skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pizza is pretty universal these days. There was one pizza place near me in college owned by an Indian family; they also sold Indian food. They didn't appreciate it when we tried to order a chicken tikka pizza, though.

Another pizza place near where I used to work was run by an Irish guy, who then later sold it to a Chinese guy.

Oh, and my favorite pizza place near where I used to live was run by a Dominican guy.

I think that pizza place food is not really connected with Italians in the US any more; it's pretty much just become mainstream American. Though there is still a trend for them to have Italian names.
I actually worked at Dominos many moons ago, and while their ingredients aren't "fake", they are certainly not so fresh. The pre-made, pre-sized dough, sauce, cheese and toppings all arrive in gigantic refrigerated semi trucks from a centralized warehouse. They scale they deal with is beyond the size of most "restaurants" save maybe the other fast food giants, so it has to be this way. You will never get the freshness level that you would get from a mom and pop joint, but of course, that is not what you're expecting from Dominos.
So his hands weren't detected on the wheel and the autopilot disengages at highway speeds? I can't really understand how this is supposed to work.
The new thing is what can be done with the data. Rather than simply deciding how to market your service to the customer, you can use machine learning systems to conjecture the likelihood of that person being, say, a criminal, or an adulterer, or a political dissident. For each category of 'bad person' you can imagine, you can gin up some (almost completely nonsensical, but that doesn't matter) analysis profile and assign a probability score. You can then take the top couple of categories they score in and use that data however they please.

For awhile I've wanted to take all publicly available data about politicians and train a machine learning system on it to predict which pols are cheating on their spouses or engaged in other sorts of elicit activities. I have zero confidence in the ability of such systems to predict human behavior, but that doesn't mean they can't be tremendously powerful tools of intimidation and manipulation. You'll notice after the Snowden leaks, each and every single statement the government ever made was extremely focused on the notion of human analysts reading the fulltext of peoples conversations. Not a mention was given to the automated systems profiling, categorizing, targetting, and producing "summaries" about people. Personally, those blind systems cobbled together by people with too few scruples ('just doing my job' is identical to 'just doing it for money' and those engineers deserve to have their faces spit in) and deployed by those with too much faith in oracular technology scare me far, far worse...
You can do that.

IMO, the best approach is to just buy a 15K to 25K life insurance policy. If you are young and healthy, it'll only cost 10 dollars a month (maybe less) and the nice thing about those is that you/your beneficiary gets the money at death (tax free in most cases) and the funds can be used for other things beside final burial expenses.

Be careful of some of the plans sold by funeral homes. They may be the beneficiary and you may not be able to move your plans to another funeral home or use left over funds for anything else, etc.
Disagree, I went from no spanish knowledge to being able to basically text/whatsapp. Some of the phrases were retarded but I was still learning new words and a bit of grammar. 4 years later and I am fluent and still credit duolingo for giving me a boost and making it fun/gamifing the very basics.

I also disagree about Japanese, I used to it learn the kanas and I am continuing to learn with it.

I don't understand why there are people that hate on this free language tool so much.
I am curious about the age of that particular component (and skimming the linked article didn't seem like a detailed read would reveal anything of substantive detail).

Maybe the modern expensive pre-packaged mixer of drugs is an attempt at re-patenting the actually effective and already existing drug and keeping generics (which could be manually prescribed with the other beneficial ingredients as separate medications) off the market.
As a former university teacher of public speaking, let me say that a large part of the problem is that most lectures are just poor in various ways. A really good lecture will capture your interest and get the information into your brain in a way that will make it stick.
Always happy to see more Elixir posts, truly a great language. Im always amazed by how much I can build with so little.
Open source, self hosted, developer oriented translation tool
And I'm saying we're fallible. We need mechanisms to avoid fatalism when looking at a downward slope, because history says we don't actually know how things will turn out, no matter how obvious they seem.
1) having to talk over the other restaurant staff; receiver can't hear you.
2) reading my credit card number over the phone
3) explaining the details of the order. The human always messes it up.
4) getting surprised by the cost, or having to calculate the cost for all the items ahead of time. I'd rather negotiate my order with a machine in the privacy of my own home than with a person on the phone.
Is the article itself subject to the judge's prior restraint on the basis on mentioning a known working website for sci-hub?
> One of the more easily interpreted statistics given is that American women on average have a lifetime risk of developing breast cancer of about 12%, while women that consume 2-3 drinks per day have a lifetime risk of about 15%.

I find this interesting. By all means, people should be entitled to informed consent and allowed to make their own choices. But only a 3% increase? And that's if you're consuming 2-3 drinks a day? Doesn't seem all that significant.

