skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The traffic rule book only states (§4-01):

Crosswalk.
(i) Marked crosswalk. That part of a roadway defined by two parallel lines or highlighted by a
pattern of lines (perpendicular, parallel or diagonal used either separately or in combination)
that is intended to guide pedestrians into proper crossing paths.
(ii) Unmarked crosswalk. That part of a roadway, other than a marked crosswalk, which is
included within the extensions of the sidewalk lines between opposite sides of the roadway at
an intersection, provided that (A) the roadway crosses through the intersection rather than
ending at the intersection, and/or (B) all traffic on the opposing roadway is controlled by a
traffic control device.*

Basically it is approved if there are two parallel lines (marked crosswalk) or no parallel lines (unmarked crosswalk) and is NOT a T-intersection or if there is a traffic control device.
I'm actually more concerned by the "save itunes" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11670232 )
I see this as an upcoming trend in all SaaS. Across the industry, the cost of resources is headed towards zero.

Blame it on Amazon and Google who are making online compute, memory and storage ridiculously inexpensive if you know how to use it right.

So SaaS companies should and will have to price on a different dimension.

I think:

Charge to cover the resource prices. But if your resources are small amounts of storage for code, round down to zero.

Charge per user. It's simple and predictable and a good proxy for budget.

Tier around features.

Sell a totally private on-prem version. Companies will pay big bucks if they need your product features and compliance.

So yeah, basically exactly what GitLab is doing. They really are doing a great job at trying to build an open source business.
I'm sad; I had him for the same course Pachter describes. One time he lectured on the prime number theorem, just for entertainment: he didn't prove it, but got deep enough to rather blow me away.

Here's a more recent elementary talk of his: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mamikon/VisualCalc.html
Pretty much anything involving Javascript.
A professor doing maths is weird?
I agree although three years seems a bit too short. I would say copyright for 10 years and no software patents altogether. Also copyrighting APIs seems like it warrants a close re-look as well. Then again, none of the "leaders" of any of the nations are listening are they? They are almost unanimously aligning behind big-business interests.
There are better fillers to use than "um" and "uh", though, which don't reflect as badly on the speaker. As some random examples, you can connect things with "Now, [pause] ...", or "On the other hand," or "For that matter,", or many other connecting phrases. Those can be time-fillers too, but as long as they're not overused, they just sound like conversational language rather than making the speaker sound awkward or unpracticed.
I doubt reducing the monopoly period would stop companies from pushing DRM, but the length of IP protection is ridiculous and has to change.

3 years will never happen, though. 10-15 years for copyright and 5 years for patents is more reasonable.
Right, but the UA also includes the browser's version in it. If you change from Chrome to Safari you're indeed using a different browser. If Chrome's UA gets updated from say "Chrome 45.1.1.1.1 WebKit" to "Chrome 45.1.1.2.0 WebKit" it shouldn't really care. To be more clear in the case of changing browsers it detects this chnage via cookies, not by UA string.
Sure, if it was me logging into someone else's account (and there had to be some conscious effort based on his random password), I'd log in and delete the email immediately. Delete from inbox, delete from trash, refresh.it seems like you would notice that but no one spends 24 hours a day looking at their email. It probably wouldn't be that hard to slip by the best of us.

That's what two factor authentication is for. And not emailing the same account for login notifications. I just don't find this to hard to believe.
In a connected world, privacy becomes a group effort
Automotive is a low margin, high liability industry. I think Google is approaching this correctly in staying out of the hardware (for the most part.) Apple developing a full car that has to meet x & y regulation from every single different country could end up being a big disaster. Tesla isn't even profitable and has a cash burn that makes a winter furnace seem tame. I don't see how Apple can escape that reality too.

I'm sort of surprised that Microsoft & Amazon are sort of just sitting back, watching. I guess neither of them care so long as the back end is running on their cloud.
It sounds like Tesla are technically on the right side of their own usage instructions... but those instructions /stink/.

