skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cost per truck is greater than the value of updating the roads every day. However, having one truck per post office that gets rotated through the routes might be worth it, or even better a few trucks that get rotated through each post office. But, even then the post office avoids a lot of roads in the US.
Talk about niche markets.
> I chose to engage the commentator in a way that brought us both to a common ground position.

Where? I don't see any more comments from you in this thread...
The day before I finally broke down and purchased it. Aww yiss.
Same for me, I've also enabled all the experimental webrender flags on both private and work machines and have had basically no issues at all for the last weeks.

It's actually almost slightly uncanny how well it's working.
The love for Firefox seems misplaced, given that 1% of Firefox downloaders get a version that sends what you type to a third party (Cliqz).

HN discussion was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421708
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15624338
He's not totally wrong.

At low level, just doing macro/economy right wins the game.
Executing a strategy requires so much micro-management and multitasking that's actually unavailable to 90% of the player base. Between low and high level, a mix of "better macro" and better tactics (don't fight in chokes when your race needs space etc.) wins games, not strategy.

OTOH, it's a bit like saying that at intermediate levels, you win a chess game by not being the first to blunder (or seeing your opponent's mistake).

I believe that an RTS game like Zero-K (a TA-like) for instance is more strategic. Your initial factory choice, which determines which kind of units you'll use is a first strategic choice; static defenses are much more important than in SC2 (where they are more or less considered a waste of resources, except for anti-air maybe). TA is based on territory dominance, so holding a point in the middle of the map is important. In SC2, the middle of the map is where the "deathball" vs "deathball" final match typically happens.
No but from an accounting perspective I don’t get how this works. Phd students often do no use any of the univeristy’s real resources. The marginal cost of a phd student is often zero or negative, due to the work they do. There are no platonic costs to charge them, especially if they are passed quals and aren’t taking classes any more. Sure they use their advisor’s time, but that’s unaccountable and variable. So the university could just adjust tuition downward for programs for which everyone gets a scholarship anyway. Is the GOP going to regulate tuition too?
In the recommended section there is a three-dot button under each video, which shows up when you mouse over. Click -> "Not interested".
But this is hardly new. Anyone else watch "Dora" videos and notice how it's really a LOT like someone playing a really bad Sierra adventure game ? And it's not like that's the only show doing this.

In Belgium, there's a TV character called "bumba" whose videos (on TV) are like someone injected LSD into a seal, glued a hat onto it, stuck into a bag and filmed it trashing around.

Almost all recent kids content is algorithmically generated, on the "real" tv as much as on youtube.

As for toy unboxings, they're actually useful I would say.
You can't have self-ownership. It's not remotely possible due to the safety considerations. Self driving cars need to have more oversight than FAA/aircraft.

Even with self driving vehicles, America will still have terrible traffic. If anything, self driving vehicles will make things even worse, instead of America finally fixing its broken/non-existent mass transit system.

I wrote about this a while back. Basically even if you only had self-driving vehicles on an interstate, all of them filled to 4 people each, travelling at 120km, you still couldn't even get to the fraction of the capacity of a single rail line running at 5 minute intervals:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-sol...
Examining social media spreading disinformation is interesting and should be done.

If you think that the fervor with which this is being done isn't being pursued due to a narrative that it caused Trump to win, you're being very naive.

I also resent the fact that you are insinuating I CALLED black people poor and helpless. I didn't. I simply characterized a belief that I believe many pushing the Russian meddling are running with: That these campaigns were not only run (of course they were) but that they were persuasive enough to have had an effect on the outcome of the election.

You aren't wrong about all classes being susceptible to propaganda. I've been shocked by how many well-off people I work and socialize with (fellow left thinking people) have begun to resemble the right-wing people I witnessed for years jumping to conclusions about the fake-scandal that was Benghazi.
Rational people who latch onto rumors as facts.

Steve Bannon = White Supremacist (he's not, just an asshole)
Donald Trump being blackmailed by Kremlin with tapes of him with hookers (zero evidence)
Russians hacked voting machines in key states (zero evidence)
Russian ads on social media influenced voting outcomes (zero evidence)

I want to point out that none of these are things that sway people's existing opinions. They are all just confirming their existing biases.
The graph on their website (if to be believed) shows a comparison between their ketone ester and a ketone salt.

