skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the central topic still makes sense, a lot of the technical prescriptions in there are pretty well outdated and even contradict best practices today. I'd be curious to know just how long ago this was written.

Edit: March 2016, and their dateline has since been removed: https://web.archive.org/web/20160311072848/https://www.imagi...
An economist has a proposal to give all kids in the US up to $60,000 at birth
MOOCs make explicit something that has always been implicit for me about education. In the absence of the herd, the authority figure, the degree, the deadlines with teeth and all the other motivational tricks to get me to learn the content, we're just left with the content itself.

Is it great content? Does it inspire my curiosity? Is it memorable? Does it teach me things I can apply? Does it add layers of needless complexity? Is it an exercise in abstract curriculum box-ticking? Is it an ideology in wrapping paper?

I think the gap between 100% and the actual MOOC completion rate also represents the gap between our ideal of education was and what it actually is. Without all the academic window dressing, most people just learn the parts they want. The pedagogs doth protest too much, methinks.
Yep pretty much the same here. I just leave it on vibrate. I have been getting more and more spam calls though, I should try DnD.

I think ringtones are distracting and totally unnecessary, with a few exceptions. My phone is either in my pocket, or on my desk nearby to where I'll see it ring.

I don't understand people who leave it on loud at work (or worse, leave it on loud then leave the phone at their desk). It's really inconsiderate. They are probably oblivious though, without someone mentioning it to them.
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Make things pretty.

No amount of hard work and usefulness can amount to a beautiful product.

I have strong feelings about Lean Startup who told me to create a MVP, which made me look like an amateur.

So, listen to the marketing people and wait to release a beautiful finished product.
Also, European economic integration and cooperation should not be understated and it's effect on rebuilding germany.

Especially in the early days of the EEC/ECSC, rebuilding (west) germany was important for many other european nations at the time to increase their export markets. (Benelux especially).
This is sensitive to local costs of both fuel and electricity. In my part of Washington state I last paid $3.43 per gallon of gasoline but residential electricity is about 6.5 cents per kWh.

It looks like in Denmark electricity prices were 0.30 EUR (0.35 USD) per kWh in the second half of 2017, while gasoline prices are currently 12.26 DKK per liter (7.15 USD per US gallon).
Yes, I don't know much about WiFi standards but I do know that when I updated from an 802.11n router to an 802.11ac one, range increased. I can connect from some rooms where I couldn't before. I live in an apartment building where my phone sees 19 networks right now.
Female Nobel prize winner deemed not important enough for Wikipedia entry
That mysqldump adds "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS" by default. So if you want to backup and restore several rows, you are in trouble.

Not really the hard way because DROP TABLE isn't instantaneous on big tables. So I managed to kill the query before the table was gone.
"Our venture, and ventures like ours, which rely on redistributing food waste, cannot succeed if people waste less food. So please waste more food."

Talk about putting the cart before the horse. I have no problem with saying, "that food isn't really waste, let's redistribute it if it's going unused." But someone's got their head turned right around if they think that a logical corollary is, "and that food should never be used, because we're redistributing it."
You want "kind of works" with a self driving system?
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That is normal. A small amount of money buys a large stake in the early days. As the technology gets closer and closer to reality the amount it costs to buy goes up.

However don't read the above as invest in the early days - there are a lot of seemingly great ideas that will turn out to fail for some reason. Honda's bet is much less risky because it seems much more likely that cruise will have something to sell in the future. GM's bet was more risky, and [I forget who they bought cruise from] made an even more risky bet. This time it looks like it will pay off, but not all do.
I would prefer that we make an effort to transition to a sane world. Even though it is very unlikely, the goal should still be a fair and safe planet.

Its hard to speculate, but the next situation may not be controlled by a particular country per se. It may be some AI blockchain distributed political system that goes through an app that becomes popular in China but the Chinese government hates it. I think general purpose AI and distributed technologies will factor into geopolitics in some major way. Possibly.

Aside from the speculation, I do know that we're not going to get into a better situation if we keep bullshitting ourselves about what's really going on.
In my particular movie theater plot, I'm assuming they've been loaded with firmware to just keep station at a particular location in space.

Plus, how long would it take to get signal jamming equipment to the runway? Can it be used safely around an airport? Etc, etc. Novel-research stuff.
No, big companies have the greatest business-plan, tech, and compliance debt and are slowest to change -- the bizplan debt alone can be retired rapidly only at great risk of breaching fiduciary duty to shareholders.

