skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a 300 with that shifter. If you open the door with the car not in gear it will bong bong bong bong bong bong bong at you.

But it'll also do that if you open the door with the engine running.

I always found it amusing too. For a car, the cars that have that ZF shifter are really heavy cars.

The other amusing thing is HOW MUCH WORK they put into that shifter. It's doesn't just bounce back to its home position. It's also got some kind of ratcheting mechanism in it, so that when you shift from park to drive you can "feel" the shifter clicking from park to reverse to neutral to drive. That mechanism has lots of clickety parts in it that will probably fail with time.

Why the heck did they do that?! Of all the things you could do with an electronic shifter this seems like the worst thing you could possibly do. They could have used a dial like they do now ,or even buttons. Anything. Why try so hard to replicate something - and take up so much space internally, when they could have just used the real deal?

The gated shifter that they used on the 5 speeds was a better shifter anyway.
I wouldn't build a Fiber network in the current U.S. climate for the same reason.
For me, I feel as though you need to have a vast amount of knowledge in order to code anything useful or significant. You can't just learn a language -- you need to learn a library, or two, or ten in order to finish a project. I often find myself overwhelmed by the amount of information I need to take in and process in order to complete a small task.

I've found myself looking to smaller and simpler languages and operating systems in order to get around this, but it doesn't seem to help. Whether it's Python on Linux or C in Plan9, it's the same problem for me.

This is probably a bad example, since it could be implemented in a simpler way on a different system, but it illustrates my point. I wanted to write a small instant messenger in Plan9. The most efficient way to do it is to use 9p, have the clients mount a name space, and just read/write to a file. I have to learn how to use 9p, which has a ton of data structures and functions, most of which require other knowledge about the system. I have to learn the draw library, which is also full of the same sort of things. More often than not, trying to learn how to use a library demands further research in to other things in order to understand what's happening.

All in all I feel like I'm being overloaded. The amount of learning I have to do greatly outweighs my desire to persist until I can produce anything valuable.
It's a hell of a lot classier than the mnemonic I currently use: "trying to spell fuchsia really 'fucks ya'"...

Thanks!
Horrible for you, or for everyone?
It's not clear why it's not useful? The OP said hot spots at tops of each minute, quarter hour, hour and midnight of popular tz offsets like UTC, us eastern, etc., so wouldn't he just tell Amazon "Hey, we get xx requests/second at our peak, so we'd like the ELB ready scaled to handle that load"?
Pence is actually also a terrible choice and even people in Indiana don't like him.

For the record I'm not a Trump fan either. I'd like to reform some stuff like patent law but Trump would burn most of it down.

I'm just saying that ~in theory~ Pence is an olive branch towards the middle. I don't think Trump will follow up on it in any way, nor will he be elected given the polls.
> Because of the profit margin on wireless, and the ability to artificially increase profits are so much greater.

How is the ability to "artificially increase profits" "so much greater" in a market where everyone has 3-4 options than in a market where you're almost guaranteed to be the only game in town?

Verizon charges - and people pay - $10/GB for extra data for the same reason Apple charges $100 to for a few extra $$ of flash memory. It's classic price discrimination. You sell the minimum 90% of people are okay with, then charge a ton more for the price-insensitive customers.
I feel this comment really hits the spot on the current "epidemic" of ADHD diagnosis and prescriptions. Parents are sooooo worried about their kids not being "normal" (i.e. docile and obedient) that they will do anything to make that happen. I almost feel that it was better before we had modern medicine when parents were resigned to dealing with their kids' unique character instead of chemically forcing them into submission.
This article was the inspiration for the song of the same name by Sleater-Kinney, as seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZA_7FtttRY
The point is presumably that the original, despite sounding wise, is actually bad advice which even Orwell didn't actually follow.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
-Robert A. Heinlein
Only if you take the wire gauge as fixed. If instead you use the cheapest (smallest) you can get away with, you'll find yourself using smaller wires at higher voltages, with higher resistance and so less then quadratic loss reduction.
I just flipped my blog over to AMP, which required essentially no change at all, except adding their cdn'd (but not client-cached) JS and some weirdo attributes here and there.

I run a pretty tight technical ship, so that non-cached JS ends up being more than half the page weight. I don't _really_ care about the additional ~40kb, but I guess I'm not seeing any advantages yet.

AMP != An HTML-subset. If it were, that'd be fine, and I'd basically agree with the article. But AMP seems to also require me using some strange JS from an ad company, which I'm extremely skeptical of.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Silicon Graphics for $275M
when they could just as well get their malware EFI module signed by MS

This is exactly what the FBI tried with Apple, causing an enormous public mud fight.

Besides, the outlined method would rather be deployed by NSA, or maybe a foreign service, without legal means to get a signed malware module.

