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Right, they get the charging free, though I'm not sure that includes unlimited parking once charging is complete (though I haven't actually read the agreement myself either).
Indeed. So, how are the other Tesla owners allowed access, if there's always someone hogging the charger as a parking spot?
> Sometimes, you can't avoid the shell.

What circumstances have you got in mind?
Agreed. Where I'm from, if a restaurant or a fast food doesn't satisfy these things (aka doing their job), then I simply don't go there.
Taken to an extreme, clear rules not open to interpretation lead exactly to the crazy situation you can read on the article.
Creating throwaway accounts to act as sockpuppets in a thread where you already commented is certainly a bannable offense, so please don't do that again.
> Some of the most popular and widely used software—like the Linux kernel, Apache HTTP server, and Google Chrome browser—are written in C/C++

What is this C/C++ language he talks about?
It doesn't matter, people will still tinfoil hat that the thing is listening and uploading everything they say.

I had this exact same conversation with a number of people when the news came out about the Echo being in the Wynn Hotel in Vegas.
Nobody is assaulting your ego; you're doing that to yourself. I'm not doubting your experience or knowledge, and I appreciate that you're driven to share it. I can see that you genuinely care, and that your intent is most likely virtuous.

I am, however, suspicious of your approach to and style of communication; as are others. Generating attention is the not the same as interest, man.

It's baseless because you can't quantify how many full time PHP devs there are in the world outside of your own acquaintance. That's not enough information to lend your statements any validity. You can stand on your own merits without trashing everybody you don't know.
This is like asking, "why didn't they just build a new dam instead of spending so much time drawing up blueprints?" Games can be useful abstractions and guides that advance our understanding of the same decision making processes that allow people to create real, effective changes in the world. The balance is shifting to the point in the near future where most of the best solutions to real world problems won't come directly from unaugmented human minds.
> After 10 years, I expect to have >80% of capacity still usable.

It's pointless to talk about capacity at year X without accounting for range, your driving habits and miles/year.

Capacity loss is not a dependent variable of just time, but most importantly of the number of recharge cycles. This is why Nissan Leaves (especially 1st gen ones) have experienced huge capacity losses when used as daily drivers (think 30% loss @ 50,000 miles). Depending on how long it takes you to drive 50,000 miles, the time frame can be as short as 3 years.

Of course a Tesla needs fewer charges to go 50,000 miles, but that obviously comes with a huge price premium over the 'economy EV' like a Leaf or a Kia Soul or what have you.
> Why should men get special status over women with the number of children they have?

I never said they should.

> There are men who deliberately get women pregnant and then leave them

What in the world does that have to do with anything?

> Those sort of people would support only having limits applied to women.

What are you talking about? I never said anything about any sort of limit.
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Windows 2000 was dog slow even with 128MB memory. Similar like WinNT 4 under 64MB run like a pig. Or WinXP under 256MB.

Of course WinNT OS series is rock solid and cannot be compared to Win9x in that way.
Why would anyone choose C when Rust becomes mature?
And I think that's a very distinctly different thing from "directly causes obesity".
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Well, I don't think implying diabetes (type 2) is a lack of insulin is entirely accurate. The problem is insulin resistance in cells, because they're saturated with insulin, where they mostly stop responding to insulin. Which then results in the pancreas not being able to produce enough insulin to lower blood glucose. It's like a deaf person saying the music isn't loud enough -- the volume is fine, their ears are just shot. You can make the music louder (inject insulin), but their ears will just get worse. When you have that much insulin in your system though, you're definitely not losing weight -- because the cells are saturated with insulin they're definitely not in fat burning mode.
Precisely this, if anything, it's part of the experience you pay for. His suggestions of using ML for occupancy and optimizing for turnover would more likely ruin the restaurant. Luckily in business schools being aware of cultural differences is being taught more and more.
Every month there are "Who wants to be hired" and "Freelancer?" threads, which you can find at https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring. You might try posting in one of those. If you do, consider including a link to the current thread, for background.

Comments on submissions only stay open for 2 weeks but these threads show up on the first weekday of the month, so the January one will be soon.
As always, there is an XKCD that sends up this phenomenon: https://xkcd.com/1138/.
Interestingly, one can substitute Ada/SPARK for C in a lot of this article on "C's benefits" with huge boost on safety & maintenance side. For cutting-edge, one project on 8-bit micro's used ATS language for its combo of safety & performance. OcaPIC let's tinkerers use Ocaml subset for algorithms if performance doesn't preclude it. People are also getting a combo of high-level and C benefits by using DSL's embedded in eg Haskell that output C. The Atom, Ivory, and Tower languages are examples of this.