Neither Google nor Facebook is in compliance with GDPR. FB was busted using 2FA phone number for ad targeting. Google has been taking data for various purposes for decades and linking it all together for other purposes. These are bright-line violations of GDPR's purpose-limitation design.

Smaller companies, by contrast, can change more quickly or start with compliance by construction, as Brave has.

It's a silly slogan that GDPR only helps big incumbents. Regulation tends to help incumbents under varying degrees of regulatory capture, as in the US. Europe is different, and India, Brazil, and others jurisdictions are following suit. California's CCPA is weaker (on protected data, opt out rather than opt in, ambiguity about duress = denial of service if off-purpose data not provided, enforcement), but also in line.
Yeah, moving out of Bay Area sounds more and more reasonable now. I wonder if salaries in Vancouver would match that in Seattle. Both of them are very interesting cities to move to
Replace deep learning with ANN, it was branded DL In order to get easier grant funding!
Code is law

Poetry's not
"The company does this by commodifying food that would go to the poor for free"

The article provides 0 evidence towards this case. I'm all for listening to this argument, as it is a good one, but are there any facts to support this other than their shrinking user base?
But the total beet supply remains unchanged? Affluent customers are now buying the ugly beets, does that mean more pretty beets go unsold? Can they be donated?
Get everything in writing. EVERYTHING.
I recently got a Huawei Matebook X Pro for work and I love the thing. The touch pad scrolling isn't smooth as the Apple one like you mentioned, but the tracking is great otherwise and gestures work well. Keyboard is nice, 3k screen is nice, usb-c + usb-a is nice, sd slot, etc...

It's stupid amounts of light and cheap for the amount of power and features. I think they'd be a lot more popular if they advertised better.

My only complaints are the camera placement and the the cooling. I like that the screen is so thin and has almost no bezel so I understand why they put the camera in the keyboard, it's just impractical for Skype which is at odds with the amazing call audio quality from the built in mics (yes, multiple, 4 of them). The cooling also leaves a bit to be desired, though http://bradshacks.com/matebook-x-pro-throttling/ has some good info on augmenting that if you feel like doing a little light hacking. I don't think it's any worse than the latest macbooks, I just think it could be better in both cases.
Something I recently started to appreciate, as it relates to the dollar's attractiveness, is America's track record with peaceful leadership transitions.

Reserve currencies must be freely exchangeable. Free capital flows imply giving up control over exchange rates (and/or monetary policy) [1]. That means an idiot government halfway across the world can mess with your currency, credit and export markets at any time. Including around leadership transitions.
For countries with a history of violent leadership transitions, where such transitions are tightly controlled, that is terrifying.

Now I'm sure the Congress would love to control the dollar in the months preceding an election. But there are powerful (read: wealthy) interests opposing that. Those people have this power because America is a country where the state is balanced against private interests, specifically, private property rights.

One thus gets a currency which can be trusted to remain freely convertible. Because its powerful private interests, unafraid of a currency crisis triggering violent insurrection, are aligned in maintaining it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
This is backwards. It is a good economy that made those employment laws possible. The good times came first.

Overdoing those employment laws will strangle the economy, pushing us around the cycle to hard times. It is the "weak men" who push for this, trying to avoid even the modest amount of suffering that is required to be competitive.

Backing off on those laws will delay collapse.

You really don't want to see the collapse. At that point, employment laws count for nothing. You work illegally or you starve.
How not to run a contract development business during a recession. :)
Woah, this is the killer note app. It's Onenote+Trello with /-commands and keyboard shortcuts.
This is so dumb, no one's even using Wi-Fi 1 through 5 yet.
"Imperfect Produce claims it’s saving the world by reducing food waste—and helping farmers by buying surplus 'ugly' produce that would have been thrown out. Sounds great. The reality is that this produce would have otherwise gone to food banks, to be redistributed for free."

People are complaining because a hidden subsidy (from government and other food buyers to the food banks) has been removed.

