skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of things that Soylent had plenty of control over and still got wrong worries me more, because that means they probably don't test everything :(
Envoy is a similar piece of software, and it is also on the Hacker News front page with much more discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14194026)
> Do your wife and daughter eat the same portions as you and your son

No. I expand on that a bit here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14196631
> Stories like this make me glad I didn't grow up in the USA.

Whoa, come on, taking a turn into national flamewar is the last thing we need here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14190274 and marked it off-topic.
I can't name examples, but I've worked for places where this happened, and the results were paralyzing. The only way to do it right is to add each feature as if all your customers were going to use it, but instead, people cut corners and write features in such a way that they only support the targeted customer(s). They compound the problem by adding special cases in the business logic to make sure the feature doesn't affect other customers even though it's broken for them. They add features for one customer that aren't even logically coherent for other customers. They lower their sights from "make this code work for every valid set of inputs" to "make this code work for all of our current customers, except the ones who won't notice because they don't use this feature yet."

The result is completely unmaintainable. You can't change anything because every piece of data has accidentally acquired special meaning.

"You can't remove the dog_shave_preferences column! It's how we distinguish between customers who were added before June 2013 and customers who were added after!"

The work to add a customer whose data doesn't trigger the right special case logic starts to be seen as a "new feature" rather than fixing bugs.

"Hold on, this is a fundamentally new set of requirements! We've never had a customer before who had the Bloop module enabled and had a logo bigger than 5k and wasn't AcmeCorp! We should have been aware of this new requirement before the customer went live."

The trap is how quickly people adapt to this kind of thinking, to the point where normal engineering starts to feel weird to them. I once quite seriously suggested creating a database table to record which customers a certain feature was broken for and had it shot down because people thought the byzantine special-case tests it would have replaced, which had no other purpose, constituted valuable business logic. The ideas and conditions we had invented to track the limitations of our code had started to feel like real business distinctions that they couldn't imagine living without.

Suffice it to say that eventually we slowed down to the point where declaring a feature freeze didn't feel like a drastic change to anyone, including our customers, and embarked on a substantial rewrite. It didn't end well. I've encountered another example that was a lot more sane (people knew they were doing the wrong thing all along and didn't actually start to believe in the reality of the distinctions they wrote into code) but it suffered from the same maintainability problems.
I don't know if it would have made Jeb(!) competitive -- he was Hillary-level bad as a candidate -- but the amount of money spent on campaigns per persuadable voter in a swing state is getting scary.

Let's say Trump doesn't get impeached or bored with the job, and runs for reelection in 2020. There are almost no viable Democrats younger than retirement age, and Zuck could drop a few billion on the primary and general. Or let's say that Trump serves through 2024. As long as Zuck picks a party instead of going full Ross Perot, he only has to shift a few hundred thousand voters in the right places.
I can understand your side, but on the other hand...
I'm sure there are a lot of (sub)systems even today that just can't have objects larger than 4096 bytes. Also has 4096 bytes ever been restricting to you? I once heard from someone doing evil things and hitting NAME_MAX, but there is no problem just treating that rare case as some sort of I/O error. Everything IO can always fail anyway.
California residents currently pay $46 per unit for community college courses. A $250 textbook might be the biggest expense of the class.
For anyone missing context, naming is hard.

https://blog.expo.io/expo-sketch-expo-snack-a444f8dec72b
linkerd has a dependency on the JVM, k8s doesn't, and not everyone wants to pull in the JVM if they're not already using it.
I agree with your reasoning, and that complements or corrects what I've written perfectly.

The last paragraph is extremely sad though: that it would require a new complicated drug, procedure or technology to overcome the forces present in the average person blocking it from having agency on this issue.

Maybe this problem points out to huge psychological (people that can't afford treatment or realize underlying mental problems that exarcebate the condition) or economical (a healthy lifestyle is more difficult to attain if you're constantly stressed to have minimal provisions or time) issues on society as a whole.
Depends on the price. I suspect it will be prohibitively expensive for the long foreseeable future.
And even now, the popular perception is that Tesla is autonomous, and it is only the regulations holding them back.
The measure seems problematic at best. Even in a society where every child remains at exactly the same percentile of wealth of their parents this measure could be anywhere from 0% to 100% depending on changes in productivity growth.
What's your calories at, before and now ?
...Why?

I'm actually genuinely curious why you feel that way, assuming the person is sincere.
Aspartame?
Yeah, let's just ask the engineers who are solving one of the toughest robotics problems ever to rewrite the entire house of cards that is their technology stack without any vulnerabilities.

Of course even machine checked proofs will have trouble finding vulnerabilities that creep in during the specifications stage or exist in the realm of hardware.

