skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live and work in Pasadena with a metro stop across the street from my apartment.

Your commute was definitely a tough one! A big issue I've noticed is that a lot of people work in west LA, but the housing prices are so high that most can't afford to live there. This also leads to much higher traffic for commuting in that direction.
> few are actually loss leaders

Nothing could be further from the truth. Brands such as Lexus, BMW, and Mercedes are extremely profitable, because they offer cars that cost just a little bit more than a "normal" car and charge up to 30K or more for that privilege. The only constraint on the growth of these car makers is that there are not enough people who want (or afford) to pay that price just for the extras.
Haha me too. "Our logger failed silently" "Shouldn't that have been recorded somewhere?" "I guess it's turtles all the way down"
So ~10x the amount TARP was authorised for, but spread around the world and over 35 years instead of all at once?
wouldn't monkeys have cults if this was a sufficient explanation for those?
New Analysis Confirms Why the Skagit River Bridge Collapsed
Yea, this just looks like standard A/B testing.. Though, it's interesting to see the variations in headlines side by side like this.
Only the Oracle one, it doesn't apply to other vendors.
Absolutely! I don't want to spoil it for others that may not have seen or read it yet, but you know the ending and why he wrote it.

While he may not fully understand everything (the lessons, not the words), this is the kind of book that I still go back and read every couple of years and still try to pick up something new each time. I'm sure he can pick up things that are relevant to him today and still find new lessons for years to come.
I just wish this would work on mobile.
You missed The Effective Executive book on that list
What is the 1986 law which says "No searchable database of America's gun owners"?

The Firearm Owners Protection Act, this referenced part: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act#...
While they have about $16 billion in Model 3 orders. So to actually sell so many cars, they need to invest a lot to get the production going. Part of that is the Gigafactory, but also the production line and of course, the parts for those cars have to be bought, before the cars can be made and sold. So the next quarters will see a lot of more spending that has to be balanced with the future Model 3 revenue.

The SolarCity acquisition is certainly risky, but there are large business overlaps as other posters have described.
Do I understand it correctly? "This was part of a standard pre-launch static fire to demonstrate the health of the vehicle prior to an eventual launch.". So they set some fire before the launch? Why?
‘Flash Hijacks’ Add New Twist to Muggings
Looking at the Wikipedia list of longest rivers, the largest ones flowing northward are Yenisei, Ob, Lena, and Mackenzie. Then there's a bunch in central Europe, but they are smaller.
Thanks! So looks like no reviewer has used that pen yet and all that exists are (faked) videos. The "one day left" preorder is probably shown every day.

The terms-of-service are awful. At least Kickstarter has some safe guards in place. https://thescribblepen.com/terms-of-service/
"Since the payment is processed to be spent on the development and manufacture of the Product immediately upon the submission of the pre-order by you, therefore, it is practically not possible for us to refund the payment you make."
EventBoard raises $13.5M Series B
> You do realise Musk is very competent engineer among other things? He is fairly far removed from "business type"

In certain fields, such as engineering of products as opposed to general software development, such as designing jet airliners, rockets, nuclear power plants, automobiles, buildings, etc. both a degree in engineering and real work experience in engineering a product that goes into production is really important.

There is much more to engineering than design for items that are in production.

The question I was addressing was ensuring customers have enough parts and I believe Mary Barra would have considered that as very important and that she would have ensured that the spare parts were available. It is not sexy or flashy, it doesn't get you media exposure, but it is good engineering.

I also have extensive experience with computer software so I know what I am talking about regarding the difference of engineering and most software development.

> Being competent and having a degree are often very orthogonal to each other.

Please explain how this is true with engineering degrees (EE, Mechanical, Civil, Aeronautical, Materials Science). Of course, if engineering, one needs to be mentored by engineers as well.
But does the benefit make up for the cost? It would be really unlikely if 100% of a workers wages went into the local economy, let alone local workers. Many products they buy may be from overseas, for instance.
I see your point, but you've got it a bit backwards. The reason for spacing out the Senate elections is to temper the political winds. Had the whole Senate been up for grabs in 2014, it would have been an even bigger Republican sweep.
Nope, you're thinking of noble freedom fighters, as alluded to by mgarfias in this sub-thread, not mass murderers.

As for your additions including "It's pretty hard to have sensible discussions with someone who resorts to threatening to kill his opponents."

Well, we "conservatives" do that all the time, it's not like our opponents don't implicitly or explicitly threaten that all the time, certainly for all my life (our current president started his political career in the home of a man who quite explicitly planned to murder me and mine as people not amenable to reeducation, once the revolution succeeded). What do you think the general campaigns against my kind, the inhabitants of flyover country, backed with the full force of the law, imply? They reduce to enforcement by harsh men with guns.

