skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ah yes of course - racism can only be carried out by white men after all.

No one said that. Just that racism is an oppression where whites are the top caste. Blacks can be racist against blacks too, for example internalized racism.

However, blacks being racist against whites is an odd statement, like homeless people being classist against the rich. Race is pseudoscientific classification of people to justify entire economic systems like slavery, and still lives on like awful backwards compatibility.

> Do these people get offended at spam emails suggesting they need viagra or a fuckbuddy?

Companies like twitter are far more aggressive at fighting spam than physical threats. To the point where people simply reported abusers as spammers at one point. That's why no one bought them.

Oops. Maybe they should've been less arrogant to their embattled userbase; so-called "social justice warriors" turned out to be normal people just trying to help them make money. What happens social media companies refuse to learn things like sociology. http://www.businessinsider.com/disney-twitter-acquisition-tr...
There seem to be some issues. E.g. it recognizes the joggers (0:55) as obstacles even though they're obviously (to a human) on the sidewalk. And when taking a right turn (1:01) it mistakes a hydrant and a parked car in a parking bay on the other side for an obstacle and stops for a moment before noticing that they're not actually in its lane.

I think a polite driver may have slowed down gradually to not startle the joggers, but not stopped if it were avoidable, especially since there was a car behind the tesla.

In the latter case i guess the field of view of the cameras is not wide enough to assess those things during a turn in advance?
When the last video came out, there were quite a few people saying "wait, that video's sped up, right? It doesn't seem to be taking turns at a safe speed."

I expect Tesla got feedback indicating that some people didn't notice that the last video was sped up, so they decided to make this video a lot more obvious by speeding it up even more and adding the music. I agree, it's not really a good choice, but I can see how they might have come to that decision.
These findings are less than exciting:

Comparing across the panels of Figure 4 shows the decay in the effect of Treatment C
over time. Although the effect remains statistically significant, the coefficient decreases
steadily. In Panel A, the point estimate of -.27 indicates that the daily rate of the use of
the word “_” decreased by .27 more among subjects in Treatment condition C than
among subjects in the control condition. This average treatment effect for condition C
decreased in magnitude to -.17 in Panel B and -.11 in Panel C. I collected data for 2
months, but these results are not shown because none of the treatments are significant.

...

Encouragingly, these effects persisted over time, for the first month
under study, although not for two months. Also, the effect was significant at p < .05 in
the two week time period, but it was only significant at p < .10 in the one week and one
month time periods.

Wow! The subjects cut back on their slurs for the next month (and what is the practical difference in .27 fewer daily slurs compared to the control group?)....and then they started doing it again.

http://kmunger.github.io/pdfs/Twitter_harassment_final.pdf

Can't help but wonder how you get a Washington Post article out of that. It's a good graduate-level semester paper. What connections does this guy have?
Based in Europe. My stuff has won awards and I've been hired by large companies. Just tired of freelancing.
What? Come on. The TV show was ridiculous but the theme still brings a smile to my face.

Appropriate in bringing light heartedness to a typically sped up video.

Can everyone chill the fox out about a theme tune?
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Is this Twitter that's fighting racism also the Twitter with this moderation policy? [nsfw] https://i.sli.mg/2V7OlX.jpg
There was a very elaborate experiment in Germany regarding this.

They concluded that the force is excerted by coupling the RF-energy from the outside.

If the system is fully self-contained (driven by a battery physically connected to the cavity) there is no thrust to be measured.

It's very sad to see NASA being involved in such shitty research.
The op doesn't understand how containers are really used. There is a reason they are called "shipping" containers most containers spend more time on ships then on the road so making autonomous containers would waste a lot of resources for little gain.
Also: we are mainly talking of automating manufacture and transportation, but are we that close to automating house and road building and repairing?

Edit: damn autocorrect
Wow so many comments about the Benny Hill music. I for one love that Elon Musk's quirky sense of humour. So many people take themselves far too seriously.
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I have had a number of managers in my career. Some where they couldn't careless about my career prospects (no 1-1s, no conversations, nothing). And the best ones put me in positions to thrive and grow.

For those of you in either of these scenarios, recognize it and learn from it. Believe it or not, so much can be learned from good managers, but even more can be learned from bad managers.
I don't quite agree, your answer is changing the boundary conditions implied by the title. Saying you are the person VCs are bothering is just avoiding the hard problem, you are already successful at that point. It reminds me of how to become a millionaire broker, earn 2 millions and lose half of it on the exchange.

Declining VCs but meeting people for recruitment is seriously bad advice imo, which leads to my agreement with the other commenter, I felt this article was motivated by humble brag more than wanting to be helpful. Of course, it is entirely my interpretation.

