skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's the driver's responsibility to place their hands on the wheel

I'd argue it's the manufacturer's responsibility that they ensure a driver using their "autopilot" feature keeps their hands on the wheel and maintains attention so I am not hit by one of their broken vehicles.

Other cars that do automated driving tasks alert drivers loudly when they take their hands off the wheel, there is no reason that shouldn't be standard.

Pushing the responsibility on to consumers when it's a solved problem in the industry is negligent and irresponsible on the manufacturer's part.
My main gripe with btrfs is how it quickly becomes excruciatingly slow after some use and using it with VM disks for instance is impossible while keeping the COW feature on (again because it's slow). Does bcachefs have these issues?
Perhaps said regulator could start by regulating the IRS and the DMV.
Compiler and compilation-related bugs are quite interesting to come across, since they can produce truly mind-boggling behavior.

A while back we ran into this one in the .NET jitter while working on ASP.NET Core: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/8825
Of course. And the "limitations" of pascal is a larger-than-life myth! Is like judge C from how it was at the first release.

By the time of TurboPascal the things was great. The peak was around Dephi 3 and it was possible to circle around C/C++ all day long, barring, obviously that the market share and ecosystem was bigger for C/C++ so that answer why you "cant'" do some stuff. Because was not implementation or library for it, NOT BECAUSE THE LANGUAGE.
I'm a programmer today because someone gave me a pirated copy of Delphi (6?). Sorry Borland!

See also another interesting discussion on Delphi here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613543
Spencer, it appears, has also received payments of some kind from at least one coal company, in direct contradiction to claims he's made.

> One such creditor is Roy Spencer, who teaches at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. Spencer, a vocal denier of climate change science who writes a popular blog, has a Ph.D. in meteorology from University of Wisconsin-Madison and was once employed by NASA, according to his website. The Senate often asks him to testify about climate science.

> Spencer’s website claims he “has never been asked by any oil company to perform any kind of service. Not even Exxon-Mobil.”

> Yet, Peabody Energy’s bankruptcy documents show that Spencer is a creditor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roy-spencer-peabody-ener...
It's fine. I have ranted and made fun of this site once or twice.
That there is no knowledge that can't be communicated in English. Actually not all languages are equivalent because many concepts can only be expressed in English as all other languages lack the vocabulary to express many scientific and technical concepts. Right now English really is the only language that can be used to express a lot of concepts.
Like Latin after the fall of the Roman Empire. Sumerian is such an interesting language too. I love how Neal Stephenson incorporated it into Snow Crash really got me thinking about languages.
Does anyone still use "Information Superhighway" anymore? I think most people just say "internet".

However in the 90's that analogy helped many non-technical people understand how to think about the internet. Back then did you have a better analogy?

BTW, as a marketing guy, it always bugs me every time anyone uses the term "marketing" when they mean "advertising". I'm not referring to you/your post but rather a general trend on HN and elsewhere.
They do daily and weekly tickets, for 15 and 50 pounds respectively. Must be booked in advance.

http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/join/join-online
Kapor designed Lotus 1-2-3 (but didn't program it -- both parts were important for its success). Bricklin and Frankston created the spreadsheet with VisiCalc. There are claims of earlier spreadsheets on bigger computers, which I haven't really looked into.
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It was always about communication. The single deadliest blow that was ever stricken to the existing rich dialect continuums was mass media (newspapers, and later broadcasting). Where before you had populations relatively isolated across a wide geographic area, only conferring with their immediate neighbors, now you had something that would reach all the way to the political border (and beyond). The second blow was the public school system, that usually standardized on a single literary standard country-wide.

In the age where importance of geography is diminished, and with so many channels of communication for both text and voice, a trend towards a single language seems inevitable - there are just too many things that would benefit from it, from science to commerce, and to some extent even art (you trade diversity for audience).
Not that "parallelogram" is a particularly punk word, either.
The trucking industry is powerful and will work to dodge anything that increases their costs like this. To be fair, the same is true of other industry representation.
I thought twice about responding to this.

I worked on Palladium from very early days in 2002 through renaming to NGSCB and the eventual shutdown/transition of the project to ship BitLocker in Vista

The team never saw DRM as being an interesting use case. Remember that the Darknet paper [1] was written by the Palladium architects and product manager. The team fully understood that DRM wasn't an effective use of a secure computing environment.

The scenarios that we were interested in were more like credential management, or being able to run remote sessions from a trusted space within an otherwise untrusted machine, etc.
> that essay is its very own brand of crazy. It seems both freightened and mean spirited through and through.

You don't seem to have any rebuttal to the actual content of the essay. As a professional economist Landsburg is very open to different preferences people have. He's only asking for the same kind of open-mindedness in return by environmentalists (e.g. not calling anyone who doesn't agree with their dogma "crazy" and respecting those who don't participate in their quasi-religious rituals).

