skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I forget the name of the company, just remember it was a biotech firm that did the same thing with similar success a few months back.
It doesn't seem to me that the issue was bureaucracy, but the extreme scale of the event and the complete lack of preparation regarding it. And to a degree, the arrogance of teachers who should have realized they didn't know what to do given the useless manual.

It was bureaucracy that stopped them from going to hill... but thats simply because the bureaucracy was doing what it does to stop panic and chaos. In a situation where the event was prepared for, having a small group of kids yelling orders and running off is exactly what you don't want. You don't want conflicting orders running around; else (if the bureaucracy judged correctly, and went to the hill), you'll end up with a group of kids and teachers or parents not following orders and staying in the school instead.
Yep.

And the googlepleasehire.me[1][2] guy was their VP Marketing through this ordeal. So maybe google does make some good hiring decisions after all[3].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/03/google-please-hire-matthew...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840233

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/07/google-fails-to-hire-the-g...
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Non nationalists in Spain are like 85% to be conservative.
Sadly this is very true. I had been working with a colleague who was a perfect talker about best practices and what not, and first to criticize the offshore team for bad coding, yet himself he was as well doing a lot of crazy things and sloppy coding, and breaking the build and shipping regressions on a regular basis.

Unfortunately I don't have a good solution to this problem.

I'm wondering how interviews in other professions look like. For example when you're a director of a hospital and want to hire a surgeon. I guess you don't ask him to come one day to make a little surgery for free.
I’d be curious to see that in Scala — would it be any more readable?
At exactly which number does democracy allow a group of people to secede?
That make sense. I have no real life perspective on that because I've mostly worked on my own stuff, alone, but I can see where one might get overwhelmed by applicants.
The “Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon” is a name that was applied to the frequency illusion [1] before the term “frequency illusion” was coined.

It's a particularly bad case of opaque naming, because even knowing about the terms that make it up gives you no clue what it means (since it doesn't reference the Baader-Meinhof Gang, but instead presumably the experience of the person who coined the term around the time they first encountered the name “Baader-Meinhof Gang”.)

Further shortening to “Baader-Meinhof” (perhaps a result of mistaking the name for being named after the discoverers, which would be less opaque, like the Dunning-Kruger Effect, where familiarity with the work of the researchers in question makes the term less opaque) actually makes the term worse, since then it seems like a direct reference or analogy to the group.

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/LSA07illude.abst.pdf
Self-driving cars feel like they are still in the early Alpha stage, while self-driving robots are already in production in Amazon's warehouses.

Why are companies going through the great expense of constructing full-size mock-ups if the domain problems haven't been solved on smaller mock-ups? Is there a fundamental difference between a 400 lb self-driving robot and a 2-ton self-driving robot - beyond the advertising novelty of being inside the car? Edit: If both robots are outside on a driving track, not in the Amazon warehouse.

And if "snow-vision" and other problems have been solved with smaller robots, or in other domains, why do news articles like this treat the topic as though it's entirely foreign and to be feared, instead of helping readers associate these concepts with existing concepts to drive acceptance?
Or: Why you should not put things like usernames at the top level of your domain. sheesh...
The same could be said of Estonia in the recent past, and it has done quite well as an independent nation.
The journalists should really blame themselves for using facebook in the first place. They knew what they were buying into.
Put in-wheel motors in the rear wheels and strong breaks in the front. You don't have to drive all four wheels.
Hi all! I'm Alexi, founder of Tamber. We built Tamber to help developers put fast, effective recommendations into their apps.

After trying a few open source libraries for a music app I was building, I found that they were surprisingly tedious to implement and tended to overfit for popular items – Neil Young is similar to Bob Dylan, but that doesn't help you discover new music. I knew there had to be a better approach that would solve this popularity bias problem, and make recommendations less painful to implement.

Tamber overcomes popularity bias by learning not only the relationships between items, but also how trends in taste evolve over time and using that information to boost less-well-known items in recommendations.

It works just like an analytics service, except that every event you track triggers a system-wide update to the model. And it's really fast, returning fresh suggestions in 20-120ms. So as a user navigates around your app (even if they aren't signed in!) your app can always display the optimal set of next things they should see next.

Here is a simple demo app for book recommendations we made using Goodreads data pulled from Kaggle: https://tamber.com/demo/goodbooks

I'll open source the app code once I clean it up a bit.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!
The article isn't making a claim about averages. It's saying you could rent - possible the average was higher.

