skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building software for a very alien (read: different, not bad, not passing judgement) environment can be a fun and engaging challenge in itself. That sounds like what he wants.
One of my favorite Mangakas hilariously went full overfeather on a T-Rex.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGbedNNXkAIA0s0.jpg
They mean 10^9.
Why does it have to be either/or?

Why not ask people not to talk disruptively and disallow people from sitting on someone's shoulders in addition to the phone ban?
I was at the first day of Carolina Rebellion this past year. A band I had never heard of before, Highly Suspect, played and during it, the singer (politely) called out a female fan who was using her phone (in what manner, I'm not sure). Basically for similar reasons (experience the intimacy of the moment sort of thing). I thought it was pretty cool.
I've been living in Saigon for 4 years. Even within this highly touristed city, you just need to venture 5 minutes outside of the city centre to see Vietnam as it really is.

I've spent time in 5-6 different cities and towns and for sure, if you stay on main street it's very generic, or sterile. Rent a bike, set out in a random direction for 20 minutes; you won't find any TripAdvisor listings but the local culture is alive and well.

Most people expect to land somewhere new and have the local lifestyle at their fingertips, but that's not what the beaten track optimises for.
When I was in Germany, I bought a bottle of Gorbatschow vodka to bring home.

I thought the name was something to do with Mikhail Gorbachev, but it isn't - the brand has been produced in Berlin since 1921 after its founder Leo Gorbatschow left Russia during the October Revolution (thanks, wikipedia).

Fairly decent vodka for the price though; would drink again, but since Stolichnaya and bisongrass vodka are also much cheaper in Germany than the UK they're a better candidate for limited luggage space.
Disgustingly so.

These lower middle-class dolts who scrimp and save to go on vacation are RUINING cities for REAL travelers like the author. These poor idiots don't even deserve to travel! Why can't they just learn their place and stay put?
We use a combination of SQLite and a sharding frontend service. One SQLite database file per device, one table per sensor, table contents are timestamp and measured value. As simple as it gets, easy to scale, and damn fast.

But try telling people you're using SQLite to store critical data...
An excellent question. My personal answer would be, "a powerful central government through which I (or my estate) can seek remediation."
He wouldn’t/couldn’t have swam continuously for 72 hours. He would have floated, treaded water, etc. the wetsuit kept him warm.
The same thing that happens in the non-Waze case: you kick them out, call the police, get mugged etc.

The pure software world exists from Google's perspective, they provide zero support and then it's just a matter of individual choice if you want to use the service or not.

Google can go a long way into making this significantly safer than random pick-up: you can select female only drivers or riders, only riders from your area, they can implement a minimal account age that uniquely identifies the wazer simply via ride history - even if they use an anonymous login and fake credit card data, and so on.

It's a bit harder to protect against rogue riders since they need to be able to use the app immediately, but still, phone number and credit card verification is much better the letting a random stranger into your car. If not too intrusive, they could even ask riders for a frontal picture that the driver can verify and that remains on record. So for people who would carpool anyway, it's a much better option.
"Waze Carpool is available in the US (California, Texas) and Israel."
Or they do it because because they don't want to be called out on a bad set. (I've heard a venue guy from Detroit pointing out Chappel for that)

Found the article on the Detroit one: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/dave-chappelle-fans...

I could have sworn he had issues at a PA show as well, but that was recorded.

Hannibal Burress doesn't like it because he said some unverified bits about Cosby and got caught. (Unsubstiated at the time)
Not to mention it could be a bit they're still working on and fleshing out, so not only will it be out there already but it will be a potentially subpar version of the bit.
I don't see why it should be unhealthy unless you use past memories to escape the present.

I'm keeping a daily journal since 2005. I started this to document my thought process and to improve my writing. It's a treasure trove that helps me to understand myself better and to find out my blind spots. As memories are fickle I wish I had emails to give me another view of my past.
AI is a completely over-hyped word.

The guy is trying to digest some pre-defined input (world events / financial news), and predict some output (trading decisions).

That's pretty far from AI in my book.
“working” in this sense could mean “operating at a loss”.
If you have the context of having been there then those ultra-shitty videos are more like a trigger for your own memory of that moment to help you relive a really good time. It's a phenomenon similar to how certain smells bring people right back to some moment. It might not be for you but I wouldn't get too indignant about it if others indulge.
Despite the regulations, I’ve been food poisoned by restaurants around half a dozen times in my life.

And despite regulations to the contrary, for the entire 7 years I lived in Chicago, not a single cab driver ever accepted a credit card (this was a ways back).

Not to say that regulations are bad or that I’m against regulations. Just that they are not magic. Further, due to the centralized enforcement mechanism, most regulations are difficult and expensive to enforce. This can often result in being seldomly enforced.

