jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Volvo sells a car with an optional feature that has hardware and software components. If you can prove that the hardware or software is “unreasonably dangerous” in design or implementation, you may have standing to sue Volvo.

Comma sells only some hardware (with some limited software?). Comma suggests, but is careful not to encourage for street use, that customers modify the hardware with open source software that makes the hardware dramatically more useful. If the hardware functions perfectly but this software proves unreasonably dangerous, you do not likely have standing to sue Comma.

I think it’s really cool that late model cars are adequately unencumbered to make experimentation like Comma possible. Aside from the sketchy commercialization, Comma seems impressive and valuable. I have seen no evidence Comma is any less safe than the auto manufacturers’ LKA products.

My beef is that Comma-the-product imposes an externality on our roads by bringing experimental driver assistance software to the mass market that is not backed by the software product’s developers (or any other entity).
or, imagine if there's standard interfaces between the motors/control system and the "brains" of self driving.

Like how CDs and peripherals don't all need to come from the same manufacturer ('cept apple's!), because there's an industry standard for interoperability.
It strikes me as a simple solution to turn abandoned malls into homes. Many malls are centrally located, near transit, and have plenty of parking. For the ones that are indoor style, you could even have easily accessed amenities like a gym or something. I wonder what the issue is besides zoning laws?
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17439594
worth noting this context free link is 10 yrs old.
It won't be a fad if it's cheaper to add a touch screen than adding mechanical switch gear to cars. I agree with the article though, it can be dangerous. Unless there are legal consequences, I don't see touch screens going away.

In Germany, a driver got in trouble for adjusting his wiper speed on the touch screen, then drove off the road from the distraction,[1] but I'm not aware of other rulings.

> "The touch screen built into the Tesla brand vehicle is an electronic device [...] which the driver of the vehicle is only permitted to operate under the conditions of this regulation without it being a matter of what purpose the driver is pursuing with the operation.

> The setting of the functions necessary for the operation of the motor vehicle via touchscreen (here: setting the wiping interval of the windshield wiper) is therefore only permitted if this is done with only a brief glance at the screen that is adapted to the road, traffic, visibility and weather conditions at the same time corresponding averted view of the traffic is connected ".

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=h...
Also, Android had until version 5 an option to force ISO date/time format, but it was removed for some reason?
The fan will burn out if you use a single filter. See my other comment in the thread.
A truly user friendly solution would be to allow community curation of blocklists and full user control over which they choose to enable. Google is not interested in providing a good user experience though, they're interested in sucking out as much value from the user as possible, using dark patterns when convenient.

With that, I also agree that Google couldn't be trusted to editorialize.
I recognize his username to be Turkish, so he might be one of the locals. There are some people in Turkey who don't care much for history and the preservation of historical sites, and just want to make money off of demolishing them and building on top of them.
Unfortunately, ISBNs also get recycled. They shouldn't be (I think it's actually against the ISBN rules), but it happens.
I dunno, the comments were pretty informative.

Looks like Julia still haven't managed to handle updates well.

I remember being so amazed that they'd blown their 1.0 announcement (went from 0.7 to 1.0 over a Juliacon).

And because there were so many changes (most of which i thought were good), it was pretty broken for new users at that time, which I firmly believe limited their adoption.

And to be clear, I love the idea of Julia, and that first document made me fall in love. And I think that the design for statistical computing is really, really good.

It's just a shame that this ops/packaging stuff is holding them back.
I've never heard of it but I looked it up for the last minutes and indeed, Layered Ink would be one of the ways to respect the pyramid principle! Thanks for pointing it out. Where have you heard about it?
Joke, but on the other hand, now would be the time to roll something out.
Apparently the US (as suspected), but the first target could very well be Iran. Disgusting enough that Trump doesn't even think about easing the sanctions so Iran can get medical equipment, and now his generals think about war (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/world/middleeast/trump-ir...).
Precisely what you wrote: CS is "Code Segment", DS is "Data Segment", ES is "Extra Segment" (even here it feels a bit manufactured), but FS and GS lack any semi-reasonable expansion.
On the other hand, I keep hearing people saying than nm is increasingly just a marketing number - and indeed, for all of Intel’s difficulties I don’t see too many chips beating Intel in single-threaded performance.

I say this as someone who bought a Ryzen-based system last year after significant research.
> I wonder what kind of use cases are unlocked with 16 billion transistors in your pocket.

Compared to 8 billion? Realistically, it will let web developers write even more bloated Javascript SPAs without enough people complaining about the speed to improve it.
The work one did decades ago would not be worth of the same today due to increased total factor productivity.

When people think the money they earned in past should be worth same today assume that value of money should grow.
Meh, I had some more thoughts, mostly along the non-technical line...

- Google I/O is only two days long while WWDC is five days long, which makes the price a bit more comparable.

