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Lots of people do this, it's often more expensive to make different versions of things then is it just to software cap something. So they make the same version for multiple price points and have variations of software cap in place.

CPUs for example are clocked at a set speed when they reach the consumer, they can always go higher without any negative impact (infact most are underclocked). It's basically a software switch that turns your 3.2 Ghz CPU into a 3.4 Ghz CPU.

You buy a SAAS product they have multiple levels, it's just a software switch that says you can X package or Y package. This is slightly different because the features may be more resource intensive or something else, but basically it's the same.
The Web I want is Hypercard style interactive documents, for all the rest we already have better options.

My browser use is not much different than on Web 1.0 days, except when I cannot install a specific native application.
That's what gopher is for. The WWW has javascript as a requirement, and I think it's time to stop holding onto any misconceptions otherwise.

Apparently this is an unpopular notion. There's an entire protocol that's based on links between plain content - use it! The non-javascript users on the WWW are such a tiny minority that nobody who pays developers is going to bother with the time. The average user wants the extra functionality that even basic JS can provide - demanding that the web be supported without it is akin to demanding support for IE4 on Mac Classic.

That is the reality, folks. You don't have to like it, but you should accept it.
Gullible, uneducated people exist. We surround ourselves in bubbles of high education and it doesn't ever occur to us that people would go along with something like that, but they are out there.

That doesn't make it okay to exploit their ignorance.
9k for forty miles range? Really? They are betting wrong.

Plus I wonder how long before someone hacks these cars for personal use only?
Sounds like he's short
Nobody will watch part three, even though it is split into two movies, so the ending won't matter.
> This is inexcusable. In many of the mass shootings, there's typically someone with mental issues, which you may not expect to properly differentiate between right and wrong.

Of the many mass shootings and terrorist attacks that have occurred over the last decades...

Starting with Columbine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre

To Timmothy McVeigh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh

To the Beltway Sniper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks

To Virginia Tech Shooter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting

To the Virginia on-air killing: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34090236

To the Charlestown shooting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting

To the Boston Marathon Bombing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing

To the Aurora Shooter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Aurora_shooting

Only two of these guys strikes me as "insane", the Virginia Tech shooter and the Aurora Shooter. Everyone else were just assholes. These are just normal people who got stressed out by their peers and then attacked back.

The fact of the matter is, the vast, vast majority of crimes (and even mass-shootings and terrorist attacks) are done by 100% sane people. Assholes for sure, but people who are sound in body and mind.

An insane person rarely has the capacity to plan an attack that will successfully kill people. Seriously. This "mental health" myth needs to die, and people need to realize that NORMAL people are killing others. The big daddy of them all: 9/11 required careful collaboration between four groups of distinct people (four groups, four aircraft. Near simultaneous execution across the country). They had to get pilot training, work together, coordinate an attack at the same time.

Ditto with the Paris and Brussels attacks. This complicated planning and coordination of a large group of people can only happen if all members of the group are mentally stable. It really takes a lot of work to plan a terrorist attack.

The study of "radicalization" says that people become radicalized when they are increasingly isolated from their peers, become stressed to a breaking point to the point where they wish to lash out and attack.
Out of curiosity, what JSON library was that?
As long as they didn't state you can't use external libs it IS a good solution.

Their response lets their team dynamic and environment shine through. They came across an unexpected but valid solution and instead of accepting their question was beaten within the rules they rejected it. I'd wager they didn't fix the wording of the question afterwords either.
The author quite rightly points out that most of the English speaking countries would treat people exactly the same way, however I find it a little odd that she wouldn't ever go back to the UK, but makes no mention of visiting these other countries. It seems that her opinion of the UK doesn't quite match up with the statement that they are all the same.
Actually I have a Torx screwdriver too -- and the multi-head configurable screwdriver doesn't.
Yup. He's probably just unaware of how difficult and vast math actually is. Reminds me of comments I've read from programmers talking about learning 'advanced mathematics': Linear Algebra. Lol.
Just got a letter from my supervisor. Had no idea it would 'ruin' my search with perverted garbage. Thanks for that.
That seems like a different question (and I'm not sure they all went as far as pressing buttons, etc). I was responding to your statement:

> it only takes contacting the wrong person randomly some day for that wannabe terrorist to become an actual terrorist
People have been convinced to torture and kill others due to a stern look from someone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
All o can think after seeing the page is... "so what?"
Yep. Believe it or not depending on the team/manager/programmer that happens very often.
Hard to believe that "Crooked Hillary" wouldn't come up when you type the word "crooked" into the autocomplete search bar, the term was coined some time ago, and it has been persistently used in both written media, and social media. Some other searches also seem rather suspicious, and I'm leaning towards the fact that there is in fact a "bug" at play here.
this isn't true. you can barely get any additional power out of naturally aspirated engine with software tuning, and sure you can do this for a short while on turbo engines but good luck running it reliably without spending money on various other modifications like cooling, engine internals, etc. manufacturers tune for a combination of gas milage, longevity, and to meet emissions regulations.
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Have you even read any of the rest of the thread? You sound ridiculous.

