skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize that he has hired people who are degreed engineers with work experience. My point is that he never had an engineering degree and never was mentored as an engineer.

It is my belief that any technical manager such as CEO of technical firms benefit enormously by going to school at a good engineering school and being mentored by engineers. People who have that kind of experience see the world differently than others. I know because I interact with them.
The company: http://cubecab.com/technologies.html
Also check out http://generationorbit.com and of course pegasus https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Pegasus_(rocket)#/Launch_profile
Are there others pursuing air-launch?
To clarify, Letting the length of a UTF-8 string in Go is O(1); it's computed and stored on the string header at creation.
You're making a lot of claims here about the current state of the art of self driving tech. Presumably google has the best right now, so you must be talking about them. Do you have insider information or are you just guessing? Because it seems to me that the google self driving cars are capable of doing much more than working on "the immaculate freeways of California."

edit: Also to be clear the driver assist features seen on cars like the model s are not what most people are referring to when they talk about self driving cars here.
I like this comment. Honestly it makes sense; that is not to say that philosophy doesn't have a place in science, but I would liken it to writing a website in assembly as opposed to JS, etc.
Man used to be pretty loaded all by himself, that's a fact :)
It is also often much faster than pcre.
Indeed. Flip it around: Go-lang comes with CSV support in the standard library, whereas Java requires you to get something like the Ostermiller utilities or an Apache library.
I can't even remember if this was the article I read, but a quick Google of "millennials buying cars" returns:

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/forget-stereotypes-mil...
Oh I know all about bad neighborhoods and cheap rents. They are cheap for good reason.

I have twice left a house share because it was becoming frankly unsafe to live in. In the first instance I should have taken the hint that the house next door had not burnt to the ground by accident (several broken windows later I moved out!) and the second time a lunatic car thief threatened to kill me. Hard to concentrate under the circumstances.

Having better company around you in a geek community is well worth it! Arguments about functional programming or open source are significantly less likely to result in death or injury. It is also nice not to have your life mortgaged to some [expletive].

The concept is that each person kicks up 25k - 50k depending on whether they build their own with other fellow TH builders or get it done for them. Common utilities to be installed and paid for can be paid back via loan or some other arrangement. For power I would recommend actually making a micro hydro station together, it's not that difficult and you could easily supply dozens of THs.

Cost of land can be small since you could be in a rural area, with periodic trips or public transport nearby to a city.

The reason why I'm calling this 'marginal cost' is important. It is not free (but monthly bills would seem miraculously low in comparison to most people's situation). It is just that if you do it you're unlikely to become indebted/homeless or not have the funds to stick at your project long enough. Lots of interesting ideas need considerable time and patience to gestate. VCs operate within a relatively narrow window of opportunity in time, and this is a concept that could open up more long term possibilities.

The only threat to this I see is that having some pressure on your back can be a positive thing, but I feel that is a separate discussion with workarounds possible.
No, they don't work and aren't cost effective. But they sure are marketed well.
I found this description of a 'typical' supercharger setup:

"The eight bay setup takes a 12kV, 750kVA feed from the utility, steps it down to 480V three phase on site, pushes that into 2000A switchgear which feeds four (one for each pair of bays) SuperCharger units at 480V/200A."
Context is the problem. This myth applies to all subjects. But it also applies to Excel, because it's not the subject, it's the context. What they still teach at school is the "Excel" of their time. They thought it would be most useful.

But even with excel spreadsheet, if you leave out the "why" you still end up with a boring class of formulas and UI work through tutorials that will leave you questioning relevance just the same. And your school paid MS how much?

If you're developing a game, or designing a building, or analyzing online sales, or trying to build a web site, you now have the context, but you probably don't have the education unless you took special courses in higher education which is practically the only place they teach with context. Maybe they just need to add more context to lower and general levels as well?

Anecdotally, it's fair to say good students manage to identify context beforehand and keep things relevant. It really helps with learning when you're driven by purpose, not obligation.
Go lets you use any code point as the delimiter.
West LA has a great bike trail system and you never need to go out of a 1-3 mile radius for anything. Venice, Santa Monica, culver city, Mar vista etc
There seem to be a few constraints regarding the object count (255 with just one byte). Even though you could say that most icons won't be complex enough to need that, it's an unnecessary limitation that saves two or three bytes at best.

