skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Tesla's response to this is actually what the article says, then that's somewhat worrying. It's never a good idea to blame the user for a failing of the product like this, especially on something like a car, beta version or not. If the car can't reliably not collide with obstacles in Summon mode, then the mode shouldn't be available to the public yet.

This also points out a failing with Tesla's "we don't need LIDAR" strategy for sensors. Ultrasonic/IR sensors around the body might be reasonable for most driving situations, but clearly there are going to be incidents like this one if the car can't see at the full height of the body at close distance.
How Suncor Has Become the King of Canadian Oil Sands
While the post is good, the submission title is a quote taken out of the context to optimize for clicks (at the time of writing: John Gruber: “JavaScript has brought the web to the brink of ruin”).

The real title is: "The New York Times on Apple's Dominant Position in Podcasting". As per HN guidelines, the original title should be left whenever possible.

Regarding the post itself, how are they going to utilize the data? Everyone is talking about big data, analyzing data and all but how would it be applicable for podcasts, where the content can't be personalized as it can be for websites and apps?
Love the changes. Love the technology. Hate the process, and that's the focus of my remarks.
I'm all for minimum wage increases, but they should generally be tied to cost of living and inflation.

And yes, it should be far more fragmented than state-wide. There should be a premium for urban areas.
That's why paying for mail, calendar and contacts hosting is worth it in the long run.
I still don't get his point. Can someone reiterate what he's trying to say?
Recruiters remove your contact information from resumes they pass along to prevent companies from contacting you directly.

I didn't mean that I trust the recruiter, I meant a common (and incorrect) assumption, especially among developers, is that they can negotiate a small salary increase because they don't come with a $20k+ price tag for a recruiter. This is not accurate for any company who can afford to have you on for more than six months.
It simply boils down to what you're most proficient with. Depending on the problem, you're likely to encounter some technologies are better suited than others. That to me is where you'll get the most bang for the buck, being able to decide on the right tool for the problem.
The underlying JS engine is, iirc Node based... you can definitely use/utilize C/C++ modules/packages there... and very little is stopping someone from doing that. There are also child processes (and iirc, web-workers). While a Process !== a thread, on some OSes they are more similar or less in terms of creation cost. RPC/Communication channels are another issue combined with message serialization/deserialization which is the biggest cost to overcome with this type of model.
Seems to me you don't actually remember what the web framework landscape was like in 2004.
Just because existing walled gardens are not ideal does not mean they could not be made to be wonderful. The largest complaint against them is that you lose some freedom of choice. A really nice ecosystem wouldn't leave you missing out on anything. It can be done, it's just that no company has yet done it the right way.
Network effects make github more valuable, to an open source organization, than self hosting or hosting on another provider. Almost everyone has a github account and asking users to sign up for another account is a significant barrier to contribute.
A major difference is that, in Java, the only way to make a class implement another interface is by changing its source.

In Swift, on the other hand, one can make a class conform to a protocol, even if one does not have access to its source code (https://www.andrewcbancroft.com/2014/12/02/send-a-type-to-ob...)
Was that before or after android overtook iOS though? I'm not that bothered about 1 persons opinion on the licence used.
First, thanks for taking the time to answer my question, I'm at my day job (I program at night) so I can't do much research

>correct a lot of core issues that come up long term with Rails.

I've never gotten to this point, what are some of these issues? From reading comments here, it seems like dependency hell could be one, but what do you think? I've had issues in my short time with outdated gems, but I don't know if this is necessarily an issue with the framework/language.
You could use C++, Ada, or Rust if you use the right pragmas. I don't use Go but I'd be surprised if it can't export C ABI compatible functions somehow.
Agreed, we do this as well at some scale. The vast majority of application configuration falls into this category. The advantage of storing them in a git repo (we use a different git repo to the main codebase) is that you can re-use the same access control mechanisms (note that is not the same as giving the same people access to the different repos) and you get strong change history.
I use 'cal' on a daily basis. I don't find any other calendar programs to be as convenient and simple to use.
A thoughtful point-by-point response to the underlying medical journal publication:

"Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U.S.?"

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-real...

Simply put, the headline of the article kindly submitted here surely exaggerates the actual problem. What's undoubtedly a problem is that we don't yet have good data-gathering about when patients die unavoidably and when they die when they could have been saved by standard-of-care medical treatment.
I feel like that joke is so widely known that it can be retired, or at least, referenced without needing the link.
Just saw the notification on my app this morning. Very unfortunate - I've been using it for as long as I remember, it was my favorite calendar app.

