skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worse because it makes matters worse. To put pressure on people in order to get them to do as you want in politics is going to have the opposite effect of what you intend to achieve if the result is to isolate those that you wish to influence.

I've never ever been able to get someone to see things my way by forcing them to break their connection with a person or they'd lose me.

But I have been able to convince people to switch to another political candidate by systematic analysis of what made them choose their favorite over someone more moderate (here in NL we have a bit of a problem, politically speaking).

If instead I would have told them if they voted 'x' they'd have to stop seeing me I wouldn't have achieved anything.

Polarization and isolation are the tools of the demagogue, and the wannabe dictator. They have no place in a functioning democracy, and as of now the US still seems to be one of those. All bets are off if trump clearly loses the election and refuses to concede, an option he apparently explicitly keeps open. That's flirting with civil war and quite amazing given that there is zero precedent for any of the other candidates in the history of the states doing anything like that and as far as I'm concerned for that reason alone Trump should lose by a very large margin.

Anyway, as for Thiel, which is how this whole discussion started, he's the person to pressure, if you feel that he mis-applied his funds. Nothing a counter-donation to the other camp couldn't fix to achieve parity, and a way for Thiel to escape all this without too much egg on his face.
It's difficult. obviously if you were to intervene (for example by pretending to take an interest) to help, the scammer would realize what you are doing.

you are saying that your mother is not senile, and is just (acting) 'stupid'. But if this is the case, why don't you ask her about the details (excuses and so forth)?

Has she told you things like, "Yes, I realize that there are scams, but this is not one of them."

Is she otherwise intelligent? If she is intelligent and you got as far as her saying, "Yes, I realize there are scams, but this is not oen of them" then you could discuss rationally how you know...

the scammer could also kind of believe it from their end.
Yep - there was an article last year that pointed out the distinct correlation between a classic Win32 WndProc and a React+Flux-style architecture: https://bitquabit.com/post/the-more-things-change/ .

But yeah, as I've said in a few recent comments, Dan and Andrew made some excellent decisions while designing Redux, and those decisions have helped Redux hit a sweet spot for concepts and use cases.
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I'm sympathetic to Rowe's argument that people who don't care or don't know what they're talking about shouldn't vote, but that's different than saying they should be prevented from voting. If I'm remembering correctly, Rowe said that we shouldn't encourage people to vote who aren't otherwise motivated. I don't see anything wrong with that, but the issue then becomes what barriers you're setting up.
If the barriers we set up are costs, either for an ID card or lost wages, I think it's pretty easy to argue that we're excluding poor people, not uninformed people. If, on the other hand, the barrier is you have to mail in a ballot, then that's probably acceptable.

I think the best thing we can do is try to find ways to inform more people about public policy issues, not ways to casually disenfranchise apathetic or uninformed citizens.
There's nothing wrong with that. But this solves a different problem. You can't (easily) bring your ps4 set up on the bus with you.
Yes.

It all depends on your background. How many languages do you speak already? How many do you program in?

Are you learning "mainstream" Spanish, or a dialect? PHP for WordPress or PHP for Laravel? PHP 5 or PHP 7?

This morning, I was thinking about sí vs si and how confusing that was when I was first learning Spanish. Before I understood they were two different words, I had to wrap my brain around a different way of thinking when I put a sentence together.

I learned PHP in the 4.x days, and it was so close to writing C or basic Java. It could be embedded in HTML content like a JSP snippet. I just had to learn a little syntax.
Just 27% of employees believe in their company’s values
free supercharger use assumes not using the car as a taxi
One way to accomplish this would be with, ironically, a Google Voice-type service (but associated with a completely independent email provider)
Firefox wasn't designed to run Angular in an extension on webpage DOM. Angular wasn't designed to run in Firefox extensions on webpage DOM. Nether has a vulnerability, when used as designed.

It's not safe for a 3 year old to drive a car, even if there's nothing wrong with the baby or the car.
Taking a bad offer starts everyone off on the wrong foot. Additionally, the founders are such an important part of an early product's success or failure, you should have some upside that you are excited about and so should your team, to a lesser degree.

Additionally, it's really hard to go from founder to working for someone else. REALLY HARD! REALLY REALLY HARD! The acquirer knows that and so should you. If they really want the founders, they'll craft an attractive retention plan.

Negotiate. If they don't know that you're considering shutting down, use that to your advantage. Depending on your situation, product and team size, as well as the situation of your acquirer, get help. Do you have advisors / investors? They'll know the players and the game or will be able to point you towards someone who does. If someone wants what you have, someone else probably does too; creating demand will help ensure you get the best value.
> They seem to massively change something every 10 minutes.

