skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea the guy basically went bankrupt back when SpaceX and Tesla weren't yet doing so hot and almost lost everything. He gets pretty emotional talking about it even [0]. Whatever you think of him, I would caution confusing extreme optimism and directness for being out of touch.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P8UKBAOfGo
Adding icons and other resources to your executable (Windows and cross-platform)
Seeing this and being surprised is like watching a teen movie where the gossiper invites the entire school to listen in on the phone line while the protagonist is (unwisely) sharing a secret with them, and thinking as you watch, "that's totally out of character for the gossiper - even though they want to collect people's information themselves, there's no way they would invite other people to listen in as they're in the process of receiving that information."

Doesn’t that depend on who’s surprised? My parents would be shocked by this, people working in the software industry should be less shocked. I bet that a poll of 100 randomly selected people asking, “What does documentation mean in the context of software?” would discover that few knew the answer. Never mind actually reading the docs, or understanding their implications.

Facebook goes to some trouble to ensure that only a small minority of people grasp the implications of how they’re monetizing their users.
Using 2013 census data, if Amazon employed only the population of Wyoming and its entire population was in the labor force, Wyoming would have an unemployment rate < %4.
They're comparing zip-code level Case-Shiller index based on distance from city center. Metro level (which is what is widely quoted as far as I know) does not get at what they're trying to characterize, which is relative demand for housing in more urban environments.
wrt 'waste of time,' i've just heard from plenty of people that employers look unfavorably at candidates who get late starts in careers and have switched from radically different lines of work since it demonstrates 'lack of commitment' &c., not to mention the downsides of doing entry level positions in your early 30s, which is probably where I'd be by the time I finished any programs
Architecture, Aesthetic Moralism, and the Crisis of Urban Housing
Maybe. I just assume any forum will have its bad actors. I don't know when that crosses the line to a toxic place.
you don’t have to remove the car. But to change things, the first step would be to reframe the car centered infra as legacy, an historic situation that you want to work on.

I interpret GP’s “entitlement” bit as the thinking that cars should be at the center of cities. Good or bad, I think the majority of people are still currently in that mentality.
Sandboxing tools aren't the answer. The browser itself was supposed to be a sandboxing tool. The answer is to avoid this part:

> executing ... JavaScript on your website.
A better phrasing would be that in most places in the U.S. public transport simply does not exist. Not everyone lives in the heart of the city where it may be an option.
Ad revenue is essential to Facebook running.

Ad revenue may be essential to Facebook being commercially viable, but it's not required at all to provide the social networking features that users actually want.

My guess is that FB will continue to work even without this other data just given what they know on the site.

But if they have data acquired with users' consent for social networking purposes, they won't be allowed to process that data for purposes such as targeting ads without consent.
Where can I view these brilliant colors in person? Apparently these colors are so vibrant, they cannot be accurately displayed on monitors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NzVmtbPOrM
I mean, sure, if all you want is a couple UI elements and zero control over how they look or their layout, most existing GUI toolkits are incredibly over-complicated.

But you only want those basics for, like, a minute or two. Or to show a couple buttons and nothing else. Then you realize how incredibly restricting that is, and how impossible it is to make something nice and not just functional, and you discover the problem is bigger than you thought it was.

Shoes gets pretty close perhaps? http://shoesrb.com/ But even a tiny glance will show it's vastly more complicated than the proposed API here, because the proposed API is so inadequate you can't even say "put X near Y".
What? His dad was a millionaire and also a weirdo.
Sorry if I didn't make it clear but I would have only walked out of worthless meetings, not all meetings. I've had meetings in my career where I didn't know why I was even there and those where nothing was ever decided.
You are confusing the writer of the article with the newspaper management. The writer can very well have a valid point while the newspaper management sees things differently. In fact, the writer may very well make this point because the newspaper management sees differently and yet, the article is published.
> If they have professional supply chain and commercial departments they'll have contingencies in place for situations like this.

Even companies as massive as VW can not handle such a situation (as evidenced last year: https://www.ft.com/content/ffd3ee62-6934-11e6-a0b1-d87a9fea0...).
I haven't answered an unknown number in well over a decade. My voicemail message has for at least that long been along the lines of "I probably chose not to answer you, especially if your number is withheld or not known to me. Leave a message, or better yet text/email me". I don't recall ever missing something important.
There was a Radiolab episode[1] back in 2013.

It's been a while since I listened to it, but I believe they used to sell it for manure, but some regulation banned that.

[1] http://www.radiolab.org/story/poop-train/
Someone who is not comfortable/fit enough to bike on an American road should probably bike on a non-crowded sidewalk.

There are over 800 cyclist deaths, from being hit by cars, every year in the United States. How many pedestrians have been killed by a cyclist hitting them?

