skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW that is the wrong question. People are opposed to change.

So Sunnyvale has been building a number of apartment buildings and condos around. There has been tremendous back pressure for existing residents (not me but I'm a rarity it seems). The root of their concern is that they don't want the neighborhood experience to change from what they know (or knew) to something they don't know. I talked to some folks who had moved into the apartments near downtown Murphy street. They loved them, easy access to Caltrain, lots of things to do and places to go, they are excited about future growth.

The issue in Sunnyvale at least is that people don't seem to internalize that things change. They won't acknowledge that their cute little bungalow house used to be an orchard (where only birds and perhaps squirrels lived, had we given them a say at City Council there would be no houses anywhere!). They will argue strongly for their values and their memories and opinions of what is "right" and what is "wrong." Meanwhile we have people in their 20's and 30's who don't want to own a car, they want tight walkable spaces with an easy way to get to San Francisco or the airport. Now maybe 20 years from now those same people will be resisting even denser housing or something I don't know.

We could easily build 200,000 market rate dwellings on existing, unused, parcels in Sunnyvale and house close to half a million people in them. But for folks remember empty streets and quiet drives, those people are going to be really really unhappy.
Quora answer to “I have just gotten accepted into MIT. Should I go?”
Just out of curiosity… whaaat does this comment mean? Are you building some kind of railgun or something?
I'm definitely not suggesting that self-subsistent farming will be common with the product. Certainly not in SV!

But it doesn't have to, right? If it can augment your grocery trips and prevent however much food you would've purchased from being shipped cross country, it's definitely left a mark.

I didn't mean to suggest it would supplant the supermarket, only allow people to more easily grow their own food.
Open-source transit routing in over 200 regions worldwide
Being a take-my-money-and-leave-me-alone libertarian who values time and mental effort much more than money, I would love to replace the existing hodgepodge of a welfare system in the US with UBI + single payer health insurance.
MongoDB: Because /dev/null doesn't support sharding.
| and is the same every month

That's nice if you can get into a rent controlled house and don't have a landlord that decides to "reoccupy" the property for whatever reason. Renters in most areas do not have these assurances.
On a positive note, it might add some variety to Tinder.
Strongly biased comment here, but hope its useful.

Have you tried ToroDB (https://github.com/torodb/torodb)? It still has a lot of room for improvement, but it basically gives you what MongoDB does (even the same API at the wire level) while transforming data into a relational form. Completely automatically, no need to design the schema. It uses Postgres, but it is far better than JSONB alone, as it maps data to relational tables and offers a MongoDB-compatible API.

Needless to say, queries and cursors run under REPEATABLE READ isolation mode, which means that the problem stated by OP will never happen here. Problem solved.

Please give it a try and contribute to its development, even just with providing feedback.

P.S. ToroDB developer here :)
I'm the tech lead of the AMP project.

Our work was mostly related to ensuring that native scrolling of the main page works as expected when the finger touches the ad iframe. This is non-trivial and most implementations do it by forwarding touch events from the ad up to the page, which then feels laggy and leads to touches that are interpreted as clicks.
Ok, I more or less agree with you here. A car is not a fundamental object, it's composed of many layers of constituent objects which eventually resolve down to fundamental particles and forces. And if physicalism is true, then consciousness also is not fundamental, but ultimately resolves down to fundamental particles and forces also.

I don't know whether physicalism is true. It certainly seems like the best overall account of the universe that we currently have, but if there is a chink in physicalism's armor, consciousness might be it. Might. But, you're right, there's a huge leap between "might" and "is".
Not to mention that Uber already has a VIP concept in their product that's quite interesting. Pairs frequent customers with the highest rated drivers.

Amusingly, in less Uber dense neighborhoods in NYC (i.e. anything that's not Manhattan) Uber VIP is a worse option for getting a quick ride. For me, when I'm in the outer boroughs I opt for regular uber x, but when I'm in Manhattan I do Uber VIP.
I would enter it.
Can you actually get full performance out of that? I thought the bottleneck these days is the CPU which maxes out at 40 lanes at the high end. This only gets you 1x16 and 3x8 even if all the slots support 16 lanes.
Noticed how I referenced 2 proper RDBMS in my question? Then how you proceeded to introduce another flavour-of-the-month
I would enter it. (And he wasn't the first emperor. He was the first emperor of the Qin dynasty)
I can't imagine even a minimal graphics library providing "camera, vertex geometry tools, shaders" but no texturing. Even a lightweight wrapper over a graphics API like OpenGL or DirectX will have texturing support.

"Most of what an engine do, or should really do, is shader management"

Can you expand on this statement?

