skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This story is getting out of hands for Volvo and I think it'll make them reevaluate, that having a surcharge for pedestrian detection is detrimental to their brand known for Safety.

But for context, headline is a little misleading as this is not a self-driving situation, rather an individual accelerating to test a collision avoidance feature i.e. "pedestrian detection and auto-braking" Unfortunately, that feature costs extra.

And again, don't be stupid and try this out in real-life even if you have such features enabled. With more 'auto-pilots' and 'AI-self-driving' vehicles coming in the future, I think we'll see more demo stunts like this, with very unhappy stories emerging from them.

Random - dutch tank brake test on recruits, works out ok, this time https://i.imgur.com/sPJPcIc.gif
This is intentional. I wish we didn’t have to do stuff like this, but we do and that’s the "what the fuck". All because the Unicode Committee in 1989 really wanted 16 bits to be enough for everybody, and of course it wasn’t.
S.F. district bans out-of-towners at art high school
Only tangentially related, but I sometimes wonder if GitHub's management regret making GitHub Pages available for free, now that it's being used so heavily for personal and even business blogs, rather than just companion sites for open-source projects. They could be charging for static websites, as Amazon S3 does.
Ground Kontrol is absolutely awesome. I've only been there once, but it was as close to those glory days as I've ever experienced. Absolutely amazing place to go hang out for a few hours. I can't believe the ages of some of the hardware they have working there, stuff that would normally be in a museum behind glass, you can walk right up to and play in anger.
The fact that you associate the Libertarian Party with libertarianism in general demonstrates to me your knowledge is severely lacking in that area. LP has had plenty of schisms and it's a rather divided organization these days.
same. pbs has an actual explanation about 7 links down.
Why this over, say, CESU-8? Compatibility with UTF-8 systems, I guess?
I am surprised, actually. And yet not.

I've interviewed hundreds of people in the past who all on paper had a degree in something numerical. And somehow they can't answer the question "what's the expectation of a dice roll?". That's supposed to be a warmup question.

It simply stretches credulity that someone, anyone, doesn't know this. Same with FizzBuzz. Just about any kid in a high school math class should be able to do either?
The fact that people can't do it suggests a number of hypotheses.

- They think it's a harder question than it really is. One highly qualified lady made a "WTF" face when it dawned on her I was asking a grade 10 question. She didn't want the job later on.

- They think they've missed something, and are scouring their minds against hope that they'll figure out the missing piece.

- I've intimidated them like a bully. People aren't used to interviews where they might fail. Perhaps there's some psychological trigger I've inadvertently hit, and they've turned into rabbits in the headlights.

- They've lied on their CV but have shown up to the interview anyway. Maybe. How long can you blag this kind of thing though?

Maybe my priors (or evidence credulity) are just different from yours.
Rlite: self-contained serverless zero-configuration redis-compatible
Snapchat's Evan Spiegel: ‘We Need to IPO’
It's a lot of work to get a code base publishable. You need to audit every file to make sure you're not including any proprietary code or access keys, then replace those keys with configurable variables and that proprietary code with an open-source alternative.
Justice department officials and congressmen are most definitely not the same people.
I have been using btrfs for several years and it has been fine, except for the few occasions it ran out of space. The problem here is a switch from upstart to systemd has somehow resulted in the latter not behaving as the former wrt to /etc/fstab.
There are definitions of fascism by which Moldbug is advocating fascism. There are definitions of fascism by which FDR or Woodrow Wilson were fascists. The definition of fascist by which Moldbug is a fascist is not the same definition that made fascist a synonym for evil incarnate. Moldbug certainly does not want a mob with pitchforks to take over the government and to murder the Jews and go on a global plan of conquest. To thus smear him by association with such an ideology is to be maliciously uncharitable.

The purpose of his blog is to create hyperbole in the opposite direction of the current prevailing ideologies. The blog is shock treatment to get you to think about our society as a time traveler from two hundred years in the past or in the future might see it. He tries to snap you out of presentism. So there is a lot of crazy stuff in it. But there is a lot of information and perspectives that can be found nowhere else, and if you read them and incorporate them into your world views, you will have a more accurate picture of current reality, and you will make better predictions about world events.

I do agree with the long-winded part. Some people like his whimsical, sci-fi jargon infused, verbose writing style, others cannot stand it. That is a matter of taste.
Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever
Mary Meeker's 2015 Internet Trends
Of course, as with whenever you change something fundamental like this, some programs will get slower while others get faster. That's the nature of trade offs.

It's not really suspect. The benchmarks reflect execution speed. The new GC trades a little raw throughput for lower GC latency. So you would expect a GC-heavy benchmark to show the greatest speed loss. What matters for go users, though, is the behaviour of real programs. Real programs benefit from the reduced latency of the GC and other compiler optimisations we have made since 1.4. The outcome, in our measurements, is roughly equivalent performance for most programs but with significantly shorter GC pauses.
According to the article, they wanted a superset of UTF-8, which CESU-8 is not. https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/#cesu-8
MySQL is actually a really good key value store!

