skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very informative. I had a quick look online and found a tabulated by county for 2015 prosecution budgets 43.8m at the county level [0]. Which basically prosecution would have double the budget plus the work of the local PDs etc.

[0] https://fusiontables.google.com/DataSource?docid=1NURUkUA8qQ...
> Management commented to me that during the fire alarms with actual fires (which granted, were small), ~30% of people (~80-90 people) refused to leave. That's a hell of a potential burden in the event of a serious fire to put on the firefighters.

It's not great, but you can see where they're coming from, with 2.5 alarms per year compared to 0.5 fires.
Have they ever said they wouldn't use cheap panels from China? Why would you assume Tesla would procure more expensive panels if it didn't make sense to do so?
A thing I don't understand about this article: "vertical integration…was the old Henry Ford model and later, General Motors'. That approach has gone down in automotive history as a colossal failure"

Because clearly when we think about the role of pre-Baby-Boom Ford and GM in the history of the automotive industry the first term that comes to mind is "colossal failure"?

Also it seems contradictory to say "Tesla shareholders" don't "despise [the] deal" and then point out that the stock price dropped 10% when the deal was announced. What determines the stock price, if not the previous and current shareholders? Gremlins?
It's a laptop backpack with straps that can move around a bit. All it takes is someone to hook a toe on a loop, and then that person would go headfirst down the slide.
There appears to be an adapter for Core already: https://github.com/CanopyTax/asyncpgsa
This has been a big discussion point everywhere - about shocking this behavior is and how people's lives are at stake. But let me offer an alternate perspective, and maybe some insight into their behavior.

If you lose your ID or any other official documents in India, everyone knows how much of a hassle it is going to be to get these documents reissued. Of course the possibility of bribes to move the papers. Insurance claims for lost baggage? I wouldn't rely on it. It might take them a while to save up to buy whatever they might have in their bags too. Laptops, tablets etc. They probably don't earn that much to begin with. This is probably what ran through their minds.

Yes, lives are more important in the end and every second counts in such a scenario. But as an individual they might think - hey, it takes a few seconds to grab my bag and jump out. That would save me SO much trouble. Unfortunately that's what everyone thinks and in the end everyone goes for their bags and waste precious time.
Or allow a tap to pre-approve purchases for the next 60 seconds.
You created this monster, Facebook. You did this.
Awesome. I didn't realize how bad clickbait had gotten until I subscribed to the Economist for a short while - I could just scroll through its articles, read the title and subtitle and know what the article was about and in most cases it wasn't something I needed to read.

Hn could do its readers a huge service here by requiring descriptive headlines, instead of the current rule about not changing the headlines. Even better would be adding a 30-50 word summary under the article.
I've actually used the "attack" in the article to design a P2P Bitcoin exchange based on the idea of using someone else's contactless card (with permission) in exchange for Bitcoin. This would solve one of the big issues in exchanges today - that is the fiat escrow handling.

There's a demo for a quick PoC here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsOzeELdjxM . It makes me sad that they're closing this, the fraud potential was really small (as the article implies).
Tried today, this device works great with pain, audio and taste stimulus.

Paper behind this: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-40548-3_3...
Or: "we have now implemented a spam filter. F U spammers, your ad revenue isn't worth it anymore."
Great, so now they can trip over the guy blocking the exit of a burning plane while he struggles to get his overstuffed laptop bag out from under the seat.

Don't do this. Stuff it under the seat like your supposed to do and no one's going to trip.
Being a former firefighter, I totally understand this problem. But by the same token, I can understand how people become complacent in regards to automatic alarms. Hell, it even happens to us when certain buildings have automatic alarms that go off repeatedly.

But, as you might guess, eventually the real deal hits. Back in my firefighting days we had a church in Shallotte that had an automatic alarm that had frequent false alarms. So much so that if that call came in, we would admittedly not hurry go get into turnout gear and get on the rig... we'd lollygag around a minute or two waiting for the inevitable cancellation notice. Then one day, that alarm comes in, and two minutes later dispatch comes back "police office on scene advises smoke showing". Urk!

There's really no easy answer to this though... people are going to be who and how they are. All we can do is try out best to get people to do the right thing.
While we're talking about the FB news feed, I'll plug the FB Purity extension for Chrome. It's a really wonderful extension that lets you customize what you can see on your feed from the content to the layout.
I'm sorry for your loss. I can see how that would incorrectly skew your perspective. The chances of dying in your 30's is very low for most people. Spending your money as if that's going to happen is foolish.