Most people I know don't have the luxury to even quit her daily job just to have a shot at becoming an entrepreneur. Paying additional staff is completely out of the question.
What do you notice about the 'complete Linux experience'? I cannot find too much on the Sailfish OS homepage; going to Mer shows it's a minimal Linux with QT on top. For me a complete Linux experience would be xterm and sudo apt-get install build-essential. Is their anything like that? I would buy a phone/tablet device that runs Ubuntu (or Debian) smoothly (all hardware supported) in a heartbeat but seems nothing is there yet so I currently have to go for the Pyra which has all that and a keyboard and replaceable batteries.

Also; the Mer wiki mentions an Android compatibility layer and you manage an Android emulator; would either or both not solve the Whatsapp issue?
It shows that the car would have been able to drive the route completely without a driver. This is handy if you want to pickup somebody, want to avoid high parking fees, need to charge your car without actually doing it.

Doing those things right now in a Tesla is probably not safe just now, but it shows that level 5 autonomy is not so far fetched and 2020 is a realistic date.
> Although this test campaign was not focused on optimizing performance and was more an exercise in existence proof, it is still useful to put the observed thrust-to-power figure of 1.2 mN/kW in context. The current state-of–the-art thrust to power for a Hall thruster is on the order of 60 mN/kW. This is an order of magnitude [more like two] higher than the test article evaluated during the course of this vacuum campaign; however, for missions with very large delta-v requirements, having a propellant consumption rate of zero could offset the higher power requirements. The 1.2 mN/kW performance parameter is over two orders of magnitude higher than other forms of “zero-propellant” propulsion, such as light sails, laser propulsion, and photon rockets having thrust-to-power levels in the [0.0033-0.0067 mN/kW] range.
I've made that mistake in our products. Hell, I'd nearly finished Gentoo support before realizing I was going down a stupid rabbit hole and the only prize was supporting the product for a half dozen grouchy users, and only one of them actually ever pays for software.

We support three distros now (the obvious three), and politely encourage users of other distros who really don't want to use one of the big three to fork it and add support themselves (with our blessing and encouragement).
My guess is the math works out. As they said $10 isn't a great amount of people, and if you're after less than 4% CTR then the overlap is probably negligible. While Priceonomics makes an effort to appear as though it respects your intelligence, and its adverts are cited by almost every major news source, it is ultimately a showboating supertrawler. Check out 'The Tragic Data on Selfie Deaths' which makes a long form argument about a viral topic while getting its data from a google search and a particularly bad wikipedia list.
What I've learned from this is how boring demonstration videos of self-driving are, regardless of whether Yakety Sax plays in the background
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When a request could block the server, for example a request which download or upload a big file, Node it not for you. Any concurrent language would be better. Node is perfect when a lot or requests work together, but each one in a small time or even a long time but step by step. that is my experience and I hope it will help to choose the right tool for the task.
Thanks. ;-)
This is the first iteration of this device, I imagine that when the very first computing systems were being built, some humans were still on parity / better than the new systems.

The interesting part will be to see how this performs when we scale it up in size and stick it in a true space vacuum - it seems based on the experiments done that the amount of thrust scales linearly based on kW/h input, I imagine there are some significant gains to be made in terms of efficiency and cavity design which could well see significant increases in performance.

Then take in to account that the Hall Thruster requires a propellant - this only requires electricity, theoretically with a nuclear reactor on board, you could achieve constant acceleration, instead of our current methods of putting things in to deep space which consist mostly of "Blow up a ton of stuff behind it and then coast along for tens of millions of miles"

I'm not a trained physicist, by the way, so there could be fallacies or inaccuracies here, this is based on my understanding.
Agreed. Throw in some fog, high-speed stop-and-go interstate fun, and moving from the interstate into a crowded city full of people jaywalking and running stoplights trying to get to where they're going.
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Google image search found this post as the source of the graph:

https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html

Edit: the post gives image credit to Wipneus from https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,1457.msg942...
I like it.

The tech community tends to be a bit dour and pompous. We tend to overblow every tiny announcement into some world-changing event. Look at Apple's recent announcement video for their $300 book for a particularly gratuitous example.

It's healthy for Tesla to retain a sense of self-deprecating humour. Self-driving cars are massively important, but they're also a bit silly and strange. There's no harm in acknowledging the absurdity of a car that drives itself. There's no harm in bursting your own bubble.
From the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

Also, the Twitter-thread by @ErrataRob already has a discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12985974
This is the kind of thing that the open source community should be targeting. Being a serf in the Google fiefdom sucks.
As I do understand, conventions manifest often in the setting of defaults for configurations. These defaults are inherently opinionated, and therefor hinder the free development of innovation in a open source community. As it will always favor a specific solution over another.

