skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory, as storage costs approach 0, computers get faster and and vision becomes more sophisticated, road conditions shouldn't matter too much.

These cars are going to be scanning constantly in nice weather, it shouldn't be a stretch to then figure out relative position with GPS and then use the distance to 'known' trees / signs / landmarks from previous trips to determine lane position.

I'm sure there are barren areas where this would be tough (I've driven I-80 through snowy Nebraska about a dozen times en route to ski vacations in Colorado) but "stay between the snow banks" should be a decent start for autonomous driving.
The Nexus 5 was the best Android phone I've owned. I upgraded from a Nexus One which was an upgrade from the original G1. The only reason I'm upgrading to a 5x is because my Nexus 5 died and is no longer covered under LG's warranty. Coming from the Nexus One (Cyanogen) and loosing SD expansion was a bit unsettling at first but the automated camera backups were a huge win. Wireless charging was an added bonus from a usability perspective but non-essential. The best part though is Nexus Protect - to some this might seem unnecessary but for heavy users is a must. Almost a year to the day I purchased my Nexus 5 my battery died. Google replaced it for free. The SIM card slot on the replacement stopped working a few weeks ago and it would've been nice to be covered under a plan like Nexus Protect. For me Nexus Protect makes up for the lack of SD or wireless charging. My only hesitation pulling the purchase trigger is fingerprinting which IMO, whether encrypted or hashed locally, is simply an invasion of privacy.
The research on deanonymization is so powerful that I doubt we'd even release it anonymously for stats.
Good question, I'm not sure how much speed plays a role in train efficiency. It's no doubt some of each of your alternatives, I imagine. Even the higher speed ones are more like 60-70MPH. Nobody seems to be the least bit interested in building a TGV freight version, for example, even to run on existing TGV lines.
Or go to a movie theater.
An example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298777

Good change, by the way. Don't know how many times I've (probably fruitlessly) commented next to a dead comment to point out that they're unknowingly accidentally shadowbanned.
media companies which run on ad revenue

Greenwald worked for The Guardian for the initial release, and works for The Intercept now. The Guardian, although somewhat ad-supported, doesn't appear to be quite as dependent as most US papers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#Ownership_and_fin.... The Intercept is definitely weirder than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercept

With respect to The Intercept, I submit that you're technically correct (their motivations and Snowden's aren't identical), but that Snowden's motivations are probably closer to The Intercept's staff than they would be to any other news outlet, even NPR.
If you want a job right this moment, Scala.

If you want to learn about FP, and build things where concurrency wasn't an after thought, be happy while doing it, and be a head of the curve when Elixir conquers the world.... Elixir.
Happily we announced Chromecast support today: http://www.wired.com/2015/09/spotify-might-best-new-thing-ne.... Hope you like it!
Intentionally obtuse much? Its a double win because they both pay less in and take more out. Gender wagegap is another discussion entirely but I'll just leave this video here as my answer to THAT discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwogDPh-Sow
I tried so many different tools, mostly trying to avoid paying for a service, but honestly, there's nothing as good and as simple as getharvest.com. Simple time tracking, simple invoice generation and my clients can pay via a credit card (Stripe integration) right away. It's worth it.
In the current Redox design, everything runs in privileged mode, so it's kind of the ultimate monolith?
You are looking at the first order effects only.

How much do insurance companies make from meteor insurance or air plane crash insurance? Very little. These events are so rare that overhead costs cut into profit margins.
Did you see the thread on that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645
Tontines don't solve the elephant in the room, which is that people are substantially undersaving for retirement.

There exists no financial innovation which will provide for fully-funded retirements for 100 retirees each having $100k to invest. (Sourced below.) There is no way to slice that pool of $10 million in such a way that it increases the NPV of it to more than $10 million. It's underfunded by a factor of 10.

>> The agency found the median amount of those savings is about $104,000 for households with members between 55 and 64 years old[.]

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/03/most-older-americans-fall-sho...
You don't really need to sync your iPhone with iTunes if you don't need to. Everything is supported as a standalone device.
Adding more batteries increases the weight, thereby reducing fuel economy. So to get the intended effect, you have to add more batteries...

It's going to give you something like the equation for max velocity/altitude from a rocket, even if not precisely the same.
Inspection of King Tut’s Tomb Reveals Hints of Hidden Chambers
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what kind of limitations did you find in the JavaScript ones?
I've tried evernote as a consumer and couldn't quite figure out where it fits between dropbox and other "cloud" providers such as gDrive and MSOffice 360.

It seems like a smart move to focus on the features that are most useful to their core users instead of trying to be everything to everybody.
Thats a horrible idea. Wouldnt that require enforced tracking?

