skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the worst part of Teslas to me - why the hell is EVERYTHING on this huge display?? Changing temperature or music volume without tactile feedback is the worst thing.
Watch astronauts installing an airlock on the ISS
If you read the article, there are a number of characteristics of Zika that make it a lot easier to vaccinate against. Also, apparently they do have vaccines against some strains of Dengue.
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I very recently had to look at an LZW decoder, and it is indeed more elegant than Deflate as described here. However, LZW doesn't have a Huffman post-encoding step, so it does not compress as well as Deflate.
> I don't have time now to write a comment laying out a comprehensive rebuttal of all the foolishness that some people have suggested here ... bicyclists should have to follow exactly the same rules as drivers

In the UK, all vehicles on the road are required to abide by the highway code. Yep, that means bicycles have to follow the same rules as drivers.

In the 1990s, schools in the UK ran cycling courses to ensure that children as young as 9 were already learning the highway code, and would be able to cycle on the roads safely. The London police to this day continue to run cycling courses to provide the same level of training.

I can't speak to the rest, nor in other countries, but in the UK, it is absolutely not foolish, but actually required by law, for cyclists to follow the same rules as drivers.
Ask HN: Are open vacation policies a scam?
I'm working at a company with lots of dot-commie perks including an open vacation policy. It seemed great on paper when I joined, I actually took a 40% salary cut for the promise of more vacation and freedom to live abroad and work from everywhere.

At my company, however, it's feeling like just another typical silicon valley sweat shop. Nobody who isn't an executive seems to take any vacation days. For the most part "unlimited vacation" means being able to work from home because you have errands to run or you broke your ankle.

Every attempt I've made to take vacation days has been met with the resistance of, "You have taken more vacation than anybody else in the team".
I've taken 4 days off for vacation, and 2.5 days off to ease the jetlag when I flew home to Turkey from San Francisco.

Recently I tried to take off 1/2 a day for my birthday, and I again was given this same argument. I politely reminded my boss that I make $50k/year less than anybody else in our engineering team, and that we have an open vacation policy.

After that conversation I began looking for a new position.

I'm curious, what are your experiences with companies who have open vacation policies? Are you "allowed" to take vacation days, or does it just feel like a scam to prevent you from actually taking time off?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07o-TASvIxY

Anyone just blindly downvoting snovv_crash should check out the video above and any number of other resources, such as this one:

http://www.cyclinguk.org/campaigning/views-and-briefings/cyc...

There are strong feelings on both sides, but many cyclists feel helmets are a distraction from the real issues which make cyclists unsafe: poor road design and unsafe driving. Cycling itself is (counter-intuitively) a very safe activity which looks dangerous; everyone assumes driving and walking are safe but often they are not. Yet nobody seriously proposes helmets for pedestrians or drivers, just cyclists.
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Oh my god, I thought nobody else remembered those two.

Epic Pinball to me is still the best pinball game in history and I played One Must Fall for hours on end despite not actually being a fan of the genre.

EDIT: The soundtrack to OMF (1994) is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGRR6MkVmE

EDIT2: Different company but same area: The Crusader series (No Remorse (1995)/No Regret (1996)) had a pretty awesome score as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2xs8pQBcZk

And of course C&C Tiberian Dawn (1995): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkyB3kTiPQ

EDIT3: For sake of completeness, here's Jazz Jackrabbit 1 (1994) and 2 (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6L78lXPHro

EDIT4: OMF was declared freeware at some point and works in DOSBox so you can play it online in the browser at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/msdos_One_Must_Fall_2097_1994
you just type the text "lambda".
some editors (emacs, drracket) can automatically convert it to lambda the symbol.
--Spoiler alert---

After reading the first chapter and beginning of the second chapter, to me, it seems not a good piece at all. They had the technology of building a folding city for god sake, yet the protagonist is doing some heavy labor dealing with the city's trash. You would imagine such work would long have been automated. Actually, this always has been a problem when I read sci-fi story, some setting are just fabricated to make the plot more emotional but never really fit the common sense of, at least to me, the development of technology.

I certainly hope this whole Chinese writer winning an award wasn't some political move to attract attention.
What would the remainder be? At this scale there's no such thing as homogeneity, your options are crystal lattices or a lumpy mess of atoms.
I measured it by looking at posted Rust code/projects on HN an relating that to what I know about C and C++.
The NASA open sourced a mission control framework for visualization of data
Bicycles are a tool for turning ordinary people into selfish jerks, jealously guarding their precious forward momentum. A pedestrian doesn't mind if they have to stop for a moment, it's no big deal. A driver doesn't mind stopping for a moment either, it's easy to get back up to speed again. But for a cyclist, having to stop is a minor disaster requiring a massive effort to get back up to speed, so they start behaving like desperate people, and desperate people have little regard for the rules or for the wellbeing of others.

