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> Do you continue to patronize businesses that cut corners when you expect good customer service or a good product?

Do you have cable and/or phone service? Would we be using Comcast or AT&T if monopolies or regional monopolies didn't make them the only choices? Monopolies that were enabled through government inaction, by the way, not through government enabling. [1]

> The free market ruthlessly punishes businesses that do not meet consumer demands. Only through government interference are substandard businesses sustained. Profits are the signal that a business is doing something right.

There's always going to be the problem of information asymmetry. Most people don't have the time to read Consumer Reports, go through the research of what brands cut corners and which don't, and do the cost-benefit calculation of picking quality vs. price.

I don't think government interference is somehow propping up the fast food industry, or bad policies from Comcast.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2709834
Your product sounds interesting, especially the longterm roadmap. If you can replace Feedly as an bucket of RSS feeds to scan + Instapaper for reading & note taking, that'd be pretty sweet.

The pricing page is blank for me.
Thanks. The 2016 model has has a quarter mile time of 10.8 sec @ 121.99 mph. Not bad. Should dip into the 10.5 with grippy tyres. I wish they offered an additional overdrive gear to see if they would get to 200MPH. I don't know if they can handle the aero but they sure have the power.
Fastest is more likely to refer to top speed, and quickest is more likely to refer to the 0-60 times. But yes that's subjective difference in usage and not a strict definition.
Isn't that an argument for average case performance being a better predictor of average cases than worst case performance?
Tesla's 4500lb curb-weight because of a 2000lb battery is a severe disadvantage. The Tesla weighs the same as an F-150 TRUCK, no lie.

An ICE car zips-around the corner with literally a thousand-pounds lighter than the electric-based Tesla. In fact, the Tesla S barely performs any better than $30k hot-hatchbacks like the Ford Focus ST or Subaru Impreza WRX. (Both of which are 4-door 5-seater sedans for a daily driver)

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When you get to $50,000+ ultra-luxury cars, they all have awesomely low center of gravity and optimized suspensions. IMO, it all comes down to weight for why the Tesla fails to perform on the track.

Also, the battery IIRC overheats if held in "Ludicrous" mode too long. The ICE engine virtually never overheat and can be revved high for many laps at a time.

I've heard of more issues of ICE Cars where brakes overheat... forcing the car to stop the track early... rather than the engine overheating. Tesla batteries can output a lot of power, but only for a limited time. I don't know if that "limited time" is one or two laps, but its apparently an issue.

Performance cars don't necessarily all perform well on a track. The Ford Focus ST allegedly has brakes overheat after just a few laps for example. Although, its like they say: front-wheel drive is wrong-wheel drive in these sorts of high-performance comparisons.
Inserts in that chart is the ratio of inserts to reads.

5 means "write five times then read once per iteration" not "write five times".
I feel the same. I've been travelling during the past month. Accessing video content from the Olympics has been extremely hard.

I think the IOC might be shooting themselves in both of their feet here. If they don't open open up, they'll some day find that they're suddenly irrelevant.

By the way, during the 2012 London Olympics the IOC and Google struck a deal to stream the like 20+ HD channels live to 64 territories:

"The live-streaming on the IOC’s YouTube channel will provide exclusive digital access to the London 2012 Olympic Games in territories where digital broadcast rights have not already been acquired by the IOC’s broadcast partners"

https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-to-live-stream-london-2012-...

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2012/06/ioc-to-show-live-cove...

I was in one of those regions at the time. It was awesome.
> When you spend, over just 150 years, a natural currency that took millions of years to save, you drive the environmental economy into ruin.

It's not really so much the environmental economy - just ours; we're running out of runway, but the good news is, we don't go out of business if we go off the end. We just have to find a way to bootstrap with a lower burn rate.
I was hoping this was in regards to speed of production. Especially given Musk's comments recently about factory output.
$100K cancer drug melts cancer cells
So maybe $9k in actual costs then.
Oh for sure. But BitTorrent is still around and works great!
Since some athletic governing bodies have already gone down the rabbit hole of telling women athletes that they need to have body parts removed ("in order to normalize testosterone levels"), I suspect that if your genes are too good, you'll be suspected of having modified them, and therefore banned.
+1, I'm a PhD student in programming languages/PL design
Pullman is out in the middle of a bunch of hills with wheat fields. Didn't strike me as having much besides that, whereas lots of other places mentioned have some pretty good outdoor activities.
What a pussy, you aren't a parent. The government is. I don't care how my comment is perceived, your a pathetic wuss, not a parent. "I wouldn't parent my kids because of what the government thinks." Drooling moronic vagina is what you are.
Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Podcast: Episode 48 – Process-As-Code
The infrastructure behind Twitter: efficiency and optimization
That kind of privacy problem is more to do with our woeful subservience than preferences for interpersonal autonomy, although the two are linked. "Leave well enough alone" does sum it up nicely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politeness_theory#Negative_pol...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbu-eMcEF3s
Now that I think about it a bit more, I think my hypothesis was that DB connections were allocated at the session level and that without cookies enabled each request initiated a new session.

