skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likewise, I received a few congratulation telegrams upon my marriage long ago, and still got some for condolences for my mother's death in 2013. The telegram service was discontinued here in 2014 due to low demand (even then the transport had for long been actually something different from morse code over dedicated cables.).
That's not all:

> No more regenerative braking
> 35 mile range now
> Using the QC (quick charger?) more than once a day voids battery warranty
Dieselpunk enjoys a pretty substantial following, but then again it's emulating a different era.
Many times .. over 30 years. And yes, it was mostly due to bugs in the code, which I wouldn't have been able to assess if my machine had just OOM'ed everything. That's the point: swap gives you a little leeway for these analyses.
Yet another .gitignore magician in your command line
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Maybe you are right... I think i'm also forgetting there are many different degrees of "stuck" :P . Although most "micro stucks" in my experience definitely fit into a break with your mind in diffuse mode, but at the other extreme it needs some serious and prolonged thought that could well be considered a task in itself.
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This image shows the worldwide wiring map in 1891 for those interested:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/1891_Tel...
Because if the fuel tank breaks you can just weld pretty much any replacement on and it'll work, you could even use a bucket on the back of your pick-up trunk & a hose as a temporary replacement.

That's not the case with electric cars and their batteries. They're deeply integrated with the rest of the powertrain.
As an Estonian I have no idea what the ICO would be about, and why it would be a good idea.

This seems to be a one man show by the author of the article. ICO-s are popular so lets do one of our own! kind of attitude.
We shouldn't. All the nonsense we're trying to cram into the Web is making it harder to justify connecting to it. I long for the days when simple images and text were the norm. Nowadays, I need to have and devote constant system resources to a tracking-blocker, cookie-blocker, an ad-blocker, a script-blocker, a separate javascript-blocker, and a who-knows-what-else-blocker, just to do the things I want to do; let alone the things I need to do.
Sea Buckthorns are considered a much better desert fighter in China than poplars or pines:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=6XfgBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA293&lpg=P...

I have one in my front yard, it's a neat but very aggressive and very thorny shrub.
I'd be interested although I already know it, it would be handy to have an approachable guide for others to point to.
> It is so much easier to make electric vehicles self-driving compared to the ICE vehicles.

Why?
So I should be ok with being lied to to get clicks?

This journalistic blight may indeed have been happening for a long time, but it still discredits the source and should disqualify it from HN.

Some titles are actually honest. Who would've thunk?
Maybe FB doesn't, but the newsfeed display has significantly changed over the years, that expectation based on initial experience aren't matched anymore to the current format. For a significant portion of the user base, this seems to be detrimental to the experience, and one might argue to the engagement sought after by this company.
That sounds like a feature to me
Browsers fall back to default encoding if the page doesn't specify encoding, or the encoding is not supported by browser.
Wrote my first program in 6th grade using the java Robot class to move the mouse and clear out my inventory on the online game Runescape. I had no intention of learning programming back then, i just hated all the tedious clicking lol. This got me super excited about programming, and im a dev now.
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The German post offers fake telegrams: They can be sent via telephone or internet (incl. CSV upload for mass spendings) and will be delivered by regular mail. If entered till 3am it will be delivered on the same day. 160 characters for 12.90€. https://www.deutschepost.de/de/t/telegramm.html
Your complaints about stored procedures seem to be about the nature of the company where they were used rather than any inherent flaw with them.
The number of cars is irrelevant when talking energy needs, only distance traveled matters. And I can definitely see how easily available self driving pool cars will increase rather than decrease the total distance driven, and thus increasing the total need for electricity.
Yes, I think autonomous/shared vehicles could be a massive factor in reducing the number of vehicles, but it wouldn't reduce the power consumption unless the number of actual journeys was reduced. A shared EV running 24/7 would use a huge amount of power.

And that's assuming we could get people to share. Cars seem to be unique in bringing out the very worst in humanity. Jeremy Clarkson, for example.
It cannot be healthy not to have weekends. The jews discovered, a few thousand years ago, that a weekly pause is necessary for the body and the soul. This tradition has been maintained during history and even atheistic regimes, such as the communists, maintained weekends. We should fight to protect time to be spend alone, with family and with friends.
On top of cars is probably the second-worst place to put a solar panel, just after on the road itself (I say this after having participated in building a solar car). It's extremely difficult to get solar panels to work efficiently in that environment, they're almost never pointing in the right direction, they are frequently shaded (even partial shade will wreck the efficiency of a panel). You're much better off putting them at the charging points.
If you know you will be away for 3 hours, why not use a slow charger instead of the limited fast chargers (that are probably more expensive as well)?
How do you know this? You have no idea what bugs were encountered or how easy they were to fix.
In the slightly more distant future, when we have perfected autonomous driving, it could be feasible for a car to drive itself to a large parking facility on the outskirts of a city, for example.

