skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much wider of a net are we casting when we consider what counts as a "death due to mental illness or substance abuse" compared to 25 years ago?

I don't doubt it may have gone up, but I do doubt that these numbers tell us as much as some might think.
Thank you so much for this! Going to look at everything now.
Forget cowboy coding, this is cowboy data analysis. At best, it's misleading; at worst, it's dangerous.

This is embarrassing from a YC co.
I'm not sure how artificial barriers to keeping the same hardware makes sense, and selling hardware that also requires licensing is a lot harder than selling e.g. Ubiquiti stuff.
While we let any foreigner buy property in the USA with a phone call.

Excuse me, they have some new regulation that purports to vet illegal foreign money?

Out of everything our country overlooks, letting foreigners buy up our real-estate really bothers me.
Yeah, that's definitely the right question. Part of our argument is that people are overly cynical concerning the fact that finding the answer to such questions is an active, iterative process, rather than a stroke of individual genius.

Technically, HelpWith is in over 100 cities, but we're focussing primarily on the Pacific Northwest. This is largely because cities like Portland are already more amenable to the type of ethos that makes the success of such a sharing economy platform possible.

We're building a successful, community-based model, then we plan on scaling.
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I don't get it - how else would it be pronounced? To me it looks like the comparative of a hypothetical adjective "peeky" (compare "peakier"), or perhaps a form of a verb "to peeky" (compare "carrier"). Either way, the pronunciation seems to line up with theirs...
I've got an XPS13 with an i7-6500U. That CPU is surprisingly powerful. I tend to throw quite a bit of multi-core C++ compilation or heavy Java workloads against it and so far it hasn't noticeably faltered once. Don't underestimate them just because of the low TDP!
I'm not sure if you were building a case towards something, but I definitely don't get where you're going. Variables being private or not-private is not particularly meaningful to encapsulation while exports are relying on underscore-conventions to protect your internal state. Modules being open-source or not is not particularly relevant to either question, nor is semver when your transitive dependencies don't upgrade and so you're pulling in hard-to-audit transitive dependencies that may have red flags (and if your answer is "it's open-source, do it yourself", you have a very interesting view of what a developer should be spending time on).
I think you overestimate how willing someone is to sit in a small car with 3 other strangers during their morning and evening commutes. I don't see a huge impact on ownership at least in the first decade or two of autonomous cars. Lots of people still have relatively specific needs, e.g. requiring car seats of various sizes for their young children, needing to pick-up or drop-off kids at school, sports practice, etc.

Mass transit works well in dense areas because the vehicles are large and only need to go short distances or go long distance over a specific route. When everyone has their own custom route, person A's route may make person B's route unacceptably longer. Also, sitting on a bus/train with 50 strangers is less of an odd social situation than sitting in a car with one stranger.

Once autonomous cars get to the point where they don't require any driver attention at all, I think it will make ownership even more appealing since you could customize the entire to match whatever you want to do while you're hauled around.
> Typed objects can make it harder to pipe commands together. How do you grep a tree when tree is an actual data structure and grep expects a list of items as input? You would need to have converters. Either specific converter between tree and list, or a generic one: tree->text->list.

To be fair, untyped objects also require converters, but at every boundary. That is, instead of having some pipes of the form `program -> mutually agreeable data structure -> program` and some pipes of the form `program -> unacceptable data structure -> parser -> program` (as happens with a typed language), you are guaranteed by a text-based interface always to have pipes of the form `program -> deparser -> text -> parser -> program`.
To be clear - the ODNI sources weren't disputing that the hacks were Russia-linked; only that can't verify that they were part of determined effort to tip the election in favor of Trump:

"ODNI is not arguing that the agency (CIA) is wrong, only that they can't prove intent," said one of the three U.S. officials. "Of course they can't, absent agents in on the decision-making in Moscow."
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My PhD is in biophysics; I've worked with genomes for about 25 years. Are you saying this paper is wrong?
http://biologydirect.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s130...

because Eugene Koonin is a highly respected geneticist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Koonin) who is generally scrupulous.

I hardly consider his conclusions "interesting curiosities", rather they appear to be fundamental biological processes.

Also, most things people call interesting curiosities end up being important. For example, when I was a postdoc my advisor helped discover the importance of nonsense-mediated decay. In 1 year the field went from "lunatic fringe" to "OMG this is a major process".
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Resilient to what, reading?

