skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We designed our own magnetic phone mount, which comes with the product. Once you start mounting your phone in your car (especially with our mount, which is amazing), you won't want a separate screen for your camera. :)

The advantages of mounting your smartphone, with the cutting edge hardware and active software ecosystem that come along with it, are truly huge. When I rent a car now I am incredibly frustrated without the mount. Luckily ours has a magnetic pluggable backend, so I can pull it off my adhesive mount and attach the vent clip for use in other cars.
> I wonder if there's an elegant/clean way to denote that something is vegan but not changed to be vegan.

Naturally free of animal products?
Europe unicorns generate more revenue than US unicorns
Giving refunds to anybody who wants one, regardless of whether they cared about the "Other OS" functionality at all, would be totally unreasonable.

Why? Maybe they didn't care at the time, but maybe they would later, or their kids would, or they would get a better deal when they resold it. Why should Sony get away with robbing their customers of advertised functionality with the excuse that they "didn't use it anyway"?

Maybe someday we'll see it with car manufacturers. "Your passenger door has been disabled. Please provide proof that you carry passengers with you to get a token reimbursement for the trouble."
World Without Uber: DIU's Up 7.5% in Austin
Is there any way to deal with clients ignoring the Reply-To header or is that just an issue we have to deal with?
There was one previous discussion in 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=892163.
Substantive critique is fine, but drive-by dismissals are not.

The comment you're replying to may not have made the deepest point, but was still a legit thing to say. If you have a problem with it, the burden is on you to respectfully refute it, not take a cheap shot. We're trying for good—collegial—conversation here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11949506 and marked it off-topic.
> Urgh, it is basics of coding course for 8 year olds. What do people expect?

Teaching neophytes (and, especially, neophytes who are also children) the basics of anything -- especially in ways that will engage them and not leave them both without knowledge and with less interest than when they encountered the teaching -- takes nontrivial knowledge of both the subject field and teaching methods.
Sounds like a competitive advantage to me.
I think this is a great move for Elon to devote more time for SpaceX. His cousins will eventually be running the combined Tesla/SolarCity company.
Perhaps. There's at least some (though certainly not definitive) case law that suggest home owners have rights to 500 ft. or so above their property.

e.g. http://www.wsj.com/articles/drones-boom-raises-new-question-...

Though that's probably not all that relevant. To the degree that high-traffic package delivery by drone were to imminently become a thing, I'd expect rules to be quickly established at some level(s) of government. It's not clear to me that those rules won't tend to favor property owners.
What is wrong with that? It is a great beginners language and why should Apple not focus on what they know best and which can benefit them in the long run. Is is wrong for a company to think about their own well being? Apple technologies are seldom taught at University. As an iOS developer that has sort of been a blessing as you get in such high demand compared to Android guys since there is so much lower supply of iOS developers. People typically have to learn it on their own while Comp Sci people out of college today seem to typically be familiar with Android.

Anyway Java has been a preferred beginner language for many schools and it is a horrible beginners language, so Swift is certainly an advancement.
You can still write better assembly today. You just probably wouldn't be able to keep up the effort for the entirety of your code base.
I put a $20 bill in my phone case.
Is this an American healthcare thing? Because my reaction to your post is to wonder why you think it's a pressing concern?

I feel like birth control in a variety of forms is already fairly readily available, and it seems likely to me that it will only get more accessible in future.
I found the many dependencies to be a pain very early on when I was not specifying versions in my package.json.

Now I use npm i --save which gets versions so.. it really is not a pain to have many dependencies with npm.

In Java and many other systems, yes, it is very painful. npm is different.
The OTR of today is much different than the one of even just a few years ago.
Causal feedbacks in climate change
This could be an all time Machiavellian move just to punish the Solarcity shorts on Wall St., which include Jim Chanos and others. The after hours bump to SC is killing the shorts and that might be the point more so than the deal actually closing.

http://www.businessinsider.com/solarcity-tesla-deal-short-in...
How does this in any way bail him out or save him?
Save him from what, exactly?

Alternatively, he'd lose up to $478 million (MV of his % of CSO).
The little moving bugs on the page are a nice touch.
>> what advice could you provide?

I'm not Mr. Kay, but great question!

I think we need a system, website, TV show, etc. in which experiences could be posted and rated. The best ideas and past experiences would rise to the top. You could vote and push things into view.

