skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all honesty Valve is more like Google.
Blizzard had moderate success, then had a unicorn (WoW) which made them and their parent companies at the time (Universal and then Activision) a lot of money.

Valve on the other hand is the Google of the PC gaming scene through Steam.

I would equate Blizzard to be more like IBM or Microsoft in all honesty, Microsoft is probably a better case than the big blue.
That's what we call moving the goalposts. A paas is not remotely similar to what you're suggesting.

Are you interested in constructive conversation, or will this just be more whataboutism?
I've assembled a full list of frozen accounts. It includes Gavin Wood's Polkadot auction proceeds ($90M) and Iconomi wallet ($34.5M).

https://gist.github.com/banteg/f61d256d12158b8c344d7889266f4...
Air Travelers Resisting the ‘Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat’
> we can partition the real line R by an equivalence relation that has more equivalence classes than elements of R

That's not surprising, since an equivalence relation is a function of two elements of the set, i.e. O(N^2), and a subset is a function of a single element, i.e. O(N) . The OP mentioned subsets, and an equivalence relation is not a subset of the original set--it doesn't even typecheck.
UPS trucks instead? Maybe less reach but still pretty good.
I hear the same argument on this site every time poverty and homelessness in Silicon Valley is brought up, but I really don't understand it. Massive capital concentration is leading to only a few cities in the country experiencing economic growth, and your solution is to just build more housing in those few areas?

Why not do something about the capital concentration? Why not do something to push some of those jobs into the Midwest? That would sure lower housing demand in those few cities, and would lead to a more equal country overall.
> I think it would be a good idea to wait what Muellers investigation finds with regard to influences on the presidential election

Right now Russian companies are only alleged to have spent a few million dollars, so it's not clear that the investigation will show any material impact on the spending ratios.
>I wonder how much of this is a result of UI designers deliberately putting tiny delays/animations into their UIs to make them more "usable"?

I disable most if not all of the animations on my android phone and windows desktops for that very reason. The animations make for great tech demos but also makes everything feel so much slower when trying to get things done.
Confessions of a Slacker
Why are you so angry about this?

SC2 is probably the purest 1v1 esport. I don't think that's a bad thing. It's been heavily optimized for this use case, which is why they urge you to play it the way it was designed.

You don't have to play it, it sounds like you don't like highly competitive 1v1 tournament friendly games. That's fine, go play something else, no need to bash blizzard.

That company actually has many other games you could check out...
$408M USD, but how many rubles?
How many cars have you sold where the sale price after X years equals the purchase price? Because that's the major part of depreciation, and it has never been net-zero for me.
Judge Ignores Congress, Pretends SOPA Exists, Orders Site Blocking of Sci-Hub
They openly talked about it when CBSi (also owners of Gamespot) bought Giant Bomb back in... 2012? I forget what year, but it was pretty open about his Kane and Lynch review got him fired.
"Anaheim has made a number of seemingly inexplicable decisions that offered millions in direct subsidy to Disney: for example, the city spent $108.2m to build Disneyland's new parking garage (where visitors pay between $20 and $35/day to park), and charges the company $1/year to lease it. The garage was financed with bonds that will pay out $1.1B in interest, and when they are paid off, the company will own the garage."

Wow. That's infuriating. The people of Anaheim should be irate. A total of $1.2 billion essentially donated to Disney over however many years those bonds are for. I wonder if anyone violated any laws to make that deal happen...
How Wikipedia designs for low-bandwidth users
I thought GPLv3 was for many issues, not a single issue.