What about people who put up free blogs? I'm sprry but if your business model isnt working online, then you need a new business model. If its not working, asking for a new system wont save it.
A lot of cargo ships have been doing half-speed for a couple years to save money and produce less pollution.
Co-Employers Aware of Misclassification Can Be on the Hook for It
I just launched http://codeiac.com - it's essentially an online code editor with syntax highlighting.

It's nothing fancy, but quite handy if you just need to quickly see the syntax of any php/html/js/css piece of code (even mixed).

I'm sure there are tons of similar sites but I haven't ever seen one that I liked - I hope you like this one.

Suggestions are more than welcome!
That article generated a lot of discussion on HN a couple of weeks ago, which can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10218915

(Note: The BusinessInsider article was a re-publication of the original on syrah.co.)
The Videostream plugin works beautifully. No plex-style on-demand encoding required. Just pick that 1080p mkv file or whatever and play, negligible CPU usage.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-go...
> Where's a page that says it's a LISP underneath?

Every expression is transformed internally to an AST representation that can be seen as a lisp-style s-expression. And this gets transformed, JIT-compiled, and so on. [1]

Furthermore, the Julia internals contain an entire lisp implementation (femtolisp [2]). That has influenced the metaprogramming capabilities.

> And I didn't see dependent types mentioned in the page below despite some things sounding similar.

Integer matrices can be represented as Array{Int64,2}. So the type of the matrix depends on the Int64 datatype and the dimensionality 2. But that's not necessarily what type theorists understand to be a dependent type. There was an epic discussion that led to the phrasing "dependent" being removed from the Julia docs. [2]

[1] http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/metaprogrammin...

[2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/src/flisp

[2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6113
I believe Groupon is the first dead Unicorn
The Last All-Nighter
You can't share a rendering context between processes, but you can share an IOSurface between processes, and bind that to an OpenGL texture, which you can either draw using, or render to (by binding it to a framebuffer).

<https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/MultiGPUI...
Yeah, they're everywhere around here, including the tiny pods that can only go 30 mph and don't seem to have a steering wheel.
What would be a "great" delivery experience?

Seems on-time or faster with no damage is all that's needed. I prefer not even having to see/interact with a person for it.
You could say the same thing about cloud storage, couldn't you? As with extra local storage, that has additional UI baggage, which comes along with extra utility for the user. To be able to bring with you all of your music or photos, without requiring a connection, is a massive benefit.

That also doesn't explain sticking with the same storage options from two years ago, even though prices have plummeted in the meantime.

It's clearly about what benefits Google.
The article addresses this. Men are just as picky in this area:

"It's not just women, both men and women are unlikely to date and marry across those lines. It just doesn't matter for the men because the pool of educated women is so vast that their own classism doesn't really punish them. But being unwilling to consider working-class guys affects women in ways that it doesn't affect men. It's totally unfair, and I get that, but it's not like only the women are choosy and the men are all open-minded."

That's what assortative mating is all about:

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595972-how-sex...
Should U.S. Companies Ignore Over 70% of the Potential Tech Labor Force?
The real question is - will Chris O’Neill listen to what core paying users have been asking for with regard to keeping the basic application functional.
As others have said, it's going to be more than three years before I trust it on a snowpacked highway, still less one with ice.
Happy to take the compliment, but Reddit is two orders of magnitude bigger than we are. That's several layers of 'qualitatively different' away, so the comparison isn't fair. We're in awe of what they have to deal with. I can't imagine it.
> There exists no financial innovation which will provide for fully-funded retirements for 100 retirees each having $100k to invest.

You could start a retirement community in a third world African country where costs are lower. $100k is stretching it but $250k and they'd be fine for the rest of their lives.
Too add to this, on my personal MBP I have the same home directory that I originally created in OS 10.2. I've used migration assistant, swapped/cloned drives, and in-place upgraded for the past 12 years. My work MBP is similar for the past 6 years.

I've had 2 or 3 issues where old config was the root cause, but those are few and far between. I might be an outlier, but it's always just "worked for me".

Edit: oops!
The thing is, internal storage isn't necessarily faster. Sure, it is on the top tier $750 and up premium-priced phones like the iPhone 6s (which has very fast internal storage). But we're talking about a much less expensive phone here. Let's compare:

64GB Nexus 6P: $549

64GB iPhone 6S+: $849

So, you really shouldn't expect the Nexus 6P to be using the top-tier internal storage solutions Samsung rolls out as used in the iPhone and Samsung phones. Yes, a lot of that $300 price difference is for the Apple name, especially when you factor in the lower resolution 6S+ 1080p screen. But quite a bit of it is used for the polishing bits that make the phone faster... like much faster storage.

As a data point, the high-end Sandisk 64GB microSD cards are about $50 and are around 3x faster than the internal storage in my Nexus 6. They're hitting 95 MB/s read, 90 MB/s write now.

