skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
things are slowly changing. this guy was recently convicted for 2nd degree manslaughter:

http://gothamist.com/2017/09/25/matthew_von_ohlen_conviction...

The joke in nyc is, after a cycling accident, nypd will be out in force ticketing bicyclists the day after.
To be fair, I did mention burden of proof.
That's survivor bias. You're missing all the people that died eating fat and carbs at a statistically higher rate than those who did not.
The claim that "it's an accident and accidents just happen" is spurious. When you are in control of something that can easily cause the death or great bodily harm of another it is your duty to be vigilant and follow the rules to prevent accidents. The issue is much clearer in the gun owner community. If your gun discharges when you don't intend it to it's negligence, not an accident. Negligent Discharge is a common term and when it happens it is universally agreed that it was the owners fault because they didn't follow one of Cooper's rules, or were otherwise irresponsible. To say that someone driving a car has less responsibility than someone holding a gun is irrational, since they both can cause the death of others when used carelessly.

It is true, however, that the other party can cause an accident. If someone runs out from the bushes in front of you on the freeway, it's clearly their fault when they get hit. But if you're texting on your cell phone and you run over a cyclist because of your own inattention, that's not an accident. That's your own negligence and should be treated as such.
Nytimes sure is posting a lot of literature talking smack about SV
Scott Galloway was saying Apple should take it's war chest and disrupt the educational system. Start an Apple University where the skills required for tomorrows jobs can be acquired.

Would be great if you could get Amazon, MS, Apple, facebook, etc on board to start the revolution in education.
It's definitely not 'my' theory.

Major outlets are deeply intertwined and take cues from one another as to 'what the story of the hour' is.

All of the 'grievances' purported by the press against SV today, could have been made 10 years ago - but they weren't. Why not?

Andrew Keen at TechCrunch, or maybe the cynical guys at TheRegister were the only ones brave enough to say anything a while back. (Granted, Keen might be a cynic at heart :) ).
Under the hood, async/await is using callbacks into a finite state machine. JS Promise and C# Task<T> (which are very similar in design, for obvious reasons) are both still driving the operations in an async/await function, the JS runtime, C# compiler (or TS compiler), is doing the heavy lifting of converting imperative looking code into a finite state machine for Promise/Task callbacks.

You can't avoid callbacks in an asynchronous flow. async/await is just a conversion between imperative looking code and a callback structure. It's a great win for developers that we've built such conversion tools (thanks to work on monads in languages like Haskell and OCaml).

Rx is for higher-order asynchronous streams where you have multiple events over time. It doesn't have the beauty of async/await because it's a much more complicated abstraction than the basic monad of Promise/Task. If you have a stream of events over time you can use Rx and if you have just one Promise at a time you can use Promise/Task and thus async/await. (The difference between I want to know every click of this button and I want to know just the next click of this button.) Most applications are a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B, and you don't have to pick one or the other, you can use both side-by-side.
They were already in the crosswalk when the car hit them. What should they have done, precisely? This victim blaming that happens to cyclists and pedestrians after they're hit is shameful.
> So there wouldn't exist too much difference with a pure Rust application full of unsafe blocks.

There would be a massive difference, unless you're proposing they write the kernel in a high level language with little bits of C++ thrown in for the unsafe parts, which notably is not what they're already doing.

The point is to make kernel code safe by default, with a small amount of unsafe in it, all wrapped up in a safe interface for the rest of the kernel to use.
unforget.io is on iOS now
Doesn't look like there's anything like CLIM support, unfortunately.
Someone Created a Tor Hidden Service to Phish My Tor Hidden Service
The main advantage that Chris used in RCT2 to optimise his code was that he could vary his calling convention however he felt. Most of the time all variables were passed in registers instead of the stack. This can make for some impressive speed ups.
I think the article does address that to some degree. My interpretation is that if your requirements change so much and are so complex that you are not able to complete the solutions, then you should step back from coding and work more on the requirements.

Of course that also means slowing down, and obviously that won't do in silicon valley. Gotta go fast, even if you are running around like headless chicken.
Clear ad-hominem attack if I've ever seen one. Maybe the comment could have been better phrased as a question:

What is actually unprofessional about Amazon contracting package delivery to random individuals?

I'm not in favor of it, but I haven't thought about it enough to have a good argument about the topic. @viperscape does bring up good points though: personal vehicles and the perception that Amazon has "granted permission" to random people to enter property and handle their goods. What are the arguments in favor or Amazon's new delivery model?
I understand about being tagged in a photo and a social media site inferring where I am but can you explain how this happens with a friend's "Echo/Dot/Home/"Smart" TV"?
Because I'm talking about AMZL, which is Amazon's delivery service. I haven't had these problems with USPS, UPS, or FedEx in the 3 years I've lived at this address.
Pedestrians bitch about a small, aggressive subset of cyclists, typically couriers, but get killed by cars. Take your pick.

