skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The single most interesting thing for me was the information theoretic, at least in style, exposition on how trying to centralize all economic decision making at the top of society simply can not work.

Also points out how essential economic freedom is to all other freedoms, for if all jobs come from the state, to disagree with it ... well, at the extreme, as two roommates from the PRC in 1988 explained it to me, the biggest change in their lifetimes was how getting on the wrong side of the local political committee was no longer an automatic death sentence through their refusing to issue you food ration coupons, it just meant you had to spend more money buying food on the free market.

Wikipedia entry is here, haven't reviewed it except to note it has links to condensed versions (Hayek was amazed at how well the Readers Digest did it) and citations of the published editions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom
> not sure if one could learn to takeoff and land a Cessna badly in a week long bootcamp

Yes, you can. Taking off is extremely easy, you just need to accelerate with the flaps down and pull up at around 90km/h (if I recall correctly, it has been many, many years since I last flew an airplane).

Landing is much more complex, but you can do decent landings[0] in normal weather conditions after a few classes. The course I did (as I said, many, many years ago) had 35 flight hours and I did it in a summer (2-3 classes per week, usually 1 hour of theory and 45 minutes of flying) and you were perfectly able to do the exam (and pass) after it.

[0] Of course, in the eyes of many pilots, a decent landing is one you can walk away from. A good landing is one where you can use the plane again.
It would be interesting to know the weight and cost per capacity of these batteries. Capacitors have almost unlimited cycle count but they can store only tiny amounts of energy, so that makes them somehow useless for powering consumer devices or cars. It seems like the hardest thing in batteries is to get all of the following at the same time: low cost of materials and manufacturing, safety, high energy density, and high durability / high cycle count, high power output / quick charging.
They don't even have to call the police. Simply put it in your Dropbox, which can be done from many devices (it's Dropbox after all).

Dropbox (and all other "cloud storage" providers) actively scan for CP material and will turn you in to the police automatically.
I haven't tested this specifically, but I did something similar

https://gist.github.com/dbr/294151

extracting cookies out of Safari so I could download developer binaries from apple.
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They did get a warrant. The laws you reference allowed surveillance without a warrant.
We'll have fusion before we have mega scale solar.
Isn't "up to a year on full charge" also the longest you can leave a Model S parked before the battery goes flat and it's bricked? It does sound like they've calculated their figures based on the cooling never actually kicking in.
All phones I had lasted at least 3-4 years of constant extensive use. In my Samsung Omnia, I had to change a battery after 3 years just and I was using a lot of it - especially as a GPS unit. The battery fault was also my wrongdoing in this case.
A crude iMessage API
If someone is intentionally adding correlations using predictive information then they are stealing money you did not have to spend on traffic that was inevitable. It is like standing inside your waiting room to hand out your buisiness cards then claiming the sales commission.
Since there was a bit of interest, I wrote this up in a short blog article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12563526
There is also a TV series based on this book, I think, which is fairly good.
This assumes most advertisers can prove the value of a video view of a certain length. I assure you as someone who deals with attribution on a daily basis that most cannot and the ones that claim to would have a hard time proving it in court. Attribution is hard.
Whilst this is possible, it would be better to build an electric specific model. This is because an electric model doesn't need a fuel tank or an engine block but it will need a large number of batteries.

Unilike a fuel tank these could be distributed evenly across the base of the car, lowering the centre of gravity. A 320e wouldn't have this base to store the batteries, but it could store them under the bonnet but that would make for a very poor weight distribution which would affect handling.
And, more alarmingly, the part you omitted or glossed over: their plausible explanation for the lower HF detection (which, again, would depend wholly on the chemistry of the cells):

> the laptop cells exploded with liquid splashed on the walls in the equipment

The less electrolyte that gets burnt, the less HF generated, which I hope you agree is a good thing.

and more recently, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

How many actually burned? It's a very tiny fraction. Manufacturers recall precisely to avoid the sort of hysteria that statements like yours generate, and it's not any indication of impending doom. The aviation industry is particularly risk-averse, so it's not surprising. But I don't think the risk is very high compared to a lot of other things in our lives, especially when you consider all the lion cells out there of questionable quality in use and yet behaving themselves. China has taken the lead in making 18650s and other lion cells almost as easily available as alkalines, but reports of fires do not appear to have increased anywhere near in a direct proportion to that. (Reports of cells failing to meet capacity specs, on the other hand...)

