skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> only pigeons could have done before.

I find this peculiar. Hydrogen balloons were used for surveillance in the Civil War, 40 years earlier. It would have been easy to attach a camera to a small hydrogen balloon, with a clockwork device to puncture the balloon to bring it down in a reasonable distance.
To an average user, the latest Windows versions really don't add anything useful over WinXP or even Win2k. Many things got worse, like discovering and starting installed applications. Slap a modern UI theme on XP, and nobody will notice that it's a nearly 20 year old OS.
Also a thick A-pillar will block vision for a few degrees slightly to the sides. Enough to give me a couple of "crap, did not see that (car/pedestrian)" close calls in full daylight.
> Would the Volvo system have picked up and appropriately responded to the gore point involved in the recent fatal Tesla crash?

I'd rather ask, would the Volvo system steer towards the barrier like Tesla's AP may have done [1] [2]?

"IIHS research shows that AEB systems meeting the commitment would reduce rear-end crashes by 40 percent." [3]

AEB on its own may save lives. Whether autosteer systems do or not is an open question.

[1] https://youtu.be/VVJSjeHDvfY?t=37s

[2] https://youtu.be/6QCF8tVqM3I?t=28s

[3] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/u-s-dot-and-iihs-a...
> The Audi Q7 3.0T is $7k cheaper and does 0-60 in 5.7 seconds.

The XC90 T8 was tested at 5.0s here, which is pretty good for being a review test and not a manufacturer figure
http://www.motortrend.com/cars/volvo/xc90-plug-in/2017/2017-...
Now, the T8 is expensive as hell obviously (~$70k and up) and competes with other big hybrids, not the base spec Q7 3.0TFSI. Most of thesre aren't sold anywhere near msrp, at least around here they usually go for nearly $100k with extras.

So the XC90 has a pretty reasonable 315hp T6 version that competes directly with the Q7 (But is around 1 sec slower 0-60) and one 400hp T8 version that is going to look pretty good next to any of the big X5/Q7 suvs in performance. I think it's a pretty reasonable set of trims.
Not fully. One part is pretty persistent NMDA receptor blockade. How does that tie into depression if at all, we do not know.
As evident in the comments, it means different things to different people, from straight up Excel to R etc.

IMHO, the best data science people I've dealt with have supreme knowledge of statistics and math, combined with the ability to dive deep into python, R, Tableau, viz tools, d3, whatever is needed to get the job done. They generally rely on data engineers to provide sane data, but can jump in as needed and write tools (or at least give guidance) to properly clean up the data themselves. In this context, the GUI vs. non-GUI seems kind of irrelevant.
> There's no routing using public transport.

At the same time, I found OSM much more reliable when it comes to finding public transport stops in small cities. True, it's not great when it comes to "how do I get to X", but it's great for "what's the closest public transport stop near X" in cities that Google Maps doesn't/won't support.
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life." - Jean-Luc Picard

Of the two I think I'd trust Picard.
How do we make it harder exactly?
Yes exactly. For somebody really looking to optimize, research Kelly criterion.
That's programmed for fuel economy. It has to combine 3 impossible things: a pretty small engine, a heavy car, AND has to do X mpg in "normal" driving. The solution is to make the mapping from driver input to actual throttle/fuel be pretty lame. It's the same Usually there is at least a mode called e.g. "sport" or "power" that maps the pedal to the engine in a better way (except for economy). The XC90 T8 has a "power" mode where you get from 0-60 in 5s flat.
Seems like we plain do not have a good set of studies on alcohol (or coffee, or...).

You can examine that alcohol has been consumed by many cultures for centuries and evaluate whether the associated outcomes are acceptable to you.
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Because refcounting means lot of cache miss on the CPU core.

One of the interesting advantage of erlang is that its processes are small and mostly fit in L2 memory. So you can load a whole process at once, then compute for your whole slice, all in cache.

The result may surprise you.
Epidemiology does not work that way. Too many confounders and very low predictive power.
> Airbags also have the misfortune of having killed more people than safety belts. Especially kids. Or people leaning forward.

