skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are tons of industrial knitting machines out there, check Alibaba. A home knitting machine that was the equivalent of a C&C machine for knits would be pretty rad. I'd use it all the time.

The reality, last I looked, is that the gap is pretty large -- the industrial machines are very feature specific "25 sizes of socks in up to 10 yarn weights!" and the home knitting machines are for hobbyists, full stop.
Yes, if you've programmed the scenario in. We might solve specific problems, sure. But how large is the problem space? How much of it have we mapped, and how well does the machine cover it? If there is a long tail of obscure problems that the machine cannot handle because it was not taught how to, machines will remain shitty drivers because they can't respond with creative judgment to a new situation.
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Does Meteor support a proper database system yet, a la. MySQL or Postgres?
You could probably do this with emacs org-mode pretty well too
To claim that we do not have the industrial supply to meet a basic income of the poverty level (at least in the US) is to also say we do not have the housing or food to sustain ~300 million people above the poverty level.

For the nation that is supposed to be the foremost in the world, and has been supposed to be for a century and a half, if that is true, all our talk of technological innovation and futurism is for naught, because we cannot even house and clothe everyone in our collectively agreed upon minimum possible conditions.
Sure. Once you cross that barrier, you now have unlimited ammo and all the feet that ever were or will be, so you have to be a lot more diligent about what you're doing.
I'm hoping for the opposite. I am hoping that the voters who wanted the extra regulation (or just wanted to spite Uber/Lyft out of anger towards their campaign practices) receive sub par service. As a counterbalance, sometimes it's good that there are consequences to added regulation that makes businesses want to cease operations (regardless of who is "right" here).
Bathrooms in corporate-owned establishments because there's no sense imposing unnecessary costs on independent shops whom cannot best afford it. Plan your day, schedule your meals and surprises are reduced. And for emergency or actual camping use only, I also have a compact, compostable toilet with the disposable bags (it's just a frame and disposable bags).

On a slightly different subject, I suggest anyone considering living a habitable vehicle not use on-board plumbing or sewage systems because they're messy, time-consuming and expensive to maintain. The vehicle I use only has a water tank but I still use water-store RO water in a washable refrigerator bottle. Using a tank and sink system requires flushing and sterilization periodically, and is often awkward to fill sanitarily.
That your kids have to play in the street is an artifact of the design of most suburban environments.

Instead of creating gigantic roads that give drivers a false sense of confidence, employ smaller roads that encourage people to drive more slowly and use the same space to create safe paths and trails for pedestrians, cyclists and joggers to enjoy.

It's beyond bizarre that the roads in most subdivisions are so broad, and yet by design so lightly used. The amount of space in a typical subdivision devoted to roads and setbacks is staggering.

Study after study shows that the wider the lanes and roads are the faster the traffic will go. Making a street feel like you should drive slowly causes people to drive slowly.

For example, the average suburban cul-de-sac has a wider road than a country highway where you're expected to go at least twice as fast. It's two lanes plus a generous curb-side allowance for parking that, in another twist of irony, a lot of homeowners associations don't even allow.

I've lived in grid-based neighborhoods and apart from a few hours a day when things are unusually busy it's no worse than a street I lived on that connected to nowhere. A little traffic now and then isn't going to kill you, and nobody I knew growing up ever got rubbed out by a car. You quickly learn to respect traffic and avoid it.
Numbers?
At any given density, replacing low-rises with high-rises will bring rent down, as long as construction isn't overly burdened with neighborhood review and low-income-unit requirements. Sure, a lot of units will need to be constructed for rents to come down a significant amount, but a massive swath of the western sections of the city consists of 1-3 story single family houses, maybe with a shop on the first floor, which are ripe for conversion into 5-story walk-ups. That alone will provide a significant boost to housing stock without the seismic and elevator costs of high-rises.

SF isn't my favorite city either, but what has happened in my current and favorite city (Boston) has made my less sympathetic to NIMBYs, both the high-income (I want my house to appreciate without doing any work!) and low-income (I want 20% of units just for me!/Screw the middle class!) types--they are the ones making things worse. Cities grow because businesses move there, and businesses move there because they want to be close to and network with other businesses. Employees can't exactly prevent that by staying in Nowhere, KS. I agree, there isn't any moral imperative for cities for keep growing, but for now at least, there is a practical one, and thus there is a moral imperative for cities to accommodate those to wish to live there.
As far as I could find not open sourced, but talked about at the data science blog (which is generally awesome): http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing...
> I find it amusing to see so many people questioning why Tesla didn't release a cheap Tesla sooner. The answer is: They don't have the batteries to do that. That's why they are building the GigaFactory.

Interestingly (for me), when I leased my leaf the sales guy was talking about how Nissan could make a car with a much better range, but chose not to. It was amusing hearing it from a (otherwise backwards) dealership.

