skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. It is a lot like the business guy thinking it is trivial to program a 'SaaS business' because he has a high level idea in his mind. Like all things programming the devil is in the detail.
It treats it's students no better. The student loan crisis is by far the biggest foot in Academia's mouth. Academia's politics don't apply to academia.
Thanks for the reply - I appreciate the information. I read your other comment and it shed some light.
https://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/07/how-to-disable-auto-playin...

It's a bit annoying for pages like Youtube where you do want autoplay to work, so you have to move the timeline cursor a bit, but the upside is worth it.

Also available in Chrome, I hear.
uBlock to the rescue. I didn't see any ads. Although it doesn't always work on stupid auto-play videos.
SpaceX 3d prints SuperDraco[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDraco
"sitting on it" would require literally keeping it in cash in your safe. If put "in a bank", unless you mean a safety deposit box, is (to some approximation, in theory, in the not to distant past, maybe) reinvested by the bank. That is how the bank makes money.
This doesn't quite answer the question that you're asking, but there's a semi-old research paper that seems related to what you want: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/csk/projects/escherization/ No readily-usable scripts that I'm aware of unfortunately.
http://tachyons.io/ + Bootstrap make a great combo. Especially if using a build system like webpack.

Bootstrap has a nice grid system (although the actual CSS standard is amazing now) and handles basic elements like buttons well. For everything else, Tachyon's component helpers make layouts really easy and fast.
Google already owns 8% of Uber and Uber recent repricing valuation was $70b. So Google stills has a lot more invested in Uber.

Plus Google is rumored to be starting their own ride sharing. Think Google is covering their bases.
people who don't want to get woken up if Amazon decides to terminate said i3.16xlarge...
> I think it makes me more sympathetic to her case. If Harvard had not hired her, or TED not promoted her, she would not have been subject to nearly the same scrutiny or ire as she was. Ironically, she might have had a better shot at a good long-term career. But who, at that point, would have turned down either of these prizes? I know I wouldn't have.

There is a concept in management called the Peter principle, which is that "managers rise to the level of their incompetence". I've always worried about it in myself - I work hard to advance my career, but is it possible I'm sabotaging my own long term success? What if I get the high-profile new responsibilities I'm striving towards... and then fail spectacularly?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Can't use ad block on my dev machine, or at least shouldn't.
Trademarks operate within a product category.

The USPTO lists 8 different categories where "Gutenberg" is currently used as a trademark and a further 13 "dead" categories where it was used historically.

If you wanted to use Gutenberg in a different category – e.g. The Gutenberg fruit smoothie maker – you'd probably have no difficulty trademarking the name.

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4810%3A1...
I'm not going to do the search, but there are already quite a few stories of that.
I eat in Chinatown a lot and there are lots of options that fit the bill. There's also like Chipotle or Boston Market but maybe you wouldn't count those.
Duolingo is not a game, but a language learning app. One of the most important parts of learning a language is to stick at it. The payoff for taking Duolingo's bet is that you get better at the language that you're using Duolingo for in the first place. Whereas for games, the only real payoff for winning at them is bragging rights.
Several things to note in this issue.

1. Regarding huge number of grads and few people voting - wiki and other aggregate sources of info will only tell you the total number of students listed as "enrolled" at the school. Not all of them taught in the previous five quarters. That actually reduces the number of grads eligible to vote drastically.

2. Regarding the comments linking union to money. It is by no means guaranteed that a union can increase the salaries paid to grad students. And in fact most grad students (at least at the PhD level) survive off the stipend not the TA/RA salary. As far as I understand the union has no bearing in the stipend amount. There is also the thing that UChicago is cash strapped. It doesn't have the liquid assets to increase anyone's salaries. (Look up the aggressive campaign to sell UChicago owned buildings in HP if you are curios).

3. A union, as an organization of people, by definition caters to the average contributor. In a factory where the workers provide similar enough service that 'an average' is still a meaningful concept, a union can do some good. In my opinion, in a union of all grad students across all departments, 'average demand' is meaningless. Each department can't even agree internally on what their students need, so I'm not sure how a union will find common ground among all the departments. On the one hand limiting the number of hours in a work day sounds good, no? But ask a science grad - they will likely complain that they no longer have time to finish their experiment in time. Giving students a choice in which class they want to TA sounds good, no? But ask a student in humanities - they will tell you that seventeen of them apply for the same spot that only one person can have so they would prefer assigned positions not chosen ones. Etc, etc, etc.
It's not just the opened ones. Every time I go into a WeWork I usually end up opening several things of milk to see if there are any that haven't gone bad, and there almost never are. It's like they're turning off the refrigerators at night or something.

