skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In modern cars, disengaging the clutch (or using neutral) when coasting (toward a stop or down a hill) is less efficient than staying in gear. This is because it takes some fuel to keep the engine idling, where staying in gear allows the computer to completely cut fuel flow, as long as the forward motion is keeping the engine turning."

This is very interesting - thank you.

I shift cars into neutral while going down hills because I strongly dislike the subtle lurching of the hill descent control ...

I never thought I was saving any appreciable fuel.

However, what does happen is that (provided you don't mind speeding) you exit the bottom of the hill with much more stored energy, allowing you to coast (in or out of gear) much further before it is necessary to apply the throttle again.

So it's interesting that the direct effect of coasting in neutral does not save fuel - however I still think the net effect (again, provided you don't mind speeding when exiting a hill) is fuel-saving ...
In Asia, to say it gently, people follow less rules... Baidu is going to have a hard time, as people take advantage when you are driving carefully.
It wouldn't surprise me if they legislate maximum acceleration in the next ten years.

Zero to sixty in 2.5 seconds is fun, no doubt about it, but it is fun on a racetrack. You can go on YouTube right now and find dozens of people utilising Tesla's existing "ludicrous mode" on public streets.

And here's the thing, if people want to endanger their own lives that's fine. But they aren't just endangering their own lives, they're also endangering both other road users and pedestrians (when they eventually lose control).

I don't think anything has been done about this yet because Teslas are still pretty uncommon, and the features which unlock "ludicrous mode" are even more uncommon (like 1% of 1%). But once electric vehicles are the norm and the body count racks up, we'll see legislative action.

As an aside you could tie maximum acceleration into road conditions, including lowing it if the road is icy or wet, or increasing it on surfaces that provide superior grip (like freeways).
Yandex mail is a decent and free alternative. You can even use your own domain with no charge: https://domain.yandex.com/domains_add/

They could, of course, do something similar to what Google did here, but using your own domain mitigates some of that.
Russia starts blocking LinkedIn website after court ruling
Kids are taught in school that it's "I" before "E" except after "C", except for weird, science, Breitbart, etc.
> Honestly, I think programming is at the point where apprenticeships are a good idea.

I strongly agree with that. There's still a lot of important "tactile" experience that is easier to transfer via mentoring than to learn from written material.

> Thirty years ago the tools where changing to fast

My impression is that the pace of change of tools is only increasing (to pretty ridiculous levels if you look at the web ecosystem).

> and eventually we can codify the correct body of knowledge to have useful formal education.

This should be the goal, yes. But I don't feel like we have identified much of the knowledge that's worth codifying. Instead, the industry seems to be running in circles, each iteration less efficient and more bloated than the previous one. I wonder what the way out for us is?
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I use NextCloud for personal cloud backup solution. Although it doesn't have mail server in it.
Hold your horses there, Tex. You're counting chickens that haven't even been laid, much less hatched.

The USGS report is for "undiscovered, technically recoverable" resources. "Undiscovered" means they have a theory that there should be petroleum there, but it is very uncertain as to correctness and quantity. You can get excited when it becomes "proven" reserve.

"Technically recoverable" means that if the oil they think is there exists, and is situated the way they think, there exist technology to go get it. What it is not is "economically recoverable". It may be technically recoverable but need a $500/bbl price point to make money.

There are many, many technically recoverable resources that will never be economical. At some point it becomes cheaper to make oil synthetically rather than extract it from the ground. In fact, this is the observation that peak oil makes.

So don't get too far ahead of the facts in declaring the cornucopia days ahead.
> I feel like the left seriously damaged their ability to fight racist ideas when they abandoned the idea of equality.

The idea of equality is not some abstract mathematical notion. The left's treatment of social issues, including affirmative action, stems from decades of serious empirical study of society, rather than from an imagined "spherical-cow" sociology. That does not mean that the policy is the right one -- either ethically or the best means of achieving its goals -- but I think that the debate should be carried out based on all we know about our real society, though history, anthropology, sociology and psychology, rather than by deliberately ignoring them in favor of an idealized model that bears no resemblance to reality. You can disagree with leftist policies on many fronts, but you cannot say that the left has abandoned the idea of equality based on your observations unless you choose that imagined model.
This uses Disconnect.me

https://services.disconnect.me/disconnect-plaintext.json
Add prevention/detection for those annoying modals to collect emails after 15 seconds on a page and I'll marry you.
That disconnect is because the definition of racism has changed over the last 8 years in practice, and since the development of privilege theory and systemic racism in academia ~30 years ago.[0]

Racism used to be something you did if you were white; now it's just "who you are".

