skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good for you Boz! Some people go their whole lives without learning that lesson. One of my favorite pieces of advice I ever received was "be direct, be specific, and be non-punishing." At the time, I thought it was trite advice, but its one of the more useful tidbits I've heard.
Except the price people would be willing to pay would be more as rents increased. You have to live somewhere.

Landlords don't eat tax increases. Anywhere, ever.
I will check those out, thanks. This is indeed a fascinating topic. I guess every scientist wants to understand learning.

The connection comes up in david mckay's Information Theory book too, a reading I definitively recommend, although I haven't been through it properly myself.

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf
I did the same thing for the Hungarian layout, and it took me I think max an hour, you should try it too.

You can find the link to Ukelele in the end of the README file.
What Might Happen If an Airliner Hit a Small Drone?
Thanks - thinking of putting up a version that has not been pretrained, so users can see the training over several generations. I think I have one lying around - remind me on twitter if I forget.

I'm also trying to learn 'deep q learning' (q-learning with a neural net as the q function) and other cool stuff that has recently been developed.

btw, I think your previous post with the 'brain' of 140 numbers is messing up this thread a bit on my browser for some reason and the comments not wrap, wonder if there's a way to fix it.
I totally overlooked that, thank you for pointing out. Thankfully the fix is simple. I've updated the original post.
> (a lot of them on HN -- note the downvotes)

You're getting at least some downvotes for your ridiculously hostile aggressive tone.
I guess Bill Ackman's assistant gave be the downvote here.
I see what you are driving at and I agree, the laws do get abused.

I think though, you may be slightly misunderstanding my point: Wearing a seatbelt doesn't significantly reduce your freedom in any real way. It's not hard to comply with the law, it doesn't cost you time or money and it doesn't effect any of our other freedoms significantly.

To your point though: NOT wearing your belt is something that can land you in situations that put you at risk of abuse to your freedoms.
Isn't sampling from a signal basically what FRP is? I can't really tell if this fits the other requirements of FRP like referential transparency, etc.
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Ha! Perhaps. I'm sure it's a lot of things. I also grew up working on fishing boats in Alaska and what passed for civil discourse out there would be fighting words in most professional environments.

Mindfulness is tough though. I've actually had to work pretty hard on being aware of my reactions and the intentions behind them. If I find myself getting upset, my face getting hot or my fingers tingling, then I ask myself what it is I want out of the situation I'm in. Usually the best way to get that is to take a deep breath and try to understand _why_ the other person doesn't understand my point of view.

Of course, being aggressive is a very useful trait at times. Learning when to use that trait is the tricky part.
lots of mexican politicians use this scheme...
"When I ride alone I can maybe go top to bottom in slightly under 20m but I'm flying and really pushing it the whole time, I wonder if the drone could even keep up in that situation (speed would be over 25mph almost the entire time)."

Where do you ski? 20 min at 25 mph implies an 8.3 mile long run.
HTML is like Powerpoint? Wow, if only it was that easy. It's more like Excel IMO if we really want to make such an asinine comparison.
Adjusted for inflation that should be well beyond the GDP of New Zealand.
Actual analysis: http://www.uasamericafund.com/assets/micro-uav-safety-analys...
This was my question on Stack Exchange! I was so angry because I was so curious how this worked, but I was downvoted to hell.
Meanwhile it's also a "who cares?" problem for the npm people. They don't use this OS, and don't expect ever to do so.

I think the node_modules directory structure is a novel, though straightforward, solution to the problem of interdependent module versioning. It's very Unix; it reminds me a bit of GNU stow. It makes perfect sense that it will be tweaked in the new npm to be less redundant, but it only really makes sense to tweak systems that already work perfectly. (Otherwise they should be fixed first, then tweaked.) Certainly it's better than having a separate LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting for every command invocation! (even that doesn't fix everything...)
There's a documentary about the 808 coming out this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIS-o_--wqY

Looks amazing.
You can extend this argument to the size of your soft drink, the amount of sugar in your diet, the amount of exercise you get. The right to be left alone when you aren't bothering others, and the right to self determination are more important than your right to save other peoples' lives by the threat of fines and arrest. Even for fools who don't wear their seat belts.
Thanks for the support. I didn't actually see that post go negative -- it's well into positive territory as I write this -- but it isn't that surprising to me.

