skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can create similar semantics. The only difference is in who controls what code goes to your users.

I'd consider jQuery a third party. If only signatures are checked (and not content), then trusted third parties can push whatever code they'd like to your users.
Like WebAssembly (technically not a bytecode).
Ultimately the operating profit of a vehicle has to create a return on the capital outlay. Uber's current network effect guarantees a high utilization as autonomous vehicles are introduced.

higher utilization -> higher hourly operating profit -> margin to decrease prices -> unprofitable for new entrants -> barrier to entry

Without an existing network, the (the considerable! $Bs) capital need to buy a fleet of autonomous vehicles is prohibitive for even a determined new entrant.

(and so, as expected, the writer is wrong)
You and he are right that 'bioethicists hold back research'. Some research should be held back. So that part is true pretty much by definition.

The article doesn't use the phrase 'Mengele 2.0', nor does the original op-ed, though Pinker brings up 'Nazi atrocities' and 'armies of cloned Hitlers' and the author says 'no one needs an expert to verify that Dr. Mengele was a monster'.

However, that's Godwining, and not testable. The question is more, will not listening to bioethicists lead to inhumane treatment? We know the answer to that is "yes." Look at the last few years of the American Psychological Association to see an example, where the board and the military secretly worked to change the ethical guidelines to permit practices that the APA as a whole found unethical, once it was revealed.

Yes, it would be 'easy to make a prediction' for the two examples you suggested. Your original requirement though was 'testable predictions'. It would be unethical to run those experiments, and the point of bioethics is to block that sort of testing. Which means they are not testable.

There are all sorts of experiments people might want to do if it weren't for ethics.

How do you measure "worse outcomes"? Is it better to know the full natural progress of syphilis in a human, or to treat the human? If you can't measure it, it's not testable.
My favorite passage from David Hume's work `An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding`

“Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty.

Most fortunately it happens, that since Reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends. And when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.”
This is definitely a step up from having to look through his blog (where a lot of the old stuff is waiting to be updated to C++11)
Any comparation of D vs Rust?
On what basis could a company be banned from accepting it? No physical items are exchanged. It's simply a record in a long chain of integers.
“Engineered by Amazon”
Funnily enough that Wikipedia page references this "makeself.sh" with a note on how some versions failed with bash 3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar#cite_ref-3
Denver has a handful of growing roundabouts in newer neighborhoods, but unfortunately they keep installing them in all the wrong places. I'm convinced they are "testing the waters" by placing them in residential neighborhoods with very little traffic, which honestly just makes people annoyed by them, rather then appreciate them.

Roundabouts aren't a replacement for stop signs, they are a replacement for stop lights.
Interesting corollary: a (future autonomous car) company planning on competing with Uber in the future would be best positioned if they buy Lyft now and operate it at a loss to grow their network.
With the increased number of ultra-rich these days, Concorde or another SST is probably more viable then ever. It's certainly less ridiculous than talk of suborbital rocket planes.

The kid in me wants to see Concorde fly as an aircraft, but the working adult would see it as yet another toy for the very rich, undeserving of any special consideration from my ilk. When I see a ferrari drive by I think "cool car" but I certainly would be against any and all tax breaks or special treatment to keep it on the road. Mounting a Concorde on a special platform in the middle of the London Tames seems like a cheap tourist trap.
You could just stop visiting the site that offends you. That would be the actual principled way to treat this - the content is not worth the price of admission.

No, it'd be your principled way to treat this. Not everyone shares your principles.

I don't share your principle that site owners have the right to demand that you accept their unilateral rules on how I should view the content they're sending me. I never explicitly nor implicitly agreed to those conditions. They are free to refuse my request, but if they don't, I am breaking no promise.

I could see your position for sites that click-wrapped their content with that condition, getting you to accept it, but not otherwise.

(By the way, I don't use ad blockers)
Reading the article, it's not headed back to commercial service but instead for air shows and private charters.
No haggis?
I notice that all the raw mp4 files are being shared from Dropbox. Since Dropbox can cut off download links for high traffic files, here are mirrors for each video:

Ambulance Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/ambulance_virus.mp4

Friday the 13th Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/Jerusalem-correct.m...

Disk Killer Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/DiskKiller.mp4

Stoned Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/pcstoned.mp4

Data Crime Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/Datacrime.mp4

Ping-pong Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/PingPong2-correct.m...

Falling Letters Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/TextCascade%20(1).m...
Trayvax – Product Information
Well, or it's a powerful illustration of a market finding a solution to a new, novel problem.

