skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, I half expected to get called out. My original comment suggested that what was needed (particularly for non-developers) was a "nice clean user-friendly front end". Wordpress, although incredibly popular, is IMHO, a usability nightmare and does not fit the bill. It is one of the least intuitive pieces of software I have ever used. I have recently spent some time searching twitter for people having problems with wordpress, and I know i'm not alone.

In any case, for the websites I am talking about (small non-technical businesses in particular), wordpress is overkill and operates at a higher layer of abstraction then necessary. Also, such a solution has almost all the disadvantages of wordpress (Finding wordpress hosting [These guys are not going to have their own on-premise wordpress install], setting up and configuring wordpress, keeping wordpress and plugins up-to-date), for very little advantage (slightly more consistent load times? ). Just putting a CDN in front of it would get you most of the way there.

It's also hard to recommend a good wordpress host [The exception to this is sandstorm, which is amazing and does the wordpress->static thing exactly right]. Managed wordpress is what you want, but it's bloody expensive (again, IMO, but these kinds of customers are generally cheap). Anything more hands-on than fully manged hosting is a lot of work and maintenance for something these people are realistically NOT going to use on a daily basis.

I think Wix and Squarespace serve a very much needed part of the market, and I wish I could point people at an elegant open source solution that would allow "normal" people to have affordable websites backed by S3 or Github pages (like us developers enjoy).
They already refused to talk to her lawyer. There is every reason to assume that any subject they would bring up in person is one that could easily affect her negatively, as they would have zero reason not to share any benign subject ("we're doing a background check on someone who knows you", "we'd like to have you appear as an expert witness", etc) with her lawyer.
> but he usually isn't fired or heavily fined for the accident unless it was a flagrant violation

> passengers don't sue the pilots.

Well, a lot of the times they're all dead.
I know code camps are usually web focused, but I'm really surprised about the lack of any lower level, desktop, or non web back end options for "which roll are you most interested in". Coming from a CS background I was also surprised that more people were interested in front end web development than back end web development, because most of the people I interact with hate front end web development with a passion.
I haven't heard of this, do you have any suggested reading material?
I see it more like setting some common ground rules. If you want to rugby tackle people you won't be welcome to basketball practice. Doesn't mean you're being prevented from rugby tackling people, just that everyone would be happier if you went to rugby practice instead.
If the mobile Twitter site supported the keyboard shortcuts of J/K for next/previous, then this would be perfect.
Do you fly your own airplane as well?
They're going to have to deliver (and test) one version or another. Or if they're not testing, they might as well send an untested normal version instead of the untested simple version.
> Since she's not on US soil she doesn't have to worry about the FBI physically tracking her down

There is an extradition treaty between the US and Germany.
You're incredulous that some software stacks might need more than 2GB of RAM to run?

In any case, those 40c/day come to ~$130 extra/year, with which I instead bought a used Thinkpad X220, which comes with a decent CPU, supports 8GB of RAM and weights about the same anyway. I simply don't get Chromebooks.
I'm really glad that it's not up for a popular vote, then.
Just FYI, many hospitals other than JH were doing this long before JH.

JH is actually on the traditional/conservative end of the healthcare spectrum when it comes to process/algo/checklist style care, for better or for worse.
But at the same time you would probably be comfortable driving a car worth $5000 a kilometre from your home.
I think I've heard this at someone's office.
My first thought when I saw the title was "that's a really mean thing to say about Hillary Clinton."

Edit: for posterity, the original HN title was identical to the article's title: "Billions Are Being Invested in a Robot That Americans Don't Want".
You should... Check it out
Sounds like a story straight from Unix-Haters Handbook... :).
http://mozart.github.io/
You're so right, actually there is nothing new in this idea. Kalman filters (so basically belief propagation based on gaussian observations) were already used by DL Kleinman in 1970 to model aircraft pilots behavior. We are way past this simplistic hypothesis. Actually, quantum dynamics (yeah why not, it's just a model) seem to better describe human decision making than classical stochastic models (Quantum dynamics of human decision-making - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022249606...)
It's quite unfortunate that many forget the Nazis in their early days were effectively activists organizing themselves into a political party. Maybe someone needs to write an article outlining historical groups who are good functional analogues and who aren't the Nazis?
Oh good grief. They're not really that dumb, are they? "Hey, we have some questions to ask you about this war you're apparently waging in the Middle East..."
If you've never been to the country, ignoring a court summons sounds like a sane idea to me.
Both. They are doing amazing things so they attract awesome people that are dedicated heart and soul. I have a friend who was telling me first hand of their experiences at spaceX and imo it's just a matter of time before some exhausted person makes a mistake and there are huge losses of money and/or life.
Well point taken but by that token I am sure the HN community might also want to see jokes as well as porn?