Either way what you seem to want is so minimal there's a probably a few libraries that you can use. OpenSceneGraph, VisualizationLibrary, OGLPlus, etc.
Thank you for your reply. Looking forward to trying out the Windows version.
> 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.

Dude, it's been feasible since the 1960's, and cheap since home video equipment became common in the 1970's. Old fashion NTSC signals are just simple AM modulators, dirt cheap and dirt simple to build. (OK, I admit that a VSB transmitter requires an interesting filter, but not out of the question, and more-or-less optional unless you are running high power.) Also, some hams have been doing NTSC over FM for quite a few years (SITN used to run over FM).

Modern digital video is also pretty much plug-and-play these days, although building a transmitter from scratch with a half dozen transistors isn't a thing.
The article presents the increase in one of the charts. They're measuring volumetric density though (Wh/L).
> I've always wondered how necessary something like Uber or Lyft really was.

Not necessary at all. Austin got by for nearly a century of automobile use without one.

> I always felt like something like craigslist, but with an ebay-like "95% driver approval rating" would do the job well enough. Sure there are people that won't use it for security reasons and lack of standards, but if that's the case an alternative should prop up that ensures these things with standards for their drivers. One being cheaper as all funds go between driver and driven, the other providing a middle man that spends some of these funds to filter bad actors.

So a private tax to not be murdered? Makes sense. We could also move to regulating our food supply like this - you could buy your food through a service that would vet it for evidence that it hasn't been poisoned or adulterated with broken glass. In the spirit of consumer choice, maybe have a different service for each type of food, with no standardization or regulation to compare the assurances that every service claims to give you. Then, there would be a great opportunity for a meta-service to vet services to vet each type of food you choose to eat. Since all of those services would add layer upon layer of middle-men and bureaucracy, having lots of layers with an easily verifiable reputation would cost more, and people who chose ala carte, or with fewer guarantees of safety would pay less. A meta-service for the wealthy, and total lack of regulations or minimum guarantees for people who couldn't afford them - sounds like a perfect libertarian dystopia to me.

Not that this Facebook thing isn't even worse. All this to avoid the pretend horror of taxis.
1.02^8=1.17, or ~17% improvement
"A bug free setup"? Don't use passwords. Done.
One of the best parts about Uber is that you just request a ride and it shows up. The whole process takes seconds to complete, and a driver is there within a few minutes.

If I had to peruse a list of drivers close to me, find a balance between price, rating, and proximity... then request a ride from that driver.... and then have to repeat that process when the driver declines the ride or has already taken another fare.. I think I would call a cab.

The entire key to the success of Uber is the ease with which you can get a ride fast. Your idea of a craiglist-ebay hybrid for selecting a ride wouldn't work.
Did you read the paper? Take a look at Figure 1 and contrast 1a and 1b. The combination of perceptions you're paying attention to + focusing on a model of yourself paying attention to your perceptions yields subjectivity. Your brain shifting between the signals from your direct perceptions and signals from your model of yourself focusing on your perceptions is the perceptive difference we call subjective experience. I think the description there explains it quite well if that's unsatisfactory.

Certainly it's lacking in sufficient detail to build an artificial consciousness, but it's not lacking in empirical data and testable hypotheses. It's also a perfect example of how subjective experience could be an illusion that exists, and yet still convince us that it's in some sense fundamental.
In contrast, I think they're getting progressively more and more useful in light of an increasingly larger and more automatedly hostile world network.

I imagine in the 1970s there weren't a whole lot of hacks that began with "scan the entirety of ARPANET to find a few vulnerable machines, then apply vulnerability."
It's not necessarily 3D in the sense a 3D FDM/SLA printer is, but can do things like tubes and complex forms, which come out with no seams. For example, a whole t-shirt could be printed that is seamless. There are also more yarn types than you would think, including conductive yarn.

Some companies that are using the production-level technology are Warrior Lacrosse ( http://warpforward.com/ ) and Nike Flyknit shoes ( http://m.nike.com/us/en_us/pw/flyknit-shoes ).
Could you elaborate on what you mean by stream your IO? Is this just using buffered io it is there a concept I could read up on here?
Pretty much overnight the coal, gas, and nuclear industries become obsolete.

Unless you want to drive a car or fly a plane, then gas will still be important.
I love Uber, and I would never use this facebook group.

Uber is awesome because I hit one button and a ride shows up. I don't have to call anyone, I don't have to type out a message, or delete a thread, or negotiate a deal with a driver. I don't have to wonder which drivers are close to me, or even think at all.

I hit button, car shows up.

People are using this sub-optimal solution because it is the only option at the moment. It is not a replacement for Uber.
Decentralized Web Summit – Builder's Day Notes
There is no root-cause anymore
This is poignant for me as tomorrow I'll be speaking to my boss about my current title compared to what I actually do, and the accompanying wage.