- Apple worked with Duarte and got all their speakers to rehearse in excess to get the presentations polished as much as possible before the event - what you saw on the public keynote with Zynga's CEO babbling about Farmville was amateur hour. All the speakers may have been nervous at some point or another about speaking to so many people, but they knew their stuff and pulled it off. While a lot of conferences do similar things, occasionally when it's a more laid-back or shorter event, they skimp so much here that it hurts. Nothing spoils a presentation more than an unprepared speaker with crazy slides to me. For one extreme example (to me), I went to an Amazon event local to me after WWDC last year, and saw this atrocious presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-startup-even... (slide #4 is particularly bad). I'm sure it was pretty easy to guess how far my jaw fell going from a week long professional polished-to-an-extreme event where every single presentation used the same syntax highlighting, to that, where the person couldn't even get the bullet points to match in size or shape on a single slide.

- Partnerships? To do what? Any partner that would have participated in something like that at WWDC should it exist had employees there to go to the conference that could promote their products or whatever with people they meet over the course of a week.

- While WWDC this year had a noticeable lack of Mac-specific sessions, they had plenty foundational sessions for all platforms, and a LOT of talk about Safari and then the developer tools, which are clearly not only for iOS development, so there's no excuse for combining Xcode and iOS 4 together. Not to mention that 10.7 is probably not ready to even be previewed, so what else would Apple have presented there?

- The OP totally just doesn't even mention anything about the existence of Office Hours and Labs at I/O and WWDC respectively, which to many were the most valuable part of the conferences...I know people who didn't even bother to go to more than a couple sessions throughout the entire week at WWDC, they just permanently parked themselves in the labs on the first floor. (The labs/office hours being the places/times you could go and chat one-on-one with the people behind whatever you wanted help with or just wanted to talk about.)
While I agree that tweet as a noun is defensible, and is an exacting term, I wouldn't expect its use from professional journalists in a non-tech report without qualification about what the term refers to. It would be like using any other niche specific term without qualification. A good example would be etude, musicians and classical music enthusiests will immediately know it, but an average reader will not, even if the term is a similar term of art.
I think both events were ~5000 attendees (likely Moscone's capacity has something to do with this). WWDC has been going on for 15 years, whereas this Google IO was the third. Having been going on for 15 years, there may be more depth of community and, subsequently, more networking value.
I'm an American and I love everything from Finland (Marcus Grönholm, Marimekko, Moomin, you name it). I loved my Nokia 8290 but that was ten years ago. It's no iPhone.
So by getting into the standard English lexicon (whatever that is??), every speaker of English automatically understands the word "tweet"? Fascinating how these old timers achieved automatic updates.

What is the standard English lexicon, who maintains it, and why is it accepted as an authority? Why has it not been replaced by the internet yet?
I agree that children should be taught to the maximum possible. I think that this particular program is in trouble though, sadly.

Your experience sounds very interesting. Would you care to share some more? Were you in the Boston program, or elsewhere?
surprising that "Pakistan" isn't even on the list of countries. Anyone knows why?
I see this misconception a lot when new startups start to gain momentum, the idea that it only makes sense for completely novel concepts to take off.

Clubhouse fills a specific niche that doesn't have a strong incumbent yet. It's essentially live podcasts/fireside chats where listeners can chime in.

As of right now, there are big players in podcast platforms and conference calls for work, but none whose platform is specifically built around the live podcast with interactivity from listeners option.

Successful companies aren't built around making something totally novel that's never been done before, this isn't the Nobel Prize. They're built out of creating the best and stickiest product/service for a use case that doesn't have one yet.
Django has a few drawbacks:

1. It’s tricky to use in non-web contexts. If you ever need something to happen as a response to an event which is not a web request, Django makes this difficult and ugly.

2. Django also more or less requires ownership of the database in order to function as intended. If you want to have your Django objects in your own database and handle schema changes centrally (to, for example, alleviate problem 1 above), you must also abstain from some of Django’s power, i.e. migrations, etc.
I thought we were talking about taxation at the federal level, not the local.
I recall there being some 'wilderness years' between people generally deciding that Zope was a bad idea and Django 'winning'. I remember using frameworks like Turbogears and CherryPy for a while before Django and Flask split the 'market' between them.
I'm taking the class this upcoming semester from Matt. I'm excited to understand what tools like gcc, clang, and so on are doing under the hood.
Why not use it for canvas.toDataURL?
Agreed, I enjoy reading it as well. Keep up the great work!
There is an extensive Wikipedia article[1] on this topic. Here's an excerpt:

In economics and finance, a Taleb distribution
is a returns profile that appears at times
deceptively low-risk with steady returns, but
experiences periodically catastrophic drawdowns.

The general idea is that because black swans occur infrequently, their risk is significantly under priced by most people.

