skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very hard question for humans. Back in the 70s AI had already worked out that conversations take place in "frames" which include a a ton of implied state. It turns out that state is essential to make sense of human conversations, because words and constructs have different meanings in different frames.

Even simple questions like "Who is..." has many different interpretations. A human will understand the context. An AI won't, because you can't derive the context from the words themselves. It's a function of social setting, physical setting, relationship, previous conversations, and so on.

At the moment conversational interfaces are more like a Bash shell with a speech recogniser on the front. The shell needs a precisely formed command and has almost no concept of state or context at all. (I think Siri actually has some, but not much.)

So it's completely unrealistic to expect CIs to be able to do this today. It will only be possible when NLP gets a whole lot more sophisticated and starts tracking context and state - although even that will still be a hard problem, because social state is defined as much by location, physical surroundings, time of day, and custom as by the words being used.
> I've thought that the primary goal for UBI is an attempt to solve wealth distribution inequality.

I disagree; I think the primary goal for UBI is to remove perverse incentives. For example, removing welfare traps (where you end up worse off if you start working), or expanding the reach of price discovery (social tenants have no incentive to move somewhere cheaper if the govt covers your rent either way, and landlords have no incentive to charge less than the HB ceiling because tenants on HB don't care).

I think it's well worth doing even if it doesn't reduce inequality (though obviously it'd be nice if it did that too).
It's merger arbitrage, the exposure is against the merger going through or not. The market is filtered out. LTCM lost a bundle on it when they were hunting opportunities at the end.
Tesla to provide plans for combined company before SolarCity merger vote
This is definitely NSFW if your workplace monitors the domains you connect to.
SolarCity is not the solution. I contacted them about getting a large array installed, and the actual arrangement is much different than what is conveyed via marketing materials and during the sales process. Many, many customers end up paying substantially more for electricity.
TIL: If a poll doesn't agree with your opinion, the poll must be flawed. With that logic, I'm sure YC will have dozens of more unicorns!
> Yes, because that part wasn't there

Neither was the part where they expected "special treatment depending on their social status." You don't get to dismiss the author's suspicions as imaginary while elevating your own to fact.
I think some states have laws that restrict navigation control access when car is in motion.
I guess this is a follow-up to the lawsuit:
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-lawsuit-takes-dmca-se...
How horrible, you had to install a single app and click "Next" a few times!

The connectivity issues with VWs are a valid complaint, but not pushing bloat on everyones devices really isnt.
How would you suggest breaking out of that silo?
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You can't buy car features a la carte like the "build your car" tool on every auto maker's site suggest you can. You're forced to buy the "tech package" which includes the GPS because you want something as simple as bluetooth
Hi! I'm the author :-D

I address the photo-printing use case in the piece. There are tons of services (online and local) that will print your photos for you on very good paper for a low cost. I'm very skeptical that any inkjet can consistently produce photo prints at the same level of quality as you'd get from using those services at a competitive cost, because they're buying their consumables in bulk at wholesale prices where you're buying them in small batches after retail markups.

Maybe you're only printing a few photos, and the convenience of having a machine on your desk outweighs the higher cost. But the fewer photos you're printing, the less paying a premium to have hardware dedicated just to that task makes sense.

I'm open to being convinced that I'm wrong here, though. If you have figures that can show a plausible scenario where printing photos at home on an inkjet beats getting prints made by a third-party service, post them here and I'd be happy to review them.
The 2016 VW Sportwagen I does have a touch screen console either with or without Nav. The SE model and below does not have Nav and SEL does. I got the SE because it was the nicest model without Nav.

Built in Nav in cars is so shitty that I would personally pay extra to not have it.
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I've always heard that 100k is about $50/hr but I don't think that's right.

salary 100k

self employement tax + 8k ~ 108k

health insurance + 16k ~ 124k

401k match + 3k ~ 127k

3 weeks of vacation and 10 holidays is 47 weeks of work.

So ~$2700 per week which is $67.5 per hour

(this doesn't include disability/unemployment/life insurance)
Offering the opinion that there is no value to leadership seems unsupportable.
Minimum wages also correlate with higher economic growth, as higher wages mean more people can buy more stuff, and so more people are employed to sell those people that stuff.

Also you leave out mental illness and addiction which are impossible-to-ignore factors when comparing homelessness to impoverishment.
HN post about the best way to learn physics:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11216668
My Toyota Camry had the same limitation but I later found even the lower end models have a video in jack on the display module to connect a third party camera. Got one installed for $150 including labor.
OS X does have ⌘-` to switch between (unminimized) windows of a given app.
rr: Lightweight Userspace Record and Replay
I find google maps offline support pretty good. Seems pretty smart with caching, and if I'm going somewhere in the middle of nowhere without a signal I'm usually using the navigation to get there. As soon as you ask for a route it preloads all the maps.

