skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked in exactly the same domain , I can very well say that OTA is risky, moreover the data providers for the car is not really happy about OTA ( Sprint , AT& T provides connectivity for the projects I worked on.). They lease out a certain bandwidth to the connected cars which sends small bursts of data at a low contracted price. If the car manufacturers need OTA, they will have to pay a premium which will be slapped on the customer. There is also a technicality of downloading a huge image ( possibly 1 GB ) over a spotty network. ( a running car will switch cell networks , network types 3G , LTE , 1x , lost connections etc ).
19 SaaS B2B Startups in 4 Minutes from TCDisrupt SF
Its a hard engineering problem, yes - but not that far-fetched. It's an even harder political problem, though.

It's hard to justify the required R&D expenses without appealing to emotion (such as sending humans).
That sounds a lot like internet addiction unless that alone time is offline.
This is really interesting stuff - reminds me a lot of lenses in Haskell, which the author points out, and also of state-trees in JS/compile-to-JS like Om or Baobab. I have been playing with something similar in Elixir, but deeply nested structures seem far less common there.

One thing I like is the concept that a function can operate on a single well-defined data structure, without worrying about the fact that this structure is part of a much larger state tree.

I wonder if there are things that a strongly typed implementation (Haskell) can do, which this cannot do (as well)?

Also wondering at what point it becomes better to switch to an in-memory database (like Datascript), instead of a simple nested data structure. I guess transparency is a benefit of a single data structure, whereas things like Datascript might be faster(?) and can also handle things like storing history and building in undo-functionality etc (which you'd have to add manually otherwise).
Or they get abducted by aliens, if we're talking about things that didn't happen.
The aim is to settle the question of whether life exists on Mars, or ever has, before clouding the issue with modern contamination. I say modern just in case of various panspermia-type possibilities.

That doesn't preclude eventually spreading life to Mars. Even if living indigenous bacteria, or even plant life(!) were found - I think this is the most ambitious scenario now conceivable, the 'Mars mat' of fiction suviving in caves - it likely wouldn't be an argument to stop colonisation, though it might have bearing on arguments about terraforming.
Your car may be invading your privacy (2013)
RubyRide – Automation for Low-Density Cities
RubyRide is an automated transportation solution for the 21st century. RubyRide solves the transportation struggles in low density cities by offering a personalized car & driver service that manages your trips for you, offering a "set it and forget it" model that works for kindergartners to get to and from school just as easily as it works for an organization like Arizona State University to transport its students. The problem today is that current ride-sharing solutions don't manage a user's schedule, nor focus on the efficiency. RubyRide brings the users the freedom and ease of an Uber, but the reliability and structure of a Nest thermostat.
You can get a shoe closet with a mattress on the floor for $18/night in the middle of Tokyo on AirBnB [1]. For comparison, the capsule hotels are $35 a night. Even a bunk(!) in a hostel is more than $18 a night.

[1] https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/6843251

There are definitely still bargains to be found.
>need to be able to power up or down separately

Need to be able to power on the Data, MIC and Camera per the Court Order without waking up the rest of the phone :)
To respond to your point on being asked about weaknesses: I've always taken the honest route. I've given reasons like "hard to find motivation if I don't find the project interesting" and I've found they've gone done quite well (I think I've only been turned down for < 5% of interviews I've done in the past 10 years).

The caveat though: explain to the interviewer that you're being vulnerable. I always make it clear that I hate those "strengths presented as weaknesses" bullshit and then explained that I'm going to be 100% honest. People seem to connect with it.
Wouldn't it be bad if life forms are found in Mars, according to this? http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
PVS-Studio team: Checking Appleseed source code
Commander, the spaceship to the Galaxy of PyPI
turning on logging post-facto won't go back in time to catch a rare bug. And since you need the added resources that logging requires to be available at all times anyway, you might as well just leave logging on. What's your objection to having recent logs?
I fully agree. I've seen people (including myself) go through varying degrees of introversion based on external experiences. Identification can be a strongly limiting and a destructive power. When it comes to "introvert" reservations about fully identifying with a term seem to vanish for most people - those who identify and those who do not.
18F Design Standards
Of course, the difference being that the Intel tablets are capable of running full versions of Windows and Linux, and are able to take advantage of huge software library not available on the iPad Pro. Whether one sees this as an advantage or not is up to them.
"No dogs or kids" in the ad is going to sound pretty fair to a lot of people on HN.
Being that AirBnB is in the customer service field, not really a true marketplace, a customer-centric dispute policy makes total sense. Hosts that can't grasp the concept of "make your customers happy" are only going to hurt the overall AirBnB brand and should be sussed out and expelled quickly.
"For more technical roles, you can even build a timed Excel test with some practice problems or logic tests.", what? is the Excel page for the interviewer or the candidate?

