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You have to have an option that is better than oil, otherwise it wouldn't work. Imagine if car fuel prices were being kept artificially high, how are you going to compete? If you invest in something new, it has to be better than oil. We're lucky in this case that electric cars have numerous benefits, but suppose for a second that they didn't exist. It's possible to run a car on natural gas, coal, etc... but there are hugh costs to competing... investment in new vehicles and investment in service stations and fuel transport being some of the biggest costs. And who's to stop the oil cartel waiting for you to launch, lowering their prices to undercut you, waiting for the competition to fail, then jacking prices back up again?
Here's a relevant recent article regarding arresting members of motorcycle gangs for being present at a shooting:
http://www.gq.com/story/untold-story-texas-biker-gang-shoot-...

"Some of the 177 arrested (including four women) languished in jail for weeks, others for months, before they could afford to post bail. All of them, even guys who hid out in the bathroom while bullets flew, face up to 99 years in jail."
Too many entrenched interests. Snowden is only coming back to the US in a casket.
Be thankful for that. Cyberattacks are so hard to trace back that it's very easy to set up a false-flag operation. Framing someone else for your attack would become a simple way of starting a war between two of your opponents.
Employees of a company like Microsoft aren't special, they're like anyone else and they make mistakes. There's extra bureaucracy to catch mistakes, but the bureaucracy was also designed by people, who make mistakes. You'll never get perfection no matter how much you try. Windows has had few big failures for me in 20+ years. Measured against its considerable complexity, that's shockingly impressive.
Let's hope AB1017 http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?... gets signed by the Governor in California. That will make this problem go away.
To me, those names come in line with:

- Just Read the Instructions
- Of Course I Still Love You

...and other silly, whimsically chosen names in the tradition of Culture spaceships (from the series by Iain Banks). Perhaps they're naming their special modes in a slightly similar vein?
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This kills the passenger.
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honestly it was mostly presentation. Evernote has an interface that made it easy for me to take notes, update, attach pictures, store all of those notes in a notebook.

GD feels just like a filesystem to me. At that time. Now I actually use GD for this.
Seriously folks, turn on auto-updates.

I'll add my voice against this, if you have enough technical knowledge to check more carefully. I too have seen numerous occasions where something installed via Windows Update has taken out a machine and required significant action to restore it to normal functionality. My personal policy has long been security updates only, and even then I tend to do a quick web search before letting them install, which has saved me from the odd howler in the past.

On the other hand, the number of times I have seen a PC rendered inoperable or compromised because it didn't install a Windows update within 24 hours of the update being available is zero. Even if the PC is just a simple home machine, there's probably still at least some sort of firewall/router between it and the public internet, and just about any device like that is going to block unsolicited incoming traffic by default these days. To get compromised within that time frame you'd likely have to actively open something or visit somewhere that included an exploit for a new vulnerability, and while that is always a risk even on a fully patched system, it's not a big one for most people.
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It isn't a question of "not allowed", but of tedium. More than half the comments in this thread are paywall complaining or responses thereto. Meanwhile the actual article isn't hard to read, as many users have pointed out. This is just the kind of noise that we added that guideline to dampen. HN would be worse off without these articles, and better off without these comments.
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Wait a second..

When I bought my car (10 years ago) and read reviews, a lot of them say here's what the epa said you'd get for mileage, and heres what we actually got. There is always a difference (maybe 10%). But if it claims 30 mpg and you are getting 17 , I like to think more than few people might notice.

Part of the reason VW was accused of cheating on emissions was it helped mileage.

edit: as pointed out, its 50% more fuel... But still a noticeable difference..
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Breaking the link between the electorate and individual candidates/officeholders is true of party list methods which aren't the only way of achieving PR. STV in small multimember districts is just as candidate centered as FPTP methods (arguably moreso, in that there remains candidate choice within the same path preferences at the general elections.)
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10305204 and marked it off-topic.
Also, doesn't this only work with intro materials that only have a few lines? How's this way of teaching programming going to work if the program is hundreds of lines long, across multiple files, or have more than one correct solution? The debugging time alone would go up very quickly
A better analogy would be someone else betting your life's savings without your approval or knowledge.
I was hoping to see a feature where certain labels could be designated as 'lists', like here: https://demo.kanban.leanlabs.io/boards/kanban_demo/test_proj...
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Yeah I wouldn't trust some forum user either, but certainly some of the larger magazines that do long real life tests of cars.
Started project 13 days ago and has 4k+ GitHub Stars

