skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And it was Autopilot that set off a race to develop advanced driver-assistance systems that can guide cars under certain circumstances and actively prevent collisions — though Tesla’s technology appears to have been surpassed by the self-driving systems from other companies, including G.M. and the Google spinoff Waymo.

Is this in any way true? My understanding was that Waymo, or even the DARPA grand challenges, were what kicked self driving cars off, and the driver assist features were picking up steam before Tesla.
I watched the video and I’ll keep an open mind.

I really hope you will hold off deprecation warnings until 17.0.0 instead of 16.x, even if that means you need one more major version than you had planned. Being on a team whose policy is to not shrinkwrap, so that we automatically get patches (not my policy, personally), at some point we’re going to start seeing all these deprecation warnings without having explicitly version-bumped React.

My overall concern is that we’re paying for the async renderer by moving to a higher level of abstraction for all class components. With Fiber, React is becoming a vastly different library. From the outside, having seen Fiber slated for release in 16.0.0 and, being pushed back to an unknown 16.x release, and then being pushed back to 17.0.0, it seems like you had not anticipated the extent to which the core React API had to be changed to enable the async renderer. It seemed simple enough in the beginning, but now we’re looking forward to losing what React once was so we can use a DOM renderer that will be optional anyway.
How about "guilty beyond all reasonable doubt" as a burden of proof for our systems of judgment. As much as that sucks sometimes.

If the government can't prove its case, it probably shouldn't be getting to a jury either.
It's not a bug, it's a feature Congress refused to remove.
Momentum. Tesla got an early start. A decade means nothing. Ford was founded 115 years ago.

Here's the problem. Tesla's cars have two key things that make them competitively interesting: Autopilot and their electric drivetrain. Take those away and their cars are a special kind of "offensively uninteresting". The interiors are horrible, deserving of a car half the price. The build quality is inconsistent. The tech is pretty cool. Parts are unavailable.

So, start with autonomous. Which is easier: for another company to achieve autonomous on-par with Tesla, or for Tesla to fix the design and engineering problems they've been having? 3 years ago, people might have said the latter. But today, we can name 3 companies who arguably have on-par or better driverless tech than Tesla (Google, GM, Uber). There are cars you can literally go buy today that get 90% to what the Model S does (2018 Audi A8, 2018 Accord, 2018 Cadillac CT-6). In some cases, they do better. Where's the competitive advantage?

Electric drivetrain. Tesla is still leading here. For how long? BMW will have an electric mini out in 2019, an electric X3 out in 2020, and 25 all-electric models by 2025. Audi will have an all electric Q6 by 2019, you can put a pre-order in today, 310 mile range. Toyota is planning 10 EVs by early 2020s. Ford is releasing an EV performance car in 2020 (huge missed opportunity to resurrect the Thunderbird brand, as they went with "Mach-1"). Volvo just spun off Polestar into a performance EV brand. The list goes on.

Tesla's massive investment in energy development will be the single thing that might save them; if they fail at making cars in 6 years, at least they can sell batteries to the companies who, well, know how to make cars. But, oh guess what, VW is sourcing their batteries from LG Chem and Samsung. Toyota is making them in-house, and they've said publicly they've achieved a "research breakthrough" on solid state batteries they aren't sharing [1].

I want Tesla to succeed. But, frankly, they have about a year to get it together. That means fix their QA issues, up the interior quality, get autopilot working, drop prices across the line. Possible? Honestly, it doesn't seem likely. But I'm holding out hope.

[1] http://www.autonews.com/article/20171026/COPY01/310269958/to...
A few examples?
Technology is not the only space where Tesla is innovating. Tesla has also very innovative financing and they are really starting to stretching it.

Tesla made financial bet that they deliver high volumes of Model 3. It does not matter if Model 3 is good car and customers love it. Tesla must ramp up their production very fast or Tesla runs out of cheap money.

Tesla has no problems with customers. They love the car with passion. It's the investors who will choke Musk to death later this year if he has to ask more money to continue with struggling production. He will get the money but it will have high interest rate and Tesla stock will come down 30-50 percent. Currently Tesla is producing 20% of it's target. Their production curve is not growing steeply enough. In fact it's slowing down.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/

ps. High flying arguments that don't look into details of each case, like "Never bet against Musk" or others have solved technical difficulties too, are not really useful for investor.
Depends on how you pronounce beginning of "usual". If "y" sound then use "a" but if "oo" then "an". Just like words like "history" can be pronounced differently and thus can be "a" or "an" depending on location/accent of writer.
I'm invested a bit in Credits which claims it'll do a million transactions per sec but it's kind of bs - they can do nearly half a million in very limited conditions but in the real world the numbers will probably be far less and I'm a bit skeptical of such claims. I'm not sure that fast is necessary though - credit cards do a few thousand transactions a sec globally so if you can handle that you could potentially at last use crypto to pay for your coffee etc https://medium.com/@viruseslovers45/credits-the-best-blockch...
All social media?