Here's the schema we use for the routing information:

CREATE TABLE `pages_routes` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`user_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`host` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `index_pages_routes_on_user_id` (`user_id`)
);

Since we use MySQL for everything else, we decided it made the most sense to keep this routing data here rather than introducing a new database.
TL:DR

A lot of poor people use android , poor people don't spend a lot and don't click many ads.Therefore Android is doomed.
The charges allege a conspiracy involving (among others) US persons (individuals and corporations), making extensive use of US financial institutions, and obstruction of justice relating to US law enforcement investigation related to that conspiracy.
Free Cydia Download for iOS 8.3
All of Cory Doctorow's books are free online: http://craphound.com/

I enjoyed Little Brother and its sequel Homeland quite a lot.
Great example of YAGNI, related to the post by martin fowler posted earlier today on HN.
Even before they started adding malware installers, downloads redirected through an extra ad page (and interfered with curl, wget, etc).
They could give the user a button or something to send their location into to whomever they are currently chatting with (to one person in person-to-person chat, or to the group in multi-user chat. This would give the user complete control over their data while still allowing most of the utility.

Of course, this wouldn't give facebook a detailed map of their user's movements.
The incumbents they've displaced are insanely horrendous pieces of crap (I will name none of them) and as a technical person they are all light years ahead. People that badly implemented a previous technology stack are likely to mess it up again though (see CMDB implementations). SOAP services that at least kind of work are even a god-send in this market let alone something resembling REST. The sales cycles for these stacks previously were so long that entire generations of software came and went along with architectural patterns.
As with any proper crowdsourced website, you can edit broken links yourself ;-)
Does MapQuest still exist? Yes, and it’s a profitable business
Our VLC account has been taken too by sf-editor-1.

Fortunately, we've moved to our mirror infrastructure since quite some time, and it's faster and way better.

Btw, if any other open source project needs help to distribute their binaries (because of the size), please contact me.

PS-EDIT: signing the installer was a good idea, I guess :)
Where did you get this title from? Seems to me that it has nothing to do with the article.

What am I missing?
As a developer in the Bay Area, I find our lot to be pretty picky about where we work and what we work on. Acquihire "Golden Handcuffs" make us miserable. (What a terrible problem to have, right?) I admire Ilya's persistence in working for $8/hr because he had to. It lends a bit of perspective to hear his story. Thank you, Ilya!
The official win32 gimp installers were not made by sourceforge, but by the GIMP contributor now locked out of managing the relevant sourceforge account. The same win32 installers that used to be provided on sourceforge are now provided from gimp.org directly http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows/ the problem is the nice binaries being replaced by sourceforge made installers that also install adware.
Why Aren't the Aliens Here Already?
I don't think you have followed me at all. The intention is to send a noisy level of encrypted 'constant' bandwidth. The activity has the same random level of increased and decreased activity the whole time, active or inactive.

How are you not getting this?

endpoint0-n ---> 'server' ---> endpoint0-n

where ---> is a random level of encrypted noisy signal.
the endpoint does not open a connection to the other endpoint, it opens it to the 'server'.

no amount of traffic analysis or packet injection is going to mess with that.

the absolute best traffic analysis can do is provide a 1/n probability based on active connections to the 'server' that endpointA was talking to endpointB.

> we have to make the latency worse.

> there's a notion that latency is good for anonymity

we have to do something because of a notion?

i give up.
Since we have a Presidential election coming up in the US, expect a lot of psychotic SEO activity.
GitHub supports releases w/ binary attachments[0]. I think the only thing they're missing at this point is shell access.

[0] https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
Couldn't he also sell the options on the Second Market for a bit of a discount?
You're sort of combining two things: 1) Docker makes it super simple for anyone to package software and run it 2) Dockerhub makes it simple to share software that you have packaged with other people.

Personally, my biggest gripe with Dockerhub is that a Dockerfile should be required in order to upload to the hub, and it should show the Dockerfile that produced each version. The fact that people can create fundamentally unreproducible binaries is nasty (there's also the issue of not specifying versions in the apt/yum steps used in the Dockerfiles, but that's just a general problem with the way package management software is designed).

None of that's a problem with Docker itself though.
India does one thing interesting in regards to its diaspora.

Like some HNers here advocate for the US, India restricts foreign ownership of things like land, companies etc. (Personally I think it hurts India but that's another discussion.)

So if someone leaves India and becomes a citizen of another country they lose those rights. A couple of decades ago the government figured out this was a problem, so now Indian-born noncitizens and some decedents of Indian citizens get some ability to travel, invest etc as if they were locals -- even better in some cases because they can repatriate earnings).

