skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really that big of a fan of Uber, I think they've done plenty of wrong. But I just don't see it here.

If these people have a record, then presumably they've already been punished for whatever crime they committed. I don't see why Uber should be expected to punish them further beyond the requirements of law. Yet, FTA:

> The law did not call for state-run background checks to begin until next year, but in November, Uber and Lyft agreed to let the state conduct the checks beginning in January. That agreement did not include other ride-hail companies that operate in Massachusetts, including Fasten and Safr.

So, Uber and Lyft are going above and beyond the requirements of the law, and Uber is still getting blasted. It's almost like a Taxi company wrote the article.

Also see tn135's comment about the excessive criminalisation of ordinary behavior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14045065
Don't go to Odesk. There's plenty of advice on how to freelance here on Hacker News.

I've actually been on both sides of the table - as a freelancer I never got work through Odesk, I was actually hired through Hacker News once, and when it comes to hiring freelancers, I've recruited through my network (recommendations, etc.) and haven't considered Odesk.

If I were to go freelance again I would make it known in the local entrepreneurship community.
Beautiful admin interface. Probably the best compared to any web software by far.

Over years, while other CMS have overly complicated admins, which grow more and more complex, WordPress polished what it already had.

It's honed to writers.

WYSIWYG editor is solid, the white space, font and font sizes are pretty great considering it's a browser.

I've once heard a person say they prefer writing in the WordPress interface more than they do using Word.

Easy previewing of stuff in draft mode.

Autosaving.

Revisions.

Plugin and theme community (both open source and commercial) top tier.
To the best of my understanding, yes, it's pretty well tied to Ember. Other options (such as redux-saga mentioned in a sibling comment) may be a better fit.
Sharethebus becomes Bus.com and raises $5M for event shuttle management
>I don't know why you keep saying this.

Because it's true. The same operation on the same data may give different results on different CPUs, even if you're operating at the machine code level (no implementation-specific optimizations).

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/floating-point-...

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underesti...

>Can you point me to a physics engine which gives 100% repeatable results with tickless? I'm genuinely interested, I didn't know of any that claim they achieve that, the common ones (box2d, unity and havok for example) certainly don't.

box2d is sufficiently low level that it gives programmers the tools necessary to do this.

Most notably, box2d provides the following:

>Continuous physics with time of impact solver

This directly allows developers to create a "tickless" physics simulation by breaking up the simulation into the timespans between interactions, as long as pathological situations aren't introduced (like the quake 3 ledge climbing bug). That doesn't mean that the developer will actually do so, and if the gameplay logic interacts with physics in framerate-dependent ways the result will still be wrong. It just means that the possibility is there.

Of course, this doesn't solve game logic issues with things happening only at the moment that a frame happens. That's entirely on the developer, even if they use an ideal physics engine.

At the end of this, I'll repeat that fixed timestep doesn't actually solve the problem, all it does is allow you to output higher graphical framerates than the physics simulation is running at. If the physics simulation itself can't run at full speed, you still need a way to adapt to longer frametimes, and you have to do so correctly. And if you run the physics simulation so slowly that it won't slow down on any reasonable PC, you either have a very simple game or you just added tons of input latency.
If you work for a company, and you want to start a parallel project/business, some key points are:

a. Do not start a side project/business in the VERY same industry or about the VERY same product of your current employer (like in this case, Waymo/Otto/Uber).
b. Do not use IPs, code, equipments, facilities, etc of your current employer (like in this case)
c. Do not solicit most of your co-workers to quit and join you
d. Do not download documents from your employer, save them on personal storage and then resign abruptly from the company

I have started several other businesses while working at large companies - if you don't get anywhere close to a/b/c/d you should be very fine.
I have a Pinboard account that I keep adding things to and NEVER go back to see 1) what's there or 2) search for anything. I always end up googling whatever I need.

I keep adding things there "for the day that I will sit down, organize everything and read what's pending", but for some reason this day never comes and nowadays I believe it will never will.

