skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In US dollars, roughly $200,000. This action probably cost the French government more in bureaucrats' salaries than it got from Google.

If the fines are this small, it's pretty clear that the legislators who passed this law were not interested in creating a serious deterrent.
Nah 99% chance Mr Rachabathuni is a douche
Or provide no defaults therefore solving both problems.
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Why the scare quotes on "safer"?

If self-driving cars prove objectively to have fewer accidents and resulting injuries and deaths, wouldn't that just make them a superior technology?

In that case, why shouldn't insurance charge more for traditional driving if self-driving were available on your car? That's just how insurance works, nothing new there.
I think you have a fundamentally flawed understanding of just how small a timeframe short term memory can apply to. As a commenter said below, your brain is constantly utilizing memory, whether or not you know it.

> the point is that unconscious processes can be explained without hypothesizing consciousness

This really doesn't make any sense, by the way.
Working memory (the active feedback loops that constitute your current thinking) is subtly different from short-term memory. This is still an area of active research.

Working memory can hold a limited number of things (usually said to be 7), whereas short-term memory has a larger limit in capacity and time. These are both temporary systems that feed off each other and rely on the larger long-term memory to give meaning and context to the "symbols" they contain.

Everything is interconnected, so making definitive statements about any of this is hard.

(IANANeuroScientist but my work does Neuroscience research)
That's what it is like already. Except instead of trivia, it is the same recycled data structures and algorithms questions, with some specific questions about topics on one's resume.

IMHO the hiring process will change a lot in the next few years.
But who is going to clean your apartment under an open-allocation world utopia?

I do like your idea about the origins of procrastination, but like almost all evolutionary psychology, it is too easy to make up stories to explain things. Occasionally there is something concrete from the fossil record to work from.
check this :

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/03/computer-camp-kickstarte...
I moved off bigv to digital ocean. Management and billing are far better on DO.
I'm successfully running a 50" Seiki 4k monitor off of the HDMI port on my motherboard. Only 30Hz with HDMI, but I also have DisplayPort, I might be able to upgrade to a 60Hz monitor without having to get a dedicated graphics card.
Using Bluetooth LE to prevent rat infestations
I've just recently come across www.gun.io

That might be a good place to start
Any experienced HR person woudl be having nightmares god only knows what discriminatory hiring practices are going on here.
Car accidents have unfortunate side effects, in that generally more than one driver's life is put at risk.
I live in Uruguay (South America) and I liked to mention the statistic that you're 10 times more likely to be murdered in Chicago (or was it Detroit?) than in Montevideo, yet you're 10 times more likely to be robbed in Montevideo :P

Not sure if it's still true but it was a funny statistic.

And the media here does portray the U.S. as a country where murder is uncommonly prevalent.
Innovative LED lamp fits in regular T8 sockets but uses 41% less electricity
>When I used OCaml, I almost never used the object system. I didn't need it.

Me neither, but it is still part of the language and adds a ton of complexity. Which makes the analogy of ocaml to C vs haskell to C++ quite poor.

>The "full" OCaml is pretty complicated

Precisely the point. The full C++ is pretty complicated too. The full haskell is far simpler than either.

>That said, if you're going to use OCaml, you should use the Jane Street libraries

They didn't exist when I used ocaml, and I would never go back to ocaml now.
Yup, this is exactly what I'm hoping for too. 39", 4k, 60hz or more - and that's my next upgrade sorted.
Short answer, yes. Longer answer, there are two ways QUIC can succeed:

a) QUIC makes headway on its own, delivers significant perf win, moves to IETF and becomes a standalone protocol in the long run.
b) TCP and TLS leverage techniques & lessons learned from QUIC.

Either way, the users will win. It's too early to tell which of these paths it'll take.. But I do know that both TLS and TCP groups are paying close attention to QUIC and there are already discussions on how to improve performance based on some of the ideas being prototyped in QUIC.
from the article:

> During my show-floor travels, I confirmed my hypothesis that the so-called “booth babes” are worthy of so much more than objectification. But these women surprised me with some of their insights, namely that sexualizing them is bad for business.

> A nameless, hot object is something you want to look at. But to get to know the person and the product she represents, you have to see her as a person.

I don't get it. Are we dating?

A company hires a woman to put on a bikini and in a conference hall where everyone else is dressed casually, this woman walks around dressed to go swimming.

And yet, the woman doing this complains how she is being victimized by the evil men who objectify her during their 120 seconds with her.

Somehow the company shouldn't hire her to walk around in her bikini and the male attendees shouldn't objectify her and that their awkward behavior around her signifies much more than that she is dressed in a bikini in a conference hall where everyone else is dressed casual or in a suit and tie.

News flash: she is objectifying herself.
There's no memory whatsoever in dreamless sleep, and yet you have no problem admitting to yourself that you've slept so many hours last night.
> The best solution is probably default closed offices with a culture of having your door open and lots of collaborating spaces that are actually used.

