skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm automatically parsing the user input and using the geocoding api data output to link their address with their account, and then I'm charging for services that are placed by using this address. I'm currently under the impression that automatic parsing without using the data in a Google Map is against the TOS, but haven't been able to verify this 100%.
Wouldn't the answer be "same as an average human?"
If you are looking for fiction, Lem's Solaris is good exploration "too alien" concept.
In summary: Make lanes narrower to annoy drivers into driving slower. (Although 12 foot does seem excessive to me.)
Scheduling Algorithms in Big Data: A Survey [pdf]
> Otherwise it's going to be kind of a dice roll--what are the values of the first team to achieve the governance-eclipsing technology.

So like all history until now.

The winners dictate morality. Nothing will change.
For exploring the (Theravada, but really 'fundamental/historical') Buddhist perspective, the best resource I have personally found online is Access to Insight at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/
Or they might just die. Evolution doesn't give guarantees.
That is great advice. I have the same setup, except I use OVH instead of AWS because the cost is much lower, but still meets my needs (AWS, GCP, and Azure are all great services that I have used, no criticism intended).
True. It's not uncommon to get laid off, receive a few months pay. Find and start a new job weeks or a month later.

Though not everyone is so fourtanate.
> So what in perl made it conductive to that kind of coding?

"Because I could"

More specifically, in very short programs, the shortcut values were actually valuable, and the mental overhead for interpreting them in short subroutines or programs was minimal. The problem is that programs don't stay static, and that single time-saving shortcut becomes two, then four, then eight, then...

Soon, it's an absolute mess.

Even once I realized the cost, I had to follow the coding conventions of those who had come before, at the cost of increasing the cognitive overhead even further. A self-reinforcing loop.

> not pass by reference, unlike just about any other scripting language

As Smaug says, Python is pass by value. The trick is that the value is always a reference to an object, or more specifically “pass-by-object-reference” (“Object references are passed by value.").

This causes a few subtle behavioral inconsistencies, such as the dreaded `def a(b=[]):` bug.
Why would a missing sign cause life or death? It has radar and complete around-the-car vision. Should do a lot better than a human.
Intel has never been a company focused on chip volume, they chose to exit the DRAM business 20+ years ago. They focus on high end high margin products, which is now primarily servers with the contraction of the PC market. This is how they justify greater than $10B yearly expenditures on fabs and R+D. They have maintained, and still do maintain a 2 generation lead on process technology.

Alternate architectures are not going to do much to dent the two generation lead in process.

IoT and Wearables mean nothing to Intel, there is not enough money there. Mostly a marketing effort to signal to their investors they aren't going to miss the next big opportunity like they did mobile. Of course that ignores the fact that Intel was never going to be much of a player in mobile. All the money in mobile is in the base stations, not in the handsets, and Qualcomm (3rd largest semi conductor company behind Intel and Samsung) completely dominates the IP in that market. What matters there is radio technology, not microprocessors.
What possible proof could Assange offer to convince everyone that he is "in control of Wikileaks"? And why should/would he do that for you personally. There's probably a thousand people demanding Assange offer proof of this or that.
You don't actually have privacy, and you won't be getting it back.

I disagree, and if this is the starting assertion then we have a permanent disagreement that no amount of discussion can solve. Perhaps you could define "privacy". We must be using different definitions, as by my definition the fact that I do have privacy is as self-evident as the fact that only I know what I had for dinner.
It would have to be phased in ... like html5 or any browser improvement.
Mainland China-based automated food preparation and retail technology startup. Think "large (wholly-owned) network of vending machines you can order custom, hot, freshly prepared meals from via smartphone".
Sorry if I came off defense. I said that it's a valid concern in this thread, should have been more clear I suppose.
Make Money NO INVESTMENT EVER
Or the corrupt get it far more easily.

