skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a quick visual survey of their results, it seems this is a particular weakness of this algorithm. It appears to me that it's tending to split large cities into chunks and tie each chunk in with a huge outlying area.

Not only does that inconvenience polling places, but I think it does impose some socio-political outcome. I'm not sure whether it's good or bad, but the decision to not have cities voting as a block, and instead to include slices of them with their suburbs and outlying rural areas, certainly impacts the way representation will be determined.
There are very few costly mistakes that only affect you, though. I actually can't think of a single one.

Emergency healthcare is a public resource (you can only handle X patients per unit time) and it's a costly one. I would bet that most safety laws are forcing you to protect yourself by way of doing simple things that lower public medical costs. Even if you commit suicide, someone has to clean up your remains and deal with the potentially dangerous bio-materials.

Yes, you are free to do things that hurt only you, but good luck finding anything that does.
Here's a great explanation of the forex market development and rigging:

https://medium.com/bull-market/oranges-and-lemons-the-fx-sca...
It's not fair to compare the Model X to a Sedan. Do you have numbers for other SUVs? Remember the idea here is that it's assumed you'll be buying a car already.

Also, even if the total lifetime carbon was equal, it's still better to buy a vehicle that produces all that carbon in localized places where it could possibly be captured instead of all over crowded urban areas.
What is a confirm functional bug report?

What does your workflow for logging exceptions and errors look like?

What sort of separation do you have between application exceptions and other types of exceptions such as database connectivity? How do either of the aforementioned exceptions/errors materialize into a bug?
2 simple lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config fix the problem:

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You do 0-60 -- or more realistically, 5-65 -- at every highway on-ramp in the country.

When do you go faster than 100 mph?
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Given that the Ethernet adapter is 100mbit -rather than 1gbit- ethernet, it's a good bet that the port is USB 2.0.

If we cheat a little, and look at Chromecast rooting instructions [0] we get a strong indication that that port is totally a USB 2.0 port. :)

[0] http://cord-cutters.wonderhowto.com/how-to/root-your-chromec...
> Close, its a principle fundamental to modern butt-based companies.

> Offer my butt storage for free, for 0 privacy and the permission to read, copy, access, and sell your data to third parties

Moreover, data loss is not a possibility, it's pretty much a certainty, because it's backed straight in the business model. At some point investors need to get their money back, and what better way to do that than have the company acquired? It's such an effective way that a lot of people starting their companies do that hoping that they'll get bought by a big corp. That the product gets subsequently shut down doesn't seem to bother anyone (except the customers, who at this point really should know better than to do business with a startup unless they're prepared for the moment said startup shows them the middle finger and disappears).
IE8 is holding the rest of us back. Reality is that most usage of IE8 comes from corporate users who are stuck on such IE8. We can't keep supporting legacy browsers forever. The solution that has been working is to warn the user that their browser is not officially supported, and that things will break.

One of the banks that I consult with allow users to install the corporately limited version of Chrome, it's sometimes 10 or more versions behind latest stable, but it's better than IE8.

Bootstrap, Font-Awesome, jQuery are dropping IEx because it's a burden to maintain that for a small subset of users. We should all do the same.
True. Rural residents will often have completely different issues than city dwellers. To include them in a slice of the city pie, is probably going to entirely disenfranchise them. Depends on the numbers.
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Unless you live in Germany you're not really ever going to hit that top speed. You will however have ample chance to take advantage of the acceleration.
Recirculating cabin air is plenty for skunk. Even economy American cars -- that no-one would confuse with exceptional engineering -- do just fine keeping the stink out.
As it's meant to be? How is that? 40 to 19 is a huge gap.

Do you engage the throttle and brakes more than necessary?
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Surprisingly well targeted based on the extracts here... It completely makes sense for Twitter to do that...
It's been a long time for me since experiencing boredom per se. There is so very much to do, to think about, to create, to investigate. Boredom is about choosing (or not) to engage thinking/curiosity/activity. So yes, as the author says, the solution to boredom (when perceived as a problem to solve) is to THINK. The problem is too many people have learned to not care, to not be interested, in their circumstances. At this point, should I be actually bored (which would probably require a willful act of situational deprivation imposed on me by others), and which the author addresses, the very state of being bored would & should become a point of intense fascination.
What about HP? The EliteBook series are quite good.

A colleague has the newest 840 G2 and it gives my x250 a run for its money.
Japanese used cars are quite popular in other nearby left-side driving countries (Thailand, Indonesia, India, Australia) and even Russia (which is right-side but whatever).

Even Japanese buildings/houses are rebuilt every N years for the newness. Might not be really sustainable.
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"There is apparently little/no used car market in Japan."