There are a lot of people in tech, and particularly in web-related tech, who are very enthusiastic, but whose admirable enthusiasm is not always matched by their realism or level of experience. Any time you challenge an idealised view that something that's being done today is inherently better than something that was done yesterday, you tend to get some resistance. This tends to go double when the reasons for the challenge are based on pragmatic concerns rather than simply trying to use the newest and shiniest tech, as in this case.

There have been many examples over the years: the old CSS-vs-table-layout debate, progressive enhancement/graceful degradation, general hostility towards any sort of plug-ins, general hostility towards DRM schemes (or charging for access to anything, for that matter), "evergreen" browsers vs. IE, A/B testing vs. just about anything else, and recently more variations involving JS or CSS frameworks than I can even count any more. And of course $deity help you if you think flat design is mostly poorly executed rubbish and the worst general trend in design and usability for a generation, because Apple, Microsoft and Google all love it so it must be good! ;-)

So whether or not it attracts some downvotes, I think it's important for someone to challenge new assumptions in these kinds of cases. That's how we figure out what really works, because it stands up to scrutiny. It's also how we shine a light on people who are "moving forward in reverse", however good their intentions or interesting their ideas, and try to steer the industry a tiny bit closer towards something more productive.
Much more likely to have warm days in warm climates.
> I for one am pretty decided to move to Firefox once Mozilla integrates Servo into it

Hooray! I'm excited to have you back. :)

If your switch is gated on Servo, you might be in for a long wait: we're moving small, modular components into Firefox as we're able, but completely changing implementation languages for parts of a browser used by hundreds of millions of people is a slow, deliberate process which involves pretty significant changes not only to our codebase, but also to our build infrastructure.

Right now the immediate goal is to share either an image decoder or the URL parser between Servo and Firefox. Quite likely by the end of the year.

Follow these bugs to find out more when things land:

https://bugzil.la/oxidation, https://bugzil.la/1151899, https://bugzil.la/1161350

> I'm also waiting for Mozilla to implement its multi-process sandboxing system

I believe we're uplifting multi-process into the Dev Edition 40 release in a week or so. If not, it'll be in 41. Goal is to have it on by default in the release channel by the end of the year: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Schedule
What created the mess ultimately was the IBM PC being cloned, I think.
AT&T home Internet falls short, years after promising 100% coverage
> You can solve that by deciding that certain types of communication should be done face to face.

And in the case where your only relationship with these people is online in the first place? (As in this community, but also in quite a few FOSS projects or remote-only companies.)
Hmm. I don't think you have to be phony to be kind. In fact, I think it's easier to be kind, not more exhausting. If you think a little bit about how the other person might feel, you save an enormous amount of time dealing with them getting angry or upset. With egos out of the way, you can focus instead on the problem you both want to solve. This makes both of you look good and it might make a friend out of someone who could have been an enemy.

I'm a lot better at this today than I used to be, mostly because I don't take work so personally today. I still want to do well, but if I screw up, I don't take it as an indictment of myself as a person. This makes it a lot easier to, say, admit something is my fault QUICKLY -- if it is -- which allows us to focus on the solution instead of whose fault it is.

There are (IMO very rare) occasions where a soft word won't do the trick, and that is what the big stick is for. But almost everyone, even very obnoxious people, usually respond very well to a little bit of niceness, and it costs basically nothing to give it a try.
Based off of my vague memory, in "How To Win Friends and Influence People", one main point is not to contradict people. In text or in person, never tell someone they're wrong.