For example, your years of experience have realized that "yet another framework" is not the answer. We need a slower churn. But if the goal is to sell books ... well, now we are fighting capitalism.
Though it's taken some getting used to, I now actually prefer the open files list on the left... Though, wouldn't mind if it included open diff panels in the list. The saved screen estate is especially appreciated, tabs always gets bad after you've got a half dozen or so, and the ux gets weird too.

Been a pretty big fan of VS code, as it's taken some pragmatic approaches that have worked very well.
Limit gif uploads and don't insist on viral growth. Pretty simple.
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electric rockets

This is actually a troll perpetrated by some Manhattan Project scientists when they went into town.
Accept that frustration, fear, and doubt are just part of the job. Those feelings don't mean you're a bad software dev or a coward, they're just the natural reaction to consistently facing the unknown. Sometimes you have to slog through it, even if it feels bad, and actually finish. You will not finish perfect. There are always bugs. But get something put out there anyways.

You are always going to be learning with this kind of job. And sometimes that makes you look back at your old code and say, "Oh boy, this sucks." It's because you're improving. If you weren't, you wouldn't be able to look back and see your mistakes.
i doubt that. they didn't do a great job with solar city. jb straubel will probably end up running tesla.
Would be good to add some of these typical code samples on that page. Good vs bad.
For a controller, sure. The current controller has all the buttons the old controller has. They are both USB/bluetooth. Most games need a one or two sticks and the standard buttons. There is no reason they couldn't develop a system to cover a grand total of two controller specs, both of which they created and which probably have a 90+% overlap.

I'll stick to my PC, where every controller works.
Yes. The way that children use "why", it can mean "with what motive" but also "by what mechanism" or even "which events necessarily precede that" depending on context.

I would say that most adults are often simply unable to answer those questions because they just don't know. Children are naturally curious to levels which exceed the average adults ability to answer. Even educators are often inadequate to the task, if the question falls out of their areas of study. Some educators try to condition their students to focus on the limited prescribed domain of 'material they are to learn' and not ask questions that cross outside of that domain - in part to avoid acknowledging their ignorance.

But I would go further and say that children often also ask perfectly reasonable questions beginning with "how" and "what if" which stump adults. You can see this very readily when the topic is anything related to the natural world, as most adults are ignorant of basic science.
Seems to me that if Tesla can bundle things from companies/divisions they own it may work out well for them. Driving a Tesla? Bring it home and plug it in to pull power from your PowerWall, which was charged during the day by your SolarCity panels. Charge a little less on the secondary items, but increase your volume by trying to drive sales to Tesla vehicle owners who might otherwise have never considered such a thing.

If they can combine the PowerWall with the vehicle charging station, that just makes it better.
They have a bunch of GMO stuff http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/faqs-gmos
iOS: The runtime system for innovation
Ad networks have become the bane of the internet
> Your argument is shallow, specious, and ignorant.

Please (re)-read what the HN guidelines have to say about not calling names in arguments (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). We ask people to edit this kind of thing out of their comments here. That will not only make your comments more polite, but more substantive too.
MS SQL used to be per socket pricing. With 2012 they switched to per core.

That was a sad day.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11949434
I wasn't talking about security people (I would assume they would have actual information). I was just explaining the reason some believe it was an inside job. Its not entirely off the wall given some of the other, damn near psychotic things that have happened during political campaigns.
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Just bought. I Hope Elon Musk is the next John Elway because i'm going long.
So the real problem you're saying is that we should never try and define things because definitions themselves can always be changed?

This problem has already been solved in other areas. Look at drug laws. They cover designer drugs easily - which is the exact same problem as you describe here.

And also - it can be a meta category, and it's helpful to have that. We can define semi-automatic pretty well, and the law has ways to cover "equivalents". Your scare quotes don't change that.
Hm I'm not so sure. Ford sells about 5 vehicles per minute around the clock worldwide, they're just a bit ahead of Tesla.
Sure I'm thinking more of the case where there is a bug in the said program. Formal proofs and verification could help but attackers just need to find one weakness.
Not exactly how it works. The projects are leveraged off balance sheet with separate, often tax advantageous entities owning the panels in a complicated lease buyback structure. 'Losing money is a good thing' is not true if you understand time value of money and debt leveraging. I haven't done much research but Solar City is probably hurting now because Nevada renagged on gridnbuyback provisions and lots of other states are eliminating residential incentives and subsidies for solar.

