skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...can you give any context on how that applies to SpaceX?

I think you're overstating the case for all three, because Tesla is a normal company that may or may not succeed, and SolarCity isn't a Ponzi scheme but simply a business dependent on regulatory decisions (like most every solar company).

But the inclusion of SpaceX there is frankly baffling to me; it's a completely different business model only tied to the others by Musk's involvement. And their "little tech" has involved at least two major achievements no one else has ever come close to. Maybe they lose to Orbital or NASA stops outsourcing or something, but "sometimes companies fail" is a far cry from "Ponzi scheme".
The book Mayflower Madame did a reasonably decent profile of some of the inner workings of a call girl service. One thing that allows call girl services to operate is that they do not charge for sex. They charge by the hour for the woman's company.

While most clients expect sex, not all do. A few of their clients were gay men who hired call girls to accompany them to social events, like large family weddings. In some cases, they hired the same girl every time for the appearance of a steady girlfriend. In at least one case, the family liked the girl so much that the gay man was getting pressured to marry her. They had to stage a tearful breakup.

The point of that story is that, if I were doing a sex based business, I would go reread that book and see what takeaways I could come up with for how to do this. It was such a classy business, some of her clients stopped seeing call girls at other services in other cities when they traveled because it raised their expectations for standards.

While I am sympathetic to the very real problems that the most fringe groups have (gays, trans, people of color, etc) I believe strongly that asking standards to be lowered to accommodate their personal challenges is the wrong approach. Instead of saying that we should be allowed to make money in spite of not being cultured people who get the difference between porn and erotica, it would make more sense to seek to establish some means to effectively educate people who want a business in this space, but aren't sophisticated enough to readily navigate it.

There are reasons sex is a touchy subject with restrictions on it. Free love climates only thrive in situations where you can largely eliminate serious consequences. The Hippie Era was born of the creation of both reliable birth control and antibiotics. It died due to AIDS.

One of the benefits of online sexual things is that no one will get either pregnant or diseased from it. That doesn't automatically eliminate all problems associated with sex.

I think we do need to get over our aversion to paying for sexual services. But, I think we need to be careful in how we approach new standards and solutions. A lot of people don't really think things through and then you learn that X practice leads to very bad things by watching those bad things unfold.

As an alternative or adjunct payment option:

This may not help some of these businesses, because Pay Pal's policies may not be anymore sex-friendly than Patreon's, but you can do a Pay Pal tip jar or Pay Pal payment system. Here are things I have written about making a tip jar:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/search?q=Tip+jar

That likely won't be a ton of money. There is likely room for improvement.
When my team was learning about Kubernetes we worked through Kelsey Hightower's "Kubernetes the Hard Way": https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

Obviously this much more complicated that using a tool such as kubeadm to deploy Kubernetes however it gives you a really good understanding of how a Kubernetes cluster is put together.

One of my colleagues used the experience from working through this with a set of VMs to create a tool called kubicle: https://ciao-project.github.io/kubicle.html

This allows you to build a Kubernetes cluster on your own physical machines by building it on top of a Ciao cluster if you're not able to use public cloud hosted VMs. For learning you can combine this with Ciao's "singlevm"/ccloudvm mode to run a cluster inside a VM (with nested VMs.)

Full disclosure: I currently work on the Ciao team @ Intel :-)
There is no requirement to withhold taxes on independent contractors. The independent contractor is fully liable for all payroll obligations. If you are a direct employee then the employer will pay half of your payroll tax (7.5%). If you are an independent contractor then you pay the full tax of 15%.

However, independent contractors are not without risk because the independent contractor is suppose to operate fully independent without your supervision. If you violate certain guidelines then you have to classify the worker as an employee which entitles them to certain rights.
I don't know why people are down voting you. Your questions are completely valid.
It's not a true replacement if it costs 10-20x as much, though.
Even without privacy concerns etc, I could not use that. The only door lock that I can change is the one to my apartment, but there is another locked door at the street entrance.

I would not want to subject my neighbors to couriers asking to be buzzed in all the time.
Silly feature request: add a flag to enable sci-fi terminal sounds as the text appears. Something like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWBpzveKvGA
Why is the person in the car not looking where they are going? It's people driving cars who are responsible for not running people over. The green light is there to tell traffic it's OK to proceed if appropriate. It doesn't make it OK to just run people over.
probably had more deliveries:

dairy man

mailman

seltzer water man

whomever else delivered stuff man

but, they also probably had someone at home all day.
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The game industry definitely follows inward looking trends. For a long time every game was grey or brown and lacked contrast. More recently they all seem to use the same look/LUTs.

