skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I recall, racers have worn helmets for decades but it was pretty rare for recreational skiers until 15-20 years ago. I think another factor is that helmets for a lot of kids' activities have become more or less expected, especially among demographics who do downhill skiing as a family. And, if you're telling your kid they have to wear a helmet, a lot of parents probably feel they sort of have to as well.

ADDED: I also wonder if the rise of snowboarding played a role because backward falls where it's easy to hit your head on ice is probably more common than with skis.

I don't downhill ski much these days but I did ski at Squaw Valley a couple times recently because of an event there. And I was definitely an outlier in not wearing a helmet. (In my partial defense, I do wear a hat with impact resistant material sewn in (D3O) and I'm not exactly banging down moguls through the trees these days.)
CONVERGENCE 3.0 – FUTURE OF ADVERTISING IN AFRICA
I had no idea these were all by the same person.

Agreed - they're all outstanding.

Ex Machina might be the most interesting for HN regulars.
I'd expect Facebook to be better because they ask what your gender is and many people will have explicitly told them.
sales, marketing and customer support.
Only if a court made a ruling on it.
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Reddit has a cars subreddit.
Actually the JVM is one of the reasons I would recommend clojure. It's a fine piece of engineering; much more solid than most VMs out there. Lots of tools for perf/monitoring/debugging.

Why would you require an existing C lib? These days you have lots of JVM apps doing heavy lifting: from bigdata stuff (hadoop, presto, kafka, others) to webapp stuff (undertow, check techempower benchmarks). For those special cases you can wrap a C lib with FFI, but in my 10+ years of JVM experience I only needed to do it once, and it was because I was streaming video on a jnlp (java swing/java web start) app which worked remarkably well, considering I supported windows,linux and mac.
Hey all,

One problem we face is how unmodular deep learning code can be, meaning that adapting someone else's code for your own dataset, your own workflow, your own way of training, and so on, can be a real pain.

We made an open source resource and framework to make it easy to combine and train deep learning models and datasets, with a heavy focus on modularity. Right now we have a few example models and datasets - mainly GANs! - that you can play with on the site.

We invite you to contribute to this new open source resource. We will be also adding a lot of content in the coming weeks. Of course, if you have any feedback that would be great too.
Meanwhile, the fastest un-paced record for a bicycle is:

Todd Reichert	2016, 144.17 km/h (89.58 mph), Faired Recumbent, -0.6% grade, unpaced[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cycling_records#Speed_...
Let's organize your GitHub projects of multiple repositories
Legally speaking, job ads are not the same as those for consumer products or services.
China has a diverse range of languages and cultures. If the USA has 92% of people who speak English, China has a lower % that speak Mandarin.
Java - Variety of future [Web, Desktop, Mobile] - develop for any platform. Hard to enter - better the future.

PHP - Mostly only for the web - easy to enter - future just ok or very competitive and easy looking opportunity.
Who are you arguing with? You don't like poverty? Neither does anyone else.

And if the metrics don't appeal to your preconceived notion of how the metrics should work, you want to change the metrics? You want metrics to not notice changes in demographics?
I'd have to go digging for the article, but one of the more interesting arguments I've heard for why the US won the Cold War is because of our superior manufacturing in-house. Similarly, think of China's advantage today in producing electronics and goods, and how they're so entrenched it's difficult for high security government projects to find parts that are considered safe. I think our slow decline in manufacturing over the previous decades would be what would cause the US to lose.
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Very controversial topic to wade into, but: I do think that our field suffers from poor explanation of technical topics. I heard this described at a place I used to work as a "macho culture" - where it was deliberate behaviour as display of aggression, rather than sheer incompetence. Arguably this does relate to traits that men exhibit more than women (on average).
Facebook ad campaigns heavily favor advertisers slicing up demographics as much as possible. I am going to make the assumption that at the very beginning of the campaign an advertiser created many segments, split by age and gender. After they do that, certain segments are going to respond better and the distribution for those ads is going to increase while the others fall. The alternative is that the advertiser is going to have to jack up the bidding for the non-responsive demographics.

(And for anyone who doesn't know much about digital advertising, despite all of the crazy complexities, all of these systems are basically trying to maximize displays toward people who are going to respond to the ad and eliminate displays to people who won't. The definition of a response at the simplest is a click, but at the most complex is a lead, app install, purchase over a certain order size, etc. In many cases even the deepest pocketed brand advertisers will not be able to out-bid a highly optimized ad campaign for specific inventory.)

