skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you getting your numbers from? Philadelphia's cost of living is higher than say.... Dallas (And Houston And Austin). Plus DFW metropolitan area is the 4th largest in the US (7.2 million) whereas Philly is 7th (6 million).

Sorry..I couldn't resist using Dallas as an example considering it is American Football season.

Sources:

Cost of living (1)
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Cost of living (2)
http://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/dallas-tx/philadelp...

Population
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statist...
hah just replied with exactly the same thing. I'd say it was a PR move, but advertising that they lock down features doesn't strike me as wise.. but then again, I'm not an ad man.
does messenger on the web and mobile, use the same code base, or are they completely separate?
The evacuation orders were only for low level areas. Half of the state is pretty much out of harms way and could make a run for it at this point, if they choose.
Probably not...

The 60 watt model s has the same battery as the 75 watt model s. It's well known that you can pay tesla $200 to upgrade your 60 to a 75. If the road testers were testing the 60 watt model, they'd be testing it with the software lock on.
Another one : https://youtu.be/6SRYIPlt3z0
You're reading the wrong blog post btw; this is about messenger.com adoption.

Happy to discuss that other blog post somewhere else (discord.gg/reasonml)
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considering that the ONLY thing it changes is the range.. and the ranges are public info... wouldn't that be pretty obvious to the person reviewing it?
> We asked the economist David Albouy to rank these metro areas for us with an index he uses to measure how much people would be willing to sacrifice, in terms of housing costs and commutes, to live in desirable places. On that basis, we cut Charlotte, N.C.

My experience being that neither housing costs nor commute times being horribly bad around CLT - this bums me out. It's actually a great city with lots of nature around it, ATL is 4hr drive, housing costs in nearby areas (Fort Mill, SC e.g.) aren't anywhere near as bad as say Atlanta suburbs. It's not NYC to be sure - culture wise not very hip but I did not think the mid-career experienced people Amazon would be hiring would mind that at all.

Maybe the NYT was too literal when they considered CLT or maybe I don't understand what exactly the sacrifice would be in terms of housing costs and commutes.
There's no if about this. He's obviously gearing up for standing for election.

Looking at the last two candidates, who can blame him? One a has-been with dubious morals and the other an impulsive unrealistic do-gooder.

As for Facebook helping him? Duh. Anyone familiar with this guy and his company knows that he'll do literally anything to get what he wants.

You think trump is bad? Wait until you see President Zuck.
I'm surprised DFW was knocked out at that stage too. From what I hear traffic is horrible in Denver.
I suspect (or at least would hope) this guy has an automatic letter folder and filler/stuffer[1], because doing this manually is... hard, and takes hours.

It would be critically if you were offering this for "any TOS" though. Depending on success, you may even need to lean on an external printing/mailing service to do the work.

In any case, it would be very very hard to offer a generalized service to do this, for free. Once-offs like this are the only viable way to make it free.

And I'm not even getting into the infra/maintenance work on the extension and API itself.

[1]: This happened to be the first result for a video search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJjagamqNCY
Emily Yoffe is not an objective arbiter on this topic. She has been writing against first the existence of, and then the response to, campus sexual assault for five years. That doesn't prove her wrong, but she does have an agenda.

I would point to several red flags regarding this article.

1st: If she sought comment from Rebecca Campbell, it's not mentioned anywhere in the piece. An article in a magazine like The Atlantic should include, at the very least (we reached out to Rebecca Campbell, but she declined to comment). (Edit: This is incorrect. She does mention a conversation with Rebecca Campbell near the bottom of the article.)

2nd: All of the people who firmly agree with her in the article are lawyers, some for those accused of sexual assault. The scientists she interviews are more circumspect. She interviews scientists who have doubts and uses lawyers to "prove" she's right.

3rd: She doesn't interview anyone who specializes in sexual assault research or work. There is no quote from anyone defending this theory or its applicability to their work. There are no interviews with people who have claimed this has happened to them, either (or who can say that's not what happened to them).

4th: There's no comment from any of the schools saying they use this research as a major part of their sexual assault prevention strategy. Once again, there's no "no comment" response either.

5th: There's not a single outside link in the piece (who is this band of self-styled experts schools are relying on? Who knows). If you look at Ta-Nehisi Coates's recent article, which is excerpted from a book, there are links, so it's not an editorial policy at The Atlantic.

This is shoddy journalism, and I encourage anyone reading it to take it with a grain of salt.
Perhaps it's like what Sony did with the PS3 a long time ago: they manufactured it with an eight-core processor but only allowed access to seven of them. The manufacturing yields were really low at launch so they manufactured an eight-core and played the odds that they'd be able to fix the yields later.
How will the growth of AI impact the HR and recruitment sectors?
Well these things have popular support, it's just there's a gulf between 50% and 60%, and yet another between 60% and 70%

Its hard because laws that ensure basic civil rights go through the same process as tax law, but one is vitally more important for a better future for all
And, like it or not, familiarity leverages current experience.
Tesla had preorders for lower capacities and chose to honor the deal and charge for the extra capacity instead of build another smaller battery pack. They could have told people who preordered the smaller one to pucker up. They also probably have over provisioning so they could in theory enable more capacity in an emergency.
> It's well known that you can pay tesla $200 to upgrade your 60 to a 75.

