skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting approach to breaking the problem down, and a way in which I hadn't thought of it. I can see that I likely overstated my initial comment. I'll edit it to clarify what I meant.
> the fact that these deaths will be at the hands of machines rather than people will outrage the public

I keep hearing, and used to assume, this. But observe public reaction to e.g. the Tesla autopilot accident: measured and muted.

Counterbalancing negative reactions to machines are generational shifts in our perception of technology. I haven't seen a study on this, but from memory, what was the last new (or, for franchises, first-in-franchise) film that portrayed a man-vs-machine war? The closer we get to a population of people mostly born after the mid-1980s, the better the reaction appears to likely be.
Small asteroids have a very small escape velocity, on the order of a few meters per second. I think a mass driver which broke off small chunks of asteroid and hurled them to escape would not take too much power and be able to disassemble the asteroid in less than one orbit. (Advanced detection would be a plus here.) If we aimed the ejecta, to get a momentum change in a given direction, we would not have to completely disassemble the asteroid, because its orbit would change and eventually miss Earth. Complete disassembly would be safer, because small chunks would burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
Very large tech companies always have people looking into weird slightly bullshit things. Doesn't necessarily mean that they had any real intention of committing to these ideas.
The government regulatory standards could be so tough that there would be no real quality differentiation between autonomous car vendors, as all vendors would have to meet the same incredibly high standards of safety.

An outcome could well be that both Tesla and Google both meet the high government standards, but in doing so they've had to create such high performing autonomous systems that the consumer can't tell the difference. They both work equally perfectly because they have to be to be allowed on the road.

If this is the case then the autonomous system becomes a non-factor in the purchase of a car. Either you're in the market for an autonomous car or you're not.
Weights are inversely proportional to the Alexa rank for each startup's website.
I think it's more the incoming ICMP that is troublesome, particularly redirect, and to a lesser extent destination unreachable (DOS).
Looks identical to me.

https://godbolt.org/g/mELzSE

https://godbolt.org/g/nGcdqT
The Roadster started production in 2008. I don't even know how long it was in development before that. To me, that counts as part of trying to build a mass market car. Yes, it was a niche vehicle, but if you want to point to the Model S as the start point, it's either ALSO a niche vehicle, or already represents success at building a mass market vehicle.
Pretty horrible indeed, though limited mostly to Safari (which incidentally is one of the places you want to use it more often than in others in my experience)
I appreciate your effort, as I fear that the greatest hindrance to the success of cryptocurrencies is a nontechnical and/or ignorant public.
Seems like they were biting off way more than they could chew.

If Apple partnered with an existing car company to apply their design principles on top of an existing car platform (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Mini_platform ) they could see a lot of success if they weren't too ambitious. They wouldn't win if they tried to reinvent the wheel because there would be far too big of a chance of either taking 10 years to build nothing or for building something that ended up being overly strange (e.g. Segway)

Build a car that was familiar built out with quality materials and an iOS dash interface and you'd sell like hotcakes.
Man I've been looking for a decently priced leaf for a long time. I'd like to attend an auction like this in the Bay Area.

It may be this location but Craigslist is pretty slim pickings.
You generally don't leave disaster areas at highway speeds. Electrics should be better at this if you don't run the tunes or the ac. Also there are a lot of disasters that will be bigger than 200m. If Rainier goes off it will have a very large ash spread mostly east depending on prevailing winds. Seattle was just blanketed by smoke from way up in bc all the way to Portland. Way more than 200 miles. Imagine if it was a foot + of air intake clogging ash and low visibility.
Throughout all of that development, computers remained remarkably dumb. We still program them manually and they do what we tell them to even if it's disastrous.

Driving on open roads with other humans is going to require elements of real intelligence that are qualitatively different than your OS example where they just did more programming, better, faster.

It's apples and dump trucks. What if computers are just the wrong approach for this problem?

Computers are always improving. Granted. Doesn't mean it's going to be in a direction that's useful for general AI and driving full-autonomous.

On the flip side of constant improvement is are the claims that we'd have full autonomous cars "real soon now" for each of the last 20 years.

