skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its possible to turn the argument around to "If your assumption of safety comes from the concept that all safety equipment should be perfect all of the time"

Given the inherent immense liability problem, it seems almost impossible to release this as a product without some kind of government blanket immunity to criminal/civil prosecution, otherwise the mfgr will be dragged into every legal dispute tangentially involving the car and a crash. Therefore with no motivation to produce a perfect product, perfect products will not be released.

The end result will be drivers with a careless attitude because they purchased something to take responsibility, causing the overall accident / death rate to increase, despite society as a whole spending more money. I'm not seeing much net good coming out of this.
BadBIOS was supposed to communicate with C&C systems using sounds inaudible to the human ear that could be picked up by the microphone of a nearby (also infected) computer.

Hence 'airgapped" (not connected to the network) computers could still export private information to a botnet operator.
UK rail pricing is as complicated and as dynamic as airline pricing - $267 is well within the bounds of possibility for that route.
If only it were true, the problem is more that c++ as to many meaning for its keywords.
Speaking of ignoring things, have you read anything at all about C++14?
This video helped a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU

I don't know whether they had a bigger marketing budget or were just good at it. It does seem like an easier-to-understand hook. Various people have criticized the idea's practicality but say "solar roadways" and you've got the concept. That probably helped media coverage. For us, it was complicated to explain why it was more than "here's another guy in a garage who thinks he's solving the world's energy problems."

I'm on the board of the Focus Fusion Society so I debated and voted on various decisions, got interviewed a couple times, and spent a lot of time commenting online various places, mainly reddit.

A marketing team at least helps do a lot of legwork. If you want to pay more for expert advice it can be hard to determine who's expert enough to give good advice for your particular situation.

I'll email later.
So, first of all, my neighbourhood name in their map is kinda offensive (a local colloquialism). Second, to complete the registration process, I have to either supply a debit/credit card, the will call a phone number and somehow compare that against phone records to verify my identity, or send me a postcard.

This seems incredibly intrusive and a big privacy ingress. No thanks.
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I'm afraid this is just as "free" as an adwords ad that is never clicked. It sounds like it's free, but behind the scenes Google runs a CPM auction based on click (or view in case of video) rate and the conversion of CPC to CPM. That means if you get a very small number of clicks or views, your price per click or view goes up accordingly.
You should add an exclamation point to the end. It'll make it sound more exciting, and less confusing.
Wait - so they could freely send money from Iran to the US to purchase houses worth millions, but they couldn't send thousands as allowance but instead had to rely on said houses' rent? That seems weird.
To add another example to the list, Ruby lets you list which attributes can be read/written and which ones can only be read on top. Something like.

class Car
attr_reader :model, :company # only read
attr_accessor :color # read and write
end
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Your entire blog post can be summed in a single interaction that took place in the movie, "Man on the Moon." A comedic biographical look at Andy Kaufman's Life.

"Don't you want your people to have a modern interesting show?"

"No I want people, I can't sell drinks to an empty room. You're in show business, show BUSINESS. If there is no business, there is no show."

While its slightly apples and oranges. Its something a decent number of Designers and would be Artists have to learn at some point. No business, no show.
If you want a quick and dirty method that won't bite you in the ass, you can declare the variable public final. If you can live with all that entails.
You can blame individual people, but the mfgrs will simply purchase immunity from their hired politicians. Its a question of responsibility. Individuals have it. Corporations do not.
> I also feel some sympathy for the officers involved. The police are a brainwashing operation on young impressionable minds. In many ways they are also victims of the state.

On that subject, after his undercover deployment Bob Lambert (the officer TFA is about) went on to run the Special Demonstration Squad, and in that capacity was the boss of Jim Boyling, who also had a number of sexual relationships with unsuspecting members of the public. Just to make the victim / perpetrator question a bit more interesting.
"P.S.: How do I specify code formatting on HN?"
I'm not sure if there is one. But if you want, just make a pasteIt, or a fiddle. Not sure which one is the one that caters for C/C++ code.
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> I'm proposing to learn the language properly: by exposing yourself to as much material as you can, for prolonged periods of time.

... which is what you need for mastery, I absolutely agree (it's what I do too!), but it's very, very slow.
That is specifically addressed in the article.

As Partee points out, switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size).
I loved using Nextdoor in my last neighborhood. I found a dog walker, got some free yarn, and had a better sense of who my neighbors were. I don't have the time to dedicate to being a neighborhood leader, though, so I haven't set one up in my new neighborhood.
Your reply made me think of another issue. There is no such thing as "your resume". It's not a single document that you write once and send out to everyone. If you are applying for 100 positions, than you should write 100 resumes. Most people write a general resume which has everything on there they've ever done (which is why they need two pages), but a resume targeted to a specific position at a specific company can be much shorter.
They want their kids to be educated in English and attend universities in English speaking countries, which increases their career prospects not only in those countries, but also within China.

