skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would not be very comfortable to sleep strapped to the bed in a strange position. Sleeping in sitting position does not count as comfortable. At most you can count on sleeping like in an airplane.

Self-driving car can't beat physics. In case of an accident everything inside will fly continuing direction of movement. Including the passenger. There will be no two couches facing a table. Because in case of an accident the face of a passenger sitting facing the back of the car will be hit with: his book, his hot coffee and opposite sitting passenger's laptop.
Presumably the crime couldn't be proved to the standard that the justice system requires, so getting Microsoft to implement a punishment based on her allegations and public opinion is the next best thing.
It's also in the right-click context menu, right below Save Page. Save Page to Pocket.
Sometimes. IME it seems kind of random as to when you can filter by seller and when you can't.

You can fairly consistently filter by Prime/non-Prime, but that's not the same (that filters down to things fulfilled by Amazon, but not just sold by Amazon).
It looks like a bug on the lens...
f(x)=a*x^2

f(2*x)=a*(2*x)^2=a*4*x^2=4*a*x^2=4*f(x)

Doubling the argument quadruples the value of quadratic function.
That's a really important point. "Technology" is an almost uselessly broad term, which would logically include things like medical- or energy-related tech but in casual (especially Silicon Valley) conversation usually means things that are strongly computer-related. As it's very dependent on the finance industry for support, that kind of tech has been increasingly infected by finance-industry perspectives, politics, and cultural standards. Sand Hill Road is not a rival of Wall Street; it's a subsidiary. The "tech bro" CEOs that most of us hands-on-the-keyboard folks hate are just finance bros in different clothing. We - the ones who actuall do the work - are just the investments they prefer this year. It's not like real techies are all perfect or anything, but the reason we end up in the "bad guy" column is that we've chosen to ally ourselves with the guys who were always bad.
Because you don't understand any crypto coin, but know or have heard of people who have dumped large sums into some coin and brag about their returns, so you want in on the gold rush.

FOMO, essentially.
I'd often seen kids on the tram in Melbourne. Rarely on their own though, almost always in groups. In Wellington, you'd see them occasionally too in the mornings. They had dedicated school buses (city buses with the "School" sign on the front), but if kids were running late and missed their bus, you'd often see them on regular public transport.

One of the big problems is the lack of public transport in the US. Even with cities with good transit, the minimum age for kids on buses/trains is usually 12 (wasn't there an article on HN earlier about a New York man who's kids rode the bus in a group of three and how social services said he couldn't do that any more until one of them turned 13? I can't seem to find it now..)

Crime is more perception then a real issue. You're always most likely to be a victim of a crime by a family member at home. Actual child abductions are more hollywood and rarely real life. When it does happens, it's usually someone who knows the child via family.

I feel like this is yet another problem that could be solved via real transit and which will just be made worse by self-driving cars.
> Captain of the 1st rank on a nuclear submarine in the Soviet and maybe even Russian Navy

During the 70's or 80's Soviet subs were detecting these "quacking" sounds in the Antarctic. They were puzzling and many thought that it was the aliens or super secret Western technology.

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

It turned out to be whales.

There were other sounds like the "Bloop" which turned to be ice quakes.

> Or maybe he was just trolling us

I also had an uncle in the Soviet military and he did like to troll us. When rumors of aliens become popular in the tabloids, he convinced a good number of people from his village that aliens have landed in the woods. It was actually a lightning strike which caught some trees on fire but, but he got them to believe it was a landing zone for an alien spacecraft.

On a more serious note, I can't believe any government can keep a tight enough lid on something like that. Someone, somewhere is bound to defect or to leak it is somehow.
The company should have policies because without them it is entirely on individuals to resist group social pressure in an elegant way that both protects themselves and protects their job by not offending other employees. If you have the diplomatic skills of an ambassador on top of the job skills they hired you for, you might pull it off. Otherwise, you wind up a victim because you went along with group norms that seemed reasonable on the face of it, but really just set you up for a terrible crime.

Thank you for proving my point that even trying to broach the topic of prevention is rife with difficulty and gets insane pushback. I can't really fathom why. Simply not having the rape happen to begin with seems like the optimal solution, but it can't be discussed in good faith at all. It essentially gets nothing but over the top inflammatory remarks.

Edit: Though TBF I will add that it would probably be more accurate to say policies designed to discourage such things. Elegantly promoting safe social practices is a hard subject to write about.
It's not that people are no longer willing to trade privacy for convenience. It's that people are now more aware that the tech companies are hugely profiting from it.

It's like big pharma. You could think of them as the good guys who cure diseases. But the truth is that the big pharma guys are in it for the money and are ready to do anything for it.

