skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's already known what Amazon pays. I don't care where I'm located, they had better be paying me at least that well.
It's interesting how little culture figures in to this conversation. It seems to me that the North and the South (Canada aside) are drastically different in ways that will really matter to a lot of people. I don't work at Amazon, but my family and I would not feel fully safe or comfortable living in Texas, Tennessee, Georgia or North Carolina.
There is a ton of space in Manhattan. It's expensive, but there.
true enough! Just good to know what data is where and accessible by whom.

I am pleased that the publicity (mainly from Snowden release) has led some businesses to fight subpoenas and/or warrants in court. I definitely don't count on them to keep doing it, pretty easy for them to silently comply (even _without_ a warrant/subpoena) without publicity, as most everyone has generally done until recently (and I suspect still does often).

Also, if you fight in court and lose in court, pretty sure any company will of course hand over the data at that point.
So now the page needs to checksum itself once loaded to detect tampering.
Turn Your Back to Xenophobia and Populism Will Flourish – World Report 2018
Youth opinion is shallow? Nah. When I was 5, I thought I knew it all. How could my parents be such dolts? However, when I was 10, I realized how stupid I was before, but I had a pretty good handle on everything. How could my parents be so clueless? On the other hand, when I was 15, I finally realized how much of a dummy I'd always been, but by then I had it all figured out. Also, what's up with my parents!? But that was just nonsense, of course! When I turned 20, I realized how much of a dumb teen I had been, but then I had all of the essential truths of how the world works pretty much figured out...

Kids are genius. However, youth opinion is uninformed by experience.
I don't think that - the behavior I object to is not solely behavior that the provider thinks is malicious / unethical. The roommate in my example who barges in on my phone calls could believe they were genuinely contributing to whatever conversation I was having on the phone and helping me out, but they would still be creepy.

So I don't see this as about whether the provider has "good" or "bad" intentions; I see this as about whether the provider asks me for permission/consent before using my data. It's certainly theoretically possible that a provider is good at talking the talk and also being actively malicious, by asking for permission and then ignoring it or something, but that's not the problem I have or the article's author has with Google.
Go Wine! <3
Thanks to everyone involved with this project.
Why do you think that it will be to no benefit of the local population? I'm uncomfortable with this process too, but isn't it gonna be great for the city that gets chosen?
You can count computable irrationals by numbering the algorithms that calculate (successive approximations to) them and lining them up in order. This is what Turing used his "Turing Machines" to do.

So all of the irrationals that we use or could ever use in calculations are countable. The uncountability of the irrationals comes entirely from the uncomputable ones, which we will probably never see.

The reals are deeply weird.
Bad government in practice. There's nothing in socialism that says a government has to build an economy with zero fail-safes. Venezuela is in this spot because their government was lazy and opted to import almost everything using oil money. Had they built any semblance of a self-sustaining national economy they wouldn't be in this spot. Sure they might've had to cut some social programs as the price of oil tanked but it wouldn't be the complete collapse we see now.
Maybe because people are terrible at evaluating long-term vs. short-term benefits. Politicians need concrete things to point at to keep getting elected. Saying that "I voted for your life to improve in X years" won't help them that much.
I work with Head Start in the US. We also use the same materials and they really are great. The issue I am running into is how to be cutting edge with STEM and be developmentally appropriate with activities. The vast majority of apps are just glorified worksheets and worksheets don't work. When you do a 1 for 1 real-life to digital-life examples the real-life works better 100%. If I want to show cause and effect nothing works better than dominions.
> $1000 bonus is not life changing but also not laughable.

> The companies certainly didn't have to give those and could have pocketed all of it.

Now imagine if the tax give-away would have gone completely to workers.

That would be life changing.
Should You Put Several Event Types in the Same Kafka Topic?
Scientists Confirms: The Ozone hole is indeed Healing
Make it a day off and it certainly won’t make it worse. Think Sunday’s are a bad idea? Then keep Tuesday and make it a holiday.
I program for fun at home because the programming I do at work is fairly different than what I do for fun. But I definitely wouldn't want to be pressured into working on something in my own time by my job. Biology was like that. You're pretty much expected to make it your whole life and if you're not volunteering on a bunch of projects as well as what you're already being paid to work on good luck getting any grants or other things to do more work.
What do you mean by "idea people"? Because I consider myself an idea person, but I also make things and get things done. I'm afraid you are throwing the good out with the bad... unless you have some other idea of what idea people are... and maybe a better name for them that is less inclusive.
Anyway care to discuss Wine vs VirtualBox? I've been playing with Photshop in VirtualBox lately, and it's really slow.
how is this better than checking if its within some value by some epsilon manually?
look up vcmi
This same exact article was posted 20 hours ago.
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16171625)

I am starting to get the impression that these websites, try and time when to push articles to HN in order to bring in visitors to their site...

