skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL. We've eaten at every 3-star Michelin restaurant in the Bay Area (we did Meadowood before they signed on to Tock) and four of the 3-stars in NYC (one of them lost a star since we were there). We're regulars at Manresa. We've eaten at four of the six two-stars in the BA (we won't do Atelier Crenn because Tock). (BTW, one of the two-stars was absolutely horrible. We didn't walk out, but we would never go back.) We ate at and fell in love with Gabriel Kreuther just before they received their second star, and at Meadowood just after they got their third one. We've been doing this for a long time.

Michelin doesn't give stars to LA restaurants any more, but when we lived there we were regulars at Patina, Spago and Providence (and the Water Grill before the chef quit to go to Providence).

So yeah, I'm pretty sure we are solidly in Tock's target audience.

> Not all the restaurants on Tock are pre-paid, for whatever that's worth to you.

Not even FaceBook is 100% evil.
I do the same thing with tennis shoes. If I like a pair I'll go back and buy 4 more pairs before they change the shoe the next year.
requests uses urllib3:

https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/75bdc998e2d430...

hannob opened an issue asking about this:

https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/1553
> Computer languages are called languages for a reason. They have syntax, grammar, vocabulary, and are used for communication.

Perhaps, but they are vastly simpler than even the most basic human language; and far, far more limited in what they can communicate without resorting to another language.

> People who don't speak english for example but who read python can often read code you wrote and understand it.

That's extremely unlikely to be true - they could perhaps say if it has certain properties, but it is almost impossible to understand what a piece of code is meant to do without understanding any of the identifiers, unless it's doing something very abstract (e.g. you can understand what "def id(x): return x" does if you know some Python and nothing else; but you can't probably understand what "def cumÎlStrigă(om): return om.poreclă" is meant to do if you understand Python but not Romanian).
If anything that is supporting my argument. Yes, all of those costs are less in India. Why would that possibly be?
Plus, one looses so much(health and relations) in the process of making lots of money quickly that their option of coming back is no longer available.
Lots of money also heightens one's expectations and comfort requirements so much that they hardly save much and, even if they do, its not enough for them to maintain lifestyle for long without new income.
Based on my understanding, children have a much easier time for several reasons, none of which are inherent to being children, but are extremely common among children, specifically.

* Massive amounts of input data (Just all over the place)
* Involuntary immersion (Your parents can just choose not to speak to you in your first language, a shop teacher can't)
* Contextual examples (people very clearly pointing at things and labelling stuff when they use language)
* 1 on 1 tutelage (This one is super important and extremely expensive for adults)

An adult given this situation willingly will learn a language extremely quickly.

The biggest argument against young people learning languages more easily than adults is the learning outcomes of children without bilingual parents in school language classes.
Parent brought up A/B, the person you're responding to asked if it was blinded. Doesn't seem like the affront you're making it out to be, it's an innocuous follow-up question.
Seriously, especially since it's funded with tax money. I watched a good amount of PBS when I was younger since we couldn't afford cable. This should be available free online through a government maintained portal.
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Yup. They exist in America, as well.
I, too, have no words to communicate my astonishment.

A phrase comes to mind: "To screw up this bad you need an MBA." Which is not really intended as a dig on MBA's... but rather to indicate that this debacle has the feeling of business decisions overruling sound engineering design.

This seems poor system engineering on multiple levels:

- the whole airframe / engine thrust composite flight characteristic requiring an agressive AoA limiting safety... on a commercial airliner? what?

- The default MCAS relying on a single sensor, which seems to be occasionally quite unreliable, without sensor truth'ing based on other measurements (i.e. dividing ground speed by rate of altitude change to estimate AoA, then also figuring for control surface position feedback.

- The MCAS not having proper situational behavior: i.e. "I'm only 500 feet of the deck... maybe this not a great time to try to tip the nose down too hard... you know, in case that stupid sensor is wrong. Oh... and the pilot is also pulling back on the yoke trying to correct something I'm doing. yeah... my bad, MCAS will chill right now and assume the pilot is NOT trying to fly this thing like a stunt plane 500 feet off the deck".
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Spoiler for those tired of question-begging headlines:

The author's answer is "no."
"Start a toy collection, says LEGO founder."
Yes, for something like “msg causes headaches”, that needs to be blinded to discern if there’s a placebo effect happening. It’s not nearly as straightforward as “touch hot surface, get burned”.
Checks and balances is a more general term than something describing the 3 branch system. A classic example within one branch is requiring both the senate and house to pass a bill.

