skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As understand it, too easy autoloans and resulting past buying/leasing saturation are a big issue - a pessimistic view on zerohedge:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-08/auto-loan-bubble-en...
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> AV will make those people who are not internet+security literate more vulnerable. There have been vulnerabilities found in all major anti-viruses, some of them were really bad. You're better off not using an antivirus.

I don't think you can reasonably defend this position.

Let's take a pessimistic guess at the efficacy of antivirus software and say it blocks 50% of the new malware generated in a given day. Now let's take a wildly optimistic stab at the added risk of using antivirus and say it increases your exposure by 1%.

Are you really saying that a 1% risk increase is too high a price to pay for halving your risk overall?

Don't get me wrong, there are all kinds of reasons for power users to bemoan antivirus. RCE vulnerabilities are certainly one, but even just day-to-day usability issues are a legitimate concern. The average user, though, is still statistically much safer with antivirus.

> Staying up to date on your updates is the best advice you can give.

The vast majority of attacks don't involve vulnerabilities, even counting events like WannaCry. It's mostly down to people clicking on things they shouldn't be clicking on. Keeping your software updated is important, of course, but absolutely will not keep you safe.
This is true, but the value of your car plays an important role in that expense. And expected depreciation is an important factor to consider when buying a car.
> In Europe the most likely response to such a minimal accident would be two parties getting out of their car, assessing the damage - if any - filling out a form and getting on with their day after taking some pictures and shaking hands.

We actually have enough of a disincentive here to not report accidents to insurance companies because of its effect on long term rates, that this tends to be the outcome of most (anecdotally) auto accidents. I've been in 4 accidents in my lifetime, half my fault, and they've been completely out of the system. Most people have bigger fish to fry like exorbitant healthcare costs, or a racist president.
If you read this article with a HN mobile app, try again with a real web browser. The cartoons are awesome but are not displayed in the app.
You need to give specific permission to the Mystro accessibility service for it to control the rideshare apps.
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In short, the cash for clunkers initiative made used car stock plummet. This lead to used car prices going up.

At least, I think that's what GP is hinting at.
Turn off the wireless interfaces.

Instructions I followed which solved everything: https://bsteiner.info/articles/disabling-sonos-wifi

Sonos's spanning tree implementation is problematic (and anachronistic: last I looked, it was using classic STP not RSTP). In a similar situation I've watched them flap away merrily, spitting constant topology change BPDUs at each other through both interfaces. It's not a pretty sight.

They seem to me to be totally in denial about it, judging by their forums. Lots of blame-the-customer and blame-someone-else's-device, and very little (or no) technical documentation. I think they are a speaker manufacturer first, a streaming audio interface second, and a networking company a very distant third.
> Why is it so dumb to buy a used car off the lot?

It's not. The parent doesn't appear to understand the used car market in the US. Most people are not buying their used cars for $6,000 off of craigslist, that's a good way to end up with a pile of junk. It's a bad idea to buy a mid-value or higher used car outside the CPO or remaining original warranty programs if you can help it, ideally from a dealer.
downloading adobe acrobat as we speak. is there like a blockchain addon that launches my ico? kthxbye
Combination of really low interest rates on new cars, and used cars becoming more rare due to cash-for-clunkers and maybe other programs.

I don't think is was the case that used cars were literally more expensive, just that with 0% financing everywhere vs paying cash for used, or vs used car loan rates, you were probably better off getting a new car.
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I would love a way to ditch HTMl/CSS and use a thin abstraction on top of native GUI toolkits (WinAPI, Qt, Gtk, Cocoa...) instead.
Right after the recession, maybe a year, or two later, there wasn't an inventory for used cars and the prices were high. It seemed people were not selling their used cars because they couldn't buy new ones. All the used cars, few years old, were almost the same as MSRP (This was in Canada).
You really have no idea how the payment card industry works. Visa provides 0 protection to the buyer or the seller.

The card issuer/bank provides protection to the buyer.
NO ONE provides protection to the seller. The seller's are 100% expose and lose most disputes. With EMV, some of the risks will move but not much. All online transactions are keyed, so not subject to any protection.

Visa doesn't sort out anything, they provide a network and take a cut. Disputes happens between issuer, processor in the middle and merchant. If the processor fails to recover the money from the merchant then the processor is on the hook.
As someone who used to hang out in a few language channels on freenode, I completely understand why the lectures exist. You may have a good reason for asking the question you're asking, but the overwhelming majority of the time when a nick I don't recognize asks an esoteric question about low level optimization, it's because they are new to the language (and often programming in general), and have gone far down a rabbit hole they don't need to go down before asking for help.

