skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people can't fuck you up as much as a bad encounter with a cop, so it doesn't really matter if "most" cops are good; what matters is that you never have a bad encounter with a cop.

Some people, and some classes of people[1] are almost guaranteed to have bad encounters with cops.

A good goal would be to reduce the number and severity of bad encounters.

1. Ethnic Minorities, Persons with mental health issues, etc.
> company confidential information is not protected by any law

This is not the case. Presumably the original leaker(s) are in violation of their contracts with the company and possibly Panamanian criminal law (which I know nothing about). In some jurisdictions, there may also be statutory civil liability surrounding the subsequent losses realized as the result of the information being in the hands of these non-parties.
Silicon Jihad
Crackdown in China: Worse and Worse
The Ford Focus Electric looks fine.

I think there are other electric cars out there that are the electric version of a "typical" car.

My theory is automakers want the car to stand out, even if it's ugly, since otherwise how will anyone know you are driving an electric vehicle?
In California, the state constitution forbids (in general) state and local government from using eminent domain to acquire an owner-occupied residence for the purposes of conveying it to a private entity. This restriction was added to the state constitution in 2008 via referendum.

On a broader note, while I understand the frustration with NIMBYism, a lot of these discussions about housing here on HN cross the line from anti-NIMBYism to anti-democracy. The United States is not China. The solution to the housing crisis in the US is not and never will be for governments (at any level) to impose solutions contrary to the general will of the American voting public. Any government that tries to do so will find itself replaced. Quickly. And quite rightly so.
"Moar, for the love of God, moar!"
So is the data correct or is it not?

Even if this was orchestrated by the usual US suspects, the rest of the world has some house cleaning to do.
Atom with linter-rust highlights compile errors: http://i.imgur.com/ac7FTpW.png

Or do you have a more specific visualisation for moves/ownership in mind?
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BMW i8 does look really good in my opinion: http://www.bmwusa.com/bmw/bmwi/i8
One theory is that electric cars look distinctively ugly because their owners want them to stand out as an eco friendly car. The Prius tail is an example of this.

I think that it limits how mass market you can go, however it seemed to work for the Prius.
> Tesla made one major innovation

You haven't ridden in a Tesla doing its self-driving thing, have you?

I didn't care about Tesla until I rode in one doing this.
I can see it now, the dangrossman of turn-of-the-20th-century pointing out that these new-fangled motor carriages need these so-called fuel pumps, and t'ain't any in a 10-county region 'round 'im.

The OP's point stands, for the target market. dangrossman, to some extent myself, and others like us, are not the target market. And that's okay. This is the Zen of new tech that drags in a significant logistical tail along with it. For those whom the tech works, great, for all others...wait.

We are still years away from the days when EV's are soccer-mom-mainstream. In the early days of motor cars, people (mostly men) planned their trips around known fueling and maintenance garages, and we are in a similar phase right now with EV's. Be happy with your internal combustion/diesel/hybrid vehicle until the EV industry works out the infrastructure and products so you can drive to your grandparents without planning the trip, and be happy there are millions of customers in the intervening years willing to shell out the R&D bucks ahead of you to make that eventuality possible.

The really interesting options EV's open up are in fuel sourcing. The power generation/storage tech is approachable enough that individuals or small groups can source their own if desired, and with software-mediated assistance, even perform small-scale "load balancing". We've barely scratched the surface in these directions.
It was just a trend I noticed, or maybe a difference in cultures. I notice my coworkers sometimes spending 15-20 minutes going over my code sometimes in phab. While at my past place they didn't dive deep into the code. People also don't feel as comfortable bringing up pedantic crap in person as much as they do over a web interface as you said.

I think with OTS your going at the pace of the presenter, while with an async code diff, the reviewer is going at their own pace, can hop back and forth in between things and so on. It's also hard to keep track of things you have to change with an OTS, while with async code reviews the request list is right there already.
Meh. Apple is asking to be treated like a special snowflake in this case, caught by their own elitism of not-selling-affordable-phones.
Market segmentation. There's no good reason cheap cars have to look worse than expensive cars, except that selling a cheap but expensive-looking car would cannibalize higher-margin luxury car sales.

No competitor breaks this cycle because all major competitors for middle-class cars also have luxury divisions.
But now we know it's Person A, Person B, etc. and not just "the rich"
I'm pretty sure that ember had an internal object called Ember.State at one point and another called Ember.StateManager to (naturally) manage the relationships between states. This was a few years back so I can't say what's happened internally since then, but as far as I remember the router was intended to basically encapsulate the logic of an FSM.
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A little bit tangential: when you go to the slower lane and they swab you with those silly machines, can they actually detect anything?
Very cool! I love Rethink and I am glad it's making its way to more languages.
I didn't know about the Keras/SKLearn wrapper - nice.

