skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I can imagine some shoppers thinking, it gives up 150EV miles for a gas engine?"

Sure -- I think the Volt is targeting a different use case, of people whose daily commutes are less than 40-50 total miles but who occasionally make long trips.

It's basically the perfect car for me (I bought a 2013 Volt off-lease a few months ago.) I'm a stay-at-home dad, my wife works from home, and most of the driving I do is to locations within a 5-mile radius (family, church, the grocery store, and a handful of restaurants.) Two or three times per year, we travel out of state, at which point I'm glad for the ~340 mile combined range and would be disappointed with having to stop every 200 miles and sit for 30+ minutes waiting for a full charge.

But for someone who regularly travels 50-200 miles per day, the Bolt or 3 or other EVs in that class might be a much better option.
I'm interested as heck to know more about this instrumentation panel showing "technique" as an indicator for the car's energy consumption. Ostensibly using gamification to encourage more conscious driving?
I never said the Windows source was considered bad :)
Have you been up-front about this problem with your coworkers and your manager? Extroverts won't intuit introverts' needs (in my experience) and you'll probably have to advocate for yourself in very clear language. If you can work from home sometimes or work different hours, like dsr_ suggested, that's also worth a try.
I feel like Elon Musk is generally well-informed and thinks pretty far into the future.

While I don't know the answer myself, I am inclined to think that Elon's not just planning on running the company straight into a widely foreseeable dead-end. Seems unlikely, don't you think?

Like, imagine this interview:

Interviewer: What is your plan for when lithium reserves run out?

Elon: Wait, what? There's a limited supply? Hold on, need to google this.

Take 2:

Interviewer: What is your plan for when lithium reserves run out?

Elon: Oh, I'm sure we'll figure something out, cross that bridge when we get there.

(Has he EVER given an answer like that, politician-style? No. Never.)

Seems like a safe bet that this imagined problem has a solution which hasn't been shared with us because nobody's asked him.
>The days of punishing children for the crimes of their parents are long in the past.

Except if the victims are white. Then so many people like to play the game of attempting to justify contemporary offence/injustice X, with historical event Y.
> Ohh, please stop, do you really believe that western media care a single bit about free elections in Russia?

I think any person in the "west" would be delighted to see free elections in Russia. Why wouldn't we? Since it would be a missive influence on our lives, of course western media should care!

A government elected by popular vote would be stabilizing to the region (and the world) since it wouldn't have the same need of maintaining poopularity by inventing an external enemy (and at regular intervals, creating one, if necessary).

> "does not match the western narrative"

What is the "western narrative" really?

I suppose one historical "western narrative" is that the Soviet Union was dissolved in the early 90's, and that the borders drawn then are those of sovereign states who each have a choice of trade/military alliance. I'm getting increasingly worried that this isn't the historical narrative tought in some schools in parts of the former union.
I have and the solution was to something that suited extroverts.
Oh yeah, I did forget about that one. Page is kind of clutterer but the glance makes me think this was the tool that automated & checks hardening guides. Am I right?

And does it substitute for system monitoring/config tools that are popular or just complement them?
While we are talking hybrids, I love my ford fusion hybrid. Looks exactly like the gas fusions and has all the same options (well besides wheels and engines). Some owners even take off the hybrid badges on theirs.
The company I work for is using microservices, I usually I try to focus on how the app behaves, and make sure the UI works & there are no bugs. I do also read the code itself to make sure there's no blatant security issues, but I try to focus my review on the app's behavior more than it's code, since a microservice can be easily rewritten later if any problems come to our attention. If the person writing that app chose to copy/paste instead of use inheritance, I'll assume they have a good reason. Code quality is important, but no one even cares about it besides the developers. Usually I'll also ask the developer if there's any parts of the code they'd like constructive advice on, that way I don't come off as if I'm lecturing them when I do critique their code.
We do create new jobs. But you do recognize it's a Ponzi scheme right? Each iteration include a smaller set of highly educated jobs, which will be out of reach for a larger percentage of the population.
I'd assume that in this context, BCI stands for Brain Computer Interface.
Emacs org-mode
Sure.. what if you're an LLC making apps (single owner). How do you re-invest your million dollars into your business? Your business consists on a laptop and yourself. That's all you need to make apps and to sale them on the app store... You would most likely be working from home. So you have to file a regular income tax since you'd be a sole proprietorship. The business money is your income money because you have to "withdraw" that million dollars from your LLC to your personal bank account. If you leave it in your business it would be taxed anyway. So at the end it becomes regular income tax and you fall into the seventh bracket (federal: %39) + state tax + self employed tax (%15). It's more than %50... Sucks you made a million dollars and you have to give away half. That's why I don't get it when democrats think that millionaires avoid taxes. There's no way around for most of the small business owners.
He was not 17 when he set up another shell company in Panama:

