skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise of this discussion is that the better funded side tends to get a better result (in a manner superlinear with respect to the funding). If you reject that premise, fine, but your comment belongs higher up, or as its own thread, not as a criticism of my specific point.
Looks like it is.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&gr...
I wish I could search their system and see where my car falls on each of those lists, rather than just the top/bottom 25 in each category.
I believe it was true on the 5S but I haven't looked since.
Does anyone have a good reason to leave, none of the ones given anywhere I've seen appear to be either true or genuinely likely to come to fruition? Interested in thoughtful and supported answers ...
Yea, and Dinesh has (so far) been falling into the "sexless asian man" stereotype (also jin yiang, though he's just a minor comic relief character).

Asian exist in real life: http://1u88jj3r4db2x4txp44yqfj1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...
Asking for scientific evidence that the sun will come up is almost like trolling.

In an adversarial system your chances depend on the amount of valid legal process-effort you exert. If you acknowledge that this effort is correlated with financing, even a little, then you admit there is a vulnerability.

A more reasonable question would be if they have a reason to assume that the variable has an oversized impact on the process.
It certainly could do this. I don't think Time Machine protects its data in any way.

Backups have to be coupled with some kind of way of noticing that something is wrong. If the ransomware encrypted your data slowly over the course of months and you didn't notice you might be out of luck regardless of your backup system.
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I would be curious of data on entry level sport cars that people use in commutes/daily driving i.e.: porsche
> For example, should government track all Muslims? What if in 10 years the government started tracking all Christians?

It certainly works as an argument but it's scary it even has to come up this way. It's basically having to explain to someone else: "You know, muslims are people too".

"It could happen to you" is a symptom of failed education of the recipient. It's scary some people today still lack basic empathy, the basic considerations that "all people are equal and deserve the same respect as you owe yourself".

Not to detract from your point, of course. It's more understandable that someone wouldn't immediately connect the dots between "Bad thing happening to bad entity" and "Bad thing could also happen to good entity". Although I'd consider it a similar failure of education as well.
Have you looked into Amazon Prime? You can download stuff to your phone/tablet when you have unmetered internet and then listen or watch it later.

I haven't tried it yet, but I think that the Apple Lightning to HDMI adaptor will work to get Amazon Video on the TV. I would think that HDMI would be even cheaper/easier on an Android device.
Same, ran twice, no ban.
We interpreted it differently, then.

The point to take home is not how this person would perform so much better than the OP. Is which variables we can control to decrease the chance of such escalations. We can control some, but ultimately it's up to the immigration officers and host country laws.

As for the trick. It is not a trick, it is something you need to do. The actual trick is not volunteering more information than necessary.

"Hi officer. I'm mostly here for a vacation, but there will be a day where I'll speak at a conference, and another where I'll distribute resumés and meet employees from several companies to expand my network, in the hopes of getting a job with one that will sponsor a visa in the future, even though I know most will be there for the free labor. It's called a hackaton. Also, I think you'd look better without those glasses."

Not telling the truth can get you a trip back at a port of entry. Or handcuffs at a consulate or embassy. Doesn't mean you need to tell them everything going through your mind at the time.
> I'm guessing you're new here?

> created: 1177 days ago

Pretty simple to check really.
Wait. Isn't the right approach to make sure money doesn't influence litigation or legislative process, than trying to ban someone from funding another party's litigation.

If money can influence litigation, isn't that a bigger problem than a third party funding some lawsuit for whatever reason?
Highly optimized ;)
I think there are a lot of loaded expectations on what it means to be an ORM. Maybe this is no-true-scotsmaning, but I distinguish between things providing convenient query builders from full ORMs.

Generally speaking, I'm happy with anything that handles marshalling / unmarshalling and can generate typesafe (when applicable) queries for me (so long as its happy to get out of the way on those handful of occasions that I'd like to use some handwritten SQL).

Things I've used in the past like this include

* Knex - http://knexjs.org/
* Slick - http://slick.lightbend.com/
* Opaleye - https://hackage.haskell.org/package/opaleye

Generally these don't call themselves ORMs though. The primary distinction I've found is that they don't conflate my domain model with my schema. They don't enforce a 1:1 correspondance to a table or a try to concoct some scheme of representing inheritance with multiple tables and they don't try to take on myriad other unrelated duties like validation, etc. They allow me to build my application in the hexagonal style ( http://alistair.cockburn.us/Hexagonal+architecture ) in an OO language.

