skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the relevance of the town's history. Either the crossing is safe, or it isn't. The history may explain why it's unsafe, but it can never be a justification. That there's some reason behind the configuration is not something that must be pointed out - it's obvious that nobody chooses the locations of streets and schools by throwing darts at a panel. What the author is saying is that the situation is not acceptable - however it may have originated.

As for the 20mph speed limit - besides the fact that he specifically says they are irrelevant, since drivers don't respect them -, how would that have helped, considering it was 8:30pm when the accident happened? And I'm betting the "volunteer crossing guards" weren't around either. Apparently kids sometimes leave schools outside "schooltime" - who'd a thunk it.

Finally, if we're talking about what he left out - maybe you should add the other detail he didn't mention: that there had been already 15 accidents in the crosswalk in question in the last five years. So maybe it should have been clear by now that the methods weren't working.

(By the way, "the population exploded and the streets had to be expanded" is false. Governments have tools to control the growth of the population, like permits and zoning.)
the fact venezuela is sitting in so much oil is what makes this more absurd and obscene. socialism with the marxist component can only degenerate into kaos and despair.
I think we're in agreement that Linux is in a better state than the browser. To nit-pick at your argument, Linux development is driven by people who are interested in working on it; many of those are lucky enough to have employers who encourage them to use a company email address to submit changes, and part of their working hours. Nothing indicates they wouldn't still be contributing without the @intel.com attached to their name.

Furthermore in the study you are referencing, the "8% volunteers" is larger than any company's contribution besides Intel and RedHat - even more if you add in the individual "consultants".

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/the-top-10-developers-a...
Is this news worthy? This is also the case in NYC and probably every city around the world. Kids take the subway, bus, etc all by themselves to go to school, malls, theaters, friends' homes, etc. My siblings and I did. All my friends did.
> I believe Machine learning and NLP are more suited to Masters/PhDs? So maybe they are out of the question.

Don't exclude yourself based on preconceptions. Here's a great resource: http://datasciencemasters.org/
Five myths about Bitcoin
You can't do resource management at compile-time for games that have 50gb of assets. Also, Rust may help with accidental memory leaks, but you still have to deal with things like heap fragmentation.
My middle school teachers on the east coast spoke about the dot coms and how they lost most of their investments in it.

Maybe people don’t talk about it much these days. People in the company I’m with spoke about their experiences working during them. Some got lucky when their financial advisor told them to at least sell their first vesting (their stock would have dropped 80-90% by next sell window), others weren’t so lucky.
What boggles my mind is after decades and decades of truly scummy, bottom of the barrel activity (not only in this case, but in the torture they inflicted on prisoners, assassinations, drug running, overthrows of governments, etc), the CIA still manages to recruit people.

They must either be hiring really naive recruits, who are blinded by idealism or really ignorant of the history of the organization they're joining, or they're hiring complete and utter scumbags. Or, perhaps the revelations that have been made public about them are false and they're really the stereotypical "good guys" they try to paint themselves as.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...
Except these countries are capitalist with a pinch of socialism here and there. And it is not all perfect over there. Besides their companies are often involved in corruption scandals wherever they operate. I call them hypocritical social democrats :-)
This really feels like another world. Here is a confession, I have stopped believing people need to be informed, to be made aware.

I think most of us, adults know exactly what is happening, the consequences of capitalism, the reality of our societies, the reality of poverty, the reality of a large number of people struggling, suffering, sad, desperate, unhappy.

We have a sophisticated mental model to deal with it, we pretend it doesn't exist, untill you are absolutely forced to confront it, at which point you may signal, posture, be shocked, but life goes on. Our systems fundamentally and deeply reward unethical behavior and greed, and humans are survivors, we survive.
Sweden is not part of NATO if thats what you are trying to say...

IIRC Norway is, Denmark is, Sweden and Finland are not.
Because Google owns the source code per the employee contact.
Whenever I think, "Thank goodness the limited memory days are behind us", it pops up again and again. Sure, you can buy a new iMac Pro with 128GB of RAM(!!) and smartphones regularly have 8GB available, but the increasingly popular IOT devices and smart consumer hardware (like streaming media boxes, etc.) try to limit the BOM cost and thus limit memory as much as possible. Tiny memory leaks become an issue, or random crashes from wonky media codec implementations, etc.

I think the skills (and hacks) that used to be useful only to game developers and OEMs are now going to be needed by a much wider audience of devs.
https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/compare/master...philipw...
10 out of 10 times when we attempt to forcibly control other people's free will, we ultimately fail. How about leading by example and getting people to "bend" to our will because they choose to?
Or maybe they just pay enough for people to forget about the ethics of what they’re doing.
Valve mentioned that in practice packets are dropped about 5% of the time, so two connections might theoretically reduce that to 5%^2, or 0.25%. Meaning out of every 1,000 seconds of playtime, only 2 seconds would be disrupted rather than 50s.

