skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does a journalist think when he writes something like "biggest spike in traffic death in 50 years"? The NYT even has a nice plot, that clearly shows that there are two, perhaps three significant, spikes in traffic death, and overall traffic death were reduced to a third of the late seventies. I mean I just eyeball the plot, but to me it seems the story is that there is a plateau since ~2010.
RFC 822 is the Internet's cancer.

Really. Email addresses should have never been allowed to have comments.

Since every new RFC maintains compatibility with this one, we'll probably be stuck with these poor choices for decades.
Every non-macOS browser I've used supports those shortcuts. They're old enough to be universal among tabbed browsers.
As an aside, sometimes I wonder about how much more efficient we are today due to smartphones. Places where we've lost time:

- at the stoplight, the driver in front of you is too busy looking down to notice the light has changed

- in the bathroom, people check social media on the toilet

- on the sidewalk, folks walk slower because they're pre-occupied with texting

- meeting up with friends, it's more acceptable to be late because one can always send a last minute update, "I'll be there in 10 minutes!" (read: just got on lyft)

- even talking with people present: "Sorry, could you please repeat that? I was just responding to an email."

I know of digital detoxes (gag), but the inevitable seems to be this distracted-presence as our new reality (until we go full virtual-reality).
One thing that worries me is that most people might rely on computers instead of learning another language, or driving, navigating, or calculating. Computers then might outsmart us because we've become less intelligent.

A more optimistic view is that machine translation might help those of us who still want to learn other languages. Though I still think grammar rules are needed when learning other languages.
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So you are saying, talking to a passenger "causes the same attention impairment level as someone under the influence of alcohol."?

For sure there is a distraction, but it is definitely not on the level you described.
We need automatic driving so people can remain connected.
Volvo has the right vision. See their commercial.[1]

(\Volvo is about to be the first with production automatic driving. Next year, Volvo will put 100 self-driving cars on the road with real customers driving. They'll only self-drive on certain roads in Gothenburg at first. The user is not required to watch the road, and if anything goes wrong, Volvo accepts full responsibility. Tesla talks big, but Volvo gets it and has it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDB6fFflTVA
On my machine (Intel Celeron, 8g RAM) it's noticeably slower than TST even with only 50 or so tabs
Smartphones, and mobile phones in general, make drivers less attentive to external events while driving. It was fine before that, so I don't see why you think we should be blaming humans?
> it's so at odds with anything I've observed so far that I can't but wonder.

Can't but wonder... what exactly?

I've lived in SF for almost 6 years, during which I've worked with many, many teenagers from East Palo Alto/Oakland/etc., and while I still have no clue what it's like to be in SF as a non tech employee, I feel like I have a better grasp on it than most of my fellow tech employees.

The truth is that if you are in tech and living in SF, you definitely are living in a bubble. The San Francisco experience as a JavaScript engineer and as a dishwasher or security guard are indeed two different realities.

Pretty much every single minority (immigrant, person of color, woman, etc.) in this country feels that the odds are rigged against them, and that hard work does little against it. People like to think of the Bay Area as a haven of peace and acceptance - it's just not the case.

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. The fact that you've lived in SF for more than a decade and this is shocking to you means you're strongly due for stepping out of your comfort zone.
It's a class thing. Young aspiring tech entrepreneurs in SF are living a completely different reality from the minimum wage earning people in Las Vegas. Whoever he's hanging out with in SF is much closer to that crowd. So yes, of course people think he's a Russian terrorist. I know a Russian guy below said the same thing but there is generations of working class people who watched those action movies from the 80s and would think that. I'm 30 in tech and have lived in both sf and Lv and at least get what he's talking about. Look at how he's dressed, his strong "Russian" facial features and just imagine how he talks. He probably literally sounds exactly like the Russian bad guy from the movies. The people he's likely applying to jobs to likely can't wipe that image from their heads.

He's not a nerdy skinny 25 year old Russian with glasses and a MacBook in hand, roaming around SF from startup office to startup office.

