skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think cyclists create a halo effect because they create a stigma against harming cyclists in their social circle. People who are confident that they aren't personally connected to any cyclists openly joke about running them down. The only consequences they worry about if they hit a cyclist are legal ones, and when cycling is rare and "weird," they know there probably won't be any. When, on the other hand, they know there are cyclists among their coworkers or in their social circle, or if cycling is prevalent enough that they feel it's likely, they start to worry about the stigma that will attach to them if somebody finds out they knocked down a cyclist or carelessly put a cyclist in danger. They're forced to pay attention in a way that they didn't have to before.

Many people hate this change, by the way. It scares them that an attitude they used to be able to joke about in a positive way is now something they have to hide. It makes them angry that they have to invest effort and attention for the benefit of people they feel opposed to. It's easy for progressives to simply see it as "progress" and not realize that it leaves a lot of people feeling like losers.
This. Treat it like alcohol. Drink as much as you want, just don't come to work drunk or drink on work time.
That's not a counter. No matter what your goal utilization is, your ability to deliver that per square foot drops tremendously. If restrooms were like elevators then adding a bunch more floors would suddenly require all two-stall restrooms in the building to be five times as big.
> heroin itself is becoming safer as its use becomes widespread

That definitely was true for a while, not sure about in the last few years. A less controversial analogy might be with coffee, where the rate of people overdosing is probably lower now that it's no longer mainly used by Sufi mystics in enormous doses for entheogenic purposes.
Director.

All I ever wanted from the directors; strong leadership. Decisions made. Directions set (the clue is in the job title). Listen to what we have to say, ensure that everyone knows that their points have been taken on board, and then for God's sake make strong decisions, tell everyone why that's the decision made, and enforce the notion that it is never inherently wrong to pursue the direction you set. I want to know that you're going to support actions that pursue your direction, so support them publicly.

I have never had any problem getting 100% behind a direction I disagree with when it's been made and communicated well.

Direct.
Then replace the for loop with a parallel construct that's imperative. In terms of the language itself, map, reduce and filter are just sugar... different ways to loop through collections. Using one does not mean you are using FP, using immutability in java means that you are. That is the difference.
It's funny, to say the least, how these articles pop up merely days before the 1920x launch. The press just received their Threadrippers a few days ago...

Edit: No I'm not saying this is Intel, but it's sad that their release will be overshadowed by this. I really hoped for AMD to finally catch up with Intel because we all could profit from a second big player in the game.
Maybe you should expand your definition of life to not require proteins.

From Wikipedia:

> From a physics perspective, living beings are thermodynamic systems with an organized molecular structure that can reproduce itself and evolve as survival dictates. ... A major strength of this definition is that it distinguishes life by the evolutionary process rather than its chemical composition.
tl;dr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/

In re: the "hoax": We have been to the Moon. There is a mirror up there that you can bounce a laser off of, so anyone who doubts that we've been to the Moon is ignorant (or an idiot.)

I find it plausible that we also faked it.

Think about it. The mission was to beat the Russians.

Picture a smoke-filled conference room at JPL, it's late, past midnight. The engineers are huddled, trying to figure out how the heck they're gonna make it up there without some disaster or mishap. Then the guy in the back, the one smoking his pipe, says quietly, "Say fellas..." Before you know it, they're on the phone to Stanley Kubrick, and the rest isn't history.
But cycling isn't unsafe. Cycling is only unsafe in the proximity of two ton vehicles and their incapable operators.

It continues to be unsafe in this manner because we treat cars and trucks different to all other transportation. It's unthinkable we all shrug our shoulders when a pilot crashes a plane because he was checking his Facebook. There is a root cause analysis and there are effective measures taken. But here we are with car casualties many times that of planes or trains and yet no one is doing any cause analysis at all. Car manufacturers continue to produce ridiculously overpowered and oversized vehicles and advertise them speeding through the city at night.
Sure there is. You've just not seen it on HN yet.
Same way you like or dislike anything else.
Note that it appears that a large number of the segfaults which Michael (phoronix) is reporting may be coming from a software issue. In particular, people on the phoronix forums are reporting that conftest segfaults are a known software issue and also one has reported that he was able to reproduce the conftest segfaults on an intel CPU.

So not saying that there's not a problem with Ryzen, but it is possible a large number of the errors are false positives arising from a known software issue.

I would wait Michael runs the same test on an Intel CPU with no problems to pass judgement.
> but found not even 1 in 100 cars on the market were non-diesels

I think you're exaggerating a little bit. I spend way too much time on mobile.de and I always have the "gasoline" checkbox checked and not the "diesel" one when filtering for engine types. There are lots and lots of gasoline models available.

