skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man Jerking off on train on a woman July 5
I had the worse experience on the redline train. Got on redline at Metro Center, got on the train end car it was 3 of us me and another woman and 1 black guy. Let me say this take protection with you like pepper spray. I had my back turn and I notice the guy stood up out his seat and he look at me and so you know this man was jerking off standing up so bad I called the police. However, this man didn't care about me and the other woman. I other woman listen to music or something. So I got off at Fort Totten, this man still watch me and I got on the phone with police. The lady never turned around until he ejected on her bags and her shoulder. I knock on the door and yell at her to come to the next train the guy was panic me still pushing the emergency button, why the woman screaming me calling police and not once did anybody answer me when I push the button. Finally the doors open up and the woman fall to the ground and me I was running for help the man ran and I told the attendant at the booth. Police came they caught this nasty ass but the woman would never be the same. This man didn't care who was watching him master bate I was sick to my stomach. Nevertheless, I wasn't going to look the other way. I am so disappointed with Metro and the emergency intercom and the person that was Driving the train. Not once did that person ask me "What's my Emergency". I push that button over 15 times probably more then that but I was still ignored. Will be filing a complaint ASAP. This man could have raped us seriously, who else did this man do it 2. Not catching the train anymore I am done, nevertheless it's dangerous. I would like to thank the police for the capture of that man. I hope the other woman is ok she hang me and we both cried and couldn't stop. Please customers protect yourself at all time. Pray before you get on the train and after you get off. Catching the train is like Hell
All of those things have a team of engineers maintaining the hardware and configuration of each installation, and operate "on rails" (either GPS-defined or literal) in very carefully controlled environments.

It's like saying that we've had factory robotics for decades and so we should soon have useful robotic housekeepers (in the general sense, not the Roomba sense).
A lot of adoption? How many users does XMPP have? I'm glad that XMPP is open, but as a standard, it's useless to me if none of my friends are using services that support it.
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My bet is that to the degree that neuroplasticity is involved at all, it's effects are largely dominated by more mundane effects, such as the fact that as you get older you have kids and other commitments that keep you from spending as much time learning new things as you used to.

Likewise an 80 year old that sees themselves as having less than 20 years left might require a higher bar for the payoff for dedicating themselves to learning something new than a 20 year old that sees themselves as having 80+ years left.
Agreed. If dang / the admins agree, feel free to change.
Some quick math suggests to me that pilot pay is likely a small part of what you're paying for with your ticket.

United Airlines employs 12712 pilots. [http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/legacy/united_ai...]

United has 143 million passengers. [http://newsroom.united.com/corporate-fact-sheet]

If we say that United has a cost per pilot of $200,000 (likely high) then the cost per pilot per passenger is $17.77
If I had to try and solve the marketing problem, I would try and focus on the security angle. "This plane can't be hijacked by a terrorist", "this plane would have stopped 9/11". Although, flying a plane remotely like a drone would present a huge hacking risk and would be hard to trust in a major cyber war. I'd prefer an entirely AI based solution with a remote piloting fallback.
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Yes, this is most hilarious when GHB is in both Schedule 1 and Schedule 3 at the same time, or as Wikipedia puts it:

"Schedule I but Schedule III when in an FDA-approved drug product"

So it's "no currently accepted medical use in the United Sates", apart from when it is in a FDA approved medical use. wut? :D
I like this. A long time ago I offered to add features to TortoiseCVS (that alone probably tells you how long ago it was) for people who would donate (much less than $5000) to a charity that was important to me. I did it because at the time the TortoiseCVS build system was a PITA to get working, I had already gotten it working to offer patches that would scratch my own itches, and most of the other requests I saw on the mailing lists were not hard.

It garnered a few (promises of) donations... I never did follow up to see if the charities I specified had gotten them. But I was young and happy to do the patches anyway, so it felt like a bonus.
It doesn't create a deep hierarchy really, and scales well due to it being a Log3 of the total employees.

Seems very reasonable to me.
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Since most pointers in macOS are 4-byte aligned (guaranteed by malloc), you can use the low bits for flags without having to shift anything.

Of course Obj-C already uses this for tagged-pointer numbers/strings/etc, so you've got competition if you want to start using this for something.
I think refurb wasn't saying "all we need for this is data" but rather "we need data for this" (so hats off to the people actually producing it).
As I understand ME is not a prerequisite for IPMI?
That's low to you? That's actually amazingly high, unless most of their flights are really long international ones. But I suspect most flights are 2 or 3 hours.
The question is whether we need to have a global empire that requires the vast majority of the worlds tonnage of aircraft carriers, evidence for it is sorely lacking.
How rare earth metals rose from obscurity
I never understand how people point to existing systems that are working for a country, and then make the (valid) point that the success of those policies can't necessarily be extrapolated to another country, but then (invalidly) believe that is a suficient statement to end the conversation.

