skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for narrow roads. By my house there are suuuper wide roads with no houses on them, but 3-4 turn-offs into subdivisions. The roads have 20ft on either side of them that is mowed grass and huge shoulders. The subdivisions usually have turn lanes into them. Everyone goes 55-60 because the road is designed that way. The actual speed limit: 40. Lesson: Design the road for the speed limit that is intended.
I wish people would stop using the "1%" as a global entity. When people refer to the "1%" it is understood implicitly that they are referring to the 1% of the wealthiest individuals in the western world. By referring to the "1%" in the way you do, you demean people who struggle daily making 8 bucks an hour because "chin up, you're in the 1% hehe".

You think you're doing some good by making this argument, but really you're hurting more people than you understand.
They also annexed deviant art's fan art/fanfiction community for tv shows and books.
Even better, research things like ASN.1 and canonical S-expressions. Re. the latter, here are some examples:

{"hello-world:s": "Hello, world!"} → (hello-world "Hello, world!")
{"hello-base-sixteen:d16": "48656c6c6f2c20776f726c6421"} → (hello-base-sixteen #48656c6c6f2c20776f726c6421#)
{"base-sixty-four-is-default:d": "SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkIQ"} → (base-sixty-four |SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkIQ|)
{"hello-signed-int:i": "42"} → (some-int 42)
Ø → (some-big-int [bigint]|GY0+kwq94p4QRs2j4rHisQLgEN3zsFSZNJrgK+ZFcV0s1ShyMkMFOHip0oRuG7v+TAC7qmDaYSojFbZjNV5dSA==|)
{"hello-timestamp:t": "2016-10-02T07:31:51Z"} → (hello-timestamp [timestamp]2016-10-02T07:31:51Z)

Seriously, this is IMHO so clearly good I'm surprised more folks don't agree.
>Germany is also the most stressful country to drive in I think.

I'm guessing you've never been to any developing country. India doesn't even respect traffic lights or the concept of "lanes." You have modern cars sharing the roads with literal ox-drawn carriages and they're all splitting lanes with hundreds of little scooters.

Hell, even Italy is a complete clusterfuck. If Germany is stressful to drive in for someone I would question if that person is comfortable behind the wheel of a car at all.

In fact, I'll say this is one of the big problems with how lax driving standards are in America. There are lots of people who drive everywhere here who do NOT have the skill, attention span, or reflexes to be behind the wheel of a car. It's too economically essential to be a functioning member of society to make the standards any stricter, but they're so lax that we have a glut of terrible drivers. Terrible drivers lead to overly permissive road design (that winds up being unsafe for anyone not in a car like bikers, cyclists or pedestrians) and that just leads to a bad quality of life overall for everyone.
> You just can't very reliably go across the country because some of our states are larger than many, if not most, European countries.

This is such a weird argument. I can take a train from London to Paris to Zurich to Berlin, despite them being entirely different countries. You're telling me travelling between US states is somehow massively harder?

> Compare a topography map of Sweden with California.

Switzerland has a) some of the most challenging topography in the world and b) one of the most extensive, heavily used train systems in the world.
"Some people are genetically greedier..."

That's a pretty bold claim that I am coming across for the first time. I did not know greed has its roots in genetics. Can you cite some references? I would love to read more about this.
The navigation history on this page is janky. I'm not sure if it's every heading or every section, but as you scroll down the page you get more and more unanchored history points.
Previous discussions of this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11153406 (a year ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914534 (two years ago)

I learned toki pona in 2009 and I enjoy it a lot. Among other things, I used in this MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle

http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/2012/puzzles/into_the_woodstock/s...

Related, but with an extremely different ethos:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_semantic_metalanguage
> Building out also isn't a solution, because people want to be close to the city center or the things they go to the most. Self-driving cars may help with this issue in the long term, but not the short term.

Self-driving cars won't help in the long term either, for the same reason traffic is terrible in sprawling cities like LA today. Fast, high-density regional transit is needed and even that is only a better constant factor. The N^2 or whatever scaling problem remains.
My personal experience as a potential customer of the solar industry has been pretty weird so far.

I'm at the contracting stage of getting solar. I used Yelp to narrow down our options to three different companies. I contacted each, gave my information, and ... then nothing. Never heard back from _any_ of them. So I tried calling each again.

The first of them got back to me and has been the most helpful so far. It's a small local company. They use some kind of solar quoting software that pulls info out of Google Earth/Google Maps. It maps out your roof and everything. So this company was able to send me a quote with prospective panel placement, estimated generation by month, and estimated electric bill pre and post solar. Really cool!

When I got ahold of the second company I ran down my list of requests for the solar system. They balked at my request for Tesla PowerWall batteries. The rep went on a 2 minute sales pitch for some other brand and said "Tesla batteries won't power your home"...I ... I didn't know what to say that. I ignored the ignorance and requested a quote anyway. It's now 3 days past when they said the quote would come (why would it take so long for an estimated quote anyway!?) and I haven't heard a peep.

