skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure the Tesla batteries are controlled to never actually go to 100% capacity when charging, and likely have a hard cutoff well before fully discharging as well. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that there are other active battery management techniques in place as well. IIRC, one of their options for higher power capacity is actually just a firmware setting on the same battery packs, which would also match up - pay more for higher capacity on the same hardware, with the extra $$ paying for the increased wear and tear on warrantied components.

One thing you can do with some laptops is adjust settings to extend battery lifespan. Lenovo ThinkPads have settings in the power management software to set the maximum charge level as well as a range where it won't start charging (this is also available in their Windows 10 Lenovo Settings app, though I believe it wasn't present for the first few months of Windows 10). I set ThinkPads to not charge above 85% and to not start charging unless the charge level is below 75%.

Some other Lenovo laptops (e.g. Yoga 2 Pro ultrabook) have a similar but less-functional setting called "conservation mode" that in my experience caps the battery charge at 55-65%. The chosen values on those seem too low to me since my reading indicated that most of the benefit from capped charges is at the very high end, but that's what you get with consumer-grade equipment.

I'm pretty sure I've seen similar battery control options on other laptops, but I couldn't tell you which manufacturers support it without research.

Edit: Samsung calls this "Battery Life Extender." Lenovo (Win7) has it in Power Manager, Advanced mode, Battery, Battery Maintenance. ThinkPads (Win10) have it in Lenovo Settings, Battery, Battery Charge Threshold. Non-ThinkPads (Win10) have it in the same place, but as Conservation Mode. Some Dells (at least under Win7) have an option in Dell Quickset to "Turn off battery charging" until the next power cycle, but that's a manual process and more to prevent lots of small power cycles.
A website with $15K MRR probably has fewer than 15 employees, exempting them from ADA compliance.

However, it remains the right thing to do, and much easier if implemented from the beginning.
It's worth pointing out that for what most people would think of as a taxi the requirements are exceptionally onerous in the UK.
Not a very good one, I feel it covers up too much of Larabee's past. I think it was well established that it would be a GPU, but suffered from Intel getting confused about what it should be.

If anyone would like to know more about Intel, I think this AMA is much better

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/15iaet/iama_cpu_archi...
There are always proposition bets but they are generally illegal in most, if not all, markets.
Tangent: who are the "big consulting firms [who pay] actual money"? SAP? IBM? Salesforce?
In June 2014, Aswath Damodaran (the expert in valuation cited in the article) wrote an article about how Uber should be valued at $5.9B rather than the $17B they had just raised at: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/uber-isnt-worth-17-billi... If Damodaran's current $28B valuation is "correct," that would imply ~26% annualized returns if you'd invested in Uber at the "unjustified" $17B mark. Not bad. So I'd say his 2014 number missed the mark, in retrospect.

"Expert in valuation" does not imply an ability to magically divine the "true value" of companies. Valuation is as much subjective as it is objective–multiple people creating DCFs for a company can come up with different values. There's also upside (or downside) that isn't purely captured by metrics to date.

This isn't to say that I think Uber is "truly" worth what it raised at. Just to say that valuation isn't an exact science.

As a side note, Damodaran does have some great lectures on how to value companies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znmQ7oMiQrM
Instead of:

web app
-> haproxy
-> mysql

Doing this:

web app
-> backend app
-> haproxy
-> mysql

It allows a dedicated application layer to handle database communication/changes in a more intelligent way than a proxy/load balancer can. Helps account for scaling issues, batches transactions, retries on failure/inconsistency, throttles, caches, advanced logic, schema/application change resiliency/consistency, network segregation, restricts operations, etc etc. Nobody seems to implement it unless there's a wide range of applications with different needs, or when things break.
Most people only care about tangibles. When i politely advised about security holes, i was told that "we don't need people like you' or just called the police. I understand.
From your comment history it appears you are from China. Your English is good. Thanks for coming to comment here. I wouldn't want Hacker News to be an echo chamber of Bay Area startup enthusiasts. I want you to continue to comment here. You can advance Chinese interests without being adversarial and accusatory.