While a microSD won't top out at the 200 MB/s you get from last year's top-tier storage available in the Samsung S6 and iPhone 6 (not to mention the twice as fast Samsung storage in the new iPhone 6s and upcoming Samsung phone), they'll perform better than the internal storage in most mid-tier phones and all low-tier phones, which is all most folks need for photos and videos.
The 'no-tech' school where screens are off limits – even at home
Ah, I see. My error.
Another interesting example is FF6 Advance. The original GBA had a screen that wasn't backlit, and would be hard to see darker colours in, particularly if played outside or near a window etc. So many games (FF6) included, compensated for this by using a brighter colour palette across the board than NES/SNES/etc versions.

Of course, once you play that version on a emulator on a modern LCD (or even on the backlit GBA SP), the colours end up being too bright, to the point that there is a fanmade patch for FF6 advance to bring back the SNES colour palette:

http://www.fantasyanime.com/finalfantasy/ff6/images/ff6gba_c...
The article addresses this, and it's not the case. Men are just as picky in this area. See my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10299844
Make sure you have HDR mode turned on and your hands are steady. I have taken some great pictures with this phone.
Whole Foods laying off 1500
I didn't interpret it that way, and I apologize if it seemed that I did.

I was actually hoping for some read on the two questions I gave because I believe these are important issues, and your comment prompted an opportunity to raise them.
Why did Airbnb buy a russian design company?
Social security payments have a cost of living adjustment based on CPI-W (a measure of inflation).
What is the auxiliary stuff that they've dropped? (or will drop/reduce emphasis on)

Genuinely curious. I've noted that they seem to have multiple apps in the AppStore doing similar things.
I miss mine so much! I lost one in a motorcycle accident, and another in a Nicaraguan taxi.
BRCK: Rugged tech for African schools
> I want to pay for "battery as a service", I don't need to own a battery, I don't want to charge it

Renault in Europe are part-way there with their EVs ( the Fluence, Zoë and Twizy ) You buy the car but pay a battery-lease to Renault each month, when the battery capacity falls below 80% they call you in to a garage and swap-out the pack.

You still have to pay for charging, though.

The Renault approach appears to be appreciated by people who are dabbling in EVs as a hobby ( e.g. wealthy folk in leafy areas of London ) but is offputting to people looking to replace their internal-combustion cars. £70 minimum per month for rental + cost of charging quickly exceeds the cost of diesel in the UK.
My prediction, the next dead unicorn: Dropbox

They are similar in that they haven't made anything note worthy in a while and their main product is really just a feature of bigger companies apps and services.
This reminds me a bit of the concept of lottery savings accounts, in which principals are untouched and winners receive interest: it turns the common human desire to gamble towards good, rather than evil.

I like it, too, because it just seems fairer than an annuity: there's an upside as well as a downside.
That unicorn looks more like an elephant, but I'm no expert.
People might also confuse non-"dang" users for him if they have a similar username.

I think a "mod" tag makes sense.
>"However these gains are unequally distributed between the proprietors (ie. Amazon and it's shareholders) and the employees. While incomes for many employees have stagnated for over a decade, the shareholders of Amazon keep getting richer (https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...) creating more inequality."

Do you own any shares in a fund that tracks the S&P 500? Congrats, you too are an Amazon shareholder getting richer at the expense of said employees.
There has been more than once where a package will fail to be delivered in a timely manner (the website indicates its been out for delivery for 5+ days), and they have always overnighted a replacement without charge or expectation that if the original shows up that I return it to them.

These missing packages have been primarily from when UPS/FedEx decides to use a last mile delivery service, instead of delivering it themselves, which is primarily staffed by low wage workers with frighteningly high turnover.
When does the downvote become available? I'm at 298 with no ability to afaik.
It sounds like I might have misread your intention (sorry), but I still don't understand the question. If you want to try again, I'll try to answer.
> Tontines don't solve the elephant in the room, which is that people are substantially undersaving for retirement.

If they encourage people to save more, then they'll reduce the problem.

