skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would consider this project a success if they can build a functioning high-speed rail line from Fresno to San Jose. Connecting the Central Valley to Silicon Valley - or the fifth largest city to the third largest city in CA - would bring tremendous benefits. If this portion of the project can be proved out, building out to SF and even Sacramento is feasible. I'm not sure it's ever going to be economically feasible to tunnel through the mountains to SoCal.
> You don't get to ask for forgiveness instead of permission when you're playing in space.

It's been a long-standing ethical concern that the breakaway startups succeed by asking for forgiveness (e.g. ride sharing and room letting). Who is to decide that space is any different? And when the technicality is based on radio-waves, why RF spectrums more sacred than housing laws?
"100% not true" is not the same as "not 100% true"...
Have you got info what you'll going to build? Can you prepare a starter project to hit the ground running?

If you have to start from scratch, having built (and documented) a working example helps greatly to get going quickly.

Last, don't forget to take care of yourself, hydrate, bring some food, painkillers, earplugs and so on. Situations like those are stressful enough, easy to rack up a migraine due to dehydration.

Good luck!
"A fool is born every minute..."
Were you FruitCase on AOL?
Your argument is one I've heard many variations of. Ive never found it very convincing. Here's why:

20ish years ago, when I started my career, Google and Facebook didn't exist. Amazon sold only books and was considered a bold experiment. No AWS. People argued about whether linux would be ever be used in production. The iPhone didn't exist. Wifi was a newish spec, but most people getting online (which wasn't most people!) relied on modems, or isdn if you happened to live in certain places. There was no "internet of things" - heck "information superhighway" metaphors were finally starting to phase out, and the average American would still talk about The World Wide Web so awkwardly you could hear the capital letters. Self driving cars were total sci fi that could never happen because it's hard, plus who would you sue? (Plus cest la change, plus cest la meme chose)

(I might be off by a year or two, but the point remains)

I entered the profession about 20 years ago and have seen all of this change. At my age, I can expect to be in the industry for most of the NEXT 20 years. Before I even retire. Given that the rate of change accelerates - https://ddcvqwvagfyuw.cloudfront.net/content/uploads/2015/12... - we have no idea what to expect by then, but can expect it to be very different, all while we are still struggling with how to deal with the impact on society that faster travel and communication introduced from before I was even born.

Do I think AI will exist and turn on humanity in that time? Can't say. AI predictions have been notoriously bad. (Usually overconfident, but also in the other direction. 20 years ago it was obvious computers would be able to beat any grandmaster in chess sometime in our lives, but go was considered to be something dramatically past that.

So I don't know if it will happen or even be able to happen. But I'm not convinced by anyone pointing out failures in current tech. That's like saying human flight can't happen because a lot of people failed at it, or that cars won't replace horses because they break down too much. Tech changes and it is change at a growing rate.

To cite a metaphor: if you have a pond. A lily pad gets there. Next day you see there are 2. 4 the next day. Will they overgrow the pond? If you wait until the pond is half covered to worry about it (e.g. 20 days), you have only 1 day to handle it before 'maybe' is proven 'yes', not 20.
Its cause of the people. The more popular something is the worse it gets until eventually its all cats and outrage-culture "fake news". The medium is irrelevant.

Media sucks because you* suck.

*The collective societal you, not the particular individual you.
Ive been reading his blog posts for years, if you are going to form an opinion over one post Im not sure what to say to you.
I see this as a situation where the author is bothered by the reaction of internet strangers. It's a situation where another group has no power over you, other than the power you give them by caring what they think. In this case, I wonder if simply ignoring people whose M.O. is to try grind axes and not make the world better (as well as any such platform -- twitter) might be better. In short "don't feed the trolls."

Hell, I'm not on twitter [at all]. If people on twitter were all mad at me I wouldn't even know, and frankly I don't want to, because I'm not emotionally beholden to them.

On an unrelated note, I found her actual advice very solid.
Anyone know if it is possible to fork a repository on some other git hosting service on github?
A scooter hitting a pedestrian can easily kill the ped. And yes, I suppose I only have an anecdote, but it feels like evidence to me.
> However people should definitely not ride Birds on sidewalks (although a majority of people do).

This, is why we can't have good things. Because assholes ruin it for everyone.

Most electronic scooters I've encountered are on sidewalks and pavements, travelling at speeds that can injure pedestrains pretty badly.

It does seem (to me at least) that alot of these idiots take pride in their turning skills, weaving left and right, avoiding people at the last moment possible. Most people just have to stop moving and wait for the bikes to pass because their speed these things are travelling at, coupled with the distance they are away from them, leaves pretty much zero margin for their (the rider's) error. Theres literally nothing much you can do, except to hope they don't hit you.

Furthermore, these bike are pretty silent. When they come from behind, it's quite a shock to the pedestrain.

