skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fractional-reserve has crap all to do with it, but their lending do indeed introduce new money into circulation.

Do you mean that money creation has little to do with the reserve requirement?
Good point, I guess I was focussed on the use of adrenaline in cardiac arrest. Yes, it would certainly make a difference in that condition!

Funny, I even have a family member who carries an epipen, I had to give her a dose of adrenaline on a plane once when the chicken curry turned out (unexpectedly) to have nuts in it: we ended up using her own supply, but you're right, it should definitely be stocked!
I think ruling a country was a load too heavy for his shoulders.
Turns out one can recover background sounds from even still images: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/VisualMic/
Science in the age of selfies
> I agree it was rather cruel of the local council to stick a magic roundabout right outside Heathrow's car hire[1]

The inverted pentagram shape (facing east) of that thing was made on purpose, right? It seems, somebody on the city council just wanted to summon a massive demon :)
> Again that is easy to say but it is meaningless unless there are quantifiable metrics by which you can prove that.

Consumer prices.

Geographical coverage.

Unlimited and unrestricted usage.

> If you look at the actual coverage map Finland isn't considerably better than most countries including the US, 4G+ is available in a few hotspots only, and the LTE and 3G coverage is pretty similar.

How did you perform this comparison? I find this claim very unlikely to be correct.

> The 4G+ 300mbit plans from Elisa cost 60 Euros a month without a device, I haven't seen anything so far that is that unusual

This is incorrect.

DNA 300M plan is 30€ per month. Elisa and Sonera are 50€ Per month. All plans without a contract, quotas or limits.

300M are premium flagship plans with a premium price. 100M plan are like 15€.

Starter plans with 50 minutes of talk time and 0,25 Mbps of uncapped, unlimited and unrestricted usage are free on Sonera's network.

What other country comes even close?
What is going on, why on earth are we now encoding audio in base64?

It's gone beyond getting angry, now I'm just sad for the state of this whole schlamassel.
You are disregarding the moral problem of the needs of many outweighing the few. Given two options, kill 1 a child or kill 2 adults which do you choose? Either way, someone dies. Who is responsible for the potential man slaughter?

In a short phrase, someone has to go to jail / get in to trouble.
In the US, how many times has a child picked up a gun and killed someone by accident? More times than grandmothers have defended themselves, or less?

Easily less, there are only ~600 accidental firearms fatalities a year, and we managed to get that number down from ~800 in 1980 in a period when both the population and and the number of guns it owns have increased by very roughly 50%.

Those warrior cops you cite two examples of? We still had a huge gun owning population back when they were peace officers, it's not guns per se that have resulted in that change.

Real estate titles are a very different thing, I submit to you, in that trying to take someone else's land has a much longer and greater pedigree than their weapons, and for entirely different motives.
It depends on how much automation you build in.

I just resurrected a side project web app from a few years ago that is completely automated, but it is not very complicated so it probably doesn't count as your defined medium-sized web app.

I have no user registration for one thing, as my side project doesn't really need it and I hate having to register on sites to do the simplest things.

I do still check the web app about once a month for about an hour, just to run a check on things and make updates if needed, like changes to marketing copy.
The guy in Dallas got a pretty good body count with zero local support. Local support counts for a lot, just look at Vietnam, Iraq and so on.
RSS reader, for days.
Did all the "you"s get deleted from your post? It was a little awkward to read.
What school do they teach that at? If we take the 2 most famous rivers then the Nile flows from south to north pretty much straight, and the Amazon flows from west to east by north east.
It might have been a long time since I was in elementary school but I never heard of "rivers flowing south", could be a US thing since most of the large rivers in the US do flow southish.
Still one of my favorite lectures I've watched online of all time. Highly recommend the book as well for those that haven't read it.
> But hopefully we have paved the way for future models and empirical studies on the nature of self, a problem that philosophers have made essentially no headway in solving.

