skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although it would be unfortunate if this was the case, this paragraph from the about page (https://woz-u.com/about/) leads me to think that this is just using Steve Wozniak's name for branding:

Inspired by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, we specialize in technology and career-based programs designed to get people into the workforce quickly and affordably...Led by higher education experts, Exeter Education, students will learn the skills necessary to take flight within the technology industry.

It looks like Woz U is affiliated with Exeter Education and Southern Careers Institute. Exeter Education appears to be a new company in Arizona (more info at http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2017/10/1... and https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2017/04/14/former-g...).

Southern Careers Institute (http://www.scitexas.edu/) seems to be a vocational school of sorts. Neither of these are bad things, but they temper the initial excitement I had around "Steve Wozniak is launching an online education platform."
At higher speeds I believe road noise from tires is the dominating noise factor.
It has some negative connotations worth disagreeing with, though. I for one am pro-Webextensions (WE) because the legacy APIs gave all addons unlimited privileges and kept Firefox internals from improving. WE apis have come miles; even Tree Style Tabs has a WE alternative.

I am hopeful for Qutebrowser, though; the dev is working on an interesting approach to extending the browser without WE support by allowing "userscripts" (not the Greasemonkey-esque ones). They can be written in tons of different languages. [Relevant documentation](https://qutebrowser.org/doc/userscripts.html).
If the same issues keep showing up they probably want a fix to the actual problem. And really, having two show up at some random date is not going to be helpful if you miss a kids birthday etc.
Facebook isn’t changing its business because of Russia
No real mention here of what will differentiate this from existing "tech education platforms".
The division of Soft Power vs. Hard Power is well displayed in Trump's current Cabinet.
> They usually overlook that software requirements vary greatly and can be quite complex

Or change after it's built. "Oh yeah, I guess we'll also need a floor to set our chair on. And perhaps a foundation for that floor." Later: "I know I said I wanted a chair, but what we really wanted was a glider."
Calling all traffic collisions accidents is misleading. There are few true accidents, as in an event that is unavoidable. If a driver has a stroke or has a well-maintained tire blowout due to a manufacturing defect, that's an accident and I agree it doesn't make sense to punish the driver.

In the majority of traffic collisions the driver made choices that contributed to the incident. For example, if you speed at night on a rural highway chances are that you are outdriving your headlights. This means by the time an object in the road is illuminated by your lights it's too late to stop your car without hitting it.

The problem is that we Americans are so dependent on driving that taking away or denying someone a license is paramount to denying them the ability to commute to work or shop for groceries. Driving is a serious activity that demands care and attention but making it an undeniable right has led many to treat it trivially. The number of distracted drivers on the road is unreal.
And if I didn't have the money to buy that stock?

Also, the Walton kids most assuredly got something for nothing.
They didn't intend to give me two products, and the month of prime is worthless if they don't actually have 2-day shipping. The response I want on the customer service end is for them to stop using their shitty AMZL carrier and deliver reliably like they used to for the last 10 years. It would also be nice if Amazon didn't hide their customer service options so I didn't have to waste a bunch of time finding it every time there's a problem.
The link to Ribosome led to a shopping site, I was disappointed.
> Not voting on the other hand accomplishes nothing and convinces the system that you don't matter.

Once again, these embedded assumptions about the 'system' and my responsibility to it, all under the pretext that it is a system which is capable of significance if only more people, or the right people, took part in it. Reminds me of the cliche definition of 'crazy', expecting different results.

There's plenty of more useful ways to affect the world than that. But by all means, if you think things will be different next time...

And there's a difference between active vs passive involvement. By staying home and not voting I'm not actively negatively affecting the system. My involvement is entirely passive.
By definition it is, to people who advocate torture.
If the effectiveness is high enough, then for some people it could be as, or more, important. To create a overly ideal example as a counterpoint:

There is a WMD of some sort hidden in a major city center. We have captured and are 100% sure that the head people who did the planning and planting of the WMD are in our custody. We have a morally reprehensible, but 100% effective torture method.

1. It is guaranteed that these people know the exact information.

2. Tens of thousands or more will be harmed or killed if it is not disarmed.

3. These people are the reason why the WMD is there to begin with.

In this case I think that taking more drastic measures would be justified.
> It can be very difficult for someone to notice a bicycle on 40~55mph roads...

While people do get hit and killed on back country roads, the vast majority of collisions and fatalities are within cities where cycling on roads with that speed is ill-advised.

Most cyclists are on roads with 25-35mph speed limits. If you can't see potential hazards and react in time, you're driving too fast and should slow down. This is why there's a push for lower speed limits in urban areas: It has an almost immediate effect on collisions.

