skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't seem much like a shortener honestly - the domain is short, sure, but the urls it generates are quite long-ish [1]. A better way, in my opinion, would be to just use a single word, with up to ~3 retries before it adds another one to it. Is it open source? It would be quite neat to deploy on one of my domains ;)

[1] https://getrektby.us gets 'shortened' to http://trim.kim/ApologyPossibilityOccasionally
The last time I went to a Tesla store, they told me Superchargers aren't supposed to be used in cities, they're supposed to be used mainly for road trips. Putting them between major cities allows them to be free to be used for road trips without making them convenient enough for most people to use them as their usual charging station.
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I recommend this lecture "Designing IT to make Healthcare safer" by Professor Harold Thimbleby as being of interest to people on here. There's a video and a transcript.

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/designing-it-to...
Offering Pinboard $20k but NOT a YCF slot seems like the most unambiguously correct thing to do. Sadly, I do not have $20k to give.

(and then the correct thing for him to do is either politely turn it down, or donate it to a charity or something of mutual agreeableness)
But on the other hand electric cars can be charged at home …

Depending on how many people have a place with a power outlet (ok, a garage) in close proximity to their car and depending on how many people frequently drive less than their range per day (and less than their maybe underpowered power outlet can charge in one night) that might save on quite some public outlets. But I don’t know the numbers.

I know many people where this would apply, though. And those outlets are included in this number, anyway. Which kinda supports my assumption: I think you might be able to get away with actually many fewer public power outlets than gas stations.
Social bookmarking site just means aggregator with a comments section.
This is back from April. Why is it on the front page now?
This is a misdirection. Nobody is arguing for switching to Chromium as primary browser. One can use it as app framework for Signal.
The semantic difference lies in whether one has doubts or qualifications on ones opinions, at the very least. Equating "I disagree" with "is wrong" presupposes that you are not mistaken and cannot possibly be mistaken, therefore if you disagree with something the problem must be with the something, not with your opinion.

Along similar lines, consider the difference between "I don't want to do X" (or even "I won't do X") and "I don't think anyone should do X".

Or the difference between "I don't think anyone should do X" and "X should be illegal".

From my point of view, all three situations are analogous and the difference in each case is not just a matter of tone.
I have to agree.

My wife stopped working because she want's to be a full time mother (which is hard work by the way).

I also try to work at home as much as possible because kids grow up so fast it's easy to miss the first baby steps.

Yes we have less money to save and have to skip some things once in a while but it's worth it.
Is it only me or does the UI look an awful lot like WhatsApp Web ?
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> "People use them, maybe even more than public ones"

I drive a Chevy Volt, which spends about 23 hours per day plugged in to the charger in my driveway. That private spot gets used a lot, but it only services one vehicle. Even a public charging station generally only serves the needs of a couple dozen vehicles per day. Whereas a gas station generally services hundreds, or even thousands, of vehicles. So a spot-to-station comparison isn't really very useful. The more relevant question is "how many vehicles does this infrastructure support, in what usage patterns?"

The answer to that question is, still a lot fewer electric vehicles than gasoline vehicles are supported by the current infrastructure (even in Japan), and the usage patterns are more limited.

We're clearly in a transitional period where electric vehicles are becoming viable, but there are limitations. As I said in a recent thread, "If I purchase a vehicle, I'm likely to want it to work for every trip I want to take ... If a car sucks for even one of those trips [to distant states, the airport at ~45 miles round-trip, or a long day of errands], I'm going to be hesitant to buy it". As electric ranges get longer and public charging stations get faster and more dense, electric vehicles will become more viable for more people, but right now they're still not on par with gasoline vehicles for the population as a whole (not even in a smaller country like Japan.) The progress is exciting, but sometimes it's presented in misleading ways that make it sound a lot closer to "always viable" than it really is.
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You're right to single out that sentence, or rather that word "all" in "All the interviewing and evaluating will be done in regular HN threads". We didn't stick to that, and I'm sorry. That's precisely what we changed, and yes we changed it at the last minute.

I didn't think of this experiment as having fixed rules, but rather as something we'd figure out as we went along. I tried to make that clear up front: "Note that word experiment! We'll start small and figure it out as we go. But here are the initial conditions." I can see why that wasn't enough.

