skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're a car reporter driving a loaner vehicle of one of the most sophisticated production cars in the world, you shouldn't really be surprised that the vehicle has data logging. I'd be surprised if most modern luxury cars don't have some level of logging in their systems - I'm pretty sure even my 2007 mid-priced car has logged usage data accessible to the dealer on usage patterns when I take it in, because they've told me things like "you have been driving the car only very occasionally."
It's on the original site: http://fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/
Is there a difference between being "counter-culture" and "privacy-aware"?

There's a difference between protecting your online identity and not wanting intrusive technology in your life and actually being a part of something which is "counter" to what is considered "mainstream".

I'm not sure what he's describing fits what I think of as counter cultures. The hippies in the 60's, graffiti artists, punks, and the beat culture are some of the most notable examples. Also, it this "anti-tech" culture really that big?
to a reporter given the chance, donuts might be considered "normal use patterns" :-)
I am curious if all the "free-then-ads" defenders in this thread are
(a) purveyors of "free-then-ads" businesses defending their business.
(b) young or jaded people who really have grown accustomed to this tactic

Option (a) is Annoying, unpleasant, and bordering on astroturfing, but understandable

Option (b) is sad.
This is impressive: https://crocodoc.com/see-it-in-action/

I'm glad there is someone who wakes up every morning really excited about taking some of the worst, most broken, least documented, and eye-gauging binary yet immensely popular file formats in the world (PDF, XLS, PPT, DOC), and turning them into sane documents for viewing on all my screens.

That's impressive.
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By saying “He did this for nefarious reasons!” you are equally imagining scenarios. We do not have to consider those hypotheticals if we do not even have an explanation for this we can agree on.

That’s the first step. What could explain the data?

1. He wanted to see how much reserve the car has and how it handles running out of juice (with no intention of lying about what he did to get the car empty).

2. He wanted to see how much reserve the car has and how it handles running out of juice (with intention to lie about what he did to get the car empty).

3. The pattern in the data exists for unrelated reasons (e.g. driving around searching, etc.).

Since he didn’t actually lie about this (he merely didn’t say anything) you are speculating about his character. That seems a bit too uncertain for me.

Plus, after considering this question a bit more, I think we are wrong in focusing so much on options 1. and 2.: The third one seems very plausible to me, actually.
You're over it.
I think it takes a very credulous reading of the original article to get that. Here's the trip: http://goo.gl/maps/oUEQV

The charging does add half an hour to a three-and-a-half hour trip, about 15%; maybe a little longer if it's below freezing. That's the price you pay to be off gasoline before it was cool, you know that up front.

But look at the distances: The long leg is only 144 miles, well within Model S range. And Musk has acknowledged that on the east coast, in cold weather, those charging stations should be closer together, which could bring that trip closer to 100 miles per leg, which presumably can be done in comfort even in the cold.

It's totally doable; takes a little longer, but I like to stretch my legs and grab a cheeseburger during that drive anyway. That just doesn't say "niche" to me. The people who are making that trip every day are the niche.
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Just because you don't like the consequences doesn't mean the carbon tax supporters don't intend them.

At least carbon taxes are better than cap'n'trade. That scheme is corruption on wheels. I actually wouldn't mind carbon taxes if I could believe that they would completely forestall cap'n'trade.
Whether it is or not, it's misleading to say "States with small populations... are overrepresented in the Senate" because all states are equally represented in the Senate, by design. Populations are not equally represented in the Senate by the same design. If you consider this a "problem," fine, but the only solution would be to rewrite the Constitution.
The reporter's statement is "oil drilling creates jobs". Do you believe he was right or wrong? He and I have made no mention of anything but that statement.
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That's not totally true. They don't just decide to start putting ads up because one day they woke up and thought "holy shit, we have a billion users! how are we going to support this? Quick! Pull out the ads!". It's more like they intend to monetize in the future no matter what but the only thing stopping them is adoption. They need users to adopt the service first before its even monetizeable. I'm sure if ads or whatever model was profitable from day 1 they'd be using it. It's not a matter of purposely deceiving users, it's a matter of at what point do the different models actually yield revenue. Once they get to that point you start seeing the monetization happen. It can be from day 1 or 5 years down the road but all startups need to make money.