It makes sense, of course. What I keep wondering is, if energy density (not just cost) increases significantly in the future, couldn't existing electric vehicles be retrofitted with "aftermarket" cells? Currently, resale value is pretty low, mostly due to battery concerns (both longevity - which I think is unfounded - and hopes of better tech). But, with otherwise so low maintenance costs, I figure these cars could have a pretty long life.
Ask HN: Do you upvote then read? Or read then upvote?
I read in a separate tab, and if it was good, I try to remember to come back and upvote it. But my ADD gets in the way, and I think I probably only remember to upvote about 33% to 50% of the articles I enjoy here on HN.
I can confirm. On HN, meetups, Twitter, etc. no one talks about MEAN stack any more because of Mongo and the Angular 1/2 split (and React's popularity). In the last hackathon I went to, like most "corporate sponsored" ones, you got a special prize for using it.
This brings the empire building nature of Uber into question.

If a group of people on a Facebook group can replace its functions for a significant group of people in a few days, why is this company valued in the billions again?
To some extent stock pumping PR funds Tesla, which in turn provides them easier capital for funding the GigaFactory, which rationalizes the PR. It's only Theranos if you don't deliver.
I think this is part of the reason who RoR, MEAN and other such frameworks are so popular. They tend to be easier to setup and many developers love it. My own theory is there are so many bad devs out there so that contributes to the hype because so may devs end up adopting it.

Take it with a grain of salt...
There are a lot of nuances to planting that the back of a seed packet will not prepare you for.

There are plants you don't want close to each other. There are plants that require more irrigation than their neighbors. The soil pH matters, pests are varied between species, and temperature levels can be paramount. Planting time absolutely matters.

If you have ever tried to grow more than a few things in a garden, you realize exactly how complicated it can be. And while the product at hand does not address all of those things, it lays a foundation for a future where it could. The framework is built and it's open source.
Thought I had seen something similar before, and it turns out I was thinking of OpenKnit (at least two years old), which this is based on (as referenced in the article). Good to see that they're evolving the tech still.
As in, if coal had never been used for energy in human history? How is that relevant?
Just to clarify your quote from the end, I believe its originally from Mel Brooks's "History of the World", the French Revolution chapter.

Count De Monet - I have come on the most urgent of business. It is said that the people are revolting!

King Louis - You said it. They stink on ice.
But tech industry salaries are inflated in lockstep. The rule of thumb is 30% of your income for rent, which is appropriate for $100k+ entry-level salaries. Also, out of the (admittedly very small and anecdotal) subset of programmers living in SF I've talked to, most have indicated that they live in SF because they like it there, not because it's cheaper than South Bay.
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RethinkDB has been really mindful of its' consistency, has an in the box story for observable collections, and a really great UI out of the box. I really hope I get to use it for more than toying around with.

I'm not sure that I'd choose Mongo over alternatives these days, if I'm on AWS and can use RDS, I'd go PostgreSQL mostly, but RethinkDB, ElasticSearch, C*, and others also have their places.
This ties neatly into another common economic fallacy: That capital is homogenous. Highly productive capital equipment is specialized, and requires long lead times for its production. It cannot quickly be repurposed for other uses. Thus, it's important that demand is genuine and not the result of "stimulus" that will waste a lot of capital equipment when stimulus is withdrawn.
Nice machine, but what exactly is "3d" about this other than the hype-factor? Knitwear is 2d last time I looked, unless this thing does pom poms too.
Depending on the size of the inline picture (not just with Google) it could be larger. I've definitely seen some shorter native formats in the wild.

The accidental click comes in since you can't just scroll past this with one swipe. I haven't tested this particular one, but every single other flying carpet I've seen restricts flicking motions to get past it in one fell swoop. They require multiple clicks to inch it up the screen, and that requirement alone increases the risk for accidental clicks by the mere fact that it requires more touches on the ad to get past it (despite said touches being paired with a swipe motion).

I really hope this new format is aggressive against accidental clicks, but on older devices where those actions might take longer to process (ie. my beautiful old Nexus 4), or where people are clumsy, or don't have strong screen contact (gloves), I could see it registering as accidental clicks.

Per my other response in this thread, I would hope there is logic around things like waiting to see if a swipe motion immediately follows the touch, looking at how close the touch is to the perimeter of the unit, etc. But I just don't know at this point so I'm going to err on the side of more accidental clicks based on past experiences with this format on other networks/publishers.
That's what I'm afraid of. That China will push a "race to the bottom" not on just prices per se, but on lower prices with poorer quality batteries that hold much fewer charges and degrade faster, making you want to dump your EV battery after 3 years. But everyone will be too focused on their promotion of "cheap long range EVs" to notice.
> We're not placing responsibility on the children, we're placing responsibility on the parents

Here's the quote that I replied to, the ONLY quote that I replied to, the ONLY thing that I was discussing:

"(Shrug) When I was a child, I was taught not to play in the street"

And that quote kinda sounds like placing responsibility on the children. "Here's the solution: Simply have parents who teach you responsiblity. That's what worked for me."
Another major issue I have had with Go is database connectivity. The db drivers are really lackijg for Go. Makes it tough for those of us who use Teradata or Hive.
PostgreSQL and jsonb might make it a more seamless migration that some may think:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_...

