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ABS not working as intended could be a surprise to the driver and cause a crash, especially if you become dependent on it.

It's just like that AF 447 crash, they stalled from 38,000 ft to the ground because they never expected the computer to let them stall the plane.

But I mostly agree, the only software things I would see as absolutely life critical on a car would be drive-by-wire controls. All the rest will just either stall it, reduce performance or break something.
Magic is great when it works. The problem is when it doesn't do what you are expecting, it can be much harder to troubleshoot. (Did I do something wrong? Am I hitting a bug?)

Magic hides internal details, hence users are less familiar with them, hence they struggle more to diagnose when the magic fails to happen.
Please check out my "State of the Word" presentation from 2016 and 2017, I tried to make the best case I could for why, perhaps once a decade, it is worthwhile to trade backwards compatibility for future relevancy. The reason I have personally not advocated for that trade-off before was that the reward on the other side was not worth it, but with Gutenberg we have a huge opportunity, and incredible user demand demonstrated by the adoption of the beta plugin, that I think makes it #worthit.
I love how you're admittedly making stuff up that the article doesn't say, and then attack it for it.

To be fair, I can somewhat see what causes your misinterpretation. The first sentence about Burning Man is

She said he invited her to Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert, the following week.

What's cause for confusion here is the interjection defining Burning Man. Your interpretation sees it as a retelling of her experience, i.e. him having to explain her what it is.

But any semi-regular reader of the NYT will take this for what it is: an explanation of Burning Man to the reader.

It's rather common to introduce new terms in article in this way, whenever they are first mentioned. Sometimes, as arguably in this case, it is overdone. Worst offender here is the Economist: "The US, a large north-american country,...".
Can't tell if you're joking
It’ll be about AI to scan brains (thoughts) and maybe extract memories.
It's not really fair to say that someone's behavior in 2018 is determined by who they were in 2005.

No atom in their body is even the same. (Supposedly.)
It’s great that you’re listening closely, but it seems to me that regardless of what OSI says, the consensus is that nobody in this thread will continue to use MongoDB under this new license.
> The differentiator the consumer is paying for is range, not # of cells in the battery.

It's not that simple. If your battery breaks out of warranty or starts loosing charge, you can't go to Tesla and say, "hey, I paid for X range and I'm not getting it anymore, fix it." If you do, they'll say, "sorry, physical batteries decay, not our problem", which most of us would agree is a reasonable response. Tesla gave you the hardware, it's not their responsibility to make sure you take care of it.

So in this scenario you're not just purely paying for range, you're also paying for hardware, which has its own warranty period and physical constraints/downsides that Tesla is not responsible for.

In the same vein, if somebody came out with magical tires for the Tesla that managed to effectively increase your range by a substantial amount by having better grip or less friction or something, you wouldn't expect Tesla to go to drivers and say, "hey, you're paying for range. You can't install those tires because they would cause you to get more range than you payed for!" Most of us would call that reaction unreasonable.

So in that scenario, you're also not really paying for the actual range you get, you're paying for a kind of "potential" range that could be increased or decreased depending on other factors outside of both yours and Tesla's control.

The reality is you're not really paying for the range or the # of cells. You're paying for a kind of bizarre combination of both. The physical hardware is your responsibility to take care of, but also you're not allowed to use it in a way that Tesla doesn't like. If you come up with an unrelated way to increase your range, you can do that. You haven't signed a contract that says, "I will stop driving if I've gone more than X miles without a refill, period."

It's understandable to me that different people have different opinions about how those two things should be combined and where it's reasonable for each party's responsibilities to end. For example, the CPU scenario you've listed is fairly common, but most people don't mind because it's not illegal to overclock your CPU. That's a big differentiating factor.

I understand that you disagree with the word "ransom" but it seems pretty obvious to me that that's an opinion, not a statement of fact. The original poster was using a shorthand to suggest that Tesla's attitudes toward consumer rights were unreasonable. I don't see a problem with that.
I would encourage countries like China or Russia to develop cheap mass drone swarm systems that can deny access to airspace to any adversary. A country could sell this sort of service for hundreds of billions of dollars to another country like an insurance policy. Entire wars could be made impossible. It would be great progress for the world.
I upvoted this comment, just so you know. You've made some good points, food for thought for me.
But the creator has the freedom to choose any license they like, any at all. They chose a very permissive one.

