skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because it was voted to the top after being deemed interesting by HN users.

Maybe I worded my actual thought poorly: Why do HN users deem this interesting? It's an honest question, not rhetorical.
I don't see a date on the post. That and a few other things have me thinking it's a relatively ancient post, maybe?
I wish you had!
What is it about self-driving cars that has HN readers so incredibly excited? Sorry if it's a little off-topic.

The reason I ask is there are plenty of other countries in the world where cars just aren't that important, let's take Netherlands for example. If you have automatic cars, society here is not just going to be that excited AFAIK. Public transport here is great and most people cycle everywhere, because it's fun, easy and good exercise. Not to mention a lot of people are employed as drivers.

Same for many Asian countries where population density is high, people just don't have the money/room for cars. Scooters are the way to go because of traffic congestion.

Besides, don't people enjoy driving? I don't own a car but when I get behind the wheel, it's a lot of fun. Will people really be able to handle the car doing the speed limit?

I understand technologically it's pretty interesting, but we've had commercial airliners that fly themselves (mostly) for a long time, same for ships and drones and we don't marvel over those things all the time, though I agree they are great innovations.

So apart from the tech what is the actual excitement about?

- Concern for those who will lose their jobs.

- Concern for others safety.

- Privacy concerns.

- Excitement about the safety benefits.

- Economic opportunity.

- Fundraising hype.

- All of the above?

As a Silicon Valley outsider sometimes I read HN and it feels like some context is missing. Sure it's going to change industries, but is this really good progress, necessary progress, or just the next thing we're told we need? I mean can a self-driving car really replace a delivery person yet, a person who can do things like leave packages with a neighbor and build relationships, trust etc?

Sorry if this is a little off-topic, but I'm genuinely curious because it's hard to understand, to me as an outsider, it really looks like some kind of ride-sharing turf war hype battle more than anything else?

I dare to say it, but it's the same for machine learning, a lot of it is fascinating, interesting, exiting tech, but how many product recommendations does one need? How good do my friend recommendations have to be? How smart does Siri need to be? Will a patient really feel better without being treated by a human? Are we really going to trust these things handling nuclear warheads?

Maybe I live a strange life and have unusual views, but I just don't really see the need most of these things when so many problems could be solved using other means. Using this stuff to help people is great, but how much of this effort is actually being put towards that end?

If I'm a little naive, apologies. I'm not having a go but these are just honest questions I often find myself asking when reading HN lately. Agreed this might not be the place to ask but I'm prepared to wear the down votes :)
There's a difference between selling parts to a community of people who use them to make things for fun, and selling pre-made things that some people would make for fun if they weren't already pre-made.
I think the app extensions are an attempt to drive app usage. For example, in iOS 10, you can easily get data from various apps to send in a message to someone. Google Now cards are increasingly coming from third-party apps. You can't do those things with the mobile web.
> To be clear, founders aren't giving away equity - they are pledging a percentage of what they personally receive on exit.

Which could be construed as equity for later employees.
Whoops, didn't notice that in the screenshot.

It makes more sense in person, trust me :v
Sorry, I didn't mean to denigrate the platform by saying it wasn't mass market. Obviously, it sold millions of units, and was successful in its time.

I'm probably viewing the Amiga through too much of a contemporary lens and just being too critical. But, at the time the Amiga was out and selling, I recall thinking it was a wacky piece of kit. It was brilliant but weird hardware with rough edges on the software side, and that wasn't what I was looking for in a computer.
HTML 5 geolocation seems to not work on my local development environment anymore, Webinspector says a secure connection (https) is needed.

Any workarounds for this?
While i understand the philosophical grievance, will the AMP tag matter? Personally, when i search without an ad blocker i categorically ignore any 'Ad' result on Google. But will the typical user value AMP pages more heavily? Time will tell, i suppose, but i would be surprised to see a measurable impact on a top 1-3 search result.
Invention looks like this: failure, failure, failure, failure, success, failure, success, success, failure, success, success, success, success, success

"It has only failed before so it probably won't succeed" is just a straight up logical fallacy.
Cool.