I had no choice but to move here due to a significant set of family medical and legal circumstances that I am supporting (both financially and by doing full-time care, childcare, and other tasks every day). This is where my immediate family is from (one of them still owns and operates part of some farmland, not here but in North Dakota) -- I didn't choose this, but it's my family's history. I don't prefer living here, but I prefer to make sure my family is OK rather than abandon them for urban entitlement.

The fact that you think people should "blame themselves" for choosing to live here is outrageous to me. At the least the people around here are good-hearted and care about other humans. I'd rather live around here than around people like you, absolutely.
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Crazy, right? It's barely even an accounting error (0.02%) of the Dell/EMC deal.
Their balance sheet. Bloomberg is a private company.
The first version of Excel was ALSO for Mac.

I think the Macintosh doesn't get enough credit for what it inspired at the time.
It's usually over-promoting a skill on your resume. It might not be nefarious or intentional, but it's a communications gap. What you mean by "experience in," and what the manager wants you to mean by "experience in," are two totally different things.

Example, if you read a SQL book a couple of years ago, you would say you have experience in SQL. You've forgotten most of it, but you are familiar. If a manager reads that same thing, he or she might think, "Oh, proficient in CRUD queries but not overly complex ones." Manager gives you a quiz on SQL, but since you don't have Google in front of you, you flail because you haven't messed with it in a long time.

It's not really lying, it's just a communications gap. I'm not saying there isn't outright misrepresentation of skills, but most of the time it isn't intentional.
That doesn't sound like what I meant. The point of image pyramids is that they separate fine details (e.g. style) from coarse details (form). A note transposed down an octave is still exactly the same type of object; it's not more abstract so frequency is not an analog to scale in images.

What you want is a progression of abstractions, e.g. note, chord, melody... but one where 1) each is largely orthogonal so that they can be separated and recombined with a lot of flexibility (definitely not true of notes and melodies) 2) it be computed straightforwardly, preferably by a differentiable function 3) can separate style and form.
It results in lower depth of discharge which might result in the battery lasting far longer than the higher capacity one.
What a horrible story, but sadly not surprising to me anymore.

UK Border Control: a uniformly hostile and spiteful organisation.
I am not happy about the continued existence of what are essentially rights-free zones at border crossings. Unfortunately, with the current political climate in the UK, I'm not sure the majority of my fellow countrymen would agree. And I'm certain Theresa May doesn't care.

It's easy for politicians to ignore these problems, as they will almost never affect their own citizens. A similar situation exists with the NSA abusing the privacy of foreigners - after all, they're not US citizens, so why should they care? At least the Border Force appeared to be more-or-less following the rules (twisted as they might be) in this particular instance.
So we're going to have jailbroken Teslas that have the full range but can't update their software OTA...

Current cost of Li-ion battery is $145/kWh. It surprises me that they'd chose to give away $2250 worth of battery simply because it costs more to develop a new one. I understand the batteries they use are pretty modular - the cost of adjusting down capacity should be minimal. I'm speculating that they expect a large portion of buyers of the 60 model to upgrade to the more expensive version to recoup the costs. They could make the price of the upgrade a decreasing function of the age of the vehicle because no one would want to update an old car.
AI is basically divided into three "levels": ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence), AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence).

We already have a bunch of narrow AIs, as in, algorithms that do a specific thing in a way that no human would have ever been capable of doing it (think: Google searches). If such AIs (well, large amount of algorithms combined) were thrown into any other scenario other than the one they were created for, they would be useless and a human could perform better than them because humans adjust easier (we don't have to change a bunch of lines in our brain to be able to drive on the left side of the road, it just takes us some time to adjust).

This is a perfect example of this. We have an ANI that was intended for one purpose, we have a scenario for which it wasn't created (imagining SciFi scenarios) and it behaves poorer in that scenario than a human would.

However, we've now explored what can it do in this scenario. We laughed at how terribly bad it behaved and we can either move away from it, improve the AI so it can do this one specific task better than humans, or improve the AI so it can do it kind of okay, but not very brilliantly (like a random person would do if you stopped him and the middle of the street and asked him to write a SciFi scenario).

