skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't post ideological rants. This thread went to information heat death (boo-atlas-shrugged, yay-atlas-shrugged) in two hops.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14197344 (which was bad enough in the first place) and marked it off-topic.

Scarecrow addendum: this isn't against any ideology, it's against arguments about them.
Building a chatbot on Facebook Messenger with Ruby on Rails
I don't get Levandowski's 5th amendment claim on the privilege log. Doesn't the 5th amendment only stop the individual from incriminating himself?

How can he argue that other people (or an entire company in this case) are not allowed to incriminate him?

Has anyone successfully claimed 5th amendment and forced other people/entities not to incriminate him/her?
Because then I need to use a browser plugin to download all the files in a directory.
Yeah dude! Right on!

Lying is totally cool, and all the other kids do it. It's perfectly normal for people to get swindled, and like, caveat emptor, a fool and his money are soon parted, no biggie, bro.

Thank god the market just kind of does whatever, any old time it wants, and we don't have to think about how it works. Any time something bad happens, just throw up your hands, and chant MARKET: CORRECT THYSELF, and so it shall be done.

In fact, total deregulation, until we reach the state of nature is the only correct path. A constant war of any against all is really the way things should be.

Like, we should just learn to admire the predators, and maybe prop them up from time to time.

Take this example:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/regulator-...

That guy wasn't "frauded to death." He totally had a choice in front of him, and when he gambled and lost, he chose a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Darwin in action, if you ask me. Survival of the fittest.

Wait, are we pro-evolution or pro-creation? I always forget how I'm supposed to reconcile my economic and fiscal policies with my personal spiritual beliefs and family values...
That's not how reputable or study works. You can't call something a study where people self-select in based on the effect being measured.
Some of those programs would have been Java programs, where java.exe is modern, but the program is not. The definition of os.name in Java makes checking the string prefix particularly likely.
This looks great. And Sketch is incredible. I wish there was something like it available on Linux, or I could run it on Linux somehow. Seeing how important a tool it's becoming to web design makes me uneasy as it's shutting out my ability to do anything design related :/
Oregon State '05, they were charging $60 for the Kinko's packets for my various math and engineering classes. The best was the $150 I had to pay for a 'pre-print' loosely bound CS 'textbook' that one of my professors co-authored. Thank goodness it was only a 200 level class and I was already well beyond it. It was a terrible book and a rough class.
Mixed-use streets and a mis-guided desire to build urban and suburban areas on grids of wide straight roads are the root cause of the problem. Fast cars are just a symptom.

In my area the state and/or county went to great lengths to create a bidirectional bicycle highway alongside (but physically separated from) some of the freeways, but the city can't be bothered to provide bicycle lanes and street lights along the full length of any of the major roads through town. During most of the year I prefer to stick to the major roads in the early morning hours because the vehicle traffic usually keeps the coyotes away. The only thing more likely to cause a driver to hit me than swerving to avoid an animal (assuming I'm complying with the laws while riding my bicycle in the street) would be if the driver is impaired or passes too close, either of which is a law I would be much happier to see an officer enforce than the speed limit.

Every time a car, train, boat, or plane crosses paths with one of the other modes of transportation on that list we make sure that someone has to have a lapse of attention, poor judgment, or some form of vehicular malfunction to violate the right of way. When it comes to a car, bicycle, or pedestrian, though, we tell them it's ok to share the same road and pretend that there's nothing wrong with that assumption, even when more people every year seem to be completely unaware that they're supposed to share the road with bicycles (and more cyclists seem to be unaware of which side of the road they're supposed to be on or that any laws regulate them).
Wonderful, I had no idea what Noise was, or Signal for that matter, or NNCP despite reading the article. Thanks for the links! Guess I'll get back to my punch cards.
Not only that. In order to work with other people you have to understand them to certain extent in order to have a peaceful coexistence​. Having social grace is an essential quality to work with other people even if you don't want to be a manager.
This is totally American way of thinking. Just look at other countries, like Switzerland where the death rate is 3x lower per person: make sure that every car takes the law seriuously and put drivers who drive 2x faster to prison.

Not seeing a person dying in an accident in the last couple of months is not a good enough excuse for me. Even the fact that I know 1 person in my life who died in a car accident means that we should be stricter in law enforcement with speed limits.
Wow. Now we have both in Science. Proof and Proof of a negative. Impressive.
making it legal to drive drunk unless you harm someone is insane. Drunk driving directly causes around 10k deaths per year in the US.

And every drunk driver who causes a death should be penalized, no question. But penalizing people who have caused no harm undermines people's respect for the law. It also undermines personal responsibility: people figure that if it's legal, it must be ok, instead of exercising their own judgment.

