skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not actually a full counter-argument, since scheming requires two parts: that one person or a small group of people had a long term vision and goal, and that result was actually achieved. Blaming the current state of spying just a nefarious spy organization is pure reductive conspiracy theory speculation.

The truth is more prosaic and also more frustrating: we all collectively, including voters and and politicians, got ourselves into this mess.
I would happily work on something like this for free
Hey, here's a tip: If you've not taken a defensive driving class, give it a shot. A defensive driving certificate can save you $10-15/month.
It probably has delimiting effect. Without the NOP, the macro expansion probably would concatenate together as foobar rather than foo bar.
Where did you get the impression that GP was talking about "doing front-end web development"?
I meant the literal words "open source" as the term to refer to the practices that created software like Linux.
I cannot even imagine trying to deploy coaxial cables or serial throughout a datacenter via overhead cabling trays/ladder racks to 120 individual 52U racks each full of 10kW of servers in hot/cold separation systems. It would be a complete nightmare. Cable management is already to the point where are specifically using 1.6mm uniboot diameter fiber patch cables because the traditional yellow fat stuff starts becoming unwieldy.
Documentation is a bit like people dying
What about sharply falling gasoline prices? https://energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-915-march-7-2016-avera...
Stop fucking texting while driving!
I meant a database of individual fatalities. That was probably not clear.
All is well that ends well. He's fine now but those were the longest days of my life to date.
Apple uses many languages internally. And swift & objective-c are very close in programming models in many ways. It's pretty natural for an ObjC dev to learn swift and vice versa I would imagine. If apple is having a hard time find new objective-c dev, but has swift devs, it will just train them.

A lot of code is in C++ at apple, like most of their graphics, UX & networking. Drivers in C. A lot of apps are non-ARC objective-C still and so on.

Also swift is not a solid enough language yet. Debuggers, compiling & indexing are too slow & unstable and there are things like ABI stability that are not delivered yet. I would give swift ~4+ years before it would be something to consider replacing Objective-C completely.
2005 called and want's it's arguments back. Microsoft has been moving a lot of products to the web where possible, for example Office 365.
Enforcement? no. We know they gather intelligence on citizens though and we know they collaborate with other agencies that do enforcement though.
If it helps, I'm not coastal or elite.

It's certainly a fair criticism of my phrasing, but having your home washed away due to weather is quite different than being compensated to uproot.
I blame the various fingerprint scanners within phones. I have have a strong password on Android - no chance I will ever type that while driving.
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I was about to say, don't bother submitting a patch to fix this, as last week rustc completely moved away from make, deleting all its makefiles in the process: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/39431

I'm curious how OP even ended up trawling old versions of rustc's makefiles from 2014. I bet there's an interesting story there. :P
Python is a nightmare for static analysis. Basing anything contract-related on it is the opposite of reassuring.

I think there are some really cool ideas in Etherium. Proof-of-stake is great. Provably terminating functions are great! These ideas deserve to be paired with a higher level language worthy of them.
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Windows Forms is ok, but pretty slow and clunky if you come from using Delphi.
Interesting article. Definitely something to keep in mind when hiring. It's crazy how much damage one person can do to a team (and vice-versa, I've seen one person change entire team dynamics).

It's also really important to be careful with jerks who think they are brilliant, even if they are. There's always someone smarter out there and clever solutions aren't always the best solutions if no one can understand them.
Along with the absolutely horrific case where the driver uses a smart phone WHILE driving, from my personal observation, another component is the one where a lot of drivers will immediately hop on their devices as soon as they reach a temporary stop, be it at a street light or an intersection.
This creates a lot of delays and confusion in traffic due to the fact the driver is actively incapacitated in participating in traffic.

In this environment, having a car that has active collision control/prevention mechanisms is more and more a necessity.
If you like far-sighted Churchill reading, I highly recommend reading his 1931 essay "Fifty Years Hence". He predicts cultured meat, cellphones, genetically modified food, among other things.

http://rolandanderson.se/Winston_Churchill/Fifty_Years_Hence...
Hardly. How often is it that you can read an uncommented Python program that implements a tricky algorithm, and you can easily recover basic things like loop invariants?
Yeah, the LD50 of water is maybe ~6-7 L [0]. If ~100 mL / cup, you're approaching that volume of coffee with 50 cups. The small amount of sodium in coffee may help. (Ignoring how fast these are being consumed.)

I'm sure the Voltaire thing is just "the dude drank a lot of coffee."

[0] http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9927321
Have you watched Enemy of the State?
Maybe it would, maybe it wouldn't. Without research into this it's all just conjecture.
I can understand why it probably isn't on the list yet (not as many citations, since it is fairly new) - but NVidia's "End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars" needs to be mentioned, I think:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07316

https://images.nvidia.com/content/tegra/automotive/images/20...

