skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How exactly would an open source project be controlled by a large corporation? The furthest they could go is a CLA, and even that wouldn't prevent forking.
This is why I don't like installing free AV or paid AV or doing anything other but burning my computer and living in the woods.
Exactly -- who are you to judge?

When you say that you're white and middle class, are you implying that perhaps non-white and lower class parents aren't as responsible, and therefore need the police to step in?

I have an issue with "if it turned out that it did on average prevent injuries or deaths" line of reasoning. With 380 M people, it's an easy standard to reach.

"8 year old Becky, with her irresponsible parents, would be alive today if there had been a law." That's going to be easy to say. But what you can't easily measure is something along the lines of "these hundred thousand children are not learning life skills because we codified fear of low risk situations into law."

The costs are disperse and hard to measure, the benefits easily identified. So we have a bias to "do something."
carplay looks like the worst apple feature/product to come out in 9.3. (it feels like they are lending out their UX to the whims of <insert car manufacturer>'s buttons and opening up compatibility issues.

http://imgur.com/b3OTMJO
Now available with 13 apps, in 36 brands of cars, 3 different brands of aftermarket solutions on 7 different models of iPhones.

Compatibility with all the things means the experience is going to vary widely across the board.
I don't think it qualifies as a "simple solution" if it's not feasible with today's standards.
Nope, your example would be true if we didn't know how long babies lived, and we were observing a baby who was a minute and a half old.
“How Do You Feel About Grad School?”
Have a look at this solution, a shell wrapper around GPG for managing passwords - https://github.com/drduh/pwd.sh
There is a good reason why everyone here on HN considers any startup that might potentially compete with Google dead in the water – or, when Google starts a product, any companies that operated in that business previously are seen as dead.

Google uses predatory pricing (financed by having all parts of their company make losses except for a select few), Google uses their market might in one business to create a monopoly in others, like every time you searched with Firefox you used to get a banner ad "upgrade now to chrome". The cases where Google was literally scraping content from competitors and displayed it without a link back – the current Antitrust trial with Yelp!, where Google scraped reviews, and displayed them in Google places comes to mind. (And when Yelp! complained, Google threatened to throw them out of the results)

And yes, Google’s Maps API is another such situation. Maps is installed by default on all Android devices, giving it a huge boost for apps embedding it. Google Maps is making losses everywhere, breaking laws (see StreetView) and is still running.

At this point everyone still using Maps should switch to competitors, because otherwise we’ll get a situation where Maps becomes again a monopoly.

Google’s long-term strategy seems to be "get a monopoly for everything".

Every monopoly is an Antitrust situation, and Maps is steering right into one.
I appreciate the thinking here and message but am concerned about this line "This will cost a few hundred dollars at most".

Clearbit has raised a $2M seed round from top-tier investors implying a post-money valuation likely over $6M. A conservative FMV of the common shares would suggest a $1.2M valuation. To exercise a 0.5% of total equity grant would cost $6,000. Something doesn't add up here.

If I am correct, will Clearbit help its employees exercise their options?

See: https://www.fenwick.com/publications/pages/playing-with-fire...
I wrote a long comment with some questions, but decided it was too wordy and wanted to just say this: I have some ideas about addressing some of these issues, and one of the things I haven't been able to figure a way around is in the differences in user ability or desire for interaction or level of effort.

Therefore, I think that a good next-gen social media website is going to have to offer multiple levels of interaction depending on the level of the user themselves.

For example, some users want twitter level interaction. <200 character headlines, <200 character comments

Others want a bit of expansion, maybe some commentary, but nothing too cumbersome or technical.

Another group wants citations for everything, but may not want discussion too extensively.

Yet another group wants extensive discussion that flows ideas back and forth, and educates all participants.

Another group wants both citations and discussion (I know it's hard to seperate, but bear with me).

