skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my current run of the mill, screen based, "infotainment" system, doing this without endanger myself and others, requires stopping the vehicle, and undertaking a series of awkward and unresponsive controls, none of which are accessed on the same screen!

Toyota, the automaker under discussion here, offers steering wheel controls that are pretty decent. The main weakness of such systems is that the interface between stereo and phone has such little functionality, and that is where many people will be playing their music. Eventually you're going to be poking at a phone and a badly-designed app unless you're happy to simply play everything from a long playlist.
Production grade branching policies
Yeah we've got two fords with Sync 3 and it's fantastic. The fact that I can use my android and gf can use iPhone is amazing. Ford did it right by saying, you want Nav? We've got it but you can also use your phone if you want.
I got mine because it was just nerdy, and I liked the weight of it. Plus if I'm ever in a plane crash, I know at least a little bit of finger will survive.
The supermajority of Americans would decrease or keep the same the level of legal immigration. So you’d be talking about shifting more of the existing immigration quotas to merit away from family reunification. Americans don’t like that either.
A Cut Above: CanCanCan
When taking the test, it should be possible to identify the questions that code for the "extrovert" and "introvert" scale.
> I could spend the money and get better hardware, but at that point it's competing with my MacBook.

I spent the money, bought a high-end C302CA, and found it does indeed compete with my Macbook... resulting in rarely using the Macbook. Figures, really, but I have no objections to this outcome.
Also note that all this does not work for everyone.
Architecting the future with abstractions and metadata
In your US example I don't think you have to report anything. Buying a house in Switzerland wouldn't require paying any US taxes. If anything, you'd have taxes on the original source of the money (if it's income) but that has nothing to do with the house purchase.
Take mushrooms.
BCH is roughly on par with BTC in terms of mining profitability.

https://cash.coin.dance/blocks/profitability
You actually make it sound bad. I would more likely to say they are precise and usually won't allow for inaccurate information to fly through the front page without pointing out the issues.
Does anyone know of a way to help DDG improving by passing them statistics about how I use !g as well as passing information about the results I prefer from google? I can only assume it would be riddled with privacy issues but would be happy to occasionally provide it.
Pretty sure Bain Capital owns a controlling stake in Toys-R-Us
But in the long run, this won't significantly affect the supply of bitcoin because the hash difficulty will just adjust, right? That's in contrast to cocaine, where the crackdown may very well lead to long-term supply shifts, causing the price to rise. But I guess maybe if a significant amount of coins get trapped in accounts held by Chinese citizens, it would make a difference.
It sure looks like Google is about to buy HTC
Bitcoin ‘Fugitives’ Gather in Hong Kong to Skirt China’s Curbs
About books check this one: The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware
> The supermajority of Americans would decrease or keep the same the level of legal immigration

Evidence?
from @evleaks:

https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/910458987757363200

GOOG will acquire certain HW eng assets, but HTC retains its brand.
Brave on Android
Firefox on Desktop (switched from Chrome), new FF is as fast as chrome, plus I love the compact view of FF.
For me it certainly isn't spare change, and given that I was able to buy an Asus laptop with Ubuntu LTS pre-installed with about 300 euros, I don't really see the appeal.
Fastmail give you free aliases.
> A camcorder is the only instrument that can produce a series of still frames that look identical to what a human observer saw in the same spot.

Like a camera? A non-colourblind human with perfect 20/20 vision and no incidental visual impairment?

What is with the repeated camcorder mentions? A camcorder will make people think of something like the Sony Video8 Camcorder from the 1990s, or other early consumer-grade videocameras.
It's almost impossible for foreigners
And who controls for the number of vets and the number of VA hospitals? The government.

Do you think they would do better in a bigger version of this for the whole country?
Death to the Conference T-Shirt
Funny how a cloud hosting company thinks it's better to host things in the cloud.
First of all, the whole thing is limited to patents, which are a small part of the IP of most IT companies. If Microsoft uses GraphQL, Facebook can't freely pirate Windows.
Second of all, you can still sue FB over patents, you just have to stop using things they are providing free of charge first. Also, there is an exception if FB sues you first. It seems fairly clear that the intent is to avoid litigation over patents, especially software patents, which many people think are a bad thing.
I'm surprised by the author using Motorola as a historical example of acquiring that went wrong. I thought the goal of acquiring them was for the patents and the sell off was the bits Google didn't want or need.
This seems very anecdotal, Atlanta will get its hand slapped and the problem will go away.

In the frozen north where the frost depth is four feet, somehow our sidewalks look new compared to the pictures. Mere simple mismanagement in Atlanta. The sidewalk in front of my house was poured in 1983 per the stamp, and its basically level and even. That's after 34 northern winters. The decayed sidewalks in the article must be over a century old or horribly corruptly installed.