Actually, the very fact you quote should make you doubt the effectiveness of penalizing drunk drivers who have not caused harm. Everyone knows you can lose your license for drunk driving, yet drunk driving still causes 10k deaths per year? What sort of draconian system would it take to actually deter all those drunk drivers if the law is the only tool we have to do it? I don't want to find that out.

What if I decide to walk down a crowded sidewalk swinging a sword over my head, under your system is that fine until I actually hit someone? Do you have no legal recourse to stop me?

Once again, you're conflating "legal" with "ok". Obviously walking down a crowded sidewalk swinging a sword over your head is stupid and carries a huge risk of harm. And everyone around you should be ducking and screaming at you to stop, for goodness' sake, you're going to hurt someone. But no, the law should not punish you unless you actually do hurt someone.

Your underlying fallacy here is that the only way to prevent people from doing something is to make it illegal. That is both too weak and too strong. Too weak, because, as noted above, even severe legal penalties aren't sufficient to deter some people (including, apparently, 10k drunk drivers a year). Too strong, because there are lots of ways to deter people without any legal penalties whatsoever--but that requires us, as individuals, to take responsibility for regulating our own behavior and pointing out obviously stupid and dangerous things that others around us are doing and asking them to stop, and imposing non-legal penalties if they don't. Sorry, you can't come into my house with that sword, it's too dangerous. Sorry, you can't come into my store with that sword, it's too dangerous. Sorry... Pretty soon the idiot will get the idea that nobody is going to interact with him if he persists in swinging his sword around all the time. (Applying similar logic to people who are prone to try driving while drunk is left as an exercise for the reader.)
There are other new safety features introduced on many cars since then. Vehicle stability control is a big one.
> I can't find an equivalent service that maintains the level of photo metadata

Smugmug?
Security is a business issue like anything else, and good security people can convincingly state their business case. It sounds a bit like they did security by cargo cult.
I am fluent in C, C++, and C#. I am currently learning Swift for iOS development. I will study F# when I am good enough with Swift. I will probably have to learn JavaScript eventually but am holding out as long as possible.

Edited for grammar.
> Because that would be way too expensive, not just in the increased cost of cops but in the lost time of all the people getting stopped

You can automate it for much less than what traditional cop labour costs, and speeding ticket revenue would pay for the automation. If there was more enforcement, people would keep to the speed limits more frequently and there would be less stops. It's a control system with a feedback loop.
Compare the percentages for right-angle crashes on page 63 of your link to the numbers here:

http://saferstreetsla.org/wp-content/uploads/reports/A%20Com...

Assuming the number of right-angle crashes is proportional to the number of people who run red lights, the reduction due to having a longer yellow light is larger than the reduction due to the RLC. And that's before considering the rear-end collisions, which a red light camera increases but a longer yellow light reduces.
IMO, 2ms is too much for strong macro support. Even if GC had 0 run-time cost I'd still rather use C++ since 99.9% of my code is creating memory structures of particular layout (I write graphics). To write the same code in a GC language I'd have to map memory to a file and then use the strong macro system to emulate native struct type from C++ :)
Religions change when the beliefs of people in religious communities change. Christianity, including both beliefs and ecclesiastical legal systems (which Christianity has, and which have historically been enforced with State power, or State-like power by the Church.)

Consider, in the Roman Catholic Church, the modern Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as compared to its early 20th Century predecessor, the Congregation for the Holy Office, and it's predecessor, the Supreme Sacred Congregation for the Universal Inquisition, both in terms of the body of law applied, the beliefs underlying that body of law, and the practical methods applied and the persons subjected to the jurisdiction of the Congregation.
How many 747s et al are there, in total, in the world though?

According to http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/584144.html

AIUI, about 300,000. For the entire world. There's more than that number of cars in just about any city in the world. I'd expect tens or hundreds of millions of cars.

Aeroplanes aren't even close to the scale we're talking about.
> they could go public anytime they want.

Why? I cannot believe Uber's status-quo supports its valuation at all.
> Apple used Carbon for a lot of its own built-in apps, such as Finder, didn't it? (edit: and iTunes)

iTunes needed to support both Mac OS 9 and X, so Carbon made much more sense than writing all of the UI code twice. Also, it started as SoundJam MP, which was written for Mac OS 8, so Carbonization was much less work than a Cocoa rewrite.
I just laughed seeing as the comment above you right now says "This only works since Sweden is so sparsely populated"
Sorry but it does seem to be their fault.

They made their service unusable for years as explained in the article and in many comments here. It's not uncommon to change email address over a period of year, and that's for places where we tend to keep addresses around China is a totally different approach. With the lack of option to recover access to your account you are now locked out of your data. This would not happen with other third party service provider hosting your data.

