skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is misleading. These (quite recent) changes in governmental policy have come about as a result of things that Tesla managed to achieve, firstly, on its own, and secondly, through its effects on the behavior of other automakers. No major automaker was meaningfully working on EVs before Tesla; now they all are.

Indeed, to a rare degree, the shift we're seeing in a major sector of the world economy is the result of the unilateral actions of just one person: Elon Musk.
Lightning network is the biggest pile of vaporware in be whole mess. It’s been “just around the corner” for years now.
It is true that even in a Lisp, unfettered use of macros can result in write-only code, so you do have to be careful about what kind of cognitive burden you are imposing upon people who will have to read your code.

With that said, I tried to learn about metaprogramming in a number of other languages, and Lisp is the first one with a metaprogramming model that I could actually grok, because the meta-language is equivilant to the language itself. Lisp macros are more or less just plain old code that manipulates data structures.

When I'm working on a lisp project, I give myself a budget of a very small number (often just 1 or 2) of magic macros that I can build for it. Other than that, I only use macros in the core library, or well-known third party libraries that other people are likely to be familiar with.
This brings to mind the work of composer Paul Lansky, who has been playing with voices to similar effect (albeit with a different process) since the 1980s.

Here's a brief description of one piece, "Notjustmoreidlechatter:" http://acousmata.com/post/104620348/notjustmoreidlechatter

His work can also be heard on Radiohead's Kid A: http://paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu/radiohead.ml.html
Same as dmarlow. I like the site and idea but in CA the max is set at $15/signature.
But they aren't 'always listening' - except for their wake words (yes, I know it's technically possible they really do, and smuggle the data out along with legit requests, but it seems unlikely). So for example the article's author can rest easy if he listens to Barbra Streisand (on vinyl!), Alexa won't be any wiser. Google and Amazon have somewhat different imperatives, Amazon would like to figure how to sell us more things (happily placing orders via the Echo is off by default) while Google would like to figure out how to sell us to more advertisers... (so far blocking keeps that mostly at bay)
I fully support teaching people to learn to code, IF they want to learn it.
I studied programming since high school in an "intensive programming" classroom -- we had 5-7 hour of programming per week for 4 years.
Out of ~25 students only 2 of us are coding for a living.
We had a guy winning international competitions in high school programming and he's not coding for a living.
Oh, and the only thing you can do with the result is tap it to be bumped to Apple Music, where (if you have a subscription and the song is available), the song starts playing. Hey Apple, when in the history of ever has someone wanted to start playing the song they are already listening to? At least let me copy the damn name. Siri is a dumpster fire.
You can't send $50M of gold halfway around the world for $3.
Not even ultrasound, just correlate what everybody hears at the same time?
MtGox printed money. Lots of exchanges probably do but since they are unregulated and completely opaque you’ll never know for sure.
That's ok. Apple is probably just buying it for there team of devs., right? The app./technology is just a bonus.
How is Hickey wrong about that?
I wonder how much of the cost of producing lithium is for energy that could come from renewables. And the trucks that transport the ore could be EV's. Let's get a whole ecosystem going here.
You can't really create debt with money that you don't have, as the banks do.

You can't make 1000$ appear on my bank account and say " you now have a debt of 1000$ to me". You need to give me physical money. But bank can create this money they don't have.
You know, that's quite insightful. HOAs (Home Owners' Associations) are also responsible for some pretty egregious local/municipal legislative blockage as well.
Car companies are by nature and market, passive. What it takes for them to move is disruptive innovation (battery tech) or government regulations (I'm thinking more China than the US).

I've owned a hybrid, however my current EV (Ford Focus EV amusingly) is just simply better in so many ways for how I actually use my car (commute/kids/groceries). We have a 2nd non-EV minivan for trips/hauling.

Charger availability is a decently available now, and charging standard adoption (i.e., DC Fast) is a game changer.
I'm also surprised by how Shazam had such an unknown song in its database...
I'm all for private certification processes. If they have value customers will prefer and even require them.

I'm totally against attempts at labor monopolies by using government to curtail other peoples right to work, and their free speech. Beyond those problems, there is an inherent bias in government certification programs. They are frequently captured by their participants and their standards change over time to focus on excluding outsiders over improving the value of certification. They often become insular and processes become dated.
FWIW, extra complexity and complicated transmissions can be largely avoid with the "range extended EV" approach, where the gas engine is a generator producing electricity and doesn't drive the wheels directly.

That said, the best vehicle in that style that I can think of, the Chevy Volt, does actually allow the engine to drive the wheels and has two planetary gear/clutch systems. On the plus side, the gas engine is expected to need much less maintenance than a regular engine that's used in a much wider power range.
Here's a novel idea: regulations should be created by the congress, not by the President.
Of course they are.

OF COURSE THEY ARE.

