skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my tests Chrome uses far more power than Safari and significantly more than Firefox.
A good portion of traffic in downtown areas is people driving around trying to find parking.
Why would anyone own a house when they can rent an apartment? Why don't we share bathrooms with the neighbors? Why have a small garden that needs maintenance when there is a huge park nearby? Why did I just buy a printer when I need it so rarely and there is a copy shop downstairs? Why do people have washers when laundromats exist?

I think ownership means more to most people than just convenience or being the cheapest option.
Abstracting over mutability in Rust
>> But as I said, there's no bright line you can point to and say one Eohippus is one species and its immediate progeny are another.

by this logic you can claim that "there's no bright line between the colors" because there are shades between them.
there are discreet species in the Eohippus -> Modern Horse lineage however just like there's color white and color black. there are also "subspecies" out there like polar bears being essentially grizzly bears who adapted to living in the arctic but again this doesn't negate the existence of distinct species in their lineage.

>> If you concede that natural selection leads to small changes, you have therefore conceded that it leads to speciation.

and by this logic taking a CS101 class equals to graduating with a masters degree.

sympatric speciation (or rather lack of proof in this area) has been a thorn in darwinists' collective sides since the day "the origin of species" came out and is a huge hole in the whole "emergence of new species via natural selection" narrative. so huge as a matter of fact that after couple of hundreds of years of trying to figure out how it works they decided it wasn't all that important :)
What? No they're not. I use them every day on Fedora.
> There wouldn't be any wasted energy due to the inefficiency of photosynthesis...

Honestly, tomatoes are really efficient as is. They grow huge amounts of fruit per acre; they grow in preposterous conditions, like people's windowsills, greenhouses, fields across the world, etc. I don't mean to pick on your particular choice of example, but you really got to get into the weeds to really understand the efficiencies of agriculture.

Indeed, there's consensus that the greatest threat to agricultural efficiency are all the weaknesses of a highly-engineered monoculture. Imagine the devastation of the Florida orange harvest a few years ago due to frost, but due to a single weed.

> a cell is basically a huge finite state machine

There is a huge amount of research to create an "algebra" of synthetic biology, which is really fascinating stuff. You'd love it! You're right that a lot of what you're describing is inevitable, but there's a huge grind to get there, solving engineering problems totally orthogonal to the theoretical biology of it all.
I thought that was the whole idea?
Hey: since you're still commenting, can I ask again for a pointer to the $300 background check I can buy as an employer that will tell me if someone is legally allowed to purchase a gun? I'm serious about replicating this.
The spec says filenames are encoded in CP437. UTF-8 filenames are supported as overlays in two different 'extra headers', which essentially amount to vendor-specified extensions.

There are noncompliant implementations that generate zip files with filenames in ISO 8859-1 and other 8-bit codepages, and conversely, there are decompressors that try to accommodate such malformed files.
Taxis suck and busses suck. Self driving cars have the potential to give you the benefits of the taxis and busses without as many downsides. Not sure what more you'd need to understand why folks are excited about this.

Not having to own, insure, maintain, or park a car. End to end transportation with no transfers that allows you to internet while you travel. Cheaper than human driven cabs (presumably).
I'm actually surprised yauzl can get away with rejecting .zip files due to appended data. I recall that back in the BBS days downloaded files frequently had trailing bytes on them (perhaps padding to block size, or something?).
Tesla recovers a lot more of the individual vehicle cost as future R&D than Mercedes. That's probably a good thing as they are a start-up and Mercedes is a company delivering a few orders of magnitude more cars. Don't think it's a valid comparison though to say that Tesla is putting the money into tech and mercedes isn't.

Rather, Mercedes has access to better credit terms and availability than Tesla because they produce 100x more cars per year. And because of that, they don't need to recoup future R&D money from current cars. Ergo when you buy an expensive mercedes, more money goes into the car you bought than future cars.
Nvidia GeForce GTX HTC Vive Bundle
"To be fair" if I can observe at most a 10-15% difference on my primary CPU+IO bottleneck with power consumption on then I do not care much about the specifics of the underlying hardware.