Never been to the real stonehenge (though am UK resident) but I have been to two reproductions. There's a small one at "Window on the World" in Shenzhen, and a full sized remake in Esperance in Western Australia.
If you can use the PRU instead, that's a lower barrier to entry - in some ways. For stuff that needs to be more or less +/- 1 msec in latency, an Arudino or might be an easier choice, dependent on size, weight and power.

Th real problem with the PRU is that its more or less single vendor.
Either way, Samsung will have their 60% post-consumer bag on the market before Apples.
And for an example of co-existence of competing languages, see javascript triggering flash/actionscript (e.g. for clipboard access) and vice-versa (e.g. for DOM access).

Both are somewhat dated examples, that is pre-HTML5.
From that wikipedia article:
"If a taxpayer's household is covered by one or more employer-sponsored retirement plans, then the deductibility of traditional IRA contributions are phased out as specified income levels are reached (Modified Adjusted Gross Income is between)."

There is no deduction phase out if you don't have a 401k available through work, but that is not the common case
Yeah! I want that kind of design to win.
Does Safari 10 support the fetch api[0] yet?

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API
Definitely. Here's a small sample.

Craigslist unintentionally decimated newspaper revenue from classifieds. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/08/14/sorry-c...

Twitter unintentionally created opportunities for crazy levels of harassment that bleeds dangerously into the offline world. https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/a-honeypot-for-asshol...

Facebook unintentionally created an industry of hyperpartisan factless discourse that may be fueling demagoguery worldwide. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/inside-facebooks-...

That's just off the top of my head, without getting into companies like Uber & AirBnB, or ad targeters, etc.

All of these companies provide incredible value, and I mostly prefer to live in a world with them than without them. But it would be great to see more effort put toward mitigation of their unintentional excesses (and to their credit, all three are trying at least a little in various ways).
From their perspective, the industries are there to support the people. The oil industry was making money while the government didn't have enough money to keep expanding social programs, so they nationalized the oil industry. They didn't know how to run the oil industry though, so yields fell through the floor and they couldn't produce or attract foreign investment back into the country due to concerns that as soon as the infrastructure got back up and running the government would just nationalize again.

Also see Zimbabwe's 2000 plan to redistribute farming wealth.
I don't see an issue with the statements that were made.

An increase in dystrophin levels to .28% of normal levels, indicates that without the drug, the dystrophin level was at .093% of normal levels. (.093% * 3 = .28%) The drug succeeds at raising dystrophin levels, but the levels are still well below those of a healthy individual. (Which is the center-point of the whole debate)

A recessive x-linked trait will be more likely in men than women, because men have one x chromosome, and women have two. This means that a male with an x-chromosome with the Duchenne gene will always have Duchenne, whereas a woman would need a copy on each of her x chromosomes, assuming the woman isn't XY with androgen insensitivity, or XXY, etc.

A common example of an x-recessive trait would be colorblindness. Genetic colorblindness affects about 8% of men and .5% of women. Since men always have colorblindness if they carry the gene, we can use the prevalence in men as the population prevalence, assuming colorblindness doesn't play a role in sexual selection (doubtful, given the fact that fashion sense probably plays a role). .08.08 = .0064, which is pretty close to the prevalence of colorblindness in women.

Duchenne affects 1/3600 men. Assuming 1/3600 is the prevalence of the gene in the population, we'd expect 1/3600 1/3600 = 1/12960000, or 1 in thirteen million women to have it. So we'd expect about 25 female cases in the US, and about 83000 male cases.

