skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been sarcastic of course. I'm one of those lucky bastards who's got luxury of writing Clojure(script) all day long and get paid for it.
First 30 Tesla employees who had reservations, I think. Other articles make this clearer, e.g. http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-3-deliveries-begi...
Considering we're posting on a website called "Hacker News", I can only assume I'm not the only one deeply frustrated by that title, and the opening paragraph.

There's the hacker vs. cracker debate, but this is just profoundly disrespectful to me. There's no intentional disrespect here. The author probably has no idea. (Granted, a search for "hacker culture" does yield a Wikipedia article making it quite clear.) I feel disrespected for the complete lack of research on the term and because my core identity is being unintentionally slandered with such _brevity_ without even being understood or recognized. I continue to identify myself to others outside of the software community as a "free software hacker". And when someone sees this website on my computer---Hacker News---what are they to assume? When I'm sitting on an airplane looking at this site, what are they to assume?

Had to vent.
Depends how you count "wasted", but time to relax is important.
I wonder how much (if any) of their cash is invested in Tesla convertible debt? Apple has been bumping up their R&D spend (not even including their acquisitions) by 20% or more annually for quite a few years: it's now up to around 5% of revenue (hard to calculate exactly, given the seasonality of their revenue). So far they've created at least 4 absolute breakthrough products, 4 more than most Fortune 500 companies ever achieve, including the most successful product ever (1.2 billion sold).
You only need some Russian or other bank willing to lose your details for a fee and you are in the clear. Heck, get a Cayman shell company and your name is never going to be on anything until the day you buy a return ticket and only use it one way, the onto a nice country with no extradition treaty.
In case i ever find myself designing a programming language, what facilities would Python have to support in order to allow 'let' to work? It seems to me that in theory Hy could solve the problem with which variables are to be marked 'nonlocal' by doing a lot of additional code analysis (is this correct?).

I gather that the main remaining problem is that break, continue, yield, async, await work differently if you covertly introduce a new function scope. Would it be sufficient if scopes could have explicit labels and break, continue, yield took an argument that said which label to break/continue/yield out of? Would that solve the problem with async, await too?

If Hy did extensive code analysis to determine where to introduce 'nonlocal', and if Python's break/continue/yield took this extra argument, would implementation of 'let' by Hy then become possible or are there still additional impediments that i am missing?
If you intended to say that the iPhone was far superior to the typical dumbphone of the day, then I can accept that. I was responding to what you wrote, though.

If 65,000 cancelled reservations translates to "a lot of people don't want to spend $35k on this car," then the nearly half a million remaining reservations must translate to "a shitload of people want to spend $35k on this car." No?
North Texas (Dallas, Ft. Worth, etc.) get pretty cold during the winter. I've spent a fair amount of time in North and Central Texas and while high AC bills during the summer (i.e., mid-April to early October) are common, the single highest electric bill I've ever had was one January in North Texas when I was living in an apartment with an electric heater.
You could argue that by installing an open source plugin, you consent to what ever it does.

EDIT: Not that I like Kite, just bringing up plausible deniability
I loved The Nix. There were chapters that left me physically stunned after reading them. It's as massive a creative achievement as anything I encountered in recent years.

Leaving the worlds of business and technology to study messy human relationships can only help to increase empathy in our industry.
Pretty unfortunate, but this has always been a fact of life. If you are an American of interest, it would be naive to think that there is no chance a foreign intelligence service may be trying to watch you in the same way.
There are several data centers that are being built around the Toyota facility in Plano, but none are branded as Toyota data centers - I'm assuming that's what you mean. They aren't online yet.

I'd also add that Softlayer is based in Dallas, and operates several data centers throughout the DFW area.
The day after that event is when I cancelled. All of the first 30 cars went to employees, none have actually been released to 'customers'. I wouldn't attribute it to the event alone though!
Do you know where the source is?
The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe
In the US, it is illegal to rent out cars with active recalls, but only since June 2016 [1]. The bill was named for some of the only people I can find who were injured or killed by a recalled rental car - two sisters who died in 2004 when the PT Cruiser they rented caught fire. (if you want to read an infuriating story about rental car corporations, this really is one). [2]

1: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/effective-today-new-fed...
2: http://www.carconsumers.org/saferentalcaract.htm
In the same sense that modern vulnerability research is in large part the study of leveraging the smallest possible memory corruption bug to obtain remote code execution, modern practical cryptanalysis is the study of leveraging the smallest possible unexpected behavior of any sort to full breaks in both confidentiality and integrity.

