skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I blind or are the papers not sourced? The proper placement for the source, the date of publication specifically, would be somewhere at the top.
Nissan and Tesla have proved the concept, I'd be surprised if investors are just now 'getting ready'.
The industry will change/disappear overnight. Trucking will be 4x cheaper with 2x the transportation capacity when you remove the trucker. Doesn't matter how much unionized, etc. the industry is now. No group survives that.
It's overly Auto-tuned!

Opiates play a vital role if they're respected my both the practitioners and patients. I don't think they are something to mess around with or joke about, Fentanyl is very dangerous if abused as a small mistake with the dosage often leads to death.

However, I do think that medicine is too reliant on big-pharma. It's too easy to hand out pills rather look at other treatments. There's exercise, hot/cold therapy, natural medicine (such as weed). Even mood has a large factor in how pain is perceived.
I built Jollyturns (https://jollyturns.com), a ski and snowboarding oriented business. I currently have a fairly extensive web site, and two mobile apps, on iOS and Android. I started with the iOS mobile app, I wanted something to show me on a ski resort's map where my friends are, and keep track of my skiing statistics.

I tried finding a partner to work with, but that's pretty much impossible in Silicon Valley where I live. Most good engineers want to work for one of the glamorous companies in the Valley. Oh well...

I've been working on Jollyturns for the past 5 years. It's been a lot of work, but I do it at my own pace since I still want to enjoy myself. The experience is unique. I write all the software myself, and hired few people to help map the ski resorts. I built a bunch of custom tools for the mapping work, so people can map the location of lifts, ski runs, restaurants inside a ski resort. I ended up having mapped all the ski resorts in the world, about 2700 of them.

Being by yourself, you need to be prepared to be a full-stack engineer. I built my own Supermicro servers, and host them in a colocation facility. I found that if you're in it for a long time it's cheaper this way. I run Kubernetes for cluster management, Postgres with PostGIS for database, Redis for caching, nginx for web proxy. Server side is written in a mixture of Python and C++. Web frontend is AngularJS (JavaScript). For iOS I write C, C++ and Objective-C. On Android I use Java.

Writing the code is the easy part. I found marketing to be the hardest. You need to find a way to make the world know what you built, and that's hard!
Well I guess I'd be labelled a poor programmer since I wait to commit until my code has passed a few core specification tests.
What about on-demand transportation doesn't meet the needs of your impulse to run to the hardware store? Just call for a car 6 (there and back) times and you won't worry about having to park on either side.
All four of which users are enjoined, over and over again, not to try to parse the output of (particularly ls). That is, those are the tools specifically not meant to be connected by pipelines, but merely used for operator convenience.
Vue vs. React
Hyper – A Terminal built on web technologies
They can use something like self-encryption[0] from MaidSafe, which shows them duplication so They can save space. They would still see that multiple users keep same file, but it's way better then current state.

Only problem what I see is illegal content, because If uploader changes just only one bit in file, they will not be able to detect it.

[0] https://github.com/maidsafe/self_encryption
Misleading headline. From the article:

>"People in Silicon Valley," says Arthur, "knew a lot about this phenomenon intuitively. But nobody had really written about it clearly."
You say "keep", but the last time the MBP regressed in battery capacity was 2008. Their last major reduction in thinness resulted in a significant capacity upgrade thanks to ditching the optical and 2.5" drives.
> the author says "clearly" the right hand side is between 0-1

No, the author says 'the alternating series clearly converges to a value between its first term and the sum of its first two terms', which is a late-first-year-calculus sort of thing.
There could be a diversity effect in their data, given demographic changes as a consequence of immigration patterns, relationship to authority, and cultural attitudes toward alcohol.
I believe the QWERTY layout origin mentioned in the first chapter is a myth.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-t...
You're correct. Fixed.
Yeah, right. Just like we're not going to cooperate with government agencies to spy on our own citizens under secret laws and secret courts.
I've spent years in Eclipse as well (and still use it every day at work for Java stuff), and I appreciate a lot of the functionality it offers, but I definitely find the UX lacking. It's klunky. Yes, it's maybe more discoverable (although, at least in the case of Ecipse, that's debatable) and some of the keybindings are probably more familiar to most people, but I find that even though Emacs has a bit of a learning curve, once you've gotten past that, the experience of actually using it is very fluid and productive.
I have no specific questions to ask, but I'm intrigued to hear you worked on WinFS. WinFS is something I wish happened, albeit I'm sure that what I thought it was wasn't what it actually was (since I never actually used it, wrote any code the APIs, etc, I can't ever be sure).

I was enamored with BeFS. When I heard about WinFS I was excited to think it might bring some of the coolness that BeFS provided to a mass audience. It's a shame what happened to both BeFS and WinFS.

