skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The notion that because a road was paid for with "public money", that ought to guarantee unfettered access to that road is just a fundamentally juvenile, silly idea.
Whether or not you consider their actions evil, they were demonstrably an extremely destructive force, provenly using very untoward methods, much more so than most of their peers.

It's mind boggling to consider how many years their shenanigans have probably set back computing as a field.

As for trusting them now, I don't believe an organization like that can truly change in such a short time.
Are you using com.jakemccrary/lein-test-refresh? Tests run really fast after the first time.
Definitely! I'm quite happy with my T-Mobile account except when i go away from the city. Increasing coverage with the current tariff is more than enough to get more users.
I'm not condoning violence in my observation here, but I know how the world works. And this reminds me that dude in NYC selling sunglasses that turned out to be a sham, and who was intimidating customers who complained: keep it up long enough, and I'll be surprised that your knee caps remain in like-new condition.

Thankfully, speaking from the point of view of maintaining the fabric of society, the real world isn't like TV and movies and the odds of pissing off a genuine bad ass are slim (anonymous Internet tough guys like myself don't count). But $30K is beginning to look like "real money", and for some folks under some circumstances, physical violence begins to look like a viable solution to the problem.

And truth be told, the less enlightened side of me says, "that dude needs a good ass kickin'."
So it's the "police bill" thing, then?
Punched cards were a pain to work with. We used to have a 40,000-card master file that we had to run through twice a day on a Univac 1001, at 1,000 cards/min. per feed, plus jams. The racket was deafening.

When the card reader jammed, it destroyed the card. We had to retrieve the bits of card, and tediously re-create the card on an IBM 026 keypunch, one column at a time.

One time a card got caught between two pinch rollers, and smoke started billowing from the machine.

IBM sold the "Multi-function Card Machine", or "MFCM". Customers called it the "Mother Fletcher Card Masher", except they had another word for the "F".

The computer's card punch could only do 200 cards/min.

In humid weather, cards would swell and jam the reader's picker knife.

I was so glad when we switched to mag. tape.
This sounds similar to feedback I just got on my dissertation's conclusion section. They told me to rewrite it, noting that it should be different, but they weren't sure how. Asked for more detail, they said, "Make it punchier."
There is, it's called registered mail. And there's a better solution than that, too- it's called a process server. All of them are vulnerable to corrupt middle-men, but the article doesn't really say what method was used to contact the defendant, so there's really nothing to speculate about.
Or the wife might be telling the truth, but be mistaken about what happen. It's fairly common for people to press the accelerator by accident thinking it's the brake, then press it harder in a panic since it's clearly not working. The result is exactly as described here, with the car suddenly accelerating forward and the driver insisting that they were hard on the brakes but they didn't work.
Nice list of browser extensions. Just to add on a few that I use that might not get a lot of exposure but is still very comprehensive

Privacy Settings: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-setti...

Decentraleyes: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...
Exploited how? By adding () around people's names?!

If anything, we should worry that tech giants' weaknesses are being abused by bad state actors in ways that have actual consequences, like targeting dissidents, anti-regime journalists, ...
Tesla is famous for publishing the logs. The owner should be aware of this before making claims. It would have been prudent to keep this quiet till Tesla had a chance to respond. Now if the logs prove it was driver error Tesla will publish the logs and all this outrage would be over nothing. On the other hand if this was an error in Tesla's system it is in Tesla's best interest to be transparent and publish the logs and an explanation on how it intends to fix this.

Either way a public outrage was not required unless the owner wanted to ensure he got a new car even if it was the driver's fault. By claiming ""I don't' know if they're going to acknowledge if it was their fault," Puzant said.", the owner wanted to cast doubt on Tesla's integrity and also give himself an "out" if Tesla determined it was driver's fault.
> That singular optimal route funnels traffic away from my kids riding bikes, playing street hockey, drawing chalk cities, or anything else their little minds can come up with. It's why houses on a 'quiet street' are coveted, and sell for more than the same house on a busy street.

Those things are all done safely on grids. Your example does not work to the logical end you want it to.
Yeah that's the gist of it. Helping people make sense of complicated relationships so they can make an impact.

If you're interested in this stuff Donella Meadow's book "Thinking in Systems" is a great introduction: http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/...
I'm sorry, but I don't believe that for a second. It doesn't matter how little the debt is purchased for; those details are important.
Google does comply with DMCA.

Google is not setup explicitly for the purpose of finding pirated material.

The pirate bay is. And it's pretty obvious from the name too.

I don't see how their logic is "skewed".
Same, I switched to Google Maps. It seems to have a much higher threshold of "time saved" that it needs to hit before sending you off on some bizarre route.
After viewing LFT's work in using an ATMEL microcontroller as a demoscene platform: http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/craft/index.php

...I had the thought a possible frontier in demoscene is make your own hardware out of discrete components to run your demo.

