are skyrocketing and are going to accelerate, we can't even afford how much SS / Medicare / Medicaid are going to cost in the next 20 years as is, much less find $500 billion in new spending. If the funding source is to be cutting the US military from $600x billion to $100x billion, that isn't even worthy of a serious discussion (if we slashed it in half to $300x billion - which might be the absolute minimum we need to maintain a standing capable army (it'd be about 1.5% of GDP equivalent a few years out) - that half might plug the entitlement hole in the coming decades, that's it).
Regarding queues, Delayed Job [0] is a popular queue abstraction over a SQL database that suggests the impedance mismatch in this case may be successfully mitigated.

[0] https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job
>Palantir has an outdated software stack (Java/Swing).
Sadly in 2017, their tech stack is falling apart, they have no meaningful ML/AI strategy

If I were to guess I would say you failed the interview. You should probably brush up on your Java and Swing.
Plus "STEM" as a category is inherently bullshit anyway. Not the individual subjects in it, but the term as used to describe how you'll automatically have better career success if you pick from that category, because of post-secondary education magic.
Ok mods (and audience), I'm sorry for this tedious subthread. I'm going to try extra hard not to mention downvotes anymore.

As for you, I don't know what the deal is, but if you feel like attacking me in the future please understand my comment first.

EDIT: Okay, listen. The reaction was to this part:

"but you have to at least make a minimal effort to understand how the whole thing works and what the abuse potential is for your suggestions."

That felt like a personal swipe, combined with the rest of the comment that read as "hey you're offtopic and didn't you write a script to hide downvotes anyway." It felt like that was written solely to put me on the defensive. So -- principle of charity -- I'd rather assume that this was all a miscommunication rather than malicious.

The spat is tedious, I like your writing, so for the second time here is an olive branch.
This.

We saw a 500,000% gain in sales by marketing, but to be fair we were small and had no idea what we were doing.

I was as skeptical as they come, but a good marketing team basically launched us from nobodies into LEO. Yeah we had a great core product but still... gotta know how to sell it.
Many of the existing freight rail corridors are twisty and not designed in a way that works for high-speed rail at all (unless you buy land anyways to straighten out the more extreme curves) [1]. They might work for conventional passenger rail if you could get the freight railroads to play nice and do better maintenance on the tracks.

[1]: typical example -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_Curve_(Pennsylvania)

[2]: For a detailed example of what's possible & what isn't with existing corridors, you can look at this independent engineer's study of how to upgrade a rail route through Northern California: http://zierke.com/shasta_route/
GitHub is bugged, by your criteria.
> fair and honest journalism - that reports the facts and lets the viewer/reader make up their own mind - has been replaced

When did this exist except in theory in a classroom?
Innocent question from a non-Burner: why would anyone attending Burning Man care about the smell of marijuana? The event is held in the desert. And judging from what I've heard and seen about it, most of it is outdoors.
What does this conversation have to do with the second amendment? Who has brought up guns here, except you? Are you intentionally trolling?
I don't know if it would help for those two. The problems are less about knowing what's ethical behavior and more about disagreements regarding how the world ought to be.
Switzerland: 15,940 mi²

Texas: 268,597 mi²

U.S.: 3,797,000 mi²
That sounds incredibly defensive. Not one substantive response to any of OP's claims, huh?
Cars are better than trains if you assume you're just sitting there on the train doing nothing. But I can be working on personal projects, browsing, etc on a train. The only thing I can do while driving is listen to music.
Microsoft has also cancelled services so I'm not sure why you're trying to make it sound any different. I have Steam games that have no online support anymore because Microsoft cancelled yet another Steam competitor service. I've lost track of how many times they've tried to take on Steam and lost. You would think they would have learned by now.
IIRC in this talk by Chris Rock at DC24 he mentions this tactic as part of creating the environment for a coup:

Edit - direct link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m1lhGqNCZlAusg=AFQjCNHkUHeVThw...
But no one is trying to convince me that a plane should be my only method of transportation, and that a car is not needed. Further, I don't use a plane to commute, at least not at my level of pay :)
Also, what about Twitch or Youtube chat?
At Burning Man, there is a large presence of law enforcement officers with conservative attitudes. Both uniformed and plainclothes. The plainclothes officers especially create an atmosphere of distrust regarding substances.
I don't know the guy aside from what I have read in the press (both good and bad), but I'd like to think he wrote this with genuine sincerity.