Forcing someone biking at 7 mph off the sidewalk and onto the street creates more danger then it protects us from.
Stop Hiding Your Code
> Public parking exists for the benefit of the public at large

This is the point under contention. I strongy disagree, I would very happily give up public parking for other uses of that space - more bike/scooter lanes that can be further offset from fast-moving cars, dedicated space for Uber/Lyft dropoffs that don't block the roads, 5-minute loading/unloading parking for Fedex trucks and Postmates delivery people to idle for a few minutes.

Free (or heavily subsidized) parking for private cars is at the bottom of this list for me. It's also much more expensive to provide than these other things, because there's only one person benefitting from each parking space per few hours while all the others can benefit many more people. And even for the very drivers that street parking is intended to benefit - in lots of situations there are too few spaces on the street at all, so we're blocking this valuable space and most people won't find a spot anyway and will be forced to use a private garage.

And it's not that I never drive, I sometimes do, I still think it's a much better use of public space if I had to find a private lot or garage on the occasions when I drive so that these other things can be available to everyone.
"One thing I love about customers is that they are divinely discontent" (my emphasis)

OK Mr Bezos, I have to give you points for that one. It's a retailer's philosophy in two words. I could imagine that coming from Jack Cohen or Terence Conran.
Code compiled to WASM can already access Javascript outside it. Obviously. Otherwise how could it do anything at all??

> Issues have been opened for native DOM bindings in WASM, but I am not sure if that work ever started.

I didn't say work had started on it. I just said that it is planned. See here for proof: http://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/

> access browser functionality through the same Web APIs that are accessible to JavaScript
For work use, I'd need to host it on-prem. Otherwise even if it's great, legal etc won't let me use it.
Wow those are beautiful! Every day I find a new reason to like AMD a bit more.
Sometimes people use compare view and accidentally create pull requests without description from branches on which they do not have any commits.

On popular projects this happens often enough to become annoyance for maintainers.

I don't see any case when opening a pull request from someone else's branch and without a description could be done intentionally.
Great new look, great job everyone who worked on it.
The part you are missing is the gyroscopic procession from the wheels. When you try turning the wheel to the left, you create a force that is 90 degrees to force.

If you just turn the handlebars (which would cause the bike to lean in the direction of the turn), you will end up creating a force at the top of the wheel in the opposite direction of your tilt. (e.g. the force will be at 12 o'clock)

If you just lean in the direction you'd like to turn, the wheel will turn in the opposite direction of the lean. (e.g. there will be an opposite force at 9 o'clock)

In order to turn you must always briefly steer in the opposite direction you'd like to turn, so that you may lean in the direction you'd like to turn, which will allow you to turn the wheel in the direction of the turn without upsetting the bike.

I learned this fact about 2 years ago and I've been hyper-aware of the fact ever since. Try as I might, it's literally impossible to steer a bike without counter-steering.

The fact that you absolutely must counter-steer to turn is one of the reason why inexperienced bike riders tend to fall over when they need to steer in an emergency, because they just twist the handlebars, which catapults them off the other side.

Knowing this also helped me finally learn to ride a bike with no handlebars, since you have to lean opposite the direction you'd like the wheel to go.
You may not care who knows, but I bet you would not put up with the slowness of the device because of the spyware feeding everything to the other side of the planet.

And when China starts doing something with your credit card info, I bet you drop your Chinese devices.
> Yep, your head will crack open from a four foot drop at any speed.

I highly doubt this. The amount of force required to crack a human head open seems to be much more than what you can generate in 4 feet of free-fall.
if there's a hosted image from a facebook domain (e.g. a like button), unless that image is loaded after consent is given, facebook can already associate that users' IP address with having visited that web site by nature of sending the image over. in other words, facebook is tracking pre-consent

This just leads to a bunch of questions: where an image is loaded from FB by a site, who is the data controller? Surely it's the primary site, not FB? In that case, then is FB a data processor (and subject to more restrictions)? If FB is a controller in its own right then how does FB gather consent in this case?
Thanks, can we continue this discussion? Super interesting to me.

One clarification. BigQuery has two methods of ingest. The Streaming API you mention does carry additional cost, but for the added benefit of having your data appear in BigQuery in real-time.

Batch load, however, is entirely free, as in - it doesn't use your "query capacity", and we don't charge for it. I am rather certain this is a very compelling offering. Batch loads encode your data, replicate it, secure it, convert it into our format, and fix any issues your files may have, like optimal file sizes, optimal number of files, optimal file groupings for your queries - lots of subtle things that either slow you down or cause you headaches otherwise. We also manage all the metadata for you (your MySQL instance). We also burn a good chunk of resources post-load re-materializing and optimizing your dataset. We also maintain upgrades, downtime, and so on.

It sounds like your use case is micro-batch, so perhaps you could benefit from our free batch loads?