This isn't really true. A lot of people buy used cars in Japan. Not sure how you got that information.
That guy was a terrible poster, and I thought it was particularly pathetic how he tried to argue his way out of his final straw.
Those numbers (37.2 miles per imperial gallon) are in the 3.0 TDI territory for Audi in the British(/EU?) market. Many would be disappointed with 37.2 highway for any 2.0 diesel engine: look at the 'Real MPG Avg' column at http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/audi/a4-b8-2008
I think there's a subtlety you might be missing, correct me if I'm wrong.

I stated in my first reply that the growth rate is notated as a function of the size of the input. Big O is itself an approximation, you don't use it if you absolutely have to know all the other factors that don't vary on the size of the input. Such as if they vary on your memory architecture. In practice they tend not to matter, Big-O is sufficient for most purposes.

If you do need the detail, you remove the Big-O and write out your other factors so you can compare them to other algorithms at the right level of detail. There are also other notations you can use that convey other concepts, such as little-o, little-theta, big-theta. When you use a Landau symbol[1], as these are called, you're making an approximate statement by definition.

It's still perfectly fine to call array access O(1), even if your data is stored on Pluto, and it's Odysseus doing a space opera Odyssey for each retrieval, you're still only going there twice. Even if there are sub-algorithms that you are calling within the main one, you're still only calling them a constant number of times. If the first time you go to Pluto to get data it takes 6 months and the second time it takes 30 years, because of complications, it's still constant time.

If you were accessing a linked list stored on Pluto, then you're going to Pluto a number of times depending on how deep in the linked list your data is, assuming it's a dumb probe and it can't figure out where to go once it gets to Pluto and has to come back to earth to figure out what to do next. (go back to Pluto)

If it turns out retrieval time matters, or other factors besides the size of the input, then you can't approximate over them and Big-O ceases to be useful.

[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LandauSymbols.html
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shrug People get kerfluffled about the strangest things.
> and fruit juice could obviously contribute to diabetes

not only that, Steve Jobs' obsession with fruit juices has been speculated to have caused or contributed to his pancreas cancer .

http://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/soy-alert/veganthi...
My old GMC Jimmy had no recirculate setting. Incredible. We live off gravel roads. When following another car, I had to just stop and wait a minute for the air to clear, else I'd be choked by lime dust in seconds.
That shouldn't be a insurmountable issue though. When I buy a house all the carpets come out and get replaced with wood floors and everything gets repainted. Otherwise it's just gross.
I'm trying to understand the negativity of the article. Isn't trying to get our baby boomer aged politicians onto new technology and communications channels a good thing? Or are we just going to write off anybody anybody who isn't already "with it"?
1- You seem to believe Either/Maybe are new ideas. They are not. It's an old pattern which has been used plenty and we have a pretty good idea of how they work.

2- Either/Maybe are not for when an outcome "will fail in 1/1000 of cases", so this is an example of how they are unlike exceptions. If what you said was true, it wouldn't make sense for a hybrid language like Scala to have both. Obviously Scala's designers don't consider exceptions and Either/Maybe "identical", do they? (And no, exceptions aren't only used for Java compatibility, though their rampant use is discouraged).

3- You can silence checked exceptions with reckless abandon, but you cannot silence a Maybe just as easily, without resorting to obviously frowned-upon practices; you either handle Maybes by using library functions that already know how to handle them properly, or you handle them manually and you are forced to think about the outcome for each case. You cannot simply say "I don't know how to handle the None case, so I'll leave it blank" (because it won't compile) or "I'll throw an exception" (because that's not how you use Maybe, to the point absolutely no-one uses them like that, unlike the case in Java).

4- I'm sure you know there is plenty of bad stuff about checked exceptions beyond the obvious "lazy/rookie Java programmers swept them under the rug and forgot about them". For example, checked exceptions are terrible for generic code, composable code.

And there are more problems with them which don't happen with Either/Maybe. I truly don't see how you can seriously consider them "identical".
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On the other hand some data needs to be kept for many years due to legal reason. I don't think it would be possible or even legal to have all your data deleted upon your request.
Some people have yen but want to buy things, like a tanker full of oil, priced in dollars. There once existed a specialized profession of very expensive middlemen who would facilitate this transaction. The transactional costs would have paid for a nice house. Computers can do it for a tenth the price, saving money for folks in the non-finance economy when they're doing things that the non-finance economy very urgently wants them to do.
You'd get a good sample, but a poor representative. If a group of people is attempting to choose a person to advocate their interests, they'll choose the person best at advocacy, who is likely atypical in a variety of ways.

