skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny you should bring that up, I was thinking the other day that Wayland should be usable building block for "secure desktop" style thing, that would help to prevent many (if not all) of the vectors presented at your link.

Admittedly I haven't studied this in detail, so maybe there are some fatal aspects in Wayland that would make my ideas infeasible, but I hope that one day we could have more secure desktop privilege authorization.
Does it go away after a while?
As somebody working in the IoT space (specifically telemedicine), Lora is the technology that excites me the most. It really does sound like a magic bullet that really actually does solve a lot of real connectivity problems.

Go beep!

BTW, so, uh...hey beep, wanna sponsor a hackathon for this stuff this spring?
I would save $1700 in PA. half is from A/C and half from heat.
HashiConf 2016 on YouTube
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12523096
Epipeneconomics, why Epipen costs so much and what can be done.
> You set bearing, altitude, and speed and the plane will adjust to and keep that course—that's it.

And that's a very useful and safe way to get a plane from A to B, given the amount of route planning and air traffic control in modern aviation. An autopilot can generally provide ample warning of situations it can't handle, and a plane at cruise altitude has quite a bit of room for recoverable error.

Until we have traffic control on our highways that makes sure our cars know about obstacles early enough, the same basic features are not enough to provide the same experience for a car.
Great article on the statistical nuance of their claims. But even before you get that far, you also need to address the fact that national highway statistic they are comparing to is highly misleading. Like gnicholas mentioned, the age, price, geographical distribution, weather conditions in which autopilot runs, and typical owner characteristics of a Tesla, all differ sharply from your average car which rides in the highway. And, I'd suspect if you zeroed in on proper comparables, all of these factors would drive the average highway safety way up.

So not only is their claim yet statistically unproven, they are also setting themselves an artificially low bar.
Dynamic Languages and Types
> These days the iPhone should be able to do all the syncing it needs directly against the internet.

If Apple provided a documented set of APIs to allow me to setup my own server then this would make sense. As it is, I see no reason why apple should hold my backups on their systems, why they should have any involvement with my syncing of data to my phone.
Yes, but for every comment poking fun at or linking to some lame repo, there are how many of us who just check it out? The visibility on HN is pretty good. If I had a product like this I'd shout it out here. Sure there are some comments to ignore, but the exposure is good and someone will have a good question, somewhere. I hope.
Yes, if you take hazardous-material precautions you can handle hazardous materials. I do machine shop work; I get that. But people are going to bring their e-bikes to the office and charge them indoors. "Occasionally catches on fire" is unacceptable for that usage.
I think I read this when it first came out. I loved Wired back then.
An open-loop geothermal is based on a standard drilled well where it pumps water up from the bottom of the well and passed through a water-to-air heat exchanger (heat-pump) and uses it to heat in the winter/cool in the summer. Water is returned to the top of the column ... about 10% is bled off to bring in fresh water.

Wells are typically your standard artesian well drilled down to 400' to 600', the geothermal needs about 12 GPM or more to be effective. If there's not enough water flow, a closed loop system can be used where a "coil" is placed in the well and the well is filled with a bentonite grout. Those are interesting because they can use glycol to run to temps below freezing.

In New England these things are very effective. The issue is the cost. The wells typically cost about $10-15K to drill, I think you get about 1-ton of cooling/heating per 100' on average.

Also, there is a large (and unnecessary) premium on these ... there's just no reason why they should cost more than a regular forced air system (aside from the well drilling, but many people in rural areas in NE have artesian wells anyway). The heat-pump units are comparable in cost to a high efficiency gas boiler ($5-8K).

EDIT: Add info on "bleeding" the well.
So port 25 in the GFW is open for outbound connections? My mailserver spam-log tells me that much every other second.

I wonder what weight Spammers had in the decision to allow port 25. Though when I think about it, spammers are probably a negligible faction compared to the businesses that would shut down if they couldn't communicate with international clients on Gmail anymore.

It would be interesting, as other commenters already remarked, to see what STARTTLS does to the connection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards...

"The # symbol is replaced by the £ symbol (as on PC keyboards); the # is available by pressing ⌥ Option+3

More recent Apple British keyboards move the backquote/~ key to the left of the Z key and replace it with a section sign (§) and a plus-minus sign (±) respectively.

