skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd think that out of the thousands of people who have already bought one of these cars, there might be one out there with both the skills and desire to actually own what they paid for

On the other hand, it could just be that those who want to really own their cars would not consider buying a Tesla anyway, and those who have the skills are too scared of the legal aspects. I think at the moment, electric cars are still somewhat niche and don't really appeal to the demographic who would be modding their cars. The aftermarket community for existing cars basically doesn't care about emissions --- one of the biggest attractions of an electric. As a bit of a car-geek myself, I'll admit that electrics are rather "boring" and for the same reason I'm not so interested in the newer super-computerised vehicles either; it's the noisy, smelly, smoky, aggressive, obnoxious-mechanical-monster nature of petrol/diesel engines that's the really "fun" part. Batteries, electronics, and motors just don't evoke quite the same feeling.
That seems like it could generate an excessive amount of commits (or maybe not everyone saves hundreds of times per day).

Just curious -- do you squash commits when merging one of these feature branches?
it's pretty obvious propaganda
Which one? I've seen a few in this space... I thought I was being original :-D
This has some nice elucidation of what is happening:

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/100268/does-hang...

It's a tradition!
Hmm ... I was thinking for the whole fact of a four year old being put in front of the judge to be cruel (sadly not unusual)
Wouldn't you have found these products by research, from people sharing the same interests, or through independant reports?

Every product I saw through an ad that looked remotely useful was either unactionable, critically flawed, overpriced or sub-par compared to the rival products.

For the harm to society, my go to example would be ad reads on podcasts.
There will be products that the hosts of the shows have been personally using for a long time and happens to sponsor the show. Naturally the ad read will be overall positive, but if you followed the host for a while on other shows, it
becomes clear that they are more or less stuck with the product for now but are looking for alternatives because of some critical shortcomming. It also means that any discussion surrounding the sponsor's field (other rival products, or problems occuring peripherically to the product) won't be happening.

Overall the more relevant the ad becomes, the more perverse effects it generates.
I'm not sure we've ever seen a 100% free market so while regulation appears on the surface to have been helpful, it could be viewed as solving problems caused by other regulations.

It's also important to note that the vast majority of major progress (including your examples) have been tied to war, conflict and war-like situations (Cold War).

Human conflict will continue to be a driver of progress but we've reached a state where the agents engaged in that conflict need not be centralized in the form of a government.

Some of us would like to race toward that situation while others believe there's redeemable qualities in the status quo. Interesting times as that dichotomy will likely grow as individuals continue to be networked together without the limitations of geography or citizenship.
I don't think its a fallacious viewpoint... although you are right that there are few alternative options in this case.

Generally people want to get the best value for their money - free things are the positive extreme of good value for money... and whilst people will pay more for something that is better than the free version, this is often a very small proportion of those who will use a free version. at least based on my real world experiences from working on apps that have both free and paid versions...

away from the extreme this logic is obviously faulty though. i've seen many cases where /raising/ a price increases the volume sold... which completely baffles me.
Initially I taught the same about the namespace conflicts but after using it for a long period I am confident that I can get over it. The git status command is definitely my most used command so it worths to have only one keystroke. You can play with it and see if works for you also.

Regarding confusions, you may be right (especially at the beginning), but after some time all used aliases will get hardcoded into your muscle memory, even the longest alias (gprom).
I think I'll try to honour this day by sending as little email as possible. As close to an "email moment of silence" as I can achieve I suppose.
> Talk to Google/Facebook about that. Maybe you think subscription is better way for...search?

Google gets to crawl all the web for free for its search results. Maybe Google should start paying websites for crawling them hey ? Of course if you crawl google search you're now violating their TOS ... how does google make money again ? Ad networks like Google ( because that's what Google is ) can't have it both ways.
yeah of course not the most serious or thought out project haha, made it more just to play around with some tools and have a good time
It is a bit odd, but I am rocking with it. I have done Java and NDK in C++ tutorials to get simple programs running, but nothing original, or beyond what the tutorial provided. With 8th, I can whip up something quick with a GUI, using the sensors and other libs it comes with, and deploy it. It looks the same on Windows, Android and Linux. The developer makes him self available, and quite honestly, the code is succinct enough and the documentation good enough that I only asked a lot the first week. You should give it a try. I am by no means a 'Forth programmer', and 8th is not a compliant Forth.
I don't think most people learn about products through online advertising, rather just shaping their preferences. But if that is the case for you, just let ads through.

