skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I wonder if I could defend myself from this using the Moves app (which is basically an opt-in way to have your location tracked and logged by another party)
What about kids under 18 that can't have a credit card, and parents don't want them having access to the parents' primary checking or debit card?
> Curious though; can you ELI5 who actually pays the interest?

ELI5: Lots of people have business ideas that can make money, but often they need to have a small pile of money in order to make more money. Let's imagine you are such a person. I lend you money to start your business, then your business makes lots of money, and you pay me back. That's a good deal for you, but not for me. Your business might not work out, and you might lose all my money. I'll still lend you the money, but I want you to pay me back more money since I took this risk for you.

That's where the money paid in interest comes from.

Similarly, you might replace 'start a business' with 'buy a house' or 'buy a car'. You don't have enough money to do so right now, but you know that your life will be improved by having these things, so you borrow money to do them. The people lending you the money won't do it for free.

Less ELI5: Alternatively, the businesses holding this money for four weeks will estimate what the lowest amount they'll be carrying over the next 5 years will be, then just go and invest that amount in stocks, bonds, etc. Since their balance will never fall below that amount, the money is effectively an interest-free loan from Amazon that they use to make interest-earning investments with.
Seems to be somewhat common in Eastern Europe, where payment kiosks are located at many convenience stores. In a card-less society they're used for utility bills, mobile operator account top-up, settling government fees and fines, buying lotto tickets, etc. Amazon would be just another option on a kiosk like this https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qYEh0TtsW5c/maxresdefault.jpg
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Google has broken out GMS from android core so that they can do OTA updates w/o updating the OS itself. I do agree this needs to be better, however its also a non-trivial problem to solve.
Those numbers are meaningless since Tesla has negative earnings. Infinity is basically right.
You just stated that Stagefright was "trivially weaponizable". So why don't you answer their question and provide proof? Surely a "trivially weaponizable" exploit on over 1.4 billion devices would be a very attractive target to nefarious organizations and hackers.

It's been about 2 years since Stagefright was disclosed. Are we still waiting for it to explode? And if so, can you give a timeline for when this explosion will occur?
I recently went to see George Church and Siddhartha Mukherjee talk about genetic manipulation at Pioneer Works here in Brooklyn. Of course CRISPR/cas-9 came up for part of the discussion, but one question I wanted to ask and didn't get a chance to is: what is the error rate on the technique? I can't imagine that it is zero, and every article I read about CRISPR/cas-9 seems to leave that part out. Can anyone speak to that?
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I'm not the parent poster, but I'd offer one reason why some people feel this way - Ford is a car company, while Tesla is a software company. Big difference in expectations, capital expenditures, etc.

Based on committed capital, I think this is at least partially correct.
I did neither of those things.
I am such one. In my H1-B application it was worded as "with comparable industry experience".
Heck, I even taught 10 years at various universities, but that didn't count to their degree field.
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I think you might have misunderstood my point. I said our management culture leans on metrics so heavily as a way to mitigate the effects of racism (and sexism) in managerial decision making. Not that the metrics are racist.

It's harder for us to rely on systems that leave more room for personal judgement without oversight because we worry that decisions not attached to hard metrics are more likely to be subject to invidious biases. The charitable take is that the drive for metrics is motivated by a sincere attempt to mitigate these biases. The more cynical take I offered was saying that people use it as a way to cover their tracks against charges of discrimination.
You can get a software eng degree in canada: http://www.uvic.ca/engineering/software/
The reasons you mentioned are precisely the reason why an ICE based car selling company can't suddenly wake up one day and build electric cars.

Engineering takes time, Tesla has spent a lot of time building and testing battery tech that works. And they are using it across multiple applications.

If you get reliable electronics in, then without frequent oil changes, and tubeless tire. A electric quite literally is a zero maintenance car.
Please don't post like this on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like the reference to a metric, which I always felt could be a useful approach to many problems, including in AI.
Re spell-checking, I wonder whether there is an algorithm that uses topography (i.e. vicinity of keys) to assist with the correction...
If my meal is interrupted by constant distracting advertising I've got a good case for walking out, I'm certainly not going back.
I'd be very very interested in hearing why you invested everything into Tesla.

Was your decision based on cold rational logic? Or was it simply "from the gut"?
This represents such a fundamental misunderstanding of the power structures i almost don't know where to begin.

Suffice to say, if it was as easy as waving the magic wand you think it is, it would have happened already.

Instead, if you tried to wave it, handset makers would have walked and just done something else.
Heck, some did!

