skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some distinctions need to be made here about manners, I think. Manners is largely social grease to keep interactions working smoothly; it is supposed to be about acknowledging the other person and treating them with some basic and fundamental respect. Real manners, in other words.

The manners you speak of are the hypocritical sort - e.g. calling Trump "Mr. President" even though he deserves no respect in any sort of situation, just because he is "the President". It is this sort of manners where people (i.e. the talking chimpanzees) get upset because social protocols are being violated - the social protocols used to enforce submission, dominance, and status. These social protocols are used to cover up all the bullshit talking chimpanzees like to get up to.
I've got Lichtheim's 3-volume Literature of Ancient Egypt. The time between the earliest and latest entries in that collection? Something like 2400-2500 years (IIRC). And (again IIRC) it stops a few hundred years shy of crossing the BC/AD boundary. It spans 4-5 related, but distinct, major civilizations living on roughly the same land, only the last couple of which are recent enough to squeeze onto the leading edge of where we usually start the narrative of recorded history.

The "ancient world" had its own ancient world.
What's the real criticism in his or her post? I see nothing other than a completely unsubstantiated accusation.
Do you know any site that uses their technology? Any example could help revealing their method.

EDIT: They seem to use WebRTC [0], but the claim that adblockers can't detect this is absurd.

[0] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues/4668
Pick up a precision stylus and use it on a regular tablet. I saw one on Amazon for like $15. Can probably get it even less. That'd probably be good enough for most.
This has already happened, and is called cladistics.

So, pretty good prediction.
Thanks! The characters are regular 3D models. The 2D elements are where the game differs from a lot of other games. If you use vector graphics the size of your assets will decrease dramatically, and your game will be resolution independent.

Regarding animation, this is a good resource to get started:
http://robertpenner.com/easing/
Something I have concluded: Genuine respect is a two way street. People expecting things they won't equally do in return are not expecting you to respect them. They are expecting you to kowtow to them and be their bitch.

Those people can go to hell. They will never give back. They do not for one minute believe in a social contract where both people invest in the relationship. They are just using you. Doing anything for them just signals that it is okay for them to use you. This is a terrible social contract to make.

You can still do nice things for other people because it serves something you believe in. Just don't agree to be anyone's bitch, ever, for any reason.
I'd strongly recommend reading the landing page very closely.
I sold my last car about 4 years ago, I don't expect I'll ever own one again. I think this will become the norm, especially if populations keep moving to cities and self driving cars become common.
200k is mid-level at Google. Senior engineers make significantly more, and staff engineers make a LOT more.

Now if you want a big house, then most of the cities that Google is in are terrible for that. But there's more to life than having a big house, and the expensive metros have their own pros. It's pretty hard to beat Silicon Valley weather, and for what amounts to a giant suburb the restaurant scene is quite good (especially for Asian food).
It doesn't matter, they will do whatever they want anyway. Perhaps if the dead start rising form their graves... maybe not even then.
Define "failed"?
And it's worth noting that:

1. Those are non-inflation-adjusted dollars, and

2. While Machrone's Law was a reasonably accurate observation, in the early days it was pretty easy to get to that number just by adding a 5MB hard drive to your IBM PC. By later in that stretch, you could still get up to $5K (and probably could today) but that's with configuring almost every state of the art option/add-on you can think of.
It's been more than a year. Hopefully not abandoned.
Writing an async/await-friendly locking library for C# and .NET
The biggest argument against interoperability is speed of change. Telsa, the leader in electric vehicles, makes a lot of their own components and algorithms. Standardization in fast moving areas slows down the pace of change. We are at the dawning of the electric car age and even earlier in the self-driving car age.

Standards tend to either work well with mature areas or in areas where people need to pool resources together either for money or legal reasons (see codec standards).
I'm building tool[1] for myself to organize book reviews, my essays, quotes based on same principles and inspired by writings of Joe Edelman and Tristan Harris.
Lyra looks really nice
[1] https://montaigne.io/
I'd ballpark the average range for senior engineers at Google at being around 250-300k in the US. Staff engineers (one step above senior) will make significantly more than that, although not everyone reaches that level.
> And vote the union bosses out? How was she to do that exactly? Maybe it's different over there, but unions can cover tens if not hundreds of locations at different businesses in the US.

I resent "it's democratic, so vote instead of complaining" in 100% of its incarnations. Democratic systems are a bit more responsive than most others, but they're not actually subject to the desires of any one voter. It's entirely reasonable to look at a system and say "the fixes I think this needs are completely unattainable" or even "I think the voting process of this system is incapable of producing change". Calling unions - or anything - fixable simply because they count up votes feels like a way to silence uncomfortable criticism.
I'm seeing it too. Although API's still seem to be working ok.
You obviously have a strong dislike for lambda. I've never used it personally, but from afar it seems cool.

