skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be, but they changed it quite some time ago, a decade or two if I remember right.
Hyperbole bordering on propaganda again. The 27 EU countries elect their governments democratically. Then the council of these democratically elected governments appoints the EU commission for the specific time frame of 5 years and the appointment has to be confirmed by the democratically elected European Parliament. The commission only has the legislative initiative, but the proposals are voted on by the European Council and the Parliament, requiring at least a qualified majority, in many policy areas even requiring Unanimity...
I remember reading a story about a man who was knocked unconscious by a group of kids as he was riding past them on a bicycle not too long ago. That story followed a similar trajectory including the writer not pressing charges under the conditions that he would be able to meet with the attacker and ask him questions about why he did what he did.

One of the things I remember about the article was the reaction from the police who said that the show of remorse from the attacker was a well-practiced show and that they had seen it many times in repeat offenders.

Does anyone remember more details about this that would help find it?
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It's not so much arbitrary as an exception. "The RHS is evaluated and assigned to the LHS, except in this edge case". Using a different syntax would be just as arbitrary, but less of an exception e.g. val, ok := <- ch, val := <~ ch still follows the expected order of evaluation.
( 100% - Investor equity ) / number of founders
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Ok, I'm not the only one who though this song was choosen on purpose. And indeed it was.

Edit : who's the band/singer ?

Edit 2 : my bad, just had to look closer at the player :-)

It's Heartbeat from JJAMZ
Ehh no 2. I wasn't talking about Paypal, but current companies. And you can hardly attribute Paypal to Elon Musk alone, if anyone individualized it would be Peter Thiel.

Anyways, SpaceX is a huge endeavour as is Tesla motors and green energy project on the side. Most remarkable thing is a close loop those companies feed on each others achievements. That is without dispute. However, there is absolutely no widespread impact from all of this yet apart from PR waves. What it could be, and hopefully will be, is that either those group of companies have a widespread reach or (even more hopefully) those PR waves will incite similar movements across those industries it touches.

As for one of the greatest entrepreneur ever - competition is strong and large. While successful and visionary, his efforts are yet to come to full fruition where he might be among the greats. So far, it's all great business and great prospect. It could land among greatest entrepreneurs ever when/if those companies approach widespread impact of the likes of Ford, Dow, Siemens, Bell, etc...
That is nothing to boast about, given that high entropy data is just noise.
It's not possibly to downvote articles, only upvote or flag.
Defacto your legal guardians have signed you up to this until the age of majority. That seems pretty reasonable, under any jurisdiction.
Using this logic nearly all school computers are "unsuitable for education"

It's silly to describe your one-off use case and then extrapolate that to such a degree, that this can only be called sensationalism.
Wow that's more zealous auto-correct than Digg fixed-that-for-you kids.
Rasperry Pi is not using ARM's Mali GPU, but from what I hear ARM is pretty tight about the documentation for that also. I guess for a company that makes its money only from their IP and nothing else, they want to keep it quite protected. I still wish they were more open, though.
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I too believe, its due to "Indian Government"
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Maybe the problem is it's always going to feel like a MySpace reboot under the MySpace banner? And I'm with you - something entirely fresh would be fantastic (whether that's trying to attract everyone or a more niche audience), the worry is this ends up becoming exactly as you said above - just another new music-sharing social site - that doesn't attract anyone (long term).

Still, my fingers are crossed and I'm looking forward to giving it a go.
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The author has not really gone beyond stating that we are subject to the social contract (no shit sherlock) and that
we should try harder to make this contract much better (ditto.) Go read the Wikipedia article on social contract, it has a much better value per seconds of your attention.
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Totaly agree and a computer is after all two parts the hardware and the software and the ability to change both and add on both with such a cheap setup is utterly perfect for break and play style education and that is how alot of people learn.

Another way to look at it is the the Author thinks everybody should learn to drive in a Porche. We all know 99%+ of us don't and start of with a cheap almost end user car and that is what the Pi is in many ways, cheap, effective at what it does and for those who want to go further then they will at least have the foundations to move on with solid grounding.

Sure some parts operate on closed source low-level hardware but who's to say that might not change later on down the line and to lambast it on that one area is missing out on so much.
Maybe with the hyperloop even 150 miles will be "nearby" someday. See http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-hyper-loop-2012-9
Ive been through quite a few customs on leaving a country, typically when there is a fixed time limit you are allowed to stay on certain visas
I didn't realise that access to HN was blocked for Tor users, so I just thought I'd try it out. I can access the site when using Tor. I can log in to the site when using Tor. And if this comment submission works, then I guess I can comment via Tor as well...
Why would you want to work from the library or coffee shop instead of working from home?
'legal guardians' AND 'jurisdiction'. These are concepts that weren't negotiated when signing up for the L-a-a-S.

