skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used some very basic TXR for refactorings that were a bit beyond my IDE's capabilities, which gave me a taste of how powerful it could be. One thing that's slowed me down in experimenting with it is having to save the script, rerun TXR and refresh the output file each time I make a change. Do you have any tips for quickly and interactively building complex scripts?
Sure, and they probably will. But long before we have 100% autonomous cars every "manual" car will be semi-autonomous - you will be able to drive it, but it will detect and avoid most dangerous situations automatically(while not being advanced enough to actually drive without human input). It's already happening in some vehicles, where they brake automatically for anything on the road - it's just a matter of time before this technology comes to even the cheapest of cars. So it's not that obvious that rates for "manual" drivers will go up since their cars will be extremely difficult to crash. As for people driving "antics" - well, we will guess how the market reacts, it's really hard to predict.
This is a good set of distinctions.

I disagree with your refutation of 'luck' in point 1:

I agree that luck is an aggregate of 'all factors beyond your control', but I do not agree that conscious awareness is sufficient to place things into your control. Therefore, luck includes all factors beyond our control, whether we are aware of them or not. It's perfectly reasonable to group these together under a category. If your argument is that aggregate categories are invalid, then you must apply the same logic to 'success'.

More importantly, I agree with your second point, but I think it's harmful. Confidence based on self-deception is known as hubris, and leads to deceiving others and thus doing harm.

There is no need to deceive oneself in order to feel confident. That simply comes from an accurate sense of one's capabilities and the situation one finds oneself in.
Anyone complaining about how changing laws destroy businesses, remember that coca cola used to contain cocaine and 7up contained uppers (lithium citrate).

Entrepreneurship is about making it work within the regulations society think it needs.
Palantir is much closer to Accenture than Nielsen.

For the most part, Palantir is helping you analyze data you already have, not providing you with new data.
I currently use rail once, maybe twice a year. Being faster could possibly make impact on that. It's a 4 hour train ride to Chicago but it's a 2 hour drive to Detroit or Cincinnati.

In theory if the train was twice as fast, becoming the same 2 hour ride, I'd be more likely to visit Chicago more for one-day or even a single evening event.
I never said long commute times are only a problem in the suburbs.

If you're staying within the city proper and still have a "very long commute" (which to me is 1+ hours, I'm not sure what the means to you) it sounds like the city is still insufficiently dense.

In my experience, the vast majority of people with long commutes are commuting from suburbs/exurbs into a city center. I'm sure there are some cities that are so spread out that one could have a long commute while still staying within the city limits, but that would imply that there are people even further out with even longer commutes from the suburbs.
If it all already works so fine with wire transfer for you then why should you use bitcoin anyway?
> That is a strange argument.

If Bitcoin was closed source, I'd agree with you.

But it's not, and I don't. Bitcoin is 100% transparent and reviewable: the code, the transactions. The same cannot be said for any national or bank electronic monetary system.

As a technical person, I'd trust an open source system more than closed source system any day of the week.
Most of my 'succesful' peers seem to take the path of least resistance. I never feel fulfilled unless I'm doing things the hard way, to the point of self-sabotage.
My next graphics card for my Linux box will definitely be AMD. I want to support a company that has been as supportive of open source as they have. The strides made by the AMD open souce driver lately have been very impressive. nVidia comes nowhere close. Remember Linux famously giving nVidia the finger a year or two back?
My home town's claim to fame! Swindon used to be called roundabout city by some because we have so many.
> Ah yes! The sanctimonious blame game. So very common with this problem. I do have to ask though, did you read the article at all?

This breaks the HN guidelines in two ways: by calling names ('sanctimonious') and by playing the 'did you read the article' card. Please follow the guidelines, even when someone else is wrong and the topic is personally charged. It's hard, but those are also the times it matters most.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
NSA itself is a problem. Pitting citizens against citizens, needlessly spreading irrational fear, giving too much power to government.
As per this article, you are right. However, my observations were solely based on the TV show. I didn't have knowledge about the comic series, the role of Frank Miller in reviving it and influence of Catholicism in the character. Good to know this history.
Seriously, are you trying to tell us that with bitcoin rents wouldn't go up? Are you trying to tell us that rent hikes are not a symptom of gentrification but of evil inflation?
Maybe it's the fee. One of the three fee options, "the cost of one cab permit per drive", would put them out of business in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. It would be survivable in Austin, but it would set a very bad precedent.
Does anybody know why the paper states that influxdb is implemented in Java?
Rural and city are opposites. A city is a large urbanized area.