Any alternatives?
We've yet to see what the format will look like when there's another startup added to the "Meet the Batch" section, but I'd recommend a table-like format that lets you easily digest the key details: Order of acceptance, category, availability, site, # of founders, etc.
GSA loves telling everyone how great it is.
You should check out https://www.uniboxapp.com, I switched to it during the first beta testing, and haven't looked back. Originally it was a Mac OSX only client, but now on iPhone and iPad. Organizes email by the person you're communicating with, like text messaging. Obviously an email client only, and not a super duper corporate client.
As an aside, it sounds like a potentially useful problem to solve, making it easier for people to contribute to OS.

It's incredible that we have highly skilled (and in demand) people who would like to work for free, and the problem is finding ways of letting them do that.
Save information online in one click
Super bummed by this. The integrations were priceless. Taking recs on any alternative.
Ask HN: Submitting a “Show HN” during weekends, good or bad?
I've been working on a cool project that probably will appeal to developers (Think a new programming language or something like that). I want to post a show HN.

I think the general wisdom is "don't launch on the weekends because nobody's in front of their computer".

But I thought maybe weekends are better for this kind of stuff since it's more likely that people will have time to try it out immediately. Anyone have experience on this? Thanks.
I would love a system where private businesses were responsible & empowered to enforce sovereignty over their own premises. Is that what they're advocating?

Oh wait, no. They're advocating a sort of anarcho-tyranny where depending on who you are, you gain all the costs of complying with the law but none of the corresponding benefits.

My heart bleeds for the police heartlessly forced to enforce laws against theft etc, instead of kicking down doors at 3AM for the thrill of it & robbing travelers of their cash on the highway.
I've just never enjoyed using Facebook. I tried, I instantly despised it, and have never looked back. It seems like a vast time sink with almost no value that isn't better derived elsewhere.
Actually, if you read the post, you see him downplaying his involvement:

"Here’s our research paper, on which Adam generously included me as a coauthor, even though he did the heavy lifting."
A nice explanation here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17903/is-cal-broken...
JuliaCon 2016 Talks
Calling Dilma Rousseff's impeachment a coup is more than enough to acknowledge that the analysis lacks any semblance accuracy and boils down to partisan rhetoric.

If both houses of the national congress of Brazil, whose members were democratically elected and represent the people of that nation, support and greenlight the impeachment process based on widely known corruption charges, and if Dilma Rousseff's government fails to secure minimal backing among all elected representatives to cancel the impeachment process (she only needed 1/3 of the votes), it is patently obvious that this is the democratic process working as expected, and as specified in Brazil's constitution.
>Excel alone uses 86.1MB of private memory, and 142MB on a Blank Workbook.

That is excel. With all its features. 100MB is Electron's base footprint. Running absolutely nothing. Write something as complex as excel with the same feature set, you're going to be way over 142MB with a blank workbook ;)

The 100MB metric comes from experimentation with both electron and electron based apps (VS Code, Atom, N1, Slack, ...). The main process hovers at around 80MB, but you also have countless node processes running. When node will be a default on machines (please, never), I'll stop adding those processes to the total, but meanwhile, they do count.

>I doubt it. Creating performant HTML layouts and WebGL rendering all verified by independent 3rd party test suites is hard, dude. If someone came to you and said "Build a HTML engine or build Word" which would you choose?

A) The electron developers do not develop a rendering engine. They do not develop a JS VM either. They develop a toolkit for desktop apps, which uses nodejs (which is highly dependent on Google not pulling the plug on V8) as well as Blink (which is highly dependent on Google). While I am not discounting their work, they are absolutely not the ones with their hands in the engine internals.

B) I would honestly build a rendering engine. Word has 25 years of backwards compatibility to keep, features and integrations with lots of other office software, etc. Rendering engines have a clear and defined spec. Microsoft hasn't clearly defined the DOCX spec (well, they did, but keep adding undocumented surprises. Just like XLS :^).

C) I'd ask for a team, because no single human being can replicate the feature set of either in his lifetime.

Add-ins in JS? Sure, run them in an another thread and keep them out of performant code and we'll be friends.
You believe bitbucket represents the market?
But you are supporting the company. There may be great justifications for using a particular product or service, but take responsibility for the choice.
I really like the visual style changes, especially how resources show up on tiles. Very nice!

Now, just to let my friends and family know that I'll be a little harder to get hold of this autumn...
I get this in Visual Studio and occasionally in WebStorm too. C++ and Intellij-based Java apps.

