skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect large-scale fixed installations are more likely to end up using some kind of flow battery:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/fuel-cells/its-big-and-...

The big advantage there is independent scaling: peak discharge is tied to the total membrane area / pumping capability while capacity is tied to the amount of reactants that can be stored.
What happens if two cars with LIDAR drive toward each other? Isn't this one of the problems google self-driving car had, where one car interfered with others?
I'm confused, what website? The hypothetical one? Who said he wouldn't be?
Alternatively

http://macdailynews.com/2018/02/22/apple-maps-vs-google-maps...

>“Relative to Google Maps, Apple Maps estimated trip times were on average 8% longer (i.e worse) and Waze estimates are 3% shorter (i.e. better),” Grabowski writes. “Using Apple Maps, I on average arrived 1% faster than initially estimated, versus 2% slower with Google Maps and 11% slower with Waze. In other words, Apple sandbags its estimates so that users on average arrive at the predicted time or slightly sooner. Google and Waze are overly optimistic in their predictions and thus their users arrive later than expected.”
How many people have work on the position before
> I believe it's not the entire library

https://gizmodo.com/this-box-can-hold-an-entire-netflix-1592...

> According to Netflix's own documentation, "An individual appliance can oﬄoad approximately 60%-80% of content requests depending on country catalog size," but when units start working in pairs, the storage size can exceed the size of Netflix's library for a region. And when this happens, the pair will use their excess storage to double up on stuff to help deal with high demand, or to make sure that if one fails, the other still has as much content as possible.

> More seriously, the problem is a static dump will get old very quickly, and keeping the internet "up-to-date" will require an enormous bandwidth to the spaceship.

No need to have the entire internet, just the most popular tenth of a percent, and just daily updates of what's new. https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html is currently downloading from Mars at 3 megabit. I'd expect Earth-to-Mars can be much faster than Mars-to-Earth from a car-sized orbiter with a small dish and limited power.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19950183 indicates optical Mars-to-Earth links of 1 Gbps soon, as well.

For Netflix, just send a new box every 3-6 months on the next rocket. The ISS already gets in-theater movies well before they're released on DVD, so you could even have release dates synchronized for no delay whatsoever!
The intent behind this tool seems good, but I don't think it's a good idea. To actually anonymize data requires semantic understanding of that data and an understanding of what sort of data, harmless by itself, is transmuted into identifying data when provided in the context of other otherwise harmless data.

This tool doesn't help you with any of that. It seems to be a glorified awk script. My concern is that helping the user with the easiest part of anonymizing data stands to encourage the user to go full steam ahead without slowing down to stop and think very carefully about what they're doing.
Stoneworking too. Most of our hand tools are air powered. The CNC machines use compressed air for the waterjet, the vacuums, changing tools and probably other things. The shop has several tanks and a backup air compressor. There can be weird problems and their expensive. The main compressor's been shutting down randomly and it's going to cost $700 just for the kit we need to repair it.
There's a video somewhere of a failing flywheel, it's a fairly energetic explosion. I follow the energy space, also, and ... while I didn't expect Li batteries to have grid scale roles, I didn't think flywheels were going to succeed there. They have properties more like ultracapacitors (discharge rate suitable for continuous backup, clean up messy grid sine waves). I thought pumped air/pumped water was more likely because it scaled up so well and was old tech. Fuel cells, too, seems to fall more into the backup/spot generation/remote generation+NG access niches.

Looking on the bright side, anything that drives Li efficiency/density research is probably a very good thing.
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I regret that I came across that way, because the debate is great. Criticism is important.

I just think before you fight for something, you should be certain that what you're after is worth winning.
Once, I saw a presentation of Unicage, a big data solution that had (perhaps still has) a free version https://youtu.be/h_C5GBblkH8?t=2566
It seems that it has evolved to a company now: http://www.unicage.com/products.html

Did anyone try the unicage solution?
Civilization survived for ages without the internet, so I'm sure that we'll be able to find some way to keep people occupied while in space without it.

There's an ongoing/recurring experiment that NASA runs where a group of pretend-astronauts spends several months in a pretend Mars habitat with limited internet connection to Earth [1]. A podcast [2] was recently released where they go in-depth and interview the participants, and they touch on the whole "what am I supposed to do without the internet for 6 months?" issue a lot, but it never really seems to be that big of an issue. They do get bored, but most of the participants do stuff like learn a new language, study a textbook, or read a lot of novels. They also have a lot of "work" (like experiments etc) to keep them busy every day.

1: http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-mars-research-crew-emerges...

2: https://www.gimletmedia.com/the-habitat
At which point you might find out that there never was a possibility for a match and you both have wasted your time.

Exactly. It's ridiculous to do that.