Why is it that every...single...time a rule that purports to give "more information to the customer" is deemed "an unreasonable regulatory burden?" The ENTIRE FUCKING POINT of capitalism is that market participants are supposed to trade based on equality of information.

But no, not now. Customers aren't entitled to know what something will cost before they buy it or in a way that enables comparisons. That's just unreasonable. How can we possibly expect a business whose entire model is the juggling of pricing and availability information for maximum profit to EVER be able to figure out how to display the costs for ancillary services at point of purchase?

Damn.
Some of these points are true of currying in general -- IMO most of the time you can't tell what's a function call and what's a curry (Haskell people would say "its the same thing!"). However, separating these concepts leads to a lot of super interesting results. I wrote about this in this blog post: http://tolmasky.com/2016/03/24/generalizing-jsx/ . I argue that the JSX syntax makes for an awesome syntax for currying.

Edit: Some follow up articles:

1. Using this scheme, you can actually have default parameters in currying: https://runkit.com/tolmasky/default-parameters-with-generic-...

2. An example of how to apply this to Babel syntax trees: http://runkit.com/tolmasky/generic-jsx-for-babel-javascript-...
Their user base has not been divided by 5. Their market share is way down, because they are not growing with the pool (not surprising given their lack of success in Mobile), which is a different metric.

They are paid for the number of eyeballs they send to their search partners, and it's still a few hundred millions users. Also, it seems that they were underpaid compared to other companies like Opera and Apple were getting per user.
> An historical analysis of internal documents

Let's lose "an historical". Nobody talks like this.
I Finally Understand Static vs. Dynamic Typing and You Will Too
Right now, no. It's in a bubble. But in the long-term there are people in Wall Street who look at it that way -- which is part of the reason why Bitcoin Futures are coming.

Being able to short Bitcoin should keep the value more in line with reality -- even if people eager to short might lose money as bubbles sometimes go for longer than they reasonably should.
? man what are you talking about? Its normal battery degradation and the car doesnt need any special thermal management or whatever you call it.
Besides, if anyone believes in the leaps in battery capacity and charging speeds, you should throw away your old battery every 2 years because it's already old, too heavy and not environmentally friendly enough.
Two viewpoints:

1. I wonder if this could be used to target things like React Native. Is there an incentive for Apple to push devs to use Swift/ObjC/Xcode to keep them on platform? Is RN’s platform agnosticism a threat?

2. Native apps are horrible and mask deficiencies in both web apps and device makers. The web should be good enough. Apps also create a walled garden which is antithetical to an open internet.
This data could be analyzed in terms of Gini coefficients. It would be much easier then to make arbitrary comparisons between companies.
The best criticism I've seen on Bitcoin is, by far, Paul Krugman's "Bitcoin is Evil" [1]. In essence: Bitcoin doesn't have "monetary policy" to regulate it's supply. That's why it is prone to speculative bubbles and very dangerous as money.

[1] https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/bitcoin-is-evil...
Shazam is just another platform to service like iTunes or Spotify.
better error messages (yes!)

What are some good examples of this?
Mozilla has $500mm in assets, most of which is fairly liquid, and less than $70mm in debt.

Furthermore, they increased net assets by about a third in one year, and they cleared $160mm in profit from their $520mm in revenue.

They are in a very good financial position.
Well, it's still not difficult. You just need a good bucket size for the FFT, some filtering, and a hash function. Voila.
An ironic feedback loop would be if murders targeted only the 1%, then essentially they'd lower the murder rate by thinning out inequality.
Seems to be pretty damn reliable though, at least judging by the comments I could find online from what looked like genuine owners. Not a lot of people can afford nowadays to drive expensive stuff, i.e. cars that break when you least expect it and that have expensive repair bills.
It's main purpose is to create a labor monopoly, just as doctors licenses are.

And there is zero legal assurance that a Professional Engineer or a Medical Doctor can do their jobs competently.

Certifications are fine, if done by private organizations. Those certifications have to prove their value in the marketplace, to customers, or they'll become worthless.

When the boot heel of government is used to give certifications the force of law is when they run off the rails, and allow small groups to impose arbitrary rules to exclude valuable practitioners.
They might just need one data point, if the playlist curator tells them the exact moment at which the song started.
> if you invoke undefined behavior in your program (like the Heartbleed bug for example) it doesn't matter that in the end the compiler is correct.

This is not true. It means that you can safely omit the compiler writer from the list of people to burn at the stake.
Which currencies do you see as addressing these problems in a technically proven way?
"But you're not undercompensating them if you can find the people."

That statement ignores so much of reality today that it isn't really applicable. It ignores the fact that people must work in order to survive, and as such, the employer holds most of the power in that relationship.
Last time I looked into Clojure, I found myself frustrated that I was expected to install leiningen, Java, etc. and get it all working together before I could write any code.

