skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine if a company like uber bought thousands of smart cars. Parked them on all the streets. And said there ya go, now you can rent me! Meanwhile people who normally parked on the streets couldn't because these short lease cars were there. I would say that's littering.
> clear strategy in many parts of the business

Inside maybe, outside not so much.

I wouldn't rely on anything google does outside Ads (not that I do), GCE and maybe Android.

They have a (somewhat deserved) reputation for destroying services seemingly at random.
I agree, they would never respond to such a call. Moreover if it actually flooded the dispatch with calls they would probably be in big trouble. I am sure it is an empty threat.
Yes they are a big company with many facets. You can like some parts and dislike others.

They have always had a fan base, even during those dark times (but not as many). But seems like they worked on engaging others and now have a bigger fan base.
A major problem for the A380 is that it is too large for the gates at most airports and the airports have little incentive to build up for just a few flights.
> Why aren't people calling the police/city to remove this junk from the streets

This is the Oakland police we are talking about here, who are recently coming off a number of major controversies including child sex trafficking. Getting them to show up for a robbery is a challenge. 0% chance they show up for dumping calls (there is a dumping spot a few blocks from our apartment people have been trying to get OPD to watch for months, to no avail).
I don't know, I just tried out Lubuntu on an MBP and it was a shockingly bad experience. And I use Linux every day in the terminal.

After an hour of trying to figure out how to connect to my WiFi I gave up -- I was hoping to get a non-technical friend onto Linux on her very old laptop, and I though if I as a nerd can't figure out the most basic thing, the first thing you'd want to do with the OS, well...

Still looking for a Linux for older hardware that will not completely freak out non-technie folks from a Mac background. Xubunto was the same, with better icons.
Intel Core i7-8086K Processor (12M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz)
On a related note, if you love Tcl but want a different syntax there's Little, which is driven by Tcl, but has a C/Perl/awk syntax:

http://www.little-lang.org/
Ah. Like Linux, I guess. Thanks for the info.
Troll alert much?

See:

https://github.com/Microsoft

https://www.microsoft.com/net

http://www.typescriptlang.org/

https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS

https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows

https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore

and so on... not to mention their own contributions elsewhere including Electron itself. I know some of their Azure Cloud solutions are open source as well.
I think this would cause a subset of passengers to have psychotic episodes. It's not important to constantly look out the windows, but knowing that they exist gives everyone on the plane psychological comfort.
Take a look around you. Anyone who tried to get into coding just for the money washed out long ago, or if they're lucky they're computer janitors at gigantocorp.
The price of a high end MacBook pro is pretty ridiculous too. I haven't bought from them yet, but System 76 has been on my radar for a while now. Their computers seem to have better specs, while being considerably cheaper. A high end Galago pro seemed like it'd be around $1500, a high end MacBook pro is like $2700.
Not all prescriptions are for expensive medicines. I'd say many of them are generic drugs which cost pennies per day.
Police use of Amazon’s face-recognition service draws privacy warnings
>There seems to be no problem, however, with devoting a majority of most city streets to the abandoning of unoccupied passenger vehicles, and littering the sidewalks with signage of instructions to motorists regarding the lawful abandonment of their vehicles. That is more offensive than pay-to-unlock scooters on the sidewalk and should be addressed first.

This is a nonsensical, straw man argument that is propped up over and over in these threads. I pay taxes and registration fees to the state every year for the privilege of using public roads (and parking on them). I pay the city for parking. I pay CDOT to use the bridge. We have laws regarding the proper and improper usage of motor vehicles, with appropriate law enforcement to implement those rules.

None of this exists with these scooters. It's just another bullshit VC play at making money off arbitraging public safety and wellbeing in an environment they don't have to deal with. The hubris has become absolutely disgusting.
If someone was stealing your stuff, who would you call, then?

Let's assume for a moment that it's a good idea for the scooters to threaten to call someone. (It isn't, but let's bear with this). Who should the the scooters threaten to call? "I will call Reverend James from the parish down the street?" "I will call your mother?" "I will call the fire department?"
Just like a parked motorcycle or bicycle right? You can just throw it on your van because it's abandoned.
> Are parked cars litter?

If you leave them outside of a designated parking spot, sure.

> What about when a restaurants put a chair or table outside on the sidewalk?

That probably depends on who owns the sidewalk.
I can absolutely see how a windowless plane could make someone feel claustrophobic.

Equally, even though I fly every few months (so you’d think I’d be used to it by now) I actually don’t like being reminded that I’m 38,000ft in the air. It freaks me out. I like it when I can’t see outside the window into the clouds. (However, I do kinda like seeing out the window while landing, but that’s only a tiny fraction of the overall flight.)
There are stories every month of police going out of their way to shoot people or with trigger-fingers turning a normal situation into a police homocide - mostly impacting people of color.
> Are parked cars litter?

