skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I think of it like:

Walking - E-Skateboard - E-Scooter - E-Bike - E-Moped/Gas Scooter - E-Car

Let's ignore skateboards for a minute, which are significantly more difficult to learn than any of the others. With this you have scooter vs. bike vs. car. A moped's main advantage is speed. A bike has exercise and familiarity. A car has cargo capability and can take more than one passenger.

In general, the main tradeoff is weight and size. Anyway, I digress. I think the main reason to prefer a moped to an electric bike is because of turn signals and proper front and back lights. Once that's resolved I'd agree, there's less of a point of a moped/scooter. Unfortunately adding good lights and turn signals is nontrivial while preserving the lightness of a traditional bike. Safety is the most important thing and turn signals are key.

There's a company called Jetson that has an interesting take on it, though.
Pangea used to run WorldGroup BBS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBS - thence the "GUI"; but it was also available as a character-based BBS over ISDN.
Narratives are driven by 1) a question that 2) the reader cares about.

- How is Ender going to save earth in space army academy? (Ender's Game)

- Who killed Mr Ratchett? [EDIT: or rather How will Poirot figure out who killed Mr Ratchett?] (Murder on the Orient Express)

- How was Rome formed in the early days? (History of Rome, Livy)

- What's going to happen to Seth Brundle? (The Fly)

- How did Warren Buffett become who he is today? (Snowball)

- Are Mr Knightly and Emma going to hook up? (Emma)

- Who is Ted Mosby going to marry? (How I met your mother)

Conflict can be the basis of the question, 'Who will win the fight'. Kishōtenketsu can be the basis of the question, 'Who are these people and how are they related?'. I don't agree that 'in the West, plot is commonly thought to revolve around conflict' because many plots do not have the outcome of a conflict as the main question.
For me it's not so much a matter of time as it is about ergonomics. Typing with only one hand or constantly switching between the mouse and the keyboard is not good for your arms.

Starcraft players on the other hand perform a task where one hand can always stay on the mouse while the other is on the keyboard.
This technique is so common in dynamic language implementations that it even has hardware support in some architectures, such as the SPARC TADD instruction that adds two registers and sets a condition code if any of the lower bits were set.
About the same number of people die of influenza each year. We've been dying in these numbers for a long time, and it really doesn't matter at a macro scale. It's fine to try and do better, there are some positives for trying, but this is more of a want, not a need.
>remote monitoring and control

There are opensource ways to do out of band management without it.

>consumer benefits. Related tech also helped DRM machines through Trusted Computing alliance.

Nobody I knew who was knowledgeable wanted that shit in the first place. It was always edging away consumer control of the platform. DRM is part of the problem here! Same thing with web standards. What annoys me the most about this is the audacity of calling it "consumer benefits".

>probably got defense contracts or payments for selective use by NSA or other organizations

Fine, but that's not a good enough reason to backdoor literally everything for everyone else. (reminds me of systemd and redhat actually)
Thanks, that _is_ a bit more detailed. Unfortunately, it seems like my concerns were well founded:

> And for times when your hands will go out of the camera’s field of view, Microsoft is doing its best to compensate. When that happens, the system relies purely on the controller’s on-board IMU to estimate positional movement until it reappears in the camera’s view. This works well enough for quick jumps in and out of the camera’s view, but after a second or two, the IMU-only tracking estimation is too unreliable, and it appears that the system will eventually freeze the location of the controllers in the air and only feed them the rotation data from the IMU

Not a lot of detail there on how well the IMU-only tracking works, but it doesn't sound like it's all that accurate. And I guess there's only one front-facing camera, so it'll be pretty easy to lose tracking if you ever need to interact with something outside your FOV.
Ask HN: How to Contribute UI Design to OSS
I'm the lead designer of an unlimited UI design service for web and mobile development teams (http://fairpixels.pro). I'm looking to give back by contributing more to OSS with UI design work. I'm particularly interested in tools that have a decent userbase, but for some reason never had an opportunity to get help designing a better User Interface.

Question: How do I find OSS projects of this nature that need UI help? Suggestions/introductions are welcome.
So is there no way to address this problem? I always thought of places with polluted air to be in that situation because of lack of regulation of factories or car emissions
But how do you know the food sucks? It wasn't until I travelled and tasted food in other places that I figured out when food sucks. Up to then I assumed it was mediocre. Now, I'm more likely to leave feedback with the waiter. I've had bad service and I've had good service and I know which is which.
Yeah, but public attitudes toward substance abuse treatment vs. “real” medicine are substantially different, in part because the former is widely seen as only needed by moral reprobates.
It is reasonable, but why would you want to arrive to work sweaty if it's not necessary? It's easy to forget that the average person doesn't have access to a shower at work. Also, a kick scooter is significantly safer and more maneuverable than a bike in my experience riding a road bike. An inch clearance off the ground makes it pretty safe.
> The resulting plot–and it is a plot–contains no conflict.

