skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't have any example articles, I do know there have been a few written on the reality that millennials and the following generation are much less likely to own their own vehicle or to even drive. This has been attributed to a number of various factors (a large portion being attributed to those generations widespread and intense usage of various social media platforms).

So manufacturers are already feeling the pinch, so to speak.

While (as you put it) "autonomous hire cars" will make the market for new car sales (and car ownership in general) smaller, I don't think it will completely go away, for a couple of reasons.

First off, such form of "public transportation" is still subject to "the drunk person who pukes in the seat" syndrome. You will quickly get vehicles on the road that are virtually rolling trash cans, and when you encounter one, you'll have to make the choice to either use it anyhow, or send it back and wait for another to come (potentially making you late to whatever it is you are doing).

Secondly, a service of "hire out your personal car" might become something; kinda like driving for uber, but not actually driving. Make money with your car when you aren't using it. Of course, you could also find your car trashed in the process (I'm sure AirBnB suffers from a similar problem).

Ford and other companies are just likely hedging their bets, plus whatever tech they do develop can also bring them a tidy sum by licensing it forward, or selling it off.
Where did you get the information that the current Volvo experiment is at level 3? I tried looking at the project home page, but couldn't find any info about it. For their commercial offering they are apparently going straight to level 4, skipping level 3, so running level 3 tests seems odd:
http://auto2xtech.com/volvo-to-skip-level-3-autonomous-mode/
>You are clearly debating based on perceptions of my being part of 'a certain segment of people with particular persuasions'.

No I'm not. I asked a very concise question that you could not answer. You replied with junk. The optics are just icing on the cake.

Also real science adheres to the scientific method.
"Seen any Concordes lately?"

Nevertheless, that was the genesis of the Hyperloop idea. Musk mentioned Concordes as an example.

And you can't (realistically) have supersonic passenger travel without traveling at similar altitudes (or altitude equivalent pressure) because it uses too much energy. I think you're missing this key point: transonic (670mph) or supersonic speed travel requires low or near-vacuum pressures to work efficiently. Other aspects of hyperloop (or related ideas) are implementation details. Power losses scale with drag which scales with air density. And to the degree that Concorde failed because it was too inefficient, having an even lower operating pressure should address that as well.

"Concorde is not a representative sample of passenger air travel"
It is, along with the Soviet jet, the /only/ sample of supersonic passenger air travel.

I don't see any solid engineering analysis in your comment, by the way, just assertions that this or that cannot be done.
As anyone who has experienced totality knows, the difference between a total eclipse and the deepest partial eclipse is not just a quantitative change.

At the deepest partial phase, you see Baily's Beads and the Diamond Ring. This is still the sun's photosphere peeking through the moon's valleys, bright enough that it washes out the corona, and bright enough that you had better use eye protection. Only when the moon completely blocks the photosphere do you see the solar corona.

This is totality. This is where you no longer need (and can't use) the protective glasses or filters or pinhole projectors. During totality, you can view the corona with your own eyes, with no protection, and even with binoculars.

The difference between a 99.9% partial eclipse and a 100% total eclipse is not 0.1%. It is infinity.
That's exactly how I set up my own cluster running outside of well integrated and isolated platforms (AWS, GCE, you name it). The experiences gathered during this process are available in the shape of a guide, including Terraform modules for fully automated provisioning:

https://github.com/hobby-kube/guide
No, in this context (pun intended) of speech recognition, the context means external context, i.e., understanding lots of information about the topic of that speech, knowing what would the speaker might plausibly be trying to say, what real world entities might be involved, and how are they called/spelled - all kinds of information that is not included in the original audio data, things that the listener would know based on life experience.
I know we are saying ecactly the same thing, but somebody else who reads this threads might not, so the successive clarifications are useful :)

In hindsight, making accesses beyond the end of physical memory on 8086 an exception is nice solution. But I think that more useful solution would be different design of the 8086 pseudo-segmentation that would make such linear adresses unrepresentable on the user level. On the other hand whether this would be good idea depends on whether you view another horrible cludge (ie. HMA/UMB and potentially also usage of that as EMS window or bounce buffer) as useful.

Edit: as for the memory attached to processor behaving sanely it is interesting to look at Alpha which expects that memory is memory and could be write back cached. With one small and significant exception: the region on which ISA VGA would exist is hardwired to be uncacheable.
The Tea Party ‘revolution’ of 2008 look suspicious
The transaction fees at Kraken and many other cryptocurrency exchanges are percentage-based, so that issue shouldn't apply here.
You explain why but not how. Is it a spandrel from some other evolutionary trait that eventually became something important? Is it a process of higher-order brain functions that we have? Is there an alternative method that brought this about (stuck in a proverbial room with only a fruit basket and no way out)?
Passenger jets take off at more like 4m/s^2.
I always liked Brian Moriarty's definition of story: "a particular causally related sequence of events".

