skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most interesting (though unsurprising) aspect of it is how oblivious are pro-status-quo people to the existence and interests of the contra-status-quo people. That also includes people that can't go through a day without boasting about how they support diversity and inclusion. They are genuinely stunned when people come out against the status quo - how could they? They must be complete idiots to be against this thing that works so well for me and all my friends! And then they're always surprised where election turns sour for them or somebody like Trump arises.

Moreover, as they are unable to really comprehend the existence of the other group, not only they are surprised by it, but they are completely unable to manage any sensible dialog with it - thus, instead of finding common ground and figuring out maybe not ideal, but commonly beneficial solution, we have vitriol and hate from both sides.

Status quo side thinks they are beset by mobs of idiots bound on mindless destruction, and contra-status-quo side thinks they are dealing with a pack of elitist snobs completely oblivious to any argument and unwilling to even deign the plebes with consideration of their needs, and thus takes anything coming from the other side as a bunch of lies only aimed at prolonging the status quo because it works for the other side.

Absent any meaningful dialog, the whole picture becomes extremely tribal and the prognosis becomes very bleak.
How is this different from all the other companies doing this?

- TeraRanger [1]

- DJI (Phantom) [2]

- Neurala [3]

- Intel / Yuneec [4]

- Aevo [5]

Then there's the work at MIT [6], which is open source (Github code: [7])

[1] http://www.teraranger.com/drone-flies-in-the-forest-with-col...
[2] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2500144,00.asp
[3] http://www.neurala.com/technology/collision-avoidance-drones...
[4] http://www.pcworld.com/article/3019468/ces/intel-demos-colli...
[5] http://www.suasnews.com/2015/05/new-collision-avoidance-unit...
[6] http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/watch_mit_drone_autono...
[7]
I'm imagining a stride which significantly changes transmitter-receiver distance or gets big body parts in the way. The Ministry of Silly Walks has a rival.
100% agree.

The "control them, tax them, make them lick our boots, what can they do?, they can't do anything about it" mentality is heavy in the SF city leadership.

Believe it or not, some people -- lots of people, actually - are 1000% okay with that. Too many in SF, that's for sure.

Campos wants:

- to be seen as someone who helped the City make more money from the fines and registration requirents

- to appease the vast majority of renters in San Francisco who feel that no owner has a right to their property, the City must be in control -- Campos' voting bloc consists of that group

The problem with objectively dictatorial behavior from government is no one has the guts to stand up to them.

EXCEPT AirBnB!!!

GO AIRBNB !!

Britain just told Merkel and Hollande (who are the real string-pullers in the EU) to scrap off and die.

Tyrannical behavior from people "who tell you what to do and you can't do anything about it" usually ends badly for the perps.

See Nicolae Ceausescu for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD-XNTVgDW0

Sometimes people who abuse their power do not lose it gracefully.

Many of us are watching what becomes of Maduro in Venezuela. The entire population there is out of food and rioting and eating dogs and cats.
The cyclist lobbied for some 'proper' roads to be build at first. The cars found them very useful.
The only reason I like Bluetooth at all is because the alternative is a bunch of USB receivers plugged into my NUC.

But I have to admit that it seems to work pretty well on my iPhone while years ago on other phones I had a lot of disconnects. I have one of the LG around the neck headsets and it's actually really good at this point.

I'd like to see more BT headsets for PC hit the market. The only ones I could find were from Turtle Beach.
Asia Pacific means all of Asia plus the Pacific countries like Australia and the scattered islands in the pacific.
Hills and any time you need to accelerate.
> Since all code is versioned in the same repository, there is only ever one version of the truth, and no concern about independent versioning of dependencies.

This sounds like horror to me: it's essentially a forced update to the latest version of all in-house dependencies.

Interesting article though. It feels like there's a broader lesson here about not getting obsessed with what for some reason have become best practices, and really taking the time to think independently about the pros and cons of various approaches.
>anti-Hispanic

Citation needed. He's talked a lot about limiting Mexico's free access to free movement of people. This disproportionately affects Mexico and Mexicans, and their media reflects it!

Having gone through immigration ordeals, it's a slap in the face to embrace illegal immigration. I put up with the law, and it hurts me[1]. Others just say fuck it, run across, and that's supposed to be OK? Or more ridiculously, saying it's not OK is racist?

For every other country that's not Mexico, stemming Mexican immigration is a boon. Of course his words are spun to make people offended. I spoke to one woman here (Guatemala) who said "But he hates people like me". But when asked, she couldn't say why, she had just heard reports. After showing what he really said, she no longer believed it.

