skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the premise that these apps exist to make a small group of people money...

1) Nobody's working on this kind of stuff just for the money, and if they are then they've lied to a lot of people and are fucking up. If you're a strong engineer with good quantitative skills, the expected value of working on wall street, working at googazonsoft, or even becoming a realtor in the bay (if you have the soft skills) is much higher than striking out on your own to create something new. A technical founder I met from one of these companies could have easily done one of these other things but felt really passionate about improving our relationship to food. I really doubt there's a money grubbing evil genius working on food sharing apps in order to amass great wealth and power.

2) You can't really manipulate society with $50M of facebook ads and no product (and I think that's more than any of these companies have raised). If you're making a consumer app and it's not something people want, there's no "marketing, combined with PR, government relations, and legal" that's going to get them to use it and "conform to the goals of the business".

IDK, maybe I'm just a dumb optimist but I'm excited about what the future holds for this stuff.
So, you're refusing to discuss their claim, on the grounds that they previously made claims that you would also refuse discuss? Now this is a fun little recursion puzzle.
Thanks for link.

I think comments do add value, especially for the author looking for feedback, moreso than perhaps the reader. Soundcloud has time-based comments on tracks and also general comments. Both are important. Amazon's book reviews also work well.

Another important aspect of research is references/bibliography and it would be great to have an in-text access to a reference. eg a popup that can reveal the exact quote or piece of text that a paper is referring to. Doing reference cross-checks is something that can be very tedious but could be great at locating additional and interesting material for the reader.

Surely this use-case has been addressed in current journal UX..
I appreciate your perspective on your country and the world. I'm a USian but I agree with you and can't fault Russia for resisting the neoliberal/neoconservative Empire erected by the Western elites.

Russians (and the rest of us?) are supposed to fall meekly into line in the world created by the likes of GWB, Victoria Nuland, Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld, David Cameron and Merkl? No thanks.
You are confusing old school CVS and SVN version control with the modern, branch oriented workflow that can be achieved with Git or Mercurial.

Easy branching and merging enable exploratory programming in a way that makes you stop worrying about a whole class of regression bugs forever.
Earthquake/fire/electrical regulations might not seem valuable until your entire house/city is in ruins.
The market for tech IPOs hasn’t been this awful since the Great Recession
Autonomous cars have to be all or nothing, a human cannot take over a car at speed. Humans taking control is a process that takes seconds. Accidents happen in much less time. IOW, robo-taxis and autonomous cars will happen at the same time. 50 years? Maybe not quite that long, but it's not going to be soon.
Wyngz
fun fact: beer was discovered way, way before bread.

those things happen by itself. leave grain in rain. next day: shitty beer. then just interact from there.
If you can't peel out with a standard something is wrong or broken. Rev it up, dump the clutch, listen to physics working it's magic. The bolt and pretty much every economy car sold in the US comes with an auto. You usually need a wet road to peel out in a 90s tercel with an auto and if it had some sort of traction aid (limited slip, or even a detroit locker for sh*ts and giggles) you probably wouldn't be able to peel out with an auto at all (well, maybe with a neutral drop you could, but that doesn't count).

and BTW, a Prius meets all the criteria you described. They actually have a lot more "go" in the power-train than they give the driver access to since they're trying to put a lower bound on fuel economy. They have about the same passing power at low speed as an 80s pickup, but the 80s pickup will be a lot faster off the line (gearing and flat torque curve) and be worse at highway speed (bad aero) Nobody notices this stuff because very few people actually floor it.

FWIW they give most economy cars a really tall 1st gear to make it harder to peel out from a stop (e.g taking a right turn into traffic in the rain) and I expect the bolt to be no exception. Consequently they're very slow off the line.
How much "drift" do you guys have to deal with when using consumer electronics? I don't imagine the calibration being too difficult or numerous these days. Wi-Fi these days is cheap and of high quality.
Why not just have the iPhone app act as a Bluetooth LE beacon? You can do that without jailbreaking, and BLE signals are in the 2.5GHz band.
If the NSA had any reason to listen in on your conversations, nothing will stop them. It's just as easy to point a laser microphone at any window in your home, or simply planting a bug in your home.
The obvious corollary to your statement is "in practice the only way you can affirm the law is to throw enough people in jail for breaking it." So do we throw more people who break food safety laws in jail, or pat them on the back?
Yes, preventing shifting in line doesn't help if your attacker can just count the length of the line before they get in it. You really want a random element. Anyone familiar with Dungeons and Dragons should be able to name the obvious solution there....
>Underground restaurants have been operating for decades

Having eaten at some of these underground restaurants, particularly in Mexico, Cuba and Argentina, I can comment that the experience was extremely positive. This is, I assume, due to regulation and corruption making it difficult for independent restauranteurs. However I would have much higher expectations of the same in say, California, where I might expect an independent restaurant to be extremely unique and have qualities you couldn't find in a regular setting.
> but about making a system that works almost all the time, but when it doesn't, it is not the end of the world, and easily fixable

This is exactly where senior architects make all their money.
I'm using Workflowy. Tried it for a few hours and I was pretty sold on it. Got a whole year sub for it. Got buyer's remorse shortly after. Gave it another shot and now I can't live without it.