Average is irrelevant anyway, since that includes extremely expensive apartments nobody needs.
A fair definition of technology leadership is you are in the lead and others copy / strive for your achievements.

Not many actual breakthroughs come from China so far, even though they could fill a few Olympic pools with PhDs.
To be sure, I agree and think it's the right thing to do to hook into external libraries when they provide the functionality we need. That's just an extension of the right tool for the right job philosophy.

Alright, so I write numerical codes professionally. Though it's not quite fair, I tend to bulk things into glue languages and computation languages. In a glue language, we combine all of our numerical drivers and produce an application. For example, optimization solvers don't really need to be written in a low-level language since their parallelism and computation is primarily governed by the function evaluations, derivatives, and linear system solvers. As long as these are fast, we can use something like like Python to code it and it runs about the same speed, and in parallel, as a C or C++ code. On the other hand, we have the computation languages where we code the low level and parallel routines like linear algebra solvers. Typically, this is done is C/C++/Fortran, but I'm curious to see how Rust can fit in with these language. For me, the primary focus of a computation language is one that it's fast and two that it's really, really easy to hook into glue languages. Since just about every language has a c-api, that's our pathway forward.

Alright, so now we have Julia. Is it a glue language? Is it a computation language? Maybe it's designed to be both. However, at the end of the day, most of the examples I see of Julia on HN are using Julia as a glue language. To me, we have lots of glue languages that already hook into whatever other stuff we care about be it plotting tools or database readers or whatever. If Julia is designed to be a computation language, great. However, that means we should be seeing people writing the next generation of things like parallel factorizations and then hooking them into a more popular glue language like Python or MATLAB or whatever. Maybe these examples exist and I haven't seen them. However, until this is more clear, I personally stay away from Julia and I advise my clients to as well.

And, to be clear, Julia may be wonderfully suited for these things. Mostly, I wanted to express my frustration of what I see as an ambiguity in the marketing.
Only one candidate colluded with Russia though.
Do you use a GUI editor in the VM? I have a similar setup (Mac hosting a headless VM running Docker) and can't stand performance when using X-Forwarding and XQuartz
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Ask HN: Who wants to learn about Search?
Hi,

I am a Search practitioner, who is interested in teaching a small group of 10-15 people online about Search. While I am not an expert in Information Retrieval, I’ve collected practical experience and lessons-learned by running several websites with full-text search on production and hopefully some of those insights would be useful to you.

If there is enough interest I will organize a webinar (discussion hopefully) covering beginner topics such as:

- What is Search and what problem it is solving?
- Search terminology - inverted index, term dictionary, posting list, etc.
- First take on building an index
- Tokenization
- Precision and Recall
- Scoring

If interested please add yourself to the form below, I will get in touch to organize a date and time. The webinar will be for beginners and will be free.

Here the form:
https://goo.gl/forms/NvS4vfE4nMCvytmE3
I really have no idea what any of that means, but it sounds interesting and I want to understand it. Where do I start?
People seem to forget that property isn't like other
investment classes.

Other investment classes provide value from services or production.

Speculative real estate relies on artificial scarcity (local laws preventing building upward) is extracting value from suppressing more construction for more people.
Manhattan is more affordable. There are plenty of 1-bedrooms available right now under $2000:
https://streeteasy.com/for-rent/nyc/area:102,139,135%7Cbeds:...

Brooklyn is still twice as dense as SF, and much more affordable.
Then the FBI gets involved, if anyone is willing to host it.
I don't see that happening; there's no sense for large companies to hire lots of blue-collar programmers, when they could just automate any of the routine repetitive work.
.onion addresses aren't resolved using the DNS system. So... no?

I guess in theory a browser _could_ support something like that, but it'd be pretty unusual. I also think the idea of relying on DNS to resolve a hidden service would defeat a lot of the privacy and security guarantees associated with those services, so I don't think any browser serious about security would implement something like that.
You should understand what they want to do us with it :)
If a group of people had enough military might to declare themselves independent and not fall to subsequent invasion, then it doesn't matter what the rest of the world "thinks", they are independent.
Or a straight up power-law curve fit, which is what those are both (implicitly) based upon.
On a slightly related topic, India has a vast and rich set of languages and millions of people that speak/read/write these languages. With daily newspapers, tabloids, literature etc, I presume there is a (potential) huge corpus of rich data for each language too. And, I just read yesterday that India just surpassed US to become the second biggest mobile phone market.
Then why is there not more of NLP work/products on Indian languages? There's a market for it, a huge market, isn't it?
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well that indoor robot has the advantage of fully mapped environment to operate within, low speeds, and people who know how to work around them.

