skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that describing them as a "marketing" company oversimplifies things in important ways as Tesla wouldn't have been successful without a lot of other key attributes as well (financial planning, product development, extensive development of the product's complements, etc).

I do think that you are exactly right in regards to their competitive advantage, though. A company that competes with them will need to do a lot of work to convince the market that their electric car is in the same class as a Tesla. That will take years of work, a lot of money, and it will require them to do some things that risk damaging their existing business.

I suspect that we are actually agreeing here and maybe I'm just saying it in a different way?
Nicely recorded ambient rains for pluviophiles
It looks like it's pretty clear recently that Postgres support in some form from Google is coming - https://code.google.com/p/googlecloudsql/issues/detail?id=96
I graduated in Ohio in 99, and my junior year we had a typing class, on actual typewriters. That was the extent of my official preparation for the digital age. Luckily I was scripting in mIRC at the same time, and learning home-row isn't nothing. But that's why I'm proud our district has Chromebooks now, as I was so sure they'd have one recent college grad who spends the whole budget on iPad's because he likes his iPhone. They all have their own machine, and my son shows me new features and apps.
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It's alright dude
I don't think it's a good idea to compare a country made of 300+million people and many more millions of entities, with a single entity driven by the decisions of 1 person.

While you may be right that people are reacting incorrectly, it's significantly easier for a single corporation headed by 1 person to actually decline than it would be for an entire democratic nation.
The flip side of that argument is that the fastest way to explain the concept of privacy to a manufacturer that spies on you, is to stop buying their devices. Consumers don't need to assume a conspiracy in order to communicate their preferences.
Ah yes, the "selling a lifestyle" model of advertising. It's still about selling a product so 'non-consumerist' is patently the wrong way to describe it. Non-consumerist would be the rejection of a disposable, non-repairable, 'you should buy this because you'll feel better about yourself' attitude towards the selling/purchasing of goods.
I'm glad to see that Twitter is responding to what users want and need, and acknowledging that there's no easy answers here.

Any sort of blocking solution is hard, I think akin to Facebook's "fake news" problem. There's no easy way to determine what news is "fake" or not. But giving people tools that they can use to manage their own space in their own way is an important step forward.

I hope that this will encourage more people to speak out on twitter about injustice and abuse, since it gives them some ability to shield themselves from any backlash.
Bringing Back the Supersonic Era
I did something very similar a few years ago, but in c#. I didn't do real rate limiting, just threading configuration and a configurable random sleep; but it got the job done. It was a super fun project to work on.

I can't believe that the open source options are so still so few and far between in this area. There are TONS of great tools for building crawlers, and there are tons of great crawlers built for mirroring a copy of websites. But, there are very few polished crawlers built for simply extracting metadata from pages and getting information about a site.
That inherent quality is the ability to compile ARM binaries from that openly-available source code.
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My thinking was that none of the other games I could think of from that time period (including your mentions) were intended to take place in a real-world setting.

There's a certain artistic license you can bank on when you're working in a fantasy setting.
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A man is a wolf for his fellow men. Ancient quote.

Now do something "good" and save all those bastard children because, we were taught we are different and not animals.

Law is a hipocrisy.

Disrupt banking and national bank monopoly, dont run after bank fraudsters.

Teach people to treat other people like humans, and disrupt the sex and mental health industries.

Always resolve the root cause.

But be aware, if all people were saints the pope would go bankrupt, so know who the pope is and be prepared to fight him.
I agree 100% and I think we are saying the same thing.
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Will shurely use it, thanks
Try rss + client of your choice + youtube-dl streaming into the player of your choice. It's like a glimpse into what could have been had we all just sticked to standards.
Show HN: Primitive for macOS
The Scheme of today is extremely different from the Scheme of 40 years ago. Comparing the language of R0RS and R1RS with R5RS, you'll see just how different they are. I'd say that "modern" Scheme is due more to Clinger than to Sussman & Steele!

