skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone constantly dealing with lawyers on a day-to-day basis, I cannot wait for the day that self-empowered "legal hackers" are able to compete against lawyers using tools such as Watson/ROSS.

Imagine being able to dictate grounds for relief, and have the machine draft the paperwork for you, ready to sign/witness and file.

Imagine not having to pay a lawyer $400/hour to answer what should be a simple question.

Imagine being able to have computer-based training about the acts/statutes you are currently referencing in your process.

I can't wait.
possibly because GM failed to market in a package that was more appealing? It should have been in CUV form or at least that by the second version they should have had both forms. You had to be a diehard fan of the ideology behind the car to suffer that dash and such of gen1.

The real test comes when the Bolt arrives. How will be people weigh the difference of 150 miles of EV range to have a range extender? Will that 150 mile gap be too high for the Volt to compete with or will how space is used and packaging matter (CUV vs small sedan)?

While I think they had a good idea in a two door version the ELR was so silly over priced (gen 2 of it was as bad or worse for reusing gen 1 tech even after gen 2 volt was selling) that it was a failure before it shipped. Chevy should had the two door as well as small CUV form. Cover all bases, same frame, just different bodies. (think Cruze).
Oculus adds hardware DRM to their store, actively breaking the ReVive
What happens if we spend hundreds of billions of dollars on reducing CO2 emissions and it turns out it was all for naught?

That money has to come from somewhere. It could be spent on healthcare, getting people clean water, etc.

To me that would be a tragedy.
I use the Cloud9 IDE, and it's great! I've had a few issues over the years, but fewer than when I used to develop locally. And I can log on from anywhere.
For months now, every bit of news coming out of the Oculus camp is terrible. What's going on over there?
They acknowledge the problem, and their solution is to stop actively aiding and abetting the people who are continuing to make it worse by writing python 2 code.
Stop using the Windows console. Or fix it. More rational than a breaking upgrade to Python 3.
The ethereum network was designed for people to develop systems all the way from fully private to fully public.
Hi Patrick, this looks great! I'm glad there are more people exploring this design space. Language design is tough business, but it's also amazingly fun ;).
Having the rear capsule become cloudy is pretty normal following cataract surgery. There is a YAG laser procedure called YAG capsulotomy where they put a hole in the area that is clouded up. The prosthetic lense stays in place and the cloudiness is gone. You can expect a floater that shifts around following the surgery.

I got cataract surgery in one eye a few years ago. I am much younger than the average patient. It's not as good as what you have naturally when you are young but it sure beats what you have with a cataract. In my case, the floater did become mostly unnoticeable within a year. It didn't really impede my daily life before that.
It's complicated. Comparisons based on median income are inherently flawed due the radical differences in regimes (let's start from free education and housing).

Let's compare it using market tools. The black market exchange rate was about 5 roubles for one US dollar in late USSR (official rate was about 60 cents for one rouble, but you had to be an elite to use it, and even then, in very small amounts) - you get up to death toll if they catch you with dollars, but that's another story.

So 1 kopeyks in USSR was about 0.2 cents, and inflation calculator will tell you that would be about 0.6 cents in current value.
Information really wants to be free.

Privacy is only necessary now because when you lose it, when someone else holds such a detailed profile of your behavior, there's a deep power imbalance. If you received a similarly detailed profile on everyone who was privy to yours, it wouldn't be so bad - and that's exactly what GP proposed.

I think there's something deeply immoral about asking someone to ignore, for your sake, some physical phenomenon that's occurring as much in their universe as yours.
That's why there's value in anonymous accounts. The user can't leverage their identity's social capital, but they can say and do anything.
If there's one thing that's off-topic in this whole thread for this submission, that is this comment you posted, which is longer than the 4-comment thread that started with my initial reply to Smudge and you didn't like. You call me obnoxious, self-involved and anti-social, offending me personally. And you procede to tell me what I can or can not do, and guessing my thoughts and mindset, and deciding for other people what would discourage them from posting online. I will not respond to any other comment you may make, as you seem to be a self-proclaimed judge of online correspondence, which is not all that sane.
How Hacker News Hijacks your day...
Yeah well you are a "unique" case, I would be surprised if even 10% of Chromebook owners knows what Crouton or chroot is :)

HN users don't see Chromebooks because HN users are a very special subset - highly educated and well paid which works in development and IT at large.

