skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course I've made my mind up- and, I reckon, so must have you. But that doesn't mean we can't discuss our respective opinions. We'll both get something out of that- e.g. we may hear some new counter-point to our opinion that we haven't considered before.

Anyway, sorry you don't want to continue the conversation.
Its only bulshitting if people don't want to work there. Presumably they read the description and said "that looks cool, I want to do that".

You should be able to look your employer in the eye and honestly say what you want from the job and discuss it like adults. Not dance around with a corporate-speak ritual telling them what you think they want to hear.
They happily deliver maybe a third of their inventory. It's really frustrating to get to checkout to find out I have to use addresspal or parcel motel.
Well, you could possibly rent out part of the house. Same as splitting an apartment with a roommate. You would want a situation where your total cost is less than $4500. You have the option of selling later at a higher price (it is a risk though).
He definitely has a very arrogant tone about aadhaar as well as his another body shop company.

This massive massive data leak could cost Indian citizens very dearly. Everything is being forced to link with aadhaar.

If some digital lord in future decides to colonize people in few secs, I believe Indian shores and as well as people sitting in capital might provide a very lucrative proposition!

I just hope it isn't Jio! Jio phone itself has very intrusive OS!
I did sent an application but never got any reply (nor acknowledgement).
.es and .it are the other two full retail sites in Europe.
The estimation question has real-world uses from figuring out market size to even large project effort estimation. Interviewer is looking to see if the candidate can break part a hard problem into smaller solvable sizes. A famous example is when Fermi estimated the size of atomic explosion by dropping pieces of paper during the blast.

https://www.quora.com/How-did-Fermi-estimate-the-power-of-th...
I'm assuming that, like most "unlimited" plans, it includes substantial data caps after the first few GB.
Higher frequencies... Lower range, but better channel and beam management, so better in dense cell areas. Connections should be more robust due to what's been learned about customer mgmt and use cases.
Though you have received downvotes, that is a good tl;dr. To expand on it, they had a couple theories about what is driving ipv6 adoption, but there measurements don't support them, so they still don't know.
> None of this is an actual price on traffic

IMO gas tax is the best we can do. There not that many teslas, at least not yet.

It scales proportionally with miles driven. It’s roughly proportional to vehicle size. It even scales with traffic intensity, cars consume more fuel per mile in cities. It’s inexpensive to manage. Best of all, unlike direct traffic tax, gas tax is anonymous, no need to track who went where, all people will eventually go to a gas pump, except people living near a state border but that’s IMO acceptable losses.

I think that’s one of the reasons why fuel costs 2-3 times more here in Europe compared to US, and on average we have better public transportation.
The closest thing I could find was this list: https://yclist.com/

A ctrl+F of "bio" gave me a few results.
If you're referring to Vendor Central, I've no idea since we've not participated in that yet.

Cutting fees and slashing ad prices would be a start - but it would take a while before people trust it.

We got into FBA heavily because it dramatically boosted sales... even on products we co-listed FBM on (nuts, you pay more to fulfill it via Amazon's network, but they boost your sales, so it washed out).

Recently, they've been increasing FBA fees to where it's finally at the point we're re-examining it's profitability and possibly moving back to FBM for 100% of our items. But... not everyone has the luxury of having their own warehouse and fulfillment infrastructure - a lot of Amazon sellers are vested 100% into FBA and are at Amazon's mercy with fees.
Here is a video of Joe Armstrong from React 2014 conference where in the intro he describes how Erlang is used:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIE22e0cW8&t=590

TL;DL: If Erlang breaks so does cat picture sharing for more than 50% of world's smart phones.
If a transaction weren't in my interest, I wouldn't engage in it. And value isn't being extracted when parties engage in voluntary trade, it's being created.

