skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely wouldn't call AWS, Echo from Amazon occasional. I think companies come in all shapes and sizes - some focus 90% on their core, some try to spend more time and diverge out to other business segments. Its upto Apple to figure out what to do and what would make it successful.
How much energy does it take to move 500 cars?

How much energy does it take to move one train?

That's your answer.
There was a day when I booted my computer, I'd have to run a few commands and enter a few keys and insert a diskette. If, at that point, you told me I'd one day have a computer that boots itself and starts programs by itself upon booting to the point where a reboot would be indistinguishable from merely turning the monitor on and off, I may have laughed at you. But here we are, in an era where when my Mac reboots I can open the lid and be looking at the same CNN article as before it rebooted.

I'm not trying to say self driving cars are as easy as building a modern OS, however difficult that may be. I'm trying to say, in the area of how advanced computers can become in a very short period of time, humans have historically been incredibly, actually laughable inaccurate.

Anyone who says "computers will never X" deserves to be shunned into nonexistence. Literally all of the proof is on the other side of their argument. Historically, computers have always been able to do exactly what humans have claimed they could not do. It's only a matter of time.
Economies of scale apply in reverse as well, and reduced sales reduces the number of items over which fixed costs can be amortized.

Decreased demand can lead to decreased production, causing further increased prices and further decreased demand.

If the market clearing price rises above the demand curve, production ceases.
thanks! Both pro EV sites, but useful perspective and intel...
So sue in arbitration.
The issuers ARE the network. Visa is a network of banks.
How do you computerize a hand written note between two guys in 1800 and stored in a bank?

Title insurance is dumb but in some form its pretty nice. Likely overpriced by an order of magnitude or so.
Ask HN: When and why did you give up on starting a company?
Many people never try to build a company or never come across a problem they think is worth solving. But I'm curious about those who have (or have considered it) and then, for whatever reason, opted out of the path.

What did it feel like to give up? Does it still bother you? What was the shift in mindset necessary to get you over the emotional/psychological hurdle of quitting? Are you absolutely sure you'll never try again?

Trying to get a contrarian perspective.
I guess this is close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x2Ihqjmc. It's a script written by an RNN acted out as a short sci-fi film, and Thomas Middleditch is in it.

Don't expect too much, though. I was reading an article on it and was excited to watch it, but it's too incoherent, in the usual fashion of today's RNNs.
But isn't what Apple (at least via rumor) was planning to do - build a category from the ground up a la Tesla, even if outright buying the full capacity of a major automotive manufacturer which barely has a grasp on EVs (think Bolt, Leaf, i3, etc)? I mean the OP referenced rumors of spherical wheels and other total revamping/replacing of existing tech plus totally new tech to boot.

If anything, "replicating" (or outright purchasing) what was developed over decades is just entrenching the past. Apple succeeds as it does by practically inventing future tech and making it instant commodities (yes, they're not always first, but hit so hard and go so far they dominate first movers).
You're also buying huge liabilities:

- constrictive agreements with dealers

- rapidly deprecating manufacturing assets

- a workforce with sunk costs in last generation skills

- a warranty burden on old vehicles

- pensions and other union agreements

- a beloved brand that the public may not be happy seeing chewed up and regurgitated as iTaxi Supplier 4A

If you believe in an autonomous and electric near future, some of these companies should have Yahoo-style negative valuations.
The overseas markets can't seem to get enough of the Leafs. I've seen trucks full of Leafs delivered for export to places such as Ukraine.
Thank you for the detailed response. Cheers.
$15 due to a single sale seems very significant. Correct me if I'm wrong, but by your reckoning just 100 super collectable sales (average $5m) could raise the overall average by over $500.
Here’s a non—paywall story that discusses HRV:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/heart-rate-varia...

“heart rate variability is essentially the gap between heartbeats when you are resting. A longer gap between heartbeats indicates you are well rested, whereas a shorter gap could mean you are stressed out and running the risk of overtraining”
> So when you can't even buy one new, why would someone want a used one?