It may be a plot, but is it a good plot? Does it makes you want to know more about the story?
No one believed bat boy and even the plausible stuff in those was never the subject of design making. The National Enquirer is as much News as the Onion is.

The tragedy now is that there are sites that aren't neatly packaged as entirely false but are. The Internet has empowered people like Alex Jones and other people spouting pure falsehoods.
Another fine military planning quote: "A plan only lasts until the first shot."
Ask HN: ETF/Index of Companies that use React?
Has/can someone track it and check trading/valuation performance?
Sigh, no. Look. I don't think bringing up "but Nazis" is really helpful to any debate but Frondo did so. His position is - quite literally - I'd love to support free speech but I can't because of Nazis. Also he thinks I lack perspective and am some sort of fetishist, which isn't very nice, but I can put that to one side.

It's impossible to respond to such a rebuttal without using the N-word and I specifically said at the start I was doing so only because of that argument.

I understand why people bring up Hitler in discussions about free speech. Some people do believe that Nazis are some sort of harmful side effect of free speech and if only people with views tending in that direction are prevented from speaking, there will never be a re-occurrence. That's a reasonable view to hold, but one that many people believe to be wrong (I didn't see Congress delete the first amendment post-WW2 after all).

Now if someone is going to take a position of "I'd love to support X but it leads to Hitler", a rebuttal of the form "actually it's not X that led to these bad things, it's the opposite of X" is a completely reasonable response. If you really believe that's sophistry I'd be interested to know how you'd argue that free speech is the solution to and not the cause of Nazi evil, if you genuinely did believe that, without it being sophistry?
https://www.google.com/search?q=dollar+cost+averaging+empiri...

Dollar cost averaging doesn't work because it makes an assumption that doesn't hold in the real world. It assumes that stocks trade in a range, and revert to a "true" price over time. If there were a true price, then you would in fact buy more when the price was low and less when it was high and DCA would work.

But stock prices look more like a random walk, and they display no tendency to revert to a mean.

Here's an article I just found: http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2010/11/dollar-co...
In the tech industry, the pioneers are usually the ones with arrows in their backs.

You are absolutely right that the TK/Uber combo going head-on against existing laws is what made ride hailing a reality for millions of consumers, but unless the pioneer has an air tight go-to market strategy to create and maintain dominance of the market, historically, the odds tilt strongly in favor of the second mover, third mover, nth mover (i.e. fast followers) achieving market dominance.

Facebook, the market leader was launched in 2004, MySpace in 2003 and there was Friendster in 2002 founded by Jonathan Abrams.

Zuckerberg learnt how not to run a social network from watching the mistakes of Friendster and MySpace before him.
I think an even bigger conundrum is Nissan ...

They produced and delivered a popular, well received electric car and have been selling them since 2010.

I assumed we would, after a few years, see electric Jukes and 350z and an Infiniti model. Maybe a electric GT-R as a "halo" model. Something ? Anything ?

Instead, seven years went by and they have managed to (almost) release a second-generation Leaf.
I'm fairly happy as a senior dev. This particular week is stressful because we're nearing a release. But outside of the extra hours I'm working for the next 2 weeks, I don't usually have to work more than 40/wk. I work on very interesting problems with very smart and interesting people. I make a lot of money and have great benefits. I live in a nice place and am close to my work, which is only possible because they compensate me well. I definitely want to change some things about my current situation, so I'm working on that.

I've been at my current job for 12 years. 6 years ago I was really annoyed with work. It seemed like we were in permanent maintenance mode, so there wasn't much fun stuff to work on, and I didn't have a lot of say in what I was doing or where it was going. I went and interviewed with competitors and a few startups. I was offered a job at a startup, but when I looked at the work, it was hardly any better than what we were doing, the product was doomed to fail (and it did), and I would have been doing longer hours for fewer benefits and working with people who were far less senior than me but who had very large egos. I ended up turning it down and instead talking to my manager about why I was unhappy. As new projects came along, I got to do newer things that were more interesting and came to love it again.

It's not all good. We currently have one or two people in our upper management who are not good at their jobs and who don't seem to care about their employees' well-being. But we're working on fixing that and the downsides are not nearly bad enough to consider leaving again. If they get worse, I may decide it's time to jump ship, but there's a good chance they'll get better and I'm actively working on making that happen.
for anyone interested I have written an article on how to train, convert and integrate your own model into an iOS app:
http://reza.codes/2017-07-29/how-to-train-your-own-dataset-f...
Audi is trying to integrate red light timers into their cars. Of course this requires cities to integrate their traffic light control systems so it won't happen soon.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/240264-hands-audis-excit...
If you're discussing storyboards in XCode (given you mentioned drag and drop), you actually don't need that feature and can lay out both iOS screens and the flows between them programmatically. I actually prefer writing views programmatically for iOS--it gives you readable diffs, which is especially helpful for code reviews.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a large media company that doesn't selectively curate the media they distribute.