The article says that it costs $5000...
Does it really matter if they create the artificial limitation via software or by drilling a hole in the extra cylinder? I mean, it makes a difference from the perspective of reversibility, but it shouldn't affect your view of the morality of doing the price discrimination.
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The "nuclear pumped X-ray laser" may or may not have been feasible - tests were inconclusive. That type of research is similar to the Google "moonshot" projects, many of which have been busts, eh?

Regardless, other SDI technologies such as Brilliant Pebbles and Brilliant Eyes are direct predecessors to current, successful, military technologies. There have also been many spinoffs benefiting civilians.
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They are only selling the 75kwh version. They're just charging more to let people actually use the the thing they bought.
I would normally hope so, but Tesla cars have definitely had a bit of "fanboy blindness" happening where they don't really think too closely about things.

This also could apply to the battery's overall lifespan - by releasing more capacity with software as the battery degrades, they can make their "60kWh" battery seem to last far longer than any other competing battery. While this is nice for the consumer, it is very disingenuous if they do it and claim "we have better batteries"

Edit: To clarify I'm not claiming they do this, but just bringing up another possible use of this "software switch" that they could use maliciously. We just can't possibly know because there's zero way TO know...
Sorry...DFW over Houston.

Better weather, higher elevation, significantly lower cost of living, and more people.

Sources:
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statist...
Strangely, the replies naysaying don't really back anything up here, and well, the article's on medium, written by a Go newbie, who is frustrated with . I think 'nuff said.

exacube's comment below, as well as Ivan's on medium sum it up well. "Using channels in the simple cases where mutexes are just fine is a known gotcha for newcomers, discoverring Go concurrency model. But it’s well described in the official Wiki (MutexOrChannel), in the Effective Go on official Golang website, there are numeorus talks, it’s even in Go Proverbs: Channels orchestrate; mutexes serialize!"
Campbell’s claim that a sexual-assault victim’s memory consists of completely accurate but disorganized fragments contradicts fundamental scientific knowledge of the nature of memory, McNally told me. “The brain is not a videotape machine,” he said. “All of our memories are re-constructed. All of our memories are incomplete in that sense.” Each time we recall an event, it is being reassembled, and sometimes changed by the very process of recall.

What's shoddy about this? It's an important observation that has been proven time and again. Dismissing the entire piece as shoddy and circumspect is just as much of an agenda.

Are we certain that the malleability of memory has nothing to do with the high rate of innocent people on death row? It's supposedly about 4%. I wonder how many of them can be traced back to witnesses relying on memory rather than hard evidence implicating them.

That's not directly related to the piece, but the topic seems worth talking about.
Love that I saw this online somewhere and I thought "This must be at the top of HN" and boom there it is.
I would argue that the actual primal desire is for sexual gratification, while sexual intercourse is just one way to do so.
The way I see it, masturbation is perhaps the quintessential hack, in the sense of achieving a desired outcome while bypassing the "designed" mechanism.
It is common to compare traits in monozygotic vs dizygotic twins to help control for shared environments.
ANZ bank in Australia has actually started rolling out Contactless ATMs.

Which is great, as even some chip ATMs you put the card in far enough to have a magstripe skimmer work on most cases (presumably so that they work with the magstripe cards also)

Not the case for contactless!

(Of course here in Australia, Chip+Pin is Universal and Contactless is near-universal... I can use Apple Pay almost everywhere even small shops and have been able to for several years.. different story to much of the world)

Now the one thing that annoys me, is that currently shops here despite having separate payment terminals customer facing (largely for pin numbers) still operate sometimes on you handing your card to them - which is totally not necessary - especially in drive throughs. This is getting less common with tap to pay using mobile phones as people are (somewhat amusingly to me, given the value potential) hesistent to hand their phone to someone versus their actual card. I really wish merchants would enforce hard not letting the shop assistants handle cards (at least, prompt to handle it, if someone really wants help I'm not against that, but I don't like the default expectation).

But I also realise this kind of thing is much more common in some places so your mileage and feelings may vary.
When the hq2 news first broke, Denver was the first city to pop into my mind, without really thinking about it. And I've never even been to Denver, just the airport.
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I was thinking if Firebase, Webtask.io or Baqend are easy services to configure and scale after a while for a growing user base? If I know how to directly build infrastructure using AWS or Google Cloud, is it better for me to start building with those ground-up instead?
> then realize you are watching a commercial

Regardless of its impressiveness, at the end of the day it's just an ad trying to sell you stuff
No response, eh? How shocking...
>1st: If she sought comment from Rebecca Campbell, it's not mentioned anywhere in the piece. An article in a magazine like The Atlantic should include, at the very least (we reached out to Rebecca Campbell, but she declined to comment).

