skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love a completely autonomous car that I could get into, enter a destination, and read a book while it takes me for a ride.

I am TERRIFIED of the "semi autonomous" cars that require the driver's attention to take over if the computer gets confused, like current tesla or mercedes models... because the people driving these cars are NOT going to be able to take over when required. Many people are terrible drivers when they are pretending to pay attention because they are doing the driving, there is NO way they will have the situational awareness to take over in an emergency.
It's going to be a tough few years getting the plant running profitably. Tesla hasn't tried to be price-competitive before. They need to get good at low-cost, high-volume auto manufacturing. Trying to get "fast", "cheap" and "good" all at once is very hard. Tesla tends to get "good", but not the other two.

For comparison, see Apple's plant in Fremont, 1984-1992. This was Steve Jobs' vision of manufacturing.[1] It looks great. It's got automatic stacker cranes. It's got pick and place machines. It's got mobile robots. Everything is very tidy. But it's inefficient. Designing a factory around a storage and retrieval warehouse machine turns out to be a bad idea. Too much of the plant is material handling rather than manufacturing. Apple closed that plant and outsourced manufacturing to Foxconn.

This is the sort of problem you hit in setting up a manufacturing plant. It's easy to end up with too much work in progress spread around the plant. This is worse in automotive, where work in progress is physically large and needs storage space.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUjyh2Fhnuk
> And there will be rare instances of cars trying to drive to Ireland through the Pacific Ocean.

It's silly to assume that a car is going to trust a mapping service over its own sensors saying "there's no road or path here".

That said, I absolutely do expect cases of "I wanted to visit a friend in the next state, fell asleep overnight, and woke up in a different town of the same name eight states away".
Exactly the same as my first thought.
Hasn't been an issue? As the Copyright Office itself reports[¹], millions of orphan works have been lost or are inaccessible, and the DRM exacerbates the issue by preventing archivers from legally making copies to ensure that these works will be available in the future.

Yes, you could argue that a work in the public domain with its DRM still attached provides an interesting historical perspective; it's a free country. Doesn't mean it's a good argument, though.

¹ http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/reports/orphan-works2015.pdf
You misunderstood me, I agree with you- I meant it is unfortunate that some (very rare, very odd) Bernie Sanders supporters may vote for Trump over Hillary, with their rationale being that Trump will be a disaster, and strong liberals will dominate the next election, while this is similar to how many Germans thought before Hitler's own rise to power.
The worst vanity metric I have ever seen
Do the Cubans have as much American food? (Otherwise, it might not be a fair comparison.)
I've been in that mode -- it can be fun, as long as you like the work and don't have other responsibilities (family, etc.)

As soon as it starts causing conflict with other areas of your life, it's a fast track to burnout or nervous breakdown.
For anyone who favors free trade as a standard reaction, but who gets an uneasy feeling, this interview had some pretty good arguments about why China is different. I can't say I've figured out what to think on the issue, but it's a good thought exercise if you have a commute to kill.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/03/david_autor_on_1.ht...

The host is quite libertarian, but he's also a challenging interviewer who has a knack for asking the right questions.
I was thinking more like 500 A.D. versus today.
They announced the same thing in August, with a target of "early 2016":

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=08282015a

So this isn't really new; they're just extending the deadline.
http://www.snopes.com/legal/postmark.asp

Tl;dr: myth.
Why SaaS and not the more ubiquitous "Cloud"?
I'm going to have to assume it's using some form of Node's clustering support, which will let you run up to X instances where X is the maximum number of supported instances for the number of cores you have. Otherwise, you're right, bad combination.
4/5 of autonomous cars don't want to carry around a pesky human but you don't hear them complaining
Social Security actually has some provision for disability. So we have a collective social system in place (I guess the payments aren't necessarily high enough to call it a solution).

I think people don't carry additional private policies mostly because they are spending most of their budget on other things and are somewhat short sighted.

https://www.ssa.gov/disability/
Was anybody surprised by this?
I guess this is the trick 99% of porn sites use to do "pop-unders" now.
Shouldn't the fix for this be in the browers?
Ah, got it. Thanks. Although if anyone has a good article on net metering, I'd like to read it.
What? Some people in 2016 said, that MySpace is their competition? Srsly?
Oh man this felt awfully familiar. I am so happy I left iOS consulting work and instead built in house apps so I don't have to deal with stupid customers and designer detached from reality.

In retrospect I think they should leave a bit more design decision to developers and let them throw up a minimum design first. A design which works well within the constraints and technologies of the platform. Then designer can come with input on how to change that.

It is astonishing how much faster you can build an app if you don't have to care about getting the UI pixel perfect according to some designers pipe dream of what it should look like.

