skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Classical inheritance is rarely "an appropriate choice" but prototypal inheritance is appropriate "any time you need inheritance"? Classical inheritance is syntactic sugar for prototypal inheritance.
In my understanding, part of why they don't have that in Rust yet is the lack of Cargo support; you'd want to use https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen (and its README.md has said hello example in it) but there's no easy way to use it just yet. It's coming though.
Why the fuck is this on page 3?
I used to be in awe of Teslas and I have always been a big fan of Musk, and even after the crash I still imagined myself one day buying a Tesla. But after this response, I've completely lost respect for the company, for Musk, and I don't think I'll ever buy one or advocate for someone buying one.

The driver had previously reported to Tesla 7 to 10 times that there was an issue with autopilot, but Tesla told him "no there is no issue". There is also video evidence of this same issue happening in other parts of the world, but with similar road conditions. But again, Tesla's response has been "there is no issue."

And now their response is "the driver knew there was an issue but he used autopilot anyway"? Seriously? Either there is an issue or there isn't, Tesla. At first you said there is no issue, and now you're saying there is an issue? And as the cherry on top, you're blaming the driver for continuing to use the feature even after you told him repeatedly that it's okay to use?

For shame, Tesla. For shame.
Heh. This brings back a lot of memories. I got into a whole world of trouble as a teenager in the summer of 1998 when a friend and I, a couple of bag boys learned how this worked.

Hilariously enough? I work for a telecom startup now.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane :)
It started this way, actually. But in the day-to-day use it ends up being an embellishment, because there would typically be a string of read/writes that fall on the first pixel of every band so they'll highlight the boundaries, for free.
One of the biggest problems of this is the tribal knowledge that develops around it. I worked at a studio that had something very similar to EASTL, but had joined the studio after an exodus of senior people.

It meant I had no idea how to use the custom libs. No documentation, no one left in the office to tell me how its used, no Stack Overflow to answer even trivial questions.

I left after less than a year. The studio closed down 2 months after I left.
I liked Resident Evil, both as a movie its own merits, and specifically as an adaptation of the video game.
> In fact, anyone can generate those commands, Seeber says, with a radio as simple as this $35 one sold by the Chinese company Baofeng

If you can do it via a Baofeng there's a 99% chance this is just obscured DTMF tones + possibly PL tone which is freaking trivial to do on any FM radio.
Not the OP but one example of accepting invalid data is Mysql defaulting values to null/0/0000-00-00 when no value assigned and no default on column. Unless one is in strict mode.
> With a fiat currency, you can simply print more so that said piece of bread can have its value accurately represented

But, realistically, has this ever happened in the era of fiat currency? Certainly the opposite case has happened. Adding another decimal place to a fiat currency would be a complete disaster -- every single moving piece in the financial system would need to be "fixed", including fixed-length protocols that date to the COBOL era. This solution is entirely unrealistic.

On the other hand, it is at least conceivable that a hard fork to increase the precision of Bitcoin would be uncontroversial (in that the old fork would not survive). There would be ripple effects throughout the (hypothetical future Bitcoin-based) banking system, but no worse, I would think, than would happen for fiat currency.

> Cryptocurrency is not a currency because it specifically aims to reintroduce problems that currency solves

You say "problems" here, but you only indicate one problem. The other problem (the destructibility and replaceability of money) is not really a problem that currency solves in the context you're using it, since for most of history specie was precious metals, and if lost at sea was gone (I mean, theoretically recoverable, but it's probably cheaper to find new gold in the ground).

And for a private individual, the "replacement" will simply never happen -- if I burn a big pile of bills in my back yard, that money will never be replaced, and it's a bit absurd to claim that it would be.
Any guesses whether this means subsidized rentals, in accordance with their winner-take-all model, to price-out competitors like Zipcar?

