skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US there is also pretty active aerial imaging, between state and local efforts and the National Aerial Imaging Program. The pdf linked at this page seems to have a nice discussion of it:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3055/
Sourceforge still exists. sunsite.unc.edu merged into ibiblio.
Totally agree with you here. React made me think of the web in a very modular way... I found it very enjoyable to learn!
You can gauge into peoples financial responsibility simply by looking at how much they manage to save, how often they hit zero or almost zero on their account etc.

These are much better indicators of your ability to handle money than spending money and paying it back to build credit history.

Again it works in other countries and so of course it can too in the US.
It all sounds uberish too until you mentioned musk
It's a pretty safe choice, Evan is working on it full time and it keeps getting better and better.
No one doubts that Toyota will be a big player. It's just that no one is really excited about hydrogen cars on the highway.
https://www.softwareheritage.org/
I'm linking this[0] post, not to talk about why/if neovim is better than vim, but rather because it gives a nice overview of why that patch was rejected, and why neovim was started.

[0]http://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-v...
Two words: Path Finder.
I wish he would drop the name of the router he's running into these issues on. I have the same exact issue with my laptop (random disconnects for 30 seconds) only on my home router, and I've been considering replacing the router with something of higher quality.

I use an ASUS 750N, which is starting to show its age faster than I expected, but otherwise services the devices in my house just fine. Except for my laptop, which is the only device I actually need to use over wifi on a regular basis.
I've been pretty happy with this app for snapping windows: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12
Humans tend to use the same sounds for common objects and ideas in all languages
For home usage, high end consumer routers with free firmware work just fine (something like Linksys WRT1900ACS with DD-WRT / OpenWRT).
I think you may be misunderstanding in that there is nothing false about it. You are actually finding that which you agree upon.
Bummer. I know that reality exists, it's just unfortunate. I wouldn't want to work for anyone who had that attitude if I had the option.
Yeah, they need to be unaware of them...
https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup
Keeping track of warehouse inventories with an army of fully autonomous drones
i bought an android 6.0 device a couple days ago. (Moto G4) On android 6 you can enable/disable individual permissions on each app, however Google Play already had location disabled.
He didn't accept several patches, did he?
Google Code is dead.
Original title, 'A nose by any other name would sound the same, study finds', was uninformative, so the first paragraph provided the replacement.
There is also a github mirror at https://github.com/vadz/libtiff .
But wouldn't it be fun to build a raspberry pi based chip tester!
How is this safe in the multithreaded case anyway? If a process has just written a new JITted method and is flushing the i$ on the CPU it's executing on, but then gets scheduled away part-way through the flush, if you were very unlucky then couldn't another thread then get scheduled on that CPU and try to execute the just-written method, which failed to be fully flushed from that CPU's cache?
Daniel Dennett is a curious character. A philosopher at Tufts, he wrote this:

How to compose a successful critical commentary:

You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.
You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
You should mention anything you have learned from your target.
Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.
That's irrelevant, really. Just that standardizing on a particular business for all repositories will never please everyone.

See if there's a better solution.
Latest Nvidia  JetPack Developer Tools Double Deep Learning Performance
To anyone on the Pix team reading this:

In the section under "Hover Zoom Comparison", the Apple Camera photo is to the left of the Pix photo. In every other comparison, the Pix photo comes first. You should maintain that order because people don't read the title always and could confuse them. Once you've established a pattern, such as Pix on the left and Apple's on the right, don't change it. It's an inconvenience that the user doesn't mention but feels. Also, a consistent pattern takes a less cognitive load.

You can call it nitpick or details :)
It sounds like he needs an OS built on "default deny" principles. The best one for that is OpenBSD, and he recommends porting over three or four packages from OpenBSD. Really, he'd be happier running that, I think. I know I was when I first started exploring the BSDs. I tried FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and DragonflyBSD before settling on OpenBSD.

Default deny makes the most sense if you are interested in security. Sure, it can be a PITA to set up .conf files at first and get the packages you need, but once past the learning curve, it's the simplest thing to maintain.

FreeBSD reminds me a lot of various flavors of Linux I've tried in the (distant) past. All kinds of stuff running by default, old packages for compatibility, etc.

Security may not be important for many people till it's too late, but it's one of those things that pays dividends in what doesn't happen. Hard to sell if you've never been pwned.
https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup/issues/6
So, uh, why doesn't he just use OpenBSD? They take security seriously. (not being snarky, really!)
I made the terrible error of trying to use vim as an IDE when I was learning to program. Honestly I think it set my progress back 75%.

Don't get me wrong, I use vim all the time cause it's there on any machine I log in to, but I found I was MUCH more productive when I paid for a good IDE for development.

