skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lot worse than just that. Of the 20 stopped and searched, 17 will be black or Hispanic.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/opinion/racial-discrimi...
original announcement already discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12086223
WebAssembly Specification Prototype
I've found that slack takes up way more time for me too.

I'm usually in 50 IRC channels at once. My workflow when I open irc is to check my hilight window for pings, and then glance at the channel list for backscroll chatter in channels I follow closely (if bored, also look at chatter in other channels). I then respond to things, and switch back to the hilight window. I occasionally glance at this window to check for more pings and chatter in said channels. Each check is a quick glance, and can be done without context-switching.

I am in a bunch of slack teams, but I only really care about one channel in each. It takes much longer to handle these, since I need to open a tab for each, and if I've been pinged go look for the ping.

IRC sucks, but at least everything is in one place. I'd be far more productive with slack if there was a unified app for all teams with a dedicated notifications panel.
Thank you, I shouldn't have reused the incorrect terminology here (it matters). Thanks for bringing this point up, I completely agree with you, because there is no chance of consumer confusion between these products, which is a reasonable standard to adhere to.

Now, if Intel were to go after the Atom Text editor, we would agree that'd be pretty silly, no? Obviously they wouldn't, because there is no confusion. Now, if AMD were to start selling ATOMe processors, I'd also agree that Intel would have a reasonable complaint.

There is no reasonable confusion (for the target markets) between this gluon project, gluonhq, and the router gluon project (linked to above).
Imperative vs. Declarative Programming
It takes about as long as it takes to start up a Spark cluster, and you can interact with it entirely through Spark APIs if that's what you're comfortable with. It can also be used in "Split Cluster Mode" so you can use your existing Spark build instead of what's embedded within SnappyData if you prefer.
JS tests like this are so stupid cheap that we still write them for even the most basic test. Not sure I'm convinced it's worth it yet and I might regret it the first time we refactor a larger reducer.
Can you help me understand where React is shifting into a complex direction?

To me, it looks like we are no longer recommending a complex pattern that we specifically supported in code (mixins), and instead recommend a simpler pattern that “just works” in JavaScript (higher order functions/components).

If anything, we are shifting to a simpler direction, and it worked better for us. We are sharing the lessons we learned in the hope that you might also find them helpful. Sorry if they’re not!
LinkNYC
Actually, there are arena's where C is replaced by Lua (with LuaJIT) see OpenResty / Nginx with Lua. Where the normally C plugins to nginx are implemented with lua.
Why don't insurance companies own the vertical and purchase healthcare providers, in order to control costs?

It seems like cost controls are the root of the problem.
I agree, and I forgot about the "half billion over 12 years" line in the article. But why throw shade at the homeless due to a failing of the city?
Calling Gluon the "Java counterpart to Xamarin" is a bit of a stretch. They are a fraction of the size of Codename One which itself is a fraction of the size of Xamarin.

Since they are clearly so tiny any claim to trademark might be problematic. Furthermore, the domain is different. They can't assert computers as a domain (gluon gun from Quake if I remember correctly). It is used as a sort of umbrella name for a lot of different products they have but none of them is a programming language.
If I'm not mistaken, they use a similar technique to makes satellite images of earth that don't have cloud cover, or maps without cars and stuff, yet we know it is highly likely these were present when pictures were taken. So it's not fiction.
Happy to help. :)
Are your Load Balancers sticky? The one issue I see with this deployment strategy is that for a few minutes, you could be clicking around (or rest calling around) the app - and alternate old version of app with new version of the app. That could lead to some weird behavior, depending what the release looked like. (Image in a webapp you changed background from white to black, every other page has a different page color).

It is a little more complex to solve the partial deploy problem, really need to spin up a whole new cluster, and then flip the LB in one action. Maybe not worth it, and just let things be wonky for a few minutes?
Another thing (sorry for double reply but it's really a totally different comment)

I think you have to frame "losers" in a financial context.

