skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"However I feel that developing completely separate native versions of the same app with zero overlap in code isn't smart either."

I don't see why. They're different platforms; you're going to want people who are experts on the platform working on it, not someone who is only doing the other platform because the boss said they need it.

I would take native teams for both platforms over one team doing a hybrid thing any day.
Anyone know if the genetic similarities that we become friends around according to the study aren't related to race? To me that would be the most interesting part (if it wasn't).

I am pretty sceptic about this study and it seems kind of filled with opportunity for interpretation and bias plus have no idea of the data set.
This is interesting as I've typically made friends along lines of interest. I guess my next question would be are genetically similar people more likely to have similar interests.

edit: corrected grammer
> The tendency for friends to have similar genomes might result from people befriending those of similar ancestry, but the duo are confident that isn't the case. Not only did they control for the effect of population structure and ancestry, but the Framingham data is relatively homogeneous in terms of ethnicity, consisting largely of people of European descent.

How did they control it? Even amongst Europeans, I imagine French people are just more likely to have French friends.
Row over AI that 'identifies gay faces'
Companies talking about their new logos are the most self absorbed thing possible.
Not much at all. It's a small effect.
Why not use a ups for the battery?
It's not at all clear actually.
"We need a gradient"

Very few logos use gradients to their benefit and this is not one of them.

Also, the wordmark ("ATLASSIAN") has too much going on. This L-A pairing has been used to death, including several high-profile logos. Customized bar in A is lost in smaller sizes and looks like a rendering artefact. And it's not even kerned well, in the SIA part.

The font choice is going to bite them in the back very soon. Single-story "a" and overall playfulness is suitable for a lifestyle/cooking blog, but not for a tech company catering to technical people.

I'm going to guess it was an in-house rebranding job with little to no field validation. Looks like someone with a bit too much carte blanche got carried away with artsy-fartsy designy trends and forgot to actually check the results against their userbase.

EDIT - Ahhh... they got a rockstar designer to redo their logo. A guy who did a Twitter "rebrand" (tightened up their bird logo). This probably explains why the logo is so off the mark.
Mercedes and BMW had autopilot-like features for longer than Tesla. They just don't advertise those features as aggressively as Tesla because they are more conservative. Tesla has the start-up bonus that Mercedes does not have and if there was an accident, Mercedes' reputation would take a bigger hit than Tesla's.
One bit of useful context is that MIT has way more culture and persistent identity tied to its dorms than most schools.

My undergrad shuttled students to a new building every year, and wouldn't let anyone stay in dorms over the summer. "Dorm culture" was basically nonexistent. At MIT, students have significant choice of dorm, can stay in one place for four years, and can stay on campus in their room over summers. There's a lot of culture embedded in choice of housing.

I'm not sure I would call this collective punishment, but it's got something in common with evicting everyone in an apartment building because some of them are noisy. Certainly it's much closer to that than it would be at most colleges.
Companies can work on more than one project at a time. Especially since this and autopilot are likely worked on by completely different people at the company.

This must be farther along on the pipeline. Clearly Auto-Pilot is not at a stage they're comfortable promising.
While it's dependent on the energy to generate, it adds several new possibilities. It's no surprise why Elon wants solar panels, home scale batteries, and electric cars together.

Plus, even if a few dozen coal plant powered electric cars aren't superior to hundreds of millions of gasoline engines burning gas (a point I would still challenge), it's easier to regulate a few dozen coal plants than it is to replace hundreds of millions of cars.

It's funny, the "coal makes electric cars worse" has become a popular anti-EV line from conservatives, but the reality is that the US is only 30% coal (no longer #1 source overall either)[1], electric cars in the US with our electric mix release far less carbon on average [2], and heck even burning natural gas in a plant is cleaner with less ghg impact than millions of gasoline burning engines [3]

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

[2] https://www.afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.php

[3] http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/emiss...
CIBIL is Transunion. So, all there are in India, along with 4th one Highmark
For a quick demonstration in degrees of contrast in tone deaf humor, compare Google's 2016 April Fool's prank with any of their other Easter eggs, or early Google Doodles, and you can see where the slightest variation of context pretty much ruins everything...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/technology/april-fools-un...

This is the sort of thing that scares most people into tepid, mediocre Dad humor at work. Sometimes, that's a healthy fear to have, even if finding yourself burdened by such constraints is unfortunate.
Not really a story of a comeback but growing up in communist Russia the battles were all about surviving the day to day basics: getting food/clothes, taking care of family members, but most importantly not having any chance to do anything creative or work on something and knowing that there will be some sort of return.

