skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing to me how deeply ingrained software profit margins are into the start-up world. That calculator...we're an ecommerce company that holds inventory...I spent 30 seconds searching for how to set gross margins on the revenue then realized it assumes all revenue is 100% gross margin. In most businesses (read: anything other than software and maybe pharma), manipulating margin is one of the biggest levers (maybe THE biggest) you have to affect profitability.

Not to mention other big levers like working capital (and potentially running a business with negative WC and generating cash, a la Amazon). It's funny to be running a start-up in SF and still feel a world apart from a lot of the ecosystem.
This is a good point, but I think underestimates the pathos around American gun ownership.

That is to say, I don't think that banning those things would result in a reduction in availability.
Xanalogical Structure, Needed Now More Than Ever (1999)
I have a little batch program which automatically checks for the latest cygwin setup then run it to check for package updates in a least intrusive way:

https://gist.github.com/ryenus/4a67039eccda13ee7e1f
Not what I was talking about. There are several issues, whether these trespassers committed a crime is just one. This is an on-the-job injury of an employee. Whether anything went wrong on the employer/employee side to contribute to this is a totally different evaluation. Whether these guards had the authority to seize the vehicle is another. The insurance companies that have to pay for the medical care will look into these questions. Note that Tesla is not describing these employees as heroes. Tesla (or whatever company trains/deploys these guards) might be on the hook for substantial costs.

No doubt this incident will result in new training and/or a serious rethink of how security guards are deployed in such situations.
> The real problem is that they are so broad.

Before I click the "go away" button, I interpret the wall of text as "we'll do whatever we want, and if you disagree, you can try to sue us, but the PR campaign will be what matters, not the legal stuff."
My biggest problem with RHD is that my right arm smacks into the door when I want to change gears for the first 50 km or so. After that it usually gets better.
posted a year ago https://youtu.be/Xbjdmw8D9-Y
Send any API data to your local database
There's some context not obvious in that video: The machine as a whole fails, yes, but the only part of it that malfunctioned was the hard drive. The rest of the electronics in there are solid-state, and won't (okay, will be, but only minutely, and not enough to cause failure) be affected by the magnet. Your cell-phone is magnet safe.
and Hyundai https://youtu.be/Xbjdmw8D9-Y
A fake wedding ring would be better. Won't look out of place, doesn't require surgery.
Response to both you and joosters: I think you're being too strict here. Who knows what the threshold is? Maybe it works 100% of the time on highways. Maybe has problems only when there are no lines on the street? It's not a completely unsupervised technology and is not advertised as such. You can't even legally treat it as such - you have to be prepared to take over at any point.

Compare it to the regular cruise control, already present in production for years. Would you say cruise control is not ready for production or release on public roads? It's a tiny subset of what Tesla's update does. (and it doesn't even tell you when you need to take over)
I get that it's not quite as easy as it would be from the US. But "prohibitively difficult" makes it sound like you're looking for excuses rather than solutions. It might be a little harder but it's not exactly hard. Twenty years ago you'd be paying painful long distance charges just to make that call within the US.
My theory is that if you use the mobile app it factors in GPS location.

Several times I've been at a particular venue, without "checking in" or even posting. The next day, people I met at the venue would show up in my suggestions list.
I had it happen it to me as well, but the only link I can see was that I was texting with that person for the first time that day. And then I saved the number as a contact in my phone.

Then I guess WhatsApp picked up that change and sent the data back to the Facebook servers. An hour later, the person showed up under Suggested Friends.
Most likely this is because someone on the dating profile saw the persons profile, thought it was interesting enough to 'dox' the person.

If people knew how little information is needed to get started they would be either terrified or amazed.

First name + Location + Instagram profile and you are already off to a good start. And maybe there's a picture from some marathon you participated in, and they might have an online list of participants, narrow down to matching first names, then look them up on facebook.

What facebook then sees mimics person A trying to find his new friend person B, which makes it natural to include this person on the other "do you know list"
MTBF of a Cherry switch is around 1,000,000 clicks.
"Shouldn't shy away" does not equate to "always do it."
Yeah, I haven't actually used facebook for anything in years, so now I'm deleting my account and I will use a temporary phone for any future situation where I need it.

I will also be going out of my way to spread as much FUD among my less tech savvy friends as I possibly can.

Go Zuck yourself, Mark.
Not being able to zoom on Instagram is maybe the #1 most baffling UX decision I've ever encountered. You're a photosharing app but all I can see is a 2" square thumbnail image???
It's interesting to see the tone change from Paul Graham and Sam Altman in the last couple of months, its almost like somebody finally bought them a calculator.
Wonderful work!
Since I was a kid, after I see a movie I ask myself, why aren't real UIs like the movies? would it be an HCI nightmare to have an interface like that?
A human can make judgement calls in unexpected situations. Objectively, a human is more likely to see falling debris and react to it than a self-driving car (of course depending on the programming and sensors).

