skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fast acceleration (not the ability, but the actual acceleration) does use more power, it's just not as bad a difference as it would be with an ICE.
Wow the stock shoots up 40%. Weren't there rumors for weeks of this occurring?
If the DOT approves this car it will not because it is safe. There is a reason cars have proper dials and buttons.

The current model S is already problematic. I have had drivers adjusting their AC almost hit other drivers because they had to look down.
and that is definitely the aspect that reminded me
Sure, but then again, I use streaming torrents (via VPN) frequently and it's not to avoid paying for stuff. For various reasons we have a cable TV subscription in our house. Mostly it's because others in the house want cable TV but either way, it's like a $30 addon with internet service so it's relatively cheap and we pay for it.

The down side is that even though I pay for cable TV, I have to use their shitty tuner/DVR and they've all but blocked the use of alternatives. So what I do is run Popcorn Time while connected through a VPN, bookmark all of my favorite shows, and when I want to watch TV, I just go to my favorites and click the latest episode that aired the previous night.

It's seamless, I don't need to worry about their DVR failing to record for some reason I can't troubleshoot (unless you count driving to the cable company during work hours to swap the DVR for another equally shitty DVR), and the interface is much nicer.

And while I'm aware that it's still in violation of copyright law, I don't feel I'm doing anything immoral because I pay for cable TV and could watch the same shows if I happened to be around or awake when they aired.

The really screwy thing here is that I'd gladly pay even more for cable TV if they offered a legit version of this. Nice Netflix-like interface where I can browse titles or go to my favorites and see which episode I left off on. Click any one of them and within a minute it starts streaming in decent 1080p quality and there's no unresponsive 1990's interface to wrestle with.

They could even set it up so you need to log in with your cable service account and all viewers would be "seeds" on the cable company's swarm. Instead I pay $30/yr for a VPN service that provides enough anonymity to avoid lawsuits and threats (even if I wouldn't necessarily count on it for anything truly sensitive) and go the "back channel" route.

While I accept that I'm not owed a better experience and it may come off as entitled, in my case, it's not so much about wanting everything for free as it is about wanting something better and using the available tools to get it.
Might want to fix the link to show this:

https://www.virgin.com/news/alaska-air-group-acquire-virgin-...
What are those special features?
But IPOs allow the public to enjoy the proceeds from corporate profits, whereas privately held companies do not.

Publicly traded companies are one of the most important pro-egalitarian components of Capitalism.
http://www.cio.com/article/2868393/linus-torvalds-apples-hfs...

HFS is the worst file system and it has effected me several times and I avoid Macs and OS X like the plague.
It's a ego boost. Nothing more. You associate yourself with a famous person. It feels good. Even if it is totally pointless. Maybe a friend notices. And sometimes your comment gets many likes, but then you're really lucky.
What do you mean? Automatic parking comes before self driving.
Google's cars already do all of that https://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/reports/

They don't use GPS for driving, perhaps general orientation, they use cameras and LASER based RADARs (called LIDARs)
That is a pretty substantial drone they are using - it looks like the kind that can carry RED ONE cameras, which are about the same weight as the light weight chainsaw they used in the video.

Regarding the amount of force required to cut things: they are only cutting snow and small tree branches.

I think you are being overly paranoid here.
I don't know about other countries but in the US, there are things called Whitepages which list names, addresses and phone numbers of the majority of people/businesses.

Address data is pretty worthless considering how many places you can get such data.
Form follows function, the grill's functions primarily as an air scoop for the radiator to cool the engine. It's unnecessary and thus eliminated.

It's definitely unusual and I'm leaning more towards disliking it at the moment but I can see that removing it would eliminate drag.
I think this guy over estimates how much burden electric cars will put on the grid. For a round trip of 20 miles to work and an efficiency of 200 Watt-hours per mile, you get 8kWh which can be charged slowly at 1kW over 8 hours. Think of that in comparison to air conditioning or electric dryers.
Is the word for this relationship "patronage"?
Since when is the model X cheaper? Did you mean the Model 3?
For me, this is how Ruby is supposed to be Ruby.
Very good point. Looks like I'm sticking with Virtualbox. =)
libreboot is a BIOS/firmware replacement, and works only on x86 and ARM.

The chip in this article is a microcontroller, not a full-on application processor. Seems like libreboot would be senseless on a platform such as this.

I don't really understand the connection, please explain what you mean?
Just finished reading this, thanks it's a great resource especially all the breakdowns comparing the salary lost over 4 years vs stock value after vesting.
Is this indicative of a lack of faith in the banking industry?

Speculative investments are on a steep decline as well, with many folks buying into plain-jane savings accounts with sub-1% rates of return rather than more exotic financial tools.

