skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it as mistaking software for the subject.

I'd guess a lot of people think the above, when they actually want "software that makes _them_ more efficient."

For example, it may be more efficient for the software to break up screens into tabbed views, but certain users may find a single screen covered in controls more efficient when actually working day to day.
I do and don't. Obviously real slavery was a lot worse, yet this is the direction I see us heading towards more and more. Things like social media policies and drug testing are limiting what we do on our time off, not just our time on.
Hangouts API is discontinuing, and the app is buggy as heck. We've already moved away from it and are experimenting with in-house solutions or looking for alternatives. Slack is too pricey, everything else seems shite.
It's a little strange to read accounts like this. I've been using Voice continuously for years now, and ported my old number into it. There were a few years when it kinda sucked (yes, I also lost group/mms messages with no warning), but since the integration with Hangouts (2014? 2015?), I've been quite happy with it again: group messages work, pictures in messages work, etc. Hangouts isn't perfect and still has lots of missing features and annoyances, but it's been overall acceptable to me.

I do have two unusual situations that make Voice a good fit for me: I don't have reliable cell reception in my apartment (so texting and calling through wifi is really useful), and I'm on the T-Mobile $30 plan, so I have only 100 minutes on my "real" phone number (so I make as many calls as possible through gmail on my laptop). It's also really nice to use my regular phone number with no extra effort or roaming fees when traveling internationally.
It's sex bots... isn't it?

Have you seen the new Cortana? Damn!
So it samples data less than or equal to a second old and at a rate determined by the person making the query?

I wonder how often the data is inaccurate given the potentially low sample size?
I think the idea is that they're looking for a safe place to ride out the collapse itself - the transitionary period between our current civilization and whatever follows, where a large percentage of the population dies from violence and resource shortages.
There is a great proverb that reads "man who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt man doing it."

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.
Or the settlement is well under the profit made from the crime.
In my opinion, perpetrators going to jail. Return the money, and you've helped the victims of one set of crimes. Set a precedence and you've potentially prevented the need to help the victims of countless crimes. Not to mention it would help to break down our tiered system of justice.

That being said, I think we ought to do both and don't see why we can't or shouldn't.
Don't forget Bob Dole in 96.
I'm taking exactly that into consideration–Nigeria has a sizable population, but very few people who can actually buy expensive consumer goods from western countries. So the odds are even more likely that orders are fraudulent. This isn't a country with a giant middle class.
Google has kinda proven themselves untrustworthy when it comes to relying on their services; sometimes, they just kill products off. That'd really suck for a phone number.

Nonetheless, I find Google Voice so valuable that I overlooked the potential hassle of it going away. It's just amazingly convenient to get my texts on my computer, tablet, and phone. It's so nice to get voicemails transcribed and in my inbox...I hate making phone calls and I hate listening to voicemail.

So, for all of Google's long neglect of the product, I don't know of anything as good, even among products that cost money. So, I'm not gonna trash talk them now, after they've finally done an update and exhibited some evidence that the product has a future. I'm just glad they seem to plan to keep it alive.

And, for all of Google's neglect of the product, it is still the Google product I recommend more than any other (I think). I may use GMail/Inbox more often, and I may interact with more people via Docs/Drive, but so few people know about Google Voice that I end up recommending it a lot more than anything else.
The top ad when you Google 'amazon' is a scam
If you google amazon the top ad is a blue screen saying your computer has a virus.
Maybe they are hacking the stats. "We had 95% of readers view the video. Give us more ad dollrz!"
A Nash equilibrium strategy does not assume that an opponents strategy never changes. A Nash equilibrium has the property that if the opponents strategy deviates from a Nash equilibrium, then the opponent will lose.
> if autonomous cars are even just 1 percent safer than humans, we should still be using them

