skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the sort of thing that ought to terrify the makers of legacy automotive technology, both for how Tesla might scale production, but also how Tesla might become a lot more aggressive with its intellectual property strategy.
I used "proxy war" very intentionally. A) Proxy: Google isn't even fighting these particular lawsuits directly, the cities themselves are. B) War: These examples are the first two off the top of my head out of many. As you point out there are hundreds of "boring lawsuits" involved in this process. There are many battles in a war, these are two of them as examples of the war between Google and incumbents.

In a war, you pick your theaters and you pick your battles. The question was "Why isn't Google Fiber fighting in theaters of war that are practically begging for it when they are already spread thin across a number of theaters?" and the answer I'm pointing to is probably "Because they are trying to pick their theaters/battles." Whether or not you think these example lawsuits are stupid is beside that core point of "Because they are trying to pick their theaters/battles."
Supposedly that's the case, but since they switched away from Mobile Eye they are still trying to reach feature parity with AP1 at this point.

It was supposed to take 2 months, but viola, 6 months later they are still struggling and there are many YouTube videos out there showing how terrible and unsafe it is.

It still lack many features of AP1 such as automatic lane changing and blind spot detection at this point. Lane keeping is also not as stable and safe as AP1 and many videos show that the car like to drift into oncoming traffic.
Cell culturing has a history of the requisite procedures being brought to scale when necessary (insulin production for one classic example). I'm not arguing that the scale is the same. Obviously, comparing a highly evolved animal literally designed for producing meat vs. the natural insulin production of a pig is completely different. But, the evidence says the procedures scale well, given enough time.

Would this somehow be different?
> I'm struggling. After a lot of reflection, it's due largely to the way the class is taught. I need lots of examples over the field. Don't throw a wall of math at me.

Vast majority of people are this way. The current educational system is fundamentally flawed and works fundamentally differently.
Some of them also have amazing saves by the people involved. I'm not sure one can actually learn how to do that in an extreme situation from a video though.
keyboard: dasKeyboard Ultimate Model S

mouse: Razer DeathAdder Left-hand edition
The Public folder is what dragged me in fully and made me stay with Dropbox. I am their paying customer now, and this very moment, I'm considering whether I'm pissed off about the thing enough to move those few gigs of data I have with Dropbox to some self-hosted solution.
Education research was probably the first field to adopt NHST[1], so it is not surprising it is messed up. Psychology was next. The most recent (still in progress) is physics. Sometime in the middle it happened to biology/medicine. You can see the order is inversely correlated with the reliability of the modern results.

[1] See eg Gigerenzer 2004 for an intro:
http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Mindless_2004.pdf
Censorship of GitHub
Isn't some kind of balance important? You want to have code that you can maintain and that others can work on, but also efficiency. I don't know if it's one of those 'unobtainable golden middle' things, but I feel as though C didn't strike a bad place with regard to system programming.

Unfortunately I've found graphical toolkits just really unpleasant and unportable to work with. I would much rather write for the web. However I have never used Electron.
There's also this slightly more visual approach to learning flexbox: https://www.flexboxgame.com/
Why do you think people will leave CockroachDB for RethinkDB?

I ask this as a long-time user of RethinkDB.
Thanks for the feedback!

I happy to hear you gave it a shot and I've heard several times about it being used successfully from Lambda (hopefully people can look at GCP's Cloud Functions now, but I'm biased). Sorry to hear it didn't work out.

Search is something we're looking at, and we have a high quality bar on reliability and scalability aspects as a service that handles 10's of trillions of requests per month.

I'll also pass on your feedback about the JavaScript SDK to its team.
"non-profit member-owned cooperative"

That was my plan, too. It's already proven out by one rural ISP doing something like that. You also have the angle of people willing to pay extra or sacrifice some features for a good the community owns. There's also a pride aspect that can happen.
Well judging by the percentage of their revenue from cars at this point they are undeniably a car company.

Vision statements are predictive instead of descriptive.

Apple can have a vision of building cars in the future but it doesn't change the fact that they are a consumer electronics company today.

Vision is cheap, execution is where the money is at.
> So at the end of a day: Tesla is raising capital without diluting their shareholders

They're also offering at least $250 million in common stock as part of this round. And the notes are convertible so if it becomes profitable to convert them those will result in dilution as well.
I think that person is talking about the HTMLElement interface is essentially a JS object and how you can set properties on it. e.g.

element.foo = 123;

vs

element.setAttribute('foo', '123');
Wow. That is a trainwreck. Or car wreck.

How much value are they expecting to get from riding the "Beta" train? There's a huge difference between their self-congratulatory demos of features and the reality here.

Oh, and you have to pay for this.
I'm definitely guilty of stretching a point. He probably is not insulting users. Your interpretation is likely the more accurate one.