On the other side of the internet advertising pie you have Google (excluding Indeed and LinkedIn because I know only a little about their platforms.) An advertiser is going to bid on "driver jobs" or whatever, and Google is going to do the rest. Way back when, before Google collected user demographics, the ad is going to show just for the people who searched it. I'm going to take a guess that some job keywords split 50/50 while others skew heavily toward certain genders or age groups (e.g. 0 females over 65 are searching for manual labor jobs.) With Google's demographic data and machine learning based targeting, what is really going on today, in 2018, is a mystery to me. I would assume that these algorithms are not demographically neutral. They probably learn that males respond more to driving ads. Almost certainly on the display side of things (which Google's less sophisticated ad buyers might not realize they are purchasing) the ads are going to start skewing toward certain demographics.

Solely based on the way Facebook's platform works, I would question if it is ok for any advertiser to place ads on Facebook's platform as Facebook can place the blame on the advertiser even though it is ultimately a consequence of how their system is designed. On Google's side, the same discrimination is likely happening but the advertiser can probably blame Google.

At the end of the day, larger questions persist. How much money should employers be spending on letting employees know that they have a paying job available to them? And, is it ok that job opportunities, which may be superior, and being buried by those that have deeper pocketed employers?

Because of Google's semi-recent launch and expansion of Google Jobs results, which almost certainly will end up heavily monetized, I think these are very important questions.
I'm just seeing a 500 error.
Depends on what you mean by 'car news'.

For industry, I like autoline's reports, although well in the pocket, they seem somewhat objective. Not really an interactive thing afaik, but seems to be decent.

For tinkering, enthusiast, and racing, I know many.
Grassrootsmotorsports seems like the best marque agnostic forum, but they lean heavy on the lower cost cars. They have a race series that requires a budget (exl safety) of about 2000$ with unique challenges each year. Like lemons, but a bit more laid back.

But the real answer, is finding the niche YOU like. There are few high quality generalist car forums. So much of the topic is brand, segment, or use- specific, it is highly fractured.
First thing to note is that it took me a decade or more to understand what makes (for me) a "good manager". Here's my current list:

1. Removed obstacles for me doing a good job - that could be handling politics, ensuring requirements are readily available, logistics of equipment, working space, whatever it may be. Turns out, a good manager handles a trillion seemingly trivial things that add up to being crucial to smooth team operation, but may never be visible to actual team members; kind of like nobody pays attention to Infra until it breaks :S

2. Made themselves available: I now understand the value, and difficulty, in answering "Yes" to every "Hey, got 2 minutes?".

3. Mentorship: it may be advice particular to current skillset, but typically it's more thoughts and frameworks on things I'm not familiar with or above my paygrade: how to work with clients or management, how to approach one's career, etc.

Somewhere between Time & Mentorship, a personal example: in 2011, we had a major document deliverable; every evening, for weeks running, my lead would spend an hour or more going over the documents I produced, making horribly annoying corrections over and over and over again. It took me a long time to realize a) the kind of time commitment this presented on their part - it would be so much easier for them to fix the document themselves than to patiently guide me, but would not have advanced me; and b) how much it made me pay attention to detail, readability, assumptions and scope ever since.
>> Then you go out behind the factory and see a massive mountain of furniture stacked up to the sky. The factory workers have been building furniture every day for years. > People all agree that it is good furniture, maybe the best there is. Nobody ever buys any of it. It's not sold in any stores. No hotels buy it. No businesses buy it. Lots of people are lined up as far as you can see to pick furniture out of the pile for free.

>> How do you fix this company?

> I'll take a shot : you don't, the free market does it for you (ie. the company isn't going to last long, or the plant get shut down if part of a group).

That's a pretty lazy, ideological answer. They're giving away their product for free and there's no mention of a sales team in the whole story. Before you get all enthused with "creative destruction," someone could try laying off some of the useless employees and actually selling their product first. Destruction shouldn't be the first solution, it should be the last.
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Similar story: once, when Googlers were talking about full stack engineers, Rob Pike piped up to say they weren't really full stack engineer; he said he was a full stack engineer back when he worked on the Voyager project because he had to know everything from silicon quantum mechanics up to interplanetary astrophysics.

Sure, there are parallels between modern programmers and the scientist-engineer-calculators of the past.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180919124648/https://missourie...

(Not sure if there is a legitimate reason this has been taken out)
This is a really great question. The child argues that a good manager adapts to whatever situation is needed. It would be interesting to know if this manager took this "win" and managed all future teams this way as well, even ones that are highly functional or working on more experimental code/projects.

The best manager is the one whose only focus is for each of the team members and the team collectively to be successful. In some companies or teams that may be removing distractions or introducing accountability or getting rid of a bad apple or .... The problem is that we as humans generalize and the first success a new manager has is seen as the best way forever no matter what because it works. That way lays madness.
> I find that France is exactly where it should be and most of CET is off by an hour or more

How? The correct timezone is the one where the sun is closest to directly overhead at 12 noon.

