skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A reuters story on how it works: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mazda-strategy-idUSKBN1AO...

So this is 'gasoline' diesel. Or diesel without the NOx. Which, in theory, would give better fuel economy and possibly better torque. And it will ship in cars in the 2019 model year (so possibly as early as late next year).

To me, it sounds like a "Don't pass"[1] bet on electric cars. Which they also are working with Toyota on electric cars so perhaps it is a fall back plan. It will be interesting to see how it fares. There are a lot of products that are built as the other side of an industry change bet. Sun created a workstation on the 68040 in case the SPARCStation didn't meet expectations as an example.

[1] In the dice game Craps, the "Don't Pass" bet is against the current player 'winning.'
The rotaries leaked oil and got terrible mileage, and good luck finding someone to work on them. Other than that, they were zippy. "Usable" they might have been if you keep a low bar, but "practical" they were not.
Different dating apps cater to different mindsets towards dating. Some ban pictures in favor of words; while others only work if you have great pictures; then others want one to mention their annual income ranges.
why does it need to end in a war, to be frank I think the we in the west; ( particularly USA) should stop getting involved in every bodies business. The west is under a sorry ass illusion if we think other regions are not interested in acquiring their own nukes seeing as we have them, and thanks to our constant intervention around the world e.g Libya, non-allied world leader see nukes as their get out of western intervention ticket.
You're seeing something shaped like an exponential growth curve and missing the fact that it's not a growth curve at all. Think about what's on the x-axis here. The graph is really a histogram with average income growth binned into one percentile intervals.

On the second, thanks for the reference, haven't read that. Would be interested to hear how you think that change would lead to these effects.
I was recently reading that there are estimated to be 6 billion people in the world who want jobs, and estimated to be 2 billion jobs. So advice to "leave your employer" reflects a very narrow world view - a view from those having privilege, and without empathy for those with different choices.
Someone clueless speaking confidently is always a joy to read.
Fired Google memo writer draws scorn, cheers and a job offer (from Wikileaks)
I think discussing implicit things in such context should be considered harmful. We should limit ourselves to considering only the original text at face value - because it's too easy for anyone to read their own implicit meaning into the text that reflects their own biases.
That's not implied in what they said at all. It takes quite a bit of imagination to make that leap from 3 to all.
Facebook doesn't have open APIs and blatantly opposes non-advertising extensions
This looks like a really good idea. I wonder if there is a wider opportunity beyond the Muslim-specific context for some kind of Anti-Tinder.

Out of curiosity, how does "all profiles being verified manually" scale?
A very worthwhile thing to question. I think I am more likely to believe the accusations as they have been reaffirmed by those who are "on NKs side". China and Russia have confirmed the various missile and nuclear tests, despite having a strong incentive to dismiss them.
We have this thing called diversity policies, and some people agree with it, and some people disagree with it. The people who agree with it are free to present arguments about why workplaces are discriminatory and why diversity is valuable.

But with this - I'm starting to wonder if the same is true for the other side. Are people free to post counter arguments showing that lack of diversity may be due to other factors such as difference in behaviour or tendencies? It doesn't appear that way.
Diesel seems to be very much on the way out, with several cities discussing diesel bans. If I was to buy a new car today I certainly wouldn't consider a diesel (as opposed to two or three years ago when diesel was the future)
Running lean, highly compressed, and highly efficient reduces expected production of carbon monoxide and residual hydrocarbons. But it significantly increases nitrogen oxide formation, as in diesel engines. So I wonder how the emissions control system deals with the extra NOx -- that has (see Dieselgate and continuing related fallout) proven quite a sticky problem for high efficiency diesel engines in passenger vehicles. The cheap "solutions" were mostly cheats and the actual solutions cost more.
Yes, however common diesel fuels tend to be higher in NOx and particulates.

My understanding is that because gasoline is refined to a higher degree it burns a fair bit cleaner in similar environments(and also makes it a PITA to store for more than a few months).