It's like the user manual for a microwave oven saying it "must never be used unattended" and "the user is responsible for shutting off the oven if it fails to stop when the timer reaches zero".
Also a reference to the Financial Times, which was owned by Pearson up until the recent sale to Nikkei.
Entrepreneurs’ Top Mistakes – Apple’s Former Chief Evangelist
Scaling a multi-tenant service is an incredibly hard problem.

Resource contention and noisy neighbors require incredibly sophisticated systems to work around.

Automating many smaller, isolated systems is much easier. This is another trend that will affect the SaaS model.
Raised rates a large amount for freelancers, and imposed a not-before-existing rate for clients.
I don't know about this. The morality stuff sounds like a cult and the rest is so damn vague this whole thing feels half architecture astronaut and half bullshit artist.

But since they are YC funded go ahead and downvote me dead for heresy.

Edit:

Just the result I expected from you asskissers.
I don't think there's any evidence. However, in public speaking, using filler words is seen as a negative, in a sense that you don't know your subject very well.
In day to day communications, I don't see this as 'room for improvement', as the filler words kind of indicate that you are thinking on the fly.
Routes aren't exposed to customers as a configurable option. At least not at my pay grade with them.
> Then I learned how IQ is highly correlated to genetics (from 0.75 to 0.8).

The correlation of IQ to heredity varies based on the relation, and isn't nearly as strong for parent-child.

Same person (tested twice) .95

Identical twins—Reared together .86

Identical twins—Reared apart .76

Fraternal twins—Reared together .55

Fraternal twins—Reared apart .35

Biological siblings—Reared together .47

Biological siblings—Reared apart .24

Unrelated children—Reared together—Children .28

Unrelated children—Reared together—Adults .04

Cousins .15

Parent-child—Living together .42

Parent-child—Living apart .22

Adoptive parent–child—Living together .19[60]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ#Correlation...

> I don't think that I would personally want to have a child with someone of another race if I know that it would push down his expected average IQ from 100 to 92 or lower, in addition to potentially increasing his testosterone levels

Why not just have your mate do an IQ test? People don't mate at random: those who value intelligence will select intelligent mates.

For that matter, why pick race as your correlating factor? You could also correlate by college major, highest education attained, or wealth:
http://www.statisticbrain.com/iq-estimates-by-intended-colle...
https://brainsize.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/iq-years-of-educa...

Race is a tricky thing in the US. It encompases not only genetics, but also social status, wealth and access to resources, etc. It also isn't the end-all-be-all, since even with all these factors the top 1% of every race will beat the average of any race: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WAIS-IV_FSIQ_Scores_...
Maybe apple is moving into weaponry, now that would be a pivot!
Tesla makes 25% margin on their cars.
Speed mostly.
Back in the day, they were the easiest way to get people to find your site, and for other people to find your site. Things were so disconnected, web "rings" were a viable strategy to navigate sites with shared interest.

Also, their games and other sub sites were a pretty good draw as far as getting eyeballs to their site.
Thanks for the link and the correction. I'm going to look into pulling a list of contractors who have used erate funds for infrastructure upgrades which mainly benefited a private prison telco rather than the incarcerated juveniles.
You got me. I thought this was going to be a legit post instead of an advertisement until the third sentence in.
People hate the idea of spending money and then having a bad experience. You can be reasonably sure that with a cup of coffee that it won't be completely terrible, if you have a bad experience you can ask them to brew you a new one. With apps it is a lot more hoops to jump for a less certain outcome.
this practice actually works, that is to say it worked on me.
We're using Aurora in production at GoGuardian. We've got several instances performing 100s of millions of writes per day. We've found the performance gains to be quite staggering - not only higher throughput for reads and writes but much lower and much more consistent latency for all queries. We've had some issues with stability, but the performance wins are overwhelmingly worth it.