Because typically people are bad at public speaking, rhetoric, bargaining, and other means of advocating their interests.
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"no-brainer people will start carpooling more" ?

I don't think people buying Teslas will start carpooling any time soon.
> If Tesla were to attack the low-end, where the majority of car sales occur, then I'd pay attention.

Then you are not paying attention. Tesla strategy is to start at the top, with higher margins and lower volumes (meaning lower costs) and gradually move down. According to Musk the Model 3 will be available next year and cost $35k.
A [paywall] warning will have been polite. :(
Huge brains would have no real advantage over microscopic brains. Computers get every advantage from being smaller. Why would it be different for this?
You're forgetting about station wagons.
The consumer price of electricity has gone up but that's a complex problem with many reasons behind it. Abandoning nuclear energy is not the only reason and probably one of the least important ones.

Even if it were a reason, reversing again on this topic and not abandoning nuclear power would have no impact on prices by itself. New nuclear plants would have to be built which would take decades, even if you could find locations where such a plant would be tolerated.
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Smart way to subtly lobby also.
I remember my dad saying dont listen to anyone else's advice on raising your child, including his.
Interestingly enough, the Italian translation is somewhat incorrect, as it says "before it _was_ too late".
Top Gear did it with a Tesla Roadster.

But really, Tesla develop cars with high performance characteristics, and then people complain about "unrealistic driving conditions" when people drive them as they are designed?

Tesla could easily program the cars to accelerate moderately and with maximum energy efficiency, but they would't be able to command $80,000 price tags if they did that.

People who spend Tesla, Mercedes, or BMW money on a car, by and large, don't give a shit about economy.
Simplenote is where I keep my plain text notes now (Notational Velocity on Mac and official app on Android). My local copy of notes reside in my Dropbox folder and my (pretty much) entire ~/ is backed up to CrashPlan cloud.

For notes or docs that need diagram etc I use Google Docs. Even my team uses the same (as part of the Google Apps suite).

What I love about Simplenote is that it does what it says - just plain text notes. No gimmicks, no extra load and bells and whistles.

But I have a feeling that they will shut it down soon. They had a paid tier and they removed it some time back. There has hardly been any update I guess and iirc they don't really update their Android app frequently either.

Do they encrypt the notes at client side before sending it their servers? I would love to use a self hosted app that has such a functional and minimal interface and clean sync feature.
My iPhone clock is 2 minutes fast. My project is with network timing, so I'm acutely aware of clocks being off, and its driving me crazy.
It's actually superior in the rain because the doors offer rain protection from above when they are open.
Current GHC by default either prevents me from getting incoherence or at least throws warnings on orphan instances. What matters is whether a) someone not caring about incoherence writes coherent classes by default, just by not trying to actively screw up the system b) if you're actively trying to write coherent classes, you have a very easy job. On both accounts GHC does well enough.
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> If you make the pedal more sensitive (increase the resulting travel per pedal press) you'll make it harder to apply a precise amount of braking power which doesn't sound like a nice feature.

If you've tried hopping in a car from the past few years after driving a much older car you (and you passengers) will have probably noticed this! It's very common in modern cars to have much shorter brake pedal travel, so what would bring you to a gentle stop in an older car will be somewhat more abrupt in a modern car.

This is achieved by having a shorter travel pedal, which is then heavily assisted by the brake servos so it is not horribly heavy to apply. This is nominally for safety's sake, as it reduces the time between seeing a obstacle and the brakes being fully applied. And since all recent cars have anti-lock braking and stability systems it doesn't matter so much if the driver can't control the braking pressure quite as precisely.

> I suppose you could have a more clever system that would move the brake faster until it touches the disc and then behave normally but I suppose that for such a critical system constructors and regulators are very conservative.

Exactly, as I mentioned to the other commenter, it's preferable to have a simple, non powered mechanical system in place to stop the car in the event of bad things happening. Adding extra bits to this system, with the vast R+D cost involved, for marginal increases in fuel economy would be hard to justify for most car manufacturers (especially since the fuel economy saving would benefit the users pockets, not theirs).
Hilarious that your argument is your carpel-tunnel - Look at the code again and you'll see it's laid out so the computer can fill in the information for you = less typing. By typing the FROM first, the whole next SELECT statement can be auto added with a single key (perhaps `). Or you can write the SELECT yourself, but only have to type the first char of each column name before the IDE auto completes it.

The tab structure shows you at a glance what tables join to what (not uncommon to see this parent-child in XML for example, or you know, any other programming language ever).

