skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, you know, the gigantic field of possibilities between those two things: it works a little bit under some conditions.

Fortunately for us and unfortunately for Hotz's ego, regulators look down upon things that work a little bit under some conditions when they also happen to control two ton metal cages capable of traveling at 120mph.

> it's [the] NHTSA that remains behind the curve in evaluating the myriad different technologies

Uhhh... that was exactly what they were requesting to do with their letter.
Why's poignant guide to Ruby [pdf]
Those developers don't want to use web tech, it's too slow.
> a lightning dongle for my phone

I think that's just called a cable.
I have started reading this after doing https://www.railstutorial.org/book to fill in some gaps in my own knowledge. It is very amusing (and very poignant). Full credit to the author. (Is it who I think it is?)
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Note to HN posters: do not dare criticize Pope Musk or any of his Holy Products, lest you risk a million down votes.

FYI - I'm not a building expert, but I come from a large family of builders and grew up in a hardware store / lumber yard. I also looked into getting solar roofing (fleetingly) for a family friend. At least three years ago - the costs were nowhere near manageable for Ontario homes.

So we'll see how this works out.
lol gregg, so this is what you do in that cave
Just "google imaged" Solar shingle: they look nothing like what Solar City is going to offer.
> Who wouldn’t want a stock ticker there, or a Twitter feed, or a progress bar for downloads and file operations?

I want function keys there. I have a perfectly good screen to show all that other fluff on.
Indeed. Tesla is a stellar example of using government money responsibly and for exactly the purpose it was intended to.
The web will always chase after native unless you truly remove the web portions. WebGL might be the best example of getting close, but for the meat and potatoes of UI, there's very little comparison when looking at the DOM.
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Ah, I live in an area of Houston that's being gentrified. Houses are torn down and condos or townhomes replace them that each cost more than the lot and developers stack as many on the lot as they can. (I moved here 15 years ago when it was still cheap). I assume my neighbors are able to afford Teslas to go with their $800k condos and that's why I don't see many Leafs.
Yes, they have pre-built images for RPi: http://www.minocacorp.com/download/
Quick Charge 2.0 via microUSB can throw a lot more power down the wire and charges nice and quickly. Plus that same wire can plug into a USB port on anything and charge.

I'm always surprised by folks talking about failing microUSB ports. The microUSB port on my old G2 (HTC Desire Z) still works fine as does the miniUSB port on my G1 (HTC Dream).
"No One Saw Tesla’s Solar Roof Coming"

Let's rephrase that headline. "No one to whom a lazy journalist named Tom Randall spoke saw Tesla's Solar Roof Coming."
> As for "moderation downweight", do you have some links for discussion on this feature?

I pasted a wrong link in parentheses next to the fragment about moderation downweight. Here is a link to a comment where moderator admits it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715332
Ask HN: Would an integrated job list in an IDE be a good idea?
I was thinking as a web developer, and hopeful freelancer, it would be neat to have jobs come into the IDE. By this I mean an add-on or module. Think of email clients.

What do you think?

I use UpWork primarily to find clients.

Why would you combine an IDE (focus) with a real-time job list?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment_theorem

Seems like there are mathematicians and computer scientists that might disagree with the premise of the article.
> if it is true that 50% of all papers written never get an audience

This can not be assessed. Even if you could somehow determine whether a paper was read or not, how long after publication do you wait until you declare it "never read"?
Yeah, I recall that. Certainly a reason to not vote for him. OTOH, unlike a certain major party candidate, he actually appeared really embarrassed and felt bad about his error, subsequently.
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I used to work at the White House in the Presidential Personnel Office where I worked on an internal staffing tool to help fill political appointed positions across government. As we poured hours and contracting dollars into, we wondered aloud many times whether our work would go on into the next administration. The tool and the workflow behind it is pretty standard so there shouldn't be any reason why not. The general consensus was that if the next administration is a Democratic one, our work had a chance of staying alive.

One thing not mentioned in the article - everything archived by NARA ends up going to Obama's official library. I'm curious if and how they're going to make that accessible to the public.
That's perfect.