It occurs to me only now that "figure it out as we go" and "changing the rules" are the same thing. So yes. We changed the rules, and I'm sorry.
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For those of you who haven't seen "The Devil Wears Prada", here's Miranda giving orders to her assistant:

I need 10 or 15 skirts from Calvin Klein.

-What kind of skirts do you… -Please bore someone else with your questions.

And make sure we have Pier 59 at 8:00 a.m. Tomorrow.

Remind Jocelyn I need to see a few of those satchels that Marc is doing in the pony.

And then tell Simone I'll take Jackie if Maggie isn't available.

-Did Demarchelier confirm? -D-Did D-Demarchel…

Demarchelier. Did he… Get him on the phone.

Uh, o… okay.

-And, Emily? -Yes?

That's all.
Another anecdote... My step sister went in to have a growth removed from her arm. Was just supposed to be a simple outpatient procedure. They put a cuff on her arm and injected lidocaine. Their first mistake was loosening up the cuff which shot lidocaine into her heart and stopped it. The second mistake was that no one noticed for 5 minutes. She was literally sitting there dead for 5 minutes. They somehow revived her but the had brain damage. She acts like a completely different person now. She got diagnosed as bipolar afterwards and the hospital claimed that she just always was like that. They offered a small amount that they ended up having to take it after a whole horrible legal process. It was like maybe 50k for completely disabling her. She has 4 kids, one disabled, and is too incompetent to take care of them. She lost them all. She now is off and on homeless after she started breaking all the windows in the house and lost her fiance because he couldn't take it anymore. She hordes trash and thinks she's going to be a famous singer. If I remember right, the anesthesiologist got in trouble for previously watching porn on his phone during procedures.
I'm not arguing this is falsifiable, or an experiment - I'm arguing that it could be statistically interfered.

"Statistically valid" != Correct (if your input assumptions are incorrect).

See up thread for ways to build falsifiable experiments.
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There aren't settings, only observable conditions. The drivers are non-linearly correlated. My suggestion there is that even if you managed to return the size of the human population to pre-industrial levels in roughly the same geographic distribution as the 18th century (good luck with the eugenics programs on that) you'd still not get the results of that time frame, and you'd probably have to live with pre-industrial technology (no lithium ion batteries that destroy various foreign countrysides, and no cheap power apart from maybe localized hydro-electric). I believe if more people understood that trying to control climate change by political means is a sure-fire way to yield political control, or gain it, they masses might stop preferring any of it and would let cities on alluvial planes (such as Venice and New Orleans and Galveston) sink locally rather than try and convince India and China to undergo environmental austerity measures.
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Quick calculation:

1000L tank on a roof which is ~4m high.

E = m * g * h = 1000 * 9.8 * 4 = ~40,000J

Which is about 12Wh not taking into account any losses.

You could maybe improve this by having the water fall into a well but still nowhere near what a battery can provide for a fraction of the cost/complexity.

A standard 100Ah battery will provide 1200Wh.
The actual data worth looking will the percentage of electric vehicles to ones that run on conventional fuel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_J...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country#Ja...
I disagree. Offering him $20k would simply be rewarding him for being obnoxious. I refuse to accept that he honestly believed that YC was running a $20k contest to see who could solicit the most votes via twitter, but that's exactly what he's pretending that this was.
NoScript does more than block JavaScript, but if that's all you're interested in, uBlock Origin can block inline and external scripts on a global or site-specific basis.

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>don't get paid very well for the debt that they incur.

Risk adjusted returns on that financial investment into their education and training is one of the best, if not best career routes available given the very low volatility of the profession compared to industries like finance (up or out, layoffs), tech (cyclical layoffs), or law (contracting industry).

