skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an article that talks about Volkswagen's self driving car project dating back to 2006: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370598,00.asp

> In 2006, Volkswagen showed off a self-driving version of its Gold car, named "53 plus 1" in honor of the original #53, Herbie. Autoblog.com posted a video of the car in action.

Should I go further back in history? Because we can.

Yes, the concept is revolutionary. But so is matter teleportation, and that's not going on sale next month either.

What do we call technologies that have been hyped for 10+ years? This is not just a knee-jerk contrarian point of view. Vaporware is actually the correct term we use for these products, not a slur.

It's not bullshit revisionism. People really have been talking about these things forever but not delivering them.

> Why do you feel the need to lie about recent history? Shouldn't you observe that if you have to make a nasty lie to support your argument, maybe your argument is wrong?

Settle down, nobody's doing any nasty lying, see the link above, this discussion has been going on longer than 10 years.
Yes! You can contribute to the Bootstrap project directly:

http://www.bootstrapworld.org/contribute/index.shtml
Golang error handling is not good
Yeah I didn't mean TUI, I meant a GUI popup.
Exactly.

Objects with an artificial invalid state are an antipattern in idiomatic c++.
> Sharepoint is complete crap, and the off Sharepoint file syncer client is absurdly flaky, but there is a huge tolerance for that kind of thing.

With SharePoint I can share documents and directories with other people in my company.

As much as I think SharePoint is "mediocre", Google Doc is just shit when it comes to sharing[1].

[1] The only sharing google doc does well is sending a link to ONE SINGLE DOCUMENT to a bunch of people by EMAIL ONLY.
Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment
Dijkstra has every write to voice his opionion however he pleases. And this isn't offending people who like BASIC. BASIC is a stupid language.

What it is about is how arrogant and absurd it is to say that learning BASIC causes brain damage. If people couldn't re-learn and develop new ideas, we wouldn't even have computers.
> Get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle.

What did he mean by this?
Paul I have taken a look at your product and I think the problem is that you are still far from a minimum viable product. Sometimes you just have to invest quite a bit of resources before you have a product that people want to pay for. Lean is good, anorexic is not.
If I were to have a watch one day, I would want a Lip watch ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIP_(company) ), and I want one of the watches that was hidden in the caves.
There is no missing piece, because the first part of your statement isn't backed by fact. There's not a big dark pool of people who can't find jobs. The second part of your first sentence is maybe true, but maybe not. In surveys of Americans most people feel positive about their economic circumstances, at every level of income. 75-80% of Americans report they feel their job is secure[1].

1: http://kff.org/report-section/kaiser-family-foundationcnn-wo...
Perhaps it is not so odd. Georgism seems to be an idea that aligns with interests among both left and right. In particular, it would seem to appeal to both laborers and professionals.

Also, anybody in an urban, flourishing area such as San Francisco, New York, London or my native Stockholm would no doubt resonate with this, I quote further from the linked Wikipedia article, emphasis mine:

> George emphasized ground-rent because basic locations were more valuable than other monopolies and everybody needed locations to survive, which he contrasted with the less significant streetcar and telegraph monopolies, which George also criticized. George likened the problem to a laborer traveling home who is waylaid by a series of highway robbers along the way, each who demand a small portion of the traveler's wages, and finally at the very end of the road waits a robber who demands all that the traveler has left. George reasoned that it made little difference to challenge the series of small robbers when the final robber remained to demand all that the common laborer had left. George predicted that over time technological advancements would increase the frequency and importance of lesser monopolies, yet he expected that ground rent would remain dominant. George even predicted that ground-rents would rise faster than wages and income to capital, a prediction that modern analysis has shown to be plausible, since the supply of land is fixed.
While I see you are being punished for the way in which you said it, I do agree with the sentiment of your comment. This site in particular looks like it was designed by an elementary school student playing with powerpoint.
I don't think many people understand what computer security means either way and to get a qualitative answer, you need to know about almost every aspect of development AT A PROJECT LEVEL. what is a potential buyer going to ask, "how's your computer security?" - "it's great, ok"
1) is also connected to 2) - you can't effectively train yourself in a new field if you spend 8 (more likely 10-12) hours / day earning money just to feed yourself and your family.
I've recently converted the console and kernel PSFU format of Sun12x22 (Sparc OpenFirmware font) to BDF and then PCF for use in xterm. It works well and looks as beautiful and pleasing from a typography perspective as it did 20 years ago, but it's hard to use because it's too large unless you're using it on a 4k display.

I guess my question is if there's a smaller or even scalable (outline format) of Sun12x22 that preserves pretty typography while allowing me to use on displays smaller than 4k.
Given values of 'top spot'. /r/uk has submission to all turned off, and a recent silly post about 'lynx england' got well in excess of 1000 votes.

