skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a Tesla battery teardown posted a while back where they weren't using properly isolated tools/equipment. This was from people who supposedly work on EVs for a living.

I'd be really nervous about letting someone work near 400V/1500A that wasn't trained to understand how to safely operate in that type of environment.
Are you saying we shouldn't engage in this kind of reasoning because of the words used to describe it? Shouldn't reasoning be used based on its ability to model the world accurately?

If the above reasoning is prejudice, does that make prejudice a good thing?
Microsoft provides a lot of open source software with open source licenses, usually MIT.
James Comey: 'There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America'
As a counterpoint, I've never had a positive experience with Instacart. Whenever an item is missing (and sometimes I suspect they just can't find the item in store - one time they told me Whole Foods had no parmesan cheese at all), there is a frustrating back-and-forth texting frenzy to decide whether or not you want something else. Not only is it not what you want, it inevitably costs more, and a typical order will have something like a dozen texts from the shopper. In addition to this, the markups are way too high in my opinion. And since I'm not in the store, I never know what's on sale and can never take advantage of it.

After about a half dozen tries I gave up on Instacart. It was so much worse than just going to the store myself.
Google Cloud Video Intelligence – Video Content Analysis
Wow, thats quite the markup. I wonder if thats because of the Instacart<->MarketBasket relationship, or if its similar for all Grocery Providers.

I have not noticed a significant increase in prices (other than Tips & Delivery) over my previous weekly spend at H-E-B, but...I seem to have a lot more targeted shopping cart doing it over InstaCart.

No matter what, for the hour+ it saves me, its probably well worth a <20% markup.
The ELF: a car-like, solar-powered, electric-assisted velomobile
There will be more horror stories like this as Teslas are not maintainable by their owners, making them throw away vehicles. Last I read, Tesla service manuals are only provided as a subscription service to the public... and only in Massachusetts as the state has "right-to-repair" legislature forcing it.
I thought Xamarin Forms was for phones?
I learned this lesson the hard way a long time ago when I built a service that uses ML (I was doing GPU powered ML in 2011) and social graph clustering to recommend "better" Facebook friends to invite in apps that use the FB SDK. They would send our API their users' FB access tokens (only required the default FB user permissions, too, for mutual friends), we'd issue calls to the FB SDK to get their social graph (completely on the issuing app's behalf), crunch it on our GPUs, and send back a sorted list of recommended friends to suggest to invite for improving virality.

Back in 2012, it wasn't prohibited by the ToS at all; we read and re-read the ToS over and over again to make sure so that we wouldn't waste our time building something "illegal."

Once I had the third largest social gaming company as a customer, Facebook's lawyers pulled the plug on it right away.

Turns out (according to Archive.org Wayback Machine), they added a new clause to their ToS two days before emailing us about our ToS violation:

"You must not give your secret key and access tokens to another party, unless that party is an agent acting on your behalf as an operator of your application. You are responsible for all activities that occur under your account identifiers."

Moral of the story: If they want to nuke you, they WILL nuke you (I'm sure Facebook wasn't too happy about my database storing millions of users' social graphs on it, and that was the REAL reason for the shutdown).

Even during our YC interview, a couple of the most legit original partners told us on our way (permanently) out the door "yeah, you guys are going to get shut down..."
That would be justified and consistent if they blocked visitors with adblockers, which they do not.
How the 20,699-word iTunes T&Cs became this year's hottest graphic novel
1 hour 15 minutes each way, but you know what -- I don't mind. I get to live in a beautiful city along the coast in Massachusetts, and commute to a job I love in downtown Boston.

1 hour of that commute is on the commuter train, during which I work for part of and read or watch shows during the other. It also means my in-office hours are 9:15 - 4:15 since I finish the rest of my work on the train.

I tried working at home for three years and hated it. Even though I consider myself to be more on the introverted side, I got quite lonely in an empty house all day, and find it much more exciting to be at an office.

