skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a way, yes, but in a way, not really.

I'm pretty distant from societal mean myself. Most of this is my choice: I'm an immigrant, I listen to odd music at times. I spend a lot of time producing artwork. I have blue-green hair, obviously it isn't natural. I'm also bi-sexual (which, weirdly, might have been a mental illness at some time) I probably fit into a few sub-cultures better than society at large.

But I don't have much trouble doing normal life stuff, outside of what can be expected with the language and cultural difference, without too much undue stress or worry.

Comparatively, some folks have trouble leaving the house., even though it they have nothing outwardly wrong. Have trouble speaking up enough to buy needed items, have trouble with basic hygeine or getting out of bed. Some can't deal with the stress of work or household chores for a time: Some folks opt for suicide. My ex cycled through many of these plus some.

The diagnosis depends greatly on societal norms as a basis for behavior, as well as one's own struggle to meet some of the minimum requirements for living. The goal is to be fit enough to do this stuff.
DotNETes (Windows container and Hyper-v container) support is here!
Disclosure: I worked on DotNETes
If you want to go abroad for couple of years to make some money, before returning home and starting a family, china is a good option.
Does anyone know of a book / publication containing all Turing Award lectures. Every one I've seen (so far) has been well worth reading, and I'd love to kick back with a whole set of them for more contemplation.
Prohibition really has turned out to be a seriously damaging thing to society. Drugs are classified not based on their potential to cause harm or abuse, but instead by some nebulous concept of morality. We, as a society need to embrace a more scientific based approach.
By my count around a third of Americans die from drug misuse and drug-related causes:

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2014/05/the-one-sta...

And that was written before this study came out, which estimated that there may be an additional 60,000 annual tobacco-related deaths that are not being counted by the CDC:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsa1407211
Sounds bad. So instead of paying shipping, I have to ship myself to the store and back.
Eh I don't even necessarily mean locking stuff down. But having standardized images to roll out makes things simpler, keeping patches up to date, etc.
Interesting project and lots of good content on that site. If anyone is looking for a /much/ /much/ easier way to do this, try pi musicbox. Its the first project I suggest for people new to rpi because its so easy and has great results. I've had an rpi with musicbox for years and use it almost every day. Love it.

http://www.pimusicbox.com/
Make drugs illegal. Lock up drug users in prison with other drug users who get drugs into prison because it's not as hard as you think. Teach prisoners no employable skills. Dump them back outside with the most damming scarlet letter in American society. Give them no public assistance because of drug conviction. Reduce life options to selling drugs or becoming full-blown addict to escape the painful reality. Observe drug use or sale. Arrest again. Change nothing.

What a surprise.
An abjad is an alphabet of consonants eg Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac. Cyrillic alphabets have vowels.
My 15" 2013 with discrete graphics has 95Whr battery but can't run civ VI on a decent frame rate without going into strategic view (which reduces graphics load somewhat). In that mode I've been able to get ~ 2 hours maybe just a hair under the last time I tried it on a flight.
Scanned information returns? They're many orders of magnitude larger than their declarative (e.g. PDF) or plain text equivalent.
you get what you measure
Big data has big potential for applications to climate change adaptation [pdf]
I hear he once drank himself to pieces, and when he woke up in the morning and pulled himself together, he had inadvertently made a copy of himself.
Is a something we could use in production ? I am looking for a kubernetes solution on azure: using persistant disk etc.
Yep same here, that's one of the things we need to improve on to get our deploy times down.
Computer vision cracks the leaf code [pdf]
There are a few reasons:

1. You are usually effective and comfortable in the language you were educated in.

2. If you want to do business with a person in another language, you usually both default to English because it is usually second language if it is not their first.

I mean look at your own situation. I assume that you are fairly well educated (on Hacker News, decent grammar, and asked a good question). Suppose you had to leave the US, where would you go?

Your top choices might be other English speaking countries (Ireland, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand).

Your next set of choices would be places you could do business in English (Berlin perhaps).

Globally, a lot more educated people know English than Chinese. Its not impossible but it is a far larger barrier to entry than, say, blocking youTube.
If you don't aspire to be a pro player and just want to have fun, you can compete in limited only. I have friends who do that. I myself chose phantom sealed deck tournaments on mtgo, which, provided you don't suck, are basically free.
What's striking about this description is that a number of would-be Western leaders seem to be looking at the situation and saying, "Wow, that looks great. I want my own."
Sorry I'm being a bit glib. What I'm poking at here is what I feel to be undue optimism about self driving vehicles. It almost appears as if people are describing the Beetle from Fahrenheit 451, with no irony intended.

