skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not the gov uses these is irrelevant. With your logic, how about I put a camera on your house and snap photos of everybody that goes in an out of the door? Is that OK since the government could already do that if they wanted?

Then what if I take these images and post them online with your name and address? It's all public information and data captured outside of your house. It should then be fine for me to take this public data and sell it to an aggregator, say Facebook and Amazon, right?

Where do you draw the line?
I think the key would either have them not be far away (so same city), hauling long distance, or even just driver assistance. I'm fully in the free thinking zone here tho.

It's probably not practical but if it were it might make for decent cubicle work for unskilled labor.
INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT [pdf]
The US has a significant presence in the UK: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/unknown-terri...
Fourth... I'd love to get a copy as well please!
Common sense. A large population is going to be a big liability going forward. The Anglosphere hasn't figured this out yet.
"Don't even try to understand" _never_ makes sense. In this context it's the mantra of idiots who want to put dog-slow abstractions into C++ (among others). You have tried and you understand micro-ops exists, that branch prediction exists etc. This information is useful when optimising.

If you never need to optimise C or C++ code why are you using these languages? Seriously? You've almost certainly got the wrong tool for the job. (Ok sometimes someone has made a legacy decision and you're stuck with it for bad reasons. Meh).

If you don't try to understand it, you won't know things like "Never use a linked list if you care about performance at all." Even Bjarne has twigged to that one (at last!). C and C++ are languages you use when you need performance, understanding the CPU as best you are capable is crucial for performance. DO try. In fact it's insane not to work on your understanding.

Don't even try to justify a statement of "don't even try to understand". It's wrong thinking from top to bottom. Here, as everywhere. No really.
I have wanted one of these my whole life
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> Automation has changed from when Japan was on top. The focus is now on software and open collaboration in a globalized society, not hardware built by factory workers with proprietary standard s(looking at you, FeliCa)

Like before, won't software and open collaboration merely be an aspect of automation? Who's open-sourced their driverless car tech - anyone with wheels on the ground and a car you can buy? Some advanced mechatronics will be required to fill a lot of voids in the manual labour space. Whose battery tech and engineering prowess will we be using in these vehicles and machines? Japan's?

> As a side note, the fact that Japan has managed zero-growth despite a rapidly shrinking, aging population; almost zero immigration; and roughly the same economic policy as from the 1980s.

That should be praise, no? I mean, aspects of sexism and odd views about social hierarchy can go in the trash, but their productivity is still very good.

> I wonder what Japan is going to do when the population decline really gets in gear around 2040.

With freed up housing and resources? Probably get better pay, make more children and ultimately kick off a new cycle of growth. A bit hard when you're in your 40's and still living with your parents...who are still working at retirement age.
My experience is way different than yours. Sonos would never stay connected to wifi and required multiple factory resets over the years until I just got rid of them.
How can I recommend my friends to use Firefox when I know they wont remember to opt out?
New tires won't have been seen on a previous license plate.
And this is one reason they will be better to rent than own. How many times have you had a perfectly drivable car with some failing sensor? In an autonomous vehicle, such sensor failures will essentially brick the vehicle until it's fixed.
Just more stuff to go wrong. I buy well-maintained cars about 7-10 years old. The newest car I own right now is a 2004.
The cited paper The Glass Partition: Obstacles to Cross-Sex Friendships at Work is available at [0].

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255597459_The_glass...
Ask HN: What are some tech cos in Vancouver, BC tackling interesting problems?
Please keep the discussion about real estate prices, how Microsoft's office here is an H-1B, "what does HootSuite offer that other companies don't?!", to a minimum. Believe me, I live here. I know. And just for the record, Microsoft's new office in Vancouver mostly hires Canadian citizens/PRs for permanent positions. An H-1B/L-1 holding tank to Redmond was the original plan, but when the temporary foreign worker scandal hit in 2014, the company backtracked on L-1 hires for the new Van office due to pressure from the federal government (source: MSFT recruiter via an anecdote in /r/cscareerquestions). I think London and Zurich are more popular for L-1 holding tanks than Vancouver these days.

