skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said the crime increased. It has in most places in the last few years, not just where there is Wal-Marts. It also fluctuates everywhere constantly. There was understandably an uptick of shoplifting at the Wal-Mart due to its existence, but how does it follow that that :

(1) The Wal-Mart caused an increase in total crime. Any place where people congregate will have more crime. The existence of the Wal-Mart may have displaced crime and shoplifting from elsewhere. The existence of the Wal-Mart means that crimes occur there, but that doesn't tell you anything one way or the other.

(2) If the crime was due to the Wal-Mart, it was mostly due to people coming in from out of the area. How many of the people caught were not from the area? How does this proportion differ from when the Wal-Mart wasn't there?

The claims you are making would be very hard to show for a hyper-local area from the rates of crime and the demographics of the perpetrators. It requires actual evidence, including a very large effect to offset the noisy small sample.
Yes, the mega.co.nz . End-to-end encrypted dropbox analog.
It’s more a university alternative. About half have a degree of some kind, very few in CS.
Some of the recordings are unintentionally hilarious though, it turns out. When I looked at the history page, there were a bunch of times when Google seemed to think I was saying "b b b b b b b b b" repeatedly? Anyway, when I played the audio back, it seems my alarm clock's beeping had triggered the Google Assistant, which then obviously failed to understand the beeps!
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Clicking through to the AWS blog article [1] we find this:

> At AWS, we believe that maintainers of an open source project have a responsibility to ensure that the primary open source distribution remains open and free of proprietary code so that the community can build on the project freely, and the distribution does not advantage any one company over another. This was part of the promise the maintainer made when they gained developers’ trust to adopt the software.

I have enormous respect for Adrian's work on cloud systems but the quote above seems very self-serving for Amazon.

Open source is bound by licenses that define the terms of open source code use. There's nothing whatsoever in the licenses that binds the project developers to continue to work on the project, to maintain similar license terms in later releases, or to take (or not take) any other action in their lives. To argue otherwise seems contrary to the notions of freedom that are the foundation of open source software.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-open-source-...

Edit: typo corrected
Maybe we should just directly delegate voting to experts? Or are you saying that you can't trust any organization to evaluate political candidates and programs? That can't be true. We delegate all kinds of judgements, many more important than voting to experts, for good reason.
Flaps are down during landing and take offs (to different extents).
The fact that the company behind rethinkdb went out of business and the community has been unable to keep it alive?

https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/commits/next
I wasn't referring to the bloatedness (or lack thereof) of the browser itself, but the organisation. A Firefox-based monopoly would be just as bad.
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A best it's reactionary as we simply don't have enough data. The FAA said it will review once the crash investigation has been completed.

Sometimes clustering occurs, such as Maylasian airlines being shot down and lost in an ocean and never found. We didn't ground the whole airline.
Paper: "Jupiter's decisive role in the inner Solar System's early evolution"

https://authors.library.caltech.edu/55970/
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Hmm I've heard some people say that stimulants are good for awareness and quickness, while opiates are good for simply making a large chunk of work seem attainable and enjoyable. For example, "I can sit here writing this code forever because it feels so nice to sit here and eat Dilaudid and write code". Getting real utility out of it, though, seems to be up to self-awareness, experience and luck.
Yuriy, this looks useful and I’ll take a look at these for my own startup, but one point of clarification that you guys might want to double check with a lawyer: not having a license does not mean that anyone can use it, it means that no one can use it. Licenses aren’t restrictions, they are grants. Without a grant, no one is allowed to do anything with them by default.

You very likely need a license so your customers aren’t (technically) in violation. CC0 license is a straightforward one for these kind of situations, might be worth checking out.

Per usual: not a lawyer, certainly not your lawyer, please double check with an attorney.
You just said ‘I never said there are no barriers to entry’.

But earlier you said:

> ‘All you have to do" is produce a better product; just because that is hard does not make it a barrier.’

Which is it - are you claiming there are no barriers to entry, or do you concede that there actually are?

As to your dismissal or the argument about collecting data. That’s also a false comparison.

Lots of people collect data yes, but they don’t have what Google has, and they aren’t trying to use it to compete with Google.

It’s not relevant, and it’s another example of you creating a straw man.

The point is that the corpus that enables Google’s search quality to be so high is not available.
Thanks! We will work on that and will keep you posted.
> A civilization that has discovered antibiotics is better, all other things being equal, than one that hasn't.

What metric do you mean to use? If you want to measure by health outcomes, the most technologically advanced societies did not surpass paleolithic societies until about the 1950s. For 10,000 years, the healthiest people on the planet would have been "backwards" hunter-gatherer, non-agricultural societies. Even if you want to limit to comparisons between agricultural societies, the Aztecs were probably healthier than the Spaniards they encountered.

