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Hmm... if it filled a niche, maybe. Like for example: websockets break on mobile devices because of carrier proxy servers and other issues, and if this figured out how to handle that effortlessly and write everything in python, I could see it being the new hotness.

I think frameworks often live or die by their use case/niche. That's why you have sinatra and flask, because every language needs a simple web framework. You get rails and django because you want common problems solved in opinionated ways to get you up and running quickly.

I don't know that python to JS compilation so you can write isomorphic python code for your back end and front end is going to be a strong enough niche on it's own, unless you have awesome source maps and a browser plugin that make debugging super easy. But if you are just looking for a clever hack, adding some CLI tools and a reasonable license would be pretty cool IMHO.
exactly, http://www.recode.net/2016/6/8/11883518/app-boom-over-snapch...

Alternatives are webapp's or even building chat bots/apps on messenger platforms. This progressive mobile webapp example is impressive http://www.flipkart.com/
Sorry, but this part of the blog article is completely PR BS.

This car was speeding but not "very high speed". The car crashed into a field. This is flat. Every other comparable car like Mercedes E class, Audi A6, Volvo S60, … would have provided the same level of safety.

Here the original reporting with images: http://www.tz.de/muenchen/region/schwerer-unfall-icking-18-j...
Isn't that exactly what this is about though? They don't take these issues to the media, the customers/reviewers etc do. And when that happens, Tesla simply can't afford to take it lying down.

Where it jars for me is that if I publicly complained about treatment from a doctor or a hospital I'm fairly confident they wouldn't just produce my medical records and splash details that support their position all over the web. Tesla's approach is a little too close to doing this for me.
repaired for free after 100k km for something that was not a recognised defect

Not entirely sure what your definition of "not a recognised defect" is if the Tesla fixes aren't one. Nevertheless, many manufactures do similar things:

Chrysler minivan owners may notice that the front wheel bearings on models from 2008 to 2010 are subject to premature wear, so dealers will replace them for free during a vehicle’s first five years or 90,000 miles.

Honda, however, and its upscale Acura division stand out with a half-dozen or more. Because CR’s survey data show that Honda and Acura vehicles, in general, are among the most reliable on the road, the company’s high number of service campaigns suggests it’s been unusually generous to customers

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/11/get-your...
I do pay for news. It works out to a couple of USD per day I would guess.

It's not very efficient, I'm paying for a lot of stuff that I'm not interested in to get a small amount of news that I am interested in. It's probably value for money though as I do appreciate what I read and it's less than the price of a coffee.

I would possibly be interested in a curation service as long as I was in control of the curation and it had access to both free and paid articles. The problem I would envisage is that, for it to be worth oto $10 a day to me, I'd need it to cover most of my news requirements i.e. a digest of the sort of news that newspapers have, expert opinion of current political affairs in G4 from multiple political viewpoints, and topical journal articles in the academic subjects I'm interested in. Plus the musings of selected columnists.

To make it work, for me, it'd presumably need to do deals with a lot of publishers who wouldn't necessarily be particularly happy with the idea. Maybe if the bottom falls out of advertising for free news (highly likely) then it'd be more attractive.

I doubt I'd be interested in a yet another generator of "original" general news. Sure if it had a lot of high quality journalists who were out to inform rather than push an agenda and had interests that happened to largely coincide with mine. Not going to hold my breath though.
Good Stuff! Is there other research like this out there?
Math programs in general suck at telling you why a particular technique is useful in the real world, or more importantly, how to model. Lots of ways to solve an existing model, but very few touch the much harder task of building a model in the first place.
Not even 20 years ago, executive cars of the time (e.g. Saab 9000, Mercedes W124, Peugeot 605, …) were fully expected to and routinely going multiples of that distance.
Placing an engine in that empty space means that there is less space available for the car's crumple zones to deform before the engine intrudes into the passenger safety cell.

A tesla can have its entire front concertina'd down to nothing without anything entering the safety cell. A front-engined normal car cannot do this; typically 50 to 60% of the length of the front of the car is engine. While external parts of the engine may crumple, the cylinder head and main section of the engine by necessity need to be milled from solid metal; These will not crumple, they will be pushed into the safety cell if the collision is energetic enough.
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When empty space gets pushed into the cabin it doesn't amputate legs. When an engine gets pushed into the cabin it might amputate legs.
Somewhat ashamedly, I have a 1st Class BSc Honours in Mathematics with much the same experience. It's fairly easy to fake an understanding of mathematics if you can understand that the exams paper will be a variant past exam papers.
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Exactly. Our tools should not add a layer of unnecessary complexity on top of already complex domains. If anything, they should take complexity away so we can focus on what is most relevant for the goals that we want to achieve.

