skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should you hire a dedicated Mobile App Developer?
Why the yakuza are not illegal
Apologies if that came off rude, I get a bit excited with SJ.. I'm almost as much of a Steve Jurvetson fan as many others are Elon Musk fans.. the dude is amazing. He should probably start delivering some of the Tesla event speeches, he's well-spoken but every bit as technical as Elon.
Gerrymandering gets attention because it is malicious misrepresentation, but unintentional misrepresentation is just as bad. Voting is a flawed system that will always give some voters more voice than others.

- The people who voted for the loser will not be represented (one of the reasons minorities are underrepresented).

- The need of local representation is illusory. Make a list of all the political issues you care about. How many of them are local?

- The effect of a bi-cameral legislature means that in the Senate, voters in Wyoming have over 60x the voting power of voters in California.

- Voting itself is irrational under a cost/benefit analysis. So by definition, the least rational citizens are picking candidates.

- Name recognition is huge for elections, meaning money will always effect elections.

- Candidates suffer self-selection bias (as well as others). To run, you need to be good at public speaking (fear of public speaking is one of the most common fear in America), look a certain way (no tattoos or piercings allowed), and have a lust for power.

Representation is a math problem. The only solution is random sampling. Replace Congress with 1 house made up of 1,000 randomly sampled citizens and we will have true representation.
Why is voter turn-out the relevant metric? You are implicitly assuming that increasing voter turn-out is a worthy goal in and of itself, and I am not sure why. Is it important to you that each voter feel involved, or that they are responsible for their representatives, or do you believe that an increase in the number of voters would improve policies and outcomes? I would support an attempt to increase voter turn-out if it would improve policies and outcomes, but there is little evidence of this; in fact, the current evidence shows that current voters are better informed and more intelligent than eligible non-voters.[1] Before you accuse me of being an anti-democratic autocrat or something of that sort, please keep in mind that I am not advocating the abolishment of elections, that I used to agree with you (but was persuaded to change my mind), and have voted at every election I am eligible for since reaching the age of majority.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter
Distributors, how's your rapport with manufacturers?
Tesla Launches Model X Electric SUV
As much as I admire the engineering that went into the design of this vehicle I'm not looking forward to sharing the road with inexperienced drivers with vehicles of this size and weight with this much acceleration.
Tesla really needs to earn the title of luxury.

The S-model really does have one of the worst interiors I've seen on a brand new car at any price. They really need to hire someone from Land Rover or Mercedes to understand what luxury actually looks like. They can't use the cheap plastics and leather and expect people to look at it as a luxury car. It's a shame when the exterior is so well designed.
North and South Dakota are two states instead of one so that Republicans could have an extra two senators. Hawai'i and Alaska were admitted to the Union together so that neither party would gain an advantage in the Senate from the addition.

So yes, you can gerrymander Senate seats. It's just harder and less reliable than House seats.
There's room for a product that is not fully featured, especially one that is intentionally not fully featured. Constraints are often a good thing for art. The novel "Gadsby", written without the letter E, is not the finest point of english literature, but is certainly novel and better for it. Limitations, speaking eloquently, and conveying your message through simple form has an appeal. Reducing the number of long screeds and distilling arguments to concise, short points has appeal.

To quote an old adage: Brevity is the soul of wit.
Stem cells can restore sight
Aside from the wireless charging which comes as a surprise since the last few generations all had it, I feel like your points don't constitute much of a disappointment for the 5X. #2 and #3 haven't been a part of the Nexus line since at least the N4, so you're in the realm of wishful thinking. I agree having everything you said would be nice, but it's hardly a surprise.
> zir

did you have a stroke?
> Netflix cannot let you discover... They have to make you believe there is more that you have not found.

That's an insightful observation and explains perfectly why Netflix does not provide a simple straight list of all titles that you can scroll through. I'll bet that the Netflix engineers have wanted to add such an obvious feature, but someone in marketing yelled, "Don't!"

