skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the Tesla is not a very available car ( it still take months to get your Tesla ) and the Tesla range of services is not that great in Europe. As for the price point, it is also way outside the price range regular European pay for a car. So that means most likely that is going to either very wealthy people or through company car.

That's area where Porsche can compete easily.

Anyway, main problem of Tesla nowadays and in 2019 is to build enough car. They are like if Apple in 2007 could only produce 1 million iPhone slowly ramping up to 4 millions in 2015. So Porche could very well "beat" Tesla, simply with a larger production capability.
Anyway, that's all good for us and even for Tesla as it grows the market.

What other brand can do to Tesla is forcing them to chose their target market. Either they step up against Porsche as a luxury brand. There is plenty of room in the market for load of constructor - see the current market for reference. Or go for the premium market (i.e. what they are mostly, even if slightly expensive ), which is actually quite a good market (BMW Serie 3/5, ...) but they will need to seriously ramp up their production.
The _vast_ majority of automatic alarm activations are false alarms (whether it's police or fire).

I don't know anyone in emergency services who would consider an automatic alarm activation a "serious" incident. They're more of an annoyance...
Also note, first blood part 2 was "Rambo goes back to Vietnam" - essentially, the movie tries to explain why John Rambo was so screwed up and angry in the first place. "I'm coming for yoooou" - really, even rambo 2 wasn't a "go USA" film the way that Rambo 3 seemed to be.

Rambo 3 is what you want if you want to watch the horse game with a dead goat. I personally can't come up with a theme tying rambo 3 back to the original Vietnam theme, other than the Taliban fucked up the Russians very much like the Vietcong fucked up the Americans. Maybe that was the point? a kind of redemption for Rambo, this time he gets to defend the people who just want to be left alone? Or maybe it was just "hey, we've got an action movie franchise, let's make an action movie!" - and it certainly can be enjoyed on that level, even though it lacks any future governors.

(As another tangent, I think it's interesting to compare the minimalist "drop me into the jungle with nothing but a knife" vs. "all the gear" views of masculinity that are in constant conflict throughout the series. I... man, sometimes I wish I was in college and I could spent a week on an essay about 80's action movies and what they say about our shifting ideas of manhood.)
The Case for ToolsOps
I'm quite new to containers, but it seems to me that Docker revolutionizes sysadmin the same way npm revolutionizes Javascript. It's not that it magically makes your problems any easier to solve, it's that it lets you declare your solution in a formal way without unstated dependencies, and then distribute your solution in a way that lets others declare a dependency on it.

(More broadly I feel like this same thing has been happening in various parts of the IT landscape over the past few years, to the extent that their ought to be a name for it, if there isn't already?)
"Indeed the stable state of this system is, as you point out, that only non-law-abiding citizens will be in possession of guns, but that is collateral i'm willing to accept"

You have just described present-day Mexico. How much safer do you feel when there, versus when in the U.S.?
Agreed. The hand of a strong editor was needed.
You Go people really likes the pain.
I completely agree. The title is reductive.
Electric guitar in 1959, too. That's a very long time between invention and patent (unless a previous one had expired).
Maybe this will help with the concepts: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/quumaubjftxik1u/AAD15CT1UrNyOuYSx...

The main point is to make your commits small and incremental, with a single commit adding a single feature (or fixing a bug, etc). If you are reading the commit log, there shouldn't be any surprises as to what a particular commit actually changes when applied. If you have a lot of uncommitted changes, remember that you don't have to add them all at once -- use 'git add file1 file2' and make descriptive messages for each change. Also remember that you can 'rebase --interactive' to fix up your commits locally if you want (don't rebase shared/pushed history, though).
The systematic problem is that if there's something expensive and anyone can want in, and the profit margins aren't clearly good, it's too risky to blow all your money on something and maybe not get a return. Maybe the market can fund one entrant but if there are two, and the market share is divided, there's not enough money for each player to cover their costs.

A systematic fix would look like one of:

- Restrict entry to a single player (patents)
- Provide matching funds for each sale

These fixes apply to this specific situation. We're talking about the space program, so we're talking large up-front capital costs, which means its possible the situation exists. The patent system is clearly cheaper up front, though the more expensive second option ensures at least some competition, making for an overall better product, but at a very high price.
How+Trading+Rules+Mistakes+Will+Make+You+Broke+(And+How+to+Fix+Them)
So which should I believe, a random poster on Hacker News that says that Apple forbids employees to contribute to open source, or the fact that Apple has many published open source projects?
Specialization is centralizing. Centralized systems are arguably more fragile (a negative, when reliability is a goal) and easier to actively leverage for something I might not like (absolute power corrupts...). There is also a patronizing aspect to 'free trade' that implies monopolies are the just outcomes of meritocracies, which I consider patently false. Quite the opposite: we constantly have to fight centralization of power, and 'free trade' (a misnomer, IHMO), is a dangerous centralizing force at a global level, which we have basically never had to reign in.