But as always do have backupS and do not rely on third party for your data. Host it yourself and have a copy on those services. At least if you care about the data.
Hang on, has a counterexample been presented? Maybe we're reading the challenge differently, but I parsed "reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years" as meaning a study in which a bunch of already-overweight people were selected to try some specific intervention (eg, "follow this diet & exercise program") and as a result of the intervention the median outcome was to lose that much weight and keep it off for 5 years.

A study of only people who succeeded, selected for the study because they succeeded, tells you nothing about how effective their particular strategy is.

For instance, suppose there exists a Grapefuit Diet which has the following effect: 1% of the people who try it lose weight, 2% of the people who try it gain weight, and 97% of the people who try it see no effect. If you take 100 people, tell them to try that diet, that is the result you'll get - a result which tells you the strategy is no good. But if you look at the national weight loss registry you'll only find people who were in the tiny 1% for which that diet worked. In fact, even if there are a LOT of Grapefruit Diet successes in the registry, that just tells you how popular the Grapefruit Diet was, it doesn't tell you if the Grapefruit Diet works.

What we want is an intervention study where a bunch of fat people do some specific thing and that thing is actually effective at producing a clinically significant and stable amount of weight loss. Ideally we'd want them to lose enough weight such that they are no longer "overweight" and then maintain that state.

Does that study exist? Is there any study meeting that set of criteria? My impression is that it does not; there is in fact no non-surgical intervention known to "work". Which explains why people keep grasping at straws to find options that plausibly might work.
Better idea: make the road actually safe at higher speed.

If you don't want people getting hit by cars, you need to make them visible. Get rid of parallel parking. Get rid of bushes and mailboxes near the road. If there is a sidewalk, put it 10 feet from the road. Get rid of roadside advertising.

With those changes, highway speeds are perfectly safe. People don't pop out from behind opaque objects if there are no opaque objects near the road, and people don't fall into the road if the sidewalk is set back. Drivers have plenty of warning when somebody approaches the road, and there they can pay full attention because the distractions have been removed.
They'd have to publish real GAAP financial numbers. Those numbers would look awful. Years of losses.
I recently returned from vacation in Chile, where I noticed the majority of freeways had separate speed limits based on vehicle class. Two axle private vehicles had a speed limit of 130 km/h while trucks were only 100, and double-trailer trucks were slower still.
But why do you want to adjust all the roads in the country where maximum speed ever is 90mph, at least in the USA? Just pass the law to limit cars from driving faster than that, and problem solved!

It always amazes me how cars commercials show awesome dashboards with 250 mph speedos, perfectly knowing there is no single road that you can lawfully go that fast.

Heck, it probably won't cost much more than a thumb drive to stick into your car computer port to update speed limits built in.
I think he is implying (correctly) that in the absense of a robust secondary market for cars, the prices for new cars would drop -- there would be less demand for new cars people knew they couldn't resell. It's a bad analogy, though, especially for an economics professor. By suppressing the secondary market for his book, he secures his monopoly on a mandated good, ensuring the higher price.
I believe the thread you're looking for is this one, about never breaking user space:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
How rich hippies and developers went to war over Instagram’s favourite beach
How about trying to live without it?

The important parts of Amazon works w/o javascript enabled. Its quicker to boot.
The Worst Job
This is definitely true for some people at some events. But it's entirely possible to make genuine and more personal interactions beyond the surface level. You just have to be genuine yourself. I have a pretty positive view on networking:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13961069
ZAMM author Robert M. Pirsig dies at age 88
Not really the same thing, which is kind of the central point behind the Holy Roman Empire.
By far the most likely scenario is that something subtle but utterly mundane is happening and no useful thrust is actually being produced. You say that:

1. studies consistently are showing that this seems to produce thrust without expelling any matter

but this is in fact the first peer reviewed study, so we really only have a sample size of one (not to say other experiments are invalid, just that we have no reason to trust them). Even assuming it is down to subtle experimental error, we may still learn something interesting, of course.

Far less likely is that this is actually producing useful thrust, and regardless of how it is doing it, that would be extremely interesting, and in all probability, new physics. Even if true, I don't expect it to completely overturn our understanding of physics, but it would be very exciting.
Exhibit A ladies and gentlemen.
I'm constantly amazed by how many people either don't understand this or simply refuse to acknowledge it.
The rail network in Switzerland runs primarily through the easiest to deal with terrain. There are a few lines that go through mountainous terrain. IIRC, none of them are any worse than some of the easiest traversals of the Rockies.
Learning to Separate Morality from Efficacy
Another interesting thing to look into is the Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope). Basically a box you put your feet in, with an x-ray gun at the bottom and a hole to put your face over at the top.

Spoiler alert, it didn't end well for anyone.
> Flickr died because Yahoo let it rot.

And then placed ads on the corpse.
Could you explain, for those of us without your particular modicum?