Some even change the title to get a more engaging tile.
This is, of course, completely different from the performance figures of departments in large corporations, because... um.
If you sign up for the local guides program, there are some various minor benefits you get in return.

But besides that, I think the "payment" you get in return is the quality of Google Maps itself. Features like being able to tell when a restaurant is most busy can't realistically exist without automatically collecting data about users who are visiting it throughout the day.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I find data collection of that sort -- where the data is directly being used to improve the product -- acceptable. What I find much more unacceptable is tracking for the purpose of showing ads. Although companies try to say they're "improving the experience" by showing targeted ads, I'd rather not constantly be bombarded with things that are engineered to extract as much of my attention as possible. (yes, I realize location tracking is used to target advertisement, which is why I keep location services enabled and block ads)

Disclaimer: I work for Google (but not on Maps)
Yes, this is my exact understanding of the article too.

So in that case, "[it] allows representation of real numbers accurate to the last digit" doesn't really hold true.
That single party has the majority of both houses of Congress and also the White House, and yet cannot manage to get a majority vote in the Senate because of disagreement within their own party.

The opposing party is not threatening shutdown. A group within the majority is. Since that group within the majority party won't play ball, the majority of the majority party is hoping to garner some support from the minority party.

As it happens, some of the changes they want to make would require 60% of votes rather than just 50%+1, but they haven't yet demonstrated they can get to 50%+1, so that's irrelevant here.
Yes! And the newest version of iOS grants you the ability to say "while using the app" for any app rather than just the apps where the developer gave the user that option.
too late, he was there spinning as Google search switched from relatively fair into a pay-per-visibility scam site. Site guidelines must be obeyed so I'll not be honest.

I never understand such people. If you were with Google from almost day one, you can't hide behind "I need the paycheck to feed my kids.."
"We're making things smaller than the wavelength of light [that] we're using to make the features"

Incredible.
The way I see it is Google is offering a free and optional yet pre-installed service, namely Google maps, and is sometimes asking its users to contribute to its POI dataset.
It'll be both good for Google and its users if the information about a restaurant is accurate or the gas prices for a gas station is up to date.
The notifications could be sent way too often and I get that would be annoying but the whole concept isn't that bad.
For everything previous to XP (and maybe even including XP) it is, without any doubt.

It would be funny if someday Microsoft decides to include Wine with WSL, but I wouldn't be surprised to be honest.
Out of interest, how do these people make money?
I don't understand how "knowing" your location data is violating your privacy. If you visit an adult site, and the adult site "knows" you're on there, is that violating your privacy? Obviously not. What would be violating your privacy is if it publicly told everyone about that data.

Unless you can find concrete evidence that Google publicly
and directly makes this data available to others, how is this a violating of your privacy? In using the device with the GPS enabled, you are agreeing that the device can know and use this data.
I mean, I'm also less worried about attacks by the government than attacks by private corporations. The government literally has a monopoly on violence. If they want me to have a bad day, I will have a bad day and there's nothing I can do about it. But there are lots of other threats worth protecting myself against.
What gives you the impression the 'distribution problem' isn't inherently linked with the deregulation that enabled these massively increased profits that only find their way to a select few?
It depends on how you interpret "floating point error". If by that you mean the error the error inherent in the representation, it actually increases that through loss of precision, as you note. If you interpret it as "problems caused by lack of precision in floating point" (i.e. the patriot missile problem references in the article is a "floating point error"), then the tracking of precision will allow you to easily know when you've hit an error threshold that is unacceptable, allowing you to avoid those problems.
Enjoy writing Front end tutorials?
Yes; you can see the location history Google has been collecting at https://www.google.com/maps/timeline

But it's easy to stop collecting and/or delete location data; see https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687
Wire. Its end-to-end encrypted and has applications for all major platforms (electron though)
Exactly. The first 25 airframes (of which 22 were actually build to completion) have the wiring problems and were never expected to find much interest on the secondary market.
The Metro-Detroit area voted down a public transit system a year or two ago. Public transit was one of the requirements that Amazon laid out.
I get about 50c of credit for each survey which takes about 15s, so that comes out to $2/min or $120/hr which seems pretty fair. Of course, you can't actually do hours of these things.
Of course, BARTs eBART expansion is diesel, not electric.
Because I am learning Python, and looking for inspiration. What have you built in Python?
Why would you take your family to DDG? Not all users need to use the same toolset. If the parent comment is correct, and Google is targeting the "mass market" user, then wouldn't leaving your presumably less-tech friends and family with Google as their default search engine make your life easier? Just because Google is no longer the best fit for you doesn't mean DDG is the best fit for them.
Clearly the worst thing in the world is for anybody to know you exist without your explicit approval. It's a very special kind of ethics.
> It's ~100x times slower than hardware floating-point because of using arbitrary-precision floating-point numbers implemented entirely in software.

