skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the odds are on the German and Japanese incumbents in the long run

you kidding right?
which good ev does any german car manufacturer has?
plugin-hybrid does not count. besides that no german ev car can devlier the same range like the model 3 for the same price.
well heck, the mini e starts at 35000 euro and only has a range of ~160-200km, audi e-tron still can't deliver more than 200-250km besides that they announced they can do more.
bmw i8 is a plugin-hybrid, bmw i3 has a range 290km official (probably less) and starts at 35000 euro (btw. it's a really small city car), mercedes does not have any ev at all (at the moment).
vw said they have a car that delivers more than tesla, but i think a lot of this is just blabla.

yes the japanese and prolly the chinese will drive the market. heck even the bolt ev looks more promising and deliverable than anything (we, i am german and it is sad) the germans announced.
oh the only thing that german manufacturer said that they start producing new ev's for the chinese, cause of their emission strategy.
> I don’t think it made much sense, and what I did understand of it seemed very poorly argued.

As someone who forms opinions, I care more about the argument than how poorly it was argued. Is it biased, or even racist or sexist, of me to have such a view?

Edit: I wish the author of this piece sounded less frightened.
Because we all know here that Google's automated review is perfect both in Chrome Web Store and in Google Play Store and that their respective support (the same?) is top notch.
If the preponderance of current science is against the lone voice, then it's highly likely that the lone voice is not in the right.
Bill Burr regrets 2003 password recommendation report
If you don't support the practice when it targets the poor, presumably you shouldn't with the rich either.

Why? I support other protection systems that only apply to the poor. Right to a free lawyer, or to food stamps or to certain scholarships. What makes this different?
> But is it okay to campaign towards the goal of firing someone for expressing an opinion they feel outraged about?

It depends what the opinion is, and what job the person holds, and the relationship between those two things. The idea that the coercive power of government should not be deployed against expression doesn't mean all ideas or equal or that there are never conditions where expression should have negative consequences.

(In fact, any answer to your question implies that there are ideas that are unacceptable to express.)
> He is one individual in a company that employs more than 72,000 people. Why has Silicon Valley spent the weekend talking about him

Because we're not talking about a memo posted by one random engineer that got the reaction it deserved for declaring a large fraction of his co-workers sub-standard engineers (among the myriad broken things in that memo). That would have been a story for all of five minutes.

Instead, we're talking about how a large fraction of a major tech company quickly and enthusiastically endorsed it and circulated it.

"Hey, finally someone says it ought to be OK for me to denigrate my co-workers, treat them as sub-standard engineers and sub-standard humans, and propagate junk science to prop up my prejudice! I feel validated!"

That this is even remotely a popular sentiment, rather than something that gets you treated like you just said "the earth is flat", is the story here.
Pure astrology
This book is at times both brilliant and hilarious. I definitely recommend that anyone curious at least pick it up and read the first few chapters.

As a bonus for those with a soft spot for 90's pop punk, it was also the inspiration for the Millencollin song 'Random I Am'.
> NYC subway system is the only train system that actually operates 24-7

Chicago's subway is 24/7, too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
Sure man, cool.
What makes something outrageous though? Physical violence is fairly cut and dry in definition, "outrageous" is completely subjective. For example, my grandmother, like some older people, will not talk about menstration. She believes it is completely outrageous that anyone would discuss this publically. Would it then be fair to say that discussions surrounding menstration are as bad as physical violence towards my grandmother?
This reminds me of befunge[1], which is also a two dimensional programming language, and has been around for quite a while. This language looks a bit simpler and easier to understand, though. Neat.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge

"[I]n Befunge, there is no comment syntax: to embed documentation in the code, the programmer simply routes the control flow around the 'comment' area, so that the text in that area is never executed"
The point is to be able to give encrypted data to a third party and have them do operations on that data (ex. sum all the values) and give you an encrypted result back.

tldr. computations in the cloud with encrypted, private data
no no. I'm down for driving a zode through it hunting pirates, though!

Patri Friedman is the guy who wants to make the Raft.
As a thought experiment: have you ever seen a team work well together when one of the members has publically said that half of their team doesn't deserve to be there and shouldn't have been hired in the first place?
VIX rising means market is moving, but strictly downwards, right?
> As a thought experiment: have you ever seen someone change their mind or worldview as a result of being insulted & fired?

...but that's not why someone in this position would be fired. It would be because their publicly stated opinions about what people are and are not capable of makes their co-workers deeply uncomfortable.

We can debate endlessly (we already have, I'm sure we will again) whether firing is the right or wrong choice, but let's argue about it for the right reasons.
Cool - do try https://halfchess.com

How much revenue could I make if I were a part of your program?
> What happens when the lone voice is in the right, and the mass of people are in the wrong, and all of the preponderance of current science and wisdom is against the lone voice?