(Keras is a beautiful piece of work, so thanks for all your work on that BTW)
The reason that the Prius and the entire SUV category have sold so well is that more people care about utility than appearance. The Bolt was designed to support large cargo when necessary, and this is something that I have looked for in past purchases. http://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/news.detail...
Oh gosh this is huuggeeeeeeeeeeee!
Arch is becoming more and more a foundation distro.
I've found it is easy to avoid white board architects:

Dont give them any actual authority.

If they want to drive architecture in a certain direction then they have to convince the senior developers, project managers, and tech leads to follow them.
Some people don't care what it takes to get their guy to win. If she has corrupt dealings, I hope they are exposed, but I don't hope she has corrupt dealings (though many would already say she does).
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Other cars at similar price points were doing the same things years, sometimes a decade ago. Tesla's innovation was marketing them to techies on the Google self driving hype train rather than as safety features for the country club set.
Apple buys back a large amount of stock because that is the only way they can really get any return out of their stock (http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2016/03/01/why-apple-may-s...).

Unfortunately due to the law of large numbers, for them to grow at even a 15-20%, would require billions and billions of dollars in revenue increases. Seems like the most prudent course of action for them and their investors. Albeit you could also argue that using that cash to buy other companies might be worthwhile.
But this is very generic news.
Heck I worry just about the maps! The amount of times Google Maps has told me to drive onto an old road that doesn't exist anymore, or veer 90 degrees to the right over a highway, these autonomous cars are going to get lost a lot.

I'm seeing someone DDoSing autonomous taxis by booking a ton of them to an address with known bad routing...
For everyone wondering why the large cash balances on company books, this is why. But it also means that if companies are spending their 'rainy day' money that it's truly raining. The theory that the tech cycle is hitting its 8-year downturn cycle just got more substantiated.
That's a fair opinion, but I have to disagree. Do this test yourself: grab an iPad and then setup your phone camera to record your face. Now look forward, then do a fairly straightforward task on the iPad like thumbs upping a song in Pandora, then look forward again. Check the video and see how long your eyes were on the screen. Do the same for a few other tasks as well. Now calculate how far your car would have traveled during that time at freeway speed.

For me, it's between 1.5 and 2 seconds, or around 100 feet of travel. If that really doesn't seem dangerous to you then I suppose it's your life, but I don't want to be driving anywhere near you.

Touchscreens can meet NHTSA's guidelines if they are used for presenting information. However, it's very difficult to make them safe to physically interact with while driving, short of reducing what's shown to just a few giant buttons. And my original point was that Tesla doesn't even try on this front - the center screen is jam packed with information and small buttons that require quite a bit of attention to operate effectively.
It's because the companies have different goals. Tesla is just trying to make a good car. Others are trying to differentiate. (Hint: the easiest way to something look different is to make it ugly.)
If you want to burn your ideas into the minds of as many people as possible, the timings are probably similar to spaced repetition[1]. In other words: Lots of leaks early on; on the order of every day or two. Then taper off and only leak new stuff right before people are likely to forget you exist. If you can stretch things out for six months or so, you're embedded in the public psyche.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
Funny, I don't know how you got this impression. I drive a Leaf, one of those "new-fangled" EVs, as I've mentioned elsewhere on this page. I plan around that range every day, not just theoretical holidays at grandma's. My comment was about how carmakers other than Tesla are going to be able to sell EVs to early adopters despite not having the Supercharger network because (a) the Supercharger network isn't near most routes in much of the US, and (b) the non-Tesla charging network is even larger and still growing.
Perhaps they don't want the individuals in the initial release to be overshadowed. Everything in good time.
Jobs and interviews suck way too much, quit and work independently?
Working for a Fortune 500, and thinking about quitting because things move way too slowly and it is very boring.

Tried to switch job and realize there are not many interesting corporate/startup jobs out there. Most of them are js jobs really (even in hackernews). And the interview process is so awful. I've interviewed at many places, given many onsites and it's the same. I don't even get why 4-5 people ask the same question and you have to answer the same thing. Also, when I joined my current job, I found out the interviewer who asked me to implement a certain data structure didn't know how to do it himself, I knew because we are now good friends and work together.

There are rare ones who are really targeting problem solving. But they are very rare. And I'm afraid even if I find them and join them I will get bored pretty soon.