Thanks for the numbers, how did you get that estimate? Did you consider SIMD?
Amazon would have the greatest impact in Atlanta. You could argue that Atlanta is the economic, cultural, and geographical center of the Southeastern United States. It has the busiest airport in the world and is a major rail hub. There are already dozens of major corporations headquaratered in Atlanta. There is no shortage of talent, with a top-5 engineering school in Georgia Tech. Yet there are things missing which are preventing Atlanta from becoming a modern powerhouse; strong mass transit is probably the most obvious, and progressive policies another. This kind of investment by Amazon could be exactly what Atlanta needs to bring it back to the world stage. The only other city I could possibly see as being close would be Raleigh, for similar reasons.
>Malls are nice and cars are a better experience than transit/walking in every facet

This isn't even remotely true. You are forgetting the time spent finding a parking spot, the opportunity cost of having a parking lot instead of more housing or commercial space, transit/walking also provides exercise, which matters in an epidemically obese society. This doesn't even get into the pollution aspect of driving or the costs of car ownership/maintenance. Cars become a depreciating asset as soon as you buy them, should we be encouraging that type of investment?
Dear Googles, stop asking

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745525

Privacy is the capacity to define, have respected and defend, boundaries on personal intrusions. Google and other surveillance capitalism companies expressly fail to allow such limits to be stated, and silently change settings, or subvert them.

Enough already.
In which case you go from a potentially imprecise result to no result at all which would arguably make things worse, especially if you happen to know that x is non-zero and division by zero is not an issue. The problem is that using a single interval is not generally good enough to track error bounds for arbitrary calculations while avoiding to turn everything into the useless (-∞,+∞). The common solution is to use multi-interval arithmetic but having to deal with a data structure of variable length is really painful for hardware implementations.
It is probably out of the desperation. Hoping for a miracle.

They don't realize until it is too late that is much, much easier to avoid Hyperinflation (by having responsible policies) than to fix it.
I’m the first to argue against the “fiduciary duty”, but don’t take the down votes as a badge of honor, but rather as an indicator that you propped up a straw man and proceeded to have your way with him. Nobody wants to see that.
Cryptocurrencies aren't remotely trustless.

You may not need to trust that the central bank won't fire up its printing press, true. But you're absolutely trusting that someone somewhere will want to exchange your bitcoins for something other than bitcoins, and there's no inherent reason why they would.
Countly 18.01 released (with automated push notifications)
If one protests against government corruption is obe rewarded with a additional waterration?
Uber is marching toward $10 billion in annual sales. That's the size of Salesforce.com, which has 25,000 full-time employees.

3,000 engineers is not particularly out of line. It's certainly not ludicrous. It's a very large, global business, that is likely to get a lot bigger yet.
That’s in effect what’s happened here - not only is there a one-time repatriation event, but the tax code has been changed so all future foreign cash holdings will be taxed whether or not hey are repatriated.
It's not bundled, but it works.
> But those currently living in Suburbia, USA have probably chosen the worst of all worlds.

Not even close. There are parts of the inner city that make the suburbs look like heaven. There are rural areas where the lack of opportunity makes the suburbs look like the promised land.

Urban environments can be fine. But they can also be (at least in places) horrible. And even when their fine, they're not for everybody. Some people just don't do well with crowds.
I live in Boulder and attribute much of the quality of life here to walkable (and bikeable) streets. We have hundreds of miles of multi-use paths that are used extensively for getting around and for recreation. Our main road downtown has a pedestrian mall for a number of blocks that keeps traffic away and lends itself to street performers, community events, and a generally calming atmosphere.

Downtown parking lots are free on the weekends and just $1.25 / hour during the week — this keeps people from circling around looking for the absolute closest spot to where they are trying to go.

You can bike (or technically walk though it's >25 miles) from Boulder to Denver on a dedicated path nearly the entire time.
East Boston, Revere, Chelsea. That whole swath north of the airport up the coast is sort of a combination of industrial sites and working class neighborhoods (until you reach the swanky areas of the North Shore which are very swanky). It's technically connected to the city and has a T link but you're right that it's not "in the city." I think you can walk to Winthrop from there though so it's not a total wasteland but it is sort of disconnected from the city proper.
But for every integer there are also an infinite number of rationals. And since we can put the rationals into 1-1 correspondence with integers, that means that for every rational there are an infinite number of rationals.

Infinity is funny like that.