There must be a severe lack of parking or even alleyways. If you want to live the hyper high density urban bug man dream, there will be costs such as no where to park and no ramps from parking to the street to drive wheel chairs upon.

There might be more to the story intentionally not reported so as to slant the coverage; perhaps its a historical district where if there were no ramps in 1830, then installing a ramp in 2017 will get you sued by the historical commission. Again, if you voluntarily live somewhere unsuitable for modern standards of living, there is no reason to feel sorry for a fool, if that is the case.
Exactly. Most people, when thinking about the relative size of animals, evaluate the 2-dimensional area of those animals. We certainly don't tend to consider mass, weight, or even volume. So the metaphor as originally given (mosquito vs elephant) works well.
When I moved into Silicon Valley I noticed the same thing!

In many Silicon Valley towns like Mountain View and Sunnyvale the sidewalks suddenly just stop and you’re forced to walk on the side is the road.

And in Cupertino many streets aren’t lit or very badly lit that it’s almost pitch black...

I never noticed these things before coming to California and I grew up in a small town near Boise, ID.

Streets were well lit and sidewalks did not just end.

And Idaho has a minuscule State tax revenue compared to California is so it shocked me this was an issue in these high income Silicon Valley towns.
Which is why I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out: https://ivn.us/2017/03/08/breaking-fec-wont-appeal-ruling-de...

Of course, we'll eventually have to change the voting system to an automatic runoff, to prevent the least popular of three candidates from winning due to the other two splitting the vote. And I'm sure there are other electoral specifics that maintains the two party equilibrium.

All things said, like other commenters here, I'm not entirely displeased with the current gridlock.

Edit: see dforrestwilson's comment below to see the update
Cool dev machine but for 1200 dollars I want to be able to run Microsoft office when people send me documents without asking them to reformat and also edit and modify images with standard software when necessary.

In a collaborative world it is not worth the pain to pay 1200 and not be able to work with people who do not code.

Chrome books are acceptable at the 200 dollar price point (I have one that dual boots archlinux) but they are not replaceable as a main work station unless you never interact with people who use popular software.
I've no doubt of some efficacy in certain situations for magnesium. However this article reads like this is the magic bullet to society's ails. Very anecdotal and hand picked cases do not make for a cure all, because there is no one substance that possesses this ability.
> A while back Widevine stopped working for me after an update. Uninstalling and reinstalling didn't work. End result? Almost no video played in my browser.

You were doing something wrong perhaps. I have never installed widevine, yet all videos online worked for me. Try uninstalling it completely.
Not sure about the US but in many countries you'd still have to report it. For statistical reasons (so that economic indicators can be calculated properly) and to avoid money laundering or terrorism financing rules (the Swiss hotel could be owned by someone on a black list).
Well Germany had the unfortunate advantage of having many of their cities complete destroyed. I live in Hamburg, which was flattened by bombs. After the war the cities were rebuild - for cars..
> especially in Germany itself

That's because there are tax advantages for Diesel. Originally a subsidy for agriculture (because their machines all ran on Diesel), it made Diesel motors a favorite for those who need to drive a lot (incl huge corporate fleets).

Changing any of that is a highly contentious political issue. Merkel's political style doesn't deal well with these.
I have a 4 letter domain that sounds like a common word. What should I sell for?
Free eBook VR – What you always wanted
See guys, this is why we don't get invited to parties...
I wrote a toy OS in 32-bit assembler when I was younger. It was terrible. Unikernel, basically, with no memory protection.

I then rewrote it in 64-bit assembler, for fun.

After learning about Rust, I immediately went to work on Redox. The bootloader and framebuffer initialization code were lifted from the old toy OS's.
Be careful what you wish for, I heard that Google is aggressively gathering information about ones driving through Android auto.

My car has pretty basic integration: calls, music. I have access to the phone book and playlists on the car display and I don't need nor want more integration.
The Chinese miners use custom ASIC hardware, no GPUs.
In some (skeptic/atheist?) circles this is known as the "toupée fallacy", from a person saying that they've never seen a realistic hairpiece.
It's the same like saying "I don't need S class Mercedes, VW Polo has 4 wheels too.". Compare the specs of that 300 euro laptop and Pixel 2015 LS - that's not even the same league. I have Ubuntu installed on mine and with core i7, 16 GB of RAM it blows most of the laptops out of the water.
> This belittles their and anyone else's bash scripts for git as 'toys'. That's unfair, and completely unnecessary for your point.

I don't think so. It is a very common mistake to miss the point where you should switch from a shell script to Python. (... or Ruby, Haskell, OCaml, or any other language with good libraries, sane error handling and sane data structures. And yes, I'm saying this being aware of, and always using, "set -eu -o pipefail".)

In other words: A complex collection of shell code is a very good warning indicator that somebody missed that point.
It means their design is flawed, cannot be fixed and likely would not pass muster if proposed today.

