skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a laugh when a post about GM's "Super Cruise" got shot down as inferior to Autopilot since it's "Just LKA and ACC but it only works on highways and needs mapping".

Autopilot is actually LKA (w/ LC) and ACC, and AP1 actually used the same Mobileye sensors most cars with LKA use. GM was shipping cars with similar sensor suites years ago but only using them to warn the driver, rather than actively lane center.

Super Cruise on the other hand is the first, hands free, LKA/ACC implementation that's actually designed with more than the basic features current LKA/ACC implementations have.

It's also the first one that feels like a step towards full self driving rather than an OpenCV exercise applied to a real car because of the use of LIDAR mapping data being used to react more like a human would expect (like slowing down before curves and not veering at the top of hills, etc.) and the confidence to allow the user to take their hands off the wheel.
Can you use the Socratic method on yourself to develop better ways of thinking?
You Can't Fast-Food Everything
Any idea about why? I could understand a big difference if firing employees was very difficult for employers, but AFAIK after Thatcher firing people in the UK is pretty easy.
In the real world, the guy discovering the cure for cancer received grants from universities, research institutes, and corporations. Whoever bankrolled the research, those groups own the cure and then can do what they please with it (manufacture it, sell it, give it away...) Nature wouldn't become the sole distributer of that knowledge.
Didn't think this case could be more horrifying as it progressed. The material found on his computer now makes one suspect this may not be his first murder. That poor woman.

"The suspected killer of Swedish journalist Kim Wall will be detained for four more weeks after a Copenhagen court heard that 15 stab wounds had been found on her body. ... Traces of Madsen’s DNA had also been also recovered from Wall’s body, as well as traces of a saw blade consistent with the removal of her head and limbs after her death, Buch-Jepsen said. An examination of Madsen’s computer had also uncovered material featuring women being tortured and killed."
Nitpick: C11 introduced support for some form of that kind of overloading, using _Generic macros. See http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/generic, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9804371/syntax-and-sampl..., https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40096584/c11-generic-usa....

Ugly? Yes, IMO, but it also is useful.
Ever since I heard about Sci-Hub, I knew judgements along this line would be incoming eventually.

The only way to solve the science publishing problem is from the top down: lean on scientific funding agencies for them to mandate results must be published in an open access journal. Take it a step further and say none of this "pay-us-super-extra-money-on-top-to-open-your-article-up-early" garbage either.

Hesitation from many scientists to publish in open access is that many full open access journals are not as popular and thus you lose some impact or credibility to the works when publishing in them. But if everyone is forced to migrate to open access, that will go away--perhaps with a few years of turbulence.

Otherwise, the behemoths like RELX and Wiley will endlessly pursue any sort of effort to open up their copyrighted material (and rightly so within their legal rights), just like the RIAA and music sharing.
It's not just the burning, many toxic chemicals are already present and the processing[1] makes it worse. The processing converts things like nicotine, and happens at relatively low temperatures- lower than those in vaporizers. Plus, keep in mind that nicotine is in tobacco as a poison for insects. Tobacco doesn't want to be consumed by humans either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco-specific_nitrosamines
I have plenty of reservations about Big Tech, but why can't Google bid on this? Sure we'd get ads on the ID card but at least they'd get the math right.
I tied my email address to my USPS address three apartments and half a decade ago. Apparently I never updated it since I'm now receiving email from Informed Delivery with images of mail addressed to that apartment which is obviously not addressed to me...
I saw this post a few weeks ago someone wanted to have something similar to
hacker news but for science related topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14734664

I took it upon myself to see how long it would take for me to build the hacker news website.

The stack:
- Scala/ Akka Http
-- ScalaJS / Autowire / Bookpickle
-- Kalium / Salting / Scrypt
-- Bootstrap
- Google GCE
-- Kubernetes / Docker
-- Load balancer
-- Ingress controller/ nginx
-- Let's encrypt SSL

Image size:
- OpenJDK ~ 100mb
- Kalium ~ 150mb
- App ~ 50mb

In all, it took 6 days to complete. The application logic only took 2 days; the longest part was cascading the comments correctly with minimal passes. 2 days was setting up different environments like sbt revolver for html development, docker-compose sbt for integration testing, docker (whisk) unit testing. And 2 days was playing with GCE settings like setting up nameservers, handling naked domain, container-registry, kubernetes/ helm configs.

The features are bare minimum. You can submit posts preprend with "review:" if you want to others to review your manuscript, and "publish:" for showing new papers that have been published. For now post are listed by most recent and comments are ranked by points.

