skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's remarkable to look at the numbers indeed. Would be interesting to factor in the turnover of each of the models as used cars as well, assuming that this would bring us closer to an analysis what could be a loyal potential customer base.

The trend of Tesla is there - question is, if typical buyers addressed by the Model 3, Tesla itself claims as essential for the success of its business model, wouldn't as well change to every other vendor bc of price, quality, etc.

"Tesla is a battery company" - well, I guess a company is that kind of company, according to what it does to an utmost.
Main postal service in Sweden (government owned) have run a similar service for multiple years (could not find exact number but would guess 5+ years)[0]. Lower cost at 2.10 USD (18 SEK). They also have apps for the service [1].

[0] http://rv4.posten.se/#page/index/sid=1473077144846
[1] https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/riktiga-vykort/id444458799?m...
Ironically, I have an adblocker but Wired doesn't complain about it, and let me view the content just fine.
That is because many European country's are still a bit un reconstructed when it comes to issues around race.

Photos make it easier to hire people like us :-(
> But I'd rather US government didn't record my communications, constitutional or not. It is not a constitutional matter, it is a human rights matter.

For the record, I agree 100%.
Isnt this based on proportionality though? If anything you would expect that bottom 20% to be less likely to use birth control effectively and become a larger share of the population over time, especially as the remaining 80% preferred to have fewer children in general.

But that's mostly a guess on my part, I don't have data on hand to validate any of that.
> it’s the only length that can be derived from the constants c, G, and h without adding some arbitrary constant—so it may retain the same value in all reference frames, not subject to any Lorentz contraction. But the Planck length is derived from universal constants, so it must have the same value in all reference frames; it can’t change according to a Lorentz contraction.

The arbitrary constant is 1. How is 1 less arbitrary than 2, 42, or 3.14?

I don't get it - is it trying to say objects of Planck length wouldn't contract due to relativity? If so - why?
> zero-emission

I wouldn't call emitted-somewhere-else zero-emission.

Zero emission is deciding not to take the trip.
What new CLI options? Mosh pretty much doesn't have any, you use SSH if you want to do what SSH does.
There is no reason to expect that Planck length is the literally the shortest possible length. I'm not aware of any theory that suggests that.

It's more accurate to talk about Planck scale and not think it as strict limit.

Planck scale is where the structure of spacetime itself becomes dominated by quantum effects and the structure of spacetime may start looking really strange. Strange theories like loop quantum gravity, causal sets, causal dynamical triangulation, fractal cosmology, etc. work at Planck scale. According to fractal cosmology spacetime is 2-dimensional in Planck scale and gradually becomes 4-dimensional in larger scales. Loop quantum gravity sees it as "foamy".

Planck scale is also the area where measuring distances (differentiating with different positions in space) becomes impossible.
I've said it before, but why WOULDN'T a country provide protections and rights to non-citizens (residents or not) that it outlines in it's constitution? After all, the US founding fathers believed it to be "self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". If it is always wrong for a government to do certain things, then clearly it is wrong for a government to do those things no matter to whom they are done.

Morally it's clear that you should treat others by the standards that you believe to be universal.

A government's ability to guarantee and protect these rights is, of course, limited by its geography. Other people may have different value systems which mean they protect a different set of rights than those defined in the US constitution (although the DoI does declare them to be 'unalienable'). But that's not what people are talking about when they talk about US government spying internationally. The US government violates rights it considers to be universal, and many of the people who's rights are violated are in countries with similarly enshrined values, and also who's countries are not at war with the US.
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Yeah, the ISPs don't support tunnelling :(
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So do the protections afforded by the French constitution apply to "all men, French, foreign, prisoners and enemies"?
Remember also that it's not enough to win, you also have to win quickly and cheaply. If that protection isn't reasonably assured, that will tend to bias people towards non-action.
How long will it take for the Chinese companies to copy the German tech and make the machine inhouse?
Buffer: https://open.buffer.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-...
Thanks for bug report! Will fix soon :)
I think the idea of child support would be more than enough to keep me taking them properly. Obviously that is much less serious of a consequence, but I think it's plenty to get someone to simply take a pill.
His presentation "Transport Architectures for an Evolving Internet" could be the one you're referring to? It's online and very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsCOVF0vDe8.
There is another guide online:
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http://hbpms.blogspot.com/2008/05/stage-1-elementary-stuff.h...
Thank you for sharing this paper, it's the first attempt I've seen at using Neural Nets for the candidate generation portion, which was cool to see.

How do you decide what the N in Top N should be?

I see you guys scaled features yourselves, why not use BatchNorm?