Will we see reforms to woo them back, or is the Federal government generally unconcerned (other than paying lip-service to the banks)?
"The Midwest" doesn't mean small 50-person towns. There are many big cities and medium cities in the midwest, chock full of computer savvy people who need jobs. Where exactly do you think this workforce overflowing the Bay Area is coming from? They've flooded California because CA has told them that's where all the jobs are, but there are plenty more where they came from.
Hmm. All problems that could have been set at the door of internal combustion when it was new. They'll be solved as EVs make up a larger percentage of what's on the road.

Are EVs the endgame? I suspect not. Apart from anything else I think it's going to prove far, far harder to replace trucks than buses and cars with EVs.

Would we be better investing in public transport that's convenient and reliable enough people want to use? Certainly. But we like personal vehicles. They're not going to go away easily.

In fact just like horses and steam trains became a leisure pursuit, I suspect ICEs will also become something for play. The old v8 classic, the motorbike, the quad. You might have increasing difficulty getting fuel, so start lugging 5g jerry cans around in your EV to fuel the Mustang weekend toy. EVs can't beat the soul and sound of a v8 or Triumph triple.
Throughout this thread I've argued that most people do not spend $40k on a car. That really shouldn't be controversial, since it's easily verified.

If you want controversial, here you go: a lot of people in this thread own cars that cost $40k and up on a salary that doesn't justify it. They think they can justify it. Everyone is telling them they can afford it. Their friends all have similar salaries and similar cars.

But they're spending too much.

http://www.financialsamurai.com/the-110th-rule-for-car-buyin...
To give a little more context, if you are TR citizen what information you use and should keep private is: 1)Identity Number 2)Your mother's pre-marital surname.
I don't think it's Atlas Shrugged, googling it brings up some kind of spiritual philosopher guru guy. It makes sense in that context, like he's justifying why most people don't understand his enlightened teachings. But I don't get why it's posted here.
Source article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/lost-plans-for-wright-b...
Thank you for answering the security question Mr. Stavros. I'll accept "Bee" as your dog's name. To which offshore bank did you say you wanted to transfer the money ?
> here is a github gist assignment which defines a simple REST interface, please write it and add some tests

I've seen this many times too, but I like to think ours is a little different, and has a bit of a different focus.

Without giving away too much about our problem (we've had it leaked online before), it's essentially a simple simulation problem. With some relatively simple data structures knowledge, and some careful thought, it's possible to complete in the 3 hours we give. It's nothing about REST, nothing about any specific technologies, nothing specialised at all, because we want to see maintainable code, in a nice structure, that the rest of the team could pick up and work with easily - not the fact you know React or something.

I'll emphasise, this really only works when we know the problem really well, and can compare solutions to those from other developers. It gives us a good feel for what the passing grade should be.

We also aren't looking for things like testing tools, or deployment strategies, or infrastructure stuff, as we would typically interview about that, and it's stuff that's a little more ingrained in a team, so not something that is going to matter from day 1, it's more something that the candidate could input into the direction of in the future - their code on the other hand will run in production from day 1, so that is vitally important.
Good thing you can assign the AC to the steering wheel on the Model S, disaster avoided!
Since you don't push your shopping cart by turning the wheels, those intuitions are probably not that helpful. The force you exert on the handle of a shopping cart is not automatically aligned with the direction the cart is facing, meaning it's unstable - any deviation from a direct push generates a turning torque. But the rear wheels of a car are fixed so they will always generate a forward force aligned with the car's axis, never a turning motion (diffs and grip variance across the axle aside).
So I watched the Model 3 unveil. I found it to be pretty awful. I had seen Musk unveil the battery swap, and felt that he looked way more polished than he did in the Model 3 unveil. The reveal kind of stressed me out the way he was stammering over the words. It seemed as though he had either not practiced the script, not written one, or had a bout of stage fright. He really didnt "sell" the car. Just said yes its going to be great and gave 3-4 bullet points on features. It was not something that I would compare to any apple product reveal by any stretch.
SpaceX - rocket/aerospace research

Tesla - energy storage and AI assisted vehicle research

And then there is the miscellaneous stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_electric_jet

It's obvious that his real 'secret plan' is an ironman suit.
Recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11400322
Or as I mentioned in my other post, I actually do pay for cable and I still stream torrents of TV shows because it's the only real alternative to using the cable company tuner/dvr. In my case, the thing I want is a better way to watch the shows I've paid for and since they make it all but impossible to use a better DVR solution, I often just watch via streaming torrents instead.
Not totally sure what you mean, but you want to install it yourself just clone the repo, `npm install` to get all the dependencies. then, do one of:

1. run `npm link`, which will put pirateflix in your path
2. make src/cli.js executable and run it directly
3. don't make src/cli.js executable, and run it with `node src/cli.js`
I only wish that you'd posted each sentence as separate comments so that I can upvote each one individually.