To me, the fundamental mistake is that we are throwing all users of all types into a pool of mediocrity, to the point where perhaps trolling is somewhat limited, but excellence in discussion is also limited due to interuptions of the limited trolling. The troll doesn't want to and generally can't participate in the lengthy discussion.

So my proposed social media site works in two ways:

1) Stories are segmented into expected level of complexity. Eg, there is a twitter version of a story, a short paragraph version of story, an article version of story, and an extensive version with citations version of story. Any user can access whichever level they choose at any time... but...

2) Posting, instead of arbitrary points which tend to be about liking vs disliking arguments despite things like reddiquette, is about two factors.. quality of comment (upvotes but no downvotes for comment quality) and logical strength regardless of position, handed out in a slashdot style random mod distribution to those who opt in to participate in logical analysis of comments...

Users all start with limited commenting and submission capabilities. As a user shows they are adding value though, they get more priviledges, and conversely, as trolls troll, they get temp and perma-bans based on level. (so a troll can still troll the twitter level comments, but not the citation level comments)

What do you think about a system like this, or do you have any other ideas on how to defeat this kind of warping of the social media world without excluding the users who just want to make pun threads all day?

The bottom line is that I want a way to encourage and reward logical and rational discussion and debate for all levels of users, but allow users who wish to remain stagnant to at least participate in the way they so desire.
Thanks to readr's stringsAsFactors=F default, I've fortunately been avoiding unexpected issues due to factoring.

However, the default R functions still load data as factors and I have bad memories of that catching me by surprise, particularly when performing mathematical operations on vectors which are secretly factors and silently getting wrong results.

I still need to use factors with ggplot2 though for discrete orders. (E.g bar chart sorting)
Would like to talk. I live close to Philly and have an interest in recruiting industry. Details in profile
Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden in US Spy Country – Defense One
Slack didn't invent chat commands. Bots have been listening and enhancing IRC for decades.

The terminology varies, but there's little difference in implementation.
The fact that no startup has failed, ever, clearly illustrates your point that thinking about things in great depth, during every business hour, is a perfect safeguard against failure. For my part, I think the hype surrounding driverless cars has gotten way ahead of where the technology actually is. Also, there is a strong undercurrent of "laws which interfere with my product launch are stupid" (cf. Uber, AirBnb) suffusing the valley, and this move by Tesla definitely has an element of that.
As long as we're throwing out unproven but provocative theories along these lines -- I think I read something about how residual compounds from birth control passes through to urine and then into our water supply in trace amounts, triggering hormonal changes that lead to earlier puberty. I like that one, it has a lot of things going for it: tainted water supply, culpability of drug companies, punishment for our hubris in thinking we could control reproduction, etc.
Audi's Mission to the Moon
I'm immediately skeptical of any article that calls a "magazine" a "clip."

As my CHL instructor said many times, "A clip is something you put in your hair."

Do some research on the terminology of the thing you are writing about, please.

Steyr arms has a line of handguns with a similar sighting system that, from my experience, is superior to blade sights. In my tests giving an inexperienced shooter some verbal safety training and handing them a Steyr gets better accuracy than taking the same random person with the same information and handing them, say, a Glock or a Smith, or some variant of a 1911.

Yes, yes, I know, caveats about with anecdata like that: I get it. Not at all conclusive.

I'm not entirely sure, but I think the Steyr sights are conceptually modeled after the Theodore sights. But I could be wrong.

Sorry if I sound like a Steyr shill. I'm not. Just a big fan. I just think they are really great guns.

Handguns really need to be point-and-shoot. The reality of uses for these outside a shooting range isn't pinpoint accuracy like you sometimes see on TV.

The use of sights needs to be quickly and immediately obvious. People don't shoot at targets greater than 3-7 yards with any regularity when using handgun. I used to shoot coyotes and bobcats that were attacking my parent's sheep when I was a kid at 20-50 yards with a colt 1911.

I feel bad about that now because I could have done a much more humane job with a rifle and a scope. Yes, I hit the predators and saved our sheep. But probably not in the most humane way.

