skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I have one of those phone mount things too and Waze is running on the phone with Maps in the background to shout the audio instructions. The pre instruction vibration is great for just that reason, to tell me to pay attention. Usually a few minutes after the most recent instruction I zone out, so when I'm glancing down at the watch I'm looking for mileage until the next instruction.

Also, sometimes I play Slacker radio from the phone too, which the phone does a decent job of interrupting the music and speaking the instruction for.

Also I have the Automatic OBD plug which audibly alerts me when I'm speeding and a bidirectional dash camera that fits over my mirror, you know just in case an accident or something.

Hmm, after writing all this out I'm thinking I might have over done it with car gadgets.
I had no idea I wanted Twitter until I used it. I thought it was completely stupid, but I was completely wrong.
IRC's federation is closed - you can't just spin up a new server and join Freenode unless you work for them. Matrix's federation is open (like email, or XMPP) - anyone can spin up a server and own their own conversations :)
This is very disturbing! Google just got caught manipulating search recommendations to influence the outcome of an election.
Well, if you replace "hardware" with "infrastructure", it starts making sense. Somewhat realistic scenario goes like this:

The CTO makes a decision to move to AWS. A couple of "server huggers" on the team start blaming AWS's "shitty infrastructure" for unexplainable latency spikes and increased downtime. The CTO responds blaming their "terrible code" for not being designed properly and points at Netflix.
The irony in this post is impressive.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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This is true and a valid cause for concern. However, it appears to me that some of the problems in research community could actually benefit from an influx of newly trained, moderately-skilled folk.

Consider the low interest among scientists in spending time and effort on reproduction of previous results.

Project proposal: gather a group of former paper-pushers with Excel experience and train them up in statistics and a scientific discipline (e.g. biochemistry, medicine, astronomy). After 2-3 years of training, take say 20% of the most promising ones and give them a grant to reproduce existing studies.

This fixes both the issue of idle workforce and of poor study reproducibility. It could also turn out to be a lot of fun for the affected. Who knows, you may even end up launching a successful scientific career or two.

Of course, this would cost money, but hey automation will increase profits which can be taxed and then redirected to these kind of projects.
Thank you! Thank you for the correction with iQuarius Media too!
Tesla Model S Suspension Failures Under Scrutiny by Safety Agency
I tend to hear the term "Rust on" (as in metal rusting). So the more rusted on you are the harder it is to get you off. The more integration you have across the board, the more rusted on you are and people can't be bothered trying to clean the rust off.
> In 2015, Weissman convened the Stanford Compression Forum, which resulted in a forty-page white paper outlining what middle-out compression might mean. One of his graduate students, Vinith Misra, worked out the math more explicitly in another paper.

The paper they link to from there (https://www.scribd.com/doc/228831637/Optimal-Tip-to-Tip-Effi...) is actually "Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency: a model for male audience stimulation". Not that I'm complaining, that is absolutely incredible, but does the compression paper actually exist?
Well, I was surprised by these benchmarks:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10404/asrock-deskmini-110-mini...
When you compare the skull canyon CPU and the i5 6500:
http://ark.intel.com/compare/93341,88184
The i5 has better specs on pretty much any aspect, but the skull canyon does way better in those benchmarks. I am told the impact is the 128MB eDRAM which acts as a L4 cache.

So maybe that's the way for computers to become much faster, making everything around the CPU go faster. Integrate the RAM and the GPU on the chip. Superfast SSDs. Etc.
so much this
Yup, fallback to polling should work fine. In future, when folks implement more efficient transports for Matrix than HTTP+JSON then Matrix itself could be quite a compelling open alternative to GCM for push notifs :)
I'm willing to pay $1-$2 per month per podcast. What I'm not willing todo is listen to ads. I appreciate podcasts that put their ads either at the beginning or end, that way I can fast forward through them.
Safety regulators looking at reports of Tesla flaws
> tmux and screen likely will adapt to the user sessions.

This would be a shame, because: (a) Nicholas Marriott has a good point now and had a good point 5 years ago; and (b) this is a logind bug, a mechanism that is broken when turned on, actually fixing which (rather than merely turning the setting back off, again, only to go around the same daft loop in another few years) involves no code changes at all to wget, deluged, emacs, screen, tmux, nohup, or any of the other programs that are affected by this.
>> It's more effort, of course, to figure out what address is what.

Um.. at that point you're pretty much making your own symbols. So I don't know what your point is.
Jennifer Lawrence tapped to play Elizabeth Holmes in new movie about Theranos
From the title, I guessed this would be some attempt to spoil or camouflage the profile that google keeps on each user, thus decreasing the value of profiles, thus fighting back.