My point is that, yes, Scheme as a concept originated in the mid 70s, but it has been updated many times over the years. The Scheme of today isn't 40 years old.
I built http://pixelsview.com

I run a media website and people are always asking me, what will X or Y look like? How do I know what size I want? I send them there.
Based on the title, I expected to read that the Russians are installing missile launchers on cellphone towers...

The article doesn't make it explicit, but the Pole-21 system seems to be (at least in part) a satellite navigation jammer[0].

[0] - https://www.sott.net/article/327171-New-Russian-hi-tech-jamm...
Tiny Player - a music player for iPhone at http://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player/ (free). Got tired of using iTunes to "sync" mp3s and watching it fail. Took about 2 months' worth of weekends and evenings, now I use it every day.
1900 and change after taxes.

Indeed it is indeed for another company (client). I would have been dispatched to a French telco operator as a developer/engineer.
About two months ago I shared my "primitive" project and it was well received: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539109

As a result, I decided to follow through and make more of it. So today I am announcing Primitive for macOS, now available on the Mac App Store.

The core is still implemented in Go. The GUI is written in Objective-C (haven't bothered to learn Swift yet!) and communicates with the Go process over stdin/stdout via NSTask and NSPipe. The rendering is done on the front-end; the backend just sends shape coordinates and such.

I spent a lot of time fleshing out the GUI layout to make it as simple yet powerful as possible. I hope you find it to be intuitive and I hope that you are pleased with the resulting images. I look forward to seeing what people do with the app. :)

Let me know if you have any questions!
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Except they know they are exporting thus have to tailor their product to local law. The idea that all these Chinese leaks are just accidental oversights is fairly naive, especially in the light of China's industrial espionage efforts.
According to Wikipedia [1] the top selling PC game is Minecraft, with 24 millions sold, followed by World of Warcraft that got to around 14 million subscribers, while Diablo III is in third place with 12 million copies sold...

Sure, that's still not much compared to 2.5 billion, but that's also 5 times what you said.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_games
NL ?
That's a good point. However, keep in mind other EU jurisdictions like Germany and Austria require even more initial share capital, and also have generally higher base corporation tax rates.
Show HN: Deepstream-postgres: add a pinch of realtime to PostgreSQL
I think I was pretty clear about where I draw the line.

> your liberties to express ideology end where someone else's human rights begin.

I won't respect your opinion if it disrespects someone's existence.
Sounds like a violation of the DMCA
I tried many times to use Ubuntu as my main machine but I always go back to Windows. Why? more than 4 times when I run a system Upgrade it fails and I end up with a broken system.

The other thing that holds me back is the UI. Hundreds of Themes available but I always see them as "cartoonish" themes that are not well though of.
When discussing battery powered vehicles, solar and other intermittent power sources are the obvious answer. The economics are better than gasoline and they pair nicely with energy storage systems.
And this is yet another reason the government should not use Proprietary software. F/OSS solutions wouldn't have these types of issues.
I think it's a result of wind-tunnel design and also trying to maximize interior space on a small chassis. I agree though, I don't like the look of most compact cars these days and even the Model 3 has sort of a weird looking "bulldog" snout for a front end.
One type of abuse that seems oddly popular here in Mexico is via a trending topic. I suspect that some kind of mafia group with a lot of followers are testing their weapons (since creating a trending topic is a very good business) by insulting women, minorities and even disabled people.

Blocking, muting and reporting users isn't the answer when you have right in your face a hateful hashtag. You could look for the one who started the trending topic and report it, but with thousands of mentions, you'll have to scroll a lot.

I actually thought this "progress" was about reporting trending topics, or finding the one who started it. And then, once again, we see twitter turning the blind eye.
Aptible absolutely has managed postgres, and it's great. I'm using it at this very second.
From the bbc.com URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12952835 (23 points, 18 hours ago, 11 comments)
Well before smart phones, computers all over the world have been calling home (to the USA).
Still too much, when you could probably lease a civic for way less
It's supposed to be exclusive.
I used a service. I appreciated their advice and knowledge of the local environment.