(just continuing OPs direction of thought)
I hope you plan to open source that joke otherwise nobody will get it.
The forcible enslavement of human beings was permissible and enforced by law in multiple states until 1865. Although you could quibble about whether the seceding states counted as part of the US from 1860-1865, slavery remained legal in Maryland until the passage of its 1864 Constitution, and it remained legal in Kentucky until the passage of the 13th Amendment. There were also some states, like New Jersey, in which the acts of enslaving a person and importing an enslaved person were illegal but the manumission of existing slaves was not required.
This should be the top comment. Again and again we see Twitter, Facebook etc. being blamed for this type of stuff. But in truth these companies have well established processes to deal with requests from law enforcement authorities, as do ISPs. This situation is scandalous when you see how much time and effort is devoted to revenue raising through traffic and parking violations, but there is apparently no time to follow up death threats.
Yeah Brisbane is still too much of a country town
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"Even so, I’d be a lot happier paying taxes if there had been a moment where I was given the choice: pay taxes and have these benefits or be left to your own devices."

Except that there's no (current, easy) way of excluding you from various public goods that are paid by taxes. Examples include national defense, public spaces like parks, public highways, fire protection (if you live in shared housing or simply close enough to others such that we can't take the risk of letting your house burn down), etc...

That's why these goods are called "non-excludable." See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excludability
"A complicating factor for an Open Source effort is that Spanner includes the use of GPS and Atomic clock hardware." (!)

Can anyone explain why such an accurate clock is helpful? I can see that it's needed if you create a document on the East Coast at about the same time as you create a document on the West Coast, and you absolutely need to know which was created first, but for most applications can't you just go with whatever time the system that got the insert thinks it is??
The bit about Jazelle is particularly weird, given that it's deprecated (though not deprecated enough for Raspi to support its successor) and of fairly niche interest: only to a subset of Java developers (Android doesn't use Jazelle).
As a side note - have you noticed that articles about Maps keep disappearing off the front page? I think they are being removed by the mods.
SpaceX means either lesser tax money spent on space travel for same output or more space travel for same budget. Isn't that enough impact already?
I think the OP's point that we are surrounded by established monopolies is very noticeable nowadays. Copyright agency, Lawyers, Medical practitioners, etc.
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Aren't we currently in a situation where your car software / hardware just doesn't update - ever? Apart from very recent models, I don't know of many systems that are even possible to upgrade. And if they do, they often require payment.

I don't think Android situation is much worse here, even if you were stuck on only one major release.
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Have you read anything at all about slavery? Compared to that, being a citizen with rights as well as obligations is a huge blessing.
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If you haven't already you should check out the Who's Hiring threads (latest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463689).

Also check out AngelList (https://angel.co/) and HN Jobs (http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs).

Finally, having a link to a blog / personal page / LinkedIn never hurts either.

P.S. Email addresses are private in profiles, you'll need to add it to your "About" section.
I think electric cars will only really flourish once self driving vehicles become more practical and common. That convergence, along with civilian drones, will expand and improve our options for transport immensely, while also improving efficiency dramatically. It's still a long way to go, but the technologies to make it happen exists today. It's going to be more of an infrastructure change, for example to provide specially marked routes and stopping points for self driving vehicles. The benefits of implementing this is going to take a while for people to realise, but doing so will be comparable or cheaper than current mass transit projects, while offering significantly more flexibility regarding routes and capacity. It will allow people to improve the mobility they have with their own cars now, while improving efficiency so people can live better in and around bigger cities.

For example, instead of bus routes, you can have a car come to pick you up at or near home at a scheduled time, or on demand, to take you to the train station to make a scheduled train on time. When the train arrives in the city you can have a similar car take you to the office. The cars can manage stopping to recharge by itself. The car routes can be updated and optimised based on demand or congestion, new routes can be added easier than bus routes. Software can manage your individual trips so you only have to make decisions based on time and cost. Deliveries can be done with automated cars and flying drones, and this can be adapted much quicker based on demand.
If there were no law, people with guns would make laws and enforce them. Without the government, the people with the most guns are likely to be companies as they already have the manufacture sorted.