The MOnSter 6502 would count - http://monster6502.com/
In the case of Chrome Google has already taken this step - unlike Android they don't allow 3rd party addon sites and require Google signatures on everything unless you have development mode enabled, which makes a point of annoying you every time the browser starts.
This is true, and while I do despise the invasion of privacy, and everything that comes with owning a $100,000 piece of spyware, I do appreciate that barring conspiracy and a flagrant disregard for the law someone somewhere has some sort of technical data unlikely to be vulnerable to human memory/eyewitness accounts related to the crash.

Tesla has also convinced me that it is the type of company whose employees that would not seek to hide something data it correctly clearly supported. That's a completely unverifiable (and most likely incorrect) assertion on my part, and of course a result of brand-cultivation on theirs, but still some companies just can't claim that at all, and I think Tesla has a leg to stand on still.
My post was in response to: "I think the biggest problem here is that we have too much media coverage and scrutiny on stuff like this today". The coverage happens because Google talks about it; irrespective of merits of taking risks.
The farmer pulling a turnip trailer thirty miles to the local Friday Farmer's market with an F350 dually can easily consume more energy and produce more CO2 per turnip than one shipped at industrial scale half round the world. The "last mile" can often be the least efficient.
You went in with an optimization problem and came out with 3-satisfiability.
Isn't it illegal to park in front of a driveway in the US? At least, most of the places I've lived it's illegal.
For those who haven't seen them (I don't know when it was taken down), TPB used to have a quite funny list of legal demands and their replies: https://web.archive.org/web/20110709061457/http://thepirateb...
If wishes were horses, we'd all ride; in reality, such broad changes tend to have various side effects, which are often unpleasant enough to obliterate the intended positive effect.
There are plenty of vidoes on YouTube of cars "suddenly accelerating to maximum speed, jumping a curb and slamming into things". They all do it accidently. People will blame others for their errors. Bad journalists will pick up the shit for page views.
That's some neat stuff. Especially PixelFlow. It had some clever, architectural decisions in terms of memory and computing primitives. Such schemes are already re-appearing in deep learning chips with old work like this maybe having some ideas waiting to be re-discovered.
Everything's disturbing to someone. I know a lot of people who find ad blockers disturbing. That doesn't mean they should be banned.
The model X seems to attract a lot of issues. Too bad it also tarnish the reputation of the model S.
Rightholders usually don't allow services to let you pay for it if you're from another country.

At least implicitly, their estimation is that accepting your money would damage their ability to exclusively license content 28 times in the EU, and that eroding that system would do more harm to the bottom line than the extra money they might make.

In practice, the vast majority of content is of course not successfully licensed 28 times, so they end up turning away/not even aiming for the majority of their potential customers for the majority of their works.

Whether the current model is really best for rightholders' (maybe just publishers') bottom lines is up for debate -- in their calculation, they are probably biased towards prolonging the established business models that come from the times of terrestrial TV broadcasting/physical media sales.

What is clear, from an EU point of view, is that the geoblocking that is required to enforce this model artificially limits the audience of a lot of European cultural products, forces people to seek out copyright-infringing channels, reinforces digital borders between EU member states, harms lingustic minorities etc -- and is just in fundamental conflict with both the idea of the common EU market and the internet as a global medium.

(Disclosure: I made the campaign site.)
Stupid! Now it's tough to keep cusotomers, not acquire new ones!

Edit: All you downvoting me - I've been a T-Mobile customer since there's T-Mobile in California, i.e. way more than a decade, but many of my friends are switching away as all this time, they've had the worst coverage, and don't care to improve it! They even decline CellSpot for lousy reasons!
Do you have any precedent that says it's not infringing?

Isohunt and others used similar arguments and lost.
There's a "remote access" setting you can turn off. I believe that cuts off Tesla's access, not just your own. Of course, roughly nobody actually turns it off, because everybody prefers the convenience of having it on.
If it's not worth taking the time to ensure the most basic of due diligence is taken, then you shouldn't be able to contact anyone about the debt.
Crazy idea but what about a camera placed in a way that Tesla would capture footage of the brake and accelerator. Store up to X minutes/hours of that would come in helpful when combined with the other data they collect.
All of Snapchat's Stealth Mode Acquisitions
Does it help to have a generic boilerplate contract (jurisdiction-wise) signed by both buyer & seller for such transactions, where the buyer would sign that they have inspected the item to their knowledge and assume full responsibility of the purchase, and that they won't hold the seller responsible for blah blah. At the same time, the seller assumes that they have given up ownership of the said item for whatever money they've received in this transaction ?
I have nothing but pity for the startup that tries to give that stuff away, and train the users on it...
The majority of judges understand that this type of suit gives them incredible power relative to the average person, and work in a way that preserves their power.
Several TLD registries exist under US control, allowing for their use in exerting US will.
And Facebook showed clearly that you can change your API daily and no one cares.
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Wait, so is being identified as a religious person hate-speech? If I say someone is Catholic, or Muslim, should I be silenced?

