skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Media landscape in Russia is as complicated as everywhere, so I usually try to reconstruct the full picture from publications in business media - Kommersant (neutral, oldest quasi-independent media holding), Vedomosti (originally started by Financial Times, but sold to Russian investors, has light opposition flavor), Expert (in last 5 or 6 years got strong pro-Putin bias, but because of target audience is not filled with propaganda). All TV and radio stations in Russia do not worth any attention because of their strong bias. I also try to verify the interesting publication by reading official press releases and local newspapers (when some new project is completed, it may not receive major federal coverage, but it will be a notable event for locals or professional media). I do read state media sometimes, because they do not publish 100% lie (and even opinions quite often make sense), but I usually double-check their facts. It's not normal way to read news today, but I've been working as architect of media sentiment analysis software for some very high-profile customers (not Russian) in 2000s and have some analytical habits since that time.
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One thing is the actual car. I think at least BMW should now know how to build a proper EV. But that still doesn't mean people will buy it. It would need a charging network that can help people out when traveling long distances. Tesla has the supercharger network - no other network can come anywhere near it when it comes to performance and coverage.
"The postcard will show up at the address within a week"

In South Africa if I send a letter from one city to another, it can take a week to arrive. For international mail, I usually work on time frames of about a month. I've known stuff to arrive 6 months after being sent. So even if they are able to dispatch post cards from SA, I'd be surprised if the could keep this promise. Going to give it a try though.
Comparison [pdf] of some SMS platforms used by NGOs for social good
From the statement: http://nodevember.org/statement.html

> we became aware that based on private feedback - not simply the dialogue on Twitter - that his presence would make some speakers uncomfortable to the point where they refused to attend or speak.

What does the private feedback consist of, and did Crockford have a chance to respond to it?

It's scary that we are going down this path where you can now be kicked off an event with no publicly stated reasoning.
There are a few "what did you drive before" threads on the Tesla forums, and it's all over the place, from Hummers to Jaguars to Maseratis to Nissan GT-Rs, but surprisingly many seem to be coming from Prius or a Volvo of some sort.
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This. Ever heard of Myspace? Altavista? When making a market, watch out for well equipped and funded upstarts going to get you. Next victims of their own success: Docker.
>It would be far worse if everyone was inventing their own solution for this

They are - HJSON, JSON5, TOML, etc. Most of these reference YAML's overcomplicated spec as a reason for their existence.
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> "We made the very conscious decision to be conservative in our marketing since it's not in our interest for the assistant systems to be used in circumstances they should not," said the Mercedes official.

You don't say?

https://electrek.co/2016/07/29/mercedes-pull-self-driving-ca...
I am surprise that even citizens think that they are safe from mass surveillance regardless of what the country's constitution states.

Secret services obey no law other than their own internal regulations, regardless of what people might see on TV series.
I find Chris Patuzzo’s solo Sentient language (http://sentient-lang.org/) inspiring, so much so that I got him to tell the story on a podcast: http://whyarecomputers.com/4
Tesla is a startup compared to these giants...yet fear has gripped them strong.
"this is a JIT library for C++ (of which there are a number)"

Out of interest, can you recommend any others that are actively maintained?
> Truth be told, outside of a few life-support-critical applications, most design is done by trial and error. Very little real engineering gets done.

I think people don't even realise when all that extensive math they studied is even helping them. They may have forgotten or not used the specifics in real life, but if they originally understood it well then they probably gained an important subconscious intuition that shapes, optimises and/or narrows that design trial and error. And the best engineers have a great subconscious intuition for finding solutions.

Note: I studied Civil Engineering, so my math background was nearly all Trig and Calculus rather than the Discreet Math, Logic or Number Theory etc that a Computer Science degree might entail. I've forgotten nearly all of it and never really used it IRL, but I can still appreciate having a 'feel' for relationships between changing quantities etc that others without that math background don't seem to have. And having spent far longer working with software (self taught) than I ever spent with Civil Engineering, I often wonder what subconscious intuition of CS style math I'm missing that would help me.
I don't see many incentives for browser vendors to do it. Google sells ads so they could be benefitting of fingerprinting. Maybe Mozilla could default to not loading webfonts, but there is the risk of people feeling that the browser is broken because it doesn't show the fonts that any other browser does.

I'm using NoScripts on FF which stops webfonts by default. I seldom enable them, almost only when I have to check the real formatting of a web page I'm working on. Anything else is perfectly fine even with the default fonts.

But fonts are only a drop in the ocean of fingerprinting.
If these companies actually deliver any of these hyped future EVs, then IMHO, Tesla has fulfilled it's mission.
YAML is designed for machines to write, and only incidentally for humans to read.

