skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my biggest questions is what does this do for Children and young teens? Can they now ride in their families car by themselves? Do rich 12 year olds get their own car?

Driverless cars could open up entirely new age ranges to "driving" (10-16 and the elderly who can't physically drive anymore). And if these kids are riding around by themselves, what impact does this have on their social development. I enjoyed getting picked up by my mom or dad and the discussions we had in the car; and I look forward to picking up my children and talking with them about their days. But this may not be something future parents feel is important and those lost interactions would be a shame IMO...
I often open randomly interesting news here on HN.
In my office we couldn't recognize the source of the sound until I checked all of my 20 tabs in chrome :D
cool script bro
Saving data donkeys in quicksand with #tags
Near-naked women hanging from ropes at IGDA? It's all in good fun!
Booth babes on conferences floors? Get over it, that's marketing!
Interpretive dance not at all even associated with the event, just being encouraged because it's something worth seeing and it's somewhat-related to gender issues? Stupid, worthless! Way to objectify women more! Jesus christ you guys.

Thanks for encouraging the arts, Ela :)
That's because they inexplicably use the Jackson library for the simple test, rather than Play's built in JSON support (they use the built-in JSON for the other benchmarks).
How Nature Resets Our Minds and Bodies
Wow, what a breathtakingly misinterpreted vision of the future of cars. Off the top of my head:

1) Parking lots will not dwindle in usage. What a silly notion. In fact, the demand for cheap driverless taxis will probably make public transit all but obsolete, thus causing more vehicles to occupy the road. Just because the cars will be in high demand doesn't mean they won't need a place to stop and wait on occasion. I could definitely see more efficient and sophisticated parking structures becoming more commonplace, ones where human usage isn't a consideration. Where do you think all those cars will go at 3am? They're not going to just keep driving around...

2) the author seems to think at some point, driverless vehicles will become so ubiquitous that policy would ever pass that stripped the usage of freeways away from drivers. As if that was even enforceable, there will always be a significant enough subset of the population that won't own or choose to use a driverless car. That's what makes driverless cars rather than driverless car infrastructure such an important development. It doesn't ask the world to change around it, or ask people to change.
People want a transit system that takes them where they want to go when they want to go, that is clean, that they don't have to share with strangers, that they won't have someone asking them for "spare" change [1], that has their personal accouterments available for them, that allows them to do other things with their time, that isn't terribly expensive, that doesn't smell like urine.

[1] http://www.davebarry.com/gg/newyork.html
Thanks for the tips on these. We'll add ServiceStack to our to-do list. As you might imagine, that list is getting long as a result of some great community feedback. Pat (pfalls) is diving into the pull requests this morning.
Looking good.

So far I've been sticking to the Dropbox text-editor, since it's a decent minimum viable editor, while none of the others Ive found have been good enough to warrant investing in.

If this delivers on all it seems to promise, I'd probably buy it just to have something nice to hack with locally on my Asus Transformer (as opposed to doing SSH+emacs).
Because just about every habitable location on the planet is already claimed by some group. People do not just up and move en mass without huge social and political implications. Wars would be inevitable in this supposed future.
pedestal is quite a large project, try to offer a complete solution for building web application in Clojure, from server side to client side, to tooling.

http-kit is a very small and focused library, It just do one thing: talk in HTTP. http-kit need to work together with other libraries like Ring[1] and Compojure[2] to do the server side.

Few good things about http-kit:
1. Very fast and scalable, almost as fast as what you can get from the hardware.
2. Focus, do one thing and do it well, thing about Linux/Unix's philosophy. Personally, I prefer this way of doing software.

[1] https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring
[2] https://github.com/weavejester/compojure
That really wasn't the initial problem, nor is it still in most places. You have highly anomalous cities like NYC or SF where living costs are ludicrous, but for the most part cities are affordable places to live.

Sure, you will always get bigger spaces for the same price - that's why they're called suburbs, but the marginal utility of space decreases pretty rapidly. There are many cities where owning a sufficiently large space is indeed affordable. In fact this describes most cities outside of SF and NYC where we're packed like sardines.

People stopped living in cities because drug and crime became rampant, and quality of life dropped precipitously. That was the instigator, and still a cultural cornerstone of the suburban lifestyle, despite the revitalization of urban America.

People were fine living in apartments rather than owning a whole building to themselves - until the environment went to shit. They had the ability to get big houses outside the city for decades but didn't take the option until their urban neighborhoods collapsed. I suspect they still are fine with not owning a large house.
I welcome driverless cars!

Tens of thousands of people die annually because of car accidents. Driverless cars should make sure that number decreases _dramatically_.

