skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps you should read some history. IIRC, at some point, car companies bought up public transit infrastructure and shut it down because less public transit was good for sales.

#canyousayconflictofinterest?

Linky: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_con...
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[citation needed]
That's pretty much right on the nose. Right down to my chihuahua sleeping in my lap right now...
I Am Retiring at 32. Should’ve Done It Years Ago
This book made a deep impact on my worldview.
A simple, cheap DVR that works with OTA doesn't exit does it?
Thanks. I consider myself a capitalist. I have heard SA say[0]; and find myself to agree with how I perceived those remarks, that capitalism is the best paradigm we have to structure the world out of the current choices of organization. That said, there are inherent problems with markets and we can correct for some of those externalities with other things (many outside the scope of this response) but one of which is to equalize for health, food and shelter with a basic income.

As indicated in a recent post on HN there is already a company working on creating an autonomous pizza truck that will prepare hot food in route to a location serving it hot at arrival. Coupled with autonomous vehicle technology, we will soon see the evaportion of labor jobs MUCH quicker than many expect. As we use our resources better, I find that elevating the bottom is important, while still allowing for capitalism and free markets to keep the top uncapped.

Artistic pursuits; as well as things machines can certainly do as well or better than humans, is not only anthropologically important but certainly skills we would want to retain if there were ever to be a failure of mechanization.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuijDaj8DvA
Maybe we should have a machine learning algorithm do this ? :)
Iris Automation (YC S16) gives drones situational awareness to fly autonomously
Google's Satellite Map Gets a 700-Trillion-Pixel Makeover
"We just want to preserve our culture" is the loudest racial dog-whistle I know. It's been around since Jim Crow and it looks like it's not going away any time soon.
Is there a link for this? Would love to read about it.
I've tried and really like the guided meditations (audio) from https://www.headspace.com/

There are some very short ones for free, longer ones cost money
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But they aren't saying they will blindly follow the telemetry data, just that it's an important factor.

You need to determine which feature to add:

1. One that 3 developers asked for

2. One that 6 developers asked for.

With telemetry that can become:

1. One that 3 developers asked for and can improve things for 60% of your userbase.

2. One that 6 developers asked for, but only 12 of them are using the function that it will improve.

Without telemetry data, you are playing with an arm tied behind your back.
> If pricing is an issue the question becomes,

> How do you assist small retailers compete with massive chains?

Is the problem that they can't compete, or that they don't have to? When driving isn't the main method of getting around, but instead walking augmented by potentially high-latency public transit is the main method, the cost to the consumer of small distance differences between notionally "competing" institutions becomes quite high, which means that they have less need to actually compete with one another: they have captive hyper-local markets with effective moats.
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Volkswagen's U.S. diesel emissions settlement to cost $15B
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Hobbyist builds a tiny working model of the reusable Falcon 9 rocket
Github shouldn't focus on making issues better, for the same reason why Github is eating Jira.

Like OP observed, Github is eating despite their investment in issues. If issues was a stronger pulling factor the opposite should be happening.

Which means, Github should invest their time and energy more on code side instead of issues. Improving issues will be definitely better but is not the crucial factor.

I think it's because the "issues" are ephemeral whereas the code and the community around the code has significantly greater value.
The circles feature was amazing on Google Plus. It does exactly what you want. You add "friends" to your Google Plus profile and add them to circles you create, "Work Friends", "Pub Friends", "Family" for example. Then once you share a post you decide what circles get to see it.

It was a great feature too bad no one cared about Google Plus.
It's really important to pay attention to symptoms of burnout and deal with them as a possibly life changing injury. Never ignore it. Never think "I'll deal with it after this project"

I didn't realise this when I was younger and suffered three burnouts. The first two sucked but were reasonably short term problems. The third destroyed my ability to think clearly and I'm only now starting to regain the ability to think as I used to - after a ten year break in a completely different career.

Don't ignore burnout!
The Calm app is what got me hooked https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/calm-meditate-relax-guided/i...
This has nothing to do with ethnic similarity between ests and fins. The only reason why Finland is considered nordic is that it still has swedish speaking population and it is second official language. Estonian swedes left because of WW2. Linus as you might know is from Finland but speaks swedish.
From my own experience I think it's ultimately unhealthy to justify working long hours with "internet surfing, lunch, chit chat, etc. mingled in." While it's easy to rationalize staying late thinking "yeah, but I took a long lunch, chatted with so-and-so, ..." at the end of the day you have that much less downtime away from work. I find I am much happier when I can keep those distractions to a minimum, then force myself to go home. I get more done outside of work and sleep better, resulting in being more focused and productive when I am at work. Allowing work and the rest of my life to blend together both makes me less productive at work and results in having less time for everything else.
By 1915, multiple waves of automation had already put millions of people out of work in industries as diverse as textiles to bookkeeping. But some other jobs radically expanded and new jobs were invented.

