skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * For purposes of the trip itself, I think using standard taxi/Uber/Lyft services probably increases climate impact over a personal car: The ride-hailing cars drive around empty part of the time, waiting for rides; your personal car is parked when you don't use it. Otherwise, whether you are in someone else's car or your own for the trip, the impact is the same (unless your car is more/less efficient than the ride-hailing car)

When demand is low, the driver will take the car home and park it anyway. I think for climate impact, ride sharing more efficiently amortizes the fixed cost of manufacturing the car over the trips taken, since a single Uber driver and car can more than one owner-operated car. Also, the profit motive of the Uber driver incentivizes fuel efficient cars.
Besides what others have said about moderation and general lack of features, I wanted to add that hckrnews.com is a really beautiful interface that all news sites should copy IMO. I think the interaction between hckrnews.com readers and home page readers may add something that either interface alone would miss and at least it appeals to people with significantly different styles of news reading.
Common thread: does the manager prioritize himself or put the team ahead of his interests.
[video] Riemann Surfaces
> The more advanced the state, the more it is independent.

err, ok...
I think this is a Takata (or perhaps Toyota, which owns Lexus) thing, not a luxury car thing. I waited the same three months for a new airbag for my Corolla.
Acceptable speeds are a minimum of 50% of top speeds [...]

I assume that's advertised top speeds?
I'll add to the other commentators that we manufacture more than 12 billion rounds a year, and import quite a few more (especially as of late more .22LR, rimfire production is pretty much fixed at 3 billion per year due to manufacturing dangers and realities, including the reluctance of US manufacturers to buy new capital equipment that can only be used for it).

It would also strong discourage responsible gun ownership, by discouraging people from maintaining their skills. There are, what, way over 12 million who have concealed carry licenses in the US (the number is growing very rapidly and 12 or 12.5 is only the latest and a bit old), more and more states dropping license requirements (it's up to around 10, with Missouri likely to be added this month), and semi-automatic handguns are the overwhelmingly preferred design to carry for many good ergonomic, reliablity and effectiveness reasons.

Legally owned full-auto weapons simply aren't a problem, there's 2 known crimes committed with them, and one of those was by a police officer.... With their numbers limited by a 1986 law to around 200,000, and the inherent cost of firing lots of rounds from them, they're already mostly "a hobby for the rich" as c22 points out. Something you can see echoed in the former Democratic governor of Kansas Kathleen Sebelius signing a law making them legal again after many many decades.
You are perfectly correct each person (or each state) following its self interest leads in this case logically to a slow motion disaster

Ethics, especially a la Kant, can help to address this shortcoming.

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law"

I like eating meal every day, but I cannot wish that this become the universal diet (especially of those 1b Indians). Therefore my ethical compass tell me to alter my food habits
Watson Made a Movie Trailer, Paving the Way for Police-Worn Body Cameras
I'm from the UK, and automatics are pretty rare here. If you do your driving test in an automatic, your license is annotated so you can only drive automatics, so people do it in manuals instead; and then, of course, they buy a manual, because they're cheaper.

So my first experience with an automatic gearbox was on a holiday to the US. And I loathed it. It felt like all the controls were connected to the road via rubber bands --- everything seemed to happen a couple of seconds after I moved the controls. If that had been my only experience of an automatic, then I too would be saying how horrible they were.

But then, much, much later I tried driving a hybrid with a CVT automatic gearbox. (I can't even remember what it was now.) And it was... amazing. It felt just right. There was no lag, there was no uncomfortable feeling of being in the wrong gear. It was like it was reading my mind. I put this down to being an expensive hybrid with lots of low-end torque from the electric motor, but then just this year I drove a Nissan X-Trail, also with CVT, and it was just as good.

So I'm willing to say: not all automatic gearboxes are the same.
Happy to see the conflict settled! Here's what's in the news entry for the GNU release:

With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while
we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd,
back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass.
> I don't want voluntary support and to have to spend hours trawling forums to find fixes that don't work.

To be fair, you get to do that with Windows problems, too. I work as a sysadmin at a Windows shop, and unless your company is willing to spring for an expensive support contract or pay a few hundred bucks per incident, Microsoft is not going to lift a finger to help with your problems and refer you to the technet forums instead (and lots of other software vendors do that, too).

