skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter how many have died in the accidents so far.

It matters what the worst-case outcome is. I don't downplay it with some statistic about how rare it would be.
Given your objectives -- assuming no restrictions during your earn-out period. Go find another early-stage company or two that you can help. Industry conferences should prove a target rich environment to find them > https://tryolabs.com/blog/machine-learning-deep-learning-con...
It'd be nice to have an intuitive explanation on the status page for what PBFR means if it can go over 100%.
This is trivial to avoid with a linter (which is a good idea to use anyway with JavaScript). For Flow, there's an eslint plugin that allows you to raise an error on the use of any weak type, such as `any` [1]. I'd be very surprised if the same doesn't exist for TypeScript.

1. https://github.com/gajus/eslint-plugin-flowtype#eslint-plugi...
This is my point. Regardless of how silly I think the product is, 200million other people think differently.
Going by global sales, I'd say a more affordable EV like the Leaf has been more disruptive than any Tesla.
A mildly interesting blog post about a mildly interesting Twitter pornbot
I started freelancing earlier this year over https://www.toptal.com/#connect-unmatched-coders-now My plan was to freelance some time as an additional work to my regular 9-17h job to test it out. Then I quit regular work and freelance full time (with better pay than a regular job, but now I feel secure that freelance will not leave me for prolonged periods without a job). This way I gained flexibility in time (I can work from wherever and whenever I want). And after some time I will probably go half-time freelance and do something else with my time (probably tackle some startup ideas I have for some time, but after I work on myself first).
This sounds amazing to me :)
It's almost as if you can frame a 'data-driven' argument and limit the universe of what people imagine to be possible, while pretending to be 'rational' and 'scientific' the whole time!

Of course it cuts both ways. A better headline would have been "Nuclear: sure it's dirty but are you really trying to tell us coal is safer".
The line about the nipple should be qualified: it's currently thought that face detection is also innate.

(though, intriguingly, it's apparently unknown whether this is because recognizing faces is important specifically for babies, or because the human visual system is evolved to process that kind of thing. i.e. maybe there are other stimuli, not face-shaped, which would also intrigue babies because they push the visual system's buttons:

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00... )
Then you get someone who would Kirk the Kobayashi Maru.
Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
Keep in mind that coal is uncompetitive because of natural gas being so cheap, not because of renewables. Renewables are not supplanting natural gas at a reasonable rate.

While natural gas is better than coal, it's still not good from an emissions perspective compares to nuclear.
Brings to mind an article I read circa 2001 where a Google executive said, "Look, we could be profitable next month if we covered the site with annoying ads, but we're not going to do that. We're focusing on growth now."

Worked out okay for their investors.
Defcon let out on Sunday and there's a lot of bored hackers with leftover energy.
Right. Great point. It could cut risks in half if it lasts twice as long.
I guess the brand is getting quite valuable.
Not to be a horrible self promoter (it's just the ideas I care about), but my 2012 discussion of the problem with new blogging platforms still applies, from a general perspective, to Medium: https://alanhogan.com/the-problem-with-new-blog-platforms. (tl;dr is that eventually you will grow out of virtually any non-Wordpress platform, especially one you don’t control yourself.)
ICO sends letter to SEC stating case for why it's not a security
"The irony is, that Apple eventually triumphed because it invested in more intuitive design, using path dependence in its own favor."

And because they did a much better job at building the platform the second time around. iPhone was not just first product in its category, the App Store provided developers a way to quickly make money on the platform, in turn making the iPhone the default choice for consumers and businesses.

Jobs learned a lesson from losing to Windows, and made sure it didn't happen again.
Exactly, we cannot believe all those pretty statistics about how safe nuclear power is, because (inter alia) precisely this disregard for safety is never factored in.

Nuclear power is always sold on the best case or average case calculation. Because the worst case is probably so bad that it dominates the whole calculation.
What problem did you have?? I've been using Flow.js for work for several years now, to great success. I feel very uncomfortable now writing plain JS.
Voat is a complete shithole these days unfortunately. It was very quickly overrun by disgruntled members of Reddit's alt-right fringe community.
> To do this, Google said it had obtained access to the credit and debit card records of 70 percent of U.S. consumers.

After reading the initial article in May, I called American Express and they swore up and own they don't sell my purchased data. I don't see how you get above 70% without data from American Express.

So who's lying?
Go has a mirror of our GitHub project via this thing "Maintner" I wrote (running at http://maintner.golang.org/) that syncs GitHub in realtime to a log of mutations. (As well as syncing Gerrit and all its comments etc).