It seems unlikely to be as clear-cut as this, since two connections from the same host to the same endpoint will probably use the same route to get there. So why would using two connections avoid retransmission? But it's worth checking whether it works.
This thing is hilarious. I’ve noticed that Netflix far prefers to display black faces to me, and women’s faces to my wife. Personally I think they should spend their time making sure I can read the title of the show, but whatever...
Its almost as if there is an isomorphism between matrices and linear transformations.

Actually, not almost. The author clearly explains this isomorphim in his introduction to matrices.
For hiring managers here, is a portfolio a good enough substitute for having no formal credentials?
> and found that elk rarely changed their feeding behavior in response to wolves.

Perhaps a more useful study would have been to compare elkfeeding behavior pre-1995 to post wolf introduction. By 2007 maybe the Elk had just got the hang of living around wolves. Maybe their behavior had already changed?
A pretty common trick that was part of game programmer lore back in the PS2 / Xbox era was to have a large static array hidden away in some code file somewhere. When days before shipping you couldn't quite fit the release build in to memory this allowed a heroic programmer to miraculously 'find' a few hundred extra kilobytes of memory by reducing the size of the array by just enough to fit.

There was a less common variant of this for finding some extra performance by reducing the iterations of a loop doing no-ops somewhere in the main game loop.
BITCOIN LENDING PLATFORMS WHERE YOU CAN EARN LIKE WARREN BUFFET – iCoin Blog
This market moves so fast that you have to release new products 1-2 times per year to stay near the top in performance in a given price band.

C.H.I.P.'s claim to fame, as far as I'm concerned, is that they're the first kickstarter I bought that delivered on time.
Every Computer Scientist Should Have a Creative Hobby
Every Computer Scientist Should Have a Creative Hobby - https://medium.com/@ytulsi/im-a-computer-science-major-interning-at-a-creative-agency-325bee27ed09
Unethical human experimentation was pioneered by the US. We've been experimenting on natives, blacks, minorities a long before the nazis. And we even tested nuclear fallout on pacific islanders long after ww2. I believe the "father" of unethical japanese human experimentation was trained in the US before ww2.

Not sure why canadians got involved in this mess though.
The author mentioned http://qutebrowser.org/ in the article :-)
Investors getting return on Capital prior to exit?
Hi all,

I am negotiating with some investors who are expecting to invest $1M. They want a return of their capital contribution of $1M through distributions within 3 years and they also want the negotiated equity. Upon reflection this seems extremely non-standard to me. Would love someone else’s thoughts.
I don’t know why, but my thought was the same as the third most voted comment in the thread too. The collision avoidance system, which I would have guessed was ultrasound, but the guy on reddit says it’s microwave. Either way, that could be picked up by some kind of sensors in a house alarm system.

We live in a crazy world.
Cute? No. These ads are smug and tone-deaf. Complete disregard for privacy has become the rule rather than the exception on the internet, and these ads practically celebrate that. I don't care if the data is anonymized.

I've never had a Netflix account and I've already started building my .flac library back up and will be cancelling my spotify subscription. The convenience of these services is not worth their disrespect to me as a customer.
You told people to look up a topic but did not provide any link as a recommended starting point nor any justification why Rwanda's history is relevant in the context of hate speech; now you just refer to yourself.
Anarchist Perspectives on Net Neutrality – The Digital Enclosure of the Commons
Funny how that works... “The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that it expects the global airline industry to make a net profit in 2017 of $29.8 billion” and yet somehow airports are losing money on how people get to/from the airport so we can give our little bit to this nearly 30 billion in profit (expected to be higher next year). Makes sense... let’s find a way to keep all that money in the airlines and nickel and dime everyone else until people stop flying entirely and we can then bail out both the airlines and the airports. We live in amazing times.
you got your link wrong :)
Dropping some knowledge on Wi-Fi calling carrier-offload
How do you start a new/big project? Lets say I want to read a codebase on github which is written in js. How doI go through it, given that I don’t know much js yet?
"The Treasury today announced new regulations on cryptocurrencies, citing a 2017 report showing that cryptocurrencies are often used by rogue regimes and terrorist states to evade sanctions..."
For some reason, my comment objecting to someone calling it intentionally indecipherable is now at -4.

You wrote "It is a good paper. I could follow everything" -- would you agree with me that it's not purposefully written to be obfuscated and indecipherable?
The courts are also packed with ideological appointees. I don't have much faith that they'd consider the issue impartially or with the benefit of the consumer in mind. You have to remember that they're the ones that let the DMCA and endless copyright extensions stand, along with giving us other anti-consumer/pro-corporate decisions like Citizens United.

