skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm bootstrapping on 9.5k/yr. It's doable. Which means I should probably stop all this startup "nonsense" and make more working a $250-300k salary and be a multimillionaire within a decade.

The majority of people choose to eat out every meal, subscribe to a bunch of memberships they use very little, redecorate with new furniture every few years, go to the movies every weekend, take a vacation with excursion$ and so on.

Spending or saving money is a choice, just like one's diet or anything else.
I feel like anagram quality should include other things as well, like how common the words are.
Honestly, if there were a way for their ads to be displayed there without that being seen as a faux pas (e.g. some fundamental shift in the ad network model that just makes it seem like a consequence of the browsing user's interactions with companies - it wouldn't be 'shockingly viral' news to see that racists/sexists/etc use products too) they probably would not care.

Perception is advertisers' only enemy. Once that's taken care of, they really don't care what kind of person you are as long as your money's green.
For something a bit more pro-grade (for a very close price) check out Xandem Home, the Tomographic motion detector. It even creates a map (in the app) reminiscent of harry potter's marauder's map:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8updJWoSxE

6 nodes for 430, vs the Aura for 499. The difference is that Xandem is already used by building installers and has been shipping a product for awhile.

http://xandem.com/xandem-home/

I'm not affiliated with them btw, just a fan of the tech.
yeah, the disparity in cross-sectional air displacement per capita is quite substantial. It is kind of funny to think about as an inefficient train. However, it does not need to replace trains or train commuters in any way. It only needs to contend with normal car travel.

The drag:person inefficiency is a price we still consider worth paying presently, even when it also requires an inefficient decentralized gas-burning energy conversion.

Add in reduced vehicle wear, and of course the time advantage, and with some of the efficiency gains like centralized power/reduced friction/huge electromagnetic actuators/maybe partially evacuated tunnel, it could still conceivably be profitable at a bargain on gas travel.

However, i think the advantages permit it to be sold for more than we are paying for gas travel. People already pay daily just to use a special lane which is nearly the same hassle with only slightly reduced traffic.
Making a cheap clone isn't really morally problematic to me. If a consumer has more options AND can make effective judgments about the level of quality they're buying, then consumers are probably happy. What is problematic is deceptive labeling/marketing such as saying "why yes, this is of course a genuine pacemaker".
I was a promoter throughout my time using it, turning lots of my friends onto it at its peak. I even have a Yik Yak beer koozie!

The day handles came out was the day I uninstalled.
In my city that's where they put parking spots which are even more profitable than housing per square foot. Over $60k a spot.
Could you confirm/cite a source that didi owns shares in uber?
My understanding was that uber got ~20% of didi shares in exchange for ceding the Chinese market.
this article is from 2012 and its prediction did not come true: http://www.realclimate.org/images/Vahrenholt_en-600x452.jpg

source is this solid rebuttal: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/15/record-heat-despit...
You can for example put an entire planet between you and the sun radiation by going out at night.
Tell that to people like my mom whom were in finance, experienced SOX first-hand and had to put BS title pages on every spreadsheet.
> it is rather easy to raise its share of the total energy production to about 80%

I know advocates claim this, but I am highly skeptical. The problem is capacity factor: yes, you might be able to build enough wind farms and solar panels (hydro is pretty much already built out--every site that is feasible for hydroelectric power in significant quantity already has a dam) so that their nominal capacity, if they were all running 24-7 at their rated output, exceeds 80% of total world energy usage. But they won't ever be running 24-7 at their rated output; not even close. Typical capacity factors, AFAIK, are less than 30% for these sources. Whereas nuclear plants (and fossil fuel plants, but we're assuming those are out of bounds since we're talking about clean energy) can run close to 24-7 at their rated output; typical capacity factors exceed 95%.
Can a case be made that the Insurance companies can make this problem less severe? I.e. to deny insurance to unaudited companies or charge a lot more if they refuse.
I would say that quality is an abstract value judgement that requires context to be meaningful. That's why it escapes precise definition.

