skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well when the "immigrants" are francophobic dudes like you who invite themselves with their colonial boots to say that the only thing wrong with montreal is that it's our home and that we exist then yeah you can fuck off.

And no, Montreal is not an anglophone city. Never was, never will, even when you people fed off the misery and poverty of my people it wasn't.
Oh, I still recall my time in Switzerland, where you could walk into any store and pay with a 1000 CHF bill and nobody would even look at you.
Why do universities partner with terrible bootcamps?
Wealth inequality.
I submitted this, but it may not be the app used by the Democratic Caucus.

The Twitter user said "the app" but later clarified that it's the Republican Utah app (or something?).

https://twitter.com/farmerchris/status/1224572430066311168

Apologies for any misinformation. Hopefully if it is the Republican app they have time to fix it.
YouTube is a $15B-a-year business, Google reveals for the first time
The connections to the real app are much worse...

https://mobile.twitter.com/wycats/status/1224558210222186496
https://mobile.twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/122457313173...
https://mobile.twitter.com/leondeba/status/12245736489395077...
This seems a like a false equivalence to me. There is far more than just Amazon that has facilitated the benefits you described. The Internet, portable computing, etc. all played a role in the general standard of living increase. If Amazon had not become dominant entity its very possible that another or many other competing players could have done things differently.

It's a lot harder to argue that another player in the market could have filed the niche that Elon identified and continues to expand.
This came about due to a small government approach. If there was a department of accessibility then they would have issued some sort of notice and they could have negotiated a reasonable accommodation. However because the law creates a private cause of action this can’t happen.
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It is known in the UK as well, but rarely used. There is even a Lovage liqueur though I've never tried it.
I have checked and I definitely have a line for AppleCare on the email receipt for a Mac Mini.
I've been really enjoying using Rust because it has no NULL. You have to instead use the semantics of Some(x) / None()and handle both cases. I'm not sure how you work around the fact that an empty string is Null.

The problem with Null is that it can be either a value or show the lack of presence, and in JS because both undefined and null are values you can't depend on them being used for their semantics either (you can try to enforce their use but it that's no guarantee).

SQL suffers this exact same problem. I wonder what SQL would look like without Null.

Select id, Option (key)
From table

Insert... Some(5), None::Int

From this perspective it still seems that empty string should not be None, but I think you're right that many people do use a code like "N/A", but you can just add a supplemental Boolean field which is cleaner for set / not set.

Interesting
Exactly, i deal with a few of data processing programs, wish my more experienced colleagues told me about these algorithms before, but doesn't this algorithm only compute an approximation and not the exact value ?
I'm not sure it's skill, more likely languages + runtime support.

When I program C#, I use streaming quite a lot, often combined with async-await for I/O. The framework also helps, e.g. all compression/encryption algorithms support asynchronous versions.

When I program C++, I tend to avoid streaming at all cost. The ergonomic is just not there. Technically doable, but will turn the code into callback hell, hard to debug and expensive to support.
I went to buy a chocolate bar at Target yesterday. What used to be $3 for 3.5oz is now $3.98 for 3.15oz. I think it's been creeping up in some areas for a while now, but I don't see it as inevitable, across the board inflation just yet. Gas is still cheap. Utilities haven't gone up much for me. Rent is definitely up in CA, but I'm not sure how things are in the rest of the country. Generally, I haven't noticed inflation in most things I regularly purchase.

Honestly, I work in tech and have a large, fixed alimony payment, so I could personally use some inflation.
Usually not, and if they did, they would use the original title, not a random question.
Chromium based browsers use Blink not WebKit. That's why Safari has all sorts of edge case issues, effectively making it the new IE.
The idea of a hybrid cloud solution is to pay EC2 rates for only the unpredictable portion of your workload.

It is in fact a little cheaper to keep 2x spare capacity on hand vs. run the 1x workload on AWS all the time.
Back what up? Grocery stores send out thousands of coupons every day in the regular mail. Coupons are price discrimination plain and simple. I’m honestly not sure what you need me to provide to show you how coupons work.

Grocery stores getting more sophisticated: https://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2012/08/21/individ...

Here’s airlines: http://theconversation.com/a-travellers-guide-to-airline-pri...

There’s a bunch of examples right in the fucking wiki page on price discrimination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

Please spend a little effort at least googling before you make demands for proof of something so common.

