skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to put a warning before or after that link to indicate that it contains some pretty disturbing content...
These self-driving vehicles will most likely have a lower base risk for accidents - they don't get tired, they don't get distracted.

However their potential for a Black Swan event is enormous. They could run perfectly for 5 years then an unexpected bug could cause 50% of vehicles to spontaneously accelerate to max speed and then pull a hard right..
Am I correct in assuming it requires a good fast internet connection to work at all? For example does it even work on 2G or is it WiFi only?
An example that irritates me to no end is the Playstation store.

Opening links in a new tab/window means reloading the entire store app, usually taking at least 15 seconds.

Likely this slow load is due to the broad scope of the app. I’ve found Angular works very well for medium sized apps, but isn't it aimed at solving the massive complexity and spaghetti code of larger applications?

I’ve found that many fringe devices cannot render many Angular apps in their browsers. This includes many current/previous generation game consoles (3DS, Wii U, PS3), less capable tablets, etc. I'm not sure whether its the browsers lacking certain Javascript language features, but its irritating for a "mobile" friendly framework to not work across a broad spectrum of devices.
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Usually, when you detect a pattern in your design, you want to abstract it away. Design patterns are basically just data structures that nobody has really bothered to properly implement with full generality.
There are some useful questions patients can ask.

"What happens if we do nothing? If we do watchful waiting?"

"What happens if I don't take these meds?"

"How likely is that bad event? Tell me in terms of numbers per 10,000 people rather than percentages".
In the car world, one occasionally hears the truism "There is no substitute for cubic inches."

And sometimes in the tech device world there is no substitute for square inches.
Nice analogy.
Jobs was once quoted saying that computers are like bycicles for the mind. That somehow closes the Jobs-quoting circle, I guess.
Yes. This works really well in the UK.

OpenReach, the bit of BT that operates the infrastructure, is part of a private company, but operates like part of the civil service. They are completely impartial. It is so illegal for OpenReach to offer BT anything they don't offer anyone else, that both BT Broadband and OpenReach staff cringe at the very concept.

tl;dr public wires that many ISPs can supply service over.
Is his MSc. or PHd. thesis on the iron fish online?
Well, if one writes a book, it's fair to judge his work not only for the content, but also for the form.

The investigation he's done is universally praised, but regarding his style, there's plenty of space for arguments, and they can be perfectly reasonable without any "shame".
Maybe it depends what Walgreens you go to? Im here in the north eastern part of Maryland and as noted it worked smoothly/great at Walgreens initially. Like you described.

Though a month later I noticed I had to hit yes/confirm through 3 to 5 screens to finish the transaction. This greatly reduced the UX and my excitement for using it.
Post PC was never about PCs disappearing, it was only about a maturation of that market; we can expect no real growth from PC sales in the future.

IBM just announced a new mainframe yesterday and we've technically been post mainframe since the early 80s. We've been post PC since 2009 or so (earlier for desktops), we'll hit a peak on phones soon enough.
Subsidizing community college would artificially increase the demand for CC and thus increase the price. This does not mean it will raise the price of traditional, expensive 4-year colleges and universities. CC does tend to feed into 4-year programs so it could cause some increase in demand (it could also decrease demand by acting as a substitute), but we are not talking about increasing our subsidy of 4-year programs.
Strangely, this is a 404: http://rhymebrain.com/en/
I think this is a really clever combination.
Thanks for not taking this personally. I wish I could quantify verbally what makes his art distinctively better. Part of it is that he's tapped into the zeitgeist of iOS styling - the flat look, the muted colors with a heavy dash of grey, the minimalism. That styling has heavily influenced current app design across the board.

Looking at yours on the Play Store, some things stand out to my untrained eye:

- Drop shadows on the title.

- The trees don't look clean (and I have no idea how to dig into that).

- The end scene fonts don't look sharp - they look kind of comic sans.

- The configuration is accessed via buttons, instead of the standard Android styling of the "..." button.

- The icon's person graphics are both too detailed and not detailed enough - they are in an uncanny valley of "eh".

- There's no cohesion of colors: there are multiple shades of green; multiple colors of buttons; multiple shades of blue. Multiple shades is fine, but for UI elements, they are like different colored trim on a house for the same things - window sills.

If you have a friend who is into graphic design, have them write you a critique.

It also turns me off, hard, when apps have exclamation points in the title or the "Free" word. It signifies cheapness for some reason.
> As Reihan Salam of National Review notes, community college tuition is already low. In fact, it’s zero, on average, for lower-income families, after taking financial aid into account. Vox’s Libby Nelson wrote, “Community college tuition for poorer students is often entirely covered by the need-based Pell Grant.”

