skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, this article for me took about 5 seconds after loading the text to apply its CSS and fonts, which was kinda jarring when reading. I don't need an exotic font to read basic content. I'd most like a simple lightweight site, but I'd take AMP over this site's clunkiness.
I don't know what the maximum number of people you could sustain on an acre is, but my guess is way less than 1000. Like an order of magnitude less, perhaps closer to two orders less.

The world record corn yield is 500 bu/ac. 1 bushel of corn is about 1500 calories. EDIT: 1500*56=84,000 calories

If you could do 1000 people per acre, you would have enough food for 36 billion people from the state of Iowa.
Seattle has also aggressively ramped up apartment construction with demand. Rents are projected to level next year, which is nice.
Hmm. Interesting theory.
Wow, that is a scary video.

I'm surprised the NHTSA doesn't have a rule saying auto-pilot should be 100% autonomous, in control, and capable of driving in the current conditions, or it should pull over, turn itself off, and put the car in manual control mode. Counting on drivers to understand when auto-pilot can and can't handle driving conditions seems like a completely stupid idea and a recipe for disaster.
You can think what you want about their watches (and I certainly think their modern self congradulatory dials filled with a ridiculous amount of text are horrifying), but they are a excellent engineering company running a ruthlessly efficient operation.

One thing that really makes rolex stand out is their quality control. They make nearly 1 million watch movements per year and have an unbelievably low return rate for defects. The true number is a closely guarded secret, but it's tiny. When a watch leaves rolex it's perfect.

Everything that goes into a rolex is made by rolex. There is only 1 other watch company that can say that (seiko), and that only applies to particular lines they make. Rolex makes their own sapphire and hairsprings, 2 of the most complex things to manufacture in the world. The swiss watch world is a complex maze of subvendors and parts bin makers, but rolex does it all themselves, and does it extremly well.

The place rolex really sets itself apart is their bracelets. Put a rolex on and snap the clasp shut and it will just feel different from any watch you have ever worn. They are extremely heavy, but also amazingly comfortable. For the rolex price point no one can even come close to the wearing experience.

If you wanted a luxury steel watch and didn't want to research your options, going and buying whichever rolex you liked the look of would net you an extremly well made watch built to insane tolerances. You could do a lot worse.
Sadly, it doesn't even require JavaScript, it's CSS:

animation: marquee 20s linear infinite;
Excellent comment. I'll also point out that system z mainframes are not slow machines, so even with some emulation overhead there is typically enough performance.
Agree. Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_Arab_Emi...
Used sparingly, the <blink/> tag was at times practical. Unforunately those that used <blink/> used it zealously.

I feel like there's should be a word that described the things that get ruined by a small number of abusers. I'd probably already know it, if such a word were coined, but maybe not.
Duomo Di Milano (Milan Cathedral)
I'm not sure how we go from John Smith opposing high density development to John Smith being asked to redistribute his wealth to anyone? While we're on the topic of wealth redistribution though, perhaps John Smith shouldn't demand that younger people redistribute their wealth to him so that he can keep paying taxes on his property that are well below the current levels. All the while railing against any effort to make housing and transit more affordable.

>[1] That is to say, nobody that isn't mentally ill or detached from reality.

I too hate to nitpick, but...unless we're taking a very literal view of starving, as opposed to a constant struggle to feeding yourself, you should check out the percentage of SF schoolchildren on subsidized lunches or perhaps spend some time among the homeless, particularly homeless youth. I can assure you there are plenty of people going hungry in SF.

I suppose you are correct in that no one is holding a gun to their head though, just a case of bad luck I guess.
That's nice, but incorrect, and I suspect a backcronym formed by not knowing what it stood for...
> he Federal Circuit decided in Lexmark’s favor, ruling that a customer’s use of a product can be “restricted” by the patent owner with something as simple as a notice on disposable packaging.

Holy hell. IP law is getting out of control. How are we debating someone's right to use the thing they legally purchased?

If you don't want someone to use your product, then don't sell it.
Get Ready, Your Robotic Roommate Is Moving In
> Who has childish expectations in this scenario?

So any employee who sets boundaries for their employee's behavior, is being childish?

> "you have to come to where _I_ am to do work, just like _I_ do"

Should read

"you have to come where the _team_ is to do work, just like the _team_ does."
That reaction makes a lot of sense. Indeed, that would be the most effective method!
> That is genuinely insightful, and is most certainly a political problem to address.

Why is that a political problem?
> I agree, but how does showing up with a wad of cash instead of a check from a student loan agency increase your negotiating power?

Because cash you can spend somewhere else.

Suppose you like football. If the money is "student loans" then you can spend it by attending a school with a big fancy college football stadium and subsidized tickets for students. If the the money is cash then you can use it to go to that school instead of a less expensive one with no football stadium, or you can go to the less expensive school and use the money to buy NFL season tickets.