JSONB values are indexable and queryable, so there aren't very many downsides.
What? This is like saying requiring iodine created bifurcation in the salt industry? Salt, never the less is a commodity (exceptions for pink Himalayan salt, etc.) Taxi services are similar. Just for context, we used to have thousands of local taxi operations, so it's not like we don't have experience with bifurcation and further, these "platform" taxi services were an additional distinct bifurcation into the traditional industry.
Mmm, I think your brain smears consciousness over a short rolling period of time. It has the machinery in there already because it has to coordinate signals from your extremities which can take a hundred or more ms to propagate to the brain.

You might find this experiment interesting [0] where a scanner can see that you've made a decision slightly before you're conscious of the fact that you've decided. Also Joe Armstrong (creator of Erlang) has an interesting, if not especially scientific, post [1] looking at the brain and consciousness from something of a distributed systems (Erlang bread & butter) perspective you might find interesting. (That said, since I sometimes wake up 1-5 minutes before the alarm, I don't completely buy his explanation, but it's still an interesting read.)

[0] http://www.wired.com/2008/04/mind-decision/
[1] http://joearms.github.io/2015/03/02/Waking-Up.html
Separate houses and grass don't provide any meaningful sound protection. They may get you down from "100 offensive sounds per day" to 10, but that's far less effective than just building proper insulation.
Starving the beast doesn't work -- programs and infrastructure you want funded aren't and programs you don't want supported are fully funded. This has always been the way. Furthermore, under funded governments tend to much more corrupt.

You also can't lower taxes without hurting employment and nobody wants higher unemployment.
Even if you want NoSQL I'd use RethinkDB over Mongo any day. Way better query language, real-time support, and relational/regular SQL-like stuff.

https://rethinkdb.com/docs/comparison-tables/
While you're shopping at amazon there are $25 class kits that come with a water filter, backflow preventer, and pressure regulator. That's what I have on my container garden.

Drip emitters are the kind of thing I should be 3-d printing but at $5 for 50 or whatever the going rate is...
Computerized knitting machine from 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q4tPYavChI

Knitic: open hardware, open source knitting machine (though you still have to push it by hand, the actual pattern knitting is computerized)

http://makezine.com/2015/01/07/circular-knitic-an-open-hardw...
StealthSeminar. Automated Webinar platform. Awful value for money, awful UI. Buggy.

Problem, it's arguably the best of the bunch which just shows how bad things are.
Ok. That's not an issue. Sometimes we vote against our self interest (tax increase, equality, etc.) It's okay.
The article is interesting, but title is fud.
Besides, all this is not unexpected:

> How does MongoDB ensure consistency?

> Applications can optionally read from secondary replicas, where data is eventually consistent by default. Reads from secondaries can be useful in scenarios where it is acceptable for data to be slightly out of date, such as some reporting applications.

https://www.mongodb.com/faq
> Arguing that qualia don't exist because you can't observe them externally is like a blind person arguing that I can't possibly see a broken pencil because they can feel the pencil is solid.

This is what makes me wonder whether some of us are, in fact, p-zombies: only a blind person, someone who doesn't have visual experiences, could argue that visual experience doesn't exist, and similarly it seems that only someone who doesn't have subjective experience could argue that it doesn't exist. And there do appear to be people arguing that subjective experience doesn't exist. Either I'm misunderstanding them, I'm failing to see the third way, or some of us are indeed p-zombies.
I guess my point is that in, say, Tcl, you pretty much just worry about calling out to the C code and if it takes 2 seconds to process an image or whatever, so be it. You merrily go about your business once the call returns. In Erlang there's more to think about.
As soon as a system reaches a given size, not having static types becomes unwieldy. Go's type system is great. Though my code still uses the var type declarations.
> Which was created to combat the problem of grandma kicked out of her house because she can't afford her property taxes. How do you get around that?

No, it wasn't created to combat that problem; if it was, it would have (even had the same general approach been used) been narrowly drawn to residential property, and maybe even only to properties that are primary residence of the owner.

> How do you get around that?

Lots of ways, including going to full value annual assessment of all property, but allow, for owner-occupied primary residences, deferment of taxes in excess of the lesser of the total tax due in the year of sale [0] increased by 2% per year since the sale or some function of the owner's income (the exact function is an implementation detailed) to be deferred until the property is sold [0], with the taxing authority acquiring a lien on the property.