Unless you're trying to endorse that memo, perhaps you should save this comment for when that actually happens.
Extremely happy with my current generation X1C running Fedora. The selection of ports hit a sweet spot for me: two full-size USB, two Thunderbolt 3, and full-size HDMI. After years with Macs, it's wonderful to finally be free from dongles.
"Just another" wasn't meant to imply that this was some special case, just the opposite.
Sorry, I meant 'more downmarket'.

Obviously, you'll be at an advantage if you can leverage your existing skills and passions. While that could be in tech, I am sure there are also situations outside of tech per se, where you might find appropriate work - pretty much every medium sized company needs an active website these days.

When looking for bootcamps, A) talk to graduates and find out where they are working. Many bootcamps are ripoff and B) look for the ones that have industry pipelines in place, since this pipeline is the actual value they bring you. Some are so well set up to place graduates, that they don't even charge you until you get a job.

Good luck.
Are you in the market presently or have you pulled out again?
The major elephant in the room here, which the memo doesn't seem to address, is that as late as the 1960's, computer programming was seen as a natural career for young women. Has biology changed that much in the last fifty years?
>indicators that can help us guess

this is the dangerous part. No, they can't, even though it seems like they could. If they could, they would be used by people to make money and deflate the bubble that would have caused the crash in the first place. That's the theory, anyway
These two instances are not at all remotely comparable lol
> As a thought experiment: have you ever seen someone change their mind or worldview as a result of being insulted & fired?

It's fundamentally not about them; it's about their co-workers. Making it about them is the wrong approach.
Save and invest as much as you can. 10% of income is a good goal, more if you can do it.
I love using tig, but never knew that it had the ability to stage files. Will definitely check that out. Thanks for the heads up!
Wouldn't the easy solution for blackhats using HIBP's lists be to sign up an account on thousands of services to get clear notification and a list of accounts once there's been a breach?
There are applications for it, despite the speed penalty.
By that standard, gasoline is a chemical weapon. And toothpaste.
It would have to be in ancient Greek.
Those buttons are for the nipple not the trackpad. The trackpad otherwise is like an Apple trackpad.
What are your thoughts on ANTIFA?
I lived on the L train for 7 years up until recently.

In my estimation, shoving onto the train just wasn't worth it. It makes the ride much more miserable for people in the car, and it delays the line even more. The second point is important; the train situation isn't going to get better by people being selfish and gaining a few extra minutes at the expense of everyone else's.

More often than not, the "second train" strategy works wonders. I found that when it doesn't, I'd have to wait for multiple trains anyway. Maybe once in 7 years did I skip a train with room and get punished for it.
You could always use your thumbs to drive the trackpad and your fingers to drive the buttons.

Personally, I mostly use the nub, so the lack of additional buttons below the trackpad doesn't bother me much.
It's only interesting because it was said in a context where you're not allowed to say it. This is a mainstream debate that has been undertaken without much controversy by mainstream social scientists.

See, for example, this debate between Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke:

Steven Pinker & Elizabeth Spelke | The Science of Gender & Science | Mind Brain Behavior Discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hb3oe7-PJ8
Necessary evil or things taken too far?
Euclids rigor was remarkable for 300 BC, but its not really what we think of as rigorous now. Even the first theorm has several fairly obvious flaws (as the linked commentary points out). So you probably wouldn't have much Euclid left if you tried to make a machine checked version of Euclid.

Many people post-300BC have done more rigorous treatments of plane geometry. Most famously Hilbert, who had (IIRC) 21 axioms.
Hey! Thanks for reaching out. It looks like halfchess is a mobile game entirely, does it have a windows build?
Let's be frank, here. This is not someone merely "expressing an opinion." This is someone rallying against diversity, using pseudoscience to back up claims that women and minorities are inferior, and thus shouldn't have been hired. On top of that, they ranted about how Google had not done enough to make conservatives feel they have a safe space, when the only thing Google has done on the subject is to make others feel safe at Google.
Oh, OK. I think that an energy recuperation system and simply a "vertical railway" is simpler and more robust overall. No ropes needed just electric wiring, and elevators moving down are the counter weights. But this is basically what is demonstrated.

What I thought parent meant was using counterweights in the more traditional sense.

