skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know several (not dumb, either) people who overestimate gas and maintenance savings, ignore the time value of money when calculating the value of both, and simply don't account for all the risks that will come with the first just-released model of a totally new automobile. I don't think any of them will actually end up pulling the trigger (fortunately) but a lot of people who shouldn't, will.

I expect it to be a great car but I see people looking at it who really aren't in a position to do so.

Repairing this thing out of warranty will be even more of a joke than with regular new cars (and that's already an economic tragedy.)
Bluntly: it sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous. Corporations aren't people (no matter what SCOTUS has to say on the matter). None of the people making the Bolt had anything to do with the decisions of the past. This is a silly way to evaluate a company's current behavior.
Sony's Playstation 3 & 4 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_system_software and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4_system_software.
Would have been a more interesting story to actually hear some of the actual retelling of what happened from the scouts that were with Custer.
> I don't think you've been car shopping much recently. 'Economy' cars like the Honda Civic

I think you're a bit out of touch. "Few" options? You can get a very, very high end Honda Civic at $30k+, in my opinion. Considering you can get a base Civic for around $16k-$18k, adding on a "few" options isn't going to almost double the price. You have to add quite a few options to get near that $30k number. Or pick a higher end Civic to start with.

> For some real sticker shock look at minivans, a Honda Odyssey can easily hit $40k-50k out the door.

First those are big vehicles so yes, obviously they're going to cost more. But $40k to $50k is with many options as well. You can get a base Odyssey between $28k to $30k depending on where you shop. Not everyone adds $10k to $20k in option.s In fact I would be shocked if any majority of customer adds on so many options.
For what it's worth, it's hard to see a Land Value Tax as being unfair, it's extremely hard to hide your taxable assets, and it works well for people as well as corporations.
The C code in this article is a mirror of the code from Appendix 2 in Vitter's paper, which I guess explains/excuses the abbreviated variable names. The paper says things like, "use an exponentially distributed random variate Y," and uses variable names like n, N, U, S, X, y1, and y2 in the appendix.

Nonetheless, I find this coding style unreadable. "Y" is not a very good name for an exponentially distributed random variate, especially in a function that defines 24 variables with mostly meaningless names. :-(
I've recently started using http://mailbox.org.

It's hosted in Germany by what seems to be a reasonably serious company, and running https://www.open-xchange.com/ for the web UI (mail, calendar, basic docs).
> Second, the CDDL originated with Sun. Oracle wasn't even anywhere near Sun when the CDDL was being written, and the CDDL is not even Oracle's favored free software license. Look at the free software they steward -- Java, Mysql, and Berkeley DB. All of which is either GPL or AGPL with contributor agreements, so they can continue to profit on closed source versions that the community doesn't get. Compare that to Postgres, which is BSD licensed, and doesn't have one monolith that can do anything they want because they have a legal advantage.

There's one very simple solution to this: Fork it and don't require CLAs (or use FSF-style CLAs that guarantee copyleft). In fact that's exactly what happened with MariaDB.

Arguing that the GPL allows for a monolith but BSD licenses don't is a very weird perversion of the facts. A BSD licensed source can be made proprietary without CLAs. A GPL licensed project cannot. So, the solution is simple: don't ever contribute to a project that has CLAs which would allow them to make the software proprietary.

> Compare that to the situation with GPL-encumbered software like MySQL, where there are still rather key pieces of the stack that can and are held back because it's not in Oracle's best interest to give them to the community.

Again, MariaDB was forked for this exact reason. And Linux is one of the largest and fastest moving projects in the world and is under the GPL.
To the extent people are spending this much, they're insane for doing so.

You have probably already realised this if you've lived on the planet for more than 20ish years, but the majority of people certainly seem to be quite insane.
In certain circumstances, like when you're drawing from a limited pool, this becomes N^2 and unbounded - Imagine you're trying to shuffle a deck of cards. Select a card number, 1-52. The first draw, you're guaranteed to get a unique card, the second, you've got a 1/52 chance of having to generate a second number, all the way up to the final card you have a 1/52 chance of generating the final number you need, and you'll spin for quite a bit waiting for that to come up, with a possibility (if your RNG is bad) that you'll never get there. This gets amplified if you've got a larger set - If you draw from six decks, you'll go through an average of 156 'draws' before you get your final card... and the card before it almost as many!

The nicer way to do this is to have two lists. Put all of your cards into the first list. Choose a number between 1 and the length of list 1, then remove that element from the list and add it to the end of list 2. Repeat until list 1 is empty. It's linear-time (with a linked list), and there's no chance of duplicates.