Because the prices of non-collectable ICE cars is bound to plummet unless we haven't solved the battery charge speed issue (as in, in practice, supposedly it was recently solved in theory).
Phrase generation doesn't work well without any constraints. For example, in translation a similar system can generate decent text.
From the blog post:

> What’s more, today’s Nautilus compares favourably with file managers from other operating systems/desktop environments. KDE’s Dolphin uses 109 vertical pixels of chrome compared with Nautilus’s 48. Finder in the upcoming OS X version seems to have around 75 pixels.
How do you know your statistical analysis is good?

I'm rereading my intro to stats book and would like to use those skills to make good analysis.
Your comment displays the incredible social and economic compartmentalization between the Silicon Valley/tech hubs of the country and everywhere else. Uber is not a viable alternative to vehicle ownership for the majority of places in the country, particularly in poorer and more rural areas, and likely never will be. When you've got to drive 20 miles to reach town, ordering an Uber doubles the time required to get there.

As far as automation goes, in the consumer market, I highly doubt it will be anything more than a rich person's luxury for a good long while, since most people can barely afford a $10k vehicle, let alone a $100k one.
"Switch Took More Than 300 Years"

I sure hope the complete switchover from IPv4 to IPv6 also doesn't end up taking that long.
Afaik trucks are the strongest US auto segment (iirc Toyota can't make enough of them right now and are increasing production capacity in their Mexico plant), so maybe you hit an outlier segment.
That'd be a significant change to the Android license. AFAIK no such change has taken place.
Thanks for the link!

I'm mostly interested in self-research.

How'd you know you were doing sound stats?
Lawsuit time
How will it solve anything?
But would a streetcar go past my house? How far do I have to walk to get from my house to a bus stop or train station? Because I own 19 acres and my nearest neighbor is three miles from my house. The nearest town is 20 minutes by car. How would public transport deal with that kind of remoteness? My office is one end of the equation, my home (and the homes of my coworkers) are the other end.

It's surprisingly common when you leave the bigger cities. 90% of the country might live in cities, but the other 10% is spread out across the other 99% of the nation.
They make a lot of their money in the convenience store.

I think a lot of them will stay in business and just have a smaller tank/less pumps.
Having to teach my dad that buttons and settings are hidden until you tap something or swipe around has proven to me that the new UI is trying to be more clever all while being extremely confusing.
It's pretty easy to rack up a streaming bill already.

Hulu + Netflix + HBO is like $40/mo. When we tried Swing for sports, it was up to like $70/mo. Funimation was another $10/mo -- bringing it up to like $80/mo.

You get better service than cable (especially for more niche things), but it can be expensive and sports aren't quite there yet.
Read the privacy policy, you can opt out of usage data. This article is clickbait crap and completely inaccurate. They clearly tell users how to opt out of usage data collection; I'm not seeing the problem here.

As for the data collection you can't opt out of, it's super basic data like your ip and account registration info. How do you expect to use a cloud service if it doesn't know your ip?
You can run the Microsoft services locally if you wanted to. People hosted AD/Exchange for years before these new hosted services came along. Even when people outsource Exchange, they often still hosts their AD internally.
Thanks Captain obvious. It's not simple at all for people who have dropped $1000+ on speakers all over their house.
Why wouldn't you take the loan on your van? Interest rates are under 3%, which is definitely cheaper than any mortgage or student loan you might be carrying.

Auto loan risk is significantly mitigated by modern advancements in GPS & tracking technology. No other collateral is as easily repossessable as a modern car.
Have to mention SaferCPlusPlus[1] here - basically a memory-safe subset of C++ with (fairly) low migration cost. For example, here[2] is an open source png encoder/decoder that was ensured to be free from buffer overflow vulnerabilities via automated (partial) translation to SaferCPlusPlus.

