skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and reading his message was annoying because too long. it could have fitted in 3 short sentences (of, granted, potentially up to 250 chars)
Corporate policy is not a law of physics. It's just some dude that decided something. They can decide something else instead.

Saying that doesn't actually answer the question, it just shifts it to "why would corporate policy say that".
When is it safe to reheat leftovers?
The skill you point out is also generally luck, the only time skill comes into play is when you're doing something that the casino will kick you out / stop offering those terms
Most of the time when I see a tweet, it's when somebody takes a screenshot and posts it in a news article. It's been years since I've logged into twitter.com to sift through garbage looking for anything useful.
It's not in the data set, but the correct category for McDonald is "Deadly weapon" but not "Attack in progress".

McDonald is the reason I'd like the "firearm" breakout, because "deadly weapon", "no firearm", and "no attack in progress" describes a somewhat common class of police fatalities that are probably mostly unjustified.
Note to self: When uniformed officers approach to serve my arrest warrants, drop cellphone and put hands up. These dudes are dangerous!!
Here's a big task that is a) not directly related to computers, and b) the coming wave of automation can't take away - maintenance. All those buildings, tracks, machines, etc. can't clean and fix themselves. We can't jump over everything with the standard market approach of making cheap disposable crap and replacing it wholesale when some component breaks. There's infrastructure. Like water mains, electrical conduits and cabling, etc.

We need one more breakthrough before we can free people from jobs - self-maintaining machines. Which will probably involve self-healing materials. Imagine if you could simplify maintaining underground cables to just making sure there's enough nutrient-rich fluid around them. Then we could automate the production and delivery of such fluid, and we'd be done.

The future without jobs is the future where our infrastructure heals itself, just like our bodies do.
It sounds like the problem Fong faces is that the industry she wants to work in is very capital-intensive. In that case, does the startup/VC/equity model make sense? Wouldn't it make more sense to be attached to a large company with big balance sheets, access to debt markets, and a good credit rating to get this large capital expenditure funded? (Without having any first-hand knowledge of these places, I'm sort of thinking of places like Google X or Bell Labs.)

Perhaps the issue is a lack of corporate/financial structures that allow people who want to work in capital-intensive industries to enjoy some of the nice aspects of working at a small startup: casual atmosphere, lack of corporate hierarchy, openness to change and innovation. I don't know whether that's something that can be wholly remedied - you can't be "move fast break stuff" when you're building something like a bridge. But I'm not convinced that the usual "startup" model is the best way here.
I've seen police shoot and kill a man "armed with a toy" and it's very, very hard for me to fault them for it. It sounds bad when you say it, but armed with a toy and armed should be treated as the same thing. When a man being chased by police stops his car, gets out, takes cover behind the door and starts pointing something that looks remarkably like a gun at police, he should be shot.
Going to shamelessly plug my own 12 year old game: an Ant Run clone, written in Z80 assembly

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/328/32817.html

http://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Ant_Run.html

... I wonder CEmu can run it?
I have a Facebook account, but I don't ever have the involuntary compulsion to check it. I do, however, have that problem with checking HN.
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In your example how do you tell renters you have a house for them?

If the answer is "some service like Airbnb that uses the blockchain", I'd contend that the end user really doesn't care what it's built on.

The service is the marketplace, not the legitimacy of the transaction.

The problem that decentralized services will always have is that someone has to make them, and those companies will lose out on all the benefits of a centralized system (primarily control). A centralized competitor will exploit those benefits with no detriment because again, users don't care what's behind the front end they interact with. Any company looking to build something is going to have a hard time explaining to free market investors why it is in their best interest to relinquish control for whatever the blockchain gives them in return.
> The same number of people died in car accidents during September 2001 as they did in terrorist attacks.

I was interested if this is true, and on the face of it it is. 2996 people died in 9/11, in 2001 (the entire year) 37,795 people died in car accidents (source: NHTSA), or an average of 3149/deaths per month.

Injuries are also higher from accidents than 9/11 for the month of Sept. 2001.
Male lives matter.
Iirc, Netflix never owned exclusive rights to House of cards. For example, the first season was on Comcast streaming as of a year ago.
OK, so Everlane is a (mostly, originally) online-only clothing retailer that started Facebook messaging me about my order status, including shipping updates. Obviously, this is when you've auth'd with them via Facebook. Messages can include html, including images and map data, so they used that to show tracking progress with some nice branding. I always wondered how they did that.

Nice use of the platform. If your user auths with Facebook, of course it makes sense to do your customer communication via Facebook, too.
We don't prosecute people for "fatalities". We prosecute them for homicide and manslaughter, which are offenses in which the prosecution must prove intent to commit harm.

