skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UTVs are a huge market. According to one article[1], there were 670,000 sold between 2010 and 2012. That's about 223,000 per year. They range from about $10K - $25K new, and are popular for hunting, recreation and outdoor work (think a mini pickup that can go anywhere). If we assume the average purchase price is $15K, that's $3.3 Billion in annual sales.

I'm amazed by how many people around me, in rural Idaho, have spent ~$15K on one.

But, even assuming this thing is real, no one is going to spend $42K on one. Especially when I suspect there's a significant overlap between "people who are skeptical of electric vehicles" and "people who are likely to purchase a UTV".

You'll notice they left price out of their comparison table, because it would look like this:

* NIKOLA ZERO: $42,000

* POLARIS RZR 1000 TURBO: $24,999

* CANAM MAVERICK TURBO: $22,999

* ARTIC CAT WILDCAT: $20,999

And they're comparing the Zero to top of the line most expensive models from their competitors. I think the average purchase price is probably much closer to $15K on a UTV.

I will say that the pricing is the one thing that lends credibility to this company. I expect building a good electric UTV really would cost close to $40K. If I were just trying to build hype, I'd price it much closer to my competitors.

[1] https://www.sema.org/sema-news/2014/07/utility-task-vehicles...
Sharepoint: Drupal does revisions on content and files just fine and supports super granular user permissions.

Cooking templates: Seems like you are overthinking this. Structure your recipes as yaml and then you can parse it however using handlebars or whatever template lang you choose. Not sure why you need such a specific template. Just choose a theme that looks nice and replace the header. Content is king anyway.
I'm partial to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjoint-set_data_structure

It's a fairly simple algorithm to implement, but there is some wicked-cool analysis behind how fast it is.

It's a super good thing to have in your toolbox for any time you want to do any sort of "simultaneous flood-fill everywhere" or "partition everything" task.
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Things like this, along with the new suite of drone modules capable of jamming/destroying radars, seem to be creating an atmosphere where our military can operate with relative impunity. That is not, in itself, an ethical problem.

If we can kill 1,000 people with 0 deaths, however, the ethical bar for how we apply that force should be held to a stricter standard, as the slope to fascism is being made steeper. Unfortunately, the recent trend of extrajudicial, extralegal executive action 'war' declaration post-9/11 appears to be lowering that bar.

Even if you think there is a moral imperative to every one of our military deployments: having no skin in the game also makes it easier to demonize us, to the benefit of anti-US propaganda.
> I would be surprised to learn that USOC isn't doing the same thing.

Does the US government care enough about its Olympic performance to coordinate systematic cheating like this?

Winning at sports is cool, but my impression is that authoritarian governments care much more about it (as a matter of national prestige) than non-authoritarian governments do.
This was definitely alluded to in Snow Crash, with the gargoyle / CIC stringer concept
I realize you have reasons not to answer this question, but out of curiosity, what sorts of thing can tip off the fact that a site is getting scraped by a real browser and selenium?
I was exposed to both notations in college when I was studying math and physics. The mathematicians preferred Leibnitz's notation and so did the physicists for some things. But we used Newton's dot or prime notation for derivatives in mechanics and for some differential equations.

It seems to me that Newton's notation and terminology lost market share but wasn't completely dropped.
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You could use Splash for JS as well. (Disclaimer: working for Scrapinghub, the main maintainers of Scrapy/Splash.)
It helps that you put "interesting takeaways" rather than tl;dr, because it brings your own opinion into the fold. I don't need to guess whether you've missed anything or not because it doesn't matter. You've stated clearly your points are those you find interesting. Which is much better than simply mechanically spouting a summary like a machine.
Google launches Gboard, an iOS keyboard that lets you search without a browser
"Immutable" with "max age" is an oxymoron. If it expires it isn't immutable. Use another word.

What you need is an absolute date and time in the cache header which says "we promise this page does not change before this date and time". This could be treated as a "lease" and automatically extended in some configurable intervals. For instance, if it is 30 days, then the file is good for 30 days since its modification time stamp. When that time passes, this is renewed automatically: it is now good for 60 days since its modification time stamp. Basically, it is always good for N*30 days since its modification time stamp, where N is the smallest N required for that time to be in the future.

