skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "Further analysis, which might require a warrant, could be necessary to determine whether such usage was via hands-free dashboard technology and to confirm the original finding."

As the other commenter noted, "to drunk to drive" has way more room for interpretation than "sent a text before an accident", yet the law seems to have arrived at a reasonable compromise.

Note that sending a text message via voice and is still distracted driving, and some studies show that it's just about as dangerous. It's currently legal, but some jurisdictions are contemplating banning that too.
Cockroaches will rule the world after the next world war...
Sean Parker Just Gave $250M to Cancer Immmunotherapy Research
>this holdover was carried into modern times since some customers still used the old equipment.

Even ASCII mechanical teletype printers will map lower case to upper case. They just have to ignore a bit. Five level codes have no distinction between upper and lower case.

I think the real reason is just the convention caused by the fact that the printers produced upper case. People get to the point where they see the complete words/abbreviations as thoughts. It's really just a complicated shape. Since everyone will have to learn the new shapes I predict there will actually be some complaining about the change.

Oh, and upper case letters are larger and more distinct. Some people are now going to have to hunt up their reading glasses and/or change their font size.

Considering how simple the concepts are, it might make sense to skip the intermediate representation and just define some Unicode pictographs...
Point is FaceTime is a native app and if it was possible to interface with it, developers would do so.
You have no constitutional right to drive. That's what this law is based on. You do have a constitutional right to free travel, so some people believe that gives you a constitutional right to drive, but that hasn't held up.
I have to think it's a direct response to neovim, and that competition between them is likely to be very good
> your network has 100000 iterations, while the parent's has 1000, but they both only use x / y positions

Correct, but keep in mind that their method appears to use batch descent while mine does not. Batch descent is often converges more quickly. There are other differences between my net and the GP's I can spot as well (e.g., the activation function, the learning rate, and regularization).

Also keep in mind that I threw this together over breakfast, and did not spend much time tweaking parameters :)
No one else mentioned network effects. I have a shared family calendar for my wife, son (readonly), and myself. Also my son's scout pack used a shared calendar for his meetings. And I was the treasurer for a volunteer org and they drank the goog koolaide top to bottom. Its not just using owncloud calendar, but making it 100% interoperable all the time with the rest of the network, which has agency and as per the linked article they change stuff when THEY feel like it because they're SaaS, not when its convenient for me to develop and test interoperability.

Finally it a very low level tool. I have a nice set of unfortunately expensive Wiha screwdrivers on my lab bench. That does not mean I'm dependent on Wiha... in less than a half hour I could have dramatically inferior yet more or less interoperable products from Craftsman or no-name Chinese or other on my lab bench. Or, this was typed on an old Dell keyboard, but as a very low level tool I'm not controlled or defined by such a low level tool... its just my primary Model M is plugged into something else at this moment so I'm stuck on an inferior mushy keyboard.
Your history of Calculus is a little..muddled.

Newton's approach was based on the idea that rate of change was a fundamental quantity. This lead to fluxions. His notation for Calculus was x with a dot over it. He used his method as a rough notation to figure out what the answers should be, before coming up with pure geometric constructions to use in the Principia Mathematica.

Inspired by the Principia, Leibniz reinvented Calculus with the idea of infinitesmals. Infinitesmals are nonzero numbers that are smaller than any real number. He published, which started a priority dispute between him and Newton.

Leibniz gave us our dy/dx notation. In the original, d is an operator meaning "look an infinitesmal away". Literally d(y) = y(x+dx)-y(x). (This converges faster if you make it y(x+dx/2)-y(x-dx/2)...) You do the calculation, then drop any infinitesmals and get your answer. Ever wondered why the second derivative is d^2y/dx^2? That's because you do d(d(y))/d(x)d(x).

The famous quote of "ghosts of departed quantities" was written by George Berkeley as a criticism of infinitesmals. Far from being a peer of Newton's, he was a bishop who was demonstrating that science had leaps of faith as big as any in religion. His criticisms were accurate.

The fact that math's foundations were crap occasionally inspired effort. But not much. Lagrange's contribution was to view everything as a power series, and do formal derivatives that way. To him we owe our f' notation.

Then Joseph Fourier upended the whole apple cart with Fourier series. He took infinite sums of nice functions like sin and cos, and wound up with a step function. What happens if your step is an infinitesmal away? This was a crisis.

Cauchy addressed this by making infinitesmals sequences that go to 0. This approach failed for the chain rule when the derivative is 0, but that's where the idea of Cauchy sequences comes from.

Weirstrauss in the 1870s came up with the modern limit approach. Mathematics was (very literally) rewritten.