For example, the software-as-a-service loophole that GPLv3 (and AGPL) closes. We actually had an exploitation of said loophole for the open source Space Station 13 game. People were making changes to the game (each server runs their own modifications, and, the game is pure client/server so the entire 'game' is server-side binary only with dumb clients connecting) and some people were making important modifications and not sharing them with the community AND it was intentional because their mods made them the most popular server to play on (because nobody else had the features). It was a big stink, and eventually someone "leaked" the code, but then nobody could tell if that was legal to use or look at and it became a big, confusing legal grey area. All because they didn't start with AGPL or GPLv3 (or some other SaaS-aware license). The original authors probably didn't think anything of it and just thought "GPL is 'good'. So GPL it is." and that was the extent of it.
Do we know if this is intentional or not? Because this is probably the kind of thing NSA would love to implement.
Disney owns Marvel and Star Wars. The have a massive leverage with those.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2017

First, third and fourth most popular movies of 2017 are Disney, and the year is not yet over (Thor, Star Wars).

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2016

First, second, third fifth, seventh and eleventh most popular movie of 2016 are all Disney.
There's a museum in Florence that I went to where you could see many statues in various states of completion. It was fantastically beautiful. They were clearly not complete works, Michelangelo had intended to do more. But for whatever reason they never were finished. Despite their state of incompleteness, you could see the craftsmanship involved in getting them to their current state. But you could also see beauty in this unfinished state, as if the men (predominantly) of stone were climbing out of the rocks themselves.

Show someone an image of the Statue of David and it's not that interesting. But see it in person. The immenseness of it. The detail that went into it. See these other statues nearby, like stone timelapse photos. The whole thing is quite fascinating (intellectually) and can be quite emotionally moving (not in the sense that it brought me to tears, but more of an awestruck feeling seeing this work).
JavaScript is a young language. It's been around for 21 years.

C has been around for 45 years.

I'm sure things will be relatively stable 24 years from now in terms of web development, but then there will be a new medium for writing code with massive churn in commonly-used libraries and techniques.

A need to learn new things in a young language will never die.

Even C++, which is "only" 34 years old is experiencing massive changes to its syntax and common practices.
I'm a billionaire. I buy a couple local news companies and tell them to run what ever content I want. How do you stop this without limiting free speech of the individual as well?
I remember Jamie talking about how much he loves his mecanum wheel forklift...
In other words, you'd like to hijack a discussion about an article about a publicity stunt to talk about your personal morals?
I've assembled a full list of frozen accounts. Most notable are Polkadot auction proceeds ($90M) and Iconomi ($34.5M).

https://gist.github.com/banteg/f61d256d12158b8c344d7889266f4...
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. Trump was the best thing that ever happened to the media and they didn't stop talking about his antics for the entire election.

He made them alot of money in clicks, and that's what journalism is about.

Ultimate responsibility maybe lies somewhere else, but there's plenty of blame to go around and they emphatically deserve some of it.
Sorry to say, but the big name DEs are off chasing the UX tail of the big name commercial stuff, come hell or high performance costs...
H-1B Program: 10-Year Trends
Rust has a nice solution to this.

r"foo" == "foo" // r" means the literal ends at "
r#""foo""# == "\"foo\"" // r#" means the literal ends at "#
r##"r#""foo""#"## == "r#\"\"foo\"\"#" // r##" means the literal ends at "##

and so on.

Basically you add as many # outside as necessary to distinguish the end of the literal (double-quote followed by some #) from any such sequence in the middle of the literal.
We know Waymo started well before most other players in this space.

We know they hired a bunch of people from teams that did well in the DARPA Grand Challenge - such as Sebastian Thrun.

We know that Google Maps has some of the best map data on the market, including high-resolution images of a great many streets; and that ReCAPCHA regularly asks people to identify cars and street signs - which they do free of charge.

And finally, there are autonomous vehicle accident reports [1] which tell us they've driven a great many miles with very few manual interventions; and that their competitors are either doing orders of magnitude less driving or are doing so badly they won't even release their figures.

Of course, there's no reason this should be a winner-take-all market.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/california-dmv-autonomous-car-...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4719674/Wildlife-pho...

Its interesting how when its a regular professional photographer, he gets his life ruined by copyright lawyers, PETA, etc. but when its Google, nobody cares.
Decision Laundering as a Service
Hollywood still defends Polanski.