It's a "history book" about web design, in case you're thinking it's anything to do with resilience and thus find it interesting.
leveraging these can also offer you the motivation to establish habits (infrastructure) that will exist when emotion fades. This is where I would reference any number of popular habit books.
Reading through this really makes me appreciate how things like this are implemented in Postgres. From the outside you can deal with the text representation of a uuid as 36-chars (dash separated) but internally it automatically stores it as 16-bytes. No special translation functions required.

Having to use a UUID_TO_BIN(...) or BIN_TO_UUID(...) function for every usage, like it's implemented here, has a serious "ugh" factor. I guess the root of it is that it's not a native type. They're putting it in a regular BINARY(16) and only adding built in (but explicit) conversion functions in between that the text representation.
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This is why the Fermat's Library website is awesome: the notes on the margin explain this to you.
Amazon is 1000% easier to use than to compare prices from different places. I also view it as more secure than entering my information on 10 different websites. I don't know that many people share your perception.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13168255 and marked it off-topic.
Appropriately enough, if you have Project Fi service you can request up to 9 data-only SIMs[1] that are only charged for however much they are used.

1: https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6330195?hl=en
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Well, in the former case, that is the fault of the driver (or another driver). In the latter case, it would be the fault of the manufacturer. It's not even remotely the same thing. Remember those out-of-control Priuses, where the manufacturers were at fault. Toyota got plenty of backlash for it.
That's misleading though — GitHub can render pre-run Jupyter notebooks but does not allow you to actually run them. IMO that's only half the battle.
> I guess people don't like changes to the things they've grown accustomed to.

Trust me I used to be one of those people who would say the same thing you're saying. I was like "What's the big deal? These people just don't like change. They'll get used to it."

Except that you don't anymore.

The reason I hate these changes is because things just don't work smoothly and disrupt your workflow, not to mention the UI being messy design-wise (I have NEVER complained about Apple's design changes ever since the first iPhone).

And this is all because of the new features they introduced they're trying to shove down user's throats. Most of these features are built to satisfy Apple's agenda instead of making it easier for users to use. Just read what others have already said, these are features built for Apple, not for users.
RabbitMQ is written in erlang. So basically you use it natively instead of bringing and configurating a big dependency. It just come with your language for free without needing another process, etc etc.
> In the future, maybe people will register their CAR (which can drive itself).

Until an optimized business supporting lots of cars supporting fewer people undercuts the individual owner on price per ride, sure. Uber with individual driver/owners makes some sense, because you need the individual driver no matter what the ownership structure is. But with autonomous cars, fleet ownership is going to win over individual.
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Please try to forgive the interviewer filming style. There are some real gems in this video.

Furber shows his first computer design, he made bottom up, by bottom I mean he even sourced aluminium parts to make the case.

The breadboard like backplane modules he bought are super nice too.

Enjoy.
Exactly, the transfer rate between the access points is also higher than the possible transfer rate for 2.4 and 5 ghz clients. They are expensive, though.
I think the next step here would be screen-control from the Screenhero acquisition?

Off-topic: The guy's beard looks like a Snapchat filter haha.
Since we're past the point where emissions cuts alone can keep long term warming below 2 C, I do expect active geoengineering efforts later this century. Solar radiation management with aerosols is not a long term fix but could keep positive feedback effects damped while slower long term fixes (like emissions reduction plus accelerated silicate weathering) roll out.

The attractive thing about sulfate aerosols is that they could be formed from sulfur dioxide, which is cheap to form via sulfur combustion and disperses excellently because it's a gas. Delayed oxidation reactions cause SO2 to form nuclei for aerosols. Even though calcium carbonate is also inexpensive, I don't think there is a comparably cheap/easy way to deliver a fluid precursor for it to the upper atmosphere. The closest I can think of is aerosolizing a calcium hydroxide solution that would carbonate in situ via reaction with atmospheric CO2... but calcium hydroxide is only slightly soluble in water. You'd need to lift a lot of extra water mass.
This is unequivocally a backdoor, by definition. They backdoored their own API for the benefit of their own plugin being allowed to run unauthenticated.

What we can't say is whether this is a backdoor created for nefarious purposes. All we can say is that the backdoor exists and, if we accept that authentication on this API is valuable, then it's an egregious violation of security principles by effectively having some hardcoded credentials which bypass a security layer.

You can wave it away as local-only and claim that if you have code running on the box, it's already pwned, but this is rationalization: this backdoor bypasses a layer of security that is otherwise present. Can an otherwise unprivileged process (e.g. one from another user) call this API? The details are not specified.

