skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. As a Massachusetts driver, I would not have expected that. I've traveled pretty extensively within the US and Europe and I (and many, many others) consider Massachusetts, or at least the Boston metro area, to have the worst drivers.

Three possible explanations for the low fatality rate:

- Bars, nightclubs and stores that sell alcohol must close by 2 AM, plus our other state and local alcohol sales regulations (particularly on hard liquor) are among the most restrictive of any state.

- The additional fatalities caused by the relatively high number of bad drivers are more than offset by forcing the silent majority of good drivers (and pedestrians) to maintain concentration and alertness.

- Many elderly drivers move to warmer states, and the ones who stay tend to be in better health than the ones who leave.

Edit: A fourth possible factor is that we're one of the most affluent states and cars succumb to corrosion faster than average due to the long, harsh winters (off the top of my head, I can't think of any state that's both more affluent and has longer winters), so cars are newer (therefore, safer) than average.
> Even if the military kept things under wraps, I'm not so sure that stationing nukes in orbit would provide a significant advantage, as you would only be able to strike a particular target when it rotates under your orbit, which means you can hit a target only twice a day at fairly specific times, while ICBMs can be launched at any time.

What you're describing is closer to a spy camera in a geosynchronous orbit. A LEO nuke would not behave like this.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty/
one way scammers make $$ is by using stolen accounts to purchase goods and then re-sell them, but in general they have pretty much one shot before they are found out and the credentials go stale (for their purposes). electronics can be small in size, have high re-sale value and there's already a solid gray market for them, so it's a particularly valuable credential.

i'd also venture a guess that fry's has less effective anti-fraud software/defenses vs. amazon or ebay or other platforms where you can buy electronics - would not be surprised if amazon was good at catching a fraudulent iphone purchase on the first try, whereas fry's might let a lot more slip through.

source: I've been involved with reducing fraud at various marketplace companies.
I read "they" as a stand-in for "management":

"Evan is paranoid and management goes ballistic when there's a leak"
Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones
Snap's fate was preordained because of the vice grip Google and Facebook have on online advertising. The only way to deal with market failures is aggressive antitrust enforcement. The EU has begun and others are sniffing around [1][2]. Democrats are starting to relearn the politics of trust busting [3] and candidates are starting to run on antitrust platforms [4]. If you work at a startup and you don't want your opportunity to be foreclosed by monopolies, you should support them.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/technology/missouri-googl...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-antitrust-internet...

[3] https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novemberdecember-2017...

[4] https://twitter.com/AustinFrerick/status/950149470863417347
Perhaps the map makers had different esthetic priorities than you have?
I am very much against regulations a la what EU is doing but at the same time I acknowledge that monopolies are evil and bad.
There is a reason countries have antimonopoly laws and it puzzles me why we do not have a solution yet to fight against the global monopolies like Google.
I mean this is something that obviously free market cannot solve on its own.
"I first started thinking this at transhumanist meetups, when it would occasionally come up that everyone there was an oldest child."

Alternative hypothesis: first-born children wish to escape their siblings so much that they would prefer to leave the species.
I've been taking magnesium supplements for the past few months. Coincidentally, I've been blowing my nose continually for the past week. Wasn't aware there could be a potential link.

Edit: Although, I've been taking a Zinc supplement (as well as a D3 supplement) and according to my lay-understanding of this blog-post[a], the Zinc should cancel out magnesium's effect?

[a] http://www.virology.ws/2009/12/16/rhinovirus-and-zinc-part-5...
Does anyone else see this as a scary evidence that technology is accelerating the consolidation of money to the few that succeed? How long did it take historical figures to reach this level of wealth vs Bezos in the last ~20 years?
This should be a huge warning sign to nearly everyone, instead of celebrated.
My favorite is still Google Voice.

Google: "Ok, lets finally update the UX from a decade ago so we can thread messages... oh yeah but you can't actually configure your voicemail account with your carrier, or even view what your voicemail number is until you revert to legacy google voice. Actually just use legacy if you want to be able to reliably delete messages too"
Spy satellites have had to tackle those issues for decades already (staying in orbit, retargeting, etc.). It's mostly solved problems, and the use case for such a thing would be more the "I want that factory in Iran to go away but it's OK if it takes six months" than immediate needs you'd use an ICBM for.

