skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm having a hard time imagining what world you live in where teenagers have ~$3000 + gas money in disposable income from their $7.25/hour jobs and no pressure to save it for college. My suburb was probably in the top 1% of property values in the state and only a few (~10 out of 250) kids "owned" cars, which their finance-industry parents bought them.

Most garages were 2-car, and you don't want a car outside of a garage in snow. I was actually offered my grandmother's car for free when she died, but my parents refused it because they didn't want to deal with 3 cars in a 2-car driveway and garage.

No one else had any say in what car they would drive; 99% of the time it was Mom's minivan or Prius, with constant tension over when the keys would be brought back home. 95% of my graduating class went to college, and all but a few of them lived in dorms (at least for the first year) where car ownership was neither necessary nor permitted.

None of us will be thinking about buying cars until we graduate. And even then, those who will have money to buy cars they want, instead of the cheapest thing that starts, will be the San Francisco software engineers and the Manhattan investment bankers, i.e. the people who don't need them. I know a few people who got cars out of necessity for internships in remote places, and on all accounts it was a ~10-year-old, boring, practical castoff of a middle-aged relative who wanted an upgrade, to be sold when no longer necessary.

Personally, I'd love a Jetta but I can't imagine what I'd use it for, and for the same amount of money I can get a fully-loaded rMBP, an iPhone, and less student debt.
> Here's a trick that I expected to work but doesn't. Would be interested to hear the rationale if anyone knows it.

m := map[[]int]int{}

... will not work, because []int is a slice—that is, a pointer to an array of undetermined state (also technically some more metadata like an offset/size). Think of a slice as a "view" into an array, which does not necessarily need to remain static. A slice does not necessarily "own" the data it's providing a view of; you can have many slices of one array.

m := map[[3]int]int{}

will work, because [3]int is an actual array.

To recap:

a := [3]int{1,2,3} // Array
b := a[:2] // Slice
var c []int = a[:] // Slice
var d [3]int // Array
copy(d[:], c) // Copy to (a slice of an) array from slice
2.30 here. Feels like 1999.
yeah that's fair.
By that time we might have already destroyed an ecosystem. It's not just resources coming in, but the entropy that comes out of doing useful work with them. Whether pollution, or great pacific garbage patch, or overfishing, etc.

The invisible hand of the market hasn't been very great at solving externality problems. Neither has government, as an institution. What we should be doing is investing more in initiatives like the Virgin Earth Challenge to stave off collapse. But when it comes to overfishing, and other things ... I'm not sure we can do that.

The best we can advocate is using condoms...
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I use hg as a front end to git, so I get the advantages of git's mindshare without having to deal with git's UI. Now I get the best of both worlds.
OPEC is no longer a coordinated entity. For decades OPEC's member nations waged economic war on each other by cutting prices to increase marketshare, in violation of OPEC quotas. The Saudis acted as the swing producer, lowering their output to keep crude prices near the OPEC target. Last year the Saudis abandoned that roll and admitted that OPEC had become a a free-for-all.
When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle’s Masterpiece
London, New York, Paris and Tokyo can't be replicated anywhere else then?
There are several such projects - swfdec, lightspark, gnash, etc. From what I've seen of them, they all underestimated the amount of effort. Most of them just petered out. So if you're going for it, I would worry less about duplicating effort and more about setting realistic goals for the project.
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The Chicago gas prices jumped up 50 cents the day after this hit the news.
Yup, it's basically a spider. The Anticontainer plug-in enhances it to fetch images that are a few steps away from the original page. Looks like it just needs unrestricted XHR, which greasemonkey and every other chrome extension already require. Maybe off-screen rendering, which could look like this: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensi...
Notes is really good. It just saddens me that Dropbox does not base those systems on top of Dropbox but somewhere separately. I wish I could just get .md files or something similar in my Dropbox from what's on notes.
Yeah but the media isn't held to that.
In fact it's a huge deal because of the context. This was the worst week for the Dow in seven years and it indicates the US markets are joining the rest of the world in falling.

It's extremely rare for US indices to tumble like this and for it to not indicate negative economic problems are either here or inbound.
Be Coachable
> Three decades ago, according to Fortune, about 70% of American 17-year-olds had a driver’s license; the figure today is 46%. More U.S. teenagers now have a smartphone than a license.

I'd guess that the rise in cell phones, text messaging, and now smartphones was a big contributor to the decline in early licenses and also in the urgency of teens to get their own car.

Before such easy communications, you generally were not in contact with your friends except when you were actually physically with them at school or at pre-arranged times outside of school. You could call then on the phone, of course, but that only worked if they were home to take the call, and you had to compete with the rest of your family for the phone in your house.

This made spontaneous arranging of rides from friends a rather uncertain endeavor. Unless your parents were very generous in the policies for sharing the family car(s) with you, getting a car of your own meant a tremendous leap in your freedom.

