skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The test runs did not include PTC though. The entire point of requiring PTC is that railroads will not install it themselves because they don't think they need it.

My concern with saying trains should replace cars because they are safer is that trains don't do the same thing as cars and interstates do. Trains can't take me around town but cars are often used for that which skews the numbers. I would like to see the risk in micromorts [1] for travel from Seattle to Portland by car, plane and rail[2].

If I want to go to Portland from Seattle I have several choices. The top three from most to least likely for me are:

1) Drive my car down I-5.

2) Fly.

3) Take the train.

I suspect most people are in a similar situation and I think we can both agree that more people drive their cars to Portland than take the train in any given period of time.

I do not agree with your assumption that just putting more people on trains will magically save lives. Specifically I do not think that putting the people who drive to Portland on a train will necessarily save lives. This is for several reasons:

1) The existing trains do not carry anywhere near as many people as I-5 does so we must drastically increase the number of trains and possibly rails. This would drastically increase the chances of train on train collisions which are uncommon today (but still happen). There could be other issues here such as the availability of qualified operators.

2) Trains are much slower than driving or flying. The train to Portland takes 10.5 hours, by car it takes 3.5 and by plane is an hour in the air plus a couple hours to get to the airport and get through security so call it the same as driving. For trains to compete with this we would have to significantly increase speed which would increase danger.

I'm with you, I would love for there to be better rail options in the United States. I don't think we get there by just scaling up and ignoring the risks and problems. If rail companies can't safely operate their trains with the small amount of current utilization why would we expect it to get better (or even stay the same) with higher volumes? Changes must be made to a lot of aspects of railroads to increase ridership but safety is absolutely one of them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
[2]: Note that 250 miles by car seems to include all forms of driving, not just driving on the freeway.

e: From the linked study it looks like highway driving is one of the most dangerous forms of driving. My point stands that this is more complex than it looks and rail transit does not scale linearly.
It will stop chirping whether or not you turn on the lights, and then not chirp again for a number of minutes. Unless it is pitch dark, you're not really stumbling; people can find their way around in dark rooms. The searcher can reduce stumbling by tidying the room and possibly even removing some items such as chairs and whatever.
There's plenty of science behind micro-expressions and detection of deception.

Paul Ekman [0] is "ranked 59th out of the 100 most cited psychologists of the twentieth century" and I thought the TV show based on his research [1] was very entertaining. (I am surprised that the article used the phrase "micro-expression" without any reference to Ekman's work.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ekman
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_to_Me
I believe your parent is alluding to the fact that if you are regularly active & get exercise, biking at an easy pace on flat land in good weather won't even cause you to break a sweat, whereas if you sit on the couch all day it will. (Hopefully don't need a source for this)
Wouldn't this violate the Fifth Amendment (self incrimination clause) if actually used?
I already have issues when I see something but I know no-one is going to pay to fix it, so what can I do? I report it, no-one cares; I might be able to fix it but then I do this for free.

If your bugs can hurt people (financially, physically) I think you need to work a bit harder to make sure it doesn't sneak into your work. Whatever you believe helps there (unit tests, formal verification, ...); if you didn't do all you could do because you are not paid for it (your boss tells you to add features, don't waste time on things that didn't break yet for instance), what should you do? Seems like a real issue for professional coders as there are not so many options; not many companies will pay to prevent these kinds of things unless they had a big issue before already (and someone(s) got fired / sued for it already).
The U-Bahn is good but many of the lines are quite old and the connections often too sparse, specially compared to other european capitals like Paris or Madrid. There are often very close areas that take surprisingly long to travel between without a bike. I always find traveling between northern Neukölln to the middle of Friedrischain somewhat annoying unless you are very close the ring or just grab the bike and cut through Gorli. There are lots of examples like that.

Plus I find the U-Bahn rather expensive (esp. considering how little investment it seems to get) with very few buying options (only bulk-ticket is 4 rides which saves you very little) and the ticket machines seem to be broken half of the time and the ones that work are slow as hell (takes like 3 minutes to print the damn tickets).

The only plus I see (e.g. compared to Madrid) is that the stations are not very deep underground and often over the ground so it helps people that are mildly claustrophobic.
Get a beard trimmer with attachment #0 or #1.
They are big companies who shit money and lawyers. Laws are for other people.
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I agree. But what's the error rate now?
Seems a little ridiculous to me, just install IMSI catchers in the prison, and you can monitor and/or block calls from any phone whatever the size or composition.
The better question to ask in my opinion is whether or not they activate their IP on the balance sheet. If they do there is a very good chance that they care about the quality. If they don't then there is a very good chance they treat software as something disposable.
Honestly that doesn’t seem a bad decision. You will be eating PHP day in day out. It would be a bad choice for the company if they had candidates who otherwise don’t care that much about PHP’s problems, and a disservice to you if you could otherwise find equivalent jobs in a language you like better.