Especially because those people often are talking about countries with some form of democratic socialism (where there are a number of strong success cases), and instead frequently put forward libertarianism - which is a completely untested government form in any country.
Muller's PhD is in physics education, not physics.
Well, their job is to piss away someone else's money in most inefficient and costly way possible. I used to work for a small gov't agency in NYC just as bureaucratic and incompetent.
... have what right exactly? Pictures (i.e. measurements) of faint celestal bodies are but mushy wish-washed smears of a point is what I'm talking about for example. Quite simply, our band-width is limited by position, the ammount that we can observe is likely just a tiny fraction, the known universe only accounts for ca. 10% of theoretical total energy. In that sense the low energies are likely lost on us, then we actually see through a highpass (redshift?).
I wonder what the comparison of error rates between simple ANPR and "cops typing plates in" looks like...
You really have quite some faith in government, or defense contractors?
True.

Also, like all tales from a culture you haven't lived in, people won't understand that actions that seem crazy today made perfect sense without technology X, Y & Z.
That's a problem for the insurance companies not the airlines.

The reputation damage for the airline is more or less the same.

Also note that while pilot error is the conclusion of about 60% of all aircraft accidents it's not the case for major airlines flying big passenger jets.

That statistic is inflated quite a bit by smaller chartered flights since it counts all accidents with 5 or more passengers onboard.

Also note that that statistic also shows that the majority of accidents happen on taxing, landing or take off.
You'll be surprised by how many taxing accidents there are that cause fatalities which are deemed as pilot error despite that no passenger have been killed but rather ground crew.

There are more taxi accidents than there are accidents at cruising altitude.

So yes pilot error is a big factor, it's smaller for hull loss accidents for large commercial jets but it's still the case.

I should also note that a fatal accident can also still be pilot error despite it having a different root cause like a bird strike or a mechanical problem if the pilot did not perform correctly.
The content owners receive the pirate streams so they can easily see the watermark.

Also, quite a few devices detect the Cinavia watermark and they generally don't advertise it. If Hollywood had their way, every TV and monitor would have watermark detection in it.
Christ what have I been doing with my life...
A “Distance-Traveled” Model for College Admissions
We do leave most laws unenforced. If laws had to be enforced, almost all of them would quickly be thrown out.
"“Most department heads I had were afraid to go to the captain with anything that might look bad for them — they did everything they did to protect their own reputations and wanted nothing to hamper them from eventually getting in the CO seat themselves,” said former Lt. Jonathan Parin, who served onboard the destroyer James E. Williams."

Maybe the Navy's standard reaction of snap-firing the Captain and any involved officers after any significant problem or accident leads to small problems being covered up until they become big problems?
It was sourced from an article. I originally built the tool to see if it could be done (given I knew the DB existed), and then did some Googling and found BlueNet. I wasn't actually trying to do it better/cheaper, it just so happened it had been done before.
The Difficulties of Running a Sex-Inspired Startup
Where's the competition then? Uber's platform is miles ahead of everything else, Lyft included so if its just a map app with balance sheet where are the competitors?
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Translation startup pulls off the ultimate pivotto porn
I completely agree. My company does image recognition in fashion and this dataset is both way too easy and not useful. I'd love to see a client with such an easy problem (telling between shoes and bags in inventory images).

We regularly get high 90's accuracy on real world images where the system has to auto-crop all on its own. Inventory images are far too easy.

What's more, the actual hard cases (like tiny shorts vs tiny skirt, or long blouse vs short dress) would be near impossible to do at such low resolution.
The Frustrations of Trying to Get a Sex Tech Startup Off the Ground – Alternet
I've got a war story about a government project we did for which we invoiced in total ~$80k, which by the time it made it to the media was a "$3.5 million dollar project".
None. You can be a productive ML engineer without understanding the math. Many elitist engineers here will downvote me, but its true. ML libraries that allow you to quickly get productive have come a long way. BUT, you have to have a solid understanding of WHICH algorithms/tools to use WHEN. There is also a lot of "voodoo" knowledge to gain that isn't well documented or explained (unrelated to maths).
This bot is to be written in Django and Python and run on Heroku which makes it fairly similar to web development with that stack, albiet with a different UI.

Google says median web developer salary is $65k/yr or $30/hr, and at $30/hr, $5,000 is 167 hours; or 4.1 weeks (at 40 hrs/wk), or roughly a month; now -> sept 30th, though that is crossed out in the article.

So $5,000 is within reason for that skill set, but do slackbots actually involve that much work? If you haven't seen Github's chatops original talk from four years ago it's worth watching, or at least reading the slides, along with Hubot; the product and its features/interface, as well as its code. There's a decent amount of code involved for Hubot, and Github paid for its development (over far longer than 4.1 weeks, mind you).