I implemented a slight variation on this CNN using Keras and TensorFlow for the third project in term 1 of Udacity's Self-Driving Car Engineer nanodegree course (not special in that regard - it was a commonly used implementation, as it works). Give it a shot yourself - take this paper, install TensorFlow, Keras, and Python, download a copy of Udacity's Unity3D car simulator (it was recently released on GitHub) - and have a shot at it!

Note: For training purposes, I highly recommend building a training/validation set using a steering wheel controller, and you'll want a labeled set of about 40K samples (though I have heard you can get by with much fewer, even unaugmented - my sample set actually used augmentation of about 8k real samples to boost it up to around 40k). You'll also want to use GPU and/or a generator or some other batch processing for training (otherwise, you'll run out of memory post-haste).
“Fifty Years Hence” (1931) by Winston Churchill
> ...but rather gives boundaries to keep fighting within "human-ish" levels.

Let's say 'within profitable levels'.

Not all weapons are that good for enabling an army to advance, even if lots of people are killed, e.g. poison gas. Civilians get instantly killed by the stuff but armies are tooled up to survive it, or can be. With not much profit in poison gas compared to a cruise missile laced with depleted uranium it makes sense to ban the poison gas that anyone with a degree in chemistry can make in their front room rather than the missile.

Instead of cyber war being the threat those conventional and nuclear weapons are the threat, although hard to imagine if living in Kansas.

What we need are some jolly clever OSS licenses that have clauses in them 'not for military use'. Microsoft could put that in their license today and go heavy on the enforcement - 'sorry Lockheed Martin you can't be using Excel to design 'echelon 2 as that is in violation of the EULA, here is the cease and desist...'.

In this way we can make the military contractors fall out of the loop and be as IT savvy as North Korea.

'Don't be evil' is something we forgot about, however, again, if Google just 404'd on the military due to some EULA then that we wouldn't have so much evil in the world.

Seems that 'cyber terror' is the new al-qaeda, i.e. make believe.
The insurance business is the best racket to be in, same as private prison industry. Customers are guaranteed.
I think this is for Makefiles...
Let's also not forget that that Churchill had to beg the Americans for quite some time to come and help him out. And they didn't. He even attacked and sank a French naval fleet, just to proof he was serious, to them.

And that in the meantime, the Nazis were very much into the occult business.

I'm just saying that one shouldn't be surprised that Churchil was looking at all possible options out there.

Here is the intro video, that gets you up to speed: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p_37IU4n834
Makefiles, where whitespace is the cause of, and solution to, all of your problems.
I upvoted this before I read the article, simply because I agree with the headline. I wonder how many others here did the same?
Watch a busy street at night during heavy traffic. You can see from the light shining off driver's faces that 40%~ of them are either using their phones or another system while driving.

Given the proliferation of front-facing cameras and velocity sensors in all iPhones and most Android devices, it is unconscionable that these devices remain usable in these circumstances.
Actually, there are EXTREMELY good models around rainfall, snowfall, SWE, rainholding capacity, and runoff. The forecasts I see for the Sierra basically nail snow:water ratios and snow levels to within 500ft.
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All 50 states (and territories), only fatal crashes, goes back to the 1970s: https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
available via ftp or here: https://github.com/wgetsnaps/ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov--fars

All California crashes, fatal to no injury, goes back a few years at least: http://iswitrs.chp.ca.gov/Reports/jsp/userLogin.jsp
(You have to create a free account)

Overall these data sets have been pretty well studied for the past few decades. The results are well documented: e.g. 6pm to midnight is the deadliest time, young males are the riskiest, older drivers are also risky, etc. Weather can actually be good for safety because people often drive slower and there are fewer cars on the road in bad conditions. But yes, weather can be a factor too.
That does seem to correlate, since ~2013.
I haven't encountered any compiler bugs, no. I know that they're still really pushing on some of the further reaches—what comes to mind is statically verifying that a value is never `nil`, as well as some of the more industrial-strength elements of the metaprogramming system—but both of those are very much optional.
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Definitely. Still the case in the post represents a very soft version of the type, comparing to who you can really come across at work.
Well one can argue that people "in charge" are not at all the people that hold the public offices so we have no clue whether or not they have a clue. If one wants a decent conspiracy theory one could start with the fact that Capital Group, Fidelity , BlackRock and Vanguard have 13 trillion under management majority of which is invested in US stock market so if they collude they would have majority of votes in a majority of US public companies.
Nice - but have you consent of the comment authors to duplicate the content? Normally, UGC (user generated content) remains under copyright of the users.
The problem with this idea ("you find jerks everywhere") is that it doesn't account for groups whose unifying ideologies make their members noxious. You might run into an unpleasant Lutheran or bird watcher or deficit hawk, but it's just a personality thing. A white nationalist is despicable by virtue of being a white nationalist.