Edit: This is assuming having two Duchenne genes will still lead to Duchenne. If 3x normal levels of dystrophin leads to clinical relief, it's possible that having two genes allows for enough dystrophin production to prevent Duchenne. I don't know enough about the pathways involved, but it's possible.
I know this is anecdata, but honestly at this point I'm a negative datapoint for them: I am slowly deleting more and more apps off my phone as the months go on. Mobile gaming never worked out for me (it's all terrible all the time) and honestly, my phone is for maps and talking to friends, all of which I can do in 2-3 apps. The rest is just a slow accumulation of junk I realise I don't care about.
And the economic policies were tremendously popular and would likely have persisted in a carefully designed democracy that did not specifically prohibit them. I don't see the authoritarian nature of the government as being a root cause. Democracy doesn't automatically make price controls (including currency controls) less disastrous.
Alternate title: You probably don't need an app for that; a mobile site works just fine.
Enhanced damages for infringement in a later enforcement action upon grant of the patent.
A great way to discover things in emacs is the unmemorable command `finder-list-keywords` which gives you a menu of all the features in emacs by category
Sounds like the Apple Package Design department got dinged by corporate for not having enough patents this year.

"Umm, ok guys, what the hell can we write up as patent so we get our bonuses this year?"
But how else are they going to push-notify you about their new Local Deals section comprised of ads?
"Integrating with other devices" is not their goal. Selling desktops, laptops, monitors, phones, tablets, watches, keyboards, mice, trackpads, ear buds, and to a lesser extent subscription accounts, that's their goal.

If they truly wanted to provide useful integration, they would make Android and Windows Phone devices first class citizens just as much as the iPhone. They're first and foremost a hardware company. Even their Mac's OS is free! Because they get money from the Mac, not the OS.

There's plenty of useful innovations they could still make that doesn't require them to focus on up-selling me new hardware, if innovating was still their goal. They're using a Star Trek future as their marketing ploy, and it's working scarily well.

I guess the one upside you could say is that they're probably not selling your data and/or profile to advertisers. So at least they have that going for them.
Bye bye aritcle paywalls
I'm worried about Chrome's dominance, honestly. Google can basically dictate things the same way Microsoft did in the past. We are obviously not in quite the same situation - open source and all, but there have ready been several cases where Google just decided to do things, and other players in the field had no choice but to follow.
Has anyone built a large app with vue.js and compare it to React?

To me it seems more well-suited for small elements inside a regular page.

Single file components are awesome though, I'd love to have that in React (not a big fan of JSX).
Should I do DMT?
I am 40 and have worked with startups all my life as a programmer. I'm curious about psychedelics, and am considering a DMT experience.

Thoughts?
Ticonderogas make for fine pencils though.
Except that's not even remotely true. You can stay in the garden of you want, otherwise you have the rest of... everything.
Hint Hint, this might just be intentional. I've been using Youtube.com over the YouTube app because the crazy app crashes all the time and I get frustrated with it popping up as my default app for playing back youtube videos. I need to get around to changing that setting, might just be today.
Hmm, I really feel Apple is to blame for this mess, just my gut feeling.
Vodafone (Fiji) used to do this.

They did honour the 'Cache-Control: no-transform' header though, so every site I build now includes that directive.
So, while I agree with you: do they care I you read the article? They probably don't make any money off of you at all: you are just a waste of their resources. Actual local customers might be slightly more interested in their app, and the app may be something that massively ups their revenue in some indirect way.
> * items that create consumer safety risks;

So buying fast food is prohibited!?
I'm surprised "Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills" even mentions pitons as it's all about the non-destructive ethics of climbing. Honestly I don't remember it ever mentioning pitons at all but granted I read it last time few years ago.
I already downloaded all the apps I ever needed - about 10 on the phone (Android) and a similar number on the iPad. I see no reason to install more - I have no need and no interest. So a bright developer created an app - what about it? It does not mean I need it.
How to Set Up a Distributed Elixir Cluster on Amazon EC2
finder-list-keywords - basically a menu of all the things in Emacs
Yes this is exciting. It appears Safari 10 is the only browser today implementing 100% of ES6 according to kangax.

http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
> Well the benefits of the suburbs are that they usually don't have a lot of through traffic, and you can have a large house or lot.

