skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we refer to things, we use words that convey our perception of them. People identify themselves a certain way, and I can identify them a certain way too. The notion of someone's gender has relevance to others. It doesn't make sense to go purely based on their own self perception.

For me, I tend to assign gender by sex. I don't want to disrespect myself by saying something I don't believe. On the other hand I don't want to disrespect others either. So for now my approach is to sidestep the issue and refer to all trans people with "they".
Will the native versions also be open sourced when they're retired?

I'd be willing to volunteer some time to bring the Windows one back up to speed. All I wanted in a new version was for it to respect my system accent color and switch to using system webviews internally (neither of which this new version does either).
Non-profits can still make money and not even the Vancouver Aquarium itself claims that "All proceeds are directed back into rehabilitation and education programs". In 2015, only 15% of revenues went to Conservation, Research and Education.
http://www.vanaqua.org/annualreport2015/assets/dist/pdfs/ann...
Unfortunately my bank (Nordea) removed this excellent feature and instead refer to having Visa 3D Secure verification, which basically only works in Sweden and is voluntary for the entity charging the credit card. Now I have to pay for two cards just to be able to do this.
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It's all about craftsmanship, and it's about the depth of knowledge. You can hire most people to build a car from a kit. However, you also have to accept blame from getting someone with a shallow understanding of the car when something goes wrong on the car.

> But they're typically expensive and unavailable.

Because the value of the knowledge is extremely high and the market is flooded with people that can do the job of creation but not solve the problems that arise out of it.

> why is that a bad thing?

TL;DR Short term, that's ok, long term: they have no understanding of what they're truly doing and the consequences as a result. You should accept responsibility for that.
edit: SuprNova!

What was one of the first ones I'll never remember the name of? I swear it was part-run by the guy that actually invented Bit Torrent, but it also might've been a spin-off. I can visualise the website in my head but I can't place the name!
No, that's 'the walls have ears - ours!'
>If the demand drops, the price goes up, leading to a further drop in demand, which drives up the prices

This is nonsense. A drop in demand reduces prices. Yes, there are economies of scale in oil production/refinement, but they are dwarfed by the marginal cost of extracting the last barrel, which is what drives the global price of oil.
To a point, but a lot of it goes in the future fund. North Dakota is still a farming state and #1 honey producer of the USA. Oil will probably last quite a while given the costs keep dropping as the technology progresses, but the state is mindful of a bust since its happened before.
The average global income is half that number. 71% of the world lives on less than $10 a day.
Small planes use 100LL which is expensive but fairly widely available, despite being a very small market. It seems reasonable to expect rural use of gasoline to be bigger than that?
link to direct youtube live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2VF8tmLFHw
> we should help animals and immediately return them to the wild. If the only way to help them means taking them into captivity, we should not help.

It depends on the animal of course, and if they're social animals or prefer solitude. There are many birds, injured beyond rehabilitation, that seem to do fine in captivity (so long as it's a good centre with lots of space -- most places don't though which is sad. The Cincinnati Zoo is an example of a good centre for rehabilitation).

When it comes to dolphins and whales, I totally agree though. They're simply too big and they evolved to travel massive distances. If they can be treated and nursed for a few weeks and immediately released, I think that's the best thing.

Why should aquatic specialists decide if they'd survive in the wild? If they are healthy enough to at least be able to find others of their kind, is it not better to die free than live long in a cage?
Maybe we can make a ML model of Burt Reynolds?
Try closing one eye to rule out bad alignment of the viewing frustrums to your eyes' actual viewing positions and angles.
This tool is not for me or you. It is to ease the entry friction for those who have never worked within our ecosystem.
SpaceX actually does the same.
"car in walking distance" is going to seem nonsensical very soon. These changes are predicated on autonomous vehicles.
Yes DSM-5 allowed adolescents to be diagnosed with a number of personality disorders previously reserved for adults, but antisocial personality disorder remains adult only.
I think that the technical limitations of EVs (range, towing, etc.) are things that will not be overcome. I don't want to say it will be easy, but it will be a matter of a motivated company (or companies) applying resources to to solve a problem.

The far more wishful thinking part of the article is the idea of a retreat from ownership and on-demand vehicle usage. I'm sure it will be an option. Avis and Hertz will build fleets of summonable cars that you pay in a monthly fee and it picks you up and drops you off. That sounds great as a city dweller, but there are lots of parts of the country where that simply isn't tenable. I know of hundreds of towns in my state that have a population of less than 500 and are at least a hour drive from a town with more than 5000 people. No car company can fix that problem, and even if they create a great incentive to move to cities, that would be a glacial process, and that kind of migration would only make the idea less tenable for people that choose not to move to cities.

