skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My feedback for the author, you assumed the culture of the company was a meritocracy. I certainly don't fault you for your assumption, it is a common structure in an engineering organization. Your first clue was with that first security bug and people losing their shit over solving a simple problem. That was your chance to challenge your preconceived notions and start to learn about the company's culture. Can't fault you for that either, it's easy for me to critique your choices with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. But going forward, something to think about.

I recently walked away from a good engagement at a "Technology" company. I was the only technology person there. As much as I worked to properly set expectations, I had no idea about their bizarre and unspoken expectations. I should have spent more time investigating the culture of the company. My take away is, don't do work for a technology company that doesn't have technology people.
There is a theory that you should fix your own problems before you fix other's.
Thanks, looking closer at the Yetter paper:

>"Normal cadaveric splenic volumes reported by Loftus et al. [8] are 26–250 cm3 with a mean volume of 110 cm3 and an SD of 70 cm3. Henderson et al. [19] reported a normal splenic volume of 219 cm3 as calculated from axial CT acquisitions."

So an average of 219 cm^3 according to axial CT is still larger than what is seen here. I'm not sure about the cadaver spleens, do they shrink? The Loftus paper only reports maximum length vs actual volume so we can't see that direct correlation.

Some other papers report 184 cm^3 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4549594/) and 214.6 cm^3 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9038125)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development
To be fair, Allo only came after Google had killed several other chat implementations because for some reason they couldn’t tolerate the idea that GChat was successful.
The issue is that the law is something everyone must live by or face dire consequences. Given this, is it better to have programming for law that is specific but which only few can use (and normally to their advantage), or to have a more ambiguous medium that is accessible to the majority?

The ideal, a specific language everyone is proficient in, is best, but it isn't possible.
I mean I don’t think they care about consumer banking. They care about banking with businesses and institutions. The personal checking accounts are basically marketing toward that end.
This was posted multiple times in the last few days

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16880991
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16844285
Banks don't do anything useful that cannot be provided by other means. They are completely useless. The only thing that banks do is to provide credit against things you already currently own, like mortgages and commercial loans. But these things could very easily be provided by an official agency. For example, if you don't pay your monthly mortgage you just lose the house and an official agency will deal with the sale of the property (maybe through third-party services). Same thing for commercial loans. There is no need to create a private, for-profit bureaucracy to handle this.
It's still an easy way to share images of oneself and ones's spouse. The people citilife is interested in sharing those photos with probably are friends with both citilife & citilife's wife, so they come through fine.

Also, leaving Facebook doesn't do much to remove pictures of you. On my feed, most people are posting pictures of their family and friends (& pets & sometimes food) moreso than of themselves. To get your face off of facebook you need to get your friends & family off of facebook. (& your pets since evidently they can have accounts and post pictures).
The article proves my point: Instead of providing any in-depth content, other than the name of said marriage counselor, the article completely lives off the Ikea cliché.

Does said marriage counselor offer us any better "formidable 7-feet tall storage units" by competitors? No. Because for that, if the "divorce maker" claim has any merit, we'd have to ask the local precinct to find out about their experiences with other cabinets.
> so I'm trying to just relax and accept linguistic progress in whatever form it takes.

How about "ath-leeshure"?

https://youtu.be/1YBP8v6fi2w?t=06s
It's excepted for South Korea, Japan and China take the lead in adoption and applications. US customers might not be not priority, because US consumers have have very low bandwidth caps, lets wait and see.

I think many people underestimate the ambition of 5G and assume that 5G is just 4G with more bandwidth.

Big advantage of 5G over 4G is that it can _also_ use unlicensed spectrum. This enables more use cases like enhanced mobile broadbands, device-to-device mesh networks, private 5G networks, etc.

5G is designed to use wifi when available. It's more than just new cellular radio interface and antennas (NR part). 5G connection can use 5G/LTE/WiFi simultaneously. Gibabit LTE can be used as an anchor for 5G functionality even when 5G network is not available.
In this sense 5G NR is not a priority. 5G NR first arrives in the most congested areas to increase the bandwidth. If you have only LTE, you may not get as much as those with 5G phones in some concerts and crowded events.

Among the first uses of 5G NG are base stations companies build for themselves. Like networks in factories and other locations using unlicensed 60 GHz band. It looks like Chinese are jumping into industrial use of 5G very rapidly. They are already ahead of the schedule. Consumer applications will follow.
It should probably be pointed out that atomic increment is in most situations a more efficient solution for high contention counters in modern FDB.
This is mostly true, but in fact the route currently used by the California Zephyr through the Rockies (Salt Lake City - Soldier Summit - Moffat Tunnel - Denver) was built by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad or its predecessors [1]; the section in question was completed no earlier than 1883.

