skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but can consumers look at those and derive meaningful expectations for their subjective experience of using the speakers? And how many of those things are sensitive to dynamics, volume, signal complexity, etc?

I think this stuff says a lot more about psychology than it says about technology.

When I'm mixing music, my "final arbiter" for mix quality is the crappy stock speakers in my car. A mix may sound great on my studio monitors, but if it's not happening in that extremely inaccurate car system, it's not happening. A lot of professional mixers use "bad" speakers like Auracubes or Minimus-7s just to emulate that experience.

And of course, this kind of experience is also inseparable from context. It's not just that they're car speakers... it's that they're in a car. They're in the door, not aimed at my ears. Their bass-reflex behavior is from the volume of the door and whatever venting it has, and reflections are completely crazy.
Not joking at all. In the suburbs of a major Tier 2 city near Lake Michigan, via the interstate/toll system throughout said suburbs, I can cover ~60-80 miles per hour. How much can you cover in the city on foot, local roads, or public transit? I assure you, far less, having been exposed to Chicago Loop/West Loop/Bucktown/Ukrainian Village traffic and having to ride the L for a period of time (and occasional jaunts into SF and Manhattan). You might walk or subway it to a restaurant, while I decide to drive to Milwaukee or Naperville for dinner (in the comfort of a private electric vehicle, not a dreadful MTA subway or the BART, or trying to walk in inclement weather with a stroller and kids in tow).

I argue we have equal access to places of interest, and I need a car regardless for access to places public transit doesn't go; it's a net win for me versus inflated city housing and other costs associated with an urban lifestyle. (This ignores temporarily the argument that having access to hundreds or thousands of restaurants and places of shopping is necessary or significantly more valuable) Yes, I spend more time in transit, but the quality of life in transit is much higher than that of it in city life.

From my perspective, I personally cannot see a positive in living in the city now that I have a family. We lead a far better life than we could in an urban core (did I mention my backyard pool?). This is my argument against the stance "city == better!" people seem to take, even when evidence (see: this article) is demonstrating otherwise.
My bullshit theory: it'll break next year because bonus depreciation effectively boosted this year by borrowing against the next {3,5,7,10}.
More money allows you to retire earlier (or have a big enough cushion to take time off as sabbatical or to start your own company or whatever), which is a huge benefit IMO.
how many of them did you exercise in the last 6 months/5 years

I'm 5/7 out of 22, +2 if I go back a decade or two
That line makes the post seem tonedeaf. Maybe "less than $1000" is the definition of throwaway consumption money for someone who works at Andreessen Horowitz, but for many of the hopeful retail investors in 2017 ICOs, it may have been a large chunk of their savings.
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Are there any feature complete PGP/GPG libraries that target iOS? I use the Pass password manager, and it has a wonderful 3rd-party app for iOS, but the PGP implementation it uses (ObjectivePGP) is bizarrely licensed. All the other GPG implementations I am aware of have licenses that preclude their use on iOS.
Makes sense. Thanks for expounding on your point! +1
We need to go deeper though. The decrease in perceived safety is, at least in part, due to 24/7 news reporting about violence, crime, terrorism, hate and generally negative topics. Which itself is due to progress in information technology and in the way we make money out of it. There is literally no benefit for the general public in this.

Don't get me wrong, you have all the reasons to fear these things if you live where these things happen, but I'd bet my left hand that most people in 1st world countries ever witness any kind of serious violence.
> There was a whole plot line about how her wage was now in the 6 figures, and I was incredulous until I did a bit of research - Wal-Mart store managers can absolutely make that much money while their employees live in poverty.

The problem is fundamentally this: A typical Wal-Mart store has around 300 employees. If you take the manager's entire $100,000 and distribute it to the employees, they each get less than $500/year, a raise of less than $0.25/hour.

Meanwhile you're never going to get a good manager for the price of a stock clerk, because it's skilled vs. unskilled labor. But you still need a manager.

And nice as it would be to pay all 300 employees $100K/year, that would immediately bankrupt the store. Moreover, it would be more than the amount it would cost to automate most of those jobs.

This is not a problem with glib or moralistic solutions. And the solutions that do exist are probably more along the lines of making housing cost less so lower income people can afford it, rather than chastising the employers who actually employ unskilled workers.
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I live near Seattle. My staples cost less than $1/person/day--just add produce and seasoning. I don't know what you consider "uncommon ingredients" but it sounds like you were doing it wrong.
Do Hospitals provide their services for free? No.

Are Hospitals and their staff subject to government regulation given the required license to practice medicine? Yes.

I'm not sure your example applies here.
Well IMO we should treat Dropbox's new policy as indicative. Apparently many people were happy with the free tier and made it work -- me included; I initially had a big installers folder which I then offloaded to an external HDD because I wouldn't be able to have my more important files synced.

