skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original comment was hasty, I admit. But there are a lot of ways to tackle these issues.

Radar clutter, attenuation, penetration, etc are all affected by wavelengths. By using multiple frequencies, you can get a better idea of what is and isn't really there. As far as interference, there are ways to filter out noise. The car presumably knows how fast it is going. Therefor, it can do doppler filtering on the received waves. IE... car knows it sent waves at 50 GHz and is traveling at 60 mph. It knows to expect a response at ~54 GHz from the front and 50 GHz from the side.

For tracking objects, you can use a pulse-doppler radar [0] to get both range and rate information.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-Doppler_radar
This is why Tesla's strategy is better than Google's. Tesla will get the data on those situations, because their data comes from every driver of their cars. Google gets data on Mountain View and downtown Austin.
This is an odd question to ask when the feature being announced, video call integration, is definitely not available in IRC.

Slack is "just IRC" as much as vim is "just ed."
Very curious how long battery life actually is.

Also, will Apple include these within iPhone box to replace the clunky new lightning things?
Uber attempts to keep control of what clients connect to its API for exactly this reason.
Huh. I didn't know that. Thank you for the correction!
Why is Apple so obsessed with calling everything "magical". If anyone believes this is magic, they also need to believe Apple employs wizards & witches.
If you were to dump your MacBook Pro, would you switch to Windows or Linux?
A UBI should be universal, so you can't lose benefits - it's only as bad as how you become slightly less rich when your income goes up under progressive taxation.

The closest real problem I can think of is not being able to move to a $15/hr minimum wage city from a poor area because you don't have the starting capital to buy the basics there.
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Hi, I'm an engineer at Distelli. I have recently written a series of tutorials that I believe addresses your use case.

The tutorials go over taking a simple application composed of 2 services that can be brought up together locally using docker-compose and using distelli to facilitate the following workflow:

1. Commit to GitHub to trigger builds of both services that run tests and on completion push both images separately to GCR image repositories.
2. Set up pipelines that apply the new images to an existing kubernetes deployment specification and deploy to 1 or multiple deployment destinations (a combination of a cluster/namespace/name)
3. Receive notifications once actions are complete for builds, deployments etc. and monitor the status of deployed containers, including logs etc.

Here are the tutorials. Each is pretty short on it's own:

http://www.blog.distelli.com/single-post/2016/12/11/Docker-C...

http://www.blog.distelli.com/single-post/2016/12/11/Docker-C...

http://www.blog.distelli.com/single-post/2016/12/12/Docker-C...

http://www.blog.distelli.com/single-post/2016/12/12/Docker-C...

I hope you take a look and let us know if these were helpful to you. Have a great day!
For the latest version, those are the only two location-services options.
Wow quick to the low effort Slack is just IRC comment.

In my opinion Slack does something that is often very undervalues and easily overlooked, it is like the opposite of a death my a thousand cuts - superiority by a thousand minor improvements.

When taken individually or even in handfuls none of the features are that impressive, but cumulatively it creates a much better product. This was very apparent to me at least when I switched from HipChat to Slack. Just reading features or looking at screenshots they are nearly identical, yet with actual use Slack seems like a significant step up.

So yes IRC is to Slack, as the Ford Model T is to a Mercedes S-Class.
> I'm not a huge fan of UBI since I think that makes people slaves of their State. We've seen such enslavement in the US under welfare programs. We've set the program up to lock people in. If they try to get out, they will lose benefits (donut hole issue). I think UBI is like that, but worse.

Bad policy structuring, because welfare programs are legacy programs and were designed when Economics was still in its infancy.

Also keep in mind that the welfare population is a minority. It's similar to the bank anecdote - if you owe the bank $1000, you have a problem, if you owe the bank $10,000,000, the bank has a problem.

When tens of millions of people in a country with gun ownership depend on UBI - any government structure that tries to reduce benefits or eliminate it will become a target of the masses.
The call emoji support is a great idea for streamlining communication in a video meeting.

Does video calling work in Slack's web client?
It certainly depends on what I'm working on, but as the saying goes code is typically read a lot more than it is written and there are definitely days of bug finding and editing where you hit or dip below 10% in insert mode, spending much more of your time in other modes or navigation. I'm not sure my average day is 10%, the mean is probably more like somewhere between 25-40% when I was most heavily using Vim to write code.

I'm more often going to be in insert mode writing prose, but that is a different flow state. Also, even with prose it sometimes feels like you spend more time editing it than writing it.
My console lets me use every font on the system. It even lets me convert variable-width fonts into monospace fonts.