Hopefully this is the start of a groundswell trend of traits such as 'accountability' and 'taking responsibility for your actions' becoming fashionable and an expected part of human behaviour again.
GraphQL definitely allows GET and supports HTTP caching just as well as any other kind of API!
As a standalone all-by-myself indie developer I was skeptical of GraphQL when it first appeared, but later I discovered it is much easier to develop APIs for my own consumption with GraphQL. The basic GraphQL boilerplate seems bad, but is actually fun to write and makes total sense. And once you have the structure in place it is super easy to add functionality.

Plus bonuses if you have more than one database or are mixing data from your database and external APIs in your backend responses.

Please try it for a small project, it is unbelievable, but you'll probably enjoy it.

(For the record: I've just used https://github.com/graphql-go/graphql and Lokka on the client, because it is simple and does nothing fancy, it's a thin wrapper over XHR, I think.)
Money can't buy class and all that.
I'd love to see tech companies band together and play hardball with governments that try and pull this shit. Just discontinue services on the whole country.

The politicans would quickly change their tune once the entire country's voting base wakes up to the fact they've been thrust into the internet dark ages by their own legislators.
Fascinating! Thanks. I'm a bit surprised to hear this. My understanding till now was that BM was still fairly self-regulated.
Call me cynical, but I suspect all these apology posts are written largely by the poster's PR firm.
Hey interesting project. Just curious about the detail page. Not obvious how to navigate home or check out other movies.
Please change the colors oh lord
I agree that donglegate was bullshit.

But cases like are few and far between.

And IMO the majority of people on the internet were supportive of the guy who got fired, and also thought it was bullshit.

The woman who started the whole drama received way worse retaliation from the Internet mob (which was partially deserved) and got fired as well, so it was tit for tat at least, although that of course doesn't fix the damages.
Autonomous vehicles won't be superior to high speed rail due to much worse space efficiency and induced demand putting a strain on road infrastructure.

Even if autonomous cars are smaller than the ones we have now, they still take up too much space. Autonomous cars will expand the amount of drivers as one no longer needs a license, and the amount of cars will increase. This new demand will cause increased road congestion unless an expensive expansion of the road network takes place, an we know from induced demand that road expansion doesn't fix congestion in the long term anyway.

Automobile oriented infrastructure doesn't scale whether the cars are autonomous or not, and it's a bad idea to base the entire transportation system around them.
If you build a house you take out a loan. The same is generally true of rail networks.

As I said in another comment we could slash Medicare spending by 40+% without reduicing care. But, as you did not bother to read my comment I can't help but think your being disingenuous.

PS: I don't run the country so any change I or you suggest has the same problem of never going to be implemented. Stopping rational discussion at that point kills all political discussions period.
Yeah, no. Senior people don't want someone to waste time coming up with their own bug ridden solution when it's readily available elsewhere in a peer reviewed form. That kind of experience is what makes gives them the senior qualifier.
I have converted the presented algorythm to a non-recursive yielding version for what its worth:

https://gist.github.com/8BitPimp/fb182d04f6c31cabdceb20f714b...
I have actually heard of people saying they salvage kangaroo (or buffalo) meat after a collision. The tail is considered a delicacy.

Of course, that is assuming you are still OK after hitting one - Kangaroos are BIG critters and can do considerable damage to the vehicle (and occupants) in a collision.
The thing I find most fascinating about Khosla is that he is so obsessed with limiting access to public property, that he will be remembered years later for that instead of anything else he has done. He already has a reputation as an asshole in the VC community (which is saying something), this just cinches it to permanently tarnish his reputation. Of course he obviously doesn't care - he just wants that beach.
I keep a 100% wall between work and personal life for a reason. Anyone I'm doing business with I see at best as a coworker or business acquaintance, so there is no risk of merging those two realms.

If you are powerful man or woman, you should be aware that people who know who you are treat you differently. This Dave McClure guy actually thought all these women were into him purely because he was some amazing dude and not because he could finance their dreams. What a moron
Two thirds of the country live between D.C. and New York and in California. Making high speed just in those places would do a massive amount of good for the country
I'm okay with that. Actual apologies, ghost-written or not, have been rare in US business until the past year or so.

Apologies aren't the same as reparations, of course, and should be followed up by that.
I've got to wonder, why do coworkers go out for drinks if it's not a social setting? I don't understand the logic of mixing alcohol with colleagues if you're still under the "workplace" umbrella.
RSS is still alive and well so I'm not sure where you get the idea that Google destroyed it by cancelling Google Reader.