In general, when I want to correct someone's understanding I frame it as a failure of my own understanding. Like, hey, I'm the asshole here, would you do me a favor by going over this one more time for me? This is great because it allows the other person to graciously concede your point, and to feel like they're the one helping you. It's also great because when it turns out you're wrong, you don't have to backtrack.

Additionally I find it useful as an exercise in suspending belief. Sure, I think I'm right, but let's set that belief aside for a moment and explore our understanding. Nothing misleads people more than the conviction that they're right.
How typical of the DRM/closed-web subset of the tech community to justify their collaboration with accusations of piracy at those of us trying to create a free and open web.

Resisting any type of DRM from the very beginning is important, because the fight will be a lot harder once there is an established community of users. Educating people about DRM is hard enough; it is almost impossible when it also requires convincing people to give up some service (i.e. netflix) that they have grown accustomed to.

This is the latest battle the ongoing War On General Purpose Computing[1], and a lot of people that should know better are choosing movies and the dream of short-term profits over long-term freedom.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nypRYpVKc5Y
Man's Struggle to Regain His Face After Selling It to Internet Companies
I'm fairly confident it would destroy the jet engine. The shrapnel from the drone is likely to blow the very tight tolerances between the compressor blades and the body of the jet engine, causing jams.
According to the Pew Research Center's polling, most Americans are in favor of marriage equality, and have been since 2011: http://www.pewforum.org/2014/09/24/graphics-slideshow-changi...
To some Gmail may not been very different from Hotmail or Yahoo Mail, and email predates those products as well. All three were invented with hopes of attracting users by brining a better experience to email. That was precisely the point of my comment—that there have been a large number of products that have been introduced to enhance email.

A few of these products have been very widely adopted. Some others have been adopted but to a lesser degrees. Some (e.g. spam filtering, which used to be completely independent of mail clients/services) have become so universal that they are now shipped as features of the clients themselves.

Sometimes products are so successful that it's hard to remember what it was like before they came out. While every person has preferences for this or that service, there is a reason why so many people now use gmail instead of what they used previously, which was often their ISP provided address and a desktop client. Good clients are just one such example.
Except, if that were true, why not just make it a free paper? Presumably ad targeting... I understand the limitations of their existing revenue model. It just results in some pretty consumer-unfriendly offerings, at the expense of readership and penetration...

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EDIT: Went back to look at the numbers... They have tons of online eyeballs - those eyeballs just don't make much money. They manage to double their digital revenue with the paywall. Even so, it's dwarfed by the print revenue.

This may shift as advertisers see the value of targeted online user groups... I could totally imagine the NYT of the future being a collection of blogs dealing in Tech, Biz, World News, Local News, etc. Ads on the Biz site would be targeted differently than on the World News site. This might give advertisers what they want in terms of a differentiated audience.

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From the 2014 Annual Report:

Average Paper Circulation in U.S. (Int'l)
648,900 (219,500) for weekday (Monday to Friday)
1,185,400 (220,500) for Sunday

Paid Digital Subscribers
910,000 as of December 28, 2014

Monthly (Annual) Digital Readership
31MM (372MM) unique desktop/laptop visitors (U.S.)
42MM (504MM) unique desktop/laptop visitors (WW)
28MM (336MM) unique mobile device visitors (U.S.)

Off these eyeballs, they made:

$667.5MM from print subscribers
$169.3MM from digital subscribers

$483.5MM from print advertising
$178.8MM from digital advertising
This misses the mark completely on what the NYC building market is like.

For better or worse, building rights are extremely limited. Developers do everything they can to get more building rights. I can't think of any recent building that went up and was limited by demand for space and not by what the building code would allow them to build.

You can assume that given a different set of incentives, the buildings going up would have a different mix of units.
Netflix CEO predicts future of TV, looks forward 20 years
> Or does it truly rely on blackbox obfuscation?