Edit: I gave a talk about our use of Aurora at an LA AWS meet up. I'm not sure if there's a video floating around but here are the slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10AZU-knzthpS4i21B10S...
I wrote production code in swift. Oh god, the shame!
For the site, it doesn't matter. For someone who wants to build a new browser that supports EME, it does matter. There is no standard CDM API, so they must get copy open-source code (from Firefox or Chrome) or rely on documentation from a closed-sourced CDM.

For Firefox, Mozilla has a plugin ABI called GMP (Gecko Media Plugin) similar to NPAPI. Unlike NPAPI, GMPs are not directly instantiated by web content and, AFAIK, the list of supported GMPs is hardcoded in Firefox. Cisco's OpenH264 codec and Adobe's Primetime CDM are GMPs. Google's Widevine CDM has its own API, so Firefox uses a Mozilla-written GMP that wraps Google's Widevine DLL or .so binary.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/GeckoMediaPlugins
> Good thing I was standing purposefully near a hard-wired e-stop.

Good work! I always have a hand on the e-stop when testing something that could kill someone. And I mean a hard wired e-stop system using a properly rated safety relay, too... never trust software (even on an industrial PLC).
Added hidden Mickey's to all of the company (not Disney) webpages for April Fools... had to leave the code in because someone committed against it, and removing the "joke" code broke their kludge.
Well, Proguard does whole program optimization.

You have to specify the symbols to preserve explicitly.
Incidental, but morally, there is no difference. Public prisons also take advantage of this clause.

And yes, this has absolutely been interpreted in this way. Unpaid, or grossly underpaid prison labour is extremely common in the US.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11667688
Some electronics are refurbished and resold, but not enough. Also, recycling materials is essential and discouraging our throwaway culture would help a lot too. I still use a phone that's 5 years old (and it works great) because I don't feel the desire to get a new one each year.
You can turn it off in the options. From https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm

Opt out of CDM playback, uninstall CDMs and stop all CDM downloads

You have the choice to globally opt out of HTML5 DRM playback. Once you opt out, Firefox will delete any downloaded CDMs from your hard drive, cease all future CDM downloads and disable DRM playback. This affects only DRM-controlled HTML5 audio and video. To opt out of HTML5 DRM playback completely, follow these steps:

Click the menu button and choose Options.
Click the Content panel.
Remove the check mark next to Play DRM content.
As a perpetual "Like"r/stutterer/"mmm"er...

I've found that when made conscious of it, I'm usually able to slow down my speech just a little bit and that alone gives my brain the time it needs to form thoughts properly and communicate clearly. At worst it's a good exercise in thinking a bit before speaking, especially for us ADHD-types who tend to blurt out the wrong thing at the wrong time quit often.

Our brains seem pretty good at filtering that sort of stuff out, but anecdotally having too many filler words does seem to hurt both comprehension and impressions.

So I think it's more of a pacing thing then a latency thing. Slow down your speech a bit and you'll be in a more comfortable range.

(Side note as a serial interrupter: it's usually nice to let people finish talking)
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> future of a nation

> degradation of a population

Assuming we're talking about America (apologies if not) and segregating populations into races in america as they're recognized, I don't see how these two goals match up.

If you care about the nation of America, then the answer according to the data is to ship in a bunch of smart asians to raise the IQ.

Or am I under the false belief that anybody can be American, not just (I'm guessing since it's the majority group) white people?
They seem to frequently fail at software. iTunes is a dog, Mac OS X is getting worse and worse, the Mac App store is horrendous. iCloud is a joke.

They do nice interfaces, and iOS is great. I have no doubt they would produce an amazing luxury car with a beautiful software UI, but I do not see them morphing into a machine learning software powerhouse anytime soon, at least compared to Google. Google Now easily beats Siri and Google Maps beats Apple Maps.
I'm constantly amazed that people will fight to have less power over their own lives.

If you do get a job, the same law that allows you to have a long-term contract essentially makes you a slave to the company. It's so hard to get, it makes it that much harder to leave.

Owning your own business is nearly impossible due to the red tape and regulations involved, so the entire economic landscape is either a large company or the government.

