skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember 8 years ago when Obama was taking office and gun sales shot through the roof because everyone thought Obama was going to 'take their guns'?

Perhaps the fear here, as was then, is not entirely justified. Just because something is possible does not make it probable. But if it gets people off their ass and organizing to defend their positions, all the better.
Good? NASA plays a very important role in climate science by providing and researching satellites and instrumentation for monitoring earth's climate.
Yeah, it strikes me as really odd to write an entire article where the main focus is semicolon 'verbosity'.
why not just move your mac users to wired which is what we did brought Ethernet adaptors for all the macs which spend most of there time on a desk and don't "need" wifi
That is one of the reasons companies train people speaking to the press. Having a message and being articulate is often not enough.
There's supposedly 45,000 Uber and Lyft drivers registered in San Fransisco. If Waymo or any other Robotaxi network were operating on that scale in the Bay area, I think that having accurate and frequently updated maps would to be an asset.
I thought it was last week, and I think it was canceled early as well.
Yeah, I'd second this advice. Hiring a professional trainer also does wonders for forcing you into the habit of going to the gym because they're not cheap. Personally, I did kinda balk at how much they charged, but if you think about it as an investment into future you then it doesn't really sound so bad. Plus you only really need enough sessions to get a feel of the kind of routine you'll want to be doing, which to me was about 10 sessions.

I also pretty much just follow the PHUL workout[0] these days because I'm way too lazy to switch up my routine. Been at it for a good year now and I've definitely noticed an improvement.

Oh yeah, also, the thing I noticed about consistently going to the gym is that after two to three weeks, _not_ going to the gym becomes the more undesirable option. Like you just feel terrible if you ever miss a gym day.

[0]https://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/phul-workout
If I recall the story correctly, Alexis Ohanian of reddit's mother passed during the founding period. Perhaps you should try to reach out and see how they dealt with it.
40-Plus Years of Man Page History
I've wasted many, many years thinking OOP is the right way to do things and just realized in 99% it's the wrong approach to develop software. In the end you always end up in a big mess of classes, dependencies. And every now and then new there are new best-practices, design patterns or solutions to fix the problems only to make it even more complex.

Please watch this video. I don't agree 100% but with most of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM
* Get it to work first. Make it pretty later.

* Don't waste time & energy learning trendy tech. Hold your excitement and ask yourself: "what can I do with it that I can't do with my existing arsenal and is it worth the ROI?"

* Learn to identify companies that are nothing more than feature factories

* Ownership is better than a paycheque. It means control over your decisions and work quality.

* When working at corp/consulting, focus on the things you can control and the people you can influence. The rest is out of your hands and not worth the emotional investment.

* Learn to let go. Tech gets out of date. Software you spent years working on gets replaced. Stuff stops working because of dependencies down the line. Nothing lasts forever.

* Focus on getting better and investing in yourself.
Welp, the site no longer works. Let's hope they didn't shut down the project already, Google Wave style.
Don't spend so much time coasting in jobs you're not really interested in, because you think it's the best you can do, and it pays well. The years go by fast. Be dogged about building skills in areas of real interest, getting into that sector, and meeting people who are focused on similar things.
They keep shrinking the battery to make the machine thinner. Nobody but their internal design team appears to care that the box is getting any thinner than it is already.

But the days of 10 hour batter time are over. Regular use on Macbooks is now around five hours and will continue to fall in future versions.
Voca – The ultimate JavaScript string library
Are the big braces in the second equation just supposed to be parentheses?
The 'final messages' from people in eastern Aleppo
#2: backups don't happen by themselves. Any subtantial collection of data needs resources for storage and at least a modicum of attention in order to be preserved.
no, it's not easy or pleasant or anything to put value on someone else's life. but it's a reality.

and to your question: i don't think it's your job to spend anything on my life. and i would certainly choose to die if the cost was bankrupting my family, for example.
I was referring to Obama Sr, who was born in Kenya.
For god's sake, don't pick up that Php job.....
i did talk with someone from sfmta a couple days ago. they some really marginal ideas planned. basically they want the city to extend the taxi/bus only lanes further and further out from market. they also plan on taking out the center median on van ness to make a new dedicated bus lane.

as another poster commented some incremental investment in underground during the last 40 years would have made a big difference. after the disaster of extending the T into chinatown, not sure we can even meaningfully discuss that as a option
Scientists frantically copying climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump
they're not mutually exclusive. vim's modal features are handy even if you use gvim - e.g. you could select a range of text with the mouse and use y to yank it because you were in editing rather than insert mode
Would you recommend against buying a SaaS that is ~$2-3k/MRR?
As an employee of the NRAO, I can tell you almost everything collected is publicly available. We do respect a proprietary period of one year, during which only the principal investigator's team can access the data, but after that those observations become public.