Disclaimer: links are taken from hacker news.
The marketing language describes it as a celebration of "creativity". In that regard, I do find the work of various artists they're featuring (particularly the portrait and illustration at the top) to be great and in line with their stated principles. Really though, the colors and typography on this page don't work well. Going against the grain doesn't mean you throw the baby out with the bathwater (or aesthetics in this case). Even some of the most envelope-pushing artists of the past century, like Basquiat or Rothko, understood this and broke rules in a way that expressed some creative truth. Maybe I'm overthinking it but it's going to take more than "creativity for creativity's sake" for me to appreciate what's going on here.
Show HN: Text-Only version of YouTube (whenever you want to read some videos)
One other small filesize hack for pretty background images is to use primitive (https://github.com/fogleman/primitive) to make stylized SVGs. I use it for https://goodfeels.net for the hero header image.
Belize is awesome, they like foreigners with money, nice climate year around, and they have far fewer laws than we do.
You can't rely on users to actually do this every time. The more robust you make your system the better.
The barrier for entry of web development is not necessarily lower, it's more that most people have already tinkered with web development informally.

Many IDEs have some sort of visual GUI layout tool, but the nature of HTML+CSS makes it a far leakier abstraction less suited to visual positioning.
Looks like you're one of the youngest in the thread, actually.
Bastyr University trying to silence blogger exposing naturopathy's false claims
Not exactly.

There's an NSFW flag that causes our DApp to not display the ads by default. We (Andrey and I) are able to force the flag true to ads at our discretion.
This is something you should never hear about a product which is life critical that it works correctly:

"Efrati reports that Waymo CEO John Krafcik faces pressure from his boss, Google co-founder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page, to transform Waymo's impressive self-driving technology into a shipping product."

Combined with releasing that product in the area with the least consumer and safety protections:

"Another important factor was the legal climate. Arizona has some of the nation's most permissive laws regarding self-driving vehicles."

So the TL;DR is that someone has been pressured to rush a product to release in an area with few safety regulations that could cause a lot of harm if it malfunctions.
May be worth it for in-person reclamation of identity. Use biometrics only when acquired in person.

Beats having to dreg up my high school year book, social security card, birth certificate, and high school transcript (None of which are actually inspected of course).
Let's be careful not to underestimate the value of deniability. Any change in policy needs to maintain the ability of the citizen to challenge actions taken with a private key (opening an account or borrowing money) and the burden should not shift to the consumer.

I fear that financial institutions will use the change as an opportunity to offload their due diligence onto consumers.

Someone having my private key should not have any greater ability to implicate or permanently damage me than someone having my SSN.
Haha. How is this different from last tech bubble high of 2000 where folks were "daytrading" quickly appreciating tech stocks or last real estate cycle high where "everyone" was in and out flipping homes. I say its not any different! Here you have hedgies using early access advantage to buy at a discount and quickly turn around and sell to the "bag holders". (aka retail "know-it-all" bag holders).
Don't know about Android, but on iOS and macOS, Apple introduced the WKWebView technology that is recommended over using normal web views (the old way for many years), and it interacts seamlessly and instantly with Swift (and probably Objective-C too), the system even bridges the types for you as they go across the boundary. Apple specifically tried to further support the growing desire to use web views and Javascript technology inside a native app. I've used it quite successfully, the experience feels like native.

Perhaps systems that automatically build out to iOS have not been updated to use these features, or there is something else going on in Cordova to introduce latency? Because for at least 2 years now there is no reason to have the problem you describe.
Time for today's most incendiary post. (;

I think feelings on this are going to depend on whether you consider a silicon valley job as more "outcome" or "opportunity." I'd say making sure that black/latino people can obtain these jobs is just as important as making sure they have equal opportunity to attend a good college or good highschool. That puts me in a bit of a predicament though because I come to the conclusion that what's in the best interests of society requires these companies to go against what's in their best interests and pass up more qualified whites/asians. Thoughts?
I don't like this trend of creating new closed source database systems that only exist on a single cloud provider.

Your data is your most valuable asset, and by using this you're locking it inside Google servers. If they decide five years from now to discontinue it, or to raise the pricing 10x, you're screwed.

Are most developers only working on short term projects? Why would you put yourself in such a situation instead of using open source technologies that can be deployed anywhere?
This isn't new, limited to technology, or all that surprising if you've been paying attention to your peers.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

>The results show significant discrimination against African-American names: White names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews. We also find that race affects the benefits of a better resume. For White names, a higher quality resume elicits 30 percent more callbacks whereas for African Americans, it elicits a far smaller increase. Applicants living in better neighborhoods receive more callbacks but, interestingly, this effect does not differ by race. The amount of discrimination is uniform across occupations and industries.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20161011-00/?p=...

