skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there some fundamental difference between this feature and the built-in in-cabin air filter that my 2002 Nissan Maxima had? It seems like it's the same exact thing, but maybe the Tesla has a better filter and a more air tight cabin?

I bet my 2011 BMW 335i would probably perform just as well since that cabin is much more air tight. All air passes through a massive filter which I believe contains a normal paper element as well as a charcoal element for odor.

Cars have had cabin filters for a long time now. The primary purpose is to reduce dust an allergies.

I have a hard time believing that the car is air tight enough to prevent actual bioweapon particles from entering after any extended period of time. Of course, the amount of particles required to be harmful plays a big role in the overall effectiveness of this.

Is there some other aspect that I am missing?

[EDIT]: It seems like HEPA specifications are more strict than that of the average cabin filter in terms of particle size. This clearly separates the Telsa from other implementations.
A number of things changed, though perhaps the most important would be the demographics of university students in general. As a result, there was a natural shift toward a broader look at historical topics from different points of view. There was also a late 60s/ early 70s explosion of PhDs in the humanities that didn't quite accord with job prospects which in turn created a push towards more specialization.
You can also sell electricity generated by your panels back to the grid.
Flattr, aren't this those guys who ask for a greedy 10% share.
If Adblock and Flattr will work together there will be less to nothing left for publishers.
Can't you just set it to FHD?
It's faster than you'd expect, despite the very low TDP. I have the base model 2nd gen 12" MacBook, and I haven't had any issues with anything feeling slow on it.
Widespread Loss of Ocean Oxygen to Become Noticeable in 2030
Y but now it's 7K and not 40K.
What do Vive owners think now it's been out a few weeks? (Reddit discussion)
You don't need to wait for Tesla, you can buy Lithium battery packs now. Heck even AGM or wet cell batteries work fine. I have about 800 ampH and I can do pretty much anything I want except run an AC off of it.
Yeah, that slide deck thing needs to go. Just let me skip it.

And say it's Europe only up front.
>You wouldn't need to abolish property rights. Another way to look at it is that you'd essentially transfer the cost of social programs to people through insurance instead of through taxation.

Unless you're suggesting everyone be allowed to steal, you're going to spend as much effort (if not more) working out which thefts were legitimate as you are working out who is allowed welfare.

Not to mention you're replacing a predictable system with ad hoc chaos. (Maybe insurance can smooth it a little, but then that's just further overhead.)

>Or maybe you'd just hire private security.

Private security is largely toothless if they can't hand people over to the police. Even if they throw you out, you can just come back the next day and try again.
Payback of 6 years with the new cost, even for your low electric bill.
Nice article. From my experience the biggest troublemakers are often in management two layers or more above and have no discipline in making changes or throwing new ideas into the pipeline.
An undocumented (as far as I can tell) way to avoid the annoying beeps is to press ctrl-d on boot. This avoids the developer mode beeps. [source: I'm also a crouton+chromebook user].
There are cities that are trying actively to become startup hubs to compete with SV, which are currently cheap but probably won't stay so. Kansas City will stay cheap long enough for a startup to take off.

Also, if we're talking about being frugal rather than relying on VC money, why not pick an area with a good university but not so much of a "city scene"/VC-land-ness, and hire college students? For example, Urbana-Champaign, IL. That way you're drawing from a pool where not all the talent has been snapped up yet, and the rent is usually reasonable because students have to live there.
Wedwell sounds like a reverse waitlist - a try me too tool for vendors. They might do it to get first customers but it sounds like too much work for good vendors who already have a waitlist for their booking time.
I used to work at a small company whose main business was building waterjet cutting machines. My job was maintaining the software used to mark bad spots on leather hides and placing cutting patterns on them. (Unfortunately, I spent most of my time trying to come up with a better way of placing cutting patterns on hides which involved a lot of computational geometry and basically went way over my head. Well either that, or it was just a really tough problem.)

