skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not a huge fan of the modern C++ style that obsessively avoids null pointers and instead uses object references that are created in an invalid/empty state. With a pointer there is a single way to represent “nothing”, regardless of what the object represents. With a reference I have to go read the API to understand the “nothingness” states.

Also, when you’re thinking in pointers, it’s easy to add levels of indirection with the same mental tools (pointers to pointers, etc.) Personally I find it’s easier to solve problems with a limited orthogonal toolset than a sprawling array of marginally differently balanced optimizations, which is what most of C++ has become.
I believe it does have to do with 3rd party licensing. Last time I checked the freesync portion of the driver was only in AMDGPU-Pro, which is what I'm looking forward to the most.
I agree with you, with css grids and flexbox I really don't use bootstrap much for new projects. The grid doesn't seem to make sense to me anymore.

BUT, bootstrap is still awesome for the design elements.
I can't wait for people to stop expecting that putting #!/usr/bin/env python at the top of their scripts will lead to python2 being used.
So both sides, plus a government body which is going to be skewed anti-labor in a Republican administration.
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Based on prior behaviour I wouldn't call it highly unlikely.
Wow, what a bundle of assumptions and arrogance, all wrapped around abysmal reading comprehension.

I might worry about responding again after you write something that replies to what I actually wrote, not whatever you apparently imagined. But honestly, likely not, given your attitude.
>UBI is a scheme intended to increase consumption, that is, destroy property.

What property does UBI destroy, and why don't increases in consumption through other means also destroy property?
A lot of people in Copenhagen (and other European cities) ride bikes with rear pedal breaks or “coaster brakes”. Which makes signalling easier as you have a free hand when breaking!

Also worth checking out is this signalling guide! [1]

[1] https://roadcyclinguk.com/how-to/technique/essential-guide-r...
Is density really a good thing in any capacity beyond the single point of enabling more specialized jobs to exist there?
ride that gravy train till there is no more gravy
No. In this case "mobile first" meant that their user identity was a phone number, not a username or email address.
Thanks for the article. There's a class of problems that I wouldn't know how to solve using the constrains you propose.

Given

{ a: { b: { c: 4 } }, d: 2 }

return

{ 'a.b.c': 4, d: 2 }

My go to solution uses mutable state, self-recursion, and intermediate variables:

function flatten(source) {
var result = {}
_flatten(source, null, result)
return result
}

where `_flatten(source, prefix, result)` is self-recursive (`prefix` accumulates the keys) and populates `result[prefix]=value` when value is a string. `result` is conceptually an IO monad that's passed along.

I guess the general problem would be traverse a tree of arbitrary depth and accumulate structured data on the go. Prominent examples would be compilers.

Any hints on where to start?
Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, your reputation is practically all you have to worry about.
Thank you for the link. I donated, and probably wouldn't have if you hadn't.
> That happens with Uber consistently. The cab companies hate them with a white hot fire and there are plenty of media outlets who are happy to take a story from a PR flack, especially when it generates page views.

> When people complain about surge pricing and then complain about things that mitigate surge pricing, that is pretty good evidence that they just want to complain about something.

That's an ad-hominem. If you're going to claim people are complaining just to complain then you need to support your case that this sleazy pay-to-play scheme isn't a sleazy pay-to-play scheme.

Just because Uber is trying to fix something bad (surge pricing) doesn't mean their solution (this ridiculous scheme) isn't also bad.

> > What makes this potentially unethical (in my mind) is where the price is set. If it's set at a point where Uber's models predict the average benefit to a driver is $0 then this is essentially shifting the risk to their employees.

> But in that case why would anyone take the deal?

The first problem is that drivers have no way to know that until they've lost money on the deal. Uber has a team of accountants to figure out their expected returns while the average driver does not.

Also, as others have pointed out, there's a conflict of interest for Uber because they control who gets called up, so they can avoid sending rides to drivers who are about to cross the threshold for a payout from this scheme.

> If they did that then the drivers would pay $115 to make back $116 (or $110) and then never do it again because it's not worth the risk.

It's not that simple, though. Since Uber controls who gets rides, they can make sure that some portion of drivers come out ahead using this scheme. When other drivers claim they lost money or just broke even, the "winning" drivers can chime in that the scheme worked great for them. The end result is confusion and uncertainty, so that nobody outside of Uber itself really knows one way or the other how it will turn out.

With as many drivers as Uber has, they can probably fake it for quite a while.
You haven't heard of it because the reporting and coverage is biased, not because it doesn't happen.