Since the civil right movement 50 years ago, white Americans have agreed to a racial compact:

- whites are banned from doing anything overtly racist

- whites are banned from engaging in identity politics (that is, favoring white/Western culture and people over others)

- whites will accept a double-standard that allows other groups to engage in both of these behaviors (and not deem them "racist")

In exchange, blacks and others wouldn't call whites racist unless that compact was explicitly broken. When they did, whites agreed to make the charge stick—you'd lose your job, career, etc. A charge of "racism" was very, very difficult to undo.

IMO, this was all a good thing and worked pretty well.

Basically, that's all changed now—at least on the right, now that all whites are "racist" by definition. The alt-right in particular has agreed not to make charges of racism a deal killer, and in particular, is no longer enforcing that compact. Under the old compact, the alt-right is definitely racist.

Apparently, though, so is half the country now because by the old definition, absolutely, Trump is a racist with his comment about the judge's Mexican heritage, and whites should have made the charge "stick". As Speaker Paul Ryan said "textbook racism". Trump's comment should have—and would have—been disqualifying under the old compact.

IMO some whites have dropped the racial compact because of the development of privilege theory and systemic racism and the frankly "original sin"-like notion that all whites are racist. Who wants that?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_(social_inequality)
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Yes! You put your finger on it -- it looks old!

That's not necessarily a bad thing. Instead of "old" you could call it "retro". But it definitely reminds me of the formatting of K&R, which makes sense as the Go team see themselves as the heirs of the K&R tradition.
So instead of changing the tax code to be more specific (change the marriage tax benefits to child-rearing benefits) you're proposing we deny one of humanity's oldest and most important rituals (which means a lot to people intrinsically and symbolically, having just married my wife I know the feeling) to an entire group of people?

Yeah I feel like you're post-rationalizing a gut feeling, because you didn't think too hard about alternative solutions to the incentives/tax burden problem.
I think the GP meant civilian Americans chopping other Americans heads with katanas.

Also isn't the katana mostly stabbing weapon? Slicing someone in two requires too much effort IMO.
andrewjho, I can see you are very passionate about this.
But you seem to be arguing with everyone in this thread.
So, first, let me tell you that I largely agree with you
about inclusionism. What you want... yeah, I want that
too. However, Wikipedia is a collection of information, as well as an encyclopedia, a process, and a community. You find yourself in the position of disagreeing with the community. This can suck, because it is obvious that you wouldn't feel so passionate if you didn't love Wikipedia.

I recommend that you direct your passion towards expanding the Wikipedia community into a new direction commensurate with your goals. Sometimes communities need to separate in order to make everyone happy. A good city needs both the quiet streets with toddlers on bikes and the hot nightspots
with pounding music. Do you have a right to play your
music? Damn straight, I say, and play it loud and proud. But your neighbors may be perfectly justified in saying
"not here, we believe this is supposed to be a quiet street". That seems to be the nature of your disagreement with the community.

I'm not aware of Wikipedia having any policy against deep
linking. There have also been a number of success stories
of special interest Wikipedias (e.g. wookiepedia,
Conservapedia) which have been successful. In theory, you could start an "everythingopedia" which includes Wikipedia as a subset through deep linking (therefore making it very useful) in addition to your other items which would be deleted in the normal Wikipedia. I don't know if someone has already tried this, but it seems to me that you will find more success making a place for your own type of community than trying to change the minds of a community which does not agree with you.
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I think maybe it has to do with what people are asked about, and with the level of uncertainty. Most questions that people would ask of a CS degree holder are probably specific technical ones, with fairly well-defined answers. But with economics, everybody wants answers to the sweeping, big-picture questions that are very hard to answer definitively (people who say, "we just don't know the answer, and here's why" tend not to be terribly popular in the media.) People are also, I feel, not well-informed about the basics of economics, so that they can take a particular jargon-y or specific statement by an economist out of context and totally misinterpret it. (Imagine: "These data are organized in a tree." "Hah, computer scientists think my laptop is powered by tiny forests!" Yet this is what happens when economists talk about "value" or "cost", or things of that nature.)

Of course this phenomenon does happen in other fields too - think of how often there's an article where "science says x!", when in reality it's just one paper with a tentative conclusion. It just seems particularly common for people to misunderstand economics.
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Worth noting: while taking code written for 32-bits and migrating it to a 64-bit environment can accidentally introduce new vulnerabilities, it is ALSO possible for the opposite to happen. That is, you can take code written for a 32-bit environment and compile it for a 64-bit environment thus FIXING some vulnerabilities: probably ones you didn't even know about. Given how common buffer-overrun vulnerabilities are in 32-bit code, I wouldn't even be surprised if it is more common to increase safety than decrease it.
can i just have iterm as my background?
> How would you describe GNU/kFreeBSD to someone (remembering that to users it is basically indistinguishable from GNU/Linux)? "It's like Linux but doesn't have Linux in it?"

