skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"In the days of the Slant-6, cars never got to 300k miles unless they had ridiculously meticulous maintenance"

As the former owner of mid 1960s Slant 6 purchased with ~ 220K miles on it that I personally put another 120K before the block cracked I am telling you that you claim of "never" is just plain wrong.

Aside from periodic oil changes I wouldn't describe my maintenance regime as ridiculously meticulous at all.

There are many vintage Duster/Dart/Valiant owners with cars that have 200K and greater miles on them. Here are some links with attestations that corroborate this fact:

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/threads/who-has-the-high...

http://www.onallcylinders.com/2014/01/20/top-10-engines-time...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/15/automobiles/autos-monday-c...

http://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=ttal...
> is with the penalties for late payment

I love when the bill doesn't show up in the mail or on the website till a day or two before it's late. Our state toll program is practically criminal.
Flash is a zombie but not dead. You can still get an old swf working by clicking a couple of things in browser settings. The thing with google is they deprecate wayyyy to fast without proper thought to the alternative. It's like their projects commit suicide than die naturally.
How about this?

1. Get a frequency list. The most common word's rank is 1, the second is 2, etc. [0]

2. Then use your favorite Spaced Repetition Software (such as anki) to learn the words in that order.

3. Define a sentence's difficulty as the maximum rank over all its words. You could refine it by adding tie-breakers but I think it doesn't matter. Then sort the sentences in order of difficulty.

[0] See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists
FB Live works really well but the playback for regular videos often gets stuck on the FB mobile. Not seeing the same problem on youtube or the mobile web version of FB.
That sounds insane. Do you have any proof ?

Google also has goobuntu, which I'm being is what's provided to engineers.
Show HN: Automatic lists of example sentences for language learning
What other choice did they have if they deploy on Linux? Btrfs is the best Linux land has and its no zfs.
The thing about end-to-end and integration tests is that at some point, your test has to assert something about the code, which requires knowing what the correct output even is. E.g., let's say I've inherited a "micro"service; it has some endpoints. The documentation essentially states that "they take JSON" and "they return JSON" (well, okay, that's at least one test) — that's it!

The next three months are spent learning what anything in the giant input blob even means, and the same for the output blob, and realizing that a certain output in the output comes directly from the sql of `SELECT … NULL as column_name …` and now you're silently wondering if some downstream consumer is even using that.
Wondershare TunesGo 9.4.0 Crack and Registration Code Is Here
Y Combinator Startup School: Diversity and Inclusion at Early Stage Startups
Not really. Browsers just need to default stop autoplaying videos out of the screen view. Or better yet what they did to popup blockers. Give one chance to behave well, if the site doesn't then it gets blocked and the user has a notification that autoplay was disabled.
Depending on how convoluted the case is, you don't know what the end result would save in costs. "we'll be saving __ hours/days of effort per build/year" is a complete unknown.
One benefit comes from being able to use `async`/`await`.

Using `try`/`catch` with `async`/`await` is a bit awkward, though, which is especially unfortunate because it's the #1 place you should be handling errors.

LightScript has a language feature[0] that makes it less awkward (sort of an`Either`/`Result` type) that I'm thinking about submitting to TC39.

[0] – http://www.lightscript.org/docs/#safe-await
Show HN: Hacking Soundcloud, Creating an Interactive Track
You're right, saying it is "flat" rather than "lackluster" might have been better. I apologize for that.
Bertrand Russell's “The Principles of Mathematics” in PDF and HTML Formats
He also talks about programming from the bottom up, that leads to succinctness as well.

http://www.paulgraham.com/progbot.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/lwba.html
To be honest, most of these things, you don't actually care about the engine oil, so much as greasing all the other bearings that are involved in the typical oil-change/service.
Also:

Intro to Mathematical Philosophy: http://people.umass.edu/klement/russell-imp.html

and Tractacus: Logico-Philosophicus: http://people.umass.edu/klement/tlp/
'DomiNations' dev looks into the next eight years
Interesting read for those who don't understand our fancy for legacy code: http://typicalprogrammer.com/the-joys-of-maintenance-program...
I did in fact have considerable pressure from family to change my major from CS to some form of Engineering in this time frame, ideally some "hard-science" engineering like Chemical Engineering. CS was seen as a dead-end, easily exportable coder job, and well-meaning relatives really wanted me to get an engineering degree instead.
You believe that the future of the company is poor.

