skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hescos also have a lower surface area to weight ratio. They are therefore much less likely to be moved by nearby explosions. And their softer insides make total failure, shattering, almost impossible.
Another place to experience old and strange films in SF is at one of the small "Strange Sinema" screenings at Oddball Films[1,2]. It's not so much a theater as it is a film archive near 18th St with projector room and a few couches. I found my favorite tamale restaurant thanks to the proprietor, and have seen an eclectic and memorable set of films at the screenings. Everything from Jacques Cousteau-like underwater films to Cold War-era Air Force test footage. It's weird authentic SF at its best. Be sure to chat with Stephen afterward.

1. https://vimeo.com/176204115#t=7s

2. https://oddballfilms.blogspot.com/
Apps are a plausible contributor. But I also noticed that some new cars ship with infotainment systems that consist solely of a (bad) touchscreen; as new cars slowly replace old ones, the number of cars with actual physical buttons for the music player or radio is dwindling. This is awful because the lack of physical buttons prevents the tactile feedback needed to operate the device without having to look at it.

Luckily, some manufacturers go the other route and put music controls as paddles on the steering wheel, which is amazingly useful.

Also, the widespread 'safety feature' of cars refusing to pair bluetooth while in motion may actually defeat the point. If one forgets to pair in the beginning, they may just keep using the phone when the need arises -- when a notification arrives, the phone rings, or they remember they want to stream some music.
Good point. I didn't think about that aspect. I'm only an amateur biologist, so didn't consider the wording.

Ironically, I would consider a beak more primitive until the engineer in me screams teeth could be a sign of over engineering--not that I would personally give up my good (but high maintenance) teeth for a beak. Could probably write a entire book on "evolutionarily traits and trends for engineers."
That Snopes entry is a perfect example of promoting a bias without specifically lying:

"The clip has since been shared by white supremacist publication The Daily Stormer..."

Is that relevant to the beating? No. Is that relevant to the truth or falsity of what preceded the beating? No. It is simply there to inflame one side using "guilt by association". A similar example was that an endorsement of Trump by some racist organization was widely reported, even though nothing else they had ever said or (even allegedly) done had been considered newsworthy to that point. Had Trump sought such an endorsement, that would be relevant.

Ultimately, selective reporting can be just as powerful as false reporting... and there is far, far more false reporting than most realize (especially misreporting on legislation). People need to remember that media have no legal obligation to report truth (let alone the whole truth) and, unless they libel or slander a specific entity, suffer no consequences for stating flat lies. For-profit media's primary motivation is maximizing profit, and accuracy often does not maximize return or profit, especially in the short term.
Linux has drivers that receive ECC notifications from the hardware and the edac-util command should display them.

You can cause bit errors with a hair dryer and see if Linux recognizes them: http://bluesmoke.sourceforge.net/heat_gun.html
Mythbusters tested it! http://news.stanford.edu/thedish/2015/08/21/mythbusters-test... and https://youtu.be/t8LuM92Twm8?t=210 (see the conclusion at 3:28).

Result: Driving drunk, with a cellphone or with a hands-free phone were all equally dangerous. I'm as surprised as you must be.

They didn't test talking to a passenger, but I'm of the opinion that laws don't forbid what is de-facto considered as normal by most people. Besides, talking to a passenger isn't verifiable.

Last thing, I sure remember unfolding my map over the wheel on the highways, so despite what the police says about vocal GPS apps, they're still 100% better for me.
"you should have a purely deterministic, non-random, and if you could get the data and do the math, a predictable situation."

From a Newtonian/Classical perspective - yes.

Well, maybe not! It's possible that indeterminism may be found in classical mechanics; the classic example is Norton's Dome, discussed in [1] with another reference in [2]. If you read [1], you'll see that there isn't yet any general agreement as to why its paradox is invalid. That's a potentially fruitful avenue for research, methinks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome

[2] http://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2678/history-of-the-s...
It's fairly simple to build Firefox with Gtk2. There are some instructions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5b0vtd/howto_build_f...
If those people weren't reading news or playing games on the toilet, they would be reading shampoo bottles. In periods of downtime people need something to do and smartphones can make that time more effective (when not used to look at cats.)
Talking to passengers is not the same as talking to someone on a phone when it comes to distraction, because passengers are in the car with you. The conversation with a passenger adjusts to take into account driving conditions.
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I'm chronic news junkie and wanted a perpetual drip of viral news on my phone. Addiction satisfied :)
That's strange. I thought the point of that button was to overcome the exact problem you just described.
How does a salary of $100,000 cost more than $1,000,000???
I remember there were recommendations for new teen drivers to not have passengers.
>1) If the rumors are correct that they are looking to raise 4 Billion at a roughly $40 Billion valuation.

Was under the impression Snapchat was given a $3-5 billion valuation.