Ironically, the only thing my MBP is better at is gaming.
DAR. GPL, indexed, file permissions, ACLs, alternate file streams, per-file compression, slices, hard and symbolic links, sparse files, encryption, parity records for recovery. Everything you could want. Not sure why it hasn't had much use. Maybe because it is usually thought of as a backup tool (at which it is excellent). But it is also an excellent archival tool.

From the man page: "Dar can also use a sequential reading mode, in which dar acts like tar, just reading byte by byte the whole archive to know its contents and eventually extracting file at each step. In other words, the archive contents is located at both locations, all along the archive used for tar-like behavior suitable for sequential access media (tapes) and at the end for faster access, suitable for random access media (disks). ... Note also that the sequential reading mode let you extract data from a partially written archive (those that failed to complete due to a lack of disk space for example)."

http://dar.linux.free.fr
In reality you get very little for $10. If you need more than 8 instances it makes more sense to rent dedicated server and get something like Rancher
Nobody is forcing you to upgrade! They must make changes to make progress.
Why can't this algorithm work reliably:

1. Begin linear search backwards from end of file
2. If magic constant found, push onto stack of possible locations
3. Once 32k has been reached stop searching
4. For each location on the stack, validate the rest of the header and that the remaining comment length matches the recorded length.
5. The first location to validate as a correct header is chosen

This should account for the appearance of the magic header in comments or data preceding the end of directory entry.

Have I missed something?
Most of the cost of a taxi service is in wages to the human driver. With an autonomous car, you don't have the driver, so the service can be cheaper (especially with electric cars). I lived for about a year without a car, using Uber instead. But when I tallied my Uber usage, it ended up being about $600 per month. So I got a car instead and saved a lot of money. If this could be reduced to $200 - $300 per month, it would have been a different matter entirely.
Deliver, deliver, and deliver some more.

And by that I mean be involved in projects from start to finish.

If you find yourself at a company for more than 2 years, and you've only worked on 1 boring project, it's time to look for new opportunities. Now, there could be multiple small projects as part of one big one, that's different, as long as it provides you value and helps you progress in your career.

The only way to progress as a software engineer and get a solid understanding of the SDLC[0] is to keep cranking out projects from start to finish.

There are far too many people that get stuck maintaining a project right out of college, and never experience the full SDLC.

The more projects you deliver from scratch, the better you'll be at estimating tasks, understanding risk, business priorities, etc...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_development_life_cycle
"Writing the code is the easy part. I found marketing to be the hardest" - This part is the hardest, absolute hardest :-/
I have a Macbook pro purchased this year. I didn't notice substantially better battery life with the older ones.
Self-driving taxis are in principle way cheaper to operate than human-driven taxis. They never have to stop, they can operate at all hours, there's no cost to pay drivers, and if they do stop they can do it somewhere very cheap.

And when self-driving cars are a viable option, insurance will strongly encourage it. And by strongly encourage it I probably mean "absurdly high fees for driving your own car", because people are much worse drivers. Which should drive up the price of car ownership significantly. The increased cost to car storage in populated areas will probably lag a long while behind, so the second cliff will be much slower to hit.
Is there a way to submit stations to this? My city doesn't have any stations listed, but I do know a couple have online streams that could be added to this. Thanks for the great work studiopuckey!
What exactly isn't pretty about vim (specifically gVim) on Windows?
When I say it was done intentionally, I mean opening an authentication-less was intentional.

It could be disguised as an access for their own service and the real purpose be mass surveillance, or it could be a simple mistake in a big codebase, but the "door" is definitely not a bug.

