skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now you mentioned taxes, let's get more numbers! Yay!

Income taxes in Texas for 95k amounts to about 27%. Income tax in Berlin for $60k (30y, no children, left other options on defaults) amounts to 33%. The after tax difference is about $30k then.

Tuition in UT Dallas, 4y engineering bachelor degree, is $45k. Free in DE, but you pay that in less than two years with the difference in salary.

Public transport? In US the TCO is estimated at $8500 yearly. In Berlin you can get an annual tickets for $1100. It's not directly comparable but you get the picture. For better perspective, NYC 30d passes sets you back at $1450 per year.
This is cool! I somehow missed this part. Uber's in dock if this takes off well.
> '“examiners” scored individuals lower on the same task when they were told that the pupil came from a less privileged background.'

I'm not sure how well-backed-up the assertions actually were (I've not followed up on the references) but the well-regarded and sometimes recommended-on-this-very-site Influence by Cialdini has a chapter on the effects of appearance on others, and especially of wealth/class markers. In particular, it claims a study was conducted that found that pretty much no-one thinks they would defer more readily, when driving, to an expensive-looking car than a cheap-looking one, but in fact people do (in this case, IIRC, waiting longer for them to go after their light turns green before honking) and to a very large degree.

Apparently these kinds of results are pretty typical for research along those lines, i.e. self-reported versus actual deference to people who simply look rich/"classy"/powerful, even absent any directly-relevant hierarchy in the equation (i.e. just strangers on otherwise equal footing).
I would have expected some good emulation environments. Are there any?
Sure it has. The fact that Starbucks hasn't implemented it yet doesn't change that tens of thousands of transactions per day are occurring with BTC. It certainly hasn't hit Visa scale for daily use yet, but either it or another crypto will within the decade.
Ok, the language somewhat confused me. It's mentioned somewhere.
Life exists on a slippery slope. Success begets further success, failure (beyond a point) begets failure. Yet at some point in the past few decades we decided to declare that the result of success is "privilege" and is somehow undeserved and unfair.
Some feedback: As someone who types 30 articles in Markdown per week, # is the deal breaker for me here. It's at a spot on the keyboard that is easy to type. The = sign is not. You should consider a symbol on the left side of the keyboard that is easy to reach. The equals sign just doesn't encourage the kind of muscle memory that the hashtag does.

There are some good ideas here, though. I would like to suggest that there has to be a good way to implement class and id tags in a language like this. That is the only real issue I have with the Markdown spec.
I found it a well explained article. The author throws good, pointed references to Smalltalk, Lisp, Python and C in the comparison, and indeed there are areas in which Ruby seems to be a bit awkward.

However i'd say there is little criticism of Ruby there and more of a comparison of typical aspects of different programming languages.
Why would that be? Is there a difference in competence significant enough to warrant such a difference in pay?
Correct, but how many cars does Goog/Cruise/Uber have on the road daily collecting this high data rate? 1k? Let’s be overly optimistic and say 10k. Remember, normal driver driven cars don’t apply here generally, just the research cars.

Tesla on the other hand has hundreds of thousands of cars on the road and is rapidly on their way to 1M cars. Data won’t be as raw and abundant, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t potentially very useful none the less.
Has anyone seen anything to suggest this will happen for sure in 10 years? I’m sure there will be improvements in safety with these features but there are basically zero AI demos out there that are what I’d call good. For example Siri and even Google Assistant quickly show how limited they are after years and years of real world use. If these rely on the same Deep Learning technology won’t it just be the same limits apply to this much harder problem?
>hidden mechanisms that keep pay below market value

There is also non-cash compensation that doesn't get reported in "average" salary. For example, my telecom engineer friend in Germany has a benefit of having a car leased for him by the company. The level of the car depends on the position, so he has 3-series (only German cars can be leased, of course). The reason for this it's more profitable for the company tax-wise to lease cars for employees than to pay same amount in cash.
Remembering West Point’s Eggnog Riot of 1826
Is there anything actually "hackable" about this thing? Everything seems hardcoded; it just has ports
There is a "veritable cornucopia" of these phrases.
Ooh can I get one? I promise to read it and review it on my blog
Setting qualifications and standards is a reasonable form of discrimination.