How do you isolate your sensors from external input and expect to do anything?
> A file path is nothing but a concatenation of a bunch of file names and separators ergo file paths are, in fact, an FS's business.

This is a non sequitur.
If you look up how asbestos damages the lungs, perhaps carbon nanotubes are something we wouldn't want to ingest.

I can't say the effects would be remotely similar but:

- asbestos was considered safe (or some type of it). Used in pretty much everything.

- broken / agitated asbestos releases microscopic fibres into the air

- those fibres pierce the lining of the lungs leading to asbestosis and eventually a mesothelioma, a cancer with 0% chance of survival. This takes some time to present.

- took decades to realise what was going on and decades more to eliminate the problem, with many lives lost in the process.

I wonder if carbon nanotubes could damage in a similar damage over such a long timespan such that it takes decades to fully realise, regulate and eventually fix. After all, my garage roof is asbestos. Coincidentally, my grandfather died before I was born due to long term asbestos exposure.
Soylent is definitely not a "protein shake". Quite the opposite, which is one reason why it's not taken seriously by athletes.
More or less immediately, as far as I can remember. I used polarizers from an old LCD display.
The transition itself would dramatically increase the dangerous instability which is reason enough to try to put it off. "The horse might learn to talk" and all that.

A lot also hinges on what sort of deal China could work out with SK and the US. Would US forces come all the way to China's borders? Would the US leave the peninsula entirely after the war? Maybe China could be bribed with a lease for a nice naval base on the Sea of Japan? I'd hope that there's been some discussion of all of this ahead of times given how the last Korean War went but who knows.
> Who is going to help them? China? SK?

Most likely? The US taxpayers.
Is there any way for DDG to confirm that it's not engaging in the same type of censorship?

IMO this is really the time for a Ethereum-esque solution to shine. These algos should be adaptable, confirmable, pluggable.
Could you imagine how unethical they would be if they were the only game in town.
Well, we have a dozen+ services running in a container platform and when (a) trying to present a uniform API to the outside world with versioning in the URL, (b) managing internal service discovery and (c) doing A-B testing + blue/green deployments, this gets tricky. Especially when you want to try and be event-driven and monitor service lifecycle events.

We could test out Kong, Consul, Fabio, and forget the event-driven callbacks; We could use Route 53 and ELBs; or we could just use Linkerd to drive this and get some pooling features and monitoring features as well.

I think of it as a layer both on top of the services and also a pool that the services swim around in and it ensures that there's one place to manage traffic, the services don't have to care how to do service discovery for other services and it's all being load balanced at a reasonable price.
I think there is also of course the distinction of the known VS unknown person doing something worth connecting to. Lots of people who are doing things that probably are not worth much consideration are simply good at selling themselves as something greater and vice versa.

So if you believe you are doing something worth connecting to, you better be ready to sell yourself as well. Or risk drowning in the noise.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm neither well-connected nor currently doing much worth connecting to :)
> Retrofit $75K work trucks with another $75K in self driving gizmos?

Absolutely they will. That's [at least] $60K worth of driver's salary/benefits costs you've just eliminated. $75K is cheap to eliminate the cost of a human employee.
I have never, so far as I am aware, experienced any such thing as an endorphin rush, even though I do practically everything in life harder and with better music. Physical activity is great if it's part of something fun, but I've never been able to find anything intrinsically pleasant about exercise for its own sake.
>The US is a superpower, but that doesn't mean that other nation-states exist because we deign to suffer their existence—that's a very colonialist way of looking at the world.

This is a question of international consensus, not US will. Under the definition of sovereignty agreed upon by the international community, DPRK has forfeited its' right to sovereignty by repeated human rights abuses, WMD development, and aggression toward it's neighbors. Essentially, if a state fails to uphold it's responsibility to its' citizens, sovereignty is forfeited. Admittedly this is a hard thing to judge, but a line must be drawn somewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_sovereignty
if this could become an app it'd be great
I studied a little bit of NLP, and definitely think it has the potential to be useful. But in reality, I rarely, if ever, use the stuff (at least not consciously).
These examples are so lame because they are both contrived. If someone is going to answer "yes/no" to you trying to make a conversation asking if they like math, they could easily shut down the other path as well.

For example:

You: "So, where did you go to school?"

Them: "Berkeley"

You: "Nice. Why did you pick Berkeley?"

Them: "It has a good academic reputation."

You: "A good academic reputation for what?"

Them: "CS research, rioting, etc. What is this, an interview?"
I couldn't find a reference to this:"Tesla no longer sells cars with automatic driving capability." Can you point to one?
> You'll just have to throw out the ones that curve to the right.

