skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Its only downside is that it further boosts Chrome's dominance

It's other disadvantage is that it's proprietary software. Rather than disagreeing with this from a security point of view (which is valid), I'm going to say that I don't like using software that I can't look at if I get curious as to how it works.

I've looked at the code for Firefox to see how certain things were done that fascinated me. I can't do that with Vivaldi.
It's not just saving the cost of a couple of drivers (although that's a significant cost). It's more fuel efficient, and it's safer.
> Are all High Tech companies sociopaths just caring about nothing but their private benefits built upon other's works?

That's pretty much how all the world works. Capitalism at it's best.

As a side node, bitcoin is a "pretty sane currency" only in the mind of gold bugs and conspirationists. There's a reason we moved from an inflexible currency (gold) to a flexible one ("printed" money)
> though I'll say I do make more now, at a for-profit company

That's what I meant by underpaid. It's well known that Mozilla pays below-market rate salaries. Instead it deceptively uses its supposed non-profit status (actually a for-profit owned by a non-profit shell) to motivate people to take a pay-cut by working there, meanwhile Baker and a handful of others at the top are getting rich (even by Bay Area standards) off their under-compensated, altruistically-minded labor.

Disgusting.
Enjoy this character code puzzle.
http://realmode.com/punch22.html
Just because we can make horseless carriages does not mean we should.

Oh wait. That gave the livelihood to truckers, so it's Something Completely Different. Right?
>The miners are supposed to accept the "tallest" chain.

The tallest valid chain. A chain with block sizes exceeding the max won't be considered valid.
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Note to self. Upload my ransom request videos 75 times to YouTube before sending it. That way I will have an awesome sinister bad guy voice.

Edit: Engrish is hard
>I don't see the problem. The fact that no person fit the model perfectly doesn't mean that the model was a poor choice.

Did you skip the part about people dying?
Nah, it's an edge case that doesn't happen often. Just submit the best stories. Nothing else matters by comparison.
One symptom of cancer, especially late-stage cancer, is cachexia: unintended weight loss. It is associated with a higher risk of death and lower quality of life. [1]

In addition, cancer treatments like surgery, chemotherapy and radiation affect the sense of taste, appetite and metabolism and make it difficult to get normal nutrition in the first place.

So you can see why clinical oncologists and patients might be wary of restrictive diets or fasting. In fact many offical guidelines suggest adding sugar, frying foods, eating more dairy, etc to boost nutritional intake.

Psychologically, even if a patient is overweight they may fear a drop in weight as a sign that the cancer is progressing. (An ex-colleague was very obese and lost 60kg before/after being diagnosed with kidney cancer).

A patient may also want to enjoy their remaining time. Food has a huge intrinsic pleasure and is very important socially.

I'm not saying this is an unworthy line of research but they will need good evidence or specific, easy interventions to convince people to change their diet. For example, drugs like metformin or rMETase may be easier than explicit restrictions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia
Isn't kind of a similar thing happening to DNA from generation to generation ? Codec artifacts being similar to gene mutations in DNA ?
> Encarta... Bore people

What is he on about? Encarta was the Wikipedia of its time.
From the article:

> Voice increasingly evolve to be an escalation— not a primary service — channel.

I hope this trend continues. And companies drop the know-nothing scripted CSRs (who are like a FAQ that you access through a clumsy voice interface) and instead staff their call centers with pleasant, smart people with actual domain knowledge.
These days. I remember not that long ago when I was fixing files by hand to make them compile on Ubuntu. And it was just an example, topical to f#/.net. Ubuntu is great when you are fine with the version in repos, but can be more pain when there aren't any third party repos because linux distros are fractured.
This firing occurred almost a year ago, it's clearly not the reason why this person left this month. Also, bad mouthing a company you just left with a blog post is not a smart thing to do.
The system actually has a terrific incentive to block innovation in the autonomous hauling space: avoiding mass unemployment and middle class unrest. Imagine you take away the best way for a person to place themselves squarely in the middle class, then multiply that person's anger by millions.

The benefits are also tremendous though. Those people would be unburdened of repetitive, menial, dangerous work and society would have a more effective and reliable way of transporting goods.

In the end it's about what fulfills more people's needs more effectively. You can't blame a company for trying to find any way of increasing profits, you can't blame governments for trying to protect tax payers, and you can't blame unemployed people for being restless. The question the world has to answer soon: if boosting economic growth and increasing the efficiency of the market are our main goals, what are we willing to do or not do to get there?
Are you complaining that the profit isn't enough

If anything, I'm arguing that the canal is a monopoly.

Are your proposed alternatives

I haven't proposed any alternatives.

sounds like the language of an ex-colonial power tsk-tsking at one of its ex-colonies

you want to deny revenue to governments you don't like

You're projecting some political ideology onto me here, and missing the mark, amusingly.