> From your comment style and prior history

That’s just pathetic. Nobody is ever impressed you read someone else’s comment history to make a childlike ad hominem attack, especially just to misuse the term “red herring”. Stalking has ever advanced a conversation. Stick to the topic.
Agreed. I'm Australian and was investigating my options for potentially moving to the US to start a company in the AI space, and there's so much friction that I ended up deciding to just stay here. I can't see how they think these policies are a good idea in the long term (or even short term, for that matter).
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No, and neither do the complaintants in that link you posted. The point is to negotiate something reasonable between the owner and the person who can't access the material/service/whatever. The fact that UC Berkley -- a federally funded public university -- failed to come to a compromise is quite sad, especially given that the complaintants in that link would like to use the material in their classes and work.

Look, read the law. Its written very clearly. It specifically mentions "reasonable accomodations" both in terms to the disabled and the owner in terms of cost, discrimination, etc.
Gold is already up. If I'm going to invest in commodities, I'm heading for less popular vehicles(i.e. platinum group metals... copper... anything but gold).
Most people aren't disabled. The line cannot be absolute - that's not fair on the abled either.
Heh, this is not the first time I get this feedback :)

Currently, I'm having more fun building software tools that are actually useful to people. Who knows, maybe a few years down the road I'll get bored by this, and dedicate my time to other activities ;)
This still doesn't fix the user input Null, versus this value is not set. I think in that case you'd want a nullable boolean companion field that can then express set, actively not set and passively not set (when that matters) but it's a bit ugly.
Lethal infectivity of influenza viruses (CA/09 H1N1) was examined in 8 week old female inbred BALB/c mice (Nara Biotech; Seoul, Korea) by using the intranasal route. For bare and salt-coated filters, 12 mice per group were infected with individual penetration dosage of influenza virus through each filter
My first lesson in the real world after I graduated was that the big name consulting companies are in many instances just well managed brand names. They are often used by management to "objectify" decisions tat are already made. Specifically decisions that are not easy to sell to everyone like layoffs. It basically goes like this:

1) We think X people need to go

2) Hire BCG/McKinsey (the more recognized, the better so usually one of the two)

3) After an "independent" audit they recommend X people need to go (sorry we can't really do anything about it, after all this famous consulting company recommended it)

Had the same experience with technology consultants when management wanted to switch the tech stack to something they thought they needed. At a smaller company I worked for, we basically needed to add a tech consultant to all bigger projects as insurance for big companies that were our customers and that was a hot mess because they knew it and sent the most junior/inexperienced people who were usually a net negative on productivity.

I also had two cases of very lackluster big name consulting companies. One had done some of the calculations in the wrong currency which lead to interesting results and one had the classic slides with names/logo of another client on them. Back at university I strongly considered putting in some years at a big name consulting company to boost my CV, make some money and get insights into some interesting projects. It seemed like genuinely interesting work, too. Pretty glad I didn't go that route.

I'm curious if someone here has more positive experiences working with (or maybe for) consulting companies. My current mindset is...avoid at all costs.
I have a similar background as yours, a gap of 1 year, 5 years of experience and I joined a startup 2 days back. I dint really felt any difference in the way companies treat people with or without a break, if you are technically sound nothing else matters. But, a few companies might negotiate for salary as you don't have any offer in hand.
It's always good to do small projects and upgrade your skill set during the break.
Anyways you have medical reason, so it shouldn't be a problem.
UC Berkeley was too cheap to pay for basic transcription. Again, the ADA is _not new_ -- they knew it when making the videos!

Did you read the case? It looks like the university created content that was not accessible but claimed they had followed the law! No wonder they got sued. They were repeatedly and flagrantly _not even following their own compliance guidelines_! For 50000 hours, at $60/hr, that's $3MM...a fraction of what the DoJ investigation would cost them in legal fees alone. And that's retail rates for humans. I'm sure a smart Berkeley grad student could write up a DL model to transcribe at > 90% accuracy.

They are a public institution and using deaf/hard of hearing people's tax dollars without giving them equal access is unconscionable. Not to mention, having a transcript/subtitle benefits everyone (like closed captions in places where you can't blare audio...)
Layman here, but I recall reading their inactive ingredients can make a difference. (Inactive != unimportant)
Study it. Read the source. Maybe adapt it to a system that isnt a supercomputer. We'll see.
I wonder why they (also Opera) couldn't keep up with the development of in-house engines.
"On average, private preschool costs about $1,350 per month in the city, according to First 5 San Francisco. T" [1]

[1] https://www.scpr.org/blogs/education/2014/11/07/17526/san-fr...
How does that explain serial entrepreneurs that have more than 2 successful startups under their belt? Or VCs with a long track record of successful investments?
Ask HN: Tesla Autopilot in Snow/Rain?
I've been borrowing a Tesla Model S (w/o autopilot enabled) for a couple of weeks and the weather has been dark, raining and today it was snowing.

