skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is saying the same thing, but I interpreted it as "If a handful of developers write an application that millions use, then saving a few seconds per user can add up."

I've seen this applied to the Linux kernel, where saving a few microseconds in a system call, when multiplied out to the billions of machines running Linux, saves hundreds of years of CPU time.

With that said, most services don't have as many users as Linux.
I'd be lying if I had a hard time imagining the Canadian military taking on the largest military in the world.

I don't see the US taking over Canada before a World War would break out, however, which I think is a bit more of a realistic mitigating factor.
I also have a common name. I was once called to the principal's office, where I, confused, started to receive a lecture.

THEY: <confusing nonsense>
I: What are you talking about?
THEY: You know what I'm talking about. Don't play dumb.
I: (after 10 seconds of thought) How many people named $NAME attend this school?
THEY: <checking records>
THEY: ... Two. Get back to class! Now!

No apology. No sign of contrition. They acted like it was my fault that they screwed up. If it had ever happened more than once, I certainly would have raised some hell over it.

They truly do not care. If there is a problem, it is your fault, for being an inconveniently irregular person. I shudder to think at how many of us would be inconvenienced if any one of the other people than share my name and birthdate were disreputable or notorious among certain government agencies.

Anecdotally, municipal and circuit court judges could care less about whether you get treated fairly or not, so long as your case does not make their job even one iota more difficult. You could do 110% of their work for them, and they still might rule capriciously, telling you to appeal if you don't like it.

The thing that pissed me off most about the article was the innocent party pleading guilty and paying fines. It made me want to leap through my screen and scream at her in person.
Please stop spreading wrong information.

Software engineering is a very real thing. I'm about to finish my BSEng with the iron ring. Unlike computer science, I had to take courses in DSP, ethics, software management and development lifecycles. It is exactly as structured as you'd expect from an electrical engineering degree​.
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There's benefits over gift cards for all parties:

(1) The purchase process is simpler: retrieve an Amazon Cash bar code, load cash onto it at the register, it's now on your account. You can reuse the same barcode every time you want to load cash onto the account. It can be a printed piece of paper you keep in your wallet.

Previously, you had to go to a retailer with physical cards in stock, pull one off the shelf, get it activated at the register, scratch the code, and go to a computer to load the code onto your Amazon balance. If your only internet access is at a library or school, that means two trips to reload your balance.

(2) It's cheaper for Amazon. They're paying a commission to the retailer and distributor (effectively selling the cards at less than face value). Amazon Cash eliminates most of that margin, and the distributor altogether. The commission for the retailer doesn't have to be very high since none of the transactions will have credit card fees.
it's a real shame with the degree requirements specifically requiring computer science or computer engineering to be considered a "computer programmer". There are many highly skilled devs who may have happened to earn a different credential.
Can you elaborate on the difference between the two?
Your example actually helps prove the point: the fact that Linux can use some of these advantages but not others lines up pretty neatly with the fact that it's generally harder to get Linux running on a given system than it is Windows. I say this as someone whose used Linux and thinks that practically everyone could benefit from giving Linux a try as their primary personal computer (with the always-major caveat that you have to be careful about hardware purchases and/or have someone knowledgeable set it up).
> don't be surprised if Ford/GM/Chrysler combine forces for a huge battery factory of their own.

They could do that, but they haven't really woken up to the huge threat to their markets that electric cars are posing. They still believe that ICE cars are what people really want. Ford has just announced now that it will begin designing hybrid vehicles. They're a few years behind.

If they decided now that they're going to fund their own gigafactory, it would only be ready in 4-5 years. Where do you think Tesla is going to be then? If things go as planned, in 4-5 years, Tesla could have sold 2+ million Model 3's, and be on its way to more new models.

> when all major automotive companies have EV vehicles, what's going to differentiate them? The accuracy of the self driving software? Entertainment options within the vehicle? Serious question.

- Better performance. The Model 3 isn't a model S, but you can be sure that it will kick the Leaf and Chevy Bolt in the balls.

- Slicker looks

- Brand appeal. Don't underestimate this. Think Apple.

- A supercharger network that's already in place. Other vendors all have major catching up to do.

