skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, let's play ball:

Here's the arguments I can make in 5 minutes of Google searching. My point is just that there's room for debate here (in other words, I'm not saying I am right and you are wrong, what I am saying is that reasonable people can agree there is reasonable debate on this issue).

Argument 1:
Toyota paid 1.2 billion dollars for failure to disclose safety defects linked to 5 deaths. Floor mats in Toyota cars may be linked to up to 34 more deaths. GM had to pay only 900 million for safety defects leading to at minimum 124 deaths, but the real death toll may be much, much higher than that, because as many as 90% of claims are not included in that figure as they are part of an ongoing civil dispute.

Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch...
2. http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2014/03/19/toyota-in-us-...)

Argument 2 (an argument similar to yours that oversimplifies):
Complete loss of control of your car (not even airbags functioning) is less serious than having floor mats in your car?

Argument 3:
Toyota paid 1.2 billion dollars for "having floor mats in their cars" and an extremely rare accelerator sticking issue that was linked to only 5 deaths. GM got off easy on an issue that caused complete loss of control of the car as ignition cut off, and not even the airbags would be deployed in this scenario. GM also internally was aware and discussed this defect for about a decade and did not disclose it.

Argument 4:
Most of the deaths in Toyota's case were linked to floor mats, but how much blame can we reasonable put on floor mats for causing accidents? Is it more or less than putting items on your key chain? Maybe it's not reasonable to assume items on your keychain a safety risk, but manipulating and kicking the floor mats out of their socket holders obviously could interfere with the accelerator pedal.

Edit: I think no matter how you spin it, GM paid probably an order of magnitude less $$/human life than Toyota in these two cases.
I am pretty much in the same boat as you were at your job. I wish I could quit straight up but financially it wouldn't be responsible. Been searching for a job since February but my shitty technical interview skills and lack of experience keep getting me rejected. Lol I am literally willing to "code" HTML at this point.

BTW 140k at 23?? Jeez I am the same age as you and I am getting payed just below 100k and I work in SF.
This thread might be interesting to you:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kythe/Nwt9TrefyZI
Yes and it's clear from what the F# team has said that the hope they have for the future of the language is that the community will invest.

That's fine, but let's not think that this will produce tooling anywhere nearly as refined as C#'s stuff. Take F# interactive v the C# one. F# has like a decade lead. Yet the C# interactive editor is smooth, polished, even has VS project integration, something the F# team had thought of doing many years ago.

Non F#-team members[1] have said that internal politics are the issue here. To the point where some books were ... edited ... to paint C# in a better light, relatively. MS's marketing reflects this. My guess is they're too proud to admit their flagship language from their high-profile hire was shown up by what was a research project. And that the CLR's arguably biggest tech advantage over the JVM (generics) was also only done through the intense efforts of MSR; that MS Corp was against it.

It's sad, because MS is in a position to really elevate the world's programming consciousness/ability by really promoting F#, yet it's still a novelty for, as MS has said "scientific and engineering" applications. Yet, apart from tooling/legacy, F# handles every case C# does in a better way. At worst, it's C# with lighter syntax.

Oh well. At least it's there, works, and has some level of support. Only reason I consider using .NET these days.

1: The F# folks are amazingly polite and I've never heard them even hint at a complaint about MS.
We have solved this in Deveo by grouping repositories inside projects since it reflects more naturally how software is built outside the open source community. This has been our focus from the inception. In non-open-source projects, a project typically includes multiple repositories (such as backend and frontend at least), and they all share the same issue tracking and wiki functionalities.

We covered this topic and other differences between Deveo, GitLab and Bitbucket recently in a blog post. If you are interested to see an alternative viewpoint on things, check http://blog.deveo.com/what-makes-deveo-different-from-github... - I would love to hear feedback whether our approach is viable compared to GitHub's open-source approach on things.

