skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're overstating how much maintenance a modern gas car needs, and understating how much long-term maintenance and repairs an EV will need.

A modern car with automatic transmission needs the fluid changed maybe 100k miles, and oil change intervals have gone up too; 7500 miles is more normal, and many cars with computers telling when to change the oil (based on actual driving conditions) are giving intervals of 10k. These are generally pretty easy to do yourself too. Most other service intervals are similarly long, usually not until 100k miles: coolant, brake fluid, etc. Brake pads usually last 50k-100k miles, but this depends a lot on how you drive. Modern spark plugs last 50-100k. Cars don't have distributors any more so you don't need to replace the cap and rotor and wires like you used to.

On your EV, you probably won't need to change the brake pads as often because of regenerative braking, but they are still there. However, some things will not change: it'll still need tires just as often as a gas car, and anything related to the wheels, tires, and suspension is no different than a gas car. You may still need to replace a wheel bearing at 125k, for instance, or a ball joint (these things usually wear out faster if you drive on rough roads). Your windshield will still get cracks from rocks and need to be replaced. Your brake fluid will still need to be replaced (100-120k probably), even though you aren't using them as much. Your A/C will probably need recharge or repair or even a new compressor after 100-150k miles or 10 years. And worst of all, you might need to replace the battery pack after 50-100k miles (we really don't know that much about how long these last yet, and it probably depends on the model; Teslas seem to last longer because they don't get discharged as much in regular usage).
I wonder if younger folk today listen to Gregorian chant and think how quaint, old and dated it seems... or if they see it and wonder if their current modern music is really missing something these strange sounds had.

- Somebody ca. 1050 AD
Everyone I worked with was Chicago local, but James Forberg at Infinity Consulting Solutions was a good contact for someone looking for a technical job here in the city. He wasn't ultimately how I got the job I did, but he was probably the most active recruitment contact I had when I was looking for a job, and he got me the only other interview I did last year.

The great thing about these recruiting companies, is that since the employer pays them for referring you, they do a lot of the job search work for you, and it costs you nothing as a job seeker. This is a life saver if you're currently employed while searching.
Silicon Valley is in NEED of a crash.

It is touted as a hub of "innovation" but I do not see it. There are exceptions that exist, scientific and medical companies perhaps, but the majority of tech-startups are not that at all, they are a fucking FUGAZI. They are speculative companies that are all about hype and getting an "exit" someday. Steve Jobs (as an example) is regarded as a "deity", a god of Silicon Valley. Because of wealth? Because the iPhone / iPod / iWhatever had a simple design? Step outside, the iPhone is used as a vessel for narcissism. Facebook and Instagram, two billion dollar companies in the valley, those two are the TEXTBOOK narcissism vessels of HUMAN HISTORY. These tech-startups are an absolute pathetic coping mechanism for humanity, they are not innovative or special.
I do something similar in the UK.

Stealth Digital Nomad Sysadmin/Sales Engineer in a converted Mercedes Sprinter LWB

http://instagram.com/tdobsonnet

If you're interested in this kind of thing, /r/vandwellers is the place to be!

Happy to answer any questions. :)
First Array of Things sensors installed on Chicago streets
Found it! https://youtu.be/B94lP-fZyLk?t=40s
This would count as capital gains, so (33% federal + 14.7% provincial) / 2 would be closer to 23.85%.

That's not counting the portions that fall under lower tax rates, or the lifetime capital gains exemption of $750,000.

If he did structure it under a holding company, he could better spread out the payments over a number of years so that more of it could fall under lower tax rates.
Both of those things are paid by municipalities out of property taxes. They would not be affected in any way by Apple's corporate tax dodges.
> a few billion in secret stash tax havens.

Fyi, Apple's stash of billions in foreign corporate structures is not "secret".[1] The IRS, the California State government, and all the Wall Street analysts know the money is over there in Ireland. In any case, Apple is complying with the law and paying the relevant foreign taxes (which are lower than the USA rates).

Since their revenue shuffling is not illegal, the more accurate criticism is if Apple is abusing legal loopholes. A lot of people feel they are.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
A significant percentage of each dollar you give to the government is given back to you in the form of civil infrastructure and various kinds of social aid. Precisely 0 percent of each dollar that goes to Apple is used to your benefit.

I'm not saying I blindly trust the government, I just see companies as even worse stewards.
and yet silicon valley says it's impossible that discrimination on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, and age isn't happening. Not you, per se, just in general everyone believes the scam but the rest is "just a matter of opinion."

As for me I am entirely unsurprised because I've literally seen it all. and it happens more often than most people realize. the more desperate you are to be here, the more people will take advantage of you.