I've changed that now. When I go home to my family farm and I shoot predators, I use the most sophisticated technology I can to make sure that the kills are as quick and painless as possible for the animals that I'm killing.
Do you use android? The base model iPhone only ships with 16GB, approx 5 of which is used up by the OS.
The Death of Rules and Standards
Not having an advantage that others have is a disadvantage, though.
Ask HN: Where to ask for outside advice as a young startup member?
As a young, first time early employee or co-founder, where would one go to describe working conditions and contract terms to get a seasoned entrepreneur opinions & thoughts on if it's worth it?

As a human being I rationalize a lot of things (this unfavorable working condition isn't THAT bad) but have stronger reservations about other things (this thing in the terms seems suspicious, I don't feel comfortable about it but how do I change it?)

Where or how do I go about finding a mentor to answer some of these questions?

As a young person (mid 20's) I don't have too many connections to older peers and if I ask people within the company I see that their opinion / "honest advice" tends to be biased and many times they will say things to advance their own agenda. For a service like this I would gladly pay a couple hundred bucks for a one time session to talk it out with an experienced professional.

I've tried submitting to Ask HN with my problem, but that didn't garner much any responses.
Why Bitcoin Needs 21 Inc to Deliver in 2016
You can add friends if you know their username
Do no evil, except for fucking over developers left and right.
Weaver? Isosceles?

Yeah. Both trademarked. Not sure if patented.
Can you do an AMA, or umm, tell us more?

+1 Insightful
Yikes, and I find the UK level of security over the top (basic locked school gates; parents/guardians or childminders must bring and pick up; children are not released otherwise). (EDIT: This is primary school)

My brothers kids are 7 and 5 and live in Norway where I'm from, and the older is allowed to leave school by himself (the school has no fences and no gates, granted this is a relatively rural school, but unlocked gates is the norm pretty much everywhere in Norway, and 6-7 years olds are generally allowed to go to/from school by themselves - when I was 7 I had a 30 minute walk to/from school every day).

He'll walk to the nearby nursery and pick up his 5 year old sister and they'll walk home together (10-15 minute walk).
My company does some volunteering with a local elementary school using Hour of Code[1]. I worked with kids from grade 2-5 and they used iPads to complete the web-based "puzzles". The projects teach programming basics by dragging-and-dropping sets of instructions and using loops, etc. When they couldn't solve a puzzle, I talked to them about testing and building their solution incrementally.

The teachers seemed very excited about it and about building on the experience.

[1] https://hourofcode.com/us
Why does anyone follow celebrities on Twitter? Does it add any value to your life?
Windows defender is the only av I trust to not totally duck up my pc.
An injection system is not an 'MVP' of a flagellum, an organ for propulsion. What doesn't sound right is the idea that single mutations often produce essentially working versions of future complex features.
Anyone happen to know why the LIDAR can't be augmented by radar or some other frequency of light in which snow is transparent (e.g. http://www.gizmag.com/compact-radar-fraunhofer/26844/)?

I suspect there is an issue with update frequency or spatial resolution, but it seems like it could be a good fit for the sort of best-effort approach described in OP.
Is Redshift outpacing Hadoop as the warehouse for startups?
Yeah I've been thinking about making a new class based on top of character vectors that allows custom ordering
I came across a very good article on HN about funding. It gives you a complete explanation to know what happen to your stocks through each series. The charts and the dynamic ones at the end are making it even better:

http://dlopuch.github.io/venture-dealr/
According to Christian Wirth, they are, "working on open sourcing it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUo3BFMwQFo&t=522
I would like to put this on a t-shirt and send it to every startup.

