skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self driving cars and public transportation are not mutually exclusive though. Think of how convenient it would be when buses and taxi operate just as easily at night as during the day. One of the reason why cabs are more expensive at night in some cities is because you have to pay the driver more to provide the service at night. Same with buses.
On the other hand, you can live in a beautiful small city like Greenville, SC in walking distance to most or all of your needs, a short drive from great Appalachian hiking, etc. for a very reasonable price. I don't think the choice is necessarily a boolean between big, expensive city life and bumfuck SC life. At least, I hope not, because I'm giving the Greenville, SC thing a try and liking it so far.
> This is like saying that American education teaches you to be obedient consumer who thinks he is precious snowflake

Uuuuuh...
It takes decades to build up a world-class university. Maybe centuries.

Certainly one day there will be cutting-edge research and innovation - the things that create a lot of value - in many countries. Some would say that China already has these things. But so what? Does China having those things mean that Europe shouldn't? Does having manufacturing there make China better at these things?

Not every country needs to do heavy manufacturing, any more than every country needs to grow its own food, or every country needs to mine its own raw materials. Specialization is fine.
linking to the more active discussion(!) and then flagging is the correct thing. If you do it before other comments have been added, this even flags the post as [dupe] automatically.
What operating systems, stacks, languages, compilers, etc do they use?
main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12135840
Whenever I hear word science attached to other words like Data-science, climate-science, economic-science, social-science, it smells like pushing up some kind of agenda that has very little to do with science. They sound very non-neutral words to me as compared to statistics, economics, atmosphere, social studies etc.
Really? This is a story of some user on Reddit. Who is the scientist in this story, what's his name, where are his publications, and how do his actions amount to the examples I was asking for?
Have you tested it?

The thrust of the JPM piece was that there was no meaningful impact to data usage.
A grad student with sockpuppets? When did he "openly advocate misleading the public" (as opposed to gaming Reddit in a stupid and ultimately self-destructive manner).
Bunnie of chumby/novena fame has this pretty great blogpost on how cheap stuff spurs innovation.

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
Which is of course part of his point. Anything that processes arbitrary user input should be designed in a way that is abortable in some way. As this particular case shows even the attempts to sanitize input can be vectors for a DOS against them.
It would nice to see this sort of thing extended to other sectors, Upwork strikes me as an ideal candidate.
Musk founded Tesla with a vision to make the world more sustainable, and not with the vision to become obscenely rich. Being profitable is a means to an end for him, and not the other way around.

And that's fine. The founders of a company are free to specify its purpose in the company's articles. There is no legal requirement that says corporations must seek profits.
> Do you have any examples of reputable scientists doing this?

Yes, and thank you for asking. Here is the most prominent example I have found:

"""“On the one hand, as scientists, we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but — which means we must include all the doubts, caveats, and ifs, ands and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change.

To do that we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This ‘double ethical blind’ we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.”"""

– Stephen Schneider, quoted in Jonathan Schell, “Our Fragile Earth,” Discover Magazine, October 1989, p. 47.

As far as him being a reputable scientist, according to Wikipedia:

"""Stephen Henry Schneider was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University...the founder and editor of the journal Climatic Change and authored or co-authored over 450 scientific papers and other publications. He was a Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group II IPCC TAR and was engaged as a co-anchor of the Key Vulnerabilities Cross-Cutting Theme for the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) at the time of his death.

An annual award for outstanding climate science communication was created in Schneider's honor after his death."""

Gee, that last bit isn't ironic at all...

> We might "see stories" that claim this; but do you have an example of a reputable climate scientist making a claim like this?

Respectfully, I feel you are verging into sea-lion territory here. One need not look far to find this. This is commonly stated in prominent scientific journals, such as Nature. If you are legitimately curious, I'll let you do this bit of homework yourself.

But I have significant doubts about the legitimacy of your curiosity, because if you were really interested in finding the truth of what's going on in this quagmire, I think you'd have done enough of your own reading to have seen examples of these for yourself. Hopefully I'm wrong. :)
> "This is important, but it isn't exactly tech innovation."

That's a strawman really. The article never made any mention of tech-innovation, only innovation of all kinds. And marketplace innovations that cater to the Chinese market, count just as much as marketplace innovations that cater to the American market, by the likes of FB and Uber.

Regarding whether this point even needs to be made: I think it does. As someone who's lived in SF, I can't quantify it, but I've felt the general perception that many people have, regarding Chinese goods/companies being cheap knock-offs of American ones.

