skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they can really draw this conclusion. There are a great number of additional factors at play and accessing public sec records is a bit of a red herring. Especially considering that the funds they have listed as examples are primarily large high frequency algo funds (Renaissance and AQR) and are even less likely to find much utility in intermittent public filings. This may however be an indicator of diligence, but trying to link public information to a big increase in performance is somewhat far fetched.
The LIDAR data look pretty noisy, especially for distant objects. Could not they filter out the pedestrian thinking it is a bush or something like this?
The point, I think, is to send a message. Yes, the damage is done. But public pressure to #DeleteFacebook might force Facebook to be a little less cavalier with billions of people's personal data, respect previous agreements with the FTC [0], etc. in the future.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb...
except for all the negative consequences of everyone owning guns.
You make a good point, but car use is orders of magnitude higher than gun use, and I would expect accidents to be proportional to use. If guns kill as many as cars with so much less use, it's very scary!

If you compare it to other nations, the statistics are also worrisome:

"Compared to 22 other high-income nations, the U.S. gun-related murder rate is 25 times higher. Although it has half the population of the other 22 nations combined, the U.S. had 82 percent of all gun deaths, 90 percent of all women killed with guns, 91 percent of children under 14 and 92 percent of young people between ages 15 and 24 killed with guns."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...
Not to offer a complete solution: Lasers, and pervasive societal warnings about the danger of lasers.
I believe what you describe are called pipes, not ports.

EDIT: I was commenting on my day job, but what do I know :-) Reservation stations have ports, but the multiple executions units are commonly referred as pipes.
Similarities and differences between blockchain and Paxos consensus
> Plus, isn't the free speech crowd usually about letting private companies do what they want?

You can believe that a private company has the right to do something but also be opposed to them exercising that right.

There's a difference between free speech as a legal principle and free speech as a moral principle. I personally support both, so while I acknowledge that YouTube has a legal right to restrict speech, I still disagree with their use of that right in this case.
If it's a plugin or such, it may be helpful to make a profile just for that site (about:profiles or -P on command line). I do this for various sites that need different extensions or just that I want to isolate for privacy/security.
> NRA won't budge an inch? What do you call the National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968, the Hughes Amendment of 1986, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1994, not to mention all the state based bans on everything under the sun from a pistol grip to a "shoulder thing that goes up to two year waiting periods to possess a simple handgun.

Not sure of the first two off the top of my head, but the other two of the named examples are things that the NRA vociferously opposed, and (especially Brady) fought to repeal after they were adopted, so not exactly examples of the NRA budging. Ditto with many of them state laws you wave your hand at.

The NRA may lose sometimes, but thats different than budging.
Contract work, entrepreneurship, specialization and management are all options as you get older.
Trump Hacked the Media Right Before Our Eyes
Being buried in lawsuits isn't a great way to make money, generally speaking. The people hoping to make lots of money at this should have a pretty high level of motivation to make it safe.
I think a hybrid between SO and Discourse for papers would be more fitting. There really needs to be an open but moderated discussion for the papers - that'll serve as the peer review.
I don't get why Firefox gets flak, then.

They broke compatibility with v57 exactly for that: to make continuous small changes. The previous situation was untenable since there was no API for extensions, the extensions could just go through Firefox internals and change at-will whatever they wanted.

The whole point of WebExtensions is that they won't need to break compatibility after this huge leap.
You argued PaulStatezny's point for him in your reply. It is "immediately clear" that a knife is dangerous, and nobody expects a warning label on that. It's not "immediately clear" however that smoking gives you cancer or what is possibly being done with your data at Facebook, and thus there should be warnings.
How a Controversial New Sex-Trafficking Law Will Change the Web
I work in adtech, the number of sites using a 'Facebook tag/pixel' is way too high for this to happen. Every single user who hits a site with this tag has their data collected.
Yeah, and look at how well that whole experiment turned out.
Regardless, a human and metal bike should be very easily discernible with FLIR of adequate resolution.
They don't. Personal debt levels have been going up and savings diminishing in Japan, while wages have been stagnant for decades. Japanese middle class has been getting poorer and poorer consistently.
It was removed, but also (and maybe because) it was nearly impossible to effectively enforce. Gun restrictions would very much experience the same problems. There are millions of guns and gun owners in the US and many of those people are firm believers in their right to own a gun. They'd likely bury them in the yard or, as the old joke goes, "lose" them in a boating accident, before turning them over to authorities.