This is what I have right now at Microsoft and it's awesome. Everyone on my team has a private office, and we have plenty of collaboration spaces, including conference rooms as well as less formal gathering spaces between blocks of offices and near the food areas, plus a few large open areas dedicated for meetings (these are more isolated from offices, and generally used like conference rooms, but open to the hallways, with curtains that can be used to isolate a bit more).
"“You kind of wonder where you’re picture’s going to end up,” she says"

I wonder the same. What are the 'legitimate' points of taking pictures of or with these women? So that you can offer photographic proof to your friends back home that you have indeed once been near a woman?

Then again, I don't understand the point of tourists taking pictures of national monuments, so maybe I'm just missing the core concept of pictures...
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I can't see any reason why we can't have both; you control the car until it detects a dangerous situation and then takes over. Sounds ideal really, you could go faster than you can now, safe in the knowledge that if things go bad the computer will kick in and take over.
My guess price is $599. Would it offer a tough competition to Apple's iMac? Yes and No. It depends but If I could get the same experience of iMac on a similar device for $500 or less, I probably would buy this device.
Amazon doesn't place emphasis on language-specific skill-set. But there are certain job roles that require specific skill set, for instance, someone interviewing for a Software Development Engg role might get asked a lot of Algorithms, Data Structures, Databases, Operating Systems and so on. Someone interviewing for Web Development Engg role might get asked questions about JavaScript and HTML. Same thing goes for SDEs being hired for Machine Learning or Big Data teams... there are times when these teams are on look-out for experts in certain fields.

But yes, generally, AFA technical roles are concerned, Amazon doesn't place emphasis on language-specific skill-set.
Why in the world would I want to add a web page to notification center, just by visiting the front page?

That's SUPER obnoxious.
Yeah, around 1% of resolvers seriously disregarding TTLs is what Ive seen. But if thats the argument theres absolutely no difference in cache lifetime of a single A backed by an ALIAS resolution and the typical A + CNAME. In either case all of the records should be cached for the broken resolvers lifetime. To counter that you do dns cache busting with prepended GUID labels or the like. Which totally breaks caching anyways.
Yes. I am well aware of how to build an HTTP API server in many other languages. I have been doing this sort of thing for ~15 years which doesn't make me right, just experienced. The problem with most of those languages and frameworks is that as soon as you need something outside of that framework or core language, it is uncommon that the library is setup for async I/O, streaming, etc. You end up writing a lot of wrapper and/or glue code to string everything together. Or worse you find an amazing library, but because of its design it is difficult to make it do what you want so you resort to reinventing the wheel albeit poorly. Because of the nature of Node and its module ecosystem, much of that problem is solved.

It isn't about using Node because it is cool or I like Javascript (which I hate BTW). It is about accomplishing my goal of an efficient HTTP API server much more quickly with Node than any of the other languages/frameworks that have come before. In my opinion, this is the niche Node does the best and if I have the choice I will choose it until another language/framework comes along to beat it.
Quite a bit of calculus homework is done at the frat house, the coffee shop, or other such places. Many people work best in situations other than total isolation and quiet.

I'm not sure about the dominance thing either - most open office plans I've seen have no offices for anyone. At my last job the incoming CTO inherited the desk of a freelancer who left the week before.
You do make an amusing point with national monuments. Booth babes are almost an iconic part of conferences like this, so maybe getting a photo with one is as much part of the experience as getting a photo with the Eiffel Tower in the background?
I paid with paypal, all they asked for was my cell phone number and what the site was about etc.

probably some bad apples were using it to host botnets or using credit card fraud
Yeah, the problem is basically that historically you're most likely to die either very young or fairly old, but averaging out the ages at which people die creates the opposite impression — that you're likely to die sometime in your late 30s to early 40s, which was never actually the case.
Show HN: GeoTreat.com: Delight Website Visitors by Geolocation
Did you by chance profile the Go program to see where the hot spots are?
At least one by the looks!
This isn't any different than being a patent troll.
The author is one of the biggest names nowadays in cosmology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark
Exactly.

Why hire someone into the company who might end up competing against you?

The veto is a gift for Machiavellians lurking in the officefor
I think you are confused in the same way that people are confused who think that economic pie is fixed size. The point of automation is it would expand the overall economic pie so that those more skilled higher paying jobs would be necessary to do something that would not happen otherwise - and that something, whatever it is, would be useful and profitable
> John Sullivan, a San Francisco State University management professor, said Amazon's protracted hiring process is an important signal for applicants that Amazon is a tough place to work, with a lot of pressure.

A high-pressure interview, to work at a high-pressure, slightly-better-than-averagely paid job, that is then touted in the Wall Street Journal as being "bar-raising"?

