skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes you say this?

About half of nearby stars that we can observe[0] have planetary make up that is different than our own Sun. By definition, the rest either have a make up that is like our own or not like our own. So let's assume that every single nearby solar system looks exactly like our solar system, we are just unable to detect that they are at this time. That still means that our solar system is distinctly different than half of the other solar systems. That ratio of difference will never go lower, it'll always be "The solar system is different than at least 50% of other nearby solar systems". But after we do more observations, it might be 60%, 70%, 80%, etc.

Or in other words, as the original commenter said, "It is certainly possible that the more we study the rarer it will become. (It can't really go the other direction at this point.)".

[0] - FTA, "Of order half of nearby stars have at least one (and often several) worlds with masses substantially greater than Earth and orbital periods ranging from mere days to weeks; in our system, the space interior to tiny Mercury’s 88-day orbit is entirely empty."
Their design pipeline may be years deep. It's entirely possible they expected Intel to have completely exhausted their bowels from their bed-shitting by now and Intel has surprised them by continuing to soil the sheets.

I'd bet anything Apple believed there'd have been a process shrink by now and they'd be able to get more cores in the same case design. Maybe Apple's been torpedoed but it's Intel doing the torpedoing.
There might be a simpler explanation. People that are willing to spend $250 on racers mmay be more serious than average runner. It might also be that the act of putting on $250 shoes may have purely psychological effect to stimulate runner as not doing their best could have additional perceived cost of wasting money spent on very expensive shoes.
Most of the rides I've taken in Colorado have been in vehicles that smell of pot smoke. This isn't great for business travelers. I wish there were a way for drivers and riders to be marked as non-smoking. It's not a huge health issue for me, though I do have asthma, but no one want to show up to a work meeting smelling of pot smoke.
>I suppose one could reserve them for races and train with cheaper shoes.

That's what I would do. You'd have a slight boost on top of the usual race day boost and $250 to get ~4 marathons/8 half marathons isn't bad. I mean that would probably be 4+ years for a lot of non-serious runners.
That and you are using proprietary Oracle tech.
This isn't true across the board. There's a lot of primitive shitheads out there but there are still civilized humans also.
Blog post: http://research.baidu.com/Blog/index-view?id=106
How does bittorrent get around this? It isn't particularly troubled by nats or firewalls unless you live on a college campus.
Yeah, your 8 buck earpods in no way sound better, quit with the hyperbole. Maybe they sound better to you.

Yep, they may not have been the first, but once again, they come in and have a bunch of refinements that just make them stand out.

I've had bluetooth headphones before, and from pairing to loss of sync when moving more than a couple of metres away, AirPods beat them hands down.
How to add product features without making it more complex
So, I mainly use Cmder on Windows 10 these days (which uses ConEmu under the hood). I just tried typing in Windows cmd, Cmder and WSL, as well as a CentOS terminal. If I really try to notice it, I concede that there is tiny bit of latency in the Windows cmd console.

Maybe it is just me (willing to accept it is!), but I actually have to try to notice any difference, and even then, it's barely noticeable.
Seems like there may be a market for a new tier of uber. Maybe one were the car standards and passenger expectations aren't as high.
It's back up, but thanks for sharing the link for the passport index. I never knew about that site.
Emacs and elfeed combined with swiper were the revelation for me personally. I am finally satisfied with offline RSS Mac experience.
Great comment. Now, how often are officials confiscating shoes and sawing them in half to see what is really inside?

Corked bats? Hidden motors... etc...
Does he blink?
I drove for Uber for a little while, and I kicked people out of the car for smoking weed, just like I kicked people out of the car for smoking cigarettes.

1. My car is no-smoking. Ask before you light up. This is my personal property, not your living room.

2. Smoking weed is legal where I was driving, but only in your private home. Not in a hotel. Not on the street. And certainly not in a motor vehicle. I'm not going to lose my license because you can't wait 18 minutes to get high. (Which is pretty much the definition of an addict.)