As a kid in South East Asia I saw how Chinese family-based affinity networks contributed to the well being, wealth and general prosperity of Cantonese immigrants (my mother, an Indian childhood emigrant who grew up speaking chinese, was weirdly tied in which is how I saw these).

India's emigrants for whatever reason didn't have the same kind of informal structure, but cleverly the government formalized the mechanism which is actually more powerful. Let's see if they can really make use of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-resident_Indian_and_person_...
I have a similar feeling. I don't really like GOPATH, but I'm trying to come to terms with it.

Your Go "project" goes in $GOPATH/src, i.e. your git repo would be in $GOPATH/src/github.com/user/repo

If you have your main pkg in $REPO/service, then you can build like so: go build github.com/user/repo/service (this can be ran from anywhere as it uses $GOPATH)

If you need to add a dependency, use: go get github.com/.... and go get will add it to $GOPATH/src/ which you can then import.
"The Open Source Mirror Directory is an extension to our existing software directory, where we'll be mirroring projects that are not hosted on SourceForge, and SourceForge projects that have been abandoned."

Why are we doing this?
We want the SourceForge software directory to be as useful as possible. When you come here to search for a piece of software, we want you to be able to find it, and find the most up to date releases. And if that software isn't hosted on SourceForge, we still want you to be able to find it. Or if a SourceForge project has been abandoned, we want it moved to the mirror and maintained, so you can always find the newest releases. Millions of people use SourceForge every day to search for Open Source software, and we want to give them the best experience possible, even if the best answer to their search is a project hosted elsewhere, or an abandoned project newly maintained by the SourceForge team.

http://sourceforge.net/mirror/
From my experience it's quite easy to get a patent issued if you have enough lawyers on staff.
I have been at brainstorming sessions at a big company where we came up with around 10 ideas within an hour and often at least one of them ended up being a patent.
It doesn't neccessarily mean all of them are affected, but I think it's a call for a close inspection.
Homegrown every time, sadly.

EDIT:

Reason being, you can more easily deal with silly things like goofy hosts, goofy networks, possible lack of internet connections, bad host OS support, etc.

The normal downsides of doing it yourself of course apply.
Heroku already does this pretty well, not sure what the benefit would be?
I remember seeing a talk about a Github Pages rearchitecture at Erlang Factory in SF in 2012: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2012/speakers/...

I don't see anything about those components in this post. Did that architecture never make it to production?
I like the part about iOS representing the 75% of mobile ad revenue for Google without even linking to the source

Yes, some analyst at Goldman says something in a report and now is an stated fact like I'm saying in some other sites.
OK, doesn't work when you swipe. Not sure why I would think to tap the edges.
Hash-based partitioning has a big problem that when you change the hash size all of the data moves around. Eventually you'll need to do a lookup-based partitioning scheme. You also probably want control over where some users live since you don't want two super hot users on the same server.
Exactly. The World Cup being what it is could be played in a public park, and people would still skip their kid's birth to watch it.

And yet FIFA insists on a bunch of expensive stadiums each time.
I think the leap they'd have to make in infrastructure and architecture to support that is not worth it in their mind. But who knows.
Autoprefixer 5.2 is out with appearance support, warnings and 30% faster
http://learncodethehardway.org/
Great books not just about the language, but the tools that help make utilizing the language that much easier.
A page with an actual play button, https://chrislo.github.io/drum_synthesis/

How can an article detailing the synthesis of drum sounds using web audio apis and not have a play button?
But no institutional capacity to grow new researchers. Producing PhDs is a highly resource intensive endeavor that requires a ton of institutional support. Universities consider it their mission but private companies have no interest in it, even if it's vital to their long term success.
Interesting advertizing industry trend based analysis of Google's and Facebook's financials of late and some future projections - quite informative.
A significant amount also seem to saturate their line, especially on photo-heavy static sites
WebSockets from Scratch
My experience with Minitest and RSpec
My primary contention with your post is that docker doesn't provide a package-manager-like way of ifnding out whether or not you're running older images. Everyone has their own homegrown way of doing it.

1. Don't use old shit
2. Docker should provide a way to tell you you're not running the latest tagged image so you stop running old shit
3. Don't use base images whose maintainers can't be bothered to rebuild when security updates hit
Nothing to worry about: find a great new job and move on. You don't owe your current employer anything. You clearly don't like your current job, so change it.

You'll feel so much better afterwards.

Recruitment fees are none of your concern. And frankly, working for a digital agency, what did you expect? Pro tip: for your next job, ask for more money. The higher your salary, the better you are treated.
Hmm, ok. I think I get that -- I'll have to see if I can symlink into the GOPATH; I feel like I read somewhere you can't. I'd like to avoid making my GOPATH be a subdir in the containing repo.