On a related note, does anyone know about Zipcar’s business model? Are they focused on unit economics / profitability instead of growth? I’ve been using it ever since they marketed on our college campus with student discounts 5 years ago, but there hasn’t been much updates to the web UI. Maybe this is for the better.
>$300 to replace battery?

Sorry, it was actually $200: https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/en/battery_body.htm...
Ask HN: Any resources on how to extract insights out of social conversations?
Complete and total lock-in?
Theranos’ Letter to Shareholders Shows the Company Is on Its Deathbed
> If the finger print is what you are, and password is what you know, then what is the "what you have"?

One possible form of "three factor auth" would be to use a passphrase for the private key, the client certificate to connect with the server over TLS, and a username/password login at the application level.

The certificate/certificate fingerprint is what you have, the password and passphrase are two things that you know. I don't know what would fit under the "what you are" category though (unless you're considering some sort of biometric based method).
Not sure how a new crypto would help in scenario 1, unless is was a "limited tokens" deal like bitcoin, but if cryptos really did go mainstream 2 is likely for me - and a strong reason to be very bearish about the current crop.
> I agree that this statement seems cold, and blames the driver, but from a legal perspective, can it be anything else?

Yes.

The law doesn't require, or even create an incentive, for them to make a statement at all.

The law doesn't require, or create an incentive, for them include any attribution of blame or responsibility in any statement they do make.

This is a hamfisted attempt at PR management by directing the public blame for the incident to the driver, not soemthing made necessary by legal requirements or incentives related to legal liability.
I watched it Sunday night, and I enjoyed it almost as much as when I saw it as a 9 year old. It's not a great film, but it has a generally coherent plot and narrative structure, good with choreography, and one of the best action movie soundtracks ever made.

To this day the fight with Reptile is one of my favorite action sequences in any film I've seen.
You've forgotten about inflation.
> That has overhead.

Yeah, but if those strings are destined for, say, the DOM, in such a way where you're going to constantly mutate little bits of the string while it's in the DOM, then it's probably less overhead to keep the string as a foreign object handle that you can send commands to from WASM to modify the string in place in JS VM memory, than it is to keep the string in the WASM memory buffer and "blit" it to JavaScript land whenever you change it. (Consider: how would you implement something like the Atom editor in WASM with as little additional overhead as possible?)

Also, maybe this overhead can be reduced. Picture an enhanced ArrayBuffer type specifically for WASM to use, that acts like virtual memory, with an MMU API attached to map Javascript objects into it—facilitating a kind of DMA. Or, allowing you to define "IO ports" in the memory space that WASM can write to to generate Nagle-chunked message events for JS-land, and which will appear to JS-land as a Javascript Service Worker endpoint that can be addressed with messages that will be turned into a buffered stream of bytes WASM can pull out of the same IO port.
> Isn't anyone who has Google Analytics installed on a page collecting information and creating "shadow" profiles?

No. They are asking for permissions (cookies law in the EU) because the GA code works that way. They bundle the consent in the legal text of the cookie notice. Users give consent, everything's fine. Then the site managers send this data over to Google with the GA code. Google applies it's labeling machine to the data, link it to a user with its super cookie tech and finally give an anonymised report to the site's manager.

If the site manager is asked by a user to remove data the standard answer should be something like "we don't have it and so we can't delete it, call Google". Then when a user asks to Google for removal of its data things'll get interesting because Google will be removing a droplet from its ocean of data and a tenth digit will be rounded somewhere.

That's how a site manager who uses only GA/pixel should manage the situation. Proving they didn't leak that private data and aren't using it.
Side view satellite images turn the Earth into 'Sim City'
This makes sense! How will you evaluate whether a game is worth adding? Example: I went to add King Arthur's Gold, which is a mostly dead game (usually about 4-6 servers with population at a time). However, for my use case all I truly would look for it is in the scheduling thing. Can you add custom events/items to the "Home" Calendar regardless of the game? Like one not associated with one of the team's games on the sidebar?
Well, people in aviation are more aware (hopefully) of the limitations of the systems and even then gets on snags.

