skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my view, when you're on the bike, what you're thinking about is riding, and you have to be a lot more wary on US roads, helmet or not. I think the statistics back that up. Sometimes I go out without a helmet, and I still have to be ready to dodge a car or an obstacle in the road.

But I do think that helmets get more attention than they deserve. Oddly enough, among experienced cyclists, a helmet is just part of the equipment. You either wear one or you don't. But non-cyclists (the folks who "advise" me at my workplace), the helmet is the first thing they ask about.

Oh, one more thing, European roads tend to be in a lot better condition. I had a near-accident last week because I didn't notice a gaping hole in the road that would have sent me over the bars.
If I thought I could pick an industry poised for growth I wouldn't be mucking about with index funds.
Nuclear power plant of the future?
- "Product so good that people wanna tell others about it" doesn't mean this is an excuse to hide in a corner and keep building the product. Product can't be "good" if it's not based on frequent and lots of conversations / interactions with users.

- The point about "exponential growth in market" is very important if your startup wants to raise money from VCs and has similar goals. Otherwise, focusing on creating value even in mature markets can be a good choice too. Same point applies to the "Huge if it works" point too.

- His point about real trend vs fake trend is also a good point for your own product's real usage vs fake usage. Are people "really" engaged and using your product or are they just thinking that it's cool but not really using it?

- I have nothing to add to what he said about the team, but team is so important that I wanted to mention it as well.

- His point about optimism is another point where team (or advisors or well-wishers) help. A startup is a roller-coaster. You will have days of negativity and doubts. At that moment, a team member (or someone similar) who pushes you and encourages you is very important!

- Love the points about "We'll figure it out" and "I've got it"

- "Bias towards action" doesn't mean being busy for the sake of being busy. In my career, I've seen so many months wasted because action wasn't based on well-thought-out logic. So, certainly keep bias towards action, but don't use it as no excuse to not think. A good way to not move fast is to move fast in unnecessary directions.

- The "Never lose momentum" point is so difficult in real world (unless you're lucky). But, good to be reminded about.

- The point about "Distribution startegy" is another great point. Every distribution strategy we are thinking of is going to turn out to be harder than we thought. Still, finding new / unexplored distribution sources compared to your competition can be a great win!

- I am sure this wasn't intentional, but I'll say that the talk didn't focus enough on users / customers. In the end, it's all about creating genuine value for the customers / users.
Thanks for this, we are deploying our WISP in the next month or two.
Play AV1 video is browser using WebAssembly
Taxpayers foot the bill for the entire justice system; why should this one part be some individual's responsibility? This is a service that is required to be universal: it has to be applied regardless of the individual's ability to pay for it. It's considered good fun to punish victims of the justice system by making them pay for it, but this is ultimately a ruinous policy.
Hi @jimnotgym, [Using a throwaway account]
We built an active cash flow management tool to bridge the gap between finance and non finance people. We would love to hear your feedback on our product. Can you help?
Yeah, motion sickness is a non issue at this point for headsets with good 6 DoF tracking as long as you are only doing 1:1 mapped movement (your VR movements match your real world movements). Teleporting is mostly fine but rapid frequent teleporting can still cause some issues. Other forms of locomotion tend to have more issues but some tricks have been developed and best practices figured out to make it viable for many people for reasonably long sessions. Virtual "blinkers" to reduce optical flow in peripheral vision have proved quite effective and are widely used. Pulling yourself through the virtual environment with your hands also seems to work quite well for many people (see Lone Echo for example).
Perhaps your experience is different but to me the emphasis on process is a focus on symptoms.

What I have seen is process is the attempted cure to bad employees or incoherent culture.

Good employees just do the right things.
Even if Jeong is 100% not guilty, it is still distressing that her employer applied a completely different standard to her than to Quinn Norton. Or frankly, almost anyone else. People have their careers ruined because old tweets of theirs are exhumed without any context. Here, they are giving a massive amount of leeway to her to construct a convenient context to explain away her racist words.

I'm more offended by the hypocrisy of the NYT and the wider media establishment. Suddenly, if you have their favor, we need to take your word for it that you were only being ironic with your racism, and totes didn't mean for your words to be taken at face value.
Vernā Myers joins Netflix in new VP role focused on inclusion
I think it would be better for the writer to provide specific evidence for the specific pretext. You don't need to convince me that climate change is real, but climate change is a general term. I'd rather see some evidence backing up the sea level increase in Miami claim.
The RBAC UI has since been merged into Airflow and is now released in Airflow 1.10.

https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/tree/master/airf...

https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/commit/05e1861e2...