If you ask the average non-techie user how many titles their Neflix subscription has, they'll be astonished to hear that it's only ~7750 in the US and even less in other countries (eg., ~4478 in Canada)[1]. Even though this information is easy to discover, it seems that most people don't bother to know.

[1] http://netflixcanadavsusa.blogspot.ca/
Either way, I think it's over complicated.

I get that their goal is to create some iconic look, and when someone sees that car/door shape, people would say "Oh, it's Tesla".
And back? You'll definitely have to charge or risk running out.
What is the tradeoff with uber/lyft? I still get where I'm going but it's often cheaper, more comfortable and just as fast (or faster) than previous options.

I don't see how accuracy is going to be a problem. These people aren't driving across the country with hundreds of items and it would be very much in their interest to make sure the right thing is delivered to the right person.

I think the "experienced professional" of a shipping carrier driver is vastly overrated here. Just what, exactly, do they do that can't be done by another part-time person?
The Senate representing the states was abolished a century ago when the Seventeenth Amendment was adopted. Today senators are chosen by popular election the same as congressmen, they just have wildly disproportionate electorates with some elected by half a million and some by tens of millions.
And will the fleet be owned and operated by a central authority? Or will it be several independent networks of car owners?
The best part about waifu2x is that it tends to work really well even on images it wasn't intended for, at least in my experience. I use the web version [1] all the time on all sorts of images, usually with excellent results--even for photos.

[1] http://waifu2x.udp.jp/
Or back and forth to work / the grocery store. According to the US Department of Transportation, people drive an average of 36 miles per day.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm
There is no constitutional provision that would ever allow abolishing the Senate. The Constitution of the USA prohibits any amendment that could change the disproportionality of the Senate.
Then make the car cheaper, most families aren't going to care about how they can accelerate their toddlers to 60mph in 3 and half seconds.
People die in crashes, they don't like to breathe smog, they prioritize their safety. All cars "kill", that is an established fact, but we also need to transport ourselves whether we like it or not. Here is a car that is, compared to other cars, safer in those areas by a large margin. Wanna buy it?
You're right that the title chosen by the author is preferable in general, but the HN guidelines make specific exceptions for misleading titles or linkbait ones.

I conclude that it's misleading because the interview doesn't focus on the harassment suit (that's just one part of it, and the answer there is rather vague), and linkbait because that detail was clearly in the title because it's the sensational bit.
> "With the comfort and hindsight of a half-century,
President Harry Truman's decision to
commit American power to save South Korea
from Communist aggression in late June 1950
stands as perhaps America's finest moment of the
Cold War. [...] By dispatching the 24th
Infantry and 1st Cavalry Divisions from comfortable
occupation duty in Japan to death and
destruction in Korea in mid-summer 1950, the
United States actually did nothing less than save
the world from a global conflagration."

I spent two-thirds of the article waiting to find out how, exactly, the Korean War prevented Armageddon. TL;DR: A squabble between Communist states was looking likely to come to open war, and my countrymen planned to respond by nuking the Soviets and starting World War III for some fucking reason. Fortunately, our strong defense of South Korea convinced Stalin that we actually were crazy enough to start WW3 over Yugoslavia, so he backed down.

Further TL;DR: Fifty thousand red-blooded American soldiers nobly laid down their lives to protect the world from the psychopathic nuclear aggression of...America. This was clearly one of America's finest moments.
With self driving tech and electric drivetrains, it'll be impossible for it not to be significantly cheaper than current car transportation.
>If you want to use a webpage, which will allow you to use the tall forms of the runes, then you'll need to setup up a page to work in. First get the code from: https://bitbucket.org/zaphar/hoon-intro. Then you will need to copy the lib.hoon file into your urbit instance's desk, By first mounting the desk onto your filesystem.

...am I the only person who has absolutely no idea what this guy is talking about?

>Gates are a of type core that have only one arm with the empty name '$'.

