skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that was the case why did their gross margins also go up?
No, what I'm saying is - bullshit is everywhere, and religion does not have a special exemption from it.
How is this different from mail in ballots? Why are mail in ballots allowed?
My Plantronics Backbeat Pros (they're no longer for sale, the new version is called the Backbeat Fit) have lasted 3 years of travel and exercise.
Not smart of them to have a product guy write this. Even if he had it would have been better delivered (if shadow written) by someone in engineering. They're customers are not necessarily people who want to hear technical claims from Product.
A big problem there is that no one knows what laws are on the books in their own states regarding this. I know I do not in New York. I want to look it up at some point, but I don it yet know how.
You've just described the main dynamics involved, with one key part left out.

The vendor would realize the revenue up front, when all the "coupons" would be sold. Then they would fulfill the orders over a period of weeks or months, with some sort of breakage rate involved. Needless to say that put the incentives of the buyers and sellers in tension.

But overall the main model was not really just a simple loss-leader approach, it had a lot in common with loan sharking.
I'm pretty sure they do that every quarter. It's pretty well known in the owner community that loaners might be hard to come by around the end of the quarter.
I've seen a couple examples of folks doing 3-6 month AirBnB renting instead of looking for and dealing with the apartment market.

One friend in Italy negotiated to have the owner eventually just lease their unit for which they had a long-term AirBnB thing going.

Interesting to see where this all goes in time.
I was satisfied by the MPOW Swift. I'm a very sweaty guy, and they lasted about eight months of exercise 4-5 days/week before I broke the cheap plastic case. They looked kinda derpy, but they were fine for throwaway $20 exercise earphones.

The MPOW Wolverine I bought afterwards to replace them, however, broke after two weeks, so proceed with caution with this company.
curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh

sudo usermod -aG docker $your_user

There ya go.

In newer distros its as easy as apt-get install docker.io
It was local climate change and poor resource management -- two problems which fed on each other. Desertification isn't new to the 20th century...

Iran was originally wooded, but the forests were marginal -- not very fertile, easy to lose, mostly valuable for keeping topsoil in place. These were cut at rates faster than they could regenerate, and the country desertified. The ancient Persians were superb engineers (their air-conditioning and water-transport methods, in particular, get a lot of attention in sustainability circles today), but poor foresters.

Of course, regenerative forestry was only invented in the 19th century. Persia isn't the only part of the world where marginal forests were over-harvested and lost; the forests that survived were those in very tree-friendly regions, or in uninhabited regions, or both. In Persia, the temperate-rainforest zone north of the Elburz Mountains (on the south shore of the Caspian Sea) was forested much longer, although these days it's more urbanized than anything else.

The problem in Iraq -- Mesopotania -- was a different one: the Babylonians put in irrigation canals, but, over time, irrigation canals render the soil salty and toxic to plants. This takes thousands of years; but by the time the Mongols arrived, parts of Iraq were already a salt marsh, and after Hugalu Khan destroyed the irrigation systems, no one could get much value from rebuilding them. The climate is still mild and pleasant; the soil, much less so.
Yes, but a narrower interpretation than used in more robust systems like those that we built. They don't need an entire SLAM system with loop closure and relocalization because you can mimic those with the simple facial recognition portions. However they added orientation functionality but without visual odometry. Functionally it works the same, and is the easiest way to describe it.
Stop Blaming the User
I'm in Utah. I was at the Republican caucus for my area. The opposition to Trump was extremely high.

I don't know where you are and where you get your information, but I'm pretty sure that Trump is not winning in a landslide.

I was visiting Scotland just a couple of weeks before the vote to leave the UK. I correctly predicted that "No" would win, though I was off on margin of victory by 6 points. As an outsider, and knowing nothing of the issues, I could see that the "Yes" people were more vocal and the "No" people were more quiet, and therefore that if you got the sense of where the vote was going based on the amount of noise, you were going to over-rate "Yes".

I think it's the same thing here. The Trump supporters are vocal. Hillary supporters are more "Meh, at least she's not Trump". Don't mistake the amount of noise for the number of votes.
This isn't really news.

It didn't take people that long to realize Dugas wasn't some sort of Typhoid Mary of AIDS. But he was a psychopath that infected hundreds of people even after he was aware he had a contagious, fatal disease.
Can you list which ones didn't work out so that the rest of us can avoid those?
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Fair enough. Although, it was not a critic of how they are doing their job -which I am sure they do admirably- but on the nature of their metric and the inherent shortsightedness of their choices for mankind as a whole. An easy thought experiment would paint a very dark portrait of our future if the world was completely ruled by speculators: why would they favour risks and ideals? Why would they favour companies trying to change the status quo ? It takes courage, not planning and reason, to change the world for the best. It takes a strong philosophical stance to always keep looking at the horizon and have a measuring stick going above and beyond a comparison with more immediately viable solutions or even more profitable long term solutions. If the world was ruled by speculation, it would make more sense to promote fast food, dumb tv shows, fear, envy, and all sentiment inviting blind consumerism. Speculation has been a driving force for development in the past, now it is too dehumanised, algorithmically sound and too fast for any ideals to settle in.
Sounds like he is a rather intelligent person.