[1] Shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus

[2] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus-AutoTransla...
Critical games – Each is designed to critique a specific gameplay mechanic
Oh, it was. But only after I asked a Google employee via social media if he could flag it to get it fixed (which actually did help).

It’s a bit suboptimal when the only real way to fix issues is via HN or similar sites.
I think you overstate how much better mass transit is than self driving cars. Transportation is fundamentally about traversing a graph, and transportation infrastructure is about maximizing the value of the flows on that graph. Mass transit only makes sense when the edges become a certain weight. The vast majority of point to point connections are far too light to support mass transit. Car transit is a bit better for these P2P and near P2P connections, but still pretty mediocre, because of coordination costs.

To a significant extent the issues with mass transit can be remedied by breaking the global graph up into connected subgraphs, and each subgraph can be similarly subdivided, recursively down to the point where the form factors and utilization rates cause the economics to break down. The edges between those subgraphs is mass transit.

Autonomous technologies make both point to point and mass transit transportation much cheaper. But labor (market or not) comprises a much more of car transportation costs than mass transit costs. Eliminating that cost inherently drives a shift from mass transit to car transit. Combine that with an efficient coordination algorithm to increase car utilization rates, and it gets a significant upper hand.

Each approach will still have its place, of course.
It's in Japanese, called 「志高く」.
Because most home purchase happen on the order of decades. A large percentage of property being purchased has titles that go back 50 years or more. Understanding who bought what when with what covenants using what surveys etc... isn't a straightforward task.
React-Native consume user’s location with redux-saga
Have you even read what data is being collected? Sonos is not a scum company, though the article is providing badly inaccurate info.
I wonder if there are any forums/fan fiction websites where you could find big chunks of prose to add to the training data. Might help bring the loss down a bit if you mix some in.
It's somewhat hit-and-miss which submissions make the front page. A submission has only a few minutes to get several upvotes before it's pushed off the front "new" page, after which it's unlikely to recover.

Since you're here I'll add a little to my previous comment [0], which was very short because I didn't think many people would see it.

I don't advocate completely pure functional programming as one would do in Haskell, but I do think there are lots of places in most code where the functional style would be clearer and easier to understand and debug than the fully imperative style more common in Lisp. That's why I created FSet [1], a functional collections library. It has been my observation that having high-quality functional collections is often the most important missing piece to make it possible to write more code functionally.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15077088

[1] https://github.com/slburson/fset
Swift Local Refactoring
AWS is an offshoot of building the massive system needed to process the "we sell absolutely everything" goal. Methinks they just got so good at it, cloud services just kinda took on a life of its own and grew from there - but still feeds the retailing monster.

Echo is a consequence of exploring digital appliances as marketing tools. If you're going to build a device which can voice-interface someone ordering 6 bottles of Tide with extreme ease, doesn't take much more to turn it into a nice music speaker and tell you weather & sports & jokes on request. Echo, Fire, etc are just extensions to feeding the retailing monster.

Do notice how Amazon's innovative foray into cell phones crashed & burned hard - despite being lauded as rather a well-built device. That shows how straying too far doesn't work, and that "far" isn't very.
Try owning 10 or more rentals and then say a property manager is useless.
> We are talking about the service for one paid product (Google Apps), on a thread announcing the service for another paid product (Google Chrome Enterprise).

No, OP is talking about this case, which is a free product:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15065742
just needs a hash function picker...
Do you have this enabled? http://imgur.com/a/LAjDL
Well to be clear it's everything UI wise since ios7.

Links: https://www.fastcodesign.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-des...

https://youtu.be/RT46MpK39rQ?t=2104

TL;DR ver:
-> Inconsistent UI within an app
-> Gestures that are inconsistent across apps and within the same app
-> No undo (I mean shake to undo doesn't count)
It's about making condoms available for free to women for whom buying them is a non-trivial expense.
I had to do a double take to make sure this was a joke, because it's pretty much exactly the type of thing I'd expect people to be trampling each other to give their money to on cryptocurrency forums.

