skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overwhelming Task Management
A very simple method of classifying tasks that makes it possible to determine exactly when you are butting your head up against a wall.
It certainly gives more examples of data brokers than the article.
Two things combined to lower its rank: a moderator tagged it as lightweight and it set off the flamewar detector.
I made 2-3x as much by moving to California and then another integer coefficient greater than one when I moved to New York.

Another 2x? 3x? 4x? Why make us guess? It's valuable info that helps inform people's decisions for the future.

Thank you for the datapoints.
Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
> testing button colors and whatnot.

Isn't that exactly what they're not doing?

As a conversion optimization guy, I see my fare share of "button color" stories--which are as much of a mockery as "growth hacking". So I was glad to see they're doing this right: Tracking conversions and paths by cohorts; cautious of false positives; testing big changes instead of, eg, button colors; combining test results with qualitative data (usability tests) when making decisions; ...
>"I didn't know the A series of paper sizes was built around the golden rectangle."

It's late so forgive me if I'm wrong (and my maths/geometry ended at high school level back in 1985), but I don't think that's correct.

'A' series paper dimensions are based on the square root of two [1] which is a ratio of 1:4142.

The golden rectangle has a ratio of 1:1.618 [2].

'A' series paper sizes are basically halves of the parent size. You can't fit a golden spiral into that geometry.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#The_international_s...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rectangle
wait, so the only way to use this product is if someone else using this product sends you bitcoins first? Does that mean the entire system is a 0-sum-bitcoin system, with a fixed number of bitcoins in circulation?
Yes but in your A/B test you shouldn't be picking first half vs second half. Each visitor should be randomly assigned, so it should mitigate the problem you mentioned.
Google designing own self-driving vehicle
It's especially worth noting that this is true even though these tax credits already exist. The benefit has largely gone to the companies that use them, not so much to their employees.

Of course, it can be argued that there would be fewer jobs for them without it, so that is not to say that there has been no benefit -- it's just kind of hard to quantify. But it has not helped make salaries in Canada more competitive.
Please follow the site guidelines and don't complain about downvotes—all it does is lower the signal/noise ratio. Everyone gets downvoted. It doesn't matter.
Ben Krasnow also did a good piece on this, showing a system that he built with a 4F correlator. Of course, his piece is full of things that look like things you could build at home if you had infinite resources on hand ... but it really does drive home just how possible it is to build this system, and provides a very intuitive view of how it works.

His piece is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcRB3TWIAXE
I can vouch for the 2x from Canada->California, I'm making more than 2x what I did in Canada (Toronto) now. I don't know about the 3x or 4x, maybe sillysaurus was making like $30k in Canada before, or maybe he's just some kind of superstar that gets paid $250k/year.
Because you used the denominator "10." If the constant is precisely 22.7 then it can be represented in any other base with just as much precision, you'd just use a different format for the number before and after the decimal point.
Peter J. Denning
Really Good Books, Part II
2x of silicon valley and then bonus on top, but that required moving into finance. It also helped that my previous employer was Apple, it opened many doors when it came time to interview.

The fact of the matter is that other industries are starved for talent. If you can keep up in silicon valley, where all anyone talks about is technology, you will be godly in a different marketplace with more capital flow.

Finance in particular has way too many people who think things like this are a good idea and The Right Thing To Do: https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections
Determining the runtime bounds of a function is also undecidable.[1] That doesn't mean that we can't do it in practice for the things we're interested in.

[1] https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/5004/are-runtim...
For posterity's sake I would like to state that I never contemplated blackmail as an explanation.
I believe the company also needs to be majority owned by resident Canadian citizens. There are a number of accounting firms that specialize in SRED claims, but most take a cut of your return in exchange for their services.
> A minor payment dispute could then hold up an investment round or M&A transaction, and that's completely out of proportion to the issue you're trying to address.

For any good client, an investment round or M&A transaction is to them what my fee is to me, and my fee is to them what the late charge on my waterbill is to me—easier to just pay the $1.20 than to give any fuss about it.

In other words, if they're that worried about it, they can always just pay the dispute and sort it out later. My business, however, might be significantly hindered by them not paying.
So far Google's self-driving cars have been designed to have the driver take over in certain situations. I wonder how that works without a steering wheel and pedals. Are the cars manually drivable at all?
Credit score isn't allowed in pricing of insurance for a lot of states, including California. It depends state to state though.
You have to live in Canada.
Microsoft demos breakthrough in real-time translated conversations
Looks like they are.