That you guys don't get it is akin to the common perspective that was posted several times on hacker news and by Silicon Valley types this past week about how the left really didn't get the working class and that's why Hilary lost to trump--cuz I assure u his fellow 55 year old security guards back in Las Vegas made the joke that he sounds like a Russian terrorist many times, and it's no wonder you don't get what this guy is going through, you're likely the same people in SF that wouldn't hire him. It's crazy how perception can be the difference between a near-minimum wage security guard job and none at all. Im no different. There's plenty of candidates for minimum wage work, I'd hire the one who speaks English without that sorta accent. He'll have to have a network to get a job, which he admitted he doesn't since he's a private sorta guy. The guy's in a very bad spot. I feel sorry for him.
In your opinion, why Amazon is terrible company to work for?
Why so people then try to get into Amazon (except H1B who are always ready)?
In many states it's illegal to interact with your phone while driving, but there's no technological enforcement mechanism, or federal law.
We should also ban people talking to their passengers.
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It was hard to return back to reality after playing that game on a regular monitor, I can't imagine what it must been to play it with any type of vr headgear.
> Anybody has any experiences confirming/disproving such problems exist in SF and Bay Area in general?

Slavic accent here. People definitely make jokes and I will probably never get used to social smiling. People generally assume I don't like them and/or that I'm mean. Easy to get around with conscious effort (used to practice the american teethy smile in the mirror).

If you're in tech, as an engineer or similar, none of that matters. If you want to be a starbucks barista I can imagine it being a problem even in SF. He did mention being in the menial side of the job market. That market is tough everywhere and why would they hire a foreigner that's culturally different when they can pick any number of other people knocking on their door?

Menial menial jobs (clenaing etc) mostly seem a market dominated by hispanics here in SF. Maybe he's the wrong kind of foreign to break into the market and build connections?
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Thanks for the quote. Just found the entire transcript: http://newfilmkritik.de/archiv/2005-03/los-angeles-plays-its...

It's a good read :)
Out of band verification. When you're doing curl pipe sh, you're trusting the host and that's it. With packages, you can verify the trust against external services like keybase, check website archive for changed key ids, check signatures on the public key if the author is into things like web of trust.

It won't protect you against someone being directly malicious, but it will against MitM, website hacks, etc. It also establishes semi-permanent trust on first use.
I'd be interested to see the impairment caused by looking at a paper map :). I'll be very surprised if it's less than Google Maps.
Amazon: up to 16 K80s and ~700 GB of RAM

Google: up to 8 K80s and ~200 GB of RAM but much more flexible
For us in the rest of the world...
if anything goes wrong, Volvo accepts full responsibility

Nice comfort I'm sure as you lie in your casket.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12962853
Perhaps since English was not his first language he meant something closer to "Russian mobster".
It's so interesting to see how these random Google websites differ. For instance, this website has been made with Bootstrap and jQuery. Weird choice already given the internal tools they have at their disposal.

Weirder still, the grid of videos doesn't use the Bootstrap grid at all. The elements are set to display: inline-block and then their width (and height, which we'll get to) is adjusted every time the window resizes using JavaScript.

This is presumably to maintain square blocks, because that's the design they've opted for and grid systems do not give you much control over height of the grid cells.

But using JavaScript to try and ensure squareness of grid cells is totally unnecessary. You just need CSS, as I shall demonstrate:

http://codepen.io/amdouglas/pen/eBddBd

http://codepen.io/amdouglas/full/eBddBd

Sometimes JavaScript is the best tool, especially in terms of accessibility; in this case, it adds nothing, only an expensive event handler. The resize event is really an awful way of achieving responsive web design. Media queries are the best option in 99% of cases.

* * *

Returning to the original thought, Google seems to have very different teams working here and there on their various marketing websites.

If you look at gv.com, their site also uses jQuery (with Slick and Velocity plugins).

If you look at duo.google.com and allo.google.com, they're Angular sites — which is what you'd expect from Google. A lot of their websites are based on Angular, it's a framework they're invested in (along with Polymer) and so on.

More recently, some of their marketing sites are being made with MDL. Usually small, less significant ones, not for apps but for random initiatives and projects that few people are going to look at. Which seems rather telling.

Polymer is in use, but seems to be reserved for applications like Youtube Gaming or Play Music. I think the Google PDF Reader is Polymer-based was well. That makes sense, Polymer is barely supported in browsers other than Chrome without a hefty bunch of polyfills.

There's also the Closure JavaScript libraries/tools, which Google used to use a lot for things like GMail (blog.google is the most recent instance I think).

For some reason, I find it odd that they don't have a unified internal toolkit for this sort of work. I'm not actually critical of this fact, I'm no critic of pragmatism. I'm just surprised.

I wonder though: does this indicate that these sites were outsourced to an agency?
The US obviously isn't going to be fighting in Japan (past experiences notwithstanding), Russia (ditto), China, or South Korea; but what about the Islamic megacities, especially the Pakistani ones?