Later edit: Saw your other comment about you filtering for station wagons. Yeah, those come mostly in diesel configuration because they mainly target a very price-conscious segment of the middle class, but the writing is on the wall that sooner rather than later all diesel models will be banned from major cities, and I think that that ban will then extend to smaller cities. As such I think part of this demographic will migrate to hybrids (petrol + battery + some sort of regenerative breaking).
I think I see the points that both @_aaya & @adventured are trying to make.(Either of you guys please correct my recapitulations if I misunderstood.)

I think @_aaya is saying that: while the initial landing may be intimidating for any given visitor, those who are able to take control of the chaos via his/her features will have a rich experience.

I think @adventured is talking about the "customer-lifecycle"(to use a fun buzzword.) since "customer lifecycle" is measured in seconds/milliseconds on the internet, the already important nature of first-impressions get magnified due to the smaller volume of opinions that can be garnered before people just leave.

My opinion: First impressions are critical, especially on the internet. This site clearly has a lot of promise, but may catch on better/faster if there were some tweaks to the beginning of the user-experience.
Yes, that's very nice. Digital cameras and processors are so cheap now that's probably cheaper than the older systems.
You're using an ICO to try to get around the limitations the SEC has on investing in US equities. IANAL, but Im going to go with YES that's illegal. And, as a general rule to all looking to get rich quick with ICOs, hire a lawyer.
Ghost 1.0 and Zeit Now
Frankly people like him (if allegations are true) deserve the most time. Yo can't purposefully harm millions of people and expect to just walk away from it. Someone made the conscious decision to manipulate the software /test results.

I wish a lot of bankers in 2008 had been arrested too
Apparently the negative effects on pedestrian safety are not considered to be worthy of study, or even mention.

One of the worst things about walking around Manhattan is being buzzed by fast-moving bicyclists riding on the sidewalk, through crosswalks against the lights, and even the wrong way on one-way streets. Cars and trucks are at least predictable--bicyclists are a chaotic menace in NYC.
True, but when I was growing up, very few adolescents rode bikes. Mostly only adults on the periphery of society did and a few enthusiasts.
It would make more sense to be able to select from a list of available cities instead of a broken auto complete.
I'd love to read more details about your hardware setup. Care writing a blog post or something similar?
> Universe is our local observable space-time

So if we observe something beyond what is currently observable, would that not become observable and thus part of the universe?
Now you have a scenario to screen the next designer you interview.
Sega VMU hacking
Well even worse, our thoughts are bound by some maximum distance of comprehension. We can abstract the stellar scale but we can't understand it like we understand the distance across the street or whatever. I find this frustrating :(
Dataland: the MIT's '70s media room concept that influenced the Mac
I made the transition from engineer to managing a team of around 12 at Groupon. So I made the transition with a smaller team than you are - forgive me if some of this isn't as useful for your situation.

What worked for me:

- One on Ones. Nothing I've done has had as much of an impact as weekly one-on-one meetings with everybody on my team. I tend to follow the format outlined on Rands In Repose: http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-update-the-vent-and-th... (This is an incredible blog for engineering management. I would highly recommend reading everything he has written.)

- Read everything you can find on the topic and about leadership in general and start figuring out how you can incorporate the lessons from those books into your situation and context. This is a brand new skill set that you need to approach with the same effort that you had been approaching engineering.

Some suggestions:

Rands in Repose: http://randsinrepose.com/archives/category/management/

Radical Candor: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Kim-Scott/dp/B01MY574E...

Extreme Ownership: https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs/dp/B...

Becoming a Technical Leader: https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Technical-Leader-Problem-Sol...

Peopleware: https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-...

- Finally, one piece of advice I got when I first transitioned into management was that "first-time managers usually fall into the trap of becoming the manager they wish they had. What you really need to do is figure out how to be the manager that each person on your team wishes they had, and become that manager." Easier said than done, obviously, but I've always found it useful to return to it whenever I am struggling.
Well is it really trying to get around SEC limitations?

The only reason that I bring up ICO is because there is a massive amount of wealth being hoarded in ETH that can be used to generate returns for the owners.
Had you new ideas regarding this kind of programs or just stopped thinking about it altogether since ?
True. Also, cities just seem to drop bicycle lanes on the sides of streets without thinking about how the traffic would flow. Right-hand turns are a particular issue - I've seen lanes where the care lane is on the left and the bike lane is on the right, then to accommodate cars make right-hand turns the two lanes suddenly switch (bikes are supposed to cross over to the left while cars are supposed to cross over to the right). In situations where there isn't a right-hand turn lane, I've been told that the car is supposed to merge into the bike lane and drive along it and then make the turn from there (so that it doesn't try to suddenly drive into the lane when it reaches the intersection).