Assuming that someone is stupid because they didn't go to Ivy League is a dumb form of discrimination.
How to write prolifically and expert-like? Why, by using the Postmodernism generator, of course!

http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

Hint: Hit refresh to generate a new essay.
Cost of living is comparable in USD terms. They're perceived to be higher because people earn less. Your $1000 rent feels more expensive for a Berliner earning $3000/mo after tax than for the $5800/mo Texan.
Whales are so intelligent though. Their brains are very large, and it's possible that they possess languages.
Not in the US. Prior to the ACA there was no requirement to give FTEs health care.
No. Launch.

If your code is JS, gradually migrate it to well-typed TypeScript, one file at a time. There are already IDEs that do most of what you want in JS and do everything you want in TS.

Use jslint and tslint religiously.
We use JJB, which is YAML based.

https://github.com/hyperledger/ci-management/tree/master/jjb

for instance
Doctor Who, both by nature and by design, has always been rather loose when it comes to historical accuracy.
Plugin that can implement schema.org markups for the question and answer site
Yes, that's such a massive issue. Ideally we would do away with simple speed limits and have more complex safety rules for self driving cars. Of course that won't happen for a very long time. Till then the issue you are describing will be infuriating to human drivers. Here in Oregon though everyone already is going below the speed limit, so I won't really care. As a passenger it also doesn't matter as much, since you at least can do other stuff now. I'm looking forward to the increased productivity while the car is driving itself.
And likewise with the fact that a surprising number of people have 'aphantasia' and cannot visually imagine things at all. Humans obviously have a highly variable capacity for visualisation.

TFA also seems to conflate "imagining a scene containing a combination of objects" with "imagining an assortment of randomly oriented Gabor patches", which I don't think follows at all. You can't just disregard the semantic content of what's being imagined. It's like saying humans can't recall sentences containing 50 characters because they can't recite a string of 50 random letters.
I used to participate in these competitions a decade ago.

So so so so much more fun than fixing social media likes.
Any recommended literature on the matter? 19 from bay area, lived here all my life and the "FU, i got mine" attitude is absolutely real, but i wasn't aware that this was a well known phenomenon, let alone that there were books on the matter.
I thought this is the famous Markdown parser by Vicent Martí. [1] It was the most popular Markdown implementation before CommonMark, and is used by GitHub (via RedCarpet, its Ruby binding) before they switch to CommonMark a while ago. The name choice is a bit unfortunate, but I guess it’s too late to change it now.

[1]: https://github.com/vmg/sundown
High-density housing with shopping and offices in walking distance would be massive steps towards solving Americas transportation problem. But this goes against the current US culture, so I'm not holding my breath.

Better public transit is also great, but that's also hard to deliver in low-density suburbia.

I agree that autonomous vehicles and Uber/Lift won't make travel times shorter. But they might help make the trip better because you can use the time better despite being in a car.
Frank Lorenzo: banned from the airline industry
Tesla seems to have no problem letting people speed with Autopilot, within reason.
Where in the article is hiring mentioned?
>Lisps are arbitrarily powerful by the means of macros.

This is my experiencie too. S-expressions + macros is an amazingly powerful combination.
This seems to prove otherwise: https://instagram.com/p/BdJvxwmn2ri/

Side by side as of a few minutes ago.
Have you tried something similar before? Does it work?
Cryptocurrency-mining bot is spreading via FB Messenger across the world
Why should driving be a harder problem then being a universal assistant (Siri's promise)?

