skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what we're concluding is that a company has difficulty remaining competitive unless it fully abuses the system within which it operates? Hmm...
Most blacks who migrated to cities from the south after the war were met with at the very least skepticism, though usually outright racism and violence.

Between the beginning of this general 'migration' to urban areas and the MLK riots, white people became increasingly 'motivated' to move to the suburbs, which led over time to the urban centers deteriorating until they were completely unstable, usually necessitating rescue by the state [affordable housing, food stamps, etc]. Eventually a trickle of white development/business starts the reverse process of gentrification.

I am not aware of a single case of increase in urban development having a net benefit to the black community, mainly because they are almost never the target demographic for that development.

When people complain about shitty urban areas full of blight, homeless, mentally unstable, crime, etc, they're basically complaining about the state of the urban center which white people created when they moved out decades ago.
I don't really feel like defending my state on Hacker News, but I would like a citation for the notion that we survive by giving out tons of speeding tickets. At the very least, income tax is a much bigger contributor than speeding tickets.
> Still can't believe the fact that they let people walk away with a subsidised phone

Did they ? The cheapest one was $599 initially. I don't feel that's the price of a subsidized phone. After a few months the price was dropped by $200, but that was to accelerate sales and capture a bigger market share.

Their pricing & sales model was unconventional, both for AT&T as well as customers, because the device was unique in so many ways back then.
well, overall it's better than gitlab is open source than not, and also better that they have money and dedicated developers than not. i wouldn't take away either of these things from the {product,project}
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Did you just utilize an analogy concerning destruction to make a point about production?
He's definitely worked in “suspect” environmental industries (industrial), but his flagship product (intellipipe; look it up) was an engineering marvel in redefining how to get oil with far less land disruption. One could look at that with a scant eye, and I wouldn't judge. I intend to ask him at some point how he maintains that seeming contradiction in his mind.

He's said it himself (in other articles), though tongue in cheek, he plans to die broke.

But he's simultaneously investing in multiple technology innovations, hoping to forward the cause. (My words, not his.)
I'm lost. Between the parentheses it says one has paid "full price", and therefore unsubsidized (or so I would assume if I paid the full retail price for a phone).
or more complete one:

alias e='emacsclient -c -n $opt -a nano'

alias ne='emacsclient -t $opt -a nano'

se() { emacsclient -c -n $opt -a emacs "/sudo::$" }

sne() { emacsclient -t $opt -a emacs "/sudo::$" }

alias vim=emacs #just kidding!!!!
There is also CBFS from Eldos -> https://www.eldos.com/cbfs/ - (commercial)
shhh, everyone knows ford is an antiquated company run by morons who think a computer is just a fancy light box and tesla is going to run them out of business within 5 years.
> They collected all this data for one task, lane keeping. They subdivided the problem of autonomous driving, and managed to solve one small subproblem (the easiest subproblem of autonomous driving, solved for decades already). They avoided the need for annotators, but only because they used specialized purpose-built cameras to augment the data.

So why not several autonomous subsystems that use specialized purpose-built cameras and don't need annotators? I'm not saying that like it's easy - obviously it's not. Just seems scalable.
The telecoms make more money when people use more data. Why would they lobby Congress to do something that could result in less data usage?
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You don't realize that many people (less since 2008 albeit) use home price increases as a piggy bank via home equity lines of credit.

Personally I think it's financially absurd, but then again I'm a single guy. If I had 2 kids in college, a spouse that just lost a job, medical emergency, I could see how tempting home equity might be.
They're already cheap (see elsewhere in this thread for links). Tesla has opted not to implement them because Elon thinks LIDAR isn't needed [1]. Of course without LIDAR you get situations like autopilot running into white tractor trailers because it can't see them...

[1] http://9to5google.com/2015/10/16/elon-musk-says-that-the-lid...
Suburbs destroy public life, create anxiety and a sense of atomization, and turn natural spaces into scar tissue. Even if you could perfect transportation technology, suburbs are the least optimal configuration for humans to live in the world.
Clearly you haven't walked around SF very much... I've only been twice and I see it everywhere. The Tenderloin is probably the most concentrated.
It's a good sense thing. Probably means "Don't take steps to use ZFS for data integrity if you don't use simpler, lower level precautions".
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> They cause zero pollution when you have solar panels on your roof and the car is properly scrapped after you're done with it.

Unless you factor in manufacturing.
> We cannot use the Linux kernel's built in crypto api because it is only exported to GPL-licensed modules.

What a strange choice by the Linux kernel.
Wait wait. So:

1. White people commit racism and violence against blacks

causes

2. White people flee to the suburbs

causes

3. Urban centers to deteriorate.

Let's examine:

1->2 So white people were fleeing... their own violence against blacks?

2->3 So when those violent people left, this cause the areas to get... worse?

