skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 2013 Model S has had its share of issues. My car is on its third drivetrain. Am I unhappy about it? Nope. Was it a hassle? A little. Was it a show-stopper? Nope. Did Tesla always take care of the issues to my satisfaction? Absolutely. Would I buy another Tesla? Not only YES but I cannot imagine ever buying anything else ever again.

Tesla's huge weakness continues to be communication between company and customer. That is and always has been my number one area of concern. Not reliability. Except in terms of communications reliability. They are terrible at managing expectations. At providing quick and timely updates. At explaining functionality (ESPECIALLY in the age of autopilot) for not only safe driving but also simply maximizing enjoyment of all the car's capabilities. Tesla as a company is a shambles when it comes to communicating. It unfortunately continues to be a low priority to fix it. I wish CR would ding Tesla for lousy communications. Because customer complaints about their weakness as communicators go unheeded.

But I would still buy a Tesla again and plan to.
You can delete them (or at least, request that Google delete them); either by selecting the checkbox next to each recording, or by choosing "Delete options" from the vertical-line-of-three-dots icon in the top right. What it looks like you can't do is ask Google not to keep anonymized recordings of voice searches etc that you make in the future.
That's been the consensus I've seen from the group working on Octavo, a rust crypto library. http://lukasz.niemier.pl/octavo/octavo/index.html

It's a possible future goal of the project to end up API compatible to OpenSSL to do just what the GP was saying. I think the constant time functions are the biggest reason it can't happen yet, though there's probably more I'm just not aware of.
In case you're not up on your conversions, that is ~1 banana equivalent dose.
> The agent was still an agent when he performed the crime.

Which would be relevant if the headline was about the commission of the crime, and not the conviction. He was not an agent at the time of his conviction, and had not been for some time. Reporting on the conviction, "former agent" or "ex-agent" is accurate, and anything else would be inaccurate.

> You wouldn't say Ex-president Obama was impeached, that's just weird.

Well, yeah, because an ex-President can't be impeached (unless they are now in another impeachable office.)

Impeachment happens while you are in office, and doesn't remove you from office (it is the formal initiation of a process which might, with conviction, result in removal from office.)

So, its not really a comparable thing.
This is why I no longer consume mainstream media news. They ALL have an agenda and that is either to scare you or make you angry. And they obviously don't care about lying by omission in order to garner views.
Assuming margins hold up (or improve).
Why is this legal? In Kyllo -vs- United States, the USSC ruled that using modern technology to peer into someone's home constituted a search under the 4th Amendment[1], and required a warrant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
Comparing Tesla to existing car companies misses the point entirely. Telsa is an energy platform company that is investing in delivering (Supercharger network) and storing (Gigafactory) energy. Cars are certainly the current "killer app" today, but are likely to be followed by many other applications in the future.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/12/31/snoopsnit...
"I know _ad hominem_ is generally uncalled for, but"

Thus neatly showing how comment threads turn "pretty toxic". If you have better analysis of the data, that would be great to see.
I believe most Geiger counters measure ionizing radiation, and X-rays are electromagnetic radiation.
You bring up a valid point, but it's worth considering that Taxi drivers have homes. Let's think about driving from SF to Palo Alto at 11pm. This is probably not great for a taxi driver who:
a) might have wanted this to be his last shift
b) lives closer to SF

There are other ways of selecting for this, but a self-driving taxi doesn't need to care and can just be managed as a fleet. Yes, some miles will need to be driven by an empty car, but for the most part demand for transportation has a balance, but this balance is very hard to reach in practice with actual drivers.
This is where if companies were honest they'd send out cards

"Thank you for beta testing"

as maybe a 10th generation owner someday, I say thank you to all previous owners too for spending the money to work out the bugs
It's difficult/impossible to write constant time functions in rust in it's current state afaik.
The quantities of radiation quoted by the manufacturer are extremely low. The actual effective absorbed dose might be different from what they actually say, of course.