Mega Star Enterprises, the offshore company owned by Messi and his father at least as far back as 2013, is not mentioned in the Spanish government’s 2014 and 2015 indictments against the pair. The leaked records show Messi signed at least one document reflecting his ownership of Mega Star

http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/panama-pape...
It allows an institution to drop small journals and cut back on licensing for bigger ones without their users feeling any pain. Nearly everyone who reads journals knows about this; institutions don't have to bring it up in contract negotiations for it to help them.
This should be titled "A Ruby programmer looks at Rust". There are now a very large number of programmers who have zero experience with anything below the level of a scripting language, and have never had to think about memory allocation. To them, Rust is rather intimidating, and this writer is trying to make it simpler.

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.

Go is a hard-compiled language compatible with the mindset of scripting language programmers. That's just what Google needs. They have a lot of server side code to write, and it has to go reasonably fast or they have to build additional acres of data centers. With Go, they can put programmers from the scripting language community on the job.
That's a bold claim. What's in it for Microsoft to build a shitty browser?
> paid for by British tax payers,

While that is mostly true, (it's the same people obviously) I'm pretty sure the BBC isn't funded by taxes. If they were, they would be under political control. Which would be silly.
Lingua's Editors & Editorial Board Members: http://www.aplu.org/news-and-media/News/aplu-statement-on-re...

Elsevier response: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/addressing-the-resignation-...
There are going to be lots of dead unicorns
Copyright laws are a finite duration social and legal grant to the creators of intellectual property with the intention of encouraging creation of work.

It is artificial relative to a particular vision of a "free" market, but the same could be said about any of the mechanisms that structure the market, thereby allowing it to function. In order to have a market you must have some rules. So what we do is try to figure out what rules work well and which ones impede things.

Copyright/Patent/Trademark isn't a priori bad. It has funded many musicians, writers, inventors, painters, etc. It has often been referred to as one of the great innovations of Enlightenment era free-market practice. It allowed generations of thinkers to have compensation when previously the only form of wealth was goods and land backed up by physical violence.

This is a nuanced topic, and I think it makes sense to treat it as such.
> Although Chronos can run on existing Wi-Fi devices using just an app (or a firmware upgrade for an access point), each device has to undergo a one-time distance calibration.

I worked at at an indoor location-systems startup once.
The real fun part of the system was integrating wifi-based location with streaming video from fixed-mount cameras to pinpoint location even better. But let me tell your right off: wifi calibration of the sort they're talking about can be incredibly obnoxious (think "carefully rolling a laptop in a cart at a constant speed around a space, in a grid", which could easily be completed in an hour or two if you are really good at it, but might take a day or two to get right if you aren't.) Sure, this is all fine if you want to calibrate one or two indoor spaces for your automated drones, especially if you've already got APs deployed in a location-friendly mode (i.e. more around the perimeter and less around the center, with antenna orientation to match), but don't expect to see it in a corner store near you anytime soon.

Now, if you can talk about automating the calibration you'll do quite well.
> by self-censoring itself.

This is is of course an area of concern. It is sometimes referred to as cognitive capture, akin to regulatory capture. It occurs when a regulatee so strongly paints a picture of how they feel the world should work, that a regulator fails to fulfill their duties, because their lens on the world has become so distorted in favor of the regulatee's perspective.

It often flows private industry ----> govt, with private industry cognitively capturing the government.

But it can just as easily go the other way. Afterall, in the west the media/journalist industry has historically been seen as the regulator of the government, the fourth estate.
Analysts, meteorologists, and software estimates are mostly well-meaning but never to be completely trusted.
I’m a trendy developer – I’m one of THOSE
Pretty much all hybrids and EVs do the gamification thing. Honda's got "eco score", Ford has "efficiency leaves", Nissan has "trees", etc. The more economically you drive, the more .. things .. you collect on the dashboard.
exactly, not so much as a leak as a release. The presumption that the press (even 100 odd institutions) need to be gatekeepers for this inforamation is offensive. Especially since the mostly sham of an excuse of the snowden documents does not hold in this case.
List of participating entities: https://panamapapers.icij.org/pages/reporting_partners/
This will blow over. Every person that has wealth has done this. Journalists don't have wealth and have recently watched the movie 'Spotlight'
Wow. Back in the spring of 1971, thanks to NSF a number of high school students and teachers, I one of the former, got to go for a few weeks to the University of Oklahoma where Dr. Richard V. Andree would lecture us on BASIC programming and the fundamentals of numerical methods on Saturdays and then on other days through the week we each got our hands on an ASR-33 hooked up to a Data General Supernova that could have four people running the BASIC interpreter at a time (!). After that, I kept a notebook that I would write programs in in BASIC with no chance of running them and sucked down the computer-related books in the school and town library, including one English book with such exotica as Extended Mercury Autocode. After a junior year with no computer access, vo-tech school exposed me to unit record machines and an RCA 301 (ended up writing self-modifying code to do a decimal multiply) and eventually RPG on the OKC public school system's 370. On to OU, where the undergraduates all had to use punched cards--it was an IBM shop, so it was the horrors of JCL again, though I hadn't seen anything else but the Data General, so I didn't know any better.

