skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't nessisarily think we need to do anything. It's like NYC gets flooded, well ok sucks for them, but not exactly a life or death issue for 100's of millions. Perhaps the will build a dike, perhaps they will move, or perhaps someone is going to dredge the oceans making artificial mountains to side step that problem whatever not going to affect me much.

People get really wound up in these ideas, but the existence or non existence of the moon landing has no real impact on me. It's like sure people are dumb, at what point did you assume people where intelegent and rational because that's clearly not the case.
[Net Loss] primarily due to the recognition of expense related to RSUs with a performance condition satisfied on the effectiveness of the registration statement for our initial public offering.

This reads like they gave out $2 BILLION in RSU's that vested if the company went public. That is a pretty sweet payday.

EDIT: It is a sweet payday unless you can't sell the stock to pay the taxes owed right away. Then if SNAP tanks you have a HUGE tax bill and no way to pay it.
I would most certainly buy $SNAP over every one of these companies. People don't get it. For everyone between the ages of 13 to 26, Snapchat is their only social network, their only messaging app, their go to camera! That is inherently more value that any of those companies combined.
>I explained what Google can help with: searching for information, reading news, etc. He showed me that he read news and did searches for things all from within the Facebook app.

This is the most frightening thing I've read in a while.
I tried out this feature in the Basic tier, but my I see downtime during the scaling up of the instance.

I opened a psql console and ran "BEGIN; SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP; SELECT pg_sleep(200); SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP; COMMIT;"

I see the error "server closed the connection unexpectedly"
I've built a few apps with Yii2, the largest project handling about 500k monthly visitors with database heavy operations. It's great, fast, and relatively light-weight.

ActiveRecord is extremely useful in parameterizing queries, reusing them, and configuring multiple databases. Setting up caching is pretty easy and customizable. URL routing, easy. Debug toolbar is helpful. Testing with codecept is a bit complex but it exists. REST API URL rules for controllers to easily handle POST/GET/PUT, etc. Decent amount of helper methods - URL generation, form validation / generation, etc. Console support for command line / cron tasks works well.

The only thing I wish it had native support for was worker methods and easy plugin to one of the popular messaging queues. And to that point there are some solid community built plugins that fill in the gaps of most of the framework's shortcomings.

To be fair - the only other framework I've used is CodeIgniter a while back, but I've rarely found myself thinking "wow this framework is no good anymore I need to find a better one"...like I did with CI

Ultimately - I like it because it is a GREAT MVP building tool from backend to frontend. And with CRUD code generation you can build forms and tables so fast. If I ever hit the point where Yii2 doesn't work at scale - it has served its purpose.
The point of the tax credit is to encourage innovation.

Yes, solar roofs are a bad investment NOW, but they might be a good idea in 20 years, once all these businesses have done this research on them.
one of his software seems interesting, outwit[0]. Windows data manipulation via command line to be used with UnxUtils[1]

p/s: Yes I know there's PowerShell / WMIC

[0] https://www.spinellis.gr/sw/outwit/

[1] http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Interesting, the author uses the 97% of scientists agree the human activity has caused climate change statistic. I do think we have but that stat is terrible and misleading. The paper it comes from is dubious at best. Referring to that in an article like this is a little ironic.
If you buy a newspaper only to let your dog pee on it, are you a user of the newspaper? Just because you (or your child) don't use the product in the way it was intended doesn't mean you're not a user as far as the provider is concerned.

(And the fact that there was a monetary transaction for the paper is not unlike going through the pains of downloading and installing an app on your phone.)
In practice it's the other way around. Pre-multiplying alpha adversely affects image editing more than 3d rendering.

For image editing, the problem is that you might send the same pixel through many different operations, and if you flatten something and further manipulate, then the rounding error will continue to accumulate. So losing granularity early in the process due to alpha can result in accumulated rounding error.

In 3d graphics, the texture typically goes through a very predictable and short number of transformations, and they will rarely need to "stretch" the color range of the transparent pixel. When you alpha blend with pre-multiplied alpha, you're literally just adding the whole color value. And then you're slapping a whole lot of other colors onto it in the lighting/shadow/other passes, so the subtle nuances of that mostly transparent window get lost in the bustle.
There will still be a barrier to owning a Tesla due to the upfront cost of buying one. The fact that it'll be able to pay itself off over time is immaterial to the affordability of at time of purchase.
The house would have to be mispriced by more than the transaction costs (5-10%).
That's what baffles me about this whole thing. Unless your roof is rectangular with homogeneous shadows, if you connect the shingles, say, in rows, you'll have unbalanced voltages. Is the plan to have a microinverter per row of shingles?
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Interestingly the referenced ASP.NET Core 2.0 announcement[0] addresses the .NET Framework incompatibility issue discussed on HN yesterday[1]:

>This preview version of ASP.NET Core 2.0 ships with support for the .NET Core 2.0 SDK only. Our goal is to ship ASP.NET Core 2.0 on .NET Standard 2.0 so applications can run on .NET Core, Mono and .NET Framework. As the team was working through the last of their issues before Build, it was uncovered that the preview of ASP.NET Core 2.0 utilized API’s that were outside of .NET Standard 2.0, preventing it from running on .NET Framework. Because of this we limited Preview 1 support .NET Core only so it would not break a developer upgrading an ASP.NET Core 1.x application to ASP.NET Core 2 preview on .NET Framework.