Every day has the car complained of sensors/cameras not working due to dirt in front of the sensors. It doesn't matter if I clean them before I head out, it takes a couple of kilometers before they are warning again. They do add salt a lot on the roads to prevent ice, which makes it very dirty on the roads here.

Today, when there was snow. It warned again, same this time, a lot of dirt due to slush. And it was also black ice, which was really hard to spot myself (looks like dry road).

So to my question; How would the Tesla (or any other autopilot enabled vehicle) work on autopilot in these cases?

I mean, if the on-board computer doesn't get good input, it must be very hard to take decisions?
According to [1] Waymo produces its own lidars. In 2017 it costed $7500 without being mass produced.

Edit: wording.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/8/14206084/google-waymo-self...
We previously had the same problem at University of Copenhagen, it was called "the hidden curriculum" among students.

When the undergraduate programme was reformed a few years ago these subjects where integrated into various courses, so they could be taught in a learning-by-doing fashion. As part of the first programming and problem-solving class (F#), we also teach LaTeX, Emacs and basic use of the command line, as part of a project-based software engineering course (second semester) Git is used extensively, and so on.
The OS doesn't have something like a keyring or what? It's the same as registry, but explicitly states the intent.
Bezos adds nearly US$8M to his net worth in just one day
Pete Buttigeg literally invested in the dark money corp that built it and is now claiming he won because there are no results.

They are rigging the primaries against Bernie just like they did in 2016.
The median salary in Vancouver is substantially lower than Sydney, and its property values are similar.

Vancouver salaries are also lower than almost all of Canada's metros, while having the highest property costs. Vancouver also has the best weather. The Canadian metro with the best opportunity and lowest comparative costs is Montreal.
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
I do, or at least would notice if eg your most recent job ended 12 months ago. Mostly because I'd be curious what you've been doing.

Saying sabbatical and/or medical issues would be the end of the questions.
I'm so glad to see this and projects like this getting attention. I'm responsible for several tools at my current job using nothing but straight JS, including a couple which have had a significant (positive) impact on the special projects team here.

I love JS. I love it's ubiquity (F12 in any browser and you've got a REPL). I love the freedom I have when I write in it to do whatever the fuck I want and shoot myself in the foot in all sorts of strange ways. It's a very expressive language that lends itself to all sorts of fun. I love being able to inline C functions as WASM. I love manually managing memory with typed arrays. I love the filth of it all. It's liberating to give up all your dignity and just fling mud with a big grin on your face because your ridiculous 5 lines are a functional standin for a templating engine.

let applyTemplate = template => object => {
let keys = Object.keys(object)
return new Function('input' , `let {${keys.join(',')}} = input
return \`${template}\``)(object)
}
It's the infrastructure for self-hosting web apps. So, on top of Sandstorm, you could get a Dropbox-like app, or a Google Docs-like app, or a Flickr-style app, hosted on a box that's in your living room or on your own server in a colo. So instead of uploading your photos to Flickr and sending Flickr links to your family, you would upload your photos to PicShare.StevesHomeComputer.com and send those links to your family, keeping all of your data in your control and not subject to Flickr shutting down one day.

It makes sense for some services that are fundamentally user-fragmented (File backup/Evernote/Flickr) but less sense for things that require multiple users to be credentialed like social networking, since social networking structurally benefits from everyone being on the same service.
As a naive user, I could never understood what sandstorm really is. Does it run apps locally? How does it work in general?
Claim 1 is 100% false also (ex Dropboxer here), they encrypt files at rest in 4MB chunks for all versions of the product (from free, pro, plus, business and enterprise). It’s in their security white paper too: https://www.dropbox.com/static/business/resources/Security_W...
I have a similar situation - although my gap is much smaller (~4 months) it still is big enough to raise questions. But it hasn't. In the last 3-4 months I've interviewed with over 10 companies (multiple stages) and not one hiring manager was interested in the gap.

However, that doesn't mean the recruiters who rejected my CV didn't care about it. And that's why, to avoid any confusion about the gap I added an item on my resume which indicates what I was up to. In my case, I travelled to India to do my yoga teachers training course. So I added the course certificate with the date clearly on my CV.

