skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true. But they can be out of order or simply around a corner. We are sometimes suffering from tunnel vision or overestimate our abilities and realize mistakes too late.
I don't know what material it is exactly but it is a mesh, and suprisingly thin and flexible.

Your idea of an active fake-chip is really nice, it could actually work (on non-encrypted content).
It's only cheaper to invest in automation right now because those individuals who are paid to create said automation are paid well under what they should be.

What if software engineering, hardware design, and all the other positions required to create autonomous things were paid 3-4x what they are now?

Sure that wouldn't necessarily be the case in the future, but certainly right now it is.

We should stop looking at the bottom and look at the top. CEO take-home has increased by orders of magnitude, making the bottom completely untenable.
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Just out of curiosity. I have never ridden one of those but what can actually go wrong? From what I can see:

* You can jump in too late, thus falling an unexpected height and break your ankles.

* You take too long getting in thus getting a garment/arm/leg stuck between the ceiling of the paternoster and the floor.

Am I correct? Or am I missing something?
Like Nadya, I also only ever responded to and contested that single part of the article.

You write "Rejecting unwanted advances can take the form of silence." I think we're all agreed that "Being extremely happy about and welcoming advances can take the form of silence." as well. Do you disagree with this?
The reason is that the cabins are being cleaned on the bottom and top of the loop - there's a mesh of blades entering the cabin making sure there's nothing left on, or inside the walls and then the remnants of whatever it was that was not supposed to be there are dropped through an open hole in the floor to the recycling bin (waste from paternosters is obviously recycled, this is Germany we're talking about).

;).

More seriously though, I guess it's not that you can't, only that you shouldn't, because there's always a shorter route to your destination that doesn't involve looping.
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> The kitchen and water heater run on propane, which we purchase roughly once a year

As in most places 'on the grid' in this world

> [internet] about 18-20 Mbit down and 5-10 Mbit up

As in 'by far better then most places in this world'

So actually the 'off the grid' here means generating your own electricity and having a low latency (solvable by connecting directly to a nearby town that probably has a supermarket or such as well).

Could be worse.
Great thank you, we'll think about it. Do you have any feedback on the value proposition, pricing? TY
I don't even need to see the chair. Just the mere positioning of the screen makes me cringe.

The article mentions vinyl records, a coffe mug, a baseball figurine... That's hardly the kind of equipment that comes to my mind when I think of an office. How does it make it a dream office when the only relevant material mentioned are a bunch of pencils?

This is just some guy showing off his music collection.
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while on onboarding is there any plugin/gem for ruby on rails that makes it easier to create a guided on boarding ?
Let’s sunset C/C++
It is unethical NOT to A/B test, because you may be doing the worst thing for all patients. You're right that it should be generally known this is done.
If you 'fully' understand it after 5 times, you're doing pretty good. I thought I read somewhere that the writer intentionally obfuscated parts of it to stress that time travel is complicated business.
How about forgetting about the upgrade circus and make your app available only as a subscription at an annual subscription cost of 1/3 your intended full price? Then upgrades just happen.
For certain types of legislation the A/B test itself would create a perverse incentive for opponents of the legislation to make the negative effects occur to get the legislation revoked.

For example, if you said "we're going to put twice as many cops on patrol, but we'll revoke this if crime rates don't decrease" then a rational criminal would commit more crime, in order to get the law revoked.

Or if you said "we're going to tax carbon emissions, but we'll revoke the law if domestic oil production drops by more than 20%" you've just invited oil companies to shut down their wells and wait you out.
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Ben Goldacre (of Bad Science) wrote a paper with the UK Government on A/B tests of policies.

http://www.badscience.net/2012/06/heres-a-cabinet-office-pap...
Can anyone suggest some reasonable-but-cheap hardware solution for an openbsd firewall "appliance"? I've been using old PCs for years but they are not really cheap when you consider the power consumption.

Soekris hardware is often suggested, but they are not so cheap.
I'd like to see GM's lawyer explain that to a judge when the plaintiff is holding the vehicle's title papers.
I'm not sure if it's effective steganography. It says that you can encrypt hidden files. If I use this on a file which contains an encrypted hidden file, will it detect that there is a file without giving a key? If it does it's not proper steganography.

I used steghide once or twice, it claims that the existence of the datafile cannot be proven, can hide in image and audio files. It doesn't survive basic lossy compression cycles, but can hide in jpeg files.
In any other industry Clarkson would have been fired for gross misconduct. The BBC did not fire Clarkson. They declined to renew his contract.

