skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tornado threat may be sufficiently mitigated just by digging a [dry] hole in the ground, and getting into it whenever the sirens go off. If you have enough money, you can bolt a steel box to your foundation and hide in that instead.

We can actually build structures that can withstand [the most common] tornadoes, without adding too much to the cost of construction. Basically, monolithic concrete shell structures over inflatable forms are effectively "tornado proof", without additional engineering.

The nasty natural disasters in the Midwest are not just blizzards, but freezing rain storms. A coating of ice an inch thick on everything is guaranteed to take down trees and power lines, and make all roads completely impassable. You get up to a week without civilization. For example, if your furnace catches fire, you can call 911, and later find out that the first fire truck they sent out slid off the road into a ditch on the way to your house, and the guys that finally showed up two hours later were the second truck, sent over from the next township (true story). On the Great Plains, it's drought and brushfires. You get to spend a season watching everything turn brown, and then your town burns because some jackoff threw a cigarette butt out of his window on the highway, or because lightning struck the wrong spot.

Thanks to modern meteorology, tornadoes are just much less a threat than they used to be. They might pick off a person here or there every season, but when they do, there will always be neighbors around ready to help. They just don't wipe out an entire city, leaving everyone essentially on their own, because they are all (sometimes literally) in exactly the same boat.

And that's exactly why I am comfortable living in an area where the major natural disaster threats are tornadoes and flash floods.
It's not just an accent. It's reading the words as if they were Finnish, so totally different.
I suspect that if you took students who knew just enough programming to write a sort, but with no prior exposure to sorting algorithms, and asked them to write a sort, many would come up with a bubble sort (I think that was true of me.) If so, then it is worth mentioning simply to point out its inefficiency. Also, the bubble sort serves a useful pedagogical purpose for introducing the concept of time complexity analysis, especially if my guess is correct, as then it does not look like a contrived example.

After all, the goal of computing education is not just to churn out mechanical algorithm-implementors, and it is hard to teach good design without something to compare it to.
This is a non-issue, friend. Fake news is any news that goes against our benevolent allies at Google, the SPLC, the ADL.. basically groups that never have any bias or self-interest. We can let great guys like Mark Zuckerberg oversee which information we need to know on all levels. We are in good hands!
For me, a massive advantage of Alfred is the clipboard history. I know there are plenty of other clipboard managers, but I've tried them all, and Alfred's works the best for me.

Features I like:

* Ability to set upper-bound on individual size

* Ability to ignore clipboard CF_ types

* Ability to retain variable amounts of data by time

* Ignore certain apps' clipboards

* Filterable history search

* Short and long content previews

I also use iTerm, but that's mainly for the performance benefits and customizability - I could live without it vs Terminal.app.
Yes, actually, having worked in speech synthesis for a while I was surprised to find that's how frequent users generally do use it. Although IIRC 450wpm is still on the high side - I think maybe 2-300wpm was more common, albeit that's still pretty unintelligible to most of us. I imagine maybe he can distinguish higher speech rates using quality headphones than coming from, say, a phone speaker though.
Which would you rather drive, a Hyundai or a BMW? And which in your opinion has a better engine, transmission, suspension, interior, etc.
I'd hate to loose a common language standard, though.
Oceania was at war with Eastasia, Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
Pieter Levels wrote pretty much the same thing a few days ago, but most people that know about Pieter know he likes to automate things. I'm pretty sure he set his up as a cron job.

https://gist.github.com/levelsio/ee9539134035492ba77a7be1b49...
Buying on coinbase doesn't leverage the Dollar Cost strategy?
The SEC has ruled that some coins in ICOs are actually securities and are subject to the SEC rules[1] so they aren't going to really bypass the SEC at all. It's just a matter of time before things get ugly.

[1]http://fortune.com/2017/07/26/sec-icos/
Uploadcare contributes to open source, however. For instance, the fast and production-ready Pillow-SIMD fork is a great example. You can search for "Pillow-SIMD" here for the discussion or check out the original article: https://blog.uploadcare.com/the-fastest-production-ready-ima...
They will probably have a hard time with marketing to consumers , because of the alternatives, and the fact that this is limited to a single diagnostic type:

1. Walmart is working with Quest on offering blood testing services on site.

2. This Australian site:https://www.myhealthtest.com is offering mail-order testing services, for some things(for many you need a phlebotomist to draw blood, but maybe that will change[a])

[a]Startups are working on lab-on-test diagnostics, which require small volume, but there's still scientific debate whether sampling blood via finger-prick is pure enough for testing.
levels did it https://gist.github.com/levelsio/ee9539134035492ba77a7be1b49...
I agree on someone cleaning up the mess. But surely this is a pretty easy case for the coroner?
It will depend on the level you plan to engage in the ML/AI space. If you just want a job in ML/AI , you are in luck. Due to the growing assortment of available, mostly to fully automated, solutions like Datarobot, H2O, sckit-learn, keras(w/ tensorflow) the only math you will absolutely 'need' is probably just Statistics. Regardless of what's going on behind the scenes with whatever automatically tuned and selected algorithm your chosen solutions uses, you will still need some stats in the end to show the brass that 'your' model works. the upside is that then you can spend time, learning feature extraction, data engineering, and the aforementioned toolkits, in particular what models they make available.