This final statement not only seems snide but also dumb to the difference between science and philosophy. (I'm not an expert on that difference but I can see that there is one. I can see that there is a clear difference in spite of the fact that each steps on the others' toes, that each side attempts to take credit for the others' insights at times, or makes snide comments at each other like this statement here.)
Flooding of [US] Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun
Those pictures broke my heart.

RIP.
Interesting quote, considering that Beethoven chided Goethe for acting so deferentially to aristocrats.
I wonder why they use the word "other awareness", when there is a long-established term:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind
Curious, I wonder what the odds were of seeing a picture from my hometown of ~30,000 (Valparaiso, IN) in the stream :) . http://valparaisoevents.com/summer-outdoor-movies-recap/

Interesting service, I initially thought of it as a pen pal for the modern day where I'm linked to another account 1to1 instead of just receiving images from a stream. The rating aspect is unclear if 1 or 5 is better, I'm assuming 5 is better? Kinda fun but I'd be worried about receiving too many low quality pictures and I'd ignore posting again.
Mirror, Mirror, in the Code
Fair would also be to impose a maximum fertility rate. When the fertility rate is off the charts for the developing countries, unfair is the per capita quota.

If the goal is for humanity to survive on this planet, then clearly an exponential growth in population isn't sustainable. More fair would be to have quotas per square meter actually.
Woah Woah Woah, there is a fatal flaw and assumption in just the first couple paragraphs - the bootstrapping problem. If we evolved self in order to predict what others feel ... that depends on others having those feeling, but if those feelings in others don't evolve unless others have evolved those feelings, we have a circular fallacy! Who was the first feeler to cause others to evolve, and how did that person evolve then?
Its one of the major ways people are rent seeked. Gas, insurance, maintenance, loan, loan interest, etc. Exploitation overdrive. And most people dont have a choice.

Cars, housing, education and medicine are massive rent seeking areas sucking people dry and I cant wait until all of these are subverted by new systems.
I think my comment was unclear. By "coffee", I was referring to the whole slew of basic coffee- and espresso-based drinks. However, B&N does not serve every flavor of every drink, stock every syrup, etc.

You can see that B&N lists 12 items under Espresso-based beverages (even that is an overestimate because they include normal coffee and iced tea lemonade) [0], while Starbucks Espresso-based list has 31 items [1]. Newer items like the Flat White are not at B&N cafes.

Source: Spent a lot of time at Starbucks in college while my girlfriend was a barista.

[0]: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/h/cafe/espresso-beverages

[1]: http://www.starbucks.com/menu/catalog/product?drink=brewed-c...
Fact. Just google'd average 1 bedroom rent in LA and I pay a good ~$1k more... mostly for walkability
> "are there any non-revenue pilots on board, please ring your call button."

May be a stupid question but what is a "non-revenue" pilot?
I have no idea where I heard that fact - only remember "trivia" from friends in elementary school telling me that the Nile is the only river that flows north, daddy-longlegs are the most poisonous spiders but their mouths are too small to bite humans, etc.

I'm not sure if the anecdote in the beginning is a true one but it says it takes place in Hefei, so I'm not sure it's a particularly American piece of misinformation.
Ice cream vans. A fleet of 100. Safe way to go.

(Not fictional.)
Video, not single stills.
Priority dispute: one of neuroscience’s biggest thinkers is unknown
Adapting existing commodity tech always the way to go
The smaller you are as a business, the closer you are to being an individual and less of a business. Of course, as an individual, basically any money you earn is taxed. You don't get to not pay tax on the $1,500/mo rent for your apartment where as as a business, you can deduct your offic rent.
> That's something which is easy to change if there was a will

You don't really believe that, now do you?

Clearing the usage of new frequency bands is a huge regulatory undertaking involving multiple countries. It takes years and massive effort even when there is a very strong will and a clear need.
Ehh... I wouldn't be too sure about that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PK-netuhHA
In a desktop: right-click, "show controls". Should work in FF / Chrome.
A few minutes ago I just ran a Speediest on my iPhone 6s+ in Manhattan near a busy intersection on the Upper West Side.

