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> Although the IAR presents itself as an objective science-based institute, many reports and watchdog organizations have disputed this, citing funding from oil industry companies and describing IAR's work as ignoring science and focusing on its right wing agenda.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Energy_Research
> Drivers must keep their hands on the steering wheel.

This seems odd, my understanding was that drivers needed to "check in" every so often, not handle the wheel at all times.
Well sure, they don't have a monopoly _yet_.
It's kind of a shame, really; I'd be a lot more interested in a Tesla if it weren't such a ridiculously over-automated pile of software masquerading as a car. Is a simple passive electric car really too much to ask for?
I think the discussion on Uber often misses the point. Uber is not disrupting the Taxi business. Look at the endgame: in most unregulated markets Uber simply becomes another hail and route management app for an existing taxi fleet.

Uber is therefore primarily disrupting the shit electronics powering the current "yellow cab" style cabs. These include the meter, the dispatcher and radio system, and the advertisement screen. That is the real source of disruption.

The ratings etc. are just noise to poach costumers away from taxis. Or more correctly, to force taxis to adopt Uber as logistics provider. Once monopoly is established the consumer-facing niceties become irrelevant. Nothing prevents Uber from lowering their minimum ratings requirements, for example.
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Thanks for explanation. (I would have preferred a definition "failures / number of disk bought", but, in practice, the result is probably very similar for all other models)
Once upon a time our review software showed the aggregate HN comment score on the review page. But no longer -- it didn't seem that relevant. But if we happen to recognize someone's HNID from worthwhile contributions it can influence us. Though usually it's the project I recognize from a story about it, not the HNID.

For purposes of your bet, I would say the answer is that we don't.
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I have also noticed that "cash only" prices are usually much lower than "out-of-pocket cash with HDHP". It looks like insurance companies have negotiated with providers to suck out that deductible from the patient as soon as possible.
Anyone know how well the lane change feature works in heavy traffic?
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Generally speaking: Your time is better spent making the core-offering better, vs adding a bunch of extraneous features.

If you're going to beat the competition at (whatever it is you're doing), it will likely be because you do one thing very very well...not because you do 20 things so-so. When you pack on too many features pre-launch you become the tech-equivalent of the donut shop who also sells Chinese food, smoothies, burgers and breakfast sandwiches (you do a lot of things, but you do them poorly).

You can totally add on more features later, but don't do it at the expense of your core offering. And if your core offering is done, then there's no reason not to launch right now.

So in summary: Build the core first, launch it as soon as it's ready, then add more features later...especially after your customers start telling you what features they want!
It seems like it'll create an uncanny valley between real control (the car immediately reacts to every little movement) and soft control (the car kinda-sorta follows what it thinks your intent behind the movement was; sometimes ignoring small deviations). I'm really curious how it feels.
Invasion of privacy? Considering that you can't even get the health information now, ancestry matching is literally the only reason to use the service. Why would you sign up and go through the whole spitting in a cup song and dance if you didn't want to find relatives?
I think this requirement might be for legal reasons and compliance with DMV rules.
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I'm so happy the FDA was there to prevent this company from doing the things with my genetic information that I asked them to do. Thank god for government.
At first I thought, awesome, finally an open distributed search engine.

...Oh wait, you want me to install your closed source code on my computers, to give you all my personal data and CPU cycles for you to own and use as you like. (Which you "promise" won't be exploited or abused).

Make no mistake, this is a voluntary botnet for a single party to use to build a company on. This voluntary botnet will provide search engine services from a central point so they can keep the majority of profits without the overhead of paying for resources like every other for-profit company.

This is not Peer-2-Peer it is Peer-2-Company. Also they are late to the party on this approach, Microsoft already tried this with Bing: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses...

This model is just begging for people to troll them by releasing tools to poison their database with nonsense data.

They should build a -real- open p2p distributed system (the blockchain is not perfect but a good example). Short of that if they want to be a for-profit centralized search engine, fine. They should go buy some servers and databases they can directly control. and try to be a closed source competitor to duckduckgo.
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Framley Examiner is amazing, I remember properly laughing out loud in the office when I first read the tech section of their site www.framleyexaminer.com/museum/technology.html
Do they actually still show the Alzheimer's information? If so, I'd be very interested in doing that...
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While I do symapthise with those lamenting the lack of pinch-to-zoom, I'm confused: apps don't offer pinch to zoom, so how do you use them? If you can use an app fine without pinch to zoom, you should really be able to use a mobile website fine too.

