skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Zealand for whatever reason I used cash a lot too. Australia you can pay stuff for small sums like $1 on card almost everywhere so no point to carry cash most of the time
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/09/fortune-crime/

J.K. Galbraith: the notion of the "bezzle", from The Great Crash: 1929:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23458.John_Kenneth_G...

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rxv/business/bezzle.htm
I know C in CSS is cascading, that doesn't make it a good feature. I think it's one of the big reasons that the web is slow and bloated. CSS is needlessly complex, no wonder it takes herculean efforts from browser vendors to keep up with the exploding complexities [1].

[1]https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en...
This is how you redeem yourself, when you screw over a gaming community.
if we wait for the gov to set up a certification for this, we'll delay the whole industry 10 years.
There seems to be a lot of confusion around free software and open source. You can sell open source software (as a matter of fact, you can sell free software too). First of all, open source only means that source is available - the license is up to the developer though and it might as well be paid for commercial use etc. "Free" has two meanings - "free of charge" and "free as in freedom". I'm not arguing for "free of charge" - while it's nice to have software that you don't have to pay for, I could imagine, say, buying Microsoft Windows if I had access to the source code and could hack it as I go.

"free as in freedom" means that I can not only access the code, but also redistribute it and use it in any way I see fit. This doesn't mean that the developers can't sell it though - they can sell support, extra features, hosting and so on. There are ways to profit from free/open source software. I could as well imagine Gitlab Foundation and Gitlab Ltd, where one provides the core and the other non-free modules that cover enterprise use cases. I don't like their current scheme though.
> Why can a private for profit company "test" their systems on the public roads?

My thoughts exactly. It is wrong. We have a chance to do this properly, openly and together, but instead our governments are letting private companies put our lives in danger.
Another equally valid title would be "Americans are less entitled to the wealth of others," and a better title would've pointed out "compared to Germans." This is article is just click-baity and the central point isn't that interesting without more countries of comparison in my opinion.
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Messenger is my last facebook service. I'd really like to sever the last tie and take my friends with me.

So I have two questions:

1. What's the lowest-friction replacement (for Android/iOS/desktop or web) with comparable features and good privacy?

2. How'd you get people to switch?
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No wonder. Wasn't he planning to run for president?
One excellent feature OLA has is giving your unique OTP to drivers before they start your ride. This prevents stupid cases on drivers picking up the wrong "John" "Dave" during peak times or outside popular venues.
While incredibly sad, this incident is not terribly surprising because the technology is nowhere near safe enough.

Unfortunately, this will inevitably set the field back by at least 10 years with stricter regulations. We've seen the same with pharma and aviation, where innovation was slowed drastically and is only realistic for big companies. This is especially true here because if self-driving vehicles get banned from public roads, companies like Waymo will be forced to develop bigger private "test tracks" that approximate cities to have any hope of building deployable technology, and they will face the same fundamental limitation – the data will come from an approximation/model and not the actual location with real-life scenarios.

Although there's no doubt that regulations are crucial to prevent such mishaps, I do hope lawmakers can find the right equilibrium on the tradeoff between safety and innovation.
I hope never enough, CSS is a fantastic language. Also, houdini won't replace CSS, it's actually the opening up of the CSS engine:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/05/houdini
"It is not possible to extract more punishment on an individual than their death, technically, unless you believe in an afterlife."

Not true at all. Not that I'd recommend it, but there's torture, and punishing family. They were far less outrageous in Ancient times.
Actual article title: "The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of".

"In August 1945, the United States dropped some of that enriched uranium on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing upwards of 105,000 people. Six days after a mushroom cloud swallowed Nagasaki, Japan surrendered. "

The Nagasaki bomb was a plutonium bomb, not U-235.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man
I don't get your math, but (I+P) - (I-P) = 2P. It seems wrong that that the difference between the two scenarios is 2P.
You might be interested in Concatapult [1]. I built it to minimally cover server needs (first-time setup, env vars, testing) and optionally add tech as your project needs it (react, knex, typescript, etc).

Basically it's a lego-like version of yeoman, and opinionated towards simplicity.

[1] https://github.com/Concatapult/pult
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Yes, it means that we need to write new regulations with real teeth, and vote out the politicians on all sides of the aisle that continue to punt on this issue.

One of my biggest complaints about the self-driving car space is that real lives are at stake; light-touch "voluntary" rules suitable for companies that publish solitaire clones aren't going to cut it here.
I realize now that the article I had read was for Oregon, and apparently this is very different depending on the state.

What's more concerning is that my state (Texas) seems to have a lot of vagueness around the laws.

