skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't you combine a STOP sign with one of those 'turn only right' signs, like this one? http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/95a9489a7d8b4c418cb6cfd3b6753295/r...
This is not it. There must be signs accompanying the light saying that you cannot go straight.

Without the signs, someone would simply arrive at the intersection and wait god-knows-how long for it to turn green, until they gave up and went right :)

The reason for the light is that according to regulations, at an intersection, every road leading to it has to have lights. You cannot have three streets with lights, and one with just a sign saying "stop and yield".
> So far Google has not shown any inclination that they know how to enterprise, and in fact it's fairly counter-cultural for them.

While traditionally true with Google Products, I disagree with Cloud. Did you attend Google Cloud Next? Trust me, they are focusing on enterprises. Their support has improved significantly and they are focusing on business cases (costs, management, audit, security).

I am certain the Google Cloud Next conference in a few years will look just as enterprise as AWS re:Invent.
It's not just color blind folks. San Jose's street lights are, to my eyes, damn near the same color as yellow traffic signals. I have to look for lights moving in the same plane as the road unless they're red or green.
Fascinating. But, where is the comparison with stratigraphically higher and lower material on the time scale of a few thousand years?
I'll see you one Philosophy degree, and raise you some years graduate level work in Philosophy. Your liberty doesn't include grabbing my hardware and software patents, thanks so very much. Liberty of use is a solved problem - it's the public domain, which MIT and BSD come very close to.
It's not like the major parties woke up one day and put forth Clinton and Trump and told the plebs "vote one or the other". The US especially has a very extensive election process, with the party primaries and all, plus, there are also minor parties which do get votes. Is it really true that out of all the democratic and republican candidates at the primaries, and out of all the minor party candidates, none of them were pro-privacy? Or more likely, some of them were pro-privacy, but people voted for others because they don't see privacy as the be-all end-all of life issues.

I don't think the ~15% of people who are at poverty level care as much about privacy as they do about getting a better job or getting proper healthcare, for example. You'd have to form a pretty strong voting bloc just to offset those votes.
TLDR: You have no rights.
What's the difference between flashing yellow and flashing red?
Can you explain? The analogy seems like a terrible one to me.

We are not talking about charging different amounts of money depending on the brand of device you are consuming the data on. NN is about not differentiating the cost or quality of bits based on their source. In the US, can you not opt to pay a slightly higher rate for renewable energy? (This happens in Australia).

I'm all for NN, but the analogy Sam used doesn't hold in my opinion.

As an additional thought from someone outside the US: NN doesn't exist in places like Australia, and has actually overall led to better services, especially in the early days of the internet, because overseas data is significantly more costly to provide than local data. The difference is that we have more robust competition and we can more easily switch providers, where is seems in the US (purely based on things I've read on the internet) that the near-duopoly cuts consumer choice, so if NN was not in place, people would have little ability to switch providers, and they would be stuck with it.

Is the lack of competition the real issue here? If people in the US had a choice of many providers and it was easy to switch, then people would likely switch to services that are Net Neutral.
> it's a float; calling it a fraction is kinda-of-a-lie

This happens not to be correct. By specification JSON numbers are just a series of characters, arranged in a certain way: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-6

In practice though many JSON parsers will parse non-integer numbers to floats.

> 2. Refuse to handle floats at all, at which point people can pass [ <mantissa>, <exponent> ] for reals or [ <numerator>, <denominator> ] for rationals.

This is a really interesting idea. If you're writing something that's super important like medical software it would probably be worth considering. However, my goals are just to make minimal changes that improve JSON some while still keeping it fairly readable, so I think that means I should stick with allowing `123.456` or whatever. I'd like to try to keep an open mind on this though.
The human reward function is all jacked up. We keep looking to mesianic liars as leaders and willingly give up personal power and freedom in exchange for the feeling of safety and group belonging.

Facebook is not the cause. It is merely the symptom.
Big revelation: Computer Science has very little to do with 'coding' Web pages using FrontPage.
I was surprised too - the article seems to address 'why on Earth has this light been red for decades' but open and leave the bigger question of 'why on Earth does powering a single light cost €5500pa'.
I'm not sure, but within the context of social media, I think fewer memes and more actual conversations would help.
It does not have a right turn only sign. It just has a green arrow.

The only reason you can only ever turn right is because the light stays red, if it were to turn green you'd be allowed to cross the intersection in any direction.

There are also different rules that need to be followed when crossing the intersection on account of a green arrow than, if it were merely a turn right only situation.
If the agency submitting requests are denied often, the judge would look at future requests from that agency more closely and deny at an even higher rate. You don't go to the judge with garbage for probable cause.