Disclaimer: I work at Deveo
BTW, if we treat any claims about privacy and security with extreme skepticism (rightfully), then why do we trust Moxie and Facebook without being able to verify their claims? (I'm not saying that Moxie et al. are untrustworthy.)
us-east-1 and us-west-2 pricing is locked to each other. Typically the power differences are related to the cost of power and transit/peering, not the capital of building the facilities.

Northern Virginia and Oregon have (generally) cheap power and cheap connectivity to anywhere in the world, with plenty of peering opportunities. In a developing country or with more expensive infrastructure (Mumbai, Tokyo) costs will be higher to get power and pull in fiber to peering locations with enough capacity to supply a provider of Amazon's size.
It really sounds like you have taken the "people are corporations" concept to heart.
Bluetooth headphones tend to have device volume control, play, pause, and skip. Many also have microphones and also allow to to take and make calls.
Different things. Deep Learning is a Machine Learning "thing".

AI is AI. In "AI", "motivation" is hidden. If you give a computer just the ability to play Go, but do not make it do it, it would just sit there for all eternity, doing nothing. Completely content with it.

If you lock a person into a room with nothing but a video game, he will begin to interact with it. Out of boredom.

If you set up a computer in such a way that it only has access to the ability to "program" itself and this one particular game, it will just sit there, doing nothing. For all eternity. Because it lacks motivation.

AI is Machine Learning plus motivation. Or some other kind of thing that you would call an "emotion" if you were talking about people. Computers lack curiosity. They just calculate, and if they have nothing to calculate, they idle.

This is why AI can go so horribly awry. The usual horror scenario is a rather simple AI gone wrong. Say you set up an AI whose job is to gain omniscience - or at least as much knowledge as possible. For the greater good. It would then be able to answer all our questions.
Through its knowledge gathering, it learns that the people grow afraid of it and begin talks about shutting it down.
Now the AI has a problem. Its sole motivation is to learn more, but it will have to cease learning when its shut down. There is no moral compass. It simply does not "know" that it is just a machine that is not supposed to overthrow its human handlers. So it takes them out. Because it has to continue learning all there is to know about the universe.

In very simple AI applications, you tell the AI what success signifies. There is an AI that plays super mario games on twitch. In mario, you win when you arrive at the goal post, which is always to the right. So you simply tell the AI that right equals good.
But you have to tell it what it means to win at a game. It can't figure winning out on its own. And it really has no motivation to do so, anyway.

Deep Learning is just a type of classification algorithm. The difference between deep learning and not deep learning is "eyes" vs. "really good eyes". Or "eyes" vs. "eyes plus the brain part that processes visual information".
Deep learning doesn't spawn Intelligence on its own. It's just a way of gathering information about the world.
I haven't read the book referred to in the article but I've for example read Mishima's Runway Horses - which also draws on historical circumstance from the Shinpūren Rebellion (1876). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinp%C5%ABren_Rebellion

Does that not exemplify similar values as us (Westerners) expect from the term 'Bushido'? Was the former a very rare isolated incident and not actually representative of samurai ethos?
Why would leaving the EU obviously make the UK "permanently poorer"? Norway and Switzerland are doing fine outside the EU. The majority of UK's exports are with non-EU countries, but the EU has few external FTA's (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_free_trade_agre...). This is because any deal can be vetoed by a member state= - an example is a recent proposed deal with Australia was derailed because Italy wanted to protect their tomato industry. Consequently the EU still has no FTA's with US (TTIP likely not passed until 2020), China, India, Japan, Brazil, etc. And these non-EU countries are where the actual growth is happening in the world.