But this isn't the scenario presented in the article - It's an algorithm for a very specialized version of a shuffle, where you need a random sample from an unbounded sequential (meaning, you don't know it's length ahead of time) list. The algorithm presented is for getting a good random sample from a dataset well beyond the size of memory, not for doing a perfect shuffle on a small list.
The climate controls are always shown at the bottom of the screen, independant from what else is going on. Also, most of the time the UI is split into two tiles which show different "apps". So operating one tile does not remove the map from the other. Also, you can display a mini-map on the drivers dashboard screen.
sci-hub wasn't as nice for instance.

Good job anyway :)
Sorry. I was in a bad mood and it seemed like the user was going to be hard to track down. I hate those old forums that make you sign in before you can download attached files, and loose patch files floating around remind me why Git isn't all that bad.
Shell companies all over the world disagree. You can have access to the US market and still dodge taxes.
I would encourage you to try to use Tensorflow directly. Once you understand placeholders, variables, etc., it is not that much harder than most higher level wrappers.

It requires a bit more thinking ahead-of-time thinking, but also gives far more flexibility.

That said, I have found Keras to be excellent for quick experiments. Even more, because it supports both Tensorflow and Theano as backends.
It's also misleading IMO, as it's actually the Chrome extension (so you don't actually get most of the features in the Windows version).
I like the "house of cards" metaphor. After learning how these three companies could help each other in his biography, I think the possibility of collapse is actually pretty low.
Agree - it's incredible.

How Time have not managed to throw him Person of the Year yet, I cannot understand. The cars, the solar network and SpaceX. They're huge undertakings.
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I think the thing is that 90% of computer/internet users are media consumers and very few are media creators, apart from as you say - photos.

Writing the occasional email is clunky on a phone but the experience of using a phone still beats worrying about your backup, the location of your photo files, the OS license or Antivirus on the PC.

"People in general" simply don't write large documents, programs, create music etc. They email a friend, browse instagram and take photos. The smartphone form factor happens to be the perfect match for this usage pattern. So much so that if there was a fraction of the use cases they can't do on their phones - people much rather just skip doing those activities entirely and stay on the smartphone.
So you're saying this app operated by TSA agents is meant to defeat attackers looking to be screened by cooperative TSA agents? I can't help but feel something is lacking in this threat model.
Have you considered that maybe it's the government's fault that the media reported it in this way because - as in this example - the government intentionally obscured both how much the app cost and what was actually being supplied for the figure they stated.
You can, but that becomes inefficient for very large numbers
This car will probably be very popular as a leased company car (at least in The Netherlands). The price is in range for most employees who can lease a car and the tax advantages are huge.
It is Germany's largest newspaper.

The data probably would have been handed over in person.

My guess is he is German speaking; maybe from Switzerland or Liechtenstein.

But I wonder about doing something like this: He is not exactly protected, what he has done is illegal (at least to some extent - whistleblower laws etc.), he stands to make no personal gains.

One thing is being a high profile whistleblower like Snowden or Assange. But this guy? Where does he end up?
My father built our 20x30ft family room add on. He built
it to be sound proof enough that he could practice his drumming and not annoy the neighbors. I don't think he'd be able to do that in most apartments
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Native english ears reporting in, sorry to disappoint you but the name and logo do not strike me as sinister in the least - it looks like the name and logo of a company that would make ink blotters.
You're still talking about new cars, rather than what people actually buy. http://www.edmunds.com/honda/civic/for-sale/?src=14597540479... says you can go well under 20k for a Honda Civic if you don't want a new one.
This quote is not very useful as an indicator of the future. Not everything that starts ignored will be laughed at. Not everything that is laughed at will be fought. Not everything that is fought will win. It's not even the majority of things that follow that path.
The average new car price in March 2016 was $33,666.

That's the mean price though, and the price curve has a very long tail. The median is significantly lower.
How might we make 2.6TB PP data more accessible to hack on?
I'll bet you an Airbus that if we managed to FOIA the source code it would use an LCG seeded from the system clock.
>>> random.sample(xrange(0, 1000000000), 5)
[5258132, 23096612, 43529214, 91062733, 4912658]

This ran in a few milliseconds on my old macbook in python. It is an iterator over 1 billion element list. Looking at the source, they seem to track previous selections for large populations in a set, for which lookup of "x in y" is avg O(1).

https://svn.python.org/projects/python/tags/r32/Lib/random.p...
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Surely you have never tried to operate an i3 at 80 MPH, I can assure you it has at most 50 miles range at that speed.
Zim-wiki is very good for general note taking and simple todo. It's worth to try.