And YES I tried using all the plugins to make vim into an IDE. That was half the problem.
> With UnifyID, instead of supplying a password, the system begins to build an understanding about who you are, the devices you use, the places you go, the sensors you interact with throughout a day, even the way you walk and the cadence of your typing.

Oh, so it's a cheap excuse to aggregate a huge amount of personal location data, activity logs, and a keylogger. This is exactly the data needed to build a very accurate pattern-of-life profile. Sure, you could probably make a reasonable estimate if the right person is trying to authenticate, but that's obviously not the goal.
> There will be a huge loss of jobs in the next 10 years

Not if I have anything to do it! Luckily not everyone is a defeatist.

First principles analysis shows there is plenty of valuable work to be done, and not nearly enough people to do it all.

Unemployment is a phenomenon fabricated by the ruling class for social control. As long as people are afraid of becoming unemployed, they'll stay in an exploitive job.

It's not as if there is some kind of fundamental limit on productivity. We've been trying to finish the work for a thousand years, and yet each year we keep finding more!
The only benefit I can see in comparison to self-learning is access to a human being that can answer most questions. Given most bootcamps' focus on specific stacks, I'd imagine they produce somewhat decent junior engineers (as long there's a stack match) but poor senior engineers.

The employability of certain stacks (Swift + iOS, Java + Android, Node) is very high at the moment, so immediate employment issues are likely well taken care of, but long-term career prospects are somewhat dubious - I mean, there's still market for stacks such as Visual Basic + SQL Server, or Perl, but it's not red-hot.
Am I the only one who's becoming more tuned into these thinly veiled self-promotion tweets/comments/stories which are actually about something else?

I can't speak to this guy's motivations, but my tuned-up sensitivity to marketing/advertising has my radar going off.
FTA

"When I told people I was going to Cuba, the reaction was predictable. I was told I was lucky to witness Cuba because it was ‘”untouched.” I was told something along the lines of: “Oh, you get to see Cuba before Starbucks and McDonald’s go down and ruin it all.” I heard the same thing from some Americans I met at El Floridita. I confess part of me shared in this naive romanticism about Cuba, that somehow there is a ‘purity’ to Cuba that will soon be ‘corrupted.’ I was wrong about this. Not only because of my naiveté about the condition on the ground in Cuba, but because of the insidiousness such a belief implies about what the Cuban people want and deserve.

“Untouched” is a romantic way to look at the poverty that Cuba has become. There is nothing romantic about poverty. Poverty is sad. Poverty is sick children and malnourishment. Poverty is no books or school supplies. Poverty is no toilet paper, no soap, no toothpaste, no clean water, and unmet basic needs. Poverty is constant exposure to punishing heat and humidity. Poverty is torn up shoes and broken cars. Poverty is dangerous tools and equipment. Worst of all, poverty is wasted human capital: time spent waiting on lines for food instead of producing goods and services to better society. Poverty is unwritten literature, unsung music, unconducted experiments, undiscovered breakthroughs, and unfulfilled ambition."
New Space Apparel Store!
Without more walkable cities, building transit won't increase LA ridership
My family is originally from China but have lived in the west for 30 years. We eat the sweets in the US just fine. My wife and her parents recently came to the US from China...the sweets in the US are too sweet for them and they just eat a little bit.
The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire [1] and easy access for the faithful to religious texts was considered so important that whole scripts were invented (the most famous by Cyril and Methodius [2]) in order to teach the faith.

The reason why people did not have ready access to books before the invention of the printing press was because books were expensive. The original printed bibles sold for approximately $4500 [3] ... and they were cheap by comparison to the hand-copied versions!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_alphabet - this became the basis for the Cyrillic alphabet.
[3]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=30+*+54+grains+Gold+in+USD

Weight of the Florin taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_(Italian_coin) and cost of the book from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible#Early_owners
I am glad someone is listening:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/microsoftpi...
> There will be a huge loss of jobs in the next 10 years

Not if I have anything to do it! Luckily not everyone is a defeatist.

First principles analysis shows there is plenty of work to be done, and not nearly enough people to do it all. We could probably erase global unemployment by adding mental health care jobs alone.
Tell them that documenting will allow better history be recorded. Then you can redirect the argument of "is history as a subject any useful" to external endpoint.
You do, but your immune system really only needs a small boost to kill the infection, so while you might end up with a significant fraction of resistant bacteria at the end of a 14 day run of antibiotics, your immune system kills them all eventually.
‘Smart’ Dildo Company Sued for Tracking Users’ Habits
Thanks.