And, for that matter, what about NYC and LA? Another round of civil war in the US is unlikely but not impossible, and the military wouldn't want to be caught on the hop.
This is why i read threads like these. Thank you!
I'm of the belief that while phones have contributed, it's just not hard enough to drive anymore. Try driving a manual shift, non power steering vehicle some time and using your phone. That's the world the roads were built for, not this ultra easy, power assisted, auto-speed control, auto-lane control world where you don't even feel the speed difference between 60 and 90.

I used to hear people say they couldn't drive without the radio because they "needed the distraction". I never got that. Isn't driving supposed to be the only thing you're doing while driving?

All the hands free apps in the world can't solve split focus. Even a bluetooth, voice activated system requires you to commit brain cycles to the conversation that's coming through that will take away from your ability to drive.

We sit and argue about how bad context switching is, how important it is in our careers as developers to focus on what we're doing, then we build apps and devices that are competing to be the best attention stealing devices they can be.
In France we have unemployment benefits at 80% for 2 years. Startup creators can convert them into a lumpsum of 50% the total (name: ACCRE). I'm severely against this scheme, but my first advice to entrepreneurs is to take the ACCRE when they satisfy the conditions, because there's no way to be competitive without it.

About friends/family: I've noticed that people living payday-to-payday have a harder time accepting presents from richer people. But it's ok. We spend money on various optional things like sponsoring a child abroad or holidays, so if we share our money with you, it's really because it's better spent on human relationships than on holidays. I'm aware that causes the recipient to acknowledge that they're in a difficult situation, and feeling guilty of not being able to provide enough is a common reaction (although it's often far from the correct reality), and that's why it has to become more commonplace to casually accept a big present when there's an earning gap. Especially when the person who offer makes it clear that they don't mind.
> "Why only mention pro-Trump fake news?"

Sounds like you didn't read the whole article, as it mentions anti-Trump fake news and then answers your question:

After the election, Mr. Zuckerberg claimed that the fake news was a problem on “both sides” of the race. There are, of course, viral fake anti-Trump memes, but reporters have found that the spread of false news is far more common on the right than it is on the left.

The Macedonian teenagers found this, too. They had experimented with left-leaning or pro-Bernie Sanders content, but gave up when they found it wasn’t as reliable a source of income as pro-Trump content. But even if Mr. Zuckerberg were right and fake news were equally popular on both sides, it would still be a profound problem.
Imagine if this principle were applied to other software products. "Click here to download the Office installer, which will gain full admin-level access to your machine. We promise to only use that to install Office."
Email addresses allow comments? Who the heck thought that was a smart idea!?

I guess this is what you're referring to: James Doe <jdoe@a.com>

The email - which is inside the <> - should be parsed correctly, while the rest should be treated as a "comment" [1].

[1]: https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/rfc/822addr.html
> I specifically said you should include all victims, and not just the Germans, which you refused to do

I spelled out at least once, if not twice in this thread that I include them as part of the 'non combatants' killed in the raid, but it is clear that your hatred for the 'barbarity' of a nation is interfering with your ability to see that.

But calling out anyone who simply asks "What about German civilians killed?" as neo-Nazis and Nazi sympathisers is, well, simply bloviating hysteria.

You seem to be getting really upset about the downvotes you are getting, but just so it's understood, my karma balance here on HN does not let me downvote direct replies to my own comments, so it is clearly other members on here who are reacting to your views.

I will be civil enough to stop short of actually labelling you as anything though, because I have no other knowledge about you to make such a judgement call.

I don't think that derailing this thread any further with our discussion will be of benefit to anyone. Take a deep breath. Have a nice cup of tea, and I hope you have a great day.
I get your point but it's not unfeasible to think that a western nation may be involved in a conflict that requires operating in one of these megacities - particularly some of the Asian and African cities near existing conflict zones.
I am not aware of other firms that were fined by the government for their negligence w.r.t to a breach. I would applaud the NC AG for pursuing this. Despite the small amount, it sets a precedent. The second time Adobe fails, I presume their fine will ratchet up. Remember, they were using DES ECB for their passwords
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There's an old saying "Put your money where your mouth is".

I think the idea of mentioning it is that it is a comfort as you hand control of the car over to the automated system.
This is pretty amazing timing. Sometime between when you wrote this comment and when I'm writing this reply, Tesla opened a supercharger in Columbia, SC. Not even kidding. I guess they agreed with your assessment!
I'm sure studies funded by the tobacco companies in the 1960s had equally believable outcomes.
I may be biased, but I put zerotier on lots of hosts these days. Whether it's home raspberrypi for remote access, or vps to get all administration off the public network, or sometimes just as a VPN replacement for stuff like replication. It's pretty much fire and forget.
Do you perform online market research?
Have you found a successful market research approach for browsing through online trends?

