skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. The handlebars aren't to prevent instinctive intervention, but rather to guard against accidentally bumping the controls during high acceleration. At that point the airplane is physically attached to the catapult; the autopilot isn't doing anything. As soon as the aircraft leaves the catapult the pilot takes the controls again.
Upstate New York has some pretty terrible flooding. I don't know where you consider "central New York" (it is -- after all -- a large state). The corridor along I-86 (Elmira, Corning, Hornell, etc), where I lived for a few years, has built up extensive flood controls to prevent future damage. A lesson hard learned from multiple severe floods. Then there was bad flooding just a few years ago in the Mohawk River valley centered around Herkimer.

Probably just the tip of the iceberg in a state that sees a lot of annual rainfall.
I've used vim, and before that other vim clones, for well over 20 years. I felt the same about emacs' pre-evil vi emulators (like viper). I tried a couple of them, but kept going back to vim until evil came along. With evil, emacs editing is about as close to vim as possible, though it still has its not a perfect vim emulator (it lacks emulation of all of vim's ex commands, for instance, vim's help system, and vim's regexes).

Vim is also just plain better at certain things -- for instance, xptemplate (a plugin for vim) is about a trillion times better than yasnippet (which is embarrassingly primitive by comparison). In my experience, vim is much faster at working with large files. Also, some things that drew me to emacs (such as shell/terminal integration) turned out to be disappointingly ineffective and too convoluted for practical use (for my setup).

That said, I still wound up switching from vim to emacs, and don't regret the decision, because emacs has an elisp ecosystem that's way better than anything I can get in vim, and because all in all emacs can do more things than vim, as it can integrate just about anything (at least in principle). It did take a lot of time and effort to make the switch, though, despite evil. The problem is that for many/most modes, the default keybindings are emacs keybindings, not vim keybindings. So I've had to rebind a ton of keys to make emacs useful (and still have way more keys to rebind if I wanted full functionality). I've heard that Spacemacs makes one need less such rebinding, as it has sane defaults for vim users, but I'm just not ready to make the jump to a wholesale new way of doing things now that I've invested so much time in configuring emacs the way I want (though if I had to start from scratch, I'd give Spacemacs a go).

In the end, I enjoy being fluent with two of the most powerful editors on the planet (though I admit I'd be lost in emacs without evil and all my keybindings). If there's something one editor can't do, or can't do well, I can just use the other. I see a really bright future for both editors, with things like neovim in the vim world and Scheme integration for emacs. Both editors are moving targets and developments in one constantly inspire developments in the other.
Ways QR Codes Are Being Used in China
Thats actually the part I don't understand, one could argue that VR is in a similar or even more advanced stage than Bitcoin/Blockchain in terms of tooling and platforms simply because of the exposure on a day-to-day basis but we've recently seeing VR die down, VR equipment price cuts to encourage sales and HTC looking for a buyer for its Vive.

In fact one bitcoin is worth almost 6 HTC Vives. I'd argue that there was even bigger interest in VR than Bitcoin specifically and yet Bitcoin has emerged the winner recently.
Something I've never understood is why skateboards and mopeds and vespas?

Why aren't we all moving around on something small but stable like an electric fourwheeler/quad/atv or whatver you want to call it?

I've never received a good answer why the more stable, easier to ride, less likely to topple quad hasn't been adapted to city use or even made street legal, when mopeds and vespas are everywhere.

You can still park many of them in the space of a car and many more people would be capable of driving them. To me the electric quad seems like no brainer city vehicle.
> We even promote email as one of the best ways to communicate because it's less disruptive and let's people stay focused until they're ready to come up for air and respond.

Those are some of the advantages of email. It also has virtues of being searchable, transactional, naturally organizeable, recorded, and shared.

But how do you respond to the issues of its much higher latency and lower bandwidth? A 5-minute in-person conversation can communicate a whole lot more than 5 minutes writing an email. And while documentation and detail are great, a long, thorough, technical email can cost a lot of money. How do you control for these problems?

Does the loss from writing long emails offset the loss of productivity from disruptive and focus-breaking in-person communication?
NB: The colour-balance of night, say, under a full moon, is actually pretty close to that of daytime.

It's just ... well ... a lot darker.

Shooting long-exposure slide film is a good way to confirm this (no colour adjustment possible).

Moonlight is has a slightly lower (that is, optically "warmer") colour temperature -- 4100K rather than 5000K.

Contrast with "daylight" vs. "tungsten" film colour balance: 5500K vs. 3200K.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/244922/why-does-...

http://www.apogeephoto.com/white-balance-and-color-temperatu...
Robinhood is good for quick smaller trades, but their order fill is horrible. Every time I am shocked at the prices my orders fill at. I'm fairly positive they are making money front-running or from kickbacks from exchanges.
Clearly the rents are too low even in the West Village. Bar Sardine and Fedora still have audacity to insist that one cannot order a glass of wine at the bar without checking in with a pretentious hipster with attitude at the door when the customer is already inside at the bar just wanting to get a twenty dollar glass of wine. It is as if someone forgot to tell the "management" who is a profit and who is the overhead.

