skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Catherine Quintana said she and her mother asked hospital staff about how the robot was used. "It's policy, that's what we do now. That's what we were told," said Catherine Quintana.
Amtrak with kids is a dream come true on long trips. So much room, so much freedom. Our kids could literally just sit and play on the floor in front of our seats, then we could walk them to the dining car or someplace else when they wanted a change of scenery. We could play with them and entertain them in a way you can't in a car or plane.

But I will never ride it again because it is so poorly managed. I needed to be at work the next morning, but they canceled our train at the last minute because of icy weather in New York (how have we not figured out how to solve for coldness yet) and I had to take an extra vacation day and leave the next morning instead. Such absolute nonsense.
This might be what you're talking about:

http://samy.pl/opensesame/
Philadelphia passes a law banning “cashless” retail stores
That's looking at seat footprint, not weight.
I would be concerned about dirty needles etc. as much as anything, especially in a place like San Francisco. Junkies can carry God-knows-what, but I can respect you for braving that risk.
Don't forget DoubleClick in addition to Trendalyzer for Google Analytics.
To clarify, what I mean here is that there may be other things that should probably be prioritized over splitting tech giants. There is usually limited political capital a POTUS has and if Warren had the votes, in my opinion fixing tax structure should higher on her list.
I meant that surfing the interwebs sometimes turns up things that are pleasant.

And, finding that other people do something that my wife regards as a bit odd.

As to the other half can, I eat iton the next day.
It’s got more ayn rand types

They live on their own form of welfare called Venture Capital
more electrons being absorbed into the body! Good for them. Cut out the rubber shoe resistor
I found it interesting to go at it randomly myself for about 100 iterations or so, the accuracy hovered around 55%. Then I started flipping a coin to make my choice, the accuracy started dropping pretty quickly, I got it down to 43% before i got bored.
I was traveling cross-country with a friend a few weeks back. Between being able to go through TSA Pre with me, my club membership, and an upgrade to Polaris she was somewhat in awe of how the experience didn’t suck like it usually did.
Cool, it's like a nature preserve for hookworm.
I really wonder who makes the decision of starting work on this kind of research, and how it goes.

I hope it's not in the lines of "Alright team, we've got two idle supersonic jets, a high speed camera, and enough jet fuel to burn for a day, so how about some ideas?"
That's not really how it works anymore. It depends on the product type but often brands pay for shelf space and unsold goods are refunded.
You reabsorb the beam which now has even more energy because it's been blue-shifted, which means you can actually charge your batteries as well as accelerate.
I'm not sure that a country without capital gain taxes (Switzerland) is the best example for highly taxing successful business founders...
I should have said I drink coffee in a mug.
>Can there really be no practical way to apply thousands of cores to boosting the programmer's productivity? What are we missing?

Surely that's the whole point of high-level languages?
I think it's slightly more comprehensive than that. The school page seems to indicate it covers construction and development too.[1] That said, it definitely appears to be weighted on the seller side (which makes sense), so that may affect perspective somewhat.

1: http://www.scps.nyu.edu/content/scps/academics/departments/s...
Ask HN: More Bad Blood?
Can you recommend intriguing reads similar to John Carryrou’s Bad Blood that revealed what was really going on inside Theranos?
You understand Vegas is in a desert right? Austin's heat has nothing on Vegas.
Can you elaborate more on the utility of a mansion ? There was some research that people spend most of their time in only 3 rooms: bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.
This isn't a sentence. This isn't a crime being punished. It's civil contempt. It's designed to coerce the person in custody into complying with the court order. It's often said that in such circumstances that the person being detained "holds the keys to their own jail cell."
I think it's important to distinguish between types of microtransactions. For me, where I draw the line between ethical and unethical is when the microtransaction is built to act like a slot machine, with variable ratio schedule rewards.

If a microtransaction provides a clear indicator of exactly what you're buying and its cost - or even if it doesn't but provides an honest and upfront maximum ceiling for how much you will have to pay to get the item(s) you want - then a consumer can make an honest cost-to-value analysis and decide whether or not to buy the product. And I'm fine with that - though the latter example I'm less fine with, it at least provides a mitigation: an avenue for doing that analysis in a rational way and creating a maximum amount of spend that prevents open-ended cycles of addiction and spending.

A loot box or other fully randomized model has no such financial ceiling, and calculations of expected value have to be performed by users entirely like measuring odds in a casino. And casinos, like video game companies, take advantage of the fact that humans are intrinsically bad at that: and that people can easily become addicted to systems that provide rewards randomly and intermittently. And unlike a casino, we ask both children and adults to try to make that on-the-spot assessment when we talk about loot boxes, which as a society we have found unacceptable for other forms of variable ratio schedule-based transactions.