Nowadays, a large fraction of teens have cell phones, largely smartphones. They make heavy use of them for messaging services and social networks (and, I've been told, they sometimes even actually use them to talk!). They update their statuses several times a day, and send on average something like 100 messages a day.

Because of this, today's teens (and younger) are much better informed as to where their friends are and what they are doing when those friends are not physically present. They know which of their friends with cars are not busy, and it is trivial to propose a joint trip to the place they wish to go.

Accordingly, having your own car is not as important as it once was. Your social group is now more efficient at sharing cars than social groups were back before widespread mobile communications.
When you're advocating the creation of superhumans using terminology popularized by the Nazis, you sound pretty Hitlery.
like the other respondents I'd just really appreciate if you at least casually attributed what you've stated to where you heard it, e.g. "heard from someone who worked there" or just heard from whoever. I believe you, since you made an account for this comment, as far as your attribution remember you're anonymous here, it's not going to get back to you.
Well then! It's settled.
Super: Solving an example problem by the Myosotis method
Production of beef and lamb makes about 15% of greenhouse gases, not mentioning transport of it, or dairy. Lot of greenhouse gases are produced for energy use, heating, AC and similar.

Problem is that we aren't really burning that much oil for our own personal transportation. We're burning oil on places where efficiency isn't a goal. Feeding a mammal to harvest meat or milk isn't efficient. We humans like meat, we support the industry and it keeps producing and transporting.

Maybe giving up on a car once a week, or something similar is easy, but most of your burning comes through heating, AC, meat and dairy, and then transport. Transport is efficient, it's product of engineers.

Mammals are product of evolution, they are not efficient in their production of meat and dairy.

One will burn less much more if one changes the diet, not means of transportation.
Consumer gas is an inelastic demand--they've got people by the neck.

People had forty years to figure out, "Shit, what happens if gas gets expensive", and they did the wrong thing. Let'em pay.
It's pretty well known that adding lanes actually increases congestion. Here are two cited articles that came up in a quick search:

* http://transportationist.org/2015/03/02/elements-of-access-i...

* http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/roadbuilding-futility.ht...
> On a side note...need a name for my new company...open letters as a service

B.Y.O.R. (Bring Your Own Rock)

Slogan: "We'll deal with the paper and scissors"
I would strongly recommend that anyone looking into something like this first look at JSON Schema[1], which is a pretty widely adopted standard. We're doing server and client validation with one set of rules, and there are lots of libraries that will clean up your data given a schema.

[1] http://json-schema.org/examples.html
It's interesting to note that, in california, even if you are salaried as a programmer, you may still be due overtime if you earn a little less then 86k a year.

http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/LC515-5.pdf
For what it's worth, SLES 12 was released October 2014 and has btfs by default:

https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12/#intro...

openSUSE also has it default in 13.2 (November 2014):

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:13.2
I have reason to think oral statements about your financial condition aren't actionable as fraud by your creditors in bankruptcy. I know nothing of liability to investors, securities law, etc.
Overpopulation isn't a problem. It's human desire for luxury, as is meat, as is 5 AC components for each room of your house. Problem is that the whole world cannot live as an average citizen of USA (when it comes to energy use, not the health care and the bad bits) but the whole world, when it realizes, wants exactly that.
Those are very densely populated places. Los Angeles is something like 1/6th as dense as NYC. And if LA is anything like the rest of the United States, there are laws on the books preventing it from becoming dense enough to support mass transit like the cities you mention.
I definitely have some advice. My social skills still aren't very good but they used to be terrible. I was able to at least improve them.

* Read How to Win Friends and Influence People

* Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

* Join Toastmasters (and, importantly, participate!)

* Make it a part of your life to continually study psychology and human nature

My life has also improved personally/professionally/socially since I got fired from my last job in 2013 and went freelance. Having to run my own business has forced me to develop social skills and freelancing has given me the opportunity to regularly change the group of people with whom I'm surrounded, which has allowed me to "collect" people I like along the way, which can happen at a regular job but much more slowly.
Vancouver doesn't have a freeway so all traffic goes through regular city streets.

What actually happens is that the level of traffic basically stays static, and people travel using other means.

The level of automobile traffic moving through the downtown core is unchanged since the 1960s even though the population and amount of people working there has massively increased.
Visual C++? Or Visual Basic?
Another possibility is to run Morphis on top of Anaconda3:

http://continuum.io/downloads#py34
I agree. I'm a CPA and some of these terms (GMV) I've never heard before (must be because I'm in a different industry - payments, and we use TPV - total payment volume), and others (burn) are ambiguous to my accounting brain.

