skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A product that is acquired and subsequently shut down because the acquirer has no interest in it is indeed a failed product as far as I'm concerned, even if said acquisition was a financial success for the investors and employees.
Edit that is long past overdue: I meant folks will fare better from Western Europe.

I get directions mixed up, unfortunatly.
As a non physicist, there's something I don't get in the comparaison with 3d tv. From what I gathered, the only reason 3d tv is 3d is because it exploits the fact we have two eyes, distant from one another, which can provide a depth view when seeing the same thing at two different angles, or when being tricked into thinking it's that way.

What would mean a "holographic 2d space encoding 3d space" detached from an illusion made by someone observing it?
How the Internet Got Trump Elected [pdf]
I was thinking Pokemon myself, but the whole fighting aspect would probably be illegal like dog fighting or cock fighting.
What new evidence a model brings? Model can be used to plan experiment based on it and that is evidence (once you carry out the experiment that is). Model is only used to explain how stuff is supposed to work.

Please read conclusion section of the paper.

example:
Epicycles also explain how planet movement works - but it is not evidence how it works it is explanation based on data.
Maybe it's not about funding at all?
I'm American and I won't go back to visit unless things get stable, honestly. I'm in Norway, and rather like the peace and quiet.

My spouse, who is Norwegian, refuses to go back.
Highest level of US optimism in over 12 years of regular surveying
I think you're on an older version of the CLI, can you try updating it? https://github.com/fission/fission#install-the-client-cli
95% of reviews for Uber's app are negative in last two days
> If he were wanting to instigate a coup he'd be quietly placing people beholden to him into positions of power

The fact that Bannon has been installed on the National Security Council, and that attendance of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and DNI is allowed only upon request of the Council is the bigger story here.

[EDIT] And it is not so much that he is the instigator of the coup. Trump may only be the puppet here.

Genuine question: How does one recognize a coup before it's too late to stop it?
To point out the "failure to specifically include the word Jew when talking about the Holocaust" is not "nitpicking".

Especially when it is followed almost immediately by a series of Trump tweets justifying his immigration order with "large numbers" of Christians executed in the Middle East. (Which, while factually correct, depending on what you think constitutes a large number, is a bizarre misrepresentation of who are -- by far -- the majority of the victims of Islamist terror, namely: Muslims)
Many image problems can still be solved by machine learning solutions - if I don't need to spend time re-inventing the wheel, why do so?
The difference is those consultants have already been in the field accruing experience for several years. If you enter now, you'll unable to command those compensation packages. Or even if you manage to, it will not last long. There are 100s of thousands of consultants from offshored operations that will gladly undercut you.
The problem isn't that the car had an issue, it was that Tesla's customer service operation is apparently Google-esque in the way that it is over-automated to the point where it is difficult to reach a human, and when you do they are apparently script-reading cogs in a wheel that change every time you contact the company.

I'm willing to deal with that when it comes to buying a $300 cellphone, but for a $100,000 car it is inexcusable.

(The primary reason I haven't gone to a Pixel from a Nexus 5X is that even $650 crosses over my threshold of dealing with Googley-service).
Those are two very different things and you know it.
The number in question is vehicles sold, so the only relevant brands here are Volkswagen and Audi, really. Toyota also has Lexus and Scion.
Why would you opt for a rebuild (with lots of risk) when you have a refund offer?
> Good luck, Trump's executive order is perfectly legal within his delegated executive authority, whether you agree with it or not.

i think that's an assertion that a judge would have to establish.

the states sued obama over immigration issues and got a 4-4 scotus decision.
But muh Windows
We had this in Dublin in the late nineties. People had been trading licences for 30 years in a grey market. Licences could change hands for up to 90,000 Irish pounds. That would easily have bought a house in say 1997/1998.

The government then deregulates licensing and issued lots of licences and that grey market collapsed.

Of course some saw it coming and lumped some other less clear sighted chap with the problem.

More here: https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://...
There's a type of Gray code which is particularly useful for small-scale rotary encoders: a single-track Gray code. The idea is to find a code where the sequences for each position are cyclic shifts of each other. Then you can use a single "track" with arms at different angles, rather than multiple tracks with a single arm.

http://sciyoshi.com/2010/12/gray-codes/#single-track
> If none of these companies hired non US citizen cheap-labor, would they still be suing? Would they still care?

what makes you assume "cheap"?
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This is a little disingenuous. The largest part of the outrage is because these are people who have already gone through enhanced vetting and in many cases have lives and family in the US.
> If you're not on the right it must be an enormous coincidence that you're repeating the same conservative talking point being posted all over HN and the internet

Enormous coincidence it is then. Or perhaps your assumption that it's only conservatives/people on the right making those points is in error?
> do these numbers include the cost of land in the package or are these just the construction costs?

