skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, in that case, you're right. We should absolutely require Uber to divulge similar information.
Last time I checked, the vbox/hbox is XUL. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XUL/vbox
Honestly, I tend to agree (despite asking for a similar feature in another comment.)

It's easy enough to build an automated vehicle, but, wait, what? It has to coexist with human drivers? Mmmm, I'll get back to you on that.
I think there's a clear distinction between possessing child porn, which is illegal and subject to a jail term, and so-called "piracy", which is a civil dispute.

There are very few digital things that are illegal to possess (and no, a digital copy of The Matrix is not illegal to possess), and I believe Microsoft has both a legal and moral obligation to ensure the files on its servers are not child porn.
Yep. Noticing the Wikipedia article on these devices has expanded, I'd also encourage those with documentary skills and technological comprehension to lend their time to increasing the availability of the immediately accessible public record in areas of technology/politics as a means of effective protest. The more facts are out there, and the easier they are for people to discover, the greater the checks and balances on govscale surveillance.
I started with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_9850_series (Z80 like 8 bit core) (not in the poll!)
I wonder what the long term goal is? Getting acquired by some auto manufacturer?

I don't see many people that own modern enough cars (having the required electronics/mechanics already installed so all that's needed is a sensor and some data processing to send out control signals) investing into a retrofit device instead of just buying the next model which comes with the same thing out of the box.

But I have to say that I'm impressed that they have made it this far, and almost certainly without any support from Audi.
What security features would you prioritize?
She describes feeling undeserving of heaping praise, panic attacks, sacrificing relationships and friendships in the name of enterprise, hitting bottom, wondering if she should have quit sooner, and finally, relief and hope for the future.

In a world where most tech-related articles mythologize founders, it's sobering to read one that doesn't.
I am 32 and got my start on the built-in BASIC on the IBM PS/2. You don't have the original IBM, but you have the clones?
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Interesting.

Door-to-door-salesmen-as-a-service sounds a whole lot more impactful that cold calls over the phone. which could theoretically even be off-shored as well as outsourced.
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Good. The idea of a couple guys in Italy making money on trades of public parking spaces in SF baffles me. I assume they're not paying any taxes back to the city that maintains the spaces. How does one possibly defend this?
Elixir/BEAM is a fantastic target for a full web application toolkit. We're building just that with Phoenix. The ecosystem has a ways to go, but as a community, we're just getting started.
The xkcd comic is funny, but it's not a very good insult, since it applies not just to sports commentary but to essentially all human experience.
That's pretty awesome! Do you have a suggestion for voice recognition stuff?
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Why do people keep using this crap?
The public face for Girls Who Code is Reshma Saujani (law / politics background). As krstck pointed out, the public faces here are Mindy Kaling, Chelsea Clinton. While there are engineers involved behind the curtains in each of these programs, I don't like the fact that the ones who stand to gain the most (publicity, credibility, funding, access to resources and powerful contacts) are people who don't have anything to do with tech themselves except flying around the country giving talks about how everyone should code (Reshma Saujani, I am looking at you).
I am being bitter here, but I would hope to live in a world where real engineers are the women in the limelight for the kids to look up to.
>having strangers point or ask to try them on.

That's just rude. Whatever happened to common decency? I would never walk up to someone and ask if I could try out their new iPhone or drive their interesting car.
"So if I don't drink with you, I must be a terrible, low-end uncreative programmer?"

I didn't say that - I said that there are surely companies where you are a good fit. But why would every company have to want to hire you? Why shouldn't some companies be allowed to say they want a more friendly atmosphere? I am not even saying I would prefer that myself.
>You've got to love competition, but I wonder at what point Onedrive's race to the bottom in terms of pricing starts to impact Dropbox's valuation?

eh, I've looked into getting into this market, and the price I would feel comfortable with (at my scale... which is not large) would be around a penny per gigabyte per replication per month. 2 replications is about the minimum I'm comfortable with, so the $0.02 per gigabyte/month seems pretty reasonable to me, especially because the big players have access to some pretty dramatic economies of scale that I do not.

Hard drives are what, $150 per 4tb drive or so, to purchase? Figure that it's another $2000 for every 36 drives for a low-end motherboard and chassis; figure a 36 month life, to be conservative, and that's $5.50/month in capital. figure $200/month per kw usable. a hard drive is going to use 5-10 watts That's $1-$2/month per 4tb. so total cost is going to be around $1.88 per tb per month. Now, multiply by 2.2, as I'm going to have 2x replications and make each replication raid6, (10 disk stripes) so my cost is $4.14/month/tb If I'm charging $0.02 per month per gigabyte, that's $20/month per tb revenue. (Of course, this is all seagate gigabytes. It's more complex if you use GiB.)

