skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting thing to calculate is the actual fatality rate, in deaths per passenger-km. The article mentions that ~100K riders had already taken it, and the ride is ~100m in length or 0.1km (data found elsewhere on the Internet), so that nicely works out to 1 in 10K passenger-km.

In contrast, the fatality rate of driving in the US is in the 1 in 100M range, so the ride was far more dangerous than driving. That gives a good perspective on the risk.
foxem.net is an online platform on which small, medium and large companies publish their challenges, problems and questions and receive ideas, solutions and best practices from their own employees and thanks to digitization from a worldwide crowd.

Basically, everyone is invited to become part of the largest brain in the world - most important is that he or she is open to sharing his or her knowledge, is interested in challenges and wants to make a contribution. For good ideas, crowd members receive rewards, the best idea is rewarded extraordinarily.

Through the diversity of crowd members, the functions of the right and left brain complement each other on foxem.net to form a collective mastermind - logic, analysis and reason versus emotion, musicality and intuition, structure, planning and control versus empathy, creativity and lateral thinking. Companies get higher quality, more diversified and more concrete ideas than with all existing systems and that in a highly efficient and cost-effective way.
I really like goth https://github.com/markbates/goth
I can see that, and perhaps my experience has just been unlucky. I missed usenet by a few years.
I've tried full spectrum CBD from a reliable source and I'm jealous of everyone who seem to be reaping all of these benefits. I'm unfortunately not on that side of the fence. I've tried different doses from tinctures under the tongue etc...but I couldn't say I notice any difference in mood, anxiety, muscle soreness, joint pain et al.
I am currently listening to The Phoenix Project and it seems quite nice (https://soundcloud.com/itrevolution/sets/the-phoenix-project...).

If you are into it, the DevOps Handbook is also pretty good (https://soundcloud.com/itrevolution/sets/the-devops-handbook).
> Generally I just see it as a big warning sign that the quoter is more interested in winning than learning or getting to the truth of the matter and thus is best ignored.

But,to be fully honest, isn't it what this kind of conversation is about, ultimately speaking? There is a reason it happens mostly in low-stake contexts: dinner tables, casual conversation, comments section. Places where "bullshit pass" is implicitly granted to all participants. If we are not allowed to pick and choose and distort other's meanings then where's the fun and drama in all of this?
Imagine someone selling you a 4K monitor (for 50% more than other 4K monitors) without ever mentioning that you can only actually have 4K for 5 min max, then it falls to QHD.
I definitely wouldn't say no to something like that. It would probably make my life a little easier.
guess someone didnt use a big enough payoff.
This doesn't surprise me. Without a hierarchy, one will naturally form anyway and the person that is most agressive will win.

This self-organizing company fad rears it's ugly head under different names every decade or so, and it usually ends in utter disaster.
The last time I used WinAmp it had a memory leak of about 4K/sec on windows.

You could look at the task on windows and see it grow slowly over time.

I'm curious if this version still has this leak.
Please make this an Electron app. I would use this all the time.

Also it needs the equalizer presets. "Rock" was my favorite.
I agree that age 30 is an arbitrary choice. Here's why I chose that age. My view is that, at least from the perspective of young professionals, employment in Silicon Valley is similar to graduate education. In terms of your earning potential, the skills and experience you will gain is equivalent to a Ph.D. By age 30 or so, your "graduate education" should be complete and it's time to transition to adulthood. Part of being an adult is owning a home and gaining all the advantages, both financial and psychological, that home ownership offers.
craig got a whole new york office. he did well.
All these are good (to avoid).

I'd add to the comments to that start a certain way: 'nope' I don't know exactly why but I find this phrasing both dismissive and insulting. Also, all those starting with adverbs, like 'Interestingly,...'. Just say what you got to, I say. It hurts the message if what follows isn't interesting at all. Edit: I'm not trying to insult anyone, I just think this kind of formality where one has to justify, verbally, the existence of ones comment is distracting.

I'd also add the gross over- and misuse of italics for emphasis. I'd almost say it was a phenomenon. Like the amount of emphasis italics is inversely proportional to to commenters knowledge of the subject.
I would say they are all related concerns but my order would probably be Complexity > Duplication > State > Coupling. In nearly all the refactorings I've done, reducing complexity and duplication will tend to automatically take care of the other concerns.
It has the xmms skin, love it.
Currently the TB16, but I think the D6000 is likely just as good and smaller.
First release of NetBSD was in 1993. It was more novel back then.
My apologies. In my post I might have been more sarcastic than I intended, which notoriously doesn't carry well over the written medium.