Hollywood still attacks RMG.

Hollywood still defends Ben Afflec.

Hollywood still has not kicked Tarantino/Clooney/Matt Daemon out for covering it up.

Netflix/Amazon/HBO still has not dropped everything that Harvey the Stain makes money off from its catalogs.

House of Cards has been canceled but not pulled.

It is simply posturing.
There's a variant of this that's been studied: quadratic voting, but more in the context of corporate governance. It actually can have positive effects.

http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/
It's IndieGogo, not Kickstarter.
Ethereum's biggest problem, is that it has way too many moving parts, leaving too many points of failure. Even Bitcoin has a lot of moving parts, but Ethereum is a circus in comparison.
> the USPS to be recording every street every day.

Oh, I wasn't thinking that every street every day would get recorded. I don't think Google (or NSA) datacenters have enough storage to keep up with that volume of nationwide photos. (I haven't done a back-of-the-envelope calculation, so maybe I'm wrong and they actually can).

I was just thinking that there are many streetviews (especially rural areas) in Google Maps captured in 2007. My street is from 2013. Using another entity's expansive fleet of vehicles, those maps could be updated more frequently... like once a month instead of every 4 to 10 years. Also, the USPS trucks are already burning the gas driving all those roads so it's a waste of fuel to have another car drive the same route just for photos.

As for fears of surveillance, it's going to depend on:

(1) if the citizens feel they also get benefit from the updated data. E.g. web surfers on Zillow see a house for sale and they would prefer to see a streetview of the neighborhood from last month instead of 5 years ago. Same for scoping out a company's address for a job interview.

(2) Are USPS cameras perceived as a minor extension of traffic cameras at every extension that citizens drive through every day and the police car dash cams that record a continuous loop as they patrol the city? Or it's a major step change in data collection that the public would reject. I don't know.
This is the best thing I've learned all day.
It's also the tactic used by the Bush administration to deal with negative reporting... limit their access to white house pressers and the President.

Probably something done a lot in politics.
That's not a problem. You are not entitled to the work of others. And the original bsdl code is just as available to you as it was to them for you to improve upon in a similar way.
It's unclear whether or not these are all strictly DOS. Some seem like they may be exploitable.
I thought tshirt hell was the internet's favorite tshirt company?!?!
> The drink comes in a bottle about the size of a 5-Hour Energy shot. It's clear and has no smell. The taste, however, burns like rubbing alcohol. It caused our eyes to tear. We gagged, loudly.

> Still, after a few minutes, our stomachs ached. A flavor like nail polish remover lingered on our lips long after drinking and was only extinguished with ice water.

Sounds great.
With a file:// URI? No you can't. That isn't how that works. You're confusing this with remote file disclosure attacks, which are totally different.
Similarly, with Gnome on top of Wayland the mouse is hitched to the main refresh loop...
I've been going in the opposite direction. Last year I've bought an aeropress coffe device to improve my coffee at work. Last week I've started to use a manual grinder so I can use high quality whole beans. My morning and after lunch coffees are my personal rituals.

A chewable coffee looks completely detestable. :-)
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/10/25/1618854114

"Selection between somatic cells (i.e., intercellular competition) can delay aging by purging nonfunctioning cells. However, the fitness of a multicellular organism depends not just on how functional its individual cells are but also on how well cells work together. While intercellular competition weeds out nonfunctional cells, it may also select for cells that do not cooperate. Thus, intercellular competition creates an inescapable double bind that makes aging inevitable in multicellular organisms."

... and so you end up getting cancer, sooner or later.