I use it mainly to track ALL of the things that is going on at work.
Yeah I do, but I'm mostly meaning to point out the epistemological issues with conversations around fairness and to state that to me, proportionatity is the only thing that most resembles fairness
My definition of Architecture (from another commenter): making a system that works almost all the time, but when it doesn't, it is not the end of the world, and easily fixable.

I spend the vast majority of my time on "architecture" (as opposed to coding) making it so that it's trivial to track down problems in production, trivial to identify the cause once you do, and trivial to deploy the solution once you've made the fix.

If you do architecture right, most fixes end up being the moral (if not literal) equivalent of one-liners. At least, that's been my experience.

Do architecture wrong (or worse: not at all) and you end up having to rewrite and/or redesign your code entirely, just to identify and/or fix bugs (i.e. not even adding new features).
I still don't understand why anyone would buy a Tesla 3 or a Bolt over a Volt at this point in time for recharge time and infrastructure.
I use this in an alias:

git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --graph --stat

Seeing the names of the changed files in each commit gives me a lot more of context than simply the commit description.
Meanwhile the janitor who can only afford an RWD pickup makes it to school just fine...
I can't think of many homes where the 240V is easily accessible.

"I'm sorry Jane, would you mind terribly unhooking the clothes dryer and pulling it away from the wall so I can charge up my car while we visit."
And who was sued in the case of the Healthcare.gov debacle?

I get the feeling this "knowing who to sue" saying is a bit of a myth.
Is there a plugin for ms word?
Congrats to comma. $3.1m seems like an odd amount. I'd be curious to see what went into that number.
But this comes at an expense to nature and or natural preserves for wildlife. California has some of the greatest protected forests and areas like Yosemite.

So, yes we pay more and have more restrictions, but a better question is is it worth it?

Following the articles car analogy, this is like requiring cars to have airbags for the safety of the people in them, but that comes at a higher cost on the purchase price of the car.
> in legal ways that 99.99% of the rest of the population doesn't engage in

This finally sounds like an industry that's ripe for disruption—Tax Loopholes For Everyone!
Natural gas piping is done at such low pressures in residential environments that it's basically a joke. I think it's about 0.5psi (or 14" of water column) which in the grand scheme of pressures is very low. People can generate greater pressures with their lungs.

http://hvac-talk.com/vbb/showthread.php?1587361-What-is-typi...

http://www.personal.psu.edu/ref7/apparatus/2003%20competitio...

EDIT: I'm not saying that one should do their own natural gas piping as in many places it's technically illegal unless you're a licensed plumber. But it's certainly not rocket science. The only reason it's "harder" than plumbing compressed air is that if compressed air leaks a tad, it's no big deal. You have to get rather tight on gas piping because of the consequences of a leak, not because it's so difficult to get it tight.
I imagine you've read that Tesla uses 18650 cells in their batteries. And it's true! But what you may not realize is that 18650 is just a size and shape. 18650 just means the cell is 18mm in diameter and 65mm long. Tesla uses these cells, but the guts aren't the same as what you'll find in something from Amazon.
If you think the point is to help minority businesspeople, then no.

The legit business people who aren't just patsies often get screwed by these arrangements. They end up holding a massive short term liability that the big contractor (IBM, Oracle, EDS, etc) wants paid NOW, but the receivable is mired in some crazy 120 day late pay hell with the government.

If we want to hire minorities to improve their lot, just hire them. Or require actual bids on contracts that a small business person can grok instead of blanket purchase arrangements that require Fortune 50 sized legal/contract teams to bid on.

Of course, if the point is to generate extra income for the spouses of corporate execs and campaign contributions, than sure, these programs are uber successful.
This seems smart, there doesn't seem to be too much wrong with opening the door to investors. Once the investors start supporting the Tesla M3 and EV entry luxury cars, they will be also interested in investing in the infrastructure to support these kinds of solutions.

If sales and orders continue rising, and he requires investments, then he's already hooked in investors. Tesla might just prove themselves to be the gateway to a new infrastructure model.
Ask HN: What is the state of the art in virtual doctors?
How good are virtual doctors compared to human doctors?
Making superchargers free was a really stupid move on Tesla's part, IMO. Humans often do really irrational things to save money, especially if they're receiving something for free. I've seen people wait in line for half an hour to save 50 cents on gasoline.