For what it's worth I previously had a job where I drove an hour and 45 minutes twice a week and _hated_ that. I would never do this commute if I had to drive instead.
8x8 Has Acquired Sameroom
The husband in question is a very accomplished engineer and owns his own first name as a domain too :-) https://kevin.org/ - not dot com sadly!
At this point, the store cost me $86.87. Instacart is now up to $142.47 after taxes and fees. This is a difference of $55.60, or 64%. I added a 10% tip (honestly, the shoppers deserve it, especially shopping in a grocery store on a Sunday for me), which brought my Instacart total to $154.80 for an $86.87 grocery bill, or a difference of $78.20.

Ouch.
How to Fix Unfortunately Google Play Services Has Stopped
I wonder if Snapchat is/will become a large user of this service? Depending on the average response time of this API, Snapchat could get much better ad targeting analyzing their Stories content.

I imagine that they have something similar in house that they run since it is pretty vital to their core business, but you never know.
Harem style.
Kaggle Joins Google Cloud
Could be a "retcon" but I always heard we (the US) opened up the media on our space program as a sort of "marketing program" to show how awesome we were (on the world stage generally and specifically to the Soviets).
Let's hope they find some trace of intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

(Mangled Monty Python)
For the past couple of years, I have been employed as a sysadmin, but for the past ~two years, my main task has been to implement the glue that hooks up several software systems we use and write what could be reporting tools.

Programming-wise it's been kind of dull, actually. No fancy clever stuff. At the same time it's been demanding in terms of understanding the business perspective on things. How do you define "costs accumulated on a given project" or "coverage contribution of a given project"? Having no background in business management or accounting, I have little to no clue, but it sure was interesting to find out.

So, yeah, we're in the same boat, I guess. ;-)
Invisibility is a stage in life evolution. As predation dominates the universe, life evolves to become invisible from other predators. So we humans are in a stage of evolution that we can be seen, and I consider extremely stupid flashing our position to most advanced forms of life that will anihilate us in a heartbeat.

So our only hope is to find life that is barely advanced, just like algae in a watery planet, or find life that's more advanced than us and say goodbye to our existence. Just like aborigins from America flashing lights to european explorers. We would be extremely lucky to find life in the 100,000 year span that takes species to gain conciousness and develop invisibility. Not that we can't just that's extremely improbable, and dangeorous for there are also more advanced predators watching. That's why we can't find them, they're invisible.

That's my hypothesis.
They revealed this palace by blowing up a prophet's tomb.
Linkedin and Russians
Virta Health Launches to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
> Whether the conditions in a contract have been met is very often a matter of huge debate - this is what "law suits" are about.

Exactly. While laws and contract terms are written in natural language, this is an AI-complete problem. Not to say we won't solve AGI or important parts of automated legal dispute resolution, but the blockchain and even blockchain-based distributed computing is incidental.
Other languages include: Python, PHP, NodeJS, Javascript.

There are guides for getting started with each of these languages here: https://guides.nanobox.io/
It doesn't matter that you've securely transmitted the AES implementation if the code that drives AES, sets up its constructions, ensures that its parameters are set properly, manages its keys, and handles the plaintext is itself delivered insecurely.

(I wrote the document you're citing, for what it's worth).
CNN and VR
The first design was expedient: we needed something in order to launch the website. So we did a really minimal amount of work. It was never great -- nothing done in four hours can be great -- but it sufficed to be able to launch a product.

After about a year, we had clear product momentum, so it was worth investing in a better brand design since we understood our direction and customers at that point well enough to do a good job that we wouldn't have to change later.
Why Take Uber or Lyft if you can hitchhike?
So this one is insane, but the previous ones were completely sane; and the reason is that he thinks his enemies within the system might have wire-tapped him. I'd say it's more crazy to not assume that happened given what we know about US "intelligence". Warrants? Seriously? Like legal oversight has even been on the radar lately for the CIA/NSA/whatever; they do whatever they want, however they see fit, and get away with it.
This is true, but the hoops you have to jump through to prove a defect and get said return varies greatly between companies. I think the point of the Apple story is they do it without asking any questions. From what I've read, Dell for example will have you spending at least an hour or two on the phone or in a chat with someone who may end up arguing with you about whether something is an actual defect or not. There's a big difference in how customers are treated.
Jacob Applebaum was publicly crucified and Uber also. That would not be a thing if there was an inherent sexism in tech, if that was the case people would have shrugged at it as if it was normal behaviour. They most certainly did not.

