skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The love of manual transmissions isn't irrational, it's merely outdated. Manual transmissions were indeed more efficient than automatics up until about 10 years ago.

Governments aren't exactly famous for being completely up-to-date on everything. The driving handbook you're complaining about was probably written 30 years ago... Back then, automatics really did suck badly.

With modern cars, automatics do get better fuel economy than manuals according to all the official fuel-economy tests I've seen. One big difference between the two that I've noticed is that in automatics, they tend to have taller gearing overall, and cruise at lower rpms (because of a taller final gear). This is most likely because it's so fast and easy for an automatic to downshift when it needs to, unlike a stick; this is especially important when using cruise control on the highway. The main problem with automatics (but not DSGs like VWs have) is the inefficiency of the torque converter. But modern automatics have worked around that really well with TCs that lock up and unlock very readily, so they're really not much different than a manual with its slipping clutch.

Luckily, here in the US, for all the things we do wrong with cars and drivers' licenses, there's no automatic restrictions I've ever heard about. I've heard of some states having such a thing on their licenses, but in reality I've never heard of them actually sticking that on someone's license if they took the driving test in an automatic. Almost anyone is allowed to jump in and drive a stick any time they want.
I think you're referring to "Jake Braking", which is very noisy and is banned in many towns (in California).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_release_engine_bra...
First link:

>I'm not saying that adults should not wear bike helmets.

Second:

>It would be a travesty if somebody takes their helmet off because of this.
The folks developing these security features in Android and the Linux kernel do.
"Canned horse meat was introduced in the United States under the Ken-L Ration brand after WWI as a means to dispose of deceased horses" -- Wikipedia

Are you suggesting a Soylent solution?
The real problem here is that these cops were not immediately arrested for home invasion and the abuse of his Constitutional rights. Why is this limited to a civil suit? These cops acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally and should be criminally charged.
James Clapper, the US intelligence chief, resigns
That's assuming they are still manufactured. With my old blackberry there were batteries on Amazon, but they were clearly expired stock and could barely hold a charge.
Does it really have to be regulated? I don't like it either, but don't parents have a role in children's lives? When a child asks for money to purchase microtransactions, a parent can simply say "no." Think of a world where if you want to add this type of functionality, and you're not marketing to kids, you still have to go through some additional licensing or legal step to add a few lines of code to your product...
One danger is that it lowers the incentive to work.
When this was originally proposed I thought it would never get passed because it sounded like something right out of 1984. Amazing. I thought the ridiculous 'Agree to this cookie' nonsense was stupid but this is now just very creepy. National database for keylogging next?
People who frequent that subreddit do not even amount to 0.00001% of the Trump electorate.
> But now people are so surprised that him/his staff act exactly the same way him/his staff acted for the last 20 years.

We are not surprised. It's the fact that ignoring this behavior is as good as accepting it.
My mother needs to learn this lesson. Light turns green? Stomp on the gas. Light turns red? Stomp on the brakes.

She drives a minivan with a V8 and uses every bit of it on winding Massachusetts roads. People who haven't grown up with it get carsick.

She's a damn good driver - in 10 years, she racked up about 430,000 miles in a Toyota Sienna without an accident... but holy fuck she's traumatizing to ride with.
It really depends on how you one-hand: arms locked at 12 o'clock, leaning toward the center is a terrible position, but left hand at 9/right hand at 3 (for RHD cars) is perfectly fine for steering response.
Razr is what the startac should have been.
Paperholm: a tiny paper metropolis
I'm not complaining, I like the Focus app and will probably frequently use the browser mode. It is interesting to me that Apple with their, sometimes too, tight control over apps in the app store would be okay with an app changing its purpose like this.
>If we could just figure out how to only have true opinions, we could solve a lot of problems.

This is the foundation of law, ethics, and science. The constant pursuit and revision of what is the true opinion. Do they fail? Often. But the framework they provide is vital to a functionimg society.

>I don't know how you can consider your values valid with that view

Not sure what you mean here. My values and "valid" inherently, or they wouldn't be my values.

>But the correct solution to that is criticizing the opinion itself, not the person developing their own opinion.

This is true in many case, but also patently not true in many others. Some opinions -- those derived from a clear lack of empathy or from the holder's refusl to acknowledge facts -- do not deserve criticism. Some matters require no more debate, and engaging in that debate only reduces the opinion-holder's heinous ethical shortcoming to a simple disagreement.

In this case, the person deserves criticism for their actions, and not respect.
Couldn’t you import the Mbox archive in Thunderbird/Claws-Mail/something and then copy the mails to whatever cloud provider you wish to use?
It would be far more difficult for President Pence to round up all of the homosexuals as he promised, but luckily for him, now we have Facebook and Google. Also, if Obama and Clinton hadn't protected and enabled the NSA, and completely ignored the mass data collection of private companies, it wouldn't be far too late for people afraid of being targeted to delete their accounts now.