Do you think you could have eliminated the manual feature engineering with some learnable feature engineering? I'm mostly thinking of some sort of parametric activation functions, but I'm curious if you've thought about it.

Any thoughts on the Wide & Deep paper, did you try incorporating similar ideas?

Did you experiment with LSTMs for turning watch/search histories into fixed vectors?

You guys trained a regression model, whereas the common wisdom is that neural nets aren't so hot at regression, did you try training this as a bucketized classification problem?

Again, thanks for the paper and taking time to answer questions :)
That's probably the entire purpose behind WhatsApp "encryption": to have their cake and eat it too.
I have worked with some Blind clients being paid to fix computer problems in general. i find the Microsoft windows users Prefer "windows eyes" over JAWS. I have a Blind friend and have invested time with Knoppix adreine and the latest most recent is with Sonar Linux. http://sonargnulinux.com/ (Gnome with Orca, based on arch) Orca is pretty decent using firefox. We recently added in Kodi with the screen reader addon and its a whole new world.

Orca I think does not get enough attention.

Alot of software I us is difficult to screen read due to (lazy) programmers just not labling things. nothing worse then moving around a software and all you hear is push button, push button and not knowing what they do. When you take the time to leave feedback it seems to be like talking to a wall no one does anything.

I am going to make sure I label and be more descriptive now inspired by this section of comments on my own web pages.
this. cars are not comparable because they cost similarly, but because the driving experience/comfort/luxury/etc are similar.

does any tesla cut corners as sharp as BMW? is the luxury feel of being inside comparable to S class? and so on.

the only positive feedback on Teslas i've heard compared to those germans is acceleration. part of the whole experience, but personally not the most important one - that would be handling for me, BMWs are out of this world
Ask HN: What in IT shouldn't exist?
We often talk about how this or that technology, feature, or product ought to exist. Let's touch on the other end. What technologies, products, and features (including programming language features) would the world be better off not having?

For example, it could be argued that certain features promote bad habits or inhibit learning about more powerful or extensible features. In theory this phenomenon applies to products and technologies as well, as for example burning fossil fuels or using lead-based paint, to give some non-tech examples.
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Oh yes you can, because it's a price bracket. As in, the people buying them value Teslas and Mercedeses similarly, although not necessarily for exactly the same reasons.

And if you think a S-class Mercedes is incomparably superior to a Tesla Model S, but the Tesla S is still outselling it by a wide margin, just imagine what's going to happen when Tesla's next iteration of a luxury sedan gets even closer to the Merc!
i3 with range extender?
Honestly having a startup take on an intern sounds nuts to me... I don't really have any sound basis for advice since my only experience with interns was having them join my team at BigCo this summer, so other comments here are probably better suggestions. Still here are a few thoughts that come to mind you might want to chew on.

Imagine yourself as a part time employee rather than an intern. Imagine if you don't figure out how to impress, you'll be fired. (As an intern you're basically fire-proof.) This means that you need to become more autonomous and take the initiative. If something is unclear, creatively interpret it into something that is clear, and work on that. Make some progress, or write up the more concrete version, and get feedback. While waiting for feedback make more progress. If you are blocked, ping other people on the team to see if you can help them out with anything, or if nothing else find bugs, fix bugs, and/or write test code. There is always stuff to do.

You mentioned an example task "tell whether a picture is of a bird", if that's all I had to go on then I'd search for a few online image classification service providers and write a shell script or whatever to send the picture to them and report back. Done. When showing the implementation or the write-up in review, if there's something that the CEO doesn't like about the solution (he wanted you to do it by hand, or wanted you to use a particular machine learning or computer vision toolkit, or integrated with a web api, or wanted you to go out and take a bunch of reference pictures to train a neural net on...) then his complaints will make what he originally wanted more clear. Repeat.

For the remote aspect in particular, schedule a daily (or at the very least every other day) one-on-one meeting over Hangouts or Skype with the CEO. Time box it to 15 minutes though 30 might not be bad either. If the CEO can't make these, ask him to find someone who can and who will effectively become your new supervisor. You want these meetings to first be about any concerns you want to raise (like feeling directionless, or that some deadline is too hard for the vagueness of the task) and second about your general activities of the previous and coming day so people are in the loop with what you're up to. Also encourage the whole team to get on irc/hipchat/slack/matrix in an all-team channel. Assuming the company consists of more than just you and the CEO, it's crucial you have contact with some portion of the rest of the team, and be able to ping them in real time to ask "can we jump on a hangout meeting real quick to discuss x / share my screen and look at y?"
Yes, mistakes happen, even at that level. But how you deal with a mistake after you've made it is what makes all the difference.

