skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably to the real-life rules for non-commercial pilots, that strictly forbid to transport passengers for profit. They can only fairly share the operating costs, meaning if there are 3 "passengers" the pilot has to pay 25% of the cost and can not be paid any compensation for being the pilot, so you always lose money on it (in the US, but I assume rules are similar in many parts of the world).
Sydney absolutely has red light cameras in the city.

But to be fair given the level of congestion and quality of the roads I doubt the point of speed cameras at all within the CBD. It's purely revenue raising.

And strongly disagree that Australia doesn't take crashes seriously. We are one of the most regulated societies in the world.
>an entire one acre farm

The way you wrote this reads as if you consider one acre to be a very large tract of land.

I have family that farm and I can tell you that one acre is actually quite petite as farms go. The average size of a farm in North America is something like 400 acres.
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> And with a built-in speaker, she can play your favorite podcast as she follows you around. She can't talk, but she will answer questions, such as whether it's going to rain today

So it's an extremely limited mobile phone that you get to trip over.
I agree that would be better, but I'm eager to hear the politically feasible, general solution that will help these people.

Unions and collective bargaining are one general solution, but those are under great threat now.

IME, Congress seems to play whack-a-mole with most issues; I've often wondered what about Congress causes that outcome.
Wow! Is there any chance you would share more about this?
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Cherenkov radiation[0] is when a photon is travelling faster than the speed of light through water. To overly simplify, the speed of light in a vacuum is different than the speed of light through a medium.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
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I fear that myself. Stake holders in the autonomous car business should lobby against that because in the end it's in they're own best interests.
Well I didn't cite because we don't have any. I mean really we have basically no Coffee [1]. I mean, TBH, we are a boring bland place with only big box shops - no record stores or anything unique [2]. You should really just drive through and pay no attention.

[1] - https://www.bustle.com/articles/155686-which-us-city-has-the...
[2] - http://www.infogroup.com/defining-the-hippest-us-cities
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In the next 5-10 years (maybe longer ?) it will be a net job creator.

And then a massive job destroyer. Of truly scary proportions.
there were no more long term legislators that knew the ropes

The term limits are specific to each house. There has been a tremendous amount of seat-trading (termed-out incumbent Senator running for Assembly seat, and vice-versa).

There is little of "teach them how to do everything"; it's more about (experienced leadership) telling them what to do regardless of tenure. Have you ever watched committee meetings? Understand the concept of "is this an 'A' vote or a 'B' vote", with members of whatever tenure marching in lock-step?

Many need Remedial Parliamentary Procedure 1A, and lots can't read legislation worth crap... including long-tenured ones. Otherwise, it's do-as-your-told-or-you-don't-get-campaign-money.

The problem isn't term limits; it's one-party rule.
I'm a pretty big fan of realclearpolitics, which makes a point of alternating between links from opposite perspectives in its news section, often making for amusing juxtapositions.

Unfortunately most people aren't interested in breaking out of their filter bubbles --- after all, those people on the other side of politics are just so stupid, and wrong, and probably evil, so why listen to them?
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Yes, this is a recurring problem with Chromium derivatives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9483064
The explanation is right here: https://keepassxreboot.github.io/project

But I agree, they should definitely link to it from the FAQ, since a lot of people are going to look there first.
Really? I thought aquaponics and other advanced techniques drastically increased that by an order of magnitude. Doing a quick search, it seems that you're right. For an average person, with an average diet, to feed a SINGLE person you need an acre (with traditional farming techniques)[1]. Wow. I doubted a thousand people could realistically be fed on an acre, but I thought at least 10 would be trivial, and 100 possible with some efficient tech.
Pretty eye opening, honestly (humbling moment, hah)

[1] http://www.farmlandlp.com/2012/01/one-acre-feeds-a-person/

EDIT:

The best I could find in terms of output in the US a farm that does about 40 tons with three acres, which is supposedly ~200 people [2]

[2] https://www.splendidtable.org/story/how-to-feed-10000-people...
Without a Ph.D?! Really?
I have opened this link two times thinking it was related to FreeCodeCamp (www.freecodecamp.com) lol
KeepassX is a clone/port of Keepass, if you weren't aware. Keepass is a decent name IMO.
Maybe I'm being selfish, but when I click on an AMP link I know the page is going to scroll funny on my iOS device (something with iframes?) and there'll be an oversized bar at the top and the site will feel really... bland and off compared to what I expected, like I clicked reading mode even though if I wanted reading mode I'd have clicked that.

