skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She also gave speeches at Stanford..
Congrats! Flock vs Slack reminds me of Zendesk vs Freshdesk. Any thought on fundraising? Investors would beg to get in :)
I'm missing something, but what would be so difficult about living in enemy territory? I don't believe anyone in their daily interaction was hostile to them (apart from exceptions who would be hostile to anyone).
Apple rejection of Indigenous app described as symptom of 'digital colonisation'
as a developer, I was curious to read about building apps for flock. let me tell you about my experience:
first, I had to create an account. I just wanted to get some information, but ok. after entering an email (in firefox), getting a pin via email, entering the pin, I got redirected to a page that said: "No account set yet." I tried to sign in via https://web.flock.co/, where it told me that firefox wasn't supported. So I tried the same steps with chrome, where it told me "Access Denied", and I need to contact developer support.

Maybe you guys are not ready yet? Or where can a developer get some information about creating apps for your platform?
The "no, really, this is a personal endorsement, I use the product all the time" podcast ads really put me off too, but I'm not sure there's a better alternative. One of the great things about podcasts, for me, is the immersion. I think the "personal" ads are there more to sustain immersion rather than to fool the audience about the nature of the ad.
Downshifting doesn't really slow you down if you have one of those new 3 cylinder gas engines, for their lack of a throttle valve.
I think times have changed somewhat since squishy 6.7L V8s that made 180hp and got you 5km/L. :P
True. I guess in germany it's at least 80% manual. Apart from the more luxury cars (Mercedes E/S-class, ...) which are typically also only built and sold with automatic transmission.

I have my eighth car right now and for it's the first one with automatic transmission. I mainly picked this because in combination with the newer assistance systems (ACC) it provides a better experience. However I now also have to admit that the VW DSG that I have feels generally very good.
On the logging question, does the ForwardToSyslog option not do what you'd like?

Most components can be replaced (the journal isn't one of them, AFAIK, but most others can, and the journal can be configured to send things to a plain text log). Personally, I don't find the binary log to be that problematic. It is taking some getting used to, of course. 20+ years of muscle memory for grepping and awking and cutting text log files is hard to overcome, but the amount of help the system provides is nicer. It's better documented and better at guiding the user than the old way, IMHO.

Which brings to mind something I like about systemd becoming standard that rarely gets discussed, I think: It brings a level of consistency that some other UNIX systems have had for a long time; the BSDs, for instance, have the feeling of all of the pieces having been designed to work together. Linux has never had that feeling; but with systemd, a large amount of Linux real estate now feels that way. The documentation correctly references other components docs. The way various components work together is reasonably documented because they were built at roughly the same time by roughly the same people (or at least people who interacted during the design), so the interfaces are clearly delineated. That's cool, I think.

So, sure, I'm having to learn new stuff every time I interact with systemd, and that's frustrating. I know Linux like the back of my hand, so when I find myself having to read the docs for even simple stuff, I get grumpy. But, I get over it. It's gonna be fine, and we'll all get through this learning curve.
I am paid to mainly fix bugs. "Writing code" is mainly for free time and enjoyment.
Basically yes. Except, with the new tuple syntax support in C# it's using a value type internally instead of the old Tuple class (I'm pretty sure Tuple's going to be gaining a set of deconstructors to allow it to participate though). And the pure tuple path apparently doesn't use the deconstructors, there's something fancier going on under the hood which is presumably faster.

But yes you can write a deconstructor for anything you like so it can participate in deconstructing assignment. And yes it can have side effects. And that would be VERY BAD.
> Many the automatic folks should install a manual looking stick between the seats and whenever you move it it kills power for 0.5 seconds.

I don't know what I hate more, this suggestion or the fact that it would probably actually work.
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Wow. Gorgeous.
OK, but can stop doing cross-fit?
It might still be useful to copy governance structures from these countries, I suppose.
Solved problem in Poland. Actually I usually laugh when I hear about "FinTech" startups struggling to deliver technology that is history here. mBank has been offering "instant" money transfer for purchases for the last 15 years, now there are more then a couple of vendors aggregating almost every bank that there is on the market. Real time transfers have been available via BlueMedia (private company) for like 7 years and via central banking transfer hub for over a year. You can pay with your mobile via a couple of providers, including said central banking transfer hub (Blik payments). And standard bank transfers (take around 8h to deliver - depending on incoming and outgoing transfer sessions timing - there are 3 sessions a day) are free - so many people are used to pay via standard bank transfer and there are many solutions for merchants that do automated account scraping to match incoming transfers. Poland - the land of FinTech future. Downside - if you are Financial IT provider - you can hardly get anything sold here - everything that comes from outside is history here.
There's a plan to allow wildcards in deconstruction patterns, but it doesn't look like it's ready in time for C# 7. So hopefully that will appear in C# 8.

