skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was 17 I bought a copy of Rollins book "Get In The Van". I am no exaggerating when I say it changed my life. Before I read it, I was expecting to grow up, work, marry, and die in the small town I lived in. After I read it, I realized there was this whole world out there and it didn't matter if I had talent or even money. I just had to get up and do it. Work hard good things will come. It inspired me to think bigger.

When I turned 18 I moved to Los Angeles with nothing but a phone number in my pocket and the ambition to work in the music business. I landed a job at a recording studio aligning tape machines, setting up mics, and fetching coffee. I worked my way up quickly to being the head recording engineer there. One day I came into work and guess who was slated to be on that session that day? Mr. Henry Rollins. Will forever be one of the coolest days of my life. He was very smart, very kind, and had more energy than anyone I've met since. He took me out to dinner and I got to hear a ton of seriously cool stories about his punk rock days with Black Flag. I didn't tell him how much his writing meant to me. He wouldn't have wanted to hear it anyways.

I have long moved on from that career path (turns out that programming is more lucrative than working in the music business...) but I'll never forgot that day. It showed me that hard work and courage go a long way. Say yes and take chances wherever you can. Your heroes are just people like you and some day you might get a chance to meet them and work with them.
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Hi everyone,I recently launched specret, an anonymous chat app for groups (web only atm). Previously, I was working on a startup in the education sector which didn't get traction, but it had an anonymous chat feature which was popular. Specret builds on that idea to provide an online space for groups and teams to discuss things anonymously.

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you seem to have a very narrow understanding of what technology means. computers are not the only "technology" in the world.
Both BMW and Mercedes have models comparable to the Model 3 financially. I'm sure a 2-series or 3-series BMW, or CLA or C Class Mercedes far surpasses Tesla's build quality.
Your response, and the ostensible fact my critique went completely over your head, probably shows you should definitely spend more time familiarizing yourself with the discipline, before going around defending it.

You should start with 'calibration' in economics. No, it is not quite what you (seem to) think it is. No, it is not quite "the same type of thing" as p-hacking and low-powered studies in psychology. (Whose poor reliability, by the way, is almost common knowledge by now.)

Look it up, and see how the sausage is made.
Unfriending someone on Facebook has negative connotations (at least to me and those I know). I take the alternate approach of adding them to the default "acquaintances" list, and share accordingly. I also unfollow a large percentage of my friends so my newsfeed isn't polluted. The tools are there they just take some effort to get in the right place.
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Here is another one, apparently we can get a drop of up to 99.5% just by switching to lab tests from clinical diagnosis:
"Indeed, an average of only 100 cases of measles are confirmed annually [32], despite the fact that >20,000 tests are conducted [28], directly suggesting the low predictive value of clinical suspicion alone."
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/189/Supplement_1/S185....

I just don't think these alternative explanations have been investigated very well, and the blinded RCT (vs placebo) is missing. Another thing, the various proxies for "vaccine success" they use do not correlate with each other...

"Our data demonstrate that regression analysis shows only limited correlation between NT results and the ELISA values. This is in agreement with other reports [4]. Similar limitations in the correlation were also reported for other viruses like Cytomegalovirus (CMV) [10]. In case of the gamma globulin samples, the low correlation might reflect the wider spectrum and heterogeneity of the involved or measured measles antibodies."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17308917
I hear that coal is no longer cheaper than natural gas. And renewables are catching up fast. Coal is dying, and EVs are unlikely to add much additional coal use.
>I dislike this quote under the best of circumstances anyhow

I came here to post the same sentiment. The form I dislike most is "The definition of insanity is..." because it further compounds the fallacy by reinforcing the unearned appearance of rigorousness.

It really is a specious quote.
SaltStack, Preseed and Kickstart, Jenkins and GitLab CI, FreeIPA for proper LDAP/Kerberos/Pubkeyauth.
I think it's worth being specific here -- he uses the word "nigger" frequently and regularly makes other nasty comments about black people and other minorities.
No, and no. It's true that the charging rate of a supercharger gets pretty slow once you pass 90%, but it doesn't stop. And Tesla says that repeated supercharging does not reduce battery life, apparently thanks to the active cooling system in the battery pack.
This comment is so real. At the same time, those monkeys put the shape through the correct hole at a fast enough rate to keep the lights on and stay fed to starve another day.
Halfway through this and it definitely is a much slower and richer read than I thought.
The closest the left has to mainstream anti-vax politicians are the Green Party. They got a couple percent of the vote in the last election.

On the right, virtually all mainstream politicians deny climate change.
> If electric really displaces gasoline/petrol, we are going to need a lot more charging stations.

This is true but not to the degree you might assume. I've had a LEAF for almost 3 years now and it has been charged outside of my garage maybe a dozen times. My wife drives it to work every day.