I agree, Tesla shouldn't call it autopilot, call it Highway Assistance or something.

Or even, at this point, I don't see why it should even exist, if it fails on basic situations.
*Palantir
Your point is well made, but it's amusing that you use "proven phonics methods" as an example of something that's obviously the best way to learn something... Apparently, there's very heated debate on that subject. (News to me, as of a couple months ago.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/11/the-rea...
Some kids find out they like slime. More kids find out they like slime. Lots of kids like slime. Slime sells.

Edit: a word
And I'll note that they've already done UberJET as a gimmick a couple of times, and even UberCHOPPER: http://fortune.com/2016/06/17/uber-uberjet-romania/

As interesting and PR-friendly as it is, it seems to add a lot of complexity at a time where Uber is already struggling. My impression is that troubled companies usually benefit from focus on the core.
How Does a Hybrid Car Work
Twice now people using absolutely stupid arguments to defend the driver here. He knew what Autopilot was and STILL took his hands off the wheel.

Autopilot is a name in the same way Amazon.com isn't a damn rain forest. It's a term taken from aviation, but "autopilot" in a plane and "Autopilot" in a Tesla aren't even remotely the same thing. And literally everyone understands that, yet any time this occurs we start blaming semantics.

This guy wasn't confused. He explicitly stated his car was having trouble with this section of the road and he trusted his car to handle it. It got him killed. The word "autopilot" did not get him killed.
Promotions at Google are based on quality of implementation, not original ideas.
I've found that M-B or the like is really useful to give people words to talk about who they think they are (which can be incredibly difficult without some starting point). When you have words to describe something, you can start to talk about it and in this case, how your personality interacts with others. That is, where are there things in the ways others describe themselves that you recognize in yourself or that you find entirely foreign. Then, you can ask how can recognizing these types of differences help you get along better.

I don't see M-B as a scientific readout, but it is helpful in giving tools to help people relate. It's only difficult when folks go off the deep end ("Aw shit, I'm a Hufflepuff!" syndrome)
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What a liar, it's getting more ridiculous every day.
Technically true but still 0 is not yet a month or day of the month, so 0000-00-00 is still bad data
They did make a good video game movie: it's called "Pirates of the Caribbean", and it's an adaptation of Monkey Island.

I know, I know, it's the other way around. But it should be proof that a good videogame movie is at least possible - you would have to change surprisingly little.
Every company of reasonable size takes into account the "bus factor"
There are 2 kinds of spam:

* Nigerian scam type spam

* ads/commercial spam

The first is already illegal, and yes, it's difficult to fight and comes from first world jurisdictions.

But the second is operated by well known companies, most of the time through well known service providers (Salesforce, Adobe...). And these companies do put a lot of personal information in their databases (what did you buy, did you click on a specific link, did you open a specific email, etc).
I did say "arguably". I know it's not a direct translation but to be fair many video game movies don't directly translate the source game either.

For another example, see Final Fantasy: Advent Children which is a sequel to Final Fantasy 7. It's pretty enjoyable.
Can anybody tell what 3D software was used to show the robot simulations?
That isn't entirely true. For instance, if you are investing on behalf of a foundation or other nonprofit structure, or a similar non-taxed or tax-deferred entity (like a pension fund), you have a reason to preserve your legitimate tax free status. This is one reason you'll see US hedge funds with both Delaware and Cayman entities even if they only have US subscribers - because some of those US subscribers will be entities outside the conventional person/corporation tax model.
How do these system avoid robocalls and the like?
You might enjoy the podcast 'How did this get made'. Three comedians rip on the best of the worst. They have great chemistry and Jason Manzoukous is probably the funniest person on the planet.
Also for weight gain it's more important to eat then to exercise. Although a healthy amount of exercise will surely increase appetite. But for athletes and serious joggers getting enough calories can be a challenge !
I'm giggling like a teenager over this. Easily the second best part about being a teen were the pranks.
Yes, I can empathize with getting frustrated both facing the superficially hyper-positive, but in reality severely opportunistic and ruthless nature of startup culture, and with being treated like a freely interchangable, faceless number in a large company.
Been there both, and it was harrowing.

