skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you have missions all over the world and an aircraft that exists in small numbers and requires extreme expertise and specialized equipment, it can be easier to just fly them on long missions rather than re-base them.

For an even more extreme example, the B-2's home base is in Missouri. It has flown bombing missions into Serbia, Afghanistan, and Iraq directly out of its home base. Since it's not nearly as fast as an SR-71, these missions take a long time. The longest one took nearly two days. Fortunately for the pilots, it's a bit more comfortable than the SR-71 as well, with no space suits, and facilities for bathroom breaks and hot meals.
Because if they break now, before the app is published, then the developer can fix it. Once people have published apps with private api use, it becomes extremely difficult to change those private apis.
It can be dangerous even if administered by a doctor, I'd think. Doctors do many things that you'd normally never think to do, e.g. administer substances that are essentially poisons but have certain effects that are thought to be worth the risk compared to doing nothing.
As it was experimental, I'd guess they did not know the size of the effect.

If it gets out of the lab, though, I think an adult should always be able to make the informed choice, rather than being denied because he is too old.

Your comment really pissed me off. The idea of having some doctor choose this for him is really a special kind of evil.
Cry Engine
Is there a flag for "remote"?
Kickstarter Acquires Drip, Rescuing It from Shutting Down
You used this exact analogy 8 months ago and it's fallaciousness was demonstrated (Asians/Jews/Irish all "unbent" themselves, as did many immigrant groups from < 50 years ago, e.g. Indians and Vietnamese boat people).

Why repeat an argument you know to be flawed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9942354
Yes, that's my implication.
The other thing is Tesla can't make this volume of cars yet & it carries a certain amount of risk for such a large deal.

They only made about 50,000 cars last year and have capacity for around 90000 this year. Even if Uber's order was spread on a number of years, Tesla will have trouble filling the order.
You have a lot more liability as a renter.
Uber has some of the best researchers in the world. I'd bet Mercedes builds the cars, specialized with Uber specified additional sensors and hardware for self driving. Uber customizes the source to deal with tough driving conditions, and turns the code back over to Mercedes.

Uber gets it's fleet, Mercedes gets the tech. It's getting competitive. Mercedes will get the tech perfected, but this kind of deal could get them there much faster. Access to Uber's team, and more importantly mountains of data that Uber is taking the risk for will probably speed up refinement of the tech.
Looks like the saying that nobody gets fired for buying IBM is still valid.
I love that book and it was the first thing that came to my mind reading this story.
I also deliberately disregarded the dev builds, since I don't think I'm alone in not wanting to run an unstable/bleeding edge version of a program I work with.
“I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other OS” (2013)
The reparations debate is a slippery slope.

Is a modern African American living in the South statistically speaking likely to have been disadvantaged by racist policies of the past? (Setting aside whether any continue -- at least I think we can all agree any modern policies are less racist than legal slavery)

I would definitively say yes due to the deeply institutional and long-lived nature of the historical injustices.

However, what the best way to redress that through modern institutions (who did not themselves perpetrate the acts) or modern taxpayers (")?

Do you pick an "average life" and do what is necessary to give it to any current African Americans below that threshold? What about those who, through luck or toil, lifted themselves (and their children) above that threshold? What about modern day whites that such beneficence injures? And what then of modern day whites under such a threshold?

It seems like there are a million edge cases in trying to hold future versions of previously unjust groups/institutions to account, given only an ability to take from and give to modern descendants of same.

Imho, if we want to move to a more just world then we must seek to alleviate human suffering and facilitate human aspiration. Differentiating based on the race of the human in question only exacerbates past racism (even if for good reasons).

... And if the recipients of such aid tend to be disproportionately of a certain sub-group because of past injustices, then all the better.

PS: Fwiw, as someone who's lived in Atlanta for a substantial amount of time, the current geo/racial distribution of the city is more determined by income than race. You're just as likely to have an affluent African-American resident laugh at the though of moving to English Avenue as you would a white one. Unfortunately, as noted in previous comments, the income distribution is still racially inequal due to past injustices (but at least more flexible).
Which Tesla vehicle is self driving?
It obviously does not follow logically that simply doing something to help solve a problem necessarily outweighs the moral problem of benefiting from that wrong.

That also moots your earlier dodge of "doing something to help with a problem is better than the nothing I personally do", because that nothing you personally do is not offset by profit you are reaping from the misfortune of others.

I don't have a strong opinion about this debate, and I am also skeptical of anti-gentrification narratives, but the logic you're deploying here seems very sketchy.
What makes it really fun sometimes is when a company ignores you or just dithers for months and months... and then out of nowhere comes at you with "Ummmm, so we'd like to hire you, can you decide in the next 48 hours?"
> After 5 years, the car is perhaps worth 20k.