My thought process is pretty straightforward. If, in order for a product to survive, it has to/tries to trick a user into misunderstanding the cost-to-value of their financial transaction, then the product can't actually stand on its own merits and doesn't deserve to exist. Or the product should admit that it is a casino game: and as such it should be heavily regulated, kept out of the hands of children, and I want nothing to do with it.
She should have never been let out in the first place. Thirty five years was too much, but 6 years was too short.
For being unwilling to testify against a journalist it's worth pointing out.
Because cost does not equal value. This is called the consumer surplus, the difference between how much you're willing to pay for a product and the market price. For example, most people would be willing to pay more for internet access than they currently do.
Google has 90% search market share--Comcast doesn't have that even in areas where it is the sole high-speed wired provider (because DSL and cellular are viable alternatives for a significant part of the population). And over large swaths of its service area it isn't the only high-speed wired option. I don't know where you're located, but I've lived in Chicago, Atlanta, DC, Baltimore, Annapolis, New York, and Philadelphia over the last decade. Each place except Baltimore has multiple providers. And Comcast competes with cellular everywhere.

If you take the view that cellular or DSL aren't legitimate competition (despite having double-digit marketshare even where Comcast has no other competition), then Bing and Yahoo! aren't competition for Google either. In which case Google has a nationwide monopoly in search.
I see comments as sort of a fallback when I don’t have time or can’t think of a more readable solution to a problem. I believe this is the rational presented in the “clean code” book
The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
I couldn't say what the numbers are, although the fruit cans say "is in its own juice" and I think cottage cheese has protien, for what that is worth. But I enjoy it, which is important too.
Why should they care, when individual action has no measurable effect in the face of 7 billion other people and the tragedy of the commons problem?

What is needed is collective action, i.e. policy/regulation/laws/taxes, not individuals making sacrifices.
The only statement from the prosecutor that is vaguely in that direction seems to be that they preferred compliance to incarceration, not that they didn't want incarceration so long as the non-compliance continues: “The government does not want to confine Ms. Manning,” said Tracy McCormick. “She could change her mind right now and decide to testify.”
GPU time is available by the minute from AWS/GCP/etc and it's dirt cheap. If you think it's expensive, I envy your youth.
Accompanying article: https://www.theverge.com/science/2019/2/19/18225564/animal-r...

ScienceDaily article with link to original paper: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190107142221.h...

And github repo: https://github.com/DrCoffey/DeepSqueak/
AWS Security – IAM
In this case there is no sentence. The judge is holding her in contempt to compel her to testify, not as a punishment. And the prosecutors most definitely want it:

“The government does not want to confine Ms. Manning,” said Tracy McCormick. “She could change her mind right now and decide to testify.”

It's not that they didn't ask the judge to do this.
In hospitals, most back end IT improvements don't directly drive revenue or care quality. So funding tends to be diverted to other things like new surgery centers, higher resolution MRI machines, nicer patient rooms, free care for the indigent, etc.
Is it using tweets to backfill “hotness” of a lay/long?
Back in your hole, fascist.
>Philadelphia City Councilman William Greenlee, a Democrat, >said he was inspired to introduce the bill after noticing >some Center City sandwich shops had gone cashless.

>“Most of the people who don’t have credit tend to be lower >income, minority, immigrants. It just seemed to me, if not >intentional, at least a form of discrimination,” he said. >Now, he said, stores will be required “to do what businesses >have been doing since Ben Franklin was walking the streets of >Philadelphia.”

Shame on Philadelphia for punishing innovation instead of helping low income families access banking and credit cards.
Walt Disney thought a lot about this and came up with EPCOT. Unfortunately, he died before the vision could be realized and they turned the idea into another amusement park instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)
We have actually teamed up with a company called AMT Netherlands to build our custom engines. The engines are not cheap because most of the companies are making them in very very small batches. We are currently increasing our numbers so the numbers are coming down considerably. We are actually currently working on a small thrust class turbofan which would solve a lot of issues that turbojets present. If you check out our videos we have flown all over the world for different companies like RedBull. We have also flown at many over land events like the Austrian F1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZpMLyAOFiQ)as well as at The Festival of Speed at Goodwood (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvELzB7jY_0?).
I'm firmly convinced that analog photonic computing is going to be a thing in the next 10 years.
Yes, I'd find that useful.
Yep, directly on the second level domain. I do not use a mail subdomain.
Hey! With the article about Cringely and this mentioning Condor (https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/), it's flashbacks week.

It was originally designed to soak up CPU cycles on unused desktop machines, but I usually used it in dedicated clusters.