Not to mention the current situation with Takata, where they have had instances of their airbags directly killing people due to a failure of the metal housing, which turns to shrapnel.
When people that actively remember anything before the year 2000, are in the minority.

So I guess this applies to people born in the 80s (and before), so I assume this will be in the 2030s/40s.
> Air bags have saved more lives than safety belts, haven't they?

That depends on how you count: no life saved by an airbag would be saved without airbag AND safety belt. An airbag alone saves no lives.

And I still doubt the airbag+belt combination made a bigger dent in the statistic than the introduction of the safety belt did (Although it's hard to compare due to completely different time periods)
Completely agree.

Recently I have been in contact with the topic of eMMC deaths [1] in Samsung S3 phones and I have to say I am very pissed of by the arrogance of large corporations like Samsung (I have no evidence, but I am confident that Samsung is not the only player doing shit out there):

They sell you a device with a firmware which will probably kill your memory chip within weeks. To fix it, they patch their firmware to let the memory chip freeze as soon as the firmware would kill it. So instead of the firmware killing the integrity of the memory, they risk the integrity of the filesystem and let the user experience freezes and reboots for the rest of the phones life (until the filesystem can't recover).

To sum it up:

- they sell you a fast breaking device

- they patch it to make the phones deaths less likely, but without fixing the real issue

and that all within software.

Sounds to me as if someone wants to make sure the market will not be saturated. I am no lawyer but to me this sounds illegal, but as it is kinda hard to find out that shit (the S3 was over 5 years old when the linked talk was given), it is very unlikely anybody will engage in a lawsuit.

Currently, I am under the impression that the only solution to that kind of a problem would be, to force all manufacturers to open source all their software which is required to use their devices (firmware, drivers, etc. license doesn't even matter). It would be one hell of a change for device manufacturers, but as we can see, otherwise we have no idea what kind of hidden 'features' the devices we buy (our devices?) have.

[1]: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8784-emmc_hacking_or_how_i_fixed...
Isn't autonomous braking standard in most new premium-ish cars? My not-so-premium VW has it. Any car that has a distance-sensing cruise control should have it.
Fresh cloudy red grape juice, probably. I bet whole grapes are even better.
I've been windows power user for many years before I switched to Linux. I can say that WinXP was one of the best windows and Win7 was okay and usable. Win8 and Win10 complete shit. Everyone I know had issues with it and had hard times using it. Asking if it was possible to use at least Win7 again. Windows completely screwed up there UI thinking it would be easier for people to use and in process completely killing windows. Not to mantion Win8/10 security/privacy horror storries. The last usable windows was Win7. This is why I see many people switching to Mac OS X or Linux.
I don't think the reality here is nearly as sinister as you make it out to be. If an investor is making an appealing return at the price you're selling it to him at then either you're making a poor financial decision by selling or he's playing the game better. I think it's the latter in this case, and I'll explain why.

As background: My father was a handyman turned landlord. I've worked on rental houses since 1st grade. A large number of landlords have a similar background. It's not a coincidence. They make money off properties in the price range you describe in a very particular way - they do nearly everything themselves. It is an arbitrage on the cost of maintenance. Think about it this way - if an electrician/plumber/contractor is going to charge $100/hour to do work on the house and rental prices have this cost baked into them, then you can effectively earn $100/hour by doing the work yourself. Enough people do this that the equilibrium price drops below the cost of having professionals do all of the work. Since that is probably the situation you're in, of course you're going to lose money. You seem to have said you have external management on top of that. That in itself would pretty much wipe out the expected yield. The cashflows from <$200,000 houses are WAY too low to have someone else managing it for you.

So your game theoretic analysis is somewhat correct, but it's more of a feature than a bug. There is an army of people willing to do unglamorous work with their nights and weekends, and as a result they are not only able to do well by themselves but also systematically lower the cost of housing.

