skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do realize that he co-founded and is running both a successful electric car company and a successful rocket company? And before that co-founded an insanely successful payments company?
Well, only for Box<> pointers, but yes
Yes, the fact that it is on medium is rather ironic!
A worrying trend in ridesharing: (almost) everything is five stars
I am sorry but You just can't compare tesla model s with Mercedes S class in terms of comfort - that's the biggest reason why people purchase an s class merc. In terms of interior quality and ride comfort I can only compare tesla to Toyota camry or Nissan maxima at best. Bmw, Mercedes never mind Porsches are miles ahead in comfort/interior quality departments.
If you're really about soft-realtime stuff, look into Erlang/Elixir by way of the Nerves project:

http://nerves-project.org/

The hot code-loading is really impressive; I've seen quadcopters update motor controllers in-flight to fix bugs. I think that that's probably the future. The non-blocking stuff in Node is more a function of the library style than the language itself (though the closures make life easier). I don't think there's any reason why the Ruby stuff necessarily has to be slower and blocky.

Artoo has some nifty stuff in the vein of testing:

http://artoo.io/documentation/guides/test-driven-robotics/
Similar to not comply with the wishes of the United States. Qwest communications didn't comply with the NSA wishes and are now out of business. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-a...

Same thing with anyone who operates in China. The only difference is China is more transparent with their demands.
Everything around the world shows influence from everywhere else in the world. As people travel back and forth, they bring ideas back and forth, until eventually a sort of equilibrium is reached.

As for restaurants, I'm not sure I agree entirely. A few generations ago, every 'top' restaurant was a French restaurant. Serving the same classic dishes. Now you have places serving 'Nordic Cuisine' (Noma, Faviken), Spanish cuisine has had a resurgence in a major way (Arzak, Etxebarri), South American cuisine is becoming recognized at the highest levels (D.O.M., Central), as is Asian cuisine (too many to list), there's 'avant garde' (El Bulli and the Adria brothers' other ventures, Alinea), and then you've got the chefs who break all the rules and just create whatever they want at the time (Pierre Gagnaire comes to mind). Not to mention the trends of gastronomic bistros, brasseries and pubs, cheap tasting menus, haute fast food and street food, etc...

While I think it's somewhat true that the 'style' of a restaurant is becoming less location specific, I think there's more variety and innovation than ever before, more restaurants in general than ever before, and I would argue that food itself is getting more interesting.

As for the article, it seems more like the writer just doesn't like the fact that Buenos Aires isn't as they remember it (almost a colonialist attitude IMO, that Buenos Aires should stand still for them). However this attitude also ignores history - people have always migrated, adopted new ideas, cultures, cuisines, etc... 'Traditional' European ingredients like the Potato and Tomato, for instance, both came from the New World.

Nothing stands still.
Crossed fingers :)
Why didn't you ask about trans people or people of color?

How about asking about Muslims or Wiccans?
That's probably why he is promising such a short timeframe to release.
What about lawsuits or other legal issues being able to get a subpoena without your knowledge?
I think using a pre-existing software service as a base instead of a massive handmade distributed system may not be a bad idea for the USG. Remember the healthcare.gov rollout? Although it is certainly a government contract to a private corporation, the cause is warranted since it helps the federal government better allocate resources and make funding decisions. Your comment does raise the question, though, of whether the Digital Analytics Program managing the account requested any safeguards for user privacy or are just using the standard free or premium service. There was an article earlier around the launch of healthcare.gov that raised the same privacy issues you are now relating to Google Analytics, but I can't remember who published it.
Excuse my ignorance.. is it really the case that website a gets ddosed, website a gets charged by amazon for the ddos traffic... and amazon isn't inclined to mitigate the attack? Will wonders never cease......?
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Internet Seen as Positive Influence on Education but Negative on Morality
> We have had bureaucracies since at least the Sumerians, and its growth has not been monotonic

People gain experience as they age, but that doesn't mean people are wiser today than 1000 years ago... because they're different people.

Similarly, bureaucracies and societies also "die" and dissolve.
Moreover, even things that look cool to different people can look cool in different contexts.

A traditional neon "Open" sign might look horrible contrasted against the sleek interior of an Apple store, or Crate and Barrel, but could well be perfectly appropriate and hip at a Johnny Rockets.
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When I put in my email and click 'Get Early Access', nothing happens and the following is printed to the console (Firefox 36.0.1):

TypeError: t.toElement is undefined [developers.js:1:31160]
"The philosophical problem with Eugenics is that it involved culling imperfect people who already exist. Now we can cull imperfect people who don't exist, so they can't complain!"