The more famous railroad finished in 1869 takes a more northerly route, through Ogden instead of Provo, and through Rawlins, Laramie, and Cheyenne in Wyoming instead of adjacent to I-70 through Grand Junction and Denver.

The mountainous sections of the Zephyr, specifically the crossings of the Rockies and the Sierras, are indeed the least competitive vs. driving. Based off of the official timetable [2], the Zephyr takes:

~9 hours between Chicago and Omaha vs. 7.5 hours driving

~8.5 hours between Omaha and Denver vs. 7.5 hours driving

~15 hours between Denver and Salt Lake City vs. 8 hours driving

9 hours between Salt Lake City and Reno vs. 7.5 hours driving

7.5 hours between Reno and Emeryville vs. hours 3.5 driving

Lengthening the driving time to include breaks, the train is viable between Chicago and Denver, and between Salt Lake and Reno, but is nearly twice as slow as driving on other parts of the route.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_and_Rio_Grande_Western_... [2] https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
I fully agree.

The whole idea of income tax is flawed.

Define richer (poorer) as having more (less) wealth: unit is say dollars.

Define net income as the time-derivative of wealth: unit is dollars per day.

Now conflate income and wealth in school. Justify taxing income as if it was redistribution from rich to poor, while it is in fact redistribution from high incomme to low income: i.e. a rich person with substantial capital, who has lost his job, can apply for income support, even though he still has money in the bank. In order to get out of poverty a poor person has to earn money at a faster rate than average, so will be heavier taxed.

Income taxation is not a redistribution from rich to poor, it is a means to slow down changes to the status quo. It is a brake on social mobility.

With decentralized ledgers, we can easily tax all wealth equally by printing money. The problem is not that money is being created out of thin air, but that this freshly minted money is not considered property of the group, instead it is property of the central banks, which act like unions for private banks.

Taxing by freshly minting is much cheaper to implement, and removes the whole legal loopholes with secret walkthroughs etc. i.e. people can focus on providing a service and earning money (roughly twice as fast since no income taxation) instead of puzzling through all the rules and exemptions in order to be able to do their job.
Anecdotally, I’ve had 2 friends leave companies where they owed a bonus to the company (50k) - one paid it back and one didn’t. The one who didn’t, never heard from them and it’s been over 2 years now.

Not advocating this, but don’t be miserable over a small sum of money. They’ll probably work with you on a repayment plan if necessary.
It would be nice if Uber could even get basic GPS right first. Most drivers don't even use their app anymore for directions. They switch over to google maps.
There's a reason for that color scheme. The OG Mac had a built-in, sharp, monochrome CRT. The Amiga was designed to be usable with whatever TV happened to be lying around. Hence the complementary pairs of black and white, and blue and orange: the only colors that would read well on the oldest, grottiest, junkiest b&w or color TVs. If you were editing HAM images in Deluxe Paint, obviously you'd want a high-quality monitor for that. But if you didn't have a high-quality monitor, the basic system UI would at least degrade well to be usable with what you had.

Function over form is a part of the Amiga design. Its graphical shell is called "Workbench" and not "Desktop" -- it was thought of as a computer for engineers and makers who were willing to forgo prettiness for practicality.
Yes, it’s already been passed into uk law
Good, good. The sooner Amtrak alienates its remaining customer base, the sooner it can be scrapped. There are only a few parts of the country that are settled densely enough -- and broadly enough -- for passenger trains to make sense. Any moves toward consolidation of service to only those areas should be welcomed.
There aren't no sections, but there are certainly very few that beat 70mph...for example, IIRC the Amtrak Downeaster hits 70-80 at at least one point (the speed limit of the train is 79mph throughout the route)...for like a mile or two as it crosses the Scarborough marsh ;)
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27 Incredibly Useful Things You Didn’t Know Chrome Could Do
Hmmm, that's an interesting problem I hadn't thought of with the auctions. People are going to pay for data pretty much regardless of what it costs (within reason), so it's economical to buy part of the spectrum assuming you can pass on the high price to consumers. Typically you think of competition benefiting consumers, but that's obviously not true in this case.
> 6 weeks is not standard in the US.

