skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This x1000. It's the perfect opportunity for a startup: nation/globe sized potential, something people are willing to pay for, and accomplishes a public good: eliminating the inequality in taxation and making the effects of the tax code more readily transparent. (Though if you're too successful at that they'll rework tax systems to be more sane and less vulnerable to this kind of thing, which I would count as a victory.)

The opportunity will become more stark as taxes on high earners go up.
Spot on.

They went chasing television viewers with 16:9 glossy screens and all the productivity types held onto their old machines and wept for the future.

I don't want a paper thin Netflix viewer. I have a tablet and a huge tv for that. And I sure don't want to do work on a tablet PC.

I want to see some context on the code I am editing or view a PDF full page. Sure you can go side by side on a huge 16:9 screen but on a compact laptop my vision can't do it even at retina levels.

I get sick of squinting at everything through a mail slot.

Lets get back to productive screens and keyboards and sensible designs that aren't going to sacrifice battery life or functionality to be the thinnest and shiniest.

Dell and HP are going to be the last places to look for innovation. I suspect 90% of what they do these days amounts to slapping a badge on a generic Chinese machine.

Most of the innovation seems to be from Microsoft, Apple and Google. The future of PCs will likely come from Surface, Pixel and whatever Apple does next.
Yes, Tesla would love you to believe you can just slap these Panasonic batteries straight off Amazon together in order to power a car for a few hundred miles. Maybe this is why they stopped filing patents, it's better to get comments like this.
That does sound like a pretty good compromise. I wanted a plug-in hybrid for a long time, but never found one that was good enough for what I wanted, and finally ended up with the Tesla instead. I don't think it's inherent to the technology (although the gas engine takes up some space), but everything on the market was just too small, especially in terms of cargo. Apparently the Volt has a whole 10ft^3 of trunk space? I think it's just because everybody besides Tesla is still aiming for the compact, economical, Prius-like market.
The problem isn't just building affordable houses but building affordable houses in locations people want to live. But how essential would location be if an autonomous vehicle could take your child to a quality charter school beyond your district? How essential is location if long commutes can be turned into productive time because you don't have to focus on driving? All those construction regulations holding back affordable housing; they don't apply if it's on top of a set of wheels. I have my doubts that the status quo is sustainable for too much longer.
I'd like to believe, given that the largest part of the brain is devoted to visual processing, that it gets freed up for memory\creativity etc.

Given the right kind of guidance and development people with "disabilities" could bring a very unique perspective and new ways of thinking to problems and algorithms.

Deaf people for example think visually from birth as they have never heard sound. And we still don't even have a good way of representing sign language on paper or digitally.
> Unfortunately, it looks like he doesn't really understand borrowing. The key idea of borrowing is that a borrowed reference can't outlive the thing it came from. It's a lifetime thing, not an immutability thing.

As a rust newbie, this touches on something I've been trying to figure out how to think about. Should I think of `&` in terms of ownership exclusively, or is it also useful to think about passing a pointer vs copying the data?

That is, suppose I have something that, semantically, I want to move into a function, and which the function later returns. I think I could also pass a `& mut` instead. I'm trying to decide how to reason about that decision. Is the compiler smart enough to turn moving/returning into passing a pointer behind the scenes? If it's a large struct do I need to think about that "optimization" of instead passing just a `&` instead of moving the whole thing?
Lexus vehicles used to do this, at least back in 2006, so that you could only operate basic functions but could not set navigation destinations, etc. It was a huge pain, but given the touchscreen-only interface it made sense to minimize distractions. With my current car in one of the best designed control wheel UIs in the industry, I can navigate the menus almost exclusively without looking at the display (given some practice).
To them, Rust is rather intimidating

I'd argue that Rust's concepts of ownership, borrowing and lifetimes are rather intimidating even to people who have had to think about memory allocation. You can get part of the way there with analogies about stack-allocated vs. heap-allocated in other languages, but ultimately it's just a concept that, say, the average C programmer is going to find alien and difficult at first (largely because it's designed to prevent common types of errors committed by the average C programmer).
Looking over his answers, his breadth of knowledge definite impressed me. I don't know too many people that can discuss the intricacies of how architecture affects performance, then turn around and talk about enterprise platforms.

He also seems like a nice guy.

It makes me wish the article was better more than anything.
Why would we want a 360000$ random compass application?
The BlackBerry Storm had a haptic system, but it didn't seem to catch on, and it also did not have separate buttons so was not as easy-to-use as a menu with conventional buttons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Storm
I tried to make Microsoft's Chinese chatbot racist
My point is that most people's activities will fit fine within an EV's capabilities as-is, without having to think about it.

