skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article has been restructured quite a bit after it was made part of the Judaism portal, compared to when I first found it and then looked into the subject a couple of years ago. Just because one wikipedia article is incomplete doesn't mean it's not an accepted fact.
I have no idea what I read, maybe Flow, maybe Think and Grow Rich, that mentioned when you're in tune with a presenter/speaker, you'll often find yourself finishing their thoughts. I used to subscribe to that HEAVILY and constantly look for it. But over time, I find when I'm making a point and taking my time to ensure that what I am saying is clear and no extra parsing language is needed, I do not need, or want, a person audibly trying to be engaged. Especially when they're wrong. It actually isnt that big of a deal, we just all have our thing
I also remember an astronomic "observatoire" buying lifetime guaranteed ISO9600 CD as a secondary backup of jpeg encoded pictures in the early 2000's (if you look at it all choices that were legits) that discovered 2 years after the primary backup failed (HD) that the secondary also failed.

Whereas microfilms are still less expensive then and now, and still guaranteed to be more durable with less operational costs.

Those who sacrifice a cheap reliability for the illusion of an expensive ease of use deserve neither one, nor the other.

Benjamin Franklin
> Tesla has the power to lead the way into eliminating these middlemen monsters and I hope they see more support in that regard.

arguably... Craiglist has led the way, and earlier.

do you want to see ads from dealers? or from private owners? or both? your choice
I think they were made for governmental purpose, not for regular people.
This has to be the best example of "cash talks" that I've ever heard. Definitely going to keep this one in my back pocket!
I do think this is a fairly silly example of throwing your toys out of the pram. Yes, we should be concerned about threats to civil liberties and human rights - which exist under governments of every shade (hi, Obama). A citizen's response to this, as opposed to a globe-trotting metic's, is to fight diligently and patiently to minimize harm and make small improvements. The threat to ind.ie's business model seems remote; presumably whether they might be forced to backdoor their products would depend on whether they sell them in the UK, not where the code was written.

As for "feeling ashamed of myself" and "being held responsible" by these chaps, who "don't want to hear my excuses" for voting Tory: ha ha ha, sorry stranger but why should I give two hoots?
Depends on how long you keep the car. I drove my last car for 13 years (still have it actually, haven't sold it yet). I just bought a new replacement. The warranty and low mileage are worth a lot when you plan to keep the car for a long time. Lifetime warranty's are also worth considering if you are in it for the long haul (usually only available for original owner).

If you buy used, you really don't know what you are getting. If you want to play backyard mechanic, go for it. Me, I just want my car to work.
I recall reading something similar wrt Scala & Twitter. At the time Twitter really needed to scale up they chose Scala and had the effect of attracting people who wanted to work at a company because they used Scala. I can't find the link however
As much as I would like to do this to a shady used car salesman, I'm hoping I will never need purchase a car again. I'm going to use public transport, biking, walking and carsharing until self-driving cars arrive. I'm sure many millennials are in the same boat.
It was purchased directly from Lenovo with a Mastercard. I purchased the laptop in early December, though they did not deliver until after Christmas (first strike against Lenovo on this laptop.)

The chargeback just went through successfully on Friday. I have not heard anything from Lenovo yet regarding returning the laptop. I can keep you updated on this if you like.

The woman at MasterCard was very helpful and knowledgeable. She was surprised about SuperFish, but seemed to understand it. I use the laptop professionally and do systems work, so I explained how I basically could not use the laptop for work and had to spend time double-checking some of the work I had already done for clients.

There are also annoying hardware issues with this laptop, various intermittent problems causing crashes. I didn't get into that though, and just stuck with the Lenovo omitting fraud / laptop unusable for work narrative.

I always heard good things about Lenovo, but the late delivery, SuperFish, and hardware issues are enough to make me avoid the company like the plague.
Uninstalling Superfish doesn't remove the dodgy root certificate that it installed (which is the dangerous bit). As per Lenovo's guide[0] that still has to be done manually.

[0] http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish_u...
> Some in the MAD tried to start intelligence activity against the press, but the responsible official denied their motion.

The fact alone that high-up army officials and H&K managers even attempted such behaviour is telling enough about the respect to the constitution of those involved.

The fact that this behaviour has not warranted immediate consequences (at least resignation/discharge of the involved AND a criminal investigation by the Bundesanwalt) is telling lengths about the Bundesanwalt, too.

> The BND is not properly supervised, but the government already acknowledged that and said that they are going to solve it.

Honestly, you're believing in that? A secret agency is by definition secret, and I don't see the amount of change needed for proper surveillance of the spies coming anytime soon.

> What I found to be the most outrageous thing is that chancellor Merkel said that her goal is to enforce german law on german ground, and that they are working towards that. This doesn't sound like she is really convinced to be able to do so. I expect the government to say that german law will be enforced and that they will fight any activity not adhering to them.

