skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a legal interop layer! Now we just need to create a code-generation utility that takes the conceptual source code for the contract and generates legal code that can adequately enforce it... oh, wait...
I don't think we should be modifying plants until we know the side-effects of these changes.
I'm pleasantly surprised. In my opinion, this response is 90% sincere apology, and only 10% non-apology and shifting the blame.
Low fuel costs forcing airlines to buy used jets
Based on the very preliminary website, this seems to be a way to quickly set up invite-only ad hoc interest groups, bypassing the infrastructure and membership requirements of a full networking service like Facebook, Yahoo!Groups, and old style chatboards.

This could be useful for people who boycott or otherwise have no use for social networks. I'm not sure how big that market really is, but my own parents come to mind, plus some curmudgeonly old friends who only do email.

Another Google experiment that will run its course and either succeed or be relegated to the attic which is full of interesting but unsuccessful ideas. I'm glad someone's trying to think ahead of the curve and bypass the social networks, which are such a time sync for me at least.
Less accidents leads to lower premiums.
Egyptian God Horus and the Lord RayEl Connection
I guess the point I was trying to make wasn't that cliki in particular has any shortcomings, but that more hands on any particular open source effort tend to yield more fruit that those hands spread across as many independent efforts.

The CL community in general has some amazingly prolific contributors, though perhaps fewer in number than other languages enjoy. One thing I've always noticed, though, is that the resources out there lack the "glue" to tie everything together. Cliki is definitely one resource that does that, Quicklisp and its doc page (https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/UNOFFICIAL/docs/) is another. Here's something of a motivating example... I wanted to mess around with building a multi-threaded server the other day. I went to Cliki, found usocket and bordeaux-threads, from their descriptions it sounded like they would be a reasonable starting point to build on. The API documentation and tests in their repository for both projects left me scratching my head... Then I started searching for applications that used them and between Cliki and Googling didn't find many great examples. Then I said, well, let's step back and see how Hunchentoot handles its networking layer. Turns out it uses -- wait for it -- usocket and bordeaux-threads.

Maybe it would be helpful to link from the "recommended libraries" (and other topic pages) to projects that use each library? I don't really have any concrete advice, I just feel like one of the things the CL resources out there lack is some layer that ties everything together. Cliki is a great starting point, but it might benefit from more hands.

That's certainly not (not by a long shot) the only place where the scattered CL resources out there could benefit from volunteers. There are untold numbers of things like (https://common-lisp.net/project/common-lisp-beginner/) this floating around that more hands would help.

Sometimes the answer isn't, hey, let me make my own site -- maybe step back and consider whether your efforts could benefit the community more if you lent your time to something that already exists. Just a thought.
"With reasonable hope of success" is an implied clause of the original sentence. You might have not considered this aspect.
ES2016 is already supported, in fact – it only adds one new language feature, the exponentiation operator. (It also adds Array.prototype.includes, but that's an environment feature rather than a language feature, i.e. it needs to be supported via a polyfill rather than a transpiler).

The idea is for Bublé to eventually become irrelevant (planned obsolescence) – but as new language features do arrive it will be fairly straightforward to add them. I'm just not sure if there'll be that many more language features after ES2017, at least of the transpilable sort – I'd be surprised if we ever have another big bang like ES2015 was.
Caveat: I know very little about economics and find this stuff confusing.

Here's how I assume it would work. For an insurance company to be profitable, premium payments need to be larger than claims payouts.

If we assume self-driving cars will be a lot safer, then claims payouts will drop significantly. If we assume insurance companies compete with each other, then that opens up their margins and eventually that will contract again as they all lower premiums to compete.

The end result is a smaller total amount of cash flowing through those businesses. The whole industry will contract because there's just less need for it to exist. You can think of insurance companies like a farm that harvests risk. With less risky automobiles, there's simply less crop for them to reap.
> Why should one need to buy a liability insurance policy on a self-driving car?

The same reason property owners in general by liability insurance for liabilities that may occur to do property they own.

> What driver exactly am I insuring?

Most likely, you're insuring against liability resulting from your obligation as the owner (or leaseholder-in-possession, in the case of a lease) of the autonomous vehicle to maintain the vehicle in condition for safe operation and to remove it from operation if that is not possible.
From the article

And after adjusting for age, gender, race and alcohol use, drivers who tested positive for marijuana were no more likely to crash than who had not used any drugs or alcohol prior to driving.
There is a large class of "creepy" which covers men creeping on women. In that case your formulation is correct, but I would reword it as "you're too focused on something you want, my ass and cleavage for instance, that I am locked in competition with other young women to attract some cute guys--that's why we've left left them only scantily and barely clad--but that guy is not you and your leers make me feel self conscious."

