skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just pay everyone to walk away from work, there you go, problem solved, everybody has money buy stuff made by robot. Those socialism European countries got ahead of themselves while works still require diligent human labor. But technically they're ready for robot to take over than other countries where people still work for food.

Robot shall set you free. When selling labor in exchange for food is no long a necessity, People make wealth by having new ideas, designs which robot will implement. When minds are free, It will be a much better world.

The whole social foundation of human after each other for resources is gone. Greedy as a driver to human is no longer effective when facing robot, that changes every philosophy we know in civilization. The animal element in human for the first time is counter productive to survival, that's why this is very shocking and uncomfortable to us when imagine a world full of robot.
Honestly... if some random limping guy (not my family) fell and hit me with his stick every other day and often fell and hit my neighbors too... I would certainly want that guy out of my house. If I tried to help him get out of my house and he kept falling and hitting everyone that tried to help him... well at some point I would stop caring and just want him gone. Based only on what is in the article, since that is all we have, I feel they did start out with compassion. But you can only get hit with a stick so many times before you start losing that compassion. When they bought the house, they knew they were getting an illegal rental unit... not a one bed mental hospital. It wasn't their job to make sure she got help. It seems like they did more than they should have to.
No, the To: and From: fields you see in your MUA is the software equivalent of my saying over the phone, "Hey, this is Steve - is Dave there?" In my fairly educated opinion, of course.
Lessig / rootstrikers are working on the meta issue of campaign financing. Direct crowdfunding is part of it, the other part is holding reps accountable for their votes.
To clarify: No. A businesses costs shouldn't become our costs.

I'm just saying that it's a fallacy to think that an online sale is wholly responsible for the sale. They do rely on those huge investments by showrooms/dealers.

So, in a "right evolution", I envision smaller showrooms, wide variety + low inventory per unit. (Yes, like an Apple store).

Similarly, if stores like Best Buy died, Amazon sales of consumer electronics would fall. So, Amazon would likely buy up 1/2 the brick & mortars, to create showrooms. But, until Best Buy dies, Amazon is happy that they provide free showrooms that everyone hates, but still uses & abuses.
Not using Amazon Web Services? This is why you must!
try was
They're not really "standing up to this corruption", Tesla is just trying to side-step it.
Makes you look more credible to the next 10,000, who will hopefully be real people.
KSP is still i386. I checked before posting.

Unity has a lot of old stuff lying around (they only very recently dropped DirectX7), so I'm not really shocked, but I was surprised it was still i386 because the upgrade should (well, okay, "should") be pretty trivial and i386 Macs have been out of support for a while.
Even if that were true, which I would disagree that anyone writing a library from scratch today is ignoring Python3- over time it is an inevitability once the core dev team drops support for 2.7
The word 'sexy' in this context has nothing to do with sexuality.

A definition of 'sexy' from Google:

(informal) exciting; appealing.

"I've climbed most of the really sexy west coast mountains"

synonyms: exciting, stimulating, interesting, appealing, intriguing, slick, red-hot
They're not equally quaint. There is a big difference between laws that regulate taxis and laws requiring cars to be sold only be third-party dealers.

Taxi laws in many cities exist to both protect consumers (with criminal background checks and additional vehicle requirements), ensure parts of the city get served equally (requiring taxis to accept fares), and establish clear chains of liability. I don't believe there are anywhere near comparable safety arguments you can make for only allowing third-party dealerships.

Here's my two cents (you don't have to buy into it) - taxicab laws and regulations are frequently imperfect, and there is certainly an element of protectionism and cronyism. On the other hand, I don't want to live in a place without them. There is a reason that when I previous lived in London you'd often see "Don't take unlicensed cabs at night" adverts up at bus shelters. These laws are imperfect, but also necessary.