The issue with most of restaurants is that they do not operate like businesses: people who own them think there's something special about service that they offer.

Restaurants fail because their product sucks or the restaurants overcharge for the type of product that they have. That's why a $3.50 for a quart of noodle soup Chinese place manages to stay open in the high-rent area of Manhattan while a place with a $22 burger that comes with a sprinkle of attitude from an "artist" who just happened to wait tables flops.
https://snowdrift.coop is an in-progress fundraising platform for public goods (particularly free/libre/open software and cultural works) based specifically on addressing the cooperation needed to solve the snowdrift dilemma…

https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/snowdrift-dilemma has more specifically and https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about covers the concepts for the whole project.
Not sure how that's better than a bike. 15 miles round trip is a perfectly reasonable bike commute (mine is about 12 miles). It seems like all the benefits and drawbacks of one apply to the other, except that you're only getting a bit of exercise on one.
It depends on what "pursuing ML/AI" means. I've written a recommendation engine with barely understanding linear algebra and a spam filter without knowing Bayes theorem. A programmer can work on ML systems without having a solid foundation in higher maths. However, if you want to develop your own solutions then you surely need the math.

I would recommend reading Toby Segaran's Programming Collective Intelligence: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529321.do
I don' think that's true in terms of transportation systems.

In terms of cars: Streets where built for people or animals walking on them and cars quickly started killing large numbers of people. The response was not to make cars safer by say physically limiting them to 10 MPH, but to remove people from streets.

A fairly high fraction of early aviators where killed, that did little to slow adoption of aircraft.

Astronaut deaths where sadly common, but also expected and did little to slow progress.
That aircraft was mostly landed by the Airbus stability control system. The pilot's job was to make the decision to land it there. Read the book "Fly by Wire", by William Langewiesche.
> I wonder if Apple is ok with this. They usually don't like someone's else software running on their machines.

I think that it's true that they want to have as much control over the experience as possible, but that is more from a perspective of being able to control the (visible parts of) user experience. I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't already knew/had an idea of what was going on with the ME and that there must be some way to disable it, but MacBooks don't receive the amount of attention required for them to care about this low-level detail, which 'doesn't affect' regular customers anyway.
What are false-positive and false negative rates for Circulating Tumor Cells with your tech?

Do you control for age and other bio-factors and how?
Memories from Microsoft circa 2005, posters in building 27:

"There's a new WinDbg in town, and it doesn't suck any more"

FWIW usually pronounced "Wind-bag"
> This is the watch you’ve been waiting for.

It's really not, though, as it doesn't even look like a watch...
That's definitely true. I would have had to operate at a loss for a while until I could enough data to sell. I never did the math to see how long that period is, but I'm pretty sure it's worse than my back of the napkin calculations.
I won't defend FP24, but FP16 is a widely supported IEEE standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754
On iOS at least, most ‘step counter’ apps don’t acually do the step counting - they just pull the data from HealthKit, as the phone is already tracking them.
Who are the most recent scam coins?
Oh, I know this! 36 seconds. I happen to have seen this on Friday.

https://twitter.com/phoronix/status/900863945296236544
> What happens to passengers if the seal fails on the vehicle, and then all the air is sucked into the vacuum?

I fly a lot for work. Every week, someone gives me a demonstration of what to do when this happens.
In the article he says he gets it down to ~36 seconds.
> Why is this accepted in any free democratic society?

Likely because of good intentions lining the road.

It's my understanding that Intel ME is the basis for an anti-theft and recovery platform for laptops. Which is something that has always been of importance to portable device makers.

How do you think "Find my iPhone" works?
> It's not that the environment is custom, is that it's real. Do you call your payment service or your mail sending service from your tests? This is exactly the kind of thing you want to experiment with in a supervised, non-repeatable way.

The irony you mentioning that is I have actually written "tests" that call braintree and stripe...

Just to clarify when I say "test" I don't mean some precise definition of "unit test" or "integration test". I mean in a runner that runs your code. Unit tests basically allow you to make a whole bunch of entry points (aka static main(args)).

I have many times setup a particularly environment and then repeatedly ran a unit test against that environment (I then commented or deleted that code later).

I think in large part of what your saying is good about REPLs is that they allow hot code swapping but that is only IMO really one part of the REPL. The key to really good REPL should be human input (think Excel) and human output (think images and graphs). There was a company recently shown on HN called Luna [1] and I think that is what a REPL should be.