Highlights:
* Markdown to visual in real-time
* Create pages and tags link between them
* ! Back links, where a page or tag is being referenced
* Past images
* Drag drop file
* Save storage is in folders files
* Python plug-ins

It looks simple at first, but is actually very powerful.

http://i.imgur.com/iPE9OIS.png

http://zim-wiki.org/screenshots.html
http://zim-wiki.org
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A child has no control over their parent's financial affairs when they were a minor. If they are involved after they reach majority that's very different.
Yeah but something siri like or ok google like?
Actually, due to seeding, no matter how many times you run this you will never generate all combinations of tweet orders. Of course that doesn't really matter since for large values of N there isn't enough time in the universe to do so.
> but in the end environment friendly means: using less energy (in any form).

Is it? I thought it meant no harm to the environment. If the charging station is powered by solar energy, I don't see how using the otherwise wasted energy wrong.
Well sure :) It likely doesn't help that I'm a cheapskate. As a programmer, I'm probably pretty close to the demo that should want a Model 3, but I drive a 2007 Hyundai hatchback with a manual transmission. So I think everybody's crazy.
This may be a stupid question, but what exactly is wrong with (using the dealing random cards analogy):

for i = 1 to k
pickedCardIndex = randomInt(n - i)
hand[i - 1] = deck[pickedCardIndex]
swap(deck[pickedCardIndex], deck[n - i])

As far as I can see this satisfies all conditions stated by the author (assuming that randomInt(x) produces a uniformly random integer in the range [0, x], there are n cards in the deck array, and the arrays are 0-indexed).
> generate a list of random tweets, without duplication.

Considering there are somewhere over 1 trillion tweets (over 200 billion/year), this is a very easy problem, you do not even have to check for duplicates because the chance of getting a duplicate is so small it would be statistically unlikely to ever happen.
> It's just crazy to see them beat the competition so badly.

They have not made a single dollar of profit. Yes, it's an incredibly successful and impressive technology demonstration, but production at the scale that is now required is completely different from the development stage.

One example: regular manufacturers are only able to keep their high production numbers because they are able to compensate for hiccups in the supply chain for one model by having evolved to be able to switch a factory to another model in a very short timeframe.
A monoculture like Tesla (only model 3 in significant numbers) prevents this.
You're absolutely right that the savings on interest is post tax. However the tax deductibility of interest creates a substantial tax shield and in general, has a net positive value for the company since changing the capital structure by increasing debt decreases the weighted average cost of capital. Studies suggest that debt, because of the deductibility of interest, on average leads to ~1 dollar of additional company value for every 10 dollars of debt financing (vs equity financing).
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As I understand it, the technique used is to create a map of the room by listening and recording all RSSI from all stations and training classifiers. Then the app listen to all stations, input the RSSIs, and the classifiers give you back a location in the room.
So the iPhone is supposed to just passively listen, not emit any signal – but apparently you can't access all RSSIs values of your surrounding stations via public APIs on iOS.

In any case, it's a clever way to map the room by its spectrum landscape :-)
> How many people in US buy iPhone at full price?

Everybody. Anybody who doesn't is buying it on credit. They're still paying the full price (and then some).
read the article here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11419772

may be a reason why Musk isn't there yet.
It does matter.

1 W * 1,000,000 cars is still 1 MW.

It's like saying a javascript file of 1MB is ok because there are images of 10MB on the same page.
In Crichton's The Andromeda Strain [1], we collect something from (sub?)orbit and it does not end well.

[1] www.michaelcrichton.com/the-andromeda-strain/
Huh, is it really true that Reservoir Sampling is not well-known? It was part of the standard curriculum in my top-30-but-not-top-10 CS school, the University of Utah. I think that even a significant subset of my cohort could explain the correspondence between this and the Fisher-Yates shuffling algorithm.
Wow. Can you share a reference to that insane price?
Beijing has a plate lottery of 150k vehicles this year, 60k of them are dedicated to EVs. Suffice it to say, I've been seeing a lot of new Teslas (the higher end ones) on the road this year in a place that still barely supports the charging infrastructure.