I do agree with the "I'm too old for this crap" line, though - like I said, things pretty much have just worked for me over the last couple of years, and I do not miss the good old days of spending a weekend trying to get something trivial like a touchpad or audio to work. It was fun back then, but that was a long time ago.
On the other hand, the "lost" income goes to schools and roads so it's kind of like just paying tax on the income.
Manuals are the same price in the US as automatics (or are more expensive)

This is absolutely false. Not every car is offered with manual transmission, but cars that can be configured with both are almost always cheaper with a manual. I cannot recall every seeing a case where it was the more expensive option.
I have no idea what ML could stand for when discussing an article Money Laundering. It is a mystery.
100+ years of expertise also converged on the ICE
From the other side, I also feel like the adversarial nature of the debate has gotten completely out of hand. Democracy is all about compromise, but when it comes to guns people just go off the rails.

Here's how it feels from my point of view: I'd like it if the police could really just run a serial number (perhaps with judicial oversight, warrants, etc.), like they do on T.V.

But the right takes my genuine desire to take some sensible measures to reduce violent crime and turns it into a desire to take away all of the guns and commit some atrocity.

It's like I'm asking you if I could use your cellphone for a second to call for a ride, and you treat me like I'm definitely planning to steal it. Perhaps a sensible measure in some contexts, but it is always a fundamental statement about how little you trust me, and frankly insulting.

Many on the left, of course, do the same thing, although obviously I'm not in as good of a position to describe it.

Somehow we need to restore our trust in one another's shared values. It seems to me that a heavily partisan media has done the most to erode this trust (for example, the vicious attacks on the fundamental values of Bush and Obama), but there might be more too it.
Yeah. Turo (formerly relayrides) is pretty sweet for getting whatever kind of car you need last minute.

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'Money Laundering,' I believe
The Ghost Olympic Event: Machine Learning Startup Acquisition
Yeah, the essay was good, but unsatisfactory in explaining why monkeys, dolphins, or even most other animals would not possess self awareness.

It's easy to disregard others, when we don't share a common tongue.
I don't want to derail this whole submission talking about haxe, but this is the first time I've really ever looked at it.

It's not like haxe is some kind of crazy offshoot language, it looks pretty damn close to typescript and flow (But to me this looks closer to "regular javascript" than most typescript and flow does).

With the exception of the `@:expose` and `@:keep` stuff, there isn't anything i've seen yet just browsing through the source that I don't understand (as a javascript developer), and i've never seen the language before in my life.
> Don't know about Ukko or what they cover, can't even figure out if they are an MVNO or not their wikipedia entry says that they operate LTE 31 which makes them sound like a rural/remote region operator since that's what most of these low bands are used for.

Ukko is an MNO, not an MVNO. They hold a national license for the 450 MHz band which they use to provide data services in all of Finland.

Here is their coverage map:
http://www.ukkoverkot.fi/kuuluvuus/

> If they indeed operate on the LTE 31 band this also means they are a speciality carrier which also means they have to provide you with their own devices since I'm not aware of any mass market consumer device which supports B31

Correct.

> The cellular spectrum especially in regards to 4G LTE channels is pretty damn large, and most countries started with more than 3-4 cellular providers they just had decades of consolidation since then.

Not all LTE bands are available in all countries.
I disagree. I believe the unidirectional links in the social graph + public by default are the key features.

Because Twitter is public by default I know everything I post should not be confidential. No details of my kids, for instance. So it tends towards people presenting their professional persona.

Because it's unidirectional, following someone does not imply any personal relationship (cf Facebook, where links are bidirectional and you only friends IRL friends). This means I can follow someone without fear of rejection, and likewise I can gain followers without opening myself up to all my followers' content.

With this I can read someone's posts for a while, and comment when I have a feel for them + have something interesting to say.
The countries simply need to pass laws or use some sort of legal intervention that counter this abuse of the law.

Many US firms were buying out foreign firms and transferring their HQ to the bought out firm, simply to avoid taxes, not for any other strategic or operational reasons. Pfizer going to have a $160 billion merger with Allergen for this very reason, called an "inversion" but the US government intervened and the merger and Pfizer's tax avoidance was called off.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/pfizer-aller...
Lessons learned from making a Chess game for Ethereum
If we wanted to put a dent in this kind of thing, we'd put people in jail, and fine individuals. But we don't do that, so we must not want to stop it. I suppose the fines are just our cut.
The base offense level for structuring in the service of some other criminal act appears to be 8, and offenses connected with sexual exploitation of minors gain 6 offense levels; zone D starts at level 12 for first-time offenders.

It is as least as likely that I am wrong than that the reporting is wrong, but, there you go.
Like marijuana, different strains also have different effects, presumably due to different proportions of the, uh, compounds of interest. For instance, “Indo” (from Indonesia) generally has more of a relaxing effect than “Maeng Da” (from Thailand), which is quite stimulating.