"This might come in handy; better star it."
Another update: I think the quota will be reset at midnight moscow time (it is Sept 30th today). So, hopefully in about three hours the quota should be reset and the app shall be usable again.
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50% more fuel than official results would be like claims 30 mpg and actually getting 22.5 mpg.
sound like an easy way to get put on a list...
"article." The author got his Bachelors of Arts in Music.
this is exactly the problem. The CIA did not get hacked it was OPM and no CIA records were stolen. But by simple process of elimination china could look at all the embassy staff in beijing and find out who is not in the OPM records, since the CIA is the only one not keeping personel files with OPM anyone working at the beijing embassy and not in the OPM records must be a CIA agent
The reasoning I lost the data was actually a permissions issue, I think. I was an individual person, paying a Premium subscription and when the company I worked for signed up something happened to where they owned my notebooks. The company stopped using it, there went my stuff too.
We're really excited about this launch, it's been months in the making.
I'm actually pretty amazed at the diversity, and how few of these frameworks I'm familiar with.
Think of it as a SHA-1 or an MD5 that is generated using a private key, and can be verified using the public key (and the content of the data that was signed).

It verifies that the signer had access to the private key, and that the data signed by the private key is the same data that you are verifying with the public key.

It's like the other checksums (SHA-1/MD5/etc) with the addition of identity verification (so long as you can trust that the private-public keypair used to sign it is only accessible to parties you trust).
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I agree. I still understand exactly what 'dark testing' is. Is there an audience that sees the 'unpublished page post?'
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Perhaps a rejection of agricultural society and a return to nomadic life would help.

But then you also face fears about extinction much more readily.

Alternatively, working less, vacationing more would help a lot, and make the idea of "less work that needs to be done" more palatable to people who have attached their very values to their careers and being needed by society.
No we go "hmm that might fuck something up; let's try it on a test VM" or at the very least google and see if anyone else has any problems.
Skimmed through the article and I think it's similar to this - see the section "Making Things Stick"

https://css-tricks.com/gooey-effect/
Microsoft sending spyware again?
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Edward Snowden is now on Twitter, has 126K followers in under an hour
It's a good question. Why isn't this org targeting other intelligence agencies as well, particularly the Chinese and Russians?
Is there a plan to drive the van out to Silicon Valley? It seems like surveillance workers there are more conflicted.
Why provide a TLDR section that you feel doesn't accurately represent what you said?
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You're jesting, but this is actually a very legitimate concern.

It's not enough to poach people away from the intelligence agencies, they have to land somewhere that they won't continue doing the exact same thing for someone on the other side. Remember how much people howled about Snowden being an FSB mole? It wasn't entirely groundless. A public exit to a known competitor doesn't look good.
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Google goes LTE-Advanced with its new Nexus phones
Um, that does not look modern or sustainable.
Apart from the name debacle I think what they are doing is fascinating. I imagine this would be immensely useful for marketing.
Does anyone have an idea how they would be doing this? I suppose they would need data from previously posted facebook stories.
The anonymity of votes is something that acts against the worst aspects of groupthink and knee-jerk opinions in the HN crowd. I don't trying to literally penalize disagreement with the median voter here would help at all.
> It already can't be cheap or easy to have a car in Paris, people probably have them because they are worth it, which means the alternatives suck.

The public transportation system in Paris is excellent, maybe the best in Europe. Using a car in Paris, in the city center, has a lot more to do with status. It's harder to fix that.
Could it be a man in the middle that tries to install updates that aren't signed by Microsoft? It reminds me of this: http://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/the-case-of-the-modifi... .
I'm pretty sure this is a joke. Wouldn't it be much simpler to use the FitBit API? https://dev.fitbit.com/docs/activity/#activity-logging

If you do this to get a discount on your insurance, then you are committing fraud.
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They don't need to go away, they can just be neutered. There were two massive cutbacks in spy agencies in the last 50 years, having a third is not a fantasy.

"I can make this organization by and for evil people marginally better by joining it and being less evil" isn't exactly a new idea either but hasn't aged well.
A sizeable fraction of people who were biking regularly chose to switch to cars rather than wear a helmet?

That's extraordinary, I'm not saying it didn't happen but it astonishes me.
Right, that's why I brought it up - it also relates to localization which may or may not be related. But interesting none the less.
Entertaining views without holding them is much more difficult than it seems.

The question of whether it's possible to understand a proposition without believing it at least provisionally used to be hotly debated by philosophers.

