skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always got mixed feelings on stories like this.

On one hand, it's a heartwarming story of a man breaking through barriers to achieve success from desperate beginnings. Kind of an American dream story, really.

But if everyone with those qualities leaves the community, the rest of the people are helpless and will be mired in poverty forever.

It's difficult, morally, to balance the benefit gained by the guy who took the action, compared to the loss his community suffered by his departure.

In any case, I think this sort of thing is a significant reason why countries don't develop. Change always starts from a small group of changemakers - if those people all just emigrate, nothing will ever change.

Migration since the 60's has become a giant IQ-sorting system and that's having huge consequences on all sides. And this never seems to get discussed, oddly.
GopherNotes – a Go kernel for Jupyter notebooks
I use a lot of messaging apps, just not SMS. Partly for privacy reasons, partly for convenience.
You've missed the point. This isn't about providing for someone, but more about understanding the point of view of the other one. This doesn't diminish the equality. I've personally been in most roles - housewife, the only breadwinner, and both parties working. My own house runs more on fairness. It is harder to understand these roles when you haven't done them yourself. It is easy to highlight only the positives and things like that. Most housewives/husbands have the option of going to work to improve the standard of living if they would like, and I view that as their responsibility instead of relying on their spouse to earn more. This isn't their situation, though - affordability didn't seem to be an issue.

Look, if I'm working and the job gives me monotony and frustration daily - where folks aren't doing their basic things and I'm having to make up for their shortcomings - I'm likely to quit after a while. This is more similar to staying at home, except there aren't really days off and you can't escape.

One of the possible solutions to improve it is to move. Just one, and this isn't available to all. Others are her working, him making sure to pitch in more, remodeling, and so on.
Ico, Journey, No Man's Sky, and RiME most recently worked wonderfully for me. Certain "grinding" activities in MMOs like WoW would count too.
A New Train Station in Cambridge Has Sparked Controversy Among Mathematicians
Umm, not to be really nasty but did they do a teardown of those sleeves?

You can buy a new phone but if you slip it into a sleeve that size then that still affords plenty of room for a rigged demo. (Sorry, professional deformation at work here.)

What would be far better proof that it works is a simple caloric setup showing how much power is transferred per unit time at which distances and angles from the transducer tile.

Also, where do the optical lasers come in? To find a target to steer beams to using phased arrays of transducers?

If so that would imply only line-of-sight.

edit: so yes, the article confirms line of sight only and very low levels of power delivery
As launch costs go down more space businesses become profitable. The market will grow.
The route is branching, you have a route from LA to San Francisco but it is branching to Merced and later this branch gets extended to Sacramento.

It is always a trade-off, you'll never get the perfect route.
It's not an unreasonable question.

Sure, only a relatively small percentage of the population of Germany/Poland/etc may not be able to read. But how many of those visit McDonald's? Do they visit it more or less often than other categories of people? How important is it for them to be able to understand these icons? Is the cost of developing icons/signs they also understand more or less than the amount of trouble them not understanding these icons would bring? Are we talking about actual literacy or the more nebulous category of "functional literacy"?

There are cases where "devil's advocate"-style questions are worthwhile, and I'd argue that they're worth at least considering in this case.
> Which is why contracts should include warnings, as Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed.

How would this work? Isn't the contract itself supposed to be the warning? Obviously contracts can contain a lot of legalese and potentially unenforceable language that makes them difficult for most people to interpret, but that language is also necessary to specify the contract at the level of detail the law requires. If you require a warning for the contract, how do you ensure that the warning is sufficiently authentic?
The bit about banning complex contracts is funny, especially contrasted with the alternative of having machine readable versions. My guess is that a machine readable format sufficient to express all the complexities of these contracts, especially conditional payments, is going to be Turing-complete, or pretty close to it. Anyway, it's going to be really hard to do that third-party comparison. The obvious solution is to only allow contracts that can be analyzed in some tractable logical framework... but limiting complexity is where we started.
How do you define "crap university"?
What bond amount will both let a young entrepreneur play and learn and at the same time prevent a scammer with (relatively speaking) much deeper pockets?
Analysis of the article by former uBeam VP of Engineering Paul Reynolds:

> In all this time, have reporters still not learned to press on the key questions? "How much power is being received?", "How much is being sent?", "What's the efficiency?", "How much does it cost?", "Have you proved it safe?", and "If this is what you have now, what were all those 'prototypes' you were talking about 2 years ago?". But those are actual questions that matter, and basically we know the same today as we did yesterday (which indicates it was an awesome PR piece, lots of coverage with no actual info).

http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2017/05/whats-in-pictur...

http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2017/06/someone-was-pay...

http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2017/06/what-does-it-ta...
Hahahaha! So witty!
Literally, the only things you negotiate in the US are cars and houses. Not groceries nor clothes nor millions of other things. Perhaps a few minor things here or there.. but we pretty much just stick to the basics.
I was really skeptical about her company but the pictures in the article and the article itself seem legit.