Your last point is void - just look at C#, Java, C++, Go and so on. All reuse keywords for different purposes. It's not hard to switch context in your head depending on the language.
If you don't have a living room with a TV that's not near a computer then it's pretty useless, but I would guess most people don't fall in that category. I use mine every day. Watching YouTube and Netflix from my couch using my phone is super convenient. I also use it to play music while I'm cleaning the house.

I've easily gotten more value out of that little thing than any other tech gadget I've purchased in years (maybe even my whole life).
"This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later."
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Not sure they can deliver. Their house-battery product was relatively cheap. But it was also ill-conceived and impractical. Largely because of capacity. It was more of a UPS than a house-power-plant, because of the extremely limited time it could run the whole house.

Consider: a large fraction of the Tesla car cost is the battery and associated systems. There's a minimum range that's considered acceptable, and even their current models barely achieve that. Using smaller/cheaper batteries to make the car cheaper will violate the minimum-range requirement. No-win here, so far.
More often than it should. This is a huge problem with current companies and their products - they depend too much on the Internet connection, because a combination of lazy (or deadline-pressured) authors and executives trying to monetize absolutely anything.
Is it really any creepier than using "dead" for comments not being visible by default?
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The parent's comment is accruate on the only important point here -- Germans don't like nuclear power.

The phase out of nuclear power isn't the result of a coalition trying to appease a radical fringe component. It's broadly reflective of public will in Germany.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries...
And when in the highway don't go too fast, speed increases drag etc. etc.
What I got out of it is what I usually see with my attempts at being objective; we know this is happening, we don't fully understand why, and we don't fully know the pros and cons. There are guesses and theories, many of which I'm sympathetic to, that too many people are willing to move forward without being cautious.
That's like saying someone threw a rock at you and because you didn't look around before it hit you, its your fault.
The cheating is the problem, not the fact that people are ignorant about it.
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In those cases, just get it back from the NSA! They have a copy of everything.
Of course one could eventually migrate Linux to an hybrid kernel, but the will to do so isn't there.

Specially since it requires a stable kernel ABI.
I'm concerned with the stability of the district borders. Because of the way this algorithm seems to like to slice through cities, it seems like minor changes in neighborhood density of a city is likely to significantly change the angle of the bisecting line, thus shifting large areas of the outlying region from one district to another.

This is bad for two reasons.

First, it seems a big weakness of democracy is voter ignorance. Throwing people repeatedly from one district to another, so they don't have time to learn the issues relevant to their district and the record of their representatives, will exacerbate the problem.

Second, the system can be gamed. It looks to me like approving or denying the construction of a large apartment complex near the center of a city can be used as a tool to push lines one direction or another. So approving that big apartment building in the city will increase population in that region, tending to tighten the angle made around it, thus freeing some voters from that district and pushing them into a neighboring one. Indeed, since the algorithm is recursive, this could have big follow-on effects subsequent iterations.
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They said it couldn't be done
Because they also have cars for much longer too?

Tesla had (and has) to solve a difficult problem. The manufacturers you mention are all using standard internal combustion engines. Is it surprising that the can focus their attention elsewhere?
The code to this is https://github.com/kiranw/HackingArts-2015
I expect Tesla cheat as much as MB or
BMW in their "range" test.

Many lithium-ion batteries lose capacity with more charge cycles - 20% after 500 charge-discharge cycles would be typical [1] although there are longer-life batteries - so manufacturers who value their reputations design in enough overhead that the battery will still have enough capacity after a few years / when the product reaches the end of its design life.

Personally I'd expect a tesla that had just rolled off the production line to exceed the specified range easily.

[1] http://industrial.panasonic.com/lecs/www-data/pdf2/ACA4000/A...
Huh. This link supports that view. Only 25% are exported now.

http://www.j-ucar.com/ucarmarket/
kind of misleading headline there... They're not leaving the bay area, they're just opening a support office in nashville.
Modern Germany hasPR via a mixed member proportional (MMP) system -- which, IIRC, was a German innovation when introduced; it doesn't have straight party-list PR, but then the more proportional system for the US proposed upthread isn't party-list PR, either. Proportionality is a (really, continuous valued, not binary) outcome, there are a number of systems for achieving it to a greater or lesser extent.
It is a marketing term that means "we're going to sell you something you'll probably think of as a big car, but which only has to meet light truck standards". There was a time when something like a Jimmy or a Bronco was distinctly downmarket and likely to have utilitarian rubber floor mats rather than carpeting. (Yes, there were some "gentlemanly" vehicles in the general class, like the Range Rover and the Wagoneer, but most were all business.) CAFE regulations didn't include trucks, so we were sold trucks instead of cars. Now people want trucks that look like cars from the inside.