In 2017, we're still far enough away no one will give a product availability date. This again points to a qualitatively different challenge than what came before, and the need to develop several new layers of tech (not just integrate what's there) to get the job done
> 3. Weekly password rotation, and daily rotation in the week leading to the token sale

this seems useless
I was looking at an iOS screenshot from 6 or 7 years ago, and was amazed at how the battery and location services and bluetooth icons all really popped in color and texture. No more. Now I have to find a hidden force touch control to do.. well, god knows what.
I think those days are gone. Firefox, Chrome, Vivaldi and Edge all do continual rapid releases with ever increasing version numbers. I think only Safari is the only major browser left that doesn't.
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Fancy Bears: Myth about Doping-Free Football
On modern machines, sure, but Bresenham will smoke it on say a 6502 which has no arbitrary size shift and 8 bit words.
NIST Uncertainty Machine
Self-driving cars are not going to replace mass transit. Even electric cars produce produce small-particle pollution, e.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/04/fewer-ca...
Counter arguments: Walmart, Google and Amazon.
You are obviously not the median person, and the median solution will therefore not work for you.
User manual (PDF) at [1]

[1] https://uncertainty.nist.gov/NISTUncertaintyMachine-UserManu...
Bresenham's algorithm as originally designed lends itself well to implementation in hardware, where you don't want a more complex implementation than necessary, so I'd say it still matters…if GPUs bother to implement GL_LINES in hardware anymore.

(I don't know if GPUs bother with it any longer. The OpenGL spec allows but does not mandate a Bresenham-based implementation, so tessellating into triangles is theoretically an option if they can make the diamond exit rule work. Games rarely use lines, but it wouldn't surprise me if they keep the hardware around for CAD software or whatever.)
> Its mostly about inconsistent naming, order of arguments

Do you have some examples of inconsistent order of arguments? I'm not really doubting you, I just can't think of any examples.
They were being tricked anyway.
Nissan has been working on this:

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/nissans-self-driving-teleopera...
>I wonder how much of the citizens' indifference to and mistrust of the government and politics is a product of living for decades in a communist authoritarian state, as opposed to a fundamental nature of the people there.

Communism was preceded by many centuries of feudalistic, authoritarian monarchy. The communists inherited a people who already had a passive peasant mindset, and they just exploited it, as Putin is doing now.
They might some day provide dividends.

In theory, you're buying future profits. The profits may never be distributed, but that claim is still worth something. A hundred dollar bill in a block of ice is still worth $100 or so, and can be bought and sold as appropriate.
This bubble has been building for years now. Wholesalers and other exporters have been hiding the problem for a while now, and but somethings got to give. The problem is multifaceted:

1) Lease rates arent necessarily in sync with the used car market
2) Buyers are keeping cars longer if they purchase
3) Subprime loans and buy here/pay here dealers are multiplying.

THIS IS A BUBBLE. I wont call when its going to burst, and it wont be like the housing bubble, but the fallout will be great...
In what way is the billions of dollars Amazon is spending on original content "just an extention to feeding the retailing monster"?

It's easy to point to one failed product as proof that "straying too far doesn't work", if you can do the mental gymnastics required to classify all their successful products as somehow more connected to their original goal.
yeah I got the idea after watching the Bernie Madoff movie and thinking, there is going to be a Madoff level ICO scandal at some point for sure. Only way to help is teach non programmers how blockchain works.
The same conclusion any person thinking about the problem for a while would reach..
".. we can't build a better browser without good information on how it's behaving in the wild."

Who decides what is a "better" browser?

1. Is it the authors? Do they write the software for themselves and agree to share it for free with anyone who may want to use it?

2. Is it the users? Do the authors solicit feedback from users to determine what users want? If users demanded a browser with no default telemetry, would the authors comply?

3. Is it third parties who have an interest in the behavior of users? For example, domain name industry, ad-supported businesses, their employees or advertisers themselves. Are the authors on salary, compensated indirectly from advertising revenue? Or does it come from somewhere else?

4. Is it all of the above? If we follow the money where does it lead? Whose decision of what is "better" is the most important?

Mozilla is descended from a defunct 1990's company that aimed to license a web browser to corporations for a fee. It would have been very clear in that case who the browser was being written for. But today, it is not so clear who Mozilla is serving. It resembles some sort of "multi-stakeholder" project.

It would be nice to have a browser that fits description 1 or 2. I believe there are plenty of folks, including some developers, who would appreciate a browser with no default telemetry. By virtue of the total absence of data collection, they might consider it "better" than alternative browsers that "need telemetry" for whatever reason.
Re-Inventing Gravity
I suspect you would not be so happy when all the people that travel on the more space efficient public transportation systems buy cars and clog up the roads in front of you.
Indeed. I'm only running a 1080p projector so I was mostly looking for something that was cheap enough and had a very simple remote. That specific one looks great in that I can easily take a black marker and label the inputs 1 through 4 on the remote itself.
For the reasons above I’m not a fan. What I’ve seen first hand, you can build powerful solutions but you can also build powerful solutions with Perl, python, Hadoop and Spark and I can at least read documentation with those.
I'm amused that peergrade's home link to the academic research behind the product 404's
Astronomers detect methanol maser emission towards nearby galaxy
Yes, in a non-pure type system, you are "on your honor" to not cause side effects. Clojure made STM a first-class language feature despite this https://clojure.org/reference/refs

Second, the problems with impurity you listed are exactly solved by Haskell. Just because "you cannnot port that to x/y/z" language should've be counted against the haskell language.

