skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a switch that reduces motion effects and dulls the colors... smartphone dramamine.

Otherwise, society is likely to devolve further into ground-lighted sidewalk crossings with distracted people hunched over, oblivious to everyone else and missing life. Tinder: nuf said.

[Insert Banksy smartphone lovers gaze pic]
It seems more like saying Porsche can't dictate to garages that they can only supply Porsche spare parts and even then only if they become a Porsche dealership, despite someone else's competing part performing better.
Why would Amazon pay one more penny than they have to? To win a nice guys award? To get a warm, squishy feeling inside?

There is precisely one solution to this problem, and it is us electing leaders who change the rules in favor of the working masses, and enforce those rules mercilessly against exploitative employers.
You can force them to give provide conditions, or else they have to pay monumental fines / managers go to prison, etc. They will get the point.
Fatalities are quite rare. 2011-era midsize luxury SUVs have 13-15[1] driver deaths per million registered vehicle years in the US (UK has half the death rate per km, vehicle or inhabitants).

It is not that improbable that midsize luxury SUV that sold just 50,000 cars in the UK since 2002 had no driver deaths.

AEB was first installed in the 2015 model year. If we assume[2] that the same number of cars were sold each year, the XC90 had 20,000 registered vehicle years with AEB. We should expect 0.03 deaths.

It would be more surprising if there was a driver death in a Volvo XC90 equipped with AEB in the UK.

[1] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/sr/statusreport/article/50/1/1 (first table)

[2] It's probably false, adjust with your favorite fudge factor.
> They prefer calling it 'customer-centric'

If they'd like to be actually customer-centric, they can start by implementing a search that doesn't rank counterfeit products with a single 5-star review over real ones with 5000 reviews and an average rating of 4.9.

I feel like Amazon's reputation for being "customer-centric" doesn't actually reflect their current practices, but instead it leans heavily on past reputation (when their competitors were worse) and a convenient return policy that papers over problems.
The US median income is well under $66k, making this is a moot point for more than half of filers. If you're on the cusp and trying to guess take the standard deduction.
That's a strange definition. Native usually means that the application uses the platform's native APIs. The application could require a network, or not. I grant you that an app that should not need the network fails to work without a network connection probably means it's not a native app, and instead it's trying to execute on some server somewhere else (like a classic web page for instance).
Well now is a good time. The next Ubuntu LTS is about to appear; 18.04 will be released on April 26 and is supported until April 2023.
And that entire paragraph touches on random fears about fertility technology that have almost nothing to do with the subject of this article, which is gametogenesis.
I think you're stretching my original comment a bit too far.

I didn't say the project is bad. I commented that the situation is a bit unfortunate. There's a difference between that and "negging somebody's contribution".

> If you want it done your way, you do it

To be clear, I've seen this argument made about lots of open source projects, and it's always discouraging to discourse. Sometimes that's intended, but I think in this case — as in most — it's merely neither here nor there. As you can see by my grandparent comment, I have nothing against the authors building their project however they like. In fact, if I demanded that they change the way it's done, that'd be in line with what you're accusing me of. I did no such thing.

> I'm sure they'd happily accept contributions that enabled it to run outside of VS

The entire point of my grandparent comment was to show how the article strongly suggests that's unlikely. And again, for the third time, that's absolutely fine. As fine as the unlikelihood of the Linux kernel allowing contributions in Rust, or even C++.

I'm not complaining. I'm just pointing out your misreading.
> How else do you fund future research?

Taxes?
This is effectively asking to double the size of the engineering team, or slow it down dramatically.

If I were a startup or small business, I'd rather ship a slightly slow-feeling app with my existing team of web developers who already know their tools, than to hire a bunch of native developers and somehow get them all on the same page.
Excuse me what? That's how pretty much all non-managed APIs work
Government needs to subsidize research and put price caps on resulting drugs. Fair market isn't possible with inelastic demand. That's where the fuck you comes from.

Someone has cancer and their kids are wanting the treatment (of course, it's false hope, we don't want daddy to die) without realizing what they are asking for (lifelong debt). So in addition to cancer, the patient has to grapple with that shit. Anyone with a little financial sense would probably take death, but now they have to explain that to their families why they are denying the treatment (daddy doesn't want to be with us / daddy wants to die?).

Disgusting what this country has become.
> Are you suggesting we create a world government to ensure there's nowhere on Earth people can flee to to escape high taxes?

This doesn't require a world government.

The US already has tax laws on the books for when people renounce their citizenship for tax purposes. Some states like CA are pretty aggressive in suing people who attempt to leave their jurisdiction before realizing capital gains to avoid taxation.

