skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also blame subsidies and zoning laws. Free highway and road construction counted as a massive subsidy for sprawl, and zoning laws force sprawl in many cases by outright prohibiting the location of any place of business where people live or any mixed-use development.

Excessive sprawl is not a result of pure free market activity. The 'burbs are heavily subsidized, legally encouraged, and heavily regulated. My personal hypothesis is that the 'burbs served (intentionally or not) as a massive post-WWII work project to employ vast numbers of people in construction and real estate.

(Not necessarily a free market fundamentalist ideologue, but this is one thing you can't blame on them.)

I do agree with the article to a point though. America certainly has a nostalgic preoccupation with agrarian and rural life that has been used to sell the faux-ruralism pastiche of suburbia. It's a contributing factor in that it makes these ridiculous wastelands marketable.
Not to disagree with you, but to add a data point (or rather an anecdote) - I heard a few people from Moscow claiming that they're more afraid of cops than criminals.

(Of course, even if it's not an exaggeration and even if it reflects the actual probabilities of getting hurt by cops and criminals there, it does not follow that things wouldn't be even worse without a police force.)
A bit of Arduino magic and a few minutes alone with an unlocked car (or locked but otherwise vulnerable) and that wired port could become wireless.
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The article mentioned a religious documentary she was interviewed for. Here is that interview.

https://youtu.be/TjDzR5plpS4?t=15m52s
You can check out this FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/launchpad/. It's the most well known discussion group for startups in Viet Nam. Around 70% of the posts include English translation.
Nice article, but the jab at Jefferson is completely inane. Soooo many other nascent societal/cultural forces at work in the 1800s/early 1900s that coalesced into the suburban office park. Without knowing the context of the quote, it seems even Jefferson was off in directly equating corruption with the centerpiece of human civilization. It's also a seemingly colloquial letter to a friend. I'm also probably reading too much into this now.
The thing about Tolkien we cannot possibly 'get' is the novelty of fantasy in the way he wrote it. Reading LOTR having not been immersed in the genre of fantasy must have felt very different. The review is fascinating with its comparisons to the Waste Land, Ulysses, and comment that it might not be a novel at all.

In some ways Dracula or Frankenstein have the same issues. We read them as originators of a genre, not as utterly different and unique artefacts of culture.

It always makes me wonder about the space of genres. What other genres are possible, waiting only for a progenitor?
Try reading literally any comment thread next time
As opposed to the alternative of someone specifically leveraging this with the intent to doreal harm? They could have gone about this in a safer manner but the person you should be upset with is the manufacturer not the person pointing out a large gaping problem.
Most of your comment was on-point, but you're incorrect here:

> Bankroll management is part of being a skilled player. If you are playing with a roll suitable for the level you are playing at, 20 buy-ins usually, and still meet ruin then you aren't beating variance then you are a bad player, not just having bad luck.

There's a strong suvivorship bias present here. Most poker pros never busted their 20-roll buy-in--that's probably true. Plenty of very good players had some very bad luck and busted a 20 buy-in 'roll.

Some very smart professionals--leatherass, for instance--recommend 100 buy-in bankrolls.

Even then, if you play long enough (as in many lifetimes in aggregate), you will eventually go bust. So certainly it's happend that otherwise qualified players have blown through 100 buyin 'rolls due in large part to variance.
It's particularly because getting big headlines is so enticing and intoxicating that research labs have review boards.
I worked with .NET for years and never made a desktop app. C# is a great language to work in when making backend services for websites, IMO (even though there's a whole load of crap that comes along with the framework).

These days I've moved on, but .NET is far from a desktop-only thing. Particularly when you can make iOS apps with Xamarin, etc.
The author chose an outside scene with blue sky as a demonstration. This is exactly where one in reality does NOT have soft shadows due the the small apparent size of the sun. A indoor scene with an extended light source would have been a better choice.
Intel set to release Skylake processors?
Intel is set to release their 6th generation Skylake processors on August 5th. These require(?) the new LGA 1151 sockets.

Are there any new pitfalls or suggestions on specing out and building a new home workstation?
I think you are engaging in a false analogy here. Comparing a grill to an oven is like comparing a passenger car to a panel truck: they are in the same broad class of thing but serve different purposes.

A better analogy would be that of a grill that can use gas or charcoal as the fuel; different means to the same purpose.
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The difference is your 'dumb mechanic' made an unintentional mistake.

