skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yeah my point is that I absolutely don't buy that. If Bezos came out and said that the reason for starting Amazon is really altruism or if Kalanick, speaking to the NY Times explained that, actually, Uber is rooted in fixing the false perceptions people have that public transportation has to be ugly and slow and boring we would all see right through that.

Perhaps I'm naive, but I don't see any reason not to believe similar sentiments from Bezos/Kalanick (if they actually said them -- I think the fact that they don't adds credence to those that do), even after a brief stint at Amazon (and having a prior Amazon VP as an investor). Obviously I've heard both good and bad things about both in the media, but I don't know either personally well enough to make a judgement call on their primary drive to succeed.

Uber has solved huge problems in transportation. Amazon's beginnings were humble and (IMO) hugely important as well. Musk is clearly doing big things as well, and I'm glad that all of the above have developed tech that benefits everyone. I would believe that was their goal as readily as I would believe they were just in it for the money.
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If gravity was 10% stronger rockets might be much more powerful and been reusable much sooner. Having the military need to produce nuclear powered rockets for effective ICBMs would have produced a very different nuclear power development path than the one on this Earth.
That's why airbag control systems are programmed to only activate in crash scenarios where they do more good than harm. It's not as if all 10 airbags will instantly inflate in every possible crash.
I've been advocating blockchaining democracy for a while now. At the time I even bought a domain for this (continuousreferendum.com, which lapsed by now). Never had the time to learn enough to do this. I'm really really glad someone did. The future is right there. Now the real hard stuff is to get governments to transition to being 'pilots' and not 'navigators'.
And that was not enough for you (if they got aggressive)?

edit: What I mean is, if you know the feeling of being nice due to intimidation, then you can easily see why people probably even smaller and weaker than you and of increased interest to a broader range of the population might be.. well, nice, as long as they can.

I sometimes meet people, most (all?) of them women, who were not nice to one idiot groping them and woke up in the hospital. Though that are the ones talking about it, which certainly gives a bias. Smile, make yourself small and maybe they go away. Better strategy compared to confronting them most of the time. Is that also true in your case? (Honest question.)
They would. So long as your the Average Joe makes the correct decision 51% of the time in the long run we'll turn out fine.
And how would you know what engine was the game built with anyway? If you're relying on the Unity log splash screen, then indeed you only see games developed by beginner teams who can't even afford a paid license.
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Microsoft also used to have one based on ATL, as IIS module.
That is an argument that ageism is right, not an argument that your post isn't ageist.
What Is a Retreat? Definition of a Retreat – Empirical Retreats
1. It's harder to bribe all Joes.

Much easier to bribe 500 people in a 300 million people. Actually, you may just have to bribe 100 or so, enough to tilt partisan things in your favor.

2. Direct democracy would not follow party lines, there is no need to.

You can have gun rights and abortion rights.
You can have social safety net programs and curb illegal immigration.
You can be tough on crimes and treat drug addiction as mental issue.
You can have higher taxes but lower regulations.
You can have higher military spending but no wasteful spending.
You can have higher marginal tax rate while having simple tax code.

3. Because any other forms of rulers get disconnected form people as soon as they start ruling

4. No "too-big-to-fail" ruler (dictator, king, plutocrat, oligarch, meritocratic, strongman). Entire country doesn't depend on single charismatic person.

5. It might have been difficult in the past, but in the internet age in USA, direct democracy has less things that would work against it. More information available, more means to communicate available, decent education available.

6. Find best people for the job. Ideas can come from anywhere. Implementer can come from anywhere. You won't get "I implement my idea, not you". "You stole my idea". etc.
this bunch BS written solely from the perspective of american/western culture standards..eastern culture have different perspective and you grow up trusting folks who tell the truth even if it is unpleasant.
I don't know about other platforms but on MacOS native apps are way better designed (looks and usability) than the electron crap that is available. So I'm curious, what makes you say JS devs are better at designing apps than native devs who know how native apps work?
In real government there are thousands of small decisions on small boring issues that combine to have huge effects.

Sometimes I feel like people think politics is only about debating the big things that split party lines like gay marriage and abortion.
That probably depends on the location.

Most farmers, workmen or mechanics in Europe should be fine with a 200 mile range, but it might not work in Texas.
Just wanted to point out that it isn't just fiction that is dystopian...

"Sperm Count Dropping in Western World"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14855796
Personally, I was talking about my experience in Russia and Israel. Where do you live?
There's basically no content in there, only speculation unless I missed something.

The "surprise" is that there are four dies in the CPU, two of which appear to be unused (I'm not sure how they reached that conclusion, I can't see the video).