Apparently you believe white people being present is a problem, and white people leaving is a problem. Their presence hurts blacks, and when they leave it hurts blacks too. So literally everything is the fault of white people, whether they're coming or going, here or there.

Even more surreal - these blacks voluntarily moved towards the whites. Then the whites moved to escape the blacks. And the bad guys here are... the whites! The ones who blacks want to live around, and who are trying to flee them.

It really is remarkable the rationalizations a mind is capable of.
I'm actually quite a walker and there are only a few neighborhoods that seem bad, the Tenderloin is one of them. Maybe it's cuz I'm from Detroit.
Wait, explain to me slowly how it's white-people's fault that an area deteriorates after they move out. Generally the absence of a person means they relinquish responsibility for what goes on in a place that they aren't occupying, at least in my fragile, tiny mind.
Joseph's plat was not a "plan". It was a record of something he thought he saw. It was specific to a time and a place. The inscription recited in the linked article to "spread this throughout the world" is made contingent upon it actually being reflective of the layout of Zion in the next clause, and was intended for a time when Zion is a real thing.

I want to distance these plans from Mormonism simply because the project has no meaningful relationship to it. There is no problem whatsoever with Hall drawing inspiration from an old document drawn out by Joseph Smith et al, I take no umbrage with that. The issue is the attempt to pretend that it is some realization of Joseph's intent or visions, some significant step forward in the creation of the Zion of scripture (which, for the record, is mostly defined in the Bible).

NewVistas is one man's plan for a city he thinks will work well. He may even believe the plan has some divine sanction over it, which is fine. I wish him luck in his attempts to lawfully build his ideal city.

What I do not wish to see is the false association, the false significance, ascribed to this project, merely based on Hall's assertion that he drew inspiration from a document authored by Smith. It creates the false impression that Mormons will accept this as religiously significant, and they don't and won't, because it isn't.
autonomous or not, taking the bus is still going to be a craptacular experience.
100% agreed. Everything is someone else's fault. Nothing is ever my fault.

Because someone had it easy by a fluke of luck, I deserve to have it easy too, and if I don't, that is that persons fault.
No UK, Japan or Antarctica either.
I think your post and mine must have waved to each other when they passed in The Tubes :-)
It's not quite here yet. I've been following this since the DARPA Grand Challenge, when we had to use a huge SICK LMS just to get a line scanner. There are now several affordable indoor line scanners. Outdoor sunlight-tolerant systems cost more. 3D scanners, which scan in multiple planes, are still expensive. There are some MEMS devices coming along. Flash LIDAR will probably win out in the end, once someone does the sensor IC development to get the price down from $100K.

Back in 2003, I dragged a VC down to see Advanced Scientific Concepts in Santa Barbara. They make the best flash LIDAR. But they were happy being a DoD and aerospace contractor, selling expensive one-offs. The Dragon spacecraft uses an ASC flash LIDAR to dock with the space station. DARPA buys their units. But their price point is around $100K. There's no inherent reason it has to be that expensive, but it takes custom sensor ICs made in small quantities. Last March, Continental AG (German tire/brake/auto parts company) bought the technology from ASC.[1] We'll have to see how that works out. This is the right technology if the price point can be brought down.

[1] http://www.spar3d.com/news/lidar/flash-lidar-company-acquire...
Earth-Moon-Earth or exotic digital modes are also a possibility. EME is impossible to triangulate if you're using a suitably directional antenna. A creative interpretation of the Shannon-Hartley theorem allows for communication below the noise floor using low symbol rates and wide bandwidth. LF and below is difficult to triangulate because of the huge wavelengths, but a workable antenna would be rather conspicuous. You might also get lucky with meteor scatter or sporadic E.
You are arguing from a high horse because that's how the human mind came to be and look where it's gotten us.
For comparison probably a good start is the API (I'm somewhat familiar with dokan, used it several years ago for some project)

https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/blob/master/inc/winfsp...

https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/blob/master/dokan/dokan....

It's really the edge cases that one might run into, where things no longer work well, but I don't recall right now into what problems I've run into (What I did was for the xbox360 devkit to read files from my HDD, rather to copy to it, as was required by the sdk, but I've achieved only 5mb/s, while copying was 10mb/s - the only benefit was if you wanted to read on demand, a bit and for fun).

Sony later used dokan for their devkit in PS4 I think?
just found some info here: http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/File_System_Driver
I've been here over 5 years and can concur the Mission is a hotspot for broken car windows, stolen bikes, and muggings.
There's more than lithium in the batteries, and other components such as Cobalt or Arsenic are not exactly nontoxic. On balance however, lithium ion batteries are less toxic than alternatives.

Realistically, at present most EV owners will not charge their cars from solar panels but from the utility mains and that means coal-generated electricity in many if not most areas.