Its a nice innovation, but I'm inclined to towards heavy handed regulation towards these things because of assholes.
Disagree with both of the other commenters here, job hunting is super stressful when you don't have a day job to fall back on. I would not normally leave a job without having another already lined up.
I think push it a little more consumer-friendly and have made to order furniture that you pick up locally. Completely customized at a normal price.

I believe this is where fashion will go. Items made specifically for the person wearing it (perfect fit every time) but at a cost of mid-level fashion because of advances in manufacturing.
Solid advice.
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (BWV 582). Actually, just the Passacaglia.
People could submit their phone number anywhere that collects leads (be it dentists, charities, or SaaS companies), wait for a call, and then press the button to get the money.
I think it's interesting exploratory work, but you can't just assume that the "personality" of Norwegian prisoners is the same as American ones. There are vast environmental and cultural between the two populations that play a causal role in personalities; to assume that personality differences would "average out" is not a reasonable assumption.

I don't mean to say that the Norwegian model can't or wouldn't work in the US, but it can't be considered any more than "exploratory" from a US policy perspective.
It can be project turnover. Take mine for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16283252

It has that attribute you are complaining about, but without the problems you presume. Suppose we hired you. Perhaps a couple months pass between when the job ad is posted and when you physically show up for your first day of work. We aren't going to put projects on hold while waiting for you; we'll assign those to other people. Once you show up, we'll get you started on a project.

That project assignment won't last forever. We may decide that you are more valuable elsewhere, perhaps after you get a security clearance. (another reason we can't say much, along with plain ordinary proprietary information) Projects tend to last a year or two.

It's not as if we have no idea. We can say in general terms what kind of stuff you could work on. Telling you about a project that might be done before you start your first day of work would make no sense at all.

I wouldn't call it wildly disorganized, but the details are not perfectly predictable. There are people managing a pipeline of upcoming projects. They propose things to customers, get feedback, place bids to do the work, get contracts, set things up for doing the work, and then match up employees with projects.
Just about all bathroom and window cleaners cause shortness of breath for me. Maybe it's because I smoked tobacco for so many years. So I use diluted vinegar on windows, and baking soda plus dish detergent on surfaces. And diluted citric acid for lime, because it's faster than acetic acid.
But it doesn't say which cleaners were tested. For example perhaps Simple Green is not at the same level as Formula 409.
Incidentally one of his lute suites is the same as the c minor cello suite. Except I think on lute it's in either a or e minor, I forget now. I don't know whether the cello suite came first or the lute suite though.

But as a violist I found this interesting. I like to play his violin sonatas and partitas but on viola but people have discouraged me from this because it means changing the key and everyone insists that Bach is very deliberate in his choice of key and it's almost blasphemy to think about playing his music in a different key. But the lute/cello suite is a direct contradiction to this.
Pitbull, surprisingly enough, seems to be quite the business person. If you'd like evidence of this, and you, like me, think his music is aweful and his voice grating, take a look at how well he's done. He is more of an entertainer by trade, and he has performed in front of some very illustrious bodies, and invested his time in lucrative ventures. He's overcome a lack of musical talent with really good business moves... In some ways it reminds of Taylor Swift, who, going against her public image, seems to be incredibly shrewd and activistic in business matters, and has repeatedly given big tech companies the bird.
google glass has found a great application in heads-up displays for factory floors and other large industrial machinery. it's arguably a lot more exciting than anything they tried in the consumer space; it has the feel of a problem being solved thoroughly and well.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/03/18/51...
I'm of the same mindset. I won't make a Google account just for a website login, and I won't use Facebook login for anything at all after an experience with winding up in "Facebook Jail" after they decided an image I posted "violated community standards" and then unable to log into another account I had tied to Facebook. I don't know if it was a transient issue or what, but it made me step back from using anything that required such logins.

I run my own email still, and I won't manage to get locked out of my own stuff. The same cannot be said of Google or Facebook.
No info on the build. But thanks for the tips.
It is safe following distance if you can stop if the car in front of you stops. As in, you have to have time to react to the other car braking and then you have time to slow down while that car is braking. Not if a standing obstacle comes from behind that car in no time. Especially if that obstacle is not visible through the car in front of you.

After all, traffic rules clearly say "no stopping on highway" specifically for that. Even shoulder is only for emergency and you have to GTFO ASAP from there.
HN types think they're the smartest of the smart, yet judging from these comments and from other music-related posts I've seen here, most of you listen to popular music (including rock and rap) near exclusively. The comments seriously offering up pop stars as equals of Bach are just sad.

Go on a pop diet. Cut back on it the way you might sugar or processed foods. Try to spend a year listening to classical music only. These resources will help you get started:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/music

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezhx8YiGIV8...
200 PPM if their MSDS[1] is to be believed, but damn. This is the best marketing I've ever seen for the most inane product this side of a dodgy ICO.

