skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this much different than many other technological changes in history? Most benefit a large group of people, while having negative consequences for the smaller group.

I'm not sure what you mean about the photos thing, but there is obviously a benefiting party from the digital background checks. People can get a sense of folks they might date, and potentially avoid dangerous situations. It sucks that that hurts you (assuming your criminal record is not one that people ought to consider dangerous -- if it is, I'm really not sure what to say). But there is a huge group of people that benefit from the increased safety potentially offered by the ability to check up on potential dating partners.

Or, to put it succinctly, why does your interest in hiding your past outweigh the interest of others to know who they are dealing with?
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Why does it sadden you? It seems like the majority of use-cases for database interaction (at least with the relational ones, likes PostgreSQL or MySQL) occur in web frameworks. The coupling makes a lot of sense to me, especially given the opinionated nature of programming in Python.
I'd agree with you. The mistake often made is mistaking Facebook interactions with real social interactions.

Through social media I can keep in touch with friends from all over the world. Then, if they happen to be visiting or I'm nearby, catching up is easily arranged and not at all awkward because of the information flow in the meantime.

If someone is lacking in social interactions, perhaps social media might be the surface area where that appears, but it's not necessarily a cause or even aggravating factor. I think being alone in a city without any friends would be worse without a connection back to a social circle you do feel comfortable with. I feel like there is an unrealistic expectation placed on social media here.
This map shows how the world's most dangerous regimes got their weapons in 2014
This is brilliant. But since we are often told that composing cryptographic promitives can turn out to be unexpectedly dangerous, can you point me to some articles where this technique is studied in more detail? Preferably by experts such as yourself.
If that were true China would be the most diverse nation on the planet, and the hardest to manage.

The problem in the US is the opposite - national policy is almost exclusively influenced by interest groups with very limited intellectual and cultural diversity.

There could easily have been a crash space-race type of program of renewables development at any time from the mid-70s onwards.

If that had happened, it's likely there would have been astounding developments in collection efficiency and energy storage.

But the Jurassic energy cos were never going the loss of face, I mean loss of profits, that would have led to.

So - here we are now.
If Tesla executes, they are going to be the leading company in a number of industries, of which battery technology and manufacturing is one of them. They are also leaders in direct sales, JIT manufacturing, motor design, any one of which is a disruptive innovation channel they could monetize, all in the service of building electric cars. Tesla is an energy company, a battery company, a car company, etc, just as GE or any other innovator ends up in many segments. What they are is a nascent Multi-business, Multi-national company that the market is betting (based on the stock price) is going to be able to be a global force. A lot of publicly traded companies are single-business companies that derive most of their revenues from a domestic operation. The few companies that manage to become multinationals have this outsized influence because they tend to drive massive revenues, earnings, and markets caps. The correlation between operating in multiple business areas and being a massive multinational is a direct relationship, because disruptive businesses always reach a saturation point. Businesses like Tesla that set out to disrupt industries that represent significant portions of GDP will naturally need to move into multiple markets in order to execute their strategies, because they need to disrupt or create a sequence of disruptive or creative strategies in order to reach that saturation point (natural market size).

I love Elon for the fact that he thinks of his businesses on a planetary basis, and if you consider the point, you'll see he's actually executing Tesla in multiple markets simultaneously, and essentially going directly from startup to Multinational, and skipping the domination of a single category. He knows that if he doesn't, he's going to face stiff competition from entrenched companies and it's likely he'll lose his advantage. But by tight control of the supply line businesses, and a few strategic relationships with existing multinationals, he's able to elevate Tesla into a multi-business, multi-national organization in record time.

Sure, they're a battery company, but what they really are is an organization that's shooting for the moon and actually executing at that scale. Simple incredible to watch.
Java's Write once Run Anywhere is live in spite of Sun's Failure. I just hope Oracle makes up with Google for Java's Sake.

Google is the only reason Java is not a dying Language.
There's now Ultra-Fast Mode for I2C that acts a lot like SPI for high-speed 1-way clocking at 5MHz. Mostly for large LED arrays and the like.
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Yeah, and the Hanford Site in Washington is a tourist destination.

Pass!
Exactly my goal. Many on Wall street understand it, but many on Main street (and even many in the Bay area) don't quite get the picture yet.
b) Android loses app exclusivity that pulled/locked users into the platform.

