skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally I cycle into Cambridge almost every day. I cross three cities: Medford, Somerville and Cambridge for an approximate 20 minute commute (vs 40 by car.)

I have never had issue with cars, granted I've only been doing this for the two years (and in college I used to commute from Roxbury to Cambridge for 2 years and only had 1 freak-out with a drunk-driver, but that's another story.)

On the other hand I've seen entitled cyclists lose their shit for no reason at cars.

I feel like there's a subset of cyclists that don't understand that cars may have blind spots and freak out at drivers when there's literally nothing the driver can do about it.
Using "" will be more correct? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22google%20shuts%22&sort=byPo... gives 71 results and that includes shutting down websites as well.

Disc: Googler.
BS.

I'm in middle of nowhere Wisconsin, and I hear jokes about blacks and handicapped people all the time. When I lived in Houston, it was the same. (Well, mostly about blacks. But still.)

If you're telling me you don't, I'm telling you that you're talking out of your posterior orifice.
> I was somewhat bullied as a young kid in Shanghai because I couldn't speak Shanghainese that well.

Do you think the importance of Shanghainese has changed since then? When I was there, the only people I heard speak Shanghainese looked to be 40 or older, younger people seemed to exclusively use Mandarin.
That's because arresting someone isn't so much a matter of their physical custody as initiation of a legal process involving an assertion of custody. Think of it like process serving in civil cases, where it's easy to imagine multiple lawsuits proceeding in parallel.
Binary deps are on the Cargo team’s plans for the year, and compile times are always a focus. Working on it!
> Having a bike near me makes me worried I'm going to hit it. I don't want to live with that so I give it huge space and pay it lots of attention.

As a four season bike commuter (8km each way) and sole wage earner for my single/low-car family, I wish more drivers had this attitude. It sucks that you feel bad and see this as a hardship, but I can assure you that it's far better for the people bicycles with whom you share the road.

> If I could drive on roads that didn't have bikes I'd prefer it.

Thank goodness then for interchange access highways, a car-only environment just for you and other like-minded people. :)
I am a cycle commuter since I am ~10. I grew up on the countryside and because my parents couldn't bring me to school every day and the walking distance to the next bus stop was too far I ended up taking the bike every day and it sort of became a habit. Now I live in a city where I take the bike because on my daily route it is ~10 minutes faster than the metro.

A few points:
You mentioned that cyclists make you nervous, which I understand. When I drive the car, I am watching for cyclists too. But because I am cycling I know very well what to watch for – and to be honest, if some suicidal lunatic shows up in the wrong moment, there is nothing you can do except checking carefully anyways. This is a problem of the cities, where many cyclists are people without a drivers license, and they behave as such. Beeing in traffic is about communicating, and it is hard to communicate if you don't even know if there is somebody to communicate with.

So the problem is exactly where cyclists and motorists intersect. Because cyclists often cannot put themselves into a motorists mind and vice versa.

One solutions that doesn't involve educating either side is building infrastructure that makes the intersecting spaces of cyclists and motorists as controlled and perceptually simple as possible. If you ever had the chance to drive a car and a bike in Denmark or the Netherlands, you will notice how less stressful it is to move in public, because they really put thought into lifting that stress from the users of the infrastructure. This means investing into cycling infrastructure is good, as long as you see the whole thing and not just slap some bicycle lane somewhere besides a parking street. If this is done right, everybody can benefit, especially from less cognitive overload.
Is it nexar? https://www.getnexar.com
To call her a project manager is telling. The number of lines of code submitted is not the sole measure of contributing. She led the effort of creating the CHIRP (Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction) algorithm used to achieve this historic event.
I wonder what the model of survival is for Uber's regional competition like Didi and Ola. I can't speak for China, but driving in India is way way difficult than in the US.
You know that Facebook still collects information about you, even though you may not even have an account, right?

[1] http://fortune.com/2018/04/11/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-data-...

[2] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/data-off-facebook/

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-give-apps-sensitive-persona...
I’m interested in the China/global economy and this is one of the many data points.
Maybe I'm alone in this, but I disliked the guy after hearing how he was promoted.

Make a BBC Horizon story about how he came to his best work and about him. That's cool. But to frame it as just being him and not the others behind the work.. it's nothing but hero worship.
That was my friend. He bikes in cambridge every day while I moved to the burbs and only commute when biking for an hour wont make me cold/wet.
> The data they collected about you is their data.

It is your data in the sense that it is data concerning you.
it also requires almost no private info, so, technically, you can stay anonymous (modulo a dedicated adversary). Granted, I agree with your point. HN should try and mask deleted account, but the website is public, and therefore the point is moot.
The sobering thought is if you work in machine learning, big data, or talk to someone who does.