Let's assume the hypothetical "entrepreneur" of your comment is an ambitious 25-30 year old male (they usually are), then the relevant question becomes, "am I better off being an entrepreneur or working for someone else". I think that's as much a question about the value of autonomy vs. money. I have little doubt most people, given that they could work at say, Goldman, would be better off financially doing that than trying to do a tech startup. So in that sense, they've definitely "lost".

Then there's the investor's perspective...a company that takes a $100k investment and turns it into $1M for the investor is a pretty good outcome. And I think there's a lot of potential for wins on that scale, but that's not how things are being done today. Instead, money is piling into OKish opportunities by the truckload, because every investor has the hubris to think their deal flow is as good as Greylock/a16z/USV/KPCB, etc. They'll win because they have their pick of what deal to do, and there certainly are great companies; there just aren't enough to go around to all the low-tier family offices and rich-doctor syndicates, and other "fools" who are piling into tech equity.

The point is, I think you have to frame win vs. loss in terms of opportunity cost. If the broad market declines 10% and you only lose 2%, that might be a "win" even though, objectively, it's a "loss".
T-Rowe Price valuation markdowns
If the displayed advertisements are based on who's passing the kiosk, some very uncomfortable situations could be created - let's say a high-profile clergyman walks by and an Ashley-Madison advertisement is shown.
provides a venue for MITM of cloud syncing/storage.
Hmm, the web-based skype didn't work for me only 2 weeks ago and I got a "this does not work on Linux" error.

Let's see if this works, when I need skype again...
As another commenter mentioned, this does sound like a communication (of priorities) problem.

Mgr: "Joe, we need to get this new FrobNoz done. This week instead of next."

You: "Sure Mgr, no worries."

You: "Hey Frank, you're working overtime to make this happen. Or else you're fired."

Frank tries, then quits. FrobNoz doesn't get done in time. You get fired. Your Mgr gets fired. Your company implodes. ;)

Or alternatively:

Mgr: "Joe, we need to get this new FrobNoz done. This week instead of next."

You (gives cool, direct look to Mgr)

You: "We can do that. But we need to pull resources from Alpha, Beta, or Gamma to make that happen. Which of these three is least important to you?"

Mgr: "Beta can wait, get this done."

Result: You have the people who can do it, (ideally) without excessive overtime. Hopefully the lack of Beta doesn't cause company implosion.

Anyone who says their Mgr demands all of it and won't make resource decisions, has not developed their "cold, direct look" (thousand yard stare?) enough.
I didn't do it at first, most probably did, but if you click through to the Top 200 themselves and select an app, you can see all the SDKs the app uses. Pretty cool.
Employees could also be required to pay taxes on employee stocks - money that they had not earned yet because they had not sold them.

That is a major problem in the US system as well.
Good to know, will update the examples when I have time. Not sure I'm a big fan of it though, doesn't seem as clear to a React noob what is going on with ref?
Shameless plug regarding Slack being distraction source:
I am trying to scratch my own itch here so I'm working on a Slack app that should help with that, www.collabq.com.
Would love to hear your opinions!
Such a nice domain name.
From a practical point of view, what use is performance you can't practically benefit from?

If it's not performing well for your typical users using typical systems, it's not performing well. Those systems aren't going to change.

Those who engineer the system need to just work around the system specific limitations. Like a virus scanner.
Taiwan never was colonized by a Western power, and they are the most progressive democracy in Asia (quirky-folksy democracy, but democracy nonetheless). Thailand never was colonized at all, and it sucks for them right now, but there are many democrats there.
In fact during the colonial era Western powers considered democracy "non-exportable" (for obvious self-serving reasons), yet it was used as a moral and ideological weapon by many independence movements (India springs to mind). So not really "printed by the West".
Huh? This sounds like it's more true of Angular than React - there is a widely adopted style guide, and well-known anti-patterns are very established. I don't get that impression with React.
Hi, Dan here again,
some of our visitors will hit our waiting queue today.