Im torn because while I want mobile versions of sites to be fast over poor connections, I also don't want to read what looks like a cached version version of the sute. Maybe it's the AMP sites I've visited but it's always way too jarring
I read an essay on HN few weeks ago which said that the problem with G+ was that the higher mgmt at Google thought FB is famous because of a nicely designed product (rather than network effect), so they released a good product G+, it is somewhat a good product but it missed the train. Plus it has circles, it isn't intuitive.
Whoops, forgot to multiply by 56 lbs in that
Maybe your wife would like The Economist's sister publication called "1843". Less serious, but well written too.
https://github.com/iridium-browser/tracker/wiki/Differences-...
Is there a theory for what "effect" would be
produced by a theoretical object going faster than
light?

There really isn't an effect. The speed of light (in a vacuum) is just the speed of causality. The fabric of space-time will bend around you to ensure you can never get there. Objects without mass move at the speed of light, and no other speed.

Now if you don't mean in a vacuum but in a medium like water, or air, or ice, etc.

That is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
I strongly suspect that while Bukowski might have been depressed at his job, he probably had some cheerful as fuck coworkers annoying the crap out of him.

I have a friend who became a barista out of university. For most people that would be a depressing failure to get a "real job", but she got enthused, became hugely knowledgable about coffee, and seems to enjoy it. Her company keeps shipping her out to various coffee related events, so they clearly like her.

Sometimes people fit snugly into a crack in the world that fits their shape, and sometimes no such crack exists.
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Holy shit, this has actually been such a problem for me in the past. To the point where I actually had "read-only" copies of the db to avoid any corruption or password loss.
No one doubts that SDCs will eventually be at least an order of magnitude safer than us meat bags. If that takes 5 years or 50 less clear.

So switching over when they're 1% safer doesn't mean that's the end state. The margin will keep increasing for many years after that.
I think you're making an error there somewhere, possibly mixing calorie yields per year with human requirements per day.

Divide that by 365 for a more realistic estimate. About 60 people per acre if you can maintain the world record yield, or about 15 with the mean US yield.
Holy crap. In some sense it is really surprising there's only been one fatality. Just as well tomorrow there might be 10 more if people really do such stuff...
> Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me..

Henri Cartier-Bresson summed up Ira Glass' advice in 1 sentence.

> “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
I have to agree. Especially a car that can work worldwide.

For example here in Australia we have an animal called a Kangaroo which when a car approaches will move completely randomly. This includes at the last second jumping straight in front of a car. Most drivers from these areas know to slow down and attempt to drive in the middle of the road if at all possible.

Surely weird situations like this which require local knowledge exist all across the world. But I've yet to see any acknowledgement that this is useful.
So does he.
The older I get, the more "neurotypical" becomes synonymous for capitalism-compatible.

No matter the size of your parachute/coping mechanism, if you fall on Jupiter, it's not the (decelerated) fall that kills you, it's the jostling torture of simultaneously hitting fluid from under you, and being crushed by the weight of fluid above.
A friend of mine is a Brand Ambassador for AARP and they are working to reverse this exact perception. She teaches "technology" classes -- basically, how to use a tablet/smartphone -- to seniors.
I didn't (and can't) downvote you, but in general you're simply wrong. You cannot add more costs to "remedy" a cost center. If an insurer takes on more clients, they might make more profit, they might mitigate some risks, but their costs will definitely go up proportionally with their client base.

I'd also like to propose a thought exercise for you. Imagine a private insurer. They have, say, 50K clients. They make a couple million dollars a year in profit and make many millions of dollars in medical payments. Next year they double in size, which reduces their risk of failure and improves profit margin slightly. The better profit margin allows them to reduce costs a bit to attract more new clients. The next year they do the same, and the year after. Then they start merging with other insurers while continuing to grow. All along, as their client base grows, they improve profitability (and/or reduce costs) and their business becomes less risky.

Suppose eventually all Americans use this one enormous insurance company. They have the power to negotiate the best rates with doctors, drug companies, hospitals, etc. They have such a large client base that there is no risk, just extremely predictable income and expense. They can get costs as low as the medical industry will allow because they have such a large base.

Now suppose that this one enormous company is simply a part of the federal government. What changes to make single payer not work when it was working just fine before the words "federal government" were introduced?
Excellent, yes, that's exactly what I want.
Seems over complicated, here is the same thing with make and older csc tasks (taken from my blog here: http://flukus.github.io/2016/11/30/2016_11_30_Rediscovering-...):

Version ?= 2.0.0.1
$(version): $(init)
sed s'/$${Version}/$(Version)/g' src/Version.template.cs > build/Version.cs

Not to mention it's doing a lot of other things I would call anti-patterns, like running differently if it's on the CI server ("if(bambooRelease)") and checking in build artifacts.
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Typically companies that can depend on the state to keep the lights on offer worse service.

