skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Technologists dont need proximity as much as investment bankers do.
Isn't this just an event driven architecture?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_architecture
Zuckerberg saved tens of millions by selling stock ahead of recent decline
I graduated from the College of Science. Since that time there has been a huge increase in software openings in the Midwest.

I was looking at software jobs, with a preference for embedded. At the time there were very low paying jobs in the Fort Wayne area and some startups in Indy.

Now Cincinnati is booming, with Indianapolis falling not too far behind. Big 10 wise, Madison and Ann Arbor both seem to have more of a tech hub than Lafayette. The company I currently work for recruits fairly heavily from Illinois and Rose Hulman. I can track down some recent grads if you want recent midwest job-hunt info.
Ask HN: Do you use minikube in your local dev environment?
How smooth is it?
The latest EPA Tier 3 gasoline vehicles have extremely low particulate emissions. If we're talking about building new vehicles anyway then your fatality estimate is way too high.
Secondarily, once I've used your site to create a presentation, how can I save or export that?
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Manila Bankers Life Insurance Corporation is one of the life insurance companies in the Philippines that is offering its policies and services to the public. It is the result of a merger between two life insurance companies – the Alpha Mutual Life Insurance Company and Bankers Life Insurance Corporation. Founded by the late Senator Gil J. Puyat, the company adopts his noble declaration, “to serve the people is a privilege we must always cherish.”

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Should have been a PDF to start with.
3.2 fatalities per billion km driven by humans. So far 1 fatalities per 4 million miles by automated vehicles, which when you do the conversions... isn’t better. It’s not a lot to work with, but for the people speaking in stats, the actual stats don’t support them. A lot people in this thread seem to be cashing in a human life against future hypothetical gains which have in no way been demonstrated. I sincerely hope that I’m not the only one disturbed by that.
> Apparently, this driver wasn't watching, choosing to let the car drive itself.

And here I was, stupidly thinking that was the whole point of a self-driving car...

What's the benefit of a self-driving car that can't be trusted to drive itself again?
I read The Spider Network (fantastic look into how bank prop trading worked) and came to mostly the same conclusions. The idea of just prosecuting "rouge traders" is a complete injustice, as trying to adjust the rate submissions was apparently a widely known practice in banks. Tom Hayes, a mildly autistic savant just doing what everyone else was got 14 years, essentially a murder sentence in the UK. Fire the traders and maybe ban them from trading for a few years.

Of course the investing public with LIBOR based loans wants blood, and they just believe the headlines that a few traders "conspired" to fix rates. In reality the entire system was built on a profoundly flawed incentive structure of trusting banks with positions that profit from LIBOR moves to not alter LIBOR submissions to make themselves money. But LIBOR is too big to fail at this point so they chose to scapegoat a few traders instead of admitting the whole system is corrupt.
I deleted my Facebook account 10 years ago and I definitely regret it. I got another account later and I tried to get my original back, but it wasn't possible. Unfortunately it was a time right after I transferred colleges and moved away from my home town, so I lost a lot of my old connections. You could say they must not have been that important, but I enjoy keeping up with people. It's weird to send out a friend request now to someone I don't know very well any more or haven't talked to in 10 years, assuming I remember their name. Facebook has certainly gone downhill but I guess I'd rather not use it for a while than totally delete my account at this point.
Counter-anecdote: when Taxify started up, it was impossible to hail them where I lived in the Inner West. But I grabbed on yesterday on the way to the airport, it was at my house in 2 minutes, and the driver told me he now drives for Taxify exclusively -- it's still a bit cheaper for riders and the drivers make more. All that said, when Uber surges hard, finding a Taxify car is impossible since most drivers use both.

Anyway, I've signed up for Ola and just got coupons for three free rides up to $25. The more competition and the larger the bonfires of VC money, the merrier!
The google maps streetview sign says 45, so the car was not speeding. The article most likely had a typo...

edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/85ozqr/exc...
If you have circular dependencies you're doing something wrong. By disagreeing with that and accepting circular dependencies as a normal state of the Go code, you put yourself in the position of doing another wrongness: defining a lot of interfaces.
Mindstorms was pretty much a variant of Scratch. Never heard of Klik&Play - I'll check it out, thanks.
> to begin the stop

It, or the driver, could do more than just stop though. You can change directions, even at 38mph.

Then we have to get into other questions, would I as a driver willingly sideswipe a car next to me to avoid hitting a pedestrian? Is it reasonable to expect an AI to make the same value decision?
At the time Cat really knew they were the belle of the ball.