Back when I had freedom of choice for my OS at my place of employment, I wanted to learn about Linux so I chose it. Then I wanted to learn more about Linux so I moved from Ubuntu to Arch. At first, the documentation is a lifesaver. However, a bit of time invested in reading it carefully will also really educate someone in so many aspects of an OS. Not only that, but so many of the things that someone would really want to use are so well documented. I learned more about PostgreSQL administration and X from the Arch Wiki than the documentation from the actual projects themselves.
If anyone is taking over or merging with Virgin America, I'm glad it's Alaskan. I've never been unhappy with flying with them.

A couple examples of little things they do that are clever and should be copied by everyone else: check your bag at the gate 30 minutes before boarding and you can board early; a guarantee that your checked luggage will be in your hands 20 minutes after landing, or you get $20.

They are an airline that are trying things, experimenting.
This is all true. However, I think it would be better to put the strain on the grid than continue to do so with companies that squeeze oil out of rocks. The grid can utilize natural gas, coal, solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, wave power etc.. Electric cars are the future and will force us to invest heavily in renewable energy.
We're not. Branson owns 31% of the company. He is only capped on shares with voting rights.
Has the opportunity for Indian startups been terribly wrongly estimated?
> And I can go to any local shop and get a pre-paid SIM card without any personal info involved.

Which I gather is fully on-topic as you're a Turk writing from Turkey, right?
There is barely any supervision: they are given a problem, and asked for a solution which matches certain criteria. You can't find the solution on Github. What's important is that it isn't a test of someone's intelligence or personality, but rather their pragmatism and ability to actually produce code. It really depends on what values you are looking for, though.

An example problem is: parse this non-standard log file and report back some numbers/answer these questions (e.g. show a visitor funnel, based on uniques, etc.). The more encapsulated and defined the problem, the better. It's not a theory type question, such as build a btree search of this data: it's something which you could face while working at the company and you can solve it however you want. Just like in real life, there are a range of solutions and edge cases. There is a soft time limit of a few hours, but nobody is counting. However, that time limit is what changes the difficulty.

They can either use their own machine or a company machine, and any language they want (with some recommendations). They can of course ask questions anytime they want, but other than that they are left on their own.

At the end, they are asked to walk through the solution and tell us why they chose to do what they did, what issues they had, if they see alternative ways to do something, how they might change it if various conditions changed, etc. It's the opening to a conversation.

Afterwards we rarely try to actually run the program, but different people on the team are asked what they think of the solution (kind of like a code review). Since everybody has seen it many times before, there is general consensus on red flags and everybody more or less has an idea of how a particular solution fits in with other ones we've seen, but sometimes there is debate on merit or style.

So it isn't that time consuming from our point of view.
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Teslas, on the other hand, don't even provide a working ODB2 port, and attempts to hook up to the car's internal network were met with legal threats.

I don't know about legal threats, but there is information available online about how to access the Model S CAN bus:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Exploring-the-Tesla-Model-S-...
Didn't realize the price point has dropped to $35k that is the biggest news for me.
> Do you have any evidence or data to demonstrate that the "median family" spends less than the average?

Fact 1: there are a lot more super-expensive cars than super-cheap cars.

Fact 2: The guy you replied to is talking about what a family spends on a car, not what they spend on a new car

Fact 3: income inequality means there are a lot more poor families than wealthy families. income distribution in america is not a bell curve.
I heard version 2 is coming soon
From your original post. The statement that everyone apparently isn't understanding right-

One minor counter to this is that you shouldn't get too caught up in the hype about this being a mass-produced car. HN and tech journalism is a bit of a bubble. Normal people do not spend $35-40k on a car.

You are moving the goal posts around to somehow derive a win through some simply wrong statements. That's hardly uncommon, and is the manifestation of ego.

There is a reason for that. That is a work vehicle.

The overwhelming bulk of F150s are bought for personal use, which is exactly why the average price is so high now. The work truck doesn't have the leather interior and xenon lighting package.

And, again, I think the evidence is on my side.

I have no idea what your "side" even is (though your core claims are simply wrong, it seems that you're trying to say that this is such an exclusive, abnormal price range of cars that the buyers are more forgiving? I find that almost impossible to believe: if you want to see an angry, demanding customer, get to know someone with a BMW 3-series). There are almost 18 million new vehicles sold in the US per year. The average price is pushing towards $35K. This is where Tesla is getting involved (I don't think anyone makes cars for the used car market...), exactly at the sweet spot of the average price.

Your priceonomics link has literally zero relevance to this, or data applicable to this discussion.