"We’re planning to build about a hundred prototype vehicles, and later this summer, our safety drivers will start
testing early versions of these vehicles that have manual
controls."
Given that they're capped at 25 mph, these are legally "low-speed vehicles", not cars, which means they're way less regulated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-speed_vehicle
Please keep in mind that "price" means "how many dollars other humans are willing to trade for it right now"; not necessarily any concrete evaluation of the device's functionality compared to a human competitor or human operator...
That implies that the prototypes will have manual controls, but the production versions will not.
Google's own self driving car
Ah, that makes a lot of sense; sbcl does a good job of open-coding machine integer arithmetic with fairly minimal type declarations.
"If you reach for a star, and come up with a handful of mud..."
I'm currently a beneficiary of SRED in a startup context in Canada.

The first thing to note is that it doesn't solve many major problems. The lack of development talent is the biggest one; trying to get someone to move from California to Canada isn't something that's solved as simply as offering more money. And in my experience (as a recent graduate), the talent that would have studied computer science or has an interest in programming moves onto "safer" education and career options (in the local context) - usually engineering or commerce/finance.

There's simply a lack of talent, or more realistically, a lack of talent with no better options.

The money here is being used to attempt to make up for the extreme economies of scale that places like Silicon Valley have. It's not enough to make Canada a competitive place to start a startup, really, but it may have some effect on the total amount of expatriation by talented individuals.
Pet Care Costs?
1. Is it this? http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/txcrdt/sred-rsde/menu-eng.html

2. If I were to start a new company, can I use this rebate when paying myself?
Interesting topic, but one thing should be made clear for people without an engineering/applied mathematics background.

The FFT is not the same as the fourier transform. Most of the time the distinction is irrelevant, but in this case it truly does matter. The transformed signal measured with the lens is the result of a sampled continuous space fourier transform (CSFT). The FFT computed is the discrete space fourier transform. The two are not always equivalent.

I bring this up because the author uses the terms "fourier transform" and "FFT" interchangeably.
Why are you using a throwaway account? Ohh, I just saw the "dollars or Yen" remark. TIL we use throwaway accounts for the times we feel like being assholes, so the non-elites can't track it back to our physical neuroprocessors.
It's actually in the package "ocaml-csv.x86_64" on CentOS 6.4, which does come up if you "yum search csvtool" (for me anyway)
From a UI perspective if they rarely need manual control you can use a less ergonomic option. Such as a joystick which would be a pain for regular use but would take up less space and still provide plenty of control for situations like parking in a field for a concert and or a quick emergency override in case something goes wrong.
Somehow a dupe of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7807991
Confirms what has otherwise been in the press for 2 weeks. However, it's helpful to hear it from Amazon directly. Sidesteps the need to "shoot the messenger"--An unfortunate direction of earlier discussions on HN.
Don't mean to hijack the thread, but Scott, any plans to bring back This Developer's Life? It was (is?) one of the best dev podcasts out there.

ps: hope the things shared in the one before last episode are now completely over. My best wishes.
Why an entire js dependency for what can be accomplished with 10 lines of jquery?
"The lack of interest from Google is absolutely astonishing ..."

What's astonishing to me is that anyone considers this point astonishing.
I think if you're in computing this is true. The tax credit "successes" in Canada are groups like the hundreds of artists on videogames or mechanical engineers in aerospace. Software development that way does exist, but it doesn't account for a very high proportion of jobs in these programs.

As an outsider in Canada I've been told it's easier to get foreigners to join startups due to how risk averse Canadians are, and what I've seen would tend to back that up.
Google to Offer its own Self-Driving Car
No, I've read the propaganda, it's illogical at best. Just seems to be a surge in butthurt little boys running around.
Somebody has to type the data you loaded.
The 1.1% of Amazon sales (by item count) for Hachette is an interesting metric if only to determine overall sales volume for Amazon should someone happen to have the approximate Hachette numbers.
Unless random high bias means your "edge" is exactly the opposite.
Oddly enough, all you are doing is complaining about me complaining...
Looks like this one is to https:// while that one is to http:// - I'm guessing that's how.
Yes, that's is a very interesting point. I would think that, long term, the only manual control a self driving car really needs is a "kill switch." How long will it be after self-driving tech goes mainstream until people simply don't know who to drive?

I can see my kids now, "I remember when I was a kid, my mom/dad actually had to control the automobile. Archaic!"

Not too long ago my friend's son asked me why my phone was attached to the wall. He had only ever known cordless phones. I image cars will go a similar route.
“A word about proportion: this business interruption affects a small percentage of Amazon’s demand-weighted units.” -a normal thing a human would say
When the man with glasses gives his perspective, the enablement hits you. If you've any humanity, you feel the potential this technology brings to so many.
No, it doesn't. It means that there is a 1 in 20 chance that you would have seen results as good or better if your change had no effect (assuming a standard one-sided hypothesis test). Thus if the effect appears to be good, you should take the test as some evidence that it is worth implementing.
Ask HN: Fat or thin arrows?
The ES6 arrow function proposal uses fat arrows over thin arrows. I love the arrow syntax but think there's enough equal signs in javascript statements already (equality, assignment, relative comparison, etc).