I got the job kind of by chance, I put out an ad in a local newspaper that basically said "programmer / sysadmin looking for work".

If you want to learn C/C++, trying to look at and understand some of the open source code floating around might be a good starting point, since there is a lot of it. Pick up some project you find interesting and try to make a few modifications. Alternatively, try building a simple project of your own and take it from there.

C has its fair share of problems, and one needs to be aware of them, but it can also be a very fun language. I cannot say much about C++ either way, I find it a bit intimidating, but that's just me.

(Of course, if you are interested in lower-level languages, Rust is getting a lot of attention these days... it claims to offer much of the performance of C/C++ while avoiding most of their problems. I have not looked at it myself, though.)
There has been significant work on performance and toolchain improvement. See http://dave.cheney.net/2016/04/02/go-1-7-toolchain-improveme... for information.
>I'd market UBI as "social security for everyone" - that sets both the level that people get

No, it doesn't. Social security isn't a fixed amount, its based on prior earnings, adjusted by a wage index since the time they were earned, put through formula to get a base benefit amount in the year you start drawing them, and then inflation adjusted after retirement.

So calling a UBI "Social Security for everyone" does not, in fact, tell you what the benefit amount would be -- if the benefit amount is calculated anything like Social Security, the program is nothing like a UBI.
You expect riots when healthy, well-fed people suddenly stop receiving handouts. By the time people are actually starving in the streets, they don't have the energy to riot.
- the license plate thing as far as I know is only in Beijing where they're really desperate to do anything

- The cars in general are pretty new (people are heavily in debt to finance their cars and iPhones). In the big cities you never see the typical eastern european thing where someone put their foot down on the gas and a plum of exhaust comes out. Every car seems to run clean. Taxis are old, but they run on natural gas.

- All scooters are electrics. This is actually amazing to see for the first time b/c you never hear about it in the west. But 99% of the scooters are electric and silent. It's amazing. And we're talking about like half the traffic is on scooters. So this is big!. Funny enough I wouldn't even know where to buy one in the west.

- the reality is that the pollution is almost entirely from the factories and powerplants. It really looks different from what you see from cars. It's like a haze.. sorta like fog, but more gray. But it's very uniform and everywhere. Electric power is very very cheap in China. They're scared of the price ever going up b/c it's take a toll on manufacturing.
It may in fact not be a valid comparison. But if we're going to speak of a "shortage" of people going into graduate STEM programs, we can't discuss that in a vacuum - we need to consider the other options available.

Here's a link to the RAND study (should have included this in the original post)

http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html

Which does contain a discussion of whether the comparison is appropriate, as well as a (short) justification of focusing on the doctoral level programs. Ultimately, though, their justification is largely market based. A couple of relevant passages:

"Alternatively, if the rewards of other careers—perhaps
clinical medicine, law, or business—are higher and are
growing relative to S&E, and if it is instead the costs of
training for a job that are growing for S&E, then there is
no shortage of scientists and engineers in this important
fifth sense. Indeed, in this latter case, the “shortages” thatothers discern may well look more like discouraging surplusesto young people considering career choice."

"More young people today may arguably enjoy doing
science or engineering than actually plan to prepare for
such careers. Instead they may choose a professional
degree, but only reluctantly. In a market economy, even
one characterized by rigidities, regulations and unequal
opportunity, qualified people tend toward career paths
whose rewards and satisfactions are becoming more
attractive and/or whose preparatory costs are becoming
less onerous."
Which appears nowhere. The only hint that it might be European centric is the use of the word "flat".
> basic agreed-upon tagged types

Anything going beyond ASCII/UTF-8 or C types will be very hard to agree upon. And I think there is no way around serialization ( == chasing pointers and converting to a contiguous chunk of memory). Except if you restrict to a single language ecosystem like Erlang or Haskell, which enable data sharing between (often userspace-) threads in a shared address space. But these need a much more complex runtime.
Agreed.