If you want a configuration format, ingy and I designed JSONY for that.
It's not really any more fun to drive than every other EV in this class (KIA Soul, Nissan Leaf, VW E-Golf). However it costs more and is really spartan inside.
Or you watch something in privacy and now you can't open up Youtube in front of anyone anymore.
I think personalized media might bring information bubbles to a whole new level because recommendation systems are more efficient and achieving millions of YouTube views has arguably fewer intellectual hurdles than achieving similar reading rates via print or TV. The information passes though fewer filters (none), e.g. proof readers, team discussions. If that causes an increase of misinformation, then it is on Google to fix it, i.e. to reduce the amount of misinformation at least to pre-YouTube levels.
ingy and I already invented that. It's called JSONY.
It's an indentation-is-semantic format.

I've had more trouble with things trying to allow both spaces and tabs than I've had with YAML's refusal to allow tabs.
> You could say the customer is lying about their requirements, but they probably just don't understand them.

To build on the example from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12428337: If another person says "MySQL" it is MySQL and nothing else. If they meant something different, he would say "data store" or give some non-technical description from which a technology-minded person can reconstruct what the person really wants. The same holds for the "submit button". If the person talks about a "submit button", such a button is meant. If he means something else, he would give a description, say "a user interface element which allows to send the data that I have inputted to the central data store such that [...] Choose the technology which is best according the current UI/UX guidelines.".

If I don't know what I want I give the information in a high-level way such that an expert can reconstruct/build the missing details. If I say some concrete technology that is an exact specification. If this is not what you want, it is lying. There is no in-between.
Galaxy Note 7 recall could cost Samsung $1B
as in "'s Gravenhage"?
Tor noob here: How are exit nodes actually assigned to end-users though? So far my understanding was that the assignment happens automatically without any conscious descision by the end-user. If that's true, construing an "agreement" would be pretty hard - if the user isn't even aware they're using your service.

Same reason shady companies still at least need to make it look like they asked your agreement and can't just state "by looking into our general direction you transfer ownership of all your worldly possessions to us"
>They sat on their asses changing the grill shapes and let an upstart undercut them

Or...maybe no one has figured out how to produce an economically viable electric car yet, Tesla included?

I mean, if already having the company, product and distribution is such a huge advantage, then the competitors have massive leverage, no? Or do you think Tesla has "already won"?
Just for context, 2015 numbers for the US:
Tesla - 25,202 units sold;
Mercedes - 380,461 units sold

Of course not all Mercedes cars are in the same class, but it just goes to show that Tesla is still relatively small for now and its captured market share does not necessarily need to have a significant effect on other brands (for now).
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£72,000 for an entry level model? That seems a lot to me (although I don't own a car at all now).
As someone who's run a few forums aimed at younger audiences, I've seen quite a few teens and kids who don't seem to care very much about social services or what not. In fact, quite a few people on niche forums seem to outright despite sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc.

There's a similar group on more 'anonymous' social media services, like Reddit and Tumblr.

The distinction there is likely between people who prefer spending their time online talking to people they already know offline via social media, and those who spend more of time discussing specific subjects with people on the other side of the planet.
Where Has Hillary Clinton Been? Ask the Ultrarich
> For many BAs, 'MySQL' is interchangeable with 'database' so they don't realise that a different database might be a better solution.

One minute of googling can be expected from BAs, too.

> They're phrasing the requirement in terms of their best understanding of the implementation.

Then they should say "to my knowledge MySQL is a popular database that I know of and is to my knowledge used a lot in the company, but if you know of a better implementation (I don't know much about that - I'm no computer scientist) use it instead.".
> We just hired a 100% visually impaired student and he said that most MS apps provide enough metadata cleanly to play with screen reader apps like JAWS, and that the real bane of his existence was GTK-based applications on Windows.

Not just GTK. Qt, Java, Electron-based... on Windows at least, the only way to create a truly screen reader accessible app is to use native controls. And I mean native controls, via the Windows API, not just ones which look native. Qt has some academic accessibility support but it's practically unusable.

Ironically, given the article I'm commenting on, the situation is worse on OS X.
Any good firefox plugins that can spoof installed fonts and other trackable info?
Wouldn't that have more to do with the company serving businesses rather than consumers, and so have less need for general brand awareness, and focus their sales and marketing efforts entirely differently?
Took a quick look over the website. The first link I clicked on - the "Open Source" icon on the left of the four icon row - didn't work. Looks like a temporary URL is still in use, needing updating. :)

Note - All four icons have the same problem.