I tend to think this looks more like incompetence perpetrated a long time ago and forgotten, but that doesn't make it any less of a back door.
I'd be more inclined to agree with you, if my last MacBook has compatible performance. I got easily double the playtime out of my MacBook Pro Retina.
The author's intent is only one aspect of literary criticism; it's not the 'correct' answer. If enough people subscribe to some other explanation, then that will become the 'meaning' of a literary device for all practical purposes, regardless of what the original author had aimed to communicate. For that matter, I've frequently gone back to my own creative output and found myself reinterpreting stuff I wrote from a completely different point of view to the one I consciously had when I was writing it.

Your conscious reasoning is often a mere rationalization of some underlying subconscious drive whose object or direction may be obscure until later in life, if at all. When you hear people talk of 'literary novels' they're often speaking of work which addresses such questions. In such stories the stakes often seem low, and the disinterested reader easily gets bored because nothing much is happening besides the characters reacting dramatically to ordinary or even dull events, compared to genre fiction where the stakes are frequently life and death, and the characters are forced into rapid and highly consequential decision-making.
For open source chat applications like RocketChat and Mattermost it is a struggle to get push notifications for self hosted installations. It is cool to see that with Matrix you can use any compatible app and get them from your self hosted installation.
The site doesn't seem to mention it but the article is from the Monthly [1], which has a focus on exposition. Still, assuming some analysis seems fair.

[1] http://www.jstor.org/stable/2308411
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I agree that a certain amount of repositioning trips is likely, but I also expect that they will be calculated for when they are fastest and cheapest. Even in an all-electric-car-all-the-time scenario, fuel isn't free and sitting with the engine off is easier on the car than idling on a highway.
I wasn't being sarcastic, I was questioning the labeling of the use of charts and numbers as data journalism (This post is a good example of my current issues with modern data journalism as content marketing) in the comment I replied to.

If it had said something like tools of data journalism I wouldn't have been inclined to reply. A small difference, but enough for me.
I think mostly it is the fit and finish. I've been in a 2016 BMW 750i and a 2013 Model S, for about a total of maybe 30 minutes in the BMW and 10 in the Tesla.

The interior of the 7 series seemed special to me. All of the buttons felt great, seats looked beautiful and were super comfortable to sit in. The control panel had many small OLED displays and they looked great. And small details like when I went to adjust the seat, by placing my fingers on the buttons, information about my seat configuration popped up on the center console, so I could see what I was changing. Also the rear passenger seats and rear windshield had power sunscreens.

Here is a picture of the iterior of the BMW:
http://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2015/11/2016-BMW-75...

Here is a video of the 7 series interior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHDMAibH1G4

In comparison, the Tesla's interior felt mostly large and empty.

Here is a picutre of the interior of a 2016 Model X:
http://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2016/03/2016-Tesla-...

Don't get me wrong, Tesla makes some super amazing cars. But the high price tag isn't for the interior.

(Disclaimer: I own a lowly 3 series so I may be slightly biased to BMW)
> The axes are not labeled, but if you like we can set you up with a demo account and walk through your data with you.

Really? Rather than going back and labeling you axes you are converting this into a sales call???
I attended the session on "How to create your own revenue source though conferences: tips and tricks for closing the deal" and the technique of getting information about the buyer before they have a chance to walk away when presented with the cost was one of the main bullets.
There are tens of millions of US customers who live in areas that never receive snow and rarely receive rain. It's clear there are a few different technical solutions, and probably the engineers working on these problems will think of a few more in the next decade, if it's a major challenge SDCs will just be targeted at minimal weather markets to start out.
This article and company can be safely ignored.
The article was correctly flagged because pure partisan politics is off-topic on HN. The site guidelines have made this clear for years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Everyone means something different by "free speech", but articles such as the above aren't allowed because they would drown out everything else on HN and soon destroy it. Then there would be no speech.
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I bought mine from the Microsoft store. I've heard Razer's support is not the best and returning products to them is not the most pleasant experience.

I've found that the Arch Linux Wiki is a pretty good resource for all of the Razer Blade laptops.
Serious question from a concerned American..

How much are you learning and more importantly, are you retaining this information?
What subjects / topics are you studying?

