skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may just be that my cars are old, but the dealerships don't have parts for them. On the other hand, there's 3 auto part shops less then 10 minutes from me that have the various parts I've needed on hand and ready to go.
I would certainly not buy a laptop sight unseen -- you can't really evaluate things like how the keyboard/pointer device/etc. feel from a picture, or how the screen looks in sunlight, or if that 0.1" width reduction is worth it, etc.

Much more so with cars -- e.g. how would I tell whether 0.5" less elbow space is still good enough, or how good is road visibility from the driver seat (IMO the single most important characteristic of a vehicle!), or whether the plastic feels cheap, or how clear/useful the HUD is, from looking at pictures?

Thinking about it, I've picked my last car based on rear seat headrests obscuring rear visibility too much for my liking in one of the last two contenders. I wouldn't have been able to notice it without actually driving the vehicle.

Sure, there are reviews & ratings, but those reviewers are not you -- if (for example) you don't care about those headrests quite as much as I do, why should you let my opinion skew yours?
Wonder if there's a dataset for this. Maybe run a simple n-gram over the interviews and see if certain phrases show up more often for truth tellers vs liars.

If you're in the poker world, you know that physical tells _are_ a thing but only to reaffirm your read and should not be the entire basis of whether you bet/call/fold (ala Casino Royale).

Because it's so hard to place your entire reasoning because, "he's covering his mouth, so he's bluffing" and "he's shaking his hands, he must have a good hand" sometimes those are true tells, but sometimes maybe the room is just really cold and the player is trying to warm himself up. Or maybe he's throwing a reverse tell.

I remember Phil Hellmuth shilled a book about physical tells from a former FBI agent, not sure if there was any substance to that book.
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The date/time cross-platformness is a big deal for business-type applications, at the very least. You tend to transfer/use a lot of dates/timestamps/what-have-you in that type of application. (This is a constant source of pain for me in scala.js.)
> Finally, while you're OK dropping the equivalent of a year's pay on a website, most people are not.

It seems to be mostly tech workers who pine for the "buy it now" experience for car shopping. They all seem to know exactly what make, model, and color they want, and they never buy used.

Everyone else has a budget, coupled with a wide range of what they consider an acceptable car - which is why test driving and "show me what else is on the lot" will always be a thing.
I chatted with an engineer from Oracle a couple years ago who talked about those existing in Afghanistan, he was involved in that project somehow.
Except, of course, the right enshrined in the 2nd Amendment has nothing to directly do with hobbies, and without (major) complaint hobbies like hunting are seriously regulated and constrained. One also wonders if police carry guns as a "hobby" ... or if, they're, you know, actually useful.

Seeing as civilians in the US report using them more than a couple of million times a year, which trivially swamps the 1% you come up with above, which also ignores that deaths caused by guns are even more concentrated in perpetrators than those by cars....

But let's extend this hobby line of thought. Listening to music is much more "frivolous" than defending you and yours from those who would do them harm, so by the principle you've enunciated above, copyright restrictions could be even more harsh.

Are border searches far from the border getting the judicial deference that perpetual copyrights and no right to bear arms are getting in the Federal courts? All I can remember in detail about this is citizens "on the ground" successfully, at least at times, reporting refusing them on the obvious 4th Amendment grounds. Which I assume means the authorities are not eager to test them in court.
We replaced the baity title with something more neutral, in keeping with the HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Originally, the cost of the complete AlpTransit project (of which the Gotthard is part of) was estimated to be about 14.5 billion Swiss Francs (CHF), in 1998. It ended up costing about 18.7 billion CHF, so quite a bit more. The whole project changed quite a bit in the mean time, though (e.g. added security and environmental measures).

source (in German): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Eisenbahn-Alpentransversa...
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Good point... updated to read only. It only uses Twitter for auth.
> The author is on the right track, but he fails to form a serviceable thesis.

Totally. His whole argument is essentially that the margin isn't high enough. It fails to acknowledge the truth that is highlighted all over this thread: most businesses are terrible it managing software development. It follows then that there is value in a trusted business specializing in managing software development to assist those businesses for whom it isn't a core competency.
As far as I've read that's unchanged. So roaming will be free but calling other numbers won't be. But I guess you'll see that the most popular providers will expand as smaller providers close down.
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The shocking thing to me is that they are completing the project AHEAD of schedule!
It may matter, thanks for the details, this will allow me to test and improve the frame rate on a similar device.
That's only 30% over budget. Coming from a country where civil projects are often used to "vanish" money, I am very impressed.