They include land. All of those are full, retail, sticker prices as seen on Realtor.com / Redfin.com / Zillow.com

> My experience is that if there's a single family home sitting next to a tower of condos, the cost of single family home will always be higher than the cost of a single condo of similar quality in the tower,

My experience is the exact opposite.

On Redfin, right now as I happen to be writing this comment, I see a building full of luxury condos ($300k and up for 2bed) next to an 1898 SFH that needs a total reno ($114k for 4 beds). I see a bunch of brand new townhouses ($420k - 3bed) next to a teardown SFH ($170k, 4beds).

Seriously -- check this screenshot, you can see what I'm seeing - http://imgur.com/w0BIPiP . The high-density units are always 2x to 3x the price of a "sprawly" low-density single family home, despite being right next to each other.

And again, that's Redfin.com, so those are 100% all-inclusive full prices (including land, for the SFH).

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Fundamentally, I know we need to be more respectful of our land use, and build denser housing. It's good for tax revenue, it's good for public transit, it saves slightly on infrastructure costs, etc. I'm aware of (and agree with) all of those benefits.

But, economically-speaking, high-density is terrible for residents. It immediately doubles or triples housing costs, at a time when most people can barely afford their existing housing in the first place.

I don't understand how anyone can believe dense housing will be a solution to affordability, when it's so obviously un-affordable in every situation it's currently practiced today.
I personally hate node with all of my being, but Go is good stuff and Java has two very solid REST frameworks Jersey and Spring Boot. Depending on the project needs you could use DropWizard or Play which come with a really solid REST API framework builtin.

I was always partial to Pythons Flask as well

What did we run into? Tons of brokenness. Inability to use C# libs was the biggest problem, if you're trying to make anything significant you're going to have to roll your own everything. Java is the safest bet for large projects, I've never run into any issues finding a quality library to do anything. This is coming from a guy that's been a career C# dev for years and wishes he could defect to Java.
Hell, avoid VCs entirely if you can avoid it.
Why can't we have both?
If someone invests in a restaurant that has a government-granted monopoly and then the government rescinds that monopoly they may have cause for complaint. Or maybe they should have just priced in the risk of a disruptive black swan event.
edit: hn didn't show me all the responses that came in as I wrote this -- it may overlap with some others.

Hi -- there's a very important piece of information missing from your take, and I think it might make a difference to you: not only are refugees being stopped from entering the United States. Regular people who already live here legally (many of whom aren't refugees) are being stopped too.

All citizens of the countries listed, even those who have lived in the USA for years legally on visas, even those who are legal permanent residents, are not allowed to enter the USA. They are not even allowed to be routed through it in most cases. These people are detained on entry, handled as criminals, many questioned for hours, and several have been given forms that, when signed, revoke their residence permanently. Then they are sent back.

This means professors, doctors, students, scientists, and lots of regular people who have lived legally in the USA for years, some for decades, many of whom think of themselves as American first. If they're inside the US, they're now effectively stuck inside. If they're outside, they're now stuck outside for 3 months minimum -- it could go longer, if their country doesn't introduce sufficient "vetting" in response, and provided nothing new stops them.

Regular people who aren't trying to escape anything, who aren't trying to join the country, who ALREADY live here, are now homeless, forced to go to other nations, and dealt with as criminals if they try to come home to America.

(also, while there were computer problems again, there were also many real protests at major airports)
Renowned Cuban American Activist Facing Deportation (April, 2016)
There is a reason why these companies have international branches. Talent leaders are always monitoring international talent pools. If they cannot provide enough supply for an office - and another office has enough of it, granted the quality is high - they'll just move the next projects to the other office. And smaller companies are starting to embrace remote work. So, no more borders and visas.
Chimps beat up, murder and then cannibalise their former tyrant
Google employees rally against Trump’s immigration ban
one cool thing I've seen "Smart Sync" do...on OS X it seems to fill out the thumbnail cache for images that are "online only". This means you can see the preview for what an image looks like without forcing the client to download it.