To me this is the most plausible direction.
Although the goal of Ipsum Lorem is meaningless text, and this satisfies that requirement, the other goal is that it not be distracting, and I found this text to be incredibly distracting.
If that market does play out and grow as much as predicted, Nvidia will be the company most likely to give Intel a run for their money.
This is mathematically misleading. SSO adds a single global point of failure on top of the existing system. Single nodes will still fail in both circumstances, unaffected by the use or not of SSO.
I wonder if it can detect when it doesn't know what do it. Like when it can't find the edge of the lane.
Traffic "engineers" don't deserve the name. I'm certain not one of them has ever taken a bike and tried to travel on their own design.

Their allegiance is to parking spaces and car throughput, in that order.
> Having different demands on tools for non-programmers, seems eh, reasonable?

Depends. I'm not expecting 3D artists to write a lot of Python (though it wouldn't hurt them at all). But what makes Emacs and Vim so powerful actually does translate pretty well to other domains (like 3D - hence, Blender). We're talking about efficient workflow. Something that makes the learning curve steeper in exchange of giving you a set of operations you can execute as quickly as humanly possible, and mix and mash together just the way you like. The end result is, after going through the learning (which is exactly the point at which people give up and go complaining), you end up thinking in the tool and focusing your mind on what you want to create instead of fighting the UI.

Unwillingness to learn is the real problem here, and it's mostly a psychological one. It's not about Open Source. I'd never recommend Emacs to Java developers because there are better tools for this niche, but I've seen the overwhelming resistance about e.g. switching to IntelliJ because "Eclipse is good enough", that's only overcome when a socially popular cow-orker does the switch and shows all the cool stuff he's now doing. It's silly to watch how the same people who so strongly complained about unnecessary learning suddenly find the time and will to do that learning, just to do the same thing the popular friend did.

So I guess the way to make powerful tools more popular is to make learning sexy (and expected!) again. Which is something the current web and mobile industry is definitely not helping with. :/.
Why use Google Earth VR when you can use Google Street View, drunk?
First, a possibly interesting article: https://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000611m...

Another article by The Guardian, states that the unabridged explanation for discontinuing the Xjet remains classified; but as you intimate, citations seem on walkabout. I combed some patents for refs on the ceiling-limit and found nothing, to my surprise. I also visited (virtually) both the National Museum of the US Air Force, and Museum of Flight, but curiously couldn't find any results for "X-jet", "Xjet", or "X jet" nor other related keywords. NoScript? Your replies are appreciated, but I remain sincerely perplexed by the persistent obscurity of this fantastic machine. More particularly perplexing is the present year, 2016, where despite solid evidence of a bona fide, functional dream-machine from the 80s offering ballistic capabilities that most humans still futilely fantasize about, we have no tangible modern counterpart to. Even if the X-jet could scarcely tower a hunched inch above the treeline as you mention, it's an inch more free and exhilarating than the best scripted and predictable tangent of any popular rollercoaster. So, respectfully, my question endures.

PS: I am no adversary of sausages and am wondering if pinewurst is a genuine product. I immediately think of rosemary, which is a necessary spice in many recipes.
Ask HN: What are the most paid jobs in Software?
Let's say you want to make as much money as you can as a Software Developer working for a company. Which job/company should you apply for?

PS: $200K/year is low
No doing something about it going to be something we have to do ourselves.
It was, and to appease investors that they are doing something about new markets after missing mobile. No one in their right mind would choose Intel as the platform for a wearable. The microcontroller companies: ST, NXP, Freescale, etc have been deeply embedded there for decades.
Probably CloudHealth
TfL to track Tube users in stations by their MAC addresses
That is a great way to explain units to people.
Dito. The whole point of adolescence is to 'wire' the brain for the environment it has to perform in. The term 'rewiring' implicates that there is some kind of expected structure or operating mode that every brain has to conform to.

