skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the delivery drivers will still be needed as they need to physically exit the vehicle and handle the packages.

To me, at least, that seems like a use case where you'd need drones.
Good choice, I have a leaf and 50 miles round trip at with a good chunk of highway speeds is doable with a new battery. Once it gets a little age you'll be white knuckling it, especially when it comes to winter (depends how cold).

If you had a 220 at your destination then its a no brainer. My parents and in laws are 47 and 42 miles apart respectively. I installed 220v outlets so I can bring my charger with me.
I think he means "feels like a spaceship from a sci-fi movie"
> To be quite honest, "bad government wasting taxpayer money" is more than newsworthy.

If its true. In contemporary journalism the truth doesn't matter. Things can have perfectly reasonable explanations and be working as intended, and the only thing required to turn them into scandal is to omit those explanations and add a clickbait headline instead.

There's plenty of examples for that in Europe in the way journalists paint perfectly reasonable EU directives as utter nonsense handed down by stupid bureaucrats.
Why would that be any easier than just ripping the content off the disc directly?
The leak reported to be from YSG [1], organization that manages the election registers.

Software used by them developed by Cybersoft [2]. Cybersoft was part of the system who developed the new identity system in Turkey. The practices used by Cybersoft reported to be horrible. I know someone who worked on that project (about 15 years ago), reportedly they were really bad, playing games on servers where the all identity data of the citizens are stored. I do also know that any employee who was part of the project had access to the query systems, so it was possible to query the database for all citizens of Turkey, not sure how much data it revealed but it revealed the number of people with that name and surname ever born for sure.

Now, I'm not a fan of Erdogan but Cybersoft was developing stuff before Erdogan even got elected. So yes, maybe the government who started to work with Cybersoft was corrupt, maybe the current one is too but let's not just use every single baseless argument to attack Erdogan, it doesn't help anything.

[1] http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/faces/Anasayfa.jspx

[2] http://www.cs.com.tr/TR/
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Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you made the comment.
I think he sort of suggests the "true problem" in the beginning by questioning the premise of even owning a car. He decided, perhaps wisely, to not go down that rabbit-hole.

We are all interested in how technology will change our lives and solve problems but many folks aren't willing to consider that actually solving some problems requires living in a way which is intrinsically different. It might very well be possible that "tech curves" will eventually solve the problem of transitioning everyone now driving gasoline cars to electric but that is perhaps a localized optimization.

Maybe to _REALLY_ solve the problem requires us to re-consider the way we're living. Is it really sane to live 20-50 miles away from where one works and drive a car in bumper-to-bumper traffic as a daily commute? Sure, if the cars were electric, a larger fraction of the energy wasted doing this would be "renewable" or at least "greener" but what about the wasted time, erosion of well-being, and the continued waste of space. Yes, even electric cars need highways, parking lots, and cities which force themselves to be car-scaled rather than human-scaled. How much would we really solve by the transition to electric cars?

These are not considerations which are easy to talk about, but they're the "true problems" which are being swept under the rug by techno-optimists.
The problem is not necessarily "obstacles made of stone." Think about lanes in the countryside where you only see grass and the possibility of a ditch to either side... I guess that is really complicated for a self-driving car to manage in each and every case as well as human does.

Yes, walls are easily located. Holes not so much. Emptiness is quite difficult to see.
It's really a question of demographics. How many people that have put down a reserve are buying a car to drive vs buying a means of transportation?

Obviously, this is all speculative since they haven't revealed what they're talking about.
Battery capacity has a long way to go. For vehicles, one efficiency measure is Watt-Hours (energy) per kilogram. For Lithium batteries we're at 220. Gasoline for comparison is 13200. So about two orders of magnitude to go, before gas is obsolete.

http://www.energyadvocate.com/batts.htm

Good news: metal-air batteries can achieve close to gas efficiencies! If we can only build an efficient portable reactor, and then an efficient fungible way to refuel with metal.
There are plenty of boards that run using mainline u-boot and mainline Linux, you can often ignore the vendor BSP.

You are right about ARM though, TrustZone is another DRM-oriented aspect of ARM-based SoCs.
I think all this talk about the legality of using such services misses the point. It's about legitimacy, especially that of state leaders. While the western media might try to use it to delegitimize some non-western leaders, the leak actually works both ways.

