skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of going after the driver:
My parents showed dogs semi-professionally; however, when I learned to drive my father taught me that if an animal darts into the road you can slow down, but you don't swerve to miss it since that can cause an accident.

It's certainly possible that the driver was at fault if they were speeding or driving recklessly, but like another commenter mentioned I don't think we know enough to say.
I tried, and ended up losing contact with pretty much all of my family. Facebook is so deeply integrated with their daily lives that they consider e-mails, phone calls and SMS'es to be an unneccesary hassle.

After a while I had to get a new Facebook account, because people kept messaging my wife over messenger, asking her to forward the messages to me.
Line breaks aren't to make it shorter, it's to break it up so the reader can keep track of where he is in the reading. I must have reread certain lines 4 or 5 times before I actually got to the next line, even using text selection as a bookmark.
Discover the world of amateur space enthusiasts in a ‘dreamlike journey,’
Predicting Variable Types in Dynamically Typed Programming Languages
I think the Raspberry Pi had a good use though: it served as a stepping stone for people who wanted to try out home servers but did not want to spend a lot. After getting one's hands dirty with the Pi, it's fairly easy to move on to better hardware and feel confident doing so.
I have so many bones to pick with you—please don't take this adversarially, but you are broadcasting a position on an important moral question, and I think some of your ideas and beliefs deserve to be re-examined.

> Shelters are only really active in North America and a few European countries.

I'm not sure where you got this idea, but I live in Asia (Taiwan) and can tell you for a fact that there are plenty of active shelters here and all through this side of the globe, both volunteer- and government-operated. Further, common sense tells me that there must be shelters anywhere there's an animal control department that doesn't immediately euthanize the dogs they catch. In any case, I'd hope to change your mind about breeders even if there were no shelters in your area.

> Everyone else simply buys from the best breeders

This is another really peculiar claim to stand behind. If people only adopt from shelters or buy from the best breeders, what are the so-so breeders doing? What about puppy mills? They account for a lot of the dogs that wind up in shelters in Taiwan (or, more precisely, their well-meaning but capricious customers do).

> It’s good to know people “rescue” or “adopt” dogs from shelters and their payment in exchange for dogs isn’t considered “buying”

This is the heart of what I want to discuss, though. There's a significant distinction between adopting a shelter dog and buying from a breeder, and this distinction is where the moral question lies:

Shelters are not in the business of producing more dogs. They are in the business of managing the human-induced problem of transient dog populations.

Breeding is part cultural practice, part commercial endeavor. I have no criticism of the cultural practice, and I think it's wonderful that there are long lineages of majestic, purebred dogs out there. But if you truly love dogs, and I mean truly love them, not _like_ family but _as_ family, then you must concede that they are all equally deserving of a home.

There is a finite supply of dog stewardship out there in the world, and it is truly dwarfed by the demand for it. Breeders manufacture more demand; shelters do not. When you say "yes" to a breeder, you aren't just saying "no" to a shelter dog. You are agreeing to raise the overall demand while keeping the supply constant. More than that, you're sponsoring it.

Stray dogs are refugees in this manufactured world of ours, clamoring for asylum. There's a _lot_ more of them then there are visas to go around, and we're paying somebody to make new refugees because these ones suit our preferences better. The ones that don't make it are literally killed and thrown into a furnace.

Please please please reconsider your stance on breeders. Of course, I understand. Breeder dogs are prettier. More impressionable. Easier to train. They don't come with baggage. You don't have to adopt the worst shelter dog out there; I guarantee that somewhere out there, there's a shelter dog that's right for you. It might be more work, but if you love dogs, don't you think they deserve it?
reminds me of pebble's "exit"
Someone does have to be to blame even in the case of an accident. When you drive a multi ton machine at high rates of speed you are accountable for it.

Likewise when you take money for a service you are accountable for not letting their dog run into the road which is usually pretty easy for an animal on a leash.

What did wag do wrong that we know?

The walker wasn't the person on the profile. They are withholding information regarding the incident. They tried to force the victim to agree to be legally silenced in order to pay for direct costs incurred.

This is 1000 times worse than paying nothing.
Just sharing the database management tool I use and love: https://github.com/martingms/vipsql
It is.

I must have expressed myself really badly, since people are reading the opposite of what I intended.

Netflix bet the farm on computer-generated plots, which is partly how they have such an immense quantity of content - yet the badness shines through. OTOH the handful of decent shows they have are all fully fledged concepts that they bought.

Like most people I really have to rethink the value-per-$ of this proposition, but if Netflix just erased all the crap maybe 10 up-to-snuff and 2 to 3 really good shows a year would remain. Worth paying what it is? If every new show was like "1983" or "Fauda"...
Facebook and Stanford researchers design a chatbot that learns from its mistakes
Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05415
China, undisputed king of electric transport
Thank you for sharing this; I just posted a pretty aggressive response to another comment advocating for shelters, but I think I need more of this perspective as well.
Having been on jury duty, I was shocked on how many people were not basing their decision on the evidence (as they were instructed to). Some seemed to be treating it like a TV drama where they were second guessing what actually happened.
Just being honest, it saved me more than giving trouble as you've explained.