Edit: As someone has pointed out, dealerships make a similar safety argument. That said, I would imagine most rational people are able to see the difference between the two. It is still possible to regulate the sale of cars and allow manufacturers to sell directly. Similarly, I think it's possibly to have taxi laws that allow Uber to operate freely but also ensure the safety of those using the service.

Regulated taxi systems are worthwhile - if you don't think they are, try living somewhere with significant crime. Last year I ended up getting posted to Medellin, Colombia for a month - a city with one of the highest murder and violent crime rates in the world. However, it is also a city with a highly regulated taxi system, with criminal background checks and vehicle restrictions. I would happily get into a cab there at 1AM. I would not have considered it if there were zero regulations and restrictions on who could drive a cab, and what cars they could use.
"... free market for those that can afford it?"

The Model S is not a cheap car.
Subvert: Multi-language framework for the JVM
Buying a Toyota Scion a few years ago was great. They had fixed pricing and the options were all dealer-installed onto one of two base models containing either stick or automatic transmission. I told him I'd take one with no options, and he handed me the keys. The whole process took me roughly an hour.

I suspect that fixed pricing is the appropriate pattern for the low end. Dickering over a few bucks just annoys the customer, and isn't worth the salesman's time. Plus, the dealer-installed options schtick allowed the dealer to maintain a very small inventory.
Any proof of that? I know there was an article about how it encrypts each message with the key of the device it is being sent to however I haven't seen anyone audit it to be sure that it isn't adding an Apple key to that list.
And then the exact same activists who cry about renters being evicted then wonder why there's such a bad housing shortage.
What more could be done? The courts bent over backwards to accommodate her, going so far as to award her $14,000 after patiently exhausting every other option. 14k and a moving crew seems pretty generous as far as evictions for hostile, unsanitary, non-paying tenants go. Her story is depressing because she is clearly a troubled woman, but you can't just ignore reality and expect everything to work out, it's unsustainable to allow every person with poor reasoning skills live rent free.
There is a difference between an unsatisfactory enforcement of the Constitution, and its outright failure. Saying that "the first, fourth and seventh have all been forgotten about" sounds like the latter, but the reality is closer to the former.
Lisp gave me so many nerdgasms that calling an elisp based system/editor sexy is not very far fetched.
That's just a historical accident of municipal lines. For whatever reason San Francisco didn't incorporate its inner suburbs while those other cities did. SF isn't functionally similarly to NYC or Chicago, it's more like Manhattan or the Central + North side. Both are considerably denser.

It's true that the Bay Area as a whole needs to get denser, but SF proper needs to lead the way.
You can basically make emacs look however you want, including stuff like vim's powerline. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PowerLine
CFFI works fine with CPython, and ctypes loads shared libraries without issue as well.
Public choice theory explains the situation quite well.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
You mean Safari (or WebView) on iOS. Chrome on iOS is just using a skinned WebView because Apple's rules don't allow anything else.

In other words Safari on iOS shows the same boxes. When and if Apple danes to fix it it will also be fixed on Chrome for iOS.

It's possible it's just a font issue. Tried pasting in FB Messenger, iOS Notes, iOS Messages. All of them just show boxes except for 🅆🄷🅈
In the absence of other data, approximately nothing.
Chrome on OS X renders properly.
You missed the point entirely: there is a profound difference between

A) Starting a business explicitly profiting from "efficiencies" created by breaking existing laws (Uber)

B) Starting a business that takes advantages of loopholes in the law and failing to take steps to ensure that customers follow the law (Amazon and Use Taxes)

C) Starting a business profiting from certain efficiencies without violating the laws on the books at the time (Tesla)
Try out emacs, but naked: http://bzg.fr/emacs-strip-tease.html (safe for work)
Having learnt a fair bit of Lisp, and dabbled with Haskell, it seems to me that a Haskell-like language should be implemented atop a Lisp-like language, rather than vice versa. Template Haskell puts macros atop Haskell, whereas it seems things like types and syntax should be atop Lisp.
Corrupted law bought by car dealers. How can public accept such obvious corruption?
What are you waiting for me to say about that? I see no conflict between my point and Gary McGraw's follower count.
Do you have a source for Apple running their stores at a loss? I doubt that actually happens.
> I think a world with whatsapp is less oppressive than a world without whatsapp, even if people can spy on it, tap into it, etc- because it allows people to communicate where they previously might not have been able to.

