skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is simply not true. Did you miss the part about "limited liability"? The limitation to liability is your involvement in the action. If you're the only person in the company, there's zero limit: you're fully responsible for all actions of the company. You don't get to hide behind a sheet of paper just because you filed some LLC paperwork when your product fails and kills someone.
I use the iOS Shazam app rather often and always wonder why it takes it so long to launch. Even after it launches, I cannot immediately press the "Shazam" button (this is rather infuriating sometimes). Could initialising the mic really take that long, even on an iPhone?
I really don't see how you get the improvement of lacking bureaucracy as an affront to democracy.
The domain is .nhs.net ;)

Some individual trusts have @trust.nhs.uk addresses, most - probably two thirds use the .nhs.net system.
If saying that "for doing illegal things you can get jailed and raped therefore do not do illegal things under any circumstances, except protecting yourself and your loved ones" is a warped view, than I take your comment as a compliment.

>>if a split-second comes where a mildly poor decision could get exponentially worse

I think you talk abot non existent things. Can you please explain me how can an average illegal act be a "split-second poor decision"? You can not steal a car or start dealng drugs in a split-second. Except you are Flash.
Is this really true? If so that's an interesting fact.
Fairly long post with a simple message: Data is the truth, it is useful to think about the values that live in the program, and about their relations. It is useful to think about what things are "objects" and thus need identities.

This is not obvious to OOP people. In OOP everything (each object) has implied identity: their address in memory. This is brutally wrong for most use cases in most programming domains. What usecase justifies new Integer(3) != new Integer(3)? Most languages support overriding an equality method as a partial fix, but that's far from elegant.

On the other hand it should be fairly obvious to people who like relational databases.
What victims were there? My understanding is that there was some game playing with two accounts violating the terms of service. The affected relationship was developer - Apple and Apple has asserted itself here. There was also to the degree I know some misrepresentation of the conflict by the developer.

Afaik. this has not gone to court and both developer and Apple seemed to want to stop talking about it. I believe we should respect this. As we also should respect the nationality and contribution of developers giving away something for free.
> Vulkan is widely available on Windows, not sure how you missed that.

I have not missed, just haven't seen too many caring about it on the Windows game development forums.

> You can also use the Vulkan API today on iOS and OS X via a third-party library that translates between the Vulkan APIs and Metal, called MoltenVK.[0]

Zero advantages versus middleware engines.
They suggest this plugins (http://devdocs.io/about):

- Chrome web app

- Sublime Text plugin

- Atom plugin

- Brackets extension

- Emacs Package
A concise explanation of a pattern that developers of newly every level can understand and link to? Nope, no value there!

/s
Unfortunately your example won't work. You can't use a primitive value as a key in a weak map, which negates many of their possible use cases.
> It's cute that their map shows the former Soviet Union as "not free" and the former American Cold War strategic assets as "free"

Very good point. I think anyone interested in how "Free" press is used and how un-free it usually is, should read Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. Hate them or love them, they provide a very good examples that are documented of "free" media bias.

My favorite example is CNN recently. I think they at some point dropped the pretense and sunk to levels lower than what Fox has been considered. My favorite recent example is of course Chris Cuomo from CNN who said "...it is illegal to possess these stolen documents. It is different from the media. So everything you learn about this, you are learning from us." That is such a brilliant example of what is happening.

The only question there to ask is why be so blatant and desperate about censorship. And I think the answer is because they got desperate. They realized they lost control.

As you say, and Snowden showed US govt has been using Tweeter and other such thing to control and conduct various operations. I am guessing the Arab Spring is a good recent example.
Why does Google wait so long to report the real election result? They don't want to make Hillary look as bad as she did in the election?
Why we used jittery gauges in our live election forecast
taking it upon themselves to decide for everyone else how a
city should operate

How so? They aren't dictating traffic flow, they are adding visibility markers to existing bike lanes.
Relevant HN threads:

Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646919

Apple Responds to Dash Controversy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12680131
Anyone who has used the Apple Appstore is fractionally speaking the loser/victim - he spammed it.

Do you ever wonder what the appstore would be like without spam bullshit? How quality software studios could make money instead of some hack like this buying ratings from a third-party on cookie cutter apps?
That's exactly what they did do though. See http://support.nhs.net/servicestatus by 09:45 they'd disabled the distribution list and updated their service status page. There were that many emails in the system that at 15:30 people were still receiving emails sent at 09:30.
> Kapeli decided not to [publicly apologize and clear up the issue] and released the private phone call with the Apple representative instead.