Okay
I really love his style. He has a very persistent values-based set of talking points (environment, safety, not sucking, doing cool shit), and he delivers those in the same way that he would if he had lunch with you and his aunt, and he were nerding out about his values.

Whether it's a chosen style or just how he is, to me, it works and feels genuine in a way that's charming. As he talks, I can imagine him sitting down with his engineers saying "Does this = good for the environment, improve safety, reduce car suckage, and is it cool?" And, I can further imagine him digging in to fix it if the product doesn't match, like with diagrams, and left over space x physics books, and a cool napkin he drew on in the shower with a strut design that would be better..

No PR person could ask for more from a lead presenter, seriously. You can imagine him doing that too, I bet, and that's a key and critical part of the tesla brand.
or is the problem just a poorly designed data model by Evernote? So for instance, i have had a github account since 2009, and i access both my personal repos and my repos that belong to my employer using the same accountName. When i joined my current employer, i no longer had access to my prior employer's repos on github, though my access to my own repos (both public and private) remained unchanged. And when they switched from github organizations to hosted github (more similar to the OP's situation) all of my repos in my personal github account remained intact and my access wasn't affected in any way
Technically it says that "no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate" so the Senate could presumably be abolished by constitutional amendment if all states agreed. (I wonder about replacing the Senate with another legislative house and giving the existing Senate largely ceremonial responsibilities without formally abolishing it -- would that count as depriving the states of equal suffrage in the Senate?)
Out of curiousity, What made you choose Evernote over Google Drive? Doesn't Google Drive offer the same features? I haven't used Evernote and use Google docs to store my notes instead.
Here are the God-mode holes that gave TrueCrypt audit the slip
My irony detector malfunctioned. Sorry :(

I can be such a pedant ;)
The requirement to be globally unambiguous is the #1 wart of type classes. Rather than enforcing it with the compiler it would be better to make that restriction unnecessary. It should be possible to define a type class instance local to a module. Locally unambiguous yes, globally unambiguous no.
Guess what. I used to be a Linux zealot for over ten years, my hobby was to custom-build my kernel and rewrite device drivers for some of my devices. But Linux had some minor issues that I couldn't quite put up with, while Apple so far just works for me. Apple is far from perfect, but it covers most of my needs and I am happy to use it.

I know strong advocate of freedom and transparency will say Apple is closed-source, for-profit company yadi yada. The truth is most of things in our lives are: the cars we drive, the fridge, the TV, the watch we wear, and hardware we use (Intel or ARM chips aren't open source, right?) So years ago i decide this free software thingie isn't for me.
You've made this complaint repeatedly in HN threads, but it doesn't seem that many reviewers or Tesla customers agree with you.
The "we'll release this to the public when it's finished" mentality is what's causing this project to fail.

Urbit sounds really cool, but it needs people to actually get used to it, understand it, and then parse it and explain it for us mortals.
Brazilian Sikur Launches GranitePhone, a BlackPhone Competitor
The Carrera GT is a notoriously hard-to-handle car. It's twitchy and has very few electronic "nannies".

Any car can kill you if you drive it outside its safe envelope.
Real Estate Investment with – Harish Raghu (Consultant and Ex-Banker, HSBC)
An amendment can alter the text of any portion(s) of the constitution. While I agree that abolishing the Senate would be a radical change, I do not know of any restrictions which would bar it.[1] Even if this were not possible, a constitutional convention could be held to make the change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_Sta...
I kinda got that from the blog, but I guess I was more curious if anyone got a whiff of longer term design goals and if that was where things were headed.
I don't see how these are supposed to be steps.

These are just "here are some things that you can use in your webservice product that you don't have to make yourself."

And, ok, that could be useful I guess.

