skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10,000 NM of torque. That's INSANE. I drive a car with 400NM torque and that thing scares the sh*t out of me when I accelerate. 10,000 NM? Isn't that something along the lines of a tram or a train (I'm not sure, I'm asking you guys). This is CRAZY. I'm getting one for sure.
No, it hasn't. Still, the majority of TV viewers use TV utility providers, not ISPs. When the average couch dweller sits down, grabs a remote, and turns on Netflix instead of "channel 42" on cable TV, WebTV will be commonplace, but it won't happen until the young Netflix-watching generation completely replaces the older cable-watching generation.
Service stations are the new video stores
Show HN: The awesome Git cheat sheet, a tiny Git cheat sheet written in ReactJs
https://the-awesome-git-cheat-sheet.com/
These girls and boys don't race, they revv. But yes, I hope you're right.
Let’s run only the tests that matters.. but who really cares?
Good for you. I completely agree with your sentiment re: scraping. It's ok if Google or another big company does it but god help you if you do as an indie dev. Thank you for sharing this. I commend you.

I've scraped millions of records from all kinds of companies big and small,
politely of course, and I will definitely continue to do so at my discretion for ideas. In your case I would've scraped southwest without hesitation.

I'd make sure to distance yourself from the trademark as much as possible. Maybe even remove "sw" from the domain name but otherwise I don't see how they have a case.

TOS trying to enforce anti-scraping measures is a joke and makes a mockery of the judicial system.
ok i expected HN to have the pmarca thesis in mind - aren't phone browsers still open software? am i being too idealistic?
Physical Turing Machine
There's a thing in essays where the author signifies cutting through the bull with some earthy and down-home talk, but I think this sentence "It’s too soon to tell, but it ain’t look so pretty from here." is a step too far.
That’s part of the marketing to help bring awareness to the need for the service.

I always donate to their general fund, which means they do the allocating.
Spicy hawt doggy style fucking
I await Tesla's foray into serious racing with bated breath. I'm sure Porsche and Audi are terrified.

If they gave a shit about developing actual performance EVs, I'd expect them to be in Formula E, but they're not. BMW, Audi, Mercedes and Porsche are.
IMHO even if facebook cloned all the functionality, if people found snapchat easier to use they wouldn't have jumped ship the moment it became an option.
I like this way of thinking. It explains a load of products and technologies.
i'm still shocked that Microsoft decided to discontinue that.. there was so much great research being done on the back of that little device.
The top speed is quoted as being in excess of 400km/h? They have the same problem with speed rating of the tyres.

I'm also curious as to how much it will weigh given the batteries (given the weight of other Teslas).
It's not like CRISPR didn't pan out - it's just that biology takes a long time to understand. Cas9 was only characterized 5 years ago. It's now routinely used in all sorts of research applications and clinical trials for therapeutic uses are starting up - I can't imagine a faster timeline.
actually maybe the article just needs an editor or at least a proofreader.
> Does this mean that Tesla is pivoting from their attempt to produce a medium-priced car in quantity and going back to hand-building high-end cars?

It's a halo car...

Car companies build halo car to get consumers attention to their brand and to sell other models.

Nissan didn't have to build the GT-R R35 but it did because it's a halo car.

Another example is Toyota LFA.
"Can't wait to get to work. Anywhere is better than this cold shower". Plausible...
I live in London, and both Apple Pay and Android Pay are almost ubiquitous here. I recently hired a rowboat from a guy at renting them at the side of a river in the countryside - and paid with Apple Pay.

Admittedly, I’ve no idea how much either are used, and how widespread they are outside London.
i mean.. also Javascript. people learned to live with it, and it evolved to be more tolerable through a messy mishmash of tooling and language evolution.
Pretty sure Model 3 production is going amazingly well, yeah. Astoundingly well. But the media's portrayal of it has people convinced otherwise.

Let's try this perspective instead:

"Decade-old electric car company moves up plan for mass production of new affordable long-range sedan by 2 years"

And then ask ourselves, after moving it up by 2 years, does a 3-month delay mean "things are going badly"?

