skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. They have your attention and they can do things to slowly nudge you to start engaging in deeper ways. For example your daughter grows up and is used to the "Snap-like" interaction already and will engage far more on Snapchat or similar products. Or maybe she one day finds the "Discover" section of the app and starts watching content on there.

The fact that they have you and your daughter engaging with the product at all is a meaningful thing for the business. There's a lot they can do with even this cursory engagement over time.
Toyota is using Nvidia’s supercomputer to bring autonomous driving to the masses
Curious: what / where are go-to finance boards?
Understanding Hoisting in JavaScript
emacs is a piece of shit really. i think someone had to say it
'Hasn't been sued' != 'Won't be sued'.

Zillow is the most popular and have been pushing it in their advertising.
So many intangibles. People's emotions (on both sides) are one, but then you have the house with the nice kitchen, or that other house with a not-so-nice kitchen, but a flatter yard. And on and on.

Zillow uses plenty of ML, but what's their advertised accuracy? iirc it's something like within 20% 80% of the time?
The value in having (true) beliefs comes in being able to predict the future more accurately and therefore make better decisions.
I think Elon got ripped off on his last shingle roof. The bar chart is nice but off by at least 150%. I've had many roofing subcontractors as clients past and present in Northern California. Based on an average of 870 roofs in 2016 for Single Family Residential homes in the bay area, Asphalt shingle roofs are $3.12 per square foot for materials and labor. The highest was $5.75 psf and the lowest $2.35 psf. Note that the SF bay area is considered one of the most expensive in roofing market. Also note that Solar City has a poor reputation in the industry for hard selling larger than needed residential solar systems.
Stratasys announces new scalable, automated, cloud-controlled 3D demonstrator
How not to sort by average rating, revisited (2015)
Having built a field management system in the construction industry[1], I can confirm, it's a tough market. And, most of it comes down to getting in front of people. A lot of my time is spent going to trade shows and pitching, just like Tracy did, when I'm not coding.

There's a stigma that this industry is full of people who resist technology, but I really don't think that's the case. People in this industry resist change because change is risky. There's too much money at stake, and delays associated with new technology can ruin an entire job. Paper processes are usually terrible, but you're never going to have to battle wi-fi connectivity to flip through your spec, or experience your pencil throwing a 500 when you fill out a safety analysis. It takes a while for anyone in the field to get comfortable with the pros and cons of a new process versus a paper process that's worked for years.

It's changing incredibly quickly, though. There's a lot of new products getting funded, and a big opportunity to integrate between them.

[1] http://safety.voyager.vc/
To be fair the first Xbox was never called the "Xbox 1", it was just called the Xbox.
And there's the full-screen popup with a passive agressive message. No thanks, I prefer to not read the article.
Why only affluent areas? Do the poor not care to shop in this way?
They also have a "free basics" program which partners with networks (I think primarily developing countries) and gives people access to Facebook with no network/bandwidth costs. Seems like a win-win? https://developers.facebook.com/docs/internet-org
No it is not. It is incredibly bloated and inefficient due to the the number of keystrokes required to do simple stuff.

Eliza mode.
I've personally watched some incredibly talented researchers/engineers using emacs to perform every-day work; For a lot of the operations, it would have taken me 5 seconds in vi/vim, but took > 10 seconds for said (very brilliant) folk.
As in, some of these folk are world reknown and regularly cited in(and are reviewers of) ACM/IEEE computing related journals.
So no: Emacs is not sexy. Emacs is a fuster-cluck so complex as to be completely counter-productive.
I wasn't aware it had a desktop app!
Reminds me of reading about the HP-12C financial calculator. As CPUs got faster, the calculator was never increased in speed, because users would not trust the results if they appeared too quickly.
DC.js is amazing. I am not sure if it will get d3v4ed any time soon though.
You're not considering the future value of the dollars you're paying up front? What about subsidies disappearing?

And making $2000 a month off the cars is delusional. Why would they even bother to sell you the car if they could make that money monthly for 10 years?
It's small, scaled, and off to the right of the introductory text. It's the primary content of the page, and yet exactly not where anyone would expect to see primary content.

My issue isn't load time, it's that the image, which is most important, is divorced from the text, while the comment field, which is not important, appears as the primary content below the introduction.

It does occupy space that would often be occupied by an ad, but in another context it occupies space that would be a sidebar or peripheral illustration to the primary text in a textbook. Informative but not the key item.

http://i.imgur.com/EFlBPVc.png
I have no idea.

All I have heard in favor of removing net neutrality is "it's a regulation, and regulation is bad."

Of course, this argument falls to pieces very quickly no matter what angle I try to think of it from.

As far as I can tell, there really is no legitimate argument. I like to think that I can consider any perspective on an issue, and understand why someone might disagree with me. In most cases, I can do that, but removing privacy and net neutrality rules are two subjects where I have been completely unable to do so.

