skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite the opposite of remarkable - Clinton was not only the clear front-runner, she was ahead in all polls by a sizable margin (that Sanders caught up as much as he did is a credit to him).

Frame it as "DNC positions themselves as an ally of the predicted nominee given no strong challengers at that time" and it sounds pretty... normal.
That will be a tough battle considering that Musk himself owns 22% of SolarCity shares.
> What animals are harmed to help us get better lab-grown meat?

I'm assuming the acquisition of the original cells is not done at all kindly, (as in, I suspect the animal doesn't survive it), and that this is done many, many times before they perfect the process, but I'll admit that's an assumption on my part and it could be well within my ethical boundaries.

I don't plan to prejudge any options until I actually know, this was more of a hypothetical exercise that I've pondered now and again because I assume the day will come when it's actually real and the question will no longer be hypothetical. Knowing what matters to me then is better than trying to figure it out on the spot.
Tesla is a household name among everyone I know up and down the West Coast, and among every single car or motorcycle enthusiast I know.

But then, both your comments about Tesla and SolarCity seem to be feigning ignorance as a way to disguise your denigration. Hint: Solar (on-prem) is a way to deprive your electricity company of revenue, which is why they're not doing it.

Of course, they use it as some component of their electricity mix, and then bill you for it.
I am completely ignorant. So, it's going take a lot more than three books :) How about I blindly guess at my own answer and ask for alternatives?

1) Start with books like: How To Read A Book, Thinking Fast and Slow

2) Then, move on to books like: The Secret of Childhood, Instead of Education, Mindstorms

3) Then, you are ready for: Flow, The Children's Machine

Thanks for coming back to answer more questions.

If you've missed 'Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind', I do recommend it. IMHO, Gladwell's Blink was HBTM with most of the material replaced with funny stories.
Then why would an ice age ever happen?
Almost half a million people pre-ordered the model 3 so the brand definitely has some awareness and clout. Sure, those aren't assured buyers, but they are people willing to put down 1k for a car reservation. The amount of people who are still interested in Tesla beyond purchasing a car in the near future is some degree larger than that.

That sort of following and interest can help Solar get more well known, and not to mention further integration with Tesla can quicken drivers along to SolarCity products.

Not to mention, everyone I know has heard of Tesla. You must have interesting friends!
It is hard to beat using Prolog for whipping out interpreters. Like Lisp, you get to use symbols in terms, plus you also get to use Prolog's ability to use infix operators to create terms:

eval(X,X) :- number(X).
eval(X+Y,Z) :- eval(X,X1), eval(Y,Y1), Z is X1+Y1.
eval(X*Y,Z) :- eval(X,X1), eval(Y,Y1), Z is X1*Y1.

main :- write("Enter an arithmetic expression followed by a dot \".\" and a newline\n"),
prompt(_Old,>),
repl.

repl :- read(Input),
eval(Input,Answer),
print(Answer), nl,
repl.

You might like:

https://www.metalevel.at/lisprolog/

http://www.swi-prolog.org/

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Prolog-Advanced-Programming-Techn...
Did you try the "CMIzapper Brutus"? It claims to work on models as recent as 2015 and 2016. Might be worth emailing the apparent maker anyway: info@cmizapper.com .
I (omnivore) actually find Quorn chicken nuggets better than the real chicken ones you get in supermarket somehow.
The Buddhist Monk Using Age-Old Wisdom to Shape Robotics
Anything other than TSLA going down would make no sense. This is what happens to prices in M&A. 1. TSLA is paying over market. 2. Were the deal to occur all kinds of additional risks are incurred, such as failed integration. 3. The deal may not even happen.
Thank you for making an accurate reply. It is worth noting that the situation in LA is very different than in SF -- people may be using the state of affairs in SF as a comparative, and it's just not the same: there is now and has been much more intensive housing development in LA.