I like to know how a toolchain works, how libraries are linked, etc. I don't want to rely on "magic" that can be incompatible with alternative "magic".

Clojure didn't provide a good low-level interface, and I ended up giving up on it for that reason alone.

Now that there are some minimal command-line tools, I think I'll give it another look.
Yeah a friend of mine is a music producer and he signed a deal to have one of his songs at a designer clothes store when he had maybe 500 sales total. He has no idea how they found him but they paid him a few grand.
Great song for a futuristic dystopian movie where AI's have taken over.
A good chunk of that difference is Korea vs Japan. Korean brands tend to be a lot cheaper than Japanese ones for the same level of trim and kind of car.

And Nissan is one of the more expensive Japanese brands.
Meh? I mean I've owned many cars over the last 15 years or so and it's never been the ice/transmission/drivetrain that's failed.

Meanwhile every car I've ever had has suffered from window motor failure.
Its like "learn by doing", except that applies more to actual skills. I guess fake it till you make it does too, but I hear it in reference to more abstract things like dedication and personal improvement.
> A person traveling way too fast is clearly does care about acting dangerously, why the hell would you want to aggravate that person?

Back before speed cameras, it was useful to aggravate such folk, just a little, so they would speed up. If you gamed it right, you could set up a little convoy, and sit in the middle. At night, you would watch for brake lights ahead, and flashing lights behind.
Of course they would, it's the association's job to prevent their work to exclude others from their business being exposed.
On google chrome, you can prepend "cache:" at the url and then click at "text only version" before it gets blocked.
I think GP meant that in the sense of "AlphaZero can only play games that have perfect information". It's a restriction of the algorithm, not a statement about how AlphaZero approaches the games it plays.

This is why AlphaGo leveled up into AlphaZero playing Chess, and didn't learn to play Starcraft (yet).
Search for [hamburg strobe], read the STROBE paper, and follow the links. :)
> ..though it does tend to lead to an overall weakening of the population though as only the biggest and strongest animals, that should be breeding, get removed.

This is true only if it is presumed that the hunter is absolutely proficient.

I mention this because it would be reasonable to assume, based on "survival of the fittest" ideology, that an in-proficient selection-by-omission process would play a role in breeding more evasive and/or fiercer competitors.
It has me wondering if people are actually buying these from them. If so, undercutting their pricing would be trivial - and maybe an easy idea for a side business.
Yes, the US will be a rounding error for the next decade. China will have tens of millions of EV's within a decade.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/business/ford-china-elect...

They will soon have millions of charging stations:

"China's government is seeking to combat range anxiety for electric vehicle buyers with a pledge to build a charging station for every vehicle on the road by 2020. China plans a total of 4.8m charging outlets and stations by 2020"

https://www.ft.com/content/f9aece28-d65f-11e7-8c9a-d9c0a5c8d...
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Yeah, HN is probably not the best place to sell a service like this. But I could see this being used by certain clientele. Maybe a better offer would be, get an engineer to interview your candidate.
Agreed. Both rentech and two Sigma were at NIPS this week. Probably a good indicator of where some of their interests are.
I was explicitly referring to the topic of mining and discovering new reserves. But thanks for resources.
Seems like the miners have a strong incentive to keep the "supply" of transactions artificially limited too, since it results in sky-high transaction fees for them.
> So long as you have leiningen installed.

I’m not sure I understood your comment. Parent’s code block has two lines: the first one installs Leiningen; the second one starts its repl.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf]
He's right. Japan is worried about its depopulation problem. I've read articles about all different ways that Japan is loosening its immigration process.
Is that a use case Shazam supports? I would think if the song was good you would add it to your library.
There is absolutely no way you can be sure the price of bitcoin isn’t rigged. The exchanges are all sketchy as heck and are no doubt doing backroom trades to help boost the price.
Just didn't think someone put it in the playlist?
I think that "information cascades" is the concept you're looking for.

J.K. Rowling made hundreds of millions because hundreds of millions of people bought her book. Why did hundreds of millions of people buy her book while most authors struggle to get tens of thousands? Mostly because people recommended it to their friends, and their kids all passed it around school, and news stories got written about it, and major motion pictures came out, and it became a cultural phenomena where Harry Potter references snuck into every corner of life.

Look at any other billionaire and you see a similar story. Minecraft got huge because everyone was like "Yeah, I totally wasted a week playing Minecraft. No regrets" and so everyone checked it out. Facebook got huge because everyone was like "Are you on Facebook? Here, I'll friend you." Ditto LinkedIn and Whatsapp and every other social network. Uber got there because at parties people would casually say "Oh, I'll just Uber home." Google got big because people would be like "Just fucking Google it" instead of telling you the information.