Was that ever a thing? I can think of apps that had this effect for iOS, but did it ever work in the opposite direction? I got Android because it's less expensive...
Yes, this has the tone of something revelatory but I agree.
Here's hoping this is eventually gets made into a standalone library or program that can be run without Chrome. Don't get me wrong, Chrome definitely has some benefits over other browsers, but I don't want to have to have it to use this and I definitely don't want to have to run a browser to use apps.
Really does remind me of Max MSP.
> You can hardly blame them, as past behaviour is an excellent guide to future behaviour.

Oh really. What a very shallow view of things.
The article assumes that car batteries will feed into the grid. Tesla seems to think that won't be the case, car batteries need to be secured against harsh outdoor conditions and have tougher charge cycle limits.
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OMG; you won't believe what boys say when women are not around to hen peck them for political correctness; sometimes they say what they think! Unbelievable.
Microsoft Bringing 'The Coding Man' to Broadway, Bill Gates to Star
Didn't know about this. Source?
Likewise, Django has had third-party hstore and jsonb fields for ages, but I take your point. SQLAlchemy is beautiful.

The Django ORM has taken great strides lately. Another big improvement in 1.8 is the expansion of database expressions – you can now combine arbitrary database functions and columns as you can in SQLAlchemy. This is a big step towards a cleaner, logically consistent API, and makes extensibility (like that offered in the new contrib.postgres) much easier.

Django's ORM also does things that SQLAlchemy's doesn't. Even at its highest level SQLAlchemy requires explicit joins AFAIK.

That said the Django team is aware of SQLAlchemy's arguable superiority and there have been numerous proposals to integrate it somehow. The most likely plan would be to use SQLAlchemy core to replace the low-level SQL generation. That way you could take a Django queryset and get its SQLAlchemy representation, then continue building from there.
With your skillset, you could be doing invaluable work by writing documentation.

The world is full of good Free software that is essentially orphaned, because the documentation is practically useless. Many moribund projects could be revitalised with little more than a concise description of what the software does, why you might choose it over the alternatives, and how to get started.

Other projects suffer from dreadfully myopic documentation, with a wiki full of detailed descriptions of weird minutiae, but little that would be of use to newcomers. Few developers can write well, and even fewer have the insight to view their project from an outsider's perspective.
Have you ever worked for boring, enterprisey companies? Java is everywhere, sadly.
Note that WebKit/Blink are very unlikely to change their behaviour to be more interoperable/sane if it ever gets standardised because so many of their tests rely on it, and making sure all the test expectations stayed valid while updating it would be an enormous amount of work. (Lots of their tests load a webpage, take the innerText of it, and compare that string with an expectation.)
In what sense? Do you believe past behavior is not causally linked with present behavior?
Because you can move the cursor vertically and be in the correct column.
Low hanging fruit mean the most impact for least effort. You are talking about inconveniencing almost all the people so that a few can avoid any changes at all. We should just charge more for water for both residential and agricultural use and let people vote with their dollars on how big of an inconvenience it is to them.
Tesla deploys a large battery product at all of their Supercharger locations. These batteries are built to withstand harsher weather conditions, and will likely form the basis for a home battery product.
What does this mean:
"...nor do we believe the misissued certificates were used outside the limited scope of MCS Holdings’ test network,..."

If the certificates were used only in a test (private?) network, how did Google find out?
He better not. His comment history pretty much guarantees he's worthless.
60 billion divided by 1 million is 6 thousand, and 6 thousand is a much smaller number than 60 billion.
Apple never manufactured their own iPod hard drives. That's where the similarity ends. Advancing the state of the art in batteries is essential for Tesla to remain competitive. For Apple, it was adding content and services.
Sounds great. Can I apply without creating an AngelList profile?
The Western Hemisphere's largest water desalination plant is opening in Carlsbad this year. It cost $1B, and project planning started almost 10 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_desalination_plant
Musk has previously said in an interview that Li-Ion batteries were at $600 / kwh, but when he looked at the component and manufacturing costs they were at $100 / kwh. Somehow the entire supply chain has piked up a lot of overhead, and he realized it would be possible to reduce that. At those prices, Model-S battery pack costs are between $36k and $51k!

When I realized that, I came to conclusion that Tesla Motors could be viewed as merely a stepping stone on the way to building a Gigafactory.