The experimental evidence suggests that it's not possible

http://lesswrong.com/lw/k4/do_we_believe_everything_were_tol...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8366418
Okay, but let's get to the important part: can I use my Model X as a clean room?
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Don't bother with him. He seems to be the successor of Cedric Beust.
I like a lot of this, and it is particularly interesting to me as I am currently looking for something to replace a multi-node Corosync/Pacemaker clustered application. I have mixed feelings about writing the solution in Python, while I love the language I worry that it is not safe enough for a rock-solid, never-fail clustering implementation.

However, my biggest problem is that the author seems to completely punt on the most important problem. "To avoid this outcome (split brain), creating a new cluster is a user-specified operation." That's... just not good enough. Any clustering stack worth running must be capable of handling a network partition and continuing operation in a safe manner. In a traditional cluster that means the excluded nodes are fenced and the remaining majority continues. There are other valid solutions, but requiring user intervention in the event of a network split would be a complete non-starter for the type of application we run. We ship hundreds of these systems to customers, and they must be able to run without user intervention at all times. If something fails it might be days before we can get a tech out to investigate the problem. Not being able to handle this situation almost seems to miss the entire point of implementing a good consensus algorithm in the first place.
Perhaps most are like that, but it's likely that a significant number of them could also be there mostly for the money and because they were lured there in their early career with the promise of "doing something cool", but then became disappointed by what they were told to do. However, they don't want to say anything because they don't want to have to flea to Russia to do it or go through what Thomas Drake went through.
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I have a CVT transmission and while I'm sure it is very smart I still feel like I could do better with a manual. I don;t like my car vey much, but it is too practical and cheap to change.
I'm sure the nightmare scenario is beyond the imagining of decent people like you or I. But considering Germany has been the aggressor of the two largest conflicts of the previous century, do you honestly believe it's prudent to say "just let them do whatever. I'm sure they've learned their lesson this time"?
I would pass on attending your class, but I wouldn't mind watching a feed of the proceedings. The fistfights would be especially entertaining.
Thanks. Really appreciate this. Now I am greedy. Need your feedback on this. Thanks again. :D
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Well, in my university's intro programming class, there were a couple hundred people. Grade-wise, the unit tests said it all. You didn't get personal feedback unless you asked for it. The test framework would email you the test cases and what your output was versus the expected, so a lot of times you could figure out your mistake (or bad assumption) without asking the professor.

The professor would have the grading details on the whole class so if we missed a lot of points on a particular problem, they would concentrate on that for a bit.

If you needed personalized feedback, you could ask the professor questions after class, at office hours, at the discussions section to your TA, or at the TA's office hours. There just wasn't personalized feedback based on your assignments.
> Need of a support group or working for the surveillance apparatus does not imply idiocy, no more than you just implied being addicted to a substance implies the same.

This is not a fair reading of GP's comment. The reason he said that people working for the NSA are not idiots is because people tend to imply that the only reason they continue working at the NSA is that they are idiots. GP was pointing out that there are other possible reasons, including that they are of the considered opinion that what they are doing is not wrong.

For addictive substances there is an obvious alternative reason why people might need a support group to help quit: addiction! But I don't think anyone argues that NSA employees are addicted to snooping, so one is compelled to search for an alternative explanation.
Your grandfather and his friends don't have statistical significance to base a conclusion, unless he has thousands of friends who drink coffee and smoke ;)
http://recode.net/2015/09/30/sources-jack-dorsey-to-be-named... is the source linked to in the article.
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> Scripting languages didn't have to care so WSDL seemed bloated and unnecessary

This is an excellent point. And even a stronger point when one think about the popularity JSON. There is very little advantage with using JSON with Java for instance (architecture wise). XML,SOAP and co gets a lot of hate today.

And it's funny how people are now reinventing the wheel with GraphQL and co ... when all that is needed has already been invented but for some religious reasons devs refuse to take advantage of it.
Eu has stricter PM limits, the US has stricter NOx limits.
The refresh looks nice but Asana really needs the ability to create custom fields in tasks and maybe an agile view as well.
The IAB will lose horrifically. It will be worse than wack-a-mole, similar to the music industry's futile attempts to keep its jurassic-world business models on life support, like battling unsophisticated malware or like the battle social networks have with keeping bots and fake profiles from taking over their MAU numbers.

What the Ad industry needs is a completely new and innovative business/revenue model, one that has not been thought of before. On the bright side, it's the dawn of a AdAge!
Are you rebooting all your windows servers for each little update too then?
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The chart looks interesting on this news. It shot to as high as 27.40 in the 30 second period after this was announced and then fell back to its original price level within 5 minutes.