So then we can slurp all of our GitHub & Gerrit history into RAM (takes about 5 seconds and 500 MB) via https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/build/maintner/godata#Get and walk it in-memory and do stuff with in. (runs our realtime bots, alternate web UIs on planes, alternate search, stats, etc.)
> great thing about democracy is that no matter what goes wrong to the country internally, the blame lies with the people who voted for those politicians, or didn't bother to vote, which is most people

In the abstract, this is true.

In the perception, it's always the leaders that screwed up - or whomever they can blame.

In democracy, as with most politics, perception is reality
You might be right. I've never thought of giphy as just an image hosting platform though. It's more about the integrations with apps that is their edge. Something imageshack/imgur never really nailed.
Me too, but I won't be /giphy if advertising comes along.
Isn't PLA less structurally sound than ABS? I thought the reason it was used over ABS was that it could be formed at a lower temperature.
"major inspiration for VS Code"

Which is a Microsoft product, and Microsoft is the inventor of EEE. Ergo, GitHub is complicit in an EEE attempt. Q.E.D. Case closed.

/s
New Army night vision technology lets soldiers look in two directions at once
Search engines, social media, videos, content, etc. A variety of different ways.
The reason why many nuclear plants are colocated with hydroelectric dams is that the dam is good source for cooling water in 3rd cooling loop and that it is good backup power source for black start of the nuclear plant. Ability of nuclear plant to scale its output power according to demand is usually significantly higher than of hydro.
You think so? I thought they were using "win" to say that nuclear was good, since fossil fuels are much worse on most if not all of those measures.
I wish Reddit would pay some more attention to the meat of its content...the comments.

The default view/experience is awful, imho. Let's assume there are about 10 separate logical lines of thought, which have been expressed as "root" comments - that is, responses to the original post. These have been upvoted.

What do you see when you start browsing? You'll see the top voted root response...and then potentially pages upon pages of upvoted s*tpost responses, rhymes and pun threads that get beaten to death, in jokes, memes, etc. Only after you scroll through all of this will you get to separate discussion thread number 2.

Next up - down voting has long ceased to be a mechanism for true moderation and getting rid of off-topic or nasty comments. It is just the default "I disagree with you or don't like what you said for some reason" action, and once the downvote spiral starts, it's very easy to just get wiped out of the conversation.

The problem this leads to is the super prevalent group-think and echo chamber nature of most sub-reddits any more. As much as the reddit "hive mind" is a joking expression - it has also become all too real. Many popular reddits even have a corresponding ____circlejerk counter part - to me, evidence of how common this effect is (if you haven't read one of these, they are usually a humor outlet where people make sarcastic/parody posts of the common recurring themes in the actual sub-reddit.)
a) The investors may have been given a different answer as to how much Reddit cares about making money, even in the short term (I don't mean that they were mislead, but that it would be bad PR to tell the Reddit community the opposite)

b) They may have a plan towards profitability over a certain period of time that they haven't shared with you or me but that was convincing enough to potentially be a good investment (or maybe other scenarios, such as selling to an even bigger company who already can monetise... such as Google)
I would love to see reddit being more like a wikipedia than a facebook. If they cut the sales team out and ask for donations like WP does, they would do just fine. I was on reddit before I was registered on FB and quite frankly I love reddit.com way more than FB for many reasons. It's a shame that they go down the hypergrowth-unicorn model.
I agree. The number of engineers who don't understand simple indexing in RDBMSes is tragic. Too many engineers see a slow query and immediately say "this database can't scale, let's switch databases!"
Another huge concern is the fact that they are trying to push to market two completely separate 3D printing process technologies, and are valued at over a billion dollars before shipping a product. A few of their claims and marketing materials are too hyped and there's a lot of skepticism about their actual technology benefits. Limitless hype has been an ongoing problem in the 3D printing field, and they seem to be capitalizing on it.
> all private political discussion between politicians should be banned on pain of imprisonment

Is that a public event, too?

Who gets to enforce the public-vs-private thing?
Yes.

I was part of a larger marketing / design agency where they charged standard vendor markup (15%) on hosting (which was a reseller account with cpanel), which was cheap for the clients but did not cover the costs of passing along support requests to the actual hosting company.

That agency went out of business 5 years ago and I absorbed the hosting business. All of the sites are WordPress and I had built an optimized stack along with automation for backups, updates, security scans, etc. For the changeover I set 3 levels of hosting power and rolled in the automated maintenance, domain name renewal and storage of backups. Email and SSL are add-ons provided by 3rd parties and marked up at least 100%.

Prices are $50, $150 and $500/mo.

The stack has changed over the years from a shared VPS to individual VPSs to docker containers. Everything is behind a load balancer / caching proxy so changing out the platform as needed was/is pretty painless when we find new ways of doing things.