I mean 4k in dept are hard, but all that he did (Microservices, Robotics, AI, Games) seems like way over the top of your average person.
Here you go:

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-06/full-text-...
> Casting a vote online can be secure and convenient

I don't recall convenience being a fundamental attribute of maintaining democracy.

Having said that, some countries' current voting systems are a mish-mash of different methods, approaches, technologies and even rules (I'm looking at you USA), that make paper-ballot voting less "convenient" than it could be. There's no reason why paper-ballot voting needs to be inconsistent across electoral boundaries, difficult to execute, or difficult to validate (cf: Australia's system).
It goes to the bank that handles the lease.
Whatch the demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNzePucTOLY
There is a difference between the platform update, and model year updates.
Problem is these companies have two sided acquisition costs -- the vendors and the customers themselves. Even if the vendor acquisition cost was zero using your technique, you still need to acquire users (along with the 50 other Groupon clones.)
Themselves in the mirror, duh.
They've been achieving production increases like that for years now. 70% YoY isn't anything special or remarkable for Tesla at this point.
This is true for the lifespan of that framework. No software anywhere has the devoted love of its adherents that Borland's Delphi holds. So where it it now?

And I have literally replaced piles of "well-vetted and popular resources" with better-vetted and less popular resources in matters of weeks - after all, the knife-fighting over features was done, and all that was wrong was that the framework had some massive hole.
I don't have anything against Musk. I simply don't care much one way or the other because the things he's working on will never affect me.

Electric cars are not something I'm interested in owning at the price Tesla is asking. Or even half what Tesla is asking.

Utility electricity works fine for me, is a small fraction of my monthly budget, and is reliable. I.e. something I never really worry about. Payments for and maintenance of a personal PV system do not interest me.

Space travel? Again if he wants to spend his money there, fine. But I don't see it changing my life.

I am not an entrenched encumbent either. I just drive cheap, old cars and have no interest in visiting Mars. I don't even care for conventional air travel.
Botox injections?
Lmi and Paxio started a 1G fiber rollout but it only covers a few streets in West Berkeley.

It took 5 weeks to get Comcast wired at my house in Berkeley. Terrifying that the next best options available to me were Unwired 10Mbps (burst & shared) wireless for $90/month or 1.5Mbps DSL (gah).
The problem is that you need to find a DNS provider that allows master and slave configurations of your DNS information. For example, Dyn can act as a master and UltraDNS can act as a slave, however, Route53, you can't be either. With Route53, you are all in.

Lucky for Route53 users, Route53 DNS surface is really large and there is a really good chance that not even is attack could hurt it.
Not quite. Ok, I might be exaggerating with the CS Ph.D. requirement for the average voter, but there are two steps:

1) Verify that my vote was correctly encoded and cast as intended. Every voter must verify this. It can be as "easy" as: printing a hash produced by a voting terminal/device you trust (which doesn't need to be government provided), submitting the resulting encoded vote into a (untrusted) government website where you authenticate with a smartcard, and then later comparing your original hash against a hash published in a newspaper... This exceeds the level of sophistication/care of most voters in any large country.

2) Some organization must check a large trail of signatures, zero-knowledge proofs of correctness, re-encryption mixnets, etc, etc. This can be done well enough as long as every political party and election watchdog has one or two crypto professionals in their employ.

I am not really worried about #2, even though it is harder, I am worried about #1. The important part is that all the checking of the world regarding #2 is useless without at least a representative subset of voters performing #1 (~1% would be enough, but only if distributed uniformly at random, otherwise you can flip votes from the population(s) least likely to check).
Over time, populations adapt to their circumstances. In a society in which Malthusian pressures operate, and the thrifty and peaceful out-reproduce the violent and improvident, society will become more thrifty and peaceful over time -- and will eventually become prosperous and organized enough to escape the Malthusian trap. (The opposite pressures can also operate, but you need external sources of chaos for selection in favor of chaos to occur. Order is normally self-establishing, self-reinforcing, and stronger than chaos over time.)

A Farewell to Alms discusses this in great detail; England began the Industrial Revolution (i.e. broke out of the Malthusian trap) in the late 18th century, but if not for them, the Continent would have done it in the 19th; if not the Continent, then Japan in the late 19th or China sometime in the 20th.
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9 times out of 10, "I can't fathom why anyone would want product X" can be swapped with "I don't want product X."