Abstraction of SQL is not something I have a problem with, its trying to infect my domain model with persistence concerns, or even worse by trying to pull transaction handling out of the domain of the database.
Gawker files for bankruptcy after losing $140m case
Okay, now you've piqued my curiosity. Is that something to do because it's really smart and clever and fun, or is there a certain problem or class of problems where doing that is unambiguously the best or least-worst solution?
I don't know how the Mini brand is near the bottom of the list but the Mini Cooper model is tied for 19th most expensive.
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It has to do with late game mechanics, which is dominated by team fights. Thus if one team has only 4 effective players, that team will lose, even if this team did everything else perfectly and the opposing team stumbled around early game.

LoL is heavily team focused w.r.t. strategy.
Here's the punishments they received: "In all, the conduct of 57 Secret Service personnel was reviewed, including 11 at the SES [Senior Executive Service] level. Of those, 41 are receiving some level of discipline. This discipline includes a letter of reprimand to one individual, suspended discipline contingent on no further misconduct for a period of five years, and suspensions from duty without pay for periods of up to 45 days. The one individual found by the Inspector General to have disclosed the private information to an outside source, the Washington Post, has resigned from the Secret Service."

In contrast:

"On June 14, 2013, United States federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against Snowden, charging him with theft of government property, and two counts of violating the Espionage Act through unauthorized communication of national defense information and "willful communication of classified communications intelligence information to an unauthorized person." Each of the three charges carries a maximum possible prison term of ten years. The charge was initially secret and was unsealed a week later."[1]

"After making his concerns about mistreatment of whistleblowers known to his superiors, Crane was removed from his position in 2013."[2]

"In April 2010, Drake was indicted by a Baltimore, Maryland grand jury on the following charges: 1) Willful Retention of National Defense Information 18 U.S.C. § 793(e) (5 counts)
(793(e) is a modification of the Espionage Act of 1917 made under the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950), 2) Obstructing justice 18 U.S.C. § 1519 (1 count), and 3) Making a False Statement 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a) (4 counts)"[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Criminal_charge...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crane_(government_officia...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake#Indictmen...
His family thinks it was an accident. According to his brother, he was extremely stressed and had been smoking a (natural) psychedelic drug. That particular drug is such a powerful experience, that combined with the unusual circumstances of his life and the likely threats, intimidation or paranoia could cause someone to drive erratically.
> Now scale that behavior up by a factor of 10 where people never get caught. Same with Snowden.

Snowden hasn't been caught yet, but we can devoutly hope that he will be someday.

What he did was no different: taking information he had no need to know about but had access to, and giving it to folks who had neither need nor access.

As for selling it — he seems to have made quite the career from his crime.
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Another thought. Two really:
- Lead us into more about the why before showing the price. Really tell the story of the pain that so many of us can identify with.
- Use a standard three teir pricing box style, with the values of each above the price. Something like: https://planscope.io/pricing/
MOBAs (Dota, Lol) are vey dependent on balance.

To use a RTS example since you mention playing them, imagine a 3v3 game.
If one player leaves and it becomes 3v2, the 3 player team has a huge advantage.

Now in MOBAs, you can let the ennemy team kill you or die repeatedly so they get more resources and xp than you.
Imagine for the RTS game that it is possible and one player starts helping the other team and that game becomes a 4v2. The 2 person team will have pretty much no chance of winning.

Playing a dota game with someone feeding (ie diying intentionally to the other team) is pretty much a game ender but there is no way to concede so you still have to play for ~20min with 1% chance of winning.
Imagine where Jaguar would have shown up in the list in the pre-Tata Motors era.

Even though Ford made improvements, it wasn't until like '96 that Lucas went out of business and was out of the mix...
>In an adversarial system your chances depend on the amount of valid legal process-effort you exert. If you acknowledge that this effort is correlated with financing, even a little, then you admit there is a vulnerability.

This is a fair point, but the existence of such a vulnerability is unquestionable. However, SilasX seemed to be implying that this is a significant vulnerability, which is a claim that certainly deserves some evidence to back it up.

>A more reasonable question would be if they have a reason to assume that the variable has an oversized impact on the process.

That's exactly what I was asking about, SilasX specifically said "so vulnerable" as opposed to just "vulnerable". That seems to imply such an oversized impact.
In my experience with Overwatch, it feels about as toxic as LoL when adjusted for match length and the ease of dropping out. There's a lot of "gg ez", "trash [hero]", "kill yourself" - at least in my games.
I usually find a template I like and modify it. I really should start paying someone. It's not my core skillset. :)
Easy: be poor. You will still lust after every new shiny trinket but you will be too poor to buy them.
Typo, Lexus should be Cadillac.

"Luxury imports from Germany, such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz, along with domestic luxury brand Lexus, are the most expensive"
Thanks - I'll consider that.
Blinker on a Ferrari or catalyst on Lamborghini can be easily $5,000 a piece. Have fun!
As I am currently in a North African country I freaked out when the ISIS shit started popping so I immediately deleted my google history and nothing happened now.