Why is it being a jerk to engage in a behavior that someone freely gave their blessing to?
I have been using Terra lately as a C replacement for technical work, but SciLua seems to be a great way to stay with Lua for speed in these types of applications. I am curious if it is going to become faster compared to Julia at the 3 of 8 tests where Julia was faster.
In case someone else is just learning about these folks: ITL is Invisible Things Labs.
Ask HN: What were your personal favorite personal/side projects?
Well, #2 isn't really feasible because of the scale at which they now have to operate in order to meet customers' demand for products (IOW, you can't catch everyone).

As for #1, this gets thrown around a fair bit, especially with the current GOP Congress. However people constantly forget that regardless of where final assembly takes place, these jobs are the lowest of the low on the tech food chain. Ripe for automation, a human can easily be replaced by a machine that costs less and can work 24/7/365.

Unless people have no other alternatives, these jobs should be avoided at all costs.
"Computational approaches can compensate for subject motion"

But they don't. They don't in this example. Moving subjects are a blur. As an aside, of course stacked photo frames are underexposed because it wouldn't make much sense otherwise.

Computational photography can do interesting things and holds a tremendous amount of promise. However every single example that I can find of this mode -- across the many astroturfed pages -- show a longer exposure than what the stock app normally allows. And with that the requisite blurring of any moving subject.
> Alternatively, the Obvious collective will be now and forevermore tagged as non-contributing leeches.

Exactly. It doesn't sound like they are afraid of this but they really should be. Nobody will want to buy the next artwork of a collective with that reputation.
I wonder if CSS could be translated/compiled to sets of linear constraints? Obviously just the parts that affect layout would be relevant for this translation. But I wonder if it's possible to come up with a formalised mathematical relationship between the byzantine context sensitive rules of CSS layout, and the smaller set of building blocks that cassowary supplies.

And then, I wonder how much could be round tripped? Do flexbox and grid fill enough of the gaps to make systems of linear constraints fully expressible in terms of flexbox/grid? If not, where are the remaining gaps, and are they useful enough "real world" usecases that you couldn't practically make constraints->css a (potentially) lossy translation. It kinda looks like GSS attempted this, but I wonder if GSS can be improved upon to rely less on JS for filling the gaps in 2018?
My liquid measuring cups are glass and have a customary scale graduated in liquid ounces, not 10ths of a cup. They also have metric measures on the other side.
Being terminated for cause shouldn't retroactively makes you un-earn money. If for the sake of argument the money was for developing android, then he would deserve both the pile of money and punishment for wrongdoing.
Alright, so in the first place, this is attacking the problems in American work (and work the world over) from the wrong vantage point. What if you merely like one of your workers more than the others and you rate them higher than the others? That should be just as insidious but because it doesn't involve sex, somehow that's not as bad, it's just "life". Almost everyone in HN has experienced this sort of toxic manager at some point in our careers and we've for some reason normalized it just like the rampant sexual harassment.

If I could have my way, we'd ask ourselves why do managers have so much sway and power over our lives in the first place, that their bad moods and habits can literally kill us? If people cannot be trusted to be managers when normal human emotions and interactions occur, then why are they managers in the first place and why do they have so much power over us?
Have you been to burning man? It is not just a "drug induced festival" for many burners.

Some people bring their 5 or 10 year old kids!
WordPress developers are keenly aware of all of the parts that aren't ideal in the code, and if you look at things where we're able to work in a more de novo fashion (like Gutenberg) you'll see best-in-class approaches and code.

However as you see in some other comments on this thread, backwards compatibility has been key to WP's adoption which can make it challenging to fully iterate the user and developer experience. With Gutenberg we're doing this, and it has generated a huge amount of pushback and even conspiracy theories. Hopefully in a year or two we'll look back at this as something we're not sure why there was even an issue.

The last time people threatened or actually forked WordPress like this was when we first adopted WYSIWYG in version 2.0, in 2005. Part of why WordPress today has 10x the market share of the runner-up is because we think a lot about these decisions, listen to tons of feedback, but are willing to occasionally choose controversial-at-the-time decisions that turn out right in the grand arc of things.
I can't recall where I came across this idea but how about fridge shelves that (like mini moving sidewalks) slowly move food towards an edge to drop to a lower shelf and eventually to a composter or trash -- the idea being to put food items at a certain spot on a given shelf based on items' expiration date. Wildly impractical IRL, but clever enough to be memorable (for me anyway).
Anyone know what happened to Edna?
Hasn't been updated in years unfortunately & I'm wondering if it's still safe to run online.
https://github.com/thedod/edna

