skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Choosing between public stock with certain price at the end of any given day, and private stock with a dubious price that has not been "marked to market", LPs prefer the former. Who can blame them?
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I bet most Facebook users don't know how to log out.
Interesting that the 2nd hero story on their front page is about the local Startup Weekend.
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If it were only robots in the hallways, it wouldn't be a hospital. They did try giving the machines their own pathways. That's what pneumatic tubes were: a fast lane for robotic delivery. Frankly, for a hospital, pneumatic tubes would seem the far more elegant solution.

I guess it boils down to perspective. The hospital robot is in no hurry. His life is no better or worse if he is faster or slower. But a human inside a robot-driven car does care. He doesn't see the overall traffic efficiencies, and even if he did he wouldn't take much notice. All he cares about is getting to the destination asap. So it is a different speed decision than the robot.
Like all good satire it's borne out of real life. The resentment for an authority that regards common people with contempt seers through this.
Disagree - Adaptive cruise control has been liberating for me to know that if heave traffic comes screeching to a halt at just the minute I glance away, the car will recognize it and brake accordingly.
Absolutely. My point in making the analogy is that 'default alive' is _very_ expensive, and a lot of work. It's probably not worth it in an early stage startup. The stakes just aren't that high.
This is one side of the story, don't forget that.
Most non-obese adults have calorie restricting habits to some extent (I, for one, would eat all day if it didn't make me gain weight). People with anorexia just take it too far.
Qiwi: Bitcoin Technology Is 'Beyond' Russia's Proposed Ban
Need to think of a particularly evil way to game this and embarrass FB.
This article doesn't make anything clear - though it attempts to make the suggestion that the different social networks are communicating information about your activities across networks. In reality it seems as tho many of these social networks are actually just using very similar inputs to their people suggestion algorithms (on Facebook to suggest people you might want to be friends with, on dating networks to suggest people you might want to date). Since many of these suggestions are made to you based on your phone number or device location, you are likely to see the same people suggested to you by these different networks even tho they are not sharing data about your activities.
Tarsnap now has two people. :) -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10058306
I rigged my standing desk so it behaves differently under testing... no, I'm sorry, I have no idea how this is related to the VW diesel scandal.
That's simply down to proximity. Facebook, like Google, can tell based on your GPS where "home" is (where your phone spends the night, basically) and it knows the same about your neighbors. Your smartphone is a funnel for detailed information about you to whatever apps you install on it, especially social and communication apps.

Google in particular creeped me out with this kind of "feature". A few years ago when I still used an Android phone, I changed jobs but didn't change the information in any of my social media profiles, nor in my contact card on the phone itself. After a few weeks, Google Now started giving me drive times to work at the new work address instead of the old one.
Looks interesting! Thanks for the information.
I don't know. I'm still not convinced that what most here would consider "heading the whole thing off" would really result in a better world. If, on the other hand, instead of playing around with surveillance we embraced the lack of (expectation of) privacy altogether, went with in full-steam, we could probably get used to it and move forward as a society, reaping the benefits of society-level data analysis.

I'm not sure about this, but I haven't heard that many serious arguments against to offset the potential benefits. I think we either have to go all-in or all-out; hesitation and aiming for middle ground will give too much power to wrong actors while leaving the society powerless.
No dude. The real issue is that you don't consider health care to be a human right or even something that should be a high priority for wellbeing.

I have never, ever had to even think two seconds about going to a doctor for any ailment I've ever had. I would shit my pants if I had to take monetary decisions with regards to that.
What's the most common reason to fail a whistle test?
If a real life "whistle test" situation were to occur and everyone let go without being 100% secure, what would happen? how many people would fall?

This idea is really interesting to me, but I'm not sure why.
The Gigafactory is in Nevada [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_1#Factory_location
Look into the history of Viaweb :)
Posted awhile back; still valid.

As far as why people use it; people need to communicate and sometimes they are close or far away. Hipchat, Slack ... there's other competition and they want your conversation because they likely re-sell the big data off your conversation.
How Much Longer Before Companies Start to Run Themselves?
"such broad definitions can quickly degenerate into pancomputationalism: everything computes. And, if everything computes, computation is an uninteresting concept. The brain computes, but so does a piece of wood. Computation is simply another word for behaviour subject to (natural) laws. The Universe is a big computer, computing its own future — grand but somewhat vacuous."

- nice quote from the link you posted.
Typically premeditation determines 1st vs. 2nd degree murder.

Intent to harm without intent to kill typically corresponds to (voluntary) manslaughter. Reckless disregard or negligence of the potential for death may result in manslaughter or some lesser charge like involuntary manslaughter.