Whenever Pirsig talks about quality, it seems that he is heavily overloading the term. What he is really trying to do is develop a set of guiding principles that makes him feel like he understands the world and his role in it. Most people use religion or science for this, but Pirsig explicitly rejects science as a way of discovering the truth (for his definition of truth), and I think he implicitly rejects religion as well. I ended up reading "Quality" as just a label that he attaches to the personal philosophy he develops instead.
It's not a wasteful when US has huge land and those fuel vehicles need to travel a long distance may encounter car accidents e.g. fatigue, winter, floods, would be benefits from reduce air pollution in the these concept tunnel, in contrast, the size of Singapore is a lot smaller.

The tunnels could use solar energy which is not wasteful.
The loudest voices I hear against big city life and cultural diversity come from those who have little experience with either. They don't need to try Green Eggs and Ham to know they don't like it.
There's a limit to which resources you'd want/be able to be self-sufficient, you must make trade-offs.

Even big countries may lack some rare metals or fossil fuels.
There will be lots of positive uses for AI, both on Mars and on Earth, but Musk's main stated motivation for both Open AI and Neuralink is that he's deeply worried about AI being an existential risk to humanity, and he's trying to take steps to mitigate that risk.
Finding ones where the two words have some relation surfaced some interesting ones. I tried using Wordnet to do that.

Unfortunately, even after stemming them, most of the list wasn't in Wordnet, so the list is pretty short. The more interesting words are ones with a score lower than 1, so scroll down a bit: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e69f448fa08481603d1ca77ea7...
The top post on hacker news today is about "The Boring Company" and literally nothing on this page functions without enabling the JavaTurds.
Reading the sibling comment to this one, it doesn't sound at all like what happened. But alright
You can google who her father is. It's a capital and guanxi/connection game, less about technology. Leveraging the direct/indirect capital resources they own and copycatting SV unicorn tech fashion in a walled huge market make them feel good. And they are really rich. It's their age now.

edit: added guanxi/connection
Found the story: https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/microsoft-secure-bo...

It's things like this that make me want to try using an FPGA dev kit as my next motherboard. Not because the FPGA is relevant to this, but because it demands a lot of the high speed components (CPU cores, RAM controller) that a desktop computer would have.

Mind you, having an FPGA running the show would be the ultimate in extensibility.
Musk could probably afford to take a helicopter from his home to work everyday if he wanted. It'd be a little ridiculous but feasible. At any rate he could probably rent landing time at one of the skyscrapers on Wilshire if his home doesn't have a helicopter pad. I think he flies from Torrance to San Carlos a lot already.

Still fascinating to see all of this stuff take shape. It's definitely like living in the future. You would think there wouldn't be money in it... but there is!
They are both problems. They are related, but still lie in a different problem space. Net neutrality is a realist solution to one of these problems; a solution necessary because the original problem fosters the other.

In the current landscape of monopolized ISPs, net neutrality is necessary to prevent ISP monopolies from funding service monopolies (like Netflix, Amazon, etc.).
IPOs are businesses last-ditch, later-round financing after sovereign wealth, institutional investors, investment bankers, superangels and everyone else says "no."

They're becoming rarer, except for ventures which require an enormous amount of working capital, because angels and other investors typically have more cash than pre-Sequoia times to lend out to ventures which are smart about their cash & business models.
The whole process can be fully robotized, and the energy comes from cheap solar. It's not even a moonshot, it will happen. We will do even crazier things than this. In the future we will bore tunnels out of boredom.
Imagine you suddenly applied HN's posting etiquette to 4Chan. That's basically how it felt.
Self driving cars should fix things. At least a hive mind autonomously driving traffic should, in theory, reduce misery.
Whether Elon Musk can deliver on all of his ideas is almost an moot point. The important thing is that he is inspiring an entire generation to think outside the box and to believe that they really can change things.