Some of this perception is understandable: due to lack of IP enforcement, there certainly are many Chinese companies on the low-end that make an entire business out of copying American products pixel-for-pixel, and then selling it at a lower price. However, this perception is still flawed in that there are numerous companies at the high-end doing great work. As Americans, we don't hear much about, or interact with these high-end companies, because they aren't trying to cater to us. Hence why articles like this one are very educational.
Most people I know in South America use WeChat.

Edit: That's incorrect. I was thinking of WhatsApp.
It's insanely ignorant to even hold such views in the first place. It's not as if American media doesn't effectively self-censor already.
Yes, you can use ZFS on memory sticks. You can also "zfs send | zfs recv" to copy a single projects dataset snapshot. You don't need to use actual disks though, if someone wants to send you project files you can have them either send you a file from "zfs send > snapshot.zfs", or send it over SSH, "ssh friend zfs send | zfs recv".

Encryption could be an issue if for example someone uses a FreeBSD based NAS for large data files, and you want to skip the network and just access them directly from your Linux box. You can "zfs export; zfs import", but not if they used encryption. That's where I think this will be useful, because then we have one standard filesystem we can use everywhere.
Rust is a very useful and pragmatic language, and probably the best one in its niche. I don't think you have much to worry about. As things stand right now, it's not going anywhere.
Stellar Ink: prints of the solar system's status on any particular day
Not sure if it's what he was referring to, but when I was able to commute on public transit my commute was longer but I was free to do other things during that time, primarily reading. Now that I live somewhere without public transit my commute is just dead time.
I don't feel like clojure stalled out. You have to realize the redmonk rankings are using very weak heuristics to get these results. I'd rather choose languages and tools by how much they match the problem space rather than how popular they are at any particular point in time.

If you trim out all the worthless SO questions/anwsers you'll get radically different rankings on redmonk. JavaScript could very easily drop from its first place doing just that.

I don't get why people chase popularity in programming languages. That's what you do in a pop culture, not in an engineering one.
> you cannot totally disable the telemetry (with the exception of an Enterprise version)

Are we sure that the Enterprise version doesn't send anything ? Honestly I'd be ready to pay a premium for having an otherwise good OS respect my privacy.
I think this Chinese guy means machine, instead of tech.
We're suggesting CloudFlare as its one of the few DNS providers that supports SSL at the domain apex on Heroku.
I wouldn't recommend using their built-in SSL solution though and it's easy to turn off.
I fear the conclusion about colleges may not be justified by its antecedent. Off the top of my head, my impression is that some of the tech leaders who came to the US as students came as children with their parents, e.g. Sergey Brin was six when his parents emigrated from Russia.
EFF Lawsuit Takes on DMCA Section 1201
Messenger Bot for Smart Drugs (nootropics)
> should it saves its owner or the kids in front of it?

I seem to remember reading a paper postulating drivers unconsciously always try to avoid crashing their side of the car into hard objects.
> enreco HTML -> PDF generator

What is that? Googling it only brings up this comment thread.
One problem countries like China and India could face are brain drain - if all the brilliant engineers leave the country for the west. Of course, the US is doing their best to make sure that doesn't happen.
Along these lines, is there any reason I shouldn't learn Racket instead?
Most US-based photographers selling stock photos are not, in fact, full-time stock photographers, but there are US-based full-time professional photographers who do some stock photography (either with photos shot for stock's sake, or sometimes with surplus photos from other photo shoots, as permitted by the specifics of the shoot). High-quality cameras are expensive, and the relatively low returns on stock photos aren't usually the best use of that capital.

More full-time stock photographers are from places like eastern Europe, where the cost of living is lower.
"He's probably crazy to be trying it in Vermont though," is an understatement. The largest city in Vermont, Burlington, only has a population of ~40,000. He's proposing a city half the size of Burlington in the middle of fucking nowhere.

Vermonters are VERY resistant to people trying to change their landscape or way of life, and as you might expect, they (myself included) are not thrilled with this plan.
Okay let's get one part straight here. I don't believe any of this bullshit but I'm pretty sure I know a lot more about it than whatever you're making up right now.

The "mind's eye" is strictly input-only. Associated image of a silver mirror (or the Moon or my favourite, the pineal gland), which carries a reflection of the realm(s) of the Gods (or Godlike), which are beyond comprehension of mortal Man yadda-yadda etc, you can only witness the reflected image, which can be a divine/true vision or a false vision/hallucination (or a meaningless vision, or any combination thereof). Hence why the moon is associated with insanity.

I like reading about these kinds of things for fun, and because it has some weird and twisted yet surprisingly consistent logic to it (by which I mean, not very consistent but still surprisingly so). I've never read anything (outside the explicitly fictional) about it being hurtful to cats, though. And somehow I doubt you'd be able to provide me with a source either :)
Given it's from Old New Thing, I'm willing to bet clickbaiting was indeed the intention of the poster (Mr. Chen), as this title and the article itself seem to follow his sense of humor.
After reading this master plan yesterday, I came to work today thinking along the same lines.