I understand that there are people where this is not the case, and that some of the people commenting on this thread are in that group. I just don't think that it's the common case anymore.
Here are some great visualizations of the data: https://panamapapers.icij.org/graphs/
From the Reddit live thread:
The Editor in Chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung responded to the lack of United States individuals in the documents, saying to "Just wait for what is coming next".
I've also wondered this. I find it hard to believe that a designer of an electric car, other than a Tesla, can honestly think they styled a beautiful vehicle. If I were to give them the benefit of the doubt then I would say that what they initially sketched on paper and what was ultimately produced was the fault of layers of institutional bureaucracy each meddling with the design until it looked nothing like what was envisioned.

There was a time when most programmers did their own art. This is reminiscent of that time.
Its much better than a smartphone mic. And always on, unlike a phone you need to take out of your pocket.
Engineering new circuits isn't the same kind of problem as understanding natural ones, just as designing a protein to fold predictably came many years ahead of predicting the folding of natural proteins. (The former started in the 80s, and the latter is afaik still very hard, as you say.) http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/index.html gets into some of the recent progress (under "Nucleic acid circuits").

That said, it's not my field and I get the impression they're talking more about in vitro work on the page I linked. Even if your circuits work all the time in the lab, in a cell I'd expect all kinds of things to mess with them.
> At the same time, I understand where you're coming from so thanks for the info mikeyouse!

I know right. But don't worry, sshykes, history repeats itself. :) There's always some great revolution that would wipe out corporate hypocrites off the face of this planet (I think ageing does that too). :-)
I must be slow-witted, but what is wrong with a public salt? A salt works whether it is public or not.
There was a lot of things that went into that. There was a huge time crunch on the project and until the bill was signed there was only so much groundwork that could be laid because you could only make passable guesses at the final requirements.
Yes, I also have the fear of losing my sight when I'm getting older.
I hope I could code even I'm 70 or 80 years old. It's not just for make living, also for dignity.
>>Juan Penalti - Soccer Player

Nice touch. :)
I could be wrong, but judging by the photos, the Bolt does not appear to compete with the Prius: the Prius is much larger.

The Bolt looks like it's maybe the size and shape of a Honda Fit. I'm pretty sure Priuses (the regular kind) have quite a bit more interior room than that.
Last time I looked at this it was Node/Express/Mongo.

Now it's Node/Express/Mongo/Webpack/Babel/React.

Exponential growth... Are these the early signs of the JavaScript singularity?
Can someone explain me if reading these documents is even legal for journalists? I mean I am pretty sure most of the people that used that law office are completely innocent and having their personal information leaked and now read and investigated by some journalists is kind of crime in its own, I would not want my legal papers stolen and read by anybody if I am doing everything according to the law.

My question is - what legal right do these journalists have to read this confidential information?
I don't think those two things are analogous. Being an owner of a company is something decidedly public. It has nothing to do with encryption or privacy.
Assuming the patch is BSD licensed, there should be no legal/licensing issues.

Have you submitted a FreeBSD bug report with the patch? If not, do that first: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Base...

If you've done that already, or after you've waited a few weeks without anyone noticing it, the usual tactic is to email people who have worked on the driver in question recently; the SVN logs are useful here: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c?vi...

Feel free to send me an email if you need more help.
Freely redistributable artifacts are one thing, but publication "in the preferred form for making modifications" is a pretty important part of FOSS.
Bitcoin is pretty easy to get these days man. Payment processing isn't the panacea it once was.
My Ford uses Fitt's Law to good effect. The big functions (phone, audio, navigation, climate) each have a button in one of the four corners of the screen. You can slide til you feel the bezel and press.

That still doesn't help with subfunctions like picking a radio station, etc. but voice control and steering wheel buttons pick up the slack. I still miss well-placed physical controls.
"Some" really isn't good enough. From what I've been able to put together, the whole thing seems choreographed if not outright rigged. Why is it that Putin and Assad seem to be the only targets with the initial release?

I will have a hard time believing any of the reporting until the raw data is released.
Wow, that is a nasty little bug! Can't even see the registry keys in regedit because they contain a non-ASCII value in the subkey!
I'm sure Putin's cash is ill-gained but I'm extremely doubtful it will be exposed in these docs. The NY Times has a story that he straight-up murdered a guy on American soil. That probably won't stick either.
Recursively Cautious Congestion Control [pdf]
Was trying to dig up the HN discussion for this article from last summer, but haven't found it yet:

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/07/java-in-flames.html

Java mixed-mode flame graphs provide a complete visualization of CPU usage and [...] can identify all CPU consumers and issues, including those that are hidden from other profilers.
How stoicism turns your life into solid gold
Nothing superior about offering preorders, besides the efficiency of the process (compared to a dealership model). That was me explaining why I thought the consumer market seems to agree. We don't have the numbers on Bolt because they don't offer preorders, but even if only 70% of the pre-orders go through with it, the Model 3 looks like it'll already be the best-selling U.S. car in its segment (small luxury).[1] Will it outsell the Bolt? It'll be amazing and exciting if they go head to head, but my guess is yes.