I wonder how they'll combat the inverse square law and make their technology actually feasible.
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Transmitting energy through the air is going to be inherently less efficient than wires. It looks like you will have to have a direct line of sight. Wireless energy transmission Bankrupted Tesla and he had a lot money back then, and he was one of the smartest people ever. 26 Million dollars seems like a lot of money to put into a project like this when physics would seem to dictate it isn't going to work.
I'm surprised that you say that while referencing The Big Short because I thought it made it pretty clear that the people selling houses lacked education as well. There was the whole thing where the guy sees dudebros selling houses to strippers and was all "oh no its all true". I think one of the dudebros even said something like "I was working at the car wash two years ago and now I have a boat". Everyone else not knowing what was going on was the uniting theme of the main characters.
tvnamer uses thetvdb.com's API in a similar way to picard / musicbrainz.

It's a great tool. I had one problem / wishlist that I couldn't work out, and got a response from the author a few minutes after filing an issue, explaining how to solve my problem.

There's some risk that thetvdb.com's change of API later this year may be a problem, but I suspect a low risk.

https://github.com/dbr/tvnamer , with packages available for most distros AFAIK.
Technically I do not believe so, in python (with which I am most familiar) it is trivial to add a handler to a logger. That handler can do anything including sending emails or http requests. A similar technique should be possible within similar technologies such as log4j (a common framework written in java).

What I like about my idea is that nothing need to be changed by the business except implementation of the new requirement. In other words the "I agree" you clicked still applies but now they have to tell you what actually happened with the actual data which could be used to inform future decisions.

What I find troubling about your prerequisites is the word "prospectively". Reporting of actual facts should be the goal and this is only possible in the past and present tense.

By the way, thank you for your response, I need to research current European laws more thoroughly before I can give a proper response.
Wow. This brings back memories. At uni in the early 2000's I hacked up a geeky "last.fm" inspired music stat service. The idea was to be able to reliably track music being played without needing a plugin for winamp/foobar2000/other media player and without needing the mp3 file to have meta data.

I lightly modified a version of the Filemon driver from Sysinternals and wrote a little C program that used the driver to monitor for mp3s being played and then grab the perceptual audio hash of the file using trm.exe from Musicbrainz. It then sent the resulting fingerprint off to my website (written in glorious PHP3 no less!) and you could login with an account to see stats on the music you'd been listening to (done with meta data pulled from Musicbrainz).

Surprisingly, it worked reasonably well ...though very sure if I looked at the code now I'd run away screaming.

Really cool to see they're still going strong after all these years!
From this no details article, how can you determine that versus a small battery pack in the case?
Rhythm is easy. Dance Dance Revolution, Guitar Hero, Rocksmith are three mega-popular ones. As a hybrid between standard action/rpg type games and rhythm games, Crypt of the Necrodancer is a phenomenal game.

Exploration is harder -- I can't think of any off the top of my head that have absolutely no combat component. However, that's pretty much how I play Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I've barely been engaging in the combat aspect of it, choosing mostly to just roam and explore and climb and enjoy the view.
I guess that's why they want to make them as roof tiles to cover a whole room with multiples of there and have continuous coverage.
There are several tokens such as Tether and Digix DGD that are backed by real world securities to create a more stable asset that can still be traded with the advantages of a blockchain. Not ideal because you're back putting your trust in the hands of a centralized value store but It's early days… All this to say, not all tokens are created equal and aren't subject to dramatic price swings such as ETH / BTC
Not to be defending/advocating that uBeam's tech is actually any good, but the inverse square law refers to omnidirectional transmission, while uBeam's claims are related to directional transmission of power.
Maybe it won't be a mainstream idea but something that can open a few valuable niches.
That's one of those things where money can go a long way quickly - fat i/o (including network if you're off-loading, sharding, peering, vdbs etc.), good cpu, efficient log sizes. Sticking to the basics is probably the best - if you're running high transaction and data change rates then the collective throughput "off" of your transaction server(s) is every bit as important as the throughput "on" the server(s).
Is there doubt that it works or that it is practical? I find it unlikely they went through this rigamarole with a case that was actually just a battery case, but this demo hasn't proven that the product will be widely useful as was claimed.
It's not silly because the number changes over time. It could make the difference between an upward trend and a downward trend. (Whether that difference matters is up to you, but it is a difference.)
Seems likely it could scale with expected usage.
> That sounds like an implementation issue, why not assume the documentation is the intended behavior and this side effect is a bug?