It's not particularly surprising or novel though, and there can be many reasonable explanation about why they would do such a thing and the article doesn't reach a conclusion. Silicon is cheap, maybe those are non-functional dies just here for mechanical reasons.
In my experience, 50k USD is entry level pay (~1-2 yr experience). Tech salaries tend to cap out at around 100-120k USD for director/VP roles, but you can reasonably expect to find 80k USD jobs if you're a software dev who's reasonably up-to-date with one of the in-demand tech stacks and have a few years of experience.
You can let gov deal with minor national wide issues, and delegate the important stuff to the people (thresholds to be agreed upon in advance and when in doubt defer to the people). Anything local should be handled in the same way by local authorities.
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Unfortunately Scott is all cloud and Azure these days and very little programming spirit is left.
Sadly that's exactly what makes trolls happy. Judging by their comment history, ignoring them is probably the best approach.
Basically any midsize-and-up with hatchback-style fold-down rear seats (even non-hatchbacks with fixed rear dashes) will accommodate such lumber. Some would require the removal of the passenger seat headrest.
Considering the relative ease of implementation, classification accuracy with smaller datasets, and computational efficiency of Naive Bayes classifiers, I am surprised that they are not mentioned as often as other machine learning competitors, such as random forest.

Are there major drawbacks to Naive Bayes classifiers? Is it just that they aren't as accurate on large datasets?
VR augmented rollercoasters
Bank of America is looking for Ethereum developers
These are the coolest kind of nudes.
I completely agree. Cooking is therapeutic and really ought not take very long once you know what you're doing. Not every tiny laborious task needs to be automated-away or outsourced. 5-10 minutes of prep is all it takes.
It's been removed.

Seems AMD retracted permission: https://youtu.be/JbffGyrkjMM

Managed to see it before it was taken away. I wonder why AMD changed their mind on this... Could Threadripper and EPYC be cross-compatible after all?
Rust doesn't have classes, and therefore doesn't have virtual classes. So it ends up being different. Dynamic dispatch is used pretty rarely in Rust.

If you want dynamic dispatch, you don't use a virtual class, you use a "trait object". Basically it's a double pointer: a (pointer to vtable, pointer to data). Technically the C++ standard (as far as I know) doesn't define the exact implementation of this stuff, but in my understanding the vtable pointer is stored with the data.

There are pros and cons to each approach.
Yes, they are her debts. It is still hard.
I should clarify that I don't really have a horse in the race; I was just providing an example of why "giving money away" might be in quotes.

For example, consider the following scenarios:

- I pay for my college.
- I pay for my son's college.
- I pay for my niece's college.
- I pay for a stranger's college.
- I pay the university directly so that more strangers can attend.

Most people would be comfortable calling the first "investing" in yourself, and would think it ludicrous to call it "giving money away." Probably still mostly true for the second (though some would have switched camps). What about the fourth?

It doesn't seem like there's a hard line anywhere. Probably just two ways of looking at the same thing, which for me anyway has an effect on how I use my money (I don't want to "give it away" but am happy to "spend it" on making others' lives better).
Warning to Windows users. I've just performed a clean install of the latest version, and I'm experiencing this problem:

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/113122/menu-bar-vani...

Looks like others are having this problem, too.
I don't. My point was about relative stats, not absolute. Is the difference between these two concepts such a complicated thing?
> there’s no touchscreen

I like this. Feels like many new cars are adding in a screen (touch or otherwise) while I prefer cars without it.
This is a great idea, thanks!

I need to figure out how this could be organized and will get back to you in a few days.
Gee whiz... everybody's really down on democracy in this thread. Ok, so when is someone going to write a distributed app for running a one party state?
You don't need a college degree to do pentesting. I don't think anyone credible in the industry cares where you got your education, as long as you know what you're doing (or in the case of juniors, are able to learn).
- Hollow Knight

- Hearthstone

- Night in the Woods

- Hidden Folks

- Enter the Gungeon

- Superhot

- Ori and the Blind Forest

- Broforce

- Grow Home

- Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

There're these, for a start. (Though I don’t know why "modern" is qualified as being within three months.) Perhaps the problem is that no one can recognize a game made with Unity at a glance? The cheaper, lousier games can’t or don’t pay to remove the "Made with Unity" splash, so Unity has acquired something of an [image problem].

[image problem]: http://www.thejimquisition.com/unity-has-an-image-problem-th...
Our addiction to links is making good journalism harder to read
Two deployed airbags in a moderate (but not life threatening) crash likely cost $1000 each to replace, in addition to whatever other damage has been done to the vehicle.
> After the EOL date, New Relic Servers and the legacy alerting features will no longer be available in the New Relic user interface and data processing will stop. Also, New Relic Alerts will only be available for paying accounts and will be removed from non-paying accounts starting on the EOL date.