Or when the road is slick and you are doing 5 under, and you see someone pass you doing 5 over, with a car following too closely to it... you have a better understanding that there's likely to be an accident ahead... (I've seen this happen several times). A computer wouldn't predict that most likely.

Unless ALL cars are automated, it is a must that a driver be able to take over quickly.
That might be the reason you accept/support the existence of government, but it is not clear that is why government exists. Your statement assumes a two things:

1) People want "to create a social safety net, and to extract taxes from corporate and personal income revenue to support those services."

2) People are getting what they want, or at least supporting government in the hope they will achieve the previous point (#1).

I am not sure what level of support either of these two points garners, but I am certain that it is not 100%, and it may be that less than an outright majority of people support both.

A more plausible explanation of why government exists (in my view) is that like any other monopoly, it has used tools including propaganda, suppression of opposing views, and incentivizes for collaboration to build and maintain its strength.
I just use screen, I usually create several extra screen windows beforehand to workaround the slowness when starting new ones.
The star that supposedly disrupted the cloud would have to be in the neighborhood but it isn't according to current data. But it might be in which case it would be very dim. That's why more data is needed.
Wow indeed. Not once, but twice, intentionally ramming their Jeep into some poor employee. That's sociopathic.
If it is ad-supported it is not free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773
Professional Social Media Automation for Small Businesses
To be a stepping stone for proper legislation and technology that allows more hands-free operation, I'd guess.
GoDaddy Reveals Salary Gender Gap in New Twist on Diversity Reports
Driving a car is different from 'taking over', if you drive a car you are alert because you are controlling the vehicle, being prepared to 'take over' is like having to wait for something out of the ordinary to happen and people are notoriously bad at such tasks. Their attention will be sharp for a little while and then drop off to levels where if something requiring intervention does happen they likely will have very little situational awareness, whereas if the same situation would happen when they were driving the car themselves they would likely be able to respond adequately because they were already processing all the relevant bits of information and would have accurate situational awareness.

If you're required to be ready to intervene that's about the worst possible way to introduce automated driving. And more to the point: the better the implementation the longer between 'interventions' the more likely that such an intervention will not be useful at all.
It rains 25% of the time in California? Sounds like an unpleasant place.
First humans to leave Africa went to China, not Europe
My 2014 Mercedes E350 can do everything in that video, except lane changing, that's new and cool.

But I looked exactly like the guy in the video when I first test-drove my car two years ago, but now I'm so used to it I don't think about it any longer.

But you gotta give it to Tesla's marketing department, that they can get people excited by a feature that you could get in a damn nice car, two years ago, at half the price.
There was also a stall warning that shutoff when the pilot pulled up because it no longer had reliable info, the pilot assumed pulling up was somehow stopping a stall
Don't forget the occasional "keeping cyclists and pedestrians alive" aspect.
Bell to pay $1.25M penalty for fake reviews
What's wrong with Emacs?
http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2015/10/09/rgj-photographer-ar...
I'm wondering why somebody would forbid developers to use Emacs ?.

"... In addition to our standard company benefits, all engineers are provided with their choice of MacBook Pro, display and optional standup desk. Engineers are free to choose their development tools, whether it’s vim, Sublime Text, or RubyMine. Anything but EMACS"
Exactly. Uber has a whole bunch of people literally climbing over each over to put themselves out of business.

I'm not sure what the solution is with this whole mess though.
That's kinda the whole point of the article - to raise awareness of an issue that women face. This is not about taking sensitivity classes, it's about accepting that there is a problem, and doing something about it as part of a community that wants to be more accepting towards women.
If we get no change except surge pricing, that's at least some improvement
Lots of good answers on here, but I'll just add the minus the horrible Starbucks deal (which may have been worth a shot, but is killing them now) they're very close to being profitable and may achieve that very shortly.
As our technology advances, we have easy access to computers, tablets, and phones. We spend too much time on our screens. We send messages, draft outlines, create spreadsheets and more. Our screen time can be reduced if we use pen and paper more.
Why assume that the robots won't compete? Cars today are marketed based on their potential for speed. With that out of the picture, why shouldn't we expect manufacturers to compete to have the "fastest" autodrive systems?
> whether these trespassers committed a crime is just one.