The ability to hide wealth/earnings in general is a bigger deal, and that can be dealt with through treaties without requiring world government.

I think people at once need to be realists and understand that capital flight and over-reliance on a few individuals is a real thing, but also not go too far and assume government institutions are powerless and can only exert their power by bending over backwards.
@Joerie the 2nd ave/Q lines has literally taken more than a decade.
Worth it for me, so I continue to buy stuff on Amazon.

If the workers don't like it they can work elsewhere or start their own Amazon.
F-Script was really interesting. It was basically array programming welded onto Smalltalk welded onto Cocoa. It had a whole Smalltalky object browser, and the array programming features felt surprisingly natural.
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Great, just what our overpopulated planet needs...more people.
That’s funny cause I just put that question into TTB and copied and pasted that paragraph into google and found this page. Interesting indeed. I was more looking into what could be proof that the chemical weapons use on Halabja are the same ones tha Saddam had in his arsenal. Cross referencing the studies that was done on the attack site with the sources might help seal the deal.
Yup, ideologically, liberals are the enemy of leftists unfortunately. And much closer to neo-cons. It’s why you’ll never see an actual Marxist anti-Imperialist on the masthead of so-called left-leaning (by some) pubs like NYT, WaPo, the Atlantic, etc. But they’ll happily hire tons of right wingers in the name of “ideological diversity” (see Kevin Williamson, Bari Weiss, plus the ones that have actually stayed on)
Looks cool! What was the impetus for this?
>> I found out they have a very generous severance program if you know what to ask about.

What do you mean? Are you referring to the severance you get if you leave on a PIP?
> OLPC had an Open Firmware Forth bootloader. True? False?

True. [0]

> Why did OLPC require a "developer key"?

So that kids can't casually screw up their laptops, but people who want to modify their software can. You can read more here [1] and here [2].

Your other questions appear to be more speculative and less specific to OLPC, so I can't answer them.

[0] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Firmware

[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bitfrost

[2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys
This is why it is important for the robots to be open-source & open-hardware, to drive down the cost so that everyone can own their own robots. Imagine everyone having their own solar-powered FarmBot.

What we don't want is a society where the governments/corporations exclusively own all the robots, such that we have to go through them.
I’m curious how far away bathrooms can be and how building codes come into play.
AWS is also the primary driver behind amazons stock price.

Within a few months or years amazons shopping marketplace could become eclipsed by another. Consumers can switch brands quite quickly if they see a better service elsewhere.

AWS on the other hand is very hard to migrate from. Can you imagine the investment necessary to move a large company off AWS infrastructure, when you have legacy and unsupported services that nobody knows how they work, depends on intricacies of amazons managed services, and have no way of doing zero downtime data migration?

Basically, Amazon can gradually increase the price of existing AWS services, while lowering the price of all new services to attract new customers. (Think "From 2019 we will be releasing S4, the new cheaper data storage system!").
You can hear the fan from another room on my laptop!

Thanks svchost.exe!

I disabled updates, but it still does... something while I am sleeping.
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Presumably to retain access to the US market, banking system, and preserve any assets they might have within reach of US law from seizure.

Maybe they'll decide not to pay and withdraw from the US completely, but that would seriously complicate any future re-entry once the current sourcing bans expire.

My guess is that they will switch to Chinese components and basically become a captive hardware manufacturer for the PRC government, which presumably won't let them fail completely even if their handsets are no longer market-competitive.
after he sells, why does he care if he upsets his following?
I don't know the detailed history at all, but in an intuitive & oversimplified way, I wouldn't think big transit projects ever had much of a chance in the home of the auto industry. Seems like they would want to demonstrate what an automobile utopia looks like.
Nir's utilities and Mark Russinovich's PSTools are usually the first thing I download on a fresh Windows box.
Amtrak is the federal government. I am talking about one states public rail system connecting with another states rail system. New York to New Jersey was given as an example in the parent post.

Amtrak is great for vacations or other travel but I don’t thinks its use case is daily commuters. At least it’s not the use case for the majority of the US.
What kind of mic are you using? It sounds a bit echoey, maybe too far from your face.
I saw this equally across the UX, WebDev, and product management immersive graduates.

I don’t doubt that GA started with good intentions, but it seems clear that they got caught in the typical startup trap where they get ‘forced’ to prioritize investors over users as their target audience.
The arrangement at Rome Ciampino Airport is pretty silly: there's a railway line running next to it, with a station about 300 metres from the runway. But the entrance to the airport is on the other side, on the motorway!