This differs by state; some have crimes like "3rd degree murder" or "2nd degree manslaughter", or "voluntary manslaughter" vs. "involuntary manslaughter".

There are also delightful variations where someone "sufficiently provoked" (adultery being the traditional example) would face manslaughter charges for what would otherwise be murder.
While I personally wouldn't use the term "because science" for this, if you define it as "short hand for everything objective and rational in the world" then yes, I agree - I'm doing so because science.
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They are probably using virtual machines anyway, so it's not hard to set it up to simply load ram state for each new page they are crawling. This sidesteps the security issue (as long as there's no sandbox escapes).

It's possible they are using components from Google Chrome as others mentioned, like V8.
(Full disclosure: I'm the other founder of Floobits.)

I'm pretty excited about what can be built with Atom. Since it's based on Chromium, you've got access to WebRTC for P2P stuff, getUserMedia() for camera/mic, HTML5 audio APIs, canvas for visualizations... there are so many building blocks that aren't available in any other editor.

Granted, Atom's browser roots do slow it down. But it's getting better. Even on my 1.1GHz MacBook, the only significant performance issue I have is startup time. If that's fixed, I'll probably switch over completely from Sublime Text.
Of course. I'm not denying the effectiveness of this technique, just providing a n=1 datapoint. Maybe my personal idiosyncrasies make me immune to that particular type of traffic-driving technique (I have no doubts I'm vulnerable to other methods).
Why don't you just delete the Facebook app from your smartphone? That way, Facebook won't have access to your contact list. Therefore, this should not happen.

I'm a casual Facebook user since like 2008, but I never even considered installing any of the Facebook apps on my phone.
> They should build a -real- open p2p distributed system

what's stopping you?
How exactly is aiming a car at someone and hitting the gas any different from aiming a gun at them and pulling the trigger?
And thats a perfectly reasonable complaint to make, my argument is simply that developers of 'desktop sites' should in fact care about mobile browsers as they make up over 50% of page views on most large properties. If they can't make the effort to accomodate a smaller browser to the point where loss of the zoom function breaks their functionality then I feel that this kick might get them to work out these issues.
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I think that having more people also makes it harder to focus. When it is just one or two folks, you have to ruthlessly prioritize. I am working on a side project and we are at the point that I only want to do things that either bring in money or extend our reach (in terms of data). Because it is a side project, it is hard to be ruthless, but it feel it's what is needed. The pressure on a full time founder must be 10x or100x what I feel.
This might be a stupid question, but that thing where the page jumps as you're about to touch it to tap or scroll, and instead unwittingly hit an ad -

Is that sometimes done on purpose? To increase clicks on ads?

Or is it just a matter of the dom redrawing in unpredictable ways as ad comment comes in?

I also often see the practice where a page completely loads, and then the page seems to entirely reload. And it makes me wonder if that's also an attempt to juice stats.
> No customer support, no warranty - something breaks you have to fix it yourself. Inefficient economy causes lack of services and products which require people to hack stuff.

As a Pole I'd like that part of economy back, thank you. It's better than current "if it breaks, throw away and get a new one" combined with "if we can make it break just after the warranty period, they'll throw it away and buy a new one" mindset of western manufacturers.
That is pretty much the manual. Watch a cop after pulling someone over. They never stand in front or behind the car. They stand beside, and even then only if the driver turns off the engine. A security guard dealing with a trespasser in a vehicle should probably act much the same. If the trespasser is in a vehicle, it might be time for them to retreat or at least get into their own vehicles if available.

If they are not trained in how to approach and deal with suspected wrongdoers driving cars, something that is not uncommon in large facilities, that lack of training is a serious issue for their employers.
Wow...no sense of humor, I guess.
TL;DR — "Gagarin was an incredibly lucky man to have come out of this unhurt and alive. In rushing to accomplish a human spaceflight in the race with the US, Soviet engineers pushed the boundary of acceptable risk to its limits. "

Interesting.
Thanks for the info! I will keep and eye on those studies and hit the gym :)
Facebook is the next Friendster v0.00001 I'm watching Google for real innovation.
What specifically is wrong with it?

Jack had (I assume) something that was 100% his in the beginning (or his and Jim McKelvey's - I don't know the story). They built something of value. They gave parts of it away, as well as cash, to people in exchange for doing things for them. Over time, the company that he owned continued to gain value, because people were willing to pay money to that company for the service it provided. At each point, every customer they served and every employee they took on presumably thought they were getting a good, fair deal. (If you're not getting a good deal, don't do business with someone.) At the end, the thing he owned was worth $1.5B.