A lot of configuration options come into existence not because they are actually useful, but because the team had a disagreement that they couldn't settle, or because writing code that just figured out the right thing to do would be too complex. Options should be a way of empowering the user, not simply offloading work to them.

It's very important to realise that our goals are not just related to the concrete problem at hand, but include things like "get out of the way and don't make me feel stupid".
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Is anybody in the HN crowd still using jQuery for new projects?

If yes, why not use "vanilla" js?
Nailed it. :)
Recruiting is now based on some unproven theories that companies utilize as if they were the 10 commandments. Written by some nontechnical MBAs.

We should unite together and form an organization that blacklists companies with incompetent hiring practices. :)
Havoc Pennington in 2002: http://ometer.com/preferences.html
Just to complement: he is a notable user of the "sam" editor.

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What's the population like? I fired up the original a couple of years ago, and most servers were either dead or filled with bots.
I wonder what approach Facebook will take to services such as this?

It could be a huge source of revenue for them, or they could decide this would damaged confidence in their service and discourage (my instinct says the latter).
To get to a cabin here in Norway I might have to drive 20km or more on a dirt road covered in snow and ice. When 4x4s first became popular here in Norway they were conspicuous by there absence in the mountains; most of the vehicles I saw at that time were Volvo estates (245) and Mercedes saloons (both rear wheel drive of course).

I don't recall broken suspension or steering joints being an issue here with any brand of car (including Tesla) and the Norwegian roads authority (Statens Vegvesen) puts a lot of salt on the road.
The same idea applies to those advocating for having "simple" and "expert" configuration menus: everybody's expertise is different, and changes over time as we learn and forget things.
Agreed. This is akin to "rubber duck" debugging. Highly effective.
I'm no expert on the subject, but unless something else happened at Tesla yesterday, this was indeed what caused the dip.

About a year ago a youtube video popped up of a Tesla caught fire after it hit a metal object which pierced the battery pack. The stocks immediately plummeted, even though car fires are a common thing.

Like the article states, it is likely the negative news story was fabricated to drive prices down, to gain profit for those selling short on tesla stocks.
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I know several people who bought the Round because it was finally small and light enough for their tiny wrists, and who didn't mind charging for 20 minutes every other day.

Straying from the path is a pretty derisive way to characterize expanding a product line, even if the new product isn't for you.
I like your work, hope it gets traction. FOIAs could very well raise some much needed awareness and push back on mass data collection and surveillance practices when government is on the other end of it.
Yeah, maybe Facebook won't fail as a company, or at least not soon. But I can get OP's argument. I can see it stop being a cool thing people use to connect to their friends. Once a viable alternative is available.
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Yup, that's the business model.
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They are pretty words, for sure, but I'm not sure what "intricately designed blooming flowers" (baroque efflorescences) is supposed to even mean in this context.

It feels like a sesquipedalian circumlocution by an ebullient iconoclast :P
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The point though, surely, is that having good grammar shows you can write not that you're a writer. The corollary being that passing a technical test means you can code not that you're a good developer.

I think it would be a step forward if it became standard practice to expect an online portfolio of a developer's work.
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Here's the actual release blog post https://blog.jquery.com/2016/06/09/jquery-3-0-final-released...
Both my parents will tell you that you only get to live once, so you might as well be the very, very best that you can be at whatever you choose. Which I don’t necessarily agree with, because if everyone lived that way, there would be nothing but a whole bunch of unhappy people in the world. But that’s how they brought us up. They taught me to be competitive. They taught me not to falsely believe I had done well when I hadn’t.

As a parent this is something I struggle with. How much should I push a 7 year old child to be their very best? How important is it really to be your very best? Is it more important to push yourself to be happy while maximizing happiness around you? Yet, I'm not really sure what that means outside of trying to be your best at something you enjoy.
Then again it wouldn't be the first time when journalists end up captured and writing negative stories that fit the interests of short-sellers:

http://www.deepcapture.com/wp-content/uploads/story-of-dendr...

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Perhaps http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/20/grammar-rules_n_476...
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Just last week I started a new project, injecting some firebase-backed functionality into a squarespace site, and I used jQuery.

