skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I chose my wording very carefully: "you will save the lives of four randomly selected people who would otherwise die." This is the utilitarian bottom line.

But you're right, four versus none is not the same as five versus one. And five versus one in the abstract is not the same as these five versus that one. The details matter. That is the point I was trying to make.
I don't see any commercial company catching up with the really hard problems like "pedestrian behind hedge" or "policeman's hand signals" or whatever. What I see from the commercial companies is little more advanced than "automated lane keeping and sometimes recognizing a red light, at least when cars in front stop." (OK, in being a little uncharitable, but it's to illustrate the problem.)
Parent comment is agreeing with absurdity of the claim (using sarcasm) made by the committee and probably agrees with both your points (though I wouldn't want to put words in their mouth, or is it type words with their fingers?).
> Stuff that should be easy but isn't is a strong indicator of technical debt.

It can also be an indicator that there is noone working on it. It's common to have fix which are relatively easy but noone to implement them.
I look forward to discover what another specie might have to say. Its a first encounter type of scenario in our own backyard.
> Each year, the Japanese government expects dozens of people to die from eating ill-prepared blowfish

My reading of that is, at least 24 Japanese die every year from eating ill-prepared fugu.

But then comes the following paragraph:

>Chefs undergo rigorous training to receive fugu accreditation and yet, the Japanese government projects that 30 to 50 people will be poisoned each year due to ill-prepared blowfish, and several have died in the past decade.

"Several have died in the past decade" means in 10 years, less than 12-10 have died, which translates to about 1 death every year.

That does not compute with the first quoted paragraph, or did I miss something?
Like everything else there are grey areas here too.

As a child we were taught food is scared because people put efforts into it over years. In fact we uttered a prayer that meant "Food is God and consuming is worship." But I strongly disagree with that when people talk about food in train.

I travelled in the general/sleeper classes often and so many times people would generously offer food and then steal your belonging because the food was spiked. A lot of families would carry their gas stoves in the train and fucking cook food in the running train which is a fire hazard. It was as if these people would not eat outside food for one day.

People fought, got violent when confronted.

Today most trains have pantry cars and an amazing food culture of railway stations that changes every few 100 miles. I would say enjoy that.
I don't think war and conquering has gone out of style so much as it has become way too costly to pursue. We haven't actually become more righteous.
The tunnels are likely still there at the HP (whichever division owns PCs) campus in Houston. They were there in late 2000s.
Yes, it does. Gtk3.
PhD Math Graph
In a way, P4 is still in very early stage. As others pointed out, Barefoot Networks is proposing their Tofino chip.

To get a taste of what is P4 like, you can get started with the Behavioural Model [1], which you can imagine as some sort of emulator over x86. My understanding is that it is also being reworked in C++ [2].

Finally, there's a module coming up for OpenVSwitch.

[1] https://github.com/p4lang/p4factory

[2] https://github.com/p4lang/behavioral-model
US Air Force grounds F-35 fighter jets
I moved to SF in the early 90s. I think you can pin the large homeless population on several things. One is the climate. If you had to pick a place to be homeless, this would be one of the best places. Another is it is relatively safe compared to other cities. But most importantly you can blame Ronald Reagan for dismantling the states mental health infrastructure. Institutionalizing people has its downsides, but its more humane than letting people overdose on a sidewalk. It also doesn't help that other municipalities have a habit of dumping their social services burdens on San Francisco (one way buses from Nevada, etc). I don't see anything changing until we have a national or at least regional mental health system that can actually deal with the scale of the problem.
Can someone provide an estimate of how much it would cost to make one course accessible.

Or rather:

1. What would be the cost to transcribe a one hour video?

Does the transcriber need any knowledge apart from English? (and presumably a one week course so that when the teacher points at something, it goes into the transcription)

2. What would be the cost to take an unformatted text, and format it in accord to guidelines?

3. What would be the cost to make a one-page website accessible? What kind of change does it entail?

4. In the matter of 'poor contrast', would a color transformation applied to the video be enough to comply (to the letter of the law)? Would it be enough to make it accessible (i.e.: comply to the spirit of the law)?
AFAIK, the requirement that "[no] chart or graph [should] differentiate information only by color" seems to make sure that at least some manual video editing is necessary.

5. Is it the case that, in any part of the process, the transcriber/developer/editor/worker involved needs (by law) a certain qualification, or can anyone (in principle) do the work?

6. Are there any other measures necessary?
I think a chef's main task involves carefully removing the parts of a fugu where the toxins are known to be concentrated.
91% of donations going towards the intended recipients is almost too-good-to-be-true.

