skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, quite - and I'm not even questioning if reducing backing accidents isn't a noble goal, it is - I'm just questioning is this the most cost effective way of going about it is all. Improved tires, and mandatory seatbelts (as in included with the car) since the 50's have probably saved more lives than airbags however, as until recently airbags were only helpful for a very specific kind of collision.
Yes, esp since over the last decade we saw a bull market in both bonds and equities, where the equity market was arguably driven by loose monetary policy.

If the equity markets were buoyed significantly by policy, then unwinding this would have the inverse effect.
Top medical experts say we should decriminalize all drugs (2016)
Another way to spin it: about 1 percent of deaths in the US.[0][1]

Note also that the raw count (and thus presumably the percentage, even more so) has been trending downward for about 40 years.

In other words, we're already working on it and making headway.

And for the 9/11 comparison hysteria: note the 30x difference between 3000 deaths in a day and under 100. If a million people a year were dying from motor vehicles, I think we'd be doing even more than we already are.

Many cities are investing in transit. Many companies are investing in self-driving tech. Tons of improvements in safety and driver-assist technology have already been made. What gives people the impression that we simply don't care and aren't doing anything?

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_05.pdf
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
Flask is really good (and my preferred web framework, and full disclosure, I have forgotten how to write PHP), but it fails very badly at "no shared state," and depending on what GP meant by "a request" / "a response", it fails at that too. A Flask process handles an indefinite number of requests and responses; the built-in server handles them serially, and doing otherwise brings in either threads (and shared state) or multiple processes.

The Slack article posted elsewhere in these comments https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329 has some excellent arguments about why PHP's approach is different in interesting ways.
Well I would counter that that would serve as a great incentive for people to prefer riding their bikes over driving — so that they can enjoy the sunshine. When you think about it though, chances are these raised roads will be much narrower than the roads themselves, as bikes require much less space than cars. So it won't be like a full ceiling on the roadway.
Must be a regional thing. The guys at my local Home Depot know their crap. They're not the confused teenagers that run most local big box stores.
I work with a 100% CS code base and lodash chains are a dream working in CS as opposed to vanilla JS, something like:

capitalStringsWithX = _.chain array
.map (item) -> item.toUpperCase()
.filter (item) -> item.includes "X"
.value()

as opposed to:

var capitalStringsWithX = _.chain(array)
.map(function(item) { return item.toUpperCase(); })
.filter(function(item) { return item.includes("X"); })
.value();
None of this has nothing to do with what I said.
> > You go to Home Depot for expertise as much as for parts

> Has not been my experience. Ace hardware is a little better, but not much.

Most Home Depot employees at my local store were very knowledgeable for a while, but the construction market is so crazy here (Colorado) that anyone with that knowledge can make at least double what Home Depot will offer.

That said, my local store still does have a few knowledgeable people, but they tend to work morning shifts. I've learned to drop in before work if I have any DIY-type questions.
Building cellular IoT project with JavaScript(Espruino)
It adds drama to a performance. When a performer is a little shaky the audience empathise with them more. With perfection, people just sit back and let it wash over them.

A performance I'll always remember was a community night, free entry, amateur performers. Some guy and his sister got up. The guy said 'Hey, this is my sister's first time singing in public, say Hi everyone.' And the sister looked like she was going to die. Then she sang like an angel, still looking like she was going to die all the way through. Audience went bananas.
This is the difference people who argue "everyone was doing it" miss. He was aggressive in going after people who broke the silence. He ruined people's life in the process, ending their career and slandering them in the media. None of his competitor went to the lengths he did. Read up on people like Betsy Andreu and how lance went after her and her husband for talking about what they knew.
Non-iTunes version

https://lara-murphy.com/podcast/episode-42-feds-plan-unload-...
Expertise at a Home Depot can be problematic. Sometimes you get someone who really knows what they are talking about. Sometimes you get someone who doesn't, but is speaking with authority anyway.

A friend recently told me about a time he sent his wife in to Home Depot with a list of things to get, and she came home with a different set of things that an employee recommended. My friend went back there to raise a stink about being sold the wrong things, found out the employee was a out of work plumber, and that "sharkbite" is great stuff.

"That's funny" I told my friend, "Literally yesterday I was talking with my plumber and he pointed out that I had sharkbite running to my sprinkler system. I told him I didn't know what his opinion of it was, but I didn't love sharkbite, he said he didn't love it either."