[1]: http://phurwater.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/MSDS-Cleaner...
Yeah, I'd like it if the word real was put in quotes in the title of the HN post at least.
It's not cognitive dissonance at all. You're talking about safe speed based on line-of-sight. Meanwhile safe following distance is completely different matter. One of the reasons why traffic works is that we trust other drivers and rely on them.
Hmm, not really important but I looked at it again and I don't think whatever is happening on the userspace client front is going on in their server repo.
The problem I think, is how many people will actually pay that money to be "blown away" one time, and how many people will pay to be "blown away" multiple times after.

We had few "VR experience center"s in our little city, they were popular when they just opened, but now most of it are closed.

So, I think "blown away" is not enough, usefulness is important.
Netflix Patches: Company Tests Gamification for Kids TV Shows
No, not probably in the sense I think you mean (maintaining a server side reference to an upstream, possibly including the ability to PR into the upstream). Though most git hosting providers provide a similar concept and it’s easy enough to have an account elsewhere if you’re going for “ease of use” (meaning the UI management of a clone).

However you can mimic some of it manually by cloning and pushing. You’d also need to maintain the upstream relationship manually.
> "The only way we can really call today the "early stages" of either of these technologies is by imagining a future where they dominate."

I'd suggest domination is not a prerequisite for success. Let's imagine a scenario where only 5% of the world population uses VR or AR on a regular basis. That's still a market of millions of people, but it's not at the level of world domination. Not every new technology has to replace the one before, it's far more common for old and new technologies to co-exist.
Yes, and now you’ve mentioned that it was mentioned in the article. So here we are, mentioning things.
Not to say that an expired cert isn't bad of course :)
Palantir Wins $876M U.S. Army Contract
Latency would be higher, and might make phone calls a little awkward perhaps?, but it shouldn't make any longer to download a file. You might want to modify protocols so they send acknowledgements less often, or use larger packets perhaps.
That's a pity. I was thinking that maybe Mozilla was getting back on track and making a no-nonsense web browser. Instead they're diverting resources to yet another gimmicky fad.
It should be noted that his explanation for the photoelectric proved that photons we’re discrete objects, paving the way for quantum mechanics, and his explanation for Brownian motion was the first definitive proof that matter was made up of atoms.

I point this out just because someone unfamiliar with these topics might think that those two papers were some esoteric things that physicists appreciate but most people wouldn’t.

Einstein always gets associated with relativity and e=mc^2, but I’d argue those were not his top accomplishments. The Nobel Prize committee seemed to agree. (He won for his work on the photoelectric effect i.e. quantum mechanics.)
This is why I always use US or USA, the citizens of which are properly referred to as gringos.
Britain’s White-Collar Cops Are Getting Too Good at Their Job
You might find John Baez's article on this interesting.

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/ice/

He covers both the basics, and some of the reasons why he, as a mathematician, finds the variety of ice structures interesting.

Of note, he mentions that Ice VII (the type of ice discovered in the article) has previously been created by Sandia's Z Machine

http://www.sandia.gov/z-machine/
Why I Prefer Functional Components
Simpler times....
Life isn't just about doing what puts food on the table. Though, Paul Ryan and Newt Gingrich would like us to think that.
You can make it simpler.

Request -> gae -> pubsub -> dataflow to bq template.

https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/templates/provided-te...
There’s even an argument bike helmets make bike riding less safe (or at least don’t help at all): https://bicyclesafe.com/helmets.html
Accuracy of GPS Sports Apps: Can I Trust My Sports App
I see. That's a nice feature.
Excellent point. 0 bankers went to jail (other than that one BofA dude). One of the great travesties of this decade.
Exactly this. It's always amazing to me how latency gets confused with bandwidth.
You do realize he hasn't been involved with the company since the 90s?
Hi Ivan! I love your product.
Do you guys accept remote employee? Thank you.
^^^this

A DARPA researcher explained to me that a quantum computer's qbits would have to be 99.9999999999% error-free (that's 12 nines) in order to perform the necessary steps of Shor's quantum factorization algorithm. Current state of the art qbits are 99.9-99.99% error-free. Basically, we have a long way to go.
Background: I just started a systems integration project that leverages Lambda pretty heavily as part of a messaging API. Behind an API Gateway Lambda functions will be responsible for processing initial message requests, routing the requests to certain SQS queues based on certain criteria, and then making requests to other systems as messages come into the various queues. Each of these parts of the process have their own set of functions that will run independently. I’m writing my Lambda functions using C#/.NET Core 2.0 (I started with Go initially but I’ve used C# before and find that I personally prefer it).

So far I think the development process has been good. Deployment has been okay, and I’ve found it easier to deploy my .NET functions vs the old Go functions.