Siri's potential problem field is huge, driving is a well defined, limited problem field.
bi·as
ˈbīəs/
noun
1. a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned: illegal bias against older job applicants; the magazine’s bias toward art rather than photography;

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/bias?s=t

If you need evidence that bias is bad, there is a host of nonfiction literature by the likes of Nobel prize winning economists on the subject.
An overview of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon
I didn’t hold out much hope of a surgical response (because it’s not the most common thing being done in projects) but that looks like a great link exactly on point.

It may sound cynical but as I mentioned anecdotally is does really feel like the AI winter, where simultaneously people felt there was incredible promise while hearing a steady stream of discouraging progress reports.

I look forward to reading their paper, maybe there are a lot more bright spots than can be easily seen from the outside.
>They aren't human-first languages. S-expressions are easy for a computer, they are hard for a human.

I've used Python, C, C++, C#, Java and Pascal extensively. I can safely say Common Lisp allows you to write the most readable code of all languages i've used, and i'd expect this to be the same for most other lisps.

Since they are hugely flexible, they allow you to write code in such a way that the problem and solution are expressed in the most explicit and straightforward way.
I don't want advertising companies anywhere near my medical records. If I was in a position where the NHS handed my data to Google, I'd be beyond pissed off.
For Children, a Good Booger Joke Helps the Medicine Go Down
Siri/Alexa/GoogleAssist etc. work well in constrained situations (e.g. changing music, turning stuff on/off, pop culture quiz questions), they have trouble parsing more general/complex questions.

Many researchers I've talked to believe the initial self-driving car deployments to the public will be have to be very constrained: fixed routes, possibly isolated self-driving car lanes, only allowed in clear/daytime conditions.
I made it through college not explaining anything to anybody. I wasn't a hermit, family wealth just never came up.
Passengers won't care, they'll be busy playing with their phones or working. All that useless time spent driving is suddenly productive, as if you were in a nice private train car. If a car passes the train on the highway outside, do you even notice as a passenger?

I think following the laws and driving calmly is a great benefit. Never once I have thought, "I'm so happy that Uber driver drove like a maniac weaving between lanes, and got me to my destination all of 4 minutes earlier. Yay".
Overarching trends at NIPS
> also seems to try to paint the picture that the ruling class invented education to keep the lower classes down

In a word, yes. It's not the first time I've seen such an argument made; Gatto (1) does so at considerably greater length and rather more forcefully, motivated by his own experience as a teacher and finding considerable substantiation in the published writings of many of those who worked to design and implement education in the modern style.

The tl:dr; version might be that, in purpose, this modern reinvention of a strictly regimented child-gardening scheme was of a piece with the Progressive Era's many other enthusiastic attempts at methods of engineering a more perfect society, and has proven to be no better advised or more humane than any - that, having been given an ample period to prove its value and having, at least in Gatto's judgment, signally failed to do so, the practice merits a place alongside eugenics in the intellectual and moral junkyard.

I tend to agree, and to find myself reminded somewhat of that marvelous satire of Progressive Era utopianism, Brave New World, besides. But it would be remiss of me not to note that my own experiences may have predisposed me to do so, and to exert less effort than I otherwise might in seeking contradictory evidence. From the sound of it, you are unlikely to harbor similar confounding motivations, and I'd be most interested to hear your evaluation of Gatto's rather sensationally named, but nonetheless substantial, work.

(1) https://archive.org/details/JohnTaylorGattoTheUndergroundHis...
And anyone with more than a handbag to carry. Many workers travel with tools. Im going to training next month and have to bring about 80lbs of various stuff with me. Hauling that in and out of busses, not to mention finding places to secure it while i sleep/eat, wouldnt be much fun. But it all fits in my car nicely. And no, i cannot send it by courier.
Why not just type in your editor of choice, copy, paste? I started doing this when I got stuck using Outlook online (worst editing and reading experience ever or worst IMAP experience ever, hard to choose). Is saving a keystroke or 2, maybe even losing a few when things go wrong, worth the extra dependency and attack surface in your browser?
Consider that senior pilots are flying the biggest, most expensive planes with the most passengers and the most revenue. Even slight improvements in competency or safety look pretty good when you're talking about a 747 which costs the airline $400 million.
Once autonomous cars become common enough, and we have a common protocol for communicating between them, I'm pretty sure the cities will be ok with it. The autonomous cars could be instructed to move out of the way for an ambulance to come through and/or stop at intersections, which would actually make things much safer for the ambulance.