No way. Absolutely no way. Looking online I'm seeing estimates of 300,000 to 500,000 miles per year in a taxi. If Uber is even NEAR that max, this car is going to have 300,000 miles on it. Hell even 150,000 is a ton of miles on a used vehicle.

Looking at KBB with a base S-Class that's 5 years old with 300,000 miles you're looking at roughly $12k in "good" condition (because, let's face it, people are going to be in this thing constantly and "good" is the rating the majority of used cars are in when they're sold).

Then factor in that Uber is not going to become a used car company (at least I would imagine they wouldn't) they're going to have to sell even lower than KBB to a third party so that third party can make any money. So I'd bet one of these cars would end up selling for $6k to $8k depending on mileage and condition after 5 years.
> What about a web service for people to advertise their pain point with requirement, and put a bounty for solution?

These have been tried before. The problem for many people lies in adequately describing a problem in non-specialist terms so developers without in-depth industry expertise will be able to grasp it.

Moreover, domain specialists often even don't recognise problems anymore because "It's always been done this way.". People have a habit of not seeing the forest for the trees when having worked long enough in a certain way. That's why getting outside advice and a beginner's mindset are such effective tools.

Lastly, non-technical people often can't estimate how much effort a solution might involve. So, an appropriate price for a solution might be higher than the cost of the pain involved.

In any case, such a service would involve a lot of to and fro between the parties, which probably is too much of a hassle for tiny, bite-sized problems.
There are plenty of people who would simply sit around and do drugs all day. It all depends on the path your journey leads you down. The "privileged" are fortunate enough to have developed "better" survival and sustainability skills in accordance with what is labeled as a higher "class". A path to healthy personal culture is essential to one's success in life.
Still, Uber knows who you are. If you damage their car they can invoice you. Presumably they will have CCTV in these things?
How do you pronounce "Buddha"? If I were writing it out, I'd say it's pronounced like "Boo-duh."
your criticism is spot on. There will be a have / have not divide. It will make today's inequality look quaint. The top 20th percentile in IQ/productivity will live way better than the rest, but they will probably be creating 99% of the value.

So what's your solution? With the upcoming automation wave coming, UBI is way better than the status quo. What is better than UBI?
Clair – static analysis of vulnerabilities in appc and docker containers
Ask someone who is an experienced psychonaut or meditator. These kinds of experiential shifts can, and does happen to people. In this guy's case, it was an awakening of empathy -- however, there are other kinds of awakening, other kinds of consciousness shifts that people are not normally aware of.
Lets ask a very simple question -
- given the choice "comply or go to jail" would you comply?
- would your wife approve of your "I don't care, throw me in jail?" when she no longer has access to your funds because they got frozen and rent is due?
- how about kids? Do you think she would approve of how it would affect their life?

Welcome to real world.
Let's say they thought it was unlikely that the video was to blame.

With lives on the line, how certain would you need to be, in order to ASK Google to temporarily take it down?

10%? 5%?

And it's interesting to me to try to picture things from the other point of view... People think that Sec Clinton didn't believe the video was causing a problem, so she took a politically risky move and had the video taken down. If she didn't boast about taking the video down, then why would she do it? I guess people picture her like they Keystone Cops, or something. Or is there a rational way to explain this, that I'm just not seeing? Like: She arrogantly believed it would never come to light, so why the hell not ask to take it down, even though she believed it had 0 impact on the situation?
This is very very true, very often when it comes to more than a gigabyte of data or more then a hundred of queries a second. Quite a few inexperienced devs suddenly think it's big data they've been reading about and FINALLY they can play with it!

With all the hype around 'big data' and all that crap, many people seem to forget how far you can go with plain simple SQL when it's properly configured, and not talking about some complicated optimizations, just solid fundamentals. And no problem if you can't do it, things like Amazon RDS will help you.
A functionally autistic woman, Temple Grandin, wrote a fascinating book on autism. She offered a simple test for autism. Think of a church steeple (stop and do that).

If you thought of a real steeple you had actually seen then you probably tend towards autism. If you thought of an abstract non-existing steeple then you don't tend towards it.

I was at a gathering of employees in my company. There were about a dozen random people sitting around a table. I tested the whole group at once. Every single programmer answered with a real steeple and every non-programmer thought abstract.

I know this doesn't represent a real study and chance was involved. But it matches something else she said. Functional autistics with jobs are predominantly programmers. She quoted a number, like 70%, but I don't remember for sure.

I, a programmer, personally prefer human interaction on the web. Meeting in real-life, not so much.
While that's possible, it's actually far more likely that the 15k job will over time plummet to only 5k as employers will still be squeezing unskilled workers as always. So no inflation. The difference is that because as you say, it sets a floor, you can now switch to that 5k job that you actually love; there's only so much they can squeeze before you pack it in. It's still of benefit to the worker.