"Yes, I 'liked' a video starring 'Isis' on Pornhub 10 years ago but I swear it's not what you think!"

Imagine filling in those usernames, hilarious
Hell...then even bought a Toyota factory to build their cars!
Bankruptcy is a death sentence if you rely on suppliers that won't sell you the supplies you need because they fear they won't get paid for them. This is what happened to Toys R Us.

You're right that it's not a death sentence because the brand/trademarks have value and are part of the bankruptcy process. But many companies that still exist in name aren't "really" the original companies. Such as Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, Blockbuster Video, or Atari, to name a few.
When you purchase one of these do you get to see it first? The normal car buying process is awful but if the door doesn't shut right or there is wind noise, then I don't buy it.
Props for them doing the right thing and hopefully nothing bad comes out of it - looks like they’ve built a useful product. One thing that’s odd to me on many levels though is that it was their Chief Digital Officer signing the announcement and not their head of security. Don’t they have one? Wasn’t this severe enough? I know it’s just perception but still!
hahaha average low in Lake Tahoe is -5 degrees C (23 F). When you think that's cold, then you truly do know nothing about winter.
>The payment happens and confirms instantly.

Let's say that merchant accepts payment via Visa on Day 1. On Day 2, Visa goes out of business. The merchant will never receive the payment. So no the payment is not instantaneous. The merchant receives an IOU from Visa that settles in a few days. IOUs != settled payments.
if you write recursive macros and/or use computed offsets from some template structure someplace...it ends up looking pretty much like C
No doubt that's a possible scenario and yet does not mean it will not recover.
> If this were being seriously abused a lot of the time, or there were automated systems which booked trips like this for you, I could see the airlines doing something about it, but if it's just a few people going out of their way to get a slightly better price, it's probably just considered to be part of the whole ticket pricing game.

This is pretty much how it's gone so far - sites that have offered anything even resembling an automated service to do bookings like this (and similar other tricks) have been aggressively fought by the airlines legally.[0]

There are also a very small handful of stories per year about some frequent flier getting caught abusing these sorts of fares habitually and getting a trip canceled and/or banned from the airline.

As far as I know my airline flags all sorts of trips like this - but doesn't do anything about it unless it becomes obviously gamed. For example I fly between two cities frequently for week long+ periods, but may need to go home for a weekend during a 2 week stay now and then. I know my airline flags that, but haven't had a problem since it only happens a few times a year out of dozens of total trips.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/31/investing/aktarer-zaman-how-...
You should consider using the window.history APIs to make it so that navigating your blog doesn't break the back button.
well, to transfer money between banks requires the use of the ACH system (or a wire transfer), but looking at how ACH works https://www.nacha.org/ach-network it essentially requires that your money get processed by what is essentially the federal reserve's mainframe computers. Given that these machines only process transactions during government business hours, such a delay is reasonable.
There are minimum requirements in the United States for health insurance plans. Pretty much every insurance provider already offers a barebones plan, and if Walmart/Humana could beat that on price, that would be a good thing.
So the state tax code literally says, "For the privilege of doing business in the state". [0] Their words, not mine. Whatever way you describe or justify it, the state defines it in this way specifically. Also, sole proprietorships can only be for-profit ventures in California. So if you wanted to start a non-profit, you're paying the AMT.

[0]: http://codes.findlaw.com/ca/revenue-and-taxation-code/rtc-se...
A) 1% signal attenuation is not going to kill this and that's plenty to work with.

B) Depends on how many satellites are in the constellation. Ideally you want a lot of them as there is vastly more atmosphere the lower your angle to the horizon.

C) detectable at say 50 feet sure, but a signal you can detect from 10+ miles in a van doing 60mph without a lot of false positives is another story.
Theranos 2.0
if you write recursive macros and/or use computed offsets from some template structure someplace...it ends up looking pretty much like C. except you have to assign your own registers.
It's not a practice we have read anywhere, it's something we experimented with and worked
Obviously the value proposition is a little bit different but it seems close enough to rhyme. T. Rowe Price and Citigroup aren't saying "the best part about these funds is that you have no idea whats in them!" but in practice these funds behave similarly to the crypto flash drives.

I don't think that the etfs disclose which assets are held on any given day. From the consumers perspective they are buying some mix of currencies, although they don't know exactly which ones. It seems pretty random to me, just not different from the other note holders.
All I see is an orange screen and “Crowdbotics”…
Eventually grandma will cease to exist.
At the end of the day there are tons of practical applications for blockchain. There is a lot that is staked on bitcoin and other cryptos and that will probably decline until the blockchain's true value is hit. That being said institutional investors will still want to play this market. JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley are still planning to build clearing houses for crypto this summer.

https://altcoinreport.co/morgan-stanley-clear-bitcoin-future...
What's more annoying is when you connect a wacom tablet to your laptop and your laptop says it's charging. Only when your laptop is dead do you realize it was low battery. I had this happen during a demo and it was terrible.
Yup. I understand the scale and micro services thing, but they could at least keep the mobile clients open (even if with a lagged release for feature launches, or just periodic tarballs).
"I'm sorry, I don't understand 'sweater'."
Most of them? This is getting more bizarre. Surely code tests would weed out anyone lacking decent technical skills? At one extreme we're told that a senior works on open source projects and knows the languages he/she uses inside out. At the other end we hear about seniors who can't even code? Is this really so common?
yeah, i think that's probably true.

a police officer once told me that there are thousands of laws in the vehicle code, and, if the police want to pull someone over legally, all they have to do is follow their car for a few blocks or so. sooner or later, that driver will violate a law.

that's a standard technique available to all types of law enforcement officers in the US.

and, yes, there's a lot of discretion in the hands of the police, just as for prosecutors. this is either a strength or a weakness, depending ...
Among others, Toyota Tacoma gen 2 frames for certain years were improperly factory coated and would rust straight through.
OB1 Raises $5M – To Grow World’s Largest Decentralized Marketplace
Here are some comms milestones. How does this correlate with any level of causation to major millitary upsets.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/6-milestones-history-telecomm...
I ran a nonprofit for veterans for several years which moved about a thousand dollars a year. When I moved to California, I wanted to keep running this nonprofit, because it was actually really helping some folks out in ways that other charities don't have the granularity to know about. So here is one example of "actual data, actual evidence, not handwavy whining about regulations" -- classy! -- of a business that "couldn't even get a parking space" which the California AMT killed.
I'm a 'copy' guy too, and those are the first ones I thought of when thinking about 'great landing pages.'
Many of the young people with channels on youtube are focusing on stuff they are already having fun with and in the process of creating videos and promotion are acquiring and learning valuable skills. I expect that most teens reading articles in Teen Boss are going to see through the bullshit pretty quickly. The flip-side is the pimping parent who is trying to brand their kids into a youtube star, those people need to be stopped. Luckily most of the young people active on youtube have parents that are not pressuring them...
Could you provide some concrete examples? I see you work at a marketing agency in SF. That probably means you could have some good ones to share. Like a/b comparisons of pages that saw such improvements.

Not sarcasm or passive agreesivesness. I'm genuinely interested in the data from someone in an agency.
Maybe having it be open source would represent a security risk? https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0/blob/master/data...
> Under what conditions would any of these events actually occur?

Someone with friends in high places decides he doesn't like your ugly face.

So long as that doesn't happen, the government will ignore the omissions you made in the visa application. But now they have a pretext for deporting you as soon as they feel like it.
Sounds more like a gimmick to create hype, in Magic Leap's case

I can understand the case with videogames, for pre-release dev kits, but maybe it's too much as well.
Nullable types arithmetic and null-coalescing operator precedence in C#
That page was actually shit. The font is really small and the text to background contrast is really bad on mobile.
I mentionned the print statement, which is honestly what was keeping most people from migrating to 3.
Facebook exec in 2016 internal memo defends 'ugly' growth tactics
In all seriousness, what is the worst that could happen to these guys?
It's pretty easy to cover your tracks if you're not an idiot and know what you're doing, and I assume a lot of the people that make big insider trading plays are neither.

So hamstringing the SEC with an arbitrarily high standard just facilitates continued insider trading.

Agreed on the full burden of proof for penalties. But having your gains clawed back is a different fish entirely.
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Our goals are much bigger than that, though. We want to be an end-to-end marketplace where teachers and school administrators can:
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How about we stop pretending that information asymmetry isn't a core aspect of the stock market?

Insider trading laws seem tailor made to make sure wall street, and only wall street, is playing with a stacked deck.

