skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Operating System Legos"

Ouch. Please change that to "Operating System LEGO" which is more correct.

Ref: https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/502086477652959232
"Shame", in this context, means "a regrettable or unfortunate situation".

If a library for "constructing operating systems" came out with exclusive support for Linux, yes that'd be unfortunate (read: "bit of a shame") too. Especially one with its own kernel and userspace.
Perhaps Tesla should consider licensing this tech from Volvo.

/snark
Use freewsj.com/<resource> instead of wsj.com/<resource>

For those wanting to bypass the paywall.
Any thoughts on the R vs Python at 2/3rd of the page? I have the feeling (but no data) that the data science community is moving from R to Python, is that correct?
I think that the "pleasure" one gets from art is longer lasting than that provided by a piece of candy. This could be easily tested by doing a series of evaluations at later dates.

I used scare quotes as it seems misguided to attempt to analyze such diverse points of human experience with the metric of "pleasure" alone.

Art and similar activities carry much more meaning and significance than candy, thus have they have a larger effect on an individual's life and broader society. Surprisingly, this obvious point was not mentioned in the article.

Of course, we may not yet have instruments that can accurately assess these more nuanced differences.
In general, yes -- the luxury car in the drive was also bought on credit and is underwater and/or is a lease, and you can't repossess poorly chosen tattoos. Thinking you have a moral obligation to a bank is a fools errand, because they'll happily screw you for a penny.

As the article points out, however, the author was gainfully employed elsewhere. So in this case, the threat of recourse was quite real.
This is a multifaceted question--there's a whole toolchain behind any choice of hobby CNC beside the machine itself.

I have a Microcarve A4 that I outfitted with some over-specced stepper motors from Keling, with a Gecko G4 controller, all driven by LinuxCNC. I'm happy with my setup, which I put together in 2011. Now, I'd consider getting a Tormach, which is good for prototype level work (we have a Makerspace in the area with one.)

Consider where you'll get your designs--if you want to do your own, you'll want software ranging from OpenSCAD to ZBrush. If you need to clean up or do minor mods there's software ranging from simple FOS software to the full design packages.

Most packaged machines now expect some specific driver software like Mach3 or LinuxCNC. You should probably plan to use what the machine's community uses the most first.

Doing a more roll-your-own machine like mine is certainly possible, but be careful about choosing what specifications are most important to you. Size and accuracy are usually inversely related.

Poke around cnczone, that helped me a lot.
Good luck!
http://saundby.com/cnc
Selling right away makes the most sense but I worry about the social aspect of everyone holding and getting rich.
If you take Air NZ, they are generous with the wine. I get amongst that while watching bad action movies.
> Air bags have saved more lives than safety belts, haven't they

Not by a long shot - seat belts reduce the chance of death by 60-70% across all crashes. Airbags reduce the chance of death by 15% in frontal collisions, and very little for other types[1]. The airbag isn’t going to much good if you’ve been ejected from the car.

[1]:http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittPorter20...
The problem with this combination is that it may reduce the number of crashes/injuries, but increase the number of deaths at the same time
Airbags also have the misfortune of having killed more people than safety belts. Especially kids. Or people leaning forward.

That’s why modern cars try to avoid firing them unless absolutely necessary. You can get into a pretty serious crash and they won’t fire if the computer decides its better to let you gently tap the steering wheel than to run an expkosion into your face.

Fun example of an old and new Renault Espace crashing into each other: https://youtu.be/vRxLlFm3VUA
> and that code review is of no value.

I don't agree with this at all. Code review is obviously a huge benefit once you have enough money to pay more than one engineer per gigantic slice of the codebase.

I'd say code review is also great if everyone is working on the same thing, such as a library. In that case I'd do code review if there were only two people working on the project. But when one guy is basically just doing react boilerplate and implementing designs, it's not worth the time to check every commit they make.
I find that this guide unhelpfully conflates probability and inference in a few places. Probability theory on its own is interesting but not terribly useful without the infrastructure of estimation.
Same here. A cool trick but not exactly reverse engineering the API.
> If every car had them, I bet road safety would increase significantly.