While I expected the attempt to be flawed, according to mmastrac's analysis, this is a joke. (And a pretty 'meh' one, at that!)
Yes, except for the "genetically engineered" and "designed for removing CO2" parts. (Presumably "designed for removing CO2" means "designed for removing more CO2"...)
True. I was mostly thinking of the situation where you have some money saved, and want to make it last. In that case, showing a bank account balance might be sufficient. You'll have to decide yourself whether you think it's worth choosing a shorter lease and breaking it or living with it if you get another job, or trying to secure a month-to month deal for the short term.

If you don't have enough money saved to even do this, I'm not sure staying in an apartment in SF is a good idea anyway. Probably better to couch-surf if you can swing it, unless you are fairly sure of a new job very quickly. Anything to reduce the outlay on inflated SF housing costs, keeping in mind that if you range far enough, you might find a small studio for half or third the SF cost.
Use incognito window to see what this is going to do
I think it's good that people in the actual tech industry and startup eco system can laugh about themselves. It's healthy. The day they/we stop laughing is the day we have a problem.
I found this part very interesting:

In the case of the Model S’s suspension, Tesla took care of repairs for some customers who complained to the company, on the condition that they agreed in writing not to talk about the issue or how Tesla dealt with it. The agreements, however, stirred up discussion on online bulletin boards.

Dailykanban.com, an auto industry blog, posted excerpts from what it said was an agreement. It said, in part: “You agree to keep confidential our provision of the Goodwill, the terms of this agreement and the incidents or claims leading or related to our provision of the Goodwill.” “Goodwill” is the term Tesla used to refer to any repairs or compensation it made because of a suspension failure.

The agreement posted on the blog released Tesla from any liability and barred the car owners from filing legal proceedings against the company.

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More and more I get the sense that Musk is in firm control of everything I read about his companies.
Because when you're browsing the web on your phone and you come to a page and you get a giant banner that says "HEY INSTALL OUR APP" what do you do? If you're 90% of the world, you hit the close button on that banner.
Earlier discussion, 8+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11859018
stylish adaption:
https://userstyles.org/styles/128819/secret-vision-requires-...
This article might have had some resonance a couple of years ago. Today it's just not the reality. Mobile apps are running into major engagement issues. App Stores are loosing their value prop and running towards web-like SaaS pricing models (Apple's hand was basically forced here).

On the other hand, mobile web browsers are way better than they ever have been. Desire to maximize web performance instead of allowing bloatware JS and ad cruft is at all-time high of industry awareness. Many mobile apps are "hybrids" anyway. Basecamp 3's new mobile apps are good examples of how you can create a pretty solid experience with a sensible mix of native and web-based functionality.

In other words, the open web is actually in better shape now technologically than several years ago. If only the big VC-backed SV startups would see that instead of chasing their tails trying to grab app users' ever decreasing attention.
Privacy through noise? through obfuscation? I need a word for this
Warning: people should know this is NSFW for anyone with a company that monitors your web usage.

I also wouldn't run this from an authoritarian country where local officials may not appreciate the joke.
That's fair, I guess. It seems like a relatively minor point in the grand scheme of cultural differences you will have to deal with whenever you travel somewhere else and I find it hard to relate to the desire for standardisation and uniformity that I notice mostly from people in the tech community, but I'm not going to pretend that variations in taxi legislation are a charming cultural quirk worth preserving, so nothing makes my opinion more valid than yours.
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Could cameras at various points of the plane could identify when things are not perfect? Computer vision has limits, but identifying leaks, ripples on a surface that should be smooth, and rivet discoloration seem pretty feasible. Granted, I'm not a pilot, and i've never done a walk around.

I can't figure out how you'd check the tips of the wings, but the leading edges should be visible from up by the nose. Similarly, the trailing edges from the tail.

It's also easy to be extra cautious. bias to 0 false positives. Sure it will detect problems that turn out to be dirt or poor lighting or something, but one visual check seems faster than 20 (or however many are necessary).

in a controlled environment like that, you could require stuff to be painted computer vision friendly colors. Even more, i'd bet oil reflects differently than metal under different lighting. internal stuff could be lit up with IR or some other part of the spectrum for easy detection.

I dunno. seems like perhaps a few pounds of electronics.
not counting medical benefits and overheads and significantly stretching definition of Senior and even then seems low.
How about the Web of 2012?

WebSockets changed wire formats multiple times before we settled on something. Last I checked, the API still isn't final, and changes in browser behavior forced a project I was on to abandon it for socket.io. Web Audio has been through at least one breaking rewrite since 2012, and still isn't finalized.