Combine that with the feeling of moral superiority which inflicts those of an environmentalist bent when they're doing something which they consider virtuous, and you've got a recipe for major jerkhood.
If you go to the guestbook [1], you'll find this gem: You know, I would have hooked this up and made it work, but I'm scared of the horrors you monsters would write here.

1. http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/under-construction/guestboo...
The thing we need in the United States are traffic tickets. A lot of people get tickets on freeways (where there is a dedicated highway patrol that exists only to write speeding tickets), but nobody gets ticketed on surface streets, no matter how badly they drive. I see garbage trucks barrelling through red lights at 45mph. I see taxis driving the wrong way down one-way streets. I see black cars driving 60mph down narrow residential streets. This has to be stopped, or people will keep dying in traffic.

The city-wide speed limit in NYC is 25mph, unless marked down to 20mph in special areas. This law needs to be enforced aggressively. Drivers don't need a big fine; I bet people will adjust their behavior from just a stern talking-to and a $20 ticket or something.

As it stands right now, people are needlessly dying for no reason. Driving in the city, all your time is sucked up by sitting at traffic lights. It doesn't matter how fast you get to the next traffic light, because if you're speeding, it's going to be red.

(There was an interesting pilot program to give $50 tickets to people exceeding the speed limit by 30mph in school zones. Tons of opposition. This makes me think what we really need to do is just start closing roads to private vehicles. People think they're entitled to run over children at 50mph, just because they fucking feel like it. Where did we go so wrong!?)

Looking out my window on a small residential street in Brooklyn, I'm always amazed at the traffic snarl. It's basically a dead-end street. And yet someone is always double-parked, preventing fire trucks from going through. One time a fire truck got boxed in by someone double-parked, and an MTA service vehicle that double-parked behind it. Eventually the MTA vehicle got towed away, and the fire truck slowly backed out. Hope it wasn't an important building that was burning down.
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> Instead, I'll say that just as people walking need physically protected infrastructure on essentially all roadways - these are called sidewalks - so too people on bicycles need physically protected infrastructure on essentially all roadways

Where do we stop? Should we have skateboard lanes as well? Unicycle lanes? Lanes for people who wish to taxi down the road in a Learjet?

We can't accommodate every form of transportation with its own infrastructure.
My oven has a top element, a bottom one and a fan. Somehow it has seven settings and a temperature knob. It's awful. Thanks Smeg.
> Cyclists need to learn red lights apply to them to.

As do motorists. Cars go through red lights all the time but we don't seem to notice, for some reason. If you'd been hit by cars this year, you would have suffered far more serious injuries and possibly death. That hardly ever happens with bikes.

My figures for KSI are possibly a little out of date, there are actually 180,000 of them each year in the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reported_Road_Casualties_Great...

> 40k deaths from impact from car, or 40k deaths from pollution?

I think it's clear I was talking about pollution there.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/02February/Pages/Air-pollution-k...

> 'There had previously been a focus on pollution from solid fuel burning, such as coal – which, as a result, fell dramatically. However, this has been replaced by concerns about exposure to pollutants from transport sources, especially cars. Even the "cleanest" of engines can produce nitrogen oxides, ozone and particulates – small specks of matter, such as soot. All three may have a potentially harmful effect on health.'
Oh the irony, you really should have finished reading before commenting, as this is very explicitly addressed in the story. It could be argued that this is exactly what makes it realistic or at least provides verisimilitude.
My grandmother has a switch like this one [1]. Now the switch is like 60 years old. The scroll under the switch is to dim light, far-right - provides max power to light bulbs, far-left, minimum power, but light bulb still works. Button above it just turns it on and off. It's beautiful, works after decades, shows state from distance, it's practical. I wish it was still sold. Now I need application for mobile device, WiFi to achieve the same...

http://img04.olx.pl/images_tablicapl/358414699_2_261x203_sci...

http://img12.staticclassifieds.com/images_tablicapl/39291169...
Shouldn't it be "Micro kernel written in C++" ?
>> bicyclists should have to follow exactly the same rules as drivers

I mean....where the hell do you live where they do not? Everything about giving priority, obeying traffic lights, one-way streets, should absolutely apply to bicycles, how can it possibly not?
And whether your blue is the same as mine...
Impostor syndrome isn't always a "syndrome". Some people really have lucked into positions which they don't deserve.
sort of. The run z/Architecture CPUs which implement a lot of backwards compatibility.

In the old days you had various modules you connected with dedicated CPUs for certain tasks, you'd pay more for them. These days they have a bunch of CPUs and the amount of money you pay IBM determines what those CPUs can do.