We are talking about transactions here, but you're worried about thunks and memory allocations, and comparing this to java? It seems like you've simply decided Haskell is categorically slow, regardless of the context we're talking about.
Wow. I wonder how much of it has to do with the Model 3 (supposedly) being right around the corner. My wife's next car will likely be electric; we haven't looked at the Bolt YET but when the Model 3 hits of course we'll be shopping all of the competition.
KVM API, PowerPC version
Among other things, it pushes traffic from commercial corridors (where noise is expected) onto residential ones. Then you get people leaning on their horns right outside your window all evening when you're trying to concentrate on work or are exhausted and just want to sleep - because the way the lights are timed on the side streets means that not everyone makes it through the light (or when the traffic on the arteries is heavy, nobody on the side street makes it through the light).
I am sincerely curious and maybe a Sonos owner can offer some feedback. what does Sonos offer me now that a streaming music provider, a smart phone and a portable bluetooth speaker doesn't?

I understand that Sonos can stream to multiple "zones" simultaneously but besides the occasion of a house party how often is this necessary?

This news to me is just another reason for me to never buy one.
It's rent. If I don't pay my property taxes, the government will march in and take my house.
That's a bit unfair to clowns.

The term "investor" in relation to ICOs could be replaced with the term "mark", and the whole thing would be a lot more accurate.
If what you say becomes true, then those 911's and R8's (I'm guessing that's generally what you mean by exotics/pleasure drives) will actually go UP in value, no?
https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/r_and_d_expense
Property tax is.
If you define "core competence" sufficiently vaguely then sure, everything can be related to that core competence.

"a logistics business, both information and physical"? Really? Calling their massive retail business, original content, and physical devices an "accessory" to their warehousing is an extremely myopic view of Amazon.
This problem should be solved in a legislative way, similar to Europe's GDPR. There should some minimum privacy rights which can't be opted out of and which are protected by government. That's the only viable solution. Markets don't help here.
Sorry, but any company that wants to collect my personal data just to continue using their product after I've purchased it, is scum.
What font did you use for this? To me it looked like Comic Sans, but I guess the reaction would be different if it was the case...
LuaTeX comes of age
What's described in the article is just one example of how depending on a closed system like the Sonos can burn me further down the line. The setup I've described takes advantage of the HDMI standard to not depend on any specific vendor and even fixes the 70ms Sonos line-in delay. Since I've even priced it out at slightly cheaper than the Sonos with probably better speakers (2x JBL LSR 305 vs the Play1's) I think the only advantage the Sonos retains for me is really the better industrial design.
I have a new product. It's called FlockOff. Basically it is a laser connected to a battery connected to a solar panel that shoot a high intensity beam of (UV? IR?) light directly at the Flock 24/7.

Also available is the FlockOff Mini. This attaches to the plate on your car bathing it in IR light 24/7.

Good times.

Note: I don't actually know what I'm talking about here.
Aging Japan Wants Automation, Not Immigration
Phishing and Ransomware Leads Security Concerns for Organizations
https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/whats-your-heart-rate-varia...
I rarely stream music through the home theater, but we prefer the Roku over casting for anything except ad-hoc, youtube type clip watching.
I have an adjustable desk. It's really nice to be able to move around throughout the day, but for any thoughtful task that requires some amount focus, I have to sit. I'd like to read further collectively inconclusive research about that.
I really like this article, because it manages to be a love letter to both Racket and Common Lisp.
Well put /s.

C'mon. That's low effort and not conducive to actual discussion. At least say why you disagree.
Using Machine Learning models to predict goals in football matches
Why wouldn't the market help? This is a great opportunity for a competitor to offer privacy features and capture market share with a better offering. Promise privacy in perpetuity or your money back, and if consumers care then they will switch.
"That'll be a $25 restocking fee, and a $25 open-box fee"
Racket is a really exciting language, especially with its focus on building small languages to solve problems.

However, where it fails for me is in its lack of interactive development. When I investigated it, there seemed to be no way to actually connect a repl to a running program.

Unlike with common lisp or clojure, with racket if you make changes to your code you have to restart the REPL, which destroys your state.

This was a big disappointment to me, because even python with ipython and autoreload allows for more interactive development.

I suspect that this decision was made because of racket's start as a teaching language, because it is simpler, but way less powerful.
> Not a single word in that blog post about privacy.

Probably because there's nothing new to be said:

https://edu.google.com/trust/

And there was a good article from the NYT this year about the controversies:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-educati...
I hate all smart devices. The TV should just be a TV, the dishwasher should wash dishes, the refrigerator should keep stuff cold, the washing machine and dryer should clean my clothes, and speakers should just produce sounds. I have yet to hear any compelling reason to make these devices dependent on software.
That would let people do this, and I hear people ask for it a lot. I dunno if it'd actually be better without the possiblity of not-wow-slow combinators.