Why shouldn't people want to share their real names online? If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, Muslim.
Hey! OP here.

We provide APIs to censor data before it hits our server, and some privacy-conscious companies choose to use this in QA/staging and not production.

We're looking to add e2e encryption soon which will make it so that we can't read your data. Eventually we want to allow user-level encryption, so that you have to explicitly ask users for permission to view their recordings.
Here you go (the many linked articles with the variations are helpful): https://medium.com/@CRA1G/the-evolution-of-an-accidental-mem...
Ask HN: What privacy-conserving measures should be taken post-snooper's charter?
Since the Investigatory Powers Bill has been passed into law in the UK (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12978300), what steps should one take to preserve privacy and security?
False. Maybe that used to be true, but it's been shifting. Automatics are more efficient than manuals. Examples:

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/PowerSearch.do?action=noform...

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2016_Mazda_6.shtml
Brazil has passed that a few years ago as part of Marco Civil - 1 year period too, which can be extended per request from the authorities:

>Art. 13. Na provisão de conexão à internet, cabe ao administrador de sistema autônomo respectivo o dever de manter os registros de conexão, sob sigilo, em ambiente controlado e de segurança, pelo prazo de 1 (um) ano, nos termos do regulamento.

It demands the storage for 1 year of "connection access registers", defined as:

>VIII - registros de acesso a aplicações de internet: o conjunto de informações referentes à data e hora de uso de uma determinada aplicação de internet a partir de um determinado endereço IP.

I.e. user IP, access data, and info on the accessed website/application.
I agree that governments should stop using metrics to evaluate science in this way, and instead qualitatively review research output.

It's obvious that citation counts are open to manipulation (e.g. through self-citation and encouraging citations from others via various mechanisms) but there's also a very large factor that can't be easily quantified: an enormous amount of good will has been lost in the system.

Many scientists who are interested mainly in satisfying their curiosity and contributing to society resent the top-down mismanagement of science in the UK and US. They see a system where those who play political games do well, but the smartest, most dedicated, and passionate researchers are often sidelined or ignored because they do not spend the requisite time playing the political system to artificially boost their reputations. Many times I've seen very talented academics with huge potential leaving academia as they were passed up for promotion, left on a temporary contract indefinitely, or neglected in other ways.

Strangely enough, I think that if you don't have pressure to climb the ladder (e.g. a family), then the current system offers great opportunities to do outstanding science. If you choose to stay low on the ladder and spend the vast majority of your time actually focusing on research problems, you can get far more actual research done than those chasing promotion or esteem. And because so many people are focused on their citation count, or some political game, the competition isn't as strong as it should be - you can make real advances if you quietly focus and leave the politicians to fight each other.
In Leibniz, you wouldn't write only "nabla v = 0", but also what v is (by associating it with a sort), what properties v has (e.g. being positive), and how you actually obtained "nabla v = 0" from some first principles, using a sequence of transformations.

The point of Leibniz is to communicate information to other scientists, but in a notation that can be analyzed and verified by computer programs. An immediate advantage is coherence checking by the Leibniz system - you cannot use undefined quantities in an equation, for example.
> The interesting thing is, that the law seems not to forbid to store the data outside of Russia, it "just" dictates that the data has to be stored in Russia also.

Correct! I was on a team trying to architect a solution for this and the requirements was really diffuse. We ended up doing a DB "replication" (via triggers) to a Russian cloud provider after the data had been committed in a european data center. The lawyers signed off on it but there were no clear guidelines from the Ministry of Communication (http://minsvyaz.ru/) on what was OK from an tech implementation view.

However, I feel that the best solution for solving it was to have all Russian traffic routed through something like a reverse web proxy which would first write the data to servers located in Russia or fail the request.
Someone could simulate your trusted friend, that's my point.
I've never understood why some random company is allowed to arbitrate the domain registration and make $$$ out of it. Feels like it's kinda not in the spirit of the internet.
Let's not go too far in the other direction though. I live in Kenya and there are certainly some horrific aspects about living here. However, if you make at least a living wage and learn the rules of engagement you can live quite a balanced life
The lesson here is not "don't mess with Google". The lesson here is "don't be entirely dependent on a corporation".
Not necessarily? It seems reasonable the MPD could & would have appealed if the district ruled against, especially given this case hadn't made national media. And although there were egregious comments made, this is the kind of situation where precedent and judicial restraint almost always ends up favoring the PD.

Edit: District court did rule in MPD's favor. Which isn't surprising of course. Still, wouldn't have been surprised if MPD appealed had it gone against them, for above mentioned reasons.
You can find launch capacities on Wikipedia. PSLV has a smaller payload and smaller price than F9.