The client ultimately has to decrypt the data somehow. So the key is there on the client. I take it obfuscation is the only thing standing between the user and that key. Am I correct about that?

Which makes me wonder: How much security does HTML5 DRM really provide? Security through obscurity is a very weak defense, and one that is almost invariable defeated sooner or later. Will this really prove a hindrance to piracy in the long run?
That level of accuracy would be hard to achieve. Most radio signals (eg. BTLE) don't travel well through water (eg. snow).

Additionally, if you've ever dug someone out in the field (or practiced doing so) it takes a lot of effort to move snow. Being within three meters isn't good enough.
I don't think the parent's point was about purity of not having DRM in firefox, but rather that since Firefox's user base has decreased so much in recent years, Mozilla no longer has the leverage they used to in terms of browser features. In other words, if Firefox had 50% share of browser usage, they would be in a position to prevent EME from becoming an industry standard -- but since they have a much lower percentage (10% I think if you take mobile into account), they felt forced by pragmatism to include it.
I will be googling with descriptions of my problem.

You should have something in those search results that catches my eye.
More interesting are the differences caused by the medium of Morse Code. The characters are variable length and the dashes are 3x as long as the dots. So dash-heavy letters* are more likely to be dropped. Also why you rarely see numbers: the longest letter is four symbols but every digit is five symbols. In many cases it would be faster to use roman numerals.

* 3 dashes: J O Q Y. 2 dashes: C G K M P W X Z.
This is Firefox giving up without even attempting a fight.
This is a fantastic article from Boz. I have to be blunt in my criticism, however, as I imagine Boz would expect and appreciate. I had a few run-ins with him in the early 2010s and I don't see much evidence that he learned from these experiences or changed his basic working pattern. Or maybe he was even more raw before I met him. :) I learned very early on not to have anything Boz wanted nor to cross him. It's hard to judge the impact of what people don't say, once they get into the habit of not saying certain things around you.
Exactly this. IMHO, the first paragraph quoted above is especially important to understand.

This post reads like someone discovering the line between aggressive and assertive. Aggressive is most definitely unkind. Assertive is often confused with unkind, but it isn't really that: it's about demonstrating respect both for yourself and for those around you.
Hauptmann Vaterland
Why do I now imagine Elon busting in to the apartment like Kramer, spinning around wildly then just proclaiming something like "piezoquantum computers, Larry! We could put them in all the tires!"
This submission raises an interesting question about HN submission policy with regard to titles.

The actual title of the article is "Drive In A Red State? You’re More Likely To Die. Here’s Why" (and there is an earlier submission using that title [1]).

However, it appears that the submitter may be the author of the article.

Does the rule about not changing titles apply when it is the author of the article doing the submission?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9532196
I agree with your sentiment, I think the author makes some decent points but is pretty biased towards an aesthetic he prefers and the art tools he's most familiar with. The sf4 example is particularly demonstrating of that, people that do 3d modeling know that it's not as easy to get the arbitrary distortion effects you can do with frame by frame animation, that doesn't make it lower quality animation, it's a trade off of the medium. And art is about the overall impression it leaves on the viewer, not the technical specifics about how the pants look odd on 2 frames of a 100 frame motion
AFAIK the game is not learning when playing a human.

There is a flag to control learning in the javascript trainingMode = false;
Here's my list of suggestions:

http://digitalmind.io/post/deep-learning
Not just yet.

I think it's super obvious and would rather nobody beat me to the punch.
I don't disagree that Mozilla was never a purist organization, but I think the suggestion is well substantiated. From the post announcing it:

"With most competing browsers and the content industry embracing the W3C EME specification, Mozilla has little choice but to implement EME as well so our users can continue to access all content they want to enjoy. (…) We have come to the point where Mozilla not implementing the W3C EME specification means that Firefox users have to switch to other browsers to watch content restricted by DRM."

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi...
You are talking nonsense.

