skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather unlikely that parent confused the two. Supercaps are nice if you don't mind trading their ~<1/5 energy density (mass, volume) of batteries for their excellent cycle count. Clearly not grid scale since batteries barely are.
Why isn't there a tech company trying to disrupt home construction?

People speak of Uber being worth so much because of the giant market it's going after and transportation is big being the second largest consumer expenditure at 17% of wallet share. However housing is first at nearly 30% of wallet share and the biggest dent you can make in that figure is lowering the upfront cost which is several years of income for the average buyer.
Forget Washington. Facebook’s Problems Abroad Are Far More Disturbing
> So I guess when people complain about being assaulted by poor vetting by Uber, that's just noise and the uproar is overblown and we should accept assault by taxi drivers as the price of living in society.

What kind of a strawman is that? Where did I ever suggest you should just "accept assault by taxi drivers"? Go report them so that we can weed them out. Nobody suggested we do nothing.
No, "markets would work it out" argument doesn't work here. ISPs are monopolized businesses in USA. There are only so many cables you can lay out and only so many players who have capital to invest all that money. When one player succeeds in this game they buy off appropriate amount of politicians to close doors for others. All the ISP "choices" in USA you see is just an illusion where some re-sellers re-brands exact same bandwidth under their fancy names and ads.
Presents the question as to what functionality this would replace over fb then
China Mieville – October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
> Finally, it would help to know about financing. How willing are banks to issue loans at the lower end?
Which kind of reveals that you think this is a conversation about people below the poverty line buying homes. Which it isn't. It's people not affording homes starting at $1 mil.
Wonder if wine-exporting states like California could use their 21st amendment powers to impose retaliatory tariffs on booze from states that are doing this.
Health span over life span
"We don't use your microphone for ads, your phone uses its microphone for our ads" /s
There's no risk. If there was then there would be a statue of Edward Snowden on the National Mall. People are too stupid to care.

Maybe I'm just having a bad day.
What about the intricate cellular dynamics of tissue growth? Wouldn't the "proprietary formula of salt, water, and fibers" fail to replicate a set of some [at least observable] macroscopic effects, thus limiting the overall experience deepness for the practioner?
Because the cost is labor, materials, land acquisition and permits, none of which can really be “disrupted”.
Since zero crime is an impossible goal, the discussion is ultimately a question of how much assault by taxi drivers we should accept.
Very likely. This is why Epic dominates EHRs despite users universally hating the software. The funny thing is Google and Facebook don't even want it, but with all this sudden vigilance against them from both ends of the political spectrum, their potential competitors will need massive legal departments they can't afford before getting market share. Maybe it'll be a one two punch, regulate tightly then they will be real unarguable monopolies you can bust up.
I'm not sure how you'd measure it for this example. But I can tell you "Your Brain at Work" explains how and why thinking (as abstract as that sounds here) is a finite resource.
You don't seem to understand what you're talking about. The reason for those months out is because everyone is overbooked, and the pricing reflects demand vs supply.
But has anyone scientifically validated any of these assumptions? It doesn't seem very hard. Speak, then visit pages with FB ads and take note.

Seems like the internets has taken these serious accusations as some sort of corporate conspiracy but I haven't seen any independent, credible study of how Facebook's apps (confirmed) access to microphone are actually being translated into ads.
Unlikely. Regulators really aren't interested in doing code auditing. They don't have the technical ability to find code problems, and the code by itself (separate from hardware and data) is mostly meaningless. They're more likely to impose an additional functional safety test suite on all autonomous vehicle manufacturers, which would be a good thing.
The cubehelix colour scheme
This is a tricky one. If the abstractions were not leaky, you would not be able to interoperate with JavaScript libraries and you'd have to reimplement everything that powers the modern JS ecosystem. On the other hand, if the abstractions were too leaky, you'd lose all benefits of a nice language like F#.

I think Fable strikes the right balance. There are some leaky aspects of how it compiles to JS, but this means that you can quite well use it with existing JS libraries and for things like parsing JSON (you can just cast JSON object to F# records and it'll work).

So, you need to think about something about the JS part when you want to do JavaScript-y things, but you still get plenty of nice help from the F# compiler when writing the logic that the functional-first style makes so much easier.

In my experience with Fable, this pragmatic approach is what makes it great.
I bet they are all non-union workers?

I'm a contractor, and construction worker.

I guarantee there's no problem getting workers (union) to show up on union projects.

I've known many Canadian Electricians come to San Francisco to work. We call them Travelers. They come because of the pay, and benefits.

Yes--unions do work.
I find the tagline to be rather confusing. Why "for babies"?