Which of course doesn't exclude external interventions, from chemotherapy to resetting your DNA to a previously backed up state.
Part of me is empathetic with this whole story, obviously. But another part of me finds it strange that there is such a huge emphasis on the homelessness situation in SF. It's as if we're only paying attention to this because of the huge inequality density in the city. But the truth is, homelessness is a problem everywhere. It just doesn't feel like an efficient (from a utilitarian perspective) use of resources to focus efforts here instead of where the money can act as the biggest lever. It's as if we mostly care about reducing the visual appearance of the problem, than care about most effectively minimizing the problem in aggregate.
You forgot thunderbolt 3...
A short piece of satire on the dangers of deploying ML/AI into production.
> But even that doesn't work. In 2016 for the US presidency, Hillary Clinton's campaign had $790M USD versus Donald Trump's $408M USD. She had double the money 'to buy the presidency' and she still lost.

In addition, we can look at state-level races to get more data on the effect of campaign spending. It turns out that, after a certain point[0], campaign spending does not correlate very well with campaign success, and in self-funded candidates in particular actually tend to underperform: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/sometimes-money-cant-bu...

[0] ie, obviously your gubernatorial campaign won't get very far if you only have $1000, total. But the difference between $40MM (what Brown spent in his 2010 campaign for governor) and $200MM (what Meg Whitman spent in that same race) is a lot less than people think.
The GP's frustration is not with any individual change, it's the treadmill of changes that makes every refactor/rewrite an exercise in treading water.
in plain english:

i don't care about your python hacks. im better than you. i look at the place, often, the least people are looking.

its a strategy choice. if something showed python hacks to be "more profitable" than "low level hardware hacks", that's probably what id be reading

let me know when you want to deviate from logic..
The Bolsheviks come to power. Live broadcast
Just as a contrary response to everyone else pointing to Waymo's (real) historical tendency to be very risk-averse...

Waymo has been feeling a lot of pressure from Uber and other companies, who have developed their autonomous car programs faster than Waymo did, even if Waymo is still momentarily ahead. Waymo's legal attempt to sidetrack Uber's program seems to have failed. So Waymo's executive may be at the point where Alphabet is asking them, "we've poured literally billions of dollars into you: when are you going to produce something beyond good marketing?"

FWIW, I think Waymo is still significantly more risk-averse than Uber and ahead of it technically, but you can't project its historical hyper-caution into the present or future indefinitely.
She was burned at the stake politically anyway, I'm not sure how much difference it would have made.
This is what so many people fail to grasp. Trump used some major judo on the media. They thought they were totally trashing him (and they were), but he leveraged the massive negative media attention to his benefit in a way I think the media and Democrats still largely don't understand.

The biggest problem, I think, is that the media still think that people find them objective, when they are trusted at rates comparable to Congress' approval ratings. Trump tapped into this distrust and played the media like a fiddle, and in doing so, he was not only able to win a Republican primary that few people expected, but a general election that even fewer people expected.
Ah, the cat is out of the proverbial bag! These cars are not really "self-driving" at all! They are merely remote-control cars with adaptive cruise and lane assist.

So it's somewhere between a Lyft and remote surgery. What happens if the car loses internet?
AMP pages always load JS from Google.

If you disable JS, you don't get any images.
Suddenly lots of people with guns to go get your money back is a very useful feature compared to some cryptographic guarantees that people with guns can't get your money back.
I totally agree, but I bet it changed because the Old Way is worse from the perspective of Threadless. Specifically, each contest needs to result in a shirt that they can sell more and more of in order to maintain growth. That pushes you toward a bland, inoffensive, mass-market design. They think they can ultimately maximize profits by doing the etsy/cafepress model, where it's loads of vendors on the ground doing their own thing, and the marketplace supplier just floats above the fray collecting a slice every time money changes hands.
Speaking of Valve -- there's an area that is absolutely ripe for disruption. The Steam client hasn't really improved over the years. It's missing basic features -- like sorting your game list. They completely lost the social game to Discord and Curse, and the steaming game to Twitch. Their review system is maybe their best feature, but it's still pretty bad -- vulnerable to brigading, and not a super clear indicator for me if I'll be interested in a game or not.

They're basically a CDN. For me, that's all they provide.