What should have happened differently? In some alternative universe, perhaps everyone all along the way, every possible employee, could have demanded a larger percentage of the equity in return for their labor. But they didn't. I don't see why it's necessarily reasonable to, from the outside, say that anything is wrong, and reach in and start redistributing wealth. People can probably become billionaires today more easily because technology scales better than in the past, and because there's an investment environment that supports it.

Imagine I found a company solo. All by myself. I provide a service that lots of people are willing to use, and they're willing to pay me for. Maybe I've cracked the problem of Strong AI, and I'm selling my AI's services. It's software, and it scales well, so before long my company is worth $1B. I'm still running the company all by myself. How should it play out? If I brought on an employee at some point as a sysadmin should they automatically receive a percentage? (If they negotiated for that, then yes, otherwise no.)
I noticed our companies Ember.js based SPA site not being indexed well until I added a sitemap. Then it quickly appeared in the rankings.

Historically Google has been using some fork of Chrome 10 when indexing. I'm unsure what impact that is having on the reliability of app rendering, but I also trust the Google search team has done reasonable checks ensuring common sites and frameworks render correctly.

I strongly suggest using a sitemap for JS rendered sites, based on my own experience.
Cars have many uses, such as getting away. Guns have only one use.
It's at least partly because Tesla has built up a reputation for being pretty honest and accurate, and not wildly misrepresenting the facts. Tesla has a lot more to lose here than the RGJ, boldly making false accusations seems like the kind of thing that would turn a minor blip into a PR disaster, and that's not really their style (but of course that's just speculation).

I would expect the RGJ to defend themselves and their guy a bit more, if they had reason to (since the Tesla post is pretty damning), but perhaps they are waiting for more information. Time will tell.
Surely there is enough driver turnover that this is a distinction without a difference.
So, I'm not saying it's good that people object to them. But they do. And just stating that they shouldn't mind large on-shore wind farms isn't going to fix that. Nor is stating that people who are paid to host them like them. Nor is stating that they're less of an eyesore than coal mines when these people can't see the coal mines in the first place.

An in-depth exploration of the expansion of wind power really should address this obstacle too, because it's just as big as the technical aspects.
The App Store Is Not Flat
>If this is in fact the story, doesn't this seem like an invasion of privacy on the part of 23andMe?

You have to opt in for the "Relative Finder"

>In rare cases, participation in DNA Relatives may reveal that you are related to someone whom you didn’t expect, or that you are not related to someone in the way that you expected. Consider this before you opt in to this feature.

https://www.23andme.com/ancestry/
Out of interest, did you use the "TruGenome Predisposition Screen" offering? (Just looked up Illumina: I've been interested, but the 23&Me pricing/privacy concerns squicked me out)
Tarsnap was a one-person operation long past the point of reaching profitability though.
Fitness and health studies really bug me. People perceive them as actionable when they absolutely aren't and should not be.

If your goal is general health in life you only need to do three things (well 4)..

1) exercise regularly
2) eat a balanced diet
3) sleep as much as you need.
4) drink water.

Don't get hung up in the details.
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I could make turmeric/circumin cakes and try for one or the other.
But as a founder your incentives are different. You want above all to survive.

This is a bit like in the early stages of a poker tournament, where you might fold even quite strong starting hands to all-in bets where your expected value is positive - because you're not just betting the number of chips in your stack, you're betting the entire remainder of your tournament.
If you don't own the problem, you can't fix the problem
Doesn't seem that way to me. pg has been saying much the same things for years—e.g. this essay is obviously a continuation of http://paulgraham.com/pinch.html, and that one continued from others I'm too lazy to look up. Sam has been saying the same thing about hiring for years. Trevor's calculator that the essay links to is old as well.
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In the newer Ghost in the Shell series, an antagonist writes a virus that takes control of all the cars in the city, causing a massive physical/real-world denial of service.
Presumably it also reads GPS EXIF tags from your recent photos if you have ever granted it photo permission. I know Instagram does this for location tagging photos. Presumably FB and IG share username/account linking for location harvesting, too.
It comes with an engineer's phone number.
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Right, because a levy, lien, or garnishment isn't a gun.
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Given what little we know there is no suggestion of an actual intent to kill. Without such an intent how can you possibly suggest attempted murder? You have overreached massively. The logical conclusion of your reasoning is that any assault with a deadly weapon amounts to attempted murder.
Network admins in big companies seem to exist to make everyone else's work harder or impossible to get done. Security doesn't need to mean limiting those "idiot users" to set of operations pre-approved by sysadmins to not be able to damage anything (which also means not being able to do anything).