We could improve safety by at least 1% in lots of other ways: lowering speed limits, requiring rear view cameras, raising the licensing age and requiring more frequent tests, cracking down on drunk driving, etc. Building a fully autonomous vehicle seems unnecessarily elaborate to get a 1% safety.
I did some math on my end too - I decided that at my weight, I was more likely to die or experience a great reduction in quality of life due to complications incidental to obesity than anything else. As a result, I'm focused on dropping weight and getting healthier before anything else :)
Agreed, definitely came off as snark. As a GV user myself, paying might I add, my initial reaction to seeing that little emotion/comment was also disgust.
I unfollowed everyone so I don't have a news feed anymore. I'm not missing anything.
We need a level between Level 4 (the vehicle can operate autonomously in almost all conditions) and Level 5 (no manual control): Level 4.5, wherein the vehicle and operate autonomously in almost all conditions and can identify and safely stop in other conditions.

If there's a severe blizzard and my car can't see the road in front of it and we're in a 4G dead zone and it can't get an accurate enough GPS fix to figure out where it's going, I'd be perfectly happy if it safely pulled over to the side of the road and stopped. Heck, I'd prefer to have it safely pull over rather than trying to continue based on some premise of "this vehicle be able to navigate under all possible conditions".
http://imgur.com/a/BK2MZ

the link looks like:

<a href="https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&amp;ai=DChcSEwj8iuex69nRAhVXSw0KHXcfCUQYABAA&amp;sig=AOD64_0AaqtlbAP0hKyAWBp_-__B2ea1KA&amp;q=&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjrhN-x69nRAhVG7IMKHXZkDtMQ0QwIGg&amp;adurl=" id="vs0p1c0" onmousedown="return google.arwt(this)" class="_kBb r-i6LUDLieQfS4" data-preconnect-urls="http://www.amazon.com/,http://mail-google.co/" jsl="$t t-zxXzjt1d4B0;$x 0;">amazon.com - Amazon - 20% off on all products&lrm;</a>
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So much this. Netflix > Amazon > Hulu.

For players: Amazon's interface is much better than it used to be when Prime TV firt began but it has a lot of gimmicks too that take time to understand. Hulu's still buffers or gets stuck on an ad or does something dumb.

Finding stuff: Hulu isn't great for that and I hate my queue/watchlist. I think it was following in the footsteps of Netflix, switching to the big pictures, which I'm assuming is meant for swipe-y screens/tvs more so than the computer browser these days. The findability of items on Amazon is appalling, despite having a generally good selection.

To actually browse, on Prime and Netflix at least, I use instantwatcher.com.
> But let's not talk about the opponents of this as if they are flat-earthers or white supremacists or something

Sure, but NIMBYism is in direct opposition to a more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable future. To claim to be progressive while espousing gated-community like values (which is quite common in the Bay Area) is, well, a bit troublesome.
Is there a red alert klaxon? That would rock.
Glazier: a text-based  tool for automated installation of Windows
Don't forget about firejail. No reason your browser process should be able to read your ssh keys.
This sounds fantastic!
Well, teacher salaries are lower in other parts of the country (though it is also true that salary vs cost of living is less out of whack in most of them).
Ask HN: What's the chance of a battery in an old forgotten device catching fire?
I occurred to me that I've got 12 year old smartphones in boxes in the attic. Should I be worried?

What happens to lithium batteries over time?
You'd be surprised. Just knowing how the org works and knowing the internal lingo makes you really annoying to replace. Onboarding people takes a lot of time and effort. Finding ones you're even willing to onboard is even harder.

But if you're just stacking boxes, you might not have enough leverage.

Everyone who reads HN probably has enough leverage to set boundaries.
I read Bukowski in the '80s but I never read ABOUT Bukowski - so I found this very interesting
> you seem to be making the assumption that there have to be crap jobs, and that somebody has to do them. the only reason there are crap jobs is because there are people to do those jobs who don't have any choice.