That's a fair stance. I don't have strong feelings vis a vis WhatsApp, so this is more of a general statement :

I think the illusion of secure communication is more dangerous than insecure communication. People who think they can't be spied on will expose themselves in ways they otherwise wouldn't.
obvious short is obvious
I'm guessing the number of people that can afford to buy a Tesla in NJ and can't make it to NY to get it is very small - for the current slate of Tesla cars.
Oh thank god. With all of their stretch goals and what they're charging for preorder ships that you can look at in a pretend hangar, it's awfully hard to tell. I'm looking forward to the game, but their crowdfunding is a kind of strange mess.
My understanding is that the KSP devs have experienced instability and bugs with the x64 builds for Windows/OSX which they attribute to Unity.

In my experience (a few months out of date now) the x64 builds for Linux are not terribly stable, but perhaps the devs think they are more stable, or think that linux users are better equipped to deal with questionable stability and released that version despite the stability issues.
Vim is Sexy
It's full potential for what? I disagree that this is a real issue. I think it's a fake issue, a way of riling people up about a perceived injustice that is totally artificial.

You seem to be arguing that the "average Twitter user" is entitled to followers. Why on earth would that be? The average person doesn't in fact have a lot to say publicly.
The poster is speaking to pg being off the mark about uber because uber has been ignoring and flouting existing laws. Where as Tesla is victim of a new interpretation of the law.
Pronunciation errors that made the English language
Auto dealers make almost the same argument; that the laws which require cars to be sold through them are there to protect the public from thieves, liars, and cheats. Both taxi regulations and dealer laws are similar, in that they involve 'bootleggers and baptists' type restrictions.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
Let P be the point (a,b) and let Q be the point (x(t),y(t)) of a curve for some parameter t. The tangent vector to that curve is (x'(t),y'(t)) and the ray PQ is just (a-x(t),b-y(t)). You need to make sure these vectors are the same (up to a constant multiple) in order to have a tangent ray. That is you are led to two equations

cx'(t) = a-x(t)
cy'(x) = b-y(t)

You need to solve these two equations for values of c and t. The difficulty of this task depends mostly on the difficulty of the curve itself.

If the curve has equation y = f(x) (or in other words a simple representation x(t) = t and y(t) = f(x(t)) = f(t)), then you have

c = a-x
cf'(x) = b-f(x)

Therefore (a-x)f'(x) = b-f(x). If f(x) is a polynomial of degree n, the problem is reduced to root-finding of a polynomial of degree n so you'll have at most n roots to deal with. So in general it won't be easy. This reduces to the code in the post if you use line segments.
Thank you for your findings. I fixed "Not Found". And, it is very fortunate for me that match time bug can be found at the first day by a real football fan. It is the core information this website try to provide... For timezones, I actually try to make it easier for people find timezone based on their location without knowing standard time or daylight saving time. I will replace time zone selection with asking viewer's city name.
It is not as simple as federal law 'trumping' state law - congress enacting a law specifically to override a state would be problematic, even if constitutionally solid.

You are not considering the implications of congress interfering in a relatively minor state matter when it refuses to legislate on more pressing state/federal issues (gay marriage, legalising cannabis, etc).
The difference isn't so clear cut (or at least wasn't initially) for "ridesharing" services like Lyft, Sidecar, and Uber's Uber X (I'm not exactly sure how Uber's black car service works so I'll omit it). Presumably the regulations that these services "ignore" concern the concept of "commercial driving," which is not a clear dichotomy when you really think about it. Is it legal to split the cost of gas on a road trip with a friend? Surely so. Is it legal to split the cost of gas with a friend of a friend who does not actually know the driver? Presumably so. At what point does this become "commercial driving"? The answer, of course, is when it becomes disruptive to the agencies currently enjoying regulatory capture, namely taxi companies and drivers.
I went though sendwithus zero as an unknowing participant in the experiment, and it sucked.