And you're going to create traffic, destroying the first benefit on your list. This implies traffic: "If you want to live in a desirable area you have to deal with people going to that area"

> And no my vision for these fixed suburbs would involve the removal of most parking garages and lots, so there won't be anywhere to drive to.

So no one will visit? I don't think your vision is honestly very well thought out.

> Then we would only have autonomous vehicles which don't need to park, uber/taxi, and walking/biking.

So your plan hinges on 1) autonomous vehicles 2) everyone taking a taxi, or 3) everyone walking/biking.

1. Autonomous vehicles effectively don't yet exist, and when they do it will likely be years before they replace people's cars. They will generally have the same shortcomings as taxis when they do arrive.

2. Taxis exist and have not replaced peoples' cars. People who own a car generally prefer to drive rather than wait 15+ minutes for a taxi/Uber and then pay $35 for a short ride. For families with small children, taxis are effectively useless because of the need to provide a carseat. Also, taxis don't sit around in suburbs because there's not enough business. So 15 minutes is probably an optimistic wait.

3. Suburbs are neither walkable nor bikeable, especially for children (or families with children). That's almost the definition of a suburb: you can't walk anywhere.

So again, I find your vision unrealistic. You're going to create a mixed-use zone in the middle of a suburb and somehow that area won't be filled with traffic, but it will attract people. It will also somehow be within walking distance of a large population of patrons in spite of the sprawl that a suburb implies.

Your vision is basically to have all the benefits and none of the drawbacks without an explanation. It's sprawled but walkable. Population is low but it still supports businesses. People want to come but there's no traffic.
This is a great point. Hiding behind "mumbo-jumbo" is certainly a big problem with many art forms, and actively prevents a lot of people from entering or even enjoying it. Classical music is sadly especially plagued by this.

It's somewhat natural for humans to create exclusivity, especially for areas they have spent a lot of effort or resources on entering themselves. In the case of art and other humanities, I think this is detrimental.

I think the shortcomings of notation and representation (and the pedagogy) of music theory is more the case of managing complexity. It's an evolved system, not a designed one, so it meets its goals in some sort of a local minima, and it'd take a large effort to move out of that minima. But the issues are different from what the blog post author points at. Most of those "features" are there for a very good reason, as most commenters here seem to support.
Ask HN: WebRTC onion routing between Facebook friend circles
I've been working on and off the past year on a private messaging webapp that uses onion routing over WebRTC p2p connections between Facebook Graph API bootstrapped friend circles, and am looking for interested collaborators.

I've written a JS library consisting of a WebRTC client and node.js signaling server that keeps track of availability and maintains connections with a whitelisted set of peers, and am moving on to writing an additional library to leverage this WebRTC client and build an onion routing layer on top of it for sending secure messages.

Bit of a simple overview, but drop me a line if I’ve piqued your interest at all and want to chat further — tommy2030@gmail.com
WTF does "post consumer content" mean? Is it American for "recycled"?
Pitons are used a lot in mixed winter climbing when often there are no other ways to protect.
Yeah, same with my late `09 Mac Mini. This year I maxed out the Ram, installed an SSD drive, and did a clean install of El Capitan and it's running sweet as can be.

I knew Apple was planning on obsoleting it when they broke some USB-2-ethernet software with a update last year but it's lasted longer than any Mac I purchased before and I figure it will be good for another year or two at least.
Mobile web doesn't give you interactions with the device like notifications, geofencing, background refresh, etc.
AMP is of most use on mobile (possibly the only place it works?) where ad blockers don't normally exist. So, they will likely have an impact there.

I know that I have personally opened search results to AMP pages that I would not normally have opened because I knew the price of doing so would be small. But, then again, I know what the AMP symbol means. How this affects normal users remains to be seen.