It's a wonder that the US has any consumer protections at all, and those that are there are steadily being dismantled under the "pro-business" mantra, or whatever other fig leaf can be dug up.
> as a fixed-quantity asset it is inherently noxious as a currency

Why?
The dot-com bubble did cause a recession for the US economy, from Mar 2001–Nov 2001. That affected a lot more people than dot-com investors or employees.
> I've done 4+ hours of commuting per day before, in the Toronto region. I nearly went crazy. I'd leave at 6:45am and get home after 7pm absolutely exhausted.

How did you manage that? I have 1.5 hour commute and I leave at before you do and arrive after you.

But I agree with you. It is just exhausting and you are left wondering where the time goes.
Nah, L_1 is called "taxicab" or "Manhattan" distance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance
There are no shortage of baby boomers in Canada that over-extended themselves into Nortel, and anyone who worked in tech felt the effects of the layoffs from that single company across the economy.

Even people who believed in the future of technology and the long term impact of the internet and just invested a portion of their retirement savings in NASDAQ composite index funds watched them take 15 years to recover their value.

After a few years people stop talking about their bad decisions.
And I have a friend who is paralyzed from neck down for diving into a swimming pool.
The term "Survivorship bias" is inspired by these stories of how "everyone I know turned out fine".
Payment in blood for some, no doubt. I'm sure they have no problem finding people for whom torture or murder is its own reward.
some people believe that "anything is justifiable" in the name of american security

some people will believe MKULTRA is just a conspiracy people

and some people will view such actions as necessary but messy aspects of the brutally realist struggle between countries (critically forgetting that humanity comes before any individual nation or individual)
I have zero sympathy for someone who claims to want studies, is referenced an incident, looks it up, sees the reference and claims it says the opposite of what it does.

Googling 'Rwanda hatespeech' isn't hard.
No I said what I was trying to say. Many countries not in NATO rely on the US for their security and defense. NATO has nothing to do with my statement.
Thanks for the kind words! I've been passionate about the tech and data science aspect of video games forever and I'm super lucky to have had the opportunity to built a company out of it. HearthSim is a labour of love :)
In choosing a corporate shill like Pai, I think Trump has no idea of the kind of Trojan horse he unwittingly planted for his 2020 re-election. NN is, at least in my view, an entirely non-partisan, cross cutting concern/issue that concerns -everyone-, regardless of their views held on any particular point.

Yes, I am aware that increasing ISP competition will nullify the need for NN, but that is -not- where we are now, are we? Leave the regulation in place, or at least put some serious conditions and stimuli for new broadband investments if you're going to repeal NN. The way they went about it now makes it look like all they're trying to do is enrich the entrenched players.

This is sure to bite this administration in the ass far more than they imagined.
Iirc there's a current proposal to increase ticketing fees by ~$7 in the US. Airlines are fighting it. It's amusing.
Atlanta airport loses power, trapping travelers in planes and terminals
I'm curious why you've framed your comment so. The link barely mentions Trump (just in the context of the Republican tax plan impacting government antipoverty spending) and is not written by a journalist, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Alston .
Based on my experience with day care/preschool in the US, the teachers are not paid well and I think it is unreasonable to find teachers who would be willing to do this extra roll without the tradition of already having done it themselves.
And then there's all the anti-bitcoin bores.
> We've survived this long without know how, or if, biology determines our current romantic behavior

Do we? Because I see no evidence of the opposite. Also, culture (and sociology for the matter) is biologically determined.
Direct link to full report: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?Ne...
You may classify this under idealism, but I bet a lot of them would claim to just have realistic understandings of the brutalities that are a requirement to keep an empire running. They would say that those who would hold back from exploring any means neccissary to defeat their geopolitical adversaries are the idealists.
Most it this made sense to me, but the section on ‘bias’ seemed to leave the ground a little more than I think is healthy. The problem is correctly identified. The solutions offered are OK, but the examples and concluded causes appear unreasoned.

Probably the clearest example is in the section on stereotypes. Again, the problems are solidly identified but the understandings of their causes are lacking. The implication of surprise that an algorithm with real-world data would associate being a doctor with being a male and being a nurse with being a female is highly suspicious. There’s plenty of reason to assume a social bias feedback loop as discussed in the beginning of the article, but the argument that this is a result of bias rsearch is unsound. This correlation is consistent in the statistical data, in all societies and cultures on Earth. Again, there’s plenty of reason to argue the results correlate with societal gender bias, but not researcher gender bias. Big difference. The race/skin color correlations argues in the article do have sound arguments for researcher bias.
Thank you for sharing your ignorant prejudice?
one of the MKULTRA programs sought to reduce the ambition of populations using chemicals that could be dispersed in an imperceptible quantity

if you don't believe me, jump down the rabbit hole and you will become a bit jaded
Please delete this blantantly false comment.
The article explicitly thanks Trump administration for cooperation. The rest of article has no mention of Trump. Problems described in article sound to be long term and unlikely to be related to Trump.