Also, they didn't do anything shady here. If you're following you'll know that they both provided ample notice and offered to share the revenue and you can even opt out. I mean, what do we expect here? Are they supposed to have it be opt-in because that's how we like it and we can't be bothered to log in and tick the box to turn it off? We're not paying for anything here and on top of it we're going to tell them how to run the company like we own stock? This is a business, not an open source project or a charity.
116 comments and not one mention of the substrings "ethic" or "moral".

Yes, Disqus is free. Yes, their ToS permit this. But their actions are ethically dubious. I wish we, as a community focused on building startups, held ourselves and our peers to a higher moral standard.
Ok, here are my bits and pieces so far:

(1) I don't expect them to deliver a certain service 'forever', they can shut down if they want to, I understand that

(2) they can change their policies but they can't (or at least, should not, it is painfully obvious that they can) make it opt-out if it is a major change (and to me, adding stealthy advertising is a major change)

(3) they can't use my name to make it seem as if I am on board with something when in fact I am totally not on board with that

(4) I'm fine with them acting in this way, but then they have to accept that I'll call them out on it

(5) web services (especially embeds) should default to grandfathering in older users

(6) This change does not appear to me to be in line with accepted practice and legal requirements for advertising, as such they are making me part of something I do not wish to be a part of, stealth advertising is something I am very much against.

(7) Had I received the announcement and had I seen that it was 'opt-out' I would have killed my disqus account immediately. Opt-out is the wrong way to make changes like these. To have no positive confirmation for a change like this is not acceptable to me.

(8) I feel they are sneaky because of the way the ad blends in, because apparently when I'm on my home machine those ads are not there (or at least, they were not until yesterday) and I feel that such changes should never be forced.
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You seem to be suggesting that free services are free from criticism, which is just silly.

He is entitled to be outraged, stop it.
OK, even if didn't run out off power and got back OK the review clearly demonstrates (as does Elon's rebuttal) that "Range Anxiety" is a real issue with the Model S (as do all EVs)... who want's to be thinking about optimal cabin temp, average speed, cruise control or not, regenerative braking, where's the next charger, calling up tech support, just to be sure they'll get home? Who?

Wouldn't a review that didn't highlight these very real issues be misleading the public?

Surely Tesla knew who was going to write the article, so presumably they were happy with his "agenda". If not they should have been more careful and had their best people on it.

Tesla has a public education mountain to climb.
Sad story. Too bad you hear it every time there's a new version. Apparently Opera has become more awful every single version, from the very first public version back in the 90s.
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Insufficient labeling of axes?
here at http://torsh.co we are just about to release the next version of our serious/real-world 'video based professional development platform for teachers' built with meteor(ite) - paying customers and all
No, the old system gives the Senate and the House equal power, so it gives equal power to both conceptions.
Note that the Marketplace Fairness Act has been reintroduced in the Senate: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/us-usa-tax-online-...
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A quick google search seems to indicate that disqus is already offering premium accounts. http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466261-prici...

I don't know if these are ads free though.
This might have negative consequences for people running personal websites:

"Bloggers -- You Might Have Already Had Libel Insurance, but you might have lost it by having ads or a tipjar.":

http://www.volokh.com/posts/1185312054.shtml

Lots of homeowner's and renter's insurance policies cover libel lawsuits, but many of them would exclude a website that makes or attempts to make even a trivial amount of money, such as by Disqus' ads or affiliate links.
I posit that if you had the raw data, you would be demanding something further, access to the sensors, internal communications about the data, whatever.
I do now. I thought Atlassian had built it in-house. My worry with these is that acquisitions change the product priorities. For example I was sceptical of the recent Crashlytics acquisition by twitter but they've already gone and improved the experience for everyone by offering enterprise features for free. Its hard to tell who's going to be absorbed and fade out in these kinda things.
Yes. No other security framework has ever had problems like Rails had. It's definitely not like enterprise Java frameworks that were designed from the outset to satisfy security demands from F-500 appsec teams have had repeated remote code execution flaws. And if they did, they definitely weren't as simple to trigger as "hitting a URL that maps to an embedded Java scripting language". No, only Rails has bugs like these.
S3_multipart does multi-part file uploads straight to S3 for Rails
> advertising (we call it Promoted Discovery)

Oh, come on, you guys are better than this.
I grew up next to Shiprock, the actual city, in New Mexico, in addition to other places around New Mexico.

The interesting thing is that the "state" of Shiprock would likely be the poorest and most nuclear capable state on this map, containing both Kirtland AFB and Nellis AFB in addition to Los Alamos National Labs and Sandia National labs.
> they're switching to copying Chrome

How so? Like Chrome copied Safari because they're both using Webkit?

