skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure Elon has a lot of work to do. I wouldn't bet against him though.
Even if we assume the conversion efficiency of microwaves are much better than solar, if the beam at its peak is less than 1/4 ordinary solar irradiation, why would this be more economical than ground-based solar?
The interesting thing is cross-region read replication has existed for MySQL since in 2013, whereas cross-region read replication for PG has been out a few days out officially.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cross-region-read-replicas-...

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/06/amazon-rd...

I am interested in non-read replica replication...
I thought that the gentrification happened in the mid-90s. What happened? Not enough new residents? Things set back by riots?
Try not to think of time-dilation in relation to "light travelling". Time dilation just means that time passes more slowly for you due to your speed relative to an observer. So imagine you have an identical twin, and you leave on a Journey to a nearby solar system at say 0.9x the speed of light. Your twin stays on earth and for arguments sake you can say he is "stationary" in comparison to you.

When you come back, he'll be much more "aged" than you. You had a clock on-board your craft, and it measured your trip as say "2 years". Likewise, your twin also had a clock and it measured your trip as having lasted "20 years". The clocks are not wrong. And trust me, this isn't some science-fiction type thing we're discussing. GPS satellites orbiting the Earth carry very accurate atomic-clocks, and they need to take time-dilation into account in order to compensate for the drift in values, simply due to the accuracy necessary for GPS. Just had a look on the wiki page, and the drift is approximately 38 microseconds per day.

When I first encountered this concept in high-school randomly, I was quite shocked at how "non-complicated" the equation for it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation#Simple_inference...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
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Michael Crichton tears up the Drake Equation (and SETI) pretty thoroughly in his speech entitled Aliens Cause Global Warming.

http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers...

"...the Drake equation can have any value from “billions and billions” to zero. An expression that can mean anything means nothing. Speaking precisely, the Drake equation is literally meaningless, and has nothing to do with science. I take the hard view that science involves the creation of testable hypotheses. The Drake equation cannot be tested..."

-Crichton
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From what I've seen highly volatile stocks (such as TSLA) have a sort of flyweight effect, if they go up the market expect them go up fast so the go a little bit higher than is rational, same way if they go down.
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Tesla rescues Solar City
Because the purpose of a civil suit is to make consumers whole for actual damages. This isn't about punishing Sony for misleading advertising. You measure the difference between what people paid, and what they would've paid without the removed functionality, summed up over the whole class. That's the damages to the class. And because very few people who bought a PS3 wouldn't have done so at the same price without that advertised feature, it's not a big number.
There are no safe levels of lead. Quite literally no one has ever found a lower bound on its toxicity.
Overreact much?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption, which they claim to use.
The one place this style has been handy (for me) was managing gui actions. Imagine some code to save a file. That code should be activated on a few different events, CTRL-S, File -> Save, perhaps a save icon on a toolbar. You want a 4 way associative set. A key event comes in, lookup the action for that event in the table, SELECT action FROM bindings WHERE key=CTRL_S; (or whatever). I didn't really use a database, but it gets the concept across.

This style makes it really easy to dynamically add buttons for actions, verify you've got shortcut keys for different actions, things are hooked up in menus, things like that.

IMHO, it's of limited value. On the other hand, any time you've got several maps that all need to stay in sync something more table like is really nice. A map and it's inverse, several maps all pointing at the same values, things like that.
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Its used here as a marketing and branding term, not "efficient distribution mechanism" as you interpreted it. So they are playing on people's (correct) perception that "the grid" is the man with a death grip on your wallet, while you, as a techie, just appreciate the obvious benefits a power distribution system. You need to put your bullshit hat on when you read these things.
Immediate, mutual, lucid comprehension of the shared challenges facing humanity (and our fellow beings) that lie beyond the traditional domain of both nations and weak, present-era international political bodies, so as to avoid further needless destruction and suffering. Unfortunately, so many people live on the treadmill of money that the motivational deficit perhaps must be addressed prior to the educational.
I'm not sure how that's relevant. Musk being a founder of both companies doesn't magically make them different in what they are and do. The pieces of the pie in play are similar, if apportioned differently. They would combine to a similar whole.
On the MacBook that's a combination 3.5mm audio jack and SPDIF port, one that can emit laser light if it's confused about what's plugged in or not.

So it could be to block that light, or to prevent cruft from going into it, or to fight the urge to use headphones at work.
Pizza, at least pizza that is fit to eat, is not vegetarian...
He discussed the idea with Larry page and told him that he'd do it one day. It's in the Musk biography by Ashlee Vance
you tell 'em, nixon.

wait.
We don't recommend that - the article covers 4 paths to doing good including "direct work" as well as earning to give.