Certainly there are many NIMBYs in LA, but the regulations in LA are not tilted as strongly against development as they are in SF. In the past years, there has been a lot of infill development in Hollywood (especially), mid-Wilshire, and around downtown. It has been encouraged by changes in zoning regulations that lift some parking and density rules, especially along transit corridors. These changes have been supported by two mayors now, and by most of the City Council. (One of the sued parties in the OP had units in mid-Wilshire, and another in Hollywood; the other two were in Venice.)

Here's a very selective overview of some new Hollywood projects: http://urbanize.la/post/hollywood-construction-binge-revisit... -- but the story is similar in many other neighborhoods.

The resulting density increases have caused considerable gnashing of teeth among older residents, who think of LA as a city of single family residences. There is going to be a proposition on the ballot soon, seeking restrictions on this development, and it's not clear where things will shake out (http://la.curbed.com/2016/1/21/10844688/los-angeles-anti-dev...). I don't see it passing, but it's too early to be sure.

It's also worth saying that it's often poor renters who are forced out by these changes -- their little three-story apartment building is torn down and replaced by a 6-story mixed-use building. That's the message the City Attorney is trying to get across to landlords.
I guess traffic gets a lot cheaper beyond a certain volume. I suspect it's dollars/TB to cents/TB? So they can cut prices for their offerings and have more revenue and growth due to paying less for the traffic. Having these volumes of data also allows them to approach potential clients with some solid data (e.g. we serve 1/5 of image clicks on the net every day and below 20ms response time... I have no data, just speculation)

I could imagine that imgur traffic paid for itself.
What the press release talks about is combined installation of solar panels and Tesla home infrastructure (charging station + Powerwall). I think that speaks to the sales perspective too - it could be very easy to upsell the (incoming) Tesla customer to a Tesla + SolarCity installation, for a lower CAC than the usual SolarCity sale.
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Bruno_Giordano.html

Yip your right, my mistake, good to learn. Least none can name and was indeed thinking of Bruno at the time, my bad.

Thank you for the correction and sorry for the misconception correction by me.
Presumably global cooling accelerates cooling.

I think the point is that deviation from some 'normal' global temperature catalyzes or inhibits greenhouse gas proliferation. (At least in the positive direction, I haven't read it so I don't know if their proposal supports this.)
In iOS, I cannot copy a block of text from within an SMS message that I have received. I can only copy the entire block of text. I end up pasting it into Notes, and THEN selecting only the text that I want, which I then paste into its final destination app.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11947747 and marked it off-topic.
You're not talking about smart people, you're talking about "smart" people, who are clearly not that smart if they're doing such obviously stupid things.
I'd disagree, there are several packages that make it relatively beginner friendly (Mailinabox, sovereign) -- everyone has to learn some how. There are also lots of good tutorials, and one of the great pleasures of setting up a mailserver is once you've done it you can reuse the configs. It is a great learning experience for relative novices and "greybeards" alike.

You've just cut the number of people who can do it your way down to <1000 people (or may as well). No normal person, who wants to learn how to setup a mailserver and be successful at it, is going to drop ~$5k on a server or know people who run T1/T2 datacenters and are willing to pop you in a cage for free.

Your last sentences dismisses everyone who doesn't do things to your impossible standards as a waste.

You're basically saying no one should run a mailserver, or learn how, or be given the opportunity to learn how. Which is sad.
Please don't be rude in comments here, even if another comment was unsubstantive.

When responding to a bad comment, try to raise the quality of the thread instead of lowering it further. If you can't or don't want to do that, please just don't post anything.
I just hope they find that last vending machine that has Mingus Dew...
He's expanding the stack of technologies and resources he can directly control. First there was the car, but the car is only useful with good batteries, enough service stations, and cheap power. Step 1, open service stations and provide cheap power. Step 2, integrate the batteries so you can control production and reduce cost. Step 3, integrate power generation so you can control cost of that cheap power you are providing.