If you look at children and low wage blue collar workers you'll see many more of them those are the people that buy what one would not even consider a budget laptop but an entry one.

Those are also the people for whom Google and Facebook are defacto the internet, I've recently met people that didn't knew "Office" even existed outside of Google Docs.

If you are high school student that only wants to get access to Facebook and maybe be able to write a small paper you don't need more than a Chromebook.
If you are a truck driver or a security guard that wants to be able to read email or watch YouTube you don't need more than a Chromebook.
And for those people a 150-250$ device makes all the sense in the world.

College students would probably still be able to use a Chromebook for 99% of their tasks, but since Apple has a student discount it's chic Apple most likely will still continue to rule the College class.
it is actually an educational problem - specially in the US.
Educated people will favor the more flexible operating systems to create things (don't think just programming, think video, pictures, whatever), dumb people will care about "selfies" and "email".

That said the reality is that the majority of people are the ones that do not want to learn, and thus to be successful it is necessary to cater to them. It makes sense and make their life easier.

But do not fool yourself thinking it's not an educational problem for the "feel good" statement. Learning photoshop is a big deal and it's not because of UX. It's because of the concepts behind the editing.
> If your internet connection sucks

Not a problem for me, and it's pretty hard for me to develop when my internet connection sucks anyways (no modules, no documentation, no cloud access, etc.).

> or you need hardware access

Yes, this is the primary valid reason I see.

> you're doing anything that requires a low latency

Low latency from what? My cloud machines have super low latency to each other and to the net.

> you want to run the software locally for any reason

Running it in my cloud machine is locally, to me. The only reason it would need to be truly local if you're doing something regarding hardware / peripherals / etc., as you mentioned.
However after District 9, Neil Blomkamp is on a downward trend. His recent movies are much less engaging, and Chappie was really, really bad: it tried to copy the frame of District 9 but every story aspect was much worse and smelled fake kilometers away. Really disappointing after the excellent experience District 9 was.

I found Sunshine quite poor, too. First the whole story makes no sense (even the largest spaceship you could build would anyway be way too small to do anything meaningful, it's so obvious it's preposterous), and the last scene is a deal breaker: after they succeed, you see a woman and a child playing on the snow. Oh, I thought people were starving on Earth, but no they are actually enjoying the snow and winter sports? So what was the big emergency all about? That was stupid.
It looks like the 9/11 Myths site linked above discusses the Silverstein Building 7 issue -- and it includes a citation for the quote. (http://www.911myths.com/html/wtc_insurance.html) According to the page, firefighters confirmed that no one was left in the building, then withdrew and allowed it to burn down; but burned down or brought down, it fell well after the main towers, with no loss of life beyond the initial debris impacts.

If the destruction of the main towers was deliberately orchestrated, it couldn't possibly have been by Larry Silverstein acting alone. No landlord can literally get away with murder; if he caused the attacks, either he's an absolute criminal mastermind or he'd be dead by now.

If there was more going on than just al-Qaida, the US almost has to have known about the attacks in advance. If we did know, why did we let the attacks go through -- and if we were ruthless enough to let them happen, why weren't we ruthless enough to implicate Iraq?

From what I've heard, GWB saw Saddam as a family enemy, and started asking if Iraq was involved with the WTC attacks indecently quickly after they'd occurred. If he was willing to sit idly by as his citizens were killed (or even authorize the killings himself), surely he wouldn't scruple to frame an old enemy in the process. It would kill two birds with one stone: misdirect the blame in a very plausible manner, and give Saddam what was coming to him anyways (at least from GWB's perspective).