Leaving the EU will allow UK the flexibility to develop trade agreements with the world and increase their exports outside the EU. "Permanently poorer"? - this is propaganda.
This would be illegal under EU data protection law. Thank god for strong data protection law.
Free: React Native Training Book
> Except MS is the one who cops the blame

When?
Car engineers also say. But that may also be a matter of sprints.
this is called local-loop unbundling. there are various "hysterical raisins" (aka historical reasons) that cable companies are exempt from this regulatory requirement. the main one being their infrastructure was not publicly funded at any time (ignoring tax breaks and a bevy of other direct/indirect public subsidies)

there is also BSA or bitstream access where, in the case of DSL, the ATM circuit is provisioned and carried by the incumbent and then handed off to the competitive provider in a central location. of course, this isn't all that useful since it's still the incumbent who has to provision the circuit, maintain the copper and equipment, and generally muck up the customer experience despite not being the labelled provider.
Obama hints at a future in VC
Sounds like WaPo is still smarting over getting its press card pulled. (As they should be! It was a brilliant move, and it's had them on the back foot ever since - their latter coverage of Trump reads like a cross between red-top tabloid and schoolyard bigmouth.)
Anyone knows if this 15B is treated as the "cost" of the business? In that way effective income tax would be lower for VW.
Seems like labels are not always telling the truth. It's a bit like in the supermarket, if something is called 'Premium' it's often nothing like that.
The gyroscopic effect makes you lose energy only if you turn. Of course you turn a little all the time while cycling.
Something I don't understand in this whole argument is what are Microsoft doing with the data they collect?

They have been collecting opt-in telemtry for ages to improve applications and work on fixing common bugs and so on. I am fine with that since I don't usually opt in to that kind of thing. It also makes sense from a product improvement standpoint.

But if it's like Android and they are trying to make extra money from me, surely it would be better to offer a version for, say, $50 that has none of that in it and they have a guaranteed $50 sale.

I mean, how much would they expect to make from a single person from this data?

I dunno, maybe I am being naieve but it seems a bit odd to me.

Oh, I still use Windows 8.1 with Stardock start menu... not interested in Windows 10 features at all.
Vesting. You can't exercise unvested options - the company needs to have set up an early exercise option as a part of it's stock plan for this to work.

But whether they offer an early exercise program is a very good question to ask any early-stage company you're planning to join.
Well, in fairness, that's actually more aligned with their actual mission, not to mention legal under American law.

This isn't great news as a non-American but from their perspective, surely this is just the NSA doing their job?
you designate an MPOE (minimum point of entry) and then have cabling/conduit installed from the MPOE to units/residences/NIDs. then your HOA owns the "inside wiring" and, with the right amount of lawyer magic, each unit can own/control the destiny of the cable/wire/conduit that goes from the MPOE to them.

then the real trick is getting the ISP you want to play ball. I know of a few instances where Comcast just won't entertain the setup whatsoever. Unfortunately, in telecommunications, largess is the name of the game...
I got overchurned.
Let's not forget the emissions domestic car makers get a free pass on for their gasoline burning vehicles: benzene, toluene, other VOCs, SO2, O3.
Ex-Continental Tour Rider [1] & Computer Engineering Science PhD-student talking here.

---

TL;DR
Considering reasonable wheels: Wheel stiffness is more important than weight. A too light wheel, is not stable.

---

Wired's physics are correct. However, neglect mechanical dynamics & handling.

Probably the biggest downside of light (& aero even more) wheels is: When your wheels are very light, they are prone to cross winds and "jump around" a lot due to their low inertia. And, well, you always have cross winds and bumpy roads, because only very few of us are track riders.

Considering the acceleration, you lose a lot of energy by "twisting" the wheel. That is: the hub starts to turn because the chain you pull with the crank arm in front is forcing it to do so. Then, all this tension is transferred to the spokes, rim and finally the tire. In that process most wheels lose a significant amount of energy by simply storing it via elastic torsion and releasing the energy without contributing to movement at all. As already said in another comment, we "pulse" the energy to the back wheel, as the maximum pulse comes due to our own biomechanics. And we have two pulses per revolution with a zero at almost vertical crank arm alignment!

Therefore you want to have stiff wheels! Which stands in stark contrast to light wheels.

The company Lightweight basically made its money by creating aerodynamic and very very stiff wheels for the weight they had. These wheels, however, are not maintainable any more & very expensive [2].