By all means handle with care (as you should with any energy source), but lion cells are not lethal weapons that will instantly kill you at the slightest provocation.
You never can. But are you just going to blindly spend money on ads and just believe they work?
Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex
Cloudflare will obviously respond to law enforcement requests of what the origin server is. Krebs is not law enforcement, and neither are other DDoSers. What is your problem?
> ...That clearly changes the meaning the sentence

If you look at my reply I talk about gestation period.

Only 6 European countries have thresholds for either gestation or weight.

You can accuse me of playing "gotcha" if you like, but you're misrepresenting data and it's fair for me to correct you.

[Edited for typo]
A free startup idea: keep watch on progress made on promising research. Examine.com for tech research in a way, where one can just search for say "batteries" and see all the relevant research directions and their current results on key metrics, say, kWh per kg, charging speed, etc.
EIOL is a representation of one school of economic thought up to a certain time. It includes many of the principles taught to high school and 101-level college students, but it may mislead readers who are unaware that there are other models, and other conclusions, that more recent research have uncovered. In other words, it's much like recommending a book that includes the Aristotelian and Galilean theories of gravity: yes, it's useful to know, but only in an historical context.
relevant quote from that:
››Many readers have been asking whether this attack was in retaliation for my recent series on the takedown of the DDoS-for-hire service vDOS, which coincided with the arrests of two young men named in my original report as founders of the service.
I can’t say for sure, but it seems likely related: Some of the POST request attacks that came in last night as part of this 620 Gbps attack included the string “freeapplej4ck,” a reference to the nickname used by one of the vDOS co-owners.‹‹
You don't really.

But assuming the FB/Google reported numbers are accurate, would you pay for them and just convince yourself they are actually increasing your sales?

You should be able to at least plot sales numbers against ad spending per week over a year.
I second the suggestion of mankiw's book, covers a lot, it's well written and mixes both interesting anecdotes and actual "theory".
Interesting. Here's a bit more on IoT botnets

http://blog.level3.com/security/attack-of-things/

Good luck updating those embedded linux devices, or even alerting the people who own them
And every little point moves? This is really amazing simulation/model.
If we can wait hundreds of millions of (simulated) years, then sure. But if we don't want to simulate the environment in the hopes that it will eventually emerge, eg, because we want it sooner rather than later, then we need to engineer it to be so and for that we need some level of understanding.
Whatever happened to reasonable doubt, innocent until proven guilty, all that stuff?

What kind of court routinely convicts people who didn't actually do the crime?
Tesla is a relatively new company. What's hard for them right now is scaling up production. That shouldn't be hard for the existing car companies out there. Additionally, Tesla have made their battery technology open source in order to drive competition and allow (read: motivate) other car manufacturers to build EVs. So basically, Tesla have already laid all the groundwork. The fact that all the other car manufacturers haven't brought something to market yet shows that they are dragging their feet for some reason or another.
That's the another problem potential contributors face: Assumptions that because someone is not technical, they can't meaningfully contribute to a project. Dismissal of plain users feedback because "they don't know what they are talking about".

Unless you're creating OSS tools for e.g. developers, your final users are probably not as technical as yourself - so you might want to hear feedback from people that actually has to use your tool.

(Sorry, this is not really directed at you and I'm not picking on you, I don't know you at all! :) Your comment just reminded me of what I describe above)
Without net neutrality economics would likely fix this. "We'll limit our 60GBps traffic to this network block because our peering arrangement makes that expensive."