It's literally been a problem for several years. The company even acknowledged the problem on Twitter at one point, but didn't bother fixing it.[1] It shouldn't be that complicated to provide non-rancid milk for the coffee. Even in my home fridge milk lasts two weeks after being opened, and that's several degrees warmer than it would be if milk were the only thing being stored in it.

[1] https://twitter.com/i/web/status/840264145467518978
Think this will be a winner take all. So would agree on a monopoly and Google is well positioned.
Proving collusion in the modern environment is an uphill battle.

Just look at the telecommunications industry.
That's rather ignorant.

But if you'd prefer to stick your head in the sand and keep espousing your negative experience with PHP from many years ago despite numerous people advocating the many improvements that happened over the years then that is your prerogative.
YC interviews are far better documented than I realized: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=yc%20interview&sort=byPopulari...

Firsthand experiences: http://initialized.com/last-minute-tips-for-yc-interviewees, https://hackernoon.com/how-to-ace-your-yc-interview-5c078aea..., https://alchemist.svbtle.com/our-yc-interviews

Simulators/questions: https://jamescun.github.io/iPG/, http://proto.dheera.net/yc/
The math doesn't work out. Just giving everyone $10k annually will dwarf what we're currently spending on benefits. And Social Security is the third rail of politics; it won't be reduced, ever.
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Thanks, I’ll check that out.
The sad truth is that over the last 60 years the academics have been seeing more and more power over the University ripped away from them by middle management. So they aren't really in charge. If you speak with an academic in the US about this they will agree that it's a bad situation for everyone...except the middle managers.
I don't know where the articles source is but this linked study says there are no improved affects with with dual n back training.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4820261/

This meta analysis says there's a small affect

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-014-0699-x
That seems to be the same guy?
Well, I think we should call the nuclear reactor complex "George gorge" and that it should be painted hot pink. Oh, and by the way backup safety seal 1a9-562 needs to have it ts annular tolerance reduced by 0.5mm at 230C or there may be a 5:1 exponential increase in failure probability over 10 year replacement lifetimes in class two failure scenarios.
It sounds like an interesting idea, but I'm not sure I buy it.

It makes sense that building single use rockets is expensive, and with only one launch to amortize the construction cost, labor is a huge factor (materials in a rocket are pretty normal: a lot of carbon fiber, aluminum, titanium, etc). But with reusable rockets, you are bringing that cost way down. If you are able to launch and land 5 times on the same rocket, then effectively you've brought the cost of the rocket to 1/5th of what it used to be.

"a handful of the arms can work together to create the rocket’s entire body as a single piece"

Once you get into reusable rockets, I'm not sure that trying to 3d print the whole thing will turn out. Why? Because you need replaceable parts. You need to be able to tear down, inspect, and replace parts as each part of the rocket has a different lifetime. If you make the rocket as one giant piece, and use efficient methods (reduce weight, size, etc), that it would be much less serviceable over its lifetime.

"We want to get to 1,000 moving parts, fewer than a car."

This is why subassemblies of cars are so expensive, even if you only need to replace a small part of one assembly.
I wouldn't be surprised if, for the average scientist, it's that 20% risk... or nothing.
Agreed. The extent to which human testiminy is relied upon in court is a scandal. Especially with how much we now know about the ubiquity of human incorrectness, bias and lies.
She's also calling out either Frankston or Bricklin, kind of weird to leave it unspoken who it was but to accuse both of them at the same time. Either name the person or leave it unspecified at least so no shadow hangs over someone who you know didn't do anything.
Salespeople pay for leads. Businesses pay for online clicks. Advertisers pay for eyeballs.

I don't see this as a bright-line case.
The Christian God is also from two other religions, but it's Jesus' teachings in particular that appeal to me. Admittedly those teachings could be equally valid without him being the son of God or the Messiah, but there are several angles from which Christianity does make more sense to me than other religions. Though I admit my knowledge about most other religions is much more superficial.

I'm sure it also matters that I was raised a Christian, but my faith now is not exactly the same as it was when I was young. It went through a lot of phases before ending up like this.
When I read these accounts they read to me like they’re from another planet. I’ve been in the industry for 20+ years, and not once have I been in a situation with my coworkers where such a thing would even be _feasible_, let alone acceptable. Maybe I don’t get invited to the “right” events? I don’t know. But all of this seems completely alien to all environments that I’ve ever worked in.
rdesktop is pretty easy to drop-in and use, with a nice GUI. They focus on Windows remote desktop compatibility instead of VNC, which can make it easier for some.
A bird’s eye look at Pyongyang
1. It matters a lot because you need to optimize the structure and engines for weight and 3D printing lets you make strong, and yet mostly hollow materials.
I'm not sure the uchicago sell off is because they are cash strapped. probably because uchicago feels like it no longer has to ensure that hyde park experiences urban decay (aka why they bought the buildings) and to shift those funds it into something with a better rate of return.
It's probably the same phenomenon like unions who fight for worker rights are often very abusive employers themselves. I have seen this in Germany and in the US.
I would pick Google easily. They're working on a product I can't live without. They don't have "the largest open office in the world".
Oh, yeah. Solution is to never have kids.
whenever I hear people say such things as "Oh..this app won't work well with RDBMS and it definitely needs a Document style Db.", I recall that facebook from its beginning and still use MySQL (RDBMS) database. This proves that RDBMS is relentlessly scalable and can work with very complex apps.
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> each square foot of your research is ~$420/month for rent

