skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would welcome the protection as well. I still feel that the other driver needs a good punishment though, without consequence, there is no behavioral therapy -- that idiot will continue to do their shenanigans and when the oncoming lane has a normal car instead of a Tesla, people will die. Bad driving is really an oversimplification of the fact that someone decided to take a 2 ton vehicle, and enter a lane of traffic without even looking. That's more akin to malice or shifting responsibility than ignorance. It is also very very dumb though, because the odds that there is a car in the other lane that even has enough time to stop is not a guarantee. So it's not only selfish but also dumb.
User of private data is really concerning. How easy someone can take liberty of using the private data for a ride :( When I read the post about someone go crazy to protect their data and communication, I feel they need to have little faith in fellow people. But this kind of instance move my confidence and make me think that we are racing against time and we will see more and more kind of this situations.
It was a bug, not intentional from FB: https://www.facebook.com/arig/posts/10105815276466163
get a room you two ;)
How bout the part where they're sending expiration date and last 4 digits over http?
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Ruby/Rails might be great. Not so sure if it is the easiest way to earn. A bloated opinionated framework will be difficult for new comers to grasp. PHP would be the easiest.
This is the point I was hoping others would bring up. The base reality is that we're all atoms and energy, and there isn't a clear boundary between the water in your body and the water you're swimming in, and (to quote Dr Manhattan) a recently deceased body has as just many atoms as it had when the body was alive 10 minutes ago.

On top of this we've built all these abstractions... like how to socially interact, how to recognize membranes as a face, etc. (also interesting: those with severe autism seem to lack some of these abstractions)

When buddhists speak of seeing reality or things as they really are, they speak of discarding these abstractions and seeing raw experience.

I started learning how to draw because part of the process is discarding these abstractions (oh that's an eye, I know how eyes look) and instead drawing in terms of shapes and lines: moving down, closer to physical reality. This book has been very interesting for this: http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Definitive/dp...
And 16 year olds take pictures and effectively create child porn, but how far are you going to go to protect someone from being ridiculous?
Then why allow safari? There's so many scary things online, why would they endorse such things?
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Way to read the article
link to the T5E article http://www.t5eiitm.org/2015/10/it-is-always-darkest-before-d...
The article explicitly says the weather channel was not part of the deal.
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A phone, a car, a wallet, plastic bags, lighters... they're all ubiquitously used by the drug industry. Preventing scales because of illicit use of weighing something is like banning cutlery because they can be used as weapons, banning cars because they can be getaway cars, banning phones because they can be used to setup illicit trades, etc etc. I think it's a bit silly and I don't think it'd affect the brand any more than it already is (peruse drug culture on social media and you'll find plenty of iphones featured, it hasn't affected the brand at all in a negative way, it's still a luxury item and people still view it as a phone you'd love to gift to family of any age if money is of no concern).
That was my first thought. Company facing impending doom? Do a runner with the assets, wait for the dust to settle, and try again with a different name and logo.
Yeah; as I mentioned, my impression was from the previous decade. Quite a bit has changed since then.
> the real blind spots are way higher in the human thought than object representation

Ah yea, the fun stuff like cognitive biases. One famous example is priming, which introduces time dependencies that most people do not pay attention to (when asked they believe that their decisions were not influenced by a past event): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)

Kahneman discusses that and more in Thinking Fast & Slow
> So saying that it's okay to eat as much as you like because the CDC does not consider it poison is probably not the right way to go.

I didn't mean that. That would be going to absurdity in the other direction. We know that "sugar is bad for you in the semi-long run" as well as "breaks teeth in the short run", so there's a reason to limit it. As you say, this isn't black and white.

> And a very strong underpinning for your stance is that the origin of cancer, for instance, is yet to be found.

I don't think origin of cancer will be in any way directly related to the food we eat; it would be like saying that the reason a tyre is flat is because of a nail factory in China. The underpinning of my stance is basically pure pragmatism - if something commonly used would actually give you cancer, it would be already controlled or banned altogether. The effects most of those overblown "X contributes to cancer" papers talk about are so small that you can absolutely ignore it, because the probability of getting cancer from described X is smaller than getting hit by a car driven by the researcher who wrote the paper, who was distracted by the news about a lottery he just won.

People need to learn to ignore stuff that's so unlikely that it's insignificant. It's funny, because the definition of "insignificant danger" is pretty much "so unlikely that you can ignore it".
I can't imagine being in a position where I need WP- obviously I couldn't claim where I went to school anymore, would I also need to absolve my claims to my skillset?

Would I have to give up working in my industry, my assorted message board accounts?
But that's something the CEO did instead. In many ways, Adora represented the Homejoy brand, and if people saw other founders they wouldn't get as much attention. It made sense for them to have one person be the voice.

