skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good points, but the same points apply to bikes riding on the road. As a cyclist I've experienced hundreds of near collisions with high speed cars. It's possible to do serious damage from a vehicle hitting a bike, even if they're healthy and not elderly. Bikes often have no choice but to use roads, and if cars drive dangerously around them it takes away everyone's ability to engage in a low-pollution form of transport.

Bikes are in an unenviable position where they're not quite pedestrians but not quite vehicles, and there are few specific protections for them. They're often forced to ride on the road with the flow of traffic, while pedestrians are either off the side of the road facing towards traffic where they can see oncoming cars, or better yet are separated from vehicle traffic by a curb, a greenway, and have several feet of concrete to stick to. Bikes don't have any of that protection 99% of the time.

Riding on the sidewalks is a very attractive proposition when the alternative is riding 15mph on a road with no shoulder surrounded by cars going 45mph. I'm not saying cyclists should ride on sidewalks as is, but I fully support making sidewalks into multi-purpose trails where they can accommodate both pedestrians and cyclists. Cyclists should not be forced onto dangerous roads.
I think the point of Wunderlist was the online synching across devices and the list sharing. It was that there was some trust built up with the brand. I wouldn't just start using some random todo app and allow it to sync my todo lists without having some level of trust built up.

Something else that was critical is that I could use Cortana to add tasks to lists while driving or without typing on the keyboard.

I think when I want to go deeper in organizing tasks, todo apps are often bad for that simply because a document format tends to do better once you're in the thick. It's better if those things are stored, tracked and organized with the work itself most of the time and todo apps tend to be outside that context.
I think Kakoune is particularly interesting here because it integrates window splitting using tmux and a client-server model instead of re-implementing it which is what vim does. This is part of Kakoune's design philosophy: to be composable with other unix tools. Other examples of this are file browsing[1] and fuzzy finding[2] using ranger and fzf, or even just piping a selection to `fmt` to reformat a paragraph.

[1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/Ranger

[2] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/Fuzzy-finder
The free-market answer is to allow civil suits against drug manufacturers for damages caused by overdoses.

We'll see how that goes -- Cherokee Nation sues drug firms, retailers for flooding communities with opioids: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/cherokee-natio...
> but the CTO wants to be seen as being innovative for adopting this new technology and ita called docker not moby!

I see this kind of cynicism / snark all the time on HN (especially when it comes to Docker) but is it really warranted? Surely it's the rare exception? I've never met senior people who couldn't understand the naming difference between the open source version of a thing and the enterprise-branded version. Or a CEO or President. They're not morons.

This seems like cheap shots for upvotes. Or am I wrong?
Explore the Planet with the New and Improved Google Earth
IMO, when you're designing for a platform, it's distasteful to use anything other than that platform's UX.

Ideally, all Android apps should use Material Design, and all iOS apps should look like they were made by Apple (does Apple have a name for their design?).
Re: the X issues... dump the Intel X driver for the modesetting driver (you will want a recent kernel for this). Made a world of difference on my Intel laptop.
You can't just advocate the sale of marijuana and in the same post suggest soft drinks should be banned. When I'm stoned a nice cold Coca Cola really hits the spot.

Happy holidays, by the way.

In all seriousness, banning something doesn't mean that we will learn to deal with it better in the future. Imagine if we'd banned cars back when speculators thought humans would go insane if their bodies exceeded 30 miles per hour!

Taxes are a great way to deal with a problem without banning it, which usually opens a black market anyway.

After all, before Prohibition, one of if not the biggest sole contributor to the U.S. Federal Government was the booze tax that dates all the way back to Alexander Hamilton.
Think about what this does to the morale of the people left at the cia or the nsa working on software. You face an endless series of investigations about leaking stuff. It doesn't end even if you stop working there probably. That's one reason I have always hesitated about a government job, there's never an end to them bugging you. You work at Microsoft for a few years, you get a new job, no one comes to arrest you or sift through your possessions or surveils you online trying to see if you did something wrong. At least there's a lot less chance that mikeysoft would do that, compared to the govt.
Funny story: I was on a long-haul flight. The person next to me noticed all 3 of us were using linux and we had a laugh :)
Docker/Moby = RHEL/Fedora
In many higher density areas, public transport tends to be okay.

Apart from NY and SF (?), what other areas are you thinking of?
I've no source to cite, but AFAIK similar observations have been made in multiple studies in countries where cycling has been/is becoming quite popular (e.g. Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden) and as far as I remember, they did control for many external factors in at least the Danish study I recall.

I know, vague hand-waving, but hopefully others can pitch in with data.
You should see the other companies that hold /8's apple for example owns 17.0.0.0/8 and barely uses any of their 16 million addresses
I disagree. Plugins breaking or interfering with other plugins is a regular thing.
Philosophically and ethically you can't tell anyone what they are allowed to put in their body. It's their body. They can do what they want with it.

