skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what's awful? Living in a country where political opponents are murdered, not just spied upon. Or else they are prosecuted for crimes they couldn't have possibly committed. Where there are actual enforced Internet blacklists which can contain anything from political blogs to github.com. Who could possibly support this? Oh right, Snowden does. The fact that he lives in this country, in a penthouse apartment and buddy-buddy with Putin, while Russian whistleblowers like him (e.g. Navalny) are constantly persecuted, and people are actually praising this guy is what's actually depressing.
Build it around Earth of course. Get about 10X the solar density outside atmosphere. Even with 50% losses due to translating to/from laser, still magnitudes more efficient than ground-bases. And Mercury-based orders of magnitude harder yet!
>>solitary confinement is viewed as a significant punishment for bad behavior. Being alone with your thoughts is worse than being around criminals all day or locked in a cell!

Solitary confinement for a few days isn't a problem. What people have an issue with, and is unfortunately a very common practice, is when a prisoner is placed into solitary confinement for weeks at a time, or indefinitely. That is a form of torture.
Tesla's range numbers for the Model S assume about 300Wh/mile average consumption. My average consumption so far over not quite 8,000 miles is 315Wh/mile.

It's hard to cheat in an electric car. Few people care about efficiency directly, but most electric car drivers care deeply about range, and range is just battery capacity multiplied by efficiency. If Tesla were cheating so they could lie about efficiency, Tesla owners would notice pretty much right away that they're not achieving the range they should.

The only practical way for Tesla to cheat would be to ship a larger battery than they say they do, and then fudge the numbers from there. Given the current cost of batteries, this would be an incredibly expensive cheat, and it would be tough to hide from the tinkerers who tear down battery packs to see how they're built.
I meant NYC.
Never going to be better than pen and paper and a scanner.
Is this a "lock the doors, man the battle stations" kind of problem? It seems super, super bad.
Constantly in a turf war with QOS.
There's no point pretending tech as a whole is somehow holier than government here. If only there were a similar plan for Google or Facebook.
Out of curiosity, how tall are you? I think he said a big part of the problem with minivans is that you can hit your head on the roof while trying to lean in to snap the buckles. With the falcon wing doors, the roof flips up too. Obviously if you are blessed to be average height, that may not be a problem for you.

As a tall person, I am excited that Elon is tall and getting them to consider the problems of not being average height =)
Can this be used for car touring? I hate when I go through tunnels and the signal blacks out.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft does sign updates. Which means either this is a glitch of some kind, or is being refused/failing installation because it's not signed ... Or, worse case, it means the update signing key has been compromised.
It's not silly at all. I wish I had this everyday that I'm sitting in traffic. My car has multiple climate control modes that default with the vent open. Some heater modes override the vent button and force me to use outside air. I actually know what the outside humidity is and the amount of car exhaust I want to suffer. But apparently that doesn't matter to Mazda.
Surprisingly, it doesn't get very cold in the populated parts of Norway. The average winter temperature in Oslo is 23 degrees Fahrenheit (-4C).
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I thought cloude ides like https://c9.io/ would allow to do just that. You'd be able to see/edit your student's code in real time.
Ask HN: Has Apple lost its way? Is their decline imminent?
I have been hearing a lot of complaints, issues all around the news and people I meet or talk to about decline in Customer service, brand equity, confidence, brand affinity etc.
Are people losing confidence in Apple and with coming devices like watch, car, VR etc from Apple, do you think the decline is going to accelerate?

I used to love apple and its philosophy and products. it is no longer the same company. Its strategies are no different than IBM or Sony for that matter. They have amazing talent which is why they produce beautiful products, but why is then people all around the world are showing pessimism in their direction. has its peak done and gone

Has Apple lost its way?
I am literally laughing out loud reading your comment. What happened to you Pavornyoh? You very much sensible last time.
Oh, wow - so if she wants to breastfeed, she basically has to avoid soy and dairy?

New dumb startup idea: match women like your wife with women who are lactose/soy intolerant (but whose babies aren't), and do a milk swap!
> it's important to note that meditation isn't about "thinking less".

You are likely more educated and informed about meditation and its purposes, but for myself, I use meditation specifically for the purpose of "thinking less". At least, that's how I'd describe it.

Thoughts still come, but I let them go almost immediately, which stymies the flow or deluge that would normally follow. I focus on ambient sound, or breathing, or whatever, nothing.

I can't turn the internal monologue off, but during meditation it does seem to fade out and it definitely feels like I am "thinking less".
Your story may not be 100% accurate, but still, it may be a good idea to introduce a "Hippocratic oath" for programmers, or engineers in general.
Web based?

Apache Wicket (http://wicket.apache.org/).