Considering jobs are boring, interview process sucks do you think just quitting and starting with apps, open source is a good idea ? I can live for 1-2 years with my savings ? How many of you have followed this path and regretted ?
The article is from March 2015, FYI...
Maybe AR optimized for productivity would be a useful innovation in the space. Higher resolutions (with possibly lower fields of view if necessary) and maintained visibility of keyboard/mouse should be possible with slight modifications to the VR / AR coming out now (like Microsoft's offering) - then you've got "infinite" virtual monitor space.
Well, the Prius -- and a number of other vehicles -- have that shape tail for aero efficiency reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kammback
Yea but honestly, every time I try to configure Gnome the way I need it, I get frustrated and give up (ha). I just don't have the time, and this distro looks good right out of the box. I'd be someone who tries this in a VM and honestly, I'd consider switching off Ubuntu and maybe donating to them. I don't know the size of this group of people but it could also include Windows/OSX users in the same boat.
Does it really count as "spending rainy-day money" if they're spending their cash reserves on buybacks? It seems more to me like they just have literally nowhere else to spend the money other than bringing all those dividends back into the company.
Mixing some C++ into Standard ML is not necessarily a good idea, like mixing a bit of shit into a bucket of honey.
It should be obvious that keeping your eyes on the road (you learn to use volume and HVAC controls by feel pretty quick) is less dangerous than looking down at a screen.
Probably wouldn't work. Tax "loopholes" are available for everyone - that is everyone who earns enough to use them. They aren't free, and if you need to spend $1000 to save $100 on your taxes (and have your money locked in several shells of corporations who knows where) that's not what you'd do. The reason not everybody does it is it just not worth it for most people except those having real lot of money (and usually not needing them right away but wanting to invest them long-term) or those who gotten their money by means other than legal.
Which ones? I don't mean just staying in your lane. The car I was in stopped at a red light (technically just following the car in front of it, which also stopped). Though I haven't researched the history of this feature.
> Tesla made one major innovation.

https://www.google.com/?tbm=pts#tbm=pts&q=inassignee:%22Tesl... shows "about 731 results" — 549 of which mention batteries.
I'd be surprised if the method employed for Snowden's leak is ever topped - several of the first reveals were responded to by the USG, and then the following day the next reveal would demonstrate the response to be a lie. I don't remember the specifics of it, but I do remember wondering how long it would take the PR folks in government to realize that their spin was actually amplifying the message. I'm pretty sure it took three news cycles. It might have been less to do with masterfully predicting the media and government response, and more to do with the amount of evidence available - but it was hilarious (in the darkest way possible).
I appreciate your stance and also hate these kinds of safety features from a usability standpoint. However, keep in mind that they're not there just for you - they're there to keep the drivers around you safe. If you're messing with the navigation controls and smash into the car in front of you, a completely innocent driver is suffering because you didn't want your car to babysit you.

Also, for what it's worth at least two of the OEMs I've worked with are in the process of adding passenger-detecting tech to the seats and head unit so that if someone is in the passenger seat, the full touchscreen controls will be unlocked.
Actually, a lot of things you may perceive as visual are not visual, at least if you imagine "visual" as something I (a blind person) cannot understand.

I do a lot of refactoring, maybe even more than you do, simply because I can't understand functions that have two indentation levels (like two if statements inside each other), or functions that go above 15 lines. I'm saying that I may do it more than you because, unlike sighted people, we can't glance at 6 lines at once; we have to look at the code one line at a time. So, the smaller each section (whether it's an if statement, a loop, or a function, depending on the language itself), the better for me.
Tesla has supercharger stations on the major freeways through unpopulated areas. And they're building more. This is effectively a non-problem. Affordability is a much bigger bottleneck for them.
Eliminating inequality of taxation means flat tax instead of progressive tax. That would require either substantial reduction of the government expenses or substantial raise of the taxes for low incomes. That probably won't be very popular.
cui bono, two can play this game.

isn't it strange how this article springs up right after someone implicated a group surrounding Putin?

russia's media strategy using "journalists" and forum trolls is well documented and known, i guess you can add this one to the list.

because everything is a false flag of a false flag.
> Dillon Forrest, Product Manager & Growth Hacker in San Francisco via New York City

As a developer, not sure I care what kind of engineers a "Growth Hacker" wants to work with.
Most of the cost of housing is not construction, but land costs. Construction costs could be $0, and it wouldn't affect affordability all that much in currently expensive areas.
In terms of e-discovery, 2.6TB is not really all that large.
I'm a first time user of FreeBSD, I jumped in on 10.3RC2 and ended up with a "custom" kernel to enable vnet support. How do I upgrade and keep the custom kernel in-tact?
I am not talking about the middle of nowhere. I am talking about actually within the boundaries of a city of similar population size. Houses in Texas are far cheaper than that in the middle of nowhere as well.
This is really one of the points that always amazes me. We have all this potential, right here on earth. Why are we looking for aliens? Why aren't we spending more time in knowing how people with different senses missing understand a particular concept?