I recall that at least in Ireland there were some online services marketed at setting up this kind of thing.
https://github.com/alexadam/save-as-ebook - Save a web page/selection as an eBook
A town plagued by mysterious fires turns to science, the church, and the law
I use Ubuntu 16.10 on a 2011/2012 i3 desktop, which was average by then, not top of the bill. To me it seems like 16.04 is a lot slower than 14.04, and I regret upgrading. Same with a Lenovo Flex laptop - it has only 2GB RAM. Since 16.04 it has performance problems. Running Firefox with Javascript is too much, or two apps at the same time grinds it to a halt.
All of them except phones made/designed/whatever by Google. That leaves you the Nexus and Pixel lines only. There's a fair bit more oversight there and no shady third-party ROM with 'helpful' spying applications shipped by default (and often uninstallable). Nor do carriers get to modify the ROM themselves or install their own apps.

Android is pretty much a wasteland outside of the Nexus/Pixel line. Ignoring security and privacy, you just have a lot of shovelware involved along with a lack of commitment to timely, or if any, updates.

I would feel confident a Nexus/Pixel is a secure and nonsense free as a phone running CyanogenMod. Of course, that's difficult to prove, but historically we haven't seen anything like this on a Nexus/Pixel device.
Thanks. And yes, currently we can still burn fossil fuels to satisfy our hunger for energy but I was projecting into the future. My thinking goes like this: Let's define the amount of current electrical power used for non-automotive purposes as E0(2016). Currently there is only a negligible amount of electrical cars, so the amount of energy used for automotive purposes Ea(2016) will be comparatively close to 0. I think in a (maybe not so) distant future time point t where electrical cars have mass adoption (just think of a scenario where all cars on the street are electrical) we will in addition to non-automotive energy E0(t) need electrical power for automotive purposes Ea(t) for every car on the street. And Ea(t) >> Ea(2016) will be huge. Where will such a huge amount of electrical power come from if not from nuclear power plants with all their problems?
Other points to consider:
1. At some point in the future fossil fuels will run out - so no fossil fuel cars and no fossil fuel power plants any more. So E0(t) will also not come from fossil fuels anymore. As a sidenote on today's situation: I don't see a big difference for the environment whether a car burns the fossil fuel or a electrical car uses energy created by power plants that burn fossil fuels...
2. We have a growing earth population which will even increase the amount of energy consumed for non-automotive purposes in the future, so E0(t) > E0(2016).
3. Increased demand for electrical energy together with decreased amount of energy providers (fossil fuel power plants will be no more) will increase energy prices in the future.
I'm most proud of React Flip Move (https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-flip-move), an animation library that does exactly one thing: animate transitions when DOM nodes change positions (eg. list re-ordering).

I wind up using it in almost every project I work on, since just about every app has a list of some kind, and many lists need to support being sorted, having items added, etc.

It's a simple tool, but the internal logic is surprisingly complex. The DOM is a tricky beast!
From the OP's article-First stanza:
"...the Pole-21 anti-missile jamming device..."
Further down:
"...Russia will be virtually impenetrable to missiles using satellite navigation."
SMS seems to have worked fine for the last twenty years, and is cross mobile platform. Yet I'm still pestered to install the latest instant messaging nonsense.

Ideally I wish the world used FaceTime/Messaging, since it integrates so nicely with everything Mac related. Also, BY FAR the best quality, and performance.
The Navy is by definition not a pirate.
How to zip and backup changes in the Git repository
"Even Dr. Steven Novella, host of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, has said on the air that the digits of pi are random. They are not. First of all, they are 100% predictable by calculating pi."