> I know why are you are an environmentalist: because you breathe air and drink water, just like I do. I'd guess you are just as interested in those things being non-toxic as I am. [...]

This doesn't make me a kind of naive environmentalists as described in Landsburg's essay.

> [...] even if recycling wastes tons of energy, there are still compelling reasons to recycle.

So far you cited none that's compelling. The issue of pollution from landfill sites is a concern but you don't talk about (a) how big the impact is (probably different in different landfill facilities) and (b) why people's effort to recycle can be an effective solution (my hunch is it's not very effective). Also we are far from running out of fossil fuels anytime soon so that's not a compelling reason either.

I understand that you personally prefer recycling though (for religious/aesthetic reasons). I respect your choice.

> why are you using the weak political opines and outright rants of non-expert journalists who have agendas to argue economic and scientific issues [...]

I cited Steven Landsburg, Mike Munger, and Russ Roberts who are all professional economists. Your 2 links (one from an environmental advocacy group) are virtually identical in their content written by the same 2 authors and only one of them is an "economic analyst" who doesn't seem to have published any academic paper in the field of economics (he's still entitled to his view but I don't think he made a good case for recycling in the article).
It will likely get simplified as it keeps evolving as the "common tongue". Both spelling, and shedding phonemes that are just too close to distinguish without a lot of practice, or that are inconvenient for non-native speakers (to remind, most English speakers today are non-native).
> Literally buying them bus tickets.

This is one of those stories that I've heard or read everywhere I've lived or been (Austin, Honolulu, Seattle, San Fran) that I just assume it's an urban legend used to obfuscate the real issues.
There could be another, simpler explanation: the _mechanism_ used to enforce protection has side effects that inhibit intellectual effort.
What about mental fatigue? The more you workout your brain the more it needs to rest. How would you like your brain to tell you that it needs to rest other than feeling fatigue?

I find myself consistently productive over long spans without a burnout effect when I am sleeping at consistent hours, and working for consistent hours a day. When I overwork my productivity becomes inconsistent so I stopped doing that. I learnt it the hard way that late night coding is a short-term investment with negative return in the long run.

My personal theory is that our brains like consistency and adapt/tune to it over time. Just like when you jog every day, if you run for too long one day and too short the other day it cannot adapt/tune itself to a semi-random pattern.
Watching that video I was surprised how familiar it looks. There are similarities to muay Thai (Thai boxing). There are of course big differences. In muay thai the low kicks are primarily aimed at the thigh rather than the shins and punches, knees and elbows are also allowed HOWEVER two people in a clinch hacking at each others legs brought back memories.
"Fatigue makes cowards of us all" is a famous quote supposedly from Vince Lombardi, though it has also attributed to other significant people (as famous quotes often are).

Regardless of the speaker, the overlap with the headline is remarkable.
Delphi is the MOST mismanaged language ever produce on earth! and have survive several changes of owner.

Currently, this is the storm, where a large team on charge of the IDE and other stuff is fired:

https://plus.google.com/105481197125997414290/posts/FnLvMteQ...

The gossip now is that only 8 people are left on charge of it:

Paul said

>2016/06/24 at 21:14
>Yes and here some hot news.

>Delphi and C++Builder Team now is only 8 developers
>IDERA contract free lance developers without experience in >Delphi and pay per job

Is ironic, but in one of the oldest forums of Delphi (where I'm moderator) some of us have left the language long ago (or more exactly, use it sparly), yet still are there!

And this one was our discussion (spanish)

http://clubdelphi.com/foros/showthread.php?t=90494

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So yes, Delphi love is strong, but this was the start of the trouble:

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Borland-fail?share=1

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So the thing is Delphi improve a lot, yet is mismanaged, cost too much, the only way to get bugs fixed is buy next version and each few months yet another company buy it.

The thing is so crazy that some people are considering seriously do a buy from the community (ie: Pay money to buy the product)...
Author of Ruma here. I can answer any questions people have. Ruma is in very early stages of development, if it's not clear from the website, so it can't actually be used for its intended purpose yet, but we're getting there. :}
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What the fuck? Are you seriously using this as a counter argument to the value of diversity? This place is a self-parody sometimes.
But why. I don't understand why you'd use Pascal today when you could use C++. I jumped over 25 years ago and never missed Pascal the language, only the Turbo Pascal development environment. Many languages later I still have never wanted to go back and write in any Pascal variant. It's a verbose, weak, and inexpressive language.
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I recently built an app called RemoteBase using MeteorJS, a full stack JavaScript framework. I had some scalability issues, and rewrote the app.