> in essence very little has changed since

?

The one thing Microsoft is great at is compatibility. Your existing projects can keep using the older frameworks and they're still supported and will run just fine. What is the issue? If it's about learning the new changes, then it's probably best to wait until everything (framework + tooling) are final so you only have to learn once.
Respectfully, the Hop and Skip in Boulder (as well as the Flatiron Flyer) aren't BRT - they are just plain old busses. A crucial part of BRT is dedicated lanes.

Don't get me wrong. I think transit here in Denver/Boulder is pretty good, but we don't have BRT (despite what RTD tells us).
If a Chrome extension has permissions to an origin, then it can freely make cross-domain requests to it from any page. So if you have an extension using Angular 1.x on every page and then browse to a malicious page, then the page could contain text in the DOM that Angular evals from within the extension. That code could then make an AJAX request to any origin with your cookies, and make requests for your bank info or emails and do things like steal data or change your passwords.
Then don't put a high range and put what you are actually expecting to spend on your new hire?

It sounds to me like the argument for not putting a salary is because the business doesn't actually know what they are looking for.
Chromes extension APIs do not provide the level of access that Firefox APIs do.
I disagree. I think it's a massive lack of imagination on the part of manufacturers that has led to mediocre deployments.

I think your comment reflects a sentiment that I agree with which is that HMD based systems today do not give the same degree of awe that happened when the NES came out - or even the playstation.

I'd rather see Nintendo invest heavily ($5BN+) in an AR VRD and infrastructure that changes the landscape. But nobody seems to want to do that. Again I chalk it up to lack of imagination/leadership.
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In Chrome content scripts (the ones that are injected into a page from an extension) run in some kind of isolated mode: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/content_scripts

Yet they have some privileges a normal script doesn't have, for example the ability to post messages to parent extension which can be exploited.
>...making Muni a system of handouts instead of pulling free ride funding from the Feds or the general fund.

Can you expand on this part, please? Are you saying that some of this is an accounting issue?
In your call with customer support, questions are asked to verify your identity.

They aren't as accurate as physically showing your ID, however. Not that I'd want my ID digitized though.
To be safely aware of its surroundings, an autonomous vehicle must have two types of sensors in each direction - this setup is not safe enough.

I would also have proof of 10 million kilometers of simulated rides with no accident, and a third party organization not under the control of Tesla who creates some really tough repeatable challenges, both simulated and in the real world, that a vehicle manufacturer has to pass.

Challenges should include:

- thin wire tensioned over the street.

- the combination of super heavy rain with lighting, thick fog and people suddenly running onto the street

- passing by a soccer field and ball bounces over the street. Car should stop because it can be reasonably expected that a child will run blindly onto the street after the ball

- have obstacles that minimally invade into the minimum clearance outline of the current planned course. Car should plot an alternative course if it is possible or stop. Obstacles should appear in the last moment possible and car should always do the right thing.

- proof that the car can always detect street boundaries, any obstacle, and especially humans. It should be 100% correct or side on the safe side every time. At night, in a rain storm with super thick smog and hail. I'm not joking.

These are the minimum limits before any self-driving car should be able to drive on public roads, imho.
And the thing about the virtual console games is that after you've bought them 3 or 4 times from Nintendo, piracy starts to look real appealing.
Government data is so incredibly messy - good on you guys!
"Settled science" is hard to overcome.
Unfortunately this is a negative feedback loop. Essentially you are saying that because housing prices are expensive and people are over-leveraged, they will vote for any legislation that will protect and increase housing prices. This legislation increases prices further, which means even more over-leveraged housing owners.

We need something to break out of this negative feedback loop.
The surprisingly easy way to visit Mars
Inline-java: call any JVM method from Haskell
Not really "binding" per se -- mostly because "binding" implies you're attaching events to objects and thinking about "changes", and object lifecycle is still something you're concerned with.

React is more functional in nature -- A react component is, almost entirely, a function that takes arguments and spits out DOM elements. React then diffs the desired DOM with the current DOM, and computes the set of transformations needed to update the UI to match the new state -- i.e. "Add a few rows to the table, change the text in a particular span equal to 'boom'" or whatnot.
The discussion here is about Firefox webextensions, which use the Chrome extension API and are not supposed to be more powerful than Chrome extensions.
What is the use of a laserdisk system? What is the use of Moller Sky Cars? What is the use asbestos?

For every successful technology, another ten technologies have fallen by the wayside due to cost, complexity, or unknown unknowns. I firmly see self driving cars in that category until a fundamental shift in our ability to program occurs.