By way of example: you could "weaken" an RNG so that where a construction expects a 256 bit nonce, you generate only 255 secure bits. If that construction is ECDSA, there's a good chance you've managed to disclose to attackers your signing private key. You could "weaken" a protocol so that attackers can replace an original plaintext with 16 uniform random bits. If the protocol is using CBC mode, you've allowed attackers to recover whole plaintexts.

There aren't a lot of errors that get routinely made in crypto code that don't have devastating consequences.
An obvious on to be sure. I think that if discrimination is the one and only malady then the benefit of transparency might well be worth it.
If you ask Siri to disable, it gives you a weird "I'm sorry I can't do that" reply. Unlike a real person, there's no verbal abuse that will make her go away.
No earthquake retrofitting yet... the Barnett Shale largely sits below Dallas/Fort Worth, and there's a lot of data center storage in the DFW area. That area is already becoming more seismically active.
Victorian Slang
Perception of corruption is about on par with the US in the studies I've seen. That's mostly unrelated to quality of the election process though. There the US is quite a long way back. The Bush/Gore mess would never happen here.
md5sum is going to limit your generated passwords to 128-bits because you're limited to 32 hexadecimal digits, which are each represented by 4 bits. [a-z][A-Z][0-9] can be represented by ~6 bits, so 32 characters would allow for 190 bits of entropy.
I don't think my family member with the Touch Bar has ever used it.
Rust-jvm: JVM implemented in Rust
Perhaps it wasn't ready and will be going into future revisions.
Just use pwgen 32 instead
I believe that only happened because people annoyed about Southern getting kicked off went looking for other accounts 'endorsing harm'
Rackspace may be "the original" datacenter for Texas. At least, they're the original data center for the internet age.
I just started using vscode a few months ago. I really like it a lot.
Correction on the password part:

3.2 Tumblr used same salt for everybody, but author don't know the salt. He searched the hashed password and found 20 other users have same password hash, using same password.

3.3 Linkedin leak have no salt, by looking for the 20 other users he found the plain text password, which should be the target password.

3.4 The password no longer worked.
And what's "sensible", anyway?
>What the hell? How does something like this even happen? Surely they can't just take somebody away and keep it a secret?

There's this little thing called the Patriot Act that Bush brought into law after 9/11 that allows the feds to do exactly this.
I mean, probably, right? It's impossible to know. We can only be benevolent by our own standards. For example, the entire premise of the Matrix was AIs treating humans as benevolently as possible (in their minds) without inconveniencing themselves.
I think that was the point: Google almost bought Groupon

http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-google-deal-turn-down...
I thought this was new Firefox UI at first. This seems like a service that would be nice to integrate into OS share flows. Windows, Android, and iOS all have share contracts and that seems more natural than going to a website.
Why do you believe that Canada offers better legal protections? I'm Canadian, but I have no idea what the situation is here.
OpenLibrary is pretty useful too, in part because Amazon's product API has aggressive license restrictions
It would only be nice if they had not removed a physical escape key. It's a downgrade in my opinion. Sometimes it just turns off for no reason.
This Canadian guy I follow on Twitter isn't a Tesla employee as far as I can tell, he got his Model 3 at the launch: https://twitter.com/Model3Owners

It was a very "soft launch" though, that's true.
This has become pretty common on test flights, although this looks like the most precise I remember seeing.
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Completely agree with you on not considering fiction as time wasted. I know great thinkers like Elon Musk (and even Mark Zuckerberg) read Sci-fi fictions. In my opinion, Sci-fi fiction books open our minds to not put a hard-limit on implementations of scientific ideas and endeavors. Allowing us to expand our horizon to possibilities which we otherwise would have thought as 'not feasible'.
> At no point do you actually say what was wrong about what you quoted. What do you feel is in error?

The whole comment past that point is an explanation why that statement is wrong. Read it.