Experiencing this early on in life definitely made me a lot more appreciative of all the opportunity one has growing up in a country like the US. Opportunity to be able to do whatever you want, learn whatever you like, live however you want...
Before that point you qualify for free insurance through one of many government welfare programs. Learn about the system before you criticize it.
People need to realize we are built on hardware that is hundreds of millions of years old. We share a similar hormonal dominance hierarchy system with fucking lobsters. You can't just say it's </CURRENT YEAR> and expect these things to disappear. Tribalism was important for survival, trusting someone who didn't look like you could mean death and thus was selected for over long periods of time.
Do they really have to jazz it up with all this bluster? Can't they just say, somebody told us the logo must be the letter A, can you make it look pretty?
You can't afford a Tesla, but can afford a Mercedes Benz and considered a BMW? - huh.
What I Expect from a Front-End Architecture
Your countrymen are just playing catch-up, on top of what the European colonialists did for centuries.

And not just "settlers" and miners acting on their own - but acting on the direct behalf of, and and funded by their local governments:

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/revealing-the-history-of-ge...
I've been trying out CSS modules in my new project. I've also set up a library that generates Flow type definitions, so I get static type checking and autocomplete for my CSS classes [1]. It's pretty awesome, and works with SASS too. I love having every React component self-contained. It makes refactoring and reusing code so much easier.

[1] https://hackernoon.com/type-safe-css-modules-with-flow-dd95e...
What is fiverr's refund policy if not happy with the quality of the deliverable?
Made this in React with framework Grommet (which I really like). Backend is in Google App, which I also like. Subset of fantasymath.com, which does the same thing, but for the whole week and costs money. Only really relevant 17 days out of the year (including today), but good response so far.
Thanks, fixed! Was due to changing the form URL last minute.
Awesome! Been looking for an OSS tool that did this. Nice work.
You mention the superior driving experience. Are you talking about a Mistubishi i-MiEV or a Model S here? Your experience with a Model S isn't just because it's electric, it's also a really expensive car. I somehow doubt that if you drove the Mistubishi, you would say the same thing.
At least this is a little more creative than HP Enterprise's "new" logo:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/dc/a4/bc/dca4...

I wonder how many $Ms that cost.
Thank you! I put a lot of effort into the design of the site, print, and EPUB editions try to make each as readable as possible within their own unique constraints.
How do remote companies handle psychotherapy for their employees?
What do you do when, as a remote company employee, you need psychotherapy or help in mental related issues?

Have you felt like feeling psychotherapy when working as a remote employee? What have you done to feel better?
Google AMP Case Study – Leads Dropped by 59% (How to Disable It)
Electric cars barely use conventional brakes. So brake dust would be reduced by at least a factor of 3.
I think it means people have a natural genetic preference for similar genetics. It does not say whether or not we can overcome this preference as a society.
According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, 20% of all emissions are tailpipe from cars. Maybe 30% for all vehicles including trains etc.

That's a significant percentage. If the oil demand drops, theres probably another 5-10% that could reduce.

So we're looking at probably a 30-35% drop in emissions.

As an owner of an electric (recently bought), I'm fascinated by how amazingly agile my relatively-inexpensive Ford Focus is. If everyone drove an electric for a day, many would likely decide to go electric purely for performance reasons.
I wouldn't put the blame on Congress for passing a "bad law" for this one. The Hatch-Waxman Act predates Seminole Tribe of Fla. v. Florida and its clear statement rule by more than a decade. And it's been more than 20 years since that case and apparently the evil geniuses at Allergan's law firm are the first to notice how the two combine to create this loophole.
Bacteria are worrying with their exponential reproduction, but viruses are what worry me. Radically smaller, not alive (so there isn't anything to kill), just a little jumble of parts that if they happen to get bumped into one of your cells, hey, it hijacks everything and forces the cell to create copies of the little jumble of parts until it explodes.
Skills: writes code that's clean, efficient, simple, etc

My question is this: Why does the industry need to change the interview process?

If companies are able to maintain a quality bar of it's employees, and engineers are able to find meaningful employment, doesn't that mean the system, even if it has a flaw (false negatives) isn't really a problem?

Perhaps the problem is that many of us who write code, consider ourselves good at it, and getting rejected is a hit to our ego. We want to change how interviews are done solely for the benefit of our egos, when instead, we should understand that if you interview, you might get rejected, and that is okay.

Nothing is fundamentally wrong with the process, nothing is fundamentally wrong with you, and in 6-12 months, you can try again.
On the other hand you have lack of regulation leading to blood diamonds and The Jungle.

Clearly autocracy isn't optimal, but it appears that neither is a totally free market.
You probably would be using Autopilot on the highway but not in cities. Not sure it would be practical enough.
It's a great experimental Level 2 feature but I think it may be dangerous if too many drivers take it as a full blown self-driving option.
These 3 days don't matter when you have months of lead time.
Researchers Find Evidence That Human Evolution Is Still Actively Happening
An Application Manager for Stream Processing and Apache Flink
What has Telsa done that is completely novel? Telsa looks just like another car company. You mentioned Daimler pioneering the ICE but where are the Telsa inventions?