Actually, the only reason that there are crap jobs is that someone needs to do the crap job. If that wasn't the case, no one would pay you to do it. The whole point of money is to make people do things they wouldn't normally want to do - like farm, clean toilets, kill a cow, or build buildings in the rain. And it's a good thing that money does that, it keeps us fed. It keeps society moving.
Agree. I think a big part of his work and letters try to show/remind how the menu of human emotions and feelings is far more vast and complicated than many people internalize. And seemingly incompatible emotions can be happening at the same time. Becket did appear to take some pleasure in nudging people back towards the uncomfortable reality.
Do you mean half a century? Unless I'm misunderstanding, Tesla isn't likely to have a Level 4 car anytime in the next five years either.
principal software engineer, seattle

$160k base, $30k bonus, ~$30k rsu/options
"Unit" is not well-defined. However, it usually means a function/method. Being a unit test also implies some explicit setup for when that function is used.

The easiest examples of unit tests are math functions, since they're so well-behaved.

Here is a square root function in Javascript:

function sqrt(n) {
guess = n/2;
while(Math.abs(guess*guess - n) < 0.00001) {
guess = (guess + n/guess)/2;
}
return n;
}

assert_equals(4.0, sqrt(16));

There is nothing to set up because this code doesn't depend on a database, or an HTML input field, or the phase of the moon.

The call to assert_equals there is a unit test. (Also, keep in mind that assert_equals is a glorified if statement)

"well, what isn't a unit test??"

Since we can call anything we want a unit, the answer is "whenever we say we aren't doing a unit test". But a more practical answer is: whenever you're testing the interaction between two or more units (where a unit is a function/method).

If you're making a video game, you might have enemies who can jump, and guns that can fire. It would be a unit test to check if enemies jump correctly, and it would be a unit test to see if guns fire correctly. It wouldn't be a unit test to see if guns fire correctly from a jumping enemy, since this is the combination of two pieces.

Another way to (sort of) define a unit test is to say "how does this behave assuming that the rest of the system is correct"? That is, we aim to check the behavior of our code in isolation from the rest of the system.

This is important when something is wrong, because if we know what is behaving correctly, we don't have to waste time checking if it's the cause.
I work as an housing activist in SF. If you want to get more involved, shoot me an email and we'll get coffee. Cwsmith17@gmail.com
... but the individual transactions on the losing chain could would still be valid and could be incorporated into the winning blockchain. It wouldn't be quite a simple as "the shortest chain loses"

Oh, and the country with the lowest amount of energy spent mining would win. Both countries hashing after unification would work on the chain with the lowest difficulty, which would be the one with the least hashing power. :)
http://imgur.com/a/psP7X

The search looks legit and everything though, even shows the url as www.amazon.com
DirectX isn't exactly as much fun as a barrel of monkeys, but it's less painful and crufted up with less legacy junk than OpenGL. I can see why approximately no one writes games for Linux and Mac if they aren't already using a cross-platform engine that's done that heavy lifting already.
I personally tried to give the Google car "hard miles" by cutting it off in traffic last year. I believe I was being helpful, but I feel bad about scaring the "driver."
I received a Lync / Skype for Business invitation (in G Suite - AKA Gmail) with no time and date, which a URL (custom domain for this company). Clicking on that link, dead link... (later on it was fixed but asked me to install add-on, did it in a Windows virtual machine, join meeting, meeting expired...)

Ridiculous experience, worst web conferencing service I have ever used (I consider it even worse than Oracle Beehive Conferencing - not many people know this). In contrast, WebEx is way better (phone dial-in quality is pretty good).
It's refreshing to see an article like this among the many other articles predicting self-driving cars will be here in ~2 years. Volvo has committed to selling level 4 vehicles by the end of this year (in limited locations) - I'd love for them to follow through and see how good their technology really is. I suspect the transition will be far more gradual than most people are willing to admit, and take decades instead of years. Keep in mind, serious research into self-driving cars started in the 80's, and then there was a huge increase in interest in the 2000's because of the DARPA challenges. After that Google took interest, and recently the major automakers have become serious about it as well. But it's worth noting that originally Chris Urmson had predicted Google would be selling fully autonomous cars today, and instead Google lost a lot of their talent in the last year including Urmson and there is no public deadline for selling a product.