However, you don't have a complete picture. True, the U.S. and other countries have gone to the WTO several times to protest dumping and other trade issues. Dumping is the WTO term for selling goods internationally far below cost in an effort to drive local competition out of business. And yes, the U.S. and other countries (India, Australia, etc.) have blocked Huawei's legitimate ventures in telecommunications critical infrastructure.

This isn't anywhere close to the same extent that the Chinese government has blocked international competition within its borders. The Chinese government routinely blocks foreign firms from competing through regulation or outright blocking of internet sites. Many of these sites do not pose a cultural or dissident risk to the Chinese Communist Party.

I'm not making the claim this is evil or wrong. Protectionism is one tactic that nations may use. The United States used a vigorous protective tariff for its first 200 years.

The naive world view that the United States' protectionism is propping up its companies is not accurate. Nor is the view that Tencent and Baidu would disappear without Chinese government protective assistance.

I would love to address the other concerns you have brought up but the scope of this comment thread is trade. I'm not going to let it be completely derailed.
We used to have much less medical care available; the best treatment for most diseases was "do nothing". That is no longer the case.

We buy car insurance and fire insurance expecting to never or rarely make a claim. We buy health insurance knowing we definitely will be making claims.

Supply and demand only works when you can establish a price equilibrium which absolutely requires that some people are priced out of the market. In healthcare that means massive disability and/or death. I don't think a fully free market in healthcare is in any way ethical.

Like infrastructure or universal mail/electricity/water, healthcare is one of those things where at least some elements cannot be efficiently delivered by a free market.
But...it's not that.
Metafilter has a $5 dollar entry fee, but will waive it in cases of hardship. Seems like a decent solution as long as the community is small enough to have responsive management / moderation like Metafilter.
No, of course you aren't. Why would you be?
i think a good way to fix toxic comments is to have a "tag as troll" button. if enough people think a particular commenter is a troll then they lose their commenting privilege. it should be pretty easy to detect if a person is creating more accounts.
That's what puts the P in APT, after all.
Cisco confirms NSA-linked zeroday targeted its firewalls for years
This reminds me of the question of which kinds of attacks would be possible if Let's Encrypt issued SHA1 certificates.
My personal blog is basically an example of deploying a simple app using docker. HTTPS://GitHub.com/pbecotte/devblog ... The makefile wraps up the actual commands.
That's for EF6, which only runs on Windows. Can't use Windows servers where I work.
This sounds like you spent $80K on Linux laptops.
Yep, came here to say this. Burnout is a thing, and it happens when people work 60+ hours a week for 6+ months (estimate). If people didn't actually work their butts off for that long and were just 'wasting' time, what is commonly known as burnout would just be sleep deprivation.
Doing this against bitcoin.org is probably taking a pretty big risk.

Anyone who can escalate into stealing BTC, can afford that risk.
> i am also starting to wonder if the agegroup being hired to implement "social" for websites is now young enough to have missed slashdot in it s prime.

That's me! Can you explain the Slashdot model and why it worked? Or point to a good write up about it somewhere else?
What defines a problem as non-existing/existing? It's very subjective. While it may not be for you, the author definitely saw an issue that needed to be fixed.

Again, I'm using the example of requests: was Kennethwrong to implement something new when there was already a standard lib?
On HN you can do that and the text even gets larger.
I imagine it's because those trolls still have no consequences to their actions. If people would make more public the comments of those who are the most toxic (death/rape/other violence threats, etc), by, say, sending those comments to the person's mother/grandmother, their boss, etc, and they actually had consequences for those actions, then it might taper off.*

* Of course, this kind of action can have some far reaching consequences, and is quite ripe for abuse. I don't know if there is a way to fix that. And myself, not being the target of such abuse online, I'm not really that invested in trying it.
Airships are deceptively tough. They don't move very fast and it takes a long time for the lifting gas to leak out unless they've taken catastrophic damage. In WW I the German airship L-33 was hit by an anti-aircraft shell that exploded inside the envelope during a bombing raid on London, was attacked by an airplane as it descended, and still the crew walked away.

http://horseformer.blogspot.com/2013/12/achtung-zeppelin-vii...