It really depends on people's habits vs. the range of the cars they buy. We are seeing 200+ mile range on affordable cars (Model 3, Chevy Bolt.) If the standard range is that or higher then most people will not need a charging station outside of their garage.

The charging stations will still be convenient and people will ask for them for that reason, but they won't be necessary like they would be if we saw widespread adoption of the first generation LEAF with a realistic 60-80 mile range. Then more people would need a charging station at work to be able to commute. But that's not what's happening, so I think charging stations outside the home won't be necessary so much as desirable.

What will be needed for wider adoption is charging stations at apartment complexes and condos. That's one thing that is really holding EVs back and may hold non-homeowners back from being able to get them.
I have a diesel that's in at the mechanic at the moment because it's blowing plumes of blueish smoke every now and again. 4 different mechanics have all had different theories (ECG valve, turbo, air supply system, injectors) so as a result I've had to learn a lot about it myself because I no longer trust any of them.

Currently I'm starting to think the issue is with the DPF (diesel particulate filter) system which is responsible for pulling the soot out of the exhaust. The extra soot is the result of reburning the exhaust in a 2nd combustion to try to keep the emissions down. There's then another process (DPF regeneration) that pumps extra diesel into the engine during the exhaust stroke to try to burn the carbon particles out of the DPF to keep it clean.

Stopping to think about the horrors of the filthy process that goes on inside all of these vehicles is eye opening, to say the least. I know electric vehicles aren't without an environmental cost — but if there's anything that can be done to move the pollution away from urban environments that seems like a pretty positive thing to me.

I suspect in 50 years time people are going to look back on the burning of fossil fuels with shock.
Don't feed the troll, folks.
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>Previous generations were more cohesive.

I disagree with that. The majority of opinions in previous generations were discounted. A small percentage of people in power said: "We want this, therefore we will have it, and the rest will be damned".

We look more at the negative effects that our overreaching plans have on groups in the minority and on the environment itself. There is no such thing as a grand vision that doesn't have an unwanted effect on some group. It's much harder to unilaterally enforce a vision when everybody gets to voice their opinion.
Many apartments are installing chargers in their parking areas now. The numbers are small, but it's just getting started.

There's no reason you can't have chargers available for street parking too. It's not common yet, but it's just a matter of demand.
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I desperately want a Tesla, but we don't have a garage and I'm not having a charging station installed on a public sidewalk. Short of eating lunch exclusively next to gas stations with a charging station, or having something installed on the exterior of my home and running an extension cable into the street, I'm not sure I have any viable options.
I really did enjoy that. It reminded me of how I use R and then drop down to C++ when I need speed. This interpreter is analogous: use Julia and then go to APL when you want compact expression. Although, I'm not sure how advantageous it is. At least prima facie it's not as compelling as the speed gains you get from dropping to C++ from R.
Meaninglessness is a symptom. Resentment is the cause. Self advocate, complain, fuck shit up and walk away worst case.
> The sun is pretty close to free

nope. building solar panels pollute. disposing them more so. the setup with mirror and a standard turbine has less costs tied to manufacturing, but creates a huge no fly zone for birds.. and everything else really, so you can't plop a thousand of them all over the place. having them in deserts works, but you still need to transport the energy, which has a cost and again an environmental impact.

now, all in all the impact from solar is quite less than burning coal or oil, but there are other solution that are at least competitive (methane, nuclear) - but there are very few studies compare the total cost and pollution including externalities, because everyone likes to profit on the state incentives
It has an FFI, but no static linking to C libs at this time. Not sure if that will come, but technically it's possible, as Red's linker is written in Red/System. I'm a huge fan of Pieter Hintjens' work, and have written lots of code generators and FSM stuff, inspired by GSL and Libero.
France is the new promised land for startups
The organs remark was bonus snark, but yes: we will have to address unchecked population growth sooner or later, because lifespans will – should – continue to rise as well anyway, thanks to advances in medicine and hygiene, unless something goes terribly wrong in some area.
Really? Microsoft says a webcam should be able to instantly tell the difference between you and someone who looks literally exactly identical to you?
Could something like this be used to create more organic sounding digital speech?
There are also tons of used 3 series on the market though.
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they cost the same, but are they electric? otherwise, it is not apples to apples.
Can somebody explain how this approach affects the style caching by the browser? It seems that this will just throw away all the caching optimizations built around that.
Not surprising. People are tired of working long, useless hours for nothing other than to make someone else rich. Workers haven't seen meaningful pay increases in a long, long time. Most haven't seen a vacation in years. No wonder they're just tired of the whole thing.
>This is not to justify wage slavery or underpaid workforces [...]

