skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just described the location of most fuel tanks and exhaust/catalyst systems. A conversion would not be a perfect fit, but an extension of the vehicle's life, like the classics with replacement lead-free heads and an LPG tank in the boot area.
This post leads me to believe the author probably assumes there will always only be a handful of native platforms. I think, if we're lucky, the ecosystem will be far more diverse.

In the future I envision, noone in their right mind would ever think native is the way to go.
But, but, but, the color of the bike-shed really matters!
If you pass laws that have faults then rely on enforcement discretion to produce justice, that puts a lot of weight on the enforcers' shoulders.

Imagine being a cop who pulls over a poor black janitor for DUI. You know last week your colleague pulled over a rich white senator who was on his way home from the police union's fundraising ball, and let him off with a caution. If you arrest the janitor your department will look like a bunch of corrupt, racist, classists. And if you don't arrest any DUIs, all the problems caused by drunk driving will get laid at your department's doorstep.

Perhaps instead of passing laws that have faults then using enforcement discretion to work around those faults, instead we should improve the laws to be fault-free. (admittedly that might need a faster release and testing cycle than we have at the moment)
Writing novels or composing music makes you lose money on average, and no amount of copyright legislation can change that.

Maybe relevant: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ksy/follow_your_dreams_as_a_case_stu...
This sounds like a variation of the "you're just jealous" reply, which is an easy, convenient retort to virtually all skepticism for even the most incredible claims. When we want something to be true, the easiest way to undermine doubts are to cry jealousy.

Super weight loss regime. Visit with aliens. Top secret NSA/CIA/FBI/FSB clearance. Quintuple black belt. No-effort muscle building technique. Endless success with the ladies. Exponential stock market success. All demonstrated by just words?

Doubts and questions = jealousy. It is the charlatan's ally among human denial techniques.
Isn't this the same as saying you are a different person every morning and that the person that went to sleep and the person that woke up are separate people?
What would be the incentive of majority of people flocking to EU services ?
I think it's more likely that he's preparing to take a step back, and by introducing new designers at Apple (Marc Newson, for example.) they're slowly preparing the public (and investors especially) for the idea of Apple without Ive.
"Cool story bro. Say that again when you can't pay your rent or even buy some food." - Me.

I think everyone should experience that for a few weeks, it changes your perspective on many things.
Not really... I just wanted to write (use 'jai.query) as a reference to the more famous library
Computer. Before it was a work title, a person, now its just a thing on your desk.
When you fix a function, leave the broken function still present with another name.
>Most amazingly it would not be a light-year of random DNA sequence, but ten thousand trillion identical copies of your DNA, faithfully replicated by your cells.

Cell reproduction is a pretty imperfect.
Assembly maybe?
http://assembly.com/
Unless you're making something that needs really good performance (3D gaming for example) building a hybrid app wins every time. Something based on Cordova (eg PhoneGap, Ionic) with Crosswalk can get you to about 90% of the performance of a native app, with about 1/2 of the development time because it's all built with web technology. 90% is easily good enough for most applications. Cordova wraps a uiWebView in some boilerplate to make a web app effectively native to give you the 'icon on the homescreen' advantages (selling the app, in-app purchases, access to most phone APIs) with all the benefits of building for the web (easy development, lots of developers, etc).
This is not impossible (I mean commercially), because there are popular models of cars for which conversion kits can be developed, so that the engineering cost per unit is reduced.
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> Native apps talk directly to the operating system, while web apps talk to the browser, which talks to the OS. Thus there’s an extra layer web apps have to pass, and that makes them slightly slower and coarser than native apps. This problem is unsolvable.

But what if the browser is the OS?

I agree with the point though that we shouldn't be trying to emulate native to the T with web applications, that we shouldn't be stuffing them full of JavaScript. I think the Google IO 2015 web app [1] is a good example of what can be done on the web right now with minimal overhead.

1: https://events.google.com/io2015/
It's not really a new age mentality at all (I wouldn't classify myself as that at all). If anything, it's a strictly scientific mindset.

It's more of a reminder to think that even when we start to understand some incredible things, there's still a TON out there we DON'T know.

I think that's where the cool revelations come in, when you start to understand how much out there you don't know much about. That's where the wonder starts (which tends to bring up some of those specific questions).
1 drone replacing 50 soldiers on the ground?
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There is no standardization between manufacturers in the automotive industry.

When there is, its often because two models were developed as an collaboration between companies, or a licensing deal between manufacturers.

Between model lines you'll see some part repeat, and some drive train components repeated. But for cross manufacturers production it'd likely be very impossible, this is done intentionally by manufacturers.