Also coming from software engineering. 30% over budget is just impressive. I would love to be capable of such accurate planning.
Except that according to the article, the bought the Weather Company and not the Weather Channel...
ceylon.locale is also shaping up to be really useful. Localization in JS is just terrible.
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I guess you should go for it, and promote your beta to production. Obviously its not easy to compete but lets give it a go. Although I do find your PollPk much better with UI compared to twitter's polling section.

Best of luck :)
Bad science (a lot of the idiotic science stories I see seem to come form British universities) and from a cheap excuse of a newspaper (the Telegraph)

It seems the original article (from the Telegraph) implied the scientist extrapolated from studies of adolescents to adults - a lot of studies have shown adolescents do need more sleep, and start later in the day (so school should be shifted). But it shifts again as an adult and even over time - I wake up at 6am nowadays with no problem. I have finally gotten used to it, but it's vaguely annoying (to get old)

I think someone just need tenure or something, and someone need to fulfill their daily quota of articles.
> For instance you get a call from a customer who wants to know why his project is not moving forward, well the real answer is "My boss told me to work on somebody else's project because it is more important to the company."

If you in source though, the right answer might be, "My boss told me to work on somebody else's project because it was more important to the company.". ;-)
this isn't CIA-specific -- the DoD takes an extremely active part in culture-shaping. anytime you see US military hardware or personnel in a film or TV show, it has to be run by the DoD PR for review and editing to promote an 'acceptable' view of the military -- even for things as trivial as American Idol[0].

Americans by and large absorb what is within the bounds of acceptable political thought from mass media. What you don't see are the hands behind the scenes sculpting our culture.

[0] http://www.salon.com/2015/07/31/youre_watching_pentagon_prop...
That's a different criticism. That's the "Go Needs Generics" issue.

I don't disagree with it, but I also agree that there hasn't been any good solutions proposed for generics that meet the requirements that are at the core of Go: namely, performance of the compiled program, performance of the compiler, and performance of the developer.
Nothing yet?
One is easier and carries no risk.
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Licensing only provides money to a regulatory system. Health inspectors may prevent head lice but word of mouth is still the main way a business gets shut down for shoddy work.
Well no that doesn't technically mean he gave up his "liberty", it just means he promised not to do it at risk of being sued for breach of contract. That's all. You can't be thrown in jail for breaking an NDA.
That's a good title change—the HN guidelines explicitly ask you to edit linkbait out of originals, and if you replace it with something neutral, as you did, it isn't editorializing.

However, the article is a copy of an Atlantic piece, which was posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10382383
Aren't Apple stores owned by Apple though? If they are, when you go to an Apple store to look at things and then buy online, the store owner (Apple) is still happy because it's getting paid just the same.
Personally I find Linus opinion on this more reasonable. There is nice collection of statements about GPL modules on LKML:
http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/gpl_modules.html

So blob drivers that clearly wasn't originally designed for Linux and work via GPL-ed shim (which isn't the case with VMWare) may be not derivative work. Anyway I think it's wrong to say that kernel developers (at least Dave Airlie as we talk about DRM/GPU drivers) don't do anything because they do have anti-leech rules that actually working:

- Some features only exposed as GPL-only as their usage clearly prove that driver is derivative work of kernel. See DMA-BUF.

- Open source kernel drivers that only used by proprietary code aren't going mainline. This is benefit whole ecosystem more than GPL-only kernel with blobs in user-space.

So it's become more expensive to maintain out-of-tree drivers and not all features are available for them. This actually working because Intel does have open source kernel and user-space driver even if their Android user-space is proprietary. AMD also switching to hybrid model.

Personally I find these rules more reasonable than attempts to enforce copyleft that are extremely hard from legal standpoint as there is no single copyright holder. For example FSF require to sign CLA to contribute to their projects in order to relicense code to newer GPL version or enforce it.
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If anyone hasn't heard it, there's a fantastic This American Life that follows around a bunch of employees in a car dealership for a month. It's fascinating and sad: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/513/1...

Abstract: "We spend a month at a Jeep dealership on Long Island as they try to make their monthly sales goal: 129 cars. If they make it, they'll get a huge bonus from the manufacturer, possibly as high as $85,000 — enough to put them in the black for the month. If they don't make it, it'll be the second month in a row. So they pull out all the stops."
I like the tooltips better than either of the approaches you've suggested. If I'm confused, I glance at them and then am less confused. If I'm not confused, I just dismiss them, not feeling guilty.

I hate "help" mechanisms that keep popping up in normal operation, because usually I know exactly what I'm doing in normal operation.
So, having just checked my Surface Book BIOS, I can speak to a few things:

- There is SecureBoot configuration, and it can be reconfigured and disabled.

- There are USB and PXE boot options available, so running Linux from those shouldn't be too difficult

- It looks like the 'MuscleWire' is controlled by firmware, not windows, as I was able to detach the device in BIOS outside the OS.