That I sometimes reify this in these discussions lends clarity to just what we're really talking about. If you don't like that, if you find it so alarming that your favored policies have such nasty backlash potential, might it not be better to reconsider them, as opposed to shooting the messenger?
You need to ask EU president Junkers about that, though he has the corrupt politician's memory lapse in the face of evidence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11902939...
There are people living inside the train with a Bahncard 100 similar to the van people in the US. For example her: http://www.tyatravel.com/en/about/

A Bahncard 100 is a really nice perk you often get when working for a bigger German company. The company saves taxes and gets a discount, the employee gets unlimited free transportation.

For private use, it is hard to justify. You have to travel quite a lot to beat the price of a Bahncard 25/50 using special offers combined with local public transit flatrate ticket. Depends on where you live of course, but I think I would have to visit about 2 cities every week using special offer tickets, to reach the Bahncad 100 costs. It gets much more expensive, though, when you decide to travel very spontaneously and don't like to take trains at unusual times, which I prefer. Different story of course if you live in the South/North and want to visit the North/South regularly.
You forgot the part about spending trillions of dollars on dedicated tracks that connect everyone's home, workplace, and shopping and entertainment destinations. Fortunately, we already have those tracks; they're called "roads."

Your incredulity at the fact that trains still have human operators involved in any capacity at all, on the other hand, is spot-on. I'm with you 100% there. Every time somebody wrecks a train because they were asleep or distracted or texting or otherwise had better things to do, there is always a giant thread on HN full of postings from train experts explaining why the world would end if humans weren't involved in fixed rail operations.

It is indeed ridiculous that the same arguments -- whether they're valid or not -- never seem to apply to autonomous road vehicles.
I get 50/20 on Tmo in the Seattle/Bellevue area which is to be expected, given their corporate structure is largely based here (for US operations). But I agree; the speeds are largely irrelevant considering I am only getting 5 GB/month at those speeds and EDGE/2G speeds otherwise.

Would vastly prefer 10/5 or 10/2 or something with near-unlimited data.
Having corrupt sweetheart deals with Luxembourg helps too.
It is extremely amusing—and informative with regards to your argument—that you think your preferences and understandings are innate and separate from your material circumstances. You make it clear you do not understand Rawls or the veil of ignorance at all.
Possibly easier to monitor electricity use? Might have a closer relationship to production output of a restaurant too??
Always so hard to read about someone my own age (young!) dying.

RIP
I would guess, if you directly translate your program to Go it would not be much slower. On low level code, Go 1.7 gets quite close to GCC. The point is, that doing the quotations right, especially if you allow non-ascii quotes, eats a lot of performance. So the benchmark is less about the languages involved, but rather the exact algorithms used and capabilities offered.
"Static fire" = holding down the rocket and firing the engines for some time. It's a rehearsal of the whole launch procedure short of actually releasing the rocket.
David Pogue's quest for the world's best e-bike
Strange idea.

My 1999 Rover 75 has an automatic transmission and I have no trouble driving slowly (if I must). Never had any trouble driving cars in the US either (many visits over the last 20 years) and quite a lot of that was pretty slow (freeway from Raleigh to RDU on a Friday afternoon can be pretty much walking speed sometimes).
Tesla has made large gains in their production compared to other manufacturers in the same class of cars[0]. However, from what I've heard the interior build quality on Teslas is that it is of the lowest quality in their price bracket. As such, while the numbers are promising they are at a bit of a discontinuity point in their market that might show these numbers to be more favorable than they actually are.

[0] https://cleantechnica.com/2016/01/15/1-large-luxury-car-in-u...
San fran is a supremely walkable city.
What do you believe is the biggest factor that contributes to mass incarceration?
> Remove humans from the road, and the challenge gets exponentially easier.

we can solve that with expanding seclusion zones ?
I suspect the breakdown is not only between younger and longtime residents, but also between those who have or don't have a family (i.e., children) at home. My perception and experience is that parents need vehicles of a more permanent nature and drive far more frequently/extensively than non-parents.
I've read that bicycles might be even more challenging for autonomous vehicles than other human drivers.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I recently bought a car, mainly to make weekend hikes easier to do. I rent it out on GetAround the other 80% of the time when I'm not using it.
Makes more sense in what way? Sure a bus is more efficient, but it's less convenient.

Getting people to take a train for the majority of their journey is far more efficient than having them drive because the bus doesn't stop outside their door exactly when they want it.