Not the only one:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19617670/why-vs-2013-is-v...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20545435/why-is-the-new-v...
Especially in tech, a recruiter's #1 incentive is almost certainly to foster a good relationship so that you come back to them when you want to leave. With people moving jobs every 1.5-3 years, a recruiter who consistently places people in positions where they are unhappy and underpaid is not going to make very much money 5 years from now.
Mind to share it? I find generating good project ideas for me is quite difficult instead :)
@detaro I live in Rio and I have fellows who have had Dengue and Zika, there's no research paper, it's real life.
Native for where? You can always use stylesheets to adjust the appearance... you can even have targeted stylesheets for the different platforms. That said, "native" is pretty subjective, as windows has many "native" look/feel over generations... Office 2000 vs the latest or Windows across the same timeline... there's also GTK vs Qt on Linux, and their themes...

Electron is not native, and beyond that, there are too many variables cross platform for anything to look truly native everywhere even for a compiled C++ app without a lot of work. That said, you can definitely style to a platform more appropriately (again, there is work to that).
Hyperloop Futuristic Transportation System to Have Its First Public Demo
Yes, the stock bubble burst, and Hoover's attempt to impose tariffs backfired badly.

I doubt that Trump would implement protectionism. His rhetoric generally points to leveling the playing field rather than simply banning foreign imports.

He talks a good talk about screwing the Chinese, but when push comes to shove there's nothing he'd be able to do about the trade imbalance.
Co-author and, as he makes clear in the blog post, most of the work was done by Yedidia.
That's odd... it's working normally at the moment.

> I just see a black canvas and a bunch of speech bubbles

FWIS, images aren't loading properly on your machine edge/browser. Can you share a little more detail?

I sense that the browser is somehow preventing cross-origin images from being loaded -- we host it over Github. That seems the most likely explanation but this needs more investigation.
I've added the real links beside the bitly links, thanks.
The goal of a business is to make money.

They got bought out. That presumably made them money.

How is that not a proper business?
Spoken like a true assembly programmer.
mostly these reasons. We also want to make sure that code we open source is properly documented, has appropriate functional tests, and is useful outside of our organization. Our typical workflow is to build a POC, then an MVP, then build out documentation and unit tests.
I would recommend never disclosing salary because the recruiter will always say "oh, you can't possibly expect to make x% more than your current salary" and negotiate from there.

When asked, I always say "I am looking for between $Y and $Z" to set the tone. If they continue pushing for my current salary I end the conversation.
Oh I'm not contesting the fact that it's serviceable. Our job is to deliver software. I'm just slightly concerned by the absolute disregard for performance and power usage that is implied by using Electron.
Yup. It would be nice if there was some way to review the listings, and share info on the roles, but I guess it would be scuppered by the competitive nature of going for the roles.
People with that mindset are the reason terrible companies can thrive.
wttr doesn't seem to like putty+windows very much: http://i.imgur.com/45KSLFx.png
> His rhetoric generally points to leveling the playing field rather than simply banning foreign imports.

His rhetoric is consistently vague, which allows people to read what they want into it.

> He talks a good talk about screwing the Chinese, but when push comes to shove there's nothing he'd be able to do about the trade imbalance.

There's plenty he could do about the trade imbalance; for instance, net imports necessarily must be balanced by a capital inflow; obstruct the capital inflow and you prevent the trade imbalance.

Of course, doing so would likely be disastrous, but its not impossible.
I use bitbucket at work, and it has many of the same features as github. The UI is a bit clunkier, and it does lack some of the flashy features such as automatically squashing commits when merging a pull request. However it does work fine, and it is well integrated with atlassian's other offerings which we also use. Mainly JIRA and hipchat, though bitbucket also has a per-repository issue tracker.
> Can anyone commit to building a proper business?

How about we users commit to building the tools we need, and forget about relying on businesses to do it for us?

That's what free software is all about — head on over to the Free Software Foundation and pitch in today!
Could human upvotes of HN stories influence the dispersal of an atomized story across algorithm-driven social networks? HN loads quickly on mobile and HN comments provide social context for media stories, while the HN front page drives traffic from a tech-literate audience.
Instead,the article does some of the worst things we'd expect from scientists with sentences like "All it takes is one infected traveler" -- this is fear-mongering and irresponsible and the author should be ashamed of that comment.

I'm sorry, but there seems to be a bit of a logical disconnect here. This looks like a knee-jerk pattern match on the "all it takes" phrase. My understanding is that this is factual in this case. That is how it works with a lot of diseases -- with many kinds of self-replicators -- all it takes is one. That is how it works with various insect and fungal blights that have ravaged California forests. A public awareness of the relative risks is a public good.

Single patients flown to the US from the Ebola stricken regions did not spread infection, because of the particulars of infection mechanisms. Zika can be spread by mosquito. If the Olympics increase the traffic to resource-thin countries with populations of the right kind of mosquito, this should be considered carefully.
When Civ 1 came out I played it religiously. To the point I could wake up at noon, start playing then look outside and find it was dark.