The only thing that's uniquely an advantage of C in the article is understanding legacy code in popular projects. It's mostly in C for historical & social reasons. Mastering C is a great help there. Although, one could still use Ada (Ada-to-C compiler) or DSL approaches above with better results when writing code. Maintainers won't accept that in popular projects, though. So, back to knowing & writing good C for this sort of thing.
Based on the costs of disks alone, their cost per PB is actually around $35k. They likely get a volume discount, so we can lower that estimate even more and say $25-30k. Bandwidth is essentially free even though they charge ridiculous amounts of money for it on their services. You can get a 10Gbps link for as low as $2,000 if you buy it on-net and in bulk, Amazon probably gets it even cheaper. So ~3PB/month for $1,000/month.
I'm going to look in to this and develop a skill that allows someone to ask for help. Unless it has already been done,will check it out.
I'm not sure you and I have the same definition of "listening". It must listen to hear the wake word, and likewise must process incoming sounds to do so. If you know of a way to do that without storing the incoming sounds, even if just briefly in temporary memory, I'm all ears...
Interesting to learn how to pronounce it correctly. I've always just said arx-iv like it's spelled.
IIRC the front of the house participated in the pool (I know because we were irritated with the Mgr getting our tips). The hostesses got min wage, but the managers were salaried (with bonuses).
They even copied that broken system into PowerShell "functions" (proper functions are expected to only return explicit results, these return every output they gather, falling behind structured programming).
It's a pro and a con.

Pro: Fidel Castro died

Con: Alan Rickman died
As far as carrot and stick go its fairly crude.

A more "entertaining" way to punish parkers would be to log how much time they waste parking, provide a reasonable allowance (whatever, fifteen minutes per month will be waived) then refuse to start charging until the time is paid back. Or decelerate the fast charge to make up for the time. People in a hurry will not like it when they come back to their car in 30 minutes and its not begun charging.

Even more amusingly would be gamification playing into the well known range anxiety problem where every ten minutes the car sits there, its discharged back into the grid 5%.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13258882
You are correct. I forgot about variable length arrays.
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Why would anyone use Rust when C++ is here and is already mature?
Actually, according to the third party doctrine, you have. The difference between this and a cellphone is that you voluntarily give up this information whereas a cellphone does not transmit such data voluntarily. There are surveillance laws and other problems if a phone is recording you unknowingly. With Alexa, the recordings are submitted voluntarily. I'd be shocked if the police don't get their hands on this data. It's not like Amazon can claim, like Apple, that they can't themselves access it because it's encrypted.

'The third-party doctrine is a United States legal theory that holds that people who voluntarily give information to third parties—such as banks, phone companies, internet service providers (ISPs), and e-mail servers—have "no reasonable expectation of privacy."'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
How would you propose making a list of "99 reasons 2016 was a good year" without "sampling bias"? The entire premise of the article depends on your definition of the word "good".

I agree this article is viewed through a liberal lens. A conservative's list would be very different: opened up vast new areas to oil drilling! Outlawed abortion in more countries! Rolled back environmental regulations that protect penguins over jobs! Reduced crime with stiffer prison sentences!
The touchpad on the Surface Book is nowhere near as good as the Macbook's, especially the newer models. It will occasionally register my single finger left click as right click while I never had that issue on OS X which is a bit aggravating.

The dev environment on Windows still isn't as good as OS X + homebrew, but it's getting better. I'm tempted just to run a virtual machine or SSH into a a DigitalOcean box as my dev environment, however most Windows terminals are a little disappointing (looking for suggestions!).

On the plus side, the touchscreen and being able to pop out the top into tablet mode is pretty amazing. I also really enjoy the pen for drawing, taking notes, or e-signing PDFs.

It's definitely the best Windows laptop I've used, but I'm still not sure if Windows can compete with OS X for development. Maybe when Ubuntu on Windows gets better...
To answer my own question, I've found voat.co to be a good alternative to reddit. The community is small, but the content is about as great as HN or some good quality sub-reddits.
On Unix, most tools don't really need to use the shell at all; it's enough to treat argument lists as lists internally and pass them to exec or posix_spawn (which of course, unlike the Windows _exec and _spawn, aren't broken for arguments with spaces!).

However, at minimum it is still useful to shell-escape arguments when displaying them to the user (for ease of copy+paste), so it's unfortunate that many languages don't have any standard library function to do this - including C on POSIX, and Python before version 3.
A fast and entertaining take on this topic: "Why Tipping Should Be Banned - Adam Ruins Everything" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_vivC7c_1k
There is no technical reason for Sierra only.
File manager, not boot time.
Not agreeing with them, but you misread what they said. They said that PreCheck itself was a self-selecting list of "evildoers" (i.e. the only people who pay for it are up to no good).

As I said, I don't agree, but that's what they posted.
So... Ada is better, and anyone could use it where they use C - and in fact could use it to generate C. But nobody does.

