skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious whether ICC's volunteers sign anything transferring copyright of the code sections they draft to ICCC. Also, have you tried asking ICC why they're violating their own Antitrust Compliance Policy[1]?

> Care should be taken to ensure that ICC Activities, including without limitation the ICC code and standards
development process, is not used to stabilize prices or to exclude competitors or competition for reasons other than public health, safety or welfare.

[1] https://cdn-web.iccsafe.org/wp-content/uploads/PPG-12-AntiTr...
It's as if millions of "Only 2 left!!" banners cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
I think it's more about this: http://laboratorium.net/archive/2014/06/28/as_flies_to_wanto...
> have an excellent sense of direction. I'm excellent at learning maps in computer games.

That's interesting. I wonder how your mind has learned to compensate. Maps are such visual things, you must be tapping into some other brain areas to store/retrieve this information.

> When I remember traumatic experiences I don't visualize them, I remember the feeling, the shame or the guilt or the embarrassment.

hmm, interesting. Maybe this part of my personality isn't related to the aphantasia.
In California, all the codes have an open-access version online (https://www.dgs.ca.gov/BSC/Codes). On the state website, some codes are more user-friendly than others; for example, the ICC Building Code has PDFs of each chapter that prohibit copying and printing, whereas the IAPMO Uniform Plumbing Code is a javascript app that allows you to flip between inaccessible images but not select or copy. Archive.org also has scans of the PDFs (https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22bsc.ca.gov...) (from Public.Resource.Org, described by other comments here), which allows saving. Up.codes is much more user-friendly than either (https://up.codes/codes/california), since it allows you to search for a word and link to a specific code section and is mobile-friendly. I am very thankful that up.codes exists and has been expanding rapidly.

I am curious how far the open access decisions will reach. The building standards are incorporated into the law with amendments, so the state collaborates with the standards bodies to publish them. But these codes also reference many other standards published by ASTM, ASME, NSF, etc. by reference only (e.g. the pipe geometries, thread widths, manufacturing and testing methods). Do open access decisions cover these standards bodies’ publications too? I wish they did.
It's refreshing to see bipartisan efforts like this coming out of the current political landscape.
The guy who runs the site gave a talk a while back about how crazy cheap it is to host it, and why cloud vendors like Amazon and Google are making suckers out of people.

"High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wvix6buI

And I'm pretty sure he's also cryptocoin-rich, anyway.
Well, in theory you can divide the uncertainty into two parts, by supposing that the outcome is driven by a fundamentally stochastic process and you also have imperfect information about the parameters of that process. For example, the outcome could be determined by a coin flip but you’re not sure whether the coin is fair. In that case, there is a “true” probability of heads based on the nature of the coin, and separately, a Bayesian observer can have a probability distribution for (i.e. representing their beliefs about) the value of the true probability. The observer could then come up with a single number representing their belief in heads by taking the expected value of that probability distribution, and if they just want to gamble on the outcome, that number would be all they need. But in order to correctly update their beliefs given future information about the parameters, they have to remember the original probability distribution; they also might just be curious about the nature of the underlying stochastic process, in addition to the final outcome.

How well that models an actual election is debatable, of course, but I think it does model it to some degree. In reality, there are not two stages but multiple, and none of those stages are necessarily fundamentally stochastic; rather, you just need exponentially more information to predict one stage than to predict the previous one, and without that information you may as well treat it as stochastic. For example, if I’m about to flip a coin, a god with exact knowledge of the state of my body and brain, the air currents in the room, etc. might be able to predict how I’ll throw it and how it will fall, but mere mortals have to treat a coin flip as random. Similarly, a god with exact knowledge about the state of the universe might be able to predict an election result eons in advance… though quantum randomness might trip them up. Getting more down to earth, if you just could poll every American about their political beliefs, you could make much better predictions than you can with real polls, which have to take random samples and thus accept some level of stochastic polling error. On the other hand, polls can also suffer from methodological error, which is fundamentally different in nature; it can be highly pernicious, but does require a smaller quantity of information to correct for. And so on.
I discovered I had this a year ago. Honestly, I always thought I had some kind of learning disability. Some kinds of tests are very hard, I cannot picture anything while awake, I literally cannot remember anything about my life visually, learning faces takes a long time, I failed geometry, and struggled with any kind of visualization math past that (despite doing quite well in calculus)...