Because after discussion with the Go devs they've concluded it's not a bug. To be fair, it's their decision to make a language runtime hostile to user's being able to mess with the process model, it just makes programs hard to write.

> At the minimum, this behavior of new threads spawning from LockOSThread could be documented.

The thing is it is documented[1], it's just very subtle:

> LockOSThread wires the calling goroutine to its current operating system thread. Until the calling goroutine exits or calls UnlockOSThread, it will always execute in that thread, and no other goroutine can.

An implication of the emphasised part is that if you use 'go' (or a function you call uses 'go') inside a locked goroutine, you are guaranteed that goroutine will be scheduled on another thread. Which is not what you might want or expect (personally I would expect goroutines created from a locked goroutine to act as normal coroutines). The problem is made much worse because a lot of the Go standard library uses 'go' internally and there's no way for you to know what functions use it and what functions don't (and what functions might use it in future versions). Not to mention that there are even more edge cases where functions you call could end up on separate OS threads.

> As a workaround, what about CGO -> pthreads -> spawn a control thread free from the Go scheduler -> call back into Golang to run a control loop function?

At that point you're really just massively hacking around the Go runtime. I would not be confident that such hacks would be a good idea in the long run. Remember that Go doesn't have any real forking model in its standard library or language, so the language provides no guarantees that it has to "play nice" with foreign threads.

Also, calling from foreign C code into Go is quite difficult (especially if you're calling into an _already running Go program_ which might reschedule your code at any time and would require hooking into core runtime internals).

> You can do this in init() to ensure it has full control over itself.

init() runs after the Go runtime starts up, you would want to do it as an __attribute__((constructor)) in C code so it is started before the Go runtime.

[1]: https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#LockOSThread
It's weird getting big checks if you aren't used to it. I had some money coming out from a home sale and got a cashier's check for 50k or something. They asked for ID and checked it very slowly, but nothing past that.
car dealers are like the most common example of this since forever...
Do you have a source on the average annual external cost for cars? There are a quarter million cars in the US, so billions could be anywhere from $4/car/year to $4,000/car/year (unlikely as that would be a third of all state/federal/local income tax.)

Carbon offsets cost about $100/year or less.

Auto crashes supposedly cost a trillion a year in direct costs and lost time, but those costs are mostly absorbed by insurance, employers and individuals, so don't factor into the $2k/year figure.

Interested to see corroborating or contradicting data.
As a systems administrator with an eye toward DevOps principles, I highly recommend (the possibly cliché) The Phoenix Project by by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spaffor.

It's a novel that reads like a thriller, but is infused with IT info.
I know quite a few folks living out there in the central valley, they are very conservative. They hate the idea of costly train being built with their tax money.

That doesn't mean they wouldn't grow to like it eventually, but it wont help ridership in its early and fragile years.
> I suggest at least leaving the robocall running until it hangs up.

It only lasts for maybe 15 seconds.

If you want to hurt them more, press 1 (or whatever) to talk to the operator, and string them along.

But the downside - if you care - is that the person working a job in some hellish call center probably gets dinged, performance wise, for spending 15 minutes on a go-nowhere call with you.

But on the gripping hand, you can't hurt the top without hurting everyone along the path - from the person on the phone, up to the call center manager, up to the call center owner, up to the actual business contracting through them.
Yes. The deal is dandy if you plan to buy every 3 anyway. If you don't, that is the big downside. (Or if you want to drive a lot of miles, etc). Buying a car every 10 years is a lot more fun than every 3..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
I asked you the wrong question, then.

What, then, is your explanation for why they make these loans?
I'm thinking about drones if it could work over longer distances, 24hr survailence
"Your phone could be at 1% charged all day."