To enable it, set `rbac = True` under the `webserver` group in your airflow.cfg, or via env var:

export AIRFLOW__WEBSERVER__RBAC=True
What gives - this is the only mention of Guifi.net on this thread - and Guifi is the world's largest Mesh, by an order of magnitude! 56k+ nodes operational in Catalunya!
As someone once remarked "On XP everything looks as though it should go MOO! when you click on it."
In the UK the big risk is sales tax (VAT). It needs forecasting on top of sales receipts, and every quarter you have to pay this sum you have collected over to the exchequer. VAT is notorious for taking down businesses who spent the receipts!

Otherwise you should model what happens when the sales come late or not at the level you want, Braintree hold your cash, etc. If you can't flex your overheads to stay within your cash facilities, then you are risking insolvency.

Sales receipts, payroll and sales tax are the big numbers.
A "record" has multiple shades of meaning. For example, temperature records must be officially observed, using (sufficiently) modern weather instrumentation. That's why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records says "remotely sensed observations such as satellite measurements, since those values are not considered official records."

This thread spun off into pedantry when you used the phrase "record breaking drought".

I know that there have been record breaking temperatures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_European_heat_wave comments that in Germany "Both April and May set new temperature records as the warmest April and May since modern record-keeping began in 1881."

Note the 'modern record-keeping' associated with 'new temperature records', and that those records are only 150 years old.

It's certainly true that there are older weather records. 10.1023/A:1005505113244 describes weather journals including one which covers the drought of 1540, which was "the most outstanding" one of the last half of the 1000s. 10.1007/s10584-014-1184-2 is "Based on more than 300 first-hand documentary weather report sources" from that time, to describe the 11-month-long Megadrought of 1540.

So, who are you quoting when you use the phrase 'record breaking drought', and what definition are they using?
I think I was more aware of Fastmail than Protonmail. I also prefer paying for a product so that I don't become the product, which is a big reason why I left behind those various google services. Which reminds me that I should look for an Open Street Maps app on iOS to replace Google Maps.
Have you tried applying? You sound at least as qualified as most of the entry-level candidates we get. Maybe send out a dozen resumes and see what sort of response you get before you decide you're not qualified yet!
It's illegal to cross the double yellow lines

No, that's just boolean programmer-think.

I my state, at least, the law makes specific exceptions for things like this.

Maybe the cars would do better if they were vetted against lawyers and not debuggers.
Regarding suicide, I blame relatively poor mental healthcare, rigid societal expectations of people's lives (family & career track), and a (supposed) history of suicide as a solution.

Or maybe in the West, with cultural roots in Christianity, which strongly discourages suicide, we might just be benefiting from more social taboo around it.
Isn't wi-fi really bad at handling mutiple users? Can't the how bad the latency will be.
A lot of this may have to do with the building & management -- often times, the building's condo/coop board strikes an exclusivity deal with the ISPs and get a share of the revenue.

[I'm on a condo board]
You know those long treadmills at airports that you walk on to move faster through the concourse? They have speakers at either end constantly repeating a warning that the end is coming and to watch your step.
Dunning-Kruger also has a flip side where the people who are most capable consider themselves far less capable than they are (possibly because of this very effect where the more you know, the more aware you are of the things you don't know).
They'd probably call it Über-See over there.
I tend to agree. The more experience I gain in running startup companies the more I believe the recipe for success is 1) show up 2) work hard 3) get lucky. And #3 is super important.
I want more stories from Loopt. It was ahead of its time and I know he learned a lot from his time as a startup CEO (before joining YC) that we rarely hear about.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political-ideological-national battle. That's a violation of the site rules, and we ban accounts that do it, so if you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and please stop doing it, we'd appreciate it.
Theory of Intelligence and BIAS of the classic IQ method [pdf]
“Those are not gay rights they are human rights”

You are misusing the English language. When a minority is targeted with animus and their rights are systematically violated, we tend to label the campaign to fight back against those things: Gay rights/Pride, Women’s rights/Feminism, African American’s rights, etc. This is done as a matter of pragmatism.

There’s no priortization of one group’s rights over another. Are you trying to say that when a minority is called out as being supported, that it makes you, who is not a member of that minority, feel left out? If not, then what is it? Be specific.
Julia is advertised as general purpose. I can imagine it eventually obtaining a presence in web development.
Right, but it ends just as CompuServe is making a major new purchase of PDP-10 gear.
Algae Bloom in Lake Superior Raises Worries on Climate Change and Tourism
Learning Go Programming
I reject that comparison. Bail is an administrative construct, not a physical substance. It is a "peculiar institution".
So, this is more akin to paying a lawyer to author a letter for you in order to persuade another party to take the legally correct course of action.
At the 4th Climate Assessment of the State of California (this week in Sacramento) the officially accepted number is now 9'ish feet mean sea level rise by 2100. ( still reading summary as linked below) correction: 95th percentile of summary prediction is shown as 20 inches by 2050 (page 9 link below) (more specific report on this topic http://www.opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/docs/rising-seas-in-...)
Pedantic quibbling: is "ancient societies" a proper designation for 15th century Europe?
This is one of the best articles I've seen on climate change. We are now looking to a 3 degree rise in surface temps by the middle of this century - well within our lifetimes. Miami is headed underwater. I wouldn't be buying real estate in any low-lying area if I can avoid it.

