skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback, I think I've been hearing this a lot now, will think about this deeply and do something :) We actually had a lead generation too inside the platform, but its still in the process, ideally picking up all the leads around internet form slack groups, LinkedIn etc and qualifying the leads.
Sure... if Indians are malnourished, how come the population keeps growing? It is usually the poor that have many children.
Yeah there's no one fix other than struggling to contextualize the skills being built here.
Ploy or not, I'm not happy with TC blindly passing along the "$1M donation" meme, clearly meant to suggest a pure cash donation... when, when you read a few lines down, you find out that "a part cash, but part (read: presumably mostly) credits toward unused inventory" donation --

-- as the vast majority of BigCorp "donations" to noble causes reveal themselves to be, when you scratch the surface.
This is why I use Firefox on Android - with the uBlock Origin add-on installed, it's really fast. There's no optimization like avoiding the needless work in the first place :)
Heartfelt philanthropy is usually starts before a company is mired in scandal. It is something that a company leader talks about before unpleasant videos of them being an asshole are on TMZ. People tend to be able to see through bullshit and this effort by Uber is completely transparent.
Well, that's one of the problems with the MTA: it's not technically under the direct control of any individual elected official. The MTA is an independent agency governed by a board that consists of five members appointed by the governor of New York State, four by the mayor of New York City, and three by county executives on Long Island and Westchester.

If the MTA were simply a city agency for which the mayor was directly responsible, it would be possible to channel voter anger (and there's plenty of voter anger, by the way) into action. But it's the governor who really has the most control, and he's responsible to a wide swath of voters outside the New York City region (who tend to want less spent on the MTA in any case). Plus many voters don't really understand how the MTA is structured, and elected officials can hide behind this independent-agency arrangement.
I know that psychoactive substances like psylocibin is known to create more connections in the brain. I would be really interested to know if such study has been done on patients in vegetative state and if it can help in some way.
Thanks for this one! Tried using the smileys to make it look bit relaxed :) Will consider the other points and do the needful.
Wikipedia? And Wikinews? Probably not "upfront about bias" part, but the rest matches pretty well.
You can disagree with my stance, but your comment here is pretty rude in my opinion.
(Disclaimer: I work at Uber)

I received an internal email about this. It turns out there's more than just monetary donations. Employees have also taken the time to personally volunteer with meal deliveries themselves, and there's even been engineering effort put into the app to support this commitment.

Say what you will about evil faceless corps, but in the short time I've been here, I've actually been pleasantly surprised that there's an unusually high number people here who genuinely care about their local community and helping people, compared to other places I've worked in the past.
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Looks like I can get the copy changes from here too :) Thanks for this!
> For those pointing out that this is "Govt. distortion of markets", please see Agricultural subsidies offered in the US and Europe, which "distort" markets a lot more.

What you're saying is a classic case of a logical fallacy, specifically, the fallacy of relative privation. Just because there is another bigger problem doesn't mean that this is a legitimate problem.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as
Oh shit.

Soon trampolines and bouncy castles will be illegal, because they're using up all our gravity.
Truck driver?
Or a job with very high requirements on response time, but very low probability of problems, such as security guard, emergency server technician, night shift at a pharmacy or hotel front desk.
yes, that is true.
Anyone know how to get the full text of his essay? I can find links to excerpts but I really don't want to read other people's summaries of his essay.
Has anyone considered the possibility that people won't want to trust their lives to self driving cars? We've had self checkouts at the supermarket for ages now and they still give problems with unusual situations. When people think of the infamous "please put your item in the bagging area" might they not get nervous about trusting their life to soemthing else autonomous?
Bullshit. The only attack on my free will is people telling me what is an attack on my free will and thus pushing their agenda.

I would NEVER EVER want to give up the incredible availability of information we have today. Even if most of it is nonsense, that still means there is a mountain of gems that's larger than the eye can see.
Reminds me of the way movies can occasionally be a lot more engaging when I somehow missed the beginning: so much less predictable, and events feel more like they are happening because of hidden causality and less because of hidden (or barely obfuscated) plot requirements.
This is another good one:

http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/mathematics/lo...
Distances are being computed from a geopoint representation of each zip code (which is a bit out of date, but which I can update fairly easily) to a set of shape files representing US counties. It's intentionally not 100% accurate because the underlying math is quite slow and using slight approximations speeds things way up.
I don't know how you pivot a deeply-entrenched cultural problem like this. Pass more laws, if you can get the legislature to act against what's typically their own self-interest, but of course the same bureaucrats who don't want to share the information have to enforce those laws.