I won't comment on "get out of the way".
Scientists create new form of matter, a time crystal
I did not know this existed until recently, but you and the article poster probably have a very good claim for diminished value and loss of use. Basically non use of your high-end car for many months.

I recently created a short online quiz for a law firm in Florida that checks to see if you have a claim. It was a completely new area of law that I did not even know about. It does email your contact info at the end - in case you want to be contacted.

Anyways if anyone is interested it is at http://www.diminishedvalue.law/quiz/ and is based on Florida law.

I am not trying to hype the firm. There are other firms that do the same thing. I just happen to know about this one.
That was my (ir-)rationale in 2010, too, and I went with a 14" notebook then (HP). Big mistake, the 14"/16:10 displays available in mainstream machines are stuck in the past and absolute crap vs. modern 13"/16:9 displays (except for Apple's?).

As a hardcore terminal/vi person, I can assure you my 2016 XPS 13" works wonderfully for me. I had a chance to compare it next to a ThinkPad Carbon (I believe) in a retail shop that had both on display, and the ThinkPad's display, while in a lovely machine, doesn't hold a candle to that of the XPS.

(However! I'd like Lenovo to keep producing notebooks with good Pro keyboards for my next purchase)
Good service overall is a tough problem, but ensuring adequate parts availability doesn't seem like a particularly difficult thing. Keep a small stock of every part at a warehouse somewhere, ship it out to shops that need them when they ask.

Reliably getting parts to a shop in days could be tough. Reliably doing it in weeks shouldn't be. That these repairs take so long tells me that they have no stock, and sit on their hands for a long time before making any.
Apple, Samsung Respond to Wikileaks Claims of CIA Hacking Programs
Put up a flag, and boom, you're an American? Will that persuade 2017 Americans as they discuss who's an American? Membership into the American group is not obvious, and most certainly not defined by mere citizenship, least of a decorative flag.
I was considering getting a Tesla next year when my leaf is paid off, but had reservations about not being near a service center. This more or less solidifies for me that I shouldn't get one.
Walmart clearly knows how to leverage technology. Their business is built around using technology to lower costs and manage the flow of inventory. Walmart has always relied very heavily on IT, and has been a driver of retail IT innovation.

My take is that even a very seasoned technology team with a deep bench can occasionally miss the beginning of something important, and be forced to catch up. 1) Don't let that be you. 2) Admit it, someday it will be you, so don't be so arrogant that you can't start executing plan B.
I just logged in for the first time and used a lower manhattan zipcode, the options seemed fairly sparse. I assume that it is more useful in other parts of the country?
inb4 the Stallman disciples descend upon this comment.

The things with FOSS is there are different degrees of rigidity. On the one hand, you have copyleft licenses like GPL that tend to make commercial development very tricky. On the other hand you have more permissive licenses like MIT and Apache that do encourage further open source work but where the vast majority of improvements don't get committed back upstream (since they become a part of proprietary offerings).
Exactly, had this been a Lotus or even a seemingly pedestrian Chevy SS, he's probably be in the same situation. Getting parts for my Australian-built Pontiac was often a frustration for the same reasons: rare cars are very difficult to source parts for.
AMD Ryzen and Windows 10 scheduler issue
IA64 failed because it was a bad answer to a question no one asked. AMD got it right, that's why AMD64 won.
Target, Walmart, Best Buy all need to improve their online and mobile experiences. Jet.com was the first real contender to Amazon. Makes sense for someone to scoop them up. I'd bet there is room for more companies like jet. It could also be instacart or some other delivery oriented company if they can get nationwide scale.
What's the big deal with going to a grocery store, I mean seriously? I can understand a market for wealthy people, who just want someone else to do things for them, but to have enough market that the common person would find this worth it?

