skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks, will try to find it.
They have enough data to do statistics that are probably pretty accurate. I wouldn't be able to just whip off a description of exactly how you'd do that in an HN comment, I'd have to think about it for a while since I don't do this every day, but I'm fairly confident the people who do can get a very precise answer to that question with the data they have. Certainly an answer precise enough to give to the executives deciding which series to keep and what to invest in.
I think that you are displaying your arrogance. These open source advocates are fighting with peoples ignorance. People are known to be ignorant about deeper consequences out of the convenience and I do not believe that very sizeable amount of them are given a change to be more informed.

I'll give you a different example. These are two positive reaction examples for the cashless society:

1) I pay with the card all the time anyway.

2) I do not like coins.

These are naive reactions considering only personal convenience. If these people are guided to have a longer more focused thought about the issue then they are able to make more informed decision.
Example: https://esnextb.in/?gist=e9a74d9f7d8afa838c8362e209e0c229
I had my share of those, but I have the feeling that the current candidates are equally bad. If I vote for one of them, I am responsible for what they end up doing to the country.
At least, you can see, that they are working on it. For example mercedes/daimler is working on energy storage near Dresden [1] for homes [2]. Mercedes is pushing this fab with €500mil [3]. Furthermore, there is another fab right next to it, which startet a few years earlier [4].

As for the bankruptcy speculation: they are too big to fail - whatever the consequences might be for the german taxpayer.

[1] http://www.accumotive.de/de/home-englisch.html
[2] https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz-energy/
[3] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Elektromobilitaet-Dai... (german)
[4] https://www.li-tec.de/en
Is it still insecure?

http://gizmodo.com/why-you-should-stop-using-telegram-right-...
Ha, building autonomous mobile robotic beauty chairs...TAM...nailed it...

beauty industry...disrupted

sounding like madman...priceless...
C is high-level language. It's portable across variety of platforms, while low-level languages are tied to hardware platform. Assembler is low level language.
Karhoo were trying to do far more than Uber. They were partnering with hundreds of minicab firms around London. Each firm was supposed to report their taxi's locations and availabilities back to Karhoo at regular intervals. Karhoo then aimed to co-ordinate all this information along with real-time pricing for each, and present the user a range of options. And then dispatch a taxi, that actually arrives when they say it will. Without controlling the actual cars.

Most minicab firms in London do not have a server, they have a person sat at a desk with a phone and an Excel spreadsheet. Can you imagine trying to herd them all into use your platform correctly? Karhoo never had a chance.

For a while Karhoo became know as the "Free taxi app!" because of all their giveaways. But no-way would you use it if it wasn't free, because it was so unreliable.
The issue is going to be what they do over the next 3 to 4 years. It will be extremely difficult for a major automaker to make a major push towards electric vehicles right now. It isn't so much technical limitations as it is internal business problems.

They would have to expend billions building out a competitive charging infrastructure and building a marketing machine that would advocate for "the car of the future". That car would be a minority of their sales and yet the marketing message would immediately make their other cars seem obsolete.

Basically, noone can take the market seriously until very late in the game (maybe 5 - 10 years from now). I agree with your point that this may not hurt them that much in the long run, though.
I think you need to know the HN post ID.
I think he wanted it to clean up around the cat litter box, which I would say is not a smart endeavor when you are confirming there isn't soft shit laying around said box.

Just as you said too, roombas come with an Infrared wall, basically to make a barrier between something. They also have a "hub" you can by, which if you sat between feeding bowls puts a ring around them the roomba wont cross.
If what I hear about working with American customers from people working in manufacturing is any indicator, you might be right. But it shouldn't be much of a problem for the product.

For context: anecdotally American customers tend to overspecify their requirements with unrealistic and irrelevant details and then fail to follow the same requirements on their end. Not much of a problem for German manufacturers but certainly a bit of a culture clash initially. I bet Americans have similar stories faulting the Germans in turn though.
Serious question, if both the endpoints are completely powned by corporations and governments, what do I gain by having the traffic on the wire be secure? Who is the only Opfor I'm defending against, Sprint? They can barely provide working service and correct billing.

Its a given that secret juicy electronic stuff always ends up on wikileaks, so anything important I discuss live in person and never electronically. So if, in a massive delusion of self importance, everything I do thats juicy can't show up on wikileaks because its not electronic, regardless of any app I use or don't use, and the only thing I use electronics for is the security equivalent of "don't forget to buy a quart of milk at the store on the way home" then how does encrypting my quart of milk purchase help me? Is there any reason to not take it as a given that any juicy electronic stuff ends up on wikileaks regardless of this app?