Which certainly does allow for a conflict free story. The important thing is that a story has events which are causally related. Otherwise it really is just a list of unconnected statements.
A-K in 13 piles then suits in 4 piles is a little faster. Or if your space limited you can group A-7 then 8-K.
Once you're dead you won't know the difference between having died at 30 and 80.

It's not insane to maximize your enjoyment while alive instead of compromising on quality to get more quantity. It's up to every individual to decide on that balance for themselves.
There's this FastCo piece [0] that talks about their tech and has some videos.

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/40406052/this-sensor-technology-...
Of course I rotated it. And my point stands. The perspective is still different. The rows of people are countable, and looking at some of the further sections there is no way I would be able to count as many rows as at the other. There are 2 sections filled with people at the Obama one that are completely blocked off on the Trump one. That can't be argued with at all.

There are people who are good at estimating crowd sizes and I'll let them do their job. But, once again, this picture in no way contradicts the others.
Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin suddenly so popular?
Taking a look below at price, you can see that 1 bitcoin is worth around $4400 US dollars.

https://www.coindesk.com/price/

I remember a time when they were giving out free bitcoin at hackathons and conferences etc.

For a casual outsider and a passive market speculator, whats going on with bitcoin and maybe the rest of cryptocurrencies, what are they seeing that we can't?

And any clues as to whats with the recent surge in East Asian interest of bitcoin?

https://www.coindesk.com/annyeong-bitcoin-south-korea-canada-changing-crypto-market/

Note that I've tried googling but a lot of the urls are before May 2017 and are trying to explain about Bitcoin's peak at ~$2000 which is not helpful much.
I could list 100 things people should not do that are less flamboyant but waste more life and more resources. I'm not saying "Give up on reducing dangerous behaviors." I am saying there are more effective priorities.
I do not have exact costs at hand because it is just one of several AWS instances we have, but probably my fully loaded costs on a 160 hour month for this instance would be something like:

- 150GB SSD: $15
- 150GB 30 last days of daily snapshshots as a backup: $3.45
- 160 hours of t2.medium (4GB) Windows: $8.64

The typical applications I use are Visual Studio, Delphi, Office, Chrome, and some domain specific apps.

Admittedly, you can reduce further the SSD cost of $15 to 160/744*$15=$3.22, by snapshotting and deleting the SSD volume each time you shut down but I never did that optimization because startup time would then not be seconds but something probably in the range of 5 minutes, as you need to have some lambda funciton create a new instance, create a volume from the last snapshot, shutdown the newly created instance, replace the boot volume and finally start the instance with the right boot volume.

What I also like of this approach is that I do not have to overprovision disk or instances, if I ever need a larger drive, I just modify the volume, if I need a bigger instance, I just shutdown and start with a bigger instance size.
I very very rarely downvote anything on HN. I feel downvoting should be used for empty or "me too"-like comments that don't add anything. Your post isn't like that, but in your case I made an exception anyway because you started like this:

trying to manipulate the naive herd of sheep who blindly follows whatever people like on Facebook

I realise you genuinely do believe that there are vast numbers of people who are literally programmable through their Facebook news feeds as if they were a television set, and that your own vastly superior intellect would ensure that this never happens to your good self, but it's a fantastically offensive, trollish and flame-o-riffic position to take ... every bit as awful as outright racism/sexism/whatever (except your views of intellectual and moral superiority are a lot more common than actual racism or sexism in the HN community). Moreover you provide no actual evidence that such people exist in vast herd-like numbers.

When your entire contribution to the debate is "the world is full of sheep and Facebook must herd them for their own good" are you really surprised that this is considered not particularly helpful? It's like starting an argument with "people with low IQ should be affixed with ankle bracelets to ensure they don't wander around and cause trouble".
I've built a few HoloLens prototypes for my present company, and a few Occulus ones for my former. I haven't stayed up to date with all of the internal hardware specs, but from my experience building for the HoloLens was easier and a lot more fun. I haven't seen these new headsets yet, but I believe they use the same tools and frameworks. There's some really cool stuff that some Xbox developers have put out that you can build on top of. And the Skype app works amazingly well.

I'm just curious if these headsets are aimed at gaming as opposed to the HoloLens which is geared towards productivity.
Planes can take off, cruise and land themselves in any survivable weather condition with existing automated controls. However, people would be terrified of flying without a pilot and there are so many legal hurdles that it's not cost effective to do so.
The "data-mining" is occurring on the POS-side (not the restaurant-side). I suspect the idea is that an analytics firm will do the data work and convert it into reports/products/services/api's that are sold to restaurateurs.