47.6 Mbps download / 23 Mbps upload

I use Verizon, which has deployed LTE-Advanced which allows for the carrier aggregation of different data streams on different spectrums.

My phone uses the Qualcomm MDM 9635 modem:
https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/modems/x7

The Samsung Galaxy S7 uses the more advanced 9645 modem:
https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/modems/x12

Honestly, I don't know why I need > 45 Mbits/ sec download and 23 Mbits/sec upload. I don't seem to have problems at all with Verizon, even with the tall buildings.

What I do have problems with is the high cost of the service which does much to explain why people don't use more bandwidth on Verizon and use more on WiFi.

I would much prefer lower costs for Verizon data usage than higher download speeds.
Designing and running a simulation sounds like a trial. Observing the results of the simulation then making a correction, seems to imply a sort of error.
It depends on what hardware and software you want to mix. If you're using Ubiquiti products (www.ubnt.com), Unifi software will take care of it for the most part, since it includes it out of the box (just go to the settings), and they're quite cheap. If you're going the HP way, it will cost you more, but HP mobility controllers also have support for captive portals, though they're quite more complicated (and powerfull at the same time)

If you're on a budget or you already have your hardware and doesn't have direct support for it, you might want to look into pfSense as an alternative for your actual gateway, and separate your lan into at least two VLANs, one for your business network and another one for the guest access. Pfsense has also support for guest portals and you should be able to use it with a switch based vlan
The guy in Dallas is a very interesting example, much less "crazy" than the usual, he had close quarters combat (CQC) skills substantially greater than the cops who engaged him (or mine, for that matter).

It's something that should sober up a lot of gun controllers; what if non-crazy people, lots of whom are able to train themselves up to his level (something the IRA did not have the ability to do, BTW), decide they've "had enough"?

(The tide has been going the other way for a long time in most of the country, so we aren't even vaguely close to that, but, it should be thought about, just like some Democrats had second thoughts on gun control after the Saturday Night Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre (scary times, those were).)
But not sure if it matters. Go is free to use a C module to load csv files as well. It can use assembly or other tricks as well perhaps.
Not necessarily in cash.

With a leveraged buyout, you can go as low as 20% in cash and finance the rest with loans you put on Twitter's balance after the acquisition.

Or the acquiring company can issuing new shares and using those to pay Twitter shareholders.
LA is enormous, and depending on your wage and housing preferences, it isn't unusual for someone to live and work on completely opposite sides!
Agreed. Even better! Not surprising it is not fictional.
I don't think people are necessarily hoping he will fail, rather they believe his failure is a forgone conclusion, and they can't understand why others can't see that...including Musk.

NOTE: I'm not a hater or a fanboy.
Practically everyone owns a car. There'd be some pretty obvious writing on the wall if a small vocal minority demonized cars and convinced the gov't to confiscate them from one minority (racial or otherwise) everyone else would catch on quick. Not as many people have skin in the game in terms of gun ownership.

Why don't you trust the populace with their guns rather than ask the populace to trust the gov't with a registry? For X amount of bad things to happen (where X is a large number) you need a lot more coordinated or systemically encouraged action in the first situation whereas in the latter a few insulated members of the elite and a loud lobby by a few interest groups would suffice.
Yet another threat of mass murder. It's pretty hard to have sensible discussions with someone who resorts to threatening to kill his opponents.