I've clearly laid out what I've done in the last 6 months and how it has benefited the company (justifying the change) and what I have planned in the upcoming 6 months, to show him what he will be getting from me.

BKO mentions you should 'setup a plan', but I'd suggest putting that on the employees shoulders. If they are asking for the title and salary, let them know you're not against giving it to them, but have them explain what they have done in the last X months to feel they deserve it, and/or what they plan to do.

From there, you can discuss what your expectations would be of somebody in that position with that title. You can then help them fill the gap. But I think having the employee do the introspection first might bring to light where the employee sees their value.
Can Lithium battery supply even meet the demand if a significant portion of the auto market switches to electric?
i mentioned it because i have an anecdotical evidence right now - a friend of mine is fighting with his HOA trying to replace windows in his appartments. The only solution he came up by today is to become a part of HOA committee and then change the rules they have. i have another solution in mind - to stay away from HOA in the first place.

i bet they can be soundproof but what i see here is that the builders are trying to cut every corner they can, trying to build as much as possible houses/condos which are sold even before the construction begins (http://www.seattletimes.com/business/home-prices-soar-again-...).
In many ways, pen & paper is less restricted. You can draw whatever shapes you want, use large & small print, annotate things, draw lines between items, circle/underline/callout however you like, mash stuff in the margins...
Agreed. The definition of "fun to write" completely changes with respect to the size of the codebase, and the number of people working on it.
Ideally, Go should be pretty close to C, but currently there are reasons for it lagging behind (though there are also Go programs which perform better than their C counterparts):

- The Go compiler certainly isn't as sophisticated as the better C compilers. It looks that the code produces by Go 1.7 is quite improves vs. 1.6 with the SSA compiler and I would expect further gains in future releases.

- The Go compiler does not offer optimization levels and overall is optimized for compilation speed to, so these tradeoffs could be limiting.

- While the Go GC is very good and improving, so that the pauses are very low, it does use CPU, also while running in parallel to the program. How much exactly very much depends on the allocation behavior of the program, but should be accounted for.
Ugh. If you guys keep posting about nefarious uses with the ESP8266, they're gonna take our toys away!
Make Donald Trump say (almost) anything
As part of a larger system yes, but on their own they're only accurate for a while, as they constantly accumulate error. They require input from other sensors (generally GPS) to provide accurate location.
If you want minimal you could always use something like glfast https://github.com/procedural/glFast
If you're still using above ground power lines for local distribution then that definitely would make a difference when it comes to reliability. Just like in Northern Ontario where our solar/wind homebrew solution was a lot more reliable than the local grid. Even so, in a developed country that's a choice, not a necessity.
Better than the existing taxi monopoly. The taxi monopoly used regulation to support a monopoly. That's wrong. Less regulation means more competition. Re: ISPs.
I wouldn't mind if the cartoons were on the side. The chunking in this presentation is absolutely horrible. No ability to continue reading
> Parent described it as being able to react to every possible situation ever, but you can get the same effects by hard-coding reactions to just a few millions/billions of possible events/discussions that can happen inside a room (and with coarse definition of distinct events), and just let some person with it in a room for 1-2 hours.

Honestly, I've always found any such construct absolutely trivial to identify. I've been able to stump every chatbot with my first question. No agent that doesn't actually understand would be able to pass a Turing test issued by a trained computer scientist, even if limited to 5 questions.
>I imagine in the 1970s there weren't a whole lot of hacks that began with "scan the entirety of ARPANET to find a few vulnerable machines, then apply vulnerability."

The RTM worm (1986?) springs to mind.

Eugene Spafford write up: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1701&...

A different write up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5302924

With Microscope and Tweezers: http://www.mit.edu/~eichin/virus/main.html
pranks that surprise people, ok.

pranks that waste somebody's time, not ok.

I never want my time wasted, and I know that I can be fooled, there is no real challenge to wasting my time.
I don't really think a sentence as flippant as that one can be considered "ordering"... and it if does, then I order you to stand up for your opinion with words, rather than downvotes.

Really, I just think the guy's just very opinionated and is expressing something that's very important to him. Principle of charity and all that.
"dojo"?
This is clever, and I applaud CNC principles being applied in such a unique way. But once the planting and prep is done (which takes a few hours max for me to do by hand) I now have a several thousand dollar watering can.....