Also, if I remember correctly, ketone esters were originally developed for use in rebreather SCUBA diving. The concentration of oxygen makes seizures much more likely. Since ketogenic diets are useful for preventing seizures, the military wanted a "ketogenic diet in a pill".
Oh boy, I had heard of Revolutions but not that he did the history of Byzantium. Looks like I'm sticking with Romans, thanks for the heads up :D
My understanding is that many elite-level athletes can still achieve ketosis while consuming a significant amount of carbs (around what most people would probably consider normal intake) because they're training so much and burning so much glycogen.

What happens when it's an average person who doesn't have the same energy expenditure and metabolic efficiency as an elite athlete?
Are there any mail clients that can send with Content-Type: text/markdown?
Although, in most cases, the university is using the international students to fund university operations and education (typically without reducing tuition price through financial aid) that brings value to the domestic students...
Yes they have a giant contract with GCP https://www.recode.net/2017/3/1/14661126/snap-snapchat-ipo-s...
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FireWire used to be a similar basket case. Don't think the firmware/drivers got fixed, instead it became an obsolete hardware port and replaced by TB/USB/etc...
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What about Gobekli Tepe indicates otherwise? It is supposed that it was constructed by hunter-gatherers, which typically worshipped the animals they hunted as idols. Such animals have been found engraved into the ruins.
The computer store I used to work at switched from an dedicated cash register to a PC based QuickBooks POS system and it was a POS (piece of sh).

Windows based GUI app. You couldn't ring up anything without looking at the screen, taking your hand off the keyboard to move to the right input box constantly.
This is from the criticism section of your link, by a Brit who would know better than most:

Nobody really knows what it means... If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along... Web 2.0, for some people, it means moving some of the thinking [to the] client side, so making it more immediate, but the idea of the Web as interaction between people is really what the Web is. That was what it was designed to be... a collaborative space where people can interact.

He's also called it jargon. It's not a well-defined term (or at least there are multiple definitions for it).
The issue is that as you and others use powerline ethernet, you leak electromagnetic interference patterns back into the powerlines. This buildup of interference from multiple homes creates problems around your area, even if you don't notice it yourself.
> What would you think of a restaurant that charges you 50% of the bill as tip because "the majority of the customers does that"?

I don't know about you but when I go to the restaurant, I can't change the price of the items. If they set the tip for you, that's pretty much setting the price, isn't it?
I see very little difference between this and all the weird shit we and our parents before us watched on TV and the internet. The article claims that this time it's different because the stuff is "deliberately targeted with content which will traumatise and disturb them". But were not the incredibly violent things we watched also deliberately targeted to disturb us? That's the whole aim of a website like liveleak. It doesn't really matter that now the stuff is computer generated whereas before the stuff was generated by humans. I think we're underestimating how good people are at creating content and overestimate how well computers are at doing it.
I don't think that's a fair assessment. The web site (https://iridiumbrowser.de/) is nearly on par with the web sites for other big open source projects like http://python.org or http://ruby-lang.org .

I think it just needs minor tweaks. I would replace the marquee with static text and replace the section title "Manifest" with something clearer like "Our Purpose" or "Our Ambition".
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Working at an American car manufacturer and a major parts manufacturer.

They think they are lean but they are not. Many inefficiencies and waste.
Disclaimer: I am from India, living in USA and i am reporting what i see, which is nothing but the typical effects/consequences of Globalization. Eg. Everything i buy in Target/Walmart, including US designed marvels, like "iphone" is made in China, which means, workers at that skill level in USA would get impacted. Consider the software equivalent use case, which is India. Software that comes out of India will have impact on workers at that skill level.
What are good strategies for combatting such abuse? Validate email before posting, forbidden word lists, active site moderators?
I think this is the most strongly word GitHub thread I've seen so far?
We already have self driving trains in much of the world. It's a solve problem and cars can't even remotely touch the capacity of a train line. Self driving cars are not a solution and yes, America needs to see a huge car reduction within the next 20 years to deal with gridlock. I've written about it before:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-sol...
>VR will succeed

Dang, that's a big assumption. As someone who's been a researcher in the field for over a decade, I definitely can't make that claim.

