skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am one of those people who quit academia, and looking back, I am so glad I did. After spending over 4 years on my PhD in Electrical Engineering, I came to the conclusion that it was simply mathematical masturbation, proving pointless theorems on useless models. I realized I was prettying up some fairly trivial insights with impressive mathematical language. I realized it was a marketing and sales job. At that moment, I decided it was more honest to be in the private sector actually doing marketing and selling, at least I would not be lying to myself or to the world.

As it turns out, I have done more interesting research in the business world (essentially to amuse myself) than I was doing in academia.
oh yeah - #7: don't bite off more than you can chew. When this project started, it was the only project on my plate. After they pulled the "we want our designer to design the site" switch on me, this was no longer the only thing on my plate. Now I have 3 other projects i'm working on at the same time. Sounds great, but when you're now working 80 hours a week just to get them all done, it kinda sucks.
You can, but Angular imposes a little more structure to your code so the learning curve is slightly higher. I prefer Angular's syntax and overall capability but Knockout is a lot easier to just incrementally add to your application. I'm glad I learned Knockout first, it made Angular much easier to grok later on.
What teacher buy-in would you like and reasonably expect?

Does such a system have a single practical benefit to a teacher doing their job, that they couldn't / wouldn't do better offline by simply talking to the kid at school after the lesson? It's a benefit for the parents, and they got the daily status information (attendance, grades, discipline&other issues) flowing quickly and easily from teachers to parents, that part worked.

What would you expect from a teacher buy-in there - individual assistance with the homework online in the evenings ? My imagination is failing me here :) The original post sort of implied that it would be the place where you'd want kids to move their communication between themselves, no? (and they wouldn't avoid any important communication in any place moderated or monitored by their parents, naturally)

In any case, teachers pretty much everywhere tend to be overworked and underpaid; as much as they want to chat with a few kids individually they are already doing it in school. However, if you're (for a random example) teaching math to only 6 groups of 30 pupils each, then if you'd spend after hours 5 minutes weekly on online communication for each student, it would come out 15 hours per week, on top of handling homework - it's simply not going to happen.
International waters, immune to NSA?

Also, does wave power really yield sufficient energy?
There wasn't really much to 'design', was there? You take an existing product and color it in red or shall I say (RED). It's awesome there can be money raised for charity this way, but PLEASE let's not call this 'designed' really...
Computers will always be better drivers than humans, that is quite obvious. This article is backing that up with some data.
At this point in the discussion, you could probably correlate it with the number of the letters "R" in the reports. Because we all know that it's the pirates' favorite letter.
It shouldn't be much different than current legal cases where accidents are caused by mechanical or software failure.
Twitter Cofounder Evan William’s make his Blogging platform Medium Open for all
> They should at least talk to the engineers who design airplane autopilots, who know how to deal with that stuff.

What leads you to think they don't?
Why aren't characters trademarked instead of copyrighted? I feel like it would make so much more sense. Disney can have Mickey Mouse for as long as it wants, but the company has little to no financial need to keep 100-year-old cartoons out of the public domain.
I'd be interested to see how it made progress somewhere like Sicily (Naples is meant to be even more exciting to drive in but I haven't been there) or Thailand or India.

[Note that I haven't visited Thailand for about 20 years, Sicily for 10 years and India ever so perceptions may be out of date or incorrect based on media/TV coverage for the India case.]
Okay, so you don't agree with the approach. Doesn't mean you have to resort to name calling.

All you are pointing to is an alternative solution which basically has all the same issues in getting the right mix of nutrients, and more work on the consumers part. Convenience is at least part of the appeal of Soylent.

Fine, you prefer that approach, fair enough, there's no data that says it's the better one.
Good point! It could actually be that with lower accident rates robotic cars will produce, automobile insurance companies actually help drive the change.
Actual original reporting, wow, sadly unusual these days for any publication. My respect for CNET might be resurrected.
Cars already failsafe or just stop in the middle of the road due to chips failing http://www.recalls.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/1051195
Details from the expert software witness on why Toyota's unintended acceleration was a software flaw and not a floor mat.
"And existing product liability laws make it clear that a car’s manufacturer would be at fault if the car caused a crash, he said. He also said that when the inevitable accidents do occur, the data autonomous cars collect in order to navigate will provide a powerful and accurate picture of exactly who was responsible."
I think that for convenience and conciseness they're just using the same wording that has been used for the other products at this auction, many of which have been entirely new designs.
There are very serious people working on this. The reality is there will be fewer accidents. Some people think think the manufacturers themselves will take on the insurance liability, eventually "disrupting" the auto insurance industry completely. Sure, there will be media hay made out if any accidents in the beginning. It's like anything. It will be hard to deny the safety of this mode of transportation. Actually, the most unsafe aspect about this will be combining human drivers on the road with efficient autonomous driving systems.
I can't speak for that area specifically but I used to work at a county forest preserve during my summers in college. Typically when you are trying to restore a natural environment it takes a bit of work to make sure invasive species don't turn your forest into a bramble patch. One particularly common invasive species is Buckthorn that will choke out more desirable trees like Oaks which grow slowly. Mowing is one way that keeps the undesirable invasive species from taking over