Where I drove, Uber would very quickly take $150 out of your credit card and give it to the driver if you vomit in the car, as a cleaning fee. I would not be surprised if the same applied to smoking drugs.

(I don't know if any of this was covered in TFA because I'm not going to visit what appears to be a stoner website on a work connection.)
Why couldn't you make the discovery service decentralized as well?
Too bad it doesnt work ... whats the point of using heroku if you don't even scale your dynos under heavy load
You're looking at the top of the list, and I'm looking at the bottom.
Unusual sound waves discovered in quantum liquids
I had no idea this was possible. I would like to see what people have to say about it.
How Blockchain Could Redefine the Gaming Industry
The perfect crime.
This is why I would never, ever rent out an autonomously driving vehicle I own (something Tesla wants to offer). I really have to wonder about peoples' experiences with shared services that they think this is desirable.
How does a creator monetize a video with PeerTube?
no but that's not the point: if the data is unreliable then it's unreliable.

And here it's unreliable in a way that cannot be accounted for since it can be massively (e.g. minutes) over or under the actual time per individual.
You're both predicting the future, but at least the OP has offered solid advice based on her prediction. You're just criticizing. Also, predicting that the status quo will continue indefinitely is an extraordinary claim. Clearly, market cycles are real.

Maybe you're right. Maybe she's right. We'll find out when it happens. But by your own admission her article has solid life advice that people should be following. So clearly it has value.
It's dumb, now the answer to the flagged comment doesn't make any sense without the parent message...
If you really want to script in Clojure you should probably use Lumo https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo .
Starts up almost instantly (including a repl!). Still wouldn't recommend. But it's workable.
There's something interesting at play here — clearly, they're selling these shoes to enthusiasts, rather than just targeting elite athletes.

While I can see a competitive athlete reaching for whatever legal means they can to try and buy themselves a victory or podium or some other high-profile result that buys them sponsorships, there's just no good reason why amateur runners should care — you don't magically become a fitter, better runner by posting faster numbers through fancier shoes. Selling people on to the idea that they _should_ care about this is, depending on perspective marketing at either its finest or at its worst.
Geekbenchmark runs it tests in bursts with short delays between them to allow for the SoC to dissipate heat. They implemented that so laptops and cellphones wouldn't overheat, or thermally throttle while running the benchmark.

https://www.xda-developers.com/geekbench-ceo-fireside-chat-p...

I get that Geekbenchmark is extremely accessible, but it is not rigorous.

Citing a benchmark that's designed to avoid thermal issues, as proof a chip doesn't have thermal issues is just bad.
They just... work really well.

Sound quality is good enough, mic quality is pretty good, the battery lasts forever and then they also recharge extremely quickly in the carrying case, they pair without any trouble to my phone and mac, etc.

At least in my past experience you have to mess around with bluetooth headphones constantly to get them to work. With AirPods, you hardly need to.
IRC, gnusocial, xmpp, sms to some degree, ham radio, etc.

The absence of censorship I think will prove to be tangible enough to make products like peertube successful.
>This is not to detract from the misleading promotion

But it wasn't just 'misleading'; it was outright fraud. It wasn't "looks how awesome this feature is!" and then "oh, well it's not quite as awesome as they said". It was "oh, that feature isn't even in the game."
I'm unsure really how to respond here. If we're talking about something that has a long, complicated answer that requires lots of back and forth, yes, sure that's probably a completely valid approach.

But a desk side "hey how do I x?" or "Hey is this the right way to do this?", it's probably infinitely more productive to work on the issue at our respective desks, get the solution needed, and go back to work.

These responses I'm reading in this thread are becoming more and more astonishing as they genuinely appear-to me-that many developers would be better served working at home where they can enjoy complete and total silence. You are in a shared space, there are going to be people talking and discussing their jobs. It's what they're even there for in the first place.