Any country leader who'd make a speech to tell her (or his) people she doesn't care about them or their country, would do nothing illegal, but would probably loose her power. It's the same here - the leak serves as proof that the national Elite in many countries is no longer "loyal" to its imagined community (aka nation).
I'm glad you brought this up, because this comment represents a misunderstanding in how government contracting is typically done. My previous job was working for a government contractor, and we did multiple discrete contracts for several branches of the government. However, every single one of them would have shown up exactly like this, all bundled under one contract.

Why? Because writing and signing a contract is expensive, for both the contractor and the government. So contracts are typically written in a way to make them very easy to extend, and existing contracts are often used as vehicles to tack on additional funding for new contracts. The original contracting agency would also usually charge a fee to the other agencies for use of their contract in this way.

So, this kind of glance at individual awards under a single contract is really too simple a view. A lot of these funds could be (and from my guess, probably are) going to completely independent projects from the randomizer.

TL;DR: Having multiple awards under a single contract is typically a sign of the government working around bureaucracy and attempting to save costs.
>> Apologies for breaking HN etiquette but I've really had it, blame my lack of sleep or whatever is convenient but comments like yours really make my blood boil.

After all these years you've spent on HN I'm actually wondering why you would even bother to get your blood to boil. HN is a great place for discussion and to keep up-to-date with what's going on in tech, startup culture and all things connected to them, but it's quite obvious that the comments section has always been full of groupthink, non-sequiturs, echochambers, strawmen and ad-hominems, right?

I found your analysis informative, well-researched and to the point. I can't say I agree with everything (e.g. I don't think the power grid will be the biggest obstacle, I still believe we'll figure out a way to decentralize the grid and produce enough power wherever it is needed without relying on big power plants). But I do agree with the overall sentiment that EV's are not going to completely replace ICE's anytime soon (if ever).

By the way, I'd like to point out that the percentage of PEV's sold in the Netherlands is a very misleading number. The percentage is relatively high but the majority of these cars are hybrids that almost always run exclusively on gasoline. The reason for this is that most new cars sold in the Netherlands are lease-cars, most of the brand new cars you'll see on the road here are not privately owned but part of the compensation package of many middle- and higher-class jobs. Car manufacturers have been very smart to play into the tax system, strongly pushing PEV models that ended up in low tax brackets ('bijtelling', a monthly tax payed by everyone driving a lease car, based on a percentage of the list price of each lease car, where the percentage is based on how 'clean' the car is considered to be). Previously, hybrid PEV's that were terribly inefficient when driving on gasoline (such as the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV) used to have a very favorable 'bijtelling' because they could in theory be used as EV. In practice, nobody drives an Outlander on electricity because the range is horrible, and most lease car drivers have an all-inclusive contract where their employer pays for the fuel. Recently tax regulations have changed to only include pure EV's in the lowest brackets, and all these hybrid PEV's are now taxed almost as high as non-EV's. I would not be surprised to see the percentage of PEV's sold in NL to actually go down.
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I've found that the time itself is less valuable than articulating the workflow changes it can bring about. Saving an hour a week is great, but if you can save 30 seconds at the right time, it can have a much bigger impact.

For example, if I can spend a day tweaking my project's build scripts and CI workflows to get it from taking 30 minutes to build/test/deploy down to 30 seconds, I've dramatically altered my team's workflow.

Also, there are very few reasons to buy your own hardware anymore -- cloud services are better at almost everything unless it's a low-latency operation (or you're in Australia - the speed of light is still too slow, sorry mate). Obviously there are exceptions, but with the scale of GPGPU build-out all the big public clouds are deploying, the benefits of anything else are rapidly disappearing.

Most managers aren't swayed by the argument that 1 hour = ($annual_salary / 2000). They know that if you give people an extra 5 minutes a day, they'll probably just spend it drinking coffee or socializing. Those certainly aren't bad things for employees to do, but unless your team is already running well beyond capacity, giving them more time to do things doesn't really improve productivity. Improving process (by, say, removing a manual step through automation) really gives you more bang for your buck.
Italy as well
>not mafioso outfit

Haha what? http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/04/brinks-mat-how-m...
Whats the cost of run flat tires vs the cost of a human mechanic ten years out?
This is why Facebook recently added a variety of new ways to illustrate your disappointment on posts.
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I've heard from multiple sources that no refurbished Apple iDevice has the original battery, they always replace it.
Ask HN: Trello or Kanboard as a business skill?
In the past I've used Trello, and still do for one commercial project I'm working on. However, I organise my own personal life and projects using a self hosted Kanboard (http://kanboard.net).