Although I can't help wondering if it would eventually become worthwhile to run a full size bus as a carpool taxi vehicle.
I really don't see any difference if he wins or succeeds. Do you think he is the only person who can do cars or rockets for example? If he fails someone else will pick up the slack, so I see no reason to cheer that he will do it (or for the same reason to expect the opposite).

Moreover, if he succeeds it is not only for his personal merits. That's one of the things that the media gets completely wrong. It is more for the merits of a large group of people working in engineering, advertisement, financing, and because of the general state of the economy. Similarly, if he fails it will not be solely because of his personal qualities.
"Self-driving cars today work, and are cost-effective, and it's likely that they will be safer and create a much better traffic ecosystem than humans ever will."

Self-driving cars ONLY work on the immaculate freeways of California that they are almost always (unfairly) tested on. Any precipitation renders the LADAR sensors all but useless, and many everyday driving scenarios like "left turn onto traffic" and "no lane markers" are still are far from being solved yet.

Any real improvements in the technology will be the result of fundamentally different techniques than what the state-of-the-art is currently using (since this is Hacker News: state-of-the-art really is just an "ad hoc" pipeline that looks for things like "lane markers" using things like Canny edges along with a PID controller for the steering wheel actuator, with some other "cheats" like an over-reliance on human-compiled map data provided "a priori").

An end-to-end deep learning approach seems promising, but the current results aren't even usable at this point.

Five years from now, every car (even my Jetta, not just luxury cars) will have the equivalent of what Tesla's "auto pilot" looks like now, but a human in the front seat will still very much be a necessity.
Google "Pumped Up: Renewables Growth Revives Old Energy-Storage Method" for a somewhat shorter explanation.

"Moving water uphill lets producers of solar and wind power bank energy for use when it is needed most"
I couldn't get chai tea lattes or every flavor syrup in Beijing anyways, so it is hard for me to judge. At least when I went to a B&N cafe Starbucks in the states, they had way more drink selection than a real Starbucks in Beijing.
Easy. Bike roads. Separate roads for bikes. Layout is much less than for cars, can overlap with pedestrians for last mile, and takes up signifigantly less space and can be used duel purpose with other slow vehicles.
This is amazing. Does anybody care to speculate why the FBI cared or why it would even be on their radar? In terms of technology this is ancient history.

One has to wonder how it ended up in a scrap auction. I would love to know the provenance of that.
Any recommendations for neighborhoods where living car free is easy/enjoyable?
Why do they still do that? I was under the impression that the rocket was held down for a second or so with the engines firing during the real launch, also.
Hollywood is hillier than Van Nuys, which brings me to ask, what is it like exactly to go over the hill (i.e. go between Downtown LA and The Valley) on a bike?
> If we evolved self in order to predict what others feel ...

This has quite obvious evolutionary advantages. If you can predict how someone feels or what he might think you can outsmart him in competition for food. You could trick him for trade (e.g. food for tools) when he least suspects that it might not be in his favor. Essentially externalizing mirror neuron processes is much more beneficial in the short term, if you can think how the other person might think. In the long run in order to be successful you also need to internalize you mirror neurons - you need to think how to think about yourself and to start thinking what this person might think about you and what kind of self awareness they could have. You can't just trick the other, the deal is to trick them without them noticing otherwise you end up with prisoners dilemma. Probably those processes could also had led to evolution of language and trade.
This didn't exist in 2009.
Just curious. What is your handset? Wondering which modem you have.
This encyclopedia entry is a good overview of his work: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-47641.html

He was the designer of the widely-used Oswald font, hosted at Google Fonts, and was a passionate advocate for the creative possibilities of open source.

This is his essay Free Fonts – Freeness as a Technological Component of Typeface Design:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130514085121/http://code.newty...

His blog at his design site New Typography has been down for months, but can still be viewed at archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150707211405/http://code.newty...
You do realise Space X is already 14 years old? So he has 14 years experience building things other than software?
I wore the clutch out on the first manual I had in just over 6 years (too much slipping out slowly, I'm sure). After that, it went another 15 years or so before other reasons made the clutch/tranny life moot. Replacing a clutch is quite a bit cheaper, though, than rebuilding an entire automatic tranny.
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On the other hand, if he does not put sufficient effort into his own interests, how long before he's replaced by someone who does? I.e. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.
They are related, but not completely determinitive of one another; it is a 'nature vs nurture' issue, as I describe in my comment on a lower post. Existing evidence shows that preferences and understandings are a result of nature and nurture; there are a number of interesting studies on the subject, which obtain differing results, but none agrees with Rawls' assumptions. You can find this evidence in a number of fields including psychology on moral reasoning, educational psychology, and studies on philosophy.