I am anticipating that someone will come forth to defend this illegal searching by claiming that the radiation dose is negligible or irrelevant. I want to counter this defense by posing the matter as philosophical rather than an empirical question of whether the irradiation is harmful or not.

EDIT: Ah, in the time that it took me to write this, I have been proven correct.
The RPi has a different aim (to provide a full computer), whereas the micro:bit is to facilitate first steps with minimum effort. By using Python a child gets a sense of progression from one device to the next.

I can confidently say that all the partners are working very hard to fulfil the vision the BBC has of inspiring a new generation of digital makers, engineers and creatives. Each partner brings different skills, capabilities and expertise to the table. It's most certainly a case of the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts since we're all pulling together in the same direction.
I hope you are correct. I don't have much faith in the southern states changing anything for the better.
And as self-driving fleets take over and cease to be tied in to the driver's self-image, my guess is that the cars will look more like the $15,000 Toyota Yaris. I also imagine that as fleet owners gain greater control of design, they'll find ways to make maintenance easier and cheaper. Insurance should also get cheaper with fewer human drivers (and by the time automated cars are on the road, there will be a lot of cars with crash-mitigating technologies too).
I do wish CoffeeScript had stronger type support, however, I don't want to give up indentation, optional object brackets, optional function parens and easy loops.

There are a ton of other CoffeeScript features I love like the string interpolation syntax, comprehensions, implicit return, @ for this, improved switch syntax, ranges and a ton of other stuff, but I'm going to hang on to those first four for as long as its practical to do so.
The requisite XKCD chart: https://xkcd.com/radiation/

Interestingly, it's nearly the same radiation dose as is living within 50 miles from a nuclear power plant for 1 year. Which is only interesting since the Indian Point nuclear power plant is ~35 miles from Manhattan.
Don't forget batteries. Rolls-Royce did well with jet engines, probably better than cars.
Just to be clear: you are outright lying about what Snowden says there.
The advice of /dev/urandom vs. /dev/random is case-specific and doesn't apply to all operating systems. For Linux systems, in general, it would appear it doesn't matter and /dev/urandom is sufficient.

However, on systems such as Solaris, the cryptography group (whom I know personally) specifically recommends the use of /dev/random in some cases. Those cases are largely limited to specific cryptography requirements such as a hard requirement for high entropy sources.

Regardless, all of this is largely moot at this point, as all *NIX-like systems (including Solaris) seem to be standardising on the getrandom() (in Linux first) and getentropy() (in OpenBSD first) which sidestep many of the more subtle, potential issues.
police have zero oversight and zero repercussions though

they literally get away with everything

cops always ignore other cops breaking the law, always

so any tool they are given, it is an absolute guarantee it will be abused
>should look like something like:

> parse : Any -> Try GraphQuery
> parse object = do
> timeRange <- TimeRange.parse object.over
> filter <- Filter.parse object.where
> groupBy <- GroupBy.parse object.by
> return (createGraphQuery filter groupBy timeRange)

New ECMAScript 2015 Style

parse = ({by, over, where}) => {
timeRange = TimeRange.parse(over)
filter = Filter.parse(where)
groupBy = GroupBy.parse(by)
return createGraphQuery(filter, groupBy, timeRange)
}

or

parse = ({by, over, where}) =>
createGraphQuery(
Filter.parse(where),
GroupBy.parse(by),
TimeRange.parse(over));

or

parse = ({by, over, where}) =>
createGraphQuery(
Filter(where),
GroupBy(by),
TimeRange(over));

or

parse = ({by, over, where}) => createGraphQuery( Filter(where), GroupBy(by), TimeRange(over) );

or

parse = ({by, over, where}) => c(f(where), g(by), t(over));

and, if you're willing to put a front-end on it:

parse = ({b, o, w}) => c(f(w), g(b), t(o));

Of course, I have not provided the definitions of `c`, `f`, `g`, or `t`.
Why does everyone else's "gray" look really black to me?
I don't quite understand why you would use a full-blown browser like phantomjs for crawling (I've seen a lot of projects recently taking this approach, so this critique is not directly towards Apifier).

