skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, EV batteries do have after car uses. They're able to be used for home energy storage, for example.

And when they're no good for that they're recyclable. Although currently it's cheaper to dig lithium out of the ground than reclaim it there's other stuff (cobalt particularly) that is reclaimed.
They didn't win. They settled out of court. It can mean that Sony were afraid to lose (in court).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_Am...

Anyway, it's easy for such monster to intimidate an individual with little resources for legal battles. It doesn't mean that what they (Sony) do themselves is legal in any way.
JavaScript Promise Xtended
How many of those can do it without revving the engine and popping the clutch? An electric car's low end torque is usable for everyday driving.

Of course, where most people judge a car's power while driving it normally is the 60-80 mph time. That's the only time most people floor the accelerator, when they're pulling out to pass someone. Gasoline vehicles have a marked advantage in this metric.
> supposedly

This is the reason. Kids and teens are not anything savvy in reality, and specifically are no more internet savvy than anyone else.
Thanks, that was indeed the primary implication.

That said, I've been happy to debate the larger implications that there are UI/UX tweaks/story-telling that could make even the work-in-progress non yet published stuff more appealing to publish without needed to mutate it from its as-developed states... But yes, I was mostly speaking to published commits.
Link's dead.
> Secure Boot [...] requires FOSS users to purchase a license from Microsoft

Nope.
There's an related Youtube video from Igor Skochinsky's REcon 2014 talk that I watched this week & found interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kCICUPc9_8

May be also be interesting to others wanting further information.
Given that chip development has been hitting diminishing returns for a few years it might be time for Open Source to eat the world of processors as well.

It feels like the sort of opportune market that server operating systems, databases and web servers occupied: less of a visual aesthetic and more of a better-design-wins market.

It's not going to be easy - I'd guess that it would take at least 10 years for a project to get any sort of traction outside of a very small niche group.
I see you've already called out to one HN comment. This sentence appears to be missing a negative:

being without power meant that our house would be inhabitable almost instantly

Really interesting article (and disagree with the HN negatives too - you make some good points, though I see that a few of them have been answered in comments to a reasonable degree of my satisfaction, particularly the "plug in for the night and the power company controls when it gets power for a cheaper charge" - the tech for that must be pretty close to ready to roll out to garages.
Not quite. TiDB can use it as a data layer, as an alternative to Rocks, Bolt, etc. Different part of the system
No, that would be really unsecure ...
Except that with a capital gain you can choose when realize that gain (and when you pay that tax) whereas the company defines its dividend schedule. But I did not know that was the law...it is always/everywhere repeated that dividends are taxed at the personal income rates (e.g. many times in these comments that is repeated), but that is not true.
You can reasonably argue that the government is involved in issues that are not free rider problems, but I've never heard a reasonable alternative solution to the necessary problems that government does address. Do you have one to contribute?
Chaos Engineering at Jet
Now, you want to argue that among people who buy a new car,

This conversation is specifically and only about new cars, in this case the Tesla Model 3. It is outrageous that you're implying that I'm the one diverting the conversation, when the very root post by dionidium was a completely irrelevant non-sequitur as they injected some completely irrelevant sociology bias into the conversation. If we were discussing the average price of a fast food meal, would a comment about a Cup O' Noodles have any relevance?

No one cares to argue what people pay for used cars, or for no car at all, because that is irrelevant to this discussion.
Wow, so he would have been born about a year before Einstein discovered General Relativity.
When you put your money into a structured pension plan for your retirement then it's tax avoidance since you are avoiding paying the tax you normally would if you invested it in some other way. Tax evasion is where you break the law by hiding money that should be taxed. Quite a big difference.
> Won't/can't read the article because Wired adwall, but what is this business model?

1) Replacing taxi drivers.

2) Replacing commuters who don't want to drive.

Both of those problems exist on the scale of hundreds of thousands / millions of people. Solving them with good margins is a business model.
Usually, but patronage has connotations involving having independent patrons commission you for work. There isn't really proper vocabulary for proposing ideas of things you want to make to the world, and having them fund you creating what they want back. Closest you get is corporate internal pitches.
How does the private company verify that the identity number is not bogus? Do they have some tamper-proof crypto box that validates a secure hash hidden in the ID or would a case like that only be flagged when the SIM registration is pushed to the government?

In any case, if it is customary to routinely hand the whole number to private companies (I read your description as "full number on registration, some digits on subsequent authentication"), then this leak has made that name/ID tuple only slightly less secret than it was before.
For example, I made a reservation. We expect to buy a car somewhere around 2018, so we made a reservation in case we want a Model 3. I expect the model 3 will be high on our list, but we'll definitely comparison shop when the time comes.
Multiple Personalities in Git
Chinese Researchers Invent New Police Car That Can Scan Faces
I've been looking into this recently.