I'd consider that a bug not a feature but I still think it's incumbent on me, the guy scraping the website, not to trigger it.
until i read the hn comments i automatically assumed the article (which i couldn't read) was talking about how if you stayed up all night working on a deadline you'd hit some sort of productivity zone around 4am
>when he caught an aggressive strep infection that progressed to sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis, costing him all four limbs.

Jesus. The other person the article lost her hands and feet during a surgery for Crohn's. Its incredible the risk we live with that we're usually unaware of.
You can't count as 'matter-of-fact' if you're not even bothering to communicate.
As a normally decidedly non-morning person, getting up really early (2-4am) works surprisingly well for me. Allows for a really slow, but stress-free morning, which leads to a more productive rest of the day. The hardest part (for me) is realizing that yes, I have done enough and am tired, and should not power through an evening-low and stay up until after midnight.

YMMV of course, but getting up really early might not be as outlandish as it sounds.
Maybe on a very hot day cooling would become a factor on the track, but for a single 0-100 run air temperature should be irrelevant. Electric cars don't need to ingest hundreds of grams per second of air to make high power outputs. Unless you're referring to the impact of air density on aerodynamic drag, which should be negligible at such low speeds.
Thanks for asking; I was very confused as well. I still don't find the difference between the two terms satisfying. I would rather them state acceleration or speed versus quick and fast.
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Obviously the Math Camp acquisition was before my time, but my understanding is that acquisition was explicitly for the team and not the technology.
The tax form wouldn't matter because, if they were misclassified, they'd receive the wrong form. Someone who is supposed to be an employee, but is misclassified as a contractor is still going to get a 1099.
Huh? I mean, sure, you can probably figure out the _names_ of the environment variables expected by the code of the image, but the image itself doesn't have the values for those variables.

Environment files are—unless I'm missing something—a run-time consideration. You provide the an env-file you have locally to connect to your development images, etc., and could deploy (possibly) the same image elsewhere, with a different env-file. But the env-file values are not baked into the image.
If anyone else is interested in how Debra Harrell and her daughter's story turned out, here is a recent FB update from a person who helped crowdfund $47k to support them during the legal problems. Thankfully the charges were dropped with seemingly no media coverage whatsoever. Unfortunately, it sounds like the young girl is now experiencing anxiety issues from the trauma of being taken by Child Protective Services.

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=532307546952426&id...
> You can have a car like a miata outpace a porsche 911 turbo on certain tracks

this is basically only true on an autocross track. i.e. a bunch of cones in a parking lot.
Wikipedia provides archives of all its content.

No need to scrap it when you can readily download a nicely formatted .xml.zip file containing all knowledge written by mankind.
> To frame this as a simple dichotomy

Except it's not so simple. Peltzman showed with statistics in "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" that the 1962 FDA amendments resulted in an increase in human suffering and death. (The 1962 amendments added "and effective" to the FDA's mandate.)

While some ineffective drugs were prevented from reaching the market, this was overshadowed by good drugs being delayed, and a sharp reduction in new drugs being developed due to huge cost increases from the regulations.

Markets are very dynamic systems, and unintended side effects always happen even with regulations that have the best of intentions.
Very important questions indeed, while there's no complete answer some data is encouraging. Imaging studies, for example, have shown children treated continuously to early adulthood show more robust brain development (white fiber tracts) vs. untreated subjects. Medication treatment is certainly not harmful in that respect and probably helpful.

The role of behavioral therapies is unclear, though practitioners point to instances where that makes a big difference in the outcome. Admittedly it is a hard subject to study systematically given the individualized nature of behavioral treatments.

However research is hardly saying that medication is the only factor. Lately, there is a great deal of attention in the field directed to findings that childhood adversity, e.g., abuse, malnutrition, environmental impoverishment contributes greatly to conditions that resemble ADHD. The implication is clear that reducing the negative impacts of inner-city poverty, etc., would have salutary effects on reducing incidence of psychiatric disorders including ADHD.

In adults, ADHD sufferers with long-term medication treatment show better functioning than untreated peers (matched for age, sex, education, etc.) if less well than unaffected individuals.

Most such studies have used medication therapy as the marker of treatment. So far the contribution of behavioral therapies has been hard to pin down. However, clinical experience is that medication alone is inadequate for adults to improve.