You'll be missing out on the opportunity to sell a $600 dongle accessory that converts left-curved banana into right-curved ones by rotating them 180 degrees.
Maybe they would, see above.
Something of an long standing reputation. It's because when legionnaires are on a mission in the desert, there aren't any women around. But there are sheeps...
> I feel like the author had a point they were trying to make in this article, but it ended up being a complete mess that just comes across as stupid.

Agreed. Also using Doom and Bioshock in what seemed to be the same comparison, is pretty mindblowing.
You're right, these aren't easy questions. Your examples are good ones.

If my land had a trail through it that I knew was being used for human trafficking but also for natural resources preservation, I'd still have a problem with that "road".

And, yes, it doesn't really matter what setting the bomb-making class is held in the teacher arguably should bear some accountability.
Exactly (and thanks to Andreas for explaining it better than me).

We have a design systems team that creates & maintains the system (in collaboration with our product designers), resulting in read-only Sketch templates. when _designing with_ canonical components our product designers are using that template, so it's kind of the same workflow - we're just creating the read-only templates from code rather than by hand.
> The secret is that this isn't the problem. The actual problem that fat people must solve is not what to do, but how to do it, both in the short- and long-term.

You're right, it just gets to my nerves as this is a source of huge suffering to most people and there's an industry specialized to prey on this.
There is a Twitter account from a right leaning Westerner(as in he occasionally favors a military solution to NK politics, writes policy papers for a think tank) in Seoul who speaks and reads Korean, reads all of the North Korean press releases, he claims that the NK government is the sanest government around. They want to stay in power. Everything they do, in their mind, furthers this goal. They don't want to be regime-changed! I'll see if I can find his URL again.
This is great, thanks Jon. I've been struggling to find good workflows for integrating design and engineering (especially when there is a disparity in maturity of the processes for each party).

I think there is definitely a gap in the "literature" for this topic and will be eager to follow any other progress you can share.
Same as Uber does now - surge pricing and car pooling.
Uh... Any company that truly cares about security has a security team with veto powers.

I'm surprised Yahoo cared that deeply, but blaming that team for its failure is completely missing the point.
There are a number of meal replacement powders at some big chains (Krogers/Ralphs/King Soopers and Amazon at least):

"Raw Organic Meal" by Garden of Life
"All-in-One Nutritional Shake" by Vega One

I can't vouch for whether they "know what the hell they are doing" but I like the quality and really like the lack of sugar/carbs. A big problem though is they are low protein and calorie count so you still need to search for those.

But as a side note, and speaking for myself, I like Mealsquares better than any of the powders.
Yes. You wouldn't get far. Falling out of Google's favor is a disaster for any company that relies on "organic" search traffic. Many have died from this.

I don't think many people really appreciate the extent of influence Google has over individual behavior. Local businesses die when they get pushed out of the "local box". Platform vendors have a huge amount of control over the ecosystem.

We need to update our legal structures to make the internet available for open competition instead of locking it up in Google/FB server farms. Of course, there's no reason to do so as long as Google is playing ball with the elites.
I'm surprised that this isn't seeing more discussion; it's not a pleasant area to think about, but it's definitely one that needs thought and consideration: the "Miserable Failure" issue, but on a grand scale and in some dangerous spaces.
It's likely futile to try to convince people to spend less on war but convincing them to spend more on science is doable.
Keep in mind, I was just trying to spew something out that illustrated getting a person to talk about something important to them, and not just a series of one word answers. I don't intend to make any statement about Berkeley, people who attend Berkeley, or any statement about climate change, economics, math, etc. :-)
So, with the msm thoroughly discredited for all eternity by the events of early November, should infowars be afforded a higher degree of trust than say, the nytimes, reuters, etc?
What are the odds of a single drunk driver killing thousands of people?
You know what? Good for her! She clearly didn't need the job after her Google success, which means she took the job for the fun and challenge. She knew that if she was successful, her reputation would skyrocket as one of the most successful turnaround CEOs ever, and she would probably be rewarded in the billions of dollars for it.

She also knew that if she failed, her reputation would probably be shot, and she'd never get a chance to take a job that was challenging enough to pique her interest, so she negotiated a contract that made sure she was compensated for the risk to her reputation.

She should be commended for her shrewd negotiation skills.
Not just any kind of villain---the angry, rejected nerd villain. Villain or hero, nobody really wants to get behind that.
The bottom-line seems to be there's a huge range of plausible outcomes, from a relatively contained, short war to multiple WMD strikes on cities (Seoul, Tokyo, NYC, etc..) with prolonged fighting for months (years?) to finally defeat all DPRK forces.

And this is why the situation persists. No sane person will risk the consequences of "the war is not going as well as we hoped it would"
Isn't that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
It's terrible that this young man committed suicide, but it there any evidence that it was Uber's fault?

