skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently if you are Chinese then you are a "worker" who "assembles" Gucci handbags but if you are Italian you are a "craftsman" who "makes" them.
Did this a lot with payment processors. Literally had application router settings that could route based on % or switch off once a certain monthly or yearly amount was hit. Configs could be updated in real time.
> Tesla charges $5,000 for Autopilot's lane-keeping and advanced cruise control features. On top of that, customers can pay $3,000 for what Tesla describes as "Full Self-Driving Capability."

Is $5,000 what owners of other cars pay for similar driver-assist features?
If there's something sharp on the shoe it can pop the emergency slide
Back in the day they had everyone remove their shoes if they thought the inflatable slides would be used... This article says it is so a heel wouldn't pop the slide or injure someone below them on the way down.

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/14/us/shoe-policy-may-change...
I used to suffer from asthma. This book really helped me. Please try it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Close-Your-Mouth-Buteyko-Breathing/...

Conincidentally, I also used to work for Alcatel Lucent and spent much time in their server farms.
I'm terrified Google is going to kill Voice soon. I'm an idiot for trusting Google to keep it around. Every other Google service is easy to migrate out of, but they could easily neglect to let us keep our numbers.
It's been 15 months, that's enough time to see results from poor decisions. Sure, he would need to be unusually competent to prevent such issues, but arguably that's a reasonable expectation for a president.

(I say this as a government contractor.) As to root cause for Gov IT issues, the real issue seems to be the government outsourcing so much. It makes many people rich, but outsourcing ends up being both extremely expensive and error prone. This is not purely an issue with the government most private companies face issues when outsourcing IT as it's difficult to get right.
good for you, have a pat on the back
Call Andy Fillmore's [1] office anyway.

[1] https://www.ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Andy-F...
You develop social capital by fostering relationships with other people. By being responsible, and having positive interactions. You'll develop that capital not just with them, but also with the people around you and them.

If you have a positive relationship with someone, and they think well of you, then their friends and family and colleagues will accept their voucher (assuming they have a positive relationship with those people).

You want to do this starting from zero? I've done it, though not with the intent of developing social capital. I was just tired of being lonely.

Seek out people to do things with. I started attending mass again. I went to Bible studies. I joined a soccer team (I sucked at soccer, still do). I went to movies and dinners with people. When they invited me to an event, I'd say yes unless I really had something else to do (could legit be cleaning the apartment, but usually meant travel or work or obligations to other people).

Be responsible, be honest. When they invite you and you say yes, you show up. Do not be a flake. You will get a reputation as a flake and your social capital will go down the drain.

As you meet more people, foster deeper friendships and connections with those who it makes sense to. Do not force it. Several people I met this way had very similar technical interests to me, we developed a stronger connection over that and I got a new job. Others have similar academic or travel or other interests, and we connected over that. Others, we just have mutual respect for each other and cared about the other's wellbeing.

Take charge. Initiate and plan events. Doesn't have to be all of them, but some of them. Don't drop a hint, "Wouldn't it be fun to go to the beer festival this weekend?". Send out the invitation, do the planning. Set the times. People show or the don't. Start doing this, they'll start showing. And when they don't, let it flow over you. Don't take it as a personal rejection (even if you may not it to be that). Enjoy the day, and meet people at the event.

Over time this becomes more natural if it feels weird at the start. And don't think about it from a social capital perspective. Just focus on the doing things with other people, especially things you enjoy, aspect.

And once you have the initial circle, especially if you take ownership of it by leading the call to gather and do things together, it'll expand. People will bring in people from their other social circles. Some will stick around, some won't. Merge your various circles. I have colleagues and friends, I invite both to movies and things. This moves people from the "associate" or "acquaintance" categories to the "friend" category when we hit it off. Sometimes they bring people and those are the ones I connect with.
Sander let me know if you see anything we can improve we are still working on it!
> Did he.. survive?

Well, let's see:

√ "violently dismembered"
√ "bisection of his thoracoabdominal cavity" (i.e, body cut in half)
√ "expulsion of all of the internal organs"

Spoiler alert: no. All four divers were killed, along with one of the tenders outside the diving bell.
The PEG aficionados basically believe that PEG is the magical solution to parsing problems: the grammar is by definition deterministic, so that's totally the solution to everything.

The problem is that the problem isn't so much that there can be two parse trees, it's that, as a language author, one needs to be aware of when two parse trees could come up. Precedence and dangling-else are well-known problems where declaring one path to be canonical is obviously the right answer, but most vexing parse is an example where the fact that an ambiguity existed in the first place is the problem, and declaring one to be the "right" way merely makes everyone complain about how it doesn't make sense.