Yes, I get that in some specific circumstances it would be nice to be able to execute the JavaScript on the page but think about the trade-off here.

In the vast majority of cases a simple HTTP GET request with a DOM parser is all you need -- actually not a single one of the examples on the Apifier homepage has any need for phantomjs.

Wouldn't it be much much cheaper, simpler and faster to ditch phantomjs? Or is there something I'm missing here?
Some people think lots of things.

If you've ever been in an actual police state, you'd understand that New York isn't one.
I completely agree with you but I think another reason some people aren't as keen to coffeescript as others might have to do with their other coding experiences/languages/habits...

Coming from many years of python development, coffeescript is a natural fit...
I also don't understand how people can have the same outrage for these kind of shootings (e.g. armed with a knife) that they have for shooting an unarmed person at a traffic stop, etc. At the point where someone decided to wave a deadly weapon around at others, I think they've knowingly forfeited their right to personal safety. Doesn't mean you should just shoot them if they are 15m away, but it does make me feel a lot less bad if they get shot in a position where they could have easily killed someone otherwise.
"The author needs to clarify what portion of total revenue Google derives from ads, and then to break those ads out by service (Youtube, Gmail, Sponsored search), platform (desktop vs. mobile), and geography."

The author (me) would love to, but Google makes very little data available. The only geographic data is total revenues broken down by US/UK/Rest of World. There's also revenue from "Google [search]", "platforms" and "other". Estimates about YouTube etc revenue tend to be calculations based on various private metrics.

"I'd wager… that Google never planned to make much money from mobile search in the first place"

Possible. As the article says, and has been repeated multiple times, Android was a defensive move to stop Microsoft cornering the mobile search field.

"People don't explore on their smartphones: they consume."

I must introduce you to some networks called "Instagram" and "Snapchat" and "Line" and "Weibo" and "WhatsApp".
> ES6 clearly made Coffee Script less relevant

I see that a lot and find it highly subjective. I don't find es6 useful at all and will stick with coffeescript for the foreseeable future but that also has to do with my reasons for using it.
How's this for a compromise:

Philosophically, the government should not be irradiating people without their consent under any circumstance. Empirically, there is no* health risk from doing so with these vans.

* By any reasonable measure of increased incidence of cancer from small doses of radiation.
The figure given came from Google's Amit Singhal in October 2015.
It'd be ironic if a bomb were designed to be set off by a scan.
It's probably not, but considering Chicago ran a blacksite operation that moved over 7000 people and relatively little has happened in regards to that, you can bet nothing will happen with this.
Used osmand from f-droid in Indonesia few weeks ago. Google maps was basically useless. OSM map in southern Lombok did send me down a crazy dirt path that was mapped as main road. That was fine for me, I was just exploring the country on a scooter not relying on it for anything important (uploaded fixes when I got back to the home stay).

Similarly experience in Philippines in January, Google maps had basically nothing in Palawan but OSM had great coverage.
This assumes it's a full body exposure.

The top layers of your skin is ~5% of your body weight and your only getting that on one side of your body so ~2% of your body weight.

Thus, even if the average is 1 banana equivalent dose, your skin is getting ~50 times that which may or may not be safe, but it sounds worse.

PS: Of course this also assumes nothing breaks and it stays in motion, if the vehicle stops without turning off you might get hundreds or thousands of times that.
If you want to migrate a coffeescript codebase to typescript, try out https://github.com/palantir/coffeescript-to-typescript which should do it for you automatically
Seattle Is Not Being Changed by Amazon but by Financial Institutions
i'm not asking for professional diagnosis, just a quick BigData/Image analysis (a small plugin for the Palantir system which processes these images anyway) on an original image what this one i'd guess was significantly downscaled from:

https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.NkPNDYF.jgT.0R6ruZMwQ--/a...

