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It remains to be seen how much impact this will ultimately have on Facebook, but it's not ridiculous to think it could be significant. Trust is important; for a cautionary tale we need look no further than Uber, whose pervasive bad faith approach to basically everything has undoubtedly had a negative imact on hiring talent.

Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle were astounding to me as a kid. Sounds like they had a great team.

If Amazon ran the store, they would have the same retail overhead costs as all the places they're undercutting...

They will price match with other stores. I was in there last weekend to spend a gift card and knocked about 20% off the prices by price matching Amazon.

As a parent of young kids, I've been in to Toys R Us twice in the past few years. The first time it was really depressing: prime-time hours for retail and the store was practically empty. The second time was last weekend, and it was bustling with people hoping for fire sale prices. Probably the best weekend that store has had in years.

$10B is the sum of health care and pension liabilities. This is the hole referred to by the title.

The same thing happened to me: doing a remodel, spent thousands of dollars at Home Depot, returned a small fraction of it, banned.

The ban seems to have expired, but for three years I had to get my wife to go return things for me.

It's only enforced when police receive a complaint. File a complaint if you want them to do something about your local nuisance vehicles.

"WeWork, a startup that rents out shared workspaces, branched into co-living in 2016. Their "dorms for grown-ups" are intended for people moving to a city and looking for fast friends.The company, which has a $20 billion valuation, has two locations: one in New York and one in Crystal City, Virginia, outside DC. The average apartment is just 450 square feet."

How does a company running glorified dormitories have a $20 billion valuation with only two locations?

Alright, but let's revisit the polled people when they're 80 and see who's happy... those who were able to save for retirement, or those who weren't.

"Are you happy?" is such a first-world-problems question. I'd settle for being able to answer "yes" to "are your basic needs met?" for myself and my family in perpetuity...

Saying that developers "don't use" state machines just because code isn't littered with things like instantiations of machine and state classes is an interesting point, but kind of glib. I use state machines all the time as an abstraction to reason about programs.

Yeah, but the lighthouse looks great!

I can't speak to your finances, but the average worker absolutely has less as a direct result of the wealth flow shifting ever more to the rich. Wages have been stagnant for decades, despite steadily increasing productivity.

These researchers are building weapons. I hope they understand that.

I have a couple of devices that need to connect to the mothership, as a matchmaker between the device and its client app. NAT and firewalls are a big part of the reason, as is the need to have a way to locate the device in the absence of a static address or domain name. Sure, it's possible to work around these obstacles without a mothership, but doing so makes it too difficult for most mass market consumers.

RISC: "If this was a Maybe in 1999 it’s certainly a No now."

My cell phone begs to differ.

I've switched to Bing, which was a step I wouldn't have even entertained five years ago.

Google needs to get back to its minimalist beginnings. It's really apparent that the advertising department has taken over while the search department atrophies.

In retrospect, I think the turning point was when they murdered Labs and Reader.

Get-off-my-lawn sentiment aside, it seems strange that the author doesn't even acknowledge the vast field of text-based games that already exist, and that predate the modern retro fascination with interactive fiction. I'd love to see how their mechanics compare to the ones he worked out for his game.

Mind boggling. What could possibly be so complicated about a payroll system? Does anyone here have insight into this problem space?

Agreed. I think maybe the value of the paper is that non-computer scientist biologists will read it and gain awareness.

To computer scientists, it's pretty obvious that DNA used as input to a program could be maliciously crafted.

I like this thread. My people are here.

I loved that that article about Japan's rail workers. I'm a huge fan of this stuff. Pre-flight checklists, rock-climbing belay call-and-response, operating room instrument counts (to make sure nothing was left in the patient!), etc. Protocols based on the premise that even experts are fallible, and that even easy things can go sideways.

Thinking about it further, here's an easy protocol, if you happen to have a push-button ignition vehicle: Toss the key fob into the back seat as soon as you get in. The car will still start. Now, when you leave the car, you have to go retrieve the fob before you can lock it. So this forces you to look in the back as part of your car locking habit.

Reading this article was heartbreaking. Becoming a parent changes you, or at least it changed me. I can no longer imagine harm to a child---as conjured in a written article, on a television show, or in a discussion---in an abstract way as I once could. It is now intensely emotional, as if it were happening to my own child in front of my eyes.

This being HackerNews, I'm sure we're all thinking about fancy technological solutions to this problem. But there's a low-tech solution. I'm going to go out into my car right now and train myself to always visually scan the back seats before I leave the vehicle. If you do something enough, it becomes ingrained. I don't think about putting on my seat belt anymore; it just magically happens.

The memory expert interviewed in the article explains that this problem happens when the "low level" basal ganglia has the brain on autopilot, compensating for higher-level functionality that's compromised by stress, emotion, and distraction.

So teach the basal ganglia how to look in the back seat before stepping out of the car. Every time.

Yeah, no kidding. It was distracting and a low-grade insult to those who endured the real Vietnam war. Maybe it sounded better in 2006... Trump fatigue has really dampened my sense of humor.

Not following the demo scene, and not being current on the capabilities of graphics cards these days, I have no idea if this is impressive. Wish it came with some explanation.

Good. Maybe they can finally afford to make their "Submit" button idempotent.

Oh, bullshit. We've been hearing about how Trump is playing n-dimensional chess since before the election, but I think it has to be crystal clear by now that he's just a confused old racist with the attention span of a wolverine on speed who is going to do the absolute stupidest thing at every possible opportunity. Yes, he did this to fire up the most rabid corner of his base, but he did so without having any real understanding of the consequences, probably at the behest of Bannon and the Kochs.

Good catch! I misremembered. Still the same reasoning from management, unfortunately.

Absolutely. And it's not just on WaPo stories; it's on almost any kind of post that can be tangentially tied to Trump populism.

One of the subreddits I frequent is for a liberal major city. The the_donald shills are vastly outnumbered, but every single post has a few of them popping up to argue in their disingenuous signature troll style (tu quoque, gish gallop, rinse + repeat).

I used to waste time arguing with them, but now I just down vote and move on. These people aren't interested in any kind of real debate; they just want to broadcast their Breitbart talking points over and over again.