Not everyone that's a founder has to be in front of people (literally or virtually).
The suggestion that Bitcoin would act as a replacement for government bonds in any foreseeable future would reduce most economists to tears of laughter. The interest rate tweaks being discussed here are negligible compared to the market rate fluctuations of Bitcoin on a typical week.
1TB /will/ fit in memory, you can get an ec2 instance with 2TB; but your point stands.
All the concerns you bring to the table here have been caused by either previous failures of outsourcing leading to low expectations on deliverables (in which case, why outsource?) or a lack of communication by the management of the outsourcing company.

Now there might not be much you can do about the first issue, but it seriously behoves the company to do something about point two. I also think, however, that if your company is relying on work from companies in a different timezone, then you probably need to get over working at odd hours fairly quickly otherwise you are going to start to lose clients.
I don't think his comment was "tone deaf" as much as it was trying to change the tone of the conversation.

It looks to me as though Homejoy & Fly Maids have done a terrible job of communicating this, but it seems legitimate to me. When companies get acquired, customers have always come along for the ride. In fact, that's often the main thing that companies get acquired for. Facebook could've built a Whatsapp clone, but the billions of dollars of value was the user base. In this case, it's a bit less usual since just the customer data has been acquired.
Secure voting is hard. Better to improve on something that already had good work put into it like Civitas:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/civitas/

Plus, you don't really need decentralized voting so much as decentralized checking. That's where the effort should be. Blockchains are a total waste of time and money for this kind of thing. Especially with so many prototypes in existence that use less energy/money with good security properties.
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This is why bytecode generation is used by query engines. They don't meant to be used for creating ArrayList or HashMap. Generally, they work with buffers instead of objects to avoid the issues you mentioned and garbage collection pressure.

Let's say we want to compile a predicate expression "bigintColumn > 4 and varcharColumn = 'str'". A generic interpreter would suffer from the addressed issues but if you generate bytecode for Java source "return longPrimitive > 5 && readAndCompare(buffer, 3, "str".getBytes(UTF8))" then you won't create even a single Java object the output is usually identical to C and C++.
We created this interface so that curious people could explore and see how everything fit together. :)
Interesting. I think Valve's solution is probably the most elegant one I've seen so far: http://www.hizook.com/blog/2015/05/17/valves-lighthouse-trac...
Hah politics is a fun one. There are so many different opinions, and everyone thinks they've got the right answer. I guess it's something similar to how every religion thinks they're the right one.

Psychology tells us that this happens because we tend to form opinions first and find facts to support our existing opinions while our brain ignores contrary evidence. But I wonder why that evolved in the first place... it doesn't seem like that helps survival. Maybe social cohesion?
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Hey, this is brilliant!

The ability to reorganize/move tabs between windows helps a lot. I use SessionBuddy and VerticalTabs, plus Alfred's "tabs" search command, but none allow moving tabs to other/new windows.

Tabli has a very nice UI, works well and the code is top notch but no reordering/moving tabs unfortunately.

Another useful extension that doesn't work in recent Chrome versions is TabSplit and so far I haven't found an alternative.(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-split/imjbfepo...)
I thought this was a great article, until the end where the author not only gives up, but writes a meek apologietic stating that Apple is clearly and wholly right to block people from running any software it doesn't like on their own phones, without explanation.

Does Apple retaliate against people who complain about the App Store review process in public or something?
> This is especially apparent when you consider the name of some colors like "Cadmium red."

That's a little unfair. Using #E30022 on a website doesn't mean the website has cadmium in it, and the same is true for paint - "Cadmium red" is a color, not an ingredient list. Per Wikipedia, "The cadmium pigments have been partially replaced by azo pigments. These have significantly inferior lightfastness, but still good, and they have the advantage of both being cheaper and non-toxic."
Because mobile browsers are bad at layout, except Opera which knows how to reflow text on zoom.