This is straight from the article:

>I spoke with Campbell about all this last fall, and in our conversation, she said...

If you're not gonna read the article, you've gotta at least ctrl+f before saying that.
On the one hand I understand your argument. IMO it's a strange time to live in. You own the car, but not the ability to use it to its full capacity. On top of that, from my understanding, the software is owned by Tesla, so you couldn't mod it even if you wanted to (legally).

That's a fundamental problem we've been having for a long time, then - you own the device, they own what you can do with it.

It's the very same issue a lot of us have fought tooth and nail for, for the last decade and a half.

Edit: someone replied - then deleted - that effecitvely this is a free market issue. I agree with that, and I by no means think that government needs to get invloved. Still, as a consumer of such devices/cars, I still feel uneasy (to say the least) about this scheme/business practices. It's "lame" for the reasons I outlined.
Yeah, setting a leg bone isn't normally a challenging or delicate procedure. I feel like either there were complications we don't know about or Dr. Shlain was bullshitting them to justify his bill.
Detroit seems like a fantastic choice. Both Toronto and Chicago are fairly close. All the great Michigan and Ontario schools can be tapped and the city has tremendous potential to grow. Hopefully, they'd be nicer to their local population ala Facebook/East Palo Alto.
No car has an exact range. The change wouldn't really be obvious to anyone who doesn't have experience with the upgraded option.
I agree that this is sloppy reporting. Amazon said they want metropolitan areas that have a million people, not necessarily cities with a million.
Range depends a lot on driving conditions. Someone test-driving a car is unlikely to get anywhere near the published range, as they'll be pushing it a lot harder than typical conditions.
It's great that Messenger is being worked on. I wish they'd also work on improving the UI instead of spending time tacking on half-baked features, but that's probably a discussion for another time and place.

I have noticed fairly recently that searching chat histories is much faster and more reliable than it used to be, so that's a plus.
I'm surprised to see Philadelphia eliminated so quickly, it ticks almost all of the boxes, and has a very large number of engineering schools (UPenn, Penn State, Drexel, Temple, Princeton, Rutgers, etc). It's transit is better than many of the other cities, and it has 2 major development plots in the city with existing full tax abatements.

Not to mention its proximity to NYC and Washington, DC via Amtrak (~1h20m to NYC, ~1h50m to DC)

Transit: http://www.septa.org/site/images/system-map-1400-lrg-03.30.1...

Locations w/ Tax Abatements:
http://navyyard.org

http://www.schuylkillyards.com
Talk about life saving update.
>>IMO locking down the battery capacity via software is pretty lame.

This is a thing in OBD2 ICE cars as well and has been for years, particularly the VW series of cars in the 2000s. The GTI had most of the same parts as the Golf but the GTI had an ECU "tuned" to maximize performance.

Hondas were not that much different, though not as egregious. The rise of Hondata and scavenging JDM parts overseas is a testament to that.

"Software" just feels different. But it really isn't, whether it's firmware (ECU) or a few extra holes/different tolerances in the machinery.
The headline is clearly meant to be tongue-in-cheek, as is the article itself, at least to some degree.
Many hospitals house patients in shared rooms with two (or more) beds separated by a sliding curtain. It's cheaper, and is otherwise basically all downside, as
jbeales says.
I'm sorry, I missed that. I'll leave it in, but I'm wrong about it.
Not using facebook.
It ain't no preorder
See also, from four years ago: http://insideevs.com/entry-level-40kwh-tesla-model-s-cancell...
>>It's capitalism, sure, but it's not one of the better parts.

Alright, then there is no 60 kWh version of the car. Is that a better version of capitalism?
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>>They are only selling the 75kwh version. They're just charging more to let people actually use the the thing they bought.

Definitely not true. The parts are the same, the support contracts are not.
> IMO locking down the battery capacity via software is pretty lame

This is done all the time in other industries - aircraft engines are derated, SSDs are over-provisioned, all to preserve longevity. It's also done with CPUs, perfectly good cores disabled in lower performance models.
>>it just seems perverse in this situation though. vehicles have more of a 'life and death' component than a digital camera

As pointed out multiple times in these comments, Tesla is not the first company to do this. VW, Honda, and many others have been doing this for decades.
>And they won't for a long time

What is a "long time"? That is the question, right?

