skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The White House is like any political body--they want to give the illusion of listening to the people without having to actually do what anyone else wants of them. Online petitions are perfect for this.

Their "word" is that 100,000 people sign an online petition, and some junior staffer writes an official response restating the administration's position. So in exchange for 100,000 people getting their slacktivism on and having a false sense of accomplishment, the White House gives up maybe an hour of time from their staff. It effectively reduces their accountability to the public by encouraging this false sense of accomplishment.
Superchargers are intended for on-the-road, long-haul recharge. While your local gas station is used by everyone in the neighborhood, most Tesla drivers, most of the time, will be charging overnight or during work hours at home, work, or a dedicated car park. Which should reduce demand somewhat.

From Google Maps, the Harris Ranch location is presently a single charging station. That is something which should be readily scalable as demand rises.

Your usage pattern at a given Supercharger station would be a factor of total traffic on nearby highways, Tesla ownership, and recharge needs. Present stations are at highway plazas -- not necessarily in high-ticket areas (hello, Harris Ranch and Barstow), but given the vehicle owner demographics and minimum 30 minute linger time, they'll likely offer typical captive-audience amenities, so the time won't be a total loss.

And charging is possible from other outlets, though at 5 miles/hour from 110AC, that's a good (or bad) 60 hours to recover full range. More likely you're getting sufficient charge to get to a higher-rated output.

Further though: so long as queuing depth is one vehicle (that is, you arrive, all chargers are filled, and there are no vehicles in front of you), the mean wait time assuming a 50% charge is 30/n, where n is the number of stations. So, 6 stations, queue depth of 1, you'll wait on average 5 minutes for someone to pull out, extending your total recharge time to 35 minutes. If Tesla strives for this as a 95%+ level of service, it should be tolerable, though high-travel periods (holiday weekends in particular) would tend to be worst-case scenarios.
There's the type where you disobey unjust laws, and then actually go to prison when you get caught in order to demonstrate the injustice.
I'm sympathetic to electric vehicles, but they don't escape the problem of complexity. There's still power steering, brakes, gearboxes, differentials, a/c, and a million other things that can go wrong - little of which has the 100+ years of engineering development that ICE vehicles have.

I'm not saying don't buy one, but don't expect electric vehicles to be as reliable as ICE vehicles for at least another decade. Maybe two or three.
You obviously haven't tried doing this or you wouldn't suggest this as a way to actually compute Fibonacci numbers. Here's a definition in Julia (hey, why not) of a closed form Fibonnaci function:

cfib(n) = ((1+sqrt(5))^n - (1-sqrt(5))^n)/(2^n*sqrt(5))

Let's see how it works:

julia> cfib(1)
1.0

julia> cfib(2)
1.0

julia> cfib(3)
2.0

Great! But let's look at a few more:

julia> cfib(4)
3.0000000000000004

julia> cfib(5)
5.000000000000001

Oops. Those aren't integers. I guess we could round, but at some point we might be rounding to the wrong integer. In fact, once you get up to 63, this happens and worse still, at 64 you get an infinite answer.

Here's a simple, reasonably efficient iterative Fibonacci function in Julia:

function ifib(n)
j, k = 1, 1
for l = 3:n
j, k = k, j+k
end
return k
end

We know this one works up to the limits of Int64 range:

julia> for n = 1:10
println(fib(n))
end
1
1
2
3
5
8
13
21
34
55

Using a doubly recursive algorithm for Fibonacci is indeed silly, but it's a good toy test of recursion performance.
Next time, ask for payment in Bitcoin, and avoid these outdated clumsy troublesome international payment law troubles in their entirety.
Any funny stories you'd care to share from those experiences?
You know what I do when I inadvertently open a link to a Svbtle network post? I close the tab.
"Shouldn't we take them at their word?"

Is there some reason we should trust the Obama administration to follow through on its promises? They have repeatedly failed or only half-kept their promises. Like most of America's high-ranking major party politicians, Obama and his administration will say whatever they need to say in order to get votes, and will then turn around and do whatever their wealthy corporate sponsors demand.

"As the WH fails to properly respond per its own rules, the independent (and perhaps, foreign, but probably not mass-) media can easily write obnoxious stories calling them out."

The media outlets that actually matter are too busy promoting the illusion that the Democrats are a liberal party and that Obama is a liberal president to bother with such things.
"Never hire someone you'd be unwilling or unable to fire."
My guess: Remote packages are useless because (afaik) you can't specify a revision. This means "go get" will get the latest HEAD, which could be anything.