(for the record, this is a joke)
In the first place, LL(1) parser for BER/DER is mostly trivial exercise, although somewhat tedious.

Problem with ASN.1 is not with the specification itself but mostly in the fact that many people want to parse BER/DER with code that directly populates some application-specific data structure and depends on ASN.1 syntax of what they expect to parse. With that you invariably get very complex interface between parser library and application where both components have to handle various special cases correctly (to the point that the whole thing is not even leaky abstraction, because it almost isn't abstraction at all).
You know that you don't have to read all the comments, right?
I don't believe this is the case. I think many restaurants want to appeal to familiarity and safety.

Restaurant patrons may often want the best American/European style slab of steak with seasoning they've come to expect. It's possible to create a wide variety of sauces or crusts for a slab of steak/lamb/bird/fish but often the chef decides on something familiar tried and true. There's plenty of room to explore with side dishes, soups, salads, curries.

I highly recommend the book "Modernist Cuisine". It does an amazing job of breaking down cooking methods though photography, history, and scientific explanations of the physics of heat distribution from various sources and equipment. [1]

[1] http://modernistcuisine.com/
at the end of the day, it's art...'fair value' is a very unique construct

the main point I was making was that comparing 20 years ago to today in this case is likely not equivalent (at best I would say it's an incomplete view)
It's not even a matter of raw volume. The system I'm looking after sends just short of a thousand external emails a day but none of those are marketing or email blasts; it's all people mailing other people and reports being sent to specific addresses that have requested them.

The occasional marketing type bulk email is always sent through an external company. This means I never have to worry about getting blacklisted by those messages.
Javier Mascherano...
If you do a search for bitcalm, you will see a number of users that were created just to post these blog links. Each one only has postings to bitcalm blog entries, and no other comments.
Plus, the RGB LED pictured in the article can be "programmed" in the sense that the colour can be defined on the fly, and isn't bound to the bulb colour defined in the original design.
> and then after using the franchisees to grow and scout out the best spots, cherrypick the most lucrative spots for manufacturer owned dealerships

This is easily resolved on the contract level. Knowing this, nobody with half a brain would start a franchise unless the parent company guaranteed the territory. That's how it works in virtually every other franchising market.
New nonstop 3D printing process takes only minutes instead of hours
I'm actually very curious what startups gives you a $1M offer, and in what position. The most I've seen is grants that are worth up to $500k at day 1 valuation.
Hmmm... now if there were a place to start a business...
That's grand until ... gee ... Google is thinking about buying you and they have all your internal email.

Yeah, no.
Ask HN: User telemetry which isn't Google Analytics?
So I, like many, have always been an avid user of Google Analytics on my sites. However I never realised that was seemingly my ONLY option until now...

We have a project which will be primarily aimed at children. And while management would love your typical Google Analytics experience, they cannot authorise the collection of data by an external company (both for PR/political reasons, but also the lawyers are nervous even with a privacy policy about lawsuits and other state's data collection laws (it might rarely apply)).

I've been googling around I'm really not coming up with much. All everyone talks about is Google Analytics or even Microsoft's Azure version of the same (Application Insights, which is still externally grabbed).

So what are my options here? .Net would be ideal but failing that anything with a Web-API interface will be workable. It just has to be in-house, and not cost a huge sum (because the politics of spending more than the department budget is a headache).
I've had RAID 6 fail. It should be extremely rare, but isn't. And at AWS's scale, It's not hard to imagine servers going offline regularly. Ephemeral storage as a policy makes sense to me in the sense that you can separate out that what's important from that which is ephemeral, and provide cheaper storage than a more HA solution like ganeti.
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While I agree that constraints can lead to creativity, there's not nearly as much 'consensus' when it comes to cooking as you think. Someone from France and someone from India will have very different ideas on how to cook something, even if they both live in Canada and have the same ingredients and cooking apparatus.
crszy but awesome!
How about getting universal healthcare with a single payer system (at least state wise) so instead of having a billion smaller organizations with a more limited buying power that can't get you the best prices?
You know why in the UK drugs cost 20-25% on average of the US price, not because of subsidies but because the NHS provides healthcare for 60M people and they say we are paying X for the drug now bid.
Your local HMO not to mention an IPA simply can't do that.
But anyhow as people have stated Insulin even the "older" versions is insanely expensive to fabricate and purify, it's simply not something that a generic company will go after. Most generic companies go for medicine which is easy to produce and is compatible with their existing fabrication capabilities.
Nah,

The "open" signs provided beer or soda makers were uglier. The LED open sign just kind of mediocre.