The real problem in France is that it doesn't really give any incentive for a company to start there, and it certainly doesn't give it a chance to grow.

This will only become more apparent over time when the global economy gets bad and more companies pull out and move to more favorable countries.
Parents. The same way a small child is prevented from doing other dangerous stuff.
It is really fascinating to see the self-driving car space. I have been assuming that Google is way ahead of everyone else, and that other tech companies literally didn't stand a chance including Apple.

If traditional car companies are not too far behind Google, and are able to confidently compete in this space, then Apple definitely has a chance to compete in this space.
I've never thought about it too much, but once I attempted to avoid filler words. I ended up sounding like William Shatner, I was told, and that is apparently not a good thing.
According to Google Trends (which only shows five at a time), these are the top five *folds between two and ten, excluding sevenfold which is off the charts because of Avenged Sevenfold: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=twofold%2Cthreefold%...
Theranos Announces Expansion of Board of Directors, New Organizational Structure
All the Adventures
(Not PP.)

> If you don't want DRM, don't watch media that requires DRM.

Well, obviously I don't.

> Nobody is making you use it.

The point is that there are fears that this could change once DRM is entrenched enough -- and getting into browsers is a Big Step along that road. (Hence the talk about changing General Purpose computers into appliances.)
>What can I do with AKASHA?

>You can publish, share and vote for entries, similar to Medium and other modern publishing platforms, with the difference that your content is actually published over a decentralized network rather than on our servers. Moreover, the votes are bundled with ETH micro transactions so if your content is good you’ll make ETH from it – in a way, mining with your mind.
Also, such accidents are not because the driver failed to identify a stationary object in front of the car.
In large enough amounts, everything in an LCD has value except for the bulbs, which contain mercury. To domestically and responsibly recycle them has 3 things that make it more expensive: 1) you need to disassemble the entire device to isolate the bulbs, with higher relative labor rates, 2) there is significant overhead in protective equipment, insurance, and regulatory compliance, and 3) you need to dispose of the mercury bulbs at a cost. Broken devices end up as a negative value item.
The 'ponds' in HK with inexpensive labor, no PPE, and no concern for their environment can pull in several dollars a unit from the value of the circuit boards, steel, and plastic. You can fit thousands of LCDs in a 40-foot container.
How embarrassing... http://blanqd.com
if you really want to go nuts -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Util-linux

read all the pages, explore all the man pages, then experiment and learn.
>Facebook and Google Search are ad businesses, and looking at those businesses they're very small compared to Apple.

FB maybe, but Google? Back in February Google was larger than Apple in terms of market cap. As of right now Apple is back on top, $506B to Google's $491B, explain again how Google is "very small compared to Apple"?
Guess which version will be packaged on the popular Linux distros.
> Is there evidence that saying 'umm' and 'ahh' reduces your ability to communicate effectively? Why are they bad?

Hmm I can't find any good research though at least anecdotally it makes it a lot hard for me to pay attention. Take Paul Graham for instance. Smart guy, great speaker but his frequent "umms" ended up taking me out of his talk and then I couldn't concentrate on anything but his "umms". I love reading his essays but I find it hard to concentrate on his speaking.

Granted I don't know if that says something negative about my ability to concentrate, about Paul's speaking ability, or both and it's anecdotal so no idea if my experience is common.
30 years of doing good doesn't count for very much if you then do something bad. If a 31 year old kills someone they can't use the prior 30 years of "not committing any murders" as evidence that they're actually a decent person.
Car seems likely, yes, but I would place bets on an augmented reality play as well.
Traffic tickets are not "just a game" and if you believe that then I challenge you to drive in a place where they aren't issued.

Laws change because we learn from experience and over time situations change.
I've found the exact opposite to be true in practice, an empty pause feels awkward when you are the speaker but to the audience it conveys expertise, confidence and power
DalmatinerDB has been around for a while now. I started working on it during the EUC in 2014, and it was released as part of ProjectFiFo the same year I just really suck at marketing ;).