Go needs something like Ruby's Bundler to let a package declare what versions are required and let you pin to specific versions.
This generalisation of interface visual styles being either 'flat' or 'skeurmorphic/not-flat' concerns me.

I've experienced interfaces both good and bad that sit at either ends of the spectrum. It's hard to say which is better than the other because in reality most interfaces seem to land somewhere in the middle.

I find the whole debate rather shallow. As designers we should be educating others that a style is the result of a variety of factors such as branding, fashion, originality, time constraints, content, function, hardware, software etc etc.

I've already been asked by clients for "flat design" and it makes me cringe every time.
Sometimes paradigm shifts are just that and indicate generational pivots. Ask an electrician today to do some wiring without color coded wires and they'll think you are batsh*t crazy, but it probably wouldn't have been so crazy a hundred or so years ago when color wasn't viable. The same thing applies to code; these people grew up programming before color monitors were much of an option.
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thanks if you like the visuals, check out Hadley's talk at google http://www.r-bloggers.com/engineering-data-analysis-with-r-a...
I think in the end it comes down to this:

People like (eventual) change.

No one wants to be using the same app for 10 years. Or the same UI guidelines for 10 years. So naturally, there's always going to be some direction that people tend to flock towards.

I don't think it's always primarily for the better, although that is usually the goal. It's better and different. I'm sure in the vast open space of design, there are quite a lot of different equally good directions. Most of them just require people growing used to them.

That's why it seems we've made full circle in design. Simple flat colors, sharp lines -> fancy transparent effects -> complex -> back to minimalistic yet functional.
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I hope doctors go out of business, too (due to everyone being healthy, and/or being able to download into new fresh bodies whenever, from a 24h old backup). That doesn't mean I want to stick to medieval bleedings and such in the interim.
Encrypt it and store the key anywhere except on the drive. To erase, simply destroy the key. Many motherboards come with a tamper-proof key storage device you can reset on command (the TPM). There's a SATA secure erase command, but its been shown multiple vendors have managed to botch its implementation. So if you can't make the encryption approach work, shredder is probably still best bet
Ask HN: Are all of these "learn how to code" bootcamps selling false hope?
I bring this point up because I was walking behind a few recent Starter League graduates and overheard the following: "It's kind of sad to go through all this and not get a job from it." Are these "learn how to program" bootcamps over trivializing programming? Or do these students just have too high of expectations? As a self-taught, full-stack developer, I'm of the belief that if you really want to learn how to program (and will grow to become a successful developer), you will find a way to learn how to program on your own. There are so many great resources on the web to help you when you get stuck. I would love to hear your thoughts!
I think I mostly agree with you, and if we diverge, it's because where you trace the problem back to an overreaching executive branch, I trace it to a legislative branch that was willing to declare war on a state of mind rather than a sovereign state.
Anecdotally, I have run into this with Google Products (Mail & Voice): The "Archive" button is problematic because you can almost always navigate to the noun Archive folder, or verb Archive an item.
Regardless of how long they're there, they still probably don't want NYC to burn down all year long, right?
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Clang should change this pretty soon. They make code analyses much easier (they let you use their parsed data) and enable things like code highlighting, code completion and jump to declaration. A good use of this for vim is YouCompleteMe (https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe).
I'm curious, why do you feel this way?
Because its a problem which affects the environment, not the consumer. You could buy an electric car and it wouldn't help one bit. You'd have to get everyone to buy one.
And remember that Fiji is an archipelago of more than 332 islands that spans the international date line [1] meaning any sightseeing flights have fair chance of wandering backwards and forwards from -179.9 to +179.9 Longitude repeatedly in the same hour or two.

Can your avionics GIS & time software handle this?

[1] http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/oceania/lgcolor/...
Is there anything in particular you could use help with? I'm always up for Open development.
If I desperately needed a specific version of a package, I'd fork the project and freeze it where appropriate.

Does the `go` tool need to be aware of versions? IMO, no. Would it be a nice feature if it could be added without making the tool difficult to use? Yes.

But so far, it hasn't appeared to slow anyone down. I've worked quite a bit with distribution tools for both Python and Haskell, and Go's tool is a breath of fresh air.
That's a whole lot more feasible when you're worried about misdemeanor being-black-and-on-a-bus-or-drinking-from-a-fountain, vs. 10+ year federal felony convictions (and thus ~lifetime ban on ~most employment).
If there is no increased risk, then it is "safe" relative to the normal baseline for "safe" that most people would apply to a car. Pointing out that it is not safe in some unrealistic absolute sense is kind of pointless, don't you think?