You desperately want to be right, and that's a pretty common sentiment. Fine. But your original claim was simply wrong (elsewhere you twisted it to not only somehow claim that these people aren't "normal", but also that people who buy a more expensive car are wrong and shouldn't be doing it anyways), however much you claim that people missed your ethereal point. The Tesla 3 absolutely falls within the realm of mass produced cars, and millions of entirely "normal" people are buying that price range of vehicle. They are targeting a completely ordinary market.
Panama Papers: Leaks spur global investigations
It's said that the Sarbanes–Oxley Act's requirements for publicly traded companies made going public less desirable for many concerns, and this has resulted in fewer public offerings over the last 14 years.
the biggest issue i have ever had with it was back when they made the official change from `python` from 2.7->3. much breakage occurred at that time and it required a bit of fiddling with symlinks. it was resolved in about 30 minutes, 25 of which was isolating the problem.
Except that it's much more likely for there to be pedestrians.
"Make humans a multi-planet species"

"Disrupt the oil industry's hold on america"

His goals are crazy. Crazy awesome.
Electric cars are actually more or less a natural sink for wind energy and solar because they add storage capacity to the grid, something it currently does not have.
Indeed. Since I switched to Arch, I've had to spend far less time fixing stuff than when I used Fedora, which reliably broke every six months whenever I tried to upgrade.
I appreciate the sentiment, but this project is very difficult to understand what's connected to what. That's not a good sign for a database
This is what I'm thinking too. The lack of dashboard is not because the car will be autonomous, it will be but only on the freeway, but because there will be a HUD.
Indeed, I have recently got a fully fiber optic connection up to a flat and it is symmetric 300/300Mbps download/upload. As I was looking the plans, there wasn't even an option to go with non-symmetric connection.
I switched from MySQL to MariaDB ~2 years ago and have been quite pleased.

A little while back, I needed to use a REGEX_REPLACE() function. I knew MySQL didn't have it built-in, and didn't want to build any half assed userland function for it. I held my breath and looked it up in MariaDB docs, and there it was! Made my morning.

It's the little things that made me happy to switch. Also, my understanding is that InnoDB has some performance gains.
He's going through a massive divorce that could cost him billions.
I read the Musk bio this fall and it gave me the impression this is Musk's typical style. Unlike Jobs, who would rehearse endlessly, Musk tends to be more off the cuff.
> Just like you can't run a hotel without the proper permits.

You can, it's called AirBnB.
>"I know it when I see it" is not a basis for a legal system.

It's the only basis for a legal system. All legal concepts and constructions are judged and implemented by human beings. Asserting that you have to be able to explain things without ever invoking intuitive concept classifications is unreasonable, since that basically can't be done yet.
Wow very different. Mine had no cable or a very short one - the chainsaw was directly under the helicopter.
I was once in the same situation. If you want to be paid market value, stop whining and go get it. What's the point of sitting around being mad.

You have some choices. Wait for the next big project, then ask for a fair raise, and for once, don't take the weak counter. But really you should just get another job. Then you will find out what you are really worth.

Good luck.
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> A couple examples of little things they do that are clever and should be copied by everyone else: check your bag at the gate 30 minutes before boarding and you can board early; a guarantee that your checked luggage will be in your hands 20 minutes after landing, or you get $20.

Is that (gate check bag) for free?

20 minutes or $20 sounds like a great idea too.
China wants to build supergrid linking Arctic and Sahara
It should actually be the other way around. Now that this information is public any kind of link with personally identifiable information should be considered suspect rather than to be used as evidence for wrongdoing without further checking. That information became less valuable with this leak, not more valuable and those things that you could do with that information before should now become harder.
Thanks, good to know, I will tell my friend to do that so I don't get a heart attack next time I ride with him.
And if you want to give Dynatrace a try - here is the link: http://bit.ly/dtpersonal. I also have a free YouTube channel with tutorials that explain how the whole thing works: http://bit.ly/dtpersonal

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You just did twice though.

Filthy hypocrite.
Your numbers are ridiculous.

Honda Civic LX is 18,640, while the high-end "Touring" trim is $26,500.

http://automobiles.honda.com/tools/build-price/trims.aspx?Mo...

Mazda 3 is $17,845 to $25,795.

And these are at MSRP, and lulz to anyone who can't manage to get a car below MSRP. Pushing up against $30k? Are you kidding me?

Maybe a "racing" model, like Ford Focus ST or Subaru WRX (a small, but very powerful engine, costs premium) will get you to $30k. But you can deck-out these starter vehicles and keep costs around $20k easily.

And as others have said: normal people don't buy new cars.
"The Bill Gates of our time"

fuck you.
Language is one of the more important features for attracting other contributors to open source projects.

As to reinventing the wheel, given the number of competing tire companies that exist apparently even the wheel still has room to improve.