skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon will cut prices at Whole Foods
While I do appreciate how much is at my fingertips with my phone I also acknowledge how it can insidiously develop unnecessary habits–random home button tapping anyone? Reminds me of this article: https://theroamingmind.com/2017/03/06/social-media-is-the-ne...

I also don't want to be quick in demonizing specific apps or companies. I have power over my notification settings which have a huge effect on usage patterns. I've been using Moment (https://inthemoment.io/) to help get quick snapshots at my utilization rates.

*Edit: grammar
If they did then it would essentially be proof of extraterrestrial life, no?
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luygMuoFnXs Ironic video description, given the original article.
I sympathize. The new kid-targeted stuff is strange and I would be pretty weirded out to see my kid obsessed with it, that's for sure.
I'm the jerkwad who always answers undecided, because invariably these multiple choice answers force you to choose between poorly-defined extremes.

This one is pretty clear, but I could see in some context in some (perhaps post apocalyptic) society where legally killing and eating your young is a morally justified position. It's certainly seen in the natural world with chimpanzees and many other creatures.

I didn't always do well academically because of this, but I like to think it might help me as a programmer?
Why on earth would I write for Medium? Will they pay me?

I think it's weird that the entire industry is not burning a hole in the atmosphere as they run to implement this wherever they can. It's a very big deal.

I suspect the problem is the paper is 80 pages. But I did link to a youtube talk that covers all the core features.
There are many courses available for free on Coursera and Edx to learn algorithms. Also there are a couple of introduction to algorithms from Thomas Cormen (one of the authors of the wellknown CLRS book):

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

Also, take a look here:

https://teachyourselfcs.com/#algorithms

Have fun!
I'm surprised no one has mentioned "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" yet. Admittedly is more essay, less paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
Hey! thanks for your comment. We're launching on Google Assistant in a couple of weeks so watch out for that. After that we'll launch on Cortana as well. We keep everyone updated on our fb group about new releases if you wanted to join :) https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifebot/
anuccio is one of the worst posters in hacker news... most of the other people in this conversation are also idiots.

you should all be ignored.

either the license is BSD or it isn't... if it isn't, then don't say it is. lawsuits are for ladies. #boom
You made me do a double-take; to clarify, this paragraph is not present in the article, but it presents an intriguing retort to my scenario.
If your takeaway from your link was that "it's fine" and not "that further research is necessary"... you are going one step further than the article.

I can understand why people don't want screen time when their kids are toddlers -- you only get to raise your kids once. If the jury is out on whether or not "screentime" is bad, some parents err on the side of caution. Regardless, kids are malleable enough that any "familiarity gap" that the "iPhone user from age 2" has over the "iPhone user from age 6" has will likely be near zero within a few months at that age.

What benefits have you found your child to have derived from relatively early smartphone use beyond being able to have access to their parents at any time during the day?

My personal take is that, as with all things, moderation is key.
I think it's more accurate to say that technology reveals the edges and contours of our values.
Joined! Looking forward to trying this out, thanks
They can be bad. But so was merge sort in its naive implementation and folks worked that out. Radix sort sees a lot of use in the real world and it saves a lot of energy.
Looking great!
Yes! Actually, a lot of the older port cities were eventually bypassed because of this. For example, SF and NYC are no longer ports for shipping because rather than deal with the unions and their power, new ports such as Oakland and Newark (think that's the city in NJ) with facilities for containers were simply built close by.
Alright then.

Nazism is not a political position, it is a death cult. Nazis are murderers or would-be murderers who want me and everyone I love or care about dead. They are actively conspiring to make that a reality, sometimes achieving some fraction of it. Incitement to mass murder is not and should never be protected speech.

They are also actively conspiring to eliminate free speech, freedom of conscience and non-discrimination. Protecting the direct efforts to destroy those moral principles, in the name of preserving them, is an obvious contradiction and an obvious failure to uphold those values.

None of this is hypothetical or theoretical. We know what happened the last time they achieved real power. We know that they have escalated their violence as they have gained allies in power today.

We should protect the free exchange of ideas. We should not protect or give a platform to a conspiracy to mass murder.
Try to do an internal transfer to an external product team (I assume your large company is actually a large software company, and has some external-facing products). Make friends with someone on the team, ask if there's anything you can help out with, and then once you've completed a small project or two, see if they can help you make a formal transfer. If you've got a good rep internally and have worked on tools the whole company uses, it should be a good foot in the door, and oftentimes revenue centers (i.e. external products) have staffing priority over cost centers (internal tools).

