skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In Europe entire families usually share just one car.

Yet, in the case of France, the number of cars per household keeps rising; the share of households owning 2 cars, owning 3 cars, keep rising as well; in spite of the decrease of the size of households (the number of people per household).

To add insult to injury, car owners have become so lazy that don't bother parking their cars in their garage or their yard. Nope, that's out of fashion, now they park them on the public space: streets, roadsides, side-walks, etc. It's like witnessing an invasion, it spreads everywhere.
> "fairly expensive"

The higher consumption becomes the more economies of scale are available, leading to cheaper product.

> "doesn't taste great"

Barely tastes of anything (or mild nutty flavour) are the usual descriptions. But it does absorb flavours during the cooking process so to a certain extent you can make the final dish taste of virtually anything!
There's a one-line formula that is supposed to capture most of these motions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotrochoid

What always struck me as interesting is how some of them 'seem' like they're a projection of a surface onto the plane.

Edit: In fact, it would be nice to see a 3d version where the z-axis is the angle of incidence between gears (taking one as reference).

Especially in crazier patterns with gears that are not perfect circles. Too sad this is far in the past: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/465068187/wild-gears-20...

Note: in the starting position when you open the page, fixed 96, rotating 52. 13 revolutions for the curve to close. 52=4x13=gcd(52,96)x13
> How to sew.

Ask grandma! My mom taught me, but it was an even more common skill with the older generations. Or I guess there's always YouTube.

Does your maker space have a 4th axis for the laser? You can buy clear pint glasses and etch designs onto them. Combined with a custom etched coaster it makes an easy, inexpensive gift.
No, usually obvious millitary superiority leads to some general going "let's have a war, we'll win easily!" Or are you suggesting Saddam invaded Kuwait because he was unshure if they would invade first?
Aren't we going a bit too far with all this "political"-correctness? Are we living such harsh times that we need to take up a defensive stance when called an Emacs-virgin?
Is the libreboot/FSF drama relevant again? It still seems utterly ludicrous to me that RMS and his staff would fire someone merely for filing a workplace complaint about transphobia, as the Libreboot maintainer has claimed. Such a thing seems really out of character for Stallman, based on what I know of him from his political notes. [1]

I certainly think the FSF has its flaws, but everything about this project's "librexit" has felt wrong to me from the start.

[1] https://www.stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html
I'm doing exactly the same thing. I also use t to turn on control my Xbox and TV. Just turning them on and off for now. It's great :)
Everything everyone has ever made will eventually be forgotten, Ozymandias style. But George Michael has been, for decades, far, far better known than most of the people, startups, etc., that are discussed on Hacker News. Which doesn't mean the latter oughtn't be discussed, but there's certainly no reason to refrain from discussing George Michael either.
Thank you, I, who have not had a course in QM, actually managed to understand that link at a minimal level.
Show HN: Rollup plugin for Google-closure-compiler-js
Is the "Emacs virgin" thing really only used in reference to women? Referring to people who have never done something (scuba, driving a Miata, eating sushi, etc) are often referred to as "virgins" to that thing. Much like the sense of "virgin" (as in "extra virgin") olive oil.

The rest of this seems pretty reasonable but that particular complaint seems to be possibly an overreaction, depending on the context of how RMS used the phrase.

I don't like RMS either for the record and have thought he is self righteous and annoying for 20 years.
I wondered the other day if the Echo could track people who pirate their Prime shows (e.g. The Grand Tour, which became the most pirated show ever). The show begins with a "Amazon originals" banner with a particular chime. So all the Echo needs to do is listen to that chime, and listen for another few seconds to determine which show it is. Since it's connected to your account, it can see if you have Prime and if you just started watching the show. If it's not the case, it can flag you as presumably pirating the show. Even if they don't do anything evil with it, they can also do metrics of "favorite shows among pirates".
No fourth axis but a new laser may be coming next year so that'd be nice. I'll ask the powers that be about this feature.
TLDR: The libreboot leadership team continues attempting to prove themselves as unstable, petty and vindictive.
Same here, I just set up LetsEncrypt for a second site last week and didn't know this. From a glance at the docs it looks like it's relatively new. Ubuntu 16.10 has the automatic cron setup but not Ubuntu 16.04 which is what I used.
> Did you read the article? I say that because it wasn't about New Yorkers hating cars, it was about auto manufacturers deciding that Americans are going to be buying a lot fewer cars in the future, and then gave Los Angeles as an example of why.