What I'm getting at is that there seems to be a lack of critical thinking about the potential negatives of self driving cars. We know for example that transit by car is extremely price elastic, and it is easy to infer that a self driving car imposes a very low cost on drivers, so we should expect trips by car to increase if cars are self driving. Is this good or bad? Its hard to say. But we do know that more car trips increase demand for roads. Is this good or bad? If all self driving cars are going to and from similar locations, eg exurbs to job centers, will congestion decrease? If one no longer suffers the penalty of having to drive in congestion, will more people voluntarily sit in traffic, thereby saturating infrastructure?
Trust me they are nothing compared to the poor road conditions, lunatic drivers or dangerous weather you'll find in the rest of the world or even the USA.
Unfortunately know some bottom-right quadrant people. We got rid of some of those not too long ago - wouldn't want them on my team again.
Super hard to manage and work with.
Just a note for anyone who wants to try this, without spending $2k, you can just purchase the UAP AC PRO access points c. $100-150 each and connect them to your existing switch / router (dosnt have to be Ubiquity kit, have even done basic installs using an ISP provided router.
Mmmmmmm maybe not, this just went public: http://waymo.com/
More than ever
Slightly off topic, but it was only recently that I found out that the video game roulette and black-jack etc. machines (known as fixed odds betting terminals) are the reason there are so many bloody betting shops in the UK.

The government restricted these machines to only 4 per shop. Apparently they print enough money that a betting shop will have 2 or 3 branches within walking distance to get around the limit.

This is along with all the other chains doing exactly the same thing. It's madness.
Building maps for a self-driving car
> "management of other people" is a key determinant of social status in some places

That's because control of other people is the primary status marker in much of the US.
I've read that they have a 'clunkly' ui on purpose. Adults struggle to figure it out but kids can just click around and figure it out much easier.
Perfect dialog here. For anyone who doesn't "get this"... watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Still up and running! You should log in and give it a try. :-)
The Uber Pool service doesn't require you to actually be matched. If there doesn't happen to be another rider going in the same direction, you still get the cheaper fare and it's counted as an Uber Pool ride.
Practical Redux, Part 5: Loading and Displaying Data
You can play with this map to see where the changes are biggest and smallest.

Interestingly, the strip from Maryland to Georgia - which normally stands out in US political maps, due to issues of slavery and race - stands out as being one big area where deaths due to drugs or substance abuse didn't increase much at all, annually, from a relatively low start.
Take a look at what Reagan did to national mental health services in the 80s. Pretty hard not to draw some correlation there.
Whenever I see a headline like this, I think "did reality change, or did the reporting methods?"
I fully agree with your take on this being an exercise in throwing money at a problem until it goes away. He probably didn't even need to go as far as diving headfirst into the world of fussy custom firmware to solve this issue either, Asus hardware comparable to his Linksys equipment is recommended so often that I can't imagine he researched the topic before making his buying decision.
Highspeed testing is important. Also the complexity of the traffic is. Some say that the high speed of the German Autobahn is what made German premium cars so technically advanced. As soon as you get faster than 130-150 km/h most cars will let you know they weren't built for this. BMW, Daimler or Audi make 230 km/h ++ feel safe and sound (which I often think they shouldn't). A Tesla for example can't perform autonomous driving here as easily because the variances in speed require sensors that detect cars in further distance, quicker and in more detail.
Anecdata: My circle of friends use neither and probably/seemingly are just clueless about what these services do.

If you see a change from using one to the other: Can you explain if they're mostly the same thing? What drove the adoption in the first place? For someone vaguely/minimal familiar with FB (no account) and a Twitter handle, how do these services tie into your daily life?

(I'm generally curious. I cannot ask someone around me, I know no one using either service. The blurb/marketing on the respective sites don't help)
Calling this a backdoor is an extreme measure. I wasn't able to see any working example, nor any responsible disclosure which seems bad.

Also, if somebody has the ability to run arbitrary code on your machine, I would think that it's game over at that point - backdoor or not. This is not a remote exploitable backdoor it seems.
The value judgments are inseparable from the 'harm or abuse' measurements; there is no value-neutral way to assess harm and abuse. You can say you want to be scientific and come up with numbers, but the selection of the metrics and the 'critical values' will be political and ethical decisions.

Having said all that, I am in favor of full legalization of every substance, even though I personally find the use of almost all substances 'distasteful'.
Your reply gets flagged / downvoted. Perhaps it's because it is really harsh.