I worked in animated feature films and had similar critiques about the lighting and look. I felt like they lit everything like a well exposed photograph and were afraid of letting things fall off into dark or light (part of that could have been poor simulation of the toe or head of the film curve).

Then, when Pixar did Wall-e (2008) they hired a well known cinematographer, Roger Deakins, as a consultant. DreamWorks also hired him for How to Train Your Dragon (2010). I think that was a big change and both of their studios approached how CG movies look.
> I don't see evidence that Tesla is doing any more than that

If the lack of promised performance reviews is accurate, that's the obvious issue - it implies a labor force decision disguised as a performance decision. This is a pretty common move in e.g. game development, so it certainly isn't unthinkable.

The point about total workforce size is well taken, though; this still seems like it could be as simple as "times are tough so we're cutting more stringently than we might otherwise".
People walk like goobers even if they don't have their phones out.. at least NYC is a lot better than a place like SF.

I swear people here have no concept of what terrible walkers they are.. taking up the whole sidewalk, that _single_ guy walking up the left side when everyone else is coming the opposite way on the right, making all of them get out of the way, the people who just stop walking, turn around, and run into you.
Reminds me of Rum and Datascript :)
What are people using for portfolio tracking? Google Finance is shutting down portfolios so I'm looking for an alternative.
I would have assumed it was reducing complexity filtering out noise and compressing information), not adding it?
Its cooperate culture, which allows for nay-Sayers to show the Nay-Emails and meeting-logs as trophy's of successful predictions.

If you want to kill this, you need a cooperate culture, that anonymizes project critic and punishes claims of authorship to critique.
The math in the original article is more or less solid, no errors were found since publication in 2016.

The EM-drive idea is an attempt at an experiment to prove/disprove that the math has any relation to the reality.

edit: inventing undetectable dark this or dark that sounds way more kookier than this.
Sometimes, indeed yes. Not always. If you want to live in a black and white world go ahead. Best of luck to you.

In any case, as I said, I am torn. That is why I advise that anyone that works for them be dedicated to the cause. Because while a lot of startups and the like profess to "change the world" Elon Musk's enterprises ARE changing the world to the kind of world I want to live in. Sometime visions need sacrifices.

That said, Elon Musk should probably offer non-insubstantial stakes in the company to every worker.
though why self-control might be aversive poses something of an evolutionary conundrum.
I think Minnesota Vs Carter settles this question. The court held that since they were not overnight guests, they were not entitled to Fourth Amendment protection, and that the officer’s observation was not a search under the Amendment.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/97-1147
Post-Quantum Crypto: From NewHope to Kyber [pdf]
No thanks, this is not a product for me. Just leave the package in front of my door. Who is this meant for?
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If you like that you should read up on Islamic gardens[0], which combine a philosophy similar to feng shui with geometry. An Islamic garden is intended to represent a slice of Paradise on Earth, a refuge from the generally dry and dusty locale of much of Dar al-Islam.

For instance, a proper Islamic garden should contain water features and be divided into quadrants to represent the four directions of the world, and further subdivided and structured in repeating and almost fractal designs.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_garden
That's some impressively-veiled libertarian sophistry.
Facebook Is Flooded with Scam Ads and They Arent Doing Anything About Them
> Facebook’s Relay solves the throughput problem by effectively precompiling queries. Their production apps only make a subset of the requests of the full graphql language

I am aware of this, and it seems ridiculous to me. It discards the value of having a graph query language. I'm open to being wrong about this assessment.

Why am I using a new query language if it's going to end up being exactly the same as the old rest query environment?

> That said, thinking of this in terms of client vs server devs isn’t useful

Considering it from a typical labor division standpoint or by technical dependency and requirements isn't useful? I disagree.

> The beauty of graphql is it’s descriptiveness

Which you have said the "performant" way to handle is to discard and turn into a formulaic series of bytes that is indistinguishable form a new term encoding on restful POST bodies.

> you could create a query performance score and fail CI if your main page queries are hitting too high of a cost.

This is exactly how everyone already tools RESTful endpoints. Whole industries are built around scoring endpoints this way.

Inevitably my concern about GraphQL being hard to implement server side is inevitably met with Facebook's outer and inner solution. The outer solution: Just pretend it's graphql, really it's postbodies and we won't let you write custom queries except for column filtering (which these solutions WILL fetch).

The inner solution, it has been intimated to me, is they have custom GQL libraries written in Haskell using Haxl that they don't share because the industry is too busy being afraid of it. Sadly, these don't appear to be open source (and even if they were, a lot of shops would not be equipped to use them).
That kinda logic doesn't work. Just because someone doesn't use Alexa for hours doesn't mean they aren't home. It happens every night.
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That was a scratch your own itch project; just so you understand we (folks behind stockrow) are hobby investors who do not plan to pay for services like bloomberg and ycharts yet require tools and access to data in simplest possible form.