I don't like to give up, and jump to the conclusion that my perspective is the only plausible one. I want to make it clear that I haven't given up on listening for the other side of the story, but thus far, I haven't heard a peep of it. I hate to say it, but there likely isn't one.
> it's not wrong. It is what it is. It's non-idle time.

exactly what i was going to tell you.

stick with that next time and stay away from 'wrong'.
Tactile Maps of Greenland (2010)
I think people overvalue the value of being off the grid.

The average person isn't doing anything that critical at home, so they can just deal with it. Diesel generators work for people with critical use cases.

Katrina is the only time in my lifetime where a major city / region was without power and without gas deliveries for a long time.
Tesla will be operating a car sharing network comprised of self-driving cars. From the master plan (https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux):

> You will also be able to add your car to the Tesla shared fleet just by tapping a button on the Tesla phone app and have it generate income for you while you're at work or on vacation, significantly offsetting and at times potentially exceeding the monthly loan or lease cost. This dramatically lowers the true cost of ownership to the point where almost anyone could own a Tesla. Since most cars are only in use by their owner for 5% to 10% of the day, the fundamental economic utility of a true self-driving car is likely to be several times that of a car which is not.
The odds that Tesla will be around and willing to honor their warranty 25 years from now are also nowhere near 100%. Also, if you read the fine print, you will notice that the warranty will not cover the most frequent cause of roof problems - leaks in the seams.

The same can be said for your local fly-by-night roofer, but it sounds like you can buy two roofs for the price of a SolarRoof.

Also, another thing to be concerned about is whether or not you're going to be stuck in the middle of a pass-the-blame around football match between Tesla, and their subcontractors. (I guarantee you that the people installing your roof will not be Tesla employees.) In roofs, installation mistakes can cost you dearly - they are the primary cause of roof problems.
It sounded to me like one-person focus groups, AKA interrogation (with donuts).
Hi,

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Images

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resizing it to a 350X200 image with the width and height parameters (w and h in URLs, respectively) -
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For more transformations options -
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Videos
basically the same as image handling. Uploading videos is as easy as uploading images (same code, just changing the resource_type to video). Then, convert to a different format simply by changing the video's extension -
The original dog.mp4 -
http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/video/upload/dog.mp4
Transcoding to a webm video on-the-fly (webm is natively supported on Chrome browsers) -
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You can get the audio channel by transcoding it to an mp3 file -
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Docs
Uploading by changing the resource_type to raw.

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None of that is enough to get to a strong belief. Weak beliefs weakly held is a common and perfectly reasonable stance. The important part of weak beliefs is to not make major changes based on them.

Now some things like gravity are very strong beliefs. But, you should be open to the possibility that something else is going on even with gravity. That does not mean you should stop believing in gravity based on a slick YouTube video, but rather accept that with solid evedince something else might be going on.
In many (most?) areas, solar systems are considered "overimprovements" from the perspective of appraisals.

This generally means that any increase in home value (increasing appeal to the buyer directly) won't translate to a higher loan amount from the bank (which will only loan out the on-paper valuation), restricting the ability of the buyer to actually pay the higher price they would otherwise be willing to pay.

This could change as solar systems proliferate, making them almost a "standard" feature of most houses. It also wouldn't affect sales to cash-paying investors, which in some markets are the main buyers, since they don't need to qualify for loans anyway (and therefore can ignore appraisals).

Either way, I wouldn't bet on it increasing the home's value more than ~40% of the cost, if that.
Virtual recreation of an Orthoceras, a prehistoric giant nautilus species
Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1
Volta GeForce will come early 2018 likely with GDDR6 at this point.
Alright, well, since we've veered off on this tangent, I prefer Fedora. Between macOS and Windows, I prefer macOS...though I may never get used to the new capitalization scheme. But I don't see why any of that should be a reason to want to boot multiple operating systems in virtual machines. How do the two subjects relate?
... which reminds me of similar notches from typography at small sizes. Interesting how physical bleeding ink and rendering issues result in similar workarounds.
Show HN: Calculator for any numeral system (eg. binary, decimal, hex)
Codegen for type safety in Go
REPL, SOLID, DRY, CQRS
And %CPU reports busy when an _external_ component, DRAM, is actually busy, and CPU is waiting. So it's not "CPU utilized". That's wrong.
> EDIT: That's sort of the kicker. A regular roof does not get a 30% federal tax credit (plus possible state incentives), nor does it produce power for 30+ years, nor does it have a lifetime warranty. If you can obtain low cost financing, you almost always come out ahead.

Maximizing retirement savings is still likely more cost effective than this roof for most people and I doubt many people in the US are putting away $24k/year.

