skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author really does seem to think of black people as children who can't possibly be held accountable for anything they've done.

What must it be like to be on the receiving end of such paternalism? It sounds awful. And horrifically damaging. If people tell you every day that you can't win, and you have no responsibility for bad decisions you make, how can you possibly succeed after such a psych-war campaign to make you into a control-externalizing mental infant? I'd hate my parents forever if they did this to me.

She meets her black name-sharer who reveals that she is, surprise, a single mother with three kids (who she bore very young), while the author stayed married and had kids late. News flash: Blacks who simply wait to have kids and have them when married and stay married are overwhelmingly not in poverty. Meanwhile, whites who fail to do these things are very often in poverty. No racist white person is forcing anyone to have kids in their teenage years, from multiple men, and fail to marry. These are personal decisions, and bad decisions have bad consequences for people of any race.

And then they sit around talking about "the utter ridiculousness of upper-middle-class white people". Yes, so ridiculous, not having kids out of wedlock, and forming stable social arrangements.

And "the intense differences between Brownsville and Park Slope, very different Brooklyn neighborhoods but both suffering from a severe lack of diversity.". Yes, I'm sure those white neighborhoods are really "suffering" because there are too many whites. Must be a nightmare.

She literally calls it a "version of justice" when black people give false information to police to avoid tickets for public violence: "Now I understood why the tickets were never paid: most of these Lisa Davises had, in some way, disappeared. They had given fake addresses or moved, and they were skirting the law – their own version of justice – however they could."

Yes, there is racism against blacks. No, that doesn't mean black are morally-perfect shining hearts of goodness whose every action is perfect. People are people; the way this author wipes away the individual to make everyone simply a piece of their group, the way she excuses any action from someone in a victim class, is kind of horrifying. And it is racism.
Sadly, that describes more than a few EEs and MEs that I've worked with in the past. Where the act of turning a key in a commercial software package starts to displace practical design considerations that they learned in the classroom.
I had read that OS/2 Warp was considered a pretty good OS technically, though I don't remember the details now, as to what made it an improvement over Windows. I remember that PC Quest, an Indian PC magazine, gave out OS/2 Warp on a CD [1] in one issue.

[1] They often bundled a CD with lots of free software with their magazine issues, e.g. different distros of Linux, server software, utilities, etc. All free or trial software, usually. I remember they bundled the QNX OS once, and I installed it and tried it on my PC. It was very light and fast, had a GUI too - Photon, IIRC. They might even have bundled BeOS once. I think I tried installing that too, but it did not work on my PC.
But the innovative businesses that develop genuinely new technologies also hire "the guys that has to refresh every few years". Leaving aside the potential financial gains if you're in early enough and they have a big exit, those also tend to be interesting places to work.

Moving into management is essentially changing career, and for the kind of person who actually enjoys programming and wants to do something creative and technical, there's no reason to assume they would either enjoy the new role or be any good at it.
> Impact: An attacker within range may be able to execute arbitrary code on the Wi-Fi chip"

That's a major problem!
You personally: yes.

Then if you want, you summarize your findings and publish them so others don't have to (and if you're particularly savvy, you monetize that publishing. ;) ).
If we are looking for criteria in regards to H1B visas, I think it makes most sense to instead of having a lottery to pick up candidates, the criteria should be which candidates will get higher salary.

By putting a price on a candidate, companies can then decide how valuable a given person is to them and let free market decide who gets the visa.

This has several advantages, it allows sponsoring truly qualified candidates that otherwise might be harder to find locally (restoring the main purpose of what H1B was for), it would also solve issues of H1B workers being underpaid, or companies using this to obtain a cheaper employees (H1B holders are wiling to work for cheaper, because the visa doesn't allow them switch a company).
Ah yes, how dare people walk around after 10pm.
I work for a local (County-level) government, and our firewall logs have been available by FOIA request for years. I can't say if congress is as transparent, but if people really are intent on exposing congress's web browsing habits, that would probably be a more productive way to begin.
> Worst case, he might just be another GWB.

I really think the worst thing Trump may do for America is make everyone think George W Bush wasn't that bad. The guy is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. He and his administration did objectively terrible things. Trump so far has proposed a few awful ideas and has spoken in a way that is awful and at times terrifying but he hasn't actually done much, yet.