Of course this within reason, having to share a space with a customer support team where people are constantly on the phones chatting and providing support-sure-I completely get why that would be grating.

We seem to have moved beyond that and are now picking apart the very nature of working with and supporting your colleagues when they come to you for assistance, the idea that something as innocuous as a senior developer helping a junior developer being a problematic and prima facie distraction that must be snuffed out and I find that attitude completely untenable.

Mitigating distractions and minimizing them where possible and reasonable is an admirable goal. But taking a long step back and looking at this thread: It seems many are taking the approach that the workplace ought to function like a library where no sounds are uttered but the clacking of keys and clicking of mice and I'm not sure I agree even minimally.
been using newsfire rss (http://www.newsfirerss.com/) for a long long time.

still works perfectly for me...
In addition ledger entries are the simplest part of accounting. Invoices, credit notes, tax, etc. are the harder parts.

For ledger entries, create a table and SQL makes a reasonable api. Maybe some stored procedures for protecting integrity.
They did attempt to control for this in other ways (at least skim the article), but it's true that at the end of the day you cannot control for any psychological factor.
Wal-Mart as a specific example also happens to be readily affordable and available to lower-class (let alone middle-class) Americans 24-hours a day and 7 days a week. Very few neighborhood or even department stores offer that, nor do most grocers (Safeway being a notable exception). It's for that reason that I tend to appreciate Wal-Mart's existence; yeah, it certainly ain't the best employer, and I know I personally prefer shopping at the mom-and-pop stores, but I also recognize that most Americans don't have the privilege of being choosy about those sorts of things.

As an additional bonus, most Wal-Marts (in my observation) will let you park your car there overnight, no questions asked. For someone who's homeless and living out of one's car, or for someone who's traveling and can't afford lodging, that's a pretty huge help.
possibly because these shoes and the article are exactly the opposite of barefoot running?
Alcohol isn't smoked and isn't likely to vaporize out of a drunk and settle on the walls of the car.
So the cars will look and smell inside like... taxis?
Graal VM EE is significantly faster than CE according to Oracle?
unital -> there is a multiplicative identity 1 such that 1.a = a for all a.

normed -> there is a norm. A way of saying how big an element is. In the reals |x| - x if x is positive and -x if x is negative. In the complex numbers |a+bi| = (a^2 + b^2)^(1/2)

Division -> Division (except possibly by zero) is always possible. That means for a and b not zero there exists c such that a=cb (c is a divided by b)

I could be wrong about these things since I'm quite rusty
If true I wouldn't discount the benefit, even small. It reminds me the theory of marginal gains popularized by Team SKY in cycling. In the aggregate all these small details add-up and may make the difference.
It would of course make sense if getting in the car reeking of any kind of smoke was theoretically punishable by a ban. But getting in a car reeking of tobacco smoke is covered only by the usual ratings system.

Where I drove, you were permitted to kick people out for smelling bad. Whether it was body odor, a drunk covered in his own puke, or someone reeking of cigarettes.

If you've ever been waiting for your Uber and he drives by while you take one last drag from your cigarette, now you know why.
> DDG chose an awkward name for their search engine

The majority of non-techie people I recommend DDG to literally LOL and give me the stop-shitting-me look.

I can't send a link to DDG to professional colleagues.

I've helped friends get their browsers more secure, etc. and they'll leave everything else alone but switch search because they think duckduckgo is some kind of "virus". (I explain it at the time, but it's too much to remember evidently.)

They really screwed up with the name, in my opinion as a regular user. It's also not short or memorable. I just don't get it. Seems like one of those inside jokes that only a founder finds funny and gets changed quickly before going to market.
Only takes a couple "primitive shitheads" to ruin it for everyone else unfortunately.
I like the idea of PeerTube, but there are many hurdles.

Anyone whose ISP/firewall/etc blocks all Torrent traffic is going to have a major challenge - which means that while part of what PeerTube has been so far is educational videos, they're not accessible in most school environments. That's a big challenge to overcome.

