skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly 0% of these systems are 100% perfect 100% of the time.

Coastal regions are especially problematic in this regard, since all it takes is wind to carry uncontained litter out to sea.

Recycling bins get blown or knocked over distributing their contents on a frequent basis. People collect recyclables from bins in an attempt to earn income, the stuff collected is not reliably delivered to the recycling center. I've seen drunken idiots kick over recycling bins in SF on more than one occasion, from locations with line of sight to either the bay or the Pacific.

Vehicles transporting trash and recyclables are not 100% perfect. I've followed numerous "Recology" trucks in the SF bay area with trash flying out from under the mesh net they use to cover the trailer - it's unattached on the long edges.

Population centers are continuously adding uncontrolled trash to the environment. When they happen to be coastal, much of it goes to sea.

Recycling is most effective at giving people an impression of a 100% closed system and enabling them to continue purchasing individually packages plastic disposable^Wrecyclable goods. The actual implementation of recycling goes off a cliff the moment the bins move outside, but most people don't interact with it after that point, so the theatre is mostly effective.

This isn't even considering the fact that recycling companies are sometimes corrupt and simply dump the waste wherever is convenient rather than fulfilling their obligations.
Hmm, I don't play video games, but I do play board games. People that play board games say the same thing - you don't play a board game for the theme, you play it for the gameplay or the game mechanics (though a fun theme doesn't hurt).
I mean, there was a lot of equifax rage where I live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There are plenty of startups doing this. I spoke to Navisens at TreeHacks and they weren't willing to describe their methods outside of typical marketing technobabble.

Sounds like they using weather data to determine slight changes in the speed of light. I'd be surprised if this hasn't been done before though, it seems pretty obvious. So there's probably another component I'm not thinking of.
For the obese gamers chugging mountain dew(me, and my friends) the biggest difference came from switching to drinking water. That got us down to weights that seemed feasible to diet and exercise our ways further down.

It was a super simple shift and wrought such a significant change to our body shape and weight that we were motivated to do the "hard" things - i.e. diet and exercise.
I don't know how popular Getaround is in other parts of the country, but I get the impression they are struggling in Chicago.

They definitely need Uber's support here
I'm never sure the best way to format this stuff on HN. Most other sites allow you to "quote" content using the > character, but HN doesn't seem to have support for that at all.
I don't know why but this reminds me of a story I read long long ago about someone figuring out that the local Big Box store had their PA system attached to a phone number. You could call in and say anything you want.

They kept up the ruse for quite a while by being subtle at first with their mischief.
> However, the "calories out" portion of that equation is actually quite complicated

The "calories in" part is more complicated than people like to admit too, and probably more important for weight loss. The way our body handles hunger and its relative primacy in our mental state makes it unnecessarily difficult to calorie restrict and then maintain, when eating certain diets. It's like telling an alcoholic "just stop drinking, duh" or an insomniac "just relax and sleep, simple as that". Just because something is in our brain doesn't mean we have full control over it, and I'm not sure why food is treated like something that everyone magically has complete self-control over, in contrast to _literally everything else_.

I'm really really fortunate to have grown up in a good food culture, and worked on it a little more in college. Meeting CICO goals and losing weight when I want to is really not that difficult for me, but I don't think this has much to do with self-control or my genetics. The way I eat just makes hunger less of a factor in my life: I rarely get hungry, skipping meals is never a problem, I get satiated quickly, etc etc.
I have a device that does this (among other things). It's a discontinued product called the Boomcloud Boomstick. It really does make mediocre headphones sound like they produce deep bass.

There have been other similar devices, particularly the SRS Wow! Thing is still popular among musicians, and commands high prices on eBay.

I bought the Boomstick for a DIY BT speaker project, that I had to put on hold. I may pull myself together and actually finish it now :-)
On the other side: I know a few games, like TLoU, have tried to go the "movie-esque" route, with mixed success. TLoU was quite successful, but I don't think there have been too many other video games that have done well with the "movie-like" approach.

I think you're right that video games often sacrifice storytelling for gameplay, which I definitely don't mind.
The most famous example is GE which is a huge conglomerate that spans many industries.
Can you add a secondary source of value that will attract one of the parties first?
Facebook has a different level of access. Seems to me like that would be all kinds of unethical.
Have you tried it? I am trying to go beyond an introductory course.
This could potentially be crushing for Turo which seems to struggle to get noticed, maybe Zipcar as well.
Definitely - our first version had a lot of white, and also a lot of feedback asking us to make it not-white.
> I think the modern society has forgotten how it is to not have facebook so if that would be forcefully taken away at this point, there would be a lot of angry people not knowing what to do any more.

They'll adapt. Facebook isn't even the trendy social network anymore.