Is that cash flow used to fund operations? Is that the accrual based operating expenses? Is that the difference in cash between this month and last month?
At this point, I'll openly admit it. I despise these types of robotic university press releases, and I fucking despise the patterns of reaction these types of releases are designed to generate. Where is the questioning that's fundamental to learning? Where is the interaction with the audience? Where is the feedback? How the hell am I supposed to wade through this bullshit?

A sentence like this:

> For example, the “brainy mice” showed a better ability than ordinary mice to recognise another mouse that they had been introduced to the day before.

Who is the brainy mouse? Why is he meeting this other mouse? Are they meeting in a bar? At Dolores Park? Are they fighting? Are they being given a standardized state administered quiz? Can I see a picture of this Morris maze?

How am I even supposed to unpack this and why would I even care? Science communication is supposed to be a two-way street, not an unexpectant ejaculation of "data" for someone else to "comprehend", "digest", "understand". Show me what's cool about this. Show the process, the failures, the papertrail, that would be cool. The prestige of the journal, the authors multitude of titles or affiliations, and some generic stock imagery is not cool.

And for god sake, at least make the primary source accessible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_deficit_model#Defi...

[2] I'm intimate to this problem because we've created a robotic press release generator for Experiment's users. PRs serve a purpose, which is not public outreach, it's a journalist to journalist protocol.

[3] trying to solve this problem of science communication for funders - http://experiment.com/vanek
> And if LA is anything like the rest of the United States, there are laws on the books preventing it from becoming dense enough to support mass transit like the cities you mention.

Laws can be changed. (Otherwise, congestion tolls wouldn't be an issue, since they could never be imposed.)
The main reason people install it I thought is because

1. It allows downloads to start and stop. No more 90% of that iso then having to start again.

2. It opens up 4 thingies on the file and downloads simultaneously. So 4 times quicker if the website is restricting bandwidth per connection.
Uber's valuation is now starting to makes sense if this is true. Marginal cost of revenue for uber is very very low. You can argue that gross margins can run as high as 60-70% of revenue. Giving uber gross profit of over 3B for 2016. Given how aggressive uber is in driving growth premium on valuation is making sense.

Side note: I was in Chicago last week - and I am noticing almost every cab driver now has uber app open. There are 13k uber drivers in chicago alone. Anecdotal evidence suggests Uber is winning.
Oh, I agree. The pioneers get shot, and the next wave learns. The question for a language designer is, which do you want your language to be? Do you want it to be, essentially, a long-running research project that explores in one direction as far as you can? Or do you want it to be a useful tool for a large number of people? If you choose the former, don't complain when you don't get the latter.
OTOH, they made some pretty significant cuts to what they charge for extra RAM and SSDs. They used to have ludicrously expensive surcharges if you wanted to have an SSD instead of a HDD, or if you wanted to increase RAM to something even fairly small like 8GB. Now their servers seem to be priced pretty competitively. And bandwidth in excess of the 500GB is $0.09/GB (I believe, but I'm too lazy to double-check), comparable to EC2 (which also charges from the first GB, i.e., has no free allotment).
I'm kind of surprised there isn't an exception for medically necessary use of substances on the list (at least, that I can find). Obviously, medically necessary drugs can still give you a advantage, but taking a substance your body would typically produce seems a reasonable exception. For example, trans men don't produce significant amounts of testosterone, so they need to take it both to transition and to be competitive.

That exception wouldn't technically cover trans women because we often take spironolactone to totally eliminate testosterone rather than because it's missing. Apparently, it's banned because it's used by athletes to hide their past usage of forbidden steroids.
Suppose this had been tested on 17 different mammals, all of whom gained remarkably in intelligence - the equivalent of gaining 70 IQ points (4.6 standard deviations, or the difference between a severely mentally handicapped adult and a Nobel-winning scientist), and in particular an ape with the modified gene raised by researchers was able to attain not only an increase in general intelligence but even was able to learn the speech skills and mental abilities of a two year old human - breathtaking abilities including limited, but full conversation, albeit with great difficulty as it did not have actual language genes but merely learned with intense researcher help.

If there were good reason to believe the gene modification were safe and the increase in mental abilities would transfer to humans: would you let your next child be modified as an experiment?
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I used to have difficulty explaining to people why I was unwilling to work unpaid overtime, but I've finally settled on just saying "It's a moral issue; I think it is wrong." This seems to shut people up, at least, though they probably think I'm some kind of nuts Marxist.

Asking for more labor in return for no more pay is wrong and allowing this kind of immorality to happen by willingly participating in it is also wrong. Therefore, living a moral life is incompatible with unpaid overtime.
Pro/anti drug advertising is just weird. I remember seeing this ad on TV in the 90s when I had not been in the US very long and being utterly perplexed as to what it was that viewers were being urged to buy. I was very surprised later on to discover that it was a hay fever remedy, as opposed to an anti-depressant or similar psychiatric drug.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzGjmUKPXhY

I'm sure future generations will look back at contemporary TV commercials and wonder why every disease in the early 21st century had a cute little nickname. I blame Pokemon.
It's especially due to the lack of desire to be contacted outside of work hours that I do not have my work email configured to forward to my personal emails or to alert me on my phone or any other damn fool thing.