Which do you prefer, fat or thin?
Go was the gateway drug to Haskell for me too. As soon as I found out the type system wasn't giving me as many guarantees as I thought while making me type annotations I figured I should find a language with a stronger type system. As a bonus, said language had type inference ;)
We also take seriously the impact it has when, however infrequently, such a business interruption affects authors. We've offered to Hachette to fund 50% of an author pool - to be allocated by Hachette - to mitigate the impact of this dispute on author royalties, if Hachette funds the other 50%. We did this with the publisher Macmillan some years ago. We hope Hachette takes us up on it.

I have to say, this is a classy move on Amazon's part.
I bet it's written in GO language... LOL for when the car breaks don't work... just like in TOYOTA
Statically typed usually means the compiler checks types during compilation and throws away information about them after generating the target code (usually, there are exceptions like Java). So I doubt it will be able to tell you anything about types in the ouput (the web page) unless you do something with runtime contracts.
Talent is one problem.

What about access to customers and financing?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's the way her life is built around buzzwords, brands and hopeless consumerism.
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Tend – run a command when files change
My Day: Robot scientist Tomotaka Takahashi
>'We also take seriously the impact it has when, however infrequently, such a business interruption affects authors. We've offered to Hachette to fund 50% of an author pool - to be allocated by Hachette - to mitigate the impact of this dispute on author royalties, if Hachette funds the other 50%. We did this with the publisher Macmillan some years ago. We hope Hachette takes us up on it.'

Wonderfully slick move.

It makes Amazon look good, Hachette look bad and builds good will with the authors and spectators while turning the screws on the economic pressure that Hachette is already facing.
Google prototype car without pedals, brakes, or steeling wheel
I think the biggest news was this sentence:

If all goes well, we’d like to run a small pilot program here in California in the next couple of years.

This is the next step in their very slow but, apparently, very steady march towards real self-driving cars that anyone can buy.
There's a funny mention of this problem in "I, Robot". When will smith takes the wheel he is scolded for taking such a completely irresponsible risk. Given how those robots drive versus how he drives, we likely will have to agree with this at some point.

I wonder if real life will play out the same way : will controlling a car the human way become an unacceptable risk, and how fast will this happen ? Because we're likely to see both effects play here : first, humans will become worse at controlling vehicles, and vehicles will become better at it, likely having superior senses and predictive ability. So there should come a point where humans become a risk.

So there will come a point where we get to choose between new policies and letting humans drive. If we had self-driving cars and we could eliminate speed limits on interstates entirely, in trade for not allowing human drivers at all, would we do it ?
I find it cute how most of the people still are not comfortable taking their eyes off the road.
I'm not sure why I'm dignifying this Reddit drivel with a response, but my karma and account age should be your hint that you're barking up the wrong tree.
Just curious, is the basis client/server available going to be made available? Thanks for the post.
I'm not sure that I understand the question, but I'll clarify:

This is built on the one-and-only Bitcoin blockchain network. This is not it's own independent blockchain.

You can send to your QuickCoin wallet from any other Bitcoin wallet.
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/csv-conduit
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cassava

These libraries should be able to work with data that large, though I can't say whether they meet your requirements yet. I'm not sure what exactly "10GB CSV un-cached disk to RAM in <5Min including fuzzy parsing on dates".

Namely, I don't know what you mean by date fuzzy parsing or what your output looks like after. Perhaps I need to open ipython notebook and import pandas ;)
I can relate to this. Anyone who has ever had to take a family members car away from them as they get older can as well. When someone has driven most of their life, losing the ability to drive can be a very difficult. To them its losing their independence. Self driving technology is very much about enablement.
Google’s New Self-Driving Car Ditches the Steering Wheel
Rogoff has a pretty long history of publishing what well-heeled people apparently want to hear, it's amazing that he was able to hide behind the "this was just a spreadsheet error" point.

The problem is I've mostly observed his chameleon act in radio interviews pre and post crisis. The pre-crisis interview, he claimed their was no problem and the post-crisis interview, he talked about how angry he was against the folks who claimed there was no problem, so unfortunately I can't provide a link (the files probably wouldn't be online anymore even if I took the trouble to find the link - smart shills do things by voice, it seems).
Optimism rather than fact.

There is a lot more to it. I am pretty well known as an SEO, and while I would love this to be true it isn't.

Google's improvements to GoogleBot are mostly targeting spam, and obfuscation of content. The ideas is not to discover content as much as it is to avoid having content hidden.

Previously you could have a webpage that appeared to be about Puppies, but then used any number o dynamic methods to instead show naked cam girls. Google worked to fix this.