That's similar to the situation with sexual harassment, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

It's not that men aren't often the victims of these things (studies report that they are, at nearly the same rate as women[1, 2]). It's that men rarely report these things, and when they do, receive little sympathy, coverage, or justice.

1: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/04/male_...

2: http://domesticviolencestatistics.org/men-the-overlooked-vic...
> with tons of data

Define tons of data. I'll bet a beer that what you say can fit on a single postgres instance and even be small enough to run fine on a cheapish developer laptop.
A parts-per-billion measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment
Well _maybe_ reference sites _are_ meaningless as measure of production readiness?
I vaguely remember the photo but not the South Park episode (it might exist though)
Boring Company Hat
It can be a nice experience, but I wouldn't call it therapeutic. I mean, it won't change your personality or anything like that.
This is a direct consequence of rising enrollment rates in college. A degree is a largely a positional good - it only helps your employment prospects by making the limited number of open positions more likely to be filled by you rather than someone without a degree. In other words, the marginal extra law degree results in nearer to zero additional employed lawyers, rather than one.
This seems to be the case at all of the "rent a small workspace"-type places I've tried in Seattle, with or without regular doors. Ballard Studioworks has virtually no insulation and has a lot of noisy businesses or just people who like to blast music at concert levels. Activspace in Lake City was a little better but the floors shook every time someone moved a piece of furniture. Wework Holyoke was like working in a fishbowl with really nice furniture.

I dunno, maybe I'm just too picky. I don't want a community or all of that. I just want a place that isn't where I live that's quiet, has Internet access and bathrooms, and the rent doesn't have a comma in the dollar amount.
The most top-voted Hacker News comments are always just Astroturfed, regurgitated, circlejerk PR that always seem to slyly play the devil's advocate. Who are these educated and responsible citizens that come out of the woodwork to defend the huge and vulnerable billion-dollar companies, ultra-humanitarians, or just ambitious, above-average students studying for a reading comprehension exam?

I'll take my downvote now, please.
Is modular css changing bootstrap adoption? I'm a backend guy so I don't have much experience to develop a sense of large-scale front-end trends. I've used bootstrap since early v3 in various places and usually found it time-saving, easy to build responsively, and fairly easy to customize.

However, just as frameworks like angular and libraries like react are "componentizing" the front end and replacing general purpose utilities like jQuery, will we see a similar trend with modular css where component styles will replace the need for large css frameworks like bootstrap? Or is modular css merely a complement to whatever sitewide css framework you've chosen?
Wordpress? What about Project Gutenberg?

https://www.gutenberg.org/
Standard sirens: deriving the Hubble Constant from the neutron star merger
Maybe it's time to question your belief that academia is inherently liberal.
It's been getting better recently as third parties have taken on the work of maintaining drivers for Qualcomm chipsets, there are now a lot of their chipsets which can run on upstream kernels, and if Android kernels were closer to upstream, AOSP kernels could probably be built to function on some Qualcomm chipsets today.
The university pays for the graduate student salary, not the faculty.

Edit: My knowledge of funding comes from a sample size of 1 (wife's cousin doing genetic engineering out of St Louis) so it's possible I've made a mistake extrapolating too widely.
High School Club Builds Self-Driving Vehicle
Why not? I run it and just disable it on work sites.
I’m not saying it’s not true. I’m just genuinely wondering if I simply don’t get invited to the kinds of gatherings where such things could possibly transpire, and why that is. I don’t think I’m quite _that_ boring or unattractive.
Same way Social Security works - with the exception of federal taxes and criminal judgements, SS payments are largely exempt from garnishment or other actions to seize assets to repay debts. You can't lose your UBI by taking a loan and gambling the proceeds away, because the debtor cannot force you to use UBI to repay the loan.
Right, that's what I mean about HTML tooling. It's a fine data format but DOM manipulation isn't very good compared to a JSON data structure with native integration into javascript and more universal parsing ability. The mobiledoc format is a good start at standardization.
AWS is quite expensive. It's not the case that it's cheap. Rather, you pay more for convenience.

The idea that startups "must" pay AWS or equivalent is the kind of idiotic junk that only rags like the NYT could come out with. Nothing stops you buying your own hardware and racking it. For many companies that's in fact a better option than paying for cloud services!
Currently it only runs on the desktop.
Wow, nice observation, it's bizarre that they are all from the same author. I wonder if that's due to domain familiarity, small sample size, or some more nefarious reason (she does have a book published on the subject?). I wonder how common this sort of thing is.
At least. I’ve seen lots and lots of internal tools, product admin dashboards, and the occasional single-page product marketing sites, like the one the overworked intern, Todd, threw together in the 24 hours between the time the virtually-without-requirements demand was dropped on his tiny, cramped, mid-bullpen loaner desk and when he launched it into production to zero thanks.
That makes sense. I question assuming that self-identified "marxists" are merely analysts of class and capitalism.