Whether or not you consider this a severe enough deficit to necessitate a shutdown is a matter of policy.

As to any operation record, just keep in mind that the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant had one dating back to 1971.
> Well, domestic capital leaving China is largely illegal

Says whom? I imagine anyone who got rich legally in China would also try to get the capital out and diversify in more developed countries.
I don't know why you are getting down voted for this - can only think people don't like having their cosy bubble disturbed.
Emily Deans writes very informatively about nutrition topics in a sea of dross (also about medicine, psychology, biology if I recall correctly). Another use of Magnesium is as a adjunct to Vitamin D3 supplementation, since magnesium is used up in its metabolism and action.
It can be dangerous though. If suddenly several million citizens start transferring small amounts you can easily get outflows of several billion USD a month. Done by a few that would be an amount easily noticed.
> So how large is an index to a 100 GB file? Generally around 1 GB. Let's say you use covering indexes with lot of meta data and up that to 5GB to support sophisticated queries.

You vastly underestimate index sizes. I'm not saying it wouldn't be realistic to download and index locally but they'll be much larger than 1-5%.
I don't think search is as simple as grepping a ton of files. Search Google for "movie where people can't have babies" and the #1 result is Children of Men. I think that's one area where Google pulls ahead of its competition is accurate results to vague queries like that and I think you need a lot of collected data from searches to provide that.
There are a lot of hobbyist UX designers out there, judging by the amount of unsolicited redesigns and blogs about what could have been if...

The problem is that when you do something as a hobby, you usually want full control. This puts the developer/designer duo at odds. I think this is why we have many non-functional pretty designs and functional ugly applications/sites.
agreed. foreigner in China will be most likely treated as superior class.
Interesting as I have the opposite experience from a small town in Oregon. Very poorly lit and sidewalks that have no rhyme or reason.
Don't invest time and money in automating any business process until it's really hurting you. Don't integrate with Stripe until you can't keep up with manual onboarding for billing. Don't automate cloud hosting until you can't keep up with manual provisioning....
It's not about Linux deployments.

Our nodeJS and angular deployments in Azure's managed app services are hosted in IIS.

If you are only counting the OS as an indication of .NET or no .NET, your numbers are severely inaccurate.

I could count on a single hand the amount of job postings for 'startup/startup-ish' companies that had a .net stack.

Edit: https://stackshare.io/application_and_data#! Somewhat anecdotal but still better than nothing..
Loading down one of their companies with debt and then having it file for bankruptcy is a strategy they've used in the past. I wonder if that's what happened here.
Mobile phones are extremely diverse. Attempting to target any more than one model would be very difficult, and that one model would need to be owned by all contributors.
It is if you sell software to people outside the EU.
This puts me in an uncomfortable spot w/regards to abortion. My go to argument was always 'the lights aren't on yet'.

If I'm understanding correctly they might be, albeit dimly, and each day getting brighter.
The idea of a metaphor is to give you a more clear and ideally accurate understanding of something.
It makes me sad that this might not be a completely obvious reference to everyone. That image is literally embedded in my memories.

Thanks for posting, and highly recommend the book for anyone that hasn't read it!
Actually, that is very hard and also without any benefit for car manufacturers.
If you don't have consciousness you cannot interact with the world around you in a 'human' manner. So yes, when we see minds that did not develop correctly we see what we consider animal like behavior, or no behavior at all.
And increasing the voltage reduces the propagation delay, letting you shorten the clock period (increase frequency). This only works so far, however, before you run into other problems.
I've often thought Opera should have stayed commercial. They probably would have still maintained 1% market share, but with a cool half-billion in revenue keeping it the browser worth paying for. I wonder if it's too late for Vivaldi to start charging $49 or so.
Wonderful explanation, thank you.
Why are these String, not just enums?
They mine with ASIC chips they themselves manufacture in China. If anything this hurts our ability to buy mining hardware from china, the main supplier.
The topic of willful infringement, while unpleasant, is a real concern for many developers and companies. I don't believe the downvotes are justified for a valid concern.
I disagree somewhat, the issue isn't that the infotainment system is a touch screen based series of menus, the problem is they are almost universally shit. They often use resistive screens which have been utter shit since the day they were invented, and only support single touch, making them useless for gestures. The software is slow, the refresh rate of the screen/GPU is brutally slow and primitive, etc.

I don't know if capacitive screens and proper GPUs are just somehow incompatible with cars, or what the engineering problem is to get solid framerates with solid responsive time in a good looking screen, but no car manufacturer other than Tesla seems to have been able to solve this problem.

Now that doesn't address everything you're pointing out here, which several of these are legit points. I'm just saying if my car's touch screen felt more like an iPad and less like an Android tablet from 2006, it would be a metric fuckton easier for me to use.
In a very big molecule [1] that doesn't move, you have so many parts that you can have a reasonable good definition of the temperature.