As far as whether or not this constitutes "big-data", it might if they can hook into enough POS-systems.
Has it ever occurred to you that just perhaps - we do NOT live in a free democratic society? The USA has a whole caste of untouchables - and I don't mean the ostracised. Just look at how surprised they were that Trump got elected. In a "free democratic society" this would have been a "so what?" moment.
There is an interesting series of posts (several years old), that explores possibility of a WW III, a nuclear one, had it started in year 1983. It's fiction (obviously), but a convincing one. With a ton of really interesting comments and maps illustrating movements of different armies. The "(hist)story" is based on declassified documents, historical context, existing technology available in 1983. If you found this video interesting, I suggest you read it. https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/able-archer-8...
I don't know, it's probably significant, and I think that data is out there. The USPA reports all the accidents monthly. I just looked here: http://www.dropzone.com/fatalities/ and 2 of the 5 most recent are low turn accidents. I once watched a guy hook turn and break his back. :(
The "individual" in evolutionary game theory is generally considered the gene, not the human. A lot of facts of life - like raising offspring at all, or death - make zero sense if you consider the actor to be a person, but make a lot of sense if you consider the actor to be a gene.
"Not available for sales in the USA"

And these are point-of-care devices, not DTC devices. There are a lot of POC diagnostics devices out there and very few DTC diagnostic devices.
I just don't understand Toyota's product strategy here. They are like Apple in car manufacturing (not comparing in design but in reliability and sheer quantity of products). So I'd assume they'd understood the demand for the electric cars for some time now and would have come up with electric cars which have great reliability and are cheap. But all they have done is introduced Mirai which only sells 100 a month and are costly. Very un-Toyota like! It seems that the management is not at all interested in anything except the Hybrid and gasoline powered models.
I know a restaurant that is fantastic. It seats hundreds, yet they all feel private. The decor is meticulous down to the last detail. Theirs fresh flowers on every table, they serve dishes from a hundred lands. No dish takes longer than 10 minutes from order time, and, no dish costs more than $20. They have the most extensive wine list in North America. They have free valet parking, in fact, if you don't have a car, they'll send a limo to pick you up and, bring you home, free of charge.

They went out of business though.

Their food sucked.
Putting Claude Shannon in an ordinary grad student's shoes, what fills me with sheer unmitigated terror is: if that's what was my masters thesis, what could I possibly do after that, that is significant in comparison, that would qualify for a PhD dissertation. Stuff for nightmares and cold sweat. Surely not for the real Claude Shannon
What statement is "clearly not true in all cases?"
You're using poor polyfills if they use setTimeout. Good polyfills [1] use MutationObserver which uses the (a?) microtask queue.

Invoking a Promise's then() callback synchronously is a violation of the spec. IIRC there are some tests to prevent that in the test suite.

[1]: https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/2c9f7a44/src/s...
That only works after someone is identified. I started getting a lot of adds for sheds when I did a search for them: I have no reason to think of any one advertiser. Even if I buy a shed (which I might not) only one will win, and it might not even be a company that has advertised. The smart money would have been to advertise to me long before I was interested in a shed - the company that advertises for years sticks in my mind as a company that might be worth paying extra for because of their "reputation" (even though they built this reputation in advertising)
A lot of the negatives listed here can be mitigated with companies taking a little ownership of having remote team members.

For instance, being as available as possible is not fun 100% of the time. While timezones may separate you, if a company enacts something like "core hours" when everyone is required to be available you make it possible for remote employees to disconnect for a while.

Nonetheless, great advice here.
Even as Theranos, there were lot of people defending Holmes, and attacking people who were calling her a scammer

I think that would have happened regardless of who was leading the company, because a lot of people stood to make a lot of money from their success.
I feel compelled to add "Yes Minister" to your list, if only because of the excellent writing and characterisation of Sir Humphrey & Jim Hacker.

(There was a recent remake; it is not worth watching.)
Yeah, I think everyone (perhaps the hacker especially) has an appreciation for the structures underneath the hood that make something interesting.
Backwards induction is one of the most powerful and underutilized scientific techniques. It is incredibly common that you can't prove some proposition A is true, but you can always assume that it is true and determine what that implies. By following the chain of implications you can sometimes make predictions that are provable, which then supports your hypothesis.
Hi, I've recently started a new project called Octotrack (http://octotrack.tiagoalves.me) with two main goals:

1) Manage dependencies (right now only gems) showing security issues (CVEs), gem version comparisons, release notes, etc;
2) Daily newsletter to find the best repositories on Github (starred repos from the people you follow, daily trending repos and new releases of repos you've starred);

It is still a very early project so it would be great to get your feedback.