I still don't get why something so malicious was upvoted so much.
> The linked case is about a celebrity worth quite a bit of money and still it wasn't enough to get the case decided in his favor, it needed yet another - bigger - millionaire / billionaire to step in to sway the case.

But that's not what happened. The case was "decided in his favor" a long time ago when Gawker offered to settle for a sum of money that would far exceed anything he could have expected in his wildest dreams in any other country other than the US. Thiel intervened not to win Bollea more money (indeed, he may end up getting less), but to pay Bollea off so that the case would be about hurting Gawker more than benefiting Bollea, which is what Thiel wanted. I understand that they even changed the lawsuit so that the insurance wouldn't cover the payoff to Bollea -- getting him less money -- only so that Thiel could hurt Gawker further.
Even their SUVs are fun to drive. Haven't yet tired of our cx-5 after 3 years of owning it.
It's a completely uncontroversial view of the justice system that it exists to ensure resources are properly allocated: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/files/53.Posner.Values_0.p....

For example, one might view lawsuits against polluters as a matter of punishing companies that do harmful things to the environment. I'd argue that's a pretty fuzzy and irrational basis for environmental law. A more rigorous approach is to view environmental lawsuits as forcing polluters to internalize their negative externalities: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=....

In that context, meritorious lawsuits that don't get brought are inefficient. They represent a polluter not forced to internalize its externalities, or a business creating risk not forced to bear the costs of that risk, or a business creating harm not forced to compensate the injured. That distorts incentives and leads to more than an efficient amount of harmful activities.
text based sites

Just because "web designers" had shitty flash pages, doesn't mean "personal home pages" that were just test and images did.
well okay, let me rephrase: Mozilla's "Manifesto" (and things like 'the web you want') is awesome, however some annoyances prevent me from using Firefox; i wish they would implement new features more rapidly like for example proper zooming (which has been present in other browser for ~ 4 years), and for example a sandbox.

It doesn't matter how great your Manifesto is (and what kind of web you want), if things like this prevent people from using your product.
Not as this stage - my experience with how fast physical books date hasn't been good.
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Did I misread?

>In order to estimate annual maintenance costs, we found the amount spent on every two oil changes (as oil changes are generally done every six months).

This cost only considers oil changes? That is not a realistic cost of total maintenance over 10 years.
Many companies don't bother looking at things like that. Even if you have a Github account with some amount of non-trivial, original code on it, they'll put you through a "phone screen" and have you do a longest increasing subsequence/subset sum/longest palindrome substring problem for a front end position. And yeah I'm talking about Silicon Valley/SF City/YC type startups here, not BigCorp Inc.
No, it's a reason to stay as well. In fact, it's a reason to stay on Mars and to change Mars into a place where billions could live comfortably. Humanity is going to be expanding out to the planets and the stars, and that will be mighty difficult to do if we always come back home right away.

People colonizing the New World from Europe didn't plan on coming right back, never to voyage again. They stayed, founded colonies that became the USA, who now has citizens building spaceships to colonize the planets and the stars. Marvelous.
Woo. I wonder if this news could spark a wee run on the banks?
Trying to say "this brand was bought by another entity so now all that negative brand equity and well-deserved consumer ire it had earned before is null and void" seems a bit like trying to have your cake and eat it too.

No employees came along with the brand? None of the decisionmakers responsible for the previous SourceForge derp over the past couple of years? It's a clean slate - tabula rasa? That's fine, but it'll take time for people to warm up to that idea. That's what happens when you abuse trust.
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I'm curious to see how Tesla will compare to these after they have been out for a while. I heard they are cheap to maintain, I hope that turns out to be true.
This is one reason why I don't buy American. I actually really like Ford's vehicles (the infotainment system might be the best available) but they consistently get bad reliability scores along with other American brands (Chrysler, Dodge, etc).

Why don't American manufacturers work to improve their reliability? People really are buying Toyota/Honda/Mazda for that reason. And while Kia might be unreliable as all heck, they come with the best included warranty available[0].

American vehicles actually cost more too in many cases, so you're paying for the "privilege" of getting a less reliable vehicle.

[0] http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=buy&story=ma...
Just a heads up the link seems to start an autoplaying video that can't be paused
They do this for Google Fi as well. $30/mo ends up being $36/mo after all the regulatory fees.
I'm really confused by this data. How could the average cost of the most expensive model be less than the cost of the most expensive brand?

For example, I'm taking issue with all BMW's costing $17,800 over 10 years on average. Yet, the BMW model with the highest maintenance cost, the 328i, only costs $15,600 over 10 years.

Edit: Tried, quite unsuccessfully, to improve clarity
Riot employees are paid to play (on a Riot "sponsored" account). Just like company email, chat, or any other service, it should be assumed that it's going to be monitored.