You are willing to sell.

Scenario #1: Company goes out of business

Lets say you are completely right.

$100K in 2017's dollars > $0 in the future.

Verdict: Sell

Scenario #2: Company struggles/downrounds/etc

Your stock is diluted.

$100K in 2017's dollars > $100K (or less) in 20xx dollars.

Verdict: Sell

Scenario #3: Company is moderately more successful than expected

$100K in 2017's dollars ==(approximately) $150K in 2020 dollars

Verdict: Sell

Scenario #4: You are completely wrong

$100K in 2017's dollars < $1MM in 2020 dollars.

--------------------------

You left the company for a reason. Has any of those reasons changed?

Maybe sell part and keep part to reduce regret possibilities?

Question: What number will you be emotionally o.k. with no matter the result?
Great suggestions for the landing page, thank you!
A mailing list?
How do you plan to differentiate yourself against competitors like Paved? They already have a searchable database of newsletetters with open rates, CTR, etc.
20% of our user base is on some form of IE (6-11). The other 80% are on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, etc.
SQLite is pretty fast actually. More problematic is that this uses Electron. Loading a tiny 200-line CSV file took 120MB for me lol
It helps a ton. But you have to cancel the loading of the page to get that icon. And many of the pages I'm arriving at will do their own reload when I click cancel, so it can be a juggling act to cancel, and in a brief window of opportunity click on the reader view icon before the reload is triggered.
The UFO idea is the main cover for experimental stealth aircraft programs. So its probably just kind of his side business to hype that stuff as being real and take reports, to help the government out.
Super Hero VS Robot Battle
You haven't replied to the majority of what I wrote. I take it you agree with it.

"there isn't a less wasteful way to provide the same value"

Yes there are many ways: migrate from incandescent to LED, run LEDs at lower PWM duty cycle, reduce number of lights, etc.

"Compare market cap with market cap or compare production with production"

Comparing production to production is exactly what the article is doing.

RTGS transactions are reversible. Eg. when fraud is detected, banks simply agree to perform a reverse transfer.
I built something like this for Mandarin Chinese at a company I worked for in Shanghai, but the company was acquired and sort of put out to pasture, and it never launched. :-(

Essentially, we took already word-segmented dialog (splitting Chinese sentences into individual words is non-trivial, so having it already segmented was super useful), matched it to words that you knew, and suggested the next lesson you should learn by the percentage of vocabulary that would be new or challenging for you. It was pretty awesome, would love to have another shot at it someday.
Generally speaking, this would be a very poor result (from the perspective of said game owners). Pretty much all of us would have our credit card processing contracts revoked, because in all "regular" contracts (e.g. Stripe, Braintree, etc. etc.) you may not use their service to sell goods which can be "readily resold for cash". If that was the legal result, these applications would probably need to stop accepting EU credit cards.
I have a Nissan Leaf, which I think is the best-selling EV outside China. It actually doesn't have an actively cooled battery, but like every other EV I'm aware of, it has a water pump and coolant. The pump and fan can be pretty loud actually, especially while charging.

It also has all those same problems you described. Noise from the suspension that can't quite be pinpointed. Partially broken sensors feeding incorrect data to the ECU (usually means the 12V battery voltage is low). Failing to turn on then working just fine minutes later. Throwing error messages about brakes, or "t/m malfunction", or going into "turtle mode" when the battery isn't low, or other inscrutable conditions that usually solve themselves but lead to multiple annoying trips to repair shops.