:-)
If you read the article, the author is talking about his relationship with coworkers, so I'm going to assume we are talking about one's relationship with coworkers. That being the case, I certainly hope you don't think any of your coworkers are "useless."

You don't have to be kind; you don't have to be anything. On the other hand, if you want to be a good engineer, with goodness defined as how much one contributes to the team/company, then you probably should be kind. If you feel like your teammate is unmotivated then it seems like if you want to be a good engineer you would do your best to motivate that person.

Having an uncaring attitude towards your coworkers could well lower their motivation which would mean your net contribution to the team is lessened as well.
Sync was great until it locked all my folders and demanded $39 to start working again. Their free tier makes it sound like you get 10 shares free but I think it actually turned out to be 10 folders including sub-folders within a share...
>Wearing a seatbelt doesn't significantly reduce your freedom in any real way.

I agree. I wear my seat belt. I think it is foolish not to do so. I also think it is a driver's right to decide that; and that a driver's failure to wear the seat belt does not harm others in any appreciable way. It's also not a requirement to fail to wear your seat belt in order for an officer to stop you, s/he only needs to fail to notice your seat belt.
Talking about straw men, he also mentioned guns and toy rockets.
My experience: They had a drug dog sniffing at the vehicle without making it stop for the dog. They actually asked me to keep going, a little bit short of the stop sign, when I stopped for fear of running the dog over while it was very energetically sniffing in front of and at the sides of the vehicle.
Sorry, but I'll believe it when I see it being sold in stores. This has Kickstarter syndrome written all over it. Meaning, a really cool idea and flashy video, but it's in "pre-order" and there's no guarantee when it will actually ship. And even when it does, I'd rather wait for reviews to tell me how good it works rather than trust a marketing video.
Karma 854, probably all for this. This community is going to crap.
Being well-known also means your worst moments get more attention than might be deserved. Even kind people have bad days, but a bad day for a Fortune 10 CEO can follow them for life. Maybe unfair, but it's one of the (more reasonable) reasons for the inflated paycheck.
At least until recently, it was pretty difficult to use node to wire together applications piping from one to another like you can do in a shell language... The recent cp.execSync addition along with ShellJS go a long way though...

That's not to say I wouldn't use it... it's actually my preference, and I've used npm for stuff that isn't strictly even node, but ymmv.
This.

This was very confusing to me when I lived in New York. The property tax rate is terrifying (19 percent annually???), but then you realize that the basis for each property is reduced by a fudge factor such that the effective rate is in the same range that it is in other places.

I suspect that the reason that they do this is to stop people from hassling the city constantly about their assessment. In places like MA, where they make an honest attempt to keep assessments close to 1:1 on value (mine changed annually in the time that I owned the house, often going DOWN -- this was 2007-2010), people are constantly appealing their valuations.
> But some people tend to be elitist and frown upon them. :)

That may be due to the fact that the little smile at the end of a sentence can look really self-satisfied or fake.

Especially if you were to dismiss any complainers by calling them elitists, and afterward tack a smile on the end of the sentence. Here, I'm being nice too! :) :) :)
see reply - are you happy now?
There have been a plethora of these. I don't remember much because I'd NEVER pay for DRMed media that I wasn't sure I couldn't get around. E.g. DVD is OK since there are plenty of rippers.

Here are a few cases I recall:

Microsoft screwed a bunch of people with PlaysForSure. Even the brown bar of turd wouldn't play it:

The Zune and PlaysForSure music are both
Certified for Windows Vista, yet the Zune
cannot play PlaysForSure music purchased
from the MSN Music Store[1]

MLB did the same thing:

Some hardcore baseball fans have been left
stranded on third base by Major League Baseball
after it decided to change DRM systems. As a
result, game footage purchased under the old
DRM scheme are no longer viewable, leaving fans
with unwatchable footage—and no refunds.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plays_for_sure
[2] http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/11/major-league-ba...