The Enter key spans two rows and is shaped similarly to the Enter key of many ISO PC keyboards."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12523096
I don't want everything I read and write online to be analyzed by agents of a government agency who have, along with some other agencies, spent the majority of the past fifty years engaged in unilateral neo-fascist imperialism. I was under the impression that such spying was forbidden by the laws of my land. Apparently, The American Dream is dead and we are all simply feasting on it's corpse.
What we learn is: Autopilot is a very clear name for the commenters in this thread. These commenters understand that an autopilot does not replace a driver. Apparently, it's not such a clear name for other commenters on the same post, and the company called Tesla, who argue that autopilot is safer than a driver.
(ClojureScript) Reagent 0.6.0 has been released
This will be my first winter with my ground source system, a Climatemaster instead of Waterfurnace. My ground loop is 6' deep, there are 4 trenches 300' long and each one has a pipe down to the end and back for a total of 2,400 feet of pipe.

It is only starting to cool down, but so far so good. I'm very interested to see how it does when the highs are in the 30's and the lows are below freezing.
You may have missed the point of this article. The northeastern United States is very geologically stable, so any geothermal energy would have to come by going very, very deep underground. We don't have any hot springs around here. So even if this project works out and eliminates a lot of future carbon emissions, it will hardly be considered cheap.
Our migration from just React to React&Redux and lessons learned
A global anatomy of health and the workday lunch
The actual gopro site for it at https://shop.gopro.com/karma
Investigations and information sharing would be principle functions of this branch. I do not see the problem. They'll publish findings, and legislature may then deliberate on these findings to alter laws or enact new laws. If the operational branch discovers violations, it can then forward their findings

Decoupling the leadership of the oversight of the executive from the dominant party in the legislative would be benefitial. This is already possible in context of executive and judiciary. As it is now, these committees are subject to partisan games.

Further, the legislative permits lobbying whereas there is no room for lobbyist pressure on this body. None.

> the US system of government is not exactly a model for the 21st century.

I am drawing a blank imagining which existing system today would fit that bill.
Ecosystem Growth Hacking: A New Approach to Corporate Venture?
The difference with that go code is *DexFile is like Arc<DexFile>, and not like &'a DexFile<'a>. Yes, the go code is more readable, but it comes with additional overhead and data ordering constraints that the Rust code avoids.
Going to try this out, but like a commentator on the Verge already mentioned, they should really have released it or beta-tested earlier-mid year since a lot of people backpack / travel during the summer.
Discussion of bikeshedding two weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12403557
Tech Is Transforming How We Live with Art
I'm curious about the intersection of two policies that each seem to be gaining momentum:

1) Discouraging the death penalty

2) Encouraging "end of life" options for the terminally ill

Should an inmate serving life without parole have the option of voluntarily ending their own life?
No, you only ban accounts for people who don't toe the line to your ideology. IF you followed your own rules, there would be no problem. Why don't you follow your own guidelines?

Why isn't dang banned for his abuse and harassment of people?

You force me to edit my comment because you slow banned me. which means I can't respond to the people who are being abuseive.

Your moderation policy favors and encourages abuse...which is shown by the abuse that dang heaped on someone earlier (Which I identified to you.)

Again, why isn't dang banned?

You don't get to pretend like I did something wrong when you're being completely dishonest and hypocritical.

You set up the rules that prevent me from responding, you have carefully cultivated a culture where those who agree with you ideologically know they can be abusive without risk, and you hellban people for, for instance, the crime of linking to scientific articles that disagree with your ideology.

Literally, I once created an account that had one and only one submission before it was hellbanned-- a comment link in to an article that undermined the global warming hypothesis, the "article" as published in a peer reviewed scientific paper. The link was the totality of the comment and it was relevant to the discussion. You cannot justify that, it is proof positive that the moderation policy of this site is ideological, and has nothing to do with civility or being substantive.

Of course you're going to ban me- this site cannot tolerate anyone who disagrees with your hardcore leftist ideology, and technology views, no matter how civil. You harass them, as you have harassed me, you abuse them as I caught dang abusing someone before, and then you ban them.

You insist on an echo chamber. Enjoy it. But don't for a second pretend like you have any moral high ground, you lying piece of shit.

Do you even realize you're an anti-intellectual?

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The censored comment was:
[Sigh, despite giving a description of how this works, meaning that aperture and sensor size are actually irrelevant, I'm being downvoted to hell, for the "crime" of pointing out how Apple has done something new. Most of the comments are ignorant, and obviously fanboy nonsense.
This site does not appreciate substantive and civil comments when said comments go against its biases (in this case, hatred of Apple and love of all things google.)
Further, because I am slow banned I cannot even reply to people.
Therefore, I have given a substantive and civil comment, it is being misrepresented and I can't respond.
Fuck this bullshit. You don't get to see what I said originally.]

Proof hacker news does not give a fuck about substantive and civil discussion, but only about agreeing with the moderators ideology.

Enjoy your echo chamber!