The pace of advancement was, from our perspective, staggering. A few decades before and after would radically transform daily life, not just bring a few new toys.
I listen to guided meditations. They are easy to find online and sometimes only take ~15 min. Here are some of the websites that I use:

https://www.tarabrach.com/guided-meditations/

http://self-compassion.org/category/exercises/#guided-medita...

http://www.mindfulselfcompassion.org/meditations_downloads.p...
The world would be better served if you studied how to tweak existing cities to make them more pedestrian-friendly and people focused. They are too car focused.

You should start by reading "How buildings learn." Old buildings that work extremely well typically did not start off as superior. They typically gained value over time as residents added improvements that worked well because they lived there and understood the problem space.
Sure, if I've leased the car from Toyota, maybe the terms of the lease obligate me to bring it in for service, and allow them to replace its carburetor with a fuel injector, fit it out with ABS, or whatever else. Depends on the lease, I suppose. Who owns the car, in this case? Not me, clearly.

I'm not arguing that Microsoft should be selling 1992 Corollas retrofitted with 2016-tech-level features; I'm arguing that it's the owner of the '92 Corolla who gets to decide whether, when, and how it should be upgraded or replaced. Toyota doesn't get to make that choice just because they manufactured the car; the owner of the car gets to make that choice. That's what ownership means.

If I own the computer, I get to decide what software I'm going to install on it, and that means I get to decide whether, when, and how to update it. Neither Microsoft nor any other OS maker gets to make that decision, because they do not own the computer in question.
I know for a fact that a lot of fortune 100 companies are switching their code hosting from Atlassian Stash to Github, at the price of losing tight integration between issues and code, not to mention all the headaches involved in switching. I think it's a matter of time before Github comes out with a better issue tracking system and everyone jumps ship.
> This research is a waste of resources unless...

Your vision of anti corporatism will be hard to realize in today's developed world, but this is the exact kind of use of resources that humanity needs. Would you rather YC reinvest their profits into making more money like most business do? Or invest their profits into answering questions about humanity and its potential future that are unanswered?

Also, would you really want our education to be sponsored and paid for by Coca Cola?

If we take into account science fiction, humans could establish a colony on another planet. This would be considered a city and the research could answer some interesting questions. Flying out a bunch of humans in a spaceship that takes multiple generations to reach its destination would be considered a traveling space city. This research could answer some interesting questions.
Did that last week to no avail, emailed a responding employee, got nowhere.
It might be instructive to look at past examples of planned cities that haven't worked out. I'm thinking of the original intent of what became the EPCOT theme park [1], and of the less-than-hoped-for success of Alexander's pattern langauge(s) represented by The Oregon Experiment [2] and its long-term lack of impact on Eugene, OR and architecture in general.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_%28concept%29
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Experiment
i get a feeling all these programs are doing more harm than good. anything taught in school becomes mundane, dry and boring at somepoint. did anyone ever become a history fan because history was taught in school.
> I'm not sure I agree with the premise that a beginning programming language needs to be all that accessible or easy.

It needs to be accessible with the teaching resources (whatever combination of teachers/tutors/mentors, books, or what have you) with which it is exposed to neophytes.

Language features can make a big difference in the ease of achieving this, but the right teachers/materials can achieve it with any language.
No write up anywhere that I ever found. The best investigative tool is the SSLLabs SSL test, which will show you both possible paths from the cert. By looking at which certificates that test shows the server provided, you can divine which path things are going to take.

If you find yourself landing at a root CA which is newer and not trusted by as many devices, those devices won't intelligently realise it's cross-signed, unless you switch the certs the server offers to send them up that path.
I walked from Liverpool to London. Brexit was no surprise
come on, don't bash Texas. The way Marc Andreessen just talks his book nonstop and ignores anything else would make Wall Steet deathly proud.
The very first GitHub commit, committed 10 days before the author joined GitHub
On product/market fit for startups
One of the most common frameworks to thinking about anxiety is CBT (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy). Basically there are both things that you’re doing and things that you’re thinking that trap you in a cycle of anxiety.

The symptom tsunamifury talked about is what we call Catastrophizing – that is you over-estimate / over-value negative consequences over positive or neutral ones. It’s not just “If I stop working or slow down, I might not make as much money,” it is instead, “If I even take time to slow down, all my peers will be better than me or I might miss that one opportunity that’s going to make or break my career and then my professional life will be over and I might as well spend my time making software for businesses in the middle of Oklahoma.”