You're clearly confused about the difference between power and energy. There's no meaningful discussion on this topic until you figure that out.
so... a mix up of the following:

which ls
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
/bin/ls

tree -L 2

git diff --stat

git status
N. Korea travel ban will go into effect in September, U.S. State Dept. says
First Chapters (2000)
"People have indeed falsely shouted "Fire!" in crowded public venues and caused panics on numerous occasions, such as at the Royal Surrey Gardens Music Hall of London in 1856, a theater in New York's Harlem neighborhood in 1884,[1] and in the Italian Hall disaster of 1913, which left 73 dead. In the Shiloh Baptist Church disaster of 1902, over 100 people died when "fight" was misheard as "fire" in a crowded church causing a panic and stampede."
"Judge each part of your work based on your motivations." Nicely said. Puts into words a phenomenon I've experienced in the past: the more motivated I am, the more pragmatic my decision making becomes ("pragmatic" being measured against the goals I'm motivated toward achieving).
I was probably in the last quarter or so reservations before the event which left me at a mid-2018 release date. After the event I think it was moved to a late 2018 release date, so right on track for the most part. That of course, is if they can actually produce at their estimated rate.
Yeah, even a toggle works. But the design, in general, doesn't look appealing to my eyes. You can have a very plain design, which neither attracts nor distracts, but if you have a design that is distracting, it's hard to take it seriously.
I don't think they had a choice. I think Marissa tried her hardest to save the company. after some amount of time activist investors started to get in the way, and push an Alibaba sale.
That's precisely my point.

Classes shouldn't be a priority.
Use another platform for collecting payments?
Helpshift nabs a third of mobile’s top-grossing gaming titles
It was worse in the beginning, now it is more like the front-left 1/3 is numb. No, I don't really bite it. It made speaking in the beginning difficult, but I've learned how to work around it.
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It doesn't stand out in a field where there is significant competition.
> It’s not human? What does that even mean?

It means they show no compassion, either as executives or a company.

> Don’t agree with Uber? Don’t use Uber

Uber has far reaching consequences that affect all of society regardless of whether I use the service or not. In this case those consequences are negative and I'm morally right to oppose the service even if I don't use it.

Your argument is full of logical fallacies.
https://opencorporates.com/info/working_for_the_public_good in the UK might be another example. They don't seem to run to make profit and one can download their huge compiled data sets.
> Tesla currently has the best PR game in the auto industry since Henry Ford raised his workers' pay to $5 an hour.

$5 per day not hour :)
Hi jo_,

We have
- 1 ML/NLP engineer (me)
- 1 CEO w/ a linguistics background
- 1 founder is an English professor at Berkeley
- 2 with previous experience teaching English
- 1 Berkeley PhD in Deep Learning / NLP advising us
- 1 Berkeley PhD in English helping us categorize writing issues

We're working on assessing writing quality too. Get in touch!
Obviously naively just stripping diacritics won't work. But that doesn't mean that diacritics are the only option for orthography; for example in nordics ä and ö (or the equivalent norwegian/danish ones) could be substituted with ae and oe, because those do not occur otherwise in the language, and so the orthography remains unambiguous.

Maybe a good example of related development is the disappearance of Þ (thorn) from english orthography, being replaced with th.
Wasn't microsofts version Groove become SkyDrive (now OneDrive)?
Do you attribute a car bombing to the person that set up the bomb or the guy that inevitably turned on the car and set off the bomb?

In this case WannaCry creators built a system that would inevitably be triggered within a few hours from the malware going live.

I think it is meaningless to attribute the WannaCry killswitch to him instead of the authors. If he hadn't registered the domain some other threat intelligence firm would've done it moments later.
Whiskers/feelers are another one that comes to mind as evolving several times.
It's not a physical key, and touch bar sometimes crashes, which makes it difficult to back out of many UX flows (think full screen video).
I am always on the lookout for a new investment opportunity and this seems to be an exciting prospect. I have to do some more research as I have never heard of it before.
Gasoline doesn't store well over a length of time, you might want to look into that before it clogs up your engine.
Sorry, but "we don't need evidence, our imagination is enough" is not anywhere near "very reasonable".

The free speech is not necessary for the speech you agree with. It is for the speech, you don't agree with. Just because Patreon guys are fans of Antifa does not mean, they should bring their ideology to the business.
The following scenario typical happens to me:

I'm in NYC and I send out a calendly link to someone to schedule a meeting
A day goes by and I end up buying a ticket to London for next week.
Person schedules a time on my calendar for next week based on my availability I've set up in NYC time.
I don't realize this until next week when I'm in London and there's a call scheduled at 9pm London time / 4pm New York time.