They were local and they hired from pretty much all majors in the College of Engineering. IIRC they weren't particularly interested in entry-level software people at the time despite listing it as an opening.
Those are worldwide stats, no? That's not going to tell you much about Australian ride sharing.
Is there some reason this worker can't actually also work? Presumably in the backroom, where customers will never see him.
I think tooling is coming a long way to help with these - take for instance BEM. CSS modules is a great way to avoid needing BEM, as the bundler is handling the uniqueness of the classname for you (during minification etc.).

This is just the nature of web development - almost every tech in the stack is flawed, but tools and best practices make some sanity out of the chaos.
Having used just about every major framework under the sun and done some WordPress work professionally, repeatedly I find that the best tools for this all wrap curl. This pattern is not as atypical as someone else suggested here. We did this repeatedly in our WordPress development.

curl has the best (in general) performance and is the most robust, reliable, battle-tested connection library there is, full stop. And it's not just limited to HTTP.

Do I really want to take a gamble with my software stack against the millions of man hours that curl has been put through? I never understood the attitude people have against curl. Problems found are fixed quickly and way quicker than in anything else.

The only place where I have found this to not be true is in the Python community, for reasons I haven't quite understood yet.

curl handles high volume, is portable, is thread safe, has features no other competitor is approaching, supports IPv6, has a stable & mature API, is well documented. What more could you want from dependable software?
Can concur. I'm running a pair of D435 under Linux. Still some teething issues, see the SDK and issues at [0], but the quality of the data out of these things is amazing compared to previous generation sensors.

[0]: https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense
[1]: https://github.com/intel-ros/realsense/
Someone else has noted that the sign in the area indicates 45 mph, so it might've been a typo in the article.
I wished godoc.org (or similar service) somehow listed which types in a package implemented which interfaces.

They could match with all the interfaces defined at the standard library (io.Writer etc.) plus the interfaces defined in that same package.
Sign in the area was actually 45 mph, so the car was 7 mph under the limit, it seems.
The vast majority of people, and that includes HNers, don't think of that as propaganda. Well, if it was done by a Republican maybe you'd get somewhat better uptake, but I'm getting the feeling the American mind is highly resistant to any suggestion that things aren't as they're told they are. America is the Greatest Country of All Time, after all. It's starting to get very difficult to maintain this level of ignorance but most people are fighting the good fight, at least those who are even paying attention at all.
It depends on when you were in Australia. EFTPOS fees for small amounts were essentially outlawed a year or so ago. That has made a big difference to pushing the final hold-out businesses into cashless in the last few months.
I think it's worth referencing Sweden's Vision Zero [1] here, a project which aims to reduce all fatalities from automobiles to zero.

They have a system of maximum traffic speeds for different zones depending on what impact risks there are in those zones. For the zone where there are possible conflicts between pedestrians and cars the maximum speed is 19mph. The rationale for this is that below that speed the risk of a fatality from an impact between a car and a pedestrian is low but above that speed the risk of fatality rises very quickly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero
Everyday I see crazy, drunk or angry people just walk across the road recklessly. Some seem to walk in defiance of the cars.
Once again you have confused the timing and thus risk of investment with quantity. Furthermore, and trivially, donations by private citizens such as Carnegie are not a socialization of costs.

The simple fact remains that taxpayers have made significant and critical investments in nurturing AV technology, like many other technologies that Silicon Valley has commercialized once they bore fruit. Your fundamental premise that investments that are "minuscule" in size are necessarily minuscule in significance is trivially wrong.
er... LIDAR needs ambient light now? Also if you look on Google Street View, the pedestrian entered the road from a median crossing that you can see straight down the middle of from the road hundreds of feet away. I bet they don't release the footage from the car though ;)
In my experience it's rather the anti-hipster places: cheap Chinese dumplings, Vietnamese noodles etc, typically family run with minimal decor, overhead, wages, cleanliness and tax payments (much easier to underreport cash-only earnings). But often great food if you pick a busy place!
I would say they should be able to drive up to 15% higher than the speed limit at their discretion. So in a 35 zone they could go up to 40. But that's not a question for me to answer.I just know that the answer isn't that they follow the letter of the law all the time.
If Satya wanted to do something useful, he could support Vulkan, instead of pushing DirectX.
That's definitely popular for effects that use ray casting. At SIGGRAPH and GDC over the past couple years, a good fraction of the graphics presentations I went to ended with "and then we added TAA because we could only afford a handful of samples per pixel per frame".
Who knows? But one thing we can be sure of is that the video nobody has seen will potentially shift the blame to the homeless lady.
Behat is easily one of my favorite test frameworks and PHP, at least since 5.6, is somewhat of a sensible language now.