For that alone he gets my gratitude.
Criticism is the sign of a healthy society. If someone is afraid of criticism or doesn't want to take it, then they are only hurting their own work. That's not to say Musk is guilty of that, but his fans could accept it.

If we didn't have critics we'd still have kings with divine right. This seems like an exaggeration, but it's really just to say that we need people to look at things critically.

I haven't collected any evidence, but I wouldn't be surprised if those who find success are always looking for reasons why something will work, and those who run into failure are always looking for reasons why something won't work.

This isn't that far from prosperity gospel preaching. Believing doesn't make things happen, otherwise NeXT would be dominating the industry and not Apple because boy did Jobs believe and give it his all.

Sometimes smart people are wrong, and it doesn't hurt those people anyway if dummies are discussing their work.
>It's still incredibly wasteful compared to a real subway.

Because real subways have miserable sardine-can standing room conditions during commute times. Public transit is dead in the water in the US because its advocates use terms like "incredibly wasteful" to describe making systems anywhere near as comfortable as private cars.

For most people, the most comfortable chair they own is their driver seat. For many, the commute is the only time they get to be alone, meditative, and in complete control of their environment (cube farm or open office at work, children at home, etc).

When the CIA forces people to spend hours with their arms fully extended over their heads while bombarding them with 100db noise, there's a Senate inquiry. When BART does it, it's a regular Tuesday at 9am. (Yes, this is an extreme comparison, real stress positions are much worse, but your average Midwestern suburbanite used to his Toyota Camry is in for a real shock).

If you want Americans to get over their train/bus hate, then don't advocate such drastic reductions in the quality of our lives or the livability of our cities. Your average SUV-driving Wisconsin soccer mom has been to Manhattan as a tourist and decided that her one accidental peak-hours train ride was enough for one lifetime.

That, or densify the environment. We might put up with transit if the rides were shorter.

(I am a daily BART rider, and public transit dependence is the #1 reason I want to GTFO of the Bay Area).
That's hilarious. Affirmative action created a car culture, not the fact that cars came around when America infrastructure was bring created or that people live far away from where they work. I get it though, you personally crave not being around minorities.
In postgres not much has happened around geospatial in core, because there's a lot happening in postgis.

FWIW, you can define additional types of index access methods in postgres (from scratch), or you can gist / gin / spgist access methods where you need to care about a lot less. All are used in the wild.
Palantir runs a shit-ton of RHEL boxes for clients include a dozen TLA (three-letter agencies). I know because they tried to hire me to do just that.
I'm on mobile but I'll have a full reply later. Nothing against you personally at all, this is actually the exact type of post I enjoy writing myself actually.

Also - I did miss that this was a hypothetical retreospective, so some of my comment is incorrect.
You think people in Iowa are driving because of the huge amounts of minorities?
The Chinese created famine in their country by eliminating sparrows as part of their so-called "Great Leap Forward". It turned out that the sparrows were eating pest insects. Now the Chinese offer to gobble these oysters. Can they be trusted?
It says that near the conclusion of the article.
>sign it as a true and accurate record of your hours worked.

This is small print on timesheets anywhere I have worked. The point is that they have something that department of labor can see where employees asserted that the hours reported are correct. That's all DOL cares about if they check. It they are coercing employees to falsify time sheets DOL will have strong feelings. Record your hours independently and have those records ready for side by side comparison. After you leave for a better job, consider reporting their illegal practices so that hopefully others will no longer have to put up with it either. It does not help anybody to have a long history of lying on timesheets. ... Is this timesheet rule in writing anywhere? This would halo help a lot. Sorry I'm really interested in this. I'm a manager and I make sure my team records everything they are possibly entitled to be paid for because I'm a reasonable human being. End of rant ;)
This is 100% Nathan For You.
The only controversial part of what I said is that they liked old things to avoid the tie to Islam. Al-Andalus was Spain, Islamic philosophy was heavily influenced by Aristotle, everyone called the Byzantine Empire Roman, and we are taught a very Eurocentric history.