Our internal storage cluster holds around half a petabyte. If anybody wanted to, they could certainly mirror it, but since we're talking about radio astronomy data here it's not likely to be interesting to anybody but a radio astronomer. You can of course take a CASA tutorial and learn how to reduce that data yourself!

To the best of my knowledge, this is general policy for the NSF and other NSF-funded institutions have the same charge. Archive development is a big topic for all scientific institutions. It's actually a fairly significant part of my job.
Always be working on the "soft skills" (people skills, communication skills, writing, etc.) The "hard skills" may come easy for you, but they will only take you so far in life.
their tagline is "we're building a safer driver" not "we're building a safer car". doesn't seem to contradict the techcrunch report.
> Unless you're wearing a heavy tin foil hat and think the coding mistake for Heartbleed was intentional. I guess I can't dissuade you from that train of thought.

Are you addressing me personally? What does that have to do with what I said?

> A backdoor is considered to be deliberate and obfuscated from easy discovery, with the intent to be secret access.

Isn't that the case here?
The impression I get from the limited information on waymo is that their prototype is still just that.

A test bed for a platform that real car manufacturers can implement in their vehicle line-ups. I believe that's why you don't see controls in the prototype. It's unnecessary engineering R&D for what they are really focused on.

The R&D is prohibitively expensive and outside of the capabilities for many car makers.

I see Google and Apple selling to the Mazda's & Nissan's of the world. They focus on what they do well, Google works on the SDC backend.

And they get to learn more about us, where we go, who we meet, what we say.
It would be really awesome if the SAT Competitions required open source licenses instead of academically-restricted licenses. It would be amazing if we could use {Lin,Plin,Treen}geling solvers or the like for open source software like this.
Background location tracking has been at a point where we can get pretty accurate without draining your battery for about a year now.
Except the NSA is an arm of a democratically elected government. Tell me when the public Uber elections start.
ACM Turing Award Lectures: The First Twenty Years 1966-1985 https://www.amazon.com/ACM-Turing-Award-Lectures-1966-1985/d...

For subsequent years, see http://amturing.acm.org/lectures.cfm

ACM A.M. Turing Award Lectures video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn0nrSd4xjjYCkOxtYqoz...
Tesla already seems to have that, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3DbrYx-SN4

The issue is Google is doing it with (prohibitively) expensive hardware, so we don't know yet if Google's self-driving system works with cheaper Autopilot 2.0-level hardware that the other car makers are going to use as well.
I'm interested to see where all the major players end up in 5yrs:

• Tesla bootstrapping a ride service on the backs of buyers

• Waymo directly rolling their own fleet

• Uber trying to get a self-driving fleet up, burning mountains of money to maintain their "monopoly" on Uber for rides

• Lyft working with GM to get a fleet up

• All of the other car manufacturers trying to get autonomous vehicles going, presumably hoping for consumers to still want to own a vehicle rather than just pay $1 to get a ride

So: How much is Uber's market share worth? I suspect it'll evaporate overnight in every market where another service has autonomous vehicles and they don't.

Also: Private car ownership is going to fall off a cliff shortly after autonomous ride services arrive. Which probably means general demand for vehicles will fall off a cliff.

I predict blood on the walls.
That's a prediction, not a comparison.
The problem is that many people learning web development nowadays don't realise there is anything other than impressively complex client-side MVC frameworks. They are taught that traditional HTML pages are a dinosaur and doing progressive enhancement with some simple jQuery or vanilla JS is something for amateurs and old-timers.

I'm really pleased I was forced to learn the web in layers. I learnt basic HTML, then CSS came along. I realised I needed some dynamic behaviour so looked into CGI/Perl and later PHP. The DHTML became all the rage and I picked up a bit of javascript. PHP began to show it's weaknesses and luckily Django and Rails popped up. Ajax became a thing somewhere in all that and returning JSON instead of HTML snippets was sometimes useful.

If you start now and dive into learning Angular/React/Ember/Whatever - you are so insulated from the lower layers it must get a bit baffling trying to understand how all the parts fit together and why some things are done the way they are.

tl;dr - Get off my lawn.
Ok, internationalization changed something, I didn't have anything related to video even in another language. Thanks.
The left side does not need to be zero, and it does not follow from the assumptions.

