skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have Mukesh Ambani on board. He has a special interest in not letting renewable resources flourish as he is the chairman of Reliance Petroleum. A little good PR doesn't hurt though, so why not.
The parent page sets the iframe size; the iframe has to make itself fit. See [1] for a way to do this. If it's too small, the ad should refuse to load and the site doesn't get paid.

Amusingly, Google has a canned answer for "iframe size": 200 pixels.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/819416/adjust-width-heigh...
Tools to Help Implement DevOps in Your Organization
If you are asking about the algorithm, it is because the URL is not the same. The old post has some stuff at the end, while this one does not. I guess if we want the duplicate to go away, we need to flag it.
I've created a subreddit here [0] for discussion. Ask some questions and I'll give you the information I have that's relevant.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/WebScaleFreeNAS/
Yes, this is true. We have set up a ping to all our clients external ip. If they go down, we know immediately. Client never fails to be impressed.
I suspect that's the case. Can you disable the plugin to see if the second goes away? Do they both work as expected? I've only ever seen one [-] at the end of the comment header.
I used to work for R&DE as an FTE. Stanford campus is crazy expensive for mere mortals: parking permits are pricey, convenience foods (Tresidder) are movie theater prices. Treehouse and various bottom-of-med school bldgs have decent food fare that are slightly better / more reasonably-priced.

https://rde.stanford.edu/dining/caf%C3%A9%E2%80%99s-and-mark...

http://treehousestanford.com/

https://transportation.stanford.edu/parking/purchase-a-parki...
Why people opt for using travel apps than travel websites?
There's no cab equivalent to Uber Pool/Lyft Line.
It took a while for me to get the hang of the strategy to win (selectively aggressive) but massively addicting. Then after a few days it seems like ruthless assault of the Bots. Perfection incorporated. Much less fun.

To the author - keep up the valiant effort!
Ask HN: How to ask the right questions?
Hey all,

Maybe this is a strange question but I am going to ask it anyway.

As a software engineer working with different type of stakeholders all the time, it is imperative to ask the right questions that get the right information out.

In an attempt to understand this whole process and communicate better, I have created an exercise for myself. Here it how it goes.

Imagine you come across a machine that knows everything and can answer ANY question in the world completely truthfully and elaborately. But you can ask ONLY 3 short questions. What questions do you ask to get as much information out of this machine?

Questions like "What are the answers to all the questions in the universe?" are invalid.

I have been trying to formulate my 3 questions to get as much information out of the machine but it seems surprising hard given that each question I ask can be interpreted in several ways. For instance "How did we get here?" in an attempt to find out the history of the universe but it can be interpreted by the machine in many different ways and I don't have any means to say "Oh but I meant ....."

It would be great if you guys can contribute with your 3 questions, why ask those specific questions and what do you hope to get out of them etc.

Thanks all!
Because I usually drive 2 passengers at the same time.

I start by picking someone up. Then Uber app finds someone half way to the first person's destination. After I drop off the first person it finds someone else to pick up on the way, etc. So I end up with an average of 2 people in my car. Sometimes I pick up a group of two people while I already have a passenger. That's four people in the same car, I'm not sure if it goes up to five.

I've never seen taxis do this.
I've used FPGAs for image processing. While OpenCL does accelerate this, at the end of the day it's still largely General Purpose Computation on a GPU. I'd love to be able to install a suite of Special Purpose cores for image manipulation, for example. Especially one that works with imagemagick, so that all the various libs compiled against it would just work.
Interesting, and quite different from other such lists that I've seen:

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-learn-machine-learning-1
The titles are not identical, and it's not always easy to see duplicates. I don't think it's something to get down on the community about.
Is this like shellinabox or ajaxterm - terminal emulators? If not, could you let us know the differences.
I'm not convinced that statement applies to this particular fund's goals. The first greentech "boom" you mentioned in another reply, to me was very much like the dot-com boom. Everybody wanted in on the gold rush, and very few of them actually knew their (engineering) stuff. Even those that did, many got taken out with the fall. Classic hype cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle My point is, given that most of the tech is now economically competitive (or about to be), these guys are betting that we're entering the "slope of enlightenment." And given some of the names on that board, I'm inclined to believe they know what they're doing.
Is there one that works with Mac? I have an old one in a box that I haven't succeeded in getting running and I don't anything other than a MBP to run on (and I really don't want to do boot camp...)
Alternatively, people who would have used to take the bus now take uber. People who would have used to stay at home now drive uber.
appreciated
Does Apple recover taxes they pay from developers?
I signed up to sell my apps on the App app stores, and the agreement says:

> Apple shall collect and remit to the competent tax authorities the taxes described in Section 3.2 of this Schedule 2 for sales of the Licensed Applications to End-Users located in the following countries, as updated from time to time via the iTunes Connect site:

> Albania Australia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada China* Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta, Republic of Netherlands New Zealand++ Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia South Africa Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States

Does Apple recover this tax from me? In other words, will I end up paying more than 30% to Apple when a user from one of these countries buys my app?
Then prototype first. Rent a server or two somewhere for 3-6 months and run a shadow first. Once you're confident that you understand all the "other 80%" stuff that is involved running your own infrastructure and don't lose data, then think about doing it yourself.