Mostly I go to my local hardware store because it's 2 minutes away rather than 15. Lowes is another 5+ minutes further, but it seems to have a lot more choice in some things, and I've had a bad experience with a couple Home Depot employees that I just can't let go of.

Home Depot does seem to have a weird set of things they do stock and don't. Like all their thinset mortar didn't seem to be labeled as modified or unmodified last weekend...
Because the number of people who believe this will "permanently infect the web and destroy trust in our institutions" is miniscule and limited to certain tech-savvy internet community bubbles, and browser vendors are also looking at the millions more people who would see Netflix et al ceasing to function on the internet as just another reason to ignore the web as a whole?

My claim is that the alternative isn't "more open" the alternative is "more closed, because the open web has yet another (this time self-inflicted) nail driven through it."

But I do think they're both lost causes, long-term. The open web will likely be increasingly relegated, for most users, to a dangerous place of viruses, malware, and shitty ads compared to their happy little walled gardens.

Not to play more-paranoid-than-you, but if you want to save the web, I think you've got to fix the web, first. DRM is a sideshow.
DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc
>DRM makes it hard for 99% of the people

I don't think this is true. You can find illegal streams for many (most? (all?)) TV shows with a quick Google search. It's also pretty common knowledge that TPB and similar torrent sites exist, and you don't have to be in the top 1% of computer users to install a BitTorrent client.
Is there any empirical evidence that automation is better than humans right now?
Corporate bond yield is correlated to treasury bond yields, so the answer yes that it will affect corporate bonds as well.
It was a joke—quicktype has basically nothing in common with Uber. I couldn't find a way to describe quicktype within the stringent title length limit so I went with the "Uber for X" cliché as a provocative gag :)
... and in Xanadu's case, The Right Thing requires the documents to be never deleted. I do not think this is a good example of the Worse Is Better principle, it is more like "you must think of a real world when designing systems"
At least in Linux, ICWND is set to 10 now: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6928
I found out that CCleanerSkipUAC in TaskScheduler appears to execute the 32-bit binary on 64-bit systems as well.

Avast/Piriform claim that the payload is not executed at all on 64 bit systems, and there is no secondary payload.

I guess it depends how much you want to trust that information.
I wonder what constitutes a "novelty" username. Does patio11 count? What about dang? What about _why?
> I am calling for the field to have a larger vision of civilization and how mass media and our tools contribute or detract from it

That would be nice. Unfortunately outside of Kay's rarefied circles, "the field" is close to being a Darwinian selection machine for the worst (most unimaginative, trivial, greedy, pusillanimous) traits. I've ducked in and out of various IT and development roles since the early 2000s. Nearly every one of the best people I've known in that time has left the field for others where they felt they could develop more of their broad humane selves. Some have retreated to academia, others moved altogether (nursing seems to be a theme, oddly). Those of the best that didn't leave, are embittered and cynical. For all the febrile contrepreneur-speak, the overall picture is pretty bleak.
they said both (and both are true)
By remorseful as ever, I take it to mean "not remorseful at all", right? (Not being facetious, this is my understanding of his attitude)
> Though this may have something to do with Amazon (and retail generally trending online)

Online shopping plus theres a growing trend to spend money on experiences instead of things. We've switched to buying our kids things like climbing lessons or horse camp instead of toys.
> HHVM is faster relative to PHP now

While this is probably still true[1], it's certainly less of a concern now than it was with 5.x. Would (often negligible) performance boosts be enough for someone with a 5.x PHP codebase to choose Hack over PHP 7.x? I can't see that for most cases.

https://kinsta.com/blog/the-definitive-php-7-final-version-h...
A typical day for two Canadians in Malawi (2012)
Why would Walmart stock high-end bikes, fully knowing that their floor staff don't have the expertise to answer any questions about the products? Who would go to Walmart to buy a high-end bike?

Walmart shoppers look for commodity items, full stop. There is nothing wrong with that, by the way; toilet paper and cleaning supplies are used by everyone but are barely distinguishable.
I was rather displeased with the built in color scheme on a dark background, so I changed it to a nice purple and removed the underline:

(set-face-attribute 'slack-message-output-header nil
:foreground "#C080FF"
:underline nil)

Binding slack-select-unread-rooms to something useful is a good choice. I have it bound to M-T.

