skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is apparently little/no used car market in Japan.

At least historically, that's because the inspection process for keeping old cars on the road is so onerous that many people don't want to bother an just got new cars[1]. I don't know how things are now, but it sound like the inspections are still expensive[2].

[1] (90s) http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/12/world/why-the-cars-in-japa...

[2] (more recent) http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2022.html
This article does a better job of explaining Project Fi than than google's own page (https://fi.google.com/about/network/).
Do you find yourself driving into ponds and lakes often?
Just one bit of evidence to the contrary. I have filled the 70 litre tank in a 1.6tdi VW Passat and driven 1400 km with 5 occupants and luggage. This was mainly European motorway driving.
What steps do people take to comply with #2d ? Does the British Computing Society maintain a service which keeps people up to date with legislation and relevant court rulings and where you can ask hypothetical questions of actual lawyers?
Which is a little bit misleading, as the Model S starts at $70,000, but the cheapest Model S that's "equivalent" to a Model X (third-row seats, 90kWh battery, etc.) is over $90,000. So that phrasing might lead one to think that the Model X starts at $75,000, while it's probably $95,000 or more depending on just which features they consider to be equivalent.
Worth knowing that this attitude is a bit of an about-face for Schneier (albeit one that happened many years ago). For instance, this is what Schneier had to say about full disclosure software security in the early 90s:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/08/new_windows_v...
I wrote a Docker deployment tool that has many similarities to Beluga https://github.com/mrinterweb/freighter. I'm going to sound awfully biased here, but I believe Freighter has more features than Beluga. Then again there may be some things about Beluga I don't know about.

Freighter can handle multiple environment config files, environment var management, old image and container cleanup. Freighter uses Docker's REST API and therefore does not need ruby installed on the hosts, but it does need the REST API enabled to be accessible on 127.0.0.1. If you'd like to know more about Freighter reach me at @mrinterweb or ask your question here.
All they can do is prevent HA bikers from using their club logos for intimidation here, they couldn't win a case declaring the entire organization criminal.

The large biker crews here start puppet gangs now to do all the criminal activity so "Angels of Hades MC" end up being declared a criminal org with all it's assets seized, then they just make a new puppet org "Satan's Wings MC" and repeat.
ps. just reading this in a post from Bruce Schneier[1] that is currently on the frontpage as well[2] which is about cheating software as used by car manufacturers and the IoT that is coming up:

Voting machines could appear to work perfectly --
except during the first Tuesday of November, when it
undetectably switches a few percent of votes from one
party's candidates to another's.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/09/volkswagen_an...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10304428
On older versions of Windows, it was possible to write a utility that would emulate focus follows pointer, by installing a global message hook. More recent versions prevent messing around with focus across applications for obvious security reasons
What? Used lithium batteries aren't radioactive, there's no reason we couldn't recycle them. And their proliferation will only make them more economical to recycle.
They also opened the slide doors on the minivan on one side, showing that the mini van door blocks the entryway, whereas the wing doors don't.

I think in tight spaces, the wing doors have sliding doors beat. It has disadvantages, but purely from a space usage perspective it's a pretty good solution.
Have you checked your keyboard's electrical path for surveillance equipment this morning?

Did you test your water for drugs this morning?

Did you check them yesterday?

We all live at certain layers of abstraction.
My daughter was born via c-section, so there was a short period between her birth and my wife's milk coming in when my wife was driven to tears by her inability to provide nutrition to the child. The coin has recently turned, however, with my wife now having a slight overproduction problem: after freezing the excess over the course of the month, there was literally no more room in our freezer for normal food.

We'd love to see the excess used productively (she's literally pumping and dumping gallons of the stuff every week). Unfortunately, the litigious nature of US ensures that this is a non starter, as we are unable to find anyone willing to give us an assurance that we are free of liability if a child became ill after drinking my wife's milk.
Not while parked. While driving, you do lose range because of that, but it's not catastrophic.

The Model S is one of the most popular cars in Norway, so their cold weather capabilities are clearly pretty decent.
Californians and wild fires come to mind
Iffy. Melatonin isn't the only color component. And chemical action during fossilization can entirely change color; how is that accounted for? E.g. oxidized copper is blue, not red.
To me, and a lot of people, the problem isn't free markets or movement so much as the distortion of markets that occurs under very uneven regulation.

What I think has happened here is that the government got out a bullhorn, pointed it overseas, and said "if you study engineering or computer science, we will give you a path toward citizenship and/or residency in a lucrative market through specialized tech visas that will not be available to general would-be immigrants." It then turned around with that bullhorn toward the United States and said "if you go to law, medical, dentistry, or even nursing school, we will protect your jobs through government backed professional associations and unions, and even in the absence of special protections, most fields and trades will require existing right to live and work in the US. Oh, and also, there's a shortage of Americans going into STEM."

