skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly scrap. If you're in the market for a vehicle, do you take a gas-powered car with high operational and maintenance cost, or do you buy one with low costs?

Most people won't even buy, as it's cheaper and faster to rely on a self-driving vehicle that picks you up like a taxi would.

Existing cars are about as valuable in those scenarios as a horse and buggy.
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Comparing Atom to one of the native-window ports of Vim or Emacs seems pretty fair to me.
There is a ton of COBOL code out there, and banks are not going to retire those mainframes any time soon :(
The current grid is in most cases perfectly capable to deliver the required energy to charge cars if we all were to switch to EV's.

The maximum output of the grid has seldomly been a problem, it scaling the production of electricity up/down to match the demand which is difficult.

Some argue that adding thousands of EV's to the grid (each with 60-100kWh capacity) will actually help 'balance' the grid demand and make it more efficient.
Counterexample: Rust compiler is written in Rust.
> It will 'Just work', which is what developers need. Not fancy UI's

The whole existence of the GUI client itself is an argument against that as the Git command line interface already works just fine.
From that link:

“sources at the State Department,” a vague and anonymous reference that does not yield to verification.

Anonymous sources are unreliable? That seems important to remember...
> In this thread you'll find many native app developers who are dismissing Electron because they feel threatened.

That's an interesting claim to make, what makes you think that a lot of those who are upset by this decision are not just users who have tried Electron applications and found the UX poor? Why are they feeling 'threatened' and not just frustrated with this growing trend?

I'm not a native app developer in the slightest sense, I do mostly web work (server-side MVC mostly, but also a lot of frontend work) and enjoy working on security related to that.
What's the reason all of these start with very specific phones? Assuming you have a rooted phone running recent Android, what is the blocker for having something like this running? Why only Nexus devices?
Dan from Firebase here. I’d like to clarify a few details about the support options that are available. First, the limit of five questions per year applies only to technical troubleshooting questions (i.e. some indeterminate issue in your code that you’d like help with). Developers are always able to contact us an unlimited number of times for issues relating to identified bugs or to request features. Additionally, any questions relating to your account or bills (such as the issue in the original post) are also unlimited.

With that said, it’s been a year since we introduced the five-a-year limit on technical troubleshooting questions. I’ll see if this is actually a useful limit to keep in place and remove it if not.
>> Because n^4 is nasty.

I keep thinking there will be a significant reduction in complexity there. The intensity of a pixel in a hologram is essentially an integral over all surfaces visible from that point. So imagine a rather complex formula applied for each surface for each pixel. Then imagine holographic bounding boxes that compress complex geometry into a few holograms of what's inside. This would reduce the n^4 back down, but the resolution required for holograms is still very very high. But we could use fancy GPUs to evaluate the integrals.

Just hand-waving thinking here...
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It's not going to happen as fast as the report claims, but if it did I can only expect that these cars would be either "recycled" or sold to other countries where electric autonomous cars are still the future.
I would assume it's the chicken-and-egg problem. Why add a ~$100 component to a machine that might never be used? It's similar to how servers never had GPUs because that was a thing only consumers that play videogames need, right up until the point that a mixed combo of A) system on a chip manufacturers needed to always include a GPU for design simplicity, and B) GPUs were realized to be rather efficient generic math co-processors for a wider variety of problem domains than just "graphics" (because who needs graphics on a headless server?).
I think for very close objects you need to have a very good match between your interpupillary distance, the interaxial distance of the HMD lenses and the interaxial distance of the virtual cameras.

Also it depends on the HMD screen size, at some point parts of the object's image for each eye falls off screen.
My first comment referenced wealth inequality so you either lack good faith or comprehension.

I suspect it's the former. I'm not in this to win points, nor am I your adversary.
:) I really like the idea and get ready for the excitement of having a family.

I think the problem you'll end up having is that in some/most cases you are never really certain what the problem was.

Feeding might make the crying stop but you have no way of knowing if the reason for the crying was hunger. Similar problems for sleep, diaper changing, etc.

Every time the crying stops you can never be certain if you just made them temporarily forget about the root problem or if you did properly identify the root cause.

TL/DR my hypothesis after raising my own kids, is that the data will be almost all noise with very little perceptible signal.
> In Germany everyday people can go to the park with their 2-5 year old kids and have no issues with nudists enjoying the sun nearby.

The parent comment mentioned sex, not nudity. Children are generally comfortable with nudity since it's something they experience themselves. Most don't know that sex even exists, so they have zero association between nudity and sex.

I think part of the reason some parents are leery of nudity around their kids is not because the kids can't handle it, but because we adults are so used to nudity being associated with sex that it's hard for us to understand that kids don't think that way.

