skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently I was in a car with a friend in Southern California. We were stopped at a red light, needing to make a right turn. On our right were two people standing on the corner. They had activated the crosswalk but were not crossing, instead were focused on their (animated) conversation. Cars were coming from the left. The driver alternated between looking at the pedestrians and looking at the other cars, waiting for the other cars to pass while she also tried to figure out if the pedestrians were going to cross or not.

After about 10-12 seconds, the other cars had cleared, and the crosswalk light had switched from the green hand to the red countdown. She started to make the turn, at which point the two pedestrians literally ran into the crosswalk, and in front of her car, with no warning. Apparently they had just noticed the countdown timer and wanted to make it across the intersection without waiting for another cycle.

Fortunately she noticed the pedestrians and stopped. The pedestrians continued their run across the intersection, apparently oblivious to the fact that they'd almost been struck

Keeping in mind the following:

1. Right turns on red are legal and expected.

2. It is illegal for a pedestrian to enter a crosswalk once the countdown timer starts.

3. Full evaluation of this intersection required visually evaluating an area of 180-200 degrees, but human beings don't have vision that wide, and so it was impossible for the driver to continuously evaluate both the oncoming cars on the left and the pedestrians on the right.

4. Drivers in California are trained to look left while making a right turn.

What was the driver supposed to do in this scenario? Should the driver have been at fault if she had struck the pedestrians, and if so, why?

I was sitting in the passenger seat, so I could evaluate the intersection and see how my friend was evaluating it as well. As far as I could see, she did nothing to violate either California law or driving custom. On the other hand the pedestrians both entered a crosswalk illegally, and also violated section 21950(b) of the California Vehicle Code (which requires pedestrians to exercise due care for their own safety when entering a roadway). So I don't think that if she had struck them, she would have been at fault. But am I wrong? If so, why?
There is no Nazi gold train, Polish scientists say
I agree, but it's usually less expensive than buying bottled water.
This is such a beautiful idea.
Are there people developing this theory?
How could this be experimentally verified?
What are the philosophical/time-travel implications of the one-electron universe theory being true, distinct from classical QM?
Do you need more than atomics to build locking primitives?
Trigs were fine. Overconsumption is certainly one more thing for me to look at.
I've used ditaa http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ for similar diagrams, and this Jekyll plugin to use it w/in Markdown Documents:

https://github.com/matze/jekyll-ditaa
> When they issue a revenue bond, they need to have the ability to raise the rates to cover the bond.

They have little practical ability to raise rates, because raising water rates is politically untenable in most places.
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GitHub explicitly has a Name Squatting Policy [1] that states:

> Account names may not be inactively held for future use. GitHub account name squatting is prohibited. Inactive accounts may be renamed or removed by GitHub staff at their discretion.

I have been able to acquire a couple of GitHub names that have been inactive for several years by contacting GitHub support, and they usually reply within a day or so.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/name-squatting-policy/
> What would programming be to you in an ideal world?

Very interesting thoughts about this. I wouldn't think programming sucks, until you think about how it could be in an ideal world.

I'd love to see a follow-up article about what the OP thinks about that question.
ownCloud and Collabora Announce LibreOffice Online for ownCloud Server
Yahoo Had a Party
I grew up there too, on the east side. It was interesting if nothing else, but I was pretty happy to leave the minute I turned 18. I think 90% of the people I knew growing up have left.

You're right about the infrastructure, they even have an airport. Somehow I doubt it will come back. At least occasionally people talk about Detroit revitalization, but you never hear that for Flint.

This lead in the water thing is shameful and makes me very sad and angry.
>I'm at a loss for words:

Why are you are a loss for words? This doesn't look significantly different from the town I grew up in (well near). I feel like I'm missing something.
I use pup a lot too, which just prints the dir.
The Origin of the Terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Spring_2003/ling538/Lecnot...
Annotated Version of Watson and Crick’s DNA Paper
Agreed. Bash (and similar scripts) are particularly useful in tasks involving filesystem and process management, where they offer capabilities that are more complicated in other languages. Functions are a helpful way to organize your use of those capabilities.
I'm curious about the "two phase immersion cooling technology". So, they're putting the circuit boards into some kind of liquid, and the waste heat from the boards is causing that liquid to boil? What kind of liquid are they using?
It's not a brilliant article.

Software is not like milk. That analogy is facile and stupid.

Software should be more like civil engineering, where it's normal to unleash a big team on a big infrastructure project and still have some hope that costs and deadlines stay under control. Or maybe like movie making where there's a cast of thousands, the time is huge, and the costs are epic, but some projects stay under control - while others don't.

