skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Michigan is a great location to test self driving cars, because the lake effect makes the temperature fluctuate around freezing. This means we go from icy to wet frequently. It also helps that we get a decent amount of snow, giving us a much wider range of driving conditions than the Bay Area.
There’s also the benefit of roads in every state of repair, from pristine to essentially abandoned by the government.
The gap between computers and phones is a lot smaller than cloud services and groceries.
Happiness is relative.

Humans (and animals) value "fairness" even if they are objectively better off. There is a famous experiment where two monkeys are given a cucumber every day. They are both happy. Then one of them starts getting grapes (sweeter than cucumber). The monkey that doesn't get the grapes rejects the cucumber in protest.

https://youtu.be/meiU6TxysCg
"Intel's greatest invention... was AMD."

;D
Unless Germany is on board, I can’t see this happening. (Thank god for minute favors)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-articulated_bus

None of our mass transit operates near the speed limit anyway, afaik.
I don't watch cable news because the few times I have watched it lately it has been of very poor quality. Notably, Rachel Maddow has been caught embellishing the Russia story to the point where I think it's clear she has a strongly partisan view of the issue which interferes with her ability to do unbiased reporting.

I think I had heard about Maddow's Emmy but forgotten about it. Please note that I did not claim that RT's coverage was superior to any other specific coverage, just that RT tends to cover many more of that kind of embarrassing, unflattering story that generally is not part of the major media/entertainment companies' coverage.

My point was not about the Flint crisis specifically, it was about the importance of those unflattering kinds of stories to the democratic process.
Most of the skill in that area is not working with the CMS but doing the crazy complex integrations that clients ask of them. (And of saving the work of not-as-skilled/too-skilled-for-their-own-good crowd.)

Maybe more of a light blue collar.
The very mention of it irked the hornet's nest.
Ask HN: What options are there for remote computers *with* graphical display
not sure exactly how to word this, but i find running headless chome and xvfb and the like is cumbersome on servers, i was wondering if there is a service that is more similar to an actual personal computer, with a graphical display etc. i use chrome to track some sites online and its quite awkward trying to do it on a server.
I would not describe government as heavily involved in health care. The prices you see rising are from lack of meaningful competition and transparency allowing providers and insurance companies to dictate prices virtually arbitrarily and certainly irrationally to the consumer using the services.

Meanwhile, government is the only meaningful access many have to healthcare and education.
Echoing the sentiment of other replies, this is because you don't actually get what you are paying for. I initially bought a 100Mbps Unlimited plan. I have never gotten close to that. I pay for the most expensive plan out of a hope that I will get prioritized by my ISP, but I have never seen anything faster than 26Mbps, ever.
Shelley – Collaborative horror story writing using deep learning
The important bit (and also w.r.t. who to blame):

> Documents[1] leaked today by Statewatch expose: The governments of France, Spain and Portugal are pushing to redesign the web away from openness and towards the tight control of cable TV, where a few big companies get to say what goes on the air.

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[1] http://statewatch.org/news/2017/oct/eu-copyright-fr-pt-es.ht...
I don't agree that crappy climate is a poor reason to avoid a move. Ideally it's not your only reason, but the climate in California is definitely a major selling point for just about everyone (myself included) who have come here from the east coast and the primary reason I won't go back. And the surrounding outdoors (if you're into that) is much better in SF than NYC, and really any city I know of in the US. A 30-45 minute drive from SF can get you into Muir Woods, wine country, Half Moon bay, etc. Really beautiful places that are very accessible for a weekend day trip. 45 min from NYC gets you to... Staten Island? Coney Island if you're lucky? It's a no brainer for me on that front.
I wouldn't be that optimistic.. I grew up in Duluth, MN. A city that in 2 miles goes from 600' ASL to 1400' ASL, there are some roads with a greater than 10% grade to them. It snows there, and not just any snow, lake-effect snow. You really do need a special set of skills and roadway awareness to navigate inclement weather in cities like this.

Detroit is a great step, but I'd really like to see some more challenging areas handled before I'm convinced.
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Your opinions depends on your citizenship. When you say Chinese (well, half-Chinese), are you a citizen of China ?
It just doesn’t (to me at least) seem comparable to the Bay Area.

No, it isn't comparable. That is kind of the point here: If you are sick of the downside in the Bay Area of insane commutes, insane house prices, large numbers of increasingly aggressive homeless junkies, etc, then leaving might make more sense for some people than staying and hoping to fix some of these problems.

But thank you for giving me a meaty reply.
I'm not white. I'm quite distinctly not white. They would harm me, if they had the courage and means.

You would deprive them of their liberties without due process and you would do so out of fear. You justify it and call it rational.

That is how I see you. That is what I see when I read what you write.