If the uber-ization of food preparation comes with an uber like rating system, my guess is that the efficacy of that distributed rating system will rival or surpass centralized regulations in preventing food poisoning.
Having several bright screens in front of you recording or taking pictures without letting you watch the real thing. And yes texting can be really distracting too if you are in a theater, or if they decide to turn the lights off for a second as part of the performance.
I'm not a scientist by any means, but since childhood when I was first exposed to the fact that life on Earth needs oxygen (and many other things, in extremely basic terms) to exist, I've been thinking to myself what if there are other distant planets where life has bootstrapped itself from completely different (or maybe opposite) components and conditions. I'm sure someone with more knowledge than I in biology and physics would certainly be able to offer a good explanation or thought.
is Datomic good for timeseries ? AFAIWA it's good for rare-write often-read applications
So is clapping part of the agreement when I go to a gig?

Why is it wasting time playing to people who don't clap. Is he doing it for the claps? Why do I have to pay then?

Can I pay extra to get a ticket which allows me not to clap?

You can't clap with just a drink in your hand either, will he be banning drinking at his gigs?

Is he using amplifiers or are they banned as part of this "human experience" too?

I hate phone use at gigs but Jack White isn't really expressing how I feel about them.
The volume of the ocean basin is something that I haven’t been able to find data for one way or the other. The timeline is different — there is a lot of data and of course it doesn’t all line up perfectly. The generally accepted reference timeline, which is based on a single south Atlantic core sample, is calculated using an assumption about the annual rate of sediment deposition. There is evidence that mid ocean sediment deposition dropped during PETM while coastal deposition increased. This is likely because the oceans become inhospitable due to increasing acidity and warming caused the same thing we see today — increased evaporation rate and warmer air being able to hold more moisture as water vapor leads to increased rainfall and therefore river flows increased generally. There have been attempts to try and correct for this factor using iron deposition variability which may correlate with planetary precession and other techniques, some of which change the timeline fairly drastically at the scale we’re talking about.

Long story short — yes this is an oddity but there’s not a well accepted explanation for it and there is reason to question whether we have the PETM timeline correct for the area of interest. (the onset is quite sudden, geologically speaking, although not as sudden as the data we are producing right now!) I would encourage you to do more reading and build an opinion based on the sum of evidence rather than that one paper, which I linked to simply because it has an accessible graph for sea level variability compared to today.
Depends on how they do it. From what I've seen, they use a company called "yondr" which basically defaces your phone for the duration of the show, or until you walk out and they unlock it for you.
> I think that must be a fallacy, but I'm not sure which. How can we do worse by including more information?

I don't think the term "fallacy" applies either way because the parent's point not reducible to a logical error. It's more a matter of perspective.

Theoretically speaking, more information is always better. But that's only if you can feasibly work with arbitrary amounts of data. For example, in a deterministic universe we could simulate every instance of time forwards and backwards throughout history, but by definition we'd require more computing power than is possible to perfectly simulate our universe.

Similarly, if your information far outstrips your computational capabilities, you can no longer meaningfully work with the data. There are pretty hard economic limits on what kind of data we can work with today, so practically speaking it's accurate to say that more information can be a net negative. In particular, a preoccupation with acquiring more data can lead the analysis to focusing on the wrong data, or it can lead to a hopelessly noisy analysis, or it can lead to subjective decisions about which data to use that meaningfully alters the conclusions. Mathematically speaking, basic results from combinatorics (e.g. Ramsey theory) guarantee that at a sufficiently great size, your data is guaranteed to contain spurious correlations that have to be controlled for.

Whenever I'm working on an applied data analysis project I try to use as little information as I can from the outset. Sometimes this means fewer dimensions of data points, or smaller slices of a timeseries. But either way it results in less overall information to process.
Lane 8 has been doing this for just over a year now with his "This Never Happened" tour:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/could-you-handle-a-phon...
You would think so, given the title but after all the polemic, she never seems to argue for it. Maybe it was just buried at the bottom of the rant.
Ask HN: Any startups who tried Google Ventures' 5 day sprint to solve problems?
I read this book Sprint by Jake Knapp and few others at Google Ventures recently. It basically talks about solving important problems at your business by adopting a 5 day Sprint process. I found it pretty interesting and would like to know if any of you have tried it at your workplace. What were the key takeaways?
How to Get Traffic for a Technical Blog
>The fact remains that everyone starts with nothing. The parent questions why some are able to flourish, while others continue with nothing indefinitely.

This is your entire statement. If you're wondering why some are able to flourish while others aren't, getting hung up on the technicalities of a pointless statement is a poor start. We know that people are born under various circumstances ranging from remarkably poor to exceptionally rich, and we know that's the best indicator of future wealth. Yes, they have to inherit the money at some point, but they grow up experiencing the benefits (and drawbacks) of that wealth - whether or not it's in their names.
You're ignoring my point. The costs internationally are far higher than they are domestically. The roaming agreements they have with those networks almost certainly prohibits full time use by a customer. Sometimes there are valid reasons to not launch a service, particularly when the whole point of it is to be low cost!