I don't see that much of a problem in this regard, though. The US embassies and military bases in Germany have historically been dealt with as foreign territory, even though they were not de jure. In a certain way, what we allow the US to do in "their" bases and what we get in exchange from the US, is a reasonable amount of discretionary power of the politicians. However, this needs trust and at least "private" (i.e. knowledge on level of ministers/heads of state) transparency on both sides that no cheating takes place.
Not sure it's possible to maintain at production targets. 2014 if I recall, Tesla did ~35k units. That's ~12 cars/ hr if we assume 12 hour work days.

Their 2016 target is 100,000 cars or 33 cars per hour by 2016. So for example they'd have to both double their plant capacity then get 50% better at making cars. Seems like a tall order but perhaps doable for a guy like Musk :)
What will happen to Silicon Valley when demographics strangle the global economy
If you don't need other bases you can just string join them. : P
No issues for me in chrome 42 win8. Tried disabling all your extensions?
Kubernetes gives you freedom about where to run your stuff since it works on multiple providers and your own hardware. Once you learn how to set it up, it isn't too bad.

Google managed kubernetes cluster gives you the best of both worlds anyway.
What about a product/service that would greatly influence your workflow, that you don't know about? How would you ever search that out?
Secret city, inhabited by aliens, close enough to know who we are but smart enough to stay away? http://marvel.com/universe/Inhumans
Link should probably be changed to this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-email-tesla-employe...
Know this, we had a former officer as a guest speaker and he made it quite clear that, between radio calls, logging and looking up stuff on their systems, police are incredibly dangerous to be around. His best advice was to stay far away from patrol cars.
Do you get bonus points for knowing that these are Alphametics? And covered in ridiculous detail in volume 4A of The Art of Computer Programming? I'm curious how the solutions there stack up to what is in mind here.
Saw that on a Kaggle forum and been wanting to play with it for a while. Code looks amazingly clean and simple. Keep up a good work!

Just curious if you compared Keras with caffe or torch in terms of performance?
In a room with a crying baby, all pretense of an audiophile experience is gone, no matter what.
Though the skimpy recursion limit makes it fairly impossible to do anything interesting with this property, much to the chagrin of some people. :P
What's on your roadmap? Brokerage services are only a small piece of the GTM space.
> Active noise-cancelling is counterproductive to a neutral, balanced sound

NOISE is counterproductive to a neutral, balanced sound.

FTFY.
I've got a Dell e7440 which is a really nice compromise between portability and power. It's built out of something metal and has survived me taking it everywhere so far. 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD and an i7 does the job.
Facebook's cable is not their own dedicated cable but a shared resource: http://www.wired.com/2012/07/facebook-submarine/

Why do you think contributing to cables would imply they want to compete AWS?

It's not necessary for a data center, they might want it to reduce latency, to reduce operational costs or to increase bandwidth.
Noone knows if it would have worked, because they never implemented it (except for some local levels).

There was much party-internal warfare about it.

One faction saw Liquid Democracy as the solution to all problems.

The other faction insisted on "Datenschutz" (privacy extreme), which to them evidently meant that having your real identity tied to any election is unacceptable. They would rather have people vote twice or three hundred times on the same ballot than introduce any kind of identifier.

It's a great demonstration of why the German Pirate Party doesn't even get enough votes anymore to have the listed by name in TV when election results come in.
I'm making a countdown timer for my university's transit system.

https://github.com/jbwashington/BusHog

I find myself making a series of countdown timers in the morning based off my class/bus schedule, I figured I would cut out all the bloated map UI and pull data straight from the school's bus API.
Full Stack Development Is a Myth
OK, I didn't get the joke I guess.
I hope you're being sarcastic. Therefore I will respond in kind: yes, the only way to determine the value of a work of art is by finding out how much some rich person is willing to pay. That is a very reliable indicator.

In case you're not being sarcastic: there are ways that things can be valuable that have nothing to do with capital. Pig.
It's relatively rare, but even so the board has to file a Certificate of Designation to use it, which would be publicly available to the exact same degree as a Certificate of Incorporation.
Be sure to check out the original article at the excellent Quanta Magazine: "CHAPTER 2: NETWORK TAPESTRY
How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time" https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150428-how-quantum-pairs-st...

As well as the prior article: "CHAPTER 1: ENTANGLED WORMHOLES Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox" https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150424-wormholes-entangleme...
Yep, car free since 2010!
This is actually rather awesome. Is there a robot at any point or is one always connected to another human? As I only ever got impostors. Sadly every time I got to play impostor the detective seemed to time out.
Thanks for sharing! I don't agree with all what he says but that talk is superb and thought provoking
That's pretty solid. I feel much more relieved knowing I dont have to take extra precautions.
The URL is throwing 404, probably due to it being private.

