skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are scoping the price range of Lyft for other buyers, a clever tactic.

However I'd place a big bet that Uber will not be sold self driving cars by car companies and they will slaughter them by launching their own services.

If you have a self driving car selling them to Uber rather than taking the profit for yourself is just stupid, much like selling bitcoin mining hardware - if it's worthwhile you might as well just let it make you money?

It's not like Uber have something special; maybe they'll remain carless and let the car manufacturers run their cars on Uber's network? Still the estimated returns Uber expects won't materialise because the car companies will still be able to dictate a price.

Is Uber building their own self driving car?
Instead you just do curl | sh and expose your $HOME to the world.
generally those %'s get diluted down with subsequent funding rounds
One factor is that there is a lot less "we" involved with the Guinea Worm.

I mean, good luck suppressing the knowledge that filtering your drinking water through a cloth prevents a devastating episode where a 3 foot worm crawls out of your body.

The proposed programs for eradicating mosquitoes involve things like releasing millions of dollars of genetically modified mosquitoes and putting larvicides and insecticides in all known bodies of standing water.
The :// thing would be too close to the new curl logo, introduced only a few months ago:
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/05/27/a-new-curl-logo/
It looks like a bunch of amateurs aping trendy styles instead of servicing the Mozilla brand. Harsh language, but I would have never guessed the proposals would be so flippant when opening the link.
While I personally love Moz://a, I don't think any of these designs will help iconify the message and strengths of the Mozilla Foundation to the general public.
Doctrine 2 also often spends 10x the time on post-processing the data from the database as it does actually making the database calls itself (it's not fixable without dropping to straight SQL out of the ORM). Its query language is atrocious and unnecessary. Their ideas of joins and internals are absolutely horrific. The boilerplate is 1/3 of my app. But even if it was the perfect piece of code (it's exactly the opposite: total and utter shit), I'm not going to slow down all my DB queries 10x for anything, not to mention the incredibly slow development speed of now having two query languages and a million wrong ways of making simple queries and no ways of making proper advanced queries. Everything with Doctrine takes many times longer than with straight SQL even after years of working with it. I have yet to find an ORM that doesn't have egregious failings like Doctrine 2. It is inherent in the stupid concept of ORMs that implementations fail. See:
http://solnic.eu/2015/09/18/ditch-your-orm.html
http://seldo.com/weblog/2011/06/15/orm_is_an_antipattern
and most importantly, see benchmarks for ORMs like Doctrine and observe their destructive effects on programmer productivity.
Have you tried https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal?
Yeah, we'll skip that as I would want them to blend with the rest and I'm pretty sure it needs to look a bit more permanent to convince people to live in them for 3 years.
I don't understand the focus of the article being on sending a physical probe. Why not just send a radio message? Something like "Is there anybody out there?"

I've heard the argument that we shouldn't advertise our existence in case there are hostile beings. But can't we assume that all intelligent life is constrained by the same rules of physics? And why assume hostile?
That's the thing, though, a huge portion of the success of Chrome is not caused by it being a particularly good browser, but rather by it being bundled with other software or advertised for on the world's most popular webpage.

For Mozilla to be able to compete with that by purely being technologically superior, they'd have to be so ridiculously good that Chrome would look like Internet Explorer 6 in comparison. As long as that's not the case, it's hard to tell people to switch to Firefox, because it still is subjective which the better browser is.

So, they have to do some form of advertising, and a recognizable branding can help with that.
I recently read Grandin's book after learning about this from a Priceonomics article. It's fascinating not just for the way that it ultimately failed, but also the level of power and influence that Henry Ford had at the time to be able to do it at all...

The Ford Company was privately held, and what Henry Ford said, went. Enormous amounts of time, money, and manpower went into developing this colony, on the back of ideology as much as the promise of economic return.

The closest examples I can think of in modern times for this kind of project are in folks like Musk and Allen (and his Vulcan real estate development group), but they are much more capitalistic in motivation.
Optical Computers: How They Work and Why We Will See Them (2006) [pdf]
The smartest minds in finance on how Wall Street is going to change
The fact that we've unintentionally wiped out so many species lends credence to the idea that, on average, very few individual specie are all that important. Of course, just leave it to us to find the exception someday...
Do Japanese audiobooks exist?

Assuming yes, do their users have significant problems understanding the written text when pronounced in an audiobook? Are there well-known conventions or shortcuts or explanations that audiobook readers insert into their speech to signal the correct meaning of the word?

Do Japanese audiobooks provide evidence for or against the idea that doing away with kanji in writing would not harm understanding significantly?
I don't think you understood the comment.

A bridge reconnaissance does not change once it's done unless the bridge changes materially.

The hard part of a bridge recon plain is taking measurements of the abutments, the deck, types of materials etc..