When demand for batteries is low, a low-volume battery factory has to share its suppliers with other clients, and those suppliers will price their risks and profits into the deal, multiple times along the chain. On the other hand if you have enough volume to justify having the entire manufacturing cycle under one roof, from ore to ready packages, all those markups go out the window. It wouldn't surprise me to see overhead going from the staggering 500% to a more moderate 50%, but only as long as there is enough demand for all of those batteries. Which is why you need cars - they consume a lot of energy.

By now it's pretty much certain that Tesla will be the first to build a Gigafactory. The interesting bit is whether Musk figured out a way to make sure no one has the ability to build a competing Gigafactory and commoditize the business. Right now only Tesla itself can generate enough demand, so they are pretty safe. If Musk can convince the other car manufacturers to buy batteries from Tesla, it will kill the incentive for anyone else to build a competing Gigafactory for a long time. So at the least Musk needs to appear non-threatening to other car manufacturers, and perhaps the best move would be to split battery division away from Tesla Motors completely.
I'm not sure if there is a difference. I was using the terms interchangeably (maybe incorrectly?).
As Apple has never made hard drives, calling them a hard drive company makes zero sense.

The hard drive in the iPod was never the most interesting component, or the differentiator from the rest of the market. Tesla's battery is. The hard drive in the iPod is like the wheels on a Tesla. It's useless without them, but they're a completely replaceable commodity and has no bearing on the success of the product
This would be one of the (many) reasons why, in my browser-based text editor, I just avoided the DOM entirely, drawing everything to a Canvas.
Eat 24 Has a New Logo
I thought it was a caching mechanism for a moment (ZFS).
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I had a recent experience with a Moov fitness tracker that left me feeling this way. Now I just feel like I've made some sort of wager that they will roll out enough updates before this thing goes obsolete to make the purchase -- of TWO of these -- worth while.

(tldr is just that 75% of what they show in their product video, it turns out, is not actually possible -- "yet")
It's a revelation to me.

I thought Telsa was a car company and I followed them since the beginning until their initial IPO.

From there and sorta lost interest in follow any automotive news.

Plus it is very easy to see them as a car company, they started out as a car company and Elon came to Tesla, a car company, and took over.
Great points here. I think Tesla's move to open source their patents was for these reasons exactly.
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Apple was (and still is, in some cases) a leader in miniaturization. They made a product viable that was never viable before.

Other drives were too big, expensive, and power-hungry. Apple made the iPod a common device because it was the first MP3 player with more storage than most people would need, it only cost a few hundred, and its battery lasted a long time.

Apple continued to compete by getting even better at miniaturization, like when they introduced the iPhone.

Eventually we're going to be arguing semantics, but my point still stands. Being the leader at manufacturing the boring internal components was necessary for both companies to provide the product that we perceive to be their core competency.

Edit: I forgot to address your point about manufacturing. They may not have manufactured the drives or had a unique technology, but they had advantages in manufacturing that no one else had. Tesla seems to be the same way, from what I can tell.
Why would I want to run Android apps on any device?
Sigh, you know David Goldberg wrote a really nice paper about this ...

... in 1991 ...

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.6...
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.22....

It is a real shame nobody ever seems to read it.
It's because at some point, your code will encounter low-tech technology that doesn't let you set the tabstop. This might be a terminal app, or an actual dumb terminal, or a cut & paste into a textbox on a webpage, or a third-party tool that expects spaces only, or a refactoring tool that you wrote yourself but don't have time to get working with tabs, or a parser that can count characters but has no logic for tabs. When this happens, your tab-based formatting will get messed up, while your spaces-based formatting will look exactly the way you wrote it.

A lot of mysteries about why people don't use clearly-superior technological solutions are solved by understanding that ubiquity is a feature, in many cases the most important feature. I don't use vim because it's the best text editor; I use it because I can be reasonably sure every single UNIX-like system I ever log into will have it, and once it's in my fingers from having to learn it on a remote server, I might as well use it for daily programming. I don't use HTTP because it's an efficient protocol; I use it because every single device, library, and language speaks it. I didn't write Gumbo [1] in C because I like the language; I did it because every modern language can bind to C libraries, and so this lets a maximum number of people use it.

[1] https://github.com/google/gumbo-parser
Rainwater is cheaper. IF you look at how much residential users pay, then yeah you see that desalinization would not break the bank, but most water is for farms and they get it by the acre-foot.