So Dropbox figured out people would continue to freeload forever and devised a strategy to try and convert some. That's my theory.
It costs a lot to hire someone and onboard them. And, if you make a practice of firing people after 60 days because they aren't a good fit for whatever reason, you're probably going to find that you have a hard time hiring anyone.

As I said in another comment, (paid) interning and hiring someone as a contractor/consultant for a fixed period are great for situations where it works for everyone. But, if I'm looking for a new full-time position, I'm almost certainly going to pass on a position that doesn't carry with it the presumption of ongoing employment.

[ADDED: And, yes, some companies have an official probationary period but AFAIK that's mostly reserved for when a hire really isn't working out for some reason.]
There is a "hollow moon" conspiracy theory where one of the pieces of evidence cited is that the moon rang like a bell because of the impact of the lander.
How is it just racial discrimination if it uses quantitative data about income levels, crime rates and high school AP class availability?
Removal of the 16-character limit for passwords in Azure AD
It's a pretty significant cost-calculation change, and thought the charge may not land yet, it'll probably land later on. Also, a lot of people manage MC accounts for clients, so this will be a head's up discussion in those engagement discussions ("That tool we use for audience segmentation..? The price calculation may be changing because they're now counting unsubscribes..").

That said, to your second point: a lot of people just want simple, email list management. And for that, MailChimp has gotten a little unwieldy. But in a more sophisticated digital marketing strategy, some of their other components make more sense. They're competing with the base CRMs out there, and they'd rather not be one half of an equation where they'll eventually lose out because customers need to move up the offering chain. And in remarketing and attribution oriented campaigns, the new MC features make more sense, in theory.

Lastly, many many many companies out there barely use their marketing tools. If you think in terms of analytics, tracking, audience targeting, remarketing, etc., a lot of people are just using the thinnest feature set to fake their marketing. If you tie a few tools together, it gets a bit harder, so those MC customers who are trying to level up a bit need to figure out an additional element of integration. It's detail oriented and prone to error. By bundling these together, they can help their customers level-up without confronting the integration burden.
Taco Bell is opening a hotel and resort
Has anyone run any benchmarks of TXR against awk, R, python, or miller?
> so let's base it on what's equitable and humane instead

Those are feelings.
The Big Sky Theory [1] means (unless you're in the Blue Angels) a plane can almost always keep going straight forward for 20 seconds with no worries. No risks of a child running out or a vehicle 2 seconds in front suddenly braking.

This doesn't apply to a vehicle driving a city street.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_sky_theory
It would t surprise me if a lot of these stupid questions were actually useful because they indirectly measure something else. On that note, assigning lengthy interview projects is probably a good proxy for “won’t negotuate to hard on his salary”.

But as an employee, I’d sure prefer being treated like a human being...
It's not saying the same thing is different, but the fact free will is an emergent concept that only works on the level of a person. There is no reasonable definition of free will at the atomic level, it just doesn't exist. Let's say a picture is beautiful. Well atoms can't be beautiful so hence the picture can't be beautiful. Beauty is a very high level emergent concept that only exist at that level. It's completely compatible with determinism but the fact its ultimately deterministic atoms at play is irrelevant. It's similar for free will, the cocomcept doesn't reply on determinism and that it's completely independent from it. It's about a person's actions not the underlying mechanism of how a person acts.
Mislabelling climbing gear doesn't bug me, but this:

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Likewise, nobody in 1958 had any idea that you could hang by your thumbs and fingers to exploit little pieces of rock. This knowledge, demonstrated in the movie, emerged from the community of rock climbers and boulderers over time.

John Gill was sending V9 Boulder problems in 1958, in tennis shoes! He was off in his own little world and climbing way beyond the standards of the greater climbing community at the time.

Gill is regarded as the father of modern bouldering. He began as a gymnast and adapted modern training techniques from gymnastics to bouldering. He never had much interest in roped climbing or long routes, he was all about doing the hardest possible moves on stone.
It all hinges on what you mean by "success." Is it profitability + growth? Burning through employees like jet fuel can work pretty well.

If you want a humane answer, you might have to reframe the question.
Takikawa is a core racket dev, I believe.
The one specific thing that stands out to me besides sync support is user-interface optimization. In Quicken I can see and edit my entire monthly budget on a single page, including adding/removing categories, seeing current spending/income for all categories, and editing spending/income targets. The screenshot in the readme prioritizes things I rarely care about (editing categories, individual transactions) instead of the things that I do care about (big picture view of my current/planned budget).
But there is a distinction between never getting certified because it is not safe, and never getting certified because Boeing didn't want to certify it as a new aircraft, because they wanted to sell it with the value proposition of not having to train pilots on a new type. Is that not correct?