I don't expect to change your views. I will point out that that sort of thinking is how the US ended up with things like the PATRIOT Act and FISA courts. Fearful people are not rational people, they are rationalizing people.

In ten years, do you want to live in some authoritarian society where every thought and expression must be approved by the public? Where no dangerous thought must be expressed? Where those declared deplorable must be silenced and shunned? Where there exist an oppressed class for their very thoughts, without acting on them?

I do not. I am not afraid. I am more afraid of ceding my liberties and my empathy. I am more afraid of a day when you are not allowed to speak out against Nazis.
I meant, as an option to people already in the valley. There must be tons of talent that join these companies when they don't have kids, and would like to work some place where they have more space, more nature etc, when they get older and have kids.

I mean I moved out of a city to a distance of about an hour. I have the benefit of being able to work from home
so I don't have to go to the office, but I'd very much appreciate if the company set up a satellite office closer to where I'm at. The alternative to having to work full time in the city isn't really an option. Either I work from home, or somewhere close.
And these tech cos right now have to be losing people to rural companies, if they don't allow them to work from home and don't set up alternatives to SV offices.
>Do we want to be a white-washed Disneyland

People spend $100 a day to experience this.
That's not how it works. You don't build housing first and the infrastructure to get to it later. Nobody rational would build a skyscraper in the outer sunset (even if they could), because they know that the demand isn't there. Commuting to the outer sunset from downtown is painfully inconvenient. This is why rents are substantially lower on the west side of SF, despite the lower density.

Build effective transit, and dense housing automatically happens, because people will organically demand it -- the story plays out identically in nearly every city that builds a light rail line. The YIMBY activists in SF don't seem to understand this, despite lots of rhetoric about supply and demand.

The truth is, YIMBY folks in SF are myopically focused on a few core neighborhoods that are already pretty dense (i.e. the Mission), and completely ignoring the driving forces behind the demand. This is largely because they're being supported by people who want to re-develop already expensive neighborhoods, which is a quick way to make a buck in the short term, and a dubious way of responding to a housing crunch. An effective movement to increase housing density in SF should focus on better transit corridors, and leave the housing policy to happen of its own accord.

In other words: if you want density in SF, run a subway line down Geary.
That is true, but you’re focusing on the php part rather than the median php position part, which is the relevant point to the discussion.
So you are not disputing that the people who appear to be police are genuinely police, or that they actually engaged in violence against people engaged in a (nominally) peaceful protest against the authority of the national government? If a real cop really hit a person, and that resulted in real injury, that's not a fake video.

I think it's impressive that a Spanish cop can hold out for two hours of continuous abuse before breaking, but again, I'm used to American cops. Quite a lot of ours can maintain a professional demeanor for an entire shift of continual public abuse, maybe even for several days in a row, as might occur in a G20 protest or similar, but we also have some who will retaliate for frowning at them, or giving them "dehumanizing looks". Sometimes all it takes is just being there while black, or pointing a camera in their general direction.

The international--or at least Western European--expectation for police, as I understand it, is that a cop never breaks down and assaults a person who is not already violent or otherwise endangering the public, regardless of how unpleasant they may be in their non-violence. I'm pretty sure that would never work here. If you can't occasionally gun down a man in the streets just for looking at you funny, how can you expect to generate that pervading aura of absolute terror that keeps everyone nervously polite and law-abiding the rest of the time you're around?~

I'm sorry to tell you that cutting out the three hours of tension prior to the most-viewed portion of the video does not actually debunk it. You'll need to show one of the following:

- The police in the videos were not real police.
- The apparent victims became violent prior to the start of the video.
- The apparent victims were not as injured as they appeared to be.

If the video does show a real person assaulted and battered by a real cop for no reason considered valid under any theory of the ethical use of force, I don't know how you can realistically claim that it is fake or debunked. Good cops don't punch peaceful people in any country, no matter how rude or angry they get. They don't even punch the notorious criminals. They use the minimum amount of force necessary to preserve the peace, and do not allow their personal emotions to interfere with that duty.
Just watch/read non western news I guess ?
Doesn't appear images are actually stored, just linked. So imgur or whoever would, presumably, remove it and miners would just have a broken link in their blockchain.

I can't think of plaintext that would be both illegal and small enough to store in the blockchain.
smalltalk cutest feature is the named parameter syntax trick (I don't like tricks but let's make an exception).

make-range from: 10 to: 20 calss (make-range.from:to 10 20) or something similar. Free nanodsls

smalltalk simplicity lies in that the metamodel is actually human reasoning friendly, even while dynamic, you have a clear picture of what's gonna happen in case of errors etc. It didn't please visual age users, which called smalltalk messagenotunderstoodlang but I believe it was due to the wrong viewpoint.
Totally agree. However, that doesn't absolve us of trying to find solutions that are feasible within our cultural and political landscape. At least in SF, for the moment, that primarily seems to mean getting more units built within the city, since we're not going to improve transit to other towns soon, nor are neighboring communities willing to build more units to help SF.
Speaking as a boring professional, yes, artists may be insufferable in plenty of ways, but boring they are not and their presence is important for establishing and growing a local culture, whereas professionals are good for growing an economy and both are needed for a healthy, vibrant city.
Mexicable charges seven pesos (37 cents), less than half of its break-even price

...