What do you consider a good accuracy rate for your machine learned / hand-engineered heuristic? 95%? 99%? 90%?

We've built some real marvels of machine learning, but you can get away with the occasional not-very-rare horrible failures in speech recognition, photo labeling, or machine translation, and it just results in some giggles on Reddit.
Rewrite Your Motivational To-Do Lists Every Day?
your suggestions regarding how to combat extremist viewpoints that seriously advocate for genocide

Those are pretty simple to advocate against. Murder bad. Who disagrees with that? Basically no one. Genocide bad. Who disagrees with that? Basically no one.

However, here's how you can actually strengthen the bad side. Start pushing ridiculous narratives. Start calling everyone a Nazi. Say that even the "Ok" sign is a Nazi salute. Advocate for political violence. Basically, abandon the principles and moral framework of liberal democracy, and become just like them.

The best way to combat extremist viewpoints is through adherence to principles and a moral framework -- showing that these can make you prosper. This is basically how we won the cold war.

(what I assume would get one labeled a nazi)

Bad assumption in 2019. In 2019, there are toxic members of the Far Left who will label anyone that for any kind of dissent from their particular views.

I genuinely am seeking evidence otherwise as I abhor violence.

If you are in the United States, then the evidence is all around you. It must be understood in the context of world history, however. If you truly abhor violence, then if you are a member of the left, you need to start calling it out on the left. The best way to fight evil, is to be forthright and speak out about it.
> The reality is that there are huge swaths of the US where you need personal transportation.

Yes, but 80% of the population lives in urban areas, so would be better served by improved public transit. That doesn't mean anyone is taking your personal car away if that's the best way to get around in a low population density area.
Choice between what?

AWS vs Azure is about like Java vs C# in the enterprise. AWS is twice as popular, but you won’t go wanting if you’re good with Azure technologies. No GCP is so far behind in adoption and mindshare it’s just not worth it to me.
I think this is the way to go for the value-conscious Apple fan. It used to be that you could buy a base model and then upgrade it later. Since everything is soldered nowadays, buying used or previous-gen will get you pretty much the same computing experience for less money, especially since performance gains for each generation are diminishing.
Man you just do not get it. a 5x5 or 3x5 plan is not anecdotal. It's based on empirical evidence, pioneered in most part by the Russians in the 70s, with knowledge existing for decades, if not centuries prior.

Your app does not invent a new way to program working out. Your app reflects proof that science we already know about has results that have already been proven to be true. And you charge people monthly for this.
Ghost towns are only scary if there is a credit collapse and no one can buy them because of the unavailability of bank financing. The central government in China will always make sure there's bank financing because it controls the printing of money.
Now that alternate registries to crates.io is available, hoping artifactory could add support for rust... - https://www.jfrog.com/jira/browse/RTFACT-13469
I very much approve of the 'idea' of WikiLeaks. I am not particularly fond of WikiLeaks as an organization. I don't like the way they hold on to material until they think it will make the biggest impact. It makes me wonder how much they've held on to for other reasons, e.g., because it might harm someone they support. To me, WikiLeaks withholding information for political reasons is no better than the originator of the information keeping it secret for political reasons.

I politely called them out on this once, in a comment on one of their early Facebook posts. The comment was deleted quickly. Apparently they are not fans of criticism either.

In spite of my misgivings, and my general disdain for Assange as an individual, I too am glad to see the EFF taking a principled stance.
It is getting cheaper for me since I don't need anything more fancy than an iPhone 6.
Quantum mechanics rescued understanding of past and future from the black hole
Death to iTunes as Apple finally plans to break it into separate apps
Yodon has submitted that link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19635814

I've gone ahead and upvoted it.
I'm in Hawaii RN and the speed limit on the interstate here is 45 - 55! It's bizarre world compared to bay area interstate driving.
Haven't driven a Tesla but I'm quite sure the safe braking distance is a lot shorter than it _feels_ like for a human and this is actually one of the tasks I'd rather leave to a computer than a human.

I'd assume the Tesla to have a lot better (quicker) reaction skills than you and you should probably just trust it (in this particular scenario) and relax, even though the distance might _feel_ too short.
The ironic thing is that this seems to be a case when someone doing the science gets to represent the project and get credit rather than just institutions and senior researchers.
This is one of those examples on why healthcare/insurance in the US is so much more expensive.

When a French court awards you damages, it's peanuts: One million euros plus 50,000€ in legal fees. In the US, one million probably wouldn't even cover the legal fees.
There has been news about it for a while. There was some concern of pre-publicizing the attempt if it were to fail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/science/beresheet-israel-...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/19/watch-the-historic-first-p...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/26/18239738/spaceil-bereshee...
You should hear what people say about people that were born and raised outside the US.