Make no mistake, this is where agriculture is heading and the people behind this are obviously clever and innovative. I just don't think this is a very compelling product (outside of the "A robot planted my veges" kudos)......yet.
Speaking for all American men: we know.
There is no reason to guess at these numbers OR to Google for other people's guesses. The sales figures to 5 significant digits are in Tesla's 10-K report. For example:

During 2015, we achieved significant efficiencies in Model S production and produced 14,037 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2015. We began production of Model X in the third quarter of 2015. We plan to deliver 80,000 to 90,000 new Model S and Model X vehicles in 2016.
Powerpoint is not compatible with mobile either.

It's software for people giving talks, not for you. the fact that people can see it online is just a bonus.
Why in the world would an area with 100% employment want to add jobs?
Forget about existing banking interchange formats which (from personal experience) wells fargo both doesnt supportOFX or implements poorly QFX, they should definitley define a new API and be a leading stakeholder.
You are not the user.

The user of the software is the person giving the talk.
Yeah, RF is out of my expertise a bit. I've been looking into non-digital hardware stuff for a few months to a year now. I figured I'd get some useful feedback.

Let's flip it in a different direction. What have you found to be the most interesting and noteworthy applications of FPRF for a hobbyist and/or manufacturer? What examples should I pass along to people wanting to tinker with them or push the envelope?
I--and I suspect many others of my generation--wonder a great deal about this trumpeting idea that "Debt is good! Take on debt! All hail our moneyed overlords!".

The article makes the point that debt is taken on expectations of future growth, and that it is in fact what enables the creation of engines (personal or commercial) to realize that growth. I think that that's a crucial point to make: debt itself is not terrible.

The author though fails to really explain (beyond a slight waggling of eyebrows and insinuation that it is peoples' own fault) that the future payoffs look worse and worse. Anybody who saw the housing market tank in '07 will never assume (one hopes) that their homes are going to be worth anything near what they paid for them. Anybody who was ever had been smacked around by the arbitrary cost structure of American healthcare is not going to assume that that debt will be managable.

Hell, anybody who is currently dealing with the rolling boulder of debt from going to a top-tier school and studying something useful is still acutely aware that things might not pan out.

It's absurd to pretend that somehow taking on debt builds character, that it allows access to opportunities (empirically shown to be unlikely at best), or anything else.

Don't buy what they're selling, credit or not.
It wasn't luck.

The absurd amount of money poured into green energy the past decade has made a difference. Both government, and stock-market. Green energy is definitely riding high right now with easy money.
I always find myself hoping that someone will come up with an e-ink notepad of some kind with multiple pages. If you've ever used a BoogieBoard, you get what I'm looking at. The killer for me, and the reason I never use a paper notepad is because it can't be cleanly erased.
Look at the future. You say there aren't enough leads per month from the current team.

Perform sales yourself or hire someone. Use that performance as a baseline against which they get equity. If they underperform you have facts rather than feelings to start to talk about equity. If they overperform you'd like to have them in the team after all.
I feel like MVP design winning is the market clearly deciding that it values features over stability. I'm curious if the economics of this will change when / if we come to the end of exponential hardware growth.
Ozlo opens Seattle office to help develop ‘personal’ AI chatbot
I think I agree with parent - if the premise is that the units we're dealing with are the functions, then I want to usually access `/function`, and `/function/revision` is being more specific.

I get what you're saying, but it seems like the URL mixes where you're coming from with where you want to take us.
Erm, the "precision farming" use HUGE fields of monoculture crops and pesticides.

Can't see much precision there.

With precision you could do small fields with trees and bushes (with fruits) in between and need no pesticides ... all in all, a farm could then be also a nice place just to walk around and enjoy nature.
Like some bio-farms are allready today, the problem is just, that the human labour needed to do it is huge - with robots it might be possible to go all bio - and still feed everyone!
> if I have to think

It's not for you. You are not the primary audience. The user of the software is the person giving the talk. The fact that the slides are online is just a bonus.
The Ring Programming Language
Introducing Pebble Packages
Because Postgres doesn't have any clustering / HA features. So out of the box it doesn't scale well.
Oh I see. Yes, in that instance, I think you are probably right. Generally speaking, people like to cause the least overall disruption even if the outcome will be sub-optimal. I might be wrong, but I think in the case of stopping a thief or asking someone to be quiet on the train, there may be a fear of not being able to control the situation. So the disruption may escalate. For helping someone who is injured or comforting a lost child, there is less fear and people seem to act more quickly. Even as I write this, I'm not entirely sure of the distinction, though. It is strange :-)
Multiple ridehailing companies have sprung up, but that's not a solution. It's the problem. As long as multiple networks split the market, wait times and prices will always be worse than Uber was. Arcade City has a chance to work around this problem by building a network no one controls. The network effects of decentralization are strong—perhaps strong enough to compete even when Uber returns.
Seriously, i love the design enough to really want a Fahrenheit version