Is that your point?
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> But you clearly cannot eat at a deficit and gain weight.

You can't without limit, obviously, but since muscle has a much lower per-pound energy content than fat, it's quite possible to eat at a deficit and gain weight while decreasing body fat %.

But, more to the point, a virus can affect, what and how much you are inclined to eat, how efficiently or not your body absorbs nutrients, and a number of other factors which influence whether or not you experience a deficit in the first place.
> You can stand on your own merits without trashing everybody you don't know.

I think I see the problem here.

You're parsing my statements as a sort of attack on others.

Let's try this: The global population of full-time PHP developers who are qualified to perform brain surgery is probably less than 10.

Is that statement less controversial?

Understanding cryptography isn't exactly a requirement for being a successful PHP developer. Additionally, the folks who do know cryptography very rarely find themselves working on PHP full-time: There's too much industry demand in other areas.

That most developers who work on PHP full-time do not have this particular skillset is NOT an attack on most developers. It's simply an observation and a reasonable consequence of the absence of market pressures.

Also, it's a difficult subject.
At that point it is just the psychological impact you allow suggestions to have on you. One could probably make an "employee-owned" store (WinCo, Trader Joes) with lovely staff and get away with doing this to sweeten the pot for employees.
In this instance the right move seems to have been made, but I do worry that stories like this will enable a new kind of techno-fascism. If Musk can change people's lives on timescales orders of magnitudes faster than governments, its going to go a long way to undermine people's faith in those governments.
No, he isn't correct.

> They also have a provision where a pointer to a nonarray value is treated as if it were a 1-element array

That is not what it says. Let me quote the exact words (emphasis mine):

For the purposes of these operators, a pointer to an object that is not an element of an array behaves the same as a pointer to the first element of an array of length one with the type of the object as its element type.

You're right that what we have is obviously (a pointer to) an array object, not an element of another array. This is precisely the case where this special provision kicks in, and thus it is legal to do &arr + 1.
One option to curb the abuse is to increase the fee each team they abuse a parking spot. Eventually the fee would be high enough that even the rich will balk at it. Over time the fee could be brought back down.
Looking at Haskell's Data.Sequence, it looks like it's strict in its elements. So a delete does free up memory as long as the deleted object isn't being used somewhere else.
Have you looked at https://triplebyte.com ?
The C compiler is often the first thing ported over to new architectures because it is fairly easy to do. Rust probably will not come close to being that universal.

On the desktop side of things, it will probably continue to be the favored systems language until universities start incorporating rust into their curriculum. Very few people have the motivation and incentive to learn a new language to accomplish something they can accomplish in a language they already know.
> The end result, is the airlines have no desire to improve the process.

Airlines are competing against other forms of travel (I, for example, mostly just drive everywhere I can these days, though this is only in part due to the TSA checkpoints: there's tons of stuff to hate about air travel if you can avoid it) and travel as a concept is competing against other activities (whether leisure or business: if you don't enjoy travel, you are less likely to just randomly hop on a plane and go somewhere; you take more phone calls and watch more television).

Airports are also competing against other airports, and usage of TSA employees is optional: when I was still bothering to fly in and out of the Bay Area I chose SFO over SJC because I preferred the private SFO security guard over real TSA employees. The incentives might be mild (as again, there are tons of other things for them to optimize), but they definitely do exist; if nothing else, "correctly optimize the number of employees to manage long lines" seems like a big win.

https://skift.com/2016/05/27/more-airports-may-ditch-the-tsa...

> Still, airports that have switched to private firms say they consider the contractors more responsive and better able to adjust staffing to address traffic surges and lulls.

> Delta and United airlines will spend as much as $4 million each hiring extra workers to manage the lines at this busiest airports.
The device doesn't start listening when you say the wake word, the device is always listening. It's only the UX that responds when the presence of the wake word is detected. This means that the device is continuously monitoring the environment for the presence of the wake word we know about ("Alexa").

Can the device monitor for other words that trigger other UX sequences? Of course it can!

Can Amazon deliver an OTA update to this network connected device to change behavior after it leaves the factory? There is no reason to believe that they cannot.

So, no, I don't believe the police are wrong here. In fact, I would be in favor of law enforcement having the ability to "tap" these network-attached microphone appliances with a warrant. Then, perhaps, people will begin to understand what they've really bought.

EDIT: Passive monitoring ("listening") is not the same thing as storage ("recording"). In some cases below, these are being conflated.
> well.. I avoid the hell out of using command line on any Windows

How do you avoid it if it's the only API available for spawning processes on Windows?
Well because Rust's support for Arduino is still in its infancy [1].

[1]: http://jakegoulding.com/blog/2016/01/02/rust-on-an-arduino-u...
Yes I wouldn't say every minute of my time in a cafe was bad. I enjoyed producing, adding value etc. The tips didn't really come into it much for me because my base wage was enough. It wasn't going to make or break my week.