The saying is "pills don't build skills". Indeed, guided behavioral practicing is an essential element of ADHD treatment, though optimized medication treatment can be very useful to enhance neurophysiological infrastructure necessary for normalizing functioning. An individually optimized combination of treatment approaches is most likely to be successful, but hard to determine a priori, thus hard to study experimentally.

I don't believe my response truly satisfies your excellent question, but I'm very glad to know there are people like you who are thinking intelligently about these problems that affect all of us directly or indirectly.
People seem to confuse rates and percentages with figures. There may be less on average, but more in reality.
Not having so many kids on the streets may also cause the crimes to be less.
Children wear less clothes than they used to and there seems to be more pedophiles, if those little kids were left alone, more may be taken advantage of.
The risk is real. Children don't know how to react when confronted with maybe a drunk driver or someone that offered them candy, so letting children on their own leaves real risk. However, whether it should be criminalized for a rather small risk is debatable.
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sigh I'm afraid to hear your answer, but I'm going to ask anyway: what would compel you to output the same template on both the client and server sides?
physically I'd agree.

Emotionally, no way.
Can't really agree though. The issue with child services is that they can act faster than the criminal system. You might want to say that they couldn't act to remove or otherwise enforce parental restrictions until criminal charges are made (leaving other less adversarial actions available). An unintended consequence of this may be that charges are made much more easily for the purpose of unblocking child services.

Alternatively, it may be that we want to take the same 'rational' look at risk that we want the courts/child services to take. Maybe the few kids that get taken away 'unreasonably' are actually just the cost of having an otherwise sane system. Lest that come off as callous, I just mean that if you have a country of 300 million, you'll get some pretty far out scenarios played out. You don't necessarily want to add process to protect those very few scenarios that are outrageous because it may cost more (by e.g. tying CPS' hands so that they can't take actually at-risk children out of homes).

I guess I'm suggesting that this might, in the end, be much ado about nothing. It's hard to say without numbers and analysis.
>Also, there was the overall arrogant tone: "I found their interview approach a bit of a turn off so I did not proceed to the next interview and ignored her emails ", this just shows a lot of immaturity.

I'm not saying you're one of these people, but it's frustrating when companies do this to potential employees and the potential is told by friends and other management type people, "well that's the company you just have to deal with it".

When someone flips it on the company then it's immature.

I applied somewhere recently and they invited me out to a pre-interview lunch. That went well so they called me in for an interview. That went well and the VP told me he would call me back to set up a second (third?) interview.

I never heard back from him. An ex-coworker there went to the VP to find out what was going on and the VP said he decided he wanted someone with more experience in the specific area they're working in.

But last he told me was he liked me and would schedule another interview, then when he changed his mind he never let me know.

I think people on both sides should be courteous and respectful through the process, but if employers are treating interviewees poorly then they shouldn't be surprised when they start getting treated poorly.
If the pen cost less than $30 to manufacture, there's no reason that no one would manufacture it.
Isn't that more the employee/independent contractor distinction?

Couldn't contractors unionize if they liked?
For the most part, it does not scrape around paywalls (though I have seen it work in some cases). I'm not sure how they pull that off, perhaps sending the source from the client instead of the URL and re-rendering it on the server.
I think I was more focusing on the rise and fall of famous "mobile gaming" in general. There was time everyone I knew was into Angry Birds. Every guy I meet tells me how their wife or gf are into candy crush and just addicted to it. And now everyone has jumped on the Pokemon go bandwagon. Hence, the interest fading away eventually. This is just what I have noticed among the people I know.
Yeah, Google violates the CFAA and infringes on copyright as a matter of course. Their service would be impossible if they weren't doing so.

The main difference when Google was small was that Google was not dependent on any data source in particular, so even if someone denied their robot or sued them, they could cease and desist without affecting the overall value of their offering. This is different if you are getting data that is only available from one or two sources.

Now, the main difference is that Google is one of the biggest companies in the world, and they'll sick an army of $1,000/hr lawyers on you if you even think about taking legal action against them. The only people who can afford to fight are other big companies, but that's not going to happen because they all depend on breaking the CFAA for their own purposes and then using their position as a huge company to bully small innovators.
We switched from C++11 to C++14 mainly for constexpr (it existed in 11, but had a lot of restrictions that limited it's usefulness).

The advanced template techniques (and to a degree, I'm throwing type deduction in there too), when treated skeptically do lead to more efficient code. It's easy to go off the deep end though, which is why I said "when treated skeptically". As for lambdas, we have an entirely asynchronous OS, so they're really nice for callback glue.