When I tried to answer these kinds of questions, I always tried to start by asking questions to make sure I did fully understand the use case and the application. In my experience, a large percentage of people, regardless of how valid their question is, refused to give enough detail to allow me to actually understand their specific use case.

After repeating that cycle several times a week for a few years, it becomes very temping to just shut down the weird esoteric crap with a canned response that might get newbies pointed in the right direction. A small handful of people will stick around to explain why they really do understand their problem and need an answer to the question they are asking. A small handful of newbies will take the advice of the canned response and learn from it. The rest were largely not going to lead to an interesting conversation no matter what.
Lack of file versioning and not persisting deleted files means Backblaze isn't even on my radar.

The mentions here of poor restore options doesn't sound all that positive either, but due to the former I'm not even considering going as far as trying you guys out.

The way things are looking I'm probably going to stay with Crashplan, migrating to their business plan. I'm not a data hoarder (backup set is ~400GB), but I haven't found anything else which has the same feature set for a reasonable price.
> We actually have enough of a disincentive here to not report accidents to insurance companies because of its effect on long term rates,

The UK had to regulate this because insurance companies were pushing Uberrimae fidei a bit too much. If you've had an accident and not reported it too them you're not acting in utmost good faith. They were using previous undeclared accidents as a reason to avoid paying out for later accidents.
Uber/etc. make a difference at the margins but don't drastically reduce car ownership. I'd believe the effect is greater with those who don't buy new cars but still limited effect.

I expect full autonomous driving to be much further out. Where it could have an effect though is this. To the degree that new vehicles become much more attractive because of new sensor and software features, that would likely drive used car prices down. These could certainly increase the perceived value of a current model year car vs. one from five years ago.
It isn't cheap, because (surprise) lawyers write laws to prevent efficiency from creeping in.

Law should be as efficient and precise and cheap and scalable as code. Hell, that's why they use the term "codified" when they talk about laws on the books.
... Backblaze B2 is sounding pretty good.

What I would miss, however, is the central management and reporting and alerts that crashplan gives me (e.g., host X hasn't been backed up in N days!)

That of course is all dependent on the client, which all seem standalone.
Privacy is definitely one of our priorities. We aim to be super transparent, but in general we think that privacy might be less of an issue for outbound (sales, recruiting, interviews).

Perhaps there's a niche segment within enterprise phone conferences where privacy is less important and the value is immense?
> making us pay more for the privilege of doing the same backups your Windows/Mac users do is another

Just to be clear, it should be LESS expensive to use B2 in most cases. If you need less than 10 GBytes it is totally free in B2, but it is $5/month using the Backblaze Online Backup client. If you have 500 GBytes to backup, that is only $2.50/month using B2, but $5/month using the Backblaze Online Backup client. You break even at 1 TByte. And it costs you money if you have 2 TBytes to store.

Backblaze is not charging a premium for the B2 service. Let me put it this way: if somebody ELSE was willing to offer Backblaze storage at B2 prices we never would have built our own storage for the online Backup client. I'm not kidding. The only reason we had to build the storage layer is that to this day, Amazon S3 gouges customers at 4x what it actually costs them to provide the service. And don't even get me started at Amazon S3 downloads cost.

Backblaze Online Backup charges $5/month, and of that maybe $0.50 is profit (50 cents) living on the AVERAGES (make money on some customers, lose money on others). If it was based on Amazon S3 we would be losing $15.00/month by charging $5/month.
The news is about execution, not euthanasia.

Brand value is important for large companies. If I were the CEO of a pharma company, I want my drugs to be associated with health, not death.

I bet bullet companies won't mind at all if prisons buy bullets from them to execute prisoners.
This is indeed a great idea but the only problem is that these frameworks may not fit today's responsive needs
With many countries tabling laws to outlaw the sale of diesel and gasoline cars around 2030, this is going to accelerate extremely quickly.

In 5 years (2022), everyone will know it will be illegal to buy a gasoline car in just under 8 years.

I think there will be very little demand for the regular old gas powered car. (excepting maybe exotics, or "pleasure drives", which much be a tiny fraction of overall sales)

That car you have to fill with liquid cancer is going to be worth extremely little, very soon.
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Oh please....have you ever bought a house? The loan company and title company drag their feet to provide the final numbers between 24-72 hours before closing. By this point you've filled out miles of paperwork and spent more than a day (cumulatively) on the phone. Some of those papers you signed probably listed out these fees in tiny print somewhere, so you've already agreed to pay them. If you walk away you're losing due diligence and earnest money down, which is guaranteed to be more than the hundreds you're trying to "save" in fees. You've probably also made plans to move out of your current place and on with your life after the realty and mortgage industries sucked your soul out.
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Essentially the cash for clunkers program took a lot of serviceable old cars off the market permanently by destroying them. Here's a write-up I found on some of the issues with links to more details: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/08/31/cash-for-clun...
Thanks! We've been working hard on the core tech for almost a year now.