If it's any consolation, I can certainly appreciate the frustration some will experience due to this, but we're just bound by the reality of our wallet at the moment. We also mean no harm by inviting those in the queue to provide an email.
DMCA takedown: the new orbital ion cannon
I don't particularly like Discord (which I assume you meant) because I don't see a monetization plan for them that doesn't screw over their users. With Slack, I know that they have enterprise customers that essentially pay for the free users. Discord has nothing like that, and I can only foresee two outcomes: running out of money or selling out their users. Charging for their service won't really work, either, because gamers are a pretty price-sensitive group in my experience and Slack is still free.
I have no opinion on Uber leadership coming into this, and would just like to see some elaboration on point 4?

I certainly would agree that there are companies with leadership teams as you describe, so I'm not opposed to that notion. Just wondering about this specific case.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Bug Bounty
> knowingly filing a false DMCA notice is perjury

Not entirely true; one of the things that has been frequently criticized about the DMCA notice process is that the only part of the DMCA "takedown" notice that is under penalty of perjury is the statement "that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed." None of the rest of the material in the notice, notably including the identification of the allegedly infringing material or the statement of "good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law" is under penalty of perjury.

See 17 U.S.C. Sec. 512(c)(3)(A)
> It's also made even uglier by the fact that VMware has discontinued Fusion

As I commented elsewhere[1] (and in more detail) in this thread Fusion/Workstation is not discontinued/abandoned.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12085845
This is a terrific AMA. I'm not sure I can pick a favorite Q&A, but perhaps this one:

Well, I would say, reading is some kind of essential prerequisite to everything you do. Whether you are a scientist or a filmmaker, or just a normal human being working in a more "normal" profession. I cannot argue much about it. Read, read, read, read, read. The other side, traveling on foot, nobody does it and what I said will disappear into thin air any moment from now. Traveling on foot has actually given me insight into the world itself. The world reveals itself to one who travel on foot. I can give you one example, you start to understand the heart of men. I was, for a film, at the Johnson Space Center and had to take to five astronauts who had done a space mission in a space shuttle. I wanted to persuade them to be extras in the film in a very strange way. They were sitting in a semi circle when I was taken in and my heart sank that I didn't know "what should I say? what should I do?" I looked around and looked into their faces and all of a sudden I had the feeling, I understand these people. I understand the heart of these men and these women. I said "since I was a child, when I learned how to milk a cow with my own hands, I can tell that since I've traveled on foot and in the meadow first you milk a cow to have something to drink. I know by looking at faces, who is able to milk a cow." I looked at the pilot and said "you sir!" and he burst out in smiles and says "yes, I can milk a cow." Somehow when you make films, you understand the heart of men. In a way you cannot learn it, the world has to teach you. The world does it in it's most intense and deepest way when you when you encounter it by traveling on foot.

I'd like to add that when I travel by foot, I don't do it as a backpacker where you take all your household items with you, your tent, your sleeping bag, your cooking utensils. I travel without any luggage and I do not travel, let's say, the specific trail 2000 miles which is marked. I do traveling for very intense quests in my life. I do that on foot.
Yet Another Python Datetime Replacement: Pendulum
Slack's identity management is really painful.

Why do I need to create a new account for each slack team I want to join? I am the same person.

Joining a slack team should be an entitlement that gets granted to my identity -not an entirely separate account.
Software, for good reason, is not one of those industries (like aerospace, home furniture, etc.). Incremental capital cost in software per user is vanishingly small compared to building planes or sofas.
No, it's not. See here: http://lua-users.org/wiki/CountingFromOne

I made a comment on that wiki MOONS ago, and it still holds.
>Also where the heck do you folks get the idea that PewDiePie is a 'reviewer' from? I'm like sorta floored by this still.