It would look something like:

var (first, second, *) = ReturnsFourThings(foo);
> German licenses don't expire.

It's effectively this in the U.K. (mine will expire in 50 years), but in Italy they do expire - so it's not an EU wide thing.
Sorry no Lisp or Clojure here ;-)

Our backend is mostly Java, the desktop app is based on HTML/CSS/Javascript while the mobile apps are native.

We are working on a migration tool from Slack (and others) to Flock, we will release it soon.
It puts a smile on my beak that I am a budding (sort of) .Net and C# developer. Microsoft seems to be really jacked up and introducing some very forward thinking functionality into their ecosystem. Been playing with Azure Service Fabric. It is super impressive.
I would call myself a "car enthusiast" and I drive an automatic - I feel like even in dangerous situations, I have full control of the car. Whether it's sudden need to stop or accelerate, I have full control. In a manual car I've had a few near-accidents where the car just stalled because I was so concentrated on braking and avoiding the obstacle - Which was great, except that I found myself in a middle of a dual carriageway, sideways, with my engine off, stressed to hell, so actually moving out of the way was a huge effort. I had a similar situation in an automatic and there's no such problem - you need to brake, you brake. You need to accelerate - you accelerate. I just think that an automatic transmission allows you to concentrate much more on what's going on around you, without having to worry about being in correct gear and using the clutch.
I drive a slightly modified 2016 WRX with CVT. I purchased the CVT version because I'm almost always stuck in a bumper-to-bumper traffic. However, I regret the decision every day. Every once in a while I throw it in manual and use paddle shifters just to experience what an awesome and fast car it is without the horribly slow CVT shifting in the way. It's been a year now and I can't wait to trade for the manual.
However the cost is minimal.
As a foreigner you can pay with credit cards - the merchant might not support it due to the horrendous cut that Visa/MC/Amex take (several percentage points).
.nl and .in have similar systems that allow one-time transfers to be made using your online bank account.

In .nl they have iDEAL, as someone already pointed out. In .in, we have to integrate with each bank individually, and there are several aggregators that do this for you, and you don't have to sign an agreement with each bank.
In Norway, too, we have the same restriction. I think I've driven a manual transmission car once or perhaps twice since my driver's test.

As for eco-driving, I was told in no uncertain terms by the guy who examined me that if I tried to drive as eco-friendly as the official course material suggested, he'd fail me for being a hazard to other traffic.
Do you have any data to back up your statement?
>Don’t Mess with The Google

What a bunch of scammers. Not only did they deprive people that actually wanted the phones for their personal use, but they also engaged in a coordinated effort to profit from them.
What would you say the probability of something going wrong and leading to Kessler syndrome is, if we have 4k more (or even 10-20k more) satellites?

I'm sure SpaceX isn't the only player thinking of adding a lot of cheap satellites in orbit
What's the similarity, other than this is also a California regulation?

Sitting on carcinogenic furniture because of a misguided upholstery safety regulation isn't really the same as being "forced" into driving an automatic because of a "misguided" (if you'd call it that) environmental regulation. The potential harm isn't comparable.

(Also, FWIW, I drive a legal CA car with a stick shift.)
Well imho C# is bit more mature than Java. I am talking strictly in terms of "in-built" language features.

For example, apart from LINQ, generics in C# dont do type erasure, as in Java. I am sure there are few more. [1]

Of course, Java running on so many platforms is nothing less than a miracle but I am of opinion that C# language is more matured than Java language

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms836794.aspx
I just love it how Americans are so proud if they can "drive a stick". :D Anyway I have a Toyota Auris Hybrid and it's pretty awesome. It's really pleasant to drive. I guess I'm lucky to be able to drive both: automatic & manual because at least in Europe the automatic prices are way higher in rental cars.
Modern manual cars have start/stop technology too.

However, it's more convoluted to use. You have to engage the clutch, put the shifter in neutral, and release the clutch again. Compared to automatic where you just have to hold your foot on the brake pedal.

Stop/start reduces fuel consumption on test cycles like NEDC for both automatics and manuals, but I'll bet in the real world the benefit is mostly seen with automatics as many manual drivers will rarely bother to use it.
It costs them a lot less per kg to lift to orbit, maybe they're just throwing more panel area at the problem? They're claiming 22.8% efficiency for their earthbound panels so that's only a ~50% increase in panel weight.
AI Is Being Taught to Solve Problems the Same Way Living Organisms Do
In my country (Kazakhstan, and Russia, AFAIK) manual transmissions are popular with cheap cars, where $500 is a huge difference for buyer. With more expensive cars manual transmission are extremely rare (only BMW have them, AFAIK). So it's basically a choice between cheap and expensive options.