I think the more appropriate phrasing is that dodging specific content is not intrinsically unethical and providers are not entitled to profit from it. Customers are not the one complaining, they are taking action.
I find it very hard to believe that ads out-perform your personal search of whatever you're looking for, even currently.

I have never, not once, found a product because of an ad that I wouldn't have found otherwise in looking for the solution to a problem I was having. I have, countless times over my life, especially when I was younger, bought something based on judgement directly based on ads, that turned out to be the wrong choice.

When you go to a mall, there's a directory. It'd be even nicer if there was an automated directory so you could peruse at arbitrary granularity before entering stores. Why isn't there a global directory of products, with a reputation system? Why is there no directory online for all the stores within 15min of my home, including people selling out of home, that I can search through? Isn't this driving everyone crazy?

I don't care that there exists some Platonic good side to ads, because that good side is not how they're used in the big picture, at all, anymore, and it's just looking the other way from a serious flaw in modern markets.

People buying stuff for no good reason other than that they wanted it, not needed it, has gotten an entire planet into a heap of trouble. Let's do less of that, maybe? And let's start making a system to enables people in need of a product in touch with those who can provide a solution, NOT the other way around.
Agreed with your first point, but not sure about your second - how many of these attacks could really be dented with uRPF? My understanding is the majority are either distributed (coming from multiple ASes) or from compromised accounts in Azure, GC, or AWS.

If uRPF was stopping me from successfully attacking a destination, I would just not spoof. ACLs, uRPF, and anything stateful are still not going to 100% mitigate an attack from a broad range of addresses.
Oh the irony of a shutdown-service shutting down.
Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware
It is interesting to watch the tone regarding Russia change as the leadership changes.

After the dismantling of the Soviet Union, Russia under Yeltsin was a friend. At the same time the nation's economy was carved up between local oligarchs and foreign multinationals.

Then the change to Putin, that goes after said oligarchs to wrest back control. Now all of a sudden Russia is the big scary bear to the east.

I don't see a big scary aggressor. I am looking at a nation and leader that wants some degree of self-determination, and is being vilified and boxed in as a response.
It's making fun of Kanye, not black men. Kanye is not immune to jokes. And you have no idea the race of the author of this lib.
"Truth is such a slippery concept and can be manipulated like anything else."

Tragically enough, "the truth" aka the universe is just fine. The problem is with human beings because the brain is really bad at reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
> Given that Spotify is private, how would you know if Spotify is making money? How about Pandora Radio? They have about 80M users; is that a failure?

There are plenty of public reports of Spotify revenues and losses that show they're having trouble. Pandora has had continual losses and the stock isnt doing well either. There's only more drama coming with artists and studios demanding more money so it's a very tough market and isn't going as well as it might seem on the surface. User counts don't matter if the business can't sustain itself.

> What exactly is meant by Netflix not owning their delivery system?

Traditionally there were cable companies that owned the delivery infrastructure and studios that produced the content. Netflix is neither (although they're getting a little into the production business). They will continue to feel pressure from both sides as the traditional companies start to compete much more strongly with digital offerings. Regardless, if Netflix was actually producing all the content they have, they wouldnt be in business today.

My point in response to the GP reply is that subscriptions aren't easy. Netflix and Spotify were named but both have issues and arent clear winners. Leasing content doesn't show the true cost of that content and while it might work for audio/video resellers, it's not going to help all the major web content/news publishers.
The article discusses the difficulty of servicing a Tesla at length. Perhaps you should read it?
I find it varies with the work being done vs. relating to a discrete time duration.

In general, I try to be very atomic. As an added benefit, this makes it simpler for someone doing a git bisect later.

Fixing minor typos or copy changes across a few files could result in several commits within 15 minutes.

Working on a major feature that requires research and definition and a lot of conversation or feedback, might mean a few commits over the span of a few days.
I am willing to pay about half that, but only on a one of basis with articles I like. Something like flatter, but universal and most importantly very simple to cancel.

The reason is simple, I no longer read a particular newspaper, I read whatever I get linked to on twitter, hn or facebook. Somehow newspapers don't seem to get this.
Internet pioneers used to invent tools of communication like email, TCP/IP, DNS - now the pioneers are building walled gardens like Facebook, Twitter, Google :-/
I've never bought a 2016 model car (maybe something changed this year?) so I have never heard about the concept of having to ask a manufacturer to "activate" your car before reading this article.