Other than that, pretty incredible work. Vector image compression at encoding level is definitely interesting. I alsolove posts in which binary formats are explained, so...
>he gullwing doors were a blatant disregard for the 100+ years of engineering expertise that has converged on the current design of a car door, and throwing that out the window for something flashy and attention grabbing. //

Gull-wing doors surely are designed to do one thing, sell the car on look alone. Surely people know they're impractical; but they have the essence of supercar in that impracticality. I had a Lambo' Countache poster as a kid, the flip up doors were probably terrible in practice but they had an evocative unusualness that showed this was no ordinary car. I imagine it gives the vehicle a lot of free marketing and a strong differentiator.
Experience varies - I got very sick on a short haul flight with a low-cost airline in Europe. There was no doctor on board, but the emergency services at the airport came to help as soon as we landed. They determined I can't be moved from the airplane, and that I needed an ambulance to take me to the hospital; and nobody in the crew had any problem waiting for over 2 hours for the ambulance to arrive, even turning on the airplane engines to keep the heat up for me, burning heaven knows how much fuel, and serving the airport emergency staff with water and snacks.

Totally unexpected for a budget airline, but highly appreciated. Kudos on this one, Wizz !
Here in Lithuania the population is also very sparse outside the big cities, but I have no issues getting a full 4G signal even in remote countryside. The land here is rather flat which obviously helps, but the country also has the highest FTTH percentage in Europe so they must be doing something right :-)
It is kind of both; go doesn't allow some approaches in native go code that can make it slower than other languages. (I love go, but that is my experience.)

In this case the choice to use utf-8 everywhere, including in the csv delimiters, is making it slower.
Most reports I've seen put Australia's broadband speeds way behind the US. Australia's primary broadband technology is DSL.
'Adaptive Code' by Gary McLean Hall
is an informative read on modern software design, its both concise and well-written
https://www.amazon.com/Adaptive-Code-via-principles-Develope...

note, that a second edition is scheduled for release Jan/2017
https://www.amazon.com/Adaptive-Code-principles-Developer-Pr...

I would also recommend 'Effective Java' by Josh Bloch
https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-2nd-Joshua-Bloch/dp/03...

you'll find the advice given in both immediately applicable
If you ever look into the memory consumption of modern applications and filetypes, you'll probably both throw up and have a heart attack. Very few people are interested in tuning the constant factors in the efficiency of their software, even when the benefits of doing so can be really impressive as demonstrated here.
Good point. But assume if you run a series of tests on the same file, it's in RAM. (discard the time of the first run or two, assume data source - network, DB, file - makes access time moot)
https://github.com/HackerNews/API

api@ycombinator.com
This is the kind of thing that deserves study and debate. But when study is cut off from federal funding, and debate constantly suffers from a lack of trust, we're really screwed.
Also, from an LWN comment:

> Please donate to the family to give back for his work.

> http://sansoxygen.com/donate/
> It's really hard to get upvotes, especially on sensitive topics.

It's kinda crazy what people here are "sensitive" about! For example, today I have managed to offend Hacker News by questioning the universality of maths. It's a subject on which I am rather qualified to have an opinion, but since it does not match others' I got downvoted. That's just a recipe for homogeneity.
Ok, so what could be the true "base-skill" in math?

And is possible to achieve knowledge of it, without a strong foundation of arithmetic?

Truly, I don't know, as I say I'm bad at math.

However, the point is that without strong basics the rest is a lost cause (IMHO). What is the basic, I'm open to know, however, I think arithmetic is part of it...
I resolved to your first paragraph in a response to a sub-comment here, and will not repeat the text.

Rule of law provides a foundation for equality; having a system that treats everyone in a predictable, unbiased, and well-known fashion gives them something they can count on when they plan and engage in all the activities of life. The more your fate rests in the hands of officers acting capriciously, with the power of vague unpredictable rules that you were never aware of, the more difficult and terrifying your life becomes. When you don't have rule of law, who you are in relation to the powerful determines what you can do, and who you can be, thus depriving many (if not most) of opportunity, while subjecting them to the worst form of oppression, embodied by constant terror.

It is unfortunate that no country, province, state, or city fully follows the principles of 'rule of law' but there is definitely a spectrum, and some are much better than others.
There is a bit of a trick, but there are ways to make it easier. This is why in the tweetstorm I said the various parts of critical chain have to be used together, like forces balancing a building. In order to use median (most likely) time estimates and late starts, you also must use buffers. Instead of putting a little bit of safety margin at every little step, which explodes the lead time of the project w/out actually reducing risk (since delays are passed on and early finishes are wasted, as the table-building ex above explains), w/ buffers you pool all the safety margin together, where it can be used by whoever actually needs it. This works better because Murphy always strikes one part of the project disproportionately, not every step equally.
The article is wrong. The very first image is 375 bytes, not 1024:

https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/images/apps-images/i...