The proof only uses the fact that the left side is an integer, since all terms are integers (a!/n! ∈ Z for a > n)
Why is it that everything either has to be a blatant backdoor or an innocent mistake or tinfoil hat territory? I find it hard to believe that nobody ever wrote a backdoor and took the time to conceal it as an innocent, plausible mistake.
Linden Labs left things a bit too free-form. What happens when you let people do what they want in a virtual reality? They go up the Maslow Need Hierarchy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs

Food, safety, shelter, etc aren't an issue, so they zoom up the needs hierarchy and stop at sex. There needs to be an overarching theme to focus people. Online worlds need to have needs. Otherwise, they can't get too far beyond being a glorified Garry's Mod server. It's like a musical jam session with no structure at all. That kind of thing only works if people already know each other. In public, it's always too chaotic.
Thanks, I always thought it was a slick project. It was maybe just above my skill-set when I first encountered it, as I was still getting familiar with angular. If it's going to continue to be around for awhile, I want to give it another shot.
Women aren't allowed to drive in, e.g. Saudi Arabia, because they aren't allowed to be out of their home without a blood relative or husband. That could lead to mingling with the opposite sex or something like that. “What would happen if a woman got in a car accident? Then she would be forced to deal with the male driver of the other car, a stranger, with no oversight." [0]

So I don't think self driving cars will solve that problem at all, sadly.

[0]: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/-ne...

Quora answers from people that appear to be saudi: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-women-not-allowed-to-drive-in-...
* Learn to be a better writer from start

* People are more important than code

* Don't fall in love with specific technology

* Do not rush, force yourself to slow down
He seems to be in a Crusade against Google.
Yes, but they aren't sold anymore.

And "autopilot" has been on the market for over a decade, it's OEM off-the-shelf equipment.
PR 101 for engineers
Maybe I misunderstood the current situation? Of course other services exploiting it isn't intentional, but giving a free pass to one of their own services was definitely intentional?
Unless you have oil you're on your own.
Burning Up the World (2012)
All for making publicly funded research more accessible. Also, if impediments on continuing climate research are put in place, at least some nonprofit privately funded grants could continue what they can.
>You mean more paranoid interpretation.

honestly it amazes me that people still call such interpretations paranoid in a world where information about the rampancy of such programs is readily available, including for this specific application

Edit: it's not paranoia if there's demonstrable history of such things. It's making a reasonable assumption from available facts.

further, all the arguments against this interpretation assume that those introducing security vulnerabilities for surveillance purposes abide by some kind of logic - which by the very nature of such activities they demonstrate that they do not. They (3 letter agencies) want every possible vector of information gathering regardless of the privacy, security, and legal issues that arise.
I think given the way people reason about such things you should probably advertise it as 20% of Americans die from tobacco use and then argue that this should be considered together with other drug related causes.

I'm not arguing that tobacco is anything other than a drug, I'm saying that emphasizing it in things like your first paragraph here will reduce the number of people that come to the wrong conclusion.
> Put another way, no blind person is going to sit behind the wheel of a Tesla and tell the car to take him/her to the supermarket.

That's exactly what Tesla is marketing and working on with their new self-driving features, and you can buy cars that will allegedly be capable of this today.

"All you will need to do is get in and tell your car where to go. If you don’t say anything, the car will look at your calendar and take you there as the assumed destination or just home if nothing is on the calendar. Your Tesla will figure out the optimal route, navigate urban streets (even without lane markings), manage complex intersections with traffic lights, stop signs and roundabouts, and handle densely packed freeways with cars moving at high speed. When you arrive at your destination, simply step out at the entrance and your car will enter park seek mode, automatically search for a spot and park itself. A tap on your phone summons it back to you."

From https://www.tesla.com/models/design
How debilitating is your pain?

If your doctor refused to renew your prescription tomorrow, what would you use to deal with your pain in its place?

If you lost your job/insurance and thus were unable to afford anything other than over the counter medications, how would you cope with not having this pain medication available to you?

Does fentanyl have a procedure for when you want to stop taking the medication? (like how you should lower your dose over time before stopping with SSRIs and the like)

i appreciate you giving a first hand account from someone who uses this medication!
On days like today, when there are several inches of snow on the ground and more to come, I always wonder how autonomous vehicles will handle such situations. What happens when snow (or mud, etc) accumulates on the camera or sensors? I don't doubt that a computer can react quicker and with more precision in an "event", but what about when it simply can't "see"? I don't see a steering wheel in these videos, so I guess there is no manual failsafe?
Is there any obvious reason for the higher death rate in the "bible belt"?

One thing I could imagine is rural exodus, leaving a higher percentage of old people.
The Opendoor model doesn't seem much different than how relocation companies work apart from more directly marketing to homeowners rather than corporate HR departments.
How often do people really care about the comparison? If its an electronic get it from Best Buy, if its clothes Target or Walmart depending on personal preference. There is not a whole lot of overlap in those stores, and if there is they are likely price matched anyways. (Or I could be a dumb consumer and be wasting money.)

