skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gizmodo article: Justice Department Drops Request for IP Addresses of 1.3 Million Visitors to Anti-Trump Site

https://gizmodo.com/justice-department-drops-request-for-ip-...

Gizmodo article submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15077136

Techmeme Summary: DOJ says DreamHost warrant was too broad, states it has no interest in records relating to 1.3M IP addresses of visitors to anti-Trump site
Copper recycling can be quite profitable. Enough so that people rob houses under construction just to recycle it for cash.
You almost described Ethereum.
You just need a whitepaper. And a whole lot of blockchain "experts". Because what makes a biz work is not the soundness of its ideas but the fact that it has its own coin.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/14234261/1/chevy-bolt-is-a-d...
Dangers of Sitting
Are you bundling free consumer products with paid SLA'd enterprise products?
There's a non-negligible chance that everything will be self-driving by 2030, and you'll call a car from a car-service on demand instead of owning one.

(Yeah, I just got stuck behind a Waymo self-driving vehicle on El Camino again today. They are annoying, but much further along than anyone who doesn't live in Silicon Valley realizes.)
You live in a bubble, visit middle america
There is a very lucrative black market in "recycled" copper. It's been known to be stolen off trucks by the tonne.
From my understanding, a lot of it has to do with a combination of the subsidies that are being offered and with the rapid increase in range of newer models.

For example, my buddy in Boulder, CO bought a brand new Nissan Leaf for ~$12k (MSRp ~$30k). In addition to the state/federal credits, the local utility was offering $12k rebates or something like that.

Combine that with the fact that some of the early models had really low range (I think the early Leafs were below 80 miles) and I could see why the used market is behaving the way it is.
I agree. I think to CentoOS vs RedHat or any terrible product made by IBM (I'm looking at you WebSphere). I've been at companies where we had multi-million dollar support contracts and it was still next to worthless; involved zipping and shipping tons of logs files, and ultimately was solved with help from people on IRC/StackOverflow or some random forum than by the support company themselves.

If you've got good devs and admins, the support is really not all that useful. When it comes to managed chromebooks, I bet you could get a similar cost saving experience if you took one desktop and one linux admin and had them try sourcing chromebook-like PCs, installing Linux on them and experimented giving them to employees only needing access to web apps.

Sure you don't get the managed chrome store or whatever, but I bet it'd meet most use cases for a lower cost. Some high schools have managed chromebook programs so there are people out there doing this already.
I'm hanging on to my 2001 Honda Civic because I'm hoping self-driving cars make taxi services cheap enough to render it obsolete before I have to replace it.
I have a lot of sympathy for this. My first job out of school was working in a lab, writing a lot of software for them that was for cortical mapping. It was the kind of job where they expected you to joint a PhD program. You got to co-author papers. It was the first time I programmed a lot. I'm sure everything I wrote was pretty ugly.
> All you need is lots of sensors.

Which rapidly reduces the MTBF at which point you're stuck with an overpriced manual drive vehicle.
and when the sensors start failing?
Fungi and bacteria don't like the cold. There would be a lot more food to eat for survivors (chickens) as things that they competed with for food (T rex) died off.
They probably realized that designing a safe (to their standards) self-driving car is equivalent to strong AI.
Kiwi's long beak is for scooping things out of the ground. I think it is pretty dark down there.
CloudFlare CEO blasts Anonymous claims of ISIS terrorist support (2015)
About two years ago I bought an off lease 2012 Nissan Leaf for about 12k including all taxes and fees. It had 20k miles on it, very good condition, and battery at about 90%.

So far I have been very happy, and have spent nearly no money on the car besides insurance and registration since my employer offers free charging.

Obviously range is an issue, but is mitigated since I am married and have a gas car as well to use on longer trips. My wife and I never both drive further than the leaf can take us in a normal work day.

Anyway, I tell this story because I was surprised to find that there were a huge number available in the Bay Area where I live. It seems that uncertainty over future models with increased range and the lifespan of the batteries has made many people reluctant to make a purchase leaving quite a glut. The retailer I purchased from had about 25 Nissan Leafs in his lot.
Yikes! I stand corrected. Thank you. I was confusing it with the American Arbitration Association.
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Just the ban being 5 years out.