But the key thing I was reaching (or stretching) for is that my reading of his text is that he really wasn't worrying about users - he was just struggling to figure out why he hated something he'd obviously had a lot of affection for previously.

To me it's a progression that makes a lot of sense, for the reasons I outline in the blog post. But of course it is just a hypothesis.
Nullable types are worse than Option in every way that matters (yes they save a few bytes of memory occasionally, but who the hell cares, if you care about shaving 8 bytes off an object you won't be using the JVM in the first place. It's certainly not worth the cost of working with a weird, second-class type that you can't abstract over like other types). Why do you want an extra way of representing the same thing with more special cases?

> Kotlin's approach is superior in that it requires developers to deal with nullability

But it doesn't force them to deal with nullability when interacting with Java which is the only case where it matters.

Scala calling Scala: you never use null, you never hit a problem with null.

Scala calling Java: you have to manually check return values for older libraries but at least passing in null can't happen.

Kotlin calling Kotlin: you use null a lot, you never hit a problem with null.

Kotlin calling Java: you have to manually check return values for older libraries and won't notice where you're passing in null because that's a normal, safe thing to do when calling Kotlin.
Does anyone else feel that Kickstarter has turned from helping cash strapped startups and individuals raise funds for interesting projects into a low-risk small business pre-order system?

I feel it's a shame people are spending $20,000+ to try and convince you to donate them money, I don't feel it was in the original spirit of Kickstarter earlier on.
Did they pay off their VC obligations? If no, then I'm going to play the "if it walks like a duck..." card.

That said, my point was more general than just this Dropbox issue.
But you're not flooding the market with $750M new common stock of TSLA in the market.
If TSLA price crashes it could impact consumer confidence in buying the T3 which Tesla is banking on.

If TSLA drops and T3 are delayed, many consumers might panic and not oder their car creating a vicious circle.
As an ex-Allaire stack dev, couldn't help but have a chuckle at the cfm. :)
Can you speak to the cost? The WSJ article says it currently costs $9,000 per pound to produce the "clean meat". Does that mean you ate something like a $900 chicken? (Assuming you had a small sample)
Curious: What do you think is Tesla/Musk's "end game vision"?
For Cloud Datastore, looks like you choose a region to run in:

https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/locations

(Not sure about the rest.)
I'm hopeful that this cost figure is a result of a journalist getting details almost right as they so often do.

In my local town, I've heard a figure of $100,000 to install a new light. If we assume similar costs in this case that's $3,300 per year right there and we still haven't powered it on or put any money into monitoring it nor maintaining it. The systems in place for monitoring are largely a fixed cost across all of the traffic lights in the city. I can only guess that maintenance costs are lower with newer lights and increase with age.

If the number quoted in the article includes the initial outlay to erect the signal, then I don't see the 30 year cost being that out of line. If that cost is truly only maintenance and operation, then it does seem quite excessive.
You would normally check null on language boundaries:

val path: String = req.pathInfo ?: ""

Now path is a non-nullable String, and you can be sure that it will never contain null, and you have specified exactly what the behavior is if the Java API returned it.

> Yeah, that's pretty terrifying. I would never want to use a language that expected me to make extensive use of a C FFI. It was bad enough when I used Python, and that involved a lot less C than Kotlin does Java.

You do this every day, regardless of which language you use. Your POSIX APIs and OS services are all in C. That they generally work is because numerous people have invested the time into putting appropriate error checks & memory safety into the host language bindings.

It's the same story with Kotlin: when you write code that uses a language (Java) that doesn't have appropriate safety mechanisms, you read the docs & code carefully, and then you use the safety mechanisms that your language (Kotlin) gives you for all the code you write. There is really nothing Kotlin can do about this: the original code is written in a language that doesn't make the distinction between nullable and non-nullable, so there is no information in the type system about whether it should map to a nullable or non-nullable type.
Thanks JJ! Yeah, we hope to earn your Kubernetes business :)
> Everyday I'm holding onto the shares is the same as if I made the decision to buy that many shares on that day

This is a great way to think about holding investments. I remember using this argument to try and convince a family member that they should sell what I considered to be a bad investment. I phrased it as 'If you were forced to sell your shares right now would you use the money from the sale to immediately buy back your shares?'. He responded that no, he wouldn't. Obviously this ignores brokerage fees, but it is a useful thought experiment nonetheless.
How's the book called? I'm interested, I want to use D3's force layout efficiently using React. So far, react-vis-force[1] seems to do the trick.

[1] https://github.com/uber/react-vis-force
Awesome! And definitely let us know if we can improve in any way.
Science - experimentation and observation - and philosophy - inquiry into reality - are both ways to employ the principle of maximum relative entropy:

> The principle of maximum entropy states that, subject to precisely stated prior data (such as a proposition that expresses testable information), the probability distribution which best represents the current state of knowledge is the one with largest entropy.