As you mention there is all the people that modify their vehicles, but even simpler--how many people with young children have a car seat semi-permanantly installed in their back seat?

And the other point I never see brought up when you see these pie-in-the-sky predictions--there were 254 million motor vehicles registered in the US in 2012. (1) There were 17.55 million light vehicle sales in 2016 (2). Obviously some of the 254 million are vehicles that would not get replaced in a migration to electric/autonomous, and some people would likely migrate to an on-demand model, but it certainly suggests that a complete cut-over in 8 years time would be very difficult especially for people living in poverty who today might be driving a 20 year old vehicle that they paid $1000 for, and can't afford a new vehicle, and may have reasons that an on-demand model wouldn't work for them (rural poor for example.)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unit...
(2) http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-auto-sales-20...
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I don't buy it because people don't buy cars for efficiency, they buy it as status symbol. So no, autonomous-vehicles-on-demand won't kill personal cars. They'd still make life easier in foreign trips though. And BMW can still make expensive electric cars and make profit happily.

Oil producers are indeed in trouble.
There are plenty of non-profits that do questionable things. PETA clinics euthanize more animals that humane centers run by municipalities:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/05/pets-shelter-euthan...
The same reason web developers come up with their own scrolling.

It's all a ton of absurd masturbatatory make-work of no benefit to the end user.
Poor UX is an implementation problem, not an Electron problem. The popularity of well-built apps like Slack, Atom, and VSCode would seem to indicate many, many people have no problem with the UX.
Integrating Twilio, and AWS SES with AWS Step Functions
Definitely games. This is what got me first hacking when I was a kid. Now as a parent, my oldest daughter (now 13), has been hacking on things for a few years now. First it was with Legos, then Minecraft modding, and most recently she's been trying to hack Movie Star Planet.

Believe me; I was quite shocked we she came to me out of the blue and was like, "Hey dad; can you come take a look at this? I'm having a problem with Charles and I thought you could help." I was thinking, "Ok, I don't know who Charles is, but I'll listen to her." Turns out she was referring to Charles the web debugging proxy (https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/proxying/ssl-prox...) and that she was doing traffic analysis on her games to see if she could hack the data being passed around; not all that much different from Burp which I use for security auditing some of my apps at work.
>Am I completely misunderstanding your (and Marx's) position here?

Yes, or at least, to the best of my knowledge of Marx. The aeroplane has thousands of hours of basic socially necessary labour which have been put into it. All the labour hours to construct the aeroplane, and all its parts, etc. Further, the plane requires constant maintenance and fuel, which are also products of labour. The pilot adds his own labour too. The actual flight is a commodity separate to the plane, yet it is produced using the commodity of the plane itself.

Both the labour put into the plane by the workers who made it, and the labour applied by the pilot, contribute to the final value of this commodity of a single passenger flight. As you noted, it is not the same commodity if there is no pilot, or no plane; in the same way, a hole-punching machine does not produce the same commodity without someone to operate it. This combination of values is no different from the combination of wood and paint to make a toy.
There are no political solutions to things like this either - not that any of us talking about it here have any meaningful hope of accomplishing, anyway. We might as well try whatever technical fixes we can come up with, since it's better than the nothing we'll get if we wait for the politicians to deal with it.
My wallet is ready. Hoping for some nice new devices.
Weird that I haven't noticed this yet when using VR. I wonder if I'll notice next time after watching this.
Your “WannaCry” takeaway
Jagadish Bhagwati of Columbia has a ton to say about how India screwed up on trade. Basically there are many trade-unfriendly laws dating back to 60s and 70s which are hard and slow to undo because they have to be done via parliamentary procedures (kinda how Congressional gridlock makes lawmaking slow in the US). Here's a good interview of his with Russ Roberts on Econtalk: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/08/bhagwati_on_ind.htm...

Edit: this is in contrast to China where laws are made by diktats.
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> There's a whole world out there outside of rural America.

I think you'll find rural America is actually the world outside most people's world, but I digress...

> USA is #41 at 82.4% urbanization:

By population, not the meaningful things when it comes to vehicles, which are distance and density. A car that can do 300 miles on a charge is perfectly fine when the furthest you drive is 30 minutes to get to the "good" grocery store, it isn't even close to taking on the full duties of vehicles that do upwards of 300 miles a DAY, none of which occur anywhere near a charging station.
Adwords, actually
not really. As other people have said, you have lots of options.

If they leave before the VC gets on board, you can just issue more shares to dilute them down to nothing.