I know, I was trying to add some outside perspective. Where I'm from, 5 weeks is the legal minimum, and everyone has the legal right to get 4 consecutive weeks off in the summer. Consequently, since everyone does this, and expects this, companies adjust for it, and most importantly: No-one bitches about it. There's no masochist culture around not taking vacation.

The problem with "unlimited" vacation is that it's of course not unlimited. There is a limit, it's just not written down on paper, it's not part of your employment contract. It's arbitrary. At one point, either your boss or your boss's boss is going to say no.

And if you get told no, you have no legal recourse! If you get fired for taking "too much", you can't sue for wrongful termination!

Fixed vacation time protects you as an employee. Why doesn't your company just give everyone five weeks of vacation and have that written down in the employment contract?

It's exactly like bonuses vs. salary. A bonus can always be withdrawn for any reason or no reason, but it's very difficult to lower someone's salary.
Apple’s average salary, according to data research firm Paysa, was $100,733. That includes lots of retails workers at Apple’s stores (though obviously not the low-paid workers at contractors like Taiwan-based FoxConn Technology Co., which do a lot of the assembly work on Apple's products). At Google, which has no retail workers, the average employee salary is $190,854. At Facebook the average is $203,894.
We have just learned that the median salary of employees at Amazon.com Inc. is $28,446, excluding its chief executive officer and founder, Jeff Bezos.
That says at all.
This is the sort of loophole that allows it to apply to everything. By going on a date with person A, you reduce their willingness to spend money on certain products associated with people who don't go on dates, and increase their willingness to spend money on certain products associated with going on dates. Therefore, the federal government can make laws about who you date, and dating becomes considered a commercial venture (so freedom of association wouldn't apply, same reason freedom of association doesn't allow people to bypass minimum wage laws).

This is stretching the law beyond any reasonable interpretation, done so by the same government who gains a lot of power by doing so.
When a large fine is levied, there is only one question which actually matters: Did the company profit more than the fine from the illegal actions? If they did, then the fine will be written off as a 'cost of doing business' and nothing will change. It wouldn't make sense to do otherwise. When dealing with entities as large as Wells Fargo, they can often get away with anything as long as it is profitable enough. Since their personhood doesn't extend to the government actually being able to curtail their free movement or actions, and fines are the only way they can be censured, the fact that the public itself will balk at fines which are simply seen as "too large" can enable them to get away with anything.
Almost all of that is inner city gang crime. And looking at those reported incidents, most of them failed to kill even a single person. The big random shootings that make the national news are extremely rare and make up a tiny percentage of all murders.

The deaths from terrorism work out to around 200 per year. Which is on the same order and possibly greater than the mass shooting deaths. And that doesn't even take into account the massive amounts of money and effort we spend on keeping that number low.
There’s no resistance, so it’s almost like a superconductor. No power loss to heat.
Please don't conflate gps with navigation. They are entirely separate problems. I urge you to look into problems and familiarize yourself with the challenges therein before commenting.
Refer a friend iPhone X experiment
> This Javascript framework is not open source. The reason it is not open source is that it kind of came out at the same time as React and I was like “Does the world really need another JS framework to choose from?”. Google already has a few of those–Angular and Polymer–and felt like another one would confuse people, so I just thought we’d just keep it to ourselves.

Given the current state of affairs, an open-sourcing of this framework would be welcome.
As a recent victim of André's petty wrath, I completely agree with the sentiment
i'd take gtalk back right away - the best message solution there ever was.
Reconstructing an existing road is even worse. Want to repair a failing street? OK, but only if you make every aspect of the supporting infrastructure ADA compliant with the most current laws. We are legislating ourselves out of modern infrastructure.
RCS is a standard on which development started in 2008 and was built upon the core of another standard called IMS, which started development in 1999. The same year the jabber.org project was announced.
I have a feeling First Republic tends to care about consumer banking at this point because it's just not a big bank yet. But how much customer service do you need, anyway? I step foot in an actual bank maybe once a year, if that.
apparently he's a Detroit veteran
>everybody gets to choose on their own where they live

Why only this? Let's allow people to do everything they want. /s

Why can't some group of people, living in some area, set what are some rules that should be respected by all members?

BTW. We have too many humans on Earth which causes a global warming.
These two links are just parroting the press release.