If I say I'm going to leap 500 feet, and then I leap 450 feet, do you say I failed?
I took this video. I assure you it is real
Ask HN: Is it possible to implement scrum in a multi-project environment?
The agency I've been working for some months now, decided, after years of waterfall mode, to move into Agile development.

I have experience in a scrum (I know agile is not only scrum) environment but have never worked in a multi-project company before, so I wonder if it's possible to adopt scrum in a company like that (Because I'm referring to projects and no products to start with :)).

Of course not every project has the same amount of work, some of them require a few hours of maintenance a month, some full development of new features...

We don't have enough people to have a team per project (we're around 5 backend developers, 1 Fronted dev + 2 interns, 1 designer and 1 designer/frontend developer) So I don't really know how it would be possible to have self-organized cross-functional teams, define a sprint, etc.

Do we need a different product backlog per client, with a different sprint planning, retrospective? Several PO's? How do we split the teams?
Also, if the clients need to approve the designs, how do we integrate UX/UI into a cross-functional team? Wouldn't this put in risk the sprint? Should we ditch scrum and pick something else?

I know, so many questions but would really appreciate if anyone can share some info/ experiences!

Thank you
> say "move, sloth" when people stand on the left side of an escalator

That's insulting everywhere. Even if there was consensus about escalator etiquette (in Europe and America), that's still needlessly offensive.

People too often assume how other people need to behave and then freak out when they don't. Apparently, japanese can assume such behaviour, at least on the escalator.

Still, throughput is higher when you have two lines standing on an escalator, instead of leaving one line open for rushers. Though throughput would be even higher, if everyone stampeded up the escalator on both lines. So how SHOULD everybody behave?
HOT – #32's copy of the Angular Typescript weekly newsletter
I liked Google Buzz! and was sad to see it go away.
I don't really know, I just kinda got blindsided.. i saw 1 or 2 people playing with drones and i was like "this is a specific group of people like the model aircraft folk" and then the next day it was everywhere.

Now I can totally understand that it's an important evolution in tech and will probably solve the last mile problem (at least some of it) in the near future.
Make is an existing, well documented tool that exists specifically to build targets (run commands) only when the prerequisites for that target have changed.

My "question" was rhetorical. The implied actual question is "why this, when make exists".
Maybe the side windows are not that strong? Interesting question nonetheless.
I would argue that e-readers actually do need reasonably low latencies. The reason I still read books is because I can flip through pages quickly and glance over 20 pages a second as I look for the page with a certain pattern of text or an image.
Yes Hydrogen Fuel Cells! Toshiba was claiming in 2006 that they were coming for laptop batteries. I still think the future of energy is solar cells, using water+electrolysis to get hydrogen for storage, and a fuel cell for conversion back to electricity.
Is there any academic study showing this?
Anti Ageing seems too broad a category to be useful. were there any specific vectors or products you had particular hopes for?
Ford sold Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata motors during the recession. They also sold Aston Martin and Volvo.

> edit: Ford didn't start Jaguar.

I don't even know what this even mean. Nor do I understand what the original comment of yours mean. It doesn't make any sense and it doesn't seem like you are well verse with cars or automakers at all...
Ah, sorry, brakes see less wear. I forgot.

Design and maintenance procedure remains the same, maintenance interval drastically increased.
As a not-yet-experienced Go programmer, I have to say it'd make it way more palatable if the reference to the error in my code could be somehow extracted and displayed in a more obvious fashion. I've had panic happen in Go code before (most of the time when trying to read the body of a http response that happened to be nil for whatever reason) and I was kind of lost in a trace of errors happening deeper in the standard library that I mostly didn't care about at first sight (until a few lines down, I could find a reference to my own program).

