skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, I'll give the mailchimp tool a shot. I really just need to setup a handful of templates, so it being a manual tool isn't a problem at all.

I found an old broken link to free mailchimp templates, didn't think to check their Github! Appreciate it.
Many times I want to ask questions about the job details, and I'd like to see this feature as well.

I always suspected it was to prevent people from talking about embarrassing things about the company. People are very good finding faults and even making innocent things look evil. Easier to avoid all that by simply disabling comments.
Cryptography you can do
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They are trying to "disrupt" their sector. Sounds like a startup to me.
I'm hoping by 2025, but that may be a bit optimistic.
Absolutely. If you've ever driven though heavy snow, you know that you can barely see any of the road (no white or yellow lines) and lights are the only part of other cars that you can see. Signs and other traffic signals get completely covered with snow. People can barely drive in those conditions, I highly doubt that a self driving car could with current technology. Although I have high hopes for the future.
Zack Holman has a great "The Talk on Talks" at http://zachholman.com/talk/the-talk-on-talks/ which lists some pro-patterns. Furthermore, his site at http://speaking.io/ is a great resource for preparing and delivering presentations.
It tastes just like the more pleasant protein powder drinks. No awful aftertaste. It's also not sweet, they are going for as neutral a taste as possible.

I like the idea but unfortunately I don't do well with oats. They've been decreasing it over time but I still get major indigestion from it that I don't get from other food. I'm in the minority on that, though. I'll try again with v1.5 which was just announced.
A program that gives money to the poor creates a disincentive to get out of poverty through work. The welfare gain from the poor having more money should be weighed against the welfare loss of their working and saving less.
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> Between my wife and I there's a great book -- or at least a really long magazine article -- in there somewhere.

Please write it. Or just start writing a blog - right now. This is valuable experience and others will benefit.
New issues are not always free money. Seen many deals over the past few years get torpedoed by pricing way too tight or complete garbage allocations. Even seeing some recent IG issues widening a decent amount soon after issuance.
Errr because they're headquartered in the US and rely on the shield of the US government when it comes to rule of law, educating their workforce, providing the infrastructure etc for them to be in the position where they are today? In this day and age it makes _less_ sense to try and tax based on where componentry or network services or consumers start or finish.
True, but compromising part of what made him great and sticking around 'because you might miss something' would also be the antithesis of how he lived his life until that day. He wrote the following quote when he was quite young, about a baseball player IIRC:

"Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of the rat race is not yet final."

I find it quite interesting he became the embodiment of this himself. His attitude of "Buy the ticket, take the ride" is what he embodied until the day he died and knew the ride was over.

I personally would have loved to see him live on. Especially with regard to the end of the Bush presidency and further actions in the middle east.
Maybe it's just that work as a matter of life or death is slowly becoming unsustainable. With the Great Wage Decoupling, there aren't tremendously many jobs that provide a decent living out there. Maybe it's time to implement basic income in the developed world.
Sam Clay's excellent NewsBlur did this in Python in order to pick good colors to represent a blog source - he gave a short talk about it in an NYC LinkedList session (which later morphed into Hacker School which then became The Recurse Center).
I see no issues for a robot taxi insurance, since it could be done with the same scheme, as the current testing vehicles are insured (a large deposit to the state).

Once robot taxis are everywhere, I would expect that there will be robot car rentals and robot car long-term rentals. They are also not different from the taxis; people just rent them for longer.

As for real ownership, the question is unclear. Probably, it will be so rare, that a deposit will work too.
Quick note about #2: Test it in the specific location where you'll be presenting. Different projectors and systems have different resolutions, and those differences can make a readable presentation unreadable.

I've noticed this happens a lot more with people who use Retina Macbooks. They plug them into a 1080p projector, and for whatever reason the fonts are a pixel high on the projection.
Seems more like "electrophysiology" than "a neuroscience revolution". Would be really cool to have played around with those in school though.
As an electrical engineer who minored in philosophy, I gladly concede the point and accept the correction.
Tbh, i think it will result in more frustration by drivers at large. Eg, think of on the freeway, note the people who drive the actual speed limit. They're driving perfectly, yet people constantly pass them.

It's worse on county roads (like in my local area, 50mph) without passing lanes. If you drive the speed limit you can almost guarantee to be passed by many cars, sometimes even dangerously, because it annoys people to go below the speed limit they perceive as correct.

