skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cite the average trip cost as being ~$7.2/trip for busses, and for an equally lengthy uber trip, ~$6.2+0.26/min/trip. Unless your Uber drivers drive 3 miles in under 4 minutes reliably (which is probably illegal), how is the bus system massively uncompetitive ?
Applying Progressive Enhancement on a WebVR Project
He is not a customer, he just works for a company that has adopted the (open source) framework.

And even a customer is not some holy being that gets to behave in any way they like and it has to be accepted "regardless of the provocation". What he wrote has FUD and professionally damaging to mr. Haitzler (as a programmer), while also wrong in most aspects.

Nobody should just bend over for someone (even a "customer") "regardless of the provocation". Besides FUD and insults, should the "regardless" also allow for sexual or racist comments from a customer?

And speaking of duties, does the company (Samsung) see well to an employee of them bad-mouthing their OS and choices on some random forum?
One quote I've heard, that i find helps non-experts:

You don't have to personally prepare for winning the lottery, but the lottery has to prepare for somebody winning.
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When to say it’s time to build a software bot?
That's a hell of a bug, always an adventure when the error locality is really far.
The scenes in the movie depicting the "real" Hong-Kong (i.e no CGI) were a shock for me. As a citizen of medium-size european city, I cannot imagine such inhuman cities exist for real.
There's typically a lower bound of 1/10 the paper valuation, otherwise you risk the IRS coming after you at some future date. That relative lower bound ratio should be consistent across rounds, hence I'm approximating with a paper valuation ratio with a fudge factor of 2.
TVA nuclear vs TVA coal wasn't a binary choice. TVA coal was likely the least-expensive offset, but TVA could have purchased hydro or gas-turbine power. Also, I suspect that the coal plants used were among the oldest and most-polluting.
This looks like a fun project indeed!

Unfortunately every time I read something about minifiers I got the feeling that people are optimizing the wrong problem.

If you gzip data over the line it's already compressed. So minifying your stuff will only help you a little.

The problem is on the client side. You can compress what you like but if the browser starts dropping frames because it has to compile/handle a ton of Javascript and CSS then minifying doesn't help the end user.
The "Jetbrains marketing machine"? I could spend my whole life, visiting tons of programming forums and websites, and hardly see a Jetbrains ad ever.
This is research from the 1980s. It is undoubtedly correct, but it does not not apply to today.

Today, renewables are competing favorably against coal and nuclear power on price, and they are improving rapidly still. It takes easily 15 years to plan and build a nuclear power plant, while a solar plant can be planned and built in months.

The issue of what happens when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine can be addressed through larger HVDC grids with a good energy mix and through storage technology, which is also improving rapidly. Meanwhile, nuclear has its own issues with the elements nowadays. Nuclear relies on huge amounts of freshwater. I've heard of nuclear plants that need to shut down in the summers now because of drought. It will become harder and harder to find locations where they can be built.

Finally, new fossil fuel plants built today are mostly gas, not coal. Gas also has its problems, but it has been a reasonable transition technology that is also losing ground now as energy storage technology is improving.
I hope self driving cars take the crown in the future. The more the F1 is regulated the more boring it get's (at least for me).

Since no driver is in danger they could make the cars faster and the race tracks more interesting. Maybe this will revive some of the race tracks that apparently are not on the F1 list anymore because they are to dangerous.

Or in the far future even high speed racing with weapons like in the games Rollcage, Wipeout, F-Zero and Extreme-G (of course with technology that is available...)
It already exists in many webIDEs. Ex: look at codebox.
How sweet, the study that guardian refers returns 404:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/silentkillers/
No, I have not- thanks for the pointer!

I guess by this time, there really is an "Awesome-<insert ML topic here>" list for everything :)
Sony Xperia XZs Pre-Orders Live at Amazon for $699 in US – Unlocked Version
The calendar one seems to be endemic, every calendar seems to go for that "monthly" view that physical calendars had. I live an unorganized life, all I really need from a calendar is an ordered list of the half dozen upcoming events in there.

I was never a physical calendar user either, so when I get confused with the digital reproduction I wonder if I'm representative of the next generation that's never had a physical calendar.
Ah, but consider the value of a 1% uptick in conversion rate.

Imagine you have a little $10/month SaaS, with 100 trial signups a month, for which the service in question is outrageously expensive.

Assuming one of your users sticks around for a year, his Lifetime Value (LTV) is $120. And assuming there exists some low-hanging fruit optimization that can get you a tiny 1% uplift in conversions. That translates to (0.01 * 100 * 120) = $120 in extra revenue for your startup each month. So even if you spend the rest of your days just looking at our pretty charts and graphs, you're still doubling your investment.