If you want to develop new techniques and algorithms, the the skies the limit, you'll of course want Stats too though.
> current

I don't think the current situation is all that different from 2005, when Poe's Law was coined.
I wish it were possible for HN to have a civil discussion on this topic. Especially because the "pros/cons" display is a new and interesting way to show data.

https://www.kialo.com/mark-twain-used-the-n-word-in-the-adve...
Someone will be first, but the Uber VCs will be an old cautionary tale by then IMO.
I did this with my service business.

However, I did it by developing a custom rails app, and have recurring rails tasks that generate lightweight todo items for my staff based on various triggers.

I think most business owners don't really have the time or capability to do this, so solutions like SOP SaaS tools work well. You can also use Salesforce which has a lot of this capability. It also takes a lot longer.

But, as a service business, trained and consistent staff are core to your value proposition, so your SOP is often your secret sauce. So, it's worth investing in.

The upside for me, is that I have complete control and have a highly integrated workflow that can be a lot smarter than a SOP workflow. I can run a lot of reports against my postgres database and find out what's going on.

It also makes it very measurable, who's doing what, when.
The invasion of Czechoslovakia was relatively bloodless - compare with 1956 in Hungary.
Valgrind doesn't detect anything, so I guess GTK's reference counting does the right thing and doesn't prematurely free data still referenced somewhere else. It just doesn't show a window.
I disagree with the analogy to speech recognition. What makes speech recognition difficult is that it's highly dependent on context (sounds the same, but means something different depending on surrounding words, what the conversation is about, or even who you're speaking with). With driving, you should be able to make a good decision with just the instantaneous state, given enough information about that state (objects, velocities, etc). You can argue about what constitutes "enough information," but it seems plausible to me that given enough sensors we could meet or exceed the amount of information taken in by a pair of human eyes on a swivel.
To be fair, few outside of SV do celebrate that.
I follow this manually. Buy 100$ worth top 30 crypto every week on bittrex.
Ask HN: What Startups Are Compliant with SF Fair Chance Ordinance for Felons?
Anyone know of any start ups that are both hiring and compliant with San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance?
The News Reads You in China–and People Can’t Get Enough of It
Something tells me one political party will be exempt.
Mirror: http://archive.is/yPSde
Are there any distros who ship with that enabled in the default config? (or plan a future release configured like that?)
if someone steps out in front your car going 30 MPH can you stop in time? i mean they walk right into your immediate path. do you think this kind of thing can't happen?
Self driving advocates having trivialized human drivers have now realized the technology is not quite there and have changed tack to demonizing human drivers and scare stories and FUD.

These are self interested business people. There are real issues around self driving cars like safety, autonomy, rent seeking, corporate control, individual freedom and surveillance that self interested tunnel vision advocates simply cannot comprehend.
Yeah I get your meaning.

And maybe this is silly and unfair, but to me "AI" in the context of prepping suggests very particular things. What you're describing should probably be called "social unrest" or "revolution" caused by displacement of labor.
yes you should add a cron to automate it daily
Just to clarify: the A20 stuff was an IBM PC/AT feature in the chipset of the original machine, not a CPU thing. It was actually a response to an Intel mistake in backward compatibility between the 8086 and 286 (real mode segments that pointed "beyond" the first 1MB would wrap around on the original processor but hit the second megabyte on the 286).

But when the memory mapping went on-chip in later devices, it needed to be part of the CPU core for compatibility with software written to work on the AT.
It's crazy to me that these products are going to be marketed while there is still debate to be had. This is medicine not software development, and efficacy should be the first thing on the table, then safety and reproducibility. Without that what exactly is being invested in here?
I'm surprised this list doesn't cover Spectacle[0]. This free app definitely surpasses Windows 10's adequate window management, and completely supersedes the embarrassingly poor built-in functionality.

[0]: https://www.spectacleapp.com/
Aside from the snub about dropping out and comparing them to Theranos, the quotes from Brawley showed a greater problem of potential adoption as most folks wouldn't buy this without their doctor ok'ing/recommending it. The lack of enthusiasm for this product makes it seem that even if Athelas makes it through the FDA approval and insurance hurdles, it won't hit that critical mass necessary for it to be successful.