I like to go around the speed limit (admittedly, simply to avoid tickets), usually ~3mph over, but it will annoy me to no end if i have to drive 5mph slower because of someone in front of me. On these popular county roads i speak of, i usually go faster than i want (5-10mph over), because i don't like being dangerously and needlessly passed.

Now, i'm not saying the self-driving cars are wrong in any way. I'm also aware that the roads i speak of will be among the last to get self driving cars. Nevertheless, i think humans will have to learn to drive far less aggressively. Though, when self-driving outnumber the normal drivers, it may not matter.
we (your users) are your test suite :)

Nicely done- looking forward to the next iteration
For example: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/aug/16/africa-fa...

Or: http://newsroom.uber.com/nyc/2012/11/hurricane-sandy-pricing...

(Note that inflation was systemic, because Uber basically became the entire market. Yellow cabs, which couldn't inflate their prices, just stayed home.)

No matter how much economic denialism you want to engage in, you still can't magically make scarce things plentiful. Similarly, I can complain about how much my server monitoring sucks, but that doesn't mean my latency isn't high.
"a Trillion Calories" -- what a fantastic way to represent what they do in a way that sounds HUGE but is also both true and not hyperbolic sounding.
'To be fair, a lot of people at 18 (including me) were really sold on the idea that "nobody cares what you majored in, just that you have a degree."'

Who's telling high schoolers this? I don't think it's ever been true in recent history. Unless they're applying lowest-common-denominator logic?
This is kind of a nitpick. I can come back at you and moan about TRIM support on a 3rd party SSD in that same Mac Mini - no problem in that Windows 7 laptop. That's about equally relevant.
Not really, we share a lot of meals and we maintain a gluten-free household.

Actually they do seem to be gluten-free now, fwiw.
Gates&Buffet are both very invested in philanthropy and extremely data oriented. If they were made aware by someone they actually listen to, they just might do it.
> A startup is a company designed to grow fast.

My issue with charities being called startups is more in the for-profit vs charitable goals. Companies have goals that just don't jive with the goals of a good charity. If we take a definition based purely around 'designed to grow fast' yes it can fit. There's just more connotation to the word startup than the purely growth based definition Paul Graham puts forward.

addendum edit: There's nothing inherently wrong with the 'designed to grow fast' definition, it just doesn't sit quite right (with me) applied to charitable orgs because of the additional meaning I talked about above.
Ask HN: What income sources can a developer create outside of work/freelancing?
I know that as a developer I can work for a company (which I am) and freelance (which I'm hesitant to take on), but what non-traditional sources of income could I create? I know teaching is one and making an app is another, but are there other more obscure ones most developers don't consider? Could you share examples you as a developer have done?
No argument...I have no doubt that an automated driver will perform better than the average driver, statistically...and even more so if automated driving becomes the norm (reducing the irregular situations encountered on the road). However, I think it'll be a very, very long time until humans aren't fixated on the the instances in which a robot/algorithm messed up, while subconsciously ignoring/accepting the many human-caused accidents. In fact, one of the strengths of automated processes will be something that leads to increased scrutiny...the fact that it's easier to audit/reproduce automated behavior...any time something goes awry, we have the ability to pick it apart in minute detail, including all prior documentation.

This is not the same for human-caused incidents...though we do fixate on pieces of incidental data that might exist: is there a record showing that the driver sent a text right before they crashed? Are there credit car receipts for a bar? Or, in a more extreme case, the medical history of the Germanwings pilot who is believed to have downed his plane.
Because Apple et al can put the extra capital to better use than the united states government.
Probably iOS development?
Office starter edition is enough for the vast majority of users.
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And the corporations only hold out for a repatriation holiday because there has been one in the past, and there is a decent chance of there being one in the near future. This is a slippery legislative cliff - once you indicate a willingness to have the holiday, there is no point in not just dropping the tax rate permanently since no one will bring their billions in otherwise.

I wonder what would happen if we passed an un-repealable law (if such a thing existed) that prohibited tax holidays for the next thirty years?
Hannibal! Your presence at Ars is still dearly missed. Your Katrina article affected me profoundly; even now a decade later I think about it frequently. It gave me a bit of a vision which I had somehow lacked until then, of how I'd like my own career and technical skills to actually benefit society in some way.
Google is a machine learning company. Knowing about how people use their phone (Android), Computer (ChromeOS), etc a self driving car gives them more and more data to refine and expand their algorithms.