Technological advancement does not necessarily mean superiority. Another fun fact to point out is that early iron weapons were actually inferior to contemporary bronze weapons. (And the Spaniards' reaction to the Aztec macuahuitl was "ha ha, funny looking weapons… holy crap, those things are deadly dangerous"). If you try to actually start defining objective criteria, the assumption that Western society is/was superior is actually very shaky.
The repayment floor is $0.

You’re assuming that everyone will quickly start making over $50k, which isn’t the case. Given that we outlay ~$30k in stipends and training and the cost of that capital is non trivial there’s no way a loan term would come close to this.
I used Dragon dictation in the 90s.

You had to spend an age just training it to your own specific voice and choose microphone carefully, neither of which are steps this requires. Not to mention the syntax for punctuation etc.

So no, I would not argue this is catching up the the 90s.
You have to be patient - I've been using IRC for almost 15 years. Finding public channels is fairly easy, just hang out there and talk to people. Eventually you might be invited to or stumble upon some social channels. It's easier if you bring your existing friends with you.

Rizon is a good network for socializing, if you're looking for a place to get started.
But why should he put time into supporting you?
The first is for the benefit of all the other students in the form of reduced tuition grants, a new library, lab equipment etc. The other is for the benefit of the bribe taker.
There are lots of situations that elevate X over accomplishment, but this seems like one with actual benefit on a large scale.
That said, I hope they all get punished for it.
I recently had a foot injury. In the ER they put me under and the (fantastic) surgeon "twisted" the foot back into place.

I don't remember anything, however other people said I was moaning in pain while under anesthesia. Pretty weird.
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I know you're being ironic, but you're not wrong.

Strip away all of the dark patterns and evil from Facebook and you wind up with an example of the most successful and widely used multimedia platform interface ever. People use it to share news, images, videos, to view videos, to chat, to create and post onto forums. My mother, who care barely use email, uses Facebook. Billions of people do.

Any more free, more secure replacement is going to have to replicate what Facebook does in terms of user experience, or else they're doomed to never reach mainstream engagement.
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If the money goes towards scholarships for the deserving but poor its a good trade. Less so if it ends up in the pockets of corrupt paper pushers.
A website without JavaScript is like this comment.
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I don’t deny any of those things. I think you’re reading way too much into my statement. I understand why people pick familiar tools and the cost of hiring and training people and getting up to speed on new stuff. It’s always a balance, and it’s why I don’t really like these posts that completely dismiss JavaScript and act like it has zero benefits.

I was on a team recently that only wanted to do Rails apps. They only wanted to make monolithic apps. Any mention of a more modular design would be met with derision. I don’t think this attitude is unique, though. And it’s really hard to overcome and see balance when the entire team clearly has no interest in changing or updating their skill set.
Unrelated: I absolutely heart your username.
I keep seeing reports of pages that work in Chrome but not in FF. What puzzles me is that people usually hold this against FF instead of holding it against Chrome.

The very few times I have experienced such a thing, a peek at the console tells me that FF is blocking the page from doing something insecure or otherwise harmful.

It reminds me of ActiveX stuff. Junky webcams still ship with an ActiveX control to embed video into their html page. When it doesn't work in FF or Chrome, some people think IE6 is a superior browser.

I don't know the reason behind your various broken pages. It could be something is wrong with FF. But it could also be that something is _right_ with FF. If you don't know which, why are you complaining about FF?
Need some sort of exponential weighted moving average function: weight most recent the most.
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I sometimes think about part of Fredric Jameson's remarks on one of the distinctions between modernity and postmodernity being an atemporality, that under postmodernity there is only the ever-present now. And I wonder if things like this are part of that, that we technically still recognize time, in the sense that we know we get off at five o'clock, but at the same time inherently don't recognize that in a sort of broader context, so people are forever what they were, are, always was, will be. So under such strictures, such makes a certain sense, in descriptive terms, that there is no what someone was but only what they are.
That's what you get for privacy. Honestly, the bridge works so flawlessy on my Mac and Linux machines, I don't mind that it is there.
I will do that. Checked the archives after your comment and it seems use_srtp support is planned. My current understanding is that for dtls-srtp only the handshake is necessary for key exchange.
In both the first two cases, the pilots knew about potential MCAS issues and discussed them with each other before take-off -- and they still had (terrifying) problems.
i thought yc funded something like this back in 2011/12 called clerky.
> That's a red flag to me that it's going to be more of an opinion piece rather than news.

Well, yeah, it's explicitly tagged editorial (“column”) content. Opinion columns have opinion pieces...not really surprising.

> It's very hard to get a balanced summary from a news outlet now days.

Yeah, it's too bad the same news outlet didn't carry a straight news piece on the same story.

Oh, wait, they did: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-elon-musk-tweets-s...
Holy shit this almost explain all there is.
> I suppose an alternative would be to generate a data: URL, but if it has to include all the crypto code, I wouldn't expect it to be nice and compact.