To get from the station to the airport, you need to take a bus or a taxi round half the perimeter of the airport. Which, if you don't have long before your flight, and the bus drives off before you board, leaving several passengers fighting over the handful of taxis in this tiny town, can be quite stressful, i can assure you.
In the 70's and the 80's there was a huge shift of electronics manufacturing from Europe and the United States to Japan. From Grundig, Magnavox, Ferranti, Philips, Aristona, Sylvania and I don't remember how many other brands that were so common the brand logos were just about everywhere to Sony, Akai, JVC and so on. It took less than a decade (say 1975 to 1985) for the situation to reverse completely, where before the Japanese brands were perceived as cheap knock-offs to where the Japanese brands were perceived as superior quality wise.

The same happened with a lot of semiconductor fabrication and ditto on the tool front with companies like Okuma taking the bread and butter away from the likes of Cincinnati and Bridgeport.

Some of those brands survived but significantly diminished in stature and turnover, some of them turned into little more than patent portfolios.

As for South Korea, it took a bit longer to get of the ground and for the longest time the quality wasn't there but today they are only a little bit under the Japanese but still substantially ahead of the Chinese when it comes to mechanical affairs, and in semiconductors they are an absolute powerhouse.

Also interesting: Almost all powerful industrial countries came through a major war with their infrastructure in tatters, Germany, Japan and South Korea all had their industrial capability decimated by wars, only to bounce back stronger than before, presumably because they (forcibly) shed their old production gear and could start afresh using the most modern technology available. China never really had that advantage which is one of the reasons it is taking them as long as it does to get to parity on the quality front. Outside of Foxconn the work being done in China is still surprisingly manual, though in time obviously they too will automate.
Oh cool! He makes produkey. I've been using that for years, haven't had much use for it as of late with windows using uefi to store keys. Looks like he updated it since last I checked to support windows 10, but only for certain license types.
I find these guy inspiring:

Backyard aeroponics: self-sustaining farm for Wisconsin cold -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4gsnFJRAB0

Internet of Farming: Arduino-based, backyard aquaponics -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wWTadsBDA
All of the above: lying, incompetent and inept.
It's easier to throw the rainbow homo propaganda flag and call it a day.
What's wrong with micro targeting?
Read the faq and the divide documentation, couldn’t figure out how it handles fractional cents? Does it?
I think their point was that the person has to be at your house. E.g. they can't systematically and remotely try the door handle of homes halfway around the world.
Is the point to use robots? Because I'm pretty sure they already know that.
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Nearly always Amazon is more expensive for whatever I want to buy.

Yet nearly everyone I meet assures me amazon is usually cheapest.

I feel like the general population never checks Ebay or Aliexpress.
I should have clarified. I was talking about public transport specifally for light rail. The article was about subways specifically.
No. But FWIW my concern is less about data harvesting & ad targeting, and more with how the algorithm itself is amplifying extreme views. But yes, I am aware that the 2012 Obama campaign used the same data collection API that Cambridge abused (although Obama's campaign didn't buy the data from a 3rd party)
Also one of the slowest monorails I’ve been on, even the Tokyo monorail built in 1964 was faster :)
Also they don't give price adjustments for most of the products they sell. I bought a book and the day after I received it, the price dropped 30%. The customer support would not refund the difference. Instead I had to ship back the product first and buy it again. Now to ship it back, I have to pay the shipping unless I lie and say it was defective or go to their Amazon store in San Jose to drop it off.
There's a big difference between quality code and being a cowboy.

> I don't know Igor, but if 7z is anything to go by then he probably uses VC--I'm guessing here--6 for the same reason Sean Barrett does: It's way faster and less bloated than modern VS.

Then they should learn how to download the SDK and learn to use the command line to properly compile code with proper ASLR and other such security features. Keep working in VC 6.0 if you want, but for the love of all things good please enable basic ASLR.

Its 2018. Its time to get with the program. Various solutions (or at least... mitigations) to buffer overflows and code execution bugs have been discovered in the last 20 years. Yes, VS 6 was released in 1998. My use of the phrase "20 years" is literal.

Its shameful that a dev of one of the most popular open source tools out there doesn't care about security.

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In any case, Igor runs his dev environment from 20 years ago. If someone was compiling code with GCC 2.95 (released 2001, three years after his version of VS), the first response from Linus Torvalds would be "Dear lord, please upgrade your compiler. I'm not going to ensure compatibility with 18-year old tech".

> I'm also guessing he doesn't use those security features because they're largely ineffective and just complicate things and slow them down.

ASLR is ineffective? Really?

https://www.cisecurity.org/advisory/multiple-vulnerabilities...

https://landave.io/2018/01/7-zip-multiple-memory-corruptions...

The freaking executable doesn't have the freaking "NX Bit". We're talking about the most barebone basics of security here.