It's maybe more interesting to wonder what's different about software than to look for enlightenment on supermarket shelves. Because the problems stated - multiple communication channels, mistakes in modelling and testing - are handled just fine in other industries.

The crippling issues are that you can't model software, and there's not much of a culture of formal specification.

So you can't test software until you build it, requirements may change iteratively, the latest technical "solutions" often turn out to be short-lived fads, and you're always balancing between Shiny New Thing and Tarpit of Technical Debt. That's why it's hard to build. You have to build your cathedral to see if it stays up when it rains. You can't simulate it first. And even if it stays up it may be the wrong shape, or in the wrong place.

It doesn't help that management often sees software as a cost centre instead of an engine room, and doesn't want to pay a realistic rate for quality, maintainability, and good internal documentation.

Having too many people on a project is not the problem. The problem is more usually having no idea what you're doing, why you're doing it, or how you want it done - but believing that you can throw Agile or Six Sigma (etc) at it to make it work anyway, because Management Theory.
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> Does Christianity have as its "highest values" either "freedom" or "democracy"?

Have I mentioned Christianity anywhere? My subject was the religion whose name is translated as "submission."

> why did you feel the need to state this particular fact about this particular religion?

My topic was "what's being fought for from the perspective of ISIS."

I believe I kept my text focused to the topic. You are welcome to point any incorrectness in my elaboration of the topic, up to now I haven't seen that anybody recognized anything incorrect.

Additionally, ponder the chart shown here:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/02/us/california-...

The percentage of the followers of the given religion in the US is something like 1% of the population. The religion fundamentalism based on the religion of just 1% of the population produced 50% of "Deaths From Extremist Attacks in the U.S." and that even not counting 9/11. Imagine how the chart would look with only one year more (2977 deaths more).
> Flint is often a forgot about place in the world.

At least this Dutch boys knows about Flint through Sufjan Steven's song "Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid)"[1]:

It's the same outside
Driving to the riverside
I pretend to cry
Even if I cried alone

I forgot the start
Use my hands to use my heart
Even if I died alone
Even if I died alone

Since the first of June
Lost my job
And lost my room
I pretend to try
Even if I tried alone

I forgot the part
Use my hands to use my heart
Even if I died alone
Even if I died alone
Even if I died alone
Even if I died alone
Even if I died

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAJCUGD6FtM (I rather like this fan-made video)
> I swear there's something in the water in Flint.

Lead apparently.
They can try to form a syndicate to force higher rates from Uber. But Uber can just hire different people, problem solved. Clearly there are hundreds of thousands of people willing to drive for Uber. Supply and demand.

I'd be much more sympathetic to a group of drivers who say, we've had it with these low Uber/Lyft rates. Let's form our own ride company, pay ourselves more, and compete with Uber. Get someone to write apps, create websites, do advertising, etc., and then get out there and compete.

That's what makes the wheels of the economy turn around, my friend: competition. Unionizing is like hermetically sealing a container so that nothing gets in, and nothing gets out. A static system that cannot change.

But competition opens new doors, admits new ideas, and who knows? Maybe higher rates for drivers proves to be a competitive advantage and their new company will do very well, forcing Uber and others to raise their own rates.

If higher driver rates are a good thing, then the smart businesses will do it, and succeed. Right?
I'm in a niche where people are interested for 3-8 months, then they go away and a new bunch emerges. It's based on a cyclical test – people stop paying attention once they take the test.

Do you think this would work for Patreon? I have a site where people are extremely appreciative of the volume of free work I have online. Probably some would sign up for a bit.

My only concern about testing it would be if the number was embarrassingly low in case I'm wrong about who would support it (sub $500). Though I suppose I could just close it if that happened.
Absolutely, agree with all of that. What I'm moaning about is the absence of desire to explore further. I don't know if I've had high cholesterol for a long time or not or whether it's lifestyle or not, or whether I do actually have a 1 in 500 genetic mutation that means that my liver doesn't process cholesterol correctly or not. I want to look into some of those possibilities a bit more before I take drugs for the rest of my life is all :-)
Web on the Edge, Helsinki -interview Christian Heilmann
I grew up there too, and while I agree that he is tricky with editing, on the whole I would say its as bad (or worse now) as displayed in the film.
What is more toxic: Flint's water or this comment?
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This is a great comment that I'll be saving.
Flipkart's CFO reveals the secret to creating happy customers
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wmata+mcgruff
yeah EVR was great
We need the zshell academy
While some small, simple programs are great, big economic contribution is mainly in large software: manufacturing control, ERP, air-traffic control, power-plant control etc.. Small software is great, but the big economic impact belongs to big software.
Curious, do you publish your tools that implement your solution?
Interesting discussions on Swift Evolution
The Rise and Fall of Atlantic City
IncludeOS blogpost on unikernel.org
> Software should be more like civil engineering, where it's normal to unleash a big team on a big infrastructure project and still have some hope that costs and deadlines stay under control.

