skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reading "Bringing up Bébé" – a book written by an American woman who raises her child in Paris. When they take their toddler girl to swim lessons, everyone is in the pool swimming around together. Occasionally the instructor swims up to them and says, "hello". Eventually, on the third class she finally says, "Excuse me, but when are you going to actually, you know, teach my kid to swim?". The instructor smiles and tells them, "We don't teach toddlers how to swim."

She realizes that one cultural difference is that french parents don't expect their kids to learn things super early the way that Americans do – instead, they prefer to 'acclimate' their kids to various activities.

Not everyone lives in Silicon Valley where their parents are engineers, their neighbors' parents are engineers, they build drones and fly them in the park... Part of fixing inequality in education is at least acclimating kids to the idea of coding – hopefully sparking an interest that stays with them and grows.

Apple has long known that a way to build their customer base is to get them early in schools, so of course this is at least in part commercially motivated. But at the end of the day, companies can do things that help their bottom line and at the same time make a positive cultural impact[1]. Personally, I think we should applaud efforts to acclimate kids to things they might not be aware of, to help make them aware of what's possible in their lives.

1: https://www.gatesnotes.com/media/features/books/Bill_Gates_J...
Who's the FBI?
On some newer laptops, the microphone and headphone ports are combined, so the headphone jack is also the microphone jack. This makes it work with in-line microphones that are popular with most cell phones.

I don't understand what he hopes to accomplish by taping the jack though; it's not like it does anything without something plugged into it.
Here is Solar City's business model:

- They will install solar panels on your house for free.

- You pay them a much lower rate than what the public utility company charges for the electricity generated from those solar panels.

- You save tens of thousands of dollars and lower your carbon footprint by hundreds of thousands of pounds of CO2 over 20-30 years.

- They lose a ton of money installing those expensive panels but make a TON of money in the long run selling you that electricity that is generated for next to nothing.

So as you can see, Solar City losing money is actually a good thing because it means they're making so many damn sales that in 10 years they're going to be reaping the profits from those sales like crazy.
i agree with you in general (and cheese is definitely not one of the things i'd want a substitute for myself), but note that one of the things that makes this fake mince product exciting is that they're explicitly trying to replicate the taste, the smell, the mouthfeel and the consistency of real beef mince. short of a breakthrough in vat-grown meat this seems like the most promising avenue yet.
Docker Datacenter in AWS and Azure in a Few Clicks
Modularity is: what is the minimum you need to know to make use of a module, and what is the minimum that a module needs to know to help you?

Making this good is one of the secrets of scaling
The camera stays in low power mode (polling with BLE?) until woken up by the OBD controller to tell it that the car is in reverse. It doesn't need much power to stay charged.
The theory[1] is that the DNC wants to release all the bad stuff they have on Trump but don't want to do it themselves[2]. Reminding people about how many corps have been hacked actually doesn't hurt Clinton's e-mail argument that much[3] and it gets a whole lot of juicy stuff out against a candidate that isn't really an expert at political maneuvers. When protestors can beat up your supporters, and its your fault, you really don't know what you are doing[4]. Throwing a little more hate in the media works.

1) which I am explaining, not advocating

2) It actually follows a The West Wing episode (without the hacking, just using the mail, same process - different parts)

3) polling shows people who believe she did something wrong weren't going to vote for her anyway

4) as we see Trump's personnel changes this week

// my person got beat and I hate all of the above
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This is really the most tired argument ever.

How about the opposite argument: if you have a supply constraint with hotels, why not build more hotels rather than convert housing to quasi hotels that skirt taxes and impact housing supply?

My friend bought into a condo hotel a few years ago. Still a great model. Airbnb could easily move into that sort of model and outsource ownership, management, etc and follow the law. But I guess that doesn't apply to them.
It would be curious to know if given the choice of supporting mass surveillance or not being able to use services and products from brands like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Wikipedia, etc. - what consumers would choose.

If they'd opt to use those brands, seems like the answer to change maybe very simple.
Remains one of my favorite SimCity 2000 disasters.
ok, then please provide links and data to back up your statements
Sell-side analysts are not going to pay shareholders $30 for their shares though. Tesla stock is not cash, but is better than nothing. If anyone is losing in this deal I think it will be non-Musk Tesla shareholders.
People are often incentivized by providing philanthropy, if not monetarily, then simply by feeling better about themselves or guilt they might feel. In my humble opinion, if someone has a selfish reason to give, they're still giving.
As a TSLA stockholder, I hope they do; I'd rather TSLA wait to buy up SCTY assets when they're in bankruptcy rather than pay a premium to SCTY stockholders (sorry Elon!)
Hi Alan,

In your paper "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages", where you introduce the concept of the DynaBook, you explicitly say that the paper should be read as a work of science fiction. I understand that you're a big fan of science fiction. Do you draw any inspiration from science fiction when inventing the future?