> Earth, Venus, Mars and asteroids such as Vesta and, perhaps, Lutetia have chondritic bulk compositions with massive silicate mantles surrounding iron cores. Anomalies include Mercury with its abundant metallic iron (about 70% by mass), the Moon with its small iron core, and metal-dominated asteroids. Although a giant impact with proto-Earth can explain the Moon’s small core, a giant impact origin for Mercury is problematic. Such a scenario requires that proto-Mercury was blasted apart with far greater specific energy than required for lunar formation, yet retained substantial volatile elements and did not reaccrete its ejected mantle. Here we present numerical hydrocode simulations showing that proto-Mercury could have been stripped of its mantle in one or more high-speed collisions with a larger target planet that survived intact.

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v7/n8/full/ngeo2189.html

So now we have evidence that lunar formation involved far greater specific energy than thought. It seems plausible that Theia's core could have survived a near head-on collision with Earth, which vaporized both mantles.
Yep, I used to get CDs with my monthly issue of MacAddict. Those were a highlight for me. I still remember when I discovered Glenn's Games. I felt like I'd hit the jackpot.
It's pretty straightforward to get an entry-level position at a firm. Analysts usually have a finance/business background with some tech industry exposure; these days, many firms also hire social media intern types. So if that's your situation, you have a fairly well-trod path.

Intermediate level positions (which are fairly uncommon) are often filled by promotion of analysts, the return of analysts after stints in MBA school, or the like.

For actual investment decision-making roles, the path isn't so obvious. The tricky part here is that VC (as with boutique investment firms in general) is a very "unique mix" driven industry. There are very few partners, whose "unique mix" of biographies are a critical part of the pitch that VCs make to their investors (LPs). Those LPs will be looking for firms made of a few amazingly accomplished, complementary individuals - and putting in 10 years of analyst/associate/principal work at boutique firms will generally not cut it for "partner" level.

If you want to be a partner at a firm, your honest best bet is to:
1. start a tech company, raise VC, and achieve a successful exit;
2. make a few angel investments of your own and achieve a solid track record; and
3. get recruited on the basis of 1. and 2.

(Also - These days some firms, notably a16z, are hiring subject-matter experts to serve in unique advisory roles. Your trajectory to get one of these roles is to ignore VC for most of your life and become a noted subject matter expert.)
Wrong.

I also cut out most sugars. I literally cannot drink Dr Pepper or Mr Pibb (the only two I can stomache) straight. I have to dilute it with plain soda water (unflavoured, unsweetened).

My wife, who still likes sweet drinks, cannot stand the mix I make, and I cannot stand the mix she likes (as in, as the manufacturer intended).

It isn't humblebragging. It's real. Cut out sugars for a couple of years and try it yourself.
Are there any specific business class routers you would recommend?
Written by someone who sounds like he should go spend some time in inner city Detroit, Baltimore, etc. etc.

I've been to Cuba, off the beaten track, many times. Eaten home cooked meals in Cuban homes. Picked up hitchhikers and talked to the locals as best I could. etc. I've never seen anything there as sickeningly awful as the contrast between brutal Want and Decadence that characterizes the U.S.

Can't stand smug libertarians. Really can't.
Violence is generally not a good motivator. Positive reinforcement is much better.
Learning how to do this is an essential skill. Most people are not idiots. If they disagree with you, it's probably not because they are being irrational, but because they're starting from a different premise, making different assumptions, or assigning different values to different aspects of the problem. Only when you understand their argument well enough to articulate it in your own words can you effectively present a counter-argument that has a chance of being persuasive.
A very similar effect is the "backfire effect"

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Backfire_effect

I've been spending a lot of time focusing on this with customer support. When a customer is hot about a problem it doesn't help at all to show facts about anything. It really helps though to begin with a place of empathy of how you understand how they feel if you were in a similar situation. For example, had a great experience with Indinero recently when I was hot about a problem. Their customer service rep though approached it exactly from how he would feel the same way as me in such a place and here's how they'll fix it. If he just started with the "here's how we'll do better" I don't think he have gotten through to me in the situation. I've been using this a ton with problems ranging from dealing with my 2 year old to hot topics for customer support, and it's really impressive how well it works.

Yes, in many ways it's simply practicing empathy. But for some reason without thinking about the tactic folks who want to be practicing empathy don't seem to get to that point.

FWIW: I talk about this topic more in depth in video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzGOdE92z9I
BMW at critical junction on electric car strategy, Reuters says
I wonder what the payload in horses[1] is.

1) https://xkcd.com/1461/
I strongly disagree with the author's assertion that buyers should just feel the difference. That's fine as long as you don't care about breathable sheets, but from talking to people I'd say that soft doesn't come into play until the sheets breathe well. For that, you need to get the right weave (percale); sateen weave almost always feels softer and has higher thread counts, but it's pretty hot to sleep in.