:.:.:

While some companies do manufacturer aftermarket drive train components. They have licensing deals to get early dyes while production is under way. Often partnering to lower the cost of the dye production ($10Mil +).

Often these specialize on high performance model lines, and the performance company is very often a sub-division of the parent company. If you buy a high performance transmission, drive shaft, etc. Your just buying an alternative part designed by the same parent company, sold via a shell performance company, which is part of the parent company, but exists largely as advertisement for the high end market.
You might want to go look at the sun-bleached bones of all your predecessors
who confidently proclaimed that all the dynamic scripting languages were slow
for no good reason and a JIT could totally just JIT all the slowness away.

I ask this with the best of intentions: where can I learn more about this?

(FWIW, I'm curious specifically about the ways in which Common Lisp (or Lisps in general) does or does not avoid the performance pitfalls of - say - Ruby or Python. But I'm definitely interested in the general topic as well...)
On a global scale? I thought all those Hans Rosling "Mind the Gap" videos were telling us the world is increasingly equal.
Seeing you saying good things about Cordova makes me think you have never used Cordova.
I'm reading this at the moment:

http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/

Some extracts from the intro:

"And it’s not only at the bottom of the pyramid. There is a dirty secret I have discovered in the fifteen years I have spent consulting and coaching organizational leaders: life at the top of the pyramids isn’t much more fulfilling. Behind the façade and the bravado, the lives of powerful corporate leaders are ones of quiet suffering too. Their frantic activity is often a poor cover up for a deep inner sense of emptiness. The power games, the politics, and the infighting end up taking their toll on everybody. At both the top and bottom, organizations are more often than not playfields for unfulfilling pursuits of our egos, inhospitable to the deeper yearnings of our souls.

This book isn’t a rant about large corporations gone mad with greed. People who work in government agencies or nonprofits are rarely more exuberant about their workplaces. Even professions of calling aren’t immune to organizational disillusionment. Teachers, doctors, and nurses are leaving their field of vocation in droves. Our schools, unfortunately, are for the most part soulless machines where students and teachers simply go through the motions. We have turned hospitals into cold, bureaucratic institutions that dispossess doctors and nurses of their capacity to care from the heart. "

"The way we try to deal with organizations’ current problems often seems to make things worse, not better. Most organizations have gone through many rounds of change programs, mergers, centralizations and decentralizations, new IT systems, new mission statements, new scorecards, or new incentive systems. It feels like we have stretched the current way we run organizations to its limits, and these traditional recipes often seem part of the problem, not the solution.

We yearn for more, for radically better ways to be in organizations. But is that genuinely possible, or mere wishful thinking? If it turns out that it is possible to create organizations that draw out more of our human potential, then what do such organizations look like? How do we bring them to life? These are the questions at the heart of this book. "
Going back to school and dilly-dallying is mostly only really going to be viable if your parents are the ones who earned a big enough living to support you. I know people like that.

Maybe corporations should adopt poor people or commission huge parties or works of art.
Lead into gold (entrepreneurial short fiction)
> We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living

Right, because valuable things don't actually cost anything to produce! That's why they can just be (automatically) handed out by some big Magic Nanny-Fairy Machinery.

We should all just get whatever we want, because we deserve it!
But what if the browser is the OS?

Then the user has chosen, for whatever good reasons, to run a pretty limited OS, and in doing so has chosen not to be able to take advantage of all the things that having a much less limited OS would offer.
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Four points:

a) Tooling: yes, it's still much easier to debug a native app than a pseudo-native app.

b) "Emulating native leads to bad UX": this section is absolutely right. Stop hijacking scrolling and building in cruft.

c) "Hassle-free web": absolutely right. You don't need an app for that. Just give us the information and let us have the basic interaction we want. No, you shouldn't present your menu as a PDF either.

d) News: this is where I disagree. Users don't go to news sites so much; they go to aggregators which link them to individual articles (reddit, facebook). It's hard to deep-link into an app. This is a case of the app existing to further the commercial needs of the content provider (increase lockin, ads and tracking) in direct opposition to the wants of the user.

People keep trying to make the "magazine app" happen, and I've seen very little evidence of it working.
Is a "win" for the developer necessarily a win for the users? Whose experience takes precedence?
Legislation is designed to serve the people. It also gets outdated as times change. It's something that's never done and will always be in constant tension with how society and business transform.

Copyright/patent law and same-sex marriage are two quick examples of things that clearly need legal review as the world has changed. We wouldn't just say: "well that's how the law's written so that's how it should be and everything against it is wrong" would we?