This is the equivalent of Ford buying Exxon (which already includes the service stations), and then offering cheaper gas to all Ford customers. Who doesn't think that would influence at least some people (or companies! Fleets of cars!)
Show HN: Jasper – The Issue Reader for GitHub like as an email client
The FBI et al issue NSL's without a court order and on their own prerogative correct?

In that case the FBI can get a warrant like the constitution they swore to uphold demands of them.

I'm tired of people bending over backwards for unconstitutional poppycock like warrant-less surveillance. It's a fundamental part of the supreme law of the land, the constitution!
If you were here even as recently as 2010, you'd have been scared to drive in OTR in broad daylight. This isn't an exaggeration at all. Attempted car jackings were pretty common.
Is there a version of poe's law for hacker news / slashdot?

A large company describes their very real efforts and shares their experience and knowledge, and the first comment is "Why not use <preferred thing> instead?".
Jeep offers software update for known malfunction after death of Anton Yelchin
So a landlord pulled an illegal dick move and is being sued for it by the city in accordance with their laws. Why is this newsworthy?

Oh right, because putting "sued" and "airbnb" in the title equals clicks, despite Airbnb having jack shit to do with this case beyond being the unfortunate 3rd party.
In this case, you could get pretty up-to-date on the zeitgeist of this stuff just by subscribing to DailyDave.
At least for the US, you can check out USPS CASS. I can't tell you about the rest of the world, but I'd bet bet that the EU has something similar.
I would be interested to know if they are claiming that

1) it will be harder to undo the changes we caused
or
2) greenhouse gas changes occurred as a result of temperature change

or some other combination of things.
Can you elaborate? I'm not sure how failing to realize that tech is accelerating relates to the content of this thread.
Oh! Thanks! I will post to "Show HN".
> Tinder girls ignoring me!

Highly recommend the book Modern Love. It's funny and entertaining, but it will also make you feel better/differently about online dating.
Couldn't you in theory solve it by using high quality originals and manipulate the compression algorithm to introduce controlled noise that then decodes to your message? That way you can make the noise look more natural than with approaches like modifying existing compressed files.
What? I've lived in the Bay Area, the midwest, Texas, and Los Angeles, and have seen Tesla's daily almost every day, yet have legitimately never spoken to anyone who has ever even worked with SolarCity
Good question.

At the beginning of my work day, I open Emacs with Cider installed, and start a JVM inside there using Cider (M-x cider-jack-in), and do all my work in the same JVM all day.

Because we make heavy use of immutability, it's easy to completely tear down all our existing namespaces and the single global variable representing the app, reload all namespaces and their functions, recreate a new app instance, and start it. And I bound all this to Cmd-R in Emacs.

So any time I make a change to our web app during development, I just hit Cmd-R and it reloads the entire app in about 0.2 seconds. I don't even notice it, honestly.

This is better than what we used to do, which was to poll the disk for changes to any files, and reload them when they've changed. That was much harder on the disk, and half the time I'm saving, I'm not ready for its code to be reloaded yet anyway.

For tests, we just use Cider's built-in features, which let us either run the tests whose code changed, or all tests, depending on what we want to test.
Calculating the Quality of Vintage Slide Rules (2008)
There's a difference between general recursion and bounded recursion, and you can very easily constrain recursive functions to terminate, especially if you're in control of the data they must pass around.
I get that, but do they really need to buy solarcity to do that partnership? Why would SCTY not just become a sales channel for TSLA?
So, wait, what exactly is the common source of bugs? How does writing tests passing the incorrect types to function help catch them?
> This is the equivalent of Ford buying Exxon

Henry Ford wasn't a founder of Exxon. Musk is a founder of SolarCity.
That's what I meant by "something more problematic is happening." If a hacker can turn on Mark Zuckerberg's camera without having the light turn on, then there's a big problem, and it needs to be rectified to a greater extent than just covering up the camera.
I heard on a podcast that the VS code guys were anti tabs as it usually quickly ends up in that pile of tab clutter with tab labels like "Be.."