You can declare a new class of shares with better voting rights, or better preferences, and issue yourself those. The actual numerical value of the shares may be within agreements, but they'll give you more control/entitlement.

You can form a new company, sell the assets of the existing company into the new one (or lease them if there are reasons why you can't sell). The old company will be left with some cash, the new one with the business.

You can just liquidate the old company, and pick up ownership of the assets post-liquidation.

Basically, private companies are worth whatever a clever accountant says they're worth. As soon as your co-founder stops being a director or an officer of the company, there are lots of ways to manipulate their claim on the company.

If they leave after the VC is on board, then the VC's advisors will have a suitable vesting schedule put in place. It's basically their problem after they get involved.

However, if you knew your co-founder intends to leave, and fail to disclose this during Due Diligence, you could be vulnerable to getting your arse sued to buggery.

Of course, some of this is ethically dubious. But (imho) so is claiming a stake in a company that you left while it was still worthless. YMMV.

Also, I'm not a lawyer or accountant, you definitely need to check with a qualified advisor not some random dude on the interwebs.
Oh, I'm sure its profitable, but nobody who has bought a fake charger on Amazon has demanded it. The amazing manufacturing and logistics capability is perfect for scammers.
> ... and buses are even worse.

London buses have a capacity of 80 to 130 people and are often full. How can that be worse than 60 to 110 cars for each bus?
Even at half the capacity (single deck) you use the space way more efficiently than cars.

Now if you live in a city where the planning was botched, the transit routes made inefficient, and poorly targeted at ghetto areas that's a different problem. In fact you'd probably have the same problem if the same routes were done by trains.

Buses are just a way to transport a lot more people than cars and I can't see how that's a problem...
Honestly?

It's that I have no idea where to even buy a reasonable FPGA card with a high-speed interconnect so I could build my own Catapult-esque system.

Something where I could buy a fully working card with standard networking FPGA blocks to build against, and have the FPGA mesh and PCI(e) connectors "just work" with minimal config.

I've never moved off "well, that's cute" on demo boards because the market requires a lot of hardware customization to do anything neat (eg, MS designing their own for this).

And, well, not to harp too much on the tooling... But the tooling is annoying. Workable, but annoying.
* financial forecasting

* resource demand forecasting

* balancing distributed energy resource loads

* automating metadata generation

* categorizing 'events'

* finding anomalies in satellite data

Most important:

* running bots on my xbox
So 128GB modules exist and available http://www.memory4less.com/crucial-128gb-ddr4-pc19200-m386aa... but at least 30% more expensive than 2*64GB: http://www.memory4less.com/samsung-64gb-ddr4-pc17000-m386a8k... and of course this is the cheapest vendor. Brand names will fleece http://www.memory4less.com/hp-128gb-ddr4-pc19200-809208-b21 you for 128GB modules while http://www.memory4less.com/hp-64gb-ddr4-pc17000-726724-b21 64GB is just a little more expensive.
>Created 18 minutes ago

I didn't know 'open source project shill' was an occupation. I'm feeling audacious, I'll bite.

You run three electron apps simultaneously and don't care, but your users are not running on heptacore 16GB RAM machines. They care, a hell of a lot.

Hell, even I with an heptacore and 16GB RAM care when Electron apps appropriate two full cores to render shit a CPU from 15 years ago could have done with native technologies.
I got burned by firebase in a similar way. I was using their worker queue library and found my bill for a zero user app had gone from $0 to $100. Couldn't get a straight answer from support on why the worker queue was eating so much bandwidth.

Did some experiments and learned the queue downloaded every task in the queue each time it started. The authors assured me that wasn't the case at first, but eventually acknowledged that this was exactly how it worked.

Terrible experience overall, glad to have moved away from firebase.
The US is about 4M square miles. So with 1M cars, you could cover every second grid point and have a car standing by within √2 miles of everyone. This is obviously impractical with human-driven taxis, but with self-driving taxis you could get there. The number of self-driving taxis to take every urban dweller to and from work would probably be around 20M, so covering the country would be only 5% extra.

Similar things to what you said were said about electricity and telephone service in the early 20th centure. Sure, you could provide it in cities, but the cost in the country would be prohibitive. But a combination of the right technologies and regulation promoting universal access made it happen.
> I remember seeing those headlines about flying cars - "In
> 2020 most cars will be flying!" a decade or so ago.

Can you provide some links? Because I can't remember any such headlines. (Pretty much all the articles I remember about flying cars had the tone that "it's much more complicated than science fiction movies make us believe".)
Writing "kitty litter/zeolite clay" certainly was bad style — it left ambiguous what the relation between "kitty litter" and "zeolite clay" is, which invited the editor to assume that they were synonyms and to just pick one.