Anyone that runs a business has the responsibility to consider the ethical ramifications of their business activities, and to respond in a way that aligns with their ethical values.

FYI –– Y Combinator does exactly this on Hacker News: "selectively censoring (or at least hindering) communication it disagrees with"
And now imagine it with the ability to write covered puts. The juicy premiums are going to be HUGE when you don't get exercised because everyone thinks bitcoin is going to be volatile, and then the one times when your options get exercised you get a lower cost basis!

I want this so bad.

Bitcoin spot market is going to get SPAN margining instead of Reg-T, so the options leverage is going to be amazing, way better than the ridiculous margin requirements for equity options, it is almost unfathomable.

With the CFTC loving it, CBOE and CME Group gearing up for futures and options, and the Winklevoss Twins pushing them hard because they want that ETF, thats how I know bitcoin is just getting started.

This is one of my bullish cases. The entire "but muh volatility" argument goes completely out of the window, after they reinvent hedging.
Wonder of Wires
In my experience, babies are best made with a life coach present.
I have a feeling given your screen name I'm talking to some who is equally biased as I am to Java :)

> Using a REPL vs. an IDE like you describe is the difference between a conversation and sending somebody a letter with instructions.

Hmmm an IDE is supposed to be a REPL and more. I mean you can go look up the definition from wikipedia.

> This is more visible when we use more dynamic languages/runtimes than Java/JVM. Since the changes one can do and how they need to be done is not very advanced, the usefulness of a REPL is reduced.

Yes I completely agree as I mentioned dynamic languages are far easier to modify at runtime. However for the case with Java it can be done with JRebel and various other tools.

Furthermore going back to the whole conversation vs letter an IDE with a powerful debugger will let you evaluate expressions based on a state that is stuck... ie setting breakpoint (as well of course as investigating current variables and such). This is damn useful for dealing with a multithreaded environment.

By the way make no mistake... I do love Lisp... I just think there are better things than traditional REPLs considering to your other point in another thread this stuff has existed since the 70s.
> You're seeing things with the brightness of a rainy day, and then with the brightness of sunset, but the color balance is that of full sunlight.

Also, it has the brightness of an overcast day, but the shadows are still sharp-edged, just dim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno... :

>AMT is part of the Intel Management Engine, which is built into PCs with Intel vPro technology.

>Currently, AMT is available in desktops, servers, ultrabooks, tablets, and laptops with Intel Core vPro processor family, including Intel Core i3, i5, i7, and Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 product family.
Since the title tells you nothing:

> Scientists have produced the world’s most detailed scans of the brain’s internal wiring. [axons]
>"yep, I'm in a weird situation, I'm going to stop now and wait for a remote human to take control".

Not that's not sufficient.

If ten people did that in a critical area during a high demand hour it would be a news story and there would be criminal charges depending on the details.

If you redefine "sufficient" to include stopping your car on the George Washington bridge because it's confused by a construction zone it still doesn't solve the backup you cause.
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"Trump cited 100% - labor force participation rate as a measure of unemployment, which is complete nonsense because it counts people who are full-time students or who are disabled as unemployed."

Perhaps the point here is that what is "true" and what is "false" aren't entirely black or white. Depending on how you look at it, full-time students aren't employed; they are therefore unemployed. In some contexts, people who currently do not hold a job are an accurate representation of unemployed. And therein lies the rub: context is incredibly important.
Pedals as a transmission have been the dominant model for a long time. It is interesting to see some novel ways to hook human power into a machine to go faster. Thanks for the link.
Capitalism sometimes rewards those who provide value, but more often than not has no problem rewarding people for spouting self-righteousness.

If you think that everyone who gets rewarded in a capitalist society do so because they provide value then you have to ask: What value do scam artists provide?
Disclaimer: I work for https://system76.com, and I make my living selling machines with Linux preinstalled.

Well, but when's the last time you installed Windows or OSX on clean hardware? Especially one where Windows needed a third-party driver to read the disk? Neither are difficult, mind you, but it's not a task that's suitable for "grandma".

As an apples-to-apples counterpoint, I've been a full-time Linux user for a decade now, but I recently had occasion built a Windows gaming rig for the family. Getting from zero to first boot wasn't difficult, but I was shocked and dismayed at how nothing Just Worked. Instead, I had to go manually download drivers for half a dozen common pieces of hardware.