We really can't forget how awful the Bush administration was.
Great work! I've already measured 4 of my gaming systems. The NDS outperformed them all - Rhythm Paradise reacts in 33ms from tap to image change B-)

I can imagine screenshot test results from your app becoming a standard way to show the latency of a certain game setup in internet forums. Ideally, an easily sharable result would have to show several things all in one image:

- 1 frame before you pressed the button

- the frame when you pressed the button

- 1 frame before something changed on the screen

- the frame when something changed on the screen

- plus timing data, obviously.

Since changes are sometimes quite small (like when mario jumps but he is kinda in the background because you have the joypad in the same shot), one would have to be able to zoom into a part of the screen for each of the 4 images. And maybe mark a part of the screen with a circle.

If you could do these changes, you've got a certified hit on your hands! Keep up the great work!
No...

Unless you read and understand ALL of it and there is no crazy terms in it.
Then I guess Telsa marketing dept > Ford marketing dept.
My initial reaction, formed directly after readin "Amazon Cash" was similar to yours. This doesn't seem to be the devil I thought it would be though, since it's more analogous to gift cards than private scrip, IMO. Now, if you can use "Amazon Cash" in lieu of currency by, say, transferring it to other users at will, I'm right there with you - proprietary, private money is very creepy to me.
I don't really understand the hatred among enthusiasts for Windows and an active longing for it to die. Every OS has its place, and Windows works best for productivity and consumer based usage.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/03/ford-tops-the-list-of-auto...
Electric cars aren't new... if you really want to compare modern vehicles to those it pile batteries. When the roadster came out there was nothing like it.

Electric vehicles prior to the Telsas where research projects and low torque ultralight budget vehicles. Listing the differences between a Telsa and its closest successor, if you could pick one is not an easy task. Listing the difference between an F-150 and and F-150 with and aluminum was already done this sentence the hardest part was spelling aluminum.

You can pick an threshold for choosing what is evolution and revolution, I am just trying to choose a reasonable one.
Yeah I recently learned from a Candadian friend that people in the US and Canada still text a lot? Outside of the US & Canada my estimate would be that 99% of people has switched to WeChat, Whatsapp and FB Messenger.

The only texts I ever recieve nowadays are automated (2FA etc...). Even though unlimited texts come with every SIM.
Pixel and Nexus 5x, for a start.
I wonder if this means Amazon can just focus on Android for their supposed Office killer instead of making it web based?
> Amazon Cash transactions are non-refundable, except as required by law. Learn more from the Amazon.com Balance and Amazon.com Gift Card Terms and Conditions.

Note that the referenced T&Cs do not specifically address the circumstances under which refunds are available. For example, in certain states (CA?) you are entitled to a cash refund after the balance of an account drops below a specified threshold ($5-10?). It would be useful to know what all of these exceptions are, so that people can make an informed decision.
No, this is not the solution; I've seen this sort of thing happen in academia even with professors with assistants (thankfully my own professors have never been like this). For example, the administrative assistant presents the professor with an employee timesheet that needs to be signed in order for some employee to be paid, and the professor says, "thanks, I'm busy now, just leave that here and don't bother me again" and then doesn't sign it, causing the employee not to be paid on time. The administrative assistant does not have the authority to sign it himself and does not have the authority to tell the professor what to do (and may be fired by the professor if they make themselves a bother by trying to nudge the professor into doing the paperwork).

The problem here is not that the professor is too disorganized, the problem is that some professors either don't perceive managerial tasks as important, or they view their managerial duties as impositions.
It shouldn't. When you are good at something you are fast but you are in control. You can't get quick lap times in a race car going slow.
Then maybe they should make the other things illegal instead of inconveniencing citizens who just want to take a shorter route home.
> Pretty much everyone who wants a Ford has one, or could buy one.

Yeah but it's not like people buy one car, and never buy one again. Ford sells over 800,000 units of just the F150 every single year.

Now it's true that they don't have as much potential for growth because they've reached a sort of stable place in the market. Maybe sales can grow a few percentage points year over year but Ford is unlikely to jump by 20% the way Tesla can.