Since then limits have proven to be a horrible pedagogical tool, but that is how we teach. However there are serious pedagogical suggestions ranging from skipping over the justification for Calculus to using infinitesmals (turns out you can make precise sense of them with modern set theory) to writing the tangent line approximation with little-o notation. (The last suggestion is from Knuth! See https://micromath.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/donald-knuth-calc... for details.)

Sorry for the history lesson, I love this topic. :-)
Did I read the 2014 annual report correctly and they had $20+ billion in profit? I think they can afford to keep the pension plan the way it is.
I accept that people kill people for lots of different reasons. And that sometimes its sensible to consider intent (e.g. when passing a sentence).

But we've ended up in a position where killing people because they stepped onto your drug dealing territory will get you a mention on the evening news, followed by a trial by jury, while everyone gets on with their lives.

But killing people because you believe you're in a holy war will get you wall to wall news coverage for several days, any associates in foreign countries will be summarily killed by drone attack, and whatever particular tactics you used (shoe bomb, liquid explosives in drinks bottle, attacking outspoken news publication) will be memorialised across the globe within days in the form of updated security procedures or public reaction.

I don't particularly fear being killed by a religious fanatic, it's so rare it would be irrational to fear that. But I do fear the disintegration of my open and free society due to a social engineering hack called "Terrorism".
> They already analyze bar receipts.

Do you have a source for this? It wouldn't surprise me, but it's the first I've heard of it.
Why robots need to be able to say No
Performing rescue missions with drone networks: Interview with Samira Hayat
Also known as a "Velocipede".
Affirm has taken on a lot of debt funding as opposed to equity funding. Partly because they are in the business of issuing loans and paying equity for the loans would be silly for founders/investors/employees.

The total amount of money raised is probably < $100mm in pure equity, and the valuation is probably a favorable $800mm when fudging the numbers.

With a recent WSJ article citing that 43% of student loan borrowers are currently not paying back debt, and with Affirm largely trying to issue loans to that "millenial" market, we will see how this high risk lending plays out.
A few days by one person was spent on writing v1. Hundreds of years have been lost dealing with poor choices made over those days. That's not to say they did a poor job, just the timeline was crazy.
‘Living Wills’ of 5 Banks Fail to Pass Muster
Startups 100% focused on WebRTC? not many as per startup/high growth definition... The question is tricky, but I'd say that some of the startups using WebRTC as a key part of their offer are: Twilio, Tokbox, Plivo, Tropo, Slack....
What options are there for product discovery outside of advertising? Just asking in general as I find most ads predatory as well. I've never really had a good answer for this question.
Amazon’s $289 thin Kindle Oasis has a battery cover that adds months of charge
What about groff?
For those of you, like me, who didn't know what "freebooting" is:

"the dubious practice where Business Pages and celebs can rip videos from elsewhere, repost the content on Facebook and grow their brands while robbing the content creators of views." (From the article)
I have used VS since I started working. I recently have dived head first into NVIM for my personal stuff. I love the fact that it doesn't have all the bloated crap that the full blown IDE's have. Sure some things like going to definitions are nice, but I rarely miss them. I love just the minimalism of a great text editor and there isn't a better one in my personal opinion than VIM or any of it's variants.
Here's a list of HTML content editors that I put together back when basecamp released Trix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10413549
Hi! What if one just don't have enough time to read articles until the end? I'd like to browse briefs and quickly load my brain with only key info if they can manage to make it 5-10x shorter than the original text.
Show HN: officecrashe.rs will end the status quo with tech interviews
officecrashe.rs will end the status quo with tech interviews. Rather than getting to spend one hour with a candidate, companies will get to spend weeks or months getting to know the engineer in a normal work environment.

officecrashe.rs will end the status quo with co-working spaces. Rather than paying for a desk, workers will crash random offices and get free office space in exchange for being nice. (DO answer quick tech questions in exchange for free office space. DONT ask for too much tech help in exchange for free office space. Read more DOs and DONTs at http://officecrashe.rs)

Companies will get a slow trickle of smart engineers working from their office space throughout the year. They will probably hire a few of them. Much cheaper than recruiters and more effective at getting the right person you want to hire.

SCTWs (Self Contained Tech Workers, read more about these on website too) will get to work from new offices in their city. Better than a coffee shop which they are already used to.

Launching soon. Email collection at bottom of website. Comments here welcome too!