A service providers' biggest responsibilities to its customers are security, durability, availability and performance -- in that order. You guys are vastly underestimating the complexity involved in getting first 3 right.
> Similar to how most HN readers have very little expertise outside of software engineering, and have said some pretty ridiculous things on other fields.

Wow, that could hardly be more wrong. HN has repeatedly demonstrated expertise in a very wide range of subjects. Sure there is a bias towards software but that's hardly the limit. Even if HN was only read by SW exports assuming that they don't know about anything else is ridiculous. Not that HN is nonsense free. Your comment for example.
The SFC functions sort of like a union, but they don't have very much funding though:

https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/
Can't recommend that ultra-wide setup enough, though I'm using Dell U3415W.

You basically get the space of two monitors without bezels. Allows for several side-by-side windows of code, as well as preview of results (if working on UI or API) and still room for slack/hangouts/whatever else.

The Dells are definitely more expensive, but come hardware calibrated for color (report included) if you need any graphics or CSS work. Unfortunately, the prices really went up - snagged mine a year ago for around $600. $729 before taxes now on newegg.
You have to do this, otherwise the passenger will never find you. Passengers DO NOT walk to you when you pick them up. Even if you're waiting around the corner like 30 steps away.
>"I've seen this directly, too. I've been on the local news quite a few times, and EVERY TIME what they end up broadcasting, and what I was explaining to them are different things."

Completely agreed from personal experience. Not new but always worth re-iterating.

The news can't even get the basic facts right without twisting through addition or omission.

How are we supposed to rely on them when factual sources are suspect/false in the age of fake/lie-news?

Find experts. Do your own research.
San Francisco really needs to get rid of a bunch of curbside car storage to make room for loading zones.
Having known Max, I stand by my comment.
The issue is too many people. The issue is almost always too many people. Stop making babies.
Do you keep an extra monitor in your cupboard, just in case one blows up?
Magic Leap’s revolutionary AR tech not upto the mark-CEO Rony Abovitz claps back
These are a few things that have gotten me praise over the years:

1) Keep emails short. I set a 200 word max on all emails. If you can't say what you need to say in 200 words, schedule a meeting to discuss. If you have to send long documents, send a 2-3 sentence summary. Tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them... in 200 words. (=

2) Keep detailed time records and make them available to the client on-demand. They paid for it, might as well show them what they are getting. Be honest... if your team wasted 4 hours trying to make sense of a BS email from the client... make sure they understand that.

3) Being on time and inclusive; inviting them to daily standup meetings with the team, and posting notes from those standup meetings in case they (or anyone else) can't be there. Easy with a Google Sheet to just type a few notes each day during standup. I don't have any tools for the team that the client can't access, or hasn't been given a rundown on how we utilize it.
The merge window for 4.9 closed long before this recent spate of publicity. The AMDGPU patch would have been on track for more like 4.11.
SF needs to worry about its own transit issues. MUNI stops at rush hour are poorly serviced. I can't get on most of the trains that pass through Civic Center, so I usually end up going inbound to Montgomery or Embarcadero so I can actually board.
Thanks for checking it out @gaastonsr — yeah, you make a great point. we've figured out some ways to account for that in the software itself.
It's a pity that charity is the best way (currently) to find solutions to these issues. Market mechanisms could create an incentive if only we put an appropriate price on carbon. Then industries would be falling over themselves to develop clean energy.
That's great SF - get some functioning, not-shitty, well funded public transport and people won't feel the need to use Uber..

... what's that? Not a chance in hell? Well then.

(But seriously - BART is chronically underfunded, Muni trains are unreliably scheduled, Muni busses are the most dangerous and shady public busses I've used in the western world... and very little of it actually serves anywhere other than the busses which have to fight the same traffic...)
As usual, the title is misleading.

The main idea is that a company called Kernel is putting forth $100m to start researching intrusive BCI technology (as opposed to nonintrusive BCI technology such as EEG/fNIRS/etc.).

This seems awfully strange considering scientists don't really know much about thoughts and disorders -- let alone how we would use direct neurotransmitter application to combat or enhance these things.

$100m sounds like quite a lot for something so speculative. Seems like what we'll end up with this endeavor is something like a new bipolar/schizophrenia pill, not nano-bots and networked brain-to-brain communication (which is what they want you to believe). Maybe that stuff is still 50 years away.

I sure hope I'm wrong. If anyone knows more about this company, please share links.
What is the amount of money you are expecting to spend on staff vs the performance return you get?