Oh, and immigration laws south of the US are a lot harsher than the US! My daughter's a Canadian-American in Guatemala. Since she doesn't have her GT passport, if she tries to leave the country, she owes a $4000 fine for being here illegally[2]. Imagine the backlash if the US imposed exit fines on such immigrants! I only point this out to highlight the absolute hypocrisy when these countries complain about US policies.

Let's face it: A huge chunk of the world population would jump at the chance to live in the US. Their countries would also love that, as remittances are a huge business. (Mexico gets what, $2BN a month? That's perhaps 1-2M households being supported?) If the US needs immigration, then they should do so in a fair-to-everyone way, not in a way that lets people get hurt, forces illegal crossings, allows Mexico to stop non-Mexicans from making the attempt, etc. And this also selects for "not the best people". The professional people I know in Latam would never dream of visa overstay, let alone illegal crossings. The ones I do know that gone illegally might be nice people, but they're hardly the top talent the US can attract.

People need to stop being hysterical, stop worrying about looking bad, and actually examine fairness and data to determine policy. Being anti-illegal-immigration is not racist by any means, and insisting so will just result in being ignored.

1: My daughter was killed indirectly due to immigration law forcing us to go to a poor country with junk healthcare.

2: Yes I can sort it out for probably half that amount. But the point remains.
> That's just gratuitously negative and dismissive

That's the point. If you want a heavily opinionated summary that will likely inflame a fair portion of people, Gruber is your man.
Ruby array min and max are 20x faster in Ruby 2.4
15 billion disproportionate ? Depends on how many people where effected (or even died) by this. Time there cost. I personally have no idea on these numbers, and it would largely be speculation.
Array min and max methods underwent some optimizations in Ruby 2.4 and they are way faster than before! Around 20x! Here are the benchmarks.
I know that near the major universities in my region properly values are far lower because they're often rented to groups of students who are rowdy so their neighbours property values are lower since people are reluctant to buy a house that's for sale unless you're willing to either put up with it, or rent it out yourself.

The amount of off-campus housing needs increased dramatically through the 2000s as the universities expanded enrolment so many areas that weren't being rented now were. Many of the long time homeowners who lived in those areas long before student housing came there have been up in arms.
One more example of it: "The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it"[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24...

I'd expect this level from a troll on twitter, but there were times WaPo was better than that. Not anymore.
This seems unnecessarily harsh ("pretend to innovate"). The team called out a bunch of prior art and inspiration here: https://projectbloks.withgoogle.com/research and seem perfectly happy to acknowledge they're not the first to play in this space.
The main reason they are even increasing the range is for advertisers' rather than users' sake. They want advertisers to be able to "push" ads to people at a longer range.
tl,dr: Dude cheated on his wife with other people (without decency to actually get a lay out of it), convinced wife to open relationship to justify future cheating (this time with sexings), and then is surprised when a) wifey has more luck and b) gets with kid. Marriage dissolves.

Oh, and then author rattles his cup for a Patreon.

~

As Ellison, love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

If you need to cat around, just be honest about it. Don't dress it up with this theatrical new-age bullshit, don't suddenly try to "open" your marriage: just admit you like sleeping around, and make your peace with it.

There is no One. There are also no Many that will make you whole. There are a just a bunch of people that you'll enjoy the company of before you too die and turn into wormfood.

Just go out there and enjoy the fucking, and please spare us a Medium article about your pseudo-free-love hijinks.
I'll posit that globalization is the great equalizer in absolute cold-blooded fairness, where a hardworking person across the world can take your job (or vice versa).

Protectionism on the other hand creates job security within but reduces absolute fairness.

For instance, if a new law came out tomorrow which said "all computer programmers must be over 6 ft tall to be employed", I imagine wages for our tall friends would all increase by a whole lot, but a lot of us would be out of a job despite our skills.

Protectionism like that, but instead of a height limit, it's the logo on your passport. Also arbitrary compared to your ability to do the job.
conclusion -> USA is not a civilized country.
>. I have one of the LG around the neck headsets and it's actually really good at this point.

These are great but the real drawback that keeps me from going wireless is still the audio quality. Hopefully this upgrade will be the end of that.
Interesting! Are you guys doing SLAM using deep learning? IIRC SLAM is still mostly done with traditional computer vision.
Working with Bluetooth on a project last year was a gigantic pain in the ass.

Linux support was reasonably good, though with bizarre quirks and changes of tooling between libbluetooth versions. OSX was a total nightmare.

The project is currently stalled because three days before I had to head off (I was doing all of the programming and troubleshooting on the software side) my collaborators decided to inform me that they would be using a different laptop to what they'd been using for the rest of the project, and when we tried our software with that version of OSX and hardware, it refused to work nicely. We eventually came up with a bizarre pairing ritual that involved removing devices, then quickly adding them, and in a specific order, and then that mysteriously stopped working and now I don't have access to hardware to fix it.