That being said, Go is still a pretty good language when it comes to tooling and error handling / reporting.
Why your website Matters
List of Top Wireless Display Adapter
Data structures and Algorithm. I am a self-taught developer with experience with serverside programming languages but right now I sell myself as a front-end dev.
A comparison of a few gibberish detection methods
I was going to clap for this story, the first time ever (despite my misgivings regarding grammar and spelling - I'm sure I've made errors in this post, but none as egregious as the ones I've found in the essay) but anyway it turns out to clap on medium I need to create an account. I decided to forgo the opportunity out of respect for the author's evident wishes.
Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would fail but took the world by storm?
You are correct. This notion that Christians don’t “really” believe in God is the latest marketing gimmick of a desperate Church. It’s sad, really. All four of my grandparents would be deeply upset by it.

It’s hard to imagine who Augustine wrote his Confessions to or on whose behalf Galileo was killed, if all these people were just talking about metaphors.
I did read that argument about real estate just the other day.
Oh I forgot about the issues on donating used shoes, food cans etc. So let me rephrase that - This line of logic argues against any cash donation.
More perfs since you are going lower level. You are not limited by cython types or pypy git warming up. You can use the full range of c libs AND rust libs. You benefit from the cargo build tools.
may i ask what you do for a living
I am sure you can engineer an electric motor to sound very enticing. Even without resorting to speakers. As a kid, wouldn’t you have wanted your family station wagon to sound a little more Star Wars?
That's one question, sure, but there's nothing fundamental about it. Here's a second question: should I have to go to the frontpage of a website to find out what's new on it, or get notifications automatically when there's something new?

Here's a completely unprocessed feedreader that I built as a Firefox extension until #$%# Mozilla killed it: https://github.com/akkartik/spew. It answered your question with, "why yes, read each article precisely as it was intended to be read on its own website," but still used RSS feeds for push notifications. Best of both worlds.

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Here's a third question: should I prioritize articles based on how their website shows them to me, based on when they're posted, or by some other prioritization? This may be what stunted RSS: people chose with their feet to prioritize socially (reading what their friends shared: Facebook, Twitter, etc.) or by collaborative filtering (reading what people like them read: Reddit, HN, Lobsters, etc.)

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Here's a fourth question: do I want to be notified of every single post from a source? And this may be RSS's remaining niche. I no longer use it for high-volume sites like CNN or Buzzfeed. Those need prioritization. I do use it for ~250 extremely low-volume sources (that cumulatively yield a dozen or so stories a week) from whom I want to see everything: http://akkartik.name/feeds.xml.
They cannot--coordinating enforcement is impossible for nation state actors, at least not yet.
Why are so many users in the comments on here fear mongering? Don't you understand we already have dumb solutions for killing and making war? Bombs, bullets, Chemical and biological weapons, non of which need a complex robotic platform. How will human shaped robots change anything when we can build flying, hovering grenades and mass deploy them with COTS components?

You know what does need a complex platform like Atlas? Disaster Rescue, Medicine, Telepresence, Automation etc
Smoke detectors contain highly toxic Americum 241 isotope. It's not that hard to remove it from the ionization chamber.
Fujitsu Forum: Keynote ‘Quantum Computing’
I had a look at your site and it looks like normal HTML to me, except
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> at the top. How does that help anything?
hmm. im sure this has been redone by dozens of startups. have you investigated modern iterations? what did you find?
"at least in the elonoggin. Well done Elon!"

You got a little doo doo on your nose.

elonoggin? Really??!
It all hinges on the accessibility of a sturdy frame that can absurd large impacts.

We won't know until it ships, but the front looks plasticky/crumble-zone-ey, and I'm not sure if Tesla would settle for a simple ladder frame.
That is a good point, but PayPal and other services don't need to use cards at all (PayPal balance, attached to a bank routing number), so I don't think it's the reason micro-payments are not the norm.

A credit card alternative from Amazon would be fantastic competitor to VISA / MasterCard to break the lack of innovation in the personal finance industry.
these things? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor

why didn't they? (at a high level... im not too smart about these EE topics)
They've been saying they would make a second roadster for years. This isn't like some surprise change of plans.
I was just about to write my own comment about this: the battery capacity is the real eye-opener in this announcement, I think. The new roadster looks like a car which is rather smaller than the Model 3, certainly not larger. And as a sporty car it wouldn't be heavier either.