Another thing to consider is, Tesla has a lot of expertise and an EV designed from the ground up to be electric. Other vendors can't just come up with that tomorrow. It takes time to design and refine a product. IMO, by the time Ford really wakes up, they will largely be fucked. Not just because of Tesla, but because all other vendors are already ahead.
Is TESLA now too big too fail?
When 'tourist' investors pour money into startups
You're right, but it's just a suggestion. It's really up to you how you use the service, sometimes it might be handy to see real data :)
> one of two things Google can push an update for [...] without any dialog or concent

One of the two things Google _chooses_ to do this for. Nothing prevents them from doing the same thing for other pieces of software, except, perhaps, their own policy.
> painting himself as a figure who loved Germany persecuted by a government that had sold Germany to foreign powers

I wonder just how popular the "sold homeland to foreign powers" narrative was throughout history. Kind of reminds me of the sentiment some of the people I know have towards the situation in Poland - the narrative is that all our industry was sold off to foreigners and that the government should reverse this process to bolster the economy.
Ford is unique because it's controlled largely by the Ford family still, all of whom having a vested interest in the long-term profitability of Ford. If someone demonstrates to them that pivoting to electric vehicles is the best long-term strategy for the company, even at the expense of short-term profitability, they will do it.

Also, don't discount the importance of the cashflow from pickups. The only reason Chrysler and Dodge still exist is because of their anchorage to Jeep and RAM. Ford could eliminate their entire car division and still retain like 80% of their profits.
I did a ton of analysis, and basically at the end of the day it came out to "will they hit their targets in Q3/Q4 2016 and Q1/Q2 2017?"

There's so much unknown that Tesla continuing to de-risk the business step by step gets them in line with the current valuations, and forward-looking it should go up.

So I figured that at $180 (a very low price for Tesla historically) that if they did what they were predicting (which no one thought they could) that they would crush the current stock price. They have since hit (or come very close to) all of their targets.

Now the entire question short-term is around how the M3 performs. Long-term Tesla is playing a game no one else even sees, so we'd be OK with a couple stumbles.
Why not just compile/JIT the python, always?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! :)
Even when you write the hot bits in C++ you still have a python interpreter thrashing the CPU caches and using up ram.

and now you have to context switch in your head more often, and the build process is more complex, and usually there is a cost when you do the FFI.
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> Not revealed as a terrible company, perhaps, but as a terrible interviewer.

Some software is HEAVY on data structures and algorithms?
But, then hopefully someone not interested in that would not apply...
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It's harder to add those to your account - this barcode would do it automatically.
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Planet Money's story about why is that: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/07/23/334076398/episo...
To add to this... This is probably a direct jab at Walmart, where a large portion of the unbanked / underbanked shop.
He's right, the economics don't work out for a Ford. They only work out for a smaller, separately owned disruptor. Inevitable truth and pattern seen across all mature industries
https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog looks like a really nice alternative, where you can also test HTML mail, etc.

Personally, my local SMTP actually sends email, because I DO want legitimate email (mutt, cron) though, so I'd be scared to mix up two local smtp instances.
Agreed. This is why, when I'm tying into the anchors at the top of a climb so that I can clean the route, I say every action I'm doing out loud as a way to talk myself through it and confirm that I'm doing all of the actions. It becomes much clearer if I do something out of order or incorrect just by hearing myself say it.
well, there's also a giant functionality hole, at least for Numbers vs Excel
Looks like a kids play thing. MS office with Teams basically does all that already, plus a ton of other things.
I had a similar idea last week in the car, cool to see it's actually a thing
What is spin if not opinion expressed through facts?
1. Note my use of the word "effectively". Unless you're in China, where Google does not operate, there is no such thing as Android without Google Play Services. (Attempts to sell Android devices without Google Play outside of China have, for the most part[1], been dismal failures.) And Google has to give their written approval for the release of each and every device or software update of Android with Google Play Services.

2. Google created the OS. In fact, OEMs are forbidden from forking Android, and therefore, cannot "roll their own OS" from Android, without violating their agreement with Google. Yes, they sprinkle some of their own apps and drivers in, but this is a design flaw in Android: Google needs to be updating their own software independently of manufacturer-specific components.

I know for a fact you and I have had this discussion before.

[1]Someone will mention the Kindle. The Kindle does not compete with Google products, as it is perceived in the market as an e-reader more than a "tablet". And Google barely even does tablets anymore anyways.
In general people who invest in stock are people who work at big financial institutions. Not 'regular' people trading on their own. For individuals, picking stock in stead of just buying accross the board is really risky. So it doesn't matter what 'lots of people' think, really.