In any case, you can use whatever questions you like, they are very trainable and people good at BS and making up anything quick will do well at those.
Nice that you managed to do all that, but I couldn't stop thinking that there is an enourmous overuse of (and overinvestment in human capital related to) Wordpress.

The fact that everyone uses Wordpress makes it seem like the best option for all kinds of things, and thus creates these problems.
_you_ are prohibited, but Google is not. I'd suspect they will mix in more and more of this context (from Nest, from emails you provide, from your driving habits on Google Maps) to make ads "more personal" as time goes on.
There's also aafigure: https://pythonhosted.org/aafigure/
You don't think the price would make a difference between the two places?

I recently used airbnb for the first time and I specifically looked for reviews that said the place matched the pictures, google street view, did a google search on the condo name, vrbo, emailed the host and even got direct phone numbers in return
Surprise Surprise! The Chinese President is in the US and suddenly there are scare stories popping up everywhere.

What a coincidence that CloudFlare decide to look at months old data and publish a story making China look bad, at the exact same time the Chinese President is visiting.

Remarkable timing.

Also shame on the BBC for a headline which implies there is an attack happening right now.
Ohhh! The original Windows Solitaire for free! :)
UberCOMMUTE launches in China
Yes, I'm sure you could pretty easily write said program. Then the people who did this would obfuscate their code and you could probably then detect that...and the game whack-a-mole will continue. Eventually as this cycle continues you will end up with something that looks a lot like today's anti-virus programs, (aka a pattern recognition engine...).

It's the (theoretical?) software that can detect these types of attacks before or as they are happening that is of interest to lots of people now a days.
The CIA Battled the Kremlin with Books and Movies
Ruby Rails Skydive Action Figure
The Persistence of Printed Books
I'm also very introvert, and find that speaking in front of people feels nothing like being forced to interact closely with people to me. I held the commencement speech for new students at university, in front of thousands and a TV crew, and everyone wondered how I was able to keep so calm. And I went around participating in political school debates during the election my senior year of high school and couldn't care less that there were audiences of hundreds of rowdy teenagers.

The thing is, one of the things that is stressful to me about social situations is that I have to work to read the situations, and work to ensure I respond "correctly", and work to engage in chitchat and all the other stuff that creates social bonds, and that I tend to overly negatively interpret social reactions.

To stay calm when speaking to large groups, on the other hand, is then very easy: I just don't invest the effort in dealing with the social stuff. It never hits me that it's something worth being nervous about, because I've just "switched off", and worry about whatever subject I'll be talking about, which I'm generally certain about, not least because I have a very easy time learning a manuscript, and I know I'm effectively insulated from everything that makes close social situations exhausting.

I strongly believe that introversion in social settings and ability to speak to groups are affected by very different things.

Like you I'm also usually fine with working in groups, for the same reasons: There's usually not that many social cues to worry about, and when they are, they tend to be more focused and less effort to deal with, at least for some time.
Released in "Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, the UK, and the United States."

http://imgur.com/wvTtvNu

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/24/iphone6s-launch-kicks-of...
Right now, EVs are fine for short-distance travel but most EVs have trouble with long-distance travel. An EV's battery will be fine with getting you to and from the highway, and you'll charge wherever you park as well.

Your emphasis on "wired" is kind of out of place here. These wireless chargers will necessarily be able to provide substantially more power than a typical wired charger. A typical wired charger is 10kW or less, while highway inductive charging will need to provide 20-30kW just to sustain highway speeds.

Let's say you draw 30kW no matter what until the battery is full. If you're in a traffic jam, you might be consuming 2kW or so on average, leaving 28kW available to charge the battery. If you're in a LEAF and your battery is completely empty, your battery will be full in less than an hour. And your battery is likely to be well above empty.
AFAICT in the private sector its very often the same (and not just in pharma, but in biotech more generally), because in order to pursue a project a principal scientist will need to sell a business plan around it to the business management of the company so that they will devote company resources to it, which may involve securing (or identifying and waiting for the business-side folks to secure) funding via grants, cooperative ventures, etc. to do it.

If the company has a big cash stockpile (e.g., because it is either a well-funded startup or a well-established big player) the likelihood of needing to secure outside funding may be less, but the scientist will still likely have to sell the idea to the business team.
> And I don't know if you have seen a Moto 360/Huawei Watch in person but they are ridiculously large and tacky.

I have. The 360 looks like a traditional watch, and the Apple Watch looks far bigger[0], and unusual. Have you seen them in real life? We have people in the building who own the 360 and others with the Apple Watch, I see them daily. The Apple Watch stands out as being a "box on the wrist" the 360 is invisible unless brought up or shown off.