"Three-degree warming is a prescription for short-term disaster: forests in the Arctic and the loss of most coastal cities. Robert Watson, a former director of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has argued that three-degree warming is the realistic minimum."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/clim...
What if the reverse were true, then people would be annoyed that Google wasn't actively participating in technical communities regarding the impact it's products have on those who spec deploy and admin on them
And it is a notoriously fickle metric, most people track it at month end, and yet their main sales receipts come in after... leading to a rather alarming result. DSO or debtor days as it is often called in the UK, needs to be read with an understanding of the payment patterns in that business.
Seattle Home Prices Have Surpassed Los Angeles, New York and San Diego
Bloody hell, we either have bleeding heart liberals running around screaming that the sky is falling and that we are all doomed or we have dyed in the wool conservatives burying their head in the sand claiming that there's nothing to see here folks and could you move along please.

Is it too heretical to suggest that climate change is happening but that it's a gradual and manageable process. Is it too heretical to suggest that if we act rationally (as we have been doing) we ought to be able to: on the one hand get greenhouse emissions under control within a relatively short time scale, and on the other put into place on a locale by locale basis measures that mitigate the worst effects over the long run.
I still don't see where six feet is coming from.

I read $SOMEWHERE recently that the the worst case scenario predicted six feet. But that's, IIRC, if we do absolutely nothing, the methane in the Arctic is all released, and Greenland melts. The more likely scenario is somewhere from 1-3 feet.

So unless memory fails me, the article didn't just pull it out of its arse, but a source would've been nice rather than just throw a number out there with no backing whatsoever.
The appropriate entity to police children's behavior is the parent

And the appropriate entity to ensure that parents have the ability to police their children's behaviour is the government. As with all other toys, the government can impose usage restrictions and safety levels. Mandating the availability of parental control or oversight on Internet services accessible by children is perfectly within scope.
NOAA has data on miami from 1939 to 1981, so it isn't exactly current. I have no idea why the timeline is so bad though.
Brutalist Wonders of the Architecture World
> Riding without clipless pedals means your feet slip all around and you have to pay more attention to your feet while pedaling.

The pedals on my bicycle have some slight metal protrusions that keep my feet in place while riding and work just fine with conventional shoes. Plus, in dry weather, I don't have a problem with my feet slipping off the pedals. Even in wet weather, they don't really slip that much unless I'm not careful about it.
I don't disagree. I think that a full mitigation plan could help. For example showing that fiber can be easily chopped up if a pipe clogged. Maybe biofilm could be mitigated with an electric charge on a conductive outer sheath? I can't see how a single cable or 2 would ever require digging into the street.
The tone of your comment is off, but the underlying point has at least some merit.
I tried it out on Chrome 68 on Mac OS X. MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) - Core i5, 8GB RAM - The video playback was very jerky. Still, this is a new horizon for web development and what is possible in the browser!
Awkward when you bump into them at the local bar a couple months down the line though :P
And the iPhone doesn't even have the file manager.
LoopBack 4 August 2018 Milestone Update
Problem statement first.
Transmuting Low-Value Programmer Cred into High-Value Status Illegibility
My best quit excuse was that I had Crohn's disease. It let me step away immediately, because I didn't want to poop myself in the office.

I also offered to work from home for my final two weeks, to help them train my replacement, but it had to be from home, because of the pooping issue.

What's really nice is that I had a ton of options. I could even apply to have my job back, if I couldn't find remote work, in a few months if I had success with the treatment and felt more comfortable in an office environment.
Amen. This barely (if at all) applies to enterprise startups ("make something people want to tell their friends about" doesn't run up against internal decision-making and budgets very well... and "something that's easy to explain" is something that's only relevant in the right industry) and doesn't apply at all to startups in particular industry sectors, government-oriented, or even many hardware oriented ones.

This applies to a subset of Silicon Valley-style, hyper consumer oriented, VC-backable startups that at the end of the day, are fairly interchangeable.
10 most important differences between OpenShift and Kubernetes
OBS Studio Progress Report, August 2018
I had my devOps friend whom I consider to be a hardcore VIM poweruser, walk me through her workflow

VIM on linux can do some absolutely amazing things with just a keyboard and a single monitor. More so than any other application I've seen. You don't need the touchpad at all. Swapping from insert mode, normal, visual, select etc.