Second, driverless cars should use fuel more efficiently and try not to cause too many jams. Optimise traffic and make it less polluting.

Driverless cars don't need to be stored in/near your home; they can be parked in big neighbourhood parking facilities near-by and come pick you up when needed.

Driverless cars should put an end to the auto insurance mafia.
"leagues of scientists have studied the issue and have not found a single obvious contributing factor"

Well, why could there not be several contributing factors at work here?
> But GM crops aren't bee pollinated, they're wind pollinated.

Bees forage in corn. That means they are exposed to and possibly affected by GMO Bt-Corn pollen endotoxins and the neonics they treat the corn with.
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I presume "non rhetorical question" would have been more accurate than "serious question", if I understand uvdiv's point correctly.
First, the spatial safety margins given to satellites don't really depend on the volume of the craft, so enabling much cheaper per-kg-to-LEO can greatly increase the amount of stuff up there in the same number of crafts. Second, I'm sure there are all sorts of clever ways to dramatically increase what we can fit up there if it were useful. Cheaper lift costs make it both cheaper and more valuable to clear space junk, etc. The amount of raw space up there is massive, something like millions of cubic miles per satellite.

(Surface area of Earth is 200 million square miles, times an easily accessible LEO altitude range between 120 and 170 miles, gives 1 million cubic miles for each of the 8000 satellites, operational or otherwise, currently in orbit.)
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Are you attempting to make an argument of the form: A is correlated with B, and A causes C, therefore A causes B?
I assumed it was a screensaver.
Fault and liability aren't the same though. Even if an accident is caused by your brakes failing, it's still your car that caused the damage and it's you (your insurance) that will pay. Even if it doesn't result in a traffic citation on your driving records.
In addition to a 9-5 job, some people also have to drive the kids around, shop for groceries at multiple places, and other things that more well off people can pay others to do.

When you make good money, you have the option to learn and try new things. Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy you the luxury of not being accused of "not willing to learn, try, and logic out things".
The problem is cities are full of poor people, for various lamentable and not so lamentable reasons. That fact drives all the other things that drive people out of cities: crime, bad schools, etc.

The sorry state of American cities is due in huge part to state distortion. The social services for the poor are heavily concentrated in the cities, so that's where they go (has the irony ever occurred to anyone that people complain about not being able to afford SF, NYC, etc, but at the same time those places are filled with poor people living in project housing?). Social services for middle class people (roads, good schools, etc) are concentrated in the suburbs, so that's where they go. Then the municipalities prevent all development, causing skyrocketing rents for people who want to try and live in the city anyway. City and state governments try as hard as they can to get people to leave their cities.
>> As long as the equipment is approved by your local traffic authority and you did proper maintenance, you can prove it wasn't your fault.

Which is exactly why I'm still 100% convinced this whole pipe dream will disappear the moment self-driving cars become available to consumers, and a few serious accidents happen. No car manufacturer on earth is going to continue selling cars with the promise they can 'drive themselves' if that makes them liable for accidents. Exhaustively testing a cruise control system is one thing, but ensuring at least 'nine nines' of reliability of all the hardware and software systems of a self-driving car, in every possible situation it could be used, is simply intractable. Anything less than nine nines reliability, and someone will die because of a problem with your self-driving car at least once every week or so.
Driverless cars should be a huge boon to the efficiency of moving cars along existing roads.

There may be an awkward period during which both automated and human-driven cars are on the road at the same time, but by the time it's mostly robots out there, traffic will flow much better. Traffic congestion is caused mostly by human-led factors like route choice and poor cooperation (in merging, etc.) rather than merely the number of cars on the road.
Intros: https://github.com/jeff-optimizely/Guiders-JS

"run LaTeX in the browser directly": Right now it appears to send data back to their servers to compile every time. What would be cool, especially for offline work, is a pure-JS implementation of the rendering engine.
I am less concerned with tracks and more concerned with pacing. The problem with lumping everybody together is that nobody learns at the same pace. So, the pace is slowed to the minimum required to keep everyone moving forward. That is the effect of wanting no child left behind. In effect, progress for all is slowed by all to allow for progress of a few.

If we allowed for a system where all students could learn at their own pace, test scores would go up simply for the fact that everyone would be allowed and encouraged to go further, faster. Also, many students could potentially learn more before they graduate or even have bachelor's level knowledge before the age they "go off to college".

I was an "honors kid" and it was a little depressing to spend months every year re-learning what we learned the previous year and slowly creeping forward on the material the rest of the year. So, I taught myself the things I cared about at home and in my free time - I would read books like "Teach Yourself C in 21 Days" for fun. At one point I wanted to build my own operating system, so I was teaching myself Assembly... for fun.