I think progress is great and self-driving cars are awesome, but I don't believe they're just around the corner.
And a dirty old man
I search for a replacement every year. I have never found a near competitor. Vonage used to have a desktop app that was at least in the ballpark, but they dropped support years ago.

Feature set:
Voicemail integration with carrier

Voicemail to Text with notifications

Voicemail specific to groups

Desktop app/Browser plugin

Web message interface

Mobile App

Long distance

International voice and text

MMS

Group

Forwarding
Oh great, announce the fucking update that may or may not come this week. They already leaked a banner some weeks ago by accident that linked nowhere. Meanwhile I'm pulling in the 6th update in two months on T-Mobile DIGITS, which will hopefully be the service to replace Google Voice. Oh, and when DIGITS has bugs I can pick up the phone and speak to a person, get it assigned and fixed.

It's been around 3 years since Google started to scare all its users into thinking Voice would be shut down or merged with another service.

I need a working commercial solution and I don't mind paying for it. I'm sick of Google halfassing every product they work on that isn't Search or AdWords.
None of these numbers make any sense, because they don't account for the longevity of the capital investments (10 years? 60 years?), as well as maintenance costs.

You're off by at least a factor of 5 on the $/MWH for this pumped storage plant, even without the longevity and O&M. A factor of 2.2 on the cost, and a factor of 2.4 on the capacity. The $1.6B cost is in 1985 dollars[1]. In 2016 dollars, the cost is $3.5B [2]. The capacity at 3GW is only 10 hours, not 24 hours [3].

The solution is to look at Lazard's analysis of the levelized cost of energy storage. [4]

For the purposes of the transmission system:

Pumped Hydro: $152 -- $198 / MWH
Lithium Ion: $276 -------- $561 / MWH

Note that these costs are per MWH delivered to the grid, accounting for all the costs over time of that system.

When lithium ion battery prices fall by 50%, they now match the most cost effective storage out there. This will happen within 10 years.

It's amazing how fast the technology is changing. Pilot projects like this one should be happening all over the country right now, because within 10 years, it will be the only cost-effective way to do these things.

[1] http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/pdf/10.1201/b10778-1

[2] http://www.in2013dollars.com/1985-dollars-in-2016

[3] http://www.energystorageexchange.org/projects/4

[4] PDF: https://www.lazard.com/media/438042/lazard-levelized-cost-of...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13464751 and marked it off-topic.
You don't have to use it. Also, a recently landed change allows you to exclude that feature entirely from the compiled binary if you want to build it yourself.

Personally the best feature I'm using KeePassXC for is the auto-reload feature. I sync my kdbx file with Tresorit across couple computers, and the auto-reload feature ensures that I'm always modifying the latest version.

This is something lacking in the original KeePassX.
That was the red flag to me. That smacks of someone saying "I haven't read the docs. It didn't work. It sucks."

Heck. I haven't done any 2 to 3 porting. I just read a few articles out of idle curiosity once and even I know 2to3 doesn't work like that.
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> Building a fully autonomous vehicle seems unnecessarily elaborate to get a 1% safety.

Not if the vehicle also gives you functionality that doesn't currently exist. Freeing humans from having to do the driving has a huge potential value over and above the value of the safety improvement. The other safety improvements you mention don't; in fact they have less net value than the safety improvement, since they also have costs--not the cost of installing the technology, but the cost of getting where you're going more slowly, having to take driving tests more frequently, having to drive your children around till they reach an older age, etc.
Chasqui
> Qualcomm's willingness to write drivers for old chipsets on newer kernel versions

Or, you know... mainline them?
The FAQ should explain the reason for the fork. I couldn't find anything about that, and that was the first question I had.
We have many of those things in Australia (low speed limits and huge fines for doing 3kmh over the limit, automatically sent through mail), but we're seeing this:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-26/speed-enforcement-detr...

Most of our safety improvements have come from better car designs like crumple zones, ABS, air bags.