I saw the part about buying fewer cars, etc. But flying over NYC and the NYT at 20,000 feet and also from decades of history I concluded that the NYT was eager to draw their conclusion about "fewer cars," in LA, Boston, NYC, because -- right -- the NYT hates cars and likes to fabricate silly stories to grab eyeballs.

I did not address the idea that people will be buying fewer cars because that seems to me to be beyond absurd, in NYC, Boston, and especially LA, although for different reasons especially between NYC and LA.

Indeed, IMHO, a significant fraction of the cars being sold now will get dumped relatively soon -- causing people to buy more cars instead of fewer -- because of the long list of electronic this and that that will fail and need maintenance -- before the shocks, suspension bushings, engine, transmission, brakes, and corrosion problems -- but where owners will discover that in the car industry good maintenance on such electronics is difficult to find and expensive. Heck, one car repair guy thought that connecting my radio antenna might give him an electric shock! E.g., one bright guy I know with experience just flatly states "Never own a BMW out of warranty."

For car manufacturers looking into self driving cars, all electric cars, super small cars (pregnant roller skates), cars with solar panels on the roof, hydrogen powered cars, cars that burn corn stalks, cars with pedals for driving up hill, etc., sure, they have to stay informed. Maybe, maybe, maybe, against nearly all common sense, the NYT, etc. will talk enough people with enough money into buying goofy, far out cars, and in that case the car manufacturers want to be in position to sell such cars. No way can I believe that the big collection of goofy cars will become significant.

Uh, I'm a car nut, e.g., once was made a Full Member of the SAE. To me, finding anything at all realistic about cars in the NYT is like looking for Levi's 501 blue jeans on the runway of a NYC fashion show!

Or, the NYT is having fun saying that the
cars they hate are on the way out. Wrong. The NYT is on the way out.
Doesn't regulatory arbitrage mean following the regulations but taking advantage of loopholes in them? So it's not illegal. That seems a bit different from breaking them, possibly paying a fine, and still profiting anyway. The latter is what I've heard of Uber doing in some cases. It's also what shops do by trading on holidays where they're supposed to be closed.
Actually he didn't exactly 'work for Monsanto', he founded WeatherBill/The Climate Corporation, which was acquired by Monsanto in 2013 (for 1.1Bn!). Presumably he was 'resting and vesting' until his exit in 2015.
Doesn't really make much sense to prepare obits for people who aren't near the age of death, or otherwise aren't near death. The NYT prematurely prepared with Castro in 2006 -- who was thought to be near death -- and had to throw entire sections of their reporting out. [0] Most other newspapers, the Castro obit writers were no longer employed by 2016. It's basically journalism's version of cache invalidation, which is also one of journalism's hardest problems.

OTOH, I'm sure many news orgs have a Carrie Fischer obit prepared by now.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/29/insider/fidel-...
Car rentals for those times you really need a car for a few days. Especially given the cost of parking in a city like DC or NYC (unless you want to play the "move your car every other day for street cleaning" game), it's possible to rent a car almost every weekend for the same cost.
I'd like to learn Japanese. I'm hoping to travel there in June after I graduate from college, and I figure it would help if I could talk to people (or try, at least).

I'd also like to get better at Rust. I've written a few small projects in it at hackathons, but I've yet to get to the point where I'm comfortable writing in it. I'd like to get close to that.