At the time, the company I was working at was looking for a service exactly like this - a service where our app could just fling events, and then we'd do all the logic to control what emails got emitted on the basis of those events on the external service (and A/B test them). One of our "growth hacking" guys found SendWithUs somehow, and introduced us. We had a few calls with them - the service seemed like it had potential, and we got beta access to it...which was really sendwithus zero, but sending basic email.

We got most of the way though setting up an integration with them, but every time we asked when the A/B testing framework - which was what sold us on the product - was coming online, we were told "it's coming soon, it's what we're working on right now." So we held on for a few more weeks, and gave them some time...but nothing came of it. I was skeptical at the time that they were actually building it, even moreso having read this.

The positive side is that while we were being strung along by sendwithus, we found Vero (https://www.getvero.com/). They're not perfect either, but we've been on them for 6-8 months, and they've done well for us. They're responsive to our issues, are willing to Skype or chat when we try and develop some sophisticated campaigns on their platform, and have (or so it seems) rejigged their roadmap a few times to add in small features that we ask for. ExactTarget is still a more full-featured package, but I'm happy with the price/value of Vero.

So well done, guys. You've got an interesting story about how you bootstrapped your business, and you're evidently doing OK. I wish you the best, but I can tell you that you won't be getting my business (or my recommendation) - at the time I thought you were small and were actually on the cusp of delivering what you had promised us worked; now I see that we were just one more data point for a feature set that you never planned on having ready when you claimed.
Not sure about sexy, but you can definitely make emacs easier on the eyes than its default Xt-in-1994 style:

http://i.imgur.com/zwY3Ewc.png
The initial screenshots of the redesign really turned me off -- I'm not sure why they were presented in the least-flattering orientation (portrait). It's really inconvenient to have the main content (the e-mail itself) relegated to less than 50% of the actual screen.
How do you plan to enforce it?
What makes you think that Uber is surprised? Or did you mean that Uber is upset? Being upset at an occurrence is perfectly reasonable, even if you predicted it would occur.
There is no such thing as "companies like Tesla." Anyone can manufacture an EV, and soon everyone will.
A) Some places have laws to ban unlicensed taxis, while others do not.

C) Some states have laws to ban auto-makers from making direct sales to consumers, while others do not.

You have attempted to make a distinction, but not a principled distinction. There is no reason (that I have seen) which explains why unlicensed car dealers are less harmful to the public than unlicensed taxi drivers.
What's the point in running A/B tests if you don't report sample sizes, assumptions, statistical test used and p-values/F/whatever received? For all I know, these results are completely random and useless.

I mean, there's even excel spreadsheets for that so you can't say it's too hard: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/ab-test...
What are the regulations around setting up a dealership?

- Can Tesla set up a proxy dealership whose only job is to take the order and send out a receipt of purchase?

- Can dealership be purely online?
My entire point is that I reject this ridiculous premise. People who currently live in SF don't have any more of a "right to SF" than anybody else. Thinking otherwise is just plain old xenophobia.

The only land that you ever have an indefinite right to is land that you have purchased. I don't get "special privileges" to Seattle or Philadelphia just because I have rented in those two cities for the past 15 years. You don't have some sort of "special right" to your city either, unless you have seen fit to purchase property there.
No. You missed the point entirely.

There is no profound difference. No one is stating that the laws are perfectly paralleled. Nothing of this nature is perfectly paralleled. You're failing to appreciate that law is entirely arbitrary and worthless compared to an individual's opinion of the level of corruption surrounding that law. Your points A, B, C are meaningless to a person's opinion of the underlying validity and righteousness of those points.
Granted it is very hard to evict a rent-controlled tenant in San Francisco, so I can understand your trepidation, but San Francisco rent control already works pretty much like your prescription: there is an annual allowed rent increase, and rents reset when the tenant moves out.