Don't you drive a Leaf too?
Unfortunately that isn't an option for us. We are mandated to support everyone. And those people on IE are retail sales associates using our site on hardware that simply cannot be upgraded. It must be replaced to get a newer browser. But the replacement cycle is measured in decades.
I don't see it as a barrier to free and open process because the typical polling stations would still be open.
If your aim is to learn C and if the computer already has Windows on it, you might consider installing a C compiler.
There are an astoundingly high number of quakes in Japan that are strong enough that you can feel. When I was in Tokyo years ago, I felt one every four weeks on average.

You quickly come to a different relationship with the world when it refuses to stay still that often.
Do you think you could point me towards a source for "mixing reads & writes with a SSD lowers performance"? This seems reasonable, but I've never actually heard it before, and a cursory googling didn't turn much up. I have heard before that small, random writes on SSDs are much more expensive than sequential writes because random writes can produce write amplification and increase fragmentation. It was my impression that SSDs stand to benefit significantly from log structured filesystems despite the mixed read/write load, but I don't follow it that closely and could be wrong.
Bypassing NGFW/WAFs using data format obfuscations
A guy in this submission was saying he would give 50% margin on his actual driving range for battery degradation. At this rate that would take over 600,000 miles to get to 66% of original capacity, and probably longer.

I agree that the secondhand battery market will probably be very strong, but it's also likely that the tail end of electric vehicles will be extremely long regardless. In older cars you stop caring so much about the little things breaking, and if the car still goes places, people will still want it. In all likelihood Tesla vehicles will still be going places for several decades.
I don't think i've listed a used tesla for $35k on my niche site BUT there was an offer from a wholesaler / dealer at $35K to a seller. Have a look, I am listing private sale and dealer side : https://onlyusedtesla.com/ its my side hustle.
Every 875 miles, by my math!
I suppose learning a language that forces you to work in a declarative style (such as Haskell) rather than imperative might be enlightening, but if that's not practical you could try using declarative style in C and/or Python. For instance, don't use global mutable variables and whenever possible write functions that take in const arguments and produce some return value without changing the state of anything.
I am medically handicapped. I have only voted twice in my life in part because I don't want to physically go to a polling place. Crowds make me ill.

I am potentially your target market. My medical handicap also means I am desperately poor and can't spare the money.

You might consider trying to sell this to the government as an additional accessibility service for handicapped voters rather than trying to sell it to voters.
Wow, this seems simple but I got excited immediately when seeing this. Since I have been writing code to export data for clients, I have grown so tired of Kingsoft Spreadsheets and Google Sheets lagging like crazy with any sizable amounts of data. This will be a cool new tool to show my coworkers tomorrow and I'll be using it. Performance seems very snappy so far!
This is another. Not sure if raising money in itself is a red flag.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/argo-ai#/entity
Mining canonical papers/text to generate standardized tests (SAT/GRE) might be a further step. My guess is that both tests and commercial prep-material are produced by committee.
If voters could pay for the service would you?
Probably more an issue of shifting racks damaging the employees. Bolt those puppies down and nobody gets crushed to death.
The guys in that video look to me like they are experiencing some vertigo from the room shifting. They keep grabbing things to steady themselves.
that's true if you're squirting your oil thru a screaming hot engine full of a thousand moving parts ... on an electric you're really just lubricating the gear train (which is likely simpler because of the greater range of an electric motor) which is not running anywhere as hot as a traditional engine
It's possible that the margins are meant to be cropped by the printer. Though more likely it's just an optimization of line-length, font size, and ink usage. (since ink costs more than paper)
10 minutes? 3 minutes.

I think widespread electric vehicle adaption will happen due to price but you have a very valid point on recharge time.