So it seems to me that the discussion in this subthread is really around that point: could the aircraft have been certified as a new type without the horribly dangerous MCAS system in place to paper over the change in flight characteristics?

You seem to be saying no, and the other guy says yes, but you seem more to be talking past each other than offering proof of your assertions. He at least did point out (though without citing any proof, I think) that the 777 had a similar issue and was certified anyway (and I don't believe 777s have been falling out of the sky because of it). But, obviously, this is a different aircraft.
I'm in high tech and dying. This is making me feel nostalgic and thinking... maybe taking 3 steps back would be 10 steps forward in terms of my mental health.
Not necessarily. He could be underpaying everyone. In which case, the degree to which women accept offers vs men would contribute to a systemic pay gap, without directly intending to.
It is interesting to see this outrage from a lot of candidates. Back in "my" day (ie 10-15 years ago), it used to be that treatment of employed engineers was shoddy enough (without the benefit of decent compensation or environment) that it was relatively less risky to start a startup (aka ISV). But back then interviewing was specific, experience based and not standardized. Ofcourse as companies caught on and started selling the "we are Agile(tm) but also pay really well and pamper you", the incentives to start your own decreased. This resulted in an increased supply of candidates (at least for the "branded" companies). I wonder if the next catalyst to start startups is the shoddy treatment of candidates who are now pretty much moved through the cattle class of interviewing pipelines?
I'm not sure your theories have a base. Population may not like whats happening, but the peoples will only rise to protest when they feel directly threatened.

People will feel directly threatened if these systems produce too many false positives which result in too many false arrests or "police harassment".

Government and vendors will get away with it by slowly and sporadically deploying these systems until "we" get used to being monitored by these "AI" type systems.

Mildly "sexy" news like this is perfect for letting the people gently feel aware that they are being monitored in this way without being too threatening.

The last thing authorities or vendors want is news that 250 <insert-triggering-ethic-minority> were falsely apprehended because of AI identification with a few citizens getting chased and "accidentally" shot in the process => That would be inescapable-incompetence compounding incompetence after all, reason to take to the streets.
Or HTTP-based APIs could check for it and write out log entries or send out alerts to notify ops or the devs that they'll need to investigate further as to how this affects them.
But it is fixed wing!
Anyway, thanks for looking into it and doing the math.
That's like saying maps don't matter in warfare because they aren't useful in hand to hand combat
Thanks for sharing this. I checked my router config and found the option to turn off LED lights except power. A more elegant solution than electrical tape I had been using before.
> use the law against the law

You can only do that if the lawmakers agree.
> he hadn't realized the plight of those on 7.25/hr until he heard what his employees were going through.

That's the crux of the problem right there.

If you need somebody to start living with their kid in a car to get this grand epiphany then you are hilariously mis-prepared to be any kind of a leader.

To be a leader, you need a much better [emotional] education than this.
This makes me very sad for many reasons:

* People are losing their freedom of privacy in the name of safety and most accept it. Many are likely unaware at this stage of the trade-off.

* One activist was in presence by happen chance, otherwise this likely would have gone unreported.

* The database _currently_ only keeps peoples data for 30 days. When the UK leaves the EU, this will likely be extended. China has already experienced multiple data breaches.

* It's unclear what data is kept and deleted, I suspect that metadata may be retained indefinitely.

* The money being spent on these systems could be spent getting more officers on the ground. I have no doubt they are sinking millions of pounds into this project.

* The police initially started testing this system illegally, there were no repercussions.

* The majority of people being arrested as a result of this technology are probably not the worst people in society. I believe this will be used to disproportionately target poorer people and petty crimes.

* Telling an officer to "fuck off" or "piss off" is not a crime. It's not an offense to be rude and you certainly shouldn't have to "Wind your neck in" in fear of a public servant.
Is there another source for this? I don't even want to visit the Mail's website, let alone read whatever misrepresentation of what actually transpired that they have put down in their article.
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks "modern PHP" struggles to fit more than a couple of lines of real code on a screen surrounded, as it is, by space-wasting nonsense such as block comments, blank lines and K&R brace style. No wonder people prefer Ruby. Around the time of PHP5 the language ditched its own identity and sought to become the scripting version of Java. Give me back my procedural PHP4.
If he had remained quiet he would not have been fined for swearing, but he likely would have been fined for something else. It seems pretty clear the intention was to issue a fine, not to reduce swearing.
I interviewed at Uber before they launched. Their "take home" was to create... Uber.

