skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll adapt your habits to new circumstances.

You know your trips in advance so you can get in the habit of summoning a car 5 or 30 mins in advance of when you plan to leave.

You will probably even be able to schedule recurring trips e.g. if you go to work every day leaving at 8:00, you can schedule a car to be there every day at 8 at your door.

It's not a big deal, especially if you compare it to all the hassle involved in owning your own car:
* you have to find parking spot
* you have to maintain it (buy gas, change tires, replace oil)
* if it breaks, it's a major hassle of calling AAA, towing it to repair shop etc.)
This looks interesting -- you wouldn't think that something like automatic box generation would attract so much attention from developers, but I think this shows a bit of evolution in the makerspace from just straight 3D printing.

The speakers he shows as example output are beautiful!
You'd be anchoring a buoyant tube to the ocean floor, trapping all that energy. Instead, float a barge in deep enough water, drop a weight to generate power, raise it to store.
Cool stuff. Best of luck to you.
I think a pre-requisite to a "good" public transportation infrastructure is a shitty road infrastructure. To me asking for better public transportation is, to quote Henry Ford, asking for a Faster Horse.

I'm a member of the autonomous vehicle church. I think a fleet of self-driving cars absolutely blows away any bus system. And that's without roads specialized for the self driving car. Once you start custom crafting intersections it just gets even better.
And now we may have gotten worse: instead of trans fats (really bad!), we now get highly oxidized poly-unsaturated fats as restaurants have moved to seed oils for frying, which don't handle the temperatures nor the time in use very well. Oxidized fats do nasty things in the body, perhaps worse than trans fats.

Bring back the stable saturated fats like coconut oil, palm oil (if sustainably produced), lard and tallow.
> So this was straight up a cash infusion.

Its very similar to welfare, unemployment insurance, and social security in the US though (without the added bureaucracy costs). The only difference is the funding source (an NGO instead of a government).
Increases in known reserves can also be exponential.

The known reserves are 13 million tonnes. However lithium is the 25th most abundant element and you get 20mg of it for every kg of crust, so there is a lot more to find.
Same thing with Steve Jobs. The interesting thing is that there's an element of truth to it. Elon Musk's companies always seem to achieve amazing things.

It doesn't mean he's doing the bulk of the work, but he is playing a role that is irreplaceable, and it may not matter so much who the other people are so long as they are competent. It seems he is able to achieve similar results each time.
Rohinni's Lightpaper Is Incredibly Thin, and Printable
I had no had a need for outbound SMTP, but I read on the FAQ there is a form to fill out. Did not know a driver's license was needed--they have my credit card already--seems a bit extreme.
Folds and parallelism
How can he possibly be trolling? He's pointing out that the existing systems work fine and have for years, and that's the full extent of his post. This is why people hate systemd: the hordes of people who do personal attacks on anyone who even disagrees with them. You're doing it right here: anyone who disagrees with you is a troll.
> I still not sure if the press release is misleading or just wrong

There is absolutely no doubt that if the reader applies an intuitive classical interpretation of the term "state" to what physicists mean by a quantum state, then the reader will end up with some wrong impressions (and some right ones). The fact is that there are certain things that are going on that just don't map well on to normal, classical language. And this is not the readers fault; he's a normal, lay human being, and really smart people have been fighting over how to interpret the (unambiguous) experimental data for almost a century now without reaching a consensus.

Now, it would probably be better if physicists used the term "qustate" to refer to the state, and that they used this press releases, and that they said stuff like "when Alice makes her measurement, the qustate of Bob changes instantaneously". That way no one would go applying their classical intuition about what a "state" ought to be to the density matrix. Instead, they would ask "what's a 'qustate'?", and someone would say "well, it's sort of like a classical state...but it's not the same...and it's sorta like an epistemic probability distribution...but also not really...and the difference are subtle and very profound and you have to be careful and it takes a good amount of studying before you can understand." And that would be great and maybe a few more people would go actually read about it. But as it stands physicists are more than happy to allow laymen to misinterpret their terminology when it leads to their work sounding more exciting and getting more funding. There is definitely something of a Motte-and-Bailey going on. ( http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bric... )

> On the other hand, if Bobs makes a measurement after Alice measurement, the result should "agree" with the result Alice measurements. So, has something changed?

Actually, the mere agreement of Alice and Bob's measurement doesn't really give evidence that anything on Bob's side has changed. If I jumble a blue marble and a red marble in an urn and then put them in separate brown bags and give you one at random, then when you look in your bag that will instantly determine what I'll get when I look in mine, but it didn't change anything about my bag in the normal, physical sense.