You cannot build an incredible product without a profound and nuanced understanding of your market.
This historical event is what tipped me into the direction of being much, much more concerned about government overreach and find some sympathy with my libertarian-leaning friends for the first time. Swartz's story will be part of The Fire Next Time that James Baldwin wrote about 40 years ago. Swartz is part of the same story that includes Eric Gardner, Sandra Bland, et al.
"Night Shift" is completely ripping off f.lux...
Well there are other apps that perform similar as op's, for instance the software Tyre - which they charge for by the way. Looks like you've gotten too popular...
>Languages aren't inherently secure or insecure.

This is just not true.
In a wiki you need to establish enough context that the page is useful to someone who comes to it with no other help

Bingo.

The idea that answers can just be written in a wiki ad hoc is one of those pleasant-sounding pithy conversation-stoppers, but it's strictly notional. It's certainly true for small, bounded, well-defined, trivial and/or obvious stuff, but that's not usually the stuff people pester the experts about (well, one would hope).
> The number of local optima grows exponentially in problem dimension, so increasing the dimension simply provides an even stronger guarantee that your optimizer will converge to one.

Forgive my potential ignorance, but it seems to me that there's a difference between the dimensionality of a problem and the dimensionality of a neural net working on the problem. Did you mean to imply that adding more dimensions to a neural net increases the number of local maxima for the problem?

> Evolution, for its part, is definitely stuck in one, as evidenced by the fact that I cannot fly.

Flying requires a large number of biological tweaks that are not necessarily good for every organism. For instance, lower bone density. When humans have this, we call it osteoporosis and it's generally a Bad Thing(tm).

Also, I could argue that evolution has done a better job than you give it credit for, considering that I don't know any other animal that can travel over land at sustained high speeds, fly at extreme altitude, swim to extreme depths, and burrow through mountains.
David Bowie about the Internet
"I hope some responsible are looking for new jobs."

If they look for (and find) new jobs wouldn't that just mean the problem is diffused? Personally I would hope they learn from the experience of failing than to get punished for it.
It's deliberate -- although I don't know about being "profound". :-)

In other words, while I take prior places of employment as signal (just as others do), I tend to discount it heavily. I know smart people working at not-great places, as well as people I would never hire working at some very well-respected companies.

In the end, I'm hiring the person now, not their history.
A bit of a tragic story that echoes that of Vivian Mayer: undiscovered during her lifetime, unable to really find herself in the society of the time, later suffering from mental disorder, sad ending.

Mysterious and fascinating women who maybe just needed a bit more luck in their life.
Bah, I always screw that one up. I wrote that during my lunch break and it's too late to edit, but I appreciate the polite pedantry.
Yes, I was just adding to your comment.
Just pointing out that there is a pattern of people blaming JS even though it's not related at all to the problem.
The same vulnerability would have existed regardless of whether the code was written in Python, Go, C, Erlang, Haskell, PHP or Scala...
This is a logic error - Not something that a compiler would pick up.
I think it's a claim that a majority of people want to be part of a single recognisable mainstream. No idea if it's true. It's conceivable that a majority of people would want to each do their own thing, with only a minority choosing to follow the "mainstream" (which would then still be the single largest "tribe")
There seems to be a pent up developer angst that is coming out in this post. I feel a little ranty sometimes myself but generally do so in the context of a beer and close friends who won't take it super seriously.

Can the paradox of choice rule apply here?
increasing more open sourced choices can greatly increase anxiety for developers.
One mutation being enough to create "a functional prototype of a complex feature/organ (MVP, if you please)"? That's not how reality works!

You can't introduce a complex organ out of the blue by flipping a single gene anymore than you can add HTTPS handling to your webapp by changing a single opcode in your binary. For that to work, the structural and operational information must have already been there in the organism.
xnoremap < <gv
xnoremap > >gv

This is amazing, thank you.