Also, while this appears to be _inspired_ by Redux, it's definitely not the same as Redux. In particular, it has separate event emitters for each top-level key in the state instead of a single change event, no middleware, no store enhancers, etc.
I think this classic blog post really covers the general phenomenon at play. Current social media has created a system that fuels rage fights on any topic, be insure that you will see the worst, most untrue parts of whatever the “other side” has to say about you.

It’s worth your time reading.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
It is interesting that they feel the need to officially deny it. The Twitter user co-hosts a podcast where users can call in to tell him whether they think Facebook is listening or not.

One could argue, from a PR perspective, it does not matter whether Facebook is listening or not.

First, some users do not trust them. Maybe Facebook is worried about those users telling other users.

Second, some users believe it is technically feasible to listen.

Finally, there is no legal/regulatory framework in the United States to effectively stop Facebook from listening[FN1], if they wanted to do so. They have clear business incentives to listen because the objective is to gather more personal data about users than their competitors.

NB: Added "in the United States" for clarification.

FN1. Incorrect? What are the theories of liability? What are the sources of law or regulation in the United States? Is injury required? What is the injury? How does one prove the injury?
Dunning-kruger doesn't mean the popular misconception you are thinking of
Fundamental ideas about computability include the model of the Turing machine, which has no notion of types, verification, or even functions whatsoever - there are just too many degrees of freedom.

I agree there are correctness properties we can prove without running a 'program', but how do we map the notion of a 'program' into the real world. Is a single function a program? A single module which includes multiple functions? A single executable? A single system that includes multiple processes communicating over a network? I'm arguing each of these is a 'program' and a Turing machine in the theoretical sense. Each of these programs is hooked up to other 'programs' outside of it. 'Compilation' requires the input to be static, but if we think about how things are in flux (you can change a function, switch out a shared library or upgrade and restart a running process, etc.) when do you verify that a 'program' is 'correct'?

This is what I mean by 'compile time is made-up' - it falls out of the current frame of thinking of one OS process = one program = static set of source files. It is possible to design systems that have no notion of 'compile time'. You could still have verification, but it could be incremental and spread out all through the lifetime of the running system. So the system would have no 'compile phase' - it would be running live and as you update parts of it, the updated parts would integrate with the rest of the system and do verification like things.
Both are recycled.

This is an early search result for concrete recycling:

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/infrastructur...
Can not one decompile the Facebook app, or just somehow instrument it to see when it accesses the microphone feed?
Holding Effective Analytics Meetings with Product Teams
How would this affect farmland?
This is definitely true for many people.

However, I do think it's likely there are some fundamental principles at play that make tool 1 better than tool 2 in specific contexts, and I think it is valuable and interesting to explore that.

Perhaps we are getting into the scientist vs. engineer mindset. I would guess, though, that the best engineers undoubtedly have some scientific curiousity helping them excel in their craft.
I will. You will. Just quit.
The tail will wag the dog with this one.
It's an easy to reproduce optical illusion, using computers instead of real world lighting. Xkcd did a nice illustration.
an exchange student from Poland told me that his fellow students would typically show up for the midterms and finals only

This, friend, is precisely how it ought to be. The University is a guild and administers examinations. If you pass you are admitted to the guild. Just how you pass, that's up to you, but initiative is required. We won't wipe your ass or run you through the book, one chapter per lecture. That's part of the informal training.
One can also instrument the app or Andriod to see when the microphone is accessed and if that data is sent them over the internet.
Teachers are doing fine.

Three months off a year, government level medical benefits, and lucrative pensions after only 25 years (sometimes only 20). Not to mention tenure.

Schools are paying enough to not have any lack of candidates for open positions. Their real problem is to equate “teaching certificates’ and credentials with teaching ability.
the article has some nice graphs, but doesn't really string it's central tenet together very well: that high construction costs is the #1 reason we don't have starter homes being built.

> "That sums it up."

i'm sure one of a bunch of secondary reasons is that construction cost is high (while also sub-linear relative to sales price), so it's more profitable to build larger homes, as the quote alludes to and you pinpoint here. (regulatory distortions, e.g., mortgage interest deduction and zoning laws, are other secondary issues exacerbating the problem, which i'd suggest have more direct culpability than higher construction cost.)

and the other side of that circular argument (or vicious/virtuous cycle, if you prefer) is that construction cost is high because sales prices are high, and general contractors see an opportunity to take more of the profit pie. combine that with construction labor being tight, and you get a seller's market (for contractors). thus leading developers to seek out more profitable, higher-end homes to overcome the higher construction cost.

but because development costs (e.g., construction cost and cost to acquire) are relatively predictable parts of real estate development, i don't buy the argument that it's the driver of the shift to higher-priced homes. my back-of-the-napkin intuition tells me that develoeprs are simply taking bigger risks, probably because money is cheap and plentiful. so they're going after the big fish and ignoring the small fry, especially since tight housing markets mean that higher prices are more likely to get choked down the throats of buyers who have no better alternatives. that seems much more likely as the "#1 reason why it's so hard to find an affordable home", rather than construction costs.
Facebook app listens in the background for targeting ads
The article contextualized the study in a broader base of knowledge. That's part of why they're so valuable to readers: they just don't rewrite the study's abstract; they write about the study from the viewpoint of somebody who knows the topic and can connect this one item to a broader understanding.
The last time I noticed this, it was a conversation between my wife and I, and I (we) poked around in her search history for that reason. Nothing that I could see, and it was within minutes of the conversation.