> They'll continue to be the browser that nobody cares about (aside from six people who are no doubt here in this thread somewhere), but your site will probably render fine on it.

That's the problem for you Opera bashers. It will now have room to grow and get a much bigger user base on PCs.
Musings on the Future of Mobile XMPP
I know it's a tired line, but follow that Github link to stay up to date.
> Many of us believe in helping those who are in need, but for this was can give our money and time freely to organizations that address certain issues.

The whole reason gov't programs targeting social issues is because private charity failed to address them adequately or at all.

> Governments take your money by force, and spend it on things for which you have no say.

Governments do not take your money by force. People are not born in a vacuum and the services and programs you and your family take advantage of shape the experience of your life. That you yourself will pay into that system and its programs does not mean your money is taken by force, but rather you are contributing in the same way as others before you.

This of course doesn't mean that governments cannot spend money wrongly or enact policies that are destructive towards people, but you are not being unfairly deprived just because you have to pay into services that you yourself will have benefited from, either directly or indirectly.
Then it's a meaningless term. The fact that iTunes doesn't need to ship with drivers for my sound card is the same kind of "magic".
Thank you!

I'm Russian. And I was unsure when I wrote "inhabitable".

I'm glad that HN-readers can understand what I wrote in my Runglish.

(I suppose it's the same as when I reading Japanese VNs thru online translators)
They are not stealth ads as they warned their users a long time ago. I learned about that a few months ago already. You can't blame them for your inability to read your email correctly. Second, you had pretty strong words against disqus calling their decision "bullshit" and encouraging some sort of boycott. All because a free service decided to start making money in order to survive by proposing optional ads with a cut for you to make money on their free service. Sorry, but the sense of entitlement is really too strong here to let go. Had to point it out.
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New in this release:

0.3.0 (accessories release)
- Copy to clipboard, link to this plugin, in a lightly styled menu
- Now supports gTalk with "Pictures in chat" labs extension turned off
- Donate button, toggle switch, and fork banner on options page
- Google analytics for click events
- Sexy new icon.

Thanks :)
An EV doesn't spend much energy when idle. He could leave the heating on at max but that would show in the logs.
awesome. this has been a huge thorn for a while now. so good to see it's gone. Now if only we had custom sounds support!
That reminds me of a speech by Terence McKenna who has to be mentioned anywhere psychedelics are discussed ;)

If you like you can have a listen to this sample used in a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlbsgdXFxY

He has been sampled in numerous other songs, too, most of them are psychedelic ambient tracks. I also recommend anything you can find about him on youtube especially "Seeking the Stone"
> Unlike, say, Reddit, where concurrent users potentially see the same front page by default.

Unless they're logged in. :)
"so for a 1TB SSD you need 64GB RAM, which costs about as much as the SSD."

In my experience this is not true. A 1 TB SSD, even commodity hardware, is pretty expensive. And that's not even talking about high performance SSD's like Fusion IO, where you're now talking about 10K+. Where do you see 64 GB of RAM costing that much?
As a non-native English speaker, your semantics are incorrect. There is a nuance.

Habitable is an adjective and means it supports life (usually of humans).

Inhabitable is an adjective form of the verb "to inhabit" and deals with one's intention.

So habitable means something supports life and inhabitable means intending to live there is viable, possibly with some modifications to the environment to make it habitable.

Just a minor nitpick.
Among other things, not having to set up your own XMPP or IRC server.
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> No, they're literally copying Chromium. They're forking the source tree and including it as the rendering engine in their browser. That is a verbatim copy.

This is misleading nonsense. You led people to believe that they would just make a copy of Chrome, but they will obviously not just compile Chromium and give it a new name. They will most likely bring the entire Quick framework and their existing UI to the Chromium framework.
Tell me when I enabled that setting, and explain why you make it seem as if I recommend certain products and services.

On another note do you realize that you make it seem as if I endorse stealth advertising?

Please quit the marketing speak, it makes me itchy.

And I have opted out, as the blog post details.
The Roswell incident predates Angel/Blackbird by decades.

Regardless, the incident at Roswell has long since been declassified. It was a crash of flight number 4 of Project Mogul, a use of high-altitude weather balloons to detect Soviet nuclear tests.

If you read the original written reports of what was found, it describes very clearly a prototype Project Mogul payload: a circular array of microphones and radar transponders attached using sticks, rubber strands, and scotch tape, and wrapped up in aluminium foil (for EFI shielding and radar reflectance).
Renamed registers for OoOE, not architectural registers. These number over 100 (200-300 counting FP/SSE) for modern x86 CPUs.