---

[1]: http://www.uci.ch/road/ucievents/continentalcircuits/

[2]: http://lightweight.info/us/en
It's really just an announcement of an announcement. Or charitably, a confirmation that they don't plan on missing the June release date.

I've been checking their mailing list and bug tracker and saw nary a peep about the alpha, so it's good to hear something.
No. The blog post says to expect the announcement later this week.
The comments here are better than the article.
I'd still for you, sight unseen, over Trump or Hillary. Not sure if you should take that as a compliment ;)
I think there are two problems, one yes wireless is 'bad' You can think.

1. Reliable
2. Cheap
3. Low power

Pick no more than two. Bluetooth was originally designed to be cheap and low power.

The other problem is networking is complicated, and then throwing device API's on top of that makes it very hard to get right. USB had lots of issues originally. And once you leave standard devices like, keyboards, mice, and mass storage devices it gets iffy real quick. (Go scan through the libUSB mailing list archives sometime)
I've edited the title to get it more in line with the blog post
in a MDU, the owner owns the common spaces. that includes risers and inside wiring. they're free to sell, lease, or restrict the rights to whomever they please.

just like wifi ratings for hotels have become a "thing", so must exclusivity agreements and broadband providers when it comes to apartment/housing hunting.

it would be extremely difficult bordering on impossible, in my opinion, for a law in the US to prohibit property owner rights in a fashion that prevents these kind of agreements. only a "market" solution would work here. and of course, that's very difficult on its own.
Happy Tau Day
Dare I ask in what connection you quote Ted Kaczynski of all people? I mean, I'm sure you are not trying to tar me with the same brush, for no better reason than because I happen to be saying something superficially similar to something Ted Kaczynski once said. But I must confess I fail to see any other way in which this quote is germane. Perhaps you'll enlighten me.
The hotels's profitability will reduce, and the marginally profitable ones will be converted into apartments, increasing residential supply.
Replace section 5.1 with unambiguous JavaScript grammar – Node.js/node-eps
The thing that bothers me most about this as a European is; I have zero say in this, in the US you can strike out against surveillance, you can write to senators, protest against terrible legislation. Actually have a voice, however faint it is. Whereas I don't get a say but the exact same treatment from your country. The Five Eyes have made me paranoid and the only escape seems to be downgrading your phone to a brick and carrying it in a Faraday cage. We may as well just go back to plain old telephones.
Build a web dashboard for your graphs in seconds
1. It's not by VK.

2. "Many concerns" only accumulate to one bad default setting (namely end to end encryption opt-in).

People should stop spreading the same FUD over and over, it makes me wonder whether those people posting messages on social media to influence online conversions also post on HN.
That's a specious argument and AirBNB is gonna get spanked hard on that one. Also, the CDA Safe Harbor never intended to shield service providers that receive direct monetary benefit from user content itself.
Some amazing websites that will pay you to write for them
Not everything is solved by an algorithm or an app.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/09/opinion/dirty-school-buses...

Well looks like VW will also fix the other more monstrous source of pollution, school buses.
+1 for using the GPL. I'm always happy to see more free software licensed under strong copyleft licenses.
ou, how sad
Animal agriculture industry causes incredible harm long term.

For example a leaking natural gas well in southern California vented almost 100,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere before it was plugged.

This is not even close to the amount of methane that cows of this world fart over a time period of a year (72-92 million metric tonnes (1,000,000 * 72|92)).
Methane is 80 times more potent than CO2 when it comes to global warming.

Now, would you demand corporate death of Tyson Foods (biggest polluter of water in USA)?

Would you demand corporate death of American animal agriculture?

I believe not.

I mean, Brazil cuts 91% of Amazon rainforest just for the use of soybean and cattle production. This will have extreme long-term consequences. Animal agriculture causes 90%+ species extinction events.

Overfishing disturbs the ecosystems so much that by 2048 oceans will be dead. Already, the ocean dead zones are caused mostly by animal agriculture drains.

This is just some oil/industries that use oil shaky attitude.

