skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always found this aggravating. I had a child because I was selfish, I wanted to reproduce - to put another life on this planet that will consume resources, and eventually die - she had no choice in the matter of whether she was born or not, I did.

People who don't have kids are no less selfish than I am, either - there's a reason any individual chooses to have kids or not, and the only moderately selfless reason (population control) is still selfish because you are making the choice for your own convictions.

The decision to have children or not is selfish period, everyone should stop giving a fuck about what choice they made, because none of them are "correct".
Wilmington to DC is northeast corridor, which is all owned by Amtrak. That's why delays are usually only tens of minutes rather than hours (except when equipment breaks down and the delay is hours).
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>keyboard drive, hackable todo list

org-mode?
Thanks. If this hasn't been refuted somewhere, that would make Twitter's recent actions at lot more understandable.
Why can't you customize ribbons?

Anyway, I don't understand your distinction there, since every part of software can be customized however you like. Most users don't customize, and don't have any need to if the the software was properly designed for their use-case.
You're clearly not a cultural fit, then.
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The one that should be fixed here is a buggy blocking plugin.
It's hard to argue against a Stan Rogers reference on the internet. This is a great time to be a fan of exploration. The raising of the Maud, the discovery of the Terror and Erebus. I never thought I'd be alive for such momentous events.
Nope, not illegal at all.

It's completely ok to fire someone over outrageous or offensive remarks or hate speech.

Billy Bush was literally just fired by NBC over the Trump tape. You can definitely be fired for openly promoting racism, sexism or violence, those are not protected by US labor laws.

First Amendment does not protect against private party actions either, they only ensure that the government cannot prosecute you.
I was confused too at first; there's two quotes, but only the first one is reproduced in the QZ article.

The second one, more tinged with frustration and denigrating language, is not in the QZ article, but is quoted in the TechCrunch article linked form that one.

But, might I ask, why are we so intent on firing people immediately when stuff from the past is dug up? Should they not be given a chance to explain themselves, apologize, or perhaps even claim to stand by the sentiment they expressed?

I can understand this practice for certain very high-profile figures like celebrity endorsements, models, CEOs; situations where there's usually a clause in their contract that 'negative publicity' they incur that's affects the sponsor by association, but for (relatively) average people, this may just produce a chilling effect -- many claim it already has.
No you didn't. It's just that SV only wants to hire people they can make work 80+ hrs. per week (preferably) and who will refer to it as "paying their dues" and be "thankful to get the experience under their belts."

This kind of exploitation is as old as mankind.
Until they get caught (and heavily fined). Whereupon management suddenly decides that maybe those practices weren't so "tight" after all.
uBlock is really good at blocking ads, and a lot of other things that aren't ads too.
There is a difference between supporting the position and supporting the act.

I would go as far as say that the majority of "young" (18-35) Americans would call for a trial rather than a blanket pardon.
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> If the website is static and receives content by manual copy-pasting from a Google sheet (as outlined in the article),

It doesn't any more - he's built an app to handle that.
tl:dr; fiction.
Valid points. My comment wasn't meant to be "frustration", but steering the conversation back toward productivity. I definitely can see why it came out as frustration, and in that sense I deserve the downvotes (this is not to imply that you were among the downvoters). Thanks for sharing the link.
Expected by the UN, as the demographic transition spreads. See the following as a starting point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_dearth
This is a good reason to never prefix generated Javascript with hex hashes, at least without swapping out vowels. We rolled the dice one and had this happen on Wikispaces once; it was utterly infuriating to debug.
In your opinion, why is it ok to regulate lock pickers? What are the reasons that you think don't apply?
I was referring to a standalone keyboard. You're right that there are some customizable keyboards out there (this one looks particularly good [1]), but unlike most people looking for a customizable keyboard, I'd like it to be both wireless and without mechanical keyswitches. I haven't seen those available. And for mechanical keyboards you tend not to have dedicated media keys (ideally, they'd feel differently so that you can hit them without looking or in the dark -- I'll never remember which order the volume keys, mute, and pause song buttons are in since it's non-standard).

[1] http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/
Quite interesting that while this is happening,

> Tesla's with new hardware will temporarily lack certain features currently available on Teslas with first-generation Autopilot hardware

Which makes sense, as they'll be pulling in all that new data from the sensors. I guess people won't be too disappointed owning a car that will eventually be able to be fully autonomous!
> In Europe, the state _is_ responsible for their people; this is how it's been for a long while.

This not a really good analysis.