Does this mean that randomness is just our inability to "predict"? If we could see the future just as clearly as we see the present and the past, would there be randomness?
I'd probably sum up your observation with one my guitarist friend made about early electronic music. It was better, he said, because the first experimenters in the medium were all experts in analog music -- at that point, they had to be.

One of my favorite early-3D games was Interstate 76 (1997), apparently built on the MW2 engine.

Vehicle games were oddly popular in that period (Twisted Metal?). Maybe lower-poly no-animation cars were easier to render?
A polished desktop experience and the abilty to run almost all video games are two big reasons people will jump through hoops to get a Windows copy.
We need to make Apple great again.
looks somehow nice. gonna get on my list
Why you should not use AngularJS (2015)
Shady onboarding tactics
I actually just asked my friend that works at Google about this the other day. It turns our they have an internal tool called CIDER that is exactly this. A great IDE for Chrome books that lots of people at Google use.
It's been like this for ages, it's like that stain in the ceiling you never noticed before.

Oh, and if you start digging you'll get even more angry. Things you trust without thinking twice (not really but you get the idea) is also compromised or doesn't have a practical alternative: hardware, TPM, certificates, your smartphone hardware and software, ∞

(I'm no expert, I just like to complain about it)
Did they change the design? This looks just like every other small hatchback sold (it looks just like my Toyota Yaris, for instance).

If you just don't like that type of car, I'm confident this tech will move up to full-size sedans in a few years as production scales up.
http://cliq.at

it provides the possibility to easily visualize internal informal networks. Especially simple using mobile phones.
I don't even know how to see the trending topics while mobile. To say that a list of topics on a web version of twitter only is worse than targeted abuse from users seems silly to me. I think it should be trivial to block the trending topics list from loading in your browser, even.
It's simple, if the made this car look good they would never keep up with demand.
wouldn't it more be like: missiles will not hit the designated target, but something near by
The tax situation is that the company's corporation tax will be paid in the country where it is registered. Although one does need to be a little careful also about where business is being conducted.

If I pay myself an income (not dividends) from company funds, which would of course be paid out before corporation tax, then I would be liable for income tax on that in my country of residence. Income from dividends (paid to shareholders after corporation tax) is taxed differently in different jurisdictions.
Like others have said, I made these for myself, but they have been useful to other people as well.

Search Wikimedia Commons: canweimage.com (300 - 600 searches a day)

Testing flexbox rules: flexbox.help

Googley Eyes Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/googley-eyes/

Can We Image got included in a listicle on Buffer's blog. flexbox.help started getting use after I posted it as a Show HN and it got picked up by HTML Weekly.
But they are also harder to find.
Shouldn't that really be using only satellite navigation? Anything with a backup (e.g. inertial, celestial, terrestrial) should still be viable, though perhaps degraded in accuracy. But hardly impenetrable.
Sadly the Enterprise edition is not sold individually (at least in France) you have to go through a Microsoft partner.
> If your app takes five seconds to rebuild after a single-line change, maybe there's a problem.

I don't see it as a problem with the app, I see it as a problem with the whole Babel -> Browser compile chain using lots of tiny files and imports.

My Python app which is 10x the size of the javascript one has a startup of 2 seconds. The JS app, is less than 5k lines and has a start up of 10 seconds to compile via Webpack serverside, or 18 seconds if we're doing it inline via JSPM, and compiling client-side.

I can't wait till browsers have native imports, and support all of ES2016. If even one does so, I'll switch to that for development and only compile for production.
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Not to mention this coffee-table book can sit in the Apple store and serve as extended marketing material for folks loitering there.

The book probably makes Apple money even if they never sell one.
>> I wonder where the top Speed Limit comes from...

Gear ratio. It says the motor spins to 8800rpm which is high but not crazy high. Given a top speed of the motor the gear ratio will determine the top speed of the car. They may have optimized it for better acceleration at the expense of top speed. Many people in the US never drive that fast so it's not a bad tradeoff.