Customers should know this, because I don't think they have any idea of how expensive it is to insist on very particular details of how the UI looks. If you give more freedom and choices in how the design should be to the developer you can get an app for a fraction of the price which is easier to maintain.
Within mobile devices, the iPad was mentioned specifically very often after it first came out. Now it’s mentioned rarely—probably not because people don’t build apps for iPads anymore, but instead because it’s simply so obvious that you will support iPads that people don’t even mention it.

I'm not so sure about this. Outside certain niches developers don't seem to have much interest in iPad apps these days. In three years of building iOS apps for clients I haven't had anyone ask me even once for an iPad version of their app.
Just want to say I found this extension today:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forbes-splash-scre...

It disables that annoying splash screen that asks you to turn off ad blocker.

You're welcome.
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Syntactic Tail Calls
Would organic processing actually be any faster? A human brain is capable of more than an Intel CPU in some ways due to its complexity, not due to its speed. And obviously the brain falls short of the CPU in many many ways.
> I suspect at some point automatic drivers will become so precise they will truly be able to scare the shit out of passengers safely.

You can pretty much get that already on closed test tracks, with self-driving cars that do 'speed runs'.

An example (though without passengers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3g7i64RAI
> ...issues as a result of their inquiries...

As I said in another post, the FBI is well aware of the stress induced - to the point that they have given it a name when turned to their advantage: "bumper lock". If any of that comes as a surprise to you, and you'd like to know more, look into the interview techniques that LEOs employ. I've got formal training in Wicklander (which is very popular with law enforcement), inducing stress is a big part of the process. So they can't really claim ignorance, and even if they could it would not be defense (again, eggshell skull).
To be clear, you're comparing this to the Bitcoin script used by this website?

OP_RETURN <hash of document>
I'm going to do nothing. Going to Canada isn't really beneficial to me. Starting over is pointless. But I do highly recommend starting a business. If Trump wins I can guarantee that he is changing laws in favor of his business practices. Follow his money and have a business copying his moves.
AI going from 0.3% to 1.8% is not a trend unless you adopt some Clintonesque redefinition of the term. Similarly for the other graphs. If such tiny percentage changes were actually trends, the stock market has millions of such trends every single day & any of the numerous trend trading systems would have minted millions of millionaires by now.
I am not so sure, it could be they are leaving because Musk is interfering too much in design and production that they cannot effectively do their jobs. Tesla has the highest warranty expenditure per car in the auto industry, even out pacing Mercedes. The X simply has too many tricks that its obviously not from any self respecting design committee but pushed by someone who doesn't listen. Same problems arose when they did their first car.
It's difficult to see it that way because being young or old is not really the criteria for the Saudi leaders. It's the opposite for this man, because the education is the biggest factor. The previous king hasn't even completed high school, and he was just... way too simple and knew nothing about politics. This guy got a bachelor's degree in politics and he's already received super positively in Saudi Arabia from both the religious and non-religious, especially because they have already seen a lot of positive changes done by him in the past few years.
Just to be unnecessarily argumentative, I think video games ARE helpful tools for a wide variety of reasons =)
*Will
A/B testing 101 with React.js and Meteor
>too many people have been conditioned to see driving as an expression of personal freedom

Conditioned by some of the very same companies that are going to take away the expression, but the citizens will blame the government for this "restriction of freedom," while those same companies keep making profit regardless.
>> but I think the lack of anything like 100% uptake is due to the lack of appropriate technology to easily create, maintain and utilise checklistbundles.

How would such technology in ideal form would be like ? and how do current practical implementations look like ?
Why not? Many languages and Operating Systems used to be single threaded. Many still functionally are for a lot of things.

Of course it's still challenging but it's built on top of the Linux kernel so it's also not a pure NodeOS (which would probably be impossible).
This is just a matter of precision. The fact that you can probably start adjusting in a meaningful and probably correct way while the ball is still going up is significant. Somehow that person's brain is doing a thing they may not have the symbolic knowledge to describe.
> Writing an "objective" ranking function (for any values of "objective") in an open, and distributed manner is structurally not favoured by humanity's current incentive structure.

Why not just take humanity out of that picture, then?

With the current AI/deep learning hype everywhere, why not start developing an AI-driven search system?

I think for it to produce the most relevant results, it will need access to your browser (or be a browser) or better yet, work at the OS level, so it can have a better idea of the current context you're working in, and learn from your habits and preferences. Say I'm coding and have an IDE and a bunch of dev-related websites already open, so the AI gives more weight to development-related results. If I've been playing a certain game a lot then it should assume that I'll be looking for stuff related to that game. And so on.

So, the index would be globally accessible to all computers, but the ranking will be unique to each individual user.