So making it free takes care of people who couldn't handle the paperwork of filing for a Pell Grant.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/upshot/obamas-community-co...
Cars currently run on millions of lines of software.
Airlines run on even more.
Medical equipment is heavily run by software.

Software already runs our lives, and worrying about the quality of the underlying software is a strawman. When was the last time a code bug took out a car or an airliner? Some industries have very stringent requirements and QA processes to make sure the code is bug free and can't kill people.

Also, Google's self-driving car is already a far better driver than a majority of the drivers on the road today http://theoatmeal.com/blog/google_self_driving_car

Personally I can't wait until the human aspect of driving is completely removed from day-to-day travel.
Who gives a shit? YC should fund good ideas with good founders regardless of skin color, gender or whatever else.
HN on Android renders in teeny tiny text.

Edit - Moto G android 4.4.4,text is about 1mm high and I need to pinch-zoom about 3x to read it.
Nah, they're not really related. Browserify handles dependency management on the browser side, while NW.js allows you to build desktop applications using web technologies.
As I said, your polyglot browser idea looks nice on paper. Look at the current state of browser development and how hard it is to push standards like HTML5 or Ecmascript 6 and take a look at the differences on how and when browser vendors implement those standards. And what languages should be supported? Who provides the runtime environments? What about the different devices and their capabilities?

Sandboxing is hard, very hard. You would be afraid to even open a browser window if you know enough. If you like to have a strong sandbox, you cannot use plugins. You cannot even use fonts or render images - not to speak of video. Using fancy HTML5 APIs like to access file system or device sensors? Gone. WebGL, well...

Ajax made URIs more important than ever. Everyone started to speak about APIs (first Widgets) and a dissertation of a guy named Fielding became really important, because people had to (re)learn the basics of the web (and are still learning). WebSockets are for data streams and you cannot compare that to your typical browsing session.

For me, Single Page Applications are nice for Dashboards or simply pages which federate data and are open for longer sessions. I do not condemn them. What I don't like are Single Page Applications which exist for the sake of a Fatclient-like experience. It creates so much more complexity when I have to work around the limitations of HTML. Angular, Ember or ExtJS are complex and it becomes a huge dependency/constraint. You have to duplicate so much business logic, because you cannot trust the client. You have to validate everything server-side. That's why there are approaches like Dart, GWT/Vaadin or even NodeJS.

I like it the other way around - old school. Javascript to enhance, not to enforce. Take Gmail: I like to bookmark important mails. When I open that bookmark, I like to see the message. But Gmail has to boot first. And this is really optimized compared to your usual Angular application. Why can't I just see my mail - rendered with plain HTML + CSS. And when I click one (mock) button (e.g. reply), the page becomes enhanced immediately (because it loaded the necessary script in the background). We could even be better at UIs, which do not try to put as much information on the screen as possible. Another good example is Atlassian. I really like their applications. Nearly everything can be opened in a new tab. On each page, I get the main information (the concern) first and when I need more, I can get that - even with heavy Javascript support. Everything that's important uses Javascript unobstrusively. I like that. I can link/bookmark that.

If you want people or entire businesses to share links and information effectively, Single Page Apps are not the answer.
Hopefully OEMs will make cheaper versions of this Panasonic Windows tablet, which supports a dock with external monitor, kb, http://liliputing.com/2014/06/panasonic-toughpad-fz-m1-rugge...
Mobile devices are mostly "consuming" devices. If you want to do computer based work, e.g. type a letter, you're going to need a different type of device (i.e. laptop or desktop, one with a decent display and keyboard).

What has changed from the desktop era of the 90's is that there are a lot more consuming devices today. People now have phones an tablets to access the Internet who wouldn't have this type access 10/15 years ago.
It arrived and we're living in it. The most popular operating system in the world is a mobile OS. So is the second most popular.

This idea that PCs would vanish is a straw man; that's never been part of the "post-PC" concept. Even in a post-PC world PC sales would still be expected to go up over time, simply because of population growth.

> Chris says that this is because there are a lot of jobs that you simply can't do with a phone. To illustrate that, Michael Dell asked, "When your kid goes off to college, are you going to give him only a cell phone?"

Ha, this just proves the point. By the time almost any kid goes off to college today, they've already had a cell phone for years. PC is just what they use to do their homework. That is the exact definition of what the post-PC world was predicted to look like.

> As a result, there is no post-PC era, but rather an era in which the device you use is the one that works the best at the time and under the circumstances.

Again--this is the exact definition of what people mean when they say post-PC. A decade ago, in the PC era, every single thing you wanted to do on a computer had to happen on a PC. Today there is an explosion of connected devices, and the PC has moved from being the central object, to a specialized tool you use when you need to.
Wit old CRT screens one could reconstruct entire image in black&white just from radio emissions.
Yes. From my experience:

* PF (default on OpenBSD, a fork exists on FreeBSD) configuration is way more human-readable than iptables. Makes a lot easier to create custom complex rulesets.

