skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also say BMW wins in the interior also. At the price point I would still opt for a Tesla but I was commuting 120 miles round trip which gives me slight range anxiety. The P85 is my favorite of all cars I've driven so far.
Wladimir was 10 at the time. I'd count that as a kid.
Have you tried uMatrix? If you have, I'm curious how you think it compares to your current mix.
USA Asked Norway to Arrest Edward Snowden
Corollary: "Your job, as a startup employee, is to drink the Kool-Aid."
Very cool. You seem to be familiar with him and his work, so I'll ask this; I seem to recall that him and Vernor Vinge have sidelines doing 'scenario planning' for government agencies, is that something you've ever heard of? I've always wondered what that consisted of. Maybe I'm just searching for a reason to explain Vinge lack of productivety and imagined that?
The article somewhat goes into that. They were late to get online. Luckily they were able to get the mlb.com domain for free from Morgan Lewis. They didn't start to get team domains until 2000. Luckily MLBAM has been leading the way technology wise for quiet a few years. They've been so successful that they have partnered with WWE, PGA, and NHL.

The whole operation to secure team domains has been so stealth I learned in that article that MLBAM was able to finally secure my favorite team's domain earlier this year, Rangers.com. All the ads at the ballpark still refer to their old domain, texasrangers.com.
So this place has 7000 seats and last years Apple Watch party venue had 2400. Who is getting invited that wasn’t before?
I'd submit that if I can't find a spot where my favorite trick solves a problem in a way that I can easily demonstrate is better than the existing alternatives, then my favorite trick is a solution in search of a problem.
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Yeah the general rule with currencies is that as long as they're not too volatile, they can go up or down without huge implications to the economy.

The other thing to realize with the Chinese stock market is that even though it dropped something like 50% in 2 months, it's basically flat since January. If you look back to 1 year ago, it's still up 40%. You don't get 250% growth in 6 months without an accompanying correction cycle. The biggest problem with China right now is that it's high on potential, but nobody knows what the right value should be. So it will continue to be volatile like this until there's a better idea of if Chinese companies are creating real economic value or not and to what degree.
Does this Tesla S still overheat on a lap of Nürburgring?
Fusion power is closer than you think
the "top of the line bleeding edge" is a porsche 918, not a tesla. p85's are nice but let's not kid ourselves here.
This is something we haven't tackled yet, but we definitely want to make this kind of thing easy at some point in the future.
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It's sad that the SFFD is becoming demoralized by this. They're a good fire department. (The SFPD isn't very good.) A decade ago, the SFFD had a better plan for dealing with this.[1] Even now, there are better practical plans.[2]

[1] http://www.sfgov2.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/mocj/CommInvlv_News/...
[2] http://endsfstrugglewithchronichomelessness.blogspot.com/
How safe is your ground beef?
Hey now soon those bots will be registered voters!
Unless you've seen it in its entirety, I'm not sure how you can comment on how the interviews are presented. It seems like you're suggesting that you think there's a bias in it that you don't like. Do you have a problem with any specific parts of the documentary?
Lugg (YC S15) Is Like Uber but for Moving Stuff, Not People, Around Town
Likely before their own income tax but excluding the company payroll taxes, which are often much higher in EU than in US.
One of the interesting counter arguments (one in favor of monopoly) is that Google went from spending $337M a quarter on "paid distribution" (paying people to send their search traffic to Google) in Q1 2011, to $968M/qtr for paid distribution in Q4 2014. So Google is spending nearly $4 billion dollars a year to send traffic to their web site.

They can do that because their ad business is very profitable, but how much of that 'value' is because its worthwhile? And how much because its got the most volume?

One argument would be that Google's dominant position in the search advertising market allows them to fund this giant traffic buy, which prevents competitors from entering the search market. That is the classic Sherman Antitrust violation kind of thing in the US (and I believe much of the basis for the US Microsoft case where things were forced to be bundled by OEMs providing windows on their platforms, using Microsoft's dominant OS position to force their browser (internet explorer) on to the masses.

The trick is search an adjacent market to search advertising or the same market? I don't know, I can imagine arguing either side of that question.

Personally, I see Google's eroding CPC numbers as a sign they are losing their dominant position organically. It may not be happening as quickly as some competitors would like but it seems to be consistent. I also see that squeezing margins and driving changes like Alphabet, but that is simply speculation.

As a shareholder I think their decision to 'fight' here is probably not in their best interest long term (so many companies come out the other side of an anti-trust fight damaged for years and years).
>My second problem is that men set the metrics in ways that benefit them

If you think going to war is a benefit then you may have a different concept of "benefit" than most.

