skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming you were able to open the door and open a parachute at that speed, you'd most likely be sucked into the tail of the aircraft.
You can buy Game of Thrones on iTunes if you find that preferable to a subscription. I believe this is the case for all HBO shows.

(By contrast, Netflix shows are not available on iTunes. I had to wait a year for Stranger Things to come out on BluRay...)
To add a human element to this story, I'm from north of Pittsburgh and the crash of flight 427 is one of the events from my childhood that I can determinedly recall. One of my classmates--eight or nine years old--lost her father in that crash. Our class planted a tree outside our middle school with a plaque to memorialize him. I bother saying this only because, while air travel is impressively safe overall (hats off to the FAA and NTSB), it's natural to mentally dismiss a mere ("mere") 132 deaths in the grand scheme of things without pausing to consider the broader ripples such an event has on history.

If you'd like to experience a moment of somber horror, Wikipedia has a computer reconstruction of the final moments of the plane based on the recordings recovered from the black box: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USAir_Flight_427_Chase.og...
Why (I Think) Tech Needs the Humanities
Amazon is private company and they are free to choose what they want to allow on their platform. Apparently they don't allow pornography which is a lot less harmful than these books. Authors are free to sell their snake oil on their own.

However, when government forces Amazon to remove these books or force them to sell these book, then we have a serious problem.
Omni is pretty close to that - https://www.beomni.com/ - though it does feel like maybe a subscription fee would be better than one off rentals, maybe credits?
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For a productivity app I have seen night and day difference in earnings between "paid upfront" and "free with iap". I started with the paid model and switched to freemium. In the months after the initial boost due to "apps gone free" scrapper sites I got as many iap sales in a month that I had accumulated in two years while the app was paid.

Paid upfront model is dead on iOS, unless you are some big shot company that will have their application featured on day 1.
Have you considered a career in VC? Given your background, experience and skillset, it'll be highly regarded.
Volkswagen boss apologises for Nazi gaffe
Critical success doesn't pay the bills (though it may be more indicative of value in the back catalog than first-round popularity is.)
> I'd spend nothing until the EV I can produce is expected to have profit margins on the order of my other vehicles in that class

I think posing the question as a ROI calculation misses context that going forward at some level of risk is how you get the data to model a much better profitability operating point.

Until you produce a few models of EV yourself, how can you know your cost estimate is anywhere near accurate? Add in the uncertainty in the speed of drop in the cost of central components like the batteries and I suspect the uncertainty is sufficiently high to surround both sides of the threshhold where if you set up for a go, you don't know if it will be more or less profitable and the ICE equivalent.

However, if you don't start now, and your competitors do start down the path, then you might end up with a ICE line of cars where your competitors are posting costs well below yours and eating your market share.
I do not agree in general, but I admit to not knowing the details of that system. Those of us in the industry have been waiting for 737 rudders to fail for a long time. The data was there. This is the same as waiting for a pilot to rip the tail off an airplane as happened over New York. The certification basis of those aircraft was not in harmony with the information the operators used to fly them and gravely distorted the engineering that had gone into designing the aircraft.

In both cases, there was a certain inevitability given the processes at work, the conditions, the changes and the difference between engineering reality and what is presented in the FAA Type Certification process as the basis for the modification of the Type Certificate. As an engineer working on aircraft, one thing is for certain, engineering data is laundered to the bare minimum in the interests of certification. This is in contrast to the engineering NASA does. The cert process does not achieve transparency, as it is a legal not an engineering process.

One can blame manufacturers, but there really is no way for them to be transparent and ever ship anything (ref. Lear Fan). I am not, however, advocating retracting any responsibility from Boeing. They must bear the responsibility for their product. I am only saying that we have created an environment as a country that makes it unlikely we will see the behavior we desire from manufacturers. As a person who likes to land the same number of times I take off, my interest is in helping the government improve as well as the manufacturers.

So Boeing decided to conclude that the existing system was sufficient. And they proved it to the FAA. There is no precedent or standard applied to the parts of the airplane that are not changed, once they are deemed not to need changing. This is similar to the housing code. Replace a socket in a house with knob-and-spool wiring, and you do not need to fix a thing. Rewire a bedroom in a house with knob and spool wiring, and the code will not let you put new knob and spool wiring in, one must then bring the house's electrical system up to code.

The reason there still is a 737 is the tremendous economic benefit afforded to manufacturers who use safety analysis to show that the previous iteration of the aircraft's systems are sufficient given proposed changes on the aircraft. That's why it has ridiculous engine nacelles, ridiculous landing gear, in many 737's ridiculous avionics. A new airframe is required, but the cost of a new airframe's certification is much greater than the hacky re-certification of an old type certificate obtained when standards and processes were very different and much out of date.
Why not? For HDR you need two things: high bit depth and a transfer function to match. H.264 supports both 10-bit video and at the very least the Hybrid-Log Gamma function. H.264 also supports the Rec.2020 wide gamut colour space so I don't see why it wouldn't support the PQ curve as well. So I think HDR10 is also supported.

