skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be interested in the number of trailers unloading.

I wonder how much intelligence will be gleaned when and if automated semis make deliveries to retailers? At any given moment the quantity, weight, destination, etc can be real-time tracked with these self driving semis. Would be an interesting business. Especially if the truck could be tracked from manufacturer to store

If others could track automatic Amazon truck deliveries from their warehouses that would probably be desired.

I assume that once driverless vehicles are in the main then the trucks would have to broadcast and thus be able to be picked up by private listening sites.

Then some company will create a spoofing truck runs to give false intelligence.. and on and on...
Haha I have enough problems with the shift linkages on an old tractor of mine, on which the shift levers are located 4" above the transmission. I'd hate to have to deal with what you're describing here...
Firefox 48 says it can not update on my computer any longer.
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I suspect some combination of

1) It's hard for a new language to get traction. Lower odds that a new startup! They see so many ruby and python shops adding Go to their stack and want to compete in that space. Kotlin's biggest market seems to be android devs and competing with Go puts them in the datacenter.

2) IDEA's IDEs have a better value proposition to devs working with statically typed languages. Appealing to current Java devs builds the Kotlin ecosystem, but appealing to dynamic language devs expands IDEA's customer base more.
If they can find a way to patent fish oil they'll find a way to patent weed, provided it becomes legal for them to do so.

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Wow, right from the horse's mouth. Terrific!
The GC controller is the best gaming controller, IMHO. Followed by the SNES controller.

My hands have never cramped playing my Gamecube or SNES. They cramp constantly trying to play FF15 on my PS4 and playing Xbox isn't much better.
And I personally wanted a new TV console with current-gen capabilities. It looks like neither use case is completely addressed.
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There are some presentations from Wooga about their use of Erlang.

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1016648/Why-Erlang
Given that every other industry has moved to FOSS software for their tooling, it's the game industry that has a "religion" about proprietary software being necessary to make money.
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Well then, this absolutely doesn't reflect badly on Google at all, does it?
I am testing this at $130. I will follow up with a review on experience and end-result.
"Welcome to Syracuse, where the seasons don't matter and the weather is made up"

Upstate weather is a mystery. When I was in school we had 80 degree weather towards the end of the spring semester before a small snowfall the day before graduation.
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Yes, it might be a trap. However you could at least:

* submit a patch

* find out that it's specific behaviour causing the bug and avoid it

* now how to optimized your code

* know how things work - Unity's docs misses a lot of details.
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Then how does Google Fi work? I don't know if it's VoIP but it is phone calls over the internet and I've never had a problem with call quality.
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I believe Ubiquiti's routers also implement fq_codel: https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Updates-Blog/EdgeMAX-E...

> Add new "smart queue" feature providing FQ-CoDel + HTB function and this can be configured in the Web UI to provide better QoS experience for the WAN connection.
Unity had no GUI tooling until very recently, yet was already very popular.
It can be pretty amazing. I subscribe to a specialized forecasting service for glider flying, which takes the output from the big models and uses it to derive parameters useful for flying.

I remember flying on one day when the forecast said that I'd be able to climb to 3,000ft in one spot, and to 6,000ft in another spot only about five miles away. In the air, I tried the first spot because it looked better to me. I topped out at 3,000ft. I moved over to the second spot and sure enough, 6,000ft. It was pretty amazing how good that one was.
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I've always wondered how meteorology works in terms of computer models. As someone knowing nothing, what's some good material to start learning how it works?

Now we have powerful computers and lots of data freely available (well maybe less now thanks to Trump), I've always dreamed of running an old computer model say from the 1980s at home.
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One downside - you have to be able-bodied. NZ will not allow people with disabilities the opportunity to relocate there.
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Being the driver of a passenger car for hire is one of the more dangerous occupations. I would expect that every last one of them would have a forward-facing dash-cam, an inside camera that covered the entire passenger seating area, and possibly also cameras covering the external approaches to the vehicle doors.

The driver or cab company owns the car, and they have the same right to film the customers for the safety of the driver as a convenience store does to promote the safety of its clerks and cashiers.

You are correct that it is unethical to release that footage in most circumstances, without it being evidence of a crime, but the CEO of a company like Uber might be considered a public figure, and if you want other people to be ethical in their dealings with you, you must also be ethical in your dealings with them. I think we never would have seen this video if the driver didn't think that Uber's top-level management pulled a bait-and-switch on him with respect to the recruiting promises versus the actual income. If you act like an ass, you shouldn't expect discretion from anyone.

Were this an ordinary passenger that engaged in a mildly argumentative conversation with the driver, yes, that would be very unethical to post the video without explicit two-party consent. But for the guy that technically signs your paychecks and controls whether you get fares or not and how much you get for them, having a conversation about the business? I'd say that's fair game.