The BBC have said that they expect to see Clarkson on the BBC again. He was booked to appear on a panel show, but chose to pull out after public backlash.

The way the BBC handled Clarkson - a drunk bully - was terrible.
> What's the difference in relying on water being delivered by pipe and water being delivered by truck?

It's in the text if it's not obvious: One of them is a limited supply. With the implication that you are more more water conscious.
At what point will Amazon decide that they don't need Netflix?

And do what? "We'll jack up the prices if you compete with us" is not good publicity.

Besides, it's not that uncommon. For example, the next iPhone will have a CPU from Samsung.
Some people wrongfully believed the elevator cabin was fixed to the chain. So at the top or bottom the cabin would turn upsidedown, including the passenger, rather than moving horizontally.
I'm a huge fan of phone reading, it's a lot nicer than e-ink screens, IMO.

Besides the points you mentioned, I much prefer the smaller size of phones -- they require much less "eye scan", making it easier to read/process multiple lines simultaneously.

The smaller size is also much more comfortable lying down.

But the biggest difference is AMOLED. If you're going to read at night, AMOLED means that black pixels are completely black without any backlight glow. Don't use LCD screens for night-time reading.

On android, there are many apps available to dim your screen below the lowest setting. I use Twilight.
1. What languages are supported in the app? Is it the same as the language options available on the website? (In which case, Japanese please!)

2. Also, given the nature of distribution deals etc. etc. Is this limited access by physical region?

3. "English movies with English subtitles are available for free 24/7" - Er... Might answer my previous question. Does this use legally sourced content?

EDIT: Clicking on the "content" tab gives you a bigger list of languages that I assume are supported. (Japanese website option would still be appreciated).
There is small chance that wearing a seatbelt will cause harm. It is similarly small as for modern vaccines. Please do not spread FUD.
This thread is about SSDs. You're forgetting that you need a hundred of these to make a 1TB SSD.

Consider the $0.24/die, and multiply that by 100 to get a 1 TB SSD drive.

Your SSD now has a minimum cost of $24, just for the silicon. That's extremely expensive. You can never sell your SSD for cheaper than that, just to cover the silicon costs of a 1TB drive, never-mind processing, manufacturing, distribution, sales, and profit. And you're competing against 5TB hard drives that sells for $100. (the 16TB SSD meanwhile apparently uses 500 chips..)

This is why wafer costs are like diamonds, instead of aluminum platters.
There will be an autonomous shuttle starting (testing) october 2015 in Wageningen, the Netherlands. Production use expected May 2016. Big caveats though: will drive only 25 km/h, won't operate at night or in bad weather. It'll shuttle between Ede trainstation and the WUR campus.
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Ask HN: The biggest shift in tech was a few days ago, what does it really mean?
Google, a thing that has touched and changed the lives of pretty much everyone online, a thing that has literally shaped the minds of humans for the last decade with their influential search and ranking algorithm, one of the most valuable companies in the world, an employer of 50,000, was suddenly absorbed into a parent company called, of all things, Alphabet, and the structure of Google subsidiaries, like Nest, was suddenly changed, and Page and Brin became CEO and President of Alphabet, working together in a closer formal function than since Google began.

There's move fast, there's be disruptive, and then there's this. You could say it's just a change on paper. And yet it is not.

When I read the news I literally felt the ground shift under my feet. You may not believe this, but when I read that news, I felt a similar “everything changes” shock to when I saw the plane hitting the tower in New York. I was in my final year of high school then, about to have breakfast and go to an English exam, and then I saw that on TV. I felt sad and angry, and cold, and like someone had attacked us. I didn’t feel positive or negative about the Alphabet news, and yet I felt something akin to the same level of shock. I grew up with this search engine. I remember the internet on 14.4 K modems when I was a teenager. I remember the first time I used Google. I remember google.stanfrod.edu. For all this time, Google, has been the focus of attention, the pinnacle, the creator of all these things. The force driving forward. And now the two men from whom came Google, have now made this abrupt turn. And there’s Alphabet.

I could not believe the news when I read it, and yet it’s true. It happened a couple of days ago.

What does this really mean ? What's coming next and what are the two founders thinking ?
Let me know when your vastly superior office has allowed to to produce work that makes you a perennial Nobel contender, or equivalent thereof.
Absurdly absurd ideas and ramblings. I suppose we can write our "safe languages" in "safe languages" then we'll never have need of really programming anything ourselves. We can simply pat together what ever is "safe" for us to do in our little play sandbox and act like we're adults who understand the problems faced when programming in "real" languages.