It looks like AudioStreamer that OP listed but I prefer to play my music with vlc (or whichever 3rd party player)
If the reason to fork is just Gutenberg, there's an official plugin available (Classic Editor), created and supported by core, that disables Gutenberg and gives you pre-5.0 experience for as long as you'd like to run it. And then you don't lose the infrastructure, updates, security, events, the benefits of the thousands of people who work on making some part of WordPress better every day.
"Software Janitor" is my personal favorite. I should probably carry around a bag of pencil shavings on principle.
well to be fair google hasnt implemented it yet either. there could be significant reasons for that, like results could be worse than default except in specific situations
> “is this rigorous enough for FDA approval”

Clearly it wouldn't meet the standards for a phase III clinical trial. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's worse. Pharma studies and plant studies both have their own sets of methodological issues, so it's hard to really compare them on how likely their findings are to be accurate or whatever. E.g. because elderberry isn't patentable, that eliminates most of the incentive to basically make up results like what happened with Tamiflu. But you also don't have the money to run multi-thousand person trials. How do these really compare with one another? It's hard to say.

For me, elderberry seems like the clear winner over Tamiflu because there are no negative side effects. At worst, it just doesn't work, but it only costs ~$0.65 per dose and the evidence that it does work is actually pretty compelling even though it would obviously be better if there were multi-site trials with larger sample sizes.
You're right of course. Your comment lead to me reading about Hadean and Archean which has been quite interesting.
Wouldn't this be addressed by the fact that, as you said, we now have a new standard of multi-income households?

If everyone in America was in a single-income household, and then we all became, for instance, two-income households, wouldn't it make sense for individual incomes to drop by half?
The first thing I think of is "Welcome back, commander."
It has nothing to do with the object of sale but mostly with the fact that it's Christie's effort.

Try to sell identical thing on eBay for $10 and watch the world making fun of you at zero bids.
>However, it's an average of what people actually pay, including people who somehow got a sweet deal on housing costs

which is arguably the more accurate way of measuring consumer prices.
Wasn't that also the case historically though? Rent control has been around for a while.
This is one of the reason I dislike the current debt-based economy that relies on extracting more dollars from "consumers".
Something that works well for me is disabling javascript and making use of Firefox's read mode. Tends to let me get straight to the content in a legible way without much of the cruft getting in the way.
I leveraged my embedded systems knowledge into a cottage side business rebuilding the old Magneti Marelli ignition modules in 308/328 models with new ARM Cortex based electronics. There's nothing magic about Ferrari engines.
This is a colony on a frontier, life will not be easy.

We can't just teleport a functioning city to the surface of mars, the first few waves will be hard, as it always has been in the history of human exploration.
Are you arguing that EIS over a series of burst photos is incapable of making things better?

Everything I can see you saying -- much if it agreeable, like the fact that long-exposure OIS makes a lot of what this technology currently does possible without it -- is simply handwaving away the fact that EIS-over-burst with OIS can achieve things that OIS cannot by itself.

It seems to me that it's patently true that EIS has some benefits, and those benefits can be realised over the top of OIS.

There's obviously still a fair limit to OIS. I have somewhat shaky hands and even using something like Olympus' top range 5-axis IBIS, which is the best I've ever seen, I can still only shoot at 1/10". What can EIS do with a burst of 3x 1/20" exposures? Probably counter for my shaking a bit, at least. (If not for subject movement, yet.)

I simply do not see why you're discounting this so heavily.
Only if GDP remained constant. Inflation-adjusted GDP increase from ~5 trillion in the 70's to ~18 trillion today. Much larger than 2x, and not every household is dual-income.
Two reasons mainly. First and less charitably, managers and executives are a self-perpetuating phenomenon. They’d have to be the ones to slit their own throats, and they won’t. The second and more depressing reason is at the core of much human misery from politics to business: it’s better than the known and proven alternatives in most cases. Like what passes for democracy these days, it’s a lamentable mess, but still preferable to the proven alternatives on offer.
Widlarize[1] it. That tends to delete the data beyond any hope of recovery.

[1] http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/the-widlar-izer!/
> Also, as any employer ought, they didn't go public about the claim, seeing as how that's a violation of everybody's privacy

How is talking about things that happened to you a violation of anybody's privacy?

It is prefectly reasonable to talk about true events that happened to you, especially in a interview, and to even use names.

The truth is the Truth, and your interactions with someone that you are interviewing should not be treated as private.
(I work on React.) I think we’re on the same page here. Having a pile of recompose helpers and HOCs is exactly what we think/hope Hooks will help avoid.
I mostly agree, but I think:

> At best you could say it might has another name on it.

...does disservice to the influence she had (on Bill & the world) and shortchanges her contribution.