The power dynamic comes from creating a system where people are forced to work to meet their largest expense: rent.
Like others mentioned, your body can allocate energy in a variety of ways depending on hormones. If you're at a caloric deficit, your body can do things like: reduce heat production, reduce energy available for activities, reduce metabolism, reduce production of proteins for hair/fingernails, etc. There's no hard requirement it burns fat. That's what healthy bodies do of course, but metabolic syndrome is where that entire system doesn't work.
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I really dislike these county maps. Darker color is shown as more fans, when in reality some of the largest, more intensely shaded counties have relatively few people in them. I believe it imparts a false impression of whatever the map is trying to inform the viewer on.

edit: douche points out that these maps are not purely based on county lines.
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The thing is... people are okay with that. It's how most every other country works. Americans are paying it anyways, the only difference is sometimes the waiter(ess) gets shafted because the business outsources the responsibility to their customers.
I haven't used C++ in a long time, but ... can I still use standard language features (Templates) and my code will compile with one compiler, but not the other? That would be a big reason in my opinion.
I think the point is that the urban vs rural divide has not been the dominant conflict in America up until now. In the past other identity politics such as black and white or north vs south have dominated. Every state has rural and urban areas - why is it just now, in the early 2000s, that the urban vs rural cultural divide now dominates the cultural discourse?

Duck Dynasty and Modern Family is just one more symptom of the cultural divide. It's interesting because it's a small part of a much larger conflict with major political and economic implications that have already been felt (most obviously, the recent US election).

Also for me it's personally very interesting. I'm going to start watching shows that it would not have occured to me to watch, because it's one way to escape my own cultural bubble. Normally Duck Dynasty and Empire wouldn't be on my list, now they are - because it's a way to understand a culture that would normally be somewhat alien to me.
> With the diet change, the animals should have lost weight, if anything.

I think the far more likely explanation is that they don't have a complete understanding of nutrition and their expectations about the diet change were wrong.

"But we put the marmosets on a No-Fat diet! They should be losing weight!"
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+1 for Terraforming Mars. I enjoy playing it solo as well as with a group. There is enough variety in the cards to keep it fresh and the difficulty ramps up quickly.
Interesting. Most of the "trends" have made similar lists for years (e.g., teams). However, #8 on working together with a greater sense of purpose seems to capture the current zeitgeist pretty well.
Capacity loss for leafs come from their lack of thermal management, not driving range. See the issues they have with capacity in warm climates.
> When we looked at how many active Facebook users in a given ZIP code “liked” certain TV shows

How are they getting Like data from Facebook Pages that granular from Facebook?
Interesting that the police is going after this electronic speech data, reminds me of the instance where a parrot witnessed a murder that was posted on this site couple of months ago, in that case the parrot was not able to testify...

Also interesting that the lawyer is going for the reasonable expectation of privacy regarding that data, if that holds, then it could allow them to argue due protections from the 4th amendment.

But let's ask the question here; is data regarding usage of utilities private? It seems that something that you installed for water usage, should be. Could this data not have been acquired from the water department?
NYC and rural Indiana won't agree on cars.
Why not go for broke and do both?
I'm not in the datacenter business, so I've been conservative for lack of experience with storage at PB scale.

I've chosen to err on the side of estimating it to be more expensive, because I think that makes the end result more convincing:

30m is chump change for parties like Amazon, and in reality it'll cost significantly less. 1m might well do. Maybe it's less still. You could combine flagging users with flagging low-certainty or keyword-containing transcriptions.

Either way, you don't need collusion with intelligence parties, just an unscrupulous or naive exac at Amazon that thinks the data might be worth a lot for training future learning models. Of course the more sinister but legal reselling to government agencies is a financially attractive option as well.
And Alastair Reynolds. Former ESA scientist, so even his space opera feels truthy.
Speech recognition in the 90s was absolutely turd.
> The C compiler is often the first thing ported over to new architectures because it is fairly easy to do. Rust probably will not come close to being that universal.

Seems to be a good place to ask: Is there a comparison out there of the complexity of a "typical" C compiler versus the Rust compiler? To check if it would be actually possible to port Rust to new platforms easily?
You're making quite a few assumptions.

1) The device is storing any amount of locally recorded audio. So far evidence says no.

2) Amazon would OTA all echos to upload everything it hears. So far evidence says this hasn't happened. It also likely won't because IMO security people monitor these devices more than anything else on the planet. Some I believe for good reasons, the others just want to play gotcha.

3) If 1 and 2 are true, Amazon keeps the data for an extended period of time.

Can we please not tinfoil hat the hell out of these devices like we do the rest of IoT sometimes?