Villages and small towns are installing roundabouts though.
No new information here. When the database is posted on Monday, there may be some interesting news.
It isn't hard, and for most cars the isolation should be in place: The [CAN] Bus for the modem (and that for OBD2) is not the same one as the one that is used for stuff like brakes. They are interconnected through some Gateway device which filters signals, so that you can't manipulate all vehicle state from all positions within the vehicle. Of course it's only some amount of protection (if you are able to compromise the gateway software), but far better than nothing.

However some car manufacturers don't have separated networks (due to cost reasons).
> For trust you can walk right in and speak to the manager. Some of them are older than dirt.

Bitcoin eliminates the need to trust some 3rd party human beings with your money.

BTW what does being "older than dirt" have to do with being worthy of trust?
Personal attacks and snarky dismissals are not welcome on Hacker News. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do this. Instead, please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

Your comment downthread ('You are delusional') was even worse.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653769 and marked it off-topic.
The problem with this reasoning is that the consequence of misjudging the situation is so much worse that a situation where you wrongly decided to use the brakes. The speed if something goes wrong is much higher, so the injuries will be much worse. For that reason it is almost always a bad judgement to accelerate out of a bad situation.
This article is bullshit sensationalism. The article seems amazed that an unquantified number of people, in vast agencies (e.g., "the US military") have CP.
Which tense do you want to live in ?
— I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle— in
the “what ought to be.”
I feel like breathing that way. That’s what I like. There exists such a
thing as mounted, bandit-band, equestrian honor. That’s why I like the
fine Latin “gerundive”—that verb on horseback.
Yes, the Latin genius, when it was young and greedy, created that form
of imperative verbal traction as the prototype of our whole culture, and it
was not the only thing that “ought to be” but the thing that “ought to be
praised”—laudaturaest—the thing we like. . . .
..The Prose Of Osip Mandelstam
Building good rail transit infrastructure takes a pretty long time, and it's very expensive. You can also have good bus service, but having it competitive with driving usually requires bus-only lanes, and that's a difficult proposition in America. If you look at Seattle, for example, people there are desperate for new transit, and they want it done as soon as possible, but the timelines for the upcoming ST3 package have most of it taking upwards of a couple decades to complete.

For most Americans, getting around means driving, and other modes are seen as either impractical (walking), a toy (biking), or just for the poor (transit). It's a relatively difficult culture in which to improve alternative modes of transport.
Elon Musk is doing for executive compensation what he did for electric cars
The contact form submission limit is purely a soft limit for now and you'll know long before messages stop being delivered [1]. (To be honest, we might get rid of those limits completely since it doesn't seem to be a driver of upgrades compared other other features, and just introduces friction.)

[1] https://help.helpsite.io/articles/21-what-happens-if-i-hit-m...

Compared to Help Scout, we have a generous free plan, our paid plans are much cheaper ($15/mo compared to $100/mo for 5 users), and we focus exclusively on docs rather than having it be an add-on. We also have nice little features such as the auto-suggesting Contact Form, that I don't think they do.
Self-driving taxis are a fantasy
Which is why you dislike competition.
> All this having been said would I consider buying and holding some bitcoin as very LIQUID asset, and cash equivalent.

But how liquid Bitcoin really is?

Suppose you have 1 BTC on your phone. Can you instantly turn it into cash (and vice-versa)? Does that depend on a single Bitcoin exchange, which can stop working suddenly leaving you stranded? Does it have to go through your bank account or your credit card account?

This is probably not an issue if you live in a place with a high enough amount of Bitcoin users, since many of them could be willing to exchange Bitcoins and cash with you. But otherwise, it's a relevant question to ask.
Only 12? Maybe at off-peak hours. In my city at peak hours, an articulated bus can have as many as ~70 people in it. At an average private vehicle occupancy of 1.67 [2] that's over 40 cars less on the road.

People also need to realize that before bitching about cyclists. Would you really rather have one more car contributing to the traffic jam you're stuck in?

[1] https://www.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Projects/New_Vehicles/Artic...
[2]http://nhts.ornl.gov/2009/pub/stt.pdf
It's not that you need to trust the implementation, it's that you need to trust that the currency will remain useful and usable over time. If nobody believes that they can purchase things using bitcoins tomorrow, nobody will buy them today. There's just as much (if not more) blind trust required in bitcoin, because at least fiat currency is backed by a government. Bitcoin isn't.
Maybe one day, but our current target market is people who just want a very easy to use tool to get a job done well. So far we just haven't heard much demand for self-hosting.
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if you want security, you have no business running Linux-anything, not now, not ever: the choices are either OpenBSD or SmartOS, and rejoice that we do have alternatives.

That's a very bold assertion and you haven't even tried to back it up. Who do you think is going to read that and say “some random Internet commenter is right and Google/Facebook/the NSA/etc. must all be incompetent”? You really need to back that claim up and do so comprehensively across the entire security landscape from basic design to operational concerns like patch management.