It's not like Facebook really does much that's innovative for users anymore. Their only real innovation was to couple a real-names policy along with social exclusivity, but the value to users of that was lost long ago during their race to 2 billion users.
This article makes it seem like it's almost inevitable for video game movies to be bad, almost as if there's some objective formula which dooms video game movies to failure. For example, the author mentions something like: "stray too far from the original and you get weird movies that alienate fans, but stick too closely to the original and you get something boring and overly game-like." Seems like a false dichotomy to me.

There's definitely a way to create a highly-compelling side story that "fulfills" the promise of an original series without being overly constrained by it. For example, Tell Tale Studios is a game company that is quite famous for making good side stories that latch onto existing franchises, and their Walking Dead video game is one of the best video game storylines I've ever played through. It seems like it's quite possible to turn good movies and good tv shows into compelling video games; surely this is possible in reverse as well! It's also really easy for me to imagine an alternate universe where video game adaptations are like comic-book or novel adaptations, which are capable of performing quite well.

I do think that making good movies that are entertaining and have artistic merit is always hard, and since the problem of making good movies is already not easy, adding additional constraints from a video game premise probably makes it more difficult, especially since film types are probably more likely to be passionate lovers of comics and books than they are to be passionate gamers. There's probably also a problem with the prestige of video game titles that makes it difficult to find good writing talent.
Hi dang. I really do not understand why it is ok to post pay-walled articles. It makes the frontpage a minefield IMHO. Maybe a short reason can also be stated in the FAQ in addition to that being ok. BTW, is it also ok to post articles behind a registration-wall? I mean, like something shared on FB which can only be viewed by members?
WOW they are discussing the FB trackers now. This may actually get real
If you start burning 5,000+ calories per day eating enough can feel like a chore. That's outside the realm of possible for a 40+ hour per week office drone, but it does apply to some people.
This is a nice analysis. TechCrunch has been doing much better work recently.
So it’s CICO for some unobservable quantity of calories. Real useful.
Nice bit of deflection by the vendor.

"However, we wish to point out these are technically sophisticated people who have devoted significant time and effort to this task. Before customers panic too much, please understand that this is not a trivially easy thing that just anyone can do."

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So many video game movie projects are missing the simple question, "why?" So many of these games are inspired by movies in the first place, and their stories are mostly just cliches based on their source material. It's fine in the context of the game, because the player is doing something, but when you put that into a non-interactive medium, the flaws become obvious.

If you take Indiana Jones, turn it into a game with a sexy woman as the main character[1], and then try to make a movie out of it, then of course the critical reaction is going to be "Indiana Jones but not as good." Mortal Kombat is basically Enter the Dragon with a simpler storyline, so why would you decide to turn it into a movie?

It's an issue that comes up in most adaptation, whether it be a book, or a comic, or even a song. There needs to be some reason to do it. Some idea that the source material does that hasn't already been done to death in film. "This game/movie/book is popular" isn't a good enough reason. It might get a movie greenlit, and it might even make money. Heck, it might even make a TON of money, but it won't make the movie good.

[1] Later iterations of Tomb Raider have been much more feminist, but the original concept was entirely based on sex appeal
Helvetica is now an encryption device
Quickest way: hire a great designer.

Cheapest way: learn design yourself.

I don't think there are any quick shortcuts here. You may want to check out Dribbble for inspiration and resources: https://dribbble.com/
I mean, it's probably more convincing than "I'm not really that familiar with what Palantir does".

Your average Ivy League CS grad is familiar with the bottom-line summary of what Palantir does - all the claims about secret projects aside, they do give tech talks and put product demos online. Zuckerberg is claiming he's not even familiar with that stuff?
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This will get really tricky, because shadow profiles can probably be fuzzy, and how could Facebook guarantee there aren't two or more shadow profiles for the same individual (ex: peggy platter and margaret hill and Hank's wife) and make sure they always get them all?

Especially tricky for people who change genders and/or first names.
How ancient DNA is transforming our view of the past
Except that pedagogy matters and the way you teach things matters. Learning style don't exists research is not in opposition to that.
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Companies fail at the process of deleting accounts
Sighhh... apparently they can't just report on a story from China without peppering it with statements about the US -- specifically about how this is a new salvo in some kind of healthcare war with the US. Sometimes stuff just happens when people do things. They're probably not pushing to advance healthcare just to fuck with the US.