Here is why and how I rewrote the app with Express + React + Redux without MeteorJS. Hope this post mortem helps JavaScript developers and future me.
Depends on frequency of use and if there are any weird requirements like no symbols.
>I don't think Europeans realise how lucky they're to be so connected to there past.

It is a double edged sword. Its great they have that connection but that can lead people to glamorize the past and to focus on trying to hold onto the past while neglecting the future.

When I spend time in the UK I am always surprised how frequently history comes up in conversation, how positively it is spoken about and how gloomy everyone's descriptions of the present and future are. Apparently the past was great and the future is bleak (even years pre-Brexit). There is one notable exception, the Margaret Thatcher years get brought up at least once a week by family/friends/strangers on the bus and described very negatively

In Australia where I am from the past bright/future gloomy logic is reversed. The past rarely comes up and discussions about the present and future tends towards optimism.
Kind of ironic to think that exist something like 7 billon of IA around, but the judgment about them is mostly

meh.
How Anti-Growth Sentiment, Reflected in Zoning Laws, Thwarts Equality
Does this mean that I'm entitled to have someone else give me a house for free anywhere I want to live? If not, where are the limits on this largesse?
> Mercedes seems to have capacitative touch sensing

This is not correct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv9JYqhFV-M
I don't have much sympathy for media organisations who basically handed this all to facebook with share buttons and facebook logins.

How about they all get behind a concerted effort to burn facebook down.

Find and / or help build decentralised social media platform
and promote the hell out of it.

I would love to see Google / Microsoft / Apple / Amazon throw a ton of resources into some kind of open source alternative.

A Firefox project for Social Media.
> The books in the lending collection date from 1700 to the present day — there are over one million of them, housed on the shelves together — and all can be borrowed.

I wonder how they bill the cost of a lost book that irreplaceable.
I think that part of it is that number of calls is the only quantitative KPI that can be relied upon. And not only do talented people not like to stay in the callcenter on the phones, talented managers also don't want to manage callcenters (very high staff turnover, cost-center department, not much sense of achievement when you solve problems, no political power to change the company's product when it's causing problems, etc). So the talented people cycle in and back out for the most part, and the less-talented people remain.
It's gotta be some sort of unbundling of education from certification. I've no idea how this might happen though. The technical challenge is difficult enough on its own, but there are also enormous cultural forces that must be overcome as well.

I am not optimistic.
Lesson 1 of writing code that doesn't die with 200 users: don't use mongo.

Glad you got meteor fixed up by sad you stuck with Mongo. H
What is `Matrix homeserver'?
The problem with pelvis expansion is it is hard to select for widening of the pelvis without upsetting walking and running. Development is hierarchical and bones are lower down in the heirachy than brain size.

In regards Neanderthals I would not be surprised if it was wider pelvis that allowed for them to have larger brained babies. This is a fascinating area.
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What's the coolest way to repurpose an old laptop? I'd love to put the excess computing power to use somehow, or start building connected home/IoT stuff, but I'm mainly just interested in hearing what others have done...
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HAHA, Sounds like RSS or Atom... Which apparently aren't cool anymore
Literally the first paragraph answers this.
We are using processes in celery, not threads. Yet we still can't get to full utilisation. On an eight CPU machine we get around 650% - 750% CPU utilisation. It varies, it goes up and down in that range. We never get to 800%. The JVM version is just constantly 800%.
Fair enough. But if you want sun, America has plenty of it; there's tropical Florida, mediterranean California, desert Arizona and cold yet sunny Colorado. If you buy a ranch somewhere in Montana or a piece of land in Appalachia, you can pretty much disappear from the radar and won't be bothered much by the government.
To be fair, I've used both w/ very little unexpected (cough, Linux) issues.

On OSX, practically no issues. A few system crashes in 10 years, and some very rare issues w/ keyboard/input (I think it's my company's mandatory security software...) The GUI more than makes up for any perceived cost issue (as much as I'd like them 500-1000 cheaper) and the available apps are generally 2x better than Windows and 10x better than Linux.

On Linux GUI, there are a lot of expected problems w/ drivers and such which you can work around with research, but you still end up occasionally having odd audio/graphics issues. X windows is antiquated and holds back the. Gnome/Tk are mediocre replacements, and the other options more so. Some people like twiddling/fighting to get their system setup properly, but I left those feelings 16 years ago.

On Linux server, practically no issues, effectively 100% reliable under most conditions.

