skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for saying this. I think there is a deeply distrustful aspect to how the public views these contracts, probably because a few bad actors (as you noted) have in fact screwed the people from time to time. Also people tend to associate these bid contracts with politicians in power who they may dislike for one reason or another therefore further tainting their opinion of the bid system.

The distrust of government and corporations in our society is one of the biggest problems facing us as we go forward in the 21st century. We need to figure out how to restore trust.
They do for press releases.
These primes can be built up right to left, and the last "digit" of a prime, mod 24, can only take on phi(24) = 8 different values. (phi is Euler's phi function here.) So when you're considering adding on a digit (base 24) to the left of a prime, the chances of getting a prime are relatively high, since the last digit is already stacked in your favor. Notice that for example that sequence is really small when n is prime, because you don't get that same advantage. To get a lot of left truncatable primes you want your base n to be large (so you have a lot of choices at each step of the search) and you want phi(n)/n to be small (so you can stack the deck in your favor on the last digit).

And why does the sequence stop at 29? phi(30) = 8, setting a new minimum for phi(n)/n.
In Seattle at least, I would expect the implicit suggestion to upzone near a light rail station would be at least as important as greater land value from demand. I'm not sure how much a light rail station induces Seattle to upzone -- I've heard mixed reports.
Not Bitcoin, no. I think it would be atleast a decade before talks for PoS start.
"something" going on? like, the manufacturer of a device who provides cloud services with that device is speaking to their servers to provide services that the customer wants? Very alarming.
There are an unbelievable amount (BILLIONS!) of printed books out there, and no-one wants them. There is no solution to this.
Lunar: Post-Launch Updates from the Moon
How is it unhelpful? For the obese, it presents the simplest and most actionable advice that has the highest relevance to their most pressing health problem.
> Lightbulbs for the most part do not.

1) Take a flashlight

2) Put a finger over the bulb and turn it on

3) Observe the surprising amount of light that passes through your finger.
Management makes less than devs in my experience.
Try to temporarily log out of iCloud and iTunes Store and disable push notifications. I think that could reduce a lot of the traffic. And then gradually start turning things on one by one.
Sure, it is a measure of energy, but it is not a measure of of how much energy we as humans will utilize from the food. Some calories are much more efferent for us to extract than others. Some can't be extracted at all.
That's fine.

Although the strategy works here because the bookie moves the line to make it more attractive to bet on it. If he does not care about balancing the book, why move the line? He could just keep increasing his exposure
The problem right now is that the tests are not rigorous enough, so they don't even need to do that. The regulation allows them to test the radiation level when the cellphone is 15mm from the body. If the cellphone is on the body without a gap, none of the flagship phones meet the safe level of radiation when they are broadcasting to a tower far away.

Also, the radiation test only tests the size of an adult's body, so children, who will have a larger region of their body and head impacted, are missed from the test.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm69ik_Qdb8
(You have no contact info in your profile, so this has to be a random comment: are you going to reverse the outcome of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15189682 anytime? Was just curious, wanted to play and never got to.)
A Failed Crowdfunding Launch of a Physical Goods Company: Debriefing/Analysis
Everyone has short attention spans, so I will not give many details unless asked for.

My co-founder and I launched on IGG ( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-paq-carry-on-travel-bag-backpack#/ ). We raised $15K but we spent more than that trying to launch (that's not including product development and patent expenses), and we still didn't reach our goal. As I see it, our lack of success comes from five possible issues:

1) Bags as a category on Crowdfunding platforms are just played out as far as interest from the consumer: Nobody will ever again have success like Peak Design did.
2) My product is too niche. Despite the fact that everybody travels, having a carry-on bag that transforms from duffel to backpack is perceived as useful only to a small subset of people.
3) Crowdfunding campaigns used to succeed because of free advertising from media stories. The primary theme of these stories was crowdfunding itself. Since Crowdfunding is no longer a hot topic, campaigns no longer receive a boost from media like they did just 2 years ago.
4) It takes money to make money. Most campaigns likely spend A LOT of money on advertising. Way more than they admit. Our lack of advertising budget predicts our failure.
5) As newbs we just suck at gaining publicity for our product. But this begs the question does getting the marketing 75-90% right compared to "successful" campaigns really result in a campaign which is 10X less funded?

What do you all think? Is crowdfunding dead? Does my product just suck? Does anyone else here have a similar experience and advice for us the next time around?
I think you have a good point about emergency vehicle access.