The only thing happening now is that investors seem to be extremely worried of 'missing the boat' on automated driving. See the big investment in Uber, a taxi company with an app that essentially anyone can copy. But they raised billions on the promise of automated driving.

The only thing here is the idea that the organisation that perfects automated driving first will dominate every transport sector. That seems far fetched to me though.

But hey, I'm just a regular person too. So maybe I'm dead wrong.
Not everyone trying to make self-driving cars a reality aren't looking to enter the manufacturing and distribution business though.

There's a case to be made that is self-driving technology becomes commoditized then GM, Ford, etc. will be the "winners". I don't think that's the assumption the non-manufacturing companies are operating under. Time will tell.
I don't really get how non ISPs demonstrating their ability to track and expose people's browsing history is a good argument for regulating ISPs. Also google was against the regulation probably because one of their side businesses is an ISP.
Too many uninformed people spreading misinformation. There's clear and measurable difference between a software engineering degree and the one you get from a boot camp. It's exactly as strict and rigorous as you'd expect from a degree in mechanical engineering. In Canada, you get an iron ring when you graduate and after about 4 years, you get a professional engineering license.
I bet the youtube founders would disagree with you. They probably do not regret launching it quickly in python, selling it to Google for over a billion dollars, and letting Google spend the next decade rewriting it.
I don't think the 'technique' is settled enough to have an answer to your question yet. There are a lot of different 'errors' that can happen, each of which has entire sections of researchers working to ameliorate them.

The floor to error is that a wild-type Cas9 protein with a naively generated guide RNA, and a payload DNA along with it, just dropped into a petri-dish of cells correctly edits some single-digit percent of cells. That's the crudest of experiments a grad student might do on their first try. And that it is that robust (in a biological laboratory) is precisely why it is so powerful. Single-digit percent activity on an unoptimized first try is actually pretty amazing in the context of biology.
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That's like an EE saying, I don't really understand capacitors, but I am building a circuit like this one and it has a capacitor, so I'll just borrow the values and tweak them in simulation.
Wow.
A friend of mine in china told me "What do we need civil rights for right now. It's more important that we become a world leader. We can always get our rights back later"

Once you set a new normal, it's the new normal, and people get used to it.
Remember that time we went back to a strong 4th amendment?
Or less surveillance?
or ...

If electric cars can't survive with negative press, they shouldn't survive. Ends don't justify means.
> Eliminate the artificial scarcity and the housing costs will decrease.

You sure about that? There's no shortage of people willing to move to SV or NYC to fill up all that extra housing.

Funny how the same people that argue widening highways will have no effect because "more cars will just come along to fill it up" think additional housing supply won't similarly get filled up.
You got me wondering, so I did a quick google search. A little over a year ago an advance was made to take it to a 60% success rate[1]. I'm not sure if any other advanceshave been made. Additionally, this[2] site seems to note multiple different success rates based on project goals. Another article[3] notes:

Why some guide RNAs work well, setting up Cas9 to cut and disable a gene nearly 100 percent of the time, while others bind but seldom or never knock out the gene, has been a puzzle since the technique was invented by Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley and Emmanuelle Charpentier of Umea University in 2012. The cutting efficiency varies with the type of cell and the particular cell line...

1: http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/01/20/advance-improves-cutting...

2: http://ko.cwru.edu/services/crispr_cas.shtml#successrates

3: https://phys.org/news/2016-08-crispr-cas9-genes-disrupt-dna....
That's an absolute straw man argument and you're trying to put words in my mouth.
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Google-prefer-the-Java-stack-...
The FBI's Most Wanted Hackers Are Still at It
Ford doesn't have much room to grow because they are a mature company in a mature field. Tesla is creating new fields. Ford doesn't know how to create new fields, therefore they're stuck making small improvements to existing things, and, once someone like Tesla makes it very clear that a new field exists and is viable, Ford will reluctantly follow the market trend.

Ford does normal science [0], Tesla does revolutionary science [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_science
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_...
Petty? I dunno, maybe people don't want:

>unleashed dogs
>public inebriation
>public brawling
>shoplifting

in their communities? This is the standard we hold ourselves to in the United States of America. Also see Singapore where you can be caned for spitting gum on the sidewalk.

I've never been tempted to do any of these things, and crazy thing, I've never gotten a ticket for any of them.