But it doesn't seem like a list of steps.
the files are mostly there... its just too troublesome for the companies to access the files for one user
Real Estate Investment with – Sundru Swamy (Chairperson, GiveNGO Trust)
They showed it pulling an Airstream[1] during the event. I didn't hear whether they stated what range that would get though. ;)

[1] http://i.imgur.com/AEAw6xN.png
Just tried workflowy. I really love the way that they guide you through the demo, they are onboarding a potential user in the demo! What a great concept.
The Mixed-Member Proportional system proposes to keep the advantages of FPTP and PR by electing most members FPTP and adding a few PR seats in the same body so that gerrymandering is ineffective.

You just lay out about 75-80% of your districts with traditional geographic community lines so each area gets a representative for its local interests responsible to local voters. Then voters vote for their local rep and also for a preferred party. You count the reps elected from districts by party and the remaining PR reps are allocated to fill in the discrepancy between that result and the party preference votes.

New Zealand, Mexico, and Germany use some variation of MMP for their legislatures, so it's working in prosperous stable first world countries already.
I don't think they're going after "most" families.
Everything that we used is now completely gone.
Yes, there will be some sort of roof rack. (Though a hitch rack like the sibling comment mentions is far more aerodynamic.)
I'd like to know details regarding the protection of the baseband that both Sikur and SilentCircle have taken. As far as I know, the baseband is still a closed source black box. If it has a security hole, the baseband processor can access the microphone and the GPS function because these functions are handled by the baseband CPU on many recent phones.

On older phones such as the Galaxy Nexus, the baseband has to ask the OS for this data, which is detectable (and can be prevented). The Replicant project has an interesting page on the topic of modem isolation at http://www.replicant.us/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php
Many reviewers have shared the same sentiment actually.. One such example from Ars where they seem satisfied with the newer interior but repeatedly reference how bad the original Model S interior was;

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/05/review-teslas-new-model-...
The secret to Tinder's success isn't that they use a swipe-based interface. It's that they solved one of the biggest pain points in dating: users never have to talk to anyone that hasn't already expressed mutual interest in them. Since the app discloses romantic interest only after both parties have reciprocated, Tinder offers a fundamentally better way of meeting new people than has existed previously. That was a game-changer for the entire dating scene, and that is why they are successful.
Yes, I think we're more likely to see interesting, finite worlds rather than expansive but desolate worlds. As it is on Earth, people like to visit particular locations for their natural or man-made sights.
Technology quiz – test your knowledge – Technology – theguardian.com
What do you use for the car? I haven't found a good qi charger for the car last time I looked
The power delivery spec requires special cables but allows 5 amps over normal* type A connectors.

*except for a detection mechanism for higher-power cables
Barring someone making a cheap open source electric car that doesn't report my location to Google or the company making them before then, me too.
Autodesk open sources Ember DLP SLA 3D printer electronics and firmware
Set up a local Apache Cassandra test lab [Tutorial]
Congress Is Sick of the Secrecy Around the TPP
It's not him.
Sure, GitHub is better designed, but it also follows the principle of data freedom espoused by twhb and nsrivast. That may have come naturally by virtue of Git, but they also provide an API with no restrictions that can be used to move other things like GitHub Issues.

@nsrivast: a movement is exactly what we need. EFF is great, but they have a lot of things on their plate, and are not always consumer friendly. I've been working on core ideas for a Users First movement, because the web, contrary to the ideal results of a free-market, has been putting users last. Much of that has to do with users being the product not the customer. Your ability to "organize & visualize information for efficient teaching & understanding" would be invaluable!