Something like this could very well be the actual beginning of a true A.I. "butler," more so than Siri and whatnot.
http://archive.is/loVuK#selection-389.255-409.27
You think so? It seems like the rate system is stacked against solar. They just made the top tier cheaper, and raised the bottom tier so that your very first joule costs more. If you had installed solar based on the savings of staying out of the top tiers, now your payoff looks less certain.
This is really fascinating. An quick eyeball glance suggests that Google Trends lags behind this data by 1-2 years (correlation isn't strong, but seems to be present).

http://imgur.com/a/shgmG

One could have used this data to long shares of public companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and short Ebay, Yahoo, and Myspace.

Crystal balls have many uses ;)
And likely illegal.
In the Army (90s), we called them "after-action reviews" (AARs), for the avoidance of highlighting morbid parallels.
Lists are pretty much hidden in the desktop version, along with Advanced Search. I assume these are too geeky for the target audience....
If you were to really anthropomorphize cars, I imagine that they'd consider humans as useful symbiotes that repair injuries and retrieve fuel from the deposits found here and there on the asphalt seas.
Thanks so much for sharing this and congratulations on your recovery.
Agreed. For me, the cost of taking an Uber 4 or 5 times a week is already lower than the cost of owning a car, all things considered.
I strongly disagree - it sometimes is inept individuals in the medical field who cause mishaps, I watched a young clearly inexperienced anesthesiologist attempt to perform a spinal on my wife during labor - he spent an entire hour attempting to insert the needle between the blades of my wife's spinal column before calling for help. Rather than admitting he had either:

a) never done the procedure or
b) was unskilled in its application

he attempted to perform it himself, and for reasons unknown thank god he didn't insert the needle into the spine incorrectly. The experienced anesthesiologist took a minute or so to do the same procedure.

So yes, even in the medical field there are inept individuals who think too highly of themselves to admit & seek help when they're clearly incapable of performing the task at hand. Unfortunately those weaknesses cannot always be detected (i.e. diagnosis, etc.) without second opinions - but hey, that's why there's malpractice insurance...

Plane crashes caused by pilots and doctors with medical malpractice incidents cannot be compared.
In the event an airline pilot causes a plane to crash - the pilot is committed to the outcome, he's in the plane.
There's no equivalent in the medical field - inject the wrong drug in a patient and its a learning experience with possible negative side effects for the patient.
What's ironic about my post? I never implied that I agreed with goldenkey.
It would be very interesting to see a split of these applications vs those that were accepted and those that are still around/exited successfully.
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> I can't imagine Linux and PostgreSQL being built without "science", they use a lot of it, and I'm pretty sure the authors all have read SICP and those theoretical books.

Unless you restrict "authors" to the people that worked on the original Postgres95 (and maybe not even then), I'm certain that that's not generally the case (being a postgres committer and not having read SICP).
> Charging crazy premiums

As such, I see no reason why insurance companies would have an agenda against human drivers. Insurance companies will charge rational premiums that make them competitive against other insurance companies. It may very well be that insurance premiums for human drivers go down because AI drivers improve road safety.
> Your are assuming rational decision making always leads to "correct" decisions.

I didn't say anything of the sort.

> The reality is that likely they are acting based on very different premises from your own, extracted from their own life experiences and those of their ancestors.

That is true. That doesn't imply however that their beliefs draw solid statistical conclusion from those experiences.

For example, take rituals like rainmaking that are intended to change the weather. These were performed over many years and generations, and yet (we presume) never brought about any actual statistical improvement over not performing them. Those people would have experienced that (lack of) improvement directly. And yet they continued to believe it.
and redux and react-router
For those that don't know, "Bumper Lock" is following someone without being secretive about it, meant to induce stress.

This isn't "bumper lock", she's never seen an FBI agent, no FBI agent has contacted her directly, no FBI agent has spoken with her or seen her, according to her own account.
Nope, not if it's not carefully dispersed. Brine is denser than saltwater. It tends to sink to the bottom, where there is little wave action or tidal flow, and remain there. It's believed that many marine organisms are negatively affected by the increased salinity, although the overall impacts are not well understood.
Twitter's t.co links seem to mitigate this by issuing a 301 to the actual link thus fixing the `window.opener.location` vulnerability.

I wonder if the reasons for implementing this are related or just good riddance :)
Wow the momentum of Slack is crazy. 850% increase closest to the next highest increase which is 211% (vehicles).
More than any other occupation, doctors spend a majority of their young adult lives learning about medicine and everything related to it. By removing them of their license to practice that, you've essentially stripped them of their life's purpose.
I think there's a lot of things I'd rather be doing on a commute than drive or do work. For on thing, with a self-driving car, I could do things that many people are already doing while driving, albeit unsafely. Things like eating breakfast, talking on the phone, and fiddling with the radio. Hell, if the commute was long, I might use the time to catch up on sleep.
They didn't support him. They basically made the statement that Hitler would mess things up badly enough for voters to turn away, and that they would get their chance then.