I suppose the modern batch-processing hotness is Docker/Kubernetes, which are very heavy-weight for that usage.
I like MacOS but I'd never buy it on my own dime.
Judging by the abstract in that linked paper, I think that it is arguing more about semantics than anything else. It basically claims that: "No person is truly self taught as they stand on the shoulders of their predecessors". To which, I would agree. No man is an island and it would be very difficult to teach oneself something without material composed by others. However, I think the colloqual use of the term autodidact is more about the lack of a formal educational system or formal teaching figure and less about a person figuring everything out on their own.
Indeed, propositions are a bit vague. I've read many papers, which didn't use propositions at all. Then again there are papers, where propositions are heavily used, or randomly distributed. In my own work I try to avoid it. I rather would distinguish between "main theorem" and "theorem", then between "theorem" and "proposition".
Most devs get between 45k(2618 euros per month after taxes) and 55k(3074 euros per month after taxes). Paris being on the top 3 most expensive cities in the world. 225k would account for 10125 per month after taxes, but in Paris thats unheard of.
What I mean is that social science research will only ever be able to speak to the samples they are studying. That's usually okay, though, because typically in an experiment with difficult variability, you can gain certainty through replication. With social science, the variability in human beings is so significant that I don't think replication works the same way. I think you would need to replicate studies about a dozen times across different cultures, timeframes, languages, regions, religions, etc just to even begin approaching something like reliable results.

And given the fact that social science has a replication problem (an understatement if I'm right), the entire area of study is suspect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX5g0kidk3Y

(1996 documentary by Cringely. Excellently presented) There's a part 2 too.
Good, because as much as people talk about personal transport, the cargo story is the one that makes the money.
A Crucial Clue the MH370 Investigators Missed
Which, by the way, is also why we don't have dynamically reconfigurable FPGA coprocessors like was once dreamed.
> What happens ten years down the road when those brands are gone due to Amazon's allegedly benevolent undercutting?

It doesn't matter. The power strips are still being manufactured at the same factory in China.
Mixed it up. It was from moreutils, not bsd.

My configure.ac recipe for the proper parallel is this, setting logs_all to the GNU parallel version.

dnl GNU parallel, skip the old non-perl version from moreutils so far
AC_CHECK_PROGS([PARALLEL], [parallel])
logs_all=logs-all-serial.sh.in
if test -n "$PARALLEL"; then
AC_MSG_CHECKING([PARALLEL version])
parallel_version=`$PARALLEL --version 2>&1 | head -n1 | cut -c14-`
case "$parallel_version" in
[0-9]*) AC_MSG_RESULT([$parallel_version])
logs_all=logs-all-parallel.sh.in
;;
*invalid*)
PARALLEL=
parallel_version="skip old moreutils version, need GNU parallel"
esac
AC_MSG_RESULT([$parallel_version])
fi
AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_PARALLEL], [test -n "$PARALLEL"])
Unfortunately, that journalist is being investigated for crimes so that is somewhat inevitable. This also, is the opposite of a journalist going to jail to protect a source, Manning is the source and everyone already knows that.
Wow, are you better than them?

Try giving the book "how to win friends and influence people" a read. And maybe find some humility or try living with the less privileged.
Wait, why Board first? Then everyone stares you down. Stay in the lounge and board last!
Putin Thanks Women for Taking Care of the Home and Staying Beautiful
I don’t think it’s true he had limited ambition. His later turn to alcoholism which lead to his death in a bar fight was a direct result of losing to DOS. That’s not the reaction one has if they were content with their accomplishments.
Out of millions of species that have appeared on this planet, only 1 made it to space. It could be most aliens never make it to space.
Of umbrellas, transducers, reactive streams and mushrooms (Pt.2)
These all sound like anti-New Orleans arguments too. Give us a shot, we’re way more fun and we have Internet too.
I've got that SV myopia here in Chicago too ;)
Seconded. Came here to recommend this exact option.
Can you please provide source links to this 33%? I assume it is public info but where do I find that.
More people in their 30s and 40s are having strokes. How to recognize, prevent
China does that
My point in referencing isn't to judge whether the situation is good, bad, or indifferent.

And it may well be that women there are making these choices freely--I'm not in any position to judge.

But the point is that the culture in Utah is driven in large measure by the significant Mormon influence. Indeed, women may well be choosing to stay home because of that Mormon influence.

All fine and good--if that's what people want to do, more power to them--I'm not going to judge.