Of course they were lucky because the lifting gas they were using was hydrogen, something we wouldn't use today. But they took damage that would easily have destroyed a plane, and the airship was in good enough shape upon landing the captain felt the need to set it alight with flare guns.

A modern air-to-air missile, with its 25 pound warhead and assuming it could lock on at all, probably wouldn't do much to an airship. SAMs are a different story, of course, but you wouldn't take something like this near a SAM site.

I would feel much safer in an airship than, say, a cargo plane.
A Republican policy proposal that wasn't passed back when it was proposed. Just because the Republicans proposed this first doesn't mean it's a bad idea. We're all human beings and we all have a lot of common ground. Not everything a Republican proposes is automatically hated by Democrats, and not everything a Democrat proposes should be automatically hated by Republicans (I say "should be" because lately the Republican party does seem to reflexively hate everything Democrats propose, even if it was originally a Republican idea like the ACA).
Uber's Defeat Reveals China's Strength and Weakness in Global Innovation
I tend to prefer things which are more lightweight, but my coworkers don't. I'm mostly wanting to pitch this as a better alternative to Spring Boot and JPA.
This line of thinking is wrong. You can't just short a company because you have a reasonable belief it is overvalued when the vast majority of investors think otherwise. There needs to be some event that forces the public to reevaluate their valuation of the company for the short to work.
I run my monitors in portrait orientation, so I see everything in 1080x1920. Almost everything works fine.

I do occasionally run across a site which uses fixed width divs and either won't squish down past 1280px, or gets all messed up because they plainly didn't test on narrow windows, but they're in the minority.
So you'd be perfectly ok with certain people being counted as only 3/5 of a person, and only white, landowning males having the right to vote? What about that whole slavery thing? Cause the Constitution shouldn't be changed and all.
It can easily happen again. You're the fool for thinking it can't.
Agree. Entrepreneurs should start to consider build your service with chat bots instead of apps. Currently, many of chatbot related services and tools are coming up. But I still feel not very satisfied with these services, such as chatbot builders and analytics tools. We can see a lot of opportunities there.
starship mileages > Millenium Falcon mileage.

Since starships are always getting blown up to rack up enough miles. Only Millenium Falcon keeps on flying and flying to rack up the miles.

Ok enough jokes.

I think this is a good thing. Taxis are generally known to be long lasting cars, which most car buyers value when selecting a car.
I know it's a solved problem now, but:

> One that couldn't easily be changed, either, because everyone's clients relied on the exact structure of the markup for screen scraping.

This doesn't seem like that hard a problem. Presumably the robots all sent their own distinct UA strings (as scrapers only get written to imitate browser UA strings if you ban non-browser UA strings.) So why not just filter your logs to find all the known scrapers, serve anything with those exact UA strings "legacy" table-based responses, and serve everyone else the new layout?
It also allows them to trace any potential attacks, a state actor would need to get access to the signing machine or the private key itself.
Coursera Co-Founder Daphe Koller to Join Calico, the Alphabet Subsidiary
Agreed. I was bought out by a company who charged high license fees but did not charge for customer development. So every customer wanted all these customisations to the point where most of the development was customer-initiated changes. Worse, is that due to this policy they had no idea whether an individual customer was profitable or not, since they had no idea the time/resources spent on that particular customer.

I advocated reducing the license fees but charging for customisations which would reduce this bespoke development considerably, but to no avail.
The brain may be parallel, but attention [0] isn't for all intents and purposes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention
Gigster unicorn or donkey with a birthday hat?
Anyone hire Gigster to build their app? Considering using them, but have read mixed things. The 10-minute quote is also suspect.
I really don't agree. I've lived in three Canadian provinces, and four U.S. states, from towns of 1000 people, small cities of 10k, medium cities of 100k, to large cities of 1m+.

