skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could be just the natural evolution of the internet. Early on the internet needed a global scope to reach a critical mass. These days a critical mass can be reached within a trading zone with not much (percentage wise) value added outside of that. Also because equipment continues to get cheaper the size of a viable critical mass is shrinking.
Some context:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1009014925493075969

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1008999468492918784
Nope, I also think humans are pretty good drivers given the complexity of the task. That's not to say we couldn't do better nor that machines cannot do better, but we aren't that bad.
See also: The chicken tax (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax) and how there are no cheap light trucks in the US
Yes, the OS is great, but at this point the hardware is so unacceptable that they're going to lose all my business. If they split the OS out they'd at least get me to pay for that part.
Yeah, same here. But switched to VSCode since a year or two
Textmate is still the best Mac native text editor for programming. It’s fast, stable, and gets out of your way. The newer CotEditor is a nice swift based implementation, but still lacks the extensibility that TM has. Long live Textmate!!

PS Textmate 3 should be subscription based to support the next generation of Mac text editor!
You are still missing the point - you are not supposed to contribute based on what someone does or does not. You are supposed to contribute based on the fact that the project makes it possible for _anyone_ to do what they do thanks to the code being available free and without any commitments. That's why we contribute, because we see value in that. You can take the code, build Netflix v2.0 and donate all the profits to FreeBSD. Or none, you're completely free - that is the idea behind BSD (it would be very nice if you would, though ;)
To bring it full circle...

any program that stimulates them, invests time and effort into them, and gets them passionate is going to result in philosophical statements like "everything I know about life, I learned playing rugby" or "In life, like chess, every move has a consequence."
- People want big cars and big cars are cheap enough for them to get.

- For the perceived feeling of safety in larger cars.

- For the off chance that once a year they might need to take some extra large load (e.g. help a friend with moving).

AKA. emotional needs, not practical ones.
Mobile took precedence during the last decade, but now everyone is starting to realize that tablets and smartphones aren't going to replace regular computers for a large portion of the population.
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The clones were great. TOO great, they were a superior value to what Apple was selling on the high end, which was why they had to go.
Makes me wonder how much better they have in closed source to release this openly...
>> This doesn't sound good, basically kickstarting a company on another company's money.

Can I work on my startup idea when I take 2 weeks vacation in the summer? What's the difference?
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Given time to market constraints and the potential value of having widely adopted autonomous vehicle software, it's not all surprising that vendors will take experimental shortcuts. And it's not at all surprising that sometimes, those shortcuts will result in fatalities.

That being said, I still want this tech on the road ASAP, not because it's perfect, but because human drivers are So. Fucking. Awful. They kill thousands of people a year due to negligence, incompetence, and occasional malice. Plus, the additional sensors available and the software response time mean autonomous drivers can outperform even sober, attentive, skilled human drivers in most situations.

A couple of weeks ago, I saw someone talking scary stuff about what someone here called "semi-autonomous murderbots" in a FB post that appeared on my feed immediately after several posts about a local accident, where a bicyclist was killed by a road-raging driver, who then hid/destroyed his car (the murder weapon still has not been found, even though his trial is now over). If that jackass had a self-driving vehicle, the bicyclist would still be alive today.

So are big corporations going to do kind of a careless job testing live vehicles in a rush to market? Yes. Will people get hurt? Yes. Is it worth it? Yes.
Well, it happens that we haven't figured out yet how to kill two birds with one stone with regards to decentralization and user-friendliness. However, the implications of a decentralized internet, like SAFEnet (built in Rust) could be potentially life-changing: https://safenetforum.org/t/where-do-you-see-maidsafe-in-thre....

It might not happen but as we've seen with the CA breach, data is the new oil (money) and the new nuclear fusion (danger), and we should aim to have control of it ourselves treating it as the form of factual power it is.
Public transit is the way of the future in higher density urban areas. Not only is it more energy efficient per rider and of assistance to those that are financially less well off. It has a much lower impact on air quality. Check out the article on electric vehicles from
The Guardian Aug 4, 2017. Always concerned when rich people with a vested interest discourage a service that helps the working poor.
As I stated elsewhere, consider this as a very dynamic moment in time. Things are changing quickly.

I also agree with your analysis of the current situation, I just don’t believe the current situation will be as it is for long.
I heard this defense before. It's the same as saying Mac is just a computer and iPhone is just a phone.
You could but nobody will notice (no information about insecure machine). Here victim is being informed and should become suspicious.
Most of my friends doesn't know difference between http and https. These are some letters which show up in front of URL.
He is one of the very few oligarchs giving above and beyond the amount required for tax breaks.

It's funny to me because you're bitching about effective govt spending on the internet..a technology developed by the govt.