The effects of slavery have been, in my opinion, been carried over to modern times in the U.S., but everyone on the right side of the divide hides behind "equal opportunity" and "personal responsibility". The defence is that everyone with an equal amount of assets has the same opportunities, which might be true, but complete disregards the historical opportunities of people to have amassed those assets in the first place resulting in the narrative that the U.S. isn't racist in nature, it's just that its ideals of equality just happens to put people of colour at a disadvantage so everyone not affected can shrug it off, secure in the knowledge that they really earned their wealth, and that those less fortunate should just work harder. The system is fair, after all, since it worked out for them.
It was pretty well documented that Russian stockpiles of their India strain went missing by the metric ton, post-USSR.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1039129770495563833

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/13/world/government-report-s...
Having just taken the kids to the new braunfels location..

Oddly, master blaster continues to have the same net and hoop layout. I wondered about it years ago when I first rode that ride.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=master+blaster+schlitte...

While I didn't ride it this time (the wait is generally really long), I think I was more aware of the fact that there are a lot of dangerous areas in the park. A couple years ago when my kids were younger, I saw first hand how just a bit of running on wet concrete can result in some serious road rash. The park is very responsive to these kinds of injuries, but they must be very common.

This time I came away with the idea that these parks are built around 70's era don't protect the kids from the daily bumps bruises of life mindset. If there were actual regulation, I suspect there would be a _LOT_ of changes forced on by the safty crazies.

For starters, many of the rides should probably require helmets. I myself cracked my head (twice) against concrete tube chutes after having fliped off tubes in fairly minor drops (just a few feet).

Maintenance isn't really top notch either, years ago I remember sitting at a picnic table on a windy day and a fairly large limb broke off a nearby tree and missed a woman and her baby by inches.

This probably won't keep me from going again next year. The place is a blast, and if you do manage to injure yourself, there is literally a hospital across the street. It does make me more respectful of the attractions though, something I don't think most people going there really understand. Water + speed + hard objects will result it some injuries. Hopefully like many other activities (riding a bike/skate board, jumping off cliffs, climbing trees, etc) the user learns where their limits are and if they exceed them, the injuries aren't life threatening.
Interesting to me. I don’t feel like I'd find this tough but taken one step further (veganism) it’d be disappointing. I have the unfortunate luck of being allergic to things like chickpeas and pea protein, so the various vegan substitutes are likely to be painful.

Not something I’d do, but I am curious how it pans out for them.
basically he tried to do free speech in a country where free speech is strictly forbidden, which led to all these, yes he had no choice but to leave.
I assume that some variant of "bundled Windows Runtime" is the reason why trial versions of various of various productivity SW that came with my first PC had MZ stubs, that didn't print "This program requires Microsoft Windows", but EXEC'd something like "%COMSPEC% /C WIN.COM PROGRAM.EXE"
Of course. But, many employees should check the contract they sign. Many companies claim work at and outside of work.
"If you're not paying for it, you're the product"

Yes. Thank you!
Update - When first asked to comment on the story Uber said the following: "Recording passengers without their consent is illegal in some states, but not Missouri.”

Then around 7 pm they suspended the drivers access to the app pending investigation. They just affirmed what he's doing is not illegal. So is the investigation time being used so their lawyers can find a valid excuse to terminate him?
Do you think How to Design Programs (TtDP) is a good alternative to SICP? It seems gentler, but if one were to go the HtDP route, what would come after? SICP or something else?

http://www.htdp.org/
But very many pieces of code, even such pedestrian things as data structures require unsafe code.

So the attitude of "only unsafe programs have UB by the Rust spec" effectively means "all programs have UB by the Rust spec"
YouTube/ the best of “funny video” #11 – Funny Cube mix
My implicit suggestion was that the viewpoint expressed in my comment (as a question) is a ridiculous logical fallacy.

Reading the other comments I see that others have expressed the same thought.
Where I live in LA, there's a fantastic video store in walking distance. Selection is great, staff will talk to you about interesting choices, you can pay $4 for a one-time rental for a week, or you can buy a subscription.

I initially figured this might be an anomaly, because it's LA and movies/TV arguably occupy a more prominent space in this town. :)

But seeing other people talk about Family Video in places where broadband sucks (and honestly, broadband sometimes sucks for a lot of people ), considering that RedBox is broadly successful ... I could be persuaded there's room for more video stores.
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yay, we aren't gonna get high!
> voter IDs could be handled at the local level

Handling this at the local level introdces opportunities for limiting supply in areas where it is beneficial to the local party in charge to suppress the vote.

> Ideally, registration and ID application/issuance (for the next election) would be mandated for every polling place.

Why? What is the benefit? Voter fraud of this kind in minimal so what justifies the added cost?

> It could have the added benefit of being an additional/secondary piece of identification ... something that can be out of reach of someone low on income and/or time, even once they've obtained the state ID.