America has always been a rather ugly place. The many wretched, tasteless signs hanging on liquor stores provided by the nastiest sugar, tobacco and alcohol interests have overall been the capstones of this typically American ugliness. Anything is better than these. Not classy or nice looking but not quite as terrible.
It seems a little hypocritical to me that AWS will create a service for every technology known to man, but will not create a service to help companies who rely on their infrastructure to deal with DDoS.
Part of the problem was that they were (are?) using their own memory allocator, which was not only had been the source of many security vulnerabilities, but also broke Valgrind!

That was one of the first things the LibreSSL team ripped out.
A word of warning for those wanting to use this on Raspberry Pi.

Firstly I love what the folks are doing with 'thehypridgroup'are doing with Artoo however:

I teach Raspberry Pi Workshops in Australia (raspberry.piaustralia.com.au/workshop). I initially used to teach the workshops using Artoo, however I found it buggy.

I've since migrated the workshop to Python. I'd prefer to do the workshops in Ruby, but the gems have not kept up to date with the new hardware.

I also don't believe this will work with the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (the current generation Raspberry Pi).

I haven't tried on other platforms recently.
if you need persistant storage, use EBS. Ephemeral is self-defined.
The article mentions Wade Swormstedt and the Swormstedt family's background in signs. Tod Swormstedt founded a sign museum in Cincinnati, OH (http://www.americansignmuseum.org/). If you're at all into the history of signs and placards you'll really enjoy visiting it.
I wish there was more explanation with the = sign in Erlang. In that it's not an assignment but a pattern match first.

IIRC, it pattern match first and if the variable is not assign then it'll assign it IIRC. The code and explanation just state that it's Erlang to do assertion.

I think that's an interesting concept at least when I play with Erlang.
I have this one on my wall, very cool.

http://www.mystiglo.com/index.php?route=product/product&path...
10 minutes on WLAN0
I'm pretty sure they don't make 30k a day though.
Erlang's processes are just threads implemented to act like processes is this correct?
A man once asked a google employee what DDOS mitigation they use, and the employee asked back "How could I tell we were getting ddosed?"

If your idea is to overload google itself, you are going to need a bigger botnet.
Why not a conventional desktop application? Those still exist and work quite nicely. I work on one everyday. What benefit does a user receive from trusting code running on your machine?
"To this day, writers struggle to find internal motivation for their female characters. Usually an active women character will be fleeing from danger or recovering what's hers."

Read "Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins.
I've used Piwik (piwik.org) before with success. It's fairly extensible as well.
As a former night worker, let me say, no matter how ugly, JUST LET ME KNOW IF YOU'RE OPEN. And your hours of operation.
So you use a scheme similar to mOPE? How do you handle tree rebalancing? Is your variant of mOPE deterministic?
Yes, but he also frequently makes false (or at best incredibly misleading) public statements about how far along they are on such projects. (Source: friend-of-a-friend is one of those groaning Tesla engineers.)
No... that IS what they are for. But really, that's what any family is for - not just grandparents.
How do you handle joins?
Perceived value added and range pricing is one of those invasive diseases that have managed to take root across such a wide range of human culture that it will take decades to find a cure, especially since it is doubtful that industry is working particularly hard on the problem.
I'm sure that didn't happen, but really the only thing I kept thinking while reading that is that the new designer was being unnecessarily antagonistic and unprofessional to the original one.

I didn't cheer for the new designer, all I thought is "I'd never want to work with this person." At least the old designer kept his cool through a lot of bullying before they finally retorted, I'd prefer to work with that person since they at least seem basically professional.
They are using Arbor in their core network, and auto mitigate attacks on customers now. I am working with Arbor systems as well as others for DDoS protections where I am working now, and I can confirm that it works quite well.

Takes about 5 mins to kick in once an attack has started, which is very good.
Erlang's processes are not native threads or native processes. In a sense, they are "green processes" multiplexed M:N on native threads.
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Fixed that for you.
A restaurant I used to frequent went way too far with the ipad thing. I think they 'optimistically' fired about 1/4 or 1/5 of their staff when the amount of labor actually saved was maybe 1/10.

The service went from okay to atrocious when they reopened with ipads and they lost a lot of customers. It was plainly clear that they were WAY understaffed.