I find it hard to accept that Snapchat is worth the same as Tesla and SpaceX combined.

In other words, is [a 400-employee company whose core product works only on cell phones to show annoying ads to teenagers as they send each other photos, and whose annual income is barely $100m] worth the same as [a 15,000-employee company that produces autonomous electric vehicles, with a net income of a few billion/year] and [a 5,000-employee aerospace company that builds self-landing rockets, with income of a few billion/year] combined? I don't bloody think so, especially given what an asshole Evan Spiegel has been in public lately.

If anything, this is a sign that we're in a soon-to-pop bubble. If Snapchat ever goes public, it deserves to die the same slow death on the stock market as Twitter did earlier this year, or a violent pets.com style death.
Neither a philosopher nor a physicist, but I'm pretty certain that our Universe is not deterministic, and the future cannot be predicted even with a computer with unlimited power.

But I see your point about how some macro-level things seem to be that way.
I can't stand touchscreen systems. Instead of a single physical switch to turn AC on or off it's two latency laden taps. Part of it's menu design but I can't help but feel like it's always gonna happen with touchscreen centric designs.
This article neglected to mention the apps most often used while driving, map apps.
"could use our high-speed communications network to vote directly on every law."

How can we trust online voting? If you think bad foreign actors somehow control the election now, it will be much worse when it's all online.

"In order to cast my vote, I open my phone, and scroll over to the United States Government Voting App. It has a red badge on it that says 312. I click on the app and log in. It says, “Today you have 312 laws you have to vote on.” I read through each law and hit yes, no, yes, no, yes no. At the end of the day, my vote and everyone else’s are tallied up, and the law passes or not."

How do we prove that you are actually a citizen of the US (or even of the state)? The government is notoriously bad at online security.

Making it too easy also leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. It will be so easy to make snap judgements and quick decisions when voting through an app. There should be at least some effort (besides clicking a few boxes) put forth to vote.

Technology has changed, but human nature hasn't. A fast way to a dictatorship would be a direct democracy.
At the time, every HP reseller. They had some kind of gold/platinum/bronze partner system where specific resellers could only order certain parts. I don't know if this is still the case, but honestly the whole thing was an immensely frustrating experience.

I could order direct, but was very limited in what I could customize. We worked with a couple different resellers, but they were also limited (each in different ways), and ultimately did purchase through one of them.

I don't remember all the specifics now, but the main factor was the database servers which had high storage and very high I/O requirements. I think the only way to get the drive config we needed was to get something with 4 or 5x the CPU, and the cost accordingly skyrocketed. These days a couple SSD's could easily beat the performance of the 12 or so drives we had at the time, but in 2009-ish the limited SSD stuff on the market was out of reach.
My pleasure. Having these kinds of conversations is why I'm here :)

Don't take the difficulty of finding good information as a self criticism. At least in theory, the reason these organizations exist is to to inform you and be useful. It shouldn't be this much work to find a good source of unbiased (relatively!) news. For what it's worth, once you get used to it, it becomes fairly natural to start asking questions. What isn't being said? Why was this the source chosen? Why did this person want to talk to the paper? How reliable is the information really? What actual facts have been presented? Are there any subtle ques that the article is trying to bias me (intentionally or not)?

I'll admit lately I've been thinking of maybe writing something about all of this, partly to clarify and research my own ideas on the matter, and partly to maybe help people who have realized there is a problem here but could use help in critically consuming media. If you haven't seen Slate Star Codex's blog, I'd highly recommend it. He's written some pretty excellent stuff about in-group bias.

As far as Jonathan Haidt goes, I just found out about him and have watched a few of his youtube videos. He seems like a really interesting guy, and I think I'm going to pick up a book or two of his. Someone else I just came across is Jordan Peterson, who puts lecture series up on his Youtube channel, and has a series called Paths Into Meaning that has been really interesting so far. He's also involved in a free speech dustup at the moment, as fair warning.
I think this is an illustration of how incentives can skew results across a scientific field, without anyone colluding or being deliberately deceptive.
I agree completely, but the human factor will only be removed once we have fully autonomous vehicles. Until then, we need humans to operate vehicles; this is the base case.

Now, do smartphones make humans worse at driving, or does their use while driving still result in the base case? My argument is that smartphone use does in fact significantly worsen a human's ability to drive properly. As a result, I believe that, for the time being, we need to somehow tackle the issue of smartphone use while operating a vehicle.
> Can't but wonder... what exactly?

Whether it is a real thing which I missed or it is a misperception, and how common it is if it is real.

> The San Francisco experience as a JavaScript engineer and as a dishwasher or security guard are indeed two different realities.

Surely. So for the latter, is there really reluctance to hire "foreigners", i.e. somebody objecting that their dishwasher or security guard would be from Serbia (or other country) and not US-born? How common is it? How these people staff their positions, given how many people fit one or another definition of "foreigner" in SF?

