skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The supply and demand "law" refers to the observation that the price of a good settles at a point where the available supply (which increases as the price goes up) matches the demand (which decreases as the price goes up).

Jevons Paradox is only tangentially related. It is based on the observation that sometimes using a resource more efficiently results in higher overall consumption. For example, say 40 kg of lithium is needed for the batteries of an electric car. At some point, 4000 tonnes are produced annually, enough for 100,000 electric cars per year.
Now a new battery comes on the market that needs only 20 kg of lithium. Should the lithium producers be worried that the lithium demand will drop, since only 2000 t will be needed for the 100,000 electric cars? Maybe. But if Jevons Paradox comes into play, the annual production of electric cars might triple as their cost drops due to lower lithium usage, and the new demand will then settle at 6000 tpa. So, paradoxically, reducing the amount of lithium in each battery could be good news for lithium producers.

Whether or not Jevons Paradox occurs depends on the elasticity of supply-demand curves, in this case the curves for lithium and for electric cars.
"New stations have been built outside city centres"

Is it only me who has problems with this attitude?

As if we didn't have enough frustration from airports located an hour away.
How is it not a modern website problem, if that modern website is being viewed over wireless connections, and follows Google's lead in disabling slow start TCP?
Send Emails with Ember.js and Amazon SES and Firebase
2,3,5,6,8,9,11,12,14,15
The article would be greatly improved with some images of the sine waves and the varying levels of harmonics.
Tried to open it on my Chromebook. Ouch.
I think this is true of most of the self-driving cars. Certainly I've seen Uber self-driving cars doing the same routes over and over. And I think I see GM Cruise cars in the same part of town, but they may just be based nearby.
Every chat app I've ever used going back to ICQ keeps permanent logs, except for Slack. (Technically Slack does too, it just keeps them on its own server and won't let you look unless you pay.)
Adam Curtis has a history of making these films. Worth also checking out his 2002 film 'the century of the self'.

Wikipedia on Adam Curtis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis

The century of the self on youtube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

Other films of his are also on archive.org
Which it failed to do last time I checked.

Sadly.
I'm not expecting them to evolve - I'm wanting those technologies that exist today to be used to help drivers today - not when "we are sure that this system can handle all situations which arise".
This happens all the time.

Generally we look at each other. We make an immediate judgement on who is the better person at reversing and where the last passing spot was. Then one person will reverse while the other thanks him.her profusely.

So, quick rule:

1. The man reverses.

2. If two men meet, the man with the shittier car reverses

3. The younger 'boy racer' will reverse and show off their superior skills.

This gets super complex when two busses meet, both generally have a line of traffic behind. This is when people have to get out and talk. Ugh, this is the worst. Fuck busses.

I suppose this is some sort of game theory, as both partied want to pass as soon as possible. Neither wants to go out of their way too much. They will both come across this situation many times so are pretty much resigned to it happening and that some of the time they will have to reverse. Anyone who doesn't like this will drive to a better road and take a much longer route.
Why do you need 480p? 144p/240p was the standard YouTube less than 10 years ago.
The aircraft was 11 nautical miles away, which is over the horizon.
How so? I don't really see the similarity
Working there, though, might preclude further work on Octave.
If you've cracked automated driving, I'm confident that you can geo lock where the cars will do it.
Please read the linked story from SBNation writer Jon Bois (one of the funniest writers out there), about his time at RadioShack

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7281129/radioshack-eulogy...

One of the funniest/saddest things I've ever read.
I dislike this way of describing debt. Because it sounds to most people like the country owes 60% of its GDP to foreigners, and only has 40% left to live on.

A different way to express the same situation is that the debt is 7 months of GDP.
>> "You can't just word associate and chant to make things related, there must be a factual connection"

Ironic.

>> "Putting up a wall will hurt the human smuggling business model, taking power from criminals, and stopping thousands of sex crimes every year."

>> " In 2010 and 2011 hundreds of people were executed in the San Fernando massacres."

And the connection is? (hint: there isn't one; there's no causal relationship between los zetas and a wall, because a wall won't have a significant effect on their operations) [0]

>> "All of the business leaders that support him can tell you that"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
Also, https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-ceos-take-a-stand-against-...

Selective much?

>> Milo's schtick is doxxing people at talks.

>> The Trump homophobic thing is a false canard; he's never been seriously accused of homophobia

>> "The news media says he is racist, but then why would he care about Mexican women being raped?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
These two statements have no relationship with each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Aversive_racism

[0] http://ced.berkeley.edu/events-media/news/donald-trumps-wall...
He supposedly had 50TB+ worth of data sitting at his place. This almost seems inaccurate as that's like 25 x 2TB drives.