Also, a number of these wealthy Chinese seeking to emigrate are highly corrupt. Some of them have committed all kinds of bribery, fraud, and extortion to enrich themselves. Although corruption is rampant in China, it is also punishable by death, so these people are looking for a quick getaway route should they get caught.
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Nice! The example code looks simple enough to understand relatively quickly, and it does seem to work (good on you to have working demos to show). May play with this some time soon. You should put some contact info in the README. e.g. IRC channel, or email (if you dare), or a pointer to github issues page.
It's probably not worth worrying about the fate of humanity till you've figured out the rooms example. Since you're on this site I'm sure you can trivially knock up a script to simulate what happens. Or just draw the probability tree. In any case the relevant question is,, out of those who find their room number is less than ten, what is the probability that the coin toss meant only ten rooms are occupied. The answer is 90.9% - we could go round in circles trying to choose words that everyone understands, but the numbers speak for themselves.
Think CB radio, but probably much less civil.
A postcard seems perfect for a neighbourhood-based social network.
I think that this framework will be ideal for sprints like Ludum Dare.

Please do write about any questions, suggestions, issues, and bugs via GitHub issues, or to my personal email: skoofoo@gmail.com
There's a good post about this subject on the English SE:

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1155/what-is-the-...

It goes into some other theories on AOR (Adjective Ordering Restrictions) and I'd recommend it if you find the subject interesting. A quote from the top answer, which I enjoyed:

"I am reminded of how J.R.R. Tolkien’s mother once famously corrected him at a very early age when he said ‘a green great dragon’. She told him that it had to be ‘a great green dragon’, but when he asked her why, she couldn’t answer, thereby starting him down the road of puzzling over matters linguistic and philologic his whole life long."
What if it has something to do with the adjectives that are most important/specific? Suppose I were categorizing my big barns by color, but not my little barns (Nobody cares about the little barns). My red big barn is pretty standard, but my green big barn is hard to see because it's camouflaged.
I always wondered why I can't stand the sound of people eating with an open mouth ('smacking their lips') or a dog licking themselves/chewing on a rawhide. For some reason, closed mouth eating and a dog biting themselves are tolerable. Our dogs are either very good at being dead silent or they do it all at night (and it sometimes wakes me up). I can also relate in how it isn't bothersome if it is amongst a sea of sounds, though I think a group of people eating would bother me quite a bit...

I suppose I have a name for this now...
Hmm. I guess you're right. I dislike Groovy in other areas so it's not a path I've gone deep down.

Especially for private APIs i Java I have actually tended to default to public final members, without verbs.
That also gives you confidence that all members in the neighborhood are verified.
China has been allowing domestic yuan conversion for western property purchases, boosting real estate demand in Vancouver, NY, SF & elsewhere, http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Secret+path+revealed+Ch...

"... trial program was introduced in 2011 for overseas property purchases and emigration ... Once approved, the customer and the bank agree on an exchange rate before the funds are moved to an overseas account designated by the customer. Money destined for real estate would go directly to the property seller’s account to ensure the cash won’t be misused ...

HSBC ... offers its Chinese clients another way to access offshore mortgages while avoiding the cap on foreign-exchange conversion ... Customers deposit yuan with HSBC’s mainland unit or purchase its wealth-management products, and the bank’s overseas branch then issues a foreign-currency denominated mortgage using the China deposits as collateral."
I thought of a better way of explaining the invalidity of the argument.

What would happen if, instead of inferring from our own presence in the cubicle, we take an external role. Furthermore, instead of taking the probability that a randomly selected person exists in of the two sets, we look at the probability that /someone/ exists in one of the two sets.

If doom soon occurred, then the probability of cubicles 1-10 being occupied is 100%;
If doom soon occurred, then the probability of cubicles 11-100 being occupied is 0%;

If doom late occurred, then the probability of cubicles 1-10 being occupied is 100%;
If doom late occurred, then the probability of cubicles 11-100 being occupied is 100%;

So given those two probabilities, we have a 100% chance of cubicles 1-10 being occupied and a 50% chance of cubicles 11-100 being occupied.

In either scenario, the occupancy status of cubicles 1-10 is assured. So checking in cubicles 1-10 gives us no meaningful information about which of the two scenarios occurred. Checking in cubicles 11-100 on the other hand /would/ affect our results. The occupancy of cubicles 11-100 on the other hand would tell us exactly which scenario occured.
Zing does not do you any good if you are selling software. Your income is reduced by the license cost of Zing in addition to the additional sales and deployment friction.