Here's the thing, if make it much easier, through regulation, for immigrants or foreign consulting companies to enter the tech market than the legal, medical, or other markets, you should understand you've created an incentive for foreign workers and companies to focus on tech, and US citizens to avoid it.

Think of it this way - lemons and avocados are grown in similar conditions. People can't buy lemons for what they used to pay, so the government declares a shortage of lemons. From now on, lemons will be exempt from the 20% tariff that is placed on avocados, and the government will grant a temporary residency visa to any farmer who wishes to immigrate, provided he agrees to grow lemons only (if he stops growing lemons and tries to grow avocados, he will be deported).

You would expect people who already hold US residency rights to move into avocados, and away from lemons, right?

But this isn't the result of markets, it's a market response to severe distortion created by US government policy.

I think we've done something much like this in high tech and science/engineering. The "shortage" of US citizens going into these fields is a rational response to uneven government regulation.

This is why I'm ok with general immigration, but generally opposed to targeted visa programs designed to cure specific "shortages". I think that they are almost always used to suppress the wage growth that would draw people into the field and reach market equilibrium.

There is data to back this up - the RAND institute, historically a very pro-immigrant think tank, reached the conclusion that US citizens avoid Science and Engineering graduate programs because they are not competitive with the other fields that are available to high achieving students. But here's the thing, those fields are only available to people who already have citizenship!

http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html
I certainly cannot get out of either of my cars with just 12 inches of space. The door thickness alone in around 6 inches. No way is my body squeezing through a 6 inch opening in anything short of an emergency and it's very unlikely even then.
For a car that you never use because choosing to driving in London is a questionable choice.
Today we released a new application – Note-Ify EasyDocScan
The language is elegant, lets you perform tweaks down to an individual level and works across many platforms and can be used in any font.

It's totally possible to create a safe virtual machine for specific uses. There have been many attack vectors for fonts over the years due to the complexity in parsing them. I do not recall any of them being due to the hinting language.

The Mac one is hard coded for a single OS and font combination and a specific size down in the operating system.

I disagree that the later is less of a hack.
Lithium batteries are widely recycled.
I suspect there are more cities than just Boston where you can get around without a car. What about NYC?
Me Inc.: The paradoxical, pressure-filled quest to build a “personal brand”
I know I am preaching to the choir, but ANY login for any port or protocol should have rate limiting and non-default passwords.

Burp suite can easily crack web logins if you allow hundreds of logins per second for a single user.
According to statcounter (which I'm not claiming is accurate, just the only up-to-date source I could find) as of August 2015 IE8 had a market share of 2.32%. You have to be really unlucky with your audience/service if you really need to support IE8.
we're all allowed to change our minds. it's a good thing
VNC, image analysis and data science
It seems that some people use coffee as, say, a stimulant to try to deal with ADHD. I wonder how much this self-medication impacts the results. Perhaps unusually, I recently did a little self-inventory and decided to consciously up my coffee consumption. At this point it seems to have a good effect on my ability to concentrate, and I could see this improving other health outcomes as it increases follow-through on exercise etc. (Caffeine may also reduce DOMS symptoms, again allowing for more exercise. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24164961)
>It's incredibly condescending of you to believe that people only disagree with you because they don't know any better.

Please don't skim read. I see we're done here.

>(but not always, its also possible I can be wrong too :) )
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>I care about whether the food I eat contains beef, but I don't think that you or anyone else is ignorant for not caring. As if I only had to educate you about the proper Hindu way and then you'd recognize that it mattered after all.

I disagree. I'd be ignorant as to why I should care. What if I tried to feed you beef and didn't understand why you became angry with me? Obviously this is a problem of my ignorance - fixed by education. Ignorance is not a bad thing. People cannot be expected to know everything.
I dunno, billions of people seem perfectly willing to "move forward" with burning fossil fuels even when we don't fully understand its pros and cons. (I also use a gas heater and conventional vehicles, so I guess I'm one of them.)

Or does it not count as "moving forward" when we've been doing it for decades and there's a multi-billion-dollar industry that's interested in keeping the current direction?
Alan Kay once said something to the effect of: the best UIs are the ones that make the process of rejection as fast as possible.

So, “yes”, Tinder-like apps are the way of the future, but we could have been living in the future a long time ago if people had been paying more attention to the lessons of the past.
> You cant have a 1,5t of a car and expect it to use only 5l/100km

So you are telling me that my actual, measured fuel consumption numbers of 4.25l/100km on flat highways in the US South are impossible? I have a diesel Passat (yes, one of the NOx Boxes :P) and can get from Dallas, TX to Pensacola, FL (650 mi) without refueling and with a decent reserve (~2 gallons) still in the tank.
Maps.me has open-sourced its map platform
Writing a your own proxy server in Python
Predicting Who Needs a Working Fire Alarm
Choose the highest gear when cruising

You can do this for automatics too - you just have to learn where the shift points are and drive at the right speed. Lift up on the accelerator quickly to upshift, press it down quickly to downshift. One thing that I notice easily when riding is when the driver is constantly staying at only a few km/h slower than the shift point, causing the engine to spin faster and consume more fuel than necessary. It often means the car is louder and vibrates more too, so not a good thing overall.

