skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course doubling is a simplification. Even one more car in the congested direction makes auto-driving car-sharing strictly worse for congestion. The question is how much worse. In Silicon Valley for instance, where everybody lives everywhere and works somewhere else, its a mesh of commute traffic and doubling may be a good estimate.

The important case of commuting toward the city is interesting. Car-sharing breaks completely there - everybody starts work at about the same time (commute traffic confirms this). So we'll need as many shared cars as we already have. No savings at all.

Any savings comes down to off-commute traffic. Its a second-order effect. Maybe even too insignificant to bother with the complexity of sharing.
Are the sequels/prequels worth reading? I read the first one last year and enjoyed it, but the follow up reviews made it seem like the others novels might spoil it.
Somewhat true, but it still seems to me that the only way to build a proper Dyson sphere would be to not only achieve scientific breakthroughs that allow for interstellar travel, but to do so in a way that allows us to be able to ferry as much matter from other stellar systems as we need.
You still work for them?!?
So does anyone carrying a gun by those standards.
Oh I agree, but I think Stripe and Braintree have pretty much acquired the minds of people in that situation. Where they need to grow I believe is the next stage, the one I was in, "ok so we actually have an actual company that people want to pay for stuff, now we need to monetize on the internet", and in that area they're not that good.
Or rather, since all stars are multiple light-years away from us, construction was ongoing.
What makes it inexcusable?
The king is gone, but not forgotten
this is the story of Johnny Rotten
it's better to burn out than to fade away...
What options are out there for Android? I think the ones I used were Lux and Nightwatch. Not a huge fan of them.
A common problem when I try to switch to platform that I haven't been paying close attention to. It is very difficult to quickly figure out what is the current stack of libraries and tools you should use if you are starting now. For example jump to the .NET and it is not so obvious should go for Core, Asp.net Core, how to do data access, which version of EF to use and so on.

Usually it is very difficult to find this information from anywhere. Articles and blog posts get outdated fast. Material produced by vendors is usually a bit biased. You get to see all the good things, but they might forget to mention stuff that is still under development. If you are new to the field, you don't know the right people and right blogs.
That's a good question; I didn't try it.

On the bright side, if you don't mind diving one layer below the surface, the code for react-router-redux is short, well written, and easy to understand: https://github.com/reactjs/react-router-redux

Even if the equivalent already exists for the current iteration, you could probably write your own in an afternoon without rushing yourself too much.
Apple and Deloitte team up to accelerate business transformation on iOS
Who says that?
> How does a car know if someone is a "criminal" anyway and what does that mean?

Adware on everyone's phone is broadcasting a SocialWorthScore™, without one it's assumed to be a large negative number.
Dyson swarms are a far more practical idea than spheres and can be incrementally constructed. It's basically just a ton of satellites.
The actual economy doesn't give a fig for the appetites of 'the current elites' - whatever that means, but that's not the point, the point is that it is bad to move to an energy supply model that creates a large number of additional jobs because that means it is likely to be more expensive than the current one. It also carries the opportunity cost of the value that labour could add by doing stuff other than keeping the lights on for the rest of us.
Anyone carrying a frying pan too. Or a brick. Or a pointy object.
I work as a contract DevOps guy (mostly out of disgust at the agency recruitment model now prevalent in Britain) and hunt down all my own work. I'd say it's 50% word-of-mouth, 50% HN.

IMO the single best thing you can do to attract clients is show good communication skills (i.e. write a good ad) and a track record of successful projects.
You don't have to look poor to be targeted by police: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_con...
The problem is that there's no way to know whether your search process is going to terminate in a path from what you understand to what you don't understand, or if it's just going to wander around in specialist subjects, each referencing each other, with no obvious way back down to non-specialist topics. Or, potentially, no way at all. For all you know the "explanatory links" on a given specialist topic actually point to topics that are yet more specialist.

My dream someday is to see these things organized into a "lattice", where links are clearly labeled as going "down" or "up" the lattice and you can have a clue what's going on.
A coincidentally timed writeup on 'Sonification for monitoring and debugging distributed systems':

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/09/sonification-for-m...
The state police swat team could be hundreds of miles away. That's unacceptable to respond to an active shooting/robbery.
I don't know if this is low for NYC or not but I would take the numbers in these threads with a huge grain of salt. It's a really low sample size and people who make a lot (or feel like they aren't making enough) are more likely to tell their salary to the general public in my experience.
You'll want Upper Management to be looking at the Features Page[1] instead. Though I should probably add some more check marks to it just to be on the safe side.

[1] https://www.s3stat.com/Features.aspx
> Making the police officer career more risky by imposing arbitrary sanctions in case of bad luck isn't going to improve your chances of recruiting good police officers.

