skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The accident allowed the front doors to still be opened (in the usual way) and the rear doors did not work because pressing the button did not activate the door opening mechanism. Note that the gull wing doors are the rear doors. Now if any door would be stuck after an accident that deformed the chassis to the point that the front doors would not open you could speculate that the rear doors also would not open. But the front doors worked just fine strongly suggesting that the failure was - as has been described - due to the rear doors requiring power rather than just a mechanical release.

So, 'all other car doors' (of this particular car) opened just fine, it is just the gull wing doors that did not open making it rather hard to believe that the chassis was that deformed.

And even if the chassis was deformed that would be one reason more to provide for some kind of emergency escape measure to avoid being trapped in a car which is a very bad place to be after an accident and cars do get into accidents every now and then.

Why I said you were moving the goalposts: first you argued at length that aesthetics were the main reason this problem couldn't be solved, then you went for the fact that the doors might have jammed without any evidence for that, in fact with strong evidence to the contrary. Since this was a head on collision you'd expect the front of the car to have taken the brunt of the impact and that if the front doors were jammed chassis deformation could be assumed to the point where the rear doors would be jammed as well.

But given the front is fine the rear should have opened. And if deformation of the car is possible where in a frontal collision the front doors will still open just fine but the rear doors will not then that's a huge design flaw.

Note how the article says the electrical release button did not work, that's pretty logical but probably not what the passengers expected.

So, we can go looking for complex explanations but really simple ones exist: electrical failure, quite common after an accident, and a really good thing too because you don't want to have an electrical fire such as the one in the article on top of a car accident, doors don't open, emergency release invisible to the point of non-existence -> problem.

Fortunately the people in the car had the quickness of mind and sufficient agility to try the front doors fast enough to get out, if not the story would have ended quite differently.

Some blogger predicted this could happen by the way:

http://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/1540/will-the-tesla-model-x...
With either setup you can reinvest all of your cash flow thus reducing your profit to zero and your tax burden to zero.
Norway's super secret masterplan(?):

1. Lead electric vehicle revolution, increasing demand for renewable energy in Europe

2. Sell abundant, clean hydro-electricity to Denmark, Germany, and the UK via new HVDC interconnectors

3. $$ Profit $$
> What's wrong with Uber tracking Lyft drivers?

Hard to believe this is a serious question, but the answer is that it's an invasion of privacy. "Tracking" is a polite way to put it, but if I'm reading it correctly, Uber is basically stalking them.

Just when I think Uber can't be any sleazier, they find a way.
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They may have _ideas_ of what can be next, but the job market is orders of magnitude smaller at that level

As far as having the wealth to get their next venture off the ground, that's part of the negotiation. They know if they leave the company, it will take X days to find a new position or Y amount of money to start that idea they have. I do the same thing when taking a job (i.e. Can I save for a rainy day?)
Not op, but:

> You think the same about United...

Yes.

> ...and now American?

Dunno, haven't heard of it. Probably.

> Perhaps it just that the outraged minority now have a louder voice.

I don't understand the mechanism you're proposing? You're insinuating that this "minority" is today no larger than it was for...similar scandals in the past, I guess? Then why would readership for news about said scandals rise? How does loudness factor into this? Does Uber go to 11?

Anyway, you're wrong on the simplest of facts. It's not a minority: "Pollsters found generally negative attitudes toward United, with 47 percent viewing it unfavorably. Twenty-three percent see the airline favorably." (http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/aviation/329687-pol...)

> There is a financial benefit for them writing negative articles, outrage/scandal draws in viewers.

And to think that for centuries, we trusted journalists without ever noticing that they were paid (paid!) to write what they write. It's basically corruption! And now that I think of it, I can no longer trust the baker! That corrupt flour-power-wannabe is taking money to make bread!
> [...] each one has a QR code so that the juicer knows it is juicing an OEM pack, and is farmer GMO blah blah blah

Which has zero value for most people.
Automating complexity doesn't remove it, it just hides it and adds some overhead (code that needs to be tested, debugged, and maintained). The operator of the tool should be power users who (mostly) understand what the tool is doing behind the scenes. Magic buttons encourage people to 'trust the tool' when you really shouldn't. Tools are stupid.

Just trying to pop some of the mythology surrounding this stuff. Automation is not a cure-all. You should definitely do it, because operating by hand isn't at all better, but you should probably still know what you're doing and 'magic buttons' can discourage this.
Kind of annoying that there is nothing to try before signing up. Not even a single song in any of the languages. Or any real screenshots.

