skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have health insurance, so treatment for my bodily injuries is covered. Someone else is driving, so if his negligence results in a wreck I generally won't be liable to the other driver. I won't be responsible for fixing his vehicle.

That covers most garden-variety car wrecks, so there is little need to be concerned about my friend's insurance. I suppose if I were really on top of things, I would ask my friends for proof of insurance anyway, because maybe I would want to sue him for pain and suffering, which his insurance might pay for (my health insurance would not pay for that, or for lost wages.)

Never seen "riding around in someone else's underinsured car" insurance. Typical umbrella policy wouldn't cover that unless I'm negligent. I suppose I could get disability coverage which might help protect against the lost wages from getting injured in someone else's car.
I think the best practice is to just refactor the bits that you need to touch. At a minimum avoid leaving them worse, and in an ideal world leave each piece you touch better for your having looked at it.
If I wanted to downplay competitors, why would I acknowledge that Angular 2 is doing something similar? Angular has much larger marketshare at the moment than React.

It is fundamentally different, as I outlined above. That's not downplaying the work of React—they've done significant work in advancing the state of the art of DOM rendering that has hugely inspired the work of both Glimmer and Glimmer 2, as we have said frequently and publicly.

I have tremendous respect for the Angular and React teams and consider many contributors to both to be personal friends. I'm not downplaying their work—it just really, really, really is not the same thing.
This is exactly how I get out of depressive or anxious periods. Somehow the clarity of lying in bed being as painful as getting up hits home and whoop you're on your way out of the slump.

This does not work on all people though, I know of one person who's been resistant to medication, meditation, therapy.. none of it seems to truly change thought patterns. It just keeps coming back time after time.
You Rang? Microsoft's Holoportation Redefines Face-To-Face Communication
I always wondered why they don't toll the reverse direction as well.
It's a tool that finds things that aren't strictly errors in your code, but are likely to cause problems.

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software) (this article refers to one particular (original?) lint tool, but there are numerous others for various other languages)
Home insurance? No. I live in a large apartment building so I'm not nervous about home invasion.

Health insurance? I've been punched by strangers (road rage, sigh) and haven't needed to go to the hospital. The kind of incident my mother imagines for me walking at night isn't the kind of incident where health insurance matters. Life insurance, though. I should probably get that.
The tube itself probably wasn't the problem. Trouble with the electron guns usually means a dead tube, or a dead color. Problems related to sweep are outside the tube.

If he had a problem that appeared as overheating, the first thing to try is freeze spray. Find out what component is temperature sensitive. It's probably a capacitor.

It's not that hard to work on a CRT unit. You have to discharge the second anode voltage after powering off. (I was once trained to repair analog radios and TVs. This is now a totally useless skill.)
Toyota patents augmented-reality windshield
I would think it common-sense to do that. If nothing else, it makes hard-drive disposal much simpler, and accessing disk storage is slow enough that I can't imagine the overhead of (hardware-assisted) encryption is a problem. Most places I worked at require all desktops and laptops to use storage encryption too. Encryption at rest is very different from end-to-end encryption, though.
It's all about the bundle. They need to be able to offer the so-called triple play that other ISPs do.
Does 'number of users' include downstream users? Say I use fair source in an application which I then sell to a bunch of end users. It doesn't seem like that falls under "For determining the number of users, “you” includes all affiliates, meaning legal entities controlling, controlled by, or under common control with you."

Also what made you decide to go with 'number of users' as the determining factor for payment over a democratization model like with Unreal Engine?
Ask HN: Is there a tool like Arcanist for GitHub?
I've been using Phabricator and Arcanist over the past 3 months and the workflow is top notch. The ability to perform tasks like listing before commits, flowing branches, and cascading changes in parent branches all the way down a tree has been one of the best experiences I've had with version control. Does a tool exist like this for GitHub?
Google App Engine Flexible Environment
Another logical place is your WiFi router. Google's OnHub is an interesting development. Will its team eventually be subsumed by Nest?
I would hear about this the day after I convince my wife to switch to Verizon... :D
Stanford (Simbody) is the new one.

