skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people who have ever tried living in an isolated biosphere on earth decided, after some number of months, that cities and trees and sky were pretty desirable, opened the airlock and left. Possibly it would work on another planet with no return vehicle.
Even a sci-fi terraforming bacteria can't change one atom into another and Venus is very low on Hydrogen.
Say what you wish about the fractured Android ecosystem, but it managed to get >84% of the market-share vs <12% for iOS, despite having arrived later and being (at least in its earlier incarnations, before Android 4.x) a much less polished product. Samsung alone has more users than Apple does. Spreading their innovation around to partners was a killer move from Google the same as selling their software to IBM clones was a killer move for Microsoft.

Note: Not arguing that Apple's strategy was unsuccessful in the least, but Google wouldn't have been able to beat Apple at their own game (integrated hardware-software luxury-branded product) at the time of the iPhone/Android release.
One should be afraid of the word unregulated, as in monopoly.
Passengers in cars are potentially a huge captive advertising audience.
So much faster for custom animations and transitions :)
Its at least mildly surprising -- lots of people assumed Google would try to get in this market, sure, but most of the speculation, given Google's investment in Uber, has focused around Google acquiring Uber, not competing with them.
Is there any reason you couldn't just spin up so goroutines to do this?
> Comcast is not a monopoly.

It's close to it. Ask those who have nothing else to choose from in their area, and they'll tell you whether it's a monopoly or not.
Hopefully this changes as the volume of CC-licensed video increases.
Android phones are cheaper than iPhones. That's all it is.
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How is that buzzword so huge now? Does no one using it realize that the word "focus" by itself... conveys nothing!

At least 20 different ways that I could see "focus" being interpreted, most of those conflicting with each other. I suppose that the advice giver is allowed to retroactively choose which definition of "focus" that they actually meant at the time they gave that advice.
It's an ancient concept. For an example of an actual practice look up noting in relation to this term.
> It is also playing with semantics to exclude DSL from the definition of broadband.

No need to play here. DSL is not broadband. Luckily you didn't try proposing to call telegraph broadband as well. Pigeon mail anyone?
FeenPhone – Open-source comm software, better than Skype and Google Hangouts
If you remove custom software like Intranet apps and focus more on products that have near ubiquitous deployment (like common desktop programs, OSes, basic server-level code), how do you think the come out? What about by number of people impacted?
Number 1) could just as easily be done by the top management, and 4) by the workers. That leaves middle management only facilitating the voice of the worker, which is often time only an illusion anyway.
Irregexp, the Dart VM's New RegExp Implementation
Earlier post with extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8987434
Your posts in this thread have had the woe-is-me scream of the right wing, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not being disingenuous when you're being wrong.

There aren't one or two ISPs because of regulation, there are one or two ISPs because the barries to entry are discouragingly high. It's fantastically, stupefyingly expensive to run that much cable. There's a reason we as a country have paid for so much of it.

Wireless broadband and satellite are inferior goods and don't replace hardline connections. Even so, you seem to have this curious idea that spectrum usage isn't rivalrous...which is not exactly borne out by reality.
Bus routes/schedules influence riders' behavior (People reach a bus stop at the time when they expect their bus to arrive). If buses try to automatically adjust route and timing based on riders' needs, riders will start showing up whenever and wherever they want. That makes me feel that the buses may become less utilized, not more.
1g at 1 atmosphere has disadvantages. Namely: to get off the planet, you will need a fully fuelled multistage rocket with an almost identical profile to rockets you'd launch from ground level on Earth. Something like a Falcon 9. That's a bit heavy to lug all the way from Earth.