I usually plan my routes while on wifi (restaurant, bar, home, or work) to avoid any cellular data charges. Similar for music and podcasts I use for driving.
Ah, yes that's where I'd first read it but forgotten the link.
Nate Tin did eventually publish a post [0] outlining that his way off predictions (sub 2% at one point) [1] of the R. primaries were terribly affected by his bias. That was honourable of him to admit. Presumably he is trying to eliminate that bias going forward for the main event.

[0] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-i-acted-like-a-pundi...

[1] https://i.sli.mg/hF2vOz.jpg
I dunno. I hear what you are saying and I agree that lack of opportunity is a problem. I just have a hard time convincing myself that making sure my kid goes to a good school and gets a good education is morally fraught. Tough subject for sure.
There is a LibreSSL overlay in Gentoo, which patches various software that would otherwise fail to build with LibreSSL, currently they are these packages:

dev-qt/qtcore
dev-qt/qtnetwork
net-misc/socat

It used to be a bit painful to setup, but things have improved, now I only need this in make.conf:

USE="... libressl"
CURL_SSL="libressl"

And this to mask it: /etc/portage/package.mask/openssl

dev-libs/openssl

There is still some software that would fail to install (with a conflict between openssl and libressl), but none that I need currently.
Actually the issues are closely linked. For example, look at the Davis-Bacon Act which according to the National Center for Policy Analysis "the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act, requiring ‘prevailing’ wages on federally assisted construction projects, was supported by the idea that it would keep contractors from using ‘cheap colored labor’ to underbid contractors using white labor.". Similarly in 1925 British Columbia passed the Hours of Work Act to stop "Oriental labour" from competing with whites. Minimum wage (or Basic wage) was enacted in Australia for the same reason.

It was also praised by progressives at the time. Harvard’s Arthur Holcombe said that these laws “protect the white Australian’s standard of living from the invidious competition of the colored races, particularly of the Chinese.” Florence Kelley said that the laws were “redeeming the sweated trades” by preventing the “unbridled competition” of the unemployable, the “women, children, and Chinese were reducing all the employees to starvation”.

There was a time where we understood the economic impacts of so called minimum wage. We knew that it made it illegal for low skilled workers to be employed. Fast forward to today, if a homeless person cannot produce at a rate of $13.00, which is San Francisco minimum wage, they are not allowed to work. It's against the law! So though it might not solve every case, it would surely help if it were legal for them to hold a job.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/carriesheffield/2014/04/29/on-th...

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-claim-that-minimum-wage-laws-ha...

http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/blog/theuncivilized/31240
God damn these people.

Regulations are pointless bullshit -- unless, of course, there are homeless people dirtying up your view.
Maybe but no one says the Pope painted the sistene chapel.

Elon Musk commissioning rockets and cars might have value but that doesn't mean he made them
The description there implies that the other crosses no longer remain, but I was able to find the first 3 I looked for just by looking for midpoints between other markers on the grid.
Here's a repo of 2 dozen small iOS examples in Swift 3:

https://github.com/melling/ios_topics
I have a 2015 Mustang with GPS, no carplay, and I always use Google Map on my iPhone (and everyone in san diego assume that i'm a tourist because of that haha).

Same for my friends with their cars, I never saw them using their built-in gps.

I already used carplay in another car, but apple plan on it is not as good as google map.
Why on earth was this down voted? It simply says a study is more useful than emotion.
F%#k you, startup world
I use s3+cloudfront (route53 not strictly necessary, almost any dns host will do). Honestly, its a one-time config and after that its very simple. Cost would be well under $10 unless you've got crazy traffic (Problems I wish I had...)
Maybe I've just been lucky, but my Netflix history shows I've watched close to 100 DVDs, and only one of them was unplayable for me. For that one, they shipped me a replacement right away and it worked fine.
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I always read Stroustrup's quote as saying, roughly speaking, that if nobody uses a language, nobody will notice its shortcomings, and if lots of people use it, lots of people will notice. In other words, popularity is no excuse for sucking, but if one is not popular, no one will notice how much one sucks.
You also forgot that they are fast with responsive UI. And that's only if you compare the best of the car built-in GPS. If it is not the top of range (which btw is not related to the price of the car), the UI is generally awful.

If you are a google/apple map user. Searching for an address is a million type easier: roughly type some part of the address and it will find it. No such luck with car gps.