Meanwhile, being obese increases the chance of a myriad of cancers (including breast), yet talk of addressing the obesity epidemic (35% and climbing of the adult population is obese in America) is shouted down as nanny-state hysteria and "it's impossible to lose weight anyway."
I can appreciate that Slice is trying to undercut competitors like seamless, but their app is little more than a minimum viable product. It lacks any user-generated content, such as reviews or photos, so there's really nothing to make your choice on, unless you already know the place you're ordering from. The menus have no standardization, so you don't even have a reliable indicator of how much food you are ordering. I have trouble seeing how they can compete when their many competitors provide a much better UX.
Vulnerability Root Cause Trends for MSFT Remote Code Execution (RCE) CVEs
Yeah, we’ll see. Chucklefish, as far as I know, has been happy. I did a presentation at an Activision studio yesterday. We’ll see!
Agreed, it really is just an incredibly well designed language.

Been digging back in recently and between Phoenix, Plug and Ecto it's very clear how much care and thought when into the API/architecture. Truly a joy to work with.
Interesting concept, thanks for sharing.

I know most of these are heavy lifts, but any ideas around...

...materialized views?

...built-in versioning (Datomic-like)?

...story on how to play it nice with backend languages (One thing MongoDB imo did right)?
Only in general aviation (Which has an appalling accident rate.)

Autopilots in commercial aircraft - the kind that you'd be flying from San Francisco to New York are capable of far more then just dumb cruise control, including navigation and landing.

If 'maintain pitch and direction' were enough to be 'autopilot', then my SO's '97 Toyota Avalon had 'autopilot'.
Hang on, what? People order pizza to show up at half time? I have only been at Super Bowl parties where the pizza is there before the game starts, normally part of a giant spread of other heart attack foods.
Those two panels are well-known as a meme image, over probably the past 4 years. Memes tend to transcend their original source; that's probably why the image wasn't properly cited.
It's a digital publishing system.
Plan 9?
If you are talking about improving the crash safety of cars in general by making vehicular structural changes and inventing new tire chemistry and manufacturing processes, that is a separate issue than self driving, to the extent it would improve safety for regular drivers too.

>...it's worth noting that airliners use tires at hundreds of miles per hour, yet fatalities basically never happen. Things can be engineered to be arbitrarily safe.

Aircraft are protecting all eggs in one basket. If you want to talk about the roadways being maintained and cleaned at the level of runways, you're crediting self-driving for something that isn't self-driving. Aircraft may have different structural scaling laws in play too (500 20 second touchdowns before replacement/refurbishment, short periods high stress).

An how far are you going to allow reengineering everything? Would it be ok to call slightly modified 747s that can taxi themselves self-driving cars? Trains?
>You add +I accusative suffix to [imply definiteness]

Very interesting! In Russian, the accusative suffix would play exactly the opposite role. While there's no real way to say the beer without additional context, you can say:

поставь пиво в холодильник / put the beer in the fridge

поставь пива в холодильник / put SOME beer into the fridge
Later on ProductHunt: PizzaCo unifies all your pizza POS services!
The Washington Examiner also claims that global climate change is a hoax, and that Trump is the greatest president of all time.
There's plenty of tremendous pizza in San Francisco. Hell, we even have Zante's, which makes quite unique Indian Pizza. The stuff at DNA Lounge is frankly crap compared to some of what you can get from the lesser known places.

With that said, we're still nowhere on the level of NYC.
One would assume they know that this log information is critical to the operation of the whole company, and engineer the logging system with that in mind - otherwise they can hardly make any claims about what a car was or was not doing when issues like this crash occurred.
just curious what the name of his shop is? I'm always looking for good neopolitan pizza in this town.
Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics
What do you mean by that? I'm sympathetic to making healthcare look more like a free market, but I don't know what a free market in health care looks like.

If you don't have money, society shouldn't just let you die. The second you try to fix that (with government) you don't have a free market.
That does seem to be the direction that most efforts like this are leaning towards now.

I am honestly amazed that Terrafugia is still around. It was a great effort and it was awesome seeing them build a few prototypes, but it doesn't seem to have much hope of getting beyond that.
The way I see it, when I have some free time I have some choice in which ways to spend it. If I spend it doing some things, I end up with something to show for it, something I can look at later or point to and say "I did that." Other ways leave me with almost nothing. And I just get bothered by that. Now, it's important to note that I am very broad in my sense of 'something to show for it.' Being well-read, having a wide experience with cinema, etc are things that I credit as artifacts worth accumulating. So most of my time gets split between learning and building things (software, mostly, as that's where my talents lie).
Blade Buster, fast paced modern time attack shmup; very pretty, don’t forget to hit select to increase speed.