>One of my friends is a woman of color, and not that long ago, she arrived with three male colleagues in the lobby of a building for a scheduled meeting. The administrative assistant came out, walked right past my friend, shook the hands of the three men, and welcomed them. My friend extended her hand to introduce herself, and the assistant asked, "Oh, you're with them?"
I don't understand why people want to use biometrics. It's extremely insecure.
Seems interesting. Does this allow me to use different currencies for he same investment?
Maybe they simply think of the assets as "family assets" regardless of who actually owns them? Why assume they are malicious?
We offer this at appbase.io, it runs on top of Elasticsearch (no vendor lock-in) and a cloud native version that you can run anywhere is now available in preview at https://store.docker.com/images/appbaseio.
Living in bitterly cold states would certainly limit the amount of retirement savings I need. I live in a moderately cold one now, Montana would kill me before I reach 70.
It's been done in real life for the A330. 120 km from a starting altitude of 10 km to Lajes Airbase in the Azores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
This might be a tad off-topic for HN, but the dates seem like an odd coincidence: I am noticing that, per Wikipedia, Otellini was born 8 days before Tom Petty, and they died on the same day.

Edit: it may be a silly observation I have made, but hn users are really silly to downvote this.
A Simple Guide to the Ethereum Metropolis Upgrade
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Actually Codecademy requires sign up as well
"Some attacks will be harder to employ, some less" - I'm interpreting this sentence that way.
Building a GraphQL API in Rails
AMD Announces Embedded Radeon E9170 Series GPU
Couldn't find a link to the study in the article, so I looked it up:

http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/ascendleadership.site-ym.com/resour...
Every underrepresented group represents an opportunity to start a company, hire some great people from that group, and succeed together. A single company, perhaps one you start this year, can make a huge impact.

YC funding applications are due today. https://www.ycombinator.com/apply
Timeshift: A Linux System Restore Utility Tool
SEC Sues REcoin and Diamond Reserve Club Over ICO [pdf]
Explore word choice on Twitter using rstats, tidytext, and glmnet
> Otherwise, the behemoths like RELX and Wiley will endlessly pursue any sort of effort to open up their copyrighted material (and rightly so within their legal rights), just like the RIAA and music sharing.

Who cares? They will burn their money in court in exchange for literally nothing. That is exactly the result the world should hope for.
How Even Lottery Companies Are Innovating (Interview with Jean Marc Landry)
You've just rediscovered the premise of David Eggers's The Circle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
Meta: Thoughts on Generative C++ (Herb Sutter, CppCon 2017)
How goes the work to improve customer service and support?

Thinking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14359801, what improvements have you made in the last 139 days that would make us want to build on this?
Well, probably we would still see Apple develop their own CPUs. Intel just couldn't deliver on the low power promise.
What's really sad is that the USPS could be in the identity business. What other organisation has agents who canvas the entire country on a daily basis, visiting every home and business?
hey, actually I did not until lots of people started asking for it. I did not think that that would be a problem, if I did before I would not have asked for sign up. I guess I need to find a way for that. Thank you for your suggestion!
You let out "further" before "offload" in your 3rd paragraph.
> Reputation can be gamed and manipulated in much the same way that any other information can be.

Yes, it's not foolproof, but it's still a vital piece of the puzzle. With a good reputation system (and I'm not saying such a thing is easy, or perhaps even doable) "reputable" journalists won't stay reputable for long if they behave as you mention.

For example, here's a very crude reputation system: politifact (to pick an example). Imagine if Google just cut from "News" results any site with a certain number of bad ratings from politifact in the past year. This is is gameable and not sustainable, but it would be a decent start.
> More people were affected in PR by this hurricane than those affected in Houston.

Thanks for this added context. I haven't really seen this discussed in the media coverage, which is not terribly surprising, but I guess I expected a stats-heavy outfit like 538 to touch on this aspect.
There's torrent repository on libgen which (I believe) contains both the books on libgen and the research on sci-hub. They don't have descriptive file names however, so I'm not sure about turning the backup into a mirror.
the average corporation does not care about security as long as someone else is paying the price. moreover they actively drag on security best-practices if they increase costs or introduce any friction whatsoever into consumer purchases. one of the reasons why we don't have CHIP+PIN in the US
The judge who "recommended" this is the same one which in July 2013 issued a warrant for the arrest of Edward Snowden..

> Source : https://ballotpedia.org/John_F._Anderson
Unsurprising. I tell all of my minorities friends to remove their pictures from LinkedIn and use American sounding names. The increase in callbacks always shocks me. You can do this experiment in reverse yourself if you already have an American sounding name.