Car manufacturing involves a tremendous investment of energy to mine and produce steel, aluminum, rubber, plastics, and electronics. Recycling itself consumes more energy, and in many cases raw virgin product is cheaper than recycled.

Not driving is impractical. Driving less, when possible, is worth considering.

Right now if you need to buy a car, the most environmentally friendly choice is probably a used (no new manufacturing) fuel-efficient conventional car.
There's a lot more going on than that. If that's not obvious then I'd expect its because you haven't investigated the issues. Black communities and neighborhoods are specifically targeted for destruction and/or acquisition.
Black families and communities have born the brunt of the War on Drugs. A community is not going to do well when a large swath of its fathers are rounded up, caged, and permanently barred from living a life of dignity.
Well, Microsoft's mission statement was once "A computer on every desk, running Microsoft software." Mission accomplished, 20 years ago.
A digression from the mainstream discussion.

I woke up this morning feeling sullen (many factors involved). I didn't feel like going to work. I could hardly get out of bed. I just sat for a few minutes staring in the vacuumn. Something told me to check Hacker News (I am trying to avoid it in morning), and the top link was this. I went through it twice. It instilled hope and enthusiasm in me. I woke up in an instant and rushed to work to do great stuff.

Thanks for the article I am typing this at work, else would have wasted the day filled with self-loathing and despair. Hang in there guys, it gets better. Do Great Stuff.
> Nearly 1 in every 5 homes sold in Salt Lake County were in Daybreak.

Or a clear mark that new residents to Salt Lake County affiliated with the church were strongly encouraged to move there.

Given the ties I expect that is much more likely than some indication of quality.
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It's hard to talk abot homelessness wihtout getting lampooned.

Most people choose to ignore it, thinking it's doing the homeless a favor.

In reality SF is actually very generous to the homeless, which is why they are here. Many, if not most, beg for money and can make quite a bit which is used to buy drugs (food is not hard to find in SF, for free).

I walk down a part of the civic center area almost daily and the drug dealer on one of the streets (who is there every day, same guy) is always doing business with the local homeless.
The railroad didn't get finished until a few years after the Civil War. Prior to that, going west would involve considerable capital expenses (if you've played Oregon Trail, you know you need oxen/horses, a wagon, parts, food, etc, etc). Kind of hard for freedmen in the wake of the Civil War, in devastated Southern territory, 40 acres and a mules notwithstanding, to scrape up that initial investment.
If you liked that go read Elon's biography or the WaitButWhy series!
I thought SolarCity's competitive advantage was solar leasing [1]. Which would mean they're sacrificing upfront profits for longer term gains and any dollar spent now would very likely mean profits in the future. I haven't paid enough attention to see how well that's going.

Oh, and I've heard Tesla described as "a battery company that makes cars." Solar is also tightly coupled with battery tech since without it they're a lot less useful. Maybe that's the synergy?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarCity#Solar_leasing
Do you think any of this has to do with the fact that it was illegal to teach Blacks to read and write.

Do you think any of this has to do with the mental trauma of enslavement.

Do you think the Emancipation Proclamation or the 13th Amendment make all the bad things go away.

Ubiquitous discrimination grinds on the soul. Do you blame the oppressed for being ground down?
Well.... public transportation requires infrastructure which is not always around. In the south-east USA, for instance, there are public buses here and there but they rarely go for more than a few miles, and there are no trains or subways to travel mid-distance or between cities.

So grey-hound or car rentals are your best bet unless you already own a car.
in 99% of my experience the services aren't a real distributed system anyway

What is a real distributed system?
You have to play the Bay Area real estate game - which is itself a gamble - but always begins with buying less than you eventually want. This is what gets frustrating talking RE with folks, especially younger ones -- of COURSE you can't buy Barbie's American Dream House in one of the most competitive real estate markets in the world, you're 30 and don't have rich parents.

I'm a huge fan of getting out of Silicon Valley. Cashing in on BigCo salary for a few years and then buying a house in TX/PA/wherever in cash is a totally valid game plan. I think it's hilarious that our industry essentially invented modern telecommuting yet uses it so rarely.

As an aside, $250k may get you a nice house in PA, but the salaries are correspondingly lower. If you can't get paid substantially more in the Bay Area there's really no good reason to be/stay/move here since everything's so expensive.
That makes a lot of sense and I think answers my question. Thanks!!
Solomonoff induction goes from program to output to prediction weighted by program's length. It never goes from type of prediction to shortest equivalent program. It doesn't need to compute Kolmogorov complexities.

