skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are using banks wrong. That's not unexpected, most banks are designed to encourage you to use banks wrong and to in turn make this experience awful.

Last century, when I was a teenager, somebody set up a bank in the UK with an understanding of where all this is going. I have been with that bank ever since for my day-to-day banking needs.

The First Direct bank. They don't have any branches, they pay the same fees as other banks for there to be ATMs that work with their cards, and they own a web site and so on.

Instead of spending money on big solid-looking buildings people rarely visit, they run a massive 24/7 call centre, and all the call centre employees are trained to provide the entire service, since that's all they do. Absolutely every eventuality I've encountered was handled by telephoning them and then talking to a human. I often don't call them for six months at a time, but I've also had period when I called five times a day.

Two examples:

One day, still last century, I lost my wallet. Oh dear. I wanted to go out with friends, but I had no money, no cards. So I telephoned my bank. "Where are you?" they asked, because this was last century, so I was just a random voice with no indication of location. They looked up where I was, located some other bank building nearby and sent me there, then negotiated with that bank to give me cash.

This century, but a few years back, I bought somewhere to live. This involved a very large transaction. I phoned the bank, walked through exactly what I was doing and why, confirmed the transfer details and then they explained that no single employee of the bank is authorised to wave through such a transaction and I should expect to receive a phone call from another employee, who would confirm all the details again and then they could both authorise it. So I spoke to two people, for maybe a total of twenty minutes. Which considering the eye-watering sum of money that was about to just magically vanish from my account seems OK.

I don't understand why people would put up with any other sort of bank. I particularly don't understand people who are too busy to "go to the bank" on week days and then moan about it. This is 2018, I already didn't have to "go to the bank" in 1998. Get a better bank.
Nice. Very nice, in fact. Here is some feedback:

The first-use UX can use a bit of tuning - that is, the app should explain how to build up the dictionaries and just offer to pick some pre-existing sets from your collection, because that's what 99% of people would want to do. The UI should definitely not default to an empty Manage tab.

Second gripe and it's actually a deal-breaker - the app needs an Internet connection to get started. I fully expect this sort of app to come preloaded with basic word sets for all supported languages, with an option to pick up more IF there's an online connection. It is also perfectly fine to charge money for both basic sets and extensions. The main point is that the app should be self-contained and remain fully usable in its existing state regardless of whether there's an Internet connection and whether your servers are still up and running.

Third - I hate giving away my email address and I find it obnoxious when the first page of a _native_ app is a "give us your email address" form. In fact, I see no reason for a native app to _require_ an email address to be usable. If it wants to do server-based profile persistence, it should rely on a device ID. Then, if a user wants to share his profile between multiple devices, it would make sense to start asking for an email address.

Fourth - going back to the UI, the Manage tab should really be displaying not the list of words, but the list of _sets_, because that what I was selecting. This view needs grouping. Without it will become overpopulated and very hard to, well, manage. Consider the case when I added 30 words from some set, learned them and then decided to remove them - that's going to require a lo-o-o-ot of tapping.

There is something called "dictionaries" on the Manage tab, but it's not really clear how these correspond to "sets" from the Discovery tab... Having played with the app for an hour it seems to me that there are words, sets and dictionaries, but that's one level too many. There should really be just words and sets... unless dictionaries are for different languages.

Another thing is that, say, I'm trying to learn German words. It's not clear to me if it's possible to train English-to-German translation with your app. That is, train for the case when I need to say something (i.e. to translate to the target language) rather than when I need to translate from it.

Fifth - when taking a writing form of quiz, an UI can use some better support for going into the middle of a word and correcting a mis-typed letter. Stock support for that via tap-hold-zoom is slow and cumbersome in this context. As an option - clicking on Hint should place the cursor immediately after the first incorrect letter, so you'd only need to do Backspace and then type a new letter. This will make quizes to go much faster.

Separately, I must compliment the UI design, which I think is excellent. Minimalist, but without going to the extreme. Really well done.
> Is that true even if you mount the filesystem(s) read-only after boot time ?

Yes, read-only filesystems are not the solution to most of the Micro SD card problems on the Pi, because the filesystem and the OS are relying on the card to work properly, and the actual consumer market Micro SD cards people are using don't always do that when used in the Pi.

To manage the flash, the (dirt cheap, barely fit for purpose) controller inside a consumer Micro SD card will generally do things like move data from one area of flash to another, even when the host isn't writing to the card.

One of the reasons for that, is that reading from NAND is a potentially disruptive[1] event:

> If reading continually from one cell, that cell will not fail but rather one of the surrounding cells on a subsequent read. To avoid the read disturb problem the flash controller will typically count the total number of reads to a block since the last erase. When the count exceeds a target limit, the affected block is copied over to a new block, erased, then released to the block pool.