The only problem Opera has is that the comment input box is to wide.
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I really can't wait for the first fully open down to the metal system. A few arm cores, a few vulcan-ish gpu cores, optional fpga. Just nice compute power easy to tap into for oss devs.

ps: I shouldn't have written ARM, I meant simple ARM-like ISA (from what I understand it's way smaller than x86).
I'm doubting it. The reason is that they're both really hard to come up with and really hard for end-users to understand. That last part is important for widespread trust and verification. It's why I've always been in favor of centralized models with distributed verification. Especially simple computations that can just be re-run on available data with tamper-detection and comparisons of hashes, etc.
Salesforce is a company that survives on non-technical business folk. It's schemy and underhanded. They even awarded their own contest to their own employee who submitted a pre-built app. Because they got so much flak and bad publicity, they bent the knee and gave the 2nd place team the prize as well. [1]
I worked for a startup once that wanted a "managed" solution for everything because they were trying to hire as few people as possible, pay as little as possible yet have their fears quenched. Salesforce feeds off this ignorance of bizdev nubs and then uses their church of marketing to get people to preach their locked api-space. You could say the same for AWS but at least AWS does not try to take tech and make it seem more managed for bizdev idiots. Salesforce thrives on that. They thrive on it and try to get people to specialize in their offerings, it's almost like converting people to Microsoft devs who only do .NET and Visual Studio, MS SQL, etc.. but 10x worse because Salesforce sucks.

[1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/salesforce-gives-2nd-place-team-...
I'm okay with it for two reasons:

1. Google is already my personal internet police, as a Chrome user. Everything from which SSL stack to use, to whether and how to mitigate weak DH keys, to what NPAPI plugins to use, to whether my browser vendor is going off and signing contracts with Adobe about porting Flash to a brand-new runtime, to what sandboxing is in use, is in Google's hands.

I suppose someone could, fairly easily, set themselves up as an intermediary between Google and me, auditing and patching Chromium if necessary, and running their own update server. (Arguably Linux distros do this.) And if so, they have the option of overriding these decisions. (And the Linux distros sometimes do, for things like the default trust store.) But so long as Google is writing this gigantic codebase that I couldn't possibly audit myself, they've not particularly gained any more power by caring about the CA system.

2. Google gets to be my personal internet police because Chrome is good; part of why I run Chrome (and I'm typing this from a Chromebook) is that out of all the participants in the market, I trust Google to be the best at protecting my security, in part because they've shown a willingness to do things like this, and in part because they're developing things like Certificate Transparency (and doing that negotiation with Adobe, and implementing seccomp mode 2, and so forth). I even prefer google-chrome to chromium on Debian, despite generally being a Debian fan, because I trust Google more to do quick security response and to make fewer mistakes. Google only gets to do this because Chrome is a choice by a significant fraction of internet users. Even Opera wouldn't be able to pull this off.
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The company doesn't own your phone. You do.

Surely YOU should be the one who decides what constitutes "proper" software to run on hardware that you purchased?
Well, CPU utilization is the least of Hadoop's problems (picking on it, because it is the most well-known JVM-based framework)

Hadoop core has some shockingly bad design choices (lots of disk IO), and no amount of layers on top of it is going to fix latency issues.

It has nothing to do with JVM "overhead" (which is mostly a myth, anyway).
Image recognition is improving all the time. Don't give them any ideas...
Is this really about cpu rather than disk? I don't see anywhere where he attempted to control for disk io by passing the integers.

In fact, since vertica is column oriented, I don't think you can pad things easily.
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and dazzlingcleaning.com, exact copy of Flymaids (i.e. the cached version, Flymaids was taken down just now it seems).
Completely aside from the merits of anti-drug laws, the number of perfectly legitimate applications for "weighing things" is vastly larger than the number of illegal ones.
An industry is born and a few companies laugh all the way to the bank. Just like radar detectors and radar guns (now laser instead of radar). The companies that make the technology supply both sides. Innovation improves the guns so then the innovate the detectors so they innovate the... Charging both sides on an ongoing battle.
just another bullshit marketing term. I cannot believe these type of people really think that those reading it will go "wow this guy really cares about some low paid worker cleaning my house well, I will go with them".

Just seems so contrived and fake to me :-\
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Dude, you weren't unclear. You literally lied by copying customer testimony to mislead. At least apologize or take some responsibility. Id honestly rather you not say anything than this extremely weak response.
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I do this the other way round; I block entire sites that use obnoxious ads rather than use an adblocker. Funnily enough, WaPo are on my block list - they must've hit me with a modal (I unblocked them temporarily to see if they're still doing it, apparently not)

The only ads I do block are the 'recommended for you' fake content from outbrain, zergnet, gravity and taboola. Just terrible.
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I am exploring an idea I have about "smart" targets for pistol/rifles. I have a few ideas about how it could work and am looking for help with the initial prototyping. Happy to provide more info on my thoughts and goals, but was reaching out to the HN community to see if there was anyone who had the experience and time to offer advice or work together on prototyping.
> The program also works with doctors and school administrators to transfer medical records and report cards; Shur recounts that he refused several requests to improve a child’s grades.
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I can put you in touch if necessary, or even scan the books non destructively using my book scanner (DSLRs, cradle, etc).