I agree with criticism when Google doesn't internationally launch something they control entirely (say, the Pixel phone). But this is not that.
Pidgeotto, I choose you!
Nordea Bank Forbids Workers from Owning Bitcoin: Unions Threaten Legal Action
It'll come at some point, even from your own team perhaps.

It occurs when there are two teams that have a common need and one of the teams has deep knowledge of the space and maybe has a working POC but is too busy with other work to do anything. The cookie is licked at that point unless the culture is that the team with the POC will freely give up their work to another team. Its not human nature to do that though.
If you're willing to pay, you're likely worth more to advertisers..
It would be interesting to see a real life Trading Places and see how well the unwealthy do given a wealthy lifestyle. Or can we just look at lottery winners?
Branding is in the realm of trademark, not copyright. This was a copyright lawsuit, so branding has nothing to do with it.

If Disney finally loses copyright of Steamboat Willie, you will still not be able to use the trademarked Disney Ears. (The one that's three circles.)
RSS solves this problem, since the content from many disparate sources appear in one place in whatever format you prefer. This is done without being beholden to one company who can change things on a whim (often to negative effect).
This. There is little funding for the kind of research that will lead us out of the tarpit (and less with the demise of HARC). My hat is off to Eve's investors for being unusually far-thinking for SV. But ultimately this is the responsibility of our research institutions, which unfortunately have other priorities.
Yeah that's a possibility. As I mentioned, I haven't really tried to interact with Googles customer service in the past few years so maybe/hopefully it's a lot better now than it was then.
I do the same exact thing. It drives me crazy that I can't highlight on an article without causing either a post to twitter box or the font size changing (I'm looking at you NYT). On a random note, do you know what that special extension that allows a user to have 100+ tabs open. I have a family member that always keeps way to many tabs open (drives me nuts as well!).
previous step before Waze + Waymo?
That sounds like a fantastic idea. Would love to follow the journey / potentially throw my hat in the ring as you start looking for devs. I'm @tradesmanhelix on Twitter if you'd like to chat.
I have mining rig with 3 1080s I was looking to do something with GANs on.
I just don’t buy that. Not every company has infinite head count.

Universities for example only have so many spots they can offer. So if a university keeps 10% of the spots for diversity candidates, then only 90% of the capacity is for diversity candidates.

Compounded with non diversity candidates applying in a disproportionately high number to diversity. And the population of non diverse having a better education. You end up making it harder for non diverse candidates and raising their bar.
I'm actually looking for one for my shop, which has a longer heat-up time

For home, I agree that the programmable ones are ok, although they fall down when we travel for more than a week -- we have to either run it an unnecessary day, or arrive to an extra-cold house, so if there was a good one, it'd still be handy there.
There is a sort of folly that makes one overestimate the value they place on something. Imagine a knight who wants to be brave and courageous, whose pursuit of valor takes him to a place where he heard many evil creatures are gathered. So he goes into a starving mongrel's den and attempts to slay the wild beasts. He kills one, strikes another, and the rest get away. He drags the dead one back to the city square where his minstrels sing his praises. He killed one wild animal, that may or may not have hurt anyone, and achieves a great deal of valor, all at very little risk to himself in his shiny armor.

Meanwhile the next town over is being raped and pillaged by bears, lions, pirates and wildfires.
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/3D2oetdNuZUqQHPJmc...

Here is bitfenix's cold wallet. It is a single address that contains BTC worth 1.6 Billion USD. Bitfenix has had enormous banking problems. I think the most likely answer is that they are backing tether is btc. As they print more tether and/or btc goes down, the amount of btc they have separates from their liabilities.
I wanted to try this, but apparently your Firefox extension is not version 58 compatible at the moment.
Any references to stories/articles about their ride sharing efforts? Was it prior to their incorporation as UberCab or an experiment from further along?
I'm curious to see what kind of discussion this generates before the HN mods inevitably kick it off the front page. Most of these links seem to be of employees who quit, but I'll add my article as a user who quit:

https://drewdevault.com/2016/11/16/Getting-on-without-Google...
Maybe these orgs are just too damn big. Google is 75k people, MS 124k. Those are on the small side, I can't remember which tech company, but they're at 600k. They're also chained to stock prices and earnings. They can't commit to any product for any sizable length of time.