You assume an answer to this question that not everyone agrees with.
It may not seem it, but in many cases that is the artifact of a clear strategy. Evolution had left many corpses, too.
Sounds like there is going to be a pretty healthy secondary market for 2015 MacBook Pros. Someone should start snapping them up now.
Competition around benign science and technology, or say, sporting events is fine IMO.

Competition around destructive or hateful things is bad.

I'm OK with another space race, but not another nuclear arms race.
I added it to the growing list of statechart libraries in various languages: https://statecharts.github.io/resources.html#tools--librarie...
Especially now that websites can jack up the price based on tracking data.
That's hardly the case; police consists of semi-educated goons all over the world. Perhaps not everywhere, but it's not purely concentrated in the US.
The things you mentioned are mostly true, however the technical culture is very reactionary and the promo process rewards worse engineers on average in my experience. Most of the better engineers I knew there ended up leaving after a while.
Linux Mint + Cinnamon (or even + Macbuntu + Docky if you want to feel like on Mac, including switching flat dock to 3D if you liked Mavericks), then in General settings choose HiDPI in the first option. I run like that for 3 years already, on 3x 4k monitors. You can thank me later ;-)
Microsoft Faster is the first result.
So true, I hate when google does this too, what's wrong with using original names?

Not that this coulda been helped, but I spent like 2 hours yesterday trying to find info on the -filter param in powershell took me a very long time to find anything useful, and I still don't have the official doc on it.
>3) I broke the key off inside a rackmount server case accidentally and didn't tell anyone.

You monster!
I'm getting more and more disappointed in Apple's hardware, but OSX is still better than any other OS out there by a mile. I'm feeling conflicted about this.

I have an emojibar Macbook pro. Since getting it shortly after they launched, I've had two complete hardware failures resulting in Apple replacing the whole thing. Most of this post's other complaints I agree with but don't feel strongly about, but the keyboard thing is really bad. Specs of dust have caused keys to stop functioning. Trying to fix them, I one day popped the enter key off and broke the plastic clip holding it on. So I bought a replacement key, only to find out that the mounting bracket for the key (which I have to replace) is _glued_ on to the case. So now I have a perfectly functional enter key, except that the entire thing will fall out of the laptop whenever I tilt it sideways.

This isn't the level of hardware quality I've grown to know and love. If they release a new MBP that resolves these issues, I might stick with it. But as things stand, I'm looking at a non-macbook for my next laptop. I really don't want to do that, since I've gotten used to OSX and nothing else compares to the ease of use and the things I have set up. But I'm getting tired of paying thousands for second-rate hardware
I'll toss my hat in the ring for SoundHound. I worked there a few years back, and it honestly felt like family. I was going through a lot of changes in my personal life so I decided to leave, but I regret that now. I should have stayed there for at least 4/5 years.

Managers there really care about their reports, and their development. It's a relaxed, family friendly atmosphere, and the technology is truly the best in the world. The CEO is pretty much the inventor of deep learning, and they have nothing but good prospects for the future.
Home Depot is hit or miss. Either you get someone who's really passionate that knows their entire part of the store inside or out, or you get someone who moans and has to call someone else for assistance. It's rather satisfying to go in there, ask about something like a lawnmower and end up spending 20 minutes discussing lawnmower things with a knowledgeable employee.
If you're walking off with someone else's property without their permission to use it, its not abandoned and is stealing.
Lots of people say that every time the subject of human immortality arises.
Yeah. I imagine everyone will call it Microsoft FASTER or MS Faster in Google land.
I looked up how much volume a tonne of CO2 takes at average temp/pressure.

A sphere with a diameter of 10M.

That's an insane volume when you think about it.
I'm still waiting for OpenTransport to take off...
True but there's a point where that becomes politically difficult.
S8/S9 has USB-C, MicroSDXC, Audio, and SIM
Thank you, perfect.
I have had great success with docker-gen which allows me to generate nginx configuration so that I can reload automatically.
Trump called the labor non participition rate, about 38%, the true unemployment rate. That would include his wife and three of his five children ...
Alternately, they have years of testing how to present things to shoppers like me, where "stick to the list" is never a hard and fast rule, but there's a conscious desire to browse a bit too.

I wonder what the overall frequencies of different customer behaviors, there, are...
Yes, the article mentions that its siblings includes RocksDB. There are already outsized (north of 5TB) embedded databases geared towards high-IOPS storage (ie: NVMe) and this project serves to establish C#/.NET Core as a platform to build similarly-specced analytics products.
Google's strategy is to create corpses?