Then there were the careers I was drawn to: creative things like graphic design, drafting, etc that I utterly failed at. I had ideas of what I wanted to do, but the step between transforming the thoughts onto paper was always a fight. I studied photography in school, and could never convert it into a profession because I found being creative enough to get clients wasn't coming to me - I would be burnt out on small projects for no reason I could fathom.

I ALWAYS assumed people who visualize chakras or meditate with a object focus were just faking it.

I remember reading about this a year or so ago, and telling some friends. One of them immediately recognized it as why I utterly failed at some MMO raid mechanics.

So there is probably an unending list of ways this has impacted my choices, and I can only hope young kinds get a chance to learn they have this and get some guidance on what effects this will have on certain tasks based on the level of visualization they have.
Driving my car (phone in pocket, do-not-disturb on):

Yesterday: Passed a college-aged kid on a (edit: motorized) scooter, no helmet, going about 45 mph, reading his phone.

Today: Passed a middle-school-aged kid (edit: on a bicycle), with a helmet, going about 3 mph, reading his phone.

Not sure which earns his Darwin Award first. It's a problem, either way.
> It’s tied to your job because health ins through your employer gets an effective tax discount compared to that bought through the ACA market.

There is often some insurance package tied to a job, but that doesn't mean health insurance in general is tied to it. You have a choice.

> There is no way for latter to be as economical.

Yes there is and I'll tell you why: Insurers know you are likely to take the bait so they get make the plans worse (often in terms of coverage, not necessarily cost). It's effectively a small monopoly for them to exploit. Some of the plans I've seen are complete jokes. A total waste of money.
How Donorschoose.org Is Encouraging Teachers to Seek Virtual Resources
Serious question: why does everyone seem to strongly hate the auto-play feature? I kind of like it. Ditto for YouTube.
Insights on Consciousness from Galantamine-Induced Lucid Dreams
The “RRRR Theorem”
"Return, risk, reputation, realisation".

After all this effort and you still can't find a sucker to take the hit, look around the table for the poker theorem.

"If you can't find the sucker in 30 minutes after sitting at the table, the sucker is you".
Incidentally javascript is completely unnecessary to read the article: https://0x0.st/zZIt.png

I strongly recommend blocking all javascript, including first party javascript, by default. You'll probably be surprised how many websites won't require you to whitelist anything.
My strongest past memories of landscapes are this way, which I have also described as something like an expressionist painting. My conjured mental images (picture a red star) are just black though.
The type you describe is very popular among older people and the rural area. But they’re mostly built by small factories that produce scooters. Most of them aren’t even road legal vehicles with mandatory insurance. They are popular but not representative of the real EV industry.
Sure, agency and personal responsibilities are important values. But if you were the lawmaker here, would you remove the sin tax?

Empirically, you should be pretty confident that removing the tax will cause deaths, illnesses, etc. to go up. Keeping it costs some people some annoyance, and reduces everyone's agency.

At the end of the day, you have to make a judgement on:

value(agency) + value(tax annoyance) > value(deaths, illnesses, etc., externalities of these on others)

So what do you do? You might think it's obvious. I'm genuinely not sure -- and I think `value(agency)` is pretty high. But am I confident enough in just how high it is /really/ to live with the possibility of being wrong? (And the, in this case pretty concrete, blood on the hands?)