Why should people need a secondary ID? The issue is that low income people don't always have ID and you're suggesting the could need two forms of ID to vote. What makes this easier to obtain for low income people than other forms of ID?
it's negligible, like I feel more high by drinking coughee
Finding traces of tattoo ink in lymph nodes, means nothing other than the fact that there are traces of tattoo ink in lymph nodes.

If there were actual lymph-related problems associated with tattoos, like certain illnesses that are disproportionately represented amongst tatooed individuals, you'd think that studies would discover it...
I'm not sure why people are so interested in this now. During the 2008 electon, there were tons of russian and chinese bots posting content to reddit and facebook.

Since it was helping Obama, nobody cared.

I still wonder if Hillary won, would anyone even care about Russian hackers?? Trump actually mentioned the hackers during his campaign and most responses from the left were laughter and ridicule (just like in 2012...1980s called........)
I endorsed them for things like “alcoholism,” “horse care,” “blood,” and “solid waste.”

Can't stop laughing at this!
"Not psychoactive" is definitely not the right term. CBD affects, indirectly, the GABA receptors in your brain. It's pretty clearly psychoactive. The "non-psychoative" seems to have picked up a colloquial usage that essentials equates to
"doesn't get me high".
>Now you know one of the reasons the army is forbidden from being deployed on US soil.

I don't know where people get this idea but I assume it's a charitable interpretation of the Posse Comitatus Act. In the hypothetical, yet entirely plausible, scenario where one or several South American governments collapses and a migrant crisis reaches the Southern Border of course the military could and would be deployed. As for the Act itself, it has many exceptions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
The thing is I joined in 2013, and unless things were substantially different before then, isomorphisms of "+1" comments were always heavily downvoted to maintain the HN level SNR. I wasn't aware they were ever welcome.

Also, many people share a comment consisting of one of the annoyances they list but go on to explain and elaborate. That's much better and just because someone goes "causation != correlation" doesn't invalidate their post if they give good reasoning for how it's relevant.
I don’t ever recall asking for a raise except once where there was an agreement to raise me to market in 6 months if things worked out (or I would go).

You can bust your hump for a 3% bump or just go work for someone who does value you and get some multiple of that. I called it “giving myself a raise”.

As the sales guys like to say: “Your W2 is your review.”

I suppose if you wanted to be proactive, let your manger know that no raise or a very small one is sending the message that you have no future with the company. It’s not a threat, it’s just business.
Modern Americans believe in an ideology that advocates the wisdom of the "average person" that coexists with constant manipulation by elites. Ancient Aliens is more proof that the average person is not particularly thoughtful but instead susceptible to wishful thinking. Don't think that doesn't also apply to politics, religion and economics.
Do many apps have support for custom skins? I've never heard of any of them doing that, but it seems like it would be an awesome feature to be able to customize the UI.

If someone made a music player app that could use existing Winamp skins that would be really cool. If nothing else you've get a lot of nostalgia installs. Also, do sites like Spotify and Pandora have APIs that allow other apps to integrate with their service? If you could integrate the Winamp playlist with different streaming services you would have a cool and useful music player. I don't even buy apps, but I would probably pay a couple bucks for something like that.
I do not think x means what you think it means.
I feel like a lot of 'platitudes' are worth repeating. Again and again, ad nauseum, long past where people are tired of hearing it. Because they're true, but they're very easy to forget.

If platitudes can be used to dismiss most articles out of hand, well, maybe things that look like "interesting news" at first glance are often... not.

My personal list:

- From the article: Correlation IS NOT causation. This should be written in giant flaming letters above every study. It dismisses almost all of them out of hand.

- Nearly every judgment you make about somebody is fundamental attribution error. For example, every technical interview ever is nearly fatally flawed. (No, I don't currently have better alternatives.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

- Goodhart's law. Also known as the tragedy of the OKR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Being cynical, you could say this was before the internet - if we tried something similar today, no doubt the few people in the world with conspiracy theories about the small pox vaccine would find each other on some shadowy crackpot forum, start a facebook group, make a professional looking pseudoscientific website, find an ageing B celebrity to endorse them, make an extreme video that starts appearing in algorithmic feeds, launch a facebook ad campaign targeting both the anti-establishment left and conspiracy laden alt-right, get endorsed on twitter by Trump and other populists, crowdfund some junk science research that gets published in a predatory journal (hopefully not the Lancet again) and sooner or later the chance to eradicate small pox is lost.