What I’d try and get patients to do is to rationally evaluate the evidence that any or all of these might happen. Is one missed connection really going to make or break your career? Is one failed pitch? Do you know of any founders/devs who failed big and recovered? What makes you think you couldn’t do the same.

If you want to know more, here are some good places to start – mix of websites and articles. (Apologies in advance for the potato quality on some of these links – I’m slowly dragging my field into the 21st century.) I’d also recommend going to see a therapist – even if it’s just for a few sessions. It might be helpful to get an outside viewpoint on your current situation.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-practice/201212/cogn...
http://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/step1.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263389/
http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/anxiety-treatment.aspx

(Source: Me, I'm a psychologist who's done therapy with clients and now makes mobile apps. I tried to make this as HN-oriented as possible)
Simply use the path object created by anime.path() as a value of one of your transform property (doc updated https://github.com/juliangarnier/anime#motion-path)
Look at developments in Europe, they show often well how it’s done.

This is a development from 2005, started as pure residential suburb: https://maps.here.com/?map=54.3557,10.07057,17,satellite

Look at the street planning, look at how the foot paths exist, and look at that one odd park on the one side.

Over the next decades and centuries, the houses will be replaced with denser ones again and again, and it will slowly develop to something like https://maps.here.com/?map=54.33864,10.14098,17,satellite and then something like https://maps.here.com/?map=54.31908,10.12497,17,satellite

You notice how they get more and more pedestrian friendly over time – but the first one is already bikable, walkable, has a bus line cutting through it, and is still usable by car.

This is what the initial stage looks like: http://i.imgur.com/P0T2DaG.jpg http://i.imgur.com/DHhjSQ8.jpg

This is a typical residential suburb – but, as you might have noticed on bing maps, at several points, stores and services and small businesses already popped up. A dentist, two physiotherapy and a logotherapy practice, a small bakery and shop.

Currently there are discussions about a small supermarket coming into the area.

Maybe later some more stores, and some buildings might be replaced with new ones that have on the lowest floor businesses instead.
Yes sir.

Circa 1992 and seemed strangely appropriate.
First, anxietycoach.com helps with the day to day problems if you are suffering from irrational fears and/or panic attacks. This is a common symptom of overwork/anxiety and you can totally overcome it. Its mostly about working on some better habits that are very simple.

Beyond that, I know that for myself, anxiety keeps me from taking a real actual measure of my resources (costs, burn rate, etc) because as I get more anxious I just fill those data points in with a vague thought that its doomed. When I sit down, take an real mathematical measure of the situation, I am able to overcome the internal misconceptions that "i can never stop" or "I'll never escape this."

To put this in perspective, I live in the SFBay where the financial spiral here is terrible. That being said, taking the measure of reality, helps me accept what I can and can't do. Once that is defined, I find myself feeling a lot more confidence in handling even the most dire situation -- because at least I have formed a rational plan.
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Just because something can be a racial dog-whistle doesn't mean that it's wrong or that it's always motivated by racism. I'm a Hispanic-American, the first generation born in America, and I'll be casting my ballot for Mr. Trump.

Here's my reasoning. Immigration has to be at levels, under conditions, and from cultures that are conducive to assimilation. I don't think we have that today, and what's being proposed by the other side is a big step in the wrong direction. Immigration to America works when it's a melting pot. When people are coming to work hard and to earn their own way, not to collect on generous benefits that would make them rich in their home country (edit:[1]). There was a time when a large percent of immigrants went home after a few years because they weren't cut out for America. America does not need millions of low-skill migrants; we already have more low-skilled people than our economy seems to be able to accommodate. Immigration must be for the benefit of the American people, not out of any sense of fairness or duty to potential migrants.

I'm not trying to convince you of my views here, just show you that it's not as simple as calling the other side a bunch of bigots. There's nothing inherently wrong with wanting to preserve your culture or to defend the interests of your nation.

[1] Clarifying in response to rconti below: I'm not saying that most immigrants are necessarily coming with the express intent on cashing in welfare checks. I think a welfare state is just not as capable of successfully integrating immigrants the way America has been able to in the past. I suspect generational poverty among descendants of immigrants since 1965 vs. descendants of those who came in the early 20th century and prior would show that (measuring one, two, three, and four generations out). I could be wrong and even if the statistics are on my side, there's so many confounding factors that I'd hesitate to declare victory on that basis.
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> These things are only being promoted by YC because in the long run they are good for the capitalists.