(i mean you can see the guy's balls even on that downscaled image :)

I think all these Big Brother total surveillance technologies can have huge public benefit if/when public actually gets access to it. After all it is our tax dollars that paid for it and normally we're supposed to get access to the info government procures on our dime.
WHAT CONVERTS BETTER: $100, $99, OR $97?
The Tesla's getting AWD? That's cool. If they can get the range up over 400 miles, I would be very interested (albeit still unable to afford one). Hoping actually that I do slip on a banana peel at some point :)
I fear that RunAbove is no longer a viable way of testing on Power8. The response to my trouble ticket was so unhelpful that it did not even confirm whether they still expect a Power8 instance to start. Instead, they just referred me to the community support which consists of lots of unanswered questions with the same symptoms. I would suggest avoiding RunAbove altogether -- truly abysmal service.
Rebecca Solnit: In the Sierra Nevada (2003)
As a one person enterprise (zejoop dot com) I have been very product focused to date and I have struggled to get test users. I had no idea there were beta platforms, per se, so I Googled your phrase "beta testers and early adopter platforms" and learned a lot - especially from particularly helpful post on Quora.

That said, could you recommend top 3 such platforms in your experience?
>Turns out he wants us to accept his son as a co-founder. With 30% ownership.

What an outrageous demand. Surely, there are better options than this? Did your lawyer say?
you would also be spending $200 extra on your electric bill
You may be correct on case law, but just the threat of a lawsuit can coerce a poorly financed ex-employee into doing something against their wishes to save on having to hire a lawyer. This coercion is what needs to be discouraged.
Where is home?
Digital Branding Guide 1:1
In many places around the world that actually deserve the name of "police state", you would not be reading this article in a domestic publication. In fact, many of these countries wouldn't even let you read it online if it was published somewhere else.

America has a lot of problems, but hyperbole isn't a solution to any of them.
The supreme court had issue with the thermal devices because they weren't generally available to the public. Dogs are generally available and they're smelling things outside your home/car where they don't need a warrant.
To me, it suggests exactly the opposite. Rather than simply seeing wealth as a high-score indicator, he recognizes that by holding onto it he is squandering a huge amount of potential wealth for society at large.
I'd argue the super-wealthy are only different than the "rest of us" in terms of scale on this issue.

Relevant Louis CK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC4FnfNKwUo

I drive a cheap Honda Fit, not an Infinity, but the concept still applies to almost everyone who lives a decently comfortable western life.
Sadly a crash might not do it. Next big trend, Chinese rich people sneaking money out of the country and into California real estate
In fairness, lots of police departments would love to have X-ray vans. But probably only the NYPD and a few of its peer departments can afford them. Likely as the tech gets cheaper, Podunk USA's cops will also get them.
"you'll probably do a good job classifying them with very little data."

It's because we use much better algorithms in our brains (compared to the ones we currently have in DL). Having "lots of data" allows us to get good results even while using inferior algorithms.
> ES6/7 code is much cleaner, clearer, and more idiomatic

I'm assuming you're talking about the compiled javascript from coffeescript and not coffeescript itself? I find coffeescript code much, much nicer to read, write, and deciper.. but that's just me!
Nope even if you don't own assets you still benefit from increased productivity. The average person don't own airliners, but still benefit from cheap air fare tickets.

With a free market and self-driving taxis, the price of transportation will collapse which will benefit everyone. The wealth that used to be spent on transportation can be used to by other goods, which will make everyone richer.
I think we agree :) Thanks for the reference btw, I'm supposed to be writing my thesis on such things.
I don't think that people complaining about excessive use of force hurt the point of view that the US is a police state. If anything, these people support the idea that the police are out of control. People are looking for any sort of easing up from the cops, even if it's for violent offenders.

