skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abbott is the last person anyone should quote to support an argument. He wasn't voted in; the other party was voted out. His policy for everything was "No!", and once in power, found out that "No!" didn't cut it anymore. He did do a lot of damage, but his leadership was so bad that he was ejected by his own party in his first term despite them using that 'they ejected in first term!' argument in their election campaign to win power. That's kind've promising, actually... the party was worried about the public enough that they'd eject a lunatic leader.

The leadership here isn't dire, it's just boring (in global terms) and a bit of a soap opera. The country is still a great place to live. If you look beyond the media, there is leadership - for example, in Gillard's tenure, more articles of legislation were passed than in any previous government, including some key items, despite the media loudly claiming (with plenty of misogyny) that the minority government was hamstrung and paralysed.

Turnbull is not the guy I want in right now, but his leadership is hardly 'dire'. Besides, if you use 'dire' for something as beige as Turnbull, what have you got left for something like Erdogan's latest activities in Turkey?
Re: diesel pollution/electric semis (tangent)

The Tesla Autopilot crash in Florida has led directly to the Missouri governor's veto of a bill to allow big rig platooning--a semi-autonomous technology that lets trucks travel in close pairs (or more) for aero/fuel efficiency and safety benefits.

The backlash is going to get worse before broad public acceptance gets better. The rest of the US ain't SV.

Veto: http://trucker.com/blog/autonomous-tech-honeymoon-over

Platooning: http://peloton-tech.com
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Odd that this was the first post by the user.

Mere coincidence?
> that pilots are most definitely taught that pushing forward (up) on the yoke causes the plane to dive (go down),

No, they are taught that pushing forward on the yoke causes the nose of the plane to pitch towards their feet. The result of that depends on the starting attitude of the aircraft. Think inverted flight as an extreme example. In exactly the same way, pushing on the right handlebar has results entirely dependent on the starting attitude of the bike.

Your comment about the roll is correct. That is an effect of a control.
From what I understood, trim would work perfectly. It's 200 spaces not a single 200 width character.
Correct. I'll be adding this functionality into Opserver so that we can override the health check in HAProxy when we know better.
There's a single adsense banner between the big user agent string and the JSON details, and just the standard adsense code, nothing to disable it. Google might just not have had any inventory when you checked (or you have an adblocker?)

And, looking at my history, "$20-30" is accurate for the past few months, but it was lower further back. This is the past 12 months, starting at July 2015: $12.41, 4.40, 21.29, 16.12, 13.38, 12.96, 15.56, 11.52, 23.93, 26.04, 23.84, 30.56.

It's been online since 2011 and more or less trending upwards, but last month was the first time ever to break $30.
Sounds like he "does business in the US" in that case. The laws haven't exactly kept up with modern times and the Internet, but DAs are happy to apply them liberally to Hoover up more cash whenever they can.
Alternatively, you can refer to StackPrinter [0] (especially if arriving via a search engine).

[0] http://www.stackprinter.com/
I dunno - the lookup tables for stats + animations + attacks are sent via protobuf, but the 3D models themselves should be in the app.
> Americans spend a million days each year in the hospital due to injuries sustained in motor vehicles.

Sustained _due_ to motor vehicles. The base statistics also include pedestrian deaths. There's also a skew due to vehicles being multi-passenger.

Interestingly, it _is_ the leading cause of deaths for Americans between 15 to 29 years old. For females 15-24 the motor vehicle related death rate is 8.7. For males 15-24 the death rate is 21.5. From 24-75 the rates drop a few points for both sexes and then increase again after 75.

> In the medium term, fully-autonomous vehicles will eventually cut both of those numbers to virtually zero.

My point is, the statistics may be painting a different picture when viewed in the whole. Even if this specific case is true, we may just be trading one cause of death for another. There's no guarantee overall injury or "suffering" will be reduced.

> When they're available worldwide, fully-autonomous vehicles will be a public health victory on the scale of vaccines or antibiotics.

Maybe, and maybe when everyone can afford them. Yet still, even today in America, more likely to die to the Flu than you are to motor vehicle related injuries.

I'm all for automated cars, but I'm skeptical of the rhetoric that gets tossed around.
It's more that it's time consuming than boring, which obviously gets worse with urban sprawl. Sure, I can do all my "down time" entertainment, but I can't schedule anything else while I'm commuting which is the real issue.

Though many US city demographics are different to anywhere else in the world due to white flight - the "wealth donut" around a poor inner city rather rather than people getting poorer as you move further out in the suburbs.
If there were a way to collect additional solar energy in space and somehow get it back to earth, that is now a net increase in energy, which will ultimately end up as heat, being delivered to the planet. At a large enough scale and over time this would be a global warming contributor.