Thanks,

Kevin

Related: I've given a talk on "What Computer Scientists can Learn From Science Fiction":

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CaieHjx9j24UFXq0GwmC...
Ask HN: Project ideas with Python
Hello!
I have a question for you all.
If you were to build something with Python in a week (approx. 1000~ lines), what would you build?
You touch your phone 2,500 times per day
Some people think SolarCity is doing terribly because they're losing so much money. Actually them losing money is an incredibly great sign for the long run (assuming they don't run out of money - which Elon won't let happen).

Here's how their business model works:

- They will install solar panels on your house for free (or cheaper than the full cost).

- You pay them a much lower rate than what the public utility company charges for the electricity generated from those solar panels.

- You save tens of thousands of dollars and lower your carbon footprint by hundreds of thousands of pounds of CO2 over 20-30 years.

- They lose a ton of money installing those expensive panels but make a TON of money in the long run selling you that electricity that is generated for next to nothing.

So as you can see, SolarCity losing money is actually a good thing because it means they're making so many damn sales that in 10 years they're going to be reaping the profits from those sales like crazy.
Looks like SCTY's revenue is climbing every single quarter. Not sure how that is "beyond ugly" - the vision is a solar-powered world and their revenue is growing. They are losing a lot of money too, yes, but that does not mean the business is "ugly".
Tesla Offers to Acquire SolarCity
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11946924 and marked it off-topic.
Granted, names have their problems. But as a tactical solution URLs can be used to send high-level messages or at least as a name resolution scheme to initiate communication between two or more OO systems. And URLs are just names... (credit where it is due: I first heard the thought expressed by you and it gets the job done until something better comes along)

Admittedly this does not (directly) address the issue of sending processes (which could be handled indirectly as payload.) Or am I missing the bigger picture you're driving at here?
just wait until the space end's aim becomes misaligned...
Just by framing a comment like this you're taking the person who claims to have broken into the DNC at their word, that they're not releasing selectively to build a narrative.
Energy is already being beamed down to earth for free.
Why get a job? The world is moving to gigs man. Solve the oft-cited zoning crisis that is preventing tall building from low density places like Manhattan and build massive apartment blocks.

Then you'll just need a few fiverr gigs a week and boom, you can rent a different, exciting new apartment every day!
So two companies with great potential. One (Solar City) has a problem convincing investors and is exposed to wide fluctuations and the other (Tesla) is pretty good at managing expectation and enthusiasm in the market. So I guess the idea here is to limit exposure in one of them by absorbing it in another. Might work but goes counter intuitive to the idea that I always thought was the most important in Musk companies: Focus. Focus on delivering one main value. Hope this works out.
Tom Murphy wrote a good post on space-based solar a while ago: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/03/space-based-sola...

Either the power density is high enough that it roasts anything crossing the beam path, or it's low enough that it's not appreciably higher than regular old sunlight flux.
Ask HN: What's a small problem that bugs you in your every day life?
We all have small things that annoy us every day. I'm curious, what are some of yours?
The 2001 riots destroyed the neighborhood and most people left. Then 3CDC bought the majority of the buildings.
That's the kind of link that can never support a point but serves only to discredit whoever posts it.

It's a fake grassroots news organization funded entirely by a 501(4)(c) with a fixed political agenda.
Bitcoin wallet addresses have never been useful - too many odd characters that are hard to vocalize and memorize.

/s
Elon is using a public traded company to save his other failing businesses. In a sense he already did this before using his private loans guaranteed by Tesla shares. But at least in that case it was his own money. Now he wants to use other shareholder's money to bailout his floundering solar energy investment.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Box-G1W-C-Capacitor-Dashboard/d...

search youtube for "G1W-C" for sample videos.
Carrying the financing yourself such as this local program http://www.snopud.com/home/green/solarexpress.ashx?p=1207 is beneficial to the homeowner. SolarCity lease was the least economical when we received bids. Additionally the SolarCity lease can be problematic when selling http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-23/rooftop-so.... Our local PUD financed via Credit Union showed a 6-9yr break even point, much shorter than SolarCity's lease.
Elon Musk has publicly mentioned electric aircraft actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_electric_jet

That wiki doesn't mention it but I remember from an interview something about being able to fly higher and therefore faster because you don't need to worry about a combustion engine and necessary oxygen levels (could be way off though).
Wow. This is big. SolarCity shares surged 24% in after-hours trading, while Tesla shares fell 6.7%.
The only noteworthy aspect of this story is that the city attorney is actually taking this particular rent-control law seriously enough to sue a landlord.