Note that this is not to say that I (or anybody else) engages in strict, robot-like, mathematical optimization of all transactions to ensure that our best interest is served down to the .00000000000001th place. We, as human beings, employ satisficing[1] for a lot of our decision making. But the fact that I buy from Amazon when I could save 50 cents by buying from Walmart instead, or that I tolerate Amazon showing me a few ads when I'm shopping, is neither here nor there.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
The digital quest for better beer
ML-Agents reference paper, Gym interface support, and Marathon Environments
They're valuable for what? Showing off a thought process in a high pressure one hour meeting with a judge watching you?
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Diagnostics and therapeutics are largely (completely?) bio-based. It generally requires a great deal of cellular and/or genomic research. Medical devices also involve some heavy biology related research.

However, healthcare IT generally has nothing to do with biology.
This was 13 years ago, and Google has since had many "revelations" about its misuse of useless tools like brainteasers. The current process and interviewer training/selection process is nothing like the process in 2005.
As a network engineer for over 2 decades, I've been skeptical of IPv6 for the majority of them.

I still am.

As IPv4 becomes more scarce, two economic forces trigger

1) They become more valuable (read more desired). IPv4 has all the network effects going for it. It's where 99.9% of the Internet already is. .1% being IPv6 only devices.

2) To counter the rising value/cost: Workaround/Kludges/Alternatives to every devices needing a globally unique address are tried. Everyone is going to reply with how awful NAT is, and I concede it has its flaws. However, it is hard to deny its success so far. Business then do the cost benefit of the shortcomings of things like NAT vs selling their now valuable IPv4 address space, think where they are going to come down?
Pseudo Constant Time Implementations of TLS Are Only Pseudo Secure [pdf]
Sure, that’s a quick presentation with the relevant academic references http://www.dronesbench.it/en/fomdrone/ . Our testing machines implementing that concept are not good enough for commercial purposes yet (the system is dynamic and some unavoidable interferences occur) but we are doing industrialisation tests in order to bring the statistical error on measurements below 3% and hopefully below 1% soon.
Certifying products that are designed for simple repair
It's painful though, and seems to heavily incentivize "I guess I'll just pay the $12.99/month for Prime again".

I just tried 5 different sub-$25 items. 2 day shipping was only offered on 3 of them, and varied between $7.99 and $11.44. One day shipping was offered on all of them, but was between $9.99 and $18.89.

There are some weird stacking effects on the 2 day shipping option as well - it's not a flat rate or per item rate, but falls somewhere in the middle. It's definitely more expensive the more items you have though.
They risk future sales if they do that.
Las Vegas is booming again, and bracing itself for next slump
Being able to approximately estimate numbers is an excellent skill for software developers to have. Imagine you're running some operation that affects N things or has N results. After seeing the results, it's very helpful to ask yourself "Does N roughly match what my intuition/estimate told me it would be?" If your estimate is off by at least an order of magnitude, it's a hint there could be a bug in your solution and that it warrants a closer look.

I don't ask brainteaser type questions, but I can see their appeal given the value of estimates. I also don't see why they're so universally hated. Is doing back-of-the-napkin math something a lot of people struggle with?
My sibling is an actuary (5-6 years work experience) on a break to pursue passion projects. The only issue with that comment is you need to continually study/take actuarial exams on a frequent basis. Though others in this thread are probably far more knowledgeable then me on this.

So his 40 hour work week turned into +15/30 hours with studying/exams for a number of years - perhaps not always consistent, but frequent enough to cause a bit of burnout.
Yes, absolutely. The whole concept of race is obsolete and discussions of it are anachronistic to the extreme. I reckon, the only people who still use those terms in earnest are US law enforcement agents, racist groups and people who just haven't got the memo.
I guess the problem is, if I want, for instance, electronics, I know several retailers I can go to (some with specialties narrower than that). But for a lot of products, where else am I even going to look?
read up on the CBD/THC dynamic, the CBD counterbalances THC. Thats why I smoke hashish, no paranoia.
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Except people do, because they know that reputation matters little and even the biggest fiasco is forgotten under a year.