It seems like a clear strategy would avoid just abandoning projects.
Form factors exist because they are local optima for non-computational concerns (ergonomics, cooling, electric, hardware maintenance, etc). Computers get better within the chosen form factors.
From reading papers on WaveNet and AlphaGo, the problem seems to be incomplete information in the papers, but I am not going to argue with the popular results.
Artist Makes Music Out of Snapchat Public Stories
Housing is largely a problem to do with interest rates and mortgages inflating the land. The actual construction materials themselves (at least here in Canada) aren't too bad.

I keep wondering why someone doesn't kickstarter a town. It has all the right incentives. Make guidelines that enforce density in the core and do common sense things from day 1, like wire fibre to every domicile.
"You can physically do it" is not the definition of "ethically fine"
Right bec it's in the news, wait two weeks, also the next 30 results are unrelated.

Also try searching something more realistic "FASTER lookup," "FASTER keystore," etc
> I'm OK with another space race, but not another nuclear arms race.

The space race was basically a PR veneer over part of the nuclear arms race.
How to stop acquiring customers for your competitors
Do they actually sell them? Who is buying this from them? I've seen a few homeless with them, but assumed they were trying to strip them down to recycle the metal, not sell for parts. Anyone actually know?
In many cases, drug companies come up with ways to keep prices high. For instance, asthma drugs are reconfigured with different delivery mechanisms that allow them to get new patents for what are essentially long-ago-discovered drugs.

For instance, the CFC ban in 2008 caused generic albuterol to go off the market:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unlikely-victims-...
People don’t have a problem with “too many tourists” as they do with too many tourists taking up residential space. Tourism is great for the economy, but only as long as it doesn’t create negative externalities on other parts of the economy.

It’s not so much the rise in tourism that’s the problem as it is the rise in tourists staying in residentially zoned areas. Hosts are renting apartments and then illegally subleasing them for profit, artificially inflating rental prices without a corresponding increase in income. This is an especially large problem in developing countries, where due to geographical arbitrage, tourists can afford to pay way more for an apartment than a resident can.
Remote jobs can be tough too. It's hard to get paid what you're worth, and you have to do extra work to be visible to the non-remote employees so that you aren't perceived as the guy who does 2 hours of real work while wearing pajamas.

I thought I had the perfect remote gig a little while ago, but the organization was so insipid and backwards that I had to leave. I found a job that's perfect for me and is a short commute and enjoy it way better.
Of course they are more of a problem, just like a mortgage is more risky than saving up to buy a house with cash upfront — pensions create a long term liability in a way that putting cash in employee 401k doesn’t. Even more importantly, with pensions you’re taking a mortgage that is deferred for a few decades, and someone else than you will be responsible for paying it off — by the time the pension benefits come to mature, people who made the deal are long gone, and won’t take any responsibility. It gives them an incentive to make a bad deal to make pensioners happy now, and let someone else deal with the problem of funding them later on.
> We, as a society, have decided to give space to cars, trucks, and bicycles, generally in a controlled fashion.

Exactly. To be fair though this was only after a fair amount of vehicular chaos.
I have used this many times while taking the opportunity to reorganise repos while migrating earlier version control systems to Git. I still need a crib sheet every time tho’!
building off beenBoutIT's comment later on down the thread, someone in a city with an eager police force could maybe in theory - not giving any suggestions - kick over a stand of Lime scooters and run away, making them flood the police with calls, and irritating them enough to pull strings and make the city ban them. Just try to do it all at once, so the calls are bunched up temporally and interfere as little as possible with legitimate 911 calls.

Just in theory. I have no opinion on these scooters.
The BLS compiles six unemployment numbers, of which U-3 is routinely reported. U-6 covers the factors you mention and is approximately double U-3.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Where do you live, and what on earth are you spending your money on? Housing may be absurdly costly in many cities but $5.5k a month after tax (assuming you're American) is enough to do much better than "barely ok" almost anywhere. Are you significantly in debt or living above your means?
What is the closest 15" laptop to the MacBook Pro in terms of case durability? The cases in every other laptop I've looked at from Dell, HP, etc looked so flimsy and cheap in comparison.
I'm digging these Highlights. Very handy.
It was available with an IPS panel that is good enough quality to be usable, although the TN panel that the base model came with is awful.

Fortunately it is extremely easy to swap screens on the X220, and the IPS screens are cheap on eBay.

You are dead on about the resolution, though. That's the reason I stopped using my x220.
nukes only threatened to change this, drones will change this.
From http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/09/12/2362010.ht...

> Overall, the researchers found hair offered a protection factor ranging from 5 to 17, which is significantly lower that the average sunscreen, which offers a protection factor of 30.
Black people in general actually appreciate the police and are thankful for them and their work. The "systemic racism" allegation against police has been proven false, yet race hustlers like the author of this article, continue to try to promulgate this false accusation.