Archive all the things!
Right. Which is of course why we have stuff like the NASA/ESA making and releasing designs - big government projects with highly skilled staff. But they don't have much interest in releasing a "personal computer" or a "smart phone" (I'm sure they'd love to have an open hw platform to use for smart phones and tablets - or work stations and super computers, just that it's not high up on the list of priorities in the "millions of dollars" budget lists).

[ed: I'm thinking of things like LEON etc - but as mentioned, and as I understand it, for the ASIC case, maybe not the whole eval board is open. And it's not really in the same ballpark as the dual/quad multi-GHz cpus we've come to expect from low-end hard-ware:

http://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/boards/gr-cpci-leo...
]
I would imagine that the relocated family's durable assets would be seized by the government and sold, with the proceeds going through a sort of legal laundering and being made available to them post-relocation.
Memory indirection is the biggest issue indeed. However, I'd also add that java has a terrible performance model, as a language. Unless you stick to primitives only, the abstraction costs start to add up (beyond pointer chasing). It shoves the entire optimization burden onto the JVM which by the time it runs has lost a bunch of semantic and type information in some cases. There are also codegen deficiencies in current hotspot C2 compiler (i.e. generated code subpar compared to roughly equivalent gcc).
Great post, very interesting. I am not a seasoned engineer like the OP but I do like my Python and without having to learn the hard way, I have the same conclusions laid out here. It's easy to get excited (I'm very interested in Erlang myself), but there's a lot of practical matters.

I was left wondering, it was noted that 3 servers are used and another language may only utilize 1. If Python was used, you could use PyPy and possibly keep a "commodity language" like Ruby but get to keep it possibly with the performance boost. I use PyPy for everything.
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We need a cheap general purpose Novena-like laptop.

I'd argue a really good place to start from is a custom Rockchip machine (like Asus C201, which is now supported by Libreboot). Add a free GPU (or finish the Lima driver) and we are ready to go.
I'm hoping this is the start of a trend.

The true start will be once the lowrisc SoC is out, and open hardware devices using it start to flood the market.
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It's not an element of any crime I'm aware of unless there's evidence of a serious murder plot that we don't yet know about, so it wouldn't be very relevant. They generally try to keep things that make one party look bad, but which are not relevant to the case being tried, out of the courtroom.
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I think this trend may stop soon. There are already OSS big data projects written in more performant languages (e.g. c++) coming around (e.g. scylladb, cloudera's kudu).
1. Effective communication of a protocol has no relevance to its efficacy. So that's a plainly unscientific test of the 'truthiness' of anything.

2. No phenomenon ever, scientific or not, can be guaranteed to be stable in the face of all 'unknown' factors. They are unknown, you cannot make any statement about that.

I understand where you are coming from, but that puts you right in the middle of the philosophical quagmire mentioned in my earlier comment. If you mean 'variation in people performing the experiment' by those 'unknown factors' then essentially you are making the assumption that the people are not a factor that is expected to influence the result. As such, even the same team repeating the experiment would suffice. Anyway, you get the point.
not making any moral judgements, just curious, do you pay for content where possible (via donation or subscription)?
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Am I the only one that doesn't see any archive on https://archive.org/web/?
Why did you copy Handy's site verbatim? Why did you not give customers the option to opt-in to your new venture? Why did you post the logos of news organizations that had never written you up?
You don't need to use the FPGA to use the Novena, it is a peripheral you could even remove (albeit it would be hard since its a BGA).

The tool chain for the FPGA is proprietary and a black box. There are some reverse engineering efforts, but hard to do any meaningful. By and large, open HW is in a fairly sorry state. Most users seem to think zero cost is good enough.
Not exactly a solution but I use HackerWeb on mobile, and I'm pretty pleased with it.

[0]: https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/#/
I want Windows Phone, but recently moved to Android. Because Apps...

I hate it. So many things that don't work. Contact sync, I can't even call half the time because all my contacts are gone, and I need to reboot to get them back. In my car with bluetooth, when I listen to a podcast an incoming call does not use the car audio. The privacy invasions of any app I install... The battery use... And that's only a few things.

The apps on Android are nice. But the minute I can get a Windows Phone that can run Android apps, I'm running back to WP.
>If at any time you feel my feedback isn't helping, I will refund the full amount. If I don't find time to review your startup, I will also refund the full amount. I'm not an expert on startups. The more sites and ideas I'm exposed to, the better I can get at finding holes in my work. Charging will likely make you and me more committed to the review.

A bit self serving.. Isn't it? How about you do it for them for free in the beginning and if they think the advice is very good, then they pay you $40 instead of what you are proposing?

If you are looking to do an experiment, rejected people that are down and vulnerable are not the people for your little experiment.
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or slugs.