skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to close your life off in a healthy way. You have to think hard about things you probably would rather just not think of. Just yesterday a friend of mine miscommunicated with me, causing me to drive 45 mins in rush hour traffic to wait for him in an empty bar for two hours before I went home.

I was livid. I fired off an angry text when he asked me where I was and he chose to argue rather than apologize. In these kinds of situations you have to decide when, why, and how, and whether to cut them off.

I decided that I would use the same rule for him as I do for my lady friends. Always meet somewhere I know and am comfortable with, never somewhere new. That way if they don't show up it's not a total loss. Also never drive anywhere but home, the coffee shop, or my bar right after work. The better and more flexible and more intelligent boundaries you put up, the more and better people you'll bring into your life.

But it takes fearlessness and guts.
> Izta (17000') requires a carload of mountaineering gear

Having just hiked it, this is not true during the dry season. You do cross a small glacier, but all you need for that is YakTrax, if anything.
How to respond to problems (don't freeze up, basically)
Well, we do elderly transport in our neck of the woods (not sure about the urban folks). People currently sometimes have no options, but those groups probably won't overcome the regulatory wall that will show up. Plus, the truck driver is one of the most common jobs in almost every state, and it is a job that cannot be outsourced. Its going to be a rather large hit to the economy. I would imagine which side a politician would come down on.

I will think it might become an issue when I see a Google Car in North Dakota in the winter. Until then, I'm not sure the technology for a national roll-out is really there.
I just want to point out, he while he was put on paid leave immediately afterwards, the article specifically states he was on unpaid leave when he was arrested. While we don't know how long afterward he received a paycheck for we do at least know he didn't get a 3 year paid vacation.
Just FYI Vim is buffer-based too [1], windows (tabs) are a layer on top. There's also a nice plugin called fzf [2] for fuzzy searching open buffers or tabs.

[1]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching

[2]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
The+Power+Of+Habits+And+Routines
Requiem for a Trijet Masterpiece – The Lockheed L-1011
Are you sure of that? When I have an amazon tab with a basket full, create a new tab and go on amazon I see the same basket.
I just signed up and got five free rides. That's pretty cool. I was reading in Reddit that lyft treats their employees better?
Yeah, you are correct that we need more, a lot more. However, the argument that "we shouldn't do X because we need A, B, and C" is overused all the time to piss and moan whenever someone proposes solving an easy problem that will benefit many people.
fantastic read @peckrob ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10873607
This is an awesome idea! Particularly useful to freelancers. I agree with namenotrequired that InstaThreat might not be the best name, but it's certainly serviceable.
Yes, it easily can be. My point was, no language allows you to get away with ignoring security (e.g. there is no free lunch).

http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2013/01/10/rails-remote-cod...
How are you going to make a meta-ridesharing service? The only way to tell what Uber or Lyft drivers are available is through their apps, and it seems like it would be against their interests to do anything than make their communications as proprietary as possible. If you prevent users from weighing options you are better able to capture users exclusively.
Is meritocracy ideal? Is a purely meritocracy society the one that maximizes happiness for the greatest number of people?
The base assumption of the article: We've moved away from ancestral privilege (think: inherited titles of nobility) to an era of ability based privilege (think, the smartest and hardest workers can advance their position in society).

Important sub-assumptions:
1) In Great Britain we believe people can be roughly said to fall in 'classes'
2) Nobles of the past were aware their position was a bit random, and they felt an obligation to the classes below them. AKA "noblesse oblige".

The points the author tries to make are:
1) We lose "noblesse oblige" because the successful people are now taught that they're successful because they deserve it, and unsuccessful people are unsuccessful because of their faults.
2) The lower classes lose the ability to speak for themselves, because their natural leaders or people of talent are recognized in school, and bumped up a class instead of being forced into the positions and careers of their parents regardless of aptitude.
japans tech sector is hardly thriving, are they really your first example? 0% economic growth for 20 years?