going to be fun watching them deal with snow. though their approach has tended towards detail mapping. someone is going to figure out a break through in marking roads or perhaps they will get sensible and start with limited access highways first.
IPFS URLs?
>Is there a fundamental difference between a 400 lb self-driving robot and a 2-ton self-driving robot

There's a difference in environment. How can you seriously think "Well if they have self-driving robots in controlled warehouse scenarios, what's the novelty of self-driving robots in unpredictable and often treacherous real-world public road scenarios?"
Computational memory can't speed up 'everything' because most software doesn't benefit from single operations that span a large chunk of data (AKA SIMD ops, as on GPUs). This technique will always improve only a small select fraction of present and future software, like games/graphics, video and voice processing, and general purpose vector operations (like tensor ops in deep learning).
how do you guys implement atomic_phase ? im not a ruby guy, so am not able to figure out the definition.

It looks like a atomic check-and-update, but more sophisticated.
"Are you proposing that everyone in SF move to places like the Central Valley (driving up price) and start driving around cars (increasing traffic and pollution)?"

I don't know where you came up with this. The OP implied that by moving away from a heavily populated area and working remotely, he was able to afford more space and shorten his commute. You managed to turn no commute into increased pollution and moving to a less densely populated place as "driving up price"?
Does an Amazon warehouse have thousands of pedestrians and high speed moving objects whizzing around them constantly, unknown regulations on their movement only visible via signs, and constantly evolving route types/conditions? Do Amazon robots need to figure all of these things out while moving at 80mph? Software for a robot to carry packages around a warehouse that was constructed for that purpose isn't even comparable to self driving cars.
The self driving robots have to have facilities specifically constructed and/or configured with the constraints of the robotic system in mind. No one makes a go anywhere, do anything self navigating robot.

The application of robotics in industry is still very much more akin to industrial automation than it is true autonomy. There's a ton you have to take into account to design a system that works well. In practice, this means that traditional automation is typically still the better solution than full autonomy.
Serves me right for expecting anything more from HN's prince of bandages.
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Why not? If the majority doesn't want to make their opinion known, that's fine, but I don't see how they can blame others for continuing on despite their silence.
Before Trump won, the idea that the voting machines could be hacked was - if you were to believe the media - a Trumpian conspiracy theory, one of his "alternative facts" that were really just lies made up to deceive clueless rubes. It's amazing how fast that changed last November and how little evidence this required.
Google, Amazon (for example), are building large work centers in desirable places to work, which are raising the cost of living of everyone else in the town that may not have a six figure income. Google is moving to Boulder, CO as we speak; Denver was on the shortlist for Amazon.

It's the same problem with kicking out artists in a dilapidated warehouse area, and moving in boring professionals to live in lofts built on the same foundations: your renewed neighborhood loses all the reasons it was appealing. In Boulder already you cannot really afford living in town with a service industry job, but people who want to work in Google also want to go out and have a beer after work. Those service industry workers need to commute into town, which is time-consuming, adds expense, worsens traffic, and lowers their quality of life.
Not to mention that most 2 bed apartments in NYC in that kind of price range are actually a 1 bedroom that's been converted. I've even seen one bedrooms made into 3 bedrooms plenty of times.
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Noon literally means midday. It predates clocks and solar noon would drive your sundial.
Well, obviously EV is less useful [0] for services where the host’s anonymity is a key part of the reason the server is on Tor.

But for services on Tor that are fine with being identified but who wish there users to be opaque to third parties it seems to have some value.

[0] without a radically different CA infrastructure which has no chance of getting preloaded into browsers.
Hey I just learned this but I guess you can't post blog posts in Show HN. You can however post them in the normal feed.
To be fair, unlike the Baylands proposal, there were very valid environmental reasons to block that 70k units of housing on San Bruno Mountain.

It also has ensured that residents of San Francisco have very easy access to wilderness - I'm certainly better off being able to go hiking with just a 15 minute drive.
All I really mean is that on balance I think it’s worth the trade-off (due to the other pluses). I wouldn’t trade SF for say an inexpensive area with no culture and bad weather, but I think I am willing to put up with the heat & humidity along with cold & snow given all the rest NYC has to offer.
This post is very inline with what I experienced with VetPronto, and I wondered how they remained in business.