Besides, why stop at Google?
Why not blame the carriers for devices like this be on their networks?

By your logic, if Verizon told Samsung tomorrow said "you must update your phone monthly with security updates in order to stay connected to our network" it would have just happened!

Maybe instead of assuming a vast lack of caring or outright maliciousnss, you should consider that maybe it's not the trivial thing you are making it out to be, and that's the real reason it hasn't happened yet.
>people aren't as closed-minded.*

*in ways that I care about.

FTFY
Knowing when to use an AVL tree is orthogonal to being able to write one under pressure on a whiteboard. But as long as someone knows that different trees have different performance characteristics, I care more about how they decided what to optimize and why they recommend a lookup-optimized tree over a cache.
Perhaps, though it seems corporate profits have been prioritized over journalistic ethics in the mass media since at least the 1890s with the yellow journalism of Hearst and Pulitzer.
In theory this is always the right thing to do no matter what industry you are in. Do you want to build a good software organization then hire smart people and get out of their way but in practice it is basically impossible.

First to know what smart looks like you have to be smart yourself before you can hire more smart people. Second you have to be really cognizant to not hire more people like yourself because not all smart looks the same way. Third whatever position you're hiring for you need to understand well enough to recognize the same kind of skill in others but this kinda conflicts with the second point because expertise always introduces bias. Fourth you have to be ruthless when it comes to firing people because every so often you will make a mistake and hire a bozo that looked smart and people really don't like firing people.

Basically all the cards are stacked against you and what I've observed in most software organizations is that you'll be lucky if you manage to make 10% of your workforce satisfy the "smart" metric.
Records show deep ties between FBI and Best Buy looking for child porn
While I agree the domestic terrorists are a poor example, Hitler's coup was envisioned to be a bloody one, particularly the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler's actual ascent to the highest position of the Weimar Republic was mostly a matter of it's instability. They had come out of WWI disgraced, Schleicher had been too busy grabbing power from Papen, Hindenberg was dying... there were a volley of power shifts until the ball was finally passed to Hitler, whereby he promptly deflated it and had Hindenberg sign the Reichstag Fire Decree before the man gave up the ghost.

The race and class politics was strictly a proxy for the only thing Hitler ever really spoke about: power by all means.
I'm not an expert on this market by any means, but I just checked what my own retail bank (Bank of America) offers [0]. It looks like there is no fee for putting money on the card and no fee for normal point of sale transactions (presumably including internet transaction). There are ways to get hit with fees while using this card, but it is also possible to use this to buy things on Amazon with no additional fees at all.

[0] - https://prepaid.bankofamerica.com/CashPay/Home/Index?m=1
I think you're overstating the value of most of those things, because it's also possible on Linux desktops too. You can take a typical off-the-shelf x86 laptop, pop a disk in, and install Linux on it.

IMO the key point out of the things you mentioned is the hardware monoculture, because that definitely does help people get Linux running (and keep it running) on new hardware. I'm skeptical about most of the others.
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Yeah I'd 100% believe this. And to throw another data point in here, i just did it now at got a room at the central park hotel for $180 CAD / night for 2 nights.

The only other good thing about this approach is that I find meetings often get canceled or delayed due to flights not getting in. Canceling hotels is expensive, when you do not book till the last minute canceling becomes very rare.
+1, not speaking for Google

With large systems you want assurances at compile time, something that Python can't give you much of. When you have a huge system with many modules that interact in ways you can't expect anyone to map out without staring at a lot of code, it pays to have a stronger type system and fewer runtime errors.

For experimentation and small-scale work, Python's great. Single client application? Fantastic (e.g Dropbox). Giant web service or distributed application? Starts to show its ugly sides quickly.
I think what you're describing is a need that's filled pretty well today by a master's degree.

I don't think the PhD is so much archaic as just overused. It is intended to signify that a person has demonstrated that they can contribute significant new knowledge to a field of study, and incidentally, that they can teach (graduate) university courses. Society probably needs far less of both those traits than it can supply people who want to do them.
It's a case of bad incentives: nobody is going to lose his job because they harass you, but somebody is going to suffer if a felon somehow goes through unmolested and then proceeds to do something that local newspapers might report.
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It's about half and half, 50x comes from the language and 50x comes from experience. The important part is to add those factors together by good management.
Mailcatcher is an even simpler solution (assuming you can install rubygems): https://mailcatcher.me/
> And if you look at how quickly Cruise is making progress, I'd suspect (by as much data as we can glean from these reports, which is limited) that Cruise will be roughly on par with Waymo in <2 years.