Not managing my bookmarks correctly and leaving stuff unread use to bother me a lot. It stopped the moment I realized it was okay and that I wouldn't miss anything important.
IANAL, but I wouldn't expect harsher penalties than those for regular defamation. Getting into more trouble for insulting the queen than someone else would mean that there is no equality before the law, and I wouldn't expect the judgement to hold if taken to ECHR. A cursory googling reveals that the ECHR decides mostly based on whether the limitation to the freedom of speech is necessary and/or proportionate.[1]

1 - http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/FS_Reputation_ENG.pdf
That's part of the Russian tradition of forced psychiatric care. Sounds like a case of "sluggish schizophrenia" to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_...
>it would be an incredibly dumb idea from a brand value perspective

Imagine how damaging it would be to their brand value if they put ads in the main OS interface.
I upgraded from paid win7 ultimate. Maybe they a/b test?
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Feross (of YouTube Instant and Webtorrent fame) did a great branding job on this. However, from my own limited experience, this is an unneeded layer on top of the fantastically good ESLint.
scares me that people on this forum, of all places, do not understand this extremely salient point.
Ditto this. We run the power grid on RHEL and the latest and greatest features are far down our list of wants. Stability, security, and support; yeah, we'll take those. ;)
> I think I see: You were comparing the GP to someone in Kalanick's position, not to Levandowski.

I am considering GP's situation directly -- leaving a company to create a start up and then being sued.

If he didn't steal, he should say so to save his business. If he doesn't say so, he risks his business. That's the downside.

Of course, if he did steal, he should shut up and lesson #2 explicitly doesn't apply.

The present situation is different -- Levandowski's fate probably isn't tied to Uber's and certainly vice versa.

> I would hold off on taking any lessons at all until it's had a few years to work its way through the courts

I stand by the "don't steal" lesson :-)
Are Internet load balancers here to stay? Two opposing arguments, you decide
It would be infinitely better if I could use a small hash instead of the giant sha variants, imagine 40 or so resources x sha-x length.
Fergs' node is kind of old, and he's a bit busy being CTO at Fetch Robotics, so don't expect him to put a lot of bandwidth into updates. Ralph Gnauck's fork of Ferg's original node has been updated for D-series Botvacs and recently added support for ROS Kinetic. We are on Kinetic.
The Strange Tale of Social Autopsy, the Anti-Harassment Start-Up (2016)
I was playing with glimmer.js, it feels like you can now "NPM your way to a full app" similar to the react eco system (if you're into that sorta thing).
It seems to me that even if Uber proves that Levandowski never downloaded the files to Otto, much less Uber, they still are in deep trouble unless they can prove that he never laundered the information in them through his brain to help Otto or Uber develop their technology.
So what? No one in Russia will start drawing gay-putins, of the fear being subject to compulsory psychiatric treatment. And no one outside Russia is going to draw it because they don't care.
This is quite accurate. The developments have created a culture of fear, where speaking or acting against authority is while technically possible, is unwise (from the practical point of view of a single individual).
I've got to assume that not helping your employer's defense in a case like this has got to be a fire-able offense. Then at least Uber could sue him too in order to claim some degree of innocence. (Not that it would necessarily work - I doubt it would, but it's got to be a better strategy than this one).
Great resource - looking forward to future videos. It does feel like there's an assumption that everyone who wants to build a startup is trying to build the same kind of startup. Lifestyle businesses and social entrepreneurship ventures are kind of glossed over, but are legitimate - they require passion and hardwork without the hope or promise of big payoffs. I'm wondering if this series will be appropriate for people who are interested in those types of startups - I guess we will see.
We humans tend to train ourselves to subject opposing arguments to rigorous analysis while letting arguments we like off the hook. Learning about fallacies using examples we like is particularly likely to encourage this habit.
Normal democratically elected government? You are kidding, right? The only reason you aren't creating mass surveillance programs is that you can't afford it. Trying to ban abortion is fucked up enough, but what about the attempts to undermine the separation of powers?