Once we have an AI that behaves kind of okay, but not brilliantly, in any situation we can possibly put him in and at the same time, if it can learn from his mistakes and improve itself not to make it anymore, we have a AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).

AGI behaves exactly as a human, but, because it will be able to surpass the physical limits that we humans have (as in, brain capacity, dependence on food/water/oxygen etc.) and because it is able to improve itself by learning on his own mistakes, soon after he hits the AGI mark, he will surpass that and become ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence).

What happens then, nobody knows. It's hard to imagine how something with a higher intelligence than ours is going to behave. All we can do is to try to come up a number of certain plausible scenarios. If there are negative ones (and sure as hell there are), then we need to address them before we even create something close to being AGI, because by the time the AI hits the AGI mark, it's already too late for us to do anything about it.

There you go, AI philosophy 101.
In fact, Firefox even warns you upon navigating to about:config that you could very well break something.
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Look, I think most companies put too many skills on their wishlist. And if, in fact, you weren't actually going to be using SQL too much, but using ActiveRecord all the time, maybe it is acceptable to say "Well, I actually don't know how to do that in SQL, but here's how I'd do it in ActiveRecord (do it correctly) and here's how you examine the SQL that ActiveRecord is generating, and I'm happy to study SQL and the guts of ActiveRecord if we need to do a lot of complex queries..." and okay, you made your case. But if the job requires SQL experience and you don't know how to do a basic join? Sorry, not gonna be a good fit. I mean, employers need to ask for some specific skills!
Actually you're right. I know a UX designer who had all the UI elements in wireframes and would move things around in Powerpoint based on feedback on conference calls.

I think my observation is when someone who 'thinks' they know what the right thing to do is from a UI point of view and shares it around before getting the actual designers involved. The ones who say, we need another button here, rather than asking, what is the user trying to achieve.
I think there is a difference from the game. The disc for the game costs the same to produce regardless of whether you buy the DLC or not. The larger battery costs more to produce regardless of whether you pay for it or not and (slightly) hurts the performance of cars that don't have the upgrade (it's literal dead weight).

I guess I don't really care, especially if there is good disclosure for expensive physical devices (because I can then not buy them).
It has been a well established medical fact that the blood from a pinpick does not provide a representative blood sample for most medical tests, yet you are worried about Hollywood playing too fast and loose with the facts? Maybe you should be more worried about Silicon Valley selling the hype and ripping off investors.

People who believe in science fiction should be working in Hollywood, not Silicon Valley. The problem is they make more money in SV.
Well, what's your proposed alternative?
We haven't met, but I think the same way as the guy who you replied. Being a FL is a bit of oversimplification, but the general idea might be an accurate description of what goes on in your brain.
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So, users don't change the settings on your software? Good for you. That means you have good defaults, and should be one of your goals.
Ask HN: What should 20 (danish) students see in the Bay Area
Hi HN,
In July (2nd to 14th) we will be 20 students from Aarhus University in Denmark
visiting the Bay Area. Half of us are Computer Science Students, the other
half are IT Product-Development students. The group contains both undergraduate
and graduate students.

The point of our visit is twofold:
- To have a nice trip and see some sights
- To listen to some interesting relevant talks/presentations, get
inspired

So my question is this: What interesting sights are there to see in the Bay
Area? We would like it to be relevant to our current studies, as in technically
or historically relevant.
We've spent quite a bit of time trying to find interesting locations, but it's
hard to pick out specific ones without firsthand knowledge.

Also, if you are a company/individual doing exciting stuff that you want to
show off to 20 students, you're welcome to message me. Our schedule is pretty
full and we have days reserved for sightseeing, but we might still be able to
fit in interesting things.

Best regards!
It turns out that it is permitted unless the neighborhood has restrictions. I think she is not in that sort of neighborhood. +1 for freedom to raise chickens.

Sec. 24-11. - Principal uses permitted.
https://henrico.us/pdfs/countyattorney/Chpt024Zoning.pdf

I was wrong and am pleasantly surprised.
I've been learning (trying to learn) linear algebra by studying Gilbert Strang's "Introduction to Linear Algebra" book. There are some really mind bending sections in which he explicitly treats a concept like linear regression in terms of geometry and then algebra and then calculus and then probability and then ties them all back together.

What's really struck me is when I dive into a Wikipedia rabbit hole of linear algebra, following links for terms I don't know. I start on the Topology page, read the introduction section of 10 articles that start with "x is a generalization of y" and somehow end up back on the Topology page. Shallow exposure to the sheer volume and conceptual depth of stuff like topology and algebra has really made me respect modern math.
If you wanted something like F# that isn't backed by Microsoft, I would suggest OCaml, which is what F# is.
The web I want:

1) One that isn't completely dominated by advertising.