I'm sure there are ways these kinds of things could be handled well (maybe lights that separate the two forms of traffic?). But it seems like a lot of places are putting these in without much thought, and with the assumption that there won't be many cyclists - because if there were, some of these intersections would become dangerous messes.
A lot of the replies in this thread seem to conflate demanding basic respect with being unwilling to start at the bottom. All of the signals OP lists are good indicators of either toxic culture or disorganization.

Why is it such a sign of millennial moral decay to ask for everything you can get? The company on the other side of the table is certainly going to.
Of course. But then why am I paying bank fees for a checking account? And savings accounts don't even pay enough interest to cover inflation.
As I understand it, the safety scores for a particular car are relative to that type of car, e.g., compact, mid sized, etc.

So I expect a tiny little subcompact hatchback to be less safe than the average car overall. Yet it's what I drive.

Also, based on what I've read about statistics, I expect driving a car to be less safe than riding a bus, yet I drive a car.

Still, I suspect you're right that a lot of people are afraid to ride a bike. When folks see me pushing my bike out of my workplace, they get a look on their face like I'm about to go skydiving without a parachute, and say: "Pleeeaase be careful out there."
Intuition and experience. The definition naturally occurs to you over time, I've never seen the isomorphism between immutability and functional expressions illustrated though. However, it is explicit that every functional language is immutable as a requirement.

I'm sorry to say that if you don't understand this, you haven't really understood what functional programming is... You're just a guy who understands higher order functions.
There are animals on Earth with a decentralised nervous systems (most famously the octopus) and there isn't any confusion about whether they're classed as one animal or multiple ones.
Ask HN: Is the Google News Technology Section Biased Towards Google?
I was checking out Google New's Technology section and noticed something interesting. Several of the articles either specifically mention "Google" or "Android" in the headline or discuss Google products in the article. I opened Google News in a private browsing window so I wouldn't get any results based on my profile. Of the 19 articles that display by default, 4 headlines specifically mention Google or Android (3 of them in the top 5 results) and 3 others discuss Google products in the article. Has anyone else noticed anything similar?
What if you invested Bitcoin?
What? Plenty of people are running simple test suites and stress tests on new CPUs to write up. This is nothing out of the ordinary at all.
Do you actually know people who have no ethical problems killing random cyclists?
The interest isn't enough to cover the costs of inflation.
Right but we are required to be in close proximity now. Let's build some smarter, safer cities where we aren't required to be close and maybe have physical barriers. It's just basic physics equations that aren't adding up to any type of real safety for me with current designs.
I love baking as a hobby. While programming used to be my hobby, I find it can't be both my hobby and career without driving me insane. Baking has the iterative trial and error improvement factor, while also producing a product that everyone enjoy without having it explained.
As a bonus, women love a guy who can bake.
> I believe that there will eventually be something like a smart safe city where 2000+ pounds vehicles to not freely mix with pedestrians, cyclists, and baby strollers.

I think it's called Amsterdam ;-)
More seriously, I went there recently and it's amazing how natural cycling is, everyone uses a bike, there are trams, and cars are clearly second-rate citizens in most of the city. An additional side effect of that is that everyone seems to be fit and healthy…
Agreed. Strong markets are when startups IPO and established companies merge.

We have seen some big startup IPOs ( like SNAP ) and some decent mergers especially in the pharma sector ( for tax benefits ).
No. Mike originally replied in a thread of several messages, each a reply to the previous one. When I first read the thread a few days ago twitter would show you all his replies in one page so you could read through them. The Telegraph seem to have replicated the thread into the article they've written about the incident: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/27/alt-right-comment...

My guess is that as the thread became popular and more people replied to parts of it, twitter favours presenting more of the recent replies and the original thread becomes harder to see.
I would love to not have to use a bank.
Plus, white on black gives a dope contrast but that's real expensive to print at scale.
Actually, for loops in languages like Ruby and OCaml are just syntactic sugar for map.

Also, why would you prefer an imperative construct over different kinds of folds?
> This website was probably either made by contractors who are long gone or an internal team who are too incompetent to fix it.

If I paid a construction contractor to build my office and someone notified me that parts were unsafe or violated the building code, I would either hire the original contractors or new ones to fix it, because otherwise I would be legally liable is I still used it.

If my own employees built it, we would be having an interesting discussion about how it happened, and whether I could trust them to fix it or would need to hire a contractor (or at least fire that manager).