After all, what solution would the government put in place? Ban ads? Regulate their content? How would that be more optimal than allowing people in the market to find the right solutions?

The reality is, ad supported content with lots and lots and lots of content providers may simply not be tenable, due to the fragmentation in both content and ad delivery vectors.

That requires the market to find new solutions, like paywalls, micropayments, different styles of ads, mixed pay/free models, good ol' fashioned consolidation, etc.

Now, to be clear, I'm about as far from a free market dogmatist as you can get... I'm no communist, but I'm Canadian, so...

But I honestly don't believe this is a case where regulation is appropriate. Where the market is likely to settle on a highly non-optimal solution (like, say, healthcare, due to information asymmetries, or broadband, due to enormous barriers of entry, or manufacturing pollution, thanks to negative externalities), absolutely I think the government has to get involved.

But in this case, I don't see any reason for that kind of heavy-handed intervention.
nice job,
That's not how CROs work usually work. Effectively, as far as the FDA is concerned, the CRO does not exist as a distinct entity, it's an organic part of the sponsor (i.e.: the reporting pharma.)

The sole organization reporting to the FDA is the trial sponsor.

A CRO that felt like it could just tip off the FDA could soon find itself without further contracts.

In addition, in a properly blinded trial, most of the players (whether CRO, sponsor or site/treating physician) have no clue who's being treated or not. Nor do they know much more than they need to conduct their business.

The safety of a clinical trial is normally the job of a data monitoring committee or something similar. They are normally independent and empowered to monitor the result and, most importantly, unblinded so they can actually use stats taking treatment into account to spot actual anomalies. They report to and are paid for by the sponsor. The sponsor is legally required to act on the findings and adverse events are required to be reported to the FDA. At least that's the theory.

Gory details here: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/RegulatoryInformation/Guidances...
Why wouldn't Uber just switch from being a marketplace bringing together riders and drivers, to a marketplace bringing together riders and autonomous cars (and their owners)?

I suppose a well-financed rival could buy huge fleets of vehicles and compete directly with Uber, but Uber doesn't have to make that capital commitment. They just continue to be the middle-man between the riders and the cars, except the cars are no longer managed by their drivers, but by their owners (whoever they might be, individuals or large corporations).

Uber's big advantage is that they've already created the market. This is Paul Graham's idea about not automating in the early days of a startup taken to the extreme.
There's nothing about Concorde that ruined it for anyone else. The problems that killed SST programs—high fuel costs and noise—remain unsolved. The plane was a pretty remarkable piece of engineering given the physical constraints.
Sadly, this will not help my brother (or his dead friend). My brother is currently serving a 70 year prison sentence for murdering his best friend shortly after his Paxil dose was doubled. He was an early teen at the time.
This is a scale model of the solar system like you've never seen before
Saving Money in the Cloud
I mean Im not familiar with survival suits nor flying planes, so cant comment if there are any currently on the market fitting his requirements.
I think its more complicated. The Jesuits never felt threatened or afraid of new knowledge or science or theological insights, and various popes have had to rein in certain theological innovations. But during that period they did spearhead the counter-reformation.
At busier intersections I find traffic signals much nicer as a pedestrian, because while the same number of cars do cross your path, they don't cross your path when you have the walk signal, which is when you'd actually be crossing the intersection. It gives you a nice break in traffic rather than having to push your way out and hope traffic stops for you. This is assuming no right turns on red (as in most of Europe), and left turns only on left-turn signal (typical in cities, at least on major roads). In those cases, there is no traffic at all allowed to enter the crosswalk when you have the walk signal, so you have an exclusive protected crossing.

At lower-traffic intersections the difference is less pronounced, partly because it's easier to force your way across even without a signal, and partly because the signals at less busy intersections may not give pedestrians an exclusive period in the cycle anyway (e.g. by allowing left turns on a regular green).

This might be Copenhagen-specific, but in Copenhagen I also find roundabouts make the pedestrian/bicyclist interaction less clear. At regular intersections, bicyclists can't cross your path when you have a walk signal, but at roundabouts they seem to just go through and are less likely than cars to stop preemptively when they see a pedestrian wanting to cross. Roundabouts aren't very common though, so maybe this would be worked out if there were more of them.
This is what $350K buys you in San Francisco
For anyone with a few hours to spare geeking out about Concorde, I recommend this thread:

http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.html

It starts off slow with a technical question, but gradually pulls in some of the plane's designers (and even a flight attendant) discussing every aspect of the plane's design and operation. One of the most amazing aviation threads on the Internet.
Customers habituated to Uber's marketplace as their provider of rides.
It has been the only one that works for me long term
I've found that talking and thinking about it makes it worse.