If you're scared of bicycles maybe you should stay indoors. There's things like squirrels and pigeons out there that might attack you.
Oh damn! Those we just for development purpose and I totally forgot to update the demo text. This is soooo foolish. Thanks for bringing this up!
How big and how much change? There's Ben and Jerry's and Newman's Own, some people might say Costco.
The specific criticism in this article is that Facebook hasn't done enough to censor non-PC content (i.e. permitted the use of its platform for right-wing activism).
I am not very familiar with this project but I see it uses UPnP. Does it rely on UPnP or is it only opportunistic use? If the former, what happens if the user's custom router does not run a UPnP daemon, or if the user prefers to disable UPnP in her consumer router?
Yes this is so foolish of me. I totally forgot to update the demo text.
Google should be called out on their pathetic support culture. Are they afraid of hiring support folks, if this is not ideology driving business decisions what is? There is no way they can compete even 1% with Amazon's customer service.

Everyone knows you can automate untill you need review at which point you need people. No amount of machine learning can take away human review and misguided attempts to do so simply pretend the world is perfect and ignore reality in favour of fairy tales and ideology. Of course the customer is left paying the price for these insane assumptions.
Yes its always been a thought that we should do a Dolphin style progress blog but at present there is no one available to write one.
A list of knitting sites blocked by ISPs in the UK
From their documentation: https://intellabs.github.io/hpat/_build/html/source/notsuppo...

"Similarly, function calls should also be deterministic. The below example is not supported since function f is not known in advance"

What if the if statement is valuable at compile time?
Exactly my reaction. Google is known for having almost non existent customer support. Not just in products but also things like Google Cloud (before that App Engine). It works well and you are happy but if there's some issue with your site/app, getting in touch with a human being is almost impossible.
Michel Jouvet, Who Unlocked REM Sleep’s Secrets, Dies at 91
Introducing HelloExoWorld: The quest to discover exoplanets with Warp10/Tensorflow
Slovenia plans to make investment easier -clergyman
When the axe came into the Forest, the trees said "The handle is one of us".
Nah, MOOCs hold a lot of promise for other areas of study, but they definitely are not totally there yet. They seem to be pretty good in 'soft' fields that don't have much hands-on applications, but still pretty terrible for things like electrical/mechanical engineering or embedded development.

Like, I'm interested in making things so that my code can interact with the real world, so I tried Coursera's embedded development class.

Holy hell. It was awful. Way worse than a lot of free youtube tutorials I've watched, and they were charging money. The course files flat-out did not work. The course VM with the cross-compilation toolchain and everything was incapable of booting; good thing those things are easy to install. The assignments told you to do different things from the grading criteria; I wound up erring on the super generous side with grading, especially since the lectures were often largely unrelated to the tasks. And there was no embedded platform involved at all, full stop. In a months-long course.

I learned much more in a week with Google and a $10 ST Nucleo board. That's where online education could still use a lot of work, IMO. The sort of thing that requires lab segments.

And to be fair to Coursera, that's a tough thing to get right. It would be nice if they actually verified that they were selling courses that functioned at all, and that soured me personally to their platform, but at least you can get a refund. They also have a power electronics class I was interested in, but there's no chance in hell I'd risk it now. I don't mind throwing a few hundred dollars and hours after education, but that stuff is potentially really dangerous and I don't want to risk getting it wrong because a lecture on transformer winding wasn't vetted...
Absolutely. I once made the mistake of ignoring a Glassdoor review and it caused me no end of trouble. What a stinker of a company. The reviews were completely accurate.
and thank you too for the compliment re: "amazing in-depth content" ... there are often quite a few people involved behind the scenes, in addition to our great guests and experts (including many of our own folks internally)! Huge credit to them too. We do also edit to focus and remove sidebars, and increase info density. Not going to pretend we don't edit -- and I'd argue it's important! Recently, I was listening to an audio book and I had to skip the first two chapters which would have been fine in written form only, but in listening mode I just have less patience. Unless it's a "cult of personality" type show, where you are following because you're into a particular person. But we're more focused on our collective voices, including from network, so I def don't want it to be a cult of personality...
It's finished when there's nothing left to remove.
On macOS coconutBattery (http://coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/) will show your iOS device battery status, including cycle count. (No affiliation.)
I never had a case on mine and have dropped it countless times, never had an issue.

The chassis on the sides has some pretty bad gouges, but I have never had a crack on the screen or digitizer.

I did have to replace the 30-pin connector interface (it would charge and transfer data fine, but had some weird short-circuit where it thought an external speaker was plugged in, and there would be no sound for videos).

Was yours an OEM digitizer?