Thanks!
Great read! Thank you!
Hey I voted you up. I really enjoyed the article and came back to upvote for that. My initial knee jerk reaction to your post was that it's slightly besides the point -- an interesting aside but somewhat off topic for the post. I suppose that could be why you were getting downvoted. Anyway it's super interesting, thanks for sharing
On the basis that browser based WYSIWYG editors have become de-rigour in almost all big online publishing platforms, it surprises me that the browsers themselves are not being updated to provide a standard input field (standardised via w3c of course) whose 'value' attribute outputs basic HTML mark-up. Something along the lines of:

<input type="editor" supports="bold;italic;images;headings" ... >

This would remove the massive amount of work that UI developers still have to do to hand crank something as simple as a good editor that GUI OSs have enjoyed for decades.
As long as the hash function is strong, why exactly would this be weak? Downvoting me implies you believe these people are wrong too;

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6979

> It is possible to turn DSA and ECDSA into deterministic schemes by using a deterministic process for generating the "random" value k. That process must fulfill some cryptographic characteristics in order to maintain the properties of verifiability and unforgeability expected from signature schemes; namely, for whoever does not know the signature private key, the mapping from input messages to the corresponding k values must be computationally indistinguishable from what a randomly and uniformly chosen function (from the set of messages to the set of possible k values) would return.

> d. Set:
> K = HMAC_K(V || 0x00 || int2octets(x) || bits2octets(h1))

> where '||' denotes concatenation. In other words, we compute HMAC with key K, over the concatenation of the following, in order: the current value of V, a sequence of eight bits of value 0, the encoding of the (EC)DSA private key x, and the hashed message (possibly truncated and extended as specified by the bits2octets transform). The HMAC result is the new value of K. Note that the private key x is in the [1, q-1] range, hence a proper input for int2octets, yielding rlen bits of output, i.e., an integral number of octets (rlen is a multiple of 8).
How I got myself to meet Hillary Clinton
Ack. A jittery gif amongst the content. Had to cut out at that point. NPR stations could adapt to the digital shift in content distrubution without a painful disengagement from existing contracts. It just needs the incentive to go through the process.
Great advice, thanks so much!
Hi,
Nice post.
For the ones that want more info on Sendy, this post can be useful:

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Sparkpost has some problems for transactional emails but you can read all the info on the post.

Maybe it can help others.
Cheers!
> It's not clear to me what is burnout.

For me[0] it just happened when I realized that no matter how hard I worked the company I worked for where going to go bankrupt anyway.

I started crying anytime I was alone. Sounds that reminded me about problems at work (e.g. a loose drive belt) would instantly give me pain in my stomach. It took months before I could work in customer facing work again. I was lucky, worked at a farm and completed military (draft) in between and little by little things got better.

I sometimes feel really exhausted and unmotivated, going to work only because it is a duty (to work and my family) but I never burned out again.

[0]: This was before burnouts was a thing so I never got a diagnosis and I only realized later that I hat hit the wall hard.
I think it's a bit more than that, but overall I agree with what you're saying. Package managers, config managers and popular distros have been getting to me more and more lately because of their lack of understanding of polish or acceptable standards. It just seems like software developers, free or not free, are trying to push out as much as possible without caring about their base users.

Examples:

aptitude has maybe 8 different binaries to do essentially the same thing. Hell, for whatever reason, doing a search with it and piping to grep throws a message to stderr saying that grep isn't fully supported yet. Wtf? It's 2016!

pacman has a separate binary for searching called pacsearch. My natural instinct is to do a "man pacsearch", but it doesn't exist. The only parameter that exists is -n for stripping color, because apparently this is an acceptable default when grepping:
ESC[0mESC[1mESC[35mcore/ESC[0mESC[1mpacman ESC[32m5.0.1-2ESC[34m (base base-devel)ESC[36m [installed]ESC[0m

salt's man page has 134854 lines in it.

archlinux released a kernel compiled with a flag that completely breaks sound on one of arch's most commonly used laptops. That was 2 months ago and the community recommends recompiling the kernel. wtf. I only just noticed a couple days ago, since I wasn't able to do a full upgrade since pacman will fail if you install python packages with it - which get installed from pacman packages. Ugh..

gentoo's documentation is ancient and has typos, grammar issues and places where simple Y/N questions are difficult to figure out. I really wanted to give them a chance....

ubuntu is.... hahahahaha. hah.... hah.

systemd and anything associated with systemd is so embarrassingly difficult to use. Why does an error message that tells me to run journald commands have to be longer than the actual error?! What happened to just printing to stderr :(..
> Weird things would go wrong and I had no idea how to fix them.