I think the Tesla 3 is going to do very nicely in that market given its artificial constraints.
I'm aware of that. My point was it's in a range in which a very large number of cars are sold; claiming this price range means it's not going to be "mass-produced" is stretching it.
The property of AVX and AVX2 you mentioned actually helps having single code path. If the SIMD wrapper allows parameterization on vector width (most do that), you can simply increase vector width when compiling for AVX and that's it.
You're making the assumption that the requested list is quite short. It should be straightforward to show that the probability of a duplicate grows with the requested list length.
Of course. The point was just that this doesn't put it out of the range where a car would be "mass-produced".
The i3 is a nice small car, but warranty of the battery is horrible, and the range is only so so, specially in cold weater. The i8 is really a plug in hybrid, looks really amazing, but is slower, holds fewer people, and has less space than my Tesla Model S85D. The autobahn is very valid point, driving at 200km/h+ for sustained amounts of time will drain the battery(the amount if sheer wind resistance, makes power used pr km. skyrocket), but driving at 130-150km/h, and stopping and charging when you are low (10% chargeish) is quite effective, as you charge quite fast, when the battery is warm, and low. Thankfully the autobahn always has sections of roadwork, and here the Model S powertrain is very effective at cruising :) .
What's the reason I can't use `pkg` to update my userland and then just rebuild the kernel instead of rebuilding everything from source?
Where did you see that WhatsApp is converting to Linux? At MeetBSD Rick Reed claimed they had full autonomy from Facebook on that kind of thing (http://www.slideshare.net/iXsystems/rick-reed-600-m-unsuspec...), and FB was looking at them to learn how they did so much with so little engineers and servers.

Netflix is doing 100Gbit HTTP and > 60Gbit HTTPS on a single socket Xeon E5 with FreeBSD. These servers are about 1/3 North American Internet by volume. In comparison to OCA team their AWS team sounds like a total tire fire to me in terms of engineer count and monthly spend.

I run the OS team at Limelight Networks, one of the largest CDNs. We can peak beyond 10Tbit/s on our current network and have to deal with a more demanding/unknown workload compared to NF OCA. This is all courtesy of FreeBSD. My entire management chain agrees that the cost of entry is lower to influencing and driving development in FreeBSD vs other kernels, and we collaborate with the other well known players on projects that are mutually beneficial such as TCP and filesystems.

Companies switching from FreeBSD to Linux usually are victim of the decision from bad VP-level management looking for a scapegoat rather than solving actual business and culture problems. Yahoo began transitioning to RHEL in 2005 and AFAIK are still at least two years from conceivably being off of FreeBSD. A 12 year _free_ OS transition is an embarrassing use of engineering effort and total management failure.

There are a lot of companies satisfied with FreeBSD, especially in the appliance space and small business, but they are not vocal because it just works and is often rebranded.
Not true in the case of shareholders. For example, if MZ became a Nevada resident and quit working for Facebook but still had all of his shares, he would not be subject to California taxes when he sold them. Even if he continued working or consulting for FB, California taxes would likely only apply to the income or options derived from that work (though California has some onerous and complex "substantial nexus" rules that may apply if he still worked there, yet another reason to simply not startup there in the first place).
>The Linux® compatibility layer has been substantially improved and now is capable of running 64-bit applications on amd64 (x86_64), 1:1 threading

What does 1:1 threading mean?
For some reason I was under the impression she was doing a stint in the US or UK, I think it was just from how the article read.
Based on your list size, try a reasonably designed hash function here.
Here is an alternative:

Use a multiplicative linear congruential generator with a period 2^n , where n is ceil(log2(m)), where m is the size of the list.

Seed the generator, start generating values and drop all values that are larger than m. In the worst case you will have to drop half of the values, in the best case you will drop none. This depends on how close to a power of 2 m is.

The generator is very short, one line of code, and very fast: one multiplication, one addition, and one bitshift. Space complexity is O(1).

If your tweets are generated out from an integer value, then you can use this value to generate them. The tweets will be unique (assuming the tweet generator will generate unique tweets from unique values), and you will have m of them.
That was an explicit goal of OpenBTS when I was following it years ago. The GSM vendors want something like $250k per base station, which is unreasonable for third-world or very-rural applications. OpenBTS thinks they can get the radio hardware costs down to a tiny fraction of that to serve low volumes, backed by a Linux box running this software.

Interestingly, their first large-scale field tests were at Burning Man (http://openbts.sourceforge.net/FieldTest/), where there were thousands of active GSM handsets but no cell coverage. They were able to provide limited SMS support between local participants and in later tests allowed some outgoing VoIP calls.
This reminds me of Nicholas Felton who produces every year a Feltron report; http://feltron.com/
Yes, a few examples exist.

[1]: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/diy-cellular-phone-networks-mex...
How do you implement swap if deck is too large to hold in memory?
He (they) also put $25bn on the table to buy the 85% he did not control already.
I use antergos. It has everything I want from Arch (up to date packages, systemd, AUR) but I don't have to spend all the time configuring Arch.
Since you've left this comment a couple times I'll just point out that that wasn't at all my point.