You get a constant drum beat of news articles showing the cops killing people who were unarmed, and public resistance grows, which for most people means nothing, as they aren't about to become criminals. Years of police abuses leads to a lot of people not caring if officers live or die, though-- where we are right now. This is a good thing, because everyone is on the same page: violent police are unliked.

The colder the community gets to police, the faster they will change their tune. Ferguson was a turning point, with many police departments realizing that violence begets violence, and military occupation of neighborhoods as a policy begets violent opposition. Since Ferguson we've seen a lot of police departments start to walk back violence as a policy, and maybe in 10 years we'll be back to community policing.

People see the European policing model (police not murdering tons of people or constantly beating/tasing them, having polite and helpful cops who are members of the community) and are getting jealous and angry. This too is a good thing.
They announced AWD over a year ago.
PassMark received offer to not release rowhammer test
Sounds like none of these are reasons to avoid a supercomputer, if you've got the grant to provide the compute time. You're kind of arguing both sides of the same coin here -- both that there's no reason to run the job wide, and that it's hard to run wide jobs on public-science installations.

Reading her past publications, she seems to hold her jobs to reasonable levels (around 10k cores in her latest publication). I can see using <30% of the system for such a short run (less than a week) as something that would be challenging for, say, an early-career researcher to lock in. But as you said, this is a job that lends itself extremely well to being broken up into smaller batches of jobs, so that should be something easy to do -- especially as more and more supercomputer-class platforms open up at more and more computational science departments.

She seems strangely fond of Aries, incidentally, so she, at least, thinks the interconnect is important. I personally don't (in this specific task) but I'd be interested in knowing why she does. Her TED talk is, sadly and unsurprisingly, light on technical information.
seems more reasonable then to leave them as-is and regularly delete them :)
This article and the 2 linked source articles are a big hot mess of half baked thoughts and misunderstandings. However it did remind me again to think of all the impacts that driverless cars will have.

Does anyone know of a thoughtful analysis of how things (like public transit, parking, etc) will likely change as driverless vehicles become more common?
Ah! I think I saw this awhile back. I didn't refer to it too much when working on Monapt since it seems to serve a more abstract purpose, and since Monapt's original purpose was to emulate Scala syntax.
Wen u sa u wont too improov thee Englush orthografee doo u meen speling foneticulee? Beecuz ay think that wood bee silee.

Instead, why not teach the English language properly to students? You know, where the words came from, what changes they suffered through the years... That's how I learned it as a non-native speaker and I can tell you I had a blast doing it, not to mention that now I literally can't forget how most words are spelled (I remember vaguely the derivation from Latin/Greek/Middle English/Anglo Saxon).

In other words, folks everywhere through the times were able to pick up this beautiful language, but all of a sudden we are having problems teaching it to kids these days? Is it the fault of the language, or the educators?
We said no, the lawyer told him so, he asked for direct contact details and we haven't heard anything from him yet.
Also, not to be the old guy...cables don't bug me THAT much. I'll take USB C and charge with 100W instead, thank you very much!
Isn't one of the Tesla's (and other EVs') advantages that the electric drive train is mechanically simpler, not to mention smaller, than an ICE? No cylinders, starters, water pump, oxygen-fuel mix gauge, and dozens of other things that can and do go wrong.

On the other hand, it sounds like Tesla's software and firmware are pretty complicated, meaning bugs in the 1.0 release, updates that may need to be rolled back if unexpected edge cases are discovered, hacks, faulty soldering, bad chips etc. And would lightning do a number on a Tesla? Maybe on any car, actually.
New technology, like fit and finish, door handles, etc? There are drive train issues, but there are plenty of decorative and functional issues that are solved problems. My dashboard shouldn't creak cheaply in a near $100K car.
The goal of modern law enforcement in the US is to just grow bigger and bigger and get more and more toys.

Start program. Don't tell anybody about it. In fact, make it illegal for people to know about it. Buy millions of dollars in equipment. Use equipment even if untested/ineffective. Buy more equipment and start more programs. Repeat. Gotta stop terrorism, after all.