Kapeli wrote the blog post Apple requested and sent it in for review. https://kapeli.com/apple_draft

Apple never got back to him, and instead went to the press with statements that did not mention any of the circumstances, making clear that this was their final statement on the matter. Only then did Kapeli come out with his side of the story and the recorded phone call.
I'll take the open street any day. Zombie pedestrians, head down in phone, step off the curb and into the protected lane thinking that they can get 1/5 of the way across the street without looking up. Oncoming auto traffic reduces this likelihood significantly, but disturbingly, not completely.

If you learn the traffic pattern of your route, you can reduce your concern primarily to red light runners.
When startups skirt entrenched and slow industries, it's disruption; when bicyclists add traffic cones to already-defined bike lanes, it's an affront to democracy.

Nice, HN commenters.
Anyone know what happened to research on this? It seemed like a reasonable approach to treating some types of cancer like subcutaneous tumors and brain tumors. There's a wikipedia article[1] where the last reference is from 2011 and things were looking good at that point.

IIRC brain tumors can be really tricky to treat and this method showed some promise. The testing on mice was working well back around 2010 and I figured it would be further along by now.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoshell
The Fourth major failing is in assuming that the majority of the country faces the same concerns as the rich people piled into the coastal cities.

There's nothing inherently wrong with calling upon like-minded people to change government policies as the author asks (it's called lobbying), but the assumption that the "other-half" are just mistaken bigots and racists is exactly how this mess started.
Sun has two large problems: a) the nights and b) bad weather. A) is quite predictable and usually electricity consumption is lower in the night but b) needs a fix. So large scale grids can not only extend the time per day solar energy is available but also compensate for bad weather. Over large enough areas, the total solar output is more constant. Add in a good amount of wind energy a pretty constant load should be bearable with renewal energies with very little of storage.
Wifi-fast: Slashdot takes 4 minutes to load with 1 second delay [pdf]
Coding and Computers May Be the Next Middle Class
Middleware engines have won the hearts of game developers, it doesn't matter what runs underneath, only for those that do API religion.
Things can move slower at big companies, but sometimes that can be a nice opportunity to come in and help change the culture. If you can't tolerate it or it can't be changed, probably time to move on. I bet in most big companies there are high performance teams that move more efficiently than the average - it's just sometimes not easy to find them or get on them.

If you want to work with a team that spends all of their free time at work, you may find it challenging in most places, but especially big companies. Having work/life balance is pretty important to most people, especially when you're just collecting a paycheck and not invested/owner in a business.
That's exactly what they did. "The distribution list has been removed and associated emails are being traced and cleared." See http://support.nhs.net/servicestatus
Why is Pearson so arrogant about this? Shazam doesn't control my device, I do. What's to stop any other software vendor from ignoring the configuration with whatever justification they want to use?
I would never hire someone back who accepted and then bailed on a job offer. I would hire someone back who rejected a job offer and got back in touch at a later time saying circumstances have changed. I think once you make a commitment to someone that you will do something, and then you do not do it, regardless of the legal repercussions most people will not want to hire you as a result.

It is possible that you are amazing at what you do and that they will bend over backwards to make a spot for you even if you abuse them. I suspect however the good advice for 90% of people asking that question is only take the start-up job if you never want to work for Facebook or the person who offered you the Facebook job.
Was wondering why a bunch of websites were giving me ssl errors, but working in firefox.
> I approve of proportional representation. But I think a good single winner method should be sufficient to elect good representatives.

Comparative empirical studies of modern democracies that I've seen (e.g., as detailed in Lijphart's Patterns of Democracy) suggest that this is simply not correct.

> And most positions are required to be single winner

What elected positions need to be single winner is a matter of choice, but, yes there are some, and for those better single-winner methods help. But they won't make additional larties viable the way that proportionality in the legislature would.
Author here. It has gotten kind of hard to follow what has happened, so here's a chronology:

1. In September, Chrome 53 was released, which enabled mandatory Certificate Transparency for Symantec certificates due to Symantec's history of incompetence. Some website operators, such as Chase, asked Symantec to submit their certificates to Certificate Transparency logs in such a way that the certificate wouldn't be trusted by Chrome, triggering the ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED error. This is when I wrote this blog post.

2. Last week, an internal timebomb expired in older versions of Chrome causing this error message for any website using a Symantec certificate issued since June. Basically, Chrome contains a list of Certificate Transparency logs that it trusts, and this list has a 10 week expiration date. So if Chrome was built more than 10 weeks ago, there would be no trusted Certificate Transparency logs, and therefore any certificate that was supposed to be logged (such as new Symantec certs) would be untrusted and display this error message. The Chrome team was able to fix this within 24 hours by remotely disabling CT enforcement in Chrome. (When Chrome starts up, it fetches a list of feature flags from a Chrome server using a system called Finch which is independent of the normal upgrade system.)