> I'd recommend volunteering and spending more time around diverse groups of people if you feel that this stuff is out of touch with your reality.

This is a nice generic advice, but I'd like to hear something more specific. I know it's different, now I want to know how it is different. How hard is it for a foreign-born dishwasher do find a job in SF? Would restaurants and other places commonly refuse to hire somebody as a dishwasher because they don't look like a typical non-foreigner (whatever that means for them) and how many of them do that - almost all of them, majority, minority, only the handful of worst ones? What is the percentage of "foreigners" vs. "non-foreigners" (whatever definition there is, not sure again) working such jobs?
If the cliff materialized between the time the path was plotted and uploaded to the missile prior to launch, then no. The missile has an internal map, the radar measurements are like mile markers on the highway - used to find your position on the map, not used to tell you what is ahead (that is what the map is for).
Are you planning on adding scheduled functions? Kind of like a cron..
Because some bot will automatically moderate it away? That's what's happened every time I've made even minor spelling corrections on wikipedia.
Exploiting bias in sport betting
The autentication proxy
based on HN math I see promoted with respect to engineer costs, an employee now costs a company 9-10x their salary.

but the op might have been meaning over a 10 year period... ?
You have to address the root cause - humans, because before smartphones and their apps, it was being distracted while fiddling with CD/tape players.

Eating and applying makeup (women) also contributed.

Humans have to recognize that driving demands 100% of their attention.
No No.

Stuff like:

* comments are allowed with parentheses at either end of the local-part; e.g. john.smith(comment)@example.com and (comment)john.smith@example.com are both equivalent to john.smith@example.com. [1]

* Also have a look at quotes

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Local-part
Hands free doesn't really offer an advantage over hands on as far as distractions go:

https://www.distraction.gov/downloads/pdfs/the-impact-of-han...

http://www.nsc.org/DistractedDrivingDocuments/Cognitive-Dist...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36475180

http://www.nsc.org/learn/NSC-Initiatives/Pages/distracted-dr...
Tokyo, Seoul, Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe would very much be on the front-lines of a war involving North Korea, which is way too distressingly possible (NK's rulers aren't exactly known for their rationality in foreign policy).

Pakistan and India have gone to war no fewer than 4 times since their independence not 7 decades ago. It was considered basically a miracle that the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai didn't spark a war, and the tensions between the two countries remain the most likely potential nuclear war. That gets you Karachi, Mumbai, Delhi (Kolkata is on the wrong side of the country).

Cairo, Istanbul, and Tehran could become war zones in a future Middle Eastern conflict, although the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does seem to have declined in importance to the Arab region as a whole. The risk of a World War III involving China or Russia is probably understated--especially given Putin's responses to the increasing failure of the Russian economy since the 2008 financial crisis.

It is also worth pointing out that many of the megacities that people are concerned about don't exist yet--the number of megacities is expected to grow, predominantly in Africa, a region not known for stability of governments. You might say that solid middle-class countries would help to stabilize the governments, but the Syrian and Libyan civil wars really ought to be clear signs of the fallacy of that belief.

In many respects, though, the main point of a military is not to fight wars--it's to figure out how to, and be prepared to, fight the next war. Acting as if wars won't happen won't guarantee you peace--indeed, WWII, the bloodiest war in history, was so bloody precisely because its principal actors refused to believe that is was going to happen.
One thing I miss is my iPod Classic. I used to listen to music in my car and I would feel for the buttons to skip songs. Of course if I needed a newer playlist I would have to wait till the car wasn't moving (red light), now in my newer car I have bluetooth and thankfully it has buttons for skip in the steering wheel. My iPoc Classic is dead though, so I am forced to use my phone, which I wish someone would come out with a phone that had media buttons on the side or back, I get it, there's a touch screen and all, but when I'm driving I don't want my eyes off the road. That or a case that includes bluetooth enabled buttons for skipping through songs would be neat.
Sure, but that does not contradict the statement in the article, right? Some dinosaurs are birds, but this one was not.
Or Apple could have used pro RAM in the MacBook Pro.
>So you are saying, talking to a passenger "causes the same attention impairment level as someone under the influence of alcohol."?

That is not what they said at all. They are correct in pointing out that there is a great deal of evidence that conversing on a cell phone (even hands free) while driving is as dangerous as being intoxicated while driving.

There have also been studies that investigated why talking hands free on a cell phone is more dangerous than conversing with a passenger. For example:

From "Passenger and cell phone conversations in simulated driving" [1]:

"The results show that the number of driving errors was highest in the cell phone condition; in passenger conversations more references were made to traffic, and the production rate of the driver and the complexity of speech of both interlocutors dropped in response to an increase in the demand of the traffic. The results indicate that passenger conversations differ from cell phone conversations because the surrounding traffic not only becomes a topic of the conversation, helping driver and passenger to share situation awareness, but the driving condition also has a direct influence on the complexity of the conversation, thereby mitigating the potential negative effects of a conversation on driving."