It's often used due to mental laziness or lack of empathy. I personally don't want a pair either, but I can certainly imagine why it appeals to people.
My biggest complaints is that they are in-ear. I really wonder how they will stay in place outside of a desk chair or a couch. At least with a cable you had a chance to catch it when it fell. An ear-clip version would be great.
I've been using these $25 TaoTronics headphones for months without any issues (combination of cardio and weightlifting, copious sweating involved).

https://www.amazon.com/TaoTronics-Bluetooth-Headphones-Earph...
but think of all the money they saved on the office space!
It's built on FPGA and it's very effective.

https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/anti-ddos/
Wow. Do they really not see the irony of a sign like "Spaces of Color?" The country had those at one point.
I also prefer in-ear headphones when out and about, so would compare the AirPods to something like the Klipsch S4i [1]

Compared to the Klipsch earphones, the AirPods:

1) Are more than twice as expensive ($159 vs. $69)

2) Have significantly worse sound quality

3) Look ugly as sin; wired earphones like the Klipsch ones look just fine, and come in colors other than white

4) Require regular charging (only 5 hours of listening time); wired earphones require no charging at all

5) Are considerably easier to lose or misplace (either one or both)

6) Will have a finite life, as the battery wears out; standard wired earphones will last forever if you look after them

7) Are only compatible with current generation Apple devices; standard wired earphones have universal compatibility

8) Will likely be depreciated within a couple of generations of Apple products; wired earphones will endure

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00264GYMG/
> I find it hard to concentrate in silence

Great! Put on some headphones, then?
I've been told that Opera 12 is unsafe now. I don't remember the details.
Seems to maybe work well for things like yoga classes also. If the class isn't full then that's unused space that you can give to an interested consumer for basically free with a daily deal (and hope they become future subscribers). But that's about it.
Is this why Dr. Dre stopped tweeting at the end of April?
I don't recall convenience being a fundamental attribute of maintaining democracy.

Convenience is important to ensure a representative sample of the population is heard, and not just those who have enough free time to wait in line to vote. Mail-in ballots are a good example of convenience allowing greater participation.
> It does.

I read through your parent comment and could not find any sentence for which the response "it does" makes sense. (Maybe the parent comment was edited?)
Sunnyvale here, it's Comcast (now including data caps!) or DSL.
I'm part of an NSF funded research coordination network focused on supporting good practices for computational modeling (www.comses.net). We've been curating a comprehensive list of computational modeling platforms at https://www.openabm.org/modeling-platforms but for the most part the popular modeling platforms are NetLogo (https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/), Repast (https://repast.github.io/), and Mason (https://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/mason/).

Rob Allan wrote a survey of agent based modelling toolkits available at http://www.grids.ac.uk/Complex/ABMS/ (in 2011 though so some things are out-of-date).

It's important to strive towards models that are as simple as possible so you don't end up "simulating the world" and so you can better understand and analyze the processes that led to the interesting results. It's also important that you document and open your source code to review because as we all know, it's trivial to hardcode your assumptions into a program to tell you what you want to see.
> future Lisps are expected and encouraged

That's right. There are two reasons that Common Lisp never got revised:

1. AI winter hit and the money dried up

2. Common Lisp as it stood when it was first released turned to be a very (very!) good design, in particular because it's almost infinitely flexible. You can implement almost anything within CL because you have control over every part of the code-processing process. You can modify the lexer by making new readtables, and you can change the way the AST is processed by writing macros. There is almost nothing you can't do in CL. (There are a very few things you really can't do without changing the standard, but even those are generally possible using vendor-specific extensions, or by making small tweaks to an implementation.)

FWIW, here's my take on bringing CL into the 21st century:

https://github.com/rongarret/ergolib

and the beginning of an associated book:

https://github.com/rongarret/BWFP

> is there something inherent in Lisp that favors fewer namespaces

Not really. It's pretty easy to make a Lisp2 act like a Lisp1 when you want it to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12801372). Much harder to go the other way.
No, consciousness is crucial. It's like, as the German media theorist Kittler says, "there is no software". From a certain perspective. A perspective that ignores conscious experience.

(I realize that you were joking)
I tried to get back into snapchat last week. "Surely they've made the Android app usable by now."

Why is the android app so trash? Why is the UI so convoluted? I want to like and use snapchat because clearly everybody is "getting" something that I'm not, but I genuinely cannot figure out the UI or take more than a few pics without the thing crashing.
Out of interest, what levels of discount were on offer?
AWS doesn't do containers? I think that's a mistake.
It can still make sense if you have low marginal vs fixed costs. I know restaurants that are happy to use them to fill up time slots when they're usually empty¹. Since most of their costs are fixed (rent, salaries, etc), they still make a profit at the margin.

¹ I don't know about Groupon, but other deal sites allow them to put certain conditions on the use of the voucher
Oh wow, they actually create a new account instead of moving the service? Interesting system. I wouldn't be surprised if they were using some really old enterprise database solution. But if the system works most of the time, I guess not all businesses care. Banks run on really old technology, but they put pretty makeup all over their websites to seem modern.