Uber's success is an expression of the general public's desire for a different and better system. Taxi's aren't extinct, they're still around and they've even made lots of upgrades to try and win back customers, however it's pretty clear that ride sharing services just provide better quality and value. I personally believe there are some rules that should exist (disabled/wheelchair + underserved areas) but it doesn't need an entire encumbent taxi industry to remain solely through legal mandates. When there's such growing demand for a service, we should start looking at whether the legislation itself needs to change.

BTW: With all the self-driving cars stuff happening, both taxis and ride share drivers might be out of a job anyway, and our current auto laws will definitely have to change when that becomes a real thing.
What does "feasible" mean to you, and how are sites like http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-your-own-Electric-Car/ and http://www.hybridcars.com/top-7-issues-electric-car-conversi... insufficient for resolving your questions?

What does "make sense" mean to you? It does not make sense to convert a heavy vehicle to electric because you won't get much range from the result.

In general though, no, it does not make sense. Otherwise more people would be doing it. It's not like the idea is new either. I recall as a kid reading a Donald Duck comic where Donald converts his car to electric then goes for a ride with Daisy. Problems ensue, of course, as this is Donald we're talking about.
eerie. Reminds me of Snow Crash and its gargoyles, and the information market [0] in the book:

Gargoyles are no fun to talk to. They never finish a sentence. They are adrift in a laser-drawn world, scanning retinas in all directions, doing background checks on everyone within a thousand yards, seeing everything in visual light, infrared, millimeter-wave radar, and ultrasound all at once. You think they’re talking to you, but they’re actually poring over the credit record of some stranger on the other side of the room, or identifying the make and model of airplanes flying overhead. For all he knows, Lagos is standing there measuring the length of Hiro’s cock through his trousers while they pretend to make conversation.

edit: saw this [1] comment

[0] http://everything2.com/title/Central+Intelligence+Corporatio...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9603605
Self-driving cars, travel websites, self-checkout lines, Amazon's automated shipping centers, the first fast-food restaurant that lets you order with a touchscreen instead of having your order taken incorrectly by a minimum-wage drone, possibly Watson as a replacement for low-level customer service/tech support
GitHub Pages supports HTTPS, so please include your JS/CSS schema-relative (//) or directly with HTTPS. Otherwise people who force HTTPS on that domain get mixed content warnings and nothing loads.
Ahem. Lol, yes.
Answer me this: What is the point of a plethora of platforms, if nobody in their right mind develops native?
Response: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=9603928
Uber blocked in Italy
... Uber handed the posts to their preferred group rather than using the free market.

Why should they? It's their money and they can choose to spend it (within reason) however they choose to. That actually is how a free market should work, with independent actors doing ludicrous things with their money, irrespective of what you or I think.

That's not fair or reasonable.

Not sure those ex-CMU engineers/researchers would agree with that statement.
If cost of developing app is halved, many more apps will be built. The choice is often not between "expensive native app" and "cheap hybrid app", it's between "why is it so expensive? but I can afford this (hybrid app)" and "no way that's too expensive (native app)".
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Past technological breakthroughs: The combine harvester. The cotton gin. The water-powered loom. Factory robots. Clothes-washing technology in general.

Proposed technological breakthroughs: Self-driving trucks and cars. Warehouse robots. Supermarket robots. Automated drones.

Every efficiency advance not matched by an equal increase in demand reduces the need for people to have jobs.
Developing for native does not always take twice as long. I would write a desktop C++ app faster than attempting to write a web app and wrap it in desktop runtime capability.

If you're not used to writing desktops apps, yes it will take longer.
So, the OP is adverse to the JavaScript single page app fad, because in his opinion it is overly complicated to try to get a web app to behave like a native app, and instead should embrace its "weby-ness"? Is he just thinking about developers who have to use the tools he does not like, or the consumer experience side of it too?
I can't remember which talk it was, but Lamport said for code generation you should look elsewhere.
I'm using React Native as a web developer who wants to create a native app. Native performance with the familiarity and simplicity of web devlopment. I don't know why anyone would build a Cordova app anymore.
If you need to get to market, then it could well be a win for both. If you then have significant traction and resources and still think 90% is good enough, well then, that's your risk to take as a business. Personally I feel that 90% is only good enough to get you started and there is a tipping point where user experience necessitates quality over business optimisations (shortcuts).
The quote does not imply this is the way things are, it's talking about what he believes things should be.