And I particularly pick on this because you mention Bret Victor who is (err I guess was) actually working on environments like this.

Otherwise call it a unit test... call it a REPL... call it hot code swapping but in current JVM environments the difference can be pretty nebulous.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14612680
Well, Beanshell is dead, last update was on 2005.

Then there is a big advantage on having it as standard tool, instead of something done by third parties.
Dug into this a bit to see if it was as bad as it sounded. The answer is a resounding "pretty much". I'm frankly surprised and somewhat saddened that there hasn't been more opposition or attention leading up to or in response to this. (I know I've seen some discussion on here but very little press broadly)

Focused on the privacy rule, full text Here [1]

As should probably be expected, a vote _entirely_ along party lines [2] to shut down what reads as entirely "common sense" consumer protections.

I wish I could say that the title phrase is the worst of it, but included is a nice heft of anti-environment and anti-labor legislation too.

If you haven't yet lost faith for the public-benefiting function of a "bipartisan" govt, look no further.

[1] https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-12-02/pdf/2016-28006.p...
[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-re...
Curious - does that mean you serve close to 1.75 billion requests per day, out of which 350M are unique requests that exercise your stack instead of being served from a CDN. It'd be interesting to know more about what's the number of transformations you do at peak, if you can talk about it.
`cabal new-build` basically fixes the problems you have had with Cabal, and the development experience with Haskell under Nix(OS) is pretty great too.
Likely to do with the EURion constellation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

Another item of interest may be printer stenography, in which every piece of printed paper, seemingly from every printer, can be traced back to make, model and potentially even the unit used to print it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
"RISC-V-based" does not automatically mean "open". Vendors who put RISC-V in an SoC are free to add their own PSP or ME equivalents. Also, the processor itself is a small portion of a fully functioning computer. Things like GPU, wifi, bluetooth etc are most likely going to be proprietary.
Networking like it was 1996: Varese Civic Network website back online
But 18 months ago, Windows phone was sitting at a low single digit market share in the US. I can't see anyone with more than half a brain deciding to purchase a Windows phone over an iPhone for enterprise unless the only determining factor was price. I'm assuming the IT director is getting some major volume discounts or even some kickbacks from MS: NYPD have started giving academy recruits Microsoft Surfaces to replace books. Spending somewhere in the neighborhood of +$1M ($300 per phone and a support contract) for smartphones should have been something decided by a committee, not a single director.
The point about how heavy the traffic is in the areas of the last two collisions bears repeated emphasis.
Finally, someone who knows the truth!

Indeed, at the end of totality in the 1979 eclipse, I kept looking at the diamond ring and Baily's beads for a second or two with my binoculars. It did not damage my vision at all.

In the weeks leading up to this year's eclipse, I almost felt like it was my civic duty to correct some of the misinformation that was going around in the media. I had a feeling that many thousands of people who went to considerable trouble and expense to go to the path of totality would miss it entirely, because they got scared into keeping their eclipse glasses on the whole time.

There was such a fear campaign going on, just like the one in 1979 when Oregon schools changed their hours to keep the children indoors during totality.

This TV report was a good example:

http://www.kptv.com/story/36143862/portland-man-shares-warni...

The gentleman in the report did unfortunately damage his vision by staring at the 1963 partial eclipse - for 20 seconds! Truly a sad thing, but in the video they kept talking about the dangers of staring at a partial eclipse, while showing photos of a total eclipse - as if there was no difference between the two!

I tried to set the record straight in the comments, but man, it was an uphill battle. Read the comments and weep...
I disagree with much of this, having taken my own business (ecommerce platform) through this point and having mentored a few others through it.

Growing a business isn't about distinct phases. It's about a continuous, iterative programme of holistic improvement, where you are always working on the business, usually while working in the business. For instance, we followed a leapfrog model whereby we'd prioritise technical uplift (both product and internal tooling) and then structural uplift (hires, methods, practices, culture). When we were actively working on one we'd be planning another - and we worked like this from day zero, when we were just two dudes.

It does differ between businesses and models. In the case of one business I consulted with, we (me, two founders) put together SOPs, defined the hell out of everything, hired like crazy (30+ in 3 months), and they got acquired for a large sum six months on. Muggins got doodley-squat, as until acquisition they were cash strapped, and afterwards the new owners wound it all up.

What didn't survive the transition in either case was me. I hate working in process-driven tick-box-now orgs, which is why I started my own business in the first place, so hit the ejector button on my own org last year - my discomfort within the beast I grew manifested as a total deterioration of physical and mental health. Turns out I'm great at building them, which is a shame.