Bonus: you have to launch by dropping it into a hell-cauldron of poison gases miles above a crushing, melting surface, better hope you don't have an engine out, because there are no launch aborts or do-overs. Then you have to fly it out through a hot corrosive acid atmosphere which I don't imagine would be very friendly to machined aluminum.
I've just learned about transformation matrix and I'm not sure but I guess so. I would say its essentially about how a human can draw spheres on a paper.
I assumed the parent comment meant user-provided data, not raw GPS data, since presumably the driver app is always reporting their location (how else would they know which drivers to dispatch?)
>Echoes the plant manager Wilson, "We are very much trying to get James a vehicle." But Robertson has a routine now, and he seems to like it, his coworkers say.
Pushlist
I think the self driving car is a tougher problem to solve than the maps. If uber can buy self driving cars, they can make maps on a city by city basis. If you have a pile of money, you can get maps. If you have a pile of money, it's not really clear you can get an autonomous car. I'm the first to shout they're coming - but they aren't here yet.
Ask HN: Have you ever lost focus on your personal project?
I been working on a personal project for almost a year now. Its nothing too complicated, just an online text editor. However recently can't even focus on the project. I really need to get this project working, I want to drop out of school and I plan on using this project to get a full time job(use it as a portfolio). How did you gain back your focus?
Then maybe jack of some trades, master of a handful or in the process of mastering a handful? If you take front and back end development as an example, you have many different ways to go about things on both sides. However, in terms of simply building software you can probably limit your focus for either side and deliver effective solutions. After all, the end user usually just cares about accomplishing what they need to, right?
> Simply because you were born, doesn't mean you are entitled to anything.

The United States and most of the rest of civilization disagrees with this statement. We call the things you are entitled to "human rights" and while there may be disagreement as to which rights ought to be applied, it is a completely radical view to claim that society should not offer any basic protections. It is from the complex interplay of society that we obtain our unique and impressive powers, this is why lions are not running shit on this planet.
"Politicians must think the tech community is a frustrating beast to work with."

Smart people are less predictable than those they have been marketing to previously. The biggest downside to this decision comes from the following line:

"But Tom Wheeler, the F.C.C. chairman, will advocate a light-touch approach to Title II, they say, shunning the more intrusive aspects of utility-style regulation, like meddling in pricing decisions."

To me, this is proof they are still in bed with the ISPs (which is not surprising), yet it seems they're claiming to do this for the benefit of the country. I'm not sure I believe that what benefits the massive ISP/entertainment conglomerates is by proxy beneficial to the rest of us. The state of the video broadcasting industry, for example, would be one piece of evidence to my skepticism of this theory. Over-the-top linear broadcasting via the internet has been possible, at least technically, for a long time now. And we have the bandwidth in this country to pull it off. The roadblock are the major cable companies who are making far too much money in their complete dominative ownership of the infrastructure to deliver video (currently), as they do not want to lose that business. So even if television stations wanted to move to deliver completely over the internet (and apps), they would not be able to due to contractual obligations. Plus, the cable companies have so much money they can literally buy out anyone who tries to compete with them. It's not enough of a monopoly to be illegal, because these companies don't own each other (yet), but there's definitely a lot of collusion and back-room deals happening.

So, while it's not surprising to me to find this little difference in the laws between electricity/gas/water delivery and internet service delivery, it does make me feel a bit sad inside. Because I know, deep down, this law is made for the Comcast/Cox/Charter's of the world, not the people who use the service. Again, we are reminded that the loudest voices in politics are that way because they are the richest.

That said, the idea is correct...the Internet should be a utility, something you definitely need to have but also need to pay for. It's the next logical step to allow the government to provide more services over the Web, which is cost-effective for them, a better experience for us, and ultimately makes the government a much cheaper beast to run. Almost everyone wants the government to cost less, especially with the debt we accrue every year as a country...
Potentially. But ask anyone who advertises on the NYC subway, for example - they're all looking at their phones anyway.
It helps syntactically but does nothing about the main problem: composability. Each of your functions has to know which function to call next, instead of just having one function that invokes n other functions in order. That's what next() is meant for.
At some point, the phrase "Night Clown" popped into my head and it's so deliciously evocative I've had it stuck rattling around in there since then.
> it's hard to overstate how significant this finding is

Let's not get too excited here, it's not like they've magically retrieved all texts; they've retrieved small fragments from a handful of scrolls and the process involved some luck and guesswork, not just software. For the technique itself to work, the scroll has to be slightly bumpy, and not all of them are like that.