What's arguably even worse is when you know that the company knows what your salary expectations are ahead of time, and they still go through the entire process, and then at the end either come up with an offer that's way below your bar, or decline to make an offer because "paying you that much would create a disequity on the team". Yeah, I got that last one once... AFTER going through two rounds of interviews. I'm thinking "if you knew you weren't willing to pay me what I was looking for, why did you waste hours of my time interviewing?!??"
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Since I am a functioning adult and therefore have various obligations outside of work, I need an unambiguos breakdown of salary, holidays, overtime, flexitime and pension.

You can choose to be coy about it, but you will have to tell me eventually, so you might as well let me know up front. It will save time for all of us.
I'm always confused by statements like "You don't need Redux, you have reducer components".

Reducer components don't solve the problem of a centralized/shared/common state and interactions between components.
The tooling has really come along since 6 months ago, FWIW. You can now get started by installing a single npm package[0], and editor support is quite good[1].

[0] https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/quickstart-javascript.htm...
[1] https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/global-installation.html
PS: You can argue about performance. But, in the last 20 years their stock has done slightly worse than the Dow when you include dividends. Meaning they could have done better investing their profits in an index fund.

https://dqydj.com/dow-jones-return-calculator/ may 1998 - may 2018 = 323.965%

http://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/BRK.A/prices/berksh... May 1998 - May 2018 = 320%.
The reason I found JS interop confusing in Bucklescript is there are multiple ways to do it, so it wasn't obvious which was the right way. I think a lot of that is due to the fact that Js is ultimately a very different language from OCaml, and so to get the two to work together there were quite a large number of different scenarios to cater for.

Once I got over that hump, it was all fairly simple.
You might find Package Phobia[0] useful. It determines the size of a package before you install it including it's dependencies. Disclaimer: I wrote it.

Another good tool to use before you pull in a dependency is this dependency visualization[1].

[0]: https://packagephobia.now.sh

[1]: https://npm.anvaka.com
I'm not entirely clear on what you mean by "won't solve it by taking on jobs just as today". Today people take on these jobs, and in most countries that I know of, the social welfare net is contingent on actively looking for work. Today your (legal) options are: Try to work or die.

Do you think you can get a fair price if the other side knows you have to sell with a gun to your head?

I suspect most people would work for reasons you mentioned, but I also suspect that the price for undesirable unskilled labor would be much much much higher than it is today.

Which would incentivize automating this type of labor first. As it should be.
I was working on Website Randomizer at the time when everyone told me it is already done and pointed to StumbleUpon. I abandoned project, which I am a little bit sorry about, but I always liked StumbleUpon and it was great way to discover new things.
It did not. He gave them dollars, not a quart of crude. That he might have a side deal with somebody else to trade beanie babies for dollars does not make beanie babies a currency.

Bitcoin is not a currency. Plenty of other things are true currencies, so there's no fallacy here.
Thanks! I was supposed to be working today and it's just a piece of fun based on the news so thought I should draw a line under it rather than improving for ever!
You're right tho, I misread the dataset - it's year company founded, not boolean yes/ no, will amend now.
Google home does, it actually applies some amount of security using voice recognition. you can see it in action if you use a Harmony Hub. my voice has access to control my electronics but my guests can't
I don't know whether it's okay or not. A teenager is more likely to be able to spend that downtime on something useful. Children, not as much. Whilst, I understand - more than most people - that we need alone time, I think that parents spend a lot more time on their phone, be it facebook, reddit, twitter, instagram etc, than they would like to admit.

I am sure they could sneak - if they already don't - some time on social media while the kids are playing on their own. For a kid, time with their parents is integral for growing up and having a healthy relationship with them. Most kids however don't get to experience it.

Additionally, time spend on facebook and social media has correlation with depression and stress. I don't think this is the best environment for a kid to be brought up.
Honest question: why would someone use this instead of React?

From my point of view, React solved a real problem. JS before React (at least old-skool, with jQuery & co.) was simply unmaintainable. It was often easier to thow old projects away and start anew than to maintain what inevitably became a tangled mess of callbacks and global variables. Not because of incompetency of developers (at least I hope so ;) but because there were no standard of encapsulation, separation of concerns and similar.

Why would someone who knows React want to switch to ReasonML?
Let me get this straight:

The driver has to look down on a console to see warnings like this AND drive the car? This and that the emergency system was off tells me that the accident was 100 % the fault of Uber even if the "driver" were dancing in the backseat.
So it sounds like we are dealing with a rumor here. What reason do we have to believe these four people? I guess it is the reputation of the journalist on the line if the rumors turn out to be false.
Problem is Apple keeps getting further and further behind Google and that just was not the way in the past.

