skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No different from guns. It's about how and who is using them, not the guns.

I've owned one or another fire-breathing twin-turbocharged performance cars most of my life. I have never caused an accident. In fact, to echo what someone else said, some of the most dangerous situations I find myself in with alarming frequency is getting on the 5 fwy right behind someone who merges onto the freeway at 45 mph with semi-trucks buzzing by and refuses to push down on the accelerator. I couldn't even count the number of times I've seen, played out right in front of me, all the makings of a horrific accident because of a slow driver. Good fast drivers are more aware (they have to be) and just get out of the way. Slow drivers are dangerous.

That said, if these people were doing this on surface streets they are dangerous morons. It's no different from someone shooting a gun up in the air.
Some background that's related.

http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/img/ftc-ocr-waterm...
Show HN: Give tiled maps interactivity in phaser.io
Saw phaser getting some love a week or two ago and I wanted to show this toy. But I dragged my feet with sharing it.
The non-interactive content should mostly work in the iPad app. iPhone is trickier.

This is a tough area for us in general, unfortunately.
At least in some[1] it's obvious that he's not on a regular street from the guard rails to the side. I imagine he might be on an onramp.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQl9OjPFDdc
Wait, was the EU statement of objections only about comparison shopping?
"No mainstream right-winger is getting anywhere close to arguing that people should starve to death."

They're not saying it in those exact words, but they are clearly saying that.
DIY Computational Investing
I wonder if using JSON as a data bridge works well in practice. If it does, I imagine that a polyglot jupyter notebook type must be on the horizon.
I have to say I agree.

We have a car made in 2000, it has knobs and dials for everything, you can configure the AC/heat completely without looking at it after some familiarity with the controls. The radio you can configure the station and volume without looking.

We also own a Prius made in 2014. They've either turned everything into a flat button, or worse it requires the touch screen to configure. And while the Prius does many more things than the 2000 car, the 2000 remains more configurable while driving by a mile.

The Prius largely tries to not have you configure the AC/heat at all while driving by having an automatic mode and you can set the target temp', but this completely ignores other scenarios where people want to be hit with hot/cold and don't care what the actual temp is, or that the temp doesn't measure the sun hitting you on your bare arm constantly making you feel hotter than you actually are.

Ultimately cars were better ergonomically designed pre-touchscreen, when they did less. Maybe in a few years I'll be able to voice control the AC/heat, but until then it is a step backwards.
One of Chernobyl's children is currently heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
If you don't need money there's not really any reason to sell something for it.
I think it is important to know what the trade offs are in terms of speed, cost, quality. Lots of children's TV programs look like they are rendered with Unity or worse. Most likely on a single machine in real time.
Wrong thread! :)
/r/iamverysmart
'We Should Put a Metal Detector on the Other Side': Useless TSA Body Scanners
What Chingu taught me as a marketer
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If you can charge at your parents' place (a dryer outlet would do fine) then you should be good to go in that respect. Maybe wait until the Seabrook, NH supercharger is done so you can top up on the way, since 270 miles one way is pushing it. Or buy the CHAdeMO adapter and patronize one of the stations in Portland. CHAdeMO isn't as fast as a Supercharger, but it's fast enough to be a practical bridge for road trips.

Lack of charging at home is a big problem for sure. I would not buy a Model S if I couldn't charge it where I lived. Many apartment building owners are amenable to installing chargers, but many aren't.

Note that you don't necessarily need a garage, just dedicated parking somewhere reasonably close to electrical infrastructure. Houses with at least carports or driveways are pretty common places to live.

"Never take road trips further than 250 miles" needs a strong amendment. "Never take road trips further than 250 miles where charging can't be done at the destination and you're outside the supercharger network and away from CHAdeMO stations." Sure, it happens, but it's pretty rare. If you're staying within the Supercharger network, or you stay within one-way range and can plug in at your destination, then trips over 250 miles are no problem.
In the end it didn't cost them anything though did it? They gave it a decent shot and ultimately perhaps the only other decision to take was not to try and make a social network at all.
the key isn't "quickly", the key is to have knowledgeable and smart decision makers who do in 1 second the amount of mental work that would take other people orders of magnitude longer.
They recently told people to stop using the supercharger so much. I'm doubtful it's a viable business model long term.
Thanks for the feedback!

1. Fixed.

2. https://github.com/flarum/tags/issues/10

4. Haha, I don't want to pay for Pusher right now. Will be working on a self-hosted push solution soon.

6. https://github.com/flarum/core/issues/115
so.. it takes experience
... which are the two most important things that I care about. I which there was a rating system that looked at these - especially over the long term.
Introducing OnlineStats.jl: Online statistics for Julia
I'd like to have node respond to port 80 http requests for one virtual site and have Apache/PHP respond for other virtual sites so I can use the hardware I already have available. I can think of a few hacky was to make it work but it seems less than ideal.