The only way I'd see this is as viable is below inflation interest and people showing they can sell the houses for the full value of the Tesla roof.
Absolutely disgusting. An issue with tech in general is the equity rewards are far too generous - especially at the top. I have direct plays in a few technology companies I admire and some of them annoy me with the ridiculous grants. We're looking at like 10% dilution over a year for some companies that aren't profitable. And it seems very concentrated at the management level.

For SNAP it's especially bad considering that the common shares are non-voting if I recall.
Paper processes are usually terrible, but you're never going to have to battle wi-fi connectivity...

I noticed this point made in the article as well. Are cellular tablets simply out of the question?
I use D3 for all kinds of non SVG DOM work.
Are you're really comparing a text-editor to a... operating system? Emacs is a whole different beast
> you can't make a comparison against buying some equipment, which is zero risk.

Equipment isn't zero risk. It could fail and need replacement, or need dramatic repairs. Or the price of electricity could drop dramatically and your investment won't be saving you as much in electricity bills...
Yeah, I feel the coverage of this has been very deceptive. We just got a quote for our roof in SF (small house) and it was ~$20K with an upgraded architectural tile, new spouts and gutters.

Tesla would charge me $67K for the roof alone based on roof size and our energy use.

1. "Unlimited warranty" doesn't actually mean unlimited warranty when your roof starts leaking...just that the tile won't break.

2. Why the heck should I pre-pay Tesla for unrealized savings to my future energy use??
The logic here might be that payback in the form of $1 of generated electricity is better than a regular $1 payback via, say, tax credit, because it comes with additional benefits like reduced carbon emissions (not priced into utility bills) or more reliability / having electricity during blackouts.
This is a good basic setup for C. Throw in a little flycheck-mode and you've got yourself something really sweet.
[1] reminds of an interview with the founder of Ashley Madison.

He was going on and on about how western cultures were so regressive and prude about adultery and sex in general. The interviewer then asked him if he had ever used his own service. This elicited an uncomfortable non-answer that basically boiled down to "No".
Making their anti-spam operations transparent may be self-defeating, spammers may then be able to game the system.
Essay on myself
> For those who do not want to save Net Neutrality and would rather the FCC stay out of regulating ISPs

Do you mind taking a moment to tell the rest of us why?

I really want to know.
Kyle Machulis sure loves Emacs. He wrote "Deldo - The Sex Toy and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs":

https://www.metafetish.com/2010/08/02/deldo-sex-toy-control-...

It's well worth freeze framing and reading the text in the list of all the different programming languages that Emacs supports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo
Code can be well designed from an architectural perspective and still be slow in areas. I imagine it's due to the minimal feature set (which MS defined). Stuff constantly happening in the background when you click or type something, bottlenecks become more apparent with really large projects and they just haven't dedicated time to improving that, etc.

I realize that architecture can't be separated from functionality, but I think the parent was focused on modularity and the ability to reuse various components.
Review: Lego Apollo Saturn V
Nvidia  Accelerates AI, Launches Volta, DGX Workstation, Robot Simulator, More
> I'm not making an argument about market mechanics.

No, but I am :-D.

Pretty obviously the motive for these cost savings is _cost savings_. But that extra profit has to go somewhere.

Sometimes it'll go into lining the pockets of whoever owns the store, which kinda sucks. Go advocate for higher capital gains taxes. I'll be happy to help. Past a certain point, though, stores that just pocket the extra profit won't be around for long. Someone who's willing to make less money as a grocer will come along and start a cheaper store across the street.

Most of that savings has to go to somewhere. Either there's more checkout lines or a better selection or cheaper goods across the board or whatever. Sometimes a store will be profitable where it otherwise wouldn't be. At this point, the savings are mostly priced in. We are already benefiting massively from this automation.

Everyone hates these automated checkout terminals, but I doubt many people really want to have their neighborhood grocery store close and all the rest in their town get more expensive.
And whats wrong with that? A bunch of rich early-adopter-for-the-status types will get a Telsa roof, Telsa will get better at developing the technology and the price will come down, meanwhile more people are moving to renewable energy sources to power their homes which is good for the environment. Whats the downside here?
But Emacs lets you work faster
I agree completely. Nothing is sexy about this: http://emacs.sexy/img/How-to-Learn-Emacs-v2-Large.png
No, I just want a new roof. I wasn't planning on installing Solar. Solar was supposed to be a perk of buying the roof from Tesla...and all of this was supposed to cost as much as a roof alone.
Mostly because they want to do the manipulating of estimates themselves.
>I looked at getting a metal roof, and standing seam was going to cost about $16k.

Same. There seems to be a subset of HackerNews who thinks that most homeowners can pay $50k for a roof and $35k for a car. It's cool high-end stuff, but certainly is not mainstream.
This new roof has always been pitched as a product competing with new premium roofs. It doesn't sound like that's the kind of roof you're buying.