It'll be "legit" when you can grab the PDF of the audit from Deloitte's web servers directly and read it for yourself.
My voice doesn't scream "save often" as much as "commit often" - once it's in a commit "git" has your back and you can always collapse it into other commits, ammend it, rebase or cherry-pick it, whatever.. It's not safe until it's a commit - saving is .. meh .. sure, needs to be done. Commit is what matters - then it is safe - at the very least I can dig it out of "git reflog".
New U.S. fear: Chinese tech war will get worse
You just compared Apples and Oranges. First Republic is typically for the higher-earning, higher net-worth individual, whereas Wells Fargo caters to a much broader set.

Not to say that Wells Fargo should not provide better service, but I just want to point out that these are two different types of banks.

I had a similar experience with Bank of America. The person who was supposed to help me was rude, untrained, and actually caused a lot of problems without addressing my original request (close my account); I later got help from a higher-up (actually trained) who did provide a modicum of service. I had a much better experience at a Credit Union.
How counting sunspots unites the past and future of science
Why should my company and I get involved with standards? [pdf]
What happens when the digital emulates real world properties? [Art concept]
Could you expand on what this all is? I'm not familiar with what benefits an LSP provides. What is the world like before and after LSP support?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/amtrak-tracks-late-tra...
I'm really appreciative of the mention of the inverted import.

Inverting the flow really lets components "register" themselves and thus be fully contained rather than be "required" by another component. It can be powerful but it causes the problem that you never really know what all is registered to another component.

Also, yeah, code-splitting isn't easy!
>They claim unlimited rights not...

The reason doesn't matter if they are claiming those rights. So the given layman terms version is still true.
If Benjamin Franklin were unfaithful to his wife (he claimed near the end of his life that he wasn't), it would make him a hypocrite and dishonest.

Sexual promiscuity was a serious thing in the United States until the 1960s. The lack of regard modern society has for being faithful doesn't diminish the importance of Benjamin Franklin being faithful to his wife.
Isnt React actually open source? https://github.com/facebook/react
"I wanted a house, but I got a pile of drywall and 2x4 framing studs."

This is a totally legitimate complaint about FoundationDB, which is designed specifically to be, well, a foundation rather than a house. If you try to live in just a foundation you are going to find it modestly inconvenient. (But try building a house on top of another house and you will really regret it!)

The solution is of course to use a higher level database or databases suitable to your needs which are built on FDB, and drop down to the key value level only for your stickiest problems.

Unfortunately Apple didn't release any such to the public so far. So I hope the community is up to the job of building a few :-)
Thanks for your comment. You may have noticed that duty_cycle is indeed an input. Some of the other constants could be indeed input as generics. In general I prefer to use packages, since it makes instantiation simpler, and parameterization can be done by using different packages for each block. Of course generics have advantages of their own.
Only checked the implementation of the "Arrow UDFs" recently, because I'm interested in the Arrow interaction (for curiosity), so still don't have a strong opinion. My main concern is that a lot of the PySpark systems are playing around how to interact and speed up the systems while still staying on top of the Scala base.

I'd recommend Dask (haven't tried it much but from all I've seen is top-notch) to anyone who wants Python all the way down (at least until you hit the C at the bottom) ;)
Feminist rewrite of Odyssey turns tale of subjugation into one of empowerment
Dm-vdo – compressed and deduplicated block storage for any filesystem
>> The risk per person, always minuscule (cows apparently kill five times more people), appears to have been going down.

As usual with reported statistics of this sort, this one ignores the fundamental difference between the "raw visceral horror of being eaten alive by a very big fish" [1], compared to being kicked or crushed by a cow, which is a stupid, but not a horrible, way to die.

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[1] Quote from a National Geographic article. Somehow, I remember the quote because it was so much to the point, but I have no way to find the article again.
> It's funny how an actual Deloitte audit lowers your confidence ...

WHAT Deloitte audit?

I have seen absolutely nothing to convince me that an audit actually took place.

Let me know when they post a document roughly similar to the one at [0] (disclaimer: it's not the best example either, but it is a reasonable one that I could locate quickly).

On a side note, your brand new HN account (created just several hours ago) that was apparently created just to comment on this thread about how ICONOMI is "legit" (for example) does not really inspire confidence either. In fact, it does exactly the opposite.

[0]: http://www.ab-inbev.com/content/dam/universaltemplate/ab-inb... (PDF)
Amtrak doesn't own most of the track they use. They pay track usage payments to the freight railroads that actually own the track. In FY 2009 that was $115.4 million (3.3% of total operation cost). Cannot find the current numbers. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
That is some socialist thinking. Take sth from one group to give another.