I personally would _never_ willingly turn mine in--they're for my and my family's protection and have saved my life before. I am certain many gun owners feels this way as well. Trying to enforce such a rule would be difficult, if not impossible.
"However, subsequent research, especially in the 2010s, appeared to refute both the climate argument and the genetic argument." [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Toba_cat...
Yes, but Venezuela isn't part of the largest trading and political union on the planet. France could easily rely on food from any other EU country and they would be fine.
Tradeworx is HFT. Yes, the premise of this paper is completely absurd. Drawing a line between overnight batch jobs for internal databases and performance is a quantum leap to say the least.
What if a company has a large codebase that's in Python 2 and wants http2? Will those suggesting porting help them bear the costs and manhours it takes?

(Google, for one, still uses 2. As does Dropbox. And both companies had Guido Van Rossum working for them at some point).
And of course we should be ready for the slew of sites complaining about how terrible and irresponsible it is to tell users that they've been compromised:)
It's a Batman (The Dark Knight) reference: "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now"
If I'm thinking of the same famous hospital, you folks remodeled an underground oil bunker into offices. That place is a bit odd, and frankly, I think they have proved my point more than once.
I accidentally installed the group of KDE applications on my laptop and am consistently amazed by how many cool/useful tools there are. It's better than MacOS utilities or similar windows tools by a wide margin.

Cantor is the latest one I found. It's basically a Jupiter notebook that runs natively instead of in a web browser.
Yes, exactly. Wouldn't surprise me if most of these firms were rescraping the data every night and overwriting.
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Pornhub has an opportunity here to branch out if they wanted to. They have the infrastructure, they could open a more general use, non-pornographic video hosting service.
This is the coolest part of that page:

"A 2005 study from Rutgers University theorized that the pre-1492 native populations of the Americas are the descendants of only 70 individuals who crossed the land bridge between Asia and North America."

https://www.livescience.com/289-north-america-settled-70-peo...
67 isn't much better, either. It's 60 + 10 + 7.
Lots of mention about LIDAR here. As well as IR sensors, etc.

Unless Uber comes out with all the technical specifications that is mounted on the car to detect motion and obstruction on the road, all are mere speculations.

The vehicle in question here would be in the custody of the authorities (impounded), so they should be able to investigate the details on it. Uber should provide as much technical specifications available on the vehicle to aid in the investigation (especially if they are certain that it was more the fault of the pedestrian rather than the self-driving vehicle (SDV)).

SDV companies and advocates should probably pool resources where they could buy a parcel of land, simulate it into a city like settings, and perform edge case tests such as people suddenly crossing, animals, objects, lighting conditions. This will allow for better simulation as well as advancement of technology that would soon realize the possibilities of autonomous driving cars on the road as safe and reliable.

Update: Added safe and reliable.
Tips for building a Kubernetes proof of concept
I assumed the sophisticated shops ran their own datacenters. Can you imagine RenTech running their code on other people's computers? I can't.
This seems to just be a result Apple's poor OpenGL stack. Krita has been very stable on both Linux and Windows for me.

From their roadmap page: "We will spend more time on macOS. Even though Apple’s support for the technologies Krita needs, like OpenGL, sucks."
It can depend; if it's because of sloppy programming (such as using string concatenation a lot instead of using a string builder, for example) then it's tech debt. If it's designed like that, then it's an architectural problem. I do think any naively implemented program should be able to scale up one order of magnitude, but two orders of magnitude require a new architecture.
Could it be a case of correlation vs causation?

Age discrimination is bad. Firing employees because of their age, or maybe more cynically, because if their elevated salaries, is a shit thing to do.

But what about getting rid of the employees who hold the company back? The ones who drag their feet. The ones who are more concerned about protecting their political standing than accomplishing good work. The ones who try to avoid change, sometimes literally defended by "Well that's the way we've always done it."

That breed of employee tends to have been at the company for a long time. Often that means they're older in age, too. Making a clean sweep of folks like that could appear to be age discrimination while actually being due to performance.
Those attempts are still happening in this day and age of POWER8 and beyond.
My interpretation of the second amendment is that the government has broad regulatory powers when it comes to gun ownership. Furthermore that the right applies only to militias and that in the present day militia would be an organization under government control.

Times change and interpretations change. I do not feel bound to interpret the Constitution by only considering what the founders meant. But for people who are originalists the well regulated meaning in the wording of the second amendment should imply broad government powers of regulation. It’s the only part of the Bill of Rights that grants a right to both the government and the people. It’s an oddly worded amendment. I imagine that the founders understood that a broad, unregulated right to own guns might not be the best public policy and hence threw in the well regulated wording. Also they mention it being necessary to a free state. If it is no longer necessary to a free state what then? Can a ban be placed on ownership? I don’t know how they would answer the question. I do know how I answer it.
wow... that's crazy.

I guess my bike has the retroreflective sidewalls... or else I was sold a bike illegally.
As a long-time human, who's worked with a lot of humans, I'd advise you not to underestimate the power of trivial inconveniences.