I'm white, yet when I'm near police, I feel anxious. Does that mean that police are racist against white people too?
how long can you park your car somewhere before it is ticketed and eventually tagged as abandoned and towed away? Almost all parking is time limited. Does the company even care about that?
Everyone is tied for last.
The game window is hidden off screen on mac with an external monitor. At least for me it is. Thats another of the many bugs I ran into that took me forever to figure out.
Can't we be mad at DeepMind for filing them? Even if in the end they are not granted?
lol Blue Apron. "Kind of in the middle" is right. Bootstrapping well enough to pay the bills, but not so well to hire and grow, or compliment missing talent. Okay, thanks for the feedback!
* Of internet as we know it in the EU.
Other nations will give the EU a big finger and move on with their life
Dell XPS isn't bad. Not as good as a MBP, though.
Oh, sure, I'd prefer a better transit system, too. But in the meantime, I'd rather have more choice than less.

Uber costs less than a taxi, so this is giving poor(er) people more choice.
All the young people I know are frittering away their evenings and weekends drinking and going to festivals. The idea that they are poring studiously over some machine learning textbook is pretty laughable.
Well isn't that neat.
Don't forget about zoning issues hampering supply and the rising cost of construction labor.
Well, you've already answered my question before I made a random response.

I was going to ask "Why are there laws against people making money?", but it make sense. Residential areas are for residents, not commerce. There should be a place for folks to relax around their contemporaries without having to deal with knowing that their environment may change from day to day.

I would say, perhaps there should be a compromise. After-all, being able to rent out a room from time to time can help home owners stay in their homes longer (or even enjoy life more). Maybe there could be a 2-3 strike rule on tenants. Where, if things do go out of hand (for whatever that reason), then the homeowner cannot be part of the AirBnb renting experience.

That way, there is something to gain and something to loose. Educating tenants would be priority.
> In went the media card.

So these pros were all using SD cards and not CF cards? Not defending Apple, but putting in an SD card slot never made any sense to me because at that time the high end cameras often used CF cards. It also made an assumption that SD cards were never going to change. Plus, it wasted space for people who never needed to plug in some media card.

I would have much rather Apple added another USB connection in that space because it would have had much more flexibility.
+1 to partnering with one of their competitors, feels like we could help someone catch up to them at least
VR Backpack PC
In the Bay Area, $90K is not sufficient. A one bedroom might cost $3500/month - that’s $40K of your net income.
> (Update: it was an accident, which Linus responded to in his usual fashion.)

This jab at Linus is unfounded, he have replied calmly and professionally.
10 (“do you have testers?”) still seems pretty appealing to me. I still see a lot of value in manual and black-box testing, especially for interactive tools.
Don't forget to dull the point of your kitchen knives! Wouldn't want to accidentally own a weapon :D
Slap a USB 3.0 card in the thing and keep running it. The state of the art hasn't advanced all that much since Sandy Bridge.
Mine would be Cassidy William's newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/cassidoo. It's free, but there was a few newsletters where she linked her Venmo/Paypal in case people wanted to support, and I contributed during that time. She's since removed those from the letters for whatever reason. This newsletter is great on a Monday morning because it's light and has some interesting/cool links in it.

Another great one would be Kent C Dodds' newsletters: https://buttondown.email/kentcdodds. Kent is highly active in the React/JS/OS community and he's a super great guy. Same deal here, its free but you can choose to support, which I do from time to time. His newsletters are focused on JS/React and are a bit more dense, but they're interesting.
Sure, once you're at the VP level your reputation probably precedes you. If you're young in your career though, with little work history, your manager won't be able to gauge shit unless they see the work you produce. Even then, you won't produce good work unless your placed somewhere that matches your strengths. Your manager can't know your strengths/weaknesses without actually spending time with you.

So at that level, it's exactly like I say it it is: a boss just decides if they like their report or not. They go with their biased gut feeling that's probably based more on superficial characteristics like clothes, hair, or the way a person talks. From there the person will either be thrown the sharks, or given a lot of support and opportunities.

I'm sure not all organizations are like that, but most that have 5000 employees or more have been exactly like that from my experience.
Guys, downvoting aphextron isn't helpful. He's sharing his perspective.

I get that some of us are poor students living off of almost nothing, but try to listen when people talk about their own personal situation. People struggle with different things and we should try to learn from them instead of dismissing them.

Aphextron, I actually kinda get where you're coming from. Things like housing are appreciating so fast that you can be forced to rent, then pushed out of a neighbourhood that you helped gentrify because the rent is going up way faster than your ability to pay. The rent controls don't work because landlords can get around them, rarely get caught, and relationships can end without warning.
Are the hackathons during work hours? Maybe that's how they get some of that 20% time back :)
I like to do statistics of user agents and ip localization. If the files are hosted on a cdn the http logs are not easily available. For me this is the biggest reason for self hosting.
0.3 seconds seems really long for that - are you storing the files on disk or in memory?

I mean I really agree with you and think more people should do exactly what you're doing, but comon, let's bikeshed this at least a little :)