But yeah, all told, kratom is very mild, and I’d wager it has even more of a “valid medical use” than marijuana. I’ve found it very useful for nerve pain, sleeplessness, anxiety, and staying off alcohol. To me, marijuana and kratom are wonder-drugs, and it’s a shame they’re so restricted in this country. At worst they should be Schedule II and available by prescription.
Nice UI, but it doesn't work in my case. I've tried a bunch of urls from stackexchange and the output is not readable (not properly formatted). But anyway, what I suggest to do is to add feature that I'm looking for (and maybe not only me?) is to convert website to some kind of book, for example in pdf. As I remember Adobe PDF has this functionality included, but I 'm not aware of any web app that can do this. So, basically you can parse whole website and create book out of it. So, anyway good luck!
I'm the author of this article.

If you find it interesting, here are some links to a couple other articles I've really enjoyed on the topic:

# Queues don't fix overload

http://ferd.ca/queues-don-t-fix-overload.html

# There is no happy path in programming

http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/01/29/no-happy-...

Also, if you're looking for a whole book on systems thinking, albeit in a more general context, it's worth checking out "Thinking in Systems: A Primer" by Donella H. Meadows.

Once you start thinking about this stuff it's impossible to not see it everywhere. But for programmers, ops people, etc. that's a good thing... because our jobs depend on it.
I don't think anyone embraces failure. For most startups, failure embraces you. (More like a tackle.) Then you either shake it off and keep moving, or not. Most people who have the balls to do a startup in the first place will go with option #1.
> Just imagine sending data to earth at 160 bps from a distance of 20 billion kilometers and 17 billion kilometers^ [3] , respectively, for Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

Sending data - regardless of bandwidth - over these distances is very impressive in my book. Let alone sending a computer so far and have it still work after all these years.
You could just google it...

That's how I found out.
its not only easy to build them its easy to profit off of them. they are the biggest profit makers for car makers because it really doesn't cost that much more to reach that point.

I don't understand your doubt, there are many examples of boutique car companies who sell on either luxury or performance and sometimes both. They are all low volume adventures. There simply is more room to profit and that is attractive. Plus its very easy to feed off of pretentious people, pretentious geeks are even simpler.
5.56 NATO was derived from the .223 Remington cartridge developed for the original AR-15, which was derived from the .222 Remington varmint cartridge and intended to be between it and the .222 Remington Magnum.

My father's primary hunting partner when I started hunting had a .222 bolt action rifle; if this had happened later, it would undoubtedly be a .223 due to the reduced costs of the 5.56/.223 ecosystem.
I think it's important to remember that none of these startups were as popular now as in the beginning. This is obvious, but it's hard too think back to the late-90s and put ourselves in the metapsychology of a user who was evangelizing Google when (basically) everyone uses Google now. Same with Reddit and Mint.

I first heard about Google from my 1st grade teacher. He bought us 1984 Macintoshs (with his own money) to use since our school didn't see the point of buying new computers to teach first graders computer skills in 1999 (the irony is not lost on me...). When he saw me using Alta Vista one day in our school's computer lab, he stopped me mid-search, logged onto Google and the rest is history.

My teacher was kind of a hippie and had spent time on an Indian Reservation as a photographer. He was obsessed with astronomy and took us on field trips to the Griffith Observatory at night where attendance was extra credit. I don't know if this is representative of Google's initial user base but it wouldn't surprise me if it was.

TL;DR: It's almost impossible to tell in hindsight who the few users were especially when a company is ubiquitous. Needless to say, it seems to be the best way to succeed
Yes well when they have installed enough solar panels to exceed the day time demands of the entire country (which is what selling to the grid means) THEN they can start worrying about storing excess capacity.

N.B. distributed solar currently accounts for ~.25% of electrical generation, Solar City accounting for some fraction of that fraction of a percent.
You're only screwed if you sell. Why would you sell a volatile growth stock during the dips?
Are you scrubbing Exif metadata on all these? I spot-checked a few and there didn't seem to be any embedded. A surprising number of people have no idea that their mobile phone may embed GPS coordinates in images they take with it.

I think most social media sites do this by default but I wish they were more selective about it. Okay to scrub GPS location if present but copyright/photographer/exposure details, etc, are all helpful and should be kept if at all possible.
A gun database enables mass confiscation, and historically a gun database precedes mass confiscation by a few short years.
I agree. It wouldn't surprise me if Reddit's initial subreddits were narrow and reflected the interests of the founders and early employees – they created a proto-listserv for people like them and it grew from there
Comparison of N4JS to TypeScript
Again that is easy to say but it is meaningless unless there are quantifiable metrics by which you can prove that.
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.

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.
Democracy is all about compromise

Can you tell us what you are willing to give up to gain any of your goals?