It looks like the machines like the news much better than the humans do:)
"We didn't find anything" is fine for a random journal (there is a saying in academia that everything gets published eventually), but that's not going to get you into Cell, Nature, or Science, or a similarly top-tier venue. That's where the stress lies, and why negative results are pointedly lacking in the literature.
I just had 4 flights over 2 days, and noticed something odd. I've noticed it before, but it really bugged me these trips. Someone reads off 'friendly' announcements trying to get us to sign up for credit card offers - get free skymiles, free bag checks, etc. Sign up today! The sales pitch went on for almost 4 minutes on one flight. It was a 30 minute flight, so > 10% of the flight was advertising. What bugged me most was that this was, AFAICT, the CAPTAIN - the person flying the plane - pitching credit cards WHILE WE ARE FLYING. I have to take my shoes and belt off (sometimes), can't bring liquids in, have to turn off electronic devices - all for purported safety reasons - but someone who is FLYING A PLANE can take several minutes to pitch a credit card. It's sickening. I do think that the first class passengers aren't excluded from these pitches tho - they're going to hear some of it anyway, regardless of where you sit.

I'd really like an airline which didn't constantly pitch stuff at me while I'm flying. I guess it's called "buy your own plane and fly yourself"...
In the interest of being accurate when commenting on a contentious issue, I should point out that my statement that these professions are only available to citizens in the US is not strictly true. The barriers to non-citizens wishing to enter law, medicine, dentistry, and so forth in the US are considerable, but they are still somewhat porous.
...which is why you should be using VeraCrypt (https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/, the actively-developed fork of Truecrypt)
You’re forgetting the ‘Someone’ who will remark that road design plays an important role.

Relevant links from the past week that compare two approaches:

https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/come-an...

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/the-f325-fast-...

IMO, almost all cycling accidents are avoidable, also those where the fault is with others (pedestrian, cyclist or car driver) you have no control over.

Problem is, to do that, you need to pay attention whenever there is potential for danger. Good cycling infrastructure decreases the fraction of the time that that potential is present from close to 100% (for example, if you are riding a 1m cycle lane next to a row of parked cars, you _must_ look forward to check whether there are drivers in those cars that might open a door into the cycle lane, and stay in that 1m wide lane, and check for cars making a turn into your lane) down to 10% or so. That makes it a lot safer to ride when you aren’t in the physical and/or mental state to pay attention 100% of the time (which is almost always)

Oh, and “Chris Boardman”. I like making sensible posts, and accept that ‘being ignored’ sometimes is the price for it.
Yeah anything subexponential. We can also write it as `2^o(n)`.

It doesn't have to by hyperpolynomial, if you solve ETH in linear time, you also refute it :-)
excellent work! making students understand references/pointers has been my biggest challenge. dynamic visualizations definitely help.
At some point the USGOV will subpoena them for the list and stage summary executions. s/.
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Whoops. Serves me right for writing comments 3 words at a time between Sametime pings...
I think it's more that HN doesn't appreciate jokes, the discussion tends away from that here.

Also, from the guidelines:

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
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You aren't describing PR, you are describing party list systems, which are one method of achieving PR. Single Transferrable Vote in multimember districts also achieved proportionality of representation, but involves directly voting for candidates. MMP mixes elements of FPTP and party list proportional. And there are a bunch of other mechanisms for achieving PR.
It's not irrelevant at all.

Manufacturers report fuel consumption during a controlled environment, with specific driving habits, etc.

Real world people drive insane (at least in the US), and most wouldn't even re-pass their drivers-license test, so most assuredly do not have the best driving habits.

So drawing the conclusion that manufacturers are "lying" from the discrepancies between those two data sets is ridiculous.
Thanks. That's very helpful information that's not easily gleaned by awanderin' around 'how to set up a server' tutorials. Simple things like, 'last -a' is a fantastic little hint. Almost would like to make run that command on every ssh session login.
I've found that the way they honor this guarantee is that you simply return it for the reason "Did not arrive on time" and you get a refund.

I've done it once because it didn't arrive on Friday, wouldn't come until Monday, and I wanted it for that weekend so I just went out and bought it and returned what Amazon delivered Monday. I felt kinda guilty but when it came Monday it looked like it was run over by a truck anyways, as in, had actual tire tracks on it.
Fair enough.. But still a significant real world difference.

EPA (USA) tests aren't really real world and they don't just drive the cars. Well they drive them on a dyno on a preset pattern (see the picture in the link).

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/how_tested.shtml

they measure emissions to estimate fuel consumption.