> As for violence, depends on whether it's something that will frighten the kid.

Young children do not have a clear separation between reality and imagination. Their brains simply don't partition the two as distinctly as we do. This is why playing pretend and imaginary friends come so naturally to them, and why they are natural inveterate liars.

I absolutely don't want my young kids exposed to violent media because they aren't yet able to understand it's not real. It would be almost as if they were experiencing the violence first-hand.

I also don't get why American culture is so gung-ho about violence in the first place. My hope is that my children will never see someone get shot, stabbed, raped, kidnapped, burned, or assaulted. But, judging by TV and movies, these are everyday occurrences. I'm not super keen on normalizing that.
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Well to be fair it runs Windows 10 mobile...so it's not a big seller and is shrinking rapidly. [0] Worldwide Q4 2016 sales are 1/4 that of Q4 2015.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system#By_ope...
No, we are not saying the same thing.

I say that the situation you described is so far fetched as to be irrelevant to a discussion of "shutgun buyouts" in general.

How did the company reach a $7M valuation? They might have sold 1 share out of 7M shares for $1. That, technically, would make it worth $7M. But practically, it isn't.

Let's say company raised $3M at $4M pre-money => $7M post money. That's not unreasonable. At this point in time, the company has $3M in the bank, so it is indeed worth at least $3M.

Let's say "cash poor founder" only has $100K in the bank. If "cash rich founder" offers to buy 50% for $500K (five times what "cash poor founder" can afford), then it is extremely easy to raise $500K, for a promise to pay $550K from company coffers the next day, because in fact those $500K will buy control of $3M.

And that's exactly why investors insist on vesting schedules, first rights of refusals, tag-alongs, bring-alongs, etc - because the investor who put $3M into that company is likely to lose it in a variety of real world cases without those clauses.

I say your cases are not impossible, just extremely improbable. In practice, it is easy to borrow against a grounded valuation with some.

The poor founder will likely get an "unfair" offer, but "unfair" here is within 10-20% of a fair offer, not a 50% or 90% as in your examples.

I assume poor founder is a smart founder, of course - he might not have access to lenders/investors, which could get him treated unfairly; But of course, that's also the case for having illness, immigration problems, disability, etc. Money is an advantage, lack of money is a disadvantage -- but it is not fatal in these cases in general.
"Don't make that your only education on the subject."
Kind of presumptuous, no?
There's a wiki page about this phenomenon (forgot its exact name), but it's funny, I was thinking about this very book this morning, even though I haven't even read it, I just skimmed through it a couple of months ago. More exactly, I was thinking about the French Situationists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International), which I think this book quotes at some point.
Not everyone is fit to be an astronaut. Not everyone is able to eliminate nausea through reasonable amounts of acclimatization.

The target audience for VR is everyone.
You do not know what you are talking about at all.

> Person B had 100k to her name. She paid the nursing home 5k per month until it was gone. Then care is free until the money runs out.

> All three got the same medical care. All three got the same food. Maybe person A spring for a private room vs a shared room... But otherwise all would be the same.

Person b experienced a lower standard of care once the money ran out.

(I'm sure this isn't universally true, but in my experience it is. It's a free market...)
Aren't most of these large marine animals in captivity rescues? Like you said, isn't it better than leaving them in the wild to die? Why not make the law so they can only have them for rehabilitation purposes and then release them (if possible) when well? Don't marine biologist learn a great deal being in close contact with these animals that can benefit the animals in the wild?
That's just a question of having a wide enough definition of "band".
I'm not sure who Moggi is.

Category theory, the lambda calculus and the principle of compositionality were employed in linguistics since the 1930's, for instance with categorical grammar. I don't think we're talking about the same thing.
>No, Marx considered profit made from the value added to commodities by labour, this profit arising from purchasing of labour-power, to be exploitation.

That is what I was implying. I was making the point that the non-labouring beneficiary of an enterprise that makes use of labour, who contributes only a financial investment, was accused of extracting economic rent, or in his words, 'surplus value'.

>You've asserted that Marxism is demagogic quackery multiple times, without really saying why. Why do you think this is the case?

Because it ignores the value contributed by the capital the investor provides. If the value of labour on its own was really equal to the value of money paid to the worker + the profit earned by the employer from the work the worker did on the commodities, then a worker on their own would be able to spend an equivalent number of hours converting commodities into a product, and earning a profit equal to what they would have made selling their labour, plus the profit their employer would have earned from their labour.