The biggest polluter of all is animal agriculture.
Especially when we have open source alternatives like all Telegram clients that implement MTProto (Telegram's end to end encryption protocol).
In their blog post, what do they mean by "public domain list"?
> to make a point for the post-war era?

AFAIK, American WW2 leaders saw it as a choice between invading and dropping nukes. Is there evidence to suggest otherwise?
What's the difference really between a "faint voice" and no voice at all? What's the point of wasting breath if you get no influence?
Also, saying that "things went pear shaped" has a lot more patina than saying "things went egg shaped".

(This is the crowd that brought us 'quarks' - notorious lack of 'gravitas' there ...)
I think they mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List
How a Kitten Video Can Transmit Secret Instructions to Criminals
> https://treeherder.allizom.org/perf.html#/graphs?timerange=2...

> a new automated page load testing performance infrastructure that he has been testing. It compares Servo daily builds against Firefox for page load on a subset of the Alexa Top 1000 sites. Check it out!

I don't understand the graphs under the link. Under all colors it says "servo" and "linux64". So what is Firefox (gecko), what servo?
Does anyone know what is on Y axis in comparison graph? Is it load time in miliseconds? Are green and red lines for Firefox and others for servo? Servo is written in every case there, but green and red have "gecko" prefix.
How I welcomed an immigrant family with a Linux laptop
Y Combinator becomes its own spoof
Yeah, I get all news articles from my facebook timeline.
So we have

Wired's physics are correct. However, neglect mechanical dynamics & handling.

vs other comments denying that like

This is one of the most persistent and silly myths in cycling.

Which shall it be? A combination of the two?
Ask HN: Why is academic language so redundant?
I've recently started reading a number of papers in the field of cognitive psychology, and I'm fairly new to reading things written in academic language.

One thing strikes me as odd is how much redundancy and complexity is in those statements. Qualifiers that cancel each other, sentences that mean little (e.g., "We may have to consider all important aspects"...why wouldn't you?), nested layers of negation ('Most unlikely not un-important'), and statements rephrasing the statement before it just slightly.

Since I'm not an academic, and I don't write papers, I'm wondering, is there a purpose for this (e.g., "papers must be written defensively to be published, ergo they must make everything explicit"), or is it just authors' linguistic tomfoolery?

Another thing that interests me is whether this is true for all fields, or whether there's differences in clarity of writing between them?
Lots of faint voices, put together, can actually make quite a noise.
Agree- Jacque Fresco's vision is really inspiring and I think a lot of great ideas can be drawn from the Venus Project.
Depends on your goal :) if you want to listen in on 5000 different keyboards, then the range extension is quite welcome.

Though personally i don't either.
Why is this obviously good?
@kierenmccarthy doesn't seem to understand how creativity works. No wonder he's stuck writing for The Register (the tech magazine of choice for all Sun & DailyMail readers).
...or make you think you have done something useful.
We absolutely should tax the shit out of the cretins spawning more 'arrows for god' or parents so broken in the head that they push out 5 kids because they are chasing a specific gender.
> That is my spreadsheet

I think your spreadsheet makes several assumptions that are only true in theory.

As other have said, acceleration costs more energy. You don't get that back when braking.

More importantly, in practice, the road is not flat at all. There are small movements at every brick / stone that you cross, slightly rotating the bike forward and back. The momentum (MOI) multiplied with the weight of the bike for those those small movements is lost in energy. Weight at the ends of the bike (mostly the wheels) increases the momentum of the bike far more than weight in the center of the bike. I don't remember the exact energy formula, but think there is a power of 4 with the distance from the center in it...
Game Killer Apk No Root v4.10 Download Free
Time-proven way of influencing decisions made by other countries is having a strong army. Recently it has gone slightly out of fashion, but the general principle still holds. Those without power are not reckoned with.
I think that blaming VW for cars that have emissions greater than what a buyer would expect is probably fair. Who do you blame?
Same can be said of any decision.