Obviously I'm a computer nerd, but people are nerdy about all kinds of things. Let the music kids go as far as they can in music, let the athletes go as far as they can with athletics. Let the writers write and the business people learn business. If schools nurture and encourage individualized learning, students will learn to excel in the areas that they care about.

I was nerdy enough to do it on my own, most people aren't. School as I experienced it is basically broken.
"with an biased agenda"

Anyone who claims to not have a "biased agenda" is probably even less trustworthy in this case.
Do drugs really have to be so expensive?
"We need to move to a system where new drugs are priced as close to the cost of production as possible - and where innovation is paid for and rewarded separately. We need innovation and affordable access." - Tough pricing problem to be solved.
austinee, sir or madam; I propose the following format for the remainder of this thread:

We post awesome women engineers and developers for people to follow and be aware of. Let the rest of the internet wallow in its poisonous vat of sensationalist vitriol. Here, in our little corner of the internet, we will move the chain forward a few inches by enumerating incredible women in tech, the rest of the web be damned. Maybe no one will see it or care. But maybe - just maybe, some young lady will stumble across it and think "Hey, that could be me, too." and in that small chance will our entire effort henceforth be vindicated.

Allow me to begin: (others feel free to contribute as well).

Rebecca Murphey ( @rmurphey / http://rmurphey.com/ ) : I owe her so much for writing her infamous Jquery/Javascript training guide. She is certainly one of the most pivotal figures in the Javascript renaissance. Her writing hits the sweet-spot of technical depth and approchability. I firmly believe that she is the kind of innovator that whatever she is doing now, the rest of us will be doing in 5 yrs.
Since a few people have asked about Haskell, here are some Haskell benchmarks in comparison: http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/03/preliminary-warp-cross-...
It's a coincidence by definition. Whether or not the two are linked is another matter, and someone has probably done research on it.
Good break down of .NET Array.sort

It's kind of funny he talks about it being fast for due to non-blocking IO:

One of the key reasons most argue is that node.js is fast, scalable because of forced non-blocking IO, and it’s efficient use of a single threaded model.

...then goes on and sets up a benchmark which is more dependent on CPU than IO. Not to mention as mentioned here that benchmark itself is flawed.

In my experience Node is faster in the case of most web apps that select a row from the db, read network requests to do aggregation, or update a column in a db. Anything that does do CPU computation generally uses a native hook or a different tech altogether.
Some of the comments here point out how driverless cars would allow people to just call for a car when they need it, a sort of on demand taxi.

I'd like to take it one step further and point out that it may make electric cars even more viable. If a car is going to be waiting until someone calls for one, rather than driving around the city looking for people - we could have a certain factor of "extra" cars charging while they wait.

When you then request a car, the system would send you one that is sufficiently charged. When you arrive the car will reenter the system and recharge.
Except, .NET sorting is implemenented in C# itself, not with native code.
You missed reading the article. The font is blank. As such, it's not very picturesque.
You mean the one with the cement wall leaning on it?
I'll take that as a compliment. ;)

If I ever would be doing such a thing, it would be more of a lesson in how to use node.js properly (even for non-typical tasks like sorting) then a performance comparison between node.js and .Net. Even then, I don't think it would be very interesting for people who like to read about node.js. It would be non-news to them, and for an atypical use-case.

I actually have no interest at all in getting a .net stack running on my mac.

The misleading information is what bothers me, so I hope to see it corrected. It's especially harmful because his blog will be most likely read by people who naturally favor .net. It's not even a tech blog per se. Then objective information is all the more important. (EDIT: Actually it does seem to a tech blog, which surprises me a bit, given the superficiality of his analysis)

You can see at the end of his posts, how he diverts from the main subject and goes on about (I'm sure to be) wonderful technologies and possibilities that the .net stack offers.
If you're living in the States, I'm guessing you've been living under a rock the last few months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_sequestration

Short summary: Dysfunctional Congress set up automatic harsh spending cuts to force compromise. Shockingly, they couldn't compromise, so they went into effect.
Next: Limor Fried ( @ladyada / adafruit.com)

If you don't know who this is, you are already being left behind in the new landscape of physical computing. Easily one of the top 5 most infulential people in the "New Hardware" movement.
Interesting. Thanks for the response.

One reason computer manufactures aren't liable is because a computer is an "open" system (so to speak) where a user can introduce all sorts of external variables that may affect it's performance/stability (viruses, malware etc).