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/terrestrialplants/woody...
Snapchat is a fad, not a business. Do not glorify.
Granted the thermodynamics lesson is all well and good. The more interesting point is in the making of ice cubes (or spheres). Apart from pitching some product, it's the water. Sufficiently purified water (ie reverse osmosis) produces glass-clear ice. Cloudy ice contains dissolved sediment typical of tap and barely filter water.
Sure does. Thanks for the feedback!
I've been emailing my resume using the Google Docs url (read only) and it works well. There are rarely any issues with someone being able to open it, versus a pdf or doc. Those might cause issues if you don't have Word or Adobe installed, but no installation means a better experience for the person on the other side. Sometimes Macs will format PDFs oddly in Preview and other issues always arise with doc and docx unless you are sure they are on Windows with Word.

Sending a Google Doc also allows you to edit it even after you send it. You can even see when they view it if they are logged in. If they don't like it, you can always just save it to your hard drive as a doc or pdf and send that.
Absolutely not. Run away.
So when the official Medium iOS app comes out, they'll have to go back to every single contributor and get them to agree to having their articles published in the iOS app.

And then the iPad app.

And then the Android app.
> For instance, what happens IF the vehicle actually does have an accident? Who is liable? Is it the "driver" who wasn't actually controlling the car, or the company who wrote the driving software?

Why would it be exclusive? If a vehicle actually has an accident with a driver, and owner who is not a driver, and a manufacturer, then, depending on the circumstances, it is possible for all three to have some degree of liability. With a robotic vehicle, there's really not that much difference.
They did backtrack, but because of PR reasons, not legal ones.
Unless there are antitrust issues, it's perfectly legal to offer different prices to different customers.
Everyone knows that scheduled downtime doesn't count as downtime.
15000 trees over 140 aces is approximately 1 tree per 20x20ft square. That doesn't resemble my own idea of 'forest', but it's not stretching the definition that far.
Yes, the same amount of ice will cause the same amount of dilution. What they were using as a comparison metric is how enjoyable the drink is during the typical time it takes to consume the beverage (I infer). Most of the time the beverage is consumed before the ice has fully melted in my experience. The level of dilution during the time period in which there is still solid ice is what was being compared.
http://www.hantzfarmsdetroit.com/
Examples for using socat
Ok, cool. So insurance companies should be lining up to insure autonomous cars, ya? As soon as an insurance company will insure an autonomous car then we will be able to buy them and use them. Or maybe the autonomous car makers will accept risk? This will be great! Cause the only person who wont have to have insurance is - me, the driver! Er... passenger.
Isn't it funny that Obama uses a Canadian phone?
Mechanical turrk?
In that same vein but perhaps more subtle, what of the social failsafes? I keep imagining this scenario (one which I run into consistently in the Bay Area), where I am looking to merge into the lane to my left because my lane has ended, and nobody will fucking let me in. Does the automatic driver have a level of aggressiveness that it follows? What if two automated drivers have the same level of aggressiveness and one wants to merge and the other won't let it? Do they just stop, resigning themselves to an endless loop of near catastrophe because neither will yield? I'd love to know more about exactly by what driving conventions these automated drivers abide. I think it'd go a long way to help people understand how such a process could be automated at all.
True, but if they are smart (which they don't seem to have enough of), then they can turn it into a business.
Its being built at an island in SF Bay. That doesn't mean its going to be operated there.
This article has a map: http://www.freep.com/article/20131018/BUSINESS06/310180105

I grabbed that address and plugged it into Google Maps, so the pin here is the northern corner:
https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=Mack+%26+St.+Jean%2C+...

Edit: and according to Google Maps, "Indian Village" (home of the developer) is literally the southwestern edge of the area.