If you look into the data on fatal accidents and examine them even for a few minutes you'll easily see that this is a foolhardy bet. The causes of accidents and fatalities are highly variable and not what you would expect. There's also extreme variability between the individual states; for example, Texas has more _total_ fatalities than California. There's extreme variability between the sexes and for different age groups within those sexes. Finally, there are motorcycles.

AI/Driverless, AV and all the attendant sensors and inputs will have an impact, just not nearly as large of one as many people unfortunately expect.
How to write a Scheme interpreter
My HP laptops have also had zero problems running Linux for years.
I don't think we are in contradiction. Taiwanese Hokkien is a variety of Min, which is a dialect that shares ancient roots with the Mandarin dialect. My maternal grandmother speaks Teochew, an offshoot of the more common standard Hokkien in the area where I live.

Unlike Mandarin, most dialects have not undergone the same nationalist push to write their spoken language, so literature in the spoken language is few and far between. However, Christian proselytizers are often very determined to translate the Bible into local spoken languages, and are often one of the first significant works in any spoken language/dialect's literature. Hence I am not surprised that it is the Bible that top-commenter found digitally-disadvantaged Chinese characters not encountered in literature outside of Taiwanese Hokkien. You may be right in a sense that these same characters may be encountered in other Min dialects, but they would still be pronounced differently.
While Linux doesn't require as much tinkering to make things work on the desktop like it used to. It still does require more tinkering than out of the box MacOS or Windows10 and does have software support and availability issues for casual or non-developer use cases.

I too never used the freedom argument when using FOSS, but security and speed was a big issue. For the longest time, Linux was ahead of the curve - but I think MacOS and Windows and have since caught up. Windows is still banned in our company for security issues, MacOS is no-go for the price. So we are exclusively an Ubuntu shop. However, I personally prefer MacOS, but Ubuntu is a very very close second choice.
To the best of my knowledge (not a sailor, but my work has netted me several hundred days on vessels offshore), 'Abandon Ship' is always an explicit, verbal order from the captain (or whoever follows him in authority if he is incapacitated)

The General Alarm typically calls for the crew to proceed (at haste!) to the muster station to be informed of the nature of the emergency and be put to work handling the situation.

Luckily, I've only ever had to abandon ship during a couple of drills.
The talk title is quite provocative but the material discussed not so much. It is true that core data science is iterative, needs to reproducible and more recently explainable. Can you do everything in GUI? It really depends on where you see it from. Early data scientists were programmers before so they loved to code and built tooling around it. While code is still dominant we also see the rise of UI-centric tools - these allow you to build ML pipelines by snapping blocks together. I feel are chasing a "different" type of data scientist. The term data scientist itself has become quite broad.

Code, CLI gives data scientists infinite flexibility but setup, management etc. is a challenge. GUI provides very less flexibility but you will have output fast - works for simpler problems IMHO.

GUI or not data science has to move to cloud-based tools. Whether you write code in browser or CLI on local machine is matter of choice.
Didn't seem to work here.
No, Bitcoin is having a hell of a time trying to scale it even split into 2 coins.

Under decentralized system they have to have quite a duplication of data even each nodes are much weaker than the one in a centralized system, they can't simply say, double the disk and be done with it.
There's no such thing as data science. It's applied statistics. Why invent a silly name?
And why do these then work on desktop computer without checks like: Do you have the latest (windows) update installed? Do you have an Antivirus installed, which we approve of? etc.
(I'm not referring to Snapchat but the banking things here)
It seems to me that they never cared when on desktops and suddenly on mobiles there are all these problems.
I saw the trailer for the movie before A Quiet Place. It looks well produced but still garbage.
I heard drink is bad for you
As an example (real-world) a seller turned down a few early under-list-price cash offers, and eventually got an at-list offer from a mortgage buyer. But the buyer ended up having trouble finalizing the loan and as a result it took almost two months to close. The home had already been sitting on the market for over a month, so had the deal fallen through, the seller may have had to put it back on the market, which could have added a few more weeks at best, and a few more months at worst to the process. So had they gone with the cash buyer right away, they would have sold the home in a few weeks after listing it. But instead it took a few months, and there was a non-insignificant chance that it would have taken a few more. And during this time, the seller was not living in the home, so presumably they were paying rent/mortgage on two homes. For some people that could be tough to swing, and not worth an extra 5-10% on sales price.