There are a bunch of these. Here are just three:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6280963#6283297

> You're demonstrably wrong about "no one's going to take our guns" when it comes to slave states like New York and California that have confiscated them in recent memory, and in the latter's case is poised to do another round, but in general correct ... because in most of the US we won't tolerate it, one way or another. Keep pushing, though, if you want a second Civil War with the half or so of the nation that's "the fanatical right wing".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11558752#11563587

> In return, we've made it clear that we know our 20th Century history, if they get very far in this, we'll kill them, wholesale and retail. No common ground possible there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9835655#9838781

> I don't see how you and wisty deny that people on my side would turn our current cold civil war into a hot shooting war. We've read our 20th Century history, we know the potential end games for us and our families. We haven't been buying guns and ammo at historically unprecedented rates just to bury them.
First Shelby Cobra Sells for Record-Setting $13.75M – TopSpeed One
Yes, exactly. I've been primarily following Harvard's CS109. How are you getting ahead with it?
Back then, as now, the big issue is that driverless vehicles have to deal with human drivers. Remove humans from the road, and the challenge gets exponentially easier.
This could neatly explain Stockholm Syndrome, cult joining and other identity deficits.
I think he had chosen the wrong words here, it's foolish to think that great apes are not self aware. However they don't have the kind of insight in their own thinking that humans posses. We can draw some conclusions on how they use tool or organize themselves socially and on the surface we might not be that different. Apes can teach each other how to dig for water in cases of drought, but their planning and preparation only goes so far. I think our self awareness is much more linked to curiosity and goal determination than anything. I don't mean that it arises from those but that it is our inherent ingenuity of that made us conquer the Earth.
Don't know never heard that fact, especially considering that rivers that flow north in Europe are quite common since the norther part of Europe is still rebounding from the last large ice age and it's overall at a lower elevation than southern Europe where you also get the large mountain ranges.

So famous rivers like the Sine, Elbe, Oder etc. all flow "north".
> Java conceptually has a lot of drawbacks

In what sense is an articulated object a "conceptual drawback"? It is a richer object model and SMI and friends had the engineering chops to makes it highly performant.
I found The Last Lecture while looking for a motivational book to gift my brother. Do you think a 14yo could appreciate Randy's writings? I'd like to instill him with a sense of perseverance, responsibility and long-term vision.
If they were magnetic, a CAT scan would rip it out I imagine
And the peoples in the "sandbox" who have or whom are out waiting us.
which is exactly what I meant with less specialized but safe :)
> [...] try teaching programming to a bunch of math majors and a bunch of sociology majors, see how learns more easily.

That doesn't necessarily mean that teaching math to people makes them better at programming. It could also mean that the kind of people who major in math (and then don't drop out in the first year) tend to be better at the kind of thinking used in programming than people who go into sociology.

It's hard to tell what causes what, and that's what the author is talking about when he says that the matter of skill transfer isn't settled.
The comment above is exactly right. There are dozens of high-end car makers for this very reason. Because this is a small but profitable market, they just need to have engineering that is good enough and provide esquisite features that are perceived as luxurious and exclusive. Just buy any specialized magazine or visit the show rooms to see how these high-end cars manufacturers churn one expensive car after another...
Go's implementation allows the caller to designate any UTF8 character as the delimiter, not just as ascii.
Their is little evidence that their position has changed on the ground. Green peace says China is still building a ton of coal. http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2016/07/13/china-keeps-buil...
(Finance rookie here) Is there a public register of short contracts or is this just a generally held belief?
When I rode in France - once on a two-month tour through the country, and once living in Paris, I was incredibly shocked at how aware motorists were to cyclists. Motorists would drive fast around me, but I wasn't worried that their intentions were maligned. Coming back to the States, and I had to readapt to being much more defensive.

In short: it's just embedded in the French culture. France has le Tour, we have football.

Switzerland takes this to a whole 'nother level, saying nothing about the Netherlands, Denmark, etc.

In the States, I feel very much like an enemy on the road. I mean, I'm just riding my bike to work.
I think philosophers often free-ride on the discoveries of cognitive scientists without adding anything to the discussion. That doesn't mean that philosophy can't have its place, it's there to ask questions but very often those questions are meaningless without the way to gain answers.
Very cool. Would be nice to know how much they charge for one cubesat, and how high orbit they can shoot one to (and how long the cubesat stays there)
There is a significant difference between self-driving cars in 1960, flying cars and self-driving cars today.

Flying cars are doable, and there are several prototypes of a flying car. However, flying cars aren't safe and aren't cost-effective.