Would love to see it. I am working on something similar.
New machine could one day replace anesthesiologists
Before prohibition breweries owned the bars to the point sometimes you could only buy a single brand of beer for blocks to no end. That squeezed small breweries out of the market. When lifting prohibition, Congress created the tier system to prevent something like it from happening again.

Ken Burns' documentary about prohibition explains it really well.
> EQ itself adds distortion.

Modern digital EQ algorithms don't add any distortion worth talking about. But even in the worst case, it's still an infinitely small amount compared to the wild distortions that your room imposes on the sound.

If EQ can compensate for even a modest chunk of the room's influence, the net result is a huge drop in overall distortion.
DRM is a technology that restricts the invention of future technologies. DRM enumerates what you can do with data, which by design restricts future possibilities as well as present ones. One of the key features of non-DRMed data is that it can be used in novel ways that its original authors never thought of.

On balance, I feel comfortable classifying DRM systems as "anti-technology": they prevent the further advancement of technology past the vision of what the authors of the DRM system could think of and deigned to allow. More importantly, laws and policies that enforce DRM are anti-technology.

But in any case, a clarification then: against DRM enforced by law, such as via the DMCA, or enshrined into "standards" that are then used by governmental entities. DRM enforced solely by technology, without the backing of laws like the DMCA, is not necessarily a governmental issue, though it's still something to fight against.
One more thing (Pixelmator for iPhone)
For those who want some context: https://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton :)
Do US dealers not display starting prices on the vehicle? The standard way of doing things in Australia is every car has a clearly marked price and then you see how much you can knock that down in negotiations, or you could just pay that listed price.
https://youtu.be/jh8supIUj6c?t=16m13s

No one but the White man can bring the Internet to you.

Dude, I'm not even white and I find it disparaging. The talk is terrible. It is politically charged when it really shouldn't be. The issue is simple: Privacy concerns are not being respected by Facebook or Google.

I don't know why he keeps bringing up "White People" conquering nations, or "The White Dude who lives in a Cloud and watches over Us" , or any of the other disparaging remarks. What the hell? How many times does he call Mark Zuckerberg white? Why have any emphasis there at all?

If it were a black man in charge of Facebook violating our privacy, it'd be just as bad. Why did he have to bring Mark Zuckerberg's race into this?

Its one thing to be against the system, or to expose the system's flaws to the world. But disparaging the audience is not the answer. His harmful speech is going to hurt the cause in the long term.
A Story About The Trouble with Job Titles and Descriptions
Being the devil's advocate here, was there advance notice for the pregnancy?
And the rest, part that is explanations and cites and summaries of the comments received during the commentary period isn't anywhere near 800 pages.
I think there is a rapid feedback loop of writing that makes it drug like. Reading can start w/ absolutely no understanding and leave you with very little after a fair amount of time clicking from file to file. It can feel far more frustrating off the bat.

But after some amount of time, the ease of simply reading someone else's working codebase compared to debugging/designing and reading your own becomes overwhelming.

So off the bat, writing is easy, but as soon as the amount of code you've written gets near to the complexity of what you avoided reading, you're going to wish you'd just read up a bit.

There are a lot of serious javascript nerds who defensively coded the living crap out of react (and for that matter ember, angular, etc)... starting from scratch in light of that seems quite intense. Even if I were going to embark on such a quest (let's say for pure functional programming style), I'd probably start looking at the ideas in Om (clojurescript react) before writing my own.

I think I'm biased towards not coding because laziness pays dividends later once maintenance, etc come into play.
What they did, was a joke compared to what is going on
today in many western countries.

The Stasi had a unit whose job was to drive its victims mad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung). Their collaborators numbered in the hundreds of thousands (http://www.ted.com/talks/hubertus_knabe_the_dark_secrets_of_...). Be careful with those comparisons.
High-performance 3-D microbattery suitable for large-scale on-chip integration
This talk is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, you are absolutely right. But in case it isn't obvious to everyone already:

1. Detroit as a city, and the industry that built it, is dead and gone. Nothing will bring it back. The auto dealership network across the US has tried to adapt to changing technology too many times to count, and apparently is still waaay behind.

2. Tesla _might_ not successfully disrupt the auto industry, all by themselves. But like sharks, once there's blood in the water, it's only a matter of time. Many businesses want a piece of the US auto market -- and I mean "want" like a shark wants its next meal. I personally think Tesla is here for the long haul and has a huge first-mover advantage.

3. The only question is what this means for the infrastructure. Refueling stations. Brick and mortar parts stores. Parts websites. Tooling industries. Inspection and emissions and repair businesses, both brick and mortar and online. Imports. Dealerships. Financing. Fleet management. Warranties. Lawsuits. US Department of Transportation regulations and the political power structure that surrounds it.