This is harder to do for newer models with quieter engines and smoother shifts but older automatics have very noticeable shifts and engine noise to judge whether you're near the bottom or top of each gear. It's very noticeable in larger trucks and buses.

Edit: another point I'll add to the list is traffic light phasing - look far ahead and observe the timing of the lights, and adjust your speed so that you're not going too fast (you'll arrive at a light before it turns green) or too slow (it'll turn red very shortly before you arrive). Obviously, you should do this only if traffic permits, but it's a great "trick" (not so much a weird one) when you can get from your origin to your destination at a constant speed with nearly no stops.
It wouldn't buy you a fifth of a garage: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2813958/Tiny-shed-pa...
A Comprehensive Course in Analysis by Barry Simon
Neat! We should join forces: Here is mine https://github.com/amanjeev/ulit
I agree! I think it's interesting to see how attitudes towards security research have changed. This, by the way, is obviously a positive change.
its.
The problem with the environmental problems (currently with VW) and the fuel consumption is, that particularly in the EU, the governments for years (if not decades) turned a totally blind eye on the car manufacturers.

The problems with the emission measuring and also fuel measuring was known for long now and in the EU, many wanted to change the measuring methods -- but for example the German government did always block such advances.

In my opinion, not only the car manufactures are guilty, but even more the politicians that made it very easy for them to cheat on us all. The additional expenses (at the gas station and with the bad air) carry the consumers.

VW is only the tip of the iceberg.
My problem with Mr. Daga's offering is that he claims to be an expert in all things startup but does not seem to grasp the concept of how to communicate his intent or show his value. His site is a very basic Meteor setup. He has grammatical mistakes galore. He's value proposition is that if you add your email to his list he will make you go from being unsuccessful to being successful; we're not sure how. The whole thing is a poor attempt all the way around to create, I imagine, an email list to eventually sell a book or maybe some sort of consulting services.

Mr. Daga, please, tell me why I should hand you my email address? How will you turn me from one of the failures of the startup world to a success? What are you offering me? Why should I listen to you? Anything.
Great that there is no discrimination of any kind. Some of the smartest kids I know didn't do well in high school: "Holberton School is open to anyone who is between the ages of 18 and 128, whether or not they have obtained a graduate degree from high school. No programming experience is required. Our selection process is based only on talent and motivation, with no consideration given to gender, nationality, ethnicity or social status."
Whole environment damage including the manufacturing should be taxed. Of course this can only be estimated.

Every engine and car produces different environment waste.

For example a Tesla S produces much more carbon in it's production than a gasoline car. There are also other toxins which are produced concerning different type of cars.

A diesel produces NOx but can reduce it with filters.

Just taxing the fuel used is just stupid.
Reagent + React Native is kinda my dream mobile stack ...
Boredom != Idleness

Boredom != Contemplation, Introspection, Reflection
That's not exactly a complaint about full disclosure, more about sensationalist press releases, and it's a decade ago (not the early 90s)

I'm really not a fan of the classic British press discreditation technique of yelling "U-TURN" every time someone says something slightly different.
Service buses are slightly orthogonal to the point - where do I get schema info for one of your REST endpoints? Looking at C# code? My experience of ESBs is that they provide some valuable technological decoupling, but don't free you from the coordinated governance that SOA should really deliver. Which is fine, because you obviously don't always need that.
My impression was that the loss of mass storage was due to a licensing issue with fat32, wherein android (google) had to pay some little license fee to MS for each copy ...
This one does seem quite onerous: how do you even know what legislation applies to the software you're working on, to even ask the right questions? There are already specialists in legislation (we call them lawyers), so why should the programmers take on this responsibility?

I agree with the spirit of the rule, but I don't think it makes sense as it's basically asking all programmers to become lawyers. It should be more along the lines of "comply with legislation you are (made) aware of" and require some due diligence like "solicit the services of a lawyer if there is a reasonable belief there is legislation that could apply".
I agree, building crud in grails is really fast. I'm just sorry grails is not so much adopted.
Assuming wrongdoing:

GM will get another pass because it is "too big to fail."

