skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No question, if robot cars will obey speed limits and not blow through red lights. The biggest safety improvements will come from convincing motorists/passengers that it's OK to travel just a bit slower.
Why "effective"? Did you become a customer? Perhaps people buy more when they are forced to read an enourmous text or watch a shiny enourmous video.
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Consider the time frame in which these anecdotes took place. My understanding is that most people "in the know" believe the environment has changed such that you'll never get a early Facebook employee type payout anymore. Founders, VCs and their lawyers have developed a plethora of tricks that disguise the way you're getting screwed or ensure that, through some future trickery, you will. You're best bet is to command a high salary worthy of your skills, choose a company that has a culture you'll enjoy and assume that your options are worthless.
I absolutely agree with the down-vote; why didn't you white people pull together and work something out for the white guy that has a reasonable pull request for an encoding of a language in which he probably doesn't ever write? Don't y'all un-niggers pull together?
This Is Why Microsoft Is Killing Off the Internet Explorer Brand
While we use the word "should" on the landing page, in conversations is more flexible, hence the bang.

"@Meritt, can you please !inform the #delivery"
Of course you can't get full retail value when reselling a luxury good. That's as true of Tiffany rings as it is of Macbooks.

But there is a conspiracy to exploit people desperate enough to have to liquidate their jewelry. It's detailed in the article linked to by the OP. That conspiracy is what causes jewelry to have a resale value of maybe 20%. Compare this to 6-month old MacBooks Air (worth ~80% of their retail price) or a car you drive off the dealer's lot (worth ~80% of what you paid).
> It's like voting - my vote doesn't matter, but on aggregate it's everything.

Circle of concern versus circle of control. Pay attention to things proportionally to the amount of control you have over them, rather than worrying disproportionately. (And if you want to care more than that about something, find a way to have more influence on that something.) If you have a vote on something, you have a non-zero but very tiny amount of control over it; spend time educating yourself appropriately. But the vast majority of news stories discuss items that should not in any way affect the actions of the people watching them.

Also, considering that later in this thread you explicitly describe your service as being for "news junkies"...
No, whatever money is paid up front for the expenses (recording, shooting music video, child care while doing such things) must be repaid to the label. If you don't "recoup" enough through album sales, you have to pay them back out of touring...and on and on and on...Basically, just have a look at the following article by Steve Albini:

http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17
A $50m Drug and Gun Dark Market Just Disappeared and Millions in Bitcoin with It
> Same for males there's always that 1 mega hotie you want to meet.
> The only difference is even average females can have any guy they want while the same doesn't apply to guys.

I'd rather say that the major difference is that while there is no (or very little) opportunity cost for a male that mates with the top woman and the next 100 women as well, there is a big opportunity cost for a female regardless of which male she chooses, so she is much more motivated to choose the top male.
Are you playing through Steam? I had rendering glitches on my MBP until I turned off the Steam overlay. Everything has worked fine since.
amazing :) keep it up!
I started the news site because I have the same frustrations Swartz has. Most of the news is bullshit and a worthless time-suck. All of the examples he uses, all of the websites out there, feel completely irrelevant to me and not interesting whatsoever.

I disagree with him that it's 100% - I think it's just 99.9%, and that .01% is valuable. Perhaps that's a major difference, but Swartz's point was that it's not valuable enough to waste time on. I'd like to think that if he could spend 30 seconds to get that .01% of important news he would feel differently. But, of course, we'll never know.
It's destroying traditional middle class jobs of his peers, like teachers, doctors, architects, etc. but I think he has missed the fact that the new middle class jobs are things like developers and data scientists.
You are right. We got rid of more detailed explanations because it converted better, but we will try showing more of the product.

Attila
I find this to be a good examination article regarding the now infamous Pomplamoose tour breakdown:

http://www.artistempathy.com/blog/the-pomplamoose-problem-ar...

I think that doing only 24 tour dates as a mid-popularity group, while not exactly managing costs well, to be an obvious setup to lose money. If they want to treat it like a business, they're doing a terrible job of running a business.
Seems to me they're about equal in merit. Also, in case your comment was directed at me, I didn't impugn anybody's integrity.
To be fair, I wouldn't use a ThinkPad except with Linux (using SUSE right now). Thankfully, many Linux developers are big Thinkpad fans, so any 'classic' Thinkpad (basically the T, W and X series), even the new generations will generally work flawlessly (or close to it) with Linux.

Really I think the only thing that might sway me is Dell's new-found love for Linux.
When tech VCs get into the public transit business, that's a good indicator that we are in a bubble. I was in SF for the 1999-2000 bubble. This reminds me a lot of that.

There isn't much upside in a business like this, but there is a huge amount of hassle (just wait until someone sues them for ADA incompliance, and they will).