I've certainly run into homes that couldn't add a clothes dryer circuit without major renovation involving the city.

Not saying it will be be an issue everywhere, but the span is too short for it not to be an issue in many places.

Given the short time frame, proof that there aren't issues would seem more prudent. Whether that's manufacturing capacity for batteries, or grid shortfalls in certain areas, or whatever.
For me at least, the barrier to understanding this was all the Haskell. I'm familiar with functional programming (Scheme), but I couldn't understand enough of the code to really grasp what was going on after the first section.
Why does the tech industry focus on self-driving cars so much? It's absolutely never going to happen, ever.

The world would be much better off if we converted our roads to a rail/streetcar system and drop the personal car concept entirely.

The hype around this is worse than VR.
Things like Google Glass, which were expensive consumer products people shelled a lot of money for.

OS/2 was used in ATMs for a really long time, and so was WinXP in kiosks. There are a lot of systems that still use XP yes (causing many security nightmares), but Microsoft did support that OS for an incredibly long time. I agree, I wouldn't use anything Google for a Kiosk. You're better off with custom packages ontop of Ubuntu LTS or something similar.
For one... Philips Hue. The lights connect to a Zigbee base station, which has a local API for controlling the system.

(The base station does connect to a WAN server for remote control, but you could always block that at your firewall. The system works entirely fine in local mode.)
Tangentially in the business. Two recent stories told to me:

1) Saw at Manheim Auto Auction (one of the largest) 300 Nissan Leafs run through the auction line in one afternoon ahead of some of our cars. Drop in "value" of leafs went down 10%+ in one day. All were recently off lease.
2) For similar reason, Santander is holding 4000+ cars on auction lots "waiting for pricing to stabilize". Reality is, when they run those cars through the auction, they will have to book the full losses. Say they anticipated 20% repossession rate and that they would get 80% on the dollar when auctioned on those losses. When they run them through now and get 50% on the dollar, their securitization pools will be creamed.
This was a horribly written paper. It includes all the popular buzzwords but the authors ability to convey the meaning of these concepts was utterly lacking. Don't expect to learn anything at all from this one. OP's article is far better than this.
This is kind of inspiring, I tend to doodle bits down on paper, and putting diagrams like this into posts seems like a great idea.
System will know that they are failing. this is not rocket science.
You have a right to a portion of the proceeds from a merger or acquisition.

Whether or not the company ever actually pays out its earnings as dividends, there's little way to access those earnings without divvying them up amongst the company's shareholders.
Interesting. I wanna try a 2017 scorecard:

1. Usenet is garbage: CORRECT although it was better in the early days. This seems to be a general trend with all comment/message board systems, they rapidly lose value when they breach a certain size, although some including our dear HN have survived for quite some time.

2. Downloading books won't happen: WRONG. Paper isn't going anywhere but ebooks are an unqualified success at this point, largely because (unlike at the time) we can carry our computers anywhere now.

3. The Internet is a wasteland of unfiltered data: CORRECT for now. Interestingly, there was a golden age of Google and Wikipedia that would have made this statement look false but now we've regressed back to fake news, social feeds, and personalized search results.

4. The internet will not be useful for governing: CORRECT for the most part.

5. Computers won't help schools: CORRECT for the most part.

6. "Cyberbusiness" will fail because the world needs salespeople: LOLZ.

I'm not going to try to break down the final paragraph. I think some of these will still improve in the longer run but 22 years later, I'm still giving him 4 out of 6 here.
Like it's numeric tower?
This is the right way. Building a mass market car is an enormous exercise. We have seen this with Tesla, which has thrown money at the problem and will still take 4 years to become mass market (2.5 already over + another 1.5 years). After these 4 years, its unclear what the value add will be.
I'm not projecting; you're projecting! b^)

Sorry about your internet points. Now that I've regained composure, I'll be sure to upvote you occasionally. You'll make it to the top in no time! I don't think I downvoted all your comments, however? I'm pretty sure I upvoted this one?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15069956 Bygones!