The third company apologized for not getting back to me and said they'd tell their solar rep to get back to me ASAP. Still nothing.

All three companies were very highly rated on Yelp (and all with at least 40 reviews). And yet all I have to show for my requests so far is ... 1 quote.

SolarCity may suck, but their competition doesn't seem to want business anyway.
The point of this article is that often, speeding is safer than obeying the speed limit. In those cases it seems moral to speed.
The coolest of the Legion's traditions is that its service anthem -- its version of say, the Marines' Hymn -- is Edith Piaf's "Je Ne Regrette Rien", which was dedicated by Piaf to the Legionnaires in Algeria at the time of its release. They sing it in parades and as a drinking song, it's awesome.
Speaking as someone who has successfully implemented service discovery and load balancing using DNS and DNSSRV, let me emphatically state that these are not the right tools for the job. They are slow, client support is so variable it can only be called broken, and they're extremely difficult to rationalize and debug.
Microsoft's willingness to maintain backward compatibility has been key to their success over the years. With the importance of Adobe's products on their platform, it makes sense that they would go out of their way to ensure their continued functioning.
Woah! I knew you from sigmil ACM@UIUC

best of luck in the future
Here are condos renting for $2-3k per month in downtown Raleigh on the 20th-30th floors of a relatively new development (http://www.theplazacoa.com/homesforsale.php). Now, that seems astronomically expensive for 1000 sq feet to me, being from the South, but it's cheaper than SF rents from what I hear. And plenty of buildings in Queens, Brooklyn or any US city are shorter than 100 feet. There's tons of room for more building.

Building costs are not a complete explanation for the current astronomical prices. Political choices to restrict construction play a huge role.
Last but not least: Trump didn't have a credible opponent. That certainly played a big help in his election.

We don't know in advance who Zuck could be up against.
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* bureaucrats

* State

* incompetent
>Still, this may be the lowest-light cellphone photo ever taken.

Not so fast buddy. Some of us have been playing with this stuff for a really long time :)
So, since you're saying public good requires companies to access their competitors' internal data, should the government require of Uber to release, e.g. their mail archive ? Their business deals ? Any of the data they have ? This would be a move giving market equality. Merely allowing Uber to penetrate their competitors' information system is allowing industrial spying, not making data available for public use.

Should we accept that, e.g. Lyft send some of their employees to be recruited at Uber and then leak the info back to Uber ? That's, afaik, illegal.

You must realize that, while you criticize CFAA for promoting big business, a small company will never have decent means to resist an unrestricted corporate warfare.

By creating a clear delimitation between what in your information system is public, and what is private, CFAA allows smaller companies to protect information critical to their business (not IP, private info), so that they don't have to invest in oversized devensive methods.

> the fact is that Lyft was giving this away.

Lyft was giving this away to business partners with whom they had contractual relations. Uber impersonated contractors, and violated these contractual relations.
Genuine question...if we really cared about speeding, couldn't we just put speed cameras everywhere and issue tickets automatically for people who are driving too fast?

The randomness of having a human officer grab me (not the other 1,000 people) off the road for going too fast feels unfair and ineffective.
Completely agreed here. My experience has been that people are very intolerant of thought diversity. They like all sorts of diversity, as long as you subscribe to the same politics and morality as they do.
This kind of research has been going on for quite a while:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/magazine/the-artificial-wo...

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hsr/wp-content/themes/hsr/pdf/fa...

Not discounting what you are saying; just wanted to add some more context...
Thanks. I found that when they transitioned to Hardware2/AP2 they cut out most autopilot functionality, and since then have been gradually releasing updates that bring back that functionality.
Heh. I used their free service on occasion for a few years during the period when it was no longer worth it for me to pay for monthly dial-up but broadband wasn't always available when traveling. (And pre-mobile data.)
How does one go about improving one's social skills.
It's immoral to drive at any speed which causes needless risk of physical harm to other people, speeding or otherwise. There are times when speeding does not cause this risk though.

The phrase "speed excessively" in your second sentence directly implies that "speeding" leads to the immorality rather than just speed. Additionally, "excessive" is approaching a tautology. In your first comment though you just talk about "speeding" without the excess and then say that's flatly immoral.
The solution to cheating is to reinstitute the viva voce and make passing it a major part of the score required to get a degree.