The jury is out on whether cable cars are worth the cost.

I'd be surprised if they can run a bus line or any other transit for less than 74 cents/trip.
Well, there are surprisingly few CS graduates who actually understand Object Oriented Programming as Alan Kay designed it for Smalltalk, which in turn lowers the probabilty that any of them will build a qualitatively better language.

I mean there are a lot of other skills a programmer needs to have than to understand what OOP is, but sometimes I think it would be better if more young students would learn Smalltalk to understand what OOP is about and why the simple existence of classes doesn't make a language an OO language...
Lisp programming has never never pure functional programming. It has been sometimes used to teach functional programming, but traditional Lisp's (Common Lisp as good example) has always been multi-paradigm language and object systems in Lisp's are fairly advanced.

Alan Kay's definition of OOP:

>OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them.

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...
> I think most sane people aren't curious because of the conspiracy angle,

This seems like a mean-spirited thing to say.

I don't know how large a percentage of the country you regard as "sane", but the "lone not" theory has never really enjoyed much support. More than 60% of people surveyed believe that there was a conspiracy.

I think of myself as quite sane, reasonable, rational, etc. And I think it's plainly obvious that a group, rather than an individual, committed this crime.
Those attempts will never cease, will they?
Your link clarifies the statement. Space is expanding. Galaxies aren't actually moving FTL.
This reminded me of the tramways [1] in Chiatura, Georgia (the country, not the state).

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/08/stalins-rope-roads...
No, not an 'oversupply of capital' , rather a lot of capital in the hands of a few. And low interest rates.

It only takes about 5% of home buyers to be foreign buyers who are 'price inelastic' (i.e. they will pay above market/any price) to create a housing bubble.

If the capital were not in their hands, but more distributed through the NZ economy, I suggest that capital would be deployed differently than just in real estate.
Public Key Pinning Being Removed from Chrome
I'd say not really. BGP based lies are hilariously easy to spot, and can be observed by any ISP in the world. When the US Intelligence community blames Russia for hacking they aren't just doing geo-ip lookups and believing what they see. Anyone with a credit card these days can rent a server in any country anyway, so origin of traffic is more or less useless.
Time to move on from DevOps and continuous delivery, says Google advocate
also this is the king's meal so a very meat heavy meal as a sign of opulence seems to make more sense.
I completed the Duolingo course in Esperanto this year, and found it enormous fun. I don't know if I'll keep it up, but the thing I most appreciate about it is that it feels like a ticket to a kinder world... even if just for vacation.

I'd love to build enough proficiency to attend the world congress and be able to converse with folks there. I imagine you'd meet some remarkable people.

Lastly, I wish I were living in the multiverse in which there is a Star Trek series filmed in Esperanto. If I were a bored billionaire, I'd totally fund a fan series a la "Star Trek Continues" in Esperanto. Maybe we can get George Soros (native Esperanto speaker) and Paul Allen (sci-fi ultra aficionado) to talk.
I don't know about "any developing country" but Iranian nuclear scientists were being assassinated not long ago. That was mainstream news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nucle...
You are correct. I apologize for the distraction caused.
True. I was replying to a sarcastic comment in a sarcastic way. Mea culpa.

> Removing an advanced library

They made it clear they didn't remove the library. They still load it later, and still use it.

> from a simple project

They make it clear it's not a simple project. In fact, it's probably one of the more complex pieces of the project.

> increases performance.

No, it increased specific metrics that they cared about.

> Sorry for being sarcastic but don't you also find this too obvious?

Your comment, or their results? Your comment is incorrect based on a single slide and taken out of context. As for the actual reasons, no, they are not obvious at all. Incredibly intelligent people didn't find it obvious, as this was something they clearly didn't see at the beginning, and instead relied on measurements.

Premature optimization and all that.
Looks great. Note that the inline demo animations don't work with Mac Safari 11. I had to use Chrome to see them.
That would be far too sensible. I mean this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38153180

Which seems to refer to this: http://gov.wales/topics/transport/roads/schemes/m4/corridor-...

Which is currently “planned” and won’t start until next summer at the earliest.
I close the signup/login if it shows google recaptcha. I don't want to be training their neural networks for free. I will not solve those captchas. Converting book text to text was fine, but i am not selecting which images has cars and which one doesn't.
This is nonsense. Google does not make such an app and would never as apps do not have the ability to protect from malware, nor should they as that would be giving them the permissions to actually become malware!
And it's a dry heat.