If you do not own the domain you shouldn't be able to use the domain like that.
I'm not sure.

Rumor mill has it that SC has been struggling, and the recent buyout from Tesla makes it look like Musk is transferring cash to himself.

Musk talks alot, and I'm still on the fence as to whether this is vaporware meant to distract from that.
You mean this: https://github.com/psal/anonymouth

Yes, it apparently is, we have a lot of personal tells.
Nitrous.io is shutting down
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Nice easter egg! I just checked it myself. Although the eye doesn't "follow" the cursor, it still animates when you move the cursor, if you choose Capture -> Selection or Screen, but not if you Capture Window.
Because you're insane?
JS engines spend a lot of their time in JITted code, which isn't helped by PGO compilation of C++. (I mean, the JIT itself is of course a kind of PGO compilation...) I believe in Firefox PGO is, or at least used to, be disabled because it didn't help much, but would occasionally cause crashes due to compiler bugs.
Are you sure? Global, in the same space? As in X having three different bindings as (say) a variable, at the same environmental level ("top-level")?
> Europeans may soon enjoy better protections than U.S. customers

Not sure if the "may soon" part even applies now.
>Oh yeah? It worked for the taxi industry in Austin. They tricked people into banning Uber and Lyft, so the taxi industry can continue to operate their monopoly.

I know what you're talking about with that one! Going to quote myself from earlier on it...

>"The way the phrasing was to accept/decline the ordinance to outlaw Uber was so confusingly worded I read it several times and still wasn't sure if I was supposed to vote "yes" or "no" on the ordinance... was it saying "yes" to the new ordinance to overrule/replace the old ordinance or was it voting "yes" to keep the old ordinance? If I voted "yes" was I voting to outlaw Uber or allow Uber? I have a feeling it was intentionally made as confusing as possible."

It isn't that people are stupid - it's that these things are worded in such a way to make it as confusing as possible for people to understand. Or to purposefully mislead, such as the bit you quote.
It's just a symptom of how dysfunctional the current funding & promotion practices are. For many years now these decisions have been based directly on measures more or less equivalent to "inbound links" to ones publications, to an extent that such measures have become a de-facto form of capital -- to be fostered and protected accordingly.
This won't allow a monopoly on the solar market as a whole or even the rooftop solar market, but it could carve out a protected niche with decent margins so the company can actually turn a profit. It's great for consumers that competition in solar manufacturing and installation is so intense, but that also has some downsides in terms of companies being able to afford R&D, plan for the long term, or even remain solvent three quarters from now. The time limited monopoly granted by patents seems like a reasonable compromise between rewarding invention and promoting competition.
Nitrous IDE shutting down
From an email push today:

We will be discontinuing the Nitrous Development Platform and Cloud IDE (www.nitrous.io) on November 14th, 2016.
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Obligatory reminder to HN posters: do not comment on your own downvotes lest you attract more downvotes.
In my experience, there's a lot of two-way communication and decision-making with good managers and good employees (and perhaps even more is required with bad managers and good employees...).

The higher up the org chart someone is, the more high-level their view is, not from ignorance but from necessity. They can easily have ideas that sound great on paper but might not be so great once you account for the nuts and bolts of whatever subsystem(s) would have to change to implement that idea. So if a manager proposes an idea that only sounds good in theory but would be a terrible idea in practice, management needs to rely on their engineers to do their part and explain when and why that is.

It's kind of a dance with a lot of gray areas, because engineers/managers/designers all have their own biases and blind spots and gaps in knowledge, and prioritize things differently. But as long as everyone knows what they're doing and can communicate effectively to people with different backgrounds, it's ideal.

Of course there are plenty of terrible managers who don't know what they don't know and don't take useful feedback. And there are terrible engineers who don't know how to provide useful feedback. But with ideal personnel and a good power dynamic, everyone works together in such a way as to cancel out each other's blind spots and add to each other's expertise.
I hope it came through in my comment that I dislike the denial of government aid in the creation of a "bootstraps" narrative when people want to argue against taxes, not the making use of government aid per se(otherwise now it's clear).