And when it's always been done that way, nearly everyone still left in the system has the same negative reaction to transparency.
There is no "the" dictionary. And in most respected dictionaries, it isn't the first definition.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/factoid
I wrote something similar with Go a while back which is configured via a json file and runs in the terminal https://github.com/markustenghamn/golang-cryptotracker
Been getting feedback for "professional" a lot. Thanks, will edit accordingly, we are working on an entirely new copy of the website.
Criticizing the business model of social media?
There are all sorts of things you want to last indefinitely rather than as issues. Newsletters, etc. The goal for issues should be 0 open. That's a much different use case
Cue in the "Dammit! We are not supposed to talk about it" jokes
Optimization Algorithms for Deep Learning: Math and Code
There are literally millions of them.

Some people object when a word means its opposite, but I could care less.
I would do a small friends & family round pre-revenue. E.g., 8 friends and family @ 12.5K each = 100K. I don't mind if my success makes my friends & family some money.

But I'll sure feel bad if I take their money and lose everything. Perhaps that would be motivating...

(Note: where I live (BC, Canada), the provincial government offers a refundable 30% tax credit for investments like this, so if I did lose everything, friends & family would only be out 70K).
It's weird and a little tone deaf but a common older brand of humor. The speakers (in general, I only skimmed a few of the videos) don't seem to share it.
You can’t just say “incentive alignment is good.” Incentive alignment is only “good” if they’re aligned with your incentives. If you are poor or approve of helping the poor get affordable food, then this is an instance of good incentive alignment. But, on the complete other side of the spectrum, if you’re poor and you observe the government giving tax breaks for private jets, that’s an example of bad incentive alignment. Of course, many of the people with private jets will likely consider the latter to be a good form of incentive alignment.
You're on to something, which is that I don't believe concepts like the internet actually die.

A big network of ISPs like what we have today? That could be destroyed.

Computers communicating to each other over long distances? I don't think it is hard - or so low priority to implement - that the disorganized nomadic doomsday scenario perpetuates itself for very long.
Ask HN: Do you agree or disagree with these thoughts on VCs?
1. Think of investors on the bell curve. Most of are in the middle, 25% at the bottom, and 25% at the top. You only want the top 5% (look at returns)

2. Investors look at the same slide decks. The data is all the same. The ones that consistently choose the right companies have something that the other VCs do not.

3. The VCs that are good understand companies in a way that is beyond metrics. They are intuitive. You don’t want a VC that is obsessing over numbers. You want a VC that sees beyond and trusts themselves enough to take risk.

4. There are great partners at VC firms, but, ultimately, they have to serve that VC firm. Make sure the culture of that VC firm is a good one. That culture will impact that partner and that partner will impact you.

5. VCs don’t like to admit that they are mostly money people. The fancy offices, coffee etc. is all about putting in small money and later getting out big money. Don’t kid yourself.

6. VCs will say anything to get into your company if it is hot. They can be like a high school kid trying to get laid. If they think they can get you, then they’ll say whatever they need to say. They just want to get laid...sorry paid.

7. Being a VC is not glamorous. Most of them are unfortunately not happy. It is competitive. They compare themselves a lot. Do you want that kind of life?

8. Most VCs are not terribly insightful (see #1) and all VCs will make poor judgement calls. The best ones own up to it. The lousy ones continue to deny their mistakes.

9. People that control the money (VCs) control the company. If you take VC then you are no longer in charge. Even the very smart people that have 'hacked' the SV system still serve investors. You have to keep them happy. If you have to keep them happy, then you are not in control.

10. The very best VCs are conflicted about VC. They know how it can crush a founder or company. They keep moving forward because that feels like the only real option for them.
Same here I can’t find the counter in my app although everyone else seems to have it.
I wouldn't expect much from ThunderX(1). Qualcomm Amberwing or Cavium ThunderX2 are where it's at for Xeon-like performance.
Ironically, the first thing you're greeted with on this site is an attention-grabbing ad, if you choose to browse without protection.

If modern media a DoS attack, it's not very sophisticated since it can be easily avoided by non-participation. Install an Ad blocker. Browse the web in private mode. Turn off notifications. Treat everything you read with skepticism (assume it is trying to manipulate you). And never, ever interact with social media. Share your attention deliberately, mindfully, and voluntarily.