Seems in some places, it's perfectly (legally) acceptable to pick on others, as long as you're picking on the 'wrong' group of folks.
Actually in all cases. Even cash "hoarded" in a bank account winds up invested in the economy, because that's what banks do - loan out some multiple of their deposits to people who spend/invest it.
“The nose of the camel under the tent” strategy.
Tangent: This is a side-effect to how Facebook exposes Facebook ids. They expose system-wide identifiers. LinkedIn's API exposes user ids that are transformed based on whoever is interacting with the API. My network graph could overlap with your network graph, but the overlapping people would have different ids.
C++ without deterministic destructors to manage lifetime would be a (fundamentally) different language.

Furthermore, also disagree with you that it would be a better language. C++ has many warts but object lifetime and RAII is amongst its strong suits (unarguably, I thought — yes, resource lifetime is complex, but it’s inherently so; C++ just makes the complexity explicit and handles it in a good way). Handling resource lifetime in languages with nondeterministic GCs can be such a pain that it has fundamental, detrimental impact on the architecture. Just look at .NET’s handling of `Dispose`. I’ve written a ton of .NET GUI code, and handling resource lifetime (in particular GDI+) is an absolute pain point, which is uniquely caused by the lack of deterministic object lifetime.
50 years late
macOS 10.15 to include standalone media apps, splitting iTunes
Hmm, so I can't have several APs sharing the same ESSID with the newer ones supporting WPA3 and the older ones WPA2?
A building sitting empty for 5 years is a massive cost even if it’s later filled. This goes beyond time value of money and into the limited lifespan of infrastructure. Ghost cities are a problem with an easy and obvious solution, slow down the rate of construction to more closely match population movement.
Yes I use many of those. I whitelist every domain allowed to execute JavaScript on my machine, and for the most part I get a better browsing experience for it.

So with regards to BuzzFeed I'm very aware of what garbage their site is. Right now on BuzzFeedNews I see 9 third party domains running ads or tracking pixels via JavaScript.

Ironically, one of those 9 is Facebook. So Facebook is tracking the people reading this article about how Facebook is tracking them.

But most people aren't technologically savvy enough or can't be bothered to run tools like these, and just browse the internet with basically no understanding of what is happening as they do.
>Snowden advising journalists to cover the story with authentic facts

>retweets Russia Today and Cassandra Fairbanks

I can't believe people still defend this guy.
One Cambridge business that has been vocally against bike infrastructure is a pharmacy. I understand why they would be against it, because much of their clientele is elderly. There's a new parking protected bike lane in front of their business, and there are fewer parking spots than there used to be (and those that remain are bang against the "car lane" on one side and the bike lane on the other)

I fully support the law, but given that the proprietors treat us very well and know my wife by name, I haven't tried too hard to change their mind.
What's the bad sign there? If juniors are reaching for RF as a first-pass over say, (logistic) regression, that seems like a _great_ sign; no other approach has such a high average performance-effort ratio. For non-huge, naturally tabular problems, it usually takes me 10x or more the effort to beat the very first RF I train. Developer time matters!

If they start going to GBM's or neural nets first...I'd call _that_ a bad sign (and it happens).
Humans are two developmental stages away from monkeys
It is not perfectly acceptable to pick on blacks and handicapped people in the Midwest. Not in 2019.
Agree on the EFF part but what did the "political machine" do in this case? I thought it was more of the media reporting making Assange look like the dick he actually is. Would be nice to have Wikileaks without him.
They're a lot better already safety-wise (and likely in other ways too) than drunk drivers I'd assume.
I honestly don't think that dev workflow is even possible with most frameworks. It's not like you can take an existing website and add interactivity or extend the existing interactivity with React.

The current landscape of web tools is pretty much that you have to call your shot from the beginning or suffer a rewrite later.
The timing of Manning's subpoena and the questioning of her on Assange seems to show that the U.S. government knew Assange was to be going expelled from the embassy, and maybe played a role in making it happen. Or maybe it's just a coincidence.
Reminds me of the comedy sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E:

"They took all the money? That sounds more like a bank robbery."

"No, no. If only. 'Cause we could take the hit. No, no. It was actually your identity that was stolen, primarily. It's a massive pisser for you."

"But, it's actually money that's been taken..."

"Yes"

"From you?"

"Kind of."

"I don't know what you want from me other than my commiserations."

"You see it was your identity. They said they were you!"

"And you believed them?"

"Yes, they stole your identity."

"Well, I don't know. I seem to still have my identity, whereas you seem to have lost several thousands of pounds. In light of that, I'm not sure why you think it was my identity that was stolen instead of your money."
Add YouTube and web page link previews to your React Native chat app
Everything is political opinion, but the legal standards are much narrower. The idea that I can hold a political opinion that "I should not be arrested for breaking laws", break a law, and then expect not to be arrested because of my political opinion is ridiculous.
I've been saying this for a while. Truly autonomous cars are decades away.