That being said, the physical and emotional toll of that training is something I would not wish upon anyone.
Hence, 'fallen giant'.
I think they mentioned there isn't any support from the government involved.
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They mentioned there aren't subsidies involved. It looks like they're trying to beat the curve.
It sounds like they still have to partner with the different services to create custom integrations with their APIs so they can interact only with these preprogrammed services.
But the real impressive AI thing would be if it could figure how to do the order of a service on its own: mimicking how humans do it by using forms on the webpages or writing e-mails or making phone calls for reservations. That would make the interaction look like just a regular order from the service providers perspective, so there would be no need to create partnership for the API integrations with each service provider.
And how would one know they're not going to be arrested if they meet with the FBI? You'll end up in a lot of trouble if you trust every word the government says, especially when it's something as secretive as this. And of course there's no proof that she wasn't a suspect in some investigation, etc. The only thing we know is that the FBI is no longer as interested in meeting with her (which means very little on its own).
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I wonder how much of this is because they are simply new to the field. Front-end stuff is more immediate, and immediacy is appealing. Back-end stuff has you spending less time worrying about compatibility headaches and all the non-problem-solving rabbit trails, but if you haven't spent a lot of time programming, you might not realize this and just assume that the level of headaches doesn't vary much.
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No where does it say illegal immigrants are a $1000+ per household burden. And none of the studies are even remotely in line with your original source. The CBO report shows that in most studies illegal immigrants pay more in taxes than what they receive in benefits. Other studies show that to be slightly less with some variance. However many of those studies make arbitrary assumptions on tax compliance and may not account for related economic activity.

Your wanton misrepresentation of facts makes for a very poor case against your prejudice and for your claim of benevolence towards immigrants.
I voted for Pinboard during "Apply HN", then went about my business. I don't refresh the HN homepage every 5 minutes (well, not every day...) so there was a big chance I would miss the second poll if it hadn't been for the Pinboard twitter feed. In fact, at this point there is a nagging suspicion that someone hoped less people would notice the second poll and results could "normalise"... The "voting ring" smear is just clutching at straws, really.
Quit and do things you like instead. You can always build new contacts, skills, and connections. Once you burn out you are just dragging along, it's painful and it's pointless.

I've been in three completely different fields for 3, 6, and 10 years respectively. Once you find something you like, it's very easy to dig in and build a new network and learn. Don't be afraid, be excited. The worst is when you are doing something you feel dread for or don't want to get out of bed in the morning for. Happy to talk/answer any questions.
Sorry, why do you feel there is less of that in Common Lisp?
Surely the REPLs offer equal facilities...
Our brain, presumably, uses much simpler, primitive thresholds, like dynamic weights in a weighted sum.

As one might deduce from the facts of brain's physiology and development, especially prooning of neurons in the processe of maturation, the key is "a trained structure" to which a weighted graph is, perhaps, the most adequate model, which is shaped by highly specialized centers in the process of continuous training. At least all pattern recognition, including language and vision, presumably implemented this way.

The principle is of combination by trial and error of simplest, smallest, stable, reusable building blocks - specialized cells.

Three is no general purpose computer in a brain. It is a network of structured layers of microcontrollers.)
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This is a very interesting article, but the best frame work depends on the situation such as time, use, experience. Anyone who reads this article, I hope they don't immediately think that I have to use Angular.js because this article ranks it the best or it's by Google.
A mere 6 hours of sleep is a little amount.
I'll get my pilot license as soon as I'll be able to afford it (and plane maintenance costs).
(Comment from a bystander). You probably want aiopg in order to maintain the async characteristics and use the "friendly" asyncio syntax.

There is also peewee-async (http://peewee-async.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) if you want an ORM using asyncio. (I've been meaning to try this myself, but haven't had an opportunity).
If your standard is that humans will apply Bayes' theorem correctly, completely intuitively, as more evidence becomes available, I think it will be very easy to falsify that.

Yes. And there is increasing evidence that this is correct. See[1]. If you can find a copy, I think [2] will address many of your concerns about seemingly irrational behavior being supported by statistical reasoning.

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

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19477333
Because if it's end to end encrypted each device would either need the same private key to decode the messages or each message is encrypted with each devices public key.

This would require some kind of key exchange i.e. scanning bar codes.
> My physics prof believes that going to school for computer science is like going to school to learn all how a shovel works, while other majors (like physics) just learn how to use the shovel in order to accomplish their goals.

And this is how labs end up with terrible code that doesn't follow any best practices and is completely unmaintainable.

If scientists weren't so arrogant, they might realize that if we're spending years studying something it might be a bit more complex than a shovel.
The problem is daily commute. Why people are still moving from one computer to another in 21st century?
My mistake. My knowledge on tornado is dated.
OTR does not support offline messages which makes it utterly useless in the modern, mobile world. OMEMO is what it's at.
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You are in luck — there are some startups on track to deliver that in a few years. Still have to get the pilot license, though.
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FWIW, that wasn't the issue in this case. We knew about that possibility and planned for it and even called it by that name. But Kevin and I decided not to treat Maciej's application as a troll. The earnest comments he posted were what convinced us of that, and I don't think we were wrong there.