But that's not really saying much as Ford is a mature company with a complete lineup and Tesla is only on its 4th model of car.
The full quote as I first heard it was "slow is smooth, smooth is fast, speed is in the efficiency of motion". Basically speed tempered by the need for precision.
Using it since a couple of years. They never seem to be the bottleneck, but it is hard to test since I am too cheap to get anything else than the lowest bandwidth (30/30). I get 2.2MB/s down and a bit less up, which is about the same as I get without VPN.

The app is nice (at least on Linux), but for environments where it doesn't work they provide openvpn files.
"The annual survey looked at 18 different companies, smeared across 10 different criteria, ranging from strategy, to core tech development, to manufacturing capability and staying power, and a company that’s over 100 years old ended up leading the list."

Why does 'manufacturing capability and staying power' correlate to 'potential in the world of autonomous driving'? It doesn't matter if you can pump out a thousand cars an hour if they crash a mile down the road. This should be based on core tech development only..
Ask HN: Any Cloudflare user been asked to upgrade plan due to high resource use?
And what is the resource details?
Tech stocks such as Amazon, Tesla, Facebook, and Google keep going up. ..so much for the myth that Trump is bad for tech. Trump wants the tech community and these tech companies to succeed, as they are American capitalist success stories.
I'm no physics expert, but doesn't quantum entanglement [1] contradict that?

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
Yup. In addition to the photo transfer disabling, Verizon also disabled the ability to add MIDI files to your folder, essentially forcing you to use their ringtone store app. Like the parent commenter mentions. This was around 2006-7, FYI.
>I'm actually surprised we haven't heard of any of the big three going all out attempting to acquire tesla.

I'm not. The big three don't have enough cash to pay the market cap multiple needed to gain control, especially now that Tesla is bigger than Ford.

No sane lender would loan the money to one of the big three to do it either - first, the money would be better spent just buying Tesla stock and second, there is no way that Tesla would be run better by pulling it into one of the big three car comnpanies, none of which have a strong non-incremental innovation culture.
> I guess that's a sign of a really unhealthy community if they have no process of getting hackers into their system so that they can get productive within 15 weeks.

I don't think so. OpenBSD is known for having really high code quality and excellent documentation. So, it probably just takes new contributors that long, because they need to reach that same level, before they can make meaningful contributions.

Sure, yes, that does slow the project down. It'd evolve quicker, if they'd accept almost any code and then fix it up over time. But that doesn't mean that the project is unhealthy or that those 15 weeks should be shortened somehow. It just means that the project is lead differently and has different goals than most other software projects. It's from perfectionists for perfectionists, and as such it does have its niche.
If any facebook developer is here today..

> She didn’t have the Facebook Messenger app; she’d never seen my messages.

For goodness sake, fix this. This is a HUGE UX BUG in facebook.

I've gotten plenty of important "hidden" messages from people through facebook.

Don't let people send messages if you aren't going to show them to the receiver. This is a huge problem.
The point is that you can use real data with your own isolated test bed.

I'm not going to involve some random thing on the Internet in my test setup!

For one thing, I'm pretty sure I'd be violating a document that I signed about promising to safeguard my client's IT security, secrets and intellectual property.

Real data could be sensitive.

Anything of this sort that you set up will eventually be used by other people, who don't always know the full ramifications of what they are using. Somewhere down the line, someone will leak something into the test system. Maybe a user ID or password. Names of clients. Whatever.

Also, a test system has to be reliably operational. According to Murphy's Law, someone's thing you depend on on the Internet gonna disappear exactly when a lot of integration activity starts happening before a release.

Lastly, you should control every aspect of a test tool. Exactly how someone's SMTP thing handles SMTP could change in subtle ways from one day to the next.
> During the past year, Ford has invested in Civil Maps, Velodyne, and autonomous AI startup Argo – plus it acquired Chariot, and algorithmic platform startup SAIPS.

Plus they actually make cars, that's apparently why they are highly ranked. But their investments have yet to bear fruit, we will have to wait and see.
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But on what basis are you judging them to be inferior? Are they logically inferior or practically or some other way?
Indeed–sorry. I've rarely ever gone to either of these places and seemed to remember some hyperbolic headlines from the campaign.