They won't, however, solve the problem that people are simply spending too much. I don't know if anything can.
That's not really fair. There's no reason for their site to demand more or different info than the IVR.
Ann Arbor tech firm reports $50M investment
I like the idea of building this into bitcoin, where one only has to check into the blockchain somehow each year to continue receiving payments.
It doesn't directly compare with longevity insurance, but to me it sounds like all the advantages against annuities would carry over:

> Annuities are expensive to administer, and so their payouts are rather low. The costs stem in part from paying the insurance company to shoulder all the risk. To guarantee it can make good on all its annuity contracts, the insurer has to set aside a lot of money in reserve — just in case people live longer than expected, or in case the market crashes. A tontine does away with all that overhead, so more money is available to the retirees. By Milevsky's calculations, a tontine might offer a 10 percent to 20 percent premium over an annuity — a bigger pie to be divided among the group. The downside is that retirees would see their payouts fluctuate depending on the various times other people in the tontine group died. Compared to an annuity, a tontine abandons certain payouts for much higher returns...Such a system would be cheaper to operate and would always, by definition, be fully funded. The funny thing is that some retirement systems already carry out a version of that process. As Milevsky documents in his book, there is "tontine thinking" embedded in various national pension schemes, and even in a product offered by TIAA-CREF in the United States. These plans adjust payments according to mortality. They just don't use the word tontine.
I absolutely agree - the core of evernote is what I like and it needs more attention. Usability, performance, ...

But it looks like they found out themselves, eventually... ;)
I would imagine the reviewer could have done some investigative journalism: put a call out for people having problems with the beta, collected stories, and set up configurations to try to reproduce those. Not just trusting what people say, but not going all the way to QA, either.
There is a lot of potential value in white-glove services, yes. It's also something most people aren't all that interested in paying a reasonable amount for.

Think for a minute about the cost of sending someone trained out for a five-minute introductory session when a given gizmo is delivered. Think about the training required. Think about all the additional delivery complications this introduces. And so on.

There's value here, but it's not easy to realize. Places like Best Buy offer it through Geek Squad, but only in conjunction with a B&M service.
Think of how much you use your phone. GP uses phone twice as much. b^)
Massachusetts Turnpike has a minimum speed of 40 unless you are in a tunnel where the minimum is 20.

http://www.mit.edu/%7Ejfc/NMA/730CMR.html

Most of I-93 in NH has a posted minimum of 45.
wonder if it's due to something that's changed as part of the battery life improvements, from process scheduling to clockspeed changes
Being laid off and being fired are not the same thing.
Can it power the device from PoE (Power over Ethernet) link?

I can't find PoE to micro-usb cable anywhere else but this comes close.
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Sex, brains and inequality
Nobody says you have to use sum types to solve all problems in the design domain - and as kvb points out, F# does have OO functionality too.

Your proposed problem might be better solved with the Option type and a simple guard to return None if out of range.

>comically easy to avoid using a standard OO approach

This is an ironic statement given that your code, as written, is circumvented by subclassing Range and side-stepping its constructor. I suppose you actually meant "sealed class"... but we're getting off in the weeds again, missing the fundamental point of the post.
It's more than common vernacular in English.

"Fired" implies wrong-doing on their part.

"Laid off" or "let them go" means the company couldn't afford to pay them, or didn't need them anymore. It leaves no black mark against their name.
At 501. Which always reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606199.
And now I think you've come a lot closer to the problem most privacy advocates don't seem willing to accept. That maybe, if nobody cares and nothing happens, that's because most people believe that what the NSA is doing is really not that bad. That maybe people are tired of seeing the same few articles with a few countries and codenames slightly tweaked because they stopped giving a shit 2 weeks after XKEYSCORE, just like they would have if the leaks had ended there.

We've pretty much been through this before with Binney. He did things the right way. Nobody cared. Nothing changed. Snowden probably saw that and didn't want to end up the same way. He wanted to start a fire because he thought he knew better than everyone else. Fuck General Alexander, fuck the DHS, fuck the public - privacy matters because I say so. And so he did something (a lot of things) dumb. So fuck him. That's my group. That intersect "no such thing as privacy in our digital-everything future".
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used to distract people from his actual actions

How do we determine his actual intentions? I mean, Snowden is alive and well and giving quotes: "People who think I made a mistake in picking [Hong Kong] as a location misunderstand my intentions,” Snowden clarified. “I am not here to hide from justice; I am here to reveal criminality.”"

Sounds like Snowden considers himself to be something of a whistle blower, in the common sense, if not the technical. So, that's settled, I guess.
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"Fir[ing]" an employee suggests they did something wrong. These 47 people did nothing wrong outside of working on a product or products that are no longer relevant to Evernote.
It would also be a huge plus if it didn't take 5 seconds to load every time I opened the app. Not sure how a company with so many competitors can survive long-term with its product in such a state.
Alternatively, get rid of the overhead of value leeching wigs by contributing to worker owned coop / collectives, or similar endeavors.
Just make them go 200mi while running heat, ac, and radio and make them under $30k. That's all we want.
I was going to ask the same thing. My normal delivery experience is picking up my package off the porch as I watch the ass-end of a delivery truck mosey on down the street.
Does the Nexus phones have the "Active Display" feature of the Moto X? I love these feature, there are apps that try to mimic it but don't come close, the MotoX has specific hardware for this feature.

http://www.motorola.com/us/Moto-X-Features-Active-Display/mo...