Some made-up headlines from world history written from this incredibly narcissistic viewpoint:

Pharaoh to Build Great Pyramid, Challenging Structure-Building Dominance of Future Country "America"

Scientist Marie Curie Discovers "Radioactivity" in Effort to Humiliate USA

In Rare Reversal, Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" Better Than Similar American Art Works
thanks for the shoutout Anurag :)
“Rape Culture”: Yea or Nay?
Yeah, Congresswoman Dingell is laying it down. She even specifically mentioned the Facebook "pixel" in a technically accurate way!
Heh, I could have written this story about my 9 year old daughter. Suddenly she wants a gallon of glue and borax along with all kinds of additives and coloring agents. Hey, anything where it gets kids talking about long chain polymerization.
The sentiments in this article are all very nice and progressive, but... have you ever actually tried to interview people for a programming job? The simple fact is that lots of people, perhaps most people who apply for jobs as programmers, are completely helpless. They couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. It's actually really depressing interviewing them, because you want them to be successful and yet most of them fail miserably at the most basic things.
Amtrak just announced they were shuttering that program at the end of March: http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/amtrak-will-no-longer-op...
Denver area.

10-15 years experience coding, ~3 years experience in leadership/management. Currently in webdev, spend 50/50 time coding vs management work.

$165k base, ~$190-210 total comp depending on year. Work 35-40 hours a week.

Mostly feel that I got here by being in the right place at the right time (luck), and being able to evaluate opportunities and accept a little risk chasing promising, but uncertain companies/positions when they become available. Also learned the importance of self-marketing and how to make yourself valuable.
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Some thoughts about the possiblities:

1) he's lying ... which would be dangerous since it only takes one disgruntled employee to expose emails and work projects that merged in 3rd-party data (e.g. Acxiom).

2) he's not "lying" ... by doing his version of Clinton's "depends on what the meaning of 'is' is".[0] Let's say Facebook has an internal system that collects data on non-Facebook identities into a holding area. Maybe they internally call it "deferred profiles" or "pre-activated profiles" but not exactly "shadow profiles". Well, MZ can basically interpret "do you have shadow profiles?" as a hyper-literal question and answer with a hyper-literal answer: "no". Again, a Facebook insider would have to come forward and reveal what the shadow-but-we-dont-call-it-that profile actually is.

3) he's telling the truth by every meaning of the question. Facebook truly has zero data on non-Facebook users.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=depends+on+what...
I've never played the game or seen the movie, but the trailer looks pretty bad to me.

If I were making a movie about that subject (and maybe this will make it clear why I'm not a producer), I'd go for more of an "Adaptation" style film. Viewers can't control time? Play it up, by (visually) admitting that the game powers like "rewind" are done on film through multiple takes, and stunt men, and editing. That's how you translate game to film, and this game mechanic provides the perfect opportunity.

So you've got a normal action film for the first X minutes, and then there's a fight scene, and Jake trips and flubs it, and we hear someone call "cut!", and you see everything freezes while the crew rush in to reset everything to 10 seconds earlier, and they run it again. The first time this happens, it's super quick, so the audience is left wondering if they really saw it or not. As the film goes on, it happens more often, and more extensively. Maybe sometimes the actor tries several times and then gives up and runs off stage, and a stunt man runs in. Maybe sometimes you expand and see that the whole thing is happening on an editing workstation, and they move clips around to make it look like everything worked, and then they hit "play" and you're back in the story.

Then at the very end, it zooms out to show the filmmakers watching what we just saw, and they say "Nah, nobody would ever believe that it all just worked out perfectly the first time like this". Fin.

If the whole point of PoP:SoT is the protagonist's ability to control time, film already has a way to do that. Don't try to just embed an old mechanic in the new medium. That's like building an interpreter for C, and calling it a day. You've got a native JMP here, so use it.
> I'd always heard growing up that if you make yourself indispensable, you'll never get
fired.

This is terrible advice. Indispensable people are your team's biggest weakness, and your boss knows it. If you become the single point of failure, you're a problem to be fixed.
I've seen keto work great for a lot of people. Generally, they have been those that tended to overeat on carbs and junk foods like chips, soda, pizza, etc.

The mechanism at the end of the day is still caloric restriction that leads to weight loss. Keto is just a means to that end.
Nobody is forcing you to do anything. The developers of Python aren't volunteering their labor to continue to support older versions of Python. RHEL is deciding not to continue to support older versions of Python past their EOL per their developers. Seriously, Python is free software, libre and gratis. You are completely free to do whatever you want to with Python 2.7, except expect other people to do the work for you.
Thank you! AoE was my first online game ever, and still my favorite RTS of all time (sorry Starcraft, I love you too), so it was especially fun to add that one.
People tend to compartmentalize "exercise" as the thing they do at the gym or a couple times a week; instead of the activity they're doing all day, every day.