My wife works in electronic discovery, processing huge caches of corporate documents for complex litigation. 50tb is a lot of data but it's not that much in organizational terms. From what I remember when her firm was processing material for the SEC-Goldman Sachs litigation over the financial crisis (a case which involved several years of discovery work), they were dealing with a roughly similar quality, 30 or 60tb of data. I've got an unopened 5tb drive sitting right here on my desk.

No offense, but I feel you're arguing against the existence of large trucks because you've never had any reason to drive one.

You think they would be watching everything like a hawk.

You would, but in my experience managers pay about as much attention to IT people as they do to the janitors. That goes double for contractors, because the buyers tend to assume security screening and so on was built into the terms of the contract. At one point I was the only IT guy for a small private bank in London; I was contracted to work for Digital Equipment Corp, who in turn had the corporate contract with this bank due the contractual arrangements between DEC and the much larger corporate parent of the private bank.

I got the job because their existing guy fired or quit in a hurry or something and they were desperate. Technically it was easy, I just ran backups, did a few service calls around the office each day if anyone had a problem, and most of the actual work consisted of passing on the bank's procurement requests to the DEC people. Eventually I lost the gig because the bank got sick of dealing with DEC and terminated the contract but I got glowing personal references which was nice.

I remember being sort of amazed at the degree of freedom I had. As you may know, small private banks cater exclusively to the ultra-rich, and I was the only IT person on site and had total access to anything. If I were more financially oriented I could have enriched myself in any number of ways.
Have you ever driven in the real world? Those roads are very common in many areas. Try driving in Malta sometime.
Can a nuclear reactor actually work if the steam never recondenses? Either way that's a long ways away, the smallest currently planned nuclear reactor is still the size of a shipping container. Building a probe around that would make and it's transfer stage the largest thing ever put in orbit by a long ways then there's the logistic of actually landing the thing.
The closing arguments of this documentary, where the author brings the timeframe to the present, that talk about the reinforcement of content across groups in social networks, are incredibly poignant and relevant to the 'fake news' effect that currently sits at the forefront of the media's attention.

It's scary how, as social networks' power gains more influence and accuracy, the lens through which we view content on the web will be narrowed and focussed. So much so, that coupled with the above 'fake news', is responsible for members of the public 'only seeing what they would want to see' - and not questioning the credibility of the source material.

We, as technologists, must work hard to strive towards an objective web. I think that fake news is just the beginning of a veil of blurriness that will flow over internet content.

It therefore strikes me as surprising that Facebook has started a 'flagging' system for fake content[0] — when it relies on the above positive feedback loops of users with shared interests.

[0] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38827101/how-facebook-...
I love this visual, but elevators have way more safety mechanisms than poorly-designed web sites. Check out the source HTML of instagram.com for a great example. /-:
> Do you truly believe that specific DP book caused that effect?

GoF/Design Patterns was published in 1994.
Java, the standard-bearer of overapplying Design Patterns, was first released in 1995, and it only grew into the AbstractAdapterFactoryImpl cliches after that.
Based on that timeline Im not really sure how you can argue that GoF had nothing to do with DP madness, at least as exemplified by Java.

Just because GoF was originally meant to be descriptive does not mean that it can't be interpreted as prescriptive, especially by your stock work-a-day software engineer or peter-principle'd software architect.
Despite whatever intentions the GoF may have had, by giving these patterns a name, they in a sense codified them, giving people something to point to when justifying otherwise poorly thought out design decisions.

> The DP book is extremely dry reading and most programmers have not actually read it.

The thing about GoF is that you don't really have to read it to apply it--and not actually reading it only increases the odds of mis-applying patterns if youve encountered them elsewhere.
It's commonly featured in machine learning MOOCs. Sometimes things win mindshare for reasons other than feature sets.
That's what I was thinking. If you can't take both, why bother at all?
YouTube glitch causes channels to lose tons of subscribers in minutes
Great work! A few questions for the author(s): In the article, you have listed 9 feature extractors/templates. In the final model, what's the total number (or rough magnitude) of features? How much data (or ballpark estimate) did you train this on? Did you try to deal with potential difference in distribution across your data sampling sources?
Tesla posted about updates to their auto pilot system which included bouncing radar under the car in front of them.

https://www.tesla.com/en_AU/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-...
Incompetence destroyed this company. There's a maker revolution happening right now and they can't figure out how to harness it. Imagine if each radio shack was a hammarspace and had been adding tooling steadily for the last 5 years.
Totally legal in CA.
A School Librarian Caught in the Middle of Student Privacy Extremes
> a "Lust Killer" and not a psychopath

are these exclusive notions?
That's what you get when the local concerned mothers association sends a weekly flood of crap to the local politicians and newspaper about how "cars go too fast on a particular road... something something, think of the children". How much of that crap is present varies a lot from city to city and town to town. Generally speaking, the poorer the town and the lower the population density the fewer "resident sponsored improvements" to traffic flow you'll see.
"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" is another excellent documentary by Adam Curtis that I found particularly interesting for it's focus on the history of silicon valley.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...
Documentary: https://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-lov...
Microsoft offers patent troll defense for cloud customers
Actually this might be evidence in favor of the claim that the NSA has fancy methods for RAM data recovery.
I feel like the problem with proving his innocence lies within proving that the documents which were found unconditionally and legitimately belonged to the US government or anyone for that matter.