If your users have avatars in their usernames, makes them go away in the source of slack-user-message.el in slack-message-sender with

- (status (slack-user-status (slack-message-sender-id m) team))
+ (status "")

I found people with stuff in their statuses made room names distracting, especially with group chats In slack-im.el, in slack-room-display-name,

- (format "%s %s"
- (slack-room-name room)
- status))
+ (format "%s" (slack-room-name room))

I am not good enough at Elisp to figure out how to make these hooks and I've been a bad open source person at opening an issue on these.
If you've implemented it in itself once then you've also implemented it in itself an infinite amount of times I think.

You run your interpreter in the official interpreter, then you run your interpreter in that, in that, in that, in that, ...
Yes, China's hegemonic strategy of soft power through economic and infrastructure building is far superior to the US's military-based strategy.
Yes, I'm aware of Popper's argument, and I dispute it. In fact, the very fuzziness of that quote you cited is a good example. What does "we can keep them in check" means? One would assume that it applies so long as adherents of that ideology don't hold any prominent political power - i.e. when they can move on from speech to actions.

The rest of that quote does mesh well with my take on this: "Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise".

(Indeed, as Popper himself notes, this is a very straightforward reformulation of the paradox of freedom, whereby you need to suppress the actions of some people that are aimed at reducing the freedom of other people - so you need to reduce freedom for some to maximize freedom for all.)

Another way to approach it is via definitions. Tolerating something means putting up with it. Tolerance is generally deemed to be different from acceptance - to tolerate something means not trying to persecute it or otherwise stamp it out by violence, whereas acceptance is to acknowledge something as proper. But from there follows that intolerance is an action - merely holding some opinion, or even letting it known that you do, is not per se intolerance. "I will not tolerate X" implies that you're willing to act to prevent X from happening. If and when you do, the paradox of tolerance kicks in - people who want to maximize tolerance, have to act themselves, to restrict your acts - thereby being intolerant towards your intolerance. But if you don't act, suppressing your freedom of conscience or of expression is intolerance of dissenting opinion, not intolerance of intolerance.
Curious, who publishes figures on this?
Things I have seen that are usually indicators (although not always as it can vary from company to company).

* Hiring comes to a halt.

* Senior members begin quitting.

* Transparency becomes infrequent.

* Teams are being dismantled.
> I'm just annoyed that PHP doesn't handle HTML tags natively as their own distinct entities.

I'm interested in things like this as well. Can you provide an example of what you're thinking of? Something like JSX? Other data structures that are transformed into HTML by a library? The latter seems to be counter to your argument about requiring the use of some framework or library, but I can't think of any alternatives off the top of my head.
Someone who has been systematically deceitful is going to have a harder job persuading people he is repentant and has reformed than, say, someone who has been selfish or greedy (note that I am not alluding to Roof.) Currently, there is an article about Lance Armstrong, who has the same problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15274840
If the sun never sets on your project, then you probably don't want to shut it down because you're using it 24x7.

But since a Lambda is a program, you can make the criteria as complex as you like.

Tag it with "shutdown=non-biz-hours", and "timezones=UTC-7,UTC+0,UTC+5:30" and your shutdown script can figure out when it's outside of business hours in all of those timezones and shut it down.
Hmmm: actually cloth simulation is constrained relative to hair simulation. (It's an orderly grid -- a Chebyshev net? -- rather than spaghetti) With a simple Verlet integrator you can animate a "fishing net" of points with no difficulty -- because of the direct links between them.

Someone else will have to fill in the details of recent research. I remember a paper called "Large Steps in Cloth Simulation" which aimed to remove the need for fine detail in simulations.
How Blockchain is revolutionizing fraud prone industries
It horrible for Kindle books too, I have to manually dedrm the amz files just so i can read the books I've purchased in a application I enjoy
Ask HN: What is everyone currently working on?
I am fairly new to HN and honestly it is a bit overwhelming initially. In a good way of course! What brought me here was to follow more software developers turned entrepreneurs. I find reading about others successes and failures to be incredibly valuable. Therefore, I am curious what others on HN are currently working on. It could be a side project, side hustle, new business idea, or just a new open source project you are starting.

For me, I have been working on a short book about learning AWS by using it to solve real problems. There is a sea of information out there about Amazon Web Services which makes it hard to know where to get started. My approach with the book is to learn services as you are solving a problem. Instead of reading doc after doc and article after article, you jump into a problem and learn as you go.

What is everyone else working on?
The actual title on the article is "Climate change not as threatening to planet as previously thought, new research suggests" why do we need ALLCAPS clickbait histrionics?