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19102621
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Not OP, but for me, numerical simulation. I don't have the numbers to 'prove' that corruption is really a serious problem for my use cases, or what the effects would be on my results, but for a few hundred extra, I figured why not go for a Xeon/ECC platform.
I assume he means the people he interacts with, and unless that's you, it might be worth moderating your statement a bit.
Mmm interesting...I won't choose to buy ads for a landing page for 3 reasons.

- I personally tried and people coming from ads don't convert as well as qualified than people coming from a guest post for example.
- You are sure you will never see again your money (even for validating an idea. It's a waste of money)
- It's time consuming when you've never done it before, and when you don't know precisely what people should you target

So 2 way to do it :

Start from an audience and build the perfect product for them. And then enlarge your niche.
1) 2 weeks to call 100 of small business, entrepreneur...any people that use spreadsheet
2) From there, you will have already a good idea if people are interest in your idea and what people exactly want your product
3) And you can only start to make a plan with your 5000$ from here.

Pros :
- 2 weeks of work
- Be sure to have an audience interested by your product
- Know exactly what feature you have to do

Use case demo : make lot of use case of different spreadsheet and webapp. And send maximum traffic on it.
Drawback :
- you have to make a landing page -> time/money
- you have to send traffic -> time/money
- It can quickly become overwhelming because of the large number of different people with different need.

So I would definitively choose the first option
WTF is this "Russian terrorist" label? Is this a thing?

I've lived all over this country and I don't think I've ever seen those two words used together.
That link has 2 periods at the end
Humans have a pretty infinite ability to fill time, and to always find something new they "should" be doing. Early household cleaning appliances like the vacuum sold on promises of freeing up housewife's time to do other things, but people spend just as long cleaning their houses now as they did pre vacuum.

We just sort of... do things, and it's very difficult to map the relationship between an object and its impact on how much time we spend interacting with it
Just an anecdote but my kids (2 10 year olds in Chile) use Instagram and Snapchat about the same. They use Whatsapp and Musically several times more frequently.
Like this exact article/submission that we're all commenting on, where a commercial company did exactly that?
Well, I guess customer-interacting jobs when you are 55-year-old and don't speak very good English may be a challenge indeed. OTOH, they also would be a challenge if you speak perfect English but are an introvert, shy or irritable.

> Maybe he's the wrong kind of foreign to break into the market and build connections?

That is an interesting idea. Would like to hear some evidence for or against.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_DpYBzKso

Rob Pike's talk on why 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism'
In my experience it's a cultural thing in the Balkans to assume everyone else is out to get you, and to complain about the government. It might even be a Russian/Slavic thing, but I'm less sure about that. Anyway I don't find the colorful rationalizations odd at all.
Oops, that may not have been your question.
The problem of convincing un believers is more of a cultural and language issue than a rhetorical one. When we analytically look at these sort of people it turns out being shown data that conflicts with their views will at best leave them just as resolute, and at worst INCREASE their disbelief. I don't have a clue what the answer is, but it's something totally different from how academics and scientists talk to each other.
What area do you live in? I live in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and riding motorcycles on the coast is, from what i hear, awesome!
Thanks, used it a few other times. Checkout https://theblackbox.ca/blog/vector-video/ .

Need to use it in some paintings though
Entirely political reasons. Driven by the customer and agreed to by our sales people before ever talking to technical staff.
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I've seen so many drivers either texting or using their phones while driving and not paying attention to traffic signals, stop signs, and pedestrian crossings. I wish there was a way to stop smartphones from displaying notifications and other things that distract users.
Right, that's exactly what I wonder about. It would be a sad irony if universal translation made us _less_ cosmopolitan.

Then again, what about the calculator analogy? I'm sure that when calculators came out, some people must have thought it was the end of arithmetic studying, for example. And, I can do calculus with a machine, but more people study calculus now than ever before. Maybe languages are no different?
> Maybe he's the wrong kind of foreign to break into the market and build connections?

That, and he's on the wrong side of 40, surrounded by young, low cost immigrants in a sanctuary city. Why incur FICA/Medicare/etc contributions for an actual citizen?

> Menial jobs

Guess we found and American that will do those jobs, despite the narrative we're fed.
We will eventually address the root cause; self-driving cars are around the corner. Unfortunately, we cannot do that now. Therefore, we should address the second biggest cause: smartphones.

Besides, eating, doing make-up, and fiddling with a CD player are absolutely nothing compared to what people do on smartphones nowadays while cruising in a hunk of metal at 60 mph.