For us problem is that all screeners (and tools) that are available are either slow, dumb, lack flexibility, are really hard to use or expensive (or all of the above combined). So what we did with two friends of mine — we've created our dream product: simple and fast with all data freely available. It is still in it's infancy but we keep adding things that we need and improve it so it suits us.

Sorry to say but we do not plan custom metrics at this point as this is beyond our capabilities as investors at this points (frankly speaking we do not need them, but if voices are loud enough we might consider that options) but we do plan to introduce backtesting at some point.

I know about StockRover but for me UI is really complex; I need a screener where I can get results almost instantly without much thinking or clicking around.
I’ve been with a bunch of smaller companies and have seen layoffs as well as been laid off before/during and after mergers.

Not sure why this should be surprising in the case of Tesla + Solar City.
New screenings for U.S.-bound passengers on global airlines
You might be able to make connections here: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/

I usually connect with specific recruiters through LinkedIn. It's been a while since I dug into this as at one point, I was thinking about financial engineering. I'll see if I can find my old links.
You are indeed talking nonsense.
For some reason, Raymond Lully (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull) comes to mind.
strongly agree with commenter on site:

The first conditional is perfectly readable.
The expanded version is not!

also the overly verbose version massively increases bug surface!
Who are you? There's no information who runs this show but I'm supposed to trust you with my passwords, bookmarks, notes?
We do plan to introduce watchlists and portfolios for user tracking in near future. No ETA's though as this is a hobby weekend project
I did a quick search and it looks like Wikipedia has a reasonable summary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering_in_Nevada

At issue was whether or not homes with solar could sell their electricity at the retail rate or the wholesale rate. There was conflict between Buffet and Musk because Buffet owns the power company NV Energy whereas Musk works in the business of solar. All that said, it looks like AB 405 moves pretty closely back to the old system where solar customers can sell power back at 95% of the retail rate.

Anyway, power is and probably should be tightly regulated. It's worth having an open conversation as to how much money a solar customer should be paid for selling power onto the grid just like we have regulations for all of the other power producers. That doesn't mean they have to be the same regulations, but setting and moving the rate number isn't inherently good or bad.
Yes. I forget what specifically the energy gradient per square meter for radiators is, but it was surprisingly low. A third of a kilowatt comes to mind though not with any strong certainty.

Calculations here suggest 20 kW/m^2:

http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol2/thermalmanag...
Sad about the Kinect, but don't interpret this as Microsoft/Xbox failing. They are actually doing a fantastic job with the Xbox brand. The X (scorpio) is launching soon, and they are releasing a bunch of older titles into their ever-expanding backwards compatibility library. In addition, developers are pushing out graphics/performance update patches for the popular titles on the X, and recently overhauled the Xbox UI - it is extremely snappy now and customizable.
At the moment, the researches don't believe that the light was slower, but that it took that much time for the electromagnetic "flash" to be produced, compared to some specific point in the signal observed by the gravitational waves detectors. The later signal is not a point-like but a long signal which gets stronger as the stars get closer and closer to one another and then it disappears once there are no two stars anymore.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/10/17/why-...

"It's anticipated that these two speeds are exactly equal, and the delay of the light signal comes from the fact that the light-producing reactions in the neutron star take a second or two to reach the surface."

A lot about this event was modeled even before this observation, and there will now be more attempts to make more precise models that better match what was measured. And the best is, these models will be evaluated by the next, planned observations.
I think an open source online commenting system, maybe like Commento, is worth offering as a service. Consider a commenting system that supports login-with-Facebook, Gmail, GitHub etcetera, spam protection, and email notifications (which I think most people leaving comments online want). Then, anyone who self hosts that open-source software, would need to do this, to get the same functionality as the hosted version:

- Sign up for e.g. a Digital Ocean Virtual Private Server

- Sign up for Akismet spam protection

- Sign up for some send-emails service

- Login to Gmail, read Google's tech doc about OpenAuth, and create OpenAuth credentials.

- Login to Facebook, read tech docs, create OpenAuth credentials.

- Github: read docs, create credentials.

- Forever onward, upgrade the server and software, to avoid security breaches.

This easily takes a whole day, because one will likely want to evaluate and compare different VPS and email providers, and also Google's and Facebook's OpenAuth documentation is not so easy to understand (I think). And a VPS + email service, is going to cost about $20 per month. ...

I imagine that for 99.5% of all people, buying a hosted service will be cheaper & save many days of work. Only somewhat large companies will want to self host?