Working in a PHP shop, nobody would care to shit on PHP during an interview. We know the shortcommings, it just doesn’t really matter that much.
Also, for iOS devs, remember that you can detect mirroring, and even display a different UI on the "external" screen. In the case of HQ, you could enhance UX by putting the @traptrebek on the external screen while the question stays on the phone.
That's too bad, as none of those "things you'll need in the work place" sound like they belong in upper year computer science, and, at least in my experience, it was those upper year courses that made the degree worthwhile / distinguished it from community college level curriculum.
What if the text was rendered as an image on the server, then sent to the device?
Bountysource introduced bitcoin payments years ago and the community embraced it. seems like it could go the same
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So, I wonder how many ad placements were made by these companies that specifically targeted experienced talent OVER 40 years of age? I'm going to guess a big, fat, zero.
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I would spend all day every day hanging out with and taking care of my baby boy - pretty much what I do now, but with a lot more poignancy.
Yes but in that example what Craigslist is doing is still legal. It is totally fine to be a person seeking a person including all specific permutations of gender. It's not ok to discriminate based on age for jobs. Facebook has a page for the specific purpose of advertising jobs to people on the basis of their age.
Congratulations on launching!

I've never needed to subtitle a video so I don't really know who your competitors might be but none of the links posted so far in this thread (except for yours) seem to be very easy or intuitive to use.

I love your logo character too!
I’m afraid it’s a fact, the fidelity of current VR/AR tech just isn’t high enough. Money really is being thrown at the problem, but there is no magic wand available at any price. These advances take time.
Not designed by sociologists.

More rubbish out of the polygraph playbook. AI is the modern Mechanical Turk when applied to the complex nonlinearities of human behavior.
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It wouldn't really, but it would be significantly less douche-y, because it would ultimately be based in a less disparaging view of older job seekers.
Exactly, and the statistic of 50% doesn't portray the actual reality.

The better fact is to cite that a monkey is as accurate as a polygraph machine.

Remember that 50% numerical accuracy is _because it cannot be any lower_. If it could, it would be inversely utilized for accuracy.
you can avoid all this by not testifying.
It's called an appendix.
My friend... lives in Canada... and his relative had to wait that long.

I'm not going to throw away his experience because it doesn't fit into someone's worldview.

Just because you had a good experience doesn't mean he can't have a bad one.
> I guess when the Valencian people start to see how much fun cycling ones life makes, Valencia will become the cycling capital of the world soon enough.

Beijing and Amsterdam can probably make a better claim to that title. Valencia is on the right track though and I hope their project succeeds and will last.
Pretty much true for the entire coast - not to mention outright expensive. I looked at a ticket from Portland to la and it was more than a flight and they’d probably stick me on a bus in Bakersfield.
> it suited my point to make it seem like it was something easy I could do as an aside...

Thus fuelling the idea that this sort of thing will just be done as other work is happening with no time budgeted for it.
You can take the mortgage interest deduction for a high-rise condo. It’s not responsible for sprawl. That would be FHA underwriting standards, but mostly local zoning, which is mostly voter preference.
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Absolutely. It's a beautiful place and lots of very friendly people. Another place that you probably wouldn't catch on to from abroad is Croatia, the coast there is a great and still relatively cheap place to set up for a couple of months - or years, it tends to stick.
If what you're saying is that they have a purpose built tool to target jobs ads specifically to discreet ages, then it could be problematic --if it's not a dual-use tool.
"blocking the cycle path is a recipe for chaos"
I think california has the right rule here, the driver cannot constantly monitor what's coming from behind when making a turn, especially when most cyclists are almost invisible from side mirrors. Blocking the path for a safety-critical maneuver would certainly help.
They were also very close to buying Be instead, but didn't due to Jean-Louis Gassée pushing for too high a price http://macspeedzone.com/archive/art/con/be.shtml
And you don’t even need mechanical connection. Just a simple over speed alarm would seem to help.
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2110 is such a good course. I've mentioned it in this sub before, since people always bring up gba programming.