So yeah, it's priced high because it makes you a lot of money.
Yes, but that's at the federal level, where the economies of scale are better. Most towns contract out their websites and don't have capability. Paying Uber is cheaper than paying software engineers.
Understanding the behavior of regression performance metrics
Having zero knowledge of this product other than TFA, but being familiar with similar systems; It's not an unusual requirement for a consumer device that's app-driven. If you're within the same network, the service can be discovered and all's fine. But if you're on cellular, you hit walls - you don't want to open external ports for these notoriously insecure devices, and discovery outside the network is unsolved.

So it's quite normal to have the device poll a hosted service, waiting for a callback, and the cellular application reaches the same hosted service. But to do so, you need a dependable and trustworthy hosted service.
I think the reaction would have been completely different if the reply was along the lines of "We're sorry to hear that your device does not work. We are issuing a refund immediately to your account - please keep in mind that since the refund was issued, your device won't be able to connect to our network any more. Have a pleasant day, and sorry for the inconvenience".

It would have achieved the exact same result, and I am sure the backlash wouldn't be 10% as severe.
Yeah, crass is pretty amazing.

Have you seen my post on the Remynifier, where I do exactly that?

https://luisant.ca/remynifier
Comparing Machine Learning as a Service
The sun not shining at night can also be addressed with variable pricing. Electricity usage is elastic, and a lot of consumption patterns can be time-shifted.

The idea that electricity should have a fixed rate 24/7 is obsolete.
What kind of work would it need sorry? Anyway I can understand this may not seem to be real benchmarking, while writing it eventually became almost an excuse, the very original purpose was to kinda verify my Prof's thesis, whether was really right or not. My intention was not even about to utterly speak about benchmarking nor shared memory (which I both tried to cover though).
I had an article about that too. If you have to do just one, you should go with zopfli or brotli instead of minifying. Having both minification and some kind of compression on top does help the file sizes.

https://luisant.ca/brotli-css

Also, purifycss and uncss are your friends to cut stuff down, to reduce the final load for the user.
Let's says someone sent them important documents and they wouldn't publish them for no obvious reason.
Don't you think the source wouldn't try other channels and/or go public with Wikileaks behavior?
> Chernobyl argument

Consider airliners. Airliners have been around for 80 years, and get substantially safer every decade. This is a statistical fact. Every crash is used as a learning experience and designs, procedures, and training is adjusted as a result.

There's no reason to believe that such does not apply to nuclear power stations.
I can say same things about Switzerland, and I lived only in worst places in it (big cities, especially Geneva which has highest crime rate due to border with France). Once I forgot to raise a window on my bmw on biggest open public parking lot in Lausanne (city nearby), came after few days (luckily it didn't rain!) and voila! everything inside (albeit nothing of huge value). Stupid me. Forgot a new-ish camera once in train. Somebody found it and just gave it to lost & found.

People lock their homes, we have higher amount of robberies (due to France proximity), but post delivery guys regularly just leave packages by the apartment door and they never disappear.

walking alone during night, through roughest parts like train stations - that's automatic.

> In my 14 years living there, I have never once been robbed, have never even witnessed a crime or robbery, nor have I ever heard of someone (e.g., friends) falling victim to one. The only incident was a break-in at the home of a family we knew. That's it.

Exactly same, apart of 6 years only, and that friend break-in is an ex-gf for me.

Bonus - it's a true and proper democracy, they don't decapitate people on some religious whims and they don't sponsor terrorists. or arrest unmarried couples.
I think that this is a really good question too.
The other benefit is from combining files and reducing the number of http requests. Minifiers are really needed for that, but the do make for some nicer development workflows.
The Story of Read-Only Collection Interfaces in .NET
Some envs require logs to be kept for regulatory purposes.

Interestingly, we never used a cluster of log servers. I was always skeptical of their utility. It was grep, plus some hand-rolled utility scripts to interrogate. One was a thing of beauty I spent years on, which saved us a ton of time.
Dear god do I hope you are wrong.

Though as an aside, in this content-recycling ecosystem, I can't see sites that highjack copy-pasting as being particularly successful. Rebloggers would just stick to sources they can easily bake into their own content streams, so you'd need to consistently be serving exclusive content or content much earlier than it 'hits the grapevine'.
Show HN: Crowdsourced travel advice
I've just signed up for this, I love the idea!
Anycast is pretty standard.
I don't know how i2p works, but isn't that pretty much they way the "normal" net works? If you click a link to "news.ycombinator.com" in your webbrowser, it's mostly up to your local or ISPs DNS resolver where that takes you, no?
Funny title. FIA has, for decades, been explicitly forcing the cars to not be the fastest racing cars with byzantine restrictions on the design of the cars and even how they can be designed. I gradually stopped watching F1 races through the late 90's because there was less and less racing and the winning cars were more and more determined by how the engineers found loopholes in the rules for one season until those got regulated or banned for the next season.