Wow, phones are something like 60% battery at the moment. Imagine cutting that in half?! Phones could become much more powerful.
Perhaps they could only be allowed to make calls to numbers that they have verified before investing in the bond.
Well, if all it did was light up the 'charging' indicator without delivering meaningful power then yes, it is believable. But if they actually stand by their original claims then I'd open up that box to see what's in it because with the air density being what it is there is no way you're going to deliver that kind of power between two surfaces of the size shown in the article using ultrasound. You're going to get so much interference between the emissions of the various transducers that you'll end up with a very small fraction of the input power on the receiving side.
At least two decades of start ups failing has proven that selling local advertising doesn't scale. However, At this scale that could work just fine.
Video games are sometimes hammered a bit too hard. They certainly have their negative impacts, but the media harps on the downsides so much they often obscure benefits. They're one of the few forms of entertainment that actually force you to think--it's very easy to consume movies, television, and even leisurely books without thinking hard or at all, 'passive consumption'. Video games, by their nature, force you to at least use your noggin a little. Sure it probably becomes passive consumption too once you've played a particular game enough and have habituated skills, but at least it's engaging your mind on some level at the start. They can also fuel a healthy (though of course, potentially unhealthy) sense of competition, which other entertainment, aside from physical sports, can't.

I've become more aware of these little benefits as I've stopped playing games in lieu of other priorities. That being said, I don't think I'll go back to playing video games to any intense or serious degree any time soon--they really are quite addictive. I guess because they tap into those natural human drives for accomplishment, control, and competition, unlike other forms of entertainment. It's a fun hobby, and probably third best as far as general benefits go, behind creative hobbies and sports. That being said, it is way too easy to get sucked in, and to, as this article seems to suggest, let games become a substitute for more meaningful structures in your life.
YC does provide support to companies after they graduate, but it is limited. I heard from an alum that after you graduate you're only entitled to 1 hour of face time a year. They really rely on their companies to help each other, but it doesn't work that great in practice based on anecdotes I've heard.
Keep reading the entire comment: the point wasn't that rel=preload isn't useful but rather questioning the assertion that it's this huge game-changing feature which is causing ordinary people to switch browsers.

If you actually run benchmarks, it's nice but hardly a game-changer, especially in the post-HTTP/2 world. If you're concerned about cold page load times most sites will see significantly greater benefit from using fewer blocking resources.
It's interesting gossip, but someone talking about private financing in a meeting seems quite far from having a deal lined up?
everyone that uses a telephone API

How does one enforce such a thing, around the world, where interoperable telephone systems interact across multiple jurisdictions, some of which might not be as advanced, in technical terms, as others? What constitutes abuse? Which countries will this apply to first? Who is capable of making such a thing possible?
Isn't that mostly a book of math problems? I've read some of his other books (GEB, The Mind's I, I'm a Strange Loop) - how does it compare to those?
I live in the top 25 and I never get tickets. I do however see idiots getting towed from spots clearly marked as reserved for food trucks all the time, sometimes 2 different cars towed at the same time from the same food truck spot.
The thing with a car is that it can easily be badly damaged or totaled by simple driver error. A house can be destroyed by fire maybe but that's far less common than car accidents.
Two points:

1) interference

2) efficiency

Lots of transmitters will interfere with each other, you'll get all kinds of interference patterns at the receiver which will negatively impact efficiency.

And to that point, the second efficiency issue is that you will spend a ton of money to get a trickle of power to those phones, an inductive coupled system in the base of the table would deliver a large multiple because of the tighter coupling (decreased distance, fewer losses because of the medium chosen, electromagnetic coupling is well understood and efficient, acoustic coupling is fraught with all kinds of inefficiencies and hard to make work in a practical setup with useful levels of power).
California voters are easy to fool once a dead chicken is waved in their direction regarding "saving the environment." Once the initial funding passes, the real constituencies are politicians' friends in the public union, consulting, and construction industry. So the route basically doesn't matter as long as the money flows.
How a Broke Trip to Aldi Changed My Life
Yeah Turo would be a bad choice for on demand usage because owners can be a bit flaky, difficult to reach, late, etc.

Maybe as it gets more widespread one could lean on the service more but my experience led me to believe that I wouldn't want to depend on it.
How feasible is antispam for voicemail?

Something like:

in my address book => allow

no id or not in my address book => delete
For what it's worth, I've been able to do this in the US as well -- don't remember which carrier, I think Tracfone
The Denial of Death (Ernest Becker)
I don't agree about that being a problem.
In France, we don't have direct TGV lines to every places, only major lines, see http://about-france.com/photos/tgv-route-map2.jpg (note that this is a couple years old now).

The rest of the network is covered by lower speed and maintenance TER lines (here for full network: https://www.bonjourlafrance.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/F...)

Those connect local/regional points and make sense on a regional level, then get connected to the TGV network for the national level.
Have you ever seen an audio frequency transducer (say up to 200 KHz) that delivered an actual beam?

Usually the inverse square law is very much in effect when it comes to audio, this is because the medium (waves in air) behaves as water does with waves do in a pond rather than say the light coming out of a laser or any other focused source of electromagnetic radiation.

Distance from the transmitter will very much be a factor.