All the ideas of trying to bring about anarchistic statelike systems seem to neglect the issues that sometimes hierarchy is very useful and can also be extraordinarily deadly if used aggressively.
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Life is not a service. You did not sign a contract. Not everything is a business agreement. Individualism is not the ultimate value.

I guess that is what bugs me the most about this article: the idea that seems to underlie it that humans are all rational beings that are somehow unconnected to society. Or at least the idea that it is morally desirable for this to be the case.

I do not agree with this. It is individualism taken too far, beyond where the idea of individualism is meaningful. Human beings need social conditioning as much as they need food and drink to survive. Anarchism is a nice theory (much like pure communism or capitalism) but it disregards the nature of human beings, who need to be embedded in society with all its rules, norms and conditioning mechanisms to function.

If you want a different society, go into politics, change things for the better. Don't sit on the couch complaining that the "service" is not as good as you like.

p.s. Life is life (nanananana)
Idiom just means "a standard way to do things, that everyone recognizes and uses".

Normal exceptions, the kind that unroll the stack (and not deep magic like call/cc) are only "out of band" as an optimization. There is no behavioral difference between "save the last place you decided to handle errors, and jump there directly unrolling the stack at once" versus "unroll the stack by a series of buck-passing in band error returns, until you get to the last place you decided to handle errors". A compiler could implement exceptions by silently transforming them into Go form. And a Go compiler could silently transform buck-passing into traditional exceptions.
Frankly, if I can't get there in less than 1/2 an hour on my bicycle, I don't think I'm interested.
Or the presentation was prepared before the stations were complete.
It does make me wonder that the two area's which crop up again and again as open source issues are graphics cards and wireless networking cards and I have to ask myself why. Reason being is that why is it these two area's every time, is it a case of violating IP at low levels or that some area's are open source and they have to gain there edge in speacial tweaks they don't wich to open source. I just don't honestly know but nomatter what if it's about closed source drivers under Linux then it always appears to be about some wireless card or more so, some graphics card.

Anybody know a difinative reason why this is the case?
What browsers have this exploit been tested with?
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USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 can be trigged from a HTML page
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This is it - the tipping point has finally arrived.

This is a killer combination of rapidly falling prices in solar PV (thank you China/Kyoto protocol/Global warming), meeting the falling prices of Li-ion batteries (thank you astonishingly successful decade of laptops/smartphones/tablets), meets a cyclic economic boom (thank you GFC), meets rising gas prices (thank you OPEC/cheap oil/peak oil), meets anti-carbon incentives (thank you IPCC), meets autonomous cars (thank you Google), meets the development of nuclear fusion (thank you ITER) all combining into one massive tailwind for the one company just on the cusp of absolutely crushing it.

It's a complete clusterfuck of fortune, falling costs, converging secondary technologies and economic forces concentrated in one company protected with monopoly pricing, akin to those found by Apple, Google, YouTube, Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, Facebook and many other tech giants.

TSLA will go 10x within the next 20 years (or get bought out before it - unlikely) as it rides these convergent waves of progress.

Please for the love of capitalism short the crap out of it and don't buy it! I need to get as much of this stock as cheap as possible over the next 2-3 years of savings :D - you'd be doing me a favour!

Full disclosure: I have a significant amount of my net worth in TSLA stock and have done so on and off for 2 years (riding cycles for fun). I used to own AAPL - until relatively recently - whereupon I transferred all holdings to Google/Tesla. I may be exiting Google within the next 6 months due to rapid appreciation.
Seems to require that the web page is trigged by an external source, e.g. a QR code, NFC, etc, but still scary stuff.
Most countries that require a passport for entry also require one for exit. Otherwise there would be no control to stop people from fleeing the law.
Totally agree. You see things from a different perspective when you start having responsibilities and duties, like having to pay for your rent, having to cook and do the cleaning yourself, and so on...
The author does make a very good point about GPIO PIN protection and I'll agree fully with him on that a few extra resistors here and there would of not added that much to the cost and made something a little bit more forgiving, which is a good point for education.

But it does open up a whole new add-on market for kits which in itself can only be good.
Did you read his link? The point the guy makes is completely correct.

Let's say tomorrow some grad student gets fusion going at a very low price. The best way to use this to power cars would be to use it to create a fuel with a high energy density. If you had 'free energy' you'd extract C02 from the atmosphere and turn it into a hydrocarbon.

