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Ford's quality went up when they acquired Volvo's designs. I think the best car they make is the Focus ST. It's a good seller in Europe as well.
Escalade is a bad comparison. Few have ever accused it of being a good car. I agree with you, but to be fair to GM they have gotten better as of late. Cadillac ATS and Camaro SS are truly great cars as of this year. As good as they are they will never be quite the same as a Tesla because Tesla has a unique aura that only the most elite manufacturers can really match. A Mercedes s-class doesnt feel special, a Tesla does. Owning a Tesla is like owning a McLaren or Ferrari and that is what sets them apart at the moment......in my opinion anyway.
Coding JavaScript with a Steno Machine
> Nobody does this, of course.

Every Linux distribution out there compiles everything in their repo by hand. If you use an AUR package of almost everything on Arch, you are building the software by hand locally from source. You can pull build scripts from launchpad, the Suse OBS, or almost every distros package repository (they all have automated build systems for everything, and you can do it all yourself).

Oh, and there is a little distro called Gentoo some people use where you literally build everything from source yourself.

So nobody builds open source software from source, besides the millions of people who do it all the time. Sure, it is a tiny fraction of total users, but there is a dramatic difference between "nobody" and "somebody" just like there is a dramatic difference in confidence between "were using this secure crypto, trust us, its there! its not just something else masquerading as secure crypto that we have backdoors all over!" versus "here is the source, go build it yourself if you don't trust us".

The value is not in everyone building from source themselves, just like my confidence in my software is not in auditing every line myself. It is in the general freedom of information on the security, and by offering the information to test it myself I will have inherently more trust in a project even if I never take advantage of that source availability myself - even if nobody ever does find exploits in the disclosed code, there is still trust a proprietary vendor can never have that I implicitly give free software projects because it is much more precarious to backdoor transparent software than a black box, and by just making the box transparent at all you add value.
The wait is literally killing me!

Scott, is there any chance you could drop a hint how soon is "soon"? Will this drop on a Wednesday with other updates or will it be a special release?

Thank you!
Those interested in CS231n may also find CS224d, Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing, to be interesting. There are notes and lecture videos online for that class as well (or at least there will be as the class proceeds):

http://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html
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> See all the graffiti everywhere? Laws aren't protecting that art, au contraire.

Is that really true? I would have thought that the art itself is still copyrighted, but the artist is unlikely to pursue redress as that would effectively be giving evidence of a crime (graffiti).
Since we are all sharing our own localized subjective experiences of a single instance of vehicle ownership, I have a 2015 GMC Sierra 1500 and have been nothing but pleased.
My initial solution would be a restricted trial that is mandatory and lifts when the scheduled subscription date hits and is successful.

The 'trial' period is advertising.
It's much easier to verify the source of a program once, and then verify the future changes to the source code with the aid of a diff. With a binary, a change can result in a very different binary that takes a lot of effort comparable to the original verification all over again.
I think the problem with that logic is that the people at the 'top of the heap' - VC's, CEO's and the like are not the ones being priced out, mostly. Granted, a company might open an office somewhere else, but that's after it's already large and established.

So you're kicking the marginal (in the economic sense) people out into marginal places where they have less access to what made the original area such a great place to have a job.
Note: I can only speak to the DC/MD/VA region but HOV lane privileges for hybrids and all-electrics aren't being granted anymore. The HOV lane on I-66 in VA was always clogged because so many folks bought Priuses that it defeated the purpose.

Agreed with all the other pros.
You can report "failed checksum" or "not a valid account" to people, although you should rate limit - the problem is data that is valid but stolen.
Controversial dark-matter claim faces ultimate test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
Racism and discrimination have nothing to do with power. You're redefining the word so that it allows a particular group to engage in discriminatory behavior while avoiding accountability.
And further shorten that to

echo '<h1>Change Me</h1>' | vimify 'norm citOK I Will'
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My math, extrapolating out current install velocity of utility/distributed solar, as well as utility scale wind, shows a complete replacement of fossil fuel generation in the US in 12-15 years (Congress finally did something right extended the production tax credit for 6 years for renewables).