I volunteered for a small locally run charity in a Nairobi slum and observed that for every dollar received, the Director would use up to 60% towards maintaining him and his family. This, I was told, is the norm.
Who is literal conservatives though? If they're the ones who want to keep status quo, then center-left would be current europe's conservatives. The traditional right-leaning conservatives would be kinda progressive at the moment..?
There are nice tools like "which-key" which massively reduce the work of remembering shortcuts. They are, incidentally, only shortcuts. The menus work as well.
>Doesn't every CS program everywhere have courses like that? My brother is finishing up a CS at an Ivy

LOLno, not unless you think all school are Ivies. I go to NC State, all of our CV classes (believe me, I've tried to get into some..) are limited to our ECE department, and even then they are on the graduate level. We do have some AI and data mining classes available to undergrads but none that would be sufficient for the sorts of techniques modern autonomous vehicles use. No robotics/mechatronics available for CS as well.

It's honestly kind of disheartening if you're interested in these sorts of things.
was going to be a trade network
Historical material is warmly welcomed here, and some of the best posts we see. Interesting historical material that hasn't appeared on HN before is particularly great.

We've added 1986 to the title, although the author says he updated the article in 2015.
It's possible that there is also a script that alters the markup after the page loads.
No, these 'development' environments point to other services in 'staging'.
>You seem upset that I didn't address the entirety of someone else's comment, but instead only part of it

I seem upset with you responding to an idea that wasn't actually in a comment. Conflating the ideas of the author of a piece you disagree with, and the poster you initially replied to, is wrong, plain and simple. It's intellectually dishonest and doesn't belong on a forum like HN. You should know better -- you're ostensibly a power user around here. That's why I asked about the trolling, because this is pretty obviously that. 'zelon88 claimed the autistic man in question was a 'genius', you then attacked the idea that the US was embarassed by the hacks, which 'zelon88 didn't claim. It's very simple.

>But so long as the part we choose to address isn't taken out of context or inconsistent somehow with the rest of the comment, responding to the entirety of someone else's comment is unnecessary --- in fact, it's unproductive, if you don't have much to say about it

Are you seriously trying to claim that grabbing a single word out of a comment, fixating on it, and then continuing by attacking an idea not present in the comment is somehow not "out of context or inconsistent somehow with the rest of the comment"?!

So, in case this wasn't clear to you:

I object to the notion that the person who said "he's a genius" and the person who said "these hacks embarassed the US" are the same person when they're obviously, verifiably not. I've linked both posts ('zelon88's and your initial reply) several times now! Is it that you don't care?

You're not fooling me; yet you are replying. Perhaps you're fooling yourself? If this doesn't clear things up, then it surely must be trolling. Since you opened the comment above this one with an intentional misrepresentation of my argument (and the rest of the comment flowed from there), it's gotta be trolling.
Of course, but if they're not always successful, their secondary task should perhaps be to test their food to make sure it's safe.
I'm really trying to make notes on the office hours with Qasar and Kevin but the pace is just so fast today. I think I'm going to have to go back and revisit once these videos are posted myself.
This is fascinating - I wonder what sort of information they're able (and interested) to communicate to each other - food? locations? types of food? captivity? That could become an awkward conversation...
> I am leaning towards using HTTP. RPC doesn't seem like it would be a good idea in 2016.

Quite the contrary. RPC is an excellent idea in 2016, if you're willing to
forego "trendiness". It gives you pretty much the same as you're getting from
what people today call "REST API", but already has defined how to report
call results and errors and doesn't require you to juggle with API endpoint
URLs, so it's a win in pretty much every field.

> I would then have to expose a RPC service to the world.

Yet you don't seem concerned with exposing the same thing with the same
operations with HTTP.

> I don't have any background in deploying an RPC service, but I do know how to deploy and secure a HTTP service to the world.

Use some HTTP-based RPC protocol, then. Little difference, really.
The Road to CocoaPods 1.0
> This is a very interesting situation (and not a very common one for me) because it is where Go’s simple errors as values decisions shines. Doing this kind of thing with exceptions would be pretty clumsy, [...]

Just because a language supports exceptions does not mean you always have to use them. You can always use a helper function to catch any error and return it as a value.
In their defence: that's the whole point of AdWords, so it's not like this isn't already being done. It really is a creepy idea though not to mention antithetical to Western ideals. Furthermore the suggestion in the article that the "potential recruits" be arrested is incredibly disturbing.
The reason they are even at the border is that they are enticed by welfare in countries like Germany and Sweden. There are relatively rich nations with nobody at the border, like Saudi Arabia.

To the degree Africa is unlivable it's because of Africans and their high birthrate (but most of it is not unlivable at all, it's just that Europe is richer and you get free everything).

