skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such ethnocentrism smacking bullshit. It's unfounded stereotyping of a country that's I'm going to guess is more culturally, ethnically, and ideologically diverse than you are used to.

For starters, I didn't notice any citations in your claims of academic relevance. Have you read papers from reputable institutions that support your positions as their central thrust (rather than a side note or speculation)? If so please cite one and let us know how many of your points are part of its central argument.

Taking it down a notch from academia, even the Wikipedia article on American stereotypes does agree with your list. Too many biased Americans on WP? Even anecdotally in countries I've lived and stayed in, many people were happy to share their American stereotypes and I enjoyed the discussions, but they never mentioned your list.

Some of the things I'm used to hearing: Americans are fat? Not a pleasant thing to hear but objectively true. Americans are gun crazy? Not everyone but still, there is solid foundation here. So this is not a matter of (just) being insulted, I simply call into question your ability to back up your specific claims with sound evidence and data.

Finally your claim that self compassion is "fundamentally juxtaposed" to eastern meditative traditions is incorrect (I assume you meant to write opposed). On the contrary, it is vital component of some practices and one of the first things studied (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mettā#Mett.C4.81_meditation).

With everything happening in the US right now the last thing we need is people making false assumptions that all of us support the same leadership, same homogeneous viewpoints, same personal failings, etc.
I love Portrait mode and have taken some photos with it that I am happy with, but really, it would be nice if they also showed us how they professionally lit that cafe, because you are never, ever going to take a photo that looks like that in the real world.
San Francisco Sues Uber for Driver Information
In my area it is literally the same drivers as uber: all the drivers have 2 phones, one for each app.
Hey, Thanks.

I had this in mind as well.

If you are a bit familiar with Machine Learning, what I did was train a LSTM neural network and gave it previous 3 balls and the wicket ball and trained it to generate balls in a sequence like a bowler.

I just did not post this since I am tinkering with this idea and will post it later.
A curious thought just popped into my head. Deliveries tend to be time critical. I can't think of many deliveries that would tend not to be. However ocean cleanup struck me as a type of 'collection' that may hypothetically find sail power to be an advantage. I've done zero research and have absolutely no background in the area, however I do recall from my years fishing that at least surface garbage tends to follow wind patterns. If this can be exploited by an autonomous vehicle in some way, perhaps it could prove to be an advantage? Clusters of networked vessels could work together to provide enough live data on wind direction to avoid errors with localised high frequency changes in wind direction perhaps.

The down sides would be that once the vessel has a full cargo, it may take longer than a powered vessel to return to wherever it will offload the waste (perhaps a larger 'mothership' could follow?), and with no sailing expertise, I suspect that it may be harder to direct such a vessel than just using a powered one with the appropriate sensors aboard.
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Thanks for your feedback.
I'm also curious how much of that bonus was stock, and what happens to Uber's stock if Google creams them on this
> Personally I think we're 1-2 years aways from initial commercial rollout and it'll grow very quickly from there.

I think you're very optimistic. Bear in mind that Musk often over-promises on timelines (for instance, he said the new in-house autopilot in the Model S would have parity with the old outsourced one by the end of 2016, it still doesn't), and it will take sometime to regulate and legislate a whole new set of laws and structures around self driving (especially around matters of liability in the case of accidents).

I can imagine in 2 years we see more complex and intelligent implementations available for the general public that can manage route mapping and full autonomy in an ideal situation (you'd better hope its not snowing), but where drivers are still required to be present and have their hands on or near the wheel at all times.
Too bad Kalanick left Trump Advisory Council already. He could have used his influence on U.S. Attorney.
why do people do this:

def compute_score(clf, X, y,scoring='accuracy'):

xval = cross_val_score(clf, X, y, cv = 5,scoring=scoring)

return np.mean(xval)

when they could have done:

np.mean(cross_val_score(clf, X, y, cv = 5,scoring='accuracy'))
This works but it gets ugly when you have to use 'set -e' everywhere:

set -e

foo() {
/bin/false
echo "foo"
}
echo "$(set -e; foo)"
Trump wants new aircraft carriers returned to 'Goddamned steam' power catapults
As a Paramedic here in the US, I'd be happy to see more people alerted to unusual cardiac conditions via their Apple Watch early as possible rather than finding out weeks later after damage has been done.
We don't convert afib in the field, but having an Apple Watch catch someone that's in SVT would be great. Reading down in the thread, I see that it's happened at least once.
The Linux Kernel Programming Interface maybe?
https://www.nostarch.com/tlpi
IntelliJ automatically adds your name to the top of Java classes / etc, so.. kinda?
If all the Uber drivers switch to Lyft when/if Uber dies then surely the "takes longer" part will go away.
Westinghouse is still a big name in the nuclear industry...
Judge Alsup is one of the sharpest minds on the bench. That's going to cause a lot of sleepless nights.
Limited Liability Company. An LLC is not a corporation although it may choose to be taxed as one. Chances are Waymo, as a wholly owned subsidiary is a single member LLC and a disregarded entity for tax purposes.
Ask HN: Any other techniques to remember english words apart from these?
> People owing more on their cars then they are worth, then defaulting.