I think Telsa's greatest contribution will be moving the electric car and renewable markets. Whether or not the company itself will be successful is yet to be seen. To me they only make products that are affordable by the rich but they've certainly been successful in moving markets.
I don't think government agencies are at all concerned with 'stifling of innovation'. I don't think your average intelligent person is at all concerned with it, let alone everyone else.

Regulation (invasive action is general) is for when enough people are really unhappy. Who's unhappy in this instance? The innovators?
If these are similar to other "uncontacted" tribes I've read about, they seem to react quite violently/aggressively when confronted

As you would do, if a bunch of assholes started encroaching on your ancestral property.

So if the gold miners said they either had to kill or be killed, I'm inclined to believe them unfortunately.

No -- what they needed to do was just GTFO out of there, being as they clearly had no business being in those areas in first place. Paycheck, or "boss's orders" be damned.
No, unlike Volvo, Mercedes is still going to have combustion engine only versions.
Wonder when it will be profitable to extract lithium from the sea
I'd say wrapping native widgets is an advantage in and of itself.
Sometimes I like to request a human just to waste their time. Organizations shouldn't be able to harass people for free.
Revocation can be done only for new certs. It's time to throw a CA to the dogs once in a while pour encourage les autres.
Seems so - https://github.com/yue/yue/tree/master/docs/paid_plans
Segregation bad when its enforced by the government. There's a big difference from "White people like to talk with white people", and "White people only beyond this point" (with Police Officers on standby ready to enforce said rule)
Ask HN: Can ML/AI make system monitoring better?
If someone with enough experience in ML/AI were to build an application that aims to 1) Reduce the overall number of alerts 2) Figure out which alerts are actionable and which are not 3) Predict potential issues and suggest remedies - would he/she succeed? The question is to find whether someone can actually achieve this with ML/AI in its current state today. If something like this was possible is it safe to assume that engineering teams at Google, Amazon, Uber, AirBnB, DropBox, NetFlix would have already implemented this?

I read about two different views on this subject today

1. Why Machine Learning in Monitoring is BS: https://blog.opsee.com/machine-learning-in-monitoring-is-bs-134e362faee2

2. Why it is not BS: http://mabrek.github.io/blog/machine-learning-is-not-bs/

I was curious to find what good people on HN think about this.
That requires you to assume a certain mix of energy used to manufacture the thing.
I was a Psych major. Apparently the essence of what it taught me was "empathy for others" and "intolerance for bullshit" :) I am now seemingly surrounded by the un-empathetic (and the uncritical-thinking...)

Probably the one piece of information that would make one more empathetic is reading up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_bias#Fundamental_a...
Same here, though I grew up in post-soviet Ukraine. Looking back, I think it was rather fortunate that I had a chance to grow into my early teens in Ukraine before moving to the US. Got a really good understanding of how different life can be.
This seems to make the kin selection vs. group selection controversy even more trivial: https://blog.oup.com/2015/01/kin-group-selection-controversy...
>>What has Telsa done that is completely novel?

They've pushed battery technology further than any other manufacturer in the last decade. And furthermore, "they've been successful in moving markets" is a novel thing in itself.

>>To me they only make cars that are affordable by the rich but they've certainly been successful in moving markets.

What do you think the first people said about Daimler?
Whatever "dynamically load some JS that loads some more JS that loads the content" thing this page uses doesn't work at all for me on Firefox nightly. Just a blank page with the blog header at the top, even with my blocker disabled.
Oddly enough, I read that they killed their only electric car only this July: https://electrek.co/2017/07/31/mercedes-kills-electric-b-cla...
I'm curious how this list got put onto reactdom, I bet there is an interesting story behind that.

PS. I'm a huge Scala fan, I've used it both professionally and for side projects
I was pretty deep into drugs at 21, watched my longest standing friendship pass by from an overdose, and was spiraling out of control. My parents put me in rehab, moved home, and started self teaching computer science from C to python at 22. Landed my first internship gig at 23 after showcasing a few of my self directed projects from web scraping large amounts of data to power a web app to computer vision and I am now a lead data scientist at 27.
As another reader, it certainly does appear that you said that monopolies can only be caused by government action.
I figured friends were more driven by proximity first then shared experiences second.
MB B250e lease is around $400/mo. BMW i3 lease is under $300 right now. Tesla lease starts at $1,000.
Can't efficiently charge from solar, so you need an external charger anyways. Not really cheaper than an inverter. Cheaper ones are not intended to run continuously and may overheat.
Why does the concept of "ancestral property" somehow suddenly make violence acceptable to you. If the bank or government forecloses on my mother's house, I can shoot whoever comes to take ownership?
In the enlightened USA, The GOP-controlled congress is considering a rollback to the ACA rescission and pre-existing condition regulation that would allow insurance companies to not cover these folks.
And much, much larger than just Norway.
When it comes to maintenance there is not much day light between a Volt and any Tesla Model.
I came here to say the same thing. AWS is definitely not a quarter of their revenue.
A. You make it sound as if a common carrier violating its own contract of carriage is no big deal. Depending on how widespread and severe the violations are, there could be considerable repercussions from the DOT/FAA, in addition to civil damages.