All my sites are secure because of it, there are trillions of spammers on the web and we need something to guard the doors.
Asshats.

Lesson is to never use a service in which the compensation part is somehow conditioned.

I don't eveen think that agreering to 'not seek further compensation' is an acceptablee condition for getting compensation.
> You'll pay for counseling.

what?
Jay Leno (serious car buff) has been doing this for years. I think he and many other car collectors realized the potential of 3D printing of obsolete parts when the cost came down enough to be affordable.
>I don't know where you got your statistics most are false, half complete or misleading.

Official Stats? ( But as you know Official Stats could be wrong too ) I never said the City they built out NOW have to be filled within 2 years. There are some that strategically don't work and are left there like ruins. Some are waiting for their turns, some may never come. And they will likely knock those down and rebuilt again. And when it comes to urbanisation, why would anyone wants to pull people from rural into First Class City like Shanghai? There are lots of places in Midland and Western ( The so called Great Western China Development )
Best Home Improvement sites?
You seem to be overreacting hardcore. They didn't say it was like losing your mother. They said it was like losing family. There are many different types of relationships in families, some more or less important than others. I'm pretty sure you'd be more torn up about losing your pet who you see every day than hearing that a cousin you've seen twice in your life has passed.

What a weird thing to get worked up over.
i've seen twitch streamers get swatted and their viewers start their lights/play "fuck the police" via alexa via paid donation TTS software. this just removes one step in the process
Unfortunately not. But it is worth the price. You can try with free version but it is limited.
IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”
We will have a lot more work in 2019 so we must downsize our workforce definitely rings counterintuitive to me.
Test his hypothesis how, exactly? By putting a child and a dog into a disaster situation?
In many software jobs it's not possible to bring your own tools unless approved. Even if they are free and open source.
> Github should become what Youtube is to video creators

What, a metrics-driven controversy/clickbait factory?

We'd be far better off with what Patreon is to creators, a system that gives people enough predictability of income that they can make a job of it.
Stock is -8.15% on pre-market trading.

Normally layoffs are viewed as positive or neutral event, but this paragraph -- " In Q4, preliminary, unaudited results indicate that we again made a GAAP profit, but less than Q3. This quarter, as with Q3, shipment of higher priced Model 3 variants (this time to Europe and Asia) will hopefully allow us, with great difficulty, effort and some luck, to target a tiny profit" does not instill much confidence, I guess.
Yes, absolutely. I know I personally would.

Now, if it was between a stranger dog and a stranger child I'd choose the child.
Well yeah, of course - my car insurance specifically doesn't cover commercial activity in my car(as well as going off road, racing or track use), so if I started driving for uber I'd be 100% uninsured until I got commercial insurance.

I think that was one of the greatest lies of Uber at the start "just drive your car for money in your free time!" - that's all great, but no private car insurance would cover you while doing that.
It's not as broad as "combinations". In many circumstances that doesn't apply. The OSMF website has guidelines on what needs to be released and what doesn't.
I don't think (yeah, please answer if I'm wrong) that's true for anyone.

You may value a dogs life as much as a human, some do. But those same people don't go around with extreme care to avoid stepping on an ant, and would kill insects if they where an annoyance or risk to health. So they do stablish a difference between some animals, where ants are in a different tier than dogs, but humans and dogs are together in the same tier.

Personally I don't think it makes any sense. I do value animal lives greatly, and between a dog and a man I might save the dog in a split-second gut decision (and regret it later).

I reckon many people use feelings to guide (or greatly inform) their morality. Which might or might not be that bad to be honest, I don't really have a solid basis for my morality either.
Hopefully a lot? The SolarCity acquisition seemed shoddy to begin with.
Shady is the gig economy business model, with a slice of no accoutability.
Would be nice if people would be less selfish.

We bread dogs to a form where there pure existens is our contact with them.

We bread them in forms and colors as we see fit.

We bread them in forms which makes it hard for them to breath, which gives them cancer with a high rate.

We should stop buying dogs because we like dogs. We should stop putting them in small appartments and get a service for handling our dogs because its inconvinient.
You can still put multiple things side-by-side…
Github could do it. Doesn't look they're rebranding into Microsoft Code Office Space (TM) any time soon. And one would assume they'd put the licenses on Github as well, so you could suggest changes and sell your project on whichever version of the license you want.