I'm happy to support any alternative. I feel that any actual change (as opposed to Trump's new-boss-same-as-the-old shtick), in no matter what direction, would have to be an improvement. For instance, I voted for Bernie in the primaries, and he had my vote in the general before DNC wiped their asses with that vote. I haven't voted D or R for President in decades. I guess I can understand being annoyed by libertarians, although I myself am not. What drives me around the bend is CNN reptiles like Jake Tapper or Alisyn Camerota defending the two-faces-one-party status quo and all the wars and brutality that entails. That often takes the form of pointless derailing bitching about libertarians or greens or random online skeptics or whomever, of which yours upthread is a prime example. Sorry... I don't think we'll see the changes we want by starting the effort with a purity test.
If you can describe your synthesis operations in terms of some program transformation, you may be able to verify/prove that they preserve certain semantic properties (similar to compiler verification). We have both verified compilers and verified kernels already so this is not a long stretch but it would still be a research project of its own IMO. Also, there has been some research on breaking invariants temporarily between computational steps while preserving them overall [0] (unfortunately, behind a paywall and I couldn't find a non-paywall version).

My point is that although this paper doesn't discuss the security aspect, this work can be implemented in a secure manner.

[0] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2661142
Indeed, 0-emission target (i.e. no car, truck, bus, train new or old circulating emitting CO2) for London is 2050.

However, there is a trend at the moment both in local government and national one. If that is followed by actual investment in charging infrastructure, sometimes between 2020-2030 electric cars could reach critical mass.

At the same time, some region and countries of Europe are already thinking going backward on fiscal encouragement to buy an electric car. In Europe the major part of the fuel cost is taxes, and at some point they will need to find something to tax electric cars on, doing it too early could kill electric cars momentum ... so wait and see.
Nope. Flat design for iOS was Apple's best move. iOS 7 was what made iOS amazing. I have no clue what you're talking about. Full credit to Jony Ive, some of the UI design I've seen.
What affordances does Go even have for real composition though?
Its funny, it got Vancouver, BC exactly opposite. I'm sure most resident of the notoriously wet city believe July 1-Aug 27 is the best time to visit and not Aug 27-Jul 1
Hah! Just yesterday I was remarking how car gluts don't translate into lower consumer prices because the government quickly props up demand:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15064436
I'm having an ICO who's value is based on my lifetime net worth as a developer

It's a pretty solid investment, who's in?
Or we'll see "gas" stations incrementally change to "gas-n-charge" stations. As society moves from liquid hydrocarbons to electrons for personal transportation I can see no reason why these locations won't adapt.

After all, people will still ingest their liquid fuel and expel their waste. ;-)
because local maxima vs global maxima?
Bresenham's algorithm holds a special place in my memory. Learned about it in Christopher Lampton's "Flights of Fantasy", as a kid and worked through duplicating it in assembly for a little graphics library. Was a great introduction to optimization since it had to be all integer and run well on a 486.
Used it most recently to generate 8 bit saw/triangle waves for the an arduino soft-synth, which also rules out floating point and per-sample division. Multiplication also on the tinier MCUS.
Yeah, like how a tiny syntax error in kernel/init.c will kind of prevent you from getting a zImage and booting the board, you know!
Is it that you don't want self driving cars to happen or you don't THINK it will happen? I, for one, am super excited for self driving personal vehicles and will be glad to see the eradication of mass public transportation like trains and buses.
Except if you actually read and understood the link, points #1, 4, 5 aren't a concern. Moreover, points #2, 3, and 6 apply to just about every piece of software used.
The article neglects to mention Obama's $3 billion dollar Cash for Clunkers program in '08 which hurt used vehicle supply.
Desirable EVs which define the category.
I just bought a new van. It was rediculously easy for me to get a loan for 105% of the retail price (and I didn't even pay retail). I opted not to get the full loan for obvious reasons.

But the fact that I could is frightening. There will be so many people underwater on their loans.