And pfft, "upper level my ass", some people take 2110 their second semester.
If driverless cars completely replaced humans, then you would not need many of the rules, road signs, traffic lights, and so on. Car-to-car communication combined with mesh-sensor network would probably take care of most of these.
Great details, thanks.
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One nice example of a city that did not have that but where things worked out wonderfully is Helsinki, there is a bike path through a large chunk of the city on what used to be a railroad. It's totally out of the ordinary traffic recessed in the ground so out of the wind (not unimportant that far North).
For MTA: labor expenses are higher than revenue, there is no easy way out.
If I had asked Yogi Berra what he wanted, he would've said 'A faster horse'.
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If the cycling commute is flat, it has to be long to get decent exercise, because you have to apply a flat-out effort and you cover a lot of ground. If my bike commute were flat, I'd prefer to be some 14 miles from work rather than the current 7. Or else I would have to run it (more often).

To me, what would make an area ideal for cycling (if it has good roads and such) is: dry climate. No rain, no snow.
It's worse when Amtrack does have priority and their habitually late trains block other trains that could be using the track.
> Perhaps the people who look at a tax return as free money from the government won't feel fleeced

It's not a tax return, it's a tax cut. That means the government is taking less money from me (not giving me more money). I don't know anyone under 35 that's actually counting on SS on being there for them (not saying they're happy about, but most realized 10+ years ago that it's not gonna happen). That was a reality before this happened.
If you don't have a readily available email address for things like password resets and two step verification, can you please tell us how you managed to travel back in time to 1998?
And that plan worked so well that Apple went almost bankrupt one year later and had to be rescued by a fund infusion from Microsoft.
Yeah ok, high speed rail (competing with air travel) and commuter rail (competing with driving) are pretty much mutually exclusive. I think parent meant the later. Tokyo’s commuter network isn’t proper HSR either.
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It's actually good for the bottom line to pay employees more, up to a point. But companies like ATT aren't know (in the last 25 years) to have that kind of wisdom.
They make good points about data/information governance and their propensity to sensor contrarian views... On the other hand, HuffPo does not fail at irony.
To wit: "They have destabilized traditional, fact-based journalism."

As someone said about Journos vs Trump. Don't get into trolling wars, cuz you can't win. Stick to facts and stop sensationalizing things. Become journalists and "newsmen" and "newswomen" for a change, again.
I think it is the Republican party showing its priorities :) Tax cuts for the reach are more important than anything else.

Hopefully we get a repeal of the corporate cuts, with even an increase to compensate for the years it was cut.
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Based on the concept that you should always be skeptical of everything, and even more skeptical when it comes to fantastic claims.
The fun thing to do here is hold them to this - consider any reprehensible statement by a bluecheck to be Twitter-approved.
> It is a signalling of a maverick industry so powerful it can succeed without the approval or gatekeeping of stuffy banks etc. It is a huge middle finger to The Establishment.

> There are good psychological reasons for enforcing it as an industrywide standard. You don't want people eroding that mindset of the industry or altering that social contract.

If you dig into these two paragraphs a bit, you’ll see they’re incompatible. You’re just trading one establishment for a new one, which is evidently just a susceptible to gatekeeping and biases as the old one.
1) Less than 100% of the audience (Facebook users) are > 50 so your point is irrelevant.

2) The issue is not targeting, the issue is exclusion. If the ads are targeting based on age then only members of a certain age group see the ads. This also means anyone outside that group does not see the ads which means they were excluded based on their age. Combined with the ad content being a job this is illegal discrimination based on age.

3) The specific nature of the algorithm is irrelevant to the effect.
I tried for a while to think of a good retort to this article, I couldn't. So instead:

This is fucking retarded.

They should institute a law that if you are using machine learning to make major decisions about people's lives then you need to take a test about basic ML (test sets, validation sets, etc.)
I've often used Jenkins for this use case, and really appreciate how it scales to teams too. While it works well, there are lots of pitfalls in it too, logs filling up disks, lots of configs to tweak. I think you've just gotten past those issues so it's stable for your use case.
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That's why we've got these:

https://www.christianiabikes.com/

https://www.babboe.nl/

They're so common that during the morning rush hour it seems like every other bike is a 'bakfiets'. They're a direct descendant of the old cargo delivery bikes from the previous century. There are two wheeled versions as well and then there are trailers to put behind normal bikes (though I don't like those much, because cars tend to overlook them due to their height).
Facebook already excludes older workers just by being the kind of terrible user experience older people are sick of dealing with!
Yeah, and a ton of their developer oriented web portals are as well. Documentation, certificates, App Store distribution, etc.
I'm skeptical that it's good to be skeptical of everything...
Progressive web apps actually run in the browser (any modern browser), whereas Electron runs its own copy of Chromium and Node.js, which is why you see the bloat.
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I listened to a lot of US gov speaking on the subject past 2 days... but all I hear is "we believe", "we think", "we know"... without a shred of evidence!