They strived to provide the best UX.

It is very disappointing to see.
I defied RSI to click all Yahoo partners, and opening a random sample of privacy policy links I found one that was written in Chinese. So much for consent.
It's not nitpick, it's trivia!
They have no vision. They got it from overpaying for Harris Teeter who had a $5 online order service. They botched their implementation of it, too.

Kroger is strictly top-down, workers-are-idiots management that has to buy its innovations from better-managed companies. People are quitting in droves in all areas of the store and management. Heck, local store has different workers every time I shop. Usually a sign of that. ;)

My theory is the media isnt reporting on years of such practices since they're a big customer (advertiser).
We can look at the current (used) battery market, the disposable Duracell thingies and such. I think there's a good recycling program for them, but even so, part of used batteries end up getting lost and in landfills and such.
I could be totally wrong, but I thought I read the emergency braking function was Volvo’s, and built into the base vehicle. Uber had disabled because they were testing their own software.
No, it's something neckbeards pass along to junior sysadmins, and it's hidden very deep in /dev/null.
> But maybe it's not crazy. If given the choice; would you choose to live now, or in the future? There aren't many people I know who aren't cynical about the present. The more I think about it, the more I wonder just how _many_ people might do it.

If you're truly cynical about the present, I actually think stasis would be a far worse option:

1) If you're really cynical about things like climate change, thermonuclear war, etc. the future could easily be much, much worse than the present. Imagine waking up out of stasis to find yourself in the world from "The Road".

2) If you're cynical but with a glimmer of hope, you're essentially banking on the idea that not everyone like yourself will go into stasis. Otherwise, how would things ever get better?
Eating manure has 15 billion in net income last quarter, whereas this new "filet mignon" had 185 million.

Just because people are currently eating shit a lot doesn't mean the outlook for them is any good.
> Boekhoven explains the principle of phase separation with an analogy: "Imagine an old and rusty car. Leave it outside in the rain, and it continues to rust and decomposes because rusting is accelerated by water. Put it in the garage, and it stops rusting, because you separate it from the rain."

Is the writer sure about this claim? I've seen cars and bicycles in the garage rust due to humidity and condensation, especially from the day-night temperature cycles.
Don't argue for the sake of arguing. I didn't write that Email magically changed the meaning of a word! I wrote that email clients use RE: in a specific way.

Re can mean regarding, but in an email subject line Re: has been taken for decades by email programs to mean something very specific, "Reply".
This is even worse than if it was DOJ leak. We would be dealing with a rumor started by people under investigation for manipulating bitcoin prices...
Here's my Blendle link for the article (which costs $0.49):

https://blendle.com/i/wsj-com/uber-self-driving-car-that-str...
Forcing users to use your stuff never works out well. But really just like to see Apple fix the problem and get back to trying to provide the best UX in the industry.
This was the plot of Marooned in Realtime, an award-winning Vernor Vinge novel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marooned_in_Realtime
I can't tell you.
I just finished playing the game Hacknet which simulates that nostalgic experience, to some extent. Obviously it's oversimplified and gamified, but it's a fun little game; worth playing. Its DLC, Labyrinths, even adds an IRC channel where you interact with your fellow hackers.
Eh, at least air isn't as dangerous as e.g. water would be, the tank can be / is designed to fail gracefully and there's overpressure valves.
it's a land grab, doesn't matter if people actually bought them, it only matters how many of them are out there. one you have one you are more likely to buy for Google stuff. for example, the Chromecast works well with Google home but doesn't with Alexa.
For the same/similar reasons, more or less. You get a great type system, merlin(a great analysis tool), faster compilation, all kinds of great compile time checks, and you can still use react.
Do you even need a VGA BIOS in an emulator? It's an emulator - just write to segment B800 or wherever and have the host-side process just watch that page of memory.

Again, qemu works fine without a retrocomputing compiler. Is VirtualBox doing something that prevents it from taking whatever approach qemu uses? (qemu even has the cool thing where "-curses" will cause it to copy segment B800 as text to your host-side terminal emulator and avoid rendering graphics at all.)
Move fast and disable the brakes. They in fact began testing with two people per car, but then decided to go with just one. An Uber spokeswoman stated [1]:

> We decided to make this transition [from two to one] because after testing, we felt we could accomplish the task of the second person—annotating each intervention with information about what was happening around the car—by looking at our logs after the vehicle had returned to base, rather than in real time.

However, this seems to contradict the NTSB report which indicates that it still was the driver's responsibility to perform this event tagging task, which necessarily implies taking your eyes off the road.

[1] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/03/former-uber-b...
Still, this would break parts of the internet. Some protocols between clients and servers simply depend on timing.