If that fails, yeah, look for a job at another company doing an external product. Note that you often need to take a step backwards in company prestige, eg. doing internal tools for a big company, then the primary product for a startup, then a secondary external product for a big company, then the primary external product for a big company, then founding your own company or something. (My own career progression was pretty similar to this, but with the first couple rungs as internships - my first job out of college was a secondary product for a startup, then was promoted to work on a primary product within 6 months or so.)
IFTT (www.iftt.com) will also provide SMS reminders through Alexa.
get back to work, fuckerburger.

#zark
that is correct - some percentage of every KS campaign fails to collect due to rejected CC charges / chargebacks etc. According to this older (2015) article [0], in 2014 KS had $529 MM in pledges, but only collected $444 MM. So: that's like 83% successful charges? Then again, that might have included failed campaigns (since those would be pledges that didn't collect as well).

0: https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/06/kickstarter-2014-numbers/
Spacex launched a satellite to the space and returned back to earth safely faster than our JenkinsCI builds most of our apps.
'... while performing creepy psychological experiments on our users.'
It seems like you're taking your own opinion as a universal truth. There are many people (myself included) who will happily ride in a well-tested autonomous vehicle, particularly if the alternative is a taxi, uber, or bus driver who is just going through the motions. 5x safer is still an improvement in my eyes, even if it's still short of the gold standard for aviation.
"Front lines"? Is this a war?

Can you expand on this? She no longer sees them because they don't need services, or because she refuses to care for them? What purpose does that serve? I'm seriously dumbfounded.

(edited to remove question about why a child needs OT)
Why don't people want to work in the most dangerous job in the country for 2.5x minimum wage? It's baffling.
The small negatives might also be for indexing from the end of lists. `my_list[-1]` is super common.
I've seen each and every one of these and it never tires.
Intelligence without representation, by Rodney Brooks.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf
Does anyone know why Python refcounts everything -- even small integers, True, False, None...? Why not avoid it?
iptables on the face is easy to use. But at scale becomes difficult to use.

Also iptables does much more than just firewalls and can become a confusing tool.

Also, in a large enterprise organization the firewall guy is different than the software engineering team which is different than architect.
George Hotz of Comma.ai Wants to Open Source Your Car – Fortune.com
Unjustly blaming and punishing someone is defamation and aggression. You don't need extra rights to be protected from that.
The only true 'labor shortage' is when very high skilled positions are not being filled because there is literally nobody qualified to fill them. That is exceptionally rare, it usually only applies to doctors, surgeons, etc.
Musk's argument is that we know for certain that the
entire road system can be navigated by visual cues

We know for certain that human brains can be assembled out of regular atoms, but raising funds for a company that manufactures brains would be getting rather ahead of our current level of technology. The same might be true of computer vision and autonomous vehicles.
I was playing safe, although i believe it does/will. I don't think they have publicly released prices for reuse and as such i thought it was a little too broad to state as fact.
Oh man... I don't know. There's so many.

I'll need to go with

Gilbert, E., & Karahalios, K. (2009, April). Predicting tie strength with social media. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 211-220). ACM.

In grad school, it was the paper that kept on giving. I think I cited it every semester for a paper or project. There's a lot of other papers and books that really inspired me, but this one was magic.
First clients were based in the US. So it started from there.

Then I wanted to use a reserve currency[1] and I happen to have strong opinions on currencies, policies (FED, ECB, etc.), so I opted for the safest bet in the long run.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency#Global_curren...
Replying just to let you know I never thought for one second I'd see Canvey Island referenced on Hacker News.
That just tells me the system is flawed. Sounds way too easy to game...
The range varies across implementations: the above values correspond to 60 bits; most-positive-fixnum evaluates to 4611686018427387903 in the version of SBCL I am currently running, which corresponds to 62 bits of data.
It seems fairly uncontroversial to me to state that the vast majority of people who own cryptocurrency are treating it like a commodity, not like a currency. There's nothing wrong with that, and these people have made a lot of money (dollars) so far, but there's certainly a distinction to be made.
How about, beautiful, site specific, non-intrusive, relevant ads? Charge less if you have to. Enough with the Tabula bullshit, and Amazon selling me something I already purchased(why is this even a thing). You'd be surprised how many loyal people to a site would be willing to white list, knowing the advertising isn't going to shit on their experience.
>>I think that the difference between investing and gambling is that in investing there is at least notionally a capitalistic enterprise like a corporation being invested in.

