skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just installed docker for mac after getting an invite in this thread, and this is the _only_ issue I'm facing. If I access the IP, it works extremely well. But if I use `docker.local`, then it takes about 5-6 seconds to connect, most of that in name resolution.
Since more people downvoted you than upvoted you, that proves that when most websites do something, it can't be malicious when an application on your computer does it. I think?
Definitely no "prestige" feeling here.
>>Trucks are way more complicated to drive.

An Australian friend of mine told me that the trucks that carry load from Australian mining fields are almost fully automated, and have been for a while now. So perhaps it's not that complicated?
Neat!

I doubt a "hub driver" will earn a 6-figure salary, but manoeuvring a semi truck two or three trailers is definitely a skilled job that many (most?) people are not capable of learning to do well.
For those specific companies that lose good teams, yes. But you could certainly argue that anything that moves workers into better jobs more efficiently is improving the allocation of resources in the economy, so it's a net upside.
I don't think it's far fetched for someone in the late 19th century to imagine an automated, in-home telegraph system that printed out content for someone to read. Someone might have even had their university assignments sent over telegraph in an emergency. I believe Western Union used to deliver telegrams (via telegraph) on demand for customers.

Stock updates were also sent automatically over telegraph starting in the 1870s for anyone that owned a ticker tape machine[1]. There were also teleprinters that sent news stories and other information to those that owned them.

Fax machines were also invented in the mid 19th Century and allowed for the transmission of signatures and drawings over telegraph[2].

The basics for an asynchronous, global communication system have been around since the 1800s, just not as cheap and user friendly as what we enjoy today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker_tape

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelegraph
Man, the privacy critics really come out of the woodwork every single time "opt-out" is mentioned, regardless of the actual facts for a specific situation. The developers explicitly state they set the anonymous IP address flag. There is nothing that links back to you as a person. Are you really concerned that the developers know which packages a random, unknown person has installed?

Crying "opt-in" to every single little thing that has ever tracked you for non-nefarious reasons completely detracts from the cases where tracking is nefarious. Homebrew is not tracking for ads. They are not tracking for anything worth selling to a 3rd party. They're not - and are incapable of - linking this to any other database that does contain personally identifiable information. There's no "profile" worth anything to anybody except the developers, who are trying to get some very basic information completely detached from any identity.

>> You will be notified the first time you run brew update or install Homebrew.

>> to opt-out of Homebrew's analytics you may set HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 in your environment

They went to the lengths to document this. And to notify you when you run the software. You have the opportunity to opt-out of something that is completely harmless. There is no valid reason to be crying foul over this. Of all the tracking that goes on with our internet connections, this should by far be the least of anyone's concerns.

I have uBlock Origin installed in Chrome. With all the ad networks and analytics scripts blocked. Google Analytics does not run in my browser. And yet, I am not even slightly opposed to homebrew's use of it. It's actually anonymous, unlike how many developers use GA in the browser (tracking IP addresses, custom fields like user ids that link back to the site's database, etc). God speed, homebrew devs.
Why not try to pitch them the flatform? Or maybe even make the requested changes to it so that it fits the spec more closely to show you're serious. Could be good money.
Apple has laid off all of its contract recruiters, source says
Version that's possible to read:

"Rockefeller was relentless in ferreting out ways to cut costs. During an inspection tour of a Standard Oil plant in New York City, for instance, he observed a machine that soldered the lids on five-gallon cans of kerosene destined for export. Upon learning that each lid was sealed with 40 drops of solder, he asked, "Have you ever tried 38?" It turned out that when 38 drops were applied, a small percentage of the cans leaked. None leaked with 39, though. "'That one drop of solder', said Rockefeller,...'saved $2,500 the first year; but the export business kept on increasing after that and doubled, quadrupled--became immensely greater than it was then; and the saving has gone steadily along, one drop on each can, and has amounted since to many hundreds of thousands of dollars"' (Chernow 1998, pp. 180-81). Over the course of his career at the helm of Standard Oil, "Rockefeller cut the unit costs of refined oil almost in half" (Ibid., p. 150).
http://www.insightsquared.com/2013/12/why-excel-spreadsheets...

People use Excel when they really should use a programming Language like R or Python or other tools.
Possibly. However, I would counter that if you have a whole team leave you then, as a first step, you should look at yourself as to why. On the other hand, any company should be prepared for that kind of departure -- which I know is difficult.

If it helps, let's remove the human element and think about it from a disaster recovery perspective. You need a replacement plan for the whole group. It's vital if you want to do things like take your team out to lunch (food poisoning) or to any group activity (transport accident) or be in a single office (anything that takes out the building will take out your team).