Assuming people still want to own their own cars by then.
what does WebAssembly mean For script-kiddies and malicious sites? I mean : with great power.....
Bitcoin: EU approves cryptocurrency clampdown to combat terrorism financing
This article inspired me to have a play around with Darknet and Darkflow - turns out they're pretty easy to get going on an OS X laptop with Python 3 (installed via Homebrew).

Here's how I got Darkflow working: https://gist.github.com/simonw/0f93bec220be9cf8250533b603bf6...

For Darknet, I just ran "make" as documented here: https://pjreddie.com/darknet/install/ and then followed the instructions on https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/ and https://pjreddie.com/darknet/nightmare/ to try it out.
Local train tickets will now be easy to get
I know a lot of people long for the days when the web was just text and a few JPGs. I personally am waiting for the web to become a rich, ubiquitous, standardised application delivery platform that works on any device. I think web assembly adds to the richness while being fairly standardised, so I welcome it!
In the process, specialised web browsers such as browsers for the blind, will be rendered useless.
How do you think issuing a "crypto token" is legally different from the government issuing you a check which it's going to exchange at face value for Euros, which all governments in the Eurozone can do today?
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Great parable, thanks!
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Hotel industry has just such a bad reputation, shit pay, shit career opportunities, shit personal lifestyle. But it's not always true, there are many great companies and I have built hotelhouse.co, on my evening, a job directory with the only great jobs. I remember got inspired by panda.jobs and say to myself: "I need this for hotels" What do you think? http://hotelhouse.co/
I don't know - whenever I read about bitcoin rising it is immediately followed by something like "last thursday bitcon went down by 20%" so people who only read that will get the impression that it's dangerous to invest.
> Maybe we'll just become less mobile, and be okay with that.

This is bizarre. Is there any other technology, any other quality-of-life issue, in which people would advocate or settle for regression? Technology is advancing faster than ever before, the pace is still increasing--yet people are saying that we should go back to not having personal vehicles, not travelling much...

What's going on here?
I wrote about this in my book ‘C++ Power Paradigms’ that I wrote about 25 years ago. I devoted a very long chapter to an implementation I called Vari-Gene where I started by using a small number of bits to represent weight parameters and slowly increased the number of bits per weight. At the time, I had lunch with John Koza and we discussed my idea. He said that it was a net idea but that it wouldn’t scale. He was correct, I never was able to train a large recurrent net. BTW, I didn’t see any source code and data mentioned in the first linked article. Any links?
I am not sure a GraphViz digraph is the way to go.

If you want to keep track of what is done and what is remaining eventually you will need to update that file.

This will quickly lead to version control conflicts.

Issue trackers I think are the way to go. You can integrate with one using their API.
This resonates what I am thinking as well. I used to put my point of view on things on social media and such but I kind of had to stop doing that because of the latter reason.
Do you have a source?

I'd believe the 15B is transaction volume (including investors buying/selling) not payments for regular goods?
> Show me some working software or this is all hand-waving bullshit.

You're in luck:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.acinq.eclai...

https://medium.com/@lightning_network/lightning-protocol-1-0...

There are currently 3 implementations by different teams being tested, all compatible with each-other and open-source.

No, it's not production ready, there are still plenty of bugs and missing features but it's close and you can go test it right now on testnet if you want to.
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Sounds about right.

I built a moderately complex application in Django at a previous workplace, using the ORM for most things, until the queries were too complex for the ORM.

Another guy connected to the same database and built some graphs using PHP and SQL. Guess who had to help him write the SQL when the queries got too complex for him? The ORM user.
As long as Estonia is backing Estcoins with Euro reserves there shouldn't be an issue.
Politics? Que? I didn't mention anything political.
With all major browser JIT compiling JavaScript, aren't they already?
TheVRkit: A New Product That Converts Any Smartphone into a VR Camera
Hello,

We have launched "theVRkit", a hardware and software kit that converts any smartphone into a high resolution Virtual Reality camera.

- here is a short video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RHVHephf3A)

- press release (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/10/prweb14844804.htm)

- the app is also available for free on:

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thevrkit/id1139219796?mt=8
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dermandar.thevrkit&hl=en

Website: http://www.theVRkit.com/
$56 dollars today. The book is on an educational robot.
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I would like that but I just can't stand all the the talk, for me it's so wrong and incoherent that I wouldn't be able to start arguing so I don't go.

The community part is really great though, as a Expat I really miss that sometimes.
I was just thinking today that emoji are kind of like Chinese characters. It would be interesting to have a kind of emoji / esperanto type mashup.

