skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU is a horrible, undemocratic, wasteful bureaucracy. If Britain can trigger its collapse then good. It is a shame that Greece didn't manage this economically (yet).

The cookie law. Farm subsidies to produce and then dispose of product. All languages being tolerated in the parliament requiring a full 2D matrix of translators. Their civil servants getting paid ridiculous salaries, tax free. The fact they shift between Brussels and Strasburg every other week.

Oh, I say this as a Brit expat living elsewhere in the EU. I fully expect to get deported when we/it/they leave. I just wish I had a vote.
Etymology of “Foo”
Well, Google does have a team that monitors the dark side of what passes through it. This article is from 2012, so I'm sure their capability has stepped up significantly since then. https://www.buzzfeed.com/reyhan/tech-confessional-the-google...
I'm not advocating the celebration of the death of police officers, I'm acknowledging and lamenting that it's come to the point that a lot of people are responding that way. It shouldn't, and we as members of society need to work towards a way that we can have lawful, trustworthy police officers again who we don't respond to with fear and hatred.
It "sucks", stated as a fact. But so many people voluntarily choose to live there.
Ah, yes that makes sense -- thanks!
Or how about we avoid the whole thing and allow multiple versions of a lib to exist, and then prune the branches as they are no longer needed? Something akin to Nix/guix, Gobolinux, or even GNU Stow.
This is really scary. Next thing you know, a positive drug test (for a job, or anything) will actually just take you in or be the probable cause for a search... makes me crave a poppyseed muffin.
I'm saying that new blood and new thoughts and new ideas should always be encouraged in any community, space, or location. Particularly when resources like physical space are very much finite. I think that any desire to freeze a community, space, or location in amber is unhealthy. Those with an interest in the future of a community, space, or location will not be identical to those who happen to be there at the moment or those who were there yesterday.

For an example, look at what that desire has done to the housing market of San Francisco.
The unfortunate part is that building the kinds of cities in which many people would like to live is illegal in much of the U.S.: http://www.amazon.com/TheRent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp... or see Edward Glaeser's The Triumph of the City.
TL;DR I think this is a reasonable assumption.

Anecdata: Just over 250,000 on my 2007 Honda CRV and with $1k in unscheduled mechanical maintenance and around another $1k in non-mechanical maintenance.

Assuming a 10,000 mile oil change cycle (I only change the oil when the car recommends it, and it seems to avg about 10k miles) that's 25 oil changes so far, for a total of ~$1800 (assuming dealer oil change + full synthetic, which has been all but two of my oil changes so far; does not include tax).

Warning, opinions ahead: In my experience, most people do not follow the recommended preventative maintenance plans for their vehicles, and rely solely on oil, tires, and gas changes, and all three only when necessary.

Here be dragons: At an over-all average MPG (according to the car's own computer) of 25, I've spent more on fuel than the cost of the vehicle, including loan interest, in the 250,000 miles.

Getting waaaaay out there: 32k for car + interest, 35k in fuel, 10k in other scheduled work (I believe in preventative maintenance), upgrades, cleaning, etc for a total cost of ownership of about ~80k means I've paid ~$3/mile driven.
Please explain how it was enlightening. I do not have a LinkedIn account, so I might not be able to see his while profile, but it looks fine to me.
I went to that site and my Google account was not suspended.
Sorry, I thought it would be obvious.

My point was that when you sell something, you have no idea what it will be used for, period. If you're uncomfortable with this idea, don't sell the item in the first place.

Saying "I filed my patent but how could I possibly guess what my employer would do with it?" is a baffling defense to me.
> Kia might be unreliable as all heck

Have had two Kia Rio's (2008 and 2013), the 2008 model was definitely maintenance intensive vehicle and frankly poorly built vehicle[1], but the 2013 seems to be a much better car. I'm at 130,000 miles and it seems to be doing fine and nothing big has happened and it deals well with ND winters when I cannot plug in the block heater[2].