All clients were required to enter into a new contract with monthly recurring CC billing or they were provided with their files and thank you for your past business letter. Every new site proposal includes the first year of hosting and maintenance, and is a hard requirement. I won't support a site that's on some $5/mo hosting plan running PHP 5.3 or who knows what. I can tell horror stories for hours, which just reminds me how much I don't want to live through them again.

We lost 1/3 of the customers, but I think we only needed 3 clients to equal the revenue of the previous system. For example, there's one client that we're charging $650/mo (with emails and multiple SSL domains) that was NEVER charged for hosting by the previous company. I was sure they were going to bail, but their support load previously was so large that we needed SOMETHING to justify keeping them on. Amazingly now that they know that when they break things there is an actual cost to picking up the phone to call us. They do have X hours per month of "free" support but then they have to start paying $100/hr. The new stack almost guarantees that breaks don't occur from our end and if we do, it's 30 seconds to flip over to a previous backup.

We've also gotten a few redesign jobs simply because they see our name on their credit card statements every month. I've personally never worked with these clients during the time of the previous company, but they came along way back when and would've gone with someone else if we weren't already in a relationship, no matter how loose.
I find it amusing that HN is so divided on this issue yet quite unanimous distaste for how the middle east treats people and how the far east treats the environment.

Nuclear power will look a lot prettier when it's competing on price with socially and environmentally ethical solar cells and fossil fuels.
Yes, I agree. However, it's one thing to occasionally give an opinion in the course of practicing journalism and something entirely different to steer the conversation towards the message you're trying to push. Kara wasn't even subtle about it this interview. Her bias was not just showing, but on full display for all to see.

It's really unfortunate because the individuals in the general population don't really get the facts and an opportunity to each come to slightly different conclusions. It's journalist malpractice to tell people what to think, since that's not journalism. That's propaganda.
One can compare, but the nuclear industry pointedly ignores those areas, so I sort of assume it doesn't win on those points. Also solar/wind materials I would think are fairly recyclable.
With respect to the snake-cased fields issue, it's actually not that hard to do that with Generic in Haskell.

data Person = Person
{ personFirstName :: Text
, personLastName :: Text
} deriving (Generic)

instance ToJSON Person where
toJSON = genericToJSON $ aesonPrefix snakeCase
instance FromJSON Person where
parseJSON = genericParseJSON $ aesonPrefix snakeCase

Which produces messages like:

{
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Doe"
}
Based on that information, what is the probability of a nuclear power plant accident making a large city near it uninhabitable?
Could you make it an attribute of the symbol being exported, part of the contract, and use that to derive an estimated cost of the program?

I could see this being used to choose between allocators or schedulers given specific requirements.
No, you're wrong. The statistics are based on "what happened so far" and "what we think could happen if things got really bad".

The last part has been proven untrue time and again. Every single time nuclear proponents said "that cannot happen" and after it happened they found a new fallback position "okay, that could happen, but it cannot ever get worse".
Don't lose your mail: a tale of horror
Accelerating Services at Airbnb by Building a 25x Faster Thrift Binding for Ruby
So which is the "right" answer, in your system?

And who gets to determine (and enforce) "rightness"?
When you tell me something "completely eliminates" the possibility of failure in complex industrial design - you're being emotional rather than logical.

Look, I'm actually pro-nuclear. But I think the arguments made for nuclear power are mostly awful, driven by techno-fetishism and wishful thinking rather than real logic. The "But I'm logical and you're just emotional!" argument is itself an emotional argument, a rush to claim a moral high ground (you'll see the exact same style and phrasing used in any political argument where privileged white guys are dismissing the points of women and minorities).

As others wisely pointed out in this thread, nuclear power suffers from a problem of feeling dangerous even when it's safe - and likewise, global warming feels safe even when it's an existential threat to civilization. If you want to make progress rather than score points, you need to take the emotional nature of the argument into account.

I didn't say your argument sounds like something a supervillain would say because I think the technology is bad. I said it because I think the phrasing is bad. Wise up.
The idea of technologically superior products is a huge blind spot for engineers.

A lot of people whinge about why obviously better products fail when inferior products succeed.
Technological superiority is nice, but what you should be looking for when building products is
market superiority. The overall quality of a product is only a single factor when making a purchase.
Useability, safety, convenience, education, price, flexibility, distribution, marketing, and network effects
also contribute to the success or failure of a product.

Some common battles references of "superior" products failing are:

Betamax vs VHS:

Betamax had better image quality, but VHS had a longer runtime and was cheaper.
Consumers wanted to watch movies without switching tapes and image quality was good enough
on VHS, so it won.