It's a similar problem to why people keep using Excel instead of expensive database products - because the latter are too constrained and inflexible and not really up to handling the actual work that needs to be done.
It doesn't but the alarm shut off when the pilot pulled up causing confusion. He continued to increase angle of attack the entire time
The systems might be overly conservative now. Eg refuse to take over half the time.
From the constant cuts to extreme close-up, I'm betting he puts on the tie and collared shirt for talking-to-the-camera shots (and one or two per episode where a machining tool is on, but he's carefully away from it) and takes it off most of the time when he's actually working.
Where did you see the shopping cart? I have never seen it and still don't even now (after looking for it)
It probably should be something like "newspaper employees attempt to run over Tesla security guards".

"Run over"? The Tesla statement asserts they "accelerated into" the victims in both cases. Which is pretty nasty, but quite different from "running them over."

You can't even infer that it was an "attempt" to run over the persons who were struck, from the information given. Most likely the driver simply panicked, and was trying to make some crazy Y turn to get the hell out of there -- without of course slowing down to look at who might have been in front of, or behind him.

Not that that's any excuse. The driver's actions appear to have been highly reckless, to say the least. But there's no point in playing this episode up into something that it wasn't.
In a much less serious vein, I had a boss who used to joke about throwing our laptops on the ground at work, saying "if you're not up and running on another machine in 10 minutes, you're doing it wrong"
Success is more random than your suggesting. IMO, the goal is to take risks that are in your favor. The less you know the harder this becomes.

If your default alive then you should consider being somewhat conservative. But, if your default dead then you need to risk something because your already losing.
#3 is not exactly correct. Young people should sleep 9 hours a day whether or not it feels like you 'need' the sleep. Many people will feel fine after 6-7 hours of sleep in the morning, but studies have shown that even if you feel rested you will not perform as well on cognitive tasks if you do not get 9 hours.

I got hung up on the details.
The other article seemed marginally more substantive. It was also submitted marginally earlier, which is what we'd use to break the tie if there was one.

There's no clearly good answer to this problem of more than one user submitting the same story. We've talked some form of karma splitting, but all the schemes get complicated, and a complicated scheme that inevitably disappoints some people is worse than a simple scheme that inevitably disappoints some people. So we rely on (a) most HN users are smart enough not to much care about karma, and (b) if you keep submitting good stories it evens out in the long run.
Ask HN: Self hosted online IDE
I know this has been asked a few times in the past but I don't remember any real progress being made in the commends section.

I was wondering if anyone from here uses an online/web based IDE for development that you can host on your own hardware.

I write a lot of C, Java, Python and I think I'll be branching out to a few other languages as well, so it needs to be able to support a wide range of features.

I'm looking for something like this because I'm interested in using a very lightweight and energy efficient laptop for my day to day life (this way it's battery lasts long and it will be lighter then my Y70) and I still want to be able to develop on it.

I love lint and cross class completion features, so those are the biggest plus.

Anyone know of anything?
There's no evidence the ramming was intentional.
Delay page switches (and other interruptive things) then.
The hospital I'm employed at utilizes both pneumatic tubes and robots. Robots roam the basement and employee only areas shuttling around food carts, linen carts, and trash. The pneumatic tube system reaches everywhere in the hospital and sends drugs, lab specimens, and basically anything else small enough to fit in the container.
The general idea is that whatever mechanism is allowing the ropes to move is something that 'fails closed'. The simplest mechanism is to wrap two prusiks[1] around the rope that is moving. Those prusiks are then securely attached to an anchor or some sort. Left alone, the prusiks will 'grab' the rope and prevent it from moving. Someone has to be actively holding them in position to allow the rope to move (otherwise they'll slide with the rope and pull taught).

In other cases, it's a question of how you set up things like descenders[2]. The same basic principle applies though. You need to be actively holding it open in order for the rope to move through it. There are a few exceptions to this (things like figure-8 descenders[3]), but in those cases, they are being used by a single operator to control their own descent.

The most common situations where this goes wrong are during transitions. The system used to lower someone over the edge is different from the system used to haul them back up. This exercise is fairly simple, but it requires a great deal of attention to detail, and the steps have to be done in the proper order to ensure there are no 'gaps'.

The number of people who would fall would depend completely on the operation. Generally speaking you have a single medic over the edge, who may have the victim clipped in to them if they're on the way back up. In some cases, you may have one or more additional rescuers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prusik
[2] http://www.petzl.com/en/Professional/Descenders/RIG
[3] http://www.cmcrescue.com/equipment/rescue-8/
The automated lane changing is probably safer than a human doing it.

Same concept as putting code inside a function. If you can make changing lanes a functional process that works safely the same way 100% of the time via computer, why not?

Right now it is re-written and executed every single time a human performs the actions which results in errors and more.