Note also the skin tone of the featured passengers. As someone who rides public transit in SF and NY daily, I'd rather see attention focused on improving public transit, versus privileged white people who live in the Marina transit.
I can speak two other languages fluently, but I live in England and neither of those two other languages are native. As such, my infant son rarely hears them.

I know others in my situation who have given up, resigning themselves to being able to help with language homework.

I'm tempted to push on though, much like the (possibly misguided) attempts of a man to speak to his son only in Klingon for the first three years of his life in the 90s.

I have already accepted that the result will be along the lines of my son having a passing familiarity with the sounds and basics of the two languages. Better than nothing.

--

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_Language_Institute#d.2... // http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/7.08/mustread.html?pg...
People make tools to game usage-based rewards in free to play games. They call it "idling". You could hack this by making an idling tool for spotify that would re-stream your tracks when you weren't using spotify.
I agree to a point, but would qualify this to the problem being unfettered capitalism in a vacuum of social investment. The growth in the knowledge economy has such a huge potential to level the playing field - but it can only do so if there is fair access to good education.

Here in the US, only those with means have a decent chance of getting the kind of education that enables them to join in the new class of workers, which results in a feedback loop and a widening income gap.
Indeed, the only point of the links for me is that they generate worthwhile discussion. (Which is why I tend to flag political links and such that have been proven to not generate worthwhile discussions, whether or not the article itself is worthwhile.)

Especially because HN shows no summary or anything of the linked article: I'm not going to click on a link if the only information about it that I have is an (often purposefully) abstruse title and a domain name. Once there are a few comments that give me an actual impression of what the article is going to be, then maybe I'll go back and actually read it.
And remember that artists do not go to the press with stories of, "the label gave me a big advance and then the record was a flop."
>Viennese daycares—known here as kindergartens—have a very long Eingewöhnungszeit—literally translated as “getting adjusted period” or "acclimatization." Dropping your kid off on Day One while she shrieks "MOMMY!" is looked upon as child abuse.

I went over this in Germany (living here since 10 years) and it is just ridiculous. During my second child "acclimatization" after seeing a mother in tears and making progress for her absence in intervals of 5 minutes each day, I realize this long "acclimatization" period was for them, not for the child.
Adn then the sensor fails or similar, and we need some other way to open and close. Never mind some way to prop it open in case something larger needs to go through.
The problem with recommendations in general is that they are subjective to people's feelings, often times at a particular point of time.

This is applicable to movies and restaurants. Sometimes I'm in a mood for an action movie but that doesn't mean I want to be seeing those all the time around. Similarly, there is simply time when I'm in a mood for mexican or Indian and not Italian where I may have been going to for past month.

Unless we manage to capture the inner motivations/feelings (maybe based on our online behavioural patterns?) our recommendations will just be artificially built mashed potatoes crap.
Most of those that qualify for the free version open-source, individual, and businesses under $1 million USD/year gross are a very small part of the money they made, and likely creates far more benefit to mindshare than the losses they're seeing.
I'm currently working in web agency so speed > anything else.

The amount of technical debt we have shipped dwarfs the GPD of a small country.
Actually, it's not a myth; see the above link to what Steve Albini wrote if you'd like to get more educated and enhance your understanding of a very calculating and explotative business model.
the results on autonomous cars are currently terrible

Sure, they're not there yet. But in 20 years they'll probably be much better. Might not happen, but it does seem pretty likely that technology will continue improving.

Still no solution to weirdo edge cases

So that might be one of things that are traded off against the benefits. How often does a car get attacked by a baseball-bat-weilding maniac? Is that risk worth ignoring the improvement in safety? Are there other solutions to the problem?

Not to mention the anti-progressive thinking

I can't agree with this. It's something common to hear from green-leaning movements around the world – that the car should be retired altogether in favour of public transport.

That's true to some extent, but public transport (and it's excellent in many cities around the world) can't completely replace individual vehicles. Regardless of how much it improves, it does not offer point-to-point connections, or the ability to transport goods, for example.

In any case, what would be the difference between a city centre populated by electric vehicles (let's say owned by Uber or Tesla or some other company) and one populated by public transport - simply the efficiency? It might be better to think of a city full of electronic cars as being the first implementation of something like personal rapid transport.
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At least Swedes seem to be ridiculously good at speaking German after having just a few years of German in school. Language learning has lots to do with similarity.