Now you could say "yeah they do like that but don't like seeing it on HN". But I say it's more than that. It's that that type of post would get flagged by the mods and taken down as not fitting in as 'appropriate for HN'.

The HN community actually likes Musk rather than Tesla. There are cool things that are happening by other auto makers but you'd never get upvotes on a post about their executives. At least not anywhere near as frequently.
In cases of wrong medication, I wonder if its a mislabeling or someone just not reading? Maybe a doctor writing the wrong thing down?
Unfortunately Twitter's mobile site does not support lists
I hope it becomes first one day. Think about a world where our medicine is so good that most other causes of death aren't as severe. Then the only serious thing left is some margin of human error. And even that may decrease as the technological support improves.
As a developer who lifts, it's pretty obvious the author does as well and is only mocking us in jest as opposed to being critical or derogatory. The idea for the article probably came from the lifting community where asserting dominance in your gym is a popular joke/meme.
Being threatened by someone who can legally kidnap you kind of puts the zap on you. I once pissed off a municipal cop, and he started calling coworkers - it took about a month for me to stop weighing the possibility of being dragged onto the lawn in my underwear before taking off my pants in my own home.
Actually asking elected representatives to support war can yield surprising results, not just then but later. You could argue that Obama's initial vote against the Iraq war was crucial in winning him the nomination in 2008. Now of course his White House says the war he voted against gives him authority to do something he thought they shouldn't do in the first place, but let's just call that an interesting development.
It was theptip in the comments above who confused the author and the terrorist organization, not the FBI.
If someone has already directed law enforcement to their lawyer, attempting to talk to them in person without their lawyer present is overwhelmingly likely to simply result in being referred to that lawyer again. The result is wasted time and an unpleasant experience.

The law enforcement in question would already know this, so pursuing it anyway is harassment, regardless of it being legal.
This kind of stereotyping is an inevitable result of the worlds of "weird nerds" and "cool nerds" colliding in the workplace. There were no cool nerds in high school. Instead of working out or partying, we played games or fiddled with computers in sullen, slightly embarrassed solitude or with a cadre of other misfit rejects. The idea of someone writing code after a morning of pumping iron is strange and threatening to someone who's been marginalized or just excluded by the cool kids all of their life.

I like this article:

https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c...

> the process of unlearning lessons ingrained from childhood takes a lot more than a cap and gown or even a $10 million VC check

Shedding these prejudices is just part of growing up, and a lot of engineers are awfully young.

And if you have an eighty gallon drum of protein by your desk, it's probably worth reading pg's essay on high school to get some insight into where the hostility is coming from:

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
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Reds are usually okay. Blue or green, you're pushing it (depends on your office environment though)
Medicine would do well to learn from aviation.

Aviation safety is all about treating errors as facts of life, and erecting as many barriers as possible between errors and a catastrophic outcome. When errors do happen, everything is designed to trap them as early as possible before they cascade into something worse.

There are compelling incentives (such as amnesty or leniency) for pilots to self-report the mistakes they make. The entire industry has robust safety reporting mechanisms, and virtually every non-trivial error is dissected in reports for later study. When there's fatalities involved, you're talking a full NTSB investigation.
Why bother authorizing a war and have blood on your hands?
>After 6 years I will be earning $4-5k/year from it.

Can you point us in the direction of a good write-up on net-metering? I'm sure different jurisdictions have different rules. I was under the impression that net metering was only good up until your yearly production was equal to your demand. Or are you saying that the $4-5k/year is at wholesale rates?
So UBI only makes sense where robots are doing all the work. I don't think a lot of socialists see that -- they seem to argue (like in the original article) that we should be able to move that way now.