Your point still stands, i.e. that the claims of harm of the policy are post-hoc reasoning and therefore irrelevant its expected utility. But that does not actually conflict with this one particular instance possibly being a lucky coincidence.
English document will coming soon.
oh so I found this, anyone tried it?

https://github.com/thedjinn/nedna
That is just one example, the truth is that American society has many such "middleman looters" which exploit the system for gain at the expense of the middle and working classes.

A few examples:

* Student loan industry / higher education debt

* Unaffordable housing and exploitative renting due to NIMBY building practices

* Police ticketing as a revenue stream for municipal tax authorities

All of this either didn't exist for their parents, or were not as severe. All of this adds up to a middle class which has significantly less than their parents.
Ignoring the need to vacuum the stairs themselves, in this situation, having a Roomba for upstairs and another for downstairs would solve a fair bit of that problem, rather than waiting 5+ years for a viable/affordable stair-climbing and vacuuming robot.
My take on this is a small SmartOS cluster running on 3 x Thinkpad T430s - each with the DVD drive removed and two SSDs installed as a ZFS mirror.

The whole cluster idles at 150 watts and each node is backed by it's own dedicated battery. Upstream I have about 4 hours on an APC unit which also protects the router and modem from outages.

My own little cloud for under $1,200.
The specific problem here is with the quota.

I've been in teams where firing a few bad actors was definitely a good idea.

I've also been in teams that were well-oiled machines where everyone was doing their part. You want to tell me I need to find 2-3 people every year to fire because of some quota dictated by some celebrity CEO with an agenda?

Great way to disrupt a well-functioning team.
I use this too.
The Moon is a lot closer to the Sun than Mars, and you have to remember that EM radiation falls off with the square of the distance. Mars is unsuitable if you need to rely on solar power alone, especially for concentrating and piping light to grow crops.
No matter how much we trash Earth it is going to be easier to Terraform it back than making Mars possible to live on.
Maybe it's reference to Red Alert Yuri villan: http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Yuri
It should be noted that Yuri is a common female name in Japan.
Nope, "right to work" just means that you aren't forced to join the union.
21 Simple and Effective Mindset Hacks for Entrepreneurs
Oh I forgot my footnote

[+] I really love that English is pretty conservative in spelling so that you can often tell the meaning of the word by looking at how it is written. Languages like German that reform their spelling periodically to match pronunciation shifts snip those connections away (while French goes the other way...there's a reason why a spelling bee can be prime time television in France).
Your reply is unnecessarily combative and short. Assume good faith in grandparent's reply, and preferably try to find out yourself and report back your findings.

Meanwhile, have a bit to read on the ethics of placebo-controlled clinical trials (which is what is meant with "double blind" study here): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3844122
If 2 people are meant to be together I really don’t think they would or should care.

My employers profit interest is such a relatively small concern. Love can be what make life worth living. Love should trump that IMO.

It amazes me that someone would argue that you should prevent a relationship because of an employers best interest.

Im glad people like Sergey can look past that.
Thanks! I have used your framework a couple of times with clients and am always sure to show off how easy my phishing campaigns were to pull off using it. Really well done!
How do you prove your HackerNews on Keybase
I am new to Keybase and Hacker News. I seem to need >= 2 Karma to prove my identity to Keybase. How do I do that?
This is great. Aaaaand here’s a Microsoft patent covering it: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=6,748...
No: keyframes
you can go 10+ years back via https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html but that's probably not what you're looking for either.
> Some people bring their 5 or 10 year old kids!

I have a name for those people - degenerates.
But spelling keeps changing. What's the origin behind "check", as in checkbook?
> Incredibly, the proportion of households with two earners is LOWER in 2014 than in 1980 because of the large increase in households with one or no earners. Marriage is not nearly as common as it used to be. The data are here in Table H-12

That's interesting data.

However, one income supporting one person is very different from one income supporting 4+ people. Is there any reason why we shouldn't just use division (# earners/household size) here?
we're so fucked
>Bottom line - if the economy can't support a living wage for the working class, it's not doing all that great.

Hasn't the standard of living risen for the working class over the 30 years?

This is an absolute position, has it ever been better the case in the past?
It becomes really apparent in web games. Some crude HTML5 game will need a relatively modern PC to run, while graphically superior flash game from 10-15 years ago ran fine on a 500mhz Celeron
I don't see how that makes any sense at all. What is the actual limiting factor?
And both will get you to work at exactly the same speed. They even get approximately the same gas mileage.

All of the other stuff - better acceleration, air bags, automatic transmissions, A/C - those are refinements on a capability that fundamentally didn't change. They both drive on roads at around 60 mph at approximately 25 mpg.