All that said, I still lean towards confirmation bias.
What makes you think that I can not fathom that some people can not afford it?
That'd be why I started my post with "I'm inclined to dismiss it as confirmation bias..."
Another good "quantum sceptic" review paper is Emerging Insights on Limitations of Quantum Computing Shape Quest for Fast Algorithms by Sara Robinson : https://www.siam.org/pdf/news/100.pdf
I've started acting like it's their fault, because it is. Not going to look up when walking down the street to move out of the way? Alright I'll walk right into you then.
Linear Algebra Done Wrong
i saw somewhere an article mentioning "why don't more people write f#" (mebbe it was on h/n)? I have never had to really worry about concurrency and if you've got a good familiarity with C#, you're halfway there to being a very productive in TypeScript, so I don't see exactly where F# fits in, considering the best parts of C# are its functional bits.
Hypnosis is essentially placebo. I can elaborate on this if you're interested
Never understood it.. I know it sounds dumb.. But fb tied to a person. Instagram not necessarily..

Anyway.. My adult kids will decide when to migrate off FB.. And we will follow
I (wrongly ?) assumed every Android phones did this
It sounds like Alan Moore has had enough of the media and journalists. Well meaning that they may be individually they are collectively like a passive-aggressive narcissist eager to latch on to the slightest thing to bring the man down. It sounds to me that he just wants to get out of this abusive relationship and get on with his life.

The point of the article - that there is something weird about grown adults and their willingness to live in the comicbook rather than real world - is a fair point.

At some stage we crossed over from only seeing 'comic' based movies as kids where adults would only go to escort their children to what we have now. Now grown ups with no children of their own or signs of learning disabilities can go and watch this comic-superhero rewrites on the big screen and talk about how great the acting, story and everything else was, as if it was serious art that they had seen.

There have been too many occasions over the last few years where it has been much too easy to hide away and watch these comic super-hero movies than endure what has been going on in the world. Times like when Iraq was being bombed to pieces, why engage with that when you can spend all week thinking about some make-believe movie?

This is not to dismiss the craft, dedication, skill and effort that goes into these movies or to deny the pleasure that they do bring to people. However, how did it happen that movies for kids became movies for grown ups?
> Any doctor who can be shown to have given addictive opioids to people that aren't terminally ill should be investigated.

About ten years ago I had two teeth removed. The next day I received a phone call from the dentist office. They wanted to know how I felt. I felt fine and I was curious why they would call me about it. They told me that often after a tooth removal, patients were complaining about pain. Again I told her I was fine and that was it.

I can understand that sometimes people complain about pain, but that's the thing : they are supposed to complain about it, I mean they must be actively demanding treatment.

Never ever had I received a phone call from a doctor or her staff. I can't help thinking that they wanted me to complain about pain so that they could prescribe me pain relief medication.

Am I being paranoid?
How could they respond to remove all doubt they're listening?

Edit: https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/3/11854860/facebook-smartpho...

In a statement issued on June 2nd [2016], Facebook said it "does not use your
phone’s microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in News Feed."

That's pretty fucking clear to me.

Original comment:

If they had said something like "We don't use microphones to gather data to drive personalisation on users profiles" there would be comments here on HN complaining about corporate speak and how they didnt just flat out deny using it for advertising.

Apps get busted for doing dodgy things all the time. The Facebook app has been decompiled and network traffic inspected and studied so often that if this actually was true then it would have been proven by now. Instead, all we have is this weird 'survivorship bias' where one time someone said something out loud there was a tangentially related ad on FB.

Today I was looking up bars in Budapest and found one on Google. I started looking at images, at the only one that loaded so far on the slow internet was of food. "Wow, Google knows me so well. All I care about right now is food and the first image it loads is of food" I said out loud to my friend. Eventually the internet caught up and the rest of the images that loaded were of food. It only showed me food photos (in a bar thats more known for its decoration and alcohol). Nothing more than a coincidence.
Well, that happens and is a net neutrality violation. But it's a net neutrality violation because it distinguishes between services, not because of the throttling. There are plenty of perfectly "net neutral" plans that throttle your connection after a certain amount of traffic in a month.
A few weeks ago, I went into a Lenscrafters because I needed some cleaning wipes for my glasses. I have Wifi, Bluetooth, and Location services disabled for Facebook.