The game engines don't do complex friction, as between gripper and target or foot and ground, very well.
The early worm gets eaten by the bird. The late one presumably enjoys the spoils.
Messenger has been in the Play Store for at least a year or two now, and you could always designate it as your SMS app. It was only recently that they started nudging users to switch to it from Hangouts (which is funny considering that they nudged everyone to use Hangouts for SMS not that long ago).
The notion of shortcuts for inserting prepared text isn't exactly new.

I was working in a data entry job in 1983 and the system would expand predefined text sequences into the matching full text as needed.

Doing this through a pretty dropdown is the same idea.

I'll bet the idea wasn't new in 1983 either.
That's the output, yes, assuming proper input sanitization, which I would not expect to be a problem given that it's github and they deal with a ton of the most dangerous kind of dynamic content (any kind of code) already.

It was a bad joke, I guess.
George Hotz's intro to QIRA and the pitch for his company
It’s 2016. Why Can’t Anyone Make a Decent Freaking To-Do App?
Personal experience is that automated testing improved my productivity, TDD diminished it. But like any religious war, the criticism always is "you didn't do it right, if it didn't work for you."

Thanks for the patronising 'let me google that for you'.

I'm glad you saw the light, I'm content to remain a pagan.

> If you consider a 90% reduction in bugs worth a 15-35% extra cost.

I don't spend more than 31% of my time debugging, so 35% for a 90% reduction is nowhere near useful. I rarely spend 13% of the time on any bit of code debugging. And when I do I write unit tests as a debugging strategy, so it wouldn't have saved anything to write them beforehand.

If you find yourself debugging for 30+% of your time, on new code you write, unless you write tests beforehand, then I respectfully suggest there are more pressing things to worry about in your practice.
> How helpful is it to have $199 TVs rather than $399 ones if most of your money is going to servicing student loans, credit cards, insurance, and apartment rent / housing

Credit cards are a distraction; if things are cheaper you'd spend less on them anyway. Aside from that...

Universities are a huge scam. Real estate - at least usable real estate - may be the same (existing interests never want you to build more of it) especially in places like the Bay Area. I agree.

But that's really a different matter, and I don't see how everyone collaborating to pay more for goods like TV would actually meaningfully impact the affordability of universities and real estate. Is there some notion that The Rich spend enough of their income on random consumer-goods like TVs so that this will act like a wealth transfer? Because if not, all you're doing is moving money around, and moving it awkwardly (filtering it through entrenched BigCorp processes along the way).

The other one, Insurance: I assume you mean Health Insurance. 96% of health insurance spending leaves the insurance company to the healthcare industry proper. And one of the too-profitable sectors our article identifies is, in fact, healthcare. Good thing we fixed expensive healthcare forever a few years back with all that really smart and super-effective legislation!!! cough
Lyft Line and Uber Pool have significantly improved my standard of living. For me, it's cheaper and more convenient than owning a car.
I just wish some notetaking program besides OneNote had the feature that inserts the source URL when you paste text from the browser. Some Firefox extensions will add the URL when you're copying, but I haven't seen that on Chrome yet...
From one point of view (a user of the framework who doesn't care how the sausage gets made) they are analogous. But from the point of view of someone who developed the solution or who has to micro optimize the solution I believe tom dale is right that it is quite different.

You're right that tomdale came off condescending (as he often does when promoting/defending ember...ah well). But it certainly isn't "duplicitous at best"!
BMW are complying with the GPL
It was only a matter of time. Since late 2014/early 2015, Messenger has been trying to cover the kind of use cases WeChat has been successfully handling in the Asian market. There are marketplaces and banks which are completely hosted within the WeChat ecosystem, and it has been hugely successful.