It seems so basic to me, but people can't seem to get it through their thick skulls. Stop trying to legislate other people's bodies.

Take steroids, for instance. Who should be allowed to decide what levels of hormones I have in my body? The answer is me, and me alone. It's my body, for fuck's sake! Same applies to all drugs.
Type Systems as Macros
There's already a black market for prescription drugs.

Because there's still a barrier to access, providing a way around it still provides profit.
Lynch in a nutshell: created on drugs; best consumed on drugs.

The problem with Lynch's Dune is that it seems not to have been planned properly (at all?); i can only assume they started shooting with what they thought was a half-finished script which turned out to be a 1/10 finished script.

This lines up with everything else David Lynch has done (e.g. Twin Peaks loses the plot 3/4 of the way through the first season and never recovers, Mark Frost -- his co-creator -- has said in interviews they had no plan as to how the story was going to resolve and that certainly gels with my viewing of the show and my reaction to rabid fan explanations of how it all makes sense and Fire Walk With Me is a work of genius).

Dune starts out at a deliberate pace, covering stuff in the first 100 pages or so quite nicely. I love the look and design of everything, and the first fight with shield effects was awesome for the time. But then most of the running time and budget are gone and whoops, need to cram in the rest. Because the shield effect was too expensive they introduce the "weirding way" b.s. to eliminate the need for all that fancy knife-fighting, shields, etc.

So the last 45 minutes is just a montage of silliness.
I don't think we have enough evidence to conclude the legality of the opioids is the reason for the number of overdoses. I think it is better explained by:

1) the nature of these drugs, they are definitely more addictive and possibly more dangerous than nearly every common street drug. Many street drugs are either not addictive at all, or have very low addiction rates. These opioids are likely more addictive than heroin.

2) that these drugs are first prescribed by doctors, which clouds people's judgment about how dangerous they are, making it more likely people may become addicted

3) then in the coup de grace, they are illegal to purchase recreationally, which forces addicts to the black market where it is much more difficult to get consistent dosages, which greatly increases the rate of overdose.

The article lacks intellectual rigor.
By "active management" I mean actively taking a role in shaping company management, board makeup, corporate governance, say on pay, etc.

While Vanguard may vote all their shareholder proxies, they almost always vote along with the recommendations of management - practically never holding management accountable.

Proof: Take a look at their actual voting record on the S&P 500 fund https://about.vanguard.com/vanguard-proxy-voting/supporting-...
I would suspect any solid state lidar design at this point would be GaN (Galium Nitride) unless somebody has made a very secret breakthrough.
"Those travelers who don't get to fly are frequently entitled to denied boarding compensation in the form of a check or cash."

Eh. No. We're talking about the point at which this became Involuntary.

The same site you link to has no mention of vouchers when it's involuntary, which is also the subject of my initial calculation and quote.

As this article, and many others have stated, this is but one of the issues with the handling of this situation, that United (though not the only airline by any means) has been quite happy to perpetuate the myth that airlines "only" have to offer vouchers. They can choose to offer vouchers for voluntary denial.

They are REQUIRED to ONLY offer check or cash for IDB situations.
Other way round. It's historically been hard to get get someone to pay for something with an 'Open Source' brand.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. This amounts to trolling, and it's not what HN is for.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14153827 and marked it off-topic.
I store my configs in a git repo on Seafile/Syncwerk (Dropbox alternative). This gives me a seamless experience on Unix, OSX and Windows where I just have to link to them from my home directory when on a new computer.

Yes, it took an initial investment but now it just works everywhere and maintenance is low.

(Some people say git repos in clouds sync are bad, but I have had zero problems with them over the years.)
The replacements
I feel it's important to detangle overbooking and involuntary debaording, here.

With overbooking itself, up until the point that someone is bumped against their will, the practice is purely a win-win for all; airlines save costs -- a boon for competition and prices -- and passengers volunteering for a later flight get compensation that they view as valuable enough for the inconvenience.

For involuntary deboarding, there are scenarios -- albeit presumably unlikely -- that can occur, regardless of overbooking, that necessitate its use. For example, as mentioned in the article, sudden weather changes forcing a reduction in weight, or simply a broken seat. Point being, there are possibly entirely legitimate issues of safety, generally outside the immediate control of the airline, that easily trump any one person's right to their seat, even after boarding.

While much blame should be placed on the police here in terms of how they handled the situation, I don't see why this isn't something to be handled, ultimately, by the DoT in further dictating passenger rights. For this specific case, if involuntary deboarding was only allowed, say, for cases affecting passenger safety, the airline would be left with the choice of either, one, living with the repercussions of not being able to transport their crew immediately, or two, upping the voluntary compensation until there was a taker (and there would be at some point).