Self-driving cars in 1960 require a significant infrastructure to operate, and can't operate with human drivers. (Edit: Not to mention they don't exist)

Self-driving cars today work, and are cost-effective, and it's likely that they will be safer and create a much better traffic ecosystem than humans ever will.
I think I like it ...

Negativity follows!

Not sure what it's for? Seems like it's trying to get a corpus for training image recognition - but then I can't rate the tagging of images or highlight when they've failed (like one of the "car" images is an aeroplane interior).

I can't link to a tag page. The images loading are shifting about and re-ordering which I find quite discombobulating and distracting. Some images -- someone's takeaway of indiscernable type -- that are loading for the front-page are quite large, 800+kB to show me a thumbnail. I hope you're not paying by the byte!

When you say anonymous, what's the scope of that? I see your are using Twilio - does that mean you can tell Twilio to drop all logs of the sender details of the images? If I have a group of people send large images can I DDoS the site?
First we remove human drivers. Then we add electronic signalling systems, to make the driverless vehicles work in all environmental conditions. Then we add central control. Then we add X. Then we add Y.

Finally, we have reinvented the railroad. Amazing. I feel like the fact that we don't have automated railroads (in practice) should tell us something about the viability of the self-driving car. The problem for autonomous rail isn't even technical anymore, it's regulatory.
Alaska Has Finally Been Mapped as Precisely as Mars
All you need is one instance where one agent mistakes that the other agent feels when that agent doesn't -- and then I think your fallacy is moot.
There are hackers outside SV/Bay area, which apparently don't count.
Signs point to large Google algorithm change
Uhm, why use integers when you have floats that don't overflow but saturate nicely. lua/perl/js did just that.
GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP
The whole idea of veganism is doing the less harm to our world as possible. That's what most people do not understand. It is the best rational decision.

When you go through all the fallacies meat-eaters throw at you, the only reason with "weight" is the taste.

With our current technology, enhanced food and other stuff, meat eating is just a luxury in most developed countries. You don't need it (unless you have a specific illness), but you eat it because it gives you 5 minutes of pleasure in your mouth.

In 2016, meat is the new diamond.
Only true until value types get productified and there are already prototype versions to play with.

Also depending on which JVM SDK is being used (Oracle Hotspot, Oracle Graal, IBM J9, HP, PTG, JET,...), the quality of escape analysis differs but it all boils down to turning those headered objects into plain structs, if possible stack allocated.
It is a common arrogance, even among "scientists", to assume that no other animal has self awareness or even emotions.
I use Ubuntu everyday and I don't remember a moment where I had to read /var/log/syslog to fix anything.
Mine too. I'm wasn't familiar with his work, but I was moved by the lovely pictures of Vernon Adams with his family.

Fonts are pretty important. I spend most of my day looking at text so readability is key.
This extensive list of skills is exactly why cycling is a lifestyle choice/hobby, not an effective method of transportation.

Car ownership isn't much better.

Lyft/Uber? I tap a button, get in the car, then appear at my destination.

I don't have to spend mental cycles on accidents, vehicle failures, weather, navigation, insurance, licensing, fuel, equipment, tiredness, sobriety, clothing, locks, road laws, time of day, road debris, other road users, parking, safety of my vehicle when I'm not around, maintenance, vehicle condition and cleanliness, transportation politics, etc.

Instead, I can live my life. It's actually quite liberating.
The CVT in my wife's Honda is surprisingly good. No "sag and surge" due to shifting. It just keeps going (with an engine RPM proportional to the throttle amount) as you hit the freeway onramp.

Her car has a bigger engine than my Prius (also with a CVT as well as the motor/generator), though. My car does very well around town, being quite peppy in the 0 to 30 range, but a bit more doggish getting up to freeway speed. But it makes a good daily driver otherwise.

Traditional automatics seem to change gears and re-clutch slowly. The 5 speed on my old small pickup was fun to drive, once I learned how to do it years ago :-)