Oh and while I'm at it: the Polish government willingly hosted CIA black sites and facilitated abduction and torture of innocent people that haven't been charged with anything.
Netherlands Chinatown
There's no point in using a hashing algorithm that can be maliciously collided.
Perfect Declipper
I think the 1000 doors version does help, if you clearly explain the point that "now, if you switch, the only way you lose is if you had guessed the right door out of the 1000!"
Just because you can handle it doesn't mean you want to, instead of lazily paying a company to worry about it for you. Of course, OSX is the more popular choice for that set. I wonder why...
Wayland is already the default in Fedora 25 and with Gnome on Ubuntu 18.04, it will most certainly be, too.
It is not entirely clear how they will measure engagement and divide the budget among publishers. And how much is similar to Medium's new strategy?
I prefer the strategy of Patreon and the new strategy of Spotify. Receive new content first when you pay something.
The US president 3 times over? (According to the changelog 1.06 is from the year 2000)
Chrome for main browsing, Firefox for testing and developing sites.

I also have Opera and IE but only use them very occasionally
Those `rare edge cases` you're marginalizing represent real people's lives.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article41364675.html

I gotta say, It's a struggle for me to read these threads and see people who share your callous comfort with the status quo.
> It's been supported (albeit prefixed) in IE since v11 (pre-11 versions are <<1% these days), which makes Android browser the only significant current version lagging.

The IE/Edge implementation is fairly different at this point as the spec has changed quite a lot. It probably isn't too worthwhile considering.
Microverse.

We are launching a tuition-free and remote software engineering program based on ccollaborative and project-based learning.

Our mission is to train 1 million software engineers by 2030.

Not everyone can afford to spend thousands of dollars or was born in the right place to get access to a college degree.

On the other hand, most people don't have the superhuman willpower to learn alone from home watching videos online for 8 hours a day during a year.

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Agreed. The value in this kind of censorship isn't that the government can put troublemakers in jail. It's in scaring everyone into considering how what they're about to view or write will look to the government years from now, before they view or write it.
Verizon wants a piece of Google's ad business
We can deliberate over the meanings of terms all day, but there is a distinction. The PBS commercials are just "this company supports PBS"; it doesn't even mention the industry the company works in. Commercials elsewhere are "this company makes this product, which does this task that will make you happy and/or surround you with beautiful women".
That was the age group we originally had in mind. We guessed that it would work out fine :)
Try blocking more scripts (something like umatrix) and it will appear.
>They generally are 10 seconds at most, have maybe two sentences about the company, and show the logo.

aka a commercial.
It's actually extraordinary how many "Yelp extortion" claims I've seen without a single bit of proof. It's not at all difficult to record a telephone conversation with a Yelp representative.

I've seen some thoughts about this:

- Some of the businesses claiming "Yelp extortion" actually deserve their bad reviews.

- Some of the businesses claiming "Yelp extortion" posted fake positive reviews. Unbeknownst to them, Yelp bots automatically detected and removed the fake reviews. Later, after rejecting a call from a Yelp rep asking to advertise, the business owner decides to check their Yelp page and sees that their fake reviews are gone, incorrectly deducing that Yelp is extorting them.
No, that's bad for our justice system. It sounds like it isn't able to keep up with current times.
GIS for "gay Putin" suggest that plenty have already been drawn, and not all of them seem to be likely Russian in origin.

I kind of suspect that will continue, if not accelerate.
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I don't know how insulting someone, specially if it is the president of the country should be totally ok.

Freedom of expression should end when the right of others to be respected starts.

It is not ok in most of the countries of the world.

Certainly in the US when I was living there it was not ok to insult the President, note the president with capitals because for Americans there is only one president in the world and it is theirs. The President was a demi God, like the founding fathers, you better behave or else.

Probably this has changed with Trump and the WaPo, NewYorkTimes, The Economist and BBC all day trying to shoot him down.

I was a long time Putin critic but now after so long non sequitur, ab hominem, argumentum ad passiones Westerm Media coverage trying to create a new cold(or hot) war, I am starting to defend him.