I find it amusing how often people who consider themselves libertarian, etc, argue for some of the most fascist regimes imaginable.
I print out the really important/nice photos and store a hard copy..
No, I meant that he was squinting. What is condescending is you making assumptions about whom I don't know and what I'm unfamiliar with.
Super Mario in HTML5
The article makes a very good point about the potential impacts of Google migrating users to inbox. I myself tried Inbox and didn't see the benefits. Will users get upset when their email client looks completely different? Will they actually stop using gmail? I predict google will get gun-shy and eventually abandon it.
Had a negative experience with them through Hired. Was given a very time intensive programming assignment (build a warehouse app, took me ~8 hours). Got zero feedback in return. Asked for more, was told my assignment "didn't look right"
Future people may yet lay claim to an evolved application of the word, in additional contexts (e.g. interstellar).
A key problem with this debate is that the NYT knowingly and deliberately prints falsehoods on numerous facets of politics in which it has taken an editorial position.

A key example is their reference to this story, as if it supports the editorial case:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/opinion/tough-talk-and-a-c...

With the accompanying quote: "on Thursday every Senate Republican except Mark Kirk of Illinois voted against legislation to prevent people on the F.B.I.’s consolidated terrorist watchlist from purchasing guns or explosives."

Well, the problem with this claim is that the amendment didn't fail because of anything to do with terrorism -- it's because that amendment would have overridden the language regarding the repeal of elements of Obamacare.

Here's the proposed language it is looking to overlay:
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2015/12/01/sen...
(the Obamacare component repeal)

Now, here's the Feinstein amendment (scroll down to "SA 2910" portion, read it only):
https://www.congress.gov/amendment/114th-congress/senate-ame...

Now, if you look at the amendment in a vacuum, it looks sorta like what it claims (but it looks odd, to the experienced eye, because there is no mention of a specific criteria for "terrorist" or refer to the FBI watchlist by its proper statute name). So it wouldn't have any effect on its own, being unenforceable vague.

But that's not the point.

Now, note carefully how the legislation starts:
"In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted, insert the following:"

See THAT: In LIEU OF the matter ("the matter" being ALL of SA 2874, the Obamacare repeal).

The parent bill is H.R.3762 - Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015, which had NOTHING to do with terrorism, or guns. That's the first clue right there.

Congressional Democrats have used this tactic (overwriting legislation they oppose with unrelated content that sounds obviously beneficial in order to trick the media into carrying water for their politicking) clear back to the Tom Foley days, if not Tip O'Neill or beyond.

The ignorant media consumers have been duped, successfully, because few bother to look at the bills...

...which, in this case, took me all of about 8-10 clicks in total.
Why would NASA bother patenting something like this? It's not like USSR would observe the patent and not copy.
Bold choice using a non-neutral oil for your steaks, how does it compare?
I guess it depends on the team. Apple unlike Google hires for a specific team. Team that I was talking with would not allow open source contributions. This is true for most of Apple. I have a lot of friends working in Apple.

They sent project Titan people to a battery conference with a fake company name which they actually registered and made people believe it's a real company. It has a Crunchbase profile and all that. They published zero papers from their battery research. That's the Apple you should know.
I think I'll rework the classifications a bit tomorrow
Replacing Sawzall with Go for logs analysis
Agreed. I would remove this. Otherwise I had a smile on my face most of the time.
Their argument is they are not interested in little contributions. I guess they want a big marketing buzz for everything they do.
From my perspective the elephant in the room is something Tesla is unlikely to be able to compete against, particularly as more manufacturers come online with viable full range electric cars: Constant innovation.

What I mean by that is car companies are geared-up and used to introducing new and seriously updated models every year or two. They go through many iterations and designs, have hits and misses. And they sell millions of cars per year in the process.

In another year or two the Model S will feel, well, dated and old. I have to admit having had this very thought. I've been considering purchasing one for the past year and was going to make a decision in January. And I keep running in circles with multiple arguments in my head.

First there's the "this look is getting old" argument. Sorry, superficial, but, hey, that's the way it works. This this wasn't a real-life criteria we all use to buy cars they would still look the way they did twenty years ago because nobody would care.

Then there's the interior. As others have pointed out, not the best. I'll just leave it at that.

I find my self less interested in a car who's outward and interior design is already several years old.

I am not interested in a Tesla because I am a fan boy. I am not. I would like an electric car because I have a nice solar infrastructure at home that I designed to be able to support two electric cars. I also want to stop burning fossil fuel for transportation. I am also very interested in lane-keeping or auto-pilot technologies while on a highway. And, finally, it is a business decision based on facts: I find myself driving quite a few miles per week and, if you do the math, going electric just makes sense.