So to summarize: the best thing to do IMO is to remove the possibility of confusion by adding any descriptive piece of information on your resume.
Interesting. As a developer who's done no front end work since the nineties and has had little appetite for getting back into it (after having seen what modern front end devs seem to contend with) I surmise that all those crap.js frameworks of the month don't do a whole lot of useful stuf after all.

I suspected as much but was always too timid to speak up when I observed how much noise and fury in the office produced so little UI.
It doesn't satisfy business needs (saved history for all time mainly) while it supplants WhatsApp and Facebook messenger group chats for casual groups very well
In the UK, £20 notes are the highest commonly used. That doesn't mean they get rid of cash. There are just very, very few cases where you need that much cash that £20 notes are impracticable.
The domain doesn't sound pretentious to me at all. Just a niche forum to discuss things managing and running the tech for a company. I'd love to join and hear from the trenches stories and make contacts.
Couldn't find the source but supposedly today was long buying as opposed to short covering. One theory is funds buying ahead of S&P 500 inclusion.

E: https://twitter.com/ihors3/status/1224362065906872322
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That is because most of the people in Silicon Valley discussing Canada are Canadians who immigrated to the US. A Canadian can live in the US forever without worrying much about naturalization. They will always have their Canadian citizenship in their back pocket to fall back on.

For people looking to migrate from a developing country to a developed one, the situation is quite different.
So I signed up for an account to discover pricing and they have 3 plans - all of which enjoy a 50% launch discount:

Basic -$39 (30 days listing + share on twitter);
Pro -$59 (everything in Basic + display company logo, job posting highlighted);
Ultimate -$79 (everything in Pro + Pin to top for 7 days).

Here's my question for the product makers: what's the aim of building this product - is it a side project or change how an existing problem is currently being solved?
How about housing?
Why are so many smart people ignorant about philosophy?
Copper is very tied to the manufacturing activity of the economy though so inflation in the face of a slowdown can end up washing copper gains.
This is good for practice and learning but honestly what is the point of going backwards. Some of these demos don’t even work on safari in mobile. Frameworks are there for a reason. If one must learn in plain ja then sure go for it but no point knocking down frameworka
Definitely makes sense as a side project + great way to gain experience!
The Euro is quite popular in Germany and has gained popularity in recent years. It wasn't very popular at the start but this has definitely changed.

And if Germany got rid of the Euro this would certainly cause bank runs since Germans would be afraid that the Euro quickly devalues against the new currency.
““There is not a single key technology behind the iPhone that has not been state funded,” says economist Mazzucato. This includes the wireless networks, “the Internet, GPS, a touch-screen display, and … the voice-activated personal assistant Siri.” Apple has recombined these technologies impressively. But its achievements rest on many years of public-sector investment. To put it another way, do we really think that if Jobs and Musk had never come along, there would have been no smartphone revolution, no surge of interest in electric vehicles?“

Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/539861/techs-enduring-gre...
They are airtight in this study. From the abstract:

When tested with tightly sealed sides, salt-coated filters showed remarkably higher filtration efficiency than conventional mask filtration layer, and 100% survival rate was observed in mice infected with virus penetrated through salt-coated filters.
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I just installed it. I've been wanting to play with Sandstorm for a while for two reasons: 1) seemed like a lot of people were excited about it and 2) I could not figure out what it was.

Regarding 2) I wondered: was this the "new heroku." Or, better than zeit? Or better than docker?

I still don't know.

After installing it, I went to the marketplace and looked at the set of apps. Looks like there is button to quickly install piwik (alternative to Google Analytics). It worked really well. There is a spreadsheet app. A git server.

But, I can do basically the same thing by going to the marketplace in Google Cloud Compute and choosing GitLab, or Wordpress, or whatever.

Sandstorm looks ugly. I know that does not mean it is better or worse, but GCE certainly looks more professional when I install one of their marketplace apps.

So, what am I missing about Sandstorm? If I choose apps like GitLab or Wordpress where there is a documented and easy way to migrate my data so that I can easily move off GCE and over to another provider. Then I feel that my lock-in risk is mitigated, but is there something else that Sandstorm gives me here that I'm missing?
Yeah, I wouldn't install this on any machine that I own or use.
Thumbsup for sandstorm - my conpany is extensivly using it with a small team and external clients.

For those who dont know what it is:

Single Sing On with an App Store. Better explained:

You create one account and then can create/edit/share/copy projects of completely unrelated software
. So lets say you create a gitlab installation, 3 etherpad projects, 5 wekan (trello clone) boards and then share them with your team/client/family by just adding their email adresses - awesome tool!