Having lived through the Ontario cuts in health care in the 90s ("the Harris common sense revolution"), I don't really think political reps Federally or Provincially had any say on quality of care or what hospitals we got, it was all redesigned top down (not all that different from an HMO really, in my experience). Did care access and waits times suffer at the time? Yes. Still wouldn't trade it for a private system.

The difference in access and amount of supply between a rural market and a city in Canada is not too different than in the US. There's a lot of land mass to cover in either country if you're not in a major population centre.

The Canadian system blows away the US system by an order of magnitude, IMO, in terms of what really matters - access and outcomes. Obamacare made the US a bit better, but that's not a tall order.
> I think you'll be remiss to find that the majority of insurance company donations go to the Democratic party.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. Are you saying I'll determine that to be the case if I'm lacking attention, or are you saying that I'm lacking attention and therefore don't know that? I'm also not sure what the point is either way, why the truth or falsehood of this statement is relevant to my comment.

> Of course poor people have been voting Democrat for over 50 years and they are, for the most part, still poor.

This also doesn't make any sense. Nobody said that voting for either party would make you rich. Making health care accessible to the poor doesn't make them less poor, it just gives them health care.

> Que Einstein quote.

What quote?
> To me, the thing that is most discouraging about HN is the rampant closed mindedness.

Absolutely true. But is HN more closed minded than the folks you see everyday?

Personally, the HN community is more open minded than 95% of the people I personally interact with daily -- even after including what you've just mentioned.
The saddest part is that no one cares and no one does anything.

No protests, no rotten tomatoes into MS manager faces, no uproars or boycotts, not even pathetic stuff like lawsuits.

At best a few educated people complain on the internet or brag about moving to Linux.

All this does is the evaporative cooling that hardens the cold death grip of a blind company whose moral compass doesn't even point north around the necks of the common folk that notice nothing and wonder why it's getting harder to breath every other year.

And no, i'm not smart enough to come up with a solution either...
This.

Shorting is expensive, and you could become insolvent if you short too early.
Are they public microservices? You mentioned VPC, so if they're not, you may be interested in running your own CA internally. Anchor [1] was written pretty much for that purpose, but with even faster certificate cycling by default (days, not months). Of course that's for internal services only - anything internet-facing would need a trusted CA.

[1] https://github.com/openstack/anchor
> (by some estimates, they'll be a net oil importer by 2030-2035).

That's kind of a 'funny' observation. Saudi Arabia can't ever be an oil importer since the only thing they have to exchange for oil is oil.
But being drop-in compatible means supporting CUDA or the CPU interface.
> e.g. someone should be able to criticize Elon Musk without being downvoted to hell.

I wish downvoting wouldn't be allowed without a "reply" to parent post, that way if I'm being downvoted nonstop I know why. Sometimes I get downvoted like crazy and have no clue as to why. Or even if I guess it doesn't add to the conversation to just shut me out because you disagree without teaching me why. I wonder how HN would be different if to downvote you had to respond to a post.
Singapore+takes+off+video-empowered+ATMs+so+you+can+talk+with+a+teller+live
You should talk to more Tesla owners then, lack of emissions is a big selling point.
Didn't you say this earlier, though?

The purpose of government is to protect our rights.

It sounds like you also think "you logically have a right to the services of someone else", otherwise who's doing the protection?
These company valuations are just made up as part of the valuation ponzi schemes.

A "valuation expert" means nothing.
The show is heavily inspired by Fight Club and season 2 essentially picks up where Fight Club (and season 1) ends. As someone who is both a "hacker" and a huge fan of Fight Club this makes season 2 even more interesting to me.

I remember reading the foreword to Fight Club where the author stress that the "Fight" in Fight Club is not what the book is about. He even considered other types of clubs/themes to convey the ideas in the book.