The biggest change here is that it severely limits New Relic's free plan.
But that's the point.

In some countries you just get a non-molestation order. Breaching that order is a criminal act.

That's much harder to do in the US because of 1st amendment and "prior restraint" - even if it's possible the stalked person faces expensive and lengthy court cases.
Where do you get "so much" from? The portion on the sample plate shown isn't that sizeable.
Yeah, but the alternative is burning to death, so some side effects are OK with me.
I drove cars without airbags for most of my life. I even still have a car without airbags. Whether it's a good idea or not is debatable, but your statement that it's dangerous doesn't resonate with me. Airbags are a false sense of security and may or may not help you and were originally devised as a way to help drivers who don't use their seat belts. Airbags certainly do run the cost and complexity of cars way up, however. In the past, airbags have injured drivers and can go off unexpectedly (and even killed people when doing so).
Console dev kits for major platforms never included game engines, and the primitives included with older console dev kits, if any, were often ignored because more custom versions were required to get the desired performance.

What's happened to the console ecosystem is a whole bunch of different things. More accessible tools (e.g. Unity) and platform holder development programs have gotten more developers who are less experienced and not as well funded onto the console platforms. Availability of easy online patching has lead to physical releases, which have to be finalized months before the actual release date, being intentionally left incomplete, with gaps to be filled in by a release day patch. Changing technology cycles have made console generations blurrier. And yes, online DRM has become a thing, although I'm not sure that's quite as onerous in practice as you suggest; it's not like current consoles just refuse to run any games while offline.

That's not an exhaustive list. The appeal of consoles is what it has always been, they're still the easiest and cheapest way into modern video games. But it's true that some of the advantages over the PC platform have begun to erode.
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I'm very much in love with Parse Server.

Besides that, I sort of want to go as minimalist as possible on the front end. I went clean for a while, relying on just jquery and CSS and it felt great, after all this time spent on Bootstrap. It just offers me so much control and customization to be free of frameworks sometimes.
A simple MAC IOS7-compatible VOIP app that
.... doesn't require a phone number to sign up?.....

I arrived here to commiserate about the Skype "upgrade" fiasco. It's been several weeks I cannot believe that in 2017 there is not a simple voip app that just WORKS!

I'm willing to pay for cheap minutes with paypal or a credit card. I know I can use a freesmsreceive service to receive a confirmation text but really....is there any app that just wants to make money instead of putting customers thru hoops.

Must be IOS7 compatible. If I wanted to upgrade I'd be back with shtty skype.
Balitimore-Columbia showed up because of Columbia, not Baltimore. NSA and several other agencies are in or near Columbia, plus the contracting firms who support them.
knowing that startups located in city X have .1 success rate compared to city Y, tells you where to start. Or at least, it makes you wonder what makes Y more succesful, is it VC? talent? etc...

It's simple.
> initially utilizing both irises as inputs) to create public/private keypairs, we can generate a unique ID for each person on the planet

wait, what?
Been a member for a few months and got 2 "emails" for $1 and $0.01. don't get your expectations up if you're a developer.
In the book Sapiens, the author makes a rather well researched and convincing argument that humans truly had their best times as hunter/gatherers. Generally if you were part of a tribe, you ate and survived and likely even reproduced. You were probably physically in decent shape but you were at the mercy of things like, larger predators, weather and disease. Humanity as a whole is CURRENTLY at their most prosperous, but for an individual human today whether or not you are better off is very very dependent on where you live. We live in a bubble in the West. And statistics are misleading to the plight of those not living in cosy, developed resource hungry nations. Further, we really need to work hard to maintain what we have. We need to reduce our population, depletion of resource and carbon footprint to not screw it up what's good. The questions is not whether the earth can support more humans, but if humanity NEEDS more humans to continue prospering. If we are to survive as a race and continue to prosper, our greatest innovations, whether or social or technological, will be around using less or being more efficient in deploying what we have.
That's not what I was saying, I was responding to a statement about documents "infecting" one another which is clearly incorrect.

But even if I _had_ said that, you're still not correct. In a contractual agreement, the legal document _itself_ is not what has the "power" in the agreement -- the agreement is what matters. To whit, contract law applies in cases where legal documents are not actually written down (you can even have implicit contractual obligations) and due to the requirement for "meeting of the minds" there can be cases where a contract doesn't have the power that it may claim it has. Of course, a legal document is a much more formalised agreement (and obviously they are a very useful tool to make sure that the precise agreement is laid out) but just because it's more formal doesn't implicitly mean that the document itself is somehow imbued with some mystical force to effect consequences.

