skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GM seems to get it. Chevrolet is shipping Chevy Bolts to dealers right now.

All the German car makers are also shipping electric versions of their cars, just no one wants an electric Golf or up!.

> They have all that investment in the technology of making precision power machinery. But electric motors just aren't that complicated mechanically. Their edge over China disappears.

This is something that can be combined with a lot of other tech – there’s so much technology that can be precision-produced.
Do you also wince at paying money for your groceries?
Oh, of course. Why didn't any economist ever think of just pointing guns at people's heads until they come up with world-changing innovations for fear of their lives?
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the hipster points are irrelevant for the la pavoni, they are just straight up beautiful machines.
I'm curious how many of these "NSL"s actually have anything to do with actual national security investigations, or if they are just defaulted to if there is a politically plausible excuse that it has something to do with national security.

For example: NSL used to go after an ISIS propagandist working within the United States and is a US citizen. They've got information he is talking to ISIS/ISIL via an NSA intercept. They know who he is, he is pretty well involved and known to be involved in radical Islamic terrorist activities and social circles, to the FBI and others. They NSL to get information with the gag required to not tip off and close up the whole cell or disclose IC practices used against foreign adversaries.

However, I can see this case being more likely:

US Citizen on Twitter quotes the Qu'ran a lot, and writes a lot in Arabic. One day they quote a verse that sounds militant, or say something that seems like it may be an indirect frustration with USG, US citizens, or @-replies somebody who is within a couple of degrees of an investigated radical. Some keyword search FBI runs on the Twitter firehose picks this up and an analyst says "eh, this guy looks sketchy." FBI wants info, doesn't want to cycle through the courts, and knows they can NSL and say it's "because terrorism", even though the person in question is more being profiled for something innocuous than they are actively involved in anything radical (i.e. it's perfectly legal to be a religious Muslim in the United States.)

I've a feeling more often than not this is water taking the path of least resistance, and it's easier for special agents to issue these and that's why they issue them so often. Unfortunately we only get to see what an NSL looks like, but I'm curious who the guy is they were going after and what "national security" threat this guy really is or was.
This was actually one of the more insightful comments on this page…
A lot of people are missing the point. AWS has the ability to handle the largest attacks like the one that took out dns for half the net. Its not meant to be compared with the smaller players with limited abilities such as dosarrest and what not.

If you are on AWS, you are already protected up to a certain size for free. This you can compare to a dosarrest, small 10,20,30 gbps attacks and yet you are getting it for free, at no cost! The advance opens you up to a team of actual ddos experts 24/7, this is meant for the serious players that cant afford interuptions or downtime.

If your worried about blogs and wiki stuff, use google's ddos shield which is free for bloggers and news outfits.

This is a huge deal people, i cant understand why there are people out here bashing it, what a joke.
github is a terrible replacement for code search.
TED and ACM

https://www.ted.com/
http://www.acm.org/
> Open plan offices suck for productivity.

You're forgetting the mentality you're dealing with: as far as they're concerned, if you're not productive, regardless of the environment, the problem is you. Never them.
Jesus jumped-up Christ on a snowmobile.

How does that get through testing? "Passing a number to a subroutine can result in the value of the number being changed"?
"Mostly" gas only pumps started reappearing in the last 10 years as a part of big supermarket chains. From one point of view they are mostly just gas pump islands floating in a sea of parking, but from the other point of view the nearby supermarket is simply an absurdly large convenience store.
>Anybody can be 'possessed' by an idea, but it is clear that Silicon Valley has too many smart and well educated people wasting their time on trifles, their choices significantly retard what ought to be natural advantages.

Look, I like criticizing Silicon Valley for its ad-dollar silliness as much as anyone else, but that's fundamentally down to what VCs and angel investors are willing to fund. Everyone would work on Mars colonization, self-driving cars, and artificial intelligence if they could. Nobody pays you for that, though.
One more thing Google open sourced their AI routine but didn't release the data. Collecting data and selling it is how a lot of Dotcoms earn their money for free web services. They don't give data away for free. How do you think Google earns money on free web services if they don't sell user data and advertising based on user data?
free app idea, called dirt, which bring up controversy about companies, so when you buy something, at least you can see where your dollar/peso/yen/euro is going.

Various plug in options would be cool too, if you are browsing online, it finds dirt for you based on all the ads you get.

*edit - wow since the 80's? Still they dont change their business tactics, what a shame, they had 30 years to stop this crap.
The Pleasures of Incomprehensibility
In case you plan on updating these, I would love love love an overlay to add in state lines. For example, it appears that it would be technically possible to run a train from my hometown of Carbondale, IL to Saint Louis (blows my mind that it's not a thing) but putting in the overlay and being able to zoom and pretend make that route would be awesome.
Even farm products from the US often times are produced with the help of children:

"US child labor laws allow child farm workers to work longer hours, at younger ages, and under more hazardous conditions than other working youths. While children in other sectors must be 12 to be employed and cannot work more than 3 hours on a school day, in agriculture, children can work at age 12 for unlimited hours before and after school."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labor_laws_in_the_United...
Maybe race and gender play a small part but I agree that it has a lot more to do with class and connections.

