skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally did not even know that my membership entitled me to vote on anything, so it's possible I am not the only one.

REI is a great example of how you can invest in long-term customer loyalty rather than short-term gains and win. I buy pretty much all of my camping/hiking/outdoor gear at REI because I know that even though I might save 10% elsewhere the people at REI will support my purchase forever and help me get the right gear. I know a lot of other people who make the same decision. It's one of the only shopping verticals where I don't aggressively price hunt because I am just so happy with the experience at REI.

I think we would see this type of corporate behavior in more industries if investors had the patience for it. You can massively increase customer LTV and reduce churn by spending some money to make people happy.
After Rule 110 nothing can surprise me about Turing completeness anymore.
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Virtual Box runs great on the Surface Book (although, that was my justification for the pricey, 16GB RAM option).
What are your complaints about moderation?
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Demo page: http://smartbody.ict.usc.edu/Javascript/smartbodyJS/index.ht...

Home: http://smartbody.ict.usc.edu/
Right, edited.
If you extend this to the now-debunked notion's common usage as an metaphor for the uniqueness of people, I'd say it's safe to say we're primarily products of our unique environments and anyone brought up under the same conditions as us has a good chance of turning out just like us.

No, I'm not completely serious. (We're not special)
This is going to sound daft at first, but hear me out...

Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 on Steam is actually a reasonable, entertaining way to walk through the basics of auto repair. It will help you learn he names and functions of individual parts and systems as well as how they are interconnected, what they look like, their relative cost, and generally where they are. In the game you will, for example, start with real-life diagnostic codes and then troubleshoot from there, buying parts you hope will fix the issue.

After playing the game if you go to YouTube and search for your exact car (by year, make, and model), you'll find a bunch of repair videos. You'll now have the vocabulary and basic understanding to follow along with any common repair.
The "broadcast" is pretty cheap because often you already have the data in some distributed file system, or if on a single node the network bandwidth is pretty high. The problem with a lot of the deep learning workloads is that it is very compute intensive and as a result takes a long time to run. For example, it is not uncommon to take a week to train some models.
> you cannot operate the camera or switch your thermostat’s settings without Internet connection

This should say *remotely. I know it does in the paragraph before, but sometimes people only read bullets.

So is the complaint here I can't find out what data the device is sending back to Nest in whole? And contrary to the post, their Public API is pretty extensive.

Seems to me this is just another person with a concern around no local control/data retrieval. There is at least one other thermostat that has that.
> My wife has a couple of hundred handbags and a similar number of coats and jackets.

There aren't that many in actual stores... this can't be right.
Software development at SpaceX
I feel exactly the opposite: I'm independent now, and I can walk away from my current gig without all that much disruption in my life because I don't depend on an employer for benefits or what have you. While I'm not walking away, I've got more flexibility than I might with an employer (depending on the employer).

You're 100% right about having a buffer, though. That's a pretty immovable prerequisite no matter what your professional situation is.
Show HN: A machine-parsable, human-readable file format for Settlers of Catan
I've been a member since the 80's. I don't vote b/c I know nothing about the candidates other than what is written in the voting material. Either I'm being presented choices that don't really matter for the operation of the co-op, or I know so little I should abstain from choosing.

I shop at REI because the service when something goes wrong with gear is tremendous. In the early 90s I was a backpacking guide for the Boy Scouts (Ranger, Philmont Scout Ranch, 1992) and the sole came off my Vasque hiking boots. REI fedex'd me a new pair. That's how you win loyal customers.
> Ouch, yet another way in which running on Windows can lead to poor technical decisions.

That's quite dismissive of Windows...
I still get everything as a .jpg. Or a photoshop image if I'm lucky.
I think you under-estimate the people in college admissions offices. It's not that difficult to distinguish an apple-polisher from someone who was being a real high school kid.

If I were interviewing I'd ask "Did you go fishing with your friends?" If the answer is "Who has time, and do you mean my LinkedIn connections?" you know there's a problem.
I'm pretty sure you can't avoid it in the compilation phase, but it seems like you could remove reflection from the run phase by determining the offset of the struct field corresponding to each capture group and using unsafe operations to access the fields in order to write them.
I loved Mercurial, but just like with Wirth languages, I seem be on the wrong side of the mainstream flow.

Thanks for Mercurial!
I don't understand your point. Even if the client sends HASH(password), that effectively becomes the credential. That's where HTTP Digest is less successful (as was pointed out by a sibling and I went D'oh for not remembering).

> At a minimum you should be hashing whatever the client sends and storing that.