> Send your donation or investment money to coursecoin@gmail.com (seriously, please don't.)

On many of those same forums, I expect people would be sending money anyway, and justifying it by saying that "they have to say the seriously please don't part to avoid the SEC, but they don't mean it".
This is silly, no one is saying they are going to brick the hardware, ever. But if you don't update and years later Spotify decides to change their end points, Spotify will likely stop working on your very outdated speaker.

If you have any google account or android device, they already have literally orders of magnitude more info on your life than Sonos would ever be able to collect. Not to mention Sonos has said it doesn't ever sell the data, AND you can opt out of usage info. Not seeing the problem here.
> Billions on R&D?

Proof?
- You can easily see the status of each file (new, modified, or staged).

- You can easily stage all files, each file, or just specific hunks of specific files.

- You can stash and pop stashes.

- You can amend a commit.

- You can do all of that from the keyboard, without touching the mouse.

I imagine you can do many of those things with VSCode, but it's so effortless in Sublime. I haven't learned the same workflow in VSC yet, and since I do all of those things frequently, I'm really attached to SublimeGit.
One way to help prevent a winner-take-all situation is to have more open protocols for some of the hard problems. An example that I feel needs to be done right now: an open protocol for signaling intent.

Today we have left and right blinkers, brake lights, the horn, and some 'body' language when you use the whole vehicle to show your intent. But with fully autonomous cars, we could be giving out signals that are rich with information.

"My exit is soon, I'd like to change to the right hand lane everybody!"; "People up ahead of me seem to be stopping suddenly, watch out as I may need to do the same!"; "The right lane is blocked at 43.718045, -79.507663, pass the word back to everyone so they are prepared".

If we can build an open protocol for how cars can share this rich information, then as more and more cars are autonomous, the roads will improve continuously. Even non-autonomous cars could start listening to this data and sharing it with the drivers.

On the other hand, if we don't build an open protocol then we could start to see, for example, all the Waymo cars helping each other out- but not helping the Teslas or the GMs. There's a winner-take-all effect in action.
Read the policy. It clearly states they don't sell data and you can opt out from usage info. Where does that make the user a product?
I had made something similar in 2013 but was not nearly as complete. Good work. Trekweather.com
Actually, rockets work like this.
this is great. I have similair idea to educate the public on crypto creation but I want to dumb it down even more. I wrote a how to understand crypto in 5 mins site live at https://higher.team that has the goal to explain it in 5 mins. But then walk through non-programmers how to make a very simple currency with signing the messages using an ez to break just write the string backwards or something simple like that.
Then you haven't spent nearly enough time reading the posts in cryptocurrency forums.

It wouldn't take more than a couple hours of skimming to completely recalibrate your expectations.
I think it's more that most don't see Amazon's actual core competence. Amazon is a logistics business, both information and physical. They do logistics for themselves for various front-ends (amazon.com, echo, video, kindle, etc.) but you can view all of those as accessories to their AWS, warehousing, and shipping business which they provide both for their own front ends and for sale to anyone.
Why Basho (the company behind Riak Database) failed?
How much energy does it take to move one train 500 miles? How much energy does it take to move 10 cars 25 miles each? That's your question.

Why do people always frame public transport in the light of "everyone can just take a single train!"? It doesn't work like that. It never works like that. It's a ridiculous argument barely even worthy of a response. 500 people might take one train in LA or NYC, but how about Greenville, Wisconsin? How about in Bitely, Michigan? How about Linn Grove, Indiana?

Suddenly the argument breaks down, doesn't it? Good luck replacing 500 cars with one train when the town only has 150 people and they all work in different cities. Now suddenly cars are looking pretty damn efficient, aren't they?
What if trains and buses can be made autonomous?

From software perspective, there isn't much difference between form of vehicles.
Does this make the novelty of "real Bresenham's algorithm" a historical curiosity? Now that all we care about is cache misses (hyperbole), how much do we care much about a division per row of pixels?