The real problem is that 9 to 5 is a lopsided working day, because it's centred on 1 pm, not noon. DST just moves solar noon to 1 pm, when the correct fix would be to move the working day to 8 to 4.
Not all autists have the same collection or severity of symptoms, though, so it's not always obvious.
An inadvertent yet apt Bradbury reference
Why Aren’t More Users More Happy with Our VMs? Part 2
The official line...

"The 64-bit Linux infrastructure is the de facto standard that is being used across the industry today...So it gives us more development tools, more tool chains and also more access into the third party development ecosystem."

http://mobile.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/cisco-evo...
Not related to startups, but: the free market's distorted. Google, Apple, Facebook & co. are quite competitive today.

But they are also sitting on war-chests worth multiples of their yearly incomes (or at least a big chunk of 1 yearly income) and they are close to monopolies in some of their markets.

Even if they'd break down this badly, they'd be around for decades. Heck, IBM is still around :)
Have you ever seen Guy Steele’s “growing a language” talk? If you like hand written slides, you’ll like that one. He did require an old fashioned OHP though, since it was all done on transparencies with crayons! Unfortunately that wasn’t very video friendly, so he had to use traditional ones for the recording, you only get the OHP treatment by seeing the talk in person.
>minorities in the workplace (particularly by race and gender)

We have a minority gender? (Or is that a can of worms I shoudln't have opened?)
https://puppet-master.io/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWv6Pn_zP0rI6lgGt3MyfA
Unfortunately yes, the descrimination law in the US is ridiculous and complicated.
>The data scientists write their algorithms in the language they're most comfortable with (typically JS)

I'm sorry, what? You know data scientists who use JavaScript to implement their algorithms?
If you demand something from someone, often they'll give it grudgingly, and only as much as they're obligated to give. If you let that same person decide how much to give, especially when they also enjoy their work, often they'll gladly give you much more.
>>It's not like I was wearing protective gear, my polystyrene helmet and lycra wasn't going to protect me at that speed.

Exactly, even if you have a kevlar one, your organs, brain, spine, neck etc will not be happy once you from 50mph to zero once you hit a car or wall.
Roads also tend to follow established routes because infrastructure tends to pop up along well traveled places. Europe is full of wacky routes because some farmers in the 1100s had go go around the land of the lord that was feuding with their lord in order to trade with the people in a village on the land of a lord who was on good terms with their lord. Then someone built an inn along the route, then another village popped up, etc, etc Except for the eastern edge, North America has neither of those sources of "legacy road" that constrain the design of new roads. You can just build straight lines from A to B to C.
Instagram will promote mid-term voting with stickers, registration info
I don't understand. What they are describing sounds like Chrome syncing. But you can certainly install Google Drive's sync client without using Chrome/Chrome syncing. Is this a new thing?
> Some people simply aren't apt for the real world

I'm confused by the juxtaposition of this statement and your preceding thoughts- it seems like quite a jump to say what seems to boil down to "Existing with mental illness at work and feeling like you have to hide it sucks" and then expand that to "People with mental illness aren't fit for the real world".

Who decides who gets to be classified as "apt for the real world"? There are a ton of depressed people out there, and for that matter, a ton of people who feel like they got screwed at birth for having the wrong color skin, the wrong sexual proclivities, the wrong family, etc. I think if you were to add up the people who feel like they've had to fight through a disadvantage, you'd find that they're the majority, not the minority of people in the real world.
That's really great man! How did you do it?
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Vast majority of whom have never paid a dime for an Evernote product.
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Physics, chemistry, and biology are all part of the Natural Sciences.
A few years ago I invented[1] the term 'acceptimal', meaning 'acceptably optimal'. It's not the absolute best solution, but it's a pragmatic compromise between time, cost, performance, and simplicity which performs acceptably close to optimally.

[1] Or at least I've never heard anyone else use it who didn't get it from me.
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Obama uses a TelePrompTer and practices a lot. I tend to do better giving talks on the fly that are more organic, but each person has their own style.
I am currently struggling a lot with puppeteer, I am gonna try puppet-master.
The problem underlying politicisation is confidence. Science isn't binary, it's a set of circles of decreasing confidence that spreads out from a core of propositions that we're very confident about - more or less what you'll learn on an undergrad physics course - to a set of increasingly tentative hypotheses.

A lot of arguments about science are really arguments about confidence. E.g. most climate change scientists are fairly sure about their models, but the lack of absolutely certainty makes it possible for deniers to cherry pick a tiny collection of outlier scientists who will argue in public that it's all nonsense.