On the other hand you can get quite far without an account on https://lyricstraining.com/
Hey Joseph,

You're doing God's work and a national service that is IMHO worthy of a knighthood, the BBC front page is one of those rare places where a few little engineering cogs can really make a huge difference. Keep up the good fight! Thanks from all of us -- the UK, still missing the old news.bbc 5ish years later :)

And if I ever have the privilege of your CV gracing my inbox, I'd do everything to ensure we got to work together. Thanks again!
Is it a robbery if you were aware of it before choosing to sign up?
Sort of. "Spread Critical Workloads" is somewhat silly to me. The uptime will be lower than the worse of the two clouds, complexity higher, and cost higher due to egress for cloud to cloud.

I do get the use case for actual multi-cloud, where there aren't cross cloud dependencies.

This setup seems unwise though. Maybe as a short term migration pathway, or similar.
Science.

You might find the below numbers interesting. Note that this performance is only one workstation with 8x gtx980.
Even the mighty bcrypt (sidebar, look at the sha512 #s) won't save you if your password is bad. Now consider social media mining to enhance the word list. Now consider that (anecdotally) I have never done a hashcat audit and not had to have a conversation with someone about choosing better passwords:

Hashtype: bcrypt, Blowfish(OpenBSD)
Workload: 32 loops, 2 accel

Speed.GPU.#1.: 6398 H/s
Speed.GPU.#2.: 6507 H/s
Speed.GPU.#3.: 6513 H/s
Speed.GPU.#4.: 6643 H/s
Speed.GPU.#5.: 6534 H/s
Speed.GPU.#6.: 6512 H/s
Speed.GPU.#7.: 6689 H/s
Speed.GPU.#8.: 6542 H/s
Speed.GPU.#*.: 52338 H/s

https://gist.github.com/epixoip/c0b92196a33b902ec5f3
Actually, I doubt that performance itself will be much different, since ClojureCL/OpenCL is quite good, even on Nvidia.

The main benefits of using ClojureCUDA over ClojureCL may be some CUDA-specific functionality, and access to CUDA libraries such as cuBLAS, cuFFT, and cuDNN from Clojure.
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> that basically says "The ugly and frightening truth about vigilantism is that it works", without backing it up

That's a quote from me, not from the HuffPo article. The article says "The crime rate in the dangerous subways plunged dramatically…", as I quoted originally.

> I've actually spent the last hour looking for statistics to back or not back you up. I've wasted my life.

I replied to you here with a source that only took a few minutes to find:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14189548

You seem very emotional about this topic. I would urge you to look at it more dispassionately. As I already stated (but it bears repeating), I absolutely do not want vigilantism to be the result of crimes like this, but I fear unless there is an open and honest conversation, things may end up there anyway. I believe the best (and perhaps only) way to avoid such an outcome is to consider the possibilities that may result from various actions (or inactions), unpleasant as they may be.
No: all that fructose can definitely be bad for you.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fresh-juice-drinks-health...
Monotony!
EDIT: Damn, e
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16828763/use-favicon-to-t...
Here's an article that explains how starbucks uses a similar strategy to reduce their tax bill:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-starbucks-tax-idUS...
https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-tracking-pixel-work
The whole 'pass the risk to the merchant' system is broken by design. Everybody that could do something about it passes the buck and the only part that can't do anything about it is held responsible. Merchant contracts are terrible, especially the on-line variety.
I'll offer a good faith answer, even though I'm pretty sure you'll dismiss it as snarky condescension.

Point 1: Lyft's API comes with a contractual agreement regarding acceptable usage. Uber deliberately breached that agreement. This is a breach of property rights.

Point 2: They breached Lyft's property rights with the intent of stalking Lyft drivers, and of harming Lyft as an organization. This shows the breach of property rights was not neutral or positive, but rather was an activity meant to harm the property owner, and to reduce the competitive landscape.

Point 3: It was a clear violation of law. I include this last because law only loosely correlates with morality; however law draws the lines on the playing field and it is worth explicitly noting that Uber arranged for its employees to break federal law, repeatedly, for Uber's benefit.

If you don't think property rights are important, go talk with a Libertarian.
How virtuous of you.
Uber lost me as a customer if there are other options. I was in Houston this past weekend and everyone is using Uber, no one using Lyft, etc.

I ended up downloading their app and using it all weekend, and uninstalled it as soon as I got to the airport. I wonder how many other cities are basically exclusively Uber currently ?
Wouldn't this make your service less reliable since downtime in either cloud service can cause your service to be down?
Verbing weirds language.

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25
Well I'd want to know, what is your basis for calling it an ethical compromise?
I just send the rockets up, where they come down is not my department.

Why do people build weapons? Why do people pay taxes, that are used to fund immoral actions? Why do people provide services to immoral actors? Typically, the answer is money.
Pretty easy to find online if you're genuinely interested.

Start with oil.
Does this include AppEngine?
> why so many people consider cryptocurrencies to be such a big deal.