For more info look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

and this interview with Nobel Prize winning Physicist Robert Laughlin

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/08/laughlin_on_the.htm...

the key quote is:

"The ones that are technically trained get it right away: hydrocarbons, which we burned today have the greatest energy density possible of all fuels. Things that have carbon in them. Will people fly airplanes? Usually people say yes for the same reasons. Well, how are you going to make the airplanes fly? Battery. Batteries are pretty heavy. Oh--you can't have airplanes unless you have hydrocarbon fuels. You could in theory do it with hydrogen, but it's highly dangerous, noxious fuel. Quantum-mechanically, we know the energy content of those fuels is optimal. There will never be anything that beats them."

A massive breakthrough in energy density for batteries might be possible but it's unlikely. Huge resources have been put into improving batteries and while they have improved it's not been enough to get near the energy density of hydrocarbons.
But aren't most interesting problems impossible to specify, in a detailed way, up front?
Oddly, that's not true. A passport is necessary to get into a country, not leave one.

Not true for me, at least. I live in Poland, which means I get passport-free travel (and ID-card free, for that matter) within the EU Schengen Area, but not when visiting my home country, the UK, since it's outside the Schengen area.

To visit the UK, I have to go via the scary ladies and gentlemen in glass booths with big guns strapped to their sides and show my passport (or ID card if I had one). I've travelled a few times to other countries outside the Schengen area, and each time the only way to get to the gate is via these booths. I'm pretty certain that there's no opt-out.

Poland's not alone in this; plenty of countries check your passport on departure. Last one I remember is Turkey, pretty sure when I was in India and Tunisia similar happened.
I was working in Brazil on a fixed-term visa and presenting my passport upon entry and exit was my proof that I hadn't spent more than 90 days in the country.

Curiously, the government contract I was helping with ended when the project's assets were seized as part of an investigation into government corruption. Millions of Real worth of equipment is sitting locked in an evidence locker instead of benefiting society.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure all governments are flawed to one degree or another.
It could be worse. You might be using Dillo.
Standardisation for the web targets too much surface area. Browser vendors need to agree on a smaller set of more powerful, more dangerous, more direct APIs so as to put the responsibility for innovation back in the hands of developers. Developers are being wedged further and further away from bare metal, with no right to return, even if they should so wish - this process needs to be reversed.
They should drop the "Consortium" from the name. It's cleaner.
For what its worth, I along with some others have reversed engineered the Scalar, Vector and QPU instruction set of the VideoCore processor in the Raspberry Pi.

Some documentation is at https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv

It hasn't been updated in a while as I'm operating under a self imposed embargo - the reason for which will become obvious soon.

Always looking for more input.

(EDIT: There is also a plan to release a beginners guide to reverse engineering).
Don't forget the money service - managing supply and providing guarantees for its value. Actually if you manage to exclude yourself from using this particular service you won't have to pay any taxes.
For me, it is the other way around: US and Canada don't check your passport at exit and when that happened to me for the first time I had to ask airport employee just to make sure I did not take a wrong turn or something. All of EU, All Latin America countries I've been to, Russia and Ukraine check passports and there were and still are countries that you cannot leave without explicit permission from governement (eg North Kirea and Kuba).
I totally agree.

Actually the point of the Raspberry Pi IS the price because most of the OSS you can install and use in your Raspberry Pi can be installed and used in any regular PC that students may have at home, but can we assume all the students have a computer at home?

My partner works in education and I can tell you that lots of students don't have access to a computer at home. Well, Raspberry Pi price changes everything!
> for most applications

I suspect that part of the point is that this application does care.
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didn't work here.
Terrible for China till a certain price point then the trend returns back into China's favour.
Not after 12 hours.
I believe for cities and dense populated area's were charge points easily viable that electric cars have there real niche if the price and incentives to migrate are there. Offset against cleaner air in dense populated area's/cities and its a win win. But until some extra leaps in power storage are made then we still have a little way to go until things truely pick up.

Though a car that could act as a pod that could attach onto a transport train line would truely open up interesting options in personal transport and charging alternatives.
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Why upset them at all? It's not like the target users who would enjoy this sort of snark are ever going to see the message. Seems like a zero sum game to me.
And the great thing is it feels like he's only getting started.
im starting to get really fed up with sites that require a facebook account to do anything.
Unlike gas stations, electric charging stations can be trivially distributed anywhere there's a parking lot.

Fast-food chains, Super markets, Offices, Malls, Any parking lot!!

So if they tie up with a dine-in restaurant chain to offer 10 charging spots at every highway restaurant - BOOM - you just got recharge facility with a 3min wait [30m/10] all across the country.

Cost of this compared to setting up a gas station would be minimal - only capital cost of charging station - looks like one-time $15K or so per station.