I don't know if HN is this is the appropriate site to ask this question, but /r/cscareerquestions wasn't much help. And by the way, they can be bootstraped, have small-cap VC funding, have huge a16z/SoftBank/KPCB-scale VC investments; they can be startups, they can be more mature publicly-traded companies; they can be homegrown or big U.S. companies; it doesn't really matter. They should have a lot of smart people working on interesting problems in technology. What are some of them?

I also wonder which companies have signed up to the new WeWork space in Bentall III (https://www.wework.com/buildings/burrard-station--vancouver) that's opening "soon". As far as I know none of the tenants have been made public. Maybe they're under confidentiality agreements?
There seem to be two contradictory narratives: one, that rich Western societies are aging and need to make up for a big shortage of workers; and two, that automation has killed and will kill millions of jobs. Probably both trends are true, but each one pulls in the opposite direction for the demand for labor.

Maybe things aren't as bad as people fear on either side.
It seems the price of S3 has dropped significantly over the years while tarsnap has remained more or less constant. I guess my statement was out of date.
Daily mobility work (even just 5 minutes in the evening makes a difference when done daily) combined with a hip hinge exercise a couple of times a week does indeed work wonders (it did for me).

As an alternative to the deadlift, I'd like to suggest the two-arm kettlebell swing. While there's no magic bullet in training, the kettlebell swing seems to come pretty close [1]. Plus, you can get one for home/work if you don't want to go to the gym.

I would however second the recommendation of learning exercise technique from a qualified trainer, particularly for hip hinge exercises - most adults, myself included, seem to suck surprisingly hard at what is one of the most fundamental human movements.

In case you do decide to go the YouTube route however, at least learn from a quality resource like StrongFirst [2], there's too many technique videos ranging from ineffective to plain dangerous.

[1] http://www.strongfirst.com/optimizing-back-health-with-the-k...

[2] https://youtu.be/ZQEFc6rSKvA
Cold welding
Keep in mind that a new car dealer is the worst place to buy a used car. Of course the dealer over prices the used cars to make the new cars look good, that way new or used they make a good profit.
Gas stations don't make much money on actually selling gas - consumers are irrationally price sensitive when it comes to the price of gasoline, so the stations are generally selling it at or near cost.

As long as people still pop into the convenience store to get a soda and a candy bar, it doesn't matter if they're filling your tank with gasoline or charging your battery.
> That business is tettering on failure

They sold over 4 million Macs this past quarter, so I don't know what you're going on about here.
Tales of an IT professional sailing around the Antarctic loop
Ask HN: What to do in a situation where a person is making sexist comments?
I recently attended a data science meetup. I met a woman visiting from an Asian country on a year long internship. A male engineer introduced himself to her. He proceeded to tell her that she was beautiful, something about her eyes being the right shape. However, he then went on to tell her that she should just go to clubs to pick up a hot, successful guy with her looks. He immediately ended the conversation, turned to another male intern, and asked him questions about the program. I was stunned and did not know how to react. At the time, all I could think was, "what the are you saying?". I don't believe that creating a scene would have helped the situation. How would you respond to a situation like this?
I agree that 256 bit hashing is totally sufficient. I wouldn't call 512 bits "placebo," though. Just overkill.
There is also racket-mode (available on MELPA): https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode
Dataman Swan–Recent Partial Updates
Here are the recent updates from Swan @Dataman ,

Application Management CRUD

Scaling

Rolling Upgrades

Rollback

HA

Event

Mess Based Health Check

Strategy：Random, Spread, Binpack

Refer: https://github.com/Dataman-Cloud/swan/blob/master/docs/api.md

Arrangement Docker Compose V3

Distributed cross-node orchestration

Dependencies, Boot order (DFS/BFS)