Couldn't an ISP just throttle traffic to a particular network block on receipt of an authorised request.

And that seemingly provides a general solution. Record output to particular network blocks and throttle traffic when it peaks beyond statistically normal bounds? Basically, applying damping.
Just get JavaScript out of the pages and they will be loaded fast, no need for AMP contortions.
It's not hard for existing car manufacturers...
> Terrible PR, and that mud will stick in tech circles. Akamai folds under pressure.

Definitely. The lesson I'd take from this is that Akamai isn't serious about DDOS protection.

For me, buying DDOS protection is something like buying insurance. I don't expect to need it, but if the worst happens, I expect them to stick with me. The way I measure insurance providers is by asking friends how it was when they had a claim.

It strikes me as especially bad that they're doing it in the moment. It'd be bad enough if they said, "Sorry, Brian, this is too big a distraction; you've got 90 days to find a new home." But that they're dropping him in the middle of an attack? That means I can't trust Akamai.
Charging the "pack" shown is impossible. There are no wires connecting any of the batteries.

He made a case that can hold a bunch of cells. Not a battery pack.
Easy just use HTML/CSS and pages will load and render fast, no need to create stuff like AMP.
In the hosting world, bare metal generally means dedicated servers and clusters of dedicated servers. It's just a shorthand for "not cloud".
I was thinking about ultra edit.
I wonder: Is he fluent in Russian? I doubt google translate could help you out with that.
I can't believe there is only one (other) top-level comment in this thread, and it's basically anti-science. It doesn't matter what you "subscribe" to, what matters are theories backed by scientifically collected data.
> As orders grow, Kreisel anticipates a steep drop in battery prices, from about $140 a kilowatt hour now to less than $100 a kilowatt-hour.

> “The sales price today for large volumes over 100,000 cars would already be under $100,” said Kreisel, who buys cells from vendors including Panasonic Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. “Unfortunately, nobody’s making 100,000 cars today.”

Is that true? Are batteries already approaching the $100/KWh mark? If so that's happening even faster than I expected, and I was one of the "optimists" for this.
> who didn't actually do the crime?

Possession of narcotics is a crime, isn't it?
Don't ad networks charge for ad size as well? (or they should start charging for this - would cut on abuse)

If your ad is > 50k then you're paying a fee per display, even if you're "pay per click"
That $1m offer refers to Andrej Karpathy. He's the Jeff Dean of Machine Learning these days.
Why's that? The theory is that it was impacting other customers. If the notion is that they kick off the low-revenue person to preserve the larger revenue stream, then it would seem that the only way to get real protection from Akamai is to be their largest customer.
While I didn't take it as far as faux playing the market, reading/skimming my father's copy of The Wall Street Journal from 3rd through 12 grades, roughly all of the '70s, a period with very ... interesting economics, especially our worst post-New Deal in your face government interventions (Nixon's Wage and Price Controls, which were not lifted for petroleum or natural gas until Reagan, which created the "Energy Crisis" more than any OPEC embargo, then again, we were also allowed to own gold again), did me as much good as reading the books I've commented on in this thread.

Don't know if the WSJ is still a good source today, but "a steady diet" of one or more of these day to day sources and watching what they get right and wrong will do you a world of good.
It would probably take too long to get the ISP to comply, and I suppose the targets keep changing with botnets
I think a genius coders makes a complex problem into simple code.
This is a key point. Tesla's main advantage so far is a purpose built electric car platform. It makes a huge difference in how things are packaged. One of the reasons for teslas great handling despite its size and heft is the low center of gravity the battery pack affords. Cramming batteries into the space previously occupied by a gas tank makes for less total capacity and depending on the location turns the car into a pendulum. Notice how most established car companies have tried this approach and end up with electric ranges of 10-80 miles. It's only just now that car makers are following teslas approach and getting above 100 miles per charge up to 2-300 miles.
IMO the on time release of the model 3 will determine if tesla survives or gets acquired/fails.
Wow, 100 ml of gasoline could propel a suitcase into the stratosphere? That seems so counterintuitive.
I guess this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1358383/

Seems to be available in full and bad quality on Youtube.
As a former Emacs fan, I think Atom is actually the best modern alternative to Emacs.