But I'm kind of curious, are you using Dalmatiner directly? And if so what is your use case?
If their efficiency is decreasing then that's probably more related to having too many products rather than not-smart-enough people. The cost of shipping each new release roughly follows Metcalfe's law, meaning that each existing product/feature you need to support going forward makes the next release exponentially more expensive.

My hope is that the car is a front and they're secretly building arcologies, but in reality they're probably just building some shitty car.
>The sensors really aren't ready for it.

10+ year ago for Grand Challenge it cost some money (and good luck getting decent resolution stereo with decent FPS from a pair of 1M sensors, so most relied on lidar - $3K and you have minimally decent 3D of the scene ahead). Today the tens-megapixel sensors cost like nothing, along with CPU power to process it. One can have reasonable infrared too. Ultrasound sensors - cost nothing. Short distance lidar cost close to nothing too. Millimeter radar still probably cost a bit just because no mass production. When i see Google cars - Lexus SUV - they have at least minimally reasonable set of sensors. Nobody else comes even close. I don't understand why.
What did you use to de construct the audio?
Streaming services would most likely move to native desktop applications, like they do with mobile apps, before abandoning DRM. Netflix already has a Windows desktop application, but they don't seem to promote it much.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/netflix/9wzdncrfj...
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Watch.
I think a better analogy would be income taxes. If I make a mistake that causes the government to give me more money than I'm due they take it back whether I want to give it back or not. It should be the same when the government makes a mistake that causes me to give it more money than it's due.
Your history is pretty confused, although it has some elements of truth to it. Let me set you straight.

Although there were graphical displays in the 1950s (some of them being simply direct displays of the contents of Williams tubes), GUIs as such only go back to Sketchpad (1961-65, roughly) which sort of had windows, and there were windows and a mouse in NLS by 1968, but without a GUI. Simula (1967) wasn't OO; Alan coined that phrase to describe Smalltalk (1971 at PARC, established 1970, which you'll note is less than a decade after 1967, though begun in 1969), which drew inspiration from Sketchpad, Simula, the B5000, NLS, and some weird magnetic tape format developed by the Air Force where the tape started with a program that interpreted the rest of the tape, among other places.

Alan and Ed Cheadle actually did a lot of the development of the ideas that later became OO in the 1966-70 timeframe on a personal computer they were working on called FLEX.

You can read Alan's account of this history in "The Early History of Smalltalk", one copy of which is at http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html.

Alan and Dan and Adele and other people on the Smalltalk team deserve a lot of credit both for developing the ideas of object-orientation but also for popularizing them, and essentially the modern desktop GUI (mouse, overlapping windows, icons, WYSIWYG, multiple fonts, proportional fonts, buttons, menus, drag-and-drop) was developed at PARC in the 1970s, an effort that included the Smalltalk team but also included a lot of other people working in other languages.

Of course, much as I detest Steve Jobs, the really powerful popularizing influences on this stuff were Macintosh and NeXT. (Later, Java.)
> Why not just have your mate do an IQ test? People don't mate at random: those who value intelligence will select intelligent mates.

> For that matter, why pick race as your correlating factor? You could also correlate by college major, highest education attained, or wealth

There's a little problem with that, because from what I know, there's a regression to the mean in biology.

If two exceptionally tall Japaneses have children together, their children might be a little taller than their national mean, but they won't be as tall as the parents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpmlqtnrec8
Cutouts enable wheelchair users to cross the edge of the sidewalk just as walking people do. Does the fact that there is a crosswalk with a step imply that a car cannot park there? Clearly no, otherwise there would be no parking stops at all. Then neither should a cutout.
For one because there is no evidence of it. Apple are secretive but at some point you have to take a car out on an actual road to see how it fares. And get government permisison to do so. The fact that Apple has done neither leads me to suspect Google is further ahead.
I also use FF in day-to-day both due to privacy concerns and general fitness for my style, but chrome's dev tools are objectively superior, you have to face it...