(Come to think of it, why not implicate the government of Saudi Arabia in a really clear, undeniable fashion? It would be easy and convincing -- I mean, they're already halfway to fully culpable in the official narrative of the attacks -- and it would offer a large, cheap payoff. On September 12th, "discover" that the Saudi royal family had signed off on the attacks. On September 13th, demand that the Saudis hand over 51% of Saudi Aramco by September 14th, or we'll bomb Riyadh and seize the oil fields on September 15th. It's not like the Saudi armed forces could stand up to the US...)
Can you please make code examples show up in monotype font on the web page?

On my browser (Chrome on Ubuntu), it shows as a non-monotyped font which is much harder to parse.
You can't pick an arbitrary start point. The "efficiency" of decomposed organic matter is going to be terrible but then just the energy used in the refinement of oil into a gallon of petrol can already get you further in an electric car than you could go in a petrol car.
Tackling consumption chaos in microservice architectures
Fascinating. The emoji seem primitive in comparison.

This is actually related to something I'm working on at the moment and it cleared up a few misconceptions. So thanks for the link :-)
Mhm, very sensible choice. We also recently started disallowing `f (x)`, it just ends up causing way more trouble than it's worth.
dang, makes you wonder what else you're contributing to, although personally idc about firearms. would be neat to see for a whole bunch of industries.
Obviously a minor point, but if x: return True else: return False is weirdo-code. Just use return x, maybe cast to bool if you need to.
Since the CPU, RAM and screen can't be updated, your phone will definitely get outdated after 2 years.
In Praise of Urban Sprawl
That'd be an interesting story.
No itertools.cycle()?
This is absolutely possible. I know a woman who's entire eye was removed when she was a child, and it grew back completely about 30 years later. No one quite understands why (or why it took 30 years), but the human body is full of surprises.
As a lawyer I have to acknowledge legal agreements are important; however, they are not determinative. Cruise was acquired by GM for $1B, so it goes without saying they had their t's crossed and i's dotted...again it is not necessarily enough.

Besides written contacts (express), there are agreements created by the actions of the parties (implied).

I don't have the facts beyond the article, but at the point an application is submitted to YC naming someone a co-founder, its going to be difficult to argue there isn't an implied contract in place for anything the company (or even proposed company) does moving forward. Yes legally a company that doesn't even exist can be bound by the representations of its agents.

I wouldn't be to surprised to learn Cruise had a very strong case, which might have even included written resignations, stock transfers/assignments, etc... Again I don't know; nevertheless, one could see certainly see the practicality of just paying someone to go away even with a weak case so long as there is a modicum of truth to having started the company. There is nothing worse than a client who litigates out of principle instead of with their wallet.

I having been discussing contracts a lot on HN as of late especially in regards to what people dub smart contracts and I can't stress it enough, breach of contract cases usually never end at summary judgment and can usually always go to trial because whether or not there was a breach is a question of fact reserved for judge or jury at trial.
Maybe. Maybe not.

I am coming to believe that computational thinking != mathematical thinking.

I'm able to reason logically in code because I'm able to reason logically about things in the real world and natural language supports that. I was able to code (early teens) and think computationally long before I ever knew there was such a thing as formal logic and truth tables and all that.