OTOH, I know plenty of people who have recurring issues with their Macs, but I attribute it to them not really knowing what they are doing (this includes my wife on our shared MBP)
More specifically, mental fatigue is a result of dissonance. Working on your dissonance builds a strong and quiet mind.
Yes, missed that somehow. Thanks and sorry.
I agree about the IDE of Turbo Pascal, but Delphi 1.0 was pretty RAD too. Only thing I don't like about Pascal of 20 years ago was the lack of proper lists and dictionaries, and the tedium of writing long keywords like begin and end all over the place.
How is toddler learning by 'repeated exposure in a comprehensible way' when it lacks a vocabulary/understanding? My previous post was meant to point out fault in your reasoning.
Thanks so much for sharing all this, I find it super interesting! I've spent a long time on hold wondering why it's so hard for large companies to properly scale customer service.

And I'll definitely keep in mind the tip about thanking the supervisor when a representative is particularly helpful.
Oui. "Matrix is an open specification for an online communication protocol. It includes all the features you'd expect from a modern chat platform"
And most of those scientific and technical words in English are actually borrowed from other languages in the first place.

Even the words "science" and "technique" and "compute." Latin and French. Basic stuff like "icon." Greek. "Algebra" and "alcohol" and some other words that start with "al-"; Arabic.

I could go on to force the point but it already feels bizarre having to point out the obvious..

If English can wantonly borrow from other languages then pretend it's the only language that can express these things, why can't other languages borrow those words from English and pretend they're a part of them?
If there's a scarcity of bartenders or cashiers, then their wages will go up until that scarcity is filled.
I wouldn't bet on that. I've known too many carpenters and general contractors who flunked out well before calculus. Now, they may figure stuff out the hard way, working off approximations and rules of thumb, but they figure it out, and do the hard work, too.
> Accompanying it is a Victorian version of Google — books are arranged by a proprietary subject classification system designed by the organising supremo Charles Hagberg Wright, librarian from 1893 to 1940.

I had up until this point thought everyone just used the Dewey Decimal system, but it turns out library classification algorithms are quite a bit more nuanced than expected.

> Some classification systems are more suitable for aiding subject access, rather than for shelf location. For example, Universal Decimal Classification, which uses a complicated notation of pluses and colons, is more difficult to use for the purpose of shelf arrangement but is more expressive compared to DDC in terms of showing relationships between subjects. Similarly faceted classification schemes are more difficult to use for shelf arrangement, unless the user has knowledge of the citation order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_classification
>major cities are the economic engines of the US, and are unrivaled in the opportunities they can offer their residents, in terms of education, employment, upward mobility, etc.

Isn't that where public transportation enters the picture? If the homeless' situation is such that even public transportation isn't within their grasp then that should be part of the solution as well.
I agree. I think when people state that "well there's always been an editorial bias in news media", its a bit disingenuous. If you take the newspaper as an example, even with a bias you are still presented with the entirety of articles for that edition.
If those are all the reason to save dying tongues, then this article proved the opposite of what it meant to prove :)
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I think they are arguing the difference between "that sound is annoying I'll turn that off" and "his situation is awful I don't enjoy being trapped"
> FWIW, when I think about cutting physician pay, I think about incentivizing new supply

Sorry for potentially being probably completely obtuse here due to being deep within the structure of medicine, but new supply of what?
That's nothing -- paper clock, anyone?

http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=1966.0
Awesome! I was selecting a Matrix implementation but not anymore I think. Thank you.
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The tick-tock story of how LinkedIn shopped itself
> autonomous driving system in the Model S

no such thing exist ...
> For example Comcast has on demand, but once you watch a show you have to literally go back and search for the TV show name again before you can watch the next episode. It's horrible.

Oh my God. I'm not even sure if search in 1996 was this bad. I'm almost thinking that this is by design for some sadistic reason, like there's no way that this is this way out of natural happen-stance.
Well, they were both designed with nukes in mind :)
It seems like the solution is to have the software train the driver to take control in unusual situations.

One way to do that might be that if the car successfully avoids an obstacle on its own without the driver reacting at all, after the obstacle is passed the car pulls over and stops.
Best outcome of NHTSA investigation would be financial penalty and order prohibiting use of AutoPilot brand on NON autonomous system. It was clearly picked to mislead customers into thinking they are buying more than there really is.
I like code reviews or practice tasks like "add feature x to this codebase" because of the focus on modifying an existing system vs building a tiny one from scratch. That's a much more realistic representation of daily developer work.
Does anyone really think that once they own property in a certain area that they are gonna believe in the 'anything goes' mentality? 'Growth' is subjective. "Hey look at all the great businesses in my neighborhood bringing in taxes! I mean sure they are all pot pharmacies and bars that my kid gets to pass on his way to elementary school but you know GROWTH!"
>The old news networks at least made an effort to present both sides of most issues

I am not sure whether they did that because they wanted to present both sides or if they just wanted to provide confirmation for what everyone wants to believe and they lacked the ability to segment their audience. If both sides of an argument watches the one news program that news program is incentivized to provide fodder for both sides to avoid losing part of their audience.