Wonder how it would work if you had like a house in Texas and a vacation home in Florida. I guess you'd have two separate accounts and bills even if its in the same name?
It installs fine, it just doesn't work. There is an issue on github with the same errors as I saw, where they discuss not fixing it, because of how uncommon the system is.
If the template system doesn't understand the semantics of the configuration file, templates just work because you are lucky. In the case of blending configuration changes with a user-supplied file, the user can supply a configuration file instead of a template.

If the system does understand the configuration file, then you can get the full value out of having a "fact database" that describes the system.
One of the most fantastic views I've seen for this is Sandstorm.io's. If the user is confused, it is generally treated as either a "UI problem" or a "documentation problem", not a "user problem". Between UI and explanatory text and documentation, almost any piece of software could, in fact, be easy to configure and use.
But traditional, non-cryptographic paper ballots allow you to pick none of those things.

Traditional ballots don't really provide any authentication. If you check your mail and find a blank ballot addressed to someone who used to live at your address, you can vote twice. Nobody will know unless that person comes looking for their ballot.

Traditional ballots don't really provide any verification. Sure, two weeks after election day I can look up the code printed on my ballot to see if it's been counted. But there isn't any way to verify that it's been counted correctly, nor is there any way to prove that the system isn't lying to me.

Traditional ballots don't really provide any anonymity. In addition to the aforementioned number printed on the ballot, my return address and signature of displayed on the outside of the envelope. I'm told that whoever or whatever opens the envelope won't look at the ballot inside, but I have no way of proving that.

Authentication, verifiability and anonymity are all properties that can only be implemented with together with the aid of cryptography.
Norte Chico society was unusual in a lot of ways, including disinterest in violence (which was helped along by having no neighbors). I'd recommend 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus for an in-depth look.
I'm not going to go down this rabbit hole that always seems to appear whenever Monsanto is discussed. You can see in Monsanto's own website and literature, (for example [1]), that the majority of their revenue comes from glyphosate and glyphosate related products. If you wish to gaslight and deny reality, then we can end this discussion now.

details strong revenue of their glyphosate-resistent soybean:

[1] http://www.monsanto.com/investors/pages/letter-to-shareowner...
It doesn't. It takes as long as it takes. It's a constantly evolving moving target. Why does writing a book or making a movie take so long? It's a creative thing. It's hard.
Asking genuinely here, but what exactly is 'convoluted' about it for you individually?
It's not for lack of effort.

I've racked my brains and I simply cannot understand why anyone would prefer these to existing wired or wireless headphones.
But I am on the Linux side & wouldn't want to touch anything that is xterm or macOS again (suckless's st ftw)

Also currently running on a nice pure wayland system, no need for that X11 cruft
Compare with Toyota's annual production of approximately 9 million vehicles for some perspective.
I guess that is my confusion, I thought Tesla was originating the lease.
Because it blocks anything else from happening. If on a server, it will prevent that process from handling any requests until the file has been read, and in a browser-like environment it will prevent the UI from updating and will prevent all UI interaction until the file has been read.

In a simple script you run from your shell, the middle one is fine.
I'll include the obligatory donation link below for what is effectively an internet utility. [0]

Also, take a look at downloading a copy of Wikipedia! You can get a full download with images for around 100GB (last I checked, which was about two years ago). It's great for if you ever think you'll need some technical info while away from live internet. I keep a copy on a hard drive that boots into linux, just in case (maybe I'll be on site with a customer and need some engineering notes - BAM taken care of!)

[0] https://archive.org/donate/

EDIT: I used XOWA, and I do not keep the wiki up to date, really. Note that the entire wiki history is huge, but a reasonably current snapshot is manageable (~100GB or so).

[~] http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Download_XOWA.html
Only if they can sustain prices as competition comes online from other makers.
Bluetooth headphones are a solution in search of a problem.
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Because I chose an offer within a month. So approximately half of those were sent within 2-3 weeks before I accepted an offer, and of that half I had to turn down a good deal of follow-ups.

Also, bootcamp-grad. I chose a shotgun approach. It worked.

EDIT: to clarify, I haven't heard back from 170. I applied to ~300.
90,000 letters is equal to 4 a day for 61 years. That's a superhuman output
JVC HA-EBT5 are IPX4 and under $50 on amazon.
I'm looking forward to them. They're on-par price-wise with similar products and I don't think they'll be that easily lost as I'm likely to keep the case with me.
Is voter coercion actually a threat today? Or is it just a boogeyman to derail discussion like voter impersonation is used to promote biased voter ID laws?
I have been looking for this for AGES! I have been using template files and bash scripts that use sed to change values in config files all this time. I always wondered why there wasn't a plug-able interface for config files