In Europe, the state is responsible of guaranteeing that the basic Human Rights are protected for all of its citizens. Than includes the right to education, health care, proper nutrition, shelter, security, etc. In general, the state does not intervene in private matters as far as this does not jeopardize the former. It's for a reason that laws about same sex marriage, soft drug legalization, etc. are passed in Europe decades before than in the US.

In this case, with its puritanism, UK is closer to the US than to West Europe.
They do it because it works.
How sure are they that this hardware revision is going to be what is required? I feel like at any point in time you can make an assumption about the hardware requirements to only discover in future that you could have actually done it with just a software update if the CPU had one more core. They'd have to be pretty sure this HW rev would meet their future demands for self-driving right ?
I thought the problem was that in the current usage(or misusage), it's a quick, snappy, gendered means of shutting someone up.

Even in the original intended usage of the term, patronizing and mansplaining aren't quite the same; despite roughly analogous root words, mansplaining includes a degree of gender essentialism that patronizing lacks.
Teslas with new hardware will temporarily lack certain features currently available on Teslas with first-generation Autopilot hardware, including some standard safety features such as automatic emergency breaking, collision warning, lane holding and active cruise control

Right, so they are actually announcing that their new cars now have less automation capabilities. I can't keep track with all the "autopilot" hardware they have deployed to date, MobilEye, BOSCH Radar, own software hacks, then this completely new one..

Not to mention that they have sold thousands of cars with the same Autopilot brand and "fully autonomous soon" messaging that will now likely never get there.
>While this is occurring, Teslas with new hardware will temporarily lack certain features currently available on Teslas with first-generation Autopilot hardware, including some standard safety features such as automatic emergency breaking, collision warning, lane holding and active cruise control.

But not software and they don't even have confidence in their current implementation?

It's not surprising considering the recent announcements by the regulators, but that's quite a step.
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So self-driving will be a standard feature of Model 3, not an option? Pretty cool if they can make it work. I'm skeptical that the computer (NVIDIA Drive PX 2 perhaps?) will have enough power to do it all without LIDAR.
As the use of the term completely derailed the thread into unproductive and off-topic territory, I acknowledge that my uncareful use of it has done me no favors and invited a variety of "conversation noise."

I find it unfortunate that conversations can be and are derailed so effectively this way. I'll try to avoid the term in the future when speaking about both Clinton, Trump and others.

I edited the top comment to reflect this.
...well, because the statute of limitations has run out on a lot of the things we know he's done? I mean, among about a billion other reasons why women don't report sexual assault by powerful men who can ruin their lives.
> He doesn't really run casinos anymore so that's hardly useful.

huh?
> The average age of first child is now closer to 25.

Probably closer to 35 among the women talked about in the article (wealthy Silicon Valley types), so the effect is even more amplified.
Haha there's a difference between "having my believes challenged" and "losing the source of my families income" but I appreciate your candor
Semihosting does more than just emulate the standard I/O streams. It also emulates the filesystem. I've used this feature to get gcov-based coverage analysis out of an embedded target. You see, gcov normally expects to be able to write its statistics out to files which are named after the object files. Of course, those don't exist on a cross target. But with semihosting, you can fake it well enough to work.

This also works for getting rich unit testing frameworks to work, too. Not only do they expect the standard streams to be available, you can also store a bunch of data-parameterized test cases for the unit under test in a file.
Is there a mathematical reason why chocolate chip cookies have (1/e)% chocolate?
If you haven't read them, CRS reports can be very useful: In-depth research, succinctly and clearly written up, on a wide variety of topics. If you need to learn about a topic in public policy, even one related to IT, they are an excellent starting place.

> Congress's think tank

I wouldn't call them that. Think tanks create innovative new policy ideas. CRS's job seems to be to present the known facts and options on an issue.
OK, so all this confused discourse is to sell their stuff.

And this:

> We normally hire through traineeships lasting six to twelve months.

This sounds illegal. Possibly for 2 reasons.
Absolutely right! Its usually context specific.
> Teslas with new hardware will temporarily lack certain features currently available on Teslas with first-generation Autopilot hardware, including some standard safety features such as automatic emergency breaking, collision warning, lane holding and active cruise control.

Not sure what to make of this. New buyers are getting less than current owners now, but expected to get much more later?

I can't think of a precedent for this as a marketing approach in modern consumer products.
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Mansplain means taking a neutral world, "explain", and associating it with both gender and a negative connotation. It also implies that only men can be condescending in this way, and that it's impossible for a woman to do the same.

Would it be all right to say that somebody is "whitesplaining" or "gooksplaining" or "blacksplaining"?
There's a tradeoff between accuracy and speed.