What are some of the shortcomings you ran into using it?
Well there's still some debate as to whether Neanderthals were a separate species or a subspecies, but it's worth noting that the ability to produce fertile offspring is necessary for species inclusion, but it's not sufficient.
I spent the better part of 2013 - 2015 learning and working with Clojure. I love the language and the feeling I got solving little problems like Project Euler or 4clojure. However, I could never quite transition to feeling productive making larger projects and found myself using reverting to Scala or JS instead.
He lost big
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJsOA4Zl6Io
I didn't say poker was "solved", I said it had "fallen".

It's true that poker is not completely solved, but neither is chess. It is still not known whether white has a forced win. It is possible that some day this will be known, and if the answer is yes, then a human playing white may be able to learn the strategy and hence beat any machine. But that will be only marginally more interesting than the fact that a human player can force a draw in tic-tac-toe. The difference between "fallen" and "solved" is just not that interesting. Checkers is solved, but no one cares.

I see no reason to believe that the techniques used to beat the best human players in one variant of poker cannot be extended to beat the best human players in any variant of poker, or, for that matter, to any game with randomness and hidden state.
what's more secure than a device you cannot possibly reach?

I'll take an insecure device isolated at the bottom of the ocean in a titanium block over a probably-secure device that is publicly addressable any day.
> and decided to get away from the forklift

If you're not currently being electrocuted and there's no imminent risk of the situation worsening (or high voltage wires moving) there's little need to put yourself at risk by moving. There's no guarantee that jumping clear/hopping will be safe -- electrical potentials can't be visualised with the naked eye. Even if the power line is touching the ground, the ground isn't perfect and there's still a gradient: https://ehss.energy.gov/sesa/Files/corporatesafety/advisory/... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_potential_rise

Stay put, call for help, tell people not to get close to the vehicle or the high voltage conductors, and wait until someone de-energises the offending high voltage circuits.

https://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/downed_electr...
More information here: https://istio.io/blog/istio-auth-for-microservices.html
The proof in the mathematical appendix can be simplified and generalized a bit.

To avoid confusion I'll let 'S' be the score and 'R' the random variable representing the actual rating. In that case the 'loss' (denoted by L) as defined in the article is (R - S) if R > S and k(S - R) if R < S.

Now the goal is to minimize the expected loss E[L]. Assuming everything is well behaved, the optimal value S should satisfy:

dE[L] / dS = 0.

and therefore

0 = E[ dL / dS ]
= E[ dL/dS | R>S ] P[R>S] + E[ dL/dS | R<S ] P[R<S]
= (-1) P[R<S] + (k) P[R<S]
= (P[R<S] - 1) + k P[R<S].

Solving this last line results in the formula:

P[R<S] = 1 / (1+k).

Now note that P[R<S] is the cumulative distribution of R, which in the case that R has a beta distribution is the incomplete beta function.

In fact, all the formula tells you is that if being too high is k times worse than being too low, you should try to place your estimate such that it is k times more likely that you're too low than that you're too high. Which seems kind of obvious really, but I guess it's nice to have a proof.
I've loved being able to hack away on projects with Twilio for a while now. They're relatively easy to get started with, and this is going to make it even easier. 10,000 invocations free, with subsequent invocations priced at 10,000/$1 seems like a great model. No idea about how this scales financially, compared to other similar services. But as someone making relatively limited use tools, most without a business model, their pricing certainly keeps me feeling great about using them.
John McAfee now mines Bitcoins
10% of Americans trading in a car plan to use Uber and Lyft instead of buying new
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14419668
Reality Check: How can police stop terror suspects travelling?
Lambda is far from the most easy to use platform, no argument there, but I don't see any justification for bashing its reliability..
According to what I have learned from a talk the analysing of the VW code [1] the VW cheating consisted of dispensing less AdBlue (VW proprietary DEF) than necessary when no test was detected. That's very much at odds with what you say. I'm not claiming what you say is wrong, I'm just curious how those findings fit in with what you said.

[1] "Dieselgate —
a year later" https://youtu.be/SjlHtLux9vc
You are thinking about this wrong.

Serverless functions on Twilio (or any other platform for that matter) is not competing with Lambda.

The point of serverless functions is to take your Twilio app that you were already creating and to completely eliminate the back-end.

Now you can make a fully functioning Twilio app without messing around with heroku.
Interestingly, according to that link Mr./Mrs. Firstname Lastname left them a reply indicating his or her support for strong net neutrality. :)
This is great.

The only justifiable reason I have seen for turning off IPv6 is for abuse tooling that doesn't have v6 support yet.
If you mean ports, those aren't IP. Those are TCP/UDP.
So you do think that financial status and intelligence can protect you from frostbite.
I think that's more an indication of _just how much the needle has been moved_.