At this stage you wonder why car manufacturer even bother. They should just allow to plug a tablet and run software made by people that understand software, and restrict themselves to providing a simple interface to car metric, hud and maybe cameras.
Depend how much VC funding/ hosting credit obtained [1][2], if bootstrapped and selfunded (money matter) then bare metal [3][4][5].

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/bizs...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/start-ups/

[3] https://www.soyoustart.com/en/

[4] https://www.hetzner.de/

[5] any other provider (softlayer,packet,...)
The domain is unencrypted over HTTPS, but the path is encrypted.
Trash those incandescent bulbs today
Yeah, everything is correlated with everything, and a principal component analysis will quickly sort out the source.

For example what songs you like is tied to what media you watch which is tied to what politics you have. And most of that is tied to how liberal vs conservative you are.

It doesn't take many principal components to make most of the remaining correlations very small.

But correlations between astrological descriptions and personality start off small. So small that astrology is not a useful starting point to understanding people.
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I have to say it is rather jarring to see homeless people in SF living in tents and cardboard boxes on streets lined with skyscrapers and around pristine parks and plazas.

So while the city does have a ritzy tech feel in the right parts, it is disconcerting to know that amidst so much concentrated wealth there are a lot more homeless people than you would expect. Really, a lot.

Unfortunately it's not as if these are all down-on-their-luck folks in between attempts at The American Dream. A lot of homeless people - in SF and in general - have mental illnesses and addiction problems and they do need help.
There is not such a thing. In case we'd been handled a manual of the physical world, it would make sense to tell people to RTFM, but there is no FM, and the whole point of Physics is that we can't just make it up.

There are two kinds of people that fight actual Physics from within, those that say Math is not important: physical intuition "has to" be enough, and those that say that it's just Math, so they are equally happy with perfectly reasonable correct models and completely absurd correct models. They churn out both, usually more of the latter. Both schools of opinionated thought miss that wherever you go you have to learn the trade and be humble.

They should have told you that we don't know what things are, we just deal with how they do their thing.

It's a wave, it's a particle... it's a state, a linear combination of the eigenstates of the EM Hamiltonian, which span a Hilbert space. That's what we got and every physicist knows it, they are just being polite. If they told you that, your next question would be: why on Earth would you think that? why not just [random brainstorming here]? I don't think you're really interested in the really long answer, but it has to do with the boring fact that Physics is, above all, an experimental science.
This is the other one given by Bob Beck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU - bit different conversation, but same slides
How a unique approach to auto repair led to a new kind of shop software
For some reason the videos got all taken down from YouTube.
The second one is the only one that puts any effort into actual legibility. There's a nice comfortable amount of space between the lines! The text doesn't render right at the edge of the page! There are MARGINS and WHITESPACE.

If you just take your browser's defaults for all the typographical stuff like that, everything looks like trash.
To me, "binge-watching" is along the lines of watching a season of a TV show over a weekend.

I don't think of watching several movies in a row as binging them, I'd call that a "movie marathon" especially if they were a series (e.g. watching a trilogy like Lord of the Rings one after another).
Neither source remotely supports your claims. Laziness is not qualitative. I think people who work desk jobs are lazy; I imagine you believe people on disability to be lazy. The thing you linked doesn't even contain the word. You have to use your words if you want to communicate.

The rich would be violent, too, if they were threatened by losing their wealth. Being able to reject violence wholesale is privileged.

Let's just agree never to interact; I think we'll both be happier.
I am new to the python ecosystem. I use python for solving problems and hackerrank and noticed that switching from python3 to pypy3 can mean the difference betwwen timing out on some problems v/s getting it to work.

Can someone eli5 how pypy achieves such difference and why that improvement cannot be contributed back to python3?
Well, they're overlapping for sure. But you have to keep in mind that the root causes behind homelessness are quite complex, and fairly stated, many of these people wouldn't be employable at any wage -- even if there were jobs for them, which are by no means guaranteed, or even likely to appear if we suddenly raised the minimum wage to a viable level (which I happen to be in favor of).

Or stated alternatively -- yes, over generations, the gradual lowering of the minimal wage (combined with the evisceration of middle class wages, and the decimation of affordable housing stock) has certainly been a major driving force behind the crisis we find ourselves in today. But simply raising the minimum wage isn't going to (quickly) reverse that tide.

So that's why the two issues seem to be (while overlapping) basically different kettles of fish.
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The CPU, Display, etc of a car is designed extremely conservatively. Cars lasting 20 years are not uncommon, vibration, temperature extremes, and direct physical abuse (kids, fingers, ice cream, feet, fists, pounding, etc). Not to mention being turned off for months. Car buyers are also pretty sensitive about monthly costs (thus no data connection).