Every brain is different. Yes it contains some sort of 'wires', but it is obviously not that simple and only causes more confusion by using these unnecessary simplifications.
> The judiciary committee was led by none other than Strom Thurmond. Thurmond and company thought he was too racist. Thurmond! Let that sink in.

Mentioning Thurmond is simply misleading and detracts from the main point that Sessions was rejected from a federal judgeship because of concerns that he was a racist.

The fact of the matter is that Thurmond voted for Sessions.

> On June 5, 1986, the Committee voted 10–8 against recommending the nomination to the Senate floor, with Republican Senators Charles Mathias of Maryland and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania voting with the Democrats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions
They're too are my heroes. Those who never find a solution still did the work, traversed the other paths - which is a necessary part of figuring out which path is the correct one - and quite often, what they saw on those paths may lead someone else to solve some other problem in the future!
Thanks. Your the first to ever reply to that question when I pose it.
Edit

Disclaimer: I am no expert on either ID or evolution theory. Most of my info comes from reading Meyer and Dembski, who are both pioneers of ID, so I'm clearly biased. Please take anything I say with a grain of salt.

Original comment:

Oh, and when did evolution theory come up with a "testable hypothesis" (not a simulation) for stuff like protein evolution, the Cambrian explosion, and DGRNs? Because until evolutionists can fully explain and demonstrate how and why the above don't contradict with the current model, evolution theory also reduces to metaphysics.

You can't claim that your theory is "proven" when there are aspects of biology that don't fit with your theory. It's like saying gravitation is true when there is 1 m^2 of area on Earth where gravity breaks down.
I'm eager to make my workbench. Creating a workbench is a right of passage for the craftsman. There's even sub-reddit forum dedicated to it. Going from sawhorses to a solid, sturdy workbench must feel great.
"Profits from their stays, of course, goes straight to Trump. Unfortunately for him, this will be quite illegal, and un-Constitutional according to the emoluments clause, as soon as he takes office."

Of course, once in office, those businesses will be administered by the "blind" trust run by his children... and Trump wants to stay in New York a few days a week to "be around his family"... where of course, they won't possibly talk business, right? (That's if they're not accompanying him around the world, be it Ivanka joining in meetings with Japanese dignitaries, his sons being part of his transition team, or peddling his son-in-law as one of his advisors - someone so ignorant of the operation of government that until after the election, he apparently didn't realize that Trump would have to hire advisors to replace Obama's...).

What could possibly be untoward about any of that...?
I highly disagree. This article assumes perfect driving conditions it also suggests that people drive faster with wider lanes -- then the problem is a function of speed limit and not lane width and also assumes that pedestrian safety is somehow affected solely because of lane width. If pedestrians are getting hit by cars one of two things has happened: the pedestrian jaywalked or a driver didn't stop when required -- both cases which have nothing to do with lane width.

I live in rural France with narrow roads and it's incredibly stressful to be driving with nearly no margin of error preventing a head on collision.

What about a stalled vehicle on the road? Debris?

I get it, the author doesn't like cars, but making lanes narrower to improve safety is counterintuitive. if the problem is excessive speed, then traffic enforcement is the problem.

This is like reducing the size of your front door to make it harder for thieves to steal your couch.
Both. It feels as though both could offer interesting perspectives on alien intelligence. Since there's so much we don't know, I assume many theories would be labeled as fiction to be proven otherwise.
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Are you actually worried that all of the world's scientists are completely unimaginative and incompetent? I don't understand why you'd escalate it this way just because this topic comes up. That certainly doesn't sound like a reliable frame of mind in which to be.
Did you see all those ridiculous IoT devices? So those things are allowed to connect P2P but people aren't?