Id argue government funding has developed more cures for diseases and more technological advances than any other sources of funding in all of history.

NASA put a man on the moon..
> and I 100% thought that me and my friends did not have an accent of any kind whatsoever

I suspect everyone thinks that. It's all those people from other parts of the world/country that have accents. :)
And because of possibility of making such choices, desirable living places and desirable work places are moving further apart.

Don't forget the feedback loops. People use cars because they need cars, but they need cars precisely because they use them.
Another small, fishing town in the north of Scotland alumni here - Wick, Caithness, this I suspect is "much" further north than arethuza. He lived near the Big City of Aberdeen ;)

Just to give you a sense of how local accents can be. The Caithness accent (mostly Norse origin with a little bit of Gaelic thrown in) is often confused for Irish - even by people who live within 50km of the county. (Personal experience, no references).
I disagree with "often," "so many," and the general idea that anything more than a small percentage of things labeled conspiracy theories have ever turned out to be true.

Conspiracy theories tend to be unfalsifiable claims without counter-explanations, while later-revealed conspiracies have tended to unravel based on credible counter-explanations from the beginning. Yes, the US government imported drugs into inner cities, just as the San Jose Mercury News spelled out, and it's a tragedy that the government then hounded that journalist to suicide before finally admitting it was all true.

In the meantime, hundreds or thousands of claims have been made that have no basis in reality, nothing other than "the world ought to make more sense than it does."

Our planet isn't flat because the US government tested drugs on poor black people without telling them. The latter was consistent with known facts all along, while the former is the result of Dunning-Kruger nonsense.

That oil companies and auto manufacturers are sabotaging Tesla, while competing rocket companies sabotaged SpaceX, is not impossible. It is, however, far less likely than that production is difficult, and that employees treated as Tesla employees are reported to be treated sometimes become disgruntled. So I won't be surprised if there does turn out to be evidence worth charging somebody with, but I think reason suggests that it's less likely than Musk is claiming.
If you want a real MacBook Pro, I don't understand why they axed the 17" line. Those machines were beasts. Everyone I know who got one in college is still running them almost a decade later. For really doing work, a full keyboard and screen real-estate is king.
A friend of mine's wife started a very high margin business selling scrapbook grabbags on eBay. She'd buy up clearance items and local craft/hobby stores, and bundle them up to sell on eBay. She made enough money that after two months, PayPal came along and froze her accounts, cutting her cashflow off, effectively killing the business.
As someone who moved from Linux and is moving between VS Code and Sublime - how is Textmate better?
Apple hit with $6.6M fine in Australia
“Knowing I had another year-long maternity leave on the horizon...” said no American, ever.
I didn't read all the comments, so don't know if anyone else suggested this.

A few times now, I have successfully got my first few hundred users by offering a lifetime discount and positioning it as a limited access beta testing program.

Got lots of feedback, and most users kept their accounts for a very long time, even if they weren't using the software, just do they wouldn't lose their discount.
How do you know the only thing they change is the configuration? Unless you're internal to Microsoft, there's not really a way to know. Obscured telemetry has been a running problem with Microsoft in recent years, so it's understandable that people would be suspicious of hidden changes to an application advertised as open-source.
I can easily believe in code that adjusts to the underlying vehicle's differences.

It seems to me the real problem would be that A: You need the car to be on the real streets, so at a minimum, it must be street legal. B: You need it to be on all the streets, including highways and such, so we're at least up to a Smart car level of body. From there it really isn't that great a leap to a full sedan chassis. Would one of those little cars even have room for all the requisite sensors? Even if they did, sedans are just so much more useful.

So it seems like the minimum practical car to test with is a sedan, and that's enough to kill people. Even the little Smart cars are plenty enough to kill people.
- a fantastic story-telling medium

- a competitive environment where you can test your skill and intellect against real human opponents

- playing cooperatively with friends.

- Grinding mindlessly to make some numbers go up

All of those are different things that it's possible to enjoy. I would hesitate to say any one is more "correct" than the others, other than how socially acceptable they are.
Interesting contrast to modern art. As photos have made it absolutely trivial to produce life-like images, fooling the buyer has become way more important than fooling the eye. Could you imagine Pollock taking part in this competition?
Because there are bushes / parked cars at the corners and making a left is tough when your head is 4 feet above the pavement.

Source: I drive a small car in Oakland.
> Am currently thinking of getting an iMac - then a chrome book for meetings

This is exactly what I did. It's a great combo.

The current iMac 5K is amazing value if you consider how much a 5K monitor costs.

I agree with most complaints about the Mac, except for the 5K iMac which IMO is the best Mac ever made.
1.) Americans are now preferring to buy 'made in US'

"U.S. consumers are willing to pay more for “Made in America” goods, according to a recent nationwide survey"

https://morningconsult.com/2017/11/21/poll-support-for-purch...

