skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this shows that Mercedez-Benz is terrified of what Tesla's ramp up will do to its market share.
In regulated states transport must happen in a locked container, fixed to the vehicle, operated by a licensed driver. The driver, and vehicle must me registered with the State agency. CA is likely following existing legal designs.

Hard to do those things on bikes or drones.
I'm a little surprised they didn't go more into the likelihood it's just a placebo. They mention it briefly but IMHO it seems extremely likely. <10µg is just too low to have a chance binding to serotonin receptors. Of course if a placebo works for you, it's hard to argue you should stop, I just think microdosers run a risk of mismeasuring and accidentally taking a full dose of LSD. These "day trippers" are really just playing a high-tech game of Russian roulette (Silicon Valley roulette?) But media people seem to love exaggerating the supposed prevalence and benefits of microdosing. I would expect more mainstream media like The Economist to use better discretion on whether something like this is worth popularizing.

James Fadiman is always mentioned in articles on microdosing. I think he was the first to popularize microdosing. His approach seems to be more New Age than scientific. I think the culture around microdosing is generally unhelpful and possibly dangerous to those of us that want to see real research into therapeutic psychedelics.

gwern did a self-study on microdosing that is more rigorous than anything you'll find from Fadiman.

https://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing
One of my truisms is that Google is bad at product, so for all I know, pricing aside, those two are the same thing.
There's a key flaw in the idea of resurgent city states and that is the fact that to coordinate production you have to secure the infrastructure which is between the cities. Imagine all the complex relationships that goes into making an iPhone. Mines, oil wells, farms, factories, and so forth are all over the planet and not in just one place. Cities thrive because of those complex relationships being relatively secure. And without that security they falter.
Most users can tell. They may not know exactly why, but they know something is off with hybrid apps.
Sounds too good to be true. Who are these people and why should we trust them with our data?

Page title is in cyrillic script. fex.net's IP address is in a Ukraine block, with one contact e-mail in .ua and one in .bg. Contact address at the bottom is apparently in Malta, but they do have a US 1-855 number for their callcenter.

Their TOS says that the service is subject to the laws of Malta.

Registration process begins by entering a phone number. What?
Keynote is tomorrow where it is rumored to be announced.
just so.
> collective punishment

It's not like they expelled everyone who had been living there. They just have to find new housing. Presumably nothing is going on their record about it. I know they don't like it, understandably, but as punishment goes it seems pretty light.

I don't completely disagree with you, though. It does seem like more effort could have been made to find out which individuals were causing the problems and focus on those.
Power plants are also much more efficient than the thousands of internal combustion engines they'd be replacing. It's still not ideal, but it's better than the current situation, and it's easily improved (to great effect) by replacing coal plants with cleaner sources.
Fair enough, although if you were using a hydraulic system you could be raising and lowering a concrete berm with your system which would take the wear and tear.

In Las Vegas they had very deep 'gullys' on either side of a street to facilitate flash floodwater and where those 'flood streets' crossed others there were 'speed ditches' :-) They were very effective as the wear and tear occurred on the car that was grounding out after going over them too quickly.

Chicanes are ok but people who try to go through them too fast and get stuck after colliding with one side or the other cause problems.
I've been contemplating for a while, how much does it make sense to move to Shenzhen for a while to understand how production works. How important is it to speak Mandarin ? Are there companies hiring, where I could get a glimpse into that?

Of course like many others I'm spoiled by SF salaries, however I've noticed that there are huge numbers of valley hardware startups and crowfundings and most of them fail when it comes to actual production.

Ps. I'll probably get this when I'm home, but am curious if any of these questions are answered there.
German user here, I loved my Hiptop/Sidekick phones! IPhone functionality way before Apple got it!

Loved also the skiing game easter egg. Had the first and second phone, was crazy in love with them. Still have them in a box somewhere, was thinking about resuscitating them for hipster purposes.

Seriously, I loved these phones, one of my best gadgets I ever had. Unbreakable, full of functionality, clever design... i hated to see them go. Had a Nokia Blackberry clone afterwards that I couldn't stand.