More to the point: if you're doing anything but pure rasterising, something that requires anything more than a hash table lookup per cell, is it worth "doing it right"?
>"If you don't like this, don't ever buy smart devices because they /all/ reserve the right to do this kind of stuff."

It seems odd then that you have to actually buy the device before you can even read the terms. I guess the idea is that you can always return it if you don't agree?
You need to take down the data folder now and rebuild the repository. You're going to get hit with a DMCA notice. It's not a matter of IF, it's a matter of WHEN. Publishers of popular book series don't take these matters lightly.
I'm really interested to know what specifically you're concerned about. This article is just inaccurate. You can opt out of usage data, so what is the privacy issue for you personally?
Apparently, his father attending the negotiations helped the yet-inexperienced Son tremendously.
Drones typically don't need sub-second response times; they're not dogfighting
> It's reasonable to assume that these standards will get more stringent over time as accidents, insurance, and compatibility become forced issues (likely though lawsuits). The companies that have the data and systems to meet these standards will be able to keep up

There's a term for this twin to regulatory capture. In essence, the amount of regulation in an industry scales with the age and development of the industry. Difficulty of entrance scales scales with regulation. Combine this with any economies of scale and network effects present, and you have a state-subsidised incumbency bias.
I'm wise beyond my years
I do this all the time. Have you contacted Sonos for help?
Unfortunately, Chrome's kerning when it comes to printing is atrocious. Over the years, I've constantly tested it every once in a while with the hope that it would improve to no avail.

Currently, the only print ready HTML to PDF processor that I know is Prince [1] and to a lesser extent Firefox.

[1]: https://www.princexml.com/
apparently Massalin is still at MicroUnity after 20 years. does anyone know if they do any business outside of patent licensing?
I haven't 100% given up, but I've postponed it indefinitely.

When? For the past 4 years.

Why? For several reasons.

I started a company before (3 times actually).

The solo business was a slog, spending a lot of time doing things I hated to for barely enough money to feed myself, and with little outlook for growth.

The first VC-funded startup burned me out big-time. I'm not cut out for years on end of 60-plus hour weeks for a tiny chance at a large payout and a 98% chance at nothing. Especially given the opportunity cost of a senior engineer's salary.

The second startup I almost didn't do, but I was super passionate about the topic. Unfortunately, the team fell apart, but not before the stress impacted my health (permanently) - and the other things I learned from that experience informed the other major reason I'm not doing that again any time soon.

Which is that ideas are a dime a dozen, but good ones are rare, and marketing is HARD.

If I were to stumble across an idea I couldn't pass up, that would make a solid lifestyle business (no way I do the VC dance again) and that I could build in my spare time... ok, I might try again.

But starting a company and hitting it big areno longer part of my dream.

Instead I'm working on moving to a place I want to live, finding a 20-30 hour/week gig (be it contract or salaried work), and living a life that I can actually enjoy day to day, spending time with people I care about.
Oregon promised free tuition. Now it's cutting back
You're being alarmist; no one is bricking anything. If you refuse to update and Spotify changes endpoints in five years that's not bricking your device.
I have 2 Play 1's, Play 5 and Play Soundbar. They have worked fantastically and I've never had a problem once in several years. The idea that they can be bricked has me extremely upset right now.
Depends how big of a down payment you make.
Interesting, why does Sonos need to run Spanning Tree over wifi if they use their own proprietary network(SonosNet) for inter device communication?
Trucks are used as work, and puzzlingly, luxury cars in the US. They hold their value well because of the new standards seem to be making long term maintanince harder and more expensive. Pre-DEF Desiel engines, Normally aspirated V8 engines, Thicker sheet metal, Less sensors to replace over rough use are a great example of factors making many used trucks sell for more than new.
D'oh! Of course.
That's really interesting. It is the low gas prices? Or strength in the construction sector?