Why not charge market rate, exactly the same as if you charged it at home? Then you wouldn't get people charging up at the supercharger purely for cost reasons, and who would complain about being able to fill up your car for $5?

Edit: I thought Musk said that model 3 supercharger access would be free, but perhaps he just said that there would be access and didn't say it would be free? The introduction of the 3 would be a good time to start charging for supercharger access. Free access could be considered a perk of the high end models, and model 3 users are probably more price conscious and likely to abuse free access to chargers.
Not really. How many Uber customers went to jail? There are tens of thousands of laws, but almost everyone in prison is there for breaking the same 20 or so.
I agree that sklearn-compatibility is the strong point of Skflow. If you are familiar with Keras, note that you can do the same with any Keras model, via the sklearn wrapper: https://github.com/fchollet/keras/blob/master/keras/wrappers...

> I don't think the SKFlow author(s) are at Google. Prettytensor's are, but it isn't Google supported.

I believe they are. Also I do believe that PrettyTensor is an internal Google project.
At one time I was part of a team of around 15 developers working on a PostScript engine, mostly written in C, and included hundreds of test scripts. It shipped on a number of multi-function printers. We started on it around 2002. Today we might have used Git. We used http://aegis.sourceforge.net, sadly stuck at SourceForge for the time being.

Aegis is notable for (by default) recording and enforcing code and test script review before permitting a commit. It has other virtues, and faults, and is no longer widely used, AFAICT. Reviews were treated as transactions, and the reviewer comments went into the project history. Also time spent on development, reviewing, resuming development after 'failed' reviews, and more.

The engine is mentioned in passing on https://www.eid.toshiba.com.au/n_news_detail.asp?news_id=8. It did a number of other page description languages as well.

We also used Aegis on a number of smaller projects.
yearly costs can be quite high, including attorneys fees that come with regular government scrutiny
As a 2nd car (mainly for commuting) an electric vehicle is great.
Colbert did a funny segment on this on the Colbert Report:
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/2ucxw7/the-colbert-report-thou...
Zoning can affect how many residences you can build on that block. If the zoning laws say you can only build one on that lot, then the land cost is $400k per residence. But if you're allowed to build a 5 floor building with two apartments per floor, then the land cost is $40k per residence.
> If you're a strong engineer with good quantitative skills, the expected value of working on wall street, working at googazonsoft, or even becoming a realtor in the bay (if you have the soft skills) is much higher than striking out on your own to create something new.

With an essentially zero chance of becoming a billionaire.

If you're driven by the desire to become a billionaire, startups it is.
When you say it's widespread, I'm curious where you're getting your information.

The purchasing managers I talk to all seem pretty keen on doing right by their aspirational goals, and the firms that try and cheat the system that way, well, it's known that they're trying to cheat the system.

Furthermore, all this stuff is public record--all the purchasing decisions, awarded contracts, etc., and I know that the local papers here in the Pacific Northwest periodically sift through that data looking for signs of abuse. They do report it when it comes up, too, but it simply isn't prevalent, and I'd be quite surprised to see any interpretation of the data that would let you characterize it as "widespread".
It's an arms race. As corporate income tax receipts dry up countries change their policies. Very wealthy, naturally international companies not only have more resources to compete, they also have the ability to play hard ball and leave the country entirely (see tax inversions of pharmaceutical companies from America to Europe) bringing not just the lost corporate tax, but the income tax on salaries as well.
The linked section of the FAQ was written a few years ago. I'm not a Googler, but I can tell you some things visible from the outside.

>Note that "scaling MySQL" is not exactly a long-term priority in a company that built three or four alternatives to MySQL, all superior.

It might be more valuable than you think since GCE sells a hosted MySQL service. I'm speculating here; they could be using something else that's MySQL-compatible, but I doubt it.

>I'd love to hear any current Googlers chime in about a Google product written in Go that actually matters and took more than a hundred engineer-hours to write.

Kubernetes is a non-trivial Go project largely done by Google that's important to the future of GCE.
Mossack Fonseca – Panama Papers – Source Documents
I'd actually be interested to know what thoughtworks does, and how (much) I could (should/would) pay for whatever services thoughtworks provides... I looked at https://www.thoughtworks.com/products etc - and I still don't know what thoughtworks provides, or how much what it costs? Am I just looking in the wrong place?
Mathematician Solves the Centuries-Old Sphere Problem in Higher Dimensions
The fact the CVS or SVN were not capable tools to use branches doesn't mean anything about modern use of branches in Git or Hg.