I've also got used to this new method and think it is generally better.

Glad to see they are listening to their users though! :)

I hope tabs supports splits - sometimes I have a three way split where each file I'm working on is in the 'right' place. Then I need to look at a few files for reference and I usually wreck my layout. Tabs could be a good solution for this.
Assuming MySQL meets their needs there's no hugely compelling reason to choose PostgreSQL over MySQL.
No there's more to it than diet. Similar findings have been found in multiple studies. There is evidence to indicate that this is why pre-menopausal women have a lower risk of heart disease than men and post-menopausal women (after controlling for other differences).
Nice! If you're looking for another fun challenge, make your language compile into bytecode and execute that instead of an AST. :)
A very interesting topic is how the details of Earth's orbit at any one time affect the change in global temperature. You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
Yea, all I could think was "Elon Musk founded company offers to purchase Elon Musk founded company that has run out of money"
I was excited to see something like this (my mom has been needing one), but when I saw the price I thought the same thing. Why not get a professionally installed one that's more convenient and harder for someone to steal for the same price?
Planes Fly from Canada to Antarctica for Dramatic South Pole Rescue
Is there such a thing as an insufficiently complex face?

Also what do you do if you're in a fire?
Them calling 'out on my BS' doesn't make it any less of a general agent if you train it sufficiently with enough games. If you consider yourself a 'general agent' who can play games with reasonable scores, I will ask you this. If I give you a new game you've never played, how will you score compared to your favorite game which you played a lot in your childhood? With the favorite game, you basically remember the gameplay and you use it when you play again. So is this me 'calling you out on your BS' at your ability to play games because you remembered your gameplay? The same way that I'm suggesting that a general agent remember its gameplay and use it to make a general game playing agent?

I really doubt we will see an agent which can be an expert at a game without even doing some computations which can fall into a grey area which people consider to be game specific computation and not general gameplay. The general agent which you are thinking of, which can be the best at a game without any thinking (about what its game playing process should be) is a fantasy. It will definitely need to have a 'gameplan' which it can get by simulating the outcomes without actually playing it.
What if you know it won't be (such as a condition of the offer being incompatible with a prior contract you know about on the other side)? At what point does it cross from marketing to market manipulation? Both have an intended side effect. Just increased media exposure for a period could be a side effect.

I'm not making a case, I'm actually wondering.
WoW. Exactly like a job I almost took but luckily bailed out of as a teenager... still causes shudders, thinking about being on either side of that relationship :-O
Then why is SolarCity failing so direly that they're reduced to their founder using his other company to bail them out?
I dunno, I mean, I'm sure you could learn to build internal combustion engines through trial and error, assembling them, letting them run, listening, stopping them, and opening them up again...

... But wouldn't it be even better to learn by assembling one with transparent materials and a magic device that could "pause" the whole engine at an arbitrary point in time?

While it's true that it will enable some students to simply "fiddle until it works" without understanding, I think that's a small price to pay for the benefit it brings to the genuinely-curious students.
Employers say more workers are leaving without giving two weeks’ notice
Sorry. I didn't mean to say directly that "Guccifer2" might not be a credible source. More, sort of slyly imply it.
What it means to be the Chief of Staff at an a16z startup
I can't see how "power efficiency" can be different from "speed" in the context of a CPU decompressor algorithm. Care to explain?
I grew up in Cincinnati and was in OTR during the riots, albeit in a third floor secure apartment. It wasn't nearly as bad as the press coverage made it out to be... mostly a bunch of stupid kids trying to smash and grab. But the bad press definitely ruined OTR's economic prospects for a decade.
And only numeric.....
Recent research (along with past research) has cast doubt on the plausibility of extreme speed reading [1].