Most people who are happy just are and when they try to explain to you why you should be happy too they quickly run out of meaningful or convincing things to say. Ends up further reinforcing the feeling that it's all pointless.
We already have that, It's called OBDII.

Besides error codes, OBDII has 8 emissions monitors. In California all cars after 2001 are checked by means of a visual and these 8 readiness monitors: catalyst, heated catalyst, EVAP, SAI, O2, O2 Heater, EGR/VVT, AC

Source: I work on my two Audis
Something vital is lost in motorcycling that my bike is so loud to make children cry and people really detest my presence everywhere in the name of saving my fat posterior.

All my bikes are quiet, even my Buell (relatively speaking). I have installed extra loud horns on them and I'm not afraid to use them. That's what horns are for: to say "I AM HERE", nothing more, nothing less. Save your engine for moving the bike forward, not making all of us bikers an anathema to civil society.
What sort of IP are you talking about? There's no trademark infringement, there's no patent. I didn't see mention of any trade secret, or anything that sounds like a trade secret (eg, "information which is difficult for others to properly acquire or independently duplicate").

If there's no law covering it, there's no IP.
We must not succumb, in other words, to science-fiction scenarios that have little likelihood of materializing.

An awful lot of what we do today was merely a science-fiction scenario in my youth. The person claiming we do not need to contemplate the ethics of such scenarios is scarily dangerous.
I hate loud motorcycles. I live in a quiet neighborhood in Alameda -- and I have small kids that sleep and take naps.

I dont like loud bikes driving by and waking them up :-/
Operable. Nowhere have I seen that it requires it to be pleasant.
This is definitely worth noting. Wellbutrin, aka bupropion is a non-SSRI that some people I've known with depression have recommended. After discontinuing Celexa which is an SSRI, the whole experience was significant enough for me to handle my problems through cognitive behavioral therapy.
From the introduction:

"The rules are designed to be supported by an analysis tool. Violations of rules will be flagged with references (or links) to the relevant rule. We do not expect you to memorize all the rules before trying to write code.

The rules are meant for gradual introduction into a code base. We plan to build tools for that and hope others will too."

So it sounds like they will be introducing some tooling in the near future. It'd be nice if they leveraged existing tools (like clang-tidy)
Like your spirit (I don't like the loud pipes either) but this is a little unfair. Motorcycling should be part of a more sustainable future. Especially when you consider how many OECD commuters commute in cars alone.
Inuit have unique gene differences (obvious), those may give them an ability to metabolize fat better. However there is some evidence that Inuit that eat western diets have the same rate of heart disease as us and westerners who eat their diet have the same rate of heart disease as them? (from "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes).

I think they are coming from an assumption (which is possibly incorrect) that eating fatty meats causes heart disease. So they are trying to solve a mystery but the entire foundation for their search is in question IMO.

It is interesting either way. Maybe if we keep eating high fructose corn syrup and refined grains, this obesity and heart disease epidemic will just cause selection for a few generations that will result in us as a population being able to live nicely eating all this shit we eat now.
Ask HN: Which diplomas/certificates to make me able to get a TN visa?
Some context:

- I am a Canadian citizen

- I applied to Amazon for a position at their Seattle HQ

- I passed all the interviews and received an offer for a FT position

- Amazon Legal advised my recruiter that since none of my past education is programming-related (plus I only have 5 years professional experience) I would most certainly denied entry to the U.S. on a TV visa.

- After weighing my options (and after Amazon attempting to place me in similar positions in Canada) I took an offer from another company in my hometown.

- Amazon suggested I take some courses to get enough schooling to meet U.S. TN visa requirements.

Question:
What are the best courses (online, preferably) to get a ~2 year diploma/certificate so I can make my visa application more appealing if/when I re-apply for American-based positions?
Legendary CPU Architect Jim Keller Leaves AMD
He was a POW.
It's the Windows way: download this setup program and execute it to install on your computer.
FWIW this used to be hosted on GitHub here: https://github.com/go-llvm/llgo

Not really obvious to me how much progress has been made since the transition to LLVM repo.. but last time I checked it was missing _a lot_:

- No garbage collector

- No escape analysis

- etc.
I remember when they installed one out in Littleton (suburban Denver) - it flows traffic spectacularly but it took years, maybe even a decade for people to get used to it.