This would be similar to replacing all automobiles with stuffed animals because, who in the world ever heard of stuffed animals getting into pile-up wreaks on the freeway and causing death misery and misfortune.
What "off the grid" here means is defined in the very first paragraph: "The house itself is [...] completely off the grid. It has no hookups for water, gas, or electricity."

Of course it could be worse, but why should it have to?

EDIT: Here you go: ><((((*>
Higher skill needed ? I don't think so, I think it's more about the fact that Erlang code is verbose and unreadable.
What is your definition of off the grid? I can't help but think you are being pedantic here. He mentions he could dig a well, but it's more cost effective to have water shipped in. As far as Internet access I'm sure that he needs it for his job so he can afford to purchase things like water or pay property taxes.

At some point you have to interface with the rest of society, it is impossible for an individual to be 100% self sufficient.
Are you sure you're aware what he does for a living?
I still don't understand. If you have tons of RAM, your OS uses it for cache, so disk access is at RAM speed. I only reboot my computer a few times a year, so if I had 256GB of RAM in my computer everything I use at least once a month would be in cache.
C still got a right to exist even in the very sensitive mission-critical environments, as long as MISRA requirements are followed (and, the good thing is that they can be automatically enforced).
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Mankind will go to space and stay there, and a vital part of it is to utilize the comets and asteroids there.

In many ways they are much easier to get to and from than moons and planets.
How is your company even competitive compared to other up-and-comers (Jack Erwin, Beckett Simonon, etc) that do exactly that but for lower prices?

Really, your shoes are pretty pricey ($225). For that price, I EXPECT to have some service (with the middle man if it needs to be).

Some questions that I really needed the answers to before I would even consider making a purchase:
- Can I send back my shoes to be recrafted?
- Do you offer any warranty (like a year or something?) You mention 100 days if I have not worn them. Regular $30 shoes last even longer, so 100 days is really not enough.
- Some of the products that I looked at don't mention what type of leather you use. That's a bad sign. I expect it to be full grain leather. Otherwise, it's probably fake.
- What stitching do you use? From pictures (nice design btw) I can tell that it's Goodyear construction but it needs to be explicitly mentioned.

From my own experience, custom made shoes take forever to complete. First, you need to get enough people to sign up for a specific style, then you need to produce them, and then you send it out. Good luck with it -- I have also been considering opening up a shoe making business. Great to see such company in YC.
The firmware must be able to create and sign a document with written the signature of the keys inside so that the car's owner can check the result (the car's maker would publish his public keys).

If the hardware of the firmware is tamper resistant you can pretty much be sure that it's unmodified. If the attacker can modify tamper resistant hardware I don't think that the car is your first concern.
Not just North America... but all around the world. Netflix is global, and EC2 is global.
Plenty others don't need that. Crowdfunding, for example, is a pretty trivial contract.
Hey. Hopefully you're still reading these responses.

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Since the sun exposure is going to be decreasing from here on out, does this mean the Philae lander is a fully lost cause?

(I know that the Rosetta team would emphasize that the Philae lander is responsible for only a pretty small part of the overall set of scientific objective)
I don't think I'm being pedantic when he says he is "completely" off the grid. If you're going to claim to be "completely" off the grid, then you should be completely self sufficient.

Re digging a well. Is your definition of "off the grid" related to how much something costs? If it costs too much, we'll just pretend it's not included in the definition?
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> Most of our programming is done in C (kernel) or Go (user space). [1]

It's cool that Go is being used in a project like this. For some reason I found that a bit surprising.

[1] http://www.ethos-os.org/background.html
Orbital solar starts to make sense when you need a collection area that's larger than what's feasible for Earth and currently Earth is not scarce as far as available surface area :)
It's a design flaw. Sperm production requires a temperature lower that body temp.
There is nothing wrong with using Scala as a better Java. Indeed that's what I recommend to Scala beginners with a background in OO. That's the beauty of multi-paradigm languages: pick and choose the language subset that works for you.

Indeed I often program in a way that could be called "locally stateful, globally pure-functional". It's a good approach!
Wait... since when has AWS ever raised their prices? They've consistently lowered prices for better services... something like 50+ price reductions in the past 7 years.
"No hookups for water, gas, or electricity."

So if I take my house in the middle of a city, get water delivered in containers, install solar panels and use my fireplace for cooking, I am now "completely off the grid" ? How about if I just eat out every day? Am I still off the grid? Should I disconnect my landline and just use a mobile phone instead?
Can you tell more about this startup incubator? Where is situated? Does it have a website?

