skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electric cars cause pollution; they run on mostly coal or natural gas and have very toxic-to-mine, manufacture, and dispose-of batteries. They also emit just as much particulate emissions as normal cars: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/electric-car-particulate-m...

The way to "save the planet" is to not drive. Driving a 5000# vehicle around thinking you're doing good for the environment is just the marketing genius of the car industry in 2016.
With the hobby already on it's last legs it's sad to see even 1 person loose their license. That's even without taking in consideration the political and social ramifications of these actions.

With an extra exam and a bit of time learning CW I can get news directly from people who live in countries around the world. Now that just isn't possible in some countries.
Why does whitespace (outside of string values) ever matter in JSON? Most servers will strip as much whitespace as possible to reduce response size. Also stripping before signing is pretty trivial.
It does say "'L' trains" in the previous sentence and "trains" in the following sentence. And from bduerst's post, it appears that GCNLP does use non-local information to determine an interpretation. So in theory, there should be enough information within the paragraph to identify these.

The tricky part is that I don't really see a way that a computer could disambiguate between "train line" and "bus line" given the information in that paragraph; the only way that you could do this is to have knowledge of Chicago's transit system. (Indeed, as a human, I didn't know for sure that it was talking about a train line rather than some other mass transit system until Googling.)
Well that's better than it being dead in the water. It looks pretty cool.
Less of a master plan, and more a list of goals. The original was awesome because it clearly laid what Tesla wanted to accomplish "Consumer electric vehicles" and how. This just lays out the what.
Ben Sigelman, one of the founders, is a former Googler who's got tons of domain knowledge about profiling distributed systems of services and about how to structure calls and dependencies within those systems. He gave a fun talk at the SF Golang meetup in 2014. I, personally, am very excited to see what he's up to and will be keeping an eye out for more Lightstep stuff - I guess it's his newest thing.

(if you're reading this, hi Ben! Sorry we never got together last year)
Yeah, higher densities on public transports can be achieved by standing rather than sitting. For instance, BART has been testing removing seats to fit more people into each train carriage [1].

[1]: http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/04/bart-tests-new-seat-layo...
Its the same reason why Kodak invented the first digital camera and didn't put it in the market. We see the same pattern over and over again and if you work at any of these huge corporations, you understand that the main duty of the executives is to protect their profit centers at all costs. Any product that is capable of cannibalizing on the profit centers will face a tough road to success and at the worst, get culled early.

Then a startup comes along, reinvents or polishes that product and is very successful. Eventually it turns into a BigCo. And the cycle repeats.
For one thing, the point of a proof is not its use merely for showing the validity or invalidity of a statement, but in the generation of new approaches/theories.

Atleast that's my view of Math; this is not to say either that being able to verify proofs is bad (this is orthogonal), nor is to say that there aren't proofs that can't be worked out by pencil-paper.

On a meta level, it seems unlikely that a computer will be able to create theories and abstractions while trying to solve such problem, given the current state of AI, in the conceivable future. I do believe such "unsupervised learning" is necessary for doing math.

This of course is quite a different line of work than in PL/Verification where one only cares if something they've written can be proved to satisfy some properties. However, I've heard often that a proof of a program is often as long as the program itself; this is often reflected in the difficulty people have in parsing code without adequate high-level milestones.
You know why Ford turns a profit? Because they've gotten those economies of scale. If/when Tesla does, I'm sure they'll make a profit, too.
This is also the developers responsibility.

Last summer I was playing a fun little game on my iPhone and kept causing problems for other people on the same Wi-Fi network just me. It turned out that when you dismissed a video ad is soon as possible to skip it, it seemed to keep downloading the ad anyway. And then maybe some more. I don't know, but it was a huge data hog on Wi-Fi.

If that happened on cellular (I didn't play much while out and about, and it may have changed its behavior on cell) it could've easily racked up a huge bill. And that would be the developers fault.

In the two weeks I've been playing Pokémon go my iPhone says I've used 150 MB of data. I've been looking at it a lot as I drive around (whenever I stop in a parking lot), and I often leave it running while driving (to get those fake steps when I'm going slow enough) and it hasn't done much so I don't think the game is missbehaving. Given that it seems to have to constantly reload landmarks in areas I frequent some cashing might be a good idea, but it's not too horrendous.
Not perfect, but it feels significantly more realistic than the TIOBE index (http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index) or PYPL: https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html.

The trouble is that I make this statement from a place of intuition, conscious of my own biases, so I could be wrong.
Yeah, the go team seems to be (rightfully) proud of their regexp implementation.
> Nothing in this master plan explains why SolarCity was bought

Do note that it was only a proposal and nothing has been accepted yet with the deal, so it's an offer only - in fact, if you look at SolarCity's stock price, it's weighted toward investors believing that the deal does not happen.
extradition treaties are reciprocal, no country is going to extradite its citizens if the other country won't extradite theirs in return.

the numbers don't necessarily balance: probably a lot more Mexicans commit crimes in the US and flee to Mexico than the other way around.