(and yes, I expect to be banned. I knew creating an account I would be banned because this site is run by assholes who will not follow their own rules and when caught breaking them, they delete the comments exposing their hypocrisy.)
The same thing has occurred to me about wind. I don't know the numbers, of course, but it seems like there is a scale at which the wind no longer has energy it needs to do windy stuff
Android Studio 2.2
In India in many cities, shops take their weekly offs staggered locality by locality. So if you need to say buy groceries or medicines on a day your local locality's shops are off, you just go to the next one. Also, most shops stay open till 9pm or later.

When we travel in Europe, we find it incomprehensible that businesses are so customer unfriendly - everyone shuts shop by 5pm and very few are open over the weekend.
Why is this blog-tier garbage on "hacker" news, why does it have (currently) 350+ votes?

A true testament to this community of hipsters posing as self-described hackers/developers/programmers...
It breaks, money gets wasted, hopefully people learn lessons, and we move on. No danger here.
The goal is precisely feel good charity tourism as a safe adventure you don't need to quit your job over, so it seems like good advice to me. Remember, the top comment is looking for a 'safe' adventure, not trying to be maximally efficient in improving the lives of strangers.
Shameless plug.

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email in the profile.
You're probably safe. I doubt you're interesting enough for someone to take your phone part and desolder the NAND.
One annoying issue I had is that even though Google Now properly identified my air travel ticket and even displayed a notification with my boarding pass QR code, the way Inbox bundles messages made it extremely hard to find that QR code. For some reason it decided to show me everything else but the contents of the actual e-mail.

I'm generally happy about Inbox/Google Now features, but this one was a small annoyance in my trip this month.
I was lucky enough to hear this story almost verbatim from Aston and it's so exhilarating to listen to how much fun everybody seemed to be having. He tells it with a lot of enthusiasm that you can feel just from the depth of his responses.

I think the one thing that stuck with me, personally, is the issues Dropbox had in the early days (TC 50 tech issues) and that it took six months to get Aston on board. From what I understand, pre-YC was not easy for Drew either.

As a stubbornly impatient person, this has to be hands-down the hardest part of building a startup. You're running an endless marathon as if your life depended on it, and you have to stop at the sidelines and calmly ask people if they'll run with you. And then be okay if they don't - because the course will change, and as it does it will become more attractive to different sets of people. You might see the finish line, but you have to understand that not everybody will see it the same way you do.

The thing that I'd add here is that Aston kind of downplays how important having a business model is as an employee / founder (at least per Drew joking around about pricing). I don't think he did this intentionally, but generally we're over saturated with these ideas that you just need a product people love. These stories inspire technical founders, but having a defensible business is something you should think about sooner rather than later. Not everybody can be a Dropbox, so learn as much as possible about every aspect of what your company can and will be, learn how to communicate that, and stack the deck in your favor. It's an ongoing process and I certainly am not one to claim mastery (far from it), but as somebody who's in the weeds it's the perspective I have.
Anti-freeze (glycol) is only used on a closed loop system. An open loop system pumps ground water from a drilled artesian well.
Recurrent Neural Nets for nature poetry
On what basis? That computer plus human has to be safer than the sum of the parts, if both parts are working as intended?

There's no logical reason to believe that must be so. The sum of two things can be less safe than either one individually.

If Autopilot suddenly decides to veer into a railing, as it did in Montana, then a human operator may not even be capable of responding quickly enough even if they were totally paying attention.
Patrick already got into the subjectivity aspect here, so I'll leave that subthread there.

> Rust eschews readability by erring on the side of terseness

We actually used to be more terse, then slowly expanded things until it felt right. At one point in time, "return" was "ret".

> I can't understand who thought using ' was a great idea.

We had a lot of discussion about this before 1.0, and nobody was able to come up with a proposal that was clearly better.

> I wish more time was spent on the visual aspect of a language.

We did spend a lot of time on this, and are continuing to. For example, the rustfmt team is just getting going, to nail down the last bit of style guidelines. Rust has had many different syntaxes over the years, and this is what we arrived at. See that other thread on subjectivity; I actually really like the "C with a bit of ML sprinkled in" that we arrived at. The only thing I don't like at all is the turbofish, ::<>, but I understand why it exists, it's almost never required, and it at least has a fun name to take some of the edge off. That said, I've also gotten less and less opinionated about syntax over time; semantics is far more interesting. As long as everything is consistent, I don't care as much about the specific details.
Never used mercurial. I suspect it's just as good, but the problem the author probably sees is, like me, most everyone is familiar with git and new hires need to be trained in something unfamiliar with less community around it.
The problem with the naming has nothing to do with the technical capabilities, but an understanding of how that will impact human-machine interaction. You are absolutely right that aircraft autopilot is a lot "dumber" in a sense. But there is no ambiguity in the fact that when the pilot turns on the autopilot, he can -- and does expect -- the computer to take over all flight operations.