I-90 is a much higher speed road, though. (Assuming they don't take your suggestion of increasing the speed limit in the tunnel.) Freeway standard is 12 feet per lane (and even the 1940-era Mt Baker tunnels have 12 foot lanes[0]), but again, Aurora isn't a freeway.

Meanwhile, buses are about 8.5 feet wide[1] and easily fit in a 10 foot lane. Most Seattle streets are narrower than that.

[0]: http://www.seattleasce.org/committees/hh/LaceyBridgeReport.p...

[1]: https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/New_Flyer_Industries_XDE60
The CICO message has been part of diet advice for decades. If hearing this message in and of itself were helpful, one would expect that we wouldn't be observing the current levels of obesity in the US. The biology and human behavior are more complex than that.
How do you think people get informed? Do you really think that advertising isn't useful to informing people? Do you really think as many patients would find out about viable treatments for their conditions if you ban advertising?

Advertising isn't hypnosis. People know not to take claims at face value and if they don't, US medical ads are full of disclaimers and warnings. And once you see an ad for a treatment, you have many opportunities to research it, including by discussing it with your doctor.

Do you really think doctors alone should decide your treatment?

My mother in law had terminal brain cancer. She could not eat due nausea from her chemotherapy. I accompanied her on a visit to her doctor. We told him the anti-nausea prescription wasn't working, and I asked why he didn't prescribe her medicinal marijuana. He angrily rejected it as a viable treatment and huffily said he'd change her prescription to a different anti-nausea medication. Shortly later she went on the last trip of her life, to Arizona for some sun and relaxation, but her nausea was so bad that she threw up in the airport and had to return home, where she died in bed a few months later, a 60 lb bundle of bones from barely eating for months on end.

If you want to be protected from "advertising", change the channel. I don't, so stop trying to "protect" me by restricting my right to listen to other viewpoints.
I thought it was named redux because you can essentially rewind the state
Amazon Patents Drone to Recharge Electric Cars While Driving
> if only we could punish these few bad apples - punish those scheming, underbidding contractors, then the problem would disappear

I'm criticizing a system that incentives optimistic initial bids that are later revised up. A bad system doesn't need bad actors to produce bad outcomes. A $275 million bid ballooning to $500 million without any competitive pressure is a bad outcome.

American infrastructure costs are higher than production factors, e.g. land, material and labour cost differentials, explain [1]. Our auction mechanics are called out by experts as a big part of the problem.

[1] http://marroninstitute.nyu.edu/content/blog/is-u.s.-infrastr...
Are you sure it's not just a bunch of app store updates and an iCloud backup? That's what I'd expect my phone to be doing at 4am anyway.
Meh. Don't like your reputation? Just sift through the Equifax dump and pick a new one.
AFAIK illegal everywhere in the world except USA and oddly, New Zealand.
"Capping rates and allowing antennas in certain areas provides competition in the broadband market..."

I don't believe I've seen an argument that market interference, "capping rates", is good for the free market recently.
Fat, Animal fat, Plant fat. Fat and a little bit of protein.

There is no dietary need for sugar or carbohydrates at all, your body is capable of making the tiny amount it needs through the process of gluconeogenesis. Research the Ketogenic diet.
Sounds like Brown just didn't like this version of the bill:

> “​There is something of real value in having a process that results in extending this ​innovative technology rapidly and efficiently," Brown wrote in his veto message. "Nevertheless, I believe the interest which localities have in managing rights of way requires a more balanced solution than the one achieved in this bill.”
Retailers who ask customers if they would like to donate to charity after a sale are using it as a test to see if they can raise prices.
It's impossible to become an expert in everything.
Tesla is about to turn the car insurance world upside down
It is definitely a system issue. Our contractual/financial system just doesn't work well when confronted with large complex projects that have enough variance and unknown unknowns. Since they really push to have everything committed to up front, with really basic rules around how to handle change and variance.

Let alone that we basically award this work one estimated number and the ability to get through a paper work hurdle.

If you start making those rules complex it becomes hard to compare bids to each other, since your bids are likely to become non-transitive based on the scenarios.

Cost plus is the normal way this is side stepped, but unless you have a system that is mostly ethical actors that can break down. And if you have all ethical actors pretty much any system will work...
Real in the sense that it's how people interact. I think cultures evolve so people can co-exist effectively, but they're also full of random useless or harmful behaviours that might be holdovers from when they used to be useful.
There are simpler explanations. People have no idea how much they consume and frequently underestimate how much they eat. Inaccurate measurement and non-existent tracking systems sabbotage people's attempts at modifying their weight.