Well, that's confusing to say the least.
I've been pretty disciplined about not shilling it too frequently. You can check my comment history.

I don't enjoy it, but a well timed shill is what got it to the front of hacker news one day, and got it a ton of exposure. When you are a solo dev without the reach of facebook, google or 37signals, you do what you have to do to get the word out.

Especially since you are all doing web programming wrong. ;)
I disagree, but it could be that we're using Gitlab differently. I used to be very enthusiastic at first, but over time I got annoyed by its quirks and decreasing amount of attention to CE. Could you tell more about how you use Gitlab? For example, is it self hosted?
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I'm greatly in favor of a slower-moving but more efficient automotive network. How many human inconveniences are caused by what boils down to impatience? See: gridlock, people entering intersections they cannot leave, and jamitons.

(IMHO) jamitons would dissolve if people would leave a flexible buffer between them and the car in front of them and focusing on minimizing braking, rather than driving up to their bumper, brake, wait for moving, accelerate, brake, repeat. The lag due to reaction time and ac/deceleration exacerbates the "viscosity" of traffic flow. If most drivers focused on "staying fluid" rather than hurry-up-and-wait, traffic ought to improve. Like fluidized beds.

https://math.mit.edu/projects/traffic/
The Cambridge Analytica users also signed up for the app, and also gave up their friend lists. You are correct though in that the nature of the application Cambridge Analytica used was more deceptive as it was not identified as having a political purpose.
I'd like to see which country the ad / news post / video is coming from. Stick a little flag icon on it.
That is not clear at all, based on another article. [1] Further, Facebook's lawyers told Wylie that the data was illicitly obtained, though now apparently they've changed their approach.

[1] 'Kogan was able to throw money at the hard problem of acquiring personal data: he advertised for people who were willing to be paid to take a personality quiz on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Qualtrics. At the end of which Kogan’s app, called thisismydigitallife, gave him permission to access their Facebook profiles. And not just theirs, but their friends’ too. On average, each “seeder” – the people who had taken the personality test, around 320,000 in total – unwittingly gave access to at least 160 other people’s profiles, none of whom would have known or had reason to suspect.' --from https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistl...
Node does in fact come with "threading support", just in a non-obvious way (and not exactly exposed to the end-user). It depends on what module you're talking about, but libuv in general _does_ use a worker pool. For example, the "fs" module will, under the hood, make use of a thread pool. The "http" module use a different strategy depending on the operating system, etc.

"Asynchronous system APIs are used by Node.js whenever possible, but where they do not exist, libuv's threadpool is used to create asynchronous node APIs based on synchronous system APIs."

https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_uv_threadpool_size_size
Funny how a human mind works. Mine is apparently ruined by the internet. I would consider a different name if this is meant as a serious product.
So the millions of voters that are by any definition technically illiterate and consumed by said dopamine machine...possible your loved ones...do you not seek justice for their sake?
Facing this problem on a daily basis. Are there any open source efforts under way? Would like to contribute!
> if we wait for the gov to set up a certification for this, we'll delay the whole industry 10 years.

That's not a particularly convincing argument, given that (so far), Uber's self-driving cars have a fatality rate of 50 times the baseline, per mile driven[0].

Having to wait an extra ten years to make sure that everything is done properly doesn't sound like the worst price to pay.

[0] Nationwide, we have 1.25 deaths per 100 million miles driven. Uber's only driven about 2 million miles so far: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2017/12/22/ubers-self...
Here's a good read about the "just world" fallacy: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/07/the-just-world-falla...

And indeed "credit" comes from the latin word for trust.
I'd prefer to make conspiracies untenable than to strengthen them by penalizing those who betray the conspiracy.

Then again, I also think we should offer Kim Jong Un a nice vacation home on St. Helena.
keep in mind that 57% does not mean 57% are on H1B. This dataset does not show the percentage of permanent residents.
By the way, "lead-free" plumbing contains as much as 8% lead, and only in the past decade were the regulations tightened so that "lead-free" plumbing must be a weighted average of 0.25% lead or less.
That's the CLI (it's right there in the title of the article)... which yes, can be run from the Cloud Shell, as the Cloud Shell is just a bash docker container that has the CLI pre-installed, etc.
I have seen https://cronitor.io/ in the past. Are there any differences from this service?
Social role? Until further notice, America is a capitalist country and Zuckerberg’s score says it all. Who needs social roles?
I agree. Django and Rails still have an advantage here.
I presume saving tens of thousands of lives is a benefit to society?
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If you ask me which one is coming first, Quantum computing or "better grasp of probability and statistics" among the general public - I take the first with 99% confidence.
Let me know when self driving cars can get sleepy, distracted or drunk. Until then, I'm much more concerned with "stop before hitting things 101". This "pre programmed cars must be better than X" is getting old fast.