For these satellites, you can find a description of their orbit and a guess at their mass at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_satellite_constellation
If police use excessive force and fuck a guy's constitutional 'bullshit' then they can stand some more 'excessive, yet Constitutionally protected bullshit' in return. phew.
It wasn't obvious to people living thousands of years ago that science would be the way to move civilisation forward, but here we are. And just because it "doesn't follow" that these methods would improve science when applied to itself, doesn't mean that the latter idea is false either.

We follow these principles out of observing history. But part of it is an act of faith, I'll give you that. What sort of "evidence" are you referring to, that it would be harmful?
"We’re not paid to write code, we’re paid to add value (or reduce cost) to the business"

I'm curious to know how many companies Brian has worked for as a software engineer. The majority of the places where I've worked just want you to code. They don't really care about adding value and just want the job done as quickly as possible so customers aren't upset (usually because the sales team promised a feature that should take 2 months in 2 weeks).

It's the main reason I quit and started my own company. I was tired of getting into battles with management over the well-being of their own code base and I was tried of being forced to write terrible and hacky code.
I signed up too and then saw the ridiculous prices and policies. Happy to stick with .com for 10 bucks.
> that restroom can be legally entered by any person who is willing to say out loud "I feel like I am a woman"

That's a conservative talking point, not the reality of the situation. In reality, a trans person will have to go far beyond just feeling like a woman to get away with entering a women's room; they will also have to take substantial steps towards looking like a woman.
Wasn't easier to just remove the wrong characters manually? :P

Validate the json and if its wrong just throw it away. Makes no sense trying to fix/guess the correct form of an input.
mbox format is horrible, because if the irreversible "From" quoting it requires. And as an "editable" format (e.g. If you want to delete an email in the middle of it), it is perhaps the least robust possible.

Maildir is ok. Mbox couldn't be retired early enough.
Because a large part of the Russian software market is overseas.and many developers work on contract. Further, this helps the Kremlin's agenda which has lead to economic stagnation, and the average gdp of Russians dropping below that of China.
I'm sure this has nothing to do with recent articles detailing how Russian FSB agents successfully use LinkedIn to find, contact, groom, and network with potential sources and agents on Wall Street.
> so far as to remove repos because a comment in the code used the word "retard."

o.O

I've missed this, reading about it now, and I'm off to modify some subscription settings.
The first example shown in the post reminds me of the boot up font you would see on an old SPARCstation.
Consider yourself lucky. Where I work it takes 20 minutes to compile the app, and another 6 minutes to start the server. I'm not kidding.
I will just leave this here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com
I wouldn't even call it inexcusable. The police are allowed to enter a private residence to prevent a person from harming themselves or others, and they had received a report, which they had no reason to believe was untrue, stating that the guy was suicidal and had a gun.
Virus-Free Internet Surfing
> There is no reason to compare these two things, and the worrying implication of your reasoning is that any injury to a minority can be absolved if the majority can be shown to have suffered some other harm.

You are missing the main thrust of my argument.

Transgender issues are such a vanishingly small portion of the population of course people who speak about the economy will get more traction. And people who fixate on transgender issues will rightfully be seen as fringe elements who are completely out of touch with most of the country.

Complaining about not being able to use the bathroom you want to use instead of worrying about towns and communities getting hollowed out because of manufacturing jobs leaving and never coming back does not get you votes and does not portray your side of the argument in a flattering light.

It'd be like complaining about grizzly bear attacks while getting drunk and driving home. One is a much more pressing concern.

> There are a number of issues where conservatives have taken a stance against empirical reality (with its well-known liberal bias).

Which are?
Thanks for that. That was an excellent post. As someone who has worked in the space industry, this quote is so true:
"They [big aerospace contractors] liked the idea of PhDs assembling massive satellites in clean rooms out of custom parts since it created a barrier to entry."
It may also be that they were preventing scalpers.
> Creating a LinkedIn clone is trivial

Sure, but reaching a critical mass isn't. And for Russian freelancers looking for work outside of Russia a Russian LinkedIn isn't helpful. Maybe the problems with this regulation will be more obvious if a service like Github is blocked.
Until VPNs become illegal...
The important thing here is the folding. But this one seems more promising:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/morpher-folding-helmet-te...
>While Bannon didn’t explicitly say anything against immigrants, he seemed to hint at the idea of a white nationalist identity with the phrase “civic society.” Taken in tandem with the stories Bannon allowed to go up on Breitbart News, including pieces that attacked women, feminists, political correctness, muslims, and trans people, Bannon’s comment wouldn’t come as a surprise.

It really, to me, looks like The Verge filling in any nebulous statement with "White Nationalism" to appease their audiences desire to virtue signal against this administration further. That's not how honest reporting should be done.
The Intercept is an upstart news outlet that so far meets all of the criteria that have been thrown around over the last fews days for what's now being referred to as "fake news."