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2017/05/10/aspnet-2-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14297974
There is a tools menu on Google search where you can set a date range. Not perfect, but it helps.
Just for your information (I am not big fan of the product), but there are battery free (energy harvested) switches which can replace copper runs already.

See for example: https://www.enocean.com/en/enocean_modules_902mhz/
I don't understand how you can sue someone for estimating the price of a home.

Hopefully this gets thrown out
And for more of a layman's introduction, The Verge also has done a small feature on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwz7Z5cUDuM
To all upset about pricing there are products targeting different income brackets. People in blah also can't understand how we spend half of their monthly income on some organic blah drink. Just because it does not make sense for your particular situation does not mean there is no market.
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> Building native dependencies as binaries

Yep. http://conda.readthedocs.org
It's pretty far from that now. It's a modern multi-paradigm language with a package manager, module system and enormous community. It's a pretty solid language for teaching in my opinion.
Not everyone joins a start-up to make millions. Some will join just to make a living. There are plenty of startups that can provide a living for a few people with the potential for a bit of nest egg later on. That and the sense of involvement/freedom can be more attractive than a job at big co
It still requires a significant amount of power, and besides, now your trade-off is time - you're shining a point (kind of, it still spreads) very far away, so you have to move your laser very slowly in order to actually put out enough signal for a bounce-back from any one particular hypothetical object.
The Owlchemy Labs blog post about the acquisition is pretty informative about the history of Owlchemy. The parts referencing the acquisition are pretty standard.

http://owlchemylabs.com/owlchemy-labs-and-google-join-forces...
>Maybe they can barely keep up with demand, I don't know.

Definitely not that one. The Spectacles store on the Venice Beach boardwalk is always a desolate wasteland.
> This doesn't address the problem of how to deal with someone who doesn't WANT to correct their worldview.

I found the article went to great lengths to explain why someone might not want to correct their world view. It then proceeded to give some examples of how you might work around that (avoid tribalism, change your own attitude, demonstrate that you're invested in/impacted by the question at hand). Empathy for the other person seems to be the general approach.

I found How to Win Friends and Influence People to be a good read for more examples. https://www.amazon.ca/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...
I'm not sure what you mean.

In Illinois (the state from the article) the assessor is calculating the market value:

Most real property in Illinois must be assessed based on its value on the open market, or its “market value.” This value is the amount at which a property would sell in a competitive and open market... [1]

[1]http://tax.illinois.gov/Publications/LocalGovernment/PTAX100...
Also: repairability.

Asphalt shingles are fairly easy to repair once you get up on the roof. Wired stiff solar shingles? That's gonna be more challenging.
Roach is the remnants of a joint for many of a certain age. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roach_(smoking)
There are also a couple of code generation tools availbale such as https://github.com/cheekybits/genny and https://github.com/joeshaw/gengen
> Add in a PowerWall and federal tax credit, and I'm still losing $15,400 over 30-years.

Which you probably sink into a second layer of asphalt shingles 15-20 years in (at least up here in upstate NY where there's plenty of rain/snow). Hopefully it's not a tear-off, as that'll cost more.
Are you saying that cellular and wifi networks are equal in reliability, range, and ease of administration? That's the criteria I'm using.
It depends on your roof orientation and your location so ROI has a huge range.

For example if you don't have a southern facing roof then this is going to be a terrible investment. However, this is also a home improvement which means a low interest loan which has many tax advantages, remember you pay your electric bill with after tax money but you pay interest on a home loan with pre tax money. Further electricity costs increase with inflation, so your out of pocket investment may be tiny while the value of electricity generated is increasing.
If you put your email in your profile, I will email you.
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I'd like to throw in the obligatory https://rms.sexy/
Have you worked in consumer tech or marketing before? I think you're severely discounting your usage of the product and what that means for the company. The reality is that usage and engagement are completely different metrics. And even in the engagement category there are a whole suite of metrics for "depth of engagement".

That means roughly this:

* It's a funnel (one that is heavily tracked)

* They know how often and how deep users' engagement patterns are and how they shift over time, over different feature launches, and over the age of their users among other parameters.