More a testament to what happens when geeks get their hands on excess capital. They have an urge to do nice things. It's a sleeping aid I guess. E.g. Gates, Zuckerburg etc.
This is a key insight. So many want to talk about rules and architecture, but habits outweigh everything else. When I lived in Singapore a long time ago, it was impossible to get off the subway during busy times, because of the solid mass of humanity who were trying to get in the door before anyone else got out. When I visited later, it was easy, because in the interim they had passed a law about where you have to stand while waiting. I've lived in lots of other cities with subways, and none of them needed that law, because the people there were not in the habit of being morons on the subway.
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He said AND not OR for those features. There might be modern stuff with the AND but they usually ignore something. I had luck in distant past making type-safe 3GL's in a LISP that extracted to C/C++ with checks on. Really kludgy, though. Still haven't seen one do such things as cleanly as the old systems with high efficiency as well.
What do you think they are streaming? For the most part, it seems to be content produced and monetized by the traditional broadcast houses.
>Then disconnect it from the internet

this is not a solution to a problem. it's incredibly reductive and close-minded.
Oh,that's really true, but we can just ask random people questions what do they think about EU.

I think that majority pro-Brexit answers about EU would be: Illegal immigrants, giving money to Poland and no money for ‎NHS.
I think online streaming largely replaced the need to use DVR for anything other than rewinding-live-tv-while-I'm-the-bathroom.
Thats a Gouda idea!
"Owners will have two years to decide whether to sell back vehicles..."

So the rumor is I can drive my affected Golf TDI for ~2 more years, and then get compensated @9/2015 value plus up to $5k on top of that? Honestly, that's a terrible deal for VW.

Edit: thinking more, maybe this is better for VW than an alternative where they have to make good right away. They don't have to scramble to get 500k cars repaired or off the road as quickly, and they can spread whatever makes up the rest of their hit over a longer period as well.

To me, this does signal that we're a lot more upset about the dishonesty than we are about the emissions themselves.
I think a lot of people watch TV to vegetate, not because they are interested in particular shows.
Sorry to tell you this 4684499, but this website and most every other website on the internet knows how many page views they have and the IP addresses that are used to get to their website, etc. ...all because they have telemetry on the server. It's how they tell if something is working or not working. Not all telemetry is bad.
Tangentially related, does anyone here use their APIs? I started playing around with their Earth API (https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#earth) but ran into a bug that turns out to have been reported half a year ago.

https://github.com/nasa/api-docs/issues/63

I sent an e-mail to their Contact Us mailbox with no reply. I'm kind of hoping someone who works there sees this, because getting an image larger than the default size would be really cool.
German suburb showing the example: http://i.imgur.com/DHhjSQ8.jpg
If only the paper were accessible..
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It's punitive, it's supposed to be terrible.
Not sure what you asking about.
Do you mean if I define database structure in my code? The answer is: yes. I don't know about any database abstraction library that would provide you with convenience methods to query database with type checking and stuff without giving it the schema.
At first glance, seems a lot like http://littlebits.cc/ only not shipping yet. Might have a bit more emphasis on programming though when it's released?

Their own list of "prior art" https://projectbloks.withgoogle.com/research shows some even older "block-based" electronics kit projects.
The only companies whose options are worth 0 (zero) in your example are Gilt and Fab.

Evernote and Foursquare are still around - your options are worth less than their private valuations if you joined 4 years ago, but they are not worth 0, even after dilution. Foursquare is still a $650M company. And only in some twisted world is Dropbox not a success. They're a friggin multi-billion dollar company even if they aren't a 50 billion dollar company (the horror).

I also didn't say you're going to have a 100% stock option hit rate for companies that are pre-IPO. You are still taking on risk. But your hit rate is going to be a lot higher.

It's also rather telling that these are among the worst examples of pre-IPO tech companies you can think of.
You also want to work on your SEO. Because I couldn't find a search box that searched all documentation on my iPad, I googled

toarray site:docs.microsoft.com

That produces 3 hits, all on JavaScript source maps, for example https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/...
Eh looking just at those numbers maybe, I'm kind of in an odd area the most direct way is via mostly slow residential streets. If I swing wide to the longer highway route it's 2 minutes faster but further (11 miles ~18 minutes) and more annoying dealing with traffic (where I merge onto 40 I have to get over 4 lanes in a short time) so I usually take the slower but more pleasant route.

It was far worse at my old apartment 5 miles in 11 minutes became 50 minutes if I took the bus.

I'm in RTP which is far from moribund but Durham where I live is getting the least new residents it seems.
It runs on top of your regular OS (usually Linux for dedicated players), so yes.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11978956
> 30 lines of Perl to wrap DBI

In Java it's even easier with JPA @NamedStoredProcedureQuery annotations

http://www.thoughts-on-java.org/call-stored-procedures-jpa/
Responsive design for mobile resolutions.
Yeah, but I'd prefer the penalties did something useful, and weren't just a cash transfer to people who got lucky and bought cars from an unethical manufacturer.