Yes, of course many people have to work nonsense jobs now or else they'd starve, but that's because we don't have anything like basic income. With basic income, the lack of food and shelter you refer to wouldn't be an issue -- at least for citizens of the country with basic income.
For a great collection of maze generation algorithms, see the blog of Jamis Buck. On http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/2/7/maze-generation-algorit... he recaps the algorithms discussed in earlier posts, and he's publishing a book on the topic: Maze for Programmers. It's currently in beta on the Pragmatic Bookshelf: https://pragprog.com/book/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers. Can't wait for the hardcover book, currently planned for September 2015.
By standard axles I meant that there are really only 2 types on production cars in the last century, fully floating and not. Many of these parts may not be "standardized" but they are interchangeable. Want Land Cruiser axles on a Land Rover or Jeep? Not a problem.

Anyway, I wanted to discuss the feasibility of it now and in the future, not explain-away any possibility of it because it's too hard to do. The automotive industry is full of small and large manufacturers willing to fill a niche. I have a car with a replacement carb that requires conversion kit, and a lead-free head on the engine. There are also disk-brake kits, engine & gearbox conversions, suspension conversions... the list goes on.
rant of the day
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does react native support android yet?
Indeed, some people don't deserve to survive.
Yes. Thank you!

More specific, I was looking for: http://sideprojects.assembly.com/
Because if you fill those extra 2 hours Bob's managed to accrue with more work Bob will be sure to inject a few more HN/Reddit/etc visits into his 8 hours next time. There's rarely any motivation, gain or benefit in taking on extra work in your standard 9-5 job
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/895/
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An experimental tool to enforce Swift style and conventions
The web works best as a document platform. All the UI tricks that web developers work on all end up managing something related to just browsing/reading a document. It's amazing that modern browsers/HTML just don't have this basic user experience down.

Why is it virtually impossible to read long articles on a web browser? After 25 years, why do web designers need to create their own page transition mechanics for long-form articles, for example, when the basic purpose of the web is designed for reading documents? Why weren't multi-page transitions built in by default?

The same with photo galleries - after 25 years, why isn't there a standard user experience for viewing photos related to articles? Why are there a million JQuery photo gallery plugins?

In fact, why do we need to write CSS to create a basic readable document in the first place? Why doesn't HTML/CSS default to a high-end and legible reader experience out-of-the-box for basic text? (proper fonts & spacings, limiting column widths to 8-15 words max, etc..)

The reader-mode that web browsers are building in, that should be the default standard UX for HTML, and CSS should build upon that. But instead, it's a non-standard option.
This was just quick and brutal. :D
I don't think that having jobs is the problem. A lot of people can benefit from having jobs. Ideally a workplace should provide a way to develop people, a stable income and clear goals. It is also less risky for the employer (doesn't have to search for someone when a task needs to be done) and the employees (stable income). I personally like to work in an environment where I can decide what has to be done, how to do it, but many people wouldn't want to take this responsibility or would have a far less incentive to work if they don't have to earn a living. In an utopia perhaps we could abolish jobs, if everybody knew what they wanted to do and what they were good at.
Your response is faulty and I have answered it as such.
Hey man, I'm Brazilian too, had a startup recently, everything went wrong and I got broke. And survived, so if you wanna talk drop a message: alanmeira@gmail.com

good luck!

And Brazil is having an economic hard time just like every other country in the world.

PS: I have an old MacBook Pro here, if you want, I can lend it to you.
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Happened to me a couple months ago.
Fainted on my desk, had to go to the hospital by ambulance. Almost 8 weeks at home.
Don't wait for it to happen.
Or the cheap "pop station" handhelds that blatantly give you multiple copies of the same game, just with different "sprites": snowboarding, skiing, motorcycle racing, car racing, bike racing, etc all effectively identical.
Well, the public needs to pony up a competitive remuneration + funding package to retain these guys at CMU. At least, that's what would happen in a true free market.
About 4 months away now I think. But you could conceivably use something like Reapp until React Native supports Android. That's what I'll likely end up doing. Not ideal but React Native has already saved me so much time I'm not worried about the Android problem really.
This post leads me to believe the author probably assumes there will always only be a handful of native platforms.

No offense, but I'd trust PPK's beliefs about the mobile ecosystem more than any random HN user.
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Lying on your CV is probably fraud and is almost always a very bad idea.

Lying about mental health only contributes to the stigma and discrimination that some people experience. It also removes some of the legal protections you have[1]. It's probably better to be honest - "I had time off for a common illness. I got treatment and I now have some advanced techniques and some protective measures, although noone expects any recurrance of the illness.

Then move the topic onto what good things this company does and why you're applying.

[1] in some jurisdictions you have to disclose your illness to get disability discrimination protections. Not all places.