Of course, you're still right that the ability to look past that and try to communicate with people regardless is sometimes the only thing that can make a difference...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/opinion/sunday/why-i-left...
It's also a great quote, but it's a different one. "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy" is more like you get punched as much and in a way that you didn't expect, even if you planned to get punched. Tyson's saying "When you get punched the sensation is so unexpected that your brain stops working for some time". The 'counter' to the changing environment quote is to be flexible from the beginning. The 'counter' to Tyson's situation is to train so much, that your muscle memory will continue to work even if your brain doesn't.
To clarify: dependency on wine means that the IDE was essentially windows application (stripped-down delphi) running on top of wine . Wine was not required for deployment of applications.
Whitespace [0], where whitespace is the cause of, and solution to, all of your problems.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...
That's less a scheme than a market.

Governments can, in fact, create them, if they throw enough of (our) money at the idea.

And people were saying that 10 years ago (and properly-scaled versions of the same quite a bit earlier). James Bamford, for one, has made a career out of the history and activities of the place. People didn't laugh at him; they mainly just ignored it.
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Because the analog one worked wonderfully?
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> It will be limited to Windows, though, I'll give you that.

Rather, it'll be limited to Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. :)
Look, you're clearly very bitter about this. You should think about what you're doing for a minute and decide whether this is good PR.

If you think he's copying your MTurk generated ideas, go ahead and call him out. Don't write up a "competition is great" and "we're getting along well over the phone" nonsense. You're not buying it, we're not buying it.

What I recommend is you take the high road. As in don't dox your user base and keep on improving your product.

For what it's worth, you sitting on this until he paraphrased more than two email (e.g. like 10+) and then posting a "competition is okay, but plagiarism is not" article would have fared much better.
Isn't software a tool for leverage? If staff is additive, then software is multiplicative. The right software would allow a staff of 10 to do the work of 30 or 100.
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Is it really a question as to whether "life" has or does exist in some fashion in some place of the whole universe and over the course of its whole existence? It seems mathematically astronomically less likely that "life" hasn't existed in some form, in some place, at some time has not existed outside of Earth.
In a way we do. Investors are pushing story that ideas are not worth anything. Of course they are, otherwise those studios they set-up would just crank out hit after hit, because they can design that business perfectly.
Ah, OK, I think I see your original point: the US isn't as culturally homogeneous as East Asian nations.

While I think that's true, I still think the original point that OP made was valid: you're going from a culture that you're very very used to, into one that's radically different. I think that comparison is still valid in this context. Unless there's another layer to your statement that I'm not seeing...?
I think you're talking about something else, because we should be designing for pedestrians to not be hit by cars, not making sure that pedestrians might survive the impact. At the same time, limiting modern cars to 25 mph everywhere is ridiculous.

In some high density locations, that might mean strictly enforcing a 15mph limit instead of loosely enforcing a 10mph limit, building bike lanes, public transport, pedestrian bridges, and guarded crosswalks, etc.
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I would say that problem is not in the language but only in the surrounding ecosystem.
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Exactly, tolerance is a massive factor in whether you get a headache, or a seizure.
That is one heck of an exuberant smile. It's kind of distracting.
I just bought my first new car in over 14 years and loaded it up with all the safety features: lane keep assist, advance collision detection and braking, blind spot detection.

I've been driving for 30 years and haven't had an accident in over 25, and I can tell you: I love these features. The blind spot detection mostly offsets the poor visibility on the new car, but the other features are really helpful.
How about nobody knows what they are doing, but people are making plans to screw other people anyways, and sometimes they work. And as always there will actually be people who do this for so long and really work on improvement that they will beat the others in most cases, even if sh*t hits the fan.
Oroville is both north and west of where you are. Significant rain shadowing occurs east of the Sierra. and I think the "5000ft high" watershed number for Oroville may be low.
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The market itself cannot go to zero, but individual stocks can. If you're of the view the market can't be beat and investing in index funds is the way to go then your position is fine. If you're of the view where you select the stocks you want to invest in, as a great number of market participants are, then your position if flawed because stocks do go to 0 and as such exiting losing stocks makes sense. Tossing all your money into an index fund is not trading, so you're not even talking about the same thing I am.

Flash crashes massively hurt people who invest in particular stocks because they do often have exit points which get triggered by those crashes. The advice you're giving doesn't apply to these people, they're not the ones just dumping everything into an index fund.
Yeah you can learn English all you want, but that isn't going to help you understand Snoop Dogg lyrics.
So The Thick of It is more accurate than House of Cards?
It's never fun to have a jerk on your team, no matter how good he is at what he does.