(As an example: I've never logged into a Solaris / Illumos machine which was current on security updates because the admins didn't have the confidence which Debian admins have had since the 90s that updates won't break things. I'm open to the argument that they're all paranoid or incompetent but that's probably the most important real world security task and it at least merits discussion)
Putting aside the rather fatuous examples, how many members of Austin's society do you think would rather have Uber than not have it?
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I spent five years fruitlessly trying to improve the current banking system (actually, the current money transfer system) so I am more intimately aware of its shortcomings than most people. Considering how many things are wrong with it, it's astonishing to me that it works at all. And yet, most of the time, it does.

There are two things that make the current banking system robust: first, because anonymity is limited, most of the actors in the system are honest. Trying to pull a fast one is risky, and that prevents most people from trying. And second, there are humans in the loop that you can appeal to when things go wrong. Most of the time this keeps the system humming along despite the fact that under the hood it's all held together with spit and baling wire.

Bitcoin is the exact opposite. Because it provides greater anonymity than the traditional banking system, it attracts dishonest actors. For example, bitcoin has made ransomware more economically viable than it was before. And second, if something goes wrong with a bitcoin transaction, you are totally hosed. Your bitcoin payment is only as safe as your ability to reliably bind a bitcoin address to an intended recipient. If you get it wrong, there's no recourse. If you accidentally send some bitcoin to the wrong address, you are hosed. If you lose your private key, you are hosed. Period, end of story.

If I have to choose between bitcoin and traditional banking I'll take the latter simply because it's generally more robust and forgiving of everyday human foibles. But I'll continue to wish for (and work towards) a system that gives us the best of both worlds.
Did the streetcar line serve city hall, and did it run reasonably often at the time the meeting was set to end?

Depending on the answers, there are two totally different lessons to be drawn there!
DC-BAL-PHL-NYC-BOS is already a heavily trafficked rail and air route. If high speed rail showed up competitively priced with airfare and without the hassle of getting to/from the airport and going through security it would be used a lot.

Some plans have quoted a time from BAL-DC of about 15-20 minutes. That would make it an extremely popular commuting option for people working in DC, but wanting the cheap housing in Baltimore, which would also help Baltimore (although at the cost of probably making it not-so-cheap anymore).

Replacing short-hop flights would also be great for the environment, since most of the fuel is burned getting up to altitude and then back down again.
Since there are infinite things about which we are wrong and only a finite number of things we are right about learning one more thing does not make us any less wrong. Take that Asimov.
Entrepreneurship is also about taking on the entrenched incumbents. Usually the incumbents have more political connections they can wield to pass anti-competitive measures that protect their turf.
The owners of this site spammed hundreds and hundreds of designers and added them to a JIRA project without consent. A stunning degree of email abuse. Please do not support this website or campaign.
If your up for it, try climbing. Competition is almost entirely with yourself and its typically quite easy to climb with a friend across multiple grades of difficulty. It also heavily involves problem solving, strategic thinking, and risk management that is not found in most other sports.
Bad example. Society didn't decide uber is bad for Austin. The council did. I fear the day London black cabs try again to take uber out after they failed before. They fear uber because they actually provide a good service, better than they can at a much better price. Lobbies and unions go a long way unfortunately.
Why is it free?
Tim Harford – Article – Could an income for all provide the ultimate safety net?
Furthermore, the argument is that autonomous--under whatever conditions and in whatever environments they can operate in that mode--vehicles will be safer. Not that they will make driving cars manually less safe. (And if they do, such systems shouldn't be allowed on the road.)

In that case, cars with various types of safety systems, including autopilots may have reduced rates. But I'm not sure what would make market insurance rates for manually driven vehicles higher than they are today just because cars with better safety systems are on the road (for which they'll presumably get insurance discounts).
For anyone with enough formal mathematics background to follow the argument, Lyle Ramshaw’s monograph, On multiplying points: the paired algebras of forms and sites, supplies the clearest formalism for understanding and working with Bézier curves and various CAGD surface primitives. http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/SRC-RR-169.html (Note: ~150 page math book, takes some work to follow.)

Also check out the pomax bezier curve primer, which is filled with interactive diagrams and nice explanations of algorithms for doing anything you might like with Bézier curves, http://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/ (previous discussions, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11402656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8804691)
Modern PLCs can be programmed over ethernet. Some such as Allen Bradley Control Logix have a physical key switch on the front which allows the PLC to be put in run/program/remote mode so it could be locked to run mode which would prevent remote changing of the mode and not allow the program to be modified.

I've never worked with Siemens PLCs apart from a demo from the distributor and the schneider PLCs I work with don't have the physical run/program switch.
The Trump case scenario
Thanks for the tip, I didn't know about alt-<b>.

