skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, running with the nerd example, non-nerds never talk about being non-nerds while the ostracize the nerds. They can treat nerds as weird and other and never think of themselves as a particular thing other than "normal". They don't have to think about that because they dominate the dialog and become the unmarked case.

That's why, e.g., people on the autism spectrum recently came up with the term "neurotypical", so that they could try to create an equal footing in the discourse. In that construction, aspies and neurotypicals are just different kinds of people, both equally "normal".

Casting what I'm saying as "White Man's Burden" is either incredibly ignorant or a dick move, and I can't tell which. But to be clear, I'm up to the opposite.

The whole "White Man's Burden" [1] shtick rests upon the notion that white people are better, and therefore should help the benighted dark peoples. I, on the other hand, think races are fundamentally equal, and it's only an accident of history that leaves me with more privilege. I'm thus using it here to educate white people ignorant of the US's long history of ingrained racial prejudice.

Non-white people need no education on the topic. In the same way that nerds are forced to understand what nerdiness means to non-nerds, non-white people are forced to understand white notions of race, even as most white people see themselves as typical, average, default, "normal" and so never think about the topic in any depth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man's_Burden
I agree. This entire issue is rooted in different axioms about what should be "equal". I hear suggestions and implications that many believe equality of outcome is the goal for which we should be striving - the basic assumption here being that all people are inherently equal, and if equal outcomes are not achieved, then it must be a systemic issue causing the inequality of outcome.

The problem is the axiom of "all people of all types ever are the same", as you pointed out. It's false. Our inherent advantages and disadvantages are as varied multi-dimensional as human individuality itself. A proper axiom from which to base a philosophy upon would be that every individual is inherently different, with advantages and disadvantages determined by nature. Given this truism, it can only be asked of a human society that all these different people be provided an equal playing field. This playing field does not guarantee equal outcome and does not provide preference - It does not aid the inherently disadvantaged, nor does it cripple the inherently advantaged.

The trick, of course, is in implementing a "level playing field" given some of the generational feedback loops which exist. That the wealthy tend to stay wealthy and the poor tend to stay poor, generation after generation, shows that there is some "unlevel" part of the American playing field. What we should expect in an ideal "level playing field" would be that children born in any socioeconomic situation would have an equal likelihood of ending up in any other socioeconomic situation as their outcome. Perhaps slightly bias this towards moving "up" the economic ladder to keep pace with the ideal of incentive and capitalism, but the point remains.

Many of the liberal bias coming out of the soft sciences would be sharply curtailed if we started a discussion about the fundamental axioms. A fair society is one that acknowledges the inherent differences in humanity and still provides equal rights for all.

With this said, I really don't think the US has done a bad job at creating something close.
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i got to 4 lines... incredible!
> Whether you want an exception or an error or some sort of Either/Option type or whatever depends on your language, but something ought to twitch here.

The problem with handling integer overflow is that the mechanisms for it are clunky. Is there a programming language that handles integer overflow using a better mechanism than those listed? (I mean without resorting to a BigNum.)
I like the Tesla, but I can't spot them. I was sitting in a parking lot in Sausalito, enjoying the view of the bay. Two older couples got off a yacht, and were about to get into a vehicle. I immediate knew they were very well off.
I over heard the conversation between the men.

One guy said, "Do you want to drive it? Other guy responded, "I've had a few--and just don't want to risk a DUI. You know how they are here."

I thought it was a slightly weird conversation. The vehicle just looked like a typical four door sedan. Typical for this area.

When it drove by, and I couldn't hear the engine, I realized why they had that conversation. My inner thought, while sitting on my tailgate of my old truck, was if I won the lottery---I would buy a yacht, and a Tesla.

Of course--a few good friends, to enjoy the toys, is the real wealth.
Ha! Then we did the same thing today. I was trying the print-on-demand references I found, but those companies seem to have been absorbed by / transformed into ProQuest, who not longer has a print-on-demand service that I could find.
The Manifest Destiny doers didn't know it, but most of the Americas had been cleared a hundred years earlier by disease. Some estimate 95% fatality rates.
Astin?
Nope.

Tesla current beats them on almost all marks:

310 Mile range: This is using the UK cycle which is commonly compared to EPA cycle(which is lower). Using UK to UK you get:

- ~320mi range P90D / P90DL

- 350mi range 90D

3.5s 0-60:

- P90DL: 2.8s

- P85D/90D: 3.2s

Price: Rumors are in the ~200k range which again Tesla can beat(you can get an 85D for half that with better range and 0-60 which is close).

As for the 15min charging. We haven't seen it in production at all. Also the fact that they're going with 800 VDC pack means there's a good chance it won't work with any other DCFC standard(CHAdeMO, SAE Combo, SuperCharger) without a step-up transformer so you'll be limited to only Porsche's chargers.