I don't think this conversation is either productive or interesting.
Scala is a modern language unfortunately set back by its need to compromise and be compatible with Java. If we go native and remove the need for Java/JVM compatibility, what is there left about Scala? There are many other languages better at FP, so I guess what remains is the FP+OOP hybrid thing? Which I'm not sure I like anyway, since it makes the language less tidy than I'd like.

Disclaimer: I work with Scala in my day job, and I like it -- it sure is nicer than Java -- but I don't know if I would use it in situations where the JVM wasn't mandated or needed.
ST is the efficient version of the State Monad. Where did you come to think that St was short for single threaded?
I the pictures in the article, she's literally wearing dark makeup. This is what she looks like without it: http://richestcelebrities.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Zoe...
No, I'm saying it's hateful and hypocritical to ignorantly hate on otherwise good people. It's easier (and probably feels better) to make them all out to be mustache twirlers, but it's more of a convenient truth than reality.
BTW, we can make driverless trucks? I keep hearing the same thing about flying cars. For about half a century now, without anything substantial to show for it.
Mandelbrot did not think the markets were random. He explicitly rejected the Efficient Market Hypothesis.

http://www.amazon.com/Mis-behavior-Markets-Benoit-Mandelbrot...
https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-goin...

Hmm. :o
Regarding the issue of 10 lorries blocking an exit, our exits are very long, OK, not 10 lorries long but they wouldn't be block for more than a few seconds. If the convoy broke up into 3 or 4 while going past an exit then merged back together, or if they all pulled into the middle lane -- no worries.

Lorries drive up each others asses anyway, usually you just pull alongside and indicate and they'll make a little space for you to pull through. So pretty much business as usual.
You really shouldn't be accepting zero-confirmation transactions that are marked as replaceable no matter how old your receiving software is. Even though it happens that most pools don't ever actually accept replacements for them, that's merely a policy decision on the part of the pools - the field marking them as replaceable has been there as long as Bitcoin's existed and I think a few pools do honour it.
Kingmaker scenario
You can add to the list a whole host of other things where exposure will increase immune systems and decrease allergies. Once an article appeared that said exposure to farm animals also decreases allergies and increases the strength of the immune system.
>"yes we know you are over worked, just hang in there while we hire someone to take off the load"

Which may be why people that are below par haven't been let go? A need to throw bodies at a problem rather than step back and give it some thought / work it out.
Ah, neat, the old one then. You should be aware that Opera as of 15 and above is a reskinned chrome, so you can probably just copy the chrome one for that and rename it to Opera 15+.
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Those concerns seem really mundane compared to the problem of a vehicle that can safely drive itself.

Just have humans be available to go deal with the trucks. Fine companies (a lot!) if they are too slow to deal with their trucks. This will encourage them to have arrangements in place.

As far as navigation, it's a technology product. They tend to get better over time, at least until some point where improvement becomes difficult is reached.
Well, I'm pro-ssm and I advocate this kind of thinking.

Pragmatic me thinks: "It's kind of weird that we encode the idea of two adults sharing a home, family, and bed to the exclusion of other models, but IF we're going to do that we should let gay and straight couples do so"

Idealistic me thinks: "Why the hell does the government recognize marriage anyway? People arrange their lives in dozens of different ways. A person can coparent/cohabit/have sex with/share medical choices with/share financial choices with/(etc.) a number of different partners, but we've decided "two adults doing all of those things is the norm, and anything else is less than ideal", which is a bit stifling.

There are other models. Maybe the Mosuo "walking marriage" should become a codified norm instead?
I recommend the book "More Money Than God" which studies the history of hedge funds and in the end suggests that successful hedge funds are not simply statistical survivors.
And excellently in the sphere of teaching. I would be woeful to see devs operate with the same level of impunity with the toxicity that exists within our community...
Longtime NYT solver here.

The most interesting thing about this to me is that it belies the common impression that many have that the NYT crossword is "elitist". I mean, how can it be "elitist" if it's routinely copied by USA Today??

I think people try it, find it to be impossible to penetrate on the first try, see a couple of clues about 1930's opera or NYC-specific stuff and then punt. However, like many other things in life, there is a learning curve to basic competency. There is a common, shared vocabulary among professional crossword constructors that provides a foundation for even the most difficult puzzles. The point is that you can still finish the puzzle even without knowing anything about 1930's opera by knowing something else nearby and some intelligent guesses.

Among most solvers, the quality of a puzzle is proportional to how fun it is to solve and that is closely related to non-repetition of the theme. Good puzzles minimize this and solvers take it for granted that every puzzle will be genuinely new. The best case is a theme that is never before seen, something completely original.

The problem with plagiarism in this case is easier to understand if it's seen through the lens of an inveterate solver. It's a betrayal of this unspoken (but still very casual) ethic of originality.