Remember, kids, if you receive a sentence that's ambiguous, you can't edit it to make it less ambiguous if you don't have an extrinsic reason to know what was meant. Blindly editing can only destroy information, not create it (also known as the autocorrect problem).
Just like how you want a nice UI for staging individual lines, some of us want a nice UI in general, and few of us have low enough standards to consider qt to be "beautiful"
All complaints on HN are mostly valid in technical point of view. But from business point, reducing the costs also make sense just like moving some parts to be made in China.

A _design_ which is a generic term of thinking of human interaction shouldn't be tied to tools/toolkits. On desktop application, I lack of bad experience using web-tech wrapped apps so I haven't seen significant suffer from interacting with these (I'm using Atom, Github Desktop)

Anyway, I'm not against good performance.
I always hate their confusing sites.

Why is your link not showing the same as
https://events.google.com/io/

what should I be watching?

edit. seems your link work and my stream does not. thank you for stopping me from missing the event.
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I'd imagine that most people using them have adblockers on as well.
You could participate in one of the Kaggle competitions. I personally have found it extremely useful to improve my ML skills.
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I have a hard time seeing it be very soon outside of major cities, where "car in walking distance" has always been somewhat nonsensical given the ubiquitous public transportation.
Maybe few extra battery packs will take care of battery issue too?
2012: https://github.com/blog/1151-designing-github-for-windows

>We specifically made the decision to write each application in a language native to the platform, and this has turned out to be hugely beneficial to us. Because of this separation we've been free to tackle the problems that are most pressing for each platform and work in the best possible tools instead of being constrained to the lowest common denominator.

2017: GitHub discovers software development is hard, falls back on lowest common denominator.

EDIT:

80MB installer. Automatically unzips into %ROAMING%. 140 MB of RAM used with a single repo loaded. Yep, sounds like Electron.

Oh, also, it doesn't even list any of my repos after logging in.
This is what fucking terrifies me about using anything Google. They love their users, but they won't give two shits about any one user.
Congratulations Github team!

One thing that worrying to me is that you include an 'undo' button that rewrites history. This is bad, as it could affect everyone downstream of you. That button should be turned into a 'revert' button.
>for not much more than the cost of the aquarium ticket, you can take your kids on a whale watching tour.

That's laughable. A cursory check indicates the pricing starting at ~$80 for a single child. A family of four? That's ~$420.

Children's tickets are ~$20 at the aquarium (and they have special discounts for kids from local schools and the disabled). A family of four at the aquarium would cost ~ $110

In what world does a 4x multiple qualify as "for not much more..."?
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If you don't think that Pakistani and Iranian intelligence did not pass along the lessons learned to insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan then I don't know what else to say other than this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
I have an Android version being released as we speak.
In the rural parts of the state, yes. That ends up being roughly 60% of the state[0]. In terms of pricing, my family who's nearest neighbors are over a mile away pay less each month than I do for more bandwidth than I get, and I live in a major tech hub.

There's a bit of encouragement from the state government and the rural providers also get free money that everyone else in these United [sic] States pays on their telecommunications bills. However it is still a good example of what can be accomplished in consumer Internet if not for the mega-corporations we have doing it today. If a small provider who's customers are frequently over a mile apart can do fiber to the home, why can't we have the same in metros?

The one disadvantage is the transit providers they plug into aren't the best - IIRC I was going through cogent in MSP to get to most popular cloud providers. Their network is worth looking at though[1][2]

0: http://www.csgmidwest.org/policyresearch/0616-fiber-optic-No...

1: http://dakotacarrier.com/services/overview/
2: http://broadband.nd.gov/nd-broadband-map
No problem? If the company dies because 1/3 of the cap table is dead, that's a problem.
What support? Google has no support, ever. You care about "users" but don't give a shit about any one user.

I'm starting to really fucking hate Google.
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I like GAE for low traffic websites. The free tier is quite generous, and can serve up a small business site (or 5), no problem. I run one for my personal site, and use it as a proxy to my home server.

Only problem is: You gotta play by their rules. The databases, in particular. Datastore was weird to get used to.
The problem is that the lines between reporting and editorial are severely blurred in most publications. Just because the heading doesn't say "Opinion" or "Editorial" doesn't mean that the article isn't packed full of loaded headlines, biases, willful misinformation, and convenient leaving out of certain aspects of a story, usually driven from the top of the organization. I'd suggest reading Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky for more information on the topic.
The MBTA allows this during non-rush hour times, and most buses have fold-down bike carriers in front.