Meanwhile we do in fact prosecute car fatalities when they are caused by recklessness, and, of course, when they're caused intentionally.
No prob :)

I know that moderating a large community like HN can be very time consuming and frustrating at times esp. when mods aim to ensure a high quality level of interaction here and I applaud and appreciate all the mods' efforts to achieve that and if I could offer a suggestion to improve the quality even further, I'd invite everyone when reading comments and replies to give the authors the benefit of doubt and become more tolerant of polite dissenting view.

Thanks for all :)
Not GP, but yeah, it's cool with me. I can use some break from coding my own projects, but not too much. :).
Which is all well and good, but when you take away too many of the features which make that ecosystem unique, there's less incentive to use it over anything else.
That's very incorrect. The reason it's different is that the honeymooners from Fresno lose (or win) based on the house playing blackjack with a known set of parameters. If the honeymooners play perfect blackjack (which is a game of chance, not a game of skill), the expected outcomes can be calculated.

If the whale negotiates the odds in his own games, he's changing the expected outcomes in his games versus the house, but he's not altering the odds for the honeymooners.

He might win physical dollars that were lost by the honeymooners, but because both players are playing the house, it's meaningless 'whose' money he's winning. He's taking money from the Casino's profit margin, really. They're gambling that he'll still lose more than he wins, and the slimmer margins will be made up in volume.

DFS is a skill game both in player selection, AND in skirting the rules, AND in getting the 'house' to tilt odds in your favor -- which directly tilt the odds even further away from the other players.
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If my comment was meaningless platitudes, what can I make of yours?

My arguments was that it doesn't matter what one is claiming - in the end what matters is what you do. The americans are the only ones so far to have nuked other people, and they still get to keep their missiles. Don't you think we are way too forgiving with them?
>When PrivaTegrity’s setup is complete, nine server administrators in nine different countries would all need to cooperate to trace criminals within the network and decrypt their communications.

So I need to hire thugs in 9 countries to rubber hose the keys. Hardly impossible task. And lets not even think about the really scary guys in intelligence agencies. Lets say you don't want to meet them in adversarial setting and leave it there.
eg "faster"
Maybe as a productivity accessory, but bluetooth headphones are here to stay. 20 bucks for reasonably quality sound perfect for fitness or just doing stuff around the house.
Movie-wise, the most upto date content seems to be in Canada, where they get movies that were in the cinema around 6-8 months. Not sure how much longer that'll last as the licensing deal runs out in middle of this year some time.
There is probably a better way to word this.
Equating profits with waste is just plain wrong. Profits are economic resources that can be directed toward other uses, while wasteful spending is just that: economic resources essentially destroyed.
Information on the web is distributed in an even more skewed manner than Pareto's law would have you believe. I would bet 1% of the sites on the web provide 99% of the useful information. Thusly, this laptop may prove very useful for many things (excepting the wonders of web based interpersonal communication).
Doesn't have to be huge walls of text. Technology can help with that easy enough.
I wrote up a series of posts on Git with my "Git tip of the week" series. I posted a finale, with back-links back to all previous posts, here if anyone is interested:

http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/12/git-tip-of-week-finale.htm...
SF Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy
Outlook is offline
Salary is a lot more than simply money for most people; it's food on the table for their family.
The problem is it's a motorcycle race and you're on foot the only thing is you're so bad a math you don't even realize you're in a motorcycle race.

This is the same issue that people have with card counting, wheel spin analysis, prng analysis, hft, dice throwing, etc. People who are good at math use that skill to make games of skill of what people incorrectly believe are games of luck.

Rich people always get upset when they think they are fucking over someone dumb when really they are getting fucked over by someone extremely smart. Then they write articles about how unfair it was that they were too dumb to realize the game wasn't rigged how they intended to rig it.

Hence we end up with articles like this, that it's 'unfair' that the author is a poor gambler and repeatedly accepts wagers that are not in his favor. He even made a spreadsheet of how dumb he is and then refuses to accept the math that proves he's dumb.
Rust by Example[0] (and possibly the Rust Book[1]) uses gitbook, for those curious as to how a language reference may look like with GitBook.

[0]: http://rustbyexample.com

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
Somebody stop this complexity nonsense with marketing automation
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This is neat! But I would definitely use typical servings instead of the standard 100g servings. No one is going to have the money to eat 100g of oysters to get the 262% RDA of zinc, so it would be better to have it in the context of how people actually consume these foods.
> So we may not have very much to learn from your simple comparison.

You mean that I didn't write a dissertation on it in an HN comment? We don't have much to learn from your simplistic dismissal of a serious issue, based on simplistic speculation about the causes. Have a nice day.
Seymour Cray never said "performant". Engineers say "fast" or "fast enough". Marketing types and nontechnical management seem to prefer this neologism. But it might also be a generational thing.