But at the very least HLG works on H.264.
Google removed 2.3B bad ads, banned ads on 1.5M apps and 28M pages
> ... Thinking I have to use the first two but it's not possible to use Jquery.

> So: Is it recommended to use a Perl function

This is just like the real thing.
So books that promote unscientific cures are not allowed now? Interesting.

"And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up" -- The Holy Bible (James 5:15)

http://www.fox8live.com/story/22052729/second-child-dies-aft...
Firstly, congrats on shipping a virtual DOM lib in WASM. Hopefully, frameworks intent on using a V-DOM will greatly benefit from this.

Having said that, is a V-DOM required in 2019, if DOM updates are optimally batched, like in FastDom ( https://github.com/wilsonpage/fastdom ). Decades of optimizing browser internals would surely account for not trashing the DOM, if updated optimally. So, is it required?
Writing Great Docs as a Bad Writer
It matters both to compare models and for consistency going forward. Continuing a hit series is a lower risk in the short term, but you need constant pipeline as shows eventually die off.

In terms of GoT they need to pay a 3rd party money reducing profits and their is a limited amount of such content which they need to compete for. They also paid for the the True Blood novels and created less compelling content.

This both hurts their bottom line and creates real risk if they can’t find any affordable content to base their next series off of.

PS: The other issue with long running content is anyone who does not like the series will write off HBO for the next 5+ years when it’s running unless they have other high quality content.
Yes, many times the questioner does not actually need an answer to the question, he just needs to look a little closer to the situation, which is potentially able to be automated. But one should not disguise such automation as an 'answer': more like a query autocheck but more tooled-up.
when you know all the quirks you won't when notice that you constantly work around them.

Unfortunately, we programmers are particularly good at doing this. We are extremely good at being "nice" to software. ("Mechanical sympathy")
For what it's worth, the only Android games I've ever paid money for are Snakebird, Ending, Super Hexagon, and a chess training app, and if I remember correctly all four were free no ads with paid additional levels. I am the type of person who deletes apps with too many ads. Look up Ending for a good model to emulate (it was a pleasant experience and it has a level editor) though I remember it having too few levels since I played through them very quickly.
Of course they should be able to, but that's not what OP asked.
A few of those advantages are limited somewhat:

1) Electricity access is plentiful but you need high power if you want to charge in a reasonable timeframe

2) There are fewer moving parts but there is one part that degrades every time you use it, the battery

That said I really want to get a cheap used EV as my next car!
One thing to remember is micro-services aren't meant for small/medium size companies, it is meant for large companies, where a monolithic application can't sustain high loads.
1843 is The Economist's version of the New Yorker. It's for people who like to read for the sake of reading and enjoy going on lots of digressions for the fun of it (I love it). The weekly The Economist magazine is much dryer and should suit your tastes better.
Now that Amazon has begun pulling books, they have set a precedent that dooms them to continue doing so to the potentially many thousands of others with bad information. This is acknowledgement that they have a responsibility as a marketplace for the information contained in the books they sell.
I still think this is a circumstance dependent scenario. For instance, should outside parties have public access to your social graph?

Also, I don’t think there is much value add if companies are just reverse engineering the incumbent. If Google allows another company to get its search results easily to copy search, did the world improve?

Google’s moat was partially disrupted by Facebook, a closed network, and mobile/mobile apps.

Your last example has occurred for a number of years with shelf space at grocery stores and pharmacies. The CVS branded Advil is cheaper, and CPG companies can pay to get the best shelf space.
A Hunting Elk (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) with Advanced Analytics
I suppose it's a matter of specifying your success criteria. If you goal is simply to not have an autistic child, then industrial bleach does wonders.

In all seriousness, no punishment is severe enough for those willingly harming innocent children. If only we could force them to experience the pain and terror they caused with their own body.
Where is the distinction between spying on a user using a piece of traditional software and a web site. At the end of the day, you are spying on users to better yourself and sometimes at the cost of the user, who mostly is not aware of the manipulation that goes on. Sorry for the cynicism, but that is the reality.
Newtonian Gravity with Velocity Verlet and OpenGL (2016)
How does the theory of a faulty AoA sensor align with eye witness accounts of smoke coming from the plane?

Also, the altitude data seems to cut out at it's peak. Was the decent so rapid it couldn't be tracked?
You've read too much bad science fiction.