Israel is nascent and not very comparable, plus they do pull in a lot of global talent, germany also to a much greater extent than japan.

also, I'm not saying you can't have a 'viable' industry without importing good talent. I'm just saying it won't be as good.
So what about the BSODs that device drivers cause? Are those not device driver issues, but OS issues, or are they unfixable?
I'm not sure either of us is correct. It did use a fregat upper stage, but that isn't what came down over vietnam. The fregat took the sat out to gto and wouldn't have come down so quickly.

Aerospace.org is calling it a "SL-23 Rocket Body". I think it was the second stage that actually came down after a few days in the intital/parking orbit. Fregat would be a third stage.

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/zenit_stage2.html
> That's still the same issue, people confounding estate and family members, and it gets written that way because it elicits emotional response, not necessarily because it were true.

The article I linked was pretty clear in that the apartment owners sued the family, not the estate.

Think about it, how much is a college kid going to have in his estate? They have to sue the family, because they're the only ones that can make good.
> Aside from the thousands of applications using Nginx on Linux with fantastic results.

Citation needed. Name a big company using nginx on Linux to serve up lots of static content.

> Yes, yes we know *BSD has a better networking stack than Linux.

Who mentioned anything about a network stack?

> Now that you're done letting everyone know how smart you are

Well given some people like you clearly don't understand the point I was making I think justifies the comment in the first place.
Thanks! The idea was a direct result of a friend who was hired to do a 3 month dev contract and got stiffed for the last month ~$5k for no good reason.
I would argue yes. unless you can explain how rewarding people without merit over people with merit somehow leads to net happiness.
Leveling Up Your Organization with System Reviews
Eh, is this supposed to be a good book because I have no idea why the definitions aren't clearly marked and indexed. I only checked the chapter about Group Theory but I was not impressed. Maybe for a quick review of the topic it might be enough but for a beginner it seems that it is not rigorous. The definitions could be much more clear explicit. And there is no reason why they should not be indexed.
Getting an Erdős number of 1, 20 years after his death?

I feel compelled to post the relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/599/
I'd be interested to hear how the show-price-versus-not-show-price test works out regarding conversion. Also, have you thought about offering multiple price points for different levels of customization? That might muddy the waters or it might let you capture more purchases ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Indeed, you'd think each "app" (set of interacting processes; container; whatever) could have its own virtual GPU. But how would a compositing window manager work in that setup?
> Causation does not exist in science.

This is so over-simplified it's wrong. If I drop a weight, what happens? Is there a causal chain there? Would an animal unable to perceive a causal chain be able to live very long?
Because of the diminishing returns on incentives. It seems like the optimal solution is to reward those with merit just enough to keep then producing at maximum capacity while directing all surplus beyond that to raising up the median person.
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I don't have Chrome on the machine I'm using now so someone else needs to check it. But I vaguely remember running at work several sessions to the same service in separate incognito windows and maybe even in multiple tabs of the same window. Now that I think of it, I'm not sure about the latter scenario.
[I'm a PM @ Optimizely]

We were asked about this article before, on our community forums, and one of our statisticians, David, wrote a detailed reply to this article's concerns about one- vs two-tailed testing, which might be of interest [3rd from the top]:

https://community.optimizely.com/t5/Strategy-Culture/Let-s-t...

Additionally, since then, as other commenters have mentioned, we've completely overhauled how we do our A/B-testing calculations, which, theoretically and empirically, now have an accurate false-positive rate even when monitored continuously. Details:

