skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, it was another thread where someone was talking about taxation.

>FastTrak is a nightmare. The answer is gasoline/carbon taxes, since you are "consuming against the environment" on a per gallon basis, not a per mile/per toll road basis

Either way, if you are talking about removing subsidies that directly affect individuals, it might as well be a stick because it's a net negative. You should consider of something that is less directly harmful to people. Subsidizing electric cars is a much better idea because it injects capital into the market and saves people money on something they need to work.
The robots mentioned in this article are manufacturing consumables like fragrance and chocolate. No repairs necessary.
For my control systems class several years ago I created a PID controller with just OpAmps. Each portion had a switch to enable/disable to see the results of P+I, P+D, P+I+D etc. The output from each portion could be amplified (controlled by a trimpot) and then was summed (also by an OpAmp) and then went to a pair of transistors to drive a DC motor on a Plexiglas board with a pointer and 0-180 degrees marked out. The input was a potentiometer with a knob to set the desired angle. Pretty fun project. Others in the class decided to do it digitally with a micro controller but seeing it all done with analog components was really cool!
Interesting, especially in light of the "modern" view where the prevailing narrative is that analog computers are (in general) less precise, but faster. And, of course, less flexible, but I think that goes without saying.

I am curious to what extent an analog/digital hybrid can blend the best of both worlds, especially for something where the speed <-> precision tradeoff may somewhat favor speed. Like training neural networks.
No, crazy is suggesting Web Components are even remotely suitable for a static site or server-side rendering. Good luck with those if your users have disabled JS.
Facebook isn't targeting you, Amazon is. Amazon is targeting you on Facebook for things you just browsed on Amazon's app.

If you're logged in during your browsing, Amazon knows who you are. If you're not logged in, they presumably have enough heuristics to estimate who you are (based on previous logins from the device).

I don't know about their current programmatic bidding capabilities, but even on their Facebook's normal self-serve platform you can be targeted specifically by email (there's a minimum audience size for pseudo-anonymity purposes, but it's only like ~20 individuals).

Edit: You can go here[1] to see the list of advertisers that currently have you in their audience lists for ad targeting. Currently mine has Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, one of Netflix's new shows listed, and some weird political thing that isn't even for the state that I live in.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/edit/
Which Unlimited Data Plan Is the Best?
That doesn't mean they aren't Austrians anymore though.

There is a big difference between the facade, "there is American stores everywhere", and the deep culture behind, which clearly still is very present.
Coal kills thousands of people every single year without fail. Lots of people, and that's not even accounting for the premature deaths every year due to coal pollutants. That's just the people dying in the mines. China alone sees roughly 3,000 miner deaths a year, globally the estimate is close to 12,000.

In coal mining you either get killed quickly or get slowly killed by black lung.

Your opinion was formed with the bold ignorance of how much your power costs and why people though nuclear was a good idea despite the problems.
Interesting bit from the release notes:

Python 3: Python2 is not installed anymore by default on the server, cloud and the touch images, long live Python3! Python3 itself has been upgraded to the 3.5 series.
To capitalize on recent spate of MongoDB ransomware with DocumentDB pitch
Doesn't take long to figure out codes like that - the DEA has been doing it for years. If anything it's even easier to catch those using the codes who think they're being very very clever.
Still no diff patching support? I'm really sick of having to re-download 40 gigs every other day when an early-access game based on Unreal decides it needs to update.

Seriously, diff patching has been a thing for decades and we're in the age of artificially-restricted bandwidth allocation. If Unreal can't get with the times, then Unreal needs to go away and make room for engines that bother to use modern practices.
> It's unnatural, confusing to read ...

I feel as if that can rephrased "Don't do it because it is not done." A left-hand side constant is a convention that can have practical benefits in limited cases. Which at least should merit consideration.
Two of my closest friends work in Silicon Valley.

One is moderately successful. The other...well...lets just say if I mentioned his name every single person on here will know who he is - but I don't name drop :)

I'm not really a technical guy at all but my brain is really creative so my friends appreciate my opinion and advice for their work. And I'm a non-technical nerd so I love reading about tech and science!
>This is missing the point

You are missing the point of my comment. I wasn't disparaging Crisp nor passing negative judgement about their business model. (I compared it favorably to doctors contributing to a shared practice.)

My critique is of the terrible writing in the BBC article which warps the situation to spin it into a story about "no CEO". In other words, Katie Hope wrote the BBC story such that the reader is manipulated into thinking this:

- cause: "no CEO" --> effect: "better business"

When the real cause&effect is this:

- cause: "workers pay the company a rental fee" --> effect: "workers conclude they don't need a CEO boss"

The more salient point is that the "workers pay fees to the shared company" and a downstream side effect is the "no CEO". Why do we not read about freelance hairstylists and doctors in group practices having "no CEO"?!? Because it's a non-story that would waste readers' time. The cause & effect is obvious there.