To the extent that you think the FAA is actually serving as an extension of the will of the president you're right that I misused it, but I don't think that describes reality.
I do the same thing. Luckily, my desktop is in the living room, so I don't have to work on a laptop.
That's actually how classical languages (Latin, Ancient Greek, Babylonian, etc.) are generally taught. Even professional classicists are generally not expected to speak their ancient tongues and using dictionaries are par for the course for making translations.
Latin isn't a living language, though.
The bubble is here on HN where people routinely talk about America as if it is one big suburban hellhole and Europe as if it is one big metropolis paradise.
Previously posted to HN half-a-year ago while still in the idea stage. Now a developed website.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17732902 for previous discussion
See this previous in-depth discussion that includes references and links to the original Harvard and USG research findings on the issues with MSG, aspartame and artificial sweeteners/flavors in general, like why it's banned in baby food: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6703802
You see plenty of families with kids making it work on public transportation. I wouldn't have seen very much baseball growing up without the train.
You have double the chance that one of the sensors is bad. Which one do you choose? The one that says AoA is normal? Maybe that's the one that is bad. Worse, maybe such a bad input is more likely in a stall scenario.

Without any ability to differentiate bad from good input, you may be better off simply relying on a single sensor at any one time and completely ignoring the other, at least as far as controlling MCAS is concerned. Tossing up a warning that says the sensors disagree is another matter.
Turning an organic molecule into a coherent two-level quantum system
I can never tell if studies like this take into account much evolution and adaptation? They always seem to assume that current trendlines will continue.
Another issue with living in urban areas, at least in the US, is education. Schools in urban areas deal with more issues around family and poverty. The school buildings themselves are often older and require more maintenance. For young parents who may love urban life, the quality of education becomes a big factor.
I think a useful way of looking at it is that the rooms are decentralized, i.e. not owned by a single server, but the user accounts are (for now).
Same thing that happened the first time Steve Jobs left. Apple is moving towards being just another consumer electronics company. Unremarkable products and competitive pricing.
Show HN: An App to Find the Cheapest EVs in the SF Bay Area
It's very common for restaurants to text to confirm these days.
When you are programming JavaScript
I want to sell music as an asset. Like, background tracks for videos or game music, etc.

just for the sake of curiosity, this is the kind of sound i produce: http://www.soundcloud.com/flipbit03
Sounds like the author's concerns could be addressed by allowing programming languages to sub in for foreign languages as long as the curriculum includes pair-programming.
Yep, and a redesign of the edge of the iPad, which would not be trivial. Of course, this would also make the iPads look much more like the Pro, which they try to position as the premium model.
I think the system will eventually collapse under it's own weight. When enough people have 'had enough.'

First step is to eliminate eminent domain. More infrastructure only begets more people using said infrastructure. When the many can't take from the few, they might actually have to give up some of their luxuries to have what they want (eg, a place to work).
It satisfied the foreign language requirement
If they don't want to consume something they need to say so.
The original comment says "it's almost impossible to live close to where you work". None of the things you mention come anywhere near the bar of "nearly impossible" in my book. As far as I can tell, it's completely possible.
Over half the people in NYC don't own a car.
The answer is economics - complex systems are expensive to build and maintain, and the air travel industry is notoriously low-margin. I don't see travelers accepting higher ticket prices because the airline bought (costlier) airframes with more redundancies. Any airline that attempts this will be undercut by those that do not.
I wish this interview would have delved a bit deeper into the journey of going from "weekend project" to VC-funded to life-style business. Right now, it kind of lacks any real substance and comes off as a typical entreporn story of how a Python script exploded into a multi-million dollar company. It skips over a lot of what could have been valuable info for other founders. Not to be too harsh, but the interview just seems overly romanticized.
The more interesting thing in this paper is the gulf between state of the art and mainstream practice. Most of you people are happy getting ~100K QPS in a 32-core box and this guy is getting 10M QPS per core.
This one does. We're talking about Tumblr.
I once took a summer class in Latin and Greek, and it was one of the most useful classes I've ever taken. Half of English is based on Latin roots. It's like a programmer getting the source code to the standard library. Everything got easier.

In real life, knowing a little Latin has been way more useful than the years of German I took to fulfill graduation requirements.

Big German words are made of little German words. Big Japanese words are made of little Japanese words. Big English words are mostly made of Latin. I'm surprised Latin isn't part of the standard English curriculum.
Corn still is a generic term.
What's "worthy" about being fit or raising kids?

It's hard to decide for others what is important for them and what isn't. All we can say here is that side projects aren't free and you're going to need to take that time from other activities you participate in.

What it's not fair to say here is whether or not you're "right" to spend time on the things you do.

In other words, this conversation lives entirely on the "is" side of "is/ought", and doesn't need to stray into "ought" at all to still be helpful.
Psychedelics Pioneer Ralph Metzner, RIP
>A few months later, I left Pinterest to work full-time on Gumroad and raised $8MM from KPCB, Max Levchin, and other investors.
Ask HN: Medium requiring signup to view articles?
Just tried to read something on Medium and it said I'd reached my monthly article limit. Said I can signup to get one more free article. Then I guess I have to pay...