My top score in 2min is 500,000+.
i don't think job growth really matters so much as wages. Automation has had a pretty clear impact on middle class wages, while high-level and low-level wage jobs have continued to grow
He said he gets called from india about some app / software that offers a dashboard to connect uberRush, slice, yelp, grubhub guess what? they take a fee on top of the fees from each POS / Software provider he is using. Its a "Layer Cake" fee. Like that movie. Fee on top of fee. Each morning he wakes up to further confusion when what he REALLY wants todo is make damn good pizza. He also said no one comes to eat in his spot EVERYONE orders out or take out using one of those apps above. He can't figure out all these different apps / services and has to hire someone todo it. Each time he tries to call one of these service providers, he can't get through to an actual human.
Uber drivers are freelancers, not employees, judge rules
We have several local pizzerias, each of which is several times more delicious than Dominos. However, they cost 2x (or more) as much, depending on the coupons that Dominos might have.

I might enjoy eating it ~2x or 5x as much as Dominos, but if it's not in the budget, the choice is between Dominos or no-pizza.
Jersey city in the late 90’s had a few places like this . For starters we had the Turkish / Egyptian pizza ( Prince of pizza on Montgomery) joints , Chinese Mexican spots ( who’s food was neither very Mexican , texmex or westernized Chinese one on Newark ave and grove street) a polish restaurants run by Czech and Italians (up by the courthouse on Newark ave ) a Cuban restaurant run by actual Cubans From Cuba( who also owned the stoned pony in asbury park ) and my favorite a Greek diner owned by a Lebanese of Greek descents who had a family of women from cetuna ( Spanish Morocco) who ran everything. They were memorable for speaking English, proper Spanish , Arabic and getting a burger in under 5 mins ( the vip on sip )
Further, does this discussion page itself "facilitate access" by virtue of people mentioning a working sci-hub website?

What limits are there to the gag order? How much rights do you have left to speak of sci-hub online? Do you have any?
Webassembly is the better thing we will replace JS with as a target language for browsers.
> He said he has to deal with 3-4 software / hardware POS products for EACH service

I see this in some small shops. Their order counter is crammed with an iPads for each delivery service usually (4-6). Just to run ONE APP. It's ridiculous with what they have to put up with.
Oh man, their loss! It may be sacrilege but I'm a huge fan of "desi pizza", and there are a lot of places like that in Fremont CA near where I used to live. One place: http://www.bombaypizzahouse.com/
It is strange seeing people claim Tesla is just doing PR spin here. They aren't saying this is the drivers fault because the driver decided to drive into the median. They are saying it is the driver's fault because he put too much faith into the autopilot system. Tesla's entire argument is that their autopilot is not as capable as some people believe. That is a weird stance to take if their only goal is to sell more cars.
Among the Pony language posts and this one, I can't see how this company won't become the darling of HN regarding tech stacks. Solid post nonetheless.
I had the same thought after reading the news. It should be called pilot assistant or something similar.
I've had this vague sense all year that someone gave it a term and wrote a post on it and I read it, but it never reached the level of consciousness where I'd actually look it up. Thanks for pointing the way.
Albania and Italy are only as far apart as New York and Philadelphia, and Albania and Greece are adjacent. Americans are not inclined to draw a distinction between regions separated by so little distance. It would be like you saying that you have a favorite Mission-style taqueria in Tirana, and I countered that it's actually run by people from Sacramento. There is no difference!
I don't find it great for vocab either, Anki or Memrise are massively better IMO since they only do that and they do it well. Of course it Duolingo you get the words in some context which could be better but since half the time the context makes no sense anyway why bother? I just did a Duolingo review about "household items" right now and it repeated twice the word "stairs" and thrice the word "kitchen", words I have no real trouble with. How about giving me some vocabulary I actually need to practice instead?

And at least on Anki or Memrise you can select decks that match what you want to learn, such as getting the basics to order at a restaurant or ask for directions. On Duolingo I think I've learned how to say "the bishop sends a pineapple to the queen" before I learned how to say "bathroom".
Unit Test Patterns: Pass/Fail Patterns
Horns Honk, and Censors in China Get a Headache
The warning is not a reaction to unsafe conditions. It comes on when the system detects (rightly or wrongly) that the driver doesn't hold the wheel.
One argument he raised in the House hearing was that collecting data on users allowed more targeted ads which in turn made ads more efficient and therefore more economical, which levels the playing field more for small businesses versus large ones in terms of advertising.