Exactly like that. I've heard people refer to all posix systems blindly as "unix" and its not worth correcting. If someone knows what GNU/kFreeBSD is, or cares to discuss it, we can discuss it. But generally speaking, I try to keep things concise. When I say "linux" im not trying to go into details, otherwise I'd specify that I'm using arch, ubuntu or whatever. I'm trying to lay down a generic concept of a group of operating systems. And saying "GNU/Linux" doesnt help me convey that idea any better to 99% of people. "linux" is just slang for "gnu/linux".

So if you want to say gnu/linux out of respect for stallman, sure. go ahead. but im not going to.
"Gas, Brake, Honk. Gas, Brake, Honk. Honk, Honk, Punch."
I feel like "sync" is an iCloud feature.
One of the authors of Tahoe-LAFS and the original creator of zfec, Zooko, co-authored a paper on the performance of such codes.

http://nisl.wayne.edu/Papers/Tech/code-pf-fast09.pdf

Luigi Rizzo is the original author of the fec C library.

I co-maintain zfec (and the Debian package of it) along with Zooko. A new release of zfec is planned to be out soonish.

edit: removing the <> delimiters around the URL. Sorry!
The driving schools are a huge lobby group in the laws regarding getting your drivers license. After I got my license, they successfully lobbied for a mandatory lesson for instructors (not too expensive, but still not a small income). Learning stick shift is harder, and takes a lot more practice. There is probably some economic interest in having people learn to drive stick.

The only AT cars that I know have better fuel economy than good manual drivers are cars with CVT (continuously variable transmission). They are expensive and not something I would fix myself though :)
Your smartphone isn't connected to a cloud service?!
Certainly less clunky than iCab, which is also pretty good when you're "looking for an engagement ring" and other such sensitive browsing.
The SpaceX network is said to be mostly for upstream connections, rather than consumer devices. They want to replace fiber, not cell towers. That's useful just about everywhere.
Safari WebKit, yes.
It requires a 64-bit CPU, which was introduced with the iPhone 5s.
Previous answers to the same question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957435
I only see it supporting yahoo. I didn't try very hard but in the settings there is no way to change it from yahoo, which is really frustrating. Did I overlook something?
I'm not sure it's a thing to be advanced past. Using a language to implement a given pure function is inherent to deploying it.

You could develop one universal way to create and deploy functions to different languages, but now you've introduced one more language to get people to use.

And in practical terms, migrating this sort of thing from one language to another when necessary is generally a good enough solution.
Bitlocker is quite specific but tailored to where everything already is. None of my children or my wife are OSX fans. I can't find a better cross platform solution if I'm honest - if there was one I'd be there. TrueCrypt was used before I used bitlocker and we know where that ended. Bitlocker works on OSX pretty well with this: http://www.m3datarecovery.com/mac-bitlocker/

Will mull over your ideas; there are definitely things to be gained and there's always tradeoffs that need to be considered.
It is interesting that they're making it seem like a new app, when they're actually augmenting an existing (and seemingly forgotten) app. I was a little confused about the app/update at first, given that I'd had Mozilla Focus installed already. It was an adblocker/privacy plugin for Safari only, though.

It appears they just took the Private Browsing component of Firefox for iOS and integrated it into the old privacy plugin Focus app, and renamed it Firefox Focus.

In any case, it has the same features it did before, so I'm okay with it. It does duplicates my Firefox app's functionality some, but oh well.
I could have written that comment verbatim.

> It's not about facts, it's about emotional viewpoints [...] facts be damned.

This is absolutely my experience as well.

Thanks for sharing your post, I'll check it out!
The whole article is like this. It's just a sequence of showily contrarian takes that fall apart when you read them closely. The author is counting on you not doing that, just like Steve Bannon is counting on Americans to just take his word for it when he says he has nothing to do with the "alt-right".
Cars that can go this fast or close enough have been around for decades.
Any product which relies on knowing someone at the company or a good lawyer should be marked instantly as suspect! :)
I guess Brietbart is conditioning us that to see that facts and correctness aren't very important.
>cutting off people's email with no warning is alarming.

And, by cutting off the google account, they may have cut off other critical services for that customer. Off the top of my head:

- Google Authenticator 2FA (ouch, that could be messy)

- Google Voice, to the point where you might lose the phone number.

- Adwords, Adsense, Appspot, GCE, Google Domains, etc
> It doesn't even make enough to keep the servers running

That's irrelevant, because most people don't pay for Gold. The important question is this: How much does Reddit make on Gold per user compared to how much they make from ads per-user? I sincerely doubt reddit is pulling in $4/user/mo in ads.
Well that's not true entirely according to Yishan Wong. [1]

Reddit and Twitter operate in the same hemisphere of community-driven applications — so it is within the realm of possibility that Twitter would have to bring some sort of "Gold" subscription model to their platform (who knows maybe it will be more widely adopted at Twitter). But all-in-all, they're both fighting the same battles: censorship, ad revenue slumps, and user growth. [2] And those are not easy problems to fix.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/howredditworks/comments/1oyhjw/redd...