Another big class of creepy which works in both gender directions but because men are more threatening (for size if no other reason like testosterone) perhaps seems more one way is, "you seem or are desperate for friendship so you over interpret every little thing I do as a genuine or encouraging bond between us and you overdo your reactions"

But I'm not sure what else people might want that would fall into the same category. Salespeople, for instance, can seem "oily" but not usually creepy.
Despite the hype, they haven't really killed that many services.
There is at least one made and more "pot breathalysers" on the way. See http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ubc-pot-breat...
Winding down the Swift 3 release
The "- PHP support is coming soon!" part is a hint bold enough to many, though :)
- Edit your resume for each role that you apply to. You don't know how many resumes I get for XYZ developer that don't have language XYZ in their resume at all.

- The perfect resume shows that you held nice long positions with very small or no gaps.

- Make it sound like you were somebody important in these positions. Make it feel like you made decisions for the company that were important.

- Side projects are always nice. Shows that you have an interest in your field.

- Leading or line height is good for readability.

- If your resume is more than one page then it better be very impressive and really need to be that long.

- Design is always a plus in everything you do, but can hurt you if done incorrectly.

- Have a few people review your resume for typos.
Why can't they slog along with compressed margins for the next 20 years? There are hundreds of viable companies in the S&P 500 that have fully realized their user base, but are perfectly good investments. I feel like SV types get too hung up on growth, and fail to see that producing consistently high profit is still a great way to make money.
In C, there are ways you can get the optimizer to turn if-based error handling into something that only spends one or two instructions; using __builtin_expect[0] can decrease the cost of a condition by letting the branch predictor pick the "right" thing to expect. That way you end up only paying the price of the branch (and maybe the jump) instructions without any pipeline flushes or stalls.

[0]: http://blog.man7.org/2012/10/how-much-do-builtinexpect-likel...
From the comments here, it seems like people either didn't read the article, or just don't believe the study, because it pretty much says it is ok to smoke and drive.

For marijuana, and for a number of other legal and illegal
drugs including antidepressants, painkillers, stimulants
and the like, there is no statistically significant change
in the risk of a crash associated with using that drug
prior to driving.
Agree on these points. Also, across the dozens of businesses fully owned by Berkshire Hathaway, he has unique insight into the tech vendors that those businesses rely on. The rumor is that he polled a significant portion of the managers of these businesses which helped to inform his decision that IBM would be around for a long, long time.
Show HN: Sauna – Lightweight daemon that runs and reports health checks
Wait,is it a my space? MySpace? Oh, wait... :D
"Do some workers and employers prefer a lower salary for more vacation days? sure. Just agree on that as part of a contract. Don't force a one size fits all solution on everyone."

That wasn't the question, but rather if the protection cost you anything. Now you're just taking a "pro-business" stance as described in the top comment. Almost no employers would agree to larger amounts of unpaid vacation (which is what you are describing) unless that was the norm. I don't think anyone is questioning that paid vacation is shifting your salary around or make you work less hours, that's the whole point. But you can usually choose to take your full salary and work as many hours as if you didn't have vacation, the other way (getting unpaid vacation) is usually much harder.
> Defined as a self enforcing contract, guess what they don't exist

This changed in July 2015, when the ethereum network went live.

> I'd like to see how this code is independently filing annual reports and preparing taxes sending out K-1's to its shareholders autonomously

Just wait- It's pretty likely the DAO shareholders will vote to have a contractor produce this information on behalf of the DAO.

> ... for your own "DAO" as an Investment Club

Go for it! An ethereum smart contract would be a great way to implement the operational details for this.
Women realistically do experience a lot more sexual violence than men, so it's not an unfounded worry. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6308a1.htm
Try reading the rest of this thread
Agreed, would seem to make sense too, however it would increase power consumption and heat, so might "age" the whole circuit a bit faster than keeping the voltage (and thus clock speed) down. Mind you, he could just pop in replace components at will :)
A book (The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth and Trust) referenced in the article is mis-linked. The proper link is https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/the-open-source-ever...
They did adopt ARM. Did you forget about StrongARM? (I believe they acquired it from their DEC acquisition.) They ran with that for a while, made an updated version called "XScale", made a bunch of mobile processors with it, and then sold it all off to Marvell when they decided to refocus and shed a lot of other things that weren't core to the business.
The Skill Endgame
If you vote a proposal is because you agree with it and you can't blame someone else.