Apart from that, the website looks ok. Will investigate it more later. :)
Sounds like another addition for the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" article [1].

Other problematic names: "O'Neill" (apostrophes), "Gómez" (accents), "Rees-Mogg" (hyphens).

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
I have done IT consulting for a company like this. Even though they were the world market leader they were so low profile that the CEO would usually pick up the phone when I called them.

There was no big secret behind it. It's just that their whole market was like 20 companies worldwide served by maybe 7 providers of which 2-3 actually counted.
I drive a 7 year old Prius, and would never dream of buying a 7 series/S class/A8. TBH if I didn't live in London I'd buy a Model S. I am on the waiting list for a Model 3.

What the incumbent car companies don't get, and this article gets right, is that Tesla are operating on a different plane. Yes, I've drunk the Musk Kool-Aid, but it's the only thing that appeals to me that is on offer. The big OEMs just don't get it, and I'm not sure they ever will.

Like, how long will it be before one of the big 3 German OEMs has a > 200 mile range, fully electric car for sale? 2018? That's nuts
It's easy to undercut another company if you're willing to make a loss.

If Tesla reaches profitability you can bet there will be a lot of other EVs on the road within two years from that point precisely for the reasons you listed in your first paragraph.
>You are better of paying a visit to a good nutritionist who can provide you with a tailored diet to suit your body and lifestyle

Unless you have a medical condition that requires a special diet, what exactly is a nutritionist going to tell you that you can't read online? Eating well isn't rocket science. I'd love to see an example of what such a tailored diet would look like.
Compared to shorter range cars I think they are going to do much better. A 90 mile Nelson leaf is ok, a 60 mile neon leaf on the other hand. A 5 year old model S likely has more range than a new leaf and if it bothers you getting a new battery will drastically boost that range.

So, at resale a model S is probably well north of 30k.
As far as choosing the right grip goes I remember hearing something about it in a Tim Ferriss podcast with Coach Sommer. Can't recall what it was exactly, sorry.

You should check it out, two podcasts with Sommer are pretty lengthy but full of nice, actionable tidbits (not that I've used them since I don't remember what they were ;P).
Not complaining, just observing: this is native advertising done really well.
'The parts falling off this car are of the very finest British manufacture.'
I think Clayton Christensen is wrong here for the same reason he was wrong about the iPhone.

First off, I think Christensen has been narrowing his disruption theory too much - pretty much to the "low-end" disruption strategy. But if I remember correctly, the original theory was a little more flexible, and it was more about the "next paradigm" technology/product, although it still put a lot of emphasis on the disruptor having lower cost structures than the incumbents.

However, at the same time, I was reading Blue Ocean Strategy, which is somewhat similar to the disruption theory, but a little more flexible, and it applies to pretty much any industry, not just the technology ones.

What I get from these two theories is that Tesla's cars are a "next-paradigm", which will at the very least make Tesla a "market builder," where it's the leader in that market, but unless Tesla also decides to make the lowest-end cars, then it will not end up dominating the new + old markets.

So in this way, it's similar to what happened to Apple. Apple was clearly the leader in "touchscreen smartphones" for a long time, but because it refused to make $200, and $100, and $50 touchscreen smartphones, it made it impossible to remain the leader in terms of sales.

So from that point of view, Christensen would be right that Tesla will not end up dominating the EV market in terms of sales, when companies like Renault/Nissan/GM will start making $12,000 EVs with 200-mile ranges in 10 years.

But that doesn't mean Tesla will not be successful. It will probably remain the market leader in terms of "who makes the best EV," for a long time, because EVs is what Tesla lives and breathes, and they already have more than a decade of expertise in making production EVs, which will be hard to catch-up to (just like it took most OEMs at least 5 years to even approach the iPhone in quality).

I'm actually quite disappointed myself that Musk said Tesla will never make a lower-end car than the Model 3. I was hoping they would at least make a $20,000 one in 5 years or so. I think he may be overestimating how fast self-driving taxis will be adopted by the majority of the population in a way that it makes sense to not have a car anymore (for people who would supposedly not have the money for a Model 3).

Will Americans really do 20-30 miles commutes in self-driving taxis, every day, twice a day? I don't know if that math will add-up anytime soon. I mean, even if it does happen, but it's 15 years from now, does it really make sense to hold-out on making a $20,000 EV and getting much more market share in the meantime? I don't think it does, but who knows. I think it's a "safer" strategy to build that $20,000 car than not to do it, though.
They did have massive leverage, the whole point of my post was they did not manage use it and are blame-shifting.

Tesla loses money due to continuing massive capital investment into production facilities, they still sell each car for more than what it costs to produce.