Shoot, it'd be safer even if the ambulances weren't autonomous - because the cars would be reacting in a predictable manner.
How you react to this discussion is the difference between business-minded people and everyone else.
most ie11 bugs that are relevant/annoying are around its flexbox impl. specifically equal height boxes via min-height and such. maybe some other fancy css animation or 3d transform stuff, but these are not terribly critical and can degrade without much impact.

thankfully, js and dom bugs are either rare or well-known and have lightweight polyfills.
I mean sure, if you're not interested in accurately perceiving reality so as to act most effectively in the world and thus discharge the responsibility a share in which you inherited just as we all do, why care?
His choice of side musicians is amazing as well, he had Joe Limberg who has been mixing jazz trumpet and hip hop since 1992, lots of really incredible musicians get to work on his records and you can hear it in the end result. Maybe I'm slightly biased because I played with Joe in a couple jazz groups in the 90s but this music is so exciting because LA has this long history of jazz and Lamar ties together that legacy with the future forward vision of hip hop. He's not necessarily the greatest rapper ever some of his stuff is over produced and over exaggerated, nobody is perfect but the way he ties together the history with the future is exciting.
Six years ago I had something similar to a stoke. I had a relative drive me from work to the ER in outer suburbs because:

a) I would literally rather die than pay for an ambulance. I put my money where my mouth was on that.

b) I knew from previous experience their ER was far cheaper, cleaner and quicker than the one in the cities.

Maybe I am just particularly frugal but I had the presence of mind to consider costs while I could not feel one side of my face.

Another time, I needed surgery and called around to get quotes. The place I ended up was something like a quarter the place my doctor wanted to send me.
Investigations into Logical Deduction [pdf]
Email me at either of the addresses in my profile to let me know where you'd like it shipped.

(eta: Also, have a look at the book linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007116, which is probably more on point to the subject of this thread. The next person I talk to who's also read it will be the first, and as I describe there, I'm interested to hear what others with an interest in the subject at hand think of it, too.)
Reversible Computing (2016) [video]
Proof of phi means you've informally convinced me that for all {<-}-structures A, if ZF or ZFC is true in A, then phi is true. This of course is different depending on whether you take ZF or ZFC as the axioms.

The idea that I'm going to write down what it means to convince me of this is equivalent to asking me to give up my authority to judge mathematical theorems. I'm not doing that. Computers can smell my farts as far as I'm concerned. And if a politician asks me to tell his computer what it will take for me to accept a proof, then he needs to slather his balls in marinade sauce, skewer them, and stick them in the broiler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53_000njVs4 Delicious testicle glaze
What are you going to do if it turns more serious during the ride? The Uber driver (probably) has no medical training and certainly has no advanced medical equipment, the best he can do is pull over and hope that a real ambulance can meet you at his car before you die.

If you have a condition that is so serious that you feel you have to keep in contact with a doctor while you're transported to the hospital in case it gets worse, call an ambulance since they can actually treat you in-route.
Tesla's are currently sending back images of things they have trouble identifying only. They are ironing out the last % of edge cases it seems.

Not sure how close this puts them in the race.
Objects as a higher-order abstraction, as an encapsulation of data and methods, are all fine and dandy. When I think of OOP, however, I think of deep inheritance. I'm not a great fan of the latter.
>Self-driving, solar cars solve all problems of mass transit and are far cheaper, since they use existing roads.