I buy used cars and repair them myself. I wonder if this disqualifies me from ever owning an electric car? While more recent cars have begun down the troubling path of making less and less user-serviceable, most cars still have either official service manuals or 3rd party manuals (based on tear-downs), and a healthy after-market parts market.
thank you :) no racist intentions here, would've made the same thing if kanye was white and ridiculous. just havin' fun
While laws in civil law countries are indeed usually more straightforward than in common law countries (that distinction becomes more blurred though anyway with common law countries enacting more statutory laws and civil law countries adopting practices from precedence law) they in many case still allow for interpretation.

A notable example is the German bankruptcy law, which in theory outlines pretty clear and simple conditions that constitute bankruptcy. In practice, however, determining if and when those conditions are met isn't quite so simple, particularly when it comes to assessing liabilities vs. assets.

Legally, a German CEO (Geschäftsführer) is obligated to file for bankruptcy within 3 weeks from knowing that his company has more liabilities than assets, otherwise committing a criminal offence.

The result of this assessment is just a snapshot that depends on both the point in time it was taken and on more specific regulations, which aren't part of the law itself and whose interpretation can vary depending on the local jurisdiction.

This often results in rather unfortunate situations where a CEO might be held liable for not filing for bankruptcy in time although the actual situation of the company wasn't quite as bad and not filing for bankruptcy was justified at the time.

Moreover, a German CEO can be held accountable for not filing for bankruptcy for up to 3 years after the fact, which is often used as leverage to put pressure on the CEO when the company tanks at a later time.
They're trusting you, much like most restaurants trust their guests to not just leave the table without paying.

Most wallets have terrible protections against doublespends. They're so bad that many don't even warn you after you've been doublespent: https://petertodd.org/2016/are-wallets-ready-for-rbf
there is definitely a recurring problem with this sort of thinking... i think it actually hurts the whole of the tech industry.

i'm glad someone else notices this though and is willing to call it out as idiotic. that is exactly what it is. :)
I would wager that 80% of cars that are crushed (which weren't in an accident) could be repaired (if broken) or 'fixed up' to operate better than the last owner thought possible for less than a days work and perhaps a few hundred dollars.

I do appreciate your point, but I think people are far too afraid of older cars and they are scrapped too soon.

I was hoping to convince some folk in this tech community that old cars can be a good idea. Save money, have fun, help the environment. Hell, buy an old Rolls Royce... why not?!
Frege has typeclasses (Haskell 2010).

Whoever told you it's impossible in .NET is probably wrong. Don't you have interfaces in C# ?
But you don't even need interfaces. Strictly speaking, unless you use typeclasses with polymorphic recursion, you don't need a runtime representation for typeclasses at all.
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Is it going to be more valuable than the bad press that they will get when it turns out people get burned by all these restrictions? Or the lost sales?

That's the million dollar question.
Facebook, Twitter and Google are the railroad tycoons (Twitter might only be aspiring), they came after the pioneers and built valuable infrastructure, capturing much of the value for themselves.

If you are going to torture an analogy, I say make it scream.
How long does something have to last before it is considered a success?
These numbers carry a very high selection bias. At age you generally operate people who are already sick and about to die anyways. I don't know if we even have data to correct them for that to calculate the "Death rate of healthy people after anaesthesia" vs. "Death rate of healthy people of the same age group."
It seems like at least one of the problems mentioned here is going to be common to many cars in the future: more and more of the vehicle will involve software rather than hardware, and as such is less transparent to the end-user. It's not just Tesla customers who will be dealing with this.
That was satire, in case it isn't clear.
I have an account with them. And they're already doing it for my TV channels.

They're also providing a reliable 100Mbps link 4 miles from the nearest sewer pipe. Seems like they could handle 50 lines of code to parse logs and disburse payments.
You might be interested to search for each of those industries and the measures they're taking to correct gender-imbalance.

For example, mining has "Women in Mining": http://www.womeninmining.org/

Fishing has traditionally been actively anti women because of superstitions about women on boats. Here's one woman trying to make a difference to that: http://www.lattianderson.com/chix-who-fish-commercial-fisher...

Welding: http://www.witc.edu/pgmpages/welding/women.htm http://www.womeninwelding.com/ http://www.nbcnews.com/business/careers/hey-women-want-hot-c...

Forestry: http://fica.org.nz/women-in-forestry/

Plumbing: http://www.theplumbette.com.au/plumbing/women-in-plumbing-br...

Automotive maintenance: Women in the industry in the US are 10% of the service workers; 10% of the technicians; 23% of the operatives; 28% of the laborors. http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-automotive-industry
ETC ETC.

Note these are not "women who do the cleaning in the offices of oil companies", or "accountants in the coal mining industry", but "women who do the mining".

Note also that this works for men too. There are programmes to increase the numbers of men working in education (especially for young children); nursing; etc.