Furthermore, by what I understand, many Jews are proud to be Jews and add the parentheses themselves to their name. Is that hate-speech? Should they be banned from twitter? Why should we be offended if they are not?

On one side, there's nothing to see, but on the other it needs to be shut down and every news outlet are talking about it.

Which is it?
Not exactly. Node.js will probably integrate a future release of V8 that supports WebAssembly, and WAVM isn't a suitable replacement for that.

WAVM is more like V8, but for WebAssembly only instead of both JavaScript and WebAssembly. The purpose is to serve as a simple VM for my programming language that compiles to WebAssembly.
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Where did you get your information on the danger of a crash with a tesla vs a regular car? They surpassed every car in collisions tests and the concerns about the battery going up in flames have been fixed since the car was established.
I would suspect that if Tesla has a rock solid way to determine it was the drivers fault they will fight that till the ends of the earth. (Of course the same could happen even if not the case but that would be a conspiracy and probably less likely for practical reasons).
Agreed, but it came out of evolution - Cody's organization used to be called "DEFCAD" (Defense CAD), but it operated more as a company than as an open source initiative, so the community forked to "FOSSCAD" to indicate that's how they would be operating.

Maybe FOSSDEF would have made more sense but it's kind of too late now.
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strpbrk() is a bit too short for my taste, but I'll choose that over FindFirstOccurrenceOfAnyCharIn(). There's "long and descriptive", and there's "too long".

Think about it: there's a reason why human languages are filled with pronouns, because if you use the full name for everything, communication will soon become tedious and it will become actually harder to understand.

Any desire for a long and descriptive name should be tempered with a matching desire for conciseness. Otherwise you end up with names like MaybeUpdateDisplayParameterListForValidation. Throw twenty of these names onto a screen, and I have no idea what the hell is going on: I can't even figure out which names are the same at a glance.
To be fair, they could have made it a lot more humorous. this is a juicy subject.
> neighborhoods who didn't voluntarily agree to increased traffic just to make my commute shorter, this is free loading and their roads are for them to get to and from their home

It's nothing against you but is this a common opinion in the US? People in neighborhoods "own" the streets? As a Frenchman saying this is astonishing as I would naturally consider that I do own the street just as much as they do and it's my right to use it to cut traffic as I see fit.

I would go so far as saying they're abusing the system by having unwarranted traffic stops and outsized speed bumps placed around their property. It's like having their cake (single-family home with a parking space) and eating it too (avoiding traffic nuisance which they impose on others).

Just a cultural difference that I had not spotted before
How did you figure out $.99 should be sufficient to watch all the content you like?
He said "fast cars like the Tesla". He didn't say they were especially dangerous.
The original title did not use the word "practical," which this manifestly isn't.
That's probably simply because terrible satire. I read the whole thing and had to come to the comments to verify. I actually thought the author was just an asshole. That's just bad writing.
Haha. That's awesome.
The difference between procedural generation and a video is similar to the difference between raster and vector graphics. Demoscene intros like this are more like your computer giving a live performance from scratch than playing a movie. Ideas like video compression don't really apply. They create 3D models and textures from simple math functions and filters, make a world from them, add more math functions for camera movements, and play some synthesized music that's more akin to MIDI than MP3 (to put it simply).
I'm actually working toward that challenge. Well, that plus synthesis, verification, and analog tech to create it. Glad we agree on high end for a demo challenge. :P
I've obeyed dozens of "No turn on red" signs in my life, but I rarely see "No thru traffic" signs and until this thread, didn't really understand what the point of them was. I'm surely not hyper-vigilant about spotting and obeying them.

You could blame me for this, or we could ponder the implications of the different probabilities of various sign types being obeyed, and whether high rates of disobedience might indicate fairness issues that should be carefully managed.
Defense of strpbrk and strspn:

The "break" and "span" terms were familiar from a time when more people knew the Snobol language, which has two frequently useful pattern matching operators: BREAK and SPAN. Snobol's BREAK(S) pattern matching operator matches the input up to but not including the single-character match for any of the characters in set S. The set S delimits or "breaks" the sequence. SPAN(S) matches a sequence of one or more characters from the set S.

strpbrk tries to fit "string" "pointer" and "break" into a symbol that is different in the first six characters. It was once a common linker limitation that only the first six characters of external symbols were stored.

