skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very curious what the pickup offering will be like, and compare to existing offerings from the big 3, since it is a "a new kind of pickup truck". I think the segment of the pickup market that is mostly an SUV, but occasionally needs to haul/tow stuff could be well served by Tesla. They also have plans for a semi, so maybe they'll actually be able to compete for actual work trucks that haul/tow on a regular basis too; but the energy density of the battery compared to gasoline/diesel makes me doubtful.
You appear to be arguing against your impression of what I said, instead of what I actually said. What I gave was practical advice for how to have the best life possible given the circumstances. I said nothing about how easy it is to do it, or the circumstances.

Furthermore the REASON why I pointed out that it is a spectrum is that it isn't all or nothing. If you're truly stuck feeling like a victim a lot of the time and can't change it, you're still better off than you would be otherwise. Better off does not mean well off - discrimination is real. It just means better.
Ford can have fewer employees per car because they're at full scale, they've outsourced nearly all their engineering and have outsourced their sales as well via an antiquated dealer model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf15nMnayXk
Well, technically, they put the scientists to work for Army Missile Command. (The Von Braun building on Redstone Arsenal is Army, not part of the Marshall Space Flight Ctr.)

After the NRL's Vanguard blew up, Von Braun &co used their Jupiter platform to put the US response to Sputnik in orbit---it was a weapons platform originally intended to be a ballistic missile platform.

They went to work for NASA later.
Disclosure: I'm active duty Navy and these are my own opinions.

In 22 years, I have never been so hopeful for meaningful improvement in my work life as I am now. Having met a few folks I am all too familiar with DTS and the JFTR (the 1400 pages in the article(1)). I think that's a great choice to start with: like Google going after the mundane problems of every person's life. This will make a difference. I am on travel now and was on the phone and DTS (simultaneously) for an hour today. And for anyone who tries to apologize for the 1400 pages, please don't. I have cut instructions from 238 pages to less than 30. I would argue the major problem is not that people are trying to solve every edge case. The major problem is that people are only in a job for a short period of time, come in, and while they may try to solve the edge cases they encounter, they often do that by trying to simplify things by inserting a new abstraction and taking ownership of that abstraction. So the layers of abstraction accrete like sediment. And as long as there's no direct logic conflicts, they can promote away from the problem.

I will gladly buy any USDS, 18F, or DDS hacker in San Diego a beer. Keep up the good work.

(1) It's actually 1602 pages: https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/Docs/perdiem/JTR.pdf
Issues related to not having ECC RAM are rare but if they happen, you might not notice the corrupted data, unless you try to access it.
No. From my perspective, I'm the real one and the other is the copy; from the copy's perspective, the opposite situation obtains. Both are both right and wrong.

The complication is that each thinks of himself as "I". But that only matters if you think of "I" as something separate, magical, not bound by the ordinary constraints that make it possible to distinguish things from other things. In other words: mind/body duality. Which, if true, negates the whole concept of brain uploading, both because you can't capture a soul merely by copying the meat it animates, and because you don't need to.
Haven't seen such a clean, crisp plan that has been implemented flawlessly by a company. Makes me reconsider how I should think the next time I'm asked to write a vision/mission statement for anything-company/product.
Its so rubegoldbergtastic it puts all other successful entrepreneurs in history to shame, which is to say I'm incredibly bearish on it.
Unfortunately torrentz.eu takes a big hit to certain searches due to DMCA requests, it even says at the bottom of a page how many results have been removed. It's a real shame, and it would be nice to have an indexer on Tor or Freenet that isn't as susceptible to this sort of takedown.
If you're interested in learning more about the reasoning for the SolarCity acquisition, I can recommend listening to the conference call recording about that: http://edge.media-server.com/m/p/makhvjt8
I'm still waiting for him to deliver on his original promises. Like creating a profitable electric car company.

I give him credit for SpaceX, but Tesla's main product so far has been hopes and dreams.
Another alternative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12122503
Same here. It's been great in Portland, OR and heavily used.
>"Green" could be the color, the environmental movement, the political party, one of several people, or lots of other things

It says 'train line' right in that sentence. Where is the ambiguity?

even if it missed that why didn't any of the 'cta' , 'chicago' , 'train', 'run' or 'line' nudge it in the right direction. It seems to have identified 'cta' entity correctly but completely ignored that context for the next words in the sentence.
Unless there has been a recent change (and I can't find anything on Google to suggest that), iTunes videos still have Fairplay DRM.
"What does it mean to be a nazi scientist?"

The FBI sure did a lot of background investigation on Von Braun. If you read the documents, [0] there is no doubt the FBI and the other agencies recognised Von Braun as a rocket scientist, Nazi party member and an SS Major (non-active & honourary) in the German Army. [1]

In 5/16/'61, a further background check was done on Von Braun by the FBI and passed on to the director.