There was a #DeleteUber campaign going on well before this became public, and the reasons for that come from the company's management culture. If he's going to apologize for anything, he still has a lot more to answer for.
It isn't even necessary.
Its just convenient, maybe sometimes =)
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Yes, that thread was marked duplicate.

At least with this instance, it did not seem like the Kalanick's fault (nor the driver's fault). The driver got a bit aggressive and we know why.

I don't agree with the statement: "Uber is a vendor to the driver".

This is theoretically true, but doesn't work that way in practice. Uber is like a freelance marketplace for drivers. In practice I have never seen individual or handful of freelancers having any power over monopolistic marketplace authorities. Nobody stopped the driver from working with Uber - but he can't! Uber is a vendor for the riders only.
Scaling in Windows 10 has been improved in the upcoming update. Now it still looks weird, but at least it is not blurry

I am using a 2560x1440 at home with 100% scaling though.
It seems convenient to blame technology, and it is definitely going to be the bigger cause in the long term.

This said, I am strongly of the opinion that globalization is not a force that benefits everyone (to put it nicely) and it is not constructive that this opinion is not discussed more widely without having to pussyfoot around dirty words like protectionism and nationalism as if they are automatically bad words.
The onexit hook is surprisingly caused by the embedded Google form.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqZJxEjHf6j66cX8wy...

That message doesn't make any sense since I didn't even touch the form.
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Ask HN: Is S3 Down?
Let's make Feb 28th 'National Redundant Annual Infrastructure Day'
Newton-Raphson doesn't buy you much for logarithms, because the iteration itself involves either exp(x) or log(x)[1].

If you don't have a real multiplier[2], then the algorithm described is somewhat attractive because multiplying by 1/(1+2^-k) has a nice series expansion. You can do it using only shifts and adds (and the number of terms you need is O(1/k), so it falls off reasonably quickly), and you get the part you need to compute the next `k` early, so there's no serial dependency. Actually finding k is just a count-leading-zeros operation, which is cheap enough.

Computers today pretty much all have real multipliers, so no one does this. Instead we reduce to a range like [1/sqrt(2),sqrt(2)], and then either use a minimax approximation on that interval (if the accuracy requirement is reasonably low) or further reduce by looking up a value of r close to x for which we have a pre-computed 1/r and log(r) and take advantage of:

log(x) = log(r * 1/r * x) = log(r) + log(1/r * x)

this allows one to achieve high-accuracy results if r is chosen so that one of 1/r and log(r) is exact and the other is unusually close to the exact value[3], or stored in extended precision.

[1] If you have a fast approximate exp and log you can make use of it in an approximate N-R iteration, but it still doesn't buy you much. In practice no one does this; we compute exp and log directly, and they're among the fastest functions in the math library.

[2] Meaning either you don't have one at all or that it's much, much slower than addition, as was common in the 1980s and earlier.

[3] This trick is called "Gal's Accurate Tables" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal's_accurate_tables), but as with most things named for someone, it was independently invented multiple times, and likely dates back decades before the credited inventor.
Google outpriced themselves with super cheap Chromebooks on the tail end as well.
The mode of play that is more fun hurts and loses to a mode that is basically button pressing (mostly because when you're making the "real" motions it can't figure out what you're trying to do half the time, and does something else instead, while wrist-flicks are picked up reliably). The failure is (at least their implementation of) motion controls.

Was great for rail shooters, though. Don't know why they didn't make an effort to get a port of every rail shooter ever made on the Wii. Only console ever where they'd be (the only?) first-class citizens.
Kudos to Slack for the quick fix! I've also been pleasantly surprised by their response times for bug reports, and even feature requests.

Wonder if their support team is proportionately larger than most startups, or if "10x Support Agents" are a thing?
Organizing RPC via QT: Library for Communication Between Objects
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You're right that many VCs will be less enthusiastic to work with a solo founder. This is partly because it's taken as a sign that you can't convince any friends to work on this idea with you, signaling either that the idea is not great or that you are not great to work with.

But this doesn't mean you should lower your standards too much to find someone just to put down on paper. If you're a technical founder then you can build a lot on your own and bring on a business-focused founder when the time is right.
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In my opinion, the first time it was novel. HN is not a place to advertise business services, regardless of if they might be of use, a deal, etc.

This was, as noted by the poster, inspired by the post I linked to.

Stand by my position this is spam.
He isn't going to provide you an example because there is none meaning full in production. REST uses HTTP because it makes no sense to use it with anything else. REST only makes sense with HTTP. With another socket protocol, there is no need to bother with headers and co.