And it got removed as spam...
Compare CL to Scheme. One was designed for Real Work, the other for PL research and teaching. The difference is stark.
Well that's a surp ... no, no it's not. I think the precedent got set when the government offered $3B to subsidize roll-out and they realized they could just pocket it without any real oversight.
Sure, but when the density gets too high, you require public transportation to get around. I used to live in Falls Church. 20 years ago it only took 20 minutes to drive 5 miles to Tysons Corner (still crazy). Now it takes 45, but you can take the metro.
As much as I love Uber...I don't feel bullish that they will beat out amazon and their network of vendors/merchants. Uber might go the way of replicating the last mile as a service model that amazon is exploring with their prime now networks, but I'm not sure how Uber will scale this late game since it's not a real core competency.
One of the points Piketty makes in his book is that the rich generally aren't the heroic creative geniuses of Ayn Rand's imagination.

1. There are always going to be outliers, but most people are going to be closer to the middle of a normal distribution.

2. The examples you mention were all excellent entrepreneurs, but they were also a bit lucky with timing and social position; Jobs' adoptive parents were blue-collar workers but none of these future industrialists grew up in poverty. If we could reduce the latter a bit we might have even more of the former.
I can't imagine Facebook is going to intervene in the examples you listed. Especially when they are factual, thoughtful disagreements on a particular topic.

But seriously something has to be done about the situation. You can't just allow kids in Macedonia to say what is and isn't real in this world. And the fact is that what happened during the last election. And it is simply unacceptable for it to continue.
Lets see at my house: AT&T, $60 a month for 45Mbit down, 3Mbit up with a 1TB cap. TW/Spectrum $39 a month, 100Mbit down, 10Mbit up, no cap. (and they have faster speeds I actually pay something like $60 for 200/20).

So 1/3 less, for twice as fast internet, or ~5x faster internet for the same price.

So, I don't really see why anyone with a choice would choose AT&T in my neighborhood.
Show HN: I made a job board for bot-developers
So Deliveroo for the US?
They also didn't start at the absolute bottom.

Most of them had an above average hand to start with.
Job vacancies below market rate should not be counted as openings. Pretty easy to determine market rate from data provided by payroll providers (ie ADP).
But how? If it takes 4 months to train on a new CNC machine or 8 to learn the latest web design tools, how do we make people more adaptable?

There are certainly some jobs that are currently over trained, as evidenced by nurse practitioners taking over some common general practitioner roles. But I'm not convinced that's the situation in manufacturing.
I'm not deep into Rust to try myself, but I meant something like type-level integers, perhaps to encode an buffer length, and then a sneaky trait or two that specializes on particular (common) buffer sizes to manipulate the buffer in an exploitable way.
Does this actually help? Both, producer and consumer, have to read both pointers on every operation to determine whether the buffer is full respectively empty even though each only updates one of the pointers making the buffer thread-safe. So if there is actually an advantage to not having both pointers in the same cache line, then it is not totally obvious, at least to me.
Good tip on the pizza. I'll just stick to things that deliver well, Indian, Thai and Sandwiches.
In terms of pay, the situation in the trades is probably more akin to white collar professional services than a lot of people probably would like to admit. Yes, there are superstar experts in white collar fields who can individually make hundreds or even thousands of dollars an hour. But, in the main, the path to making the best money is to own your own business and charge out the services of more junior people for a bit more than they cost you.
In 1930s, USSR was buying American and European technology like crazy, especially the heavy industry technology. USSR was able to pay gold for that; gold still was the monetary metal at the time. The gold was earned by selling wheat and other agricultural supplies. The wheat was also produced like crazy, but, being a dictatorship, Soviet authorities just took however much they could from the collective farms (private farming was mostly eliminated). This likely contributed to a famine in 1932-33 in Ukraine, then a part of the USSR [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
What they don’t teach you at STEM school
One of the problems is that our models for "physical" nonbehavioral illness don't translate well into neurobehavioral problems.

Something like ADHD is heterogeneous (the AD problems are different from the H problems), but not totally so. Also, attention and behavioral control problems are normally distributed, like the good ol' bell shaped curve. They're fuzzy.

So those who claim it is not a real disease are correct in a sense: it's not like color blindness, or having a missing limb, or Huntington's disease or something like that. They're also right that it's normal to have attention problems at various points in life for various reasons. However, those who claim it is a real illness are also correct: there are people who have very unusual levels or patterns of attention problems, and even though they're not qualitatively different, they're quantitatively different, and they have serious problems as a result, and are not just screwing around or lazy.

Behavior problems are often much more akin to something like blood pressure or weight. So, it's true that you wouldn't say "high blood pressure is a disease." However, it is a state of illness, might reflect a disease, and can lead to death and other problems. Same with excessive weight. Some pudginess is normal, but at some level it becomes medically threatening. The boundary is vague, and arguments about whether or not weight problems are biological or environmental or social or behavioral are misleading: they're all of the above.

