skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a 7th gen Civic myself from 2002-2015. Not a terribly pretty car, but absolutely rock solid until about 2014. The cost of ownership was pennies per mile and was absolutely trouble free for the first 12 years I owned it. Other than normal oil changes and similar maintenance, I never had a single reason to take it to a mechanic.

The first time I did, the car stalled out in the middle of the road, the tow fee was a couple hundred dollars -- the cost to fix it and get it going? $150 with labor (some kind of sensor just got old and needed replacing).

As it hit 12 years, little things kept needing attention, but nothing was expensive. Yearly property taxes were in the dozens of dollars and the mechanics I took it to all kept wanting to buy the car off of me for a premium over the Blue Book value.

I finally replaced it, not because it was becoming expensive, but because, having 12 trouble free years with it, I found it annoying to deal with mechanics at all.

My wife had a 2004 Accord until 2015, and had a similar reliability story, just with a few more issues (and each issue was a little more expensive).

We replaced both cars with new Hondas.

Humans have been building cars for over 100 years, there's really not much excuse in my thinking for them not to basically be transportation appliances. I get people want to have different stylings and performance characteristics, but unreliability is an absolute non-starter to us.

It's not like information on car reliability isn't available from several sources, so I'm always mystified at my frustrated friends with the Dodge Caravans and such who are wondering why their cars are always getting worked on.
Mutiresolution analysis (forex wavelets) is perfectly appropriate for time series data tho.
My guess is that it will be unlimited listening for a flat monthly fee, with a larger selection than is available for free listening with Amazon Prime.
So what? I have to build a Windows app on Windows, most likely using Visual Studio.
I don't know. I (maybe I am wrong) have been intending to treat team-members as "some dudes with bumps on their chest that may have various after hours habits that are none of my concern".

In aggregate, upstream, you are saying: 1) No: I am not treating them equally, even if I think I am, and 2) Females have some real needs/concerns that I should care about.

Now that I know that I am inadequate to this task - what should I do to be better?
>This is to get around the MMR abusers that would queue bots to leave on the other team so they would get a quick win.

Why would anyone do something like that? Every time you played a legit game you'd lose.
I used to work at a company whose flagship product is an iOS app. I have typically worked on web things and was working on the API used by the product. But it always struck me as strange how different of perceptions iOS devs had from most developers I've met about what constituted "reasonable requirements" from platform providers.

I get that you play ball with these things and pay what you owe to get access to the market of Apple customers. I do get that. But I also think that relationship is mutualistic, and that app developers bring a tremendous amount of value to the platform that causes people to buy Apple products in the first place. And I would argue that their value has not been assessed fairly by Apple given the amount of cut they require and the amount of stipulations they create about permissible ideas. Yes, a certain amount of these rules do make sense, but some are unbelievably arcane and arbitrary. For instance:

"Apps that unlock or enable additional features or functionality with mechanisms other than the App Store will be rejected"

It's absurd that something like this would be in your platform's rules. That eliminates a huge number of possibilities in app development that would have absolutely no negative impact on Apple's reputation or the safety of the App Store.

And it would be another thing if these rules weren't given much credence, but from what I've seen, developers are generally worried about being caught for these kinds of things during app review, and they take the policies very seriously.

I don't know if the iOS developers I've known are representative or not, but in any case I'm happy that some of them are starting to push back.
Yup, putting things in "quotes."
The results for Toyota are a reflection of their dedication to production engineering [1], dented by recent recalls. The popular view of bleeding-edge engineering is putting exciting new features into customer's hands. An alternative view (which can be just as satisfying from an engineering perspective) is creating a bleeding-edge factory to produce millions of otherwise mundane products that "just work". As an aside, there's a certain smugness (and sense of power?) that goes with producing a product that the end user takes for granted but you know that few other people could produce.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System
Good to hear that Managed by Q is doing well, according to their founders. I guess it hasn't been that many months since I read about them in the Times [1], but had wondered how well they would do after Homejoy's collapse.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/managed-by-qs-goo...
Looks cool, thanks. They should take the opportunity to fix a few Unix/ACL security problems though, instead of just reproducing the same old POSIX quagmire. Make chroot isolation complete with plan9-like private namespaces, don't implement the traditional broken user/group security model and instead learn from the Polaris virus safe computing prototype (they're already partway there by using the capability secure seL4 kernel).

I would personally also want to eliminate a lot of the duplication in the POSIX API, but that probably won't fly. Can have your cake and eat it too.
It's likely that Land Rover owners are taking their vehicles to the dealers for repair, and then running away from them as quickly as possible once they get the chance.