Choose between those two options based on which you'd be best at and the needs of the problems you want to focus on.
Three companies: SpaceX
First impressions:

1. $499 is a lot. A lot of people who would be willing to pay that probably already have backup cameras built into their cars.

2. I'd rather have a fixed screen that's 100% always there and ready. Sometimes I just want to hop in my car and not have to worry about pulling my phone out. The magnetic mount looks nice though.

3. ODB port may already be consumed by another gadget (e.x. Automatic). Could you use a low-power accelerometer/gyro to detect backups instead?
I read those as separate benefits.

It's more sustainable because of transmission losses, reusing the real-estate of your roof, and I believe doubling as partial shading and insulation.

Minimizing dependence on the grid is a benefit because power outages exist, and sometimes they can really suck.
Exactly, machine learning has already been applied in a number of Wall Street firms for some time now
As usual, though, you get what you pay for.
The free energy often comes in at a suboptimal angle, and half the time you can't even use it because there's a planet in the way.
Regardless of your opinion of him he really didn't deserve the hassle Sony put him through. And now they've admitted they were wrong about the very thing he cared about.

I don't know much about him, so I won't disagree with how you feel about him but I did follow the whole Sony/other OS mess and Sony was wrong. Wrong to get rid of those features and wrong to go after the people that tried to restore them.
The best models that predict surface temperatures that I've seen have to do with the deep sea ocean conveyors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulation). There's something like 3 major currents with periods measured in years, and their phase greatly influences global temperatures. One of the current theories that I find very convincing is that ice ages happen when one or more of these currents gets disrupted. If the heat from the equator stopped making it to the poles, you could start seeing massive glaciation start to happen. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/05...
It certainly did nothing good for the video-game industry. cough Daikatana cough

I think you're right, and the "rock star" pattern looks similar wherever it crops up, with similar fallout. It's only the tolerance for it which varies.
Agda is a programming language where "each program in it must terminate and all possible patterns must be matched. Without this feature, the logic behind the language becomes inconsistent, and it becomes possible to prove arbitrary statements."

Since all programs terminate, reasoning about arbitrary properties about said programs becomes decidable.
But imgur can control the maximum sized gifs allowed. And they even adopted webms to reduce file size massively.
More like don't be sloppy, and then complain.

How could anyone think that plaintext in draft Yahoo messages is secure? And then there's the metadata.
Linux Ubuntu
Emacs with https://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html

Ros (Robotics stack)

OpenCV (from source)

Caffe

PointCloud

Google benchmark and Google test

Linux perf tools (I am one crazy measuring geek)

GCC (latest version from source)

LLVM (Same ^^^)

and one that I don't use that much is radare2 since I am reverse engineering hobbyist.
> That makes drone parcel delivery all but impossible

Not if they launch it from an airship! A sky full of dirigibles here we come!
Thanks. Quick CTRL+F for "inlining" produces:

> Graph generation: Crankshaft builds the Hydrogen control flow graph using the AST, scope info, and type feedback data extracted from the full-compiled code. Inlining also happens at this stage. Hydrogen is Crankshaft's high-level architecture-independent intermediate representation.

> Inlining: Performed during the graph generation phase. The inlining heuristic is very simple: basically, if the function being called is known, and it is safe to inline, the function will be inlined. Large functions (>600 source characters including whitespace or 196 AST nodes) will not be inlined. Cumulatively, a total of 196 AST nodes can be inlined in a single function.

So they do use AST nodes as a heuristic; I don't really understand why they would also use "source characters including whitespace" though.

Guess I better keep my comments outside the function body from now on when possible.
More subjective journalism. We have 3 ways to listen to music from our phones, and Apple wants to remove the oldest technology. Who still cares about the 30-pin connector?

I'm happy to lose the headphone jack as I use Bluetooth in both the work car and my own car (which works very well), and I'm generally around other devices when I feel like listening.

I'm also tired of seeing the DRM argument. Maybe we should go back to analog signal transmission because clearly digital is mutually exclusive with DRM, and The Verge thinks HDCP is still a widespread issue.

The only argument against it, which was barely noted under point #5, is vendor-specific ports. At worst, you'll need to purchase a dongle the size of your fingertip to interchange, if you're use the same pair of headphones in different devices. You're paying $1000 for a phone and you're worried about a $20-30 dongle for your $60 headphones?
There should be no abuse - sexual or otherwise - in tech communities. Please call it out whenever you see it, in a polite but firm manner, and don't be afraid or intimidated by it. The vast majority of people will support you, and it's important to do so not only for your own protection but for others that might not be so willing or able to do the same.