>The idea is that you don't work for the company, the company works for you. It's applicable to consultancies, where everyone effectively goes and earns money on their own,

Yes, I agree. Katie's journalism omitted this critical detail. Therefore, her subsequent paragraphs with contrasting quotes from Drew Houston (Dropbox) and Meg Whitman (Hewlett-Packard) are idiotic comparisons. Dropbox/HP are not consultancies where workers pay a royalty fee to work there.
The software visualization tool I know is this http://gource.io/

In my opinion, it's not that useful. Any visualization tools should help the users understand and interpret the information.

But with this tool, all you can learn from the visualization is that code bases grow....

If there is a visualization tool can generate diagrams of a large code base and help me understand the code, I will buy it.
I haven't used social media influencers to promote an app specifically, but I know and have worked with different influencers in the past. You're greatest ROI will most likely come from influencers that reach the specific demographic you are targeting, or one that is very similar.

If you want to go this route, make sure to work with people who can show you clear metrics of their influence - I think it goes without saying, but many people with a massive amount of followers have purchased a lot of them to look more influential than than they are. A huge following with very low engagement is worthless. Anyone worth working with should be keeping track of metrics already.

I would also recommend working with influencers who are personally excited about your product. I think it comes through (unless they are crazy-good at copywriting) when influencers promote stuff just because they are being paid vs when they genuinely love the product.
I think the anthropic principle should only be applied the other way around: We're here due to this environment, so other places with similar environments might harbor life too. But this doesn't say anything about whether different environments may enable life too.

The second claim seems much more sense to me (like horses vs. zebras). However, actively searching for organic compounds in search of life would lead to circular reasoning.

After all, organic life is probably the easiest one to search for because it's the only one we know so far.
Unity from a user's point of view is great. Too bad it requires patched upstream libraries, so it does not run on other distributions.
> In the long-term disruptions and changes in jobs are part of the changes in the world.

By the way, that's a terrible argument. You may as well call it the naturalistic fallacy. That it's a natural consequence of progress does not make it good. You ask why... because it's painful to large parts of society, that's why.

> Taxing innovation is bad.

So is mass unemployment, in fact it's much worse than taxing innovation.
Well, of course they said that it wasn't!

They were subject to a bloody gag order.

It certainly makes sense now, doesn't it?
Ask HN: Finding Internships at the Intersection of Social Policy and Technology?
My partner is currently doing a Master's degree in social-policy and data science. There is a technological component which covers big-data, statistical analysis, and programming (R, Python, Java, etc). That technological aspect runs alongside a robust social policy program. How we can leverage big data & technology to do public good.

An example might be drafting and implementing evidence based policies to address the the impact of Technological Unemployment brought on by AI and Automation. How do we serve "coal country"? How can we successfully roll out a basic income program? Now that Microsoft has reached pairity with human translators what are we going to do about the redundant middle class jobs?

There seems to be a tremendous amount of interest in social policy and technology. Yesterday's "Zuckerberg Manifesto". YC's announcement about investing in social startups and their basic income research. Elon Musk talking about the potential for the unemployment rate to go to 50%, Matt Cutts recent announcement about joining the digital service and so on...

I'm wondering if anyone in the HN community has some ideas around how we might track down organizations interested in policy and technology? Does google, microsoft, facebook, open-ai, have "social policy departments"? Is there anyone at these organizations thinking about the social impact of their work?

I would love to hear some suggestions from the HN community. We're looking to find a few good contacts or suggestions around where we might look to find an summer-internship for a masters student in this area.

Thanks
I haven't seen it myself, but I have seen it on TV in a reality show based on the real-life activities of the US and Canadian customs and immigration agencies. It is standard procedure when they are questioning someone they suspect of entering the country for work (but stating they are visiting as a tourist) to ask to see their phone SMS message history. In the show they often find messages from their friends saying "good luck at the job interview tomorrow dude" and the like.
The problem is that the current fad among manufacturers of cleverly externalizing their social costs (e.g. cost of labor, cost of environmental stewardship, cost of meeting regulatory requirements) also removes their incentive to pay much heed to sharing said riches.
What amazes me in my company that although everybody agrees that the current setup is bad whenever they do something new they fall back to gray cubicles or open space. It seems this is just unstoppable despite everybody agreeing that it s not good.
Believe me, it isn't impossible to look and talk to someone 'like a little girl'. Usually when a woman says this, it is usually because the other person is dismissive of the other person's ideas and thoughts, acts superior, and just sorta 'tolerates' them because they are female (like a father may look at their kid and no matter how grown up they are, they still treat their oppinions and choices as those of a child)

(ps: a man, but have a few female friends that confided this in me about their 'rich' husbands that treat them more as a pretty trophy with no input about anything than anything else)
Works fine with 16.04.2 LTS so far though.
Another cool cam site people end up using for scenery:

http://avcams.faa.gov

This is set up for pilots and has reduced weather related fatalities by 50%. I know it's not pretty, A whole new site is about to get rolled out along with a mobile app.
I can render fancy fat ui on my phone these days though, and keep all the buisiness logic in my server service I charge a monthly fee to run. I don't think thick clients are driving notebook sales, except that maybe we put more ram in chrome books than you would expect?