It's like telling someone that a neighborhood he's thinking of moving into is unsafe without mentioning that your assessment based on the fact that the neighborhood is as likely as any other to get hit by a meteor. That doesn't qualify it as an "unsafe neighborhood" on the scale most people care about.
The city costs money to run regardless, and the people buying crashpads there still want it to be the NYC they bought into when they end up sleep there.
Er, because the White House works for us and is theoretically accountable to us for the decisions it makes?
I think another problem is suitable roadways. There's probably trails available everywhere but there is definitely going to be a reduction is available surfaces to ride bicycles on. I don't know if this changes the proposition, but it definitely introduces a new complexity that should be explored in fiction.

I just kind of think a bicycle may not be that useful in some parts of a zombie-infested rural Georgia.
It really depends. In a lot of disaster novels, things like roads are destroyed or unusable (packed with crashed in cars). While a bike might seem convenient at first, it quickly becomes an impossible burden at the first blown out bridge or packed highway intersection with a massive pileup. Similarly any 'road junk' from crashed cars or nature can easily damage tires.

As others have mentioned, the resources to maintain bikes are not zero cost. Also, bikes rust in wetter areas fairly quickly if left outside/not maintained (your average chain is going to last ~ a year outside if not reoiled).

Bikes, mile per mile are more dangerous than walking, this might be because of cars etc, but with cracking roads and overgrowth, the risk to riding a bike becomes higher than walking. A single screw up on a bike is survivable in the modern world, it is less so in a post-apocalyptic one.

Bikes leave you vulnerable while travelling, you have to stick to main developed roads, you can only move so fast, you are easily taken out by a simple road trap. You have very little ability to 'take in surroundings' and you have to stop moving and abandon your bike to fight or hide. In a 'world gone mad' scenario someone on a bike moving overland is an easier target than someone on horse or on foot.

Bicyling long distances sucks a lot, especially for people who don't do it a lot. It's brutal on the body, hard to cross anything with elevation, and hurts the body in unique ways. Your average person might give up cycling fairly quickly for this reason. Horses, at least, travel with you when riding on them sucks.

Bikes don't work as well under non-ideal conditions. Heavy rain/snow/ice/elevation/heat all make bikes difficult to use or damage them.

Skateboards solve a lot of these (as they are easily portable). But the risk factor gets higher.

I'm not saying these items would be useless in a post-apocalyptic scenario. However, like most items, if someone wasn't extensively prepared to maintain and use them in a similar scenario, it's going to not work out for them except in the short term. (The same could be said about guns/cars/motorcycles).
I opt for my stuff because its more immersive. It's the first person narrative. As creator, I want to get out of the way of their experience as much as possible.
True, but that is still 'success'; a service like this would seem to be aimed only at relatively amicable divorces.

Nobody thinking "I'm gonna take the conniving, lying, cheating-ass bitch/bastard for everything she/he is worth!" would be trying to use this.
Not being supposed to do something is different than legally not being supposed to do something.
This is correct.

They are also certainly not deleted from your record either. I have requested a copy of my data from Facebook, and it contained messages that both parties have been deleted. That's to be expected though.
Permalink (sorry): http://www.phenoelit.org/blog/archives/2013/02/05/mysql_madn...
Battery swap almost necessitates leasing the battery. You cannot reasonably own a $10,000 thing you swap multiple times a week. But leasing it works extremely well.
What is interesting is that if we all do what Aaron did and refuse to take the deal, the courts would eventually be unable to handle all the cases. The USA simply arrests too many people each year for everyone to exercise their right to a trial. I suspect that if hundreds of thousands of people flagrantly committed felonies and demanded a jury trial, it would be one of the most effective forms of civil disobedience in the history of our country.

Of course, that means organizing hundreds of thousands of people and convincing them to put their lives and livelihoods on the line.
Same goes for a lot of things really.