I'm quite confident that no one at Exeter Uni. in 1977 could have cheated their way to an honours degree in physics because defending your final year experimental report (120 typed pages of data, charts, conclusions, explanations, and procedures) required answering live questions from two very smart faculty members.
I would argue that payment is not necessarily a requirement. If someone opens a free clinic, should they be allowed to practice medicine without a licence, because it is not really 'practice'?
If you build a flying car, will they come?
I hesitate to question anyone's abilities before you know what constraints they had to work under. Designers often get the blame for internal management chaos, and a lot of executives feel qualified to make major design decisions.
This. When these systems fail they will fail in surprising and inhuman ways. The accidents will appear to average people as easily avoidable which will give the impression of low quality engineering. e.g. Who doesn't slow down when a semi crosses their path on the highway?
Maybe that's a 26-character writing system?
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That's cool.

I never considered Sony. Too limited in terms of lens choices. But if this capability is flexible/powerful enough, then it does kind of compensate.
> A page shouldn't communicate with other instances; servers should.

That requires a server. The point of c2 is it's a wiki: you can edit the content just by browsing to the URL and clicking a button. Sure, self-hosted static HTML sites are a really good solution to lots of problems; editing wikis isn't one of them.

The alternative view is that visiting the page brings up your own personal server, allowing you to participate in the network; it just so happens that the server is written in JS and runs in a browser tab.

> The server can render the result of input from other instances once and display it to readers many times

This is exactly what decentralising a site is supposed to avoid: wiki is an experiment in collectively owned content; removing central points of contact/ownership is the next step.

> > With a JS renderer, the server side rendering can be thrown away.

> That's a bit like saying, 'with a single can of soda, you can get rid of running water!'

Maybe a better analogy is selling seeds rather than vegetables: you save yourself costs on transport, storage, refrigeration, etc. by offloading a bunch of cultivation work on to your customers. It's exactly the wrong approach if you're trying to run a supermarket. If you're an experimental botanist, and a few specialists keep asking you for produce, it's probably a good idea to save yourself time and money by empowering them with seeds.

> Replacing server-side rendering with client-side JavaScript is strictly worse.

It's worse, but not strictly so; for the reasons I've listed above.
Thank you for this very detailed response and roadmap to evaluating the journal. I was hoping to get a response from someone who could speak from a position of expertise, and, as usual, HN delivers.
please dont shut down it is a great service better than google docs
That doesn't explain the move towards larger cosmopolitan cities, though. The economically rational thing to do if land values in, say, San Francisco or NYC become more expensive is to move to different cities, ones with abundant land and low housing prices. Yet the predominant migration we see is the other way, from small towns and minor cities to big metropolitan areas.

Anyone who's been in this situation could explain the reason why: because most of the good jobs are in cities. But then answering the question of "Why are the good jobs in cities?" brings us back to square one, where we have to consider China, robots, monopolies, etc.
> different sources

That's not how I understood it. I find the alternative facts and related screed to be more similar to wearing your team's colors than expressing an opinion.

Some years ago, back when Bush was in office, I tried to argue/discuss​ politics with someone who held quite different beliefs than mine. We went back and forth for a while as I tried to find some common ground. At one point, I realized he had asserted something that was false, according to several sources. I showed him the relevant Wikipedia article. He laughed and replied, "You got me, I lied." I suddenly realized he had no intention of finding anything to agree on, but simply wanted to "win."
It's very subjective. I find driving in Germany to be not very stressful, despite the relatively narrow lanes and high speeds.

Now, one has to compare similar situations, not a German Autobahn in a Metropolitan region with a empty desert highway... But comparing a busy Autobahn with a busy freeway (say the interstate into Chicago), I found the freeway to be much more stressful. People are passing on both sides! And there is not much speed differential. I can't just fall back to the right if I want to take it slow. There is often no emergency lane. I feel like I'm being pushed along, and if I can't keep up, I will be ran over.

In Germany, people can go faster, but it feels very predictable, clockwork-like. Yes, you have occasional idiots speeding with 250 km/h on the left lane that don't slow down and assume you will move out of the way out of self-preservation. But those are outliers, other than that I rarely have complaints. Maybe it is a cliche, but it seems the drivers' education, and the condition of cars and streets, is really good in Germany.
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Self-driving is so far out as a door-to-door taxi service as to be utterly irrelevant to Uber's business model.
> Oh yeah, I'm sure "eating a chicken sandwich" was a reference to something else, yep.

You're just making assumptions, and proving that you're an idiot who cannot read.

> Point out some examples or admit you don't care to have an actual conversation.

You think you know specific things that have happened to me, in my life better than I? Get over yourself, you're a fucking idiot.
To simplify this: Any title which is protected and governed by law makes it illegal for you to claim the title without being licensed to do so. "Engineer" is one of those titles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...
I've been road-raged doing the speed limit in the right-hand lane. You shouldn't be bothering people doing that, but people aren't rational.
Whether or not you're allowed to call yourself an engineer varies from state to state - as a very rough rule it's more likely to be regulated on the East coast than the West (Oregon excepted as we see here)
You can even write your own apps, but since that's not officially supported by Sony the process is probably quite painful. See https://github.com/ma1co/OpenMemories-Framework
Is it a violation of a law to write "engineer" on a resume? It's part of my title at both of my jobs - did my employer violate a law by giving a title to someone without a license?