Since when do giant infrastructure projects meet their budget and calendar goals?
Guerrilla Grafters Quietly Grow Fruit on City Trees Using RFID Tags, Arduinos
> a simulated annealing for a seemingly so simple function

Which are you referring to here as the "seemingly so simple function"?
The death star has no intrinsic economic value. It produces nothing, so it's destruction shouldn't really change anything. It could only ever be back by either taxation or the printing of money. This doesn't change whether it exists or not.

The destruction of the death star may reduce the burden since it would no longer incur operational costs. On the other hand, it did establish the operators as a tax authority.

I would expect lending banks to be covered by printed money followed by corresponding inflation. On the other hand, if the lenders are isolated among relatively few planets/systems, they could be overtaken by the government and those systems would bear the brunt of the losses.

The most likely outcome wouldn't be galactic recession, but return to chaos and war as the grievances between systems would now be unchecked.
If I learned anything but watching The Martian, it's that the law of the sea applies in space. So a nonoperational satellite would be subject to salvage rights?
Yeah; but either way it seems like trouble for Facebook's business model. If their algorithms are sending their users into a feedback loop of "too many ads, I'm not going to use this as often" then it breaks the cycle of engagement that is so valuable to them.
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I love the initiative! Today's short already went out, but I'll make sure you get in for tomorrow morning. See you at 9AM EST tomorrow! - Michael
The fact that this kind of isse will generate publicity after just a year, and that citizens will actually care enough to fight for their rights, and that mayor will feel fallout because of that — it makes me feel so jealous of US.

Americans that cry about how the system "doesn't work" really don't have a clue about how this would turn out in other countries.
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Introducing the first releases of eZ Platform and eZ Studio
I'd argue that Apple spends considerably more on the development of an iPhone than is spent on a typical defence project.

For any product which is manufactured in large quantities, the BOM will account for the vast majority of the overall cost, so limits on the cost of the BOM will significantly constrain design decisions.

These constraints are less significant for products which are sold in more limited quantities. Here, design & NRE costs predominate, leading to (very) different constraints on design decisions. In this situation, for example, it might make sense to buy a more expensive materials to make the system easier and faster to design.

Software itself isn't homogeneous. Different software products may scale in different ways. Embedded Software is different from Enterprise Software which is different from Application Software ... and so on.

Some commonality can be seen however. For example, product line engineering can be used to find commonalities and amortize design costs over a set of similar-but-distinct products ... although this is easier to achieve when you are doing bespoke work for clients than when you are producing shrink-wrap applications.

Here, you are scaling up over multiple different customisations of a design, (or multiple different members of a design family) rather than individual product elements -- but it is still an economy of scale none the less, and it is still software.
Good to see a balancing decision like this coming from Europe in general, and Germany in particular.
And totally skipping Georgetown.
I spend a lot of time in Michigan as my company is based in Grand Rapids. It's almost like East and West Germany at times with how much better off Western Michigan is.
> The context was: someone had difficulties to find "tar -xf" equivalent for Windows.

Right and putting that in google, "tar equivalent for windows", immediately nets 5 useful results. You can use tar, or a windows command line variant of 7z or tar, or a gui.

> With out-of-the-box Windows machine, you cannot ssh, you cannot untar, etc.

On an out-of-the-box Linux machine, you generally can't do a lot of things either. It seems particularly ironic that in a discussion about how we shouldn't be using old UNIX tools just because they're entrenched, you then call for compatibility.

> Windows-way of doing things is totally different than *nix culture (OS X, Linux, etc).

Stupid legacy path limits not included, Powershell is in my experience just a superior way to do things. I should maybe restart my blog to talk about that.

But even if we ignore Powershell and windows, your statement is divisive within the Linux community. MANY people prefer shells on Linux that don't adhere to the bash legacy. TCSH and CSH are very popular, to this day. Are they 'not interoperable'?

Everyone's got a big chip on their shoulder about how development tooling "should be." One of the things I've come to realize is how arbitrary, unnecessary, and useless these mores are. They just hold us back.
There are examples of it happening. The Gotthard base tunnel, the largest in the world, opened ahead of schedule and under budget.
I would assume so that this algorithm could be solved using a DWave with it's supposed 10^8 speedup if successful?
Two comments:

1) it's not surprising: a lot of very simple systems can compute. It seems to naturally happen as you add flexibility to your rules. See for instance Wang Tiles or some cellular automata.