Granted, it won't support using variable-width fonts as-is; but that's never been a problem for me.
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Notes is a real mixed bag. On the plus side, its open-ended, fully customizable document database is a phenomenally powerful tool for creating information management systems that map very closely to the unique workflows and structures that arise in any business. As an expression of the promise of office automation, it's pretty compelling.

On the other hand, it's the world's worst email & calendar client and much of its bad reputation stems from users having to put up with that when there's really no need for it ever to have been installed. (EDIT: given that, it's interesting to see the prominence that email receives in the design doc. I'd always thought it was a post-Lotus bolt on, but it was a day zero consideration.)

But far, far worse than that is the stuff you don't realize when you embark on the Notes path. It's a very powerful tool, but a dangerous one too: I saw a telecoms company in the late 90s/early 2000s blow up partly because it relied too heavily on a custom Notes solution that became prohibitively expensive to change as the business evolved. Management got hooked on formalizing all their business processes inside Notes, seduced by the promise of total transparency and operational control. The system got big, and Notes scales badly. Reporting runs that took a few minutes with a few hundred attributed documents in 1998 took over four hours by 2000; I helped put in a SQL Server instance to create a relationally structured copy of the unstructured attributed documents to reduce that time, but of course that was more money. The poor chap that owned the company ended up having a stroke and the company was wound down. That's an anecdote, but on the other two occasions I've seen Notes used for its real value (as a document DB with associated processes) it's ended up in a similar, sprawling and unmaintainable end state.

I guess one way to think of it is as a kind of Excel for processes and documents. End users can do things with it very easily - you can set stuff up that exactly reflects the flow of information and control processes unique to a business, and that's a great tool for helping a business mature and control its operational risks - but its limitations and the systemic risk it introduces are not well understood and only become apparent when you've gone too far with it.
Yes, but other wireless headphones already exist, no?
> > It's pretty scary when a political party has taken a hostile stance to science because it conflicts with their ideology.

> Democrats never did that with say, gun control,

Correct; the anti-science position on that (to the extent of actually blocking science from being done for fear that it might contradict their policy preference) is taken by Republicans, much as is the case with climate science.
Because you obviously need to add that feature to service b before anyone can use it. This goes for anything in software, libraries, products, APIs etc.

Ideally that feature should be developed indepedently by the team looking after that service. It could however be a feature request by another team.

Once the feature is ready, you deploy it and then advertise this feature is now available. If it's a breaking change, you version it so it doesn't effect existing services.

Then the team for service a can now start integrating that feature into their service.

You don't need complicated orchestrated deployments. The time from service/team b advertising that the feature is available, to service a acutally consuming it may be weeks.

You just treat the microservices as separate products exposing a API, which operate on different timelines. Other teams may request features, but the team maintaining the service determine the how and the timeline. Obviously higher priority items get developed first.
Yea, the next update will remove the 16GB RAM limitation - it just won't report how much memory you have. :( This is truly disappointing and not something that I would expect from Apple. It's not as if the remaining battery life was every 100% accurate; most people realized that it was an estimate and just used it as a guideline. But when Apple comes out and says that battery life is X and people are measuring battery life at X-n, that is a problem.

It's as if Apple is blaming the user for using applications that dare to use energy. It reminds me of how Windows NT 4.01 was C2 secure, as long as you didn't plug in the network cable. :face+palm:
YES!

I've never heard of one of those shipping a whole team off, during the holidays, and telling them they can't leave until a stupid fucking app is done. Read that again. It was not a vital piece of infrastructure, or an important breakthrough for science. It was a stupid fucking chat app. For that, these people were held and denied the ability to celebrate a holiday.
No, Hugh works at asapp.com.

AMD could really invest more in optimising deep learning libraries for their hardware if they want to be relevant
The DEA program is pretty shocking and a great example, thanks for sharing!

The second one sounds more like an interdiction program, where vulnerabilities are inserted into the devices (this is a thing that was in the Snowden documents). The document gives no details. The highlights on the side are from an NYT journalist, not source material.

I disagree that the last example is an example of that. It's still unclear what the scanning was doing.
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It's unquestionable the Chinese script is more difficult to learn than alphabetic scripts. This is directly reflected in the amount of time children and language learners have to spend on it, and the resulting reading ability.
Yeah you don't exactly have to be Ron Paul to have a problem with the communist party of China.
Big miss for holiday season, probably won't seem as cool for Christmas 2017.
I wrote to S.E. Hinton to ask about the significance of the church. "Why an abandoned church?"

She responded and told me there was an abandoned church where she grew up. She liked to hang out in the building because it was a convenient place to read.