Usually, I would think, extradition entails countries extraditing their own citizens back to face charges at home; people will tend to commit crimes where they are, and run away after to escape; most people are citizens where they live. Countries with higher rates of immigration will have more foreignors around who have a natural place to escape to if they commit a crime.
> the truth is that the system is rigged and this supposed to serve a few
> multinational corporations that feel their profits are severely cut due
> to copyright infringement, meanwhile posting record earnings.

Ignore that the system is rigged for the moment. I think it is safe to say these companies really like making more money. I have always wondered why then, they spend so much effort enforcing copyright laws rather than trying alternative methods to solve the problem and make more money.

E.g I know a lot of people who have some unblocking service and Netflix. Now they could increase prices for Netflix, so we wouldn't need the unblocking, but that's not on the cards. They would rather spend their efforts blocking me.

Is this purely to satisfy contractual obligations? I'd assume that any existing contracts must be in place for such a long time that making changes can't be done for quite a few years into the future and there is no realistic way to amend existing contracts. The contracts would have to cover new productions too.

Otherwise, this whole thing makes no sense to me. They appear to be giving up revenue, for no benefit to themselves.
You can only safely abort a "task" if the task has specifically be designed that way, or if the task is a process.
Big opportunity for a zero knowledge data center provider in Switzerland that only accepts Monero
Not only can bitcoin be tumbled, but think about the scenario where it is exchanged for another crypto-currency like litecoin then exchanged for bitcoin at another site, then exchanged for cash. Good luck tracing that.
3D Model of the Apollo 11 Command Module by Smithsonian
Well we all switched from TPB to Kickass... which one do we switch to next?
An even bigger difference is that with jsonb, strings and numbers are converted to their equivalent PostgreSQL types. That means that strings can't contain null characters or characters that violate the database's encoding rules. Consequentially, not all valid JSON documents can be stored in jsonb, which is usually fine but can sometimes introduce headaches.
What did you pick? I learned Shavian, and that was fun. It took less time than I'd expected.
I imagine that's very common on SO (users with very few, or just 1, post)
how are newsgroups safe all these years? how comes feds aren't going after newsgroups?
Some of these are pretty amazing, like the `digits` method and the new OptionParser functionality (which seems to be a sort of standard library equivalent to doctopt!).

That being said, I can't help but shake my head at the section about "multiple assignment of conditionals:

"You can now assign multiple variables within a conditional...You probably shouldn’t do that though."

Am I alone and thinking that it's a little bit hypocritical to specifically add functionality to your language if you don't want people to use it? Or is this just a joke that's gone over my head?
> uses more data than most of it's type

First, there are not that many games of this type, but the user will see this as a "game". Most games don't use any bandwidth, and network games are often fairly lightweight in bandwidth, while some use a lot more. I doubt most games use anywhere close to the bandwidth used by modern bloated websites. If this game is different from the usual expectations of a game, it should include a warning and estimation of it's bandwidth usage.

> browsing facebook mobile

Why are you comparing playing a game to browsing a website? These are entirely unrelated activities with different expectations.
Its really hard to do....

I was shorting the A50 via deutsche bank swaps on an ETF on the NYSE while China was arresting people for short selling. Is there an arrest warrant for me valid in Singapore if I happen to visit 3 years from now? What if the TPP gets ratified?

Fact is, nobody knows.
‘Warframe’ Hacked, Details on 775,000 Players Traded
A process pool that spins up thread pools that spins up asyncio loops
Promise frameworks do seem to lend well to this sort of problem and I'm excited to see these developed.
You only start Emacs once, shortly after your computer has booted, so the length of the command shouldn't matter.
There's something about the second photo showing their 'funky' office. That looks like the team member was stuck in an unfinished basement (evoking memories of Office Space).

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*Og10aHFHpbFXrwD7cG...
Japan's Highest-Paid Company Executives Aren't Actually Japanese
I think time will tell if the movement proves "foolish". However, there is one reason why this makes sense. Storage batteries and solar panels will go hand in hand for the vast majority of sales. So it makes sense for Tesla to want to control that half of the "solution" for renewable energy generation.
I tried Shumway on a couple of sites with no luck. The browser detection code bumped me immediately to the 'Download Flash' website.

So if websites aren't recognising Shumway even as an option, but looking explicitly for the flash plugin, what chance does it have for market penetration?