It also sounds like you don't mind the extra operational overhead, and would rather operate your own stack, run your own upgrades, fix your own file issues, and so on. This is a personal preference, I agree. Customers who prefer our model love the ease of use and would rather focus their energy elsewhere. It is a stated goal of BigQuery to abstract away complexity and make BigQuery as easy to use as possible for everyone, and if we're failing somewhere, we certainly want to know :)

Finally, if I had to equate BigQuery's on-demand pricing, it gives you the ability to go from 0 cores to thousands and back to 0 in sub-second intervals, scoped down to individual query size. This is exactly what's happening under the hood, but all that is abstracted away behind a "run query" button.
His argument is they're ignoring things like tents and feces. Maybe you can roll over trash and used needles in a wheelchair, but I wouldn't want to ride over or around any of those.

As an aside, I always found it odd when they mount street signs in the middle of sidewalks.
Also of note:

Tinkerboard has b/g/n 2.4Ghz wifi. Pi 3B+ also has 802.11ac 5Ghz wifi.

Tinkerboard has a superior sound chip, supporting 24-bit, 192kHz audio. Pi 3B+ has a totally garbage mono only analog sound (and presumably fine HDMI digital sound).
Worked at SpaceX in LA on software. It was generally quite pleasant but you do put in a lot of hours. No one asks you to work overtime or work extra hours - it’s just a fun environment and you like your coworkers so you stay at work longer than you should. Most people who were there longer than I was ended up finding a healthy work / life balance that they could sustain... I don’t think the new folks do this because they’re obsessed with learning as much as they can.

I left because the space industry moves at quite a slow pace compared to the rest of the software world and I was tired of working on one small piece of software while the world was changing around me...

All in all? SpaceX was pretty wonderful and I don’t think anyone should judge employee happiness solely from hours worked. I was frequently encouraged to take some recharge time for me. This is just one data point and maybe we’re all only hearing the negative data points?
> But, end result, you won't be able to make something qualitatively different that you couldn't make using Python. Learning 3d will allow you to make new things.

Your point is well taken, but I think the particular example of Python and Haskell doesn't fit your argument. I find that many programmers are not exposed to functional programming, so learning Haskell will provide a very different perspective on programming for someone who only knows imperative languages like JS or Python.

I believe that what you make in a language is explicitly influenced by the grammar of that language. Some things simply won't occur to you if you don't have the right vocabulary. It's the old "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" saying. If all you have is Javascript, then distributed systems are going to be scary and hard. But if you can think in Erlang, not so much.

Likewise, I would encourage every programmer to learn a declarative language like SQL or a logic language like Prolog. Languages like these have very different properties than run of the mill imperative languages, which will surprise and enlighten many developers.
I think this is the one big reason why cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are not useless.

I'm not a big proponent of bitcoin etc, really, there sure are big downsides. But this is the big upside: the credit card system is "good enough" for average Americans and average retail chains, but breaks down all the time with international and/or indie stuff. (See also: random people banned from using Square for life, because the fraud detection algorithm can't handle them.)
What is the business model ? Or is it a PR app ? How do you get a job like this, where you can do public good and not have to worry about founding !?
Their website is confusing on this part, does this support Windows IoT Core as the OS?
For those on iOS, you can block wildcard number ranges like this with Number Shield[0].

I have been receiving alot of these spoofed neighbor number calls, and this app saves me a lot of time and stress. You can also prevent it from blocking contacts that fall into your blocked number range.

0: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/number-shield/id1319082167?m...
I don't see any rule allowing you to comment on whether any rules support a conclusion.
Yes i do, it was a very fun game.
Nothing prevents you from running VDO ontop of ZFS, apart of that not being in focus/tested at Red Hat. I do not expect issues from purely running both layers, but maybe things like proper mounting/umounting via fstab might not be in place.

If ZFS gives you block level checksums, then you could use compression/dedup from VDO. Just activating i.e. compression on both layers would be waste of cycles.
Disputes between states are always political and only occasionally legal.

But yeah I can see it being difficult to prove, and harder to action. If one state wanted to sue the other, what is the process? Congress? Supreme court?
I would imagine this problem would be really easy to solve with bike sharing- to use it you have to register and pay a deposit. If a bike checked out with your name is never returned or is abandoned, they keep your deposit...

Edit- I suppose I have just invented docking.
I don't think so at all. Sure, Amazon has a certain reputation, especially in hacker-news circles. That said I think you're forgetting about the silent but huge majority of average joes who would kill for an Amazon job.
> You majorly hurt commerce and people's quality of life by removing vehicles without completely changing the layout of cities to make them work with other options.

In related news, SB-827, Weiner's bill to increase housing density near public transportation, died in committee today: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/17/major-california-hous...
Typically, the toxicity of metals depend on how they're structured within molecules. For example, inorganic copper is cytotoxic, while organic copper is necessary for survival. In this case, the yttrium blue has a unique chemical structure. More so, I believe they use Manganese oxide to create the color. Manganese oxide is not dangerous, as far as we know, at least. It's a somewhat common food additive. According to [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese(II)_oxide), we consume tons of it per year.