I once came upon it and found a full size four door sedan in the (raised) island in the middle with four befuddled teenagers standing around shaking their heads. They had plowed into the traffic circle straight ahead, jumped the raised embankment and landed right in the center island.
settings images on
ls nsfw top

seems legit
Which is pretty ironic, considering that the people who completely lack desires tend to be those suferring major depression much more than those who have achieved an enlightened serenity.
Stagefrightened?
Uber is a dispatch and marketing system. The vehicle and driver are fungible parts of their machine.

Autonomous vehicles can enhance Uber's ability to offer travel with lower pricing than traditional vehicles and dispatch. Especially once they have goodwill built up.
We are all here to learn, not bicker. So, what are the tradeoffs?
Please don't actually use this method to release Linux packages. Put it in a .tar.gz like everyone else. No need for additional complexity.
It was fascinating to see the prototype drawings on the wing designs on this thread, plus many other design aspects of the Concorde. Thanks for sharing.
I only have experience in dynamic languages. I don't get the point of the article? Is the article implying type coercion is bad because its inefficient in terms of CPU cycles? In a decade of programming in dynamic languages, I've never had string comparison be a bottleneck. It is usually IO that is the bottleneck, and the trade off is that by using dynamic languages like JS it becomes easy to make your IO non blocking. If you really have some logic that needs to compare millions of strings, you could always write that algorithm in a static compiled language, and shell out to it from your dynamic language.
Science has infected itself (voluntarily) with a life-threatening parasite
In a pithy one liner: it's curl pipe bash for local binaries.

I've run into it when I used to install Virtualbox "Guest Additions" or whenever I'd make the questionable decision to use the latest video drivers during my annual dalliance with desktop Linux a decade ago.

The value it provides is fewer steps in an installation guide for non-power users (or as jakobdabo mentions below, particularly for users coming from the Windows "double click to install" world). It would extract and run a post extract hook. I haven't come across it much in the last few years though.
Great read, thanks. "Follow your contribution not passion." - something to think about.
I remember someone built it, they abused self posts for storage. My google-fu is failing and I can't find it.
I used to work for a ticketing company. I know some Major League Baseball teams were making efforts at "dynamic pricing" which was basically yield management. Some ticket brokers do this as well.
I downloaded and played with IE for Solaris, but I didn't use it for day to day browsing. One interesting thing that I recall from it was that it had .so files that corresponded to each of the windows DLLs. So it looked like they had some sort of framework for porting windows code to Unix.
Is there any real advantage for 'regular supersonic flights' these days? Shaving an hour or two off the flying time is all well and good, but on nearly every trip I spend more time in the airports and taxis than in the air. Perhaps greater time savings could be made elsewhere and with far less effort.
How to Create the Perfect Adblocker
Exactly. The point is that the abstracted Point hides implementation details like the underlying representation, which is good as far as it goes because it prevents goofs like overflow and trucation due to incorrect type conversions, etc...

But the second you need to match that abstraction to the code from some other developer which doesn't use it, you need that underlying representation back again. And this kind of mismatch isn't an uncommon edge case, it's the pervasive truth of modern development.

Basically: C++ can't win here, and it would be better not to try IMHO.
If GPL is cancer for a company, then what then is proprietary licenses? nuclear bombs? Toxic waste? Ticking time bombs?

I don't think such language is nice. It is damaging to civil conversation and can only alienate people more. No one likes hearing that what they create is like toxic waste.
How does this work with node.js based binary/native dependencies? Also, is it possible to customize the built image with libraries, etc?

This seems really cool and a welcome replacement for the mess that is Docker.
I'm in immigrant living in country where English is not the native language. :)

However, I think you've misinterpreted the OP's comment and my response.

The OP likes the choice of native language for geographical names in a given country. You and I agree. The OP parenthetically notes that the reason is because the user has not expressed a language preference. I pointed out that the browser/user-agent actually does give a preference, which the server ignores.

It is this parenthetical logic I disagree with, not the result.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0JMaM_tdQ

Video I made to show distances between planets, with short stops at each one to show off its spectacular beauty. Earth was the most difficult to render due to lights on its night side; Mars proved challenging because of its atmosphere.
ORTC Demo
Some of the most egregious roundabouts I've ran (heh) into have been in Aspen. They're right after you get off 70 (ie going 65/70 mph) and are often overgrown with bushes and trees. I'm all for roundabouts, I think when done right they're great, but I don't know what they were thinking when putting these in.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6439352,-106.3776606,248m/da... (2008 footage)
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6277372,-106.4200775,185m/da...
Realizing You Actually Stayed Productive
An unapology