Either the EU closes its borders or immigration will be the end of Europe. Don't pretend you don't understand this.
Prominent contributor to Slackware laid off from his (unrelated) job
When the bits become tied to the region somehow, like better transport through autonomous cars, maybe there will be more of an incentive for tech companies to invest like how Rockefeller pushed for mandatory public education to create the next generation of obedient, literate, factory workers and how Ford built an entire city around his manufacturing plants and created the idea of weekends and minimum wage in order to reduce turnovers. Nothing like that is happening or happening at scale in tech companies, but it's changing. Incentives are aligning.
How WD-40 created a learning-obsessed culture?
having written that list of questions, I am left quite sure that the cost of making a course accessible is above 1000$ per course, and my best guess is 5000-10000$.

1. Do you disagree?

2. How many courses does UCB make available to the public for free?
(on edX, this number seems to be around 50)
My sister is a white, blonde girl, and she did a volunteering program in India 2 years ago, some remote village in the middle of nowhere.

She said that basically everyone in the village came over to touch her skin and hair, because they have never seen such a pale person(and blonde hair).
2004 well predates the deep learning leaps we have made recently.
> I have commonly heard them say homeless people choose to be homeless.

I believe that's an old meme. I first experienced it among middle class Mexicans. I heard them say "the poor stay poor because they choose to" more times than I remember.

It boggles the mind.
3200 is grainy, true. But usually it's not too bad. I just don't think with 800 you'll get that many stars and the richness of the Milky Way. If I didn't live in LA I would try ISO 800 tonight and compare with 3200 but I'll have to wait until I get to a dark place again.
Only in principle. San Francisco's occupation of the extreme ends of those scales is what makes it particularly interesting.
Golang landmines
Year-round mild weather is a big factor in "homeless capital" status. There are plenty of other factors, though. Cool cities, cities where people in general want to live, have a lot more homeless folks; of the places I've been, homelessness was most common in the "great" cities: Austin, SF, Portland, San Diego, Dallas, NYC.

But they have other commonalities: They're expensive to live in, and owning or renting a home in those places is more expensive than a lot of surrounding cities. They have an existing community of homeless folks, and it's easier to live homeless if you're not alone.

I know a bunch of street kids and traveling kids, who choose homelessness (or, at least don't try very hard to not be homeless from day to day). There's a list of places they travel among, particularly down the west coast. Seattle, Portland, Eugene, trimming weed in northern California, SF, Venice Beach, Slab City. Sometimes, they go for specific opportunities. Sometimes, they go for easy access to drugs (Eugene is infamous for easy access to psychadelics, and the old home of Ken Kesey and the Pranksters). Sometimes they go because that's where they can jump on and off of trains or where they can hitch a ride to/from.

Very small towns are viewed as a really bad idea for homeless folks for the same reasons. It's hard to hitch a ride out when there's only a half dozen people leaving town each day. It's hard to find food, drugs, money, a safe place to sleep, when there aren't a lot of people walking around shopping and such, or other homeless folks to interact with. Police in small towns often feel empowered to be more aggressive with homeless populations, because they're often alone or in small groups, and the local populace is already suspicious of outsiders, so very little pressure to not treat homeless folks terribly. It's dangerous to be homeless in many small towns.

So, yeah. There's a lot of reasons for SF to have a big homeless population. Partly it's just that SF has a large population in general (for its size); dense cities have dense and visible homeless populations. It isn't "The Capital" for homeless folks, but it definitely has a larger than average homeless population for a city of its size.
I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
With a Type-1 hypervisor on a box with an IOMMU, different VMs can serve as router, NAS, desktop and personal cloud. Router and NAS VMs would have dedicated PCI devices, the rest can be virtual. Easy to try different router distros.
For tens to hundreds of thousands of years, humans found ways to be happy without cars, electricity, or central heating too, so why does it seem like air travel is always the poster boy for "you're so hypocritical about fighting climate change" statements?
Honestly, such projects keep me shivering at night. This time it is ISIS, next time it is an anti-google activist group, a political movement or what ever. If anyone should have such power, it should be the government and not a private actor. Even then it is very brave new world like. And then they even extend it to giving notice of persons who might be sympesizing with ISIS: thoughtcrime, more or less. I am avare that almost everybody is doing similar things on the net but still, this is alarming
Couldn't read it because of the video ads.

I don't mind ads, but that was too much.
Interesting. We've got a Vive in the office, and the limited resolution is a serious downer. Everything looks like it's 800x600, no matter how far away it is.
It's the end of Europe, brace yourselves. It's not going to help that many there share similar (wrong) beliefs about why Northern Africa is going to hell, so you'll waste time on draconian measures that won't help in the slightest.

I can understand the desire to feel like you have something in your control though, when the reality is so very different.
It depends the discipline, I guess.. I turned to MIT courses from time to time when the ones (EE, Control Systems) at my University were too theoretical and I needed something more accessible (I wasn't the brightest).

Sure, we'd design RST controllers, on pages of paper, but I wanted to actually apply that knowledge.