>Apple in particular has almost always continued with a device to fill the hole left by a product(excluding the Newton).

And it was replaced with a significantly higher priced device.
It redirects to

>Ups, du overskred CPU forbrug grænsen

It seems link does have problems. Anybody else does experience same thing?
Thanks for your comment, it's good.
California's beaches are publicly owned. Which is also why they are toilets.
Having had plenty of wallabies (smaller version of Kangaroos) jump out in front of me at dawn/dusk, I concur.

The hopping movement makes it incredibly difficult to judge their speed and direction. They actually cover horizontal space at a far greater clip than they seem to, and also means they can make snap changes in their direction of travel VERY quickly, making any avoidance manoeuvre a bit of a wild guess.
Your comparing heathcare spending while ignoring age differences making that analysis meaningless. 4 to 40 year olds don't spend much on healthcare. Veterans are by definition old.

Further the UA is often covering the most expensive care such as hip replacements, the fact that it's a lower percentage of costs is a result of efficiency of the VA and waste in the rest of the system.

As to lowering costs, economically spending money on heathcare billing vs Rail is only different because Rail provides long term value. As long as total spending is unchanged there is no reason to suspect economic harm.
Do you know how big china is?
I was pretty critical on here just yesterday about Dave McClure. I'd never met him in person but felt like his behavior was unlike the guy I felt I knew from his writings and interviews.

This is heads above the apologies from Justin Caldbeck and Sacca though I wished he'd written it months ago, back when the changes at 500 Startups were first made. It's a good start, but only the beginning.
From what I've heard, this isn't/shouldn't stand up when challenged in court.
It doesn't exist now. That doesn't mean it couldn't be built; the article was lamenting America's loss of vision and technological leadership, and I was replying to your comment that implied that 12 hours between major cities would be too slow, which in the case of coast-to-coast I disagree with.
The most recognizable companies on that list appear to be:

GitLab:

http://www.khoslaventures.com/portfolio/gitlab

Hyperloop Technologies:

http://www.khoslaventures.com/portfolio/hyperloop-technologi...

Instacart:

http://www.khoslaventures.com/portfolio/instacart

Square:

http://www.khoslaventures.com/portfolio/square

Stripe:

http://www.khoslaventures.com/portfolio/stripe

Vox Media:

http://www.khoslaventures.com/portfolio/vox-media
It worked in Pretty Woman.
Real life Ministry of Truth. Not only is this another strike at freedom of expression in Germany, but it's an attack on the privacy of Germans.

The idea that arresting people for "hate speech" online is going to make your country any better or safer is laughable. It just means people making jokes will get arrested because one of their jokes offends a few people [1].

Here's a great video by a German who is concerned about the expanded surveillance state and limitations on free speech: https://youtu.be/WFCKTvGU8oU

Here's another video about German hate speech crime and statistics that I found insightful: https://youtu.be/kX84h6aKpaU

1. https://www.rt.com/uk/342513-dog-nazi-salute-arrested/
This just feels like an save-face operation.

If these fellas want to show their commitment to changing it will require two things in my opinion:

1. A prolonged period of time without further incident.

2. Perhaps some dedicated effort to supporting, monetarily or otherwise, the elimination of this sort of behavior at the structural level? Start a campaign against sexism/harassment or something? Though to make it not appear disingenuous they ought to do so in a fake name--that's the problem when you're outed as a manipulator in a position of power, literally every subsequent move you make reads like manipulation. The McClure case as described in the NYT article wasn't too extreme and it is possible that some of it was misunderstanding and the he is being honest--it sounds like, for instance, 500 could have decided to end their conversations with Kunst for reasons beyond the message, but we'll never know. For instance I cannot help but feel the majority of this piece is McClure looking out for McClure and not giving a shit about actually being sorry. Of course I don't know that, but trust is difficult to regain.

Granted, McClure's fuck up does jive with the context he describes here, but it just becomes very difficult to believe any of these apology letters are genuine until some time has passed in which that is shown to be the case.
I don't think the trend to more genuine sounding apologies reflects an increase in actual empathy/understanding. I just think PR firms have realized you can't get away with the old "sorry if you got offended and can't handle my awesomeness" pseudo-apology nowadays.
>>Mass high speed rail in Texas is a stupid waste relative to places where lots of people actually live.

The Texas triangle (Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio) has a combined metropolitan population of 17 million.
A better solution, instead of giving in to the demands of sociopathic people, might be to calculate the total cost needed to enforce and keep the beaches open and then set fines in such a way that they generate the revenue needed.