Realize that if I wanted to keep my visit to the supermarket a secret using this app, I can't. Facebook and google sell my GPS data. Tomorrow google rewards will send me a survey asking what I thought of my visit to the store. The store sniffs the wifi MACs and bluetooth data and camera data to track my every move, that free internet for customers isn't entirely free. Not to mention I'm on probably 50 camera recordings. And the phone company knows where I am, every step of the way, for supposed 911 purposes. And my credit card is rubbed up against my receipt purchase data to data mine the hell out of my milk purchase. But I'm supposed to feel perfectly private and secure because Sprint can't read the contents of my wife's shopping list, uh huh.

If you keep things super nebulous and don't think too hard, it seems I'd be protecting myself against someone, and protecting is always good and there's always a someone to fear so obviously it must be awesome. But analysis shows there's not a problem and I'm not defended against any important forces only against a single weak and unimportant force and wide open to absolutely everyone else.
> concept cars[...]represent what they expect
> their EVs should look like.

You're greater point about German automotive manufacturers is good, but I don't think it makes any sense to point to how ridiculous looking concept cars are as an argument.

Most auto companies have ridiculous looking concept cars, the silly designs almost never make it to production, or if they do are significantly amended.
I don't know (m)any company as innovative and disruptive as Tesla. Apple, maybe.

And if anything, Tesla is internalizing risks with the strategy of vertical integration.

Do more Teslas catch fire than ordinary cars? I doubt it.

Tesla has some 400,000 buyers literally paying $1,000 for the honour of getting in line for years to pay Tesla another $35,000 for a model 3. Which other automaker has customers that passionate? Sure, Apple had a few thousand waiting for days in front of their stores before every iPhone. But that was college kids. But show me an automaker that can excite people as much as Tesla.

I hope that there will serious competition for Tesla, but I think VW and Mercedes are not the ones.
I think that the stigma is less than it was, and these days people are quite interested if you're working on a cool public facing service. No, what we do isn't really /cool/ and you will still bore them if you get into details, but that applies to most white-collar professions.

You don't need to change your identity or succumb to "developer culture" in order to succeed, and in fact being a citizen of the "normal" world is a distinct advantage in many regards - product design, communicating with non-developers, team management..
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Yeah, pretty much. Its good enough that Whatsapp, Allo and many others paid chump change to license it ($1 mil each I heard) since its cheaper and better vetted than anything they'd develop internally.
>consumes router resources

Thats a weird claim to make against IPv4. Grab a calculator and see how much memory is required by a IPv6 /64 address space.
Qthread: green threads and lockless datastructures for C
What about startup time? phantomjs is the only headless browser I have tested which starts up relatively fast.
I'd love to agree with you, but major European car manufacturers have excellent relationships with the EU and the national governments and they will lobby whatever is necessary to keep their industries running.

Even though there are initiatives to sell only electric cars in Germany by 2030, I doubt this is going to happen. The switch from ICE powered cars to electric ones is being observed with great uncertainty as the car industry keeps warning the public that the eventual switch is not going to come without losing jobs since it's apparently simpler to manufacture electric cars.

And the average German employee (Arbeitnehmer) who accidentally happens to work in the automobile sector will not be considering buying an electric car for the fear that it might cost him the employment.

German automakers actually worry about the trends in the US, the southeast Asia & China, and it's realistic to expect that their image/sale numbers is going to suffer if they don't offer viable electric cars and not unpractical and expensive concept cars.

At home, their power is unrivaled.
How Software Defined Storage(SDS) Redefining IT Operations?
Netflix is designing original programming to fill holes so 25% is probably low. The three month assumption is also very low as the subscription is cheap and people don't think lets cancel right after a show they liked. Further they now own these shows so they gain long term benefit from having them.

So, a failure is probably worth ~10m and a success can be worth 20+x that. Remember eventually they end up with a back catalog that's large enough to be self sustaining.
A bit too late, but if I could do it all over again, I would have gone into health care. I have lot's of friend in the industry.

Ask them about their day, they just saved lives - heart surgery, brain surgery, trauma stabilization in ER, just saw a toddler through cancer treatment, and so on and so forth.

What did I do? Oh, I wrote code.
Ad-personam attacks are not useful

Clarification: "...operating systems you don't like" implies that claudius is biased and that his point about OS security is made invalid by that.
> People want a 2 way relationship with entertainers. They want to like, snap and follow. As technology makers we should take action and build escuche for that.

I don't think your average viewer really cares that much about social media interaction when it comes down to it. No one is not going to watch Stranger Things on Netflix because they couldn't snapchat with the show's creators. People just want to easily access content on their own time (on-demand, on their devices) and without a lot of intrusive interruptions (ads). Netflix, Youtube, etc are successful because they achieve both of these, not because they are creating "2-way relationships with entertainers".
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I agree with you that YouTube provides connectivity with performers/producers. I also think being able to watch network TV without commercials and on demand (Hulu Prime) is great, I am actually starting to watch a few network shows again.