These people, on the other hand, knowingly and deliberately disabled a car on a highway. Yes, they had a plan, but they are still running their little experiment on other unwitting drivers on the highway. I don't consider the manner in which they ran their test to be ethical; it should have been performed on a closed track.
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Whereas editing in Final Cut or Adobe Premiere can take even experienced editors a few hours, Shred Video can cut these videos down in a matter of seconds.

You really need to be careful with journalists saying things like this. If Shred ends up with the same result (or even just a similar result) as an experienced editor then it's truly amazing and it will revolutionise amateur video. If it doesn't then comparisons like this one will leave a lot of users disappointed with the product when they try it, and disappointed early users are incredibly toxic to getting traction.
Marriott International plans to relocate within the general area, though it seems the exact location is still up in the air, with a focus on somewhere more urban and accessible via public transit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2015/03/01/marr...
Windows 10's forced automatic updates are a good idea
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I'm betting they're using smaller offices closer to downtown or urban centers. Mainly because I can't imagine the same large scale offices being cheap for any company downtown.
Is that valid for vs2015. Everything I've read from them says they're dropping away with product keys for it.
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It's almost like someone designed a network protocol without thinking about security. First time for everything, I guess...
In my life I've experienced 2 burglaries, 3 vehicle vandalisms, and one time I was seriously assaulted in a beach town by 10 guys with a gun. In every one of those experiences, the police were unprofessional and completely useless.

I will still call the police in the future, but just so they can fill out a police report for insurance claims or potential law suits. Other than that, I don't expect the police to do anything unless they were on the scene and saw somebody break the law.

And even then, one of the times when my car was vandalized, the cops were there and they filed a police report and told me to try to figure out who will pay between the two dudes that jumped on my car and if that doesn't work, give the officer a call and he will help me with the next steps. Obviously those guys didn't wanna pay so I tried to get in touch with that cop and he was avoiding my calls. I called over 10 times over the course of a couple weeks and he was never there and never returned my calls.

Another time my neighbor was throwing eggs at my motorcycle for 3 nights in a row and I got him on video, call the cops and they come by about 12 hours later and just laughed at the video, and then all of a sudden got a call to something more important and bounced. It may seem funny, but me having to pay someone $300 to clean egg out of all of the fairings and tubing is not funny. At the very least, do your job and file a fucking police report.
The difference is in whether poker is a game of skill or not. You can't lose the lottery on purpose--no skill involved.

The best players win all the money. Both skilled and unskilled players realize that.
It's a person who, through technology, has done something risky and enterprising to change peoples' lives. And it has interesting policy and societal facets as well. Why doesn't it "belong here", again?
Ah, I did miss that.

Also, lest I scare people off from Splatoon, I should note that I spent $300 on the Splatoon Wii U bundle just to play it, and would do so again in a heartbeat. The core game design is very fun and innovative, especially in the way that it makes (through the art style and the deliberate lack of text or voice chat) a very competitive/"scary" genre palatable to people that don't consider themselves to be "hardcore gamers." And believe it or not, the (optional) gyroscope-based aiming controls (tilting the gamepad in your lap to make minute adjustments to aim, not uncomfortably pointing it directly at the screen like a wiimote) are (IMHO) significantly more precise than that of any other twin-stick-based console shooter (though nothing can hold a candle to the ol' keyboard and mouse, for sure).

My only complaints are due to flaws in the "meta-game," like the matchmaking system and map/mode rotation systems. And it's only because I like the core game so much that I can be annoyed by the meta-game.
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The scenario described is so rare, that "calling someone with a winch" is likely to become the de-facto scenario. Why the unnecessary redundancy of having every car able to be controlled manually when in the very, very common case it's not needed?

People already keep AAA memberships in their wallets instead of a spare tire, tire wrench, jack, jumper cables, and starter one-shot battery in their trunk.
Well, Totient's main fault was that he didn't ask for a time interval big enough.

Make that 150 years, and you couldn't talk about information running through the lines, because people's understanding of "information" was a completely different (and much less powerful) concept.

Make that 200 years, and people that were trying to make machines react to well formed message were as criticized as AI proponents are now.
Harrington wrote a cash book as well, fwiw.
Yeah. The sad thing is so many web devs have never written a desktop app of any kind, so have no idea how painful the web really is. I loved Delphi in the 90's. That said, modern tools have far surpassed it.

If you want a C#+WPF type experience that's also open source and cross platform, check out Kotlin and JavaFX. JFX is the new third gen (post-Swing) GUI toolkit in Java and it's quite impressive. It's scene graph structured like WPF, has data binding, but also pays close attention to visuals: you can style it with a dialect of CSS, everything is 3D accelerated via D3D or OpenGL, you can do shader based effects on any part of the UI, etc. It has all the usual layout management and business components but also can do things like embedded h264 videos, 3D objects, and there's a tightly integrated embedded WebKit too if you need it.