People are starting to view the GAFA as they see big pharma and big co in general. And that's a shift from the fix-the-world-from-my-moms-garage image they had in the early 2000s.
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Fennec is actually Mozilla's name for the Android version of Firefox: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android

See also the filename of the latest release: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/releases/57.0.1/android-x...
It's funny, I don't see it on the list but by far the biggest taboo in SV in my experience is talking about things going badly. You're doing great, killing it even, or you should keep it to yourself.
I think this is key.

In the south (and other places) you're more apt to spot people who have deep bias against people for intrinsic things - in the North (including CA, and Northwest) those ideas are so completely unacceptable, that those people never get called out on them.
The "creepy" Netflix reference was to a very specific incident:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42323366
Same here. My commute is opposite to traffic and is just 30 minutes both ways. It is fun cruising at 70mph and watching a parking lot on the other side of the freeway.
“A lot of the ideas here will not actually get you ostracized from Silicon Valley society.”

Oh dude you have just not been paying attention.

Can you show me a single example of someone in tech who publicly expresses, at any point, any of the beliefs which are “not allowed?”

I’m looking for one.

Find me one person on Twitter in tech aside from John McAfee or Peter Theil who would dare. Sam Altman was good enough to step forward, I hope he won’t be the last. The complete and total castigation of the dude by every tech media outlet showed exactly what happens to anyone who isn’t rich enough not to care.

While Sam Altman can take a beating, a standard employee like James Damore can’t. Did we forget about him? Apparently we did!

Show me a single tech luminary staying that diversity is overrated and has numerous downsides (such as the degradation of communal trust which had swept the valley), that we don’t actually need additional codes of conduct to add protections that are already covered in the US legal code at every Meetup, that all gender bathrooms are lunacy or that most of the Millenials coming into the job market have an incredibly broken and fearful view of the world that is unwarranted by the available evidence.

Show me a single tech luminary willing to say that women should realize they have advantages and disadvantages and should take responsibility for guarding themselves st off-site social events to avoid being approached by men.

One! Show me one!

I can find these opinions on conservative podcasts but I have never seen anyone express them in tech. Ever!

I see a non-stop avalanche of one set of these opinions on every social media feed, internal company meeting and industry conference.

I have NEVER seen ANYONE notable in tech aside from Peter Thiel, who has been made untouchable st this point.

Why is that? It’s because they know it’s not good business and they will get to join Peter Theil in the excommunicated pile.

A great example is Scott Adams. Scott used to make hundreds of thousands of dollars per year giving paid speeches.

When he began writing about Trump, he was excommunicated and all of his speaking gigs were cancelled.

Another great example is the systematic and deliberate demonetization of conservative YouTube videos. People who are very balanced and fair like Dave Rubin have had their videos defunded for having conservative speakers as interview guests.

Twitter has been notorious for slowing down or “never getting around to” giving Blue Check Marks to conservative speakers - If I remember correctly, Scott Adams had to reach a simply insane number of followers before being given the check.

The hatred of conservatives and direct, persecutory and economic attacks on them is real, ongoing and getting worse.

Seriously - if you believe most of these opinions won’t harm your career if expressed publicly, you have really not been paying attention.

If you don’t believe me - Try it. Go on Twitter right now and say: “all gender bathrooms are stupid.”

Watch what happens.
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One quote I picked out. Early stage employees have it bad. This is true but the increase freedom can balance this out.

Stock options are generally useless and in many ways force employees not to move on to better opportunities.
My comment is in reference to fake eyewitness testimony of atrocities which was used as justification to invade a country. Google 'babies in incubaters' and it should be clear.
Should they have sided with their colonial overlords?
A lot of times vests are rated for only one shot. Getting shot multiple times may very well compromise the vest.
I walked to school at 5 in New Zealand, took the bus to town at 10 to go to the library or the pool.

My son at 11 took the BART to and from school from Berkeley/Oakland to El Cerito, other parents were horrified - we moved back to NZ a couple of years later, handed both kids a bus timetable and a phone and sent them off to town to explore.

One of our main goals as a parent is to create independent kids who can function alone in the world - we don't want them still living in the basement at 30
I think it's a lot more fear, uncertainty/doubt. Kids are most likely to be a victim of crime at home by family members. That's where most abuse happens. The random kidnapping is more in the movies that reality.
I was thinking about something more like a "flash plugin": you may have to install once (or it might be bundled with the installer) and then "it just works". The main difference would be that it would be sandboxed and so limited on what it can do.
And part of left-wing identity is to ignore all evidence and history which would ever suggest a particular people or religion could commit atrocities themselves lest those left-wingers ever be accused of being racist.