Plausible deniability goes a long way, even if it's not very plausible. Plenty of cases in the Cold War where everyone knew a side did something they shouldn't have but couldn't prove it.
Perhaps a less-click-baity title adapted from the subtitle:

"Snapchat stakeholders kept in the dark about core feature performance"
It's biological, at the end of the day, there's nothing more valuable than the lives of your offspring. It's a common theme throughout all of life not just humanity. The most primal and greatest loss possible by a living thing is the death of its offspring. Humans being human are uniquely equipped to suffer in this regard.
Linear types are incoming in Haskell and afaik Idris has uniqueness types, or did at one point. Haskell is closing the gap on Idris with dependent types (slowly) so you may want to get comfy with Haskell. It’s a good first step, anyway.
I would hazard a guess that the disappearing nature of the images makes it much more natural to share candidly. Most the things I snap are nowhere near worthy of being immortalized on Facebook, or even in iMessage for that matter. But a quick snap? Sure, why not? Its second nature to snap a quick pic of whatever I'm doing and send it to the relevant person/people, and it makes for a much more rich experience compared to other platforms.

Aside from that, the disappearing nature of chats at all (be it text, image, video) I believe also leads to more engaging conversations. Participants have to be paying attention to one another lest they forget the last response, in stark contract to every other popular messaging platform. The result is that less conversations happen, but when they do they feel more engaging (and addictive... no doubt this is part of the strategy).
Summary - Snapchat is secretive about its user data - repeated 100 times!
Doesn't have to be related.. but do you honestly think that the employees at Intel would have kept such alarming information from reaching management for 5+ months?

To reach that scenario you'd have to have engineers lying to their bosses about what they're working on, or managers hiding information from executives.

It's possible, but I don't buy it.
Monitoring Envoy on Kubernetes with the Prometheus Operator
Of course the analogy is flawed. The analogy I was replying to is even more flawed. ;)
GoRails really filled the gap Railscasts left as Chris Oliver himself also states in this Interview.

He also mentions that for some people solutions to immediate problems are more relevant than constant learning via weekly screencasts.
I hope he finds a way to offer these customers something, for example by selling course packages for a reasonable price, like all the recent „Vue.js with Rails“ screencasts as a package for XY$.

Overall GoRails is a great ressource for Rails developers, Chris Oliver seems to be a decent guy and I wish him best of luck with his projects.
Netflix realized that they couldn’t just be a distribution platform because content owners could build their own. They were forced to invest in making their own content because that was a competitive advantage its competitors couldn’t duplicate as easily. Which is exactly the point of copyright. More content was created because Netflix couldn’t simply get away with distributing someone else’s content and nothing more.
All the current BSD systems, and some GNU/Linux distributions. I'd guess that illumos does not have bash installed by default, too.
Right to Work and Privacy on the Company's Network
One of the points on the Court docs was he posted his comments on an HR Board for his group to discuss. Can you really assume anything posted on the Company's network can be private? No. It is their property regardless of it being posted with HR. Plus I think Jaxom has some valid court postings below.
Show and Tell: Building a Personal VoIP Telephony Network
But even on such a tight schedule, you took the time to come to the comment and take part in a pointless thread about a joke.

> i already knew they didnt have their facts strait

Deducing this from this joke alone is irrational, so to be charitable let's assume you had other reasons for dismissing the talk. Why not expose them instead?
How would that help? The kid ran out onto a street with traffic traveling at 50 MPH. Being aware of pedestrians does nothing when it's not physically possible to avoid hitting one.
I'd recommend listening to the This American Life episode (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/634/...) where they interview the two airmen involved.

tldr; The socket didn't properly fit the wrench and they had to manually hold the socket on the end of the wrench. One man dropped the socket, which fell through a small gap between the walkway and missile. The torque wrench was large enough that it would not have slipped through this gap if/when dropped.
I’d be very surprised if a majority of people didn’t think Disney should get to own Mickey Mouse forever.
Blaming SpaceX for the failure is. Merely linking them to it isn't - from the sound of things, the failure is literally "it couldn't unlink from SpaceX's stage".
Here's my honest take on this: It's telemetry data, that as far as we know, doesn't impact you personally other than giving MSFT data to improve the product.* There are creepy personal violations that individuals can see/feel with Google/Amazon/Facebook..."wait, how did they know I wanted to buy that".

* - Note this does not mean that it's not being or will not be used maliciously in the future. The jury is still out.
Huh. First time hearing about this!
Hey Tyson,
Thanks for reading!

>Have you consider adding a blog off the main page to build some organic traffic?

That's a good idea. The thing I feel like I'd run into is that I'm excited about the website as a tool and a project, and I can write about it from that perspective. I don't know that I'm passionate enough about keto as a lifestyle to write interesting posts about it.

But I do like the idea of adding a bit more content. One thing that gets asked a lot on Facebook is, "Can someone give me a simple explanation of keto?" A lot of the bigger sites have very complicated explanations. I could maybe write a "keto in two minutes" and link people to that.