Basically, when you can get your customers to do your marketing for you, you rapidly expand into the whole set of potential customers, which numbers in the billions. Provide just $1 of value to them and you're a billionaire. Most business owners and employees, by contrast, are forced to explain why it's worth giving money to them, which is a process that doesn't scale. Then you're forced to only deal with customers who will pay you more than it costs to convince them to fork over that money.

The way you can break this cycle and eliminate this inequality is to convince people to make their own damn consumption decisions and ignore what their friends say. Good luck on that.
>unfortunately I'm blanking on his name

John Nash (supposedly) had this mindset? Is that who you're thinking about?
"Today, Congress passed a bill in both houses requiring airlines to disclose baggage fees. Riders to the bill also funded $100M for pork-related research in Alabama."
Visualizing Newton's method using WebGL
This is news??? Wow
Unkown, but very probably within a certain range whose boundaries are known.
Dissecting the SSL handshake
For good reasons.

You don't want someone to wire your house improperly, because non-trivial things like kinked cables can end up starting fires later on.

To say that you are an electrical engineer does not carry weight.

To say you can do electrical work because you are an electrical engineer implies that you have credentials. This is because "can" changes the context of the statement. "can" implies authority.

There is such thing as an unlicensed electrical engineer. That is because "electrical engineer" alone does not imply authority.

There are positions that do imply authority, like MD, EMT, Police Officer, and electrical engineer is not one of them.
I can’t imagine an AI startup without a GPU support.
I think currying is hot...
The goal is that there will be fewer BTC transactions once LN becomes widespread, especially if people or institutions open long-lived channels between each other (active for months, years, or even indefinitely). Then you'd only have to hit the BTC blockchain a few times a year, at most, and that's a level of transactions which the BTC blockchain can easily handle, even if the whole world population uses it for everyday trading.

However I also expect that fees will go down once this craze is over (in a few days hopefully). They have tripled in the past three days (see https://fork.lol/tx/fee).
It's probably an easy way for them to get great music for cheap. There are underground artists making far better music than your generic EDM out there.
Whales can have a huge effect on your company.

One effect is derailing your product development. If you have one client bringing in millions of dollars a year, their feature requests, tweaks and bug fixes end up crowding out others. Features also end up getting shipped before they're ready, resulting in a shoddy product. Pressure to keep the client happy also results in promising unrealistic things, or letting the customer dictate the design. And they can hijack your support staff and developers to fix minor issues.

Another, less well known effect, is pressure on staff. This ranges from unrealistic workloads and deadlines causing stress at work, to outright harassment being ignored. If a client doesn't like someone who works for your company, your executives may decide that keeping the contract is worth more than the employee.

Whales can also get you through funding crunches and be the difference between staying afloat or collapsing.

They can also help you test your product in environments you could never afford to simulate on your own, weeding out strange bugs and one offs, and tweaking for performance. They can also be a great source of insight into how to improve the product for other users.
Words are protected by the law all the time, especially as it relates to copyright/trademarks, commerce, certain professions and consumer protection.
Those who want an appreciable asset own it, those who want transactions use it.
> Because lein is bloated, breaks constantly

Mind expanding on that? My 4-years experience using Leiningen has been great so far.
Painful to read. Paul Krugman is a laughing stock in the crypto-world, which he has been wrong about so confidently, so many times.

As an aside, the US had active monetary policy for about a century, and it has enjoyed plenty of bubbles and crashes. Some of those were worsened by monetary policy (e.g. easy money in the early 1920's swapped to deflationary monetary policy in 1929 as soon as the easy money bubble popped, low interest rates fueling real estate speculation in the early 2000's, etc.)
Depends on the deal, and how many shares of Shazam has been issued. If its a straight up 100 mill deal, and there are 1 mill shares, and you have 1 stock, well you get 100 usd. But the deal might be structured way more advanced, or Shazam might have a lot of debt etc.
I don't think you understand how options/futures can be used to create artificial 'sell pressure' and in conjunction with the DTCC and CapitalIQ. You should research this.
I'm not sure that idiomatic is a very rigorus idea when it comes to progamming languages. Anyone have good reads in that vein?
There's likely a mix of legitimate ones and spammy ones.

For example, the app needs of small family owned restaurants likely don't vary much. A templated app that does coupons, menus, take out orders, maps, etc, likely works for all. Why build a custom app from scratch?
well, getting rid of bugs by rewriting is impossible. There'll definitely be more.
I switched from Shazam to SoundHound a long time ago like many others pointed out, SoundHound is just a better product. But geeze, money talks. With Apple's backing, how does SoundHound compete? Perhaps Google/Amazon should snatch up SoundHound to keep that competition going.
Laws. Those are called laws. Regulations are lawmaking delegated to the executive branch.
that example was more hypothetical of possible uses of satellite images. idk whether or not its too coarse to be a profitable signal

https://www.cnbc.com/id/38722872