However, that is an argument favoring the customer, i.e., the advertiser, not the product, i.e., the user.

During the Senate hearing, he was asked about Ms. Sandberg's comment that if there were no ads then users would have to pay. Mr. Zuckerberg pointed out that users can opt-out of ad targeting/data collection,[1] making the ads they receive more generic and less "relevant", but currently Facebook offers no option for users to pay not to receive any ads at all.

The still unasked question is, "Why not?"

If some users could not afford to pay, as Mr. Zuckerberg suggested in both hearings, then they could opt-in to advertising. How would this affect the business model?

Further, if those users were disappointed at how the ads they were being shown were not "relevant", then they could opt-in to ad targeting/data collection.

1. The default setting is opt-in. As we know, most users do not change default settings.
"Corollary 5: The greater the financial and other interests and prejudices in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true. Conflicts of interest and prejudice may increase bias. Conflicts of interest are very common in biomedical research, and typically they are inadequately and sparsely reported."

-- Why Most Published Research Findings are False
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...

The base of research on alcohol is inherently biased due to both financial conflicts of interest and the general desire to see something enjoyable as healthy (alcohol, chocolate, sex, etc.) In addition, even when reliable research is performed, its results are inconvenient and thus discarded by journalists, health professionals, and the general public. It's an uphill battle to get to the truth of the matter and make it stick. But it seems we're making some progress, if articles such as these are any indication.
I don't think the 'past' link conforms to current best design patterns. We should refactor it so that it automatically posts a comment on the article.
Great article about encoding; this is similar to the DRM the PS3 uses on video content. It's a low bit rate signal, but after enough time of the movie playing enough bits are generated to trigger the DRM flag and stop playback.
That would require a massive infrastructure investment. And seeing as we can't seem to even get a good chunk of roads to even be in good repair, I don't have high expectations for the possibility of instrumented roads.
> Let’s Replace JavaScript

The entire article is about changing various browser APIs, not Javascript itself
On the contrary, the GDPR helps Facebook. As background, I am a product manager dealing with GDPR issues right now. The requirements are quite onerous, but they are not intractable. I am sure that Facebook, with their army of engineers and lawyers will be able to find a way.

Facebook already has traction, and if push comes to shove can anonymize their data so it is at least still somewhat valuable.

However, the window is closing for any new social networks to get started, because the startup costs are simply too high and you can't growth hack like you used to.

What I am saying is that it is quite reasonable to assume that Facebook will be the last social network out there, that they will survive and no new competitors can emerge. If any hope of competition gets removed, then that benefits FB.
> Maybe take a 50% tax cut out of minimum wage and give the prisoners the rest of the money.

So you're okay with the tax, now it's just down to the percentage.

50% is just as justified as 100%.
I like programming in Clojure -- it's the language that introduced me to lisp syntax and immutable values. But Scala has been adopted and Kotlin is being adopted to a far greater degree than Clojure seems to have been.
Yeah thanks for dropping some deeply outdated impressions in here. (Also not even fair—the code was never a mess and at the time it wasn't clear how ES modules would be used so using CommonJS was a completely reasonable choice.)
Key thing that unlike Tesla's self driving system. just about nothing can happen in a plane that will kill you if don't disable the auto pilot in 1-2 seconds.

Perhaps final stages of ILS approach? That'd be the exception, but pilots are trained and certified for this - and definitely not allowed to snooze off then.

(I'm not a pilot, but have spent a fair amount of time and money on various PC flight sims; edit: and used to drive a Mazda 3 with a very good radar cruise control and AEB, before ditching it for a bicycle because getting old and fat).
If you have professional writers why not just teach them markdown and git?

Instead of spending engineering $$$ building, maintaining and operating a complicated editor?
I tried doing it nights and weekends for 3.5 years and with a young family, I made advances in my skills but never produced anything meaningful. I'm working with someone else now to create a product and so I took a week of annual leave to try out what it was like doing my own thing full-time and vlogged about it.

https://youtu.be/-VkkZOiIL10

It was so good the next day back at work I handed in my notice which is what the following video is about!

https://youtu.be/rrP_yHV19bA
Technology had practically no role to play here. Without Strava the outcome would have been the same only she would have been oblivious about it until he left her. Not sure why this is a Wired article or on HN front page.

We're still humans and Strava isn't at fault in this tale that's as old as time.
It's probably a combination of all the above. Personally I don't like talking on the phone. Busy shops will commonly begin the phone call with a greeting followed immediately by "can you please hold". That alone is enough to drive me to their website next time I order.