My wife has been in academia for most of her adult life, then we had a child, but now she wants to join the workforce.

I was thinking of teaching her kanban style project management, at least for her personal tasks to begin with.

I'm wondering which is going to provide a better return on an otherwise quite sparse CV - knowledge of the well known commercial Trello or a general kanban project management skill, learned through using Kanboard?

I'd personally prefer to stick with Kanboard, but fear Trello might spark more recruiter interest, because it's a well known name.
People have certainly done ME reverse engineering:

http://me.bios.io/
That's why CryEngine is not making news by following in some limited footsteps of Unreal. Unreal's focus on linux is news, as was its initial open sourcing and drastic price drop. Plus, it has a very long, old history that many folks of all ages here are already familiar with.
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> All legal concepts and constructions are judged and implemented by human beings.

But they have to be judged against written law. Your answer reduces to a situation where we can rip up all statutes and tell the judges "Don't worry about tax evasion. You'll know it when you see it."
I don't understand why they're calling him the last link to the Battle of Little Big Horn. He was born in 1913, well after the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Umm, it's supposed to grow something?? I sat there for over an hour with 16 lamps and nothing happened...
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We wrote a plugin for this a while ago that uses crypt(3) with 5000 rounds SHA-256 and a 96 bit salt – it's the safest method I found that fit within Wordpress' password hash column without altering it, even if I'd have preferred scrypt (argon2 wasn't out yet).

I guess we should open source it after all.
Come on, play along. If the masses don't revolt and overthrow Putin we're going to have to fight WW3. This is our best shot to save millions of lives.
You should watch Jacob Appelbaum's comments[1] about The Guardian. They may not deserve your support.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJValv4YQcY#t=78
If the leaked documents implicate important US figures, but the reporting of the leaks do not mention them, then the public will interpret that as "see, US figures are not engaging in this activity!".

In other words, the reporting of this leak can be used to shame / reputation smack anyone who is on the current Western
hit list while masking that behavior for anyone that the Western media outlets want to protect.
And https://github.com/kR105/PS4-dlclose
Jon from MLH here - we are really excited to be able to offer these GitHub grants to new member events.

Honestly, when you're a small on-campus event getting funding to buy lunch is surprisingly difficult - we hope this will help to fuel more hacker communities on campus to build cool stuff and not worry as much about the $$
You have a lot of assertions here but not many references.

I would love to read a blog post that went into detail about all the claims you've made here.
>Where's the incentive to invest in yourself to earn more if you're making $15/hr for menial work?

What made you go from 30k to 50k to 75k to 100k to 150k?
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I was implying that Branson actually wanted the sale, too.
The article references hearing stories of Little Big Horn from a direct family member who had his own direct connection to Custer. That's likely why.
I pray that stays true for you. BUT please look on making sure your backup system is flawless AKA not Time Machine.
Yep. But I stick to my guess that it'll take a decade for real change to happen. Obviously the goalposts are a bit fuzzy, but I feel like you have to give the hardware a chance to make it through three generations (assuming three-year lifespan on devices) before someone launches something that is within the ballpark of devices shipping at the same time.
>Tax avoidance is legal, tax evasion isn't.

I am a tax professional and this is pretty much the motto of the profession. ;)

Anyway, I don't think the significant thrust of this story pertains to tax avoidance or evasion. There are some relatively minor figures implicated by the usual offshore tax shenanigans, but the really important news is the evidence of fraud, money laundering, and corruption at the highest levels of government, business, sports, and society across the globe. This shit makes tax evasion look like shoplifting.

We all may have suspected Putin of bribery and using illicit financial assets to fund his network of cronies, but now we have direct proof. What's more, we can now see how his activities (and those of many other powerful figures across the world) contribute to a massive shadow financial system which operates utterly unbound by moral or legal principles, enabling money laundering, human trafficking, drug and arms dealing, corruption in sports, corruption in politics, and just about every other shitty, awful, poisonous human activity you can imagine. This system is monumental in scale and the evil it sustains unfathomable in scope. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, though, or at least we had better hope so.
"Musk said the company was hoping for 0.21 drag coefficient. That's exceedingly sleek."