I was explaining this to family recently, after a long search for myself. Basically, you shoot for 250-300 thread count, percale weave, and Pima cotton. If you've got all those things, it comes down to picking the company that you most trust to make quality products. This assumes you want crisp, cool sheets that are soft to touch.
I've noticed them more and more as well, but I am not sure if it's because (a) there are more self promoters now, (b) there is more reason than ever to self promote -- gold rush!, or (c) I myself am more sensitive to it now.

That being said, good move by said person for content marketing.
I like the Pantheon file browser from Elementary OS. But it also doesn't have the "file preview" that Finder does, and I haven't had any luck trying to get Gloobus Preview working with it.
I keep finding edge cases when I try this.

How do you handle sugar in yogurt? How about pizza sauce? Is 5 grams of sugar in super dark chocolate ok? It just seems like it's everywhere.
This is why I was happy with my Apple products for years. No matter what kind of third-party thing I'd buy it would end up being a piece of trash after a little while. Apple Airports tended to just keep working for my family.

Too bad the new ones are ugly as hell. Oh well, my older model still works.

And these days so many people get it through their cable provider (or DSL, whatever) who have a marked interest in not generating support calls means you may get decent equipment.
you're wrong. you need to know that. now, tell me how i'm right.
Big companies often have arbitrary guidelines such as "only billion dollar lines of businesses are worth having". In this case 100M users may have been the threshold where $1B/year in revenue from the product was realistic.
You aren't alone. The goal for marketing is to get eyeballs and direct self-promotion is ignored and frowned upon. So you pick whatever you can that will get some attention, even if it is pointing out a failure or flaw (quite popular) and then be sure to put an enormous shout out to your product on the same page.

At least I get a nifty anecdote to go along with the self promotion.
Got to say, it must be great for advertisements to own a newspaper.
Do you have credit cancellation when A lend to B, B to C and C to A? Do you do in-app payments and also track money transfers happening between individuals in specie?
I seem to remember this. Was it that OS X started using its old lease while waiting for it to renew under the assumption that it would probably get the same thing and be fine?
i would argue that most people are in fact idiots
Empathy and perspective. Empathy [1] (cognitive empathy) is the ability to put yourself in someone's shoes and see things from their perspective. Not everyone has the ability to empathize -- we often believe our level of empathy is like that of everyone else, but this is not the case.

Cluster B personality types [2], those with Asperger's [3] or on the autistic spectrum, and some with ADHD lack the ability to empathize. Recent research out of Berkeley has show than medication can help those with ADHD access their Executive Function and gain their ability to empathize [4].

In one of the comments on [4], Dr Charles Parker describes empathy as a "two-step process": "Empathy is a higher order function, more evolved with effective PFC [prefrontal cortex] activity than sympathy. Why? Sympathy indicates a certain subjective, feeling level, ability to emotionally reach across the room and identify with the pain of another. The only problem for those practicing sympathy is that, more often than not, they only take that first identification step, and too often get stuck in the other person’s pain. They can’t leave, and become emotionally lost over there.
Empathy, on the other hand, requires good PFC Executive Function, with a metacognitively active two step process: 1. Trial identification with the other, and 2. Return to one’s full self for objective management of the other’s challenges. Good next-step advice doesn’t often arise from sympathy, but does often arise from empathetic considerations more objectively managed outside of a purely emotional reaction."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_B_personality_disorder...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

[4] http://adhdrollercoaster.org/adhd-and-relationships/adhd-imp...
Kudos for finally getting async support! :)

That said, I feel like this is a perfect example showing off that the best way (or a at least a very good one) out of stagnation of a piece of software is competition. VIM was dead in the water for a very long time (aync support looking at you), which is but one of the reasons NeoVIM was created, in turn sparking VIM to actually get off its laurels.

I can't help but draw parallels to the Haskell community with stack and cabal-install, to the people that might be familiar with that situation.

Anyhow, I guess I just wanted to also thank NeoVIM for pushing some life into VIM again, besides having it more or less in maintenance mode.
i actually edited my post to include the thing about openwrt/ddwrt.

If you need stability, go with a high end consumer router and load OpenWRT/DDWRT on it. OpenWRT and friends are very stable, but don't often take advantage of advanced features like automatic channel selection, traffic prioritization, or beamforming.

If you absolutely need features, go with a ubiquiti AP. My only issue with them is their hardware leaves a lot to be desired, and is rarely powerful enough to cover a full home, this isn't necessarily ubiquiti's fault though.

Business class APs expect you to set up multiple APs in the office, so their hardware is typically a lot less powerful than what you'd see in a consumer wireless router. A ubiquiti AP will gladly cover your 1 bedroom apartment, but don't expect it to cover your 3 bedroom home
Interesting how small the Soyuz is compared to the Falcon. I had imagined them to be around the same size, if not the other way round.

Also interesting, I had not heard about the Vulcan - only in development since 2014 and apparently a derivative of the Atlas without Russian rocket engines powering the 1st stage.