Nice to see someone from Danger. Whatever happened to the company, rumour was it was bought up by Apple? I also heard Steve Wozniak was somehow involved?
Can this be used in a react component's <style jsx>? That would seem to eliminate the "copy paste" problem the author of the OP mentions, as well as allow for great DRY practice. JSX + TypeStyle sounds like a really maintainable, reusable solution.
While a CLA is necessary for a dual-licensed project, it doesn't have to include a transfer of copyright, and many don't. E.g. Google's doesn't, the one for Python doesn't. On the other side, the ones for MongoDB and the FSF do. (At least MongoDB's is also clever enough to have a fallback to pure licensing, since "transfer of copyright" isn't possible in some jurisdictions)

And of course there are tons of Open-Source projects that don't have CLAs at all.
Except they claimed to support it a long time before this. It’s not that they were late, it’s that they lied.
This is a potentially great idea. Using Tor hidden services with auth cookies is a clever way to hide the deeper layers. I wonder how they will mitigate the extra latency though.
Those particles are much bigger than what the ICE produces, which makes them less dangerous.
Birds of a feather, no?
I've been experimenting with turning a work application into a PWA, but ran into a problem - all the stuff that would be great to cache was behind an authentication wall. None of the PWA examples covered this. Also, the service worker examples all had "Don't use this in production" warnings. :D
What does this say about racism? Segregation?
Funnily enough, it's impossible to properly style many of ZURB's components, as their CSS is tightly coupled with the DOM
The family of the man killed while using Tesla's Autopilot issued a statement
What do you hate about styled-components?
No, you'd likely not see anywhere near the 14% reduction. Electricity has to come from somewhere. In a lot of US states that "somewhere" contains a significant fraction of coal and gas.
Ask HN: How do you deploy your ML models in production?
I use Spark MLLib to train models.

In most of the cases, the predictions are meant to be delivered via a REST API. One of the approaches is to pre-compute predictions -> store in DB -> serve via API.

Do you have a better pipeline for your production models?
Google Drive Experiences Significant Outages
It’s “electric”, not “electronic”.

Mercedes is going to update its lineup, not replace every single car in the world overnight. Countries have time to build out their network of charging stations.
Ask HN: Why don't we indicate internal vs. external links?
Hypertext is great - but how come we don't (in general) indicate whether links are internal or external? Sure, you can mouseover a link and check the status bar at the bottom - but that's not very obvious for your average user.

Why not visually indicate whether a link is internal / external with a glyph (::after) or a separate color (maybe orange instead of standard blue?)

Is anyone out there doing something like this? Do you think it'd improve the web experience?
But that's how web apps are built.
It's a big enough economy that we can both find lots of examples to support our different world views. Probably not worth arguing that at length.

Still, the U.S. economy has created about 12 million net new jobs since 2012. (BLS data.) The unemployment rate is at 4.3% now, down from about 8%. For people willing to hunt for something better, the hunt is getting easier.
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Thank you for not doing that in JavaScript ️.
I don't think I've ever truly hit rock bottom, but I've definitely had some pretty shitty periods of my life. In fact, right now, I'd call this one of them.

Doing the best I can about that, but not really sure that's enough or that I'm really taking every possible action I can.
Except that the web was never designed to be a universal computing platform. It's a hypertext document navigation system with a hacky, horrible, opaque and insecure scripting language bolted on to the side. An actual distributed cross platform application development and distribution system wouldn't look anything like the web we have today. At least I seriously hope it wouldn't.
We already have legal advice. While advice from random strangers ought to be take with a pack of salt, random strangers have little vested interest in the topic and nothing to lose plus a very fresh perspective. Hence there's a likelihood of unbiased (if a tad uninformed) opinions.

So the things you say, and danieltillet says, are basically the things I'm looking for. And I hope more folks chime in too, particularly if they've experienced situations like this.

We are indeed starting to double/treble down on sales (thanks for the little "slogans" too). The majority opinion leans towards a fight, since for each seller we have BigCo has 100-1000. Their scale can let them get away with a cheap knockoff that mostly replicates the functionality but lacks in UI/UX. And I'm sure you know sellers are more interested in the scale, margins, etc. of a platform. So while we can take the market, it might have to be off more than just 1-2 patents.

Besides, there's always the hope that a court side with David rather than Goliath. And if they don't, and we lose the appeals too, we end up where we started and can only outsell them. And if we can survive long enough to win, we might as well get paid for lost revenues.
The one roadblock I run into whenever I write functional is the ridiculous number of functions that result. Don't get me wrong, it's great that everything can be abstracted away and easily tested as pure functions, but a kitchen sink of thousands of functions is difficult to remember, let alone introduce someone else to. Namespaces help, but not everything fits into an obvious namespace.