> However there are a number of innovations e.g. digital crown, force touch, haptic feedback and the excellent Fitness capabilities that do put in far ahead of the competition in day to day usability.

This is so typical of Apple fans. Ignore everything on the market then claim Apple innovated/created every major product feature. Almost everything on your list pre-existed ahead of the Apple Watch announcement (let alone launch).

The crown is a watch feature which is over fifty years old. It has appeared on digital watches for at least twenty years before Apple "invented it." I myself owned a digital watch in the mid 1990s with a crown (which allowed you to set the time, change the date, etc all on a completely digital watch).

Apple was not the first watch to contain a vibrator ("haptic feedback"), IBM and Citizen Watch created the horrifying "WatchPad" in 2000(!) which had it. Since then many (most?) smartwatches have contained it as standard. It is absurd to call it an Apple innovation for a product released in 2015.

It is laughable to point at the fitness stuff. Even stepping away from smartwatches for a second, there is an entire market of fitness trackers around, many of which have incredible usability and are extremely popular. Fitbit, Garmin, iFit, heck even Microsoft have been producing products in this field for literally years ahead. Then there is the smartwatch competition from Samsung, LG, Garmin, Moto, etc all have fitness tracking capabilities.

It is like you either haven't been following technology at all or are just trolling. There's no other explanation for anyone claiming that Apple "innovated" most of the stuff on your list. I half expected you to claim that Apple invented the LCD screen on a smartwatch, or the wrist strap, it would be no more absurd than your other claims...

[0] http://www.modernhoot.com/372/moto-360-and-apple-watch-side-...
Speaking in Bayesian probability, it's bad if life forms found on Mars are more advanced than human, and good if it's much less advanced, or even very primitive (as it means the Great Filter might be at an earlier stage than us right now).

And it won't be the former case, for obvious reason.
Serves you right for owning a Drupal IT Consultancy.
> "I think the limiting factor is not the hardware."

Well, not CPU/GPU hardware, but battery life is still a major concern. That said, I think the Apple Watch's battery life has proven to be better than advertised (~2 full days for me before it gets critically low, better than the ~1 day advertised) so there's definitely some room to play there.

I also picked up a Pebble Time Steel, and have been mildly disappointed. It definitely lasts longer than the Apple Watch, but the margin is not nearly as wide as you'd hope. The marketing copy says ~7 days, but in reality it's been more like ~4 days, and between the Apple Watch @ 2 day battery life vs. Pebble @ 4 day battery life, I know which I'd pick.
VW Says Diesel Cars Can Be Driven While Remedy Sought
This is an interesting comment on an an article about introverts in school settings. I wonder how many people with similar thoughts on open-plan offices see homeschooling as a best alternative to typical classroom environment.

Homeschooling often takes the approach where high productivity levels mean you are done with school in a few hours as opposed to sitting around killing time. This is also similar to frustrations voiced here about having to sit around the office even if they have completed their work.

There are likely more overlaps too.

In the same way that modern schooling schedules is supposedly designed to mimic industrial scheduling, perhaps current schooling models is moving in the direction of mimicking the modern workplace.
Maybe your machine isn't good enough for the VM? Lots of folks have low-budget, slow laptops that could still nevertheless benefit from having access to a decent Linux workstation environment.
The root of these bad host stories seem to be that the guests arrive and don't immediately contact Airbnb about issues with the rental. Because of this, Airbnb just denies any liability and puts the blame on the renters instead of the host.

This seems trivial to solve -- Airbnb should make check-ins a mandatory part of all stays, and any issues with the accommodations would obviously be included in this initial check-in. There would be no chance for a host to move you across Barcelona before realizing you've been totally screwed or before Airbnb starts denying any and all responsibility for the problem.
Google Hangouts uses VP9 for HD video chat, and it's noticeably power-hungry and laggy as well.
It looks like the 4S had the biggest improvement over its predecessors. Each modal before and after the 4S look like they only slightly improved upon the previous model.
I'm really not. Captive money into public school systems is asinine. That taxpayer money should be put into a pot and then handed out to different school systems like charter schools and other alternative schools, not just straight into public schools. We've had a lot of success with our charter schools even in Chicago. Vouchers for private schools would be good too.

Choice and competition work.
I posted this because of the IT angle, which is not made clear by the headline. There are online barter platforms helping to ease the pain of ordinary people faced with strict limits on how much money they can withdraw from the bank each week.
Grow up.
reminds me of avalanche tracker beacons
The Inflatable U.S. Air Force F-16
Perl secret operators and constants
Tell HN: I just asked ~10 people to list my worst qualities
To keep this somewhat private, I am going to list the highpoints of the exercise like why I did it, why it was beneficial, and how I did it.