Cydia, most linux repositories, any browser extension you find. Most of the time you are just hoping that the author wasn't malicious, and that somebody else has audited the code before you ran it.
I feel interacting by voice changes this a bit. Using the Xbox as an example... Microsoft has a 'my pins' option (to select favorites) while the Amazon video app has 'your videos'. Certainly feels odd to say'your videos'out loud.
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I've dropped you an email.
They could explain why they cannot or will not do what we want, on the record. I have little hope that they actually will though.
Understood - but it's one thing having good intentions, and another having been stewards of genuinely community-based projects. I was just doing a quick check for where the code was sitting.

Willow Garage obviously contributed a lot to the whole field, and I'm glad that their legacy will remain available for all.
You miss the point.

Getting the law (or even policies on prosecutorial practices) changed to prevent another such incident is a VERY HARD task. Taking small steps toward that task is NOT "meaningless".

The victory to be celebrated here is NOT that the problem has been solved. It is not even that the White House now has to help work to solve the problem. The victory to be celebrated here is that the White House actually has to say something. (And they DO have to... if not, then the press coverage will increase until reporters demand an answer on their own. Heck, refusing to comment would be GREAT for our cause.)

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to make the White House at least make a statement about your issue? It is something powerful lawmakers and world-spanning corporations often find themselves unable to accomplish.

Now, that's not much: the White House's response may consist of meaningless blather. But it is not nothing: the White House has been forced to respond. And it helps to increase the momentum toward taking some kind of REAL action.

The petitions at WhiteHouse.org don't fix problems, but when something is NOT being discussed by lawmakers, this kind of thing can help get that conversation started. Belittling it isn't helping.
All they're promising to do is start a dialogue around the issues their citizens feel most strongly about. It sounds like a good use of technology, and an excellent strategy to stay connected to the people who ultimately decide whether you stay or go.

Better than focussing more attention on behind the scenes corporate lobbying at least.
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>The way I understand this, is that for a random walk of infinite length, your expected outcome is always 0. It doesn't matter that you started very lucky by winning 10 games in a row, because if you play an infinite number of times, you will balance this by loosing 10 games in a row (you'll do it an infinite number of times).

You understand it incorrectly.

>This is a bit counter intuitive, because according to the theory, there is a difference between a person that enters a fair game with 10$ and a person that enters with 1$ and wins 9$ in the first 9 games. The first person is expected to finish with 10$, the second with 1$, even though both have the same amount of money at some point. But laws that involve infinity are often counter intuitive.

That is exactly the example I would give of why your understanding is flawed. This is not 'counter-intuitive', it is a clear contradiction of basic logic. You are making a fairly common error in confusing a priori probability with conditional probability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamblers_fallacy. A standard phrase used by gamblers to refer to this truth is that "the dice have no memory."

If you start a random walk from Chicago, you are expected to end up in Chicago. If you start a random walk from New York, you are expected then to end up in New York. If you, later on that same walk, notice that you are currently in Chicago, you can start expecting yourself to end up in Chicago, despite that your random walk started in New York: you have observed the actual events (collapsed the waveform), and now you have just taken a walk.

This is the core of the misconception: "The first person is expected to finish with 10$, the second with 1$, even though both have the same amount of money at some point." The first person was expected to finish with 10$, and the second was expected to finish with 1$, but after the second player has won 9 games, he is then expected to finish with 10$, and anyone standing around watching who still has faith in their earlier expectation is uninformed.
When should you personally decline a job applicant?
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I can't. However, I do believe that software development in general is headed away from monolithic compilation, and that future systems will be largely real time, parallel, multi-component, perhaps more heterogeneous, and almost certainly predominantly interpreted.

Our habits trap us in to seeing things one way.
Somewhat topical pedantry:

The incorrect non-reflexive use of myself to avoid the potentially incorrect choice of I vs. me. As in:

... rather than the interface being an extension of myself.
Remove the four spaces before the long URL, it will be properly displayed and linkified. Meanwhile:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia-tutorial/blob/master/Nume...

https://github.com/mlubin/SimplexBenchmarks
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The constitution is a great piece of paper, but there's only so much a piece of paper will do for you. Every generation must fight for freedom in its own way. Its not like some Don Lepre get rich scheme were you automatically get liberty delivered to your P.O. box every month.
Not at all. I've done a lot of C, Matlab, Perl, Ruby and R, although I've also dabbled in Java, JavaScript, C++, Scala and Python. Definitely a polyglot of "pragmatic" languages. Julia was influenced most strongly by Lisp (Scheme in particular), Matlab, C, Python, Ruby and Perl. If you (or anyone else reading this) have questions looking through the manual, drop an email to the julia-users@googlegroups.com list, or me personally.