Rational, perfectly selfish agents in an environment of frictionless transactions might still invite me to events if I were off their social media platform. Humans will not.
Keep in mind this is all base don Plato's semi-fictionalized depiction of Socrates. In real life Socrates may have supported, and was certainly seen as supporting the Thirty Tyrants who briefly took over Athens, including one of his former students.
No worries, I can take the feedback (and it looks like I need it too). I'm not quite sure what I am at this point, but atleast I know I have no issue with gaining access to free booze and cigars. There's that kind of festivities in sweden too :)
Which is only supported on AMD cards.

Given that NVidia has their own API (RTX) , which will be part of Gameworks [0], is collaborating with Microsoft, and is currently requesting papers for Ray Tracing Gems[1], I don't see them bothering with Vulkan support.

[0] - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/03/19/whats-difference-be...

[1] - https://news.developer.nvidia.com/call-for-papers-real-time-...
The Zodiac Killer's unsolved z340: like a random fake cipher
The person in that last picture is something like 5 feet from the car which is far to close to be useful at 40MPH. At those speeds what's important is what it sees at 150 and 200 feet and how fast it can refresh.
Sorry, how does "Avoid using a transparent window by using CoreAnimation" improves battery life?
> but that doesn't mean that you should run around jabbing yourself in the throat just for the sake of it.

You say that but at the same time there's people that voluntarily had holes drilled in their skull.
I would gladly disable notification prompts. A number of sites I rarely visit show them. There's a reason I visit them rarely, and it's not because I forget to!

But camera and microphone? They seem useful for Skype, Hangouts, and other opt-in use cases. Are people seeing those prompts so much they're annoyed by them? What's the mechanism to opt back in for selected sites?
I just participated in a "Voluntary Reduction In Force" at (company I can't mention for legal reasons). It was applied across all of R&D but only people with 15 years or more of service were allowed to apply. We're being paid a week of salary and healthcare for each year worked so it's not too bad. But even so it was abundantly clear who they were targeting.
Counterargument: the commenter was buried into oblivion, which I suspect might turn a few people onto HN :D
I am a pragmatist looking at ways to work within the law, not an idealist looking to change the law, so it doesn't matter what I believe about people with power. They make decisions and we work out solutions to work within or around them.

And, yes, we all need more life experience :-)
Lie, you owe HR and Recruiter-reps nothing.
Perl 6 – Introduction to application programming
Why wouldn't you want to keep the constraints as close to the data as possible? That way you avoid the issue that the Rectangle struct is reused somewhere else, but without the correct constraints.
People can theoretically switch from one social network to another, however taking their friends with them is less easy.

If you make your living making videos on YouTube, and want to move to another service, most of your audience isn't going to come along. Being able to publicly post your videos is pointless if nobody watches them.
Ignore recruiters, There is nothing wrong with listing a one year sabbatical in your resume.
There ARE some types of non-intrusive ads (read: unnoticed unless specifically searched for) like little ribbons with text and maybe a link, like on [Troy Hunts blog](https://www.troyhunt.com/) or small non-animated banners like the ones on StackOverflow.

The ones everyone (except the ad networks) wants blocked by default are the intrusive ones, like video ads auto-playing loud BS or the ones where you scroll or move the cursor and some <div> or something pops up, darkens the rest of the site and annoys the reader with some pathetic bid to "subscribe to our page" etc.
Klar also has slightly different settings for telemetry as a result of local laws.

"Firefox Klar is a version of Firefox Focus for Germany, Austria and Switzerland
with user activity tracking disabled by default." - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.klar/
...except for the potential Oort object impacts? I'm not sure they discounted that. And further: we can't track the objects that did impact something because, well, they're gone now. Statistics doesn't work well for them.
So that is what the kids are calling it these days..
Interactive examples at MDN
"I had thought this would take decades.."

It is taking decades at this rate. Or at least a decade.

Not to long ago when Intel was yanking the rug out from under the SPARC and POWER and MIPS and $RANDOM_PROPRIETARY_MAINFRAME_CISC datacenter marketshares.
First, I think what happened with Facebook/Cambridge Analytica is appalling. With that said, I think this article is silly and emblematic of poor technology coverage in the media.

I think it would be awesome if users really did delete their facebook accounts if they thought these actions crossed some line. But the article cites ~50,000 #deletefacebook mentions. Come on, 50k hashtag shares is evidence of "Users Abandon..."? it then proceeds to document case studies of people leaving. The article title would imply that users truly did see this action as a last straw and are leaving in droves, and it seems that is the narrative that the writer wanted to write about.

