skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven't used 15five, although it looks to me like a report form for weekly challenges, issues and so on - Text-based, way longer to fill in, yet probably more detailed.

Retroospect on a basic usage takes like 15 seconds to fill weekly and only tracks 5 basic data points, allows anonymity and produces charts, breakdown reports, etc... it's a more lightweight product, demands less from users and cost less - quite different kettle of fish.

In my experience teams tend to stop using products that demand too much after little time unless you enforce their use, although these tools are probably a better choice if you want in depth reports.
I know a lot of Blacks, Asians, and Women born into a lot more privilege than I, who exhibit the same behavior as those white male founders who sometimes get described as egotistical/ self absorbed/ "douchey".

I mean, are you trying to claim there are no upper middle class tech scensters who are Black, Asian, or Female? Or do they get a pass for acting exactly like the white male counterpart because they aren't white males?
This isn't a codec, it's a group to do patent analysis and development for a future codec.

WRT hardware support, I agree, but it won't be available in the early life of any new codec so it's important that it also works well in software (accelerated by SIMD and the like). The power difference is less than you might think, I have some preliminary measurements here: https://people.xiph.org/~tdaede/power/
What do you mean arrive "via CAD?" What is CAD in this context?
I don't disagree its an uphill battle. I'm arguing that Google is a cash machine, and Honeywell is not. Google could continue forever trying to push Nest if they wanted to.
The problem is that a failure mode of "off", in the winter, in cold climates, means you come home to $30,000 of water damage and pipe replacement which probably won't be covered by home insurance.

The "fail safe" mode here needs to be "maintain moderate temperatures, neither burning nor freezing". Simple mechanical thermostats do this extremely well.
except driverless cars have been driving around in California for a couple of years thanks to Google (and the fact that it's legal). Soon the term "driverless" will be like "horseless". Why would you keep your eyes on the road when a machine will do it for you, and with more awareness of its surroundings at 360 degrees, and the ability to judge the position and trajectory/velocity of any object to within a couple of m/s instantly, or react to anything in milliseconds?

Don't kid yourself: humans aren't some kind of perfect driver. A bit of sleepiness, a text message, a tiny distraction in the car, and their responsiveness plummets.
The language itself is far simpler (fewer built-in basic complex data types, composition over inheritance, no overloading, no slots) but still batteries-included w.r.t. the standard library. You'll likely get a performance improvement unless you are writing some really zany code. Static types and the compiler will actually make your life much easier when dealing with larger code bases (no more wondering what type a parameter is, if it compiles there is a much better chance that it will just work, fewer worries about unhandled runtime conditions). Less magic (no decorators or deep class hierarchies) which means its easier to trace control flow in someone else's code. Verbose, but still very clean error handling. IMHO, the import system is pretty broken and awful, but importing someone else's packages straight off of github is still much better than pypi / wheelhouses. Compiled static binaries by default means that building somewhere and then shipping a binary is quite easy.
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Have to admit, that approach makes a lot of sense to me. It's still chugging along and bringing in $, so why not just have a policy of benevolent neglect?
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Read this, and could immediately state: No major movie or television content will ever be released in this format, whatever it turns out to be.
Sounds like some extensions might be getting in the way - I'm not seeing any errors in Chrome 44 stable using the default extensions.
Where does it say that black men are more aggressive, and further, that it's a strong enough association to be useful?

It does say that “A deficiency in monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) has been shown to be associated with aggressive behaviour in men of a Dutch family”, so it sounds like there are some Dutch people you wish to discriminate against.

And '59% of Black men, 54% of Chinese men, 56% of Maori men, and 34% of Caucasian men carry the 3R allele'. Which form of discrimination do you want to apply to the men in the US with Chinese and Caucasian history which also have this allele?

The category of "Black" is very diverse, because "Black" does not have a basis in biological diversity. If people of a Bantu heritage have very different allele distribution than those of Igbo heritage, then won't you be needlessly discriminating on the secondary aspect - black skin - rather than the primary one?
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Carnegie Hall, specifically, is known for enabling sub-par performers to rent the space (along with all its prestige and history, of course). Yes you can "get to Carnegie Hall" on talent alone - OR you can just pay your way in. Rentals start at just above $1,000 (for one of the smaller auditoriums on a weekday) and go up to $20k (for the main Stern auditorium on a Saturday night). To put this in perspective, if you get the most expensive rental and sell out its 2,800 seats at just $10 per ticket (the rental fee includes ticket marketing and sales by Carnegie Hall, by the way), you will pocket $8k in profits.

In the music world, this is a well known punchline to the "how do you get to Carnegie Hall" joke. Lots of people get in that way, such as the Tiger Mom's daughter, as one famous example. (And let me tell you... as a classical music lover duped into attending these performances because of the Carnegie Hall brand - they suck).

There is an interesting parallel to another front-page post on HN today, Entrepreneurs don't have a gene for risk – they come from families with money (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10151566). This quote fits especially nicely: "So while yes, there's certainly a lot of hard work that goes into building something, there's also a lot of privilege involved - a factor that is often underestimated."
You initially mentioned starting salary, now you are just mentioning 6 figure developer salaries in general. Again, $120k starting salary for your average junior developer fresh out of college isn't a reality outside of places like SV.
> Expecting humans to "drive less idiotic" is basically saying that google's cars won't work until human drivers are banned.

Or until there is a critical mass that people adapt their expectations of how many drivers violate minor road rules, like running a red light or running through a crosswalk.