I grant this is not your intent, but it is nonetheless exactly the effect of the line of thought.

For me, the core of the burnout problem is non-cooperative ownership of the means of production, aka capitalism.

The working persons who create all the value in an enterprise are not the persons who make the governance decisions nor the persons who realize full profit from that work. These conflicts of interest are what lie at the root of burnout at least to my eyes.
Knowing the company's core competency is very important. Stray from that, bad things happen. Is Tesla an electric car company? or an electric supply chain company? or what? If EV manufacturing, then focus on the car construction & experience, doing what's needed to power the thing (battery production, home solar services) but realize those can/should be ejected when better solutions arise. If a "tech" company, then we'll see Tesla stray into solar strip mining, long-distance delivery, app writing, and a host of other activities utterly unrelated to EVs - eventually dropping the EV part altogether.

Apple dropped the "Computer" from its name when moving firmly into a market (pocket supercomputers) which was a natural extension of its real core competency (high-UI/UX computers), but which (phones) were deeply perceived by the public as something profoundly different from "computers". Steve Jobs rediscovered the company's core competency, focused on it, and adjusted name & strategy accordingly.

Kodak thought its core competency was photochemical consumables. That was a pivot away from imaging, and into oblivion when the imaging technology shifted.

Smith Corona's competency was typewriters. We still need typewriters, but because SC tried to compete with computers (a spreadsheet on an electric typewriter is a non-sequitur), rather than being the best product for a shrinking yet enduring market, the biggest world brand vanished overnight.

If a company is going to pivot (which a name change absolutely signifies), then it better pivot around its core competency. Tesla's "tech" need be absolutely about either electric cars (by which batteries and solar are incidental and expendable for more suitable power sourcing), or solar (by which the consuming device may be far different than just a car), or power storage (source and use of power being incidental). Tesla is only "tech" insofar as they're pushing the limits of technology for building & powering electric cars. Stick with the cars, with solar ONLY as a means to free their power sourcing (and extra powering one's home), and they'll do fine; self-identify as a "tech" company, and they'll die of confusion. Musk is smarter than that mistake.
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Coal isn't the cheapest [1]. Natural gas is cheaper because of fracking. Renewables have been reported to be cheaper than fossil fuels for the first time in 2016 [2]. Electric vehicles are cleaner than gasoline cars almost regardless of where the electricity comes from [3]. I think in Missouri EV are on-par with gas because Missouri has the dirtiest power plants.

[1] http://wolfstreet.com/2016/06/13/why-us-coal-production-coll...

[2] https://qz.com/871907/2016-was-the-year-solar-panels-finally...

[3] http://midwestenergynews.com/2016/04/20/minnesota-study-chal...
Flux developer says Apple’s macOS Night Shift feature falls short
Thanks for the clarification. Still not compatible with Red's licensing model IMO.
I am very interested in the paper with the mathematical proof. Would you link it or just mention its title?
I've suffered severe burnout so many times in my career, resulting in taking years off from work because I dreaded going back. I want to switch careers, but can't think of anything else I'm qualified for that I'd like to do, and it's really hard to switch careers when you're older. I envy people who can do what they love, or at least not hate, for a living.
Yes, and this is because consumers treat software products more like a disposable than a durable good. If they cared about quality, companies would react to that.
Yup, which is why any entrenched player is going to have to both build an incredible car and fight against their dealerships to sell it.
I'll put in a vote for one I haven't seen so far - Children of Gebelaawi by Naguib Mahfouz. Has a lot to teach about revenge and generational cycles.
Ask HN: Can a self-taught developer get hired in AI/ML without a degree?
I'm a laravel developer, and do a lot with vuejs/jquery etc.

I am absolutely fascinated by everything going on with AI, and would like to go all in via udemy/coursera and other online resources to learn ai/ml.

Is there likely to be jobs in that sectors for people who do not have a bachelors/masters or phd in comp-sci?
>The raise will dilute earnings for common shareholders, so definitely a downward force on stock price.

The stock is detached from reality.

It's my understanding that this was another offering, so, essentially, Tesla sold 5% to Tencent at an average price of $217 and change. Current shareholders get diluted. Prices go up.

I don't get it, but I'd love an explanation. Were people, prior to these capital raises, concerned Tesla couldn't raise any more money? That would make sense, but certainly isn't the sentiment I gathered from my travels.
As whole-exome sequencing has now dipped below $1,000 [1], this really should become a diagnostic assay of first resort. That said, further improvements are required as it appears the majority of cancer causing sequence variants are found in non-coding regions of the genome [2], suggesting that greater sequencing coverage is tremendously valuable.