This occurred to me while I was struggling with linear regression and its use in machine learning.
You're supposed to log out of your sockpuppet account before replying to yourself.
One change may take weeks to sign off on - it's not just one person giving their OK, it's many layers of project/contract managers giving their OK. Each of whom has to account for their time and each of whom has to be paid for that same time.

There are processes that have to be followed, no matter how ridiculous they are, because they exist.
I love the scientific approach to doing experiments to determine the type of game and it's very cool that it can be done automatically.
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I suppose you're right, but isn't that simply an issue of contract negotiation? Often when a private actor hires a contractor to create IP, part of what they're buying is ownership of the IP itself. I have no idea if the US government does this or not.
Rest of the population doesn't engage in these ways because it's not worth it for them - they do not pay enough taxes to warrant it. Some people, however, pay lots of taxes - so much that it may make sense for them to spend money and go to great length to somewhat reduce their tax bills. They most probably still pay much more tax than average person - just not as much as they could be paying if they didn't use these ways. And there's nothing wrong with that. You could send extra money to your state anytime too, and you probably don't - so why should they?
I thought regedit had this issue for ages, but it looks like I was thinking of null-terminated names - http://www.kahusecurity.com/2014/registry-dumper-find-and-du... (Googling shows references to this technique going back to 2004)
People should be happy with big screen tvs
This data has been out there for a year, Vice did a piece about it a long time ago. I'm sure there are some juicy things in there, but I highly doubt it will be as explosive as some seem think it will be (especially as the stories begin to rollout over the next 14 days.)

If anything it will be an interesting insight into how tightly knit world leaders are to one another and their investments. The story does say that more data is expected to come in, about 700GBs worth...so that could be new material. However, as it stands I don't think this will cause much upheaval. It does almost read like a plot to a Stieg Larsson novel though, and I'm sure someone is going to write a terrific book about it all.

I do hope there is a lot of explosive material in here, but I do have my doubts, given the amount of time the data has been available.

Here's the Vice article from 2014.
http://www.vice.com/read/evil-llc-0000524-v21n12
Yes and this is great. I have felt Ubuntu to be way too bloated ( last time I checked it had many python scripts running by default on startup ) and Debian is hard to use on the desktop ( "stable" is too slow, "testing" is too unstable ).

Arch will make a better foundation distro IMO.
I'm not sure Microsoft's lack of development on Internet Explorer in that era was due to an actual desire to kill the web. It simply had no competitors, so there was no motivation to make the product any better.
Are users reliant on Apricity for OS updates, or could it be connected to whatever update mechanism Arch uses in the event Apricity becomes obsolete?
Remember, in a perfectly liquid market without taxes, a company which executes a share buyback will have no change in its stock price, since the shared redeemed will be exactly balanced by a reduction in the value of the company; and this is also exactly equivalent to distributing profits in the form of a dividend.

On the other hand, when the rate of taxation on capital gains is lower than the rate of taxation on corporate dividends, it's advantageous to pay out surplus cash in the form of capital gains by executing a share buyback. This also provides a tax-planning benefit to shareholders: Everybody is forced to realize a dividend (and pay tax on it) but some shareholders will prefer to realize more or less capital gains in a given year.

In Canada we have rules which sometimes reclassify capital gains as "deemed dividends" to prevent this sort of maneuver. A far better solution would be to simply fix the tax system so that economically equivalent actions get taxed identically in the first place.
I'm not even sure if the PushBullet license lets them do that.

https://github.com/agajews/ApricityOS - binaries in source control, sigh.

Edit: Looks like it could be profitable - I wonder how much of this makes it back to Arch: https://github.com/agajews/ApricityOS/blob/master/PATRONS
Thanks. I've not done any of that as I didn't come up with the patch to begin with. I'll do some research and work out where the legalities fall.
Which the mall would not like, so they won't be helping you out here.
The source code for the project is here (https://sourceforge.net/p/tom7misc/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/smeig...). There doesn't appear to be a license file, maybe we could ask him to release it under a free software license?
Quick note, the layout seems to break when the piwik.js script is blocked:

https://imgur.com/JdB5UK3
High likelihood it's an inside job due to the size of data (over 2TB) and that it was well structured on delivery.
> Torvalds doesn't believe in software freedom

Source for that? I thought I read a quote from him saying that GPL licensing the Linux kernel was the best decision he ever made.
This is a consequence of tax law and greed. There are three ways a company can pay for their capital - dividends, interest, and stock buybacks. The first is taxable. Only the last makes options given to executives valuable.

The US should tax buybacks and interest as it does dividends. That would put a stop to this.