skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be kinda nice if you could wrap it with some minimal level of protection through SELinux or something. Still wouldn't be as secure as switching it off, but at least a malicious insider would have to jump through a couple of hoops to get there.
Thanks, I will take a look.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-daimler-electric-idUSKCN11...

Daimler is planning six to nine new electric cars between 2018 and 2024, while also unveiling a new electric model next month on the Paris motor show.
Posterity?
NSA Hacked French President’s House
I've not tried the Kia or the VW, but I enjoyed it a lot better than the Leaf and found the interior to be nicer. It may be spartan in how it looks, but a great deal more thought was put into the layout than in the Leaf.
outsold is a different claim than what the GP claimed. It also doesn't say anything about profitability. A lot of startups outsell the competition at a loss per unit. And then try the "just sell more" approach. Things may work out for Tesla if they can ensure their funding helps them reach the end of the runway and lift of - or not. And then "outsold" will be a sad feather in the cap.
A better way of solving it is to resolve the issue i raised:
https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/285
Wouldn't it be assumed that someone in their 30/40s would have savings to retrain?

When I went to uni, there were a few mature students.
When I was an active heroin addict, I would do a small test shot of new
product before doing a normal dose. If it was too strong, then the match-head sized shot would get me off, and I would know to go easy on it. If nothing happened, I would wait 5 minutes and then raise the dose, until I was where I wanted to be. I somehow managed to avoid overdosing in the 8 or so years I was using. I don't know what part of that can be attributed to caution or luck, but there was probably a lot of luck involved. Either way, that chapter of my life is over, and I am grateful to have come out alive.
Tesla is as much a manufacturing upstart as it is a charger network upstart. Both parts can grow side by side. Shoehorning a charger network that is starting from zero into an existing, massive manufacturing and development organization that is perfectly tuned to the well trodden path would face a whole class of difficulties that simply don't exist in the all-new company.
To dumb to go to uni is horrible assumption to make of anyone.

You should be free to follow your passion/whims and study whatever they want, love it, hate it, fuck it up, drop out, and try something else. Even more so when you are young inexperienced and finding your way in the world.

> and the only result was them racking up tens of thousands in debt

That's the problem America needs to solve.
WhatsApp vs. Viber – Best Features and Improvements Comparison
Anyone who's done even a trivial amount of programming in the shell knows to do: [ "$x" == "" ]
> Safety

Tesla Model S Achieves Best Safety Rating of Any Car Ever Tested
http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-tesla-model-s-achieves-...

> Upgrades

Due to dealerships, most cars can _only_ have their software upgrades during services. Tesla can push it out over the air. I'm not aware of anyone else doing that, and they probably can't due to dealership rules.

> Luggage space

But there's the frunk. Because the motor is the size of a watermelon instead of 1/4 of the car. The Model S has nearly twice as much cargo space as, say, the Audi A6.
http://cars.axlegeeks.com/compare/1525-4509/2013-Tesla-Model...

> Solar

Yep we can agree on this one, solar wont help on cars.

> Licencing
> Tesla does not own the IP for the battery tech nor the superchargers

Do you have a source for that? Tesla batteries are damn complicated, its not just a load of laptop batteries glued together, there are very complex support systems around the battery cells. Are you telling me they dont own the IP for that?
As I recall it needs a swath of nearly a thousand ports open. Getting one opened in a corporate environment is difficult enough.
Also looking at an i3, and it looks like the range is too small for me. I think the new models have about 300km/186mi (ideal conditions probably), but for a vacation one would need at least 500km IMO.
If you are familiar with Jon Skeet (who last time I saw had #1 rep on StackOverflow), I will add one more - the most knowledgeable people frequently were also just damn good writers.

You can quite literally see the evolution in Jon's answers - as time went by his recent answers started becoming better. Today, most of his answers a) have almost zero ambiguity and b) round off the knowledge you gained by adding a few related points, preventing future ambiguity too.