High Speed Rail:

Who wouldn't want trains that travel over 250 mph? They are clearly superior to the regular trains that we
are using so why not upgrade? High speed rail's biggest competitor is not a train, it is planes. Planes have
disadvantages in terms of leaving you outside the center of a city, but they have several advantages over high
speed rail. First they have lower operating costs. You need fewer people to operate a plane and planes
fly at over 500 mph, so you need to pay less per mile per employee. Planes are safer and more flexible than high speed
rail. You can re-route a plane to any destination in the world for no additional cost. High speed rail requires very expensive
land acquisition and once the track is set it cannot be changed without additional capital. If you flex with the parameters
there are conditions where high speed rail can be price competitive with planes but it requires highly dense cities relatively close
to one another. The majority of the United States is not set up this way, so it is rational that we should not expect high speed rail.

I could go on and on, but I believe most people are rational when making purchases. You can't fool everyone forever,
so if your product is flailing look inward talk to customers and figure out how to make a market superior product instead of
a technologically superior product.
Yet the Japanese use/used the crap out of nuclear. You'd think they of all people would want nothing to do with it. At the end of the day it's all about dollars.
Psychologists say more and more young people are entitled
To the best of my knowledge, GitHub org and usernames in the URI are case-insensitive for both the website and clone URIs. I haven't tested ssh clone URIs to know if they are also insensitive, but I'd guess they are

You would only need to change it if the "presentation" format bothers you (again, as far as I know)
I take it you are in the industry. Interesting :)
Sure, but this is a percents vs quantities problem. If nuclear has almost zero emissions in power production even the smallest increase will look like a massive increase percentage wise. It still may compare very favorably to fossil fuels for lifecycle emissions.
Yeah they should learn from digg. I still have thumbnails turned off on Reddit and hate the site when they are visible. Moving further away from a text heavy screen is a bad idea.
> they wanted me to send it in and wait two weeks which was a non-starter as it is my main development machine

Pro equipment means pro support. Why is only Apple getting this ?
China is charging ahead with nuclear in order to replace their outdated coal dependent energy infrastructure.

>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-31/china-s-n...

As they develop and improve their reactor technology their plan is to export safer, more efficient fission reactors to the rest of the world.
How is giffy worth 600 mill?
Same in norway. One ballot per party. In local elections we vote for both council and municipality, so there's two sets of ballots. Council ballot goes in one box and municipality ballot goes in another box. No reason why we couldn't have 20 boxes if we also voted for issues directly.

Also in local elections we can write in other people and give people on the ballot an "extra" vote for which we use a pen (but this is voluntary and I assume most don't bother).
Eventually you just get the gist for who around here works at Google. ;) cromwellian, who responded to one of my comments here, is also a Googler.

Arguably, DannyBee is correct that the real issue is that credit card companies are allowed to sell this data at all. But perhaps the danger of this practice is especially highlighted by the fact that Google is now one of the buyers.
I think it is starting to happen already. A few too many jokey comments appearing, puns and the like.
1) Blind Test - That's true, but still people who buy check benchmarks, don't forget AMD did exactly that with Bulldozer and we know how that ended up....
If AMD thought that they had a winning horse they would not hide the performance numbers, they would PR that like crazy, like they are doing with Ryzen and ThreadRipper.

2) I'm all for AMD to kick Nvidia's ass in compute and end cuds's reign but it won't sell gaming cards. Vega FE (A 1000$ card) is out for a month and I haven't seen anyone benchmark it and show that it's better, Even if games will use it there is a heck of a difference between building the model and running inference.
Some go to the other extreme and add indexes on all columns without consideration for what is actually causing the performance issue.

I had a former coworker who would routinely put an index on every column in a table when creating the table.
Clean, safe, too cheap to meter! /s
This is a real problem with any kind of serious disease. I am watching this with my girlfriend now. The patient is thrown into this inscrutable, faceless and expensive machine without knowing what's going on. I wonder how much the health outcome could be improved by treating patients more humanely.
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It may not be rational under your belief system (and that's a totally valid position), but you should realize that most people see it differently.

Many people are afraid of terrorism and plane crashes and sex crimes, but are still driving to work in a car.
I live in Canada. Still applies. Just replace health insurance with life insurance, car insurance, or home insurance.
Thanks.

What's concerning to me is the section entitled "Uploading a previously packaged extension to the Chrome Web Store", which asks the user to place the private key into the package's root and include it in a zip. First: why? Why upload the private key? That leaks it to Google and on top of that stores it in multiple places; the user could forget to delete the zip (and do so securely), for example. And the private key in the root is probably a copy, so that has to be shreded too.

For updating the package, you select the project root as well. If you didn't remove your private key before doing so, I'm assuming you'd be releasing your key?
None of you have any idea what travis offered on a personal level or did on a daily basis in the fight to build a brand and open new markets.

No cohesion here either, just more twitter zeitgeist groupthink.
The $900 mark was also for a card that is not stock. I was talking about ASUS Strix version which is after-market with 3 coolers.