Given that artificial neural networks were only invented a few decades ago and have since improved by many orders of magnitude, who's to say this won't happen during our lifetimes?
> The company has asked for very specific information on all the state, regional and local incentives communities are willing to offer, and the timelines for how long it would take to approve them. Amazon concludes its proposal by stressing that this a “competitive project.” So let the competition among cities begin!

Sigh. I know these could be good in some situations, but sometimes I wish cities had a most favored company law: every business that employs people gets the same tax benefits as the company that got the best deal. Cities could only agree to things that were good for businesses generally, rather than letting one or two ignore the rules for five years before they suddenly relocate to shop for a better deal.

Relevant Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/05/04/476799218/episo...
Lets hope not, for the sake of people living there. Obviously half joking, but phily is one of the places im considering to move eventually, most likely for retirement.
You still have to plug it in and charge the battery to 75kw.. if they were driving it, and they upgraded it, it wouldn't change anything. So when they started the test on a full battery, it either had the estimated range of a 60kw battery or a 75kw battery.
I've visited Denver many times -- but I had the same immediate thought. Or Kansas City.
To be fair, it's very hard to tell your blog posts are actually separate posts, and not just headers for different sections. Yes, there's the dateline, but otherwise it's indistinguishable from a longer, multi-part blog post.
You don't sign the letter because signatures have a way of magically[0] teleporting themselves onto documents that you've never seen.

0 - Using such fancy Merlin's wands of "Photoshop" or "scanning and then MS Paint copy/paste" or just "photocopy, cut with scissors, paste with tape, photocopy again."
What could be done? Pass a law that you can not store any data about a person without their explicit consent for each type of data. No blanket opt-in, no shady changes to TOS.
Absolutely love, despite the fact that it's mentioned numerous times that Amazon is searching all of NA for its second hq, that both Canada, and Mexico are completely ignored. This is despite the fact that Toronto is currently the continents fastest growing tech market due to a lot of factors that would be of incredible interest to a behemoth like Amazon. Feels a like a bit of a snub of the thumb by NYT on that one...
It's also smack dab in the middle of the East Coast megalopolis, but I get the impression that supply-chain logistics are being handled at a different level.

Regarding the talent pool, as someone who works in the Philly area, I agree it has a lot of well regarded engineering schools nearby, but tech talent doesn't necessarily stay here in the quantities Amazon might find compelling.

Granted, it's a chicken-and-egg issue. The top talent tends to go where the top jobs are, and if the top jobs are in Philly, the top talent might be more inclined to stay.
Which part is a massive reach? The fact that certain companies (which I choose to classify as "tech" companies) are willing to invest 2-3x as much into their technical employees?

A "tech" company is a company for whom technology (ie. developers) is a profit center rather than a cost center.
I had to analyse some javascript malware the other day. It was quite impressive, and reminded me about some of the hateful parts of javascript.
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Why don't you leave it in and add a footnote to your original post to acknowledge you were wrong?
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You can run open source software on an iPhone. You can even compile your own code to run on it.
I didn't call the scientists' work shoddy, nor did I call the article circumspect.
I hear you, that's fair. Cheers!
Totally! (And, the NYT scootches closer to The Onion)
The wikipedia article mentions that there are similar stone tools above and below the ash layer in India so that it may be that the Toba eruption did not kill everyone in India even though it was local to India.

So it could be could be coincidence on the timing of the Toba eruption and the genetic narrowing down of the human race at almost the same time. But something happened 70,000 years ago, if not Toba, what was it? Maybe the onset of the ice age + Toba + other things occurring close together in time.
Why doesn't Amazon choose a city that almost meets their criteria and invest the wealth they generate there back into the city? Then we get more good cities instead of overinvesting into any single city.
It will probably land in Reno.
Just my prediction.
Well, no. But the scientists' work is being highlighted by the journalism, which was. The scientists themselves were called circumspect.
ah yes the file that caused apache to kick react out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14779881
I'm not saying we shouldn't have serious questions about his competence after this breach. Rather, my point is that we should be questioning his competence (and that of the rest of the executive team's) due to this breach, not his credentials.

If he had a CS degree, that wouldn't make him any less responsible for this massive data leak.
This is how every class action lawsuits do their websites too and it blows my mind! It looks so sketchy.
> being scarred by FP assignments back from university is one of the top feedbacks

It's funny, seeing awesome FP assignments in SML and OCaml is one of the few things that makes me really want to go back and do a computer science degree. Alas, it seems like functional languages are disappearing from universities one by one these days, only to be replaced by Python or Java.
I think a lot of cities would be well advised to steer clear, Amazon would have a pretty crazy distortion effect. It might make sense in Denver, but I can't imagine them fitting into any smaller city (~3m).

I expect it to end up in a former rustbelt or midwestern city explicitly eliminated in this article in the 'strong job growth' phase. Dallas, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Philadelphia.
Here is the non-amp link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-09/china-to-...
I don't know much about OpenGL UI, but how does OS specific font rendering work?