Also although they were the first to do some of the complicated financing stuff, rooftop solar installation has turned into a very low margin business with lots of competition in most markets. It's not really groundbreaking stuff they are doing.
'Deleted' Yahoo Emails Led to a 20-Year Drug Trafficking Conviction
I miss the days of meaningful filenames.
This Russian Guy Makin Life Hacks Very Funny
Ho! A learning opportunity. I know you're a vegetarian, but maybe this might interest you...or someone.

The chuck sub-primal cut is the shoulder of the cow. As you can imagine, the shoulder gets a lot of use while the cow is alive, so there is a lot of connective tissue which makes the cut tough (fwiw the muscles that are rarely used are the most tender to eat) However, a cow being a cow and not a horse, there is a good amount of fat interspersed within the cut. So while the cut is hard to eat like a typical steak, it has a wonderful meat to fat ratio which gives it good flavor if cooked properly (think stews and roasts). That ideal fat to meat ratio, combine with the grind making it more palatable, the ease of (mass) producing, and low price point for the cut, make it the cut of choice by distributors.
If boiler room selling is not hardcore enough for you, looks like SolarCity will let you go full "Glengarry Glen Ross" with an in-person "sit" at the customer's house for the real hard sell...

>You will be responsible for identifying potential customers, answering their questions regarding our service and driving to customer consultations and signing them up for our service in their homes.

>TOP PERFORMERS ONLY!

>Unlimited Earning Potential

>2 years prior experience in a quota-driven sales position highly preferred

>This position requires proactively approaching customers throughout the store by engaging the customers in one-on-one discussions and regularly moving with them as they shop

http://www.indeed.com/cmp/SolarCity/jobs/Sales-Representativ...
If the machine is "anonymous", it does matter. Scenario #1: A human gets insider information that a Solar City will be bought. Makes his anonymous "AI machine" predict that Solar City is a great stock to buy!
People don't spend a billion dollars to rename a company.
Starting a startup but don’t know how to code?Answers to common questions
What is a progressive web app? Do they mean a website?
You'd think that companies who profit from open source projects would support them financially. Considering how big django is there should be many other companies who profit from the projekt.

200k/year should be collected in no time...
This is beyond the scope of the tech linked here, but I'll bite and respond.

I agree with what you say, but why is this worse than Google, Amazon and Microsoft doing it for the rest of the world with their always-on voice activated bots? I wouldn't be able to trust either Baidu or one the those three companies more/less, maybe just based on where I live and who would have the most influence on my life when considering government ties. Other than that, if everybody does it, there's the nice effect that it's not an exclusive tool in the hands of just one or two players and it creates a market correcting and balancing force.

Would I want mass surveillance to go away? Sure, but the majority seems to want things like voice activated devices, so I have a hard time imagining anything short of some disastrous scandal being able to fix the erosion of privacy and freedom to think and say stuff we wouldn't publish under our name in a book. That said, I feel the pressure to self-censor due to surveillance and that leaves me with discomfort and kinda being restrained by it. Honestly, some of these technological innovations having lead to pervasive surveillance appear like going back in time in terms of personal space.
I would think conversations would be the biggest thing in this case. Say this computer is in a meeting room-- you could get business details picked up on the microphone, and the camera would verify who was speaking. There are many details in a business that you don't necessarily want public.

Computer security is not an all or nothing thing. It's more like plugging lots of little holes in a boat. This plugs the "microphone and camera" security hole very cheaply and simply.
Sorry, yeah, I'm not trying to rebut you, just adding the color that:

* People who follow this stuff uniformly don't believe the DNC staged it.

* If you were crazy enough to stage a hack of the DNC, George Kurtz's company is probably not the one you'd pick to collaborate with.

(Also: we're on opposite ends of the political spectrum, me and GK, but I would bet all the money I have against a claim that he'd done something shady here. CrowdStrike might be wrong about the Russian attribution, but they aren't making it all up.)
I have 2 laptops that are used for work and I physically removed the camera and microphone array from them, one of them also has had the wireless card removed because of onsite requirements.

While It's true that someone who compromised a machine can get a lot of information limiting what they can do with it is not a bad idea at all.

Those computers end up being in rooms where sensitive material can be discussed and if they are compromised the recording from the camera or the microphone can reveal a lot of information which cannot be accessed digitally.

It's also important to note that not every compromise is utter and complete the microphone and the camera for example can potentially be accessed via applications that might not have privileged access to the system or any access to the local storage (your browser for example).

If some one gets remote access to these machines there are a lot of secondary security controls that might prevent them from owning the box completely and even if they have privileged access, accessing the information itself is another challenge as it is stored on separate encrypted containers, the microphone or the camera however as mentioned before can be easily accessed without any special permissions.