We also found the sales use case to be really relevant (https://fireflies.ai/sales-notes). It'd be awesome to integrate directly into the call function!
I was going to post this too but feel bad pointing this data dump out since this is a cool web app; it just needs better security :)

Interesting getscale, sanrights and spinalsingularity all have much higher weights than everyone else.
@Ragewind: by the way, your reply to me was flagged, and you might want to check if you were shadowbanned by accident.
I have this tendency to get stuck in an incrementalist mode of coding where I'll unnecessarily "test" little changes before it really makes sense. Forcing myself to write out as much code as possible before running it, is a form of deliberate practice for me.
You will get a much better idea of what real used cars cost when you look at the manheim numbers. Going to a retail website like Autotrader or cars is going to add a few grand to the price at least. Manheim is what the dealers pay at auction. True used car prices.
There are some simple rules my partner and I live by: buy implements/tools that make life easier/save time/produce good results, avoid items used only or largely for signalling or which lack utility, buy quality so that the item will last as long as possible and will be a pleasure to use.

I'd say the easiest hack would be: stop signalling. You're not your fucking Babushka dolls or Banksy print. You're not the coffee style you drink or the coffee shop you drink it in. No one gets you by seeing what clothing you're wearing, and anyone who is attracted to you because of those things will be toxic company.
Also: http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/index.html
I think that there is much hype on ai and neuroscience. Actually we know many thinks of the brain as organ but we know really little about mind think and consciousnes. There isn't scientific evidence that consciousness have a material origin. And actually all the air we do is based on weak ai
Well...sure, that's fair, but I'll bet these are mostly people who are interested in the subject and trying to learn more about it. They probably used a smattering of those resources to pull their examples together, and plan on using it as a foundation for more exciting things.

But they also probably weren't entirely satisfied with the documentation they found, ran into some stumbling points that took them too long to resolve, and feel like maybe people could learn from their experiences and avoid those pitfalls.

That's usually my motivation for writing a technical blog post. Sure, you might not be able to phrase it in a more succinct or comprehensible way than the tutorials that you used, but you can at least collate them in one place for others. And if nothing else, the process of putting together a detailed set of instructions to reproduce your efforts definitely helps reinforce your own understanding of the subject matter.

You put "blogs" in quotation marks, but then it kind of sounds like you describe a blog.
I filmed a short demo of my AR app, made with ARKit. Would like some feedback
Is there a way to lock down Windows 10 nowadays, so that you can only install software from the Windows store?
Need to also be careful how they've defined 'used'. Dealers will sometimes buy the cars themselves to hit sales targets set by the manufacturer. They then sell off those cars 'used'.
Production of the Chevrolet Bolt has stopped due to lack of demand and bulging inventory, part of the overall problem discussed on this thread
http://fortune.com/2017/07/17/gm-shutdown-chevy-bolt-supply/
If I am interested, I assume they will pay enough.

If not, meh?
They could but they also lose protections that payment processors give.
> This would cause the volume of new cars needed to dramatically fall [...]

I don't disagree with you, but when reading the article you'll notice that the auto industry is pushed to sell more cars, year after year. Like a number of industries, now that they've had years/decades of growth, I'm not sure how they would handle significant loses.

Heck, even stabilization. I'm over 35, but consider myself young; was there even a time when the majority of companies didn't care so much about year-over-year growth, and weren't seen as weak if they were stable/flat?
Yes. The custom key is a must have for my situation (legal requirements).
Ideally you should be budgeting for discretionary monthly spending. If I want to buy a Nintendo Switch then it might be, say, a full month of discretionary spending.
I think it's rather funny that the economic theory of marginalism has even managed to invade our thought processes to make such calculations "usual". I wonder if anyone still thinks in terms of labour hours and use value versus exchange value.
Average used car selling price is completely useless. Median would be more informative.
That's one example, yes. Two more:

Do you like google now? Is google now the market leader?

Also, the wake word is entirely different..."ok Google".

I can figure it all out. My mom, though? Alexa makes more sense to her.
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Give me a break, you are complaining. I don't expect academics to follow enterprise standards. They are more rooted in theory than practice. I expect shitty code, uncommented code, no unit tests. You know that thing SV calls the real MVP? Yup, that's what I expect from academia, the most basic Proof of concept to demonstrate that an idea is possible. Correct is cherished, beauty is not. Note, the correctness is enough for best case/data at hand. What's more important and useful to me and society at large is the papers that follow.