I personally like manual transmission. It cheaper, it's not hard to use, it's significantly cheaper to repair, car with manual transmission could be towed or could tow another car, etc. So for me is a bit of convenience does not outweight drawbacks and extra cost.
It's physically weird. Manual drivers must have left leg bigger than right.
The worst I've ever experienced is the RuPay card network's (India) Second Factor. You pick an image out of collection of thirty odd images that you must select again at the time of every transaction. It also forces you to type your PIN via a shuffled numeric clickpad on the browser.
>when automatic transmissions are consistently outperforming humans at fuel efficiency

Do you have data to back this up? Unless you're driving a dual clutch "dry" transmission or a CVT, because of Physics, an automatic transmission will always be less efficient. The Automatic transmission Torque converter [1] will waste some of the energy provided by the engine, especially with city driving.

Also, most automatic cars tend to shift gear up too early, and can't switch to gear n+2. Because of this, you spend more time accelerating to your cruise speed. It's well known that accelerating rather quickly to your cruise speed is the optimal strategy for fuel efficiency, hence the reason to switch from 3rd to 5th gear directly.

With a manual, you can also disengage the clutch when you consider it safe (and not slowing down traffic) and you know you're going to have to stop at the red light.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5G2zQ_3xTc
How much media incompetence is needed to rely on Facebook as serious news source? It's very difficult for me to understand this. And no, I'll gonna continue reading all sorts of stuff posted on Facebook, no matter if Edward Snowden or Hillary Clinton call them "News" or not.

By the way, don't forget to stop relying on Whatsapp, Snapchat and Chatroulette for your News.

Sorry for being so sarcastic but this is just so incredibly stupid. Please make Media (Competence) a subject in all schools world-wide!
Ego thing? Maybe, but for me it's more of a fun thing. I currently drive an automatic and would love to go back.

Random addendum: German licenses do expire for larger classes - I have a license for BCE (aka 'up to 40t/max') that expired a while ago. Legacy licenses in that class expire at the age of 60 I think, current licenses expire every 5 years from the day you got one.

And of course there's the whole public transportation license thing (cab, bus).
I believe efficiency is the smallest of problems with sending stuff into space
False Positive
This is completely inaccurate.

England did not "take over" Scotland. There was no invasion or conquest, as in Ireland. The two countries voluntarily merged, scotland was represented in the British parliament and so on.

The Wealth of Nations is not weitten about England. Smith was describing the society around him, in Scotland, many of the examples given in the book are directly taken from his everyday observations in the central belt of Scotland.

At that time Scotland was in a tumult of intellectual and socialrevolution. Smith coukd look around and see the beginnings of an industrial society on his doorstep.

A better explanation for why Smith and other enlightenment figures were in scotland and not so much England would be local cultural factors, such as scottish presbytereanism making for an incredibly high literacy rate in scotland as compared to england, or the great abundance of universities in scotland compared to England.
Why would it not be possible? An electric motor can be hooked up to a normal transmission without any problem - the thing is, that there's no real reason to do that, but it's definitely not impossible.
I don't think the parent has the same idea, but from my personal experience, it is almost impossible to not break speed limits in a stick shift car.

Same is not true in my case for automatic. Better have other drivers be safe and eco conscious.
Cool. I am a janitor.
It's really a problem with Google offering more and more services. On the one hand it is nice and convenient, but every additional service increased the risk of everything being lost because of some silly mistake.
operator overloading and meta is very nice, but can add a lot of complexity.
Previously I've been hesitant to disuse Gmail, but now I'm 100% confident to actually transition to Fastmail. And I'll take Fastmail in consideration for my company usage too (we're a smb).
>gear-shift indicator in the dash.

My VW has this. It's useless, I never look at it. It is very simple and clearly intended only to give the best results on the controlled gas mileage testing - I believe that if a manual car has a gear-change indicator, the EPA test drivers are supposed to follow it. The advantage of a human selecting gears is that they can use more information than just the speed and engine rpm; for instance there is no point shifting into 6th gear if you see a big hill right in front of you. It also never indicates for the driver to skip a gear. Maybe you will save a few bucks on gas if you follow the indicator religiously but you'll probably break even after you have to replace your clutch early.
>$1mm ARR

>Repeat founders who were previously funded

Interesting. I applied to YC with https://icanpriceit.com/, not much traction yet. I was hoping I'd get an interview at least, based in part on my existing experience of building an ecommerce/Amazon business to 100k in sales (plus my answer to the "hack" question was pretty good).

I didn't get invited. I know that https://www.ycombinator.com/whynot/ says I pretty much can't get a direct answer why, but my own takeaways were that one of the following must be true. Either:

1. Solo founder+no traction was just too low to meet their bar.

2. I messed up some other part of the application, which is very possible.

or
3. 100k in sales isn't that impressive, relative to the kinds of impressive things other founders did; and the fact that it's not the startup I applied under dilutes the achievement.