Admittedly this is mostly a personal organization issue, but when writing object-oriented code, in my experience it encourages better encapsulation. That being said, I like functional more. :)
It's a good start. But, pollution can still be caused from brake dust and tire friction with the roads. Fixing the housing problem will yield significant gains, as that would reduce extremely long commutes to much shorter ones where people could walk.
Probably not the best time to tell people they can use Equifax to do something
Are they still more efficient if you factor in the whole chain of fuel->wheel rotation? Converting electricity to battery charge, to movement surely shaves off at least 15%.
Are the hybrids like a Prius or like a plugin hybrid where you have an electric motor where you can drive a certain distance with only the battery?
My mama taught me to not talk about things I don't know anything about. I wish more people listened to their mamas.

To the curious Europeans out there, if you lose your job you can stay on your job's health plan for 18 months while you look for new work. If you're unemployed that long then you'd qualify for Medicaid after that, the government insurance program for the poor. If for whatever reason you really didn't have insurance you will nevertheless never be turned away from any hospital emergency room. This "die in he street because you have no insurance" is a myth and total hogwash.
Not sure if you have access to the creators of OSCoin but their formspree is not set up properly yet. They never confirmed their email so anyone who tries to subscribe gets sent to the wrong page. They detail the process on the github

https://github.com/formspree/formspree
> It is now possible to build PWAs that are indistinguishable from their native counter parts

It's not now possible, but even if it were, it would only be because the native app does not in fact use native components.

The Starbucks app already doesn't feel native, with its custom casing, fonts, navigation and behaviors.
To clarify, the CA/B Forum has no enforcement powers. This would only really be an issue if a root program takes issue with it or their auditor qualifies their audit.
That new logo looks like fingertips.

Does this mean they've also done away with all caps on JIRA? Or was that changed a while ago?
In an interview around the announcement of the plan, we got this exchange:

Tech interviewer: Do you, was there any sort of control for, sort of, selection bias. Maybe that people less likely to graduate are more likely to select Senior House? For example, maybe like, students who ranked Senior House first but didn’t get in, how they did?

Chancellor Barnhart: Yeah, oh, that’s actually a really good way to think about that. So, that’s something we’ll look at.

This was after the initial decision to bar freshmen came through.

In the analogy, I think it's a mistake to compare to spinning a server up and down - that's a low-consequence, low-cost decision. Maybe compare to decommissioning a physical server and buying a new one. I think before throwing away the high-latency server, it'd be worthwhile to make very sure that the problem wasn't about some process running on the server that would simply carry over to the new machine.

I'm worried that MIT has decided to solve a problem by shuffling 'hardware' without any clear evidence on whether that's the layer with the problem. Every university has populations with higher and lower graduation rates, and we know that Senior House attracted a lot of groups who might have been at high risk (e.g. people with financial difficulties or substance abuse issues). If those people just end up in other dorms with no more support, this might become a costly change (financially and culturally) with no real benefits.
Is this announcement a total cop-out like Volvo's was?

Volvo's announcement was that all cars would be electric or hybrid, but their definition of hybrid is very broad. It includes a "mild hybrid" system which can never run on pure battery. It's pretty cool, but more like a fuel efficiency improvement than it's like a Prius.
Show HN: Move by Numbers: Massively cooperative chess
You can get a used Model S for about 45K. Still not cheap, but AFAIK the maintenance costs are quite low.
As an extension, I suspect that the extreme initial price reports (base model iPhone X at $1300 at one point?) are another form of anchoring. Apple is likely intentionally desensitizing people to the price.
People really do need to get some perspective on real problems. The safe spaces and coloring books for students after Trump got elected was pathetic. 18 year olds stormed Normandy, now they are crying over the democratic process. I say this as a college student myself.

People will always find a reason to be miserable, so now that almost every major issue has been taken care of we have increasingly small things being brought up like "microaggressions".
> lots of terrible engineers are great at interviewing and most people in the industry have had the experience of working alongside someone who is failing up, 2-year-stints at a time.

You mean lots of companies are terrible at firing terrible engineers.

The argument is basically the current implementation leads to false negatives. What impacts does that have?

Presumably those very high-profile devs aren't lacking employment opportunities, even if it isn't at the elite tech companies.

Companies, from Elites down to pleb-tier, while perhaps pressed for resources, are still able to execute.

So why is the problem of false negatives a problem we should focus on?
> I think it's going to be an uphill battle just to convince them that in many cases, you don't even need an app. You just need a mobile website.

but, isn't it a lot less expensive to build and maintain a mobile website than to build apps for both iOS and android? wouldn't that win the argument in a lot of cases?
Greetings HN! OP here. This is a project I've been working on for about six weeks now. On the one hand it's an experiment to see whether a chess site not based on the usual one-on-one gameplay can garner any interest. On the other hand, it's an experiment in building a reasonably interactive game on the capital-W Web without resorting to JavaScript. (I've been on an anti-framework kick for a while now.) There's not a single script tag here, just the server and your browser having a friendly chat with HTML and CSS.