The other is pretty simple, and a reason I have not used PeerTube to watch a single video. If you're using my machine and my bandwidth to host or transfer your video to another person, you're going to pay me for it - upfront and at a rate I agree to. You're slowing down my connection and your website is causing me send data to someone I do not know. You're going to be liable for anything malicious that gets sent back; and if you're MitM'ing it to scan it properly, why are you wasting my bandwidth and storage?
No it isn't...
> your 8 buck earpods in no way sound better

Of course they do! Any wired solution will outperform even the best Bluetooth one.
Y Combinator Backs Latin American Scooter Startup, Grin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXdxKamJDg8&t=20
Gotcha. That's the boat I've been in. I want to avoid debt as much as possible, but unless I'm willing to live in a really rough neighborhood, I will need to buy a home that is roughly 3.5x my gross yearly pay (before taxes). That's a lot of debt.

The payments however, are manageable. So I suppose it is helpful to frame "low debt" in that way.
Yeah that's fine and all, but not the point being made in the article. The person smelled of weed and got told on. No one tried to smoke in the car.
The same technology that can classify and map roads and hazards real time can also map and classify what happens in the cab of the vehicle.
Uber's support people, even though they're overseas, are actually pretty responsive. Not every problem is solved through them, but the majority of the time they side with both the diver and the passenger by refunding the passenger's fare, while simultaneously giving the driver the full fare and taking the financial hit.

The CSR will also mark the two of you so that you're never matched again.
Usenet is still a thing, going on 40 years now. It may not be uber popular but it's far from a failure.
After 11 years, I’m finally ready to pay for the app we’ve built
You're still talking about data error magnitude as if it explains bias. It does not.
I think very strict moderation will come into auto taxis. If I'm paying a lease on a car, or better yet if I'm lending time in my own autonomous car, I'm going to exercise extremely judicious moderation. If it's not clean after UserABC rides, he never rides again. Simple.
Roku is in the ad business, not the hardware business, says CEO – The Verge
It can much more easily settle on the floor of the car though.
I did acknowledge that this situation sucks. Fraud is never ok, but neither are threats of violence.

My original point was and still is not to justify fraud, but to express sadness at the harmful lengths people will go to for their personal entertainment.
This isn't really stated or testing, but one of my biggest issues with running is how much pain I feel on my joints. I actually find it really enjoyable to run through the woods with my dog, but my knees just get mad. If these shoes relieved just a tiny bit of that pain I would find them almost worth it. Not saying one should buy an expensive pair of shoes, but if it was the case, maybe the shoes don't just make you run better, but actually walk better and more safe?
Expressing complex concepts almost always requires complex expressions of intent!

I don’t really know Rust all that well beyond a few toy projects. But if you were familiar with core aspects of the syntax and semantics - lifetimes, generics, tuples and the void type in this case - then it’s not particularly complex. Add to the fact that it’s code you’re not actually going to see in practice and I don’t think it’s so bad!
Springs are not always shaped like a car strut... AND Weight isn't important if the energy gained offsets the energy lost carrying the extra load.
Well they will and they won't, until you open the box
This will probably be used as an opportunity for price discrimination. Want to get from A to B? That will be $5. Oh, you want to ride in a tidy car? That will be $15.
A world I never knew existed. That rubberband talk was crazy.
Australia/New Zealand is a very nice to "get away from it all" but the real challenge for me is something nice in Asia.

I'm not really seeking these out they tend just to happen.
Then we setup rules and processes to deter "primitive shitheads"
Having capital saved up is tough. I've tried to save as much as possible but, year after year, it's amazing that I haven't managed to save more.

As for moving to a cheaper area... We all know what that means. I'm certainly looking in the "cheaper" neighborhood, but it's not the "cheapest". We all have our limits to what we consider a safe and healthy neighborhood, I suppose.
We have seen this pattern over and over again. Remember Apple's Q2, where nearly all analyst were negative. Outrage and pessimism were rampant on HN and Reddit. The vast minority complain the loudest while the vast majority go about their lives and work using Apple products.
There are cameras in taxis today. I don't believe for a second a self-driving taxi would ever be used without internal cameras.