Whenever something new is built that people use, care needs to be taken with safety. The sooner average people realize that effects digital constructs the same as physical ones, the better.
I guess everyone is different. There's no way I could work like that, I always have to dress like I would show up in an office and go somewhere (anywhere really, even a park) other than where I live.
They were partners in fighting crime. The only problem: Neither was a cop
I wish people would stop equating cannabis (the correct term) with alcohol. For me and my combat vet friends, it's our medicine, usually a replacement for the serotonin zombie bullshit the VA tries to give us. Of course if the job position is one of, say, operating heavy machinery, etc, drug use should at least be disclosed, but in states that are legal, cbd strains and smaller controlled doses in edibles etc mean I bet there are a lot of people who are high at work and you just don't have a clue. Its just not the same as showing up drunk. Do you immediately fire the guy who takes his adderal?

Too bad I live in a state that doesn't recognize the medical benefit yet, so I forgoe for legal reasons, but some of my buddies in the same state are literally risking jail and worse just to use their medicine.

Its not an employers business whatsoever unless relevant to the particular job. Also, people need yo stop signing employee agreements and whatever paper HR shoves in their face. Last place I was at I signed one document, and just threw away the drug testing paper. Without those papers signed many employees have no recourse on the subject at all anyway. Of course, many people are so far entangled in one form or another they let their employee walk all over them. People ought to be more willing to walk out the door in at will states, and need to be more specific about trigger conditions in contract work.
Yes, but it might also be the case that we don't observe something outside of it, but rather infer the existence of something outside of it through some other phenomenon (which is much more probable - observing something outside of the visible universe as we know it would violate relativity). In that sense, it would be there, but would never be visible.
The fact is that these adversarial examples are incredibly rare. 1 in a trillion trillion or more chance that they would occur in natural data. We dont know that human brains aren't vulnerable to something similar. I bet if we could back propagate through the visual cortex, we would find similar things. They can also be mitigated a bit by training on them.
Book looks great, I just started learning nim last week and I think I'll get a copy.

I was intrigued by nim for its transpiling to C/JS (two languages I loathe programming in). I like the syntax and structure of nim and wanted to use it simple programs to upload to arduinos. Your book mentioned embedded systems in the introduction, but there is not a chapter devoted to it. Do you have any resources you can share about using nim on microcontrollers (Arduino or the like)?
Proteins (Or the ability to make them) is not requisite for life, nor are nerve impulses, nor is evolution. If we encountered an immortal (Does not evolve), sterile (Does not reproduce), silicon-based alien (No proteins), that would most certainly be heralded as finding extraterrestrial life.

Reasoning about much large systems than our own is difficult. Imagine a bacteria attempting to reason about a human - the existence of fluid transport and centralized heating may seem a bit odd, as bacteria have developed to solve an entirely different class of problems at the organism level.
I love topics like this :)

If yes, the next question might be:

> Imagine a creature that is as big as the galaxy, imagine its organ that is analogous to our brain is as efficient and big as is possible, what is the most complex concept that that brain can fully comprehend?
Avalon Platform – Crypto Currency Cinematic Trailer
I agree with you in spirit, but yours was a poor example given the known issues with rand() and the fact that the C++ version is not at all difficult to use and accounts for rand()'s warts. Besides, writing a standard library is a great example of when you _do_ need to account for pretty much every use case and write sufficiently generic API's.
You can't even make that guarantee for functional languages. How do I know the built in operators for scala aren't producing side effects without reading the code of the compiler itself?

Additionally you should know that functional programming is a lie. Your computer is an imperative machine with no understanding of functional programming. The compiler transforms your functional program into an imperative one.
One pattern I notice and dislike is the increase of average font size on the web (and in OSes), and the overall decrease in density of information. BBC 10 years ago vs now side by side shows the difference [1].

[1] http://instantshare.virtivia.com:27080/1k6i3cajkox2c.png
Hopefully this will not apply to you, but be prepared to take one for the team if malignant stupidity or malice come down from on high. All too often it is easier for managers to "let shit roll downhill" rather than put up meaningful resistance. Like I said, hopefully this doesn't apply to your company, but since you posted here, you probably work in tech, so there is a non-zero chance it will. Best of luck and congrats on the promotion.
Camouflage is an adversarial example.
"but later adopters of biking are also less likely to engage in risky behavior."
thanks, usa. from a german customer.
Why Do Cats Hate Water So Much
Initially when people come from myspace they were using it similar to myspace. Facebook was all about profile widgets, although they still fit a more consistent layout.
In addition to that, positing a 'life form' that exists in the presence of space continuously and literally pulling it apart doesn't seem likely to be a net positive for our galaxy-sized life form.
Dragging this to public and trying to shame the person is absolutely the wrong move. They're just proving his point that these people are not open to rigorous discussions.

The perfect example is Milo. Every time he gets kicked out of a campus, his point gets proven. But almost every time I've seen someone sit down with him and debate his flawed arguments, he got pretty much proven wrong on most of them.