And you are extrapolating stuff, just because men are better at lifting weights doesn't mean we are going to close female weight competitions. The same thing happens with programming or any career where one of the sexes may be better by biological predisposition.
Highways here don't go at 65, let alone 80.
The Cheese Board just kills. Lines around the block. I'd like to think that their lazer-focus for their product (one type of pizza a day), is aligned with their great success.
On the contrary, the software production value chain is fragmenting. On one end you have the hardcore mathematicians building things in Idris in the evenings (it's the future, right?), on the other the slick business folks with an arts background and enough experience to know where to steer the company/project/department. Neither wants to expend mental energy in the other's area of competence.

As software gets increasingly more complicated and moves up levels of abstraction, there is an ecosystem being created in the middle to bridge the two. A business-minded, but aware-of-computer-science middleman who translates from one end to the other, produces a clean functional spec from a messy, day long conversation with the user, or tells the CEO "sorry, that's not actually technically possible". One does not need to know category theory to be useful there.
I guess I didn't fully understand your post then, I thought you meant that the Reyes algorithm is an "inferior estimation" and that it might be beneficial to add it to a renderer, but neither is the case. But it isn't an inferior estimation (just a different way of computing things) and you don't want to use the Reyes algorithm in practice as scenes either barely fit in memory or they don't fit in memory at all (and in that case you want your memory usage to be as efficient as possible to avoid reading from the disk as much as possible).
Upgrading to the next Karma hardware is optional for everyone who owns a 1st gen device. There is absolutely no upgrade nor payment required if you decide not to upgrade. Data purchased will always be available for future upgrades, also when you do not upgrade.
Which is a trivial, minor symptom of stupid services and stupid software. There is no reason to hate portrait video at all.
Yeah I used to live right near the SoMa fire station and it was non-stop noise.

It's too bad we don't have decent, reliable public transportation so people can be housed relatively cheaply and still be able to get around quickly, easily and cheaply. This take the bus/bart for hours just won't work.
I believe that history provides many counter-examples to your claim. The American Revolution was not a peaceful coming of terms with Britain. The US Civil War was due to more than just the South being hangry.
In Haskell I use Maybe's, Either's and their ilk (packing result code in returned data I guess?), in C - your usual boolean return values like this:
bool parse_literal (ParsingState* state, LiteralValue* pResult).

In Java/C# I have to use what other people are using :)

My dislike of exceptions (as well as errno and Set/GetLastError) is due their masking, hiding error conditions and situations. And I prefer everything to be stated clearly. Including error handling code (answer to 'did I handled all possible failures of calling this?' should be instant).

Unfortunately proper error handling is hard, nearly as much as 'naming things' :)
Would it be possible for firefighters to respond to mental health emergencies with another type of vehicle?
This is actually a decent first time rebill success rate. With a consumer website we see similar if not a bit worse. Recurring billing with consumers can be tricky - lots of fraud and expired cards leads to declines, which means often times you have to re-sell your value to the customer to get them to update said card.

Bigger B2B is a different beast, if you are a core piece of someones business they will not let you expire.
Yes, you're right about RSL. What I've meant is that it is (was) a good learning tool. Maybe something like shadertoy today with an appropriate course would be apt?

PBRT is a great resource too. I don't know if they opted out of literate programming? I can't stand that for some reason. I've leafed through PBRT though. I've learned (back in the day, hah) from Shirley's Ray Tracing book and bibles that Andrew Glassner wrote (Principles of Digital Image Synthesis) which I still consider awesome resource.
A Bit of Internet History – Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
PRS for Music takes legal action against SoundCloud streaming service
Photos of Chernobyl always remind me of Stalker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)), yet the philosophical introspective guide is light years away from the garish tourist guide pictured here with radioactive lenses.
> Having experience in both, there are far fewer injuries in BJJ than Judo.

I'd actually be curious to know what the stats on that are. I certainly don't think either of our anecdata are sufficient to answer the question.

However, as noted in the wikipedia article I linked earlier, the judo's banning of various joint locks that are not banned in BJJ was done from a safety motivation. In principle, I'm open to the idea that these modifications of judo were not effective in their intended purpose to reduce injury. However, given some knowledge of (non-arm) joint locking techniques, an observed reduction in injury seems highly plausible.

In short, I'm open to the possibility that the locks in BJJ don't constitute a significant additional risk above and beyond judo. However, judo's ban on BJJ-sanctioned locks does not strike me as particularly ill conceived.
I actually sold a team domain to MLB. They didn't approach through Cahn (and the fact that his name appears is a PR coup for him) but through a corporate registrar iirc was CSC who does some name recovery for big brands.
Work reasonable hours, get paid what you're worth, and damn the rest.
Firefighters in general are becoming more social services or general emergency services providers than actual "fire fighters".