It's very similar to the way young girls who want to be actresses or models get "discovered" by pornographers.
This is fiction, right?
I never said a Functor was a HOF, but it's not far wrong. The implementation of the morphism-mapping part of a functor is a higher order function. Show me an example of Strategy that is not essentially a HOF.
Because misspelling your name, while quirky, doesn't exactly express professionalism.
I don't think anyone is really a fan of regex(es?) but the task they are for is actually a rather complicated one and, let's be honest, they are pretty good at it. I agree that it would be nice to see better tools to understand and create new regex but I think that they are actually fine on their own.

They might be ugly and everyone had a point where they thought they were just some sort of magic impossible to understand but I think that there is a point where they just... click. After that they can still be ugly and messy but you at least understand that there is a purpose to it.
Here are the allegations

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...
Inspiring! Have been wondering when I can tweak a Tesla Van: https://electrek.co/2016/07/31/tesla-all-electric-cargo-van-...
> Now, a government that didn't exist at the time, is using new case law it has created, to retroactively change the tax laws of the governments underneath it.

It's kind of tricky because though the EU as it is today is relatively new Ireland joined the European Economic Community which essentially became the EU. Also whenever that rule came into effect the special rules Ireland gave Apple should have been reevaluated and removed. They've always been against the state aid rule it's just not been tried until now. As for "changing the tax laws of governments underneath it" that's part of being in the EU you give up parts of your national sovereignty in a number of areas for the benefits of being in the open market.
Nice writeup and awesome build!

On the other hand, I can't follow you on your motivations. I mean, living in car in my opinion is the opposite of freedom. And you did it because of the crazy housing prices in your country. What about just moving in another country where the cost of living is cheap? As you said, you are developer, you can work from anywhere and you like travelling.
> but how often do you scale something through 6 orders of magnitude?

I can't speak for others but the team I'm on has a mind-boggling amount of data. 6 orders of magnitude is not even close (no, I'm not doing something clever like starting with "byte" or "bit" as smallest unit). The truth is most people don't have "big data" but plenty of people do—petabyte scale is becoming pedestrian these days and a few larger organizations are into the exabyte range.

Latency grows as you go from registers to RAM to hard drives in distant data centers. Consider that data centers don't really stack on top of each other, they have to be built flat or you can't get rid of the waste heat fast enough. Same with microprocessors and RAM. Everything is flat, in practice, with a limit to how much it gets stacked.

Maybe you think that this is a special case, but with everyone building their applications on top of the same cloud providers, your provider's scalability starts to affect you personally. So even if you build a small application in the cloud, your ability to access data is impacted by the fact that your cloud provider is providing access to exabytes of data.
Try the film the 13th floor.
You just hear less about their fuckups, because they're less transparent than governments.
No, the deals were offered to just some companies
XML Syntax
I think the point is that he's spent $79,000 on the car, which appears to be glossed over somewhat when calculating the TCO. What does T stand for, after all? The price of the car absolutely must be included.
Personally? Ruby, Go or Python.
What are you talking about. How do tuples preclude the requirement of a way to hash?

That's a very naive way to map using the delimeter of the tuple parts. You might have interior elements that are 10k long.
Most likely it isn't a username/password but an authenticated URL... https://foo.bar.netflix.com/(UUID-OR-SIMILAR) where that is resolved to a resource, and the user authentication is valid for X hours from start...

There's no need for a plain username+password to be used... it's just an authentication token as the resource or part of the url.
Obviously the tax-evadee can expect some reward from the tax-evader. Throwing a few thousand jobs Ireland's way is the least Apple could do.
What op doesn't realize is that he already does. It's called the CEOs salary and its sometimes 30000 times that of the lowest paid worker, who of course survives with welfare.
Once in a while, I need to move. I don't own a U-Haul-sized moving van and drive it to work every day just because of this; instead, I rent such a truck when I need it.

If you're married or cohabiting, you most likely have two vehicles anyway. You're not going to bring both of them when you go on a weekend outing with your significant other or family, so having one EV just for commuting absolutely can make financial sense in that situation. There's a reason many families have one nice car and one crappy beater car; the beater gets used for one person's commute, and the nice car is used for the other's commute plus family trips.
Soft robotics is a bit overhyped. So the two big things that make soft robots interesting right now are the ability not to hurt people if the controller messes up and the ability to squeeze through cracks. If controllers become sufficiently reliable then we lose the first justification. The second is mostly of interest to the military.

There are very good reason to have rigid robots. With higher stiffness one can obtain higher precision and operating speed. The resonant frequency of a robot is proportional to the stiffness of said robot. Higher resonant frequencies imply high operating frequencies and more precision.

Not to mention, most animals, especially land animals, are not entirely soft.
> mundane transient things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid

You might dislike some of the details but aren't those things there to stop people dying, starving or living in misery?