No, it lowers the chances of recruiting bad apples. People don't do anything wrong and who keep the bodycam running all day have nothing to fear.

> Your approach is similar to "there is too much crime, let's make more laws so that more things are criminal".

There is too much crime because the worst criminals work in law enforcement. This would be a way to weed them out.
Demonstrate you know fundamental javascript. I hire "I know javascript" over "I know angular".
This might be a bit weird but I find washing my face with water helps. When you get a chance wash your face with water and if possible try not to dry it too much afterwards, a bit of moisture sticks around for a while and helps your eyes.
The old "you have nothing to fear from constant surveillance" argument. Used by everybody, despot and activist alike.
The people who are worried about AI risk do study that stuff. In the context of AI research, the property of having an overall good effect on humanity is called "friendliness".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligen...
And that's why no amount of good will and side projects will make up for hard, real world experience.
There are multiple definitions/types of racism, but one of the most significant ones to enter discourse and study in the 1960s was institutional racism, which more or less defines policies that are disproportionately being used to affect one race as racist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism
Your posting is indistinguishable from both a troll or a very dim person.
I think people that don't like to constantly learn new stuff shouldn't be developers in the first place ... personally this is the part about web development I like most. I love to write prototypes and experiment with new stuff.

Second JS is not changing so fast imho and there are not so many frameworks that stand out of the crowd. Yeah there are lots of frameworks and libraries on github and even this is a good thing because it shows JS has a vibrant community that loves to create stuff. But it's not like you need know all of them, if you are really lost and don't know what to choose, just ask other developers around you or check out websites like http://stateofjs.com/ and you will notice that there are not that many frameworks that get used by a lot of devs.
The "I Embezzled the Entire Department Budget and Spent It On Hookers and Cocaine" plan
We can't predict motivations of other forms of life, can we? They are completely different (in theory). They even can build a trap to make evevryone who will get there happy. Or to hear their story. I dont know.
My keybase id
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bhaskarchowdhury; my proof: https://keybase.io/bhaskarchowdhury/sigs/kcOB0JYdXoKdMttqWaHBTL-hHKrzIemyQJD_LW8Ule8 ]
> I've been to more than one interview where I defaulted to jQuery and was immediately disqualified

Was the role more biased to front end development? Speaking as someone who has been on the other side of the interviewing table, you won't believe the number of people who can use jQuery but are otherwise unfamiliar with vanilla Javascript. I suspect the question itself could have been solved by via plain JS, and you did the equivalent of $('#id') instead of document.getElementByID('id')
Whether the core problem is (1) unchecked police power or (2) racism is an important question that deserves to be figured out seriously.

If you try to fix one problem when in reality it is the other, you will spend decades making failed reforms while the problem continues unaddressed.

In that context, I think that this...

> I wondered what the ethnicity of the person raided was, and of course he's black. That's why there's no shame or embarrassment from the officers.

...is not good analysis. You're basing a strong opinion on a sample size of 1, that's been selected by a film maker for best effect.
> I don't think of my employees this way,in fact I just had one raised to the new "average" because it turned out they didn't negotiate well and were below average ( not my hire, just now my report) - it was a 12% raise.

That's very good of you.

> Play devils advocate and see how a "mega corp" runs things. If you could pay everyone discretionally (ie decided by mid level manager) you'd be out of business tomorrow. Those companies keep cost controls just because they are so large.

This is true, and a clear indictment of large corporations. Unsuprisingly, this logic only applies to the lower end of the pyramid, however--upper-level management rarely chooses to put cost controls on their own pay.
The intelligent doomsayers say something fundamentally different.

They say that the space of possible objective functions (read: goals) for AI is huge, and the space of methods for achieving those goals is also huge. In contrast, the space of goals/methods that humans find acceptable is much smaller.

I.e., 99.99% of AI designs will be dystopian.

I'm not sure why you consider minds hardwired to enjoy serving us to be unethical. Is it also unethical for a human to enjoy serving others (some do)?
Thanks for the feedback. We will shoot videos to demo new capabilities as well.
Road to stagnation? China Inc gets a break from lenders
@cloverich I think this comment is showing exactly how the author of the article wasn't exaggerating
Occam's razor suggests to me that the problem is on our end. We still don't fully understand the Universe.
If you could find someone offshore that is smart enough to improve a predictive algorithm by even 0.01%, you should hire them as well.

Consider that the holy grail is finding out if customers actually want a product.

Break that product down into features, and run a regression. Historically, how well does that do?

But these are new products. They have new features. How do you solve that?