Fundamentally, 'value' (goods, services) is produced by someone and consumed by another. We all trade our efforts. UBI is trying to enable consuming without producing at some level. But it only works if someone (or something - robots) are producing without consuming. Right now the working poor are filling the role of producing more than they can consume, which is not right. But someone/thing has to do the producing, and more cannot be consumed than is produced.
Considering how often healthcare professionals work without sleep is this surprising? Nothing short of ordering sleep and preventing professionals who haven't slept from working will really put a dent in this problem. And the only thing that will get this done is regulations. Until then, people will continue to die and others will continue to push against regulation killing people in the process.
this is totally tangential, but reading this "Personal or political views presented within this post absolutely do not reflect those of my employer(s), client(s), and/or legal counsel" reminded me how i've recently decided thats a silly thing, or at the very lease needs to be qualified. we all influence, and are influenced, by those around us. culturally, politically, etc etc. and if we work somewhere, our political and personal views will influence the company, sometimes in little ways, sometimes in bigger ways. i know the statement is meant like "the company does not formally hold my political opinion", but i guess i think the formal position on anything is secondary to how things shake out in practice.
I too enjoy driving my car - hell, I chose a manual and not an automatic for a reason. And I would love to fly my own plane too, for pleasure of course, not to get from A to B.
I intend to add some keyboard shortcuts. Comment your needs here: https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-twitter/issues/5
s/mobile/iphone/

Same issues exist on the other more popular platform but this article is only about the iPhone so the title is wrong.
Pumped hydro is always brought up, which is bizarre to me because it's highly dependent on your geography, unlike battery storage.
Justice tends to be harsher on a hungry stomach.

I think we should strive for well written laws that don't require so much interpretation.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lunchtime-leniency...
Do most HN visitors know who they are? This title could have been better is what I was trying to (crudely) get across.
This++ I wish more people would know about this one fact than any other.
This is pretty much the definition of a "faster horse" scenario. Most of the population perceive the world as it is, not as it could be. (This is the S vs N in Meyers-Briggs.)

It will actually be insurance companies that force the change at the consumer level. Charging crazy premiums for irrational holdouts that insist that their love of driving is better than safer transportation will force the hands of many from "no thanks" to "well, if I can save $500/month..."

However, regardless of consumer uptake it's the long-haul trucking companies that stand the most to gain from autonomous vehicles. I don't have a stat handy but robot long-haul would be 25% the price and 4x faster. Something like 20% of highway accidents involve big rigs.
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You're basically saying she should try and act like an imitation lawyer. That's stupid - that's the job of the actual lawyer involved.
I agree that the government should try to provide accurate information. Who better to do that than the scientist who actually conducted the research? That's what made this muzzle rule so egregious: it so obviously broke the process that would provide the most accurate information.
Just use a bicycle for that.
Oh please. There are thousands of Angular guides out there. Some people don't use the official documentation, especially when it's as shitty as Angular's is.
It is good to compare with the legibility of a proof of existence Ethereum contract: https://github.com/maran/notareth/blob/master/contract.sol
Was it a Blue!?

I've done it a few times but usually switch to a Red just for the noise reduction.

I keep my Topre/Realforce at work though. Nobody minds it at all.
Is the code available for this in github? The dataset is 370 GB, i think. What did the author use - postgres/Spark/other?
From the article: Sherman, 21, a mechanical-engineering student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, trusts the technology and sees these vehicles eventually taking over the road. But he dreads the change because his passion is working on cars to make them faster. “It’s something I’ve loved to do my entire life and it’s kind of on its way out,” he says. “That’s the sad truth.”

That group has already been obsoleted by Tesla. It's embarrassing to the gas car guys that Tesla's family sedan has a better 0-60 time than everything except a few supercars. Supercars that are not only insanely expensive, but unusable for ordinary driving. (Top Gear had a funny video in which they're trying to get a Veyron out of a driveway without scraping the undercarriage.)

If you're really into that stuff, you have to get into electric supercars.[1] A friend of mine who grew up in a rural town fixing cars now works for the company that makes those. Zoom is not dead, but it now sounds like "chunk-whine", instead of "vroom".

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/9/7517291/renovo-coupe-electr...
Wasn't a major premise of the Affordable Care Act that it was the lack of access to medical care that was killing so many people?

Glad to know the situation is better now.
Care to speculate whether this is a tech savvy agent who wants something interesting or a clown who will have misunderstood everything?
Not at this time. I would like to find product-market fit to grow it into a lifestyle SaaS business (or more).
basically if you lie you can be charged with "obstruction of justice" or "obstruction of a federal officer in executing their official duties"
Stumbleupon for automated cars. Get to it.
I was mostly thinking of this research at Ohio State

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150801082647.h...

But I think there may be other areas that I'm not finding specifically right now... ("solar battery" is a poor search term for this research...)
Not really.

My grandfather grew up in a rural part of Ireland that had no electricity until the late 1920s. One of his earliest memories was when a man came to town in a car with a battery powered lantern. It was the first most people had ever seen if either, and everyone around went to the pub to see the car and light.