I think you missed a decimal point or two here -- $42,000/month for a 100 square foot office can't be right :).
Scoble should be entirely blacklisted from attending any tech conferences. Boycott anything he touches. His entire livelihood is based on the fact that he has an audience and can promote things: he is very vulnerable to public opinion.

Let's destroy his career. Everywhere he posts, remind people that he's a sexual abuser.

Hopefully, if we can proverbially put his head on a pike, it will scare other potential abusers from committing crimes like these.

EDIT: Wow, seems like this post is making the rape apologists feel insecure. It's raining downvotes.
Yes. Google wns 8% of Uber and Uber recent pricing was a valuation of $70b. So Google investment into Uber much higher. Google want to cover bases I suspect. SDC is all about ride sharing.
Ask HN: Recruiting firm promising paycheck
I'm not going to get into too many specifics here, but a recruiting firm put me through 2 technical interviews, located in a major metropolitan area, and later decided they were going to guarantee a paycheck even if we don't obtain a contract w/in 'X'# of weeks.

In return I'm expected to provide 100% exclusivity.

I've never come across this sort of thing. Is this common in big cities like NYC, SF, Chicago?

EDIT: I have not made a decision yet.
Edge, so you can be rebellious. It has good debug tools too.
What are Automatic Lights ?
ach, the interminable hatred of mongodb is an anthropological artifact worthy of study.

It's the only truly working example of a horizontally scalable arbitrary document storage and retrieval system with indexing on any element. It is a much more general tool then an RDBS, and should never be used when an RDBS would do the job.

However, it's really good at collecting searchable, arbitrary schemaless data in real time. The newest versions do what they're supposed to do rather well, it's a tool like any other tool.

That said, the company is guilty of overhyping for sure, and I wouldn't invest in the stock on a rational basis.
Pfff, commies are everywhere. I'm getting youtube spam from them now
This would be a long time coming. In my experience athletes at big programs are even more vulnerable and more exploited than graduate students.

It's a similar situation, but there are even less professional jobs, less alternatives after graduation, and a n increased risk for injury.
Long after I posted my other reply, I discovered someone's solution to multiple monitors in VirtualBox!
They are basically running an experiment to force supply. It’ll probably be a 0 sum game for the drivers, with profits (in comparison to normal driving) if they drive more than $350.
I've heard that internal buses in high performance aircraft also use time-domain reflectometry such as this to detect wiring faults before they interrupt service.
Luckey is going to have to grow up to survive in this space.
Again, the math simply doesn't work out. The tax increases will be huge, and since most of the real tax revenue is in the middle class, you'll have to bump their tax rates up dramatically.

Giving UBI of $10K/year to every citizen of the US is $3.25T. That's more than all the Federal revenues in 2017 (0). And $10K isn't enough. So you'll end up needing confiscatory tax rates on everyone, and possible a wealth tax (not just income). The distorting effect of this level of taxation would be incredible, just from an economic viewpoint. From a political view, it would lead to revolution.

[0] - http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/l/120/2017-Estimate
I am missing something, I think? Walmart and Toyota both have competition. Just yesterday, there was a good read about Dollar General. There are young automaking companies in China and India, though not really in the US market.

I assume I'm missing something.
I don't think that assumption was unfair. The way that the previous comment was framed, Google implemented this so that other browsers seemed slow. Those intentions seem pretty evil.

With the framing of pushing browsers to implementing the Web Components standard it seems much less evil.

I think the true motivations are likely somewhere in the middle.
Congrats on shipping the 2nd Beta!

My favorite part of Bootstrap 4 is actually its newly included CSS reset Reboot [0]. It's built on Normalize, but also provides a set of very compelling improvements like making use of the native font stack, a bunch of very sensible spacing and layout adjustments, and built-in optimizations for touch responsiveness (removing the 300ms delay). I'm definitely going to be trying it out on my next project regardless of whether or not it uses Bootstrap itself.

With that said, I don't mean to rain on the parade, but I've been gradually deviating away from using CSS frameworks for my projects, not because I don't _want_ to use them, but rather because most CSS frameworks don't seem to mix naturally with component-oriented CSS-in-JS libraries like glamorous [1], which is my preferred way to work with styling these days.