And yes, moving down also returns the energy, after all gravitational field is conservative. The real use of the counterweight is that the power needed to lift is less (you only need to work to lift the cargo), which means cost savings in motors, wiring, electricity, etc. Those saving by a mechanical counterweight system cannot be had with this setup without insane complexity. With today's solid state power electronics it is simpler and more reliable to use an electronic solution.
Can't edit, but apparently Steve Jobs explicitly positioned the iPod Shuffle the way I described above [1]. Unless Apple has a similar single-function, low-cost, easy-to-manage device to take the Shuffle's spot in the lineup, that can be positioned towards young (age 4+, say), they're discontinuing the Shuffle and leaving a gap in their product ecosystem story, at a time when Chrome is making huge inroads to their traditional education-institution-based markets that reach children. Losing the cognitive and top-of-mind attention of children weakens their grip when they grow older and make/influence purchasing decisions of more expensive devices like smartphones today, who knows what device in the future.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/requiem-for-the-ipod-shuffle/
A free, self-guided study program for software engineers in San Francisco
also "Six Different Ways" by The Cure
As a RN user, I'd be interested in actually seeing a piece of the content before laying down $100 for it. Maybe it's super simple stuff I already know. Maybe it's full of really useful techniques that I'll get tons of value out of. Maybe it's old and the breakneck pace of RN has left it behind. I wouldn't be able to know from reading this site.

Also interesting to see this disappear off the front page within an hour with 45 points. Seeing that many upvotes with only one comment here, from the author, makes me think it probably got flagged for shenanigans.
it's not just trust. a minority person (by which i mean to include all and only the less powerful in society, which has a heavy overlap with racial and ethnic minorities) can seem completely non-threatening, but still won't receive the kind of treatment he gets because the other party cannot muster the mental energe to do it as they finds it hard to imagine such treatment "leading to" anything.
Everyone has their own way of randomizing. You like spreadsheets, that guy likes creating an app for that. Big deal?
To each his own.
Sorry for the ignorance, but whats the problem with CCC pages?
Well you cant have positive discrimination and claim it's meritocracy. It's a shame it casts a negative light on diversity people who actually joined Google through effort rather quotas.
> As a thought experiment: have you ever seen someone change their mind or worldview as a result of being insulted & fired?

I have see people limited in their ability to cause further harm by being fired; not all consequences are directed at reformation if he offender.
Silicon Valley controls a lot of the world's communication and we should be really worried if silencing of unpopular opinions is the order of the day.

As a "minority" I perhaps disagree with a lot of what this person has written but my reaction to it will be to counter his arguments with a better one rather than go on to silence him.

--

I have already written about this somewhat during the past elections.

https://medium.com/@oothenigerian/trump-v-clinton-silicon-va...
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The whole point of charging for the parking spot would be so that they wouldn't have to use tax money to maintain it.

It's not a matter of alleviating your tax burden, it's a matter of alleviating everyone else's tax burden so they're not subsidizing your car. You should pay for what you use unless there's a compelling reason for it to be subsidized, not the other way around. Roads are essential for freedom of movement and in any case are too difficult to toll on a massive scale, so it makes sense to subsidize them. Parking spaces are inessential and easy to charge for, so we should charge for them.
Most of those are gendered, but they're gendered in ways that are the "default" for society (i.e. masculine) and so you don't notice them. Traditional unions and local political parties, for example, represent industries and civic institutions that have historically been populated with men only.

In industries that actually are 50/50 or majority female, you do see a number of women in top leadership positions. For example, the president of the national teacher's union is a woman [1], as are the three co-presidents of the national nurse's union [2], as is my alma mater's (which only went co-ed in 1974) college president [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randi_Weingarten

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Nurses_United

[3] https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-story/president
1. It's about abstracting what "classes" are, since the built-in "class" metaclass is trying to be one-size-fits-all. Yes, an interface is an abstract class, and if you could do things like make your own "interface" metaclass, then you can "create more patterns," in your words.

2. This is compile-time reflection, which is how a metaclass generates code, so there shouldn't be much of a run-time speed consideration. I think the comparison with C# isn't quite right; if anything, the author wants C++ to be more like Lisp, Smalltalk, or even Python, which all have at least some semblance of a meta-object protocol (and code-writing code, in the case of Lisp).
Bit offtopic but still worth mentioning for future reference is that when you count seconds out loud, start from 21.

What it does is this ensures the numbers are closer to 1 second duration because the amount of time it takes to mention the 2-3 syllables whereas the early ones { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 } are merely 1 syllable.

Why 21 and not 13? Its an easy to remember number (just add 20 to your starting count), and the second part of the number is still accurate.

Don't believe me? Feel free to verify with a stopwatch.

I learned this from driving lessons in NL. Based on some quick translation abracadabra it seems to equally apply to English.

(NB: To be precise, 9 would be 2 syllables in Dutch while its only 1 syllable in English. Other languages will vary!)
The First-Ever Brain-Controlled VR Game Gives You the Power of Telekinesis
A lot of games are more like "one-play" movies or tv shows these days.

Given that it's so much easier to create "video game content" than in the past, it makes sense to treat it more like Netflix, for the casual consumer.
> Free use of government property is a great thing when it's a public good, but parking is not one of those situations.