1: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-22/how-tesla-...
I'm based in LA and work with a team in Germany. I think we're most productive when we devote the morning to reviewing code and the afternoon to writing code that can be put into a PR by EOD. This way nobody is blocked. It does require a ton of discipline though because if you don't do the morning review you will fall behind and basically get stuck perpetually reviewing PRs without any time for writing code.
What? How would you think of three dimensional objects without ever being able to feel them? (I say as a someone that's got reasonable vision, but surely sound and especially touch is much better at spatial positioning that mere faulty "stereoscopic" vision -- there's a reason why you might want to practice martial arts with a blindfold...).
> "Imagine if healthy, home-cooked dinner was cheap and convenient." An appeal to pathos. Largely irrelevant to the discussion, and also to the services as they exist(which generally involve sit-down meals for groups of people at fairly immodest prices).

Here's one from the OP that's starting with affordable stuff (users price, kind of like sidecar): https://josephine.com/

I think what they're doing is pretty cool and I've heard it's mostly busy parents buying the meals. Hope they come to LA soon as I'd love to try some of the yummy smells I pick up walking around Echo Park in the evening! (sorry for the pathos?)
Nobody is arguing what she is doing is legal in U.S. What people feel is that what she is doing is morally right despite it being illegal, regarding how publishers operate.
I am not a lawyer, but as far as I know there is no US law that makes it illegal for a civilian to see something. It's important, though, that if you have a security clearance you can be fired or put in jail for reading something outside of your clearance but those laws don't apply to normal people.
Good news :)
Given that the BBC article shows the following...
1 - A woman (presumably his wife) in a "Some People Ar Bi: Get Over It" shirt with his arm around her (and kids).
2 - The kids are at the same time all wearing rainbow ribbons of some kind (presumably supporting the same cause)
3 - He's showing some kind of flowery silvery face paint at the same time...

That it's a very long box to draw that he harbors any kind of discriminatory views on sexuality.

And you know what - given that he is selflessly helping educate a very large number of people, and giving to the community - It's a bloody rude and woefully offtopic point to make.

I'm a fan of Jon Skeet's blog entires, and his occaisional podcast appearances (and the classic - tounge in cheek - going to cause me problems "Of course I'm right, I'm Jon Skeet" quote).

Great work Jon, and I do appreciate the work you've done, and continue doing in the IT world.
It's not illegal. You reserve rights that are not explicitly taken away.
Why is Mossack Fonceca company website excluded from Wayback Machine? https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mossfon.com
That makes more sense, though I don't think 70% is a conservative estimate given that 1. the deposit is fully refundable, 2. the widely-touted $7500 tax is due to expire soon after the Model 3 is released. Customers are more likely to preorder something that they believe will have a long waitlist, emphasizing the other two effects.
A few things to consider when evaluating the morality of this leak:

1. I can assure you that the majority of people purchasing services from Mossack Fonseca are not "completely innocent".

2. There is firm precedent for the legality of whistleblowing when you believe there to be crimes occurring.

3. "Who owns a business" is not generally considered to be a highly protected class of information, and that's mostly what the data in the leak is about. It's generally about board structure and ownership of various shell companies.

4. Only in Panama (and a few other countries) is business ownership information considered to be "confidential" information.

But to answer your direct question - what legal right do these journalists have? I believe they have the same legal right all citizens do: the right to know if our leaders are committing crimes secretly.
>> The American automotive industry moved ridiculously slowly towards electric and alternative fuel vehicles

> Tesla is American; this perhaps isn't the best choice of words.

I think the point the OP was making was "The traditional automotive industry (Of which Tesla is not a part)"
Because major employers of the valley don't open offices in Modesto, Stockton, Tracy, Fairfield, Gilroy, etc.
Browser-hack sass mixins: Apply your CSS to a specific browser
So many routing solutions use regexes. Is that really necessary?
You can choose to have your own website excluded from archival.
I believe it's the law in Japan, or at least they all do it here (in addition to disabling the obligatory built-in TV). Most dealers will pull out the sense wire from the back of the console if you ask them to
Or tech companies could just move to the many areas of the country, such as many areas of the Midwest, where housing isn't so constrained. There's plenty of space in the US. Just not in the Bay area.
It's unclear why my response is getting downvoted when other people are giving normative answers to a legal question.
I was in a giant mall yesterday where I knew what I wanted, from which outlets but with little idea where those outlets were. Indoor turn by turn navigation would have saved me 30+ mins.
I'll check it out, thanks! What does it let you do that a normal IAR debug environment doesn't?
I never said it's not useful, only that in this circumstance it's not important. It may be that he would eventually gain some efficiency by learning and using version control, but the lack of version control has clearly not prevented him from successfully creating a program, and quite a complicated one at that.