Have never experienced this before. Is this new?
> This ambiguity is meant to create enough of a chilling effect on the employee working in their spare time that for all intents and purposes it achieves the effect that the employer wants: the employee doesn’t bother doing any side projects that might turn into a business some day, and the employer gets a nice, refreshed employee coming to work in the morning after spending the previous evening watching TV.

Nailed it.
As someone who grew up bilingual, I think knowing another language has been invaluable to how I approach and understand the world. I disagree (fully acknowledging my bias) that learning another language is a waste of time.

However, I think high school is too late. Most people I knew in HS that started learning another language weren't super invested and didn't learn it. Not to mention that it's really hard to do at 14-18. I think kindergarden-5th grade should have the option and encouragement to be bilingual though. At that point it's remarkably easier to pick up, and I think it would increase cross-cultural awareness and empathy, a trait that seems in decline recently.
> the people who say the MAX engine placement makes it "more prone to stall" are not entirely wrong.

Agreed. But "more prone to stall" in this sense ("easier for the pilot to accidentally pitch into a stall") is not the same as "stalls at lower speeds", which is what the post I responded to was claiming.
How fascinating. I wonder what is the measure of precision on such computers for real numbers. And can this be used for integer math if at all ?
We had a recent example of the value of "duck and cover" - and more specifically what happens if you don't do it - the Chelyabinsk meteor.

"Its explosion created panic among local residents, and about 1,500 people were injured seriously enough to seek medical treatment. All of the injuries were due to indirect effects rather than the meteor itself, mainly from broken glass from windows that were blown in when the shock wave arrived, minutes after the superbolide's flash."

Many of the injured went to a window to see the spectacle in the sky, not realizing that the shock wave was about to shatter the window in their face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
It's generic in Norwegian too, although spelled with a k.
I think it's clear that they want to use this to minimize expenditures. The problem arises with how they use the data. The trackers don't intrinsically let them get the bad driver rate down, but lets them tune the premiums that those drivers have to pay.

Let's use your data; they currently pay ~$1,090 per customer. So for the sake of argument, let's say that they charge $1,100 and keep that $10 in expectation. Now they install GPS trackers, and they can identify two classes of behavior; class A drivers (50% of drivers), who have a 4% accident rate, and class B drivers (50% of drivers), who have a 16% accident rate. The combined rate is still 10%.

Class A drivers cost 48 * 1e2 + 2 * 1e4 = $24,800 = $496/driver

Class B drivers cost 42 * 1e2 + 8 * 1e4 = $84,200 = $1,684/driver.

So this is great -- good drivers pay less, risk profiles are narrowed, etc. Maybe the bad drivers can be given feedback that will tell them what things they can do to minimize their accident rate based on the GPS data, and get some feedback on that -- "drive slower", "stop at red lights", "stop running into parked cars" -- things that both improve the metrics for the GPS and result in safer drivers.

But maybe the metric that the adjusters found are "frequently drives in historically Irish neighborhoods", or "drives to fast food restaurants more often". Now things get diciers. And what if the things that the GPS is measuring are not proxies for how bad a driver they are, but how willing they are to settle with cash without involving insurance. Or the correlation is a false one -- it could be that most of the Class B drivers are excellent drivers, as good as Class A, but they have to pay Class B rates because they got lumped in with a secondary association not related to quality of driving.

This is a problem with any attempt to bring more metrics to bear in computing insurance rates, but is especially exacerbated by the invasive nature of GPS-based metrics, which can be used as proxies for all sorts of socioeconomic signals that allow open discrimination.
I couldn't give up Termux.
When I lived in Texas, my co-workers who lived in the countryside would complain about scorpions. Scorpions liked one co-worker's closets especially, so she always had to shake out her clothes before getting dressed.
Everyone wants to know because building a product is comparatively easy. Building a customer base is the hard part.
> In the 1990s Calthorpe scored a breakthrough: He helped persuade Portland, Oregon, to build a light-rail line instead of another freeway and to cluster housing, offices, and shops around it.

Mr Calthorpe is playing simcity in Real Life, ENVY!
Reducing carbon emissions is a good thing but the emissions from a typical launch are on the same order of magnitude as flying a jumbo jet across the Pacific and rocket flights are much less frequent than that. The biggest environmental concern is the damage to the ozone layer that solid boosters cause.
Why not do all of it? Here's what I do every weekday:

1. Work for ~8 hours
2. Go the gym for an hour
3. Commute home( unless I worked remotely that day )
4. Work on side project for 1 - 2 hours.
5. Spend time with significant other/video games/both
The present flood is unstoppable, especially for young kids. Relatives feel bad if they don't buy presents for kids and there's no changing that. Birthdays for young kids are also terrible. They invite the entire class and get 20 gifts: 10 lego sets, 5 nerf guns, 2 knock off nerf guns, and 3 "educational toys".