That's plenty of margin. Now, this doesn't count over-subscription, and if you sell in 100gb blocks, not all of it is gonna get used.

Now, especially if you are letting users use this for more than just backups, you have per-account overheads like abuse handling.

But yeah, overall? from where I stand? the "race to the bottom" isn't even keeping up with hard drive prices. In a real "race to the bottom" someone at my scale wouldn't be able to make reasonable margins.

The biggest problem I see with the market is that most consumers don't need that much storage. I'm going to need a lot of customers to just fill my first 74 disk cluster. Then, if I let customers share the files, I'm going to have to deal with dmca bullshit, and I ain't doin' that for free.
>Do you not want the curious to have ready access to dig in and understand the stuff they use every day?

Yeah, pretty much.

Combine offshoring with the baffling obsession some programmers have with teaching EVERYONE their trade and you can expect compensation levels to plummet in the coming years.
You send some law enforcement officers out to track down the people selling spaces. Shouldn't be difficult, since they're advertising their location right in the app.
It's clearly an intermediate product for people who want to get closer to driverless vehicles. I doubt this will make strict business sense for anyone right now.
My guess is that those lines didn't remind the author of lasers in space.
I interpreted this as a hilariously myopic SV view of the issue. "Move fast and break things" is not exactly a winning motto for the development of automotive tech, unless you're into the demolition derby scene;)

The article states they plan to sell directly to consumers, not "big industry players", so it is a real issue. It also states that this is being released under the aegis of new CA law that goes into effect in the fall. I would imagine this law makes at least some provisions for liability, but the reality will probably be played out in the court systems for the rest of most of our lifetimes.
Amen. IDEs tend to be far too heavy for me, and simple text editors are my preference because of that.

That said, Geany is worth mentioning. Not very fancy or feature-rich, but it gets the job done without feeling like I'm teaching a sumo wrestler to ride a skateboard.
How does the scale measure BF%? My impression was that calipers were really the only way to do it accurately without expensive equipment.
"Let me tell you — failure fucking sucks."

"I felt like I was drowning in a black ocean, and I couldn’t see any light at the surface. I didn’t know which way to swim."

"I was fucking tired — physically and emotionally. I wasn’t sleeping properly."

"I had no bandwidth for anything else."

"I felt physically sick all day"

"I felt shame, guilt, embarrassment ..."

"I was scared I’d meet someone new and they’d ask me what I do"

"I was also embarrassed because I couldn’t afford to pay for anything..."

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..and on and on.
When they call me, I always seem to have a Commodore 64.
I understand why this sort of progress is interesting... but I feel like in this form, this is of minimal value. If I have to pay attention anyway (because of the risk of failure or situations it can't understand), then it isn't that helpful. I mean, it isn't like I can just zone out and read a book: I still have to pay just as much information.

Actually, to be more concrete, I definitely see the utility of this as an extra line of safety (a fallback if/when the driver does lose focus). But as something that is "between cruise control and self driving cars"... nope, not convinced. I wish it were pitched more conservatively.
sinatra/base, rack-urlmap and sequel, why would you want more fluff?
Our stack is Angular on the frontend and Node.js + MongoDB on the backend for now.

The main issue are our servers being on AWS Europe, will move some closer to the US soon :)
I think enterprise sales would be difficult to do other than salaried employee with commission. The sales cycle is too long.
Come back stronger Nikki. Best wishes and good luck
To fix git's learning curve:

1. Normalize the documentation's terminology. There are several places with conflicting names for the same thing. (E.g. "index" vs "staging area") It needs to be consistent.

1a. Even better, come up with some more intuitive names for stuff. Seriously, the word "index" gives zero intuitive understanding of what it does.

2. Make a dedicated glossary of all terms and link to it religiously. Many of the extremely important definitions are buried in random, seemingly unrelated pages.

2a. Even better, order the glossary so you can read top-to-bottom without skipping down and get a summary of the important terms and their relation to each other.

These documentation changes would help immensely.
Actually, all the sports I know of have a pretty simple method of dictating who the better team on the day was. Otherwise, how would we know who won?

Still, for many the debate is part of the fun. :)
sinatra is more powerful than you maybe have realize..
Hmm what you describe conflicts with what u/m0dest mentioned above. I'd like to hear word from him/her about the matter. If your friend's content wasn't shared, the the image must have been someone processed for known nudity patterns
These systems have been available for several years now, so I don't really see how many people would buy a retrofit option. People don't even upgrade their car stereo systems anymore.
OTOH, smart cruise control and obstacle avoidance are actually shipping features on current model year luxury cars.