The thing is, there is so much great material that one could waste too much time. I have written about 20 books and when people ask how I can write so much, for 30 years my joke has been that I write because of the low quality of TV, so what else to do in the evening? I am glad that YouTube and tons of great stuff were not available 25 years ago because I probably wouldn't have spent so much time writing. Now that I am in my 60s, I am glad for the entertainment.
Oops, but noticied now :)
>The New York Times is inviting readers to take advantage of its reporting, analysis and commentary from the lead-up through the aftermath of the 2016 election.

Aftermath? Somehow this smacks of already leading the narrative.
Yes, I got hired in my current role through HN. Even moved countries for it (Australian now residing in NYC).
Both Microsoft and Apple's www sites use Akamai's CDN, via a cname to a CNAME to something in akamaiedge.net, which support ipv6. The apex record of a domain (that is, the root record, microsoft.com or apple.com) cannot be a CNAME, it can only have an A, NS, MX or TXT record. A records make dynamic infrastructure hard, because they require API coordination between your DNS provider and your CDN. So Microsoft and apple host their own apex domain records via A records to static IPs in their own IP blocks, and have these servers issue a permanent http redirect to www.
Tesla and the coming EV wave will be a Tsunami for Europe. I don't see how the European car industry will be able to manage this change. There are too many investments and interests bound into combustion engines.
Not really. An hour drive is still an hour drive. The physical distances don't really matter much though if you don't happen to own a helicopter or it's short enough that you can walk or ride a bicycle.

The autobahn is frequently overestimated by foreigners. That there is no speed limit in principle doesn't mean that you can go any speed in practice. Most of the autobahn has speed limits and road works.
> One of their patents mentions using stacked diffraction optical elements [DOE].

> http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H....

I believe this particular excerpt is referring to the use of the layered and controllable DOEs to curve light projected from their scanning fibers that ultimately forms the virtual object image on the retina, rather than using the DOEs to attenuate ambient light (see my reply to Kelsolaar above).

However, if I'm interpreting their literature correctly, you are correct in that they are able to use (at least a portion of) these DOE layers to generate the moire patterns that will ultimately be capable of form black/clear image masks.
Here Be Robots
False binary dilemma in that the insight is the statement is true. Both legal cases and excessive patting on the back are interesting to contemplate but irrelevant to the truth or falsehood of the statement.
Ask HN: How to Start a Lead Generation Business for IT Case Studies?
I know what Lead Generation is, but the problem is, I have no good idea of how I can execute my plans?

Like:
1. what should be the initial size of my website (number of pages)
2. what sort of content should I add in my websites (full promotional / sales copy type content OR a professionally written website copy?)
2. how should I manage leads? (which lead is qualified and which is junk)
3. how to find buyers for my leads?
my "to do list" on netflix probably has 500 hours of television on it. That's ignoring the random stuff I'll see as new and just watch (eg gone girl) or the re-watching of a classic (hello breaking bad).

Netflix still has shitty recommendations, and annoying pushing of content I'm not interested in. But by the time I get through all the things I actually want to watch as of today I'd be amazed if there wasn't almost as much new content. In other words I don't think I'll ever run out.
I guess that people doing research into suicidal ideation know that it comes in different forms - from well defined plans with means and method available, to abstract thoughts of "things would be better if I wasn't here", and that they will have taken different forms if ideation into account when preparing the research.
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> Man, this is the first time I've seen downvotes on HN

In the context, your "Man" is ironic.
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It remains to be confirmed that they have actually secured $250mil. Very unlikely, you close the business in less than 2 years after securing such amount. Sometimes, loads of startups think success means raising loads of money... hence announcing the news, thinking media will shine on them and then get more investment followers...
Every day of my working life. I am not sure that's not just my depression talking though - maybe I won't be happy in any job.
I believe Agile (at least as thought of by management) is designed to make programmers interchangeable. If programmers are interchangeable, they are easily replaceable.

We just started doing "by the book" Agile with daily stand ups. Now that you mention it, it does feel like I'm being micro managed. Put in your time every day so we can email everyone the burn down chart. Lets add some more pressure to the job if you are behind a day. There are no milestones, just an endless grind. I don't know why programmers don't push back against that stuff.
Not working in Ireland.
Please read this before voting. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/795290227157909504
> I don't have to worry about scaling, databases, API endpoints and other nonsense

You caused a lot of backend developers to shed a tear
Yeah the announcement linked is from a month ago
Suicide risk assessments are mostly worthless. They're done because you need to show you've done something to try to identify people at risk of suicide and to have tried to prevent that death.
It can always crash when there is not enough memory.

Especially on the stack.