Also, who wants someone picking through all their produce/meats/perishables? That's a pretty subjective thing.
Many interesting answers in this thread. But to get to your question: How do you skill up? My answer would be: As best you can, all the time. Find pockets of time and learning tasks that fit within them. Explore opportunities: Moocs, toy projects, more serious projects, read books, listen to podcasts during your commute, when you work out (which you should even though you don't have time for it), switch jobs from time to time, talk to people. Just never stop. One thing you should do however, from time to time, is to give up: It's not as if every learning task is feasible. Kids/work/family do put sometime severe constraints on what you can do. Some things just don't work out, and you won't necessarily know what they are before trying. So try lots of things, but give up from time to time when you have to. Learn about what your constraints are, and design next your attempt to fit them better, but don't stop. (.... but every now and then, you just have to find/steal/cheat to get some time to just hack, there is no substitute :-) )
So what happens when all 10.5 million Somalians, 22.85 million Syrians, 24.41 million Yemenis, 33.42 millions Iraqis, 37.96 million Sudanese, 6.35 million Eritreans, 77.45 million Iranians, etc apply?
Should read HPC instead of "hot"
VCs are never getting this money back.
Did they provide you a car during this time?
Nice upside down logo. Really slick!
These types of tutorials always start out explaining the problems with Regular Expressions and why not to use them... then immediately proceeding into lexing via regular expressions.

Perhaps the tutorials should start with the strengths of regular expressions, and how we can harness that for getting started with a lexer.
It's similar to storing energy by inflating a balloon.

When you inflate a balloon, you are opposed by the tension in the skin of the balloon. You could then use that stored energy to do work if you wanted. E.g. you could make the inflated balloon blow air into a little wind turbine that would, in turn, light a small LED.

With the underwater system, you are inflating a bubble that is held captive in a concrete chamber. The force that opposes you is water pressure. The deeper underwater, the greater the water pressure, so the more power you can store with the same concrete vessel.

EDIT: Energy would also be stored through air compression.
just a personal stance. It's a good service, I just personally don't like it.
I've worked on a JavaScript engine and I'll admit that. The language actively fights optimization. Some of this is due to legacy features, some to inconvenient design decisions like mutable prototype chains. I have tremendous respect for everyone involved in getting JS performance to where it is today.
Explaining then vs. success in promises
Well the culmination of both datasets will allow you to decipher if what they tell you is what you sent.
All excellent points. I wonder if it fall in some 80/20 rule. 80% contracts may be bog standard and ripe for this kind of automation while remaining will get attention of staff. I am thinking of contracts for jobs, lease, repair works etc.
Which other car manufacture has disabled someone's car for getting it repaired without their approval? Heck, which car manufacture has to re-enable a person's car?
Official announcements:

Google: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/welcome-Kaggle-... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13822635)

Kaggle: http://blog.kaggle.com/2017/03/08/kaggle-joins-google-cloud/ (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13822727)
What Colour are your bits? (2004)
Ah, the infamous slippery slope.
Which companies have beautiful website design?
I don't know about you, but I love going grocery shopping, especially with a partner.
Great idea. You should make it always muted and the user could flip a switch or slide something to ummute.

Also why not do a full privacy case? Sliding cover for cameras. Maybe faraday cage?
With some caveats. Execute 10 network requests in parallel on background threads, then reconcile their results, after that fire off another 3 requests in parallel (again, on a background thread), reconcile all the values you got so far, and return to the main thread. Oh and repeat the whole thing every time the user session's token changes, or the user requests a manual refresh. Also don't forget to cancel all running requests when the process is interrupted before it is finished. One more thing: If one request fails, bubble the error to the main thread and skip all subsequently planned requests.