My ultimate fear is that the programs that will be responsible for making hundreds of decisions every second are still being written by people like us. Not NASA engineers, who will spend millions of dollars verifying all of their code; who spend years writing a few thousand lines of code to an incredibly tight spec.

Instead, they are people who are looking at data and going "that's our integration testing right there." Who write big, complicated bits of code which takes several seconds to render text on our screens and think "Yeah, that's good enough." Who look at accidents their cars have been in and go, "That's totally the driver's fault," instead of saying, "Here's how we will stop that from ever happening again."
Schiaparelli, the ExoMars Entry, descent and landing Demonstrator Module (EDM) will provide Europe with the technology for landing on the surface of Mars with a controlled landing orientation and touchdown velocity. The design of Schiaparelli maximises the use of technologies already in development within the ExoMars programme. These technologies include: special material for thermal protection, a parachute system, a radar Doppler altimeter system, and a final braking system controlled by liquid propulsion.

Schiaparelli is expected to survive on the surface of Mars for a short time by using the excess energy capacity of its batteries.

http://exploration.esa.int/mars/46124-mission-overview/
It's completely reasonable to be troubled by the lack of a repudiation, even if it's not appropriate to deduce motive.

I don't think it's reasonable that he wait a week or two to state disagreement with such a complete departure from this norm. Thiel stuck his neck out, on stage, at the RNC. Today Trump is saying he'll accept the outcome if he wins. That is not the same thing as presuming a fair election, and complete willingness to concede if he's the loser. The language proposes, ipso facto the election is not fair, if he does not win.

I do think Democrats can overstate their position by suggesting its so easy to challenge electoral outcome legitimacy with one candidate's bullshit rhetoric, however. For all its warts, the president is not directly elected, it's the electoral college that certifies the winner on Dec 19.
It sound weird to me that a company that has a role to fill will take anyone from "just graduated and can type" to "experienced tech lead". Doesn't sound like a role that is clearly thought out.

If you have stuff for a junior hire to do and stuff for a senior hire to do, and you end up hiring the junior hire, what happens to the "senior" work? Same question if you end up hiring the senior guy.
well on multi-lane roads like geary, you could just have a dedicated lane that normal traffic can't enter
I've never heard of any city looking to San Francisco for any of these things. What city had built a street car system in recent memory? People look to places like Amsterdam for their bicycle networks. People look to places like New York City for their water treatment systems.
It's possible to write Firefox extensions in JavaScript that are a lot more powerful than Chrome extensions (or webextensions, which are the Firefox equivalent of Chrome extensions) are. That capability is slowly being phased out, though.
I have a question:

Why do you want 3D models? What is the use case? Are you doing a lot of really space-constrained boards?

KiCad has spent a lot of effort on making it possible to view 3D models of boards. Upverter has recently spent a whole bunch of time on making this available (time that could be better spent on a lot of other things). And I don't get why. Outside of a small contingent of space-constrained parts, I just don't see what the use of 3D parts is.
I am confused. Is multi regional the same as availability zones in s3?

Or do we upload to the European region and it gets replicated to the US automagically?
Tweets are news. The facts contained therein may not be. If Donald Trump tweets that climate change is a Chinese hoax, that's news. As long as the headline is "Trump Hoax Claim" and not "Chinese Climate Hoax" I fail to see the problem.
Thank you! Always great to hear from someone with the same outlook.
Then they tried AR in 2011 with the 3DS. It went better.
I've also noticed that there's something very surprising about how Google has implemented their 2FA. When I log into Gmail from a new computer, it does not text me an authentication code and then lock me out of the account until I enter the code. Instead it lets me into my account immediately with only a password, and then sends my phone a notification that someone has logged in from a new computer. Ignoring this notification has no consequence for the logged-in computer. Convenient indeed, but this is really not how I expect 2FA to work, and does nothing to prevent an attacker from reading the contents of your emails or sending fraudulent emails with nothing but a password.
> I'm curious [...] why Google doesn’t temporarily disable accounts so impacted until a human reviews activity.

Because Google doesn't have humans reviewing anything unless there's a direct link to marginal revenue/cost avoidance attached to that interaction that can be priced in. Their business model is to achieve scale through automation and machine learning; which means not doing things that would require manual intervention unless absolutely required.

Explicitly, this means that for free services like Gmail, humans aren't involved. Ever. Try getting support for a Google product and you'll see what I mean -- there's not even a phone number to call or an e-mail address unless it's a paid product (and even then, they've got a less-than-stellar reputation for support of paying customers).
"We knew the threat was looming. But a brand new report[1] from the Georgetown Law Center for Privacy and Technology indicates the problem is far worse than we could’ve imagined.