https://blog.optimizely.com/2015/01/20/statistics-for-the-in...
Chrome has "profiles" you can use to log into multiple sessions simultaneously. Not sure if you can combine it with incognito mode.
I think the tagline "We encourage people to pay up!" could use work -- without knowing beforehand what the website is for, this could be interpreted as "We encourage you to give us your money!" Which is true in a way, but maybe not what you want to emphasize right off the bat.
Talk: Exploring and Presenting a Game's Consequence-Space
Do you have more info about this? Sounds crazy!
I'm looking forward to playing that next time I boot into Windows (couldn't get it to even create a window on my Linux machine after satisfying its dynamic dependencies (really old libpng for one), or even the Windows exe via Wine -- one of the perils of custom engine development) but I know Antichamber (http://www.antichamber-game.com/), which has the similar concept of a non-Euclidean world, was built in Unreal. Unreal is pretty different from Unity, and I know neither of them well, but I think it shouldn't be all that difficult once you know Unity. And a lot of what I briefly looked at on Youtube for Knossu looks like shader heavy lifting, rather independent of the core engine.
I almost wish that I had been cheated recently so that I could try it out myself =P
Does believing that unsubstantiated (and irrelevant) claim make you feel less of a failure?
Ok, really, that's nice. Come back to me with a working system and we'll talk.
Thank you, that was incredibly interesting!
I have to say that PDs attached read-only to multiple VMs is a very important part of my pipelines. And also a distinguishing feature of GCE.

Clound Dataflow on the other hand is difficult to use in practice - one of the main reasons is the large footprint of intermediate files (sometimes 10x the size of the input)

Currently we are running monolithic pipelines on the cloud where one instance does the job from start to finish (if it get's preempted - I restart). I plan the next version to be in some way "split-apart" but have not found a good strategy/tooling - any advice?
Let's say we strive for a meritocracy. What happens when merit is hard to distinguish from privilege? If we're in the leading minority, it's all too easy to ignore the effects of privilege.

That's not to say merit doesn't exist, it does, but meritocracy doesn't really value merit, it favours a certain specific type of success, and implies that lacking that type of success is because of a lack of merit. It's a subtle difference, but understanding this difference helps in seeing the downsides.
What problem exactly are you trying to solve? and is that problem caused by meritocracy or something else?
For example, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1008910

It's basically heartbleed in your ethernet driver in 2003.
Redesigning Weather Apps
https://www.nginx.com/blog/thread-pools-boost-performance-9x...

...and it was 9x not 8x...
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I'm not 100% against Javascript for things like this. It does make it much easier for non-C coders to get involved (although, to be honest, beginning C isn't that hard, and if you're going down this path you should try and learn it anyways).

It's the pretense of putting it all in an HTML document. The point of HTML is not anywhere close to the use case here. Javascript is way beyond its browser origins, why would it still need to be coupled? I can't imagine tossing in an HTML parser simplifies anything either.

Oh the memory though... GC's on embedded devices scare the hell out of me.
Sounds like exactly what NPS (netapp private storage) was designed for.

I'm confident a Google version could be spun up if there were the appropriate demand.
that seems like you're just saying true merit is hard to determine or measure, which is stated in the original comment.

This might be to do with the ways humans consciously and unconsciously use proxies for complex things like merit.

you don't seem to be arguing against a meritocracy, you just seem to be saying that 'it's hard.'

as for your statement that "meritocracy doesn't really value merit" you'll have to explain that one.
I know what vue is but what exactly is a Java spring starter?
Careful, you're showing your hand.
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What’s coming next in IEEE 802.11
Instead of building more prisons, geofence non-violent convicts to specific areas for the length of their sentence. Sci-Fi writer David Brin's "probationers"is one way (although somewhat extreme).
You can:

unset $HISTFILE
China Needs US$5 Trillion to Save Its Economy
A Google Rank by Keyword Tool That Actually Works
> Google marked the bug as won’t fix because google chrome incognito mode is apparently not designed to protect you against other users on the same computer (despite nearly everyone using it for that exact purpose).