Solar power collected on earth is just using energy that is already being delivered to the surface -- no net change.
You do have to be the kind of person who checks your data usage all the time. If you don't use much data and never hit your limit, you wouldn't check unless you knew that Pokemon Go sucked down a lot more data than you were used to.
I still don't understand the SolarCity part. Tesla is atop the best rated electric cars, and has a good trajectory toward that product line future, with lots of innovation ahead. Successful companies like Apple focus on best-in-class products, so Tesla is smart to continue focusing their resources into those product lines.

Meanwhile SolarCity has been burning cash on a consistent basis [1], and is sitting in a hyper competitive solar panel industry, where I don't see their competitive advantage. It seems foolish to bring that business inside of Tesla, as if it failed, the debt risk would now affect Tesla's future. As many others have mentioned, a long term licensing deal or partnership avoids those risks.

[1] http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/musk-says-solarcity...
Specifically car crashes are the number one cause of death in people between the ages of 15 and 24.
That's your view on the point of math. I would be perfectly content to have a long, computer generated proof of P ?= NP. Of course I prefer beauty and elegance in proofs, but I think leveraging the computer as a tool to prove things for us is quite an elegant thing by itself.
Agree. Legacy code.
But the sentence itself it just says "line", which can mean a whole much of things.

Ok i changed the sentence to include 'train lines'

CTA buses were moving, but slowly, and ‘L’ train lines were operating, but with delays. Blue, Brown, Orange, Green and Red Lines were running normally.

Even this is no good

CTA buses were moving, but slowly, and ‘L’ train lines were operating, but with delays. Green train line was operating normally.

didn't make any difference. Were you able to get it to parse correctly somehow?
The new steemit.com alternative to reddit is entirely powered by Ethereum on the backend. It works remarkably well and I think a similar system could power a decentralized torrent site.

It might even allow for benefits like people who post torrents get tipped every time someone upvotes.

It wouldn't stop the domain name wack-a-mole, but it would allow a server hosting the domain to just host static files that pull in data from a distributed ethereum based API.

It would also allow for local applications to operate that work off the same chain so people could still use the service even if the servers powering the HTTP based interfaces are shut down.
Well honestly, the entire plan can be read as either the work of a highly ambitious genious or a raving madman.
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https://www.amazon.com/ALITOVE-WS2812B-Individually-Addressa... are perfectly cromulent LEDs and less expensive than Neopixels. Not as cheap as the RGB strips, but if you pick off more points for colour analysis, you could adjust them along the edges, if you really wanted to.
Nice work on the project!
> Legal liability is one reason. As owner of the car, I am liable for damage it causes. So legal liability laws will have to change.

This, at least in most of the United States, is not a correct statement of the law. Absent something like Negligent Entrustment[1] or Vicarious Liability[2], one's ownership of a vehicle does not determine if one is liable if damage is caused while another is operating the vehicle. Some might be under this impression because we tend to purchase insurance "for a vehicle", however liability is placed upon a negligent driver (not owner). Somewhat of a discussion of this is found here: http://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2014/06/05/249762...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligent_entrustment
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_liability
I think the lesson is really a universal one: if you let your passion for your field overwhelm your moral judgement, the weakest and worst parts of your character will be immortalized along with your accomplishments.

There's obviously no karmic justice, but that's still something.
A lot of great memories - RIP!
I've had a few friends tell me that if they got married, they'd get screwed on taxes and health insurance. It's more financially viable for them to remain unmarried. The mother gets a lot of tax breaks for being a "single mother" that they'd lose otherwise.
Not to seem naive but I work with a lot with microservices and I've never heard of lightstep...

... follow up, what's everyones opinion on this?
Why would that be I wonder? I don't see any keywords that might trigger it.

That reminds me of web filtering software that blocked my search for "java proxy", but allowed "java procy", which google understood!
> Besides direct costs for the car, fuel, and maintenance, the main disincentive to driving is how damn boring it is. What happens when we turn fully-autonomous vehicles into luxury entertainment centers? I suspect that, if we're not smart about this shift, we could see wild sprawl on a scale that would dwarf the mid-20th century sprawl we saw in Los Angeles and elsewhere.

I was just thinking about this today (and have been for a while now), but with regards to vehicle comfort.

I drive a small sedan, but have ridden in pickup trucks and SUVs. They are far more comfortable than the sedans the way they sit taller, have far more room, and feel like a small bubble protecting one from the rest of the world.

This is a danger on two fronts: safety, and comfort leading to more driving. If we continue to make cars more comfortable, we continue to abstract the idea that we are zipping around in 3,000 pound death machines, thus leading to more reckless or risky behavior.