Idk, maybe I a sheltered in Silicon Valley, and I know that most of the buisiness world has a lot of legacy windows apps you need to run your buisiness, and if it ain't broke no one is changing it. But, for new apps, I don't see why you wouldn't do SAS. It will be a slow process for sure but I can't see what will reverse it, except for maybe widespread privacy concerns about the cloud.
There's a lot of parking on public streets, isn't there? That's a big subsidy for car owners that comes at a cost to non-car owners.
Agree++

>People will move to cities and use roads less if cities are affordable. If we can lower rent in the city, automobile usage will go down on its own. This is where the fight should be pointed I believe.

This. So much.

Affordable housing and reasonable transit that makes the entire city and neighboring suburbs accessible will reduce car usage.

I work in Toronto and commute from a nearby suburb. Rent and real estate costs in the city are ridiculous, but I'm planning on making the move anyway.

I would love to live car-free, but the reality is a failure of transit. Transit sucks:

1) Transit in suburbia sucks. A lot of routes are every 30 or 60 minutes.

2) Transit between the suburbs and the city sucks. The systems are not aligned well and when you have layers of busses and trains that only come every 30-60 minutes, it just adds a lot of unnecessary waiting time to your commute. This causes a lot of people to drive and park at the GO station so they can take a train into the city.

3) Transit in Toronto is great if you happen to live and work on a Subway line. If not, good luck - you'll likely add 20-60 minutes to your transit commute. A car makes the rest of the city easily accessible.

So dealing with 2-3 different transit systems makes a commute unreasonable. If you're commuting from a nearby suburb, it can take 2+ hours to get to work.

My partner works in another suburb, and to transit there would take about 2.5-3 hours each direction. It's just not practical.

We've reached a compromise: We have a single car, and we car-pool to a reasonable spot and I take the train into the city. I'm lucky in that my place of work is near a subway stop, so my entire commute in this way is about 75-90 minutes each-way. I often work on the train on my way to work.

I'm planning on moving to the city, but we will never be able to be car-free with the state of transit the way it is. My partner will have to drive from Toronto to her work. Without traffic, probably 25 minutes. With traffic, closer to an hour. But that beats the 2.5-3 hours (each way) that it would take to commute via transit.
Robots everywhere are a good thing (tm).

Why hire people when you can cut costs by 100x and deliver more stuff of higher build quality ?

However nobody except the owners benefit from automation (savings are profits), while slowly generating a huge unemployment problem outside the factory walls.

The governments or companies themselves should quickly step in - not just through some sort of universal income, but through making automation public.

In other words, robot schematics and software should become public and open source and companies should be highly encouraged (tax benefits etc) to open source all their software and build schematics.
And roundabout 2030 or so, a Nostalgia Critic-equivalent will post a 64k holovid to YouTube entitled "Hey, remember that Virgin America safety video?"

Oh wait, something like this has already happened: https://youtu.be/1QgWAxkHZWc
SOCIAL NETWORK FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES
Or, if people won't pay market rate for land to store their car, maybe there actually isn't a shortage, and that land is already being put to better use by people who _are_ willing to pay.
Your list could be summarized in a tabloid article title:

"Who would have thought that even technical people are still people?"

:p
I'm a marketer who worked at a software company, so was looking to stay up to date. While I don't read every technical article I enjoy the curation in general as well as the quality of information.
I'm a UI designer and I hang out here to learn how programmers think so that I can improve my craft and relationships with developers in my work life.
thanks, did not know this.
I'm going to stop contributing the political threads. Emotional people keep down voting me because they disagree with my argument. Same thing happens on the conservative threads where everyone is yelling at each other. I guess we can't break out of our political bubbles.

Argue for the idea, not the party.
No/manual rebase sounds awful
This should help.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/116607085a89c176be1fe23e55...
Take that, strawman!

Seriously, nobody "eschews profit for potential". If I give you the choice between a dollar today and two dollars tomorrow, you aren't "eschewing profit" if you choose the latter: you are weighing the potential gain (an extra dollar) against the potential risk (I can't/don't pay you) and deciding that the reward outweighs the risk.