Obviously I am a big fan of his writing, but I think he puts a lot of effort into his answers and even reflecting on those answers. For example, I saw an interview where he mentions the tradeoff between precision and concision in writing, and then making it readable on top of that! Very, very few people can succeed on all three fronts in technical writing.
I have found the Chicago undergraduate mathematics bibliography useful for directing self-study:

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm

Previously discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9927909
Another great article from this source:

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Saving-Chavismo-in-...

Unbelievable.
it's difficult to get a picture of all the nuances of this project, of course, from any quick read.. one thing that the article left me wondering a/b is the outline of "the new stack" which is "agnostic to any programming language".

i mean, i'm not the biggest Java fan, but it's alright, and there are some pretty good RESTful frameworks

https://www.playframework.com/

while the strangler application (always a fowler link, always, in these types of articles) makes a ton of sense for making sanity out of incoming requests, i wonder if some effort could have been &/or was saved behind the transport layer by reusing (possibly with refactor) the existing Java implementation?

whether doing so would make sense would be really situation dependent, of course, and an "outside" perspective from a quick article isn't going to have enough information to say anything conclusive. the (lazy) feel is that reuse is better than duplication of effort.

------------

aaaaanyway, super-good article. this is of of the kinds of things that's important to think about as a workaday web dev.
If you can get it in the front of your mouth you're already doing better than your peers and Darwin is waiting impatiently to endow you with your highly appropriate award.
I would be really interested in setting up an exit node and doing my part to help people with privacy and other issues get access to an open internet. Where would be the best place to start? I'm afraid that I'm not quite as technically advanced as the Author of the article so setting up the auto email responders and such would be difficult - can you just ignore the emails?
My link shows that Tesla sales increased and all the others went down (comparing 2014 to 2015).

If Tesla just sold the Model S, they would be profitable. Margins are pretty good for each Model S. But selling just the Model S is not the plan, hence the huge cash burn.
depends on number of connections, 60000-60020 works fine.
Is there an experiment which can test whether the Planck length really is the shortest possible length?
Chat Bots vs. Mobile Apps
This misses that those trades pay well because there is a lack in supply. If people are starting to realise this, in the future there will be more tradesmen, and then there will be a surplus of supply, and pay will go down.

As such, if you can obtain it, an engineering degree is has a little more insurance - these types of degrees are not useless, in fact, STEM degrees are becoming more and more valuable.

I have a low opinion of the military, or at least entering at a low-level. Maybe for those with discipline issues? But it's a gamble - you can literally die, without the kind of pay other dangerous jobs get. Plus, I feel you're putting your moral agency up for sale...
Sending pictures as "text", isn't that a MMS (multi-media SMS)? Which, as far as I know, is hugely expensive; I'd much rather upload a picture to a website, Telegram bot or email.
Makes managing a cheap European vps from Australia bearable.
Yeah, but not all subjects are the same. If we had too many engineers.. Well, that wouldn't be a problem, if it's even possible...
> Democrats blamed corporate greed. “Just offer workers more money,” they said, “and the skills gap will close itself.”

No seriously. Offer more fucking money.
I don't want iOS look at all
Seems pretty comprehensive to me. As a career quant trader I'd say it's a matter of doing the advanced stuff so that you understand the simple stuff. Especially in statistics, there are a number of simple principles, but they need to be learned by incorporating them into some complicated lessons.

There's also programming. That's a whole can of worms in itself. There's both theory and practice, where I'd say the practice is far more important than it seems. You really have to have bashed your head against a wall (of your own making) to appreciate how to code in a sensible, maintainable way.
> I understand that there's very little interest by most men to have a male contraceptive

What makes you think that? I believe the opposite, many men would be extremely glad not to have to rely on trusting another person to not make a baby, or having an additional fallback in case the condom breaks.
Did you read the post? He's discussing the typical coursework needed for a math degree. I've not bought his book and am not interested in becoming a quant, yet I've found his site to be a useful source of tips and textbooks for me as I self-study mathematics.
This post is overly optimistic and largely fails to address the 800 pound gorilla in the room: Tesla is selling cars at a loss. Once Tesla has to operate like a normal company and sell cars to make a profit, it is almost certain that pricing will rise dramatically.