Basically your car is unusable if low and being recharged and there is nothing you can do about it. Unless swapping heavy batteries becomes practical.
Ok for forward drawing, what about backward drawing ? i.e. finding the (u,v) of the fish image from the (x,y) inside the infinite square ?
IMHO Trump won because Hillary was the alternative. There is probably no one else in America that he could have beat.
The rest of us will enjoy leaving you behind =)
Yeah, AFAIK PDFium doesn't use PNaCI and Flash will only be around as long as absolutely necessary. The only reason they aren't using PDF.js is because the PDf spec is ~12K pages long and they don't want to throw engineer resources at it anymore.
You're making good points, but there is a lot of truth to your parent's sense that making a business case for every little thing is deeply inefficient. The hard part is striking a good balance between one extreme of arrogant engineers who never think about the business case for the things they are working on and the other extreme of having technical decisions micromanaged by non-technical managers.
Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity (1981) [pdf]
Sure, Google's interpretation is not particularly generous. But even the most charitable reading of the facts would find that Levandowski downloaded the files to an external disk, relatively close to when he left the company.

All of that is bad for Levandowski, but it's unclear if any of those files got used by Uber, which is where the case may very well fizzle out.
Up/down voting seems good.

I wonder if you might get a bit of an head start if you combine the shorter sentence idea with selection based on higher n-gram counts. For instance, if the keyword + words either side match a common n-gram, you could expect that sentence was reasonably representative and boost it in the initial rankings as compared to an n-gram that has a much lower count.
It's not even a range question, it's basic economics of utility vs cost. In this case miles to the dollar.

Not to mention the rich aftermarket for dinosaur fueled vehicles, I wouldn't want to break DRM on my car and lose my warranty or worse.
> due to shear stress on the engine block no?

What kills piston engines is sliding friction.

Unavoidable sliding friction on pistons, valves, and camshafts results in wear. The crankshaft journal bearings are partially lubricated and wear out. Because on the power stroke the film of oil between the crankshaft bearing and the crankshaft gets squeezed out resulting in direct contact. Fully lubricated journal bearings generally last 'forever'

Even if you solved the above problems, some parts like springs, valve seats, and other moving parts would eventually suffer from fatigue.

Interesting calculation to make it to look at the lifetime of automotive engines in terms of hours. 200,000 miles divided by 30 mph gives a lifetime of 6600 hours. Compare with industrial electric motors and gear trains where life times of 50,000 hours are common and you can see where things are going with electric cars.
The apparent motion of the floor makes running along the edge of the gap, as one guy does towards the end, look particularly risky.
Well, hell. I've been arguing against NATO for years, for much the same reason as I've tended to argue against the scale of our military expenditures in general - namely, that it's an obsolete waste of money better spent elsewhere. You're right about the cost of our carrier groups - what's worse is that, in any war with a serious opponent, they're just going to be gone, because they have no meaningful defense against mass attack with supersonic cruise missiles. That's why I want to see them scrapped in favor of something cheaper and more defensible - that, and as a means of helping restrain the tendency toward ultimately counterproductive military adventure that's been so much a feature of US foreign policy, regardless of who happens to be in power at any given moment, for a century or more. And quite aside from the fact that I actually do believe these are worthwhile ends, this argument is much easier to make go, with people who aren't in any sense progressive, than the one where we look out for people because it's the virtuous and compassionate thing to do, and hang the tax rate increase and medical-sector profit cuts.

(Does this sound hypocritical of me? Perhaps it does. On the other hand, if I have to choose between some notion of my own personal ideological purity on the one hand, and on the other acting in ways which make more likely a state of affairs in which poor kids don't die of toothache and one mishap doesn't render entire families destitute...)

Unfortunately, because I've tended to avoid the news lately, I had not previously been aware that Trump's lately been arguing that NATO is obsolete and overpriced as well. This makes it an impropitious time to advance the same argument myself - even if the damned Johnny-come-lately happens to benefit at this moment from the broken-clock principle, it's hardly wise to associate oneself too closely with whatever he happens to be saying, whether by accident or otherwise. I'll have to keep a closer eye on that in future.
This article does not really address for me the biggest point: is there any reason not to teach children computational thinking? I would say there is no such reason. We should teach children many ways of thinking so that they can be versatile thinkers. I do not see how an argument beyond that point is needed.
> And those people on IE are retail sales associates using our site on hardware that simply cannot be upgraded.