I don't buy into this victim mentality. Nobody is "stealing" my attention unless I agree to it.
Ask HN: In the future will machines ask the best hypothesis questions?
Is there a future where humans will no longer be needed to ask the hypothesis questions that direct scientific method? Are we racing to the future where the machines will be able to ask the best scientific questions required for hypothesis testing?
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You can get a decent healthy food for anywhere from 50 INR to 100 INR. However, the govt public-distribution-system is highly subsidized, that is how many people get their food. Also temples and charities offer free food.
A MVP does not take a couple hundred thousand dollars or years without pay. Many people here on HN have built apps and gotten traction in their free time.

The real trick is getting a job where your contract does not try to claim your employer owns things you make in your free time...
Where did you get the phrase "throwing shade on" from?
Does anyone know how many investors this is? What was the average size of the investment that people lost?
Adding comments to arXiv papers
Demystifying pandas and numpy filtering
Settings (top left icon from main screen) --> scroll allll the way down.

"Smart Speed has saved you an extre __ hours beyond speed adjustments alone."
Don't check your work email on the go. Quit facebook. It is actually pretty simple!
Yeah, I meant "proceeding with what they have announced", which was that they would push it to some German users. The outcry was on that push, and as far as I know the decision was not reversed. What comes after that was never officially announced.
The personal assistant is a real live human :) and exactly does like what you mentioned, answer simple ones and escalate complex inquiries.

Will consider the pricing plans, ideally, we are trying to reduce the friction in beginning and have the least number of plans.

Thanks for the rest of the feedback, will definitely go through them :)
Was just going to recommend reading this book, glad someone did already. Being in tech/IT, you will be able to identify each of the characters in your work environment at one point or another.
Paywalls suck.
In what way? This doesn't replicate any of Google Wave's features.
This has to be one of the most heavily-couched calls for Marxism I've seen all week.

"Democratic deployment" will still suffer from well-applied demagoguery, the people themselves are still prone to manipulation - even when their choices are abstracted away in a command economy.
This is nothing new- Google's "Cardboard Camera" app has been around for a few years and does almost exactly this same thing. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr....
FCC Gives Phone Companies New Tools to Block Spam Calls
That's easy to say. But what if family, friends and work are so tied up with your phone that doing so would hurt too much? Sure, you can change your work and friends, and cut off your family, but that's hard.
makes sense. it is easy to make money when the passengers feel for the driver's hard life. :)
The speakers in this video series give great overviews of their products and their uses.
This lecture series reminds me of an in depth meetup, which is nice.
Totally agreed. I'm using Gitter now in a few places, but I think this would be nicer to use.

I've been thinking for a long time that GitHub was really missing some way to fill the gap that mailing lists used to be good for -- to get more of a sense of community than what you get from issues and PRs.
This is one of the most well-reason and true responses I've ever read about Perl.

Who are you?
No, I haven't. I've been told they handle really well for their size and weight since the center of gravity is so low, but that they still don't handle super tight like a sports car.
Given free hand, corporations can be just as dangerous as governments. I don't know why you would trust corporations more, since their only goal is to make money.
Blaming technology for our dysfunctional political system is all kinds of backwards. The political system is broken because of corruption within our financial/judicial/media institutions. If anything, technology is our best hope to fix those problems. For example, look at this discussion we are having right here.
Maybe it is because you do not have a FREE WILL at all.
Using private browsing is definitely intentional, it's activated by the user and not a default setting; besides it's actively preventing tracking from taking place, it's not politely asking if advertisers would be so kind as not do what they exist to do as DNT was naively attempting.
Several of the Uber guys I spoke with were actually drivers of some rich businessmen; they were told to Uber during the times they were not needed. A couple of them were "for hire" drivers, being paid a flat INR 200/day to operate the car for 10 hours/day.

I don't know why they'd be conning me, and so many of them too, unless there's a "driver mafia" out to fool the public about .... what their driver makes?? Doesn't pass Occam's test.
It's nice to see how the bad things about the Scala ecosystem are finally getting out now that the hype is vanishing.
It's a paradox to me, since everyone i meet at any place seems really nice and want to make the world a better place. And yet, at some point, a company's mandate causes externalities that harm (usually for a profit motive). It's not a single individual that "did it" - it's more a collective force, like the tide.
I just thought you are talking about FREE WIFI...
I thought I was the only person who asked this.
Whoa, that's a lot! Just curious, how many hours of podcasts is that? Do you have that information available?