[1] https://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/

[2] http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v17/n2/abs/nrg.2015.17.htm...
Palo Alto has more than the average number of EVs, and has chargers at offices, public parking garages, some apartment building parking garages, and even a couple of street chargers. New construction is required to install a few chargers and a lot of conduit for future chargers.
This breaks HN's civility guideline. You can't post comments attacking entire populations here. Please don't do it again.
>Deploying a cell network is an engineering and logistical task, not a feat of invention.

People that say that have no idea how hard it is to make a network large. The complexity of expanding connectivity is our modern feat.
Thank you. If you want to curse, just curse. I've seen "fuck" on HN dozens of times, and worse too. If you've got some hang up about maintaining the pseudo-professional/intellectual air of HN, just use a different word/phrase altogether.
Probably because 1990's balls sucked, and were expensive to manufacture (wound cores?)

There are plenty of cheap golf balls using modern materials, designs, and manufacturing techniques out there. People just want to play what they see the pro's playing - because its one less thing they can blame their shitty performance on.

Club technology has not significantly changed in the past 10 years, but Golfers are always looking for an edge that does not require more practice...thus the constant new products.
this is what a dying company looks like. fb is such a smorgasbord of features as is, putting more in really isn't the way forward.
It ought to be automatic grounds for an appeal. On the other hand, then you have to afford not only the trial, but also the appeal, before you can get the baseless lawsuit to go away...
So given

int something() { }
String something() { }

A hypothetical calling syntax could be

(int)something();

Or the compiler could even choose one for you with a warning. Seems like a good suggestion for Java 10.
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No one lives on the moon, or on Mars - in the latter case, not for many millions of years at least; in the former, not ever.
Apparently I'm on Chrome 56 so this site won't load...
I just give out automatically expiring email addresses. here's an email address which will work until Thursday and then start bouncing:

2017-03-30@tmp.grepular.com

I didn't have to click a button or anything to create it. It just exists, thanks to the pattern. Here's how I did it:

https://www.grepular.com/Automatically_Expiring_Email_Addres...
If you refer to the American continent, the people lived there and that the civilizations as Columbus arrived. They had from our point of view unpleasant religions but otherwise were very able to live without the input from other continents. The continent allowed self sustainable human life.

Compare Mars.

If you want to implement Mars colony because of a possible nuclear catastrophe, the Earth after one would be more suitable for human life than Mars is now! Ditto for most "end of civilization as we know it" scenarios. All the concepts of "building a colony on Mars" assume the healthy Earth with a functioning high-tech civilization.
We need more charging stations

That is a solved problem

Electricity is expensive

If you had a 100km*100km grid of easily maintained solar panels already manufactured and in operation, electricity is generated _without expense or by-products_

Batteries and electric power have bad by products:

1. heat generation

2. by-products of manufacturing

3. electricity generation by-products

Complete nonsense. We have 8 billion people driving cars that are decimating our air quality and have already drove the carbon cycle so many standard deviations from the mean levels in pre-industrial society that I am doomed to live on a scorched, dead earth. The negative effects of battery creation and usage are infinitesimal in comparison.

I am 22 years old. Because of society's slow uptake of carbon-neutral power generation and consumption, I will live through every consequence of past generation's short-sighted power decisions. The clathrate gun will happen before I am middle-aged. Your comment, complaining about things that are solved problems, is quite detached from the reality of Earth.
Genesys just bought Interactive Intelligence, whose cloud-only PureCloud contact center offering competes directly with this.
57 is already stable so just check in Help -> About Google Chrome!
Sure, it is negative, but if you didnt want to be friends with them (not even virtually), why would you be so crushed up about their feelings?
Well, I presume `String something = getSomething(); Object s = (Object)something;` would be okay.

Note that in Rust we don't have inheritance (not exactly the same kind, at least), so it's rare where a statically typed value can be referred to with a different type. So there are still annoyances in Java with this approach that Rust wouldn't have.
Been working with Rust on Windows for almost a year now.

My go-to is VSCode + Rust plugin. You get the same debugging as VS2015 via C++ plugin(they both use the same backend). Only time I need to drop over to MSVC is if I need data breakpoints or look at disassembly(usually when I'm dealing with a C library that's misbehaving).

VSCode rust plugin gets you racer, rustfmt and a bunch of other goodies(cargo test/check right in the IDE).
You need to be running Chrome 57+ for it to work. You can see screenshots over at:
https://www.construct.net/
Haha, the only Facebook Messenger story I saw was someone's Snapchat code.
This sounds amazing, but it also kind of scares me. How do you enforce your employment agreement so that they don't just eventually increase your work week to 5 days and keep you at the same lower salary?
Knowledge isn't the only consideration here. This moment in history is the first in which our species has been without a frontier. Early evidence suggests rather strongly that we're not at our best that way.