If you have to build the kind of site that needs to do the things that WordPress does, it's a great choice.

PHP, unfortunately, is never going to get away from the reputation that it earned and some of the choices it's stuck with, but it's a perfectly adequate language to develop web software with and the tooling these days is pretty good.

It's not my choice to use, but I'm happy to use it in a modern context.
The amount of cash they have now isn’t comparable to what they had when Steve was alive. They have huge takeover money now. I think they’re saving it for a rainy day ie the next crash. Current valuations are historically very high, and it would be imprudent to start buying up companies now. They’ll get much more value if they wait, which they have been doing quite patiently.
This is basically how I eat, and what's surprising is how much it seems to annoy other people. (I'm not a prosthelytizer, btw, just try to eat a plant based diet avoiding refined flour and processed food). But indicating that preference seems to raise hackles everywhere outside of hippy raw type places).
Essentially (for example) the trader has a position that makes money if LIBOR goes down, so he calls the LIBOR submitter at his bank or someone he knows through contacts at another bank and says "hey it would be nice if your 3 month LIBOR could go from .7% to .65%", and the submitters who were themselves often low level functionaries just did it as a favor. Though they could only move it within bank guidelines so the profits made were not huge in any case.
So I think you have a great analogy, and I generally like your perspective. The problem is that I think this accident clearly demonstrates that the suggestion that AV's would be safer than human drivers is now suspect. A post elsewhere compared the deaths per mile for human drivers to that of this pilots' and it's worse by orders of magnitude.[0]

That's my point. I 100% agree, if self-driving cars did make things better, than the safety aspect is a good thing.

I think the freeing up people's time is okay too but only if all of society has access to AV's. However, like many innovations of the past, advancements which are not accessible to all people just free up the time of some people while offsetting burdens onto others (ie., those who can't afford AV's). BUT, that is a separate issue.

[0] It is just one data point, but it's a bad sign to be so quick to kill a pedestrian so soon out of the gate.
Thanks for the reference to your blog. Will check it out. Thanks for making this book available
That reminds me of a 19th century con man I read about in the wonderful book "Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present" [1].

He came to some big city posing as a successful businessman seeking investors for some new enterprise. He would give as a reference the president of a local bank located on the other side of town.

When the potential investors went to that bank to check out the reference, they found a busy, well equipped, and well furnished bank, full of well dressed obviously upper class clients conducting business. When they spoke to the President and other officers all they heard was praise for the honesty and business skills of the con man. The marks would then make a large investment.

When the con man left town with their money and they realized something was wrong, and then went to the bank to try to find out what was going on, they found an empty building with a "for lease" sign, and many of the people they had seen as customers and employees in the bank were now seen to be beggars, prostitutes, and such from the neighborhood that the con man had hired to play customers and employees.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Bloodletters-Badmen-Narrative-Encyclo...
Congrats on getting this released! Does it support theming? Took a quick look at the docs I don't think it does.
PSA:

The last time I opened this presentation there were a bunch of speaker notes with incredibly insightful additional details and trivia attached. A picture might be a thousand words, but the notes added insightful context that the picture couldn't add itself.

If anyone can get in touch with the owner of this document, please let them know the speaker notes have been lost. They really need to be re-added!

Unfortunately I didn't download a copy of the old version D':
No, drivers are paid by distance and mileage. Uber is paid fixed fare.
I was a professional web developer and occasionally moonlight as one. If you have non-savvy people entering content, WordPress is, in most cases, the only sensible choice.

I can turn a better site around that suits most peoples' needs in Jekyll these days in less time. I took the best of both worlds here and developed a workflow of:
1) private WordPress for content editing categorized content in Kramdown using only the ACF Pro and s3 uploader plugins
2) a process that builds and deploys a jekyll site to an HAproxy load-balanced NGINX cluster whenever anyone clicks Publish.

It pulls the content directly from the wordpress database at build time and the site uses webpack and whatever javascript niceties you'd expect from a site developed in 2018.
If I wanted to say that, I would have. The situation today is very different from when Obama campaigned. For one, the FBI & CIA didn't announce that Russians interfered during Obama's campaign. So it's really no mystery that people are paying attention to what the Trump campaign is doing.