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We've got a pair of tractors around the house here, '81 diesel(pre-emissions), and '47 gasser.

I can tell you which one I prefer to run from an exhaust perspective, the diesel may have torque and is a dead-simple engine but you don't want to be downwind of it when cutting heavy brush.
It's blindingly obvious that you've never worked in, worked on, or managed a successful large organization (say >500 people || >$1B mkt cap) or a successful large project (say >5k man-hours || >50 people || >$10M budget).

> whether the output solves the problem rather than whether it satisfies some arbitrary behaviour

The spec is considered the solution to the problem! It's not arbitrary in any sense of the word.
Automakers are likely in a precarious position that they are just beginning to realize: If car-sharing really takes off (due to automation making it cheaper to hail on demand rather than owning a vehicle), they could see sales drop off by orders of magnitude. Glad to see that some of them realize this; though as a resident of western Michigan (home to many automotive suppliers), I am concerned about the potential impact up the supply chain.
In the runup to the Iraq war there was a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein did not even have an active WMD program, or stockpiled WMDs, and had not since probably the mid-90s. In contrast, there is universal agreement that NK has a highly active WMD program and the ambition to possess a big threatening nuclear arsenal.
Wouldn't increasing wages increase the cost of those goods?

For instance, the reason the US can have cheap produce is cheap, illegal labor

https://cis.org/Report/Retail-Produce-Prices-Without-Illegal...
Iain Banks is the kind of writer who wouldn't take military funding.

If you don't care, and encourage initiatives like these, you will never get it.
I'm downvoting this because you didn't write

I don't remember th@.

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And what is the reason for not having a teaser video? I hear they improve the download rates.
And an odd choice, even if your target market is tyrant devices. Why not encourage corporations to pay for the non-free license by restricting the uses of the free version?
This is intentional. It's intended to capture attention from people who will feel a need to argue that the headline misrepresents the content of the memo (which is does).

Then CNN converts that emotionalism and clicks and comments into ad dollars.

It's exactly why the media LOVES any controversial
"wedge" issues. They polarize people, and polarized people argue incessantly. And people who are arguing == views and ad dollars.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression was that he did cite sources, but that Gizmodo decided to remove them

Wikipedia is not a primary source.
I wholeheartedly approve of this approach to move Muslims out of the conservative mold. I have lived in Saudi Arabia, Oman and Dubai. The younger generating need a way to move past the older people's restrictions which were put in place 100's of years ago.
It makes it easier for Apple and others to adopt swift on a large scale. It will probably mean new swift only frameworks will be developed by Apple after swift 5.
How about you lads try to calm down - perhaps by sucking on some teet to calm yourselves down?
Surely your mom's, the one whose underwear you're surely wearing as you've been typing away furiously for days now on this topic - using her computer located in her basement, no doubt - and so perhaps this heroine might feel sympathetic and provide some comfort to you on this dark day, too. In the the form of her worn out teet, that is.

Well you lads know how REAL WOMENS are. They don't care for you, because you're just 8-bit mentally challenged trash to be flushed down the toilet as soon as you show up anywhere - but that one WOMENS who poured you out her colostomy bag might still care for you!
So now, don't be proud - you never have been ;) - and go ask your mother, lads, before you get all flustered and angry online.
You may feel much calmer later.
That sounds essentially like Basic Income, depending on how it's doled out. Especially with the rise of automation "taking all our jobs," it seems like some form of this is inevitable. But of course things will probably have to get much worse before our culture starts accepting the idea (despite the fact that statistically it will directly benefit most of the people).
Thanks! Happy you like it!
Valid points in the Google manifesto have been totally ignored
And here it goes... Someone (guess who) definitely needs a new war to distract people from his own problems.
This is correct, but they're are also predicting an equivalent improvement in fuel consumption:

"Compared to the current lineup of SkyActiv-G engines, the SkyActiv-X line should use between 20 and 30 percent less fuel."

http://newatlas.com/mazda-skyactiv-x-compression-ignition/50...
Please allow me to honestly engage with you and break this down.