The 5S I have is on its third battery and the digitizer is starting to separate. The lightning port will only work with cables in a specific orientation, and slight jiggling causes a momentary disconnect (using actual Apple cable and charger).
A better comparison is between bitcoin and countries currencies... it's something like number 59 in the world, though that is from a couple weeks ago.

Bitcoin is really a new currency, and comparing it to company market caps and banks sizes is not really fundamentally useful, but it is useful for giving an idea of the size of the bitcoin economy.
Interesting. Is the bid deal the fact that Pilosa requires no pre preaggregation? Am I getting that right?
For me static typing is one less thing to think about and I can concentrate on the problem.
At the very least until their first budget goes into effect. This is not a new concept. It's why the stupid right wing memes in like.. April were all "Obamas first 100 days vs Trumps first 100" - because Obama was dealing with the freaking recession and the Bush policies and budget.

Again - this is not new.
Regardless of cause, that's a collision.

If there was nothing they could have done to prevent that incident, if any reasonable driver would have had exactly the same problem, then perhaps they're not at fault.

If somehow other people managed to navigate that hazard without issue then there may be an element of fault. Were they driving too fast? Were they slow to react?

A good lawyer would be able to argue that the root cause of that collision was the spill on the road, which seems like a reasonable defence. If it went to trial a jury would be inclined to agree, so there's no real risk of over-prosecuting here.

Keep in mind that these sorts of cases are the exception, not the norm.
I can now talk to an "intelligent" AI when my shipment doesn't arrive on time or if I have to complain about a product I bought. May be a post in Google Forums.
I am not trying to convince you to vote. Please feel free to stay home as that's probably better for me than you going out and voting.

Still, to give a specific example: Republicans want to replace the affordable care act. They also want to get elected.

So, let's figure out what explains their actions. People who vote, political donors, or everything else such as people send out angry tweets etc.

PS: It's possible for the 3rd option to be important, but frankly your actions not going to be.
> Calling all traffic collisions accidents is misleading.

Right. In most US states when you drive an emergency vehicle (such as, in my case, a fire engine or ambulance) you are required to take a course called EVIP - Emergency Vehicle Incident Prevention. Among other things, this course serves as a partial exemption for a CDL, and discusses other laws of the road with respect to emergency vehicles (such as the fact that even an ambulance with lights and sirens on has to stop for a school bus).

But... to your point, the course used to be called EVAP - Emergency Vehicle Accident Prevention - but was specifically changed to recognize that accidents are not preventable, but a cause of circumstance outside control, and that most collisions are in fact "incidents", not "accidents".
From my experience the probability of receiving a damaged package is much higher with OnTrac than with UPS or Fedex for example.
RCT Classic is one way of getting the files but it's cheaper to buy RCT2 then load it in OpenRCT2. But to each their own as long as you're having fun.
The legal one :-)

Which is if a company's procedures though applied to all has a worse effect on a certain race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, disabled and caste.

It can be legal discrimination eg a fire fighter being abele to lift a certain weight.
I was surprised to read that Woz U will be based out of Arizona. That's pretty cool.
We actually use codemirror at work as the basis of a fully-operational operation-transform based collaborative editor. We are working on open-sourcing our implementation, but thank you for all your hard work!

It's interesting about not being able to easily bolt on collaboration; it was not a trivial endeavor at all, but codemirror's APIs made that part exceedingly easy :)
Canada Wants to Solve U.S. Nuclear Woes with Faraway Dams
Usually there is something to be found on the internet about whatever it is that you are about to purchase and this most of the time is pretty accurate about hidden online components that ought to be disclosed but aren't. For instance the Nest, when I first heard about it I was interested, when I realized it is tied to a service I decided not to buy it. Ditto smart doorlocks and other clever IoT stuff that seemed attractive until I found out that it requires 'always on' internet and is hard or even impossible to upgrade besides not being clear about what data is being sent to the mothership.

My navigator is an elderly TomTom, my phone an old Nokia and so on. I seem to be stuck in stuff that is now a generation or two behind the times but I've yet to be convinced that the 'new' stuff is better in a way that outweighs the privacy and security risks.
Avoid using words never, always, ever, all, none, only. Most sentences containing those words are not true given enough space and time.
What you have to demonstrate is that static typing catches a statistically significant amount of additional errors over plain unit tests. Nobody has been able to show this to be the case so far in practice.
You can ask them to make a note on your account to not use their in-house delivery.
The problem is with way the laws are written, it's almost impossible to prosecute bad drivers. I was clipped by a driver while cycling, who then flipped me off because I was in his way (I had the right of way). I reported to police and they didn't even pursue a ticket because "he will just deny it and we won't get a conviction".