I'm not a lawyer, but I have discussed this topic with lawyers in the past.
> Nearly impossible to duplicate or steal

So, if this was actually implemented as the one source of power and control in the world, somebody would figure out how to duplicate or steal it.
Yeah, we'll have to see about ruby 3. I know they're at least making deliberate effort - and are pondering some static typing. I've never been truly bitten by ruby performance, or ever found it so. But Crystal seems like an interesting language if/when that becomes a larger issue.

> The main wacky thing to me is the way in which it modifies so many core Ruby classes.

Ok, fair enough. I actually wish they were part of ruby, more often than not. But I do appreciate them, and use them often. I don't have a puritan objection to their presence, though. I view it as making the world a little nicer.

> Most non-trivial Rails apps need to veer off the rails at some point due to user/business needs, and that's when dealing with Rails (and the tendrils it has wrapped around so much of Ruby) gets tough.

I must disagree with you about jumping off rails. There are numerous, complex large scale applications out there, running on rails. Github, hulu, shopify, basecamp, to name a few. I've worked on complex rails applications and they've performed really well, overall. On top of that, they were approachable and maintainable, even for junior devs.

Most businesses are in fact fine starting on rails, and staying on rails. When i say most, I mean 95%. Short of becoming a twitter or reaching similar huge scale, rails will carry you very, very, very far.
still think the best place is school buses. you know where they will be parked and their exact routes. plus you get kids and parents used to electric vehicles on an every day use.

yes they are expensive but all it takes is a spike in gas prices to seriously hurt some districts who got hit hard the last time it went high.

there are many markets for vehicles which have set operation ranges and known routes. EV tech ain't near replacing combustion in many cases but in tightly controlled instances it does work. (range, charging, weather, and cost are the four areas all being worked on and all needing work)
Note that I think this is still a great idea. In fact, I'm rooting for it to come to C++! However, I think IDE plugins will need to catch up (shouldn't be too bad if metaclasses are adopted and once clang et al add support).

Very neat stuff.
Can you disclose anything about C++/WinRT?

Things went pretty silent there.
I gave a talk in PyCon India (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iB4M-H3z_8) three years ago.

I submitted a proposal to PyCon India 2-3 months before the conference. They accepted my proposal, I think, mainly because of my contribution to CPython. I am not a core developer but I have many patches accepted to CPython code (https://hg.python.org/cpython/log?rev=vajrasky&revcount=200). So in my case, contribution to open source -> proposal -> giving talk in conference.
> but a ranking that places Baltimore in the top three tech hubs fails the sniff test

NSA headquarters is in between Baltimore and Washington DC and there is a lot of other major government contracting work along that corridor. There is a lot of IT work available in the area, even if it isn't in Baltimore proper.
Joe does not have the time to be informed about the pros and cons of every decision that the government needs to ask him about. It's simply not practical.

Direct democracy would be handing over the machinery of government to marketing companies fed by lobbies.
That's everything to do with correct usage of the engine. Unity's PhysX is a general one-size-fits-all solution, which is not suitable for advanced physics-based game like KSP. Using it is only acceptable for prototype; they should've written their own physics, which suits their needs, and make it multi-threaded, and they should've done it in any game engine. In fact, many developers I know that worked with physics-based game mechanics have done just that - and none of them had requirements as significant as KSP.
You're conflating hours actually worked with bankable hours per day, typically 8. If he gets paid for the finished product rather than his time at a desk, then and only then does it make sense.
That's why systems like Liquid Democracy have delegation features. You don't elect representatives, but you can delegate ("lend", if you will) your vote on certain issues to them. And revoke the delegation at any time.

Maybe Cicada could be equipped with something like this, but sentences like "The concept is so new that the word representativeless does not even exist. We had to invent it." don't look like the authors have done a lot of research on the topic.
> Who else do you know that’s completely honest? I’ll bet that was much harder to answer.

Um, no. Does he really live in such a morally uncentered world that he thinks most people would have difficulty answering this question? (Is the VC world like that?)

Of course nobody is 100% honest all the time, that would be pathological. But if you consider yourself an honest person, and live in the same universe I live in, I bet you know a whole bunch of people you consider at least as honest as yourself.

If not, that would be very sad, but it would still not be normal.
I don't know how international law works, so can someone explain this to me?

> A grand jury in the Northern District of California has indicted a Russian national

Can a jury in China indict me here in the US? Is enforcement of indictments from other countries down to treaties between the indicter and indictee?
As banach mentioned the key to making direct democracy work is making it liquid as well.

If you can delegate your voting power totally or granularly on a per issue basis to other individuals--while maintaining the ability to revoke your voting power from said individuals you can get the benefits of representative democracy and direct democracy at once.

Would love someone more informed to discuss the cons of liquid or delegative democracy.
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