This whole story only missed Secretary of State Colin Powell holding a model vial of anthrax and we could roll tanks onto North Korean soil already!
Copland is coming, you just gotta believe.
The thing is it doesn't cost billions to have an open loop GPS guided speed governor that only works most of the time. But there's no money in that.
Well, that's how overthrowing the old order and establishing a new one works. Cargo shorts and sandals become the new uniform.

It still refuses to curry favor with the old establishment.
Wow. Clay Bavor is one of the most articulate speakers that I've ever heard. He delivered a talk with an extremely high information density so cleanly. I really just want to hear this guy talk about things more.
What sort of change?

Have you asked them what they don't like about the change? - Just letting them say their peace to the right people will alleviate some of their anxiety, especially if the concerns are repeated and addressed or at least responded to.

Does it clearly solve problems in the existing system? - Show them the pain categories in the old system that the new one will address, features that work better or are easier to maintain.

Are you giving them enough learning/experiential on the new system? - Let them try out new methods on the new system such as testing solutions that they feel might not work, so they can see all is good, or really less impossible they may have thought.

Once they feel effective on implementing the change then they will better cope with what needs to be done and work toward it.
Anyone who wants to grow anything in a tank should read this incredible book: "Ecology of the planted aquarium" by Diana Walstad.
If you don't know what aquascaping is about, try googling "Takashi Amano" and just browse through the pictures you find. I'd guarantee you would dream about creating something like that. And that hobby truly is fascinating. However it's for brave tinkerers and tenacious explorers.
That's not surprising. Unfortunately you are in the majority.
It really isn't. It is an issue, sure, but decrepit signals have far more of an effect every single day.
Unless the adjudication is secret, it creates a weird problem: what starts out as an unknown ("did the harassment happen or not?") becomes a fact ("he was fired for harassment"). That fact could follow the accused the rest of their life, and others may make judgements based on it, even if the original harassment claim was bogus and the adjudication a charade. Even of the accused finds exonerating evidence later, there would be no process to reverse it.
I'm coming from Boston, and wilder areas where mass transit is atrocious if available, so Berlin is amazing. My other experiences in Paris or Amsterdam are inferior to Berlin.
This, ironic enough, is my main motivation to improve my software development skills, from algorithms to system design to development patterns. Because, like first impressions, the first write is the most important. If it's done well the first time around, the true risk of missing an improvement upon the next iteration is significantly lowered.
Edit: also the reason I'd like an ongoing education in basic security for app devs
>What are currently the best tech buzzwords that might convince people you have magic pixie dust for sale?

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I know someone hired at Netflix who is belligerent, inexperienced, and lazy. He is a senior engineer there. Titles don’t really matter much at the end of the day.
I would be happy to wear a tie if I don't have to. I need to practice tying a tie to remember how to do it. Also, some time ago I learned how to tie a bow tie and it's a cool skill that I want to maintain.
The major factor here is Berlin's street width, which was chosen to be 22m by law in 1862 for fire safety reasons, much wider than other german cities. Consequently during WW2, Berlin proved to be a problem for allied incendiary bombs. At some point they were even building a to scale model city in the desert (Dugway Proving Ground) for testing various methods of igniting fire storms.

> Berlin, however, would “prove more difficult than most other German cities”, the leading incendiary expert Horatio Bond avowed before the national commission for armament research of the USA. “The building quality is higher, and the single blocks are better separated from each other.” As the tests at the Dugway Proving Ground showed, is “was hardly to be expected that the flames would jump unhindered from one building to the next”.[1]

[1] http://www.principality-of-sealand.ch/pdf/sealandbrief0503e....
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For what it's worth, I think AmigaOS was superior to BeOS in pretty much every way, even as soon as the early 90s.

Basically, AmigaOS 1992 was a more advanced operating system than BeOS 1997. Pity Commodore completely squandered their opportunity and Windows 95 killed them dead.
Works well in NY. Are you kidding me? Did you not take it once this summer, or hear a single person talking about how atrocious its become, or read a single article on it?
Here in Europe it’s even worse, in my country the only streaming services are Netflix and a Russian-only equivalent (I don’t speak Russian). It’s no surprise that pirating content is so prevalent here, it’s not that people don’t want to pay (although it’s not really fair that the average wage being 4x less than the U.K., Netflix is more expensive here), it’s that they aren’t even given a choice. Most of the time I use a VPN to access U.K. streaming services.
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