I agree natural gas isn't perfect, but we won't need it for very long.
"Used".

It's not like the water is converted into pure energy and radiated into space. It is still there - some of it is locked away in the polymers in the packaging, which can be recycled, some of it is used for washing operations and is available for reuse after treatment, some of it is used to water the corn and joins the larger water cycle...
If only it was only code review. This is basically another GitHub git hosting service using gerrit, and it syncs to github for open source projects.

I don't want a new hosting service, I just want a code review process on top of GitHub.
Mistyped card numbers can be identified client-side (CC numbers have a checksum digit). If the number is valid, but the transaction is declined, then fail silently (and possibly send a failure email after manual review of the transaction)
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> It's necessary to have a less-stable, separate,

...ok, I guess...

> develop branch where features

...what? Why shouldn't I call my branch for integrating code... integration, or something?

> I think the convention is like that so that one can immediately build and run the latest production code after cloning the repo, which in my opinion is nice.

It's not nice; it's wrong. Who is going to checkout a project code? End users? If so, then it makes sense. However, if it's just developers, it's fair to assume that they do the checkout to develop the project, and so making master a production branch gets in their way. A very typical scenario is when a new dev joins the project, hacks happily on branch forked from master and finally submit the PR with fixes which were already done, and probably already done in a different way, so you have both time wasted and merge conflicts. Don't do that! At the very least set your develop branch as the main one on GitHub, but that's still not as idiot-proof as just using master for development and separate branches and/or tags for production releases.
You should never assume that a third-party implements HTTP properly by default.
+1 for documentation. The XMPP community is trying to get "OMEMO"[0,1] rolled out, which is an XMPP adaptation of Axolotl, but fails due to missing specs[2].

[0] https://conversations.im/omemo/

[1] https://conversations.im/xeps/multi-end.html

[2] http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2015-November/030...
Just tried it out and looks pretty good, nice work!

My business account is on Office 365 and the emails that come in from the system go into my Junk folder. I took a quick look at the headers and didn't notice anything obvious. Perhaps the body is to short and with the link it looks suspicious??

Other than that, I got 2 email notifications that the email is available and then another 2 emails with the success after the signature.
TLDR; it's because they're not pushing new features but rather bug fixing through the proper channels (Webkit framework or JavascriptCore).
Moffett Field eyed for NASA cybersecurity facility to protect spaceflights
The Uber app has been doing that for me for a few weeks now. "Go here for faster pickup?" or something to that effect.
I'm not interested in the argument about your freedoms and I don't much care about things that work only for people running Gentoo. That stuff is a game. When security really counts, it's used by people who don't build their software.

That's what happened when Snowden started talking to Greenwald. Unfortunately, because our field is completely incoherent about security, instead of using a secure messenger, they used Cryptocat. Oh, the source code for Cryptocat was easy to get at, by the way! Didn't do much to keep those messages safe.
Designing Meetups to Build Better Communities
Huginn?
The Seattle PD can plug a device they purchased into a USB port as well as anyone else.

There have been various public and leaked catalogues of law enforcement tools put online now, these abilities are commoditized and packaged in a user friendly manner. This is pretty old news at this point.
I am so tired of grown, 20 something adults being called "kids" in American culture. Why so much infantilization?
They've built some lunar rovers though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle

(Not that it proves anything, ask Harrison Schmitt about the fenders)
I have to say I was impressed to see that Manhattan is +29.6% to San Francisco. SF was certainly the most expensive place I've ever lived.
>The ANC is corrupt

Water is wet. The ANC has been corrupt since TRC
Even if your links supported your conclusion, even if electric cars polluted the same, they would still shift pollution away from your child's faces.
Static hosting for $5 a month seems too high. If it would be $1 I might use it. But for $10 a month you can get a good VPS that you can use for any hosting needs (including a gitlab/gogs/whatever instance and a demo of your project (if it's on the web)).
I am bummed this went off the front page (presumably flagging/downvoting because of people's political disagreements).

* this effects Y Combinator https://ei.ncsu.edu/y-combinator/

* it effects Google Ventures: http://recode.net/2016/04/01/google-ventures-north-carolina-...