The reason that I ask, is that I work in IT. If you spent this amount of time devoted to learning a programming language, web design, etc... you would be in an excellent position to work remotely for a company like mine. If you spend 6-9 learning everything under the sun, I think it is kind of a waste.
> Tesla already does fully autonomous driving, they released that video in November.

That video, for reference, is: https://www.tesla.com/videos/full-self-driving-hardware-all-...

I'm not super convinced by that video. That drive had almost no challenges/obstacles. No bicycles, no construction, basically no pedestrians, no other vehicles behaving erratically.

Google has cars that can respond to everything from a cyclist making hand signals, to a school bus (which must not be passed), to a police car pulling it over, to a woman chasing a duck across the road: https://youtu.be/tiwVMrTLUWg?t=8m49s

I'm also not sure this is a simple case of "throw data and hardware at the problem." If it were that easy, it wouldn't have taken Google so long to get to where they are today.
And the fallout for the economy will be interesting. What does it do to home prices when a long commute is less of an issue? What happens to all the cottage industries built around the assumption of someone owning and driving their car? Etc.
I'm betting you were a hall monitor in school.
And feed the energy back into the motor. Or even directly power the wheels. It could work if you make the car more lightweight and use a pedal system on gears instead of treadmill. Let's call it a... "Bicycle". :)
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Not much better. You have to count to find out that 40 number.

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There are a lot of small things that are making me hate iOS 10.

1) Unlock process: When the fingerprint reader fails it now takes several presses on the home key to get a keypad to pop up so I can input my code. With previous versions I could just swipe when I knew the fingerprint reader would fail (e.g. wet hands).

2) App updates: When apps are updating on my phone it decides it really wants to stay on the home screen. I can swipe to get to the other screens, but it goes back before I can tap any apps. Also, when I can get into an app they tend to lag and crash more when updates are happening in the background.

3) Control Center (bottom menu): Trying to slide the brightness or volume controls on the control center menus usually gets interpreted as a swipe to the next control menu. I have to be very precise when touching them for the sliders to actually work.

4) Safari: Auto-hide of the control buttons does help page visibility, but showing them seems to be glitchy as hell. They appear and then disappear before I can move my finger to tap them.

5) Crashes: At least daily now the whole phone crashes to a black screen and then comes back to the lock screen a few seconds later. Seems to involve location services.

Also, not exactly iOS 10, but the new Watch OS completely broke the usability of the Weather app for me. Something that was fairly intuitive and useful is now cumbersome and basically useless to me.
You need a host that serves Jupyter notebooks to actually run them vs render a pre-run notebook, which is what GitHub, Gist, etc do.

A few hosts that currently support that are PythonAnywhere and as of this month, Azure [1].

[1]: https://notebooks.azure.com
> a Bluetooth world that frankly, hasn't existed in several years... "poor audio quality that skips and cuts out"

That's every day for me! What earbuds, stereo or mono, are you using that never have this problem?
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How much alone are the parking lots worth in San Francisco? Imagine a city without those..
I tried to turn getting press into a method that reads like a programming tutorial, and it turned out like this: https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-to-get-press-for-your-s... it's had pretty universally good reviews, including from TechCrunch writers, etc.
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What do potential geoengineering efforts mean for homeowners and businesses with installed solar power generation?
Very true. Most places in the US are fairly welcoming if you can speak English and communicate. It's even common for xenophobes to cut out an exception for immigrants and minorities they know personally and feel friendly toward.
> cruel

def: willfully causing pain or suffering to others, feeling no concern about it.

Shaming is undesirable, but I wouldn't say publicly knowing how you rank compared to others would constitute "cruel". Its really how the world works - in sports you see exact stats of how your do, publicly traded companies/CEOs are meticulously analysed publicly on how they perform etc. etc.

There does need to be a balance btwn hypercompetiton, and "everyone gets a trophy" mentality. I feel like the US has swung far to one side and china the other. Best would be some where in the middle. Maybe have a live list of the top 10-15% of student scores.

I am a parent, and don't want to hurt my daughter, but at the same time a little pain and suffering makes you stronger.
As haywire said, if you live where it snows, you drive regardless of whether or not you can see the road. I got a job to do, computers don't fix themselves, and my job is necessary even if the weather sucks outside.

While I think it's plausible to teach a self-driving car to drive in snow (like I do, generally following in the tracks of the cars ahead of me), I honestly think this is one of the best justifications that cars should continue to have steering wheels and pedals: Because automated snow driving is going to take a lot longer to become a solved problem than fair weather driving.