I remember discovering OCW and the first image they showed was magnetic levitation and they had a lab where they had fun. In our lab, we'd crunch the numbers with pen and paper, then see how good our kung-fu was looking at how the system behaved on MATLAB.

Damn you, people with gear in their labs touching things and having fun!

Fun fact: our programming exams were with pen and paper where you'd write programs (x86-PIC ASM, C, Pascal) (you'd better debug it on another sheet before you turned it in).
This is old news, new rules came out as a result this month: http://www.curling.ca/blog/2016/09/11/curling-canada-adopts-...
But most importantly you can blame Ronald Reagan for dismantling the states mental health infrastructure.

Please do some reading on this. Your comment is a gross oversimplification and ignores a lot of other factors, namely the fact that institutionalizing people against their will was regarded as inhumane. Mental health was defunded after it was decided to release these folks. Just like in most western countries.
It's an instinctive and defensive response. The problem has to be explained away somehow and victim blaming is the simplest tactic for explaining away inconvenient and complicated truths.

I've caught myself imagining what it would be like to be homeless and how I'd go about things. I always think the first thing I'd try to do is sign up for some kind of social welfare program and work my way out of whatever rut I was in but this is clearly the wrong perspective. It becomes much harder to plan for things when you are socially ostracized and malnourished. Your IQ takes a huge hit and mental capacities start to slowly and consistently wither away. Then it becomes clear that it is definitely not a choice when you end up in such a situation. Making good choices that compound becomes exponentially harder. So the usual agency that regular people take for granted and the perspective they analyze the problem from simply does not exist for the homeless person and saying "it's a choice" in the words of a famous physicist is "not even wrong".
Part of the article's main points (particularly in part 2) is that alcoholism was rampant and yet tolerated or even ignored in Norway, and alcoholic debauches were widely encouraged and are an accepted and even lauded part of Norwegian culture:

"There are several acceptable forms of non-conformism for the future ruling citizens of the land, beginning with weeks of drunken school-leaving Bacchanalia called
'Russ' that doubtless sets the style for many persons' lifetime of periodic heavy drinking. A sad example to youth, a sadder comment on the level to which one must sink
at the height of one's youth if one is to be not just in the swim, but to be included or reckoned at all. This form of rites de passage, staying up as many nights as
one can to drink as much as one can, sets the pattern for the average well-adjusted citizen... persons who will have social alcohol dependencies for the rest of their
normal lives and many of whom will be periodic heavy drinkers. This supposedly intelligent form of behaviour proves manhood and womanhood in Norway, and it sets a kind
of standard for a larger percentage of the future adults than one would believe." (much more detail on this in part 2 of the article[1])

That doesn't sound very temperate to me.

Then there's use of nicotine, prescription drugs, caffeine. Perfectly legal, but the fist two could have quite serious negative effects on one's health or the health of others (often much worse than many illegal drugs), and the latter is usually taken for non-medical reasons -- reasons which are usually considered immoral if the substance in question is illegal.

[1] - http://www.robertpriddy.com/Nos/Nor2.html
Think how much are the salaries to fill 50 seats => $40k is a drop in the sea.

I can understand that this pricing model doesn't appeal to amateurs and micro teams working in their free time. I can also understand that Unity doesn't care about this [non] customer base.
Wow. Good on DE-CIX.
Balloon Flight Opens Door to Lowering Cost for Solar Research
They don't have the same feature of "I can call a method on a null value", at least, not that I've seen... You are calling them identical features when the fact is that they aren't. C# and Java both have generics, do they perform identical? Haskell has generics too, but I bet they'd throw a shit-fit if you tried to say "Oh, C# has generics too, so why would I bother with Haskell?"
> Looks useful but I found it was too much effort to fill out

The primary purpose of this tool is to help someone choose an OS, which is a significant decision for many people. If a 5-10 minute survey to help answer this question is too much work, I don't think you are the target audience.
Eh. The city passed laws to regulate how much for-profit businesses impinged on the public. Food smells in the air, signs and patio chairs on the public sidewalk. Especially if we're talking about a typical patio that actually impinges on the public sidewalk. Regulating that doesn't seem unreasonable.

And if everybody else has to follow those laws, why should your friend's place be any different? Why should a competing business have to bear the expense of installing a filtration system, then sit idly by while someone sets up shop next door and flouts that regulation?

This is where part of the criticism of cabs is unfair. Cabs aren't allowed to maximize their profits through the perfect price discrimination offered by dynamic pricing. Stuff like Pool and $1 fares are illegal for cab companies to do. So why shouldn't they complain when Uber competes with them without following regulations they have to follow?

Your complaint sounds like those people who get mad when someone rats them out for cheating in class.
Probably that a normal person would not care about the distance or length of a sign from the street unless it was ridiculous.