In a sense this is "the" problem. Anyone who is genuinely additive would be fought over by any company that produces a new product.
Thanks for the link, his story is great! I'm convinced that compilers and formal languages are the core fundamentals of computer science, amazing that he got into it so young.
The citation you provided does not constitute evidence for any of your claims. Copyright is not related to freedom of speech or of press.
Why would you need to say you're using ActiveRecord or Ruby if you said you're using Rails? You've missed the point of the article.

Also, will everyone decide in 6 months times that, hmmm, you know what Ruby sucks and we should all start using BooRuubie next year instead?

Because I guarantee at the absolute minimum one of the technologies you mentioned will be out of favour this time next year.

Also, I can practically guarantee in a year's time when you come to do some maintenance work on that project and there's a bug and you google it, the code you find will be incompatible with what you've built.

Or someone new comes to setup the project and is googling about the config for something you mentioned, the article will be utterly wrong and will spend days just getting the damn thing to run.
Why not just a binary dwarf sucking material (somewhat chaotically) out of its more luminous twin?
Intel wearables show models' stress levels on Paris runway
You sound like you have not often worked with legacy code or software architecture teams who choose the "right" tools for you. In large companies you rarely choose the tools you use.

Also, when you feel that you need to learn technologies simply to avoid using them something is very, very wrong. I think that is sort of the point of the article.
> They are completely different (in theory).

They are products of evolution and, in theory, we'll be very alike in many ways.
>against blacks (you know it is)

STOP DOING THIS. It's not a way to conduct a rational discussion.

>Arguably, the deeper problem is that doing drugs while poor will land you in jail for 15 years while doing the same drugs while rich will get you a slap on the wrist.

Yes, being poor lands you into trouble much more frequently because poor areas are so much more heavily policed. But that's the point, many of these issues are related to biases against poor communities in general, not specifically black people.
I thought the prequel was pretty good. Less into the sequel though.
Why I Hate Frameworks (2005) is climbing back up the charts, probably because of this very news thread. Here's the link to that:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12635142
Unessentialists Falter
Labor isn't cheap. If you spend more on labor to manage this shuffling than you save on cloud costs, it's decidedly suboptimal.
"Reinventing the wheel"
Well, there's a new world's worst thing.
I love how you repeatedly shame the cheap bastards who "cannot" afford a $10 service into taking the paying plan while still giving them the option to take the cheap bastard plan. :)
Third parties: Please don't downvote or flag the parent comment out of existence. I understand the urge, but it merits a considered response, and I would greatly appreciate your forbearing to deny me the opportunity to replace this placeholder comment with one.
> What happens if the police are in fact proud of what they do? Convinced that it's the right thing?

If a court disagrees after seeing the proud footage, they get punished.
Get a Random Google Earth Image as Your Android Wallpaper
It makes me sad that I'm only becoming aware of this man and his work through the announcement of his chosen death.

Thank you HN for exposing me to worlds I would never otherwise discover.

On a personal note, I definitely will be using 0MQ in all my future projects. As a matter of fact, I'm glad I found it exactly this moment.
Yes, being black in a mostly white neighborhood can lead to targeting as well. I'm not clear on what point, if any, you're trying to make now.
"virtually no humans"

Something interesting to think about is logistics optimization. I have nothing against the big brown trucks but it should somehow be possible to haul my amazon packages from distribution center in the city by the railroad tracks to the burbs. Or distro center to distro center package movement.
http://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/understanding-recru...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2000/05/31/sierra-leone-rebels-forc...
https://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/effects-of-conflict/...
http://www.unicef.org/sowc96/2csoldrs.htm
https://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/effects-of-conflict/...
I don't know what to say. I just knew Pieter Hintjens when he wrote posts about his condition, fighting cancer that he has. By that time, I also just knew that you're a great man behind ZeroMQ. I used your works and it's such an amazing library.

Thank you for being transparent about your condition. It makes me to remind about death. I am sorry. Thank you for contributing everything what you have done for people in the world.

Peace Pieter. You will be missed.
If you're using the default whois that comes with OS X you're out of luck.

$ whois github.audio

whois: audio.whois-servers.net: nodename nor servname

provided, or not known
I'm guessing you've never tried migrating a mid-sized Java project an older version of Java to a new version? This is definitely not my experience.
iPhone users can always use a plug. http://appleplugs.com/
Would be interesting to see a histogram of % acceptance rate for YC applicants by number of weeks before deadline -- 0-1 week, 1-2 weeks, etc, up to when applications are opened.
You can develop an attachment in a game like Doom or Quake just by feeling amazing acquiring a new weapon and being terrified when entering a new room on low health.

The player is supposed to be the avatar. You aren't playing Gordon Freeman, you are some space marine fighting the hordes of hell or dimensions incomprehensible.