And let's consider names. In Ruby I knew what the module Enumerable did before I ever read the docs. Monoid? I don't think so. And I have some math background. What about all the potentially very talented programmers that have a non-math background? I don't buy that we need the beginnings of 3rd-level math to be decent programmers. In fact, I'll go further. I think think that the programming landscape is too math-oriented. I know someone who had a curiosity about recursion so I started explaining the concept via factorials as one does. Said person gets little panic attack. Our default explanations oughtn't involve math. Our names should avoid high-level math concepts divorced from everyday speech and concepts. By all means use aliases if you want but give the rest of us something to hang our conceptual hats on.
Is he taking investments?
Need a how to on how to do this please
Is this the Google Cloud Storage? Is it accessed as a remote file system?
“Interview with Linda Howe”
Smart people can still make bad decisions for a variety of reasons.
Some people have asked me what we use to record GIFs for PR requests. A lot of us like http://getcloudapp.com for that purpose.
Good luck trying to make an electric car last 200+ miles at F1 race speeds. The technology for an electric F1 car just isn't there. Formula E is making advances in that regard but it's just nowhere near the level of F1 ATM.
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No 1/2 kopeyka coins in USSR, those ("polushka" coins, ~= "halfies") ended in Tsar Russia :)

1 kop. was a small amount of money kids would often play with (you could buy a matchbox with it -- was its standard price!).
With regard to politicians, like artists and many other people of note, I don't like them because of what their personal character is, but rather what I think they can accomplish.

If I'm on a boat with a captain and the choice is between a well mannered gentleman and a gruff captain who can "get shit done" I want the latter to captain the ship and I'd want the former as company.
I'm not electing an official to be the nicest person, but the person who can see through things which need to get done. Not saying I'd want a criminal, I just don't need an idealized for of personal character.

I vote independent, though have probably voted more conservative at the local level and more liberal at the upstream levels. But really depends on what the candidate might do politically, rather than personally.
There are two parts of this I disgree with.

1. It's not information that wants to be free, but access to published information. Where the roots of the word "publish" in "public" are germane. In addition to published information, information on public institutions such as governments, government agencies, bureaucracies, major social actors, the wealthy (who've gained strongly through socially-mediated systems), and those guilty of crimes against society.

2. Information doesn't balance power imbalances, it magnifies them. Though the empowered and disempowered have different vulnerabilities and strengths. Hence information can work against the empowered and disempowered in different ways.

Absent a handle or pivot point for power, information yields none. You simply have understanding of a process you cannot manipulate.
I'm aware that they are different functions, but I strongly feel they were poorly implemented. / is a mathematical symbol in addition to being a function in Python, but in Python it is implemented in a different way that is mathematically (but not pragmatically) incorrect.
I remember reading about something similar before, but I think they had Snoop. Maybe was a drizzeam, lol
I think we should abolish marriage as a legal construct and adopt civil unions for government purposes. Marriage is a religious concept, and I believe in the separation of church and state.

However, I don't think the path to get there is by denying rights to other people. It's clearly anit-gay to non-religious folks, but popular teachings of the bible (and the teachings of Jesus) prevent many people from seeing it.
After running dtrace as

$ sudo dtrace -n 'syscall::execve*:entry { printf("%s %s", execname, copyinstr(arg0)); }'

I had this output

0 51617 execve:entry sh ./quine
1 51617 execve:entry sh /bin/sh
1 51617 execve:entry sh /bin/cat

Altho this is the first time I use dtrace. I can try to run another command you can ask me to.

My login shell is the Bourne shell. However I tried bash, csh and tcsh too, it works, so it's probably the system level code that substitutes /bin/sh (maybe because it's my login shell?) to the interpreter.
I would rather buy from a merchant that does not ship me counterfeit goods.
The whole divestment strategy is incredibly suspect. Who in their right mind, would be willing to forgo money, and add years to their retirement, for something like this? At least fossil fuels I can understand, as they're related to global warming, the health of our planet, and the future of our species. But guns?
As long as credit card debt is rated properly, its acquirers know exactly what they're signing up for, and at certain point will exhaust the resources they're ready to pour into junk-level securities (or at least be somewhat contained by the public's appetite for junk).

The subprime mortgages propelled into the prime markets only after a major insurer with a strong balance sheet announced that they will make their investors whole in an [unlikely] event of a default, which led to ratings' agencies decision to assign the AAA rating.