See almost any post from: http://rexwordpuzzle.blogspot.com/ for an example of typical daily thoughts along these lines.
If he had credited the original authors appropriately, your position would be quite tenable.
Volvo have been trialing driverless trucks for some time now.

http://www.volvogroup.com/group/global/en-gb/_layouts/CWP.In...

>Volvo’s vision of combining a well-trained professional driver with increased automation is being realized through the SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project. The idea behind the project – of which Volvo is a part through its centre for research and innovation, Volvo Technology – is to develop a technology for vehicle platooning – that is, a convoy where a professional driver in a lead vehicle drives a line of other vehicles. Each vehicle in the convoy measures the distance, speed and direction to the car in front, and adjusts accordingly. The vehicles are not physically attached to each other and can leave the procession at any time. But once in the platoon, the following drivers can relax and do other things while the platoon proceeds towards its destination under the expert guidance of the lead driver.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fea...

> In 2012, Volvo Trucks tried out its autonomous vehicles on public roads for the first time, as part of the European Commission-backed Project Sartre (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), which looked at the feasibility of platooning – when a single, lead driver in a truck, using what might be thought of as a kind of digital towbar, controls the speed, steering and braking of two or more trucks or cars, to form a road train.

> Now, the EC has just announced the €5.4m (£4.55m) Project Companion, led by Scania, to develop the technology further and explore the legislative changes necessary for this kind of automated road train to run on motorways such as our own M4. So while talk of Amazon's delivery drones have caught the headlines, autonomous trucks may be doing precisely that in about 10 years' time, if the law catches up with the technology.

Video from 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV3nINN2ELQ
That's just not true in most parts of the world
Like what?

It's an at-will state so you can leave without notice and be laid off without notice. It seems that would cover the majority of circumstances and protect both employee and employer, for better or worse.
Apple is pretty obviously working on VR. For the past couple of years they've had a big group of recruiters at SIGGRAPH (the annual large computer graphics conference) who perked up significantly when one mentioned VR.
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/worlds-first-self-driving-semi-... (Sorry it's Wired...)
This doesn't make any sense. Why would a company intentionally screw over its customers over such a trivial issue? Their window is 15 minutes because of bitcoin's tendency to fluctuate in price. If the network hasn't delivered your transaction, there's literally nothing they can do. Shouldn't you contact the merchant for a refund?
You can actually show different speeds in different terminals - the speed of terminal rendering affects the duration of the test. In the tests below, I have no custom terminal prompts or similar (no git status lines etc) - they're all distribution defaults running bash.

# all the below run in the same MATE desktop
# lxterm (from lxde - is easiest on my eye)
$ time ls -R /usr
real 0m19.974s
user 0m0.860s
sys	0m0.832s

# gnome terminal
$ time ls -R /usr
real 0m19.902s
user 0m0.800s
sys 0m0.776s

# xterm (yes, it really is 10x the speed)
$ time ls -R /usr
real 0m1.872s
user 0m0.856s
sys 0m0.800s

# rerun in the first terminal, and the time hasn't changed - still 19s

# now in lxterm redirecting to null
# (and xterm gives similar results here)
$ time ls -R /usr > /dev/null

real 0m0.418s
user 0m0.256s
sys 0m0.156s

All that prettification and rendering takes time; if you want raw speed, use xterm... or pipe output to /dev/null.

Interestingly, 'time' on gterm and lxterm had tabs between the above field:value pairs (I had to reformat to show them nicely), but xterm used spaces. I don't know enough about the terminal underpinnings to guess as to why.
On the topic of food allergies, there is a treatment called oral immunotherapy that supposedly can cure peanut and other allergies in both children and adults.

http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2014fall/i-can-eat-it.html

Essentially they introduce increasingly larger doses of the allergen until your body develops a tolerance to it (essentially what the OP claims, but as you're no longer a baby, it takes a lot longer).

The only caveat is that you are required to continue to eat the allergen for the rest of your life, to maintain your tolerance.

Stanford is currently enrolling in its peanut OIT study for adults. If you have a peanut allergy and have always dreamed of eating a PB&J without worry, now's your chance!
I think they understand this. See the first minute of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABB1pfi3ZpE
I'm aware of this. What I'm trying to say is that there's a lot of uncertainties and risks in this branch of the tech tree. Just like flying cars, having a prototype here and there does not make this mass usage.
UK trucks, at least, have had mandatory 60mph limiters for probably 30 years.

Was lowered to 56mph (90 kmh) to match speeds with Europe at some point.
> That doesn't need robot drivers.

You're right, it needs robot enforcers :)

> Why think that the same pressures that force drivers to act like jerks won't also be applied to software?