The pay is there and the work is involved enough to take that kind of time, but I can't answer if this particular offer will lead to any work, nor how involved that work would be, so whether it would involve stuffing a few strings into an existing framework, or a whole lot of new development; in turn making it a good or bad deal for the buyer, I also cannot say.
I agree. Maybe tension/release are better terms to use then than "conflict". In both the structures presented in the blog you see tension followed by release. It's also pervasive in Western music (don't know enough about Eastern or African music to know how they work).
I don't want to pay $17 (high fake number from a poster above) for a one in a million chance of saving my life. Might as well play the lottery at those odds.
It won't help save passengers money. It will help the perpetually bleeding airliners save $35 billion though, possibly: https://www.ft.com/content/00b23be4-b321-3dd5-af19-fd64c4f7c...
My favourite of Shannon's theorems:

Shannon’s Juggling Theorem

(F+D)H=(V+D)N

F is the time a ball spends in the air (Flight)

D is the time a ball spends in a hand (Dwell), or equivalently, the time a hand spends with a ball in it

V is the time a hand spends empty (Vacant)

N is the number of balls

H is the number of hands

(http://lkozma.net/blog/shannons-juggling-theorem/ for more details)
Where do you get the $1200 figure from?

According to Crunchbase, Uber has raised $11.56 billion thus far and has $6.6 billion has on hand. That means their total invested over 7 years is $4.96 billion. If their acquisition costs per user to be $1200 as you stated, that means that they only have 4.13 million users.

Given that the company did around 15 million trips on New Years Eve, I would venture that they have way more users than 4.13 million. What are you basing your $1200 per user acquired on?

https://www.recode.net/2016/12/29/14116244/uber-new-years-ev...

At $1200 sunk per user, you believe other companies have an advantage starting later. At what value per user do you think Uber will have an advantage against any late upstarts? $300? $200? $500?

There's likely a reason why the only companies in this space that have survived and remained competitive are all at least 4-5 years old. Are there any TNC upstarts that have done well founded in the past 4 years?

Go-Jek 2011

Lyft 2012 (2007 if you count Zimride)

Ola 2010

Didi Chuxing 2012

Grab 2012

Yandex Taxi 2011

Careem 2012

Uber 2009

99Taxis 2013

EasyTaxi 2011
If you want something even more bare-bones than ex or ed, you could use cat as a write-only editor. In combination with head and tail, replacing parts of a file would be possible as well.
If all laws had to be enforced, most of the country would be in jail.
In MMA the UFC is way way more strict than any of the other orgs. You very rarely see champs or big celebs pulled off card ever like you in the the UFC under USADA testing
What ORMs out there natively support sharding well? I use Django the most and whenever I look into Django sharding, I don't see very many options being kept up to date...
This kinda contradicts the idea further up that too much attention is paid to process, at the detriment of, for lack of a better term, "skill" (or "personal responsibility")

I think the focus on process can be terribly annoying, because it's so much easier to say "Bob fell asleep at the machine" than diving into all the events that led up to Bob falling asleep. Note that both can be true or, more accurately, the process problems actually need the statement "bob fell asleep" to be true to make sense.

The idea to prioritise processes is that it's repeatable. Individual behaviour isn't within your control, except for the processes that hired somebody, educated them, defined their tasks, and created the environment in which they perform these tasks.

In a small team, or family, or group of friends, it's perfectly fine to dock Bob's allowance for falling asleep. And the instinct to exact revenge, or punish people is strong, because those instincts are the result of evolution and norms of society, both of which until recently only knew small groups where everyone knew everybody. That's why it takes a lot of discipline to act against these instincts, and obviously, as you said, because focussing on the process may also uncover others who failed, and it is more tedious.

People get frustrated with bureaucracy. Sometimes they're obviously right. But the idea that all bureaucracy is wasteful, or (equally common) that governments have any particular talent for wasteful bureaucracy is somewhat misguided. Because there aren't many examples for organising teams of sometimes hundreds of thousands of people to work on shared goals without a wasteful bureaucracy, and governments and the private sector tend not to differ that much.