A simple example would be if there are an average of 100 violations per year of people blocking access that require state intervention and an average annual operating cost of $1M, then the base fine is set at $10,000.

Instead of rewarding the folks breaking the law by letting them do it and taxing it because you can't afford enforcement, shift the burden of cost of enforcement to those in violation of the law.

Also, this idea of selling off public goods is a slippery slope -- if folks see that selling a little bit of beach here and there can raise funding for projects that will get them relected it will be hard to resist dipping back in.
Like when Google left china.. that really showed them /s

You know there are countries where Facebook does not operate.. local companies get easy funding to recreate the service.. after all it's a proven business model

The eu is certainly a big enough market to support a local version
> I am a supporter of single payer health care and vastly reduced tuition (or the elimination of the university's role in modern society, but that's another conversation), but I also like the idea of freedom to travel and open borders, and I've never found a way to square the two.

This is deeply misguided. I strongly encourage you to look at the evidence about the impact of immigrants on government's fiscal positions. In both the Germany and the US there is strong evidence that immigrants contribute far more in taxes than the benefits they receive. It's possible to have a discussion about the economic impact on immigration but it requires examination of facts, not cockamie speculation that the government "loses" on every immigrant.
I use a programming language that is 1-2 orders of magnitude slower than C, should I switch today?

I get my data for a full UI within the budget i've allowed for uncached scenarios (100ms, but I want to go to 50ms). The approach you're suggesting will (in some circumstances) give me some short-terms win in terms of throughput and response times, but you've not said anything to suggest that I won't lose these benefits as I gradually transition into a domain-driven or micro-services (yuck) architecture.

I like to build my GraphQL servers under the assumption of a domain-driven architecture (because that's where all the projects I've worked on seem to end up, your mileage may vary), and then shoe-horn in some short-term performance tricks when I can.

I'm possibly a special snowflake here, but it's been a long time since i've had the opportunity to work on a project where I can go straight to the DB. Be it Elastic Search, a 3rd party, ill-advised micro-services, or complex logic in-between storage and presentation; nothing has quite been a pure DB project in the last 6-7 years.

Of course, you could argue this is premature architecture ;) but many of these complexities are from day one, or at least pretty early in a project's life.
Personal Finance App
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Check it out on IOS App store and give some feedback.

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Yes he was, because it's a software problem and he's proven himself to be world class at solving software problems. Here is some more evidence from his resume.

"When I joined Tesla, it was in the midst of a hardware transition from "Hardware 1" Autopilot (based primarily on MobileEye for vision processing) to "Hardware 2", which uses an in-house designed TeslaVision stack. The team was facing many tough challenges given the nature of the transition. My primary contributions over these fast five months were:

We evolved Autopilot for HW2 from its first early release (which had few capabilities and was limited to 45mph on highways) to effectively parity with HW1, and surpassing it in some ways (e.g. silky smooth control).
This required building and shipping numerous features for HW2, including: support for local roads, Parallel Autopark, High Speed Autosteer, Summon, Lane Departure Warning, Automatic Lane Change, Low Speed AEB, Full Speed Autosteer, Pedal Misapplication Mitigation, Auto High Beams, Side Collision Avoidance, Full Speed AEB, Perpendicular Autopark, and 'silky smooth' performance.
This was done by shipping a total of 7 major feature releases, as well as numerous minor releases to support factory, service, and other narrow markets.
One of Tesla's huge advantages in the autonomous driving space is that it has tens of thousands of cars already on the road. We built infrastructure to take advantage of this, allowing the collection of image and video data from this fleet, as well as building big data infrastructure in the cloud to process and use it.
I defined and drove the feature roadmap, drove the technical architecture for future features, and managed the implementation for the next exciting features to come.
I advocated for and drove a major rewrite of the deep net architecture in the vision stack, leading to significantly better precision, recall, and inference performance.
I ended up growing the Autopilot Software team by over 50%. I personally interviewed most of the accepted candidates.
I improved internal infrastructure and processes that I cannot go into detail about.
I was closely involved with others in the broader Autopilot program, including future hardware support, legal, homologation, regulatory, marketing, etc.
Overall I learned a lot, worked hard, met a lot of great people, and had a lot of fun. I'm still a firm believer in Tesla, its mission, and the exceptional Autopilot team: I wish them well."

http://nondot.org/sabre/Resume.html