Java + HTML. Can't get any simpler than that. Java 1.8.0 makes me not miss Groovy at all.
Portal SFIGUEIREDOIT
Appeared on WSUS as well...

NEVER turn on auto updates on windows. Read all the KBs, then choose to install, ALWAYS. If you have a corp network, use WSUS and stop all updates and check them. If the KB is content-free like the new ones, no install. I avoided the whole CEIP bag of shit and Windows 10 upgrade notification hell thanks to that.
Wouldn't the "Postgress (sic) of programming languages" need to be something sponsored by an independent organization?

Doesn't C# (Microsoft) and Go (Google) have the same risk that Java did? Or are the license differences enough to differentiate them?
It automatically detects roads,pathways in the woods...etc...so It would probably help you with connecting the missing parts on your road trips.
> Shouldn't Microsoft be signing updates so that redirection attacks don't work?

Microsoft sign updates and utilise HTTPS.

Given how few users are impacted by this suspect update, it may be the result of malware on their local machine. If malware has root then all bets are off, the signing requirement can be removed.
What does this have to do with redirection attacks? And who says the updates aren't signed? I would be a bit surprised if they weren't.

Based on the info in the post, I'd guess that this is a test update of some sort and that it was pushed by mistake.

Disclosure: MSFT employee, but no knowledge of what this is about.
Could it be that older versions of windows (2k3 for example) might allow this update to be installed? Has anyone tested this in a sandbox?
I'd be surprised if an attacker would waste a compromise with something obvious. Perhaps it's some testing thing that wasn't supposed to go out.
I know, right? I work with a lot of politicians and they run the gamut from "tech savvy 30-year-old" to "grandpa who still uses AOL". Any product which wants to appeal to the entire population needs to be able to explain itself to that range of people. If you want to move beyond the bleeding-edge techie crowd and the Millenials you've got to be able to sell yourself to the people who don't grow up with computers.
I used Scalatra on one other project, and I found it to be difficult to deploy. Whether it's true or not, my impression is that Spark is a little simpler to use and deploy than Scalatra. Scalatra is my second choice though.
This isn't Snowden.
Slender Man caught on tape
It is an arbitrary line and drawing such line would probably be a risky proposition in US, but it works in Europe because it's a Schelling point. Openly endorsing Nazi Party ideology through symbolism was forbidden immediately after the war for obvious reasons (and I seriously doubt that anyone in the still burning Europe really protested), and those symbols still bring bad memories to people - so the law kind of stuck.

So yes, this sounds like a slippery slope, but in that case Europeans have a Schelling fence on it. See [0] for a more detailed take on the whole topic. For our purposes though, the money quote:

"In the original example with the alien, I cheated by using the phrase "right-thinking people". In reality, figuring out who qualifies to join the Right-Thinking People Club is half the battle, and everyone's likely to have a different opinion on it. So far, the practical solution to the coordination problem, the "only defensible Schelling point", has been to just have everyone agree to defend everyone else without worrying whether they're right-thinking or not, and this is easier than trying to coordinate room for exceptions like Holocaust deniers. Give up on the Holocaust deniers, and no one else can be sure what other Schelling point you've committed to, if any...

...unless they can. In parts of Europe, they've banned Holocaust denial for years and everyone's been totally okay with it. There are also a host of other well-respected exceptions to free speech, like shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. Presumably, these exemptions are protected by tradition, so that they have become new Schelling points there, or are else so obvious that everyone except Holocaust deniers is willing to allow a special Holocaust denial exception without worrying it will impact their own case."

[0] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/ase/schelling_fences_on_slippery_slo...
> Let me know when your graphic card crashes don't require a reboot any longer on GNU/Linux.

On the one hand, yes, that would be nice.

On the other hand, I have been using GNU/Linux on my desktops for about fifteen years, and I have only seen a handful of kernel panics during that time. And most of those I strongly suspect being caused by faulty hardware. I remember the X server freezing on a few occasions, but that can indeed be restarted without a reboot, and the last time I saw that happen was years ago, back in the bad old days when people had to edit xorg.conf...
You have to put in a fair amount of effort to monitor the fuel efficiency of a gas (or diesel) car. It's not hard, but you have to keep manual records and do some math.

If an electric car is much less efficient than claimed, you'll notice as soon as you try to drive to the limit of your car's range, because it won't get there.
This is basically a 'but those guys are even worse'. That has never worked when attempting to excuse our own behavior.
Right. What I'm saying is: how long do these dependently typed language features have to "incubate" before they make it into Java? Because implementations of dependently typed languages have existed for as long as Haskell has, and we've known that it's been possible to capture "proofs" in a type system for almost a century. So how much longer do you expect it will take?