Even though nowadays we keep hearing about nefarious backdoors, they used to simply refer to hidden service entrances for software creators, a completely legitimate use.
You didn't get overweight by having a good knowledge of your limits, so give up the idea of "maximum results" because you get maximum results by first knowing what you're capable of.

You also didn't put that weight on overnight, and you're not taking it off overnight. So give up on the idea of the quick fix. Either it won't be quick, it won't be a fix, or you'll give up on it soon enough anyway. For example, CrossFit might be a quick fix because it's so intense. But you didn't put on weight because of your taste for intense physical exercise, so you won't stick with CrossFit.

My solution? Go for a walk. If you have a dog and don't walk him for an hour daily, start. Just because the dog doesn't complain about his lack of exercise doesn't mean he wouldn't really enjoy it if you started. Regardless, go for an hour walk. Can't do an hour? Do 30 minutes. Do whatever you can, and most of all: don't overdo it. If fifteen minutes is too easy, you can always crank it up the next day. But if you make yourself so sore that you can barely move for three days, you won't be walking at all tomorrow. And it's very easy to overdo. Shoot for under-doing until you figure out your sweet spot.

Put the phone down, take the headphones out. Look around your neighborhood while you walk, get an idea of where you live. Listen to the birds, watch the flowers bloom in a few months. If you walk with your head down staring at your phone, that's because you've decided that your daily walk is something to be endured, with the entertainment of toots and pictures of lunch to ease the pain. And with that attitude you've already lost. There's lots to see out there, take the time to look.

If you get up to 60 minutes of walking without it being much of a challenge, then start looking at running programs (or whatever exercise suits you) now that you have idea of your stamina, as well as having a good base from which to pursue other forms of exercise.
I timed it and it took about 25 seconds to go from the Chase login prompt to the "Add authorized user" page where you can get another credit card added to an existing account. So, I admit its not quite as fast as you would like. There is a caveat if you pay an annual fee: you pay the fee for each card. My accounts have no annual fee.

I also checked US Bank and American Express and you are correct, the process is not smooth at all. US Bank wants me to print, sign, and mail it! American Express wants to verify identity of the additional user using an SSN. That makes no sense of course, because they might not even have an SSN and the main account holder is still contractually obliged to pay the account balance.
My theory is that Notes email was there for the sake of being the all-things-to-all-people discovery mechanism for the documents (apps) people author. Like search engines are for the web.

Receiving documents-nee-apps in your email does make sense for one-off apps (Google Forms-like stuff: one could author a poll on where to get lunch, and then send it to their coworkers, who could then respond without ever having installed said polling app before.)

But I think they mis-considered the "hierarchy" of users: for every 1 person who can write such a poll in Notes from scratch, there's 100 who'd be willing to use a pre-programmed poll template document, but who would never even consider authoring such a thing themselves.

Instead of Notes having an email client "home page", they could have had an "app store": a directory of all the templates published to your Domino server, which you might configure and then send out. Like the opening screen of a word processor or spreadsheet program.

And, with the discovery mechanism out of the way, Notes wouldn't need to "absorb email" at all. They could have gotten away with just sending the resulting .nsf files over SMTP, reading them back over POP3/IMAP, and then distributing a Notes Outlook plugin that would render MIME-multipart messages that contain an application/x-com.lotus.nsf part using Notes.
A lot of people do choose to rent. Most people get food from stores, not gardens. Roads themselves are shared resources. Why did you buy a printer?
And on this note, I use the Vimium browser extension (vim-like keybindings for a lot of things) and scrolling all the way to the bottom doesn't cause more results to appear.

I do expect some breakage when using a niche extension like this, but it seems like it would be fixed for my use case if something like plainOldText's idea were implemented.

edit: Or if the scroll button thing were an a tag, I suppose I could "click" it like any other link from the keyboard. It does load more (somewhat reluctantly) if I scroll down with the arrow keys.
Your prediction is only good as your assumptions: that Tesla can achieve human-like levels of intelligence in under 10 years.