In our industry you can save enough money through your 20's and 30's to retire in your 40's. It makes far more sense to do that then to plan on dying in your 30's.
That IS for a single apartment

I'm married & the thought of doing a "house share" with other married couples seems very cramped up & a recipe for disputes. This is aside the fact that it's absurd that dual-working married couples would have to resort to this at all, it's a completely unacceptable arrangement for most couples in the US at this point. But nothing's off the table it seems
It is possible to chose between negative sampling (ns), softmax or hierarchical softmax (hs) by using the -loss option.
The article is a bit confusing (perhaps deliberately to scare the reader).

The attack is possible on all current electronic chip payment forms (contacted/contactless, with & without PIN).

For contactless without PIN, transactions are limited (in my country to €25 per transaction and €50 total before a PIN is required). Contactless without PIN is much easier to attack (for obvious reasons), but cannot break this limit. Contacted with PIN is fully vulnerable, but also a lot harder to pull off.

The 600km limit is also highly deceptive, as it doesn't take into account latency introduced by electronics. E.g. a typical good wifi connection has a much higher ping than 2ms.
Not the author, but I surmise it would be much more difficult to assign vibration modes to subparts of the image in the image without being able to track them across frames.
They're not losing money on each car. They're reinvesting profits in business expansion like the Gigafactory. There's a big difference.
Can this be used to do automatic summarization? I have been really interested in that topic, and I've played with TextRank and LexRank, but they don't provide as meaningful summarizes as I would want.
I counter your anecdata with my own: unless you're at the front of coach, behind first class, I've never heard of this. I book exit row seats as often as I can.
I think a big problem with your concepts about altruism and selflessness is assuming the actor had the choice to act or not act, so by definition if they acted it must be because they wanted to; therefore, its not selfless.

However, life is not usually a choice of act or don't act (help a love one or not). Moreover, when people make selfless decisions, we usually define them as such because the choice is action A or action B (buy a loved one a gift instead of yourself) and action A is objectively more beneficial to the actor (buy oneself a gift) but they still choose action B because the benefits it brings to others and the decision was based on putting others before oneself. In other words by sacrificing act A to do act B, you are right the actor will usually receive some subjective inherent benefit of doing B (it feels good to buy loved ones a gift), but the decision is not made on that basis because A would have made the actor feel even better than B, but the actor made the decision on the basis of putting others needs before their own.

Have you never done something you don't want to do to help someone else?
I never said anything about Amazon. I'm not sure what that came from.

Real, sustainable competition is what makes capitalism great. Jet spending $800mm+ in a year and taking a loss on every sale is not sustainable.
> It's not great, but you can see where they're coming from, with 2.5 alarms per year compared to 0.5 fires.

I don't understand. I've experienced probably around a hundred fire alarms in my life and maybe two fires. A 1/5 chance that an alarm means a fire is an excellent reason to leave the apartment every time—That's a terrible rate to justify staying inside.
>But, as you might guess, eventually the real deal hits.

This happened about 7 blocks away a week or two ago. Older building (1950s, wood and brick), 5 stories, 15 units. Unlike my building (CAL133 compliant cabinets, modern fireproofing, lots of sprinklers) it probably didn't have sprinklers.

It went 6 alarms. If you didn't leave immediately, you would've had no chance to afterwards. Fatalities were probably all but guaranteed for anyone who lacked the wherewithal to get out. Thankfully, folks had the common sense to get out quickly and I believe there weren't even any injuries.
If 400% over 50 years = 8%/year is the most optimistic scenario then it's not very exciting.
> and the grid is the backup power (for charging the battery with off-peak rates) . That way people can avoid paying fees for net generation, and the net metering rates don't matter.

You will end up paying a larger grid connection fee. If you touch any part of the grid you are going to help pay for it's upkeep. The traditional model is changing but the grid itself still has extensive maintenance. Want to ensure that some power generation plant 2 states over doesn't accidentally dump a metric ton of electricity and fry every substation between your house and Kalamazoo? Or what happens when your town has an earthquake, tornado, hurricane, blizzard that disables your solar generation, you'll be forced to rely on the grid getting back online to help assist the people that eventually will assist your solar. People will stop paying for generation but I don't believe people realize what goes into keeping this kind of infrastructure up and running safely.
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I found that in some of our code the other day, even that wasn't enough to stop the tests from randomly failing.
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Wonder how this (Erlang driver) would stack up in the benchmarks (devel branch): https://github.com/epgsql/epgsql
I followed up on Digory's comment and found prosecution budget has an additional 43.8m from county budgets. And that doesn't account for the efficiencies of the PD doing the investigation work for them... a 1:2 ratio hardly seems just
Chicken Little alarms should never be tolerated. Looks like the alarms in your building are just chicken little.