I read somewhere that car loans are some of the safest secured loans for lenders. People will skimp on food, rent, and everything else before they default on their car.
Sure, keep looking. But it's irritating how many people have the attitude that diet sodas are clearly bad for you, but that evidence is just being irritatingly elusive.
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In case this helps, you might want to A/B test your homepage with and without coffins, watch the bounce rate. I bounced, the feelings created by my amygdala were too strong and overruled my curiosity or any desire to learn!
I thought google invested in uber..?
Seriously? That's pretty shocking to me. I wonder if the secondary market was already pricing in some of the information with insider knowledge. Or another theory, in the null-scandal world, maybe Uber would have been up 50% in the same time period based on other information.
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> Remember that iOS locks and/or wipes devices after 10 failed attempts

You only get 5 attempts at TouchID - 10 attempts is for the passcode.
> some sort of enterprise data solution software application package analytics targeting management something something something “the cloud”

that's just flat out hilarious
"A comprehensive assessment by international experts on the health risks associated with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) disaster in Japan has concluded that, for the general population inside and outside of Japan, the predicted risks are low and no observable increases in cancer rates above baseline rates are anticipated"

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/fukushima_...
The smart way to compute Net Promoter Score
>Science has led to many amazing things, but that doesn't mean it can realistically answer all questions.

Careful, this attitude is essentially perpetuating that we should only use evidence when we feel like it.

If you refuse to consume something because you think it is detrimental to health but there is no evidence supporting it, just be honest and admit that it's a religious belief.
It's not true that "X could be useless" implies "X is useless". If your expectation (in a probability sense) is that X is useful, a policy of requiring X is, broadly speaking, a better idea than a policy of not bothering at all.

In the specific case of auditors, they tend to be large, well-known companies with a reputation, a common system in our society for figuring out if people are useful or criminals. Arthur Andersen, for instance, made a series of bad ethical decisions in its accounting audit practice. They no longer practice auditing for accounting, and their consulting business has been rebranded (to Accenture) because they lost the reputation of their original name. So they did, in effect, get audited eventually. Which again is better than not bothering.
I think that's what works to Google's benefit. They don't need the jury to understand the technical details if they can convince the jury that Uber has a history of acting unethical and this just another data point with evidence.
Langlands and Bell: The Artists Storming Silicon Valley's Fortresses
Also from that article:

...as Uber has argued that it can’t release documents related to its acquisition of Otto without violating its employee’s 5th Amendment rights.

I'm certainly not a lawyer, but that's not at all how I thought the 5th Amendment works.
I use the built in VPN client to connect to StrongSwan servers on a regular basis. It works just fine.
Funny, I thought Diet Coke tastes like plastic. I'd rather drink less of the normal than experience the 'diet' taste.
Between the Wind Rivers and the Front Range of Colorado is the Great Divide Basin - it's a very difficult region for animals to simply migrate across - especially animals specific to colder, wetter climates - and most especially without any great reason.

People can, and do release wolves into Colorado in hopes to reintroduce them. I believe that's where most of the sightings are coming from. Many times these wolves are wolf/dog hybrids. I've had complete strangers admit to as much. I very much suspect any sightings of wolves in CO though, almost as much as I do grizzly bear.
Overweight people trying to reduce their calorie intake?!?! Shocker!

Perhaps next you'll suggest that large clothes are causing obesity.
Uh, that may not be the best example. Are you aware of a reliable way to retrieve the OS version across all POSIX OSs? Because if you are, I would love to hear it.
I believe OCaml would be a horrible choice as a replacement for bash
Mystics have been talking about this sort of thing for ages. Perhaps you should look into some of those assertions to develop future investigative paradigms.
You could easily overfit with a bunch of trees.
the one question I have is - how much better is the DNN vs. just simple rhythm analysis, i.e. periodicity, etc.
There's a driverless race. I'm doubtful if it'll be as powerful a force as the real world race to the market that has a bigger prize.

https://electrek.co/2015/11/30/formula-e-will-launch-a-new-r...
It is interesting that the Homejoy entry is gone. Typical analysis is that they lost business to their own pros and the class action lawsuit regarding the contractors or employees argument. My own experience in the industry suggests that bad treatment and pay for their contractors resulted in ongoing defections and that when a competitor offered just four dollars an hour more all the best cleaners left at once.
Show HN: Roaring Bitmaps for Redis
The onus for evidence is on people making the claim that diet drinks are bad for you.