What's the purpose of incognito mode then? It doesn't protect you from your ISP, websites, or users on the same computer. I'm not sure what other use case there is.
> it can be explained (the wikipedia version) as [to quote wikipedia] "methods should return a value only if they are referentially transparent and hence possess no side effects

This simply isn't even accurate at all; that "it can be explained" as such is just plain false.
Not wifi, but in the much bigger metro network in Tokyo, You can use mobile connection (LTE) even in-between stations. They probably have underground relays.
Is Erdos unproportionally celebrated? I'd love to know why he's so popular.
Love it. I'll definitely use it. Thank you!
How Papermaking Crossed the Alps
This scary, dangerous part of self-driving cars is completely unknown to most
No clue why this showed up on HN but it's welcome. Most HN readers probably know Baryshnikov, a titanically gifted dancer who defected from the then-Soviet Union in the 1970s. Soviet ballet was matchless technically but hidebound. He was a free thinker, so, yeah... that didn't work. He flourished in the West. I think he's also an underrated actor, administrator (hey, that means a lot in the art world) and choreographer. This dance is about his friendship with Joseph Brodsky.

Brodsky was a poet with something of the same background, also a Soviet defector. To my mind he is one of the greatest poets in English of the 20th century; like Nabokov he was extraordinarily gifted in more than one language. He in his mid 50s about 20 years ago. I imagine this is one of the more interesting of Baryshnikov's works because they seemed like two birds of a feather. I miss Brodsky terribly and I didn't even know him. Baryshnikov at 67 probably has some dance magic left in him for this performance.
Cool. That sounds reasonable. What, then, is the solution? Do you go back to random, birth-based social status?
WDDM 2.0 gpummu is supposed to ensure that the memory has been zeroed between different applications that use virtual GPU memory.

If this is the case there might be a compliance issue on nVidia side which makes me wonder if webgl is vulnerable also.

WebGL was amended to request a zero when provisioning or disposing of a buffer but it relies on the API which is handled by the driver if nVidia is taking some shortcuts to save time it might be possible to leech stale memory this way.
Sony's Attempt to Trademark 'Let's Play' Hits a Snag
Lyft caps its surge at 200% or 2x, while Uber intentionally goes to 8-10x on busy nights. The outrage at uber over insane fares has a history far beyond this past New Year's Eve. People want Lyft to succeed, but Lyft still needs to get its act together on a few things. Lyft's servers have crashed on busy holiday nights, or rides requests don't match despite cars showing on the map. I'm hoping the recent investments and growing popularity of Lyft keep it in the race.
Why should one put anything under Docker for production?
Apple feature blamed for $2,000 phone bill, but alert was ignored
In the SF Bay Area, BART has LTE too. Even when it's going under the Bay.
This is certainly a Matryoshka doll of wrappings:

- At root there is dcraw [1], which is Dave Coffin's sometimes inscrutable but massive and high-functioning CLI utility to read virtually any raw file from virtually any camera.

- On top of this, we have LibRaw [2] which "librarizes" dcraw so it can play nice with other C programs. LibRaw is big and complicated (like dcraw) but incredibly helpful.

- On top of that, there is rawkit [3] (with which I wasn't formerly familiar, and looks interesting), which provides a Python cffi interface to LibRaw.

- And now we have a REPL built on top of rawkit!

Somewhat perversely, I hope someone makes a CLI interface to rawkit, and then we could call it, er, dcraw?

One caveat here is that dcraw and its prodigies, though amazing, do just the initial steps in tuning up a RAW file -- the demosaicing and just a few other niceties such as white balance. If you want to process the image in a sophisticated way (e.g. curves, local contrast adjustment, shadows/highlights, sharpening, masks, etc.) you'll need to switch to a different tool, such as darktable [4] or RawTherapee [5]. Or use ImageMagick, as mentioned by another commenter.

Note that darktable now can be scripted via lua, which could be another source of flexibility. And also that darktable ditched LibRaw for RawSpeed [6], which is more elegant than LibRaw, as it was written from scratch as library to load RAW files (and do nothing else), rather than, like dcraw, accreted over the course of many generations of digital cameras.