Ideally the software in the car is closed so malfunctions cannot be attributed to user intervention. And if one of the sole jobs of that software is preventing collisions thought a series or calculations, sensors etc, it seems like a failure would be more on the manufacture's end than the driver but thats just my opinion.
Just picking another, the researchers did in situ replication of pesticide doses known to be prevalent in working hives, along with control colonies that were untreated. Whats happening is that in the last decade beekeepers largely switched to feeding their colonies High Fructose Corn Syrup from corn treated with neonicotinoid pesticides. Their results:

"15 of 16 imidacloprid- treated hives (94%) were dead across 4 apiaries 23 weeks post imidacloprid dosing. Dead hives were remarkably empty except for stores of food and some pollen left, a resemblance of CCD."

While none of the control hives died.

Their conclusion:

"Data from this in situ study provide convincing evidence that exposure to sub-lethal levels of imidacloprid in HFCS causes honey bees to exhibit symptoms consistent to CCD 23 weeks post imidacloprid dosing. The survival of the control hives managed alongside with the pesticide-treated hives unequivocally augments this conclusion. The observed delayed mortality in honey bees caused by imidacloprid in HFCS is a novel and plausible mechanism for CCD, and should be validated in future studies."
You wanted a picture of a zero-width font? One could argue that there were an infinite number of pictures of that font in use on that page.
Mono is as "100% supportable" as any other open source stack, including Node.
No, ZFS really doesn't need an fsck tool
It looks like the project has some kind of web thingie:
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/CosmoHome
Quite helpful posts. Try to keep track of them using a RSS reader[1]

[1] http://rssminer.net/a#read/281377?p=1&s=newest
The idiomatic phrase "it's no coincidence" means "it's more than just a coincidence."
the fee may actually be lower than the difference in ticket price

Isn't the main point of getting a cheap ticket and then moving to a more expensive one to not pay the price of an expensive ticket?
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I'm pretty sure that EU has no role in actually providing deposit insurance, it only requires that member states provide deposit insurance.

So what would happen if the Cypriot government couldn't handle the payouts required?
AFAIK cellphones predominantly used 700-900MHz band in the past, and moved to ~2GHz band recently for HSPA/4G LTE

Also there has been a lot of usage of 2.4GHz devices in recent years.
LibreOffice on every desk: A 10-step plan
Or better yet, set up an access point using WEP for security and insert a javascript livechat into every page so you get to talk to your hackers in real time.
"I actually have no interest at all in getting a .net stack running on my mac."

How does nodejs performance on windows compare to to OSX or linux?
I know. I'm saying you should offer more than a one-line assertion.
I'm really excited to get mine soon! Does anyone have any resources for people who want to dabble in creating a game for Ouya? Is it as basic as just making an HTML5 game with a wrapper of some sort? I would love to see some basic "how-to" type articles.
I think the penis joke thing is actually on a par with the booth babe thing.

By removing the various factors that have in the past led up to eventual sexism or sexual harrassment at a professional function you improve the odds that participants will be able to go through the conference experience without suffering from sexual harrassment.

Like any filter it suffers from filtering out behavior which is possibly legitimate, but is eliminating sexual-themed jokes (however innocuous) really that bad if it actually helps with reducing sexual harrassment (or alternately, identifying those who are actually sexist)?

That's the balance that has to be determined; is the acceptable behavior you would wrongly exclude by a rule more valuable than the wrong behavior you would permit without that rule?

I can make penis jokes almost anywhere else, so if banning them at a conference would actually contribute to a more pleasant experience for everyone else attending then I just don't see that as harmful.
"We assume the metro area in the city population - because the city is referred to as a whole. If I go to visit a friend in the metro areas of Sydney, I'm still 'going to Sydney', not 'the Sydney metro area'."

Generally it's more the people in the US metro areas who make that distinction, the persons who visit and live in the outlying areas and suburbs do not.
Richard Stallman on the Ogg Vorbis license (2001)
"Regulatory capture occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. Regulatory capture is a form of government failure, as it can act as an encouragement for firms to produce negative externalities. The agencies are called "captured agencies"."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Nice. I have a similar blog http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.ca
The catch is ads. All joking aside, does anyone else get an interesting sub-set of ads from this site? It seems Google is struggling to determine how to relate the model with relevant keywords. I see Ford(-$), GMC(-$), Cooking Show(-$), Education Program($$$), and Insurance ($$).

I expected New Relic, Databases, Network Security, etc.

Back on topic, great site. Also ranking well in Google! I've come across it a few times through search traffic and HN. While I have no interest in LaTeX, it is interesting to see the results. My TeX days ended when my DS and Algo classes both decided to use it for the bi-weekly homeworks. 60 minutes for homework, 9 hours in TeX.