For survival reasons the brain needed to evolve to make both quick decisions and well thought decisions.

If a predator appears in front of you you might not be able to give a lot of thinking to the decision of what you need to do.

If you are a nomad during the ice age and you need to collect food and prepare a shelter, or track a prey for long distances, you probably need to give it some thought.
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In DELETE(), is t the variable name or the type name? It is used as both, which won't work.
This means they don't have confidence in running the same tried and tested programs on a completely new platform they just launched. Which makes complete sense, wouldn't it be irresponsible otherwise?

It gives them time to confirm a new technology and update their maps of areas with information from the new wavelengths they're just now gathering.
*braking (not breaking). You'd think car company staff would know how to spell a word representing 1/2 of the control space of a car.

edit: fixed, never mind.
Based on alcohol metabolism rate, how long would the pub crawl take (ignoring liver failure)? What's the optimal rate of inebriaton - equal intervals or concentrated intakes. We need an equally dedicated team of doctors to get on this.
Sounds like your roof was not all that high. In the article I think they said the roof was 25 feet, which would very severely injure you (at least) if you fell off.
It was already announced before, that the hardware is included. And it was clear, that it is meant to be used for autonomous driving. And as they do not have autonomous driving yet, this is indeed just hot air... How would they know it is completed if there is no demonstration of it actually working?
Pew Studies seem to indicate the opposite of what you've said: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/22/most-young-a...
This could lead somewhere, but I think he's shooting himself in the foot by dissing vi and emacs. That's like telling a developer his girlfriend is ugly and then trying to sell him something.
Oregon
http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/260.665

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California

The California Labor Code prohibits any employer policy: (1) limiting workers' participation in politics; (2) barring employees from becoming candidates for public office; (3) requiring workers to adhere to any particular political action/activity; or (4) "controlling or directing ... political activities or affiliations of employees." California law also prohibits adverse action against employees because of "lawful conduct occurring during nonworking hours away from the employer's premises." Given the apparent statutory/regulatory breadth of "political activity," California employers must be particularly careful in drafting policies. For further information, contact Holland & Knight lawyers Linda

Illinois

An employer is not permitted to maintain a record of employees’ off-the-job political activities. 820 Ill. Comp. Stat. §40/9. For further information, contact Holland & Knight attorney

Louisiana

State law expressly prohibits any employer policy which forbids or prevents employees from "engaging or participating in politics" or from becoming a candidate, and any policy that "controls or directs [employees'] political activities." Employers also are prohibited from threatening to discharge employees who "support or become affiliated with any particular political fashion or organization, or participate in political activities of any nature or character." Significantly, Louisiana law permits imprisonment for violations!

Massachusetts

Employers are prohibited from attempting to influence an employee to give or withhold an employee's vote or an employee's political contribution. Employers are also prohibited from taking an adverse employment action against an employee — or rewarding an employee through higher wages or favorable employment terms — because of the giving or withholding of a vote or a political contribution

New Jersey

State law prohibits employers from attempting to influence employees to vote or to not vote or to vote/not vote for any particular candidate, and from requiring workers to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or communicating about the employer's opinions about political matters (including party affiliations).

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> But not software and they don't even have confidence in their current implementation.

I think it's quite forward thinking for them to include the hardware when it's ready, knowing they can update the software in the future. And I'd prefer them to be conservative in rolling out the software for an automobile. Not something I'd want to see beta tested on the highway.
You're a little out of date. "new analysis suggests that the world’s population will keep rising through 2100, and not flatten around 2050 as has been widely assumed".

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/530866/un-predicts-new-gl...

There's a lot of problems in your old analysis, including the fact that sub-replacement fertility trends that affected Europe and East Asia aren't catching on in other parts of the world.
With boards, lists, and tasks you're already up to three levels of nesting. I really like http://www.workflowy.com for its simplicity and unlimited nesting ability.
I wonder how they balance their development process for the algorithms with the upgraded sensors vs the code that runs with older sensors as input. Do they maintain two different teams? Back port improvements?
Is this a formal model-year revision/refresh, or just a midyear 'minor revision' thing (despite being a major revision?) Are old models retrofittable? Will this hurt the resale value of existing Teslas that have the last generation hardware?

Is there an industry-standard (or governmental) safety test that these autonomous systems have to go through to evaluate their efficacy and performance in different scenarios?

(edit: clarified the first sentence)
It's probably under the couch.
Does this mean we get self-driving capabilities without paying more for it as an add-on?
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That doesn't mean the majority will support blanket pardon over a trial, especially a trial like the one Snowden requested where he could mount a defence based on the public's interest which is not possible for espionage charges.