I'm pretty sure I've seen some cringe-worthy publications on the left as well, but it's certainly more common on the right.
Interesting. Are they seeing a market for drug dealers?
Or maybe high school students. Paired with their Amazon lockers at 7-11 thing, suddenly condoms and pregnancy tests could be covertly ordered.
The real reason Amazon wants this is because they've seen Microsoft's cloud growth from productivity software has been incredible and they sell it along side their Azure offering. So far it's working, and AWS growth is slowing. The cloud is eventually going to be a war of margins, and the margin on productivity cloud software is more sticky than VMs, storage, etc.

It's also easier, imo to switch cloud providers than it is productivity providers, there's no retraining and the average users across your organization don't see the differences. A developer migrating a VM image and storage accounts is much less of a hassle than having to potentially get IT etc on board to retrain, answer questions, change user settings, deal with complaints about a missing function, etc.
>Isn't 36 months 2 + 1 years?

He stated "+1 for some fixes" which is incorrect as it implies that you may not get all of the security fixes for that additional year and only "some" of them.

>Also, the point is still valid that 36 months (or 3 years) is still rather short security lifetime for a device. At some point (presumably soon now that carriers are dropping most device subsidies) the 2 year replacement scheme of mobile devices stops being sustainable and you do start to have to deal with the long tail of people sticking to 5-15 year old hardware devices.

I agree it is rather short and the sooner Android OEM's can move from an SoC supplier, like Qualcomm, that only provides BSP support for 2 years the better.
The inverse is also important. If you "invent" the best tech possible but have no way to get it onto the road -- is it the best?
Yep, patent trolls
Introducing PAX: The Android Networked Cross-License Agreement
Meanwhile, this very same day, another article topped HN:

"Ford tops list of automated driving leaders in Navigant study. Tesla ranks 12th"

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/03/ford-tops-the-list-of-auto...

Like parent said, market cap isn't everything.
I said incremental cost of _delivery_.
What about the founders that just stumbled upon their industry after failing in others, like sir martin sorrell?
In the late 90s, my rate was 2.75% and the site I was running was very small potatoes. This era of 2.9% being considered standard despite additional competition, greater efficiencies, and higher volume is basically price gouging.
> There are so many car makers, there is no monopole they could get. Same for solar and batteries.

The automobile industry will contract as we move from individual ownership to mobility. But along with that transition some manufacturers will keep up and others will not. Tesla is hoping to be one of the winners, taking perhaps 25% of the mobility market as the car buying market dries up.

Tesla's valuation is also based on the idea that clean energy will replace fossil fuels. If that happens, the battery market will grow by orders of magnitude. Tesla will basically take the market from coal and petroleum.

They don't need a monopoly in either of these to justify their valuation. Simply get 10% of mobility and 10% of electricity storage and they'll have justified well above their current valuation.

Remember mobility services will subsume much of public transit and shipping too. The borders between industries are moving around. You can't just ask "how much of industry X will Tesla get?" because whole industries will ascent and others will wither as we transition to sustainable energy.
That's silly - what's the point in excellent core technology if you are unable to manufacture enough vehicles or bring them to market?
I think the placement has a large degree of randomness. Comments with a lot of Karma will rise to the top, and everything else settles in the middle and bottom.
> This should be based on core tech development only..

What good is the tech if you can't put it into production? There are real design and manufacturing issues to deal with, and a company that doesn't take that into consideration and give it the attention it deserves likely won't do well in the long run.
I'm sorry. I might just have skipped things to keep it simpler and not digress into details, but how is it different from finding data with an index?

Search the tree (or whatever data structure) and serve the data. Would you mind telling where did I go wrong exactly?
I think the truth in this point lies in the fact that this was when the British Empire was still around and held large swathes of land with sway over large numbers of people.

That plus the German Empire lost large amounts of land after the great war.

It wasn't insane to pursue land. Not at that time.

The reasons, "science" and supremacism that surrounded it? Yes. Unfortunately, the kind that sweeps a broken, defeated nation under a spell, a mass delusion of grandeur.
Trump admin cracks down on visas for coders
Back then they used mercury for everything. It's kind of scary.
A bit late, but no. I don't recall if I had Interactive Brokers at the time, but it didn't support Wealthfront or Robinhood.