The car bubble is coming and it's going to pop hard.
http://insideevs.com/general-motors-comments-bolt-inventory-...

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/21/chevy-bolt-production-i...
I do not, read about it from the same source you shred.
Each of those cars is being resold for the first time, most likely. How many times is a car sold in its lifetime? Eventually it's sold to a scrap dealer for $500, and I'd bet that transaction is not included in the 15k average.

In any case, anyone considering a new car and concerned about depreciation should consider leasing instead. That way you only pay the depreciation (which you'd pay anyway) and after 3 years you have the option of buying it as a used car for the remaining cost or moving on to a new car with no hassle trying to sell it.
The general population may forget but, in the cases you cite, there were significant lawsuits in each case and settlements.
Call me crazy but why not consider ways to let someone remote drive the vehicle? I'm sure there are all sorts of corner cases (bad signal for one) but it's done all the time with drones.
> You phrased this wrong. ...some small group .... try to co-opt everyone else's resources using government power?

My whole point was that a society occasionally does, in aggregate, feel it needs to do something. If you're going to insist that it's only ever a minority imposing their will over everyone, then there is no point in further discussion.

> And somehow, the "something needs to get done, so let's get it done" methodology ended up killing [far too many]...and leading to .... Jim Crow.

You seem to have forgotten the context - I was demonstrating how the American refusal to cooperate led to a civil war, while the rest of the world managed to deal with it both faster and with a lot less bloodshed.

> A consensus that is based on flawed climate models that do not make correct predictions, and economic numbers based on no predictive power whatsoever.

Your assertion that your conclusion is somehow more valid that that of, well, just about everyone, is both a demonstration of the concept in question AND somewhat laughable considering your opinions on a minority forcing suffering upon the majority.

> If everybody else has a consensus that we should all shoot ourselves in the foot, should the US follow it?

Another straw man - no one is saying that. If the world thought it was dumb to shoot yourself in the foot, would you ignore them? One of these two scenarios is happening.

> Hopefully I've done the same.

I would say yes.
A moral of this story is "don't name things 'Titan' or titan-related names". It's asking for trouble - Blizzard's 'Project Titan', Titan A.E., the Titanic. Things didn't end all that well for the titans in Greek mythology either.
If Apple were truly serious about building self-driving cars, they would buy one of the big 3 US auto manufacturers. It could buy all 3 with cash and still have one of the largest hoards of cash ever accumulated.
Cash for clunkers pulled lots of used cars off the market but my understanding is plummeting manufacturing of new cars after the financial crisis was responsible for a much higher percentage of the gain.

Cash for clunkers pulled like 700k out of the market.

The auto industry was making millions less cars and trucks per year from 2008-2012.
To be clear, the reasoning is sound on this argument. I'm skeptical due to it never having delivered data, though. :(

I want it to be true. I expect that someone should be able to show this with data. I've never seen it done, though.
> If you want that level of service, maybe you shouldn't use a free product.

...did you not read the part where I said I switched to a different provider?

And I was a paying customer - I had a Google Apps account, which comes with an annual fee for providing those services.

Of course, the problem isn't about me personally - it's that so many other, less technically savvy people aren't aware of how vulnerable they are to this problem. They don't think about it until it happens to them.

> You can have a free product, or you can have good, responsive, human customer service. You can't have both

This dichotomy is both reductive and inapplicable. The problem, as explained in this thread, is that Google has a reputation for bad service, even for their paid offerings. It exists, which is more than can be said of the support for the free products, but it's still not good enough. And again, most customers aren't aware of the extent of this and its implications until it's too late.
Ask HN: Dalmatiner vs. InfluxDB One Year Later
This blog post and the comparison google doc were published one year ago. Assuming the developers have been working on their products, how has the ranking and analysis changed?

https://blog.outlyer.com/top10-open-source-time-series-databases

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sMQe9oOKhMhIVw9WmuCEWdPtAoccJ4a-IuZv4fXDHxM/edit#gid=0

TSDBs Listed:

DalmatinerDB

InfluxDB

Prometheus

Riak TS

OpenTSDB

KairosDB

Elasticsearch

Druid

Blueflood

Graphite (Whisper)

Atlas

Chronix Server

Hawkular

Warp 10

Heroic

Akumuli

BtrDB

MetricTank

Tgres

Gnocchi
They wouldn't know that you are visiting it, just that someone is visiting it.
Lower than the odds that George never finishes his last book.
Is that why the updates are huge?
> There is nothing that prevents compiler writers to be equally "forgiving" and just inventing random semantics for stuff that does not have any meaning in the language, just as browsers do with HTML. And it would be just as idiotic.