Thanks!
That company with the $70k min salary is hurling toward bankruptcy. Top performing employees quit because they got nothing while low performers got fat raises. More than quit had to be hired to replace them. Customers left anticipating increased prices. Stockholders sued CEO for incompetence.

Look up "Gravity Investments" in recent news.
One speaker looks like a Geneva Model XL[1]. I really like the Geneva speakers - I have a Model M and XS.

1. http://www.genevalab.com/sound/ch_de/genevasound-xl-wireless...
I can't think of much more that could happen. My opinion is: if you are a human equipped with a brain (which functions normally) there is not much risk using an paternoster.
Except that this isn't fuel... the prices have consistently trended down for 7 years and have no indications of stopping.
For example: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...
Yes, Kickstarter's 4000+ words in their 'terms of use' can surely be optimised into a couple of lines of code that everyone will be happy with.

https://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use?ref=footer
> RIP Octopart, and good luck in the Delphi aka Turbo Pascal house.

Yeah, it's probably buy and bury.
> rules imposed by inept control freaks like Andrea Nahles

Thank god we have the CSU to counter balance these socialist control freaks and their utterly ridiculous ideas, right?
Implying that all other institutions throughout the world don't do basic research in pharma, or that the US benefits tremendously from the brain drain of researchers that to American research institutions and do stuff there that they could be doing in other countries.
Rule 20.4 (required): Dynamic heap memory allocation shall not be used.

Good luck writing misra-compliant web browser.

And yes, safe languages can be written in safe languages. See rust and servo.
Gold standard ended in 70's. Government could just declare money into existence, which was distributed into banking and drifted into the "easy money" of stocks.
I agree, the concept of monads is very simple, actually trivial. It's just a generalised form of function composition.

But thinking monadically and abstracting monadically is extremely different from what programmers normally learn, for a start because important monads like state and exceptions are built-in features of most programming languages. Seeing that these things have a common pattern, and seeing that it may be worthwhile to abstract this common pattern takes a lot of time.

The mismatch between the utter simplicity of the concept of monads, and the complicated explanations one comes across doesn't help.
Salman Rushdie all the way!

My favorite is satanic verses, by far.

Midnight's children is his most popular work though.

For both books, having even a basic knowledge of Indian history would make the experience much better.

The ground beneath her feet is incredible too. Shame is intense, and if you're feeling thin on South Asian history I'd go with either.

Or if you want to go with European/world history, enchantress of Florence is a good one. Very well reviewed but I personally never read beyond the first thirty pages.

His new book 1001 nights is coming out this Sept. The short excerpt published in new yorker from it was incredible, so that might be a good option too.

East/West is a great short story collection, but has less magic than his novels.
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This is quite ignorant of why C/C++ is used.

It is used for that exact memory control and access that this article demonizes so that we can have efficient and thought out systems.

When those systems aren't well thought out or secure you have security issues. C/C++ lets you build a wobbly treehouse _and_ a secure fortress. It is up to the developer which one is made...
no it is never a "lost cause"!

Philae lander has upto several months before the comet goes out of perceptible solar exposure. During this time, Philae will conduct numerous experiments and relay those data to Rosetta, which in turn to us. Already lots of data has been generated, and upto Philae's operational timeline more will be available. From that data, hopefully in the coming years, scientists will be able to gain significant knowledge of the birth of universe, and most importantly about the origins of life and water.
no offense, but I am the only one who thinks this MVC style isn't an option anymore after things like react?
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This would be so much more interesting if it was actually available for download. It's sad that djb's minimallt seems to be stuck with ethos non-release. I remember them promising open source release 'soon' back in 2013 when it was initially published, but there doesn't seem to have been any progress in that direction.

Has anyone poked the authors recently to hear what's going on?
monads is that they're way too low level t

Monads are neither low- nor high-level. Monads are orthogonal to this. A monad (in the context of programming languages) is a generalised from of function composition. Instead of composing f : A --> B with g : B --> C yielding a function g;f : A --> C, monads compose functions f : A --> FB with g : B --> FC, yielding g;;f : A --> FC. Here F is come transformation on types. Monads connect the types FB and B in a canonical way. That's all.
IMO it is not because they are easily accessible thats why scientists are interested in them, it is because these comets and asteroids are formed from the very inception of the universe (big bang!) and thus contain critical data related to the origins of complex matter, which leads to life!