As autonomous vehicles roll out to the public, no doubt people will expect computers, internet, and television to be front and center. Others may take naps during commutes. But with this, rather than curing the disease that is longer and longer commutes due to policy that encourages sprawl, entertainment will just treat the symptoms.
We run Apache OpenNLP which gives comparable results to this service.
The advantage of Google Natural Language right now is the Wikipedia link it provides to the entities it detects but I haven't seen it's results beat Open NLP
Would open sourcing critical software have avoided this?
A semi travelling a very slow speeds would need his own lane or it would significantly increase the risk of accidents (unless every car on the road is autonomous).

Solar on the roof is most likely rather insignificant and will also just add weight.
> The tree structure wasn't updated fully until the program was closed, because writing to the floppy was so slow

Not to mention in many cases on the original Macs, you probably didn't even have the program floppy in the drive when you were working, because with only 400K on a disk you had to swap to the disk with your document on it.

I recall Inside Macintosh had a big disclaimer at the top that warned "The Resource Manager IS NOT A DATABASE". It was originally just meant to handle localizable resources, but since it was already there it was handy for developers (including Apple themselves) to use to load any kind of structured data. And who didn't love going messing around in system and application files with ResEdit?
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I need someone to convince me that Dart is worth the switch and that it is safe for long terms investment. Having said that I geniunely tried Dart about 2 years ago. The plan was to try it for a small/admin app and then migrate the main app to Dart as well. Unfortunately there were issues with E2E testing; if I remember there was no Karma-like framework and on top of that the app froze several times on safari mobile. So at that time it was risky and it clearly had some technical issues. Now we know that the VM won't get into Chrome and it seems the new technologies(WASM, JS upgrades) put Dart in a difficult position.
Is there any reference/complex mobile webapp 100% Dart powered?
So, I think an example here will help you understand.

Let's use NodeJS with Express and with pg-node. Let's say you have a database.

1. You define an Express handler to handle a get request.
2. In that handler, you connect to a database, which takes a callback
3. You create a query on that connection, this takes a callback.
4. You then write a function that feeds the query result rows into a CSV exporter, which takes a callback (because of course it does).

You now have a pyramid something like 5 levels deep. Callback hell is in fact a thing.

However, I've found that pipeline of promises almost completely solve that problem.
>Legal liability is one reason. As owner of the car, I am liable for damage it causes.

Ummm... Where the hell do you live where this is the case?
The most interesting bit, to me, was: "Enable your car to make money for you when you aren't using it"

Things are gonna get real interesting in the auto world in the next few years, aren't they?
This was never about the "average person" (that has clearly already lost, especially in USA) but the _dedicated_ practitioner with domain expertise.

Most physical risks that one would need to mitigate, completely disappear when one _is not operational_ in meatspace, you assume this is always the case. It is not.

I'm going to stop here, I'd ask you to read again what _you wrote_ esp the parts about blending into crowds, learning area traffic patterns etc. These would be well-placed in Hollywood movies, but I fear you're deluding yourself in a major way if you believe they're remotely close to being practical.
Well, yes -- but the letter is to Niantic, not carriers.
I think you hit the nail on the head.

There is big generation gap on how the execs view the business model vs how their teenagers are using the product.

And as the new generation slowly takes over, the model will evolve.

Evolve or die right!
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that makes her more dangerous, not less. I would always prefer the devil I know...
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I'm wondering what the effect of this plan will be on Uber.
I have thought the same thing -- that trucks could be more aerodynamic. So why aren't they? The economics of freight are such that any measurable improvement in fuel economy is worth a lot. Why do we not see super streamlined semis? Maybe there's some non-obvious reason? I don't know.
I don't see how this will work though. Unless you plan to equip all those future cars with the same high quality sensors as those on the Google ones (which I've heard are prohibitively expensive).

If those sensors eventually do become really cheap, then Tesla could use them too and negate any advantages Google might have had.
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It's all a balancing act. The two main contenders are developers and scalability.

It makes no sense for a single team to run 2000 microservices that come together into a single app. The amount of overhead for managing so many interfaces is insane.

At the same time, it's hard to justify 2000 developers working on a single binary. You end up with entire teams dedicated to managing and deploying. Companies do it (Google), but it's not without costs.

If every microservice runs with the same specs (container size/# of containers), then there is nothing gained from scalability. If anything, you're probably wasting a large amount of resources if your containers cannot shrink any more.

At the same time, if you are deploying thousands of copies of of a single binary, when most of the resources go to 1% of the code, then you're wasting resources with needless copies.

The (micro)services fad is definitely brought on by the recent rise of virtualization. It's probably a bit overboard.
> Can always fix this on the frontend with JavaScript for free

Nice to see what people think of offloading work to users' systems. This kind of thinking leads to slow ensures with fucked up scrolling.
Easily, only when you have fast connections. The smallest archives are in the 20 GB kind of range for the English language, and that's without pictures. And good luck finding updated mirrors for the content, or even recent dumps.
> failing to achieve perfection

This is a straw man - nobody expects perfection. For some reason there is a lot of resistance to educating the use and asking their permission.