When the webmaster publishes a new version of the file, he or she knows precisely when browsers who have seen the cached the previous version will start picking up the new one. Changes can be co-ordinated with the expiry time to minimize the refresh lag: the time between when the earliest new client sees the new page, and the last old client stop seeing the old one. If we know that a page expires for everyone on June 1, 2016 at noon, we can update that page in the morning on June 1. By afternoon, everyone sees the new one.
Coal imports to China are dropping quickly:

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2016/new-china-energy-data-coal-i...

http://www.reuters.com/article/china-economy-trade-coal-idUS...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-13/china-coal...
Iron Ox (W16) is hiring a lead mechanical engineer to build robotic greenhouses
The problem is way bigger than philosophy departments. The entire University System is the last vestige of the ancien régime. That's why degree are widely in latin all over the world in places that have nothing to do with Rome.
> Following the money leads a direct, unmistakable path to a strong incentive to shut down fake accounts.

I think the difference in opinion on that is that if you look at the long term, which you hope FB are, then yes fake accounts that reduce ROI for advertisers are bad. Unfortunately, they lead to a short term increase in FB ad revenue, which disincentivizes stopping fake accounts too effectively, as it may actually be a noticeable dip in revenue, depending on the scope of the problem.

In a worst case scenario, FB might be in a situation where 20% of ad revenue is from bad impressions, and completely stopping that, if they had the power, would have major negative repercussions for the company. There would need to be some hard choice made about the best path out of that situation. Not that I think this is necessarily the case, but it is an example of how the incentives may not be as clear as they seem.
7-Zip is the VLC of file containers.
What exactly do you mean by more robust malicious file? Like an executable? Because I'm relatively OK with extracting files from dubious sources, I'm not OK with running executables from dubious sources.
Interesting. I would still be surprised if there wasn't underlying infrastructure in place the USOC, at least in 'looking the other way' terms.
This makes little sense to me. If this is done to boost sales, was Apple losing money before when the review times were longer? Why would they opt to lose money? Although the shorter review times are nice I don’t think the stated reason here makes much sense.
I'd imagine they would want money. Registering a gTLD isn't cheap (yet)
They should name it Musk Motors.
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Many people put more trust in unzipping something than running untrusted code.

Archives are supposed to be read only.
The SHTORA on that tank was not turned on. You can tell by the two shtora lights not glowing bright red.

As to why it wasn't on, we have only speculation.
No worries there. By the time coal is deprecated, the price of natural gas will spike, causing renewables to be deployed more quickly with utility scale battery storage.

Lot of fossil fuel generation out there that's going to be left as stranded assets.
But every company that has the data is a potential government source. How many do you think willing share data? How many do you will give it up at first request from the DoJ or DoD?
What's annoyed me a lot is, the CTO had a meeting with most of us and I was there to tell us he is going to ask for pay raise to match the market and he did not mention any relation with work performance however the happy ending was not for all of us.
I've had to go out of my way to tell several of my friends now that their account is liking spam posts. The worst part is they don't know it's happening, since they don't see posts their account is liking.

The posts getting liked are from fan pages with <5 likes, yet the post gets 10,000 likes within minutes. Is there some reason that isn't easily detectable?
I might be wrong about this, but I was under the impression that due to sovereign immunity you cannot actually sue states for trademark infringement.
Love the links to sporks, whiskey and IE is Evil!

Your page is a great read and they are as well, so thanks, had fun driving down history lane remembering all the various shenanigans MS went through to shove their browser down our throats.
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Mostly this seems to advocate the US adopting the Trophy system from Rafael although it does mention there are other vendors in the picture.

The fundamental point, which is also made in Dunnigan's "How to Make War" is that the cost of fortification goes up faster than the cost of attack capability, so you can only match scale if you use two attack systems. Or to put it in terms of this article, if you added 50 tons of armor to a tank it might be impervious to RPG fire but also unable to move effectively.

The cost of building a guided munition has gone down with the miniaturization of sensors and compute power, and a number of field deployed systems (like Iron Dome and Trophy) have demonstrated that calculating intercept solutions has given the designers of such systems the ability to defeat or at least mitigate very near threats.

But given that I wonder just how many "army on army" sorts of wars will be waged. Looking at the tactics of modern day insurgencies they hit civilians rather than military forces.

Back in the day there was a front line of multiple opposing armies engaged in control over a battlefield while their aircraft went behind the lines and bombed the cities to degrade infrastructure. Today there is no "front line" just bombs going off in cities degrading infrastructure. And no visible army (well its fine when its attacking but between attacks it blends in).