It seems to me that this is an either/or proposition: either you have a not-mobile, pinch-to-zoom-able web site, or you have a mobile-specific site with an app-like viewport that does not allow pinch to zoom. Both of these seem like fine options to me, and I don't think it's a huge loss to lose the middle ground.
It's not just that -- at least in the corner of the West where I grew up, kneeling and squatting were actually discouraged in young children as somehow unhealthy (to your knees, iirc).
Maybe that's the accepted spelling in 20 years' time? :P
Query: sed split file by pattern

Result: No results were found.
Do you have an actual comment regarding the IPO or a point to make? What you have posted appears to be nothing but noise.
You misunderstand. The point is that the more data they have, the more valuable and "accurate" their analysis is -- it's like crowdsourcing genetics by building one large database.

So your complaint of "why don't they just sell it at the cost plus a margin" doesn't work here. They're dropping the price because they're paying you for your information to make their service better.

It's like Tumblr not having ads (for a period of time). "Why are you giving this to me for free?" you ask. Because then you're more likely to use us, and then we'll have a bigger user base and make tons of money later.

That's how SAAS models can give away their "service" for free and still be valued at billions of dollars.
Here's a video of version 7 in action that someone linked in /r/selfdrivingcars last night. Not super-informative, but interesting to watch anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw7Esg-txR0&feature=youtu.be
I don't know...what department are you in?
> satellite data shows no meaningful warming for almost twenty years

I would like to point out that last year was a global temperature record and this year will probably be a record too.

In any case, temperature (and especially surface one) can be deceiving. Ocean heat content (which is in a more direct relation to sea level rise) actually increases quite unabated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_heat_content

As for the sunshades, well, good luck with that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

It's simply a lot cheaper to not burn any more coal or oil.
Yes. You're complaining that a car has features that you don't want to use. Every car I've ever bought has features that I've never used. Cupholders, for example.

It's a valid complaint if the price of the car is much higher because of a feature you don't find valuable. But that doesn't appear to be the case, this time.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10214856
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I for one would hope Autosteer isn't engaged in heavy traffic...although ability to autopilot during a sig alert on I10 in downtown LA on a Monday morning does sound worth the price of the car and then some
Oh, wow, I am out of date. I didn't realize they had pivoted in that way. Sorry for the distraction :)
I don't think it requires anything more than that at least one tile has nonempty interior.
> That's technically incorrect although unlikely to matter to layreader.

Details are important. Getting them wrong makes a journalist look sloppy and incompetent.

> It's argued explicitly in the complaint.

Is it? I withdraw this point if so. At a quick skim, the patent doesn't seem to have anything to do with power efficiency, but if it's in the complaint, I can't fault BBC for mentioning it in the article.

> What information do you think need to be included in an article pointed at the casual reader?

I dunno. Maybe this is the right level of detail for the casual reader. It seems extremely, uselessly broad to me though.
you also pay less when you don't tip - there's none included in the uber fee.
One of my favorite things with pattern matching in Elixir is how you can use it to trigger off of sections of the AST when building macros.

Hundreds of lines of gnarly tree walking down to a single function prototype, it's incredibly elegant.
Some of it is pretty spot on. the Pelican science books especially are great.
>England annexed Wales, so there must have been a country to annex. //

I don't think that's true, the premise is false.

There wasn't a country to annex, there was a loose amalgamation of forces fighting under Gwynedd (from what I can tell), because Gwynedd had recently subdued those areas by force. Those areas hadn't been annexed in to a collective country with a single ruler, just like Gwynedd when it paid fealty to the English crown wasn't yet annexed. Alongside that some regions were already in effective possession of the English crown, and some few maybe were neither under Llywellyn's nor John's boot yet [I've not figured that out quite yet in my research].

[...cut for size...]

>So, the question is in fact: Wales was once a country, got gobbled up and is slowly regaining some independence. //

I think this is a nationalist misdirection. To recapitulate - Deheurbath and Gwynedd always seemed to be at odds, never united in to a common cause or stably under a common leader, nor common rule of law after the Romans, until they both came under the English Crown (just as it was in [the rest of] England). Wales was arguably a country - a single kingdom - for a very brief time but the people of the different kingdoms went their separate ways at the earliest opportunity. These separate kingdoms then got gobbled up, just like the separate Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were gobbled up by Wessex. Unless you consider Kent to have been a country in 1900, say, I can't see how you can consider Wales to have been one then either.