Actually the C function which corresponds to the concept of BREAK is strcspn (complemented span), because this gives the (length of) the range characters up to the first match in the set. That is to say, strcspn could have been called strbrk! Then we would have had strspn and strbrk as a complementing pair. In any case, the strpbrk function points one character past the substring indicated by this function; giving a pointer to the breaking character. I think, the following equivalences hold:

strcspn(str, set) <--> strpbrk(str, set) - str;
str + strcspn(str, set) <--> strpbrk(str, set);

which further supports strbrk as a good name for strcspn.

Trivia: break and span appear as functions in the Scheme SRFI 1, by Olin Shrivers [1998]. I think these correspond to the take-while and drop-while in Clojure and imitations thereof like the Emacs Lisp dash library.

http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-1/srfi-1.html#span
Since they said "fast cars like the tesla" I assume they're referring to the acceleration. This sort of accident has much more potential for mayhem in a Model X P90DL that does 0-60 in 3.2 seconds as compared to, say, a Prius which will do 0-60 in 10 seconds.
I like that they're based in Ontario, Canada. Which is where I am based in as well. It's nice to have a domain hosting company in the same nation as you, so you know that they'll follow the same laws you are obligated to follow, and not the laws of some other nation south of the border.
T-Mobile US operates independently of Deutsche Telekom, almost like a totally different company that happens to have the same brand name. Being mostly independent, TMUS have actually dropped a lot of the "heavy carrier" aspects. For instance:

> Bandwidth caps. Trying to push Netflix and Google Video out of the network for promoting their on in-house service

T-Mobile US actually gives you "free" low-quality Netflix and YouTube video streaming, without counting that against a subscribers data limit. http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/binge-on-streaming-video.html

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T-Mobile US isn't the only example of this. "Virgin Mobile USA" is just a brand name slapped on prepaid Sprint phones. Besides licensing the brand, there has been no affiliation between Virgin Group UK and Sprint "Virgin Mobile USA" for many years now.
I can sell the share if I own it, right?

So it's like $43 bucks for free.
That's not the point. They claimed to be DMCA-compliant, whether they need to doesn't have bearing to whether that's true.
Do you think that any plug-in that identified a subset of people would be disturbing, or just this one? An example floats to mind that would highlight the names of politicians that were funded by the Koch brothers.
True, and when Tesla doesn't release a report on an incident like this it will be telling.

As for the legitimacy of their recorders, I think it would be best to have it audited etc. That said, doing anything shady with it is a risk way bigger than any potential rewards, so I'm not that suspicious. It would be worse for their credibility than VW's emission cheating if they were falsifying their recordings and then using them to blame customers.
That sounds like a better idea, but I still don't really see the upside as compared to remembering one long passphrase.
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I've seen their prospectus on FE International, and was surprised by some numbers. Interesting to listen to the founder's reflection now.
The EU courts have determined, quite rightly, that merely having an link on a website does not equate to piracy.
Only 0.5$ foreach direction daily! What is this? Communism?
For those wondering, they sold to American SMB Services.
This is sort of troubling.

I think I inadvertently broke the same rules alluded to in the article, i.e. I have a small personal project where I mapped the buildings from my Eastern European city which used to be owned by Jewish people before they had been nationalized by the newly-arrived communists in 1948. I use Google Maps for displaying said buildings, and in order to "identify" a name as being Jewish I compared the names of the owners from the nationalization law to the entries from yadvashem.org (given enough matches for a certain name it meant that said person was Jewish).

Now, I didn't do this because I hate Jews, on the contrary, I did it because I am saddened by the loss of the Jewish cultural element from my city (they used to comprise around 10-12% of the city population before WW2, most of them emigrated to Israel by the late 1960s), and wanted to sort of make their presence felt again.

I also wanted to, at some point, map on Google Maps the Jewish cemeteries from my part of the country, which are almost all of them being forgotten and not taken care of (seeing as a former Jewish presence of around ~700,000 in the 1930s now only numbers ~3,000). But this article makes me think twice. What if someone thinks I would do that only for some Nazi-group to have a better target?
Sure it's moral - in fact, it's great. The question of morality only arises if there's asymmetric access to the data. In the event of a claim being made by the driver against the company, both sides should have complete access to the logs data to make their case more firmly. What shouldn't happen is ONLY one party being able to inspect the data.

But this is unlikely to happen in practice. A lawyer for the driver would undoubtedly subpoena Tesla for access to the data. And a reasonable judge would probably concur. IANAL and IANAJ, so the latter is a guess. :)
What a silly reason to make a business decision
The EU courts, quite rightly, do not set precedent for US laws like DMCA.