At the same token it is because they have these vast troves of data and some of the best machine learning scientists in the word, they are suited to do this type of research.

Another thing to think about is that if we are not distracted by the commute we will spend more time using Google services.
> Don't tell him. Ask questions that get him to think.

That is also not easy. Poster's friend might get annoyed\offended when he will not have answers
Innovation is one way to protect your business from failure. Relying on a single business model, for decades, naively assumes that society will always want, or need, your product or service.

I tip my hat to Google, for attempting to stay ahead of the curve.
Insurance companies will love insuring these cars because they will be involved in far fewer accidents, and will have a complete log of exactly what happened so it will be easy to assign blame.
I like it, but can certainly see where some wouldn't. Tastes like slightly sweeter and thinner oatmeal.

Reddit has a good amount of discussion and is probably a better place than HN for it: http://reddit.com/r/soylent
If I've correctly identified the intersection, it's a T, View street merges into El Camino Real:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/37.38487/-122.08136

Without more information about the collision, I think it's hard to say what would have happened if the system had not applied the brakes.
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Life is very rigorously defined, however it's not unequivocal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life#Definitions

A word not having a rigorous definition means it cannot be discussed scientifically. Hence the actual problem of studying the existence of life, e.g. is a virus alive?
Record number of Canadians are taking Peter Thiel up on his controversial offer
What I said still is true. Digg USED Cassandra to destroy itself. They changed business plans and removed the community with a ton of down time and a loss of data.

I agree it wasn't Tech fault for Kevin Rose allowing VCs to control Digg, but there were issues with Cassandra and especially during the SQL vs NoSQL debate at its highest levels.
Countries like Sweden (or maybe it's the only one) also adjusts the fine for speeding according to one's income. If you make a lot, $250 fine isn't going to deter you from speeding. But $200K might (there's probably an upper limit?)

Looks like they're using their brains there...

Ok, I'm convinced -- anyone hiring in Europe? ;-)
Haven't tried it myself, but this month's Oh No Ross and Carrie was all about Soylent http://ohnopodcast.com/investigations/2015/6/3/ross-and-carr...
It's simultaneously neutral and filling—sort of like the fullness you get when you have a big bite of oatmeal (except it's a liquid, of course). I compare the taste to pancake batter, but might be in the minority on that.

My new thing is to mix it with 1:1:1 coffee:soylent:water (normally it's 1:2 soylent:water) and have it for breakfast, which I've found rather pleasant.
The cars are developed in California. The weather is great here almost all the time. The cars are still under development and inclement weather is an obvious thing the team must be thinking about. I fully expect, in time, that autonomous vehicles to drive more safely in bad weather than people. (They'll be more cautious, for one.)
After the tough time I had trying to stay afloat in my undergrad, I don't think I'd venture to hire someone who was unable to complete a degree (just being honest with myself). I agree though that most actual learning occurs outside of the classroom.
Google doesn't give out much info about how their system works. It seems to be very much like the technology from the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007. Most of the improvements since seem to relate to predicting the movements of other street users. That's not surprising, considering Google's focus on "big data".

Sensor technology hasn't improved much. It's still mostly cameras, Velodyne rotating LIDAR units and off the shelf centimeter Doppler RADAR units. Flash LIDAR and millimeter RADAR aren't volume products yet. They will be once auto companies get serious about this.

The DARPA Humanoid Challenge is live today. Watch: http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/
I use BitBucket and love it for all my single user projects.
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I'd like to see more TypeScript love - in docs/refs/samples, etc..
Hermann Zapf was the creator of AMS Euler, Optima, Palatino, Zapfino, Zapf Dingbats. He was also known for his collaboration with Donald Knuth.

His death is not widely reported yet so there are only a few sources:

Wikipedia gives as source notable calligrapher Julian Waters. The Hermann Zapf Sketchbook Project[1] published an obituary. Hoefler & Co "Hermann Zapf passed away last night. He was a giant." on Twitter [2].

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1307403978/the-hermann-...