Here's the exact challenge:

UberCab Coder Challenge

1) Write a program that determines the wait time, trip time, rating, and fare for a black car trip in San Francisco, given that the customer's pickup location and destination is randomly placed anywhere in San Francisco proper, and given that there are X number of cars all placed randomly across the city. Use GoogleMaps API for trip duration time. Run simulation 100 times for 1, 5, 10, 20, and 50 cars. Output average wait times and trip times for each # of cars the simulation was run on.

2) Take #1 and do the same pickup and trip time calculation given that there are Y customer requests per hour (extra credit if this is done with a Poisson distribution ;)). Take into account each car's availability (given that they may have been selected to carry a customer and are in transit on pickup or on actual trip, and thus unavailable). Run simulation given the number of cars in #1, but for each simulation in #1, run once for Y=1x, 2x, 5x, the number of requests per hour (X being the number of cars in the city, as defined in #1)

3) Take #2 and then make a GoogleMaps mashup that then shows the various trips that were taken for each simulation. Provide mashup interface showing all trips but also provide ability to only show trips for each driver.

4) Write a "Hello World" app on the iPhone that for a certain driver logging in shows all of his trips taken in the last simulation, the average rating that he got, and the total fares he collected during those trips.
Modern TVs often have an on-screen menu option to turn off annoying LEDs.
> Students won't be told the scores, but colleges will see the numbers when reviewing their applications.

What's the rationale for withholding this information from students?
I dont think this is the oldest in the world, but easily verifiable because it is in Mumbai and quite famous (beats Haus Hiltl by 50 years)...

https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/food/the-story-of-mu...
> And nice as it would be to pay all 300 employees $100K/year, that would immediately bankrupt the store

I don't think everyone necessarily expects $100k/employee. But many (most?) of them work for 30-35 hours per week - not out of choice, but because their schedule is controlled by the management. And they've generally been paid at or under $10/h. In the last few years there's been moves to increase that, but even moving from full time (which not everyone gets) at $10/hr to, say, $14/hr... That's $28k? Loaded cost with taxes and stuff might be ... $35k? $40k? Maybe? That's still a far cry from "we can't afford to pay everyone $100k". Sure, you can't, but that doesn't explicitly justify paying most people $9/h part time when they want full time (and the store has a need for full time staff, they just don't want to have to provide X benefits that come with full time).
Too bad TabNine is a Freemium :-/
I see what you're saying but I think you're taking my point too literally.

QWERTY is the default layout (in English speaking countries and as QWERTY was mentioned, I assume OP is in an English speaking country). QWERTY is on the computers in schools, on the computers available to buy in stores, on the computers in offices.

Teaching kids Dvorak is putting them at a disadvantage in life, just as teaching them Esperato, Inrterlingua, Lojban, or similar artificial languages instead of English might seem intellectually appealing but would set them up for a life of difficulty.
The way to handle this is to _write down your grading criteria ahead of time_. If it's not important enough to be front of mind when designing the challenge, it's not important enough to bring up when evaluating the output of a candidate you've really liked so far.
>That difference no longer exists in the US in any practical way because technology has obsoleted the legal mechanism of “you can’t ask for my drivers license without probable cause”.

Are you sure this is quite as absolute and one-way as you’re saying here? ID isn’t required by government to be driven, use public transport, fly on private aircraft, use boats, etc. Sure as a practical matter in the US non-car options are not nearly as powerful as in most first world countries, but that’s not a matter of law. And while technology helped create the current state of affairs, it can disrupt it too. The motivation for drivers licenses is a real one of public safety. If self-driving cars mean most people cease manual driving though, the need for licenses will cease as well (and also most of the typical suspicions and justifications police use to pull over a car). That may result in a significant clawback of travel privacy in some respects. Practical is not always the equivalent of legal long term is it?
Ask HN: Would you have accepted your current job for less money?
Ask HN: Will you pay $49 per month for food startup?
Hello,

We will be delivering delicious food tifin for lunch at your office address.

Will you pay $49 per month for the service?
Yes Better Place! Obviously there were a lot of problems with that business, but my cousin was an early-adopter, and it was pretty fun from a user perspective while it lasted. In retrospect superchargers are at a much better place (no pun intended) in terms of the speed/complexity ratio.
If he gets off, it will absolutely be the result of the publicity around this case. Courts will uphold these rules if imposed on normal people.
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For papers so bad that even arxiv refuses to publish them? Sure, why not...
A lot of times, you'll find a product that manufacturers have flooded the market with, like frozen pizzas with trendy buzzword ingredients (buffalo chicken arugula) that consumers didn't go for. They're good deals, but you'll never see them again.
The Frankfurt cases addresses your thought experiment. My comment fills in the blanks of how we can define free will without relying on the principle of alternate possibilities which the Frankfurt cases debunked (and also explains the difference between the various conceptions of "free will" that typically cause this confusion).