Basically, the things mentioned on the text, made free software bios and firmwares impossible, some of the free software projects that exist now are mostly "binary blobs loaders", having more binary blob than free software code running.

There is some good analysis on why even Intel can't fix this if they wanted to, unless they stopped shipping some features entirely, their Intel ME system rely on a couple of proprietary third party code, that has on contract with Intel explicit prohibitions of Intel ever letting anyone seeing their source, or the keys needed to sign them.

Also, Intel ME can't be really trusted, the code is not really "reverse-engineeringable", and it works as a full second OS of sorts, it even has its own JVM running, if someone somehow decide to inject spy software into it, you will never know, also I assume that the first destructive virus to latch into that stuff, will take the world truly by surprise depending on when it triggers (for example if it spreads silently but triggers the destructive payload on a specific date).

Also, these features can be abused to abuse the market itself, for example by intentionally making the hardware underperform, and then sell "superior" hardware that has the only difference some software.
Ask HN: How do you prevent data leaks?
this is something that i've been pondering for awhile.

at pretty much every job i've been at, we've had Linux Servers that we ssh into.

these linux servers have customer data on them, builds, code, business critical shit.

if i were a malicious individual, i could easily just rm -rf important files, scp important customer data out to my home computer. or use dropbox to sync some critical business data into the cloud... or casually peruse customer data and take advantage of it. and there would be no evidence that i did anything at all.

obviously, it's not possible to handle this from the networking side. SSH is encrypted, and any network level scans would just see a bunch of bits flowing between the server and me.

is there some solution to prevent this kind of linux data leak from happening? is it normal in companies for anyone to be able to just log on to servers, do whatever they want, without any kind of auditing or recording or tracking whatsoever?

i'm curious, with data leaks like the ashley madison one... did they ever find the perpetrator? does anyone even care about securing data....?

what does your company do to prevent data leaks?
TL;DR: They switched from RoR to Go.
Before AlphaGo there was TD-Gammon
Everything about Tesla has been around helping/saving the environment by accelerating the adoption of battery driven cars vs ICE. Nothing about self driving cars says they have to be electric. In fact, if the first fully self driving car was gasoline that would probably impede Tesla's growth. So it impacts where your limited R&D, manufacturing and sales and marketing $$"s go. I don't think a company as small as Tesla can be both - at least not effectively. One will have to give to the other.
To be fair, I was considering learning Rust and implementing a distributed hash table just as an exercise. With a like-minded team, reimplementing a toy Spanner sounds like a fun project.
You have to include all the overheads, like office space, pensions, payroll taxes (does HMRC pay tax to itself? hmm), administration costs, travel expenses etc. I have been told in the past that these things roughly double (rule of thumb) the cost of an employee over their salary costs. I don't know if that's true, but that's what I was told.

But yes you're right. I exaggerated when I said most of the collected revenue would be spent on overheads. It's just some of it.

If the true overheads are more like 24-25 million, then you get a bit more than 100 million recovered, which is about 0.1% of one years deficit. Profitable but not going to shift the needle in any noticeable way.
How is NixOS as a workstation/desktop/laptop OS? Does it have any major issues with hardware I'd run into?
I was sure the warranty was worse, when I was looking at buying one, but 70% of realworld range would be something like 44miles on a full charge to empty. That would be horrible. My Tesla has lost very very little range in ist first year, 1 or 2%.
The leak contains large amounts of personal information on people who aren't necessarily guilty of anything illegal, correct? If that's the case, releasing the full leak comes with some very real ethical concerns.
> The point of this is that Putin is doing it.

In addition Icelandic PM and Cameron's late father.
The impact of a life is not simply a matter of the historical significance of an individual. A great many people have been hugely influential in ways that just aren't apparent or measured.
yep. These are a great fit for some people, and not an option at all for others.

I think the country/world can accommodate BOTH types of car, ICE and EV. And "none" is also a good choice, in some areas.
If EVs really take off, I wouldn't be surprised if workplaces started putting in more chargers in their car parks. It's an obvious solution to the problem of home charging.

The other option is leased batteries which solves a whole host of problems. It would probably cost a bit more, but you would never need to worry about the state of your battery pack. This would require standardisation though, unless everyone drives a Tesla.

In addition to that, home charging is only an issue if everyone decides to do a full charge every single night, which is unlikely. Most people will only need a daily quarter or half charge, city drivers much less.

Even if electricity doubled or tripled in price to compensate for the grid upgrade, it would still be cheaper than gas (at least in this country).
"there is no market for reuse of once-used phone" That is not the case. There is already a thriving market for reused phones in India. However this is already creating a massive problem of e-waste and hazards. Read this article: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1121191.... Note that the article linked to is of 2007. You can imagine the amount of e-waste India has imported since then.