More directly, looking at the approval rate for FISA requests without also looking at the high approval rate for search warrants is going to cause you to reach nonsensical conclusions. https://www.quora.com/How-often-are-requests-for-a-search-wa...
They have a feature wherein you store your password-protected private key onto their servers. By my reasoning (not being a cryptographer), if a passphrase isn't strong enough to protect your private data, it's not strong enough to protect my key, which in turn will no longer protect my private data. Let me know where I may be wrong on this.

Here's a counterpoint: https://blog.filippo.io/on-keybase-dot-io-and-encrypted-priv... I don't understand it. If it really doesn't matter, why wouldn't it just derive the private key from the passphrase? I don't appreciate cryptographers appealing to some sort of common sense in the face of something another cryptographer has created.
Sure thing. And thanks, that made me smile.
You are dead wrong. Blink was the re-creation of webkit; one more GPL license that wasted everyone's time and money by forcing a full rewrite, one more tragedy.

The Android libraries (as opposed to Java engine, app store, etc) that Google recreated are open source, and not locked in to Google, many others use them.

It's not reasonable to hope to banish proprietary code entirely, especially since open source hasn't really found a good, general business model yet. Open source code that businesses will use and contribute to is winning the day; GPL has been a bad wrong-turn. Again, copyleft might work - but the software and hardware patent grabs that come with GPL2 and GPL3 simply haven't. Such an incredible waste. It's hard to find historical parallels.
I don't know about "enlightenment" as that means different things to different people, but there are models of the world you can arrive at that appear more truthful to you than the models of other people that can be... very, very painful.
Nowadays, you use an APM (application performance monitoring) in dev, staging and production.
Every feature phone on the planet used to run Java ME without any problem. Dalvik may have had some optimisations, but to claim Java would have run "crazy slow" is unlikely to be the reason Google chose the implement their own VM.
Ok, why not just put up signs saying "do not enter" and "right turn only"? And, then, just have a signal for the assumed protected right-turn (Germans do drive on the right, correct?)

This "solution" seems very confusing. In every US/Canadian jurisdiction I've visited has nothing like this German solution. Just indicate with lights, signage and road furniture that the particular route is not allowed. To technically keep the route open, but prohibit by lights seems prone to confusion, especially for individuals not from the area. Also, how do mapping apps deal with this intersection (curious)? Do mapping apps properly route through such an intersection?

(edit: clarity)
Great project! I grabbed the book; look forward to reading it.

A small tip - I note the files don't automatically trigger a file download in my browser (Chrome), instead trying to display inline in the browser. Look into the following headers you need to send to force a download:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="thebook.epub"
And thanks for the bug report on github. :)

I have noticed a warning with uppity due to Mozilla's redesign of their extension support, but it's still working for me. Thanks for the tip to Navigate Up.

Not related to the bug, I'm curious what text editor you use. I use Vim, and the reason why I suggest writing links in your source files ending in .rst or .md is so that I can go from source to source in Vim, by putting the cursor over the filename and then gf. That, and then ctrl-o to go back, is very useful to me.

As rst and md are human readable, with a good editor like Vim, you could treat your source files as the wiki and never generate. Not that I would, but you could.

Do you use a different editor with similar capability?
As I understand it, in US law any gratuitous license is revocable at will; terms of a written license that purport otherwise may (or may not), depending on the specific circumstances of use after revocation, impact the effect of revocation under the doctrine of promissory estoppel, but that's not the same as the license actually being irrevocable.

Of course, while there are conflicting theories about whether the GPL is gratuitous or not (and this may actually vary from case to case—if you buy software that comes with GPL terms, it is clearly not gratuitous), this potentially affects the GPL as much as any permissive license.
I've moved on to Kotlin. Much more enjoyable for Android development IMO.
Good Morning Ladies
The fact that C never changes is the best part of the language, IMO.
Half meter above that green arrow right, is a blue right turn only sign. It's on the same pole.
You're in denial, the evidence is staring you in the face, you're just not concerned. That's your prerogative, but you're probably not one of those who are going to be hurt by Bannon's misguided nationalism.

As for H1-Bs, the reason Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, et al, hire them is not to lock in slaves at low wages who can't leave. Yes, there are companies that do this, but the reality is, tech companies love to hire new advanced degree graduates and a large chunk of those with master degrees and above are immigrants.

If I want to hire a bunch of Phds in machine learning, optics, materials engineering, etc chances are they will be F-1 Visas and you won't see many native born in these programs in proportion to their representation in the population. This is just an uncomfortable fact.