Policy makers and the media are some combination of corrupt and clueless, so they're happy to go with the false equivalence this creates.

One way to depoliticise science would be to have an international science foundation, which was funded independently of any individual government.

Of course there would be squeals of disapproval from vested interests, but that would simply highlight the problem - the vested interests don't want independent criticism or oversight. Their entire MO is based on regulatory capture which gives them the freedom (for themselves only) to operate as they want with no personal or financial consequences.

Scientific accountability would set them on the path to democratic accountability, which is the last thing they'll accept.
In the higher positions, yes.
> why would I not choose the most effective form of advertising for me?

To put a slightly different spin on things, in the US young black men are more likely to be perpratrators of crime[0], so should police spend more time investigating young black men over other demographics?

[0] whether this is due to racial prejudice or other systemic matters doesn't matter.
Throughout tech, women are a minority in the workplace, even if not a minority in the overall population, which is one potential meaning of "minorities in the workplace." At least that's what I gathered.
> By "install it", I thought you meant install Windows, which takes for longer than 30 seconds. It's not a straight byte copy. For one, part of the install process compiles code for your variation of CPU architecture.

That was my point. It does something very slow but unnecessary. If you could install it by straight copy, it would be way faster. And there’re no reasons why it can’t be straight copy (or really fast unzip & compile).

> Google Docs, Office 365

Google Docs disables offline mode by defaults. It only works as long as everyone are almost on the same page. It’s a step forward, yes. I wish using those algorithms was as easy as writing LAMP apps

> Usually my battery dies.

Doesn’t mean it has to reboot. It’s just an implementation design of current OSes. See Phantom OS
Not only is this technically wrong, but Python has a decimal module for performing these kinds of calculations. It uses floats/doubles for the native float type which produces exactly the type of results you see above.
You can be quite a success as a doctor without learning to code. And many other professions as well.

Not reading, writing, or knowing how to use a computer would be far more detrimental.
I don't know, the number of hoops you need to jump through to use a trendy data science tool like Hadoop, Spark etc. is way bigger than that of a simple Java program. From my (limited) experience I'd say they the data science (or big data) way is the bloated and convoluted one.
In most workplaces, yes. For many fields (IT, executive-level, politics...), women are in the minority. For others (teaching, nursing...), men are in the minority.

One big disparity is that most of the female-dominated fields tend to be lower-paying.
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It really doesn't, https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/canadian-lawmakers-p... if you want primary and secondary sources.

Basically it just says you can't actively discriminate against someone because of gender identity. Which had been the defacto law for a long time.
That announcement was nearly a year ago and nothing but crickets since. It doesn't seem that technically challenging. I wonder what the hold up is?
You get curves like that on the german Autobahn too. The problem is that in Europe, you don't get very far without running into either a hill, a swamp or a town, in which case your options are limited.

A hill can only be so steep until the trucks can't go over anymore without dropping to unsafe speeds (60kph are the legal minimum when driving on the Autobahn, trucks need to be able to go faster and do so safely).

A swap can be expensive to go over so you might do a slight curve and only go over a small part of it to save money.

A town might not allow the autobahn to go through or might only allow it on the outer edges.

That's in addition to the fact that lots of roads in Europe are historical, ie, grown from the paths that people have always used between cities, so they don't take a straight, optimal path to begin with.
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radar isn't public. You need an Apple ID linked to a developer account to view reports.
Well, sure, but I did this

http://i.imgur.com/gRqg50J.png

at about 22mph. ;)
Bingo. The "real world" isn't some static thing set upon us; we shape it both actively (e.g. fighting for suffrage) and passively (sitting around being sad for ourselves).
This is a good list and I'd only distill it with the following: The best manager is the one whose only focus is for each of the team members and the team collectively to be successful.

In some companies or teams that may be removing distractions or introducing accountability or getting rid of a bad apple or providing vision, etc. If the team is not successful (over time), it is your fault. The sad part is that most managers are more worried over self preservation and being "important" than worrying about success. Ironically, being focused on team success would make them even more indispensable.
(1) good/bad school area refers specifically to the ratings of the public elementary, middle, and highs school to which persons living at an address are assigned by geography (it's a measure of what you are entitled to as a result of living at a given address, not what happens to be nearby otherwise); starting a private school (whether a regular private school or a privately owned charter school) has no direct effect on that, regardless of its ratings.

(2) There's pretty strong evidence that school ratings mostly are a measure of the students assigned, so if you want to influence ratings of the local schools to manipulate real estate prices, you don't establish a new private school and try to make it good, you make a new private school and selectively admit low-performing students from the target area.