If they just gave everyone the same car and let the teams augment the base construction instead of building a new car from scratch then the drivers' skills would be more emphasised and leave more room for race action. Also, the more activity there is during the race the more entertaining.
Neither will it do that flying int nuclear plant.
Pretty sure I'm not. The 0.58/100k figure for the Netherlands includes all gun deaths, too. Washington, NY, has a population of <64k people. Yet its gun homicide rate is still 58% higher than that of the Netherlands. And that's for a county that you picked to show that the situation in the US supposedly isn't as bad as I think.

The fact remains that the US have a gun homicide rate of 3.43/100k, compared to the Netherlands' 0.29/100k (12x), Germany's 0.07/100k (49x), France's 0.21/100k (16x), the UK's 0.06/100k (57x), or Spain's 0.15/100k (23x). That's an order of magnitude difference for all of these countries, with two major EU nations (they haven't left yet! :P) at about 50x fewer gun homicides than the US! Only three EU countries—Italy, Portugal, and Greece—have less than 10x fewer gun homicides, at 0.35, 0.42, and 0.53 per 100k, respectively, or in relative terms: 9.8x, 8x, 6.5x fewer. How is that not a "drastic increase"?

The gun homicide rate in Europe is drastically lower than in the US. That's non-debatable, the data shows it beyond any doubt. So is total homicide rate, albeit by a smaller margin, as per your link, with the US at 3.9, two to four times higher than most EU countries. Singling out Lithuania is misleading.

I'm not going to go into whether access to guns increases suicide rates due to opportunity, that's another discussion. Let's stick with the homicides here.

The "glad you got out of that hellhole" comments you note could be due to movies and TV shows. There is a lot of gun violence in US productions, it's not hard to see how that could create an association for people who haven't lived there.
I suspect all of the books are too weird for mainstream audiences at this time, though I would love to be proven wrong. Glanded designer drugs, gender changes by thought, AGI at millions to billions multiple of a human intellect, Grid energy,... As the list goes on, it would be too easy to veer into fantasy-like depictions, because to date there have been no major successful science fiction movies set in a post-scarcity environment. And Banks' Culture is unabashedly, raucously, bawdily post-scarcity.

Any movie treatment of The Culture runs the constant risk of only getting the glossing highlights reel version that Dune received, and I'd be concerned that the mechanics of the story setting, neat as they are, in a movie would get in the way of telling the real story of Banks' more interesting themes via his incisive commentary delivered by holding up The Culture mirror-like, comparing to our own civilization.
The Fukushima reactor stood the earthquake without damage, and could have been easily designed to withstand the tsunami. It was not.

How, you might say? Put the backup generators in waterproof bunkers, or simply on platforms high enough to keep them dry.

It's not expensive or tricky, it's just that the failure mode did not occur to anyone in charge.
Indeed. I get into a pretty pleasant mental place behind the wheel, even in traffic, while standing on mass transit is pure misery.

Never imagined I would care about climbing the corporate ladder until I realized it could mean cutting mass transit out of my life and living close enough to walk. The rent is at least $1000 more, but $300 less in fares will help, and not being on mass transit is priceless.
That's not true. Coal pollution and deaths are guaranteed mainly by economic disincentives to using clean coal technologies. Even mercury and CO2 emissions could be captured. But then, that would likely make solar the clear choice.
Is the sun not shining just a transmission problem? Have we been able to create ultra high voltage long range DC transmission systems?
Machine learning books
Just because you're using a POSIX API doesn't mean you're writing cross-platform code.
The only sub that returns a 421 ("Unavailable For Legal Reasons") here in Germany is r/watchpeopledie, as can be seen in Reddit's latest transparency report.
The ufldl tutorials are hands down recommended for starters.
CASSINI MISSION
ok let's go through this again. Bricked means the device is now useless or a brick, it's only use will be a paperweight. Totally different from non-functional, removing the batteries will render a device non-functional.

In this case the device was blacklisted on the server side. For a device to be denied access it has to ask for access first which a bricked device would not be able to do.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bricked
Rare events are self-similar.
No mention of surge pricing! Public transit doesn't surge price
This: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
You are suggesting this would convince moon landing deniers?
"Huge amount" which is not even considered a serious incident?
I have the opposite impression: it seems to me that FIA regulations are making the cars pretty much the same for all teams.
Brazilians whacked: Crooks hijack bank's DNS to fleece victims
> What are some simple things I can build by myself? Any ideas?

How about an iOS/Android game with optional micro-transactions?

In game development you can indulge and improve as many different skills as you want; graphics, sound, music, mathematics, networking, AI, UX design, character design, writing, storytelling, difficulty balancing, teaching..