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

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

Oh, and other systems to notice if you start getting drowsy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_drowsiness_detection
This is a little bit like the early home computers. You could start writing code (basic) immediately after switching on the computer. Copy a few lines of code from magazine and see what it does.
I'm not sure that Heroku is peaking at 10 AM on Monday, but I'm reasonably sure it's not a traffic nadir for them.

For example, 6 PM on Saturday PDT is 1 AM on Sunday GMT and 9 AM on Saturday in Hong Kong. This would almost certainly be a time of lower deployments / requests globally.
This is really cool and one of the first products I've seen beyond our own that addresses a specific need: simple prototyping using code. There are many "without writing code!" prototyping apps, and many non-app code libraries and frameworks, but few that combine the two.

Our product is for HTML prototyping and intended to be used for making quick interactive mockups of web apps and sites. Part of the reason it exists is because we've always felt that you need to write code to accurately mock interactions; just using canned stuff provided by most drag-and-drop interaction design tools doesn't cut it. We launched in 2010 and in the four years since, no one has really addressed a similar niche.

Framer seems to be a cool alternate approach: first off, it's focusing on mobile apps and small touch-based interactions with a lot of animation. That's great since that's where the market is now. But it's also different in that it looks like you only write Coffeescript and no HTML or CSS. I guess that's a good development too, since during prototyping you just want to describe behaviour and not focus on managing semantics, document structure, styling, etc - best to just have the tool handle it for you through the abstraction provided by FramerJS.

Good to see Framer is being developed by fellow Dutchies, too! We should organise a prototyping meetup or something. :)
You will do well II time around.
Sorry apparently Heroku is down right now: https://status.heroku.com/
I can't really see any moral difference between this and , say, ticket scalping.
This set of technology is already on the road today, from nearly every major carmaker. Just look at the luxury car in each line, and find "electronic power steering", "adaptive cruise control" and "active lane keeping". The 2013 Lincoln MKZ is one example, and there were tons of writeups calling it "self-driving, sometimes" when it was announced.

That's the combination that lets the car drive itself on well-marked roads like highways: EPS/ALK allows it to turn the wheel to keep you from crossing divider lines, and ACC maintains a minimum distance from any cars in front of you. Many of them also have automatic crash avoidance that will stop the car if the car in front of you suddenly slows and you don't hit the brakes yourself.

As for ensuring the driver can react fast enough if any of the systems become unavailable, AFAIK all the cars that have this set of features also have systems that will beep at you annoyingly if you take your hands off the wheel. It's one of the unwritten purposes of those "driver drowsiness detection" systems these same luxury cars now come with.
> Well, if the ISS is around 420km up, and Mars is on average 225 million km away, and all other parameters of the laser are identical, then the laser would need to be around 700GW.

What if we tried more power?

http://what-if.xkcd.com/13/

(I am a bad person. I am sorry.)
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I would be interested in a chat at some point. Interesting business model. I reached out to you on twitter.
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Trust in testimony and miracles
I tend to just pay attention roughly to what I eat, and not eat foods that are generally bad for me/empty calories. However on some days I'll consume twice the amount of "recommended daily calories" for an adult my size. Yet I remain an 140lb adult male.

There are no hard/fast rules for calorie consumption, and I don't believe a calorie counter will help. In-fact, it is the precise quantification of food that leads to poor diets/eating habits.

EDIT: My fear is that focusing on only a small part of nutrition will further harm the nutrition of individuals. If we place too much attention on calories other things can be overlooked such as vital fats and acids or minerals. I'm trying to make the case that increased awareness and education of food and the human diet/nutrition is more important than counting calories. As someone points out below, there are many situations where calories are not labeled. In my case, I'm aware of what food is decent, and what food is junk and this allows me to forgo strict quantification of the food I consume. I know that food from most food chains is generally junk. This extends beyond the nutrition of the food as well. Food chains typically source their food from the cheapest distributors, and these are often the same distributors that end up distributing massive quantities of contaminated foods.

Here's another case. I could potentially consume 5 sodas in a single day and remain under my caloric restriction, but I would have consumed a ton of empty calories. A calorie monitor is not able to help in this case, but my own awareness of health and nutrition keeps me from doing this.

The issue of health is far larger simple quantification of a few metrics. It is within any individuals ability to determine for themselves general effects of the food they are consuming.

For some of the best arguments contrary to my own: http://www.foodpolitics.com/tag/calorie-labeling/
Why call both products OneDrive then? The only thing I care to remember from the discussion earlier is "OneDrive == data files are modified" aka stay the heck away. By sharing the name, surely you want us to think it is the same product?