A new coinage that I noticed in the past year that also grates on my ears: "learning" as a substitute for "lesson", as in "what were your learnings from the hackathon?" Anyone else caught this one?
Maybe a stupid questions but what if they disrupted not just TV but also cinema?

I assume that the distribution of films around the world is more limited than we think. At some point when Netflix has a much larger subscriber base, it may make more sense for films to be released directly to Netflix for global consumption. They could even be clever about it and have it only open for "live showings" at specific hours or something like that. What do you think?

At some point I assume they will also become the channel that VR content could be sent through as well, maybe in partnership with Facebook?
I'm confused, does this mean no?
It's just as ironic that his post to answer whether Twitter would support a 140+ character count neither said they would or wouldn't be changing the limit by using a screenshot of text more than 140 characters.

I believe this post to be a huge joke. All meta, no value. He's totally messing with us. Funny.
Maestro isn't a credit card, it's a debit card. Probably worth getting a decent credit card !
Just have someone else enter the passcode that enables the restrictions, that way you don't actually know it to be able to disable them.

Use your device's parental controls, set yourself up as the child, and pick some other random person to be the parent.
What does a small company VP of Engineering and Design do all day?
I just enabled it for my team, it works half of the time sadly...
Wow! And England and Wales are entire countries!

Except...

They are much, much, much smaller countries, and so...

One would actually expect a much, much, much smaller number for them.

Even combined.

Whether by land area or population, they are considerably smaller.
In my experience, bringing up Hitch in this context has been highly counterproductive to discussion. People tend to look at his assessment of Teresa as nothing more than an extension of his anti-theistic views. Obviously, this doesn't stand up to scrutiny, but it happens nonetheless.
If we're trading youtube clips here's a police force who disarm a man armed with a machete. Armed police are available, (the UK has armed police, especially in London) but those police are not needed because our police force is not fucking incompetent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX5CPx4RKWw

Here's another video of a man wielding a knife and approaching police. In the US he's much more likely to be killed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9TFvh6Xps4
Sure, though I feel like it's worse on Twitter than in most places for a few reasons: it's really easy to retweet and disseminate someone's post, and the public nature of accounts/tweets makes it very easy to dogpile.

On Facebook you might get some flak from your uncle, on a forum you might get into a tussle with another poster, but there are natural limits to the severity and the scale. On Twitter many of these limits are stripped away - it's very easy, and very common, to retweet someone "look at this fucking idiot" and invite your circles to pile on, many of whom will have never heard of the offender before.

This is also how harassment and abuse on Twitter is worse than other platforms - on Facebook you might get into a flamewar with your uncle and face awkward family dinners for a while, but on Twitter a dogpile is millions of users large, and you're statistically guaranteed to get a few people with legitimate screws loose in that bunch who might actually SWAT you or stalk you or otherwise take things way, way too far.

Add this to the fact that Twitter's length limits discourage nuance and encourage soundbites and you get IMO the worst intersection of soundbite culture, outrage culture, and massive built-in virality.
The data is available in CSV format on GitHub: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
Wat. I keep hearing the argument that there "won't be useful work to be done soon." Considering that a median house still costs 4x yearly median salary means that not only do we live in a resource-scarce world but we will continue to for a long time.

Just because you don't "see" the work humans currently do doesn't allow you to be ignorant to it happening. Just because you personally don't want to work (as most people) doesn't mean there isn't plenty out there for people to do.
Amusing that they went for $599. The PS3 was launched at $599 during a much-ridiculed E3 keynote and the price tag was ultimately looked back on as a huge strategic error.

The Oculus is a different kettle of fish, of course. But $599 seems almost like a deliberate reference.
I was sure that "focussed" was a spelling error, but it's apparently allowable, if less common than "focused".
I've been looking for something like this ever since they deprecated their XMPP Chat API. I hope this goes public soon.
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In the demo I see the mouse move around over too many icons. What about Gmail shortcuts?

I rather not use the mouse at all during any email interactions.
Here is another large project (Drupal) that decided against React because of the PATENTS file:
http://buytaert.net/selecting-a-client-side-framework-for-dr...

"The Virtual DOM, among React's most compelling features, has also seen its core ideas filter into other framework projects. But more importantly, React is licensed with what I believe to be a potentially unacceptable patent clause, which states that an organization can no longer use React once it sues Facebook for any (unrelated) patent infringement. This has already generated some concerted pushback from both WordPress's Calypso and React contributors."
Strange - I flat-out can't get the game to load on Firefox 43.0.1 or Chrome 47.0.2526.106, but it works just fine on IE11.
Granted, neither has happened to me, but if someone wanted to kill me, I think I'd rather be shot than hacked with a machete.
I second Mint. Been using it for the last 4 years.
Now, I'm curious - is there any way I check what would be available in my specific country without signing up and starting a trial?