Thank you
Nah I'm done commenting on this. There's clear imagery from both ABC and CNN I've referred to elsewhere in this thread. And it's a bloody 360 image - how hard is that?. If you want to pretend those sources are right-leaning and pretend this is actually a clear-cut case of people being willfully ignorant, whatever.

edit: knock yourself out then if you really couldn't find it from all my other comments on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nieiu8tmLIM.
My own experience is that things start getting stupid once your company has more than 100 people. That's close to the limit where individual human beings can be familiar with the entire organization, so beyond that is when you start getting more hierarchy and more distance.
It's not just competition: a clear understanding of what happens under the hood will make you a better user of the tool.
No that's not how that works.
> I'll never understand what motivates people to shit all over content they consider below them.

Almost always rooted in the person's own insecurities
From the article.

"viw helped me understand what UI development is really about."

Nobody writes something like that if he is 'soap boxing his experiences as if the topic isn't entry level stuff'.
There are reputation scores for everyone: net worth and credit score. ;p
And I'd make a case for The Saint though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saint_(TV_series) informs me that it was actually shot during the 60s.
Another option (albeit fairly new) is Artix, which is an Arch-based distro with OpenRC. It seems to have alternate repos for the base system while still having the default Arch repos for "community" and "extra" (as well as AUR compatibility, of course). I had some trouble using the graphical installer when trying it out on a spare hard drive, but booting the text image and just doing an Arch install as normal with pacstrap (which I prefer a anyhow) worked smoothly, and I haven't had any issues with it after a couple weeks trying it out.

https://artix-linux.github.io/migrate/
Sql injection question
is there anything wrong with naming a table "drops"? The business needs a table like this and it's the perfect name. But is that asking for trouble?
According to the article Facebook is using the term "false news" to try and sidestep that issue.
Having recently gone from living with others to alone I can say having my dog has made it a wonderful experience. She makes me go outside several times per day, and brings me back down to reality when I'm caught up in my work.

It's also a great way to stave off loneliness :P
Combine this with Debezium[1] and you get real-time SQL queries on your MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB database!

RethinkDB, as far as I understand, does the same thing - their changefeed mechanism would consume the DB log and run the queries against the log.

[1]: http://debezium.io
I would agree with that but it doesn't appear to be what Kümmerli is saying:

> “In principle, natural selection predicts individuals to behave selfishly,” Rolf Kümmerli, co-author of the study, told PhysOrg.com. “However, we observe cooperation in humans and other organisms, where cooperation is costly for the actor but benefits another individual.

That is clearly referring to the human, no?
Impressive or not I just wish people would stop using monthly averages in the headline like this. You can't really make the case that this in-depth stack dive is for a layman audience, so you have to know what a meaningless metric it is.
> I'm not in the "web world" so it might not be applicable but here is an approach that has worked for me

I've found that anything interesting is more than just writing a generic website or a generic web service.
Agreed, I think the quick success of Mastodon shows that more and more people are aware of the limitation of Twitter, especially related to the fact it is both a Silicon Valley company and strongly centralized.
I love the kinds of stories where nothing happens, I don't even know what they're technically called but I mentally refer to them as people walking around and doing stuff movies. I dont know why they're so appealing to me - maybe for the same reason that people find slow tv good. But I would be totally happy to go and watch Slacker for the sixth time right now.
It's interesting that, according to the forum comments, the new CPU is the same stepping as the one with the problems, which suggests a manufacturing problem, not a bug in the CPU.
I have a LibreOffice spreadsheet which I fill out my hours in. I also have a Writer document with my invoice layout and an embedded spreadsheet which lets me add line items and automatically calculates taxes. Easy enough to export to PDF. I keep all invoices in a specific directory, their filenames starting with the date and client name for easy discovery. I add the word '-PAID' to the filename once the invoice is paid by the client.
This is the Kafka answer to Pipelinedb. I love it.
For a self driving car, it's sufficient if its understanding of weird situations is limited to detecting "yep, I'm in a weird situation, I'm going to stop now and wait for a remote human to take control".

The situations you describe are rare - I've once had a diplomatic event that required weird rerouting and twice had cases where traffic was regulated by hand signals due to some crash on the road, but that means just a few cases over a whole lifetime. A system that can't solve these cases but recognizes them as unsolvable is a quite acceptable automated system if it can delegate control to a human inside or a remote dispatcher, which isn't that hard to do.
Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene is the most fitting way of framing this conundrum.

Spending time and energy raising one's children isn't selfish of the parent as an individual. But it's selfish from the view of their genes.
See Tom Nichols' "The Death of Expertise"[1] (now also a book) for more on your sentiment.

1. http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/
Which nullifies the FCC’s rule on privacy of customers of broadband
> A lot of facts of life - like raising offspring at all, or death - make zero sense if you consider the actor to be a person, but make a lot of sense if you consider the actor to be a gene.

Care to elaborate?
I think protesters of any stripe that turn violent should be arrested. I have zero problem with peaceful protesters.