> Or is it more likely that jobs that are extremely dangerous, highly stressful, physically demanding, low pay, or any or all of the above just aren't very attractive to women? I mean, they're not all that attractive to a lot of men, either

So you're saying these jobs are universally unattractive, and that the fact they're dominated by men has nothing at all to do with underlying sexism? Not the "we don't employ women" style sexism, but the more insidious "we employ anyone. But, why would you want to do this dangerous heavy job?" style sexism.

I mean, there are plenty of physically fit but poor women who need work.
I keep wondering if it is became of the era it was made in.

email was store and forward by necessity. IM was anything but.
This is an interesting point, and one I've seen from the other side as well: When leaving secondary (high) school, for university, a common piece of advice is: "You may have been one of the smartest people here, but be careful, you probably won't be where you're going, so you have to manage your expectations." But if everyone is being told this, then those who could become some of the "smartest people at university", are being told it too, and some of these people could be unnecessarily lowering their expectations. I've always thought this was a great shame.
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If you've seen a family member suffer from terminal cancer for years, rotting away while still being alive and suffering from such horrible pain that no amount of medication can reduce it, there is just no way you are against assisted suicide, trust me on that. We treat our dogs better than that. We kill them to spare them from such a fate.
This sounds a lot like the open vs closed system debate we had/(have?) with computers. I'm glad that in my youth I could wrench on the internals of a PC and I'm glad that in my 30s I never have to because my Mac 'just works'. Also, this debate is older than I am: http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry...
For that kind of protection, I'm fairly sure they have to already be a citizen of the United States.
an invention does not need to be a completely new concept. A car was invented even after people were able to get from point A to point B via many means. Yet the car is still a big leap forward. Email seems obvious to you now, but at one point there were many obstacles to overcome to make it work.
The vast majority of landlords are not building to supply, they are taking existing supply off the market and in doing so pushing up prices, forcing many to rent. One of the biggest issues in many western cities is not paying the mortgage but affording the deposit.

Landlords now who are making money bought in cheap 10 or 15 years ago. For them it's money for old rope.

MMM bought at least 5 years ago. He's full of it, suggesting things that save a few bucks here and there when he is taking a slice of the labour of 3 families.
Adam Engst, publisher of TidBITS here... Thanks for noticing that Smile is sponsoring TidBITS. As you note, the sponsorship is unique to our site, and uses entirely internal systems for display, so there are no trackers or the like. Smile chose to do their URL via a URL shortener, so I don't know what could be determined if you click it, but it's not loading any code merely by viewing it. The trackers the other commenter saw are due to the graphical ads and affiliate link generators we also have on the page.

Two random facts to note. First, as far as I know, TidBITS did the first sponsorship program for Internet content back in 1992. If that was in any way responsible for what Internet advertising has become, I apologize. :-) Since we believe in archival content, you can read that article at http://tidbits.com/article/2995

Second, our primary source of revenue is voluntary memberships. We also make about $5K per year from graphical ads, and in last year's membership drive, I challenged the 90% of our readers who are not members to join, promising that we'd drop the graphical ads and affiliate link generators if we could raise another $5K. Alas, the challenge fell short. http://tidbits.com/article/16234
The data can also be interpreted: a court order to fix your damn school correlates with improvement. It's hard to believe that it's just money, some of these poorer urban districts have the highest per student educational spending, so a court order to spend money on students to me suggests "redirecting financial resources away from corruption"
You must be pro slavery. That's exactly the South argument for slavery.
Apple vs. FBI: The tip of the iceberg as laws can’t keep up with tech
I live in Mountain View and commute every day to San Francisco. This is more than 50 miles in each direction, and the freeways are terrible.

But since I have been doing it, for the past four months, my wife has bought me a whole set of new pants. Smaller pants.

I ride my bicycle about 2.5 miles on each end of Caltrain.

10 bicycle miles per day, with high consistency, has markedly improved my health.

10 bicycle miles is not much. But I push hard, each of those four separated segments, to be well winded.

I have always hated exercise, and never did it consistently. But I intentionally set myself up to be "forced" to exercise.

It is a 55 minute train ride on the front and 45 minutes on the back. And I get most of my best work done on the train. Because I catch 5:57am and the 3:37pm trains, I always get a good seat. My wifi is generally good.

So it makes for a relatively long day, but I physically feel better than I have in a long time, and working on the train and early in the office gives me a lot of high quality "heads down" time every day, which is so important.

As stated elsewhere, the commute itself is less important than the quality of the commute.