There's more flexibility than traditional structures with concepts like "splits" where if you don't agree with a proposal you can opt to not participate.

It's new ground , has new concepts and it's still evolving. Really interesting stuff.
You truely beleive that a company with almost the largest market capitization of any company has a large chance of increasing it by 10x?
Algolia DDoS attack evolved
With any new technology the risk of not applying it should also be offset against the risk of side-effects from using it.
Show HN: I made an app for unattended one off task notifications
But it is a pretty large bet for Todd and/or Ted, who each manage ~$8-10b. In that light, this is a pretty significant statement about one (or both) of their judgements of Apple's value relative to quoted market price.
How to Think Really, Really Big
I can see two factors at play. The first, of course, is corruption and waste.

But the second is that we don't know the counterfactual. It's very difficult to guess how many homeless people there would be in SF if that money hadn't been spent. If $240M moved the needle from 10k down to 6k (for a net drop of 4k), was it worth it? What if it was 20k (net -14k)? We have no idea what that number actually is. We're looking solely at the difference and trying to make a judgment on the subtrahend.
EDIT: Leaving my comment for posterity, but on second thought with a bit of reframing, I think you're right. If it weren't quite as hot out, people probably still wouldn't walk around all that much. This can probably be attributed to the horrible experiment that is The American Suburb.

ORIGINAL:
You're overlooking a lot of important factors.

Distance: I highly doubt people in Cairo are walking 10+ miles to the nearest market.

Attire: If walking around in the summer in Arizona raises suspicion, I cringe to imagine what suspicions would be raised by doing so in long flowing robes that cover skin head to toe.

Sweat: In my experience in the tropics, being a bit sweaty is quite normal and acceptable. In The South (the southeast) it seems more acceptable, but in the dry Arizona desert, it's not quite normal to be drenched in sweat.

Air conditioning: AC is everywhere in Arizona. As such, the mode of survival is getting from AC to AC as quickly as possible. If AC weren't everywhere, people would probably find sweat more acceptable, but... it is.

Skin tone: I'm pasty white and was born and raised in Arizona. In my travels to the tropics I never once ran into a person as white as me who enjoyed walking in the heat.

All of these together make walking pretty rare. Sure, if people didn't have another option besides walking you'd have a population of fit, well-tanned Arizonians all over the streets. Markets would probably be built closer to homes and suburbs would shrink. People wouldn't need cars and would probably be more comfortable without AC 24/7. As a result, a bit of sweatiness would come to be expected and wouldn't be a source of self-awareness. But that's not the reality of that region.
Actually, his first question indicates that the people calling this a "corporation" have no idea what that word means.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11706771.
Il labirinto
Wow, that is longer than I expected. Here it is in one paragraph:

Google Answers, Google Deskbar, Writely, Google Click-to-Call, Related Links, Public Service Search, Google Video Marketplace, Google Browser Sync (Firefox), Google Lively, Hello, SearchMash, Send to Phone, Audio Ads, Catalogs, Dodgeball, Google Ride Finder, Shared Stuff, Google Page Creator, Marratech e-Meeting, GOOG-411, Google Labs, Google Buzz, Google Dictionary, Google PowerMeter, Real Estate, Google Directory, Squared, Google Sets, Google Pack, Google Fast Flip, Desktop, Google Image Labeler, Aardvark, Directory, Gears, Google Notebook, Google Apps standard edition, Google Code Search, Google Health, Google Website Optimizer, TV Ads, Google Friend Connect, Google Insights for Search, Knol, Google Wave, Picnik, Jaiku, Nexus Q, Slide.com, Google Mini, Picasa Web Albums Uploader, Google Cloud Connect (Microsoft Office plugin), Google Building Maker, Google Calendar Sync, Meebo, Google Reader, Google Latitude, Google Talk, SMS service, iGoogle, GIS tools for Google Maps, Google Schemer, Google Notifier, YouTube My Speed, Orkut, QuickOffice, "discussion search", Google Moderator, Wildfire by Google, BebaPay, Google Helpouts, Google Code, Picasa, Google Compare.
What makes you say that? And what do you mean with "own in a greater sense", specifically?

I'm far from an expert but I can't see how what you say is compatible with the ICANN's TLD Registry Agreement (especially section 2.9 and the whole of article 5).
It's not cherry picking the last 5 years its looking at the trend, rather than historical returns of a company to see the direction it is heading.
Easier to turn off the power with a few sticks of dynamite or a backhoe. So much for robotic feudalism when the substation is toast. :)
Stuck with leftover foreign change at the airport? Now there’s an app for that
Maybe. They technically killed it before release though. Just some I/O owners such as myself had it before they decided it wasn't going to sell.
As long as we have access to high yield plants the climb would be a lot faster than you might think. Toss in just Highschool level math and germ theory could let us rebuild from a small surviving population (say 1 million) in under 1,000 years.
Nice work OP.