For some sites, I seek out the AMP URL explicitly. For example, adding "/amp" to the end of TechCrunch URLs change them from frustrating to usable.
Unfortunately no :( I don't really have much of anything that I did from back then... and wouldn't have known how to take a screenshot on a C64 anyway.
Another big aspect of the management buy-in pieces is making sure they're happy with the underlying outcome of testing: there'll be a loser. As in, it's quite difficult to get them comfortable with the notion that they've missed out on revenue/users as a result of a test, even if the winner will provide outsized gains.
Microsoft wants to 'solve cancer' using computer science
Function currying in Elixir
Microsoft wants to crack the cancer code using artificial intelligence
AT&T Labs unveils wireless broadband over power lines
> The real sin is inconsistency with the rest of the web on Safari

Close, but I think it's a bit more subtle than that. AMP presents its content as a standard news article (in both function and form,) which is why scrolling should be consistent with other article-like webpages. When a site is actually a webapp, I think it's permissible to have momentum-based scrolling just to achieve parity with native apps. Perhaps I'm just being pedantic, but the real issue is that AMP's scrolling isn't consistent with a subset of other websites accessible through iOS Safari.
They do not work as well on iOS. Two examples of this are "scroll to top" by tapping the title bar is completely broken under AMP. The other is that Safari Reader is mostly broken under AMP. That said, the experience with super fast, virtually instant loads, is great, and I think these are definitely kinks that can be worked out.

I'm just confused why they made it through to consumer release without someone else questioning them. These are major features of the most popular browser on [one of the two] most popular mobile OS that Google is choosing to break.

Edit: Added "[one of the two]"
Solution: since you don't need to see out of the car anymore, all windows have 0% VLT tint unless it's stopped.
Is this about the Daydream VR headset?

http://uploadvr.com/report-googles-daydream-vr-headset-calle...
Agreed, the guy is like a fortune teller.
27000 instead of 2 database queries would seem to be more than just a performance problem...
I don't use many apps either, in fact I have uninstalled several because the updates are a bit of a burden. I know why they exist and am grateful, but if I haven't opened say "go to meeting" in nine months, I don't need it updated every month etc.
Stick it to 'em, Mozilla! Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
Replying to the second paragraph, there often is a real value in maintaining strong upper bound for the latency, especially in distributed real-time systems (which are most of the real systems, anyway).

E.g. (99% sub-200ms and 1% _unbounded_) vs (80% sub-200ms and _always_ sub-500ms) means 1% of potentially unanticipated crashes (a hell to debug and explain to customers!) vs a highly reliable system and happy customers.
How Charboost empowered me and shut down my account
DeepMind wants its healthcare AI to charge by results
L4 can be used that way, but in purpose-built systems it can also just be used as a simple stratum on which to build applications directly. If you were using L4 to build a baseband package, for instance, you probably wouldn't run a full OS on top of it.

My intuition, not carefully checked:

I'd rather be using QNX than Linux on L4, but I'd rather be using just L4 than QNX.
To each their own I guess. For me my telephone is my computer for everything except coding and watching movies.

However I do agree that having an app for a website is subpar. However I always prefer an app over a web-app (e.g.: yelp)
There is little info in the article about how the sterilizing molecule works. I wonder what the runoff or excretion of it will do in rivers. The pill excreted in human urine already have pretty bad consequences (e.g. hermaphrodite water based life), I'm afraid this wonder product could wipe more than rattus...
Similarly, the recent-ish trend of "open in app" buttons that obscure the content drive me crazy. Imgur does this. It's already open in my app, I prefer my browser as the "app", thanks.
Why would they possibly be cheaper than current human operated cars?
Norway is more of a social democracy than a democratic socialism, but I take your meaning.

Agreed, China has not been communist for some time now.
LHC Statistics for Pedestrians [pdf]