>If you really want to dive into the Google Analytics, you could always setup API access. Its a little bit of a hassle, like 17 steps, but the python interface gives you lots of fine grained data you do not get from the GA client.

>One other thing you can try is log everything with a tracking ID and timestamp. Then just process these particular logs and you can get some idea about what return visitors do.

Oh that's a good point. I hadn't really thought about trying to lean more on GA, but I should try to see how far I can get with custom events and the API before I add another heavy monitoring dependency to my stack.

-Michael
I believe she stated it was a rural road or had just turned into a rural road. Commonly now these have a 55mph speed limit and people do live on them. Its not described that she was going 45 or 50 through what we think of as subdivisions now.
CNN headline: "Zuma spacecraft launched by SpaceX is lost after failing to reach orbit"

I don't like to see SpaceX fail, but I don't like how Elon Musk sometimes appears to try to shift the blame using PR moves...
Professional (American) football also has participation rates varying greatly from 50%.
Nobody lives in the UP. The southeastern part of the state where everyone lives is lucky to see over 40 inches a year
> “If DAUs go down or stay flat, the stock could go under $10,” one former employee said. “I feel like if that happens most people at the company will just quit. I know several friends already looking to get out.”

That might be optimistic on the part of the employee.

Snap chat is in a bad position in that they don't have their Donald Trump like twitter to keep in in vogue, and they don't have their advertising cash cow like Google/FB to make it profitable.

Heck due to their screwy share structure they don't even have the passive investment to prop up the stock that almost all other public companies do.

And due to the lack of voting they also remove the option of a forced takeover like GoPro does to give merger arb funds a reason to hold the stock.

To paraphrase Stephen Fry

Snap is the company that peed in the pool for all other investors wrt to ownership control :(

http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/02/peedinthepool/
Right, and those people looked back in horror and dismay at all the famine that did a fine job of killing their predecessors.

Must any criticism of modern practices equate to an endorsement of dialing back to ancient ones?

Is anybody building AI to catch these sorts of obvious fallacies? Now that would be pretty damn impressive for an AGI skeptic such as myself.
Homeschooling Hyperactive Child with Balanced Curriculum
The first paragraph above should begin "At the ends of the triangular rotor there are apex seals that...". I somehow transposed the words there while writing it.
Microsoft Says Chip Fix May Significantly Slow Some Servers
That depends on the field. The guesses can be very accurate based on ancillary data like profession.
I don't need to work at Google to know that circulating a memo at work about how your female coworkers are less qualified because of genetic factors is a stupid idea.
Countless times in history the "obvious answer" has been dead wrong. It's really bad science to just assume the "obvious" rather than test it.

They acknowledge so.
>Prove you are not lying. Link with irrefutable evidence given the constraint of keeping necessary information confidential.

This is hilariously overblown for a forum post, dude. Chill out.
Beatifully put.
True, but de-funding of the military-industrial complex was not a potential outcome of the launch. My point is that I consider this outcome preferable both to failed launch + failed payload and to successful launch + successful payload.
"But anyway, the first step is acknowleding that a difference exists, and that you aren't somehow "birth order-ist" just because you acknowledge that first-born kids often outscore lower order kids on many metrics."

The second-to-last step is deciding what you want to do with this information.
For that, there's the OKCupid blog post mentioned in the article[0] or the book that covers the same ground[1].

[0] https://theblog.okcupid.com/how-your-race-affects-the-messag...
[1] http://dataclysm.org
That's not bold, that's meek. Self driving cars are the bold. Public transport means travelling to somewhere I don't want to go, so I can be taken somewhere else I don't want to go but is closer to where I do want to go.

I want to walk out my front door, get into an "auto Uber" or whatever, and be let out at the front door of my work.
The skills you need to move into HPC as a career
This is quite damaging for Parity[1]. This combined with the Multi-Sig Wallet debacle[2] will require a lot of effort from Parity to rebuild their reputation.

As the valuation of crypto-currencies such as Ethereum increases the ability to target such vulnerabilities goes from simple malicious or destructive hacks to security compromises that have material costs beyond a reputation for both the developers and users of these platforms.

These exploits will also slow the wider adoption of particular platforms, the Blockchain space is right now quite competitive and market value is very closely linked to attention and interest in a platform's blockchain competency.

[1] https://www.parity.io/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14807779
Of all the aspects and effects of Amazon's style of business that I find troubling, Bezos' money is the least of them.
Say “Hello World” Using React Native in Linux
Commercial Building for Sale in Cheatham Co TN
A weekly physical newspaper is simply a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_magazine#Notable_print_ne... and broadly available from newsagents and often supermarkets, or am I missing something?
This reminds me so much of Genesis' "Dreaming While You Sleep."