Access and discovery of Swan DNS implementations to orchestrate internal applications

Access between applications by short service name (eg: web, db)

The implementation principle is to rewrite the container's DNS search option

Container Network

Original scheme：calico & manual IPAM

macvlan &docker ipam driver& centralized IP pool(theoretically continue to support ipvlan, bridge)

ipam driver is implemented on the Swan agent ,a sub-module

communication via unix socket and docker daemon

Docker IP--IP Address Management(updates)

setting up IP pools: Randomly assign or use the specified IP when creating a container

IP pools centralized management, KV storage，support zk/etcd/consul

multiple subnets, multiple IP pools per subnet

check IP pool usage

Steps:

create vlan interface, or use master interface

create docker network --ipam-driver=swan -o parent=eth0:N

creater IP pools

create docker

Refer： https://github.com/Dataman-Cloud/swan/pull/763

Service discovery：

through DNS & the proxy implementation

dns：

maintains a record of data in memory,provides efficient DNS A records and SRV records parsing for each application，facilitates service discovery between applications through domain names.
I don't think it is an official part of the language but the Pragmatic Programmers Elixir book does this in one of their examples code sections.
Thank goodness Japan doesn't share the West's bizarre fixation on economics. The market is a means to an end rather than an end in itself. If the economy is not furthering the interests of the Japanese people, its the economy which needs to be replaced, rather than the Japanese people.
Yeah. My stance is that I'll buy new if I get a fully self-driving car. But until that's available, buying 10 year old cars is amazing value.
I've got a friend whose still bitter and vocal about how his car's stereo no longer "works" because Pandora pulled out of the Australian market. Sure that well-over-$1000-device's main purpose wasn't "playing music from Pandora" and it still has it's primary "get to work" utlilty, but playing music is high on the secondary feature list of a lot of vehicle purchases...
This is news from almost a year ago when they laid-off a few hundred in October 2016.
Any company that isn't collecting data on which features are being used is missing an opportunity
The Navy will relieve the admiral in charge of the service’s 7th Fleet based in Japan in response to four embarrassing accidents this year, two of which killed sailors at sea, two U.S. officials said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/08/22...
Top things for me are: Excellent sound quality. The fact that Sonos has its own network means I can queue up internet radio or a playlist and it no longer needs to communicate with the phone to continue streaming all day. I take advantage of the multi-room support daily outside the context of a house party, simply so my music follows me from room to room. I do agree the privacy policy is a downer but am pretty sure your smart phone is subject to the same risk.
This write-up overlooks that hardware integration is neither free nor easy. Tesla has a huge advantage over an 'autonomy in a box' model because 1. It only has to support 2 or 3 car models and 2. It has full control over all design decisions.

Imagine trying to calibrate your third-party self-driving software for every different car geometry, sensor placement, transmission system, and steering sensitivity across a few different car manufacturers. If you screw it up for one car model, people die and it's your fault.

Now let's say waymo chooses a sole partner to avoid this, GM, for example. Now waymo and GM have to work together to build a car, with a huge expertise barrier between the two teams. Will GM be willing to redesign their decades-old electronics platform around Waymo's self-driving system? Will Waymo put in the effort to make their sensors easily maintainable by GM mechanics? If the relationship doesn't last forever, much of this effort is wasted.

Tesla has expertise on both sides and has a mandate across the organization to make the integrated system work. Not to mention a huge head start handling UX and safety regulations in the field. They may not have a monopoly, but I expect them to be the first to level 5 and the leader in autonomous driving market share for years to come.
> Some apps are so poorly thought out in terms of UI that they're almost impossible to use.

Considering most of those apps probably are open source why don't you help out and improve them?
You can find people who will say anything about the future, it doesn't make them right or their thoughts well reasoned. Paul Krugman said the internet was worthless and more recently that Bitcoin is worthless.