Here's a line from the article which suggests that the evidence is changing due to greater than expected efforts. "Another reason the climate outlook is less bleak than previously thought is stabilising emissions, particularly in China."

Which isn't to say WRONG but in fact to say 'indications of positive progress'

Here's another part that presents a wildly optimistic scenario which indicates we have a lower chance than Hillary Clinton had in the 2016 election "it suggests that if polluting peaks and then declines to below current levels before 2030 and then continue to drop more sharply, there is a 66 per cent chance of global average temperatures staying below 1.5 degrees." and we all know how it turned out for Hillary.
you average jam, sure, its a bunch of licks mostly. but like... bireli? angelo debarre? sebastien giniaux? the list goes on... there are lots of people who come up with crazy shit on the fly. though you will find lots of licks in everyones playing
Take a look at what the car replaced. Horses were and are wildly dangerous.
>Not recommended for killing possums BTW.

It would work on the first try which is a massive step up from everything the author tried.
It doesn't matter if the Fed makes a profit. The Fed can print money - the Fed's job is stabilizing the market and the economy, not making money (which it can literally do at a touch of a button).

And as a note, the Fed has stabilized markets very well for the last eight years - at the price of speculative distortions to the real economy.
Senior/core staff leaving
U.S. Navy to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscopes aboard submarines
No, he is rolling in dough.
ShekelCoin
This seems like the key thing:

There was another intriguing connection: Acinetobacter are molecular mimics of proteins found in myelin, the nerve cell coating that the immune system attacks in MS.

It sounds like a very similar situation to PANDAS and PANS: http://www.pandasnetwork.org/understanding-pandaspans/what-i...

Some bacteria have evolved to trick our immune system into ignoring them, but an overactive immune system will attack that bacteria and the human cells they're trying to mimic.
R7RS was finalised in 2013. [0]

Scheme is actively developed by a large community.

[0] http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/R7RSHomePage
Setting Up and Testing a Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Properly
Try posting at reddit r/webdev
There are known graphics card problems I have read.
Add his masseuse to the list.
So if I as a business wanted to discriminate against a protected class, I could ask for the person’s SSN and refuse service when they don’t provide it?
Yep, that was me.

The reasoning wasn't that we didn't like it and wanted to kill hidden features (as above, I loved it), but more that all things, even small or hidden ones, come with small and hidden cost, and cost is the end of large projects. It sounds a bit daft to many, but just having the code in the tree is a burden - tests run, translations need to be updated, and minor dependencies all over the place increase development costs persistently. For example, consider the staff who added the "audio indicator in tabs" functionality and how the presence of a separate tab system in the tree might cause them extra work, or how their work may inadvertently cause critical bugs in sidetabs that don't have an owner to fix it or care for it.

To keep Chrome nimble we attempt to cut and trim as much as we can, knowing that that annoys some. We don't always get this right, but it's better to aspire to do fewer things well than to be generally OK with crufty bits here and there.

I realize this explanation probably won't decrease the sadness, and you've probably heard something like it many times in the bug tracker, but if not, I hope it explains things a little.
Fasm – flat assembler
Authorities release ransom letter, cyber threats
At least they were thoughtful enough to offer a payment plan:
"Option one is a straight forward, no frills, payment plan - We are proposing that you have one
calendar year to satisfy this arrangement between us. This proposal breaks down as follows:
You, our client, accord and satisfy a complete transfer of 150.000 USD of Bitcoins (BTC) over a
twelve calendar month period of time with your first transfer to be a twenty percent down-
payment transfer of 30.000 USD of BTC to be made by the date and time of 2017-10-20 23:59
UTC. Follow-up transfers of 10.000 USD of BTC will be made by the end of each calendar
month for the next twelve months, in order to accord and satisfy this proposed option."

News article:
http://flatheadbeacon.com/2017/09/18/authorities-overseas-hackers-seeking-extort-community-cyber-threats/

The letter:
http://1qb1ow3qfudf14kwjzalxq61.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Letter-with-redaction.pdf
You don't raise the people, you drop the cars. Boring Company style - a sublevel for vehicle traffic.
Not yet, this is coming out of their Next Billion Initiative. Probably South East Asia afterwards.
Fresh IDE
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Yeah, so Bain made a bad decision when they bought Toys `R' Us and took on a lot of debt right at the moment when Amazon was about to enter the business. Now they lost their investment. Why do I get the sense that Bain is being cast as a villain in this story?
I wouldn’t say 100%; maybe 99.9%