2.) tariffs encourage reshoring and new robotics/automation factories, which is still net jobs for US. which also makes prices back to where it was before tariffs (maybe even less)

"171,000 JOBS COME HOME TO USA IN 2017"
http://yonkerstimes.com/171000-jobs-come-home-to-usa-in-2017...

3.) in a perfectly competitive market, price always goes to equilibrium. which would discount tariffs
The potential problem with that is it reduces everyone's incentives to do it in the first place because they can just leech off of their competitors.
I have not tried x1 carbon but literally all lenovo laptops I have tried have horrible trackpads (palm rejection issues on linux, weird tracking).

MacOS is a good OS because it has a very human centric UI and it makes me very productive. Virtual Desktops that work flawlessly with trackpad, shortcuts like control command f to switch apps back and forth between fullscreen help me easily focus on task in hand, app quality is miles ahead of windows (scaling issues anyone?) and linux just doesn't have enough software available for anything other than development (video editors, graphics design etc).
> Would you say that you need expensive programmers to audit/create an escrow contract on Bitcoin? Multisig contracts are simple, battletested and deployed in the blockchain.

Given the number of high-profile smart-contract hacks we've seen, yes, you do need expensive programmers. (At least, to a greater extent than you need expensive lawyers. It's perfectly possible to write your own will without a lawyer, and frankly I'd have a lot more confidence in that than in my own smart contract, even as a programmer).
You are right the economy is very complicated, but it seems that the only factor anyone discusses is what's good for the "consumer".

I think the "consumer" is a really bad success criteria. I don't really care about what's good for the "consumer", I care about what's good for "the employee", highly skilled jobs, higher wages, and more jobs. These things can't be driven by lowering the cost to consumers, we'll get what we have now, more money flowing to the 1%, and the middle class being eliminated.
> But I honestly don't see anything radically distinct among Uber/Lyft/Curb

I don't, for Uber and Lyft; I've never heard of Curb. As a user, the two don't distinguish themselves in any way that effects my choice.

Execution is nothing if it doesn't meaningfully increase adoption.
Greece can't recover because its exports are too expensive. Devaluing the currency in which those exports are sold in order to spur exports doesn't solve the underlying problem, which is Greek productivity. Imagine that the German economy is a Prius and the Greek economy is a truck hauling a ton in a trailer behind it, and the Greek truck is complaining that it costs more in fuel than the German Prius to get from the same point A to the same point B. Devaluing the Greek currency is like making fuel cost less especially for the Greek truck with no change in cost for the German Prius; sure, if the fuel is cheap enough for the Greek truck then maybe the Greek truck will be price-competitive in getting you from A to B, but the real solution is "how do we get the Greek truck to first dump the ton it's hauling behind it and then how do we make it more fuel efficient".

In a single-currency market, it is the responsibility of strong players to shore up the economies of weak players, or risk popular discontent in the weaker economy and the democratic dissolution of the common currency. German politicians have paid lip service to this but have not really put German resources to use in building up the PIGS economies because such a policy is unpopular with the German voting public, which wants to see those resources stay in Germany and to the nearsighted benefit of German taxpayers. This is the real root of the Euro crisis. There were always going to be weaker players in the EU, and it doesn't matter if it's Greece, it could very easily have been some other country. The question is what do stronger players do.

The US doesn't suffer from this issue because, to use an oversimplified example, California voters aren't discontent with FEMA funds used in hurricane disaster recovery areas. Californians are Americans before they're Californians, by and large.
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Those definitions are mostly wrong. On HN (my experience) people associate colorblindness with and only with "red-green color blindness". This is obviously wrong, or at least not well defined.

It's not binary. There is a range from not colorblind to minor defience to fully red-green colorblind
For me, it's mainly because of the Mac ecosystem.
I agree complete with that. I still want to be able to buy cheap stuff from China.

But, and this is a big but, I also want to be able to sell to China’s growing middle and upper class.

That’s what this is about.
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IBM's Rational Team Concert. I haven't used a worse version control system in my entire life.
Which is also why I have always found the notion of "everyone will be using shared fleets" so rich. Carpooling rates have declined across the years in America - http://www.governing.com/gov-institute/voices/col-potential-...
I think that's mostly because most of the comments feel like either borderline insane (like the ones claiming all regulation including environmental and consumer protection are evil bureaucracy or the one claiming stability is a bad thing for the world) or feel kinda like cheap shills ("Trump is just doing what needs to be done! So brave!").

Yours looks like the first though out one.

EDIT: mostly I think people just think Trump and his regime is so incompetent and also evil, that they will automatically consider everything in a bad light.