Your dismissiveness illustrates your foolishness, and you clearly made no effort to understand my point; or perhaps you lack the mental capacity to read three posts down.
That's because young people don't have families.

You see this play out with every generation. I read an article recently that incredulously reported that Millenials - the car rejecting generation! - have started buying cars. Of course they have, because they're coming into the age where they get married, have kids and move to the suburbs.

So, you're right, in that this is a young/old split. But don't expect it to persist as the young become old.

EDIT: the more I think about it, the more interested I'll be to see if there is, in fact, a trend in the opposite direction. The suburbs are a total compromise - close to job centers, retail facilities, etc etc, while far enough from city centers to be affordable. The coming era of remote work and efficient delivery services might mean that living further away from the city makes more sense. But there are a lot of caveats in that.
The problem with any of those though is that you have now inflated a balloon inside your patient in a low pressure environment. You'd better remember that when you descend and the balloon deflates...
Ah, so self driving cars will be a thing as soon as we completely duplicate the road network. That sounds pretty realistic actually.
Not a concrete Project for you (the list is long with good projects), but maybe you find some usefull stuff in the oreilly data archive

http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/archive.html?imm_mid=0e7547...
That was about boutique brands Lexus, BMW, and Mercedes are not boutique brands are they? Bugatti is not profitable niether are majority of other boutique brands owned by major automakers.
Uber doesn't stop outside your door exactly when you want it, either. Especially not Uber Pool.
> probably just in time for it to be obsoleted by automated cars given how long it's taking them.

Uber/Lyft are still very much premium products. People earning minimum wage cannot afford to Uber to and from work every day, so they will be relying on public transport for a long time yet.
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You do not understand Rawls, and are suggesting as a point of opposition exactly what Rawls takes as a fundamental given in human society. Rawls makes no suggestion that everyone shares the same perspectives on either side of the veil of ignorance. In fact, he says the opposite, and it is because of this he suggests the veil of ignorance as a mediating force to minimize the vast difference of views, by way of the veil removing one's knowledge of their material place and circumstances in society on the other side of the veil. Rawls very strongly supports fidelity to and rule of law. The veil's purpose is to provide a more level playing field on which participants in a society can more fairly determine what the rules of law and order will be.

Out of curiosity, what exactly do you mean when you suggest a "'rule of law' paradigm of equality"? I have no doubt you mean something specific, but this combination of words suggests nothing about this paradigm of equality, nor about what role the "rule of law" plays in or has relationship to equality.
That's his wife's blog by the way.
It's also possible that cyclists can adapt to sharing roads with robots. Perhaps by RFID-tagging their bikes, or wearing something LIDAR-visible. At least the autonomous vehicles aren't deliberately hostile, and conflicts between cyclists and drivers over road rules designed around cars, not bikes, might be restructured.

The knock-on effects are more interesting, in some ways. A nation where shared, autonomous vehicles are normal would likely have a totally different set of considerations in urban planning. Cars and spontaneous roadtrains can take the place of light rail and urban transport. Inner-city parking might disappear, and commutes could be much longer. You can imagine two effects: suburbs could really spread out for those who want space and don't mind a couple of hours each way reading the newspaper or snoozing, and cities can concentrate and build way up as you no longer have to build parking space into apartments. A more densely populated city with fewer dedicated drivers might have more political reasons to become bike-friendly.
Better info about what it is is here: https://thegreattrail.ca/stories/the-great-trail-a-national-...
As an EE undergrad at UVa in the early 90s, I was fascinated by all things virtual reality. Someone suggested I go meet with this rising star prof, Randy Pausch, who was doing some very interesting work in the field. I was fortunate to hang out with him and his grad students for about a semester, getting exposed to 3D graphics and 3D paint programs, 3D spaces, the VPL glove, SGI machines. It was, for lack of a better word, magical. Many years later, I heard about the last lecture and was sad to hear it was the very same prof I knew. I realized how many of the ideas and technologies I was exposed to back then had become very real many years later.
But what is the correct time? There is a whole subfield of project mgmt dedicated to exploring the theories around this question. And the line between "psychological games" and "psychology" is very thin, some would say non-existent.
This is like saying real analysis is not concerned with irrational numbers since they can only be constructed as limits of sequences of rational ones.
Best info I can find comes from /r/spacex:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4f9fxm/do_other_lau...
> Do you think he is the only person who can do cars or rockets for example?

Who else is trying? A lot of people who could do this are reading Hackernews right now. How many of them are actually trying to do it?
The only reason for encoding audio in base64 is to reduce the number of requests which in turn reduces the loading time. It's an alternative to audio sprites. Useful when you have a lot of audio files to load.