2) it's not a good thing: it means that the behavior of CSS3 is undecidable in general, which makes it much harder to build tools that can meaningfully analyze it.
before we shed a tear for these erstwhile celebrities let's indeed take a look at the economics. in statistical terms their curse (and I will argue, their blessing) is kurtosis. earnings by entertainers (such as in pro sport, film, TV, music) are not normally distributed but heavily skewed towards the left. the few at the top vastly overperform the rest. thus you have pewdiepie earning millions and the vast majority losing money. the same happens in film, for example: the lucky few thousand A-listers earn millions while the millions of other actors bus tables.

there are several reasons for this kurtosis: mostly having to do with vertical differentiation---the characteristic in which one product is clearly preferred over another. at the cinema, for example, each movie is priced identically and yet one is clearly preferred than the other. this leads to a few films becoming runaway successes and the rest barely breaking even. there is a positive feedback loop that magnifies the effect over time. you see this quite clearly in the youtube ecosystem as well. youtube videos are "priced" identically; and so obviously there is a clear preference for one over the other, as there is a clear preference of a performer over another.

risky careers are sexy. these performers may bemoan their situation but in fact it is precisely this kurtosis that gives them their fame. after all the opposite of a kurtocracy is a mediocracy[1], in which rather than the extraordinary dominating, the ordinary dominates. another fantastic label for such industries is "humdrum" industries[2]. nursing, teaching, bookkeeping, dentistry, engineering, accounting, retail are all mediocracies in which employees do not face extremes of success and failure. some of these fields are clearly available to youtubers should they find their current path untenable.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_De_Vany
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Caves
Ganetimgr is a ganeti cluster manager
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Dear Muslims
Things Computer Users Will Never Experience Again (nostalgia Slide Show)
Everyone who's not living in a disused nuclear bunker has given up some security for convenience. We have to be a little realistic. But the threat is automated. The only sensible thing to do is keep it off the public-facing internet, and the average home NAT router will achieve that unless configured otherwise.

A home cloud that's accessible outside the home is an interesting promise, but as everyone has said is a risk.

I agree with sibling comment about the threat model being entirely automated, either botnetting or cryptolocker.
> someone's teen daughter who makes non-trivial cash reposting art on her Instagram account.

But the jump from "non-trivial cash" for a teen to "living wage for an adult or family" is substantial.

If lots of people are willing and able to do what you do for nearly free, you shouldn't expect to make much from doing it.
I can't find a good reference, but as far as I know, this theory is no longer seriously considered. One problem right from the start was the observed difference between the quantity of electrons and anti-electrons in the universe.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9007308
How do you know a proprietary product is "properly built"?
I find the idea of a bash academy somehow absurd, but if it's done by the guys from greg's wiki then it's alright.
Or you're bootstrapping an install process and perl isn't included, but a shell is.
NY and Chicago were lucky enough to inherit metro systems built back when labour was extremely cheap (and safety standards for construction workers much lower), and also to have easy access to solid bedrock (at least in NY's case). Two tracks is normal in most of the world; when you compare the frequency of works with the costs of an additional or larger bore 4-tracking is very rarely worth it.
I actually liked the Metro. I lived in DC up until early 2014 and found it be smooth when it wasn't rush hours. But maybe it was the fact I didn't ride during rush hour very much that I liked it. That being said, now I live in Chicago and I think the "L" sucks because I have to ride it for rush hours. Its slow and bumpy ride and I am pretty sure it was designed in the Thomas Edison era. In conclusion, riding the train sucks during rush hour.
It comes down to what you think of as a "consumer" of the water. Clearly, someone was using the water to dispose of these contaminants. I admit, it's not as clear-cut as, say, the use of water by the Coca-Cola Company.

Regardless, my understanding is that Flint has no money, neither the individual constituents nor the city itself. Literally no one can pay to replace these old pipes. IMHO, the reason they switched water supplies in the first place was because they couldn't afford the rising rates from their previous water source.
What do you mean by does nothing to sell it? You expect a large banner or something?

What do you mean so little care? It took months to write all that documentation and record the tutorials for how to get started and all the architecture diagrams etc.
Yeah I agree. You'll see similar scenes in the rust belt. I grew up in Upstate NY and this could easily be images from parts of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, etc.
Someone built a hyper-realistic R2-D2 drone
Isn't he the first to do it as an ESA astronaut instead of through NASA with dual citizenship (but as a US trained astronaut) or through a Russian space tourism junket? It's a pretty big deal to get to send your own astronaut up vs just having a citizen up there but working for a different agency IMO.
You missed the

> As a Swede

... part