Looking at what they done so far, it's not a bad assumption, but maybe this is the one thing they don't fuck up?
That's what I thought too.

Really strange time to be alive. People give money away in a scam ( at least tron is in my opinion) and the owner go to buy nice stuff...
On this note, do any of these nice GUI editors provide a good API for control of the buffer contents, multiple cursor positions, multiple highlights, etc?

I'd love to experiment with various editing models but hate the idea of implementing the entire GUI layer. Also I'm dying for a pretty GUI for Kakoune (my editor of choice).

I'd pay hundreds for this honestly. Maybe I'm too niche for it to matter, but I feel like these companies putting so much work into their editors are not fully utilizing the effort they put into it.

Ie, many don't want to switch from Vim, but if we could take a really well polished and established editor like TextMate and make it the GUI for Vim? Well that's just amazing. I'd buy it hands down, for quite a lot. It would need to be full access though, and not explicitly tied to (Neo)Vim.
>That being said, I still want this tech on the road ASAP, not because it's perfect, but because human drivers are So. Fucking. Awful.

This narrative is so pervasive and I must admit a bit strange to me. Millions and millions of people strap themselves into thousands of pounds of metal and then drive 80 down the highway while texting and changing the radio and telling your kids to please stop fighting surrounded by other people doing the exact same thing. And we do that every single day and almost all of us are fine and will never have a 'major' accident. Humans are pretty fucking great at driving.

Besides to say that human are bad (or good) at driving would require some comparison, we're bad at it compared to what? As far as we know humans are the best drivers in universe. There's no evidence that self-driving is currently better than human drivers and there's no evidence that self-driving cars will soon be better than human drivers and there's no evidence that if we allow tons of self-driving cars on the roads then they will be better than humans. It's just blind hope, it really makes me want a word for whatever the opposite of a luddite is, instead of a belief that we can destroy machines to benefit people we believe we can destroy people to benefit machines. It's all twisted up.

If you want to be an Uber or Tesla crash test dummy and walk/bike across a test track while they see if their vehicle can avoid you then by all means go for it. But don't just foist that upon average people.
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Love TextMate. It was my first editor. But has anybody else noticed a slowdown in startup time? It feels like it takes longer to open then VSCode, which is surprising for a native application.
Resilio has been a separate company for two years; they're not affected by this deal.
The Thinkpad T-series is much cheaper than Mac with better specs and support. Put a Linux distro on it and it's a great computer for programming. I paid $1,900 for my current laptop (T-460) with 24 GB of RAM, 11+ hours of battery life, matte screen (low glare), and a 4-year, next-day, at-home repair plan where they will drive to my home to fix any problems the next day, including accidents. That price included tax and shipping. I had considered buying a Mac, but in hindsight I'm very relieved that I didn't.
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> The one problem I have is that usually when I discover I need to use Wireshark, I'm not able to download it as I don't have an internet connection.

Solution: carry a fresh version for all platforms on a pendrive, in your wallet.
> If, however, you're not sensitized to small details, switching to PC is a pretty painless process.

There's another category to consider: Those who use mostly open source apps and those who prefer a better user experience. Switching is easy if you're the former. Not so much if you're the latter. The Mac app ecosystem is hands down the best there is. Mac apps are not just easy to use, but pleasant. Windows apps are ugly and often difficult to use. Heaven help you on Linux.
In this case, as I understand it, they also disabled the emergency braking feature built into the Volvo. Which wouldn't be obviously crazy if they had better, adequately tested emergency braking integrated with the "autonomy" system. But to disable the existing safety feature in favor of their own system, and also disable their own system due to a high false positive rate, seems negligent on the face of it.
Ah, that's good to know because in Finland, your employer does pay it.
It snows where I live. My street floods. I have a family. I frequently want to carry a large number of items.

I get that SUV's aren't for everyone. Acting like they are for no one is silly though.
I’m going go out on a limb abd speculate there might be different hurdles for a single installation vs many installations.
Isn't the bigger issue for Apple that iOS is run by devs on the Mac platform? If devs start moving away from Mac computers, it becomes less likely they will develop for the App Store.
Looks like source is https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=netperf-...

I guess they have everything just set to default disto settings which likely in some cases include firewall while others don't. They also don't mention which NIC they are using, the motherboard has two different NICs (i218-LM & I210-AT).
For a general GUI text editor, I just want notepad++ for Mac. I've yet to find one as good as n++.
No it isn't. By "non tech", I mean not manually fiddling with html and all that.
You must connect an old network hub to the device you want to listen to (or its Wifi access point) and your PC that is running WireShark. A hub is like a switch that sends every received data to all of its ports.
I'm from Portknockie (an interesting name in itself) not sure I would describe that as "near" Aberdeen.... ;-)

Should have said North East rather than North!