So how in all worlds do they fit a 200kWh battery in there?

This can only mean, it has more than twice the capacity per weight and volume than the current Tesla battery tech. Very intriguing. Of course, it could be a very obvious case of history repeating itself. The original Tesla roadster pioneered the current Tesla battery tech, what would be more appropriate (and reasonable) than to launch the next generation battery tech with the next gen roadster? The high price and corresponding smaller sales numbers allows for an easy introduction of experimental technology.
"the share of the economy it will manage when bitcoin adoption is widespread"

Nobody will use BTC as a currency. It's too volatile and has no underpinning.

Much for the same reason Gold is not used as a currency.

Currencies are designed and managed for economic zones. Having a second currency for any zone is unwieldy.

Think: you sell Milk and Bread. You make 5% margins. You sell in USD. Now - if you price in BTC - the price of BTC is fluctuating all day! So how do you even do that? You don't. You could 'accept' BTC and just do the calculation on the spot - as many Canadian stores accept USD at some specific exchange. But - with 5% margins - you can't afford to hold on to those BTC, quick, you have to convert to local currency. So the whole BTC thing is a useless exercise.

Granted - there are some business entities that could use BTC, but again, they'll almost always have a local currency problem and given the inherent volatility of BTC ... it will never go away.

The 'more people that hear about BTC buy it' - true for now, but has nothing to do with economics. It's just a speculative mania.
Kickstarter!
I hate to discuss anything faith-based on HN, but in seeing models of charities like Watsi's, I'm reminded of how Tzedakah (charity) was discussed in Hebrew school growing up. Maimonides suggests that not all giving can be considered equal and outlines a hierarchy for what types of donations are considered most "pious":

1. The lowest: Giving begrudgingly and making the recipient feel disgraced or embarrassed.
2. Giving cheerfully but giving too little.
3. Giving cheerfully and adequately but only after being asked.
4. Giving before being asked.
5. Giving when you do not know who is the individual benefiting, but the recipient knows your identity.
6. Giving when you know who is the individual benefiting, but the recipient does not know your identity.
7. Giving when neither the donor nor the recipient is aware of the other's identity.
8. The Highest: Giving money, a loan, your time or whatever else it takes to enable an individual to be self-reliant. [0]

Maybe it's just the way I was raised, but platforms that allow me to select an individual person to receive my philanthropy (like watsi) make me deeply uncomfortable. The intuition here is that it's more pious to give because it is our duty to take care of those with less than to give out of pity for someone's plight. I would rather give money through a trusted third party, such as a reputable NGO that focuses its efforts on healthcare needs in the developing world. I would rather give to an organization and trust trust their judgement in distributing my money in the ways they believe it is needed most, than pick which individuals are deserving of my charity.

[0] https://www.charitywatch.org/charitywatch-articles/eight-run...
Don't bet on it. Battery density will keep increasing and price will keep decreasing.

It might take 20 years, but it'll happen.
erlang.

As a programmer it was a revelatory thing of beauty. When we tried to spread it within our org we found that the 'typical' (even relatively strong) programmer resisted its concepts and found it hard to learn.

Therefore it didn't scale for us.
Large OLED panels everywhere: TVs, monitors, laptops, etc.

There was a lot of excitement, once blue color longevity issues were solved, how it is easier and thus cheaper to manufacture, how soon it'll outcompete LCD. 20 years later still waiting.
Google!
At the time I heard about this startup in the search space, I thought these people were idiots. Didn't they know that there was already Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, HotBot, Alta Vista, Etc. Another search engine is doomed to failure - especially if they don't even know enough to spell "googol" correctly.
Show HN: Dark Mode List – A List of Apps That Support Dark Mode
I like to use dark mode in a lot of apps and sites like Slack, Chrome, Gmail, Product Hunt, Medium etc. and I tried to find a list of where I could find the dark mode for some other apps with an instruction how to turn it on, and I couldn’t.