That said, something about the tone of this blog post is utterly repellent to me and I'm struggling to put my finger on the reason why.
Extensive previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783711
time-to-saturation is also worth considering.
I'm a front end developer. That's not really an option.
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Supposedly he paid full price for his own cars too. Although I'm sure he can afford it without too many sacrifices.
They've already been stolen from the OPM hack a few years ago.
"Watch for smaller signs of boundary pushing and react strongly"

But we'd have to fire all the first-level problem report handlers of most of the open source projects I've dealt with.
> One of the authors of this post believed every first-person allegation of abuse and assault by Jacob Appelbaum – including the anonymous ones – immediately. Why? Among many other signs, she saw him break different, smaller rules in a way that showed his complete and total disregard for other people’s time, work, and feelings – and everyone supported him doing so. For example, she once attended a series of five minute lightning talks at the Noisebridge hackerspace, where speakers sign up in advance. Jacob arrived unannounced and jumped in after the first couple of talks with a forty-five minute long boring rambling slideshow about a recent trip he took. The person running the talks – someone with considerable power and influence in the same community – rolled his eyes but let Jacob talk for nine times the length of other speakers. The message was clear: rules don’t apply to Jacob, and even powerful people were afraid to cross him.

This is a really dangerous line of thinking. Just because someone is a "jerk" does not mean that they're a criminal and the burden of proof for accusations goes out the window. This whole post, and the site it links to reeks of vigilantism. If he really did do the things he's accused of (I've never heard of Jacob before so can't comment), he should be dealt with by the proper authorities. It's not up to employers to act as judge, jury and executioners.

I would also add that people who engage in these types of public witch hunts and calls for codes of conduct, new rules... are very much showing signs of the narcissism they claim to be against.
Optics for consumers, it feels more scummy to have one company advertise another than a company advertise itself. At least to me.

It also makes the accounting simpler and liability, this way no one is going to sue Tesla for giving too good a deal to Solar City, or the reverse.
Yes, this isn't even a real iris scanner, it's a picture as a password.

Could you save time by keeping the picture on dropbox and sending the same picture every time?
Every other machine learning competition I've seen is kind of one-off in nature. But stock market data is being generated all the time so I think there will always be new strategies to learn on Numerai.
A properly cooked seven bone chuck steak is a taste to behold, though. Far and away my favorite cut, with all of the marbling, on the grill. Obviously, not for you if you like your steak more than medium rare, though, since cooking it all the way through tends to make it tougher than hell.
I don't think most fingerprint with systems store actual fingerprints - think of it more like a hash, much like secure password storage. Stealing the data doesn't let you authenticate to other systems.
Jim Chanos is also short TSLA (which is down 12% right now). So we don't know what the net effect on his trade is.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/04/jim-chanos-im-short-tesla.htm...
I just spent an entire day porting. It wasn't fun at all.
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URLs allow users to share the thing they are looking at with someone else.
If the evidence supposedly came from Y! but in a fashion that would be impossible by Y!'s own descriptions of its "technology platforms", it's reasonable to wonder whether the evidence came from NSA instead. Seeking to clarify Y!'s position is part of that, and the fact that Y! refuses to respond is more curious yet.

Also this is drugs so it's a travesty whether the accused did it or not.
Make the most of the C/C++ static analysis tools
Thanks for the info, didn't really want to join, just wanted to know if security function like some other communities with sensitive information.
https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/

"Progressive web apps" is a relatively new term coined to describe mobile web apps that use modern APIs to behave more like native apps in the ways that matter to people.
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Worth noting: Katy Perry has more Twitter followers than anybody else in the world. If that's not mainstream, I don't know what is.
While it may be apocryphal, it's said that Drake described the equation as a means of "organizing our ignorance". That is, it's not meant to be applied literally, but rather as a means of focusing discussion on the relevant parameters. In that sense, I think it's been phenomenally successful.
If the crypto layer has proper MACs then presumably checksums at lower layers aren't so important. Did they give you much indication that they thought disk encryption would become standard?
Voted this up out of pure nostalgia. I remember the "spirited" usenet discussions we had with topmind/tablizer on comp.object. He was a one-man army fighting proponents of OO. There were actually some decent ideas buried in his ramblings about table-oriented programming but he was so abrasive nobody could deal with him. I'd be curious what became of him...
"Nope."

http://www.bungajungle.com/products/nope

I use these on my work machines, however I suggest placing the magnet combo vertically as opposed to horizontally like in the photo so that it defaults into that position.