I don't like seeing groups shoehorn welfare into other areas. If you've got an income (or cash welfare) problem, fix that.
What am I missing? Looking at the example for java it looks a lot more complicated and a step back from docker and its layers concept.
We're flexible, with folks in 3 different countries outside the US. The biggest thing is that we both feel confident that you'd be able to work productively in a semi-autonomous way. A lot of this is being able to self-correct and adjust, e.g., if an agreed upon plan isn't working, then recognizing this and adjusting the plan, instead of continuing down the original path.
Can someone explain what this means for consumers? Who benefits the most from this new release?
This is not all that much more than the damage done by a Canadian goose. I guess makes sense. The drone has to fly so it can't be built like a tank.
Worse is better

Or, to put it a bit more optimistically - usable now is better than perfect later. I've found that, if I disappear behind a curtain and spend a long time trying to make something really well-polished and feature rich, that just gives the user a lot of time to build up their expectations, and also to get frustrated by the delay. By the time you ship, they'll be actively looking for ways to find fault. When I YAGNI my way into a 80% or 90% solution and turn it around quickly, though, more often than not, they'll initially just be impressed at how quickly I was able to help them. Requests for changes will come, but they're generally small, so it's usually relatively easy to turn those around quickly as well.
>> Vancouver has an insane housing market but it is still possible to buy a nice 2BD condo in a concrete high-rise building for a relatively reasonable price, that a couple with two professional level salaries can afford.

Yes, but is this the pinnacle we should aspire to reach?
2 professional salaries to eventually own a 2br condo somewhere in the lower mainland?

Vancouver and Toronto have a comparable ratio of salary to home costs as many of the hottest US locales right now. I don't see how it's a sustainable way to grow a city...
Iran in the crosshairs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_oil_bourse
I agree that advocacy groups shouldn't be charitable, that seems pretty similar to political activities that are already disallowed.

Not sure about about 'when people disagree' thing (requiring majority consensus for public goods). It's easy to see this going both ways, in some places politics will disfavor religious groups, in other places it will disfavor birth control, LGBT groups, etc. I think it's OK to encourage public goods overall without requiring consensus (but not counting things that might be zero-sum like political advocacy as public goods).
There are (at least) 3 sides to exercise: Strength, Cardio, and Stretching. They are each at least as important as the others.

Go to the dentist. Even if you have great teeth.
You are also a business person, aren't you?
> and yes brutal Empire the world has ever seen

More brutal than the Assyrian Empire and the Mongol Empire? 5% of the world's population is estimated to have been killed by the Mongol conquests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_E... and even in absolute numbers, the Mongol Conquest is only behind WWII in absolute numbers of people killed.

The United States has its moral issues, but being the most brutal empire in history is not one of them. In fact, of all the global empires in the history of the world, the United States "Empire" has probably been the most benign and benefited the most people.

Also remember, at the end of WWII, the United States was the sole possessor of the atomic bomb and had the best developed long range bomber fleet. They could have easily used that advantage to outright conquer a massive empire, but they did not.
When I did the math + realized the shipping costs, it was a no-brainer.

I know many people who buy into these 'good feelings' products.
Not virtualized doesn't mean bare metal. I think the term would make more sense to you if you worked through "Linux from Scratch." There are things between embedded and running a full Linux OS.
It’s cool though that they allow you to use cloud flare if you want.
> One of the more comical illustrations of this is that the US passed a law during the Bush administraron authorizing invasion of the Hague if US officials were to be tried in the ICC.

You might find this comical, but many dutchmen find it absolutely abhorrent that the US is willing to enact suchs an aggresive policy into law, especially as the dutch have been close allies with the US for a very long time.
Being in a leadership position in a software org usually involves going to meetings all day and telling people bad news.
food per dollar is one interesting measurement, but products like yoghurt are not fungible, no matter how much we would like to treat them that way in industrial agriculture.

So the real question isn't can someone produce yoghurt cheaper than this person (they can) but is the product they produce worth the $12 for enough people to make a go of it.
REMOTE outside US possible?
Cushy office perks are a trap
I have a quite long apartment with reception problems in some rooms, and was planning to buy a mesh system (like the TP-Link Deco M9 Plus or similar) to replace my aging range extender (which is stuck on 802.11n now that I have a 802.11ac router).

I'm more of a software guy, don't know that much about hardware and networking, so can any expert on these things give an opinion as to whether this is a bad moment to buy it? Would it be better to wait for 802.11ax/6 to arrive? When can we expect to find hardware (such as mesh kits) reliably supporting the new standard?
I’m interested in hearing more about this if you’re inclined to share.
Automakers use each others parts all the time. Dodge used Mitsubishi engines in the K cars and early minivans. Rolls Royce use Mercedes engines today. Nissan used Toyota's hybrid transmission in early-2010s Altimas.