You're a black man at Google.

There is a study that says that ON AVERAGE across a large population of people, black men are relatively uneducated and relatively underperform on a particular aptitude test.

It is a known fact that although the larger population has 50% black people, only 10% of Google employees are black.

Now, let's assume that the common intention is to ensure equal OPPORTUNITY for all men. Please assume good faith for the purposes of this demonstration.

One fine day, you wake up to see an article posted by a white man that makes the following claims

- on average white men perform better at the standardized test (link to study)

- the standardized test tests similar skills that are needed for programming, and is similar to the Google interview

- therefore fewer black men get through the interview

- further, it is unfair to just give black people extra marks to pass. it leads to bad performance at work and diminishes the achievement of a black man who got in on pure effort

Now, a black man who cares would

- ask, wait a minute, why are blank men underperforming on the tests? Perhaps we skills fix our schools and colleges!

- point out flaws in the article (study is bad because... / AA is good because... / Other assumption is wrong because...)

These are engaging with the article in good faith.

A person interested in equal opportunity would not do the following

- burn the white man. Arrrggghhh!

- oh no that guy shared a study that shows that the black community is behind and points out what could be the problem. Let's shoot the messenger.

- falsely assign ecological bias to the article: white man said that all black men are bad programmers (not true, he was talking about populations)

These engage with the article in a manner that damages your goal of equal opportunity for black people.

Look for the opportunity to find systemic biases and problems and correct them. Assume good faith.

Don't be blind to something that makes you feel bad (and it shouldn't!) And therefore seek to burn it down without a thought.
I'm surprised it's not mentioned on other comments, but in Japan, the whole thing is automated. The cashier feeds the cash notes / coins into a machine, and the machine spits out the exact change. It's super-fast, even when the cashier counts your change in front of your eyes, and lays it out neatly onto a tray[0].

I wonder how come these types of machines aren't more popular in other countries.

[0] sounds like some super fancy concierge service, but it's pretty much standard, from 7-eleven to fancy stores
This will be a very convenient narrative for the faltering Trump
This is much more interesting than that. It's a gasoline engine (fuel injected at intake and spark to ignite) that can operate in compression ignition in some of its range and thus get better mileage[1]. It should get efficiencies much similar to diesel but me much cleaner (less NOx).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_charge_compression...
Add to this "Beyond Bitcoin: Overstock Lets Customers Pay With More Than 40 Alt Coins" http://fortune.com/2017/08/08/overstock-digital-currency/
> But I'm mostly wondering the actualy benefit of choosing mJS instead of micropython to do so

I agree with your concern: to me Micropython seems like a much better choice. On the other hand, it's pretty limited to what hardware it runs on.
I think you should actually just read the primary document. You would've spotted the formatting error without fail.
Yes, sorry. I guess proof this is a hobby on some personal hosting that can get overloaded. Try refreshing. Although it's load averages (couldn't resist) aren't that high:

10:36:09 up 34 days, 20:05, 1 user, load average: 2.39, 2.34, 2.08
> I know plenty of guys that tinkered with PC's as young as 10 years old, and zero women that did so. It's seen as a boy thing, like cars.

The interesting thing, to me, is that you can't look at those 10-year-olds in isolation. My experience mirrors yours and, yet, if you look back further, I'll bet you find that those 10-year-old tinkerers almost all have some history with Legos or other such construction toy that, very early, started building the guess-fail-iterate problem solving model that I believe is so important to computer aptitude.