Finally there's a tool that takes your app and spits out bundled/native packages for each platform, so the user doesn't ever have to know that the app was written in Java. No JRE or awful toolbars to install.

I've written a few apps this way and it's much more fun than writing a web app.
Reddit isn't just "an Internet forum," it's a company that's received investment from Y Combinator (or at least people like sama who are heavily involved in Y Combinator). This site is hosted at news.ycombinator.com. Shockingly, people here are interested in articles about such things.

In addition, technology does not exist in a vacuum. It's very, very possible to be interested in how people are actually using that technology, and the effect that the technology is having on people, both individually and in the larger context of community and society. This article definitely talks about those issues.
Or maybe something like this:

https://youtu.be/PPTWUzAxyzg?t=50s

:)
> The most disturbing maneuver came when they cut the Jeep’s brakes, leaving me frantically pumping the pedal as the 2-ton SUV slid uncontrollably into a ditch

I was in that situation. No brakes, high rocks on one side, 100 meters cliff on other side, 20km of downhill in front off me. I guess I will not be buying Jeep anytime soon.
The fact that the driver knew ahead of time does mitigate the danger but does not excuse the remaining danger. The fact that there are already lots of dangerous stalls seems completely besides the point to me.
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I think researchers should have complete 100% legal cover if they test private vehicles and private roads.

But as someone who says the car manufacturer ought to face legal consequences for failing to fix a remotely exploitable stall-out in a timely manner (even without demonstration of anyone being harmed), I also say that people who fuck with moving cars on the road are a menace as well.
Or test on an official research highway such as Virginia Tech's Smart Road: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Smart_Road
The course description mentions real-world applications: "applications of poker analytics to investment management and trading."
You do realize a recall doesn't make all the cars come back on their own to get fixed right? Hell many consumers don't even realize there was a recall till their product fails for the reason it was recalled.

Chrysler seems to be taking this sufficiently seriously enough that releasing the code will do more harm than good. Could they take it more seriously? Well everything can always be taken more seriously, and someone will always claim it should. So I will say that's a matter of opinion.

EDIT: If their plan to 'release their code' is nothing more than a bluff to raise awareness I would consider that a much more appropriate course of action.
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This has nothing to do with the type of test they ran and everything to do with where and how they ran it.
Agreed. I got infotainment/navigation touch screen in my Subaru. It is really hard to use without looking at the screen. Even after 2 months of driving, I haven't been able to develop muscle memories like I have for other controls on the car.

Luckily, infotainment screen doesn't really host anything critical. My uses include navigation and phone. Both of those functions should be used while parked anyways. I just cannot imagine changing a/c settings only at stop light.
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We are not commenting on an HN submission that is a link to someone's tweet/tweets. We are commenting on a submission to Wired Magazine, a publication owned by Conde Nast. Wired's reporting added nothing to this story. (There is no reporting) They didn't interview the person, they didn't interview her employer, and they didn't offer any analysis whatsoever. The reporter didn't storify the tweets herself. Wired did insert advertisements and is getting page views for it though. It is Wired's job to do more than they have done here. You should expect more from them or anyone who purports to inform you.
Which is the primary and most valid criticism of self-driving cars.
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Some of the videos in the link are cut short, and the full videos are much better. Here's a link to a playlist of the full lectures:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZSO_6-bSqHQmMKwWVvYw...
Here's Joel Spolsky on the alternative they used at Fog Creek. http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090401/how-hard-could-it-be-em... . A goal was that "A manager would have absolutely no leeway when it came to setting a salary. And there would be only one salary per level."
I agree that the Reddit user lacks the same level of credibility as the original author.

On the other hand he is basically spelling out all of the things that I noticed from the original tweets.

1) The tweets mentioned normalizing currencies. In every international company that I have worked in, pay ranges varied by geography. I'm not sure how you could do this accurately as the cost of living between many countries in which Google operates is not directly comparable.

2) In reading the tweets it seemed clear that peer bonuses were only being rejected when they appeared to be for the work on the spreadsheet. I haven't worked at many companies with peer bonus systems, but most of them would have frowned on sending bonuses for something like this. It is outside of the purpose of the system.

3) Yeah, this person likes to "stir the pot" a bit. That's not always a bad thing, but it is bound to have some impact on a person's career (politics are everywhere). It's hard to separate the signal from the noise about what actually happened here.
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> It may be that creating those fast rockets that don't exist in nature is orders of magnitude easier than writing a catbot.