I don't mean to contradict Alan; no doubt he's a fast reader. But if you're actually reading an entire book every day or two, you're spending a lot of every day reading.

[1] http://psi.sagepub.com/content/17/1/4
“The Democratic National Committee remains neutral in this primary, based on our rules,” Wasserman Schultz said.

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/dnc_chair_democratic_na...

Obviously, what the DNC says publicly and what the DNC does does not line up.
you would be able to deploy and consume energy in the most efficient and sustainable way possible, lowering your costs and minimizing your dependence on fossil fuels and the grid

Naive question: Why is minimizing dependency on the grid more sustainable? Doesn't connecting with the grid allow you to distribute excess power more evenly?
I really hope you are joking, because what you are describing is basically the business model of Ponzi schemes.
> -as an investment, bitcoin is fundamentally a ponzi scheme.

I don't believe you know what a ponzi scheme is if you think this because it's not remotely true. From google:

a form of fraud in which belief in the success of a nonexistent
enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick
returns to the first investors from money invested by later
investors.

There is no fraud in bitcoin, no phony investment with lying and paying out returns from later investor money. Absent fraud and a nonexistent fake "investment", something isn't a ponzi scheme. Early investors making money from the rise in value of something does not make something a ponzi scheme, that's how all investments work. There is nothing fraudulent about bitcoin and thus it is not remotely a ponzi scheme.

> s a money (store of value and measure of value), there is a fundamental issue that there exists no mechanism whatsoever that would stabilize it's value (against neither a typical consumption basket, nor USD or any other currency)

Absolutely true, but by design, they don't want a stable value, they want a fixed amount of currency and want value to fluctuate via supply and demand. Bitcoin is inherently anti-keynesian by design. This is why it'll never be more than a commodity.
2018 news article: Hackers steal 1.8 million fingerprint records from BigBank

Great, so now they can use those fingerprints to log into every other system that also requires my fingerprint. I guess I'll just have to change it... oh wait
Here's a TL;DR for your TL;DR.

Real estate development corp invests $500 million into gentrifying an area.
I did not try that exact model, no. I don't see how that (or anything else) could get around the throttling limit.
Overreact much? One guy did some shit. Maybe a bunch of people did some shit. GTFO with your moral policing and let the real police handle any crimes.
This is a great piece of advice. Thank you very much. I'll try and investigate this opportunity.

Anyway, if you're interested most of the code in the web-service relies on:

http://github.com/alediaferia/prefixmap
There are two different regulatory things going on here. The first is a tax rebate for installing solar. The second is a policy requiring utilities to purchase excess energy from people with solar installations. My interpretation of the article you linked was that the utilities were attempting to conflate these by arguing that the money to pay consumers for their excess power originated from the public, and that they're attempting to place caps and how much energy can be sold back to the grid and don't care much about the installation subsidies.

From what I can tell, the biggest jumps in Solar City's business were when the caps on excess power were lifted. Which makes sense. Rebates are nice and reduce their risk and increase how deep they can go in, but increasing the net metering cap from 3% to 10% more than triples their revenue and cuts their return period to a third what it was. Those caps are not subsidized, in fact often being implemented as trivial accounting tricks where a user gets credits during the day that they can spend that night or next month.
…that's why I use both Backblaze and Time Machine.
IS recruitment algorithm discovered,Researchers apply laws of physics to pre
In retrospect I find this 3-days-old publication quite... amusing)) "... I [SC CEO and Musk cousin L. Rive] asked, 'Elon, hey can I have a family discount' and his answer is, 'Yeah absolutely. Go to TeslaMotor.com, buy the car online, and the price you see there is the family discount,'" Rive told Tech Insider. "Everyone gets a family discount."

So there you have it: Musk does not believe in preferential treatment for family members.

"I give Elon credit beyond the fact of being the best entrepreneur in the world — he treats everyone the same. Everyone. There’s no nepotism at all," Rive said.
http://mobile.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-response-when-so...