What I find interesting is, conservatives will often tout this "pipeline problem" to explain away low representation of women and minorities in STEM jobs -- as a natural outcome that nothing should be done about it. However, when it comes to native born American (primarily white) males, who have their own "pipeline problem" at the advanced degree level relative to legal immigrants, you see them crying for government policy changes to protect what they assume to be their birthright privilege.

Most of the H1-Bs I have worked with, including my wife, were exceedingly talented, and hired by companies for their talent, not low wage slaves. This may not be true of consulting firms, but we can address those who abuse the system without lowering the overall number of H1-Bs allow -- that should be defined by market demand and right now, with unemployment at 2% in the STEM fields and salary inflation going through the roof, along with valuations, I question how much "protection" citizens need against importing the smartest people from around the world.

I leave you with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y9j_CGgM
Re: "SCOTUS to Decide":

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari, which is asking the Supreme Court to review the decision of the lower court. There's no indication here that SCOTUS is going to decide anything - that would only happen if they grant the petition (agree to issue the writ).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certiorari
true but that valuation was from last year

they just had a whopping 45% layoff, so highly doubt the current value is anything near that

at least Conrad was able to sell high
Test Dynamics, 0.1 released
As posters above have mentioned, all "sequels" in a Nintendo franchise tend to be completely independent with basically the character models swapped in later in development to make it part of a series. There's no shortage of ideas for new characters and stories, but if you don't put a recognizable name on the box, you immediately sacrifice half your sales.

Movies are the same, so maybe you're right there's something different about society's taste these days.
Or they just recompile with 64bit support?
Plastic welding machine in delhi, Plastic welding
Ask HN: React Native or Swift for iOS app?
So I'm building a mobile app whose core feature is scanning QRcodes. I notice how effective the WhatsApp on iPhone scans QRcode even in low light conditions. I want that kind of efficiency in my app because it's the most important feature. Can ReactNative provide this or do I have to go with Swift?
Take a look at the light: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13873787

Any jurisdiction in North America would just put a Stop or Yield sign there.
The street also has that (well, a triangle "yield, no stop necessary" sign).

The thing is, in Europe, you have priorities in traffic - first the lights, when those are off/unavailable - the signs, and finally "the one on the right goes first".

The rationale behind this intersection is that you need all the vehicles obeying the same set of rules. So you can't have one car approaching the intersection obeying the signs (because no lights on that road), and another car obeying the traffic lights.
> It's because it was built off the (L)GPL. If it was BSD/MIT then webkit would have been completely closed. That means no Chrome and no electron (well maybe that's a good thing).

The interests that led Google to make Chrome would still have existed, though it probably would have been a downstream adaptation of Firefox with V8 rather than one of WebKit.
> I had to create a new FB account recently so I can give them money(advertise)

Can you really not place advertisements on Facebook without a 'social Facebook account' (I accept you obviously need some kind of 'account' for billing, monitoring purposes, etc.) linked to your real name?
It's hardly "one dude", though. Don't give me too much credit. There were two others (@gzm0 and @nicolasstucki) who helped a lot on the core. But even more than that, the reason it's so popular and adopted is mostly due to the amazing community who wrote great, relevant libraries, and communicated to the world.

It's at least a dozen people who should be credited, even if I'm currently the only one paid for this work.
May one be theoretically be able to send patterns to all devices simultaneously?
It's also worth noting that there are conventions around type variable names. If you see an `m`, it's probably a Monad; if you see an `s`, it's probably a stream or a struct or state; `i` is likely being indexed over; the code probably doesn't care what `a` is - the surrounding code can pick it freely. If you need another, advance to the next letter (`b`, `c`, less often `n`, `o`).

Of course, Edward Kmett had a story about winding up with his code telling him `i m a s t a b u`...
not standard, but browsed through jekyll templates - this one fit our needs the most: https://github.com/CloudCannon/aviator-jekyll-template
Assuming 100W light bulb and 0.3€/kWh cost, it's ~22€ for the electricity. So I guess we're left with the maintenance. These guys have pretty decent hourly rate even if light bulbs need to be changed every few months ;) But in all seriousness it seems somewhat understandable. During all these years you may need to change the pole, some elements, maybe repaint the pole, maintain cars and equipment of these guys who change the bulbs and so on. Plus it seems likely that it was calculated as city traffic light infrastructure expenses divided by the number of traffic lights. Then you have some upgrades of electronics, leds, counters or cameras in other parts of the city.

I'm not trying to say that governments spend money efficiently, just that the figure may be not as ridiculous as it seems.
That's a really interesting article. The part that most resonated with me came at the end:

"People can look great on paper but it doesn't mean that they are
the right person for you.