Thanks!
Jsblocks, React, Angular Performance Compared with Weya.coffee
Doesn't even necessarily have to transfer data with web workers, service workers, caching, etc.

Google IO 2015, I believe, stores it's data so that when you load it up it loads from a cache that it's service worker will reload once you have it open. Allowing it to work offline and removing the cost of transfer at the beginning.

I believe, not 100% on that.
Crash iPhone with a Single text Message
Why are all the visual special effects studios going bust?
That seems unlikely to happen (that they would prevent you from uploading pictures), and also totally off-topic
Ask HN: I'm not self-motivated but I'd like to be a founder
I have tried a lot over several years, but I just can't keep myself motivated enough to follow through on my projects. However, when there are people guiding me, giving me deadlines, etc., like in a job, I can work wonders. Am I doomed to a corporate job forever or can I ever be a founder?
The Puzzle That Infuriated Mathematicians
> People there now actually believe the evil Western boogeyman is out to get them.

Even Henry Kissinger believes their fears to be well-founded.
My phone – which combines GPS with GLONASS – usually gets about 40m accuracy with just GPS, but with combined GPS and GLONASS I have about 24 satellites in view, even in buildings, getting better than 1m precision.
Internet Trends 2015 by Mary Meeker
Oh, I'm fairly sure my unholy abuse of decorators and dynamic __import__() trumps any time I've ever used a bare 'except:' in the past (and I think I got rid of all my old bare 'except:'s during a code cleanup anyway).
Coding for IE8 compatibility is sadface
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This is precisely for these reasons we stopped distributing VLC via SF.net in 2013. I even wrote about it:
https://blog.l0cal.com/2013/05/02/rethinking-vlc-mirrors-inf...
I'm always frustrated when I see non-significant precision used in articles. Even more so when they are technical in nature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures
Wow, CC BY-SA (Share-alike) and not CC BY-NC-SA (Non Commercial) like I expected. I commend you guys for believing in your publishing model and vision by taking that risk.
>America is not exceptional,

You're on an American site, on the American made internet, using American root DNS, using American made TCP/IP, using an American OS, writing in American English, and on a site about American entrepreneurship in the American silicon valley/tech industry discussing America's space program, which is the envy of the world.

There's a reason we're not all talking on some Chinese or Russian site.
Ahh got it. I have only really used lxc, so not super familiar with docker other than it being a container tech. Thanks for the explanation :D
Phone? I didn't mention a phone; both Facebook and Meetup are entirely usable via their websites.

We have about 40-50 active and semi-active members (on Meetup), hold a fundraiser, and yet the organizers still have to chip in to make up the inevitable shortfall.

Whether or not to use Facebook (or Meetup for that matter) is something everybody gets to decide for themselves and preaching about what they should do is silly.
If it's a static file with no dynamic compression (nginx allows the use of pre-compressed assets) or SSL, nginx doesn't even have to open the file, it just uses the sendfile system call.
Works on iojs 2.0
https://github.com/yosuke-furukawa/iojs-new-features#strong-...
Thank you for sharing this; my condolences on your wife. As someone staring down many of the same barrels, it is food for thought.
OpenStack professional certification is on its way
> FIFA is not a public institution, it's a private association. How a private club wants to structure payments is entirely up to them.

The bribery charges aren't about payments to FIFA, they are about payments (for instance) that constitute fraud against FIFA (and various other subordinate soccer organizations, among others) as an organization. [0] In some cases, these are frauds that were being investigated when the relevant officials resigned from FIFA (ending the FIFA investigations, but not retroactively negating the fraud.)

While organizations current executives may have power over the organization, they aren't legally indistinguishable from the organization.

> Can't believe Blatter and his cronies would be so stupid

Its not uncommon for powerful people with a tendency to corruption to be, or become after years of smaller transgressions not seeming to have consequences, arrogant enough to commit major transgressions that authorities are willing and able to prosecute.

[0] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2088...
I used Swift and Objective-C. Mainly Swift, even though I didn't even know it before April. I used FBShimmering, PureLayout, and SCLAlertView in it.
I believe that only CNAMEs use the CDN for custom domains (naked domains do not) [0]. So that rules out a chunk but there will be lots of cache misses too. Maybe someone from GH can confirm.

[0] https://help.github.com/articles/about-custom-domains-for-gi...
I suppose this is the fate of those that trust Google as their source of worldview - biased answers.

However, when asking actual questions about physical things like fixing cars, resetting mac OSX images, and keeping meat in the fridge for more than 5 days - it works great! I love it!
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One thing I don't get is why this form of corruption is illegal. FIFA is a sort of international club, right? If I make an international group for the placement of Tiddlywinks world cups, and I make some internal rules for it, why does the state care how the politics turns out? Is it illegal to bribe someone making some private decision?