I think you're right that since the WAG was established Wales has had some claim to being a "country" but there seems a stronger claim that it's counties, like those of the rest of England are still a part of the country that is the dominion of the English Crown.

There has certainly been an effort in the last 80 years or so, since the Council for Wales was created, to make a new country: I'm certainly happy to go along with the WAG being a strong weight in favour of calling Wales a country.

It's strange to me that in the UK we had a great Welsh ruler of an historic Welsh line who ruled over all over England [aka "England and Wales"] as a unit, yet many in Wales instead want to look back to the time when the Wales was critically divided between two great powers and when it was most common for Cymry to be killing one another; a brief period that ended with Welsh killing their "own" king [Gruffydd ap Llewellyn].

It strikes me that had Henry VIII chosen a new name for the "land of the Angles", perhaps Cymru, then those who imagine they descend from the Celtic Cymry would have no complaint and would take full part in being citizens of that country. I wonder how getting access to genetic markers will, in the near future, change people's ideas of national identity - if people discover they descend from the invading Irish, Scots, Vikings, Romans, Angles, Jutes or some other group rather than the "native" Celts will they consider themselves less Welsh? More British?

Thanks for challenging my arguments and for walking through this with me, happy to get more responses to this if you have them.
My adjustment came back still too baggy. I was pretty disappointed. Really wanted it to be awesome.
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It's not just Washington; this is basically the same as in Illinois, for instance. (I performed a wedding for friends this past summer in Chicago, so I investigated. :) The bit about validity is really a good idea, because it's a protection for the people getting married.

I think that something like this is true in most states, actually. The Universal Life Church wouldn't work if it weren't.
So apparently Square and Box have both raised about the same amount of money, roughly $550-600MM [1][2], but somehow Jack Dorsey still holds 25% and Aaron Levie wound up with ~ 4% - Does anyone else find that surprising?

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/box#/entity

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/square#/entity
> Wall street rewards growth over profits

That's not true, or at least it's only partially true. In the end, Wall street values discounted cash flow. As Bill Gurley has said:

> So growth is good, correct? There is a reason to save growth for last. While growth is quite important, and even thought we are in a market where growth is in particularly high demand, growth all by itself can be misleading. Here is the problem. Growth that can never translate into long-term positive cash flow will have a negative impact on a DCF model, not a positive one. This is known as “profitless prosperity.”

In other words, as long as you can show sustainable double digit growth, you can afford to value based on growth. If you don't and all of the sudden you can't maintain a positive DCF, the Street will hit you hard. SFDC, Amazon, etc are all teetering on the brink of collapse and equally becoming the next Walmart/Exxon.

[0] - http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/05/24/all-revenue-is-not-creat...
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Opentable gave a great presentation on this not too long ago, check it out http://www.slideshare.net/SudeepDasPhD/recsys-2015-making-me...
I think he's saying that guns kill people, not people with guns kill people.
thank you! - where is this documented ?
... and I remembered why I don't use ggplot at all, thanks. After lots and lots of plots done with R, I was starting to feel a bit weird reading the comments.
Sorry, I meant PGP not GCG (GCG was an old bioinformatics software).
This isn't necessarily a problem as more sites become responsive and make a proper effort to accomodate mobile browsers. Where this will be a problem is poorly written desktop only sites that just make the change to get faster mobile interactions. I hope this encourages more of the former and less of the latter.

EDIT: If you don't agree why not explain your point instead of randomly downvoting. I believe this change is overall a good thing as it means designers and developers can stop using nasty hacks to get around the delay as they have been doing. Hopefully it will also mean more developers make the effort to make their sites work on mobile instead of the half efforts that seem to be common now.
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You're right in principle, but in practice a lot of zoom-disabling websites have text that's smaller than it should be. Apps seem not to have this problem as much.
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I'm honestly surprised states hit by the fracking slowdown (North Dakota and Texas) aren't retraining oil workers to install wind farms. Its safer for them, the work is going to be there for at least a decade, its just the financing we need to get together (y u no DOE energy loan!?)
They don't want you surfing the web on your Microsoft Surface yet. :)

Patience young Padawan.
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Do you think qualitative or quantitative research is more important?
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First world problems galore. Not getting enough sex...