Also local files behave exactly like other local files so in that case (the typical case) all that pain you feel with NFS/FUSE goes away
Are you aware of the fact that those who carried out the most unspeakable crimes against humanity -- including those that Godwin's law forbids me to mention here -- could still be construed to have been "following orders", and that in fact, this was often the central argument in their defense?
From my understanding, it provided services that you would have to create from scratch in your own infrastructure that would be a significant undertaking. For instance, push notification in iOS is a bit of a nuisance if your app really doesn't rely on a complex server back end, but you would like to still add push notifications. Parse did this portion for you, so you could focus on the product. I could be wrong though, I looked at it a year ago, and my memory isn't what it used to be.
He wanted a Tesla!
Saw this on TechCrunch and Product Hunt. Love the product keep it up
"How do you spend your time" is a better question.
Well it's evidently not a waste if it's getting use.
One thing learned from: Volkswagen,airbnb,google,amazon,uber,facebook is to CHEAT. Illegal hotels, copyright infringement, skipping sales tax, fake cabs,profiting on personal data.. and now, illegal emission testing.
Wall or Not
Up or down several dozen orders of magnitude. Time and space exist for the cells in our bodies, and for mountains, moons and most stars. Time and space only break down substantially for things smaller than molicules or large enough to twist spacetime back in itself (black holes). A mouse is no further away from the moon than a dog or elephant.
which also takes time, which you don't have enough of, which is why you were staying up late in the first place.

having kids basically just makes life impossible and painful.
I think all investments should have risk, and if the government bails people out then there's all upside and no downside, why wouldn't banks exploit that financially to the extreme?

I think it might be desirable to take out insurance on the asset though as a buyer. It could be an interesting market too.
Thanks a lot. I've just watched susskind talk on the universe as a hologram ( https://youtu.be/2DIl3Hfh9tY ), and it didn't occured to me until i read what you just said simply that the holographic principle meant you could actually push less stuff / bits in a black hole by growing it, than you first thought if you compared it to a volume growing. So that meant information was stored on its surface (r^2), and not inside it (r^3).

Am i correct ?
> It isn't a hobby for them.

Can you explain what exactly was meant (in an internal-politics sense) back when the Apple TV was referred to in each keynote that mentioned it as a "hobby project"?
There is a number of usual Left wing talking points which advocate violating freedom of association and therefore don't fit the classical liberal or libertarian world view [1]. Two more grave errors:

>They know Trump is easily manipulated and will change his mind with the wind if it makes him feel more powerful and famous. Trump couldn’t care less about policy, a fact he’s made quite obvious.

This is a very strong claim to make about someone whose every move in the Office thus far has been promised and rehearsed during the campaign.

>The revolution has come and we are the resistance.

I find this claim funny given that the Left has overtook the universities, the media, and Hollywood, and did so quite often using the tactics outlined in Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky [2]. (Even Hillary Clinton wrote about Alinsky in her thesis [3].) Only with the rise of the Internet could this stranglehold of power be challenged, was challenged, and Trump won.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ln5bhcWcI

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_senior_thesis
“We’re just going to figure out what it takes to improve tunneling speed by, I think, somewhere between 500 and 1,000 percent,” he said Sunday during a hyperloop design competition at SpaceX. “We have no idea what we’re doing—I want to be clear about that.”

Definitely the money quote.
That's odd you should be able to reference anything in a sibling folder using a global.json in the parent folder to both projects.

They both also need to use project.json for their definition for this to work, otherwise packaging will have to be the solution.
Does this mean that Google has lost interest in developing the product?
Oh, good point. I guess I've always conflated making the source available to one's customers with contributing it back, but you're right, these are not necessarily the same thing.
Not any more, Scion was shut down as a failed experiment last year.
updog.co publishes files from both google drive and dropbox.

and htmldrop.com publishes files from dropbox.
The US is so polarized now that no one looks at an action's merits any more, just whether or not the red team or the blue team did it, and then they either express maximum outrage (always maximum, never anything less), or do mental backflips to justify it, depending on whether it's "their" team doing it or not. Political discussions are reduced to spewing hate at anyone or anything perceived as being attributable to the "other" team. Nuanced thought is not tolerated.

Things have been heading this way since the end of the Cold War. Once the Berlin wall came down, there was no longer an external "enemy" to rally against, so a new one had to be invented. Unfortunately, that ended up being an "other" internal to the same country. It feels like this internal schism finally reached a boiling point in the most recent election. People I normally think of as reasonable are angry and unwilling to listen to rational thought. There is nowhere left to turn for cooler heads. I am afraid of where it all is going from here.
Richard Garriott: the man, the myth, the mischief
Which type is more effective? Cardio or strength
This seems like the best documentation http://parseplatform.github.io/docs/rest/guide/

From my reading it seems like a generic rest service. I suppose like COTS for rest services.
Tomatoes are practically weeds. They grow like crazy, and you can eat heirlooms as sweet or as savory as you like.

Sometimes I think I didn't know wealth until I had a cherokee purple straight off the vine. You can practically make sashimi with it.

Now I'm just gonna come out and say it: fucking with genes worries me. It only takes one unforeseen toxic externality for the whole thing to turn out very poorly. (dangers of monocropping; turning plants into intellectual property, whatever the hell happened to pugs, etc.)