Reacting to something at 20mph and 40mph are worlds apart. You'll have no trouble stopping at 20, but at 40 you run someone over and crash into something.
Interactive: Resurrecting a Dragon
Try to avoid the word "accident". Use crash or collision instead. A majority of fatal crashes are caused by intoxicated, speeding, distracted, or careless drivers and, therefore, are not simple accidents but the result of someone's dangerous choices.
Non-acceptable content will always become censorship. Freedom of speech comes with a cost.
How are you measuring efficiency? If something is centralized and widely used, are you even capable of recognizing technological progress now defined by the centralizer?
I saw a PSA the other day reminding pedestrians that you do not have armor and that cars act like they own the road because they do. The best thing you can do as a pedestrian or cyclist is to assume your are invisible and to not escalate road rage situations. Telling yourself "but I had the right of way" won't speed your convalescence.
> What charges do you think he should have been brought up on? Manslaughter?

And why not?
I feel like unix philosophy applies more to libs and small CLI tools more than full blown web apps with evolving feature sets.

Or you build an integration / plugin system, and each new feature is a self-contained plugin to do that one thing well.
This seems like you're viewing cycling as a hobby, where many people (including myself) use it as a sole means of transportation.

There are many cases where the safest way to ride is for a cyclist to take an entire lane. Note that in many states (including mine), this is absolutely legal and recommended. But of course, there are many motorists who don't know this, and get very angry (https://ashevilleonbikes.com/asheville-cyclist-punched-face-...).
Stops and waiting are by far the biggest slowdown in train travel. In a moderately dense area, if you could magically put enough trains on the tracks to offer all important connections as high frequency point to point connections, you would get enormous improvements in travel time even at moderate cruise speed. Tracks are empty almost all the time because trains cannot evade and have very low deceleration, they have to reliably coordinate far beyond visual range. And by reliably I mean more than aviation grade reliability, because there would be no redundancy and no Hudson River to splash into when you mess up that part.

The good news is that it's "just" an information problem (well, so is landing a rocket, in a way), the bad news is that the number of possible endpoint pairs in a network is bloody high.

In the end you get back to the old vision of on demand "pods". I suppose that those could still be made "rail-efficient" if you make them robotically jack into a paceline behind a tender that provides drafting and power grabbed from an overhead line (you would not want this per pod), but run on battery power only to get to/from the tender at endpoints (which the tender and its followers passes non-stop) and when the paceline gets broken by someone exiting. If you can start over on a new right of way, this is what you should do (in a pinch, you could also take over the leftmost lane of existing roads, but that's not a good place for doing construction and maintenance).
Scientific proof is always a good thing. Many self-improvement stuff only have function of being placebo and you could as well be delusional that things are working as it was promised. I am curious about mindfulness, especially because different people claiming to practice it haven't been able to define it consistently. It's also hard to trust anything that is designed to be sold at executive retreats and leadership programs.

Anyway, so how do you define and practice it?
Somebody has given up a significant amount of their time to give you something that's free as in beer and speech. You get at least what you pay for, don't ask for your money back.
Be that as it may, it's available to apps in ios 11, so it seems likely to get more traction.
I injured a cyclist with my car when I was 18. I wasn't punished, and I don't think I should have been.

The cyclist ran a red light on a busy 4-lane road with turn lanes, a 45 mph speed limit and frontage roads. A box van in the left turn lane made it impossible for me to see him until he entered my lane. His leg was broken in three places and he spent six months in the hospital; something taller than the sports car I was driving probably would have killed him. He was fined for running a red light.

I don't think anybody should be criminally punished purely due to a bad outcome when they were acting with due care. Driving negligently is another matter entirely, and at a minimum, those who do it should be prevented from driving for a time.
> is treated as a special case where you can kill someone and the legal system mostly doesn't care

No, it just happens to be far more common than job-site accidents because nearly the entire population frequently uses road transportation.

If you drive a forklift into something and it falls over killing someone it would be treated in about the same way. The legal system would care even less because it didn't happen on a public road.

Granted some lawsuits would probably fly after the fact but as far as civil/criminal penalties goes a job-site accident is basically the same as a vehicle accident.
MoneyDance is good and runs on your home Linux machine. You need to pay for it ($50 I think. Not open source, but paying a company typically means that they are getting the revenue from you not by selling your data in some back channel). I use VNC from my phone to connect to home base.
Design Patterns: Decorator Pattern
I would suggest that, rather using spec everywhere, you can use it as a barrier to contagion. That is, only checking that data conforms to your spec when it goes through the major interfaces between parts of your program.