I've met quite a few first time Land Rover owners, I've never met a repeat customer.
If you are an employee of Riot then I guess I'd suggest you avoid playing in the competitive areas. It seems like a zero sum move: your employer is monitoring you to an inch of your life (which would probably be considered unacceptable in most other workplaces!) and to win you must play in a toxic environment where it is likely you might react badly and thus be targeted by Riot's HR department.

If you must play for your job, I'd suggest doing one of two things: a. Don't play to win, play half heartedly and don't engage, take lots of breaks and report each and every negative encounter to your manager so they can see that it's potentially impacting on your mental health, or b. speak to management about the toxic environment you are seeing and work with them towards studying what the chief causes are then start putting measures into place to prevent it.
YMMV: We had a 2014 Fiesta with a DCT and the thing worked like a first time driver on a manual. Herky jerky, seemingly missing clutch engagement. They might have done a lot better with interior build quality, and their higher end models are impressive (hell, their 3 cyl 1.0L turbo engine for the Fiesta is a masterclass in small car powerplants), but they aren't even halfway to a Honda or Toyota, who have essentially reinvented (and continue to reinvent) car manufacturing.

I recommend watching James May's Building a Car documentary. It was a fascinating window into all the aspects of car QA.
There was a seperate auto industry bailout program:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_2008%E2%80%9310...
Patents expire.
Went from 55K consultant mech eng to 95K. Took a lot of self hustle and the HR marketing and alum outcome results.

If not this would have got to that number after maybe 2 years so definitely helped.
She's so sane and down to earth that she'd rather be the most powerful Senator for 20 years than President for 4 years. You should be thanking her for playing the long game.
That is an excellent argument from what I would also call the big picture perspective. I just usually use the utilitarian one because it just seems any time you want to argue about social fundamentals - be it anything from segregated bathrooms (of all varieties) to street naming to intellectual property, people get incredibly defensive about the status quo as if their livelihood depended on it - as if culture / information cannot be made without IP, rather than the reverse.

I do think at some point in the future historians will look back and see the catastrophic death of culture permanent copyright wrought throughout the 20th / 21st centuries as a huge crime against humanity. We are sad we have few historical recounts of ancient Egyptian / Greek / Roman living, or even moreso ancient Mesoamerican peoples, or the Babylonians, but we seem perfectly complacent in how some ~95% of all music, film, photography, writing, and even probably code is lost forever because of copyright meaning if the owners take it to their grave it stays dead with them. It is just a tremendous disservice to humanity to just let so much creative work die like that, and how generations have now grown and died without any of the commercial works of their childhood ever being accessible to their own creativeness in their lifetimes.
It provides several example applications and goes through the tools.
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I noticed as soon as my rank was high enough that I wasn't facing brand new players it became much more enjoyable.
Seems like they agreed to the deal to have a bigger influence on future trade deals. I don't think they like this deal particularly. But they are swallowing the pill for having a say in the next one.
Musk tweeted that "37 of 40 suspension complaints to NHTSA were fraudulent, i.e. false location or vehicle identification numbers were used"[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/741411531582115841
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FWIW in June of last year, Obama allied with Senate Republicans, beating his own party, to get TPP fast tracked, meaning that the vote will be all or nothing, up or down, and will receive little debate, oversight, and no amendments before the vote.

The vote was 60-38.

Around that time, Clinton did refer to the secretly-written TPP as the "gold standard" in trade negotiations, but possibly due to pressure from Sanders and the rest of the party, has backed down, saying it was flawed and she doesn't support it.

Trump has also gone after the TPP numerous times, basically shoving a long-standing Republican establishment plank in their faces.

So weirdly both candidates oppose the TPP. I'm wondering if this is going to be saved for after the election, then jammed through.

More:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_track_(trade)
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/24/barack-obama-...
What, specifically, do you consider inferior about Safari? I'm genuinely curious - I use Chrome, Firefox and Safari regularly and I find Chrome and Safari to be of equal quality. And I notice bugs in Chrome every now and then, but with both browsers I find it pretty rare these days.
Ford never took bailout money AFAIK. They revitalized on their own which is very commendable. If they were just a little bit more reliable I'd probably buy one.

My parents buy Fords almost exclusively and they range from about as reliable as my Honda to abysmal and expensive so YMMV.
"I just follow the rules". - So were the participants of the Milgram experiment.
I don't play LoL, but I have seen Dota games where the short team wins in a 3x5 match. Experience gets divided out among the players in range, so if you get to the point where you're trading kills the short time advances relatively faster.
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Interesting to look at the North Sea (off Scotland for those not familiar). The magnitude of the light pollution from the oils rigs seems extremely high, comparable to large cities. Seems unlikely.

Cool project regardless!
> They license the IP so that Apple can make their own custom chips.

Doesn't Apple have an ARM architecture license, freeing it of having to "license the IP" now?