You gave them a tech analysis that should be worth some money, for free, at the same time (hopefully) bringing to their attention how bounty programs are a helpful thing for everyone. They should be feeling very lucky about it.

However, the thing that worries me with these things is that, what if some "bad guys" already knew about this and exploiting it and now that the bank is aware and might close the hole, makes them angry and looking for retaliation?

Hopefully you are taking precautions to be anonymous, but I know that where I live if I were to pull a stunt like that I would seriously consider watching my back for a while.

Sad world we live in :( so take care OP.
I assume you realize that market share is not a measure of success - profit is.

Also, comparing the Mac business to Apple's other businesses is irrelevant - you may as well compare it with Pharmaceuticals - the relevant comparison is to other PC vendors, wherein you will find that they are highly profitable.
If they cared they could provide smaller offices, maybe one for 4 people or so. This works pretty well too.
It is sad. Because in comparison with sickening ARM scene, Intel actually put effort into making open GPU drivers.
talk to your local volunteer politicians, you know, the ones on your town council, who may well be ex hippies, or at least understand what you are concerned about.
Some sort of solution... to the dilemma caused by innovation...
This list seems long but most products in the list were not killed as Reader was.

Most of them were merged into other products, some were open-sourced.
Very good summary of circle of competence. Obviously a bit more complicated than that in practice, but this is probably 80% of it.
That's not what that means, though. All that says is that testing positive for marijuana doesn't provide a meaningful measurement of impairment. It does not mean pot doesn't impact your driving.
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I'm a big supporter of a technology that can instantly detect whether someone's reflexes are impaired by cannabis.

Wow. So you're also a big supporter of the massive, real-time surveillance infrastructure required to make this possible, then.

Don't think for a minute that those devices (which will inevitably be required in all human-driven cars... for as long as humans are allowed to drive cars, that is)
won't be reporting those findings to insurance companies and of course, to one's friendly local police department -- and by extension, all police departments nationwide -- once in place.
So what? They're still making the bulk of the profit in that sector, which is what investors would care about.
I was worried I see a lot of comments like this. Your concerns are legit, but it's far worse for people to watch their loved ones suffer.

The discussion I have with families is usually very up-front about the fact that our comfort-care medications can hasten death. But in the ICU that I practice in, that's almost always a good thing. Sometimes use continues infusions to avoid the correlation between a dose given and subsequent respiratory arrest. But I have no doubts about the ethical nature of this. Just wish we could be more open about it, as the article suggests.
Use as few tools as possible
I'd be surprised if Bill Gates holds ill feelings towards Apple.
Blazing fast SSH from console into AWS instances
I believe there is an age when confidence is created. Teenage years. You carry that status the rest of your life. Even if you are successful later in life, you still feel a bit like an impostor. (see impostor syndrome) And it shows in your personality.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/2002/0...
"Height at age 7 or 11 turns out to have no impact at all on future wages. But height at age 16 makes all the difference in the world."
Not just any poem. Milton's Paradise Lost.
I feel like you didn't even read the article. Here's the summary of the linked study:

> Differences in study designs frequently account for inconsistencies in results between studies. Participant-selection bias and confounding factors attenuate ostensible cannabis effects, but the association with MVA often retains significance. Evidence suggests recent smoking and/or blood THC concentrations 2-5 ng/mL are associated with substantial driving impairment, particularly in occasional smokers. Future cannabis-and-driving research should emphasize challenging tasks, such as divided attention, and include occasional and chronic daily cannabis smokers.

Suggesting that taking a couple Tylenol is as dangerous as smoking anything (even tobacco for occasional users) before/while driving is ridiculous.
“The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I’ve ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut. My gut told me to say yes.”

Killer, for us fans of rational strategy.
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The actual number of genuinely useful services that Google has shuttered is relatively small.

"Genuinely useful" is a subjective term... Reader and the nontrivial list of other things Google has bought or started and then left to die on the vine definitely gives me pause before signing up for one of their services.

Example: They started doing domain registration about a year or two ago? I'm not going to use it because it's not a core part of their business and I don't want to be in the position of doing a forced migration with associated costs when they inevitably decide to scuttle it with no concern for the users.
Low-margin x86 would not require recompilation of, re-certification of, and possibly changes to existing software. It has a much lower barrier than low-margin ARM.