In fact by your own poll it looks that the majority of 18-35's would favour criminal persecution since the 18-29 is 42 for 42 against and 30-49 is 56 for 36 against.
My wife is a hover-er. I am always battling with her to try and give our 2-year-old son a little more space. Unfortunately, he fell down a few stairs when he was 18 months or so (scraped up a bit but otherwise ok) and now she won't let him walk down stairs without holding his hand. Sigh.
yes, that is why this announcement was necessary. Otherwise people would have been confused with their new cars.
I mean slowing traffic instead of cutting them off or charging huge overage fees is consumer-friendly.
Cannot right-click or shift-click to open a job in a new tab. I do not want to click the back button when browsing a list. I want to open each item in a new tab.
>Not something I'd want to see beta tested on the highway.

It's not like the previous-gen cars aren't on the highway at the moment. Or has "autopilot" been deactivated in the meanwhile?

I understand their step to add better sensors for the future (even though it seems difficult without LIDAR). But disabling autopilot for new cars with better sensors and keeping it enabled for older ones seems like a strange step.
Tesla is known for doing things without precedent. They also have the ability to push major updates OTA to their vehicles, which is what enables them to give "less" while promising more. Like the release said, they'll have the hardware, it just needs to be enabled.
How interesting. So up-coming Tesla drivers temporarily won't get fancy features.

For a time, new Tesla buyers again become early adopters. But unlike traditional early adopters, who take a trade-off (on price, or features, or polish) for being first, these adopters are promised the features when they are ready.

The nay-saying around Tesla is immense, even in these early HN comments. Obviously there's some risk here, but man. Tesla is sowing the seeds of the future.
I guess this is just phrased a bit oddly. It's just a factor in helping us scale by requiring us to use our hardware more efficiently. Not sure I'd say it's horizontally or vertically. We've just made each unit of work cheaper to help things along.
Agree, it looks like they used some sharpening filter that makes everything look eerily hyper-real.
So you buy a "regular" car today which will be automagically converted to a self driving car when all the regulations and software catch up. That's pretty cool. You can buy into the future today :D
I see. Yes I think that's right. I think more 'young' people would want to see a fair and open public trial than a blank pardon.

It's my impression that more 'young' people would want to see a blanket pardon over a secret trial where a defense can't be mounted.
Reddits starting to not-work -- when I hit the Back button, there's a noticeable lag for the page to re-render and then it's in the wrong place.
> Who would you actually even trust to run it?

Sysadmins. Scary scary sysadmins.
One of my calculus classes in college involved calculating the required spline for a curve of a theoretical portion of interstate in order to meet the interstate requirements/regulations. It was pretty interesting.
Awesome work! As a 34 year-old I can't believe I am faced with impending discrimination, but I guess its true. Thanks from my future self!
I don't find it to be a feature. I find it infantilising. "Other users didn't like this post, so we'll make it hard to read". I think it was a terrible design decision on an otherwise very clean site.
Looking at what is not said, my interpretation is that previous Teslas will not be software-upgraded to full autonomy because the problem is harder than they previously thought.
Isn't 550k really low?
> features such as automatic emergency breaking

Always an amusing typo. I'll take the car without emergency breaking...
Tesla may also want to consider better copyediting of press releases: "emergency breaking." Yeah, it happens. But it looks bad.
Was there an event or video? Seems strange that Elon delayed this announcement from Monday if it's just a blog post (press release).
Nice catch, never thought about it. Is it more problematic with preffixes (vs. suffixes etc.) or should we generally avoid any random string? Appending a hash to the script is very convenient to force the download of the new version of an asset (but maybe we have better solutions now, haven't considered this issue in a while).
Self-driving hardware will be standard on Model 3, but you'll likely still have to pay a premium for the software to activate it. This is akin to Tesla including the 75 kWh battery on the 60 kWh Model S, and then charging you extra to "activate" the battery's full capacity.
cheers mate, me too. Now get off my lawn
This is awesome! Talk about a huge training data competitive advantage over Google, GM, Uber, etc
Pretty neat feature and thanks for the walk-through. I enjoyed it during the first debate, but I have to say I was a little surprised at how many errors I saw in the transcription - I thought 5% or so was typical.
You might be selfish, and you might not be selfish. Consider your answer to these two questions:

1. Do you produce kids?

2. Given your qualities as a potential parent, are your kids likely to produce more for society than they take?

If you answer those in the same way, you are not selfish. If your answers don't match, then you are.
he delays announcement, just to do the write up right.