These things are necessarily correlated and I'm not sure the necessity of drawing the line. Why not just use another term?

It seems to me we are making a rhetorical space for bourjois marxists. Why?
You won’t be reusing the parts without some refurb work. It’ll be more labor than the initial inspection. For one you’ll be poking around for signs of wear you might not look for on a new part.

Think about how expensive it was to replace the heat shield tiles on the shuttle. The shuttle was “reusable” but the repairs were hell.
Well I can also distinctly remember watching Bob Dylan and The Band performing Too Much of Nothing on the Muppet Show, but I couldn't find any proof it ever happened on google, so maybe I'm confabulating it, or google's covering it up.
In case you are interested, he is going to make a statement about it : [1]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble/posts/1015578291863465...
> so long as there's some JOIN support, via referencing nested documents vs direct nesting)

Which has its own problems. PG does this just fine, with a full battle-tested relational system to back it (and you) up.

> with key-value tables all over the place which NoSQL would have removed the need for.

Product X having a stupid schema is not a good basis for an argument for or against a particular product.
The Opening of 'The World’s Most Useless Airport' in Remote Saint Helena
I talk about the problems with Fiske and you say:

"Cuddy herself, in the linked article, even asks: "Why not come to a conference or hold a seminar?""

I am not criticizing Cuddy. Fiske is editor of PNAS, former president of APS, and is putting her criticisms in APS Observer. The difference between a journal and an official magazine of a scientific organization is irrelevant in this concept, in that the supposed superiority of an edited journal is what is in question here when the editor is not good, and is not considering the context of the discussion.

I am pointing out the utter hypocrisy in her argument that you shouldn't point out statistical errors on blogs, while she is pointing this out in a publication she controlled. She wants people to be able to protect their undeserved status, it is clear.

The entire idea that science needs to be locked up in limited access journals (or magazines) is not a good one. The real issue is that the quality of PNAS has been pretty low. Fiske's response to that is to try to discourage open criticism. Open data is one of the reasons that people were able to find these errors. Resistance to publishing failed replications is not proper behavior. We have now seen PNAS publish a few letters describing errors, and hopefully the standards will improve. However, it hardly seems like a person whose response is to lean toward hiding the discourse is the right person to do it?
Ya, looking at npm repos.
Oh. How boring. Wonder if I should include that as an example... It's a valid example of how urban legends evolve, after all.
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

That format seems to work for the #2 company on the Fortune 500. Not that their website is beautiful, but sometimes it simply doesn't even matter.
it's almost like progressives are actually pieces of shit, who woulda thunk?
What I remember hating the most was just how successful people like him - and there are plenty - are at being popular.

This is really what boggles my mind. There are so so many people who are "independent consultants or innovators or specialists" but don't code, don't do product management or sales or any other of the core things that businesses do. Yet people somehow listen to them as though they are experts - despite having no expertise or hands on.

I'd love for someone to explain why and how these people get to be well known.
If you're dealing with billion row tables and using mongodb you are way out of your league. Good luck.
While null may be the simplest way to represent nothing between a large amount of data types, I think the biggest issue (beyond how far null can propagate from the source in error scenarios) is that it's overloaded with too many possible meanings. Does it mean nothing was found? Was an error thrown? Is the value itself null?
At least with a well defined API, you can determine these scenarios from a glance. I think that handling types like, None, Err("reason"), or Some(None) (using Rust types) is far clearer than looking at a null pointer and an int error code (which one may ignore).
For maximum visibility safety when riding alone, I turn on the maximum-output, blinking mode (which IIRC is actually illegal in some other countries). But when group riding, dim it down and turn it on to the solid-on mode.
Sorry, I meant "correct" and not "right," as the former is objective and the latter can be (though often isn't) subjective. MongoDB is not correct; in fact, it is provably incorrect. If your needs to don't require correctness, then by all means.
I agree that the article is kind of useless, but I think you're maybe over-estimating the difficulty of racking your own machines. You don't have to build your own physical building to run your own hardware, and unless you're using tens of thousands of machines they don't die that often. The savings from bringing it in house can be substantial.