This is frequently solved by getting people to buy a food scale and weigh everything they eat for a few weeks and calculating the actual caloric content of their food. Food scales are frequently all people need to make real and persistent changes to their weight.

The biology isn't complex enough that ignoring CICO or telling people that it's wrong is useful or helpful and not harmful.
Executive-order-amending-executive-order
As opposed to "we are open Android" but everything that most people define as Android includes closed source Google Play Services and proprietary drivers?
> How would you re-open bidding and enact a switchover?

When the price change is announced, anyone from the original pool has [30] days to match. First to match immediately wins the work from the existing contractor. Loser pays to move their equipment out; winner should have included that cost when they agreed to match.

This system works for two reasons. First, the first bidder will be cautious about requesting increases if it means risking losing the work. Second, the change-over cost, borne by both the outgoing loser and incoming winner, imposes just enough friction to grant the first winner an incumbency bias. This bias helps keep bidding in the original auction competitive.
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Obviously. My comment was about the operating costs.
Annoying quibble about the author's carelessness: there's an article from the Economist that this sentence is linked to.

"Scholars who looked at Chinese investment in Africa from 1991 to 2010 found that Chinese assistance does not appear to help economic growth..."

However, the article linked is actually about Chinese government assistance in Pakistan (not Africa) and the impact on Pakistan's relationship with India -- not about Chinese private investment at all, nor about Africa.

>_>
The US Constitution does not treat "commercial speech" any differently than personal speech. The US Supreme court did, and it's rulings on the subject are politically biased and clearly wrong (the first made while under threat of court packing by FDR). US Court of Appeals judge Alex Kozinski stated, in regard to the 1942 ruling, "the Supreme Court plucked the commercial speech doctrine out of thin air"

Many people remember the good old days when individual rights and limits on the federal government were enforced closer to US Constitutional requirements.
Why I'm Productive in Clojure (2013)
How do you specify the contract so the unknown unknowns can be priced into the bid and compared to each other. Given that resolving those unknowns costs about as much as the just doing the actual work.
Just because an Oldsmobile is one of the first mass produced automobiles in existence, doesn't mean anyone looking for a car would want an Oldsmobile.

In regards to database technology, Bitcoin just pieced together technologies that already existed, i.e. hash cash, merkle trees, and distributed databases.

It's worth acknowledging while Bitcoin was a great prototype for implementation of a blockchain, it's quiet stagnate and divided community and development teams has led to the current crisis of hard forks. Meanwhile other blockchain projects are iterating and developing user-friendly features.
So you're saying we need a robot?
Note to the author: Since you specifically point out that C# 7.0 is supported, this example:

if (ev is InputEventMouse)
{
var mouseEvent = (InputEventMouse)ev;
Vector2 mousePos = mouseEvent.Position;
}
else if (ev is InputEventKey)
{
var keyEvent = (InputEventKey)ev;
bool aPressed = keyEvent.Pressed && keyEvent.Scancode == GD.KEY_A;
}

would be better written as:

switch (ev)
{
case InputEventMouse mouseEvent:
Vector2 mousePos = mouseEvent.Position;
break;

case InputEventKey keyEvent:
bool aPressed = keyEvent.Pressed && keyEvent.Scancode == GD.KEY_A;
break;
}
All in all, pretty impressive engineering project, correcting engineering defects dating back more than 50 years.
Heavily refactor the code and files constantly. Split a huge file into different files, put them into "src" or "app", etc. You should be doing this fairly frequently if there was little planning or the project is quite experimental.

When you have everything clear from the beginning try to anticipate and plan the structure beforehand. But still refactor as needed.

As the final version is near, start improving/making the documentation. Too early and you'll have to change many things, too late and it'll seem like a huge different optional task (which it is normally not). BTW, I am the creator of https://documentation.agency/ if you need some help there.
Fraud is not protected speech. If these people committed fraud they should be prosecuted. But outside that, stop interfering in my right to hear what they have to say.
Is Mono not dying due to .NET core? It seems to be popping up in a few new places but I would have thought new projects would be avoiding it.

The last thing I want is any dependency on MS tooling as they've shown everything they release will include telemetry. I'm just getting started with game dev and I really like Godot, but if the future is going to require MS anything, I'm going to jump ship.
Advanced cancer is treatable of course! The median survival for some types of advanced breast cancer is 7 years from diagnosis. Those patients may present with pain, start treatment, and get better. Happens all the time.

As for a citation, well nobody has done a study on that specific point, I'm talking from my experience of 500 or so patients.
I understand iCloud, iTunes, and all other apple services need to communicate with their servers.
My point is to question why do they need more than 1000 hosts for their endpoints? It only look suspicious in my eyes.

https://stan.sh/images/ios_domains.csv
My process feels much less like engineering and more like utter chaos, but it works for me.