That's a very narrow view of how to authenticate. SRP and client certs certainly don't work that way.
Measuring automobile deaths per population is highly uninformative, because of the massive difference in exposure over time. People were driving way more in 1960 than 1937. If safety were constant, you'd expect the fatalities per population to also go way up. Fatalities per vehicle mile or passenger mile, while still not telling the whole story, is a much better measure.
I always found it amazing that Lauren Graham was able to remember that much dialog for each episode. I would like to see some stat on how many total lines she had during the course of the show.
Not as a universal trait as to be present in my family. One needs to talk louder and interrupt one another to be allowed for a turn.
I've been a member a long time, and never voted.

Shopping at REI is different from other retailers. When I shop at REI I don't check prices online. If I like it I will buy it.

Recently I was shopping for a sleeping bag at REI for my wife. I was ready to spend a couple hundred and get something fancy. The REI sales representative talked me down to a square synthetic bag since it would be more comfortable for her and could be used like a blanket.

Another time my bike pump broke, after using it often for years. I took it in intending to buy a replacement part. They got me one in a few days and wouldn't take my money.
What I had in mind sounds pretty close to yours, really. I was thinking of adding a default somewhere along the line (possibly the end), so you could do:

json.structure.that.i.want.to.access.default(True)

Or something like that. I don't really like the default item API I've come up... I'll comment here if I do give it a go, thanks for the snippet!
Was by no means confined to the Corvair. Early Mustangs (65-most of 67) had non-collapsible steering columns (and 65s didn't come with even lap belts standard [federal mandate in 66]).

65s also had single-circuit brakes, meaning the leak of just one wheel cylinder (not entirely uncommon) could render the entire braking system inoperative, leaving you heading towards a collision with no brakes, a one-piece "Spear-o-matic" steering column and no lap belts. Ugly, so two of the first mods I did to my '65 were dual-circuit braking system and lap belts. (The steering column change is unfortunately quite involved.)
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Yeah this is really cool. But it's at least in part because the Go community has grown exponentially over the past year or two. It seems like it's fair to expect the same will befall the Swift community pretty shortly here.
There is a whole car-culture set around rebuilding these cars to factory spec, but there was a reason people were putting disc brakes from a '75 in a '56. Dual brake (front & rear) was not a mandatory thing until '69.
You can easily read the article as being self-aware of this possibility. It seems to me to encourage exactly that kind of awareness.
Speaking of HTTP Digest, I like its concept, easy to implement and supported by all major browsers. Unfortunately MD5 is broken, I wonder whether there is a newer standard using SHA2 or BCrypt for example.
In peruvian, and I find this very insightful.

We used to just say that there was no middle class though.
Reminiscent of autojump, https://github.com/wting/autojump
Thanks for the clarification. Initially, I was thinking mpm was another package manager.
> ...and it would require completely ignoring the data

Can you show me this data, so that I can stop ignoring it?

This is a genuine request, I'm not trying to be snarky.
I think you meant to say "In Europe civil law dominates".
“Shear Panic” Bank Runs Have Begun in Italy
Open source analysis of Sanders taxation plan
Interesting. My algorithm is a bit optimistic as I tend to interrupt people (getting better at it!).
Archlinux, systemd-free: An init system must be an init system
Thank competition
> Ouch, yet another way in which running on Windows can lead to poor technical decisions.

I didn't see any indication in the parent comment (or in general, really) that Windows support was the cause of Mercurial's difficulty in implementing those features.
He makes an interesting note about robots in the first chapter... which makes me think about the role of 'ambition' in AI. Any writing about that subject out there?
And why would the helicopter use be of any significant interest to the public?
Here they are:

http://shop.oreilly.com/

http://www.informit.com/store/browse/ebooks

https://www.packtpub.com/
Microsoft to Donate $1B in Cloud Services to Nonprofits and Researchers
Also, the examples on the page all seem to use 4 spaces instead of a tab.
Also the revsets, while they're relatively recent in the grand scheme of things (hg 1.6 circa 2010) I so miss these when I have to use (or even read the man page of) the garbage fire that is `git log` (templates also help)
Stupid question: where do they get the 1959 vehicle for these tests? Is it just an old one laying around somewhere?
Here is another (supplementary table 2).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26121415

I can keep going, but would prefer you bring references of your own so I cannot be accused of cherry picking.
Agreed on the Legacy and Accord.

It should be noted however that there are two kinds of tall people: Those who are tall in the torso and those who are tall in the legs (and both). People should figure out which one they are when looking at vehicles. A vehicle with a lot of headroom won't do you any good if it is all in your legs.

As a resource for finding a vehicle which fits you...

Go to edmunds.com (or Google site:edmunds.com [vehicle] [year]), find the vehicle you're interested in, click "Features & Specs" then scroll down to "Interior Measurements." Of particular interest are "FRONT HEAD ROOM" and "FRONT LEG ROOM."