If Apple's policy includes second hand recycling then there would be no barriers to entry. It would be good if Apple made it clear. There are too many old phones that are available in the secondary market. This is already creating a lot of e-waste which India doesn't have the resources to dispose off. The only other solution is for India to dump this e-waste to even lesser developing countries but that would be shrugging away responsibility.

The other problem is that, by giving Apple permission, India would set a precedent. If Apple is given permission to sell second hand phones, don't you think other mobile manufactures like Sony/Samsung/Karbon etc would also want similar permissions? They would be happy to create "recycling policies" on paper if that would ensure them access to India's secondary market. The question is who will enforce it?
We do the same with cows and other animals we eat. Plus we feed billions of pets (for which we have no use). Someone will have to do the numbers, but it's possible that, at a small density, they're a green alternative for short distances. Plus it's easy to share them.
But the only way to guarantee they stay as private as they are to begin with is to never use them.

Even if you only share them with people or merchants that you really, really trust, the sharing increases the risk of a leak.
I think the whole point of Tesla is to be an excellent car company. "Electric" and "self-driving" just happen to be two attributes of an excellent car company at this particular point in history.
Perception vs Reality. :)

I think most people imagine piloting a spaceship as being awesome. And are thinking of it more like sci-fi spaceships rather than a modern day shuttle packed with obtuse controls.
Everything is possible but nothing is free
Requires purchase of a cerficate from one of the authorities Microsoft recognises (Verisign/Digicert/...) and then the signature of Microsoft on compiled bootloader code. Either way, you have to pay and you have to get Microsoft's permission.
To put it another way:

I'm not sure that the creation and dissemination of knowledge works well as a capitalistic business. I'm not sure that it leads to optimal outcomes WRT the dissemination of said material.

I don't know how we deal with the edge case of trading scarce resources like food and land for unlimited resources like data, but I don't think advertising is it.

When you think about it, it's really quite odd. The deal is that you can view this web page, if in the abstract you commit to buying some portion of a physical item or service from someone else later on.

To me, it feels a lot like an inefficient form of tax.
lying on tax forms is illegal.
Haven't read much about this, but the two potential scenarios (for businesses or individuals) are:

1) Legal: Take advantage of different national/state tax laws, exemptions, etc. and conduct business within those territories or have money move through them in a way that you minimize your tax obligation.

2) Illegal: Just lie about what money you have. Hiding it in offshore accounts and funneling it through intermediary channels when you want to make use of it.
> A head of state can't have $2 billion in offshore saving without illegally sourcing some of that money

Sure you say that now, but when President Trump comes to power is it still true?

(I have no clue how much he is actually worth, just countering that heads of state can have significant legitimate private wealth)
The organization responsible for investigating it. They are quite reputable for staying independent.
I don't disagree. It's a more personal feeling than how I might measure or respect the impact of others.
People are working on that, and it might take less time than you think:

http://riscv.org/
The internet does make direct democracy more feasible. One can engage public libraries to ensure everyone has internet access.

This would need to be checked and balanced, but it effectively makes lower houses (House of Representatives, for example) obsolete.
Apparently Virgin only owns 8 of those planes and the rest are leased, so the speculation I read is Alaska is just likely to change them all over to 737s eventually. And if they have the capital to operate that same system using purchased planes and not leased planes, then they'll be running the same routes with more favorable finances than Virgin was able to.
why would their consumer base shrink if the consumer base is being handed basic income?
ARM architectures also suffer from this. You'll be hard pressed to find a board that doesn't require a propriety board support package somewhere in the stack.

Ironically, it is usually the bootloader that is/requires a blob or it is the DTB.

I remember being in middle school and reading Stallman's articles on the dangers of a TPM-oriented push by manufacturers. As cliche as it is, Stallman was right.

The push for platform security is also a push for platform ownership. Tinkering/hacking/your ability as a hardware owner is at ends with corporate security needs and that is a shame.
Not to mention shipping/delivery drivers.
Is he ... Putin seems rather clever. The Guardian suggests he isn't named in this leak anywhere. Indeed he appears to have no wealth on paper at all.