Isn't trespassing already a crime all by itself?
I'd be happier with just the adaptive speed and letting me steer... that may just be instinctive, as I don't like having to fiddle with the speed, but steering can be very instinctive.
Dude, the Tesla employees just asked them to wait for the sheriff to arrive. It's not like they jumped on the hood of the car. Writing down the license plate number should not get you run over.
Seems somewhat in the same vein as The Prisoner.
From the RGJ story (http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2015/10/09/rgj-photographer-ar...):

"The newspaper’s vehicle was damaged in the altercation. A rock had been used to shatter the driver’s-side window and the driver’s-side seat belt had been cut in half.

[Storey County Sheriff] Antinoro said he couldn’t confirm how that damage occurred."

To be fair, if I tried to run over someone, I'd expect them to be less than pleased...
Where did your inline quote come from? I tried googling the first line and it just led me back to your comment.
Their job is really the least of their worries now.
We wish! We're actually in a drought where I live. I also don't think I wear a coat 75% when it is sunny. :)

But I wanted to have nice numbers and it felt like a nice example.
This is a really honest question:

How do you sleep at night being the founder of a company with half a billion dollars in deficit? How do you go to work everyday? Is this "normal"? Is this expected?

I really don't understand how that situation can happen.

Edit: I just looked up their numbers. They have large revenues, but still. Such deficits would scare me.
> in the absence of proper congestion pricing for cars on the road

So, when do we institute congestion pricing?
> pilots uncertainty regarding autopilot functioning is [...] the reason for several accidents.

And compared to that, how many accidents were prevented by the use of autopilot? How many times did the autopilot make a better decision than a human would have? You can't compare to an absolutely perfect state (zero accidents). You have to compare to the current situation.
Marketing department = Musk
I thought that was covered by 'keep people safe'.
So Telsa is branching out into RVs? I guess that would be the logical synergy of telsa performance cars and tesla wall-mounted battery packs.
Data experts spend up to 90% of their time preparing the data for analysis
"Autosteering (Beta)"

That must be the single most frightening use of the Beta label in history.
In the world of high angle rope rescue, we have a concept called the "whistle test". The idea is that if someone were to randomly blow a whistle at _any_ point, and everyone let go of whatever they were holding, that no one would be dropped.

It takes a lot of thought and planning to make sure you're 'default alive' in all circumstances. It slows you down, and it requires you to think through the implications of every decision, big and small.

This sounds like a fairly similar notion...
I am heavily dependent on VC as punching bag
> you are claiming the entire taxi industry is racist?

When did I ever say that? I said the taxi industry is a protection racket. The person I replied to is spouting racist commentary.
The more sites attempt "proper mobile views" the worse it gets. In 2011, mobile safari was practically perfect. Now half the sites I visit have found some way to dick things up because they hired some nitwit designer to "mobile first" things to shit.
I am glad that Instagram is successful. This app helps people market their business and connect with others. This story is an eye opener because we learned the importance of risk taking.
If the rock and seat belt incident had happened before you would expect RGJ to be saying as much as it would make them look less culpable so it stands to reason it happened after.
It's too late to include new draft HTTP/2 in 1.6, so it'll be in 1.7
> This is not unusual. Media scrums can be more mosh pit than journalism.

I'm not sure what you're talking about here. There was not a scheduled media event at the factory; the journalists were stopped after traveling there on their own.
I think this numpy successor may put some weight in favor of python: https://speakerdeck.com/izaid/dynd
...the male who feels entitled to sex is a distinct Western phenomenon.

Have you ever traveled outside the West? This statement is just wrong.

Historically, some societies had to break less successful men of this sense of entitlement, for reasons of arithmetic, e.g. societies with polygyny or strict women-marry-up norms. When this breaking was done, it was most often in strict Maslow-hierarchy terms. So poor men were so poor that they were literally starving, or they got Shanghaied onto a ship, etc. You see something similar with "fundamentalist" Mormons in western USA today: daughters are locked in the house, while many sons are abused, underfed, and overworked until they run away.
Alien technology possibly spotted orbiting a distant star
We tried Slack
Having read Josh's eBook on mastering email it's good to see him sharing more of his knowledge in a free course...look forward to following along with the course.
At the very least, people would be signaling BEFORE they start the lane change maneuver. That can only be an upside.
Where do you do rescue work? I do mountain rescue in southeast AK. I wouldn't work with a team that didn't use the whistle test.
I can only give anecdotal evidence on this. I prefer to walk on my treadmill desk which tends to have less impact on my knees and hips. Standing or sitting without motion will eventually tire me or cause some pain, though I generally find I'm likely to move around more while standing. Sitting for too long just tires me out.

I rotate through all 3 though throughout the day, so if my knees are bothering me or I feel like taking a break, I'll sit down for a bit.