No ASLR. A lack of NX Bit. Pretty much any security feature discovered in the last 20 years is missing from 7zip. Its actually one of the worst offenders of security I've ever seen in 2018.
Got a lot of fun, you have to try it!
If the cost savings on the construction are enough you could probably just pay off the local businesses.
PostgreSQL's developments for high volumes processing
Despite my griping, I liked kdb+ and q. As a database query language, q is awesome, if you are doing a lot of time-series analysis (running sums, etc., nothing fancy). As a language, the table type in q is very nice, a bit like what pandas or data.table wish they could be.

For a while there was a freely downloadable version to try out, and you can look at "q for mortals", http://code.kx.com/q4m3/, to get some flavor.
My understanding is that even with a perfect server side simulated game you can read memory to find out extra information even if the game logic is on the server, i.e. that's how X-Ray in UT99 and Minecraft works.

This is also hardly the first such incident (unfair bans or borderline spyware anti-cheats), it'll end without any long term echos as always.

If you were sure you were banned unfairly and went to the support they'd just link you to some ToS or other, saying that all bans are 101% sure, confirmed, irreversible, etc. If you went to forums you'd get insults, told that you deserved it, that you're making excuses, that there are no legitimate reasons to run CE, etc. or at best told that you were an idiot to have CE running in the background and thus deserve a ban for being so careless.

Eventually you might get unbanned automatically, with an apology and a freebie - or not. It depends on the specific company, how many people were banned, how big of an issue it is, does the company bother to fix it, is it reported by the media as a problem, etc.

It's kind of a crapshoot and a circus but then again - it's just games (except for the 1% of esportsmen) and they don't have such a bad track record compared to important companies (Facebook, Equifax, etc.) that leak or sell people's life affecting data.
Project Loom will add support for millions of threads (fibers) to the JVM.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.htm...
> My biggest peeve is that every time I go to reorder something the price has gone up another 10%.

> I never hear other people complain about this though. I wonder if it’s not widespread?

I've gotten increases like this on some items, though not as consistently as "every time."

I no longer consider Amazon to be generally price-competitive with other online retailers and big-box retail. I pretty much only shop at Amazon when I have no idea where to buy the item I'm looking for (such as weird informally-imported things).

Ironically, I'm actually starting to use Amazon as an "online showroom" for general searching, but actually make my purchases elsewhere.
It depends on how you define "most use cases".

If you need containers to solve the "it works on my workstation" problem, and you need to make your containers run in production and scale them easily, and you have lots of applications to setup and deploy, then Kubernetes is fantastic. But if you can get away with just running your application in plain VMs and the burden of maintaining a Consul-based app discovery isn't a problem for you, your proposed setup makes a lot of sense.

Custom infra has an operational cost that is proportional to the number of applications. Kubernetes has a high fixed operational cost that you always incur, whether you have 1 application or 20. Once your operational complexity is high enough, it makes sense to use Kubernetes.

Soon higher level solutions will come along that will delivery the same advantages of Kubernetes but remove the learning curve and ops cost of Kubernetes.
Git off me planet! Mars got plenty of spaces.
What a project, man! Awesome job! The UI is speechless!
Usually a refactor happens through a revolution which throws the government out and with it all its laws.

We haven't seen one of those in the western world for a while though.
> in the city of Antwerp

So, Belgium.

> and now is projected to be closer to 3 years.

Right. Belgium. :P
As somebody who started programming long after I learned to touchtype, I feel like programming uses a lot more typographical fauna than normal language - granted, not as much as maths - but I'm pretty sure half of the maths notation is as it is because it looks cool.

Further, when you have a SomethingManager, is it really representable by a general symbol? What symbol would that be?
> I did not argue that everyone should live in California

Fair enough. I still don't think that "see California" is a great argument to make to people who are suffering at the hands of the state throughout, for example, the rest of the USA. We have 2 million people in prison; nobody thinks that's OK.

> we need the blockchain, as if free speech and democracy were foregone conclusions

If you are sitting in a prison cell because you had a skin color which the state regards as the wrong one to use a particular plant or compound, then you might indeed feel forsaken by democracy.

> So you either live in a place where you can fight for your right at a political and social level, and don't need the blockchain (eg. USA), or you live in a place where you cannot easily affect policy

Do you think it's literally only those two possibilities? If that's true, then I understand and agree with your argument.

If instead, however, much of the world is in some gray area in the middle, then technologies which tend toward subversion of illegitimate state activity seem to me to be a welcome evolution for those who wish to help the political configuration in which they find themselves toward the former and away from the latter.
They have palette shifting robots running around the warehouse. They should just put a port-a-potty on one and let the workers summon it with a Dash button.