That is to say, I don't see why this issue couldn't be handled more elegantly by creating a market where the airline gets forced to up the compensation until it is approximately equal to the expected costs of not being able to deboard someone. And if that creates too many scenarios where they simply don't get a taker for the deboarding, then clearly their actuaries need to be fired.
There are some counter-intuitive effects of the "common sense" approach. If people know that resisting longer will get them more, they will work to delay the process in an effort to maximize the airline's bid. This will impact schedules and ultimately lead to more hostile deplaning situations as people attempt to hold out for more.

Managers/overseers could intentionally place belligerent people on the plane who refuse to get up for less than $x000, use their authorization to grant the override, and then split the money with the passenger. In practice, the DoT minimum mandate could work as a soft ceiling, but managers may say that they negotiated past it to prevent a hostile situation with bad press like this one.

Consider that most passengers are paying +/- $125 for each flight (a direct round trip is 2 flights, connecting round trip 4 flights, a complete itinerary will usually be in the $300-$500 range depending on the details). Even at $200 the vouchers cost them money. It can have an impact if they start paying out $10k per flight in bumped passenger compensation.

You can argue that they shouldn't oversell, but then they're carrying empty seats from people who miss the flight, which is also a waste of money. Since they're already paying ~4x as much as the customer paid them with an $800 voucher, there's plenty of incentive to fine-tune the overselling algorithm just right and limit the necessity of passenger bumps.

I'm not necessarily saying this approach is worse than their current approach, but I just want to point out that it's not as simple as engaging in an open auction over the seats.
I think the trouble with stories, language, and symbolic meaning is that over time people confuse the symbols with reality. Somehow the story becomes the reality and people forget that they made it up. Conspiracy theories are a really good example of stories and fantasies that people are convinced is reality. When you keep substituting symbols for reality it is pretty easy to confuse the two at some point.

Another example is fantasy literature. Much of it is concerned with magical systems that revolve around saying the right things. As if the right words and gestures can shape reality. I think this is the definition of magical thinking. Even though saying the right words will not make them reality people really like to think that is the case.
Shopify Is Competing with Square
in my home state we have one of the longest bike trails in the US, but it's pretty useless for getting anywhere. It's a beautiful trail but doesn't go into any metropolitan areas. I'd think my favorite biking concept is the parked car protected lane. similar to how sidewalks would be, but with no curb between the parked cars and the bike lane.
I think that's the problem they are trying to solve. They want people to be buying their higher level stuff, container management, orchestration, etc. But all the attention is on the lower-level container runtime.

And, their competition at the higher level is starting to abstract away from their runtime. Like this: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o
>I've come to view drugs and alcohol as symptoms. We've probably co-evolved with alcohol, since it's both genetic and correlated with intelligence. Maybe it's the method that evolution allows people to be honest enough for social cooperation, while being dishonest enough to cheat on a spouse occasionally.

Maybe humans simply evolved to seek pleasure and the associated activation of reward circuitry, the same way they find it in food, leisure, sex, etc. Except the pleasantness is significantly stronger with drugs. Its unlikely that humans evolved to use any particular drug, since there are so many exogenous substances which mimic human neurotransmitters and/or interact with the brain.

There is no complex explanation for why humans use and abuse drugs. They feel good and many humans are notoriously irresponsible with regards to over indulgence.
This article doesnt make any sense. Its like he is high or something.
Which is fine, but that's not what the comment was talking about.
This is just not true. Engineers in many disciplines other than CS (mechanical, electrical, civil, etc) begin serious professional work with only a bachelors degree.
Why wouldn't it allow encryption? Can't anything that sends and receives packets be able to be encrypted?
@Chris2048: "conscious[ness] is a disputed work, and things like "Have scientists discovered the secret of consciousness" etc all the time. Until the definition, and underlying semantic assumptions, are clear, don't build too many linguistic castles on top of it."

Modded into invisibility, looks like you violated one of the sacred tenets of Hacker News :)
Ask HN: How do World Lenses work without depth sensor?
Snap just released World Lenses and I'm wondering if CV experts can explain how they work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6x44v8prFA.

I was under the impression that phones needed depth and advanced motion tracking (eg see Tango https://developers.google.com/tango/overview/motion-tracking) to enable stuff like placing digital objects down and having them stick without moving around. Surprised Snapchat can now do that without needing additional sensors on the device.

How might that work?
Earth Day 2017 – Why does Apple make its own sweat?
I've fallen in love with SRE field. I'm a Computer Engineering senior currently. I'm used two kinds of classes: CS ones where you learn a lot of theory and apply it on a test, then the CprE ones where you also learn, but then have to make it work in labs. I've always liked lab based classes where you have to take a concept to fruition.