I should try using emacs for a month, if only for the sake of getting to know readline better.
Mixing locales confuses a lot of poorly implemented programs. My situation is notably simpler: OS in French, keyboard set to qwerty. The number of games where keyboard layout assumes azerty consequently breaking WASD is frustratingly high.

In honesty, I think these edge cases are sufficiently rare as to get little priority in testing.
You can order it online no problem in the U.S. I'm not gonna source anything for you b/c I don't want to seem like a shill or anything, but this type of info is easily acquired on r/nootropics - just use your common sense and ignore all the BS medical advice on that subreddit, lol.
I hate to break it to you but people, they tend to die. Trying too hard to avoid that simple fact is silly.
> We use a National Instruments DAQ card, and need the PC to respond within 50 ms to issue new commands for hours or days. Remarkably, it usually (over hundreds of machines and decades of operation) does. When it doesn't, it's blamed on antivirus or firewall or technicians using the PC for other things while the software runs.

It works as long as full code path and data it requires is not paged out. Or some other thread doesn't consume I/O resources, etc.

In other words, it's not guaranteed at all.

Only way to get Windows to react reliably within 50 ms is in a kernel driver, as response to an IRQ. There's considerable jitter even in IRQ, but usually worst case service times are 200-500 microseconds. Depends a lot on other devices and on your IRQ priority. It's worse for passive level drivers (IRQL == 0).

50 ms guaranteed response time requires the code and data is in non-paged pool.
This. Rail is great for roughly linear population distributions (like Japan or California coast), but understand the USA had a huge 2D spread - laying out a vast rail grid is a lot harder than roughly a line. Each terminal had the same problem, as travelers are moving to/from in all directions. My own case: 2 miles to the nearest bus, then 20 miles to the subway, then 15 miles to what would be the high speed long range rail terminal - then a similar reverse sequence to reach the destination, at which point I'd have minimal luggage and no personal transport. Way easier to just throw everyone & everything into the family SUV and drive, taking a similar travel time with what I want and have a vehicle when we arrive.
I think Birmingham may have Hertfordshire beat, particularly with the infamous spaghetti junction...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6662562/Birminghams...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravelly_Hill_Interchange
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West Palm beach, fl had large round abouts installed about 10y ago and I thought that was great, except with little traffic at the time it seemed wasteful in time navigating and more importantly in space. I think the idea is great though, it's safe and usually gives everyone a fair shot to get moving without much delay.. I'd be interested in knowing how the diameter of the round about is decided on, specifically is it some algorithm based on predicted traffic congestion numbers.
Congratulations on your blatant racism. You go to southside, and you object that the person that is working in that neighborhood fits "the stereotype".
Hardcover, I assume
Why America Can't Quit the Drug War
People love to hate public transit, and will click on any headline that promises to fuel their sentiment.

In particular, people who commute using single-occupancy vehicles are happy to read anything which externalizes and validates their views about the viability of transit.
Thus, the point is not to be right or wrong, but to improve?
> As a technical person, I'd trust an open source system more than closed source system any day of the week.

You just said it: you trust. You trust Bitcoin because you can (and perhaps already have) review the code, the theory, the blockchain. But it's still trust, and you probably value Bitcoin only because of that trust.
The GP link is specific to Colorado.
While I appreciate the time it must have taken to write this article, the credibility of an article that recommends services and provides affiliate links in the recommendations is severely degraded in my opinion.
What's the podcast? Friends and I have considered starting a podcast and are always interested to listen to successful new podcasts, as well as get any tips you might be willing to share on growing an audience.
Roundabouts can be intimidating a first but I love them now.

I had just landed in Edinburgh after a 12 hour flight with an 8 hour delay and picked up my rental car which has the steering wheel on the wrong site AND it was standard shift, which I hadn't driven in 10+ years. I managed to pull out of the lot without hitting anything but nearly broke into tears when I hit the roundabout that was 3 lanes deep and a figure 8 to get on the A8. If my wife hadn't been there I probably would have just gone home.

Looking back, the scariest part of this seems to be that I had to go through 2 other roundabouts to get to that figure 8 monster and I don't remember either of those.
Instead, Dropbox chose to cancel the commute support, to push employees to live in SF and spend more on rent

Inreresting that management decided to buy giant chrome idol and museum display before cutting back on employee transport and food.
>Can't be that hard..... oh, but it is.

No more so than securing any other piece of tech connected to the internet & the same principles apply. Split it into zones like you would a corporate network & stick firewalls in between to separate the fluffy online stuff from the core systems. That is ultimately where this is going - a mini network of devices on wheels.

And if something is really too hot to connect at all then you can always isolate that system completely.

Obviously its not going to be 100% fool proof but then again nothing is.
Is there a government out there that doesn't operate like this?