I think philosophy will only be obsolete when it stops choosing which aspects of reality people use science to investigate. At least, this is the rosy belief I have that hopefully approximates what actually occurs in science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_maximum_entropy
Could you point us toward the amazing switches and routers that have 0 processing latency we would love to buy them.
Me too, there's a big opportunity in anti drone weapons. It's something I wouldn't want to do. Given the tit for tat nature of weapons, I'm sadden where this will eventually lead.
It's still my go-to as well. I really appreciated the idea, but it just seemed to drown in a sea of lyrics sites, and the general fact that most people seem to be disinterested in spending nay real time on lyrics.
Datastore can be created in multi-region configurations. This is deployed over multiple regions in a single continent/nearby geographic areas, e.g. USA, Europe, and Asia. Google Cloud Storage has the same features.
> Fiber has operating margins of 99%.

Instead of believing fake news, you could actually look at financial statements. Here's the financials on Chattanooga's gigabit network: https://static.epb.com/annual-reports/2016. Operating revenues from fiber was $122m. Operating cost was $78m.

So if you're paying $70 for gigabit, $45 are immediately eaten up by operating expenses (customer service, maintenance, etc.). Out of the $25 you have left, you gotta pay for the thousands of dollars you spent hooking up that customer, continuing equipment upgrades, etc.
We have a series of locations that determine replication topology, but you cannot do à la carte region selection at this time. Under the hood we run on at least 3 independent private super fast network fabrics between regions, so we have a pretty high bar infrastructure wise for deployments. We bet on having reliable high-grade deployments and Google's world wide network to get requests to users faster rather than stretching out arbitrary deployments. Seems to work so far for customers like Snap & Niantic Labs (Pokemon GO), but YMMV.
Time-based artifacting? I think you might not be aware that it's not necessary to have a time delay between frames (in fact, time delays and animations are actually a Netscape extension to the format!) In fact breaking a frame up into multiple pieces with different bounding boxes is a compression technique used to reduce the amount of zero bytes that need to be encoded/compressed. ImageMagick and gifsicle will do this.
Further investigation? They clearly state the public folder will stop working even for paid accounts on September 1st.
I don't know why you keep coming back to the Java interop aspect:

- It's trivial to solve and really not a problem in practice. I'm pretty sure that when you think about and write code, it's 99% in Scala and very little about Java. "Oh, this value is coming from Java and therefore can be null, I'll wrap it in an Option. Done".

- Kotlin and Scala are exactly on the same level when it comes to interoperating with Java. And I bet we solve it the same way: catch the nullable values from Java as soon as possible before they enter the Scala/Kotlin world, and now we're safe again.

The more interesting case for me is pure Scala or pure Kotlin. And I very much prefer Kotlin's approach to nullability for all the reasons I've enumerated, but let's not go over this again.
I would guess it is something signed with a private key so that the author of the throwaway comment can later prove they wrote it.

Seems a bit short though.
Copybara: A tool for transforming and moving code between repositories
You can issue writes depending on reads, but are they performed in the same transaction?

If I do `if(read(A) = 0) then write(B, 1) else write(C, 2)`, would that be executed in 1 or 2 transactions?
It was a general question to all companies, because geosalary seems to be popular. Always wondered how it works, and how it can be abused.

Also: we, digital nomads, don't have any base. I honestly have no answer to "where do you live"
How does the cost work out? I don't see any mention of that on the pricing page.

Or is that just built into the data storage pricing?
Don't form a C Corp until you have investors ready to pay for it. (100k+ check.)
It will, but it doesn't yet.

Cars with the second generation autopilot hardware were sold without any autopilot at all. It also had no auto park, no automatic headlights, no automatic wipers, no automatic emergency braking, no side collision warning, no lane departure warning, no automatic lane change, or summon.

A 45Mph speed limited version of autosteer was enabled in an update, and maybe some of those other features. I sadly do not actually own one myself to know.
Please correct me if i'm wrong, but I think the comment was suggesting more than the fact that Tesla, in the literal sense, sells more than cars. I think it's also important to note the company itself supposedly operates much differently than a traditional car company, and in fact much like a software company.
Don't these structures exist in the form of water districts and mosquito control districts?
Large Sections of Australia’s Great Reef Are Now Dead
Is chicken really designed for producing meat? Speaking in exclusively in terms of resource consumption, it seems like a lot of resources would be wasted by the bird on a lot of necessary, but wasteful (from the point of producing meat) activities (e.g. moving?).

I am not a biologist, so I am genuinely curious...
That return can only be realized if OP sells. It sounds like OP's intent was to buy shares in a long-term business/vision, not in a stock.

In the long term, markets are a weighing machine, but in the short term, they are a popularity contest.