Further, ARM was founded as a joint venture between Apple, VLSI Technology, and Acorn Computers. Their history goes back to the day the company was created. (ARM chips powered Apple Newton.)
How doesn't that make sense? What if app developers started saying you could unlock 100 gold coins for free if you visit some website and click 3 ads or some other shitty experience? Maybe having that restriction is bad for developers but developers aren't Apple's only constituency, customers are too (Apple has definitely shown they care more about their customers than the needs of developers).

From a pure business strategy of commoditize your complements, encouraging app developers to have subscription pricing works against the interests of their customers (who want to minimize their costs). Yet they're obviously doing it because the long-term interests of customers is in having sustainable businesses develop those apps/services.
Yeah that's a good point. Maybe instead it could be a fee you could have to pay the creator to sell the same thing up to some limit, maybe determined by the creator's market price?
>Every app would be free with some minute amount of functionality

Maybe. But that already happens w/ free and "pro", etc.. I expect that the marketplace would sort that out. When everything is a come-on genuine offerings start to have more appeal.

>Apple built a platform and wants to extract value from that platform.

Sure. No problems with that as long as there is some value they are providing. At least in the case of a paid app, once that sale is made Apple shouldn't be involved unless they are doing something useful.
In order to sell a high MMR account. This explains why there is massive amounts of MMR inflation across regions.

Prior to ranked matchmaking, the top 1% was typically around 4.2k hidden MMR. After ranked was introduced, it became closer to 5k. Now you have close to 8-9k MMR, because people are buying 5-6k accounts, and lose until they reach their true skill level (usually somewhere between 2-3k).

The account buyer essentially feeds 3000 MMR to their opponents, which is why a 5k player back when ranked was introduced is now an 8k player.
Dotalikes (I refuse to use the term mobas) are a great study in unintended consequences. The game has strong RPG elements because those are fun... but that creates a vicious cycle where winners win more. The game has defenses that are tough so that the losing teams can hang on... but those prolong a one-sided game. And the RPG elements mean you can't just let players drop and come back like an fps game, so you're committed for the entire round.

Now add in its RTS roots - an overhead God's eye view lets you watch your teammates. RPG elements means a bad player isn't merely useless, but he's actually feeding power to your opponents.

So a long game, with a prolonged endgame that often results in 10+ minutes of moribund gameplay after the match is prettymuch already decided, without even the dignity of a quick execution like an rts generally provides. No leaving allowed, either. And you get to watch your teammate (you only have 4) who brought this fate on your head, and you're stuck together for the whole round.

They couldn't have designed a game that makes you hate your weakest teammate more if they tried.
"Actually" this theory doesn't make any sense once you consider the fact that the racist statements that ended his career were on this tape. He went through his long public career without making racist statements despite harboring racist beliefs, so he knew what impact such statements would have. If he had known he was being taped for publicity, it would have made no sense for him to make what he would know to be public racist statements.

The judge didn't allow the evidence be heard likely because there was no evidence (conjecture). It's the standard desperation you get from someone losing a case or appealing a loss.
Counterexample to Euler's conjecture on sums of like powers
Judging by Riot's job ads and glassdoor notes, playing LoL is required to get a job there. From what I know there is no gameplay in this game other than competition.
I am not a lawyer, and my knowledge over disclaimer clauses is mostly from a days lecture by a legal historian professor, and he summarized it as mostly forgotten magic which is based on century old practices. For example, the practice of all caps just happens to be an example that a specific US agency gave in order to describe how to make a disclaimer "noticeable", but people just ran with it and now it just what everyone does.

I do have a guess on why Apache2 mention applicable law, which was something I read in Swedish contract law (if licenses is a contract or not is, of course, also debated between lawyers). The law mentioned specific situations in which either a clause in a contract or the contract as a whole could be declared invalid, which could happen when for example a clause is "too unfair" or when a party can be said as unaware of the clause or its consequences. My guess is thus that the Apache2 disclaimer mention applicable law as a way to dodge laws in countries which otherwise could make the whole disclaimer invalid.

As for the last question, a contributor might have sought advice from a lawyer which, as many lawyers do, gave an advice of caution. In some cases, foreknowledge about risks increases damages and risk of being sued, so my guess is that the disclaimer tries to avoid that situation.

In both cases, it seems as mostly efforts to try make the disclaimer more safe to use in a international context, where MIT and BSD is more focused on the law which govern Massachusetts and Berkeley. I personally doubt however that the differences matter much in practice, particular in the US and EU.
Okay, thanks for the correction. I read the posts you linked and understand the issue better. Although we have a different definition of clearly.

And I admit that I still have trouble seeing the plaintiffs in these cases as any kind of victims. The first of your links states that companies can use the mere existence of an ISDS mechanism to produce a real "chilling effect" on countries not even part of the dispute. Is that "fair" to the people of those countries?