And they charge an INCREDIBLE amount for their services, to developers -- 30%, I believe. Do they really provide THAT much value? I doubt it. I personally can't wait for some startup to blow them out of the water.
There's actually a ton of RF interference out there, just that it doesn't impact enough people on a regular basis for anyone to do anything about it.

The 2 meter radio I have in my car goes crazy with RF(up to S9) when I drive through the local Starbucks. That said bringing it up with anyone will probably get you a couple funny looks and not much else.

(things are even worse on HF and the like)
> So the uber now has to either get a person or take that car to a hospital - how do they know to do such?

It does? Why? What if the person passed out in their own, manually driven car? Would you expect that car to automatically call an ambulance?

Just because you theoretically could have some kind of elaborate system that detects when the user falls unconscious and carries them to the hospital, doesn't mean that's _required_.

> Are they monitoring if people get into a fight in the car?

No. Why would they be? What makes you think that's necessary?
Those locations don’t pay $15/hr. if you can find a job, and you probably can’t. Employment is rising in densely populated areas and not so much in rural areas. This is a little different on the east coast, but that’s a more significant moving investment.

Other services like healthcare in rural areas has eroded to barely existent. I can speak from experience in Oregon.

Moving costs money, something they don’t have.

Finding a new job costs time and money. They’ve got neither.
I don't think that this comment should be downvoted.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (AAA) recommends text of that contrast ratio (#969696 on #1d1d1d) to be at least 18pt.

What may sometimes seem like nitpicking can actually be your users not being able to see your content at all or without feeling nauseous and dizzy.

Increasing the card's text size to 18px from the current 13px doesn't even break the layout. People these days should know better than to use print sized text on the web.
It’s been a topic that’s has come up a few times - was it a tactic that was considered, or was it something that just happened and has benefitted him?
>Seems like the system is working just fine here.

They gifted a parking garage/ 1 billion dollars of tax-payer funds to a multinational corporation who was hardly going to pull up stakes and move one of their flagship parks. How is this working fine?
A OS in a sandbox on top of an OS on top of an CPU...
I don't agree with the parent either, but this growing trend of accusing everyone you disagree with on the internet of being a paid shill is just getting absurd.
If the driver of a commercial road vehicle makes a mistake which causes a serious accident or behaves in a way deemed reckless or inattentive, they can go to jail. Similarly, I was under the impression that the humans who took over Waymo vehicles according to very conservative engagement protocols (and according to Waymo's calculations prevented several accidents) had responsibility for the road vehicle

Who goes to jail if Waymo vehicles behave in a similar manner?

Assuming the answer is "nobody", how did this get greenlighted with so little discussion?
I think that Valve is more like Apple, Blizzard is still like Google. I read some where that Valve has higher profit per employee than Apple (this could of changed), and Steam reminds me a lot of an App Store model. I also don't think its fair to call products such as Diablo II, Starcraft Brood War, and the Warcraft series (before Wow) "moderate successes".
Sorry fixed! https://jobs.lever.co/askspoke/
Why? If you are concerned about population growth, a one child policy would be quite sufficient (1+1/2+1/4+1/8+... = 2).
How Congress Should Respond to the Equifax Breach
> When the next massive security bug is found (which is inevitable with all code, open source or closed) you are left essentially with 10k unusable laptops.

While this is less useful for devices going outside the network (e.g. the laptops you mention), I suspect that the big enterprise response is going to have to be smarter networks. I can easily picture high end fully managed switches becoming more like firewalls, possibly even to the stage of deep packet inspection for recognized patterns.

Not having worked with this, does the ME get its own IP or piggyback looking for particular patterns in packets? And how feasible is it to detect by testing for missing packets (or spurious ones if they're received and passed through?)
> It's as if we mostly care about reducing the visual appearance of the problem

There are real public health consequences to high concentrations of people living without proper sanitation -- see the ongoing, major hepatitis outbreak in San Diego, for instance.
8.0 too