Could you rebuild your product team from scratch and still proceed with the deliverables that have actually been checked into source control and the issues that have been entered into the issue tracker? It's a good question to ask.
I really don't think this will happen in my lifetime. Could the whole robot drives car really evolve to replace the current state? I'm not sure that can happen over night.
Are any startups working on the last mile of autonomous logistics?
This is like the exact opposite. It would be more selling "not punches" as long as you buy I will show you all the places I could have punched you. You can guess what I do if you don't pay the known hacker/puncher.
Good read. I like his point that you should read your inbox oldest first, or else you reward the most annoying correspondents. This also encourages the "handle it once" ethos, because you need to traverse older items to get to new ones.

Sadly there doesn't seem to be any way to tell Gmail to sort by ascending date - please enlighten me if there is.
>service built for niche genres

There is nothing inherent in the structure of SoundCloud that limits its usefulness to only niche genres. Mainstream genres simply have access to more established avenues of promotion, like radio and YouTube.
It's like you've never heard of an acquihire before.

Companies do this all the time.
We can, but the norm (and law via FCC part 97) is for one to use "the minimum power necessary to carry out the desired communications." So if you need 1.5kW to reach your wifi robot on the other side of the valley, go for it, but otherwise quieter is the rule. There's a subculture of hams who try to see how far away they can make contacts on minimal power (miles per milliwatt). It's not unheard of to make trans-Atlantic contacts using 100mW, by bouncing the signal off the ionosphere. It's possibly to reach most of the globe on 25W via PSK31, with sound cards handling the signal processing.
Chris is awesome. He created the Game Developers Conference and an early journal on game development. He encouraged collaboration and sharing in an industry that was very secretive.
Driverless trucks have been operating in the mining industry in Australia for over four years. There are lots of long haul routes around the world that are almost entirely truck traffic where automation makes a lot of sense.

Video showing how the mining trucks operate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0RCSX95QmE (2012)
That seems to say Google won't share your Analytics data without making any guarantee that they won't _use_ your analytics data.
Could you explain to me what critical information you feel is missing?
My understanding is that at least the IFRS standards are developed precisely with the goal to fit all businesses in all industries. Whenever concerns come up that this is not the case, the standard is amended. And so companies who are making claims that IFRS does not adequately describe their business are justly met with suspicion. If GAAP does not work that way then it's one more reason to move on to IFRS.
Great! Now I can tell my wife why I don't like to sleep at her parent's :)
That really hits home. It is difficult to explain to the uninitiated the degree to which one's identity becomes wrapped up in the startup.

It sometimes feels like it has its own mind and soul.
> Speaking conservatively, a 25% difference in performance would turn an 8 hour wedding edit into 10 hours.

That's only true if all 8 hours are 100% spent waiting on the machine, which doesn't seem likely. This doesn't seem like a CPU-bound task. Most of the time is probably spent by the human actually looking at the photos and making decisions.
"If you ever think you have found a single instance of monopoly lasting any significant length of time, look deeper - with absolute certainty there is a government gun backing it up."

But that caveat lets the horse out of the barn, since the gains made by monopolies can purchase lobbyists and thence the government gun. Disney Studios has been around 93 years at this point.
Can I get in on this too please? Hoping to get my team onto docker in the next couple of months. Docker ID is vr3690. Thanks!
They aren't needed. They're wanted, by companies like NetFlix. DRM does not enable anything for the user. It specifically disables being able to use your computer to consume media that you paid for in convenient ways.
Qualified dividends are taxed as long term capital gain, which is nicer than ordinary income. However, unrealized capital gains from a stock buyback aren't taxed until realized, which is even nicer (unless tax rates go up)
The same use cases as Linux. Being able to isolate applications, being able to allocate resources more fluidly, being able to centralize management all the better. Windows has actually gained some real nice virtualization management over the past few versions, and this would fit right in with them.
>I'm not quite sure how to convince them, though.

By sending them email?
Ask HN: Academic paper about intentionally introducing inefficiency
I remember coming across a paper which discussed attempting intentionally slowing down a program in nontrivial ways (not just using bogosort, or adding a wait(1 hour) ).

I've lost it. Would anyone have this paper, or similar ones?
Our team just started using docker to deploy our apps to Marathon and it would be great to try out the Beta. Docker ID is robconley. Thanks.
Bottom line: Unless you have an actual contract, don't expect to win.

We do have an actual contract, the moment someone signs up and pays us money under our advertised terms. It is as clear and legally binding as if we sat down at a table and signed a piece of paper. I suspect that not understanding this is the cause of many of the incorrect things you've been saying in this thread.

Edit: Just to be reiterate in case it wasn't clear from my other comments, one of the points in those terms specifically says what the process for cancelling is and that an e-mail is not sufficient, for precisely the kinds of reasons we've been talking about on HN today.
There are a few:

- Dispatch [1]

- Starships [2]

- And at least one stealth mode company

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/06/self-driving-delivery-vehic...