The reality is that you have to build software that works on the Oracle JVM.
I do not know any vulnerability researchers (Dragos, who is someone I do like, is not one of those) who give this story any credence. The closest I've seen that to happening was Robert Graham writing a blog post about how RF side channels could be used by cooperating processes to communicate --- but that's just a small detail of the whole story Dragos told.

I do know some extremely reputable researchers, people with no connection at all to the supposed events, who have very forceful arguments for how the (scant) evidence Dragos produced didn't establish anything about the existence of anything like BadBIOS.

You're probably not going to get closure on this story.
OT: I'd like to take a moment to appreciate The Verge for making the first mention of Nextdoor in the article a link, and for making that link actually go to the Nextdoor web site instead of a silly "here's what The Verge has to say about the company Nextdoor" page.
That was covered in the article. Disrupting the default order allows you to put emphasis on certain words, in your case, you'd want the color adjective to stand out. The other option, which I don't think the article covered, would be to change the rhythm and speed of the phrase slightly and put an audible emphasis on red.
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Ah, I read that as "Iran didn't have an isolated system", in that they for some reason had a lapse of judgement.

Like a "See, the government even makes massive, obvious mistakes" type of comment.
If I'm being completely objective and intellectually honest? I can't rule that out for sure. But it seems unlikely, given that most of Freudian psychology is outdated and quasi-animistic. If I have to choose between Freud and neuroscience, I'll take the latter almost every time. But more to the point, Freudian psychology isn't useful for this condition. It offers no answers and no practical guidance. It also offers a sort of intellectual dead-end. By filing this conveniently in the bucket of "neurosis," a doctor or researcher can basically wave his hand and say there's nothing he can do, and no further scientific inquiry is needed. Affected patients just need to "get over it" or "work through it" somehow. Even more sophisticated and modern psychological tools, such as behavioral therapy and sensitization training, don't have a great track record for successfully treating this condition.

As for the neurological explanations: as the previous poster mentioned, recent studies have implicated a lot of the same brain and nervous system structures in misophonia that are believed to be responsible for Tourette's. There is a high degree of comorbidity. While the two aren't causally related, there appears to be a physical/structural cause that results in either or both conditions with a fair amount of frequency.

Again, I have no definitive way of ruling out some blanket neurosis as the underlying cause. But it seems scientifically dubious, and more important, it's often unproductive as a line of inquiry.
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I played around with the model a bit and based on a couple assumptions it can be scaled to

P(Doom Soon) = x/(1+x) where
x = B/b * d

where B is the number of humans born in the Doom Late scenario, b is the number of humans born so far, and d is the prior probability of Doom Soon.

Assumptions: a) the number of humans born between now and Doom Soon is negligible and b) the Doom Late scenario has many more humans than Doom Soon (B + b ~= B).

Notice I made no assumptions about the prior, d. Of course d does matter, but the point is that as long as the number of humans in Doom Long is assumed to be large enough, the probability will go close to one even for very small d.

For example, if we use a Doom Late population of 200 trillion like in the post, then we have 95% probability of Doom Soon even if d ~= 0.0001.

That being said, I am still fairly unconvinced by this argument. It would have every intelligent species continually concluding that they are about to go extinct, right up until the moment that they either do go extinct or they achieve immortality and stop reproducing.
Interesting subject that I hadn't thought much about, but the cutesy writing in the beginning almost stopped me from finishing. Fortunately I did finish, as the meat of the article is farther down.

In summary, it turns out that we subconsciously order adjectives, most likely by intrinsic quality.

That order is "general opinion or quality ('exquisite,' 'terrible'), specific opinion or quality ('friendly,' 'dusty'), size, shape, age, color, origin, and material."
red big barn is not wrong - it depends on emphasis.

Writers use these types of manipulations to change the meaning.
I agree 100%, but the problem is the culture that has grown up around Java. The whole Bean concept encourages violation of encapsulation. IDEs provide automatic generation of accessors and mutators. Many Java programmers have been trained to expect them. At this point, encouraging good OO practice is shouting against the tide.

That being said, I still make my classes immutable unless there is a damn good reason not to.
Nothing pollutes java source more than code which REQUIRES setter methods for functionality. If you have classes which require constant mutable access to internal state, your design is probably flawed.
As a side note, I realized java 7's Objects class was copied from google's Objects library class, but with name changes. They could have copied the apache API, but nope. This is fine by itself, but these are the same jerkoffs claiming some sort of copyright over the java JDK API. Quite disgusting.
No.