Edit: there is second mention of Trump - in relation to plan of tax cuts that make it worst. Still, it hardly counts and blaming the Trump for current situation since it is just a plan.
2018: The Year Central Banks Begin Buying Cryptocurrency
In case of Freddy Fish and Pyjama Sam ScummVM is actually bundled with the game. I don't think it has any use updating that version because the bundled version has been tested.
Sure, but how about they also release all that "cute data"
The reason there are homeless is far more complex than high rent. Anyone working a reasonable job can afford to rent a room relatively cheaply, although there are working homeless.

Unfortunately, the orgs that help the homeless are focused on self-survival by strictly focusing on the impossible cases. Having a job, being sober, and no mental illness gets no support. A lot of this is via earmarking, but there are so many elements that it's impossible to pinpoint a single reason that encompasses all things.
I was so excited to see this. A year ago I tried to distill a bunch of popular board games down to discrete rules that could be dropped into a generalized framework. I wanted game designers to be able to quickly model and prototype games. I also was interested in games where the players get to evolve the rules over time.

However, it ended up being way harder than I expected. In fact, I tabled it indefinitely because I started to believe that it was just intractable. (That is, trying to conceptualize a game into a discrete rule set is often a lot more work than just implementing it in code.)

I'm glad to see others trying to tackle this. But, I hope they try to implement games that are significantly more complex and sophisticated than tic-tac-toe though. The current code is so simplistic that I can't imagine that it will help much. That is, if I used it, I'd still have to custom-code 99% of the logic. But, at least it's a start.
But then why does Japan have a massive problem with sexual assault on subways?

And a Yakuza crime syndicate so feared that cartoons don't show 4-fingered characters?
Nothing in your remark makes any sense. 100 million tokens? Printing fake money?
"rogue regimes" "terrorist states" and "sanctions" sounds like government inventions and scare words to me.
"The dramatic cuts in welfare, foreshadowed by Donald Trump and speaker Ryan, and already beginning to be implemented by the administration, will essentially shred crucial dimensions of a safety net that is already full of holes. It is against this background that my report is presented."
that's a lot of text; could be be used to analyze the authors writing style and match it to public {github, twitter,...} profiles
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It is because some people do the mental gymnastics of separate biology, sociology, culture. But the reality is that these boundaries are virtual. Black people (which I'm) are more likely to become succesful rappers. It doesn't matter if it is because of biology or culture, it is.
The Lost Tools of Learning (1947)
You might enjoy Anathem by Neal Stephenson. It has some hard sci-fi elements inspired by mathematics (orbital mechanics, phase space). Also books by Greg Egan such as Schild's Ladder (graph theory).
Math as Code
How do you know it's a kidnapping and not just a parent?
ah yes, the pragmatist's prayer-- "it was necessary even if it was immoral, therefore it was right, even if it was wrong, therefore i am noble, even if i have lost my humanity"

everyone jumps to the question of "does the end justify the means?"

a better question: why jump to the most brutal means before questioning whether the end is worthwhile regardless of the means?

is government mind control something we really want them to be able to do in the context of an intelligence agency? no, it is not; it is the apex of the opposite of human rights.
The amount of fraud is staggering; painting the tape is well-documented when it comes to crypto-currencies. I'm not particularly bullish (or bearish) when it comes to BTC, but one thing is obvious: the only value it actually generates is for Russian money-launderers, drug dealers, and other shady agents (hackers, pornographers, etc.)
If the new device would stop working soon enough after purchase, customers would be more likely to return it to store.

I see the normal manufacturers/sellers responsibility as the only good answer to the problem. I don't like solutions involving fines or large liabilities, because these can create wrong incentives to people/companies.

Doing security properly for these devices is not very expensive compared to scale they are being sold. Therefore I think simple things like increased return/warranty repair rates should provide enough incentive to focus on security.
It sounds like they have confused themselves into thinking that they are providing you a loan.
It 'solves' the computer science BGP only by reframing it as a decision science problem and iteravely testing a particular hypothesis about the supremacy of personal enrichment over all other incentives in a giant, uncontrolled public gambling experiment.
I've seen similar before. It's legal. They are welcome to propose anything that's legal. You're welcome to not accept their terms.

It really comes down to how much leverage you have. Do you have other investors?

If their equity percentage is low, then you could almost think of it as a loan with interest paid in equity. If it's high, you might think their terms are not reasonable.

Good luck!
While there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that offer, for startups, it’s as non-standard as you think. They’re looking for a different type of investment than your company would provide.

For other readers who have revenue and want a hybrid of debt and equity, look at Indie.vc and Lighter Capital.