You CAN solve this with counters and locks (be careful about deadlocks though), but you will save yourself a lot of pain if you just use a FRP framework. You will also be able to easily react to the things you forgot ("Oh the requests should also be halted and retried after connectivity is lost").

So where do you draw the line? Do you spare your coworkers the agony of learning FRP or do you implement something where you suspect it will horribly crash and burn in production?
But they never reaped the benefits without following the license which is a different kind of problem.

Also Microsoft has been embracing FOSS more and more, they certainly don't do anything copyleft but they do release their own things in MIT and accept contributions on a number of significant projects.
ICE Fluids:

Gasoline (or diesel)

Engine Oil

Engine Coolant (antifreeze)

Transmission Fluid (of one type or another)

Windshield Wash Fluid

Air Conditioner Freon

Brake Fluid

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EV Fluids:

Battery pack Coolant (antifreeze)

Transmission Fluid (of one type or another)

Windshield Wash Fluid

Air Conditioner Freon

Brake Fluid

---

In an EV, you surprisingly only get rid of 2 fluids: Fuel and Engine Oil
Having children is definitely a bigger commitment than getting a dog ;) However the picture painted that your life is over financially or otherwise is a bit of an exaggeration. So it's not a fact that you can't go backpacking, drinking, or learn a new framework once you have children. Don't get me wrong, having kids is a huge change in your life, just not necessarily in the way people who don't have kids think.

Everyone is free to live their lives as they wish. I'm not implying you should or shouldn't get married, or a get a job, or go to college, or have kids, in any order you feel like... It's just that you shouldn't decide not to have kids because you think you won't be able to learn a new framework (or whatever other skill you wish to acquire) once you have kids. At least generally speaking. Different people may have their own specific situations.
Stocks Have Tripled Since Crisis, but Low Rates Are Still Squeezing Savers
Great topic no answer :(
That isn't what they bought. You have to understand more of the back story. Marc built an e-commerce business up from nothing and sold it to Amazon for 500M. The thing Amazon bought then wasn't just the customers/revenue but all of his experience using Kiva robots to automate the logistics and keep costs down. They now use that in all of their warehousing.

My understanding is that Marc is none too fond of Amazon for whatever reason and jet.com was created specifically to beat Amazon. Jet's group coupon and localized shipping discounts became to hard to figure out profitability and keep growing the business so it was keeping raising and fighting or go help do it with Wal-Mart's checkbook. I actually think it was a win-win.
Couldn't buffers be used for explicit memory control? I think that was how emscripten implemented memory management
Nanobox supports multiple languages and we're working on rolling out support for more. Elixir is one we're really excited about. There isn't really any good, standardized support for Elixir deployments, but Nanobox is a huge step in that direction.
What is the Ninth Ward going to see out of it? Didn't they say that with MR-GO, which turned out to be a complete boondoggle (and worse during Katrina)?
Can anyone comment on the relative computational requirements of training vs using the classifier? antognini described a system that trained in tensorflow and then is used by a simple C++ program (not on a GPU?).

Do you use the same resources/hardware for both training and executing?
GPLv3 is the fix, but Torvalds refuses to apply it to linux... root of the problem imho. When I can have a gplv2 linux on my samsung TV that gets rooted by the CIA but I can't root it without bricking it, you know it's time to switch to gplv3.
How to Save Cellular IoT from Itself
What worries me about this is the liability- if you mess up someone's asylum claim, they can die, or suffer extreme harm (e.g. if they're tortured). I'd be interested in seeing how DoNotPay manages their liability.
speaking personally, in NYC (and presumably other cities where you often don't own a car and instead use public transit) it's quite a pain to get groceries. if you're walking back, you're carrying a lot of crap that's broken to breakage or spillage. then there's the risk you might have too much to carry yourself, then what do you do? getting them delivered is a big help and above a minor convenience for me - i just wouldn't buy groceries otherwise
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