My line has always been that I hope that by the time I can't, or am not allowed, to drive any more, autonomous cars will be ready... But that I am not even sure about that.

Many of my friends have ridiculed me. They think their elementary-school-kids will not need to learn how to drive. Perhaps I'll have the last laugh. (But actually I hope I'm wrong about this.)
That's not what this is about. OP is talking about booting with just the external L2 cache (which I've seen vary from 64KB to 256KB) when no RAM SIMMs are plugged in.
Hello, you can hire here at my contact details page...
Just kidding!

Hiring is like sales. You need to do marketing and build good funnel (the end being the application process) to filter the candidates you want to. You will make mistakes, of course, track it and use it to improve your funnel. There are no shortcuts.
because humans aren't the subject of research here, instead they are data providers. The alexa product is the subject of research here (and it's not research, it's product improvement).

I don't understand your question about terms of service and ethics here. I work with real human subjects research data and it's a completely different field that does not apply to this situation.
Oh definitely, even kids who are just 5-10 years younger than I am are now mostly using Mandarin only, and many of them are no longer super fluent in Shanghainese.

Basically I think kids born before 1995 were the last batch of people growing up learning fluent Shanghainese.
Relative to what? The past week?
> This is a tangent, but there aren't two separate pots of currency labelled 'PRIVATE FUNDS' and 'PUBLIC FUNDS' in society.

This is true, because in reality there's more like millions of different 'pots' of money that are allocated for different purposes and are controlled by different entities.

> Private companies operate within the market defined and backed by the state and legal system.

Sure, but short of banning or at least actively disincentivizing development of self-driving cars, car companies are going to pursue that. And why wouldn't we want them to? We're always going to have millions of cars around, even if tomorrow everyone's public transit was as good as Japan (which would take decades at a minimum for the US, and probably other countries too), that's still a ton of cars.

Not to mention that self-driving car tech will also be used by public transit for buses, and by trucking companies for freight, both of those being very good things.

> Self-driving cars, even if ready to go tomorrow, present a worse value proposition than public transport

This is a false dilemma, since we can have both, and they're not even completely separate things: self-driving buses would be great for public transportation. That would let you run buses more safely, more cheaply, and with more routes more frequently.

I don't even own a car right now and I'm for it. If nothing else, it would've stopped me from getting hit by cars a couple times while biking.
That other groups in the business want simple, black and white answers to very complex questions.

An expectation that data can eliminate the need for reason and thought is problematic.

I have tried to communicate the reasoning for things like judgemental forecasting but success is hard to achieve.
It begs asking at which election would this matter spring to true light. The last election was so crowded with attention baiting headlines that the real conversation wasnt had.

Then again, in the bush election the judiciary decided floridas votes and not a peep was heard. American poltical machinery is far from perfect
Adventures in Docker: Coding on a Remote Browser
Sounds like what Nathaniel Fick has been saying about cyber warfare should also have a degree of proportionality. Mostly, due to the fact that security favors the attacker, deterrence should be based on fear of retaliation vs. a perfect virtual environment.
Should I have said Windows ARM64 support? :)
You Don't Have to Like Assange to Defend Him
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/...

Webcomponent custom elements are part of the HTML5 standard.

`<literally-any-element-name-i-want-here>` is a valid subset of html. You added the "standard" modifier, which like, I mean, WebComponents are part of the standard, so using them is still a subset of standard HTML.

If you mean "they should have limited themselves to using older HTML APIs and doing custom polyfills based on css-classes instead of element names", which is probably closer to what you actually mean, I'd ask why.

The behavior would, in general, still be the same. You'd be required to include some metadata information, you'd be restricted to some amp.js provided to you, and you'd need to use class='amp-html' instead of <amp-html>. And that would be the entire difference.
>Space efficient? Yes and no. It is more space efficient for people whose options are bike vs car to ride a bike

Those people would be in cars or on busses if the infrastructure made the commute only feasible by vehicle. Bikes are denser than cars. Moving commuters to denser forms of travel increases the bandwidth of the pipes they're on. Meaning more space for you, too.
I haven't needed it in the city I'm at now, but I used to wear a USA flag as a cape when riding in less biking friendly areas. It was night and day how drivers treated me.
Your blind optimism is what will continue to kill people.

I never consented to sharing the road with non-human entities that don’t fear death.
I support press freedom, but there is a clear line that was allegedly crossed here. The indictment alleges that Assange encouraged Manning to commit a crime and helped or tried to help gain access to a government computer system that he had no right to access. This is not a grey area at all. If they were charging him for publishing documents it would be a different story. If the case is as weak as many folks seem to be saying it is, then he will have a chance to make that case in court.