The use-value of the work of the investor in saving capital, and intelligently directing it, is ignored in Marx's estimations, which is why this contradiction exists in what Marx claims labour is worth, and what profit it could actually produce on its own, without the capital of the investor.
Why Frame Scored $16M Investment from Microsoft and Bain Capital Ventures

I hate this kind of language. It perpetuates the mindset that "scoring" investment is the goal, as opposed to a purely tactical maneuver. "Scoring" would be landing a customer deal that, ya know, generates actual revenue. Taking investment is just something you do, or not, along the path to making money.
It would be nice to see these maps in a population adjustment way, like the last map here: http://www.businessinsider.com/2016-election-results-maps-po...
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You might also find the following blog post provides a useful introduction: https://auth0.com/blog/introducing-auth0-extend-the-new-way-...
I'm hopeful that self-driving electric cars will become the norm in the next 10 years, but I don't think it will kill the fossil fuel industry. A 50% discount on crude, fueled by decreased demand for personal transportation, simply gives more freedom to other industries that rely on fossil fuels. Imagine how cheap an international flight might be, for example. Efficiency will be gained in other sectors.
Actually, I think programming on the TI-84 was deliberately intended to get people interested. Math textbooks from the 1980s and 1990s included BASIC snippets at the end of chapters/sections (in the US). The dialects varied, but porting was a trivial task.

In the 1980s there was a push for programming as part of the standard curriculum. Whether it was TI's corporate intent, or motivated by satisfying educators' goals, they made programming available on their calculators quite deliberately.
Thing is, for understanding why Rust is the way it is, you need to suffer through memory leaks and eg. buffer overflows, segfaults, lack of strict typing, etc.

Same with most frameworks I know, regardless of where in the stack.

That's why I believe Java is a bad educational language, and Donald Knuth uses MIX assembly in his books.
Have you seen the Black Tape Project?
> the unproven truth

How does that work?
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say... that if a parent tends to blame issues with their children on themselves, that parent has a mental illness? I don't think you understand a parent's position in society. It may not be a beneficial reaction, but it's presently a fairly normal one.
I've never used Github Desktop but SourceTree has its own set of glaring problems from interface to functionality. I stick with the command line these days.
I'm not a lawyer, but I very strongly doubt deliberately making yourself unavailable to give the password on demand is going to be perceived by a court as as cute a way around this law as you believe it to be.

There's no technological solutions to things like this, only political ones.
This is something I think a lot of people fail to understand. For daily use, EV charging is a convenience, not an inconvenience. It only takes me five seconds to plug in my car in the evening. It may take several hours to charge, but that happens while I'm eating dinner or sleeping or whatever.

When you drive more than the car's range in a single day, then it flips, of course. For me, and I think for most people, this is rare enough that it's still a net win.

It also flips if you can't plug in at home. For a lot of people that's easy, but for many it's tough. Thankfully installing a charger is pretty easy, so it comes down to convincing the powers that be to do it, or at least allow it, which gets easier all the time.

Agree with the conclusion. Eight years?! The average car on American roads today is 11.5 years old. Average. Cars just don't get cycled out that quickly.
Sorenbs - would you recommend Graph.cool to a beginner? It's between GraphQL and REST API and I only have a basic understanding of REST API.

I was thinking of using React.js + Graph.cool with a Node.js server to handle subscriptions and background tasks/calculations
Not long then, a Chevy Bolt's only twice a Honda Fit. ICE cars won't disappear in eight years (as the article claims), but I could see price parity in that time.
The problem is that the feedback loop on the commodity side goes in the wrong direction for a "death spiral". A reduction in the number of gasoline burners on the road causes a reduction in the price of gasoline, which makes gasoline burners MORE attractive, not less. Also because turnover on automobiles is slow, 8 years seems much too fast, if it ever happens at all.
So this is the same deal as with eCos, i.e. the provider doesn't have source access to the innards and just fiddles with some common drivers and desktop tools?
I like the look of Final, but $50/year seem pretty pricey for a credit card. Why's it worth it?
No, Firefox.
I assume that with 'just works' the OP actually meant to say 'just works without too much hassle/overhead'. For example: staging lines/hunks on the commandline does 'just work', no denying that, but in most UI's it's way more efficient and pleasant.
Rather than nausea, I think I've noticed inability to focus on items away from the centre of vision (haven't used VR equipment in about 6 months, might be remembering things wrong), that's what this sounds more like it will address.
Out of time: F Scott Fitzgerald
> If the demand drops, the price goes up, leading to a further drop in demand, which drives up the prices, which...