I have the letter stowed in a box somewhere in my parents' attic.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13168971
Are test scores calculated relative to the top performer - so that there will always be bottom performers - or is there a bar that everyone could clear so no student would be shamed?
Bluetooth headphones are great. You don't have to worry about the wire snagging on things and getting in the way. Wires have been progressively eliminated everywhere else e.g. wireless networking, wireless mice, wireless keyboards, wireless phones...I'm not understanding why people are clinging to wireless headphones so hard.

Your risk of losing your headphones is really that high?
Also PostgreSQL (since 7.0, released in 2000):

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-comment.h...
The article mentions: "the actual Skype Dashboard widget does not seem to utilize the backdoor into the Skype Desktop API despite the name" which, to me, lends more credence to the assumption that this was perhaps a test or a prototype and only included in the shipped version accidentally.
But that doesn;t mean companies should be afraid to try new things. History is evident that more companies died resisting the change than anything else. Car ownership going down should not mean companies like Uber should not venture into self-driving cars although by burning huge VC money. Even the VC's who funded would want Uber to the fore runner in the self-driving cars. The other factors why companies are still investing although they might loose money are:

1) It will take atleast 5-7 years for self-driving cars to become ubiquitous. Till then there is good uprising market for every player to make money. secondly, if you have a product ready, it might open up new markets in future which currently no one realizes.

2) Car ownership will still be there. People who can afford it will still prefer private self-driving car than waiting for Uber/Lyft. I would say self-driving private car will be seen as a new luxury status.

3) car manufacturing will definitely go down with less demand but car manufactures will venture into different pricing model with ride companies. Right now, a car is a one time sell for a manufacturer. It might be subscription which ride company uses.
How about It loads a fucking video ?

That's pretty much all you need to know about performance.
Do they only work with Apple products? Could I use them with an Android phone?
All I see when I look at a car is a very costly set of risks. I'd rather pay for someone else to manage those risks. Car subscriptions++
Same story about Japan in the 80s, and quite honestly I think they did a far better job at managing their investment driven growth boom. China looks like a total disaster in comparison, and I'm pretty sure they are close to the end of their boom.
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Why Redux? Why Now?
This spec doesn't mention it, but Notes was arguably ahead of its time w/ respect to cryptography. The political climate of the time, w/ respect to export restrictions, certainly didn't work in the product's favor.

There's some more good background here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-NDHistory...
I don't know how US death certificates and coroners work.

But things like death by suicide have tricky stats. In the US a death after self injury with the intent to die is counted as suicide. That intent to die bit is hard to know, so some deaths are going to be counted as something else. (Accidental death, maybe.) And because of the strong stigma and taboo around suicide historical data may undercount it.

Also, in the UK, for a coroner to rule a death as suicide it has to meet a higher burden of proof. The coroner has to be satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that the death was suicide. For other deaths (but not murder) the burden of proof is the balance of probabilities.

So it's easier (in England) for a coroner to rule something is an accidental death than a death by suicide.

I guess the researchers are aware of all of this, and that they'll have mentioned how the cleaned up the data.

But it's something to be aware of when reading it.
The features demostrated here are almost the exact ones I'm looking to do in Vim (I've only been using for a few months) and the way they describe them here makes them so simple. I hope this continues to mature!
They're already a force to be reckoned with. How do you compete against a company that might as well burn cash in the streets?

The rich are buying the future on the backs of the working class. When uber goes under, the jobs won't come back, but transit can't be that cheap. It's not like the cost of a ride was actually based on the cost of the car OR the labor.
Microsoft is killing it in this space because current conferencing technology is flat out horrible.

Despite the fact we have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of conferencing technology at my work, I'll regularly see twenty minutes wasted at the start of a meeting with someone bumbling around with a mix match of DisplayPort, thunderbolts, HDMIs and VGAs. Then the software headaches of having to install some sort of client software, create an account and find the person.

The icing on the cake was a sales rep from Microsoft who invited us to a conference using third party software that required Silverlight and MSIE 10, and our Windows machine was too new.

It's great something is being done in this space, but $19,999 for a problem Microsoft is largely responsible for feels like extortion.
I confirm, only those 2 options in iOS
I will not buy a phone without a 3.5" jack period. I'm not buying ridiculously expensive wireless headphones that are objectively worse (worse quality than wired alternatives, added hassle of charging them plus much more expensive).
To me these seem pretty stupid.

So IOW, you just don't like wireless headphones, whether Apple makes them or not. Thanks for sharing.
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Google and Nvidia and maybe Tesla (probably just using Nvidia's system) as well as perhaps a few others _have_ solved those prpblems using things like deep learning, LIDAR and sensor fusion.
That was the case a few years ago, but it is no longer the case now. See:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-stud...

And compare to:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PixelSense

Two totally different things.
Where is Apple's in that list? ;)
I come from 7years with the email/cal-client.