I've been interested in all aspects of CprE, and I taught myself how to run a Linux box along with DNS, VPN, and other services. Last year around this time, I was contacted by a recruiter for an SRE internship. At the time, I had no idea what SRE was and I thought it was just a glorified IT job. Boy was I wrong.

I got through a few interviews and got the position for the summer. About a week or two into the internship I fell in love. This job was all about designing and implementing systems that have to be resilient and must scale. The idea of building automation to make my job easier was and is great. It was just like the labs I enjoyed in college.

Fast forward to now, and I'm accepting a full time SRE position at the same company. I couldn't be happier with my choice in specification. The need for resilient, distributed systems will only grow in the coming years, and I'm looking forward to being an SRE.
I just decided to dump Atom - I discovered that it gets very slow as file size increases (to the point where it could be described as "broken".) Makes me glad that I write most of my code in C and do most of my editing in vi.
Also bamboo (I have Bamboo viscose (70%) and Organic Cotton (30%) shirts) - the bamboo material has excellent wicking (so much less icky than pure cotton) is super soft and I've never had a problem with odour (unlike with tech fabrics) - so long as they're washed every other day.

I've got three shirts (purchased from Amazon before a trip to SE Asia) and they've been worn every week for the last four years. Despite the odd moth-like hole they're doing great and are excellent for cycling / working out.
There are some basic diagrams from Quanergy [1] (page 9).

[1] http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2016/presentation/s6726...
Does anyone actually have any problems with Thunderbird? I feel like it is "done" software. It works, perfectly, for all my needs. It's fast. It has great UI. It lets me read and write email.
What we want in an “SNES Mini”
Ok. So I've had more than a handful of friends and family OD on opiates.

They were in accidents, got hooked on prescribed painkillers. Then they were for a while able to buy pills from "pain clinics" relatively cheap, safe, and pure opiates.

THEN the pill mills got shut down. This didn't magically stop them from being dope fiends. It made them have to go for street versions. Heroin.

Which is less safe and less pure. Then they started dying. You gotta explain to me how not having access to consistent doses that aren't cut with poison and are bought from legitimate businesses is somehow better than the alternative.

The drug war is bullshit and it turns addicts into corpses.
It's literally an extra dimension of sensing.

Yes you can infer distance using parallax (2 regular cameras, like our eyes). But if you can directly SENSE depth using a sensor capable of it (Radar/LIDAR), then you have a lot more certainty, redundancy, simplicity, and can even sense in the dark where cameras aren't able to effectively judge distance.
ummm, this is why we need to end the war on drugs, hello!?

1) cut out the cartels
2) inform the public
A) Opioids are for dying people in pain, or losers...
B) "Drugs" are not a monolithic equal evil. Opioids actually do suck the life out of well-meaning people, see letter A

The author here seems to follow the "bills of rights only exist until something really extreme like terrorism negates them" school of thought...

panic before thought...

Heroin costs pennies a dose to produce, and should be available for free injection in a walk-in clinic

1) whereas something like 100% of all overdoses are related to the fact that no one actually knows the street heroins potency and the difference between the effective-dose and the deadly-dose is inside of 1 magnitude of 10... something like double perhaps? hello

2) whereas one saves a lot of car stereos, eliminates many petty crimes like muggings, and basically all the crap that an unemployed non-independently-wealthy junkie does to maintain their habit...

no brainer...
Having switched to Kak recently, I've found this painful since I sometimes SSH into machines with only vi installed and so have to switch back and forth between kak and vi; it's a real headache...and a real shame since kak's selection method is much nicer IMO
I am a Communist, and I will say that a slogan is neither something to build your country upon, nor something to criticise a country on. No country has thus far managed to progress past capitalism, certainly not the ones you litsted nor the ones GP listed. Marx was referring to how life ought to be under Socialism, rather than an implementation of this principle under a capitalist system, which he believed was impossible.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They're invariably uninteresting. If you want to litigate capitalism vs. communism or something of that nature, please do it elsewhere.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14154358 and marked it off-topic.
In the lobby, the person to talk to is the receptionist. The receptionist is the gatekeeper and can be an ally. Be nice. Make their job pleasant. Ask for information. Be polite. Thank them.

Maybe you get a lot of useful information. Maybe very little. At least you know what getting past the front door entails.
I biked in London for almost 2 years (Whitechapel to Farringdon, then Deptford Bridge to Farringdon). What I found helped a lot was to avoid roundabouts as much as possible, and be extra cautious when overtaking on the left near stops. Assume everyone is going to turn left in front of you, 50% of the time you'll be right. ;)