Also you can buy a Tesla today, not years down the line.

I really don't understand where all this "Porsche is going to beat Tesla" press comes from, it's like Apple claiming they were the first company to support Open Source, there's nothing to back it up.
"Metals, such as, tin and aluminum are then extracted by magnets. "

umm, what?

I know aluminum can be slightly magnetic under intense magnetic fields, but surely this isn't the case in this situation?
The first problem then is how the insurance company determines that you're a junkie glutton because the sources of information from which they conceivably have access(search engine results, super market discount card, and other aggregated data sources), do not correlate 1 to 1 with behaviour. In addition to this, there is no mechanism of appeal in which one could contest their appraisal.

Then there is also the issue that the working poor buy shittier food because it's cheaper and more convenient, so their business logic creates a paradox where the assumption that all behaviour’s can be modified and accounted for economically really stops making sense. Trying to hold poor people accountable for their poverty by increase their costs of living can't possibly work and a major health crisis currently is diabetes which is directly related to the cheapest and most sugar filled things eaten disproportionally by mostly poor peole (in the US anyway, thanks to cheap corn). This is true in other ways as well, for example commute time is related to housing cost, stress is related to driving time, stress is related to poor health. Increased commute time can lead to less sleep, less sleep leads to poor health. there are probably infinitely more... Live in a trailer? You're being exposed constantly to toxins being emitted by the fibre board that everything in your house is made from; by "insurance" logic people that live in trailers make bad health decisions and should be charged more so that the cost of living in trailers is the same as the cost of living some where non toxic. So then should we subsidize housing instead? or let that person become homeless.

tldr; being poor = 'bad health behaviour' and so poor people will be disproportionately punished for their existing poverty with additional poverty.
Ah, this looks interesting. I have been looking for a library for visually representing, animating, and interacting with general data structures, such as various tree and hash algorithms (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10572893).
> + perhaps most importantly, were out of their depth when it came to assessing a political risk, namely the extent to which a surprise attack would bring down on them the implacable fury of an enraged and industrially-powerful United States.

By "out of their depth" do we mean "dumber than six pounds of gravel"? I admit that the fantasy that slapping someone in the face will instantly cow them, instead of provoking angry retaliation, is a common one in history, but I don't think that makes it any less stupid given the historical evidence.

(See also Every Terrorist Ever, with the exception of the ones who want to provoke angry retaliation.)
Unfortunately that won't work. Twitter doesn't support the full Unicode; they strip out any Unicode code points that's not used by "normal" people.
There is actually a very simple answer to this question: We have 100's of implementations of roughly the same thing instead of just 1 implementation that is made bulletproof. Every new framework, every new HTTP server, every new language will cause another round of re-implementation and will cause yet another round of the same old bugs and security problems.
> The only serious advantage the car would have over the Tesla would be the 15 minute charger

And by 2019 Tesla probably will have something similar.
I think it's worth reading part of the way through, but the author doesn't seem to realize when they've exhausted their point and should start wrapping up the article.
The Daredevils Without Landlines and Why Health Experts Are Tracking Them
Quote Shakespeare and/or Dickens so I can see whether their use of that word improves the passages, or carries any signal at all for that matter. Otherwise I'll just assume that since they wrote a lot, there's going to be some mediocre bits and padding in it. For all I know, they might simply not have paid attention.
you can probably assume aston martin here.
The problem with "the same thing that's made bullet proof": What defines bullet proof and how is that "perfect" solution going to work for all different business types?

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
The real news here is not which car has the best 0-60 time or +/- 5% in the range department ... it's that there is now more than one car for sale.

There is a certain class/mindset/attitude of car buyer that even if they don't have a tesla now is just never going to buy a ICE car again. It doesn't matter the price or the specs or the this or the that - the ship has sailed and history has moved on.

The problem is, there were no options other than the Tesla. Or at least, no options that weren't, essentially, onion-esque parodies of what electric cars are (I'm looking at you, super lame mercedes B-class).

So it is great, great, great news that there will be more than one car to choose from.
I've noticed the Staples Center lighting in videos, but didn't realize it was part of a Lakers campaign called "Lights Out". I think this goes a long way towards increasing the drama on the court. While it might not have the added haze of a smoke filled room, it does make a big difference to the viewing experience and seems to result in much better photography. Found this related article from a sports photographer http://www.sportsshooter.com/news/1671
> The motor (or motors, Porsche hasn’t said)

One of these days I'd like to know why there are no (well known) one-motor-per-wheel proposals.

So much fun to be had with trajectory control ...
The Power of the Gun
If long-haul driverless travel were so useful for business travellers, I would expect to see more rich people in chauffeured RVs or buses, rather like how bands on tour have a sleeper bus with beds and showers (eg, http://www.nightliner-support.eu/5/our-fleet/ ).