* Documentation is much cleaner on FreeBSD (or OpenBSD) compared to GNU/Linux. Again helps you deploy complex solutions easily.

* The upgrade process (using ports or pkg) is well documented, easy to execute[1].

* ZFS makes FreeBSD a very solid file server

So, other than specific software, a clean approach on how start/stop services, where goes what, etc. I don't see any other reason for someone to switch from Linux to BSD.

However, given my experience ruby (I'm a ruby programmer) under-performs on FreeBSD VPSs compared to Linux VPSs while on bare metal doesn't. There are reports citing NetBSD as fastest ruby bare-metal OS. But again, differences shouldn't be all that much between BSD and Linux deployments in bare metal to justify a switch on VPSs though, if deploy ruby apps, I'd say stick with Linux.

[1] Hm. It's easy to execute if you are not afraid to read some extra documentation. But once you get the hand of it, it's really a breeze, never had serious issues with FreeBSD in ~3 years.
I walk about 30 minutes each way. It's about 10 minutes by car (cab or uber in my case).
IoTivity, AllJoyn, Contiki, Mosquitto, ZeroMQ, ActiveMQ, OpenIoT, ThingSpeak, Thread, REST - it's getting crowded here.

See https://github.com/niutech/priot for more open source solutions.
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Good to know that YC doesn't seem to be affected by biased selection process. The low overall percentage of minority or female founders is a reflection of the current state of society, which, alas, isn't where it could be.
I think you sound like a friendly and mindful human being, but not as a business person should sound like.

I find your relationship to your investors money very strange. This whole thing is not a game. For me at least it is not about making a nice drawing app and building a community of people, who like to create pretty drawings. There is nothing wrong about that, but it is not the goal of a company. The goal of a company is to make money. Nothing more nothing less.

If i were to invest in somebody's company I would want that person to be focused on spending my money as reasonable as possible and give me back as much as possible or at least lose as less as possible by making as little stupid errors as possible. I would walk away instantly if he mentions giving my money to charity if he fails. I can do this myself if I would have wanted to.
>Post PC was never about PCs disappearing

That's exactly what is was about. I don't think its fair to move the goalposts now. I think its clear that the standard bog PC or laptop where the end user has admin rights to modify it, install software from arbitary sources, etc just isn't going to go away and that the mobile/touch format is extremely limiting outside of a certain use cases.

There were minority voices who called this. We said that mobile/touch is wonderful for consuming and trivial tasks, but just can't compete with a big screen, big keyboard, big processor, etc. I remember the Jobsian types yelling us down. I think for all of Apple's innovations, they are still really a consumer/consumption based company. They'll never crack the enterprise productivity egg. There's something odd about seeing so many workers carrying both an ipad and a laptop to business trips. This is also why I think the MS Surface might mature into something that bridges the gap as a single device. I'm not holding my breath, but if I had to buy a new Windows laptop, I might just spring for the Surface, especially after Windows 10 comes out.
Not a YC partner, but I help review apps... when I look at age, it's not so that I can discriminate based on it, it's so that I can see how impressive a person's accomplishments are in light of how much time they've had to achieve them.
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I made a more extensive comment separately, but this is exactly right. The physicians were doing the appropriate thing in this case, but if you search hard enough you are going to find someone who will indulge treatments outside the standard of care. If she suffered a major complication or death, there would be no shortage of physicians lining up to question why he took a risk on a benign lesion.

The supposed 'invasion of the optic nerve' is dubious at best. Meningiomas only 'invade' if they are malignant and this would've required radiation therapy, which she did NOT get. Therefore, the pathology must have shown a typical benign meningioma. I'm thinking this surgeon got into some fibrous tissue or mass effect on the nerve... certainly could've caused a complication in the distant future if it grew, but you are dealing with probabilities now and not certainties.
Its a different form factor so it needs different interface methods.
I get what you're asking. You want a testable account of how any given species went from what we would call species X to what we would call species Y. There is probably never going to be such a level of resolution in our analysis that would satisfy even the staunchest naysayer. To really comprehend evolution requires an imagination capable of extrapolating a given set of principles into a framework that entails the very minuscule available data we do have under one encompassing theory. That theory is evolution. It is not something that can be fully understood in isolation.