Sure, '<h1>' still gets me a big, bold heading (probably, subject to CSS), but playing a sound file without plugins is still bleeding edge, and subject to arbitrary breakage. But we've broken plugins (for the best, eventually), so the old solution to that problem no longer reliably works.
"Clean coal" doesn't usually mean "no CO2". It means "no mercury" or "no particulates".
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Everyone driving 15mph above the speed limit is "acting like they are above the law".
Are you hiring to come up with the crazy in this list? I would like to apply.
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Wonder about their motive to speak on my behalf without my consent.

Thank you, Jill, for your statement and I'd like to offer you my sincerest apologies on behalf of all of civilized society.
The number is fine; I take it's reasonable since we are talking about ensuring BI for a lot of people.
Yes, it makes sense that the money comes from the richest, where we assume the government is actually capable to achieve it in some way.

So you are essentially saying that the money that was hoarded by rich, now would not be spent at all, and in addition, this would raise prices across the market. This does not make any sense to me, since the assumptions that need to hold for that kind of result seem invalid: firstly, you need scarsity of goods in the existing situation for this to happen which is clearly not the case (especially when we talk about demands of the lower and middle class); secondly, demands would go higher yes, but only proportionally to existing division of classes of consumers -- thus, we would essentially have a situation in which all classes get promoted in their "buying power" except the very rich (and therefore, no big disruption to the market overall).
+1 to that. I have worked with so many great women engineers in in my career (my first team was 4 women and 2 guys, my first 2 bosses were both women and both amazing). Women in tech was not an issue that ever came up, we were just a team and it worked great.
Travel hacking isn’t just about points and mileage
That's Mike Judge satire. It's always absurd but yet quite accurate
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> I think you are mixing freedom of press with variation in the stand of a nation on historic events. My OP addressed the later.

I don't understand: Almost all the criticism of the UK you posted came from the UK, and the sources I cited came from the West if not the UK. One quote you posted was one UK publication criticizing another on the matter.

Doesn't that represent "variation in the stand of a nation"? Or do you mean some official stand by the UK government? Do they even have one? I'm pretty sure the U.S. government doesn't, or if it does it's completely unknown and ineffectual.
The problem isn't the tech. There have been flying cars--as in, vehicles that are both road- and airworthy--for more than half a century. The problem is the logistics and practicalities.
I agree with the author that bootcamp "statistics" should have some kind of standard (that bootcamps are free to use or disregard, but that way applicants will know the methodology being used is either the published standard or one that is not published). My one quibble is with his claim that no one goes to these schools to become product managers - plenty do. There are enough PM jobs that require software development experience (reasonably - the best PM's I've worked with could all code well enough to bang out a prototype or proof of concept) to justify learning to program. Outside of that, couldn't agee more.
How accurate of a portrayal is this?
If VR/AR technology takes off (as Facebook, microsoft, and Google believe it will), this provides a convenient, accessible, and cheap means to produce content. No specific use-case needs to be established yet IMHO.
Thanks for the link on JSON and your packages, great work as always. I should clarify when I said we-client, I meant websockets client to consume feed. The last time I tried, the only R package (r-websockets) just crashed my Linux box and not maintained for several years. httr doesn't do websockets, as I understand. Seems likely a fundamental way to engineer/wrangle data into R.
"Smaller files take up less space on your computer. Less space = more stuff. More stuff = better life!"

For some reason I just couldn't suppress my laughter reading this...
What’s the chance you have drunk the same water molecule twice?
The Coupland article is here:

http://archive.wired.com/wired/scenarios/capsule.html

Unfortunately all the images are broken.
I know what ETW is and how it works. I don't know what your point is, sorry.
"Wonder about the witnesses in all these stories, who coincidentally always seem to consist of the same set of people."

Yeah... From what I've seen, the confirmed first-person stories suggest that Appelbaum is probably a huge asshole, but the worst stuff is contained in anonymous accounts filtered through a handful of people, at least one of whom has a weird axe to grind about "plagiarism".

Something feels very off about the whole coordinated effort. This is not a normal way to accuse someone of terrible criminal behavior, by mixing those stories in with mere jerkitude.
Name three great for-profit colleges.

Ok, name one.

Now you see the average for-profit bootcamps being acquired by traditional for-profit colleges.

The duty to make financial returns for investors necessitates extracting money from students. Like an ecosystem with the oxygen slowly extracted out, the good things happening there eventually die.