The thought experiment is real though. But why would so many more people be better off dead now than a few decades ago? Perhaps mental care was better or more accessible? Or the function of f.e. economic stability helps a mentally unstable pass the most unstable period (20s?) with less chance of derailing?
+10. Also has an awesome Linux client that works flawlessly in Ubuntu and Debian, so we can do customer demos (@userify, if it matters) in the Linux+SSH environment that several of the more hard-core people here (including me!) prefer.
I see some of us are in good company!
I believe the conda package manager also has a SAT solver [1]

[1] https://www.continuum.io/blog/developer/new-advances-conda-0
Not mentioned in the article, but I suspect some of this is due to the closing of most state run mental hospitals, which ramped up starting in 1972.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation

Edit: More in-depth article on the topic: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/specia...
Awesome. Survival bias rears its head again.
Is it reasonable to assume that substance abuse deaths are far greater than mental health disorder deaths?

As for the increase: no shit. Alcohol, one of the most damaging drugs, plays a central role in our contemporary marketing economy that can scientifically manipulate into engaging with alcohol on a massive scale. On the pharma side, we shove extraordinarily dangerous drugs like Oxy, Klonopin, SSRIs and Adderall on under the guise of them being medication. Thanks to the industry surrounding all these things, people don't even know they are engaging in dangerous, life-threatening drugs until it's too late.
Unfortunately, this is superficially true but not in practice all that helpful for a lot of us. Most vim-style input modes or plugins for other editors are woefully lacking, and even very good ones (evil mode) seem to differ enough to be uncomfortable for a subset of long-term vim users.

Like: I've used Emacs extensively in the past, and certainly _could_ switch to evil if need be, but a few days of recent effort showed me that the switching costs are higher than I'm willing to pay right now, and it's not clear I'd be any better off in the end.

Whatever the infelicities of vim's implementation (there are certainly plenty), I think there's a tendency to underestimate the expressive nuance and (for lack of better words) complex texture of the interface.
Problem with all these hotkeys is discoverability and memory. In the end, I use just a few well known hotkeys. It's useless to define hundreds of them. I don't like modal editors especially because keys have even more functions then, which I have to remember.
Interesting. The only time I've ever had trouble was in a really large room where we had to schedule AV staff to operate everything. Day-to-day conference rooms worked just fine, even with multiple cameras, monitors, touch screens, etc.. This is at multiple companies/industries over the last 6 years (before that there were problems).
Can you give an example of one of these instances? I've heard of this sort of thing outside of the U.S. (James Bond bribes East German clerk to get the microfilm), but I haven't heard of domestic agencies doing this in the U.S.

Isn't it already disclosed in the Snowden documents that Skype has received NSLs?
It really depends on your hardware. For the WRT1900AC mentioned in the article, DD-WRT seems to have better support in recent months. The Kong builds have an especially good reputation among the DD-WRT crowd.

I'm running mainline DD-WRT on the slightly cheaper WRT1200, and aside from a couple of random 1-2 minute dropouts it's been great.
The Banach-Tarski paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
drugs have become the new treatment plan. and instead of fixing the mentally ill, they just sedate them until they reach an early death.
Premapping is still required as of today, but they do collect data to try and correct those maps: https://medium.com/waymo/building-maps-for-a-self-driving-ca...
Why would Musk and Tesla sell cars to ridesharing services when they can collect a piece of the revenue that they share with Tesla owners who participate on the Tesla Network rideshare service? Why should Tesla allow Uber or Lyft to profit off of its extensive autopilot work? They shouldn't, and they won't.
It is very hard to get green card or work visa in US, compared to other countries. I am a white guy from EU.
Same here. «kaka» — poo/bad thing, «kakoune» — somebody who does lot of poo. :-)

However, «vi» means visual, while it is the least visual editor among popular editors, so I expect by analogy that kak will be very good editor. Keep fingers crossed. :-)
Ask HN: Community based FAQs
I was recently reading Python FAQ about the language [1] and found myself enjoying the no-bullshit explanations about architectural decisions, internals and common pitfalls.

For example, this basic pitfall regarding a mutable list [2], is quite thoroughly explained along with best practices advice.

So my question is if there are similiar FAQs regarding other things in general, like for example architecture, databases, services, distributed systems, scalability, ML etc.

Can someone recommend something?

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.5/faq/index.html
[2] https://docs.python.org/3.5/faq/programming.html#why-did-changing-list-y-also-change-list-x
Rethink your thinking: career, controversy and more
Running solo doing around $750k/year on a desktop app. The market is so huge and so many niches to filll. Make something you can sell for $50-300 with upgrades once in a while and set up a simple shop. It has never been easier to develop desktop software. If I was going to start this route today I'd 100% make an electron app and try to address and already large market that has stagnated or has shitty entrenched players making a ton of margin.
Keeping Data in Sync with ActiveRecord::UpdatedAt
Not all in caps, surely?
So you're saying this is an Apple product from the Steve Jobs era, but with a surprising nameplate? ;)
Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]
I agree with your overall point that the talk's claims are overblown.

