skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harvard Extension. If you keep over a 3.5 you have the option to take the same classes as Harvard College Students for your entire time at Harvard.
Ivory Hunters Decimate 50k Year Old Mammoth Graveyard
Sadly, there wasn't a better alternative. Especially on mobile.

HTML5 requires a tap, a gif doesn't. I think that's what made all the difference in the world

Have there been attempts at alternatives that address the actual use cases for GIF in the wild?
It's not intended to be pronounced with a hard G either, but that doesn't stop people.
If the lack of action creators is a serious concern, then the one-liner-each action creator I suggested should be sufficient without adding much bloat. How would the ReasonML example deal with that change though? Can the variant constructors take in optional parameters?

Using Murphy's Law is not very convincing. Even with action creators Murphy's Law guarantees someone would have just constructed the objects manually anyways. Having to grep the tag is not ideal, but it's not likely to be a problem in practice.

I doubt that the bundle would be significantly larger (especially after compression). Using actions creators introduces additional (function call) overhead too (and that would be insignificant as well).
Needs a [1990] tag
It needn't be. We'll take that word out of the above.
If having an active social life is why she missed out, then she is better off having missed out.
Palo Alto Networks Intends to Acquire Zingbox for $75M
I'm aware of this as I have owned cars with this feature. Modern cars do not use the physical key to "start". It's mostly only to open the driver side door.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BttKQ6K-Y74

RFID/NFC is used to actually start the car like you pointed out.

On all current Tesla cars, they fobs and keycards can both unlock and start the car, making a physical key pointless.
Monthly pest control services, in the US south at least, start around 50 bucks a month. It’s over used in my opinion but I also understand that fear of insects is deeply rooted in the minds of many people.
My general rule is that the only personal resource I will use in a software job is my brain.
Animated PNG (APNG) seems like a decent alternative: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
Is it possible to do mathematics while on such drugs? I am working through a textbook on projective geometry and I feel like those visualization enhancements would be super useful.
Wow. We had really different pre-SO experiences.

I found MSDN so filled with unexplained parameters and fields, hyper-linked to other unexplained classes, that I gave up and haven’t tried again.

Where did you find the well written documentation?
It also depends on the density of the original content. Some things flow nicely at 1.5; others can be cranked up to 3x or even beyond if you turn on subtitles because they're just another YouTube video padded to hit the magic 10 minute mark, or whatever it is now, and you don't really need the audio.
This breaks the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

Cherry-picking one detail from an article is editorializing. If you want to say what you think is important in an article, please do so in a comment, where your view is on a level playing field with everyone else's. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Another thing you could do is write your own article that goes into why this is interesting, and submit that instead. That might be the best option. You could always link to the original article from your post.
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Yet it has proven functional for certain animations for years with entire websites devoted to the file format. At some point you let it be what it is.
Valid point, thanks :)
I never got into them for the same reason I never got into football or (before I had to for professional reasons) Linux - everyone who is into it turns it into an evangelism project.

I’m sure I would love them if I tried them, but I don’t want to be seen as the type of guy who owns a drone (like how I don’t want to be known as the guy who uses Linux or the village Libertarian, even though those words might describe me reasonably well).
“The street finds its own uses for things”

-Burning Chrome
It probably varies from where you live, a single visit alone would be around $200 where I live, you get a big price break for multiple visits, $50 a pop if you buy a years worth.
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I usually get into stuff like this for professional reasons. However, as someone in the aerospace industry, it’s not very common that we go through the hoops to get a drone out at the airport. We’ve talked about using one strictly inside of our hangars, but at that point a gyro does just as well.

I’ll stick to writing code.
They all have blood on their hands. Some people may benefit from these drugs. Some people destroy themselves with them. It's far from clear what the ratios are here, and attempting to popularize yet another mind-bending "soma" in a culture that can barely deal with beer is wildly irresponsible.

And as for all y'awl self congratulatory bozos who think this stuff is "just so amazing" -I've used enough of them to know they're not. It's fundamentally a mentally masturbatory experience; something that confuses people in a way that increases their self regard. I suppose some psychotics also have high self regard.
The same text, at that. So the text has N bits of information and it was, according to the article, spoken at different speeds per language. So N bits at different speeds per language, exactly the opposite of their claim.
Yeah things I would get rid of in c is 'int' and the wishy washy integer type non sense that goes with it. The whole thing was a big pain in the ass until pure 32 bit machines came along and everyone forgot. Now it's a pain in the ass again.

I'd also add range types ala Ada.
OF course they are not equivalent. But the mass flow through biomass in our economy is so much larger than the mass flow of jet fuel that the objections that it can't scale, and that the numbers don't add up, are spurious. The economy is already handling these large mass flows. All that jet fuel is produced in refineries, for example.