In this approach, you're not relying on spec to verifying the correctness of everything. Rather you use to reduce surprise bugs where a little change here makes something weird and unexpected happen all the way over there.
They usually have a kid on them.
>To the three of them, it appeared as if Norton was trying to move her car to the side of the road. But in the process, she drove over Morgan’s head, with her right front tire placed squarely on top."

What the fuck.

What's even the best way to proceed in that situation?

I know everyone screamed at the driver to back up, but to me that sounds extremely dangerous, especially with a front or all-wheel drive vehicle. Having the hysterical fool that managed to run over the victim a second time continue to operate the car with the victim's head under the tire is crazy on the face of it, even if it was perhaps the best course of action for that particular situation.

If there's enough bystanders, lifting the vehicle and following it up with a short drag of the victim from under the tire almost seems better, spinal injury immobilization concerns be damned.

Probably not enough people to lift in this particular case however, and most of the damage had probably already been done at that point.

I also can't help but wonder how much worse similar situations could get if firearms came into play. At what point is it legally justifiable for an uncompliant driver that keeps running over a victim to be shot? I'd say most juries would likely acquit for a third time, and circumstances somewhat similar to this instance could be trial of the century material.

That might sound absurd, but there's the argument that attempting to physically remove a continually-uncompliant wreckless driver would not only waste precious time, but may cause them to panic—hitting the gas and inflicting grevious harm to the victim. The driver could concievably be drunk and belligerent, for example.

Furthermore, it could be argued that the firearm user was hysterical themselves: even the coolest customer in the world might snap when the tire of some idiot's car is resting on their immediate family member's head, because they were just run over again.
The only problem with your theory is that The Media is not a monolithic entity.
There are some excerpts in other comments, but it's essentially a dense brain dump for almost 2 hours. I dont think you can get a meaningful "tl;dr"-style summary short enough that you wouldn't just ask tl;dr again.
I have never seen a UPS employee throw a package at my house
I'd like to train this on color comic strips and then run something traditionally black and white like xkcd through it. Seems like it could make the colorization part of hand drawn animation much easier.
What an awful way of looking at things. So anything you do in the car is irrelevant to the outcomes and shouldn't be punished? Would you have said the same about DUI?
It sometimes is, and often should be.

However! The one cyclist I have been centimeters from killing or causing grievous bodily harm ought not to have counted against me, even had I been a tad less dexterous with brakes and steering. Some young woman, ears plugged into some iDevice, running a red light at full speed. Not joking about the centimeters. She would have been toast under the Toyota HiAce I was driving.

The girl continued, apparently without even registering the close scrape she just had. I chased her down and delivered the shit sermon of the century. She appeared non-comprehending and utterly indifferent.

Not claiming this to be typical cyclist behavior, but alas, it's not all that uncommon either.

I am a sometime truck driver, and believe me, I know the terror of crowded city traffic, right turns, and cyclists. Some drivers are squarely to blame when the shit hit the fan, or the front wheel the cyclist, but some are most certainly not, and may suffer undeservedly for the rest of their lives.

No, I am not reckless. I have done an awful lot of professionel driving, and haven't had an accident since 1983 when someone from a sideroad disregarded a stop sign.

By the way, I am in full favour of also potentially criminalising hitting an animal. Most roadkills would be easily avoided, if people would just pay some goddamn attention to driving while driving.
I bet there will some kind of "soft exit" deal. Neither UK nor the EU can afford to be at odds with each other, so the risks of a hard Brexit are blown out of proportion. Right now it's just business as usual, threats, arrogance and political grand standing. UK will be fine.
Show HN: Using machine learning to recommend dashboards during incidents
I responded to someone who deleted their comment, it was a valuable and good comment, so I don't know why he deleted it, but here's my response:

I think it's the wrong question he's asking. We're trying to restrain technology and productivity increases from reducing the need for human labor, rather than asking if we can create a society where human labor is not needed to survive or thrive in the first place.

Is it better to have millions toiling away on assembling lines to pay for food so their kids don't starve, or it is better to have millions of robots toiling away on assembly lines while a generation of people are freed up to pursue other things?

We should be looking at the long term trends in demographics and labor force participation and asking not "How can we gum up technological progress so people continue to do shit work", but "How can we prepare our culture and political system to transition to a world where work may be a choice, an optional pursuit, but people can live without it, or find meaning in other ways?"

And that doesn't just mean concepts like Universal Basic Income, it also means, how can people society deal with newly found idle time, without self destructing or losing motivation. These are huge challenges, but they aren't going to go away from questioning Silicon Valley.