The problem is that when people say "I see my neighbor with ADHD, and think they just need to realize that's a normal part of life," part of what happens is that they're assuming that their own experiences with attention problems are the same as theirs, or that their neighbor who might be exaggerating is the same as everyone else with an ADHD diagnosis, or that their neighbor who has mild but clinically problematic attention problems is the same as the person with severe problems.
Dropbox dropping 'Public' folder
Hi _______,

We’re always looking to improve the Dropbox sharing experience. The Public folder was the first sharing method we introduced, and since then, we’ve built even better ways for you to share securely and work together with your team.

As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Basic users will be able to use the Public folder until March 15, 2017. After that date the files in your Public folder will become private, and links to these files will be deactivated. Your files will remain safe in Dropbox.

If you’d like to keep sharing files in your Public folder, you can create new shared links. Just make sure to send the new URLs to your collaborators.

In addition to shared links, we have a number of sharing options designed to make collaboration easier and give you more control. To learn more, visit our Help Center.

The Dropbox team
As a consumer I couldn't be more then delighted by the Amazon (customer) service.

However, when I read how they threat their employees: it sounds horrible.

Let's hope they never get to the tipping point that they can threat Restaurants, like their employees.

That said: I like it that they try out new things and don't care about failing.
I won't disagree for hardcore fitness people.

But for 'normal' fitness people the Apple watch is a pretty strong value. It's much better than a basic FitBit but works better. It integrates with your phone very well and the notification handling quickly became my favorite feature.

I think the Apple watch is far more than good enough for most people's fitness needs, and I don't think Garmin's strength there will be enough to elevate them out of the niche of hard-core fitness people.
This is a bit weird.

US unemployment is at 4.6%

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

US growth is about 2%

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locati...

That's really pretty good. Most developed countries would be happy with that.
Door to Door Sales Software
2% growth is very low. Jobs =! well paying secure jobs.
People relate much more to anecdotal examples than statistics. A good journalist for these types of stories has hard data underlying their premise and usually a good in-person interview or two to put a human face on it.
I think you are right. Thanks for correcting me. I thought the Elsevier thing was part of the deal with VG Wort as most mails which are currently going around in my university seem to combine both issues.
As a Software Engineer with Amazon I have only great things to say.

EDIT: I've been at Amazon over 5 years.
At the risk of being dismissive: didn't Moody's also strongly suggest that banks and pension funds were underinvesting in junk-grade mortgage backed securities? Has anyone read the actual research note? Are there reasons to believe that Moody's is more credible here than they were in 2007?
How one Reddit makes thousands redistributing the worlds hottest peppers
Uh, the Mac client still says Lync, and it looks way different than Skype.

"Don't blame Microsoft for slack IT policies" What? Like hell I'm not blaming them. It's not my fault they offer a bunch of shitty, complicated, barely-working, overlapping, should-be-simple services that nontechnicals can barely wrap their mind around. It's not my fault my employer hired me to work on Linux code and then has a sudden Windows come-to-Jesus moment. (I'm sure theres some stupid sales rep to thank for that...) It's not my fault that Microsoft can't write decent AJAX!

If they would simply follow standards we wouldn't have this problem. But then of course Micro$oft wouldn't make as much ca$h, and we certainly cant have that now can we....
I think theres a pretty obvious difference between da Vinci-esque broad-reaching intrigue and just having a certain set of hobbies.
I pay $15/mo per user for full Office, Exchange, Microsoft Teams/Skype and very decent support.

GSuite is $10/user and offers similar products, but you have to pretty much support yourself.

The $20 extra a month I pay for my small team is negligible.

The company I work for pays even less per person than I do, with the enterprise licensing and the MS cash that gets thrown at us for integrating with them. Our first year of 365 is basically free, same with our switch from our data center to the cloud.

We are looking to save millions a month by making this move.
Came across this on reddit yesterday and I shamelessly bought a few "gifts" – Sorry friends :(
> ... I perform way better than other people in chaotic and emergent environments ...

Yes! You can see more details in my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13188789

I dose myself based on what kinds of work I expect to be doing during the day.

I've always been an 'ops guy', though at the same time, I also write a lot of code. 'devops' before that name existed.

As a traditional 'ops guy', untreated ADHD is quite a nice characteristic to have, especially when shit's going down. It allows me to direct and redirect short bursts of hyper-focus, very rapidly.

In that state, it's hard to focus very long, but it's quite easy to context switch.

That's one of the advantages to my work schedule: I generally start working around 6am, way before most people are even awake, let alone working. So normally, during my first 4 hours at work, I write a lot of code. So I take my meds so their levels are highest then.