So. It's easy enough to avoid humps if you're always planning ahead, always iterating, but the greater barrier is psychological - I guess few are willing to do the hard things you have to do to keep it on plan - like firing friends, "intensively monetising" customers, and generally playing a nerve-wracking seat of your pants game for years on end - because the cost is ultimately steep. Self hatred is like acid, and I honestly think most orgs fail because founders find it hard to completely compromise their values for the good of their business and employees.
What's the 3rd person's responsibility in making the baby?
100% equity would mean A would have 100% control right?

Then nobody can fire A. Hence 49%.

Can A have 100% ownership and incorporate a COMPANY and then assign BOD to COMPANY Where BOD have control over A but no ownership in company?

In this config can A just hire a employee D and pay him minimum wage according to DOL.

https://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm

Would this setup work?
While I tend to agree with you, it could be much nicer if it's very hilly. 15 miles on a flat course is pretty nice, 15 miles on a hilly course is pretty taxing.
>the illusion of control.

No, it's literal control. They'd rather operate a vehicle in a way that's statistically less effective (where effective is defined by a collection of algorithms, we all know how perfect algorithmic generated routes are) than lose that control for a small benefit. Control itself is worth something to people.
Cynically, Xiaomi products often aren't sold in the US until they are re-branded and sold through an indiegogo campaign (a simple search for Populele is a good example)
A very skilled reader can read text at around 400wpm with good comprehension, so I can believe he can listen to code at those speeds.

A professional typist is somewhere around 80wpm, and a stenographer can reach up to 250wpm. 450 would have to represent an enormous innovation in typing methods.

Frankly, even if you could, 450wpm would be an irresponsible speed to code at. As mediocre as my own typing speed is, it's never the limiting factor when I code. There's just too much to consider.
The money in question was royalties on a patent (eventually invalidated) covering the idea of a microcontroller (CPU, memory, and communication on one chip). It was a 20 year submarine patent: issued in 1990 but with priority date 1970. It almost certainly could not have been built with 1970s lithography.

https://www.google.com/patents/US4942516
You've been on http://jdebp.eu./FGA/qmail-problems.html for about 14 years, and your patch was one of the ones that went into netqmail.
Not everyone wants to exercise during their commute (for varying reasons, including that some of use are more prone to sweating) – in fact, seeing as cycling has always been an option for many, it would really seem that perhaps only a minority want to exercise during their commute.

I certainly don't, although I also readily admit that any option that leaves me exposed to the elements would be a major step down for vast portions of the year. But for many days an e-moped might be a reasonable option.
Intel spent billions on Altera, MobileEye and Movidus, it's hard to say they aren't making any investments.
Perhaps a portion of Tesla's problem was with marketing? Autopilot gives very different cues than something like LKAS (lane keep assist).
I think SE would indeed be a loss, but I do strongly believe that the loss would be well worth it to push out internet advertising. Additionally, I don't believe that SE's only viable financial model is advertisement.
Textbook example of why we need to have a flat tax or a fair tax / federal sales tax. It's way more difficult to game, if the tax code for individuals could fit into a few short pages...
Can A have 100% ownership and incorporate a COMPANY and then assign BOD to COMPANY Where BOD have control over A but no ownership in company?

In this config can A just hire a employee D and pay him minimum wage according to DOL.

https://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm

Would this setup work?
a Faraday cage laptop bag is probably a less drastic solution.
Planes aren't automated mostly for technical and infrastructural reasons, the exact opposite of what you stated. The social worry of pilotless airplanes inhibits the massive investment that would be required to solve the technical and infrastructure limitations of the existing system.
Solving social problems with science/tech seems to be the way to go for maximum impact https://www.googlesciencefair.com/en/
I wouldn't conflate forgetting to prevent users from marking their own emails as spam with censorship. Seems like an awfully big stretch to me.
Historically, high-assurance security used a mix of commodity and custom hardware. SCOMP had IO/MMU plus type enforcement at memory & storage level. Congress mandated use of commercial off-the-shelf which forced ports to insecure architectures. Aesec's GEMSOS, one of first security kernels, did some kind of custom firmware when ported to x86. Paul Karger, one of INFOSEC's founders, decided on VMM's for easier security & legacy compatibility with modifications to PALcode. Many products, like INTEGRITY-178B, targeted PowerPC to get better hardware with cross-selling to aerospace. General Dynamics with NSA modified Intel stuff with misnamed HAP (Linux + VMware aint high assurance). Others are doing custom CPU's and firmware designed for security whereas Joshua Edmison made attachment that reuses high-performing CPU's.

So, there's a long history in high-assurance security of securing each layer. Mainstream security ignored it as usual until recently focusing on that stuff. Many smart folks among them are trying to secure software on backdoored CPU's while others (eg Raptor POWER, Cambridge CHERI) are trying to give us non-backdoored systems. At one point, I knew most of the latter since so few are working on that angle. Rarely fix root cause over tactical mitigations.
After reading Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, I think it would be silly of me to not believe everyone is doing some variation of front running.