They will; but a human can improvise and lie, whereas software can (in theory) be audited and tested. The software will be built by manufacturers, not lorry owners; and they don't want to end up on the wrong side of car regulators -- see the recent VW affair.
That's my contention - why? Isn't that slavish devotion to quoting and sourcing all turns of phrase somewhat limiting? Why do we irrationally consider plagiarism such a horrible blight to be eradicated at all costs?
Comments like the last few are a great reminder of why maybe the government shouldn't be prescribing a particular sort of relationship as ideal.

If you don't like gay marriage, that's great, don't get one! Go to a church that doesn't recognize them!

If you do like gay marriage, cool - go get one!

Either way, call yourself married! Or not! Fortunately the government can recognize things like shared decision making, inheritance, property ownership, etc. without having to recognize that some people held a ceremony and a party and others didn't.
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The other commenter figured it out. Eich donated to a group specifically about causing gay people harm. You can either ignore someone financing harm or punish them as deterrence. Many chose to punish.

Now, Obama is a dirty politician people chose over more honest runners. His claims and voting record mismatched early enough to know. Electing scumbags is another kind of harm. People can ignore or react to that too.

Far as politicians, supporting certain types of laws is a requirement for election given how voters act in this country. So, I'd make an exception there where I wouldn't fire prople but you could boycott their business or state if you wanted.
One simple way to evaluate this would be to look at press attention.

I did a quick check using Mattermark data of which YC companies got the most news since 2013 that are not still alive. It yielded (num articles / startup):
67	Homejoy
13	Tipjoy
13	Buttercoin
6	Tutorspree
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Why are so many smart people such idiots about philosophy?
Wouldn't software that acts like a jerk (ie not letting
people in etc) be more valuable if it gets from A to B
faster? Why think that the same pressures that force drivers
to act like jerks won't also be applied to software?

Because with human drivers, a human is liable for failures. With software, the company is liable. If the software thinks "this is a dangerous situation", it will be written to defer to not causing injury, because there's really no way the contents of a truck are going to be worth more than the cost of paying out $x millions in the case of killing a human.
> I've really wondered about this. Wouldn't software that acts like a jerk (ie not letting people in etc) be more valuable if it gets from A to B faster? Why think that the same pressures that force drivers to act like jerks won't also be applied to software?

This makes me think of VW.

> Winterkorn blamed "the terrible mistakes of a few people," whom he did not name, for the international scandal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Winterkorn

Now, to be clear I am not saying that Google's or Alphabet's CEO should go to jail. Rather the CEO of the company who owns the fleet should. Claiming that they didn't know what their employees did should not be allowed as a defense.

Yes, I am still mad at VW for throwing their software engineers under the bus here. I don't know what the solution is but it can't be to just say "well, the software engineers knew what they were doing and they should have said no when told to implement something illegal" (this is what I understand Uncle Bob suggested).
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>Disagree, the core contention is he was copying clue themes from past puzzles

That isn't the "core contention"

>More broadly, 1,090 Universal puzzles and 447 USA Today puzzles were at least a 75 percent match to an earlier puzzle in the database. (Sometimes the match is with a puzzle from the same publication.)

and though it may have been "self-plagiarizing" legally. Ethically, I have to wonder whether Parker was getting paid for the "original" crosswords that were submitted or if he was only using pseudonyms to falsely illustrate that the crosswords were original works.
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I opened an issue: https://github.com/az0/bleachbit/issues/127
yes you do. and idk what you're trying to say or prove with that idiotic second sentence. perhaps try posting on donaldtrump.com?
Maybe I'm missing something, but how are randomness and the emh related?

AFAIK random walk theory assumes the market is unpredictable and is consistent with the emh while other theories like the adaptive market hypothesis assume the opposite and are still consistent with emh.
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It is a common fallacy that retail orders ever go to stock exchanges. This is a good way to determine someone telling the truth. Here's proof: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4704.html
> It's not impossible to discuss morality without theology (consider humanism) but that's irrelevant.

Humanism has massive theological implications. You can't be a humanist and a Christian at the same time, for example. The Bible encourages Christians to get along with humanists. Unfortunately, humanists have no holy book to encourage reciprocal behavior.

> My problem is with anyone who uses any excuse (including theology) to deny people equal rights.

You presume rights that are not natural rights. And they're not God-given. They're not even constitutional. (Yeah, the Supreme Court case was terrible law). They simply seemed like they should be rights, so they were "imposed" on "other people" through... well, not the law, but through the legal system. And in the process, the rights of many were violated (the right to due process before constitutional changes were made, for instance).

> I object to his attempt to impose his religious views on other people through the law and deny other people the right to choose for themselves.

...and you want to punish him and his ilk by denying them the right to choose certain career paths. Judges, county clerks, wedding planners, JoP, etc. I guess CEO and other PR positions as well.