Until there is some proof of that, it's safe to say that there is no evidence that diet drinks cause bad effects.
The lead singer in Midnight Oil sung "How do we sleep /
While our beds are burning" in 1987... and in 2009 the same person (Peter Garret), in his position as Minister for Environment Protection (among other things), was the driving force behind a home-insulation scheme that was found to be the cause of 224 house fires.

You basically have to have a humorectomy to be able to follow Australian politics. Otherwise you go crazy from too much cracking up.

--

Some qualifying info to add some substance so this isn't just hyperbole and commentary:

- IIRC, what was happening is that the installers weren't being paid enough, and they were nailing the insulation haphazardly without identifying where the 240V lines ran underneath the batts so they could dodge those areas with their staple guns. Said insulation batts had foil on them. So sparks flew where wood met aluminium and exposed/partially-shorted wiring. Even more tragically, four installers were also electrocuted (AFAIK/IIUC) by live foil on the batts during installation.

- Mr Garret was actually really mature about the situation and took full responsibility, stated that he wasn't fully informed about various risks, and did raise issues about safety multiple times that were not listened to. So there's that.

Some random sources/articles I found:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/peter-garre...

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/peter-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Garrett
Minihack is great hn client
> Why do we keep equating biometrics with security?

Because we don't have any other practical alternatives? With how often people unlock their phones in public, PIN codes are absolutely useless.
But hiring you to fly their drone doesn't scale. You're not nearly as good at replicating your ability as a computer is, or at working for free.
It's hard for any competitors to compete with Uber subsidizing each ride with VC money.
Haskell has several shell-scripting libraries:
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shelly
http://chrisdone.com/posts/shell-conduit

ocaml isn't that far off, just even less popular...
Some more edge cases : http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105
America has become so anti-innovation – it's economic suicide
If you think the legal funds of these two companies are remotely equal...
It's easy to be cheap when you subsidize each ride with VC money.
You do have privacy in public. Both the de jure "reasonable expectation of privacy" and the de facto privacies of anonymity, free association, and predictable rules of social engagement.
The sales guys are still often idiots. But if you know the cost of the car, don't need financing, and either plan to do a private sale of your current car or it's a donate for $2K vs. trade-in situation, it isn't really all that stressful.

What's stressful is when they start playing games with all the levers. If you're fortunate enough to not be in the position to maybe have to play those games, you basically hold the cards.
Microsoft Reveals Motion Controllers for Windows VR Headsets
Yeah, you remember, google's really fancy chromebook.
It'll be fine.
I wonder if the answer is the same if your name is Yaron Minsky :)
The Subtle Effect of Hidden Dependencies on the UX of Version Control (2014) [pdf]
You may be incorrect:
"In fact, hundreds of wild bison freely inhabit hundreds of square miles of valley floor, sometimes coming in contact with private cattle (and human golfers at the Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis Club) without incident."

"Save for occasionally colliding with motorists on the highway, goring a horse at guest ranches, moving through fences or tramping upon manicured landscaping, bison presence in Jackson Hole does not connote the political calamity it does in Montana."

http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/opinion/columnists/the_new_wes...
Why the downvotes? This is true to an almost absurd degree. The following food / health standards agencies have found aspartame to be safe for human consumption:

- World Health Organisation

- US FDA

- British Food Standards Agency

- European Food Safety Authority

- Health Canada

- Australia and New Zealand Food Standards Authority

- And a whole bunch of peer reviewed, double-blind RCTs

Although, I should disclose that the Aspartame Illuminati pay me a commission whenever I make a positive mention of the additive :)
Both lammas and donkeys are used here locally. The neighbors use a donkey.
Yeah, I have a ~20yo Honda Del Sol that I bought in the last model year. I haven't driven it in winter for a while. (I have another vehicle.) At this point it creates something of a sensation at the local Honda dealer when I bring it in because there aren't many on the roads any longer (because of rusting out) and it was a somewhat unique vehicle.

Still, this is 15-20 years vs. 5 years.
I can't prove it but I will say 10x your prediction, between 20 and 50 years to get a real self driving car, a car with no wheel, fully automated. Maybe 10 years to have automated highway-only trucks. I think expectations are completely unrealistic in this.
> Science has led to many amazing things, but that doesn't mean it can realistically answer all questions.