Then there's the group of folks who tend to read those papers and turn it into products. Yes, those are the ones I expect to have repos, unit tests, build systems and all that.
I see what you're saying, but I disagree that it's a substantial rebuttal to my comment. For any IETF document that wasn't originally drafted on a typewriter, this style is absolutely skeumorphic. I don't necessarily mind it as a default, but I really wish the pure plain-text document ommited the headers and footers.
> Institutions that add little to no value in transactions

I think the key qualifier you're missing from this broad assertion is "transactions which, by and large, go according to plan." Each of these institutions offers little value in cases where the parties involved are both fully informed and fully above-board, but each of these institutions offers critical protections in cases where one of the parties fails to uphold their end of an agreement properly.
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Well it just so happens that the 3 countries where this would be seen as favorable attack vector against the others happen to be the size of continents. Mainly China, Russia, and The USA.
Not if you plan to run it to the ground. Then it's simply about upkeep until it dies.
I agree in part. Meditating (using vipassana) has helped me examine assumptions I made about my life, what it is, and what value it has, and the impermanence of our posessions and indeed our own bodies. I'd recommend it, even to the skepetical reader.
6.5 years might be the support time frame, but with the build quality of most of these devices, 3 or 4 is more realistic. The higher end will certainly last longer, but I also suspect that those with the money to afford them will also update more frequently.
There's an added mystique around TextPattern because it was initially written by Dean Allen of Textism/Textile/TextDrive fame, and he has subsequently disappeared from the Internet, taking with him his blog, Textile lost to Markdown, and of course TextDrive famously got co-opted by greedy tech douchebags, eventually turning into Joyent and getting acquired by Samsung. So it's quite remarkable that of all Dean Allen's works, TextPattern is the one that keeps on chugging along with its open-source essence intact.
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I think 2012 was the peak of this, with some models literally being cheaper out the door new than 1 or 2 years old.

http://business.time.com/2012/03/22/when-new-cars-are-cheape...
http://genxfinance.com/buying-a-new-car-may-actually-be-chea...

Short version, a couple of things hit at the same time. I don't think Cash For Clunkers was involved as those cars were much older than the 1-2 year old ones, but it was more a factor of:

* shrinking new car demand in a post-financial-crisis buyer market that was very cost sensitive and had internalized the "cars lose 20% of their value the moment you drive them off the lot" type stuff, so started ruling out even cross-shopping new cars because they wanted to save money

* banks and dealers having more aggressive incentives and better loan rates on new cars (which is true even in non-recession-times, but they had to get more aggressive as new car demand dropped)
I thought this account termination was an overreaction until it happened to me a few years ago.

Never went another day without an IMAP client.
What? No tcsh? I'd like to cancel my service.
There's a difference between 24/7 support for a paid product (50$/year per device), and support for a free internet service backed by ads.

Enterprise services get far better support. Personal services are used by literally billions of users, with possibly millions of fake bot accounts spamming all the time, so it's not surprising that sometimes false positives happen. And providing support to billions of people is not easy.
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Once self driving cars arrive all others will be obsolete.
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Oh this looks like a fun game. Let me try. Let's take a pessimistic guess at the efficacy of antivirus software and say it blocks 20% of the new malware generated in a given day. Now let's take a wildly optimistic stab at the added risk of using antivirus and say it increases your exposure by 35%.

Are you really saying that a 35% risk increase is an acceptable price to pay for a small reduction in overall risk?

You can't just pull numbers out of thin air to make your point.

Experience has shown us that antivirus software does not do what it says on the tin.
> But who would be dumb enough to buy a used car from a lot?

Me, because it came with a 7 year warranty. The price was good and the dealer offers a shuttle to and from my work (or my home) when it is in for maintenance.
It should be noted that per the included Jupyter Notebook, the resulting network took 24 hours to train, and the resulting network (of a 3-layer 512 cell LSTM) would be hundreds of MB. (too much to share on GitHub anyways).

The approach in the repo also uses a word-based approach instead of a character-based approach. Although a word-approach avoids typoes/nonsense, it makes prediction much more difficult since the selection space is harder. (from notebook, error is high as well). There are lots of trade offs in this field.

Training these networks is not for the faint of heart and one of the reasons I developed a tool to train text generators using a pretrained RNN (https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn) on a much more simple network architecture that trains quickly, although it probably would not hit the depth of all of Game of Thrones.
checked the KBB for my car back in may and it said $10k (2010 a4), checked again last month and it was down to $8500. I'm not really depending on the car to retain any value at all, but it's interesting to see how quickly that price is dropping.
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