I just recently looked at my old .emacs file to discover that the majority of code in there was to get the features that come out of the box with Atom. Of course Emacs does allow you to configure and program way more than Atom, but the downside is that you have to do it because the defaults come from computer history museum - it's great fun though if you like to learn about the history of the field.

I've been pleasantly surprised just how easy it is to extend Atom. It invites you to configure it, with very approachable docs and built-in tooling, but it doesn't force you to.
If we talked about Browsers compatibility, Opera is one the best and lightest browser in the online market, Off course it has huge numbers of features and customization which no one has right now, but when we talked about Free VPN extension on Opera It's pretty cool but not the best choice that you can get.

People mostly consider to get VPN service to enhance their security and hide their visibility. More simply to understand is: when you download torrent file, it will download anonymously, but when you start seed it through Utorrent or Bittorrent it will go through Naked Internet Connection and visible.

VPN Encryption is the best solution for those guys (http://www.beencrypted.com/how-to-encrypt-internet-traffic/) in this guide you can see how you can Encrypt your internet traffic.

I would highly recommend to use full and 100% VPN Encryption instead of using Proxy or VPN extensions on web browsers. https://www.mostsecurevpn.com/cheap-vpn-services/
Better title that seems to apply to all battery related research:

Battery researchers try to make name for themselves with vague announcement of something that has an at most 5% chance of being commercial in 10 years.

Honestly, I have battery-research-announcement fatigue at this point. It seems there's a publish-or-perish thing going on or someone is just angling for a grant.
Interesting. It's a non-legally binding patent promise. But honestly, I think MS has waded too far into open source to have the bad publicity of breaking that promise, unless MS gets into very bad finances. Anyways, good enough for me.

And it actually makes my point about the MIT license, it's inadequate for patents.
Are Search Engines Blackwashing Their Search Results?
google "portraits of European people":

https://www.google.com/search?q=portraits+of+European+people&source=lnms&tbm=isch

Here are my results:

http://i.imgur.com/6s9qK9g.jpg

Similar results with bing, duckduckgo.

No so with Yandex:

http://i.imgur.com/zvbwMuF.jpg

An Alt-Right vlogger has done a video on the phenomenon. The same thing happens with the search term "European People Art"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b14IgSPkPC4
Free speech? As an example, criminal conspiracy and solicitation of murder are both crimes of speech, and claiming a "free speech" defense will just make a judge laugh at you.
Of course, even that _could_ be ambiguous given that my homeland's southern neighbor is officially "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" (Mexican United States). That usage is so rare as to be pretty much irrelevant, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico
Do not use the new Google application Allo says Snowden
In the UK, somebody can send you an obscene file over Whatsapp, unsolicited, and get you convicted without you even opening it. [0]

We have sleepwalked into being a police state and barely anyone seems to care.

Police have also started trawling Reddit to look for thought crimes. [1]

[0] http://m.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/05/whatsapp_smut_convicti...

[1] https://m.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/53y1wi/a_reddi...
Elon Musk when asked what he things about a specific BMW concept car (hubrid or full electric I can't really remember), said that it was a step towards the right direction.

So I guess this too is a step closer to a cleaner earth. What bugs me though is the mentality of some big automakers or even nations, they seem to be making steps to compete with tesla to put it in a polite way. They're missing the whole point of going electric; I'm not implying that Tesla does not, but they sure do look better in marketing terms - to my eyes.
And governments can easliy silence "nuisances" like human rights lobbysts.
Samuelson got the Soviet Union so horribly wrong that I can't recommend it on that detail alone, for it either meant he was a True Believer, Useful Idiot, or the tenor of the times meant he had to publish words he knew were false, which then throws the rest into question, for how much of it was also fashion vs. what he thought to be true?
While this is concerning, smart advertisers were looking at the distribution of view length percentages anyway as you can easily pull those columns in and their derived metrics.