Note: The main idea of the universal part of basic income is that it is far cheaper to run than disability/food stamps/unemployment/etc. For every penny we spend on "qualified" handouts, we spend twice that in verifying the handout in the first place.
Reminds me of Larry David in Whatever Works. (I should read more.)
Really? Strikes me as equally dramatic: both are equally correct statements without added tone.

I can understand preferring the glass half full, though.
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How I built Search at Kit.com as a solo developer
The extreme sense of feeling the emotions of others that is described in the article seems like something stronger than normal for typical people, but perhaps it's just relative to previous baseline of little insight into the emotions of others.

Some research opposes the deficits of autism to the excesses of schizophrenia. Not sure it's totally relevant to this item, but seeing emotional meanings where they don't exist is a very schizotypal (positive schizotypy) phenomenon:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/how-is-c...
From a meditator's perspective, there isn't anything to do other than to witness the underlying suffering, and giving space to the other person to be.
> If you thought of a real steeple you had actually seen then you probably tend towards autism. If you thought of an abstract non-existing steeple then you don't tend towards it.

What's the rationale for that?
2 out of 3 developers are self-taught and other insights from a survey of 50k devs
Are you using Re:dash[1]? Seems like a good fit if you're doing lots of SQL and working with many different databases.

[1] http://redash.io/
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It can't be an accurate analogy because the technologies are fundamentally different. But it is a valuable way of thinking in terms of motivations and uses of both technologies. I use a paper shredder for many of the same reasons I expect my phone's persistent storage to be neigh impregnable to anyone but me. I shred paper documents almost daily to keep myself and my family safer. I know of no laws I have broken and I do not believe I am a criminal.
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Have you heard of Zipcar? There are lots of reasons to be skeptical that we'll see autonomous taxis in less than decades but this doesn't seem like one of the bigger problems.
No mistery here: ppl are glued to phone screens.
That's assuming it works correctly the first time (I haven't had that experience often, even for "trivial" code :( ). Even for "run once" functions, I still use a few tests to develop them and make sure my expectations are correct. With a good framework, setting up a handful of unit tests takes just about as much dev time as running the function in a REPL.
Wait, is the S-Class even a legit SDC?
But you can't say that the doer always deserves the credit either. Sometimes the idea is the hard part. Similar for blame. It doesn't work to make generalizations. You have to make a judgment call every time, and usually the answer will be a complicated mixture.
Shows up in Michael Flynn's "Firestar" series, as well. "The Boomer" is what they call it, I think. It was in the side of a mountain in South America, and it was filled with gas.
It's only FUD until you have to find a few million to cover legal costs.
Sure. He would have had to catch up on years of emotional development.
So I thought of a specific steeple but I couldn't picture it. In fact I can't picture a steeple in detail in my head at all. Is the visual detail an aspect? I now realize I have no idea how other people think.

Spoiler: I am almost certainly not very autistic if I am at all. Or so I come off to others.
While that absolutely sucks, I would say that he dodged a bullet there.

If a company is willing to pull an offer in a hour, there's a very good chance you don't want to work for them.
I thought of the hand game "Here is the church, here is the steeple..."

What does that mean about me?
I remember some of the early HTC Android phones had text reflow enabled by default. That was almost always good enough and it would be "responsive", but for some reason mobile browsers don't seem to offer it anymore.
This is no surprise as comcast has been and continues to be the worst internet provider in the US. I worked for a startup in Washington DC and internet would cutout for 5 minutes every hour. We called comcast dozens of times and everytime they said there were no reported issues on their end.

Twice internet went out for 2 days and only then did they admit there were problems in the area.

I've had them at home with the same problem: intermittent and occasionally completely out for days.
Ask HN: Your take on MS not allowing x20 Lumias to receive W10M updates?
I was genuinely stunned when I heard my Nokia (Lumia) 1020 wouldn't [1] be updated from WP8 to W10M.

If you missed the news, Microsoft has on multiple occasions promised [2] (and marketed [3] their devices with it) that WP8 devices would get upgraded to W10M in the future.

Now, I'm interested in two things. First, what does it make you think about MS (if anything at all) and second, what reason (other than "planned obsolescence) is there for this? Surely it's not lack of performance when devices such as 925, 920 and 1020 were excluded, while something like Lumia 430 gets it right away. What could be the technical reason?

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-supported-phones
[2]https://twitter.com/lumia/status/532128314467823616
[3]http://i.imgur.com/gRIJkWt.jpg
I tried sshfs but it's a bear when searching a large remote repository (dev environment is on a t2.micro EC2 instance with a repository of a couple hundred megs, including assets).