A few other things to consider. 1: The above example was in a relatively hot market. But in a more 'normal' market, homes can sit on the market for months at a time before attracting a good offer. So in a lot of markets, waiting for the next offer could mean months at a time. 2: There is a bit of a 'stigmatization' around properties that fall out of contract, because a common contingency is an inspection contingency, so the theory is that buyers start to shy away if a home falls out of contract because they are worried it is a lemon. I have personally seen a few listings where the realtor will explain the contract failure in the top of the post (i.e. buyer couldn't get a loan or something like that) as a clear attempt to ward off the 'lemon' concerns. And because mortgage buyers usually require a long list of contingencies, the risk of a failed contract is a lot higher than cash buyers. So cash buyers are 'safer' in that sense. 3: Sellers are often rolling over the proceeds of a sale into their next house, so any extra money on their home sale will most likely show up as a slightly lower monthly payment on the next house. So for every extra $10k you will only see about $50 lower on your next monthly mortgage payment (assuming 30 year).
No, you've missed two of the major points: reproducibility and scrutability.
RE: Thermostat

I live in Phoenix, and regularly set my thermostat en route to my house after being gone awhile. I have scripts that set it to away automatically when my phone leaves the network.

It saves me quite a lot of power yearly.

(I feel guilty for contributing to these sorts of pedantic HN threads, but there you go)
even warning few seconds before impact is useful, of course there are better systems but Toyota implemented Safety Sense to all cars which is great.
Show HN: Scaleboot – Make a successful and profitable MVP
I was wondering about the AEB when the Uber accident happened. It should’ve been equipped with AEB but it still hit a pedestrian. Did they just pull out the whole software and replace it with their own navigation logic?
What’s a good way to look at and explore this data? Where did you learn about the patterns you mention above?
You don't need an account to help with wikipedia. I've never created an account, but I've fixed many typos, anonymously.
> Good news is that if you keep it up you'll eventually be right for a little while.

A broken clock...
If you feel your company will do better than an average company based on knowing the employees and strongly believing in its roadmap, culture and ability to innovate, it isn’t irrational to accumulate stock in it.
This question is way too open ended.

I would say that most jobs benefit society.

Benefit yourself first, then your family and friends, then society.
Maybe you'd like this library:
https://github.com/curran/d3-component

It let's you modularize your d3 code into components. Very handy!
The Many Great Features and Changes Coming for the Linux 4.17 Kernel
Return data outside the main thread in Android Room?
I drove into a dust storm in Central Washington in a rental Volvo several years back and autobraking saved me from rear ending a car. I made it out, but a huge pileup ended up happening just behind me. https://www.kiro7.com/news/massive-crash-closes-eastbound-i-...
Implementation and evaluation of the CBOR protocol – Pavel Kalvoda (2015)
Don't forget Raspbian on the Zero!

http://radiomesh.org
[stream] Pair programming with avaer on Exokit browser
Netflix CEO: Why $8B investment in content still isn't enough
A text editor in Go rendered in SDL, that's an interesting combination I never thought I would see.
Glad to see Kurzweil's group has been up to something interesting.
Europe divided over robot ‘personhood’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBOR

Online CBOR editor: http://cbor.me/

Background Info: http://cbor.io/
Did COSMOS initially not use Mono? I seem to remember a toy OS kernel named either Cosmo or COSMOS on OSdever that was written in x86 ASM and C and had a shell, multitasking, paging memory manager, and a loader with RING0 and RING3 processes. This would have been ~2005-2006 ish. Was this it?
Oh, but they did. There was a series of problems with Vista that pissed people off, then there was the quite-ok Windows 7, and then Microsoft screwed everything up with Windows 8. The irony is, they've managed to fix a lot of Windows 8 UX problems in Windows 10, but then the telemetry stories and in-your-face pushing of the upgrade from 8 to 10 left some people I know stranded at 8 and afraid to try out 10. I guess this'll change in the next hardware upgrade cycle...
Smoke also bad I heard
>It lights a fire under M$'s asses to make windows competitive

Err... no. Not unless the installed base reaches a critical mass. And certainly not when the market share is not even 0.1%. macOS (or even desktop Linux) has a higher installed base and they don’t bother Microsoft significantly.

I’d be more optimistic if the OS had not been around for two decades. It had its chance when the likes of Vista was released. If it didn’t make a dent back then, it is not going to make one now - especially since Windows is at its best in terms of usability. Sure there are concerns about privacy, but those didn’t prevent Google from acquiring a (almost) monopoly in mobile market. Microsoft’s own attempts went nowhere — and they have infinitely deeper pockets compared to people behind ReactOS.

And even if it does gain momentum, I am fairly sure that Microsoft will find a a way to sue them into oblivion.
I just despise the genre of white collar/white people culture quirkiness. So bland and confusing.

Quiet Place was okay but basically a dinosaur movie in a big field.
#2 is the dominant point. One of the subtle points on diversification is that it's ok to take less returns if they are uncorrelated to your other investments - you want things that go up when your main investments go down. Even if you're 90% sure that Google will beat the market, you want protection for the 10% case. (And yes - your human capital will take the upside when Google continues to do well)
It's not possible to bring enough of anything to keep me entertained for that long, so I basically just fidget, fuss, watch bad TV, flip around to watch some other bit of bad TV, pretend I'm going to try to sleep but never actually sleep because I'm too tall to fit the seats comfortably, read every word of the airline magazine, read every word of the book I brought for the flight, read every word of the other book I brought for the flight home, read the magazine I impulsively bought in the airport, then watch some more bad TV and keep fidgeting, until the ordeal ends.
Not really, many Taiwan residents conduct business in Standard Mandarin, but speak in Taiwanese Hokkien at home. It's called Taiwanese because it has since drifted from mainland Hokkien, and sociolinguists consider Taiwanese a prestige dialect of Hokkien due to its cultural output and Japanisms.
And again. WTF?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-tracking-of-no...

http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/antonio-garcia-martinez-f...

Can someone explain to me why I'm getting down voted? Seems bogus. Whatever, it's internet points, if people want to take my points, take 'em, they are worth what I paid for them. I'm slowly getting to the point that hackernews is like facebook, the trolls win. If that's the case I'm out. There are lots of better uses of my time, I'm trying to help get a company started, my younger kid wants to build a gokart, I need this crap like a hole in the head.

By the way, HN, shit like this is why important people don't hang out here. I'm not a big deal, I get that, but I'm not nobody. When you wonder why the real movers and shakers aren't here, this is why. Trolls. Why the heck would anyone doing stuff submit themselves to this crap? Why should they?

I get it, there are bad players that down vote for bad reasons. You need to get that because of that, I think it's gonna be a rare event where you get AVB or WNJ or David Patterson or John Hennessy or anyone really doing stuff to come participate here. There is no upside, well, there are internet points and those have changed my life (jk), there is no upside and stupid people can piss all over you.

I'm not as good as those guys I mentioned, though Granite Systems was a result of AVB finding me in a bar in SF and asking me to spell out what I'd want in a switch, but he did it, execution is everything, ideas are nothing. But I'm here and willing to share what I know and people shit on me? I started and ran a profitable company for 18 years in the valley and people shit on me? I've got lots to share, I'm retired and all I want to do is help people and still people are mad at me.