I think Facebook is one of very few (perhaps the only one today) platforms which can let people go about doing everything without having to leave/switch to another platform. It is great that they're taking time with rolling out payment functionalities. It is a delicate market and they're being smart in learning from others mistakes.
Depth sensor built from off-the-shelf parts filters out ambient infrared light
Exactly, because it has a shot. Writing that it doesn't have a chance is just effect of lack of knowledge in ML field. You can see some work that was already done in this research paper, before AlphaGo success.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.05869v1.pdf
I didn't mean to offend, but I apparently have. I truly believe what I said, so I would like to know how would you suggest I improve the comment?
This looks amazing. Git, gcc, libcairo, libdsdl, python and nasm ports? ISC license? Very, very cool. But why don't you host your project on Github?
Like the "read more" link about FF support says, we plan on supporting it and IE10+ in the future.

This doesn't mean "we are waiting for them to fully support this working draft", but rather that we haven't implemented polyfills for the (relatively small) number of APIs missing, yet. When/if the spec changes significantly, these polyfills should carry us until we can change the non-polyfilled version of the code.
Nope; your header won't match which is an easy thing to detect and red flag.

In regards to the original challenge, you could convert a gif to wav a number of ways, the simplest being just copying image data as raw PCM.

Of course you can make it even more interesting.

Imagine turn each color channel into notes (dark red = C, blue = D, etc...). Better yet, what if remapped each byte value of a color into a table of chord progressions. What if you only allowed harmonized chord progressions and made it in a 4/4 rhythm. You just turned a gif into a song.

If you wanted to go even more ambitious, use something like OpenCV to identify shapes, objects, people/animals. Take what you find and create a sound mixer that generates a cacophony of sounds.

Use your imagination; code can be beautiful.
I don't think it's possible to do the science they want JWST to do unless you get out to L2 or beyond. They are basically measuring heat, and Earth puts out a lot of that. And they want to be in an orbit that doesn't pass into shadow, for reasons of solar power. I understand, and somewhat share, your concerns, but JWST is designed the way it is because that's how it has to be done to accomplish its goals.
I'm not sure what you mean by freed SMS from Hangouts - once the two are merged you send and receive SMS in the Hangouts interface, as far as I know that hasn't changed. (That's how I do it today.) It's pretty simple, there's a dropdown menu next to the message input box that lets you select between Hangouts or SMS (if you have a phone number attached to that contact.) Works the same on mobile or in the browser. I remember there was some confusion around that when they initially added it but for the past few months it's been pretty straightforward and reliable.

EDIT: I see now, I think my experience is different from others in that I only use my Google Voice number for everything. Doing SMS to/from your actual phone number inside of hangouts is definitely a disaster. If that were my use case I'd be using the Messenger app. If you're exclusively using your Google Voice number, though, the integration is pretty straightforward.
Oh wow I did not expect this to be up here this soon. Warning: two-week-old project. I've got a lot of plans for this but it'll take at least a few months for this to be anywhere near useful. Right now it's just an experiment!
TypeScript is garbage collected, like JavaScript, while WebAssembly is not. So directly compiling TypeScript to WebAssembly isn't possible, without also compiling in a userspace GC implementation.

I'm not sure what Thinscript does for this. edit: README says nothing is deleted, so I guess that each new() allocates but nothing is freed?
This blog post has tons of good stuff. For one, George Hotz's intro to his timeless debugger QIRA and his 4 mins pitch to his autonomous driving company comma.ai was pretty awesome! Well worth that 20 minute than NSA TAO Chief's PR talk for half an hour.
Came here to say the same thing. Extremely similar to Dropbox Paper.

I haven't been that happy with Dropbox Paper though. It doesn't handle basic things like bullets in indented blocks, or line/paragraph breaks in numbered lists. Hackpad (Dropbox acquisition) didn't look as nice, but had more functionality. Now Paper is replacing Hackpad.