This has to stop. Execs need to start going to prison.
My wife and I both own Mitsubishis: me, a 2013 Lancer, and her, a 2012 RVT because she wanted a crossover/SUV with "more space". We're able to fit significantly more in the Lancer. The RVT is basically a hatchback on a higher suspension and bigger tires.
Your comparison with motorcycles is a bit flawed. Weight is the wrong thing to look at; at highway speeds drag is a major factor and motorcycles actually have higher drag coefficients than cars. You're also understating motorcycle fuel economy: I can easily get 4.5L/100km on my 600cc I4 doing 100km/h (although I more typically drive 130km/h and get 5L/100). I have friends who regularly do < 4L/100km in practice (on a 250, though).
I really doubt the H1 is safer than the Model X. Just because it's big and strong doesn't mean it's safe. On what basis do you make that statement?

I'm having trouble finding much info on the Brabus 800 G, but from what I can dig up it looks like it does 0-60 in 4.2 seconds with a top speed of 155MPH. Model X P90D with ludicrous upgrade does 0-60 in 3.2 seconds with a top speed of 155MPH.

Most capable is a vague term that can mean almost anything, so that can't really be argued either way on anything objective.
I do receive emails from them talking about policy changes - and the BCS's position on government consultations.

They also have a number of reports & white papers which members can read.

Members also have access to a legal helpline. Don't think I can link to it, but it says...

> As part of the ongoing commitment from BCS to invest in services and benefits, the BCS has launched a new and improved Legal Advisory Service comprising two new online legal information websites and a dedicated telephone helpline for both Business and Personal legal issues (restrictions apply*). These services are totally FREE and are provided by Law Express, the UK's leading specialist provider of legal advice.

I've not had cause to use it, so I can't comment on how well it works in practice.
WinRAR's trial expiry dialog can actually be exploited
Edwardsnowden.com
"Complaints about paywalls are off-topic in HN comments."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
There are multiple factors involved with used cars in Japan.
Check this link out:

http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/buying-a-u...
The current X3, X5, and M-Class are all built on unibody car platforms. Only the Range Rover models have a remotely "proper" lineage in 4WD vehicles.
According to the link it can do a quarter mile in 10.9 secs, so I suppose it depends on what size/type of track you're talking about. Though obviously it wouldn't be able to sustain this for an incredibly long time, I imagine your distance per charge drops significantly at full acceleration.
CIBC blocked access to all Russian sites
CIBC in Canada blocked access to all Russian sites. The ".ru" domain is blocked.
Another vindication of Ishamel Jones' position on the stupidity of relying upon State Dept covers for CIA personnel. For a hilarious and unparalleled informative look at the Agency:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Human-Factor-Dysfunctional-Intelli...
Artificial Cells That Can Replicate Themselves
I wonder if that's accurate. One of the big differences between Queens vs the rest of NYC is in the way postal addresses are handled.

In Manhattan every single address ends with "New York NY" and in Brooklyn every address ends in "Brooklyn NY", but in Queens the addresses correspond to the individual "cities" or rather neighborhoods that comprise the borough. So instead of "Queens NY" addresses end with "Long Island City NY" or "Flushing NY" or "Jamaica NY" despite being in the city of NYC.

So maybe this side project, which presumably is based on scraping the data from the New Yorker site, doesn't have all the various areas of Queens coded into it.

Or maybe it does, I'm just speculating wildly without actually looking into the matter.
They are far superior to normal car doors for this situation. You'll quite likely find yourself unable to use the driver's door, but still able to get out the back!
Amazon signs Universal to Prime music platform
Because the people buying an X are not replacing a sedan. They are replacing another SUV like an X5 or ML.
Global variables in Win32 dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) are visible across processes, so it is important that developers are careful that these globals do not conflict with any variables within the Unix shared libraries.

Does anyone have any more information on this? This is presented/worded as the nature of DLL globals being shared across processes is why they they have to ensure they don't conflict, but this seems somewhat obvious if the globals are not namespaced within the library in some sense.

The more interesting question is how the DLLs' data was visible across processes such that this mattered at all, since this kind of sharing isn't available in the UNIX process or shared object model at all by default.

How does WINE account for this?
> More recent versions prevent messing around with focus across applications for obvious security reasons

That's sad, actually, but not unexpected. Security has a habit of sucking fun out of everything.
Please change the title to

"Mercedes, BMW and Peugeot models emit 50% more CO2, new study reveals"

The report does not provide the data about fuel consumption.
Dyson claim that German vacuum cleaner manufacturers are 'cheating' the energy efficiency rules similarly: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/car-manufacturers/volksw...
Microsoft's Tweak UI (part of PowerToys) allowed focus follows pointer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweak_UI
The Facebook Epoch
The point about WCHAR size reminded me of how little browser security mattered back then. Kinda interesting to think about how the internet was so fresh that there wasn't such a focus on a secure application. I wonder how many buffer over/underflow exploits were completely ignored.