Ultimately, what typically matters is how a molecule interacts with the body, not necessarily how each component interacts. By that measure, Cyanide (which is just carbon + nitrogen) ought to have no ill effect, while cuprous oxide ought to be poisonous.
HOPEFULLY I'M A SHAREHOLDER WITH AMAZON. GOD BLESS AMAZON AND THEIR EMPLOYEES. CONTINUE EXPANSION GLOBALLY.
I don't use pine anymore, but I do read my email in text mode. I use emacs for reading, notmuch for search/indexing, and w3m for rendering HTML email as text.
In the '90s I worked for an audio/video compression company. We started out in a ramshackle open plan office. Tables thrown against walls, duct tape covering cords, computers stacked on bakers racks. Then some of our products really started moving, most video cards came with our MPEG player, the internet business was taking off and we had some money.

Everybody was excited as we could finally afford cubes.
Golang Quirk: Number-strings starting with “0” are Octals
Bitcoin Whale Sightings Are Leaving Cryptocurrency Traders Jumpy
I don't know. I think I take the Hackaday view that the software and community is way more important than the hardware in this field, and Raspberry Pi has it all.
Postgres wire-compatible Spanner when? :P
This is what I expect from Google. They are not customer-centric and no-one is really prioritising or cares about customer feedback.
Facebook Is Forming a Team to Design Its Own Chips
Imagine hearing 20 of the dumbest ideas you have ever heard. Everyday.

I assume that's what it's like.
Not only is it fairly well encapsulated in plastic, the cadmium sulfide / cadmium selenide pigments are far less toxic when consumed orally than say the old lead carbonate pigment (known for being used as a white paint pigment) due to its poor solubility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium_pigments

If the kids are old enough not to put legos in their mouth and choke on them and can be encouraged to wash their hands before meals, I wouldn't worry too much, personally.
Amazon's Bezos Says Company Topped 100M Prime Members
> so the primary reason might be that the IP is in country X, but that doesn’t mean there’s a blanket ban on X—just that that reason combined with everything else we saw across thousands of signals resulted in our giving the payment a high score

It might not be that one reason, but could it be something like the following two? Because that would be practically equivalent in terms of unacceptability:

1. Customer IP is in a high risk location, and

2a. Vendor rarely does business successfully with people in that location, OR

2b. Vendors around this region don't usually do business successfully with customers in that region.

("Does business successfully" here was meant to both encompass lack of transactions as well as lots of unsuccessful transactions; I'm asking about both possibilities.)
Well, my description isn't amazing or as clear as it could be. ;) There should be a way to explain this without technical vocabulary.

How about this? If you sit still on a moving bike, and you don't try to lean, bike steering changes your lean. While you are turning your wheel further to the left, your lean to the right is increasing (your right side turning radius is decreasing).

That's it. That works for negative angles and negative lean, meaning if you're steering right and leaning right, then you start moving your wheel to the right, your left lean increases because your right lean decreases.

And it's always true. No matter where you start, you could be already turning left or right, steering more to the left always sharpens your turn to the right.

Does that make any more sense? I really do want to find a better way to describe counter steering so it becomes more intuitive and easier to understand.
That was on the early versions of the MiG-29.

The latest 29M and K models eliminated the intake plates and over-wing louvres in favour of simpler swing-down intake grilles. That saved a lot of weight and drag and gave extra volume for fuel.
This raises another question i guess - how to tell the difference between a chargeback that was fraud and a chargeback that was "i don't like it" i assume they get reasons for chargebacks?
I am all for scooters that are not on the sidewalk. I am all for making it more difficult to own and maintain a car to help eliminate all the problems that they cause.

We don’t ask GM, Ford, or Toyota to solve car parking, or even
pedestrian deaths, traffic, and other car issues. So why are we asking
LimeBike, Bird, or Spin to figure out bike/scooter storage?

Lime Bird and Spin own the scooters that are blocking the sidewalk. Not so for Toyota. Zipcars arranges parking for their cars when they are not being rented.
The eMMC for me is worth the price. Too many corrupt SD cards.
Tesla has a history of blaming the owners of their cars for accidents with plenty of people defending Tesla's actions. I would imagine that a paycheck-to-paycheck worker has to know that the response to them will be similar with the added bonus of a signed NDA.
I would bend over backwards to put a few years worth of Amazon on my CV. I assumed that was common especially in this crowd?
Do it.

I have my phone in a permanent "Do Not Disturb" mode with a few break-through rules for "favorite" contacts (not even all contacts). Missed important calls: 0. If someone's calling and doesn't leave the voicemail, then it's not important.