Personally I'd like to see this succeed but I'm skeptical about how hospitals and insurance companies will react to it.
Oh, new trains are full auto, no worries. Retrofitting an entire fleet and tracks, now there's the issue - follow the money, and you'll see why even automatic trains are only programmed to follow the usual route, and for diversions, the driver would need to step in. Plus having a person in the cockpit to push the Big Red Button helps with all sorts of legal issues.
Technological curves tend to look exponential at first, then logarithmic. We went from first manned flight to first supersonic manned flight in just 44 years. Seventy years later we still don't have supersonic commercial flights. In the energy sector, the thermal efficiency of coal plants improved dramatically from 1880 to 1950, then pretty much hasn't improved at all since then. The number of years someone can expect to survive after qualifying for Social Security at age 65 has gone up only about five years since the age was first set to 65 back in 1935.
Some groups flat out make up news stories to fit some narrative. What else are you going to call that than 'fake news'?

'Candidate X comes out as gay.' 'Secret photos reveal candidate X at KKK lynching.' Are both rather over the top, but also the kind of lies that influence elections.
The economics couldn't be more different.

Driver salary is 26% of the cost of trucking.

Driver salary is 52% of the cost of a taxi.

Those numbers are in the single digits for aircraft and trains.

We could replace pilots and train operators, technologically speaking. But the incentives are not (yet) large enough to overcome the regulatory and cultural barriers. We'd rather have that extra order of magnitude of safety, because it costs so little compared to other expenses.

The cost/benefit calculation for drivers is fundamentally different.
Military UAVs have a high crash rate.

There's no autopilot which could have successfully landed an Airbus A320 in the Hudson River.
> Counting the electronics I own, it adds up to 10s of thousands of dollars... I still have vast amounts of electronics often for the purpose of entertaining myself.

That's not a display of opulence, that's you using your own wealth to make your life more pleasant. You didn't get a $500,000 computer, did you? _That_ would be a display of opulence, and would be on par with a million dollar watch.

> it adds up to 10s of thousands of dollars

There is a very limited amount of investment you could do with $20-30k. You could build much, much more with a million dollars.

It's a matter of degree. The wealthy have such potential to make the world a better place, much more potential than the normal middle-class American. They have power, and instead of using that power to make the world better, they buy a machine that shows off how rich they are.

> Or consider the case where clothes manufacturers, giving in to public pressure, ended child labor in some third world countries.

That has nothing to do with this situation. That is capitalism gone awry to maximize profit at the expense of the workers. There's no display of wealth there. I'm not saying that guy with a million dollars should build a sweat shop.

> take all the time I devote to entertainment... I likely far over indulge in it.

I have no issue with the wealthy relaxing. They're people too. I have issue with them having such potential to help people, yet spending massive amounts of money on stuff like this instead. It's obscene to those of us who aren't and will never be wealthy like they are.
I agree that they are quite different. However, I was pointing out a similarity when looked at in a more abstract way.

Some stories are intentionally more difficult to understand until you've read far enough. In this sense, the author is setting up a problem and resolving it.
MTA has 100+ years of legacy track. Imagine trying to retrofit anything into a 100-year-old codebase. Ouch.
Important Skills That Are About to Die Forever
First step should be a car with driver assistance so sophisticated, a human driver can't crash it. Seems like a much more tractable problem, and one I personally would pay quite a bit of money for in a few years, when my son is old enough to drive.
> Not wanting to support it is a strange argument for not documenting it.

Seriously, no. That happens all the time in all kinds of software environments. Someone adds a crazy hack in a product with an API. Do you add it to the API, even though bits of it may leak visibly into the stuff seen by the customer? Hell no. That's what happened here.
Thank you! Apparently http://archive.is/ works in general for WSJ, so this is a useful technique. Hopefully it will stay active.
hundreds of people did it http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bitcoin+dca
I'm pretty sure that's in "definitely not" territory. I would expect that initial funding to go towards productizing the actual blood tests -- I'm assuming they're at more or less proof-of-concept level at this point. That would be enough to get some sales to individual offices without large records systems and maybe even some overseas and doctors-without-borders types. I would expect larger rounds of follow-on funding to enable those larger integrations, which would then open up the large practices and hospitals.

Also, more pessimistically, I don't think less than $4m is even enough to start courting all the admins that would need to be greased to get large hospital sales, even if all the tech existed...
Regarding SQLite: https://sqlite.org/lang_transaction.html?
What does that run you per month? What are you doing on it compute wise?
Uh? What about "fake ads"?

What about the billions of page views for spammy bs on all platforms and sites, shouldn't those be taken out?
I have the same wish. Though not ideal, you can work around it in the console quite easily:

document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 3
I think we will see something like that. Theranos was blatant fraud by an individual who came from a family of money, and felt the need to protect the "fragile, young vulnerable women of tech".