You are always exercising to a certain degree, every second of every day. From sleeping to full exertion--you're always somewhere along that spectrum of physical activity.
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How Well Does the Constitution Protect Liberty?
Lujan: It’s been admitted by Facebook that you do collect data points on non-[Facebook users]. My question is, can someone who does not have a Facebook account opt out of Facebook’s involuntary data collection?

Zuckerberg: Anyone can turn off and opt out of any data collection for ads, whether they use our services or not

Is this not just an outright lie? You literally have to use their services to turn off/opt out anything.
This is why we were given cheesecake :)
and mice are very poor substitutes for humans.
You don't think Garrus, Tali, Wrex, or Mordin have enough depth for a 90 minute movie? Shepard will of course require the screenwriter to flesh him or her out because of the nature of the game--I'm guessing a Hollywood screenwriter wouldn't have the balls for a renegade Shep though.
Like dkersten, I moved to Fastmail. I used to DIY it but got tired of maintenance.
He slipped up yesterday and opened the door to the biggest issue of them all, coersion and brainwashing of users for profit, and the Senator who caught him in a lie didn't explore it further. No wonder they were testing if they can make you happy or sad by manipulating your feed when they sell the OUTCOME not just the impression.

https://youtu.be/6ValJMOpt7s?t=2h36m49s
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I disagree.

Advertising is one of the inputs to your sales pipeline. Filtering advertising audience by race and filtering applications by race in the end has the same result: having more applicants of a specific race.

I do not think race should be a factor when it comes to choosing your audience. Interests or geographic location might be OK, race is not. And remember: there's legislation for this when it comes to real estate.
It isn't that the niche is too small per se, it's that there is an existing if incomplete solution that makes the margins unattractive for the given market size.

Consider purchasing a lower-end mobile phone that is unlocked & rootable & known to run open OS options. Perhaps the Moto G4? Or if you don't mind devices that are no longer supported by the manufacturer, The Nextbit Robin.
It's a political tool. It means they are into politics.
Burned out home and lot in Silicon Valley selling for $800K
I think the incentives behind mainstream film-making would make that impossible. Studios are risk averse, they would rather focus on what makes a book marketable and palatable to the masses than successful, especially when dealing with a property without a guaranteed audience. No studio in their right mind would fund a trilogy based on a book few people would have heard of prior to the first film adaptation.

It might work on an alternative platform like Netflix, but not out of the studio system.
Yeah, either you're a programmer or you're a second-class citizen in many tech companies.
Video games plots don’t seem like they would generally lends themselves well to movies since they seem to only exist for the purpose of gameplay.

I think movies would do better converted to games like Golden Eye. I would love to check out Gone in 60 Seconds as a game, similar to GTA.
Yes, there has been a change in the purpose of higher education in the U.S. As you say the credential is the goal and not knowledge. This is especially so at urban community colleges. All I can do as a teacher at a community college is try to give them as much knowledge as possible. It’s a hard job. I can’t change the underlying causes of the problem. I’ve got to do what I can with the situation I’m confronting.
Sounds like a decent opportunity to provide a user option for light or dark themes in their user settings? Maybe even a middle ground grey theme as well?
> We absolutely should because it's a fundamental aspect of doing their job.

The problem is that we don't pay engineers to crank out pre-designed classes in a specified language with a specific editor. We do pay day laborers to go dig a certain trench over there with these particular shovels and picks.

Software engineering is so much more open-ended. We're paying people to "go help the team make the yard more water efficient".

In other words, if we had more well-defined roles for "coder" versus "engineer" versus "architect", it might make sense to test on the ability to use tools, but in general people in this thread aren't making that kind of distinction because the tech culture in general doesn't make a clear distinction. Otherwise, we'd have "coder" job interviews that didn't include algorithms or open-ended problem solving questions.
I remember reading about the same phenomenon being observed in humans. This was about gaining weight, and the idea was that feeding people extra calories causes them to increase the sort of movements commonly associated with nervousness, i. e. bouncing their legs, shifting around in a chair etc.
There is another mathematically-correct layer of security you can get, though, which is the IO interface to the real world that you provide the input. Barring (huge!) bugs in the (very simple!) interpreter, it doesn't matter how much basic brainfuck [1] from a user you execute, they aren't going to get a shell. Worst they can do is burn CPU until you shut them down. (Brainfuck interpreters are already generally pretty tightly RAM limited.)

Sandboxing is of course easier said than done, but it's still mathematically valid. The problem is that our real hardware has too many metaphorical sharp edges from a mathematical point of view, not that it doesn't work.

[1]: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck
American tech workers also make double to triple the total compensation...
I'm an FPGA dev making more than 300k in NYC working for a trading firm.
The goal of the project is to help you "learn and teach others about WebAssembly", so it's more of a fiddle environment than an IDE.
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