The most important thing once I starting using the treadmill though was investing in decent shoes.
Maybe add a seizure-inducing harmonic to the light pattern for good measure.
The thing that I find most interesting about this article is the displayed approach towards privacy management. People quoted in this article reveal little about themselves in a dating network, and don't want to give enough information to make it possible to guess their real identity. Facebook destroys this concept by suggesting dating matches as potential facebook friends, making it possible for their dating matches to discover all about them in their public profiles and timeline.

That's a straightforward conflict, but it makes me wonder why people are comfortable with revealing "all [their] information" publicly on facebook, when their dating network behaviour shows they don't want total strangers to know all this? Facebook provides lots of privacy controlls, allowing you to finely tune who sees what. If you don't want strangers to know your last name, or which area you're from, why make it publicly viewable on facebook?

Is the problem with facebook making it not simple enough to hide things from total strangers (i.e. people you have not friended)? Is it a problem with people never bothering to change default settings? Or is it something about the way people use facebook that makes this apparent inconsistency actually completely rational?
'But the gap persists for women in technical roles: Women in technical positions make .11 percent less than men, while women in non-technical roles make .35 percent more than men.'

Looks like we need to fix the pay gap in non-technical roles first since it's bigger.
"...the advocates of nudging always seem to rationalize, minimize, evade and deny the fact that govt nudging occurs, ultimately, at the point of a gun."

QED
Food security or nutrition should always be a top priority because food goes into our bodies.
> not to mention that actual function of advertising in society.

Which is? Are you denying manipulation being an objective?

> unless you'd like to dismantle all television networks, newspapers, magazines, Google, Facebook, and put a huge dent in the earnings of every company that gets a return on its advertising investment

I said "advertisement in the way it's employed most of the time". Admittedly this is vague, and I've have to think more about it to be precise, but I didn't say "advertisting, period" on purpose, because I do acknowledge the general idea to get honest information out to potential customers. But let's not use that as a fig leaf.

Television, newspapers and magazines get destroyed and become destructive anyway to the degree they are beholden to advertisers. It might reduce the variety of products peddling the same things worded slightly differently, but since there IS a demand for information and entertainment, the remaining ones providing value might be able to live from, you know, getting paid for the work they do by the people they do it for. Are you for example saying there have been no newspapers in the US before 1840? ( http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/timeline/ )

And Google and Facebook are so new, my response is "maybe, so what?" You're talking about a business model, not technology. Besides, I think the web really needs to ponder some form of micropayments or subscriptions again, either way. Advertisement allows the situation that there are readers for something, but no advertisers. So in a way it's a middleman, that often enough is as manipulative as it can get away with. It's not a sustainable situation IMHO.

> put a huge dent in the earnings of every company that gets a return on its advertising investment

Again, so? If there is a "huge dent" across the board, it ends up as no dent at all. And maybe it wouldn't be across the board, maybe it would be a huge dent for those who live on manipulation of emotions, people identifying with brands and so on, and a huge boon for those who make the better products...? Who knows?
Hey thanks for sharing our project on this post! Just wanted to clear something up from what you said.

Augur's native token is not what is used to create markets, Augur's token is Called REP (short for Reputation) and holders of the token actually serve as reporters that serve as the basis of our decentralized oracle system.

We created a few resources to explain how REP works including how REP holders are rewarded for reporting the truth/punished for reporting lies. We created a short two minute animated video to explain this process you can check out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCms-snzHk4.

Additionally there is a great resource going into much further detail about Reputation as well as an infographic to visually illustrate the process here: http://www.augur.net/blog/what-is-reputation

Finally feel free to reach out if you have any other questions. The Augur Alpha is out at http://demo.augur.net and our code is on github at http://github.com/augurproject
One thing to do is stop cloud seeding.

Another is to block trackers.

Another is to demand sensible advertising.

Your personal information is a currency. You get to spend it how you wish. But just like any other currency, you must protect it yourself.
That's a nice theory but big rigs do it all the time ... We allow it because trains are too efficient and thus don't burn enough oil.
It is difficult to teach tech to women when there is a perceived bias against women in the tech industry. That is the point of this article, and others like it.

There are many efforts going into positive reinforcement for women entering the tech industry, but this is a problem that can and should be attacked from multiple angles. One of those angles is educating men about the effects of their actions toward the few women who do brave the tech community.

Also, creating assumptions based on gender, race, and other physical qualities has a name: prejudice. While there may be more women in sales roles than technical, assuming that every woman in the tech community is in a sales role until proven (vociferously) otherwise, is sexist.

There's nothing wrong with asking what a persons role is, but there are very simple ways to do that without causing offence. For example "What does your role at company XYZ encompass?" Is much nicer than "Are you actually technical?".

Men and women in tech need to be sensitive to this issue, because it is an issue which detriments the community as a whole. Better acceptance of women, and their diverse skills and opinions, will strengthen the community as a whole, and this is a goal we should work towards.