3. Today, the Chromium packages in several Linux distros, including Ubuntu, became 10 weeks old. For some reason, they have not picked up the Finch update, and so they are displaying this error message for all Symantec certificates issued since June. This is not confirmed yet, but the current hypothesis is that the distros have disabled Finch for privacy reasons. It will probably require a distro package upgrade to fix.
Having done some affiliate work with the VA, I can confirm that this is indeed the case.
> Sometimes I wonder if humans have hard wired deep neural nets that recognize parts of the male and female anatomy [...]

As a teen I tried to figure out exactly what it is about breasts that's so great. I ended up coming to the conclusion that it's just a hardwired hack... Somewhere in my head there's the equivalent of

if (object.type == boobs) object.value = 100; // HACK!

> Manipulating these neural networks in our brain would be the perfect strategy for an evil AI to take over the world... :/

Sex sells. Most of advertising has been based on it forever.
> Pitting "ranked choice" versus "approval" (versus "range") voting is not really the way to think about it. Consider a "relaxed" version of ranked choice where voters are allowed to give multiple candidates the same rank. (Sometimes voters really do have no preference between two candidates.)

I think Ranked versus Approval/Score is a proper comparison.

Ranked voting requires that you order candidates. That additional complexity is undesirable to proponents of Approval or Score Voting, such as myself.

You've suggested removing the requirement to order candidates and called it "Relaxed Ranked Voting." Removing the ordering requirement makes "Relaxed Ranked Voting" approximately equivalent to Score Voting (sometimes known as "Range Voting") [1]. The difference is that the numbers are reversed. In Score Voting with a range of 0 to 100, the highest score—that is, 100—is given the the candidate(s) you like the most. In your "Relaxed Ranked Voting," I assume the best score would be a 1. This seems needlessly confusing to the voter. Just use a scoring system that everyone is familiar with from public high school, where 100 is the best.

Relaxed Ranked Voting seems additionally complicated by each elected office on a ballot having its own bounds (a three-candidate race would presumably permit scores of 1 to 3; a five candidate race would be 1 to 5; etc.) Meanwhile, Score Voting, once adopted, would use a consistent score range for all elected offices. For example, 100 is always best.

Am I missing something else about Relaxed Ranked Voting that makes you prefer it versus Score Voting?

I find it frustrating that IRV has more momentum than Approval and Score. I am worried that we will squander an opportunity to adopt a truly superior system such as Approval or Score voting [2] if we end up with IRV. I want to get rid of Plurality as much as anyone, but replacing it with IRV seems a half-success that will temporarily exhaust regular voters' tolerance of change.

As you point out, a reason so many of us on the Approval and Score Voting hype-train talk about Approval more than Score is that it's largely compatible with existing ballots. You just mark as many as you want. Super simple. In fact, I argue that Approval voting is simpler than plurality voting because it removes the "select only one" constraint.

[1] https://electology.org/score-voting

[2] https://electology.org/approval-voting-versus-irv
This is much more realistic. 3k psi will struggle to cut a cake.
The military, healthcare, and NASA are have at least some aspect of being a public good.

But that's not true of the suburbs, it's just a lifestyle choice. And it's just as weird as the federal government heavily subsidizing video game purchases.(ignoring externalities.)
That will be terribly inefficient for asserting inequality of large objects.
Carver Mead! He's one of us, ONE OF US (physics crackpots, like JG Cramer here at UW.)
There are methods where the drug is delivered directly to the tumor via a similar idea, except of course they use tiny tubing.

This allows the use of drugs which if given orally or by injection, would have to be at such a high concentration that e.g. the liver would be damaged. By delivering the drug to the site the cancer alone gets hit with it.
What is cloud?
One thing I've wanted on tools like this is an API to query what requests have hit your particular endpoint which would be useful for unit testing applications which use webhooks.
The point I was trying to make about mobile is that "master/detail" patterns are well established and the UX clear (cf. Android & iOS default address book apps); this is not the case on the web. Each of SFDC, SugarCRM, Insightly (and presumably Romulus) uses a different pattern. And if you look at front-end frameworks for guidance (Bootstrap, Foundation, cx_codaxy [0]) most don't do more that provide data tables with in-line edit; rather tedious for CRM with several dozen fields. We try to use UX analysis tools and interview users (Inspectlet, UserTesting) but we still sense a lot of frustration & confusion...

Sorry, this is heading off topic for the OP, but interesting to note the priority of your first hire -- smart choice!