I'll be giving Canvas a try.
Conspicuously missing scenario: Sandra owns the comic drawing package "stickman" and publishes 0.1.0, 0.9.9 and 1.0.0. A few months/years later, Stick Manufacturing Corp [StickMan(tm)] shows up with their Internet of Sticks support package library to go with their registered trademark and want to publish it as "stickman". What happens next? Do they just hand over the package so Stick Corp can publish a new version? Does NPM inc rename Sandra's "stickman" to something else? what happens to Julie's "comic" package that depends on "stickman^0.9.9" when the package is handed over?
Yeah, there are plenty of regulations that companies rail against that were created to keep people OUT of competition. If you can't create a natural monopoly, create a bureaucratized one.
Quite an achievement.

The author is terrifyingly young: http://maxsi.org/
Speaking of early rideshare entrants, I'm at least a bit amused that Ridester(http://www.ridester.com) is currently being auctioned off on Flippa.

https://flippa.com/5863667-ridester-com
Great questions.

Re: users, you can define "users" however you'd like, if you do so clearly on your own site where people can download your software and code. We're working on making the definition of "user" clearer; that's part of why Fair Source is only v0.9 right now. In some cases you'd want "users" to include end uesrs, and in some cases you wouldn't, so we need to figure out how to accommodate both cases.

Re: why "number of users" not Unreal Engine's model (paying $20/month to see source code) or the id Software/Quake model (open-source the previous version): Those work for libraries, but Fair Source is intended for end-user applications right now.
There's one more factor which is the configuration of QoS. This can be as easy as checking a box in a GUI for home routers. I've also spent days configuring Cisco switches, OpenBSD queues, VLANs, etc to achieve this.
Stanford researchers show fracking's impact to drinking water sources
Yes! I considered this and it's an interesting idea. ThinScript may end up being pretty opinionated about memory allocation though (I'm not sure yet if I'm doing pure reference counting, pure garbage collection, or some combination of both) so it could be a useful higher-level target language.
> Those who profit the most are the rich – for them their expenses just went down by 50%. But the poor don’t profit.

Nonsense. The Rich spend a smaller portion of their income on manufactured goods, household necessities and household entertainment than the poor. Instead they send their money to things like real estate, fine dining, and travel.
Employee discounts can't be very high or else employees will set up side businesses buying up cheap products and then reselling them on eBay or whatever (arbitrage). This directly hurts the employer's profits. With an employee discount of 10% or so it's usually not worth the hassle. But when discounts go over ~20% it gives employees an incentive to act unethically. Employers can partially counteract that by limiting purchase quantities but it becomes a huge hassle to enforce.
Actually, your Dropcam/Nestcam will be happy to give you a live feed for free. Also, you get a 3 month trial. In fact, I'd argue that buying a camera that provides "free" service forever is buying into a trap of some sort. There's simply no way to make money running a free service (it's the first law of thermoeconomics: money cannot be generated by providing a service that costs > $0 at a cost point of $0.)
Seeking Information Using Search and Question Asking
Thank you for a thorough answer.
though I will say that having one way to do it does NOT mean that
said one way is particularly readable/maintainble - looking at you,
Java
..
So, what you've described are all valid reasons that
Perl has a bad rep...but I don't blame Perl for them
anymore than I blame JS for the hideousness that is the
DOM, or Python for the bad scripts that have been written
in it.

Will you be willing to extend the same charity to the bad Java code you have seen? Or do you have specific complaints for your harsh comments singling out Java?
Shem [sic] and Golem s-expr language and IDE
^ constexpr is the author
If this was the case WWII would have looked much different. We need exceptions.
It's not weird at all. A simple $10 a month home phone line can make or break the deal when trying to get a potential residential customer to switch to Google Fiber from an incumbent carrier. Also consider the number of younger people trying to get faster internet at their parents home so they can work/Netflix when they come visit, etc. This is a very smart play.
Scoop launches $1 rides to Palo Alto from anywhere in the Bay
I totally believe the work you've done here is significantly more polished and "conventionalized", that is awesome and congrats! Ember's tools are really slick.