It is a rapid growth problem, certainly one of those things that Porshe executives are not familiar with.
Though he had the "luxury" of writing it in a letter. He did not have to come up with it in a terrible moment of grief. Well-said, nonetheless.
> Are there actually any countries whose constitutional protections apply to non-citizens and/or non-residents? I think that would be pretty cool and progressive if it were the case, but I'm not aware of any.

Yes, Germany.

Almost all of German constitution applies to any "Person", not even just any human.

And the government has the constitutional requirement to help ensure those rights are granted to people globally.
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The difference between those numbers will be orders of magnitude larger in other markes - e.g. EU.
When Tesla' sales will show visible dent in their sales it might be already too late to start acting on it, so they probably will want do it preventive.
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What does 'failure' mean in this statistic. Does failure always mean a catastrophic failure (i.e. the recent SpaceX launch) or are failures also rockets not leaving the platform?

I would think that a >5% failure rate is surprisingly high for something we have been doing more than 70 years.
> But more importantly, your comment is off-topic.

I'm just curious, how is it that you see this comment as off-topic? I'm confused.
Engineering as Marketing: How to outrank Wikipedia with a simple calculator
Well, they did pull the ad.
> Behavioural driven development (BDD)

https://cucumber.io/

is a particularly awesome idea for specifying behavior. really want to try it out for a project sometime: the idea is to write the spec in these domain-specific "gherkin" files.

i find it comparatively difficult to get get buy-in on collaborating on anything machine-readable, however, unless it's from people who are comfortable with general-purpose programming languages, anyway.

nonetheless, in an industry where it's fairly standard for designers to build in domain-specific languages, i don't think it's an unreasonable skill for product managers to consider acquiring.

any user experience stories from cucumber, etc. on rewrites or otherwise?
This is an absolutely ridiculous way to run an audit. No wonder accessibility on the web is a mess.
Loneliness can be depressing, but it may have helped humans survive
Its a pity they cant just make a normal, fully electric 3 series or 5 series. These are beautiful cars, yet the decide to go for the i3 and i8.
Switzerland is not a member of the EU.
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Yeah it is a lot. I wouldn't consider buying a brand new car normally. However As currently structured it seems to be a fairly tax efficient way to extract money from the company (vs just buying one from after tax earnings). I was wondering if anyone went down this route with the model S or is going to with model x.
The article identifies the risk that printed money will disappear, replaced with a few large credit card companies and banks so the government can monitor everyone's use of money. Since we're clearly already heading in that direction bit by bit, I wouldn't call it a fringe theory.
That's not how it works though.

There is no harm in you liking Gaugin's paintings now, because he is dead, and by liking a painting, you don't enable his pedophilia.

I will not judge Koch, but if you view him in a bad light, you have every right to question Rowe, because Rowe and Koch enable each other.
It's a lot better (and easier!) with a different tile set. Definitely worth taking the time to play, fantastic game.
If I were a young man, and I was not in the top quartile, or really, top decile, of my high school class, I would be looking real hard at getting into a good trade, rather than going to college. There's nice money in being an electrician, a plumber, a welder, a mechanic. It's relatively low stress, and you leave your work behind when you punch out. Much better than putting yourself massively into debt to try to get a degree of increasing uselessness, particularly if you don't have the grades or the brains to get into and be able to hack a good school and a tough program. I've known too many people that really weren't ready or equipped to go to college, but got pushed along by guidance counselors and the "Everybody goes to college" rhetoric, and the only result was them racking up tens of thousands in debt and dropping out after a semester or two.

The other traditional option for those that aren't really cut out for higher education is the military, but they are starting to tighten up again, as I understand from my friends that are still in.
You had literal patches though.
>There are many things about health and well-being that are specific to the person.

Yes this is true, and important.

What is also true is that many people use individuality as an excuse. They can't exercise a certain way, or a certain diet doesn't sit well with them. I hear this daily: "You go to the gym every day? You go whole days with no carbs (or sometimes no food)?" In reality, diet and exercise is hard work (and not fun for most people), and at the end of the day most people aren't willing to put in the effort.

This is why the world is littered with fitness shortcut scams. But you'll find the fittest people have taken no shortcuts.

I think places like HN tend to attract people who like to collect the data first. But we need to worry less about perfect and just get busy getting results. Like you're building software.
I don't think it's a great example, because with a little creativity that "impossible" spec is possible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7MIJP90biM

The customers might even be happy with it, because it would mean they wouldn't have to admit their requirements were stupid.
Related: Stanislaw Lem's essay about PKD, "A Visionary Among the Charlatans":

http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm
> rockstar developer

Could you expand a little on what you mean by this?