So when the money is student loans, people have only the first option and all the schools have to build big fancy football stadiums to attract students. But you can't do that on a per-student basis. And you can't directly buy college football tickets with student loan money but you can launder it through administration to subsidize them. So everybody who attends that school ends up paying for football even if all they really wanted was an education, and then people have to consider the quality of the school's football team when choosing schools instead of only the quality of their professors. It would have been better to have just let the students who like football use the money to buy NFL tickets.

And so on for twelve other categories of student loan money laundering colleges have to engage in to attract students.

> UBI also removes the advantage of centralized negotiating power that's beneficial in industries like healthcare. With Medicare or a private insurance company the $500 list price for doctor's exam can be negotiated down to $99.

There is no reason you can't use your UBI money to buy private insurance.

And the only reason the list price for those things is $500 is that everybody knows the scam. The buyer for the insurance company wants to look like a great negotiator to his boss, so the doctor's office claims everything costs five times as much as they actually want and the buyer gets to look like a big hero for whacking it down so much.

And in general insurance makes things cost more for the same reason colleges with fancy football stadiums are more expensive. People don't ask whether something is worth the cost when they're spending somebody else's money. If you're paying out of your own pocket, you ask if knowing the result of some test is really worth $1200 of your money. If the insurance company is paying for it, you run all the tests whether you need them or not.
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The long and winding road that brought “local” dishes to our plates
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112167/
>No, you would know it was due to real, physical bullying back then. Not "someone said something I don't like on the internet", but injuring someone and/or degrading them publically due to them loving technology.

When exactly is "back then" though? I went through school about ten years ago and was beaten up for nerdiness all the time, why people think they can leverage this into a lifetime of misogyny is beyond me. Everyone takes shit in grade school, kids are mean.

>He was wearing a shirt his female friend made for him.

That doesn't make it not sexist.

>She wasn't harassed for making it, he was - because he is a white male in a science field

No, she wasn't harassed because she wasn't wearing it.

>the social justice warriors of the internet decided he is a target for abuse and public degradation, that a shirt is a reason women aren't getting into science. They decided he is a "misogynist" and a "sexist pigdog". That's abuse. That's bullying.

It's too bad a man was called a misogynist on the internet, it must have really hurt his feelings. I thought people like you think SJWs need to grow a thicker skin? Resilience is a two-way street, pal. If you expect us to be tolerant of your abuse, you'd better be tolerant of ours.

>And let me guess, that would be a straight white male.

Good boy! Here's your cookie.

>You're doing a good job of reminding people of their abnormality and victimizing them.

There's a certain kind of conservative who seems to think that any discrepancies in equality in modern western culture are due to individual failings of will because we made sexism and racism illegal like, last century, dude. I don't need to remind people of their abnormality, it's impossible for them to ignore.

I know because I'm neither straight nor a male. (though I am most certainly white) Far before anybody could tell me I was oppressed, I experienced oppression. In particular people in grade school beat me up for expressing femininity, because it is considered unacceptable for men to act feminine in our culture. Telling me I'm not a victim while I'm lying in a puddle of my own schoolwork mixed with other peoples' spit getting the shit kicked out of me doesn't make you clever or objective, it makes you a sadistic asshole.
In my opinion/experience, there are some important hidden costs of staying in py2:

1) Hard-to-read or quirky code. Unicode handling, args, harder unpacking, etc. The more time it passes, the more updates py3 gets, and the more outdated the py2 code looks.

For instance, after a year almost exclusively in py3, I have completely forgotten about iter(), unicode gimmics, etc. and also rely more on stuff that is just too slow on py2 (like ordered dicts). With 3.6, I can start assuming dicts are ordered, which will create further breaks for py2 users (if they want to backport anything).

2) Outdated libraries. As the other comments say, epydoc is abandonware. Had he migrated to py3 earlier, he would have stopped investing in that tool earlier and switched to the standard (sphynx).

3) Harder to interact with others in the community.

Although the folks at google might think otherwise, most people are now using py3, and most code being developed right now is on py3 (at least open source code).

If you are still on py2, it will be harder to hire (it hints at huge technical debt, and a tedious working environment), harder to sell to others (e.g. I don't use google compute because of that), and harder to collaborate on (for open source projects).

All in all, the more that py2 and py3 diverge, the harder it will be for legacy (py2) users to migrate (this was not the case a few years ago, when there were still important libraries on py2 only).
Are you professionally connected to this field? I'm just someone who reads as much of the best sources I can (about international relations, not just China).

I agree about FP; I don't read it regularly but I'll follow a link there. I'd love to know what you do read. I've actually found a lot of quality sources over the years (depending on how you define it); I can send you a spreadsheet listing most of them if it interests you. I'm always interested in finding more and better sources.