1) the timing belt did fail a bit earlier than the maintenance checks suggest (yes, its game over right there), but the 2013 has a chain. Spark plugs were also an issue on the 2008 along with brakes.

2) no outlets at apartment, so goes the whole electric thing
I would say one of the biggest cons in the beginning was that they didn’t have too much data regarding my sales process so they were having trouble generating responses to my prospects. They used to forward some emails to us saying that they were not able to generate a response to a certain question. Not so much now though.
I think the point is that the show doesn't seem to feature Asian-Americans, even though there are a lot of Asian-Americans in the real Silicon Valley.
You need to make the decision makers life easier. At the moment it sounds like you have made something that makes their life harder right now in exchange for some future benefit that might not help them personally. Until someone loses their job because they are not able to show compliance then you are going to have a hard time getting people to use your product.

How do your competitors sell their products?
You should never buy one tire anyway. You should always replace at least pairs.
But yet ARMH still tanked 4.85% and then another 4.80% in after hours.
> It's never been clear to me whether this is superstition or if there's truth to it. Google is fully HTTPS-- how could your searches be monitored unless google was handing them over to the government?

They could be monitored if the government had surreptitiously gained access to Google servers or internal data transfers by compromising infrastructure such as Google's datacenter-to-datacenter links.

I use that example because I recall a leak (IIRC, either as part of or contemporaneous to early rounds of the Snowden leaks) that the NSA had done exactly that with unencrypted inter-data-center links of Google and other entities with multiple datacenters, and reports shortly after that that Google and several others had taken action to secure and encrypt those links afterwards.
Also, in LoL the relative power ceiling of any one character is smaller than in DOTA2. If someone goes afk or trolls, your chances of winning in DOTA2 will be higher since their hyper carries can rip through a team (compared to LoL) if executed properly.
But in #1 you're not working with SQL, you're working with a layer above it.

And wouldn't even the most basic data, properly normalized, require joins? I mean - learning about database normalization is one of the first things you're supposed to do when you work with relational databases, right?
Private mode doesn't run a VPN, right? So your IP address is still associated with the searches.
Ever priced an intake manifold (or are they using plenums now?) for a BMW? The parts alone set you back a pretty penny, then there is labor.
I also wonder how that affects what the total amount 'billed' ends up being. For instance, if BMW corporate is footing the bill for all the maintenance/warranty issues for the first 3/4 years of ownership, are they more likely to 'repair' minor issues without asking the customer?

Where as say a Volkswagon owner may not bother to have the dealership spend 3 hours diagnosing a squeak or minor rough idle knowing they have to foot the bill?
ORMs are good for manipulating complex object models and doing mostly trivial queries. However, the vast majority of queries are trivial. Maybe 2-5% of queries or bulk modifications can't be easily modeled. The result is still huge savings in time, effort, and code.

Also, if you're basing your entire understanding of ORMs on ActiveRecord, you're missing out on a lot.
I think you've missed a decimal in your reported cost per mile.
How might drone racing drive innovation?
Visit /r/all and tell me how much "forced politeness" you see.
You know, I've never liked articles which take the position that X sucks, or tries to say that X sucks. There are some things that don't really have any redeeming qualities, but those things are few and far between. Most of the time it's just that this person doesn't like it. I'm not much of a fan of suburbia either, but there are plenty of others who do like what suburbia offers, and don't like densely urban areas.
We should probably get rid of the DEA. The amount of damage the agency does outweighs the benefits.
Programmer Automates His Job for 6 Years, Gets Fired, Forgets How to Code
I'll say this, there is a delay between a manufacturer improving and it actually showing up in reliability metrics. So perhaps Ford have improved, but their stats are being ruined by cars made in the early 2000s.

But that being said, the only useful data for reliability is after the first three years since very few vehicles have issues when they're "brand new." It is more in the long tail that they become expensive to keep on the road.

Next time I buy a vehicle I'll re-examine the reliability data and see if the picture has shifted.
Wouldn't an NDA also prevent an avalanche of owners making similar requests from the manufacturer?