B. It's no simple thing to forcibly remove someone. This is not "being asked to leave a plane you already boarded." but dragging someone out violently. If the airline is the one breaching their contract, why would the police assist in that breach?

You can read a bit more--

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/united-airlines-dr-dao-...

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43078.pdf
SPAs, client based-REST, and other architectures that expose data/JSON on the Web have probably increased vulnerabilities by an order of magnitude.

Now you've got data moving off of the server that would have normally been selectively parsed/rendered server-side. It's also easy to use marshalling tools/framework features that serialize entire domain objects, which contain sensitive IDs/data that is then inadvertently leaked. You really have two views to think about; one not as visible.

Not to mention, it can take a lot of additional effort and forethought to expose what you need on the client, so that the UI is robust and responsive, but you're not exposing too much.

And, frankly, some devs naively have in mind the common user, 90% of whom couldn't go beyond what's rendered. So, they are falsely comforted by the idea that the data isn't being shown explicitly in the browser.

Ironically, of course, it's exactly the other 10% they need to be thinking about.
(2015)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9735358

And see [1], my note about this talk being more or less the same as the 2010 Minix talk at FOSDEM[2]. If you saw that one, or any other talk by Tanenbaum of that period, I'll spoil it for you: there's nothing substantially different in this talk.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9736214

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx3KuE7UjGA
I run http://patentsexpiringtoday.com which pulls its data from a government API. It's not making any money on its own, but generates some traffic to my other side projects. It gets about 2-5k visits per month.
"Transportation" includes ships, planes, trains and trucks. Less than half of that 14% corresponds to passenger cars.
> company that pioneered the automotive gasoline engine.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler

Correct company, wrong guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Benz

Daimler invented the motorcycle, Benz the car.

Daimler and Benz merged to form Daimler-Benz.
Technique sheds light on inner working of neural net trained to process language
Karunamon et. al. are not saying your point is wrong; they are saying it is irrelevant, and if their facts are correct then they are right.
This is nice for car owners, but public transit users will continue to get the shaft for another 20 years. The only innovations in transit seem to be of the mode of fuel. It's still too expensive and politically inconvenient to build out new train service, and electrified city buses don't seem to be getting any cheaper. Unless something changes, we're going to end up with a public-subsidized automatic-pilot public transit network of Uber cars.
The job I wanted was rescinded at the last moment. With no apartment, no job, and no future prospects I bought a plane ticket and went traveling. While some people enjoying DNing (digital nomad) it was liberating to call Verizon tell them to cancel my contract and drop my phone in the bin at the airport. If you have your youth and health things can only go up.

This advice has way more exceptions once a spouse and kids are a concern.
Your question is one very close with bike shedding. I'm unsure why you would want to bring up the subject, having offered no solutions yourself. Your comment history suggests you have the answer to the question already or the ability to seek it quickly

Should you wish to continue these lines of questioning then I suggest you author and submit an article. Your line of questioning would both fit better and garner better responses in a thread if its own.
Actually there's nothing new here, many manufacturers are moving to the 48 volt system[1], which you can classify as a mild hybrid system of some sort. Many flagship cars already have it or will come out with it soon (new Audi A8).

In my opinion, calling your whole line up of cars "electrified" is a bit misleading. But I guess that's just how PR/marketing works.

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/247889-cars-moving-48-vo...
Ask HN: HN for learning guides/howtos?
Hey folks, I'm building something interesting, essentially a curation site for learning resources and guides to help those starting out gain some escape velocity by tapping into the knowledge and feedback of others. I.E, it would be far more useful for me to see and learn from that blog post on JS because it has 2000 upvotes vs the one that has 320. What do you guys think, could it bring value?

I think its also a great project to flex my newly developed web dev skills.
The Shadow DOM solves all of CSS's scoping problems.
that study is problematic because while they look at the cradle to gate cost of the electric drivertrain including battery, comparing to the ICE car drivetrain, they don't look at all the cost of Petrol + all the unaccounted for externalities that go into it's extraction and delivery. A good comparison would include the cost of electricity extraction both for the ICE car and the electric and then do the comparison. As it stands, this study tells us that Electric cars are more 'expensive' than ICE cars.