You have a different idea of 1WP than I do. I think most humans have some interest in sex, and certainly most young men in both developed and developing nations would like to have a fair amount of it.

Once upon a time, nearly all women from a fairly young age were forced by custom and circumstance into subservient relations with men. We can appreciate that those circumstances have changed in much of the "first world". We'd be foolish not to realize that those changes have led to more men losing access to regular intercourse. The anti-prostitution laws that were in a skewed sense almost "feminist" back when a woman couldn't freely leave a relationship have certainly ceased to be that by now.

I don't claim that widespread legal prostitution would solve the mass-shooting problem. However, this has been identified as a factor in the unhappiness that these men feel, so it's relevant. It's interesting that this relevant factor is rarely mentioned in the numerous popular media discussions of mass shootings.
Another point to think about is that if facebook (or any of these other sites tracking you through social media buttons) receives a subpoena, it likely has nearly your entire browsing history on file since so many sites have those button.
Almost all skin colors, e.g. black and white, have the same chroma. Only the brightness changes. I have worked on video projects that took advantage of this to have skin-color auto-adjustment.
All of those diseases that 23&Me reported on have existing single-purpose genetic tests which are far more accurate.

I've done full-genome too. The report (first from Illumina, then from another site I uploaded my VCFs) was medically useless: I read all the top risks, then did additional research, and found that the risks they reported were contradicted by other SNPs (for example, they'll say you are at risk for X, but only if you have Y SNPs and Z SNPs, and if you check Y and Z you don't have it).

In general, you need a genius/expert to analyze these results right now.
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That chart suggests that at pretty much every income level you're better off (in financial terms) earning more. Over most of its range it looks like d(benefits)/d(income) is no worse than about -0.1.

The other factors you mention will of course make a difference, but I'm not seeing anything that comes close to justifying the statement that you don't get into positive returns until $100k/family/year.
How is this different from Mercedes-Benz's "self driving?"
TACC in heavy traffic is worth the price of admission alone, I was shocked at how much unconscious cognitive load there is associated with stop and go traffic.

You still need to pay attention but I definitely felt much less exhausted after they rolled out that feature. Really excited to see how autopilot performs.
Can someone explain what this means for the non-IOS developers amongst us?
The FDA wants them to get approval becaue what 23&Me was doing was illegal and then when the FDA informed them, 23&Me didn't respond (this is all clearly documented!). The FDA has a requirement to enforce the law.
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This seems insanely dangerous to me. They're introducing a feature which could, potentially, cause massive highway accidents, but providing documentation that amounts to little more than a glorified README file?:

> Auto Lane Change

> Changing lanes when Autosteer is engaged is simple: engage the turn signal and Model S will move itself to the adjacent lane when it’s safe to do so.

A single sentence! What's the point of having drivers license lessons and testing if the fundamental operation of the vehicle can change so drastically?

Am I being a luddite, or does anybody else feel this way?
As a mech engineer doing mostly structural work these days, you are definitely solving an important problem, one which I both witness and experience first hand every single day. Excel is used a lot, but it's error prone and sucks for communicating your work (formulas and logic is hidden). Plus, trying to track down the latest version of some calculation someone did 10 years ago, digging down 29 subfolders on the common drive, ugh.

I do like projects like Jupyter (I used IPNB a lot during my masters), but it seems like 95% of my fellow engineers feel like python/julia/even matlab are "too complicated for something excel does". Which I disagree with (ever tried extracting eigenvalues in excel? or simply plotting a hisogram?), but eh. Programming is also less visual/graphic, which is one plus of excel (colors, fonts, layout of a spreadsheet do help with processing information)

I can't say if your solution is "the one". It's too complex a problem for that. But my personal feeling is you're tackling the right issues at the right angle. As good as your product is though, getting traction is going to be the hard part, by far. I wish you the best, and certainly hope I get to use your product some day.
I think using them together is crucial. Qualitative research gives you insight into what you should look for through quantitative research. It's important to start with some basic qualitative research (talking to a few customers) and then scale it through quantitative methods (analyzing logs).
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Do they? What evidence do you have of that? Insurance companies typically reimburse for actual genetic tests, and they are legally prevented by GINA from discriminating against you for the test results.
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