If you happen to convince the manufacturer to give you a free fix out-of-warranty and then you tell all the other owners, you could be asking for big headaches, and probably even more lawsuits, when the rest ask for the same treatment and are denied...
I think you mean the least expensive.

BMW parts are expensive.
This. The "high price of justice" is the fundamental problem, whether you are a plaintiff seeking redress or a defendant hoping to avoid a default judgment.

I don't know what the fix is, but the current system is near-extortionate (an attorney made this observation to me).

If party A makes a claim against party B, but party B cannot afford counsel, then party B would likely be required to acquiesce to those claims. The standard to be considered frivolous is woefully high. And, even making that case generally requires counsel.

This gives firms and individuals with the resources to access the legal system tremendous advantages over those who do not have same.
Ferret – Clojure to C++ compiler
Have you considered Gitlab, which does advertise custom domains for which you can upload your own SSL certs? Even at the free plan level. I would switch to it if not for the fact that my site isn't dealing with any kind of sensitive stuff so I figured Github Pages with Cloudflare's SSL was enough, although I'm aware its not end-to-end.
The Mazda 6 is 9th on the list in that article of the top most expensive cars to maintain.

Mostly I've seen that they're fine though, there must be something that I'm not familiar with that's reflected in the data.
Facebook Sixth Sense extension removed due to cease and desist letter
Yes, and I think no reasonable person will complain about JS in a document like this:

http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/

or this:

http://worrydream.com/TenBrighterIdeas/

But documents like these aren't commonplace[0]. JS isn't used to enhance documents, it's used to make them much worse - because that degrading of quality and experience is how websites make money.

Apps are obviously a different beast. Most of websites don't need to be or behave like apps though.

[0] - which is a very sad thing; it's exactly the kind of advantage computers have over paper, and it's not being used at all. You either get dumb text that's even less functional than a book (think of articles rendered to image), or wasteful apps with shit-ton of ads and tracking.
my desire to respond was instigated by this quote from the gp:

> However, I truly believe that Mathematics is a discipline that is very hard to engage with outside of formal education - or at least nobody has really found a great model for doing so yet.

my views:

mathematics is unconstrained by any desired artificial 'engagement' requirement

engagement is as easy as acting on and developing an interest

and i encourage everyone to engage with mathematics
Why is everyone covering up their laptop cameras?
Pretty sure this is copied from another article. Remember seeing this exact same post a month ago or so on here.
I don't think so, in this case.

We weren't asked anything about completion of an ESTA or API. It definitely felt like more of a security/behavioural screening - not a check on visa or travel eligibility.

If this was the case, they'd have made their intentions clear and wouldn't have been at the gate waiting to re-check passengers. Or that check would have been performed at the check-in desk, where they check your eligibility to travel (correct documentation, tickets, etc).

I do suspect, however, that they're contracted by the airline. They weren't in any other airline's check-in queue and we've never seen them in the past (this was our first time flying AA).
The people in this country had a need for knowing what's going on.
I'm willing to bet these numbers include the cost of 'included' maintenance/service.
Shouldn't they have a stock symbol for all the money they appropriated through the years? It's a publicly funded institution, so maybe it should be traded publicly as well.
I often wonder if I'm going to get arrested searching for the best way to kill a hung child process.
After; my first offer was substantially lower.
Your analogy isn't particularly good, as alcohol is something a person makes a choice to engage in, fully aware of the dangers. You can't know how stressful a job or project will be before you take it. Sometimes a stress inducing change (like management) can happen against your will.

And regardless of whether bad behavior can be excused, sometimes the most net good comes from from removing the stress rather than the person.

I'd further argue that with enough stress bad behavior can be induced in anyone. The bad consequences of the bad behavior should really fall on the person responsible for the stress.
I think Google has some monitoring for images of child sexual abuse and terms used to find those images. I'm not sure what they do if you search for those terms or if they just return blank pages.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/18/uk-us-dar...
No, the iPhone 4 sold extremely well, and so did the 4s, which had the same hardware design.