Time to exit stage left. Enjoy not learning from me.
Migrating 15 years of Meetup photos to the cloud
Adobe Flash EOL
Not on minor updates. I've tried to switch during the past years everytime there is a similar update. Every new version is "blazingly fast" and "much better" and promise that it's "time to switch".
I thought this was really nice, strange to see that so many people dislike it.
Right but the subject at hand here is rsu not iso.
Yes, that was something that was mentioned before by Volvo. Uber disabled the AEB that came with the vehicle and according to Volvo it likely would have detected the pedestrian.
You're writing that users suffer from edge cases from the individual webdriver implementations. My experience as someone working with gecko and chromedriver on a daily basis is that the number of edge cases stemming from browser behavior (such as moving to, clicking, and focusing on elements) is a much more frequent pain than differences in the webdriver implementation.
My first comment was about the title being "fear-mongering". If you don't think saying "parasites are falling from the sky" is not fear mongering because you are more educated than others, then maybe you simply can't understand the common man's dilemma.
Work for a bunch of startups for 1-4 year stints. Don't leave until you're at least 1/4 vested. Then if you don't think you're on a rocket ship, find another. This is a common career path among silicon valley folks. If you're not an engineer or talented executive, then make money another way and start angel investing and take a long time horizon.
I watch often TV on web sites on Ubuntu. Almost all issues have been solved in 2017. Before, it was failing more often than succeding.
Just as you think the introduction is done, the whole article is over. It feels very incomplete and there are some punctuation mistakes and incomplete scentences. Sheep-like upvoting seems like the cause of it reaching the top here.
No, like other commenters you miss the points about reproducibility and scrutability. This isn't just about the tool being efficient and precise for the user, it's about tracking exactly what you've done in your process and nothing beats code for that.
Glad to see I'm not the last one on Rails 4 :)
Nearly anywhere.
Why are Walmart and Amazon desperate to buy Flipkart?
Windows 8 was absolutely dire. Windows 10 is very good, but not in any way brilliant.
Check theaters in your area that run classic films with any frequency.

The Stanford Theater in Palo Alto is a great one. Best of all, almost everyone puts their phones away without prompting. Almost everyone.

The first time I saw "Casablanca" in its entirety was as the weekly film in college, on a classroom projector and screen.

I remember being shocked and dumbfounded at the credits. "1942? This was made during the most hopeless time of the war?!"
SoftBank's Billions Spur Global Race to Pour Money into Startups
I wonder how many minor incidents it has prevented though. I was raised in the country where roads are often wet or icy in winter. Without ABS if you go around a corner and hit some black ice there is a good chance you would spin out and end up in a hedge or a tree. At the low speeds you need to drive (<20mph) it’s unlikely that the passengers would suffer any serious injuries.
I like iTunes 10 as a GUI.

In fact, I like it so much that I'm hoping to rewrite it in JavaScript so it can run in the browser. I also don't like what Apple did with iTunes 11 and 12.

1. SQL queries are Smart Playlists.

2. Summary statistics are shown on the bottom, and apply to the selection (if there is one), or the playlist (if nothing is selected).

3. It's object-oriented data. This is a valid AppleScript command:

tell application "iTunes" to return name of first track whose artist contains "Blink 182"

4. A browser view along the top to quickly see Genre, Artist, Album.

5. Nested playlist folders, including smart playlists.

6. Support for other data types. I wrote a script to generate m3u files to add virtual "Radio stations" to iTunes. Clicking those triggers a PHP script that usually opens my browser with a URL, but could technically do anything else. (OK, this is a hack - I'll document it if anyone wants to know).

Excel is fine, but it doesn't have the hierarchical structure that iTunes is so good at. It also mixes the data and the instructions.
No love for Android?
Are you sure about that? I haven't actually lived through the Troubles in England, but my understanding is that while terrorist acts were obviously reported by the news, there was much less hysteria than for today's much rarer terrorist events.
Probably Overthinking It: Learning to program is getting harder
How the science of persuasion could change the politics of climate change
He's talking about programs where you do "work" by point and click and then hit save. R studio is just an IDE with a graphical terminal. All the "work" must be done in code.