Knowing what I now know, if I'd had my time again I would have recommended ESP8266 based boards instead of the LightBlue Beans we were using. Even though one of our requirements was low power usage (which we certainly got through Bluetooth 4), it probably would have been less hassle to just make the WiFi modem sleep for a period and then transmit in bursts.
Sorry if I took it the wrong way and jumped the gun too soon.

Microsoft is by no means an example of sainthood, but many in the HN community tend to only criticize it, while closing the eyes to similar actions of companies that are closer at heart.
Voting for billionaire real estate developer who literally spent all his working life dealing with investment banks and financing and made (or lost, depending on your source) tons of money on it is a very strange way of protesting capitalism. I can get voting for an American Chavez in the person of Sanders to protest capitalism but Trump? I'd look for better explanations than that.
I believe the poor performance of database is often caused by people who are new to the subject writing applications in such way that they do N+1 problem.
IT parks manage with more regular power and, of course, generators.

I am sure a DC like this will be able to manage in India :)
Is it brunch time?
Has there been any serious (I.e. not clearly biased by way of affiliation) study into the actual effects of the added pollution?

We're not talking smog monsters here, we're talking one chemical in particular (NPC), from one kind of engine by one car maker. I don't want to sound like I'm downplaying this, but given the kind of comments I see about this, I want to think the visceral reaction is based in rationality.

Is it?
A Single Div: CSS icons rendered with one div element
Exactly this. Sure most might go unnoticed if they ignore, but all it takes is one to go viral and really be bad. That's the kinda risk they're trying to minimize, plus yeah it looks great when you see a company "go out of their way" consistently.
Depends on context - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific
What I want from my wireless devices is not more range or speed, but total freedom from wires, especially for charging.

I remember from an Intel demo from a while ago, where they showcased a number of peripherals using their inductive charging tech, where you can just dump them onto a large inductive charging pad along with your phone and tablet without having to fumble with plugging wires into each one. That's the killer feature for a wireless device, in my opinion.
There are certainly places that will pay top dollars to hire the absolute top talent, think Putnam or acm winners. It just won't be a startup. It should be obvious why: startups don't have the capital or need to hire absolute best. It will more likely be a hedge fund.

As a whole these startups with ridiculous expectations will have to face reality or suffer the consequences of slow hiring. They will lose in the long run.
> and maybe calculate the Quark degeneracy pressure - it could be that pressure is so high that black holes can not exist

Black holes would exist, but not as point-like singularities, right? There'd still be an event horizon.
It's been a long, long time since I worked at Google, but IIRC the build system was like Maven: you could depend on the latest version of something, or a specific version, and only the dependencies you needed would get pulled from the global repo when you checked out code. If your code depended on a specific version of some piece of code, then you'd be immune to future updates to that piece of code unless you updated your dependency config. (Hopefully I'm remembering all of this correctly..)
For certain values of 'fix', specifically the value where Google/Alphabet benefits from public money, while creating their own cosy vendor lock-in.
Financials are scared of any uncertainty, and Brexit is a huge chunk of uncertainty. But what would be the real effect once the panic subsides is far from obvious.
Live-Fire Shooting Targets Meets Gamefication
Windows 10 isn't more secure. The browser runs with the same privileges than in Windows 7. People will get malware in the same way.

What Microsoft calls "more secure" is the fact that Windows Store apps, which are a micro-tiny-minority of apps a typical user will run on a Windows desktop, work in a similar fashion than iOS apps, with a very limited access to the system, and therefore much reduced risk of malware. But I do not believe a typical user will be more protected with Windows 10 than Windows 7. Except more code means potentially more attack surface.
A.I. downs expert human fighter pilot in dogfights
Can someone knowledgeable about Japanese culture explain why those war crimes were so common?
I think that's a good point, but to make a counterpoint, there are many documented cases of their soldiers independently doing just that.
I didn't suggest there was a conspiracy to remove ADHD. Only that it was seen as a disorder. That has effects. They've learned to accept it in programmers because it's so common. But what if I were something else? If my boss was able to diagnose me via behavior on corporate monitored hardware he could fire me and I'd have no way of knowing if it was bigoted. He may not even really know. It's hard to control subconscious stuff like that. Employers are already doing these things in other ways. They have people take morality questionnaires that arguably measure nothing at all. Ultimately it won't take an obvious form like conspiring to eliminate ADHD. That actually makes it far scarier. We're going to subject the entire population to an arbitrary and systematic prejudice of correlates. Simply because it's good for the bottom line of each individual business to win the hiring competition.
It's generally not considered to include Western Asia/the Middle East, though.
I don't know how MP3 works, but I was under the impression that a lower bitrate worked by compressing the dynamic range (or at least that was a side effect)
Y Combinator makes every SimCity player’s dream reality with new initiative
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Also helps with regulatory stuff
Thats why I said, "in terms of AWS costs".