PS: I know nothing about Detroit, this is all just looking at a map.
Real-time is definitely the future of development, but disappointed to see no mention of real-time client side technologies like the one I'm working on (http://playir.com). That allows you to update client-side source code across mobile web & native platforms.
Thanks. I thought that was the case. Much appreciated!
Yeah, that's what I thought. They asked to get paid in BTC also. Haha...
When I read the title I was excited that I would finally be able to buy what would really help them kill Netflix: Let me pay for a cable subscription and stream it anywhere over whatever connection I have. I'd even accept DRM restricted video streams at this point.
You've got more than nine weeks, I have faith that even the sub-par government contractors working on this will get it sorted out by then.

Feel free to come back and tell me how wrong I am if my faith turns out to be misguided.
I ended up compiling Julia just so I could watch it in action myself:
http://showterm.io/2b572805187a499194e91#fast

Beautiful
> If a private company harms you, there are often civil and potentially criminal concequences.

It is really difficult to sue a company that has a team of lawyers while you are a individual just trying to get by, esp. if said private company did something that really disrupts your life, like wrongly foreclosing on your home or wrongly firing you.
> "The lots being sold to Hantz Woodlands are in an area bounded by Van Dyke on the west, St. Jean on the east, Mack on the north, and Jefferson on the south. Although the Indian Village district lies within that area, no lots in Indian Village are included."

(http://www.freep.com/article/20121211/NEWS01/121211061/detro...)

Not sure how to make this a nice link / highlight a region:

https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=St+Jean+St%2C+Detroit...
It's also interesting to think about the financial implications for localities as data shows that the average police officer issues speeding tickets for approximately 300k/yr. (http://www.statisticbrain.com/driving-citation-statistics/)
Do you also think that copyright lasting 2,000 years would be fine as long as it is not retroactive? I know it doesn't make sense to me...
PS4 Will Require 300MB Update Out of the Box to Get Key Features
How will buying street food in Africa get Africans to use condoms and how does it help to find cures for HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria? Because that’s where the proceeds of product(RED) go to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Global_Fund_to_Fight_AIDS,_...
http://openingofdetroit.org/graphics/maps/HantzFarmsParcelMa...

Showing more of the city:
http://www.foodurbanism.org/hantz-farms-detroit/1101-hantz-f...
Can Google cars even change lanes at all?
Usually in Nordic countries, tv and movies are not dubbed but subtitled, so HBO Nordic is also with subtitles but which I think are optional.

I have tried the service in Finland, but haven't actually signed up for it. It might require a local address/credit card.
While that's true, it's not as big a deal as you'd think if these cars are dramatically safer. Auto insurance is a 180 billion dollar industry in the US (that's a billion with a B). If the cars are actually safer, they will have dramatically lower insurance premiums, which will allow the manufacturer to charge more money for the car upfront and still come out ahead even if they assume lots of liability. People will find a way to make it work because there's just too much money to be made.
How does privacy factor into this? Doubtless these cars would be even easier to track than modern ones. But could they be hackable or overridden by control to be driven someplace?

The code behind this will have to be completely open sourced to allay all fears.
Not really. Choose the best tool for the job. At the time, for secure mobile communication, that was BlackBerry.

Some would argue that's still true today.
I always hate the comments on these type of articles.

"the government should hire him before someone else gets him"

In reply

"you can be sure there is a line up already - this kid is a treasure"
Well, not in the slightest. Let's try:

"a non-exclusive worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to utilize all copyright rights now in existence or that may arise in the future with respect to your User Content, in any medium that now exists or may arise in the future, as well as to do anything else that is reasonably appropriate to our Service and its use of your User Content (including, but not limited to, use of your name in association with your User Content to identify you as the contributor)."

With this license, Medium can bind all your blog posts into a dead-tree book, put your name on the cover in giant font, sell it in Barnes and Noble, and give you not one cent for it.

Now let me edit this a bit...

"You give Medium a non-exclusive copyright license to display your content worldwide."
This is the second "computers are better drivers than humans" article I've seen this week. And all I can say is: Duh!
Yep, it starts. I happen to really love driving, clean record, etc. In 10 years, it's going to be getting touchy for folks who still prefer driving themselves rather than letting the self-driving cars do it. The freedom will be exchanged for safety, and nobody will blink.
Why do you want Netflix killed by Comcast?
I did not get any new information out of this article. Not only does the title basically tell you everything that the article is going to talk about, but the statement is obvious. Of course an autonomous driver is safer than a human.
Cheers. Is C a popular language in the heavens?
Better title: "A 12 years old boy hacked your government websites. Lack of security is concerning."

Seriously, security on governmental websites (in Canada and Québec) is terrible.