If you're wondering about having multiple gear ratios, it doesn't make much sense in EVs. These motors already behave in a similar way. For a given (maximum rated) current they will produce constant torque from zero to what is called "base speed" which is the point where the back-emf matches the bus voltage. Beyond that speed it enters an operating region called "field weakening" where some of the current is used to oppose the magnets which is equivalent to reducing the back-emf so it can go faster. In this region it operates much like a constant power device so the torque drops with the inverse of rpm much like a CVT. There's another metric called the constant-power-speed-ratio (CPSR) which is the top speed divided by the base speed. In my experience, CPSR for an EV is likely to be somewhere between 3 and 5 though it can be much higher.

Source: one of my specialties happens to be algorithms for very high CPSR. It's an odd place I never meant to go, but I would enjoy taking a stab at tuning the Bolt.
Wasn't that one of Musk's stated goals early on? I can't recall the exact words but I thought he had made a statement to the effect that he wanted to show the world what an electric car could be, to raise the bar for all manufacturers.
Yep, that's why I've build my own, the existing ones don't give out a list of the links or are super slow. A co-worker made the first one in Python but it was so slow that it took hours (6+ sometimes) to finish a site and I thought "you can do that faster".

Problematic are some sites that don't use <a href="asd.com"> tags because that's what my crawler is looking for.

C# & Elixier & Rust where the the other options I thought about and I want to build the same crawler on these languages (relative easy to do with ~300 LOC) to compare them for network / server / cli stuff but that has to wait till next year.
Compatible chargers would be great, but you have the same old problems of a standards war.

Could mathematical tools for fair division help?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_cake-cutting

For example it could be used to decide who pays what to buy into the standard, who helps build out the network etc.

Or they could ask Dolby Labs or Sony for help if they really want to lean how to screw up a standards war so everyone loses for years on end.
"What is normality with Apple since long and apparently has been accepted by OSX users..."

As far as I know, OS X asks for permission for diagnostic data collection on first boot and can be turned off anytime. Unlike Windows, on OS X the data collected is not stored encrypted and can be inspected. They are not equivalent.
I had forgot that the docs on SIPRNET referenced IR receivers as expressly of concern. Too funny!
Sideways addition
I'm dual-booting between Windows and Ubuntu. I keep Windows for games that require it; most of my daily use is on Linux, but there I spend most of the time in the shell, Emacs and in Chrome. So I tolerate various UX annoyances. But I'm not going to recommend Ubuntu (or for that matter, any other Linux system I've used so far, and I've used a few) to normal people looking for a normal desktop - there's just too many glitches, too many UX annoyances, too many bugs in GUI-dependent software. For all its issues, Windows has a quite polished desktop ecosystem.
Apple should be a good citizen and copy your selfies off your phone in front of you instead of taking it in the back.
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Forgive me if I am wrong... but didn't his political momentum mainly start with his very public lead role in the "birther movement"?

"Global Warming is a Chinese Hoax"

"Ted Cruiz's father killed JFK"

"Obama and Hillary founded ISIS"

Is it even possible to separate that man from misinformation?

Edit: I have anecdotal "evidence" that some of his voters where swayed by this stuff from conversations I have had with Trump supporters. While that isn't enough to make the claim that misinformation is the sole cause of his election (a claim btw, that I have not seen made on this thread.. you are the one that brought it up), it does show me that its impact was greater than 0.
Why do they think they needed 38 licenses to install unlimited copies? That's stupid... one license you can confuse maybe, but if you have more than one there are obviously terms. If BM failed to put that in writing, they are stupider.
> have no idea what it's like to have dozens of programs started (and you needing all of them) and what kind of inconvenience is to start them all manually

You can hibernate one OS and still start the other one. This way all your apps will reopen the next time you boot the OS.

> You also probably don't realize that many of us stream video and music 24/7 and your main PC is de facto a programming + gaming + home entertainment server.

You're right, most people will have to use Windows at some point :(