When it comes to dealing with ambiguous grammars, PEG states that there's only one way to read a grammar, so you don't necessarily know that you're obscuring an ambiguity, unlike if you try to build an LR parser.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but provisioning 16-32gb for a production server doesn't seem to be unusual these days and the cost negligible...

<Insert electron/slack joke here>
How I built a tool which saved Millions for an e-commerce giant
People can make mistakes without "lying", and it's perfectly fine to correct a mistake by adding a note at the bottom. Indeed it's arguably more helpful that way, since a new reader will better be able to understand the context of the replies.

To bombard someone with the word "lie" crosses into incivility
(rather aggressively, as I read it), and also breaks the site guidelines by not giving the benefit of the doubt. Could you please not treat others like this here? Instead, assume good faith, as the guidelines ask.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Five Stages of Collapse (2008)
I agree in that this doesn't really take conscious thought anymore. However, the article had the following:

> How can a = a + 1? That’s like saying 1 = 2.

It looks like a lot of us don't have (never had?) trouble accepting a statement like `a = a + 1` and, upon stepping back, thought maybe it had to do with our internal dialog (which is now probably intuition as we've been processing statements like this for so long).
https://fr.slideshare.net/inovia/10-essentials-steps-for-kaf...
I seem to remember similar stories, and maybe even a study, saying that people in emergencies tend to behave far more cooperatively and relaxed than one might think/fear.

The examples of disasters that were caused by or worsened by crowd behavior, such as mass panics or people clogging emergency exits, also seem to involve cognitive failures more than selfishness.

Sorry for not having any citations.
the Twitter offices must be a special kind of hell. could you imagine twitter in real life?
Sounds like it was bought in hopes that the previous owner (you) had let it expire accidentally and invested ~$30 over a couple of years in hopes of turning that into $500. Doesn't have to get buyers too frequently for that to be a profitable scheme.
> Pandora and Spotify still can't build or execute a playlist like a good DJ can.

Spotify's playlists are at least in part human curated, so not sure how you got to that conclusion.
Well, sure, but the software's architecture probably isn't too particular to this use-case; it's just computer vision. Given FDA approval for using CV for this, we'll probably quickly see many other companies attempting to drive similar technologies to market.

Or, rather, we would if there were any existing companies in this space that could take advantage of this. The creator of this device, IDx (https://www.eyediagnosis.net), seems to be rather unique in being an entrepreneurial medical-device manufacturer; MDMs are a rather hide-bound lot.

Honestly, if there's going to be a wave of innovation in this space, I might expect it to come from the inorganic-chem-focused pharma companies, since they have the expertise in both materials science and machine-learning (from doing novel small-molecule detection studies) required to come up with the innovations. I expect they'd likely partner with one or more of the MDMs to build the hardware, but they would write the software.
Absolutely! I'm only addressing the common misconception in the grandparent that the p-value is the percent likelihood that the effect is real. That's not at all accurate.

There are definitely other reasons that lead us to such horrifying results — especially in fields where experimenters _do_ conduct experiments seemingly at random and without a reasonable pathway of action (I'm looking at you, social psychology and friends).
Stay losing then? Trying to help, whatever.
It's more like saying a self-balancing bicycle is an improved bicycle.
And on the engine, which was likely the point of failure in this incident. Although you have a different cycle count for engines since you can run it up without taking off.
Hacker News Highlights: February and March 2018
What I need is a redux equivalent for Blazor. Architecting larger applications without a good unidirectional flow can get messy (and repeat ASP.NET webforms mistakes)
Actually for most cases of fraud the merchant (often a small business owner) loses out not only on the payment but on any stolen gas at the station.
Motorized scooters: San Francisco issues cease and desist
I wrote some high-performance lisp applications in production. My main was was a threaded queue worker, driven off beanstalkd, that processed large volumes of data. This was highly successful and didn't require overly-provisioned servers (was using CCL/linux x64/linode VPS).

That said, I don't think I'll ever use lisp for front-facing web stuff again. I wrote cl-async, and afterwards and used it in production in a few places, then a bit later started using node heavily. The tooling for CL is just not there. Quicklisp is great, but not being able to pick and choose package versions is limiting, and having to rewrite every single thing for async was a pain (since CL doesn't have continuations, any sort of async that avoids CPS is impossible). I was hoping I would get more community support on cl-async, and I did get many hands helping, but eventually it just became too much to maintain. So if you're doing network stuff on CL, it's probably best to just use threaded, which IMO just doesn't handle the same amount of load evented does, at least when dealing with web APIs.