On of the test cases has 100000 [ and my own JSON parser crashed on them, because it parsed recursively and the stack overflowed. So now I have fixed it to parse iteratively.

It still crashes.

Big surprise. Turns out the array destructor is also recursive, because it deletes every element in the array. So the array destructor crashes at some random point, after the parser has worked correctly.
Signal-Desktop doesn't need your phone to be on, either. It's not the nicest desktop client (and some people dislike that it's implemented as a Chrome/chromium App), but unlike WhatsApp Web it's independent of the phone.
Do you have any evidence that buying an electric car is costing an automobile employee the employment?
Provocatively: If I would buy an i3 while working at BMW I might lose my job?
Its never too late. May not be easy, but its never too late.
> But at least those jobs don't have the stigma of being (in the words above) Asperger professions.

Works both ways though. I'm a writer (albeit a technical writer) and I find developer culture a bit intimidating as I'm trying to educate myself and hopefully change careers. Devs can be quite sniffy and elitist if you're not one of the club.

But, as a freelance writer who works remotely, I do get the "you can't possibly understand what it's like to have a real job" attitude from a lot of people too. It's not like creative professionals are entirely accepted by "mainstream culture" either.
"Greatest external challenge to the German auto industry"? Do you mean "electric auto industry"? Because that's a tiny fraction of the whole and the growing rates don't seem that exciting, despite subsidies and hype.
Yes, "rubbing shoulders" is a coloquial term to mean that you are standing next to other/famous people - at a crowded party or lining up next to each other for a photo opportunity etc. Your shoulders tend to bump or rub against each other in those situations. This is my friends case, as his Facebook feed is full of pictures of him standing next to (rubbing shoulders with) famous actors & politicians etc.

@oneeyedpigeon cunningly made the connection between my friend being a physio (physiotherapist) whose main job is providing healing and relief from muscle pain usually by rubbing or applying pressure. (Computer programmers like me who spend a long time at the keyboard often visit a physio to get our shoulders manipulated and rubbed to relieve built up tension).
The BMW i3 is actually the best selling Electric car in Europe: http://evobsession.com/europe-electric-car-sales-september-2...
And I believe it's top four worldwide. VW also has quite a few cars in the market, like the e-golf: http://www.caranddriver.com/volkswagen/e-golf
Facebook's AI Roadmap: Accelerating Innovation and Powering New Experiences
And what article would that be? The link goes directly to the PDF...
You're right it seems! I have edited my comment to reflect this.

(Why would HTML5 have both self-closing and non-self closing tags though?? It's just a syntax shortcut, they should either take it or leave it, but create a special class of "empty tags" seems crazy to me).
The same can be said about a "trusted" OS like say Qubes OS, with untrusted hardware, like Intel's. Actually, that's what the developers of Qubes OS and other "free" operating systems have said as well.

http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/10/27/x86_harmful.html

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/intel-me-and-why-we-shou...

If anything, I'm more frustrated with the Signal team that the app doesn't have as good call quality/performance as WhatsApp, nor does it have video call support, and that the Chrome desktop "app" doesn't seem to import my phone contacts for some reason - all of which is making me continue to mostly use less secure and less trusted alternatives.

My point is we should aim for getting things "more secure" constantly, and I think we have in the past few years. So rather than just say "what's the point?", we should say "let's put more pressure on X company to open source/prove their system is secure" and hope that in time enough pressure is built that those companies actually agree to do those things.

And since I was talking about putting pressure on companies, let me start:

Where the hell is Google's End-to-End tool? It hasn't had any commits in over half an year, and we already know NSA's bestie, Yahoo, has given up on it. Should we start drawing some conclusions about the Google/NSA relationship, too? Did Google abandon the project?

https://github.com/google/end-to-end

There - who's next?
Except "atomic gardening" is considered "organic", so triggering random mutations and seeing what works is much faster than "30 years of directed breeding".

https://mvd.iaea.org
It's a tool like a dishwasher - dishwasher doesn't clean the dishes as well as you do manually either and still needs preparation. But it does save you a lot of time.

Same with a Roomba - I basically just quickly check a room to see if there's anything lying on the ground, throw it in there and come back in a hour. Clean and in meantime I can actually do my work or something more fun.
The theories aren't stuck, the existing ones cover everything we can measure, and that is amazing. Once the experiments make any new discovery which wouldn't match with the current theories the changes will be needed. So if you want the faster progress, support the experimental physics and the advancement in astronomy, don't repeat the talk of philosophers who do the equivalent to "how fairies really dance on the pin."

But don't forget: Einstein didn't disprove Newton, Newton's formulas are just a good approximation under the circumstances that were easier for us to observe. So most of what we now know will also remain as a "set of simpler models", as it is based on the valid experiments.
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