The way in which quantum mechanics differs from this situation is subtle but significant.
Unfortunately, it's probably not too much of a stretch to think metabolically disordered people may outnumber those who aren't, if not now, then soon. But, realistically, it was probably necessary to target sick people to get the grant.
They are still doing it http://allafrica.com/stories/201407170971.html
Enova Financial in Chicago employs Brian Shirai to work on Rubinius, a new implementation of Ruby.

http://rubini.us/
_The_ thing that brought me to FreeBSD is the base system. A full installation is about 2.5 GB including source code (which is about 900 MB for the FreeBSD sources plus about another 800 MB for the Ports tree). Installation is extremely simple. Third-party software is cleanly separated from the base system. If you're coming from Linux, FreeBSD now has great binary package management tools in the form of pkgng, which is every bit as good and easy to use as APT or yum. I love the FreeBSD documentation. There are useful manual pages even for kernel internals and device drivers. I think that PF is vastly easier to understand and configure than iptables; the same goes for FreeBSD's IPsec implementation. Everything's laid out in a very logical, consistent manner, with lots of comments in config files and whatnot.

What's kept me on FreeBSD is the Ports tree (the third-party package build infrastructure). I love how easily I can build customized packages for my computers, especially now with pkgng and tools like poudriere (refer to this great tutorial at http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/poudriere). I can very easily set up my own custom package repository that either supplements or wholly replaces FreeBSD's. I've tried to do similar things with Linux, but it definitely isn't as easy. The ports tree committers are very responsive, and creating (and submitting!) one's own packages is both well documented and very easy.

I like how much of the system configuration is done in /etc/rc.conf. I like how the various system and ports tree build-time knobs are all in /etc/make.conf. I like how daily maintenance scripts/health checks both run by default and are all configured in /etc/periodic.conf. I like how understandable the base system is, kernel internals included. I'm no expert developer (and believe me, there's plenty of advanced Unix hacker wizardry in the FreeBSD sources), but things are accessible enough to even one such as me that I successfully modified the ciss driver this year to work around a weird bug in some old server gear I was experimenting with.

Don't get me wrong - I love me some Unix, but modern Linux distributions seem over-complicated in a lot of the ways I don't like about Solaris or AIX or Windows, even though there's a lot of nice stuff from the perspective of an end user. If you install Ubuntu or Fedora, a lot of stuff Just Works(tm), and that's great! I love Ubuntu and Fedora! But if anything breaks and I have to go digging, things get complicated so rapidly that it makes debugging more of an effort than it should be.
I like how it takes the tech center of the world 3 years to add a bus lane and then another 22 to make something of it
Actually an inclined plane and a hole in the ground are identical in terms of their energy storage, both are a function of their highest and lowest points. Which suggests a very simple implementation which is to run a pair of rails up the side of a mountain and but the winder/generator at the top and tie it off to the end of a rail car filled with rocks. Sure you would give up some efficiency with the friction of rail on steel but it would be pretty cheap to implement. On some of the alluvial fans in the Mohave it would make for an interested 'excess energy' storage mechanism for solar.

That said, how are those gravity fed porch lights doing? That seems like it would be an interesting proxy here.
Genuinely curious about the macroeconomics of this - how is the "basic income" not quickly pushed down to the lower-bound where it quickly stops being a livable wage?

That is, if say, $500/week was the basic income level, wouldn't the price of everything rise quickly to subsume that $500 almost immediately, as it moves the lower-bound from $0 to $500?

If not, that's wonderful, and I'd like to learn more about the idea of a society where you can still get rich but will never be in poverty.
Here's an interesting reference, Drew Houston showing Dropbox to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Definitely more negative comments on HN these days (although it's always been a skeptical audience).
It hardly seems fair to reject the format simply because Apple hasn't added support for it to their image viewer. At least here my desktop environment happily displayed the saved image with its built-in image viewer (Gwenview).

I'll admit that support for the format isn't perfect, but at least in your case it can be remedied pretty easily with a quick search [1]. That said, format adoption has to start somewhere. It'd be pretty sad if we were still using GIFs for all of our lossless images because PNGs were never allowed to catch on before they could become universally supported.

[1]: https://github.com/dchest/webp-quicklook
> PulseAudio, which is supposedly meant to be kernel-agnostic

Was this agnosticism part of the design?

And even if it was -- I suspect his experience has altered his view on it.
This is just a pun, but of course his proposal for energy storage already exists, and (surprise surprise) its lithium ion batteries. Significant parts of the projected gigafactory capacity are reserved producing cells for SolarCity home energy storage appliances and other storage systems.

In fact, right now the Tesla factory has 4GWh of lithium ion batteries installed for smoothing energy demands and they are actively building 400kWh storage units:

http://www.greentechmedia.com/content/images/articles/straub...

I'm sure that the end game idea in his mind is using the 85kWh+ batteries of Teslas everywhere for distributed energy storage.
I wonder if you could somehow combine it the counterweight system.
The spectrum is going to be so crowded by the time this is in full force.. Then what would they do?
Outside of the loop proper, I haven't found parking to be all that terrible to find. In the loop, using SpotHero makes it much easier.
I got one of these (or a very similar model), they are sold as "Cardphones" on eBay.