No thanks. I guess Amazon is yet another company that failed my interview process.
We should expect that, assuming that self-driving cars are in fact safer, insurance rates will go down for people with self-driving cars, and remain the same for manual drivers.
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What they're collecting is information. Their knowledge is in how to collect all of it, and access it. That's where they're taking action.
I agree with you. And I don't think "being conscious" is like "being liquid". Liquidity is a description of physical attributes. Consciousness is an existential state of being (whatever that means).

I think it would be nice if we could explain everything we observe in the universe in terms of physical laws and mathematical formulae. But I don't think we're there yet.

And why not a possible divine explanation? Last I checked, we haven't completely ruled it out. It's not a trap. At the very least, materialists should be able to counter divine arguments, not just ignore them.
Maybe so. Getting your picture taken with celebrities after a show makes a bit more sense to me, so maybe this is just a similar concept?
Great. They taught computers to drive like a dick as well now...
There are a lot of factual mistakes with this article.

(see notes at the end before flaming)

Amazon interviewers typically go through a long "shadowing" process where they calibrate their questions and evaluation criteria. You can't just go on to interviewing candidates on your first week. Also, interviwers interview for their own "job families", so e.g. SDEs and SDMs will typically interview technical roles and likewise for non-technical roles. All interviewers are also required to enter detailed "feedbacks" (if you've been put-off by the interviewer furiously typing away, please pardon them - they're not emailing, just taking detailed notes).

Amazon bar-raisers go through additional rigorous shadowing process that typically lasts many dozen of interviews and calibrations. An Amazon BR is more like a "moderator" in the interview loop than an all-powerful veto-machine. Veto is a very powerful tool, to be wielded extremely sparingly. BR on a loop is an "external" third-party who makes sure no self-interests are in play while hiring a candidate - i.e. no team is compromising on quality just to fill open positions.

Also, it's patently false that BRs ask extremely hard questions. Infact, most questions of BR focus on soft-skills and Amazon's leadership principles (Google them, we take them very seriously!). Also, BR's do loop within their job families and anything otherwise may happen only under extraordinary circumstances.

Notes: Amazon being as large it is, is comprised of thousands of autonomous groups and hence some candidate's experience may be sub-par and might have been contrary to what I've written. If you had a bad experience while interviewing at Amazon, please reach out to your recruiter who'll then forward your feedback to BRs. We take instances of bad candidate experience very seriously and will try to fix deficiencies if any. While recruiting, we consider the candidate as our customer and strive to make their interviewing experience delightful.

NB: Yes, I'm an Amazon BR. Posting using a throw-away account.
I get this feeling. I guess a way to describe it would be to ask - are you constantly productive from the minute you sit down to the minute you leave? I work in an open-plan office, in a corner with my back to the room. As such, my monitor's in sight of 10 peers and managers. Someone might look over when I'm taking a quick break, or it might be when I've become distracted due to the noise level and am finding it hard to concentrate. Would you be happy with someone watching your screen remotely at unknown intervals?

It's not entirely logical - chances are no one's watching me - but it's brain overhead you don't need.
I got a counter question? What legitimate point of putting hot girls anywhere near technology conference? Those booth models are there specifically to draw attention to themselves and the product they represent. Sex sells.
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I don't get it. Are we dating?

No, the author is just suggesting that to most effectively pitch the person/product they represent, reps need to be approachable. After all, isn't "build rapport" step one of sales? Now, whether the models are there to pitch anything in the first place is a different question.

And yet, the woman doing this complains how she is being victimized by the evil men who objectify her during their 120 seconds with her.

Doesn't read like that to me. The only one pushing any kind of agenda in the article is the author, who is not a booth babe.
I don't think this will be the case.

Automated driving is only useful if you know where you're going. If you're on a leisurely ride through the country or are looking for a place with no address, you can't use automated navigation. So disabling it would be a necessity for a variety of driving purposes. As an aside, motorsport enthusiasts would be up in arms if they had to pay a premium just to be able to drive their expensive sports sedan the way they want on a closed track.

What will probably happen is a black box will record if the car was in automated mode when a crash occurs. If it was driving itself, the manufacturer will probably be at fault and forced to pay the insurance company. If you were driving it, the standard rules apply.

I have to say though, automated drifting is really depressing. I used to drive a Toyota MR2, which is an ass-heavy car that was very susceptible to snap oversteer. Unlike most other cars, if you felt like the car's rear end was about to slide out of control, you had to PUNCH the gas to get traction back. You basically have to fight all your instincts and do something crazy in a split second or end up spinning backwards towards god knows what. It's the most exciting thing i've ever experienced in a car (even more than sitting in on hot laps with an indy driver in a Lexus IS-F), and I would never get to experience it with automated driving.