Why are such 'TOP SECRET' documents not hashed or otherwise? Anybody can Photoshop or even copy and paste an 'emblem' or 'indicia' as his original criminal complaint made by agent Jeremy Bucalo describes. Documents can be completely falsified especially if all that identifies it is a seal or marking and basic text.

I just feel like there is something more here.
And even more probably most of the data are duplicates or even more probably non-classified data or even empty space on the media they've seized:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3149446/United-St...

"GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT’S
MOTION FOR A DETENTION HEARING:"

"A conservative estimate of the volume of the digital information seized from the Defendant
is approximately 50,000 gigabytes. This information must be fully reviewed by appropriate
authorities to determine its source and classification level, as well as the extent to which it
constitutes “national defense information.”"

If he's indeed a digital hoarder, and it's still open if it even "constitutes national defense information" it can be anything, even counting his Blu-rays with movies?
Octave is basically a not-as-good-but-free version of matlab, and matlab is an abomination. See forex: http://archive.is/tCo6B
This is about the most depressing 2+ hours of docu I've watched in the last few years, but simply because this is all stuff we kinda knew already but in a disjointed way presented in one hit..

It contains many thoughts/things that I (and I suspect 'we') have had about where we are, and how we got here, but seeing them altogether in one condensed form was quite hard to take in. It's rather hard to hear our story in this form.. I'll give it another watch soon.

For all the feelings of helplessness it inspires, I highly rate it and would suggest it to anyone. It's on iPlayer (for the brits here) for the next 200 days or something...

I really hope we are not running out of people like Adam Curtis, I'm not really sure of anyone else producing content like this which is so accessible -- would love to hear any suggestions on more content like this besides chomsky and dan carlin's podcast which are my other two favourite opinion content i put beside this in my virtual bookshelf :}

tl;dr -- watch it, but be forewarned you can't 'unwatch' it and, at least for me, it can be a bit much to deal with in one go.
It only sucks if you've experienced a fast connection.

We generally don't target hardware from 98, why should we target bandwidth from 98? Current smartphones and computers are really powerful, and most applications are targeted towards those devices. Native apps don't have this insane requirement to support hardware from 2 decades ago.

The web is so much more than text in 2017. And before you whine about the ads and useless stuff, go read a tabloid and whine about the waste of paper, or try to watch tv and whine about the electricity and time you're wasting watching advertisements.

Media has and always will be like that.

The time spent on backwards compatibility and optimizations are usually not worth it anyway.

Do I think mostly text sites should be 5mb? Obviously not.
Ask HN: Why is there no instrument to short a private company?
Why is there not an instrument to short private companies, specifically technology companies with ridiculous valuations set by private equity. There are lots of companies being propped up, that refuse to go public because they'd get slammed by professional investors (Wall Street not Silicon Valley). If there is no way to keep these companies in check, what prevents a bubble?
Why is this job not handled by a machine yet?
I said clearly that I was not implying that it was right. Just that it could clearly be explained without ulterior motives, which was a direct relply to another post.
As I recall, the download managers were primarily useful because they could resume files that didn't finish.

Incredibly useful for enormous files like visual basic 6, which I spent like...a month or so downloading in the late 90s.
Sure, but the question remains why bombing and killing thousands is not protest worthy, but preventing people from a few countries from temporarily entering the US is protest worthy.

Call me cynical, but I bet if Obama issued Trumps EO, and Trump expanded the drone program, we would be having the exact same protests against Trump.
> 50TB is a lot for a single person. How the hell did he even store it all?

I've got half that in a single 2U rackmount server -- my own -- in the data center and, relatively speaking, that's not really that much.
Best Database for 2017
Silicon Valley Has Always Been an Echo Chamber
I just googled "outline processor" as I'd never heard of it before. Do you have any recommendations?
Hmm. Are they going to roll over and provide decryption keys for their secure service as they did previously?
FYI

dynamic_pressure = 0.5 * ref_density * equivalent_airspeed^2

Its not a function of indicated airspeed. Indicated airspeed needs to be corrected for the compressibility of air to obtain the equivalent airspeed. At low airspeeds/altitudes, the indicated airspeed and equivalent airspeed are very close, so your equation would hold up just fine.