What a crazy world we've created for ourselves.
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It's hard enough to get enterprise customers to stay current when they do provide legacy support. Fighting with IE version compatibility, for example, is still a daily, very real issue for enterprise size organizations.

Blame the customers. Microsoft never would have captured the marketshare they have if they didn't cater to them.
It's not ransomware i worry about. What about targeting the lidar/radar directly? Some people still have radar/laser jammers, and only ten states ban them. What on earth will your programming do to counter that?

Or what if an actor uses something like this:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/29/now-you-see-me-now-you-don...

that confounds the car's sensors. Self-driving cars have a whole spectrum of attack vectors that human beings don't have.
That's why I like the EU model more (but it also has it's downsides): you have to proof it's not harmful.
Same for me, which is another reason, though, to not worry about cheating on homework. Cheating on tests, yes, but homework, with it counting 10-15%, only means the difference between one grade level, at most. And a failing student would only move to a C or D.
also, not true
>It's immoral to speed excessively in way that causes needless risk of physical harm to other people.

Even in jurisdictions that didn't have speeding laws (before we had a national standard) those people were still prosecuted for reckless driving. The standard speeding law is whatever is reasonable and prudent given the traffic, weather, and road conditions. It's a subjective standard that offers police a lot of leeway, but so it goes.
It's amazing how quickly they manage to turn around those arenas for the different sports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4rZjGNYxuo
German autobahn is fine driving. You would just have to make sure your car got that extra kick if you want to go to the left.

Driving in Italy, Rome esp, is fine too. There is a reason the red light is so big and so much larger than the green light though :)
> assuming there's a basic level of humanity in those values

I am not saying that you are this way, but I have had interactions that lead me to believe that reasoning allows some to wholly reject values I hold dear as "intolerant" without consideration, all in the name of tolerance. It comes across as comical in a tragic way.

On the flip side, I have had interactions where I was able have a disagreement and work backward to the differing values which we were able to agree to disagree on.
>Elicit more complex responses, make statements, lead off of their complex answers, don't just suddenly branch off to something unrelated, etc.

Absolutely no need to optimize here. Just do what Dale Carnegie told on the book: "Become genuinely interested in the other person".

Interview questions like that will always sound like an interview.
>Elicit more complex responses, make statements, lead off of their complex answers, don't just suddenly branch off to something unrelated, etc.

Absolutely no need to optimize here. Just do what Dale Carnegie told on the book: "Become genuinely intererested in the other person".

Interview questions like that will always sound like an interview.
Once an officer hits their unit, they have someone with 5-10x more experience to supervise them for their first 5-10 years. It would be like a new manager getting a senior engineer to work with 7 days a week to help guide their bad ideas.

Additionally, your software engineers aren't indentured servants. In the military, you often can't go home until a problem is fixed and if you quit, you go to jail.

The military burns through a lot of good people, most get out after their initial term.
Does it? In another HN thread there was a link posted to this article from 2004:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/opinion/the-public-editor-...

Apparently the actual staff of the NY Times are under no illusions about the even-handedness of their own work. And that was written over a decade ago. I'm not sure how you'd objectively define high standards or trustworthiness except in a circular manner.
50 years from now? A great deal of society was embarrassed by this the minute they read it.

Of a few of those, I dare say the majority is embarrassed about. Especially from outside the US.
I've started to read Calculus Made Easy. It really is good.
> It's an enthusiast community for people who love photography.

500px replaced Flickr as that for me.

I was a long-time Flickr user back in the day because the community aspect helped me become a better photographer. I got feedback from other photographers, and got inspiration from their stuff. Now that Flickr is a ghost town, that aspect is dead.

500px has been a great substitute (though it has some strange biases towards lots of Russian model photography) for that.
The key word there is "excessively". Going faster than the posted speed limit doesn't mean you're endangering others. And, heck, driving at or lower than the posted speed limit also doesn't mean that you aren't endangering others (e.g. under poor weather conditions).
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The World’s Most Expensive Medicine Is Being Pulled from the Market
Is AWS CodeStar a threat to my startup?
Great comment. My frustration primarily comes from being a consumer of these startups. I understand why co-founders choose this approach. But it's taken me a while to realize that in this "system", I am not a consumer but I am the product. These companies think very differently than what I am used to as they measured by number of "active users" as the big companies of day like Google, Facebook, Dropbox use these metrics for acquisition. Google would rather buy a company with 1m free users than a company with 10k paid users paying 100usd each.
But this doesn't always happen. We have yet to see any electric car reach the price of a low-end kia or hyundai.