I'm taking a class prior to graduation in abstract algebra, which I'm excited for. I'm hoping to be able to continue to learn in this after graduating, I've thought about continuing to take math classes at a college by Seattle after I start working.

I'm hoping to lean more about machine learning and how it can be applied to problems, a project that I'm hoping to do in advancement of this is to learn to predict cloud cover in some future interval based on the history of some things (maybe pressure and current cloud cover?)
The key word in your comment is "seems".

There are two problems here, real astroturfing and imaginary. Real astroturfing is a violation of HN's rules. When we find evidence of it, we ban the accounts and sites involved. Imaginary astroturfing—people convincing themselves that the only possible reason for some comment they dislike is that the other user must be an astroturfer or shill—is also a violation of HN's rules. Some people feel a temptation to sling such accusations at each another, merely because they strongly disagree. That is uncivil and it isn't allowed on HN.

Since these two are quite different problems, we need a way to tell the one apart from the other. The way is simple: we look for evidence. If there's actual evidence that someone has been abusing HN, we ban them. If there isn't any evidence, we tell the person who invoked the accusation that doing so is against HN's rules and ask them not to do it again. An opposing opinion does not count as evidence.

If you have evidence that someone is abusing HN, please bring it to our attention. If you don't, you're not allowed to smear someone anyway. Either way, it's not ok to use such accusations as ammunition in an argument. Concern for the integrity of the community is welcome, but invoking that merely to score points against someone is not.
> I agree it should be optional to just live in an uninsured and unsellable shed if you want.

I'm seeing a lot of that sentiment, and my libertarian nature does agree with it; however, houses are often directly connected to a shared electrical, water and sewage systems -- improper design of a structure can have serious effects on these systems and thus on the neighborhood as a whole.

So, to allow that ideology, you'd also have to prevent these homes from being connected to these services.
Singapore does pretty well, considering their 'traditional' main water supply is situated in another country (Malaysia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...

They currently have the capacity to satisfy 30% of water demand using 'reclaimed water' (i.e. recycled) and 10% using desalinated. Although I don't think they actually need to fully utilise these capacities as 50-75 per cent of their water needs are met by man-made rainfall catchments.
Have you tried any of the online freelance market places, like toptal, upwork, peopleperhour..etc ?
I want to get trained on all of the machines at techshop.ws. :)
> "They were built the old-fashioned way," said Mr. Debly, himself 80, "the way we did it in the '60s."

Not exactly the "independent third party" you are describing.
So you use a flip phone then?
> Personal statement from Leah: RMS's comments about emacs virgins is especially offensive to me. Not only is it sexist in general (and directed at me, because I don't use emacs), but also offensive towards my sexuality. His statement implies that men are supposed to have sex with virgin women, and that women only lose their virginity to men.

Good grief what an overly sensitive society we are becoming. Sorry to this person that didn't have his/her sexual ideals validated by another human being. What do you care what a bitter old man thinks about for the things you do in your private bedroom? The only other group of people who talk more about sex details than 16 year old boys are political correction police.
Quinoa has about twice the protein content of white rice, which is why some people like it, nevermind the fact that putting a few beans in your rice gets you the same nutrients for less money. Some people also like the taste (I do). However, just because a meal has one healthy ingredient doesn't mean it's healthy.

"The lunch bowls contain as much as thirty-two grams of fat and fourteen hundred milligrams of sodium—on par with a Big Mac-and-large-fries combo, which has twelve hundred milligrams of sodium and fifty-three grams of fat. (Most Eatsa bowls have single-digit levels of saturated fats, however, considerably lower than the levels in the combo meal.)"

Why is this stuff basically a deep fried salt-lick? Taste, probably. Like McDonalds, it's not going to kill you if you indulge once in a while, but don't kid yourself that this is something you can eat everyday without there being some repercussions. Marketing this as "healthy" is highly deceptive.