All my life, you lie silently there
All my life in a world so unfair
All my life and only I'll know why
And it will live inside of me
I will never be free all my life
Trapped in her memory all my life
Till the day that you open your eyes
Please open your eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMEhTI-jko8
This is not what is being analysed and either conclusion is data dredging.
You take the good with the bad, is I guess all I'm saying.
I'm a mother with a young child.
I don't think the childless and males can ever really understand the process of being pregnant for 9 months and then giving birth.

I empathize with her, but if she killed my child.
I could never forgive her.
Show HN: Beautiful React UI components for your next project
A spaced base assassination laser seems better, like one over North Korea.
Introducing "Spearhead" to fund new angel investors
I have owned a number of leaf shutter lenses over the years, most on cheap rangefinders like the Canonet. There was a short period of time where you could ditch the SLR, ditch the interchangeable lens, and pay very little money for beautiful 1/500 flash sync. It really does open up an entire world. I went around outside with some gels and complementary filters. I had no idea that leaf shutters had gotten three times faster.

That said, 1/500 is actually very good at close-ish portrait distances, like 3 meters or so. Take a typical flash unit with GN 36 and ISO 100 sensitivity. Underexposing ambient light by one stop in direct sunlight means about 1/500 at f/11, so you need a guide number of (3 meters) x (11 f-number) = 33.

Incidentally, digital cameras with electronic shutters can do this much cheaper, but for various reasons nice cameras do not generally use electronic shutters.

And you can get leaf-shutter lenses for fairly cheap. You can even get fantastic, beautiful leaf-shutter lenses with sharp images and big apertures for cheap. Old photo studios have been getting rid of them in the switch to digital. These lenses are amazing, they just don't work with the camera system you want to use them with.
I've tried to get to explain to me how he does it, he can't.

He can also recite the US and UK release dates for most kids films (he learns them from Wikipedia)... and then he can subsequently tell you the day of the week!!

Most of his tricks are based on his amazing memory, he recites long sections from film and TV shows years after watching them.
Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft: how image recognition APIs stack up
All the self checkouts Ive seen have scales built in both the scanner and where they set the items
I don't think this really holds up under even very light scrutiny. Most people in general aren't all that interested in calling all the shots but there've been plenty of technically and scientifically trained politicians all over the world in all sorts of political systems. One leads Germany today, among others.

Most of us have strong pacifist views but seldom do we actually do anything that enables us to stop constant war.

Scientists actively initiated the development of the weapons that define post-ww-2 geopolitics. Subsequently, many were deeply involved in related internal and foreign policy. It doesn't get more 'doing something' than that.
I don't really have anything to add other than I completely agree. I won't read the story. There's also certain documentaries I won't watch for the same reason.
Firing someone is part of the right to free association.
It is impossible for men to have written the bible. It was written over ~1,500 years by about 40 different people across multiple empires and contents - yet it's unified in the story. It's over 20% prophecy, much of which was has already come to pass about nations or events (some of which features Israel).

There is no book that even comes close to the complexity required for the bible to have been written.
>And I have no idea if a civilization-scale governance that is stable, universally good, and that would survive more than few decades, is even possible.

I would agree, insofar as the requirements for such a stable (and dare I say peaceful) government will require a letting-go of our basic nature to let Power corrupt us. It might work for a little while though as you say, which would be pretty good considering our track record...
I grew up around a lot of horses and this was not my experience. But then those horses were all geldings and mares; stallions have a reputation for being mean bastards but I don't know if that's true or an urban legend.
This comes up time and time again on HN, and I continue to struggle to understand it.

Admittedly, Facebook have very recently passed out Google on my rankings, and is now in last place, but it's always been a close one. Facebook is very much a tentative last. Google has been very comfortably last until recently, and could easily slip down again.

What exactly is it that makes people trust Google? How is Google even remotely comparable to Amazon???
Understanding the perf. impact of Spectre and Meltdown mitigations on Windows
I remember finishing that interview thinking that Cenk was the most intellectually dishonest host I had seen in a long time. Sam's patience from beginning to end was extremely impressive.
More than 99% of all people alive today never murdered anyone, nor participated in any war. Slavery is very rare. In most of the world there are at least partly objective court system, with the possibility to appeal.

In what way exactly things got worse according to you?

And the important thing about Old Testament is - it portraits wars of Jewish states/tribes as either having the support of the God (because they were doing what God said to them, so they deserve to enslave/kill the pagans and take their land), or going against the God and thus - losing (so the pagans got the support of the God in the murdering or enslaving the Jews as a punishment).

God's purpose is whatever he chooses, but if you do such things you aren't "good" and "loving". You're basically playing Starcraft with people as units. It's evil.