So give it a few months, I am sure someone will get debian on this thing!
>"the scientists themselves have independently replicated the experiment"

Is this independent though? One person/group repeating the same experiment is much less convincing evidence of a stable phenomenon and control of the experimental situation. I take independent replication to mean others getting similar results.

Going further, the ideal situation is when there is healthy rivalry (such as between universities), so the multiple research groups have incentive to find flaws with the claims of the others.
Two miles of mountain does not "weigh down on you". As I said earlier, the alps are known to have very good rock. What this means is that it is, essentially, self supporting. You are not designing for two miles of overburden pressure, you are designing for maybe a couple diameter's worth of overburden.

If you read my comment history you'll realize that I work in the tunneling industry. I have designed, inspected, or helped construct large diameter hard rock tunnels, small diameter soil tunnels, and everything in between.
The "worst case scenario" is losing your entire source of income, since a working vehicle is NECESSARY to earn a living in most of the US. The people patronizing these BHPH dealerships don't have a choice in what they pay due to damaged credit, so they're forced to choose between an exorbitant interest rate on a vehicle that's marked up significantly, or no way to get to work.
Does app store has some api? Or did you scrap them?
I'm interested, but how is this better, or different, than homebrew?
Definitely agree for stack traces, but what about other debugger features like breakpoints, step-by-step execution, or memory introspection? When working with a large, multi-threaded system, I have found these features more trouble than they're worth.

EDIT: Grammar.
"The new Alpine railroad (NLFA) will cost 300M CHF less than planned, because the digging and concreting of the Gothard tunnel have cost less than expected.

The final bill is expected to be between 23 and 23.5 billions CHF instead of 24 millions CHF."

http://www.letemps.ch/suisse/2015/04/02/nouvelle-ligne-ferro...
Not sure about anyone else, but this would make me actually want to work for weather.com or wunderground.com.
It should be no surprise that decreasing the tutorial from 6 pages to 2 will increase number of users "registered" from 40% to 80% (or more). In my experience, tutorial dropoff follows a power law, that is, every new hurdle you place before the user can use your app gives them one more chance to bail. You can try all the fancy design tricks you want, but the end result is still the same...you're creating friction points.

In reality there's a delicate balance. Train users to use your app early and take the hit in registrations. You should end up with more engaged users who retain better. Or let everyone in and teach them as they use your app and risk retaining them because they don't understand what the hell they're doing. There is no silver bullet.
Also agreed. Shopping on the basis of nationality misses the point. The problem with India is that small cheap outsourcing shops have zero chance of attracting top talent. In smaller markets, where big prestigious technology companies don't have offices, you are more likely to luck-in to exceptionally good overseas engineers at a good price.

But you sure can't count on this happening, and, by the very nature of this effect, it doesn't scale, and it isn't repeatable.
I have never been comfortable with the concept of reintroducing a species that we haven't directly observed. We can't predict the impact one may have on its environment or disruption to the food chain.

Reintroducing a species which we are familiar with, say after over hunting by poachers, is more likely to produce the expected results without complications because we have prior knowledge of that species role in nature.
In fact it does not. Governments exist solely to provide for people. Everything else you've heard about -- companies, organizations, interest groups, etc. -- are fictions that exist to help or hurt the interests of individual people.

What you have in car dealerships is a classic example of regulatory capture [0], where most people don't buy a car that often, so they're not particularly focused on dealer laws. But dealers have all the incentive in the world to lobby for restrictive rules. And, since dealers are by their nature distributed, and often have the proceeds to be "good community citizens" (e.g., sponsor a little league team), their views have even more weight.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Firms that have zero economic profits can still have accounting profits, yes. But if a firm has accounting profits, that means it's possible for another firm in the industry to price cut them. And in a perfectly competitive market they will. So accounting profits also fall to zero*

Zero when accounting for the time value of money. I've read (for instance here http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/bookhub/21?e=rittenber...) that firms can make accounting profit in the long run. But they don't go into the requirements for this to happen.... =( But I believe it is due to the time value of money - which, given a long term growing economy with relatively little inflation, will be be long term positive. I'm not for sure though.
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It seems to be a pattern that even great companies don't last much longer than the average human lifespan. Even if IBM is a 130 year-old company, its glory days lasted somewhere between 40 and 80 years.
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I propose we replace guns with bows. Just as deadly for hunting, self-defense, and law enforcement, much harder for a 4 year old to kill someone and a lower risk for mass shootings or bystander’s.

PS: In many countries most of the police are generally unarmed, so this is still better defense than that.