I feel like Musk's actions are a great example of McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message". Tesla is not a car company. They're doing cars because it's a way into their actual business. He wants them to invest in solar power because it's another way that ties into a general plan.
Rethinking the to Do list
So, I imagine, they asked Facebook for a list of IPs having logged to the Facebook KAT page, and then maybe they went around asking Apple – and who knows whom else – if they got those IPs in their records?

If it was like this it doesn’t seem proper to me, but IANAL.
We know how to get things done
Why Software Sucks (And What to Do About It)
Is Phineas Fisher behind AKP hack that allowed the disclosure of Erdogan Emails?
This could be a dumb question, but is there anything stopping a large startup like Uber from being more generous with the cut its drivers get? How is it more feasible for a small company to do this?
Social studies is not a field; it is the name of a class in elementary school.

I dunno about your other terms, but "social science" is a pretty old term, dating from the 1820s. It (or the "social sciences") has come to be the standard term for the superset of economics, political science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, archaeology, and related scientific fields involving the study of Man. This seems like a pretty reasonable term, just as "physical sciences" or "biological sciences" refer to their respective supersets.
I listen to podcasts and don't actually commute in that often anyway. To the degree that public transportation = subways/busses, I don't find it all that different as it's not that conducive to reading anyway in my experience.
Or perhaps the opposite; sell only the Enterprise edition in France, with its ability to disable telemetry... at a price.
You don't have to go far from some of the mid-sized cities to get a relatively rural experience. I'm 7 miles (15 minutes) from Red Hat's building in Raleigh, and 1 mile from a corn field. My house is definitely suburban, not rural, and with the way growth in my town is going, that corn field will be gone in a few years, but there's plenty of rural land just a little further out.
Beta of Nextcloud 10 with Two-Factor Authentication, Improved Federation
Yes, but from a "business" standpoint, Java 6 hasn't EOL'd. If your business needs to build Android applications, it doesn't matter that it's technically EOL'd.

I would guess there's probably quite a few VB6 applications out there in business-land, and it's been EOL'd since 2012 IIRC. Not that most people would want to deal with them, but they exist, just like Java 6 in Android.
Commonsense Corporate Governance Principles
Vim or Emacs: Which text editor do you prefer?
Very scientific critique there, guy.
I've been using them for about 6 months now and I don't see them as a novelty that wears off.

I still use them constantly because it's way better than not. They save a non-trivial amount of time every day.

If anything, I use them because most window managers are pretty bad.

Virtual desktops are a great way to give you a glance-able view at many tiled window set ups without having to use a tiled window manager.

It's very similar to a t-mux set up where you might have a few work spaces, except you're not limited to terminals or using buggy tiled window managers.
And how are we sure it isn't recording when you're NOT saying OK Google? :-)

Is there an analogue for a piece of scotch tape over the webcam for the paranoid (Zuckerbergs) of the world?
Check out parinfer! It's a great new editing mode for lisps that doesn't require memorizing any special commands. It's built into Cursive as well as my own IDE (Nightcode).

https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
Similarly, with regards to the common western belief of poor manufacturing quality from Chinese factories, I find that this is primarily true when western companies push the Chinese manufacturers to cut costs. In contrast, high-end Chinese-designed and -built products that I've bought have been excellent. Which is no surprise, and yet so many people associate "Made in China" with poor quality.
I was expecting something like grey text on a black background from this comment, but don't pay attention to him, the contrast is fine.
Well if you're using Heroku you already have that man in the middle via their routing layer
Be careful what you wish for. In a world where physical proximity no longer matters, American programmers earning 6 figures, will have to compete against programmers from South America/Europe/Asia, all of whom earn significantly less than 6 figures.

There currently exists a massive salary gap between equally qualified programmers, living in different regions of the world. Eliminating the physical-proximity perks, will produce a massive regression to the mean.
Python Mode for Processing
As someone who has accidentally locked himself out of his own Windows device before, there is definitely an attempt limiter on PINs in Windows. You have to resign in with your full password and must reset the PIN.
This is a load of BS. They are quite capable (and fast) tools in the right hands. And they are easily (and SHOULD be) tested, in any test suite.

As proof, I submit some email header parsing code which I rewrote as a well-commented Regex which was something like 300x faster than using the Mail gem: https://github.com/pmarreck/ruby-snippets/blob/master/header...