Mercedes seems to 'own' the problem, they admitted that they did wrong and seem sincere in that. They could have responded a lot worse in this particular case and I don't see how they could have responded better.

Compare to VW who initially attempted to blame a bunch of engineers (trying to distance the brand from the action instead of owning up to what they full well knew they did, the details of which are only now emerging and are in direct contradiction to what they initially said and wrote).
I guess you could own several wallets for different purposes?
Size in that case generally applies to the number of employees and not to revenue, profits, market share or anything like that.
mosh is fantastic for me when working remotely over vpn.
I don't have to worry about reconnections, disconnections, packet lag (due to local echo feature). mosh in combination with screen (or tmux) gives scrollback support + other features
I know that, but when I used 5.4 the experience was quite bad and I was quicker to just write the frontend in Java and glue it myself to standard C++11 than make use of Qt.

So from 5.4. up to 5.8 little seems to have changed from that comment.

Nowadays I just use Native OS UI language + C++ or Xamarin, both are easier for me to write portable native apps with direct support for native widgets than using QML.
We had to integrate a webshop with the customer's existing SAP installation. The consultants in charge of SAP gave us a SOAP webservice that, among other things, had a command called ExecuteSQL - we could pass a raw SQL string and the SAP server would execute it. They "protected" it by blacklisting common naughty words like DROP, ALTER, etc., as well as semicolons and CAST (I don't really know why). When we needed to actually include a semicolon in the query as part of a string literal, I had to work around their filter by replacing the string literal with CONVERT(VARCHAR(MAX), 0x.......) .
Maybe the author should give a look at https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ - there are a lot of decentralised blog engines around.
> You don't understand. Most car manufacturers have agreements with dealerships that will prevent OTA updates from being possible.

There are also legal frameworks that make OTA updates edgy. Tesla is being investigated in germany because pushing additional features ("auto"pilot) might substantially alter the car from the approved version, leaving it without approval to drive on german roads.

OTA also suffers from all the beautiful issues that networked updates suffer from, most notably security, authentication, encryption. I for one prefer updates done via good old fashioned removable media.

So yes, OTA updates are nice, but I'm not certain I really really want that in my car.
It may not make sense in stranger encounters or even early in a relationship, but it absolutely does later in an established relationship.

Besides, with a stranger or early in a relationship you should be using a condom anyway, even if your partner insists they're clean. Because STDs. Never mind pregnancy.
Is it possible to make such a map for homicides? Does the data exist with sufficient location information?
> How should I convince myself that it is hard either (1) to verify even programs that are specifically designed to be verified, or (2) to write such programs?

Didn't we discuss that issue on Reddit? Anyway, as the complexity of verification is proportional to the number of states. If you write the program from scratch, the number of states is dictated by your spec (as every computational problem, every function has an inherent computational complexity). Your spec can be arbitrarily hard.

Now, it's not a matter of worst-case. That writing and verifying arbitrary programs is the very same problem is easy to see: given a program A, and a property I wish to verify P, I then create a spec S = A ∧ P, i.e, the program you write must behave like this arbitrary program and satisfy P. So there is no difference between writing from scratch or verifying. Indeed, you can see that static analysis tools can often prove on arbitrary programs the very same properties that are enforced by type systems.

Of course, not every algorithm and property are worst-case, regardless of whether the program is being written or given. There are useful classes of programs/properties that are easier to verify, and the language can make useful restrictions. So far, examples that work well in practice are SPARK and SCADE. Each forbids memory allocation, including unrestricted stack growth.
Nope, sorry. This was an informal conversation with a German friend. He probably doesn't know for sure what patent this is. It's not something that is on the news.
Does Apple really think we're ready to ditch the headphone jack?
As per else-where on this thread, Random Agent Spoofer will.

Far more fundamentally, if you don't have Self-Destructing Cookies installed, it's all for nothing, so grab that too.

An NoScript. And Privacy Badger. And HTTPS Everywhere. And uBlock Origin. And nuke history and cache every time you shut down the browser for evercookies. Also flash should be disabled by default.
The "Safety Rating" may be fantastic, but if it translates into an average fatalities per mile, it's likely the metric is inadequate and shouldn't be lauded too greatly (at least, by itself).

Of course it could be that reckless drivers purchase Teslas, confounding the statistics. But given the safety ratings only account for how likely a passenger (or pedestrian) is to die/be injured in certain kinds of impact, it is a very incomplete picture.

Even if the metric is perfect at measuring this, the average result for fatalities per mile would seem to then suggest an increased number of high-risk collisions per mile.
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Thanks! I should wrote "daily", not ?
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Or it's the developer's job to ask "why do you say that?" - the BA thinks they're being helpful and shortcutting a decision for you; the least you could do is try to be helpful back.
Not sure why people feel a need to downvote things they don't agree with, but I think this might somewhat be on the right track. It seems weird to attribute this change to something outside of the education system when there have been plenty of changes within it.
If their business can't afford market wages, then it was never a viable business in the first place.