Since I don't, I suspect the business travel market isn't there.
> they strip out any Unicode code points that's not used by "normal" people.

Such as?
> For example, a train in London is considered "on time" as long as it's within 14 minutes.

That may be true in London, for all I know, but it's definitely not true in western culture as a whole.
Winners and Losers of Globalization (2012)
When Do Extraordinary Claims Give Extraordinary Evidence? (2007) [pdf]
Having your cake and eating it too: The maturity structure of US debt (2012)
Do you have any relevant search terms?

I mean, you're bad-mouthing a few people here, and it'd be nice if I could check.
People quickly forget the abuses of emergency powers for political purposes.

In France alone, the top incidents come to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961

Most recently

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/27/paris-cli...

There's also broad, overreactions which sweep up too many innocent people onto various watch lists... topping more than 2 million unique individuals in U.S. federal databases alone.

There are multiple, competing, political interests and personal agendas spanning the gamut of LEOs and officials to do what they do, in addition to ignorant discrimination and ostensible public protection reasons. Sometimes they just "don't like [someone]" and want to cause that someone misery based on how they look, talk, etc.
If you actually searched for that, then you know there's far more studies showing the opposite. You can find a research paper supporting just about any position, that doesn't make it the majority opinion of the field. You actually had to ignore a lot of stuff saying the opposite, to find something saying age and wisdom weren't related. That's OK, you're young, you'll get wiser with age.
Interesting, is there a list of what they strip out? I know they apply normalization so that would eliminate a few, but I think that wouldn't do too much on its own.
The article should have said: "by magnetic induction". An AC current driven electromagnet induces a current in the metal, the induced current in the metal also has a magnetic field (basic physics), and it is this magnetic field that is then used to "sort" the conductors (metals) from the non-conductors (non-metals).

But then, the article was likely written by someone lacking an engineering/physics background, and so "extracted by magnets" was likely as much as they could comprehend of the process.
Bullet proof would at least mean that we no longer have these infinite series of regressions, that what is fixed stays fixed.

And 'obligatory xkcd's rarely are and I wished people would stop posting them as a way to settle an argument without being receptive to the core idea of that argument.

The word 'standard' never was on my mind, merely a way to get things implemented properly once rather than re-implemented over and over again.

How many HTML server components are there, in C alone? Then all the java ones, the ruby ones, the Go ones and all the other languages. Then all the crypto libraries and all their re-implementations and so on.

There has to be a better way to do code re-use and to avoid the NIH syndrome that seems to be one of the major generators behind all these re-implementations of roughly the same thing.

But it's so much easier to start again, rather than to delve into an existing code base, extend it properly and document it. There is little glory in a minor contribution to a much larger project. Starting over means it's your project, you get to be the big wheel and when you lose interest we have one more Swiss cheese to contend with.
There's a site where you can see this really clearly, http://www.historicaerials.com/ ... it's a pretty bad site but the only one I know that actually presents the data in this way.

The first image: http://historicaerials.com:?layer=T1963&zoom=16&lat=34.09750... ... if you go to the compare drop-down, select slide, then do 2012, you can clearly see this.
Hub motors are heavy and unsprung weight is bad. If you're going inboard with driveshafts you might as well put a differential in there and be able to put more than 50% (2wd) or 25%(4wd) of power to one wheel. Putting a motor in each wheel means you can only direct power around by reducing it.
I'm sure there are plenty of people that would look at a functionally reduced electric car because it is a porche, its coming up on 90 years worth of fans building up
The App Around the Corner. Local businesses suffer from rise of the app economy
There's something perverse in this -- something like, legal impediments to competition are so much the norm that only a loser would want a business without one? If that is the holdup then couldn't we try to reduce this systemic problem instead of adding to it?

(I know, a comment like this is probably from dreamland, but I'd like to keep a vacation house there while I can.)
enjoyed the game greatly. Played it 20 minutes after a stint of Aero Fighters on the SNES. works great on a touchsceen.
Suggest: change name to Base64k.
These are all ex-railroad tracks.

I wish this documentary was available for streaming somewhere but if you're into this stuff it's an amazing documentary and I can highly recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiLGui8fxiw

It has some bonus materials as well including going around with a P.E. history buff as he points out some of these places.
"He believed that since the coconut grew high up in the tree, closest to God and closest to the sun, it was godlike," says Kracht. "And since it had hair and looked like a human head, he thought it came closest to being a man. According to his rather crackpot theory, to be a cocovore was to be a theophage — or eater of God."