You have an emotional investment in your character because your success or failure in combat dictates if you live or die. It is surely a simple connection, but it also certainly exists. It is implicit to almost any video game.
The context of this thread was portion sizes at restaurants. US restaurants tend to serve well north of a thousand calories for a single meal.
YouTube 8M: A Large-Scale Video Classification Effort from Google Research
Thanks for pointing this out. I remember reading somewhere that a GPL license means that the creator still holds copyright (even though the work can be used by anyone). Having to assign copyright to the FSF gave me a WTF. This clears it up.
The Prostate Cancer Test That Saved My Life
So far it's less interesting than that. I get the idea of stretching the release out to maintain interest and let, perhaps, a topic be a focus for a week at a time.

But this is getting tiresome. The talk about this has been going on for months now. And now it's October and the only thing we've got is that something's going to be released.

They're going to lose any interest very quickly because of this unless it's truly damning material.
Haven't atrocious things been done during "exploration" on Earth, e.g. European imperialism and colonization? I'd like to think humanity has moved past that, but there currently seem to be enough war torn areas to show otherwise...
Hey Pieter, love what you're doing!

Quick question on your stack: you don't use any CSS frameworks? How do you do mobile without punching a hole in your MacBook's screen?
Interesting, but you're pretty spot on. Personally this has caused me great angst[0] as I tend to write the absolute minimum amount of code necessary to solve the exact problem I'm trying to solve.

I tend to wait until I've solved a problem in similar ways three[1] or so times before I generalize it.

[0] Because other developers want to solve for a more general problem.
[1] Three is such a comfortable number, isn't it?
Japanese 'miracle' pine returns to tsunami-hit town
The actual "War" on drugs was started by Nixon.
We build complicated software with simple tools where I work using Clojure. There's even a talk about Java:Powertools::Clojure:Handtools! [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShEez0JkOFw
To me, this topic highlights the difference between a developer/programmer and a software engineer. As a small business owner, If I'm hiring a developer/programmer, I'm looking for specific skill sets in a given language/framework. I don't expect to hire a PHP programmer and throw them into React/Mobx/Webpack/Gulp/Babel/Websockets without a tremendous amount of training. Frankly, I don't even expect them to know SQL in any sort of advanced way. I'm paying less for that person and getting less in return. I'm taking on the challenge of "growing" them into what I want them to be in the future or letting them go if our project pivots

When I hire a software engineer, however, I'm paying more and getting more (hopefully). I expect software engineers to understand engineering principles and be able to work in almost any language. At a foundational level, they understand the basics of compiled vs interpreted languages, OOP vs functional programming, client vs server, optimization, testing, databases, networking, software release life cycle...and how to employ all of those. I expect to give them a business problem and have them develop an entire technical solution using whatever tools are best suited for that job.

In most cases, projects are a good mix of both software engineers and developers/programmers. The two can balance each other out and produce amazing things.

Lastly, everyone should be looking to improve their knowledge of their own industry. If you are a developer/programmer/software engineer, you should be looking at what is new/upcoming in the industry. You need to remain fresh or you become obsolete. In a very small example, the move from Python 2 to Python 3 has been a long road. If you are not aware of the improvements in Python 3 over Python 2, how can you actually determine if Python 3 is a good choice for your project? How can you take advantage of the improvements? What about Go vs Python 3? How does Erlang/Elixir fit in to the equation?
it only works the other way -- 2.7+ allows both

print("hello")
print "hello"

while 3+ allows only

print("hello")
I'm not too surprised to see an attempted overreach by federal investigators. Too bad there's no measure of meaningful accountability here.

Outside the usual "let's ask for more than we're legally entitled" shtick, there's nothing particularly alarming about this subpoena; it was narrowly focused on two phone numbers, for which only one was a Signal user.

It's good on OWS to fight so hard for transparency.
As goes the software world, the majority of these "applications" won't exist in 5 years.

Conversely, for those that do still exist, the new developers can simply bash the old technology stack and code and demand to rewrite in the new flavor of the week anyway.
> proven time and again ... after the West shed eugenics

Given how you conflate racial profiling and eugenics, I'd be skeptical of what you consider proven.

But you are right, race doesn't correlate directly with criminality - but it does correlate if it correlates with something else that does e.g. religious membership.
> He uses a mac. I use windows.

That's when I knew things were about to get interesting :-)
I was curious about your idea, so I whipped up some numbers in Python. A 1-meter thick spherical shell at 1 AU from our sun would be 0.02% of the volume of the Sun, or 260x the volume of the Earth. If you go down to 1-mm thick, you only need 0.26 Earths. :)