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/fir...
I didn't realize there was a fight. As far as I remember, YouTube allows uploading any aspect ratio you can dream of and they automatically add the black bars for you. Maybe you're comparing to Vimeo? YouTube's video player is annoying, but I don't see them as biased against portrait videos.
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby,  ...Linus Torvalds
If the server's capable to decrypt the data, unless you use a trusted HSM that keeps an audit trail, it generally doesn't make sense to encrypt in the first place. Especially with anything resource-intensive. When the server has everything to decrypt the data, the encryption only does the obfuscation, not any strong protection.

Otherwise, if we talk about - just for example - a receiving mail server (MDA) that has encrypted mailbox storage like [1], then it really depends on how much mail you receive. For a typical personal mailbox, where the steady rate is less than an email-per-minute (and usual email size is some kilobytes, not megabytes), encryption overhead is negligible. Such server would sleep most of time anyway.

[1]: https://grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_E...
> They also realized that no one is going to pay for software so they need to make revenue via advertising and premium features.

They might want to have a word with JetBrains or Adobe, then...
“If you don’t give us all of your data, we can’t give you nice features”
Obviously not but communities such the .NET one using React or Angular is underrepresented in HN.
1984 is a nice bit of canon for the privacy conscious, but it is also a work of fiction, and can quickly be co-opted by the paranoiac fringe community as being something that exists.

> What else the NSA would have to do (or what we'd have to find out they're doing) before you say we are "remotely close to 1984"?

They would have to know our private thoughts. They would have to read our paper diaries. They would have to disallow me closing my curtains at night. They would have to hear me telling my girlfriend I love her.

All the clusters of GPUs and corridors of big data will not know my private thoughts. I see your handle is mindcrime, but as I said; there would be blood on the streets if they started infiltrating the substrate of our craniums.
In theory the government would have to reallocate money from something else in order to pay a higher interest rate. Thus they are not really spending any less. In practice the Federal Reserve takes up some of the burden by buying up Treasuries.

You're general idea, though, is correct. Government spending is a burden on the economy. It reallocates resources away from the market. The main metric which is supposed to measure the health of an economy, GDP, is faulty in part because it includes government spending.
It depends how many crews you have at the firehouse. If you have multiple crews, then maybe. If you're taking the only fire crew at the house out to respond to this, the whole firetruck needs to come with because if there is a fire, you don't want the crew to have to drive back to the firehouse, get the firetruck ready to go and then go back out to respond to the fire.
> I asked for a very simple thing - a piece of code which is easy, robust and maintainable because of its use of OOP. All of the qualities are objective and easy to measure, regardless of your philosophy.

How is that a simple thing? What are you looking for? If I showed you a piece of code which was I said was simple, robust, and maintainable, how would you know whether it's true or not, unless you know the language, the problem it's intended to solve, and have a personal history of maintaining it?

No, you're asking a question with no possible answer, and then intended to use that lack as proof in your own mind.
Suddenly Tim looked back at Sabih and asked,
‘Why are you still here?’ Sabih left the
meeting immediately, drove directly to San
Francisco Airport, got on the next flight
to China without even a change of clothes.
But you can bet that problem was resolved
fast.

What about Sabih's passport? Did he just carry it around at all times in case Tim Cook wanted him to fly to China?
Totally fair question. This part would be really hard to manufacture traditionally - there's a hollow in the middle of the part that couldn't be machined, so you'd have to machine it in two parts and then weld it.

That said, this design is very much NOT optimal, and there's a lot I can do to tune it for the process. I'm working on that more in the coming months; first I needed to 1) prove that the process could produce a functional part, and 2) get access to more advanced design software (topology optimization + lattice structure generation). Stay tuned!
>"With a normal car, you have to worry about how much gas you have, when and where you'll stop to fill up"

Okay, people might exaggerate "range anxiety" on the Teslas. But you're definitely reaching here: when and where to fill up a gasoline car? How about 24 hours a day on almost any street corner in the country. Running out of fuel isn't even on the radar.
> You would think something like a microprocessor would have the same level of checks.

Yeah, the chips themselves are easy, but some chips get programmed along the food chain at different steps and if there is an issue everyone assumes it isn't because of their piece.
The evolution hopefully will be like the genome-mapping, it began with super slow and expensive projects, and now it has super fast sequencing for a couple of hundred bucks (or less)
I deal in this industry. It's not always about needing the money or not needing it. It about gambling that the that offer of 1 million actually could be 2 million. You'd be surprised at how even ordinary people think when they get wind that they have something valuable.

Fun Fact: I bought a domain name for a reasonable price off a patent troll company. Was actually one of the easier and most surprising transactions I ever did.
Ever do the jiggle with another person walking in the opposite direction? China & Fed past couple weeks.
But sometimes it's not just memory. It can be files you need to close, or any other resource held.
I wonder how we could get a hold of this actual dataset. Additionally I wonder how it compares to vacancy rates/data in LA County
I'm hoping the proliferation of self-driving cars in San Francisco will bring about some alternative to emergency sirens, but who knows.
...or find a startup with a vision and implementation plan that you can believe in.
Oh come on now. I can fit my entire family in a Model S (with luggage) and still do 0-60 on 2.8 seconds. That is, by definition, bleeding edge.