VIM has much stronger capabilities when it comes to editing code / text. It takes very few keystrokes to do common types of text manipulation. With my macbook I always misclick things fairly frequently because I'm not used to a touchpad.

Emacs I don't know any hardcore powerusers, but from what I've seen its similar except its more reactive to inputs

Even though I don't intend on using Emacs or Vim to that level, I still think its worth learning. There's many ideas from these toolsets to implement into your own workflow.
The difference is that Ford card actually existed.

All "self-driving cars" have drivers in them to take over each time it fails.

It's as if Ford cars had backup horses with them to take over every few miles.
I agree with you. All the examples you gave should be seen as different opinion and a person should be able to have that and work peacefully.

However if someone says that certain people are more capable because of their gender will you call it discriminatory? (I would think it is).
Anyone who wants to passively save some puffins should eat Puffins the cereal.

http://barbaras.com/community/project-puffin/
I guess if the Great Barrier Reef starts recovering, we could etch some dire warning into the rock about to be covered by life, to be seen the next time things get this bad.

"If you see me, you will weep. So barren was our ocean in 2018."

If only, the Reef is likely irreversibly dying by now.

Any other applications?
Having also read Damore's memo, it's not categorically false.

His stance was that women are, on average, more cooperative, more prone to anxiety, and less driven by status than men. He says that those traits explain the gender gap in tech employment because the current tech culture is high stress, requires long hours and hard work, and is highly competitive.

In other words, women are (on average) less suited to work in technology and leadership positions because of their biologically determined personality traits.
Adding to the other comment on suicide, I point one big fat finger at dangerous work hours, from age 5 on.

Suicide becomes a pretty attractive option when your brain isn't working from lack of sleep, and all you're looking forward to is a lifetime of 80-100 hour work weeks.
Slamming the brakes means different things for a sports car vs a SUV.

In my Subaru STI I can stop faster than some Escalade with only 2/3rds the brake pedal pressure. I'm not even close to maximum braking force. It's even more true in a lighter car like a Porsche 911.

Just as if they were driving a large commercial truck it is the SUV driver's responsibility to not be too close to me.
It couldn't understand a neat sketch like this - https://cloud.headwayapp.co/changelogs_images/images/big/000...
Digi.me wants to put you back in charge of your personal data
When we discovered galaxies — and to me, that seems like a thing we've always had — some scientists balked at it; for there to be another galaxy — multiple galaxies in the universe would imply sizes and scales that were absolutely ridiculous!

> Also used to back up his claims [that the idea of galaxies was wrong] was the observation of a nova in the Andromeda "nebula" that had briefly outshone the entire nebula, constituting a seemingly impossible output of energy were Andromeda in fact a separate galaxy.

But of course, the nova was real, the "seemingly impossible" energy output was also real. The Great Debate[1] happened, and eventually those unacceptably ridiculous distances became common knowledge.

The universe occasionally catches us off guard. I think most of us want to know why, if we're just, as you imply, a collection of chemical reactions, why are we "here", in the sense of having what we call a consciousness? It may very well be that there will come an explanation some day, rooted in quantum physics or some unnamed, yet-dreamed-up branch of science, but it hasn't yet, and that forthcoming explanation could very well discover that there is a fundamental difference between man and machine, just as it could very well discover there isn't. We won't know until someone does the work of coming up with testable hypotheses, and probably a better definition of "consciousness".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debate_(astronomy)
no, it doesn't work in original
This is completely incoherent, probably because it omits a ton of context.
I am a Democrat who has been elected in the past, I agree with the conservative argument that: Corporate censorship dampens the spirit of free speech.

While Alex Jones is a nut case (And shouldn't be defended), other less publicized incidents of censorship by Social Media companies has occurred (related to picking winners between Israel and Palestine)

The spirit of free speech is defending the least defensible.
Get Started with React Native Animations
Sadly, it doesn't look like there's a way of setting the xwin clipboard selection
Actual title: "What The Hell Was The Microsoft Network?"

https://twitter.com/grumpygiant/status/1034847962797494272
NET Core 3.0 Intrinsics in Real Life
I am currently writing master thesis about generative art, this article comes in handy :)

If you interested in generative art there is nice tool called Context Free Art: https://www.contextfreeart.org/ It's not as well known as Processing or other tools and that's a pity.
Disclosure: I work on Astronomer.io, an open source Airflow platform and SaaS [1][2], and also contribute to Airflow.

Our experience was similar to boulous' — Airflow is awesome once it's running but getting it running in an environment that scales to the point that you can deploy your first production DAG can take some effort. That's what led us to trying to do that work once for everyone.

Reusability and composability of components are some of my favorite aspects of working with Airflow.

[1]: https://www.astronomer.io/

[2]: https://github.com/astronomerio/helm.astronomer.io
Uhm, maybe I'm missing something, but:

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