The more you go against natural human behaviours and start treating humans like machines with very low tolerances, the more it makes sense to just have machines do the job
I'm in a very similar situation, and overall have found GV to be a net positive despite the imperfections.

The only additional caveat I've found is that the proper carrier-level call forwarding to GV voicemail doesn't work with the $30 T-Mobile plan.
> Are you saying this is not doable in the context of a formal retraining program?

No, I am not.
Has Tesla delivered L4 car yet?

Elon's claims notwithstanding, Tesla may actually be half a decade away from L4.

> It's pretty sad how far behind ...

Maybe they are just trying to not over-promise and under-deliver?
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It seems maybe they're being a bit insecure about the pro features they are offering? The features offered are pretty slim/barebones and maybe they're being (too?) honest about that fact? I'd rather they offer more features for the price than position it differently.
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Because ML approaches can adapt to different environments like a forest trail. While this can probably be achieved with OpenCV, this just feels natural:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umRdt3zGgpU
It could be, but I don't think this is good evidence for ohstopitu being underpaid. One way terrible companies get people to join despite being terrible is by paying more.

As an example, I took a lower salary at a nonprofit because I cared about the mission. Or at the other end of the spectrum, financial trading companies pay a fair bit more because they have no mission but money, and are often unpleasant places to work.
Why specifically this brand? Is it special, and is the difference between an avg random pen big?
One thing that stands out is usage of Qt 5. KepassX (at least the released version) is still using Qt 4.
The scene of putting your watch on the table during a poker game is pretty common too
I hate this rhetoric about "saving even one life." It's closer to "saving five lives but killing four people who otherwise would have lived." Some people say that's the same thing. I disagree.
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I just ported my voice number over to fi because as far as anyone could tell that was the direction Google was headed. Now this.
Making a typical python package for Fedora or EL:

Do you have a setup.py? No, then it's not going to be on PyPi anyway so ignore the rest of this since you'll need to figure out how to package this special snowflake.

0. Run `yum install -y rpmdevtools mock`

1. Run `rpmdev-newspec python-mypackage`.

2. Run `python setup.py sdist`

3. Modify the .spec as appropriate to add dependencies the package requires as well as set the version correctly.

4. Run `mock -r fedora-25-x86_64 --buildsprm python-mypackage.spec`

5. Run `mock -r fedora-25-x86_64 --rebuild python-mypackage.f25.src.rpm`

Done, there's your RPM, debian packaging is roughly as simple (I'm less a fan because of how they try to fudge a Makefile into an adequate tool for package building, but hey, most everything can be built automatically by dh so the average makefile is ~3 lines).

The biggest problem with learning this is simply finding the right documentation, Fedora has some pretty great guides for new packagers on the wiki.
That sentence you quoted does not mean "I expect autonomous cars will be 1 percent safer than humans."
Batteries have inherently high MW per MWh so you can usually ignore the power capacity. But that's not true with everything. Both numbers are important.
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You know what...the same card has migrated with me from WP7 to 8.0 to that 8.0 device being upgraded to 8.1 then 10. Still, I had to put it back in that last device to get it unlocked for use on my current phone (Lumia 650). Otherwise the phone refused to recognize it, wanting to immediately format it, and ditto my Windows 10 and Linux desktops. On Linux at least, it did show two separate encrypted partitions, so given what you said that makes sense.
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Mazal tov, that's containerization...from the 1970s.

Everything old is new again. I love our profession.
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Why not be a contractor then? You get to do whatever you want whenever you want and get paid when the job is done, and done correctly (granted you've setup your contracts this way).
I think you've misunderstood level 4; it seems to be defined as you suggest 4.5 ought to be: [http://www.sae.org/misc/pdfs/automated_driving.pdf ]; the car has to operate safely after autonomous mode is enabled, even if the human has no further interactions (even if the car requests human intervention).
Actually, I'm agreeing with you... Google never really should have done Android but rather skipped directly to making Chrome OS for phones.