Very different days those were.
>security holes

It's an arrow that points in one of two directions. I can not think of a single way this could be made insecure. Even if someone was able to influence the direction the arrow was pointing, everyone is still going through the same ineffective screening process.
A poor person today has access to thousands of movies and music on Netflix and YouTube. A poor person today has a vast array of meals they can purchase with less than one hour of minimum wage work. A poor person today can buy tons of generic prescription pills whose formulas were nonexistent during yesteryear.
The reason I'm thinking "vast Western conspiracy" is that you would think, as a common sense point, that when something like this appears Western journalists would be more interested in Western politicians first.

But apparently not. I find that strange.

I also find it strange that more people don't find it strange - because it's always been obvious to me that Putin is a completely generic oligarch crook, and I really don't understand why anyone would be surprised that he acts like one.

But here's an interesting fact - public opinion management has a long history in the West, just as it does in all other big states. It's been tracked by journalists and academics, discussed in Senate committees, and explored in books. It's a long way from being either hostile state propaganda or weirdo conspiracy nonsense.

I'm quite prepared to believe that a lot of HN readers haven't taken the time to familiarise themselves with that history, but that doesn't change the historical record.

And if absolutely no US pols are implicated in this leak, I'll continue to find that curious and strange, no matter how many downvotes I get here.

As for UK pols - we'll see exactly what that means in practice. Most people here know that Cameron's father made his money as a tax consultant to the privileged, and that our beloved Chancellor's family business never pays tax.

It would certainly be interesting, timely, and welcome if other members of the government were outed as avoiding significant sums. But until more facts appear, it's too early to tell how this will play out.
Oh I meant in execution, not build time.
They could have used a magic 8 ball with similar outcomes
It is remarkable that this breaking story focuses on Russia, Iceland and unfriendly/anti-Western dictators (Mubarak, Gaddafi, al-Assad).

And apart from Cameron's father:

- Pamela Sharples, member of the House of Lords

- Michael Ashcroft, former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party and former member of the House of Lords

- Michael Mates, former Member of Parliament

And in the EU:

- Giuseppe Donaldo Nicosia, business partner of former Italian senator

- Jérôme Cahuzac, former French minister

- Konrad Mizzi, current Maltese minister

- Miguel Arias Cañete, wife of a current Spanish minister and European Commissioner

- Paweł Piskorski, former Warsaw mayor

- Stavros Papastavrou, former advisor to the current Greek Prime Minister

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Source: ICIJ
https://projects.icij.org/panama-papers/power-players/index....
> Not really true for specialist academic work publishers, they don't (and shouldn't) expect books to become hits

It is true for academic publishers as well; the difference is that 'hit' is qualified differently (something that becomes a standard textbook for undergraduates, even in a specialty niche - or at a higher level, something that becomes commonly cited enough that it is used by a large (relatively) number of academics, libraries, etc.)
Decimeter-Level Localization with a Single WiFi Access Point [pdf]
Ethereum Partners with R3CEV on Lizardcoin
somefile.rst

Which is plain text, and vim knows how to display headings and such. I never render it, .rst is just for syntax highlighting in vim. My current file is 2742 lines, and goes back to Sept. 2014.

I have the following shell script:

dt="$1" || "today"
date --date="$dt" +"%Y-%m-%d %a"
echo "--------------"
echo "- "
echo

I call it from vim:

:r!newday

or:

:r!newday tomorrow

Which creates this, which I then fill in as I go:

2016-04-03 Sun
--------------
- Commented on HN.
- > Make another comment on HN.

A plain bullet records what I did. A bullet followed by '>' means something I
need to do today (or tomorrow). Most of the time when I complete a todo, I
just remove the '>'. If it's still there at the end of the day I move it to
the next day's entry. In the manner of .rst, I sometimes have sub-bullets.

A new entry goes at the top. I have a few undated long-ish term entries at the very top.

That's for my work life. For my personal life I just sit on the couch and wait for emails from my ex-wife.
We're not talking about open access here. I don't see why you brought it in.

From what I understand, most journals that charge for access offer free publication. Even if fees are charged, they don't cover costs.

>This is a racket.