As a simple example, consider a websocket connection and a client that tries to reopen the connection whenever it hasn't received a ping from the server in the last X seconds.
Gambling has way more transactions. LIBOR options have more transactions. Any actively traded stock has more transactions. None of those things are currency.

Even prominent Bitcoin advocates agree it's not effective as a currency: http://avc.com/2017/08/store-of-value-vs-payment-system/
>Newly introduced cryptocurrencies are likely to be "small" by necessity

not if you fork. see: bcash's price of ~0.1BTC upon forking.
I remember using StumbleUpon in my teens, and one site in particular sticks out to me. It was a full-page Flash point-and-click game where you directed a few children across a few different landscapes (IIRC at least a desert and jungle).

It stuck out to me because it was an example of someone making something to be enjoyed, in a time where I had assumed people needed money as a motivator for entertainment to be created.
How did you get your customers, through your network? Do you do mostly frontend or something else?
Using your smartphone as your desktop
The trouble with the GDPR is that there is so much ambiguity in even quite basic areas of the regulations and the official guidance so far that any formal opinion you get from lawyers, consultants, regulators and the like is riddled with vague terms like "reasonable", "legitimate", "proportionate" and "balanced". It's advice that doesn't actually answer any of the important questions like "Am I compliant?" or "What specific actions can I take to become compliant?".
Doesn’t seem it. Read any article about Uber. The LAST thing they seem to be concerned with is ride sharing.

While everyone else is trying to be the Uber of X... Uber doesn’t even want to be Uber. Their latest thing is taking funding from the US Military for some project iirc.

This “technology” company has no idea what it really is.
That's not how I interpreted it. The report calls Volvo's system "advanced driver assistance functions" and "automatic emergency braking." When the report refers to "self driving systems" or "emergency braking maneuvers", they are talking about Uber's system.
BTW, regulation is a good liberal idea.
These are all great questions to ask in interviews for newbies as well.
Indeed, any illusion that we are the only conscious beings on this planet is narcissism.
As opposed to what? Proof of Stake? Not even Ethereum can get that to work securely.

I'm not familiar with all of those small coins, but the problem with Bitcoin Gold is that it uses the same Proof of Work that several other coins use, so a miner can buy ASICs and then switch between coins.

So they can mine honestly on Coin 1 for a while, then switch to Coin 2 and do some double-spend attacks, then when Coin 2's price collapses, they switch back to Coin 1 or move on to Coin 3. The miner has no long term incentive to support the value proposition of any one coin, and they can attack coins that use the same PoW algorithm as their "main" coin at will.

The same problem applies for coins that use ASIC-resistant PoW's, only more so. You can just rent an AWS cluster for an hour to run your attack, then ghost with the profits.

What coin developers need to do is design their proof of work and mining activity to ensure that miners have the same (or close-enough) long term incentives as coin holders.
They disabled both the Volvo system and Uber's own system
ability to trigger "emergency braking".
Except that any particular conservation law might fly out the window, but so long as there was some sort of symmetry, Noether's theorem would still be there.
Top link from the Google search works for me:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Uber+Self-Driving+Car+That+S...
Not in China, there just a single employee was affected.
That's why this whole thing is rather suspect.
I agree, does anyone know of any efforts to make something like this that is not evil?
If the technology just stayed at facial recognition, maybe - I work on stereoscopic vision, so you'd have to change your head geometry too for my cameras if you're in parallax range..... and we're getting to the point of being able to do realtime skeletal pose analysis -- https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/posenet/cam...
So, it's an arms race :-/
Google employees are being targeted with this ads to make search more fair
Helicopters are much easier to rent, if you only want to spend an hour looking.
If I recall correctly, they used manual memory management for many things. But regardless of specific tooling, you can still do memory pooling in GC languages just as well as in manual ones.

The Lispiness that they took advantage of was metaprogramming via s-expressions, an interactive REPL, and dynamic updating of functions during runtime (which would require some form of GC in function memory footprint, but wouldn't be a drag on normal gameplay timing).
What's more shocking to me is that Netflix is worth more than Disney.

Just look at the list of Disney subsidiaries[1], then look at how bad the average Netflix original movie is and then tell me if the market caps makes any sense at all.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Disney
They can both recognize your voice. Not sure about the Echo, but the Google Home doesn't do anything even remotely sensitive unless it recognizes your voice, but it will do things that don't require auth, e.g. answering questions, playing music etc. I don't know what the false reject rates are, but they're non-zero, and failing to respond to the weather because they weren't sure it was you seems like a bad trade-off for most people.
Because React is a very natural fit for a functional language of which JS really isn’t. Which is also why it is so lovely to use React from Clojurescript.
"Struck" is a strange euphemism for "killed". :(