Really nice backup device, battery lasts weeks, reception and call quality is surprisingly good.

I only wish there was an easy way to sync the phonebook to Android/iOS because the interface is really, well, basic.
On my first edition Nexus 7 it has slowed down everything considerably, it is borderline unbearable to use it for anything now, even just browsing web pages is an uncomfortable experience. The lagginess combined with the double-gestures required for unlocking and getting to settings is especially frustrating. I used to love this device, but now I feel like it's working against me.
If someone have some idea of improvements, please let me know ! :)
Based on this I think we can see a recovery attempted on one of the upcoming missions that will actually support it. Very cool stuff.
Other than pathological examples, PSNR is pretty useful for gauging the quality of photographs, and is very common in literature. Problems aside, it would have been nice to see some rate-distortion curves.

I agree eye balling the results is just as important, but I don't believe everyone should adopt this method because one dude thinks it looks better. Personally, I dislike the blocking artefacts around the neck and badge of the high-res image, even if some details are sharper.
It sounds like they ran out of money for a while and stopped the grant: http://www.economist.com.na/general-news/699-big-resources-d...

They then got some additional funds and started it up again: http://allafrica.com/stories/201407170971.html
Whatever you want to compare against or not compare against, the point is that the kill switch is already there; cars are useless without roads, and roads are fairly easy to shutdown.
Also, on top of that, an open network with no encryption? It seems like that would be a great place to do some MITM attacks, as well as a variety of other things
The next flight (CRS-5, coming up in a few weeks) is going to attempt to land the first stage on this barge.
The premise of Basic Income is that money will go directly to the needy, and won't be wasted in bureaucracy, etc. But I'm not sure how it'll work practically.

I live in SF. Every day I see dozens of homeless people, camped out on the sidewalks or under overpasses, panhandling.

So suppose you introduce BI into this. Let's say every homeless person in SF gets $1500/month (or pick a number). The homeless person, say, decides to blow it all on hookers and blow, and is out that money in 2 days. Now what happens to him? He's still on the streets. Who will take care of him? Who will pay for his emergency room visits? Who will clean up after he takes a dump on the street? Who will provide him with food and clothes?

Please don't get me wrong: I'm all for some magic wand which removes poverty, even if it means more taxes for me. But I don't know how BI will work in practice.
Technically that would work fine. Economically, it's a disaster. McMaster prices are at least 2x what's available if you buy direct from a source, and if you were buying in bulk it'd probably get cheaper still. But this is cheap, cheap stuff for not that much weight. You'd need something I dunno, 100x-10000x stronger to do what you're talking about: http://www.mcmaster.com/#racks-and-pinions/=upn9xl

The appeal of the cables is that they're cheap. And they're cheap because they're easy to make (all things considered). Once you start applying sophistication to the design the price gets higher, and it's already too high from having to drill the hole.
(Space)X marks the spot!
I agree, in places where there is already extensive road infrastructure, a "public" transportation system using a fleet of autonomous vehicles is much more better use of existing resources.
This is nice for non-production environments - I've been issuing self-signed certificates, but this is a much more convenient approach and I'm pulling sleeves up to implement this.
> The big advantage of driving to work over taking the bus is time

No. The big advantage of driving is reliability: I know that my means of transportation will be there, where I left it, at any time that I want it. How many of us have missed the CalTrain by a few minutes, only to have to wait an hour till the next one comes by?
But 'meh boring' is not the same as well-regarded.
> having fun.

It could be argued that we could append to having fun "while keeping the planet alive." And F1 glorifies unsustainable habits and attitudes toward the planet.

But other than that I agree with you.
Hot shit! I speculated on this a while ago. Seems like I wasn't far off the mark. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7627515
I would take that bet. Phinney and Volek have a long history of doing pretty good science. I haven't seen any of their work directly contradicted over Phinney's 35+ year career[0]. Also, there is scant evidence that this is actually showing a different result than other studies. The diet-heart hypothesis never had good, controlled studies[1] to back it up; we are just now seeing the good science testing it, and it's not holding up well.

I will agree that nutrition science has been, and, in many cases, continues to be, lacking. It is getting better, though. We are moving past epidemiology being the be-all-end-all and starting to see well controlled trials asking interesting questions. Unfortunately, those are really expensive and hard to do.

0. I could be wrong here; I've read a lot but not everything. Still, they've had enough detractors that I'm sure people would have trumpeted it.

1. Lots of epidemiological studies, but causation shouldn't have ever been inferred from them. Unlike with smoking, risk factors were never 20x, more like 1.2x.
ifconfig didn't support infiniband and hadn't been maintained for many years.