That said - and it's hard not to sound condescending here - halfway through the article I found myself agreeing with his girlfriend when she described his state of mind as "delusional".

Going after what has been said in the article:
What did he actually expect as someone with absolutely no experience and no education and/or skillset for the job beyond those transferable from being a waiter? (The often underrated value of those notwithstanding).
And the primary motivation being "I want to work 'in tech' and have it made!" (And not, say, being interested in at least aspects of the core field or product of the company.)
And the only actual mention of what his work was at those companies being "marketing" and "whiteboard[ing] the shit out of everything." (Because writing with colorful markers on a whiteboard makes you look important.)

This screams "disposable", or more benevolently "likely one of the first to be let go when things go south", no matter the kind of company or field, or even the type of job at the company.
Not all rare earths are created equal, and the more common ones are so commonplace and cheap that it'd be ludicrous to mine them undersea (even undersea gold mining has yet to have an impact on the world market for gold).

Further, it's an open secret in the mining industry that assays and estimates of deposits are frequently false, often by design. If you thought there was a lot of stupid money in ICO's and California startups, take a look at early stage mining concerns.

China's dominant position in rare earth mining is probably better described as a "race to the bottom" rather than a monopoly position. Mountain Pass (now Chinese-owned, by the way) isn't going anywhere, and it, or a comparably rich deposit on land somewhere else, will get started up as soon as it makes economic sense.

Speaking of somewhere else, if you've got money to sink into "heavy" REE mining concerns (with proven and verifiable reserves in the US) drop me a line.
The link is that both these policies hurt US tech companies. With that lens, there is no inconsistency.
Proposed NYC legislation would give employees right to ignore after-work email
An outgrowth of American exceptionalism.
Avis bought them and they've been much lower profile as a "hot hip company" since then. In retrospect, they were a fairly niche play and Uber/Lyft seems to have taken what wind there was in their sales largely out. Based on pricing that people have told me, it doesn't seem to be discounting for growth.
Uwe Boll is just an enjoyable character. He challenges many of his critics to boxing matches, and the dying breath of his character in Postal was "I hate video games".
Part of the problem here is that we are still in the infrastructure phase of blockchain development, so most dapps still rely on multiple centralized services. But as the infrastructure develops that will shift. For example, (i) all of the blockchains are working on scaling, (ii) Sia, Filecoin and a few others are working on blockchain based storage systems, (iii) Maker Dai, Basecoin and others are working on a stable coin, (iv) 0x and others are working on decentralized exchanges without custodians, (v) many are working on making addressed and key management easier, (vi) distributed identity verification and 'user trust' systems are developing, etc. All of that will take time, but as systems develop, more complex and more truly distributed dapps will be enabled.
If you mail a torn banknote to the Treasury they will send you a brand new one. There is no recourse if a hard drive or electronic wallet containing a bunch of Bitcoin is destroyed, for example.

You can say "tough luck", sure, but the end result is that the amount of money circulating in the economy will be decreasing every day.

And how does a fork solve anything? You can't just say, hey throw away all your existing Bitcoin, we're starting from scratch and using this new one now.
> That argument failed decades ago, and it should remain a failure today. Telsa should not be allowed to lock out independent repair shops under the guise of "well these are complex machines and you need to be Electrical Engineer to understand them"

If only it was just Tesla, manufacturers of consumer electronics have gotten customers to buy this hook, line and sinker. The comments on this story and others related to third party repair services found on /r/Apple are filled with such anti-consumer garbage.
The first item makes your point clear. But personally I don't understand why people would use web Gmail over something like Airmail, Spark, etc — modern clients with advanced features and search. And you can still set up filters in the web version if you need any additional.
>Sell to whom and how is the real question though?