Sounds like a challenge for the code golfers.
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The original outrage is really concentrated in some places. Mainly social media (especially Twitter). I’ve seen a lot of outrage in the workplace as well, mostly demands placed to execs and hr.
I know where you're coming from. I never noticed how "close" you are to your browser until opera retired presto and switched to blink, butchering the whole thing basically. In comparison it seemed a hundred times easier when I switched from Windows to Linux.

Whenever I tried to share my woes with friends or colleagues who used Firefox or chrome, they just went like "well you can have feature x too by installing add-on y". But it was the little things, the way things worked in detail, were laid out etc. And it's very hard to explain this to someone who has always done it another way, or never got used to a certain feature in the first place.

I kept using opera 12 for almost two years after they retired it, until just too much stuff was inaccessible due to the browsers age. Then followed a confusing time of using Firefox, chromium and Vivaldi in parallel, eventually drifting to Firefox, in recent times driven by growing reluctance towards google and the building up of their browser (or engine) monopoly.
Sure, if you're looking at the specific event. But you could consider Freddie Gray part of a trend. Maybe the keg wouldn't have caught fire if we hadn't kept putting gunpowder in it?
> but I feel like CICO is the default position and additional nuance requires proof

Is there really a need to default position ? CICO and the fact that distribution (both in time and macro) of the calorie in matter can both be true. The assumption i do not agree with in CICO is CI is an independent and infinitely controllable variable. Now it's possible that the causal link between a certain macro distribution (let say high carb diet) and weight gain is mediated by CI, but from there it doesnt follow that CI control is an effective way of weight control.

> but we have not translated this to epidemiological studies.

Depends on what you call epidemiological study, but using the diabetic population, the causal link between insulin and weigth gain is pretty strong. The book "obesity code" make of good case for that.
Diecast 1:24 Scale Tesla Semi
Video of the original TV performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPqGt0ZI_1k
The 'ringleaders':
William Rick Singer, owner of Edge College & Career Network and CEO of the Key Worldwide Foundation

Mark Riddell

Rudolph Meredith, the former head women’s soccer coach at Yale University

John Vandemoer, head sailing coach at Stanford University

David Sidoo, Vancouver businessman and former Canadian Football League player

The 'clients':
Lori Loughlin, actress known best for her roles on Full House, Fuller House, and 90210.

Ali Khosroshahin, former USC women’s soccer coach

Elisabeth Kimmel, owner and president of a media company

Marjorie Klapper, co-owner of jewelry business

Toby MacFarlane, former senior executive at a title insurance company

Steven Masera, accountant and financial officer for the Edge College & Career Network and the Key Worldwide Foundation

William McGlashan, founder and managing partner at private equity company TPG Growth

Gregory Abbott, founder and chairman of food and beverage packing company International Dispensing Corp.

Marcia Abbott, wife of Gregory Abbott

Gamal Abdelaziz, former Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts executive

Diane Blake, executive at a retail merchandising firm

Todd Blake, entrepreneur and investor

Jane Buckingham, founder and president of consumer insights firm Trendera

Amy Colburn

Gregory Colburn, a radiation oncologist

Igor Dvorskiy, director of a private elementary and high school and a test administrator for the College Board and ACT

Manuel Henriquez, founder, chairman and CEO of a publicly traded specialty finance company

Douglas Hodge, former CEO of investment management company

Felicity Huffman, actress known best for her roles on Trans America, Christmas with the Kranks, and Raising Helen

Agustin Huneeus Jr., owner of wine vineyards

Bruce Isackson, president of real estate development firm WP Investments

Davina Isackson

Michelle Janavs, former executive of Hot Pockets

Laura Janke, former assistant coach of women’s soccer at the University of Southern California.

Gordon Ernst, former head coach of men and women’s tennis at Georgetown University

William Ferguson, former women’s volleyball coach at Wake Forest University

Robert Flaxman, president of a private tennis academy in Houston

Gordon Caplan, co-chairman of an international law firm based in New York City;

Michael Center, head coach of men’s tennis at the University of Texas at Austin

I-Hsin “Joey” Chen, operates a provider of warehousing and related services for the shipping industry

Martin Fox, president of a private tennis academy in Houston

Mossimo Giannulli, fashion designer at Mossimo, sold at Target

Donna Heinel, senior associate athletic director at the University of Southern California;

Elizabeth Henriquez

Rudolph Meredith, the former head women’s soccer coach at Yale University

Marci Palatella

Jorge Salcedo, former head coach of men’s soccer at the University of California at Los Angeles

Mikaela Sanford, employee of the Edge College & Career Network and the Key Worldwide Foundation

Peter Jan Sartorio, founder and president of Nate's and PJ's Foods

Stephen Semprevivo, Chief Strategy and Growth Officer, Cydcor, LLC
I've not heard of that fallacy. By what authority is it derived? Source? :)