One of the side effects to being "good with computers" is that you end up getting asked to do a lot of tech support. Over the years, I've seen so many people who are so afraid of doing something wrong that they can't figure out how to do what they want despite being otherwise intelligent enough. They don't realize what's perfectly summed up here: https://xkcd.com/627/

Some of the most important and least controversial efforts to address gender diversity in tech are the people trying to make better toys for young girls. As I've heard it stated, we have a shortage of engineers, not a shortage of princesses and our toy aisles should reflect that.
Chasing Shadows for a Glimpse of a Tiny World Beyond Pluto
This is the basis of our work with Facebook which can capture a light field using 6 or 24 cameras. We run a Job on cloud and it comes back as a 3D scene ORBX asset you can load into Octane for Nuke, Unity etc.

https://twitter.com/otoy/status/894972675679965184
We're really really REALLY REALLY bad at infrastructure, for reasons that experts don't actually 100% understand yet. There's plenty of possible reasons that contribute, but most of them tend to boil down to some feature of our politics (and the process by which infrastructure construction is purchased). Looking at cost per mile of apples-to-apples transit systems is horribly depressing compared to pretty much any other country.
Fantastic article. I really enjoyed the inclusion of a live, clickable demo with example output. Absolutely well done (after I disabled the GIFs).
I feel the same.
When I first read the censored Gizmodo version, I thought to myself, "Whoah, this guy is making up too many assumptions without any references!" Later, when I found the original version with references, I felt a bit stupid for judging him.
Fortunately, I got "in" before that, but still had to prove my proficiency in French... while being native French (from France) myself :-/
I'm thinking about using Mongoose for a future project (as opposed to Arduino IDE or the ESP SDK directly) I think the advantages are:

Security: TLS 1.2, x509 certificates, ability to stop random people from flashing your board)

Remote management: OTA process doesn't seem that different from other methods, but they have some other nice things. For example they make it really easy to separate your code from your configuration.
So true, I thought the last paragraph of the article was particularly apt.

>When journalistic institutions widely publicize material of this sort, only to abdicate the vital work of rigorously addressing its substance, they make its least plausible claims more likely to be normalized. They leave the project of assessing its merits and flaws to Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and other venues where the loudest voices tend to prevail, instead of offering their own careful reporting and expert analysis.

I buy this point so much because after reading about the controversy on the crazy 1000 comment thread here on HN and the other threads on reddit, there was no top level comment that made the same well reasoned claims this very article did, which IMO is so far the best I have read about the whole debacle. This is what journalists doing their job looks like.
weren't any more finicky than say a BMW or Audi at the time of the RX-8

YMMV, but my E46 BMW has been very reliable compared to an RX-8 bought at the same time. Audi was still in the process of applying the lessons of the RS4 to their everyday cars, but I still wouldn't call the RX-8 reliable compared to its peers. As you hinted, there are a couple of problems that lead to full rebuilds before 150k miles.
I am not happy about such ideas and usually don't use explicit words on HN but this startup is a bit off for a YC startup. It's surprising that a well-known fund invests in such a venture.

Why do you want to keep people from specific religions stick together? It's for a society always better if groups mix instead of a ghettoization. I know that still many try to stay with their people which is totally fine but why enforcing it? You write yourself that there is a strong 'religious pressure'. With your product you make this pressure even worse. Oh I have to find someody of my religion and skin color, everything else is forbidden. It's not, it's 2017.

It's just not right. Imagine I make tomorrow a dating app for white Christians. Just with this description, I exclude other religions and skin colors and probably imply that those folks are inferior, you get it?

The biggest issue that all people who look like your target demo suffer from these stereotypes you create and enforce. Oh look at this dark skin guy, he probably looks for a wife wearing a headscarf 24/7, doesn't eat pork and prays on a carpet five times a day. Nothing bad about this lifestyle, it's a totally fine way of living which I respect, but please do not create stereotypes. There are many of your target demo who are happily fine to marry someone not from their religion.

And dating as a business is super though (eg banned by FB Ads) and since Tinder almost impossible. Unsure about your growth potential. Religous folks still use traditional ways (parents and co) and the other use traditional dating apps.