Someone messaged me on Facebook Messenger, I responded, put my phone back in my pocket, and finished the transaction, and then left Lenscrafters and walked down to the store that I was actually in the mall to see.

Within the day, I started seeing contextual ads for eyeglasses in my facebook feed, along with ads in other apps for eyeglasses.

I'm only suspecting that there's a service that does some flavor of ultrasonic beacon/listening technology, and facebook (along with DFP and the other large ad markets) are buying that service in troves.
My iPhone 6s suffered similarly on iOS 11.0, but is back to normal iOS 10 level performance with 11.1 Beta 5.

I would try the beta if you're impatient, or just wait for iOS 11.1 to come out, which will probably be released within the next 1 to 3 weeks.

You can sign up for the public beta at beta.apple.com, which involves installing a beta profile on your phone, rebooting, and visiting Settings/General/SoftwareUpdate and starting the install. You can later unenroll your phone from the beta train by deleting the beta profile in Settings/General/Profiles.

Generally, early iOS betas, even public betas, are awful. I wait until at least beta 3 or 4, as showstoppers and most minor bugs will have been fixed. If you still have your 6s next year, I'd skip 12.0, and wait until 12.1.
> "At work, happened to me though earlier this year. Working as a barista, got a burn, talked to my partner in person about it, went to Target, bought the burn cream, and saw an ad on FB for the exact product I purchased. Never searched for product either," wrote Brigitte Bonasoro.

Facebook has data sharing agreements with many, many companies. It's most likely that the cream was bought with a card then linked together with your facebook profile. It's not that hard, especially when you use the same email identifier for all those loyalty cards you have.

EDIT

A video that explains what Facebook does https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...
It's also (imho) more stylistically correct to not mention Washington.

The District of Columbia was originally called 'The Territory of Columbia' as a Federal District, and the 'City of Washington' as a name for the Federal City. So technically there was both a city and district designation, and the city designation still exists as it was redefined in the 1871 Organic Act.

I think the reason people say "Washington, D.C." when referring to it in a list of states is that it sounds less weird than the unabbreviated "District of Columbia".
Ironically enough this came about as a cost-saving measure. I was considering getting the LTE Watch so that I didn’t have to take my phone as many places. No phone in pocket = no temptation.

That felt ludicrous, because it is, so I went with this option instead. FWIW I’m a total tech nerd - I grey-imported the first iPhone to Australia before it was even jailbroken - yet I have the iPhone SE. The form factor is great for me.

So, yeah, not buying the phone in the first place is perhaps the most sensible option. But I already had one, and so does everyone else.

(Also not being able to use Maps, not being able to re-enable Safari in a pinch, etc. - turns out having a smartphone is really convenient sometimes.)
There are plenty of companies bringing technology to building.

It just doesn't speed it up all that much. But there are all sorts of new building techniques (new foundation systems, new wall systems, new roofing systems, modular, etc).

Or just things like nail guns.
Hm... what about the expectation of privacy? I’m guessing in some states and countries this is illegal.
I am, please do.
The average cost of the average teacher has to be approaching $90k a year already. In Arizona, a state not known for education spending, spends close to $15k per teacher on pension contributions. Add in medical and other benefits, 3 months vacation, tenure, payroll taxes and the typical teacher is near there.
You're missing the point. Why should we regress? The system, as it exists, freely allows these fabled old people of yours to access Facebook. But in letting net neutrality evaporate, the rest of us get screwed for no benefit.

Jesus, net neutrality makes my blood boil. Fuck Ajit Pai, that
/r/punchablefaces wanker extraordinaire.
The thing that frustrated me with Lance Armstrong over so many years was the smirk on his face when asked whether he used drugs, and he would reply, "Hey, I passed the test, isn't that good enough for people to stop asking?"

I suspect Facebook is falling in that same boat - technically following rules so they can answer questions the right way. But we're not seeing the smirks on their faces as they give that answer.
I doubt it will make a difference to most people. The staunch pro-privacy stance really only exists on tech-savvy forums like HN. Go on reddit sometimes and observe how people will say "so what if Google has all my info, it's useful and free". If Zuckerberg calling his users dumb fucks for trusting him didn't get them off the platform, a "small" privacy violation like this won't either.
Does this mean I can't buy sake through the mail now if i'm in one of those stupid 36 states?
Most higher education is superfluous.
That's just not what you said. You said a bicycle was a car and therefore should be called a car.
Building a Self Driving Car(comma Neo with Openpilot)
Not sure if this is better or worse.