Also, even if self-driving cars aren't perfect, from the data we have so far, they're still several orders of magnitudes better than regular cars. If every self-driven car today were replaced with a regular car, we would see more crashes, not fewer, overall.
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As one of the devs who used to work on Processing.js, this is an extremely tempting idea to try to make work =P
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'“It’s always going to follow the rules, I mean, almost to a point where human drivers who get in the car and are like ‘Why is the car doing that?’” said Tom Supple, a Google safety driver during a recent test drive on the streets near Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters.'

This is a drum that, like privacy and encryption, we techies need to start banging hard before it's too late. The fact that laws are fundamentally limited by our abilities to enforce them, and that laws are fundamentally written to be enforced by humans with some discretion, is such a deep assumption for us that we don't see it. We irrationally tend to conceive of a law that says "It is a felony to wear your hair in a ponytail on a Tuesday" as an absolute, even though what it really means is "If a police officer spots you with your hair in a ponytail on a Tuesday, and by their discretion arrests you, and at the discretion of a prosecutor charges you, who at the discretion of a judge and jury convicts you, you will be guilty of a felony." All laws actually say that, but that's not how we humans speak or conceptualize them. Also note the importance of a human even spotting the violation in the first place.

So, naturally, when we get technology that can rigidly enforce law, we don't program them with the "real" law, we program them with the text of the law. But the truth is, the text was never passed as a law. When the law was deliberated, everybody was really deliberating the version that involves all the human discretion, and prior to the introduction of computers, the law that was really enforced was the one with all the human discretion. A rigidly-enforced-by-computer law is a fundamentally different law, in the most concrete way possible; actions that you would never have been penalized by the human law result in immediate penalty in the computer world. There's no more concrete way to prove the point that it is a fundamentally different law.

We CAN NOT simply translate the text of the law into computer programs. If we are going to do computer enforcement of laws (and I'm going to drop the question of whether that's a good idea, feel free to debate in replies), we must write new law. By that, I do not merely mean that society has an obligation to write new laws, but that the very act of programming a law is writing a new law into existence, one never deliberated by the processes of democracy. We literally can not simply translate laws into programs. It is impossible. The result is not the same law.
Short, yes, but with a significant amount of entropy for their length. In any case, what strikes me is that this approach just makes the algorithm the secret instead of the token. Are people more likely to be able to remember algorithms for transforming URLs into passwords? I tend to doubt it.
I think the accident statistics are a little misleading because as far as I'm aware (and please correct me if I'm wrong) Google only operates its driverless cars in good weather conditions.

Not that Google doesn't have good reasons for doing so, but the safety of these vehicles might look different if they were operated in the rain and snow.
Would be interesting to see if this can be pulled off mostly due to existing patents. H.265 license covers over 500 patents you can find quite a few of them dating form the 90's which will expire in 2-3 years, but also quite a few that wont.

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/hevc/Documents/hevc-att1...

Considering that many companies patent everything and their mother I wonder if it's possible to actually have a Royalty-Free codec in which the involving parties did not volunteer their IP at no cost because I'm not sure if making one without stepping on the toes of existing patents is possible...
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I visited Google Dublin last year and found that they still used the old beveled Google-logo for e.g. letters and papers. Not the slightly beveled logo from 2010-2013, but the old one from 1999-2010.
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A huge number of those edge cases are caused by other Human drivers though. The superior solution is to get rid of the human driver. Safety goes way higher and things like highway congestion go way lower. It's clearly superior.

It's only in the near term that it gets a little dicy.
This is still my favorite demonstration of the concept and coverage of the topic: http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
Also worth noting that their terms are pretty seller- and user-hostile. You described some of the seller-hostile instances above (here's another [0] from a few years back).

But they've also rolled out some pretty user-hostile stuff in the past year. At one point, they were set to roll out a new privacy agreement that included permission for them to robo-call you at phone numbers that you hadn't provided to them (with no mention of how those numbers were obtained).[1]

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/04/paypal-shreds-ostensibly-ra...
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/05/paypal-claims-it-will-allow...
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http://microsites.digitalglobe.com/30cm/ <-- they moved stuff.
The UK also has iPlayer, which is worth the VPN subscription fee I pay every month to use it.
> PHP [...] at least allows you to run 4 code on the 5 interpreter with no issues

Speaking as someone who at one time made a living porting PHP4 code to PHP5, that's not even the same ballpark as reality. No non-trivial code base made that transition without effort. But it is of course possible to write code that runs on both versions, which may be the source of the confusion.

Guess why all cheap web hosting companies only offer ancient versions of PHP? "I downloaded $crap from teh Internet and it doesn't work" is nobody's favourite idea of customer support.

If I were to think of a scripting language (to exclude C) that has kept backwards compatibility well, I think Perl 5 has done a decent job. Fifteen year old code bases is at least within the realm of possibility to get up and running, and the language has evolved quite a bit in the meantime.
Getting your codec supported in hardware is a tricky business, and as much as I've been a huge fan of the Daala initiative it was always going to be an insurmountable hurdle for Mozilla alone. IMO getting buy-in from Cisco and Youtube actually gives us a fighting chance at an actual royalty-free hardware-supported codec, which is why I'm so excited at this news.
I've looked in the dictionary and "contrary" comes up as "opposite in nature" or "perversely inclined to disagree". Which one?
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Have you only been looking at them on a computer? On a phone, and especially on a watch, flat designs seem far superior to me.
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Pretty much. All the summon-a-robocar with an app in 5-10 years predictions seem to merrily ignore all the edge cases having to do with weather, direct driver interactions (e.g waving someone out into traffic), construction, parking in unmarked spaces, etc., etc. I have little doubt that autonomous highway driving for example is both achievable and desirable but a lot of folks extrapolate that to the more general case which is much, much harder.
> Didn't even see the problem till it was fixed

Most design problems are this way. Even after you fix them they are often not obvious to the user despite improving the UX.