Here's one of my favorite hidden gems:

* The Lowy Interpreter

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter

The Lowy Institute is Australia's leading foreign policy think tank, as far as I can tell. They provide expert insight and often a much different perspective than U.S. and European peers, both about the issues we know and also about which issues are important. And it's relatively well written.
Yes, so far at least, I don't think any company is even proposing anything past Level 3 on their near-future roadmap.
Too bad Rethink couldn't find a business model and vanished.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12649414
Normally, out of network means not covered by my insurance. Or covered at a greatly reduced rate.

If there were a private organization that was as earnest and competent at providing full service reproductive care up to and including abortive treatments, I would definitely consider them as an option. Such an organization does not exist as of today. I can't postpone medical care until such time an organization like that exists.

Ah! I have another story that demonstrates how awesome Planned Parenthood is. So I came back from overseas and needed a non-emergency but urgent visit. I had insurance. Overseas insurance. I called around to OBGYNs around town without having a local PCP. Obviously having just come from overseas, I didnt' have a local doctor. Nobody would take me. I told them I would pay 100% cash. Still no takers. Planned Parenthood did. They took my appointment, gave me a price, I paid 100% of the charge, and they filled out my foreign insurance paperwork in a foreign language.

Why is Planned Parenthood so much better at providing reproductive care and so much more accessible than OBGYNs?
White House Pushes 'Alternative Facts.' Here Are the Real Ones
Tragedy of the commons?
Quantum phenomena is definitely complex but idk if it's the most important idea.

Human consciousness seems more interesting. Is consciousness related to quantum phenomena or can be measured on that level at all?
But you just made up that scenario, and its consequences.

Also, each post seems to contain more hyperbolic phrases. I think they are obvious enough that I'm not getting into the business of listing them.
It's an interesting idea but where do these data come from? Fitness data makes sense but health records/lab reports/medical claims are owned by doctors and insurance companies...
Scylladb and Couchbase are both codebases run by companies that have free versions, just like Aerospike. If you don't like our model, you shouldn't like their model.
By my reading of the article, stale2002 is correct. Pratt is clearly talking about the difference between Level 4 and Level 5 in his first two answers. Level 4 doesn't require driver attention, it just requires the driver to be (instantly?) available if the system has a problem, and this change-over is the situation that Pratt worries about in his fourth answer.

(NB: When he says "The article was talking about level 5", it's clear from context that stale2002 means that the article was talking about level 5 in terms of technological difficulty and timelines.)
Yeah it describes pretty basic "discoveries", and reads a bit like a book report. Would love some detail.
Docker is less of an pseudo-VM and more like a linker. No matter what the environment is like on the host you can be sure that it's identical to yours within the container.
> Binary package for OS X >= 10.7

But I get:

> You have OS X 10.11.6. The application requires OS X 10.12 or later.

??

Edit: Looks like this is a known issue[1].

1. https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/181
The most land-efficient crop you can grow in the US is corn, at 15 million calories per acre. (In warmer climates sugar cane edges it out with about 17 million calories per acre). Your one-acre farm could feed about fifteen people, not one thousand, and that's if people could live on corn alone.

If you want to improve agricultural technology I'd suggest finding and talking to some farmers and finding out what they want, rather than starting from a clean sheet and an idea of what a science fictiony farm ought to look like.
About PyPI, it is a bit messy.

I backported a py3 project to use py2 (on behalf of a few users) and it was a real pain in the ass to have a wheel that allowed for both versions.

I ended up having a py3 build on github, and using a TravisCI build that ran pasteurize and pushed to PyPI that version. At this point, I don't even know what the travis.yml file is doing (100 lines), and regret a bit backporting the project.
نتيجة الشهادة الابتدائية 2017 برقم الجلوس
So increase your "privacy" at the risk of your security? Personally, I trust a fully-patched chrome more than a browser that lags behind the latest security updates by 6 weeks.

(Iridium is currently branched off chromium 54, chrome is on version 55)
Is there research linking severity of punishment with frequency of behavior?
> If you removed Tesla from the equation, Level 4 autonomy would be half a decade away... it's pretty sad how far behind the industry is from this perennially cash strapped upstart.

This is simply untrue. Volvo will have a release this year.

The notion that Tesla are the only ones innovating because they're the only ones using the public as guinea pigs is hogwash. Mobileye, Tesla's original self driving technology, isn't even part of Tesla. They have other clients.
Google X co-founder Yoky Matsuoka returns to Nest
The article links to Rodney Brooks, who mentioned this in a recent blog post http://rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-consequences-of-self-driv...:

> At least one manufacturer is afraid that human drivers will bully self driving cars operating with level two autonomy, so they are taking care that in their level 3 real world trials the cars look identical to conventional models, so that other drivers will not cut them off and take advantage of the heightened safety levels that lead to autonomous vehicle driving more cautiously.
> "Uber for planes" would be highly illegal, and everyone involved would get arrested.