There are industrial Micro SD cards that can handle most of the problems that show up on the Pi though, and they aren't absurdly expensive. The $15 ATP AF4-GUD3A and $28 ATP AF8-GUD3A are some I use in my Pi projects for this reason, and I've never seen any of them become corrupt, unlike SanDisk and other consumer cards.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Read_disturb
From my original post:

> It could work, but I think it would involve re-designing countless intersections to provide higher visibility of pedestrians for drivers--not a bad goal, but I think a pretty unfeasible one.
It's hard to propagate Newton's method over layers on a neural network.
I think I see the problem. Thanks for the log output. Firefox does js right. Let me know if it works :)

Here's my change btw:

https://github.com/rlingineni/Scatter-Stocks/commit/394644bb...
Wow, thank you, I had no idea. The walnut tree uses the poison to kill competitors, up to 20m away or more.

Black Walnut: The Killer Tree https://www.extension.iastate.edu/news/2005/jul/070701.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juglone

"Juglone is occasionally used as a herbicide. Traditionally, ...has been used as a natural dye for clothing and fabrics...and as ink. ...has also found use as a coloring agent for foods and...hair dyes. ...is currently being studied for its anticancer properties"
Was there really any doubt that she would win, after she won the primary? Isn't that area so reliably democratic that any primary winner is guaranteed to have the seat?
Here is good overview of effects of vacuum to human body (and test animals) with credible sources: http://www.geoffreylandis.com/vacuum.html
I don't think that's true, it's just a very minimal fine (which I would be completely fine with):

https://www.mass.gov/how-to/respond-to-a-jaywalking-ticket
Hi Lucas, please keep us updated about progress in the future. I, and others, will be very happy to hear your story, as well as this breath taking invention.
> and this process changes what they signed

The mayor didn't sign a website.

The author clearly indicates the website did not accurately reflect the act as enacted at the very beginning of the article: "Comparing the DC Code to the act that made the change, I noticed that something was amiss..."
Racists or other biases at the top level can, to a limited degree, be dealt with through politics.
You can, at the very least, make biased people want to not seem biased.
However, bias at the lower levels is much harder to deal with. Especially if their superiors don't care beyond impressions.
That looks like interesting stuff; I was working recently with older 'black' retroreflective materials and the performance wasn't great so we ditched it. I'm in the UK, is it on the market yet or do I need to go through the in-country 3M office?
This looks spectacular. This could solve a large chunk of my challenges with Docker in one swoop. Really excited to use this!
Just 15 years here. I've worked at somewhere where they did put a lot of emphasis on UML diagrams.

To the point they had a product where some of the code was generated from UML, not once moving from the initial design to code, but repeatedly every time the design became out of date. It became the project everyone tried to get away from and project all new joiners were thrown into the deep end on, many quitting as a result.

A couple of years ago I interviewed for a contract role with a sister company and they waxed lyrical about their love of "best practice" UML in the interview. I declined the offer, I'm too old for worrying about which arrow type to use when no one reading it's going to understand the significance anyway. I think there are a lot of attempts to move away from code because it's complex, but the bottom line is it's the best we have for now.
Great job Ricardo!

I took the 9-month Self-Driving Car Nanodegree and managed to find a job in the AV industry right before graduating.

I found the ND worth every penny because they broke down really dense topics that you’d usually need to be in a MS program at CMU or Stanford to undertake. Now I’m leading AV development at my current employer!

Like any course or degree, they can’t cover everything. That’s ok though, because you’ve learned enough to continue learning by reading current academic papers. You must be motivated though.

There’s a lot of nay-sayers on HN. I’d encourage you to ignore their excuses for not completing their ND. Usually these people don’t have enough grit or motivation to do something hard. If you really want it...you’ll work hard and persevere to get it.
just curious, how do you intend to use this? I mean, what problem does exploring each layer in a Docker solve for you?
That's dangerously wrong. No, pedestrians do not have right of way over traffic everywhere inside cities in NL (though you could be forgiven to think it is that way by observing traffic).

Pedestrians do have right of way inside 'woonerven'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woonerf

Now, the fact that pedestrians do not have right of way does not mean cars are going to flatten people with impunity, of course every driver will do what they can to avoid an accident with a pedestrian. But if you step out in traffic on a busy Amsterdam street there most certainly will be an accident, even if everybody will do their best to avoid you, and you will be liable in that case, even if you're part of the mess.
Sorry but there are tons of companies like that.