As a result at higher altitudes and faster speeds, the red line on an indicated airspeed gauge would be variable to account for the effects of compressibility.
It's not unreasonable for the president to push back when he thinks the courts are overstepping their bounds. That, I would argue, is part of his job. In this particular case it's pretty clear the president was well within the law, and he would be remiss if he didn't say anything.

I wonder if the people who are now wailing and rending their garments were equally horrified when Obama scolded the Supreme Court in a State of the Union speech.
I'd love it if they made it easier to search just the channel or conversation you have in focus. Having the filter autocomplete based on what channel your on seems like a good middle ground.
‘Anti-homeless’ spikes removed after locals kept covering them with cushions
Wonder if they'll make a tpu extension board for the pi...
He was raided and arrested in August. He was indicted today.

Has he just been sitting in a jail cell -- without being charged -- in the meantime? I assume the government argued against letting him out on bond on the grounds that he was a national security risk.

Edit: Looks like he was "charged with felony theft of classified government material" at that time, according to another article.
>For bonus points, do this when the state mandates snow chains for Lassen and/or US 4.

If anything that will be easier for the AI. People are the hard part. Fewer people around = easier.

If the AI is tasked with "go there" in deep snow, sand or whatever, it'll do better than your average person because your average person has no idea how to drive on anything but clear pavement whereas the guys writing the code are gonna get the input of experts as well as a bunch of testing and refinement.
So you are saying that the opiates did not cause problems? And we shouldn't look critically at the way they were marketed and distributed?

No, you are just saying that they are also a symptom. Which is exactly what I said.
Did Octave ever have a larger mindshare? It always seemed like the cheapskate's Matlab substitute, but if you know enough Matlab where you might consider a substitute, you probably have a Matlab license already. (Or like me a need to run on an embedded Linux while you work on a python port + a distaste for proprietary software...)

Anyway, my thought on why numpy seems more widespread is simple: efficiency.

Even Matlab code gets rewritten if it needs to be used for something intense, and Matlab has many more optimizations than Octave to get away with sloppy coding. Python+numpy is pretty easy even for a non-programmer to write (at least compared to C++ or whatever a DSP wants you to use) and even sloppily done is generally fast, plus it has a great and large community. But both Matlab and Octave are great (at least if you use octave-forge) for prototyping and doing a lot of domain specific things python/numpy/scipy don't support out of the box. Matlab especially has a lot of neat GUI helper tools. Meanwhile R is over in its own world where if you're doing anything in that domain it's a questionable choice not to take advantage.
(I wasn't alive then, so I'm only informed by what I've read.)

A few short years after Minsky's comment, microcomputers were in full bloom and expensive Lisp machines were no longer viable. Cheap PCs could run Lisp code faster than the dedicated hardware!

But Lisp never really gained a strong foothold on microcomputers. Existing code continued to run... but development slowed down as Lisp companies went belly-up, unable to sell their hardware. The standardization of Common Lisp in 1984 did help somewhat.

The Japanese Fifth Generation project was oriented around logic-programming, was it not? I had the impression they focused on technologies like Prolog rather than Lisp.
From The Verge article [0]:

> It was allegedly all kept on computers and drives at Martin’s Glen Burnie, Maryland home.

[0]: http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/8/14555238/nsa-leak-indictmen...
The "forgot your password" flow on keybase.io explicitly tells you whether or not the email address you enter has a valid account. Is this ok?
Honest question: what exactly do you hope to put light on with that comparison? I don't think the developer in question has ever claimed that he is a fantastic businessman: quite the contrary, he is (apparently) a very talented developer who is seeking funding to continue a project which others may find useful.

I understand that the current economic system in the US greatly favors forming a business around a good idea/software, but we shouldn't be closed to other models of software development as well.
> No offense, but I feel you're arguing against the existence of large trucks because you've never had any reason to drive one.

I'm not saying that companies don't have 50TB of documents, or that you cannot transfer 50TB, either via the network or physically. I am saying that for a place which prides itself as the "National Security Agency", they should have extremely tight security about transferring 50TB of their crown jewels, either via the network or physically. So, I think we are talking about different things. Goldman Sachs and DEC are in totally different ballparks, or should be, compared to the NSA.

I don't really care either way. I just think logistically this is a crazy amount of data for someone to walk off with at a place that should be the model of a secure site.
I have not tried the octave GUI in a couple of years but back then it was awful. In my opinion this has always been octaves biggest weakness. If they would fix this I am sure they gain significantly marketshare from matlab.
Marketing and Trump sucking. Factory was planned and spending committed long before Trump ever stole the election.

Nice to see who's going to stand up for democracy.
I felt exactly the opposite. Dershowitz would delve down into the details (for example, resolution 224) and how it was created and all that. While Chomsky would make general statements not backed up by anything.