There's actual history to the Rohingya conflict, it didn't come out of a vacuum and your comment just hand-waves all that away.
Since people are sharing their own anecdotes, I'll share mine. Rather my dad's and my sister's anecdote. They were driving home one summer evening near sunset in Wisconsin when they saw in the perfectly clear sky ahead of them what appeared to be something floating in the sky. They way they described it was it looked like how a school bus might look at night from a distance with it's lights on in the inside except just the upper half of the bus, like a row of closely placed lights on a horizontal object. They say it moved around a bit in the sky, clearly some distance away from them and then slowly shrank and disappeared. These two people are not the type of people to lie about something like this. My dad hates science fiction and has zero imagination. My sister is a goody two shoes who would be hard pressed to adamantly lie about this. They told my mom and I this as soon as they arrived home. They looked like they saw a ghost or something when they told us.

Adding to this, is that like a month or two later, we were talking to a friend of ours in the area and our friend also confirmed seeing the same object except they live about 10 miles east of us. The thing is, our friend just told us this without us bringing the subject up, so it wasn't like she was 'me too'ing our story. The friend was relieved a bit that someone else had seen what she had seen.

Keep in mind, this is the middle of nowhere Wisconsin. Moderately poor area. Just farms, very small towns, and forests for miles. No planes fly this low in the area. No airfields for at least 30 miles, and the nearest airfield is for very small planes only. The only planes you see in in our area are ones way up in the sky.

Googling the description of what they describe comes up with something that people refer to as a 'cigar' shaped ufo (the recent astroid sighting has muddied the google results of this a bit). So it seems at least some other people have seen something similar to this.
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Silicon Valley investor said its culture is bad for startups
Well of course comparing state of the art jsonrpc with spaghetti rest will give jsonrpc a headstart

In truth the error is in the premise “we switched rest because everyone’s doing it/is the way webservices are developed now”

Well, no, and that’s the issue with most “rest” api that actually are jsonrpc with html verbs (and ignoring that using json for rest is impossible to begin with): they were written to hit a bullet point on a feature list
It's still much faster to run curl with JSON, than to run auto-gen tool and write a whole test program to call an API.
In Finland, kids walk to school by themselves from age 7. Depends on the distance of course.
The end results of monoculturalism, aversion to immigration, and high work ethics. Kudos to the Japanese for creating such a safe and trusting society.
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Surely there is no power relation stacked against prisoners that might lead to any suspicion regarding their consent.
I used to do this in Australia many years back when I was six and seven. It never even occurred to anyone that it was an issue.
Death march refers to a team working "or marching" on a project, usually instructed "conducted" by a manager, when everyone knows the project will fail or "die". Hence the name death march.
Feels like spammy bullshit. You don't need SEO. You can add some metadata tags and some opengraph stuff to make it easier for people to share your website pages and blog posts, but you can learn that from just looking stuff up.

You know how to get to the top of search results? Become popular. That needs to happen outside your website for it to matter. No amount of tagging/metadata is going to change that.

Also, different people get totally different results. There is no standard result set form any major search engine. It's all optometrist for your geographic region, web browser, operating system and past history if you're logged in (and sometimes even if you're not logged in).
I think it is reasonable to question what people mean by "can't discuss". As mentioned in the article people can discuss anything, but certain things are met with some pushback which makes discussing them hard or unpleasant.

I would say, if you hold one of these "taboo" opinions there is a reasonable amount of responsibility on you for how you open a discussion on them. If you do want to discuss them you need to try and raise them in a way which shows you are genuinely interested in discussion, including possibly changing your own opinion and trying to get a better understanding of others opinions without necessarily judging them. Rather than coming from a fixed position and trying to convert people, which in my experience rarely works.

If you hold one of more of these taboo opinions and think I am being rude, suggesting you don't discuss properly it that those you discuss with are all perfect reasonable beings that is not the case. But in my experience it is not common for people to open a discussion honestly looking to assess their own opinions as well as those they are discussing with. If you aren't open to change your mind, why should anyone be open to change theirs? If you are already doing that, then good for you! Hopefully some minds will get changed and we can all move forward with a more honest understanding of the world.
I think that it is not a pure sum zero game. It has a input, the money from illegal activities (drugs, black money, illegal prostitution...) which has less value as input that as output.
There's no difference between debugging REST and JSON-RPC over HTTP, so there's no point to compare them. The other alternatives, that I've mentioned, are less easy to debug.
> -like Netflix and its creepy disclosures that it knows of people's predilections.

The incident referenced here seems to be blown up a bit.