Those newspapers used to be serious but they are taking the way of Reddit(that used to be as serious as HN). They are blinded by personal hate and becoming more and more war propaganda.
This is badass! I've been using blueprint on one of my side projects and this is going to fit in perfectly. Palantir has really been releasing some cool stuff recently.
It's a pity they omitted comparing against the Maxwell-gen GPUs like the M40/M4. Those were out already in late 2015 and are also on 28 nm.

Perhaps the reason is simply that they don't have them in their servers, but we'll see if Jeff Dean replies on G+ [1].

[1] https://plus.google.com/+JeffDean/posts/4n3rBF5utFQ?cfem=1
Why are they the arbiter of what is and isn't open source? That kind of gatekeeping seems contrary to their entire purpose.
You can support amazing independent organizations like the Center for Investigative Reporting. They accept donations in any amount.
I am not sure e.g. how docker image is better for openoffice or eclipse/intellij idea and so on for desktop. I think Snap fits usecase much better. May be multiple snaps combined to create a service/image for a server.
iirc you only need namecoin if you want to register a human friendly domain.
I disagree completely. Just what do you think the people you interact with every day are like when you don't see them? This is puritanism, nothing else.
Yes, it's easily worth the $10 before starting anything; the rest might pay off more once there's a product.
Why I’m excited about GlimmerJS
"we had balanced proportions of gender"

Was that because you had the same number of applicants, or was that because you felt the need to disadvantage some children based on their biology?

I rejected joining a robotics club because it had a sexist attitude. I asked them why 50% of the members needed to be female. They couldn't give an answer. I'm only interested in clubs that don't fuss over children's biology.

Believe it or not, while I was there, there was 1 girl. Despite what I just said, I was the only adult who took the time to talk to her and said well done for having the courage to show up. I said something similar to her mother and said that opportunities for kids were essential. This basic concept seems missing on most people (ie. both respect and opportunity).
Ironic, the list of banned images is hosted on http://minjust.ru/ru/node/243787
I think Discovery Channel and History Channel are really good counterarguments nowadays to the idea that quality educational TV could be done for profit.

Edit: beaten by everybody in the universe ... :)
I get that this is meant as some sort of snarky reply, but you honestly made have to look up what dconf is. Vaguely recall using it a few years ago. No, I don't consider it more or less the same as editing config files as I don't need it to configure things.
> Uber has the authority to say to its employees, "If you have anything at home you bring it in here

Wait, what? In the opinion of the court, a company has the authority to demand that their employee hands over the contents of his personal computer? That doesn't sound right... please, somebody tell me the US judicial system isn't that retarded!
I'd be happy to help with this. I've done many responsive/progressive web apps, including some "mobile first" ones. I've posted elsewhere in this topic, but you can find me here: http://illuminatedcomputing.com
One of my favorite numbers is 355/113 but it's still hard to guess.
A Curated Directory of the Best Stacks of Tools: Soon Finished
Flat File Encryption with OpenSSL and GPG
Jokerman electronics,base amplifier
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14043860
The R&D Pipeline Continues: Launching Version 11.1
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That's a realy old screenshot. GNOME 3 doesn't look like that anymore[1].

[1]https://people.gnome.org/~engagement/screenshots/gnome-3-24-...
great, we've successfully defended the status quo where people who commit crimes in the United States can't get jobs, and are therefore incentivized to become recidivists.
Or at least for Google to say, in effect, "fire the guy, or we'll get a preliminary injunction".
Fuck HN
I don't know if Mark was paid last time I saw him drop by the office, but I imagine he planned on making some money.
It may not be perfect for everyone, but in that case, no need to rage. You can just use any of the 38472647893242 different linters out there.

What I like about StandardJS is that I don't need yet another config file just for a linter. lintrc, babelrc, webpack.config.js, karma.config.js, etc, etc. Having one less thing for people to need to understand is a nice feature in and of itself IMO.

And I actually tended to disagree with some of the StandardJS choices before adopting it. After working with it for a few weeks, I realize it makes absolutely no difference. I just have a linter that works with no config.
a thought/concept doesn't need to be original to a wider group and can still be profound for the individual. see "just about any subject".