Obviously I could pay for other hardware but I don't want to do that.

"It's easy, just install Node." funny.
Government spending on capital projects generally causes an increase in economic activity. The government initiates economic activity, which causes companies to hire more workers, invest in new equipment, purchase supplies, etc. That all eventually makes its way into peoples' pockets, where they spend the money and throw it back into the economy. Capital projects tend to have an outsized impact because much of the economic activity required to build them wouldn't be practical to source from outside the US (you would never buy concrete from China, for example).

Furthermore, assuming the capital projects filled a gap in the economy, they may make it easier to do business such that companies can operate with reduced costs relative to global competition. That would be a secondary effect from having improved infrastructure, but it would be much longer-lasting than the primary effects.
How to setup an ES6 production-ready project
Lisp derived languages are quite easy to implement, e.g. "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction" paper.

Wirth has published compiler books based on Pascal and Oberon, quite simple single pass implementations.

The language proposed by the Tiger book variants (a ML like language) is also quite simple to implement.
Is deep dish pizza actually pizza? Let's ask GitHub
Please eliminate rudeness from your comments on HN. You've crossed the line into incivility several times in this thread. That's unacceptable here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please also don't post unsubstantive comments. That means avoiding programming language flamewars, since they're only nominally about programming and really about insults and disses.
No, not at all.

The statement was mostly about Google scraping data and not linking back.

One case: They post a review about a restaurant on Yelp!

Soon later Google Places displayed the same review text, but did not link back to Yelp!

When Yelp! complained, Google suggested Yelp! should just use robots.txt to unlist their site complete, or put up with the scraping.

In return, Yelp! and other companies went to the EU and complained.
I've often wondered if youtube should abandon the fight and allow for portrait videos. After all, a lot of viewers are probably on mobile where they'd rather view it in portrait orientation anyway.
I would agree that while driving faster is inherently more dangerous by it's nature, the small increase in danger in that case is vastly less dangerous than driving without awareness of your surroundings, or driving without awareness of consequences even if you are aware of your surroundings (I'm talking about you, puddle-jumpers and people that switch lanes with less than a few feet between their bumpers and the people around them).
Indians relied on each other for prosperity in Silicon Valley
My problem with this line of reasoning is the inferential leap. The other day my wife was surprised that I could box jump higher than her, even though I rarely work out, while she had been training for a stair climbing competition. Being a man has its advantages. But then we're going to make the jump from that to saying "and that explains why men just prefer/are better at programming and thus make up 90% of the industry!"

My second problem is that men set the metrics in ways that benefit them. Let's take the stereotypes as an assumption. What is a good programming team? One full of cowboys and rockstars, or one full of people who can concentrate on detail work for long periods at a time and communicate with each other? Studies of children show that girls are better at the latter (which is why they get higher grades).
I for one don't think they gave it a decent shot. What I mean is that I, and others, were annoyed by the heavy-handed attempt, and didn't see its value. This is despite the fact that Facebook leaves loads to be desired - even Facebook internal propaganda says "People don't use facebook because they like facebook - they use facebook because they like their friends."

Of course, all of my friends are on YouTube or Gmail. But I'm not social networking with them on Google+. Something was missing.
Opportunity cost and a lot of good will, but it's hard to measure both of those things.
Why Facebook's M Might Scare App Devs
Personally, I think this is the wrong decision. I prefer freedom of photo dimensions/format, but on the other hand keeping photos on IG restricted to square crops gave them more personality on a social media format. We can already upload photos of whatever size/crop onto Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Google's Unusual Trick for Hiring Coders
> You did not answer, fanboy

We ban accounts that do this repeatedly. On HN, please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
Now I've read it. Great stuff! It will take some time before I work out how it compares against Blindsight, but [SPOILER!?] I was glad to find out that it doesn't all end in bacteria.
even worse, i live in LA.
How ridiculous would it be for a car company to give you a lifetime unlimited supply of gasoline - but you have to wait in line 30 minutes for it every time. And oh by the way, it's an hour from your house, and you'll use a third of a tank getting there and back. And there's only like 200 stations total worldwide. So... awesome, right? Oh, and we built the cost of those stations into the car, so it's not REALLY free.

yawn
I'm sorry, but this sounds like street-level insult.

Brothers Klitchko and Valuev were all born in 70ties. Not even close to Chernobyl's children generation.
Happy wheels
Languages that cannot deal with graphemes are lame. I daresay this solution below should score 20 in OP's imaginary scale.

$ perl -CADS -E'say $ARGV[0] =~ /(\X{5})/' देवनागरीदेवनागरी
देवनागरी

Length of input string is: 10 graphemes, 16 codepoints, 48 octets (UTF-8).