* There are local incubators and less formal groups of local startups against it.
> At one point, a detective offered to show him the image, but Robinson refused.

I can't tell if the detective is a moron or just really hoping to induce a pedophile
That phrase literally means "I think younger people are discriminated against, so I'm making a company that hires them at bargaining prices".

That may be true or not, but is not discriminatory by itself.
Wow, OK, good to know I'm not the only one who feels this way about German cars. I don't understand why they're so bad at software. My BMW takes that long to boot up the nav too! One of my biggest reasons to get a Tesla 3 is that they seem to be much better at software and seems to understand general computing and the flexibility that comes with it.
> pH does not have a MCL (Maximum Contaminant Level) defined in the EPA's National Primary Drinking Water Regulations [...] but does have a [..limit defined in..] non-mandatory guidelines for aesthetics

Wait, there's not a pH range limit on drinking water in the U.S.?!
So "long term investor" is a code phrase for "corporate profit shill"? If PP is doing something bad then get out, and take the loss. To claim that the loss prevents one from getting out is to proclaim that one values money over e.g. people.

(Sure, if that's like your only money, than that's not so easy a decision.)
Yeh, that's my point. They're incompetent.
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For my part: because "Axolotl" is one of the most widely name-dropped terms in hipster cryptography, and because it's been adopted by other projects, and because it's distinctive, and because they basically own the term. In a stroke, everyone doing secure key ratchets would have been using their product.

It's also just a cool name.
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Esperanto was designed to be partially understandable by people across Europe by lifting words from various languages liberally.

Lojban is designed to be well-defined on phonemes, but that still only works when knowing its (rather simple) pronunciation rules.
Writing a novel - a bit of a change from writing code ;-)
Don't forget that Telegram uses custom in house encryption and they say "trust us", it's good. Telegram encryption can't be verified.
Within gitflow it is definitely necessary to have an integration branch - it doesn't really matter if you call it develop, or you progressively merge different features branches down together, or group them into one feature and just develop them all on one feature branch from the get go, the result is the same - you end up with all your code integrated on one, not necessarily always stable, branch.

The idea in gitflow is that you then isolate a snapshot of that integration branch, whatever form or name it takes, as a release branch, and only when that release branch produces a build passing all tests is it then merged to master (and probably tagged).

You mention you auto-deploy from HEAD of master after tests pass - does that mean that code at the HEAD of master may not pass tests, or that you merge code to master only if it has passed tests. If it's the former, then you're not using gitflow, and I was just explaining the use of separate master and develop in gitflow, not implying that this is the one true branching/release strategy. Using something other than gitflow can work equally well. If the latter, then you are using an integration branch - the one you run the tests on before merging to master.

As to the point about release frequency, having a set of features to release in batch was just an example - if you're in any situation where other developers may commit things to the branch that will ultimately be released from between the time you create your feature branch and the time you merge it, then gitflow is useful - be that on a scale of minutes, hours, days or weeks.
>Racism and discrimination is about who has power. Caucasians in America have all the power ...

Ah yes, I'm really against discrimination based on race, but when I see a Caucasian I know they have power they don't deserve. All 10s for these mental gymnastics.

>I know that people from all demographics desire equality and a more fair world.

Going with your previous statement: why would Caucasians desire equality if they benefit from inequality? Of course, when you say equality and diversity, you mean a reduction in white males, regardless of merit - you already made up your mind that they got to where they are unfairly and that they owe you their position.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11431369
While the sites you referenced are doing well (DA 80 actually makes me sick), I would be curious to see how long they can maintain their rankings with such blatant underhanded tactics.
I wonder why it calls daemon() immediately before calling system().
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Why would anybody give up their password & allow the police to work on your computer? Let them take the systems and accept the risk that running a TOR node in this day and age will get you a visit from the police or similar.

This guy gave up the password & now doesn't trust what they did to his systems. He has to get rid of them now? This is no different if they took his computers away without knowing his passwords.

What if this guys was working with the police all along. Now some guy decides to give away his password to the police so they can check his computer? Sounds fucking suspicious to me. I guess they are testing the waters to see if other TOR node exit maintainers are going to do the same.