Just know how surprisingly easy it is to grow your own--and do! That's all I'm saying.
"Zodiac" is a great example of that[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sZS8OVyVr4
I assume you are referring to the ending of the "wet foot, dry foot" policy, which gave automatic admittance to Cubans who arrived by boat and managed to get at least one foot on land before being caught, and sent back those who were caught before they reached shore?

If so, you are greatly overstating the bad effects of ending that policy.

First of all, that was not the only way Cubans could apply for refugee status. All other paths to refugee status are still open to them. All that is ending is giving them a special path.

Second, its use had dropped way off over the last several years. Most Cubans who come to the US without visas, as refugees or otherwise, come over land through Mexico now. (Cuba has greatly eased travel restrictions).

Third, most Cubans who come over now are not coming as refugees. They are coming for jobs, or to visit family, or access American welfare programs. In short, they are coming for the same reasons that Mexicans come. If they use "wet food, dry foot" it is more likely to be as a way to jump the line than as a way to escape oppression.

Here's an article from National Review about why this program had outlived its usefulness: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429939/cuban-immigrati...
Rights are based on the jurisdiction of the US. Permanent residents on US soil have almost the same rights as citizens. Even permanent residents who leave cannot be denied reentey without due process. Landon v. Plasencia, 459 US 21 (1982).
1 gene lost = 1 limb regained?
I'm honestly not sure the public really cared about this - was anyone really surprised that this was happening? Most people I spoke to at the time seemed to be of the opinion that all the other manufacturers would be found out next. My friend bought a Golf the week after the scandal broke; I've bought a Golf GTI and a Polo in the last six months. They're just, well, pretty decent cars.
Don Knuth, the Analysis of Algorithms
The problem is they are trying to use a name which has a widely understood meaning - Paper - and then attempting to redefine it but doing so by using it in sentences where the common meaning almost makes sense, leaving you in a state of partial confusion.
Huh, every time I've called the Tesla support line, a human has answered. Sometimes it's a real engineer. Tesla is #1 in customer loyalty among car brands, so it appears that my experience isn't unusual.
Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai Deliver Stirring Speeches During Employee Walk Out
Although responsive is nice, I find the update too stripped-down. I'm not a fan of the low-contrast (ios-style) movement in UX.. also it removes many links/buttons/features so that it looks more "simple". I'll take the ability to click on things in the original over the fancy transition effects.
Donating programming books?
I am in the process of moving, and have a number of programming books that are either course materials or for languages I don't frequent much any longer. What do people here do with technical books?

Would love to give them to a local library but I called and they won't even accept book donations.

Is there an non-profit organization that teaches kids programming that I should consider?
The cheaper European brands like Skoda and SEAT also likely have significant volume. Skoda, for example, sold over a million vehicles—a non-trivial 10% of VW group's total.

Audi sold something like 1.8M, probably with better margins than Skoda, so it's certainly a more important brand, but SEAT and Skoda aren't trivial either.

Just in terms of car sales, SEAT + Skoda ≈ Audi.
Skoda as well - (a million cars a year)
Antenna design seems like an obvious target for 4D-printing.
I hope I am wrong but if I read this correctly it's like the Iraq resolution in 2002 that gave the president the right to attack anytime. This can be used as bargaining in negotiations but also as rationale to go to war.
A few months ago I randomly came across Fred Korematsu's grave while walking around the Mountain View Cemetery (which is in Oakland, not Mountain View). There are some really notable people buried over there.

If you're in the East Bay and would like to go pay your respects:

http://www.mountainviewcemetery.org/files/7114/7267/1043/201...
The overall picture I'm getting of Tesla is that they have great tech, are very innovative, but they have a hell of an attitude problem. It's not like the guy was making it up, they had clearly-detailed logs of the problems and the car was provably misbehaving.

Even though in the end they did do the right thing, it would have been far better handled if they'd simply offered a replacement the moment the (just freshly checked and declared good) car refused to start.
The offer implied was that he'd get a brand-new Tesla with the exact same specifications as the one he had. Only, later, he found out he'd have to pay the full retail-price, which did not include the 16k "Showroom Discount."

tldr: The author was excited about getting a brand-new Tesla, but a lot cheaper than a brand-new Tesla, which turned out to be false.
I live in Bangalore spending Rs 20k a month. I live in 1 BHK with my wife and give Rs 10k in rent. Other expanses are around 10k or less.

One can have lavish lifestyle in Rs. 70k per month.

If you see yearly expanses , It will come at around $5000 , equivalent to Rs 350000
This could replace RescueTime for me, but I don't recall ever purchasing software, sight unseen. Is there a chance you could offer a 14 day trial period?
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