Hopefully your building is apartments instead of condos. If I lived in such a situation, I'd get out of there ASAP. Nothing's worse then getting pulled out of sexy time because Chicken Little is running around screaming that the sky is falling.
I meant archived websites that have login forms. I had a user complain that I banned her account. Only after sending me a screenshot we realised she was trying to log in to an archived version of my site in the wayback machine.
How much time do we have?
In a similar vein, I use Storybook to build my presentational components, and run each story in a try/catch to check for "explosions".

If you add some dependency injection to look for `console.warn` or `console.error` calls, you can catch failed PropTypes or similar.

Today you can even combine all of these with Jest's new "Tree Snapshot Testing" to compare the actual output of `render` with an expected/approved output.

Finally, you can use your stories in combination with a service like Browserstack or SauceLabs to run these tests across platforms, and even take screenshots of each story and compare them to test for styling regressions and cross-platform differences.

Sources:

Storybook - https://github.com/kadirahq/react-storybook

Jest's "Tree Snapshot" testing - https://facebook.github.io/jest/blog/2016/07/27/jest-14.html
EDIT: Wrong thread. Meant to post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12227507
We used to joke that people with naïve pictures of Africa in their heads, expected to see wild life immediately after stepping off the plane. I believe the image you have is somewhat more nuanced, but still could do with some work. We are very aware we are generating value which we are not capturing. I've heard AWS CT devs complaining about receiving less than half the total comp as their US peers. We just don't have much leverage.
I replied to snark with snark.

Tesla is not just a car company. They are going to be the largest li-ion battery manufacturer, distributed energy provider(with the solarcity acquisition), energy storage provider, supply grid stabilization services(important when more of the generation is not base-load), and compete in the autonomous car sector.

Its fine with me if people don't think those other areas are going to be profitable for Tesla, but thinking of them as just a car manufacturer is kind of missing the point. And those other areas I mentioned do make up a largely untapped pie that Tesla is poised to tap into.
A 1/5 rate of there being a fire is a far lower rate of there being a fire that threatens you.
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It is mandatory in EU.
How about positives too, like "uses best practises for updates", "uses appropriate authentication and authorisation for its function", "uses a reasonable amount of power" etc
Please post it as a Show HN when you do. You could also email me the link and I would happily post/share it. :)
Nope, I meant user getting 404 on a website they meant to log in to, getting redirected to Wayback copy and entering their credentials there.
I often consider how much easier my life would be if I only had more 'flexible' morals.
I agree that I don't think it's so much compensation. It's more like "But it's just a little bag and it's right here with my wallet and phone and medications. If I leave it I'll be at this random airport with absolutely nothing."
Bit offtopic, but what are the plots made with?
I'm actually working on something based on this idea - I've created a SIM card for the Internet of Things - basically a smartcard (microSD form factor) that offers a persistent crypto-secure identity for Internet-connected objects.

It works by holding the TOR hidden service private key inside a tamper-resistant smartcard and generating/signing hidden service descriptors with it (plus an entire mechanism to prevent you from signing future descriptors - meaning that the identity is closely tied to the physical SIM card, just like in the GSM world - whoever has the SIM has the identity, once you've removed the SIM the identity goes with it).

Discussion at https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-June/011... - I've made progress since that post, it's now fully operational and tested, just need to figure out a way to turn it into a product and get some funding for it.
Nice read, specially as Portuguese.

Thanks for the article.
Alternatives are the are trying to compete. Samsung or Bing in above case.
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My rationale: Make sure to have IDs, CCs, etc. on you. Grab your small bag from under the seat. Leave the overhead closed. It should be locked automatically as suggested in the article.
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Three people in the thread say they often read them. For an alternative, I'll say that I often skim them, but they're generally not very significant in my decision making process.

The candidate is generally forced to take the job description and riff from that about how their skills/experience are applicable. The problem is two-fold, first they lack deep context on the situation so land-up writing either off-base or just 'marketing' stuff about how they're the solution to the problem. It's not the candidates fault (or the job description) that the implications of assumptions will be wrong - it's just too early on.

Second, if I can't work out how their skills/expertise might be applicable to the actual problems I have (since I know the context), then I probably shouldn't be the hiring manager!

I read them because I recognise the effort that candidates are putting into creating them, and on occasion you get a clearer picture of the career arc behind the titles.