We may have hit peak future, and are now heading down the other side...
Tbh, you can blame pg for that. He famously said downvoting to disagree is fine and people have let that reasoning turn into downvoting for almost everything.
Did you read those links? He said to delete the data, not just the accounts.
My sense is that Communist and quasi-Communist countries need the military to function and maintain themselves.
We differ on worldviews I think. I don’t find conversations interesting or fun if a bullshit pass has been granted. The point of a low stakes conversation to me is learning something about a person or subject — so distoring overmuch causes me to disengage (if & only if low stakes).
Except most tatoo subjects are still too young to understand whether it shortens their lifespan or not.

Also, traceability of inks is not done, so we won’t even know which ones are the toxic ones if we notice that a subgroup is dying way more frequently.
Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence
That wasn't what the article said. If you truncate sentences in both directions to make a distorted point, you might as well stop. The rest of the sentence reads:

> ... cobalt, a metal found in finite supplies and concentrated in one of the globe's more precarious countries.

Notice how it reads differently.
Yes, sadly not many people keep track of their books on Goodreads and even less rate them. However we did add two methods to get recommendations by simply selecting one book you enjoyed. The first way uses all of the other user's ratings together with book features and the other simply finds all the most similar books to the one you selected (using description summary, tags, and genre)
I'm frankly surprised that more people haven't died at Schlitterbahn. Although this article appears to reference negligence at a corporate level, you have to keep in mind that the staff is comprised largely of high school aged kids, and all it takes is a few moments of inattention for someone to drown on these rides.

Case in point, I could have easily drowned as a kid when one of the staff allowed too many riders in tubes to go down a chute at once, creating a log jam at the bottom that I got pulled underneath. The strong current held me underneath other riders' tubes for a good thirty seconds or so until the jam loosened. No one noticed or cared even as I came up coughing and sputtering.

Don't get me wrong, most of the staff seemed to take their job pretty seriously, but in a place as crowded and inherently dangerous as this it doesn't take much for someone to get hurt.
I appreciate your comment and sentiment, and agree to some extent about previous MBPs, but saying that "it only gets hot when attached to a large display" is quite shocking...I normally use 3 external screens for work on my Dell XPS (previously Thinkpad), and don't understand why a powerful laptop would get hot just by outputting to displays..
Title is kind of overblown. Employees can still pack a lunch for work with meat in it -- this is only about catered food and expense reimbursements.
Is there any EU law which prevents them from resuming the spam as soon as another one of your acquaintances gives LinkedIn access to his/her contacts? Because otherwise that's what's going to happen...
They do allow for medical and religious exemptions, apparently.
Tattoo removal will take that right out.
The US is threatening withdrawal from NATO, a member state is withdrawing from the EU, and international trade wars are heating up between the largest economies. I’m not sure I would count those trends as a sure thing, though certainly they probably have a good bit of wear left in them.
You are missing working holiday schemes - typically one of the easier ways to get a chance of moving abroad. Caveat is they are mostly under 30-yo type of deal, but its quite feasible to gain citizenships before that.
That is hilariously naive. No one ever racially discriminates or denies someone an opportunity because of their race anymore? Racism was just stopped cold in 1964?
Not to my knowledge. To be more specific, roles are being moved, not people. New roles only in target market, old roles slowly attritioned out as people leave or retire. No one has been forced to move yet. That day may come, but it’s a long ways off.
As a note, make sure cost of living is determined in real terms, not percentages. Oftentimes places with a 80% cost of living will also pay 80% the other wage, which is a bad deal for an engineer because cost of living is not the total of all expenses- so savings and discretionary income actually goes down quite a bit.
Alas, if we were to stop using these phrases solely because they have been "overused" despite their value, then we risk denying the lucky 10,000 of tomorrow.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
At least they do not use IP-bans no more. I got one from /r/russia just by recounting the Finnish view of the winter war. IP-ban was interesting experience. First they banned the precise address, then the whole city block (of cable provider). I tried very hard to get the whole country of Finland banned from Reddit, but unfortunately failed.

Ouch. I am banned once again: http://www.reddit.com/u/Timo_Noko. Reason: multiple accounts, some of which were used in groups, which had banned some other aliases, which look little bit the same as mine, so it must be me. Or something, you just cannot keep count of throwaways.

And yes this the last post I made and obviously the last straw in the series of relentless shitposting: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kayaking/comments/8zu861/coast_guar...
I'd imagine it's for the same reason we don't drop nuclear warheads on everyone we come into conflict with even thought it's a pretty efficient way to wipe enemies out. Infectious diseases don't discriminate, they can mutate and spreading them means your enemy can get a sample to weaponize.
Wouldn't running actual Winamp 2 be much better? It works with wine so you can run it in Linux and I guess if you needed support for newer formats a plugin can be made for them.
I'm very happy with NetNewsWire 3.3.2 on Mac OS El Capitan 10.11.6.