Thanks for the link to the book. I had no idea that it existed. For awhile I kept checking-in on Chandler, hoping it was going to actually happen.
APPNOTE.TXT actually has a comment about it:

> D.1 The ZIP format has historically supported only the original IBM PC character encoding set, commonly referred to as IBM Code Page 437. This limits storing file name characters to only those within the original MS-DOS range of values and does not properly support file names in other character encoding, or languages.

Extra fields are generally used to implement other code pages. There is a direct way to do it with an extension to the GPBF. Problem is that some writers don't implement the proper flags.
I also had your issue 5. I can't say for sure, but taking a fresh backup, then restoring from that backup seemed to have fixed it for me. Best of luck!
No, they've nailed it with iteration 1.
There's marketing copy, and then there's throw-up-a-little-in-your-mouth marketing copy. This is the latter.
Neat. One question: How can I script it? What is the scripting language for customizing the editor? I couldn’t find information on this in the documentation.
Thanks for sharing your website. I think the idea is great-- a simple place to share just the basics about your job. Good luck with it, I'll be sure to keep it bookmarked :)
2 & 5 don't appear to be happening here, and 4 only seems to happen with the embedded browser view in some apps, not the 'normal' browser. At least, that's how it is for me.
I stopped running Linux and went back to Windows (until I could get my hands on a Powerbook) the day that I sat down to write an essay and six hours later found myself rebuilding a new kernel. All I wanted to do was run a word processor and I yak-shaved myself into a two-hour kernel build before I gave up. It was an edge case, to be sure, but it was just a more extreme example of the problems I'd had already. I gave up the ability to customize every single detail in exchange for the freedom from having to customize every single detail. Simplicity.
I'm pretty sure they use Pied Piper compression.

*Wow, tough crowd.
Same applies to PDF. I believe it is possible to construct a file that is an EXE, PDF, and ZIP all in one.
I agree with you here. I used the word cruel since I couldn't find a better word - as a none native speaker my vocabulary is limited :( .

I have the same feelings about the UK public education. Competition is basically non-existence. I wonder why people can't settle in a middle ground.
I'm an economist at Opendoor — yes, adverse selection is a big concern! A few things to note:

1. Every time we improve our valuation model, we limit the scope of adverse selection. A more accurate model means there is less tail in the error distribution, which means we are less like to acquire a home we have mistakenly overvalued. As we improve our model accuracy over time through feature modifications and training on more data, the adverse selection problem will partially self-correct.

2. Every time we reduce our fees, we limit the scope of adverse selection. Improvements to our operational efficiency mean we face lower costs, which over time will allow us to offer fees more on par with or below current market norms. When we offer high fees we run the risk that the only ones accepting those offers are those where we've missed something important about the home. Fee reductions help us limit the scope of this problem, and buy more typical homes.

3. Adverse selection is only possible in the context of asymmetric information. Anything we can do to reduce information asymmetries (i.e. better data collection and vetting up front) will reduce the possibility of adverse selection. We're working on this.

4. Adverse selection isn't a problem limited to institutional buyers like ourselves. Any time someone makes an offer on a home, and that offer is accepted, the buyer risks adverse selection. See for instance the "winner's curse." We can do better than the average buyer at solving this problem so long as we are better at information collection and valuation.

5. Lastly, the main economic prediction of adverse selection is that buyers will take adverse selection risk into account by bidding low, which means that a certain amount of otherwise mutually beneficial trade will fail to occur because buyers bid below their true valuations. To the extent we can reduce information asymmetries and help solve adverse selection, we can truly be a market maker by enabling additional mutual beneficial trade than would happen without us.
Building the Future of VR – Oculus
When you're done flaming PHP, read the whole Github thread, and especially comment #4. The file was produced by a .NET library.
I imagine a bit of both. Getting caught in a snow storm is a pretty horrible experience, and I would gladly stay home knowing I would have otherwise ended up in one. But at the same time the forecasting isn't all that great, so often the storms don't amount to anything, and you would have been perfectly fine to be out there. Sometimes the storms even come up without any warning (most of the snow we get – especially that which causes driving issues – is from the lake, not the clouds). Having to essentially hibernate in the winter because the car is always erring on the side of caution could become pretty enraging.
>Imagine warehouses filled with growing tomatoes.

The fact is, even with a perfectly engineered tomato, it's hard to beat the low cost of dirt+sun.
>> the deadliest regions have gotten much safer.

Not so sure I agree with that.