It's a great step forward, but still, it will likely take decades to retrieve significant portions of text from a small number of scrolls -- and this assuming efforts will always be fully funded (Italy has a lot of old stuff to look after, and they're not exactly swimming in cash right now -- they're even thinking of re-burying several large archeological sites because they simply cannot protect them at this time).
Prior discussion of story that references this URL:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8987441
This would allow a truly OSS phone, with no backdoors. Neat! Where do I buy one?
No, you're wrong. I once used non-Popperian logic.
The Red Trailer is just spectacular. It's some of the most action-packed elegant violence I've seen choreographed. It's also one of the few times we have an answer to how a hundred pound anime teenager can become a whirlwind dervish of mayhem. Add very large bullets. (I mean, it explains where the force comes from... She's also apparently a world-class ballerina-clutz).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYW2GmHB5xs
For learning Greek - were you a grad student?
One can probably credit a subset of hippies in the 1960s in the U.S. for traveling to India and bringing "Eastern" practices here to the (more or less) mainstream, including Buddhism and "Sati," which is the basis of mindfulness. I don't know enough about other countries to comment on how popular it may be in other places and how it go to be that way.

In their shotgun approach, some New Age practioners may incorporate mindfulness, but they haven't invented it...

In their urge to explain everything with the left brain :) academics and clinicians strive to explain mindfulness...

Anyway if you get the urge, it's a fun thing to learn and study. You'd probably find it beneficial/profitable, too.

It's delightful to me to learn how much of our behavior is stimulus-response and how much is choice. The concept of free will much more than a yes/no question--- it's much more like oil and water. it becomes binary if you never shake up the container, but once you do, you realize our choices and thoughts are a complex mixture of free will and reactionary behaviors :)

The habits are usually beneficial b/c they save time, but when they get in the way they can be reversed, by first becoming aware of them through mindfulness.
Can we maybe try cutting back on optional trillion-dollar wars instead, and see how that goes? Just as a temporary experiment? If it doesn't work out, you can always raise my taxes later.

When someone misuses their money, you shouldn't react by giving them even more. Really, is this such a radically-offensive position for me to take?
Note that it only does this if you already have the Uber app installed; it isn't promoting Uber to non-users.
This seems to be growing:

Adblock Edge - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/

The strangest thing is that I've seen ABP advertising for job openings here on HN.
Computing Recommendations at Scale with Apache Flink and Google Compute Engine
This doesn't represent an immediate threat to Uber's drivers, and I doubt most Uber drivers see themselves as Uber drivers in 3-5 years.
Don't forget wear and tear from inside the cabin. I don't envy whoever is in charge with cleaning the inside of a self driving car.
So? It doesn't matter how simple it was; it worked.
And the larger sized screens really made a difference to the market.

It's amazing to see Samsung in so much trouble now that Apple has released the iPhone 6/6+. They have lost a staggering amount of profit in only a few months.
Product manager from Datadog here. Better .Net (and Windows) support is coming.
Several things that have worked for me.

1) Exercise, a lot. Put it first, so that you'll actually do it.

2) Eat right. These things, exercise and food, can have a far greater impact on your work than you might realize.

3) Discipline. Show up and put the time in. Force yourself.

4) Pomodoro technique. Commit to yourself that you'll put in 2 solid 45 minute periods per day. Work your way up from there. You need to do it even when you don't feel like it.

5) Get friends who encourage you to be your best. If you don't have friends like that, contact me unoti2@gmail.com
Are we serious here? I watched the video. He seems serious. Out of touch. Oxymoron?
Correct, I'm not sure that I do. There's a lot of research into what CO2 is doing, and a lot of people think it MUST be CO2. Where are all the other papers talking about how it can't be (or might be) refrigerants? I saw one paper saying that refrigerant concentrations and increasing temperatures are correlated and that author got excoriated as a "denier".

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

You'll notice on that list that there are numbers for the "Net 100 year GWP" which basically means how much more a particular substance could cause heating versus CO2, which has an index of 1.

You'll notice that there are a LOT of compounds on the list and numbers in excess of 100 are common, and in excess of 1000 are too. I've looked up a couple and a couple of them have non-trivial atmospheric concentrations. If something has 1/1000 the concentration of CO2 and a GWP number of 10x CO2 then it would contribute 1% as much. Over a list of about 1000 refrigerants if they all managed to be 1% (this is a stretch I know!) then you could get 10x the warming from refrigerants as from CO2.

I might argue that you've already reached the conclusion that you want to (we gotta do something), and are reasoning backwards from there (carbon emissions are the cause) yourself.