There's no physical difference between the Linux CPU, the DB2 CPU and the Java CPU, they're all the same as the main CPUs. IBM just charge you more for general purpose CPUs.
In California, bicycles also must follow the same rules as other vehicles. It is unlikely that is the issue in San Francisco, it is more of a lack of respect for bike lanes and seeing it as an inconvenience. Our culture here is so car oriented that it is showing its ugly side from every angle.
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GIF is an excellent example of how constraints facilitate creativity.
You sure you are talking about the Bay? That's exactly what happens in Geneva.
This is what happens when bikes follow rules designed for cars:

http://archives.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/07/30/this-is-wh...

It's patently stupid to have the same rules for bikes as it is for cars since they are completely different vehicles.

Now perhaps this is a case of semantics: The Highway Code has rules for all users of highways, but obviously within those rules some apply to cars, some to pedestrians, and some to cyclists. Still point remains that the specific rules are different depending on what vehicle you're in, and we'd be wise to think critically about this.

A good example of this is the Idaho Stop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
Previous discussion from a few years back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888705
This is why you should never rely on any government to take care of you in retirement. Save for your own damn retirement and retire on your own damn schedule.
I'm surprised that they haven't cracked the full-silicon problem yet. We were looking at silicon quantum cascade lasers as a replacement for 3/5 QCLs back in college as an undergraduate project way back in 2006, and the lab PI seemed to think that the problem would be solved in two-three years. Unfortunately I had rent to pay, so I had to leave the project and start writing software for a living.

I should probably drop my old professor a line and ask her what the happened after I left...
Yes, I'm aware of this being an error in JSON (which is precisely the point of the discussion). I wasn't aware that it's a problem in C. Maybe gcc is more lenient here.
Is a neuroscientist more qualified than a physicist on this particular topic?

Personally I'd leave it to the philosophy guys since we're that far from any understanding of it.
I got dizzy when looking at the bottom of the page where the space (stars etc..) background is used. I'm quite glad sites aren't made like that anymore. I also love to be reminded of the following:

"Moving items attract the visitors' eye. This is a well-established UX principle."
That means BEAM - Pony is not a fair comparison, because cooperative schedulers solve a much simpler algorithmic problem.
Nothing? How do you mean that? Sure, it's not in the vicinity, e.g. machine learning has more to do with statistics and AI but nothing? I'm surprised by that statement, maybe I'm taking it too literal perhaps.

I mean, the way neural nets behave in computer vision implies some form of attention. On some benchmarks neurons and deep learning have almost the same biological output (poorly phrased, was from a talk that NG gave). Perceiving, or parts of perception have something to do with consciousness. Attention has something to do with consciousness.

And you don't have to agree on everything I say, I'm typing/thinking quickly. My point is: machine learning has at least something to do with consciousness.

Neural nets are loosely inspired from the brain (and a ton of math). So it could perhaps nuance certain neuroscientific findigs in some cases or the other way around (e.g., neural net designs for the visual system or other brain systems). Anyways, that's how I get the connection.

A stone brick and consciousness, that has nothing to do with each other, nothing practical/inspirational anyway.
What's with this? You have floor you're on and a floor you want to go to. If some else presses a button before the lift passes, pick them up too. Awfully conventional, but everyone understands it.
Well it technically does apply in a purely legal sense. However many cyclists don't really care and I've never heard of a any cyclist suffering any legal consequence because of this.
It's a lot easier to detect and blur faces than to detect people, remove them and then try and fill in what was removed.
It doesn't, but perhaps what many people are thinking is that in costructing more and more capable learning models, we'll get closer to what human brain does. It's not very likely, but hard to tell what will really happen. As an example, some of the deep dream pictures do really look like what people are hallucinating.
> linked most highly to success in therapy is the strength of the relationship between therapist and client

Have there been many studies looking at how the client-therapist relationship itself effects the client? Wouldn't having a non-judgmental person with whom you can comfortably confide it, whom you know is making a concerted effort to help you improve your well being, have some noticeable improvement on your condition, regardless of whether they were a trained professional?

Or put another way, is there anyone who finds themselves in therapy largely because they have no close friends?
Visarga is saying the data provided by computational neuroscience is a good candidate for analysis by machine learning so that the we can find statistical patterns that may help elucidate the processes that we consciousness comes from.
Try induction. As a side skill you can learn to arc weld with a potato instead of a welding rod.
Yes, I'm referring to what was described in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11072085
Github says the code is 72.6% C and 19.3% C++.