What I've been doing instead is using the rsync-ssh plugin https://github.com/davidolrik/sublime-rsync-ssh

I keep a local copy of the repo, which allows me to work even without access to the cloud dev environment and makes searching orders of magnitude quicker, but still saves changes to the remote environment whenever I save a file in Sublime.

It's not perfect, but works well enough for my current workflow, so thought I'd share.
>> Companies aren't libraries. They aren't paying you to sit and read books.

That stroke you've brushed is too wide. Smart employers will have some of the money they're paying an employee going towards learning... and if they're really smart, they can even measure their ROI. Leads to less turnover, and better long-term vision for their projects.

I get your point, but give someone passionate enough 6 months in a new work environment, and with a decent mentor, and you might find they become surprisingly adept at it. The hard part is hiring for the capability to learn (fast).
> You don't seem to have responded to my point at all, which is that blacks have a higher rate of reported usage within the last week.

That's completely counter to the results of both the MTF and NSDUH. Since 1975, with the exception of Native Americans, whites consistently have slightly higher usage rates of drugs than any other racial demographic, although the overall drug usage rates are roughly comparable. For example:

> For a number of years, 12th-grade African-American students reported lifetime, annual, 30-day, and daily prevalence rates for nearly all drugs that were lower—sometimes dramatically so—than those for White or Hispanic 12th graders. That is less true [in 2014], with rates of drug use among African Americans more similar to the other groups[0]

The reason for the discrepancy is that you're citing statistics from the BJS about drug users. That's quite different from usage rates of drugs within the general population.

Finally, you are quite literally begging the question[1] by citing the 1981 analysis (which is itself a rather contested one). Even if we take that data at face value, it concludes that black men understate the crimes they commit, and does so by comparing this to arrest records. The whole point is that arrest records provide a skewed perspective of drug usage for black men (and women), because they are far more likely to be arrested for the behaviors they do.

[0] http://monitoringthefuture.org/pubs/monographs/mtf-vol1_2014...

[1] Yes, begging the question, not raising the question.
Yes, please give up on testing your code. When you get fired, I'll take over your job.
Yes, it does, but dogfooding doesn't have to mean every single one of thousands has to eat every last ounce of the dogfood. After the first hundred people hit the same wifi-driver issue (for example) there's little value in having hundreds more lose productivity to it while they work on completely different things. Do you forego all products not made by your own company, or is this just another example of random RH-bashing? Diversity increases robustness, and compatibility testing is as important as any other kind. Creating a monoculture, which would make our environment very unlike any of our customers', serves nobody.
"Effective novel treatment has benefits for one patient" is a less interesting story than "Effective novel treatment has unexpected drawbacks for one patient". Benefits are exactly what every reader expects from an effective treatment.
Nothing. In fact, if I were a censoring country, I'd just look at who emits a 451 and take appropriate steps toward the site owner.

This is political bullshit. I really wish the standards body would stick to strictly technical issues and leave the politics to the individual members on their own time.
I have no idea. One would think the opposite, that programmers think in abstract concepts. I heard an interview with her on public radio (it was called in since she couldn't appear in person) and she seemed very intelligent and believable.
This has to be the answer if the rumors are actually true (the article does say one source said this, one source said this wasn't happening).

All auto companies need to get into the self driving space. Uber wants to get into this space for transporting people. If Uber and a car company work together Uber could get a discount, help develop the tech and share with the car company; it's a huge win for both sides.

At least that's how I'd try structuring the deal. You know, from my billion-dollar-company-CEO-arm-chair.
That's awesome... I'm working with some 15-20 GB sqlite databases. Though 2 TB sounds kind of big?

Was it 2 TB before compression? Because sqlite does blow up the data size over the raw data usually (depending on the original format obviously). It can be kind of wasteful, and I ended up storing some fields as compressed JSON for this reason (that actually beats the sqlite format).

Also, the sqlite insert speed can be much slower than the disk's sequential write speed (even if you make sure you're not committing/flushing on every row, and if you have no indices to update, etc.)

So I think inserting and laying on the data could be nontrivial. But the queries should be fast as long as they are indexed. In theory, sqlite queries should be slower for a lot of use cases because it is row-oriented, but in practice distributed systems usually add 10x overhead themselves anyway...
I concur your feeling.

In my observation and feeling, the statement:
" Because you want to ensure that you always pass the majority of tests, you tend to think about this when you change and extend the program. You therefore are more reluctant to make large-scale changes that will lead to the failure of lots of tests. Psychologically, you become conservative to avoid breaking lots of tests."

is most likely due to the low quality and low test coverage of the exiting code base. So that the tests are fragile, seemingly hinders changes.

If things are started with TDD, I would be really surprised that tests hinders change.