Conceptually.

This sounds like a user experience situation, a commitment to customer service, that has nothing to do with their federal funding. Yes they would have to adjust or find a real revenue stream, but I think it is mutually exclusive, unless it just simply is economically unviable.

I would totally hope there is no disruption in service. I'm just trying to understand what advantages Planned Parenthood actually has in the marketplace - outside of being a political football - that prevents alternatives from being available.
I was looking into this a while ago, i do remember there being a farm bot being kick started(1). I was wondering about doing something like that myself, but for a hydro solution for indoors - i am about to start at a new restaurant, so that has to go on hold at the moment though :)

Note: That farmbot i linked is open sourced, so i will personally be looking more into that when i have more free time.

(1) https://farmbot.io/ (seems to be about to ship the first batch)
Whether it's their fault or not, they're still going to lose legitimate business because of it.
Why don't you give DuckDuckGo a shot?
I took the liberty to draw a few situations which AI would have likely no clue what to do, even if it detected the danger. I'll be adding some more as every day on the freeway brings me new ideas (in fact I'm editing one right now). Something like a "Winograd Schema for self driving cars":
http://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/01/19/what-would-an-autono...
I literally just came to HN after browsing slate.com for a bit, currently on their front page is an article about a railroad company that sent 86% of their lobbying money to Trump and GOP PACs this last election cycle. Half of this company's revenue is based in pesos and susceptible to dollar/peso fluctuations and its core business is related to moving goods back and forth between the US and Mexico. Trump took dead aim at free trade, and NAFTA in particular on the campaign trail. Self interest seems to play no part in who people (and companies, thank you Citizens United) choose to support.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/01/23/kansas_city_s...

Edit: expanded on why a for profit company being pro-Republican would be against its own self interest.
Wellll, 33% of your revenue being cut means a lot of people get fired and services degrade so I would not say it's symbolic.

Abortions also count for only about 3% of their spending. Yes, they are a lightening rod for controversy.

Yes, this place seems to be a competitor but not sure what the costs and such are: http://www.realoptions.net/
Gotta appreciate that shout-out to formal methods!
Was the last commit back in Oct 2016 (https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/)? That looks like a long time gap. I am pretty sure there have been multiple security/critical bug fixes to Chromium between then and now.
They would be able to block your spends and could keep you from connecting to the network but that's it.
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I was thinking earlier, why don't mozilla or the FSF take a shot at building their own search engine? Imagine how many projects the monetization could fund?
The fully automated farm is a few years off. Here in Michigan large families with one or two employees farm 5-10,000 acres.

With good Iowa or Illinois farmland you can expect 200 bushels of corn per acre or 60 bushels of soybeans. This land by the way will cost you approximately $7,183 per acre.

If you're interested in this topic you might consider attending the precision ag conference, the next one will be in 2018

http://www.precisionagvision.com/

Or your vegan community could move to downtown Detroit. Cheap fixer upper houses going for $1,000 with plenty of inexpensive land nearby. City brings the water right to you and with drip irrigation you can water your crop inexpensively. Lots of restaurants that want your produce and the largest farmers market in the country. http://www.easternmarket.com/

Lots of inexpensive, though untrained, help for minimum wage. Wide lightly travelled city streets and they just rewired the entire city with LED streetlights. Five million people live in the greater Detroit metropolitan area. You will have be proactive on crime, lots of web cams would be a wise investment. It wouldn't hurt to be armed, in fact the police chief recommends it! But without risks there wouldn't be the immense opportunities.
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> By default it prints a diff, you have to use 2to3 -w if you want it to modify files on disk -- I certainly don't want tools modifying files in-place by default, so that seems like the right API to me.

Well, running 2to3.py -w -n -o [new_py3_path] [old_py2_path] got me a copy of a project with every fix already applied. Another alternative I've been thinking is doing a "last before 2to3 commit" (and leaving no pending changes), and then run 2to3 inplace and check those from the IDE (which may or may not be easier to a few folks that work with me).

I have to check a few more things, but it seems 2017 is the year I'm finally porting then two biggest projects I work on to Python 3. Luckily both projects aren't heavy offenders and should still remain Py2 compatible, but we may have the push with the clients to ask for exlusively Py3 support.
Why? The AARP foundation is involved in all areas of consumer protection since many retired people have limited funds.

http://www.aarp.org/aarp-foundation/our-work/legal-advocacy/...