It is possible that other branches of the business could subsidize car sales indefinitely, but highly unlikely.
It probably uses a marquis reagent, which could theoretically be made at home, as it is just a mixture of formaldehyde and sulfuric acid[0]. There are also websites[1] that have a key describing the colors that a number of substances produce on reaction with various reagents.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_reagent

[1] https://dancesafe.org/testing-kit-instructions/
What's the story in Asia? I only know about Thailand where a photo, age, sex and religion(!) are standard on CVs. Most advertised jobs state requirement for male or female of a certain age.
There seems to be no middle point with the i-series and it's its biggest problem. You either have to go for the affordable but incredibly ugly and bare i3(seriously, look at this car from the side - front, middle and back all look like they've been designed by different teams and then stitched together), or for the gorgeous i8, which is incredibly expensive and very impractical.
Milky Way Time-Lapse Over Julian Alps
While on a train going through a tunnel :) At least that is what I use it for in Switzerland :)
Whoops, totally forgot to post the link in the first place: http://theduke.at/blog/develop/sad-state-of-file-sharing/.
I'm not sure where you got the idea men don't want contraceptives in the form of a pill, but every sexually active guy I know would love to have more security against unwanted pregnancy that had no negative effects on pleasure
Real-Time Graphics in Pixar Film Production
This is similar to a technique used in Renjin to compile specific vector computation expressions down to straight-line JVM bytecode, which is then JITed down to machine code. It's a very powerful technique because it removes all the indirection involved in a evaluating dynamic expressions and lets the processor just do its job.

For example, if you evaluate sum(sqrt(x^2 + y^2) * 3) in Renjin, and x or y happen to be very long vectors, then we'll jit out a JVM class for this specific expression that would look something like this in Java:

class JittedComputation1E5374A3 {
SEXP compute(SEXP[] args) {
double[] x = args[0].toDoubleArrayUnsafe();
double[] y = args[1].toDoubleArrayUnsafe();
double sum = 0;
for(int i=0;i<x.length;++i) {
double xi = x[i];
double yi = y[i]
sum += Math.sqrt(xi*xi+yi*yi) * 3;
}
return DoubleVector.valueOf(sum);
}
}

The computation is specialized to the types of x and y, so if for example x is a sequence 1:1000000 then a new class gets written for that doesn't even use an array for x.

The speedup is so impressive that even if you don't cache the compiled expression you see dramatic improvements: http://www.renjin.org/blog/2015-06-28-renjin-at-rsummit-2015...
Well they can argue that way, but they would fail.

arbitrary:
"based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system."
The UK's NHS website is an excellent, reputable source of health information. It may not be the most attractive looking site, but it has a goldmine of info. There's information on ailments and conditions, treatments and general health advice.

Importantly, the information is written and vetted by qualified medical professionals.

http://www.nhs.uk
I have a lot of family working in obgyn or genetic. The main problems of the products so far for male contraception is that they are not easily reversible.

And there is not yet a really succesful idea for a reversible treatment.

Tbh, there would be a market. If the side effects are not too bad, and if it is reversible. Female contraception works because the side effect of not taking it are worse than the one of taking it.

For male contraception, the side effect of not taking it are low. This is a sad thing about human, but i sadly don't see it change in the coming years :(
> because it would mean they wouldn't have to admit their requirements were stupid

I personally prefer it to be instructed when my requirements are stupid (if there really is strong evidence that they are) since this way I can learn in a much faster pace to make good requirements.
There are about a half dozen ads (and a fade-in popover) above the actually content. It's a terrible site design from the perspective of someone wanting to read the content on mobile, but the article is there.