Google is now doing some indexing of named anchors, and this allows for linking to a page with in a page as it were. But that is a Long ways from building indexable single page applications.

-Brandon Wirtz
SEO (formerly Greatest Living American)
http://www.blackwaterops.com
This wouldn't be a very interesting story if the answer were "yes." Whether Google or Toyota manufactures a self-driving car with manual override doesn't matter much from the point of view of a typical citizen or someone who's interested in the architectural implications of this technology.

As long as there's a manual override and a responsibility to use it, the car requires a capable driver paying attention all the time. It's an interesting beginning and it might improve safety but it doesn't fundamentally change things.

But without manual override, the car must be very reliably capable on its own. I suppose there might be a network connection and the ability to dispatch an Uber to pick you up whenever the car decides it is unable to proceed. But nobody will choose to use these cars if that scenario is remotely common. So announcing that this thing could ship in 2 years indicates to me that either Google's tech is doing way better than has been suggested in other recent press, or Google has started talking up vaporware to an unprecedented degree.
It seems like a mistake to remove manual controls entirely, not necessarily because of safety concerns, but because there are a fair number of times when you need the car to go somewhere without having a route. I'm thinking of things like:

Moving your car ten feet so somebody else can get out of the driveway; handling double parking during alternate side parking hours; moving the car because you were waiting to pick someone up in a no-standing zone and a cop just pulled up behind you; moving the car to just the right spot so grandma doesn't have to walk any more steps than absolutely necessary; parking on a lawn for a party or concert; backing up to just the right spot so you can hitch up a trailer.

The list could go on forever, and that's the point -- you can surely automate away some of these tasks, but there is an infinite multiplicity of things that need to be done with a car, and having to point them out on a map in order to get the car to do them, or even use a joystick to do it, sounds like an obnoxious chore.

Edit: to those who disagree with me by pointing to a utopian future of car sharing for everyone and no one even being able to drive, that's fine I guess, but this seems to be suggesting that the very first generation of these will be without a steering wheel, when very few people will have these cars and all of the problems I listed will still exist. Even if your ultimate goal is for passengers to be completely dependent on the AI for navigation, that's just not going to be an option when these things roll off the lot as soon as 2016.
This will eventually make non-automated driving sort of like a manual transmission (in North America) - something you get because you either specifically want one or because it's all you can afford (I'm probably way over-generalizing). Eventually, just like the automatic transmission, the self-driving car will be the default for most people.

I don't imagine that we'll get away from people who drive because they find it enjoyable any time soon.
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I'm looking for feedback, suggestions, or just a "hey, I use this" on my ruby gem. I'm pretty new to ruby but thought this was a neat way to get into writing some code. Let me know what you think.
Google Unveils A Self-Driving Car Prototype Without A Steering Wheel Or Pedals
The whole 'universe as simulation' idea is spooky.
> The lack of development talent is the biggest one; trying to get someone to move from California to Canada isn't something that's solved as simply as offering more money.

Actually it would take a lot less money than you would think to get many people to move to Canada and take a job offer. There's a whole world of immigrants out there who would love to move to Canada. They're mostly not located in California however, but east and south of Europe.
2-3x factoring in cost of living in places like SF and NY?

Isn't that the evening out factor, at least for new grads, for a job in say Toronto or Waterloo vs the valley?
I agree with you, perhaps in the context of a personal vehicle there does need to be manual control.

However I can see these more as a form of private public transit, a fleet of driverless google cars cruising around and anyone with a subscription a la zipcar can hail them and go.

Perhaps in this context, Google could operate parking garages where they can be recharged and cleaned while keeping them off the street and out of people's ways.
Ah,

I can believe "flawed product" were constructed by spreadsheet but that seems a kind of shallow analysis.

Clearly, the housing bubble involved a rush to buy whatever - spreadsheet might seem the "immediate cause" but "wishful thinking" would clearly be the larger cause with various inherent tendencies of the financial system behind that.
they made it clear that was "weighted demand" though, so items sold, not items provided. You'd need "Hachette sales through Amazon", a number unlikely to be available beyond Amazon/Hachette employees/execs.
Google Unveils Its Own Wheel-less Self Driving Car
I think the eventual goal will be that most cars will be self-driving and that will negate most of those problems.

I imagine that the vision of the future is a giant car-sharing program made up of self-driving cars all coordinated by Google. Think about it - you fire up an app to request a car, one appears at your door within a couple of minutes, takes you to work, then disappears. After work, a different car picks you up, whisks you home, then scurries off to recharge/refuel/drive someone else. I suspect that in the long term the thinking is that things like "parking" and "owning a car" will be less common than they are today.

There will still be a place for manually driven cars, like ones pulling a trailer, etc.
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