If Riot employees want to troll on LoL, they probably shouldn't do it on a company account.
You dont. I have played all sorts of games and heard everything out there. Doesnt bother me personally, but when its the place you work for, I find its best to watch what you say. To me thats business 101.
The Obama administration disagrees, and argues that
since the records have already been submitted to a third
party (Oregon’s PDMP) that patients no longer enjoy an
expectation of privacy.

This follows the same(so far, legally defensible) reasoning of the phone records -- since you voluntarily gave your phone records to your phone company, you don't have an expectation of privacy regarding them. You could chose not to use a phone, but you didn't.

So by that logic, if I want to maintain my expectation of privacy regarding my prescriptions, I can either A) Not have them filled (so that I don't 'voluntarily' give them to a 3rd party) or B) source them illegally.

Seems like great options to me.
I'd avoid the CX-9s though. Nobody needs to factory-replace an automatic transmission at $6000.

And you're gonna need it.
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The name of the site is pretty clear.
Slack's hiccup highlights the importance of API visibility
I thought they asked for your HN username. What else would they do with it?
Nothing whatsoever, assuming this isn't somehow covered by the game's EULA.
This is weird. Humans hunt animals to extinction all the time when have economic value. Look what's happening to elephants or rhinos in Africa.

Yet creating an artificial value to killing them isn't enough? Suddenly humans come up with creative ways of breeding them artificially?

Perhaps these aren't mutually exclusive. Maybe the bounty program worked to reduce the population to the point that farming was more viable. Maybe the bounty was too high, and if they reduced it farming wouldn't be economical anymore.

Perhaps a solution would be to have the bounty in short random bursts. The bounty program only lasts for 1 year, so no one has time to start farms and breed them. Or just investigate the people bringing in lots of cobras, and see if they have a big cobra pit next to their house.

I am very curious about these systems because it seems like a very effective method of eliminating invasive species. Australia is being overrun with cane toads, and my local state is complaining about Asian carp and zebra mussels.

Yet no one is willing to put up money to see if the market can find an efficient solution to cull the population. Partially because of the infamous stories posted above about how these programs create bad incentives. But I believe they could be minimized. And I can't imagine anyone breeding asian carp or cane toads given how prevalent they are in the wild now.
Your mechanic doesn't do much work Porsches. I have used them a lot in the past when I had a Saab (which is ultimately gm/American technology), but now that I have a decade old Mercedes and a decade old Porsche (I prefer maintenance over deprecation). Once a your mechanic contractor called me after the meeting was scheduled to start and told me that they couldn't service the car because they had no experience, diagnostic tools or spare parts for my car, and other interactions with them weren't better. Another time, their suggested 'OEM' quality parts really werent.

Another factor might also be that many high end imports are services at the dealer/speciality shops and the service interactions with your mechanic are for cars that have less than stellar maintenance-- which skews the picture significantly.
Tried to load the app at https://www.yourmechanic.com/book/. Does not work for me. Bummer
Hogan can't eat our positive thoughts. He lost a lot of respect among the kind of people that (economically) matter a lot to him, like sponsors and employers.
The composition method is more akin to how humans do madlibs than how we write stories, which explains the result. If anything, this video illustrates how fantastic the human mind is at finding patterns and meaning where none actually exist.
Sorry for being (slightly?) off topic but you've prompted my curiosity now;

Owner of a mazda 6 (almost 2 years), no repairs needed thus far, when I got it it had been top rated in consumer reports; is there something I should be looking out for? (brief googling didn't turn up anything; to the child and others since I'm limited by response rate, my curiosity was peaked by the high cost I saw in the article, but I haven't heard what might cause that high cost)
Ferrari/Lamborghini are definitely not entry level sport cars.
ran twice, at work, signed into my google account. no ban.
One could just make the arrows links that load in a hidden iframe and add CSS styling that hides the image when it's been clicked. It's not strictly correct (side effect for GET requests), but that's what happens as a fallback anyhow (you get links with JS disabled, you just have to open them in a new tab to avoid the reload).
Entrapment is when a LEO induces a person to commit a crime that they were previously not disposed to commit. Therefore, if the person has shown no inclination to commit a crime, then it seems that coercion could be a subtype of entrapment.

However, when criminal informants are used rather than LEO's to perform the coercion, that wouldn't be entrapment .
> I don't feel that celebrity dating life is ok to publish, actually. It's very seedy and not in the public interest in the average case.

Freedom of the press and freedom of speech is not about evaluating everything said and determining if something is "in the public interest" in the United States. I think that focus on the "public interest" aligns more with European or Chinese cultural values.

If we are talking about personal values, I am glad we don't have censors in the US. Even if you and I can agree celebrity gossip probably has no value, what get defined as "not in the public interest" is too easy to be politically determined.