Why are people wasting time on this stuff? The "free market"?
Updated email on profile but its also on my keybase profile https://keybase.io/linuxmodder ...under my github profile. sheldon DOT corey AT openmailbox DOT org.... Side note if anyone is interested in keybase invite I have about a dozen and a half left, email me at above shown email, I openly and happily solicit PGP mail with the keys shown on my keybase profile.
I had never realized that conservation of momentum is just a special case of conservation of energy, thank you for sharing this interesting observation! (I see now that, since the change in energy when changing the frame of reference is determined by the dot product of the momentum with the velocity of the new frame of reference, conservation of momentum follows from conservation of energy in _all_ frames of reference)
What is a white nationalist? Is it just a nationalist who happens to be white? Is nationalist on its own supposed to be a negative descriptor? If so then it follows that logically internationalists are the preferred people by default?

Also is it possible to be in favor of limited controlled immigration programs and not be called a racist? What happens if the person isn't white, like me, am I also a racist? Can I be a white nationalist who isn't white?
More will grow in its place, like what has happened throughout history.
‘Westworld’ and the Moral Dilemma of Cyborgs
Vote with Your Feet, Literally
I guess this is more of a shadow dom question, but what's the efficiency of the CSS with this pattern? It seems like styling is being inserted into every instance. Is there a browser feature to avoid internally duplicating it?
I saw that the other day. I used to think I couldn't dislike that building any more than I did...
Open Source Projects / Experiments that might be relevant to the discussion:

https://hackaday.io/project/5596-em-drive
https://hackaday.io/project/10166-flying-an-emdrive
Open Whisper Systems: caveat re safety numbers if you've published a fingerprint
I know a lot of NRA members (and many, many more gun owners) but I don't know any who joined "just so that they can join gun clubs".

Maybe the "access to gun clubs" thing just isn't a factor here, though, since we don't have to go to a "gun club" or shooting range if we want to shoot. I can just step out my back door, for example, and shoot in my back yard if I want to. I have neighbors on either side of me whom I can hear shooting at least once a week or so.

The nearest "open to the general public" shooting range that I know of is about an hour's drive away. Being a member of any organization is not a requirement for entrance. There are a couple of other ranges that are closer but one must be a law enforcement officer -- or be accompanied by a law enforcement officer -- to gain access.

(Disclosure: Lifetime member of the NRA)
Looks like the HN title was edited. The original HN title was: "Is There Anything Good About Men?"
Er, are you familiar with the Bohmian mechanics [1] that was mentioned above? It has, basically, 'non-local hidden variables', and that works fine.

[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory)
I am not just talking about node failures but about the human failure too. The human cannot manage and remember accounts for a hundred services.
Well, I want to understand why people would actively engage in and promote something so awful and also, on the surface, so illogical and wasteful.
This explanation makes sense at least to me. You cant improve things without first understanding them.
Well that's why you publish research, isn't it? They accounted for everything they could think of, now they're giving everyone else a chance to spot mistakes.
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There is a "startup" XMos co-created by chief architect from Inmos (who introduced transputers). XMos microcontrollers share a lot with transputers design and are really fun to play with.

Cores are RISC, there is at least 8 of them, but you can link multiple uC into a single system. Their variation on C, xC, is using channels and guards as in occam transputer language.

You can get easily a cheap dev-kit [1] and play with the tech.

[1]: https://www.xmos.com/support/boards?product=17441
Most high-reliability software is still written in C or other languages in the algol family. For the highest level of assurances, often the binary code must be mapped back to the source code (to reduce the chances of a compiler bug introducing errors), and doing so in languages that are higher-level than C becomes problematic.

If someone were to formally verify the correctness of a particular higher-level language implementation, then it would start to become usable. Most GCed languages are out though due to the fact that hard-realtime GC algorithms require an excess of CPU and RAM to run correctly, and vehicles going into space are often several generations of hardware behind, as new radiation-hardened CPUs come out only rarely.
Wow, I have an unused sandwich press, I'm going to storm Google tomorrow, thanks for the idea!
I'm not suggesting he do anything for me personally (?) And yes, there are thousands of people demanding proof that he is alive, that's the whole point of this post.