Now, I actually DO think they can deliver at the prices. But that doesn't mean solar prices dropped by 50%.

Imagine this: you've got a business opportunity for a 20 year contract. Currently it costs you $10 to run per year, but that will drop to $6 after a few years, and drop further to $1 per year in the last 10 years.

Where will it be priced? Well if I said say $5, then most would agree that makes sense. After all, your average cost will probably be something like $3 a year, so locking in the rate at $5 means you're making a profit. In fact, you'd expect others to outbid you until the price approaches the average cost of $3. But let's say it ended up priced at $5... well a journalist might say 'prices dropped by 50% this year'. When in reality, prices will drop over the next TWENTY years, and 20-year contracts reflect that expectation. Solar prices today are still $10 today, not $5.

Of course these are just made up numbers. Point is, even if companies can deliver at this pricing, it's mostly a reflection of expectations of future prices, not today's prices.
So is this designed to supplant the Pixel line, or just provide a "premium" Chromebook designed for businesses, rather than developers?
In the 90s, if I wanted to release a game through the mail or whatever means, I was on equal grounds as everyone else. Remember that Doom was just a shareware game passed around through the mail primarily.

Today, if you want to write a game for a major platform (ie: iOS), you basically have to get the permission from Apple. Put a confederate flag in a civil war game?

Grounds for termination.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/25/technology/apple-pulls-civil...

Feel like writing a Bitcoin wallet for iOS?

Grounds for termination. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2095060/apple-removes-blockch...

You can only write applications today if the platform holder agrees with your purpose. How the heck is this better than the 90s, when you were allowed to write whatever you wanted and anyone was allowed to install?

You may think things are improving, but if things keep going in this direction of the "walled garden", I really don't think they're better.

At least the Windows Win32 platform is still relatively open for games / applications. But everything else is basically run by an integrated store now: iOS, Android (Google Play).
Calculated exactly how and in what context? :)

I'd agree in cases - <vector> in C++ don't cost much. It "delete()s" upon going out of scope.
According to the Ars article[1] I read, all models have a 32gb eMMC storage drive.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/hp-and-google-are-mak...
Sometimes in Tech, Glitz Trumps Reason
>while there may once have been a chance to stop the spread of $ARTICLE_TOPIC — around the year $CURRENT_DATE_MINUS_FIFTEEN_YEARS — that opportunity has since passed. Forces didn’t mobilize fast enough or spend enough money

FTA, with minor edits; I think we'll see a lot more language like this in the coming ten years. The consequence, which absolutely no one would be against ("what do you mean, there's 90% fewer oak trees?!"), always seems to logically follow the general disinterest in preventing the problem ("what do you mean, the _forestry service_ needs a 800% budget increase?!"). OTOH, it's generally clear what we should have done, in hindsight, but there's all kinds of stuff like this running around. The ever-eastward spread of the Asian long-horned beetle; what ocean acidification is going to do to corals and anything else that uses calcium carbonate to build its shell; etc
It's not snobbery, no one is looking down [well few are] on Beckham saying "oh he's only working class". Football is a working class game, it's players are primarily working class; that's a great source of pride for many.

I'm (lower) middle class, earn less than a lot of working class people; there are different cultural circles that follow different lines to financial worth. That's how the class system is seen here.

Being royalty wouldn't make him any better, just different, probably make him far worse in many people's eyes but if he were royal he'd be part of the peerage whether he lived in a council flat or a palace.
While I'm happy to see a way for people who don't want to see ads can contribute, I also vastly prefer uBlock Origin. Adblock left a bad taste in my mouth when they asked for money. Their entire product is based around denying content producers a way to monetize their own product. It felt sort of like a for-pay torrent site.
I don't understand how using co.uk would denote Europe? Do you mean .eu?
It's not a good design in the stealth and supercruise departments.

Back in the sixties and seventies when the Hornet was designed, modern stealth shaping was not really known.