Conventions over configurations comes to the benefit for small team, beginners and is in general more fun to code with. But it comes at the cost of being much slower in adopting new patterns and innovations. As there is currently so much speed in javascript development happening, I wonder if for now configuration do outpace conventions, until the battle field has settled.

React has acknowledged the situation and tries to get the best of both world with its quest for a React CLI. Did they know about it at the time of writing?
> Here's a microsecond. Nine hundred and eighty-four feet. I sometimes think we ought to hang one over every programmer's desk, or around their neck, so they know what they're throwing away when they throw away microseconds.

> An admiral wanted to know why it took so damn long to send a message via satellite, and I had to point out that between here and the satellite there were a very large number of nanoseconds.

In the video, she's very charismatic and dignified, using humor as appropriate, with a firm focus on the subject.
Powerful backdoor/rootkit found preinstalled on 3M Android phones
It's been confirmed that was Karl Rove, btw[1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community#cite_n...

[2] "later acknowledged to have been Karl Rove" http://www.hermes-press.com/suskind.htm
You will need money if resources and the means of production are concentrated in the hands of the few. For example, there's no guarantee that access to housing will be democratised.
Interesting how soon the discussion turned retard. So, somehow wind turbines should be at fault? Jesus.
SQL Server TDS spec was published in 2008, when jTDS was in version 1.2 and already feature complete and stable.
1-800 was a bad example, but what about mobile-to-mobile calls on the same carrier, that some carriers have offered unlimited for free?
Not really understanding the down votes (maybe the double question mark??), but oh well.

This is a valid comment considering that the EC2 instance mentioned is a 2 core box, and there is a possibly that the node implementation didn't take advantage of both cores.

- Go has multi-core support out of the box

- Node.js has to be shown a little love, and has limitations. But this would have been a great use-case for Cluster.

If the Node implementation was using all cores, then I wouldn't have asked this question. As it stands I don't really know what we are comparing even with all the graphs.

Also we are still missing a little info on how they handled the requests. When you have a endpoint on a node server that is not a simple one, it is best to queue those before handling them (yes a additional queue). This prevents the process from choking because it just opened up NNN requests to S3.

Most developers are not working with hundreds of HEAVY requests a minute, but in Node.js this usually has to be handled with care, and does not work out of the box.

But if you want to pick up a shinier hammer then Go for it.
disliked it. The first part of the article was kind of ok, i guess. It's got to be a whole lot more engaging for me to sick around through that kind of manipulation.

i don't run adblock, because i think people should be paid for their work. They made their choice, an chose to punish an honest user.

so, bozo bit flipped. firstround talks about being forthright, being aware of subordinate's needs while actually being fairly conniving. The article may have some value, but the source is pretty vile.

At this point, i think anything with a popup is at best a secondary source, they don't really understand what they're saying and are simply parroting someone who really understands the issue. their words can be helpful, but it's pretty clear anyone that manipulative would simply steal the words from someone smart.

I'm sure there exist people that are supremely manipulative, and also very insightful. In my limited experience, the manipulative people are pretty boring, once i catch on to their game. This specific tactic, you've enjoyed the time we've spent together so far, so you should give me something, is more or less the standard line for popups and street performers. I sort of respect street performers for making the move, they're clearly desperate, and need all the help they can get.

A website, on the other hand, if they are desperate, their advice is likely very bad. If they are not desperate, they're simply interested in sucking up any attention you might be willing to give them. in person, i would consider that pretty fucking toxic.

I can't see this website being in any way helpful. Any truth they spread can't be anything more than a hook for later manipulation.

So, yeah, i think it's pretty disgusting.

edit

clarification - i wouldn't be nearly as critical of a purely technical article. you can be a not very nice person and know how to deploy microservices. This case, telling me how to treat people while treating me poorly has the problem of words not aligning with actions.
Can any live gmail backup tool import a takeout file and resume from there?
I haven't always been as good about backing up my gmail as I should. Sure, I've got partial archives on the various IMAP clients I've used, and I've tried a few of the backup tools. But they're all in different formats and have a different set of my emails.

I'd like to get a unified single backup that I keep up-to-date.

What I'd really like to do is download a takeout archive, import it into a backup tool, and resume updating the backup tool's database incrementally from there, perhaps as a cron task.