I recommend edmunds simply because they list these in one consistent easy to find format. A lot of vehicle manufacturers don't list these metrics at all on the specs page, you have to dive in a brochure to find it.
"You are responsible for your own choices" is just as much of a religious philosophy as "pain and suffering are part of the human condition". Both are non-empirical, irrational expressions of your personal observations and beliefs.
Did the federal government invent any safety features, or did they just mandate them once car manufacturers invented them?
Per definition of myth, something doesn't have to be false to be a myth. Since there are multiple definitions, depends on which you use: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myth
Facebook is another example :)
> Ouch, yet another way in which running on Windows can lead to poor technical decisions.

I've never heard from anyone that choosing/using Mercurial was a poor decision. Are you biased?
You going to build a bunch of services on Gopher protocol anytime soon? Require people pay large amounts of money upfront for stuff they usually get free? Expect no browser? Do a mobile solution that requires a specific device rather than smartphone?

There's all kinds of products that failed for specific, sometimes-lasting reasons. You should avoid them in your next startup if those reasons or contexts still apply. Otherwise, your startup's chance of failure just skyrocketed with little justification.

" If everyone acted in conservative manner because they don't want to make mistakes and be called an idiot by others, we will have much slower innovation."

That doesn't contradict what I'm saying. I'm saying people shouldn't act in an ignorant manner when confronted with data saying they'll have problems, are having problems, or totally failed. They can be conservative or risk-takers. They just better keep lessons of history and business reality of their market in mind when making their decisions. It's considered common sense in other aspects of life.
> Fatalities per vehicle mile or passenger mile, while still not telling the whole story, is a much better measure.

And says the same thing, that safety has continued to improve dramatically since 1960.

But fundamentally if population bound statistics are unfair in one direction, miles driven statistics are unfair in the opposite.

I picked the statistic which actually makes it hardest to prove my point, and still proved my point. If I used miles driven I'd prove my point even harder.
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Most startups aren't first movers

I'm not talking about those, and it's not even necessary to be a first mover so long as the startup is overhauling how things get done outside of the current dominant market leader.

I'm talking about Microsoft, Uber, Amazon etc... the ones who have literally changed the way people live.

Those are the ones that actually held up the ethos.
If you saw this video almost 7 years ago there's really nothing new here. At the risk of being redundant, it should have "[2009]" in the title. Here's an article from 2009 with aftermath pics, etc. showing the difference in occupant protection: http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/26/pics-aplenty-iihs-reveals...
> If you extend this to the now-debunked notion's common usage as an metaphor for the uniqueness of people, I'd say it's safe to say we're primarily products of our unique environments and anyone brought up under the same conditions as us has a good chance of turning out just like us.

This is the old 'nature vs. nurture' debate, and while it's pretty much impossible to decide perfectly due to the practical challenges to creating a proper controlled experiment at scale, it's pretty much accepted by this point that the answer is 'yes, both matter'.
Deaths per year in the US went from 53,000 in 1970 to 42,000 in 2000 despite a big increase in population and an even bigger increase in driving rates. The current number is about 33,000/year, which makes it still one of the top killers of young people.
I'm unfamiliar with this situation. Is this truly a common problem? I'd love to see a source code example to test.
Coincidentally, I tried to do my own brakes when we lived in Somerville, but finding a place to do the work was a big problem. I ended up driving out to a friend on a farm out by Concord, but it's a huge hassle to not be able to do it in your own garage with all your tools at hand.
What they don't teach you is the "tricks". Looking for an air leak using a spray bottle, putting anti-seize on engine bolts as you are reassembling engine parts (like an alternator attachment bolt!) or just how important correct torque and new fasteners are.

And that doesn't even begin to touch the true magic in having a large collection of chemicals. Know when to use DC-4, WD-40, 33MS, brake cleaner, contact cleaner, and of course, GOJO.
Yeah by "git's network effects" you mean github. If github had decided to be hghub instead, hg would probably have won.
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I know. I am objecting to your reasoning, not your conclusion.

Edit: wait, how are mileage based statistics unfair in the opposite direction? The inaccuracy with those comes from inconsistent exposure to danger (i.e. city roads versus divided highways versus narrow rural roads) and inconsistent numbers of people per vehicle. It's really hard to say which way that inaccuracy goes, only that it exists.
Definitely real. I WTF'd the first time I read that poem out of a packet capture.
According to their slides[1] it is planned:

Quoth: "Models can be described and modified with

• C++ code

• Network definition language (NDL) and model editing
language (MEL)

• Brain Script (beta)

• Python and C# (planned)

"

[1]http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/dongyu/CNTK-Tu... thanks to @sharms
There are distributed data stores that work just like this. IPFS (https://ipfs.io/) is a recent effort, while Freenet (https://freenetproject.org/) has been around for a while.