Modern airframes could be a lot more capable.
The Tesla in bioweapons mode maintains positive pressure -- ie, the air inside the car is pressurized to a higher pressure than the outside air.
Their business model is broken and it is not my fault. Give me relevant ads that don't spy on me and that are not benchmarking my CPU every-time they load a piece of JS and we'll be fine.
On a similar note, gnu-pw-mgr uses a memorized transformation on a URL to generate passwords on-the-fly deterministically, so no password are ever actually stored:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-pw-mgr/
Amino Acid Stack 2016
There are many browser-based IDE's where you edit code on a remote machine, but I don't think any are mainstream yet.

Personally I'd be fine with a nice editor and a terminal window. Suppose there were a way to get Atom to run in this mode?
Yes, I'm aware of how both immediate mode and vertex arrays work in OpenGL.

The problem, and this is even getting away from what the article addresses, is that a green developer approaching the application must learn an entirely new language (shaders) before drawing a single primitive. In mattbee's example, what is the beginner supposed to think of the line "#version 410" or "in vec3 vp" which is not even C code?

I'm also not saying that all of the legacy functions from the fixed-function pipeline should be maintained, with all of their specific parameters, but that those attributes should be bound with a default shader that supports all of the same capabilities. So, using GLSL attribute accessors with each platform having the same default shader (and default parameter names). Then, wrap the IM example in arrays, call a few binds, and make a draw call. That's much simpler than writing two embedded programs inside your first program. I think it would have been very beneficial if OpenGL ES had been rolled out with a design like this.

Maybe it's because graphics programming is so feature focused that it creates a problem. For me, the issue is the obstacles between getting shapes on the screen, especially in contexts like WebGL or mobile.
This is C and I tossed it together VERY quickly but

$ cat hello.rs
#[no_mangle]
pub extern fn plus_one(x: isize) -> isize {
x + 1
}
$ cat hello.c
#include<stdio.h>

extern int plus_one(int);

int main() {
int result = plus_one(5);

printf("result is %d\n", result);

return 0;
}
$ rustc hello.rs --crate-type=dylib
$ gcc hello.c -lhello -L .
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./a.out
result is 6
"I don't think it's legal for stores to choose their customers". That was correct.

And US law, using the theory of disparate impact, treats discrimination on basically any category at all as discrimination by race. Barring entry by poor people would be prosecuted as anti-black discrimination seconds after a store tried to do it.
True, but possession of private keys does not prove identity. Having Gavin confirm that this is indeed the person he spoke with thoughout the years is also important. We'll just have to wait and see what happens next. Craig has certainly left us with a cliffhanger...
ESPN’s Eight-Hour O.J. Documentary Is a Masterpiece
That depends on the timeline you're comparing it to. If previously prices dropped 50% over 10 years*, then 16 months seems pretty damn fast.

(I have no idea what historical prices of solar panels were)
What happens when one password is leaked somehow? Do you then have to reinitialize the matrix and reset all your passwords?

You also have the problem of some domains requiring alphanumeric only, etc., which then limits what characters you can use in all your passwords.
I don't think a .co.UK domain would be appropriate considering it doesn't support any cities in the UK (and it wants the rental cost in euros).
That's the most practical solution. A tank is not a space capsule, sealing a multi-ton rotating turret is unrealistic.
Did overall expense on salary go up or go down, did I miss that?

This system likely shames large outliers out, maybe saving the company money.

Salary would seem to become more of Mediocristan[1] in this system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan_(Taleb_book)
I've been trying to do this calculation myself. One factor I hadn't initially put in was the fact that I didn't need to think about a backup generator for our (east coast) storms.
Cows would tear them up pretty quickly by rubbing up against them. Not saying they couldn't be re-enforced but I just wouldn't stick em out in a field with livestock.
Code written that compiles on Go 1.0 should still compile with Go 1.7.
Except you don't get positive pressure, which would require a really big fan or very tight seals.
we are using that as well however this post was about single nodes so compose doesn't offer a single node and I wanted to point it out that there is AWS RDS which offers a single node.
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest
We don't have HKT and therefore we can't have real do notation. The mdo crate provides a duck-typed macro.