* They know what it takes to get a lightly engaging user to become one that is more deeply engaging and they know the rate at which this conversion happens.

* They have cohorts of users and they know what types of users move which way through the funnel and how fast.

* Using all this data, they have at their disposal different levers to pull (growth, marketing, product) to move the numbers in the right direction.

Again, all of this doesn't mean that Snapchat will be successful in converting you or your daughter into a heavy Snapchat user today or even tomorrow. But you're painting too simple of a picture using a single high level metric and logical simplification of a process that's very complicated.

The biggest point I want to make here is that NO TWO USERS ARE THE SAME. So to use a high level metric that conflates different types of users by definition and then making an implication about the health of a company using this specific metric's weakness is just silly. There is data that you don't have access to and you're not recognizing that.
Humbly tried a polymer/webcomponents approach for composing similar vizualisation than dc.js. it uses d3v4 and multi-chart (https://www.webcomponents.org/element/PolymerEl/multi-chart) as a charting library: https://www.webcomponents.org/element/PolymerEl/multi-verse
Does this include Spectacles? They may be losing money per unit there.
Oh, since when has Facebook apps been better? I uninstalled them when I saw how much battery they were using without me even opening them.
Well of course remote work is going to have its own challenges, but I don't get the feeling that that's what's going on here. So, besides corner cases, is there any reason not to consider cellular tablets in the construction world?
Just out of curiosity, do you mind elaborating a little bit on why not? It strikes me as something that would be very easy to implement in a database, is there a reason why so few databases have a mechanism to do this?

If it's about maintaining an open connection in order to notify the client, that part makes sense, but at the very least the changefeed itself should be toggleable and easy to query in any DB.
I strongly suspect, but cannot prove, that Skype was also exfiltrating audio files from the clients PC at one time.

When they opened their high-quality audio service the songs had clear artifacts of having been encoded more than once. If you had access to the original uncompressed audio stream, you'd simply encode a higher quality version. Many albums weren't available for high quality streaming at all.

The logical explanation was they didn't have a database of lossless audio from which to re-encode, and we already knew they were using P2P. Why not use the P2P to raid users music collections as well.
Since we are discussing Tesla solar roofs, they suggest your installation comes with a PowerWall, thereby storing power during the day to use at night. I personally don't think we are there yet, but I think the goal is that you don't need the entire national power grid just for night electricity, just a big battery.
Which means that your output pixel cant be both white and low transparency. I guess its a typical graphics 'close enough and better performance' outcome (where mine is marginally more difficult to calculate and needs some more logic to avoid divide by 0)
How Acquirers Think
If you are serious and you want a script like this for any given page that you want de-crufted and reformatted, let me know. This applies to any HN reader.

I make these for myself all the time.

I do one-offs in sed and if it is something I will reuse I redo it in C using flex.

If you want something generalized to all web pages that removes google analytics, doubleclick, scorecardresearch, etc. of course that is possible too. I am happy to make this for anyone who wants it.

Another solution is to run a proxy on your computer that filters out garbage. Such proxies used to be more popular when advertising began to take over the web, but most of these projects seem to have been abandoned and forgotten (junkbusters, etc.).

Nowadays it seems like people try to accomplish this via Javascript running in the browser.

Turning off Javascript is also highly effective at disabling advertising. But note this may not stop things like img src tags pointing at tracking pixels, malicious iframes, and other elements that graphical browsers will load automatically.

Also, tcp clients do not normally store or send cookies. And even if they try to provide this functionality, e.g., curl or wget, unlike a graphical web browser, cookies are off by default. Consider the case where the user retrieves the page with a tcp client and then views it in a browser.
I'm a bit confused about your explanation. Are you using the transparent pixels to store extra data, or are you using the alpha channel to store extra data? And if you're using the transparent pixels, then what data is it and how do your shaders know how to find the transparent pixels?
Make sure to separate your training and validation data sets! :-)
How is this even feasible? If Obama did this he'd be impeached almost immediately.
I'd be interested to know this as well. I've been solving this problem while building Assertible; generate a suite of API tests from a Swagger spec: https://assertible.com/blog/testing-an-api-using-swagger
Ouch. The ones I've used (US) are a UI catastrophe. Is blaming the user really a good solution here?
This sounds increasingly counter-effective or unenforceable.
> The weird thing is that they also went back and recalculated old "Zestimate" data as well (...) there's no sign it ever got above $580k in the historic graph.

That sounds like a new level of shady.
For a lot of people, Facebook as addictive as watching TV so I don't think they'll be disappearing anytime soon.