Catchy quotes are nice, but need to be checked against the real world.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17961703.
Well, yes, I would agree that forced conscription is a form of slavery. Obviously it's not as horrible a situation as say early American black slavery, but slavery nonetheless. I'm happy to be challenged on this.
Why Amazon Is the Best Strategic Player in Tech
Now you want to beat him is his own game?
Supporting the war on drugs because you need to differentiate yourself from the left is like supporting the patriot act because you hate terrorists. It's cutting off your nose to spite your face. Neither are legislation that stand on it's own merit once you look at it with the benefit of hindsight.

That said, the "counter culture" gave us the war on drugs, gun control, probably a couple other curtailments of personal freedom that I'm forgetting, they reduced public support for the civil rights movements of the time and provided an excuse for the three letter agencies to greatly increase their amount of domestic surveillance. In return we got out of 'nam a year, maybe two, earlier. I don't see why people romanticize the culture shifts of the 1960s. Their intentions were good but their methods flawed and their results worse.
Now this is a form of optimism I can get behind :)
Article is very short.
What is the new security that Tesla has? Is it simply more bits or other types of security??

The pin is basically a simple two step authentication
I don't think Uber/Lyft are ideal solutions by any means.

But I still think their origin can be traced to numerous problems with taxi services, definitely including the false economy of medallions. But taxi companies in the US have been ridiculously poor providers of service. Prior to Uber/Lyft, I had numerous problems with taxis, e.g. even scheduling them 24 hours ahead, they would show up late, resulting in being late to work or (nearly) missed flights; the dispatchers would lie about drivers accepting credit cards; etc. etc..

> fares may also go up. this was inevitable.

Right now Uber/Lyft are subsidising fares. Once they've achieved market dominance, they will surely raise rates.
I guess. So have people always hated their jobs? Maybe so. Even hunter-gatherers probably complain about needing to hunt and gather all the time.
Elon Musk suggests he's only months from 'merging' the human brain with AI
It would be great to see wireless providers becoming competitors to home ISPs. If some day wireless speeds become comparable, the problem of having only one home ISP would go away.
So what's stopping you? :)

Just get some neighbors together and go for it.
Not sure if your observation is one but many examples I hear about Amazon pricing seem to miss the fact that a growing percentage (recently at like 53%) are sold and priced by third party sellers.
I usually buy direct from someone like Black Diamond when it comes to things like that.

Interesting example. Did you see the recent story about Black Diamond sending a cease-and-desist to Walmart demanding that they stop advertising their products: https://www.retaildive.com/news/black-diamond-demands-walmar...
But that's not the point. The point is they have to break past your login screen, or, failing that, pull data from your storage while it's "offline" (i.e. not booted). If it's encrypted, they can't pull data off your drive externally, and as long as they can't login you're fine. Plus all the data is stored still encrypted. It's not like it decrypts the drive when you boot, it just enables an decryption algorithm that decrypts data on the fly (AFAIK).
Gene therapy has had some recent successes [0], but it is worth noting that many of the ongoing and recent clinical gene therapy trials don’t necessarily involve genome editing: go to clinicaltrials.gov, search ‘gene therapy’ and get 3741 results. Search ‘CRISPR’ or ‘TALEN’ and get ~21 results.

Edit: I should say that most of the gene therapy clinical trials don’t involve genome editing yet. Though it seems to me that, at least for some diseases, viral vectors that deliver DNA to cells without integrating DNA into the host cell genome (where the dna instead persists inside the cells episomally, and is maybe lost from the cells after some number of divisions) will have advantages over integrating vectors/genome editing-based approaches. That way, you don’t have to worry about the off-target effects of genome editing, and you have a treatment that doesn’t result in permanent changes to the genome.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4879992/
I don't think that Wall St would accept Amazon going back to the money losing days -- they would pay a high price.

You're starting to see competitors react effectively. WalMart is investing alot on the pickup strategy. Target has upped their game with small box shipments from stores. We stopped almost all purchasing that we did at amazon for household goods -- in many cases Target is providing next day delivery via USPS from a local store.