(And yes, I filed a bug on said website's issue tracker)
ActiveX Control Support, Comments for ListObjects and Rendering Grid Lines to HTML
Aspose.Cells for .NET 8.8.3 provides the ability to add & manipulate the ActiveX Controls in spreadsheets. The APIs provide the ability to export spreadsheet contents in HTML format as per the standards opted by Excel application. It has exposed a property which allows refreshing the OleObject’s image if the contents/data of the underlying object has been changed. It allows to get and set the comments for an instance of ListObject. It has enhanced Specifying text spacing for shapes, Loadlnd spreadsheets without importing charts, Hide & show legend entry’s text, Load spreadsheet with specific paper size & much more.
I've been keeping a dream log for some time but it takes quite a bit of time and energy - often 30-60 minutes after getting up. These days, I only write down the most interesting dreams. So yes, writing things down every day has a real cost and this energy and time will just not be available for other activities.
employees per car is irrelevant metric as business lines are totally different. Exclude people working on the charger network, dealerships and home products (powerwall) and then it will be more or less apples to apples comparison.
Pierce Fulton – Borrowed Lives (feat. NVDES) [BASS BOOSTED]
Which version of iOS is fully patched?

Which version of OS X is fully patched?

Has this even been fixed yet?
From the first screenshot, it looks like their final version has a vertical range slider under each numeric position. Why use a slider vs. simply having the individual number options? E.g. something like:

1 . 4 6
- - -
2 9 9
1 8 8
0 7 7
6 6
5 5
4 4
3 3
2 2
1 1
0 0

That way you just need to touch the number you want, and not need to manipulate a slider, possibly overshooting the value, etc.
Spotify does allow you to save your music for listening offline.
As long as you can power it with 3.3V you can run it without the docks.
SciPy 2016: “Data Science is Software” tutorial
There is no way machine learning will be a necessary skill for software engineering, if that is your motivation I would not spend time learning it. However, if you still want to learn it you should first study statistics, for instance http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/.
Venus Flytrap // Poetry
And the equivalent for emacs is?
It is a supervised learning problem, but that doesn't mean it will be solved by just shoving large amounts of data into a black box algorithm. This is not MobileEye's approach, and it almost certainly is not Tesla's approach. The data is useless unless it is annotated (e.g. a human labels where the lanes are, where the obstacles are, what the bicylist is doing, etc.) - that's the bottleneck, not collecting large amounts of raw sensor data + driver actions.
I wouldn't jump to any conclusion ;)

But I do know that tools often make it easy for people do incredibly stupid things by accident. Like the 'sudo remove file' command followed by '-rf' in the wrong place.
I rimraf a lot; it's very useful. It's a miracle I haven't wiped out any computers doing so...
I'd just like to cosign your rebukes to both of us, they're very reasonable. Showing that you understand why I reacted how I did but that it wasn't productive is a totally legitimate call-out. I'm working on being a less confrontational/snarky/douchey person and rationalizing everything I do is a big impediment to that.

Sorry for the trouble, and thank you for moderating in a thoughtful and engaged way.
Ever? Isn't there a three-year statute of limitations on copyright infringement?
This is a great point. I don't think the hype is due to a fad alone. There are a lot of good reason why microservices are much easier to create and deploy today: containerization and the associated technology around it. This makes microservices a very natural paradigm for app deployment.

Of course, its not a holy grail. But we see that kind of thing over and over again. I think its OK; it gets developers genuinely excited to try new technology. Its only when this hype influences dangerous decisions that I'm worried about.
Free advice: Do not use biometrics to unlock devices. Face/fingerprint recognition is subject to different, lesser, protections than memorized passwords.

Criminal defense 101: Don't talk to the police. Don't admit anything, including any sort admission of owning a phone. If they can use your face/finger to unlock a phone, that proves it is your phone. Even if you one day want to admit owning that phone, do not allow them to unlock it without your permission. The unlocking of any device should only happen after negotiations with the assistance of counsel, not at 2am in a parking lot. Use some sort of memorized password/pattern.
What does that data give you? Raw sensor data + steering angle + acceleration/braking is not particularly useful in of itself. Nobody is trying to shove large amounts of data through a blackbox model and directly trying to predict car controls from images. This is not MobileEye's approach and almost certainly isn't Tesla's approach. The bottleneck is data that is decomposed and labeled in greater detail (lane markings, obstacles, bicyclist hand signs, etc) - and you need human annotators for that.
You would be right if the narrative was "It was super hard, it was unfair, but I worked my ass off and I succeeded regardless."

But that's not the case. The narrative is "There are less women in tech. The companies should be ashamed, and they should hire more women."

There's a big difference. The former is actually inspirational because the it lets people know they can succeed despite the hard reality.
Good points except that we are a century, if not centuries from carbon fuel reaching a point where people start to worry. And companies like Toyota are investing in alternatives fuels like Hydrogen, so it not as straight forward as you state for Tesla.
It's too bad you're forced to live in the wilderness then
I don't know where you live, but my daily commute is never the same. They either start/end at different times, or I have to take different routes, or the weather is different. I think it would take a lot longer than 3 years before they start seeing actual diminishing returns on mileage collection.
Python zip( ) Fu(2015)
>That's life.