The fact that he and wikileaks aren't providing this despite saying they want to is the topic of discussion.

And as far as what possible proof.. GPG signed statement would be preferable. This can easily be accomplished without internet. Even a video statement would be somewhat acceptable. Wikileaks held a poll asking for how people wanted proof, and video was the top response. None was supplied.
Probably a teen from a basement in rural Russia.
A nice attempt, but the comparison seems way off for anything beyond the lowest setting on the CPU slider. Choosing "1x" compares an EC2 c4.large instance type to others with a single vCPU (like a $6 DreamHost instance).
I'm confused, why are we designing streets for human drivers? :)
I think if we were to cross that border (which is certainly necessarily going to happen even conditional on it being possible), we would be able to easily tell.
Hopefully it's something that can actually be used to make decisions and not some pandering fluff designed to appease the norms of their own thoughtless and cynical in-group.

On the other hand, maybe it's actually ok to not pretend to have all the answers.
Ask HN: Play music remotely for my Dad
Hi all,

I wanted to get some ideas from you all on the best way to do this. My dad is suffering from Parkinson's disease and lives in a different country (I live in San Francisco currently). He absolutely loves music. However, his caregivers are unaware of his music taste and in fact also don't have a good music collection or access to Spotify etc to play music that my Dad will enjoy. I have seen music soothes him while he sleeps and I wish I could play a good playlist for him from here. Can you think of a good solution?

Thanks in advance!
I thought Daemon and Freedom were better, (but you have to read them both! It's more one book than two.) but Kill Decision does have some interesting points to it.
"A crowded society is a polite society."
Classically, there's no particular reason that a possible configuration of the things has to be reachable from the current configuration of things, even in an infinite universe.

(Extremely improbable quantum tunneling would allow it though.)
Really annoying to see false expertise pop up again and again.

> conservation of momentum, which is just a subset of conservation of energy

This is false. Momentum and energy are two different things, even with mass-energy equivalence. In particular, momentum is a vector while energy is a scalar, and their mass-energy equivalent units (impulse vs energy) are also different.

Also: pair production doesn't necessarily require some amazing quantum device to keep the pair separate.

> There is even some research into using a vibrating "quantum mirror" that forces virtual photons to become real using only energy from quantum fluctuations but that's even more complicated and difficult to engineer.

This is true if you consider conservation of energy to be an engineering problem. Under no scientific theory can you pluck energy from the vacuum.
I paid the original Basis B1 for $199. Is the original Basis B1 covered in the recall?

The notice says "... Service Shutdown Information We are shutting down service ... offering refunds for all Peak and B1 devices and accessories. ..."

So sounds like Intel is recalling ALL Basis device, not just Peak. However, B1 is not mentioned anywhere else on the page besides Peak.
There's little good reason to think it is or isn't (there is not plenty of evidence to think it isn't). There is plenty of good reason not to claim you know one way or the other.
Not trying to be pedantic, but might you have been referring to a:

J. R. "Bob" Dobbs?

If so, pardon my intrusion, and abundant slack to you.
Maybe Equinimity could be a better option?

heard it hundreds of times during my vipassana retreat.
I would think that once we determine the cause of the thrust, assuming it is real, the design of the 'drive' might be improved to increase efficiency. We currently don't even know what characteristics of the device are causing the generation of thrust.

The first internal combustion engines were quite inefficient as well.
AFAIK we still don't really have an explanation for high-temperature superconductivity. The state-of-the-art is several competing ones.
Trump played the media like a theremin.
> I really can't think of any good b2b/productivity software that google wrote

The only thing I can think of is the google apps for business (Gmail/Docs).
I'm a computer scientist in France and I think it's weird not to know these symbols, don't you learn how to use them in other countries? I mean, I learnt how to read this kind of formula in high school and used them intensively during my scholarship
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Why is that inevitable?
Please include a link, I was just thinking about doing this over thanksgiving weekend.