From my POV, I have a growing list of items that I cannot buy from Amazon. Electronics are fake, perishables are usually near the sell by date, household stuff like soaps and kitchen consumables are 30% more expensive, etc. The magic of amazon was that it was simple. No longer.
Call me unimaginative, but I find it unlikely that online retail can be supplanted by some completely different product the way that Blackberries could.
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Note that the Blub Paradox ( http://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox ) applies to this sort of thing, which is important to keep in mind.

Essentially it says that we understand the things we're used to using, but not those we're not. Hence we can appreciate, instinctively, the problems caused by languages which lack a thing we're used to (for example, the standard "Go needs generics" arguments). Yet it's harder for us to appreciate those same problems if we're not experienced with that feature (e.g. someone who's only ever programmed in Go).
Sadly it could be $230 trillion but people alive in 2100 are not voting in elections in 2018 and too few people are caring now about what will be going on after they're dead.
They increased it last year from 32GB to 50GB a month. Frankly, I think even a 50GB cap on an "unlimited" plan should be illegal, but it's better than most carriers.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/19/16334690/t-mobile-unlimit...
I feel quite similar... for me it's depression/anxiety/adhd-inattentive. I have the hardest time focusing on tasks, I think I may have some social media addiction as when I'm unfocused I'm usually reading from some other input source...

I just started getting therapy though at 38, and I started a workout program (Crossfit 6 Week Challenge -- I'm 500 lbs, so hoping this works out).

I'm a self-taught coder, and I do freelance, it takes every ounce of effort I can muster somedays to get 30 hours of coding in per week. I code by the hour though and my 'activity' is monitored via Hubstaff, so breaks/etc are on my own time that's pure coding time... I'm also way under-charging at $40/hour, but I only have one client now, so maybe someday when I get my focus reigned in I can start adding some more or build an agency and just manage things.
Worth it for me. I got a minor in CS, did web development for 3 years, and then enrolled in a CS master's degree for professionals at a prestigious (expensive) university. In school I purposely avoided "software engineering" type classes and focused on more theoretical, mathy CS classes. The classes exposed me to a lot of things I wouldn't have learned otherwise and the shiny master's degree probably helped me land a job at a prestigious tech company. In the end, I like school and didn't feel like I was finished at the end of undergrad. YMMV.
I think I can give a pointer as to why the IPv6 deployment speeded up and then slowed down. Reliance Jio started public deployments in mid to late 17 and they grew very very quickly through till early this year as they were giving free access to their 4G networks. They have started charging only from this year.

During the later part of last year I think they managed to get over 100M customers...
> Don't forget another thing the government did: previous bailouts. When large banks were told they were "too big to fail", they heard "your risks will be subsidized by taxpayers", so of course they took on more risk. We should have let the banks fail, if they really were going to.

Why couldn't the stockholders get wiped out when a TBTF bank gets bailed out?

To me, that seems like a fair compromise that protects the economy but still punished excessive risk taking.
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The fact that Google was forced to add Android support to Chrome OS to make it appealing outside US schools, and that Flutter was born of the Chrome team dropping the browser architecture shows how much the Web still has to improve.

As someone that develops both native and Web, I feel the pain of catching up with native.

Web Components are finally around the corner, pity it took 20 years to offer what is a mostly a commodity in native UI development since Visual Basic and VBX were designed.

https://amexio.tech/amexio-canvas

Regarding clicking links, those that install anything outside of the store don't have anyone to blame but themselves, and zero day exploits of browsers is a thing.
This article has more background: https://mashable.com/article/google-location-history-trackin...

Essentially there are multiple options for location history and the labels are confusing.
Healthcare in my limited experience is generally great for life threatening problems.