A lot of other laws are violated and the city attorney (and law enforcement agencies in general) just ignore the violations. So this tells us a bit about prosecutorial discretion in LA at the current time.
I don't think it's a question of energy use, it's a question of whether the battery can hold a charge under those conditions.
BT could be an easier on/off alternative in that case.
Right, but having a dummy plug will cause the vast majority of laptops to disable their built-in microphones and instead listen to whatever you plugged in. (In the case of a dummy, this would result in a dead line.)

The idea is to fool the system into having no physical microphone, and even a hacker/malware that compromises the operating system is going to have a hard time dealing with whatever soundcard firmware is responsible for making that switch in the hardware.
You've repeatedly posted uncivil and unsubstantive comments to HN. Please stop doing that.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11947087 and marked it off-topic.
I think Zuck's case is pretty special and he might be worried that, in the worst case, his computer gets compromised and the attackers can additionally see or hear something top secret.

I don't care to be honest.
Maybe jshevek means that they tend to ask "why" type questions which can be difficult to answer, as opposed to "how" type questions which are less difficult to answer.
Hopefully better than Ethereum and the DAO.
There are people concerned about how soy might disrupt the endocrine system, and who don't broadcast this concern the way vegetarians do. Tricking them into eating it anyway is definitely unethical.
Paper Coffee cups that drip every time you sip.
> but its not as financially beneficial to them as them financing the system themselves

You could say that for pretty much every service you buy. Yet people keep spending money for things they could do (cheaper) themselves!
To add, it's bizarre that the top-voted comment is touting the upside of a name-change. As it stands, folks will get the wrong impression that a name change will be a critical factor for a company in turnaround mode.
If society becomes a matter of a tiny minority and everyone else, "everyone else" just needs to be armed, not well armed. There is also the simple reality that our military and police are not formed of "Elites" who can expect wealth and privilege in society at large. It's hard to imagine a truly divided society in which the military is on the side of the ultra-rich, without vast changes being made over decades.
This announcement caused TSLA's stock to crater by 10% in just a few minutes.

More like Solar City is going to ruin Tesla's financing facilities.
It's required because Elon Musk is already a significant stockholder in SolarCity.
Others have already made this point[1] but to me, SolarCity has some aspects that make it look like more of a of a tax-arbitrage business than a solar panel retail business. It reminds me a bit of the ethanol blending tax credit, which led, in some cases, to companies mixing ethanol with petrochemicals solely for the tax benefit.

[1] http://www.newsmax.com/BradleyBlakeman/solar-kroll-subsidy/2...
Isaac Asimov has a great short story about robots manning such a satellite. One had a glitch whereby he totally worshipped the sun and beaming the energy was the purpose of his "temple". He wouldn't let the humans interfere, which ostensibly violated the laws of robotics until they realized the robot was effectively committed to saving the earth.

Found it: "Reason"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_(short_story)
You're still not making sense. You seem to believe that Apple should not be running coding camps out of their stores, which exist whether or not they're used for coding camps. That's silly.
This is what I like, equal opportunity hacking.
It does seem like a direct conflict of interest. This will be interesting to watch if there are any challenges from the SEC.
"Quantity has a quality all of its own."
How about this: Mark Zuckerberg poses for picture sitting next to [someone's MacBook] with covered camera and audio jack.
> hardware-level issues like device interactions and memory corruption. You're not going to figure those out just looking at source code.

Well, that's right, but you can't step through something like a DMA transfer setup or IRQ routine either. By the time you've done first single step, the hardware state is already bad and everything has timed out.

Distributed system interactions are also nearly impossible targets for productive use of a debugger.

In both cases, mostly I just do very verbose logging.
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Etherium sounds like a giant broken paxos implementation.
F.A.A. Issues Commercial Drone Rules
I'm not really sure what you're asking for. If you're looking for a system capable of accepting payment without an attendant there are many. Here is just one example:

http://bw-2e2c4bf7ceaa4712a72dd5ee136dc9a8-bwcore.s3.amazona...

If this is not the type of device you're talking about please be more specific.
What do you mean by churn-and-burn in the context of rooftop solar? Most people have only one roof, so a solar installation is a one-time purchase. What would low churn look like?
Even if you plan to stay in your house long-term, buying the equipment outright risks getting stuck with outdated technology. It seems there have been a lot of advances lately in solar panel technology, so if you had bought panels a few years ago, they would not be nearly as efficient as if you bought them today. And if you bought them next year...
>Last time I had it (10+ years now) it was NASTY - I remembered it tasting good, but it doesn't meet (ha!) that memory.