Pedestrians and cyclists are dying at alarming rates. The vast majority are not "unavoidable accidents" but drivers making dangerous decisions. Most drivers are courteous, but a small number are repeat offenders who consider the road a battle and cyclists an opponent.

Any contact between a car and pedestrian/cyclist should be a serious offence. It won't stop every death, but if the first time you clipped someone, police actually acted on it and you had your licence suspended for 30 days, it would stop a good number of them.

Proof in the issue from the article: less than 1% of collisions injuring a pedestrians were cited for careless driving.
People should describe a policy, and a means for that policy to have made a difference to the economy, when taking credit. Otherwise it's like taking credit for the sun rising.
It was actually a fascinating early example of mass-media propaganda. Since the rule for centuries previously was that everyone had equal access to the roads, they had to repurpose a slur and frame the automotive road-takeover as progress over the yokels. Lots of lessons there that can be taken in a number of different ways.

One bit of the history here, google will give you a lot more:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797
> It's not crazy that I would be checking my maps app at the same time a police siren comes into view, leading me to miss the biker who'd just turned into the lane next to me.

I think this is much of the problem. It should be crazy to do that. Yet so many people do it, regularly, and can't conceive of their daily life without doing it, so we just accept that it is not crazy. And then when it causes a problem, as it inevitably will, we say "oh well, accidents happen".
It would be great if fakespot added GlassDoor reviews to their set. I would love to see how well it could identify real verse paid for
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My counter anecdote: I had a fantastic online ordering experience at Target about a week or two ago. I needed something during the work day, so I placed an order with the nearest store to my office over the Internet and they had my order ready for in-store pickup in under a half hour. Stopped by, walked in, picked it up, and left. Still had time to go get lunch.
i think maybe we should keep "genocide" reserved for people, or at least wait on applying it to software till we think that software might be sentient. linguistic inflation sort of sucks [0].

[0] http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/is-linguistic-inflati... ("linguistic inflation" is a term that i've been using in my own head for years without using it in conversation, so i'm glad to see others have the same complaint)
I just died a little inside.
This article is about Hy, http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/

"A Lisp that runs Python" is kind of vague. Hy describes itself as "a Lisp-flavored Python". I'd call it "a lisp that compiles to Python".
People assume it's without a plan because there isn't a plan. It's still not clear what the government actually wants out of Brexit, and there were at least two Leave campaigns with very different and mostly fictional manifestoes.
Many great software projects are never finished. All un-great project remain unfinished.
I made this same point a while back on HN and the response I received was

>people are half a second between 'that's absurd, they're not doing that,' and 'of course it's always been that way.'

In 1994, X-Files Season 1 Ep. 17 introduced the Lone Gunmen, a group of conspiracy theorists:

>"The characters, who were used to help Mulder appear more credible"

If you watch the episode, one of the main 'batshit insane'conspiracy theories they put forward was that the government is recording everyone's phone calls--then Scully rolls her eyes and Mulder appears skeptical.

You have to admit, it is kind of crazy...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.B.E._(The_X-Files)
I think 2017 is the year we have a turning point in the media's opinion of Silicon valley. I don't remember seeing this much SV bashing in the last 10 years. I think it has less to do with what SV is doing precisely: it's more about the threat of automation and the consolidation of power in the hands of a few companies.

Pieces like this, so enfused with bitterness show a fundamental lack of understanding of how capitalism works, or at least a willful ignorance: "Growth becomes the overriding motivation". Of course is the overriding motiviation - this is how capitalism works.

It reflects poorly on the New York times. I expected better more balanced journalism from them.

However, I do agree with their argument about breaking up giants. There is some merit to this argument and much could be gained from greater competition.
That regulation didn't happen for years or decades after the colossal impacts those revolutions had on society/world.

Not bringing up historical context only weakens the article's argument, IMHO.
Do we execute doctors for murder every time it's conceivably possible that a patient's death could have been avoided?

The law is hardly ever consequentialist. In almost any position where you can kill someone by mistake in the course of a legitimate activity, punishing the killer requires evidence that they were unusually reckless.
I highly recommend the book "Exit Strategy" by Douglas Rushkoff.

Although it is fiction, it is an entertaining read of the attitude you describe during the dot.com boom.

I remember reading it a chapter at a time, as it was released, I think weekly, on yil.com.
Like with the various hardware bits that I use this would probably cause me to get stuck in the past at some point in time. Fortunately for me my tools are free (text editor, compiler) but I can see that in some professions you are now forced into buying a subscription for software where you'd much rather just pay for a license and the occasional update. Congratulations at becoming a dairy cow, even so this article was about IoT and there most services feel grafted on without any kind of improved functionality, in the case of software-by-subscription (which I think is a fairer name that software-as-a-service) one could argue that the distribution model has changed but the functionality is roughly what you pay for. Not that there aren't obvious drawbacks to software 'in the cloud'.