Likewise, smart advertisers look at lift in conversion metrics when possible, in which case this stat is irrelevant.

That said, FB has not exactly helped things by making metric definitions a little obfuscated in general.

Personally, I see a bigger concern is them giving 100% view through conversion credit with a 1 day window by default as part of any website conversion action tracking. There are very few cases (like some retargeting situations) where you'd ever want to give full weighting for a VT, and while there is likely value in VT's, I probably wouldn't give 100% credit to them by default given the rate at which people scroll on mobile. But advertisers like to see big numbers, agencies like to show big numbers, and so you have platforms like FB aggressively try to push metrics like this and some of their rather loose definitions of "engagement" without great explanation of the nuances or pros and cons. These are largely left up to the advertiser to determine since, to be fair, they are very subjective.

Savvy buyers know this and configure their reporting and tracking settings accordingly because FB and PMDs give you those options. They are sometimes just buried.

Ultimately, IMHO FB and Google's greatest defense towards any of these sorts of claims is better and (more importantly) transparent attribution data and tools. If they can prove their value on the bottom line, other things often don't matter to many advertisers. Attribution is a tough nut to crack, but for advertisers spending large sums, it is critical to be successful in these channels.
note that new() already exists in the language.
As others have pointed out, MS does have explicit patent promises, so my characterization was wrong.
Very cool! Didn't work for me on Chrome 53.0 on OS X, for some reason. All I could see was the earth, no dots at all. Hovering around with the pointer would show me some blue orbits.
Ericsson’s Avanci IoT patent pool unveiled, with Qualcomm on board
Easter egg mode: press Q once you've started the animation.
> were the 50's through the 70,s that much of a lower quality of life?

Yes, they really were. At least, I remember the '90s, and quality of life was a lot worse back then, I assume the trend continues as you go further back.

> Those people at Foxcon, and other Chinese/whatever countries workers seem like they are treated so well. These foreign countries care so much about the enviorment.

Chinese wages are trending upwards and China is putting a lot more environmental regulation in place - to the extent that some manufacturers there are now offshoring to poorer countries. Will it take them time to catch up? Yes. Are they doing it a lot faster than the US did the first time around? Also yes. It would be a bizarre kind of ethics that said that it would be fine for Chinese workers to earn less and Chinese factories to pollute more as long as we weren't buying from them.

> Some foreign enterprising individuals become rich, and buy American houses, even though they don't live here. That last one is great.

Their reasons for doing that are the same as Americans' reasons for doing that (which they do quite a lot - it's just easier to blame everything on evil foreigners). Fix the incentives and you'll fix the problems. If you don't like empty houses, how about strong squatters' rights?

> At one time, we got along fine without the cheap goods from other countries

We didn't "get along fine". We survived, but life was a lot worse.

> Oh yea, the cheap cost of goods at Apple don't seem to be passed on to consumers?

I have no idea why people buy expensive things from Apple when they can get better versions cheaper from their competitors, but that's their lookout.
Elon Musk to Make Us a Multiplanetary Species (If He Can)
Shipping has always, and by always, I don't mean "since 1932", but since prehistory, been vastly cheaper than overland freight. The old time differential was about 20:1.

Today, marine freight can move a ton nearly 1,000 miles on a gallon of fuel. Rail maxes at about 400 ton miles/gallon, trucking is about 50 tm/g.

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations has a telling comparison of ship vs wagon travel from Edinburgh to London in the 1770s. Smart money was in boats.
That will be a fun "git blame" (or equivalent) to make

Wonder how did that slip through