Gonna need to provide some sources if you want to claim that public parking doesn't benefit society.
But in your case you still have to pre-select a range of options right? How do you avoid missing the 'unknown unknowns' that a separate service might help provide?
After lots of thinking I eventually went with T470. The reasons: 32GB of memory, dual battery configuration (possible to swap battery while running).

Drawbacks with my choice are at least the size, probably not so good display and just PCIe x2 for the SSD.

There are small annoyances. The software-hardware integration is not on the level where it should be. Pretty much out of the box and for example sleep does not always work - sometimes when waking up all apps are gone. Windows 10 install is not clean, there's Lenovo and Intel stuff hanging there. I dislike for example the Intel popups that I get when changing WLAN. Yes, it is possible to clean up these, but I'd rather not spend time on that. The build in LTE feels a bit unrealiable, it is not there always when computer wakes up and sometimes I'm not able to get connection. Also Lenovo does not provide 1TB SSD that would be compatible with Microsoft eDrive specs, which allow Bitlocker to offload encryption to SSD (which is anyways doing it).
What unique Switch features need to be exploited, exactly? In a sense, the Switch really is a portable Wii U. The most amazing feature, IMO, is how they've managed to make a portable system with local multiplayer (without requiring multiple systems), which plenty of games support.
> OK so what is this Geometric Algebra? It’s an alternative to linear algebra.

No. Geometric algebra is a use case of linear algebra. How can it be an alternative?

> Before I tell you how to actually evaluate the wedge product, I first have to tell you the properties that it has:

> 1. It’s anti-commutative: a \wedge b = -b \wedge a

> 2. The wedge product of a vector with itself is 0: a \wedge a = 0

Redundant information. The latter follows from the former.
Possibly relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/1iybjq/is_it_po...

Information is dated, though; I have no idea if it's still relevant to modern X1 Carbons (or to modern macOS versions).
too far...counter productive.
Netflix Makes Its First Acquisition with Comic-Book Publisher
To be clear, this is only relevant for Windows. Otherwise, GitLab will work fine with clients on 2.14.0.

See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/13344
In this case, the bag results in issues that are both high priority (the poor being taken advantage of) and P3 (the rich being taken advantage of). That you see oneparticular symptom and assume it's P3 is a failure to see the root problem and correctly extrapolate how it may play out with different factors at play.

It's sort of like being alerted to a bug that shows random account personal information, and the instance reported happened to be all test accounts. You don't assume the problem is not large just because in this instance the accounts affected were test accounts, you need to determine whether it affects real accounts.

There's nothing stopping someone from buying up a poor street and charging more for parking than the residents can bear. That's a much worse scenario, but results from the exact same factors as this scenario.
Just popped into my mind as I recently saw a documentary about him.
> Given SF property prices and that it was bought at an auction, selling for $300k-$400k would net them a nice profit, and is well within the means of 35 wealthy residents pooling their means.

Indeed, a righteous outcome would be for this couple to triple or quadruple their investment and make several hundred thousands of dollars, for the effort of going to an auction and then hiring lawyers. Hard work!
"Science" is often thrown around to justify things it shouldn't.

Sociology hasn't had as much success as "hard" sciences so we should distinguish between the two. (for example with the controversy around major psychology experiments being unreplicable etc)
< But this groupthink terrifies me when it’s used to bully people for exercising their right to free speech. How will we know what people are truly thinking if we rush to silence them?

This is called growing up.

We dont need to know how everyone thinks. We dont want to know either.

We tailor our words to our audience. We avoid saying or typing dumb things.

We only say what we really feel to our confidante.

These outwardly stupid writings are simply that: bad childish judgement.
I love how most comments here are debating the merits of public vs. private parking. Only in California. In other parts of the world, people with $35M mansion park in their fucking garages!
Public parking benefits car owners, and does nothing for non-owners. Do you dispute this?
Why not fix this issue for everyone? And stop being over-the-moon because this happened to rich people?

If your taxes are not being paid correctly, you should be notified. Your home street shouldn't just be put up for sale and sold to the highest bidder without your knowledge.
Finally, a Recurse Center in SF. How it doesn't already exist here is beyond me.
Random dinner location is certainly worth a try, for dipping a toe in the shallow end, so to speak: http://www.restaurantgenerator.com
Hacker culture used to trend towards libertarian ideals: free speech absolutism, cyberpunk freedom, etc. Now we have a huge mass of people at Google forming a rage mob to punish someone for expressing an unpopular idea. Should people lose their livelihoods and be blacklisted from the industry because you disagree with them? (see also Brendan Eich)
How about, leave that up to them to determine? Again, intellectual ideals work as long as we all think alike. Which we don't.