[2] http://www.dailydot.com/via/twitter-moments-reddit-upvoted-m...
That only applies to web dev and to a subset of user-mode PC, server and mobile software. While I understand that represents the majority of the software being developed, that article is IMO an incorrect generalization.

Some of us do CAD/CAM/CAE, the proven tools either don’t exist, or are targeted towards companies like Boeing and GM and cost a fortune.

Some of us work on console games. The environment is pretty close to the bare metal/hypervisor, and typically, there’re significant costs involved in integrating any third-party stuff.

Some of us program embedded firmware. Only recently the hardware became fast enough to reuse those proven tools ported from PC, you can’t use those on a PIC16, just not enough resources.

That’s just what I personally did/doing over my 16 years in the industry. I’m sure there’re other fields where the proposed approach is inapplicable for various reasons.
I understand and saying maybe there should be some criminal investigations as well. Someone dying or getting injured is not out of the realm of possibility when they had known bad test results and continued anyway.
> Wake me up the next time a 5-line shell script in Bash

Or when somebody can write a 5-line shell script in Bash that:

a) typical non-programmers can and will use
b) produces enough diagnostic information that anybody (programmer or not) can use to troubleshoot when something inevitably goes wrong - whether it's user input, network connectivity, a missing dependency...

I get what he's saying, but he's talking about a pretty small subset of what we really do.
> For example, they didn't report on leaking questions to debate organizers until Donna Brazile got fired.

I imagine this is the email you're referring to:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/38478

Some of the other Wikileaks emails have a cryptographic signature that can be verified. This one doesn't. If they cannot verify the authenticity of that email, I have no problem with them not reporting on it. The source leaking the emails to Wikileaks could have easily doctored some of them.

I think the media that were breathlessly reporting on every single bit of info that could be misconstrued in these mails were the ones that were biased. E.g. the (complete fabricated) satanic cooking rituals in the White House made it to Fox News.

> Finally, an example of bias is I am yet to see a single positive news story on Trump from NYT.

From today's front page, here's a positive story on Trump: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/us/politics/aides-to-donal...

It's a move from Trump I applaud.

You have to distinguish between the opinion pages and factual reporting. As the name itself says, opinion pages are somebody's opinion. I don't have a problem with them saying that they think Trump is not fit to be president. If somebody can make the argument that he would be a good president, I'd be interested to hear it.

> ... and I never hear his side of the story.

Trump and his campaign have been refusing to comment on numerous stories. It's hard to present his side of the story when he does that.

> I actually think I'm reading the onion

You are not alone. But for me that has more to do with his actions, than any reporting. Like https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/79690018395509555... and https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/79703472107522867... only hours apart.
I'm arguing that this change to the status quo (ante), of heterosexual specificity in marriage, was not warranted. To support that argument, I'm explaining why that status quo has value which is reduced, rather than increased, by permitting marriage among homosexual couples as well.

As I've tried, perhaps unsuccessfully, to point out, this isn't the same as arguing that permission to marry should be contingent upon procreative capacity. I can see how it might come across that way, from a starting perspective of weighing one vast change to the status quo vs. another such vast change, and I think I've failed adequately to clarify that I'm approaching the question instead from a perspective of weighing one vast change to the status quo vs. no such vast change. It's a different question.
As an anecdote, I've never used DKIM or even SPF and have no delivery problems from my domain.
Thing is, I don't think people (of any partisan stripe) like to think of their main role in the economy as being consumers, even if it's an accurate description of >=90% of us. After all, most Americans are just temporarily embarrassed entrepreneurs.
Except there are two common problems here:

- NIH. If you think it's programmers who primarily suffer from NIH syndrome, check again. Just how many times you end up writing something that's already done because your bosses insist they must have an in-house solution?

- Nonsolving a nonproblem. A lot of code we write is meant to solve a problem that doesn't really exist, is created by stupid decisions higher up the chain, or sometimes just shouldn't be solved in the first place (e.g. tools facilitating an unethical business model).

So yeah, I'm often paid to write code - because the decision that code must be written is made by people above me.
Which needs to be put in the context of its 6.78B in revenue.
It is, but they are talking specifically about iCloud's backup feature being switched off, not iCloud itself. Syncing is not the same as backup.
That was one of my first thoughts.... imho Noto looks better, and the monospace font is pretty hideous imho. I like Inconsolata/Consolas, but there are many other options that are libre licensed and better looking imho.

As to other comments, mostly agreed on using system fonts.