2) One that isn't dominated by proprietary software, that encourages users to participate in FOSS.

3) One focused on data. Part of the problem of javascript, so uneeded in most cases.

4) More on javascript, how about one where each page doesn't load 30 scripts from alternate domains? Even the major new sites do this, and it makes me hate them.

5) One where ISP's don't hand over browsing information to anyone with a dollar or a badge without a warrant.

6) One where VPN's and other privacy centered providers learn how to build systems that don't keep logs and are built with privacy as a first class citizen.

7) Not last, and certainly not least, I mostly want a web that encourages and grows the freedom of thought, speech, and discussion that is and was such a fundamental part of the origins of the internet in the first place. It seems increasingly marginalized on the modern web. The beauty of communications mediums is the power it gives the formerly powerless, but I think the oligarchy has recognized this threat and this is why the internet is going to be increasingly a target of bad legislation written by corrupt "representatives". Beware cries of hate speech or any other attempts at censoring "for the greater good".

Just a few of things I want in web off the top of my head. As for this Mozilla page, I think if we think about the four freedoms and fundamental principles behind them, user control really has to be the starting point. You can't have privacy if the user can't turn off spywidgetX. You can't have freedom if the user can't Y.

Once again, I feel like one day, if we don't destroy ourselves as a species, we will look back and wonder why it took people so long to understand why RMS is and was right. The four freedoms are fundamental to the web I want, and while I often get a lot of hate on HN for being so pro RMS/GPL, I think if more people took the time to understand the issues they would tend to agree.

edit: One where strong theoretical and practical encryption is for everyone, and isn't vilified by the government.
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F# was also voted most LOVED language in the F# survey.
The bias is an opportunity for robojournalism ..
I see systems come and go, but IRC is still there, fast and light on large scale.

Colorful alternatives works too but at a very high price: You need heavy, often proprietary software and do not handle large group communication so well.
Licensing is old news. The hip new thing in business is the social media model.

Businesses are now trying to give you things for free in exchange for rights to your data. That's the entire social media business model. It is so lucrative at the moment that even microsoft is now employing the social model for their consumer OS ( starting with windows 10 ). You get a "free" OS, but that OS is going to track what you do and sell your data.

Of course this model is much easier for software than hardware because of the low cost of distributing software and an easier way to achieve scale. If hardware decides to try this model, it will be interesting and funny to see what the implications would be. Tesla could offer to lease you a "free" car but they get to monitor you, collect your data and sell your data. Hell, what happens when housing developers try the "social media" model. You get to lease a "free" house but the developer gets to record/monitor everything you and sell your data.
> There's no reason why this page couldn't work without JavaScript.

Your position is ridiculous. HTML5 was designed in part to make it easier to create applications that run in your browser. So yes some people will be writing applications that run in your browser. It's like expecting flash sites to work when you don't have flash turned on. Either be happy with your choice or turn it back on. Don't expect the rest of the world to cater to your fringe browser settings.
> We surround ourselves in bubbles of high education and it doesn't ever occur to us that people would go along with something like that

I'd be surprised if it's tied to education. Highly educated people are are just as vulnerable, IMHO, and sometimes even more vulnerable due to their confidence in their own intellects. Many successful people I know are sure that every thought they sh-t out is made of gold. They are just vulnerable to different means of persuasion.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. - Feynman
I wonder if they might considering letting you pay for the use of the bigger battery for a short period of time. For example, if you want to take a road trip you could pay $10/day to make use of the full capacity.

I expect that could be very popular.
Pitching your business is the easy part
Yup, I'd do that in an instant. In fact, I wish houses were sold this way. I could by a 500k house for 100k with 1br, 1ba, kitchen, living room probably right out of school. In 5 years when a kid or 3 comes along, pay for the extra bedrooms, another bath, hell, maybe even a basement.
This is what happens when an AI-written screenplay is made into a film
Hot-reloading in C++ with Jyt-0.4
July 4th America (home of some of the most patriotic peoples on earth!) celebrates it's independence from a tyrannical imperialistically imposed monarchy by blowing things up and cooking hot dogs over an open flame and drinking copious amounts of fermented grain.

You picked a great time.
And every BMW includes the hardware for SiriusXM even though you still have to pay hundreds to have it enabled.
It's exactly the the same engine but there is a tradeoff for the performance. The one with more horse power will generally either have less fuel efficiency or produce more emissions.