This is one of those self correcting problems, and it's going to be fixed way faster than the startups pushing this "smart machines" propaganda are going to like.
In Melbourne there are so many cash only food places that you do need to carry cash - or at least know where the nearest atm is.
Is this gonna affect Facebook’s bottom line in any meaningful way?
My five dollars are on the “hell no” option, unfortunately.
Let the newscycle pass and it’s gonna be just another speedbump noone will recall three months from now.
Looking forward to the staggering yoy revenue growth Facebook will report in January 2019.
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> We need law enforcement to be able to keep pace with advances in technology

Agree, Kumail Nanjiani (comedian) has a great rant on twitter about exactly this, ethical implications of tech-

> As a cast member on a show about tech, our job entails visiting tech companies/conferences etc. We meet ppl eager to show off new tech. Often we'll see tech that is scary. I don't mean weapons etc. I mean altering video, tech that violates privacy, stuff w obv ethical issues.
And we'll bring up our concerns to them. We are realizing that ZERO consideration seems to be given to the ethical implications of tech.
They don't even have a pat rehearsed answer. They are shocked at being asked. Which means nobody is asking those questions. "We're not making it for that reason but the way ppl choose to use it isn't our fault. Safeguard will develop." But tech is moving so fast. That there is no way humanity or laws can keep up. We don't even know how to deal with open death threats online. Only "Can we do this?" Never "should we do this? We've seen that same blasé attitude in how Twitter or Facebook deal w abuse/fake news. Tech has the capacity to destroy us. We see the negative effect of social media. & no ethical considerations are going into dev of tech.You can't put this stuff back in the box. Once it's out there, it's out there. And there are no guardians. It's terrifying. The end.
https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/925828976882282496?lang=e...

It is scary, big tech orgs have no incentive or motivation to even consider ethical implications, whats worse is the American consumer has shown repeatedly that you're OK to do really shady stuff and as long as it means a lower price product/service for the consumer. We're in a kind of dark age of tech regulation and he's right it is terrifying.
The last time I visited Phoenix, I recall being shocked at far apart traffic lights were in the city. Between the Wal-marts and the giant four-to-six bedroom homes, it might be normal to see a major street have a mile between traffic lights (and presumably, crosswalks). It was very different from, say, driving in New York, San Francisco or Seattle.

I'd be curious whether "walking outside of the crosswalk" turns out to be material in the analysis by NHTSA/NTSB. Were the crosswalks big enough and close enough that a pedestrian would have normally walked inside one? Was the interchange a regular 90-degree crossing of two roads, or was it something more irregularly shaped? What is the annual rate at which pedestrians get hit at this intersection by human drivers? Do self-driving cars need more examples of "pedestrians walking outside the crosswalk" in their training sets?
I worry about the FOV piece as someone that experiences motion sickness from VR and normal non-VR games with narrow FOVs.

For those more knowledgeable, is this something that is less of an issue because it is AR vs. VR?
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You can do the same in NZ - it’s called eftpos / PayPass (PayWave in Aus). Cash is rarely needed in NZ if you’re a local.

If you only carry credit cards though you’re going to need some cash.
That is indeed reckless, but that guy is testing open source self-driving technology.

Given that all the main car companies are keeping their technology private I don't see how open-source systems are supposed to keep up without people doing this.

I think you can also contrast this to the many more people who decide to drink alcohol and then drive.
What would compel me to accept that an ethical standard that can be used to justify any amount of immoral and unethical behavior is “in a company’s DNA?” Why would I grade them on that curve?

This is like saying the Duterte is a very effective anti-drug crusader if you accept that murdering innocents and drug dealers is in his DNA.
Not only that, but the blockchain is not even immutable... Forks happen all the time and the developers end up arbitrarily choosing which fork is the real blockchain. Anyone that was using the other fork in the meantime sees their chain mutate (gets wiped out, essentially) or be given a different name.

So basically even IF the blockchain was not costly, the nation would need to control the developers to control the blockchain in the case of consensus failure (fork) to make sure no one messes with the election results.
She did say:

> there are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.