Yes, the hydrogen has to come from somewhere. This does not violate any laws of physics or economics.
Bellwether Coffee, ‘the fastest-growing company in coffee,’ raises $40M Series B
The way I remember it, Telsa keeps saying something like 'Autopilot is way safer than all-other-road-vehicles-combined'.

What's the point of comparing Telsa Autopilot related crashes to crashes involving at least one motorcycle?

I think it's obvious the answer is: deception*.
Shows unrealistically high download speeds.

No,I don’t really have 75-80mbps download speeds. Even Speedtest.net, widely known to be the most unrealistic speed test available, only claims that I can get about 40mbps.

Now there is a new king of the hill for most unrealistic speed test claims!
I don't get the methodology. If you have a short-story, and translate it into 10 languages (and translate very well), it should have the same amount of information in it in each translation, no?

Therefore the transmission rate will simply be proportional to the time to read the story. This idea contradicts what their study found, no?
IWM, the largest of the Russel 2K ETFs with $38B cap has exactly 0.14% in cash/derivatives ($53.7M)

https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239710/ishares-russell-2...
What's sad about this is that CircleCI actually has a great product and is one of the nicest ways to do end to end automation for mobile development/releases. Having their pipeline in place actually feels quite liberating.

The sad part is that they take this for granted and liberate all your data and security weaknesses too to unknown third parties for either a weird ideological reason about interoperability or a small marginal profit.

I don't understand why they can't do both(interoperability and security), their main profit is not data, it's customers paying for infrasctructure. They don't have to share any data at all and are fully capable of providing a competent level of security.

If anything I think if they cut out the profit line from sharing metrics etc with third parties it would actually bring more customers in because of increased confidence in the product.
This sounds interesting. Are you able to remember where you might have read this?
I'd give microdosing LSD a shot:

In the 1950s, before the term “Silicon Valley” existed, a handful of engineers at the tech pioneer Ampex were approached by Al Hubbard, the “Johnny Appleseed of LSD.” And with his help, they found that dropping acid could make their jobs easier.

“[Hubbard] wanted to turn on the best and brightest and have the wisdom trickle down to the populace,” Pollan said. “Engineers who were working on chips found LSD very helpful in imagining a structure as complex as a computer chip. Before there were computers, designing a computer chip was much harder! It was a three-dimensional structure, layered, and you had to hold an incredible amount of information in your head.”

The Ampex engineers started a nonprofit called the International Foundation for Advanced Study, giving LSD to people like inventor Doug Engelbart. His first under-the-influence invention was a toy for toilet-training boys, but Pollan pointed out that it was only after this experience that Engelbart did the work he’s most famous for: Inventing the computer mouse, the graphical user interface and key components of the internet.

“Engineers, unlike scientists, deal with irreducible complexity,” Pollan said. “There’s so many variables that, instead of reducing a problem to simplicity like scientists, they have to find patterns in a very complex space. That’s what LSD does — it helps you find patterns.”

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/16/17358484/michael-pollan-how-to...
It also indexes ftp, but that may unfortunately be coming to an end[1]. Ironically enough, Google's mission statement is still "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", which if taken to its logical conclusion would mean such humorously delightful things as scanning for mongos and indexing their contents too...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20721609
I would have posted this to https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/ instead, but I'm still upvoting because the next part about the window functions is what I really wanted to see.
Brave is trying to be the middleman and launching their own ad network. I think browsers forcing a business model onto publishers still isn't the right answer.
Folding laundry is incredibly hard.

The lowest hanging fruit was dishwashers, washing machines, and automatic coffee machines. And that fruit hung low because it still offloaded all the complex spatial topological perceptual dexterous stuff to the humans.
Cadillac super cruise monitors your eyes to ensure you are looking at the road. Its not perfect but its a lot better than just requiring you to put pressure on the steering wheel.
The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran
For those interested, there is a fantastic documentary called, "The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD" which was released in 2011 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2075352/) that covers a lot of the history of how LSD was discovered and then made its way to the US, and then subsequently how the proliferation of the drug shaped a lot of the cultural landscape in the US.
Screwdrivers are not intended to be prybars. Jelly roll pans are not intended to bake cookies. The Fender Bassman is not intended to be a guitar amp. A TV tuner chip is not intended to be a general-purpose software-defined-radio receiver. &c....
My vet provides concierge service, if you want it.

They’ll even come out to your house and do health checkups, etc... at your home.