I.e. you're building a new app and want to perform validation. Do you look for online discussions & e-commerce? Have you found this approach useful?
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On the other hand, American companies don't seem to be bound by the laws that we think they are either.

As example, I'll submit PRISM (while admitting that we're still not 100% clear on that) and the retroactive immunity provided to telecom companies.
You make a fair point, but I think you do have to consider that this is already the case in automotive manufacture. At any given point there are a range of cars on the road that have a variety of safety features differentiated on cost: antilock brakes, front and side airbags, "adaptive" cruise control that won't let you plow into a car in front of you etc. Never mind all of the more mundane mechanical fasteners, fire suppression, etc.

This isn't a new reality where there is some degree of engineering culpability inherent on auto makers, it's a moving of the goal posts.
This is very true and it always bugs me when some application or API supports regex, but the documentation doesn't specify the grammar, usually saying it's "standard regular expressions" - which standard? Posix? PCRE? Something else? Almost every flavour has some subtle differences and it's really, really important to know what you are dealing with.

I do feel like these subtle differences are the main cause of bugs in programs containing regexes; compounded by the fact they aren't super-readable, especially for people who don't use them frequently.

Tools like this are IMO really valuable for code reviews and it's nice to see that this one does have a flavour switch on the LHS with some of the main implementations.
It seems that production versions of these cutting edge techniques come out very soon after the paper is released (in this case just a few months). I wonder how long the internal development process for these big ML efforts are.
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I don't think a concrete submarine would work very well. :)

More seriously, I have no idea. Submarines normally involve an advertisement for the advertising company somewhere in the latter part of the article; no company = no giveaway ad. But knowing Trump and his way with memes, I wouldn't be surprised if the author just had walls on the brain, without having to be paid for it...
Well, it seems somewhat shortsighted to imagine that just because it would be categorically awful to fight another conventional war in densely populated urban centers, that it will never happen again or that it isn't something you should think about and prepare for.

I agree that the MIC is a toxic influence on policy, but lets not let that blind ourselves to conducting healthy analysis on what warfare might look like in the future.
There's a difference between joking about being Russian terrorist and actually thinking he's one. And even more difference between that and denying him a job "because he's a foreigner". It's true I work in IT but I also meet other people. And both myself and these people hire and are hired. So I assumed if there was a strong reluctance of people in SF to hire foreigners (despite SF being a "minority majority" city, and having a real lot of "foreigners") I'd at least heard about it, as I hear about many other issues without experiencing them directly myself. Yet I didn't, so I want to hear about them now.
He is doing cleaning jobs and asking for donations just to afford a 900$ air ticket to Serbia. I'm not sure FACTA is on his mind.
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I weep for the US if they stooped so low as to take him out. Democracy is dead
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Most accidents don't result in death. Volvo's liability coverage would be a nice comfort if you survived an accident and the people your autonomous car hit are trying to sue you.
They also used such trucks to prevent a vehicle ramming into the NYC Marathon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia
> After steady declines over the last four decades, highway fatalities last year recorded the largest annual percentage increase in 50 years.

So I guess the title makes sense, but I think it's extremely misleading.
None of the tests there are startup time.
Yes this is the challenge.

And worsening that challenge is the fact that knowledgeable people tend to be utterly un-interested in endlessly discussing discredited, unsubstantiated or nonsensical theories, only to find the listener is simply not listening anyway. An understandable preference.

But the result is surprise at the number and influence of climate change deniers when they suddenly emerge in force.
“Most people think I’m a Russian terrorist because of my accent.”

This is ridiculous and false.
Probably nsping.
There is no actual substance to this argument. It's just taking a couple simple facts and applying some logic and imagination. Anyone can do it--no subject matter expertise required. Which probably explains why this sort of argument is popular in HN and other online forums.

It's fun to think about, but not very informing or insightful.
Because it wasn't fine before that. Most drivers take irrational risks, drive with zero margin, and are generally fucking stupid behind the wheel. The other half are even worse. Seriously, there needs to be far more restrictions and punitive damages to bad drivers. With all the media attention on terrorism, there are 10 times as many deaths in the US every year due to stupid drivers as there were on 9-11.
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Please try it out and let me know what you think.

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I commute partially on foot in Massachusetts, and it can be terrifying to see people making turns with the phone held up to the side of their face.
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