Why? To me, that's what science IS. Providing the ability to answer any and all questions about our nature.
Scientist discovers the first new Blue pigment in over 200 years
People complained about those things because the makers of No Man's Sky repeatedly said untrue or misleading things about what content and features would be in the game -- things that we now know they must have known were false at the time (e.g. the talk of how other games cheat by using skyboxes while No Man's Sky simulates physics).

Here is a Reddit post that covers in great detail the claims made by No Man Sky's maker about the game's content, as compared to reality on launch:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no...

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/08/17/broken-promises-...

It may be that the game is perfectly fun for people as launched, but that's separate from the concern that the game's maker misrepresented it.
Definitely not OCaml, but usually python or ruby will do the job better.
It would be if it worked on anything except Ubuntu that is. Maybe a month ago when I tried it was different, but there was no amount of installing and tweaking I could do to get it to work on Arch.
Some of OPs comment is hyperbolic, but I think

> Microsoft has shown they are only interested in controlling the user, and not in giving the user control.

Is very well supported by their recent we'll-do-everything-possible to get Win10 on people's machines, force upgrades, forced (and ultra comprehensive, but mostly secretive until a month ago) telemetry.

> We live in a very different world. I'm not saying MS wouldn't abuse their power if they could, but you know...what power?

They have spent the last year and a half abusing their power of Win7 updates to force people into Win10, which takes away the power that people had to resist the Win7->Win10 upgrade. If you missed that, we truly do live in different worlds.
I had my 2013 Nexus 5 until it died, even after that one software update killed performance with no change in features.

I wanted to buy a Pixel XL. They weren't available. I live and work near mountain view. They were sold out even if you sign up for Google Fi (a trick a Googler friend suggested). I'm already on Google Voice so Fi would be awesome.

Could not get them for weeks.

I got tired of waiting and bought an iPhone 7 Plus. I love it. I dislike the closed software interface but don't want Samsung bloat so I saw it as the best other option. The hardware is great and I found out a lot of my friends are on iMessage. iCloud doesn't try to do creepy things. I like the fingerprint scanner.

I would have loved to try the Pixel.
https://www.heise.de/video/artikel/iPhone-5s-Touch-ID-hack-i...
Second Life is "virtual reality", just not in the common head-mounted display sense.
What this really boils down to is you should avoid subshells where possible and handle this with either variable assignment or and streams (pipes).

eg:

set -euo pipefail

foo() {

false

echo "hello world"

}

variable=$(foo) # fails

foo | do_stuff # fails

My preference is to handle things as streams
Well, there's a variety of reasons that being on new kernels (or a linux kernel at all)

Things like bpf if you're doing performance profiling
Ready access to PMCs (The Intel PMC stuff is a pain in the ass to get working in Windows, because you have to build a signed driver for MSR access) without paying the $900 for vTune
Access to perf

There's really no way to do performance engineering on Bash/WSL
With all the artificial flavoring, there can end up being very little nutrients in the food. So if you're always having sweet but very low nutritional/caloric foods, there's a chance your body will subconsciously learn this.
The next "whole grain."
How Meet Edgar Bootstrapped Its Way to $4M a Year
I've also had all the brake lines and power steering lines rust out in a Ford Explorer though. That's probably my one really big failure of not getting rid of a vehicle when it had the first of those expensive repairs.
Yes, subshells can be tricky. Don't rely on stuff like pipefail, rather check return codes and react accordingly. Bash also provides a way to read return codes of piped commands. See PIPESTATUS in man bash.
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> what about the current Microsoft—without reference to history, without knowledge of history—do you fear?

Win10 and how it was shoved hard down everyone's throat -- and how it had taken upgrade liberties away from the vast majority, while adding unstoppable telemetry.

Is 18 months too much history for a 40 year old company?
It seems to be a redirect based on the referring URL. Copy and paste it to get to the actual site
That is an interesting hypothesis that I've thought about. It seems plausible (but what do I know) - do you know of any research that supports it?

An honest question; you are not obligated to do my research but maybe you know.
I hope this is meant with sarcasm
There's a few alternatives:

https://barnacl.es

http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/

https://productpeople.club/

https://www.foundercafe.com/

https://nugget.one/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/
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I wasn't around here during that dispute. As I remember it (and I could be off substantially), both sides were slinging mud at each other drawn out over a long period of many months. Both had large patent portfolios to throw at each other, along with accusations about seemingly stupid stuff, like apple suggesting Samsung not make rectangular phones.

Did Apple vs Samsung seem as clear cut as Uber vs Google does now?