Without AAA, such securities are relegated to their own little corner of the market, which sooner or later faces capital constraints.
So are greeting cards but those are huge, for many people receiving one is a requirement for every Hallmark holiday.
It's really hot, too.
You're asserting that, if wages were not stagnant, people would not binge on credit? Maybe that's true, but I doubt it's noncontroversial enough to be declared "fact rather than theory".
Are you familiar with this:

https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=289655
Perhaps I should have said "immigration law enforcement" instead, but the same point. Outside the that context, "alien" means ET.
Funny thing about JAMA is that almost all (?) the articles they publish don't include code nor data. The research they publish is stealth!
I'm with tptacek, Allen put in 2 years of sweat equity, was friends with bill gates, teed up the company and then had to take a backseat because of illness. How could cruise Possibly have raised money if half the cap-table was subscribed already. Also, typically there is like a 1 year cliff, so I am not sure how that would even be possible.
> The same battery pack, but this one has gold stripes and is clearly higher end!

This point especially. New trends will come along in short time which will move the crowd constantly toward purchasing this flashy thing or that.

Just imagine celebrities and pop culture capitalizing on this product.

E.g. Same battery each model...
But Model A has the battery plus a sticker of Celebrity A on it.
2 years later, Celebrity A isn't all the rage anymore. Celebrity B is where it's at. Well I guess everyone has to throw out their Model A battery since otherwise they'd be considered lame.

Having modules be external to the device will only add to the crave. For example, I don't replace my RAM in my desktop because this model looks cooler than that model. I replace it based on performance. These phone modules, though, also serve an aesthetic purpose that must be sated.
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that was unloadyour401k. snoop did some videos for em. i remember seeing em at the time and being like "whaaaaaat?"
It does, but only if they can come here and take the money. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_immunity , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unit... , and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Sovereign_Immunities_A... for some of the underlying concepts here.) I don't expect many countries to start suing the US -- good diplomatic and trade relations are too important.

Saudi Arabia is in a unique position here: they're dependent on the US for defense, the royal family has a lot of Salafi and al-Qaida sympathizers (including people whose donations to really sketchy Islamic charities went to al-Qaida; I've heard that the director of one such charity bought bin Laden his satellite phone). So, we can sue them and make them comply with our terms; if they choose to exercise state immunity to exempt themselves from 9/11 lawsuits, we can compel them to change their minds, by force of arms if necessary.

(By the way, Saudi Arabia is why mainstream opinion is horrified at Trump's idea of letting the Japanese have nuclear weapons. Japan can be trusted with nuclear weapons, for obvious reasons, but Saudi Arabia can't; and if we let the Japanese get the bomb, the Saudis will expect us to let them have it, too. At that point, what argument can we make? If we just came out and told them that they aren't grown-ups yet, they'd probably throw a tantrum.)
You should squash PRs. What you shouldn't do is indiscriminately squash PRs. Having a bunch of "oops, fix" and review fix commits lying around makes it harder for everyone too. It also affects bisection much more. "don't squash PRs" is just bad advice; it's more nuanced than that.

Split your work into bite sized pieces, and amend/squash the relevant fixups into these before merging.

Since these tasks can need knowledge of rebase, I offer to do them for new contributors too, which usually fixes that issue.
Why? In both cases a deficit imposes a burden on our future selves or our descendants.
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> MS Flight Simulator is said to be good enough to learn quite a bit, too.

MS Flight Simulator is fantastic to learn to fly. You still need left seat time in a real aircraft but it's great for fundamentals and navigation.
It allows dynamic adjustment of the cam profile, rather than having a fixed profile.
A lot of these companies do surveillance beyond social media. Welcome to the Internet. Where everyone is tracking everything.
Is it possible to use semantic class names then use a CSS processor to map those into tachyon classes?
I'm curious, why is this only running for 30 days? Anyone got more info?