I've used VetPronto a couple times and the only value they really provided over regular vets is that you could get an appointment same day and they would come to your home. Because they didn't have mobile labs, you would have to wait days to get back results, while at the regular vet, you would have the results in a couple of hours. The VetPronto vets were always very nice and knowledgeable but the cost premium was way too much. Our vet in SF charges ~65 for a visit, while VetPronto was around ~200.
Talk more. You guys should both be giving honest feedback to each other. Figure out how you can do more of that in a way that strengthens the relationship, by communicating both respect (you clearly believe he can be valuable in areas other than coding) and your needs (you think the company would benefit more from him focusing on testing the value proposition and growing sales than on directly implementing features).
Snow is increased visual noise. How do humans deal with it? We disregard it. How difficult is it to program computer vision to do the same?

Self-driving cars are at the intersection of numerous solved domains, yet integrating these remains strangely difficult for the largest companies in the world.
> I recently had a house burn down in a neighborhood with numerous $150k houses. Cost to rebuild a similar structure was over $200k

My home insurance company made this very clear when I started a policy with them - they discussed the price of the house (e.g. in tax roll estimates of "land improvement") vs their estimated replacement cost. Even with new requirements though, no one talks about the productivity improvements in construction - from faster to put up materials, to the abundance of various tools .. is it really regulations or a form of cost disease...
Although the article does mention that they plan to put it in all wheels of some types of vehicle.

A typical passenger car would have two such motors, while a heavy-duty or high-performance vehicle could have a motor in each of its wheels.

So the question of how reliable braking is achieved is still open.
IIRC, Amazon's KIVA have a central schedule that they use to stay out of each others' way, not sensors. I don't think that that comparison works out.

I also don't get that tone from the article, either.
This is really well written and seems to agree with the traditional FP lore. I'm curious what led Alan Kay then to OOP in Smalltalk.
I’m confused. What kind of smaller mock-up are you imagining? I bet that Waymo considers lots of cases of driving solved (controlled environment parking lot) and we are seeing just another step up in terms of the scale of the problem.
>>> Because they feel they have a mandate?

This is basically what they say, but this only appeal the people's emotions, making them appear as altruist servants of the Catalonian people. Sorry, I am too old to believe in fairytales. No offense.
It's hard to imagine a scenario in business where this is the case.

I think in most cases the "question for a group of people" is a sign you really don't know who is responsible for making a decision, or perhaps that person is you and you just don't realize it yet.

To me anyway, calling a lot of meetings is a sign of desperation in a business setting, especially if that person is a manager. The person is so lost that they feel they need to be in the room for every important conversation.
Both of which can get magically disappeared in hours with the superior weaponry and numbers in the hands of the federal government.
I also wonder about this. It's really hard to compete with free. Even < 1 cent is likely too much.
Not quite...

From the article - "The testing I signed up for is needed to win U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval."

Powered exoskeletons for spinal cord injury or paralysis patients are medical devices, and thus require FDA approval (in this case, Berkeley Bionics is probably pursuing a 510(k) or the 'de novo' process if B.B feels their device is substantially different from pre-existing exoskeletons.) All current exoskeletons are classified as type II medical devices, which entails some limitations on how they can be marketed, sold, and used by patients.

Since their other products are not used for medical applications, they wouldn't need FDA approval, as long as B.B isn't, say, making health related claims that would need to be substantiated by actual testing and certification (I believe).

I actually work in this field, so if you have any other questions about exoskeletons or assistance devices I can probably answer them.
Having usernames as subdomains is relatively common, and it does seem like this list has that use case in mind (see the variations on www)
I think parent was refering to satellite imagery; not street view.
as far as i'm aware india has nukes. what would scientists have to improve on that.
Have no fear, there aren't any working street lights in Detroit.
Because as you said.. thee's a vast set of languages instead of a single one of 300 million people.
Why can't they work that out themselves? Are you such a critical link between them that you have to be driving every interaction? If that's the case, why can't you provide the information they need yourself, rather than playing matchmaker?
In all fairness, the hd industry as a whole has shrunk considerably since. Same for servers and PCs. I think they made the right decision, but I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say they had a good strategy for what they would do once they got rid of these product lines.