As a privacy minded person I think that is ok. When I enter a taxi I don't expect total privacy (obviously don't expect the recordings to end up on youtube though).

I'm more concerned by the external-facing cameras. Possibly registering everything and everyone that didn't take part in my ride.

Without laws in place that data will most definitely be used for evil and the excuse might be targeted ads.
I'm still amazed that this individual published as much data as he did. I don't see where it says they have permission to do so.

Specially because:

> I hope they won’t beat me with a stick for disclosing any of this

This tells me that this wasn't cleared with them. Doesn't sound like a smart move. If your gut is telling you it may be a bad idea, it could be because it is...
Some (many?) drivers will refuse to take a visibly intoxicated passenger. They don't want to risk a vomiting incident.

It's why the long-time and full-time Uber drivers usually don't drive after dark/9pm/midnight (depending on the location), and leave the late-nights to the newbies.
In case anyone's looking to participate in this promotion, note that the 25GB space is only valid for one year. [1] I looked it up because 25GB is more space than the quota of my years-old free account which has participated in a bunch of promotions.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/help/space/25gb-promotion
> Why do you think that games journalism is not only niche, but extremely niche?

I can't really speak to whether or not its niche in an objective sense (i.e. the readership of games journalism), but it may seem that way because the stakes are so low. Games are essentially just entertainment and the availability of accurate information about them is not nearly as important as information about the functioning of government or the actions of large companies that can impact your life.
Gaming journalists understand their audience. The problem is that their bills are paid by advertisements from AAA studios.

You've described the problems of ad-sponsored media. If you actually paid for your news, all these problems would go away.
Uber Low-Rider?
If I was actually using my legs to move places I wanted to be instead of chasing "fitness" I'd be pretty interested in 4% gains in efficiency.
It's called the bus.
> compared to ground transport, where fuel is heavily taxed

But isn't this basically a road tax? Fuel for agricultural machinery or industrial plants is also free of such taxes (typically).
What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps, and why?
Am I the only one who finds the UI of mastodon nearly unusable? Then again, I also find tweetdeck and the twitter webpage a struggle to use.
Because the number of people lighting up a joint in Ubers vastly outnumber the people who are doing smack in an Uber.

My guess is that it's not being singled out. This is just the interest of the publication. Doing drugs of any kind in a car is illegal (at least where I drove), and equally problematic.
At some level, it's a pretty reasonable definition: having all your liquidity tied up in a single asset doesn't make a lot of sense, so having a house with a mortgage secured on it is just a way of getting somewhere between renting and buying outright without having to swing to the other extreme. The main risk you're faced with is a drastic drop in value right after you buy it, but that shouldn't affect your day-to-day if your payments were affordable in the first place.
What would process of taking down an obviously illegal video be on PeerTube?
As one who has watched the golf equipment market for some time, I can tell you that many are willing to spend money for incremental improvement rather than spend time to get better through practice.
I feel like we're burying the lead:

“another claim of this nature could result in permanent account deactivation.”

Uber wants to replace private and public transit, and then wants to be able to permanently "deactivate" your ability to transit.
A lot. But imagine what could go right. The thing I most want is battery life, but I hope that isn’t squandered by translating it to thinness.
When there's no longer a human watching there will be cameras. Instead of the driver telling people to knock it off right away, passengers will do whatever. Then they'll get a hefty cleaning bill in the mail or kicked off the platform after the next passenger reports issues and a person checks the footage. It won't be perfect, but hopefully it will be good enough
Also see Sparkfun's description of their "dogs at work" policy, which sounds absolutely disastrous: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1381
Yep complex numbers get used extensively for doing calculations with electronics when doing analysis.

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/electrical-engineering/e...