The other important point is how much you use a language. Americans simply don't have contact with languages other than English most of the time. You also see this effect in Germany where the English level is fairly low for speakers of a language that is so similar to English. And this because tv and movies get dubbed in Germany.
It's a problem with capitalism insofar as under capitalism, the most successful companies will directly influence their government to protect their existing business model. You had a prime opportunity to rethink the entire auto-market, yet the US government instead gave massive bailouts to your big-3 auto makers, and your streets continue to be full of single-passenger Ford F-150s. In spite of massive regulatory resistance, companies like Uber, or Tesla (which yes, get some environmental tax credits, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to being considered "too big to fail") have still managed to grow.

It's not that there aren't jobs that need to be done. Instead, your laws and economy are structured to give an advantage to those who used to offer jobs that are no longer valuable.
Do you mind if I ask what types of jobs you and your wife have? I don't think many software jobs pay $250k unless you're upper management. Physician or legal partner maybe? Even with dual incomes $500k seems like an outlier but maybe I'm wrong.
That's a really good frame of reference, I think. Thank you for that.

I consider our service like Wikipedia - there is a small collection of people who are just abnormally fascinated by the news - the 1% of news junkies who want to see what's happening, vet it, and tell you if it's wrong. The biproduct of that is that the 99% of "normal people" get a news digest that contains only the most important info, that's easily digestible.

So the current website is for news junkies, just like the "talk/edit" part of Wikipedia is for... encyclopedia junkies? The daily email and coming read-only stuff is what I hope is appropriate for 99% of people, including someone like Swartz.
I absolutely love the citybound dev blog, it's such a great exploration of problems that i would never think about otherwise.

However, I have no faith that the game itself will ever be finished. It's the epitome of "perfect is the enemy of good", they spend so much time getting little things absolutely perfect. At least it makes for an interesting blog.
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Finally UseDNS is set to 'no' by default. This is the thing I was ALWAYS changing :)
We have PG on a powerful box (256GB RAM, SSDs, 5000 core GPU), and use FDWs to import data from other databases for analysis. For example, our main data warehouse is on MS SQL Server, but not super fast, so we use a FDW to grab data from there and analyze it quickly in PG. We also have an Oracle DB, and there's an FDW for that too.
> That said, has there EVER been a business model in the US that was profitable for artists?

As far as I know, the various music purchasing services (as opposed to radio or rental services) directly pay the artists a fraction of each purchase of their music.

And if you're sufficiently popular, you can also sell directly to decrease the overhead.

In a completely different direction, there's also Patreon and other patronage-model sites.
That's good to know. I bought it for my pc but wouldn't mind getting a copy for my mb air.
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You've never played their recent games then. Battle.net 2.0 is routinely called 0.2 and considered a step back in every single way, aside from FB integration I guess. It didn't even have chat channels until recently or clan support. Promises made for starcraft 2 5 years ago have yet to be delivered on. Diablo 3 was a terrible cash grab and mostly abandoned by players.

After Activision purchased blizzard it has not been the same company.
R is slow if you try to use it like an imperative language. If you use it idiomatically, it's quite fast. If all the intensive data-processing calls functions written in C/Fortran, it's very fast. And of course, you can use R for parallel processing, or in a cluster...

Julia as a language is faster, but I'm not sure it's actually faster than R to process data if you're using R as most people do...
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"We have no problem taking Wall Street executives to task for decisions that leave American families financially devastated"

Right off the bat- do we? Or do we just give them slaps on the wrist and then big bonuses once the news cycle's over?
Octopart is hiring sales executives
Understanding Latency (Gil Tene)
Nutanix Launches Flagship Hyper-Converged Certification Program
And the first thing that comes to mind is that "you" can do declarative programming now, because someone in the past did all the imperative programming to enable it. Question is, what happens if the declarative fails? How easy is it to get at the imperative guts?
Perhaps not by EA's accounting of the situation.
I've had very good experiences with Dell both in Japan and Poland.

[Japan] One day the fan of my Latitude started making a clicking noise so I called the service, scheduled a visit for the next Saturday and got the fan replaced, even though the noise didn't occur when the serviceman was testing it. In the process of replacing the fan he noticed my case is missing two rubber feet and promised to send me a replacement. A week later I got a whole bottom part of the case in mail.

[Poland] My dad had some problems with BSODs on his Vostro and after a bit of back and forth with the service they replaced the whole motherboard for him. Almost 3 years into warranty, 1 month before it expired.

If I ever decide to go back to Windows or Linux I'm going with Dell and their NBD warranty.
Reminds me of seeing Neil Postman speak oh so many years ago. I got there late, and met a friend (still a friend, he's my patent attorney now) leaving. Asked him how it was, and he was like, "Neil Postman is a cretin".

Totally anti-tech reactionary. He was railing about how word processors were going to destroy literacy, and we should all write with pencils like a Real Journalist.
It’s time to start talking seriously about Basic Income
Same old same old smoke and mirrors. Damn it people, systemd has long since outgrown being considered just a init replacement.
Jack Stratton is correct in pointing out that less active users are subsidising active users.