So I decided to build my own.

Let me know your feedback or maybe suggest some of your favorite apps that you are using in the dark mode and, HN :)
"with current tech stacks"

Computers will behave sluggishly, unless care and dedication is paid they don't.

I'd start from a 3D engine, a font layout system, and the huge chunk of simple and efficient open source utility libraries that have sprung up. Or slap it on top of QT if that system can be made to behave non-sluggisly.

One point is, that you need to be able to access the low levels of the system. To understand it's limitations on your higher level architecture, and on the other hand, figure out what can be made blazing fast under which circumstances and use those as your bearings as you are developing the system. With usability, and understanding of end user being on the front seat. The whole time.

The point is, although the system does a great many things, there is no reason from the usability point of view those things are done in serial except legacy and poor design. A system can be made to feel immediate despite what it's doing under the skin. Delay those action, design the system with the user and her time as the first class citizen, rather than some other constraint.

Take a modern complex 3D AAA game. One of the root constraints is that it should never lag. Well, they do, obviously, but that is considered a defect more often than not.

And... Word... would need some deeper fixing on it's basic premises. As I recall I was pretty easy to break the Word 1.0 layout system in any number of ways.
Yes, but:

1) Some would say that the open web isn't so open anymore, and is under constant assault. One example might be the recent W3C adoption and endorsement of EME.

2) The fact that the open web "lost" in the battle for mobile dominance is a thing. Most "serious" apps have a native version on at least iOS and Android, and the webapp version (if there even is one) is usually a worse experience.
hmm that's an interesting thought. I have no explanation for it either. My best suggestion for why this didn't happen was the world went mobile and the Android/Apple app store then become the platforms because of the install base and the tighter integration. Facebook (and msft of course) really, really, really fumbled mobile. Not news to anyone but i never thought of it in this context.
I imagine some of the technology in "halo" cars trickles down to mass-produced cars too?
Note his reply:

"Important caveat/warning: if you SSH into that machine, you will NOT be able to sudo, as your fingerprint cannot travel through SSH."
This is known as spotlight effect[0] - people overestimate how much strangers notice details about you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_effect
Ah, I'm sorry, I of course meant filtering of information from the public, not any personal filtering in a wider sense. I may have been wrong to expect that this was clear.

Feel free to wear sunglasses, welding helmets, use ad blockers ("content filter"), attach ND filters to your camera lenses, water filters to your water filtration systems, HEPA filters to air filtration systems, etc.
how was that supposed to work, in your view?
I wouldn't call 1600Nm of torque over 2k rpm pretty close to 10000Nm flat...
Of course, but they effectively get three years at zero interest to make good on that.
mind explaining a little more in terms of how far away we might be able to mass produce these things?
Chinese is #1 according to Wikipedia.
Legs can access an order of magnitude more terrain than wheels.

Think looking for survivors in rubble after an earthquake.
Possibly because it's not actually as anonymous as some people believe.
A lot of this is probably in order to get a 0.36 Cd Drag coefficient! Also having a lot of glass probably increases the view which in turn increases the security!
This is half the top speed of a plane. Insane.
My experiences switching from a Mac to running Arch Linux on a Thinkpad.
I had the same thought [0]! They cite their wheel torque, not their engine torque, which is what we're all used to seeing.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15719411
As for me, one of his successors, Marx.
A close mentor of mine has been working on private cancer research for close to three decades and just recently retired. He was both incredibly hopeful and positively terrified of CRISPR.

He explained CRISPR as "one of the crucial technologies we don't yet have the wisdom to wield"

I recently learned (I believe on here, in the past week), CRISPR was used to develop a genetic treatment on the first human patient to solve an inherently genetic disorder.

I'm honestly terrified we're accelerating our technology faster than our societies can adapt to the potential threats they may pose.
The only application I've seen other than raising money is gambling, e.g. SatoshiDice