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

I definitely don't think we are going to see any of that this time.
The risk here is not that the system will have bad goals, it's that it's easy for manipulation to redefine the core terms used to classify "bad" content. Even now, we regularly see even clear terms like "correct" or "incorrect" applied by fact-checking websites through a fairly biased lens.

This is not a partisan issue, when you start down the road of handing the keys to shaping public thought to a powerful party, you're there when the power changes too.

This is no different than being able to tell when someone is bullshitting just as you walk through every day life, and thinking we need to shield the poor naive populace from harmful ideas is borderline stereotypical paternalism.

This is all obviously a big deal to old media, who have made an art not out of sharing incorrect truths, but of very selectively sharing truths, to the point that what emerges does not really represent the truth at all. They didn't lie, but they aggressively shaped. Of course democratic access to the pieces they'd rather suppress (on both sides) threatens that model. They'd love us to toss out this particular bath water.
I don't know much about that, but I do know that it proves nothing about ACH's slowness being a positive for commerce.
Active BASE jumper and wingsuit pilot here. Instructor of both.

2016 was by far and away our worst year on record. We lost newbies, heros, and damn near all levels in between. Since then, a few sites have taken a more locked-down approach where we used to be welcome, and as a community we've made progress to band together to push education and conservative decision making over 'dude that was so sketchy.'

A lot of people have brought up the why - why do people do this when they know it's so dangerous? Well, that's a question that everyone needs to make for themselves, but for me it's quite simply that it's the only time I've found my mind to be quiet. It forces me to be present, assess everything in a level of detail that is unparalleled in any other time in my life, and quiet down every other distraction.

Also, it's beautiful. Being in the mountains, on top of buildings, out on bridges, climbing antennae, all with some of your closest friends? It's incredible. There's absolutely nothing on the planet like that level of adventure.

With all that said, it's fucking dangerous. I've managed to have a somewhat clean track record in my two years in the sport, with only two broken bones, but I have probably 20 of the people on the Base Fatality List still in my phone, four of whom I'd call great friends. It's fucking awful losing friends like that, but it's who we are. If they wouldn't have lived a life like this, would they have been them?

A little while back I had the lightning strike closest to my family, when we lost Ian. Here's his story:

https://vimeo.com/167054481
i am ok with diversification, but 30 is way too much i think. I prefer leveraging the investment on less cryptos putting more in less of those
That wiki page suggests this has been a conscious process used in Super Mario level design since Super Mario Galaxy:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-17-how-nintendos-b...
Spend Your Money to Buy Time, Not More Stuff
You forgot step 0: Be Claude Shannon :)
I am a contractor who has a few startup exits under my belt. I hack and work to help and further man. I don't need the cash and don't have a family.
Personally as an Expedia shareholder and former employee, this sucks. I thought he did a good job as CEO. EXPE is down 4% right now, so it seems like the stock market agrees. Hopefully EXPE has someone groomed to take over.
That didn't work for me. I feel like everyone is assuming I didn't go through all possible ways to try and change my seats before accepting my fate...
Oh, believe me, in many ways it's worse with the big expensive tools because those are produced for only a few companies.
The platform provides development tools for AR applications as well. Some demos have shown using the headset cameras to bring in real space elements for AR applications.
Ask HN: What is the biggest mistake you have made on the job?
What is the most catastrophic, painful mistake you made while working? Did it teach you a valuable lesson and how did you deal with the fallout?
Abstract Algebra: A Study Guide for Beginners (Beachy) [pdf]
So, is it a way to admit at long last that Pages that don't buy ads won't get any readers?
> ...dangerous slippery slope of putting too much power into a single,private, profit-seeking entity.

That's the problem. We're ALREADY THERE. It happened years ago. It's not a slippery slope, it's the thing behind us. And that's not even mentioning Google.

At least they're trying (VERY late, if you ask me). They could have chosen to let it continue and profit off it. After all we know it makes lots of clicks and ad revenue.

We can't pretend his is something that's about to happen. It HAPPENED.
Manually? So every week you do 30 separate trades on Bittrex? Seems like a lot of work and also you have 30 transaction fees (including the spread cost) for only $100.

I like this idea, but only if it's scripted and for more than $100 per run.
I've followed social media for a long time (starting back when one could actually read every single Usenet post daily).

There is a definite life cycle to social media sites. Those reaching the "too big to fail" stage are usually about to. AOL, CompuServe, MySpace, etc were all indominately massive juggernauts reaching to take over the media world - and vanished almost overnight. The sudden influx of editorial censorship in Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc is a clue that a large number of legitimate users (who just happen to hold differing expressions of differing views) are facing the option of leaping to another up-and-coming site. Between that, boredom with format limitations, and an otherwise growing sentiment of malaise, I'm seeing the signs that FB etc won't be with us much longer.

And no, it's not "different this time". It's the same this time.
If that's all you can say, don't say it at all.