</only half joking> Still, you really can frame the debate as "let's kill 1 million Americans over the next 100 years!" which IMO needs a stronger defense than "But but FREEDOM !!1!1!!"
I asked the same question and the answer is yes. However, I recalled that hidden services use 1024-bit RSA keys and there's been some question lately as to whether that's enough bits. For some sites/hidden services, (at least) a 2048-bit key may be desired.
This seems working super fast!
If you dont mind can we know your tech stack?

P.S awesome work.
Damage control?
Wouldn you agree that those people need to be educated on how email deliverability works? Isn't this a good starting point?
Part of me fears the GWT successors that could end up built out of this.

Part of me is intrigued by the excellent modularity story.

Part of me is excited to try out the type system.

Most of me wonders if I'll get time or an opportunity to explore.

Overall, this generation of languages is pretty exciting!
"It would be really difficult to track down every single composer for every song that’s played on the radio—so onerous that it would be nearly impossible to run a radio station."

In 2015, this really shouldn't be too difficult to solve. Somehow, it isn't, so:

"So under copyright law, radio stations and other entities purchase blanket licenses from associations like BMI and ASCAP, which lets them off the hook for everything they play."

This would seem to screw smaller artists that aren't signed with big labels. Shouldn't this be easy to solve with software? Pay for what actually gets played. Blanket agreements only encourages stations to play composers covered by those agreements.
Missed the paragraph on the about page that lists the differences - http://saveosx.org/about/
I would expect Outback Steakhouse to go with "blooming.onion" instead.
When I was a grad student, I was explicitly advised to make such citations uncritical. Instead of saying, "Researchers A, B, and C failed to consider cases X, Y, and Z, which we address here," you would say, "Researchers A, B, and C solved this problem under the assumptions that X, Y, and Z were not issues. We extend their work here to handle these cases." That is, you say what they achieved, rather than what they didn't.

Everyone wins with this approach. Sure, those lazy bums didn't consider cases X, Y, and Z, but then no one else had solved the problem regardless of whether or not they handled X, Y, or Z. That's how A, B, and C's results got published!

You're building on their work. You look better for acknowledging it rather than trying to knock down those who came before. They are likely to be respected quite a bit better than you are. Also, researchers A, B, and C are the most likely candidates to be reviewing your paper. So there's that.

This is, of course, orthogonal to the issue of unreproducible experimental results.
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I'm talking about that if a proprietary driver that links to the linux kernel is a derivative work then surely an open source driver linking to the Windows kernel is too.
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IIRC, they were able to increase the pixel density because of the screen they are using, which uses less power than the SP3, so it would probably be about equal.
Part of IBM now as well.
Feel free to take this to email.

>why should I believe you when most of what I see associated with the tag is garbage

I don't ask for you to believe me. I just ask that you don't believe the media. Given they're the ones being criticized, they're incapable of giving a fair representation of the situation. That goes equally both ways, of course. I wouldn't ask you to trust an openly pro-#GG source (like Breitbart) for their opinion on #GG either.

There are a quite a number of neutral opinions to be found but they will not be found in prominent media and will mostly be random people on Tumblr or Medium which can make taking their word on things harder. [0]

>It doesn't even matter that some people associated with the group may have done some good, because a lot of people carrying that banner spew misogynist crap and other hate speech pretty much constantly.

I ask you to look at this [1]. One would have to cherrypick very selectively to get an outlook like that. Which is exactly what the media does.

I haven't been 'active' on the #GG tag in quite some time, you can verify that by checking my Twitter but I still read it from time to time and had a brief few months of high activity.

The harassment I see goes both ways [2] [3] with one side getting a hell of a lot more retweets/favorites for their hatred than the other and the other side having an entire hashtag dedicated to preventing it. I'll let you figure out which side is doing which.

When you try and stop harassment (as I legitimately tried to do on many instances) you get bitched at or blocked or told you're using a sockpuppet to build up PR. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario because the ones controlling the media control the public narrative. Don't call it out? You support it! Call it out and stand against it? You're using a sockpuppet for PR!

>Most of the people who tweet using #gamergate are, and you should find a different tag to represent the positive things you are doing, or you will be associated with what they're saying. If you don't mind being associated with what they say, then...well, I have nothing more to say.

I could say the same thing about #KillAllMen being blasted by feminists and if you're a feminist you're a sexist man hater. Do I think all feminists are a bunch of sexists man haters? No. Hashtags can be used by absolutely anyone and switching hashtags just makes it easier for the media to slander the new, less established tag.

[0] https://medium.com/@Slyly_Mirabelle/a-year-of-gamergate-from...

[1] http://equalityactualitatem.tumblr.com/post/96992331819/on-g...

[2] http://gamergateharassment.tumblr.com/

[3] http://antigamergate.tumblr.com/
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