Even if such legal means would exist, it would be in Microsofts best interest to fight them in court: once leaked, the malware would be clearly attributable to MS.
I'm always very suspicious of metrics reported in req/minute to make numbers look bigger than they actually are.

Assuming linear load – which we all know is never the case – is 2,000 req/s on average, which is nothing to be shy about.
It will be difficult to appreciate the full sensory range of stuff from bygone eras without touch/pressure and smell to accompany the VR reconstructions. I hope researchers and VR companies can perfect these as fast follow-on feature enhancements to VR environments.
Once you get to ~25 dynos the cost performance large dynos makes sense and you can run a lot of puma workers with the 14gb memory quota.
I believe there is a documentary about this.
Wow, that's like over 5,000,000,000 requests per month! Please use requests per second like everyone else.
> Forgive me, but it seems like you have an exceedingly negative view of psychiatrists.

You would be correct. :)

> But Psychiatrists provide prescriptions as well (drugs, therapy etc) which may or may not lead to lifestyle changes.

Sure they do. But if I go to a doctor about my heart disease, they're going to ask me to me about my lifestyle and encourage me to make changes which would improve my condition (in addition to providing medication).

Meanwhile, in my experience psychiatrists will jump straight to medication without any discussion of the underlying lifestyle and adjustments which could improve it. At best, they encourage you to see a therapist as well. (To be honest, I'm somewhat skeptical of the hard division between the disciplines. A cardiologist is not a nutritionist, but they can give you a basic idea of the nutritional roots of heart disease and potential remedies, but psychiatrists seem to be entirely uninterested in anything besides drugs.)

> I think this is being too harsh on psychiatrists.

Is it? I don't necessarily think it's necessarily their fault. As someone else in this thread said, mental health seems to be like medicine prior to germ theory: a whole lot of confidence in symptom reducers of questionable efficacy.
Improve productivity to grow your business sales
How productivity can grow your business sales

Productivity is the essence of everything in business. Productive team will likely grow your business and expand your sales. Incorporating productivity in every department must be the core responsibility of team leaders and even upper management. Importance of productivity just can’t be denied in growth and development of business.

http://www.yodiz.com/blog/improve-productivity-to-grow-your-business-sales/

So what’s basically productivity in sales or sales productivity.
Also, if you're interested in issues like that, you'd probably really enjoy joining the http://codefordc.org/ community! I've only attended one Meetup, but it was the most ridiculously welcoming and well-run tech meetup I've ever attended!
I think scrolling on AMP pages is really fast on iOS. Not sure which device youre feeling it slow on
Visually, it may seem confusing, but tactilely, it's intuitive:

Move your hand from the bottom-left corner to the top-right. That diagonal motion is shifting from D-N-R-P, what most people will use.

Now pretend you're driving in the mountains and you're on a long descent. Instead of riding your brakes, you want to use the transmission to limit your speed.

You're in 4th gear (D), so just bump your lever down to third (3). It's a simple vertical motion. Now you're in 3rd gear, but forgot and think you're still in 4th (D), and attempt to downshift once more. Fortunately, you won't accidentally drop the car into second gear. To get into second gear, you need a downward and horizontal motion. It requires intention to move from 3rd to 2nd gear.

And once you're in the rarely used 2nd gear, to switch between second (2) and first (L) is a horizontal motion.

So it makes sense once a person feels it out and actually drives their car. Designers with a background limited to just visual aesthetics need to learn this. Run through your interfaces; interact with them under less-than-ideal conditions.

**tl;dr**

P-R-N-D: diagonal motion

D-3: vertical motion

2-L: horizontal motion
Australia Will Suddenly Move 1.8 Meters North on New Year's Day
The most-produced airplane [1] seats 4 people. Only ~43,000 have been produced since the 50s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172
They are two competing open source databases, knowing strength/weakness of each is always good. So unless the answer is `we rock, you suck`, it would be a useful info. for lots of people
That's the problem - having to roll your own control structures. IF, WHILE, and FOR cover just about everything. This semi-functional style doesn't break down into a small number of simple, well-known primitives.
It's actually the complete opposite - space is not "infinitely cold" it's more like "infinitely isolating" - like the perfect giant thermos. Space suits for example have a whole layer of water tubes just to cool down the astronaught, otherwise they will pass out from their own body's temperature.
The universe may be infinite.
Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers via Hard Drive Noise
A Mandate for Murder: Saudi Arabia and the Corruption of UN Aid Contributions
The use case is that it will improve your search rankings, and giving you an argument to force your organisation and your ad-partners to make your site faster. It's effectively Google making up a tool they can force-feed big publishers to get them to make websites that perform less horribly, which makes the top results of Google search on mobile more useful and leaves more traffic to look at more pages and more Google ads.