I also just left without reading it, due to the ads.
> however the more nodes that don't engage in such activities, the better for the network overall.

I'd argue that it is quite the opposite.

The more people are aware that plaintext over Tor is a really, really bad idea [1], the more people will use end-to-end encryption. In particular, they will insist that more websites switch to HTTPS. Which is actually better for the network overall, and would render most of these attacks useless.

I wonder whether the Tor browser bundle should disable plain HTTP completely, only to be enabled through some obscure config setting for the seldom use cases where this is actually needed.

[1] Tor is by definition a system of man-in-the-middle through man-in-the-middle. Why would anybody want to use that without end-to-end encryption?
Seconding Telegram here. I recently learned that making a Telegram bot takes no time at all, and the custom keyboards make them great to use.
As I understand it, this is indeed a fundamental feature of the Planck length; The universe might have structure smaller than this, but we wouldn't be able to tell. So the Planck length is the shortest meaningful length, in that we would never be able to discern structure smaller than this.
I'm currently doing the same and have found a lot of my time is spent interviewing managers and their reports to devine what problem they are solving with the software.

In general they are completely unable to describe the job and problems they solve for the company, only how they use the software day to day, with out significant coaching and reframing.
Hey, it's the Author here.. You don't have to be very technical with that.. There are plenty of tutorials, some are "official" in the Tor Project website, and some not. Unfortunately you have to reply to these e-mails otherwise they may follow up or see that you never reply and follow other means of contacting you. Truth be told, I don't know. I've just read some info on their website.
Testing mosh made me aware how much I am relying on the port forwarding feature in ssh in my daily work, and how hard it is to replace it.

Otherwise: Great tool.
Gps location for photos - a lot of tools - online and offline - allow you to map your photos on a map which is always a fun way to go through your albums later
Introducing the KDE Software Store
They list the battery API in Firefox, but that is actually whitened exactly to prevent user tracking.
As a non-US citizen I don't expect much protection from US constitution. Historically, it had peacefully coexisted with many kinds of discrimination. But I'd rather US government didn't record my communications, constitutional or not. It is not a constitutional matter, it is a human rights matter.

Of course, enforcing it is problematic because the USA is the most powerful country in the world and other governments are not keen on protecting their citizens' rights in this regard. On the contrary, they seem acutely envious of US surveillance powers and are trying to get some of them themselves.
Which Wordpress template do you suggest for a new technology blog?
>Some of these places can already be seen visually. For example, Florida.

I think if this is true at all (I'm not sure it is) it's just an artifact of the large blobs used on the traffic fatalities map.
Closing the Digital Divide – Technology as the New Fountain of Youth
He lists ebooks on his blog, but this is a blog post.

That said, I'm not sure of the value of linking to part 3, unless the idea is it is the latest and already links back to parts 1 & 2.
> While you can do pointer arithmatic there will be null pointers

There is no reason why the concept of a null pointer has to exist. If there were no special null pointers it would be perfectly okay for the operating system to actually allocate memory at 0x00000000. With unrestricted pointer arithmetic you can of course make invalid pointers, but a reasonable restriction is to only allow `pointer+integer -> pointer` and `pointer-pointer -> integer`. You can't make a null pointer with just those.
To me, "human" is a member of the human race, "person" is any creature with consciousness, feelings, personality. So, if an ape/dolphin/alien/robot/whatever is intelligent enough, they are a person to me.

This is my opinion, though a lot of it was shaped by the German education system, so it's definitely possible that when this question becomes actually relevant in a decade or two that a judge might rule this the official interpretation.
FYI most of the U.S. constitution only uses the word "person" as well, but legally persons outside the U.S. who are not citizens have no standing.
> It is not and it does not become it by you repeating that claim

Yes it is, and it does not not become it by you repeating that claim.