You need to connect the dots and explain yourself, which you don't seem to be doing.
Maybe it's good for very budget/retired KVM swithes. Probably makes it easy for the hosts to have a pile of servers, a pile of GPUs, and a single keyboard, mouse, and monitor to keep the prices down.

Probably was also already on the board design.
Reminds me of this I came across recently: http://lav.io/2014/05/transform-any-text-into-a-patent-appli...

Also just noticed http://lav.io/2014/05/lazycoin-officially-patented/
ithlete is an app I used for measuring HRV
Just saw this - at the point I wrote by first comment, I had already seen video of the white supremacists protestors chanting "jews will not replace us" and of people wearing Nazi symbolism fighting in the streets. Like I keep saying, these are all primary sources that are (and were) readily available.

Your "newsie gossip" theory is just incorrect.
Any advice on how to make sure you're getting a good one, or where to get one? We considered Leafs several years ago, but the range wasn't quite good enough for our needs.

Since then, our needs have decreased and range has increased a bit. Would love to trade in one of our 25 mpg vehicles for a Leaf. Plenty of chargers around Palo Alto, including at work!
Look in your health data on your iPhone under heart rate and show all data... the Apple Watch already collects heart rate samples all day long. All that's needed is something to make a nice display for the collected data points.
I live in a Bay Area apartment with no garage and commute every day with an EV. I've never plugged my car in at home once.
As Tyler Durden said, "The things you own end up owning you."

And as Dave Ramsey said, "We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like."
Have you watched video of the rally? It doesn't seem like you have. It is easy to find.
Everyone uses the "signing yourself into slavery" example, but it's not clear what that means. If you consent to it, then it's not slavery (you can make arguments about "wage slavery," but I think that's a different issue). If you sign a contract to perform labor for some period of time, then change your mind later, the contract likely has some terms for breaking the contract early, and if it doesn't, it's probably not likely to be enforced by any court.
> Seriously, 20A? How do you even run an air conditioner on that, much less an entire house?

The poster mentioned Spain, which uses 230V (unlike the USA, which uses 120V), so 20A should be around 4600W if I did the calculation correctly. With a quick search I found a window AC with 18000 BTU using only 1700W, so even with 15A it would be possible to run one AC with plenty to spare.
I think most companies can live with the caveat that they may be dropped if they are Nazis or white supremacists.
Economic equilibrium does tend to render most of those types of extrapolative predictions moot.
That list shows that of the top ~20 cars sold in 2016 the average price was ~$10m.
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reclining workstation ftw, and getting worthy exercise elsewhere... allows for it all, better sleep and better feeling back that I've had in years.
Just because there are many lies out there doesn't mean it's all lies.
I would also like to know the answer to “a the hull of a
billion dollar warship having much less intrinsic strength
than a Korean built containership that was delivered for a
fraction of the cost?” and the other construction questions
asked in the article.

This question is what made me doubt the rest of the article, which is ostensibly written by somebody with some level of naval expertise. I have no naval expertise, and the rest of the article seemed quite logical, but it seems strange to me to insist that this collision shouldn't have seriously damaged the Fitzgerald.

1. The Arleigh Burke class destroyers aren't big ships; the cargo ship was over 3x the size. 9,000 tons for the USS Fitzgerald compared to 30,000 tons for the cargo ship: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/18/world/asia/pa...

2. I am not sure that any ship ever designed by humankind has been built to withstand a 20-knot broadside collision with a vessel of its own size without taking any damage, much less one with three times as much mass. As I said above I'm no naval expert; please take me to school if I'm spectacularly wrong here.

3. While it would certainly be possible to build such a ship, the weight of the ship would need to be increased by an incredible amount. It would be a very slow ship. Or it could be fitted with a much more powerful propulsion system, at a tremendous cost - more weight, more fuel consumption, more $$$.

3a. Modern (the last 100+ years or so) ship collision survivability design principles basically revolve around bulkheads. It's impractical to make the entire hull thick enough to survive any conceivable disaster (because the boat still needs to float - you can't just add ridiculous amounts of armor everywhere) so the general principle here is to contain hull breaches, not to make sure that no hull breach ever occurs.