I've seen one interesting example of a different structure for organising a large number of people: capitalism. It arguably works, being excellent at delegating authority to exactly the right person for any possible decision. But I believe even that example isn't convincing, if you start considering all the "waste" that capitalism hides in plain sight: advertisement, competing efforts doubling work, the complete financial sector, non-monetary losses due to financial hardship, the losses from unemployment being essentially wasted potential etc.
Correction: it's "scraping"
Then let owners control whether it's enabled or not (by a hardware switch if necessary). As it currently stands, I can't imagine a benign reason that would drive intel and AMD to lock users out of their machines.
What is the benefit in that situation? They know any attack will make the US more hostile, whether they're involved or not.
What I really want is a highly sensitive position tracking set of breathable gloves, probably with some mild electric feedback. We have have loads of sensitivity and control in our hands. Why bother to dangerously wire to the brain when you can input/output via the hands? There would be a learning curve, but if it's possible to read braille and use sign language, I'd think it's possible to relay information to the hand via electric stimulus and from the hand by tracking movement.
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Do you work for an it consulting firm?
Australia also has a fair bit of open data as well. Data.gov.au has about 30K data sets.

http://data.gov.au/
Meet with this person before the formal meeting if you can. Giving an informal rundown gives time for processing and formulating well-thought-out questions/flags.

Provide as much material as you can on the new stack proposal. Make it clear that there are sufficient learning resources available and that the stack is well-supported/maintained on all levels.

Clearly define the issues with stack X (and make sure you're right!) AND clearly define how stack Y addresses these issues. If this stack was picked out of a hat, so to speak, then you hve more work to do to sell it. Hopefully there was a trade-off analysis or some other research you can point to that shows that stack Y wasn't picked on a whim.

Make it your goal to know stack Y AND stack X inside and out prior to the meeting. You'll get a lot more buy-in if you propose changes from a knowledgeable perspective rather than appearing to scoff at the current standard without understanding the reasoning behind the choice to use it.

Do not, under any circumstances, over-promise benefits to stack Y or make baseless claims about it. Sometimes changing stacks is more of a lateral move and that's ok as long as you're clear about it. Making claims that turn out to be false or misleading will hurt your credibility.

Don't try to address all concerns at this meeting. Record feedback and note that you'll research each concern and follow up with what you've found, which can either be positive or negative. (For example, one part of your stack could have an annoying pain point that's expected to be resolved eventually but users are living with it for now).
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I've worked with state government and fortune 50(0)s, so I get where you're coming from. Costs that are just part of doing business seem like enormous waste to outsiders. That being said, I've heard some horrible war stories. NDAs but.
You are right,the specific case about 2009 crash could be of NASA spacecraft. But what about the entire context of the article ?
I was musing on that too. I did some (likely flawed) calculations and got a much higher number. But I was figuring training costs, hotels, per diems, medicals. All that stuff stacks up with a pilot.

You can probably also factor in a large component of overhead just managing 12,712 people. Scheduling, logistics, HR, etc, etc.

Even if you said it's in the range of $17-30 per passenger, that's pretty significant on many routes - particular high-volume short-haul.

You can also probably fit a dozen more seats on the plane.
Another example of tax arbitrage. I have a friend in Portland, Oregon who owns a multimillion dollar business and lives 20 miles away from Vancouver, Washington. Oregon's top income tax bracket is 11%, Washington has no income tax. When it comes time to sell his business, by moving to Vancouver for a year he can increase his net worth by a half million or more and his income for the rest of his live by over 12% a year.
I'll answer, though not OP.

Medicare is a pretty good example. As best I'm aware, that program's negotiated rate is less than the average private insurer for any given procedure, which is pretty impressive.

Public broadcasting tends to do quite a lot on a continually reduced budget.

There are a number of programs that are generally inefficient, and while I'd very much like to see greater efficiency, I'd also be very much ok seeing those existing programs have more money: education, infrastructure, Medicaid.

And I feel like most people who malign the government's inefficiency have either never been exposed to the inefficiencies in the private sector, or willfully turn a blind eye to those inefficiencies to make a point. In my experience, all large organizations/projects suffer from an incredible amount of waste - the government is just the poor jerk that deals with some of the largest possible organizations/projects and then has publish that inefficiency for everyone to point at and critique.
We are pretty much screwed... the "smart" power meters can also probably "help".
The whole point of black swans is that you can't predict them. They are equally likely to happen when the market (or a particular security) is going up or when it's going down. I don't see any reason to think you'd be more likely to be out of the market when something unpredictable happens.
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12712 pilots * 200K average salary w/ overhead = $2.5B

That is not a small number.

$354 average domestic fair x 143M passengers = $50.6B in total fairs.

So $2.5B pilot cost is roughly 5% of their total costs. You can not lower gas costs nor airport costs nor plane costs much, but if you could eliminate $2.5B in salary, and add more flexibility, then yeah, I'd say there is massive incentive if the marketing and safety issues can be overcome.
Ask HN: Has anyone successfully opposed a patent before?
In https://patents.stackexchange.com/ and Quora, I can find discussion on how to oppose a patent by submitting prior art but would like to know if anyone can share their experience in opposing a patent. A walk through of the whole process will definitely help a lot.

Here is the background on the code generation patent that should not be granted in my opinion as there are open-source projects doing the same thing a while back:

https://twitter.com/fehguy/status/900736518884425728
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