(What I'm really getting at here is a way to think about this, not the actual problem. Things are extremely polarized these days. Calling something paternalistic/etc is asking for an emotional response. But if what this really means is just that someone thinks `value(agency) > value(X)`, and I don't... well, there's no immediate emotional response there. How confident am I in `value(agency)` and `value(X)` really? That seems like a path to much healthier discussion, at least to me.)
If you're not aware, you get most of that for free with GitHub pages:

https://pages.github.com/

It deploys when you push, is based on Jekyll, and GitHub handles all of the hosting/HTTPS/caching themselves.
That's a great table they have with associated words and numerical probability associated with them.
I mean, mass immigration with no borders is exactly how humans spread out from Africa to populate the world. Seems it’s worked out great for humanity.

And speaking as a resident of the Bay Area, I greatly appreciate the diverse people I meet. Not to mention the wide food choices.
Dava Sobel has a great book covering Copernicus and the subsequent publication of the heliocentric theory[0].

[0] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11256934-a-more-perfect-...
I can override my eye sight in the right conditions (with various degree of how much I override it) with another whole world created by mind in front of me. Ofc is FAR far far easier when it's dark or I am alone or I am hearing music, but you get the point.

For example when doing some shadowboxing I actually put fantasized people in front of myself which fight me and react to my moves, and I can see them as I see a real person until I remain focused. I often change also the location and the background to suite better my fantasy.

It's like shutting partially your eye system and making your mind go in full control.

edit: I said this to explain how much I can push it. But to make a simpler example, I _Very_ often fantasized at night, before bad and with eyes closed, of having an adventure in a post apocalyptic world and I can see everything in first person in my mind like I am really there and everything is real
No different then the West currenty

If your over 35 Male STRAIGHT and support Democracy

chances are you wont get employed in companies worth over 1M dollars
Just wondering does zeit also does the same ?
http://zeit.co/
I'm pessimistic on this bill passing- Silicon Valley has also reached its fingers into lobbying. See: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/03/silicon-v...
> GitHub doesn't support a build process, right? So you would have to do that yourself and commit that.

GitHub builds your site with Jekyll.
Often when I hear people describing their experience with visualization, I wonder if I have a mild form of this. I am able to visualize things, think of visual scenes, manipulate objects in my mind, etc. But it's never at a level of fidelity I would consider 'looking at an image in my mind'. It's more of a nebulous, hazy thing, impermanent and lacking in detail. Faces in particular are very difficult to visualize; I don't have any real difficulty remembering what people look like or recognizing them, but summoning a complete mental picture of a particular face is usually elusive.
My house tour (MTV crib) vlogger squad
Usability is a killer feature. It’s possible to build a website without understanding how to use the command line. I know I managed it when I was younger!
The problem is not the wall itself, but that Google uses it’s de-facto monopoly position to enforce tracking.
Hate to break it to you, but downvotes do not prove that you are right. Sometimes they indicate that you're right and stepped on peoples' corns, but that's rare. It's more common that they indicate you're wrong, clueless, willfully blind to the available evidence, and/or being a jerk.

Using downvotes to validate your position is a logical fallacy. I see it often enough here that there ought to be a catchy name for it. Martyrdom Fallacy, maybe?

I kind of agree with your reply to citrablue, though - "downvote to disagree without explanation" is a really poor communication channel. "I was downvoted without comment, and now I see the error of my ways" said no one ever.
An huge amount of men are leaving IT in Australia and migrating to jobs like

Construction
Electrical
Trades
Driving - trucks/cab/uber/etc

In AUSTRALIA you can get AUD$32.50 per hour driving a truck

or you can work your arse off in IT for AUD$28.50 for WANKERS that refuse to spend money on gear and backup correctly
I wrote this somewhere else in this thread, but I like her because she's one of the few (current) 'well known' women in tech that's successful and stylish. She's exactly the kind of representation I need and want.
I liked the part were you called me sexist for making the complaint the mothers in Yahoo made against her when she cut their rights to work remotely.