One valid argument against government aid is market distortion. One example of abuse is farming, where subsidies create a system(as far as I understand at least) where those that have enough land to tick of all subsidies have an edge over smaller farms (in addition to scaling), leading to consolidation and effectively paying land magnates with tax money.

A different aspect(more specific) is that maybe solar is just not ready and should fail, and only the subsidies make it viable, meaning people will have "junk" on their roofs without Solarcity to maintain it if the subsidies fade. However, that argument is only valid to me if coal/oil does not get subsidies currently, which I doubt
Yeah, this article is pretty shallow and has pretty significant levels of fanboy-ism. Like

"The little meaningful criticism of Tesla Autopilot (with its state-of-the-art “Autosteer") is rooted in what critics deem insufficient transition warnings"

... the fact that it killed someone notwithstanding.

TFA also seems convinced that there is a large difference between the autonomous capabilities of the Model S vs. other luxury cars, when it's pretty well documented that the main difference lies in more or less conservative safety choices and marketing.
While there are the usual legal bizzarities ( http://blog.smartbear.com/apis/api-copyright-and-why-you-sho... ), there's no reason this should be any different than copyright of code. Design-inspired is not design infringement.
> I just want a smaller community with closer interests.

Whatever you are making I am sure there is a subreddit that is small and closely aligned with your interests.
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And so ended the Age of Javascript. Many will say, "good riddance" but I wonder what we lose by making the Web less shareable and copyable...
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>Hotz's initial tweets suggested his move was in response to an inquiry from NHTSA, stating that he "would much rather spend life building amazing tech than dealing with regulators and lawyers,"

well, this is not some stupid web-app that can't harm anyone even if it tried (except from maybe overheating your smartphone). This can kill people, i can't seriously buy dangerous stuff from somebody that says something like this. What's next? Producing food without following proper hygiene regulations? Disrupting the medicine-industry by testing your headache-pills on your customers (those regulations are only slowing us down!)?
Sort of unrelated but one more example of responsive design gone wrong. The chart overflows outside of the page on an iphone, and by locking the scaling, I can't zoom out to view it.

Another example of a page that would be more readable had it sticked to plain old html.
do you mind providing a link? I can only find the E5470 with 8GB but not 16GB
El Capitan here, creepy eye is still creepy and following my cursor around. Don't have Sierra machine to test at the moment.
If it's not read in even a year or two, I think that can still be considered a failure.
That is IBM i, aka OS/400, a completely different beast than s390. It's one of the most underappreciated and misunderstood examples of systems software in the industry. It's survived four distinct CPU changes of the same magnitude as Apple m68k->ppc->ppc64->ix32->ix64, except retaining full compatibility back to the original (and even further back to System/3x). Because everything above the analogue of the syscall layer is machine independent code, you get new benefits with even minor hardware ISA upgrades for existing code without rebuilding. This is all basically "free" for the user without any thought or downside. IBM was also doing ahead of time Java compilation to MI for ~15 years. IIRC this was one of the fastest platforms for JVM apps for many years.

The closest equivalent outside OS/400 would be like using LLVM IR for the entire system. But the memory model is also very elegant, the Single Level Store allows for storage tiering without the kind of block layer hiding that most solutions use.. closest equivalent is ZFS with a L2ARC in the POSIX world.

The lessons learned from the machine dependent part of IBM i were used to build the pHyp hypervisor in POWER4+. This is a firmware level microkernel and very interesting in its own right.

This isn't to say you should go out and port everything to IBM i, just that it should be studied by any serious OS developer and academic. While there is a good book on the design by Frank Soltis, the chief architect, it does not go into anywhere near the depth that UNIX design books did even when covering the proprietary versions. I wish I could learn a lot more about it.
That quote appears to be misattributed. Should be Louis Nizer (1948).

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi#Misattribute...
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Nizer
Good at assessing reality??