Logging/debugging is a bit of a chore but not awful. Cloudwatch alarms are fairly useful for knowing when something critical happened, but you still have to dig in fairly deep to find the relevant error information.

Performance wise, Go was really fast even with the smallest amount of memory. Cold starts were around 1s and requests after that were around 30-40ms on average. C# is substantially slower unless you bump up the memory.

All that being said, overall I really enjoy developing Lambda functions and not having to worry about containers, etc., because I’m not a DevOps person. I would definitely use it again for other projects, and probably will.
Adams also wrote: "The familiarity of the Brandenburgs should not blind us to their magnitude. I’m convinced that Bach is the greater genius who ever walked among us, and the Brandenburgs are what he wrote when he was happy."
Ah yea, I guess you’re right. With a small planet it’s something I never have to think much about since things always seem fast enough.
I remember playing a VR game at a mall kiosk in the 90s. I realize that the component miniaturization that came along with mobile phones has huge ramifications for the cost and quality of VR, but it's not like there haven't been people thinking about VR content for 25 years.

Maybe the barrier to entry for VR hardware is low enough now that some small team will invent something that makes it a must-have, but I remain as skeptical now as I was when Oculus first hit the hype train. I haven't really used an Oculus or a Vive, so I hope this isn't coming from a place of abundant ignorance, but VR just feels like hype feeding hype. I haven't heard a VR concept that justifies it yet. The only one I even want to try is Tilt Brush.
They have limited resources precisely so that they can't go after everyone.

Add revolving doors to this and everything makes sense.

On top of this, Shkreli brought a seedy but commonplace practice in the mighty pharma industry to the front page during a presidential campaign and made powerful enemies, including public opinion.

He wasn't sentenced for that, just like Al Capone wasn't sentenced for gangsterism.
Thomas Paine: spendthrift, scrounger and polemicist of genius
Coincidentally, the U.S. Government is a pretty big McAfee customer.
The study [1] wasn't testing specific cleaners; it was a long-term study following people who use varying amounts of cleaning products in day-to-day use (those who don't clean, those who clean on a regular basis at home, and those who clean as an occupation).

[1] Full text: http://www.thoracic.org/about/newsroom/press-releases/resour...
>Go on a pop diet. Cut back on it the way you might sugar or processed foods. Try to spend a year listening to classical music only.

Why would anyone do any of these things? Besides the nebulous benefits of realizing how wrong we were for enjoying rap?
Then just lie, cheat, steal and kill until one reaches their goal. In a way, it seems clear cut punishment is more humane than medicating or isolating a criminal out of existence. Punishment tells the criminal "this is wrong" in clear terms. Anything else communicates "you are an animal without moral agency and we treat you as such." Consequently, unpunished criminals will act as animals instead of rational beings.
A cryptocurrency heater for your home
Ah, the University of Bath study again. That study was barely scientific. The researcher was his own test subject, and nobody has ever replicated the result.

Yet it is now a "fact" that helmets make car drivers pass closer to you, because of this study.
An old girlfriend/still friend of mine started as a temp with Apple in 1998, became a permanent employee, and is still there. And another friend just moved on from Cisco after 20 years.

It happens.
I listen to many things. I would liken popular music to your 30 minute sitcom. Whereas a concerto or a symphony i would liken to the entire Star Wars movie series or similar. It can take a composer 10 minutes to set up a “scene” and pop songs are lucky to be 4 minutes long and sometimes as short as 2.
>And probably a month of airplane travel just to get there.

Space travel would probably be more advanced by now.
The people telling you that Bach is specific about his key are talking about his work on temperament...none of which applies to the cello suites or sonatas and partitas for solo violin. The violin family isn't tempered, and wasn't played tempered unless it was playing with a keyboard.

On the violin family his choice of keys was driven by the technical requirements of the instrument, what open strings were available, what chords were natural.

Transpose them a fifth down and play them with no worries. I certainly transpose the cello suites up an octave and a fifth and play them on violin with no qualms.
These are stand up razor-like scooters - they wouldn’t ‘easily’ kill a pedestrian. A car hitting one without a helmet on the other hand...
Landis and Gyr Agrees to Leave Documents Up, Then Sends Notice to Take Them Down
Senators Introduce New Bill to Protect Digital Privacy at the Border
I've seen a series of these types of articles, and I'm not sure if they're trying to make the next linux or doing it for fun.

One problem to me is drivers, drivers, drivers. Linux has a bunch of 'em. Other operating systems, not so much.
I attended a lecture on this method just last month. I don't think this is particularly new, but it is definitley fun to learn about! Trapped-ions controlled by lasers is one of the main methods of implementing qbits.
>Only on US earned income.

For Japan at least, this is incorrect. If you are an American living in Japan, both countries will tax your unearned income[0], regardless of the source.

[0]Social Security and other government pensions being the main exceptions.