What needs to be questioned is the entire model of the protestant work ethic style industrial society, and how a transition to a post-industrial, maybe post-capitalist society, could occur.
Skepticism is a good thing, including while consuming this anti-valley diatribe.

I fear what SV is becoming, but this article says nothing of previous history of other such revolutionary shifts like with industrial revolution, petroleum economy.

Maybe SV has a feel-good image because in comparison to other mature consumer industries (think TV/Cable or Automobiles) it's comparatively less full of bullshit.
Have you read http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
CKEditor 5 is also worth a look. They just released their first alpha version. The editor now uses a model separate from the DOM which can be used to implement support for collaborative editing. In addition to providing an extensive API, there are ready-made builds which can serve the same purpose as TinyMCE and CKEditor 4. This being CKEditor, we can probably expect support for pasting content from Word and Excel in the future. GPL/LGPL/MPL. We've just started using it in our SaaS product and have been impressed so far. https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-design/issues/181
Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire
I'm having so much problems with DHL in Germany that my prime subscription is extended every month. I guess I'll never have to pay again for a service that's getting next to useless. When they use Hermes[1] though, it's always on time.

[1]: https://www.myhermes.de
Yeah, as an EMS provider, entirely possible she was in shock (of the mental sense, not physiological).

Also entirely possible she was being told to leave, or something. You wouldn't (or maybe you would) believe the number of times we've shown up to DUI injury accidents where a spouse has shown up "coincidentally" and is trying to ferry their drunk partner into their car before police or fire get there.

In one case, while we were checking out such a drunk driver, the cop looked over and his wife was about 5 feet away, gesticulating at her chest and then a choking sound, repeatedly. He had a confused look and then started complaining of chest pain.

A waste of time, but counterproductive for them both - she/they were thinking they'd lessen his blood alcohol by feigning a medical condition, but instead an ECG was run, all clear, but due to his continuing complaint he was transported by ambulance to hospital where the first thing done... was a blood draw.
It has been really exciting to see ZeroNet grow, we need this!

Curious, does it still use git to push a JSON record change in a large blob to a remote bot that then commits it? Are you working to re-architect this? I'm hoping I can convince you guys to partner up with us, we just got a prototype of end-to-end encrypted P2P data structures working ( https://youtu.be/ik_dqXBMBHw ) that is storage/network efficient (syncing diffs) and fully decentralized using CRDTs. Shoot me an email (check profile) if you see this. I've been keeping an eye on ZeroNet for the last year or year and a half-ish (?), and really excited about its growth.
Found the repo - https://github.com/sustrik/ribosome
I take Glassdoor reviews in the same way I take Yelp Reviews. If there are 9 positive reviews, and a single negative review, that's probably not a problem. If it's 50/50 and the majority of the positive reviews seem like slightly changed variants on the same review, then I'm very suspicious.
Hi everyone, I'm one of the founders of Overseer. We built this tool because we noticed that engineers had to dig through many dashboards when diagnosing an incident. We felt this process could be streamlined through the use of machine learning.

When we first started working on this project over a year ago, we weren't sure if the algorithms would work, or if our insights would be of value to anyone. We were also struggling to figure out how to make it easier for people to try the product without having to change their existing workflow.

Since then, we've made huge improvements to the algorithms, deployed the tech for several large customers, and demonstrated value. Now I'd love to get a bit more feedback from you guys and see if we're going in the right direction!

So here's how the tool works:
1 - We pull down your dashboards from your existing monitoring tool (e.g. Datadog/Wavefront/Librato) using your API key.
2 - We integrate with your PagerDuty account via a Webhook to notify us when an incident has triggered.
3 - When our Webhook is invoked, we will use machine learning to rank your dashboards, rank the metrics on those dashboards, and notify you via Slack/Email of the top dashboards/top metrics on those dashboards to look at.

For this demo, we only expose the Wavefront plugin, and you'll be able to configure it on the initial page.

To integrate with PagerDuty, you'll need a URL to our end point, and we'll need an email address where we can send the analysis. You can configure that by clicking on your user name (on the top right) and doing the following:
1. Clicking on "Generate API Key" and jotting down the generated Webhook URL. PagerDuty will need that.
2. Filling out the "Organization Email" text box. We will send your our analysis there!

Given that we'll be dealing with potentially sensitive data, we reluctantly decided to add a layer of security and have folks register with us first - this allows us to protect your data better. My apologies for the inconvenience.

I'd love to see what the HN community thinks and how we can make it better!
It seems out of character for Steve to use his name like this.
I once saw a sign on a door of a hotel in the bay area that said something like "this door leads to an area with stuff that can cause cancer". If you went through that door, you ended up outside.

Technically, the sign wasn't wrong, but come on California...