Once you know what to look for re: catastrophic backtracking, you know how to avoid it. This is called programmer skill.
>posit that big companies are misleading the common rubes through purposely-slanted studies

That is a laugh, you are going to just assert that scientists may not posit that things are happening that are actually happening?

Why does hacker news attract so many industry shills?
I haven't spent lots of time in SV, but it pretty much felt like a newer, nicer northern NJ with great weather to when I've visited. Big sea of strip malls and suburbia.
These are all great points and ideas. And I'm instantly thinking of things I'm not capturing enough of in my videos and pictures. Thank you all!
Is he putting (or planning on putting) solar panels on cars as you mentioned? I think the "solar-roof-with-battery product" he was referring to was solar city + powerwall on a house.
Yes, but only with context. The numbers by themselves are of course just numbers.
They also had to be better than all the other competitors. There are hundreds of manufacturers from the early days that no longer exist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_automobile_man...
The problem with that is that aerodynamic drag grows with the third power of speed, so going faster requires much more energy, even after accounting for slipstream benefits that a self-driving mechanism could exploit.

For some numbers, see https://www.quora.com/How-long-can-you-drive-a-Tesla-S-P90D-... . The top comment is about racing, but the one below it lists 300Wh/km at 160km/h and 380Wh/km at 180km/h. That's a quarter more energy per km (!) for going 20km/h faster.
I agree and add even 90% sounds like conservative estimate. One reason I think is Java is good enough and the incredibly loud communities of smaller JVM languages have not produced enough libraries, tooling etc to attain a 'just works' title which is needed for most common type of development done by salaried workers.
Not sure what's implied by commune, but it seems like he welcomes people of other faiths in the community, even in leadership positions.
I seem to be one of these "work for the valley from outside the valley" types, and I, too, would be nervous taking out a mortgage in an area where I might be relying on that one job. I resisted the temptation to move to some remote mountain hamlet, and instead sought some insurance by buying a home in my favorite non-SV tech area. (Although its been 13 years since I've done any work for a local company.)

Yet, I know people who do invest in the only-remote lifestyle, despite the stress when they are in between jobs. They must have nerves of steel.
I don't know, but they expend billions of VC dollars subsiding rides to get market share. Maybe they could change strategy and expend the same money lowering their share in the rides. Probably the first strategy worked better for them until now.
Okay, you're not one of Charlotte's kids.
Boston’s Methadone Mile
is there something particularly noteworthy about this release? it just looks like some standard big fixes and the ability to get the http version from the api.
if someone can spin up a usable gui, charge enough to make a living without compromising on performance, promise some longevity and a way to export of my stuff I would probably pay for that, I loved pipes, the GUI was a big deal for me.
Overtones
These communities aren't exclusively for Mormons. I think k he said gay people could hold some kind of leadership position.
> Regarding Qt licensing concerns: couldn't you just use PySide instead?

At the moment, PySide is still on Qt4. If that was fine, then that would be a possibility. PyQt supports Qt5.
Dave McClure: Everybody Assumes Viral Is the Only Good Way to Acquire Users
The issue at hand is not that one side thinks it's incorrect and because of that it doesn't deserve first amendment protection. The issue at hand is that allegedly - not proven yet, but there are strong indicators - Exxon mobiles scientists were aware of the dangers and despite their knowledge, Exxon mobile lobbied and lied about the issue. It's at least questionable if lying by a corporation to sell products and influence policy should be protected as free speech.

Now, you could use a different line of lobbying: We're aware that using non-renewable carbon based energy sources are an issue, but they're the best we have and the benefits outweigh the costs. This wouldn't be lying despite better knowledge and certainly be protected. That would also be about policy decisions (what do we want and which risks do we accept) which is a valid target for lobbyism.
Your example quotes Schneider as recommending honesty, explicitly, while admitting the utility of simplifying the story for the public. Not really an example of what you were claiming.

I'm not familiar with the term "sea-lion territory", sorry.

"This is commonly stated in prominent scientific journals, such as Nature."

I don't think so. And I'm not surprised that you can't come up with an example.
How one chat bot totally changed my opinion of bots
I think it's more about the culture you're surrounded with. From visiting that area several time I personally know that I don't want to be immersed in that culture. There isn't necessarily anything wrong with it that couldn't be avoided, I'd just rather live around different defaults.
Unilever buys DSC for $1B
The RT tablets were created because ARM processors were the only ones at the time hitting the benchmarks for tablet power consumption and form factor. It was entirely a play to get Intel to spend more money on x86-compatible tablet and mobile processors and it worked. The lockdown on the RT tablets was the simple basics of different processor architecture and very few Windows applications with working ARM builds.
For internal business apps - or even b2b tools - 10 is probably plenty. There's a lot of premature optimization around.