There are lots of references to unsavoury connections such as the SS Horseback riding school (33-34), member of MDSAP (39-45) and working in German Army Ordinance (39-45). Met with Hitler twice and awarded the Iron Cross. Despite all this, the records continually note Von Braun to be a person who is 'loyal', 'discrete' and of high 'integrity'.

Von Braun was moved to the US under protective custody in '45 and as long as he kept his nose out of any political activity and wasn't a communist, he and his team was deemed useful to the US Missile and Space agencies. So yes, Von Braun was an opportunist at best, and a Nazi and a scientist.

Here's a re-union of his Peenemunde team at Marshall Space Flight Center in '87. [2]

[0] https://vault.fbi.gov/Wernher%20VonBraun/

[1] https://vault.fbi.gov/Wernher%20VonBraun/Wernher%20VonBraun%...

[2] https://archive.org/details/MSFC-8774200
This is a big part of why we're at such an exciting point with autonomous vehicles: there are several highly promising, meaningfully different methodologies contending right now, including Google's top-down approach, Tesla's incremental approach, and even Comma.ai's maverick pure-learning approach.
I've been moving into the (google) cloud and one of the main benefits is that I no longer have to down- and (especially) upload the data I work with, but simply remote-control a pipeline with a much larger pipe.

I guess for data that is generated on site it's a net negative, but I'd guess almost all data has to go across the internet at some point and google is probably not the worst warehouse on that highway.
We store key/value pairs in Hstore, since JSONB wasn't available when we started doing this.

We've since updated to PostgreSQL 9.5. Does anyone know if we would see a performance advantage switching this to JSONB (either in selects or updates).

My sense is no, but I haven't been able to find any good answers one way or the other. If it's yes, then HStore doesn't really serve any purpose at all anymore.
Yeah, I remember Adafruit pushing NeoPixels for a while. I'm sure the margins are pretty high.
Well trucks still have a lot of low hanging fruit for becoming more aerodynamic.

Plus you could use the sides of the trailer for some power too.

Finally even if 10kw can't power the truck. It could extend its range by some amount. Plus that's still a significant amount of power you don't need to buy. 2-3 rooftops worth?
The default android counter is lacking, however there are quite a few in the Play store and Facebook actually promotes one inside their app.

Being an AUstralian 4G consumer, not using a data usage monitoring app is a recipe for "having a bad day".

This is a customer problem, govt needs to ignore people being stupid. If a customer buys 200mb of data and doesn't know what/how much that is the customer needs to educate themselves. The telcos here even provide usage meters in their apps and update within minutes most of the time. Even in Vietnam I can send a txt to 888 with the phrase "data" and it tells me how much data is left.

Niantic need to be completely dismissive of this whole data usage situation...

Is the government going to send a letter about battery usage next because the average play time is higher than other app usage and when the user moves away from the house where the power cord is the user might not realise that the battery is going down faster?
I think some of this might be offset by the fact that this plan doesn't seem to focus on just cars. A solar product described in the first step of the plan could help fund the cars.
Governments also collect many tax dollars from companies who profit from that IP.

That’s exactly why US government is most active in that area.
They collect taxes from US-based film studios (all mayor are US-based, five of them are in California, NBC in NY, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_film_studio#Current) and software companies.
It wasn't really a problem with JS before 2010 because JS wasn't used for servers. UI programming is usually event-driven, and rarely has long chains of asynchronous operations (outside of complicated programmer-defined animations, which few people are using). It became a problem with Node because suddenly folks are making lots of mutually-dependent network, filesystem, and database queries, all of which require a callback.

Even then, I think it's a bit overstated - people were writing event-driven servers in C++ before Javascript was even invented. I do think that being able to use semicolons to sequence two statements is a lot more concise than nesting a chain of closures, though.
They're referring to the JFTR, now JTR. And it's actually 1602 pages

https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/Docs/perdiem/JTR.pdf
I’ve wondered before: why does hstore still exist? I get that JSON adds something over JSONB, but as far as I can tell (without ever having used either of them) hstore functionality is strictly inferior to JSONB; if that is the case, why would hstore not be deprecated and marked for eventual removal?
No.

It depends on how much of your business logic must be synchronous and how much it relies on asynchronous operations. It also depends on what you consider to be hellish.

async/await is still cleaner than even a single promise, so you might as well use it.
Wait, you can get extradited to the US for hosting (magnet) links? Madness.
Check out this video around 1h22m: https://youtu.be/6WyaO29XDf8
Is this author a complete idiot, or just a stooge of the banks? Investing 1/3 of your income into equity every year sure as hell beats losing it forever to rent-seeking landlords.