As a result, the militaries of the world are developing strategies for moving around killing people without themselves being at risk. This tank strategy is already deployed in Israel. The ultimate answer to that seems to be remotely operated robotics. No threat to the operator, and equipped with a variety of offensive weapons to dealing with threats to others.

I am not looking forward to the day where you have a self driving tank which is impossible to kill. But when I look at the road we're on, I see that we are headed to that place.
In the US right now natural gas is slightly cheaper per mile than diesel. Existing truck manufacturers have already started offering NG fuel vehicles.
This statement is, to me, demonstrative of a lack of understanding of the source material and an unwillingness to engage with 'new' ideas purely out of bias.

The scientific method is a way of approaching reality that has lead to extremely useful discoveries--but, in my opinion, the hard problem of consciousness cannot be solved via the scientific method because consciousness, the experience of qualia, is not externally observable.

Nagarjuna and Candrakirti were both experts in the observation of qualia, and their philosophies stem from that expertise. It's possible to even call their philosophical method 'scientific' if that is the materialist's sole judgement of the value of an idea.
Otter Ego
We reverted the title to the article's because it was neither misleading nor linkbait, and so by the HN guidelines shouldn't have been changed.

(The submitted title was "Fake Facebook accounts can be detected by when they post and the vocabulary used".)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's projection; maybe you carry around a tracking device everywhere you go, but that isn't universal. I know an increasing number of people that are switching back to landlines (and other options like voip).

> car ... probably has a phone

Just like "smart" TVs, that's a feature that some of us will never buy.
Woah, I am impressed!
Technically the first computers were (mainly) females who were good at maths and were put forward to compute maths tables for the navy. In fact the reason that we call (modern) computers by that name is because they are named after the original humans who did the job. In fact Babbage worked on the calculation engine(s) precisely to aid in the automated calculations that they would be providing, including identifying several corrections in log tables that were printed around that time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer

The first electromechanical computers were arguably the Lorenz machine (reconstruction at TNMOC next to Bletchley Park) and the Bombe (a reconstruction of which is available at Bletchley park). The first electrical only computer was ENIAC, though you tend not to hear about these from American historians as some of these facts were classified until (relatively) recently.
I have to assume that it is. Search results are personalised in the browser, I assume they'll want to do the same here too.
Do you have noticed that the most responsive web pages are sites without the CSS styles(or with just few rules)? I can run such web pages even on 10 year old mobile phone and also load a whole HTML document with a throttled connection to 10KB/s quiet quick. The sad thing is that modern webdevelopers tends to forget about it. Long time ago I realized the really good way of developing a webpage is just writing down some bare HTML (maybe just a grid and typography CSS) with only grayscale colors applied - if it will look bad then it is a bad design.

If we are speaking of memories of the "old-ways" of developing websites I remind mostly one thing - rounded corners. I remember how many web devs were trying to make a table (3x3) and put content in the center cell, and fill corners with some gifs. Nevertheless, it was not the only one method which some webmasters were using - a hacky VML file [1]

[1] https://code.google.com/archive/p/curved-corner/
TIL about the high efficiency truck revolution
Any government that has to hide it's actions from the people like this is a criminal government. Who are these people that get up every day and think it's morally acceptable to spy on the innocent citizens? Have you no honor or morals?
Zuse is known to everyone who's taken even a fairly superficial look at the history of the development of computing machines. It's also inaccurate to compare his work to Turing's, Zuse's focus was practical. He certainly did not independently develop Turing's theoretical work, nor did he really need to for his purposes.
If they're able to tell before friending you that your friends list was blocked your account would be less valuable since they couldn't continue on to your friends.
I love it how I say "Besides HN", and everyone writes HackerNews -_-
Uber drivers aren't employees so don't get paid minimum wage (or anything, really) by Uber in the first place. They get paid their fares minus Uber's vig.
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There are many neuroscience departments that actively perform meditation research (UCSB, Yale, UW-Madison), but my personal experience is that eastern philosophers who were experts in meditation, logic, or observation are sorely understudied in Philosophy departments, despite the extraordinarily clear parallels between modern neuroscience research and their philosophical propositions.
But wouldn't letting markets allocate labor resources be a more optimal solution? Private investment can handle the re-training challenges.
Again, testing battery life savings with all power-saving options disabled is simply not appropriate. It stinks.
It seems like this is being drafted not "a draft".
Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MingLunChou/20160511/272458/A....
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I hate to be the one to bring this up, but seeing as how I've been a "boss" before who decided pay raises... perhaps you are underperforming your teammates?