Nintendo

Sega

Any loss leader product
Yes - a well-known example was Anssi Vanjoki (former Nokia director) getting a fine of 116,000 euros for driving 75 km/h in a 50 zone. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1759791.stm

I have heard of other countries that have similar systems.
All cities, major AND minor (and villages).

You wouldn't except this to happen to the equivalent of the
New Jersey Turnpike, of course. So, on high speed highways, on the other hand, you're often not allowed to randomly cross, except in specific areas.
Likely, competitors, hostile investors, and/or NGOs are funding negative coverage through PR firms, just like Facebook itself recently did. (It happens more than you'd think.)

There's also a pile-on effect once a topic gets enough traction, and multiple outlets start publishing hit pieces in the hopes of gaining a few extra eyeballs.

Finally, government investigations into companies tend to create negative buzz, and since that's been happening with FB, that's probably generating some additional interest.

See also: Tesla.
Question is, have you finished any one of those courses from MIT? Many, including myself lack self discipline to follow through those courses from beginning to end. I believe Udacity and it's ilk provide great service. I did finish one, a paid nano-degree, and although that is not the only reason, I guess paying for it played a great role. You start with a cohort, you share experience, and grievances, and try to deliver assignments on time. That is something those MIT courseware lack.
Yeah, this is stupid.

If the language creators put a feature there, use it.

I really don't buy the love that some have for using signed variables when they don't make sense.

As a start, you only need one comparison to check if it's within range, as it's always > 0
"why does this small change increase the size of my image by 500mb"
Right, and US anti-trust law is pretty much OK with a car manufacturer requiring that, because no car manufacturer has a monopoly.

There may be other laws that would prohibit that, but they aren't anti-trust laws.
Manchineel or little apple of death
Should work now, thanks!
From the article:

> the business of publishing tax-funded research and then selling it to tax-funded institutions has produced the most profitable industry in the world

How is this not illegal?
The images that screw up image recognition systems to get very high confidence of very wrong classifications don't look like the thing they're mistaken for at all. All the GANs I've seen produce what looks like colorful static to a human eye. I'm not sure where you're getting the info that it would look like an average face because I've never seen ML systems defeated with GANs like that.
The "shoah" wasn't just aimed at "certain people", it was aimed at all opposition of any kind, political and social, that's how it started out originally. Tbh that's why I really don't like calling it "shoah", as that implies Jews were the only victims of these Nazis crimes.

I have no doubt that the Chinese government "prioritized" their food similarly, giving less to those it considered "opposition" while making sure it's actual power-base was taken care off and wouldn't starve to death on them.

Just like the Nazis prioritized who they killed first in Dachau not only by "Jewishness" but also the political and social influences these people held, which made them capable of opposing the Nazi rule and thus had to be "taken care off" first.
There are many jobs for which the doer is personally liable. They are required to be bonded and insured so that if anything happens, they don't go bankrupt or otherwise avoid compensating for damages. And there are still people to do the work.

Not sure that's the best solution here, but the assumption that "no one would do the work" is likely not correct.
Updated, it should work now.
You can try https://www.movidius.com/contact
I think the overpopulation in that article is more in the Pacific Ocean. The way it was explained to me (in Spanish, and I'll admit I'm not exactly fluent) was that squid fishing off the coast of Argentina and nearing Antartica is not at all regulated and they use much bigger and more powerful lights to attract them than what they'd be permitted to use elsewhere.

I don't think they're technically "allowed" to use those sorts of lights in Southern Ocean either but each nation is responsible for enforcing the treaty and most governments don't. It's also my understanding that Japan is pretty open and notorious in their Antarctic fishing in violation of international treaties but everyone just sort of shakes their head without doing much to stop them.

Edit: Not particularly detailed but mentions the lack of regulation/overfishing in the area: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2016/oct/...
I never understood why 40% is too little to be considered free and clear from monopoly laws. Why not have a smooth gradient
7 Reasons to Hate Your Code
Qwerty is the standard. Especially for any type of game. I don't think it's constructive to try to get developers with limited time to cater towards a minscule portion of the population who has self selected into using nonstandard layouts. Also most people in that population have the knowledge to adjust their settings to work with was.
Yep, years ago, we needed to call the NHS (out of hours doctor) and looked it up on Google, first result (sponsored) turned out to be a premium rate pay per minute redirect number. That turned out to be a £90, 30 minute call when we got our bill. I believe this practice is now harder to do or not possible.
Sqitch
It is all based on the way the machines read our fingerprints. Only a very few specific data points are stored by the machines and not the entire fingerprint itself(guess it is called minutiae). This loss of information increases the probability for false positives.
I have found that a modelling tool (such as Sparx Enterprise Architect or Archi) as opposed to a drawing tool is useful.
With a modelling tool there are increased opportunities for reuse and for the information to be presented in different ways (with differing levels of detail) depending on what needs to be communicated.
It's not ideal, but I do however often still use both Visio and Powerpoint to better communicate the information in a more visual manner.
In Germany I think it's different. If you cross when you aren't allowed the car has the right of way. I have actually no idea why this isn't the case in Canada. Seems pretty reasonable; light shows 'walk' symbol and you cross knowing you are in the right of way, but the hand stops flashing and if a car hits you then your dead and wrong. Seems a really reliable system that will safely predict outcomes consistent with obliging behavior.