Sorry to continue on, wanted to establish that these things are certain. Don't want to fall into a new blend of scholasticism.
At the end of WW II Canada had the world's third largest navy. I get that a military spending is like insurance: if you don't need it it's wasted money, and there are always other things to spend your cash on. But Canada really seems to have allowed its military to languish to an unnecessary degree.
Point72.
Yes and I would add that the ecosystem practically begs devs to do this. The language lends itself nicely to these ends as well. I wish there were more options for the web...
Palantir is more consultingish-convert-to-subscription/product model where possible... they make money anyway they can and keep looking to build new business opportunities with consultingish svcs.

In general, strict consultancies are inherently unscalable and expensive, whereas SaaS has a unit cost of nearly $0. The benefits of consultingish, unscalable behaviors are known, in order to get to, and create new, scalable products.

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
Devil's advocate: "Growth"

(Though of course I only set it up because it's so fun to knock down. Uber's 'growth' is of economically-minded bellweather users happy to jump ship to save a few bucks, and they have built next to zero and possibly even negative brand loyalty)

If Uber can constantly outperform other apps on price (read: without huge ride subsidization) they might be able to maintain a tentuous lead; but even then it'd just be a war they'd be fighting on many fronts as a 'goliath' against hundreds of davids. And they (Uber) are fronting the major legal costs for all of them :)
>I have seen entire clusters taken out by a regression.

I think we agree a lot actually :). Not sure Docker would call this one a regression, but... https://github.com/Azure/ACS/issues/3#issue-201986759 (that's me)
As a Turk - The Yörüks are not necessarily obscure but not really very well known or oft-mentioned either like other ethnic groups like the Laz, Kurds, Circassians, Turkmens, etc. So it would be surprising to hear that many foreigners ever even heard of them at the time, let alone Tolkien. Then again, I guess I wouldn't put it past him to have encyclopedic knowledge of mythologies and histories.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%B6r%C3%BCks
"Sugary water" is pejorative because it's just sugary water; so I'd say that the answer to your second question is no.
Try any "excellent" public transportation system during commute hours. The lack of personal space isn't misperception. Systems are explicitly planned to have standees, and lots of them, in close quarters. We've gotten acclimated to something much more comfortable, and we get to vote.

It's not clear how public transit advocates will convince us to vote to downgrade our lives. Maybe the bicyclists and pedestrians in cities will be able to block suburban drivers from entering.
Show HN: Fake SMTP Server and Low-Maintenance Email Generator
I hear what you're saying and actually agree. The somewhat pedantic point I was making earlier was just that the author could've more conservatively written, "here are some possible dangers down this path which we should think carefully about."

(Sorry for replying to a long, substantive comment with a short one; I just don't have anything to add.)
This solves the last Mile problem
I understand your frustration but I think you're being a tad unfair to chilli lovers with your gratuitous violence comparison. If all I'm getting out of a spicy dish is 'hot' then it's either a shit dish or I'm eating something hotter than I should be.
> Why don't these 800 startups...start a...network?

It just isn't that simple.

Your solution is for a minority to create an infrastructure that covers the entire continental US. Essentially what you are asking is for a "hacker"-founded Verizon.
It's hard to hit the brakes on a moving train. Still potentially possible.
Nope, data abstractions always leak.

Writing application for Oracle I know that I have ACID and transactions, Writing my data access layer I will take advantage of this. I will also consider locking issues and add some kind of cache like Redis to boost read performance.

Writing for MongoDB I have schemaless data and different consistency guarantees. Because my data objects do not have consistent schema my access layer need to be flexible enough to deal with object of different shape. I would probably use dynamic languages like JS/Ruby.