I didn't really play Civ 2 or 3. I just found them to be classic examples of sequels: adding tedium more than anything else.

Civ 4 I also played a lot, possibly as much as Civ 1. Civ 4 was, for me, a rare sequel that didn't just add feature bloat. It added a lot of depth while streamlining some other aspects.

But I didn't play the base game as much as I played a particular mod: Fall From Heaven 2. Fall From Heaven was, I believe, a mod that came with the game that was fantasy themed. Ffh2 was that taken to another level with years of development effort.

There was much more difference between civilizations. Unit promotions were about twice as strong (eg each strength was 20% not 10%). Heroes and magic were pretty interesting. I spent countless hours playing this mod.

I tried to like Civ5. Really I did. But it just never grabbed me. Some people got excited about hexes. Not me. Once you add in all the expansions (that fix a lot of issues with the original Civ 5) it's not bad but just not inspiring.

I'm not sure I have terribly high hopes for Civ 6. I mean, it might be a perfectly fine game but the smart money is on it not hooking me like Civ 1 or Civ 4 did.

Really I just want a Ffh2 successor.
Briefly, Information Theory is getting real world phenomena to behave like symbols, while Cybernetics is getting symbols to behave like real world phenomena.

If you want to solve a math problem, then a computer plus a proper algorithm will suffice. If you want to design a system that interacts with its environment and can achieve goals while maintaining homoeostasis, the name for that is Cybernetics.

"Introduction to Cybernetics" by Ashby has been made freely available in PDF form by his estate. A great and noble service for which I commend them.
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html
I don't handle the account in that case, so I can't even say if it's free or not. I was just replying to the implied question "why would a nonprofit org with an OS project need private repos?"
They're not being dishonest in characterizing this as more than a simple acqui-hire; most of the functionality of Sunrise is faithfully replicated in Outlook for iOS now (which, if you're not aware, was actually itself born out of the acquisition of a multi-protocol email app called Accompli, and still includes support for a variety of non-Exchange mail services). Unfortunately, missing features include the long-press natural language "quick-add" input box, and setting multiple reminders on events.
It would be interesting if they logged the total hours everyone spends on it.
I think this may be inspired by Endless Legend and how it does improvements in "districts".

Endless legend is pretty cool, but doesn't run on Linux, sadly.
Hey guys lets write documentation first, it will be great and clear everything up.

Isn't this how waterfall development was/is supposed to work.
I will stick with GitLab.
It is worth noting that GitHub organizes the Student Developer Pack[1] which comes with a Micro plan ($7 - max 5 repos). It means GitHub will offer unlimited public and private repos for 2-3 years for students who were selected.

[1]: https://education.github.com/pack
Without their users they wouldn't have gotten this nice cushy acquihire.
Yeah sorry, that was me. I had beans last night, and I kept changing the air around my seat.
Would you say living in country X is also supporting country X her wrongdoing because otherwise we back to the argument "we don't have choice."

By the way, having a FB because friends are on is not a choice problem. It's simply because some people find FB convenient to connect with their friends.
Let's say you have a house that's easy for burglars to get into. Would it seem unreasonable for you to call the police every time you're burgled?

I would argue that you should secure your house better, but only because it's going to suck to have so many thefts, not because you're somehow placing an undue burden on the police.

There's no expectation that people need to take precautions against being victims of crime in order to avoid abusing police resources. To the extent that we expect people to do this, it's because we think people don't want to be victims of crime.

I find the tone of this article worrying. Why is private security an expected thing? I thought that the government's function in preventing crime and punishing criminals was one of the few things that nearly all political ideologies agreed on.
Just don't try to use two digit format for years:

~ $ cal 5 16
May 16
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
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~ $ cal 5 2016
May 2016
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2020: "Please don't learn to drive"
Yeah, not surprising :) Also, the API sort of reminds me of the Python C API.
I love cal, but M-x calendar is pretty awesome too.
It's amazing how much money these people are spending on this trip, especially with such inexperienced founders/staff. $3k down, $2k a month, and $2.5k to leave, while many don't have solid income streams in place?

Unfortunately, after having been in this "digital nomad" scene for over a year and a half now, it is nothing new. I've lived across 14~ countries since 2014 and have met my fair share of people who dropped everything to come to Chaing Mai, Ubud, Saigon, etc to work on their next big company, only to end up struggling to make a living off a travel blog or affiliate marketing tactics. It feels like many don't make it past a few months, before it sets in that not everyone is cut out for it.