What Github would bring to the table are easy marketplace dynamics, trust, and a team of lawyers capable of writing good licenses. Also, the same code analysis tools that check for security problems in your dependencies could also license checking. There's a very compelling use case for businesses if all their code hosted on Github can 1) automatically check for license violations and 2) just pay for all licenses on a single screen with a single click.
There are also AmazonBasics' mattresses to add another option.
Tales from the Golden Age of Mac Gaming (/dev/world 2018)
If the swastika gets diluted as a knee jerk symbol of frothing-at-the mouth moral high ground, I’m okay with that.

Kind of like Michael Jordan’s Hitler moustache.

Maybe Kanye West will have a son named Adolf. I’d be cool with that.
Don't think it has to be an oxymoron. Look at Red Hat: fully 100% open source code, but a multi-billion $ revenue.
Not if the company is as poorly run as Tesla.
The 2005 DARPA grand challenge was "follow these dirt roads through a desert" where they wanted the vehicles to follow a specific set of dirt roads.

The self-driving car problem can be divided into several chunks, and the 2005 Grand Challenge intentionally tested some of those chunks and ignored others - a divide-and-conquer approach to problem-solving any developer will be familiar with.

The subsequent 2007 urban challenge added extra chunks, like other moving vehicles, high-level route planning and replanning around blocked roads, manoeuvres like parking and three-point turns, and suchlike.
We have to forget to remember
> but that's my point - they're not, but they're people I like and I like to see them a few times a year

That's actually a very, very good point! I deleted my account about two years ago and that's probably the biggest downside. Not grave enough though to make me come back.
You still haven’t managed to explain an application, with all your imagination.
I see, sorry for that, Is too late to edit now, but I will keep that in mind.

I think you mean that the lack of line breaks is not to make the comment shorter in vertical space.

More line breaks, or at least one single line break, please, I understand you now, for readability and politeness towards other peoples eyes, would actually take more vertical space.

But I got it, better use line breaks next time. Or don't make long comments anymore, ever.

At least not in winter time.

Or if it is winter, only on weekends.

No, better just abstain from it.

:edit Now that you say it, the line breaks don't show in the comment! go to google -->Oh I need two blank lines! Dang. Ok!

Still something wrong. better give up the Internet, it's healthier overall.
JSOX – JavaScript Object EXchange Format; Extended JSON/JSON6
Give virtual office in Poland by Monika253
discussion of the new logo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18923719
I don't think that is necessary at all.

This is some company which fixes a 'problem' with technology. They have a platform for people to buy the service of dog walking by other people.

There is no certification you need to 'walk a dog'. Kids do this, every day people do this.

Accidents happen.

And yes whatever person was in charge in formulating that email, is not very good in there job. But come on this is probably some person or perhaps 3 or 4 involved in this particular 'support case'.

And i'm assuming that whatever insurance would take a dog walker, is something you would need to pay. And most of the people wouldn't.
Taxes on cars in Norway depend strongly on fuel consumption and engine power.

Canopies are really rare. What is typical is vans or cargo vans in all sizes. That is, something with a roof and front-wheel drive. As roads here are good, there is little point in high-rised cars. And on icy roads or with snow good winter tires are much more important than 4WD.
It is not a bad trait in itself. Badness is applyig this trait to every small event of your life. You need to differentiate between important and unimportant events. Before starting running scenarios in your head assign cost to a case. Tune your cost-setting according outcomes.
>In 2012, I traveled for about 6 weeks in China. ........None of this made any sense

It really doesn't. That is until you visit there again in 3 - 5 years times. Everything is different. You start getting lots more people and spending money. Ok it is not like everyone becomes wealthy overnight. But from Zero to having a few people actually buying, shopping and eating in these malls is quite an achievement. And they move from bottom class Third Tier cities into upper class Third Tier etc...

I have seen it, it is a little hard to comprehend. I still don't know how everything was possible.
Why is this even on HN?
Distrust of management is extremely common. I cannot stress enough just how common it is both in the military and the corporate world or how potentially toxic this is. Most people outside of management are absolutely incapable of seeing it, even when its excessively rampant, because they don't recognize the symptoms. The common reasons for not recognizing such symptoms, even when immediately apparent and excessive, are due to: self-centered desires, incompetence, and perceptions of hostility.

Trust issues can occur from top down as well as bottom up. I have observed management not trusting their people far more commonly than opposed to people not trusting their management. When management does not trust their staff the staff will not be used or properly developed. It may be that the leadership believes it takes less effort to do the job themselves than watch their staff struggle and fail. This is a benign form of toxic leadership. Staff must be made to do their jobs and properly mentored to just before the point where the incompetence is likely to result in criminal/policy violations or immediate harms.
Archived copy that works with JS disabled:

https://archive.ph/nPkP9
Most Powerful Blockchain Project of 2018 Goes to Bit Capital Vendor (BCV)
Rise and Fall of New Year’s Fitness Resolutions, in 5 Charts
MUMPS must be doing something, however small, that is right; otherwise it would have been exterminated by now, so what is it?
Where I come from, we call them ornithopters.
> updated dashboards to surface personalized repository suggestions

This implies that a LOT of people visit GH in search of new and exciting repositories to... erm... hrm... why exactly would anyone EVER do that?
There is no "how it feels to lose a X", there is "how throwaway713 felt when they lost X". One may have a good but not very deep relationship with a close family member, but spend every day with their pet for 15 years, so to them it might be comparable.