Compromise does not mean only we give up something, but not quite as much as was asked from us at the beginning of the process of drafting a law.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12399802 and marked it off-topic.
My rationale behind not supporting any compromise is simple: the other side does not want me to have any guns.

Imagine if the most anti-gun position in America was still very pro-gun people like say Charleton Heston, then I'd be willing for a compromise. I would be ok with building a registry where the police can search for guns.

But the fact is, we know that Hillary Clinton talks about how Australia successfully got rid of all its guns. We know that the ultimate goal isn't a happy compromise in the middle.

This is why the 'cold dead hands' mentality exists in America.

It's like imagine if Republicans want a national registry of people by their religion. Or national ethnicity database. The Democrats wouldn't (and shouldn't) give an inch on that.
Extremely interested by the answer, if you're aware of some, please let me know.

After I've dived up into some Data Science/ML books, I'm trying Kaggle right now. Seems very focused on practical projects, so that's good.

Finding a few real-life data science projects would be a huge plus.
Hi, I am Austrian and I read the original interview in an austrian newspaper. It was very unspectacular and I am quite amused that it got international attention.

Our prime minister is wrong or at least slightly populist here. Yeah, Facebook/Google are not paying advertising duty. But no one does, at least in the internet. You only have to pay this duty if you advertise in TV, Radio, newspaper, etc. but it does NOT apply for the internet! See for yourself on the homepage of the austrian finance ministry (unfortunately in german): https://www.bmf.gv.at/steuern/a-z/Werbeabgabe.html. The law is from 2000, so probably before advertising in the internet became big.

Even if they change this law to include the internet, the Austrian companies that want to advertise would have to pay this tax (5% btw) since Google/Facebook do not have any offices in Austria (see chapter "Abgabenschuldner" in the link above). Google/Facebook don't even need to care about this law! (apart from that extending the law could make advertising in the internet more unattractive).

Why should they even pay corporate taxes in Austria? As already said they don't have any offices here.
Agreed.

A few years ago I visited L'Ans aux Meadows. It's the only known viking settlement in the new world. The logs that were used to build it were grown in a time that is warmer than today. All the trees up there these days are quite small in comparison since they grow so much more slowly. There's all kinds of things like this that can be pointed at.

I do know one thing though. Labeling people 'deniers' or other derogatory things indicates only one thing - that the name caller is unable to articulate a reasonable argument.
Then again my understanding is that Putin came to power much because Yeltsin road that wind of change into the ground...
RCA engineers envisioned automated electronic highways by 1975
I lived in Brazil from 1989 to 1992 and while I was there, the money changed 3 times (I think cruzero, cruzado, cruzado novo). I was just a kid but I remember the price of drinks at the local shopping strip raising extremely quickly. I really think the mind game to trick the economy into a stable currency was amazing.
Until you drown in technical debt.
> EDIT: You can count Ukko out completely they do not provide voice at all not to mention that paying 85 Euros on a 12 month contract for 3-10 Mbit/s without a device is laughable

Tell that to somebody who would have to rely on satellite if it were not for Ukko. And it's not like you can't run your choice of VoIP over that.
>Does anybody know what this might be alluding to?

According to the article,

Self-awareness is 'other awareness' applied to yourself where 'other awareness' is constructing meaningful models of other peoples minds in order to predict their behavior.

But as you said it seems like 'monkeys are not self-aware' was a presumption made by the author, i.e monkeys don't have model for self. But, how can we verify this?.

He is saying'mirror neurons play important role in self but not that important otherwise monkeys would have a self', so the original problem still remains.
Being competent and having a degree are often very orthogonal to each other. My friend works as engineers at Space X and describes Musk as very hands on and competent which can not obviously serve as proof. But neither can a statement like "if Mary Barra were running a startup auto company that it would have spare parts". Scaling supply chain and building up manufacturing facilities from ground up for a new car type vs managing an existing entrenched player are very different tasks. I guess we will soon see how things will work out with GM electric vehicle sales to compare the two.
> People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars
Instead, they’re riding Uber and Lyft to work.

Commuting is one thing, but cars are often necessary for other things (for instance, going hiking/skiing on weekends) where public transportation/uber isn't an option.

I wonder what is the recommended solution for this. In my case for instance, rental wouldn't be cheaper than owning a car. There's a car sharing service in my city but again, not significantly cheaper than owning the car.
In practice, the people using those services are ones that are primarily on the darkweb. So you're just exchanging your own tainted bitcoins for someone elses tainted bitcoins.

The point is to break the chain of evidence tying you back to the darknet transaction, which works, but still manages to look suspicious as hell.

IMHO, it's only a matter of time before someone is convicted of money laundering for using a tumbler service.
edit: not constructive