"You folks" are the millions of teenagers who don't know any better. The people who expect youtubers to be corporate shills aren't normally the people who actually watch them.
Seems like a privacy policy that amounts to "lol, whatever" can't possibly be lagally binding in the EU at least. If it is (found to be) void they could be required to delete all customer data - as they have no legal grant to store it or use it for any purpose?
That's a false argument - "If Coke isn't crap why are citizens drinking Pepsi?" The Taxi system is not crap everywhere. There are certain markets that are underserved. There are also plenty of markets that Uber operates in that have an adequate Taxi system.
Wonderful case in point; one of my groups is on slack, whereas my serious raid group is on Discord (which I assume you meant :) ) and a third group is on TeamSpeak; up until recently Mumble was in the mix as well. It's really a portmanteau of silly apps to keep track of.
Sharing Netflix/HBO passwords is now a federal crime but here’s why not to worry
* the Major Scale,
* the Standard Chord Dictionary, and
* the difference in feeling between the Major and Minor Triads.

• Major scale... in what musical period?

• Standard Chord Dictionary. What does that even mean? Please map that onto gregorian chant or even Monteverdi Vespers of 1610.

• As I've indicated elsewhere, a Major 3rd in 13th century France is actually a discord, not a resolution.

If the author had indicated that he was only referring to 19th century European classical music, I'd have been cool with it. But the author isn't even referring to the European musical tradition in general.
So when you are upset with a specific person, do you also randomly punch someone else who happens to be nearby?

If you are unhappy with what the UK government is doing, and the things you say you are unhappy about are 100% UK gov, not EU, then the time to "vote the bums out" is the UK general election.

Really having a hard time figuring out what you were/are trying to accomplish.
Try Pedro Domingos "The Master Algorithm". Good high level overview of the various "schools" of Machine Learning. Not sure if it identifies which problems are best solved by which approach, though. More the history of how they have taken turns as the most successful paradigm.
The Tor Project Elects New Board of Directors
As an aside, I would argue that writing hooks is actually much more important than audio production. Music snobs like to talk about how simple the melodies, harmonies, and chord progressions are in pop music, but writing incredible hooks is hardly a solved problem and is something I am extremely impressed by.
I see similar criticisms of Slack a lot, and I think a solid portion of these are general gripes with using one chat system instead of Email + other solutions.

My biggest gripe with using Slack is that teams are managed individually. I can't have one Slack account from which I can view all of my teams and interact with them. Rather, I have to create separate accounts for each one, as if each team is using a completely different service. Then I have to remember a multitude of emails, usernames, and passwords.
Well, if its any consolation, just be happy you're not a mathematician. Or an English Lit grad.
> Not sure why this article did ended up on the frontpage, it doesn't really add anything useful to the discussion and does not address the main criticisms people have about the autopilot like the limited number of sensors, wrong expectations due to the name and lack of strict enforcement of driver engagement (hands on wheel).

Drive-by upvotes that are based on the title. People love Tesla.
I would not describe that as "extraction of data", but fair enough.
Are you talking about all bars with a cover charge, or is there some cutoff above which drinking and dancing with friends is snobism?
Just try using it already. Or any virtual DOM library. You have cosmetic complaints about things that no one who uses this stuff is bothered by.
> the people behind it is gone

Development switched to different people/teams but that doesn't mean it's not under active development. Meet the new team: http://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2016/07/meet-the-team.ht...
This is why taxi services are mostly crap. Without surge pricing it is common to never find a free ride, basically getting a taxi is a lottery. Why would government need to regulate the rates? Uber refuses crap customers (according to ratings) whereas taxis refuse you depending on your face, distance or number of bags. Insurance is a real problem which is why many European countries ban UberPOP
I thought the sirius cybernetics corporation already had something like that!
Yup, exactly this. And cautious is putting it nicely, I think. Tack on regulatory risk and you have an extremely strong headwind against any sort of major change.
This is exactly why I have been voting for the Canadian green party for my entire adult life. We finally got an MP (equivalent to a senator, I think) in a few years ago, Elizabeth May. You should hear her rip into the mainstream parties in the middle of parliament, it's awesome. Harper tried passing a bunch of new laws to shut her up, but he lost an election before he could pull it off.
One wonders what Tesla did to get that laudatory article.