I'm not an expert, but I'm definitely not a novice, and while there might have been a short window in which Windows had hit peak compatibility, it seems that the numerous hoops I had to jump through to accommodate a mainstream video card and a simple software RAID may well indicate that the moment has passed.
I almost died choking on a chunk of meat once. It was quite interesting how my mind went blank as soon as I realized I had to do something or I was dead. No thoughts, no fear. Just absolute focus and the will to do anything. I'm not sure if it was me sticking a fork down my throat or a guy who was there who started to hit me on the back to do the trick. But after 20 or so seconds I was once again able to breathe. I was red, sweaty and in tears due to the stress and I couldn't speak but I was ok. I realize anything can happen at all times and I'm trying to be always alert and ready (chewing my food like a mofo and warning others to do the same - and to call themselves lucky I'm now trained to respond and keep them alive in case they pass out). So far, so good.

What I'm afraid of as far as base jumping is concerned is that you can't react to what's happening or you have just a few seconds. What if the chute doesn't open properly? What if the wind slams you on the rocks?

You are gambling with your fate. True that we all gamble with it when we eat, walk down the stairs, drive around etc. But at least in those daily circumstances we can take proper countermeasures and deal with whats' happening as it happens.

I would understand though if you know the risk of doing something and you still do it because it matters so much to you. If you could choose to die while doing what makes you happy wouldn't you?

I remember the first time I was on a plane. I was in such a joy that I thought "if I die now, I wouldn't care. I'm so happy I'd die happy."

We are all going to die. I believe it's better to die while doing what means the most to us, than not living fully and safe, ending up not appreciating our life cause we give it for granted.
I agree with what you said, but going from, "societies sometimes forbid types of speech" to "let Facebook decide what speech to forbid" is a step I cannot justify.
That's a weird comparison. VR is largely consumer entertainment at a point in time when we have unlimited amounts of it and it requires hardware that most consumers can't afford and lacks content.

Crypto is an investment that provides yield at a point in time where very little can be found, equity markets are overvalued according to many indicators and an increasingly wealthy population in China is seeking investment opportunities not associated with the Yuan that they can't get in any other form.

Crypto has the potential (however likely you think) to completely redefine the world economy via decentralization. A decentralized, unregulated currency that doesn't require intermediaries and can rapidly transfer and store massive amounts of value with relatively limited transaction fees is unprecedented. VR by comparison is largely a mere iteration on existing entertainment systems right now.
Science has both diminishing and accelerating returns. Diminishing because of duplication of effort, accelerating because large projects need lots of people. 1 scientist can't build a LIGO detector in any number of years. Across all the disciplines, linear seems like a good approximation.
I wonder if in the future the law will say self driving cars can ignore all those signs when the car chooses to. Obviously there will be a lot of legalese about it, but most signs can be safely ignored already if you understand all the hazards - this is why people tend to just slow down at stop signs not come to a complete stop.

This is better for the environment, there is a lot of energy lost in a full stop for a stop sign that could be saved: less air pollution/CO2 to deal with.
The point is that they're not at level 5 capability yet, and won't be for another 3 years at least (by their deadline, 2020).
wow; that looks 1000% better than the current WinDBG!
"These edge-cases are uninteresting IMO."

On the contrary, these edge cases are by far the most interesting thing. Not just tabloid-interesting, but in terms of generating usable data.
At least the good thing is you can run the same benchmark locally and figure out what went wrong. Anandtech posted similarly wonky results for Chromium compiles on Threadripper, but that one isn't reproducible.
All actual study of these games involves both one-time and repeated versions of the games, which changes those dynamics.

Reputational effects are interesting. If you wanted a reputation as an intelligent person, you'd learn something before you post. But you realized that HN rewards snarkiness and superiority, not actual intelligence, so you're posting ignorantly, and pretending you're making some wise point. Your post will get upvoted because of your decision to embrace ignorant arrogance.

Mine, on the other hand, will be downvoted, because I was very slightly mean to you, and HN doesn't tolerate rudeness toward white men who think they're smarter than they are. After all, that's HN's core demographic.
The general idea here is not that something can not be done in principle or not but that it will be hard to do it economically. Little details like radius-of-turn, g-forces imparted on passengers, cost of maintaining infrastructure and so on are important.

Elon Musk so far has done spectacularly well at re-doing stuff that was already done in principle - other than the re-use of rockets, which is very impressive and a serious source of headache for SpaceX competitors. To create a whole new class of transportation from scratch is a different kind of challenge. I wish him well, it is just that these mere matters of engineering are hard and long distance travel is mercilessly dictated by economics. Hence my reference to Concorde, which worked well but was not competitive in the longer haul. So if you are looking for engineering reasons you will not get those from me.

For now Hyperloop does not exist, we will see if it gets done in the next decade. Or two. And once it has been done whether or not it can be operated profitably.
That doesn't really explain it. BTC's popularity skyrocketed in the last 4 months at an extremely rapid rate that doesn't correspond to any long term trend line.

The price was actually comparatively low as of Q1 2017