The conclusion that there are somehow more irrationals than rationals depends on subtle philosophical points that have no possible proof or disproof and usually get glossed over. Accepting that philosophy also leads to the conclusion that not only do numbers which can in no way ever be represented exist, but there are more of them than numbers which we can explicitly name. Now I ask you, in what sense do they REALLY exist?
Thank you for changing the URL.
Columbia and NYU and Cornell Tech don't make the list? Newark is a borough.
In the medium term, they get public transit systems shut down or reduced in service by pricing fares artificially low for a period of time. This enables them to then exercise monopoly pricing power on the market (or oligopoly with Lyft or whatever local competitor) and ultimately harms the lower classes.

Thus the $5 splurge for an Uber instead of the $2 bus hypothetically becomes the $10 Uber with no alternative short of driving yourself.

I'm not super convinced by this argument but it is a reasonable argument. Especially given that Uber wields billions in venture capital specifically to systematically underprice both regular taxis and public transit options.
They can only systematically inflate a little bit. By the exponential nature of economic growth, if you overestimate the annual 8% by, say, 2% for a decade, by the end that results in a huge absolute gap between the nominal and real GDP. But the estimates from other methods or just going to China show that the official estimate is fairly reasonable, certainly not off by 10x or anything. Which supports the smoothing interpretation: they do fiddle the numbers a lot each year but in different directions and so the net is minimal.
Out of curiosity, would the exchange rate for USD to CAD be a great advantage for Amazon?
Amazon narrows list of cities for new headquarters to 20
I had issues playing TES Oblivion in Windows 10, I got black screens , I tried all workarounds I found on Google, in the end I got it working and with mods in Wine.
I can similarly say: If I could pay for the services of Google with money instead of with my data (which will be used in ways I cannot imagine or control), then I'd gladly do that.

Why? Well, the problem with Google is they have an incentive to do bad things to us, simply because we are not the real customer.
They are not even remotely the same thing. WINE is a compatibility layer that translates the Win32 API calls into POSIX equivalent. VirtualBox is virtualization where the whole OS is being virtualized.
Arbitrary precision integers in JavaScript – tc39/proposal-bigint
This is one of the first sites I recall using, around 2002: http://www.lissaexplains.com/ (I'm surprised it's still online TBH.

Before that was a book from my local library (and a library PC), which I vividly remember because it took me _way_ too long to realise that "href" is not "herf".
It's not a finite amount, but an amount with measure zero.
For every rational, there are infinitely many rational numbers too, since finite cartesian product of countable sets is countable.
How much you want to pay?
Can you help me understand how Singapore is totalitarian?
Having HQ2 far from Seattle also means they can pull out of a different labor pool.
Based on one of my favorite books, "On Food and Cooking" by Harold McGee, the scientific term is "pungency."
> my family and I would not feel fully safe or comfortable living in Texas, Tennessee, Georgia or North Carolina

I'm a little surprised by this. You wouldn't feel safe? Why not?
Do other resource-cursed countries also manage the country so poorly? Usually they at least keep the golden goose alive. In Venezuela, the oil industry was badly damaged through mismanagement.
I live inbetween Boulder and Denver -- that's my sentiment. I really don't want Amazon to move in, and I'd be even more unhappy with it if we do ultimately give some terrible incentives (terrible for CO residents).
Pittsburgh has flights to Seattle. https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/...

Also, Northern Virginia is the location of Dulles. Montgomery county would also use Dulles or BWI which has 3 flights per day. Interestingly, with traffic, Washington D.C. is not within 45 minutes of Dulles so Washington D.C. is probably just looking at Reagan which has 1 flight per day to Seattle.
It was meant to be backed by oil and to back the paper bolívars in its turn and I believe they really should start this ASAP. The only alternative is switching to Brazilian Reals, US Dollars or something like that but who is going to give those to them? A cryptocurrency done right can create worldwide-tradeable, hard-to-constrain value and liquidity immediately from nothing but the potential and I can hardly understand what are they waiting for. Is the ruling establishment there just so power-mad they won't give up the printer even in face of ultimate economic collapse?
Yeah poor Google.. They don't get a dime from people yet somehow they are one of the most valuable companies in the world..
> the company culture

Honest question. How do you know it's a company-wide culture issue if you haven't worked there? In my experience, teams at Uber are pretty insular with only occasional interactions outside their groups.
This is a notification problem, not a privacy one. These people are just annoyed that the app is sending them too many notification, and are outraged at an entirely different thing. Google Maps' whole job is to know your location; it having the location data is as much of a privacy violating as a hospital having your heart rate.
That's easy, always round down and also carry max possible error (calculated by rounding up and subtracting the rounded down value). For example, 1/3 can be represented as 0.333 with error 0.001. Multiply it by 3 and get 0.999 with error 0.003.

You won't need many bits for the error, and operations can be made reasonably fast as only several lowest bits are affected.
Apple finally pays a ton of tax
There are codeless visual programming methods, like Pygmalion and Sketchpad, among others. So we shouldn't get confused with them.