I grew up in Georgia. I'll take 110 in a dry place with low humidity over 101 in air thick enough to slice with a knife any day.
Having friends that did this you would be surprised how much of it was mined away. My friend bought some early and lost it all do to mining.
> metamodel is actually human reasoning friendly

There's so much power in being able to think about a language (or your application) without having to always dig into the code.
Yes but if they give you RSUs, which is probably the case in a publicly traded company, then typically >1/3rd are sold by etrade or whoever to pay those taxes. IE you don't really have to deal with this.

Now you DO have to worry about the taxes on capital gains. I recently had to deal with this because I sold my RSUs on the day they vested, thought the 3rd that auto-sold covered me, but didn't realize the .88 cents that the stock rose in the hour before I sold the stock qualified as cap gains and I needed to deal with declaring it. Short term cap gains in this situation basically is just your standard tax rate.

If you don't need the money and you think the company's stock is going to do decently over the next year then holding on to your shares for a year to get to long term cap gains isn't necessarily a bad idea. Depends on the company.
For example, https://github.com/tonyg/pi-nothing/blob/master/kernel.nothi... does something similar to that blinker. It might not be quite what you're after, because it's only superficially a lisp; more an S-expression veneer over something C-like. Toolchain is the rest of the repo. Currently written in Racket. (BTW this is feasibility-study-level stuff, not production stuff. It's messy as hell because I haven't done even the most rudimentary tidying-up of it for public view. Caveat lector.)

But hardware access - replacing C - is the really easy part. The real power of a lisp/Smalltalk OS is getting away from the hardware in one "rocket jump", as Alan put it. Once you can start using integrated high-level language constructs spanning the whole of the abstraction tower from hardware through user interface, that's when it starts to get fun. The really good stuff is the new abstractions you can unlock. Smalltalk is a far better Unix than Unix, from that point of view.
> The experiment, which began 19 October and is still ongoing, involves limiting the core element of Facebook’s social network to only personal posts and paid adverts.

This is the Orwellian outcry? I'm much more concerned about the idea of everyone getting their news (especially passively) from Facebook and making Facebook some sort of "social network" instead.
That's because the best way to drive in the snow is to not do it, yet that doesn't stop plenty of sport compact cars without properly rated tires trying to take on steep grades in sub-zero temperatures while its snowing sideways. There's no skill that's bailing that person out.
It calls into question the very idea of "illegal content."

If you think about it, what does it mean that content is illegal? How can you forbid a set of ones and zeroes?

It's a fake idea we've invented, and new technology has a way of forcing us to realize that.

That said, practically, the world will adapt however it adapts. If we can survive the advent of unbreakable encryption, a little trolling won't matter much.
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Ask HN: Unhappy with current position. – Need Advice
Hello HN!
I am currently working as a C#/.NET dev and have been at my current company almost 2 years.

This is my first position out college, and while I have learned a lot I am beginning to feel un-challenged, bored, and annoyed.

I have relayed this all to my manager (who has only been here for 1.5 months), and I have gotten no feedback. I have also been waiting 5 months for a review (I first asked for it five months ago). The lack of focus/goals at any level in the company is what is most annoying (Aside from my almost 1 hour 45 minute round trip commute each day).

All I really want is to work on software that helps others, keep learning, and work with other intelligent people (I previously worked with 2 other devs, but I am the only dev at the company again).

I just feel like this position is stagnating, and I don't want to feel that way any longer. I'm not sure if I should begin looking for new jobs, or just stick it out and see how it plays out. Any advice is appreciated.
It is the media. No one bothers to remember the anti-Hindi riots during the Congress rule. Things were much, much worse then.
I didn't downvote you, but I think that people are probably downvoting you because this video is cheesy, silly, melodramatic, and uninformative. It obviously cherry-picks facts, literally cutting people off right before they make exculpatory remarks.

The rapid cuts, background music, and clips of dramatization make it difficult to take seriously.

If this video is the best support for the "lone nut" theory that can fit into 30 minutes, I think that the conspiracy theory looks pretty darn strong by contrast.
Well, then I deeply apologize.

My first reaction to your post was also thinking that you had emotional ties to it, but then I assumed you were just some internet guy with shallow knowledge. Well, wrong. I am the guy with shallow knowledge compared to you.

Anyway, I still want to state, that I did not said that the catalans suffered the most, just "more than other areas".
But I don't think I should say more on this.

I am sorry for your family.
Writing a better compiler :-)
The very lack of meaningful competition and transparency is caused by and a symptom of heavy government involvement.

Governments corrupt markets.
It's out of favor now, but Objective-C? IIRC it was inspired by Smalltalk's message syntax.