As it happens, they might have been close to getting it right, but they underestimated just how ruthless and exploitative Hitler would be. If it wasn't for the way the Reichstagsfire was exploited and followed up with using lies and coercion to line up the other parties save the social democrats (the communists that had not been arrested following the Reichtagsfire were prevented from taking their seats) to vote for the Enabling Act, the NSDAP would very possibly have slid back into obscurity - they never got close to a majority on their own, and their support in polls were showing signs of decline by the time the Enabling Act gave Hitler dictatorial powers.
For the vast majority of drivers, the 0-60 speed does make a super car. They aren't going to be racing top speed for hundreds of miles, or cornering like in an actual race. They are going to be racing from stop light to stop light faster than just about anyone other than the real super cars.
Funnily the regular Macbook is smaller and ligther than the Macbook Air. Don't quite understand that one.
Saw this a few times.

First we had pop-ups that opened on top of the current window

Then we had pop-unders that opened behind the current window

Now we have... what? pop-switches? that open your link target in a new window and change the source page to the "pop(-up)" behind your back.

Impressive idea, I opened both windows on purpose so they couldn't be blocked or else I wouldn't get to my content and one was transmogrified to an ad page behind my back.
Romanian hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, 'it was easy'
> founders still got paid a salary

Founders get paid a salary? That hasn't always been true in my experience.

> Founders took no more risk than the first employees.

If it's actually that easy you should go be a startup founder. After all, there's no risk, right?
Funny, for me the page actually mentions two applications. (But without any evidence that it would actually hold up in court, which tends to be the thing that matters in such cases)
Looks nice!

One question though: I didn't see any mention of an API (or other means of exporting data). Is there or will there be an open API?

I tend to never lock my data up any more, having been burnt too many times. Of course, this might not matter to most people.
> "But... if we happen to run into her on the street, we’re gonna be asking her some questions without you present."

This does not imply "a pleasant conversation of a few minutes on the street". This implies, given the past and present behavior of law enforcement at all levels of government, "ending up in an interrogation room for several hours during repeated questioning attempts, before being dumped on the street somewhere random after refusing to answer questions without a lawyer present".
> So UBI only makes sense where robots are doing all the work.

A mature UBI (one that can provide an out-of-poverty level benefit) requires more automation and productivity than we have now, but that's not "robots doing all the work".

> I don't think a lot of socialists see that

Most UBI supporters aren't socialists, and many (possibly most) socialists aren't UBI supporters.

> they seem to argue (like in the original article) that we should be able to move that way now.

We can certainly adopt a UBI now, and there are arguments for adopting a low-level UBI that increases with productivity (perhaps "automatically" by tying it to a dedicated tax, or share of an existing tax, that is naturally tied to output growth) as the way to get to a mature UBI.

> Fundamentally, 'value' (goods, services) is produced by someone and consumed by another.

Yes.

> UBI is trying to enable consuming without producing at some level.

Not really. It has the effect of allowing some people to consume greater value than is indicated by the payment they receive from others (not considering the government). In some cases this may be consuming without production, in others it may be people that you acknowledge are already producing more than they consume getting a correction.

And note that it replaces existing systems which already do this with various inefficiencies which it seeks to eliminate.
The Jane Jacobs Century
I agree. Snapchat doesn't have an iPad app. Instagram doesn't have an iPad app. It's far from obvious that apps will support iPad (other than in "enlarge the phone version" mode). As a heavy iPad user, I wish this weren't the case, but it sure seems to be.
> For our documentation we clearly saw customers jumping around content trying to find the part of the article that helps them.

Isn't that what anchor tags are for? You can share them in URLs...
I seem to remember reading that the powerwall is specced to use the batteries removed from Tesla cars once they've reached something like 70% of original capacity. Reuse is cheaper than recycling.
You're loading JQuery asynchronously on the password reset page, and this can cause a race condition where '$' is not defined before you start using it in this page's JS. You may want to check for this on your other pages.
Awesome! It's very encouraging to see your comments here, reminds me there are humans in the tech ;)

docs.microsoft.com looks like it will be a very nice upgrade.
Also notable: app likely to match for web, but not vice-versa.

If you build an app, you say you're building an app. If you're building a web site, you might say web app.

It'd be interesting to know if this was taken into account.
Certainly, and I meant no offense - there was an implied ;) at the end.

It's just something I see more and more, and I was feeling curmudgeonly for a moment.

Carry on, please ;)
How well would it work with, say, PostgreSQL? Would you need to use async wrappers like aiopg in your views?