I'm gonna preach it until I try it or die and figure out it doesn't work, but my genuine belief is these companies are too big to effectively function or to counter threats. If your company population is a small town, how many middle managers do you have? Tens of thousands?
re the video - surely the call would have ceased ringing by the time you managed to get the pouch unlocked? Seems more like they should get you to put the phone off or into silent mode before it goes in the pouch.
On the same note, in the JSX plugin for ESLint, there's a rule to warn against target="_blank" without rel="noopener". Very handy.
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Are quantum computers useful for cryptanalysis in the case where you don't quite have the necessary number of qubits? Like let's say you want to factor an integer N, which would require n qubits, but you have a QC with only n/2 qubits. Could you use the QC to narrow down the search space and then finish with a classical computer, or is the QC completely useless in this case?
are you familiar with blendle.com ? It's how I tend to consume news these days. I don't get why most news sites don't allow me to pay per article. Very happy blendle exists, just wish more outlets would partner with them.
I don't doubt you but can you reference the source for this?
As the other commenter said: it's a capitalist solution. But as well I find that the concerted effort to paint the word 'socialism' as a bad thing implicitly in america is exactly why the effect you observe happens. I think, from talking at length with lots of people from various places, background, and of various identities that americans are pretty amenable to socialist policy we just have some cultural peculiarities that make it hard to talk about.

This is why bernie's platform vs trump's platform get more and more interesting to me as the majority continues to rebel against _how_ trump governs. It shows me that people really do want a progressive populist but there are a lot of bizarre little artifacts in our culture that keeps them from accepting certain concepts at face value. I guess what I'm saying is that socialism needs rebrand AND people need to be encouraged to discover the rich American history of socialism from the union workers in Appalachia that were attacked by our government for striking, to harriet tubman, mlk, and eugene debs.
As if anybody would disclose the actual reason why they have left Google...
I actually just wrote a post on "Is Search Solved?":

https://austingwalters.com/is-search-solved/

In which, I actually discuss the fact I think Google is not going anywhere, but... I do think their search algorithms are starting to breakdown.

However, it really doesn't matter. They have the market share, the money, and more importantely, the best search query parser (for the moment). Even if their searches do get worse and worse, people aren't going to jump ship.

So I fully agree, "Google doesn't need innovation", they simply need to keep users happy - which IMO they are doing well enough (although we've started to see cracks).
>I'm not sure why anyone would need to worry about that fact

SV is famous for solving problems that impact SV or cities like SV. Whenever I hear the question from startup/techie folks "are we in a bubble", I always think the answer is "yes, but not how you think". We're not in a bubble of too many high valuation startups, we're in a bubble where we don't understand the rest of the world around us. Because we're living paycheck to paycheck on a $250k salary in a $5k/mo studio apartment getting our food from Postmates and having drones deliver our Amazon packages. And after a while, you start to think that's just how it is. But it's not. Not for the vast majority of people who don't live in SV, Austin, or Seattle.

That's the value diversity brings, that's the danger of suburbs everyone's been talking about since forever, and that's where the Bay Area is going. Quickly.

The closest Whole Foods to me is over an hour and a half away. Until last year, the closest Trader Joe's was over 3 hours away. I work in tech making six figures, and my neighbor (living in a detached, single family home) is a diesel mechanic. The guy on the other side owns his own home but just works as a cashier at the local grocery store, because our cost of living isn't ridiculous and you can afford a house on $12/hr. Even myself, I recently got schooled when I said $65k/yr doesn't make you rich: the number of people popping out of the wood-work to say what making $65k would mean to them and what luxuries it could afford them was astounding. Just hitting $65k would double most of their income.

We don't have Uber around here. We don't have Postmates. Amazon doesn't deliver same-day. We can't get Google to drop off our groceries for us. Our employers don't have a bus to take us to work. Some people may say "but all of those luxuries are the reason why we moved to SV!", but in response I say all of those luxuries are reasons massing together in SV is so harmful. First, it colors our worldview to think our life is normal. Secondly, it ignores everyone else in the world and the real problems they have.

I'm not even talking about segregating races and ethnicities. I'm sure there's plenty of diversity of skin color and ethnic background in SV. But there's a lot more diversity that exists than the ones the law says you have to respect. And their problems aren't being solved by people in SV, because people in SV don't even know they exist.
Every time I read about some new solution to storing time series data, I always feel like I must be doing something wrong, but I've run into _zero_ problems yet.

Every time I have to store time series data, I never really need ACID transactions. I definitely don't ever need to do updates or upserts. It's always write-once-read-many. ElasticSearch has always been the obvious choice to me and it has worked extremely well. Information retrieval is incredibly robust and for times that I'm worried about consistency, I use Postgres's JSON capabilities and write first to there. You can have your application sanity-check between the two if you're worried about ElasticSearch not receiving/losing data.

I find it really hard to beat.
Frankly, I'm tired of this:

"Help Times journalists uncover the next big story. Get The Times from $9.99 a month.​"

As much as NYT might have interesting content, lately there is a high amount of these on HN.