And that's my point. We agree more than you think we do, we're just using different ways of arriving at the exact same nexus. It's life, it doesn't however mean I have any obligation to indulge those curiosities, and I for my part, have no desire to. There's no more wrong with me understanding and acknowledging the position some people are in and their willingness to engage than there is with my own position and my tendency to go "No thanks" when asked to give some explanation on the black experience.

It's life. Absolutely. I don't have anything to say to the contrary.
Not necessarily. For example, Erdogan is currently more popular among Turks in Germany than in Turkey, 60% vs 50%[http://www.dw.com/en/i-stand-behind-erdogan-an-afternoon-in-...].
"... But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

- Carl Sagan
Re: solar on the roof, agreed that it wouldn't do much:

An ISO container that could fit on a truck trailer is typically 40'x8'. Solar panels are, on the sunniest of days, making 10-14 watts per square foot. This gives us:

40x8=320sqft assuming panels with no borders.

Assuming 14 watts per sqft (optimal conditions) we'd end up with 4,480 watts. Assuming 100% efficiency converting this into usable motion, we'd get 6 BHP. A normal semi truck has 350-600HP, so this is a drop in the bucket compared to their normal output power. As far as how much of that they use while cruising, I'd wager that it's much more than the 1-2% boost which solar-powered electric would provide (again remember that my calculations assume cloudless sky, no dust on panels, no weight or aerodynamic penalty, no maintenance costs, 100% conversion efficiency, etc).

They reason you don't see them is because it's not worth it. The aero mods under and behind the trailer on the other hand ARE worth it, and this claims that a specific version of a "trailer tail" gives a 6.6% boost to fuel economy at 65MPH: http://realtruckdriver.com/what-do-i-think-about-semi-truck-...
Never got around to pirating it. My bad.
I can't imagine that the data from carefully selected scenarios would be anywhere near as valuable as the data from random, unpredictable, real world driving.
All news providers comply with the DMCA nowadays. They are legally protected as hosts of user-generated content.
Don't they lose money on every single model except the F-150?
Since I've been interested in how the Functional paradigm might help us developers deal with concurrency, there are 2 items here that really strike me:

1.) Clojure fell back

2.) Elixir, though small, is still moving forward

I've been a fan of Clojure since 2009. It grew rapidly for a few years, from 2009 till at least 2014. It has stalled out. This makes me sad because I've loved working with it and I think it a great community, in most ways. But it is true that the community has been unable to answer some of the criticisms leveled against it. The reliance on Emacs has meant it is not easy for beginners. On the other side, the elite (the purists?) have wanted to see Clojure be more like Scheme, or more like Racket, or more like Haskell. Clojure has offered up many interesting ideas, but perhaps hasn't quite built a complete eco-system that makes it broadly appealing.

Elixir, though very small, still seems to be moving forward, and perhaps has a chance to answer some of the demands that people made of Clojure (more pure? easier syntax?). Maybe Elixir is the language that make the Functional style the dominant style in computer programming?
Mormon Tycoon Wants to Build Mega-Utopia in Vermont
This works wonderfully for me: https://gist.github.com/binwiederhier/9ba0983b392b6468504e9b.... I know it's not a tutorial or anything, but I hope it helps.
The ideals of the French Revolution eventually became
the underpinnings of both the US Constitution and the
European and UN Declarations of Human Rights.

Just a small timeline correction: the Constitution was actually ratified a year before the start of the French Revolution.
Sorry, I meant "verified". I was thinking along the lines of science.
Nobody in this thread has said it, but, like vinyl, there are a lot of weird cassettes out there that you cannot find on DVD or YouTube. If you're looking for surreal/nostalgic/obscure videos, VHS is a phenomenal format, similar to vinyl for particular genres (dance music, country, 20s-40s music...).
Or better yet: Reclaim parking lots and roadways and turn them into urban green spaces and parks!
Only 35 keystrokes are required to get 20K+ spaces.[1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4606984/maximum-number-o...
Flash isn't the web, it's a parallel, proprietary version of it.
just throwing something out, but if you're allowing users to enter in their own json.
Would this not be against the terms of service :)
If this was the only thing that mattered for businesses, we wouldn't have Amazon as Walmart has consistently produced more net profit over Amazon since the last 22 years. 1

1. http://revenuesandprofits.com/amazon-vs-walmart-revenues-and...
A lot of parents read their kids' text messages and email. I never have done it myself, but I can sort of see the rationale. Teenagers don't have the best judgment and the relative permanence and ease of redistribution of electronic communication creates consequences that paper note-passing or phone calls didn't in prior generations.