One thing I used lisp for briefly which I want to do again soon is game dev. Being able to redefine/fix portions of your program while it's running is fantastic, especially when you have huge amounts of state to deal with like you do in games. I wouldn't exactly call that running CL in production, though.
It's already happened once -- the odds of it happening twice to the same person are astronomical! ;)
Some quotes for you:

Among the 84 risk factors included in its comprehensive analysis, the GBD project reported that ambient air pollution from PM2.5
ranked 6th globally in its contribution to mortality in 2016, accounting for 4.1 million deaths. Household air pollution was ranked 8th globally, responsible for 2.6 million deaths. Air pollution from ambient PM2.5, ozone, and household burning of solid fuels combined was the 4th-highest global risk factor, accounting for 6.1 million deaths — 11% of the global total.

page 18, https://www.stateofglobalair.org/sites/default/files/soga-20...
There are specific needs that need to be met first. A kid who lacks the basics will not get anything from education. However most kids have the basics, the question is how to get them more.

To my mind OLPC is a success if .01% of the kids who get one learn something important. That OLPC can make thousands of books available is useful: it lets the kid who digs in learn something that their village needs has never done before.
Yup, this. If you're belted in, the entire chair would have to detach. Something that doesn't typically happen in a depressurization event, no matter what Hollywood would have you believe.
My Impressions from Building a Flutter App
Multiple discussions on this article can be found here:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Don%27t%20call%20yourself%20a%...
> The captain is cool as a cucumber. The controller is sweating bullets!

Wow, yeah. 17:03: "Now is your airplane physically on fire?" "No, it's not on fire, but part of it's missing."
That article sure manages to say a lot without saying anything at all.
Someone just went through an experience where, during a flight, they heard a loud bang, then a window exploded and a woman was partially sucked out of it. They'd be forgiven for thinking that was violent.
I agree that sometimes it gets ‘gamed’. I didn’t realize it until I wanted to promote my own business. Ironically the ads on Google are more honest than the organic results for certain keywords, at least its out in the open it’s an ad.
Companies lobby together for rules that help them at the expense of everyone else. Yes they'll compete against each other, but is there more than a handful of instances where a company lobbied for better protections for laboror society over something that helped themselves? Of course not, that's how they're set up.

If they we're people they would all be diagnosed as sociopaths. They treat the relationship between themselves and labor and themselves and society as either zero sum or an attempt at rent extraction. The only reasonable way to treat them is in kind at this point
The final frontier is coercion... threat to life and liberty. Saying MMORPG is a government because the game controls the adjudication of your grievances is like saying Macy's is a government because Macy's Customer Service adjudicates your grievances. Except when it doesn't. Except when the FTC, or the FBI, or any other (real) government overrules them.
How do you design a system that is barely used most of the year and then experiences one huge spike only one day? Do they have tons of capacity sitting around most of the year?
I thought I'd try my usual check to see what the state of the art is. Googled "rivonia plumber" (where I live) and got pages like this:

http://plumber-plumbers.co.za/index-rivonia-plumbers.html

http://www.plumbersgauteng.co.za/gauteng-plumbers-areas/plum...

That is so gamed. Keyword stuffing, repeated exact pages. I assume it's better in the US but surely the algos are run over the whole dataset? Is this a worldwide problem?

When I first did that search I found nests of sites using exactly the same content and styles, with different areas. Same phone number across many sites, cross-linked out the wazoo. I don't have the interest to check now but it doesn't seem much better.
I mainly commute in the Chicagoland area and live in the Suburbs.
> they will show ads on her devices based on your behavior (and vice versa).

She went house hunting and watched kung fu movies. Has nothing to do with the partners behavior.

Most android (CIAlphabet) phones have CIABook installed by default and it cannot be turned off or deleted without root access. Both listen to microphone and probably take random photos. The phones are both linked to credit cards which are probably also linked to Netflix account.

Why are people still surprised by this?
You know that the heart of traditional right-wing media and all of its pundits are in midtown New York City, right? And that the next generation of right-wing media is based out of Toronto?

It's only Christian Conservatives, which are not part of "modern Republican ideology" _at all_ who are anti-(Northern-)city.

They're also (typically) well-read folks, just they're reading different stuff, and see themselves as intellectuals first before anything else.

The "Christian Right" has been a dead concept politically when that party's leadership realized they no longer needed them to get a president elected back with Dubya (the first time).
I believe it's a population based percentage. However, there is a global map on page 15:

https://www.stateofglobalair.org/sites/default/files/soga-20...
The guy who recorded himself didn't even wear the mask properly
> You've basically described all of Continental philosophy as "a mass of meaningless, incoherent, poetic mumbo-jumbo".

No, I’m saying that’s the perception that motivated analytic philosophy.

I didn’t really try and break down what the continentals were up to after the schism because I don’t really know or care. If you view the history of philosophy as an eternal, wide-ranging discussion, the analytics just kind of stopped talking to the continentals at one point and that’s probably the most fair thing you can say about it.
> Can you mention some insurrection where armed protestants won over a well-equipped state

Vietnam. Korea. Haiti.