Tesla will almost certainly make some mistakes. But so far the trend has been extremely positive.
Haha, to be fair, they are using 1.4 rc
I think we're talking past each other.

> I don't have any reason to care when a trusted or untrusted notary endorsed someone's identity.

Sure you do--you're doing it right now :) This is how usernames on websites work in general. The reason why someone besides you cannot create an account on HN with the username "fluidcruft" is because names are unique on this site, and you claimed it first. You, I, and the rest of the commentators here trust HN to ensure that this is the case for everyone--we each have the usernames we have because we claimed them first. I must emphasize that this is orthogonal to authentication; this is simply about preserving a common property of typical user account systems.

The goal of Onename is to provide a user account system that binds usernames to personal data of your choice without needing a central administrative entity to enforce the above property. Instead of everyone trusting servers controlled by a single administrative entity (like HN), we instead trust that the underlying storage medium that hosts each (username, principal) binding has the property that once a record of a binding gets written, it cannot be altered later. In the absence of compromises, the overall effect is the same as on HN--usernames are globally unique, and are bound on a first-come first-serve basis to principals.

You seem to be thinking that we're relying on the blockchain to do some kind of extra user validation. This is not the case at all. We're only using the blockchain to provide a highly-available write-once read-many (WORM) storage system for (username, passcard_hash) bindings. What I've been trying to argue is that the degree to which we can ensure immutability hinges on the WORM property holding true for the foreseeable future. My point was that there is reason to believe that a blockchain with many peers has the WORM property because by construction, it's costly violate this property, it's very difficult to violate without drawing attention to oneself, and it's financially desirable to to preserve anyway--the WORM property also guarantees the immutability of transaction histories. This is what I meant by "the blockchain peers attest to the bindings"--by mining blocks and constructing the blockchain, they're preserving the property of the blockchain that makes it useful for constructing a decentralized user account system.

Because of the WORM property, you're guaranteed that the first occurrence of a (username, passcard_hash) pair you find for a given username was issued by the owner of that username. Any subsequent attempts at writing a different passcard_hash for that username can be ignored (preserving global uniqueness). Unless you can attack the underlying blockchain, you cannot trick someone else who audits the blockchain into finding a different original passcard_hash for the same username (ensuring everyone finds the same original username/passcard_hash binding).

Does this make a little bit more sense? Does this help you understand what it is we're trying to do?
> What about a product/service that would greatly influence your workflow, that you don't know about?

That's what general marketing is for -- building that kind of awareness. Unless you've got special and particular understanding of my workflow in advance, I don't see much value to me of you directly pitching me on it.
In terms of speed, I don't have any benchmarks available. But it's using Theano under the hood, which is well optimized and should be very competitive with Torch and Caffe.

When it comes to convolution, it will actually use cuDNN if available, and performance will be slightly better than Torch and Caffe: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks#layer-wise-ben...
Cyber crime on a global scale
This story about life on the other side of the fence has been posted on HN a few times, and it's still a good read:

http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/confessions-of-a-car-sales... (2000)

http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/confessions-of-a-car-sales... (2009 update)
But there's only so much you can do with crap data. In my experience, you often have have consultants/experts who are divorced from the reality of classroom teaching or teachers who are too embroiled in the day-to-day to execute data-driven instruction effectively.
> It was a very abusive process. I've never been in another situation where you ask how much something costs, and they say "make an offer!"

What you're describing is a problem with sales people, not the dealership model. Generally, when you have sales people who make commission and who have price flexibility, you will get this type of attitude.

Assume we cut dealerships out of the equation tomorrow, what makes you think the manufacturer won't have the same sales people on the floor pushing the product?

What you're looking for is a fixed retail price on the product, so you don't have to worry about negotiations. Tesla happens to have that but not all manufacturers would necessarily make the same choice.
It looks like it was supposed to a hyphen, not an underscore:

https://github.com/eropple/deploy-thing
It's pretty simple, they're willing to pay extra to avoid negotiation

Negotiation costs time and stress. If one has more money than time and stress tolerance, it makes sense to pay to skip the negotiation.
Previously discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9526362
I used to think 'ice' too, but think about this: the sun is basically a point-source of lighting for Ceres; and yet the bright spot can be seen at various angles. Now, it is possible that it's a huge jaggedy piece of, such that it reflects sunlight at a wide range of angles; but what if it isn't? :-)
No, because in both cases the inputs and outputs are lists, not sets.
Aston Martin DBX: la version finale commercialisée en 2019?
I think that you are pointing at the wrong file, it looks like the library is actually around 4k lines. The point may still be valid, but it was not a trivial codebase to fork and they seem to have some architectural goals that they didn't think any of the current libraries were well suited to work with.

https://github.com/Raynos/mercury/blob/master/dist/mercury.j...