And that's ignoring the fact that Cambridge Analytica was apparently breaking laws.

Either way, it is ok for the media to 'influence people'. If you're going to be vague, then we may as well say that is their whole reason for being. And if I wanted them to advocate one message over another, what difference is it to you? That's politics.
I'd say that miles driven is a good normalizer.

In fact, NHTSA statistics includes miles driven under adverse conditions (rain, snow, etc) while I'd bet that this is not the case for Uber.
Non-driving advocates have pointed out that many investigations of car crashes with pedestrians and cyclists tend to blame the pedestrian/cyclist by reflex and generally refuse to search for exculpatory evidence.

Based on the layout of the presumed crash site (namely, the median had a paved section that would effectively make this an unmarked crosswalk), and based on the fact that the damage being all on the passenger's side (which is to say, the pedestrian would have had to have crossed most of the lane before being struck), I would expect that there is a rather lot that could have been done on the driver's side (whether human or autonomous) to avoid the crash.
It might be that the Google docs throttling mode might just drop those extras. Check back when it's not popular?
We can still move fast and break things out here in Fly Over Country

But can you find an investor there that will fund you to spend 2 years breaking stuff with 50 engineers on staff and no revenue?

Some startups are much harder to launch outside of Silicon Valley where an investors are willing to make speculative investments on expensive ideas that may never pan out and where the investor can keep a close eye on his/her investment.
One can hope that the Monero market cap catches up with Bitcoin for this very reason.
I haven’t been reading all the latest CA coverage, but from what I’ve seen from the Guardian’s and Observer’s latest deep dive, there’s an issue of violating UK data privacy laws, since CA is alleged to have been involved in Brexit related campaigns. In these stories, it’s not alleged that Trump’s campaign did anything illegal.
The difference is about an order of magnitude if you include the inefficiency of combustion. But specific power is just one metric. There are many others, which are often (i.e. for commuting and even cross-country shipping) better for battery-electric.

By the way, there is still a gap for energy density (i.e. energy/volume), but not nearly as bad. For instance, Gasoline is 34MJ/liter, but after combustion you get about 8MJ/liter. Tesla's lithium ion is about 2.3MJ/liter, so only a factor of ~3 difference.

We don't all have 1000 mile gas tanks. In fact, in a sports car, you might only have a 300 mile tank. So clearly energy storage alone isn't the only metric.

Wear and tear on brakes is much less. Brakes last for about the life of the vehicle. No oil changes are needed. No fuel filter, engine air filter, etc, etc.

Cost for electric is much less. Typically, I pay about the equivalent to $1 per gallon in electricity. There's also a large reduction in local smog and particulates, which can make a big difference in a large city.

This is why we're seeing a continued transition to electric transport, overcoming a century of inertia and trillions in stake. The only major thing preventing electric from taking over the majority of transportation is battery costs. That's it! And batteries have already decreased in costs dramatically to the point that cost of ownership is roughly break even right now even without incentives.
Without a speed limit, I'd take i-70 from KC to STL at about (160~mph) 250km/h for 95% of it. I'd make day trips just to get white castle at white knuckle speeds.
You can lower speeds quite drastically with better street design, no enforcement needed. Make the road narrower and curvier instead of wide open and straight. You can even add bumps.
Let Chaos Reign, Then Rein in Chaos (Andy Grove)
The first paragraph is unreadable. I don't trust this.
An autonomous vehicle should also be pulled over and ticketed for operating unsafely. At this point in time the driver is still liable for the actions of the car and is required to monitor the autonomous system and takeover if necessary. However like a human it should have some discretion in interpreting the law. Should it go 120 in a 60 zone... definitely not but if it thinks it can do 38 in a 35? That sounds fine.
Why Cross Platform Mobile App Development Isn’t for Everyone
Forecasting is not always accurate.
And that was due to two insane factors: first, that we use primaries rather than caucuses; second, that many of them define the winner as the one with the most votes.

On the first point, a representative democratic republic really shouldn't be choosing its candidates by popular vote. A caucus system empowers parties to moderate & modulate the voices of their voters. As horrifically corrupt as Clinton, Inc. were in the 2016 election, in general it's a good thing for party insiders to seek a more electable candidate.

On the second point, it simply makes no sense at all for a 40-30-30 split to go to the fellow with 40% of the vote. Instant runoff voting or a similar method would be far preferable to the current way we count votes.
Like they are trying to do in Russia, China, and Iran to name a few examples?