> this reasoning for the 2nd amendment comes out only as a power fantasy

That's the reason the 2nd amendment was written the way it was: 'the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.' It was legal for most of American history to own military grade hardware. Explosives. Cannons. Naval Armadas. Food for thought: it's still legal for companies to own all of these things but not individuals.
I'd rather be a tiny way close to new cures than a more pointless hashing for blockchains.
You misread him. He didn't describe it that way. He said that's how it is viewed from the perspective of analytic philosophers.
> PEG’s linear memory requirement in the length of the input

What kind of PEG are you talking about? At it's core, PEG is syntax sugar over recursive descent, and has the same memory requirements. Memoization, maybe?

That said, I wouldn't use PEG for anything else than LL(1). Add a second level with precedence climbing, and you're set for a pretty big class of languages.
If you code your signal handler right, you could dispatch the signals you don't want to handle to another signal handler.

I'm not arguing that the POSIX signals API is in any way sane (it's not). It is possible to build signal handlers correctly, but it is far from easy and certainly far harder than it has any right being.
I've always found playlists or indie music stations with actual DJs worked better than Spotify's algorithmic selections.

Same with movie/TV show recommendations.
With recent concern about malicious entities in the press, I'll pose this question: "On its own, or was it 'helped'?"

Separately, it's worth noting the following quoted bit of the article. These cuts have included investigators; at the same time, statistics indicate that each additional investigator brings in 10x the cost of their job, in increased "recovered" revenue, i.e. collection of taxes owed.

The IRS isn't "just incompetent". It's been under political and funding attack, for years, now.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) noted the agency’s budget has been repeatedly cut in recent years, which he said he believes could have contributed to the problems.

“While we don’t yet know what has caused this systems failure, the lack of Republican funding for the IRS to serve taxpayers will only compound the issue. Americans should not be punished for being unable to file their tax returns or pay their tax bills today,” said Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees the IRS.

The IRS has faced steady budget cuts for nearly a decade, with its staff size falling by about 18,000 employees from 2010 to 2017 and a recent report showing it can answer only about 60 percent of calls from tax filers.
You aren't living too long with your internal organs "explosively" removed from your chest. From the wikipedia article:

>Hellevik was about to close the door between the chamber system and the trunk when the chamber explosively decompressed from a pressure of nine atmospheres to one atmosphere. One of the tenders, 32-year-old William Crammond of Great Britain, and all four of the divers were killed instantly; the other tender, Saunders, was severely injured.[10]
and, a reason much more important than survival, an aisle seat on an exit room gives you the most legspace for your money!
That’s my understanding. Literature and gender studies departments love continental philosophy.
To be clear, the "NAS" (nas.org) that published this study is the National Association of Scholars [0], a political group, not the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org) [1], a nongovernmental organization that consists of scientists elected by their peers to provide independent scientific advice to the US government. There was in fact a study published recently in PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, on this topic [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Schola...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences

[2] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/03/08/1802324115
The CLOUD Act is ... really not great. More about big corporate than protecting privacy in any way.
'Lazy hackers' turn to automated attack tools
I was in Germany during the Reagan years and a lot of people were very nervous about him and the aggressive way he talked when he came in. It got better once he developed a good working relationship with Gorbachev.
There's also a wealth of other perks and protections in most Credit Card contracts. Did you know that your issuer likely gives you rental insurance when you rent a car? No need to buy the extra insurance! Check your terms for other hidden gems.
> Companies lobby together for rules that help them at the expense of everyone else

Industries and like-minded companies lobby together. Even the Chamber of Commerce, one of the broader commercial lobbyists, only represents a streak of American business.

Charging a problem as "people versus corporations" is a good way to shut it own. Identifying specific victims and offenders, on the other hand, is how one motivates change.
I wouldn't agree with this characterization. There are no subjects that are off-limits to Continentals or Analytics.

As they've come to dominate university philosophy departments, the Analytics especially have started to branch out in to all sorts of fields they refused to touch in the past -- even going so far as to start reading and discussing Continental philosophers themselves (while mostly missing the point, in my opinion).

Their difference today is mostly one of approach or writing style, how they understand philosophers of the past, and which of them they consider important. Analytics also seem to be generally more scientistic[1] than Continentals.

It's hard to summarize the difference any better in words that are comprehensible to people who haven't studied philosophy. You really should just read some representative philosophers from each tradition yourself. It's glaringly obvious if you do.

[1] - Note: That's "scientistic" -- not to be confused with "scientific". For a good introduction to the difference avoid Wikipedia (which is pretty awful at philosophy), or the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (which is much better, but is very heavily slanted towards the Analytic perspective) and see: Tom Sorell's "Scientism": https://www.amazon.com/Scientism-Philosophy-Infatuation-Scie...