Most people would not be working where they work if they didn't need money. They would do what they actually enjoy. The percentage of people who love their jobs is tiny.

> It is not, it is the explanation, what money actually is

No, it's the explanation of how money is introduced, not what it "actually is". Money is the measure of human labor. You clearly can't comprehend the difference.
We can debate about who the web belongs to, but the browser belongs to users.
Most iOS users using iOS apps want, though.
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Dancing on the edge is the economically sensible thing to do. Same reason you only spend so much on earth quake resistance if they only happen once every 50 years. Let the whole city fall down and rebuild is cheaper than an earthquake tax on everything every year.
that is not the only 2 options,

It does not need to be a conspiracy for SJW to be a movement.
Beyond the Gym: learning to be comfortable with being uncomfortable
Tesla is operating at a loss, but Model S and Model X are sold at a high margin comparable to other cars in their category. Source: share holder letters.
Pretty sure that SpaceX is focused on reliability. One of the analogy that Elon Musk used is comparing a Honda Civic versus a Ferrari, asking which is more reliable.

Historically, rockets are focused on performance, not cost.

SpaceX's focus on producing cheaper rocket and launching more of them will yield more reliability. You make more of them, you make more mistakes, more opportunities to correct them.

Eventually you'll have a system for making very reliable rockets.
I'm aiming to become a quant dev.

I'm already a dev, but trying to catch up wrt the math at the moment :-O

I'm finding there are a whole bunch of skills unrealted to most dev concerns. looking at this: http://quantjob.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-avoid-quantdevel...
I think a lot of dev skills are "housekeeping" - VC, commenting, testing, agile, automation, standards etc.

The quant dev stuff seems to be a lot more concerned with performance, correctness and accuracy, and the last two in particular are somewhat specialist dev skills I think - I've found code derived from mathematical equations be be a little different to other code.
The local pizza and shawarma* shops are always a pain to call. Half the time when they speak I don't understand their broken Dutch and they always sound impatient and don't repeat back, making me wonder whether they know what I want. When I ask for confirmation they sound exasperated, as if I'm asking them to spell out a fifty item order letter by letter.

So yeah, sms based service would be great here (or rather, something that doesn't cost money when done internationally). On the other hand, this postcard service sounds like it's going to cost me 20 bucks when I take a picture from another continent, which is exactly the use-case here. A 160 byte sms already costs like a euro to send from outside of the EU.

* This is what google translate tells me "shoarma" is in English. I've never seen that word before, not sure it's a thing in America. They're everywhere here.
In my view this is more a question of simple interface vs. simple implementation. Having cross-references at the language level gives a uniform and simplified interface at the cost of more having to develop careful tools.

Not saying refs/id are bad, but at least with a uniform syntax and language support, you don't have to reimplement custom cross-reference resolvers.
I mean more for the server modules and their associated hardware. The chips themselves are useless without that.
Like others here I am also disappointed by the youtube recommended videos. So I was investigating building a better recommender myself. I was actually searching for how the youtube recommender works yesterday but could only find the 2010 paper. Now I am starting to believe that it is not the recommender that is the problem. It is that youtube consists of 99% low quality videos.
Did I at any point make a value judgement, as you did?

I simply said, as did dcposch, that to talk about ethics independent of ability is useless from a functional perspective. And to go farther, that applying anything other than amorality to internet actors is without functional value.

A rebuttal, if you feel otherwise, would take the form of "No, I believe pure ethical evaluation is still useful because..."
Hey, thanks for your reply. Your line of thought is very similar to what we had. We considered refactoring the existing Java implementation. It used a really old Jersey version, with too many overengineered customizations tightened to that version. We tried to upgrade it and get rid of some of those customizations, but the system was so fragile that other parts of the system stopped working, which made that a really difficult road to drive. We wanted to simplify the design. We chose Scala and Finagle for the new stack.
Plan9 from?