But this culture does seep out into the broader Utah culture, and denying that (as the post I was originally responding to does), is making an error.
Netflix paying zero tax wasn't actually a loophole, afaik, it was because revenues were re-invested in growth, which includes hiring more people and paying more for infrastructure and such, which is something we want American companies to definitely do.
No, but that's a good idea!
sina pona. mi pakala. tenpo ni la mi ken ala ante e lipu mi :-(
The article seems to want to say "suburbs cause wealth" but only provides data for "rich people live in suburbs".
Why is Microsoft never mentioned?!
Hands-On Tutorial on Docker Containers
>> Arguing over the morality (or even constitutionality) of such a measure was not the point of me bringing it up.

> So what? I was asking how you would feel.

To me how I feel about it is tied directly to the morality of it.

>> The point was that there are compelling arguments to make that both greatly liberalizing school choice and greatly eliminating school choice would improve things for those who are economically disadvantaged.

> Eliminating choice is generally about centralizing control.

I disagree with this. Eliminating choice generally causes a centralizing of control, but that does not mean it's generally the motivation for it.
George W Bush tried this against Microsoft. They were unsuccessful. You cannot just decide it's a crime to be large. The fundamental rights like unreasonable seizure and freedom of speech. Which means the government cant just steal the corporation from you or prevent your companies from working together.
Yes, you are completely correct! It is much more than software to solve this issue. It is so much different than self-leveling robots on a surface because we are floating in the air with no hard attachment point. We are currently going through multiple iterations on our 1:3 scale prototype so that we can dial in the stabilization systems so that we have the correct flight characteristics.
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There's definitely proof that the world does respect hard work. Consider the fact that Asians, Whites, Hispanics, and Blacks spend time working on homework in that order: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/...

Asians spend twice as much time on homework as compared to Whites, and about three times as compared to Blacks. Kids of high income families spend more time working on homework than low income kids. So the fact that Asians comprise the student body proportionally larger than Whites, and whites more than Blacks is evidence that hard work pays off.

I think these claims that meritocracy is false lack nuance. It's not that meritocracy isn't fair, it's that a pure meritocracy free of bias is too fair: it doesn't attempt to rectify the fact not everyone starts with the same resources and that certain groups have different attitudes towards thinks like education than others.

Granted many of you are probably thinking that the fact that meritocracy doesn't correct for these things makes it inherently unfair, and many are probably thinking that the notion that our processes to allocate opportunitiea should correct for things like disparate time spent on study is itself an act of unfairness. And there's no one right answer to this. This is a kind of question where there is no answer, but rather society continuously develops and evolves a concensus about the right approach.
Comments in code often only describe the task at hand, and rarely ever the big picture of how code fits together or why. Documentation, test cases(and comments) and internal FAQs cover these to some extent, but are disassociated from the code itself.

IMO to think inline code comments are as important as they are misses the forest for the trees; I want to see the solution to these bigger problems.

Moreover (and this is a separate problem altogether) most code comments are text based-Are there examples of non text commenting that have taken off? Often an algo or structure is so much better described with an image or video- yet most comments are text based.

There’s much to come in the way of comments- there must be.
Once upon a time it was extremely valuable, see timeshare systems of old. The capital cost was so high that if it wasn't loaded pretty much all the time you were shoveling money down the drain.
The whole argument for this doesn’t make sense. Cashless payment systems are ubiquitous across socioeconomic lines in China and other countries. The problem is specific to the US and can be solved in a less destructive manner to businesses. Instead of punishing retailers, the city should create an incentive system to help people from less privileged backgrounds obtain access to banking systems and electronic payment systems.
A lot of people in India, more so poor people, and people in rural areas, don't wear any kind of footwear, much of the time. They might just wear shoes or slippers (chappals) when going to a town or city. I see this even today. Even though I know they can get used to it, I always marvel at how they can handle all the potential issues, like heat (gets very high in large parts of India for much of the year), cold, bumpy/sharp surfaces, even glass or nails (although rarer) on the roads. I've seen workers in houses of relatives, which I have visited, who did their work inside and around the house, barefoot.
I find lie flat seats huge wins for overnight flights. I certainly don’t dislike them for travel during the day when I’m awake but I don’t find them a huge win over traditional domestic business class/premium economy either.
> Only if you don't value your employee's time.

I don't understand this logic. Time == money. Unless your presence is crucial and you must minimize your time away from your home office this approach seems the most logical and cost effective.

I'm already 100% remote, so I can contribute effectively whether I'm at home or in a hotel recuperating from a 12 hour APAC flight in coach.
I'm largely biased since I grew up within 60 miles of Austin, but I never got the hype. It's hot as hell, has the worst traffic I've ever seen, is geographically lame (you don't get to claim the hill country, and no, barton springs doesn't count either), and super weak public transportation. The only thing Austin has on just about any other city in the US is world-class BBQ and a fleet of Richard Linklater wannabes.