And I was able to losslessly reduce it to 298 bytes with PNGOUT.

The smaller image is 257 bytes, and I reduced it to 186.
The people on the other side of the table aren't sacrificing anything.

Their lives and safety, on a daily basis?

It's the other way round, really: universal gun ownership involves the sacrifice of thousands of lives annually. Admittedly so does car ownership and OTC tylenol, but in those contexts we can admit the tradeoff and seek to minimise the cost.
Nice article. Not trying to start a subjective debate on languages/ technologies, but it did seem odd they would include a language like ruby but not python, c#, or java / scala.
What do you want?

It's an honest question, but I think that part of the problem is that gun rights are at a sort of apogee in this country - I don't really have much more to give.
"Do you have insider information or are you just guessing?"

That's a loaded question.

I don't feel comfortable sharing my credentials here (even though they would very much lend credibility to what I am saying), but I can also assure you that I am not divulging any insider information.

However, I claim that my argument still stands without the support of "insider information" -- given that self-driving vehicle research's domain is primarily academia; all of Sebastian Thrun's work (THE founder of the Google self-driving car project and Google X itself), for example, is more or less out in the wild (even if behind walled garden academic journals).

"Presumably google has the best right now, so you must be talking about them."

That's quite an assumption.
So, where's the Perl (+ CPAN...) version for comparison?

I guess "Nobody cares about your dead religion" :-)

Still, it would probably be faster, at the expense of being unreadable.
Makes a lot of common sense. The more I read about stuff like this the more ``common-sense" Nature seems. I mean, having this near- or far-future predictive ability gives a species a real advantage among others that don't.
I did this a couple of months ago and got a >5x speedup. It's at the expense of dropping quoting though, so no commas or newlines can be in the input data.

https://github.com/pwaller/usv
> People don't become alcoholic

Perhaps you're right, and we need to treat our countries addiction to guns instead of trying to reduce the supply.
That one has potential. It's kind of upscale which justifies extra profit. Top-notch stuff in it for owner and family. Much can be discarded or even donated to charity in local community to increase odds of loyalty like reporting suspicious behavior (eg snooping cops).
I do find the concept engaging. I have organized a bunch of events (probably dozens, maybe a hundred) and I hate starting from scratch. Every time. I like the idea of a continuum between your local meetup and a 3 day full-blown conference. Anything that automates anything in the path is welcome. Checking out.
We came up with an idea of optic storage for audio data rather early, yes (during WW2 it was, I think) :)
bullock says 2% https://twitter.com/sinnfeinireland/status/77135179328457113...
Some discussion on the elixir subreddit a few days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/50nvhg/websocket_sh...

Of note is that of these, I think only the elixir and ruby (?) solutions are distributed. Additionally, Phoenix channels are doing a lot of work that the other solutions aren't.
I'm curious why remote work is "US or Uruguay" :)
On Legalist (YC S16)- What Litigation Finance Is Really About
This is exactly why I do it. One tweet in the stream always ends up resonating more than all others combined, and that gives me great insight.

All my tweetstorms of the past few weeks are "research" into a blog post I'm writing for ribbonfarm.com.
That's amazing!

How's it compare to a minimised SVG, gzipped, in practical terms? I see projects elsewhere just blithely using SVG or SVGZ. (or, in horrifying cases, multiple sizes for hundreds or thousands of icons.) Perhaps this is a thing that would be suitable to wider use if it can get good lib support.
They didn't give you a loaner? My Model S brakes were slightly squeaky and Tesla gave me a loaner vehicle to use for the duration of the service.
I'm not sure why you hold such a high regard for degrees. I also got my EE degree from UIUC, and while I think it is/was a great university most of what I learned was self-taught. I'm also a PhD dropout, worked at prestigious companies, yatta yatta ya. Then I started a robotics company, and I've looked at thousands of resumes and interviewed at least a hundred people. One thing I've learned is that degrees, grades, etc are completely worthless. They tell you absolutely nothing about whether or not someone can actually build something. The only thing I care about is what people have built, and I don't care if it was at a company or in their spare time. It's much more impressive if they did it by themselves though as opposed to being supported by all of the resources of a giant company, as being resourceful is a great trait for a talented engineer (and especially important at a startup).

Long story short - it only matters what people have built. It doesn't matter what their pedigree is.
Maybe monkeys indeed have cults.. :)
> I guess if your crystal ball didn't tell you this value-destructive deal was coming, you got screwed

Non-professionals shouldn't act in the short-term market anyways, at least not if they can't afford to lose 100% (or even more, like Uli Hoeness, who screwed up with leveraged deals).