Length of output string is: 5 graphemes, 8 codepoints, 24 octets (UTF-8).
There's always a cost. Time, effort, losing people that didn't want everything to be connected, exposing privacy (remembered that people weren't aware when G+ names were replacing youtube ones and exposed their comments).
I guess the "not needing money" part is something I've never experienced.
Interesting article. I see SF's finest out taking care of the homeless population more than they do anything else. I applaud them, and agree that society needs to do something better here. Unfortunately, I do believe that "the average american" believes homeless people are in fact not people, and should be left to die.

There was another callout to that video of '14 police officers taking down a one legged black man': "Many onlookers saw not the police grappling with a mentally disturbed man as he kicked and bit, but yet another incident of police brutality."

I strongly believe in facts and information about the world, and the medium piece was one of the most one-sided unfair articles. Yes it was an opinion piece, but in the past we recognized that those who are in privileged positions of publishing have a special responsibility. Now a days when anyone can be a journalist, and hit-count are the name of the game, this has really pushed a lot of bad-faith and lazy journalism.
Love that they're Twins fans. What a funny coincidence.
It really seems like they have no interest in selling it at all. It's more of a personal attachment that they identify with that domain name.
Isn't that complimentary to what I said though? You could presumably get the same result by just path tracing the whole thing, so all you've gained is speed at the cost memory. I didn't mean speed hack in a pejorative way.

I understand why you might want to do this in practice, but it still doesn't seem to be that important to teach as an introduction.
An unfortunate side effect of the overuse of these emergency vehicles it that makes it difficult for residents to get a healthy night's sleep. Frequent sirens and air-horns are the number #1 cause of noise pollution in the Tenderloin. Many residents here are elderly and low-income and cannot afford double-paned windows and thick curtains to protect from the noise.
Originally published here:

http://firstround.com/review/speed-as-a-habit/
Dynamic JSON in Go
As a tesla driver and former ICE driver and I disagree about charge time. I used to get gas at least once a week (10-15 minutes each visit). With the home charger I only needed to stop at a changer once, since December. That was for a total of 20 minutes (The car only needed 10 minutes, but I stayed a little longer). Driving an EV car is very different than a gas car, but you get used to it quickly. Just the other day I was driving my ICE car and the gas light turned on. The first thing that popped into my head was "No problem, I'll be home soon". It's funny how quickly you get used to things.
It is not that I especially fear change, but when it comes to services like Instagram, you don't want to mess up your secret sauce. This reminds me of when Coke changed their recipe and churned away vast swathes of their customer base. Is this feature creep? If it is feature creep, then users should be able to 'peel back' advanced options like this instead of being bombarded with choice when they take a photo.
I couldn't find information about this in the documentation. How hard is it going to be either to replace the core authentication with my own implementation, or use Flarum's authentication outside of Flarum? My goal would be to write a lightweight CMS which shares a login with the forum.
Hillary Clinton Has More Than a Million Fake Twitter Followers. What's It Mean?
The phrase I heard tossed around is "Your poor planning is not my emergency". It could probably be more nicely worded.
You might want to take a look at Ably.io as a pusher alternative. They have a generous free plan.
My view is:

Long-term interest rates = Expectations of Short-term interest rates + Expectations of future economic growth + Expectations of future inflation + Uncertainty

You're not really locking money up as (under normal circumstances) you are free to sell the treasury at any point after purchase.

The Fed has already distorted the market enough as it is; they are looking for a way to return to normal market conditions - hence the debate around when to finally raise the FFR and short term interest rates. Hypothetically the Fed can announce whatever it wants, but realistically it is extremely constrained in its actions at the moment.

Arguably, the most immediate risk from the Fed’s policies is that banks could use those newly created excess reserves too quickly. Banks now have an additional $2.6 trillion in excess reserves, which means that they can create up to approximately $26 trillion in new money.[21] In other words, banks now have the power to create more than twice the amount of money currently in the U.S. economy, thus heightening the risk of future inflation.[22] As the economy improves, the Fed may have to pay higher interest rates on these reserves to keep banks from dramatically increasing their lending. Paying higher rates, all else being constant, would exacerbate any “losses” suffered by the Fed, thus increasing the political problems discussed in this Backgrounder.

For those same political reasons, there are risks to the Fed simply holding all of these assets indefinitely because interest rates are expected to rise in the future. If those rates rise, the Fed would suffer “losses” due to paying higher rates on its liabilities than it receives on its assets, again putting the central bank in a difficult political position. Also, as the world’s largest debtor, the federal government is highly vulnerable to an interest rate shock that could make the federal budget deficit much worse. A rule of thumb is that every one percentage point rise in interest rates increases the budget deficit by about $1 trillion over a decade. The safest course of action, therefore, is to start undoing the QE policies by selling off these securities.