You also made a dangerous statement about historical returns on real estate. Historically, across a wide span of markets, real estate tracks wage growth. The recent shift since the mass financialization that started in the 80s being a complete aberration. The alternative is that the real cost of living would grow exponentially. Even with the excess credit of the last 15 years that hasn't happened for most of those outside of SF.

If you want to buy a house to live in, I suggest you view it as a consumption good and not an investment. Your money will almost certainly do better in equities.
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Well, IDEs are GUIs, though also not in the sense that the author intended. The problem seems to be a lack of a good term to clearly describe the subset of GUIs that the author wants to talk about.
Pretty sure that's not how most people define GUI. You seem to be defining an operating system.
> The decentralized approach to this is to announce the sale on the network/market and pick the best offer

It seems that we already have similar marketplaces implemented in a centralized fashion, e.g., Nasdaq. It allows to perform price discovery and does not force you to see to a specific party.

Do we really need to build a decentralized marketplace?
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If you're an American, every time you read a new article on Ketamine for depression your thought should be "Jeese, healthcare is screwed up". Pharma companies don't benefit from getting Ketamine approved (since it's no longer patent protected), so no one is putting it through FDA for depression. As a result insurance will never cover it (under the current model).

The reason this treatment isn't mainstream isn't because "the research is still out" (though that may still be). It's because there are no financial interests to get it over the hoops into the highly convoluted state that enables affordable medical care.
The site is literally a demo
Not at all. I know people who have done this. They claim it works well.
My car does get triggered by lines on the street in a specific area. However, Dutch law says you're supposed to drive at a distance where you can anticipate that the car in front of you can go full stop at any time, so I'm not sure why this should cause people to do that and not the fact that they already should.
I've got quite a lot of good posts in my favourites. Hard to point at one in particular though.
I'm currently using an Asus VivoBook E200H ( https://www.asus.com/uk/Laptops/ASUS-Vivobook-E200HA/ ) as my main computer, which is somewhere between a netbook and a notebook. If it didn't have such limited internal storage (32GB SSD, not upgradable without desoldering) I'd be happy to recommend it. There are plenty of pluses (super portable, long battery life, decent keyboard, etc...).

Microsoft held back the netbook market by setting strict requirements on the tech specs required for Windows licencing, without that restriction I'd suggest we'd still have a healthy market for netbooks today.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2526983/microsoft-wind...

> ""Our license tells you what a netbook is," said Ballmer at the Microsoft-hosted day with Wall Street analysts. "Our license says it's got to have a super-small screen, which means it probably has a super-small keyboard, and it has to have a certain processor and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.""

> "Last May, the Malaysian Web site TechARP.com, which regularly leaks information provided to computer makers by Microsoft, reported that the company would restrict Starter to specific netbook configurations. According to TechARP, Microsoft will only sell Starter to OEMs for use on netbooks that have a 10.2-in. or smaller screen, no more than 1GB of memory, a hard disk drive of 250GB or less (or a solid-state drive no larger than 64GB) and a single-core processor no faster than 2GHz."
Deploy to production the minute before you take off. If it breaks things, you'll have entertainment for the rest of the flight trying to get it fixed with the crappy WiFi.
I'm concerned about this wording. Internet is very important to pretty much everyone in the modern developed world. Cable is often bundled into internet whether you want it or not - when people can get rid of cable for a cheaper plan, they often do. "Infotainment" sounds like a disparaging term here, it's inappropriate.

The internet is effectively a need, on the level of electricity, so it's closer to being an assumed cost. Nonetheless, some people probably can't afford it, and for those that do but struggle financially, adding more on top of it doesn't at all help. The idea that these people should be concerned about a diffuse danger of privacy violations compared to the very real danger of not being able to afford important things is completely preposterous.

Stop passing the cost to the consumer. Companies that abuse privacy should be regulated. If you're expecting this task to be done by people of low socioeconomic status, whom your own system has deemed as people deserving of less power, you're looking at the whole thing completely backwards.
I dont understand why this gets downvoted. While all those things might have happend without social media its pretty obvious that targeted advertisment and "social media bubbles" push people into more extreme positions.
Singapore to test facial recognition on street lights
this writer who founded a social network is in no way biased in his article.