My experience with Emacs/Spacemacs without having significant knowledge of lisp/elisp/Emacs debugging. I want to like Emacs, but my Vim environment feels so much more "solid".
Autodidacticism is a key in this modern era
But if they had started flipping the power switch rapidly we wouldn't call the power switch a weapon. You can destroy a lot of devices that way.
Introducing Kindle Oasis
If you're interested, such a tool was recently debuted aimed at guitarists:

http://digitech.com/en-US/products/trio
Why would they choose to host this on Wordpress VIP?
Does Min (along with Brave) do ad blocking at a different layer than plugins? Is there any advantage to having the browser do it instead of something like uBlock Origin in chrome?
I'm the Real-Life Gordon Gekko and I Support Bernie Sanders
We have this odd fixation in the US (and perhaps elsewhere) that we believe we are powerful and smart enough to prevent all badness - Make It Never Happen Again. Never mind that smoking causes two orders of magnitude more deaths annually in the US, 3400 people die from distracted* driving! It could be your daughter next!

What's happened to critical thinking and moderate stances? Why can't people be reasonable any more? To echo a sentiment I first read here (the provenance of which I am unsure), "Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we’ve become".

*- Distractions also include: pets, sandwiches, passengers, and beautiful people.
> So for me the question is why there are still people that enjoy working as if their computers are using a 25 year old developer experience.

Because for a lot of tasks using the mouse is garbage compared to the speed you can get using the keyboard.
Living Wills and Speedboat Trading
I found his article a bit obnoxious. I've never heard of this guy, so all I can judge him by is statements like this:

"To those folks who worked so tirelessly to make Medium the shit pile it’s become, i say this: fuck off."

Medium has some great writers. Even if I find their ideas uninspiring or disagreeable, I still appreciate great writing. This isn't great writing.
> as if US and European agribusiness hasn't done similar in countless other countries with similar brutality!

That's the entire point of the article! It's saying that when (inevitably) US/EU business do terrible things then there are mechanisms available to try and stop them.

However - it claims - those mechanisms don't exist or a re weaker for multinationals outside EU/US.
>they just made testing binary for the law's sake

In Canada, I think, penalties are doled out based on a few ranges of blood alcohol content.
"Tons of interesting and potentially great people that have never paired or don’t know really know how to TDD".

I am slightly surprised at this because these are not new things.
In general, people don't understand why it's important to save the world's reefs and forests. I wish authors titled their environmental conservancy pieces more alarmingly. Such as "what will it take to save humanity?" Because that's why we really care about reefs and forests.
I'm not going to try to speak for Kuipers, but

1. He is demonstrating that it is possible to have a career in academic computer science research without military funding.

2. He does not need to feel personally responsible for the military use of his work.
> The feedback I’ve gotten...

Corporate feedback is mostly Bullshit! There's often a weird dating aspect here. Dude, face it the girl just isn't into you. Don't waste energy trying to figure it out, move on!

> I’m running out of people I know and their connections...

This is where Linkedin is actually useful. Jump on the advanced search feature. Zero-in on profiles of senior executives who you can help. Think local CIO's or VP Engineering types, mix & match keywords. Put together a hit-list of 12 individuals (likely suspects) and start reaching out to them. Not as a job-seeking supplicant, but as an engineering peer looking to network and learn more about them and what they are working on.

Simply ask, do you know anyone who could use some software engineering help?
Is Staying in the New Going Out?
I do the same with Siri. Read & compose texts with both hands on the bars and eyes on the road. I actually prefer it to trying to read something 10:1.

I have the iPhone 6+ in a ram mount just in front of the instrument cluster so I could attempt to read it if the screen would consistently respond to my gloved finger.
If this works as intended, then it is a step in the right direction.

I wonder why it took them so long though.
(v) Pacifism. The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to the taking of life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists whose real though unadmitted motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration of totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writings of younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States. Moreover they do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries. The Russians, unlike the British, are not blamed for defending themselves by warlike means, and indeed all pacifist propaganda of this type avoids mention of Russia or China. It is not claimed, again, that the Indians should abjure violence in their struggle against the British. Pacifist literature abounds with equivocal remarks which, if they mean anything, appear to mean that statesmen of the type of Hitler are preferable to those of the type of Churchill, and that violence is perhaps excusable if it is violent enough. After the fall of France, the French pacifists, faced by a real choice which their English colleagues have not had to make, mostly went over to the Nazis, and in England there appears to have been some small overlap of membership between the Peace Pledge Union and the Blackshirts. Pacifist writers have written in praise of Carlyle, one of the intellectual fathers of Fascism. All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly inspired by an admiration for power and successful cruelty. The mistake was made of pinning this emotion to Hitler, but it could easily be retransfered. -- Orwell, Notes on Nationalism, 1945