Golang has all these weird performance pitfalls that you only hit if you contort the language too hard. Naming combinatior functions sometimes trips those conditions.

I'm of the opinion that even just pattern matching and the kind of nil type propagation checking that TypeScript does could help enourmously.

Generics won't fix error handling without compiler help, and the best way to get that help is to introduce pattern matching as a forcing function.
Well, from my understanding PWC switched to Google for Business so I guess large corporations are not skittish.[0]

Also, Google does offer support, usually via a third party plus fanstastic Google for Business (G Suite?) support, as well, in my experience.

[0] http://www.pwc.com/us/en/increasing-it-effectiveness/google-...
It's still insignificant in terms of the OP comment. Also there aren't 100 cars with an average price of 5 Mln sold per year, far from it [1]

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_cars_...
On Titan?

"billions of dollars on R&D in a new market segment"
Highly agree.

While reading this article, I had a paranoid convergence of ideas.

I was reading another article the other day about stock trading strategies, and how some particular strategies only work if a small number of people are using them; once they go mainstream, they lose their advantage.

The example used was a whole lot of funds jumping into a particular strategy, which then effectively killed the strategy's effectiveness, and everybody lost.

My paranoid fear is something similar in autonomous vehicles; a vicious cycle of systems reacting to each other, because they're not able to communicate directly.

Like when you're walking towards someone, and you both try to step to the side to let the other pass, but you step to the same side; then you correct by stepping the other way, but so does the other person.
I started a company (LLC) to develop something I was trying to patent (utility patent). I kept things going as a side business for about 5 years while I worked a full time job, wrangled the patent, and put money and time into manufacturing, designs, and marketing. I hoped to build up a customer base to show the value of the patent and then license the patent to other manufacturers.

When the patent application failed, I decided to close the business. Without the IP, the more I built the market, the more likely someone else would come in to compete, and an established manufacturer could definitely beat me on price.

I learned a lot about how difficult marketing is (I come from a mathematics and software background) and how much footwork goes into sales. I also made some mistakes in the patent process I won't make again.

It sucked to give up, but was also a relief. I wasn't betting my future on it, so it wasn't a huge hurdle to make the call. No patent == no business.

I'll probably try again some day.
Maybe that is true in rural and suburban environments, but I doubt it in dense urban environments. Adding a charger to every spot in residential parking garages and on every residential street is a bigger infrastructure project than converting over gas stations to chargers. You also have to consider the time it takes to recharge an electric car is much higher than the time to refuel an ICE car.
Sun Flyer, an Electric Trainer Aircraft
B2B SaaS - Used networks, cold emails and showing up (cities, events, conferences). For everyone you meet, ask for a referral to someone else at the end. When you have an idea that has some level of product-market fit, that should be enough to get traction.
You called them a one hit wonder and then implied that they've had hits in all their product categories, fascinating.
I created my own font based on my handwriting. It's called codecartoons. I also have a more Marker Felt-ish one called Clarker Felt.
Stop down voting and show me proof of innovation.

USB-C? Don't get me started.
Mac Pro?

There's nothing I'm aware of that they are doing that I'm looking forward to.
Thank you :) I use Photoshop on a Wacom Cintiq.
I think Manheim is a wholesale auction, unfortunately
A lot of negativity for this article, but it addresses something I often see in those just starting out: searching for help in an overly specific way.

You'll find people asking: "How do I create on online store for my candle making shop?" and you'll point them to a tutorial that happens to use a shoe shop as an example and they'll think it doesn't apply to their situation.

The article's advocating for people to use tutorials as a jumping off point, to ask more specific questions and to reason through what does and doesn't apply to their situation.

Also, fwiw - hats off to the many, many tutorial writers whose articles have helped me over the years.
>I've also heard a lot from my conservative friends that NPR is too liberal but to be honest, I haven't seen that at all.

The reason conservatives think NPR is wildly liberal is they don't listen to it. They only listen to conservative media, and it tells them NPR is 100% pro-communism and also is pro-Sharia law. Which anyone who actually listens to it knows is utter nonsense.

The lesson here is you should listen directly to both sides, and not just listen to one side and take for granted it is telling you the truth about the other side.

NPR is itself is pretty good here. It regularly has conservatives presenting their views. But I also subscribe to a conservative magazine, just to make sure I am getting the whole story.
No, it makes them less vulnerable. I work on computers for some very tech illiterate people. They will regularly get more badware until I install an AV (generally avast! Free).
Sounds a lot like The Homer to me: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Homer
HowToBasic's guide to creating a Todo MVC React App

1. Open editor of choice

2. Slap the keyboard with a raw fish

3. Crack a raw egg on the screen