Your smartphone is designed to die around 2 years (expoxied battery), is designed for something like 40F - 100F, and will survive a light rain if you are lucky. All the while charging you $50 a month.

The 2 year phone replacement cycle used to be driven by innovation and large performance/capability increases. Which have pretty much stopped. 2 year contracts on sponsored phones used to drive them as well, mostly stopped. So manufactures seem to have decided on making phones 0.6mm slimmer and expoxing in the battery to drive the replacement cycle.
It depends what you mean by "support". There are two things a JavaScript syntax highlighter is doing:

1. Classify each token (whether this is building up an AST or doing something more fuzzy/clever is immaterial for this discussion);
2. Construct a DOM tree (HTML) that is styled (CSS).

Step 1 does not have to happen client-side at all. Step 2 doesn't require JavaScript at all.
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Since everything that he said was past tense, I'm not sure what would change?

The same people who criticize 2016 Google will give 2006 Google a lot of credit. I don't see how Tesla would be any different.
It basically comes down to local tax bases. Schools are funded by local taxes so rich neighborhoods have better schools.

This was challenged as a 14th Amendment (Equal Protection) violation in a famous supreme court case, San Antonio v. Rodriguez [0].

The court found that, since education is not a constitutional right, the 14th Amendment was not violated.

Put another way, the US Federal (or an individual state) government lacks the authority to dictate how individual municipalities fund their schools systems. That authority would be necessary to enforce the equality you expect.

I don't know where you're from, but perhaps your confusion stems from a more homogenous body politic? In America, there is a massive web of overlapping towns, cities, counties, districts, and states, each with their own political authority, and often with massively different demographic makeups.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_Independent_School...
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To whomever down-voted me: will that not work? I know on my system at least I can tell it to prompt me when a new USB device is inserted to mount it to the VM directly. In which case key presses would go to the VM. So as long as it doesn't issue a key sequence to escape keyboard capture all key presses should go to the VM... or am I missing something?
You're not punishing them just because they're female; you are rationally incorporating the increased risk of them being indisposed due to pregnancy into your calculations. It's the same as car insurance companies charging more for insuring young men than for insuring young women. Whatever nice ideals we have about gender equality, there are often practical statistical differences between genders, and it's OK to recognize and use that information.

Whenever you prevent people from rationally using this kind of information in economic decisions, you are hurting more than you are helping. In the car insurance case, if insurance companies were unable to charge more for the more risky young men, this would mean that young women were unfairly subsidizing the risk of young men. So there's no net gain, and there's a bit of a cost associated with the fact that the market is no longer able to accurately transmit price information, which would have done useful things like encouraging the development of safer car technology, encourage statistically risky driver demographics to bike or take public transport rather than drive, etc.
Well, yes. And do not trying intentionally destroy your society.
Tesla Dominates U.S. Luxury Sedan Sales
Check out the Silver Line extension to the DC metro as a counter point [1]. Something like $7B to run rail 25 miles. And, who knows what the maintenance will be. For large sections of it, they had to run the tracks over the roads. So, now, there are these hulking, eternal masses of concrete that run through the sub-cities along the route.

Every day that I see its ongoing construction, I wish someone would just turn off the project are redirect the funds to improving infrastructure to support self-driving vehicles.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Line_(Washington_Metr...
A zero-day key wouldn't have hardware costs that would be significantly different from an HID key. A lot of microcontrollers will gladly announce themselves to be whatever sort of device class you want them to be, and which vendor and device IDs to use. Also, if you're worried about bulk, putting an LED or something that flashes and looks pretty would also lower peoples' guards as to why it's so big. USB hacking is an area where there are wide open fields to play with.
The disclaimer is that they make money if people believe they are right, so may be inclined to cherrypick facts. So when we repeat Exxon Mobil's stance on global warming, we say that their stance might not represent all the facts. It's a disclaimer that this isn't my own opinion, and that I don't 100% trust it to be fair.
Lack of choices? Nearly all PCs and phones come with crapware I don't trust.
Generally when I hear people talk about having imposter syndrome in software development, I feel like they're missing this key insight. The fastest code, and the easiest to maintain is the code that's never written. I've been trying to formulate how to express this idea to people who don't have it ie paraphrasing YAGNI:

"Strive to optimize for less code, and the minimum level of abstraction."
Absolutely!... If your company is doing web filtering, it will report an attempted hit from your browser to the YP site.