(Well, more specifically, approximations to it with time cutoffs don't have to compute Kolmogorov complexities. Raw Solomonoff induction already trivially runs into the halting problem.)
"Are you trying to blame the people at the end of the failed distribution channel for the failings of the people further up the chain while failing to account for the nuances of a global market with multiple ways that it can fail for any one country"

"Yes"
The article is not about testing on living creatures or about iterative refinement - it is about having the right unit tests to make sure that the iterative refinement predicts better the effect on living creatures.
I am indeed a well meaning software engineer who write stuff I know little about. That is because I don't think I can quit my day job and study biochemistry for a decade. What I can do is point out similarities between stuff I do know about and the field of drug development. If you don't find this useful or it doesn't trigger any new ideas (maybe totally different than the ones raised in my article) - then read on to the next one.
The operative word is "theoretically." It remains to be demonstrated that thousands of independent autonomous vehicles can really operate in congested areas more effectively than human drivers.

AFAIK none of the current autonomous control technology coordinates in any way with other vehicles or any kind of central control facility. Human drivers using Waze is probably the closest approximation of that to date.
> 1. They'll be able to line the entire trailer with batteries

But that's an enormous inversion of expense that falls on the trailer owners. The tractor-trailer model works so well because it concentrates complexity and cost in the tractor.

At present trailers are mechanically fairly simple and require only routine servicing with a basic toolkit. They draw power from their tractor. An owner can maintain a fleet of trailers to match their peak demand and are immediately available. Just charter a tractor and away they go.

Battery-equipped trailers will be much more complex, heavy and maintenance-intensive. More expensive but with a smaller payload and prolonged periods of unavailability whilst charging. The cost of haulage charters will have to reduce by magnitudes to make that an attractive preposition.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12132810
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Any organization that designs a system ... will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure

— M. Conway
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Ford is subsidised by 100 million year-old bottled, well, barreled, sunlight.

(Tesla's subsidised by lithium salt concentrations in Bolivia, but that's a rather smaller overall subsidy.)
If you don't speed much, they don't. The owner of the registration (license plate) gets an "anonymous ticket" and as long as you pay, they don't bother identifying the driver.

If you don't pay, or if you drive significantly faster than allowed, the police starts an investigation to determine the driver, which starts by sending a form letter to the owner of the registration, asking them who drove the car. As far as I know it's a manual process, and I'm not sure the photo is actually used; the photo is mainly just proof in case people claim it wasn't them.
Really? Reading that description, I know it's the Fillmore.
The thing about Julia is that it's playing a whole different ballgame than pretty much every other popular language today...it's just that most people don't realize it yet! The work and design that's gone into Julia's type system and multiple dispatch has the potential to be a real game-changer, but outside of a core community putting it to good use, I don't think it's potential has been fully realized.

This is also why I'm excited by what's coming next in v2.0. Some of the early ideas being explored at JuliaCon with respect to traits and interfaces will begin to really shine a spotlight on its true power.
As someone who's been adding schema.org to organization location pages to try and fix a possible Google Maps NLP bug[0], I can say that if Google or others ever improved their testing/analytics tools, they'd get much more adoption internet-wide on this kind of stuff. Particularly if it showed up prominently with some NLP or Google-fu inside the Developer Tools console.

I mean, if Google My Business can show me what hours and info it pulled out of my site, why can't it also suggest an editor and code snippet to use to embed that as Schema.org LD+JSON? Sorry for going off on a tangent, but it's been days since I added LD+JSON structured data and I only just yesterday learned that some parts of Google (but not the testing tool) only recognize LD+JSON inside the head of a page. There's no immediate feedback from Google whether the data I added is actually useful or not to any part of the Borg.

I think if you wanted better data, as an entity, you could easily push the engineers behind websites to give it to you. It starts with the tooling and encouragement, though.

In this specific example, I bet Google Maps via GTFS knows plenty. Now if only GTFS could be updated to use webpages and some form of Schema.org, we'd have a standard for knowledge, right? ;-) [see Footnote 3]

[0]: I'm adding the data to try and resolve a Google Maps bug where searches for "Toronto Public Library" are instantly featuring only one of the 100 branches of the library, the one closest to Toronto City Hall. Examples[1][2]. I'm now beginning to suspect NLP, since when I search for "Toronto Public Library near me" it works as intended, but when I do just "Toronto Public Library", I think it wants to find libraries closest to Toronto, and picks City Hall Branch automatically. It also is linked, strangely, to the Wikipedia entry on the Toronto Reference Library, a different branch entirely. My Schema.org is an attempt at disambiguation using parentOrganization and subOrganization references, but if the problem is the name Toronto Public Library and how Google choses to interpret that, then there's not much I can do to change it, can I?

[1]: https://www.google.ca/maps/?q=Toronto+Public+Library

[2]: https://www.google.ca/maps/?q=Toronto+Public+Library+near+No...

[3]: GTFS used to, maybe not now, but at least when I last had to read it, required mapping transit agency specifics to general Maps fields, so for example, the Heading data would lack semantic meaning but looked good in Google Maps if you put the route in it, etc.
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