Your comment comes across as ageist.

Edit: surprising rather than funny would have been a better adjective.
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This is profound:

"Sometimes people fit snugly into a crack in the world that fits their shape, and sometimes no such crack exists."

Kudos for creativity if that's original. Kudos of sharing if it's not.
Check out https://farmbot.io which is a smart automated bot for raised beds.

Also read up on permaculture which attempts to create better efficiencies through smart design.
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Even Egyptian slaves weren't at the bottom of the ladder (eg. they had subservient wives). Not advocating "sexism" here but it's worth mentioning subservience. Software engineers often really are at the bottom of the ladder, however. Food for thought.
Did anyone read this and go "hu"?

There's this whole thing about how they are getting data from mainframes where "the data was being returned in between one and six milliseconds".

But then: "harvest that data from the magnetic tape and load them up into more traditional databases. That Java application was extracting the data from the databases"

But then: "But the data from the mainframes was actually arriving (from its new home in the database) in less than six milliseconds. The bottleneck was — of course — the Java application."

So of course it is entirely possibly to write slow Java applications. But then the story seems to end! So what happened? Did they fix the application?
Agreed, we're making a lot of progress on this front!

>Unfortunately "long-distance imported fertilizer to in-situ fertility produced by soil organisms" cannot work if food is exported off of the farm.

It's not like there's a shortage of rocks (where soil bacteria and deep rooted plants harvest and dissolve micronutrients) or air (the source of carbon, as well as nitrogen fixed by rhizobium bacteria in root nodules). Soil tests only look at dissolved nutrients, not those yet to be released from the minerals in rock, which range in size from bedrock to clay. This is detailed in the video I linked.

But it certainly helps if you recycle human waste into fertilizer, rather than just releasing those nutrients into waterways (and ultimately, the ocean) or landfills. The key is to close the fertility loop while also interrupting the fecal-oral route. Thermophilic composting or biogas digesters can do this on a small scale, and systems like those used by Milorganite can do this on a city scale.
It seems like the definition of level 4 is a bit ambiguous; your link defines it as operating without human intervention, but only in "some driving modes". I've seen this interpreted as meaning that the vehicle can operate without human intervention as long as the driving mode does not change, but may still require human intervention if the conditions change (e.g., it starts snowing, or you exit the highway).
Finally! Very excited for an improved solution. It would be nice to have something like this on iOS and Android too, but at least my Mac and Windows computers will be able to play nice.
They can always turn AMP off if Google does something evil.
You're being unfair to Kafka here by reducing literary accomplishment to mere quantity. Yes, his works were all short, but all of them far surpass the majority of "novels" pumped out daily by the modern publishing industry and all its hacks, idiots who compose at a 6th grade level, for the indisputably puerile audiences they pander to.

The metamorphosis is apparently 20k words or so, and hell, it could be less. But those are 20k words of tight, well crafted prose and artistic execution. Far better than the 50-100k plus words of complete and utter doggerel the majority of us consume on a daily basis.

This is another issue of capitalism--reduction of human experience to mere quantity. You begin to ignore quality and humanity fades. You become content consuming the most infantile garbage so long as the industry keeps it flowing, so long as the magnitude of crap is great and undisrupted. Few are those possessing the willingness or mental fortitude to devote a few hours to care about humanity and its progression, we'd rather spend our hours playing video games or watching movies or tv to "relax" or "unwind"; surprise, surprise, this constant availability of mindless entertainment is another one of capitalism's traps designed to keep you content with a life unlived.

I realize I sort of got off topic from what you stated about Kafka, and none of this is aimed at you specifically boomboomsubban, you just got me on a roooolllll.

I understand your point about Kafka was probably more so that he could've produced more as a writer had his situation been different, not that what he didn't manage to produce wasn't necessarily good, but we don't know that -- we can't argue counterfactuals. It may well have been the case that Kafka simply spent more time on a given piece than most authors, and thus even had he more time to write his output may not have increased too significantly.
Prior using streak camera to capture up to 1 trillion fps:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16163931

Although this method required repeating the exposure multiple times from different angles. I still don't understand how they are doing it, or why the binary pattern is necessary. Wouldn't the DMD device be a limiting factor here?
Level 4 doesn't require driver change over. Level 4 is "it works perfectly on highways and in major cities". Level 4 is awesome!

Level 5 is "all cars in the entire world don't have steering wheels anymore". Yeah, level 5 is hard, but who cares, level 4 is good enough.