Well, pretty much status quo in the world of ISO C.
They already said that anything they would do would have an opt-out available.
Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just yet
Hot Chips: Google TPU Performance Analysis
What do you think he got wrong with ios7?
> Why does the tech industry focus on self-driving cars so much? It's absolutely never going to happen, ever.

It's already happened.
> Microsoft did support that OS for an incredibly long time

And you could pay Microsoft to keep supporting it. Sure, it might be several million dollars to keep XP support for another year (and big increases each year)... but for some large customers it was available (banks with ATM's based on XP).
I'm confident that autonomous cars will handle mechanical failures and other "black swan" events far better than human drivers do. Human drivers are unlikely to encounter any such incident more than once, and so are unable to learn from them; but autonomous cars can learn from all of the weird situations encountered by other cars.
I feel Autumn and Spring are the best times to visit Sydney.

During the Summer you could travel around the southern parts (Tasmania and SA). In the winter months you can spend time in Cairns (anywhere up north really) and its beautiful. You actually don't want to be up north during summer, it is too hot and it's stinger season in the ocean.
Units of measure. So in C# you can do something like this (using floats for convenience):

class Power {
public static HoursUsed(
float totalBillDlrs, float deviceWattage, float rateDlrsPerkWh) {
return 1000.0 * totalBillDlrs / (deviceWattage * rateDlrsPerkWh);
}
}

Then call it like this:

var totalBillDlrs = 10.95;
var deviceWattage = 100.0;
var rateDlrsPerkWh = 0.15;

Power.HoursUsed(deviceWattage, totalBillDlrs, rateDlrsPerkWh);

But, oops! that was actually supposed to be:

Power.HoursUsed(totalBillDlrs, deviceWattage, rateDlrsPerkWh);

In F# you can use units of measure to prevent this kind of thing at compile time:

[<Measure>] type dollar
[<Measure>] type watt
[<Measure>] type kilowatt
[<Measure>] type hour

module Power =
let hoursUsed
(totalBill : float<dollar>)
(deviceWattage : float<watt>)
(rate : float<dollar/(kilowatt hour)>) : float<hour> =
1000.0<watt/kilowatt> * totalBill / (deviceWattage * rate)

let totalBill = 10.95<dollar>
let deviceWattage = 100.0<watt>
let rate = 0.15<dollar/(kilowatt hour)>

// Compile error
Power.hoursUsed deviceWattage totalBill rate

And, yes, in C# you can use things like named parameters to reduce the chances of something like this, but you can't eliminate it at compile time, which is what F# does.
> They don't think about it until it happens to them.

Agreed, and doesn't need to be less tech-savvy people, just look at HN. People seem to expect good and free service.

> This dichotomy is both reductive and inapplicable.

And is still unavoidable. You can't have both.

> And again, most customers aren't aware of the extent of this and its implications until it's too late.

It is the same behavior with airline tickets. Consumers almost always buy the cheapest ticket, and later complain about the quality of the service.
It still works though (and looks nicer than in the screenshots). No need for an update if it already works as described.
We can build a RNN that generates ICO whitepapers.
And don't forget that EV's will be a whole lot better than they are now, like cheaper and longer-range.
Jesus, is there really a magical anti-alcoholism pill? Why isn't this more widely known? It could save many lives!
Reasonably sure their buying all three automakers would attract the attention of antitrust regulators.
What makes a biz work is people interested in it. That interest currently is generated by public relations functions instead of soundness.
see also: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-shuts-down-project-tit...