Market wages are what they are because some other viable business can afford to pay them.

Failing businesses don't get to pay less on utilities, why should they get to pay less on wages?
Yes, it does. There was a ruling long ago (early 1970's) which led to the formal inclusion of the Universal rights of man in the French constitution. It was only referenced (think of that as a hyperlink) and this reference was expanded to include the text in full.

We covered some of this in our class on 'staatsinrichting' where not only the Dutch but also other important European countries organizations were discussed. This one stands out for me because it seems that at least one European country got this one exactly right.
Is there a a norm on CVs? The only remotely relevant I know of is DIN 5008 which concerns letters but doesn't contain anything regarding CVs.
Does it cover loss of income and other consequential losses from the injury? If person A's negligence causes the loss of arm of person B, once person B is out of danger of dying and the acute injuries have healed, person B still has on-going harm from person A.

Suppose person B was a surgeon and lost their dominant arm/hand. Is that loss of income covered by ACC, via suing person A, or "too bad, so sad"?
All of that was what we fretted about years ago. It turned out Facebook has been exceedingly inept at targeted advertising, in spite of all that information. And everyone these days knows that clicking a 'like' button just means signing up for advertising from some company. Once again, global crisis averted.
That's got to be the least convenient option
This is the beauty of working in a start up. You get to self manage your work. Some people love that other hate it. If you are someone that loves it then it is amazing.
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The idea that the Universe is this sort of discrete lattice always makes me suspect simulation.
I feel like true reality should not become grainy at some point, it feels like a mark of artificial origin.
Objectivity is not only overrated, but the desire for it is part of the problem here. Objectivity must be passionless, which bores the reader.

It's also very hard to achieve, which is why you find people going around calling themselves "objective" when they're just refusing to acknowledge their prejudices and privileges.
Just to address a few of your points:

I believe Tesla's idea behind solar panels is to extend the range a bit (5 percent or so) in order to alleviate the range anxiety drivers have, not to charge the batteries fully. At least not before the batteries and panels get much more efficient.

As for IP, Tesla doesn't need to own all IP from lithium ion batteries to chargers. Just to have the necessary licenses for whichever part of the the base IP which is not already in free use and to have licenses or patents to the way they have put it all together (the way they combine the batteries, their charger etc.). Take Volvo: For them, building a network of chargers covering their markets would mean an investment of billions of euros that they don't have. Buy batteries from Tesla instead, and they can pay as they go.

Changing modules in an electric will eventually be like changing RAM or a fan in a computer. Something most people can't do themselves but that an expert can do in half an hour. Electric cars can be built like PCs where one module can replace another. Gasoline cars are not as modular. Also, the 300 billion dollar market for gasoline car parts is mainly because there are many and many old gasoline cars and because their moving parts need to be repaired and replaced often, not because they are upgraded. You rarely upgrade a gasoline car - you mainly fix broken stuff. I never heard of anyone handing in their gasoline car and picking it up a few days later with faster acceleration and longer range, just like Tesla now offers with their new battery.
there is Honda Civic, never heard of Toyota Civic :)
That is the innovator's dilemma, and the i-brand is BMW's attempt to avoid it.

That's a story worth writing.
its possible to be experienced and not say no you know? the opposite is also true... the trick really is not saying yes or no, but understanding what your boss really wants, and offering a realistic way forward to achieve that.
Right, the article postulates that the bottom folks have become more likely to use birth control, so I'm only discussing a relative effect.

But yes, considering how our high-IQ elites don't reproduce, it's probably just a reduced dysgenic effect rather than a eugenic one.
only "stupid" if you are opposed to this:

http://techrights.org/2015/01/02/snowden-leaks-on-spying/

Otherwise, dropping peer to peer is the only way to achieve the projects goals.
> but i sadly don't see it change in the coming years

What do you think about RISUG/Vasalgel? Reversible, cheap, safe (so far), effective (so far). The only issue is that it lasts a really long time, so there's not much profit in it, resulting in little-to-no incentive to actually bring it to the market.
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Anywhere? North pole? ISIS?
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If the Planck length is Lorentz-invariant but macro-scale objects are not then does that not imply there is a special universal reference frame against which to measure velocity?

If I have understood the article correctly one would be able to measure the length of a spaceship relative to the Planck length and deduce velocity, entirely locally (i.e. onboard the spaceship).

This is a fundamental departure from general relativity which says there is no special frame of reference.