Valve even says the total concept may be flawed and they are comfortable[1] with complete failure.

Three (of many) big things to overcome:

* Lock in. People watch movies in the dark with other people. Head lunchbox is isolating and annoying.

* Transmittable skin infections.

* Stereo depth eye tricks messing with focus makes almost everyone sick and can have huge unknown effects on the brain, balance, and perception

We don't have light fields[2], easy holograms[3], or laser scanning projectors on a chip[4] yet, but we might next week. Very probably VR at current is the stone axe we are using to invent the steel one. In almost every practical way it's broken, even if useful. We have no fucking clue what the final form is going to look like.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38992294

[2] https://www.magicleap.com/

[3] http://www.red.com/hydrogen

[4] http://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/mobile-world-co...
Broken link methinks
Compensation for H1Bs includes potential American citizenship. Depending where you're from, this can be worth a lot. Therefore these employees will still accept much lower pay from the employer for similar work
Why did you use marked instead of markdown-it or another CommonMark-compatible parser? Have you thought about switching to a library which supports more features?
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I don't really use that auto filling thing that much but the few time I did, Chrome asked me if I wanted to use it on that website. Isn't that what you consider a toggleable setting? I chose to use autofill my user account information on that website.
Yep. They talk “lean” and want to implement. But talking and wanting is not doing.
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What makes this guy think it's acceptable to talk to people like this?
It's a shame someone didn't understand, or take a moment to read up on the difference between bps and baud.

bps refers to the actual amount of data that is being shifted, in terms of 1's and 0's.

baud refers to signally changes per second.

While parent first started using dial-up during the 14400 bps era, I first started using dial-up during the 300bps (v.21) and a little while, and arguably a little worse, dabbled in 75bps during the exciting 1200/75 era (v.23) which, while asymmetric, at least offered effectively duplex communications. Just like today, assumed data flow was generally asymmetric for consumer use - a fairly safe assumption.

Anyway, on a 300bps modem, there was one bit of data transferred per signally change, so they were indeed also 300 baud modems.

v32.bis came along and offered 14400 bps -- a magical leap, but also painful for consumers as there were a number of competing "standards" or variations put out by over-eager manufacturers, and incompatibility issues were common.

But ultimately they all (AFAIK) encoded 6 bits per signally change, and so were 2400 baud modems.

Fascinating area of CS, and well worth reading up on. Start with Claude Shannon and his law.
The actual number of eligible voters was about 250 million in the last presidential election, up from 235 million in the 2012 race.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_St...
If you want to compare satellite imagery by chronology then you might find TerraServer [0] quite useful.

[0] https://www.terraserver.com/
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Your kids must be saints. If I had been cooped up with my parents and sibling as a child for 40 hours even in a large van or RV with robo-Uber at the helm, someone would probably have been murdered at some point :-) As for my adult self, lie-flat seating on planes trans-Pacific is OK but it's still pretty boring. Even if I could work at some level in my comfy cross-country van I'd still take a significantly faster option given the choice.
> Since you acknowledge the increases in the EITC are unhelpful to these underprivileged students you are then saying it is acceptable to raise taxes on the underprivileged portion of a largely privileged group because it's statistically hard to tease out the difference. That's...heartless?

No, it's utilitarianism. A tax break that disproportionately benefits the educated and well-off shouldn't be preserved just because a small minority of the people it benefits are not well off. Better to eliminate it in favor of a tax break that primarily goes to disadvantaged people.

> You are penalizing people who are underprivileged for trying to improve their lot in life and move into a higher class with one of the best means possible: higher educational attainment.

Someone who has gotten into graduate school necessarily has an undergraduate degree, and probably can make a decent living. At that point, it's better to focus government money on people who aren't so lucky.

> corporates shouldn't be considered people for purposes of taxation but can participate in political activity and speech (political donations) using rights of individuals.

The "people" thing is a red herring. "People" shouldn't lose their free speech rights just because they act in concert through a corporation. That has no bearing on whether "people" are more appropriately taxed at the corporate level or the individual one. The latter is a purely utilitarian concern. I don't think there is anything morally wrong with taxing corporations, I just think it's not worth the hassle given how easy it is for corporations to move to low-tax countries.
Craigslist UI/UX is great. The problem is that simple/super clean interfaces don't require designers. So pretty much every designer will be against it out of principal.