Or, maybe, there just isn't a real industry demand for dependent types. Hell, many engineers still have trouble convincing their employers to write robust tests, let alone full proofs of correctness.
Obviously I was unlucky : my experience was things didn't work and was next to impossible to reason about. This was 4 years ago and I went with (and burned myself on) Play Framework.
AppDelegate.m and main.m are boilerplate. They are generated by Xcode when you create a new project. Often you don't change them. The ViewController is where you should start examining the code.

Of course, you have the .h files too. With Swift these go away so there's fewer files. Finally, you can do scripting that doesn't have any boilerplate: http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?age=10000&q=scripti...
Yes, a desktop computer is a complex system, that's why I leave these not entirely trivial plumbings to the system programmers. The downside of this is the exploited systems that potentially everyone has to suffer.
The Model S already has unusually large wheels for a sedan
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Thanks for the feedback and I'm so sorry it's so frustrating. I just tweaked my Blogger theme to just use the desktop theme on mobile -- hopefully this will be an improved experience!
I probably won't use an analytics product made by a company who immediately runs into a trademark suit because they're not familiar with one of the preeminent analytics solutions on the market.
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Tesla is around today, not the 70s.

Yes, emissions in general are very important. But they don't sell cars. Crash safety sells cars. "Better crash safety than anything else out there" really sells cars.
This is great, I highly support this effort as well as any efforts to socially/emotionally/professionally/economically disrupt, shun, or humiliate people who participate in or are complicit with mass surveillance against the public.

The sooner we start making the people who participate in mass surveillance filled with guilt or otherwise miserable, the sooner they will stop spying on us.

Campaigns like this have the potential to send a strong message that oppressors and their proxies are not welcome in our society.
Which is, among other reasons, why you encrypt your key with a passphrase.
> I'm surprised he's using Bitcoin, since bitcoin is a ponzi.

Let's keep the discussion to actual facts please.
Some people have enough hatred of the US to accept Putin. They don't have enough hate to get their own government to stop dealing with the US though.
If he had voluntarily chosen to remain in Russia you might have a point, but that is not what happened.
Most of what you see is the boilerplate of generating a new iOS app.

You're right, all of the interesting code is in ViewController.m, and if this were extracted to a library it would be much smaller.

I think the point of this repo is a demo app that you can build and run on your phone to find out which chip manufacturer you have.
Global variables in DLL's are definitely not visible across processes. Each process which attaches a DLL has its own instance, in its own protected address space.

If the claim were true at face value, it would mean that if two programs use, say, MSVCRT.DLL (Microsoft's Visual C run-time), if one program reads from stdin or writes to stdout, it interferes with the other.
Too easy.
TBH, we didn't have to do much performance tuning. The Meteor app we are building is heavy on the database CRUD (like real heavy) so there is not much to tune code-wise other than define good data structures for your db. And really, if you have to do any GC tune up for your node app, you really have to ask yourself if there's something you could do instead in your code first.

I must admit that initially it seemed that node js profiling sucks, but it's just that we are still not used to the internal intricacies of V8. When we did profile a couple of times (we use Webstorm so just used flag in the run config), there were too many things out of the context of our code showing up. I think if you show a snapshot of YourKit to someone who hasn't worked with JVM before they would have a similar reaction.
This is such bullcrap. $6k a month after taxes goes a long way EVERYWHERE in the US. People that can't afford to live in SF on this salary are just bad with money.

Even spending $3k/mo on rent leaves you with $3k to spend on everything else. $3k/mo after taxes is like a $50k/yr salary. If you can live in Nebraska on $50k/yr, then you can live BETTER in SF on $100k/yr.

The SF tech crowd that can't get by on $100k need a lesson in managing money.
Not seeing anything on my Win7Pro SP1 VM - last update was 4.3MB VC++ 2008 Security fix - MFC applications being vulnerable to DLL planting due to MFC not specifying the full path to system/localization DLLs.
Why would malware bother to hijack the update system like this? It seems like a lot of work to trick the user into installing something that the malware could just install directly.
I agree. Also maybe someone with great UI skills can remember to set a proper damn tab order.
That's not much verbosity/fluff. It's the typical default auto-generated code files; basically the author said "new project" and filled in a few lines. No need to hand-optimize this into minimum files.

ETA: With some cut-and-paste & removing stubs, and preserving the storyboards, the whole thing can be reduced to 20 lines in just main.m, smaller if you shift into "obfuscated objective-c" mode.
> a slightly better Java

I wouldn't call it "slightly better". It is much, much better. There aren't that much changes to your programming habits or architecture, but improvements which Kotlin brings are huge.