I don't know what it takes to get into the Silicon Valley upper class, but hard, quality work isn't it.

My best guess is that you have to be great at kissing ass. SV hates jerks, but loves hypocrites.

It's not about what you are, it's about how you come across (in a very primitive, superficial way).
I just don't understand the value in that... Swap the "dry cheese flavouring" for a bit of cornflour (or plain) and real cheese, and you have better fresher macaroni cheese with no difficulty increase; probably cheaper too.
One major advantage over its predecessor is the first image: your workflow is defined as data instead of code, so you get a nice visualization of your workflow state. Try reading SWF execution histories for comparison.

Are you asking why you wouldn't just write your own coordination code and not use a coordination service at all? The advantage is scaling and robustness. These workflows can run for days/weeks/months, and each step in the workflow can run on different hosts that are optimized for that step. And workflow state is handled by AWS, and so is basic workflow logic (retries, timeouts, event logging, etc.). Unlike Oozie, Luigi, etc., your workflow state is not coupled to any of your infrastructure, so it can survive all kinds of crazy situations (fleets dropping offline, replacing clusters, etc.).
Well, on the plus side, you don't have to worry about any of that with NATS streaming.

On the negative, you don't _get_ to worry about it, because NATS Streaming doesn't support any sort of clustering at all. That, and it has approximately zero documentation.

I visited this topic a couple of months ago, and concluded that NATS Streaming is just too immature right now. Some six months from now I might revisit it, because it does look good, but at the moment it's just too green to consider.
The innovator's story is of people who are motivated to fix a pain point in their lives or the lives of loved ones.

Being destitute is only one of a panoply of goads that can serve as that motivation.
Do you sponsor visas for the internships?
Long-Haul Truckers
This article is super confusing. It doesn't sound like they are replacing the employees with 457s though it sounds like they are outsourcing everyone but the 457s.

>“Australia has real depth in IT skills so it is quite extraordinary for the NSW government to bring in 32 workers under 457 visas,” Mr Shoebridge said.

Anyone that has had to hire for technical roles in Australia can tell you it's really not this easy Australia definitely has depth but it doesn't have breadth and the highly skilled tech people are in such demand that they are rarely available for hiring. So unless you're hiring for a junior role you probably will have a very difficult time finding highly skilled employees. I'd still like to see more focus in getting juniors hired and trained though so that in a few years we can have more resources available at the mid to upper levels.

Side note I use to be a 457 and I never felt subservient in anyway either.
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Kickbacks (especially in the form of gifts) often go to the individuals rather than the company.

A broker who gives a 10% discount to a company saves the company money which allows them to get their employees a better plan (or higher profits or whatever).

A kickback of steak dinners and free golf for the HR manager is more like a bribe: no benefit accrues to the company itself.
yeah my family always says i live in sf when i live in the south bay....
Stupid managers that will then either go to conference rooms for meetings or into their own office. That's the way it works here. All of the devs & qa that need a quiet environment are stuck in cubes or open offices while the managers, directors, VP, etc all sit in their offices with the doors closed. I absolutely hate it.

About 10 years ago at a different employer, we planned a trip to a customer's office but I woke up late and missed the car by literally 5 minutes. We were in an open office plan where we faced each other...sales was also in the same room sitting right next to me. Since I missed the trip, I was the only person in the office for the rest of the week. Holy-cow did I get stuff done. My productivity shot through the roof and I swear in a few days I did probably 1 - 1.5 months of work. I told the owner about this and listed the things I did while they were away. He said something along these lines: "800 bucks per month to rent an office for you is nothing compared to your salary." A couple weeks later we all had our own offices. That should be an easy message for management. Don't nickle and dime the small stuff that greatly increases ROI.

I miss having competent management around.
100% of Germany?
These are advantages over ELBv1. We have no desire to move away from AWS's load balancing services at this time.
This is what has killed Twitter. Both social justice Twitter and right-wing Twitter revolve around competing for status-points, and backslapping (the latest trend is linking to other people's egotistical tweetstorms along with a comment like 'This' or 'Thread'.

Very little challenge of ideas takes place - either from within communities or from outside. The whole thing has become a Wittgensteinian language game where people compete to praise or denounce the latest political trend in the most caustic or verbose way. It's tiresome and offputting to people unwilling to subjugate their entire online persona to their identity.
These names are arbitrary (though they can do some signalling). Especially the "angel" and "seed" which are basically the same thing.