Ideally I'd be able to drag across my calendar and tell you I'll be in London from Monday-Friday. During that period I want my availability to stay the same relative to London's timezone. So if I usually have slots from 2-4pm available for recruiting calls I want that same schedule to apply in London at the same time. Does that make sense?
DataFrame.to_sql() seems painfully slow, do you have any tips for speeding it up?

What I do is dump it as CSV again after manipulation and then bulk load it into the DB using the DB's native tool. It's messy but 10x faster.
DFW and Houston have immense amounts of office space, and office space consumes a ton of climate control electricity.

Houston has warm-to-hot summers and awful high humidity, so AC is absolutely required. DFW has less humidity, but much higher summer temps. AC very much required.

DFW also gets really cold 1-3 months of the year. And maybe it's my limited observations, but I would say the temperature swings have been more extreme in the last decade.

Years ago I lived in Fort Worth in a typical large house. My winter electric heating bill was $450/mo. My summer AC electric bill was $400/mo. The hum of climate control units is constant.

Depending on where you live in Texas, there can be 1-3 weeks of spring or fall where you need little climate control. The rest of the time it's all on.
I'm in favor of directly funding creators. I hate everything about ads. That said, I don't see any real value Patreon provides over other payment services, especially given their cost.

I definitely don't want politically driven judgement calls made on my behalf as to whether or not that creator should even be allowed to have my money, when that person hasn't actually done anything illegal. It's my money, and no business has any business telling me who I can and can't give money to, or why, and to step into that position is to trivialize competition. It's a bad move on Patreon's part, and it's completely antithetical to the service they should be providing: making it easier to find content you like by creators you like and then fund it so there's more. They don't do the former, and the latter is more and more only for "Patreon approved" creators. What is it they do that makes them invaluable or irreplaceable, because I'm not seeing it.

I've given thousands through Patreon but I've stopped using it for many reasons. I feel pretty justified in that decision just looking at their behavior, both lately and in the past. They've allowed pages to remain up for people who are provably doing nothing but harassing others (and advertising that behavior as the "activism" their Patreon page is funding), but taken others down just because they run a service which on principle refuses to police discussion but which isn't breaking any law because Patreon dislikes what people on that service say/do. Now they've removed someone because they disagree with something that person has done unrelated to their content creation being funded through Patreon (again, not even illegal behavior), and it looks entirely politically motivated.

I don't support Lauren and never have, but this kind of moral grandstanding and virtue signaling from Patreon just isn't acceptable to me, and definitely not from what is a glorified payment processing web interface. Tim Pool as usual has a fairly solid take on it, and I mostly agree with him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_yIp7eQO1c.

This piece looks like a pretty desperate PR move.
So those people advocating for those non-violent but illegal sit-ins during the Civil Rights era would've been marked for expulsion too?
Same problem, and I had the password, but hadn't used it in forever... shame, 6-digit account iirc. But, realistically, haven't touched ICQ since around 2000 or so. I do wish a third party messenger not tied to a major social media chain could gain a hold again. Something that only acted as an exchange/email validation system... Actually, keybase could be a nice central verification tool for a distributed p2p client.
Swamp coolers work in areas that are hot and dry, like New Mexico or Arizona.

They do not work well if it's hot and humid, for two reasons. One is that the water doesn't evaporate as well, so they don't cool well. The other is that the whole point is comfort, and in a humid climate you don't achieve that unless you remove both heat AND humidity, but swamp coolers add humidity.

Texas has some desert areas (western part of the state), but most of the population lives in the part of the state that isn't a desert.

The good news is with modern construction techniques and equipment, you can cut energy usage WAY down. You can cut energy usage a lot with stuff like a radiant barrier in the attic, attic vents, lots of insulation, double pane windows, a "tight" house with little air leakage, proper angles to keep direct sun from heating up the house at the wrong times, and a high-efficiency AC unit that you service and maintain properly. In fact, a lot of those things are actually more beneficial than getting solar panels.
Let me quote that thing for you again. Parse is again, more slowly this time, and see for yourself:

> GW is [...] a valid and important measurement as the amount of energy it stores

There's no way to sugarcoat it. This is like saying km/h is a measurement of distance.
Ripple's ahead of Bitcoin in market cap? And yet it's seemingly flown under the radar, getting much less press?! Fascinating.