The same Linus that fundementally did not believe in source code management for what 20? Years because it made developers "soft"!?
The Special Order might be of the "we're looking for a justification to fine you and issue a recall" type, which it looks like they often are.
You look to have been downvoted probably one time. I suggest you delete this comment while you still can. The other comment has only been up for 15 minutes. There is still plenty of time for someone else to decide to upvote it for some reason.
> My house has seasonally adjusted nanotechnology self-replicating shade "panels"

You forgot to say "carbon-based".
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Industrial agriculture is often under-represented in these discussions, but it's the leading or second-leading cause of climate change. At the same time, diet-related disease is the leading cause of human death. Growing some part of your diet is a really important thing that people need to be doing.

So you could get into growing some food or look for ways to support local farming. To those points, my startup project (terrafarm.io) is a web platform for making it easier for people to contribute to local food systems. It is only a demo atm, but the plan is to have an official product this upcoming Spring. I'm the only person working on it full-time, but I'm always on the look-out for people who care about the problem and want to contribute. So far, I've only hired contractors because I can't afford more than that. But feel free to PM me if you have any interest or feedback on the concept.
I would strongly recommend flutter keynote.
Nothing about either of those criticisms changed the product or its messaging. Nor did they need to.

Criticism is sometimes just invalid. The idea that you can "trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem" is, well, wrong.
Ah very cool. Not sure if yours are similar, but the one near me has stuff for electronics, wood and metal working shops, a machine shop, rapid prototyping (laser engraver, 3d printers, CNC routers, ...) and lots of really quite smart and friendly people willing to help you out. It's a great way to "get back in the game" as it were, without needing the space/resources to acquire all the tools. Sometimes you need to take a certification class before they'll let you touch the expensive/dangerous tools, but that's really not so unreasonable. At least in my experience, once you get to know the staff and prove yourself, you can usually get away with more, like, say, teaching kids how to do things even though their insurance probably only allows 18+.

Definitely worth checking out; oftentimes you can call ahead/show up and they'll give you a tour around the place.
The government is not literally just 'us.' It's a contentious idea: "government is just the word for the things we choose to do together" was oft-repeated by Rep. Barney Frank. He was repeating it because not everyone agrees.

I think the primary problem of government funding is waste and the potential for corruption. Waste because the government is more immune to profit motive and thus can throw good money after bad for a long time. Corruption because you need to convince some bureaucrats v. all your customers (or whoever the market needs). The flip side is that, done well, you can get things done that no business could get done on its own.

So, if Tesla/cleantech succeeds, nobody will remember government funding as some sort of attenuation or 'asterisk' on the win: it was getting the industry over a hump, but into self-sustaining success. Win all around. The problem is if the government support ends up propping up business models that have no hope of actually being viable when that support goes away.

If cleantech ends up failing, then the government backing that which couldn't succeed in the free market will be remembered. But it's all a tradeoff: we're not going to be perfect every time and should be prepared to accept some misses if we think bootstrap government funding of promising but currently non-viable products is a worthy allocation of taxpayer money.

EDIT: sibling comment has great additional point about market distortion being a problem too.
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Wow yeah would be great to have an global standard wall socket as well. Eg take you TV/PC/lamp from US to Europe and plug straight in...
And? What is this article even suggesting?
Seconded on the BSD license being the way forward.
From what I've read, the architects of WebAssembly are committed to still be able to show source.
What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view
Interesting. I haven't seen one vote Yes sign or commercial. But vote No is pretty much everywhere.
The NHTSA letter pretty clearly calls out the removal of the rear view mirror as being a problem, and a violation of safety regulations.
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Classic panels are a little bit dorky. Just a little bit. I actually commented on that when I was watching the video. The shingle panels are much more esthetically pleasing.
And why are these people buying a "Pro"? Apple should just get rid of the moniker at this point. The user you're describing is not a professional and they will be happy with an Air or a MB. Just get rid of the Pro line if you're no longer designing it for professionals.
> It isn't that people are stupid - it's that these things are worded in such a way to make it as confusing as possible for people to understand. Or to purposefully mislead, such as the bit you quote.

I don't disagree with that. Calling someone stupid who is mislead by this type of thing isn't really fair. It's very very tricky and you really need to do research ahead of time in order to make the correct vote. If you don't know who is bankrolling it, or how other groups feel about it, it would be quite difficult to vote "correctly" just based on what you're reading in the voter booth.