/s
For me it's some combination of reading books or playing Dungeons & Dragons with myself on the iPad, playing on the Nintendo Switch, watching foreign movies (discovered some good Japanese movies this way), sleeping or when at a window seat, contemplating about the cosmos above and the world below.

Trying to be productive and do work on a plane doesn't work for me.
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Was it the alcohol that killed the study subjects, or the carbs, or the fats, or the sugar, or the skewered red meats, or the caffeine, or the insanely aggressive competition at work and in life. To me it all seems a Calvinistic effort to lay the blame of anything at peoples’ feet, “poor life choices” and taking treatments off insurance coverage.

Hey, on the tune of the conspiracists blaming “big alcohol”, I wonder if all these “x kills you” are also sponsored by “big insurance”.
He helped build his father's wine company called "The Wine Library" [0]. He then went on to build Vayner media and his internet personality "Gary Vee".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vo0nykupIo
5 top companies and 5 job offers: How I did it
Ask HN: What does a great software engineering toolchain look like?
I have seen a lot of "cobbled-together" CI/CD pipelines over the years and am wondering what a best-practice engineering environment and experience would look like in 2018.
What tasks should it cover? What tools to use?
A happy Xperia X + Sailfish OS user here (v 2.1.4.14). I believe the points below apply well before 2.1.4. My only gripe is old browser engine; for now I end up opening some apps via Android Firefox (59), with decent performance.

>tethering
USB tethering requires manual installation of a Sailfish package via CLI
>wlanaccess point
works out of the box
>bluetooth
works out of the box: A2DP, file & contact transfer, perhaps more I haven't tested yet. Works just fine old Nokia headphones, and with Roidmi via the Android app.
Paracetamol, metamizol, acetil acid, diclofenac and ibuprophen all fall into the same category (I have chronic headaches) but I really doubt any of them are good for depression. For stress I take small amount of frontin (xanaxish thing) and it acts all differently (for me at least) from the rest.
It's not even a serious question.

He is lying because he is a competent ceo. He has objectives in an hostile environnement for his business but knows it will pass and that as long as he holds, people will move and forget.

Lying is necessary if you want to keep doing something for your benefit that people would think you should not.
I wonder if the planned Vista/7/10 support will extend to kernel mode drivers, especially for WDDM2 and up graphics drivers.

Currently, the supported graphics drivers is pretty sad for modern-ish hardware on ReactOS, because they are limited to drivers for Windows Server 2003 / Windows XP, which aren't available for a lot of modern cards (or integrated chips, for that matter). Additionally, a lot of the older XP drivers don't work well on ReactOS today.
If the cost of installing airbags could instead be used to install some other safety feature, say aeb in all vehicles, and if that feature saved more lives than airbags do, then it would be better to not have airbags.
For quite many companies their whole "big data" dataset is small enough to be processed by a single beefy machine. In that case it's far more cost effective to simply plug in $1000 worth of extra ram in a workstation rather than spend some extra engineer-hours to do it remotely.
Looking at the name... blockchain or chain of blocks... or a queue in CompSci speak... is less complex than git. Git is a directed acyclic graph.
The problem is that cryptominers are not an alternative to ads, they're used in parallel with ads.
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After Uber deal, it’s clear: platforms like Grab are changing how we do business
IBM no longer makes desktop PC s or laptops. Sold the designs to Lenovo years ago.