As another example, a lot of people think this project is funded by oil companies and employs professional climate deniers. http://www.surfacestations.org/ Why? Because they have the audacity to try and make sure that the temperatures gathered from weather stations aren't accidentally biased.

I personally think that's MORE important to the analysis than anything else you could do, because if the raw data's no good your conclusions are also no good. Put a bunch of crap detectors in the LHC and you can find whatever particle you want. But physicists don't do that do they?
"Today, 55 percent of online traffic happens on smartphones and tablets, according to the F.C.C.." I did not know this, it's surprising for me. Mobile-first approaches makes a lot more sense now.
I don't understand why this remark deserves a downvote, don't you think that this "news" from some internal source on the board simply doesn't add up? Have I wrote something incorrect?
They can have my $5 chicken wrap when they pry it from my cold, dead stomach.
Why not a space plane? Surely reaching orbital velocity on a platform that is already moving at a decent speed around the planet would ease it somewhat?
as if electricity is the only utility, right?
The GPU on the card (Geforce GTX 970) mentioned in the article has 13 independent SMM cores. Each of them has 128 marketing "cores", for a total of 1664.
In fact that means they underestimated. Read more closely, the graph is their estimate of PC Market Total Revenue and they predict only 35% market share of that pie.

So they projected a 350M slice of a 1B market, and got a 1B slice of a... ??? market
Fortunately by the time that point moves to "100% of human based endeavors" we will be yielding the planet to our new AI overlords and we can pat ourselves on the back for being the first species in history to execute its own extinction and successive lifeforms.
see peertracks.com for an example of what you are describing. its launching march 2015. Users will buy songs in usd and the usd will be turned into noteUSD on the blockchain. All song sales and streams etc will also be tracked on the blockchain. The frontend that interacts with consumers will be run traditionally through a private company etc.
Well, like, when people use "like," it's like they're narrating a video scene in their own heads in a way that would cause another person from a video-soaked culture to, like, make it play in their heads too. ;)

It's the same as how such narration worked before, but it's also different in that we have a corpus of video culture to make references to. Before widespread video, we were always referring to the imagined "movie scenes" evoked in our heads by narration. Now, we can refer to a corpus of specific pre-rendered movie scenes.
Pretty much only Tesla. Almost every other car manufacturer either has cars in testing or they will have access to the technology through technology sharing.
Buy Openmoko Neo Freerunner for a fully free smartphone, or some old Motorola listed on http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/Hardware/Phones for a free dumbphone.

Keep in mind however that using OsmocomBB based phone on public network without proper permission is illegal.
http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/LegalAspects

Also, just to state the obvious, OsmocomBB is limited to Calypso, which is limited to 2G.
Let me elaborate on my post, since it has been misinterpreted. I was responding to the ideas in the article.

I of course understand the advantages of non-binary encodings in the many applications people mentioned, e.g. hard disks, flash memory, etc. Another common use is digital cable, which generally uses 256-QAM.

But let's look at the article itself, which was discussing ternary for general purpose CPU design. Here's a snippet:

the first working ternary computer was ...
designed by Nikolai P. Brusentsov and his
colleagues at Moscow State University ...
Some 50 machines were built between 1958
and 1965. [It] operated on numbers composed
of 18 ternary digits, or trits ...

I stand by what I first said. The above computers were probably wonderful academic toys, but otherwise were "a cure for no known disease".

Neither Intel nor anyone else will build a CPU with registers that store ternary numbers. Nor will they build cache memory that stores ternary numbers. Nor will there be any new ARM architecture forthcoming that switches from binary to ternary. Etc.
Boston cabs do this now (I assume it's happening all over) by playing a short ad reel that loops over and over. It's pretty horrible.

If that's their end game here, I'd be disappointed.
and how about water, sewage, gas?
Check your dates. Samsung started losing much of its profit before the iPhone 6 came out. It lost 66 percent of its profit year over year in the summer quarter (Apple's weakest quarter, in fact).

Samsung may have lost some market share and profits when the iPohne 6 was launched, but it really started bleeding when it stopped any pretense at innovation, and it just kept iterating on the ugly design of Galaxy S3 and the bloatmess of Touchwizz. Galaxy S5 was considered a failure. Because of that Samsung intends to "rebuilt everything from scratch" with Galaxy S6. It's not because of the iPhone 6.