I want to be able to at least just do a few search queries to check if what I had watched recently is there or I shouldn't even bother and save that "free month" offer for later (because if there's nothing to watch it'd be wasted).
what the fuck? This is so inefficient.. lets spend all this time making a self driving car and then blow it to smithereens. You're better off strapping it to a remote control car.

Terrorists are idiots..
Let's elect dictator TeMPOraL to tell society what he/she deems worthy of human ouptut. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong.
Oh. I haven't thought of that :) Yeah, given that the school has root on those laptops, they definitely can do that.
Everyone needs to pitch in, you need to serve humanity so that it provides you with the things you need. If the only thing you can do to do your part is sanitation work, then sanitation work it shall be. That is, until you find new ways to serve others.

Slavery is something altogether different, and you really have to be in a position of privilege to conflate the two. The history of slavery is an incredibly dark one. Out of respect to those who've suffered under it's cruelty, I don't think it's right to use that word in this context. Doing your part is not slavery.
>I don't think that and don't appreciate the framing you're trying to impose on me. Could you perhaps word comments like this more carefully?

This is a fantastic, measured answer - I'm always pleased to see reasonable responses to unreasonable comments.
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>> Battery longevity is what matters. I wouldn't mind the smallest battery in the world if it powers my device the longest.

Nobody would mind that. But today, a bigger battery is more likely to power your device longer, all other things being equal.

If the Retina MBP's guts were put in a 2012-style unibody and the extra space was simply filled with more battery, I tend to think that the Retina MBP's battery life would be crazy good. And there are a lot of "pros" who use power-sucking, CPU intensive apps that would appreciate that.
It's not that expensive. But now I need to buy a modern gaming PC. That's going to hurt!
I've made that point before on YC.[1] We need to view fast storage as something other than a disk accessed through the OS, and other than slow RAM accessed as raw memory. Access through the OS is too slow, and access as raw memory is too risky. What's probably needed is something like a GPU sitting between the CPU and the fast persistent storage. Call this an SPU, or "storage processing unit."

What would such a device do? Manage indices, do data transformations, and protect data. Database-type indices would be maintained by the SPU, so applications couldn't mess up the database structure. The SPU would manage locking, so that many non-conflicting requests could be serviced simultaneously. The SPU would have tools for doing searches. Regular expression hardware (this exists) would be useful. Record protection management (app can read/write part but not all of a record) would allow implementation of database type data access rules. Encryption and compression might be provided in the SPU.

There have been smart disk controllers before, but they haven't been that useful, since they couldn't make the disk go any faster. Now, it's time to look at that layer again. Some of the technology can be borrowed from GPUs, but existing GPU architecture isn't quite right for the job. An SPU will be doing many unrelated tasks simultaneously. GPUs usually aren't used that way.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9964319
AOl Search and Siri both use Bing. http://imgur.com/dAPgoAu
There's a pretty cool story about underestimating bit-flipping :).

http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/

Besides, just look at us, humans. Who would ever build an AI and then keep it away from any means of communication? That wouldn't be a very useful AI. If one wants that, one can pick a rock and imagine it has a mind. Or talk to a cat.
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That graphic is rather misleading. Our success in reducing traffic fatalities is rather mixed and not nearly so dramatic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._traffic_deaths_as_fr...
A worldwide VPN just became the best Netflix accessory ever
- http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10724378/netflix-everywhere...
Cryptol – a statically typed functional language for cryptography
Making-Of CANAL+ First Virtual Reality Experience
I use the 3.5mm jack a lot on the Aux In port in various places (both my vehicles, standalone players), plus when I need to use headphones.
RMS, yes! How could I forget? Lessig, different story. Never read Cory Doctorow.

I was thinking more about something along the lines of Chomsky, McLuhan, and Orwell updated to the current day. But we'll see…
Total sales spam bait
> I'm 100% with you. Honestly, my "prefect Twitter" would be to keep the 140char limit, but to exclude @ mentions, photos, and links from the limit.

Right now, there's a real benefit to having short Twitter handles, because they count less against the limit (longer ones really add up in Twitter conversations that involve multiple people).

I understand why usernames count towards the limit, but I wish they didn't.
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>Scrummerfall

My classically trained PM after taking an Agile training class:

First we'll have a planning sprint.
Then we'll have a coding sprint,
Followed by a testing sprint...