You see the same starry eyed optimism surrounding Google's driverless cars.
Scientists Seek Ban on Method of Editing the Human Genome
Good luck DDoSing ReCAPTCHA, I'll wait
I've had similar experiences. "when ... that means this person is not your friend" was the best way to put it. A reasonable advice for all "friend team" members: keep an eye on IP and profit distribution from Day 1.
If you'd like to opt out, try this:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

It says, "Available for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8-11, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera".

Personally, I prefer this to having my tax dollars spent on reinventing web analytics. Especially given that it wouldn't be cheap; Google bought what is now Google Analytics in 2005 for circa $30 million [1] and has put a lot into improving it since. And now that I think about it, I'm not sure that tax dollars are, net, being spent here. GA is very easy to install, and good analytics typically help save money through better decisions and focusing effort on what's actually being used.

[1] http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2062461/google-to-acqu...
http://owner.ford.com/how-tos/vehicle-features/safety/lane-k...

Many (most?) Ford models have had adaptive cruise control available as an option for years.

The Mondeo also got pedestrian awareness in Europe for 2015.

The attitude in your comment is strange considering that the grandparent post you wrote specifically points out that this technology is licensable between manufacturers. Why would Ford not be buying the same modules everyone else is?
It's definitely a win for the people but it's sad the only reason this happened is Christie's advisor told him his presidential bid was dead in the water without it. This guy is a grade-A crook of the worst kind. I don't know that I've ever seen a bigger fraud.
The whole point of the article we're discussing is that you don't have to "plan so carefully" anymore. And the downtime is 20 minutes after ~3 hours of driving, which is ~10% overhead on long trips.

The plus is that your car is fully fueled every morning (if you plug in overnight). Not to mention that the car is high performance, and can drive in the HOV lane (if you're in a state like CA.)

If you don't value the plusses, and think that 10% overhead on long trips is "extreme", then this isn't the car for you. For me, I take a long trip about once per 2 months, and I enjoy the plusses a lot.
I think there can be an interesting discussion on the benefits of integration vs. diversity, even if I personally think diversity is something that is good. Integration has good sides and bad sides; the good being the focus of the original article, the bad being horrendous xenophobia and terrible treatment of those who don't integrate. Shutting discussion down as if things don't have multiple sides isn't very liberal, in my opinion, even if I personally disagree with the focus of said discussion.
That looks pretty interesting. We'd need to install MySQL for that in particular, but honestly we could just single-box the Piwik and basic infrastructure it requires (PHP, Apache, MySQL).

Thanks for the suggestion definitely something I'll be looking into further.
Nope. They built it themselves.
I was thinking of a similar possible problem during my commute this morning, not with automated driving but with automatic equipment and systems in general. Does convenience breed mental laziness and/or decay? In our increasingly automated and comfortable existence, what experiences confront us with the need for high focus and alertness, or systematic problem solving? (Speaking of humans in general, not just engineers and other professionals who benefit from this kind of activity in their work.) So many things have been reduced (usually delightfully so) to point, click and enjoy.

Some physical environments for advanced age folks are designed with features to promote extra physical exertion, to help maintain the occupants' fitness, which in turn promotes safety. (Better balance, fewer falls.)

Similarly, we might consider building-in a baseline requirement of mental activity for the operation of certain systems. In the short term, this might increase alertness in the moment, as in the semi-autonomous driving example. (In that case, perhaps a UI that requires maintaining a certain amount of eye motion across the road, or particular posture.) In the long term, perhaps other (more challenging?) in-built exercises will promote mental and neurological health in people whose work and play would otherwise fail to be stimulating.
What if the receiver chooses what tone of language they want to receive in. E.g. "terse" or "nice" options.
Yep. I tried to write my comment in a way that wasn't calling you out at all -- but really google for allowing this kind of unfettered or controlled access. :-)

I've no doubt you would do great things and get much greater adoption in a better API-enabled inbox. :-)
As internet shifts to mobile phones & apps become the dominant way to use the internet, it will automatically diminish the importance of Google Search, & the market will (is already) pricing this in.

I think Peter Thiel alluded to this in an interview recently. From what I recollect, he suggested that by the time Feds act, the monopoly has already been disrupted elsewhere.

45 minute mark of this interview
http://thisweekinstartups.com/peter-thiel-launch-festival/
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David Barber's book Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning is available for free on his website.
As well as LibreOffice Calc.
I worked for him directly. That's how he gets amazing stuff done. And clearly it works. If employees aren't up for it, probably best to find something else.