You of course would know this if you read the link I provided, instead of the first line of my post.
> Wait, does this refer to A/B testing?

I hope so.

Experimenting on your customers is about as user hostile as you can get.
OneSignal Is Hiring Ruby on Rails and Rust Developers in San Mateo
I hardly see how that's connected to the number of laws on the books.

My understanding is that buildings in developing countries are more prone to disaster because of the way they're financed. In developed countries, buildings are funded by banks, which require insurance, which require inspections.
Isn't using a phone while driving illegal in most countries now?

Here in Australia you can only touch one if it is in one of those GPS holder things, with ~$400 fines for non-compliance.

The police put a few plain clothed ppl at traffic lights and raise thousands. Sure it's revenue raising, but the message gets out pretty quickly.
I recently moved my site[0] from WordPress to Netlify
Used HUGO and then one of my Post regarding MacBook Thermals was trending on HN, The site had more than 12K visitors. If I had been using WordPress I could only imagine how catastrophic that would be. Though I crossed their 100GB limit. But since this was a rare spike in traffic I feel their free plan is very generous. Netlify+ static site generators is good alternative for WordPress.
[0] https://bsid.io
In Montenegro, the cheapest factory-made wine is about €1.5 / liter: http://mojsupermarket.me/proizvod/moje-vino-crveno-1l-808940...

Some seasons of the year, home made wine can be found for even less.
Maybe look into setting a small server and just pinging it from the main page (via an img tag, etc?).
I have aphantasia, an absolute 0 on the visualization scale. Not sure about LSD, but I've had vivid open and closed-eye visuals on quite large doses of psilocybin. Even though those visuals tend to lean more to the involuntary side, it feels like there's at least some level of control, so it's pretty exciting to experience that for the first time in my life. I very rarely had lucid dreams as a child, but I couldn't control the narrative, I just knew I was dreaming.
I wonder if this could be solved (or at least made drastically better) with insurance incentives + technology.

Idea would be reward drivers willing to ditch their phones while driving entirely, by having drastically reduced car insurance rates.

I'm not sure how it would work, but there would be a system in the car that would verify there is no active phone. Clearly there are a lot of details to be worked out both on the technological, insurances pricing, and privacy sides, but it feels like this could be a way forward.
Are you even serious? We're not talking about A/B testing prescription drugs with placebos. We're talking about testing different images. Different colors for buttons.

Settle down.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7k8ved/mozilla_fac...

https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/mozilla-announces-resign...

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series#Monday_Oct_1.2C_2018...

https://twitter.com/datasociety/status/1093227579723730946

I could go on forever with Mozilla's connections to organizations promoting and facilitating politically motivated censorship.
Could you provide some resources?

I've only ever experienced visualization once on a drunken night and thought my drink had been spiked.
OK, fair enough, I should have specified that I meant outside of the case of obvious fraud (eg, snake-oil).

Also, FYI, I'm not the one who down-voted you. In fact, have an upvote to counter-balance that.
My opinion (not a web designer): don't let fonts define design, let them compliment it later on - I know sometimes I would be choosing fonts even before making the layout or content. For most sites, chances are web safe fonts are perfectly fine. If there is a specific and justified design vision, then choose wisely. Try and pull in one serif and one sans-serif font, at maximum. I've seen sites that slap on a bunch of fonts and quite frankly, it's not ideal. If possible, see if you can serve woff2, from a fast (or popularly cached) CDN.
Hello, was wondering if you have an email address to discuss and learn more about some of these openings?

I saw that you have an opening for folks who know some python/Django as recent as your (February 2019) posting.. thanks
So, our small team is using google hangouts but that also supports image pasting (and is searchable, free).

Image pasting is for more than just memes. We can post screenshots of errors, or user data/visualisations, or sections of syntax-highlighted code. All of this is infinitely more agile than going through a bulky ticket system (which we also use once we’ve confirmed as bugs or decided how to use forwards). So no, it’s not an exaggeration at all.