The attack plan is easy once you have that.

Also - there is nothing to simulate based on computers in this case.

The only variable that changes is demolition technology and the availability of air support to do demolitions which forgoes the requirement to have Engineers do it.
A lot of CCs having the problem are rather a long commute from an university. We're over 100 miles from the closest 4 year.
I agree with the overall message of the article (Lisp is a good substrate to explore syntactic ideas) but find the article just sort of wandering aimlessly to construct some macros of dubious value.

Don't Repeat Yourself is a common tenet of programming. Lisp gives you the opportunity to virtually never repeat yourself because making syntactic abstractions is cheap and easy. It must be recognized however that abstractions range from totally useless to paradigm-shifting, and DRY isn't about saving typing but rather encapsulating ideas into reusable constructs. A common problem I see in production Lisp code bases is the existence of a programmer's set of pet syntactic abstractions that don't really have a high ceiling; you see all kinds of zaps, frobs, and lets for a reason no other than they save some typing. I do not appreciate such abstractions. The Lisp syntactic abstractions I do appreciate are ones that bring me into a new paradigm of thinking. For instance, Lisp includes a set of macros to express complex iteration readably. Without this, iteration wouldn't be much more than writing (un)conditional jumps, and by having the abstractions, you shift your thinking from the notion of jumps to the notion of traversal. Another recent example is a set of macros to simplify index wrangling in tensor algebra. These "macros" already existed in contemporary math in the form of constructs such as Einstein notation and they make reasoning and thinking about tensors easier.

This article, in my opinion, treks to the destination of a macro that, while perhaps neat, isn't going to give you higher quality programs.
DevOps is a race to automate everything
I'd guess the state level is natural -- but then again some states in the US (and all states in Australia) are dominated by one big city, so the state government can also be captured by NIMBYs.

Generally I dislike the way top-level governments are becoming the only game in town. But the point is to have multiple levels of government checking each other. When it comes to zoning: its the locals who are the "bad" guys.
Not a chance. For any globalisation / unification force there is an equal and opposite force pulling towards autonomy / authenticity / diversity. Language is a very core component of human identity.
Magento is a horrible app with one of the worst ORMs in existence. You've clearly never used it if you're touting it as an example of what to do. Because Magento is a laundry list of what not to do. ORM, EAV, XML config. Drupal may not be the greatest app out there, but it is leaps and bounds ahead of Magento. In fact, it's hard to find anything as shitty as Magento.
You're welcome, Uganda.
What? Don't donate to Mozilla - this whole story is about how they are wasting money instead of focusing on what's important. When one donates it should be about doing the most good with their money and unless it's $1M+, it won't make a dent in Mozilla's output.
I usually try to avoid base64 when encoding data/password/keys to users. Due to it's large/"odd" charset. I would recommend using binary to hex (base16) notation or base32.
Sure, but that sounds like bad design out of the box. I'm still trying to find a reasonable use case for these "public keys" (quote from the very first line, too)

One would assume that public keys are always easy to guess, because they are public? Hopefully they are not used for any sort of public authentication protocol...?
I'm not sure what people are getting out of this post. It's made up entirely of quotes from a very good blogpost [https://urbankchoze.blogspot.ca/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html] about Japanese zoning (that was also posted here years ago) wrapped in completely unsupported declarations of that system's superiority, followed with some odious racial conspiracy theories in the comments, which are dominated by a pretty well-known white supremacist.

This link isn't value added over the original post, it's value subtracted.
"Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure."

I really like that there's an ad just under that sentence to subscribe to Newsweek, which is now online-only.
>To edit, run, save, and share algorithm visualitions at PyAlgoViz, we need to know who you are. [Sign in with Google]

Looks really cool, but no thanks :/
What's all this talk of "the CPU won't run Windows 7"? Is this just a confused blogspam site?
LA is uniquely sprawled, and like I said it only works for less dense suburban areas.

Wherever it's deployed you have to conisder the traffic and congestion repercussions if everyone uses it, not just rich people.

Transit has to move poor and middle class people too.
And yet, during the lost decade, standards of living increased, and the highest unemployment rate ever recorded was only 5.6%.
Actually, they first bump you down to Nature Communications, which is still relatively prestigious. If it's rejected also there, you get bumped down to Scientific Reports (where they've dropped "Nature" from the name). It's not very prestigious and, like e.g. PLOS One, does not require a paper to be particularly novel or groundbreaking. Unless your paper is truly bad, it will get accepted at Scientific Reports if you can afford the publishing fee. Since there have been several reports of essentially nonexistent peer review from the journal, many people are a bit skeptical.

Since it's not very prestigious and kind of a last resort for authors, people also tend to be a bit skeptical when papers published there are featured in the mainstream press.