To be honest, I walk quite often and yet I'm absolutely against pedestrian rights as they are today and I believe it's totally impractical and against any common sense having the laws in favour of pedestrians as they are now, nor do I believe it makes roads safer for anyone. In fact if you apply human psychology/behavior inclusive of a person's ability to focus on multiple obstructions, notifications, etc, I'd be willing to bet that drivers are by far overwhelmed in modern cities and that it's reckless disregard for public safety that pedestrians are given absolutely no accountability for their actions beyond dead right or right.
Exactly. So the best spot to stand is to the right of the guard and to push with a stick when cutting long wood, and to the left of the blade when cutting sheets, and to make sure they are supported on the near and the far side so the blade doesn't get wedged.
Chomsky: The Motion Picture
Is there a smart way to make more layers than splitting everything up into modules and ADDing each one? Why doesnt docker have delta transfers yet?
It's about the primary upset.

>When Ocasio-Cortez faced off against 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in the Democratic primaries in June, the app played a pivotal role in her upset victory, according to Sussan.
Yes, but even hidden, it's probably still going to appear quite significant, and I do believe that at some point, the fine size becomes nonsensical.

But then again, I do not think that who you are or what you have should change the magnitude of the crime you commit. I don't think it is sensible that I should get greater fines because I chose to bust my ass and suffer from stress to gain more for my family, whereas I could get a much smaller fine if I just lived a more laid back life.

Granted, it's supposed to differentiate between the rich and poor, but in doing so it also differentiates between the hardworking and the lazy, punishing productivity and rewarding laziness.
If there was poor visibility for the driver, there's almost certainly poor visibility for the pedestrian too. Most are sensible enough to walk a little further to where they can get a bit better look at what traffic is coming.

If I did hit someone at a visibility blind spot I'd expect to be shouted at by the cop too for not slowing down to a speed suitable for the visibility, and that the speed limit is a maximum sir. In that special sarcastic voice, common to all British cops. That might be later reflected in my fine or penalty. :)
This is pretty common looking for things like CRMs or CMSes where customer specific custom fields rule the day.
A fix is indeed a change, even if minor.

To be fair, my own distaste for clickbait is palpable here. But I think I can suspend it in light of the importance of this article's bigger point.

I've always thought this sounded like a good idea, and to see it actually happening is pretty amazing. Here's hoping it catches on.
What is assortative mating?
This is such a great way of making access to the law more open and welcoming, which is a great thing to me!

I haven't been able to check yet, but does anyone know if you are allowed to use this process to propose new laws or clarifications of laws more substantial than simple typo fixes?

Sure, you aren't going to have non-lawyers crafting legislation, but could this be used to bring up clarifications that could impact rulings or increase/decrease scope of current laws or something similar? (I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what are big and what are small changes here)

Imagine if proposed laws could be commented on, have changes offered, debated, and ultimately decided on in an open fashion like this! With a public "audit trail" of sorts showing the history of changes the law went through.

I know this is optimistic, but I wholeheartedly believe that more openness and more people involved will ultimately lead to better laws.
Apple provides a service for that 30% though. They handle the payment processing, they build, moderate and curate the App Store apps and they provide a lucrative channel to market for app developers. So allowing Spotify et al to get all the benefits of the channel without paying for it is actually unfair to Apple.
This is great! Docker feels imperative to me, and using this could help mitigate that.

Also looking into Nix to help my container workflow more declarative.
Probably "right to cross" would be a better term. What I'm getting at is pedestrians can cross the road in cities, without it considered jaywalking/illegal, and cars will generally just stop for them if they see them wanting to cross.

Of course if you just jump into traffic in the last minute you'll be hit, and it will be on you.

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/when-there-is-...
That’s not the case with Nintendo or even inkjet printers.

Apple can make the argument that curating the App Store is required to maintain quality.
> "The Chinese people were cheated. They need real history."

Can someone fwd this to Sundar Pichai in re: Project Dragonfly?
Correct. From Apple’s original petition:

“The question presented is:
Whether consumers may sue for antitrust damages anyone who delivers goods to them, even where they seek damages based on prices set by third parties who would be the immediate victims of the alleged offense.”