Hyperthreading splits resources (including registers, branch prediction, TLB, etc.) between the threads. This split is static in Sandy Bridge and older and dynamic in Ivy Bridge and newer.
Takeaway: you will already be paying sales tax on your Amazon purchases in the future, and Amazon want to force other retailers to do the same in order to keep the playing field level.
Optimal room temperature of 25C! Wow as a Britain this is warm enough to wear t-shirts and shorts. My home office is set for 20C.
If I offer to paint your house for free, and I do a good job of it but also steal your TV, you actually are entitled to be upset and even call the cops. You can't say, "Hey, I was working for free, and now I want to monetize it with his TV. He's acting so entitled, like I need to ask if it's OK first."

(Obviously I'm not saying they stole anyone's TV, but more extreme examples demonstrate the flaws in an idea better than more subtle ones. The principle of "It's free, so I can do whatever I want and you're being an entitled brat if you object" is simply fallacious.)

Long story short: Working for free does not give you free reign to violate people's trust. Something that isn't OK doesn't suddenly become OK just because you were working for free. If you acted under-handedly, don't be surprised when they call you under-handed on their blog. Being free doesn't immunize you from accusations of under-handedness. It does limit their recourse, but they still have every right to be unhappy.
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It makes everyone feel they're a hip startup. I mean, my IRC client has been doing drag and drop file sharing and image URL inline thumbnailing for... 10 years. The HipChat client is nice, but let's be real, it's just a nice client for a handicapped implementation of XMPP. I'm forced to use HipChat at work and use Adium to connect. I've even got the emoticon set, and message styles to match.

They can't even program a mobile app that reconnects me automatically (unless that's changed recently).
it's not, but it is unreasonable to not mention it if you did it.
"The Star Wars Game I'd Love to Make"
Here's a Venn diagram:

http://imgur.com/532xPbd

Note that "If you're not the customer, you're the product" is true, but "If you are the customer, you're not the product" is false.

Your reasoning would hold if the categories were mutually exclusive, but, as you noted, they aren't.
Not having to maintain your own server. Slightly better integration with other things (e.g. messages sent when you're offline can be emailed to you) - nothing you couldn't do with a bunch of client plugins, but it's there and set up for you already. A very nicely polished in-browser client, nicer even than irccloud, which makes it much easier for non-technical folks to use.
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The idea is to replace 80% of doctors with machines. h/t, of course, to Thomas Goetz
I know people are happy as the infamous GIF bug is fixed, but seriously this is one of the worst 'beta' apps I have tried.

This mac app has been in development for ages, then been in closed beta and now finally it's available to everyone to try.

Our team just switched to the beta native app, and already found several critical bugs with the app within minutes.

Sorry guys, this is really poorly put together and the number of obvious bugs makes me think that you don't even use your own product!
No, but once we deal with the ~120 year time limit, we have a lot more time to deal with long-term problems like stars going out and protons decaying.
Immediately noticed one short coming: I can't resize the font any more. In the AIR version Cmd/Ctrl+Plus/Minus just worked (perhaps as a result of the AIR implementation, not a product decision), but in this native version it doesn't and there are no preferences for it, either.

If the HipChat guys see this, please consider it as feature for an update soon?
Except that's not what they do: you never log in with Google, it always asks you for the email/password pair.

It's manifestly dishonest.
I agree. This interface is not RESTful, and that's good, because it's not a good fit for REST. I may be wrong, but it seems REST is best suited for accessing and creating resources. And it seems you would have to do a lot of conceptual mashing to represent all this API needs to do as resources. I am happy to be corrected.
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The cost to setting up and maintaining your own server and emulating many of the more modern HipChat features (drag+drop file sharing, archived/searchable history, mobile push notifications) is not trivial. Most companies find it far cheaper to spend money on a service than roll their own in house (see also: GitHub, UserVoice, hosted WordPress, etc).

Also, nontechnical people are often not very comfortable using IRC/XMPP.
You should probably update your stats scripts.
StatCounter is a terrible source for anything outside of North America and Western Europe.
If you can't setup an IRC or XMPP server, then I don't think you should call yourself a software engineer. If you're a scrappy startup, you sure as hell better be able to setup an IRC server. And no... it doesn't take more than an hour to spin up an EC2 instance and setup inspircd as a private server.