> unless you focus the hell out of them

By this you mean, increase the intensity of the radiation? Obviously, a person would die inside a microwave oven that uses the same frequency as wifi (2.4Ghz). But it seems myopic to dismiss the possibility that there are no other dangerous effects besides heating. There is still much ongoing research on the effect of pulsed/modulated microwave radiation (as opposed to continuous radiation). As another example, certain RF harmonics are particularly dangerous:

At frequencies near the body's natural resonant frequency, RF energy is absorbed more efficiently, and maximum heating occurs

http://www.arrl.org/rf-radiation-and-electromagnetic-field-s...
Scientists are copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump
Seeing as I am an Asian one living in America...
I'm optimistic. I agree with Musks estimates. At most I see first fully autonomous vehicles being on the roads within 5 years.

Yes, they may only work in places with clearly marked streets but if I could use my autonomous car for daily commute or roughly 50% of the time it's still an incredible achievement and well worth the cost.
> If we accept payment from publishers then we tie ourselves into their ecosystem even more.

yet you have no problem accepting payment from students.
This is the fundamental weakness of Google's system. It expects every road it drives on to be precisely mapped ahead of time, to the detail of knowing how many centimeters high the curb is. This was the reason their cars were described as impractical on a nationwide scale two years ago, and today's article confirms that it remains so today.
If both were free I'd pick the most expensive one obviously.
Haha, yep... was also autocorrected to limo. :(
Sounds like a 50 Shades of Gray scenario...
What does waymo mean?
An access that bypasses regular security / auth, isn't that the definition of a backdoor?
Whoah the quantity of subscribe popups, notifications and ads plastered all over the page is a huge turnoff. All this JS interaction seems to have somehow broke the animated gif as well.

Protip for publishers: one prominent entry point into "subscribing" with multiple choices is sufficient. I get that you want me to subscribe, but if I don't want to you're surely getting negative returns by creating such an obnoxious UX.
It'll cost waymo' than a regular car.
Every single popular framework/language/tech will be less so one day. Don't get too hung up on any individual one, or focus your career on a small subset of them.
probably, but keep in mind that those places are extraordinarily expensive to run. even though we are seeing massive increases in deaths as a result of their closure, it may still have been the right decision. there's a value to everything, including life.
fwiw I think Facebook's current implementation interfaces with a read-through cache. I think they've managed to make it fast without having to spend all of the effort on query planning that way.
I'm not sure it's their fault. Demand for "enterprisey stuff" fell dramatically once the data centers started buying mostly commodity things.

High end storage doesn't have quite the margins that it used to.
Although this site doesn't really offer any substance, I'm glad that Google is making this project more public. Not only it nice to have updates on the project (I do hope they continue to update this site with their progress) but I think PR campaigns like this will go a long way to swaying popular opinion on self driving technology. The faster they can get the public on their side, the fewer regulatory hurdles they will face.
> I kind of was expecting them to eventually go for the robocab business

Google's already using Maps to commoditize ride services (which will transfer to robocabs once they are on offer), so I can see them having the front and back end of that business while all the boring bits in the middle are commodities provided by others.
His father was not an immigrant, he was born in Queens. And the immigration laws are a much bigger obstacle now than they were even in the 80s.
Updates to Google’s Internet of Things Platform: Android Things and Weave
At least they could have given a more up to date report on what they are doing. 7 years passed since 2009 and all we've seen is a couple of promo videos with scant actual information. We have no idea how they compare to Tesla or other self driving car startups.
- don't only worry about code or getting features shipped, but about the process, how to deliver quality.

- behind any given reason, there is a complex network of real reasons. You don't need to second-guess any decision/order/suggestion, but it helps understanding.

- most user stories / user requests are raw diamonds waiting to be polished. ("What do they really want me to solve")

Essential reading list:

- Clean Coder and Clean Code https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsma... https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Coder-Conduct-Professional-Prog...

- Test Driven Development by Kent Beck https://www.amazon.com/Test-Driven-Development-Kent-Beck/dp/...
What MVNOs should keep in mind as they invest in technology
You mean Alphabet
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it should follow journalistic standards. The fact that it obviously isn't is irrelevant. If you're going to pretend to be a journalist, do it right or don't do it at all.
I've used wufoo.com before. I like their online editor.
Based on only spending a couple of minutes with it, I have to say your search engine is the first one that has made me "take notice" in a long time - well, since Google came on the scene.

I definitely plan to check it out more fully when I have some free time - but so far, I'm impressed with it. I like it!