If I do include a CSS framework, I end up having to use a mix of custom component-scoped styles and global CSS classes from these frameworks, and those CSS classes may have margins and cascading effects that reach into children. This breaks component-level style isolation, and makes the styling of children much harder to reason about, which defeats much of the purpose of using component-oriented CSS to begin with.

What I really want to do is to import styles from a well designed CSS framework _as a JS module_ (but I'm willing to accept anything that's properly namespaced and isolated, like CSS Modules), and compose them with my own styles without worrying about a polluted global namespace or styles from parents reaching into children/vice versa or fighting with specificity issues.

So far, I haven't found any CSS frameworks that fit the bill, but Tachyons [2] seems like it could be close enough (by emphasizing modular, low specificity, shallowly cascading styles) that I could maybe just run it through a CSS to JS compiler like native-css [3] and import its classes and compose them as I would with any other JS style object. This is something I'm going to experiment with soon enough, but I'd love to hear if others have any thoughts/experiences they'd like to share on using CSS frameworks with component-oriented CSS.

[0] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/content/reboot/

[1] https://glamorous.rocks/

[2] http://tachyons.io/

[3] https://github.com/raphamorim/native-css
> Mark your calendars for 5-10 years after you first see an actual autonomous vehicle having any type of real world application at all. Which you haven't.

What's your criteria here?

Because I have the same opinion as you... Except I've literally seen experimental autonomous cars driving on the street... Hence +3 years for SV, and +5 for NYC.

Taxis are not the vanguard, they're just the most visible. Autonomous trucking is underway and will likely see mass adoption before taxis.

The revolution is close - we're seeing disruption everywhere. I could empathize if this was an isolated Google vaporware experiment... but every class of vehicle has promising automation, researched by dozens of companies around the world, and implementing multiple approaches.

Most will fail, of course, but we are on the cusp of success.
Yes, except you are 100% in control of what goes on on your server and could easily falsify data. The _whole_ point of cryptocurrencies is to avoid that.
There are some SpaceX alumni at Relativity.
I'm not really sure why you need the requirement of infinite sequences to do functional programming, or the restriction of no intermediate variables. Let bindings seem like a nice thing to have.
B.S. They may "earn" $6k or less per year, but they're not living on that. There's EITC, welfare, disability, etc etc. When I was a student, I "lived" on $500/month, but that was because I was a damn student working part time waiting tables. Had I been fully employed, my annual income would have been much higher.
Small correction: Gelman is at Columbia, not NYU.
I kinda hate the template syntax, though.

Example:

{{ if and (or (isset .Params "title") (isset .Params "caption")) (isset .Params "attr")}}
Missed the point completely...
“They” being who? The criteria were negotiated by the union organizers and the university, with the NLRB mediating.
Well, F... :)

Thanks for pointing that out. Will get it fixed.
> Charity is not a legitimate role for government.

Charity is the raison d'être of government. A government is there to run your society. That means doing things for people, even if it's just printing passports and employing a police department.
Autumn 2016 is only one year ago... just fyi, not two.

So no contradiction - that is only ppl who taught in the last one year. So it does not include those who took a year off or did field work.
What they didn't default to Grids and provide a fallback? the grid system examples in their docs are scary.
gp also misnamed Brian Wansink as Andrew Wansink
She was propped up between two of my friends, walked away from the scene, and looked after for the evening. Both of those guys will have my undying respect for what they did that night.

Yes, this. The antidote to bad men is good men. It doesn't help to tar all men with the same brush for simply being male.

Once she was outed as a victim, the hate mail, the barrage of nasty questions, the endless accusations took, such a toll on her. Eventually, she took her own life. She’d just never been able to put it all back together after that.

This is one reason a lot of women stay silent: to protect themselves or other innocent bystanders, not the perpetrator.

The demonization of either rapists or victims is what makes the subject unapproachable, and doesn’t let anyone intercede to get abusive people the help they need, much less the victims.

This is an excellent piece and I am so glad she wrote it. My utmost respect for this incredible lady.
Know the Facts is provided by the University of Chicago.

Ah. Good to know. No further questions, your honour.
Stating zero tolerance and giving someone 'one more chance' is called being complicit.
I'm more curious about what a brand new account is doing in here defending uber so vociferously.

Guerilla Pr, perhaps?
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That's exactly the opposite of what the author of the article hoped to accomplish:

>I’m very mixed on this. I believe if we don’t provide paths of redemption for badly behaved people, we enable abusers as much as we do by remaining silent. I also believe we need to talk about these things plainly, and we need to seek to help and elevate the victims.

>The demonization of either rapists or victims is what makes the subject unapproachable, and doesn’t let anyone intercede to get abusive people the help they need, much less the victims.
I don't think so. I meant this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15502923