EDIT: Binary literals actually come up way less than you'd think, even for deeply embedded (I think the smallest thing we ship on currently is 16KB of RAM). Everyone here knows hex like the back of their hand.
hey, the new tesla fanboys need something to cheer for. they're new to this whole racing-cars-on-the-internet thing.
I used Instapaper for a long time before I switched to a Pocket.

There were issues with their parser they never fixed, has been consistently slow, articles would often be lost even though they were "saved" according to the apps that used the Instapaper API(or its browser extensions), it would take forever to download content over 3G ( maybe the client was downloading it? ). It just never got better for me.

They did introduce a killer feature(narration) and I switched to Instapaper from Pocket again for that feature alone (2 hours or commute time). Still annoying to use and as soon as Pocket implemented the same feature, I jumped ship again.

Pocket seems to be fast(at downloading content, and the iOS app is very responsive), their parser is improving and it's now by far my most used app on my phone.

I hope they get the resources they need to really improve their service though. They have lots of happy users and that must mean they are still doing something right.
Are any of the faster cars still in production?
Here in Seattle there is at least one group [0] trying to match up artists and empty storefronts. The goal is to turn vacant storefronts into temporary pop-up studios for artists. Neighborhoods with lots of working artists are ones where lots of businesses and stores want to be associated with, but that success drives up prices and drives out the artists whose presence made the neighborhoods desirable. This way you get to keep neighborhoods vital and artistic using only the normal churn of idle storefront spaces.

[0] https://storefrontsseattle.com
None of those matter really in day to day driving
There are a million things that a person writing a boring CRUD web app doesn't need to know. But if you want to be a good programmer, you should probably understand how a computer works.
Sure, but even phrased that way, it differentiates it from some other potential substitute brands – Audi, BMW, etc. where there's no stated effort to produce a car "for everyone else." It may well help shift the brand reputation from luxury for profit to something like next-generation or innovation and progress.
A look inside Hyperloop One’s wildly fast future
I am sure that this will be an unpopular opinion but I think this is wrong. Graduate students are students. They are paying to be in school. They may be paying for it with money gained from the University but they are still students. Should an undergrad that is on a university scholarship be considered an employee too? How are the economic realities of grad school any different from undergrad? If you can't afford to go to school, you have a few choices: debt, poverty, or don't go to school. If you have a family, you have to factor them into your choice too.

All this being said, I went to graduate school and received a master's degree in Civil Engineering. I was able to be fully funded through the research that I performed and did not have to pay a dime in tuition. I also received a stipend that, if I was very frugal, was enough to pay my bills and feed myself. During this time I lived with four roommates and road my bike as much as I could to save money.

Another item of note is that in Montana, where I got my degree, engineers registered with the State are bared from joining unions of any kind. Even as a grad student, I was registered as an EI, therefore I would not be eligible to join the grad student union.
This line interests me here:

>"While the P100D Ludicrous is obviously an expensive vehicle, we want to emphasize that every sale helps pay for the smaller and much more affordable Tesla Model 3 that is in development. Without customers willing to buy the expensive Model S and X, we would be unable to fund the smaller, more affordable Model 3 development."

IN other words: Hey! they are expensive but please help other people buy inexpensive cars by buying this expensive one yourself. Bit wierd!
My advice would be to look at smaller towns and neighborhoods. I grew up in a "city" of 30k, with many smaller towns of 500-10k within the county. We roamed every inch of the neighborhood. All the neighbors within 5-6 houses in any direction knew our families.
I wrote a fairly complex spidering and scraping script in Node a few months ago. I found downcache[1] to be absolutely invaluable, particularly as I was debugging my parsing scripts, a I was able to rerun them relatively quickly over the cached responses.

However, when the network was no longer a bottleneck, I found that the speed and single-threaded nature of Node became one. It wasn't really that slow, relatively speaking, but I had a few hundred gigs of HTML to chew through every time I made a correction, so it was important to keep the turnaround as fast as possible.

I eventually managed to manually partition the task so I could launch separate Node scripts to handle different parts of it, but it wasn't a perfect split, and there was a fair bit of duplicated work, where a shared cache would have helped a great deal.

In retrospect, I should have thrown my JS away and started again in something with easy threading like Java or C#. But -- familiar story -- I'd underestimated the complexity of the task to begin with, and by the time I understood, I'd sunk a lot of time into writing my JS parsing code and didn't fancy converting it all to another language, particular when it always seemed like "just one more" correction to the parsing would make everything work right. In the end, what was supposed to take a weekend took about three months of work, off and on, to finish.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/downcache
> requiring you to waste cpu cycles in a polling loop checking if an fd is "ready",

epoll in edge-triggered mode does not require this loop to exist in userland. In edge-triggered epoll (or the similar kqueue construct), your work thread(s) will be asleep until the kernel chooses to wake one up.