'Airgapped' computers without infected BIOSes could not leak information. Sneakernet computers with bad BIOSes could.

Unless you can pull off a remote code execution via microphone input, or speaker feed back. Its unlikely an air-gapped computer will be infected.
Yes rhythm and speed of reading matters too.

A writer and poet also has that in their toolbox.
I'm delighted to share that I'm currently reading Kelley's book right now. Great read thus far!

It's refreshing to see a story on Monk make the front page of HN.
We had to switch from CMS to G1 when moving to JDK8 for reasons yet unknown, other than CMS used considerably more than CPU it had in JDK7. Fortunately, it's not a service that can't tolerate 500ms pauses here and there.
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Again, this is covered by the article. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8194338.
I don't know, it's kind of both. There are too many keywords and operators, and many of those keywords and operators have different semantics in different contexts.
Thank you for the kind words!

Great suggestion, I will add all those to the README soon; in the meantime here it is:

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Issues: https://github.com/yeahrb/yeah/issues
> In languages like C++ "verbose" means "specific and obvious"

Whoa, no it doesn't. C++ is far more verbose than necessary for things like creating algebraic datatypes or really creating any types.
I work just fine in a language that has no "private" variables or methods. It's not for everyone, and it requires some discipline to not get burned.

Don't get me wrong, I'm big on encapsulation and separation of concerns, etc. But you don't need to force "privacy" onto your class's users in order to achieve it.

The worst thing about having everything public (this is python, btw) is that sometimes it pollutes the auto-complete, and hinders discoverability. It's also not immediately obvious what the user should/shouldn't have access in your class.
Your comment was intended as snark, but in fact asset allocation is more complicated than analyzing year over year returns and comparing them to a benchmark. Investors might put money into an asset class that performs near an index fund, and pay more to do it, simply to have some funds allocated into an asset that isn't correlated with the index. Or the volatility characteristics of the asset classes might be important.
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And I don't understand why we ignore that human beings created the cubicles and there is no random god involved in any of it. Whether there is a human in the cubicle or not is entirely a result of physical processes. Any statement about probability is nothing but an explanation of our ignorance. Yeah, we might not be capable of knowing the totality of physical history of all the people who build the cubicles and where they are now and such... so what? That says nothing about the history of their species.
Our initial customers are primarily retailers but we aren't intentionally limiting ourselves to that market, the platform works across a few different sectors.

We have a Magento plugin as our first drop in integration so if you are running a Magento webstore you can just install and configure a plugin and we will automatically ask all your customers for a review a certain amount of days after purchasing. We also have a few POS and Point of Delivery integrations currently in the pipeline but as it stands they are all custom integration jobs to be branded up as the registered company, maybe this could be addressed with an iPad app that restaurants could present when customers are settling the bill?

It's honestly something we haven't looked at yet but if a potential client wants this to come onboard with us then we are more than happy to put in the development time to provide the solution
Did you get your base metabolic rate measured? Was that helpful? What was the process like?
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Absolutely. That's an awesome project. Our thing is about helping consumers find coffee they love.
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I agree it was a biased statement, but the key issue is that if you roll out soldiers to address a civil disturbance, you need to figure out what they are going to do.

If they are there to prevent escalation, they need to take the abuse hurled at them and suck it up.

Saying "We come in peace and respect you, stand by while we crack your skull open with a truncheon" doesn't exempt your conduct. If standard operating procedure calls for escalation from skull-cracking to rifle fire into a crowd to machine gunning of the crowd, we have a problem.
I wonder if Margaret Wise Brown knew that as she placed the big red barn by the great green field?
I reported this.

Curiously, they patched (but didn't disclose) the more severe half of this bug. Calls to `Model.where(params).create` also don't protect against mass-assignment. I believe this pattern is both much more prevalent and hard to detect.
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Day planning that is aware of open & closing times, with on the fly schedule adjustments. E.g. behind schedule after visiting A, traffic prevents visiting B, too early to visit C, find alternate D that is worthwhile, open and reachable from A.
The Udacity course on debugging speaks directly to looking at correlations between bugs and executions of various portions of code (and the same across bugs).

There's some interesting stuff: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs259
By your reasoning, you can take any quote out of context and use it to make up an argument.

I don't know anything about your experience, but I suspect you have no idea what the hell you're talking about. The fact is that protests out in the rest of the world aren't like protests in San Francisco. I was once in Bangladesh during a "hartal" (general strike). People staying in our hotel were shuttled to the airport under armed guard. Last year, almost 100 people were killed in these sorts of protests. And Bangladesh is a very safe, stable country compared to the ones where the U.S. military usually intervenes. That's the context this manual must be read in.