But okay, there are two sides. And we know which side the "sensationalist media" is on. And also the people of Europe, who (according to your second link) drove the EU to qualify and then scuttle ISDS language in the TTIP after "a lengthy public consultative process."

So I come away wondering what is the value proposition for the public. Or is this provision all carrot?
OP used uBlock Origin to create a rule that hides the popup.
They haven't earned 15-30% by any stretch.
I bought a 2014 Focus, which I think has developed quite a reputation for expensive and frequent repairs. Fortunately, the primary (overwhelmingly so) candidate is the transmission.
Note I didn't say that there weren't examples of applications that could be abusive if such a rule didn't exist. I'm saying that the rule is far too general and covers far too many benign ideas that could end up becoming incredible products. Many iOS apps have an admin console that can only be unlocked by special designators in their account on the server side, yet by this rule that would be disallowed. In fact the company I worked for disabled their admin panel for this very reason, despite the fact that it was very useful for debugging and field testing a released build.

EDIT: Also is there any evidence that companies in the App Store are more sustainable than elsewhere? I can see how this is possible, but it's also unintuitive that companies paying higher costs would end up keeping their apps maintained for longer.
Oh, oh,. So some troll will now add an invisible iframe to ruinmysearchhistory.com on some other popular site just for the lulz
"So we’re doing this to help you.” ... "with 14 felony counts"

In the US, I think having a crippling drug addiction is better than 14 felony counts. What's that? 30 years in prison? Life? No chance of gainful employment for life? Shit paid public defender, or $300,000 to fight it? I thought we were getting more sensible about this stuff?

Absurd. Write or email your congressman. It's the only thing that will do any good.
They should because they decide the country's actions through their votes. For a democracy like the US or UK, at least.
How does it feel to be just under the 800ft line? Does article make you wish you could have added just a few more floors? ;)

In all seriousness - I've never been to nyc (never had a reason to I guess). I just don't comprehend the demand to build up. Is there really that much demand? Like at what density level does other infrastructure become a bottleneck (transit/power/water/food)?
Everyone links to that general page, but I'd think the EFF analysis on how it affects digital rights specifically might be even more persuasive for this crowd:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/how-tpp-will-affect-yo...
You got me. I admit, I clicked wondering what aspect of the construction was done off-shore. Then I realized it wasn't.
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Sure, the bumper cases helped, because they moved your hand away from the antenna area. But bumper cases would also help every other smartphone. It was provably not an issue specific to Apple and affected all brands (often to a larger extreme than the iPhone), but there's not much press value in pointing out a common problem for all smartphones whereas there is a lot of press value in manufacturing negative stories about Apple.

The only reality distortion field in effect here is the one that causes everybody to intentionally ignore the fact that every other smartphone had the same problem, and refuse to even acknowledge that fact when other people point it out.
Same here. WTF did I do?!
This is especially true when you consider that much of the EFF's criticism of the IP section is over provisions that are already in effect in the US...

A core purpose of the EFF is to keep IP law from spinning out of control, and to roll back the places where it already has (which is pretty much everywhere). This would be more nearly impossible than it already is if the US laws calcify into treaty form, which is a very good reason for them to oppose the TPP.
Not Apple, but you have all of these features with Qt [1] which can be deployed to iOS.

1: http://www.qt.io
I doubt it? The site still requires you to click a button (which would be inside the iframe) before it will search for you. Also, are iframes able to use `window.open`?
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I always was sketched out by those "X"'s on any advertisement.
That's interesting to know. My guess is that, other than the management fee, there are two potential sources of money that can pay for those additional services:

1. A portion of the profit that a16z made from previous exits.

2. This is a less likely option - asking portfolio companies to pay for those services. I know VCs that bill their portfolio companies for certain professional services.
Cities don't build freeways, the feds build freeways (sometimes the state will build a highway, but it's mostly feds).
Sub-disciplines of mathematics don't blow up and become cornerstones of education if they don't have practical applications. Analysis, Topology, Algebra, Abstract Algebra, Linear Algebra, Statistics, Geometry... If something doesn't have a major practical use, it'll probably be named after somebody specific and studied in relative obscurity.
With the American cars, you have to focus on the flagship, high volume cars. They stuff the junk in to fill out the line (i.e. The Chevy/Daewoo thing)

My Ford vs Honda experience has been pretty similar. Great or Awful. I had a 2005 Odyessy and 2003 Pilot. Basically the same car, but the Odyssey was crap - literally had a door fall off.

Likewise, I had a Fusion and a 500/Taurus. The 500 had lots of stupid, expensive problems with trim, electronics, etc. The Fusion was flawless.