Now in the month and a half since I applied, sales (on my amazon business) have jumped and I'm looking at close to a $1 million ARR (~$4500 sales today, ~$22500 sales 7 days, ~$78000 sales 30 days, majority of which are from nonseasonal, replenished products, so can reasonably extrapolate yearly i.e. no Q4 boost). Maybe in 5 months that will be impressive enough to get an invite, at least, assuming I still want YC. Without funding I likely won't be doing too much work on the startup and will mostly focus on my existing business and college.

(I actually talked to Aaron briefly after a talk in NYC, he said I shouldn't worry too much about being a solo founder.)
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WinRT is the name of the thing, and while it's derived from COM (you still have IUnknown, for example), it fixes a lot of the latter's problems and fills missing gaps. For example, it has class inheritance (implemented as composition), a much simpler event pattern, drastically simplifies the whole apartment mess etc.
It's only on steam so I doubt it. It also relies very heavily on the vive controllers.
Cormorant/AirMule UAV completes first autonomous flight
In my experience automatic is ok if driving in city traffic or on a highway, much more comfortable than manual. On a highway one is always in 5th anyway, or driving stop and go in a traffic jam.

When I drive on some hill or mountain road, I feel safer on manual because I know how much the car can hold the road in a turn given the gear I'm using and the speed I'm carrying into the turn. With an automatic gear it usually feels like it's using a higher gear then it should, so I have to drive unnecessarily slower and use brakes more, which can't be good for them.

Anyway, cars with both sequential shifting and automatic transmission are becoming common so one can have both manual and automatic. If I have to buy a car again I'll go with something like that. Some high end cars have paddles on the steering wheel to shift gears up and down, like in Formula 1.
It's funny how american leftists are using today the exact same witch-hunting techniques as the anti-communists of the 50's.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
You can hear the toggling of the stick.
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Actually, it seems that the recent trend for off roading is embracing normal automatics, because you literally can't burn a hydrokinetic clutch. No matter what the terrain - you add some gas, and you move. I think anyone who has driven a modern LR Discovery off road will agree here.
> The silver lining is that electric cars will just decide this issue once and for all.

They won't decide the issue as they have no transmission, they are option number 3 so to speak.
Disagree. I have been stuck in SV traffic for over a decade, on and off, with a stick shift. Even with the traffic I still don't hate them. When I really hate the traffic, I jump on a shitty motorcycle I bought on Craigslist.
Can you point me to that tech talk? I think this info is outdated, at least it conflicts with what I believe to know.
Ah, thanks. Didn't notice that part. So it's more an option, among others, while the "normal" .NET Native toolchain directly goes the IL → machine code route via RyuJIT.
Thanks for the feedback, we will fix the styling. Also, I think someone was a little too eager to link to the FlockOS blog, we will remove it.

Our backend is mostly Java, the desktop app is based on HTML/CSS/Javascript while the mobile apps are native.
> What a bunch of scammers. Not only did they deprive people that actually wanted the phones for their personal use, but they also engaged in a coordinated effort to profit from them.

That's pretty harsh. They weren't depriving anyone of anything. Selling the phone on means that someone who wants one for personal use, gets one. And there's nothing inherently immoral about coordinated efforts to make a profit. That's what businesses are after all.
True but it cuts both ways. Imagine you need someone else to drive your car for whatever reason...you could be stuck.
What? How? That's like saying because the car has a V8 instead of a four-cylinder it breaks speed limits. What are you doing with a stick shift that requires you to speed?
Or maybe they mistook it for "carrier aircraft", as in "cargo plane".
Actually, American Express offers both credit cards and charge cards, at least here in Australia.

Here, Amex credit cards are far more common than charge cards, at least due to how regular banks can issue an Amex.
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Yes, I have noticed. But thanks for the update again :) I think future is here, just it is not evenly distributed. But I really laugh when talking to someone who has just heard of this new exciting London or SV Fintech startup and learns that in some countries this is already forgotten history and we moved forward since :) I think Poland is more striking for them than The Netherlands as people are used to thinking about old Comm block countries as a bit backwards ;)
java 8 + lambda by any chance ?
we have been considering kotlin + vertx for some time now... so it would be interesting to hear about your experience in the vanilla java world.
The takeaway for me is that you can program a Raspberry Pi Zero to be a USB device (not just host). I wonder if it can do both at the same time...

I sometimes think about building a "USB Condom". There already exist devices that only pass through the power lines, if you want to charge a phone from a dubious plug. However, I would go a step further and try to support data. For example, I would emulate a USB pen drive (with a FAT32 file system), and then mirror the contents of an attached drive. If the attached drive is malicious, it cannot easily attack the host.
> Systemd is just fixing things that have been broken for a very long time.

This. I for one don't miss the mess of shell scripts for network management, init, bootloader, cron, etc. I personally think systemd already does 10x better at each of these tasks then the broken scripts have ever done.
Is this an IBM ad, or what?