Sending value anywhere in the world in a very short amount of time without having to trust a middleman.
As a firmware engineer, I second the MikesElectricStuff recommendation. More depth, cooler stuff. His voice is also much less annoying...
This is often stated, but when you actually look at his accomplishments (from Wikipedia):

> Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft's annual revenue surged from $25 billion to $70 billion, while its net income increased 215 percent to $23 billion, and its gross profit of 75 cents on every dollar in sales is double that of Google or IBM.

...

> Ballmer also built half-a-dozen new businesses such as the data centers division and the Xbox entertainment and devices division ($8.9 billion) (which has prevented the Sony PlayStation and other gaming consoles from undermining Windows), and oversaw the acquisition of Skype. Ballmer also constructed the company's $20 billion Enterprise Business, consisting of new products and services such as Exchange, Windows Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, System Center, and Dynamics CRM, each of which initially faced an uphill battle for acceptance but have emerged as leading or dominant in each category.

It doesn't exactly sound like tanking.
Alternatively, they are sane enthusiasts who enjoy using and taxing state of the art hardware. Or they are gamers. Or both. I could say I question the decision making of someone (especially a hacker) who doesn't upgrade their laptop every six years. But that would be rude.
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I realize that, but vigilantism is not always driven by a rational view of crime statistics. Fear can be a very powerful force. If people fear crime and feel they are being ignored and not protected by the state, they may take matters into their own hands, quite often irrationally. See for example the reaction to terrorism, despite the vast statistical unlikelihood of being a victim of it.

I notice that several people are responding to me as though I am advocating vigilantism even though I am doing the opposite, so I feel I must reiterate once again that I am fully opposed to it. Instead, I am trying to raise the alarm that if highly visible crimes like the one described in this article are not addressed sufficiently, the public may react with vigilantism. That is an outcome I want to avoid.
> IIRC you were programming in a bungalow out of nowhere at that time.. right?

Yep, that be me:

http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...
The atmospheric oxygen was 35%. Everything was on fire!
An iPhone is not worth a life.

That's the robber's call to make, not yours.
Oh, you're talking about the corporate tax code. OK, plenty of crazy things there (though the line between "bad loophole" and "unavoidable complexity" is narrower than most think).

This is (as was said elsewhere in this thread) one of the biggest reasons to get rid of the corporate tax code completely and just tax people where things are much simpler and much less susceptible to these sorts of problems.
If you could marry up the advantages of text/files

Is that really such an advantage? What kind of advantage does having source code scattered in files have over Smalltalk's Change Log? The Change Log greatly simplifies having live code, and having a runtime environment where you could crash the system with a runtime change. Source code in text files complicates this. It's also a powerful development tool all by itself. What's more, it's just a clever use of a text file!
An elderly relative now needs oxygen which makes journeys difficult. So, challenged with the task of getting a machine that fits in the car and can be carried around, to supply 15 hours of oxygen a day, what is the solution? China! So, if you want a quiet, affordable machine that does the oxygen for you then a Chinese supplier is exactly what you want, some British room-sized, noisy kit costing many thousands just does not cut it on 'e-bay' compared to what ships from China. I am sure the British supplier gets their slot in the hospital where the taxpayer pays rather than the e-bay seller. But, the practical solution for my relative that is far better that what the NHS is all there on e-bay, with speedy shipping.

I can see a similar thing happening with e-cars, people will find the battery-box-on-wheels from China is absolutely fine for enabling their lifestyle, which could include getting about the city emission free. You don't need a space age Tesla with extra buttons for your cup-holder if you are just going to the shops or doing other city travel, you will just need something that does the job.

I also think that charging 'stations' will become redux, i.e. some socket on the lightposts that you just plug in to with no console/buttons/screen or anything else except the plug and socket. These will just appear one day when the utility companies get proper demand coming their way.
silicon valley has filled up with the types of money chasing individuals who would have once become investment bankers on wall street and brought similar morals with them
I found it hard not to disagree with this article. I am not sure I agree with the premise but this argument wasn't persuasive. Of course a stock drops when the CEO abruptly dies. Of course 100percent of people responsible for the well being of others (employees and shareholders) and countless decisions is stressed.

A counter example to jobs (cliche pic on every article like this) is Ive. The cult of personality is an obvious way to humanize a company. It can be good or bad. Kalanick bad right now; Musk good right now.

Being a good CEO is more important than simply branding yourself.