Securities sales are typically associated with contractionary monetary policies, but because these reserves are excess reserves, and since they have done little to increase economic activity in the first place, removing these reserves should not have an adverse impact on the economy. Nonetheless, the Fed should minimize any negative effects by announcing a deliberate plan to sell the bulk of these securities over, for instance, the next six years. The Fed can also partly offset (or sterilize) these sales with its normal temporary open-market purchases of short-term Treasuries.[23]

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/08/quantitativ...
Portrait videos don't work properly on mobile though. When you fullscreen the video, it forces your screen horizontal leaving massive black bars on either side.
"what will happen is productivity is going to shoot up for your average person on a per dollar basis."

For your average EMPLOYED person. Whether or not most people will be employed is yet to be seen.

"We can take about the robotic dystopian future when we have succefully homed,clothed and fed every person on the planet."

That dystopian future is the reason why we aren't doing that, mainly because those with all the money don't want to bother doing it.
If that guy doesn't know how to convey that knowledge at all, and gets all nervous and trips up, he's at a far worse disadvantage. Which, I suppose, fits the narrative about how technical interviews are part of a broken hiring process.
GitHub: Scaling on Ruby, with a nomadic tech team
I think this is what Periscope tries to solve. You might want to watch the the Vertical Video Syndrome PSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA

Periscope https://www.periscope.tv/
here i'am !

Because of chernobyl I was born 2 months to early.

I had luck on the same day there where children born with 3 hands or other deformation.
I'm not sure how consulting can be compared to Uber. A taxi is a commodity: the closest Uber car that shows up is no different from any other one. But if I have a specific issue that I want to hire a consultant for, I'm not going to want a "generic MBA" - I'd want a consultant who has extensive domain experience with the problem I want to solve (and preferably one who can give me references from people who they've helped with similar problems).

For example, if I ran a consumer-oriented startup business and wanted help with a market research problem, I wouldn't hire a consultant who has only worked at investment banks.
I quickly decided not to read this as it would just disrupt my philosophy of not painting myself into a corner.
Amid Wild Wall Street, Fintech Outperforms Market
> This isn't particularly true.

We may be disagreeing on what constitutes more or less brutal. And I freely admit that my experience with BJJ is limited. Quoting:

> one BJJ teacher (I forget who off hand) told his students to not strike with fist. Only slap.

This suggests to me that this was in contrast to the norm, which would be to mount and then strike with the fist. However, in judo, I know of no competition in which atemi waza (striking techniques) are permitted.

To me the application of strikes to a controlled opponent is more brutal / violent than judo, where those things do not occur. Actually, I've only ever seen atemi practiced in judo as part of kata.
The list, if anyone's looking for it http://fastestlaps.com/tracks/laguna_seca.html
4+Tips+To+Make+The+Rest+Of+2015+The+Best+Year
False dilemma. Who says one can't do both?
In case anyone's curious, this is what it looks like using just javascript: https://tonicdev.com/tonic/d3-example-from-beaker (a JS port of http://sharing.beakernotebook.com/gist/anonymous/e21582541d7... ).
The owner of baseball.com, Relfex Publishing, has come often while I was searching for a good domain name.

They have quite a few domains like this and they aren't interested in selling at all. And as frustrating as that is, it is much better than other squatters in the space who try to treat the domains they have as farmland to be worked and leased off to companies for temporary use.
Its the system we have, and it is what it is. In a lot of ways it is disappointing how closely it mirrors physical land use and ownership.
It's worth re-reading Hamming's "You and your research" to find where it appears (I just did and thought it was worth mentioning.)
Business Analytics: Are We There Yet? Flurry's Sean Byrnes on KPIs
Or they should have used Masonry in the first place :-/ Now that I have no reason to play the 1:1 game, I can go back to loooong photos that work better everywhere else.
Treasuries are sold at auction, so supply/demand factors in as well. Since treasuries have little to no credit risk and they're highly liquid, people are generally just concerned with inflation. As roymurdock said, the FFR has minimal impact on long term rates. Here's Bernanke saying the same thing:

"The Fed’s ability to affect real rates of return, especially longer-term real rates, is transitory and limited. Except in the short run, real interest rates are determined by a wide range of economic factors, including prospects for economic growth — not by the Fed."
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/03/30...
Thanks for the reply! I'll keep an eye on github, and quite look forward to shiny new forum software soon :)
Considering the warning letters they sent to frequent supercharger users, what Tesla gives is not a lifetime supply of Gasoline. What they provide are charging way points for long distance travellers. You're still supposed to charge at home.
iDrive has (had?) a little knob that you had to navigate the UI with.