Is the racism claim based purely on lack of hiring diversity? If Thomas was given unforgiving or impossible tasks, why would he refuse to quit?
One GraphQL Client for JavaScript, iOS, and Android
I get the sense that a wiki was, in spirit, supposed to be simple bit of code to turn a read-only website into something that acted more the way the web was originally envisioned, where every hypermedia document could be WYSIWYG-edited inline in a web browser and then PUT back, or appended to and then the appendment POSTed, without needing anything like a <form> element.

Since browsers never did move toward that paradigm (though contentEditable was a half-step), I can understand the desire to re-implement that vision more thoroughly, by essentially implementing a "browser the way it should be" within the browser, and then having that better browser talk to your backend.

Sure, you could do it as a full hypermedia-editing-capable browser of its own instead (i.e. another "quick hack", this time in Electron) but doing it as a SPA means not requiring people to download+install your app to edit the site. (Or, you could say, the app is zero-click installed, ephemerally, when you access the site. If other sites used this software by referencing the same SPA JS bundle from the same CDN, it'd give about that effect.)
Regardless of the other merits of the linked content, and the odd prevalence of these painfully content-free and fluffy First Round Review pieces on the HN front page, I think we can all agree that there is simply no such thing as a "landmark Forbes piece on nailing email introductions".
Technology and Big Data Are Helping Cameroonians Protect Their Forests
South Korea already has plans in place for that. I can't find the article at the moment, but they feel super bad for and about North Korea and really want to help if they could
Don't get me wrong. I'm sure intelligence services use intelligence they gather to help their country achieve some objective - that's sort of what they're for.

That's a pretty massive difference from intelligence services in western democracies being used to further the interests of specific elites - that would be a gigantic scandal.
Cabify is pretty strong in South America and, at least anecdotally, seems to be winning hearts and minds around here.
Actually a stump would have saved them money on tumblr and their terrible video service.
This and the OP both discount the small, but very real possibility of conflict escalation with China, completely unintended by both sides. If China enters militarily(big if, given recent statements) on the side of DPRK and the conflict has escalated to using nukes, it will be very hard for it to not spiral out of control into a full-on regional, if not worldwide, war.
This post seems wayyyy too long for someone's blog. The author probably got paid per word or something.
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In Charlotte, I'm 2 hours away from the Appalachian mountains, and can easily get good coffee.

I wouldn't consider legal marijuana worth $100k a year, personally.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4428384/amp/Putin-se...
A reasonable, if somewhat short, overview of the topic, although a bit generous when discussing the air power situation over Korea. Smashing older Russian SAM sites is almost an American pastime at this point, and I have serious doubts the KPAF would put up anything beyond token resistance in the air. The author also skims over the massive leaps in lethality on the modern battlefield. It's difficult to stress this enough, but T-54's and T-62's do not have a long life span under these conditions.

So the DPRK would need to achieve total surprise, fight ~20 miles to Seoul against an opponent who is equipped with mostly modern weapons, and who has planned for this very attack. They also need to do this with no air support, little to no armored support, and limited night fighting capabilities.
Unlike airbnb and uber, his service was offered for free. That's suspicious :p
If you care about climate change, having protects in one of the biggest echo chambers in the US university system is about the least effective thing you can do.

It's also completely unrelated to the quality of education you will get so it's stupid to tie your school selection to that. It's like choosing a campus based on one with the most red-colored buildings.
given concepts like eminent domain and their historical use, I think the assumption with property actually /is/ that the government owns it until proven otherwise.
Medicine Through Time
Dosy FC-50P 6 Digit Frequency Counter
Whatever "coded" the universe did it more than a few thousand years ago.
I don't agree that she brings more value than the engineers building the product.
Could someone explain this in plain english?
Actually friendly or just polite?
Actually, I think that the IndieWebCamp guys have it right with WebMention: http://indieweb.org/webmention

A page shouldn't communicate with other instances; servers should. The server can render the result of input from other instances once and display it to readers many times, rather than forcing each reader to rerender it itself. The 'some way to display the results' then becomes … static HTML.

I think static HTML is rather easier than a JavaScript renderer.

> With a JS renderer, the server side rendering can be thrown away.

That's a bit like saying, 'with a single can of soda, you can get rid of running water!' Replacing server-side rendering with client-side JavaScript is strictly worse.
That depends on the nature of the collisions. Are those 4 fatal accidents vs 51 fender benders? The devil is in the details, not the executive summary.
The article states that the author wrote his own camera app for the experiment, so it's almost certainly not a restriction that can be worked around by using different camera software.
Yeah it's real hard to justify. Those guys up on the roof have to pee, shocking right?
Across America that is true, but in hot real estate markets people are chopping up houses into smaller condos and new apartments have tiny rooms.

I bet living space per person in the bay area, NYC, DC, etc. has gone down over that same period.