This doesn't directly answer your question, but this was a key insight that finally made the entire picture click in my mind. Your question of wanting hard evidence of cross-species evolution is a red-herring and a distraction to your understanding. The concept of species is not a biological reality. Any definition we can come up with for a species, we can find many instances that break the definition. What we see as a species is just groups of individuals who have exchanged genes in recent history. There is no demarcation to delineate a transition between one species and another: (in the case of sexual reproduction) at every point a child can mate with its parents, with no exceptions (except for degenerate cases). This is true for every species that sexually reproduces, going all the way back to the origin of sexual reproduction. The reason groups of animals that represent a unified gene pool look so different is that groups of individuals fall into stable states with their environmental niche, while other groups fall into other stable states for other niches. Animals appear to be delineated by clear species simply as a function of our perspective from a single time slice. If we could observe gradual change over millions of years, we would see many splitting branches and merging branches, branches that get further apart and then seed an explosion of many smaller branches (i.e. when say land animals split from birds), etc etc. But in reality, every individual is a single branch on this tree. What we judge as a species are just branches that are 'close together' in this tree such that they look like a single unit.
If you just want more people to have a better understanding of history, produce some good history documentaries to show on TV.

They might not watch, but they might not attend college, either. Well, we can get them to attend college if use the college degree as a job credential so they can't get a good job without it, but that seems like a cruel policy, especially cruel to the least smart in society, so I don't think you'd want that.
> Paying money to exercise vested options upon leaving a company is very standard.

True; also very standard is cashless exercise, where you "pay" for your options using some of the optioned stock itself (really, taking fewer shares in a type of margin purchase). [1]

[1] See, e.g., http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cashlessexercise.asp
I've always heard it as, "Ain't no replacement for displacement."
Pretty different paradigm though. In the early 80's P&P machines cost a few arms and a firstborn and probably were automated with paper tape! Your family was almost certainly not using surface mount. Or at least, only for a handful of RF components.

The outfit I worked for after leaving college in the late 80's shipped hundreds of boards a month doing everything manually. By the time they folded, the only change was sending them out for wave soldering.

These days I can outperform them with a solder paste stencil and a toaster oven. Blows my mind.
Let me know if there are any other interesting features you'd like to see added to Viola! It's definitely a work in progress and it's really interesting to see how far you can distort C with GCC!
> People now have phones an tablets to access the Internet who wouldn't have this type access 10/15 years ago.

Some (hopefully many) of whom will discover what is possible on desktop creative platforms that have less restrictions than phones.
Neapolitan Camorra, which is the organization exposed by Saviano, has strong ties everywhere, and has invested in many global ventures. Their reach is actually beyond the knowledge of many. It's good for them to look like local groups, but they really are a multinational entity already.
I both read your comment and replied on a phone. No problems here - this is usually how I browse HN. But I suppose that the quality of that experience depends greatly on your mobile OS/browser.
Whether or not physicians are incompetent doesn't seem to address the result of the very first thing they did:

> So although the first doctors told them to wait, Balzer and Scott sent the MRI results to a handful of neurologists around the country. Nearly all of them agreed that Scott needed surgery.

I've had great doctors and terrible doctors, and the notion that the guy who graduated bottom of his class in medical school can always do better than a smart guy with an internet connection just doesn't pass muster in my experience. Of course some folks take this too far in the other direction, and I have a couple (mainstream, establishment, non-alternative, affiliated-with-big-hospitals) doctors whom I trust very much...but your blanket dismissal of "guy working in his basement" sounds, well, motivated.
The post does not add any value -- "you are not at a disadvantage" means we are evaluating everyone with the same scale. Why should this be a surprise? this is the least we would expect anyway.
Not entirely related, but the scale of this I find just mind boggling. E.g. I learned a little while ago that the universe of Star Trek just takes place in "our" galaxy alone! Not the entire universe, just our galaxy. Imagine the billions of other galaxies out there... Mind blown..
Maybe they should choose a better screenshot, or do they want to show how easy it is to "terminate" an employee with a single tap or click?
Softer sciences? It was simple human error, not a failing of the science itself. I've made a more extensive post separately, but in short... regulations have slowed the advances that could prevent this kind of human error.
Mine was also stargazing etc, with no math. A math based one would have been very fun but probably wouldn't enroll enough students to avoid being cancelled.
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Yes, indeed. That might actually be very true. That large group of people who are simply "consumers" today might become "creators" in the future.
This is like the articles people used to write about the failure of the paperless office to materialize. The revolution wasn't about literally having no paper anywhere in the office; it was about being free to use paper for what it's good for (e.g., cheat sheets, brainstorming, scratchwork) and getting it out of the roles where was terrible (archives, data listings, memos...)

Similarly, "post PC" just means you're no longer chained to a desk or forced to use Microsoft products -- not that the last PC has been stricken from the Earth.
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How to overcome Blank-Page Syndrome and write a kick-ass blog post like a pro
Yeah that said, Dtrace on FreeBSD sucks. The DSL is hard and many ready-to-run scripts don't run at all.

Other than Dtrace... Tools like dtruss & co are not as clean as strace, that's the feeling I've got when I had to trace some calls.
Wait until they learn about the Racoon video.