Are you referring to the recent movie "I.T." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.T._(film) where Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a airline company CEO who roles out an app that does for planes what Uber does for cars? He gets wrongfully arrested in the movie, but not for his "Uber for planes", but for something else. The roles in that film didn't square with reality. Brosnan portrayed an ethical family man and company director ignorant about IT, whereas in real life he'd be fiddling his company books, cheating on his wife, and using his business's IT infrastructure to illegally monitor his employees. The antagonist could talk to girls and run a sophisticated surveillance system, but couldn't shrug off a snub by Brosnan's character. None of it was believable. I wouldn't use anything in that film as a reference to real life.
If you were an elephant
Nitpick, but you cannot assume dicts are ordered in Py3, even in 3.6. CPython's 3.6 implementation will make it so, but it's totally a CPython implementation detail. Please use ordered dicts when appropriate (they'll be dicts in CPython anyways)
Is that why the people that do the crap jobs get paid the least? Or maybe there are systemic power imbalances and threatened violence for the poor.
If you use DuckDuckGo you can include "g!" in a search to Google it instead (except in a way that does not return AMP results).
When Google does these rollouts, you can usually find the new APK on APKMirror [1]. (If you sideload the APK and it ask you if you want to upgrade the app then you can be sure that the signature matches the one used to sign the previous version.)

[1] http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-voice/google-...
It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on the rest of what I wrote, specifically why owners are exempt from working for what they consume while consuming so much.
I think you're not recognizing the magnitude of difference here. I could personally pay for the normal checkups and basic healthcare for my family and my immediate neighbors with no real hardship. However, just one of the people I provided care for was diagnosed with cancer or any of a number of severe, chronic diseases, it could wipe out my savings entirely. The cost of one severe illness could cover the cost of dozens if not hundreds of generally-healthy people's healthcare.

I don't strictly disagree with your assessment that people should cover their own basic healthcare needs. I just don't think that this actually does much to make coverage more affordable in general, because it's catastrophic coverage that costs so much.
Matrix Computations and Optimization in Apache Spark (2016) [pdf]
Maybe with more contributors they'd be able to keep up with the security patches in a more timely fashion.
Yes, you are right, the speed is great and the concept is actually quite interesting. What annoys me is the fact that they broke the UX on iOS (don't know about other platforms);

- you cannot scroll to the top by typing on the bar at the top on the screen

- there's this AMP title bar at the top, that's super annoying. I read, they might eventually add the option to hide it

- feels like they tried to implement smooth scrolling what conflicts with native iOS smooth scrolling resulting in not-so-smooth scrolling

Finally, and that is more important I'd say, we have the whole point about the openness of the Internet. People are concerned about what Google (and Facebook) does because there is the potential to create a walled garden of exclusive content not everyone can access - which would actually contradict the idea of AMP, wouldn't it?
You don't have to keep all of your credentials in LastPass. For example, I don't store any email credentials or important accounts such as Google or Microsoft. Everything else (like HN) is negligible if LastPass gets owned.
What Self-Harmers Want You to Know
Yep, and then I switched to OpenVPN! :)
People accept that humans are imperfect and cause accidents. Accepting that computers will make mistakes and kill people is another story. Especially if the owner of the car is a 1 percenter or a mega corporation and it kills an innocent bystander.
The Trump administration stated today that they will remove 75% of all regulations currently in place.

Given that self driving cars are a potential job creator you might find those regulations removed.
What Bitcoin Has Become
Programming's Dirtiest Little Secret - 2008
It's funny to see the AARP working together with EFF and Mozilla.
Yeah, that's my biggest concern. It's already hard to buy a PC without a copy of Windows. Imagine if you couldn't even buy a PC without relinquishing the right to switch your OS later. Or if you had to agree to leave the bloatware installed. One could come up with all sorts of horrible things if SCOTUS rules in favor of the printer company.
> Level 4 doesn't require driver attention, it just requires the driver to be (instantly?) available if the system has a problem

Sincerely asking. Doesn’t that mean it requires driver attention?
How to Manage Product Categories, Tags and Attributes in WooCommerce
I find your program for a workshop on deception extremely interesting (1985) [pdf]
Qualcomm owns CDMA right? I think they require using their SoC if you're in the US on Verizon or Sprint and are on Android
> Given that self driving cars are a potential job creator

This is the first time I’ve seen someone refer to automated cars as a job creator. It’s almost always presented as the thing that will kill the trucking and taxi jobs by the millions.
A bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds (shelled) or 70 pounds (still on the ear). Using the shelled bushel in this case, 1 pound of corn = 1,656 calories so each bushel is roughly 92,000 calories. With the record yield of 500 bushels/acre that can feed 60+ people for a year!

I can't think of anything else that can come close to that kind of yield. No wonder corn syrup is in everything...