But generally speaking, I love my cats, and I wouldn’t want them being taken somewhere by some stranger, unless there were truly extenuating circumstances.
Wait is everyone here commenting just from reading the abstract? I couldn't get access to the pdf (elsevier paywall)...
California had 4.5 million Republican presidential votes cast in 2016, more than the total votes cast in 41 states (in other words, more than all but 9 states, one of which is California itself). [0]

Many of these voters live in the Central Valley, which grows much of the crops produced in the United States (over a third of the country's vegetables and two-thirds of the country's fruits and nuts). [1]

If you throw in the over 3 million Republican presidential votes cast in New York, the current system disenfranchises as many Republicans in 2 states as 30% of total votes cast in the 11 Midwest states won by the Republican.

I understand the impulse to push back against the coasts, as someone originally from the Midwest and is trying to move back there, but the electoral college is not a good system. It harms as many people as it helps. Voters in ~10 “swing states” get bombarded with ads and visits, while the rest of the country gets (comparatively) ignored.

Incidentally, I don’t really think the popular vote is a great system either, particularly in historical examples of no candidate winning a majority of the votes. I would much prefer a system like instant runoff where voters rank candidates based on preference. [2] The Wikipedia hole on electoral methods is a fun read for anyone interested. [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...
[1] http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/
[2] https://www.fairvote.org
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
The specification pattern can also be used to replace multiple IFs. If you look at Wikipedia, they propose a quite full-fledged and complex specification pattern, but it is possible to make a more lightweight one for your needs.
The thing is, what do you make of advertising that is very, very, specific and not aimed at a general audience...but also wrong? When someone is very certain and wrong, it means they think* they have inside information. The certainty points to it being overly intimate, yet misinterpreted.

*Please don't take this excessively literally.
Nobody deserves this, but lordy I have lost days of dev time to Circle in the last several years.
I have a pet theory that our brains are hard-wired to store information "better" if it bears some kind of personal/individual imprint.

In other words, we can "store" knowledge more efficiently when written in our own handwriting than when typed into a neutral/generic text editor.
>no, social media makes me feel good

What a fresh and insightful rebuttal.
Thank you for sharing your story! It takes courage to open up about a disappointing internship outcome. You’re lighting the path for young engineers to come.
We need to look at driverless a different way and I suspect this is why it's going to be hard to accept driverless for longer than we need to.

Computers look at the world in a different way. So they are going to have accidents that seem very obvious to humans making people go "look how bad driverless is because a human would never...". Many people will take that as a reason to avoid driverless tech.

Yet driverless will (or should) avoid many more accidents humans would have made if they were in control.

Because of this we need to look at overall statistics. If we only look at specific driverless accidents from a human lens it's going to be easy to non-lateral thinkers to get caught up in criticising but it doesn't actually understand the benifits or not.
JSX: Hop-On Air Travel
OK. Now how much robot does, or should, $200 a year buy you?
Releasing a software with license-encumbered code, using specialized marketing to vote down a comment critical to company's product, justifying the lawsuit for copyright infringement similar to Oracle. I think users can see through it.

Let's wait for the results of this case it will make it clear that if someone wants to use ELK, they should purchase a license or use Amazon version (as they will fight the case, a small startup can't have budget to even defend).

For a small development firm its better they use really open source product like Solr, Vespa or Lucene directly with OpenJDK, not the oracle JDK. Looking at this can only say Richard Stallman is a visionary and saw this when he defined Free Software and accompanying licenses.
I’m fairly familiar with one of the businesses in the article and it’s just fascinating to me. They took a solid product that would’ve absolutely made a perfectly good, sustainable business line, added a ton of VC money, and got utterly swallowed up by buzzwords.
Police Use of Facial Recognition Is Accepted by British Court
I can't wait for the days when my television won't work because Sony's servers go down.
I'm uncertain how much these things count as "robotics." From what I can tell, Jibo is only a robot in the same sense a Transformer toy is; conceptually it's just an Alexa with a couple of swivel joints.

Mekamon looked like it had some impressively agile movements, so there was actual robotics there, but I don't think it did anything with them that you couldn't have done with an R/C truck or tank.
Did the sun play a role in this? This picture from the report shows a low sun directly ahead. (Southbound 405 is going SSE in Culver City. 8:40AM accident)

https://imgur.com/a/OaHNqdQ

Assuming it was taken ~1 hour after accident, the sun would have been lower and to the left at time of the accident. The slightly askew firetruck might have been basically facing the sun, and its prominent rear features would have been in as much as shadow as possible. Obviously there were other factors involved (yes, ultimately driver's fault), but do Tesla's cameras have the dynamic range to be looking directly at a low sun and also see details in shadows? Originally I thought this was a high-speed accident and am surprised to learn it happened between 20-30 MPH.
With current ad industry it's more about whether you are ok with being bullied or not.
Burry's point is, whatever the percentage of leverage, it's reaching levels that are dangerous for the larger economy.
Serious question: which company are you referring to?
The other driver was clearly 100% totally at fault, but I'm just curious: why were you going 30-40 on a four lane highway? Where I live that's at least 25 below the speed limit.