Doesn't the entire developed world have programmes similar to those you've just dismissed as 'mundane and transient' - presumably to stop the masses rioting in the street?

Which libertarian paradise should we be looking to for guidance here?
And another for pure silicon, and others for the various doped silicons, …

I don't even know what the actual materials are with current technologies, but whatever it is, the speed will be much lower than the vacuum speed of light.
I read somewhere that higher H2S in the environment is correlated with higher suicide rates in those locations so sharing air with a bunch of h2s leaking batteries might affect you.
California is about to find out what a truly radical climate policy looks like
The process is against Ireland, not Apple
Microsoft loved Plenty of fish. I remember there wasn't a single Microsoft sponsored ASP .NET talk that didn't mentioned POF in some shape or form.
Not on the same scale, but I remember reading an article a while back that compared the sales of TechCrunch & the Huffington Post. IIRC the founder of TechCrunch retained majority ownership so he made more than Arianna despite the Huffington Post selling for 10x as much.
This is precisely the tragedy of the commons. Apple's share of the tax base, while enormous compared to say mine, is still small. Furthermore, Apple's investors are a very small portion of the population, so only see a small part of the benefit of tax spending. So it's clearly worth saving a giant pile of money in exchange for very slightly worse gov't services.
Bragi has BIG news
Regex combinators are a much better solution to that problem, for which I gave various arguments here[1]:

- You don't need to remember which regex syntax the library is using. Is it using the emacs one ? The perl one ? The javascript one ? that new "real language" one ?

- It's "self documenting". Your combinators are just functions, so you just expose them and give them type signatures, and the usual documentation/autocompletion/whatevertooling works.

- It composes better. You don't have to mash string together to compose your regex, you can name intermediary regexs with normal variables, etc.

- Related to the point above: No string quoting hell.

- You stay in your home language. No sublanguage involved, just function calls.

- Capturing is much cleaner. You don't need to conflate "parenthesis for capture" and "parenthesis for grouping" (since you can use the host's languages parens).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12293687
By your logic, everybody should pay far more than the taxes they owe.

The honorable judge Learned Hand (yes, really) once said

> There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.

As long as companies are staying within the bounds of the law, it's perfectly reasonable for them to keep their tax bill as low as possible, and one might even argue that (for public companies) they're required to do so in order to perform their fiduciary duty to their shareholders. If you have a problem with the "loopholes" that companies use to lower their tax bill, you should take it up with the people who make the law, not the companies that follow the law.
Sounds like entitlement.
There's a bunch, but one example would be Morningstar, the mutual fund review company. Other than some small friends and family money at the beginning ($80k), Joe Mansueto never raised any money, until seventeen years after the founding and it was making substantial money already.

This was in part by selling annual subscriptions, so he got cash in advance from each customer. Even though he lost money for a while by accounting rules, he was cash flow positive after a year.
Every semantic API ends up with an overriding parameter like _action=PUT because well intentioned API developers don't know that broken middleboxes exist on the internet until their beautiful creation collides with reality.
Or south america, asia, etc.
Can you source how many illegal state aids rulings have been overturned on appeal?
This... is not about the US. Things work slightly different elsewhere.
The money is not in Ireland. It goes to Bermuda.

The shuffling was illegal, that is why they are going to be made to repay billions. It was illegal for the Irish to not charge them the standard rate, not illegal for Apple to try to do a deal.
75% of the 'Photography' in IKEA catalogs is CGI (2014)
>The only reason we're reaching a tipping point in the American car market is because families with two cars are so common. If you have two cars it makes perfect sense to have one that can go around your city, and another one that can go anywhere.

This is exactly right, and I'm glad I finally see someone one these forums saying this. You're probably the first one. I find it rather sad that most people on a forum like this cannot conceive of this at all, presumably because they're all single.
Isn't it Ireland's prerogative if they want to collect taxes on corporations or not? It's bringing in excessive amounts of jobs (and payroll taxes) and investments to their country.

This whole tax avoidance criticism just boggles my mind. There's a sale in China. One person pays money to another person in their country for a phone created in China that never left China. Yet somehow US citizens believe they are entitled to 30-40% of the money that exchanged hands there or it's "tax avoidance".
Canal boats in London are not much cheaper than apartments. Nor is anything else.

I used to work Monday-Friday in London and head home (Manchester) for the weekend for about six months. During the week I'd stay in the cheapest hotels I could find (£50/night average). It was horrible, and after six months I ended up doing super cheap Air BNB just so I could cook some food once in a while. Still not great.

Eventually we just moved here. It's fine if you look for beyond zone 1, ideally near where you're working, and get paid London rates.
It's almost as if none of these guys have ever read any nightmarish dystopian cyber-punk fiction. Megacorps as stand-in for governments == bad.
I live in a van.[1]

I started out in the van with a girlfriend, then our relationship came to an end (the van probably helped it last a bit longer) and so I got back into dating.