Apparently the most likely explanation is that by enriching his friends, he wins their loyalty, and they will then buy him whatever he wants. But unfortunately having loyal and rich friends is not illegal nor tax evasion. I don't see how Putin would go down for this even if he lived in the west.
cmon guys, you are too serious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AN76IBkVf4

what is the deal with email, anyways:)
The Panama leaks were, surprisingly, covered by the news tickers in buses/trams in Graz… after the sports news. In English only. I guess it's the though that counts. /s
Is there a public whitelist (except the one from ABP) for ad networks which have non invasive, non tracking ads?
Just get a browser plugin like quick javascript switcher and disable javascript for sites that try to disallow adblocker users. It has worked for me every time.
An interesting take from a commenter on my Facebook feed:

"It's all good. Taxation is stealing, hiding wealth in off shore accounts is the only recourse left to the little man against large government greed."
Maybe, but that wasn't my point. My point is that it's useless to have a discussion about the economic impact of individual "pirating" of website content because the discussion costs more than the piracy.
The difference is absence of evidence of illegal activity in the case of corporations.
No, I choose the content based on it's cost vs value.
3) Drive between owners to reduce the number of cars a family has to have.
This is offtopic but as I do not have the time to investigate what this website tries to do, I must alert that it completely froze my system, twice.
Had to actually do a physical reset.
There is nothing more chilly than markets going up and down ~20% within 2 months with no major changes in fundamentals (or global/macro situation for that matter).
Musk said on Twitter that Autopilot convenience features would not be included in the base model, "same as S and X." So it doesn't seem like they would be basing the interior design on an optional feature.
and some of those are working on physical chip production:

http://www.lowrisc.org/
Sure, but not the spaceships that Elon builds. Those spaceships have controls like a single digital button that says "land" or "dock".
>50% of the F-150s sold are their top tier, premium models (Lariat, King Ranch and Platinum). There are zero fleets that buy these models. This excludes the millions of lower models bought to pull boats and carry egos. Which is how the average selling price is greater than $45,000 now (which, again, is far beyond what fleets are buying for service trucks).
Some data should be released. Not sure if all, but all data related to information published will be released, so maybe they will spare average "Joes" from it. You can find on Reddit people involved in this commenting regarding releasing data, I have seen few comments last night after release.
Agreed. JetBlue has what Alaska is missing: An east coast network and a very solid trans-continental product to compete on the SEA/SFO/LAX-JFK flights. And they both operate comparable Airbus equipment where Alaska is an all-Boeing shop. That's going to make finding technical cost reductions difficult.
The process where

f(photo, art) -> hybrid

fed

f(f(photo,art), photo)

illustrates the one way nature of neural nets and indicates that that these may be much much harder to reason about and debug than in classic cases of concurrency with shared state.
The $1000 is 100% refundable. A person that can afford a Tesla can afford to put down $1000 with no risk. Heck, even a normal middle class person could probably foot $1000 at no risk.

Reservations are not sales. They are just something to tout to shareholders. If they wanted real numbers they'd make it non-refundable and up the down payment. The stock trades at an absolutely insane valuation (it's actually valued not too far from massive manufacturers like Ford and GM), the company will have to take on more debt to fulfill the reservations putting the company at liquidity risk. If the orders don't come through and you have increased debt burden, you're gonna have a bad time. This isn't something I'm making up, even the analysts at UBS agree.
I know the authors of this project also read Hacker News, so it probably is better if we wait till them to state their motives. But I suppose I could give a brief first, since most of the confusing comments are due to language barriers(sorry if you don't know enough Chinese, you might not have read enough about this project).

This is actually affiliated to https://github.com/pingcap/tidb, which is another implementation of Google Spanner/F1, similar to CockroachDB. So think TiKV as spanner, and TiDB as F1.

They actually started out using Go. And the reason they are changing to Rust is not trying to be a Rust cool kid, but due to real constraints: Go's GC introduces too much of latency time (and no, Go 1.6 is not enough despite being better), they are also not satisfied with cgo's costs. That's why they are changing to Rust. Note that according to their words, they still love Go better, and TiDB is also happily using Go. But for TiKV's case, Rust is perfect.

Disclaimer: I'm not working on TiKV or TiDB, I'm just a fan of their work(they are also the founders behind Codis: https://github.com/CodisLabs/codis, tho not working on that anymore). I'm happy to list references on where I got all the information in case anyone are interested but they are all in Chinese, which I think might not be that polite since not everyone here reads Chinese.
NHTSA is scrambling to make it possible, this is the biggest safety innovation in cars since the seat belt. And as long as they have the hardware capabilities, Tesla wouldn't have to launch it with full autonomous mode available.
I don't see any goal post moving.

He claimed :Normal people do not spend $35-40k on a car.

He further clarified that his definition of normal person to be one that doesn't tend to buy new cars, only used.

You point out that 18 million new cars are sold per year and that average new car price is over 30K a year. That completely misses the point that approx 60 million cars are sold in the US per year or around 1/3 of cars sold are new cars. The average price of a used car sold in the US is around $18,800. Therefore the average car sold is A) used B) cost less than $30K.

Number of Used cars sold:
http://www.cnbc.com/2014/08/22/used-car-market-showing-no-si...

Average price of a Used car:
http://www.edmunds.com/about/press/used-car-prices-increase-...