And with that experience, what are your favorite podcasts?
Can somebody summarize for us who can't listen?
Sounds like clicker games could be turned into motivation to pay attention in high school economy class
I wonder if we should start dumping crushed glass into the oceans again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_glass
Seriously!? I go to Indian restaurants in SF all the time and I've only ever paid by card. Do the waiters get to keep the tip if you give it to them with cash?
Will think about his more! Thanks.
But there's no "tip" system in Uber, and they had nothing to gain from it (and they didn't gain anything either). So, to what purpose?

I recommend asking the drivers yourselves.
PocketCasts on Android does the same kind of silence removal. You can find it there in Settings > Stats. I recently wiped my phone but I'm pretty sure it was in the hundreds of hours saved before then.
Temples are open for all. They don't discriminate anyone. Ofcourse, if you will feel awkward, if you try to do namaz inside a temple.
You don’t put a monetary value on non-cash donations in your press release for purely heartfelt philanthropy.

Serious.
I am a huge fan of Blendle, the news micropayments system, which meets the first four of these criteria. The last two depend on the underlying news organization.
Oh, just wait until the hordes come out of the woodwork to poo-poo you for blocking ads and such.

They have their reasons, like "No Ads means no free content", or "You're taking the money out of content creators mouths", or variations on a theme.

What's doubly silly, is I control how my computer renders what content, downloads what content, and does whatever actions I want. Once it leaves your computer/network, its no longer up to you, ad company.

(Is now waiting for Wildvine to be used on content, forcing such ad viewage, now that DRM is part of the bloody HTML5 spec.)
Unless they find an economy of scale solution, like driverless or automated deliveries that have huge upfront costs but once achieved leaves you with a dominant position for decades.
It's at the bottom of the settings menu - click the little Overcast logo in the top left and scroll down.

(Just went through this exercise to find it last week)
Vaadin is doa. It’s not a spa which means it will be dead in idk three years. People love that interactivity.
Yeah, but the demand in the 40s had a completely different pattern from today's demand, so you can't just ramp up train frequency across the system and meet it.

The L train to Bedford Ave carries way more people now than it ever did in the 1940s, when Williamsburg was a modestly dense working-class neighborhood. On the other hand, those letter lines to outer Brooklyn are much less used today than they were in the 1940s, as are parts of the system in the Bronx. And, of course, there were elevated lines over Second and Third Avenues in the 1940s.

The parts of the system that run at crush capacity are already running with the highest possible train frequency. Some of the lines might not seem maxed out on headways, but they have to deal with interlining; the frequency of the F train can't be increased because the line it shares with the E train in Queens is fully loaded, etc.
Made it on fiverr with this guy https://www.fiverr.com/joeguilar
Like the UK.

With the up-coming budget... [0]

> Mr Hammond is due to announce regulation changes in Wednesday's Budget which will allow developers to apply to test driverless vehicles on UK roads.

> Asked about the potential loss of jobs for drivers, he said the country could not "hide from change" and the government had to equip people with the skills "to take up new careers".

There is your answer.

[0]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42040856
Didn’t NASA land a robot in mars without testing just base on simulations and law of physics , mainly because they couldn’t do in other way. Of course computers are a tool and not a silver bullet , but I trust more the computational power of a computer and the path taken base on algorithms in dangerous situations than a fragile human being
>just as dangerous as governments

Corporations don't have nukes or concentration camps.
Self-Righteous Devils: What Ozark Vigilantes of the 1880s Reveal About America
I've been happy Scala and Gradle user for years now and it keeps getting better.

Also tooling works like a charm with IntelliJ first class support for Gradle.

IMHO Gradle is in a sweet spot of making simple things really simple and not making complex things (integrating native, custom plugins, multi project, Java interop) unnecessarily complex. Also Gradle has been getting faster and more user friendly every release.

I have been trying to gather motivation to tip my toe in SBT but without success.

/fanboypost
Its a real human being, will incorporate all these feedbacks soon, thanks for taking time to write :)
I see "men can't always get what they want either" mentioned in articles all the time.
I believe you. And I believe you were wrong.
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You are comitting a falacy falacy. Just because an argument is fallacious, doesn't mean it is wrong.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fallacy_fallacy
Scrivener 3 arrives with new interface, export options
Will work on the suggestions! Thanks. We had an explanation video, commented in another thread.
This looks like it is actually creating a 3d model. The app you linked to I think just stitches together photos into something closer to street view. It's not actually 3d, it just looks 3d because you have enough photos to cover the whole field of vision.
Container Wars: Comparing Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm vs. ECS
Understanding Continuous Variable Transmission
Origin of AWS is quite famous.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12022915

Yegge's famous rant about Bezo's 2002 mandate
https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX