skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More a Northern California thing. Here in the Los Angeles area I've seen only one on the road.
When did reductionism become a dirty word?
Where "expensive" was defined as "at least as expensive as a Model S".
I strongly suspect he means stories.
You are right, I was just saying I was playing with image compression and just hadn't found JBIG2. Also probably because it has a patent associated with it and it is mainly for bi-level images.
While most BMW's are expensive, I would consider the 7-series line "luxury".
Seems reasonable to believe. It's also just hard to contain entropy. Information about you tends to leak out any time you are observed. As observations become more durable, they support stronger inferences.

Personally I'm not that worried about it. Just because police societies have tended to be high on collecting data about citizens does not mean that collecting data about citizens causes a police society. In fact, the opposite is most likely true.
That is the billion dollar question, and it's what Elon is paying his engineers to answer. Because of that, I don't think we'll see an answer till 2016.
Create useful software, sell it as a service or as a download on one of the many marketplaces.
I don't share the same enthusiasm for ALPR camera systems as I do for dash cams, and besides, the capabilities of the two systems are not equivalent (or else one would be unnecessary). You have to fence in your driveway or always park in a garage to have privacy (from police tracking) at your home. It feels invasive to me.
Er, no, you missed the emphasized word in my point. The people doing that are redistributors. You will see dealers distributing "free samples"--after all, they're loss-leaders--but "dealers" are part of the secondary market. You don't see drug chemists going out and freely distributing drugs; they're in it for the money.
They're popular in the Seattle area, certainly.
But they're fundamentally not a mobile startup - their apps are almost incidental (like with most major websites): http://imgur.com/ doesn't even mention them. The 200% increase in downloads has no relevance looking for movers and shakers in the mobile industry.
Why you cannot switch from Apple
Good tip.

I like to take a mono track, duplicate it, invert one of them, then make both of them into a stereo track.

Now play it and play with the proximity of the left and right speakers. When they're close, they cancel each other out. Similar principle of noise canceling headphones.
Indeed! I have much respect for Max and company. We use and love Streamline.js ourselves -- works great with CoffeeScript.

https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs

I'd love to talk on or write about Streamline at some point too.
Here is the actual report: http://electrificationcoalition.org/sites/default/files/EC_S...

Let's also not ignore the obvious conflict of interest in a group promoting electric vehicle sales trying to speak about actual statistics. As mentioned, BMW sold 172k cars, Mercedes Benz 182k, Audi 87k for total of 441k. Tesla at ~10k, 2% of above (though all ~$100k).

If you want model to model comparison, the model S clearly doing fine though, all depends on the headline you want I guess: http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/13/autos/tesla-sales-bmw-merced...
Liberals think standards of living can be increased by redistribution. Each year so many goods and services are produced. More goods and services do not materialize when you move money around. You must boost productivity. Be careful -- work is very unpleasant when you apply the thumbscrews for more efficiency. Many nations live lazily.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\PARADISE.TXT

iscipline and faith engaged,
Your military obedience, to dissolve
Allegiance to the acknowledged Power supreme?
And thou, sly hypocrite, who now wouldst seem
Patron of liberty, who more than thou
Once fawned, and cringed, and servilely adored
Heaven's awful Monarch? wherefore, but in hope
To dispossess him, and thyself to reign?
But mark what I arreed thee now, Avant;
Fly neither whence thou fledst! If from this hour
Within these hallowed limits thou appear,
Back to the infernal pit I drag thee
The fact that Tesla has been even remotely successful is kind of a side benefit. The biggest thing they've done is transform the electric car market in the popular consciousness from being a joke. Ultimately that means that a lot more consumers are going to start considering electric vehicles when they are looking to buy a new automobile. Also it means that there are likely to be a lot more new entrants into the electric car market (both existing automotive manufacturers and new companies), because it's becoming a place where companies can make money. All of which will put the electric car market into the same sort of profit -> R&D -> better vehicles -> profit feedback loop that the internal combustion car has benefited from for over a century. One way or the other we'll find out whether the potential of electric vehicles matches the promise.
>> America has strong democratic roots

No, America has strong American roots. Democracies and Republics both corrupt themselves over time.

America is unlike any other nation on earth, it's a hybrid, a democratic republic.
There was some slight formatting issues but overall it worked well. It's nice to have the additional context/detail with the slides kind of like what you'd get if someone presented it live.

The node.js side project is a RESTful API so all the CS is server code (no front end CS or JS). It all builds automatically and no special config there. I started if off using a stripped down version of the template I linked to above (though removing mongoose and using node-postgres async instead).

The custom build process is for out main app JackDB[1]. It's written in Java and it's a combination of taglibs and a build script. We have a check in there for dev/prod to decide whether to serve precompiled JS files or the original CS files (if its local dev). We did it this way so it fits into our nginx caching setup which marks all static assets as permanently cached (max-age + public). The build process also prefixes the resources with the git revision so each new build forces the client to get the latest and greatest.

[1]: http://www.jackdb.com/
I find that hard to believe because I see LOTS of them in Baltimore. Baltimore
This is worse than all those horribly incorrect political articles..

This joke of a paper is from 2012. They address satellite communication speed and power requirements without even considering the fundamental issue of we can't synthesize life yet.

Additionally their statement 'A cell contains enough information to replicate any other type of cell in the body' could not be more incorrect. Clearly they have never heard of epigenetics or other molecular changes unique to specific cells.

Also, even if the above were possible, why would we waste time communicating in this ridiculously horrible way? We could just send a hard drive containing the genetic information of billions of people in a tiny rocket rather than whatever communication method they propose.

All this would be okay if they were at least trying to make a statement or explore some futuristic dream seriously, but they're not. All they do is calculate the time it would take for 6 billion bits to be sent on a 0.5 GHz band with error checking, absolute crap. This is the scientific equivalent of linkbaiting.

Source: https://physics.le.ac.uk/journals/index.php/pst/article/view...

Edit: I now see why this was published. This is a fake undergraduate journal at the University of Leicester. Where undergrads write bull articles like this so they can pad their resume for graduate school applications. It's absolute disgrace to write an article about this. This isn't even peer reviewed by faculty, students peer review each other. These aren't experienced researchers, they haven't even gotten their degrees yet.
Worth noting that teleportation also necessitates the destruction of your previous "you" along with creation of a duplicate "you." Even if it was workable without the massive amounts of time or energy stated in the article, there'd be some obvious ethical dilemmas - the process kills original you in the process of copying and recreating original you.

Interestingly, in the long run this probably doesn't "matter" for anyone else or even your role in the universe, because there's still a perfect copy of you doing exactly what you would have done, so it's like you didn't die. But you did still die... and dying is rather scary for most people.
I see one probably once a week in Austin.
If you're fine with more general topics and about a day's delay in "breaking" internet news (re: stuff that doesn't matter), I've found MetaFilter to be good. The pay wall filters out bottom-barrel trolls and the community is mostly nice enough to shame bigoted and extremist bullshit.
It looks pretty clean and delicately built. I wish we behaved it good.
Besides the one in my garage :), I've only seen 2 in the wild around DFW area. (excluding the ones I see parked at the service center)
Some people wear full face visors in China.

https://lh3.ggpht.com/_pe4PGv4ABEk/RllW0wpgq3I/AAAAAAAAAD0/-...
CoreOS is an operating system designed to run docker containers. You would use it as lighter weight replacement for something like Ubuntu as the base os that Docker runs on. When you install CoreOS you basically just get a kernel, Docker and etcd plus a minimal number of other processes. Etcd is designed as a way to allow a distributed set of containers to self-configure.

Flynn is an open source project to build a "platform as a service" platform on top of Docker. In theory Flynn could run on top of CoreOS.

Docker is the core of everything.
According to this: http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

$1 in 1970 is worth $6.02 in 2013.

I would say it would be difficult to get the same quality as you had in 1970 as health regulations have increased so it would be rather difficult to get an estimate if you could actually get the 1970 cost.
Nice trick, but don't forget that uncorrelated noise is always additive. I know a few people who have built noise cancelling headphones (either for fun or for a project class I once TAed) who discovered (after dealing with lots of fun feedback issues) that their "quiet" output was noisier than the original output.

There's usually a way to make this trick work, but it's important to have accurate models of your various noise and interference sources.
I suspect carrier subsidy has artificially inflated the iPhone's MSRP though.
Docker will be changing to just listen on a unix domain socket by default.
Not to mention Infiniti, Lexus, Cadillac...
Of course, the SF Bay Area is its own special little bubble. Inferring nationwide vehicle choice based on the SF Bay would be like living in Boulder and assuming the rest of the nation is also Prius-crazed.
I bet there is an objective criteria for it, though (if not a very clear one).

A thought-experiment: say you wreck your car, and your insurance provider is going to give you a loaner.

They want this loaner car to impress you (the cost of one regular car, however nice, is not much skin off their back, especially if they get to amortize it over all the people they lend it out to; and they want to give you the impression that they've got enough money to cover any problem you might have, so that you'll keep paying your premiums--the same reason bank lobbies look so "stately.")

However, they don't want to spend too much, because there's a point where cars switch from regular goods, to being Veblen goods. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good)

The optimum between impressing you the most, and avoiding spending way more than the car "should" be worth for an any marginal gain of impressiveness, should define the type of car they loan out (and it does, in my experience.) You can draw the "luxury" inflection point as being exactly the next-most-expensive models up from these, where the value proposition stops making sense to economically-rational actors.
So, near the Bay Area?
Same problem here. Hitting F11 for full-screen revealed the buttons.

For front-end experts, this is a pretty egregious oversight.
In Santa Monica it is not unusual to see several at the same traffic light.
There could be coops around the world that trade with each other to get everything they need?
FWIW, Mercedes & Toyota license Tesla technology

"Electric car maker Tesla Motors helped Mercedes develop and is manufacturing parts of the new car's electric drive system, including the lithium ion battery pack, electric motors, on-board charger and other electronics. Besides producing its own car, the Tesla Model S sedan, Tesla already produces electric drive components for the battery-powered Toyota Rav4 EV."

http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/27/autos/mercedes-tesla-b-class...
Funny, I was thinking about this exact thing today.

Quantum teleportation essentially is teleportation as long as you avoid the philosophical issues (e.g., is a reconstructed person the same person anymore?) and just stick to the scientific questions.

The Bekenstein Bound is a very high upper bound on the maximum information contained within a given volume. Black holes are maximal entropy objects, and since entropy is just the log of the number of states of a system (states = information), roughly speaking, that's how the bound is calculated.

But everyday life isn't nearly as high in entropy as a black hole, so it's likely that the amount of information representing a person is significantly less than what the bound suggests. However, I have doubts about whether you can actually use that bound on something that isn't a blackhole. A wavefunction (which is, theoretically, all the information necessary to completely describe a system) is a multi-particle function (more specifically, a function of a configuration space). For example, you can talk about the wavefunction of an electron, but that's just an approximation. To completely describe the electron's behavior, you need the wavefunction as a function of the electron and its surrounding particles. The further away the surrounding particles are, the less of an influence they will have on the behavior of the electron, but the influence is still there. So really, you'd need a wavefunction of everything extant to exactly describe the electron... Anyway, the question of whether there is a "universal wavefunction" seems to be debated among physicists, and I'm not one anyway, so who knows...

Getting back on topic, I'll just assume that the wavefunction of all particles constituting a person is enough information to completely specify them and proceed with that as a given. That being the case, there is something called the "no-cloning theorem" that forbids the duplication of a quantum state. So the good news is that there's no way for teleportation to screw up and create two of you! Quantum states can only be moved, which is what quantum teleportation is. The problem is that this teleportation also requires a classical channel (aka an optical fiber) to complete the transfer of state. So, you still can't teleport anything faster than the speed of light. Which isn't much of a problem on earth, but you still can't get to Pluto instantly. This assumes of course that someone far in the future has figured out a way to quickly ascertain the quantum state of macroscopic objects, which is unlikely to ever happen.
And the site completely sucks on the iPad. Can't even see the right most box
Depends on whose definition of socialism you are using.
Police dash-cams reduce the potential for abuse of authority because they make a permanent record of the actions of the police (as well as anyone else on camera) while ANPR systems increase the potential for abuse of authority because they make a permanent record of law-abiding citizens that can be accessed by the police with no inherent over-sight.
Ask PG: New state of deleted?
May I suggest the following:

When a user decides to delete a comment, which has been commented out (has children), instead of hiding the content (which breaks the flow), the comment will be shown and indicated as as deleted (a strikeout perhaps), yet, with no username attached, that means, no shame on the OP, and no more karma-loss.
If you look at the screenshots of the bidule patches in that article, they really aren't doing anything too sophisticated in terms of audio processing. The interesting things you can do with Max never come up.

What they are doing is hosting a bunch of plugins (mainly instances of FM8 and Kontakt) and letting bidule handle audio and MIDI routing. That's sensible, as this rig is replacing one that featured a dozen or so analog, hybrid, and digital hardware synths.

Anyway, Mr. Reismann addresses this topic directly: "Among products considered were Max-MSP, Ableton Live, Mainstage, Rax, and Forte (on PC).

I thought we might have to end up using Max-MSP due to the complexity of the patches we would need, but as I looked harder at Bidule and explored its capabilities fully, I came to see that it could do everything I needed to do, and furthermore, it was elegant and efficient, and its learning curve was gradual enough to be inviting to someone coming to it for the first time, as would be the case for our sound crew and anyone else I brought in to help with the migration."
There are at least two on Southern Methodist University's campus in Dallas.
Ncat is also more compassionate regarding command line parameters.

Depending on the nc app you have installed on your machine, params will have to be passed using different flags or in differing orders (someone should post why there are different kinds of netcat, I forget). Ncat accepts either format, and sends you cards on your birthday.
You won't get anywhere with that argument. When Bitcoin tripled in value over the course of 1-2 weeks, if memory serves HN by and large had zero sustainability concerns.
I spent a day driving around LA recently - saw 5 Model S's.
Also, running a query on localhost returns an nginx banner
there is too much risk to just jumping into the mass-market price range, so Tesla is using these high-end vehicles as an infrastructure/know-how/money launchpad for broader mass-market cars. in other words, from a strategic point of view the Model S is a way to get investment dollars toward the pursuit of an affordable electric car.

this isn't my analysis. Elon has mentioned it in various places:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/156959-elon-musk-discusse...
Some more examples at wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat#Examples
Yes, I believe general_failure meant, "you can't generalize 'near Google' to 'Bay Area'", so I elaborated to say that I've seen many in the Bay Area, not just near Google.
"Upgrading software, please check back in some minutes."
Are you saying the current JS loops will stop working at that point? Of course not. So why would it matter? CoffeeScript -> Javascript will continue to work like it always did.
Hah! Before this I lived in Boulder and did indeed feel like everyone drove Priuses. (Although, my current office of 40 people has three people who drive Priuses of the same color… but point still taken.)
The base will likely be around ~35k after 7500k tax credit which I think is doable. I would guess it will be have 40 & 60 kwh offerings and a bit smaller than the S. The 40 should easily pull off 150 miles rated range. I have a 60kwh software reduced to 40. I get a rated range of 144 which has been plenty for my use.
I'll settle for replicators, which I think is where "teleportation" would head anyway, right?
Could be. Here on the Eastside of Seattle, I parked next to one at Cougar Mt. Park on Friday, and saw one driving around today. It would be a stretch to say that I see one every day, but there are plenty around here. (And, yes, some sightings are probably repeats.)
Do you do this just for fun? Correct me if I'm wrong but this just seems like a recipe for weird phasing issues.
I thought the article was just a fun thought experiment; I didn't realize someone was trying to pass it off as research?
I live in downtown Los Angeles, and I built this site out of my own frustration with not being able to find a cohesive way to learn about and keep up with all of the city projects and developments happening around me. Problem is, I'm not content with the way this first iteration came out, and I could use some help.

My ultimate goal is to build a service that's fully integrated into the city, in such a way that new buildings, businesses, and projects are not only fully documented with everything you would want to know about them, leaving behind a timeline for posterity as they progress, but also so that the purposes of those buildings are well-categorized. New apartment building? Here's when it'll be done, what amenities it will have, and how you can apply to live there. New bar going in in that building across the street? Here's a community where people can discuss its impact on the rest of the neighborhood.

The problem is, I haven't quite managed to settle into a solid structure yet. My initial thought was to have everything be user submitted, but I'm wondering whether things like building information might be better managed by an admin. On the flip side, construction photos are obviously something more suited to come from the public.

In short, to anyone out there that likes urban development, I ask you, would you use something like this? And if not, what can I improve in order to become something that you WOULD use?
Never thought I'd see the same lame-brained arguments here that I saw on the reddit thread about this.

The "luxury" class of cars is pretty narrowly defined and includes the A8 and the BMW 7 series. (No, it doesn't include the 3 or the 5, or the A6.)
Thanks (to you and others that mentioned it) for bringing this to my attention. I'd never heard of the Martingale betting system.

Knowledge is power.
I've read through (some of) your essays on HN design and think that, ultimately, you will have to introduce a little more complexity to handle posts that relate to identity cleanly.

The best option that I can see is to allow users to mark a post as 'off-topic' in addition to 'flag'. Subtract the off-topic count in some fashion and generate second set of rankings. Then allow users to chose between the normal front-page and the filtered front-page.

It would not split the community into have/have-nots and it would enable a little self-selected filtering. It feels like a general enough case that it would have merit across a wide range of posts.

It would also provide a lot more information upon which to make judgment calls.

Fascinating site you've got going. This is the only place where I can actually stand to read the comments.
I agree. For me, I really do enjoy writing Ruby programs - but when something isn't working as expected and its time to do some serious debugging, I prefer C++ all day.
The only one I've ever seen in DC was the one I was test driving.
Bootstrap ready scalable weather icons
Goldman Sachs sent a computer scientist to jail over 8MB of open source code
(I know, OPs can't downvote direct comments)

You're right that people should try out stuff before criticising, and in general I support the notion; yet I fully understand people who don't want to jump ship onto very new things because leaving a well-established environment for an immature/unstable one can (but doesn't have to) be a risk. At least Coffee is relatively easy to leave - just take your compiled code and get rid of the source.

I'd also like to add for the rest: what convinced me to try Coffee was @jsjabber podcast with the author http://javascriptjabber.com/017-jsj-coffeescript-with-jeremy... - I think it explains the concepts pretty well (I recommend the whole podcast btw, it's great) and I encourage to listen to it if somebody is curious and wants to try out.
What's wrong with saying, "Hey, we are always looking for good sys admins, and clearly here's an out-of-work sysadmin, and despite the drama surrounding him, we're willing to look at him for a job at [Google]."