Running your own boxes can be done, but usually at great cost and usually by blowing up your sla. Given the inexperience you have at this some other options might be politically cheaper.
Is it our responsibility to check for duplicates before upvoting a story?
Public transport is a joke, the city is unable to adequately engineer traffic well or plan for it, and when something comes in to meet actual demand -- that's the problem?

Travel around other cities and it's apparently which city cares about advancing its transport: Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo, Kyoto, Barcelona, Nyc, even Boston, DC and Beijing are better. If subways aren't possible, use light rail or BRT. But don't blend them with equal priority on the traffic lights -- it defeats the point.

I hate MUNI so much!!!
The post was "A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13130218
See http://thatsugarfilm.com

Was pretty good
They offer now knowing they won't get government cooperation at least in the U.S. had Hillary won they would have been looking to the tax payer. I am all for them doing this the timing seems suspicious.
Do I understand correctly that you would like to take back your earlier claim:
>Whether you agree or not, if you ask any suspect if they're guilty, the answer is "No!"
Ah nice, @Eiriksmal — 'once upon a time…' and 'pre-impact', sounds like this was a while ago now :) Encouraging to hear that this has been helpful for you.
> Experts warn that sugar may have an outsize role in causing obesity and diabetes

I thought that was pretty well-known? Is there something new later in the article? (I don't have access)
Definitely try it sooner rather than later, it's good stuff. I feel like re-frame is what you would get if you put the time into selecting the best libraries to integrate with React, and then removed as much boilerplate as possible.
I'm derping around right now, so why the hell not?

1. What are you trying to do?

2. Why do you need me?

3. Why do I need you?
SFMTA should remove parking and replace it with passenger loading zones. That way, they wouldn't be blocking traffic, including public transportation. It's well known that free and subsidized parking encourages driving. Currently, passenger loading zones must be requested and paid for by businesses that want it, to the tune of thousands of dollars a year. [1] They don't, so rideshare and taxi drivers just block traffic lanes. There is no mechanism for passenger loading zones to be requested by citizens or designated by the city for public benefit.

[1] https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/parking/curb-colors
Well if we're sharing annecdata: literally everyone I know who works in audio would give up their Mac only on death.

That covers several DJs, Producers, VO Artists, Audio Editors, and quite a few Sound Designers...
Elegant & simple?
The way I generally look through HN, first look through front page, then the newest page, opening new tabs as I go, I'll sometimes see and mark dupes. I think the general consensus is if you see 'em, mark 'em, but I wouldn't get overly worried about it.
that is definitely not true as a general rule for vc backed companies. this might be applicable to companies that have no business model/non-revenue-generating. but even then, any decent founder can do the basic arithmetic needed to figure out burn and runway
I'm curious, how did you handle dwg files? I understand they can be quite complex.
I was recently in SF and I was surprised to find that Uber Pool cost was very similar to Bart cost going to and from SFO. Uber is certainly preferable to having everyone drive their own car. Talk about congestion. Why doesn't SF do what Paris just did: Make public transit free. If they did that I would definitely use Bart more.
At this rate they'll go from costing several lifetimes' salary to a single lifetime's salary ... by roughly the end of my own lifetime.
Well, full disclosure, we DO watch the odd NetFlix shows etc., but I think the biggest difference is (a) no ads at all (b) no news blasted at us and (c) we can choose exactly what we watch, and when we watch it. We can happily go weeks without turning the thing on, and we do the occasional weekend binge of a TV series.

The difference is that it is totally under our control, and we can select the content (and reject it) at will. The pure lifestyle changes around this (i.e. we as a family would far rather be caught up on other creative endeavours rather than watching TV) have been significant.
> There's a moral obligation to spend 2 minutes trying to punch the monkey or whatever ridiculous thing they're doing now? Give me a break.

Good thing that that isn't what I said.

> People will pay straight away for quality content.

No, no they won't. The fact that you had to say 'pre-internet' proves that the convenience factor is significant. People paid for movies because that was the only way to get movies. To claim that paid-for movies were therefore 'quality' is arse-backwards.

> Right. And my network blocks advertisements. Deal with it.

That's fine. You're not the one claiming it's moral what you do (that was another user that I was responding to). I'm also of the opinion that your model is the "I get free stuff, fuck everyone else" model.

I'm midway on this myself, by the way. I use NoScript and no ad-blocker. Plain ads get through, but obnoxious ads don't (like the ones that cover text while you're reading). What I don't pretend, however, is that I'm choosing some sort of moral path in doing this.

> private data

My comment on private data was just an illustration that just because you can access something online, doesn't mean it's moral to do whatever you want with it. Another example of such is revenge porn.
Codingdave is talking about having no information about what's happening in the world (other than what friends tell him), which would imply cutting off all news sources, not just TV.
> But, how do you even know what really happens? Mainstream news is ridiculous in its intent because it literally is "if it thinks it stinks, if it bleeds it leads". There is nothing good to get from mainstream news. Nothing. Sliced and diced to the most emotional snippets you could conceive of.