- St. Louis, MO

- Detroit, MI

- New Orleans, LA

- Baltimore, MD

- Chicago, IL

All have had incredibly high murder rates since 2002. That's over a decade of violent crime that hasn't slowed down at all and continues to remain steady to this day.
The most profitable company in the world doesn't need us to carry their water for them. Let Gruber take care of that. You're literally trying to defend Apple for using the term "magical" to refer to a pair of pedestrian wireless headhones. Come on.
Thanks for linking to an actual paper. I think there's been some confusion on the term, as well as some disagreement on emphasis. I'd make a few distinctions:

1) my comments were on Lysenkoism, not Lamarckism. There is a world of difference, in terms of one being the political negation of genetics, and the other being a "competing" theory of genetics. There is essentially nothing about Lysenko's views of, say, agriculture, that have passed into epigenetics. I would agree that epigenetics of course explains some Lamarckian evolution observations.

2) Though epigenetics is the source of lamarckian evolution, for example in this sentence:

>Going further into epigenetics (an important source of quasi-Lamarckian mode of evolution),

The study of epigenetics only rarely gets into Lamarkian phenomenon. The modification of histones and DNA methylation, the meat of epigeneticsm, is largely studied as sources of differentiation and gene regulation. The inter-generational passage of information is a very small subset of the body of work. Just to make sure that I'm not biased by my primary field (cancer), I went to scholar.google.com and went through the first page of results on an "epigenetics" search. I would stand by assessment that Lamarkcian evolution is one of the curiosities explained by epigenetics, rather than being the focus of much research.

3) Inheritance of adaptive traits by the microbial immune system (at least that's how Crispr regions were described to me before Crispr/CAS9 captured the imagination of the world) are pretty cool. But there are all sorts of interesting adaptations like that; if we view cancer as a population of individual cells evolving to compete against normal somatic tissues, we see both epigenetic and genetic mechanisms of inheritance among cell generations. I would definitely agree that its a spectrum of evolutionary behavior, but of the examples that we commonly see in the world, the Lamarckian examples of evolution are a minority.

4) As far as going from "lunatic fringe" to "OMG this is cool" I had the same experience with Crispr/CAS9. An archael researcher had been going on about it in hushed terms about this process for probably 18 months, without me understanding the significance, but then all of a sudden everybody's like "genomic DNA modification just got easier!"

5) I consider epigenetics, and gene regulation in general, to be of the utmost importance in the study of biology. Given the choice between getting the DNA of an organism or the RNA, I'd take the RNA any day. Edit: I should add that I've had the Waddington landscape as a computer desktop background image for more than five years.

https://www.google.com/search?q=waddington+landscape&safe=ac...
This is incoherent. The Marxists ended alcohol prohibition in Soviet Russia.
> Slug lanes also become more useful with self driving cars.

And faster. A lot of the traffic on highways is caused by rubbernecking, which self-driving cars are mostly immune to.
So, Dupont has a production-scale microbial process for 1,3-propanediol. What is the market for malonic acid if Dupont can already go directly to 1,3-propanediol?

http://www.dupont.com/products-and-services/fabrics-fibers-n...
Show HN: The Road to learn React – Build a Hacker News App on the Way
Excessive comments trigger the 'controversial topic' penalty which drives it from the front page.

A conversation requires informed participants. There are few participants on topics that aren't seen. Presumably there is a connection between being skilled and being too busy to look beyond the front page. Or being skilled and wanting to waste time sorting through conspiracy theories for meaty posts.

It's almost trivial to suppress any information that annoys a group by starting a emotion driven fight over nonsense.

Climate change denial is not an intellectually honest different interpretation that can be cleared up by pointing to yet more data. It is a world view that requires obfuscating data. On the most primative level, trolling will due for that.
> How about we just have two presidents?

What, like Roman consuls?

Really, if you want to lower the stakes of small changes in the electorate, get a parliamentary system with basically proportional representation (STV in small multimember districts works, you don't need party list methods), and dial back the policy powers of the head of state (who can continue to.be separately elected.)
I love it! Keep going. Feels very nice on mobile too. Very good selection of settings, and right where I want them
Not to mention that's a pretty easy to game metric. By that rational, renaming a variable name across a few files is going to make me quite impactful.

If my job were being judged by this metric, I'd sure be thinking a lot about that.

This measurement also seems to favor overengineering, which is one of the biggest things I've learned to stay away from. When I was early on in my career, I thought I could implement anything myself, and so I often did. It wasn't until years later that I understand the implications of maintaining these implementations.

A true measure of impact to me would be a ratio of the most concise (but still understandable) amount of code to the amount that it solves the requirement it's built for. It's impossible to measure that without the context of the problem you are trying to solve.
> I think you overestimate how willing someone is to sit in a small car with 3 other strangers during their morning and evening commutes.

People do it already to save money. Making it easier, and adding the ability to set up a standing appointment with the same people over multiple days would alleviate a lot of people's concerns, IMO.

> 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.

Many families have two cars, purely because of the few times a day when both are needed at the same time. For example, I have a Honda Odyssey for family use, since I have three kids. I also have a cheap commuter that I lease, purely to get to and from work a few times a week, since I work from home a couple days. That's a car I could happily and easily remove from service with little impact, as long as I had a way to get to and from work.