By naming the system autopilot, Tesla has also created that same expectation with their customers. Not only that, but it has at best turned a blind eye to reports and videos and stories of customers who willfully take their hands of the wheel/sit in the back seat/etc. and at worst encouraged an erroneous public perception of how the autopilot system should be used.

The issues you cited in handoffs with airplanes are far more complicated when it comes to cars, where decisions need necessarily to be taken in a much shorter period of time. But all of that seems really downplayed by Tesla marketing, which instead chooses to aggressively market just how close the system is to full driving autonomy, instead of more like a gentle aid to monotonous highway driving.

The disconnect between their official documentation and their marketing is immense. That is what is potentially dangerous.
"Snowden" was more story like, Citizen four more documentary like. Knowing that going in will help keep things in perspective. For me, I liked Citizen Four more, but think people should see both.
There are many degrees of autopilot. It can be something as simple as a connection between a gyrocompass and the rudder to hold heading, all the way up to a fully automatic takeoff, cruise, and landing system.

The issue supposedly is that people have no idea about this, though, and think (because of movies?) that "autopilot" means it does everything. I'm still not sure if I believe it, but if so it has nothing to do with real autopilots.
Every time Apple iterates on a phone they move the security forward. The biggest leap was with the 6 and the introduction of the secure enclave. And they are getting better still.
This was in reference to the articles title, in other words "CO2 in atmosphere minimised to preindustrial levels..." Sorry to rustle so many jimmies
> all of these factors would drive the average highway safety way up.

Up? Why not down? More data could easily show the opposite.
The point of renewables is rarely to do them all "at scale" where we're expecting that one renewable to power the entire planet.

Yes, if we try to use solar for the entire planet, we'll destroy the world trying to mine every last bit of silica. If we try and use wind for the entire planet, we'd need to build something like 6-8 million turbines, possibly causing environmental destruction on the way.

Rather, the point is to say "here's a huge vein of untapped energy, some of which could be tapped without damaging the environment and without releasing carbon."

Green energy is a mix, and extrapolating to "what if everybody did this" is rarely the right question, especially when the current alternative is "keep burning oil."
"Normal rainfall is slightly acidic..." ~ thanks for the info
Hmm - your point seems to come down to: "He put chose to put himself in that position. Therefore, he should accept whatever wildly unjust persecution the system will surely hit him with the moment they get their hands on him. And therewith, further promote the chilling deterrent effect against anyone who might contemplate taking a similar, principled stand."

You can hold that position if you want. But I just don't buy it.
My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream
Looks like almost exactly the same experience I had: http://calebmadrigal.com/music-theory-notes/
I am a native Detroiter though I don't live there now. It has always puzzled me that people view Chicago as a safe and fun place to visit. Yet South Chicago is in many ways more dangerous than most Detroit neighborhoods. But they don't hold that against the city because most visitors never enter South Chicago. Yet people are afraid to visit downtown Detroit because of the crime in neighborhoods like precinct nine.
Also, "all men" is referring specifically to white males, since at the time women were not treated equally and, you know, they had slavery back then.

It's important to keep in mind the spirit of these historical documents and how that spirit can be applied today, but it's also important to remember that these are imperfect documents from an imperfect time and that they can't be treated as gospel. Even the founding fathers believed that, which is why they built in mechanisms for updating the Constitution.
Having three kids navigate the US school system, I have become very skeptical of the justifications given for almost any teaching method. I was saddened when my daughter came home from school with a one page worksheet that purported to show that she was a "kinesthetic" learner. This division of kids into categories makes them feel they can learn in only one way.

Other experiences with the education establishment included:

Early introduction of laptop/tablet convertibles in the sixth grade (an approximately $2000 Toshiba) with Windows XP, a stylus and an unresponsive low resolution screen. This was supposed to facilitate math instruction because homework problems and answers could be written out on the tablet instead of on paper.

Later when the tablets didn't work out they introduced iPads for use instead of textbooks.

World history being taught out of an Art History book (we were told that subjects like the Monroe Doctrine weren't going to be covered).

Everyday Math, from the University of Chicago. This math method introduces its own varied algorithms for the basic four arithmetic operations. I ended up having to buy some Singapore school system math books to teach my daughter over the summer.

I met with the headmaster of the school several times to inject my opinion, but naturally, not having an Education degree kind of disqualified my opinions from being taken seriously. (I have Math, EE, and CS degrees).
The third transportation revolution
Not when those places are the ones people want to be. Yes clearly driving out into the middle of the desert, or on top of the highest mountain, probably low risk from the populace.
There are a whole bunch already!

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/

Probably worth some karma to update this 14 year old document too.
How America’s obsession with TV cop shows enables police brutality in real life
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