And can any of that really compete with Prime Now pricing? $8 for it to be at your house in an hour. Rather than who knows how much for the uber / instacart / whatever and they get to start delivering it in an hour. My time to and from the store, plus transportation costs cannot even compare. Maybe its better when the store is right around the corner, but not very good for my location.
Is there a particular reason to think Uber is going to be last to autonomous vehicles? I can see a good argument that they're head of the pack today, between Tesla's not-really-autonomous vehicles and Google's perpetual inability to execute.
* choose work for the people, not the money

* always be learning, but focus on architecture and design, not implementation specifics

* work hard, but make sure you don't forget to live

* always do a good job, never burn any bridges, and in 10 years things will be great
This is awesome, I only wish it was a mode integrated into Emacs, like evil-mode. I can't afford to give up the debugging, completion etc. that I get as part of emacs, but I would love to use this in my day-to-day flow.
Seek out and deliver value. Know why and how what you're building is valuable.
I may have edited after your response. Good, because mission creep. Just look what it did to the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/07/briefing/2007-4329b_0...
Hello all you nice folks on HN. Original author of the article here. A few things I'd like to add, since this is essentially what feedback I get every time this has made the rounds:

1. I don't think microservices are bad, or that they don't work. Quite the contrary. My argument is simply that there is a lot of additional complexity in using this approach to your architecture, and to consider if you're able to handle that before diving in.

2. This was adapted from a lightning talk I gave almost 2 years ago, and is almost by-design light on hard details or deep dives. It was meant to just introduce the problems by talking about fallacies (which many think are strawmen, but they're arguments that i've heard from people in my own discussions on the subject).

3. Even if you disagree with my points, I appreciate folks taking the time to read and provide feedback.

Thanks!
> 1) They should have done this long ago anyway.

With 20/20 hindsight, some other countries should probably have replicated all of U.S. data collection and research into climate change.

> 2) I don't really understand this. If Trump thinks it is a "hoax", why would he try to delete the evidence of their crime?

He doesn't actually believe it is a hoax. That would be ridiculous.

> 4) This seems like chicken little behavior. I really doubt anyone is going to "delete" any data, instead they will stop getting funding to store it, run the servers, etc. But once again, if he thinks it is a "hoax" he would want more people to access the data.

In either case the data would have to be backed up. And no, it doesn't work like that.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13168197 and marked it off-topic.
Unless I'm missing something, how is 'Impact' derived here?

Impact as a metric is fine, but you have to show what it is and how you arrived at that conclusion, and have verified that against a test set of data otherwise it's turtles all the way down.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
This is true. But compare it to other countries: even where immigration is more relaxed, the cultural acceptance of foreign culture is greater in the US than most places. The only place I might prefer to be as a foreigner would be Canada.
That is the worst possible response to the situation. It's an insult to the users. There is a battery life problem. Hiding that issue in this way assumes that the users are too dumb to realize.
You mean anti-theistic? In any case, I don't see how it's either. It's just a flippant non-answer.
This sounds great, but it doesn't seem easy to pull off. Does it sit well with them and are they willing to pay for something like this?
EDIT: wording
Before expanding the process to lock up people I'd have a good look at the current state of me tal health services - see the recent article about UHS about how they're abusing the system and their patient just to milk a bit more profit. Locked wards are fine IMO, but please don't allow this to for-profit institutions - same wrong incentives as for-profit prisons, i.e. current day slavery in the US.
> Also: Private car ownership is going to fall off a cliff shortly after autonomous ride services arrive. Which probably means general demand for vehicles will fall off a cliff.

Or, if everyone has a self-driving car of their own (or one that can be converted to self-driving), people will rent out their cars AirBnB-style when they aren't using them. I mean, why not? You've already got a garage, a driveway, etc. Might as well make a few extra bucks with your vehicle...
I'm pretty sure these came out of the Perceptive Pixel acquisition back in 2012. Microsoft bought a company built giant monitors with powerful touch capabilities. Not the most high profile of acquisitions, but it definitely set them off in this direction.
You can be sure that the Kakoune authors are familiar with vi(m).

Having said that, if you like both vi(m) and the structural regular expression support of sam/acme you might be interested in vis which combines the two:

https://github.com/martanne/vis
>Google's car actually does this, on real roads, today.

It should be obvious that Tesla is going to win this race. Tesla already does fully autonomous driving, they released that video in November. And they build real, production cars. "Real artists ship", as Steve Jobs said.

If you a manufacturing ace, would you join the company with a long list of failed projects and no actual production cars, or would you join the company that is building 500,000 of the most advanced autos right now?

If I was a hardware expert, would I join Google who shies at giving a fraction of it's cash to hard tech, or Tesla who buys german automation companies?

Or plain old software. Tesla has magnitudes more data and can update neural networks to hundreds of thousands of cars at a whim. Soon millions.