However, all scientists will readily acknowledge that the peer review process can often be flawed, so "a bit skeptical" should not be taken as "outright dismissal".
With huge ambitions billionaires lead the new space race
I did not mean that the Rust compiler proves your code is correct. Or that it proves more than any other compiler.

But like all type-checkers, it does prove that your code obeys certain rules. In a trivial way this is even true of C -- but languages like Rust and Ada go further and prove that you are avoiding large classes of common bugs.
What does it even mean for a processor to "not support Windows 7"? Does this mean it's not fully x86 backward compatible, or is this just marketing speak for "we have a strategic alliance with Microsoft, and they don't want you to run Windows 7, so we've put hooks into our hardware to prevent it"
Here's the oldest dino. I wish they could keep an allusion to him, at least: http://www.davetitus.com/mozilla/welcome.jpg

Edit: That's from this interesting history page "How was Mozilla born: The story of the first mascot on the Internet"
http://www.davetitus.com/mozilla/
Why do some institutions have a burning need to change their logo every few years?
beyond monopoly benefits, lyft's supply of drivers is probably still valuable. i don't think their rider base is that valuable to uber, since there is probably significant overlap. however, that rider base would be of value to another player trying to build their own platform, e.g. google
The eye of Sauron is all-seeing.
It's poorly done retargeting, but a common mistake.

Advertisers create a cookie list based on people who visited a particular product page. They fail to subtract from that the users who visited the checkout page.

If you're paying on a CPC, the cost to you (the advertiser) is negligible. Most people who have already purchased aren't going to click your ad again.

If you're paying on a CPM or CPV basis, then you're liking wasting money. It probably gets lost in the noise of the waste in all advertising. I have no idea if it's negligible or not, but it would help the user experience if the larger players helped more.
RIT had a very active DC++ network when I was there in the early 2000's.
Cortexia: the HN guidelines ask "Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase" and "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait".

The original title for this is "FANS are now SMARTER than EXPERTS". On HN that would be changed to "Fans are now smarter than experts", to de-linkbait the original title.

Earlier today you posted "A.I. Technology Being Used by SB NATION to Rank FANTASY FOOTBALL PLAYERS" when the original title is "UNU’s Picks: QB, RB, WR Rankings by an Artificial Intelligence"

In general the titles you have submitted differ from the original title.

Such modifications are likely to incur the wrath of the HN swarm intelligence. ;)
The Alcubierre drive can be summed up as "If I have one thing that's impossible (negative matter), I can do something else that's impossible (FTL)." (And, no, negative matter is not antimatter.) It's an intellectual exercise, nothing more.

It's all very well and good to say "don't be pessimistic" but there has to be an open mathematically and physically valid path that makes it possible or all you're doing is wishful thinking. And right now, there isn't even a hint of a practical path that we can follow, either theoretically or experimentally, that enables the possibility of FTL.
"At that time, here’s the order of what was important in my life:

1- Facebook
2- Myself
..."

Reminds me of the Gervais principle, this guy seems to be a clueless at that time, a true believer in the firm. Glad for him he started his own venture.

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/ (very long read)
People working in a place like the NSA can't talk to anyone outside their organization about their work. They can't talk to most of the people inside their organization either about their work. All the projects would be silos, often with single individuals in them.

So it seems likely that bad code would come out of that sort of environment. That's one of the costs of doing paranoia for a living.
Steps to Setup Appium on Linux Machine
I guess I would expect you to know what to put on the site, since you're targeting an extremely narrow vertical.

That said, same-day exploit alerts (and updates) would draw people, as well as papers on encryption techniques, infosec articles, and interviews with prominent members of the community and their takes on things like CC chips, NFC sniffing, etc.

Oh yeah, and hack bounties from companies for teams to attempt to exploit their products/systems.
“Enterprise software is no longer bought by a single decision maker in an org”
After clicking the link it actually took me a few minutes to realize that those graphics I saw were not just some stock images meant to give the blog post some color but that they are the actual proposals for a new mozilla logo...

Well I guess this list [1] needs an update and 7 more logos added...

[1]: http://www.boredpanda.com/worst-logo-fails-ever/
What could go wrong? Oh, government driving up costs... The fed destroys almost everything they touch.
How again is advertising ( which Google is in a much better position to do anyways ) going to get people choose a Browser which as you pointed out is not technically superior and requires additional steps for users to install?

Originally I thought their strategy was to offer an alternative ecosystem (Persona, Thunderbird) which could potentially have matured in integration with Firefox to provide a better experience than on Chrome (maybe they also could have purchased Evernote or some similar product that benefits greatly from a dedicated ecosystem). But they killed off the former two and failed with FirefoxOS, so I have no idea what their strategy is at this point ( probably most of their market-share is exactly those that switched to Firefox when the choice was firefox vs. ie6 but that's a constantly diminishing segment ).
I am very impressed with how well Rust tries to educate its user.