I admit to being flummoxed by the combination of trollish and serious elements--it basically does a denial of service on my brain; if it were stage hypnosis I'd be squawking like a chicken. But I'm starting to think one could have taken all the jokes out of this and much the same thing would still have happened. If that's so, then the troll aspect is a red herring.
"Well"? Since when prohibitive prices are a good thing?
Well, it's mathematically provable, so...Just need a judge who permits logic in court. Good luck with that.
If your argument is that the human mind functions primarily in terms of valid statistical inferences, it doesn't support your case if it processes its input in ways that are inherently flawed and biased.
Damn, now I feel like an idiot :P
Holy crap. You need to go to different bars!
Funny how this comment, which seems perfectly reasonable to me, was downvoted twice. No explanations of course.
Medicine and road transport are two areas where I hope AI can save us from ourselves because both produce a huge public benefit but they are both hopelessly prone to errors with deadly consequences.
at this point there is a nagging suspicion that someone hoped less people would notice the second poll and results could "normalise"

I exchanged a few emails with Dan, and based on those I can say that this is definitely not what happened. Rather to the contrary, he was concerned that having a poll among "leading candidates" would make it too easy to game.
Of course he was interested, trolls are always interested in getting a response.
There are many roads you can still ride a horse on. Will that be true with self driving cars on the road?
I voted for Maciej because I admire what he's doing and I'd like to think that I "get" him (though I don't know him personally). I cut my teeth in this industry working at a startup that's still bootstrapped and profitable, and I share his vision of building an internet to "CONNECT KNOWLEDGE, PEOPLE, AND CATS" [1], instead of whatever insane internet people are dreaming of these days. Yes, it's a bit of a political thing, and while it might be a protest against the current industry culture (can you honestly blame us?), I don't think it's just a joke either. I think Maciej has a great intuitive sense of how people, technology, and culture interact, and he's good at expressing that; his ventures are certainly worth spending the equivalent of a single employee's recruitment fee.

Is the true YC? For all the talk about funding radical new ideas in their normal batches, they fund a lot of companies that look and act alike. So, when YC backs out of its own experiment because it turns out unexpected, it's not really disappointing; it's just a reminder of how seemingly conformist its attitudes are.

[1] http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
That's a fine use of vouching, but we detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633621 and marked it off-topic.
I admit to being flummoxed by the combination of trollish and serious elements--it basically does a denial of service on my brain

For very good reason: Trolls often pretend to be serious, but serious people pretending to be trolls is incredibly rare.
of note: Japan has about 80 million total vehicles (via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle#Japan ) -- so while the number of pure electric vehicles is rising, it's still a small percentage overall.
The system should be designed such that a flood of users doesn't degrade the community's usefulness. It should be obvious that it's difficult to obtain mass adoption if quality and readership are inversely correlated.
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Personal opinion, but I would rather be given a way to explicitly define(or in that case "undefined") the lifetime, rather than having the compiler trying to be smart. I.e

let slice = ...

capitalize(slice);

"unlet" slice // <- explicitly make it go out of scope
I guess I just consider the hypervisor.framework to be not at all exciting. How long has virtualization been out now? When is container.framework coming? I'd also accept jail.framework.

Of all the cool things to do with virtualization or code isolation, they haven't encouraged (or really even enabled) any of it except via the app store sandbox, which isn't even very useful outside of security concerns. 10 years ago I was emulating distributed software on freebsd, including network delays; it's still a damn hassle to do the same setup on darwin.
I figured that the Russians knew about her private email address almost immediately, and probed the server directly.

I mean, she was going to be SecState - any Russian spy tasked with watching her who didn't try it, should be fired :)
As opposed to a $20k contest to see who could solicit the most votes via word-of-mouth in the Bay Area? Because that would have been totally fine, of course.

> rewarding him for being obnoxious.

What about rewarding honest HN community members who voted for him in good faith? Ignoring their wishes is a big slap in the face; we've been reminded that we're all just plebes and real power will always lie with Big (White) Men and their gut feelings.
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