Can anyone recommend a backup tool that can be seeded this way?
I really like this kind of post-mortem story; it doesn't do that thing that so many entrepreneurs do where they make it seem like they knew what they were doing all along. This makes it clear that for every great idea or success they had, there were setbacks that made it plausible that less steadfast individuals might have let it fold before they reached the goal.

It's also nice to see a story with a realistic timeline; most acquisitions happen something like 7-10 years out. Overnight successes are extraordinarily rare, but get a lot of attention, because they make it seem easy, and people like to think that if they have a good idea, they can get rich overnight.

And, I enjoy that the company was always small enough to where everyone knew each other, even at the end, even though they had a gazillion installs.
Good thing, that in our heads, we are just medieval community monkeys, yearning for a role, a place in our daily life.

Well - the replaced already replaced a president, to replace those that replace them, in the short and long run. Now- if everybody loses his place in society's maze at this pace, then the unraveled community's will take up the mace and smash the enlightenment straight in the face.
The Last AI to go may as well, be the UN-Report Writer in space.

"Anything that gives a human being meaning - as long as it chooses it voluntarily, is off limits to the machines."
Hammer that in stone, put it up on Palo Alto Plaza.

The scape-goat hunt is in full progress, and once the Society runs out of scape-goats, they will start to bite into the financial protective shields of the transformation accelerators and propellers. He who runs out of propaganda money last, shall sit upon the crumbling hill - victorious?

Makes for a interesting Fermi Paradox solution- society self-medievialized and religious entrenched against progress and machinery until the cosmic dice ends it.
It sounds like you are really set on this point. Maybe try considering that to a lot of intelligent people (like me (not US citizen), like my immigrant/minority family (who also happen to have education from top US universities) who voted for Trump, like millions of others who voted for him of various backgrounds, education, ethnicity and political views you sound like you are either incredibly ignorant or dumb on purpose.

I am not saying this lightly, to me people who hold the most morally repugnant positions rarely sound dumb on purpose. I think they are wrong, I think they are not emphatic, sometimes straight up evil but they rarely sound just completely brainwashed. You do though. I rarely see something as wrong and arrogant on HN and I read the comments every day. You are just not getting it at all. Read the comments of people who replied to you and try to understand why his comment is not about all Mexicans. I realize that I sound to you as arrogant ignorant person lecturing you on reading comprehension but I am doing you a favor. You will lose a lot of contacts and opportunities if you continue to argue this way without even seeing where the other side is coming from.
I saw John Willis, Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker, talk about this at QCon London in the context of our industry. First time I've ever cried at a tech conference; it was an absolutely amazing session. There is a video here:
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/it-burnout
Maybe it's relying on maps & GPS data.
I'm disappointed that radar images aren't included in the video. They ought to be very interesting, a whole new perspective on the world around us.
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Here's something I stumbled upon WRT to the election that extends the concept:

Rather, it is the views of those who have to maintain respectability in order to maintain their position that have changed. It is no longer permitted for them to even think the thoughts required to understand what just happened. The Overton Window has become the Overton Bubble.

From https://sydneytrads.com/2016/11/18/alistair-hermann/ which looks at it from the Australian viewpoint (i.e. I can't follow a lot of it ^_^ and haven't really tried to digest it yet).
Yes, a left wing bubble exists. However, without any qualifications of scope and scale, it sounds like you're suggesting that the vitriol approaches a comparable level to that of the alt-right. That's just a plainly false equivalency.
His fingers, so twitchy.
Let's help this guy reach his dream
here is the og source

https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,1457.1000.h...
I still use SoftICE (DOS) for its debugger! (I still get legacy projects from time to time.) But it requires a lot more manual labor to understand a binary.
I not only remember it, it still makes me sick that they've replaced "yum", a project with a name that rolls smoothly off the tongue like no other, with "dnf", a project name that has all the grace of a running camel. (Also, it makes me sad that Seth's lovely project will be forgotten now that he's gone.)
> "If you don't work hard, you will not be rewarded."

Not always true. Past a certain level of wealth you can make money by doing pretty much nothing, e.g. paying other people to invest your money in safe investments on the stock market.
Would it surprise you to learn that I am a gun owner?
Do you think that Elon Musk was the one to put this out (or even design the video)?

I'd have a hard time believing that, to be honest.
I was wondering if stopping for the joggers was more of a bug than a feature. I don't drive much, so I'm definitely not an expert about what is best in that situation, but I would have drifted over the middle line to give them a nice berth and kept going.
The false information about him winning the popular vote originated from NYT website which had misleading visualization which suggested they predict he is going to win it. The popular vote count wasn't known for many days after the election (I am not even sure it's known now) so those predictions were what people were using as they were in general very reliable.
Nobody mistakes pundits as having high status.