The main innovation would be that it would be a language where you could read or write it before you knew how to speak or pronounce it. Each emoji could have a specific sound that your smartphone could tell you.

I think it would be appealing to people to be able to use a language without having to study / learn it first.
A comment at the end of the article:

>Lost productivity to malware = 0hrs. Lost productivity to windows auto updates = 28 hrs. Sitting here right now losing time and money to an unauthorized update. I know how to avoid malware on my work laptop.

That's a bit like how some people (who weren't THERE) think the Y2K-thing was a non-event: they didn't see all the work that got done fixing things before the big day.
As a side note, at least here in Italy, serving a glass of wine at a restaurant is a relatively recent use (say in the last 15-20 years) new thing (most probably "imported" from other countries).

Until then you either ordered a bottle (around 75 cl) or some "house" wine, served in (measured) of either 25 cl (a quarter, "un quartino") 50 cl (a half liter, "un mezzo") or 100 cl (a liter, "un litro"), that looked like these:

http://bar-barman.com/1183-thickbox_default/caraffe-misura-b...

Or, in many places, wine was "a consumo" (upon consumption?) where the waiter would bring on the table a full "fiasco" (large bottle of wine, usually 1.75 l) and then estimate how much of it you emptied when it came to calculate the bill.

In any case normally each person would drink no more than "un quartino", no matter the size of the glass.
Governments can issue all the “crypto tokens” they want, whereas they have to borrow Euros.

That being said, if a token has a central issuer, there’s no need to use any form of blockchain technology — digital signatures alone will suffice (add Chaumian blinding to make it more cash-like).
Building HN Client with RxJS Multiple Request – ConcatMap vs. MergeMap Vs
While unfortunate it is good that this happened. It will help some 'more creative' individuals in marketing feel the boundaries they didn't understand.

Comparing FF and Chrome security/privacy wise is ridiculous, I really don't understand that anybody tries to compare those two.
> Doomed to break because no one tests against them?

Every browser on that list is based on either Chromium or Gecko.
There is one in my city, never heard of it before...
thanks for the input I will give it a shot...
That could be because the devs simply don't use Linux as a desktop OS. Again, this was a side project after all.

Given that both MPD and Electron has Linux support, PlexAmp will get it soon enough now that it has been released to a wider audience and hopefully gets more internal support.
So this can identify anything at all? That’s pretty amazing. Maybe we’re getting closer to a dish washing robot.
To do it, you just have to try. Once you are off Facebook you are back to having a proactive experience towards friends instead of simply browsing feeds and clicking "Like!" icons.
Yeah, I understand, and there's lots of problems left for engineers to work on when it comes to cryptography in general, such as in embedded systems now that self driving cars and IOT devices become prime targets.

I think it's good if investors raise their eye brow sceptically and say "a cryptography company you say?" thinking about a cryptocurrency bubble, because then us engineers really have to step up our game and show rather than tell what we can do. As it is now, you just have to speak about the future rather than actually implement something at a reasonable cost today before investors go nuts, as evidenced by the subject of the OP's article.
Honestly, this really downplays Tawny. I have a half-decent bottle of a 2011 LBV Tawny Port, which is about as low quality as I will drink. I opened it probably six to nine months ago, and it's still pretty good, though obviously not at its prime.

Traveling around Spain and Portugal you can find Vintage Ports that cost about $25 and will taste absolutely amazing (though I try to stick to above 20-year oaked tawny blends). Quite a few are not very sweet, and not very heavy. Also, Vintage Port has a considerable shelf life. The oldest currently available vintage is 1815.
> It's funny, because we already have a "government-backed currency" but we prefer to bail-out the banks instead of bailing-out individual in distress...

What, exactly, does “bailing out individuals in distress” comprise?
This is a place where Mercurial wins out. Hg has the concept of phases that makes it much harder to screw up rewriting history:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Phases
Some Unicode works here — like the preceding em dash and the hair spaces around it, along with bullets:

• One

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I can't say I understand why you selected those two organizations: the CDC doesn't have pharma manufacturing expertise that I am aware of (interested to hear of what you know on that angle); the NSF is non-medical and it's a grant agency, no labs. I should also note that even if they were chartered for this sort of work and were working on it, they would face the same source material supply problems facing commercial groups that result in some supply interruptions, and the basket of problems associated with manufacturing small amounts of drugs.

There are many non-profit and academic institutes that are working on the problem of generic drug costs holistically, including figuring out how to produce APIs (in pharma, API is active pharmaceutical ingredient) from plentiful source materials and how to produce the APIs by flow processes so that small quantities of drugs are more economical to produce. They're doing good work but it's a hard problem, experienced execs and leaders are difficult to come by, and getting funding in biotech is far more difficult than getting funding in IT. They do receive support from NIH, FDA, DARPA (making drugs at a CSH in the middle of Afghanistan is useful), big pharma (being able to make drugs cheaper is generally of interest), and philanthropic groups. Many smart and talented people are "on it!", good progress is being made, but it is a hard problem.
> I long for the days when simple images and text were the norm.