I wouldn't be surprised if they stored password in plain text: they ask you to choose a shorter password if yours is too long.
In this area, if you just let some land go that started as grassland, in the first couple of years it will be mostly weeds, then for the next several years it will become overrun by shrubs, such as [1]. At the height of this phase, the land is essentially uncrossable on foot, covered with 10-15 foot tall sharp, spiky plants that are not very hard compared to most wood, but certainly much harder than your skin.

Over the next couple of decades, the trees will start getting a foothold, starting with the faster growing trees, which crowd out all the nasty shrubs but still produce a dense group of small little trees just barely spaced out enough for an adult to get through, then eventually stabilizing on oaks and the other very tall, hard trees, culminating in what one traditionally considers a "forest", something you can walk through because it's mostly very large, mature trees spaced dozens of feet apart. This will take a century or two to progress to the final stable state, depending on how tenacious the smaller trees are.

But if you want to jump straight to that and avoid the middle bit, it takes some maintenance. I assume the promise is a combination of a promise to do that maintenance, and probably to maintain some trails through it.

I could have sworn I learned a term in school for this sort of "biome progression" to what I thought was the "terminal biome" (the final, stable biome that results) but Google does not agree. Anyone who remembers their biology better than I, I'd be much obliged for the term.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaeagnus_angustifolia
> one of the worst examples lately of open source developers' contempt for their users.

That's utterly silly. If you take yourself seriously as a graphics editing program, then inevitably you have to move to one format that you can then convert into others. Otherwise you have to implement every single operation on every single file format you support. With the One True Format, (.otf) you can convert your .jpgs to the .otf and then do the operation there.

This then presents a problem. Tech-savvy users know that there will be a loss of data when you save to a consumption format. But the rest of us don't. If you allowed open and save in the same format, people will make the intuitive leap, that they're actually editing the files in that format, when they're not. They'll think all the layers they made will carry over into the PNG and that they'll be there when they re-open the file, when in fact they won't.

It would be a nightmare, because nobody will know what will save and what won't. You'd have to then educate users that to get everything to save properly, you have to save to .otf. Or you could just bake that logic directly into the app.
What about policeman directing traffic with hand signals ?
Nothing particularly revolutionary here: it's just the cheaper cable package, but now with HBO, which previously required the more expensive packages.
I've argued this point with friends for years. Individual characters (Mickey Mouse, Bart Simpson, James Bond, etc) and the like would be trademarked, and could only be used in new works by the trademark holder. Those works, however, would be released into the public domain after x years.
TwitsApp: The case for a standalone Twitter Direct Message app
Oh and they don't support Chrome, because 'it updates too fast'.
Hacking Our Senses To Boost Learning Power
What is especially playful is the article's headline. I mean, some people don't feel like they can toy with their own mobile devices right now--even though Obama got to keep his beloved berry. And it is quite a naughty situation. Germany's lady chancellor is not amused, for example. : )
Is this something you have concluded on your own from the evidence, or is there some article you can cite that summarizes the evidence for this?
Are dickpics ever going to go out of style ?
Pogue, Times Technology Columnist, Is Leaving for Yahoo
While we're speculating on the meaning behind the name(s) RE:wind, remember that Google acquired Makani Power a while back. They build wind generated power systems using large kites. What better place to put them into production than at sea where there isn't much worry about crashing to the ground.

http://www.makanipower.com/home/
I think this was the main thing that hasn't been shown with data before: "One of those analyses showed that when a human was behind the wheel, Google’s cars accelerated and braked significantly more sharply than they did when piloting themselves. Another showed that the cars’ software was much better at maintaining a safe distance from the vehicle ahead than the human drivers were."

They were known to be very safe with a very low (almost non-existant) accident rate, but I believe this was the first presentation of some of the more detailed driving data such as acceleration and braking.
Waiting on Google to approve the edit to the map: http://fld.mn/HfX4. I used the street boundaries in this[1] article; it's the same boundaries other commenters quoted.

[1] http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2013/06/hantz_wo...
DOA: The Galaxy Gear reportedly has a 30% return rate at Best Buy
ultimately, as a consumer (hah) you have to decide for yourself where you think the money is better spent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Red
I want to know how 53 percent of Austinites felt satisfied with the city's public transportation. Outside of the immediate downtown area, it's lackluster at absolute best, and more typically not a viable option for getting where you need to go.
Physical property rights do expire. The builder gets paid for each new creation only once. He doesn't make one building and get paid every time someone wants to visit it, for example.
The cost will be prohibitive for most people. And in the USA, the car culture is too ingrained. I don't see autonomous cars and human driven cars on the same roads. I don't think the technology will be ready in ten years anyway.
It brings me much joy to know that this link also appears on hckrnews.com :)