Sure, it is a PR nightmare for Netflix and the joke felt flat. But, there is doubt on whether the social media team does have access to people's viewing data directly. It is most likely they thought of a joke and to make it sound real they referenced some numbers. Now everyone thinks not only they have poor taste in jokes but also are looking at people's data.
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No, the logical step is to stop and think whether or not you should use public money to do this.

If he raised some VC funding, he can go hunt Minotaur for all I care. But this is my money he's using to do this. No thanks
Counter to your statement, "A developer is not a subject matter expert on how to market a product":

Most development experience I have had (open source, exclusively) comes with continual interaction with, and and feedback from, a subset of users who use the software. This subset is populated mostly by power users, those who rely on the software for work, and those who use it regularly. They are the ones who understand which needs the software is meeting and which it is failing to meet, and who ask for intelligent and sensible features to be added.

The marketing departments don't have this built in compass. They create ideas that they think will be profitable to the company, and they simply don't have the necessary connection with the users and with the software to know which of these ideas will be perceived as awful by the user.

The ones creating the software are the subject matter experts on what that software should do, how it should behave, and what the users will find most useful, in this instance.

The marketers are subject matter experts on... Other stuff? Advertisements and buzzwords and increasing revenues by targeting certain demographics of peoples? I have experience with the marketing side of business that has perhaps reflected poorly on that profession, so I'd love to hear from anyone that can fill my knowledge gap.
Have you played Edith Finch? I’d say that’s probably been my most interesting game this year, but I’m really keen to try this one.
Quadratic relationship is between the speed and force of impact.

If you want to accelerate pedestrian to certain speed you have to pump kinetic energy into him. You do that by applying a force over some distance (distance is how much pedestrian will squish during impact before it starts moving with the car) so to acellerate to double speed, you need to pump in quadruple energy, you need to quadruple the force since squishing distance is the same (until you reach speeds that pulverize pedestrian bones).
A study from 2015, "Children’s Independent Mobility: An International Comparison" [1] and the actual report [2]. Report covers 16 countries, US was not included.

Unfortunately I could not find any summary articles (except in Finnish). The charts summarizing the results seem to start on the report page 14.

[1] http://www.psi.org.uk/children_mobility
[2] http://www.psi.org.uk/docs/7350_PSI_Report_CIM_final.pdf
In the mornings when I luck out and get the older trains I always try to get those single seats. But it's tough to luck out and get that rather than the slightly newer stock (I take the bullets).

Wish the newer trains (and the next gen ones coming in the next decade) had single seats. Rather unfortunate.
Or iPhone as far as I can tell. But it did lead to finding this https://youtu.be/w5IERp2OdJs which is sort of amazing IMO :).
How does that point still work? Where does it come from?
I'll share that I had an encounter that seemed unnatural/impossible and I wasn't alone at the time. It also was reported in our local paper the following day. I contentiously (regardless of the experience) have never and do not believe in aliens.
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Even us "ants" have stringent protocols to prevent interplanetary contamination.
Just sharing my observations. IMO the FB report button is often used to silence legitimate critics.

As someone who cared for my family’s ecommerce efforts, and having been targeted by fake reviews by competitors on Amazon, my concern is that type of abuse. Probably not something of concern for your project at this stage. Perhaps down the road if you achieve good traction, which I wish you well in achieving. Sorry if my feedback sounds very critical, perhaps you can relate, I map out problem spaces to help me make solutions.
Can't come too soon. I have been fleeced by airports, especially in Australia, for years.
Believe it or not, I experienced the non-self-driving version of that scene. It was the mass of vehicles heading from the eclipse festival to Burning Man a few months ago, a block of traffic puttering along at 30 mph all day while passengers sat on their laptops.
Comcast is more comparable to amazon. Both have a mix of employees, both including a large amount of low skill/ grunt jobs.

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Amazing and inspiring! thanks.
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>I actually appreciate your thoughts, but maybe it would be better to let Mozilla, the company, respond in a full blogpost.

I agree, callahad is not responsible for this fiasco but I'm willing to bet Mozilla's response is gonna look something like this: https://m.imgur.com/obGMl8A

They keep pulling the same shit time after time... For me, it's time to abandon ship... (and I'm really sad to say that)
I like to think of Emacs as a virtual lisp machine for writing your own text editor.
As far as I know (and in my experience so far, e.g. reflected in very lenient return policy) customer trust has been their highest priority from their beginnings, which is one of the main things that made them successful in the early web in the end.

They have been risking it by their issues with counterfeit products and fake reviews only in the most recent years, but I would be surprised if they had no engineers who are thinking about ways to solve these problems.