In other words, this is "soft" rent control as opposed to "hard" rent control where prices are fixed, essentially forever.

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.9.1.99
Up.

SF is 4x less dense than Manhattan, for example.
Another aspect to consider is that big car manufacturers themselves probably support these laws, because even if they could more efficiently sell cars without the current dealership environment, mandating the dealerships vastly increases the barrier to entry from competing car manufacturers.
This fails even as a sarcastic example of pandering. (Due to lack of creative effort)

I'm sure PG had something reasonable in mind when he wrote the line, but your shoddy irrationalisms passed as reasoning are basically trojan-horseing his position.
From what I see, applications developed in latin (charset), but non english speaking regions tend to handle this better. The reason is that people usually want to search without accentuated characters and still find what they are looking for. So issues like this one are handled faster in the dev cycle as users _will_ complain.
It doesn't sound like there's any difference other than your personal approval of the two laws.
Ghost ships
Why do you think Apple runs their stores at a loss? In 2012, they were nearly double the profit/square foot that Tiffany's had (I haven't found more recent data on the profit/sq.ft metric) at around $6,000/square foot. In Q1 2013, they were well over $10 million (closer to 15) in average revenue per store.
I fixed this bug. Thank you. And, it id hard to believe FIFA official World Cup website does not provide match schedules in any South East Asian or East Asian languages!
Viral engineering
Ask HN: What's the best way to delete all data off of a drive?
I have a laptop that I want to sell, but on the hard drive I used to keep sensitive information, like tax records, personal photos, etc. What is the best way of processing this drive to remove all of this, and make it so no one could be able to recover it?
Umm... since these signs are "legally binding" therefore these require atleast as much security as a user's passwords, no? So exactly what security measures are in place?

With a typical text password, you don't even store it in plain-text, for fear of a compromised DB. So how are you protecting these signatures against a compromised DB?
On latest Chrome in Win 7, I also see all boxes. Interestingly, the page title of the comment thread displays correctly though.
There would be no problem with Congress overriding the state laws. Federal laws always have precedence over state laws, and the federal congress has specific authorization to regulate trade among the several states in the commerce clause of the constitution.[1] Congress has the constitutional authority to ban substances such as cannabis, but not to compel states to allow them.[2] Congress has no authority to interfere with family law, which has always been a matter for the states.[3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Windsor
Broadcast messages using chemical rather than electrical signals
It's one thing when it's voluntary. The electronics manufacturers work with resellers because they want to. It's a completely different thing when the law requires it.
They don't run them at a loss. They're the most profitable retail stores in the US (on a per square foot basis). At least they were in 2012. Since sales haven't really gone down much, that's probably still true as Tiffany's (next best) was about half of Apple's.
There's no shortage of stories about government "health" departments cracking down on farmers' markets. I don't have any evidence of actual "grocery story lobbyists," but it's reasonable to assume that grocery store management approves.
All a GPA indicates is the average grades that person got. But that is not the same thing as ability, skills, motivation, passion, etc. Most classes aren't really that similar to the actual work in the industry either, so it's not even a good indicator of probability of work success.

If this is for a hiring type decision, I think what projects a person has done is more important than their GPA.
Thank you bane for saying what the rest did not (84+ comments).

Middlemen gotta get theirs.

Big Oil, Big Auto. Why would they have a problem with electric cars?
IANAL, just wondering whether these state laws conflict with the constitution's commerce clause. Has such legal theory ever been tested in court?
somewhat interestingly, to me at least,
The title is boxes in the page content, but renders correctly in the tab header in chrome on windows for me.

It renders fine in both on my mac.
"Fixing" xkcd 1340