And2: Paul himself wrote himself many times, do not do dating. Why does YC still do dating?
So let's say someone wanted to put forward diversity policies at a workplace to create a more equal number of black and white workers. Perhaps the reason citied is that discrimination has led to disproportionate representation of the races.

My question is should people be allowed to present counter argumenents to the alleged discrimination and need for diversity. Should people be able to present data such as different levels of education attainment among races as explanation for lack of diversity? Would that be among the perspectives that are morally reprehensible?

If so, then isn't this whole diversity and equality thing not really an idea so much as some sort of new state religion that must not be questioned and is not subject to factual discussion or analysis.
It's not in Europe. It's just a hustle when it happens
This whole "I'm not sexist, but" line or rejection is one of the most anti-intellectual things I've seen in my lifetime. It's literally the good old witch test. If you don't say it, you're sexist because you didn't deny it. If you say it, you're sexist because obviously a sexist would deny being one.
Waymo (Google) is not that far from level IV. Average U.S. driver has one accident roughly every 165,000 miles and disengagements is not 1:1 with crashing. I suspect drunk drivers would probably be safer handing over control which could make a huge difference.

Most interesting is the Disengagements by location. (page 9) https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/946b3502-c959-4e3b...

Interstate 0
Freeway 0
Highway 12
Street 112

Which might be good or bad depending on the relative amount of driving in each situation.

PS: Disengagements per 1,000 miles also dropped from 0.8 (2015) to 0.2 (2016) which suggests very good things.

PPS: Been getting a lot of up and down votes I wander what people agree / disagree with?
I agreed. Paying with card is fraught with slow terminals, bad card readers, many prompts in a row (Credit or debt, is this the right amount, do you want to donate $1 to something, do you want it all on one card, would you like to sign up for a store credit card, do you want cash back, how much, do you want a receipt?). For some reason, these all have a 2-5 second delay between them. I could make a system on a $2 arduino that was faster.

Some places like Starbucks seem to get it right. Swipe card and go.

Target however likes to hit you with all the options. Self checkout is even worse.
I'm sorry but your response doesn't really answer my question at all. What I want to hear are some suggestions about how to include people who hold inflammatory opinions in a group that generally doesn't share those opinions.
No it won't. The united states will never put boots on the ground against a nuclear capable state willing to use them. maybe it will end in a nuclear exchange by mistake..but if we (the human race) survived the cold war with a vastly more threatening posture this will be fine in the end.
At the top of the article, is that real imagery or some sort of mock-up?
> We're talking about a system engineered from the ground up to produce quasi-feudalism

Funny, that's what socialism ends up producing, with the nomenklatura in charge.

> that fails to address even the most basic needs of the majority

Again, this is what socialism results in.

> and has a built in auto-destruct due to it's reliance on unlimited continuous growth despite relying on finite non-renewable resources.

This is factually incorrect. Economic growth can come from reducing use of resources.
> Sooner or later you are going to wake up and realise that a government-run single payer scheme is the only way to go.

But it's not. Just look at Germany, we have universal and not too expensive healthcare without a government-run single payer scheme, but instead a mix of well-regulated public and private health insurance companies. That's also a path the US could take instead going all the way to the other extreme of a single player system.
In terms of gender, I am fluid. Does muzmatch have plans to support additional gender options? The current format only allows "Male" or "Female".
Commenting on the wali/chaperone feature: I'm actually surprised that MuzMatch is the first network I've seen with support for unobtrusive third parties in conversations. I think there might be a general business opportunity there if they execute the limited dating application well. CCing/BCCing in a business setting is a limited communication management tool vulnerable to political distractions. Idling in chat is unproductive.
Mary McCarthy's “Artists in Uniform”

http://archive.harpers.org/1953/03/pdf/HarpersMagazine-1953-...
The groups on Facebook are very different but it still works. You should be able to build most things on top of the platform. Flickr was the social network for photographers but most photographers post on Facebook now.