At this point a Porsche is a glorified garage queen.

EDIT: A Porsche 918 MSRP is almost $845K and it's only 0.6 seconds faster than the Model S (P85D). They've made less than 1000 units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_918
I'm Pamela, the programming teacher for KA. We're thinking about adding highly guided coding challenges to the PIAB content in the future, to entice students to go deeper into programming. Alternately, we could add advanced coding challenges that have a higher prereq. We haven't quite figured out the approach yet (and that applies generally to introducing programming to other areas of KA). Feel free to email compsci-feedback@khanacademy.org with your thoughts. :)
Rust version:

fn main()
{
if let Some(arg) = std::env::args().nth(1)
{
println!("{}", arg.chars().take(12).collect::<String>()); // chars() iteraters over codepoints
}
}
> Mayor Ed Lee said this week that the homeless are “going to have to leave” the streets before the Super Bowl comes to town in February

China had similar approach for their Olympic Games :-(
+1. Do employees at the DMV believe in their mission?

Why can't founders understand that employees are there for the paycheck? And rightfully so. "Guys, it's your company too! Let's do great things together and make the world a better place!" Yeah great. And for the next round of funding is it gonna be "my company too" or is my 1/10th of a point gonna be diluted?
Wow. From one of the linked articles (http://www.businessinsider.com/pandora-didnt-pay-50-employee...):

In the run up to its 2004 Series B funding Pandora was running on financial fumes. Pandora wasn’t able to pay its employees for an astounding two years between 2002 to 2004 while it worked on producing a viable commercial product. Not paying full-time employees is very, very illegal in California, where Pandora is based.

“We had no idea we were breaking the law," Westergren said.

Over that period, Pandora accumulated $2 million in back wages owed.

How this story did not end with Pandora getting nuked from orbit in a court of law, I have no idea. And the bit about Westergren having "no idea we were breaking the law" (wink, nudge, say no more, guv!) is the perfect cherry on top.

I guess we're supposed to celebrate not paying your employees for years as some kind of Triumph of Entrepreneurialism, though. And I suppose it is, if you're Tim Westergren! (Not so much if you're one of the employees who he essentially strong-armed into loaning him tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars at zero percent interest, but who cares about them.)
Two things:

- the article you link has Rousimar doing (apparently legal, fight-winning) leg locks. These are not allowed in judo on safety grounds.

- holy crap--the idea that there are people allowed to participate in multiple tournaments after not letting up on a tap strikes me as insanely irresponsible. Yeah, at that point, continuing to apply a technique after submission is bad bad bad. But, allowing a sociopath back into your dojo to potentially injure your other students is equally bad bad bad.
> Very few apps are built from scratch using PHP unless the intention is to share the application code like wordpress, drupal, etc.

Err.. that's exactly what you said, no?

Well, yeah, if you work in a shop where node is the goto solution on the server side, that's going to be your experience.
My compilers course used Java to implement a simplified Java-like language. Writing a compiler in Java isn't as gloriously straightforward as in Lisp/ML/Haskell, but it's a lot less annoying than C.
The flagged comment was doing ok (score of about 4-5) until a reply to it called it racist, which polarized the topic and caused the score to dive. This more or less confirmed the point that cultural relativism is the norm, and a bad norm at that.
If someone were to design a booby trap and you walked into it, that would be on you.

It's up to adults to contribute purposeful conscious decisions.
It's odd that people in the comments seem to think this is for kids. It surely isn't intended to be for children, right?

Great lessons.
externally, yes. But internally, as a senior team member, you should be calling the founder(s) out on their shit constantly if you're going to be around long.
I recommend Plutopia by Kate Brown for those interested in relatively unknown irradiated communities comparable to Chernobyl.
I've reached for Haskell for a number of small, scripty projects and the experience has been good. Not much better or worse than a similarly small scripty thing would have been in any other language.

Haskell shines the brightest when refactoring a moderately sized project (I have been yearning for this, working in a smallish Python codebase), but nothing prevents using it for small things.
Not anymore: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/07/21/our-long-national-ni...
>My second problem is that men set the metrics in ways that benefit them.

To a greater degree than women do?
Exactly the reason why I did a Bachelor in International Business Administration and a Master in Computer Science (Embedded Systems)! I feel that the gap in between is a good niche to be in. I have to say that there are some education programmes where the focus is on IT management that try to fill this niche too although I have some doubts about how effective it is to study IT management in itself.
Germany trades citizens’ metadata for NSA’s top spy software