I use it for the same reason I use lodash when I could do everything it does in vanilla js: because it's a slightly more dev-friendly API.

Much like the PHP community, jQuery's community has earned it a reputation as a hacky tool for people who don't understand where jQuery ends and Javascript begins. However, it didn't become popular by accident, and in competent hands, it still has its benefits.
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I agree with all you are saying so much that some months ago I had to write about it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/william-versus-technical-inte...

The TL;DR of my (short, truth be told) blog post is the moral of your story.
You want the front of the car to absrob the energy. When it crumples, it absorbs the energry and lesser energy is transferred to the passengers. The Engine is tough and will not crumple. It will thus not absorb the energy but transfer it to the passengers.
The way this plays out, it sort of reminds me of Linux (you can do whatever you want, but you're on your own!) versus Apple (we know what you want even better than you do). As a developer, I'm loathe to see my precious configuration disappear, but I can see the appeal for minimalist interfaces from the user perspective.
That does sound familiar. Was it possibly from either the NDepend blog, or more likely, the PVS-Studio blog?
And as I already mentioned before, this is simply not true, you can make engines that crumple extremely well.
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I was hoping this would be a technical analysis of the email infrastructure or something. But it's just a general rehash of some vague facts about how Clinton is hiding something from us all and must immediately be eliminated so the One True Bernie can legalize Reddit or whatever.
I always find Tesla's responses like this astonishing because they are clearly not written by a traditional PR team. In fact, they always read to me like they are written by Mr. Musk himself. Like the stereotypical CEO gone wild who writes from his heart and doesn't care what the guys in suits want him to say.

Which makes the byline "The Tesla Team" always so strange to me, as I never quite believe they were written by a team.
>In the meantime, beyond alerting criminals that ransomware is big business, it will probably also be used as an excuse to pass more CISA-like surveillance laws (which will do absolutely nothing to stop the rise of ransomware).

See, I actually don't think that this will change the level of deployment for ransomware. Ransomware has proven its effectiveness from the very first time it hit the web; it's a low cost high return form of malware due to the nature of its operations. Whereas other forms like scareware and annoying malware can often be dealt with, albeit at the cost of time and sometimes money, ransomware has a very clear and tangible cost to the user: their data. For home users, it's somewhat easier to suggest that while the loss of an entire photo directory is tragic, it's not worth the $400. But when you start getting to actual important data, for example, student records, accounting records, large business projects, asking users to take a stand on principle becomes a lot more difficult, especially since in some cases they have a legal obligation to try to remedy the situation.

Ransomware is a low risk venture for ne'er-do-wells because it's shooting fish in a barrel. Point your spambot at any major institution and you're bound to get a hit on something that has essential data to that institution. Combine this with the fact that even after decades of home computer hard drive failure and nearly a decade of cloud storage being common place, people are still really bad at backing up their important things.

Our reliance on data and our poor (often inability) to mitigate the damage done by dataloss is what will keep ransomware firing, regardless of how many institutions are able to take a public stand against the extortion. The barrier of entry is so low that a failure to collect from victims is virtually meaningless. The attackers are out virtually nothing, and can attack ad-nauseum because they know sooner or later they'll get a hit where the cost of the dataloss far exceeds the cost of the decryption key; and as long as the attackers occasionally make good on the sale of the decryption key, there's always going to be the hope from users that "maybe if we pay we can fix this".

A principled stand isn't what is going to be necessary to fix ransonware; major changes in how the public handles its data and in how OSes work with/detect ransomware is going to have to happen first. Until then, anyone who refuses is pretty much just getting a pyrrhic victory; the attackers might not get their payout, but the cost to the victim is far greater.
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So far every new project in the last few years ended up using jQuery because there is always this one ui widget that does what we need and the other libraries just aren't there yet and its not worth the hassle of reimplementing or extending a different library just to not use jQuery.
A good example of why I will continue using jQuery for the time being.
Interesting.

Many of the points made by this author relate to rigid government procurement rules: three bids, lowest bidder, hard walls between buyer and seller. The violations for which Mr. Pagliano has received immunity seem to be those sorts of things. The overhead of government rules creates both high costs and long delays. These rules are intended to defend the treasury against terabuck and gigabuck scams. But the server in question cost kilobucks at most, and was paid for with non-governmental funds.

The Feds are famous for obtaining convictions by twisting the words of people they interview to construe them as lies. Witness Scooter Libby of the VPOTUS's office, who was convicted for perjury -- lying to investigators -- rather than for concealing the truth about the Iraq regime's armaments.