> When everyone has their own custom route, person A's route may make person B's route unacceptably longer.

The idea is, with thousands of routes, you might find quite a few that overlap a significant percentage of the time. Compute what percentage each person is responsible for of the whole, subtract some portion of the route for the distance that's spent going to the other pickups/dropoffs that aren't on your path, and provide a a discount depending on how much you share. Use minivans and/or full-size vans if there are enough rides to maximize people, comfort and space. The carrier maximizes profit over people and vehicle wear over a ride, and the people minimize price.

> 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.

Sure, but that's a luxury use. People that drive luxury cars that cost a lot will undoubtedly do that. People that are trying to minimize cost so they can spend that money on essentials or even just other luxuries they value more will opt for the cheaper option. It's why people carpool now.
* company culture is important

* take risks, work for a company that wants to change the world

* contribute to open source

* code is read more than it is written, learn to write code that is easy to grok
These look extraordinarily uncomfortable, especially if I'm supposed to have them in my ears more than usual headphones - or even as long as my current model. If Apple is trying to make an in-ear controller ala Her, I do not see these as something I'll pick up.

Curious. Will there be third-party headphones that work here?
I changed (from Linux) to a Mac because I wanted to have easy, reliable handling of Microsoft Office documents on my laptop.

These days I run a bunch of Linux and Windows VMs on top of MacOS anyway. I'll probably check out WINE/CrossOver again, and look for a hypervisor that supports an integrated desktop on Linux ...

Or Apple will just release a 64GB-capable MacBookPro before my current Mid-2014 model is obsolete.
Don't think one can be too active with these ones, though. Looks like shaking your head will make them fall out. No silicon that shapes it to the ear, no over-ear stuff or anything that should make it sit.
Without those, we would also not have been on the moon.
I think that might not be possible with AirPods. One of it's features is that it stops playing music when you take out one of the ears.
I think your parent was making a joke. But I thought the conference was worth it. That said, one of the two conference organizers has a book that is in the same vein. At the very least, read his book:

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
https://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching...
So all the cars also drive back out of the city around 9am and back in again around 3pm? That sounds like more cars on the road (over the course of a day) rather than less.
Volvo has been doing research on self-driving cars for a while, with existing vehicles in operation for research purposes.
>you need to actually pay market rate (most companies don't) :D

Most companies don't pay market rate? That's a tad incoherent? If most companies aren't paying 'market rate' then what should we all call the rate the market is paying?

Hint: what most companies pay is by definition 'market rate'
This thread explains that you script it using shell commands: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13166635
> it doesn't make logistical sense: it requires the NSA to already have installed software on the victim's computer.

Well, if you have any of the closed-source companies' software on your system (and by definition, that is +/- 310mio citizens, in the US alone), you are sure to have NSA backdoors on your system. Such backdoors certainly do not require manual intervention for them to be exploited on large scale.
Agreed. I'm just suggesting if someone were to ask for a client backdoor they could have one, just like they could ask for a server feed.
London has a radio station for Bird songs [0]. Is this real?

[0]: http://radio.garden/live/london/birdsongradio/
This strikes me of an example of a sort of dualism that exists within software. The .zip spec is flawed, and can be broken in all sorts of different ways. However, after years and years of using computers, I've never had an issue with extracting or using a .zip file.

I wonder if this same pattern can be applied to physical engineering disciplines- e.g. a structural engineer assessing a bridge and finding numerous faults in the design, despite traffic still using the bridge as normal...
There is no open source alternative yet
Warren Buffet is an investor in China's BYD, I see electric BYD taxis in my city (Montevideo, Uruguay) everyday.

http://www.byd.com/la/auto/e6.html

http://www.byd.com/na/

Edit: seems Buffet made a killing

http://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2016/08/30/warre...

Second edit: seems that the rest of the world is leading electric car adoption way ahead of the U.S. . Electric cars still represent a tiny fraction of the overall market (1/300th of the world's car sales). Surprisingly, it's China that leads the way.
I still get between 8-10 hours on my 2013 15" MBP. The new one does seem like a major downgrade, which is too bad as I was thinking about a replacement.
Someone just needs to sell accessory lanyards for them.
New Horizon – AMD Zen Preview
Surprisingly easy to read for me. My vision isn't great so I prefer big fonts.

It seems to boost my reading comprehension as well.
Whatever it is they learn/how they learn/etc it seems to be grossly inefficient.

I noticed literally no difference between my Canadian students and Chinese/Korean students as a TA at a top university here, other than the international students being more likely to plagiarize/copy work. Also, the international students were way more likely to be smokers - not sure if that's a cultural thing, or if it's caused by being stressed the fuck out because of the ridiculous education system there.