I think recursive self improvement is super important and seeking out negative criticism from people is a really great way to pattern match on themes and confirm/discover personal bias. I am in a pretty shitty position professionally and personally so this seemed like a good way to see if I was missing some key flaw I had.

I emailed an ex, a few childhood/current best friends, family, and college friends and just asked them to write the 3(or more) worst things about me in any detail or context they wanted and provide detail if they wanted to. I asked they NOT include any positive attributes, assured them I wouldn't be offended and offered to return the favor should they be inclined.

I found the results really really interesting. If you are interested just make an email like critique[your name]@[a/your domain] and send them out.
Getaround’s Revenue Has Doubled to “Tens of Millions” in the Last Six Months
The view across part of Valles Marineris?
well, it worked out for Russia :)
"Opensourcing is not a replacement for QA practices."

I'm not suggesting it is, simply that public oversight (open source) is the only way to ensure trust of a secure system. The system itself still has to be secure and requires QA like any other.
What a bunch of bullshit.

We didn't 'decide to look at months old data and publish a story'. This is one of N articles we are writing about DDoS attacks we've seen.

Also, whenever people say "X makes China look bad" where X is some sort of botnet I like to remind them that China is huge and has a quarter of Internet users and so a ton of machines. No surprise that there are a ton of machines that get used in botnets.
A better compromise would be always having logging on but only retaining very recent logs. You need the infrastructure to support logging and correlation anyway and if you have a short enough retention period you don't have to worry about dealing with growing infrastructure just to support it.
But couldn't I put:

youremail@gmail.com

fakeemail-1@gmail.com

....

fakeemail-499@gmail.com
This article is dumbed down to the point of having almost no substance.

URL should be:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/mobile-ad-networks-as-ddos-vecto...
This is the most important pivotal point in our history..which way will we go?
Yup, those wealthy teachers are all conspiring together to screw us over yet again.

Don't conflate teaching methodology (pedagogy) with teacher salary. History has shown us that unions are necessary to protect the latter.
In my experience, embarrassment is usually a larger motivation for keeping code closed-source.
Eh. I'm no particular Airbnb enthusiast--indeed, I've never used it. However, I have stayed at any of a number of non-chain places around the world from the large to the tiny and I've rarely had a terrible experience. (And some of my worst hotel experience were at large chains.)

Especially for business travel, I do like a degree of predictability but that doesn't mean I feel a desire to restrict my travel to where I can stay in business hotels.
Congrats to Hashicorp, it's always exciting to see another release from you. Now I just have to find an excuse to use them... ;-)
The pattern isn't described until the second to last paragraph. I'll just c&p:

>Thus one productive line of inquiry quickly yielded evidence: the differences in the way agency officers undercover as diplomats were treated from genuine foreign service officers (FSOs). The pay scale at entry was much higher for a CIA officer; after three to four years abroad a genuine FSO could return home, whereas an agency employee could not; real FSOs had to be recruited between the ages of 21 and 31, whereas this did not apply to an agency officer; only real FSOs had to attend the Institute of Foreign Service for three months before entering the service; naturalized Americans could not become FSOs for at least nine years but they could become agency employees; when agency officers returned home, they did not normally appear in State Department listings; should they appear they were classified as research and planning, research and intelligence, consular or chancery for security affairs; unlike FSOs, agency officers could change their place of work for no apparent reason; their published biographies contained obvious gaps; agency officers could be relocated within the country to which they were posted, FSOs were not; agency officers usually had more than one working foreign language; their cover was usually as a “political” or “consular” official (often vice-consul); internal embassy reorganizations usually left agency personnel untouched, whether their rank, their office space or their telephones; their offices were located in restricted zones within the embassy; they would appear on the streets during the working day using public telephone boxes; they would arrange meetings for the evening, out of town, usually around 7.30 p.m. or 8.00 p.m.; and whereas FSOs had to observe strict rules about attending dinner, agency officers could come and go as they pleased.
This is the Groupon/Kickstarter/Ebay problem. Everything is awesome until something goes wrong. Then the user leaves forever, and tells their friends. Trust is broken.

Eventually the loses mount and the company crumbles from bad press.

Amazon fixes this with 10/10 customer service. The only known solution.
The reason Scala has so many features is that it chooses to be 100% compatible with Java, which means it needs to be a superset of Java. Benefit greater than cost? Many would say that.
That makes sense, but wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that there's a major difference between natural seeding of life on other planets via meteors, and humans bringing it over while trying to find natural life?

Furthermore, what if life on Mars were fragile enough that Earthly microscopic organisms destroyed it?
This seems like such a universal experience, and looking back on it, teachers obviously know it's going on.

I wonder how much their plans to train kids for the "real world" are shaped by working in such unusual environments themselves.

I've never had a job where my performance is judged based on how a random group of teenagers I've been assigned to does on a project, but teachers certainly have.