[0] Note that you can expand "sale" to include the same kind of improvements that allow new assessments under Prop 13, as well.
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Let's put this into perspective. We started with custom analog, RF, and then digital parts that were a pain to build. Then, reconfigurable logic came along to help prototype digital easily. FPGA's turned it into a revolution that keeps making waves with creative applications. I predicted and hoped we'd see clever engineers come up with FPGA's for analog and RF. Next, we had FPAA's to easily prototype analog functions. Sure enough, Lime Semiconductor followed with FPRF: field-programmable, RF tranceivers for software-defined networking. I figured they'd do all the usual stuff but waited for the surprise.

Now, this use of FPRF qualifies for that. I'd have never thought to put high-quality video on the ham bands. Just hearing about that gives me ideas now that I know it's feasible. It's really an amazing demo that shows the power that this tech puts into people's hands and how such enablers can create unforseen innovations. I might email it to Lime with a suggestion to showcase it as a case study.

This is outside my field where I can't directly build on it. Yet, I did collect a link for anyone interested in building on Lime's stuff. It's below. Any other really good ones people reply with I'll add to my collection to share on related threads.

Myriad RF
https://myriadrf.org/
I think this is a common pitfall though: people start off thinking they don't really have relational data and then realize they actually do. Now they have a pile of code integrated with a DB that doesn't do relations well and can't be ported easily and then encounter cool bugs like this. No bueno.
Thanks for the summary of what's going on. I remember when the news broke, but I haven't seen much about what's going on since then.
So, here is just a little bit of amateur desk research into some things we might be able to gather from the information:

The FAA flight advisory provides the coordinates and the nature of the GPS signal disruption, which is centered near China Lake, and has expanding rings of area, each of which rises in altitude. For the pilots out there, imagine the classic upside-down wedding cake shape. Or cone with its point at the ground.

This would seem to indicate some kind of broadcast or interference from a source that is located at the ground, propagating line of sight with larger radii with altitude. Rather than something to do with the satellite itself.

The center of the coordinates are 360822N, 1173846W, which is in a big empty desert area, just south (SSW of Darwin, California), see here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/36%C2%B008'24.0%22N+117%C2...

It could of course be some kind of antenna, or even a flight that is producing this signal. But there's also an interesting long V-shaped two-legged testing(?) facility just to the east of these coordinates, which you can see in the Google Earth image. I might be mistaken about what that facility is, because aeronautical sectional charts also show a mine in that area, but this doesn't look like a mine site. Also there are a bunch of vehicles that look like Humvees on the pad nearby. And there are three antenna looking structures at the north end of the paved line.

Anyway, it's interesting to speculate about.
This is the best pithy response to this argument I've seen, thanks. Can't wait to bust it out next time.
townhouse is almost a house in that regard, now try a highrise where you can't choose quality construction. once when i rented appartments on the sixth floor i had to call the police to stop an argument happening on the 4th floor in the middle of the night. and i'm not even talking about some kids showing off theirs 'sporty' bikes/cars at 2am.
The problem is no serious competitor wants to try because of the specter of U/L deciding to comply and showing back up.
For those who thought there was any real difference between Labour and Tories ... this is you wake up moment.
Not so rare that it doesn't have a Supreme Court case[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
Is there some further info you could point to?
Muggles don't care about decentralization or freedom or privacy. They want to press a button on their phone and something happens, no matter the consequences.

There are risks in everything. The only thing any ridesharing app at the end of the day can truly offer consumers of any meaningfulness in terms of driver / rider security are public ratings on both from all their previous customers and clients. Anything else is some artificial gating metric that tries to break people down into historic footnotes.

I hope that AC has such a feature, but even if it does not if its an Ethereum app you can very easily include ratings per contract.
That's a call for thick walls (including/especially party walls, floors and ceilings) and triple-pane windows, not restrictions on density. Unfortunately, due to the real estate industry's fixation on square footage and granite countertops to the exclusion of any other measure of quality, that's not likely to happen in most places.
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Holy fucking amazing!
Being able to know someone's caste has nothing to do with it. It's the willingness to see someone else as an "other" rather than part of your own group that allows you to dehumanize them. The caste system teaches people to become desensitized to the suffering of those around them, which is a precondition for the behavior described in the article.
Well, if they had more money they could build two gigafactories. So money can definitely help them scale up.
I bet installing that thing, programming, and feeding it is at least an order of magnitude more time consuming than the actual farming by hand.
bradfitz created that graph from his subjective experience, and he was talking about the state of things in 2009.

FWIW, here's the Go project lead congratulating Rust on their recent birthday: https://twitter.com/_rsc/status/732379957129826305