FX/FOREX investments or futures/commodities trading don't count?
Wouldn't dare going there 1am even with my mouth shut! :)
I find it really strange that people think that. AMP's competitors are Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles. They've done this in the spirit of the open Web - but they get some benefit too. That's why they build most of their services.
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I don't know the internals of Python, but maybe checking if you need to refcount something is basically takes as long as actually just going ahead and doing it all the time anyway.
Babylonians developed trigonometry superior to modern version 3,700 years ago
Quite an awesome course. I highly recommend it. In a day and age, we feel outdated by minute, sets right perspective and gives a good system for knowledge worker of any domain.
Agreed, that sounds terrible to me, I don't let my 7yr-old self-serve media on any device. But at the same time, I agree that the OP is right that having a reasonable discussion of parenting choices is near-impossible these days (maybe that has always been true...), and I do my level best to not tell people how they should raise their own children.
> The web is essentially an extremely watered down version of what it could have been.

At the risk of starting a flamewar, this is largely due to the profit motive. Profit inherently causes focus on specific areas that may or may not a) have lasting social benefit, and b) be technologically robust.

There's something to be said for purely philanthropic projects. They promote us to explore things that profit might not otherwise encourage.
So you believe the technology gap for assembling a human brain out of regular atoms is similar to that for navigating a road using cameras?
As you probably know, that's impossible since fossil fuels (as the name suggests) are formed from the remains of prehistoric organisms. Since the Moon is lifeless, it has no fossil fuels.

But I wouldn't mind if the moon did experience a resource rush (unless it sparked a conflict). At least we would finally get to see a moon base.
After a long history of fatalities and fixes.
I recommend watching the scifi film "Her", it has a different take on this.
Agreed the political stuff was thin, but I could not resist the temptation and it fits well with the present day landscape becoming more and more polarized where people start treating politics more like team sports than something affecting all of us.
I'd like to point out that the first video you linked is nearly 2 years old.
"but it takes a fair bit of skill, and it might still pay well. And, oddly enough, a lot of welders I've known over the years seem to like it."

This is the part that I often find the most fascinating and unintuitive. Difficult but skillful jobs often have very satisfied workers.

I used to use janitor as the canonical example of an unfulfilling job but was recently corrected by a friend who told me that janitors actually seem to enjoy their jobs because their workload is bounded. They just need to clean the building so they just get their job done and don't have to worry about it when they're not working. Also, janitors at places like hospitals find a lot of worth in what they do and some will go the extra mile because they believe they help patients feel more comfortable in the hospital.
Pardon my ignorance in hardware matters, but I would assume Google gets these manufactured via a third-party.

What would be the process for verifying that the chip itself has not been compromised during manufacture?

Is this a hardware + software verification combo, so a tainted chip would not be recognized as valid by the software - so you'd need to compromise both to bypass?
You're misunderstanding the data and the concern. Currently, Tesla Autopilot frequently disengages as part of its expected operation, handing control back to the driver. Thus, the human driver remains an attentive and competent partner to the autopilot system. That data is based on today's effective partnership between human and computer.

The concern is that as level 2 autopilot gets better and disengagements go down, the human's attentiveness will degrade, making the remaining disengagement scenarios more dangerous.
Oh, seems like I'm out of my depth there :/ I do understand that copyright might apply, but not how it could make such logos problematic (in US-law, right?). In which way can such a logo be infringing derivative work?
Is this any good? I've had it in my list of things to check out for a while but I suspect it might just be TED-talk pop-psych voodoo stuff.
Requiring the driver to be awake and alert while not requiring them to actually do anything for long stretches of time is a recipe for disaster.

Everybody who's looked at this seriously agrees. The aviation industry has looked hard at that issue for a long time. Watch "Children of the Magenta".[1] This is a chief pilot of American Airlines talking to pilots about automation dependency in 1997. Watch this if you have anything to do with a safety-related system.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10
Pinning the intermediate or root CA is actually more risky, since you have no control over it.
My route to work is flat, so if I get an assist on the flat then I get less of a workout.
I hate going into the political realm, but next time someone says "both parties are the same", point out how many of these Republican appointed judges are completely against workers' rights.
FWIW: Heather represents a lot of companies, including many staunch competitors to Facebook as well. For example, she's represented Google in open source matters, etc.

I don't think it's fair to say "she works for facebook", and she's a very honest and reputable person.

If you want to engage on the merits, i'd engage on the merits.
Attacking her because she has a ridiculously long client list is silly (she's probably the top open source lawyer in the country in terms of who she has represented).
Nice article. I wrote a similar piece some time ago related to booleans, in case anybody is interested: https://blog.rmotr.com/those-tricky-python-booleans-2100d5df...

And to avoid issues with is/==, we recommend our students to always use == (except for `is None`). Also related piece:https://blog.rmotr.com/avoiding-being-bitten-by-python-161b0...
Fair, but any publicity is good publicity...new leadership launch pr blitz/new leaf turned/lessons learned etc will launch in the fall...
The very first sentence:

> The studio for what is arguably the world’s most successful online course is tucked into a corner of Barb and Phil Oakley’s basement, a converted TV room that smells faintly of cat urine.