The main issue with the web currently is that tools designed for the purpose of displaying simple images and text, plus a little interactivity, are being stretched to realize complex applications.

Powerful on-demand applications on the web are a good thing, and it's a good thing that we're finally getting the tools to build them properly.
The whole e-Residency program from Estonia is very interesting. How did that particular country end up with a government that seems to be so willing to embrace cryptography related technologies?

Wikipedia says Taavi Kotka was a driving force. Does anybody happen to know if he's on HN?
Electronic e-CVT (that hybrids like the Prius have) and mechanic push-belt CVT (non-hybrid) are completely different things mechanically.
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Sure. But it’s money that motivates BT to spend money on infrastructure investments. No matter how you structure your infrastructure markets, ensuring adequate investment is the single most important thing. You can do this with markets or quasi markets, or you can do it through government agency decision making. With the former, you need to ensure attractive returns on investment. Not merely bare profit, but enough profit so that the billions of dollars don’t get invested elsewhere. Having the government make the decisions doesn’t magically eliminate the issue of ensuring adequate investment. It makes it even harder! With the government is on the hook for making investments, you’re always subject to pressure from other priorities. There is a reason roads and bridges and water systems in the US are crumbling. We’ve dramatically underinvested.
Being able to use PayPal wheb it is blocked in your country.

Being able to have a business address within the EU when you live without the EU (and if your business is small you may not have the chance at all to get an address within the EU)
Price? (for normal people)

Yes there are EVs cheaper than teslas at a comparable price to ICE cars, but they don't seem to have comparable performance and utility. I can't make an economically minded decision to buy an EV today unless i'm an EV enthusiast or I have lots of money to spend on luxury. (That was Elon Musks whole point of Tesla in the first place, but the market doesn't seem to have substantially shifted since)

Also for second hand cars, maybe it's different in the US, but in the UK the vast majority of people buy used cars at prices well below the "new price". It's going to take quite a while for EVs to trickle down to that price range for it to be economical for 90% of people to bother considering it.
Faster response time in motor control, high torque in low revs. Makes math simpler.
I wonder how an algorithm with low explainability will be treated, like a large nueral network. Seems like it would be hard to pin it on the algorithm rather than the data.
The point might have been that with access to emojis (on other platforms) youngsters no longer use the oldschool emojis. Use of oldschool emojis strongly suggests oldschool poster :)
I agree with this to a point, as an occupant of a peripheral nation. In particular how the depressed Euro helps them out because it reduces the cost of their exports.

But, you simply can't argue with German productivity! Or the general quality of the goods they produce, and when it comes to getting good value groceries around Europe again it's the German supermarkets that are leading the way.

There is a problem to solve with regards to how German economic activity is balanced with the social needs of the European area. My personal bug bear is how the peripheral nations are expected to foot the bill of maintaining the periphery themselves, while Germany sits cosily in the centre printing Euros for herself.

But at the foot of Germany's success is doubtless her ability to manage her economy better than most, investment in education and to her fostering and nurturing of talent both home grown and from abroad.
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Maybe they did something silly that had no real consequences, but the browser should face consequences.
He meant for inference.
8th grader here! I've been programming for a relatively years (maybe around 7-8, very basic stuff of course, like turtle games and scratch. Huge thanks to my Dad :) ), and this seems like a really really great thing to do.

Most people in my grade I think would be able to make it through making a calculator, but maybe with some trouble. I'm also not sure if many of them have the attention span either.

I think my favorite thing about this is how it's all text based. My school currently does an event every year called "hour of code" where you do some visual programming for about 40 minutes (class period cuts it off). It's usually the same thing every year, and it seems like people don't learn anything new at them.

I hope your students keep on learning, and you keep on teaching!
From the site: The kind of binary format being considered for WebAssembly can be natively decoded much faster than JavaScript can be parsed (experiments show more than 20× faster). On mobile, large compiled codes can easily take 20–40 seconds just to parse, so native decoding (especially when combined with other techniques like streaming for better-than-gzip compression) is critical to providing a good cold-load user experience.
– from the FAQ of WebAssembly

If you build a website and have to parse something for 20-40 secs for a user, they should fire you on the spot for bad design. Start working for adult sites, if loads longer then 2 secs, redesign.
Only valid for small values of "idea".
Good point. UK & Denmark both have formal de jure opt outs, negotiated on launch of the EUR project. Sweden is a de facto opt out. By not entering the ERM trial period and managing SEK into a band with EUR, SE never enters the Eurozone.