This has been looked at before, but the summary from this paper (by the Atlanta Fed) is a good (and as far as I know, unbiased) place to start: https://www.frbatlanta.org/-/media/documents/filelegacydocs/...
More Housing for Better Public Transit
Lemming...
I love how nobody answers this. It means dev and sales are the critical ones.

UX/CX is often a huge one. People think this is just hiring a designer. Nope. The person in charge has to understand the customer experience end to end and be able to modify it very quickly based on new information.

This is usually the CEO, who has access to all the information from marketing, sales, engineering, analytics, investors, etc. Especially for the startup level it's often the CEO who understands the problem and the users.

There's also a lot of design decisions involved in UX. Bounce rate is almost entirely dependent on UX.

It can't be outsourced either. You can have, say, a TV UX expert advise you in TV use cases or a e-commerce UX expert advise on ecommerce UX. The UX consultants have been the most expensive so far.

But past a point, only the people who deeply understand this company's product and the user problems can properly do UX and CX.
I don't think that's correct.
Aha, good point. I wasn't convinced of her reputation from either this or quora, but, yes. I accept this as fact then.
Most YouTubers never get to a point where they can make enough to make it their main job.

Which means most of them get to experience failure early on in their life. I think this is a good thing for them in the long term.

As someone who just followed through all the usual treadmill of doing well in school, going to top college, etc. just to find out later that there was this entirely different and more exciting world of entrepreneurship where I can decide my own destiny, I think it's good to experience failure as early as possible in your life.

A lot of people who are not cut out for unstable life will realize it's not for them and just go on to live a stable life without regret, and many others who can recover from the failure, will have learned some lesson which can be helpful in their future adventure.

Also "Garbage" is a subjective term, I personally see many mainstream journalism driven by ad revenue much more garbage than many Youtubers who create unique content that you won't get anywhere else. A lot of the successful ones actually start out doing Youtube because they're passionate about the topic they make videos on. It's the failures who jump in just for the money.
One has to remember that cars that were designed to be without power steering usually has 5 turns of the wheel from one side to the other, while cars with power steering only has 3, again usually. So a car that was designed to have power steering and looses it, is not really comparable to cars designed to be without one, and is a real pain to drive, especially in the city.
I don't get why Apple just doesn't provide more UI tips, like tooltips on first use of the UI. There are so many little things like this that would be great to know. For example on Windows Dialog popups, the labels for each option underline the letter for the keyboard shortcut. Did you know that Apple has keyboard shortcuts for dialog popups too, if you press CMD+letter? It took me years to figure that one out.
I have the same experience - on-board sound, usb dac (primary) and hdmi audio interface on an nvidia card.

Every so often it will "forget" that it should be using the usb dac and revert to the hdmi audio output.
Given that the flaw revolves around road salt, and not the absolute temperature, yeah, doesn't matter in this particular case.
He is talking about the mobile LTE price and there is an FTTH package at 100mbps for 425GB(170 peak & 255 off peak) for about $58 per month.
Volkswagen’s billion-dollar diesel graveyard in California
It goes both ways, being open-source can also make your product more secure, as it's out in the open and a lot more eyeballs look at the code.
As some who sells B2B SaaS in Africa (among other places): There is no question that a lot is happening, but there are huge swats of countryside in many parts of Africa that are not covered yet. The question is, who gets there first, and at what price.
Huawei’s P20 Pro:World’s First Smart Phone with 3 Rear Cameras
It doesn’t seem cheap given the 1GB limit.
With some YouTube videos you are over 1GB.
I don’t find it a particularly borderline case.

The bar for having insider information is not that it was handed to you or spoken/emailed and noted as insider info, but rather that you merely have it without regard to how much intelligence or effort you applied.

This is in contrast to an outsider who can use a wide variety of means to synthesize material, non-public conclusions without falling afoul of insider trading laws. (Traffic counts, parking lot surveillance, deducing order flow from order IDs that a company might be leaking, etc. If a company insider argues that they did it that way, they’re likely to lose.)

In this case, once Ying correctly deduces that Equifax is the company involved, he needs to block himself from trading and, if he has a question about his eligibility to trade, to seek personal counsel and/or the advise of his compliance officer.
This strikes me as misleading without the (2016) in the title, since the title creates a sense of “now”.
It absolutely means that.

Tesla is not going to financially recover if Model 3 fails to deliver within a year. Musk is taking huge risks and so far it has paid out. That's a thing to admire in him.

But the risk taking means that there is no fallback. Model 3 will either make or break Tesla. They have to deliver Model 3 in large volumes or it's game over. They have no time or money to try again or fall back into the small volume luxury car business where they have time to develop the technology.

Clock is ticking.