-TI is small

-TI is new

-most of what TI publishes makes our politicians look bad

-TI relies on word of mouth through social media

You're really playing with fire if you think it's a good idea to let other people mark things as "real" or "fake" for you.
Impressively fast. Any plans to support multiple tabs in the future?
I agree that it's not solely the police's fault. The fault rather lies in the whole chain that led up to the events.
I'm not that much into zcash, but this is cool:

https://petertodd.org/2016/cypherpunk-desert-bus-zcash-trust...
Hi. I live in a historically black neighborhood. There are countless community demonstrations against violence, marches, charity barbecues etc. Think about maybe why you don't see those on the news and why Breitbart et al. tend to focus on just the violent aspects and not the actual community building that happens.

Also watch "The 13th" if you haven't.
I would give nearly anything for 'maintaining a consistent speed' to be an element of my commute-hour freeway driving :)
I just feel like using a VPN, while legal, might already put you on some list of "suspicious" users. Surely, if you have something to hide, then you are worth investigating closely.
my first reaction would be to parse until you hit a problem. then use a string distance function and a genetic algorithm to find the problematic characters.

in other words. find multiple possibilities that result in valid a json object and choose the one with the shortest distance.

then, of course log out the changes.

I do something similar with csvs. mssql is notorious for spitting out junk inside csv files.

also, i can guess how it was created.

the code is probably in c, and a rare edge case is overwriting memory before it hits the file.
^ This. First time it happened I was a little confused, but once I realized what was happening I was ecstatic about it's implications for iCloud backup security.
I got one for you. We have to upload json files containing for a bunch of articles some encoded rules, and the legal text in the law why the encoded rules are what they are.

The law part was supposed to be a few lines of text. Except when they dont know which article to give. In that case they provide the full law text, including scanned pdfs, base64 encoded. All 2GB of it. Basically you have something with the meaning null, encoded in a huge string.

Now the creation of this file was given to a third party, who don't bother with finding out the relevant law, and paste the 2GB blob into every article they modify, just to be sure. At this point we have 500 000 articles in that file. We get a new one every month.

Not fun at all. But it is modern, at least, in the past it was a cobol flat file.
>Something is getting stressed in order to slow the car down.

The exact same components that are stressed in order to speed your car up.

Since your engine doesn't have combustion raising cylinder pressures, the total power 'absorption?' under engine braking is necessarily less than the full power output of the engine which the drive train was designed to handle.

The exception is if you have rear wheel drive and enough weight transfer to the front to get wheel hop. But, afaik, this is a problem unique to motorcycles.
at any time a vehicle could plough into you while you're walking on the pavement
Recruiting SysAdmin/DevOps? Curious how easy it is
This does look cool, and definitely illustrates the awesomeness of using redux / immutable state store. What is the pricing of the service like, though? I'd prefer to see that without having to register...
Oddly I can't find any other sources reporting this. I'd have expected it to show up in at least one other place else (e.g. BBC news for example).

I'm not trying to imply that it's not accurate, I'm just confused by the lack of info. And the article doesn't really reference anything other than other zdnet articles, so it's really hard to tell exactly what form of the act got passed - did all the really controversial stuff actually make it in?
>Not sure what the downsides are yet

It's fantastically expensive.
That would be a very hard fight for them since enforcing it without fundamentally breaking the way the internet works would be very expensive to a lot of very wealthy companies and sadly in this 'democracy' the people with the money are heard the loudest.
I think it would 'bloom' in any world, regardless of the person that is currently president. We live in a world where privacy rights are being slowly taken away.

One of the problems we face is that many people in the new generation give out all of their private information to the world via tweets and Facebook posts. They see no need to actually protect something they are freely giving out anyway.
Feel free to ask anything or tell us your thoughts.
Having spent 12 years with a WRX, and moved a couple years to a Hyundai Genesis Coupe; while my wife still drives a Subaru Forester... Subarus are a bad example here. They've got great engines and other factors, but their automatic transmissions really suck.

Is there anywhere else where you can get what's supposed to be their high-performance car (my WRX was the year before STI came out) or the performance variant of another (my wife's Forester is an XT), where that automatic transmission is just a 4-speed? And subjectively, it's a rather balky one at that, with very slow shifts.

For comparison, my Genesis Coupe's auto tranny is an 8-speed, which maximizes the time that the engine is at its most efficient. It's also got smooth lightning-fast shifts in comparison to either Subaru.
Worth noticing that court blocked only HTTP version "http://www.linkedin.com/", HTTPS works just fine :)

However some providers, who had no smart hardware, may block by IP instead of URL, and https version will be blocked as well (not my case).