This is the first project I've ever released publicly, so even if it flops it's already a personal victory just to get something off my local disk and out in front of the world. I'd love to take your feedback and suggestions and to answer any questions you might have.
Show HN: Simple autocommitting and error handling for *sql.Tx in Go
> A large part of the advances towards _adaptable_ component-based code comes only when you let go of principles like DRY.

> I don't want to think about how that component exists in a vast web of generic CSS utilities and abstracted decoupled code. Copy and pasting CSS properties is cheap. Conversely overly abstracting your presentational code is a short cut to expensive CSS spaghetti.

You probably know this, but based on your phrasing I just wanted to point out that DRY isn't for mechanically compressing source code; it's for removing 'out of sync' issues, like causing bugs when we forget to update this copy of a procedure when we altered that copy.

Removing such 'conceptual repetition' makes life easier, since (a) we don't need to remember any couplings that need to be kept in sync (this is the "obvious" benefit), but equally importantly (b) if there are multiple copies of something, we don't have to worry about the other ones since they're not related.

It's perfectly fine if many similar chunks of code are scattered around a project, as long as they don't have to be 'kept in sync'. The whole point of "components" (/modules/packages/etc.) is to be self-contained, so it's perfectly reasonable to avoid coupling them together in a "vast web".

Wrong abstraction < Redundancy < Elegant abstraction
This logo makes me feel very uncomfortable because it looks like an X-Acto knife slicing a thumb. <:o
That makes no difference as to when the three days where. I never made any claims as to why it's late or them lying. I merely clarified that the three days were over a period where people don't usually work.
I admire your dedication to the principle of charity
Even so, electric cars are still less efficient, so we'd be worse off. There's at least one[1] study (of the batteries for the Ford Focus) which found that they resulted in 39% more CO2 emissions than the ICE version.

[1]: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.6b00830
The ballot was in March, so they have 6 month to prepare for it, not only 3 days to implement a surprising change.
House Address “Twins” Proximity
The most cogent criticisms of liberalism come from the left, not the right.
This sort of strategy could also have a high opportunity cost in terms of one's time, depending on the value of your time. But it might make sense for someone who gets enjoyment out of the strategy itself, even if the upside is only saving a few hundred bucks.

It's similar to why I make DIY furniture for my home. While the cost of materials is lower than what I would pay for a finished piece at a furniture studio, that doesn't account for the time and effort I put into it. But for me the effort itself is a net positive that it's hard to put a price on, just like the joy of arbitraging iPhones might be for this person.
Oh yeah, that one too. I grew up dirt poor and never really was able to take advantage of that aspect. My biggest takeaway from high school was to get as tight as possible with the authoritative figures who have direct control over you in order to have the highest degree of freedom. To appeal to their intellectual side. I went to several different high schools and this strategy kept me out of a lot of trouble and provided many opportunities.
I was home-schooled as a child, which made me intellectually advanced but socially inept. When I got to college, the myriad of social experiences to be had quickly led me astray. I think I actually went to class no more than a dozen times my first semester, and I think I sat an exam exactly once.

After that I dropped out and moved back home, choosing to attend community college for a while. Unfortunately I would repeat the experience one more time at a different university before finally getting my head screwed on straight and my priorities in order. It was at about this time that I was also diagnosed with clinical depression and began to get treatment for it, which helped immensely.

Home-schooling was an interesting experience that has given me many advantages, but it is not one I recommend to anyone because it also beleaguered my foray into the real world in a way that has had and will continue to have lasting negative consequences to this day.
This sounds pretty clever use of Tor, regardless of their actual app. But as always with security there might be unintended interactions. Does anyone know if proxying one hidden service to another is safe?
This is true, but centralized power generation is a lot more efficient then creating the power individually at the point of consumption like ICE cars do today. I believe that an ICE motor is something like 30% fuel efficient, Electric something like 80-90% and a combined cycle blah blah gas turbine is more like 60-70%. So no, it won't be the full 14% but it won't be a few points either, probably safe to say 5-10% reduction.
On a requirement they voted for half a year ago for a standard specified 5 years ago. It's sloppy and sloppy is not a property you want in a certificate authority.