My local, independent, ISP is fiercely in favor of it (and less than 1/3rd of the price of Comcast). As a consumer and technologist, I can see only benefits with regards to competition and freedom.
Marissa Mayer Set to Receive $186M for Failing
You can turn that off. It was there historically because mysql didn't always support it, and it was slow when it was first rolled out.

Other languages old enough to have been around prior to all this have the same history. Perl, Python, etc.
No it's not. It's a very old take on ai. There are dozens of these bots that are just middle men for human conversation. But guess what! Random humans are not domain experts! Go to Yahoo answers and you'll find the same level of response and probably faster...
Only those who are qualified to operate a vehicle should be allowed to do so.
Where is the controversy in that statement?
It's a best-odds figure, but at the end of the day it's still only a paper valuation.
Caveats in metric collection
Here in the USA, we have speed bumps too. This is why we need to buy huge SUVs with high clearance. With a big enough vehicle, the speed bumps are not an issue. You should try it.

I often wonder what the environmental cost of speed bumps is. It is normal to drive huge SUVs. It is normal to slam on the brakes, go over the speed bump, and then hit the gas. There is also an environmental cost for broken parts that need to be replaced and oil that leaks from broken oil pans.
c# is what I know best, but I've done c++, java, javascript, vb.net and maybe a few others commercially. Apart from dusting off my c a bit lately I want to learn rust next.
This has been covered to death on here, but your accuser is the officer of the court who signs the ticket, not the camera.
> Running a fleet of self-driving cars is running a car rental company.

I am very surprised this comment got the top votes. OP - in which world do you live in? Uber already lease out vehicles so people who don't have a car but want to drive for Uber.... can lease it out from them.

Uber does not have to maintain their cars. They can sign an AMC with some company.
I've never even heard of anyone moving to an area because of elementary schools, or factoring them into a decision related to moving and/or purchasing a home. Only the quality of high school matters from what I've seen (in rich parts of LA and Orange County).
A lot of the motions are posted here: https://www.courttrax.com/trending-cases/#317cv00939
this message validates a feature we are working on. :)
>5mph below limit, left lane

Horrifying! :) But yes, the left lane is much nicer to camp out in on, say, a long commute - as long as you can handle maintaining the speed.

I live in the Dallas area and the lanes usually seem to be, from right to left: "the limit", "+5-10” and "+10-15". 15mph over is my cutoff, more or less, so I keep an eye on the mirror and try to shift over if someone is clearly coming up fast. Besides, don't want anyone tailgating me at those speeds tbh.

Does get a bit aggravating when what I consider "safe following distance at speed" is considered by the driver behind me as "this dumb econo-box being slow" and they whip around me. Doubly so when all it achieves is the two of us swapping places because there are no open avenues forward, lol. I'd have given it to him if there was one.

But "everyone else is a bad driver" will always be with us (myself no exception) so what can you do but grin and turn the music up.
First of all, I shouldn't have said I'm not a fan of him. It's his work.

Second, if you're doing redesigns for major, major sites, there has to be some accountability.
True. Or, you know, wget.
This reminds me of the lessons in Give and Take by Adam Grant. There is almost a Zen aspect of sincere networking. The more your end goal is to simply network with others and increase your network the less sincere you are likely to operate. However if you go to an event or gathering with a genuine curiosity and freely listen to others with no expectation of return and develop an ability to actually care (in that moment, at least, but really more deeply) your network will easily grow. Events and conversations have often led to cool places when I have interacted with others with no expectation of return.

Grant would just say you are acting as a Giver in the social context. This is very powerful and people react to it. A lot of people get good at purposefully faking being a Giver, precisely because your sole intention is to manipulate with forethought about how you can come out ahead (take) or at least come out equal to others in a social setting. Pure takers are honestly a little creepy because it shows a rather high level of self focus that (in my experience) tends to make someone a negative.
Know: C, Python
Wish: Rust, Prolog, Common Lisp, Ocaml, Perl
PS: my wishlist includes fluency, not only "to know something in it"
I’ve made something quite similar, with a friendly hashtag syntax, that live updates into React PropTypes, Mongoose, Swift, Elm, Golang and more — https://schema.lofi.design/

Planning on adding TypeScript soon, and may do JSONSchema too!

It’s written in Elm, whose strict compiler really helps with avoiding bugs. https://github.com/RoyalIcing/lofi-schema-elm
> Most likely we will find out that we are NOT violating the known laws of the universe, but we're "not violating" them in a very interesting way.

Most likely is still some sort of experimental error. I'd like it to be real but there is still tonnes of room for skepticism.
> It's so widespread that there are multiple libraries that tout this as a feature!

Which libraries?
I agree that neighborhood roads should have roundabouts and so on. But that doesn't apply to major arteries, highways, etc.
I was going to disagree with a bunch of things you said about the cities you mentioned, but I liked your last two lines! You seem to be happy, so it doesn't really matter why, I guess. I hope that continues being the case.