"In response to the report, EFF has joined a large coalition of privacy advocates[2] to demand the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division take two major steps to keep facial recognition in check:

"1. Expand ongoing investigations of police practices and include in future investigations an examination of whether the use of surveillance technologies, including face recognition technology, has had a disparate impact on communities of color; and

"2. Consult with and advise the FBI to examine whether the use of face recognition has had a disparate impact on communities of color."

[1] https://www.perpetuallineup.org/

[2] https://www.aclu.org/letter/coalition-letter-department-just...
I hate how "hacker" has been co-opted by the establishment.
Why are cars changing velocity all the time? Not enough input and output on the conditions outside the car.

Self driving cars don't have to drive like humans, they have to drive like 90% of the other cars. Remove the humans and self driving cars can adopt far more sophisticated traffic patterns than the simple stop/go of most city traffic.
Note that the github discussion is about Firefox webextensions, which have the same security model as Chrome extensions (and in fact aim to be API-compatible with Chrome extensions).
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Jquery still solves a lot of the problems and saying bloat about is nonsense.

Nowadays everyone embeds mega of worth libraries to build a damn blog. But using jquery to do some basic Dom changes, Ajax and other simple stuff (which you would write you own helper functions for anyway) is bloat.

Long live jquery.
Interesting point re: authentication vs. authorization. In the situation of an iris scan as authentication, what then becomes the authorization? Multi-factor biometrics, some sort of 2/3/4fa scan?

Broadly speaking, solutions to that problem which involve more biometric data make me uncomfortable, in no small part because I just don't trust the people who operate the systems.

Don't know on the passport thing, although my gut says no. Do you mean people just having a passport in general, so say an iris scan pulls your passport data & cross references it against a camera at the ATM? Or having it physically on you so its RFID chip is read?

I've just started thinking/learning about these sorts of problems, so as of now I don't have many opinions on how things should be done haha.
Did you hear about residents protesting that a 100% affordable housing projected blocked their view? Some San Franciscans have an entitled view that their basic rights include the right to have a nice view from their house (to the detriment of any other social issue).
Reputable news organizations have fact checkers that check these things. I assume BBC is in that category, but admittedly haven't checked that fact.
Not sure if you noticed in the Switch launch video, but that's Skyrim they're playing. It looks like Nintendo is putting some effort into third party this time, and they'll be the only "console" which allows you to play "console" third party games portably. Pretty significant advantage.
Hmm, I don't have enough experience of America.

In Europe, trendy urban neighbourhoods and depressed urban neighbourhoods both have a good selection of local shops. The former will have the more expensive shops, naturally.

This includes food, furniture, electronics and so on. There's not likely to be a single store selling everything, but there probably are stores selling most electronics, or most furniture.
> I do agree that she's probably starved for affection.

This. And I suspect she's paying for the appearance of being treated seriously and having her emotions treated seriously, which OP clearly fails to deliver by arguing that she's wrong. I don't have many constructive ideas what to do, but don't repeat things that have never worked in the past and pay attention to her needs, not yours, might be a good starting point.
I think the main issue is that google doesn't accept certain senders anymore. As a generic thread about running a mailserver/mail service pops up here often.

That means users are shoveled into about one of 4 "acceptable" providers which have control of the entire market. They demand, full name and usually gender, mobile, alternative email and more.

So you get pushed into their information pipeline to stop "spam".
With range gating, you can do a lot with LIDAR in rain and fog.[1][2] It's possible to ignore all reflections out to a given distance, and you can adjust that distance. There's been a lot of work on this for the military. Automotive LIDAR units don't have this yet, but it could easily be added. If you have both range gating and "first and last", where you get the time of the first and last reflection, you can easily distinguish fog and rain from hard objects. The distribution of first and last times on fog and rain should look like Gaussian noise, while a hard target has near-equal first and last.

This is something we'll probably see in second-generation self-driving cars. With range-gated LIDAR and millimeter radar, self-driving cars will do far better in fog and heavy rain than humans do.

[1] http://www.sensorsinc.com/applications/military/laser-range-...
[2] http://www.obzerv.com/en/range-gating-technology/core-expert...
Where would you go to show ID? In many places in America, the closest telco customer service office may be a 2 hour drive away. Everyone saves time/money by being able to do it over the phone; but unfortunately the customer service reps are usually poorly trained.
Easier said than done, but option 3: he could go after the scammer.
I have built this framework while teaching my daughter JavaScript. We are making simple games together - it's how I started and she seems to like it so far. Some of the projects we did are in "shared projects" (on the bottom of the page).

Just curious, what made you go into programming?
You seem to be describing the urban form advocated at http://carfree.com/topology.html (among other places).