It was irritating at first but ip is a better, more capable tool.

http://serverfault.com/questions/458628/should-i-quit-using-...
The depth requirement is 500m to 1500m. Though cliffs can be much taller than this, they usually are not totally vertical and cannot accomodate this much depth.

Disclaimer, not a geologist.
Obviously everyone saying check with a lawyer is right.

In addition, if you do decide to enter into a non-compete, keep in mind that merely guaranteeing to pay your existing salary throughout any enforced period of unemployment is not sufficient compensation.

Firstly, if you were leaving by your own choice, it would presumably be for a better position elsewhere, so if you're locked out of that they need to compensate you for your likely increase in remuneration.

Secondly, if you have significant time out of the industry in any technical field, that will probably have an effect on your employability when you get back into the job market later, and the longer the absence the greater the damage. This needs to be compensated as well.

It seems unlikely that most employers will be willing to offer you a reasonable figure on this basis, say 150% of your highest compensation level during your time with them, for a four-year period after you leave. That should tell you everything you need to know about whether you should sign a four-year NCA.
Which is amazing given that Jobs' story is filled with so many achievements, disappointments, dramas etc.

I am surprised no one has written about the PR machine behind Musk. Because it is truly masterful.
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People used the money as capital to create new economic activity- bakery, chickens, concrete blocks, etc.

A lot of money seems to have gone to education, which had excess capacity it could use to fill new demand at current prices.

It's not stated, but it sounds like most of the villagers aren't paying any kind of rent. I've always suspected that rent would be the place basic income might vanish into rising costs. Would be interesting to see how that turned out.

Anyway, it sounds in this case like most of the money was used as capital, which is a win for everyone.
Some problems with autonomous vehicles:

* Time. Lets be optomistic and say they are perfected in 5 years time AND can be added to new cars for minimal cost then then it'll be say 2030 before all the cars on the road have them (assuming laws outlaw manual cars when 90% of people are using driverless ones)

* Now at that point we are going to assuming that driverless cars are so good that they get twice the efficiency on your local road and highways resemble NASCAR races (without the 5% chance of a crash each trip)

* The problem is that now since driving is so easy the amount of traffic goes up so you are back where you were previously. Anywhere with enough traffic to have problems already has a tonne of latent demand just sitting around ready to generate more journeys.

Note:

* 5 years is really optimistic for driverless car perfection

* 10 years is to ban all manual cars?

* Ever tried crossing a NASCAR raceway on foot?

* Your assuming driverless vans/buses won't also happen. Share your rid cost with a dozen others, semi-fixed routes (easier to survey/programme), fleet management.
At the base of a 1000m shaft you'd have approximately 100 atmospheres of pressure. Not saying it cannot be done, but construction and materials cost would still be very high. Maintenance too. Plus you've lost the advantage of locating it anywhere.
Yeah, crazy right?

Folks already contributing hundreds of hours for free for some time.

I can't imagine someone doing free work and writing, ranking restaurant reviews, editing, citing, writing pieces of encyclopedia entrees or electing Presidents like in 2008.

Grassroots wha?
Isn't the problem more that the browser can't be given
multiple sources and types and allow it to chose what
it believes is best?

How would this look? If you simply did:

<img src-options="image.jpg
image.webp">

There's no way for the browser to know which one it wants without downloading all of them, because extensions aren't special. But I guess we could extend srcset to let you specify content type:

<img srcset="medium.jpg 1000w image/jpeg,
medium.webp 1000w image/webp,
large.jpg 2000w image/jpeg,
large.webp 2000w image/webp">
Yes your right. But i'm swiss, so a lot of countries dont really feel democratic to me:) Not enough power for the people – too much for those elected.

On the other hand, we, the people are soon to vote whether Switzerland should terminate european human rights contracts. It's insanely democratic and it scares the shit out of me because it might actually get a majority.

You can shoot yourself in the foot with too much democracy.
The event doesn't really need more promotion -- it's already the largest developer conference in history. We're trying to raise money for a dozen non-profits in the coding space, and all money goes to them, not us -- so I'm not going to lose too much sleep if the event gets some more exposure incidentally from my reply to offer someone a free ticket.

If you read my bio, I think you'll see that I understand the demographic quite well -- http://about.me/Edro
> I don't think anyone questions that if money gets injected into a local economy that this improves the standard of living

Yet the article starts with just that claim, from a local farmer, and it is a common objection to aid programs that provides monetary aid from people who presumes that poor people are guilty of causing their own predicament.

> This isn't Basic Income, this is a new way to distribute aid.

It is both. The point is that that by not means testing the aid, and by providing it in predictable cash payments on a regular schedule instead of crisis aid, or doling out specific types of aid, such as health services or bags of rice, you obtain substantial benefits that you don't get through other types of aid programs.