I am not worried about AGI. We're nowhere near it. We don't even have a good idea what it would look like.

I am worried about people succumbing to hype or greed and using badly understood algorithms to control critical infrastructure. We already have a preview of what that can look like with Facebook's and Google's content filtering and recommendation algorithms aiming for ever higher "engagement". It's not pretty. Other examples include HFT bots and Amazon's pricing bots. It's funny to see $10,000 book on sale. It's less funny to see a flash stock market crash. It will be totally not funny if something like that will create a global economic crisis through some subtle yet "wide" feedback loop no one is aware of.
There is a well-developed legal system in the US and other countries for dealing with dangerous and fraudulent medical advice. The fact that this book can be legally sold is evidence that it either falls on the right side of the law or else nobody has pursued these legal claims.

This is attempting to bypass this system by going straight to centralized censorship.
Impressive that they are selling $8-10k/day in false eyelashes ($12/piece) and meme products ($9.99, $29.99).
> HBO seems to think it's the next "Netflix"

AT&T seems to think HBO can be HBO and also be Netflix; they're wrong, but it's not inevitable they’ll break the being HBO part irrecoverably before they realize that.
> "Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence"

That's why we have a term "criminal negligence", because sometimes it's impossible to tell malice from incompetence.

So the law basically decided, "Well, fuck this, if you do something as stupid as (putting a faulty brake on a train, for example), then you deserve to go to jail, and we don't care if you were actually thrilled to kill passengers or were simply too stupid to understand what you were doing."
there is far more money being made off of all of the forms of art you mention than ever before in history. there are more books being published, more photos taken, etc, etc.

it was never easy to make money off of writing before. it still isn't. given than many more people are doing it the proportion of failures to successes is higher and the earnings are more widely dispersed.

people don't usually make money off of software directly but usually by using software to enable some sort of process that they can charge for.

software engineers make money the same way ghost writers, or script writers, or other real writing professionals make money. they get a spec and they implement it. the difference between professionals and artists is that professionals get paid up front.
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Conversely, foregoing additional ad revenue and other benefits of using emails from the relatively few number of G-Suite accounts likely has an incredibly small direct impact on the bottom line. I can't speak for any internal data Google has, but my guess would be that individuals using G-Suite accounts are more likely to use Google services in their personal lives. Any lost benefits or ad revenue would be easy to write off as a negligible loss leader.

Heck, with how common G-Suite is used in schools, getting kids used to Gmail early would be a powerful argument on its own. Though writing it out like that kind of feels a bit dirty.
Spotify filed a complaint with EC that accused Apple of violating antitrust laws
"In light of this comparison, it becomes obvious that Amazon’s goal should be to constantly increase the ratio of FBMs."

Amazon's edge is that they've managed the logistics of this at a scale that no one else could -- before Amazon shipping was expensive, and often terribly slow.

So if these big vendors are just shipping direct, and Amazon is nothing more than an order submission agent, I would argue that is exactly contrary to what Amazon wants. Those vendors could do the same thing for any front end (Walmart, Target, whatever) equally.
>Where will the censorship stop?

Believe it or not, not everything is a slippery slope to a boot stomping on a human face forever.
Rob Pike is against the current proposal and clearly states it comes from the community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIvL2ONhFBI
I agree with your comment, but just a minor point: has Thiel made it clear that his bunker is to protect against potential AGI threats? I thought it's insurance for nuclear warfare.
I have been seeing Squarespace ads on YouTube nearly for every video. I hate it and I just gives thumbs down hoping it will go away. Nope.

Although the echo effect is real, I have to say I do not and will not use Squarespace simply because of the ads. It's insane. Same music, same video over and over.

/rant
The What and the Why of the Cluster API
I would call it human nature. Like Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Ads don't affect SEO. It would allow websites to essentially pay for higher search results.

There are tools that come with using ads that allow for insights into better SEO though - e.g. Adwords keyword planner.
Somewhat related:

https://nsc.nasa.gov/resources/case-studies

This one is interesting:

In March 2010, a 29-year-old shift nurse left her job in Atlanta, Georgia and headed to her boyfriend’s house. She was driving her 2005 Chevy Cobalt on a two-lane road as she approached a half-mile downhill straightaway. As the road leveled after the straightaway, she approached an area where some rainwater had accumulated. Shortly after encountering this section of roadway, she apparently lost control of her Cobalt as it hydroplaned across the center line. The rear passenger side of her car was struck by an oncoming Ford Focus, causing the Cobalt to spin off the road and fall 15 feet before landing in a large creek around 7:30 p.m. The impact of the crash broke the nurse’s neck, an injury that led to her death shortly after she arrived at the hospital.