"High sodium and fat content, which are associated with heart disease, may counteract some of the health benefits of the vegetable-rich quinoa bowls. But Friedberg is more interested in the grain’s planetary benefits. Animal feed, he noted, supplies the calories for growing the entire animal, not just the meat that’s sold as the end product..."

Justifying deceptive marketing of fast-food junk as health-food in order to save precious planetary resources smacks of sophistry. This guy could try to produce cheap, healthy, environmentally friendly food if he wanted to, but he wanted to be profitable instead. That's fine, but convincing people your junk is healthy is a damned scummy way to go about it. It's killing humans to save cows.
Sales. I have a computer science degree and learned software development isn't for me so I'm switching to sales this year.

I'm looking forward to having both the technical skills and sales skills under my belt.
That's strange. I swore last year I would never use a non-LTS version for a server. Unless I'm missing something, it seems to be more headaches than it is worth to roll with the XX.10 vs XX.04.
I've gotten a lot of side projects done in my spare time. The trick is to make apps/programs for what you need. Not something that someone else wants it.
NYC cabs average 100,000 miles per year and use 1976 cars. http://www.caranddriver.com/features/taxi-tough-a-look-insid...

Prios cab hit 620,000 miles on it's first battery. http://www.hybridcars.com/toyota-prius-taxi-running-strong-w...
I'm planning on studying deep learning techniques and relevant literature so I can apply it to the generation of better phonemes for my Donald Trump text to speech engine [1].

I've also got a huge interest in film and intend to teach myself filmmaking. I've had an interest in exploring it since middle school, but I've never committed the time. This year I'm obligating myself to film and edit something short every weekend. I live in Atlanta and our film scene is burgeoning, so I'm also hoping to network with local filmmakers and students.

Anyone in the Atlanta area interested in either of these subjects?

[1] http://jungle.horse
I posted this to Reddit a few years ago and still get messages about it every few days.

"June 16, 2009: my wife suddenly passed away at home, at the age of 34.

I was the one who found her, and she'd been gone for at least an hour if not more when I did.

We'd been together for eleven years. It wasn't perfect - what marriage is? - but things had been worse, and were in the process of finally getting better. Being best friends can help you get through the worst of times. I felt guilty that one of my thoughts was "at least now we won't fight over stupid crap that doesn't really matter".

For at least six months, I was on autopilot. I went to work, did what I had to do to get paid, and just. didn't. care. Ate a lot of fast food because I didn't want to expend the energy to go to the grocery store. I bought my cats food from Amazon because they'd deliver it to my front door.

Depression is a horrible thing; only now can I look back and realize just how bad it was.

It's not every day, but there are times when I think about joining my wife, but then that would just mean an end result of other people having to deal with the aftermath of my problems.

There are days when I get home from work and unlock the front door and walk into a quiet house, where I would give up everything I own to have someone there to give me a hug and sincerely ask how my day went and honestly care about my answer.

Something so simple as human touch, compassion, and companionship is worth more than anything else in the world. If you've got it, if you have someone that loves you - don't give that up. Don't waste it. Don't be petty or throw it away because of other little things that don't really matter in the grand scheme of life.

Some of us wonder if we'll ever get to experience it again."
The art of cutting edge, Doom 2 vs. the modern Security Industry
As a self-taught programmer without much in the way of "official" pro experience (I have another job and program just to increase capabilities in that role), Docker was a revelation to me. I've programmed lots of tools at home, but getting anywhere in production is a nightmare of trying to wrangle managers and sysadmins into helping me translate my vision into a full-blown, deployed app within the business's stack. This year was the first time I was able to throw something together, Dockerize it, and have it deployed by a sysadmin with one or two minor code changes to work through our proxies. There are a lot of things that make me nervous about containers (persistence for example), but that was a game-changing experience for me and opened a whole new window of possibility.
If you see them as something that will make you a "skilled programmer", or something that will be a nice addition to your resume, you probably won't get anywhere. Well, maybe you will become a "skilled programmer" and you may be able to add a line to your resume, but does that really matter? You're sacrificing your precious time which you could be spending to do something more meaningful, like spend time with family and friends, read books, experience new things in life. And in that case I would rather just spend time doing something more meaningful instead of trying to force yourself to find some side project to work on.