Then there's the question of battery technology. I can't help but think we are not very far from a shift in battery technology. I, frankly, don't want to find myself in two or three years with a US $90K Tesla sporting an outdated battery, outdated exterior and outdated interior and a tough resale landscape because Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Ford, GM and even Yugo (raise your hand if you remember them) has a pure electric with 200+ mile range for $40K.

All car companies know how to make electrics. It ain't that difficult when compared to making IC cars. In fact, if you already have a well-tuned infrastructure to build the rest of the car efficiently --which all other car companies have in droves-- building an electric car is actually simpler.

Tesla's SUV? Please. It's a joke.
2 years, really. It kicked off in late 1939 with the German invasion of Poland, subsequent declarations of war by Britain and France, and then an awkward months-long period of shuffling about known as the "Phony War".

</pedantry>
There are plenty of ways to generate a one-off random seed for values used in the quizzes. And many of them don't require me to authenticate to the site; as others suggested, a cookie could be used, or even just a querystring value in the URL.

And promiscuously asking to connect social accounts to random things on the internet, even if they swear up and down that they don't request "undue" privileges, trains people to just always do it, which sets them up to get owned later on by someone who will take advantage of that.
On a related note, http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/03/gene-editing-...

"A landmark meeting of scientists convened to debate the future of human gene editing has ruled out a ban on modifying human embryos that are destined to become people … but … made clear that altering the DNA of human embryos for clinical purposes was unacceptable given the unknown risks today and noted that even the most compelling cases to use the procedure were limited.

…the national academies of the US, UK and China … considered: the potential for therapies in adult tissues, such as blood cells and muscles; the ethics of modifying embryos for research only; and most importantly whether altering the DNA of human embryos to prevent inherited diseases was acceptable and useful."

And http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

"… The CRISPR system has a combination of tools that allow it to locate specific genomic addresses, snip DNA with a molecular scissors right there, and then rewrite the genetic code at the site of the cut … research using CRISPR to produce genetically modified animals suggests that the same system could in principle successfully create human designer babies … I call these hypothetical genetically modified human beings GMO sapiens as a mashup of GMO and Homo sapiens …

In China just a few months ago, researchers said they already did just that and sparked a firestorm in the science community. Strangely, the public has been relatively unaware of this development and the ensuing debate. The researchers made genetically modified human embryos as a research exercise and let them develop for only a few days in the lab. But if someone else followed suit and simply implanted the CRISPR’d human embryos into a surrogate, then boom—we may have the first GMO sapiens."
A Simple Platformer Episode 1-3 is on sale
Nice work! It'd be nice I think to be able to zoom out a bit for perspective.
Business Ideas that can earn you a living in the university
The technology used in the space shuttle is way out of date. IN order to build a new space shuttle one would have to retrofit it with modern technology that is backwards compatible to the signals the old technology used in the shuttle to operate things.

For example use a Raspberry PI with an emulator for the old system that the space shuttle used and wire it into the old ports the shuttle uses for connections.

You'd have a lighter shuttle that doesn't need as much fuel, but the cost of writing the emulator would be a lot of money. You'd have to reverse engineer the technology in a working shuttle.

NASA let this patent expire because it is old technology they aren't using anymore.

In modern times there are a few companies building their own rockets that are more economical than building a shuttle.

Much as I'd like to see shuttle clones, I remember it had issues that caused at least two shuttles to explode and get destroyed. In making a shuttle clone you'd have to fix the o-ring and loose tiles thing.
Not related per se but for that reason all the more interesting. The Wired article refers to a different 1984 patent grant for another Pragenau invention which, had it been utilized by NASA, would have prevented the Challenger accident. It seems Pragenau is an un[der]sung hero.
God said you mess with a priest, you mess with Him. That makes me giggle.

God says...
refutes entryway's floweriest Chase greet geysers reforestation Tracey helping funding's fainting Tamara's insanity jumbo's ramrod garters dainty's patricides decade's tautologies Genet Louise evaluate limestone programs mudguard's inordinate DA's blockbuster's infamous unknowns sowed nomad walloped band's fiancés swearword's showcases Guinean's Tuscarora Tonto rhapsody's usherettes rarity statehouse acme's filibustered troubleshooting gentrification's spewed diffusion Douala badger nearsighted Sodom creator deficit's campy scepter discoursing Edsel subsume Zoroastrian packet phantasied Tarantino odometers smartness's Sharlene's slob Castillo collectibles reasonable shebang's indebted committees calabash's exorcising surmounts fieriness cheeking bikinis purr's metamorphism memos codependent's sleeted realest Strauss weep enlarging Tammy's caterpillar's upstairs irruption uncleanly dissonant Shelton's vitreous breed
tl;dr

It's clear that it's a psychological thing. If I were you, I would go watch 'Good Will Hunting' movie (and watch it again if I think I had already watched it) and substitute Hunting's negative 'personal experience' with 'mathematics related experience' and assume that I'm 'Will Hunting' (while watching the movie :-).