(I'm building something similar to you b.t.w., https://www.effectivediscussions.org/blog-comments )
My 2-3 year old kids love the Kinect on the xbone. Well, the love Fruit Ninja on there and have zero problems with it despite their stature. They've played the game weekly for a couple years now.

I just point the Kinect down a little for them (and play on my knees if I join them) and sometimes move one sofa back a couple feet if more than one person is playing at a time.

The improvements in the xbone over 360 in the Kinect department were huge.

I kept waiting for another game in the vein of Fruit Ninja, but none came.

Also use the Kinect for voice controls on movies. It was the equivalent of the Echo but well ahead of time.
You've probably looked at this, but maybe it would help to avoid thinking "out of the box", and try it more incrementally: create an extremely simple cellphone video of an "easy" scene, like a teapot sitting on linoleum or something. Then try to recreate it -perfectly- using computer graphics. Get it to the level where you can literally compare the pixels for each frame.

Maybe that could bring you closer to understanding what the important factors are that the current graphics pipeline can't do. Why is it hard to get the pixels in the simulated video be the same color as the cell phone ones? Are the materials off? The shadows? If you can't even make the teapot look real, then you've zeroed in on something fundamental that's still going to bite you when you're busy trying to rig antelope skeletons.
The submission should be titled, "How I have been practicing Ben Franklin's 13 virtue system for 3 years"

I went to the article to see why the author had stopped, thinking I'd learn something about such systems (leephillips' comment sheds more on this question).

The author interestingly describes how he followed such a process but doesn't really get into the benefits or drawbacks and it sounds like he is continuing.
> Ah, but nowadays there are sites that won't let you set a new password "if it is too similar to previous passwords".

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

I don't know how people who don't use password managers are able to deal with this kind of crap at all.
There is no content here, only moral panic of precisely the kind the author is claiming to denounce: "Students are being taught by these postmodern professors that there is no truth, that science and empirical facts are tools of oppression by the white patriarchy, and that nearly everyone in America is racist and bigoted, including their own professors, most of whom are liberals or progressives devoted to fighting these social ills."

The college students and professors who are supposedly descending into frenzied irrationality are actually spending their days talking, writing, and thinking about these issues in sophisticated ways. The moral panic about such people is just political maneuvering.
Thanks for kind workd! And yup what you are asking for is next major feature on the list; watchlists and portfolio tracking.
Skeptical. Previously the brain was a machine consisting of drives and pulleys, just like the state of technology of the day. Now the brain is a computer that runs deep learning models. It would be one thing to just say the cortex has columns. It's another to go on and model what those columns are doing with linear algebra. The coincidence that this picture emerges at the same time as current fads in tech is too great to ignore

I am more interested in the work that is identifying different kinds of cells e.g place cells
You're the one who invoked "scripting" out of the blue. There's no reason to artificially limit the conversation to scripting languages, especially since "scripting" is itself poorly defined (what constitutes a scripting language? An interpreter? Where do interpreters end and VMs begin? Python's "interpreter" is a VM; is Python not a scripting language? Python even compiles to Python bytecode--is Python then a compiled language?). If you're going to scope the languages being evaluated, do it by something meaningful, like problem domain--for example, "web applications". I can't speak to D, but Go is certainly a competitor in this space, and speaking from experience, it's much, much more performant than Python and PHP by virtually all metrics. Maybe you mean data science, in which case Python and Go can be compared, but I don't know that anyone is doing real data science work in PHP. Maybe you mean "general purpose language", in which case all of the previously discussed languages can be compared, and in which case Go and D completely outclass Python and PHP.
Wii, and in general Nintendo consoles are not sold at a loss.
Canada bans Soylent meal replacement over nutrition claims
If you're interested in something like this, but something that seems a lot more "applicable", try to do sentence completions according to this book. It's one of the best books I have ever read, and I don't say that lightly. Every person I recommend it to instantly is blown away.

https://www.amazon.com/Six-Pillars-Self-Esteem-Nathaniel-Bra...

He talks about sentence completions in there. I've been doing them and just a few days of doing them I've already made major changes that I haven't been able to make with "just" mind and willpower. It's like it somehow digs up stuff out of your subconscious and lets it go.
The problem isn't the government, it's the "citizens." We're a society of cowards, who are afraid of everything and want the government to do something about it. E.g. crime rates are at historic lows, but more than half of Americans say that they worry a "great deal" about crime: http://news.gallup.com/poll/190475/americans-concern-crime-c....

It's not getting any better, it's probably getting worse. We're not that far away from people being arrested for the tweets they post: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/us/twitter-journalist-strobe-e.... Millennials don't see anything wrong with that sort of thing: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/07/why-it....
The siren call of tort-reform by any other name...
Ok, fixed. Shows you what I know about Qt.
Ah will fix that tonight! Thanks a lot.