Maybe if they were bribing grant committees to require Elsevier publication. If those committees decide that of their own free will, then they think the benefits of Elsevier are worth the costs.

If they really were just extracting rent, I'd expect to see far higher margins, at least above 50%.
Pen and paper pad. Usually put exclamation points next to things I think are priorities. The next morning, I copy over things I didn't get done the previous day. Eventually, if I keep copying them long enough, I stop because I come to term with the fact that they aren't high enough priorities.
There's really not that much "technique" around driving an EV efficiently. Use regen braking and keep your speed down since most power goes to V^2 @ > 45mph.
What economies can you point to that have provided their citizens a higher standard of living than the market economies have? Be specific.
But Cameron directly benefited from his father's tax avoidance. He received several hundred thousand pounds as an inheritance from his father's estate. I'm sure he would have received less if his father had not saved money by avoiding taxes. He wasn't running the scheme, but he did directly benefit from it.
Except you can have a sampling profiler that does better than what most sampling profilers on the JVM are doing?

IOW the point of the blog post is not that sampling profilers are bad or that sampling profilers on the JVM are bad, but that some sampling profilers are bad because they use bad methodology. At no additional cost you could be using profilers that use a more accurate mechanism.

To me that is very useful information. I'm always looking for opportunities to get something for nothing.

I would also not characterize users of sampling profilers as knowing their limitations. Taking a WAG I would guess less than 50% understand the limitations. A much larger percentages know limitations exist, but I don't think they actually know what to do about them.
Politically I vote Democratic at the Federal level and a mix between Democrats and Republicans at State/local level. That's shifted in recent years as the GOP has purged moderates out of the NY State party.

I think we should either pay enough taxes to cover our routine government expenses, or cut the expenses to meet the revenues from taxes.

Generally the GOP talks about cutting taxes and spending, but shifts the burden to debt and various user fees. Democrats get blamed for raising taxes, but generally raise taxes to meet existing obligations (as well as use taxes as punitive means to change social or business policy).

For 2014 my household had an AGI of approximately $900k, of which we paid around $250k in US Federal taxes, roughly $70k in NY State taxes, and another $32k in NYC taxes. So, roughly 42% tax rate when you combine all three (I'm ignoring sales taxes).

I don't think I pay too much in tax.

Would I like it to be less? Sure. But I like having roads that are paved, bridges that don't fall down, police and firemen who are paid a decent wage. None of these services are free. Many of these services (at least in NYC) started out as commercial services in the 1800s and shifted to being government produced and funded.

You know why? Because humans suck at forecasting their own needs. I don't have kids, but I pay for schools in my taxes. I don't plan to have a fire, or be the victim of a crime, yet I continue to subsidize the people who are victims of crimes, even (indirectly) the people who commit those crimes.

Americans seem to be uniquely blind to the benefits of the social system we’ve created over the past 230+ years. All we see are the system, its bugs and inefficiencies, the corruption, the costs. We fail to recognize the benefits.

The US economy is an extremely imperfect capitalist system, but until someone explains to me clearly, without waving hands, or relying on the Laffer curve, how to fund socially shared obligations without paying taxes, then I'll pay them and use other forms of influence to try to change how my taxes are used.

Because the alternative is to resort to building a castle and a moat, and hiring a bunch of flunkies to guard me and my moat and my money, and effectively create my own little government.
Panama papers
I worked at a company that had to resell its software through a disabled, veteran-owned sole proprietorship so that the TSA could find budget to purchase it. The way it was described to me was that a portion of the budget is earmarked for these businesses, so if the primary technology purchasing budget runs out, you can still sell to the TSA if you resell through one of these businesses. Essentially, the reseller took a cut for doing nothing, and fleeced the American taxpayer for a few hundred thousand dollars. I'm sure this happens all the time.
Very cool. They are using Time Difference of Arrival analysis[1], the fact that most devices have two or more antennas, and clever software to get 10-80 cm accuracy at a good enough frequency to be used as a positional reference in a quadcopter, see the paper[2] for more info

Existing indoor positioning systems such as Bluetooth LE beacons and WiFi triangulation[3] only use the RSSI value and trigonometry to figure out the position. This method is slow (5Hz or so) and the resolution of the RSSI is bad unless you sample it directly, eg with SDR (which incidentally, is what my dissertation is about!)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateration#Principle

[2] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi16/nsdi16...

[3] https://www.qualcomm.com/products/izat (unfortunately there are no public 'specs' I can find...)
Not really, freedom of press is much narrower. What you're suggesting is an ideal world where journalists are protected from the egos and reputations of powerful people who might want to retaliate against them for their reporting. There are many forms of legal retaliation that freedom of press cannot protect against. In practice, this freedom is weighed against the consequences of publishing any single piece.