However, he then makes the leap that that means that less popular artists are subsidising the popular ones, which has yet to be proved.
The problem is the labeling of them as trolls, is what I meant.

There is no such thing as trolls, that person you call a troll is making a joke or making a point and you're too far inside your own bubble to not call them an asshole.
I don't think so. When I go back and watch TV shows or read headlines from around when I was born, they weren't any better back then, I was simply too young to realize how ridiculous they all were.

Case in point, the mass hysteria around daycare sexual abuse and satanic rituals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial
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There is a white border on the left side of the http://www.ycombinator.com homepage and subpages. If you could please remove the html styling (border-left: 13px solid #fff;) all will be right in the world. Thank you.
My 18 month old daughter has a full time nanny who has spoken to her only in Spanish (at our request) since she was 3 months old; my wife and I speak to her only in English, and we don't speak any Spanish. It's been really fascinating to see what my daughter chooses to say in Spanish instead of English: always agua (her first word), siéntate ("sit"), mas ("more"), wacala (spanish slang for "yucky" - for poop)... other words, she can interchange depending on who she speaks to. Sometimes I can't understand her, and can't tell if she's trying to tell me something in Spanish, or her diction just isn't good enough yet. I suspect it's the latter, I think she's already adept enough at recognizing mommy and daddy don't speak Spanish...
I did say something to the effect of "I know plenty of people who made a lot of money", but I also have lots of friends and acquaintances who haven't. Many failed (or failing) companies, a few "small" exits.
Super useful tool once you realize that you need it. I used it extensively with the QEMU sources where all the supported architectures are essentially just ifdefs in the code. There is also an improved `sunifdef` flying around in the interwebs.
Sure. I simply use it for crypto primitives (e.g. aes-256-gcm) in environments where I cannot install libsodium from PECL (e.g. crypto_easybox() and crypto_easybox_open()).
The right to travel is a very ancient right, from a time when people only walked, rode horses, or used draft animals to travel. The introduction of mechanical vehicles in the late 19th century changed things.

Especially, motor vehicles are so uniquely hazardous to their operators, passengers, and bystanders than operating them quickly became a privilege, not a right.
http://www.bicyclelaw.com/road-rights/a.cfm/road-rights-cycl...
We updated the URL from http://blog.ycombinator.com/the-detroit-water-project-yc-w15..., which points to this.
I am! I'll give that a try, thanks!
We were just looking at it.
It's a nice interface -- it's logical and someone gave it a thought.
They also have some of the features we (at SageMathCloud) were talking about with regards
to socializing: e.g. following a user and in reverse having followers,
etc.
Also nice is that they have project templates (for python,
julia and R, basically), where you get some explanatory *.md files to
read. (I.e. not an empty project).
You can also start a project from a git/github source and so on.

It seems to be heavily broken right now, or heavily unstable. Hmpf...
I'm trying to start the ipython notebook (you have to do this on
demand), then you can start editing the files ... but it is stuck. Now
it's completely broken.

The terminal works fine now, and a project is running in some kind of
isolated container in beefy linux ubuntu 14.04, running under a common
"sense" user (which is the only user).
They are also running some node.js client and their "butterfly" server.

Ok, well, I tried to test it further or add a collaborator, but
the website just says "502 application not responding".

It didn't seem like they have real-time editing or LaTeX.

few more details. ... now it runs fine again. two screenshots
attached. ... one is the project view, the other one the "workbench".

They run a plain "R" terminal, but with a neat HTML output. It's a
vertically split editor, where the .r file is on the left, and you can
select lines of text which are then executed via "ctrl+return". That's
exactly how those R people work (instead of having cells like ipython
or sagews)

The same for python files: one or all lines are fed into the "ipython
terminal", not the notebook (!), and then translated to some html
output on the right. plots work fine, etc.

So, on the right of the screenshots, you can see the copies of the input lines.

By default, they add a .gitconfig file with the username and email
address. That's cool, and I guess this could be done for SMC as well.

There is no auto-save for files, just lost the content.

-- William Stein and Harald Schilly
Haha yeah that's technically true, because if that scenario actually happens that artist/band is effectively ruined, blacklisted, radioactive, whatever. Practically speaking though, are you aware of the "Sophmore Slump" concept at all? It's well known that after the first big success the record company wants MORE SUCCESS and that rarely happens. There are outliers like Adele, but far more often things go the way of Sisqo and "Return of Dragon" which famously had a $1 million video budget, banking on the success of "Thong Song." Guess what: Didn't recoup for the label.
Refactoring always existed. We just didn't have a name for it and it was done by us meat popsicles.
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