I've been managing out elasticsearch cluster for the past year and a bit. It grew from a single node that also ran kibana, logstash, and nginx, and stored our mysql backups to 9 data nodes, 1 client node, and a dedicated master. I have faced issues, but never had to rebuild the cluster. For the most part, reading up on the ES docs, and making a config change fixed the issue. Sometimes I've had to restart a node, but thats rare.
Bluetooth is using the very same microwaves (much like wifi), so yes.
No, it isn't if artifacts/projects declare dependencies against fixed, stable version archived somewhere (e.g. artifactory).

Just I wonder the repository performance and the every day workflow.
In theory, the Bluetooth protocol supports up to 7 devices connected simultaneously as slaves to one master device. However in practice, hardware support may be less than this.
> Or you do it simply because you think it more clearly expresses your opinion if you don't follow the narrative that you are trying to argue against.

It's annoying when you try to change the shared language, which is convention-based, to reinforce your opinions. It's usually called "name-calling" and done for political reasons, e.g. calling climate change skeptics "deniers". Trying to shape the language to try to reinforce specific views of reality is always very very suspicious.

> All you have proved is that people claim and maybe think that they do, not that they actually do get an advantage.

Well, whether they do or not is up to them. It's the principle of democracy, liberalism and tolerance: people are entitled to decide, entirely subjectively, what's best for them, as long as it doesn't damage others.
In my opinion it is going to grow from now on, until it gets back to normal. A large part of the world is driving cars made by VW Group. Too big to fail.
Many good comments here already. One thing about the "computer literacy"-thing -- I think that's elevating the standard a bit. I prefer "computer use", as in "we need to enable people to use computers". Sure, "computer literacy" covers that, but I think it obscures how bad people are at using computers. Even young people that have grown up in a world surrounded by them.

I routinely work with people that can't leverage a spreadsheet as a better calculator - and prefer the "calculator app" for help with arithmetic. Now, I know that it's easy to fall back to using the first thing/tool we know - a hammer for every screw, so to speak.

But I think part of teaching how to actually use computers, should also be teaching people to look for the better tool, or to be able to make one. Much like how Bram Moolenaar, creator of the vim editor, talks about constantly looking for things we do while editing that is repetitive, and probably could be improved (either by discovering/looking up functions that are there, but we don't use day-to-day, or by scripting) - so it is with all things we do on a computer. It's in many ways the ultimate tool for data and information - everything can be (more) automated. If we have the right mindset, and mental tools.

In my mind, that's what "computer literacy" is about, and basic programming is absolutely a part of that. While I'd prefer to see people know how to write a python script to find their way out of a wet paper bag, even if we just enable 80% to actually automate spreadsheets, that could have a huge impact on overall productivity. Because despite the horrors many hn'ers probably have encountered in terms of visual basic, access and excel -- still far too few people are able to make such horrors in order to do everyday tasks, like sane shift scheduling.

I think we need a bit of a revival of the ugly, everyday scripting and maybe even so called "4gl" languages -- because while they often are the wrong tool when you want to make a shrink-wrapped tool for others to use (maybe even something you could sell), I think it is often very much the right tool for thinking, experimenting and making certain tasks easier and less error prone.

As a side note, a sane spreadsheet-like interface with a sane programming language would probably be a good idea. R does this to a certain extent, but I'm not sure I'd want to try to use R to plan shifts, or do a number of arithmetic things like manage my budget or calculate material use for a circular stair case and so on. I'd probably prefer something like Python or Ruby coupled with something a little snazzier than a CSV-file (ok, I would totally prefer grep, awk and a text-file -- but I think we should be able to do better).
So you think it's unfair for people in China to be able to get decent income by providing people in US with cheap goods, because it deprives some of the people in US of opportunity to sell them the same goods by much higher price and pocket the difference? That's some strange definition of "fair".
Just curious: How should people contact you given there is no information in your profile?
The Iris Automation system can see much further and track dynamic objects like aircraft, balloons, birds, etc. This article does a pretty good job of summing up why we need much more than the "bumper solutions" you mention above: https://medium.com/@alexharm/why-situational-awareness-is-ab...
Can you say that in a different way, I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Middle East is generally merged with Europe and Africa and called EMEA (Europe/Middle-East/Africa)
I've worked a bit with "the big monorepo" (though nothing like Google scale) and my impression is that a lot of the benefits fall apart if you don't have people working to maintain the build environment, automated tests, developer environments. When it takes hours or more to run tests and produce a build it can really slow the team down. The ability to force updates on dependencies in a single big commit can be really worthwhile as long as you're willing to spend the time to build the tools and do the maintenance.