5 years ago mainstream was something like PHP or Java 6.
Been looking at cloning the project to make the installer less dependent on vestacp.com's assets, so I only happened to know :)
There's room for both. In the bay area, it's not uncommon for people to kind of cycle through, sometimes being at big companies, then they go off to be adventuresome at a startup, then either it gets acquired by a big company or it dies (and they go back to the stability of a big company) or it's successful enough to where it's not a startup anymore.
Is Ruby supposed to be an example of "not dying" language? Because it has certainly passed its glory days as well.

Also Common Lisp is better in every way ;) There's even a JVM implementation (ABCL) for people who like that sort of stuff.
Q&A – (Goose Talk) Live Stream Broadcast #6
I'm also a solo founder writing an MVP, and have been working on it for maybe a year. It can be lonely, but keep the faith.

I think you're right on with hitting the gym. This is what I've done as well. Having people around, change of pace, and doing something that has progress I can see (body, weight) has been helpful.

Another thing that has been helpful is daily journaling to just get it out. I've been to therapy a lot, and while it can help, I find that really the best cure is to learn to help yourself. That starts with learning the actual problem, which it sounds like you need to figure out with some deep introspection.

I'm also a big fan of long walks and road trips to give you some thinking time.
No offense intended, but given Google's "privacy for me but not for thee" secrecy and anti-leak stance, this kind of makes it hard to take some of your claims at face value. I imagine honesty could put you at risk of job loss or worse.

If documentation for implementing dark patterns existed at Google, I don't expect you'd be disclosing that information.

Full disclosure: I find Google pretty repulsive as a whole, so that could be clouding my thought process here.
Which devices are secure?
The nice thing is it's very easy to get started, and no matter what you're working on, be it a web project, a mobile app, or even something for desktop there are loads of resources out there, as well as people who care.

For web stuff, over the last month or so I've been pointing people to the relatively new but still pretty nice A11y Style Guide[0]
This is obviously for just getting started. When we get into more complicated markup, I often find fantastic resources, articles, and examples from companies like SSB BART or Deque (no affiliation with either)

When mobile accessibility comes up, few people do it better than the BBC, and they have a great resource on it[1]

I'm also working on a playbook for mobile accessibility, but that's still under development.

The really important and kind of awesome thing is that it's extremely easier to test the accessibility of whatever you're building as you build it. Unlike the bad old days where screen readers costs $1,000 and no developers had access to them, on mobile or Mac screen readers are built directly into your device, and on Windows NVDA is completely free from [2]

Hope this gives you a starting point, and if you have more questions feel free to reach out, email in profile.

[0]: https://a11y-style-guide.com
[1]http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/accessibility/mo...
[2]https://NVAccess.org
Irony being News Corp (owner of Fox) bought MySpace in 2005.
I'll plug Parinfer as the best tool I've found for removing the pain of editing s-expressions. It's done wonders for my own workflow, and there's almost nothing to learn before you can use it effectively (compare to Paredit which requires you to know quite a few shortcuts before becoming productive)

I almost never have to think about the parentheses while editing, any more than I would braces in a c-like language. It's really freeing. It's also fully integrated into Cursive so there isn't even a setup step if you're using that already.

https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
Three days of interviewing sounds like a good way to pre-filter out strong candidates who are already gainfully employed enough to not put up with this crap.
If you can't produce a SUV that meets all regulations, then you can't produce a SUV. Nobody forces car makers to offer SUVs. Maybe the intention of those regulations is that not everybody needs to ride in 3+ ton vehicles to get to work.
Query structure in chalk
As Red Hat aims for $5B in revenue, Linux won’t be only driver
I would be willing to be that they're using Lambda under the hood. The handler function signature looks identical.

Edit: It is using Lambda!
> The shelves are tidy, because the books are placed with their covers facing out

Spine-out doesn't facilitate browsing, so I can't see why this is a bad thing. More books doesn't equate more options or a better experience.

> and prominently featuring the opinions of exemplary randos.

Fantastically dismissive, but the book buyer is also a "rando," so it's a useful metric.

> The store selection is populist, elevating aggregate user ratings; the author’s name is, notably, the smallest thing on each card.

The only problem I see is that it doesn't need to be there at all. It's prominently featured on the cover of the actual book, right above the card.
Automotive SW is quite mature. The kind of information you're sending to the different control ECU's in the car are quite small and simplistic. I see no reason why you could not implement dynamic and state-of-the-art algorithms on the image recognition part and push the comparably small result output on the control bus.
I have a hard time believing the term sheet says something to the effect of, for $680 million we would like to purchase all your stolen documents please.

The article is more about the due diligence reports where it might out that Uber knew that there was stolen documents, which Uber seems keen on keeping out of Waymo's hands.
A lot of writers hate editors, it's true.

But almost all of them desperately need to be edited.
I work at Google.