I had HP and Compaq laptops that ran Linux as well.
Before he became some sort of ill-defined entrepreneur/investor he used to talk knowledgeably and enthusiastically online via a podcast (or possibly several) about wine, which was his family's business - this was probably a decade or more ago. Since then I guess you could describe his career as having "sprawled".
"Ketamine lifts depression via a byproduct of its metabolism" <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160504141131.h...
It's easier to build a safe car if it's big and heavy - but the number of cylinders isn't really a measure of safety (anymore). All manufacturers will go to smaller petrol engines and then to no petrol engines. The new hybrid is 400hp, which is as much as they used to take from the V8 version of the XC90. It might be that the XC90 is bought by safer drivers on average - but the performance probably isn't the difference. 3-400hp is plenty even for the biggest suv if you want to go fast. To me 0-60 in 10s is plenty quick, and these cars are 5000lbs and do 0-60 in 5 to 8s which is extreme (for everywhere but the US)
Semantic Experiences: Experiments in understanding language
In Spain you can get a non-alcoholic drink called mosto - here's an explanation and some photos that make it look nicer than it is ;-) https://youngadventuress.com/2012/01/mosto-whats-mosto.html - it is a non-alcoholic drink and is mostly the grape juice that would later have been fermented to make wine. If there's anything "good" in wine, it is probably in mosto too.
>A healthy liver can deal with quite a lot of alcohol and acetaldehyde with not much issue.

But in evolutionary terms, this is not true at all. Humans today are consuming way more alcohol than the metabolic pathway can handle. Alcoholic spirits are a recent invention, they were first created ~4000 years ago, which is far to little time for a metabolic pathway to adapt. If you read the wikipedia article, it says humans typically consume 3g of ethanol per day, as it is naturally produced in (fermented) food. Fruit, for example, is typically 0.6% ethanol by weight, higher if let ferment. The ability to metabolize ethanol is an important evolutionary adaption, as it allowed our ancestors to eat rotten/fermented food, especially advantageous when there was no other food to eat.

However, when modern humans consume 2-3 drinks of alcohol, they are loading their body with 30-50 grams of ethanol, far more than the metabolic pathway can handle. This is a whole week's worth of ethanol, which is now being consumed in one hour. This leads to toxic amounts of ethanol and acetaldehyde accumulating in the bloodstream. Humans were never meant to consume this much alcohol.

If you are wondering why humans started consuming alcoholic spirits in the first place, I am quite favorable towards the frugivory by-product hypothesis.
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> However, Dutch law says you're supposed to drive at a distance where you can anticipate that the car in front of you can go full stop at any time, so I'm not sure why this should cause people to do that and not the fact that they already should.

You've just explained why autonomous braking is completely unnecessary. People are perfect, never make mistakes and never assume that the car in freely-flowing traffic ahead of them won't stamp on the brakes for no apparent reason.
Finally, I need this all the time
> Email is decentralized, heck even http is decentralized.

I'll quote my answer to the similar from this thread:
"Blockchain-based systems allow storing a shared, verifiable state. Anybody has a chance (depending on mining resources) to make a decision regarding the next state change in the system by mining the next block, but this block will be rejected if the state change is invalid (e.g., in case of Bitcoin a transaction spends non-existing funds)."

I think that HTTP is not a good example. While no one controls all HTTP endpoint, organizations that use HTTP are centralized. E.g., when you want to book a taxi using Uber, the company that provides a service store all the data, facilitates transactions, and the state of the system. This is different from decentralized apps on Ethereum network where a state change can be performed by any mining node.

The question here is: do we need to have an "Uber on a blockchain" and if we need it, do we need it to be on a public fully decentralized blockchain?

> However, look at bit-torrent and it can exceed what centralized hosting can provide.

Agree, but I don't know any commercial organization that is using bit-torrent to serve files. Most companies use S3-like services and to my knowledge bit-torrent is only used to share content by non-profit organizations (e.g., Linux distro on a bit-torrent) or pirates.
Wow, I have been in Southdale Mall in Edina, Minnesota many times throughout my early life but never knew of Victor Gruen. It does feel comfortable in a way, and I don't even like malls. Southdale is still a very high-end mall.
You mean DOS Mode where Win9X GUI shuts down and reboots into DOS mode to run DOS software. I was a Win95 beta tester.
Please don't use code blocks for normal text. This is frustratingly difficult to read on a phone where the code block becomes a scrolling container.