Tesla's "autopilot" problems come from bad engineering and bad human-factors design. I wrote on this in another topic yesterday.[1] It's not that automatic driving is bad; it's that Tesla's semi-automatic driving isn't very good. It's way under-sensored. Google and Volvo are ahead in this area.

Volvo is very close to shipping their autopilot. They're testing now. In 2017, they will release 100 self-driving cars to customers. They do not require the driver to pay attention. Volvo's CEO says that if a Volvo self-driving car gets into an accident, it's Volvo's fault, and they will take full responsibility.

Their "City Safety" anti-collision system has been on all new Volvo cars for a year now. Unlike Tesla's system, it's always on. Volvo has radar and LIDAR and cameras, more sensors than Tesla has.

Volvo's self-driving car has even more sensors, for full coverage in all directions and redundancy. Redundant computers and actuators, too. And if it gets into a situation it can't handle, and the driver doesn't take over, it will pull over and stop.

There's a way to do this right, and Volvo is a lot closer than Tesla is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12082893
[2] http://www.volvocars.com/intl/about/our-innovation-brands/in...
It's telling that the top-ranked comment is an ad-hominem attack on the author and his style of writing, without critiquing the content at all.

Your comment is stuck in the lowest 3 levels of Paul Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement:

DH1: Ad-hominem
DH2: Responding to Tone

http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy...

You haven't come close to addressing, or even acknowledging the central point of this paper. You can't even reach level DH3 without acknowledging the point. DH3 is where "we finally get responses to what was said, rather than how or by whom." (Paul Graham)

> It's always frustrating when someone who is capable and knowledgeable about one subject decides to try their hand in a different field without having bothered to do any real research or study in it.

It looks to me that the reason you're frustrated and offended is that he critiques your field. You're clearly flustered; using black-and-white language like "always" that is factually incorrect, and saying "real research" as if his research didn't happen in reality -- but I assure you it's real. This is not a dream. He actually did just critique your field. Calling it unreal is a tactic of denial.

This is groundbreaking work, and the establishment can't have it. You're no better than the Catholic Church.
> what other option was there?

To address the description of the source of the problem offered upthread? Voting against the people actually responsible for the problems in UK elections (general elections and otherwise.)

If the problem is in Westminster, voting against the EU does nothing to solve the problem.
DevOps Video Feature: Out of Control at Rabobank
Full disclosure: I just accepted a job offer from Uber.

Uber pays a significant amount of licensing fees to Google for use of it's data. Further - Why would making use of a freely available mapping backend be 'socializing the cost' in a way that is unfair competition to taxis?

Taxis refuse unprofitable rides. Uber hides your destination until the driver picks you up, and keeps track of drivers that cancel. Ever tried to get a taxi in the slums? Wasn't possible before Uber. Ever try to get a taxi as a black man? Was pretty hard. Uber is imperfect, and your questions of how good their insurance is are valid, but everything else you've pointed out is a problem that the Taxis had, generally worse, not one that is new to uber.
Slack is so buggy - why is that not an issue. The android app is just the pits.

I prefer https://flock.co (disclosure: was once part of the team that built it) it is fast, not buggy and makes different choices than slack for almost all the same problems.
> He thinks that Uber is really unfair to union taxi drivers who jump through some hoops to get licensed, etc.

So they were forced to jump through ridiculous hoops, so should we force everyone to follow the same stupidity?

If anything, the solution is tear down these bureaucratic barriers and open up the competition for everyone. But you'll never see the taxis supporting this, because they know they'll lose, and would rather have their business propped up artificially using governmental force.