@twhb: you have no email address on your account. please contact me if you are interested in helping articulate such a movement.
I'm curious what are the insurance rates on the Tesla cars? And how much does it cost to repair the damage? Do you have to go to Tesla for the repairs or are the qualified thrid party car body shops?
Url changed from http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/zQwyfxe7Bp3GMWDbxxjwgJ/TV-a..., which as far as I can tell completely ripped it off.
That's an odd expression: "comes across as genuine and a real person". Aren't we all real? Is this a fantasy?
I don't think he was implying off roading. Just a road trip. They did show it pulling an airstream with 10 bags of luggage. Surely they weren't implying a trip down the street. Camping is [typically] done in more remote areas, like Yosemite. So 260 miles is a pretty poor range for a vehicle like that when your destination may not have charging stations.
The algorithm is computing an alternating series, with the largest n being 5x10^7. The error in an alternating series (when the sequence is strictly decreasing in absolute value) is the absolute value of the next term. This is 4/(2*(5x10^7 + 1) + 1), which is a bit less than 4x10^-8, so we would only expect 7 digits to be correct. In fact, it is the 8th digit which goes awry (not the 10th): it should be a 5 rather than a 7.

This particular series, which comes from a series for the arctan of 1, has very slow convergence. An easily better one is Machin's formula, which converges faster than a geometric series (that is, the number of terms needed is at most linear in the number of wanted digits).
>> Walking 30 minutes a day— [...] lowers the risk of heart disease by up to 40%, reduces the risk of Type II diabetes by as much as 60%, and can cut the risk of stroke by a third.

Can we please stop with this "Walking 30 minutes" ridiculousness. Yes it is correct, but only if you compare the 30-minute walkers with shutins or elderly people who rarely if ever get out of their chairs. Most of us already get far more than 30-minutes of far more vigorous exercise.

I did 45 minutes in the pool today (2.75km) spent an hour walking my dog, and dealt with numerous stairs ramps and other not-sitting things. I'm not anything I would call "in shape" but would another 30 minutes of walking really reduce my diabetes risk by 40%? I think not. So stop telling us that extra 30-minutes of barely moving will make a hoot of difference.
Huh. Given that the only thing that's changed in the interior is new seat options, one wonders why they changed their minds? I think I'll stick with the opinion of buyers.
Browser casting has always been a "beta" feature from day one. The main draw was always supposed to be the specialized apps.
I also went to lsmsa and had a great experience. Can't really say enough good things about it; it was such an amazing atmosphere compared to the public high school I attended before.
According to the article there's a 8-12 month waiting list. Tesla has little incentive to make it cheaper.
The idea is you give up return of principal for a bet on the NPV of coupons during your life. Which is a gamble, and quite tidy too: nothing to leave to one's heirs for all but one of the participants[1]. But also a gamble on a particular pool of assets. "At retirement, you and a bunch of other people each chip in $20,000 to buy a ton of mutual funds or stocks or whatever." But these "whatevers" are volatile assets that will produce losses in some years--the opposite of the usual advice to lower volatile asset holdings at retirement. So now it's a double bet: first on NPV/longevity, and second on the health of the underlying assets. Exactly the kind of thing that Wall St would love to sell to the public.

[1] All of the underlying assets being transferred to the last survivor is one type of tontine; in another, certain to be a favorite of Wall St., the underlying would be transferred to the plan manager after the death of the last participant.
The Three Biggest Playground Hazards: What Do You Need to Know?
I cannot help but think about the article last week about WhatsApp needing only 50 engineers for over 900M users. Evernote just let go that many people and their software is bug-ridden next to WhatsApp. Seriously, what do all of these engineers do?
I never understood why ChromeOS existed in the first place. To me, it would make much more sense if these devices ran Android. After all, there's no apps for ChromeOS -- other than glorified Chrome extensions, and it's not easy for developers to create ChromeOS apps (whereas if I could recycle my Android app, life would be good). Arc welder doesn't seem to work very well either.

Analogously, Apple only has iOS. There's no SafariOS.
I think the wording used by the new CEO shows his attitude to the company. Reading the announcement, he is very much focusing on making more money for Evernote. There are no details on how those 47 people will be assisted post Evernote. It reads like the CEO really fired them.
It's certainly not ready now, but they released a whitepaper and it's open to the public, both in terms of source and joining the network. Anyone is free to get used to it and use it, as evident as this tutorial by a member of the community.