Basically an "investment round" is when you sell equity (and thus set a price) the rest is debt, both legally and practically. If you don't need to file form D you didn't sell anything!
Android malware ‘Gooligan’ infects more than 1M accounts
Is there a role for technology to play in simplifying this problem for the decision makers?
The calculator doesn’t even allow setting the value to 100mph, so it can’t claim different?
Thank you brudgers for your advice.
What would be your advice about promoting what you work on. I am agree that you should work continuously on improving the product because more you work means more details covered.

But there are 3 scenarios:
1. Your idea is great you work hard on improving it, but somehow someone else meanwhile saw your idea and with a bigger team and more experience they develop something similar and you lost your time.
2. Your idea is great but you do not promote your application enough, you would say that after half a year, or a year someone will say oh look this is a such a great app why haven't we seen this app before? But if noise increases you may result in case 1.
3. Trying to promote your app as you develop it (that means less time remained on improving product) and in that case it will take more time and the result may be not the same amazing product.

Thank you!
Yes, tuning out other conversations around me takes a lot of my energy to where I trudge through the day and want to go to sleep when I get home. I find when I work in a space by myself I am energized and productive. I'm currently at a desk by two other devs who have to talk to each other all day and I'm considering leaving an otherwise great job because of it.
HN has "you're posting too fast!" per-user rate limiting.
Interestingly it wasn't initially targeted at the PowerPC (let alone the PowerMac), the original BeBox prototypes used 2 AT&T ATT92010 Hobbit processors and 3 AT&T DSP3210 DSPs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110806044928/http://www.bebox....
Awesome, it's great to see QGIS getting more popular.

Thanks for the reply!
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Signs of a Creepy Government Conspiracy at Standing Rock
> for Google's security team to be taken seriously, you require that Google alter their liability posture

If they seriously believe that they have the ability to ship a secure browser what would it matter? The other question I have is if they have this capability, why haven't they?

Here's what I believe. Google will never ship a modern, full featured, standards compliant, and secure browser. Specifically they will never ship a secure browser.

>Who could possibly find such an argument convincing?

Pretty much the entirety of the rest of trade across the entire world. When was the last time your grocery store was allowed to sell you rotten food liability free? Companies, in fact, routinely are sued and fined for fraud and false claims. Chipotle just got sued for advertising a 300 calorie burrito that wasn't 300 calories. Why should Google (and Google employees) be able to make false claims and then later insist in their EULAs that they don't actually have to abide by.
IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds
> people go around denying that the invasion of the Crimea was really and invasion

The USA invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and never had any consequences over it.
Craigslist has 30 people now according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist , but was run by only the founder for a while (unclear in the Wikipedia page)
Twitter Acquires Yes Inc., Makes Former Googler VP of Product
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AeroPress does not produce Espresso coffee, which the Nespresso machine does.

You COULD grind your beans, brew the coffee yourself, clean up the mess you made and then clean the machine up. Or just pop a pod in and drink your coffee.

I couldn't live without my Nespresso machine because it's an amazing compromise between ease of use, reliability and quality. It's 'good enough' compared to 'proper' coffee while being a million times easier and consistent.
"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you cannot change, and you will feel better."
I'll post to this thread because this is very relevant for the hiring companies.

Hunter and Schmidt did a meta-study of 85 years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing employees in intellectual fields.

- General mental ability (Are they generally smart)
Use WAIS or if there are artifacts of GMA(Complex work they've done themselves) available use them as proxies.
Using IQ is effectively illegal[2] in the US, so you'll have to find a test that acts as a good proxy.

- Work sample test. NOT HAZING! As close as possible to the actual work they'd be doing. Try to make it apples-to-apples comparison across candidates. Also, try and make accomidations for candidates not knowing your company shibboleth.

- Integrity. The first two won't matter if you hire dishonest people or politicians.
There are existing tests available for this, you can purchase for < $50 per use.

This alone will get you > 65% hit rate [1], and can be done inside of three hours.
There's no need for day long (or multi-day) gladiator style gauntlets. Apply this process to EVERYONE, including that elite cool kid. You don't want to exclude part of your sample population!

[1] http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...

[2] Technically IQ tests aren't "illegal", but the bar courts have decided companies have to climb is so high it effectively means they are. You should speak with your lawyer before you decide to try IQ tests.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072311
Instead of engaging in amateur psychoanalyzing of your educated acquaintance because he dares praise Putin's speech, you could have also chosen to read it yourself. Here, let me help you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/28...
Platforms are really great for the platform owners because they create lock-in.

A product is something you buy and own. It might not have the latest whizbang features but it does its job and won't stop working because a new version comes out. Kind of like software before it became apps or mobile phones before they became smart.

Cars are indeed becoming platforms. From Renault's leased batteries which contain some form of DRM, cloud-based access in Toyotas to Teslas updates and analytics. None of the above has really existed for a long time i.e. more than 10 years, so we don't know what will happen to these platform cars.