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My personal experience is little different. I didn't have any negative experience/memory when I was learning mathematics (and science) at school; instead, I always felt comfortable with any STEM related course/subject. But I had a very miserable experience when I had to learn English as a second language[1] at school.

At that time, I started strongly believing in the idea that no matter what I do, I will never be able to learn English as ESL as it always felt like an alien subject (literally :-)) and there was nothing I can use to get a handle on it. No wonder, I felt nervous and hopeless in my English classes.

Somehow I was able to reach college (in my country it corresponds to the grade 11-12 of high school education in most western countries) with shear brute force[2]. In the 11th grade, for the very first time, I had an English language teacher who gave me some hope that one can learn and overcome all language related problems. Though he only taught English literature (which can be more intimidating when one is at beginners' level with lots of self-doubts and anxiety), his teaching style was really inspiring[3] and it changed my whole perspective about learning a new language. Later on, I realized that it wasn't my (or other students who couldn't afford tuition fees of private ESL teachers) faults that couldn't learn the language, it was the teachers' fault as they were not really qualified to be English language teachers, at the very first place.

Now I feel quite comfortable with English language[4] and afore-mentioned story is only a memory now, one from the distant past.

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1- to be precise, it was my third language I had to learn at school in a non-English-speaking country; I lived in a deprived part of the country and had a financially humble background.

2- memorized anything English related to get into the next class and didn't let any English language related handicaps stop my progress.

3- at-least that's how I felt at that time. I distinctly remember, some of the students, I personally knew, were only finding insignificant flaws in his English language related skills.

4- I'm very far away from being an expert in English language but I'm very happy with my progress I've made till now.
Hacker's Manifesto
Probabalistic Soft Logic, Markov Logic, Natural Soft Logic (https://youtu.be/EX1hKxePxkk?t=23m00s). Despite those operate on the semantic level to credit/discredit drawn inferences and treat phrases at face value, I assume you can factor in credibility from sources as well.
Nitpicking is the lowest form of criticism
The dog watch that keeps time at 7x normal speed.
"The work confirms theoretical research showing that information and heat are intertwined: The demon heats up because it must discard the information it learned to manipulate the system."
Germany in flames – some stats on attacks on refugees
Nice work.

I live in Stillwater, but come to Tulsa often. I'd like to buy you coffee if we're ever in the same town at the same time.
They wanted to go to war, just not against the US. They very much thought that they were racially superior to other Asians and would easily dominate them in battle.
Does PC support mean Minnowboard-Max support? x86 SBC.
> Stripping out LTR and RTL override might be reasonable because they're frequently abused to screw up website layouts.

As long as Twitter allows Zalgo it isn't that concerned about website layouts.

(Zalgo: Rampant abuse of stacking combining diacritical marks above and below the line. It can get really, really... uh... impressive, in a Lovecraftian typewriter art kind of way.)
That's sort of what he was going on about with the Burrows-Wheeler transform, right?
I recognize an expert when a careful choice of tools that he uses allows him to experience crashes when visiting random websites.
Can this be combined with DOS support?
a later version got all the comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10682298
Please don't link to Sourceforge projects. They distribute adware/malware.
You are correct. But in FP, we understand immutability differently, so it becomes very painful to watch structural equivalence of the following variables:

class Foo { var x = 0 }

let a = [Foo(), Foo(), Foo()]

var b = a

a[0].x = 1

var c = b // [0].x == 1 ;(

let d = a // [0].x == 1 ;(
Looking for Tom Lehrer, Comedy's Mysterious Genius
The one in Protrero Hill, on each side (NW and SE) seems to indicate there was, or is, a tunnel under the hill. Is that so?

Edit: Found the answer myself. http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Potrero_Commons_18th-Wisc...
Indeed. I see a Tesla Model S and instantly think "run of the mill Hyundai Genesis." My loins don't tingle nor do I think "that's one hot car."

The Model S looks have never been wonderful, nor distinctive. It's a great car. It's just not a great looker. The Porsche is a looker. We'll have to wait and see how the finished product performs.
I'm not so certain Porsche can scale, battery production is going to be a significant limiting factor and I haven't seen any signals that they will have a better solution than the Gigafactor Tesla will have.

Also, if you don't want to wait for a Tesla there's plenty of inventory/CPO ones available.
Another great book on this subject:

The Nazi Rocketeers by dennis piszkeiwicz
I hadn't seen this spec before: https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

Parabola's efforts toward reproducibility have been essentially discarding timestamps by forcing them all to Jan 1, 1990 (a simple date, with a wide gap between it and the Unix epoch) https://projects.parabola.nu/packages/libretools.git/tree/sr...

Perhaps I should add support for this to Parabola's toolchain.