I'd say dating with the van was easier than before I had it.

You must lead with it. You have to make sure it's upfront with everyone - you don't bring it up last - it said it all over my OKC profile - and you know - nothing starts conversations like something unusual. It's not for everyone - but the people who opt out - it would't have worked with anyway. The ones that opt in, it's good. Probably the most dangerous people who fetishise your vanlifestyle above the reality. Reality is that there are ups and downs, good things and tradeoffs.

Anyway, I'm now happily in an awesome relationship - and yeah - the van isn't a big deal. It kind of helps - cos she lives a good distance away from many of my friends. :)

[1] https://www.instagram.com/tdobsonnet/
The most impressive thing about Markus Frind is that for years and years his startup was just one person working a few hours a day to manage a few servers. At one point he managed to become a top-20-in-traffic website while still running doing everything except customer support by himself:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/my-scaling-hero/

https://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2012/10/

https://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/32-billion-ima...

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...

https://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/2008-was-a-goo...

https://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/14/how-i-started-...
depends on the level. with Execs you get a double trigger if you're let go after a liquidity event (essentially all your stock vests so you don't get shafted.

Young people rarely if ever have the leverage to negotiate severance, but If you can, I'd say 2 months at a minimum plus 1 month for each year. Chances are that in a small startup the reason you get nothing is that they go out of business. And if you're a marketer, doubly so.

As I always say, engineers get aqui-hired. And marketers get acqui-fired.
Not really. Non invasive bci through fmri is basically about mapping activation function in certain regions to some other computing function. The actual computer actuation is only as coupled with the activation as you can get from related measurement after giving the user a prompt. Oh and by the way it's not IO it's just one way.

tDCS on the flip side is a very unknown, poorly targeted way to get some activation but only to certain levies and nobody really knows how or if it works consistently. The research jury is split so far.

Invasive Deep brain stimulation is definitely better, however it's still solely used to create general simulation in order to prevent tremors and other maladies.

The only thing I've seen recently that gives me some excitement from an input protective was work recently done by Ramirez and Liu on implanting memory into a mouse brain. That was a single study though and was very very narrow.
How do I send a link!! Seriously would love to know. I paste it in and I think it gets reformatted for the person on the other end. What is that??
I agree. Two million inserts per second is very low. It should be close to an order of magnitude more.
> Founder Sold His Startup for $575M in Cash and Gets to Keep Every Penny

Clearly it was paid in pennies.
Isn't AirPlay pretty much analogous? Only available on a single brand of devices with an effectively DRM protected closed protocol?
> "SED-A-GIVE?!"

I genuinely think those are the three funniest syllables I've ever heard. The breathless incredulity at Igor's suggestion has always made me smile.
Gene Wilder, Star of 'Willy Wonka' and 'Young Frankenstein,' Dies
The Blizzard updater is actually a very cool download utility, worth hacking/poking at.

AFAIK it pioneered the concept of "web seeds", using HTTP GETs with a Range: header to download specific chunks from a CDN that were not healthy/available in the swarm.
> Isn't it Ireland's prerogative if they want to collect taxes on corporations or not?

What is not a member of the UE prerogative is giving unfair deals to just some companies. This is what the case is about.
Great point. Something definitely seems odd about this mistake.
I agree that Silicon Valley is in NEED of a crash.

But NOT because there is no innovation. But because there is a lot of innovation and that real innovation is getting squished by get rich schemes (I have no other descriptions for some startups). This is like with all bubbles: fundamentals will start it but then speculators will take over causing the bubble.
Well yeah, I figured that that's implied, the only times that really matter are the rising and falling edges of the clock.
COBORE: common business-oriented regex.

Bonus: COBORE -> (Japanese) kobore ->　こぼれ -> 溢れ/零れ　("spillage").

"Overflowing spillage of verbosity."
Show HN: A chatbot to help you buy and sell cars privately
I don't know of any western democracies collapsing under the weight of their taxation system.
Ask HN: Single-user task and project management recs?
I'd love to hear about any good task/project management tools that you've used in a single-user environment. There are a handful of other devs on my team, but my work is typically independent of theirs. Most of the project management tools I've seen (Trello, Basecamp, etc.) are geared toward collaborative environments, so there's a lot of functionality that I wouldn't be using.
Android yes, Chromecast no. It's hardcoded to defeat DNS-level location spoofing for Netflix and similar services.
I think this is an untapped way of living, but society/cops seem to discourage it by ticketing excessively.

It gets to be a mess when too many people try it.

Sometimes it's totally unrelated to vandwellers- in college, the town was only twice the population of the school, so there was a massive shortage of parking.