Database choice will guide design and implementation data access layer. It is non trivial to change this. Even MySQL to PostgreSQL can take a lot effort when you have a lot live data.
Good call. This is the country for which loopholes exist that basically allow any processed food product to claim being 'made with 100% chicken' [though not 100% of this product is that '100% chicken'] or 'Made with [a company called] 'Real'['s] cheese" or whatnot...

> 100% grated parmesan cheese. It's 100% grated. And there is parmesan cheese in it. Just not 100% cheese.

etc etc (via reddit this morning).

Can't really trust words that are picked to imply conclusions that are not legally being declared rigorously (and audited by some lawyer of an independent entity).
People love to try to appear to be exceptional in some way. Some people think that by eating food which is difficult to consume without first accustoming themselves, they will be able to distinguish themselves from the common herd. My feeling about this is antagonistic to their unwarranted self-regard; by attempting to earmark themselves merely by the act of consuming a food, they instead display their mediocrity.
Any transcripts / summaries?
Fair for sure. I think the act that burst their bubble was the aforementioned switch to required handles combined with an already shrinking community at that point in many urban areas who got bored with it. The bigger point of the comment was basically that most tech companies are overvalued and only get bailed out by acquisition. The money isn't really surprising here to me, which was the claim of the parent comment. The interesting part is how royally the fucked up their product to burst the evaluation bubble that quickly.
99% of popular critical feedback on ideas like this is nonsense so ill-informed it would take days to intelligibly refute to an objective third party - and the only way to convince the original negative Nancy would be to succeed.

It would be interesting to hear what experts think, though
That's much nicer than hacking stuff out, unfortunately/fortunately (not sure anymore) I am not a java programmer, this particular app is in go.
Yes, EE here too, but if the signal you're trying to detect is also noise like (pseudo random), it is averaged out with the noise. That's why I'm thinking that any moderately complex signal won't be detectable. We'd have to detect a signal that aliens purposely sent out at a very narrow bandwidth; essentially seconds per bit, or even narrower.
JS is compilation target for most modern x-platform UIs. Every big JS project is compiling some how: ES6/7/etc, TypeScript, Flow (ok, not exactly compiling), CoffeeScript, Elm, PureScript, Reason, GHCJS, ClojureScript, JSX, etc. etc.

And that is ok. Until WebAssembly matures, then those compilers will all just add it as a compiler backend.
Would pessimism help?
The entire basis of your argument is that you are unaware of any specific argument to support your claim.
Both situations are different - they're losing something that they didn't give you - their money.
Does paprika burn? I've never had any that had any real flavor or heat to speak of. Had a smoked one once but it tasted like smoke.
I'm wondering the same thing, as someone who has only started using systemd. From what I can tell it handles:

- starting the various pieces of the app in the correct order
- permissions (uid, cgroup, maybe even virtual file system)
- environment variables, working directory
- passing around sockets
- restarting things if needed
- monitoring resource usage
- centralized logging
But those are the names of numbers, like "one", and not numerals. "one two three" would be the English equivalent.
Adopting the next-gen internet protocol: deploying IPv6 for Uber engineering
> tunnelling is a broadly solved problem

As rockets were before Space X?

It costs a billion dollars per mile to dig a subway tunnel. If the costs could be brought down, it would change a lot about the way we build mass transit systems.
The index issue and the memory used per connection I can understand but when they didn't even try to use one of the many logical replication systems that have been used a scale bigger than Uber, hello Marco at Skype, the argument against Postgres gets a bit confusing. Uber seemed to really understand some things with amazing depth and not understand others that are documented by others outside of Uber. I think some politics played a big part.
Secure Boot is utterly broken (for general purpose pcs at least) anyways. I can just take an old windows kernel and boot with a configuration that loads a driver with a known vulnerability (a certain gpu manufacturer might be a good place to look) and a script that use it to run kernel mode code that does whatever it wants.

Newer Windows kernels generally blacklists drivers with know vulns, but you can just use an older version, and practically speaking old windows kernels can't be blacklisted because then people's install media that they might have paid for would stop working.
PyTorch-Style-Transfer