Of course, every site can't be craigslist.
It's looking like investors are interested to know what the real value of the stock is. There's still a large audience to monetize but you're right the competitive set is crazy.
That is definitely not true. Firefox 57 is about as fast as chrome, and Firefox 59 may well overtake, but chrome has genuinely been faster than Firefox for a long time.
>economy and society of the USA is failing its own citizens

Yes, and I have completely lost faith in the US's ability, on a federal level, to staunch that failure, as long as the Republican party continues to exist.

>write off everyone who's already here

I agree that I'm being pessimistic, but I feel that's what the government is aggressively trying to do (by, for example, putting a person hostile to education in charge of the agency that runs education at a federal level).
I think it's quarterly. (i.e. the annual hosting cost per user is a little over $2.50)
There are some professional associations out there for those in tech. Some have local chapters with networking and decent speakers, but it depends on where you live.
I think you're reacting to the uncanny valley; which I suspect small children are less susceptible to than us adults are.
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This is my entire point - our schools are filling up with non-American students.
I built a forum from scratch once and it is a comical amount of work.

The initial CRUD weekend-ware is straight forward. LIMIT/OFFSET for pagination. Throw in some Markdown support. Seems easy enough.

But the devil is in all the individual features that make a forum usable. Like getting notified when someone @mentions or replies to you, marking threads that you've posted in, tracking the high watermark per user per thread so you can create a "go to first unread post", implementing a decent search, making deep pagination fast, a PM system, trying to generalize it.

A serious amount of breadth between weekend #1 and production if your users want the feature set of Xenforo. The main positive I can say is that my forum is cheap to host.
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The idea that money given to employees as equity is not "real money" is toxic.

Stock-based compensation isn't the same as cash. It has both costs and benefits, but saying it is "toxic" seems overreach.
For years I've networked with people without meetups or industry conferences.

Some of these people are alumni from my university. Others are colleagues of my acquaintances. And more are just people from companies I want to learn more about who I have no connection to.

My process is basically to find people who work at companies I'm interested in, find their email, and then reach out to them. The more in common you have with the person, the better it will work.

Below is an example email I send to setup a coffee meeting with someone. Feel free to use it as a template, just remove the text in brackets or you're going to send an awkward email :)

Hi [name],

My name is [full name], an Associate at XYZ Corporation. I came across your name from the State University’s alumni website. [Say who you are and how you found out who she is.]

I’d love to get your career advice for 15 minutes. I am considering switching companies, but before making the jump I’d like to talk to someone who has worked at many of the best firms in the industry. Your LinkedIn profile says that you have a lot of experience at these leading firms. [Let her know early on what you’d like, in this case a quick talk for advice. Then let her know why you specifically want her advice instead of someone else’s advice.]

Would it be possible for us to meet? You could provide a lot of insight about the firms in the industry and what to watch out for while switching companies. It would also be great to hear about your career path after State University. [Make a direct ask for a meeting. Then say something complimentary and remind her about your shared connection.]

I can meet you for coffee, call you on the phone, or come by your office. I can work around your schedule. Would it be possible for us to meet? [Work around her schedule and location. You are asking for her help so make it convenient for her. End with a yes or no question so it’s easy for her to reply with a yes response.]

Thanks,

[Your name]

I wrote about the full process on my website which can give you more specifics if you want them: https://www.climbuptheladder.com/networking-more-than-linked....
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Or Goliaths with +Missile damage and long-range missiles!
I found this to be a refreshingly high-quality presentation of practical security concerns when dealing with applications and services written in Go or any of it's toolchain.
Speaking as someone who has received equity several times, it is not real money.
Yes, but why don't I feel that? I'd like to, for sports. I think.
You don't. The complexity of the tax code isn't a bug, its a feature because people don't want a simple code, they want a simple code _with_ all the exemptions they're likely to use.
Inscrutable models? Check.
"I know it when i see it" success criteria? Check.
Unjustified optimism? Check.

Sounds more like alchemy than experimental physics to me.
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I'm curious as to how you can optimise a site to be faster specifically for Chrome?