Personally, I wouldn't call that 'definitely C' or 'definitely C++'

The Linux kernel, just for reference, is 95.7% C and only 2% C++
Seems like a good way to launder money.
Can you expand on how buying a TV saves you $200 a year ?
It is possible without communication (also without seeing what the other players do).
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That site doesn't get any more information than any other site. No login is required.
To turn on the light, you need something emitting a bit of light when it's dark, not when everything is visible. The major problem with most of the designs are too bright LEDs. They could actually be made to shine so little to be only recognizable in the dark.
Yeah, the pedestrians don't do themselves a service either. Crossing on red is common and now in the uprise of having something in your ears or looking at something in your hands there are a lot of obvious missteps into a cyclists line. I think we should not be as quick to dismiss dasil003's comment. We can all back off a bit, cyclists, drivers, and pedestrians alike. Stop riding the edge, back off, and just take an extra second to proceed, an extra one or two seconds can make all the difference.
>In the spirit of the article, by being so open, the shopkeeper demonstrated trust in a complete stranger.

I disagree. What I found so distressing about this anecdote is that to me it seemed likely that such overt racism could only exist somewhere it was systemic. However I'm now of course judging all of (Munich?) based on this one anecdote so clearly no better than the shopkeeper!
You need to visit a kitchen showroom. The knobs have vanished and you have stupid bits of glass that don't do anything then go up 3 increments when they finally recognise input.
"but I'd rather be happy than right"

Me too, to add: I'd rather be both ;)
Gov't to back AI technology development in medical, production sectors
I don't get it; how can one be sceptical of something which has been happening for centuries? How many scribes copying books by hand do you know? The interoperability issues - which are mostly a matter of politics (in a broad sense), not technology - will certainly affect how fast certain jobs can be automated, but that automation does and will happen is undeniable.
A bicycle helmet changes the probabilities significantly towards survival, in all crash types.

In majority of bicycle deaths, the most serious injuries are to the head, and the "dinky" helmet is what makes a difference.

A large majority of bicycle deaths are low speed accidents. (Over here (Finland) a majority of them actually does not even involve a motor vehicle; here we have a pretty good segregated bike/pedestrian route network.)
Blind people can gently touch the wall, find the buttons, and figure out which one is up, because it's over the down button.

Try that with a touch screen.
Ahh, I recall that we ordered an upgrade of the system hardware because we needed 4 more CPUs, and this was accomplished by sending a code that unlocked extra CPUs that had been sitting in our basement all along since the day they installed that system.
In game theoretic terms, is there a best strategy for a game like this, other than not playing?
The issue is not about forgetting something. XML elements are self-contained, you don't need to separate them, thus you don't need to known the context. If you generate XML programmatically, each function can just push its object into the stream and be done. With JSON you need to know if your object is last or first at this level of hierarchy, so you know if you need to insert a comma or not.

Commas were meant to be used in code that you actually type. Using them as separators in a format that is meant to be produced and consumed by computers is clear, simple, and wrong.
The last I saw of OMF2097 it was very crashy in DOSBox.

If anyone knows enough to debug why it's crashing, let me know.
He does make a good point. Living conditions in the city being what they are, especially when concerning available space ... is it any wonder people aren't having kids ?

Of course that's the egocentric/egoistic/materialistic/economic argument. And of course nobody wants get caught that that's the main argument. Yes pretty much everyone I know that has enough money for a decent place, no matter how against kids they used to be, has kids. Turning 30 is illuminating. More sad is, that I also know quite a few that don't have a decent place.
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... because C is the language of the future?
I see setjmp/longjmp used a lot in recursive descent parsers in C.

I think people got tired of using up their return values for error codes. And it is more efficient to use this style certainly than manually breaking out of each stack frame.

C is full of things like this which break abstractions -- it doesn't seem particularly odd to me. Though I do remember that it was one of the things at the end of C books that I didn't understand for a long time.

What's the downside?

It doesn't play well with C++ because destructors have to be run at the end of every scope, but that doesn't apply to C.

And I guess because it mutates globals, it is a bit confusing in a threaded context.
I propose the following modification to HN moderation:

Comments that fall along entirely predictable, nonproductive back-and-forth lines: in this case, expressions of hostility between cyclists and non-cyclists, should be deleted. There should perhaps be a link to previous iterations of the discussion, or to neutral resources on how urban planning can integrate cyclists.

This comment has been made with the deliberate decision to not read anything else written in this thread. The topic and the fact there are 100+ posts tells me everything I need to know about what's in it.
This is interesting, because I don't understand why turning eggs would increase their shelf life. Does anyone know if this is actually works, and why?
Getting pictures on the screen via an aerial presumably incurs a tax. So don't connect aerial and use a different system and don't pay.
> I don't think non-cyclists realize how much risk you take on when you ride in the city.

The only times I saw cyclists in a risky position, they were not respecting neither driving code nor common sense (ex: overtaking on the wrong side, in a narrow space between moving cars and pavement, at an unreasonable speed; or the more classical: ignoring red lights, priorities or forbidden directions).