Unfortunately the real solution, anonymity, will probably never be adopted because there are groups who benefit from being identified. There's way too much many in tech to for the incumbents to leave it to merit.
Sure, prostate cancer doesn't get you, but complications from urinary tract infections and complications from incontinence are just as deadly.
Is she fairly active? I've noticed over the years, the ones that just refuse to stop moving just keep going, for the most part.
These subscription are a common point of friction at universities. The administration obviously wants to minimise spending, while the research staff will forcefully insist that they absolutely must have access to The Kazakh Journal of the History of Native Antarctic Languages Monthly. And they're probably right!

If, however there's this shiny new repository where everyone can get the articles for free, that may encourage _some_ researchers to stay home instead of attending that dreadful budget meeting. Or at least not be quite as forceful in their demands.

So I'd say this works pretty much the same as it does for other digital content, only that publishers will not see their revenue decrease gradually, but rather with a certain delay, but drastically. The subscription contracts usually covering multiple years probably adds to that, as well.

Of course the large journals will see the effects last. It really makes for an awkward conversation when that Elsevier guy asks "So at the Max Planck society, with 30,000 Phds, nobody reads Nature?".
Note that this problem is not unrelated to Socrates getting executed. The guy made a lot of enemies.
>pass up more qualified whites/asians

That's a pretty common line of attack against this sort of thing but I don't think it holds water. There are plenty of "unqualified" white people who get jobs just by knowing the right person. In many industries (less so in tech because there's a shortage overall) there are plenty of qualified applicants of all races, it just takes some work on a few levels (overcoming your own biases, going out of your way to recruit, etc)
Hey Thomas :) I speak only for myself, Firebase just got way better.
Async await while looking nice compared to bare callbacks and Promises are still not without drawbacks. For example one cannot use await inside nested callback so it's in async functions it's necessary to use for-of and avoid forEach when dealing with Promise values.

* http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...

* https://spion.github.io/posts/es7-async-await-step-in-the-wr...

Current solution is just an evolutionary change merging generators and Promises.
> Rhyming songs kept the names of Cagot families known.
The streetlight effect? If you want to measure median age, you're not going to get the data for a while.
Does anybody have examples of the Socratic method applied to technical writing?

I write the Chrome DevTools docs, and my big focus is to make the docs as interactive as possible. For example, in my JS debugging tutorial, I give you a demo with a bug, and then you actually follow along and use DevTools to debug the demo. One problem with this, though, is that I'm still just telling my readers what to do. I'd like to challenge them to figure it out for themselves. But I need to do it in a structured manner. I don't have the luxury of seeing their responses in realtime, or being able to alter my content, like the author did in the classroom.

Link to JS debugging tutorial, if anyone is interested: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/java...
This is a garbage article. Strategy is to mark off days on a calendar. Ground breaking.
Using JUnit on CircleCI 2.0 with Jest and ESLint
I'm glad. Hoping you like cloud functions too!
I'm optimistic that you're just playing devil's advocate here, so I'll respond politely, because this article has my blood simmering. Not boiling yet, but close.

One important correction: The grandfather was aware of the finances for the first 20 of 30 years, the OP says that the losses occurred "since that time". So it's 10 years, not 30; multiply any compensation by 3.

A second, more important correction: the 'compensation' to the aunt comes from drawing on grandma's assets and also her income. OP asserts that grandma's income is $7k/month, or $840k. Added to the $400k in assets spent/lost, this is one and a quarter million dollars.

$13k/year is not enough to be visibly irresponsible with money, it's a reasonable or even small rate for family care. But $125k/year is unsustainable, as demonstrated by grandma's dwindling assets.
Same age as Tom Petty; in fact they were born within 8 days of each other.
Ponzi Schemes Using Virtual Currencies (2014) [pdf]
> Telecom is a capital intensive industry

These companies aren't really telecom companies though. Twilio owns no physical switches or telecom equipment, or at least they didn't when I worked there and I would be very surprised if they do now. There is no physical capital required to implement the business model of Twilio or MessageBird.

Note that there are still good reasons to take on large amounts of venture capital despite not needing to spend it on traditional telecom equipment.
Has the UX been worked out so that disinterested people can successfully and reliably do all that stuff without leaking their private keys?

There will be roughly 300 million disinterested users, making it work reliably in that scenario is important.
Sure it does - as I said, I bet the artifacts would be returned very quickly, and then we would find out that vibrations were not actually as big of an issue as claimed it would be.

But hey, at least Austria is trying to think of a valid excuse for keeping the artifact. Unlike, say, the Elgin marbles and the UK.