NB: Taleb does not advocate investing using a Taleb distribution; instead he warns against that sort of investing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleb_distribution
The environment of and around the earth is pretty chaotic. Think it is way to soon to postulate what caused such a tiny variation. How to account for it, different subject.

Odd that I read this first a few days ago via a link to a Martha Steward website lol
You're not a protester if you are breaking into congress, breaking past a barricade, being told to stop, and walking towards an officer pointing his gun at you. You're suicidal.
> "Even advertising companies!"

Many national brands have been steadily advertising on Fox News throughout the current administration, contradicting your thesis.
You say that your time is worth more than the money, but perhaps there is a point where that would be no longer true. If the on-call incident bonus was $200/hr with a $400 minimum that would do it for me (your numbers may be different).

This also incentivizes the company not to mess around with on call for dumb problems. A user is locked out at 3am? Not a $400 problem. The server goes down at 3am? That is a $400 problem.

If you really want to stick to your guns with time over money, then make the on-call bonus a time-in-lieu situation. For every hour worked on-call you get half a day of time off.

Of course, you can always just stick to your guns. "Part of the reason I chose this job is that I don't have to do on-call duties. It is a company policy that it is voluntary. Changing that policy materially changes the terms of my employment in a way that matters very much to me." That last sentence is written in a way that will make HR people nervous without being impolite.

Any manager, or HR person can read right between the lines of that, which is essentially: "Try me. Best case is a renegotiation of my contract. Worst case is that I jump ship to any of the unlimited competitors that will give me what I want."
The big historical problem with this approach isn't "the arbitrary CEOs of a few large corporations" making unfair decisions (not to say that this couldn't be a problem now or in future). It's that governments (both good and bad) have pressured those companies behind closed doors to censor content governments don't like but which they haven't (or can't) go to the trouble of making illegal. This creates a huge accountability gap - these are government decisions in reality but can't be challenged in the same way they could be if out in the open.
He consistently encourages violence and when his followers do something bad he usually refuses to say it was bad. So sure he only specifically said to march on the capitol while the election was being stolen inside, but his response to the storming was not "this was bad, go home" but "we love you, go home".

The man knows how to guide a crowd. He has responsibility here.
> domestic terrorists

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that you don't have a lot of exposure to terrorism. A bunch of idiots breaking into the Capitol and… mostly wandering around taking selfies? Not really very effective terrorists. It was a stupid, pointless move, and illegal — but a long, long way short of terrorism, except possibly on the very fringes of some three-letter organization's idiosyncratic definition.
The latter is not true. Airlines' contracts of carriage prohibit "Point Beyond Ticketing." Here is what (e.g.) United's contract of carriage says:

> Fares apply for travel only between the points for which they are published. Tickets may not be purchased and used at fare(s) from an initial departure point on the Ticket which is before the Passenger’s actual point of origin of travel, or to a more distant point(s) than the Passenger’s actual destination being traveled even when the purchase and use of such Tickets would produce a lower fare. This practice is known as “Hidden Cities Ticketing” or “Point Beyond Ticketing” and is prohibited by UA.

And violation of this provision can, in fact, have repercussions:

> UA’s Remedies for Violation(s) of Rules - Where a Ticket is purchased and used in violation of the law, these rules or any fare rule (including Hidden Cities Ticketing, Point Beyond Ticketing, Throwaway Ticketing, or Back-to-Back Ticketing), UA has the right in its sole discretion to take all actions permitted by law, including but not limited to, the following:

> 1) Invalidate the Ticket(s);

> 2) Cancel any remaining portion of the Passenger’s itinerary;

> 3) Confiscate any unused Flight Coupons;

> 4) Refuse to board the Passenger and to carry the Passenger’s baggage, unless the difference between the fare paid and the fare for transportation used is collected prior to boarding;

> 5) Assess the Passenger for the actual value of the Ticket which shall be the difference between the lowest fare applicable to the Passenger’s actual itinerary and the fare actually paid;

> 6) Delete miles in the Passenger’s frequent flyer account (UA’s MileagePlus Program), revoke the Passenger’s Elite status, if any, in the MileagePlus Program, terminate the Passenger’s participation in the MileagePlus Program, or take any other action permitted by the MileagePlus Program Rules in UA’s “MileagePlus Rules;” and

> 7) Take legal action with respect to the Passenger.
It would only be a "fallacy" if it were literally not possible to optimize using C extensions. It has been done, many times, for many real jobs. There is no fallacy.
The companies that are able to get the best deal, get the 10 programmers, the other companies hire less than ideal programmers. The benefits of their skills accrue to the 10 superstar programmers who make a fortune (at the expense of the investors in the companies that didn't get them) and go on to self-fund their own companies. More people in USA are attracted to programming as a profession (instead of banking, medicine, etc) because they see how well they can do if they're good, increasing the future supply of great developers.