To the public? They could spin off WhatsApp and Instagram (shall we call them Baby Faces?) as public companies and sell them to whoever buys the shares.
They are making a Planescape: Torment movie.
The steering wheel detects torque. Generally if your hands are on the wheel, they exert enough torque through natural movements for the vehicle to detect them. In rare cases, where a road is straight and a driver's hands are perfectly balanced, the car will flash a warning, in effect telling the driver to provide some brief feedback. The slightest of forces on the wheel will quell the warning (much less force than is required to move the steering wheel).
Actually its an adaptation of the Pirates of the Caribbean disney ride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCkl1eGmxTM
Interesting. I'm about to start using Pixy sensor to track people for a project I'm working on.
Well.. It depends on what you are doing. If indeed you are using majority of AWS services, then yeah, getting off these will be hard to impossible.

But if all you use is RDS, EC2 and S3 - it is quite easy to move to dedicated hardware once your service is up and running on AWS. Unless your load is not jumping around 10x all the time of course (then you will need dynamic scaling which is not quite possible with dedicated hardware)
there's more than a handful of things that actually did happen that Zuckerberg could have "turned around" on them. And he didn't. Don't you wonder why?
I'd say that if your microservices aren't sharing that type of code, you've probably made a software design mistake. Perhaps beside the point, but that's a bit of a contrived example.

I mean, people doing things wrong isn't evidence that they cannot be done right... right?
No: physics, maths, cooking...
Where can I find the data a similar list of the most popular words for other languages? Is it a known format?
Israele E Giro D’Italia Storia, Cultura E Sport
> But, realistically, has this ever happened in the era of fiat currency?

Well, no, because fiat currencies don't tend to experience either sustained or rapid deflation, so the problem never arises.

Of course, consistently avoiding the problem is even better than solving it.
Hate-speech, is a definition, so s/he/it who has the power to postulate definitions is defining what hate is.
Power to the social-sys-admins!
I'm sure people said that about Bell Labs and Unix too.
"Listen, we've been working our asses off to create Rich/Poor tracks for the Legal system and law enforcement practices, how do we get you in on that action? Who do I have to bribe at facebook?"
It could be left at the discretion of the holder, with fair use being an escape valve to prevent abuse.

e.g., Disney won't stich together all their movies in a year-long pseudo unit of work, because, if it did so, a two-hour clip from that work would fall under fair use.
I don't think there is any programming paradigm that protects against data dept. It is a question of whether the IT team is willing/able to fix the data, with requisite logging of change. This is always the best solution. It often turns into a political nightmare, business insisting that data needs to be corrected. IT not having the resource, time and the change being too risky.
Why "never mind"? Wake Island is disputed territory (per Wikipedia "The island is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States that is also claimed by the Republic of the Marshall Islands"). This could get interesting if China suddenly makes friends with the RMI.
Clever idea!

I would see this nicely applicable to system tray icons for monitoring tools. 16 pixels - 4 log bands with 0.25 precision.
3M Uber Drivers Are About to Get a New Boss
I worked on the Data Science team. We were headcount strapped. At the same time, we were crucial to the rest of the business operation. At the time, data science positions were hard to fill. At least when you don’t want to fork out exorbitant compensation. On the one hand, we managed our own infrastructure which was unstable at the time. On the other hand, there were a constant stream of business campaigns (every week) which depended on the data science team updating the data warehouse. I got sick my first week, and even then was coerced to come in. That set precedence for me about what the expectations were.
I don't want to deal with that. They are able to create problems artificially just to get power over you (on controversial topics).

IMHO people to avoid.
> So many video game movie projects are missing the simple question, "why?"

I'm pretty sure it's just because they want to tap into the large existing fanbase of those games.
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