Edit to add: I had a 4 sans bumper for 2 years and it worked great.
Starcraft was in its prime when KeSPA was managing everything. Blizzard effective ran SC2 into the ground rather quickly in comparison (SC:BW had a strong competitive scene for 10+ years, SC2 lasted maybe 4 and started to taper off very quicky).
The problem is how could a central planner ensure technological progress and manage people in a bureaucracy composed of the entire country population.

Managing static resources is easy.

Now, cooperatives are interesting. They mostly don't work, but when they work, they are great.
> However, when criminal informants are used rather than LEO's to perform the coercion, that wouldn't be entrapment .

An LEO using a "criminal informant" as an intermediary agent to coerce a target into committing a crime is still an LEO inducing the person to commit the crime.
Prenda lawyers lose key appeal, will pay $230k sanction
"Luxury imports from Germany, such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz, along with domestic luxury brand Lexus, are the most expensive."

Lexus is owned by Toyota. What makes it domestic?
> installing a poorly configured package (that does leave a port open) means a potential security hole that could easily be prevented.

Please share with us what magic you have that prevents human error locally, but is defeated by human error in packaging.
Saying that fingerprinting is not tracking "per se" is like saying that a series of pictures taken at evenly spaced sub-second intervals is not a movie "per se".

How do you request data from a server without making any contact with the server? The initial page request is sending data to the server. That is unavoidable.

A web browser sends (or doesn't send) lots of HTTP headers all the time. The particular headers sent (User-Agent, Referer[sic], Accept, etc.) or not sent are additional data that can be used to fingerprint, and thus track you (not to mention your request IP address).
Genuine question : isn't there a more objective standard to be appealed to than perception? Is that really the only thing that's stopping Google from snooping through their own employees private emails, or from reselling them to the highest bidder?
Gasket failure is way more common than the manifold failing though (and it's a little harder to justify enormous prices for a gasket).
Exactly.

Also, most people have no clue about how websites work, and so they can't really imagine how they could look like. Moreover, most people accept whatever market throws at them, because they don't have any other choice anyway.
Everything that people "like" about American suburbia, rural Germany (for example) is better at. Big houses with big yards, but just a quick trip from an actual town, and not much further from some kind of city.

It's a garbage design in just about every way. A huge mistake.
I believe the original intent of that site was to get you on the NSA watch list
In ranked play, an early quit (like if your team dropped and/or kicked a badly behaving player and you decide to leave instead of playing on) can undo days or weeks of successful matches, and can even bump you into a lower matchmaking category. Which can have long lived consequences on the quality of subsequent opponents and teammates you have.
Exactly, surely they are cross referencing your browser making requests with your IP one second, your "anonymous" mode the next then another sync with gmail from your gmail page. And I'd bet that is far less sophisticated than it gets.
There is a small difference between ruining ones search history and being brought to the attention of whatever authority is watching[1]. It does seem like a https://xkcd.com/576/ situation applied to search.

1) I would bet our web filter would be sending me some reports
Ford Flex should be in that list. Or the Transit (Connect), even if it's an oddball choice.

I agree though. Luckily Toyotas and Subarus are a solid buy...well, with the subbies as long as you have no intention of modifying anything underhood (I swear that brand is the king of engine rebuilds).
"Sleazy" isn't necessarily "illegal." All you have pointed out is that they were able and within their rights to do what they did. Sure, nobody disputed that. The discussion is about the morality of the move.

And come on, why the unnecessary last comment
Looks like the safest approach to managing health conditions in the US whose treatments involve politically-sensitive drugs is to obtain a diagnosis, so you know what's wrong with you, and then to manage your own treatment using gray-market pharmaceuticals. If it's for pain, I would seriously consider just not treating it.