That said, everything you're describing – "asynchronously boot an app, marshall async data, render an async UI, and do it concurrently" – is really, really, really the same thing we're (my team at least) doing with React. People aren't just using `renderToString` and calling it a day.
If you want more long term business thinking you want more private companies. Once you go public, personal ambition goes out the window - all that matters is the share price and quarterly growth forecasts, because then the people that own and run the company are no longer passionate innovators, but the investors, who are only looking to make money.

We talk about how the tech industry has a problem with employer / employee loyalty where you should expect to work for a half dozen companies by 35, but even moreso investors have zero loyalty whatsoever, and will jump at the first sign of declining growth.

So entrepreneurship is only half the battle - we also need to incentivize more Dells that either revert from public to private or just get more new business startups that aren't looking to just cash out and sink the business.
The question is why you need a helper function? IMO, public functions are a special case and your generally better off using different naming schemes for internal and external functions.

Granted, if it's pure pass-through then reusing the name is a non issue. Foo(x){foo(x);} is not confusing. Foo(x){junk; foo(x);} is.

One option is Foo(x){validateForFoo; ValidedFoo(x);}

Alternatively for private functions JunkFoo(x){junk(x); foo(x);} And replacing JunkFoo with a meaningful name if possible.

Again though, public function Foo(x) should really call internal function Bar(x) otherwise it's really easy to couple things on both sides of an interface.
At the ember conf now...will do some testing and eventually file a bug!
FTC sues VW over false 'Clean Diesel' advertising claims
It does say that it is inspired by Typescript.
Ask HN: Best product requirements tracker in 2016?
We must maintain our product requirements (interface and behavior) for regulatory reasons. I would like to use the most modern system possible for tracking those requirements. Currently we have hacked up Bugzilla to do this, but there must be a better way. What do the folks who read HN use? Thanks!
Insurance companies tend to cover passengers, unless those passengers are there because you're doing weird things.

Car-pooling is sufficiently weird for insurers to require you to let them know you're doing it, and they may adjust the premiums.

As for whether I ask: yes, I do. Most of the people I get lifts from are insured as part of their job and a bunch of other people have checked for me; or it's public transport and again other people have checked for me.
You're not wrong. I'm wondering if certain providers ever try to push an exclusivity agreement.

Seems dumb to do from a restaurant's prospective, as I'm sure they see all these products as "the delivery app". But they're different to me: I won't order from DoorDash because I can't be confident my food will be hot — they do multiple deliveries per run, as opposed to an exclusive run.
Just to clarify, Unreal Engine's model has changed; there's no longer a $20/month fee to access the source code or use the engine. Its now just a % of revenue starting after you earn a certain amount. And the option to negotiate the license is always there.

The reason I like this model is it encourages use in areas where you have multiple users but you aren't using the software to make any money like in schools.
The usual reason is that then there is an incentive to not spend your own money on research and to just wait for someone else to do it for you.

Then we just get stuck in a waiting game.
You sound like a drug abuse apologist.
FBI-Apple case: Investigators break into dead San Bernardino gunman's iPhone
Concerning multiple packages with the same name, is there any reason npm does not use namespaces like some other dependency/package managers do, like Composer? So "kik/kik" and "azer/kik" could coexist, minus legal issues of course.
For comparison, Pycon is $300 for individuals, $600 corporate (https://us.pycon.org/2016/registration/ ), early bird registration for CppCon is $845 ( https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cppcon-2016-registration-188896... ), and early bird for Scala Days is $950 ( http://event.scaladays.org/scaladays-nyc-2016#04-Registratio... )

(I just picked three arbitrary languages (four, actually, but I couldn't immediately find pricing for a java conference) )
Occam razor: Apple objected at the unlock ordeal being public, not at the unlocking act per se. Now The phone is unlocked and they won't tell how, exactly as per the original apple apple request.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/46k4ke/apple_ha...
Handy Tips for Improving Web UX for Better Conversion Rates
The second way wouldn't be done for Christ's sake...
Google's Solar Project to Cost Taxpayers 1.6B