Looks like so, that's why we made them first. How is that information useful at all?
Well yes, it makes sense that you shouldn't be required to take over whenever the car decides, but I'd still like to be able to start up the car and drive it in manual mode if I so desire. I get a lot of pleasure out of driving, and I don't want to give that up even if I want to let my car pilot itself sometimes.
I suspect it is driven partly (mostly?) by a reduction in square footage per employee, as a cost-cutting measure. Companies either downsize the space without downsizing their workforce, or do not upsize their space when hiring after they downsized both workforce and space during the recession.
Even Silicon Valley has these abandoned SOPs, just look at South San Jose. Most of these offices have been vacant for years.
Dense cities and interstates, I hope.
Part of the stigma is the sheer number of well-meaning but unhelpful therapists. I went to several free and religious counselors when I was young, and had several worthless experiences.

Most of them just wanted to hear what I had to say, and had no advice, as though hearing myself talk about my problems would solve them automatically. A few gave suggestions but not things that would realistically help (Maybe you should try to be more social, to deal with your depression). Some put me into group therapy with people whose problems were much worse than mine, and this gave me the sense that my problems were small and not worth their time.

Having people goto therapy sounds nice in practice. In reality there are more problems in attending therapy than it promises to resolve, so you're likely to have even more problems than you started with.
What if wage disparity follows the lines in negotiation ability even more strongly, does that make it an issue of negotiation skills then?
A small risk? Disabling a car on a busy highway is not a small risk.

What about this "experiment" could not be done in controlled environment on a track… or a country road… or an empty parking lot.

I suppose we could just have infectious disease researchers set up shop on a street corner by this logic. Whatever! It's just a small risk! They're doing it for the sake of increasing safety standards!
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Conditional expectations are an important part of regression and in other scenarios where you might want to adjust a parameter estimate ("for every unit increase in x we get this much of a difference in y") for confounders. Generally, in machine learning, parameter estimates are not the (exclusive) basis for prediction, instead you put data in and a prediction comes out and what's in between is somewhat of a black box.
Yeah but I want to steer before crashing into a wall because the computer broke. A spare steering device for a SDV is just a new motherboard.
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I'm prompted to visit the "global website" because "this website is for the U.S.". The redirect does not take me to a "Square Dashboard App".
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Well, what's the alternative? The length at least is descriptive, there's no question about what it does. Double negatives are unfortunate, but that all depends on what the default value previously was (in the event that there actually was no flag like this, it definitely makes sense to make the default false, and then the language follows).

But sure, maybe PreventApply... would've been better. Then again, PreventApply... sounds weird, and should probably be PreventApplying..., but, ehh, naming is hard.
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I have a different notion of what shred means when applied to a video, and it's not pretty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYc4DT18EJg
I would love to see stats on where these companies are moving to. Are many of them transitioning into remote teams? Did some go out of business? Are they moving elsewhere?

Does anyone have stats on this?

New business formations are on the decline (http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/009854.html) and more businesses are closing shop each year than are forming (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/05/u...).

Are these some of the reasons we are seeing vacant commercial buildings in a lot of areas?

"I think, as with many other things, our younger folks are more inclined to be Metro-accessible and more urban"

I do believe that to be true. I wonder if some of these can be turned into more modern co-working spaces that can be rented by the desk. Add a coffee shop, gym, etc into them and I think they would appeal to the younger generation, smaller service type businesses and start-ups. Just a thought.
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Just to emphasize the truly remarkable thing here: the winning (SIMD) solution takes about 1ns per word sorted -- just over 3 machine cycles to sort 16 nibbles. Note that even extracting a nibble from a word in the naive manner would take about the same amount of time. The speedup from using SIMD registers is tremendous, and should be a lesson to anyone who spends their time micro-optimizing hot functions.
Performing this test on an open highway is incredibly irresponsible behavior on all parties. This is why they have test tracks (or even sandlots). Cutting the transmission to a vehicle going 70 miles an hour on an open highway is reckless endangerment -- even if the person behind the wheel knows it is going to happen.
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Eventually, people who like driving will be relegated to closed-track courses where any accidents are minimized and occur only with people who have signed waivers. In short, take up NASCAR.

People who drive manually and risk others' safety for their own pleasure can expect to be stopped, first with lawsuits, then with laws.
This wouldn't actually block this article or stop reddit from appearing in google searches, no? You just basically edited your host file to resolve these to 0.0.0.0 making the links dead when you follow them. If you have a way to make these links not appear in google, I would be interested to apply this to other sites, but how does this help? Legitimately interested, please expand.