In August 1998, YHOO traded under $10/share. In December 1999, YHOO traded at > $100/share, a > 1000% return over 16 months. From February 2001 to February 2003, YHOO traded under $10/share. Markets are fickle.
Sure, no one is suggesting it's ready for market. I don't think the effort is entirely futile, though. While it's true that chickens are more efficient than pretty much any other kind of livestock (except possibly insects), they still have to produce feathers and bones (and guano - we do use most of that one way or another, but not having to dispose of it wouldn't be a bad thing). Still, it seems like vat-grown beef or lamb makes more sense, since they are much more resource-intensive than chicken to start with.

That said, as a long-time vegetarian I would still guess that animal protein is likely to stay more resource-intensive than plant protein. But it could still be an improvement over our current situation, especially in terms of our treatment of animals, and use of water and feed.
so there is no money in either technology, is that what it means?
Yep, and it's a great way to debunk stuff like the Sunken Cost (I've put in so much already!) fallacy.
Thank you.

I should note that part of our deployment is on Google Compute Engine, and we like it.
To make humanity an interplanetary species.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/27/13079472/elon-musk-mars-sp...
I have a fiber internet connection, the building I live in is wired for it and I just plug my router into the wall.

Anyway, I'd actually agree that it isn't materially much better than cable internet, except I never have to deal with a cable company. When I've had Comcast internet, the connection itself was fine. So, I can see why this isn't super compelling for anyone who doesn't have a huge need for bandwidth.
That's not really what learning styles were supposed to be. Commonly, with learning styles a student was considered an auditory, visual, or kinesthetic learner.

Timmy is an auditory leaner? He should learn to calculate voltage through lectures and song.

Timmy is a visual learner? He should learn to calculate voltage through pictures and diagrams.

Timmy is a kinesthetic learner? He should learn to calculate voltage through dance.

It's a shallow understanding of how learning really happens. No one learned how to throw a football by singing about it and no one has a strong understanding of circuits and how to design them just by listening to lectures.
The data loss event that happened--to me--isn't enough to describe the quality of their product. I could go try it, but it's a few hours in (if not a weekend) to really get answers that someone experienced could provide in 3-5 bullet points.

I guess we have one bullet point, do we have more?
That pricing model and serverless model is why I've always chosen CouchDB/Cloudant. If I'm doing the MB/hour to GB/month conversion correctly, Fauna cloud is significantly cheaper.

I see Fauna has temporal queries, but receiving events is strictly pull, there is no push or single feed?
There are untold number of GUI and web wrappers around youtube-dl.
Wonder what would happen to the tons of soybeans/corn currently raised as animal feed in that case though...
He has clarified that it is 1GB for 20 Rupees.
Hi, there's a post about this on our forum: https://forum.bela.io/d/20-pru-vs-mcasp

Here's an excerpt:

"Bela uses both the McASP and the PRU. The McASP actually streams the data to the codec, but the PRU handles passing data to and from it, as a sort of sophisticated DMA controller. We use the PRU here because it can also do SPI transactions with the other ADC and DAC and it can sample the GPIOs, all aligned on a sample-by-sample basis with the audio clock. The PRU then puts the results in a memory buffer for the CPU to work with.

To take any advantage of that, you need a Xenomai kernel, because this lets you write audio code that can interrupt the entire rest of the OS. If you don't have this, then you're stuck with the timing uncertainty that regular Linux provides, meaning you need larger buffer sizes (= longer latency). It also means that audio performance may depend on system load, which is not true of Xenomai (rather the reverse: rest-of-system performance depends on audio load)."
I just picked up my Model X after a week in the shop. They weren't able to finish all of the work, because "we are busy this time of year." They told me to bring it back in April.

In about a year of ownership, this is the 3rd time I've lost the car for about a week. I probably should have brought it to the shop 3-4 other times, but I let the issues build up.

They've had to replace all sorts of parts on my car, including the entire driver's seat. Even basic stuff like my phone playing audio doesn't work half the time. The driver's side wing mirror quit opening. I've had to reboot the car 10+ times in order for the dashboard display to work. The gull wing door opened into a ceiling and left a scratch. The hood opened into a ceiling and left a scratch. My windows have quit going up three times. Most of the trim / sealing / etc is coming off, misaligned, etc. I probably sit here and think of 10 more problems.

Anyway, I knew I was buying a v 0.1 car and I’m generally happy with it, despite the problems. Their service has actually been amazing, but that's kind of the point of my post:

If the Model 3 has anywhere near the same level of problems as my X, at 10x the scale, Tesla is doomed. How could this possibly be even remotely cost effective on a lower-margin Model 3?
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I can't afford a Tesla anyway, but even if I could I'd be wary about buying one on the promise that the Hardware 2 cars "will" get full self driving.

I can easily see a new version with Lidar coming along and all those old cars not getting that full self-driving update after all, even in places where the law allows it.