4. Generally, modern naval battles are not fought by ships ramming each other.

5. So we can understand why the Navy didn't optimize for that possibility, and at some point decided on a "please try not to let other ships ram you broadside" doctrine. Which made a tremendous amount of sense for a very long time, until our ships' crews decided to start tossing themselves about into the paths of oncoming vessels.

6. Seriously though: building ships to withstand this kind of thing without a scratch is crazy for basically the same reasons why building planes to withstand midair collisions with bigger planes (or, really, anything bigger than a seagull) is crazy.

All things considered, hats off to the designers of the Arleigh Burke class and the Fitzgerald's and John McCain's damage control crews. Considering the amounts of force involved here and differences in mass it's actually quite admirable that the god damn ships didn't snap in half or sink instantly.
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Make sure the battery has at least 8 bars left. There's two gauges on the dash: current charge and battery capacity. Capacity is the skinnier one on the right [0]. If you find one still within the warranty window below 8 bars, Nissan will even replace the battery free [1]. Also make sure you get one with a quick charge port, it's worth every penny. Other than that you really can't go wrong.

http://www.plugincars.com/sites/default/files/leaf-dash-bars... [0]

https://www.nissanusa.com/electric-cars/leaf/charging-range/... [1]
It's more like two opposing narrators:

1. Employers: we need more immigration, not enough workers (willing to work for the shitty wages I want to pay).

2. Workers: automation is kill all the jobs (that pay well, but require few skills).
Any predictions on how the popping bubble will ripple through the economy? With the housing bubble, there was a huge pull-back in consumer purchasing, as people lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity. That caused a drop in consumer confidence and purchasing, which led employers to cut back on wages/hours, which led to further drops in consumer purchasing.

Do you think we'll see the same domino effect here, but just at a lower magnitude? Or is there a different path for this bubble to ripple out through? Perhaps when people lose cars they lose jobs that they can no longer commute to?
99.99 + 0.02 = 100.00999999999999
If you're a "government dissident" and you're inviting internet connected always-on microphones into your home - you're doing it wrong...

"Alexa? Send details of my subversive plan to the government!"

"OK Google, upload the audio of the last 30mins discussion with my co-conspirators directly to PRISM!"

"Hey Siri? Which law enforcement agency needs to know about this surprise protest we just planned?"
Given there are auto manufacturers[1] that already exist with self driving cars, I'm going to go ahead and say its not a meme and more just a technology in the process of being fully realised.

Some times, things just take time. Especially when you're trying to create machines capable of not killing the general public.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
Ask HN: How well did your wireless handle the eclipse load?
I'm curious how well the various wireless providers handled the demand spike in areas of totality.

I was about 3 miles north of Madras, Oregon, which is a small town of under 7000 in a rural area. My provider is T-Mobile, and they were having a lot of trouble there.

The signal was good, 3 or 4 out of 5, and usually with LTE service, but there just wasn't much bandwidth. I could load simple sites, like HN, fairly often. Anything more complex, though, was spotty at best. There were occasions when I got no service for a few minutes, or it dropped from LTE to Edge.

I was exchanging text messages with a friend who also came to the Madras area, and he too is on T-Mobile. About 3/4 of my messages got an error saying they were not delivered, although we later determined that most of them did get delivered about 8 to 10 minutes after I sent them. We tried a voice call. I could hear him fine, but he said my voice had severe break up.

I stayed for about five hours after the eclipse, hoping that as people left they would stop using bandwidth and I'd be able to get some good internet connectivity so that I could check traffic on several potential routes home, and then decide if I should drive straight home or book a hotel on the way for Monday night and finish the trip Tuesday. That plan didn't work. I guess people driving still had passengers who wanted to pass the time on the net, and many probably also had apps like Waze that want to get traffic and hazard information on the fly.