Even gmail, which is quite outdated today , beat this thing...
Given that I responded to a comment about social status among people in the US South, it would be odd if I said that. While true, it fails to be specific enough to be relevant.[1]

[1] Grice's maxims, which I find helpful for gauging my contributions to conversations: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/grice.html
Yeah. I come from the academia, and I can't see a scientist not being able to do his job just because he has to take one extra hop by using a VPN.
That's the fine art of eyeballing a graph; choose numbers that correspond to the ticks on the graph so you have an obvious place to put the ruler.

If you choose a different FICO cutoff or whites instead of Asians, the result remains directionally the same. You might get whites paying $110 vs blacks paying $90 (the gap narrows as FICO goes way up) but the same basic point arises.

Feel free to play with the numbers yourself if you think my arithmetic is wrong or nonrepresentative. If you find something I'd love to see your corrections.
Yep. Mac Pro, AirPort, and monitors are canceled but check out that spaceship, art book, and Christmas tree!
I find it interesting that you use that quote as an example of naysaying. Within a few months of the iPod's introduction, they introduced higher storage options. Though the Classic line never got wireless, the HUGELY popular iPod touch had wireless. Both of his complaints were eventually rectified by Apple in the iPod line.
I don't understand if you're asking about ETL and data warehousing or about BI and analytics.
Sounds like a visual scripting system with low level constructs.
I recall a post just a few days ago about quitting the news, and how the media focuses on fear. There's no indication that the trump administration is going to do anything to climate data other than ignore it. They even say so in this article.
IRC, minus a bunch of technical nonsense nobody who is busy will bother to understand or manage (mode flags, server vs network channels, out-of-band post-hoc client-to-client features, netsplits), with good stories for multi-device (single, consistent cross platform experience) and offline (messages are queued/marked as read server side, in a way consistent across devices) and bots (anyone can add an integration in a few minutes, instead of delegating to a developer to add some code to the latest pet bot which soaks up maintenance effort like a sponge) management (managed, easy access control, no services bolted on as an afterthought) and file sharing (files stored server side, every client and user supports the feature, file can be sent when user's client is offline, doesn't have to figure out how to forward some ports or something) presence (consistent single feature instead of someone maybe implementing away status or an away nickname) identity (nicks === users) and so, so much more.
Have you considered the cause of the e-mails/support requests and tried to streamline your process or at least provide additional instruction in order to quell the high volume?

My experience has been that support requests can be near zero if you actively work on some kind of automated solution for the highest frequency problems.
> Now, in the gym, I can throw my phone in my gym bag and not worry about it while working out. I'll never go back to wired.

Exactly, doing anything active with wired headphones on isn't fun. They keep getting snagged in things and get pulled off your ears.
I dunno. I bought a Sony Walkman NWZ-A829 (OK, Apple kicks their ass at naming stuff) way back in 2008, which had built-in Bluetooth, and about a year later bought some no-name $25 Bluetooth headphones for use in the gym. Never had any issue with pairing or connection dropping, used that combination for a couple of years before going back to wired.
How Americans die depends on where they live
I really like how you characterize it as "Excel for processes and documents". I can attest to seeing Notes-based applications built with the best of intentions collapsing under their own weight.
No, but communication plays a huge deal in being able to absorb the culture, as well as share your own.
Yes absolutely, at least initially. But expect weekends/nights/vacations to be consumed.

Eventually, either due to growth or a desire to have free time again, you'll probably want to bring aboard other persons.
That's pretty impressive actually! Have you considering hiring one or two people (e.g., freelancers) to remotely help with support? Also, a virtual secretary would be immensely helpful I'd imagine.

I have a couple of ideas I've been wanting to work on, but time is quite scarce as a grad student. I guess it's partly because I tend to overthink (and over-design) my ideas, and end up getting overwhelmed before even touching a line of code! What's even worse is that the majority of my ideas are intended for my home country (EST+6 timezone), since I think it's much harder to be successful in an over-saturated market like the US.

For example, one of my ideas is designing an Uber-like service for my home country. The current roadmap (which I haven't started on) is as follows:

1. Design a basic placeholder site with some info on the app/service

2. Run a limited ad campaign to gauge interest and ideally collect emails (Google, FB, local radio, local newspapers)

3. Try to get interested users to fill out a survey

4. If the results from 2) and 3) are promising, start developing a barebones MVP

5. The MVP will target one city, require manual signup for drivers, and only have a simple web client

6. If successful, start hiring local developers, optimizing server-side, and designing an Android app (iOS is a very small market)

Any advice for someone in my position? I'm open to all types of feedback from any HNer - it's always good to get an opinion before working on something like this!