Is that truly happening though? I'd love to see the data, but I don't think they will delete their accounts. Why would the writer elect to write an article fitting a narrative for which there is little data? Surely, the more interesting article would be "Are users deleting their accounts? Why not?" That I would read and find interesting.
It's been ten years, so it's gone beyond "idealistically".
> making code overly DRY and wrong abstractions coupling unrelated parts of the system unnecessarily

I would say that's just bad engineering due to lack of insight or experience. DRY is the most simple and most dangerous principle (or "best-practice") of them all, because when it goes wrong it's the one that hurts the most.
Not sure how serious you were, but AFAIK Rust's ecosystem for GUI programming is extremely immature. (Hopefully this will improve, seeing that the Gnome project is investing in Rust [1,2,3].)

[1] https://github.com/GNOME/librsvg

[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/Rust2017

[3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/Rust2017-2
What I thought Facebook and every other data company did: build tools to sell ads based on the data, but not actually share the data itself.
Waymo has 91-acres already[0]. They are selling/donating that land to the "California AutoTech Testing, Development and Production Campus", which will expand to 300 acres and allow others to use it too[1].

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/google-waymo-self-driving-car-ca...

[1] http://wardsauto.com/industry/samsung-joins-waymo-autonomous...
This tool is for measuring curves drawn on a piece of paper, not abstract curves.
It doesn't really matter what the car was actually capable of, so much as what it should have been capable of.

Let's say for argument's sake that the car wasn't equipped with whatever it needed in order to see a person crossing the street in the dark. That doesn't excuse Uber: it just means they shouldn't be testing in the dark on public roads.
>Do they think they are going to retire in their 30's

That is the plan, yes.
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Predicting User Inputs with Naive Bayes
The second amendment states that a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

you misquoted it the text reads: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

emphasis mine, It is the right of the people that will not be infringed.
>This is only a problem because we allowed the web to become centralized around a few large hubs

But that's also in the best interested of everyone.

Instead of youtube, we should visit 10 different video sites?
Instead of reddit, we should visit 10 different global info sources that now have 10x less content, and spend even more time finding what's relevant?
Instead of twitch, we should visit 10 different sites to watch streams?

It's the natural order of things.. there's no way to have a LOT of different sites that also contain basically everything you want.
Do you know how these algo funds keep a competitive edge for so many years (e.g. Renaissance 30+ years)? I am trying to understand their "kind" of product innovation as in what are the biggest factors they are continuously trying to improve?
I think it's better for 10 different companies to each have 1/10th of your data rather than one company having all of it. Facebook has grown to the point where they're just too big. They have pretty much every person I've ever known as a user. Those users have the app (or multiple apps) installed on their phones, upload all their photos, do much of their messaging, plan their events, etc. within Facebook. Plus Facebook owns a bunch of other properties with huge user bases.

The potential for abuse is smaller if we use independent services for all of those different things, even if those services aren't any more trustworthy than Facebook.
He is not being rude but rather blunt. Bitter medicine. You fail at socialization and blame the world. You never blame yourself and your negative attitude. You never progress and choose to simply isolate yourself instead of difficult and challenging self-improvement. This guy isn't being rude he is giving you the proper attitude adjustment recommendation that will help you succeed in social life! Otherwise I heard that there is a beautiful forest in Japan that you might want to visit - it has all the isolation that you would ever want.
Companies are going to have to port at some point.
Starting a new development project in an unknown environment
How the teams at Buffer, Zapier and Close.io plugged their biggest revenue leaks
Perhaps because it's something distinctively different than the typical HN posts of startup X raising 5 trillion series G funding and Musk going to Andromeda in 2003?
As someone who never had an FB account, I can assure you I've missed multiple events over the years over this. People simply forget that I don't have an account.
Read the news lately?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/21/17141428/c...
You are definitely prepared for voat, but for the others reading this, make note that voat is like 4chan; part of their defense mechanism is to get people who use words like "racist" upset and make them leave (and then go tell their friends how bad voat is). The crowd of people who just care about freedom of speech, transparency, and corruption, have been chased from platform to platform.

users like go1dfish are a good example, he is known on reddit and voat, but he is an example of someone who was forced off reddit for having the wrong thoughts. We were chased off of digg way before digg4 came out and we went to reddit where people like swartz cared about transparency and no censorship. Then we were chased off the main subs of reddit, then our subs got subverted, then shit started disappearing, and now we are on voat.

Remember that many prominent progressives and socialists are also blacklisted by the bulk of NPR/reddit types. Kucinich is a prime example, Ed Shultz is another; their crime is to tell their followers to think rationally about the situation. This is where people like me, and I guess you, find themselves.
What point would there be in using Gtk/Gnome?