"That was basically what came from this whole project - chemistry
can't be quantified. I have no idea why this guy I am falling for,
even though he looks terrible on paper and then another guy is
awesome on paper and I don't care about him at all."

I wish more people tracked the data about their dating experiences and shared their results.
I did attend briefly, and I got a run down from some enterprise folks. They said Google appears to be thinking about making an effort towards enterprise, but they aren't there yet.

Also, they don't have a sales force like Amazon. A bunch of non-engineer humans who do nothing but convince other people to buy their product. They are still trying to solve human problems with engineering, and sales is a tough nut to crack for a computer, even a really strong AI. :)
It's not red when they're replacing the bulbs for maintenance or when there is a power outage. So this story is false. Also this is a pretty random story to be topping HN. Sure there is an edge case where this could happen, so what.
This is a common thing to learn during your first week or so in an introductory computer science course. They were probably picking something that a second-year student could use to easily demonstrate basic coding ability. Unfortunately, this didn't happen to be part of your intro course.
My assumption is that the different coloured bulbs are ordered from the manufacturer in equal quantities.
> Is Java source code going to be the only common currency between the Java 8 and Android ecosystems?
> You are dead wrong. Blink was the re-creation of webkit; one more GPL license that wasted everyone's time and money by forcing a full rewrite, one more tragedy.

Blink is a fork of webkit, it's still under the LGPL. But I see where you've gone wrong now, you're attributing every OSS rewrite that also includes a license change to being rewritten because of licensing, which is simply not true. Without webkit being LGPL though, they never would have got to the point where they could fork it.

> It's not reasonable to hope to banish proprietary code entirely, especially since open source hasn't really found a good, general business model yet. Open source code that businesses will use and contribute to is winning the day; GPL has been a bad wrong-turn.

The GPL doesn't banish proprietary software and never will. It banishes GPL software from becoming closed software.
You don't have to do this in Swift necessarily, you can go with ReactNative. Please look at this: https://github.com/moaazsidat/react-native-qrcode-scanner
A domain like *.amazonaws.com has nothing to offer that I have ever seen, pure rubbish. Blocking it will stop ads in mobile apps.

Cumulatively I think AWS is adding a hefty amount of latency.

The way their DNS is configured is often convoluted, requiring excessive layers of gratuitous lookups. It sometimes borders on absurd, much worse than I have ever seen with CDNs.

Fastly is doing a much better job with minimizing DNS queries. Certainly better than Akakami ever did.
Calling people immoral for their sexuality is a fast road to nowhere good. It seems more likely your testosterone levels have dropped.
I had a greenfield C project at a position ~3 years ago, working on HFT infrastructure. That said, I expect most new C projects are embedded.
Would that light actually stop anyone? In France and Italy, traffic lights are just recommendations. We once got honked at for waiting at a red light when there was no cross traffic.
This is the only movie I will nerd out about, largely because, despite it's flaws, the first one made a big impact on me.

It's pretty well understood that the trilogy was ad-hoc and poorly executed [1], so I'm extremely skeptical about a "reboot" being any kind of good. They also went nuts with all the sub-stories, plots and characters with the animatrix etc... trying to create backstories and a larger universe a la Star Wars - it all felt very contrived.

Not really sure where they would go with a new version either. The finale of the three movies basically was Neo and Agent Smith "rebooting" the system - for the 6th time with no end in sight [2]. So unless they decide to make it that there is a "God like" system, or that they make the universe conscious and cause the big crunch, there isn't much more territory to explore.

[1] http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36898/how-far-in-ad...

[2]https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-machines-restart-the-Matri...
Rich Dad Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki
When I was in college, CS was not in demand as much as it is now. It was shortly after the 2001 bust and the whole industry had become 'toxic'. I guess given the circumstances of the time, it attracted people who were more interested in the subject matter than getting a job.

I had a great experience and the people I met really helped me with my success after college.
Without functioning customer support all that is moot.
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I studied computer/electrical engineering at my institution. A year or two after I graduated, the CS department lost their accreditation. I wasn't surprised when I heard the news. Of the CS classes I was required to take, one was ostensibly on operating systems. It was taught in C, the grad student lecturer only knew Java. Another instance, we were studying MIPS architecture. The professor was moonlighting in a start up that was going under, and couldn't be bother to show up to lecture, and the TAs he sent were clueless. The EE/CPE students that had already studied this stepped up & taught the class because the TA was inept and the prof never showed. I was super pissed when I got a D on my project on a minor technicality, despite having basically taught the class in the absence of the prof and a competent TA.