Then apparently I like to fry steaks in a couple of spoonfuls of liquid God, and wash it down with the blood of Christ (ie, wine).
Porsche have an established worldwide dealer and service network. That will give some confidence to certain buyers. If I wanted a Tesla (I don't) I would not know where to buy one or where to have it serviced. I know where the nearest Porsche dealership is, by contrast.
Is it only broken in Firefox for iOS, or is it broken in general for apps that use the iOS WebView?
Prepare Your Kids for Success: Teach Them How to Fail
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32029178/Science-2012-Ch...
It's not true in London. Trains delayed by 4 minutes count as late.

There are different times for when you can actually do anything about it - mostly if a train is delayed by an hour you can get a refund (if you chose not to travel) or compensation (if you were already travelling before the delay happened), but it's a bit complicated.

For London tube trains you can get some refunds if the train is 15 minutes late.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/dec/18/how-claim-train...

> Transport for London (TFL) offers refunds if a passenger's journey is delayed by more than 15 minutes. For tube passengers, this amounts to the fare for the single journey you were making, whether you have a season ticket, or have purchased a single fare. London Overground users get the same, but only when their train is delayed by more than 30 minutes
I love that the introduction is by Isaac Asimov.
> so long as it works.

That's what I call the 'happy path fallacy'. If code performs along the happy path, then great, move fast, break things and release. Never mind that outside the happy path there are tons of issues, bugs, things never even looked at until they suddenly are found to be the root cause of a major breach. Those parts do not get the attention they need because there is no direct economic incentive to do so.

Software is not at all done when it 'works'. It's only done when it works well for all input and there are no unknown paths of execution that lead to unexpected results. It's pretty rare for a codebase with more than a few 100 lines to be completely known to such a level that there isn't a way to cause it to do something the author did not intend to be there. Complexity is a very bad enemy in that respect and code tends to get extremely complex and hard to reason about if you don't have iron discipline during the design process.
This reminds me of "usenet binaries."

The very existence of binaries on usenet still makes me chuckle. It's such a strange medium for binaries, and yet it was so prolific.
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That look is decidedly generic these days. Ford copied it on the Fusion, a solidly middle-class family car. The 911 look is classic, distinctive, and timeless.
You miss my point, I am saying their current trajectory is to become more and more successful. They do not want to 'turn around' at all.
I read the book from the library. Great read though can be a bit technical with chemistry.

These chemical engineers were really courageous and inquisitive. They have tried so many different combinations to find the right propellant.

I would laugh thinking the book is worth more than my iPhone.

If I stole the book, I doubt I would find a buyer for the price you see on Amazon but for sure I would be asked to reimburse the library for that price!
Could you recommend a few articles?
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More so, using 'JO' (jump overflow) after every signed operation isn't that expensive, speedwise (branch prediction for the win) but it does make the code larger. http://boston.conman.org/2015/09/07.1
But it enables it.
Catch here is to know what is relevant technology.

In 1935 USSR was pioneer in monoplane fighters with retractable undercarriage. They we're two or three years ahead of anybody else, and the Russians had them in relatively large quantity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polikarpov_I-16

Problem was that they didn't know it was relevant. When war started they still mostly relied on biplanes. And only got the development rolling again in 1940 with MIGs and they could not compete with Nazis in the sky on even terms until 1943.

Japanese had total miss with Yamamoto class ships. Germany didn't invest enough in submarines and their tanks we're way too fancy for field repairs. Nobody understood how important submachine guns would be. Brits had some major naval defects, exposed by explosion of HMS Hood and problems with guns of King George V battleships. France and U.S. fucked up tank development. U.S. made thuderbolts, which we're about twice as costly and difficult to built than what was necessary.

It's complete hit and miss. Currently U.S. has global military hegemony because they can afford to miss more than anybody else. Also logistics. If you are committed to get more stuff to the front than the enemy, you can compensate quite lot.
It's not smoke, it's haze. Glycol "smoke" is just vaporized, there's nothing burning.
Uber Melbourne effectively illegal as driver guilty in landmark case
It was indeed a joke
Stop using business email for personal use
Maybe yes, because it's now $14K. Perhaps someone just bought one at two grand ;) Or maybe it's just the hits.

Edit: OK, there are two sellers at ~$2K and ~$3K. I wonder why Amazon points to the $14K one by default.
It's painful to read the NYT write about something you know about:

It would also address a glaring Achilles’ heel at the heart of microelectronic data storage systems: Magnetic disks, tape and even optical storage systems safely store information at most for only a handful of decades.

It's really not a glaring Achilles heel. This is a solved (for the most part) problem - see http://www.mdisc.com/ for a product which can archive your data a reasonable cost for centuries, and much more conveniently than trying to store/recall from DNA.

Here are some of the endurance tests they put the mdic through - http://www.esystor.com/images/China_Lake_Full_Report.pdf. I would be interested in seeing how DNA storage stood up to that sort of testing.

The ability to store data in DNA is cool, and it's neat that the teams are making progress - but it's important to put the progress into context right now.