I suspect that this game simply needed a clear warning before download and on startup that includes an estimate of the bandwidth needs. Perhaps only the first startup with an acknowledgement from the user. It may not be possible, but if there is a way to estimate the remaining data plan limit it, including an estimate that "This game will use X% of your data plan per hour" would be a very good way to let the user manage the own usage.

> offended

Welcome to the club. I'm offended every time a developer user resources (including data) without specific informed consent. "Free" is rarely without cost, and the user is rarely informed in detail. This lack of respect for the user has grown in recent years with the paternalistic attitude that users shouldn't/can't understand technology and the developer should manage the software for the user. Often this is claimed to be for dubious security reasons.

You complain that the developer shouldn't have to do anything beyond what they promised in a contract. They can have that level of interaction if-and-only-if they inform the user properly so the user can make informed choices, and they leave the user alone. If, however, the developer wants to retain any amount of control such as data gathering, forcing updates, or using any user resources without informed consent, then the developer is the responsible party. Let the user actually manage everything for themselves in a responsible manner, or accept liability for any problems derived from your software.

> height of entitlement

The height of improper entitlement are the developers that think they have a right to spy on users, take actions on the user's system without their permission, or otherwise do anything behind the user's back.

The user, however, is entitled to business interactions free of any dissembling or obfuscation.
I'm sure they would be more than willing to supply Uber with cars but how much access/control they give to Uber of the data from the cars remains to be seen.
Elon Musk is like the cat who tried to jump from the sofa to the top of the bookcase, fell to the floor in a tangle of wildly gyrating limbs, and is now sitting there quietly licking its paw like it was intending to do that all along. Even with his brilliance he's fooling no one into thinking the SolarCity merger was actually in his plan- there are some synergies, sure, but they're easily outweighed by the added corporate complexity.

But I mean, he's Elon Musk. He could still pull it off.

His biggest problem by far (excepting, perhaps, Model 3 production targets) will be regulations. It makes a nice story when you talk about the relative risks rationally, but there's no chance whatsoever American politics will deal with the issue in a rational fashion. Autopilot may retroactively become illegal in places people currently get away with it; cars driving themselves around is a different and titanic can of worms. What if a terrorist gets their hands on a Tesla and stuffs it full of explosives?
In part I'm pointing out a problem with the frequent claim "girls are equally interested until school and work deters them", because they had years beforehand to exhibit the obsession.

In part I don't think we should encourage anyone to write software because it's damn near impossible to do well. The industry's salaries are already luring in entirely too many sloppy blub programmers who don't care about or even understand quality work. I would much prefer to only work with the minority who have always known this is what they have to do and could never have been deterred. Even if the industry were completely inhospitable for some reason, I would still be writing code as a hobby, and I see very little use for anyone who does not.
In places that have a history of subverting democracy by voting in dictatorial leaders all on their own having an institution that is supposed to over throw them strengthens the democracy so long as it's functioning properly and only comes into play at the right times.

It's easy to want a dictator when you're in the majority, they hold the beliefs you do and you're probably going to not be the groups oppressed (at first). Raw complete democracy doesn't have a good way of dealing with a majority wanting to repress a minority. So founders (at least smart ones) put checks in to balance that, in the US it takes the form of the Supreme Court and in Turkey they have the military as a final ultimate check.

edit: Source for my original post (can't edit now) of the history of Turkish coups: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/04/201244728146879...
It would seem Tesla's ride sharing service is more about getting more of the public into a Tesla with a side effect of selling more cars. Electric vehicles aren't essential to autonomous ride sharing--market share and technology are. Uber's app is already installed in orders of magnitude more phones than Tesla right now.
I am not saying don't keep a journal but ...

I wonder how important it is for most people in the world of today. I have every email I've written since about 1995. If I go read heart felt correspodence with close friends I effectly get at least some resemblance a journal. Before email I wouldn't have likely kept copies of letters I sent but now that's effectively automatic.

Similarly many people take an order or two more pictures than they did before digital picture and smartphones. Several times a year I stumble on my photo collection usually when searching for an old picture and I end up seeing a large percentage of my entire collection back to about 95. I've also had scanned all my dad's slide collection and my grandmother's photo collection.

Of course a dedicated journal would probably be better. I'm just pointing out that I get some of the benefits automatically.

I really wish I could fully backup and download my Facebook entries, comments, chats. Same with Line and Whatsapp. I used to backup all my SMS messages back when I used SMS.
> Enable your car to make money for you when you aren't using it

Gives "pimp my ride" a whole new meaning.