You seem very self-aware, which I view as a rare and positive trait. So here's a question that I am genuinely curious about: in light of the fact that you said you remembered meat tasting good prior to becoming a vegetarian, do you believe that it is unpalatable to you now because it actually tastes bad (i.e. your brain actually no longer likes the taste), or is it the thoughts that you associate with meat (those that drove you to be a vegetarian in the first place - perhaps that a cow was killed for it, or its impact on the environment)?
You don't have doubt, you are just not motivated. Not doing your real work has consequences such as losing your job and ending up homeless. The cost of not doing your personal project as you perceive it is not that high. This is true for most people that are employed, I'm in the same boat. The struggle is to find out how to have a high level of motivation and to replenish it when it runs low.
The divided tenor in this thread makes me wonder how many people don't realize just how fast tech is accelerating.
You know, you are right. This is the framing of the narrative I have long suspected (and there is plenty of other evidence not related to this hack supporting the theory). It is possible that the DNC had similar oppo research on HRC that is unreleased. I regret the wording of my post because the reality is simply more complex (though I did mention that it was only suggestive evidence, not conclusive proof by any means).

Of course, my bias in accepting a narrative too easily isn't real evidence that the DNC did not act as allies: there is too much existing (confirmed) evidence corroborating that.

And, as mentioned downthread, the DNC could release documents showing that they did oppo research on HRC as well.
And that is why angiogenesis inhibitors don't work as well as we'd hoped. Damn.
Hmm If I were to design this... I would make it so that you don't have to replace the entire data source each time... I think a "suggestion" entry in the data source should be represented as it's own entity in the API...

e.g

instead of
PUT /api/datasource/<UUID>
overriding the entire datasource each time..

allow an api user to insert lines of text or rich objects.

POST /api/datasource/<UUID>/suggestion

{
...
}

or support bulk insertion.

POST /api/datasource/<UUID>/suggestion

[
{ ...
},...
]

This works better for scaling when you can't just replace all suggestions in one request (like an ETL like operation for a very large dataset). Then you can also allow for updating single "suggestion" entities without replacing the whole dataset.

I also think you should support rich objects, allow for things like boosting rules, different templates for object types, spelling correction, synonyms. I think this type of service would be really useful.
If that was the case, the DNC could easily release materials showing that his releases are not representative. They can even make them up.
I totally understand the business model, but I'm betting this was a really tough pitch to VCs when SolarCity was just starting up.

"We'll be lucrative by the early 2020s, assuming solar starts seeing widespread adoption" carries a lot more weight now than it would've a few years ago, just because of the explosion of programs and services like Project Sunroof.
I never noticed it until I finally committed to going fully vegetarian (and thus, stopped considering the non-veg options as possibilities if the veg option was unappealing...making unappealing vegetarian options a lot more noticeable). It doesn't happen everywhere, but I know what he/she is talking about.

In sandwich shops and some places with tacos and wraps, it's not uncommon to find just one dish that's properly vegetarian - often some mix of peppers, onions, squash, etc. I've always been puzzled by it, considering they tend to be somewhat polarizing vegetables. Something like beans, potatoes, rice, even corn - those things are much more broadly appealing, filling, and probably cheaper, too.

I also find that a lot of places/people don't know much about vegetarian cooking and they seem to think the only way to cure the blandness is to toss in peppers and onions.
Elon will end up with about one Tesla share for every ten SolarCity shares he previously owned. How does this in any way bail him out or save him? Save him from what, exactly?

Now Tesla is "burdened down" by SolarCity, if you prefer to think of it that way. If anything it's liable to hurt Tesla's stock while SolarCity gets its feet under it. As Tesla's stock drags down, Elon will lose more money than the 20% of $2.1 billion that his SCTY stake was worth today. That's a $420 million stake, and Tesla just dropped $3.2 billion in market cap when this news came up.

I'm totally guessing, but it seems to me this move protects SolarCity from the danger it was in. If SolarCity can make it a bit longer, a couple more years, which they will with no trouble (they were not on the verge of bankruptcy whatsoever), soon Tesla will have all the revenue they need to help SCTY grow. And that's Elon's gamble, as has it all been.
Keep on turning the crank ...

What if you need something but don't know its name or URL? Etc.
They're extremely efficient at synthesizing phospholipids, EPA, DHA, carnitine, choline, creatine, taurine, coenzyme Q10, carnosine, just from grazing on cellulose all day.. well they're way better at it than all the vegans I know.
If multiple female friends come up to me and tell me that they are comfortable around a person because they said some lewd things or grabbed their butt, I'm not going to respond by saying "oh well why don't you just go to the police and get them arrested". I'm just going to ban the guy from the event.

This is not a court of law. If I am running a private event, I can ban people for whatever reason I feel like. And "this person has made multiple people very uncomfortable because of the things he said or has done" seems like a pretty damn good reason to me.