[0] http://cx.codaxy.com
Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen and Pester
>Gay bars don't exist in most suburbs

Neither do straight bars. Where I'm from we call them "bars", and they cater to no specific culture.
How to Think and Reason Like a Special Operator
Their jobs get replaced by all the jobs created for setting up and maintaining the renewal energy production. Most coal mining jobs got killed when mining became mechanized. So there might even be more jobs after transitioning to renewal energies.
They should start building hardware switches on mics, cameras, WiFi, Bluetooth etc. And we should be able to check that they really work.
I love how questioning a sexist tradition earns me downvotes.
Shameless plug: https://requesthub.xyz/

Let's you transform input data with jq and redirect the webhook to another endpoint. Kind of make-your-own Zapier.

Also featuring replays.
This is what we get for designing systems with a low number (typically one) privileged centralized controlling body.

The government gets to roll up and says "I'll have some of what they're having."

I'm not saying that there aren't advantages to centralized architectures, just that this is one of the inseparable tradeoffs that comes with those decisions.
Actually after a little digging it turned out that Kapeli was a shovelware writer who's gone legit. The whole "relative" thing was fully made up:

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-says-1-000-fraudul...
not really. 1 hour of video in 36 seconds it 1,000 hours of video / hour of computation. Assuming you go with a cluster of higher end graphics cards, you could pretty easily perform 100x better. That's 100,000 hours of video processed / hour of computation. I don't know the size of the pornhub back catalog, and I'm scared to search since I'm at work right now, but even if it's hundreds of millions of hours you could go through the whole thing in like 2 months tops.
Additionally, sexual orientation isn't a "culture".
Haha, wrong video sorry!

NOVA used to have a neat video about it so I just linked to the first thing after searching for nanoshells. Here's an article about it at least:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/halas-nanoshell.html
No, it's not. Sorry.
Could probably train a network to look at the marbling and determine the deformation within decent bars with enough before/after shots. Might put some pounds on generating the training set though...
Google Cloud, HEPCloud and Probing the Nature of Nature
I'm sorry I don't want to sacrifice my life and dreams because some people are slow learners. But it's OK, because the next generation will not suffer. /s

Give me a break.
I find that people tend to like the voting system that (they believe) will give their favorite party the best odds. So people that have radical political ideologies, tend to prefer systems that are more likely to allow radical candidates.

Note that in practice, people start to vote tactically to prevent radical candidates, so there really isn't any voting system that works great for that purpose anyway.

I think the centrist option is probably the best for a number of reasons. I think a particularly bad president can do much more harm, than an unusually good president can do good. E.g. start WW3, or destroy the economy. Not to mention dividing the country and polarizing our political system.

Second there is a phenomenon called wisdom of crowds. That if you take the middle of the estimates given by a large number of uninformed people, it usually comes out very close to the true answer. The same should apply to voting. The middle preference of a large number of uninformed voters, should be close to optimal.

Third there are studies that show that centrists and moderates tend to have much more accurate beliefs than others. As in, their predictions of future events were the most accurate. Ideological people were extremely biased and inaccurate. That's probably the closest we can get to scientifically measuring how good their policies would be.

Lastly, for values questions, where there is no "right answer", the middle should be chosen. It's the fairest choice.
Yeah, but verifying information is also much easier than ever.
Compared to how many emails he sends in total, it is barely even a few. By and large, you will not find a more friendly maintainer. If you keep ignoring him while trying to get something into his project, he will get rude.

And this is the funny thing about it. Even the people he "explodes" on usually get a lot of friendly "stop" messages from him well before any inflammatory message comes out. Only real exceptions I can think of is that he will meet an insult with an insult. Which, ironically, can go a decent way to making everyone else feel safer in the environment.

Edit to add: I do want to quickly add that as much praise as I can offer Linus in this regard, Knuth really is on another level. I do not intend to compare them.
"NO parking lots" is, in this case, analogous to "NO paying for parking lots."
It's the terminology github users in their API for people who have starred a project:

GET /repos/:owner/:repo/stargazers
By "top news link" the author is talking about the top link in Google's web search results. That website doesn't show up on news.google.com.
Dribbble Inspiration Tab
initializing any hardware takes some time. Be it the microphone, the speaker, the taptic engine (or the making the phone vibrate at the exact moment), access to location (gps can probably be the longest initialization time), all need some initialization time before they can be used as expected.
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court."
I've listened to the recording, and it's about grabbing the women who let him, which is consensual by definition.

In isolation, his now-famous remarks ("You can do anything you want with them; you can grab them by the p---y") could perhaps be read that way. But taken together with multiple, overlapping statements from women asserting that he did exactly that to them, and in a clearly non-consensual fashion -- these statements take on a different character.

And yes, women have accused him, but women also accused Duke lacrosse team.

Allegations from a single individual (as per the Duke case) are one thing. Allegations from 15+ individuals describing a consistent pattern of behavior over several years are quite another matter.
No, this is a rather common occurrence and the transition on the App Store is surprisingly smooth.