Even huge projects involving large numbers of people can be and have been done without version control, if you have a large enough project management staff. You'd be mad to try to do it that way merely because you can, now that version control has gotten so good, but it's still not a necessity. It's not vital.
The leak occurred in Panama. It might have something to do with Panamanian laws, but there are no international laws regarding the use of leaked data as far as I know. It isn't a crime against humanity.
> The group’s members [who opposed Apple's application] include the largest Indian phone brands: Micromax, Intex and Samsung.

Ah.
This may be true, but this is also exactly the kind of country you might want to drive through on your way from your home to a destination.
More cities?

This sounds like a solution China would come up with.
I have had good results with Yourkit. And so far in my experience, that is the only profiler that has been able to survive profiling busy services running large heaps. ymmv.
Or perhaps Americans have a different organization they go to when they want to form shell companies.
After 1906 or so, people in San Francisco discovered that they cared very much.
The group putting out this leak is also funded by George Soros and Rockefeller Funds through OpenSociety.

Makes me skeptical to say the least.
Is the Engineer II position remote ok?
As long as journalists didn't hack into server and got the information themselves, they can read leaked information without fear of prosecution.

However engaging in publishing of the leaked information 'may' get them in trouble, unless it is in public's interest to do so. And that's a big 'may'.

See the quoted block below.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/information-antidote-f...
> and the other is an easily manipulated system to transfer wealth from those who may not understand to those that only care about more.

Free speech is used to convince people to give away their money all the time. Look at all the megachurches with multi-millionaire pastors who are living off the backs of their oftentimes poor congregation members.
From init/main.c:

"The Bourne shell can be used instead of init..."

An easy way to avoid systemd if the user is more comfortable with using a BSD-style /etc/rc approach to starting services?
The FBI’s ability to hack into an iPhone may not last much longer
Mere possession of information is rarely illegal. The right to possess information - even that which was gleaned illegally initially, goes back further than the US Constitution and is clearly established.

If you are interested in the current jurisprudence surrounding the matter of when possessing information can be (and can't be) illegal, you might be interested in "illegal numbers": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
Thing is, in the places mentioned, there aren't hills like we have where I live. Makes a huge difference in snow and icy conditions.

It also matters when winter temperatures tend to hover around the freezing point vs. well below. It's hard to gain traction when the surface is slippery rather than hard frozen but essentially dry.

I've owned RWD vehicles (e.g., Volvo) in the past, I mean, good cars but useless trying to go up/down a steep incline just after a wet, sloppy snowstorm. To those professing to "know how to drive in snow" with RWD, I've offered the challenge of driving up to my house when our streets are coated with ice-encrusted snow. Nobody has yet taken me up on it.

Even FWD can be insufficient. I've insisted on all-wheel drive at a minimum. My near-ancient 2003 Honda Pilot has a locked 4-wheel range in low gear. There have been times I needed it, and even a few cases where I also had to use chains.

Whether RWD will suffice ultimately depends a lot on environment, road and weather conditions.
It actually all depends on what you want to do. Opening an overseas is not illegal for Americans, you just have to declare it when you file your taxes. However, having a bank account out of the reach of creditors or others who may seek legal action against you is advisable for people in certain fields. You could be a doctor in a risky part of medicine where people will sue you at a drop of a hat. You would put your money into a Cook Island Trust and then no one can get access to it. You are not doing anything illegal, you have paid taxes on that money and the government knows about it. Someone who has gained money through crime or sinister methods could do the same thing, but instead an American judge would just throw them in jail until they returned the funds.

You could also own a company that does the majority of its business overseas. If you need to move money from one part of the world to another, sometimes it is just easier to keep it in Panama or Singapore. When you move the money back into the US, you would have to pay taxes on it.

However in all cases, if you have an overseas account with a lot of money in it, you must accept that you are willing to flee the US to keep it.
I agree about all the things about safety.

However, for a isolated suburban house - it made little sense to put all that measures you are talking about. If we were living in a major city - it would make more sense to add some of those things.

4 walls and a roof should not make someone bankrupt.