Great compendium, congratulations on the work.
Of course it is; the GP is pretty biased. they could just as simply give their kid the same book on an iMac. Equally, their kid could play the equally crappy flash games on a Windows PC, and pick up some nice malware along the way because flash is a disaster.
I must be dense then. I'm unable to figure out how to do this.
#1 YouTube comment: "The accuracy of his ideas on the internet is so precise and prophetic it's even scary.﻿"

10:36 https://youtu.be/Q0-51IkWpFE?t=10m36s
Show HN: Slacker – Time Tracker for Slack
SpaceX will attempt another sea landing this weekend
An entire article about an application without a single screenshot of said application. Ok.
Gates, Bezos invest in cancer blood test
I just got this book in the mail that collected aaronsw's writings: http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Could-Change-World-ebook/dp/B0...
I can't speak to that as I wasn't alive then and have not researched the topic. Care to elaborate?
Solution: don't sell driverless cars, sell only driverless snowplows that people would just happen to also use as cars. Snow problem solved. :)
Not only does it not make the news, it's often confidential.
Part of it is asking whether learning Python on an iMac is close to the path of least resistance.

I credit much of my childhood computer engineering learning to having to hack on an old cruddy laptop, where either I got nothing or had to learn to make do with what I had. If Minecraft were more readily available to me back then, I wouldn't have much of a reason to learn Python or anything else.
>One option for me would be to rewrite routebuilder to run >on another mapping platform, but with an infant at home >and a full-time job, I frankly don’t have the time or >energy.

Just install UMap instead.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UMap

https://github.com/umap-project/umap
I often remember his essay 'Lean into the pain' : http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dalio
Because it's entertaining, especially if they live more interesting lives.
If that's true, I'm very surprised they pass the App Store review considering how stringent the process is.
you might want to watch this lecture by Searle at Google:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHKwIYsPXLg
Outside of the tech-sphere, following celebrities is the primary use case of many Twitter users.
Daniela Witten, a coauthor on the course textbook, has a couple very interesting videos on statistical learning with graphical models of cancer genetics. A good one is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmnJiXA5fm0
It made a lot more sense to talk about 'boomers' which was (and still is) a large demographic bulge. It worked so well that people got used to the idea that there should be a term for each successive generation.

But obviously it's been extended beyond meaningful utility.
Yeah...it's kind of a bummer. Would be nice to see if any of the people I follow on Twitter are on Peach as well.
The point I'm making is that, and this surprised me, the onus on soneone writing a module with unsafe code, to ensure it does not violate memory safety is much higher than I realized.

It is not 'all rust' you must verify; just all rust that touches unsafe code.

You might argue this is nothing new, and indeed if you read this comment thread you'll see the suggestion that the difference between verifying an entire module and verifying only the unsafe blocks in it is insignificant.

My point is that there is at least an order of magnitude more safe code than unsafe code in an unsafe module, and I suspect it is not scrutinized nearly as much as the unsafe code.

There are a lot of crates that use unsafe code in one form or another; and it troubles me (although no one else cares) that they are probably more dangerous than I realized.

'Just verify the unsafe blocks' is something I've literally heard people say.
Is this yet more fiction on the Internet to sell product (growth hacking) or an actual true story?

I'm sorta getting sick of all the fake and made up crap seen on the Internet and notably shared on Facebook.
Also worth adding is that the rise of "outsider" presidential candidates who gain large momentum (as the author mentions Trump and Sanders) has in fact been a staple of U.S. politics and seems to occur in intervals once every 12-20 years.

Starting from the contemporary Republican-Democratic dichotomy, you had Henry A. Wallace of the Progressive Party gaining 2.4% (1.1+ million) in 1948, George Wallace of the American Independent Party getting 13.5% in 1968, John B. Anderson as an ex-Republican independent with 6.6% in in 1980 and finally, of course, Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996.

(Eugene V. Debs was also an absolute sensation in the early 20th century. His imprisonment for sedition led to riots and he got 6% of the vote as a socialist in 1920 while in prison. Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence in 1921.)

Thus, Trump is in fact nothing new or all that interesting as far as U.S. politics goes. He's just in time. It had been 19 years since Ross Perot's last candidacy. I don't expect anything consequential to occur out of either Trump or Sanders.