As for non-drifting, automated driving is definitely an amazing and useful feature. Writing code on my way to work sounds like fun. And I know it sounds controversial, but if there was some way to couple a breathalyzer with automated driving, we might be able to use our cars as taxis that pick us up and drop us off without us having the ability to drive. But perhaps that's hoping for too much...
Will Light Table get OS-specific keyboard shortcuts (Command-based shortcuts on a Mac instead of Ctrl-based ones) in the future? They're probably the biggest reason I'm a fan of Sublime Text.
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I would also recommend the WISP: A homoiconic JavaScript dialect with Clojure syntax, s-expressions and macros. More details at: https://github.com/Gozala/wisp
As a BMW owner myself, I say: "good riddance to driving being fun." I used to get a kick out of it when I was younger, but now that I'm married with a kid it's just an exercise in paranoia and frustration. People are fucking nuts in the way they drive. My friend just got T-boned hard enough to flip his car 360 degrees a couple of months ago, by some asshole speeding in the shoulder as traffic was backed up. I see an accident at least once a week commuting into Philadelphia. Teenagers (16-20) just plain shouldn't be on the road the way most of them drive. It's no wonder that traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for people 5-35. The government should ban non-self-driving cars as soon as feasible. If you think about it: it's utterly ridiculous that a publicly-funded infrastructure with a crucial utilitarian purpose should be used for "fun."
Whether you are conscious of your memory is independent of whether you are using memory.
I'll grant that for the sake of argument, but does that kind of publicity do any good for the event or the people presenting their products there?
One wonders if Tutorial D could be built into pg as an extension. I don't know enough about the pg internals to really say.
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You misunderstood me. The losses are to companies of the country, and the gains are again to companies of the country. I am saying that the gains to the companies by the spying must be much more.
How do you get a job in porn if you don't already know someone in the field? I never see job ads for it, and when I tried searching on Dice my query was "corrected" to "port".
"Play Hide and Seek like never before."

I think the use cases outlined on the site are pretty stupid.

Neat implementation, but is there a market?
Information is not matter, it's spiritual by its essence. Information can be stored in matter (physical medium), but in itself it's not matter at all. Consciousness lies in the realm of information, or how it's traditionally called a spiritual world. In essence however there is a metaphysical view that there is no conceptual separation between spiritual and physical (or putting it in other terms, physical world is also defined with information). The separation is only that of perception. That can bridge the two approaches.
I enjoyed the article. I just have a factual correction: Lisp had real macros as early as the 70s, not the 80s. (Maybe even earlier, for all I know.)
First: "They don’t approach except to shyly ask for a photo."

Then: "The younger ones in previous years used to ask for my number a lot.”

The article is pretty much void of content, just a couple of booth babes giving personal (and contradictory) anecdotes.
yeah unfortunately that 21 euros vs 5 bucks was the game killer for me.
Go back to 4Chan, please. "u mad" contributes nothing to any discussion.
I always thought it funny how it evokes pictures like this

http://therealrevo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/pool....
> List comprehensions never seemed like a big deal to me. It's 3-4 lines for a loop, which is probably easier to read than the list comprehension anyway.

that's totally a nope.

def qsort(L):
if len(L) <= 1: return L
return qsort([lt for lt in L[1:] if lt < L[0]]) + [L[0]] + qsort([ge for ge in L[1:] if ge >= L[0]])
The real answer is that there is an industry of designers
accustomed to doing per-pixel tuning of their art assets and
this work is worthless if the assets are going to be scaled
anyway.

That's an effect, but not the cause – the roots of the raster-based paradigm of modern GUIs are far more technical. I would point to the tradeoffs between speed and memory limitations in early GUI systems: If you look at the original Macintosh UI, you'll see a system more constrained by rendering speeds than by RAM, and thus a high emphasis on bitmaps versus vector rendering.

Look at this Folklore.org story on the origin of the roundrect in System 1: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_E... It was only through a combination of Jobs' perfectionism and Atkinson's ingenuity that such a simple thing as rounded rectangles could be accomplished on the original Macintosh; can you imagine how long it would have taken to render a Finder window full of vector icons?
A mental state doesn't cause the collapse of the wavefunction. (For example, in the Schroedinger's Cat setup, not only is the cat a perfectly good observer, but so is the detector.) Rather, the collapse of the wavefunction may cause a change in someone's mental state - or it may cause a change in nobody's mental state, if it is unobserved by any human.

A quantum mechanical "observer" does not need to be a human, or even an animal.
I found there was a culture of constant overtime and firefighting. I also found they made a point of letting people know they were replaceable when they came onboard.

It's a big company though - my experience at other large corporations was that this sort of thing varies wildly from team to team.

The only other "culture" at Amazon was the constant cult-like references to a set of principles - people would actually talk about "bias for action", "frugality" and whatever in their normal daily conversations. It was kind of strange.

Happy to be working elsewhere now.