It doesn't matter if the value of your home goes up, just that instead of being empty handed after 30 years of paying rent, you will have a huge financial asset.
Or one big door for the entire side of the bus…
Google uses DeepMind to slash datacenter energy bills
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Maybe a more appropriate title could be 'Microservices are the Norm'
Technically, Werner von Braun was an SS Sturmbannführer, and while he does seem to have been more or less apolitical, he also seems to have been happy to use concentration camp labor to build V2s.
If you think shushing some jerks at a conference is heroism, I submit to you that you have set the bar too low.

I also shush kids who talk in movie theaters and tell irate customers to back down when they're yelling at store clerks. None of that is heroic, either, it's what I would hope is basic human decency.

I don't want to live in a world where the guys sitting next to me are calling a conference speaker's daughter a bitch. Do you?
His argument refers to the current state of this specific component.
This is legit, kids. Take it seriously and upgrade.
but tesla's production rate is increasing. the end of q2 saw rates of over 2k cars/week, which would be on target for >100k/year, over twice 2015's rate.
They have the word "microservice" on their homepage :D
When I first read this I thought the hoster _mailed_ your password to you. As in snail mail.
SolarCity is not exactly a success story[1]. The more likely scenario is Tesla continues to burn through even more money after purchasing it.

1 - http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-14LQRE/247256098...
Not really. If destroying the body destroys the soul, it's not a soul, but a mind.
Exactly.

The phrase, "To the extent that you can..." was meant to convey the fact that the perfect ideal is not feasible. I also tried to make it clear that the attempt is worthwhile because even if your best is only an occasional success, you'll still wind up better off than you would otherwise.

On the question of toxic organizations, I'd like to point out that recognizing that the organization is toxic and choosing to be elsewhere was under your control. I commend you for making that choice. There will always be toxic people and toxic organizations. Some, like the police, we have little choice about dealing with. But there is no need to put up with ones that we can avoid. And by avoiding them, we make our lives better.
> taking down an overloaded server is just going to make the other servers that much more overloaded

Emphatically agree, but it's important in the first place to design and deploy your infrastructure such that basic increases of scale are accounted for - prevention is the most important piece of the puzzle. Get that right and an overloaded server is symptomatic of something else, in which case taking down access to the unruly resource is first priority.

IMO, the big takeaway here is that they were load balancing simply by only hitting the top level - selectivity is somewhat tedious to build but worth it in the long run.
My points of skepticism:

1. Semis. A typical long haul semi gets well under 10MPG. In some cases not much more than half that. They are heavy and need a lot of energy to move. A Tesla Model S weighs 4650 lbs and has a range of a couple of hundred miles. A semi truck can weigh up to 80,000 lbs. That is a lot of weight to get rolling and a lot to pull up a grade. Semis spend a large part of their time driving at highway speeds where air resistance is at a maximum. To achieve useful performance an electric semi will need a lot of batteries which will reduce its cargo capacity (Federal law regulates the maximum gross weight), which reduces its value to freight companies.

2. Autonomy. I think this will take a lot longer to achieve than planned, both technically and socially.

3. Enable your car to make money for you. I don't want anyone using my car. Legal liability is one reason. As owner of the car, I am liable for damage it causes. So legal liability laws will have to change. If I need to go somewhere, and my car is not here, I don't want to wait for another one. I don't want to get my car back from another user and find food wrappers strewn about and used condoms under the seat. I feel that my car is an extension of my home. It's personal space that I don't want to share with random strangers.

YMMV.
Has this exploit been seen in the wild?
I'm sure I would have said the same thing. Thing is, they didn't do that for the previous male speaker. (And they didn't make a sound for the remainder of her talk, or at all through the following talk, which I got up and left from halfway through.)

I get it, there's no air-tight way to prove that these guys were talking shit just because it was a woman on stage, and rudeness is rudeness no matter who it's directed at. I just saw it directed at a female speaker talking about her daughter, using language that is hostile to women, called it out, and it stopped.
Today hstore does still have one thing over JSONB which is GiST indexing. Yes, normally GIN is still preferred but there are cases with you might want to use GiST. I do expect that JSONB will get GiST index support as well, at that time there really becomes no reason at all to use hstore over JSONB.
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...

people are trying to fix this problem too
Agree. The cars are absolute shit and I'd never own one, but am happy to rent them.

I'm convinced the placement of the key, though, is going to end up the cause of someone's death. I've bumped it and turned off the engine while driving more than once.
Funny, I was coding on a Chromebook with 525M left in "/".
It's important to emphasize that it's science that says this, not just experience: http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materi...
^This, if you're working with copyrighted material its best to not leave a paper trail to a server in the US
> We expect that worldwide regulatory approval will require something on the order of 6 billion miles (10 billion km). Current fleet learning is happening at just over 3 million miles (5 million km) per day.

So he is essentially say, in at most five in a half years, they'll be ready for fully self driving cars?
You beat me to it!