Here it's mostly tractors and other farm equipment driving at those speeds.
Model S and X owner here. Autopilot will nag you after so many seconds (depending on vehicle speed and autopilot path planning confidence) if it doesn’t detect steering wheel torque, and if you ignore the nags, it brings the vehicle to a stop safely with the hazards on.

Car and Driver tested AEB in several vehicles (Tesla, Toyota, Subaru) and they are all pretty equally bad at it. Figuring out if matter in front of you, while traveling at speed, poses a life critical hazard is hard! It’s better than no AEB, but don’t rely on it entirely or you’re going to end up maimed or dead. As the driver, you are still the final responsible party.
Hm. I was thinking things that have an outsized effects on innocent bystanders (e.g. drunk drivers) and innocuous enough that both youth involvement and advertising are generally banned.
> I don't even know what you are trying to express by "not technically the legislation, as none [that I'm aware of] exists" - each state which has legalized cannabis has either passed legislation (which of course you can read online) or done so through a ballot initiative (the terms of which you can also read online). Plenty of legislation exists.

The grandparent was referring to their claim of "effective nullification". States have passed legislation to remove state penalties for purchase/possession etc, and the federal government is being a good sport and looking the other way, but the GP says no state has passed a law that explicitly says "...and it's ok with the feds too."

No doubt because it could draw a quick legal challenge, and possibly end the effective legalisation that holds while the federal government chooses not to enforce the law.
Yes, that was later. Comments have been moved.
I was thinking more on the lines of something similar to an enhanced journal entry, perhaps once a week. Have you had any experience with it? Curious to learn from your experience.
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I think we like to believe that judges are impartial, unemotional, and objective. And they should be.

Maybe this idea is too ahead of its time, but:

I wonder if there could be an automatic test of judges' ability to maintain these traits. For example, every year a fake case comes before them in which a clearly innocent defendent is particularly rude and disrespectful of the system. If the judge shows an inability to separate their own ego from the ruling (e.g. penalizing the innocent indignant party) then the judge gets further review.

I think such "abuse tests" could be effective ways to vet many people in positions of power, particularly the executive branch (e.g. police).
You can try to rehabilitate nixon as much as you want, but even if he was a Nice Guy™, the facts are that the war on drugs was designed by racists (e.g. Harry Anslinger), and along with imprisoning many generations of people of color, it was weaponized specifically and pointedly against people who challenged the establishment.

Excellent listening for anyone who doubts that the war on drugs was anything but racism in action: https://www.wbez.org/shows/on-the-media/this-american-war-on...
Then get out there and support Tesla and your local wind turbine/PV solar installer/commercial developer. Those are who are driving out fossil fuel and petroleum use at scale (BYD is arguably doing quite a bit of that with electric busses, but as a Chinese company, that’ll be a harder hill to climb in the current political climate). You must destroy demand for CO2 producing activities, and renewables and EVs do just that.

There is no need for a startup to deploy EV chargers at homes, condos, apartments, and public facilities. This requires community involvement instead, as there is little if any profit to be realized from the activity. But this is crucial for EV uptake. Someone has to do the legwork (I am working on automation for this, but alas, there are only so many hours in a day).

The tech is already proven. It’s all up to public policy now to nudge people in the right direction (renewables, EVs, carbon offsets for anything else where you absolutely cannot avoid CO2 emissions).
Tesla's Auto Pilot website makes claims that other auto manufacturers don't make like:

"With the new Tesla Vision cameras, sensors and computing power, your Tesla will navigate tighter, more complex roads."

There is a lot implied in the short phrasing of "navigate tighter, more complex roads". It also begs the question that Tesla's capabilities were sufficient in the first place.

"All new Tesla cars have the hardware needed in the future for full self-driving in almost all circumstances. The system is designed to be able to conduct short and long distance trips with no action required by the person in the driver’s seat."

Why make potentially misleading and untested future-looking statements when consumer safety should be the focus of a system like this?
https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
In basis of this case, vehicle battery was actual problem, as well as the Tesla outage there was a backup.

That people choose not to have it available isn’t completely the manufacturer or providers fault is it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20881429
Your device fingerprint alone is generally enough to tie your new google id to any previous ones.
Yes, I know about the prohibition. My comment was because of it, not in spite.