You've got to train the bozos that, once you're off, you're off.
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D misfeatures seem to get fixed pretty quick - at the cost of breaking backwards compatibility. I think I prefer that honestly.
All the projects you mention predate github. A lot of it has to do with the fact that infrastructure for these projects was put in place before Github was a thing.
I always wondered about this. There must exist a price after which people will take their daily commune into account when negotiating for a job.

This could have multiple outcomes:

- Change the schedule so that not everyone is on the road the same time;

- More remote work;

- Higher salaries when you have to drive in peak hours.

You don't have less vehicules; just less at the same time.
Yeah. That's a good point. I was back in Vancouver a couple of weeks ago. I took a taxi from the airport and at one point we were "delayed" for maybe 5 minutes and the driver said, "Ugh. Why is there traffic?"

That was funny considering I'm now living in LA. I was thinking, "You don't know traffic, buddy".

I do admit that the downtown core gets bottlenecked at certain times of the day. But it's better than traffic all the time at most hours of the day, like in LA.
> If that's the short term cost of getting Firefox to the same level of security that Chrome is at, it seems more than worth it.

Without the extensions I perhaps see no point to FF. Is secure and dead worth it?

Plus is there evidence of issues around this in the wild? Is it worth the risk of being a possible FF killer?
It's a learning process. A lot of times the Bay Area (like some other places in the world, for different endeavours) is the first real-life encounter with excellence and some times with geniality. Experiencing failure will make felons better, if they survive rejections, mature and learn from mistakes.
Sadly, the fake "not even once" meth ads were more effective than the real ones.
Signing in with Google requests to view your contacts. Come on, really?
> making CRUD apps and serving up ads

It involves a lot of social engineering is all. To design an API is to offer a service. It's the service industry and it's possible thanks to a lot of production and creation.
See also tcomb-form [1] with it's tcomb-json-schema plugin [2].

We're currently using react-forms with a custom json-schema to react-forms schema conversion.

[1] https://github.com/gcanti/tcomb-form
[2] https://github.com/gcanti/tcomb-json-schema
Some Airbnb listings offer discounts for 7+ day or 30+ day stays, and the savings can then be substantial. Even for shorter stays, it can often still be cheaper than comparably clean+handy hotels, especially if you factor in that things like Internet and parking are almost always included for free.

I've found evaluating a listing basically means reading every review and assuming any negative element mentioned will be arbitrarily bad, even if the reviews are positive and say it's "no big deal." I remember seeing one listing where multiple reviewers complained there was structural damage to the building through which feral cats entered and urinated on guests' property but said it wasn't a major problem.

If the reviews mention street noise, assume there will be drunken revelers outside until dawn all night. If the reviews mention shedding pets, assume every surface will be covered in cat or dog hair. If they say the host is overly talkative, picture a humorless version of Robin Williams trying to be your personal genie.

If the negatives don't bother you--you love animals, you don't mind noise, you're not bringing a car so nonexistent parking isn't an issue--then go ahead and rent the place.
> Does anyone know why they are calling this API Blink-compatible rather than Chromium-compatible?

That's a good question, since the two sources they link to (from Chrome and Opera) both refer, directly or indirectly, to Chromium extensions, and neither refers to "Blink" at all.
Almost as terrible is the fact that the listed keyboard shortcut alternative to clicking DoIt (CTRL d) actually deletes, rather than executes, the selected text.
You realize that LA (the city proper, not metro area) is over 5x the size of Amsterdam with over 4x the population. I think that's part of what he meant by they're not really comparable.
I definitely agree that, yes, it needs to be worked on. It just might be a longer process and some of the tricks that work in other locales aren't directly applicable.
what store sparql.uniprot.org uses? Virtuoso?
Article: http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/vaop/naam/abs/npp2015240a....
Also https://github.com/christianalfoni/formsy-react
Not necessarily; many would consider $201M the revenue and $1M the "profit" or "earnings" in that case.
Nice.

Of course, once they started throwing money at the problem, it went better. Boxes were purchased and quickly delivered. Trucks were rented. A storage space was rented. Professional movers were brought in. Then it's no problem.

OK, now what's the plan for the next phase?
The search doesn't work for me on chrome.
I really love the stylized look of the bot's output. How does it work?
Not really. Drones will only get cheaper. Oh, and terrorists have virtually unlimited money. DIY drone kits with oss nav software. Cheap, untraceable, highly disruptive.