So while putting a sticker on your camera and disabling your microphone can be analogous to "putting a BAND-AID on it" like you have said there is nothing wrong with it, as more often than not you just get a cut and a BAND-AID is pretty damn good at preventing it from getting infected, this isn't about internal bleeding with BAND-AID's.

Not to mention that while your hard drive is where it's easy to get "technical" information from the microphone and your camera are where it's easy to get personal information from, no one wants the recording of what goes in their bedroom to become public and probably way too many people have had to take their laptops to the bathroom on some occasions.

All those sensitive personal moments from sexual activity to the fights you can have with your significant other, friends and family are really good material for blackmail considerably better in virtually every case than the material you have on your hard drive, and when you attack targets both high or low blackmail is usually the way to go because it's a pretty damn good way to ensure that you can get what you want in almost every case.
I always thought that problem was solved by the little light next to the camera turning on when the camera is on.

And if the light doesn't turn on, it's likely something more problematic is happening.
Almost, but not quite. JB Straubel will be the next Tesla CEO. This will happen after the Model 3 launch and after Tesla sells off its car manufacturing to focus on battery/energy/infrastructure.
Ah, there it is. I had read the blog post but skipped the letter.
No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities
Implementing a real-time data pipeline with Spark Streaming
If you keep adding supply, the bottom will fall out of that market as they compete with one another, and the market will balance out as they sell, or seek long term tenants.
SoundCloud/Pandora/Spotify advertisements!

My employer blocking SoundCloud!

I'm too far from the NYSE ground floor to hack the market!

Four hours after drinking coffee I become tired!

Good internet forums turning into meme generators!

Tinder girls ignoring me!

* These are actual annoyances.
I may disagree with you on the value of N-queens as a case study in this particular case, but your general statement is definitely fair: You never know where inspiration may come from.

Many years back, my PhD advisor told me the following story: Back in the 70s, he had come up with some sort of solution to the N-queens problem and had sent a (snail) mail to Don Knuth describing it. Knuth responded back with a single sentence: ``I am fed up with the N-queens problem.''
Glancing at that I'm guessing it's just that people who pig out on steaks and burgers tend to get more heart attacks and it correlates with iron consumption.
Coca-cola is good example of why it's not a bad idea to invest in mindshare, even when you are an incumbent in a particular space. If the atom editor was blowing peoples mind away, I would think it makes perfect sense to keep investing in atom, but the pattern today is:

- A new version of atom is released and the top voted comment is "Why is it so slow compared to vscode".

- A new version of vscode is releases and the top voted comment is "Why is atom so slow compared to vscode"

With Coco-cola, you are reinforcing an intangible belief, plus your target audience is pretty diverse and suggestible (not the smartest). Mindshare also works with Apple, since they also have a very diverse and suggestible consumer base.

The atom editor is a power tool and its job, is not to help you watch a movie, satisfy a craving, etc. Its purpose is to help you be more productive and when it comes to productivity, it can be measured and this is where Microsoft really threw a wrench into their plans.

Starting the atom editor wasn't a bad move, but with Microsoft's current strategy with vscode, I would think it's time to cut your losses and focus on more immediate needs, like fending off GitLab and hardening your core competencies.

I don't know how many people, out of their 500+ plus employees are working on atom, but I would have to imagine, using their resources to make an enterprise grade issue tracking and wiki/content management system would be a wiser choice.
Do you support privatized consumer-owned nuclear weapons?

What about tear gas and grenades? Automatic RPG's?

You're arguing in black and white and our world doesn't work like that. Subtlety is what makes law. Me? I'd prefer most guns were illegal. You'd prefer we all could own subatomic weapons (it seems, since you're basically implying any discussion on "level of strength" is moot).

It's not hacking language. It's subtlety. Once you throw that out the window you can't have a conversation.
Course not. There's the obvious integration of batteries and use for batteries here to. Not to mention what others said that one of this companies is a bit more volatile and the other more established. I'm just pointing out one simple benefit.
He also could have added his own content to craft his own narrative. I doubt any of the documents were digitally signed or could really be verified for their authenticity in any way.
What skills do you need to be a programmer / developer?
Also variably checks http accept headers (<img src> produces accept of image/* iirc)
> They haven't found a decent solution to the problem of moving around in a VR world. Right now the best answer is teleportation

I would really enjoy if someone made a game in the spirit of QWOP that uses the two triggers in a gamepad to simulate steps made by each leg.

However, I don't mean that I would enjoy playing that game.