Nasal secretions should be good sources of airborne pathogens. Different pathogen profile from fingernails, etc. Wider challenges for a developing immune system.
> So, perhaps in the future there will be some sort of indicator light that turns on when the idiot driver turns on manual driving mode so you (edit, or your car!) can give them a wide berth.

Agreed. Don't mark the autonomous vehicles. Mark the ones to be more concerned about: the ones with a human driving.
Now let's just wait and see if SpaceX's full vision comes to fruition.
I'm sure the lost time and network sponsorship on that obligatory third show running in the 24/7 timeslot behind all others was worth it.
"Coal is the future" - Tony Abbott, Australian PM, 2014.

There are many things to take from Musk's master plan part deux, but the most important for me is the intent and aspiration.

I live in Australia, the leadership here is absolutely dire both political and economic. A relentless cycle of vested mining interests and climate change deniers espousing at length on the cattle exports to Asia suffering if marriage equality is passed.

Maybe Musk succeeds, maybe not, but here's someone with vision, a plan, and he's going to have a fair swing at it.
Well, of course, may a merciful God forfend we allow children to waste time. Gotta make sure Junior's up to the admission process for a top-tier pre-K, after all.
It is but the author was implicating tech as a grand departure from it.
I will remind people again that the issue lays within upstream libraries such as libxml and have the potential to affect not just Apple (although everyone loves to target a single brand), but other operating systems and software, remember to keep your software up to date across the board.

Security is everyone's problem.
There used to be a remote FCC receive site near me. Looked like a fake pine tree. Only new about it because of a local broadcast engineer told me where it was.
From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
One time on a road trip years ago I downloaded the Guitar Hero mobile game to my Razr to kill time. It turns out that the game downloads song data repeatedly when you play different songs. An hour or so of playing ended up costing me almost $100. I didn't understand how much data was being used, and I didn't ever want to use mobile data again (on my feature phone) after that point.

I can definitely see regulators being concerned about this kind of predatory pricing. Carriers should price data close to what it costs them to offer it, not at outrageously high prices to milk as much money as possible out of their customers before they realize what they're spending.
Inaccessible? Very large markets have access to Javascript and 500MB of ram. If you can reduce costs and time to market you have created value. Even if the result doesn't match some unobtainable technical perfection.
The USA will not extradite someone for a crime that is not also a crime in the USA itself.
I never kept a journal or diary. I'm 39 now, and I don't regret it. I do regret not having more photos of myself when I was younger though!

Assuming my old emails from 20-odd years ago are representative - if you read your thoughts from N years ago, they'll probably seem stupid and gauche, and you'll realise that in N years' time you'll probably think exactly the same of your thoughts today. Not a positive thing, I say, if you wish to project a general attitude of confidence, especially if you have have a natural tendency to second guess yourself anyway.

On the other hand, if the few old photos I have are anything to go by, when you look at a photo of yourself from N years ago, there's a fair chance you'll look attractive and youthful - no matter how pedestrian (or worse) you thought your looks at the time. And then the same line of thought applies... but hopefully with an opposite result.
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Some people will always be petty. It says more about them than the object of their critique. You can cure cancer and someone will complain it took you long enough.
I'm always surprised when we get insight into Musk's plan, not because they're complicated but because they always come across as "no duh, why aren't we already doing these things? weren't we already on track to do these things decades ago?"

As much as the Internet transformed society, I also can't help but feel like we were on the track to have achieved these things and got distracted by our global communications and selfie-cat picture delivery network and are only now starting to come to our senses as the ubiquity has occurred and the ecosystem of necessary applications has become fleshed out, matured and developed a commercial angle.

If you look at his pre-hardware days, he built basically a e-phonebook when paper phonebooks were still all the rage and a couple payment companies. Both no-duh companies in hindsight.

Musk's plans feel like he's taking a derailed train, applying some common sense grease (solar panels on electric cars? MADNESS! Reusable rocket stages instead of throwing away the entire ship? ~~CRAZY!~~) and getting our civilization going again.

He's also really really public about his plans and telegraphs his moves years in advance...and yet very few seem able to execute anywhere near his league.

I sometimes feel if things had shaken out differently and Steve Jobs was younger than Musk and was running a successful Apple, Musk might try to recruit him with a "do you want to sell cat picture delivery boxes for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?"

I don't know if Musk is going to succeed in the long run, and I hope serious competition finally shows up (because that makes each of his industries healthier), but seriously,

it's about fucking time.
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There are 30,000 motor vehicle deaths in America each year. In perhaps 30 years, fully autonomous vehicles could cut all of that needless carnage to nearly nothing.

And what about the hundreds of thousands of injuries we'll be spared?

Worldwide, fully-autonomous vehicles will be a public health victory on the scale of vaccines or antibiotics.
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Once rockets go up, who cares where they come down.
It's not my department, says Wernher von Braun