I start by defining the minimum viable product. Emphasis on minimum. It should be painfully minimal, and missing all sorts of features, but works roughly well enough to be a good litmus test.

That's it. Then I build it.

Based on the feedback / information gleaned from building the MVP, I often pivot. This frequently involves tossing some things out and rewriting other things. But generally, it means planning the next phase. Here, I ask, "What is the single most important thing I can do to make this project more useful for the intended users?" And that's what I design / build.

Repeat indefinitely.

[Edit: Documentation is sparse. I like to comment the top of each source file with a brief description of what it's for. If there's something really key to the project or that is reused a lot, I'll drop a readme into the same folder as the source, and document it the way I would an OSS library.

Regarding prototypes, it takes a lot of discipline, but I always throw 100% of my prototypes away. In the past, I didn't do this, and I always regretted it.]
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They also use it as a tax write off...
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thank you very much
Reddit and facebook offer the ability for anyone to recommend to you, with no real way to filter their actual authority on the subject except by the one post itself (scowering through each person's history to get a better sense is beyond unreasonable).

With a bookstore, you can reasonably expect, at least to a certain degree, an authority figure. With facebook/reddit, you can reasonably expect nonsense, and maybe one somewhat knowledged guy piping up in a wave of shit.

Tbh, I have no idea why you'd bring up reddit or fb instead of at least hn, where the noise to signal ratio at least attempts to approach something useable.

Reddit and facebook are where you go to accidentally stumble into something useful; not when you're searching for it.

In fact, if you're looking for an expert, you usually go where few people go: because those you would find there probably have good reason to be there; places where its only worth being if you're an expert in the niche
>As of alpha2, Godot is using Mono 5.2 and C# 7.0 is supported.

This is an explicit dig at Unity, which is still(?) on Mono 2.x and C# 3.5 owing to their custom IL2CPP toolchain (with Mono 4.x / C# 6 in beta for the editor only).
Documentation as a service sounds really valuable to me as an engineer. I personally love solving a problem and building a solution framework, but never feel I do enough justice to help whomever comes after me.
You temporarily re-open bidding when big price changes are requested. See my other comment [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15524807
I think the notion of the article is wrong. She did not bring down Travis. The misogynist culture he helped to create did.
Looks like he just started on it yesterday.
I run a pi-hole instance at home and observe the same thing. Most DNS requests come from my iOS devices.
While her post did send shockwaves inside Uber and the Silicon Valley at large, I think, it was Mr. Kalanick's incriminating involvement in the Waymo - Uber lawsuit that ultimately sunk Mr. Kalanick. He simply had to go.
> If you add more matchboxes to this setup while teaching it to play something else, is it going to become intelligent eventually?

No, because the design uses a different matchbox for every possible state of the game. If you taught it to play chess, a billion matchboxes wouldn't be enough to get four moves in.[1] Yet digital computers can play chess.

On the other hand, if you switched to a completely different design that uses matchboxes to simulate an artificial neural network… a design that would require opening each matchbox on each time step…

…and pumped the number of boxes up to 100 billion (number of neurons in the human brain) or higher…

…and ran the simulation for, perhaps, trillions of time steps (need to simulate evolution, not just the operation of the brain during a single lifetime)…

…and changed the goal from playing a game to something that would require more general logical reasoning...

…then who knows, it might well become intelligent (though it's hard to be sure). But at that point I'd say the lack of believability has more to do with the difficulty of performing 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 matchbox operations, than the likelihood of achieving useful results if you did.

[1] http://www.bernmedical.com/blog/how-many-possible-move-combi...
Highly recommended. He is much much better than any news channel / newspaper article you'll read about the topic. He's pretty awesome.
When they said "we need $275 million," we used competitive pressure to validate that claim. They had the lowest bid and so fairly won. Now they're saying "we need $225 million more." Yet we demand no market validation.

Note: I'm not saying the $225 million is unfair. This is a complicated project with lots of unknowns. But refusing to test 9-figure quote adjustments is bizarre.
> “I think, right now especially, with Trump in the White House, who knows what’s going on with North Korea?"

Why are people so worried about going to war with North Korea? There are concentration camps in North Korea. Are South Korean and American lives worth more than the lives of those in concentration camps? The USA tried to create a free Korea during the Korean War and failed because of China and Russia. We need to try again to clean up this mess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoeryong_concentration_camp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodok_concentration_camp