Or you can rationally decide that the risk outweighs the reward. Whatever. Optimizing current income isn't "right". Optimizing terminal value isn't "wrong". Nor vice versa. They are just different choices. Rational disagreements over risks and returns are how markets form.

Now, if the author wants to say that many companies are too optimistic about their actual future potential and therefore aren't doing the right risk/return calculation, I won't disagree. But this is where boards and investors (theoretically) serve to impose that reality check on the inherent optimism of most entrepreneurs.
Publish or perish leaves very little room for sanity checks once your window of graduation starts to close.
I was starting a business in 2011, and a friend sent me a link to a Hacker News discussion on some self-employment issue I had been thinking about.

I was deeply hooked.

I now run a web business: https://lsathacks.com

Not a programmer, though I learned enough scripting to generate some of the html on the site, and to know what sort of things I can and can't ask a programmer to do.

Hacker news is an incredible resource for web entrepreneurship. I learned an incredible amount about running a business here, and was able to apply it successfully to what I was building.

There are also wonderful discussions on a variety of interesting topics here. I scan the front page every day and am able to pick out things relevant to my work, or that seem interesting.

Further, when I want to research a technical topic, I'll use the search function here. I've found great discussion of SASS tools and of books.
I'd say it goes beyond "thinker" - more like "thinker/maker/doer" - anyone can have an idea, but not many take it to the next step and execute on it (which ultimately leads to YC thing of startup investment/funding, if the idea has merit and was executed well).
To be fair, the estimated reading time for the link you provide is roughly 20 minutes and contains roughly 5000 words.
Richard Hammond talks about launching DriveTribe
I'm going to mount an umbrella in a few days to block the overhead lighting. I requested that the lighting be turned off, and it was, but another employee (who only comes to the office once per week) had it turned back on a few days later.
And not free.

I used to use them, but stopped once I exceeded the free usage limit.

It was free to use on your personal computer, but I wanted to post the plots on my blog. Also, at the time, using them in the notebook had the same effect as posting it on a blog (in terms of their usage limits). I ran out just playing with Plotly.

I think they should make it free for non-commercial use...
My god, they've updated the CSS. It used to be quite a bit uglier. Now it's not GitHub, but it's definitely lighter on the eyes.

Nice to see - I think that good tools should have UIs that at least come close to the quality of their engineering.
I'm a big fan of HN's moderation - stopping flamewars, rules against clickbait titles, ect
I think it's a wrong approach to focus on incentives or disencentives of driving and car ownership. Why do people drive? A lot of it could be eliminated. Shopping is one reason. If it becomes more feasible to order things online and have them brought to us, that would cut down on driving. I know, it would arrive by a vehicle, but it would be one vehicle instead of the many it delivers to. Work - many jobs could easily be done from home. I work remotely, and it cuts down on driving a lot for me. I think the culture needs to catch up on this one. We absolutely need to travel to see our friends and family, Skype notwithstanding, but if public transportation was better, we wouldn't need cars for that either. I live in a rural area, so not having a car for me would not work at all. I carefully plan my trips to the store because it takes so much time to drive there and back. Another thing, why are people saying street parking is free? Have you never received a ticket? That quadruples in the amount you owe if you don't pay it in 5 days?
I'm a marketer for a software company looking to stay up-date, while I don't read ever technical article (or even know what they refer to at times) I enjoy the curation and quality of what is offered.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13665695
A clean, cubicle-free environment, but with desks in a small-ish room, with no more than 3 other people that you can get along with. There should be spaces for professional and personal belongings. The building should be near amenities like convenience stores and restaurants, and as a bonus, located such that cars aren't necessary for commuting.
Yes, the law prohibits to own "transmitting equipment which, by its form, purports to be another object or is disguised under an object of daily use and, due to such circumstances, is particularly suitable for intercepting the non-publicly spoken words of another person without their detection". Neither Smart TVs nor Xboxes claim to be something they are not.
Agreed.

They don't even trust someone from their regime not to fuck them up if they retire.
Find out which bridges near you are 'structurally deficient'
It's a common mistake that everything behind the iron curtain is considered "Eastern Europe".

Say this to someone from Bratislava, Prague or anyone else of that region, and they will correct you that they live in "Central Europe".

While we (Western Europe and probably US) associate those countries with the Soviet influence, they themselves consider themselves 100% European, and didn't understand why Western Europe never came to rescue them. They want to forget the Soviet influence as fast as possible.
after transitioning to 100% remote, i've come to the conclusion that the perfect office is the one you build for yourself.

corollary: commercial real estate is a ripoff.
Researchers Break ASLR Protection via JavaScript Attack
Haven't you ever seen people who are artistically-inclined and those who aren't?