This is how it works now (except for H1B).

What PG suggests is that in this situation, the benefits should accrue to the investors in the other companies - which just serves to concentrate wealth.

He's concerned HE and HIS industry will lose their tech lead because some superstar programmers end up getting paid millions a year (like top bankers) and become independently wealthy without bringing PG et al along for the ride.

Re argument #2 who cares what country "leads the world"? I don't want to see individual programmers taken advantage of at the expense of VCs (or other groups) and told "but its for the greater good of the country"

Re argument #3 they don't have average higher costs -> see many articles on h1-b abuse http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-10-08/high-rate-of-...
Do you mean co-routines / user threads / green threads?
I tend to agree it can have a serious performance boost in some cases. Not sure why you were down voted.

There is actually a library for java that adds it via byte code instrumentation (quasar or something) although not sure it will work for scala.

But saying that actor model is bad practice, I'm not sure that I accept it. Maybe on a single muticore but once you start talking distributed computing (e.g. Spark which is Akka based) then all this "avoid crossing to the kernel" optimization is becoming a drop in the ocean.
"Bankers" may not be the most likeable lot, or even the smartest, but telling folks who have perfected the art of siphoning small percentages from vast pools of other people's money over long periods of time, often with room for meaningful upside and limited downside, that they have no idea what they're doing is kind of silly.

Note: I'm assuming that your use of the word "bankers" refers broadly to those who work in finance (investment bankers, fund managers, etc.).
"We have made the decision to evolve our company mission and, as of today, we will no longer offer downloads." is the least respectful and most opaque phrase I've ever heard. What would have been the risk of something more honest and direct?
Hi this is a great idea. The ui is sleek and fast. While there are a lot of travel websites, I think this is a niche that can be addressed.

Some nitpicks. The seek advice button appears only on mouseover and that too at the lower end of the box. Though that will work fine s in most cases, the one I looked at had so many tags, the button went below the fold (First Voiager on Peru). Won't it be better if it is just below the image?

I was on the Peru page. I tried to get advice and was prompted for sign up. Once I did, it took me to the home page. I would prefer to remain on Peru page as I have to navigate there again.
GH seems down currently
whether or not she's a hypocrite doesn't change the facts of her assertions about Linus being an abusive leader (assuming that's what your charge of hypocrisy relates to).
That may work, but there's something wrong with him not feeling comfortable communicating with coworkers. The problem sounds bigger than his own personal issues.
Oh these unlimited services. Just tried to upload some files:

> The file 1.zip did not upload because it is larger than 2 GB.
A "quite desirable software company" is one that can attract people who are smart and socially competent, and can weed out employees who are toxic. Your current company clearly can't do that, and I'd question the basic premise that it's desirable.

I've worked with some brilliant and horrible people in the past. It doesn't get better, and my general opinion is that life's too short spend tethered to such people. Get out and don't look back.
In the same way that being a local cop is an alternative to being in the Special Forces.
One of the best things about living in Scotland is that stuff like this is illegal. Everyone has non-motorized right of access to almost all land and water, with notable exceptions such as gardens, airfields, golf clubs and crop fields. If someone tried that here I could legally just hop the fence.
Agreed, I think there are two things at play when (some) people say looks don't matter. 1) It's a holier-than-thou attitude where they are trying to come off as non-superficial like everyone else. And 2) They believe that there is some universal definition of beauty, which there is no such thing. But mainstream media would have us believe otherwise. Everyone finds who they are attracted to "beautiful."
In general, this is hard to do. This is because, as you say, the recipient can reverse engineer anything you send down to the client.

See http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt:

> In DRM, the attacker is also the recipient. It's not Alice and Bob and Carol, it's just Alice and Bob.

What applies to DRM applies to your webapp as well.

The best you can do is make this inconvenient: lock it down by IP range if you can. Make the javascript hard to reverse engineer (there are encryption tools out there). Have the API ask a question only a user would know. Password protect access to the app before you ever send javascript which accesses your web service. Do all this over SSL.
The article talks about some of the difficulties. FWIW, i think ambulance accident rates are about 4 times more than routine driving. So more like 20x more dangerous to fly.

There's also a bunch of complexity about what happens to helicopter safety rates when that kind of flying becomes routine. Maybe it'll get way safer, because there are so many less risky flights, maybe it'll get more dangerous because pilots get complacent.

fwiw, i walk to work, so i hardly drive at all. If i was in a situation that i could take the flight, i'd take the flight.
The demoscene had a lot of influence e.g. Max Payne = Future Crew!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene#Influence
Thanks, I stand corrected, that's why I like this site. I saw it on a bumper sticker so now am bummed out that it wasn't true:

http://www.teapartygearonline.com/merchandise/bumper_sticker...