[2] https://www.starship.xyz/concept/
Flipkart is not exactly a local company.
If I'm right, most of their equity is held by a singaporean holding company.
There's also this aspect that a loss-making company cannot go public in India, so Flipkart have structured themselves to IPO elsewhere.
In Australia this isn't the case - the infrastructure doesn't service a lot of the land area.
Well, lets see what I can do to help this effort....

Here is a link to an Atari 2600 emulator with every game. There's also a loader to load in any game or rom. That would allow near-instantaneous game and application creation via this tool

http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmacAqRVhJX9eS7YJX1vY3ifFKF9CduDqPEgaCUS...

It's also using something called IPFS, or Inter-Planetary File System. That got a bit of press earlier on with the left-pad situation and package managers regarding npmjs. Effectively, it's a worldwide GIT repo backed by a self-certifying file system, a Bittorrent type transmission between nodes, and Kadmelia and dHT for host detection.

(Edit: Really? I offer something that is relevant, at least orthogonally. And yet, -1's. Cant the ones that downvote provide a reason, even if from a throwaway account? And it's not even a controversial opinion...)
The technology already exists. We're there.
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> Trucks are way more complicated to drive. Once they're up to cruising speed, they're easy. But it's everything leading up to that point which is hard. Dealing with gear changes, airbrakes, load shifting, other vehicles that will inevitably cut you off, and much more.

The mechanical aspects of controlling a large truck and accounting for the variables is probably the easiest part of the problem.

Things involving humans (vehicles cutting you off, pedestrians, etc.) are part of the general class of problems that I'm assuming all automated vehicles are working on and are much harder.
The most surprising thing I learned from this is that even juxtaposing two options will help you get higher pricing. When thinking of product and service pricing, for me it's difficult to invent three different options sometimes, so it's relieving to know that I could create just two and it will get me most of the way there.

It is also crazy to think how relational it all is. I don't really need that extra $7 beer at the bar, "but who cares, we're having fun". Whereas paying $8 a month to the New York Times took me months and months to decide on because I wasn't used to paying for it, even though I'd been a reader for years.

It really is a mostly emotional decision.
They may have been thinking of trucks within the mine site, which is still quite new? (http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-18/rio-tinto-opens-wor...). I'm pretty sure we don't have any automated trucks on Australian roads.
>On the other hand if you don't care for such resolution the PC may be the better choice.

On the other hand it's a Lightroom test -- the target market for Lightroom is precisely those that do care for such resolution.
> Dealing with gear changes, airbrakes, load shifting, other vehicles that will inevitably cut you off, and much more.

Awhile back there was a post about the early experience of a young and enthusiastic programmer. The take away phrase, in response to someone sending nonsense input, was "Some people just want to watch the world burn."

I can see assholes trying to make sure that an automated truck can't change lanes, or get to the exit it needs to reach, etc.

I myself have at times intentionally walked too close to the robotic carts that move supplies to workstations at my work, just to hear them stop and beep for a few seconds.
Always wanted to get a held of that book! Will definitely read it
Maybe sprinting?
My guess would be most of Wu's time was spent researching which components to order, probably several hours.
On the other hand, if he's a full time employee, then it does not cost anything extra to have him do his job.
The 2600 is totally different from the 8-bit computers, just so folks know. Programming an Atari 800 computer was a walk in the park compared to the living hell on earth that was the 2600.

[I wrote a few Atari 800 game cartridges. I watched one of my cow-orkers mentally deteriorate as he attempted to write a simple 2600 game over maybe four months -- not kidding. He gave up and was a happier person for it].
one more what used to be decent software selling out to marketing....

guess its back to the linux vm when working on a mac...
This is mostly internal to mine sites, and the areas serviced have restricted or no public traffic.
30 Years After Chernobyl Disaster, an Arch Rises to Seal Melted Reactor
I agree hydrogen will probably never be used as a general purpose fuel, but if you have energy you can synthesize hydrocarbon fuels.
Apple Care does take sweet time, but you don't need to go to the store. They'll pick your machine up by courier to fix, at least they did for my iMac when the hard drive died.
Don't use .dev either, it is/is going to be a TLD now: https://icannwiki.com/.dev.

There are some reserved suffixes, including .localhost and .test: https://iyware.com/dont-use-dev-for-development/.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4047298/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20129889

It's not even a question of IF for those who are into this stuff. It's really a question of WHY for the researchers. But for those in the field, the solution is simple and you don't need to know the why, you just work around it (by nasal breathing!)