.and_then calls themselves aren't too bad, with the right whitespace.
You can also just change the definition of off-peak electricity.

The coal grid already provides cheaper electricity at different times of day, because it's not efficient to turn coal plants on and off. Right now that cheaper electricity is at night, because most electricity consumers consume during the daylight hours. So if you need a boatload of electricity and aren't too sensitive about the time, you can shift you consumption to the off-peak hours and save some money.

But if you're not time-sensitive in your consumption, you can shift to the sunny daylight hours, when solar power is available. And if you're really not time-sensitive in your consumption, you can even shift consumption from cloudy days to sunny days.
Ok, combining this with a flat tax does make sense.

> your next dollar earned still means more money in your pocket at any point

This is critical as well, I've known people who get trapped in welfare because they are so far into it that going to work isn't really advantageous.

Thanks for your input!
My views on the matter are complicated and probably a bit conflicted. But for a cute presentation of a particular alternate viewpoint: http://blog.ninapaley.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/NA_Inve...
It seems to disable form input if you enter a CHF rent in the four figures. Not many people are paying less than 1000 CHF here. Also the interface - having to click through the 'wizard' is absolutely awful IMO. Am I sure I want to know!? Actually I'm not. Because I have no faith the answer will be sensible.
Making the Web Just a Second Faster Would Be a Big Deal
Can we make a community list about topics that we can criticize the Go core team for and also add a priority ranking for topics that deserve the most scorn?
On the coast we have sudden oak death. In the hills they have pine bark beetles. Bad years for (some) trees.
But they won't have control. Not only does basic income allow you to tell your shitty boss to shove it while you live off the dole(I really don't care how lazy you are) but you also get to tell your landlord to shove it now that you have enough free cash to afford a security deposit on a different place.
Awesome, thanks for that, I'll dive deeper into Metadata.
>agreed that the rich invest while the poor consume //

You just twisted my words and acted disingenuously.

I said, for the third time, the rich consume. The rich consume far more than the poor. The rich invest more than the poor, but that's because the poor don't have money to invest. Take all the money from the rich and give it to the poor and consumption and investment will shift. The people holding the money aren't as special as capitalism would have us assume.
Can’t you switch to some form of “Retina scaling”, e.g. 2x which result in an effective Retina resolution of 1600x900?
Are you sincere in your belief that only a dictatorship could lead to more environmentally responsible agriculture and land use in the US? It seems like trolling, but if you're sincere, I could point you to some references on how our current laws reward irresponsible water and land use in many cases. There are many things a "capitalistic democracy" (if that's really what we are living in, which I also think is debatable) can do, and many things that are already being done, to guide how land owners utilize their land. The unintended consequences of current agricultural and water-use law in places like some parts of California, which have experienced more years of drought than years of normal rainfall for more than a decade, have been pretty significant. Government at local, state, and federal levels, have helped create the problems I'm talking about, so why shouldn't they be able to help alleviate them?
It is still not clear to me whether uBlock or uBlock Origin should be preferred. It seems that the original author of uBlock had a falling out with some contributors and decided to fork it and go do his own thing his own way with uBo. People assert that this makes it "better", but I'm not sure. I've tried both and they do appear to have substantially differing featuresets. Can anyone finally clarify the situation, and the pros/cons of each?
What's fun is when bitrot in the automation sets in. It's hard to gauge the long term liability of it.
Just one question - and that's the part that you are skipping over.

Are you building your own symbolic solver ? If you are "pulling" equations ... Are you also solving them or are you displaying equations?

I'm getting the feeling that you have built a document and reference management system for CAD users (kind of like latex) rather than a CAD software that solves the equations, right?