But in a very small molecule/atom, let's pick a single helium atom, you don't have a good definition of temperature. You can define the temperature of a gas of Helium using the average kinetic energy of the atoms, but you must consider that the whole gas is not moving.

If you put a balloon with Helium in a car, and the car moves at 100mph, the Helium is not hotter, it is moving. So if you can only see a single atom of Helium, you can't be sure if it's moving because it's hot or all the gas is moving. So you don't have a good definition of temperature. [2]

For a molecule with a few atoms (let's say 5 or 10) it's more difficult to be sure if there is a good definition of temperature or not, so I prefer to ignore the intermediate case.

[1] My first idea of a big molecules was DNA, because it's big and well known. But DNA is usually surrounded by water, lots of water, and ions and auxiliary proteins, and a lot of stuff. It's very difficult to isolate a true molecule of DNA alone.

An easy example of a big molecule is bakelite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite that is the plastic of the old phones. Your old phone case was a gigantic single molecule, and the tube case was another. So they clearly had a temperature.

[2] At low temperatures you can assume that a Helium atom is a ball without internal structure. If you increase the temperature of the gas enough (200000K?), the electrons in each Helium atom start to jump between levels and you have some interesting internal structure and may try to define a temperature. But it's still too few parts and too short lived to make me comfortable to define the temperature of a single atom.
Did you overlook the part where <& appears in commit messages?
> The former is certainly not a result of language, and that is what is referred to as consciousness in Buddhist/Hindu philosophy.

I recommend reading Jaynes' book (assuming you haven't already) before you draw any firm conclusions on the role of language.

I really don't think I can do him justice, but his thesis seems to be that humans were, until relatively recently (4000 years ago, perhaps?), non-conscious - they would not have "experienced existence".

He goes on to discuss consciousness as a product of metaphor, and thus with decidedly linguistic origins. That is terrible summary, though, so I recommend reading the book and forming your own view - I have found it quite enjoyable so far.

As an aside, he starts the book with a list of things that consciousness is not, from his perspective:

* Consciousness Not a Copy of Experience

* Consciousness Not Necessary for Concepts

* Consciousness Not Necessary for Learning

* Consciousness Not Necessary for Thinking

* Consciousness Not Necessary for Reason
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> How is "consciousness" not just a modern word for "soul", minus the afterlife stuff?

There's actually an interesting analog with intelligent design. In both cases (evolution, the brain) it's clear that what's happening is that the emergent properties from incredibly complex systems is creating surprisingly complex results (surprisingly complex to the average observer). In both cases this bothers people because it means that humans aren't anything particularly special (just matter that happens to go through certain processes), and because it's hard for them to grasp the scale and complexity of the systems involved. So an invisible non-material explanation is theorized instead which sets humanity above the "mere" material world.
"Yo dawg, I heard you like Tcl..."
To be fair, in the past exchanges weren't the one advancing rules against spoofing. Only when regulators forced them to act they actually started stepping in. Exchanges have an incentive to maximise trading volume, high volatility is good for them.
American cities largely feel like they were designed by people who hate cities.

Living in Munich now, urban design is easily the #1 thing I'd transplant over to the states if I could.
> A traditional GNU/Linux distro can also be installed bare metal on it

I can do the same on my $200 PC. Surely this isn't the best argument to buy a chrome book. What I don't get is why would people pay a premium for something that basically amount to a web browser? Ease of us? Just install Chrome on whatever PC you have and remove the rest of the apps...

> This eliminate Google's data mining of the whole desktop experience and give you better customization options at the same time.

Yes, by giving more money to Google...
> Well, I imagine being hit by a tank round has so profoundly disastrous health effects anyway, the metal toxicity doesn't matter much!

It's also toxic for the people firing the rounds because blowing up a cartrigde will also evaporate some trace amount of the bullet.
> Being a 'good RF citizen'.

And saving battery power by not having extra radio equipment polling for connection apportunities. Win win.
My town was only 30 mins away from the capitol (Boise)

So perhaps the capitol city tax revenue was also used in Meridian (my hometown).
How can companies stay safe in the Digital Transformation Era?
I have an engineering question: Is there any negative feedback for police who violate peoples rights like this? I don't mean theoretically. I mean practically, is there any negative feedback?

The reason this is an engineering question is I think we all know what happens to control systems without negative feedback.
Amazon reportedly working on smart glasses with Alexa built in
Thanks for the suggestion. I just gave them a try with my "ear infection" search, and found that while they provide similar links, they don't give the additional info (like the summary of what it is and the "People also ask" dropdown box) right on the results page that google search does. This is especially important to me on mobile, especially when I have a weak cell signal.