[2] https://twitter.com/HoeflerCo/status/606865724158709760
> Given the prevalence of anxiety and depression in the industry

That's not true, I don't think, and your dispassionate "grow some balls" comment at the end is pretty ironic and certainly hurtful. :( I hope I'm misunderstanding what you meant by that...
That's an interesting theory. Do you have data?
To paraphrase, this is quite what Thompson refers to with regard to the ninth path: make your own way. If you wait out of fear that you might be missing out, you're going with the tide and not finding your own way.
Really a nice idea. In your opinion React delivers the promise to get out all the business logic of the UI? And how much time to develop the site? Any tutorials or resources recommended?
Me too. However I'd rather wait for a few years after they're out, like the Apple Watch, before I use one.

I think we won't need to own cars and will simply press a button like Uber and the car drives us wherever.
Your friend knew that failure was likely when he started on his project, and he went ahead anyway. So it isn't helpful to remind him that the odds are stacked against him, or to tell him "I told you so" after.

Many people don't have the heart to even really try. Many people don't have the heart to keep going for years when at times it looks hopeless. Your friend does, and that's admirable. If he's a good programmer he's not going to put his future in jeopardy. There's no need for well-intentioned -- but ultimately patronizing -- concern here.

So don't volunteer your opinion. If he's a friend, just be there for him (emotionally).
Yes, but it's a very different statement. To people like myself who enjoy high end mechanicals, a smart watch looks and feels like a toy.

Also, your smart watch will be obsolete in a couple of years, and will likely break soon after. I'll be passing my collection down to my son.
I tried soylent for a while and found the experience fairly unpleasant. I switched to http://www.mealsquares.com/ instead. Warmed up, they taste like a dense brownie. The thinking detailed on their website and the level of care that clearly went into choosing a safe recipe gives me a lot more confidence than soylent did eg

> First, there's nothing especially risky or unusual in MealSquares; they're made from a broad variety of ordinary, healthy whole-food ingredients like milk, rice bran, dates, etc. See our nutrition page for the full list. And unlike many commercial baked goods, MealSquares are free of artificial preservatives and flavoring agents.

They also don't require mixing so they work much better as a camping/climbing food.
I'm just saying that there are lots of people here already doing the 'kind' thing, so maybe it's about time to do the 'nice' thing for the folks who haven't been burdened by this yet.
Their core mission is to organize the world's data. They've organized geospatial and road infrastructure records on their way to building out Google maps. They have traffic patterns based on Android GPS tracking, as well as via such venues as Waze and Uber. And they have a huge trove of visual data and algorithms derived from core search and working with images. While they may not be a traditional robotics company, their approach to this seems fundamentally guided by their expertise in data infrastructure, analysis, and AI algorithms...all of which were essential to their core mission. Also, it helps that they were very profitable in their core product, allowing them to expand in such a fashion.
Microsoft's free unlimited chat and phone calls (skype) gets scanned for ads, and links followed[0]. Probably also stored and forwarded to the NSA.

Don't put anything in there that you really care about, without using something like git-crypt.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704574
Uber got banned in East Hampton
This seems interesting. How long until people are sequenced at birth and their ailments predicted from that? (I know they're already doing it on a small scale, but I'm talking of it as a routine procedure).

How long still until our memories are able to be stored, etc ad nauseum.

Very exciting stuff!
>iPhone wasn't a revolutionary new idea for which there was no demand... its just that Apple knew that the time was right and that they could technically pull it off. They certainly didn't just engineer the iPhone on a wing and a prayer hoping that they might figure out a business plan one day.

This also applies to Blackberry and Nokia, but they failed miserably. The reason why we don't see them on this list it's because they were well established companies, and they could afford failure. That's the main difference with a startup, you pull off a Maemo, a Newton or a Virtual Boy and that's it, you are done. And let's not forget about the ROKR E1. You make it look like the iPhone's success was a very predictable and obvious thing, but just take a look at the reviews from 2007.
I know the insurance question keeps coming up, but I'm not sure I understand it. The way I see it, these cars won't be released into the wild until and if they can perform on par or better than human drivers...which will require that they be able to follow the rules of the road as well as or better than human drivers. That being the case, I don't see why the insurance would be any more of a factor for the autonomous cars than for current drivers. If they fail to follow the rules of the road and cause an accident (or negligently contribute to one), they'll be on the hook and insurance will have to cover it. If not, there's no insurance liability to consider. Am I missing something that the liability would somehow be greater in an autonomous vehicle in the case of the same accident that would otherwise be caused by a human?
You know what is crazier than this? When kids will say "remember ipads and iphones?" That is the other end of this spectrum, but goes to show that in 15 years everything will be horrible when compared to current tech