I feel embarrassed on the Oakley's behalf. But I'm not a cat owner so maybe a room in one's home smelling (however faintly) of cat urine isn't particularly embarrassing.

Am I unreasonable in thinking that the author is an asshole?
Off-main-thread HTML parsing in Servo
I figured I'd be pretty high risk, and it looks like I'm right. Luckily for now it's just the old fashioned flesh and bones variety boss.
The is-foo-bar-yet.com -> NO/YES trope has been off topic on HN for years, mainly because such pages are unsubstantive but also because it's long been a cliché.

If we can find a more substantive page to link to on the same topic, we'll sometimes change the URL. Usually we post a comment explaining that we did so, but it depends who's on duty at the time.
Interesting research on Continental. FWIW, looks like Tesla started using Continental's radar to replace Bosch just this week:
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/2266769/

I suspect that if/when LIDAR is cheap enough, Tesla will use it.

In the meantime they outfit every single car with the best hardware that is realistic from a cost standpoint today, instead of waiting til 2020.
This is my question as well, seems like a boat load more work than writing c to a file and calling gcc on it.

One thing I can think of; if the language you're implementing has exceptions, you'd have to implement these the naive way wiht setjmp/longjmp if you target c. Supposedly if you used gcc in the way this article shows, you could use gcc to generate "real" excpetions.
12th launch of this year. 50% increase from their prior best year.

They can make it to 20.
In a lot of cases machinery means that several low skill jobs get replaced with one medium skill job. This seems likely in hay (where a lot of operations moved to those huge bales).

The article mentions that the cable anchored harvesters/forwarders replace a crew of 8.
CrashCourse has a study skills course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNcAJRf3bE1...

It's geared more toward a younger crowd, but it's still pretty good, at least so far.
That's all true. but (and it is only a small 'but'): The Republicans are the party most friendly to big business and very wealthy people, something that Zuckerberg would surely like.
"Heather Meeker is a lawyer who represents Facebook. "

As mentioned, Heather has represented a ridiculously long list of clients, including many strong competitors to Facebook.

If she says it's her personal opinion, you can take that to the bank.

In fact, given how many client she's represented, i'd say she's probably less biased than most folks. She's pretty much seen and dealt with it all.
I meant to highlight that some people are saying free speech is a binary issue, as though we either have free speech or the end of civilisation.

There are other options, reasonable limits, as you've pointed out.
Yes but Autopilot can only be activated in the safest of conditions, the 94 million miles number takes in all types of driving factors. The comparison doesn't work because Autopilot usage self-selects for the miles where a human driver would also be much less likely to crash.
wow, love it! did you create the site? how can you verify that the back link will continue through time? That is, how do you avoid people adding a back link and then removing it.
Humans also learn how to drive using several orders of magnitude less training data than self-driving car efforts are using. Do you think that means we should strip down the training data sets to human-equivalent levels?

People and machines behave and understand the world differently. Just because it works for people doesn't mean it'll work for computers.
No mention of air-gapping?
I'm glad to see other people remember that. Unbelievable they got away with that.
First picture of SpaceX Space Suit
On my laptops, tlp on Ubuntu/Debian/Arch (when I used those) and tuned on Fedora (which I've used since F25) have been awesome, so power management is unlikely to be the biggest issue with this phone.
No need for speculation - the feed never cuts out on the return-to-launch-site landings. It's only wonky on the ship landings.

Bouys bounce around a lot - the drone ships have special station-keeping thrusters to stay in place.
You can't wish away a tragedy of the commons. All you're doing is rewarding bad behavior.
Human beings will ultimately act like human beings in these situations. It's very easy to expect something else when you're not the human being under threat.

The only way to prevent human beings from acting in the default way human beings act is rigorous evidence-based training. No proposition that there must have been something else they could have done is meaningful unless it's backed up by specific, rigorous, evidence-based training for the situation in question.

Absent that, we're asking people to respond to threats unrealistically. We're making them sick and commanding them to be well.
Survival of humanity isn't
important universally. The universe doesn't care. But it's the most important thing for humans.
If they continue down the current path, they are going to die one way or another. At some point the people working there are going to stop being proud of their work when it's presented in such a shit fashion and they will stop writing for NG.

I understand that business needs may require a publication to lower their standards but it seems like they have dropped below where the floor should be. When I load the page, there's a giant Microsoft video at the top of the screen. Microsoft should be ashamed of that as well.