Here's some more that are more about the sleep apnea side of things:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12615622/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14523179/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15342852/

Point being: before you think you (or your kid) is "ADHD", see to it that they are breathing and sleeping properly. They're just so tired they become irritably unstable and unfocused. Lack of sleep = kids are a mess
Presumably we don't spend $10k/trunk on better brakes because humans can deal without them. But if that was what's needed to make self-driving work, the economics could support it. Electric regenerative breaking would do nicely.
Are you sure they're more complicated for computers? Because some stuff that strains humans, like 360° attention and complicated sequential activities, computers can do with ease. Also computers are not limited to having senses inside the cab. Load shifting? BigDog is an example of computers figuring how to balance a shifting load. Google cars handle being cut off (most of the time).
Not even your IP address is recorded. It's physically impossible for this to be malicious. There are no real privacy advocates complaining here, only people who post "it must be opt-in!" as an instant reaction to just reading the term "opt-out". Most of the complaints are probably from people who have never even used homebrew. The submission headline contains the phrase "Google Analytics", which attracts the people who always come to criticize the tool rather than actually analyzing how the tool is being used in each case.
I'm not sure it's that simple. Someone mentioned a solution somewhere in this thread relating to if you're using udev. It still won't give you the block until seeded behavior but my post gave the solution to that (seed it yourself at system start (which most distro's may already do)). It should be possible to give /dev/random the same behavior as /dev/urandom I just haven't really looked into it.
Lexus automated the most hated driving maneuver for all car drivers - parallel parking, and Google's had decent success w/their self driving Prii fleet... it's hard, safety would be the #1 concern, but w/enough human brainpower and some decent hard realtime OS-es, it should be more than doable.
Admittedly, I'm not very well versed on computing from the late 70's and early 80's. My own personal experience of 8 bit machines are the recent PIC and Atmel micros.

I just figured that an emulator/games that are completely self-contained would be handy.
If you want to have a stable system when overclocking 3GHz --> 4.5Ghz, it's a good choice.
I think it could help that loading docks could be highly integrated with the truck systems. Backing in to the place where you unload is complicated, but the owners would be willing to invest in putting in sensors, special paint, whatever else is necessary to make that as automated and error free as possible.
Thanks for the fast track! My Docker id is swarthout.
I'm thinking about India where politicians are clashing over train and road as we speak. For a country building new infrastructure, I wonder which one is more viable?

This has been a subject of long debate in India - autonomous cars are fairly useless in Indian cities. At the scale of transportation needed, nothing other than mass transportation (subways,etc) makes sense with last mile connectivity.

The same question exists for freight - should we construct trains or trucks? Taking into account offloading cost - which one is more efficient? I think people overestimate the complexity of shipping items with time guarantees. A hub and spoke model works great here - but what is doing the actual long haul?

And people don't understand the scale at which countries like India or China need to operate. The transportation needs of all of Europe are dwarfed by how much needs to be moved (quickly and economically ) in India.
Build a robot that balances this broomstick was a sophomore-level engineering course at my university. xD
Yep. All the falsifiable predictions have turned out to be, well, false.
IIRC, the Blue Jays already take that into account (or at least they did under the previous GM, Alex Anthopolous).
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For me, the thing is that you're buying one beer for $7 one time, not "beer in perpetuity, or until you remember to change your mind".
My friend is some kind of logistics manager for a trucking company. He literally manages dozens of trucks and truck drivers daily.

He says, it's so ridiculous, how far away we are from automatting truck driving. There is a lot of manual work for loading and off-loading rigs. Plus there is driving in every single possible driving condition possible, around the world.

He said, he could see an auto-pilot system being installed in trucks in the next 10 years, but the rest is all manually done.
Mechanical aspects, may be easy. Modeling human behavior and reacting to it, not so much.

I suspect it will still be years before much of trucking is automated. Why? It's not just the take crap from point A to point B, it's also being responsible for making sure what was ordered is actually loaded. It will be years before, say, the laborers at Earth Bound Farms south of Salinas (supplies large quantities of "organic" produce all up and down the west coast) automates their work staff or actually has their schedules down tight.

Trucking and hauling is full of inefficiencies, and those that suffer the most are the drivers. A pickup/dropoff that takes too long because the people at the origin/destination are lazy/slow/don't care/behind has a ripple effect.

And, one could argue "but automated trucks, what schedule?", there will still need to be a human present, regardless. I suspect said human will be restrained by rules similar to what drivers experience now.
I think Thompson is walking back from his blog. His blog and podcast do not align. I would expect him to use the givens (Apple product culture) and come up with a strong theory around why Apple should not venture into Services.
How Insane Balls
Of course a purpose-built PC will outperform an iMac, dollar for dollar. That's not exactly news. The iMac also has a severe price-to-performance disadvantage here by including an expensive 5K panel, while the PC is tested with a much cheaper 2560x1440 monitor.

However, the disappointing thing to me here is that you can't reach performance parity with the iMac by throwing more money at it. The iMac tested here is a completely maxed out machine.