There is no reason why a normal website can't be as fast or faster than an AMP one, but AMP gives the framework to get organisations that otherwise wouldn't care enough to do so.
That's a huge problem. Some times we end up shitty solutions to problems because the people who wrote the software do not care to fix its bugs and there's a lack of investment in creating better solutions because the free, open source solutions exist. Just look at the state of version control software.

Other times we end up with a good, expensive commercial product and a free, crappy open source product with a huge gulf in quality and price between. Examples: Photoshop and GIMP, MS Office and OpenOffice.
How to know which decision is objectively the best
New air-gap jumper covertly transmits data in hard-drive sounds
Please tell us more...!
Detroit makes community college free
Not really justifying the practice but I bet the OP wrote it in those terms because that's the default unit that New Relic uses.

Bothers me whenever I look at my New Relic dashboard but I haven't bothered to see if one can change to seconds rather than minutes.
> To this day, for me, the primary meaning words like "loop" and "string" is that of programming

In my case (another non-native English speaker), I had come across 'a piece of string' and such before encountering programming, and so that's the immediate association string brings to mind. 'Loop', however, I hadn't come across before I learnt programming, so it's very strongly associated with that sense in my mind, even though now I know the "other" meaning.

> This is not the case when I'm reading a program that uses keywords in my native language [...] - those just look weird as hell, and very awkward/funny. I have often asked myself if that's what C and Python look like to native English speakers; and if so, then what difference does it make in how we code.

Yep, I too wondered the same thing after finding a programming language in my native language (https://github.com/Ezhil-Language-Foundation/Ezhil-Lang), and seeing how even keywords that are meant to sound natural for their usage get bent awkwardly out of shape by the thousand different contexts we use them in.
Selection pressure may well have shifted towards C4 in the future if we hadn't come along and been kind enough to dig up some fossilized carbon and put it back into circulation.
> Assuming linear load – which we all know is never the case

This is phrased in a confusing way. If we're talking about sustained burst periods of traffic, then you almost definitely expect a fairly smooth distribution of requests over the course of a minute. You would only really start to expect serious variance at the daily granularity (i.e. time of day).
I'm not sure how i feel about this. On one hand, squeezing that sort of performance out of Heroku is a notable achievement. Props. On the other hand... why Heroku at that scale? 10x F-Large servers is going to cost 5-10x the cost of a comparable E3 configuration and E3 root access gives you a great deal more "knobs" for customizing your performance outside of your code.

I get that many teams don't want the overhead of managing their own instances, but when you find yourself optimizing for a platform that is engineered around convenience instead of performance i think it may be time to make the switch.
How so? How could we know what does and doesn't work without trying it out first? Languages designed by commission usually don't get very far.
Can't speak to the credibility of the source, but it's not the first connection between North Korea and Meth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea%27s_illicit_activi...
What about it? Such a car would always be just as safe as the day you bought it. One would have to sell new cars with the required level of safety equipment but it doesn't change the value proposition of a car that you can always get parts for. What are your thoughts about safety?
Who are the startups upgrading the auto industry?
The move from a traditional shifter to a monostable shifter is an obvious step backwards for one, painfully obvious, reason:

It gives the user less information.

With a traditional shifter, looking at or feeling the position of the knob immediately tells you what gear you're in. The monostable shifter takes that away.

The designers probably thought that, if the sports-car segment can get used to paddle shifters, perhaps a stick-form of the paddle-shifter could fly with other users. This may have been true were park not thrown into the mix too.
Simit is a new language for more efficient programming
"Because radiocarbon dating does not produce exact dates, they believe that she could have been as "young" as 272 or as old as 512. But she was most likely somewhere in the middle, so about 400 years old."

BBC went with 400 in the title :) [0]

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37047168
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDf2nhfxVzg

Current and Voltage are intimately related. 1V with a 1kA capable supply will not hurt you.
It's fairly easy to build one on Mac and Linux.
Actually you said "imagine scenarios" which is basically visualizing scenarios that might happen. That's speculation, pure and simple, given the "screen" they are running these on are internal to the people running them.

"Readily imaginable" is just blaming based on prior history of the one being blamed. In some cases, the expansion of who can be blamed is easier than the not blaming part. Unfortunate.

And, FWIW, I'm not disagreeing with you here. Just trying to get us out of the knee deep rationalization pit of shit that is the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Christs_of_Ypsilanti

To your point, I was talking to someone about the idea of evaluating proposed proofs (like for the awards I was talking about) by requiring them to be submitted in a formal proof system. Apparently even for large computations there can be ways to submit spot-checkable logs or summaries of the computation, kind of like zero-knowledge proofs, where you can randomly pick locations in the log and confirm that it's internally consistent, even without repeating the entire computation.