1. http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/

2. http://www.libraw.org/about

3. https://rawkit.readthedocs.org/

4. http://darktable.org/

5. http://rawtherapee.com/

6. https://github.com/klauspost/rawspeed/tree/develop
Saves you from clearing your history after browsing porn.
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This is an issue I raised with colleagues back in the late 90's. At the time only high end graphics systems (SGI) had hardware graphics contexts. So one openGL app could crash or scribble all over another openGL applications canvas.

The truth is a GPU is an entire second computer attached via PCIE bus. As far as security is concerned this will continue to be a shit-show until we accept that fact and act accordingly.
> Zimmer likes to compare the dynamic between Uber and Lyft to AT&T and Verizon. When both cell networks hit three bars of coverage, people start to see them as equivalent, and base their spending decisions on other factors, such as brand values and customer experience.

That's the key quote in the article. In San Francisco, Lyft and Uber have both long passed the "good enough" bar. They both get to you in ~5 minutes and take you where you want to go very reliably. They have parallel product lines, identical pricing, and similar surging tendencies.

This leaves room for brand preference. I know I am not the only one of my friends to choose Lyft whenever possible because I believe they are friendlier. Uber has a reputation for being profit-driven sharks. They're very professional, but don't get in the way of their money. Lyft has the feeling of taking a ride in a friend's car. I personally like the latter, and I think there are enough people who agree with that to keep two players in the market.
I remember the first time I played porn on my TV. I felt like I had tainted in an irreversible way. Moreover, I had a nagging fear that somehow it would show up later when I didn't expect it (you know, like a file you forgot in your Downloads directory). Thanks for letting me know my fears weren't entirely unfounded...
>The billions we waste on these products, assisted by the poorly regulated but rich and powerful vitamin industry should be spent on proper healthcare – and people should be educated to go in the sunshine and eat a diverse range of real food instead.

There are so many question marks in this advice..

What exactly is "proper" healthcare ?

In nutrition, the scientific approach is quite problematic I notice.. This very article is an example of how science changes it's course dramatically every decade or so. The scientist now thinks that his favorite vitamin is not so good after all !

What about the damage done to the body after years of following the scientific advice given 10 years ago ?

Then there is the "real" part of the "real food" in our high tech society... The rabbit hole goes pretty deep in the food industry and very few people actually want to know how their food is produced.
Really, isn't it better to just not know what's in that sausage ?
It makes us sad when we think about these things..

And finally, what he really suggests is not to worry about vitamin D after all ..

Just live a good life and nutrition will come after it... Or is it the other way around ...
> Email is still the most lucrative marketing channel you can devise. I've yet to find a better intra-office communication tool.

I would say that having a private intranet only NNTP server with discussion groups would be far better than just using email.

For one thing, you already have grouping of general topics on a server level rather than having to take the time to create rules/filters and IMAP folders in using the email client. Second, it's much easier to access previous messages by just subscribing to the group (rather than having someone forward you an email which you have to read from bottom to top to get a summary of what was discussed). Lastly, it separates discussions from personal communication (emails sent directly to you).
> The MTA will also accelerate delivering real-time arrival data for all 469 subway stations, which will be available on the MTA’s SubwayTime app and will be streamed as an open data feed for any developer to use.

Neat.
why is it weird that it showed up in HN?
'Avatar' Grossed $2.7B but Left No Pop Culture Footprint (2014)
Check out https://github.com/Crazepony. From a brief look, you'd need to write C to change the firmware, but you can write a client in any language and connect via bluetooth (https://github.com/Crazepony/crazepony-android-client-none/b...).
That compares games consoles to themselves and not to the broader video game industry. 35.3 million PS4s isn't even one tenth of just the iOS ecosystem, which is why mobile is the biggest video game segment and growing.
He was the most prolific mathematician of all time (most published papers) by an order of magnitude. His papers launched entire subfields of mathematical inquiry. He dedicated his life to math in a way that most people could never dream of dedicating themselves to anything, having no home or family or possessions and instead doing mathematics all day every day. These seem like good reasons for him to be popular among mathematicians.
Why does Japan always have great shit like this?