I think the only solution to to stash 99% of them out of sight after a day our two, wait another week or two, and then drop them at the goodwill. I wish I could build an underground pneumatic tube system straight from my basement to the goodwill toy bin.
What do you use for pdf annotation and citation management? I really like hosting my own data with zotero+webdav, but there basically is no interface. On the flip side, Mendeley has a ton of features, and works+looks great, but hosting is paid.
People have lost the ability to make the distinction between “taking less from someone” and “giving someone something”.

Food stamps is giving someone something. A deduction of any kind is taking less from someone.

These days people, whether they realize it or not, act as if the government has a natural right to everything you produce. And anytime the government takes less it’s welfare.

If the government takes 50% but offers a rebate or a deduction to reduce the rake to 30% people are acting as if you should grateful! As if that were a handout!

Suffice to say I disagree with this type of thinking.
So why not buy the car seats then rent an uber XL?
As for 2018
Google receives over 63,000 searches per second on any given day. That's the average figure of how many people use Google a day, which translates into at least 2 trillion searches per year, 3.8 million searches per minute, 228 million searches per hour, and 5.6 billion searches per day.

People are using Google because it's easy, the results are relevant and get better and better every year (Google release an update to their algorithm every few months)

Google doesn't become useless, it just becomes a better version of Google in early stage
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No such parallel was intended.

How are you getting 'genocide' from the above comment?
Sure, no matter what kind of programs. To get an idea, take a look at the example code at the end of the page: https://github.com/spinettaro/delphi-event-bus
There are plenty of satellites out there that monitor for missile launches using IR cameras. These might detecting all of these meteor explosions and the military is not reporting them due to not wanting their operational capacity being known. The previous generation of missile detection missiles could see Scud launches during Desert Storm in 1991. I'm sure the military sees all kinds of weird space stuff and doesn't mention a word.

Latest generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-Based_Infrared_System
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But that's not true. When I reserve on OpenTable, if I don't show up, that goes on my OT record, or at least I presume it does. And I'm perfectly fine with that. I'm proud of the fact that I don't screw restaurants (even though I easily could), and I want them to know that.

Also, we've had a few absolutely horrible experiences at some very high end restaurants. One case was so egregious that we actually walked out. Maybe our experience was unusual, but if a restaurant consistently treats its customers badly it's going to fail whether or not it collects the money up front. And if a restaurant does treat me like shit, I want to have some recourse other than just bitching and moaning about it.
NASA actually receive lots of funding(might be second after military). Most of their work doesn't align with any of the politics promises, even then they receive good chunk of budget spending.
And Clearbanc will fund it :)
Contact your representative to ensure PBS has the necessary funding to do so. They are working on over the top streaming [1].

PBS could not afford Sesame Street, which is why it's on HBO now [2].

Disclaimer: Staunch supporter of PBS and other public broadcasting (streaming now I guess?)

[1] https://current.org/2018/06/pbs-and-stations-working-on-firs...

[2] https://www.vox.com/2015/8/13/9149091/sesame-street-hbo-pbs
I learned my first programming language, Basic, when I was 8 years old, and reading code feels like a natural language to me. I think the complication is that programming involves both a language and a logic system. While language may be created naturally before puberty, having the requisite logical reasoning requires something extra. I had very early access to formal logic training, and this combined with self-motivated interest helped me overcome that barrier. I think it would be a deal breaker for others. It's one thing to be able to read a language, quite another to understand what it says.

Another factor is that the kind of language children are very good at learning is the spoken kind. Human capacity for reading and writing is not necessarily natural. You don't find many children learning Latin on their own without some other factor lowering the barrier for entry, either. Having a parent with whom to speak Latin would be that kind of factor.
So, does this show that fisheries will be more productive with 1.5C or 3.5C warming vs 0C? A difference of 6.5% biomass between 1.5C and 3.5C doesn't warrant trillions of spending, IMO. This along with 1-4ft increase in sealevel[1] over 100 years begs the question, so what?

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
> Unless Tesla is able to cut the Model 3 price by about 50% they won't be of much relevance in the grand scheme.

They are already relevant.
And the fact that they are pricer but still have demand shows that they are successful right now, and probably in the future.
Towards Class-Less JavaScript
I am not understanding what this means:

> my municipality could manually deploy and operate hundreds of solutions for a hundred years and still have spent less time than 8 people building and implementing a devops toolchain over a period of two years.
How Functional Is Ruby?
What are SaaS banking engine alternatives for fintech lenders?
I am part of a team launching a new lending product in the UK and we are looking to build our tech stack - core banking engines are very expensive, therefore we are looking for alternatives (e.g. CloudLending Soutions). I would be very grateful for any hints for lending engines. Thanks!