They don't solve the arguably most important issue: road capacity. A bus that takes the same space on the road as 2-3 cars seats 30 people (and holds another 30 standing). Self-driving cars enable somewhat more efficient traffic patterns, but they will have a hard time overcoming the order-of-magnitude lead that buses have.

And that's not even mentioning subways, those don't impact roads at all and move staggering amounts of people
Of course I agree it doesn’t indicate success, I assume you understand I was only making the weaker claim, that lack of success at 10 years doesn’t set any ceiling on ultimate success.

Just saying it’s not unprecedented as other concepts have, however unlikely, eventually found success, and there are maybe a few parallels with basic research. Some computer science has come out of all of this already, some of which might be pieces to a puzzle we can’t entirely see yet.
I don't understand what people are getting out of this review. It seems like a shallow interpretation of the album in the context of his previous work, and just settles to make insightful-sounding claims with weak evidence to support. Making assumptions about the artist's motivation for the album with respect to current social environment is not a useful review; speculations don't add to the discussion. And, superficial statements such as "[h]is hypocrisy is part-performance, part-confession," are failed attempts at enlightened commentary that only serve to provide pseudo-sustenance to a post lacking real critical value. It's hard to point out the unbalance of the themes in this album, while comparing it to themes proposed in To Pimp a Butterfly, and attempt to claim that the juxtaposition of emotions in DAMN is really just "a sense of emotion overpowering the artist." Am I the only one seeing this, or is this article in need of some deeper analysis?
Generalized Reversible Computing and the Unconventional Computing Landscape
The paper doesn't explore life-years, but perhaps it would be possible to look at the distribution of ages at death?
To be any good they just are one and the same.

I really don't say it to be obnoxious. And I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think stating it as such overlooks some important details.

One one hand, your theory offers a fearful challenge for the mechanic and an awkward walk in the park for the puppet master, or vice versa. On another hand, I'm not sure it acknowledges how the two inform each other in art. It's that informing, whether between one mind or many, that is the creativity. And so, I mean to point out the connections between the mechanical, perceptions of the world, and the decision making, are something of a big weave. Becoming an artist can start with any one of them, and the creativity happens between.

Art history (save for some some deviation in the past 40 years) well supports this strange and crucial overlap.
The more bureaucratic view becomes more common as commerce and creativity start cherrypicking from one another.
That would be a silly reaction. A more reasonable one might be increased support for progressive taxation/redistribution/social safety net, if we consider one’s station in life to be more inherited than earned.
4 Reasons Why Single Page Web Design Is Better Than Traditional Design
Toward better CPU load estimation
This looks very promising. While I do not see this as a replacement for Markdown this has some potential for use cases where Markdown is less suitable, like messaging.

The explicit use of the colon makes things a bit saner for users - we’ve all written some ‘unexpected’ markdown before; between the many different flavors (especially line breaking behavior), numerous symbols, and numerous ways to do the same thing (like underlining, bullet points and images). I can see this being a big relief for end-users for certain use-cases.

I’d love to try it out if I could see some source code (or a live demo I don’t have to sign up for). Do you plan on setting up a specification?
The NYC subway accounts for 5 million trips each day, taking millions of cars off the road because they don’t need to exist in the first place.

Traveling with kids? Something people do with public transit and walking every day.

Promoting walking encourages healthy lifestyles; promoting driving (or just sitting in a car and not doing anything) encourages the opposite.

Elderly or disabled people take public transit all the time.

Short on time or carrying a bunch of groceries? Live out in the far suburbs? Then public transit isn’t for you. But it takes passengers who aren’t short on time off the roads, making your trip faster.

Edit: Cities with bad weather have adapted the cities to support public transit and walking (think covered, elevated walkways in Asia).

It’s not a zero sum game. Self driving cars will be great. Public transit is great (and can be great in more places 0if cities made more investment). Both can and should exist.
Consultants are long gone by the time their mistakes are apparent.
https://www.webcomponents.org/introduction