The car was an obvious improvement over a horse, in terms of speed, cost and versatility. Very few people voyages more than 10-15 miles from their place of birth pre automobile.

Autonomous cars are not that. They will clearly be expensive, and being a service with complex liability problems will most likely be an Über-style, pay by the drink model. As amazing as Uber is, riding them is a lot more expensive than leasing a Honda Accord.

They also make occasional distance trips prohibitively expensive. I do a 1,000 mile road trip every year -- which costs about $500. What would a robot Uber cost?

IMO, they are a solution looking for a problem. Negative effects will include undermining public transit, and making suburban sprawl worse.
yet people ride automated trains at the airport all the time. i bet if you asked them right after riding these trains if they'd ever ride a train driven by a robot, they'd say no, right after just riding one.
I think it's also very natural for this time that "[the past solution] was “more coherent” than what they have now and that they still don’t know what the right [current solution] should be." If you ask around you that's how most people feel about their job, their families, some more advanced people even feel that way about their gender, political position, life goal, philosophy.
I once lived in a hacker hostel with a girl who was working 16 hour days at Tesla doing embedded systems programming. She said she honestly loved it, got lost in the flow state every day and didn't feel any effects from the sleep deprivation.

These people do exist. (Though maybe not long past early 20s).
As she points out, the FBI is perfectly capable of knowing she flew to Germany. And heck, she just published that on her blog. Her calling them has no bearing on whether they are capable of extraditing her. My point was more that she doesn't have to worry about the FBI coming to her.
Harvard? Never heard of it. Good school?
Off-topic, but if Forbes don't disable their adblocker-blocker, they will soon be broke too...
I'd be interested in knowing the others. So would I imagine most people reading that page.
If they wanted to know something about her code, they should have told her lawyer that—or, if they believed she'd be uncooperative, served a subpoena for the relevant information.
Maybe it was something to do with ISIS being her username? Just speculating though.
> The article suggests that humans have an innate means of determining confidence in a particular hypothesis based on evidence.

Yes. In my example, the hypothesis is "killing all of our cattle will make the spirits of our ancestors come to our aid." The evidence supporting this hypothesis was nonexistent. And yet the people expressed extreme confidence in this hypothesis by killing all of their cattle.
And luckily we've learned in the last 15 or so years that nothing bad every happens to people who the Government isn't happy with.

Especially ones who are foreign citizens.
Great feedback. Thank you.

I've been thinking about creating an anonymous user, and then "nag" user to complete signup later.
Love Planet Money. I started listening back in mid 2009, and about 2 years ago I went back and listened from the start. I highly recommend it, because they started literally right when the market was crashing, and the show was so interesting. I'm now about 1 year behind again... time for a full week of Planet Money.
Sure, there are many interesting things you can make from CO2. The problem is the sheer amount of CO2 we need to capture and store, which utterly dwarfs the production volumes of basically anything you can think of.

We're talking hundreds of gigatonnes of CO2 that have to be stored over a century of CCS. At high temperatures and pressures, when the CO2 is in a dense (supercritical) state, as in geological storage formations, this corresponds to hundreds of billions of cubic meters.

It's a thousand Hoover dams each year full of dense phase CO2. It's truly mindboggling.
dont forget saving an annual ~30k lives domestically (if everyone stopped driving themselves)
Americans also wanted a faster horse.
Most people die a sad death. Pieter Hintjens dies committing.

I will follow suit and keep a git client close to my death bed when it's my time.
No, you're describing elements of /r/europe. /r/european is a straight up neo-nazi white supremacist forum that occasionally operates under the guise of being concerned about extremist immigrants.

There's literally a stickied post about Holocaust denial right now.
People who own dedicated 4x4 rigs, weekend race cars, classic cars, etc. don't drive them every day.

If you enjoy wandering around in your city: keep a car and do that.
There's no reason you couldn't do that in an autonomous car, you just wouldn't directly control the car. E.g., you instruct the car to change its route at your whim.
You misunderstand. Her reaction to what you call harrassment is not the reaction a healthy person would have to the same treatment.

To extend your analogy, this would be like a person losing a quart of blood over a pinprick.
But they won't talk to the actual lawyer involved. So what I'm suggesting is that she either simply tell them "Talk to my lawyer <name>, he represents me in this case" (since their excuse for not talking before was they don't believe the lawyer necessarily represents her), or to just tell them she's not answering questions but them to tell her what they want. Then she can talk to her lawyer again about whatever it is they say to her.