As people start coming in, I tend to switch modes, as I let the 'ADHD' take over.

In those rare cases where I had to manage a substantial incident while my meds were at a high level, I didn't perform as well.

During the 'heat of an incident', you don't want to go down any rabbit holes. You want to keep your eyes in a lot of places at once. But when I'm on my meds, I tend to be more 'depth first', instead of 'breath first', to use tree traversal as an analogy.

Honestly, I kind of consider my ADHD, plus meds that I can carefully control the dose of, as a kind of 'superpower'. (I mean, not really a SUPER power, but I mean as a nice advantage.)
I think he meant finding the square whose area is equal to that of a given triangle.

With our "modern" understanding of algebra and geometry, we know to do

Area = 1/2 * base * height

Area = s^2

therefore

s = sqrt(1/2 * base * height)

"Squaring the circle" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle) was an ancient challenge, proven to be impossible with a straightedge and compass in the 1800s. He may have been trying to square the triangle with just those tools.
The problem with this is that its often difficult to tell whether a person is suited for a job or even would like a job until the person starts training in it. You could decide you want to go into HVAC because there's a lot of money in it. But six weeks into the training you hate it or you realize you suck at it. Who foots the bill for that failure?
The article is about Verizon threatening to pull out of the deal, or use the breach as leverage to secure a lower price. The market thinks that may happen, hence the fall in price.

Even if Verizon end up paying the full price, the fact that investors really worried that they wouldn't is enough to share future companies.
Exactly. What someone else might call spam, Facebook might call "great news."

If having free speech produces "infinite spam", then that's a byproduct worth the benefits of not being limited on what ideas are ok to say and what ideas are not.
They shouldn't have allowed you to post that content.

It is illegally obtained and they are liable for its publication. Facebook is not a news organisation and as such they aren't covered by the same legal precedents.
> If someone is just sitting on a lot of cash then they're not hurting anyone, but if they're outspending everyone else then they are (in a sense) hurting them.

I disagree strongly. That 200 million would be far, far better invested in some pie-in-the-sky social start-up than just sitting there. Spending should definitely not be taxed anymore than it already is, we want people to spend money.
A holographic virtual girl lives inside Japan’s answer to the Amazon Echo
I agree, although I might be offended if an interviewer spent more than a few minutes on such things once it was clear that you could do them. However, that's more about not respecting the value of your time than the difficulty of the problem(s), just like expecting you to do a day of homework problem(s) before they even meet you.
If you have ever logged into both accounts with the same IP, they can tie the accounts together. That is not a hypothetical if, they will ban an account if someone logs into Seller Central from an IP of a previously banned account.
One very useful application for a smartwatch could be authentication; but of course only if other hardware cooperates. Here Apple could set a great example of how things should work.
It doesn't really matter if $12/hour is good or bad. If you're having trouble finding new workers, you're going to have to poach from the existing labor pool (aka from your competition) with higher wages and better benefits. If you can't pay the same wage as your competition because your business is swimming in overhead costs, then you will soon go out of business in favor of your more efficient competition. I believe this is supposed to be the good bit of the capitalist system.
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Would you mind sharing what metrics and analysis are the most important for your GraphQL API? (Or what you would find most valuable if you could get it?) What tools do you use today?

[I work on Optics.]
I guess I don't have that much faith in Amazon's ability to prioritize the customer over themselves (i.e., prioritize routing for the least amount of driving, regardless of what is being delivered).
> I'm more interested in the constant monitoring of heart rate, movement, etc., with the added features of notifications, silent alarms, and music control (though I don't really use music control either).

It does all that. The Siri integration is a killer-app for me though. I use it all the time (when alone) to set reminders, reply to texts, etc. But since it's from Apple it will always have better messaging integration than any 3rd party could EVER provide.

Of course I'm guessing the Blaze is much cheaper.

While it doesn't apply here, I'll also say that I've come to hate FitBit. They really don't want to play with other people and I had to buy an extra app (that I have to run every few days) just to sync data from my last remaining FitBit device to Health on my iPhone. Since I first bought one they seem to have gone from very open to hostile and closed. And I don't want to reward that.

(And that ignores my customer support experience, which alone turned me off from them)
Ah yeah, that makes sense.
I can understand locking accounts, since it's all automated, and they probably get a ton of bogus stuff programmatically submitted all the time. That said, as soon as someone has over a thousand dollars in your warehouse or over a $1000 pending payment to them, it should get shunted to a person for review and resolution. At that point it's obviously not some automatically submitted account and form, and what's more it's likely to quickly escalate to legal action against Amazon (regardless of what their contracts say, getting Amazon lawyers to respond is expensive, so they should want to avoid that).
I agree. I definitely feel less curious as I've gotten older. One angle is - given how easy it is to access information, curiosity is more often a distraction than a benefit.