Every thread about Tesla cars has a subthread about how irrelevant they are because they cost too much for some car buyers. Now we can look forward to every thread about Tesla roofs having a subthread about the initial product not being price-competitive for low-end roof buyers.
Ask HN: Any tools can extract all common phrases/idioms from a passage?
>Why does Microsoft continue to keep them walled off

Isn't the answer obvious? How many MFC devs are there working primarily in OSX or linux? It has to be tiny, even if they had the ability to do so. Great, I can compile; still need to boot up Windows to run it. My userbase is still 100% windows users. We still use Windows on every PC in my company. So who cares? What's the value proposition here?
The SNAP bubble or tech or equities in general?

Many tech companies are posting growth inline with guidance and performing quite well. Many publicly listed companies are performing quite well in terms of projections. Condemning an entire sector because a single company shit the bed in their first earnings call is a bit much.

Consider that even after this huge drop they are still at their IPO price. Not that I'm a buyer of this company (I don't understand them - doesn't mean they are bad but just that I don't understand them enough to invest directly in them) but it isn't a disaster.

I've seen bubbles burst. You'll know it. This isn't it. This is a correction.
I don't understand "income from cars" - do you mean as autonomous taxis? Pretty sure you need to then take into account increased insurance, maintenance costs as well as taxes on that income.

Also if this autonomous taxi thing becomes a highly profitable gig (as you suggest), you'll quickly run into a big supply/demand problem. There's only a finite number of people who need mid-day cab rides.
The Harmony That Keeps Trappist-1’s 7 Earth-Size Worlds from Colliding
After Lambda: Exactly-Once Processing in Google Cloud Dataflow, Part 1
Tbpfh, that is only true for people of above average ability to remain calm in the face of failure.

I've seen many, many people make dumb decision after dumb decision despite having all the facts because of emotions.
Sure, it can be simply false. It can't be simply true, though.

[Edit: Ah, I see. You're saying that it can be simply false without self-refutation entering the picture at all. Yes, it can.]
Who here feels MVPs aren't MVPs anymore?

The expectations of MVPs from just about everyone have gone through he roof.
Thanks v3ss0n!
I always wonder how Oracle is still present with that much market share in nearly every industry. I can't believe it's just "no on got fired for using Oracle Commerce" (?)
Common cause and special cause (statistics)
U.S. likely to expand airline laptop ban to Europe: government officials
Seconded this, this is my setup on both Windows and Linux and works for me across multi-million-line C and C++ codebases. It's quite finicky to get set up on Windows at first (or at least, it was for me last time I tried), but once you have irony-mode working with libclang, you don't need to think about it ever again, except for changing a couple compiler flags here and there.

My one complaint is that clang's MSVC mode is imperfect, and sometimes suggests some strange things (or produces some false negative/positive in syntax checking). But they've been getting much better lately and it's never caused me much pain.

e: also, second what a sibling said - combo this with flycheck-mode and you have yourself a full-blown C++ IDE in emacs ;)
Something like that sed script would be nice to pipe all of my browsing through, before it ever hits Chrome.
I have [myFirstInitial][myLastName]@gmail.com and have also ended up with tons of misdirected mail (my last name is 1200 people per forebears.io, so similarly uncommon). Some of the better incidents:

- Some woman (whose email address is [myFirstInitial][r][myLastName]@gmail.com) put me on her synagogue internal planning committee mailing list. I have never seen so much drama. They refused to remove my email address until I started doing a "reply all" to their emails with my lunch order.

- A contractor (whose email address I still can't figure out) keeps getting $100k+ quotes sent to my email address. I'll inform the sender, but it never stops happening.

- I received the background info for a small business loan request, including 3 years of tax returns, bank account statements, and credit statements for two folks in Texas.

Short story, nobody's ever been grateful.
Well there are always trade offs. NNs aren't very good with trees, too symbolic so usually compressing it into a different format is better. We have a few we use depending on the goal, but always looking for trying new ones since this really is the crux of the problem.
Both can, with losses and infrastructure investment. The size of those are very different, and that's why you does currently create one locally and buy the other from far.

Photovoltaics can¹ change the other side of the equation² so that locally generating it would be better.

1 - But it's not certain by any means. The current biggest obstacle is battery storage and maintenance.

2 - losses and infrastructure costs vs. gains from scale.
That surprises me.

If you were calling a method that didn't exist in IEnumerable, why would resharper suggest changing the type to IEnumerable?
> It's because local photovoltaics can save a lot of infrastructure and can require nearly no labor.

No, they don't. You still need almost the entire national power grid to supply your home with night-time electricity... That infrastructure won't be going anywhere.

An even worse outcome will be every home having local power storage infrastructure. Tens, or hundreds of thousands of dollars for a power wall, or a compressed air storage system is much more expensive then maintaining the grid.