Absence of nulls, type-inference, top-level functions. All this would make a huge difference, not "slight" one.
You've asked a relevant question. Sadly, Apple lost their way a couple of years ago. http://www.techhive.com/article/248264/cupertino_is_becoming...
Let's see... Comes preinstalled with OS, has small memory footprint, very fast loading, low CPU usage and shitty support for newer web tech.

Yup, all checks out.
It illustrates the point well, though. Even if the chance of complication is minuscule, making the activity absolutely compulsory without recourse is still an unjust, potentially crippling intervention on the individuals who are affected.

I don't see anyone advocating that pedestrians be outlawed and making operating a vehicle compulsory, is the critical difference here.
>Essentially, while it is an argument that laws and regulations are attempting to make it harder and harder to get away with, basically the top clan's saying "hey, I am telling everyone to not engage in illegal activities, we even fire when they violate it, so we are not responsible for their actions.

Sounds like a modern corporation to me.
It's not actually very hard to achieve rated range in a Tesla. You might need to refrain from flooring it at every opportunity and you might want to cut down from going 10MPH over the speed limit, but it's not a challenge.
HR at google will try to negotiate no more than 10-15% for your offer(if this is entry to mid level position)
If you really want to negotiate a better offer, you will to include not just your base but your package including stocks, benefits etc in your package to give them a holistic number. Base salary is only a piece which usually get 10-15% boost, but other benefits usually get ignored. You can negotiate on these both to get what you intend to negotiate with
Also BC, Canada. Those Mitsubishi Delica vans are popular because they are camperized and have four wheel drive. It's amazing there isn't another option built for the domestic market rather than having to import fifteen year old, right hand drive vehicles like these.
Can you point to a terrorist attack they've disrupted that they were not the primary initiators of in the first place?

What about a bad government that they've overthrown that hasn't been replaced with a worse one?

What about a social/cultural program that has had a positive effect?

What about a surveillance program that hasn't been abused for coercion and personal or corporate profit?
Whether it's the most reliable or not, to me the indicated graph at least shows something massively different going on with some GM cars. Every other manufacturer ranges from achieving ~20% to 80% of their claimed fuel emissions improvements from 2008 to 2014, and then there's GM, all by itself with negative 40%.

That is, for GM cars alone, people are reporting not just a lack of increased fuel economy, but that it's gotten significantly worse. Whether it is accurate or not, it indicates something very wrong, either in the testing or in those cars, and that deserves some serious attention IMO.

Edit: s/fuel economy/fuel emissions/ Graph says economy, subtitle say emissions, text says emissions.
It might be much more effective to ask them to only take part in or start defense-related activities at NSA or GCHQ.

Even if they only work at protecting the US and UK from foreign agencies, that will still result in mostly securing the whole world since hardware and software is used worldwide.

It's also more realistic since it doesn't involve destruction of those intelligence agencies but merely retasking over time.
Strange, I tried posting this link onto Facebook, and received the following message:

http://imgur.com/c49k2py

What's up with that?
ZeroClipboard is adding support for the HTML5 clipboard API , while retaining Flash fallback for older browsers:

https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/171
One thing this and the comments really highlight is how different driving styles are in different countries. I wonder how much this is responsible for traffic accidents?

As an example:

- In the US people aren't taught (or don't care about) lane discipline, where as in Europe you will make people very angry driving slowly in the inside lane [0]. As such undertaking is usually prohibited in Europe, where as it's allowed in most cases in the US.

- If you are waiting to cross an on oncoming lane of traffic and someone coming towards you flashes their lights, in the Middle East it means "wait, I'm coming", where as in the UK it means "go ahead, I'll stop".

[0] Italy is my favourite for this. People will come up behind you (doing 160km/h, while you are doing 130km/h and the limit is 110km/h :D) and start tailgating and flashing their lights until you move.
Oh please. Who stands to benefit and who stands to lose at this point from the assassination of Snowden?
this practice (of determining that the software is being tested, and thus altering its behaviour in favourable ways) has been present, off and on, in the anti-virus industry, for years.

Here's one of the latest occurrences:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/06/antivirus_testers_st...
If someone has managed to compromise Windows Update (which I doubt seriously based on what's presented here), why on Earth would they not bother to come up with text more convincing than the garbage on display here?
That's true, but the more moderates that leave, the more chances we have at a Snowden 2.0 who is going to throw the family jewels to the internet on his way out the door.

Snowden is still an outlier in people's minds-- they don't know about Binney or Drake. More people from the inside joining these voices would really help.
Tesla website is pretty clear who they market to. People who buy SUVs to feel safer. See HEPA filter mentioned as central feature. Also this is not a niche demographic. I would not be surprised if the majority of SUVs are commuting and shopping vehicles exclusively.