Just invest in long term - in my opinion Tesla and SpaceX are decent bets. Both won't go under the bus any time soon, I'd rather be concerned about fossil fuel stocks.
Yep, the same millennials who swear they'll never move to the suburbs, do just that once they find a spouse and realize that a 2br in the burbs is SO much cheaper. And the schools are so good!
Exactly my point, figure out the correct time and optimize for that, introducing what's effectively a neurosis seems kinda of neurotic way to work :)
There must be a corollary law, that states: "Any comment that quotes Betteridge's Law will have a large number of down-votes."
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/short-interest
I think it was completely obvious in the context that I wasn't talking about Apple's global effective tax rate but only about the taxes they pay in Ireland where all of their European sales are booked.

My understanding is that the numbers I quoted (in good faith) are derived from the profits Apple would have made in Europe had they not been allowed by the Irish government to use unrealistic transfer pricing.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2923_en.htm

The numbers are certainly not meaningless, but whether or not they are misleading is for a court to decide. It was certainly not my intention to mislead and I do not have all the information to come up with more reliable estimates of Apple's real profits in Europe.

Also, as someone who is liable to pay personal taxes on top of profits already taxed through corporation tax I don't feel particularly biased or inclined to score political points in favor of higher taxes.

It is simply my opinion that shifting government income from one tax to another isn't necessarily going to improve avoidance overall. It is also my opinion that taxes always have to be compared to what they buy us, in terms of actual services and also in terms of being humane.
You don't see a trade-off in our allowing effective self-defense, which by data collected by gun controllers decades ago happens a minimum of a million times a year?

Or the difference between citizens, who are traditionally defined as those who bear arms in defense of their polity, with subjects?
Why is him being from FL relevant?
Life of a Star
The best thing I've read on this, which is the Pfaff study on mass incarceration and the drug war, suggests that the biggest issue is that even as crime dropped steadily during the mid-late 1990s, prosecutors offices continued staffing up, and prosecutors themselves became more likely to file severe charges.

So the short answer is "prosecutorial discretion".

The longer answer might be something like this:

During the crime wave from the late 70s through the early 90s, the American public demanded increasingly aggressive prosecution of crime. Prosecutors offices staffed up in response to it. People were elected on promises of increasing funding both to police and to prosecutors. Prosecutors themselves were incentivized to file more cases, again due to the public mood.

The crime wave passed, but once set in motion, the systemic increase in prosecutions didn't stop: in large organizations, headcount, once obtained, is only released dearly. Managed business objectives (like expectations on percentage of offenders for whom prosecutors will charge with felonies), once established, are only with great effort ever changed.

And so that's where we're at now: a prosecutorial system calibrated to the crime levels and hysterical public mood of the late 1980s.
Most cell phone carriers automatically scrub exif data from photos sent by sms.
A Sizeable Cleanup
The General Motors Firebird III had this in 1958.[1] It used wire-guided lane-keeping. They expected lots of support from the road system.

In 1956, GM made a promotional film for self-driving cars.[2] It's a musical. There's also GM's "Design for Dreaming".[3]

The modern version of such ads, from Volvo.[4]

[1] https://youtu.be/xKOdux6Gjno?t=720
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2iRDYnzwtk
[3] https://archive.org/details/Designfo1956
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJwKuWz_lkE
There's a performance cost to calling between c and Go, and sharing memory between the two makes for hard to predict GC behavior. I doubt it would be faster than a pure Go implementation.
Twitter is the gossip rag of social media. I haven't logged in to my twitter account in years.
We tried several stackexchange url and it did work, for example : http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/92138/the-letter... which has a complicated layout, generate an epub or anything else and you will see the quality is good, we agree that the pdf renderer is not as good as the other yet but we are working on it. If you pls send us at hn at documentcyborg.com or via comment here on hn the link that didn't work so we can get better that would be great. For the book idea the problem is when to stop, if you make a book out of amazon it will take years. Maybe the possibility to add several url and from that generate a "book" document. Thanks for trying the apps, we just wished it was up to your standard but we are constantly improving it since 3 day ago when we launched, so hopefully we will get there soon.
Even recording audio?
These aren't the few that are loss leaders. But also a BMW 3 series costs less than my minivan, so I would hardly call that a luxury vehicle. Of course you can get a high end BMW, but somehow I doubt they would be very profitable without the lower end of the market. And that's the point for Tesla as well. By introducing a car that starts around the same price as a 3 series BMW, and selling in similarly high volumes, they can also be extremely profitable.