While this tragedy might sound like a typical crash scenario, it was particularly puzzling to the victim’s parents. Why? According to Atlanta magazine, she always wore her seat belt and never had a speeding ticket. So how did she suddenly lose control of her car on that fateful evening? Sadly, this unsettling question remained unanswered until several years later—after many more drivers suffered similar fates.

...

The ignition switch did not meet the mechanical specifications for torque and required less force to turn the key than its designers originally ordered. If the driver’s knee hit the key fob, the car would often turn off, causing stalling at highway speeds and disabling the airbags.

https://nsc.nasa.gov/features/detail/hidden-hazards

Edit: apparently NASA is checking referrer and you can’t follow this link directly. It’s the third case study down the page from the first link.
> wake up and poll a server

Here the AppStore is the gatekeeper. OP is probably right, your website is the most reliable place to communicate with your customers.
See also Eliezer Yudkowsky's excellent response to that article:

https://intelligence.org/2017/12/06/chollet/
Mercurial is the same except:

0) you forgot to explain git's index. Mercurial doesn't have the index, it works how you described git.

2) data (blobs, revsets, whatever) in the repo actually can never be lost, there is no automatic gc

3) no need for some different tool/viewer to view commits that don't have refs

Technically there are several ways to remove data from the repo, but it never ever happens automatically behind your back.
No, not quite. Rob Pike said in a video about a year or so ago that now they have enough experience to start thinking about generics. That the process is now just starting and you shouldn't expect them any time soon.

The Go core team has to decide if there's a way to add them to the language in a "Go way." If they can't they won't be added to Go at all, despite what other people want or don't want.
Is home entertainment the breakout (sustainable) market for VR? That is where most of the public-facing hype is, but it's a very particular market (people are very price sensitive, "training" is self motivated and people eschew instructions, space is a concern, quality expectations are rather high). I also feel like it can be fickle and difficult to build something sustaining.

I've done some VR development and room VR is amazingly good at conveying scale and space. I was mostly dabbling with architecture and vehicles. When people are finished and take off the VR headset there's often a double-take because they forgot how small of a room they were in. It works for assessing scale and space in ways a video, picture, or diagram can't. It's the kind of difference that makes people order doll furniture off Amazon--something that would never happen if you bought it in store.

Other comments on here talked about how game changing Google Earth VR is. Not just for entertainment, but for surveying and planning outings.

The business market has its own problems and demands, though.
I don't disagree with this, but it's important to acknowledge that "drek" for you might be someone else's niche interest. Sure, some TV is just objectively bad (low production values, whatever), but easily-dismissed shows like Sugar Rush and movies like the Christmas Prince series have legitimate audiences who find them interesting and engaging.

One of the most significant and under-acknowledged strategic differences between Netflix and a traditional TV network is that they're not limited by a schedule— they don't need to pick just one show to put in that key Sunday night primetime slot, and they don't need to look at what they're "up against" in the same slot on the other networks. Their only practical limit is budget— ergo, a strategy of lots of niche, long-tail appeal type content makes a ton of sense.
a subset of their users still does, but facebook is heavily limiting the communication channels of users and the feed is so random as to be almost unusable for gaming purposes.
> What is it you imagine CIA operations are like? The CIA has a long history of incompetence e.g.:

> https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communicati...

Are you serious? That example is a far cry from acting like a bunch of incompetent bank robbers, like whoever conducted this present attack on the NK embassy.
It's not that niche of a category, though. Any sale of a physical good with a warranty or separate registration process or "cloud" features or any other non-physical good/service that's tied to that physical good would be caught up in this. That's a pretty broad category.

Even if we wanted to stick to a narrow category of "subscription to a service that entails shipping physical media devices on a subscription", there are other apps in that category (though I don't know if they do let you actually sign up via the app): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dvd-netflix/id1169772776

Spotify could do something similar and pivot into the music rental business, kinda like an inverse Netflix. Whether that'd actually be better than just paying the 30% App Store tax is another question, of course :)
You probably shouldn't trust anyone but your own.

But it is not Amazon's duty to prepare such books in store just in case you want to assess ignorance level of certain works. They are tens of millions of books out there, are we going to blame search engine to not presented all of them to you in order to be, not biased, and supporting freedom of speech/expression/searchability? Probably not.
I personally don't understand why 'last mile' is such a big deal. Personally I would rather just order on walmart.com, have it ready for me to pick up at the store. If I really want it, I can go get it the moment I get the notification. Otherwise, I'll pick it up on the way home from work, or when I'm out and about.

It's silly, but I don't want my neighbors thinking, "damn, they order a lot of packages" and I don't want to worry about an expensive item getting lifted. Seems to me the simplest answer is not to build a robot, but just to make smaller versions of the big box store that are essentially a small warehouse with a front office.