Of course, saying "I know how you feel about your mother cos I lost my dog" is incredibly insensitive and stupid.

> you're going to claim that it is comparable to lose a human being that meant everything to you because an animal died

If that person was that important to you, of course it's not comparable. I don't think that's what the other comments were saying though.

I lost grandparents I was close with; one was after many years of several diseases fighting for the kill, death itself came as a mercy. I love my dog dearly, he's very old and his last breath is near and I get teary-eyed just from writing about it. And still, he's nothing compared to the loss of my grandmother. But that's me.
I don't believe Tesla will do any good for the planet overall. The only way we can do good is if we sell less individual cars, not more, whether electric or not. Nowhere in Tesla's vision can I see a plan for more electric buses and trains. The USA desperately need a viable train network for the 21st century.
> 1. Required fields on new issues.

That is unlikely to improve matters IMO. If people are forced to populate a box they were otherwise going to ignore they'll populate it with repeated detail from elsewhere, a single character if no minimums are imposed, or keyboard mashing gibberish, not the sort of detail you are asking for.

Many people are just incapable of, or unwilling to spend the time to, produce useful bug reports and feature requests. They expect you to be clairvoyant, or be willing to go back and forth re-asking the same questions until you have the information you need.

In DayJob we have commercial clients who are supposed to perform their own first-line support and triage issues before sending them to us (their procurement people expect a per-user price reduction because they claim to do this), yet we still always have a collection of issues on-hold awaiting information because the report essentially said nothing more detailed than "a user says that they did something and there was an error message" with the required detail fields containing something along the lines of "see title". Bad reports end up costing them in various ways and they still can't be bothered to raise them correctly. (Heck, sometimes internal work items & bug reports raised by other devs/BAs/management can be just as bad but at least I'm allowed to be sarcastic in response to those!) I wouldn't expect the general public filing a reports/requests in a project on GitHub to average any better.
This is bad advice. Never buy shelter animals, buy a bread dog or cat.

Shelter animals and their problems will cost you more money over time and cause more problems. I speak from experience.

People who talk about how great shelter animals are virtue signalling.
Slandering the Unborn (2018)
Remember when you could buy people things on Facebook for around $1 that were essentially icons? I can't remember exactly how it worked or what they called them, but I remember thinking at the time that you're essentially paying for a PNG to be displayed by someone's name and finding it weird. For a lark I wrote to their support team and suggested that I'd design them an icon for a cut of its revenue, and got a generic "thanks for the idea, we'll think about it" email response.
I don't see it at all, in the logo or in the grid. Am I the only one?
> To me, it seems like McDonald's food that's physical but lasts a short time is about as tangible as a skin that's not physical but you can use for years.

Well... at least with McD there is a natural limit on how much one can spend on gambling Monopoly (=how much you can eat before having to barf). With most digital goods, there is no such limit, and to make it psychologically worse, there is nothing actually "representing" what you got for your money - it's all numbers and code that depends on a central server.
>So they all moved to the middle east

This is an interesting historical claim. Which intellectuals are you thinking of that moved from Europe to the Middle East in the early Medieval period?
The word "terrorist" has been reappropriated, possibly because "guerilla warfare", "asymmetric warfare" etc sound too glamorous. In the US it mostly means any military action by non-state actors against the US and its allies.
The <blink> of 2019....
Satya Nadella teases Microsoft 365 subscription for consumers
That is correct. Trivial example:

If I say I'll do some work for free the we can assume you don't need to pay for it.
We need ‘Goldilocks,’ not ‘voodoo,’ urbanism
Yeah they provide a service via technology but also a brand. People trust the brand, you build trust in the brand to build value in your company. It’s worth a lot of money to keep your brand trusted. Actions like those suggested above are in the best interests of maintaining that trust.
Jira issue archiving system built for the European Commission
I've actually been positively surprised by that. I normally don't have high hopes for automated suggestions, but it actually has managed to surface interesting new projects from areas I work in a few times. Still of course a question if that justifies the space it takes in the UI, especially since it can't be turned off.
Social Collapse Best Practices (2009)
I visit the trending page multiple times every day. It's a great way to keep an eye on up and coming projects.
Layoffs are viewed as positive for companies with a declining business (or at least on the bad part of the cycle). But when the company is growing and the stock is close to the all time high they are not so understandable.