True brilliance includes the ability to recognize and govern how you are affecting others.
Ah. FARS does include data for each crash and each victim. It can be a mess to dig through: https://github.com/wgetsnaps/ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov--fars

Also, California has their own database that includes all crashes in the state down to crash/victim level: http://iswitrs.chp.ca.gov/Reports/jsp/userLogin.jsp (You have to create a free account)

There are other datasets too: http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/1755/automobile-...
to clarify, most forms of feminism are about equal treatment of the sexes. Some forms are not.

(Personally, I identify with about one and one-half waves of feminism, and see a lot of overreach coming out of other waves.)
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In my experience this type of person can only exist in your organization if their manager is below average. I have come across my share of them and every time if their manager was a dud the whole company suffered, if their manager was on the ball they would put structure around the jerk to achieve a net improvement in productivity without the negativity.
And that lots of emergencies will be related to weather, when the terrain will be covered by clouds.
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I read articles like this somethings and think "holy shit I hope I'm not a jerk" - but then I relax when I realize I'm not brilliant enough for that to matter.
> Apple could convert its entire Objective-C code base to Swift if they wanted. They certainly have the resources. The amount of liquid assets they own is staggering, of a size unprecedented in history. Nevertheless, their current corporate culture suggests they cannot or will not perform this conversion.

But why? This would be an incredible waste of time and resources, to rewrite perfectly functional and working code. Rewrite it when you need to. Bloomberg still has 25m lines of FORTRAN [0] — there's no need to rewrite code when it works fine already.

[0] https://etrading.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/25-million-lines-o...
Here's one video showing the danger.

https://youtu.be/tkOBmiyTfEQ?t=8m20s

Basically, when the dam over-tops the water will cut a channel into which a little more water will flow and cut a little deeper into which more flows...and on and on.

It's a run away failure and cannot be stopped.

Here's a quicker example of how just a tiny breach at the top will drain the entire dam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmKLxoAPU1c

Note in the first video it's the over-topping that causes the initial erosion/breach rather then the artificial one in the second video, but the mechanism of further failure is essentially the same.

I'm not sure the exact construction of the Oroville dam but it's clear the emergency spillway was concrete lined at the top likely with this sort of failure in mind.

I'd be surprised if the main bulk of the dam didn't have at least some measures to stop this kind of failure but someone with knowledge of it's construction can chime in on this point.
Thank you!!

To my knowledge this is the only instance someone has managed to scrape the Imdb boards, very curious how you managed that.

I really hope you get a sponsor/donations. This needs to be promoted to other sites/social media and I will do my part.

I do have one request - can we do this for actors as well?
> Almost everyone will drive 35-40 in a 30

I used to, until I learned this [0]:

> If someone is hit by a car at 40 mph they are 90% likely to be killed.

> If someone is hit by a car at 30 mph they are 50% likely to be killed.

> If someone is hit by a car at 20 mph they are 10% likely to be killed.

[0]http://www.safespeed.org.uk/killspeed.html
That's all hip and cynical, but I'm pretty sure motor vehicle insurance would be a good business even if states didn't mandate that people carry it.

It'd be more expensive for the people that did carry it, but it'd be a large business.

And of course, in many states there is the option to post a bond to prove ability to compensate.
When the product is truly technically innovative you need this people. When you are building CRUD apps, not so much.
That's pretty convincing to me -- more miles driven means more driving deaths. Also, it's not clear to me whether the statistic on motor vehicle deaths includes collateral damage: cyclists and pedestrians killed by vehicles. Either way, yikes, cars kill lots of people.
Ugh, they were right, Rust's syntax really is garbage. :P
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We're already in beta! But since our system involves physical drones located in the real world, we have limited supply of available flights. We currently load balance the demand from our users by having a waitlist from which we whitelist folks on a weekly basis, and a queueing system when all of the drones in our fleet are simultaneously in the air.
It just sounds like that person was not a good match for the company culture. Many shops will appreciate that kind of drive and attention to detail, as well as the ability to tolerate potentially biting criticism that comes with it. I would have happily hired him away from the author's company.
Hm. Yeah, fair question. I guess I was assuming that, since the applicants could be described as "javascript hackers", then it was a JS position. Most JS positions are front-end ones.

But yeah, that's admittedly a tenuous thread.
Just to confirm, do you think "swap out your webserver for something else" is a reasonable demand?

> `certbot certonly`

You make an assumption that this is going to work with no hiccups, across all environments. Spoiler: it doesn't. I specifically alluded to certbot and certbot-auto being (surprisingly) rough around the edges.