Otherwise we would be judging all programming languages by the use cases and the pitfalls of COBOL.
Not that it's necessarily better if the projects you are making take over a hundred hours to write, because it does suggest an attraction to monolithic designs.
100ps resolution timestamps? That's crazy impressive. I wonder how they accomplished that. It seems unlikely that there is a 10GHz clock that they're using to timestamp asynchronous events, but who knows.

My reference is the fact that 1588 systems usually get into the <25ns RMS offset realm.

This might not even make sense, but maybe they're talking about using the recovered clock from the incoming signal? Something like synchronous Ethernet?

The link posted doesn't go in to much detail, but I'd like to learn more.
Easier to use != right tool for the job
I read that it's unlikely that U.S. citizens would use this Panamanian firm for offshore dealings because of the tax reporting laws between Panama & the U.S. They would use a different firm. Is this correct, and can anyone elaborate or point me to sources on this?
I doubt they could change that without changing federal law.
This article is a little all over the place:

> at the expense of people living in Lagos or rural Appalachia or San Salvador

Which is at the end, but seems to have little to do with the points earlier about restricted building laws in cities. I get the argument, it's been made in many economics books, but I don't think it comes at the expense of the people in Appalachia. It comes at the expense of people living in the expensive areas. The people in Appalachia have other issues dealing with jobs and investment in the local area.

Is the alternative that we allow people to build however and wherever they want until there is not quiet nature within driving distance of anyone?
Imagine for a moment if your closest neighbors switched from being normal professional neighbors to being a short-term rental occupied by people who want to party on a budget. That projects a noise issue, a property value issue, and often a security issue onto external parties.

There are also some issues for those who take the room (e.g. fire code, safety issues, etc that come up once in a million times, but aren't great); but my objection to AirBNB is the externalities generated, and the fact that Brian Chesky has made extraordinarily clear (through word and action) that he is intentionally facilitating the violations because that's more profitable for him.

I'm using a throwaway to say this because stating honest truths about AirBNB (one of pg's highest return investments) gets you banned here, no matter how you say them.
You have essentially zero chance either way, but I'd guess that more billionaires are finance guys like Warren Buffet, no?
Interesting. You're the first person I've seen here that used it. It was the only one that meets most of Wheeler's requirements:

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm-security.html

So, was it a good tool compared to subversion or centralized git? Work fast and reliably enough? Not get in the way too much outside authorization checks? Just getting feedback on field use here.
If this is all that's wrong with the UX, why not write two tiny one-line scripts called gerrit-submit and gerrit-review?
To be fair, that syntax has been around for a while...
While there are plenty of problems with academic publishing, and the notion of making articles free and easily accessible is one I can certainly support, I do not see the rending such articles as free as a grand step in the general increase of knowledge as so many seem to think.

Making the articles available to all is not the same as educating all. You are only opening the gates to the niche crowd that already has some level of access to at least some of the articles via institutions. The level of background competence required to read academic work is what keeps the world ignorant and ensures the success and increasing erudition of the few. Unless you can devise a means of not only making academic material accessible but also eminently readable you are only, in mass archiving papers, preaching to the choir, so to speak.

You are making it easier for what is already a niche crowd to remain a niche crowd. Nothing more. Nothing less.

I'm not implying that this is something that shouldn't be done, nor am I saying it's not commendable to a degree, but I am suggesting the glorification that's heaped on this sort of thing, "free information from its chains—to give it to the masses free of charge." and "research Robin Hood" is a little gross when there are astounding issues with education at the ground level which prevent masses of people from getting into academic circles in the first place.

Furthermore, many people see: Big bad useless publisher. while that's true to some degree, far too many people ignore the complexities involved in publication proceeders. Sometimes careful and well-considered revision of existing systems is a better approach than outright anarchy and noble liberation of information.

When you dismantle one mechanism of publication you must implement another. The sheer volume of research that is published prevents any completely unguided system from being that effective. We could go back to old ways, wherein some journals were edited by an executive editor so to speak, but that doesn't seem so great either. Peer review has a lot of flaws, but to simply hope that publication will just work itself out when our current infrastructures are bypassed is far too naive in my view.

Even with peer review systems, gatekeeping, and money grubbing publishers academic dishonesty and turning over of papers, snuffing of other's works, and popularity contests all occur. Do we really expect such problems to disappear and not get potentially 10x worse in a completely open system? I'm not trying to advocate anything in particular here; not conservation of current, admittedly broken practice, nor radical upheaval and dissolution of all systematic forms of publishing. I am only trying to point out that publishing is a complex issue that is too frequently under-analyzed and, furthermore, it is assumed far too frequently that complete and unrestricted access to information, and complete freedom to publish anything whatsoever sans constricting publication or review procedure is automatically a good ting.