The pay that we've given out has always been related to performance and determined by market value/supply and demand.

The coddling answer is to say: Oh, that sucks... maybe he doesn't like you. And that may be true. But it may also be a cause of you needing to work harder/longer, more efficiently, less mistakes, etc... we can assume there is always a nefarious reason but it is just as likely that there are very real performance reasons for the raise.

I'm sure there are people out there who have worked alongside people that are lazy and get paid just the same, and it irks them. That isn't fair. Pay should always be based upon performance.
you could say the same about elon musk, as the original inventor was called nikola tesla and they both ripped off the same thing
also, there was an electronics company called tesla in communist czecoslovakia, which is realatively well known in central/eastern europe.
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Fun fact: a coal plant releases more radiological pollution in a day than a nuclear plant releases in a year.
Arrington nails it.

If Buffett was really willing to pay more taxes, he could just stop using loopholes to avoid paying hundreds of millions every year. Or stop litigating with the IRS to get to pay less. He doesn't want "the rich" to pay more taxes. He wants other (less) rich people to pay more taxes.
It looks like the erlang debugger will now be able to step through elixir code: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/04/debugging-technique...
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True. It is like saying Windows has far more viruses than Linux and MacOS but often it is because of incentives and market share rather than lack of efforts on parts of MS to curb viruses.

But I don't think FB has put lot of efforts. I was being targetted by some fake account which was a Facebook profile of a company (created as user). I complained and reported the user several times. Facebook has not taken any action. From what I can see a simple regex on name should tell that "Taylor Swift Lover Group Admin" is not a human being and cant have a facebook account.
hah... Good point.
I also thought it was an error, but Wikipedia says:

12 H2S + 6 CO2 -> C6H12O6 (=carbohydrate) + 6 H2O + 12 S

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosynthesis
It has to be a joke... right? I don't see how it could be serious.

I mean, even ignoring the naming (which only makes sense as parody), nobody is going to put down nearly $1000 to reserve a car based on what looks like a bunch of early 2000s 3D renders, right?

That said, it isn't a particularly funny joke, there's not really even any subtle humor here, but at the same time I can't understand how this could be a real thing.
I'm surprised there's no www.trump yet.
You can't be positive. Uber has literally never supported tipping. You might be thinking of Lyft or Sidecar or some other competitor.
You would need a lot of patience to write an essay on a mobile phone, witch accounts for around 90% of all web "users". Hopefully we'll see inventions in the IO area, like virtual-keyboard-wrist-bands and voice-to-text.
> The pay that we've given out has always been related to performance and determined by market value/supply and demand.

Every employer says this, and then it turns out that many of them pay women less, and they then say "oh but women don't ask for pay rises".

Eliminating bias is hard.
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Ha! When I lived in Palo alto I kept dealer plates on for three years before receiving a ticket: ticket was for speeding, the no plates part cost me all of $10 and a 2 min police inspection, after which the card board plates went right back on.
Ask HN: What is the principles of Extreme Programming?
In the book "Extreme Programming Explained", the principles are Humanity, Economics, Mutual Benefit...

In the Martin Fowler's blog post the principles are different. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PrinciplesOfXP.html

Which one is true? Which principles should I use in my presentation?
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It's also worth noting that regardless of which keyboard or combination of apps you're using on Android, it's not possible to send an animated GIF as an MMS attachment without dropping so many frames that the clip becomes essentially unwatchable.

If you're sending a Hangouts message (Google account to Google account) it works just fine. Otherwise, even if you roll all your SMS/MMS activity into the Hangouts app, no dice.
...and nuclear is 0?
If that were true Google would not have banned fake Adsense clicker. I have experience in FB market and I can tell you that none of us care about Likes. We care about eventual conversion (What % of people called up to know about our product?) which is a very good filter for all fake people.
In the article from July 2015, coal was less than 1%. What is left to accelerate?
Ask HN: In a hyper conformist world, will you raise your child as a free thinker?
No, Ukrainians developed their own active protection because they had no money to license Kontakt and it is quite different. Kontakt fires metal plate against shell to stop and detonate it, Nizh is cumulative and tries to fragment incoming shell.
Good read about PPC campaign setup and optimization
this is such a good idea! the @synchronized decorator to collect the parallelized task at the end of a parent call is very very smart & simple.