That is extremely aggressive. Getting data is the easy part of self-driving.
> Reinvent - well it certainly seems like a reinvention of the wireless headphone. What else would it be?

I would argue it's a reimplementation of Kanoa's reinvention of the wireless headphone, similar to Bragi, Earin, Nextear, Freewavz, and samsung Iconx.

I would even trace this earbud revolution back to the Moto Hint (2014)
Cigarette smoking has trended down. There was an article the other day claiming that evidence showed cig smokers tended to eventually drink and go into other drugs.... So, if cigs were a gateway, then it could make sense alcohol and other drugs use has gone down.
Exactly. Windows is a much much larger market in terms of number of devices and Mac is larger in terms of pros that pay for software.

And there is huge value in supporting both. If somebody wants to buy an organization-wide license, they almost certainly have lots of both and if you're being evaluated against a competitor that only supports one platform it is quite the leg up.
Not to mention it doesn't fix the glaring defect that has persisted since the first iPhone: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-i...

And then there's this idiotic calendar defect: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2016/03/apples-idiotic-time-z...

And they've done stupid things like REMOVING the analog-display option from the clock app. WTF? Now you have no display of seconds to set your watch with (except the puny, puny icon on the home screen).

Jony Ive is an incompetent hack who is degrading Apple's product line into oblivion: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2016/08/why-consumers-and-sha...
It's more cars on the road per car trip, but fewer car trips per person per day for the reasons already explained upthread.
Interesting. I wonder if a dep changed. They don't work in Ubuntu 14.04.
Not the OP, but I assume they mean fit and finish, quality of interiors etc are superior in the Mercedes than in the Tesla.
On the other hand, I signed up instantly because I need these things to go to the gym.

Right now I have some cheap headphones I bought at Ross and even if they're wireless, the little rubber headband is uncomfortable when I'm bench pressing.

These things are going to be magic!!!
This kind of thing has also happens to smart, tech-savy, people within the tech community. It's sad to me that we are glossing over this issue because it did not happen in the physical world.

Imagine if we caught Russian agents physically breaking into the DNC office, in a Watergate-esque sort of way. I doubt we'd just continue our election business as usual.

I feel like as members of the tech community, it's sort of our job to connect the dots for people. We always lament every time we hear about security breaches on popular websites and want to do something about it. But this is happening at the highest level in our country and I feel like everyone is just kinda silent about it because they don't want to be appear partisan.
All I can think of when I hear the word Waymo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lMu8V5Xa90
More geoengineering!

On the other hand, anthropogenic climate change is already going to screw all those things up, so it's not like avoiding geoengineering is necessarily the right choice either. Just need to understand the potential risks and benefits as well as possible before considering it.
Remember back in the old days of November 2016 when people said neural networks could never be creative....
I like volume control, and play/pause/skip. I like and use them a lot. On these it seems you have to ask Siri to change the volume, which is awful, and ask Siri or take 'em out to pause.

Please someone tell em if this is not the case. I really want it to not be true.
nvi is not Vi; it's a fork of Elvis: another Vi clone, like Vim.

Vim is older than Elvis, by years.

The FOSS BSD derivatives never got the actual Vi editor of Bill Joy ancestry.
I think this claim is making the assumption that self driving cars will be much more accessible and available than taxis/Ubers today. Where I live (in the suburbs) I can't rely on an Uber being available at any time I would want to go somewhere, and taxis only exist at the airport. If I could count on a car showing up at any time, anywhere I might go after a short but predictable wait time, I would definitely ditch my car. But the current options available to me don't allow for that. I don't want to own a car - I feel like I have to.

Also, cost is another big factor. I would also assume that taking a self driving car would be a smaller expense than owning for the average user.
Personally, I would include support quality in this analysis, because you can always find cheaper VPS hosts.