Would you trust a sync service called "File Destroyer for Consumers"?
I agree. As for the threads thing, I agree as well but there is a school of thought that believes that threads should be part of the language http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.pdf
Show HN: InfluxDB Storage Exchange for RabbitMQ
At least one of these companies is a pure protection racket.

"ParkModo was recently offering $13 an hour to drivers who would occupy parking spaces in the Mission District during peak weekend times and then sell the spot through its app, a Craigslist job posting showed.

"'Get paid $13.00 per hour just to park!' the ad read. 'Our company is launching an awesome app that rewards people to sell their on-street parking spots before leaving to people who need a spot.'

"It went on to say that: 'Once you are parked, using the app, you will offer the spot for sale. … Once someone purchases the spot, you will complete the transaction with the buyer and then find another space to park in and start the process all over again!'"

It's as if AirBnB were paying people to burn down hotels.
They're not selling the spots, they're selling prior knowledge of their departure. They have no right or means to block or make exclusive the spots, so what's the problem?
San Francisco is actually doing this on a trial basis:
http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/san-francisco-cuts-cruising-...
I respect your opinion, but I will happily disregard it when it comes to building web apps. If that means I someday lose you as a customer, so be it.
There is actually a new company, Proteus (http://www.proteus.com/), which has addressed a similar problem. Basically, they've developed a way to make a drug pill "smart" by embedding a tiny disposable transmitter in the pill. It uses stomach acid to create an "in-situ" battery and then transmits a unique ID to a receiver patch worn by the patient. Something like this perhaps could scale in the future if we could "pepper" FOOD with such nanotransmitters (eg a populate a food item with a certain density of transmitters to indicate calories).
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Actually, I think this is less of a problem than you think. Lasers have significant divergence, see for example the Marcy paper an astro-ph that was referenced elsewhere in this thread. Telescopes can already track targets at the diffraction limit, so it's no different to send a laser.

What is different is that you have to know the relative proper motion of the target, since you have to "lead" the target just like you do when skeet shooting. I don't know whether the lead angle is significant, but proper motions of nearby stars have been measured (e.g. by Hipparcos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparcos) and calculating the resulting lead angle isn't difficult.
I'm honestly impressed at someone so self-centered as to claim the future is unachievable unless and only unless he gets his own personal toy.
Child porn is a "everything must be done against it" topic and while that is what should be done, it means that it makes a perfect "no arguments against it" argument for snooping.

But it is my belief that file hosters have a legal and moral obligation not to know what they are hosting for their customers. It is not the obligation of a host to look at a customer's files and decide what is ok and what is not. It is the same thing with Tor nodes or if you decide to encrypt files. I actually think that any online sync host like this or like Dropbox should not have any chance of knowing what I store with them. That's my private business and there is zero reason for them to know, is there?
You are fighting a losing battle.
This is an issue for all self-driving car tech.

A little Googling uncovers the fact that airbags killed some 158 people in a recent year -- in low-speed accidents where the occupants would have been unharmed without the airbags. But airbags continued to grow in popularity (though now they're mandatory in the US, IIRC); automobile manufacturers just consider a certain amount of money paid out in liability a cost of doing business.

To help protect the manufacturers, they should make sure to have a good black-box recording of all the sensor data in the case of an accident. If there was a bug, they need to pay out the damages and fix the bug. If the accident was caused by someone else behaving dangerously, though, they should be protected from liability.

Bad press, however, is likely no matter what. The recent "Teslas can catch on fire!" media storm shows that; as I'm sure most HN readers know, a smaller percentage of Teslas caught fire than gasoline cars, and no Tesla owners were harmed, making the Tesla fires a non-story. Or it should have been a non-story, anyway.
Declarative AutoLayout in Swift
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...or the inability of developers to properly demonstrate to their managers why something is needed. simply saying it makes it easier is not enough, learn to sell and spin in a way that does not make you seem lazy and you will be surprised what you can convince people to do.
It makes sense so ship an editor with a reader. So that you can communicate both ways, both create and consume. Now we only need a way to share!
> In other words, the article (in my opinion) assumed that R > O always. I wanted to challenge this assumption that argue that R <?> O. I am not arguing, as some people seem to suppose, that O > R always.

So, you don't have evidence for it, you don't believe it, yet you're going to argue aggressively for it and call me biased to boot. What distinguishes your comments from garden-variety trolling?
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It was linked in the comments of this post, but the blog post of my colleague uses machine learning to predict the outcome of knockout matches with some 70% accuracy: http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/06/20/predicting-who-will-win-t...