IDK, article fell flat for me I see both sides and it's subjective in my book
Absolutely an important consideration, and it certainly depends on the use case. The IOPS also isn't remotely as high as the larger models or a ram drive (though SLOGs can be striped for more). But it's $44/$77 whereas the P4800X starts at ~$1500 and something like the DDRdrive X1 (4GB RAM/4GB SLC NAND/power backing) is ~$2k. For a lot of individual applications (and remember, sync behavior can be set per dataset and SLOGs are assigned per pool) even the limited write endurance will be sufficient for a significant period of time, and even if these initial Optanes were burned through within a single year it could still be dramatically more cost effective: at these prices we're talking decade(s) of yearly replacements before equalling the cost of one higher end drive. Also consider where we are on the development curve for this tech. This is effectively 1.0 of XPoint technology, so it's reasonable to expect significant improvements in capacity/$, performance, and so on over the next few years, which in turn means it may be desirable to cycle them relatively fast anyway.

What I had in mind wasn't that these would be replacements for existing solutions used for high sustained intensity applications directly making money. Those are covered by ram drives or striped SLC already (and perhaps the P4800X series soon). I was more thinking the Optane Memory might provide a solid route for experimentation by a new class of users given the capex of a few pizzas. A lot those cases are going to be relatively low sustained intensity, but with burst performance still desirable. Heck, for forty someodd bucks some might go for it just to do some profiling and get a feel for what a separate ZIL would do for them at all.

If anything a significant limiting factor right now may simply be the relative availability/preciousness of M.2 slots in deployed home/soho appliances, servers and workstations.
Not only that, it's much harder to move around different companies as a manager. That's one of the reasons I stay away from it. Also, I don't like listening to people bitch about petty things. I manage small groups of people but I'm always deep in the code.

Also, most places want you to be a manager only. If you don't code every day, you lose it pretty fast. A friend of mine who is a VP had that problem. He got stuck in a shitty company and felt trapped. He jumped without a parachute but luckily landed.
And that is why there is such a proliferation of AWS services. They are designed for customers who share a certain set of needs. If you do not fit into the target set of a service then you should not use that service at all.

Deciding which services on AWS to use begins by understanding the needs of your business, and then looking for good fit within the set of AWS services. Also, AWS is no longer the only game in town. For some companies, Oracle Cloud better fits their ways of working. For others, Google has better services. Or Rackspace. AWS is no magic bullet, just a very useful toolkit that can help you a lot, IFF you understand it.
According to the docs this is not yet supported on the App Engine Flexible product[1]

[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/ruby/how-re...
> Profit potential has by far the most influence on what flies politically.

Very true in nearly all cases. Marijuana yielded to political pressure without Big Pharma having any easy way to make money from it. That may be the exception proving the rule, which I agree is a strong indicator of expected future events.
I also fine this confusing.

From the video, it sounds like the claim is that sqrt(x) = x^(2^(k-1)), which you verify by checking that x=x^(2^k) [0]. However, since the order of the group is 2^k, it is an elementary result of group theory that x^(2^k)=1 [1]

[0] That is, you square the claimed root which should be x^(2^(k-1)).

EDIT: watching the video some more for clues, he does mention that he uses a particular kind of group, so the claimed property does not need to hold for any group of order 2^k. However, as I argue above, I still don't see how it is possible for any group of order 2^k.

[1] This is a direct result of Lagranges theorem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange%27s_theorem_(group_th...
You would still likely need a large motor and drive even with a roller-type design. Gravity will cause the solids to settle at the bottom of the juice bag. The roller would presumably need to contend with this.
Inter-cloud?
But then you have to trust a middleman to convert it into something that's actually usable. It's like gold, I can send it anywhere with DHL or UPS, but my recipient is going to have to find someone to convert it to local currency before they can actually use it. As a result, not many people send gold back and forth.
The Etag trick was interesting, but a little less stealthy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETa...
The potato bolt is AvE at his most intolerably Canadian. He tones down the persona quite a bit in the more technical videos.
That's kinda the point I was getting at - some people would pick Ballmer as being a great CEO, others would pick Nadella.
Small is anything under 100-150.

Big is folks like Bosch, daimler, deloit etc. Theyre not google big, big certainly big on software. If ur brave, try SAP.

Daimler always looks for new intrrnationsl talent, check them out
The parent's real meaning behind "bringing credit cards to your door" is not quite addressed by cheap CDNs or Stripe. It's the fact that Apple has gotten these people to sign up for user accounts and pair credit cards to those accounts, and then authorize devices to one-tap purchase your app using those accounts+cards. They've pre-qualified your leads through 95% of the funnel before they get to you.

If someone is looking at your software within a Store (Apple's, Google's, Valve's, whoever), you've essentially already "won" in terms of likelihood of conversion. You will still have to do some inbound-marketing work up-front to drive the user to that Store-page, but that's way less effort than the several-funnel-step process required to qualify and convince a "cold lead" your app, and your site, and its CC processor, are all safe to interact with, and that your app actually does what it claims to do.