I don't think any of these techniques will help for anything outside of mathematics or computational projects, though!
It's like almost every "cloud" works. This are just VMs with a lot of noise from your neighbors. That's why i always use bare metal. Control over whole CPU and cache lines can be game changer if you have cpu intensive applications.
Right now the code gatekeepers have been keeping their heads down, charging modest sums per use to keep milking the cow.

But they seem like ripe takeover targets. Another city wants to win the Olympic bid instead of you? Or to steal your pro football team? Or you don't like their views on nameyoursocialissue? Buy their laws then set prohibitive fees and restrictions, killing their economy. Want to see your building code? You must apply in person, on paper, with exact change, between 8:42am and 8:54am Tuesdays after you pass the secret test and pay the initiation/credentialing/backgroundcheck fees.
have access to the laws and the tools needed to use them.

It's a slow warfare. But leaving laws under corporate control, under a profit motive, poses other risks.
Well, I consider a microcontroller to be controlling something not on board, so yeah. :) It's minimal in that it has two pinouts.
If Psychiatry wants to "turn itself around", it needs to do some house cleaning.

In a recent "skeptic" magazine [1], Harriet Hall, M.D. had this to say about the situation:

"Psychotropic drugs are far from ideal. They don’t work well for everyone, and they can sometimes cause devastating side effects. But they do save lives, and they do allow some patients to lead a more-or-less normal life. They are the best we have at the moment. " (emphasis added)

[1] http://www.skeptic.com/magazine/archives/21.1/

This is an apology for the status quo, and distracts from the main issue. My girlfriend is one of the ones for whom "psychotropic drugs" don't work at all - in fact, I believe that the psychotropic drugs that she's been prescribed have a lot to do with her present predicament. Haldol - sold as an anti-psychotic - is well known to cause the condition it supposedly treats. Dr. Hall states that these drugs "save lives", but I wonder what the ratio of "lives ruined" to "lives saved" is.

There are non-psychotropic drugs that have been very helpful for my girlfriend, but her psychiatrists don't know to use them. I've spent a few hours today revising my latest petition to the courts asking them protect my girlfriend from the palliative treatments that she has been ordered to endure. The main thrust of my argument is that the medications aren't working because they do not address the causes of her condition. The causes are perfectly obvious to me, but the doctors have all been "shooting in the dark", hoping that the next pill will work better than the last one.

I suspect that "exhaustion" is related to most psychiatric problems. New research linking psychosis to an inability to produce cortisol is a good clue:
https://www.jcu.edu.au/news/releases/2016/june/stress-hormon...
The comments here are full of people who should be paying $50 for 20 minutes of a physicist's time. Maybe we should start taking up a collection and seeing if we can get a bulk discount.
The effective way to learn those things (especially with the larger library languages) involves copious use of search engines and ctrl-f in books/manuals, lol.

Some things you'll repeat enough that you know it by heart. Other things might be really basic, but you'll still have to google it from time to time.

What does come nicely with time is you start to build up a mental model of "hrmm, I want to do this, but I need an XYZ. I know in ObjC I used XYZ, does Scala have that? Oh neat it has something similar!"
A failure, you say? I don't take exception to that
Show HN: Technical blogpost search engine and tech event map
Few people want to spend the same kind of money on maintenance for their $10,000 car as they do on their $200,000 aircraft.

My last car had 150,000 miles on it, and needed around $3000 of engine work (timing chain, head gasket). The car was only worth around $4000, so I traded it in on a new car.

But when you have a $200,000 aircraft, a $15K overhaul every 1500 - 2000 hours is worth it to keep it in the air. 1800 hours is equivalen to 80,000 miles of driving at 45mph. Who wants to pay thousands of dollars to overhaul their car's engine after 80,000 miles even if it means that the car will run fine for another 80,000 miles?
What's so bad about the maps forum?
This is not the first 48v debate. Several years ago is came and went over the desire for electric brakes, solenoids rather than hydraulic calipers. They would theoretically be cheaper and simpler to manage electronically. 48v or higher would be needed for such things (also for running AC pumps). But brakes are very established and mature tech. They are also the primary safety system. Antilocks work well enough as is. Manufacturers balked at the idea of starting from scratch with purely electric brakes. With the need for higher voltages mooted, the debate came and went.

Anyone worried about hacking cars, imagine the nightmare should brakes be completely electric, with no hydraulic or mechanical option should either the power or control system fail.

As for saving weight on cables, smaller metal doesn't mean smaller cables. Higher voltage would require greater shielding, thicker cables. The increased risk of sparks/shorts would also be a thing, as would the risk of electrocuting those working on their cars. With 12v you can get away with stuff that at 48v might put you in hospital.