Where it may help more is for entry level roles where by the nature of the stage of career/life there's not much in a CV. In those circumstances providing some insight and background helps to clear the first hurdle, basically the "why would I spend an hour with you?" question.
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Reminds me of a guy that made millions selling from spammy looking single-page websites that would scroll on forever; aka long form sales letters. Believe the guy died racing a super car on a track; can't recall his name.
In that case you have already taken crazy risk and if you still have doubts that company wont do well in future you should probably quit.
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My takeaway is that the crucial component of tech debt is the interest you pay on it, which often gets overlooked. It's not just that it takes longer to do tomorrow what you could do today, but you also face developer unhappiness and attrition.

This is just part of how you communicate about technical debt. It does not address the context, business interests, etc., but it doesn't need to. It doesn't imply anything about the value of debt, and discussing a negative aspect of it does not exclude what value it has.
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This is one of those scenarios where of course airline people know how to do things. But you cannot expect the consumers of your service to have the same level of fluency. Does everyone on the entire aircraft acknowledge and believe that evacuating the aircraft in 90 seconds is the number one goal?

I would say no. Despite it being somewhat logical, I think it is unreasonable to believe that people are rational agents and won't act emotionally in a state of emergency.

So don't get upset that people aren't following your directions.
Yes this is terrible and avoidable, but it's also an extremely uncommon event. The amount of lives saved by properly educating against this is basically negligible.
The problem is the number of false positives. Odds are the first few alarms a new resident will leave their apartment (at least from my experience). But people become desensitized to if after they see false alarm after false alarm. It becomes a boy who cried wolf situation.

A similar problem exists with car alarms. What percentage of car alarms going off are in response to a legitimate threat of theft? I would imagine it is in the single digits at the highest. This leads to most people reacting to car alarms with mere annoyance rather than any suspicion of an actual crime.

I don't know a real solution to this. It is really just human nature to react to personal experience and if that experience says alarms are usually wrong, we will begin to ignore them. Meanwhile the makers of the alarms have an incentive to be overly sensitive because a false positive is much less dangerous than a false negative. This results in a sort of tragedy of the commons in which all alarms end up being too prone to trigger accidentally.
I guess it could get quite hard to share public data sets like that once you get into hundreds of terabytes of video.

I'd say for autonomous cars it's the ML algorithms, rather than the data that's the threshold. I'd wage it would be relatively inexpensive for even smaller companies or researchers to pay a delivery/taxi/whatever company a small amount for a few thousand hours of dashcam footage
I haven't found that to be the case for Shopify. Our theme is in git and each developer has their own development shop (hosted by Shopify for free).

Using the Shopify theme tool, changes in the local file system are automatically published to their development shop. The experience is the same as if you were running a local instance.

Production deployment is simply having a different folder mapped to master and watched by the theme tool too.
That's a separate problem. It's true that the selection bias around a lack of negative results is a problem, all that means is that you cannot interpret a lack of support in the literature as evidence one way or the other. I can't assume that a drug has no side effects based on a lack of documented research pointing out those effects. Such a study would likely be kept quiet, I know. When a study is actually published though, you can hopefully interpret the study on its own merits. There's still potential for fraud and misconduct, but that's why we'd ideally devote more time to replication studies.

That said, I was assuming from the article that there was an actual peer-reviewed study resulting from this research, but the only thing I can find online is an affadavit Hosoi filed on behalf of Fanduel. If there's no published study anywhere, there's nothing to really counteract the suspicion you assume based on funding.
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It's not the case in the US if there is a seat in front of you--only in the case of bulkhead seats (whether or not they're an exit row).
Tesla is currently valued higher than Subaru, Fiat Chrysler and Mazda; all successful car companies selling much more cars. With the exception of Volvo and Toyota, whose value includes much more than just the car companies (like heavy industry manufacturing, commercial vehicles, Toyote even owns 0.27% of Tesla), only a ~2x increase in valuation is realistic. If they become one of the biggest car companies in the world.
Oh, for sure that will happen.

I like the Mill CPU design, and they're saying it will have a 10x power/performance advantage over traditional architectures.

But we're just about done with the times where we had easy gains in price/performance/power by just moving to a smaller process node.
Ask HN: RSS feeds you subscribe to?
I've just set up Feedhuddler to save to Pocket and want to start collecting thought inspiring feeds again. What do you guys read?
> JS++ will force runtime conversions to the type you declared.

Nope nope nope nope. Never going to use any language with type coercion again. That's one of the worst kinds of magic.
Consider making a PR to https://github.com/MagicStack/pgbench :)