Whether this can be retrofitted into Bittorrent not clear. Conceivably one could write a bridge between IPFS and Bittorrent such that an IPFS url could serve as an "IPFS seed" much like a HTTP url can serve as a BEP 19 webseed.
France has a long history of killing off entrepreneurs with socialistic behavior. Now it has zero colonies to milk, the long decline begins.
The old style tax network, with a land line phone system, tied to a 2 way radio network is dead.
French taxi companies want to use cell-phones and apps, get rid of the radio network and the land line call in center - looks modern? Yes, but they do not want to reduce the cost per ride to reflect the lower cost. They also do not want to pay the drivers more. All taxi companies are like this in New York as well as India.
Change will come as politicians are burned at the electoral stake.

Notice how it resembles electronic publishing - same process, far higher margins, same to the writer...
The fundamental things hindering adoption of Firefox OS (and WebOS for that matter) had nothing to do with its platform being Web based.

It didn't help when it came to reviews but even if it had been more like BlackBerry OS it would've faced the same adoption problems. Maybe going the route of Amazon's Fire OS could've worked for them assuming they could better compete with Google's Play Store than what Amazon is.
Apple does something like this as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8579272
I've been an REI member for longer than I can remember, but I've never voted in one of their elections.

Lately though, I've been questioning my loyalty to the brand. Their prices are substantially higher than some of their online competitors with differences that are too big to be accounted for by the dividend alone. And while I appreciate the service when buying something, their new return policy is a big step backwards. They've built tremendous loyalty around a return something any time policy that no longer exists.
It's probably more accurate to say they switched to github, but yes.
> […] creating a walled garden around the user’s own data is a shady move. All of my private data should be easibly accessible to me though open API without any gimmicks. In its press release Nest promised introducing a public API[,] however [it] seems limited in many ways compared to the internal API used by Nest mobile app - and to add insult to injury - many of its features require an active Nest subscription.

This is exactly one reason why using "Cloud" services for long-living things, like Hardware, is a great risk.

When Google shuts down Google Reader, we can all migrate to an alternative easily.

When Google shuts down Nest, people are left with non-working thermostats, and have to spend money and rebuild their systems to continue on.

Even worse, if just the internet goes down – not that rare in areas in the US only served by one ISP which doesn’t have to fear competition – one is even left without heating.

The reaction of the people on the recent case where Nest went down itself, and people were left without heating, fits well as context for the following excerpt from "The Sorcerers Apprentice" (1797, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe):

Herr, die Not ist groß! Sir, my need is sore.
Die ich rief, die Geister Spirits that I've called
werd ich nun nicht los. My commands ignore.
A predictive computational framework for reprogramming between human cell types
Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers with Immigrants
This is what happens when frat boys get jobs. I think one piece of the puzzle is fostering less misogynistic environments in college, before these dudes enter the workforce.

But seriously, how fucking disgusting. This article ruined my morning, I'm pissed off now.
The 'wontfix' label looks more like a yellow than a gold to me.
CoC drama in Ruby community
"..you don't believe what's next, bankers hate him!" would make this title complete. I am absolutely full of clickbait fluff. I really hope someone takes on the content filtering space on the internet. I would happily pay xx dollars per month for a service which can accurately filter all the noise coming in and mark or even completely remove all the shit that content creators feed us just so we click on it. Arguably, the technology needed isn't sexy but at least it is a challenge compared to the 1000th CRUD startup. Why isn't anybody battling this problem?

I am sick to the stomach of it.
An evaluation of the open source ML options - https://github.com/zer0n/deepframeworks
> Downloading of digits is no longer available due to the massive bandwidth requirements. Your best bet is to directly contact one of the record holders and see if they still have a copy of the digits.

Seems like a case for the high-bandwidth high-latency hard-drive-by-mail method.
I really like the idea of torrents being used to distribute anonymous derivative works of copyrighted media.

I recently created a fan edit of "Star Wars: Episode II - The Phantom Menace" for my dad for Christmas. I removed Jar Jar Binks and the entire Gungan subplot. I tried to keep the edits as subtle as possible, and I learned a lot about the editing techniques and transitions used in the film. I wanted to release it, but I decided that the risk outweighed my confidence in my anonymity skills.
Sorry I always get that feeling of defending progress. Its like that bug in "Bugs Life" I just fly right into the light.

https://youtu.be/vod9DL4IhBM
It got me wrong. It said I'm "White" and I'm Asian (born in Tel Aviv, Israel.)
Don’t ask your users what they want: a guide to User Testing