In fact this is how I think of them and their business interests; they are nothing more than merchants of human attention (like Google). After all, the bulk of their revenues comes directly from ads.

VR may be toy-like tech for a lot of people today, but Zuckerberg is betting on it to be the next big frontier for computing similar to how they doubled-down on mobile with the emergence of touch screens heralded by the iPhone.
A 30 year power warranty is mighty brave seeing as how they've got essentially 0 years of data to base their projections on.
The case can be made even stronger if the consumer's efficiency gap is taken into account.

For example from "Market failures and barriers as a basis for clean energy policies by Marilyn A. Brown" we read:

"Meier and Whittier (1983) studied a case in which
consumers were given a choice in stores throughout the
United States of two refrigerators that were identical in
all respects except two: energy efficiency and price. The
energy-efficient model (which saved 410 kilowatt hours
per year, more than 25% of energy usage) cost $60 more
than the standard model. The energy-efficient model was
highly cost-effective in almost all locations of the
country. In most regions, it provided an annual return
on investment of about 50%. In spite of these favorable
economics, which were easily observed by the purchaser,
more than half of all purchasers chose the inefficient
model. The higher purchase price of the efficient model
was presumably the principal barrier to its purchase."

An annual ROI of 50% is left on the table because people have to pay something upfront for benefits later!

Tesla's pricing strategy here is quite blunt. They hope people don't care about the costs, only the looks and the sustainability.

Disclaimer: I don't know how sustainable the manufacturing process of this solution is.
Actually by the time full autopilot is acceptable insurance will actually go down since data will support that in full autopilot the probability of accident is lower than human driving.

Maintenance costs on an electric self driving car will actually be lower than a traditional car [1]

You are correct though that the income will have taxes applied to it.

[1] http://insideevs.com/ev-vs-ice-maintenance-the-first-100000-...
If you're referring to initial open time, look into running the Emacs daemon (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsAsDaemon).
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I tryed to submit a wix base webpage of a project I have to test it with you guys but I got in response that Im tryning to spam HN. Why is that?
Best!
I don't believe you're correct. I don't know about the lower end of that range, but in the US, the higher end of that range uses Instagram and iMessage heavily as well.
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would be nice to have gitlab integration as well
Can't tell if sarcasm -- Snapchat is not the only social network that people from ages 13 to 26 use. Out of all the apps I deleted to study for finals, Facebook's Messenger was not included.
Surely appraisals regulation is just another instance of mortgage regulations. But is it not the over regulated mortgage market that blasted in 2008? Was it because of zestimates? Nope? Well here ya go. Let the people speak their opinion and work on their ML.
Or better yet let's all decide as a society that a wizard can be any gender.
In many places in the country, night-time usage is a lot less than daytime usage.
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Ironically-- the reason I didn't have little flocker installed... I had just wiped my machine. When I reinstalled (the reason I redownloaded HB), flocker was on longer available.
Anything is gender neutral if we decide it's gender neutral.
I'm a Scala developer by profession and have dealt with horrible Scala code. People can write horribly in any language.
I dunno, I'm in the Dallas/Ft Worth area, and we have abundant sunshine and I think the price is still going to be a barrier.

But like others have said... there are plenty with a lot more money than I have which will jump at this. I'm ok with that. The more wealthy folks that install these and take their load off the grid, the better.
The slider at the bottom and the sign in/sign up/reset form are very well made. That's a good design. Good job!
This is guaranteed to piss off the business community.

I can think of two possible reasons:

1- The administration is trying to distract people from the Comey scandal

2- The administration expects the current ban to be challenged in court and defeated, so they are expanding it to include non-Muslim countries

We live in interesting times.
I envision that Facebook really wants to become the wechat of the world. From the lessons of Trump, if mark becomes the president I see him really pushing FB politically.
Guess we won't be doing international business with the EU....
On the solar calculator page, they say they have the highest possible hail rating.
Facebook copycat? It was poor take on Facebook. Bad design, bad decisions, bad UI and bad UX. There was no vision for it, Google Plus would be much better as LinkedIn killer than Facebook killer.
Consolidation vs dispersion on platforms is one of those cyclical things, like thin vs fat clients.
Yes, because everybody would love to have a decentralized, public ledger for sexual activities. /s

I can't imagine what hard forking or a 51% attack would do to the "community."
That reason being that many negative associations with cockroaches are good in the context of databases. Less so with food and cars.
I think the gamification of contributions is extremely interesting and this is a great step in the right direction.

However - there needs to be more "game". I've personally witnessed the obsessive nature of GPS-based mobile games (Ingress mainly). If we could harness some of that towards OSM it could be amazing.

Considering the amount of energy gamers put into customizing and modding - if the right game harnessed OSM data then you'd have a willing workforce on tap.