Health care in the US is already such a shit-show that I would seriously consider moving out of the country if I developed a serious condition requiring constant treatment. I certainly won't have any expensive procedures done here.
We should certainly be watching for abuses of power like you describe, no question. But let's be careful not to cry wolf lest we hurt our own cause. Let us save our outrage for when a real abuse has occurred.

In this particular case, we now have both sides of the story and are able to form our own opinions based on the presented information. I think that's as close to an ideal situation as you're ever going to get. Were this to happen in the 1980's (or earlier) we wouldn't even be discussing it.

What a great time to be alive :-) And yes, we should definitely remain vigilant against corporate/government abuse and control.
http://www.tecmint.com/security-and-hardening-centos-7-guide...

This is a good one I recently found.
I suspect Ford would have had much better results over the last five or six years if their two biggest competitors had gone out of business.
I don't think he did. 250k/80k ~ 3
Competition is good. But banning the better player is not the way. That would be just feeding crony companies and forcing bad products to consumers with the mask of security.
Most Third World governments control ISPs and DNS queries can be easily monitored but whether those are implicative or not depends on where the content embedded in the search results is hosted/served from.

Also, even if Google is fully HTTPS, if a query returns images hosted on unsecured websites, those urls will be plainly visible and hence implicative.

Edit: The embedded thumbnails are actually encrypted as pointed by the comment below.
Google endorses the Trans-Pacific Partnership
I like to think of MOBAs like sports. Particularly, like basketball or baseball. It's a team game, and if one person is not pulling their weight, the entire team will suffer and lose. You can't win a baseball game with a pitcher who's wandering around in left field, eating popcorn and looking at spectators instead of pitching the ball.
I didn't follow the original link, but maybe the point was to get lots of people on a list to show how silly lists are?
Cost per mile would have miles as the denominator.
Hi, Brock from surge.sh here.

We are still figuring out our pricing. It kind of kills me to hear someone call surge too expensive. We worked hard to give surge a very legit free offering which is serving over 35k projects. Surge gives (currently) unlimited projects with custom domains. We charge $13/mo for that extra 1% which is custom SSL, basic auth, custom redirects.

Very open to suggestions if you have any. Would you prefer we have a small membership fee and open up all the features? What would you suggest is fair?
There is no way to get the data cheaply. There's a sizable industry around this - of which YourMachanic is newer part.

Repair data is used to set part prices, determine the TCO of a vehicle (similar this report shows). It is also used by the US government to mine the data for recalls.

The residual data from the newer breed of online repair sites (YourMechanic, Mitchell's & Motor's offering, etc.) is hugely valuable... and in no way is easy to get to.

The reason is that repair information (part #'s, labor costs, repair procedures, fluid levels, etc.) is extremely hard to digitize from 25 different manufacturers. No one uses a billing / estimating system unless is includes that data.
what part of "ruin" don't you understand ?
Another sad day for government and its inability to maintain any sense of accountability. As others have stated, I don’t understand how this isn’t a criminal matter. Beyond just privacy issues, this seems to fit the definition of blackmail in D.C.

“Blackmail also has two elements. The first relates to criminal intent. That is, the person needs to intend to obtain property from someone else or to cause the other person to do or refrain from doing something. Second, in order to achieve the intended goal, the person needs to threaten either: (1) to accuse the other person of a crime, (2) to expose a secret or asserted fact that could subject the other person to “hatred, contempt, or ridicule,” or (3) to damage the other person’s reputation.” [1]

They exposed the congressman’s secrets with the intent to cause him to refrain from critiquing the agency. How isn't this a crime?

[1] http://koehlerlaw.net/assault-theft/extortionblackmail/
Oh I agree.

We should have at least let GM burn in a fiery ball of death. Chrystler I'm a little less positive on as I generally approve of the Fiat deal and what the company has done since...some of it anyway.
Yap, friend owns a BMW. He drives a BMW dealer loaner car quite often because his car is in the shop.
They have significant supply chain overlap. Ford lobbied for a bailout of the industry.