Most successful side projects come from people wanting to express themselves. If you don't have an idea that you want to build at the moment, don't force yourself, just enjoy life and only jump on it when you stumble upon an idea you really want to work on so much that you would even sacrifice your sleep time.
They ended his obit with the Beverly Hills bathroom incident. Way to stay classy BBC!

His music has been continuously played everywhere from shops to bars to events throughout the western world -- almost as a form of crowd control -- for almost two generations now. It will probably continue to be a staple of western audio-soma for at least another generation, and there is no denying his genius for it.

Not a good year for pop stars. Rest in peace.
It seems odd that the 'independent third party' volunteered to do it:

> ...At one point, a professional home builder, Raymond Debly, volunteered to do an independent inspection...

This guy is a 'professional home builder' which I believe is not a licensed professional, and 'volunteers' (read: do it for free) to do an inspection. In fact, when you read further:

> And the trusses were fine. ("They were built the old-fashioned way," said Mr. Debly, himself 80, "the way we did it in the '60s.")

This hardly inspires me with confidence. Someone who has been retired for 15 years volunteered to do an 'inspection' for what I presume is his friend. This is not an independent firm doing a paid-for inspection on behalf of both parties.

The building may have been fine, but the independent inspection does not sound like a verification that the building is up to modern verification codes.
I loved these as a kid! This brings back memories. I've never thought about the math behind it but maybe I should, this is awesome.
Do you want to know the secret to starting projects for yourself? Don't buy or download any software just write it yourself.

I've got a huge movie collection on DVD. Rather then use Plex I made my own website to do the same thing. I have a lot of PDFs of books I want to read, made similar software to allow me to keep my position in my browser

I wanted to study for a HAM license general exam do I made this: http://ham.joshuakatz.me/exam

I've been looking for a thinkpad x220t so I made this go scrape cregslist for me:
https://github.com/gravypod/BargeIn

(I live in N. NJ if anyone has one laying around)

There are thousands of examples where I've done this and it's very fun. It improves your abilities and toolings and in general makes your life on the computer much easier.

You don't have to be trendy just be useful to yourself and people will like it.
In case you think this is just a toy, have a look at what the professionals do:

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/rolling-hypo...
Are there good ways to use Terraform internally / without online providers like AWS? I've just started using it with DigitalOcean, but I'd like to use it at home to do IAC with my whole setup. As far as I can tell the only good route for this is to throw OpenStack on bare metal, but I'm a newbie so I wonder if there's a better way.
Ship a game. Better understanding of setting up a reliable backend. Grow current business and start ranking better for more organic traffic. Vim. And really work through being able to quickly whip up a project with one of the major JS framework. Also, using a VPS such as DO and make it secure.
All you save is the driver and some fraction of the accidents, and you gain a lot of sensors that need maintenance. Free transportation would be something indeed, but uber will never be more than a cheap taxi, and "cheap" is just a function of income.

Additionally, taxi service doesn't have to be unreliable, that's more about american car ownership being so high there isn't much market for taxis.
My condolences. I know there's not much I could say that would help. Hang in there.
http://hirudov.com/oric/ or http://www.oric.org/software/

or type all kind of old basic games: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/your-computer-80s-comp...
this isn't quite what you asked, but Debug (http://www.imore.com/debug) is really good. It's focused on Apple stuff, but features some really tremendous in-depth interviews, and Guy Ritchie is the best technical interviewer I've heard.
If you have ever noticed how pop music is used to subliminally "nudge"/suggest/control people, and if you realize just how accomplished he was at making that kind of music, you would know that what you have said is gravely mistaken.