This is a good sign for Criuse being a competitor in the self-driving space, and a sign of self-driving market health in general. Much better than Toyota investing $500 billion in Uber for self driving.[∆]

[∆]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17853248
I agree with this bit.

The cool part is that when the patch arrives, devs don't have to do anything to be patched. Cloud Foundry already does this with buildpacks and so does Heroku.

A big part of what's new is that layer rebasing could make this really really fast.
That all my conventional-sounding musical ideas are easily captured by basic music theory. Even though banging your head against the wall has been useful in developing the ear, avoiding music theory doesn't make any sense since you keep repeating those well-known patterns, and in the end you have to start developing that pattern against pattern type of thinking instead of composing note against note & note after note.

Edit: "in favor of" -> "instead of"
And along those lines, enforcing what you have in writing costs a lot of money.
Documentation is like sex. If it is good, it is good. If it is bad it is good
> And now Honda buys a minuscule stake in Cruise company for the same price GM bought the whole thing for.

No. The Honda investment is $750M. The rest of $2B commitment are for Honda to implement/integrate with Cruise's hardware/software technologies - not really payments to Cruise.
Hey dang, no one fucking cares.
You can never get back the time you waste. I'm talking on the years scale.

The fact that it's never too late to make positive change in your life doesn't mitigate that.
I grew up on a farm, so I have a pretty good idea of what goes on. Not sure why I'm being down voted, do people always assume that folks post about things they have no experience with?

Sure it was boring as a kid, but I got a lot of hands on training fixing machines and working with plants and animals. It was also much safer than the last 25 years that I've lived in Oakland.
Well there's many companies doing AV testing with sensors on their marked + unmarked cars. Not just Cruise.
Again IANAP (and I'm sure any actual physicist will be horrified by my explanation), but the big bang is not an explosion that a time 0 set some mass in motion. But you are, in a way, right: the big bang is not over, is literally still happening right now. General relativity still predict that the process started a finite amount of time ago; wether the process will continue indefinitely or not is still an open question.

The expansion is an expected behaviour of space time, and is predicted by general relativity given a certain parametrization of the density of matter an energy of the universe. To explain the acceleration, though, a large energy parameter is required, which has not been yet identified with any known process, although many theories exhist; as placeholder the parameter is known as dark energy. It is of course possible, but generally considered unlikely, that general relativity is incomplete and another theory could explain the acceleration without dark energy.
No, I think they did lower it to 180% last year..
from my experience you'll take a sizeable hit in salary moving from Seattle to Vancouver, before the exchange rate. The cost side is more comparable
I don't want to assume anything about your work history, but I have worked at 2 fortune 500 companies, and I can absolutely say that if its not in writing it didn't happen.

Perhaps these companies were outliers, and I don't think anything I experience was a result of malice. However, when the higher ups are looking for answers, middle management tends to put blame on the developers. I can't tell you how many times I had to dig up old email chains to essentially prove what was communicated. People forget, people misremember, and people will fabricate to avoid repercussions. I have found this to be a universal truth of business, so I can see why someone would say your comment is naive.

Also like the comment above yours states, there is literally no downside to re-affirming the discussed points. I've had instances where once things were put in writing, my manager noticed something that wasn't clear and we were able to circumvent issues.
>I don't feel too bad about ordering from Imperfect Produce

Stunning cognitive dissonance going on here.

Simply redirecting a portion of one's personal funds towards a local food bank doesn't absolve one of the moral wrongs associated with participation in a scheme that systematically undermines access to food for the least advantaged.
Fuck them
Most automotive enthusiasts don't have track vehicles, most have street-able vehicles they take to the track (or whatever their preferred event is). This is even more true for 4x4s and drag racing.

Saying "well having a vehicle you trailer to the event is cheaper" assumes a baseline amount of money being spent that is more than most people have to dedicate to the hobby. That cuts out the entire low end of the hobby.
Ha, I’ve learned the hard way that: By the time you invoke a contract, the relationship is already in trouble.
Subsidizing personal vehicles sounds completely insane and irresponsible to me.

The problem is that everyone ends up with their own vehicle and this gridlocks any road in/out of a city. Which ~big city in the world does not have trafic problems? And what is the average passenger count in those cars. One bus can replace MANY cars. But for some reason i cannot comprehend taking the bus or train seems oppressive to some people. I get this is not an option everywhere but where i live it most definatly is and people still complain about the tolls drivers have to pay to commute into the city and refuse to take the bus/train.