Assuming Waymo is standing still. The last 20% take a lot longer than initial 80% in the machine learning business. The last 2% literally takes a decade.
Well, there are two ways of looking at this: 1. Decision to use Python created unnecessary extra work (your point); 2. Executing (not just prototype) with Python, then re-writing and re-optimizing your code in a 'leaner'/lower-level language is a valid approach given that's how Youtube and other highly successful Google products and services evolved.

I think both are valid approaches depending on your application, available resources, nature of incentives, and the speed at which your market moves.
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Yes I know someone who started a bank with some partners. I had the same surprise "What do you mean you can just start a bank if you want?". It is not as hot and happening as a startup, but it turned out pretty well. A lot of regulatory red tape though.
Or choosing a language that's inherently somewhere in the middle (go).
I think many people here are missing the (probable) point of this. If you're wondering "who could use such a service?" - then this service probably isn't for you.

7% of US households are unbanked, and 20% are underbanked(1).

Many people are paid in cash, or simply cash their checks at Walmart or a check cashing place. The money never touches a bank account, and they don't have a credit card.

Paying for things with cash in similar ways is actually pretty common in other countries. When booking an airline ticket in Indonesia, I was surprised that there wasn't even an option for credit card payment - after clicking "purchase", it gave me a code and said to go to the 7/11 equivalent (which might have even been 7/11), give the counter my code and cash for the ticket.

[1] - https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/
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I'd never seen a person with full blown rabies, but if you search Youtube, you can see some disturbing videos. It's pretty clear that if you saw someone with rabies, it wouldn't be hard to confuse them for a zombie.
That's not what I said. All the alternatives I'm advocating (plants) are better.
For now. Once enough EVs are on the road, it'll go back to being 2+ or 3+.
I've written 1 to 1 (algorithm) code from Python to Rust and seen orders of magnitude performance/ memory difference. This was not a 'rewrite it with lessons learned' this was 'rewrite it as similarly as possible'. It is the language (and runtime).
Often discussed outside HN, but almost never heard here: Many are investing in his relationship with President Trump. At least two major investment banks [0][1][2] advised their clients of it and many other observers and investors think so too. [3][4] Again, outside HN it's not an uncommon idea; just search a news aggregator for "musk trump".

EDIT: It's a very serious problem if we lose free market competition, and instead success depends - or even appears to depend - on politics and corruption. Even the appearance will encourage others to take that course, and normalize it. Corruption always exists to a degree, the market is never perfect, but that doesn't mean it's not serious. What happens to startups if success depends on access to politicians?

The surge in Tesla's market capitalization corresponds with Musk's public support for Trump, though the stock market in general has recently. Here's the data on Tesla; I recommend just looking at the graphic, which will tell you more:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA?p=TSLA

* It's now at it's all-time high (give or take a buck or two), $294

* Generally, around Election Day it was stable around $190, on Dec 2 it hit bottom at ~181, then it vectored mostly steadily upward to Feb 21 (277), then there was a dip and it stabilized for awhile; now it vectored up again starting ~ March 23. today.

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[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/elon-musk-donald...

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/20/technology/elon-musk-trump/

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/16/ubs-analyst-says-he-cant-und...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/musk-s-su...

[4] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/elon-...
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> It kind of is Google's fault. Most people associate any version of Android with Google. Manufactures that don't update their phones causes harm to both the manufacture's image and Google image.

This makes no sense. "People associate X with Y" is not the same as "Y is responsible for X". If I associate Android with Linux, is Linus now culpable for Android's security problems?

> Personally, I place all the blame on Google for not making the upgrades possible from their side. It should be easy to upgrade the core operating system as easy as updating Windows, OSX, and Linux.

If we were living in a fantasy land where you could wave a wand and things would happen instantly, this would be the case, but mobile devices are not desktops and the challenges they face are entirely different. Google has already been moving logic as much as possible into apps like Google Play Services (updateable without OS changes_, and the fact that they haven't moved everything should make all but the most technically illiterate think "There may be technical challenges involved", instead of your "They're not making this easy" approach.
Sure. Although I think you underestimate the opposition and abuse I took for this.
There are Windows versions that work on ARM: phone/mobile, and Win10 IoT.

They update just fine, sometimes even on the major versions. E.g. my phone initially had windows phone 8.1 and now it’s windows mobile 10. And despite the phone is 3 years old, I'm still regularly getting OS updates.

That’s why I don’t believe ARM hardware is responsible.