I believe the only two non-profits in this space are Ada Academy in Seattle and our Turing School in Denver. At Tuting, we believe in a world where the people building technology represent the people using it. We'll still be here in 10, 25, and 100 years working towards that vision.
User experience is generally much better in native apps than in websites, though. Native apps match the look and feel of the native platform, with all of the network and performance benefits that entails. Native apps can integrate with the platform to a degree that web apps just can't.
So you link to bgr instead?
well, Matrix is Latin for 'womb', so it's fairly safe to say that the word is heavily overloaded already. Given we have the top google slot (having gone incognito) for Matrix Chat and Matrix Protocol etc. I'm not /that/ worried...
She forgot #8: Be Lucky
Saw this video link on Twitter about Perkins and the early years

https://vimeo.com/105745528
Gilfoyle and Dinesh are just like real life brothers. The rivalry and Gilfoyle mocking Dinesh are what brothers do, not real rivals.
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It's refreshing to hear so much competence from a part of a government ...

But about the disagreement: government-apps don't need to be bleeding-edge, like the one from the article. They just have to work without glamour. So 2007 works fine for them ...
Very cool! Can you talk a little bit more about the stack? Did you guys use the stuff from Streak?
I so badly want to extend this. I want more terrible searches!
Man, this pisses me off so much I'm...I'm...I'm never going to buy a Blackberry! After Chen's comments on the San Bernadino case, I'm not surprised much. I should be outraged or something, but what am I going to do? Petition my government? BB is Canadian, I'm U. S. Not buy a phone I never stood a chance of even considering? Recommend to my boss that she not buy BBs for the team, like she was never going to do? Not write software for BB, just like I've been doing for, like, ever?
"More farmland" to me reads "highly sensitive to drought".

Warmer does not mean better if it brings with it less rain.
That protects your saved history but doesn't help with anyone monitoring your searches, like corporate or political overlords.
It seems to me that "Silicon Valley" is somewhat of a Roman a clef, as such I think it would be great if the HN readers could provide the "key". Anyone out there willing to give it a shot ?
There's an actual thing that does this:

https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
You could try this: http://emojione.com/chrome/
Enterprise apps are a perfectly normal beast for mobile development, 5MB of local storage is a joke, and the notifications you're referring to are not true platform push notifications.
Incognito doesn't do anything as far as Google or your ISP is concerned though.
Yep! And URL says 9 :)
> whereas naive unsorted schemes have increasingly ﬂaccid perfor-mance.

Oh my god
> Podcasts aren't addictive

Speak for yourself.
Hm. I'm a libertarian in silicon valley - and while I'm not opposed to making money, I don't care that much about it (I've made a net of 9k this year, I run a nonprofit that seeks to develop open-source anticancer drugs). And my experience is that libertarians very much care about right and wrong, it's just they take a slightly more absolutist perspective about what makes something right or wrong, resulting in misunderstandings when what others percieve to be a method to "right a wrong" abuts against libertarian principle "primitives" and those others can't concieve of any other way to achieve that desired end.

To be fair, there are libertarians (notoriously PT, although i think he's been lightening up a bit) who do sometimes act as if they see making money as the only right.
Clipboard poisoning attacks on the Mac
There's a post on lwn.net from April 2, 2001 about the Linux 2.5 kernel summit:

https://lwn.net/2001/features/KernelSummit/

From that article:
" The first presentation was by Lance Larsh of Oracle who, essentially, provided a laundry list of changes and features Oracle would like to see in order to get better performance out of high-end, large database servers "

...bullet list...

" The reception was "generally" positive - many or most of the above problems are well known and on the list to be fixed in 2.5 already. One exception was the non-preemption request, which was considered dangerous and unnecessary. "

J. Corbet is the author.
I can speak with some knowledge of a not-insignificant B2C company -- not my current gig -- that went down this exact same route some years ago.

Swore off mobile web in favor of pushing people to the app, because app conversions were much higher.

A satellite office broke away from the fold and implemented a responsive mobile site, immediately increasing their bottom-line revenue by 30%... and that's before doing any sort of conversion optimization.

The main office followed suit shortly thereafter... with a new head of engineering.

Native apps are no easier or harder to build than web apps. Equivalent level of difficulty in my experience, with apps being slightly harder because end-to-end testing needs to be done almost completely manually, and because the release cycle is partially outside of your control.

But for most businesses, you really, really do not want to neglect the mobile web.

Yes, conversion for in-app users is broadly higher across the board. But that's not because conversions suddenly spike when people use an app. Rather, your most dedicated users -- the ones most likely to convert -- are the ones that will install an app.

For the rest of us, if it's "app or bust", we will pick "bust".

As a consumer, I deal on an annual basis with probably over a hundred different companies. I do not want an app for each of those companies. And if you force me to download an app from the get-go, I will go to your competition.
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