But other, more mundane problems are not solved as well. Try finding a family doctor (GP) in Vancouver, none of them accept new patients. So a lot of people have to go to walk in clinics where the doctor has never seen you before and might not see you again. Ok to get a prescription, not good for a case that spans multiple visits.

But hey on the plus side the biggest financial annoyance are hospital parking fees. Which are not especially high, just to clarify. So far I'm happy to take this tradeoff.
That chip reminds me of the Elektor 'GDP', the Graphics Display Processor, a pretty quick 2D accelerator. I wrote a MOS replacement driver for it for the BBC micro that was good enough to run almost anything on except software that wrote directly to the screen.
Well, I live in a country with only crappy Amazon (Ireland) but I moved here from a country with great Amazon (US). I find myself wishing we had Amazon even though I have a lot of problems with them - 8 years ago they inexplicably barred me from selling on marketplace before I'd ever sold a single thing; with no recourse. I _think_ it's because the person who had my apartment before me was shady, but apparently I'm banned for life.

And yet I have not found a convenient online store that has even close to as much as Amazon and is competitively priced. If I want to buy a monitor what is there? All the domestic dealers are beyond awful, and I can use overclockers (a UK site) but the shipping is high and soon I may have to pay tariffs too. I go to German, Spanish sites too now and then but even if they have what I want it's generally overpriced and shipping is quite expensive. I also need to go to 6 different places if I want 6 different things, so I can't combine shipping. If the EU wants greater union it might be worth making it as cheap to ship something from Dublin to Tallinn as from Boston to San Diego.

Though tbf I have been moving towards using more ebay, or dealextreme when I can (and am ok with waiting 6 weeks).
> Their basic underlying assumption appears to be that they're no longer in danger of losing customers and can now act accordingly.

That's the assumption of google/youtube, facebook, microsoft, etc. Once you reach a dominant position, you don't have to care as much. You even see this with netflix.

> A random example... the cat litter I just purchased is $17.89 at Amazon, $13.49 at Walmart. Last week I bought a chair mat for $21.95 on Ebay - identical item on Amazon was $33.95 (both including free shipping but Amazon came with an additional 8.25% sales tax).

Bingo. Amazon used to be where the best prices were. Now so much of their products are more expensive than what you'd find in your local supermarket. And they are significantly more expensive.
> The long term goal is dynamic pricing for the perfect price discrimination (personal pricing). Detect when the customer is tired or stressed and show higher prices. Detect price conscious customers and show them lower prices. Maybe Alexa can trained detect the mood from the tone of voice and exploit that.

Now that's some baseless speculation if I've ever seen any. People aren't stupid. They start noticing that prices are cheaper at Walmart, they'll go back to shopping at Walmart.
I had this thought at first too, but there's a more granular breakdown: 74% healthcare, of which 34% are IT, 28% are diagnostics, 24% are therapeutics, 14% are devices.

Using that info, taking what I consider the most reasonable strict approach (exclude IT, diagnostics, and devices), you'd exclude ~64% of the defined companies.

Without a complete listing of the companies considered, it's hard to gauge how strict you'd need to be in order to be precise, but since the point of this post is to highlight that bio and hard tech companies are being actively funded by YC and have been for a while now, I think the author's assumptions were pretty reasonable.
> Did I maybe miss a supreme Court case where that bit of it was neutered?

The Supreme Court does not have the authority to "neuter" parts of the Constitution.
This is a very valid use case and something any UTM solution will have to solve. Currently the industry is hoping the FAA will create an uber solution and avoid “patchwork” solutions with state and local involvement, but that will never scale. Local administrators will need to be able to geofence areas in realtime. This will happen but it will take time to roll out and will require local, state, and federal involvement in a manner similar to auto transportation but with some unique aviation aspects.
Nice! Very interesting to see the failures also...
Sponsored products can be removed by using any of the major ad-blockers. When I worked at Amazon we actually worked with the add-on authors to make this easier. Previously sponsored products were present but looked kind of broken when using ad-blockers, so we added some hooks and contributed rules to the plugins.