And yet markets converge on price equilibria all the time without descending into runaway chaos.
do you worry about the weights of your net being stolen off the app through reverse engineering?
I haven't read the book, but I've dipped into it. Some of the ideas are interesting; ideas that I was acquainted with through Wolfram's papers before the book appeared. From critical examinations published by others, I've gleaned two things: the book contains one new theorem, apparently discovered by one of Wolfram's collaborators; and, there are no successful predictions in the book. To the extent that it's supposed to be "science", 15 years later one might hope to see the author saying something like, "Here is my NKS prediction of <whatever>, and this experiment confirms it," or "this experiment contradicts my prediction." Even the latter case would show an attempt to do science. So I'm intensely interested in knowing, from people who have been following this, are there any testable predictions from this NKS, have the experiments been done, and what were the results? Because this new article (I couldn't get through it, I confess) seems to be just more handwaving, and Wolfram talking about how important his insights just have to be.

EDIT: I meant to add that it's very nice that the book is now free, in any case.
With a 35mph average according to Wikipedia. Which urban metro system achieves those kind of speeds?
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What real-world applications do you think is it is not yet useful for?
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"If I hire somebody to put my Ikea furniture together... "

talk about snobbery ;)
It is hard to believe that tools to prevent overage use in the $25 plan haven't been developed earlier. All the necessary components were there: It has always been possible to track the use of resources per user, and it has at least in the early version of Firebase been able to send out warning emails if the enforced limits are approaching. So, to me it seems like a no-brainer to combine these two, in particular for a large company like Google.
It's not really a bug, it's total disregard for people not using your software. Only a monopolist company can afford to behave like that.

And by the way this is especially messed up if you use a screen reader.
Having lived for long periods in the USA and Nigeria and visiting other continents as well, I can assure you that each culture has an idea of what's appropriate whether they use that specific word or not. Never been to Germany (I've visited 5 of its neighbors), but no matter how open or permissive Berliners consider themselves, I feel it's likely they "don't care" about certain things - a lot of people take things for granted that everyone in their culture accepts as a norm or a line that shouldn't be crossed and I'm sure there are bound to be some of those in Berlin whether you perceive them or not.
Yep. Rural electrics, local telephone companies, and some cable companies have fiber. It probably is a function of most places now having multiple providers.

[edit: examples] https://www.bektel.com/products-amp-services/bekfiber/ https://www.gondtc.com/internet_services.html

ignore the 90's style websites
It took multiple years for housing prices to go up. It did not happen overnight. If you don't try, there is no chance.
What's scary is that these people are actually released into the world. 36% of them do violent crimes again. And that's considered a GOOD stat.

That's insane. I don't know what the answer is, but this article makes me more aware (and maybe scared) of how many violent people are out there.
They are though!

> The Snowmobile comes with a removable connector rack that needs to be mounted on one of your data center racks where it can be connected directly to your high-speed network backbone. The connector racks provides multiple 40Gb/s interfaces that can transfer up to 1 Tb/s in aggregate.[1]

so there is a bit of setup and teardown, but they're not plugging disks in one-by-oen

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/faqs/
The DC Metro lets you do this, and I've taken advantage a couple of times. It is pretty nice. It vastly increases the effective reach of the network.

Unfortunately, they don't allow it during rush hour due to space constraints, so it's not nearly as useful as it could be.
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You're right but if this kind of security becomes the norm rather than the edge case, it becomes far more acceptable.
I cannot think of anything worse than flying cars. The noise, visual pollution, lack of privacy, waste of energy and sheer lack of imagination of finding a new way to live on this planet makes me grind my teeth. I hope they are easily hackable so that they can all be programmed to stay on the ground for ever.
actually, it's "trous du cul gloutons" ;)
Quite a few people were I live own trucks or SUVs. Also, we have buses here, but the only people who ride them are ones without cars. People do take Uber of course, but that's generally when they're not in a state to drive, or they don't have their car in walking distance.
> The average American over the age of 60 cuts spending 2.5 percent per year, or about 20 percent over a 10-year period

That's not how math works...
IoT needs to die.

The only function of IoT devices is to collect private information and intrude into our home to destroy the last bastion of privacy.

No, I am not against smart devices in our homes, quite contrary, but I believe that these should be not Internet connected.
We're just gonna have to respectfully agree to disagree on some of this.

I don't go out of my way to be insensitive, but I'm not going to flush my DVD of The Matrix down the Memory Hole because it has "Wachowski Brothers" stamped on it. If the Wachowskis put out a new movie today, I'll reference them appropriately as the Wachowski sisters who produced it, but they simply weren't sisters when they created The Matrix, and I'll continue to reference the creators of that movie as brothers.

I saw a similar rewriting of history upstream in this thread, and I just can't let that slide. In fact, this is an edge case where nobody is right or wrong, so there can really be no "correction" to call out. Someone (Manning) changed the rules mid-game, so it must be expected and tolerated that not everyone will parse the output of the remainder of the game to their liking.
As a completely irrelevant aside, I quickly moved onto Z80 assembly when I was a kid because TI-BASIC was so slow and limited. It was amazing getting sprites drawn at real-time rates.
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