IRC was fun in the 90s but seems to have stopped there? It was also never ~at all~ friendly for non-technical users, which is a complete non-starter nowadays.
Absolutely everything in business is an experiment.

Experimenting with customers if what gives you the information to make a better product.

It's the least user hostile thing you can get.
Pinterest Co-Founders to Glean Wildly Different Fortunes on IPO
The Airbnb rules for hosts: If you’re a host and you have any type of surveillance device in or around a listing, even if it’s not turned on or hooked up, we require that you indicate its presence in your House Rules. We also require you to disclose if an active recording is taking place.

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/887/what-are-airbnb-s-ru...
My First and Second Language
I think a disclaimer that you are directly affiliated with UpCodes is generally considered good form on HN and would be appreciated.

Edit: I see you do provide such a disclaimer in many of your other/earlier comments.Those have all fallen below this one
Advertising helps the advertiser if it results in a sale - it doesn't matter if the sale helps the viewer.

If it resulted in a sale, then that means by definition it helped me find a product or service I wanted. If I made a bad decision in making that purchase, that's an orthogonal issue.
Sure, but as a good Bayesian you should be willing to bet based on that expected value, not based on the spread.

Re polls: still more complicated than that, even with 100% polling you'd still have response error and non-voters. Much of the difference between polls is their assumptions about demographics of voters.
This seems fraught with first amendment issues. Could a lawyer explain how this could pass & hold up in court?
"You know you’ve got the brain of a four-year-old child, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it." -- Groucho Marx, Horse Feathers, 1932

So which 20-year-old's memories do they get? Can they pick one with good memories? Where do I get in line?
Something seems a bit off here - the article points to $6.6 million in lobbying and a direct contribution of $16,000.

The ROI on those costs must be stupendous! Say 100 Million people file taxes in the US, it doesn't take long to hit 10x or 100x returns.

Am I missing something? (I'm not from the US)
The goal is to improve their experience, that's the complete opposite of hostility.

Edit. My response was about website a/b testing.
I think I can't tell what your actual point is. Could you be somewhat more explicit?
If Jetbrains were to build a browser on top of firefox with a similar level of features to their IDE’s, I would absolutely pay for that.

Developer tools is already invaluable, but there’s no reason it cannot be better.
that's true that the change is not as big as the one proposed here, but I still think that the new one is more intutive.
Ask HN: How do I market to millennials online?
I'm a Gen-Xer trying to sell products whose target audience is people in their 20s and early 30s, who are getting married or having their first child, or who have a lot of friends who are doing so.

I'm increasingly feeling like I'm an old fogey who doesn't know where people younger than me are congregating online, or how to market to them. I'm more of the FB generation than the Instagram/Snapchat generation, and honestly I don't even know if it's accurate that Instagram/Snapchat are where I should focus.

I would love to hear from people who are in the 20s and early 30s, or who feel like they know how to connect with them.

What's a good way to get the word out about a new product? Will traditional online ads fall on deaf ears? What sort of out-of-the-box strategies are likely to connect with this demographic?
Exactly, and does each state and county really need its own of each code or have to add its own amendments? There are some particular scenarios though where they do: NYC has an extra code related to flooding, California has an earthquake code. Still you'd think a couple states or even a couple countries could all use the same earthquake code.
Fine. It's not luck after college. Then how do you explain her string of failures at Yahoo? It starts being luck again at age 35?
This seems to be ignoring consent. I'd bet you if I went around asking people whether or not they realized their FB app experience was being consistently multivariate tested i'd be on the street a while before someone said yes.

This is FAR different from product testing, say in the hardware world, where you tell people you want them to come test a product, or in the design world where you show them various things and quiz them on their feelings. In these situations they all know they're being tested on.

So no, this isn't "the least" user hostile thing you can do. Doing things without content is basically the prerequisite for hostility here.