An indie game project will give the freedom to be as creative as you want, and you get to enjoy your own product, but of course you don't have to arrive at a finished, marketable product to have fun building it.
I can't imagine why I'd want to connect my garage door opener up to the hackers on the internet.
Find something simple and can solve the problem of few.
Use bootstrap if you are not good at UI. It's simple yet powerful.

Regarding monetization you can use AdSense, donation button or charge monthly based on type of your product.
Not trying to be smarty pants but I like websites that meet the following criteria:

1. Homepage loads in a second or less

2. Clean design and no clutter. Don't give me too many buttons or Call to Actions. Don't make me think too much

3. Please be gentle with your choice of colors and contrast unless you are specifically catering to an audience like say kids.

4. No pop-ups asking for my email. Instead, have a subscribe form somewhere and if I am interested, you bet I will subscribe.

5. Don't hijack scrolling and back button.
So you enjoy writing a bunch of boilerplate class files that are manual translations of somebody else's doc?
Can eating more than six bananas at once kill you?
WTC Twin Towers were also "built to withstand a plane crash." But obviously not those planes that have hit them:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1340225/Twin-towers-built-to...

And the initial design was 30 floors less.

The Fukushima plant had a wall to protect it from tsunami and the motors to keep the pumps working when there the electricity fails. The whole design however didn't cover that particular wave:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388629/Japan-tsunam...

The tsunamis like that happened there "only once in a thousand years" so nobody (who made the executive decisions) expected that one.

Still there were the stone markers in Japan, many hundreds of years old, with the marking "Do not build your homes below this point!"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html

"As time passes, people inevitably forget."
Hybrid Intelligence: Coupling AI and the Human Brain
I read hn every night in my bed before I go to sleep. My sleeping pill kicks in in 38 min and that's the time I use for HN for the past 5 years.

I agree a monitor is better, especially 3 and 27in,but I won't take them to bed with me. :)
It's not just Elon building bridges to the brain: IoT is coming to a head
Shallow focus is (I believe) one of the main things that stops 3D working properly, and causes eye strain. The 3D part means that your eyes are expecting the focus distance to be a certain distance, but then it isn't, and when you try and look at the background and focus on it, it still stays blurred.

So yes, please no more shallow focus. And no more shaky-cam.
New ONOS release helps automate network configuration
For my work, I need information on public health in developing countries, especially in Africa. There's a lot of information from WHO, but it's not properly machine readable.
At once, your majesty.

But seriously, it's not you or the creator's call whether I have to return the product. I don't have to return it if I gave it a bad review.

Just because I bought something from a store doesn't mean I'm now accountable to the creator.

I hope you don't have to test your theory in court, because you will lose - because the law is clear on this matter.
Usually a bricked device is not up for refund, but stores policy differs, employees may not check if the device works, sometimes the policy is clear that they don't take bricked devices but they accept it on case by case basis.

There's no a absolute stance on refund for bricked devices.
Seven Effective Steps to Improve Customer Service
So now the business is Fate. Got it.
Thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it.

But the issue goes somewhat further. Why does a garage door opener needs to be app dependant in the first place? I don't mean to come out as a luddite and can totally see a place for app driven objects in an IoT network, specifically in the scope of home automation - and control.

But for a garage door opener? Why exactly does it need to be controlled by an app? Do you ever need to control your garage door, while, for example at work? Isn't that just adding an additional layer of complexity, potential problems and a vengeful company between you and your garage door?
They're made out of meat

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
Ok, that's a better definition. But it still fits for this device, to the owner it's no more than a brick because it's been remotely disabled.
> I find it funny and think it's pretty telling that there are bold claims made that are only crossed out after the author is corrected

crossed out? have you seen the follow up post... http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/04/rust-optimizations-that-...

The error was in his example not his assertion.
> This is research from the 1980s

Nope, it is research from now, about an event in the 80s. These are long-term effects, so obviously there is a delay.
I think this is a very objective and in-depth article on the matter.

"Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die"

https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/

Not sure why certain members of the Rust community aren't happy with just having a neat language. Making one false claim after another isn't doing them any favors. It's just aggravating, especially when people who should know better start to believe the hype.

FAKE NEWS!
No, you're trusting the benevolent dictator. To have no-trust you need no trusted individuals.
I bought a TurtleBeach Audiotron years ago. It needed to hook up to the TurtleBeach server on powerup. Naturally, TurtleBeach turned that off at one point, bricking the Audiotron.

Fortunately, they did release a patch that bypassed the ping. I continued using it for years, and finally replaced it with a Grace Digital device, which also relies on connecting to Grace Digital on powerup. I know it'll eventually fail when GD moves on.