I especially like the error messages and the compiler's ability to tell you how to fix your error. And though I don't like to be dependent on IDEs, it would be great to see one which integrated that guidance into the editing.

But all of these are still palliatives around the fact that Rust is a complex and difficult language. Rightly so it's rules embody a lot of the practical wisdom of highly experienced programmers and lets them (and sometimes forces them) to express their advanced ideas.
I think the EmDrive is probably fallacious and doesn't actually do anything, and we absolutely need to keep testing it and try to prove that, because if I'm wrong it would be amazing.
I came here to suggest the same album. Here's the artist's page for it: http://www.johannjohannsson.com/discography/fordlandia/

And this is nitpicking, but you did include the accents ;-) — it's Jóhannsson, with two Ses. (It's basically "Jóhann's son".)
I'm not type-A though.

I'm getting older and the Canadian summer is short.

Guess I just want to get in as many of my favorite action sports before i wear out my body.

I'm pretty high mileage from the 20 years of weekly bike crashes and surfing wipeouts.
It's important to purchase your vested options as early as possible. So they can't take your options back. Of course it's easier if you are resident in a jurisdiction where you have to pay the Capital Gain Tax when you sell.
Lot's of companies sell things to other companies that they make an additional profit. I think it remains to be seen how vertically integrated the self driving taxi industry will look.
> Its easier to procure paid for software than open source in many large enterprises.

This is one of the reasons for Dual licensing. You can use the open source version or procure a license.
During the golden age of newspapers, when a city might have a dozen different newspapers, every single one of those newspapers was an explicitly biased propaganda rag. The newspaper boom was an era when newspapers served as easily consumable combinations of news and entertainment designed to sell advertising space. The definitive heyday of newspapers was the era of yellow journalism. The business model of Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Gawker, or Breitbart would be clearly recognizable to Hearst and Pulitzer.

When TV and radio shrunk the newspaper industry, this gave way to local monopolies (or duopolies) of center-left and occasionally center-right newspapers that pretended to be unbiased, and eventually an oligarchy of center-left television networks. This left a large market opportunity, and as soon as the FCC repealed the Fairness Doctrine, right-wing talk radio emerged. CNN proved the viability of cable news but kept the same center-left, pretend-impartial bias as the networks, so Fox News erupted on the scene.

The supposed integrity and ethics of journalism, so far as they even existed, were a luxury that newspapers could afford because the decline of the newspaper industry led to monopolies. Just like Bell Labs was a luxury borne from the telecommunications monopoly of the mid-20th century.

If you have a monopoly on the news, you have a vested interest in marketing yourself as unbiased (in order to have the largest addressable market). You do not have a vested interest in being unbiased. Aside from the natural beliefs and biases of the journalists themselves, there is also a structural bias towards sensationalism and another structural bias in favor of the establishment (or else you lose access). Even the desire to appear unbiased introduces a bias--unbiased coverage one disagrees with looks like biased coverage, so mechanisms like bias towards the center and "he said/she said" reporting about matters of fact show up.

The 20th century golden era of journalism was an illusion. For all the faults of Internet journalism, breaking the monopoly alone was a public service. It's no longer possible for a sitting President to literally expose himself to journalists when he gets annoyed at their questions as Lyndon Johnson once did.
Ok, so maybe I'm missing something, but what's new here? Is it just the portal?

I've been reading NASA technical papers and publications for years, and although most of the research I was reading was very focused in a specific field, everything I wanted to see was freely available. Even some of the publications linked in the article have been online for a decent amount of time.
> As far as alphabets go, the Phoenician/Greek/Etruscan/Latin alphabet is pretty ad hoc and mediocre. But hey, it’s what we know. At this point, I think we’re stuck with it.

You mix the whole development line of that Latin alphabet into one dismissive argument. I see lots of difference between the Phoenician and the Latin alphabet and FWIW, the Latin alphabet is quite versatile as its wide application shows.

It wonder what do you consider mediocre about them?

> Similar story for modern Hindu/Arabic/European numeral glyphs. Learning arithmetic would be noticeably simpler if the glyphs expressed some of the symmetries of the number system. Alas.

I don't think learning arithmetic would be much simpler with other numerals. Even the Romans could do it and they had one of the worst possible numerical systems.

I find our numerals quite fine. My daughter was recognizing numbers before she turned 2. There is some mnemonic to the first four (1 line, 2 corners on the left, 3 corners on the left, 4 corners overall) and most are quite distinct from our Latin letters. 6 and 9 are annoyingly symmetrical of each other, though.
>>Uber will not be sold self driving cars by car companies

Car companies can't afford to not sell to consumers, that includes Uber. Market is just too big. They can't exclude Uber specifically either.