Listen up! Never give your password out. Encrypt your systems & keep them separated if you are running a TOR node. Let them take your systems, because you will have to trash them anyway if you grant them access.
And now HN, my bastion somewhat free of SJW, has fallen down. Aren't there rules here to prevent that?
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That is awesome! We'd love to have a chat with you to better understand your thinking process, perspective, and sources.

The pump were using right now consumes 104 W intermittently. For our next prototype, we're going to use a condenser unit from a walk-in freezer (1168W), a split A/C unit to pretreat the air (560W) MinnowBoardMax (15W), duct fan (208W), etc.
Image compression generation loss: comparison of FLIF, WebP, BPG and JPEG
Those clocks are all wrong.
Heh, and I own a car from one of the "most unreliable" brands, Fiat. Only issue so far has been that cruise control disabled itself once.
I'd rather dismantle the "normal" employee status and give all citizens health insurance, etc. Why should I be treated worse by the government just for being self-employed?
This post illustrates how silly it is to link to a tweet, and not just paste the text of the message directly. This tweet has been deleted.

And for anyone else that hates visiting these social networks, Moxie's reply was, "I'm sure, but it'd be to everyone's benefit for you to verify."
Question for me is still around iCloud backups. Per http://www.popsci.com/whatsapp-now-encrypts-all-messaging-fo...:

> However, WhatsApp on iOS still backs up chat logs to iCloud, and despite any effort by Facebook, those could be given to a law enforcement agency. It's not known whether the backups are encrypted, but we've reached out to Open Whisper Systems and will update with any new information.

Apple stores iMessage backups unencrypted and hands them out when given a lawful request (per https://thehackernews.com/2016/01/apple-icloud-imessages.htm... WhatsApp needs to store encrypted backups to prevent this attack.
Many businesses are illegal. This appears to be insider trading and worse on a large scale. Its survival is probably dependent on how quickly it can buy-in regulators.
You and I may choose not to work at such a place, but is it morally wrong? Is designing your business in this way equivalent to racism, as the author explicitly claims?
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> Take a look at Leguna Seca lap times. Model S isn't doing very well.

It all depends on how you like to 'measure' performance. The model S dominates when it comes to acceleration, pedal response and road (!= track) handling due to the low center of gravity. However, the S does very poor on a circuit because the motor/inverter tends to get hot and the software will reduce the maximum output power accordingly.

You have to keep in minds that the model S is a 4 door, 2 trunk luxury sedan, not a race car.
To be fair I guess surgeons read plenty of medical papers out of work hours. I am not working on my time off, but I am keeping up to date.
You are confusing impossible with undesirable. You care about the money more than you care about the social values espoused by the company. I'm not saying that that is wrong, but if you feel incredibly strongly about something then taking the loss may be preferable to violating your core beliefs.
Like all racism, how much you encounter it really depends on where you live.

A white person living in the Big Island of Hawaii.. almost daily.
Purchased from where? They probably couldn't find their asses with both hands, but if they could it'd cost several hundred thousand dollars, take 48 hours with the roads blocked off, and the scandal of them finding some soccer mom's ass instead wouldn't die down for 3 years.

Do you think that they came up with this in their emergency war room, as they planned out the sneak attack on the Tor node, or was this a more general policy developed over the previous months and years and this was just one of the first times they got to practice it?
Even keeping well-understood models up-to-date with changing reality is a hard problem: both labor-intensive & hard to verify.
Better yet, change the tradition such that the elected MPs don't pick themselves as cabinet members, but hire competent professionals in each field.

In Iceland, no laws nor articles of constitution need to change to do this. All we need is a parliament majority that does it.
Telegram received quite a backlash from crypto community for rolling out nonsensical throw-a-bunch-of-crypto-algorithms-together homebrew protocol that was designed by Math PhD™ students and having an audacity of conducting a contest to break it.

This OTOH uses peer reviewed, strong, modern crypto that was designed by people who know how to do these things.
Awesome read, Nick! Link building is a difficult endeavor for sure, especially when it's hard to give something back in return for someone agreeing to link to you.