[Yes I know I could get thin magnets much cheaper from somewhere else, I give them credit because they were the first one I found when looking for a solution a few years ago]
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode in which Bart and Millhouse bought an abandoned factory. I think they turned it into a skate park.
Is that confirmed? Do you have a source for that? Wow.
'Start with the assumption that harassment reports are true and investigate them thoroughly'

Sorry, what? We have this whole ideal of "innocent until proven guilty" in America (and many other places) so you can kindly take this nonsense elsewhere.
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The kids (at least teenagers) dig Tesla. A friend of mine owns one and the teenagers are church are always wrangling for rides.
Lots more people pay attention to cars than tech. Those people all know the nice Teslas they see all around cities.
Wouldn't it just mean that they appropriately react to demand for these two categories of tenants, short and long-term?
Looks good. Are you similar to New Relic? How do you compare?
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/guccifer-20-is-likely-a-ru...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cyber...
I've heard that brought up a lot with road expansions. What I haven't heard (and would assume) is that even if the delays stayed consistent your throughput (therefore economy) grows after the expansion, right?
I have tried a number of methods and workflows. The one that works best for me is Sublime Text and markdown with Marked 2 (http://marked2app.com/) setup as a build system in ST for previewing the markdown and exporting/printing the markdown file in a number of formats, eg. PDF, HTML, DOCX. I use DropBox for note portability and then I use ByWord (https://bywordapp.com/) on my iOS devices for editing and previewing.
John Romero was a rockstar, but his attitude only affected Ion Storm/Daikatana, not other people. And that was more than a decade ago.
Given that both companies have insane cash burn and negative cash flows. This would make me very worried if I'm an investor. Not that I wasn't worried before. There's a reason short interest in both companies is fairly high. Their financials are pretty bad.
Lack of bidets.
PBS Space Time did a great video on this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztninkgZ0ws
I agree, such abuse should be called out. I also agree that the way this article is written makes me want to disagree with it (even though the message on the surface is a good one).

It just sounds like "Just say no to rockstars!". Yes, it goes deeper, and outlines why rockstars are a problem, but the 'just say no' message makes me a bit uneasy.
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A fairly boring Op-ed with some dangerous ideas about automatic guilt, using twitter as a source...

Well, for you 4 disagreeing, give me your thoughts on this? At first pass it is exactly what I said.
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The CEO is his cousin, but he has recused himself of voting on the deal. I doubt the SEC & FTC will care; Wall Street on the other hand, I think they all see what this is about.
FWIW, mod removals don't remove content. They just filter it from the listings. If you have a url, the content and everything will still be there (for self posts, comments can only be seen by the author but the data is still on the server.)
Well California is also not a bad state for home solar projects ...
>The point wasn't that I recognize Tesla's,

>The point is that it's a very, very reasonable assumption that Tesla is more likely to be known by the average person than SolarCity.

These two things contradict each other. Why would Tesla be known by people that cannot recognize Teslas?
Remember, this is aimed at employers and open-source projects, not the justice system. Besides, what alternative are you suggesting? Start with the assumption that harassment reports are false, and throw them in the trash?
So… you're _creating_ the problem.
According to the announcement, Musk has recused himself from voting on this proposal on either side. It seems unlikely that the SEC would see funny business on Musk's part in a decision that was made by everyone except Musk.
Reworking entire organizations to deal with one jerk is overkill. Applebaum has a Wikipedia entry, which is worth reading.[1] He's been kicked out of the Tor Project, the Cult of the Dead Cow (an old and respected hacking group), and Noisebridge. They all seem to have dealt with the problem. But he does have his supporters.[2] Reading all this, it looks like a routine jerk problem. None of this has led to criminal charges. I dunno.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum
[2] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2858953/Statement...
>something about the tone of this blog post is utterly repellent to me and I'm struggling to put my finger on the reason why.

Points for honesty. Drawing from my own experience: sometimes this feeling happens for a reason, and sometimes it happens gratuitously when we encounter a perspective we're not used to hearing. As Daniel Kahneman (among many others) has pointed out: "familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth."
Sure, but if I can lease today's equipment for a short time, and then upgrade to tomorrow's equipment, and get the better performance, that might work out in my favor. I'm not out the full cost of the equipment today, needing to amortize that over 15 years.