One thing I also notice with DigitalOcean (may apply to the others) is that they proxy apt-get requests and cache them in their datacenter, so the network feels much faster than some cheaper hosts.
link to the article mentioned: https://hbr.org/1996/07/increasing-returns-and-the-new-world...
I'm not the person who mentioned QS but I'm still using it too. For me it's mostly inertia: Alfred can probably do everything I use QS for, but QS still works just fine, so why bother? When something breaks the 10% or so of QS's capabilities that I actually use beyond fixing, then I'll switch.

("Probably": last I tried using Alfred a few years ago, I think there was something I relied on QS to do that Alfred couldn't. I can't remember what it was, maybe Alfred does it now - but again, why bother? QS still does everything I want it to do.)

Also QS's interface looks cooler than Alfred's to me. Aesthetics matter.
You can get a lanyard case if that's the feature you want.
The problem with this interpretation is Snowden.

If Snowden didn't happen I would most likely believe that this was just bad engineering or something.

Post Snowden your interpretation sounds like extremely naive.
A cell is absolutely not a finite state machine, and anyone who tells you this either has no clue about biology or has no idea what a finite state machine is. A cell's "state" is governed by a highly parallel set of probabilistic interactions, not logic gates. No two cells given the same inputs can be guaranteed to enter the same state. Populations of cells always exist in a distribution of states.
"Level 3: Within known, limited environments (such as freeways), the driver can safely turn their attention away from driving tasks"

Volvo have announced shipping that in 2017. I don't think anyone else has. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q00jIBhkq4)
"They must make changes to make progress."

What does that have to do with his statement? He never said that he wanted them to stop making progress. He wants them to stop making changes THAT AREN'T PROGRESS.

And yes, sometimes you DO have to update for current versions of software to work.
His message of populism is empty
A lot of this is pretty typical data warehouse stuff, but I really like the concept of allowing "anyone" to creat ETL jobs rather than relying on a more strict segregation of duties.

I've had the most success allowing free access to warehouses data with some guidance given around how to use it. The data team doesn't need to be the gatekeeper of all access to data - a better way is to consider them expert advisors on how to use it.

Getting bottlenecked with simple requests because you refuse to give technical end users full read access is silly.
The self-driving car is just a component of bigger system, as new generation of servers on cloud centers. Riding service is cloud computing. I bet on Uber or Didi in China.
Just from an outsider's perspective: The entire Oculus acquisition has been one fumble after another, I dare call it a debacle. They traded their community trust online to participate and get the resources of a bigger company (probably due to competitive pressure). The bigger company was facebook, which doesn't evoke a large amount of community trust, so there was considerable splintering in the community rallying behind what was seen as the future champ of VR.

This was the same early adopter community that wanted to spend the money, buy the rigs, develop for the platform, and further VR in general.

Now when I see old school innovators join up, it just feels like they've sold out by association.

I don't know what's going to save its image? Maybe a killer app?
Redfin is 4.5 for example

https://www.redfin.com/sell-a-home/how-you-save
If it goes wrong, just hit u to undo.
It feels there's a mountain of hype around autonomous vehicles. I think the core challenges to a fully autonomous vehicle (with no human backup), are still far from solved. They need to reliably deal with an almost infinite number of edge and corner cases, each quite different from the last. For example:

- communication with other human drivers. In London, this is required all the time, like when parked cars block the road, allowing just one car through. Or traffic light out of action, so you negotiate with other cars using hand gestures, light flashes etc

- endless roadworks, that change what lane you're allowed to go on, turn a two way road to one way road.

- random debris on road. Plastic bag - safe to drive through, wooden plank - safe, plank with nail - not safe.

- loss of GPS, mobile data, or both (again, surprisingly frequent)

- making way for emergency vehicles (sometimes need to drive into lane you're not normally allowed to go, I.e. Bus lane, pavement)

- policeman coordinating traffic

So far, I haven't found any evidence of autonomous cars dealing with the above. If anyone has, please post.