On the other hand, if you need some of the more exotic cloud services that don't exist or exist very badly in the self hosted space i.e. you are really paying for access to their software stacks, then sure.
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The gist is that googling those two words revealed how Robert might have acquired his personal demons. I find that important to paint a more complete picture instead of only looking at what he did under the influence. It's an explanation for the defect he carries around, but ultimately he has control over the triggers that activate the behavior, so I fully agree with you that he cannot be excused and am sorry if you thought I was trying to excuse the behavior.
Or hoping someone will fix and submit a pull request.
A Woman Went Blind After Stem Cells Were Injected in Her Eyes
After reading the little thread you were involved with, the lasting impression I come away with is that you were the only who needs an attitude adjustment, and that you see almost no value in any comments that others make that don't mirror your quite narrow views.
Absolutely. It's predatory lending in many cases. There is a choice on behalf of the students, but they are often completely ignorant about finance and the job market. The K-12 education system is failing to equip young people to understand and deal with the real world, so I see that as a root cause of these problems.
There are certainly many other powerful men in the tech world who have done similar things, gotten away with it, and believe that they can continue without repercussions.

I hope the response to this story is lasting and harsh enough to send a message to other sexual abusers. If Scoble's career is ended by this story, I think a clear example of 'sexual abuse ends careers of the powerful' would do a lot to reduce this kind of behavior in the future.

If this blows over after a few news cycles, women will be worse off.
I'm a grad student myself, so I'm speaking from experience.

As far as I know, in virtually all US public universities, faculty members have to pay for research assistants from their own grant money. The university I am at helps the faculty by charging less for the student's tuition (out-of-state to in-state).

Maybe you are confusing RA funding with TA funding?
Isn't this also true for anyone that has to pay money to commute to work?
> The whole "Could it happen"? section is a bit strange. On the one hand, it focuses on CNNs when it's clear we're talking about a binary classifier (the article itself points that out). If Fredkin was really the originator of the story, then discussing CNNs is an anachronism (they were 30 years away at the time).

? How is it strange? Presumably people are not, right now, still retelling the story because they are terribly afraid that there are perceptrons out there from the 1960s lurking, waiting to strike, or that anyone is going to go out and try to use 1960s style perceptrons. People are telling it as a cautionary story about current NNs, in the 2000s and 2010s and 2017. Which means... CNNs. So it's worth asking, can it happen with CNNs as trained by any reasonably standard workflow?

> More importantly, it's obvious that "it" could definitely happen and in fact happens a lot- "it" being overfitting to examples.

Overfitting is not dataset bias, as I note several times. For example, dropout or heldout datasets or crossvalidation are highly effective in fighting/detecting overfitting, but do nothing about dataset bias.
Just anecdotally, I was a rave DJ for 5-6 years and rolled almost weekly for several years of that time frame, along with mixing and matching various other club drugs pretty frequently.

I was a mess as a human being for a big chunk of that time frame, but ten years later I’m a senior software developer making very good money, with a wife and kids. As far as I can tell, I’ve had zero long term negative effects from years of poly drug abuse, even though if you had talked to me at the time, you’d have thought I was a drug casualty. (Though I was working as a network engineer and getting promotions and raises the entire time.)

I wouldn’t _recommend_ going crazy with it like i did, but part of the problem I had was that all of the scare tactics I had heard were transparent lies, and the real issues around drug use were much more subtle that I had need prepared to look out for.
We priced out comparables from similar vendors (I really liked those couches) and suffice it to say the unit costs you were getting were not competitive with Wayfair. They're high-end leather modular sectionals. It's not cheap.
Please elaborate on how your use case was not simple, and how your data was not relational in the slightest.
I believe you're incorrect about that.
I'm with you there; love my power meter. But there's a difference between electronics that just give you extra metrics vs electronics that have to be functioning in order for the bike to work!
How I Use Mithril: Pat Cavit
I'm unclear on why / how a 300% tariff on the Bombardier jets would be considered fair or good in any way, for anyone other than Boeing. Is this just classic corrupt lobbying or is there more to it?
They put it on everything here in the Netherlands. Just ask for "Friet met MDMAyonaise".
>we often see with think-pieces that want to take on an air of authority. It's very simple to convince people right now with a reference to an article every other word, regardless of how reliable or even relevant each of the references actually is. The effect though is that the piece attains a state of legitimacy

[case in point this Youtube Video that's been making the rounds.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk)
No mention of GNOME at all? Is this part of the marketing strategy? Wondering what the GNOME folks think about this.
We use them for testing smart contracts in a private and controlled setting.
C lib containing 10000+ cities lat, lon, and alt
> 3-5 minutes rest between sets

That is a lot of rest time. Try to keep it between 30-45 secs
It's also about locality of your data. Having a global infrastructure means 150-200ms minimum latency per query if you have a system in India or Singapore with a database server in a US data center region. That adds up quick.