So perhaps that's a way to look at it: Mr Robot is Hacker Club and hacking play the same role as fighting does in Fight Club.
Then you have to make a decision then. Do you want to make revenue from the product, or make revenue via customisations?
Problem with the customisation approach is there is limited leverage.
Perhaps micro-transactions could slow new posts down enough to make a difference. Maybe use the funds to pay people for high quality comments.
Making other people do the legwork so that you can idly critique them is a classic gish-gallop tactic, and does not add to the discussion.
> That community had one of the highest quality comments.

One of the biggest differences between slashdot, and a site like reddit is simply size. Reddit is now the 8th or 9th largest website in the U.S according to Alexa, it's getting as big as Twitter, and is larger than Netflix. Slashdot at it's peak popularity wasn't even a drop in that ocean of traffic & pageviews. When you get that big, your problems are of a different sort, requiring different solutions. Hell, I think reddit has single subreddits that are bigger than Slashdot was at its peak.

This is important because it's easy to have "high quality" when your traffic is low. It's easy to moderate and easy to keep people on-topic. I speak from experience -- I moderate one or more default subreddits on reddit, as well as smaller subreddits, and the smaller ones are much easier to handle. They're virtually on autopilot with minimal moderation required. The larger ones on the other hand... It's like a non-stop war.
Is that only in Canada, though?
> That doesn't diminish your point about track performance, but I don't think your parent was referring to lap times.

Which makes sense, the taxi driver is not going to the racetrack but is flooring it to merge onto the highway.
The most widespread neonicotinoids, like the clothianidin in seed-treated rapeseed, weren't introduced until 2002.

Neonics aren't the reason varrao mites wiped out feral honeybees. The timeline for that argument just doesn't work.
Holy cow, really true to their word!
They ll use the IPO money to invest in solar.
The meaning of the words "responsible" and "irresponsible" extends beyond "formal duty".
That's what defaults are for.

You have two choices to make: which branch and which path within that branch. The defaults are "master" and "docs," but allowing maintainers to make different choices there doesn't need to impact the onboarding experience for new developers. The newbies use the defaults - people who need customization can customize. Software development is a broad field and projects work within various constraints and architectures. Asserting a convention here feels a bit misguided.

You already allow the default branch to be customized. It's a bit weird that I can specify a default branch (like "develop") and delete the master branch, but then won't be able to publish docs without recreating master or maintaining a gh-pages branch.
I was thrilled by my purchase of an original Palm Pilot during my last year of high school and delighted in filling its Notes application with a wealth of data which would now be in my "palm." I would go on to develop a few applications that ran on later devices such as the Palm III and Palm V. To this day, I recall with fondness poring over Palm's documentation and the book by Neil Rhodes and Julie McKeehan [1] and writing code using the MetroWorks CodeWarrior for Palm OS [2].

Having primarily used Windows and early Linux distributions at the time, Palm's elegant and useful user interface guidelines were my introduction to user experience and eventually led me to Mac OS.

While I fought the Palm OS storage model at the time, in retrospect, it was, like the UI approach, also an elegant abstraction that played a key role in safeguarding the performance expectations of the user experience.

[1] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/palm-os-progr...

[2] http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/4762/metrowerks-releases-...
> There is certainly something elegant about ILP problems which gets lost when treating them with the sledgehammer that is gradient-based convex optimization.

It is funny that you call gradient-based convex optimization a "sledgehammer" since people working in combinatorial optimization (opposed to ILP) tend to denote ILP methods (e.g. cutting plane algorithms, branch & bound, branch & cut, relaxation hierarchies, ...) also as a "sledgehammer". :-D They are just jealous. :-)
What's the company?
They could also contribute code to the most popular frameworks, instead of releasing forks like "Intel Caffe."[1]

[1] https://github.com/intelcaffe/caffe
AT&T Revamps Cellular Data Plans, Eliminates Overage Fees