The thing about lunch interviews is mostly true. By default, the lunch interviewer does not actually evaluate you, they do not normally submit any feedback. But, if you say something that's considered way out of line/offensive, then yeah I'd expect the lunch interviewer to likely email the recruiter.
> clutter that mirrors Amazon’s own site

Amazon has never managed to come anywhere close to the joy and value of accidental discovery that you can have from browsing the categorized shelves at a well-stocked bookstore, or better yet a university library. They've never even really tried as far as I can tell, so I guess it's not a surprise that their attempt at a physical bookstore would miss one of its biggest advantages.
Go easy on alcohol too. It hits you way harder and faster at altitude.
Ambiguous use of 'cannot' versus 'are not' all over this article.
People started theorising this the day he announced that "religion is important to him" which I thought was ridiculous, then he hired Obama's campaign advisers, announced tour of the country and then the recent war on fake news. If he doesn't run directly he's definitely reaching for some political clout
>This has created the atmosphere of a moral panic which leads to numerous false accusations. It's a troubling circumstance.

Why do you believe this to be the case? From my perspective, I've seen very few examples of false accusation (certainly not enough to call them "numerous") and many more examples of actions that go unpunished.

Really I think that's what defines the core of our difference in view. You seem to believe that there is some great number of false accusations flying around, and further that these false accusations are causing innocent people great harm. On the other hand, I see many instances of people who should be punished for actions that are unacceptable go completely without consequence. Can you see why, from my perspective, I don't see our current situation as tragic, and indeed see it as a vast improvement over the past (which had an even greater number of unpunished actions).
I don't really have anything to say about your other points, but the only comparable compile-to-JS tech in your list to ClojureScript is Scala.js. The other options assume you don't see significant value in using the same programming idioms across client and server.
Agassiz had a complicated life and career with plenty of lasting accomplishments, but his shortcomings do seem relevant to the piece; by the end of his life he was most famous for refusing to accommodate Darwinism.
zombie apocalypse, finally
This equating of manners to a submissive posture is odd to me. One wonders what is meant by "manners". Saying yes, please, thank you, and holding a door are by no means submissive acts. Table manners, or not acting boarish while dining, is not submissive. Conducting oneself in a respectful, cordial manner is not submissive.

However fawning and currying favor may indeed be submissive, but are not proscribed by any idea of "politeness" I am aware of. Excessive accommodation to the detriment of yourself and your interests would also be submissive in my view.
a group called "MakerDao" is working on a token on Ethereum called Dai, which is backed by collateral in the form of a variety of different tokens, and is set up so that the price will target some multiple of something called "Special Drawing Rights", which is a basket of national currencies.

I think eDollar is (was?) going to be (is?) something backed with Dai, which would target the value of USD . (I have not kept up with it, so I don't know what the state of eDollar is.)
that being said, NAD is so ubiquitous that I can't imagine it is the only factor. It's may be more akin to saying if you use Chevron gas with techron vs. Arco gas, that your engine may last another 5,000 miles or something. But it doesn't address primary causes of engine failure based on design, engineering, etc.
You do it when it is logistically (takes more space / GB), perf (slow) or noise (hdd vs ssd) inferior. I have maybe 5 drives of ~100 GB size which I replaced with a better 1 TB one.
What if the goal is to regulate diesel out of existence unless it can be much better pollution-wise?

What if the car companies could make a much cleaner diesel engine, but it just wasn't cost efficient?

What if this kind of regulation is the stick to go with the various green regulation carrots (tax credits on fuel efficient vehicles, subsidies for renewables, etc...)?

What if making lawmakers responsible for legislating something out of business has unintended effects? Consider that in some places tobacco companies are suing governments over labeling, imagine the lawsuits if a car company could sue when they didn't like emission laws.

I agree it is easy to look at this with a sympathetic eye to automakers, but I think we cannot condone cheating when other alternatives exists. It may well be impossible to build a clean enough diesel engine. If so we should drop diesel and figure out something with another energy store
Don't act like this. Literally become a different person before interacting online again.
Disclaimer: I work for GM. I do not work on anything related to diesel engines. I will not be commenting further on this story; what follows is just for context and is not intended to explain or justify anything about these accusations.

The EPA (and other regulators) allow engines to emit more NOx and Particulate under certain circumstances to protect the engine.

Each set of parameters where an engine will do this is called an auxiliary emissions control device [AECD], even where it is just programming, not a separate physical device.

For instance, FCA recently got in trouble for not disclosing all of their AECDs [0] - the AECDs may not have been illegal, but FCA neglected to inform the EPA of all of them.

As noted elsewhere in comments, very very few (if any) vehicle achieve the same emissions or efficiency in the real world as in a test lab.

The disparity between test and real world is not necessarily illegal.

AECDs are not necessarily defeat devices.

0. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/chrysler/201...
Chinese company offering free training for US coal miners to become wind farmers