She didn't actually say white, but what else was she referring to?
Pretty tough to clear out dead wood when the institutions of relevance are more or less locked into their positions through heavy-handed regulation. The most glaring examples of this are the credit reporting agencies, who are defined by name in the US legal code with their special positions, rules, and privileges as involuntary private data collectors. Shouldn't come as a surprise that Equifax recovered so quickly.
> people from Facebook were assisting them on site to make sure everything went smoothly

I watched a show (60 minutes or something?) that said exactly that. Considering that, Facebook coming out with this now would seem a bit daring and provocative, but then we're well into the era where almost everything is propaganda & persuasion and the actual facts are mere details that no one will fact check anyways, so it's likely a pretty reasonable strategic move.
I feel like a site shouldn't have to assume that you're familiar with their product to understand what they're trying to push. This single page is useless to actually explain what this is in context, you need to click back to the main site (which is at the bottom of the page) to find out, and even then it's very sparse.
That's why many unnamed companies in the self-driving space are testing solely on enormous closed-off tracks in the South Bay.
The Azure Functions (Azure's equivalent to AWS Lambda) Host is open source: https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/

There's probably enough there to bootstrap a container version.
We changed the URL from https://www.wcpo.com/news/arizona-police-investigating-self-... to one that is longer and doesn't autoplay a video.
The same was true for GnuPG the last time I looked.
I would posit that the overwhelming majority of startups don't require "unrivaled density of talent". Most computing problems just need a decent availability of moderately competent engineers. Additionally, locating elsewhere reduces the need for such an abundance of capital.
Not seeing the post that this is allegedly a dupe of.
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The blog you quote also notes that a driver may still be found at fault:

> Arizona law also requires drivers of motor vehicles to pay attention and to drive "reasonably" for all traffic conditions. "All traffic conditions" includes the existence of pedestrians in or near the roadways.

> So, should an accident occur between a jaywalker and a car---if shown that the driver could have/should have seen the person and could have/should have been able to avoid, then without question the driver can be held responsible.

We don't know enough either way to cast judgment on fault yet. But to your original point, about the headline being misleading, we don't know enough to know whether the victim was jaywalking, only that preliminary reports seem to suggest she was engaging in that behavior. But labeling her a "jaywalker" strongly implies that she was cited as such, which of course hasn't happened in this case. Calling her a "pedestrian" is a fair choice at this point, not a "misleading" one.

edit: the headline for this story has since been changed from "Self-driving Uber car hits, kills pedestrian in Arizona" to "Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street", which seems fair to me.
Those who say it's not safe enough: given that no engineered system is 100% safe, when/how can you say that a system is safe enough?
This only becomes a problem if you have laws that are oppresive.

And if you have laws that you deem oppressive, your goal should be to fix those laws -- whistleblower / "snitch" awards are only negative if the behavior being reported isn't "wrong".
This is completely different. Cambridge Analytica deliberately lied and deceived users about the intention of the application they created to harvest information about users:

> Like all app developers, Kogan requested and gained access to information from people after they chose to download his app. His app, “thisisyourdigitallife,” offered a personality prediction, and billed itself on Facebook as “a research app used by psychologists.” [0]

Cambridge Analytica is also in the business of using manipulation and psychological techniques to convince users of an outcome. And this isn't something I'm making up, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica peddles this as the potential of his platform: https://youtu.be/n8Dd5aVXLCc

The most damning aspect is his naked promotion of misinformation under the newspeak of "Behavioral Communication" where he suggests comparing the effectiveness of using "Private Beach" vs "Sharks Sighted" as a deterrent.[1]

He also continued to revel in his company's ability to manipulate after the election.[2]

[0]: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/suspending-cambridge-an...

[1]: https://youtu.be/n8Dd5aVXLCc?t=1m45s

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bG5ps5KdDo
I think child porn laws are too one-size-fits-all. It's supposed to be to be a disincentive to abusing children to produce the images for profit. Once it's well and truly public so the profit motive is gone, it should become legal. Or at least at the same status as revenge porn if the subjects are identifiable.

Unfortunately, most people are too puritanical to even dare to think about the topic, let alone opens debate it or soften the law.
Cigarettes?
That the app's purpose was disguised is definitely true. I would suggest that there a large number of applications that use Facebook logins are primarily designed to monetize the information gathered from the access that provides. I would also suggest that the users of the Obama campaign application were not aware that the purpose was to gather information on from their friend lists in order to support targeting advertisements at people they couldn't get phone numbers for.
I think the preference against ids is covered over point #2 about specificity. id styles will always override class styles, so when you're trying to apply a class-based style guide to an element that's already been styled with an id, you end up having to use !important which just creates a similar specificity problem for someone else down the line.

Of course, you can still do this if you want to. To quote Chris Rock, "you can drive a car with your feet if you want to." But if you work on a large code base that lots of developers have touched, and lots of future developers will touch, you run into these issues all the time. And the bugs that come about can be tough to spot and to fix.
Most bears would rather shit in the woods.
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You're welcome. /evilgrin