Our education system was supposed to deliver critical thinkers. Either the system failed you (and possibly a generation), or you have forgotten its lessons.
But it isn't the role of the representatives to come to terms with science, it's their role to come to terms with the will of "The People" (the tangled mess of what that means). I think it could be argued that the will of "The People" isn't to enact strong action to fight climate change. It's more to retain jobs in old energy industries and procrastinate until something absolutely dramatic and visceral impacts their day-to-day.

I'd suppose the Achille's heel of "The People" is their short-sight. You need big minds with big wallets to see and act on the long game.
I was just having a conversation with my wife yesterday. I was positing that global warming could probably be fixed by technology if Gates, Zuckerberg and others clubbed together and made it happen.

It's so strange to see that exact news on the front page of HN the day after.
You say this as if their cause is disproportionately in their interests and not in the public interest. Taxpayers should be looking to themselves if they believe in the cause.
Scorn? He's doing the CPython maintainer's job for them. He should be universally praised.
The taxis did not circle the streets. That was part of the problem. Unless you were walking out of the lobby of a downtown hotel, there was basically no chance of catching a cab in SF. The wait time for calling for a ride has been lowered from "never" to "3 minutes".

Uber/Lyft definitely have increased the growth of riders. I use both regularly and way more than I ever used cabs because it's cheaper, easier, and more reliable to use them.

There's been shift from public transit to rideshare - when an Uberpool is $3.50 and the bus is $2.25, a lot people are going to switch to Uberpool.

All that said, it seems like there are basically two sources of congestion in SF these days, and neither of them are rideshares:
- the Bay Bridge, which backs up all the way up 1st, on to Bush and Battery, also down Bryant, also a couple of blocks of Harrison, and the central connector/Octavia/Oak street, every damn day. There are just a lot of people trying to get to the East Bay every day between 4 and 7. Also, BART is full. There is no cheap, quick solution to this. A second BART tube would help.

- everything for a couple of blocks around Union Square and Moscone is a mess. Everyone with an ounce of sense takes Muni here already, it's very heavily served by public transit. Once again, this is a centrally located area with a ton of hotels and a major convention center. If they got rid of all the rideshares tomorrow, more people would just drive to get here instead of taking Muni to get here, and traffic would be the same.

While the double-parking is annoying, it's not actually what's increasing congestion in SF. The biggest traffic problem in SF is that they didn't start building a second Transbay Tube 15 years ago.
They double parking everywhere needs to be dealt with by Uber / Lyft immediately. It's everywhere, all the time, and it's going to end up getting their services regulated more heavily than they should be.
I've not cycled in SF for commute reasons since the pre uber days.

That said, other cyclists -- bike messengers -- were the largest danger to other cyclist, second was other cyclists, third was Muni.

From a damage perspective, Muni would be number one in the injury case.

Drivers, cyclists, and Muni, to this day, are selfish assholes.

Blaming it purely on Uber, no. SF transit policies have lead to this.

Drive mission, you used to go straight most of the route... now only muni, taxis and assholes ignoring the law.

The problems aren't just due to muni/Lyft
Ask HN: How to get first clients for Data Science consultancy
Hi,
A few of my friends (and myself included) have experience in different areas of Data Science - Machine Learning, Data Analysis, NLP, Visualization, Hadoop, etc. So we are thinking of opening a company and do freelancing/consulting work in the area of AI/ML/Data Science.

Any suggestions where we should look for work and how should we go about getting our first clients? I understand that there are freelancing sites but not sure if they have good work or if they are a good place to start.
"Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00985E3UG/) by Michael Moss is highly recommended if you want to learn about the prevalence of sugar in processed food.
Author here. Thanks for the feedback and I agree, a lighter ref impl would be ideal (it's just that I happen to use DC/OS on a daily basis so for me this was the most natural thing to do)

I'm all open for GitHub issues that capture this request and/or PR ;)
Cab doesn't pick up more passengers during a ride (a la Uber Pool/Lyft line).

Also, dropping off a passenger in a uber/lyft is much less disruptive to traffic flow than a traditional cab which has to process a payment.
I don't think BART could handle the extra load.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-can-t-keep-pace-w...
Sadly glTF is JSON, and not typed array buffers (as far as I can tell). I was going to mention it, but it seems like in terms of performance almost anything can be as good or better than glTF.
Makes sense. Out of all of the permutations of functions, I see no reason why using the same function at every node would lead to an optimized network.

I really commend the ML people out there that have developed an intuition for network architecture and which functions to use... If there's a Feynman for machine-learning, I wanna listen to some of his lectures.