The rules of evidence mean, as we all know, that anything we say can be used against us. Less well understood is that NOTHING we say in interviews with police can be used in our favor in court -- it's considered hearsay. If the federal police were interviewing you, your safest course of action would be to say nothing. That's what Mr. Pagliano is doing, according to this author.

One point in the article refers to the privacy and integrity of information on the server. Yes, a private server is vulnerable to intrusion and to advanced persistent threats of various stripes: of course. SO ARE GOVERNMENT SERVERS, notoriously. Secretary Clinton never said this, but there's a possibility she used non-governmental email because she didn't want her correspondence to end up on Wikileaks.

The server setup should have been behind an actively monitored firewall. I've never seen any description of this in the press. If the server and its file systems were vulnerable, that's a problem. But, still, we have to ask "compared to what?" Compared to the General Services Administration HR systems breach, clintonemail.com may have been relatively secure. Compared to the State Department archive that came out in Wikileaks, it WAS relatively secure.

Government political appointees are agents of change. Information tech is an area where large-scale institutional change is absolutely necessary. Why shouldn't some of the people pushing that change be political appointees?

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But then a lot of options exist because the domain itself is complex and can't be captured in a one-size-fits-all solution.

The only way to make something both very simple and very useful for a domain is to cunningly cut out parts of the domain. The end result is a pretty, simple and opinionated tool that doesn't really solve anything for anyone, but sure looks good on screenshots.
Material science lifecycles are measured in decades. Just because you "haven't seen it before" does not mean it can't happen. It means you're not testing well enough, or that your data sample is not good enough. Noone is clairvoyant, and excuses such as "dirt" and "70000 miles" don't make you either. Why automatically attack the victim? Is it not remotely possible, that the fault lies with Tesla?
Do people in Norway do some kind of underbody anti-rust spray in their vehicles? like this? http://www.wheels.ca/guides/how-to-protect-your-car-against-...
I understand why manufacturers are keen to get rid of the 3.5mm jack. Phones are constantly getting thinner, and the jack isn't. It's also another part on the BOM that manufacturers have to allocate PCB space for and pay money for the jack.

But here's the thing. 3.5mm jacks are analogue, and they're everywhere. They're out dated by modern standards, but overall they just work. If the industry actually cares about thickness, they'll put a 2.5mm jack on the phone, or cut the 3.5mm jack in half (this was talked about a few years ago, but I haven't seen any production phones implementing this).

As the article points out, the phone still needs a DAC and an amplifier to, you know, be a phone. Phones will typically have an earpiece speaker and a loud speaker, so you still need a DAC and amp to power those.

So, apart from reducing the port count (cheaper BOM, yay!) and making phones thinner, what is this really about?

It's about DRM.

As soon as headphones are digital, manufacturers can start locking down headphones.

Oh, you want HiFi audio? Well, the iPhone 9AB is only HiFi certified with Beatz(TM) headphones, so those fancy Bose headphones you bought for $500 last year, yeah, those are gonna give you ear-bud quality music.
> we believe in putting our customers’ happiness ahead of our own bottom line.

Fuck off with this shit. Your customers happiness IS what defines your bottom line in the long run. Can we stop with all this fucking corporate lies.

I think we need a new trend. Blunt honesty. I'd trust a company far more if they just came out and said yes, we're here to make money and expand. If this means treating you well as a customer, we will do that, but at the end of the day, we make money for our shareholders and to fund other crap we want to do, and we provide you with a thing you are cool with paying for and give you good service in order to do that.
Definitely not true. That is such a feel-good, sweeping generalization with no evidence that says nothing and helps no one.
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In modern cars the design is such that the engine is pushed under the car if there is enough energy in the collision.
To me, all of the JQuery examples are much nicer to read and write. Sure, you can use raw JS, but why copy annoying boilerplate? (I'm not a JS dev, so I don't have a dog in this fight).
One of the meanings of “baroque” is “Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation”, or so DuckDuckGo tells me: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=define+baroque. Also see: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340....

And it's pretty clear that McIlroy used “efflorescence” as a metaphor for “proliferation (of features)”. This usage of “bloom” and its synonyms isn't uncommon.
> What libertarian could possibly support Trump?

A pragmatic one.
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This is what I think as well. If Tesla banned the troll from speaking, where is the Tesla lawsuit against the troll for speaking?