I looked into this. 0.21 is insanely low for a production car. How come this isn't bigger news? This alone is fascinating.
Between everyone else fighting for overhead space and possibly having to get up for others in your row, that doesn't sound likely.
The legality can be a grey area. Say Putin has the state bank loan his company $2bn, the company invests in stocks which double and then sells them and pays back the loan, which law has he broken?
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Earlier posts around the same topic:

http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/10/27/x86_harmful.html
http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/12/23/state_harmful.htm...
IFF you want to support the default set of keys installed on computers that ship with Windows. Secure Boot does not prevent you from installing your own keys, in fact most linux distributions do this already and just use a shim loader signed by Microsoft, the rest of the chain is signed by custom keys (the keys are silently and automatically installed for you).
Seems to be a technique beloved of billionaires, not 'little men'.
"Probably a nice big diesel."

There's an interesting synergy with other technologies. For example, its pretty trivial to prove you'd have to cover the surface of the earth with a ridiculous number of sunflowers to grow enough oil to power the world with biodiesel using existing vehicles.

However, if 99.9% of car miles driven were solar electric, if not more, then its quite realistic to power every rental truck in the world off biodiesel.

My lifetime driving so far is around 200K miles, and I've driven the home depot truck, enterprise rent a car, and u-haul trucks a total of perhaps 200 miles, so a thousandth of miles driven being biodiesel powered doesn't sound terribly unrealistic on average.
Apple doesn't have to waste money in building stores across India. Isn't that profitable to Apple that they get free access to real estate to showcase its products? Not just that, Apple also earns from providing license to Indian-owned retailers and profits from sale of every Apple device. That is a good thing for Apple is it not?

On the other hand we all know what is happening in China. Even with Apple having it's own store it has a massive problem of dealing with unlicensed copy-cat Apple stores. Read this article for more info: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china-idUSKCN0V4200
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"We've done tests and it's human, and apparently...our lab technician."

Wasn't there a case of a lady being implicated in thousands of crimes based on DNA evidence because of contaminating the samples she was working with?
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There isn't a totally bullet/fool-proof way, but it boils down to aggressively locking down computing functions to match closely the job functions expected to be performed by every employee. This requires a thorough understanding of said job functions. For example, why do engineers need to ssh to production machines? If the answer is "to tail logs", then a facility needs to be created that allows the tailing of logs and nothing else. This can be done either by locking down authorized_keys, using restricted shells, or introducing centralized logging (logstash, kibana, ...).

Access to outside SSH is a big no-no. Access to outside file sharing (DropBox et al) is a liability unless explicitly required for performing job functions.

I've worked with a brilliant security mind (no irony here) who wanted to go as far as provide employees with remote desktop environments only, which were to run in a fully controlled environment. This removes attack vectors such as USB drives, computer theft, and so on. The proposal never flew, but the idea has merit and is thought-provoking in its own right.
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We're saying the exact same thing. "Income passes through the members" = members pay income taxes = federal + states + self employment tax = +%50 if your income is $1 million. You can eventually avoid the self employment tax filing as an S-corp.

"that's not going to happen if you want to rely on the systems those taxes pay for in the US.". That's what I'm saying, there's no way around it besides the republicans tax reform.

"spread income over multiple years". That's what someone mentioned already.

Am I still not informed? Should I need better tax advise?
(Not the OP, but I have experience in this area too.)

You're on the right track. As a finishing touch, you should add role="main" to whichever element contains the main page content (in this case, the article or the most recent articles). That way, screen reader users can easily skip past all the navigation links and other auxiliary elements that are common to every page.
Pretty sure the game files are encrypted and all the consoles have a secure chip which decrypts them. Getting files from the game disc is easy, reading them isn't.
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A grill on an electric car doesn't serve a purpose. The lack of a grill does serve a purpose: don't cut holes in body panels if you don't need to.
So why isn't the open source community moving towards an open source, all in one solution like this? To just ignore the popularity of Slack, and insist that everyone just use IRC and handle the other stuff themselves is just foolish.
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