If you can't clearly define a category, any intrinsic traits of that category are not ascribed clearly to individuals. Any uncertainty, even on the margins, makes the definition uncertain. Clear definition is a lack of uncertainty.
From a software development standpoint, it sounds like it. And that is scary (and unfeasible).
This seems similar to how Firefox Directory Tiles worked, except when/where the ad was presented to the user (new tab page in the FF DT instance). I thought it was a good idea, and I'm pretty skeptical of advertising (tax ads is my preference). I don't think trying to call it not ads gets you anywhere though, other than lost credibility.
plus local representatives of all parties

This is one of the important parts. Every party wants itself to win, every ballot-counter also has a position, but if everyone can force a recount at any time, there's a much bigger motivation to count fairly. Multiple redundant counts is also part of that.
>We've recently started to discover this paradox ourselves: when styling and layout is all done via CSS, and JS + other assets are cached, HTML is just as light weight as JSON over the wire.

In other words, when the web is architected as intended, it works fine, even with javascript.

Imagine that. It's like the problem isn't javascript per se, but unnecessary complexity.
> Are you really saying that Apple has no competition in computers?

Of course not. A company need not have a monopoly in every market they compete in. For example, Apple produces an office suite (iWorks), but due to the competitive nature of that industry doesn't make money off of it.

Apple doesn't have a monopoly on computers, but it does not make much profit off of them. Most of its profit comes from smartphones, where they do have a monopoly on the upper portion of the market, and also within their own walled garden.

For example, in 2015, 50% of Apple's revenue was iPhone: https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-where-apple-really-mak...
That should probably be the story posted to this site, not the editorialized one.
The relevance of the metric depends on what you're using it for. If you decide whether to drive or fly to a destination based on how safe it is, risk/distance is a perfectly reasonable metric. Since flying is a means of transportation, it seems reasonable to judge the risk relative to the amount of transportation you get out of it.

That doesn't discount the fact that most of the risk is in take-off/landing, so if you use fleet-average statistics you'll bias the risk of short flights low and long flight high. Air safety studies do also use additional metrics like accidents/hour and accidents/segment, but those are mostly useful for comparing between different types of aviation.
> I would generally assume it was my automation error, i.e., aircraft was trying to acquire a miss-commanded speed/no autothrottles, crossing restriction etc., but frankly neither of us could find an inappropriate setup error (not to say there wasn't one).

Regardless of the usual tone, I find this particular paragraph a fairly terrifying indictment of cockpit human factors across the board. Apparently it's not unusual for aircraft behave unusually with the pilots not understanding why - and the poor pilots "generally" blame themselves!
The point we are trying to make is that we don't think caching adds much value to the product. It is very easy to implement and doesn't help much.
"Elastic sure looks to have collaborated with GCP"

AFAICT that partnership just resulted in Elastic Cloud running on GCP in addition to AWS. If I had to guess, I'd say that Elastic didn't think it was worth their time to support GCP, but Google provided some resources to encourage them to add it as an option. That way Google gets to tell prospective GCP customers that they have an option for hosted Elasticsearch without having to build it themselves.
Is that escape velocity or how fast it goes around the sun? I know it's days are exceptionally slow.
Ok, so what are the advantages of RNN over CNN based models for speech to text, with respect to any one of those factors you mentioned?
The IMAP bridge is very slow and I guess, if you are someone that needs to retrieve emails every minute, that can get annoying. Otherwise in my experience, the bridge worked without big issues, using Linux (Manjaro and Arch) and macOS.
Just like the purpose of all American and Russian nukes.
Maybe just # of accidents in vehicle/# of trips taken in vehicle ?
True post-modernism should also dissolve a staunch moral evaluation framework thus dampening outrage. What we have is some mix of modernism (rejection of classical thought) and fundamentalism (harsh judgement with black and white morality).
If Uber isn't the first to fully-autonomous, some other company will come about (maybe an extension of the company that creates the autonomous technology) and create their own Uber app and offer rides for cheap, on a scale that Uber couldn't compete with human drivers.

Users are not loyal to a particular ride-sharing app. It's incredibly trivial to switch, and if the new hot autonomous company can offer rides for half the price of Uber, users will switch.
I can't really see anything in your graph that could relate to the 2008 economic crash. I mean, I guess there might be a tiny divot, but it looks pretty small.
I'll call it what it is: a managed market. It's not a subsidy.

Words have meaning.
Per passenger might be off because a passenger doesn't affect the risk. The number of flights vs. the number of trips might be more fair.
It's a useful metric because, when comparing auto and plane safety, consumers are usually deciding between taking a plane and a car for the same distance. We could give them risk as a function of distance by taking the increased takeoff/landing risk into account, but generally people only compare the two for fairly long trips.