I'm sooooo glad I'm not you. I've literally halted all personal projects using JS until they get modules implemented natively.
Well crap. Both of my cars have well north of 200,000 on them. I was really hoping to keep driving them for a long time to come.
AdonisJS is definitely very close to Laravel. I'm not a big fan of the generator syntax, but I assume they will migrate to async/await with the Node v8 announcement.
I remember us having some server issues a few years back when they were blowing up rocks for the foundation for a new mall a few 100 meters away in Stockholm. You never know.
> - unblockable advertising

I don't see how this necessarily follows from WASM.
I invested some effort to keep it performant even with fairly large CSV files, including a custom port of some C++ code for fast CSV import. My current favorite example is the Met Museum's 228MB 450k row collection data set; takes about 12 sec. to open in Tad on my 2013 MacBook Pro. Definitely not lag free (and hard to achieve that without going to some serious column store data warehouse like Amazon Redshift), but still reasonable. https://twitter.com/antonycourtney/status/869252722624561152
Healthy for whom?

Not for people who don't want software to change out from under them. This includes a large number of people and cuts across just about all industries.

Not for people who want portability. "Cloud" services have a horrid habit of holding your data hostage. There's usually lip-service to portability, but for any moderately complex application, there's nothing available to load the data in to.

Not for people who are not connected 24/7. Sure, this number shrinks all the time, but there will always be times when we're offline.

Not for people who consider their data sensitive. Windows 10 should probably be considered malware by anyone who has a nondisclosure agreement with teeth and works on sensitive documents.

It is absolutely better for businesses creating commercial software. Revenue is so much easier to handle.
I sure hope that being among the racks is also the safest option for them, and that they are not risking anything just to keep these servers running.
Wonderful, thanks so much for the explanation. I think I knew that you had to get the DNA into an organism, but I had no idea how that could be done. The fact that the purchased DNA comes in the form of a virus that's ready to make lots more of that DNA is amazing.
I think your language metaphor works here, but I won't try to extend it for fear of misleading you with anthropomorphism :)

Anthropomorphized code reads like someone reading off a gigantic checklist that keeps getting longer and longer. Each time a new problem comes up, we solve it by adding another "If A then B" except it's something like this

if foo.bar.baz[0][1]['value']
if (foo.bar.baz[0][1]['value'] == 'undocumented business rule')
globalVariable = false # why? who knows
else
globalVariable = true

globalVaraiable = foo.bar.baz[0][1]['value']

Relying on “If A then B” quickly get out of hand. The number of possible paths that your code can take grows quickly, even exponentially depending on the structure of your program. I don't want to be dogmatic, but always be asking yourself if you can structure your code as to avoid relying heavily on conditionals, especially nested ones.

Focus on the problem you're trying to solve, not the operational details of the language or other tools you're using. However, keep exposing yourself to more languages, that are different from each other in semantics, run-times. Learn about different programming paradigms: declarative, imperative, functional, etc, focusing on semantics and not syntax.
The mutations were unanticipated by the computational tools designed to identify likely off-target effects. This was in the article.
Hey cool project. Can this be used to learn French as a English speaker?
Medium puts up a non-closable "Open in App" window on that site that blocks the text.
I would love to have a chance to try it! A couple hundred hours into learning Chinese, and that sounds useful. Any chance you can release it?

....if not, what would you consider your best competition?
If I remember correctly there is a 4.5x speed up in the bundled V8 (chrome engine) implementation, making it on-par speed-wise with bluebird, however that is hardly your bottleneck anyway.
I have been advised that the data already exists on archive.org.
Get Ready for Skyscrapers Made of Wood. (Yes, Wood)