skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people claiming that "health care is a right" which is essentially saying they have the right to enslave everyone else for their own benefit.

No, it's saying that as a society we're not going to let people suffer and die in the street when we have the technology and resources to help them. Probably you'll believe in society a bit more if you're ever in a position where you can't solve your problems yourself.
No, he's not an automotive journalist. His main beat these days is on climate/eco issues. That said, I've never heard of automotive journalists being 'professionally trained to notice things accurately' as a matter of course.
I joined Plivo exactly a year ago. We've come a long way since then. From supporting a complex conferencing platform, to insane dialer traffic. Its been a pleasure working with the team. Good job guys!
Solenoid melted?
You could always make references to the original code.
That is also equally easy to explain:
He gets more clicks because of the picture of motor trend's car of the year on the flatbed.
Also, he didn't think he'd get caught.

People "risk their livelihood" all the time by lying to their boss, etc. I don't think any complex calculus is necessary to explain why someone would do that.
I second this opinion, though it's been a couple years since I last used it. Designing complex tables in reST was far more cumbersome to me than just writing it in HTML. It requires you to basically know the HTML your markup syntax will generate anyways, then deal with the quirks of that but with less overall control than raw HTML gives you.

However, generating PDFs, a static website, and any other formats from a single reST document is much easier than doing to equivalent from an HTML document so it has its uses, but I would not use it as blogging markup unless I planned on publishing a book from the same blog content.
One word: Discovery

As in, "Whenever we are sued, we have to undergo Discovery, and they find all those email we really wish had never seen the light of day..."
Eight hours is the time it takes to charge on a home outlet, not a charging station.
Kelloggs' biggest factory is in the UK, but it has something of a strange American history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelloggs#History
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Designing a Lego Mindstorms Sumo Tournament
Games Using Amazon GameCircle Have Higher Engagement and Monetization Rates
>> build something a small number of people want a large
amount ...

... and they control a lot of other people's money

(My addendum for B2B sales)
Their FAQ says they delete the server copy after 7 days
The OBD2 standard does this today. Not pretty, but works well enough. I always check my fault codes before going to the mechanic.

>which provides diagnostic and maintenance data according to a standardized format.

Except the values you get won't make any sense outside of your particular model. Its like reading SMART data from a hard drive. Okay, you can generate this csv and have all this data, but without the manufacturer telling what thresholds matter (and these are arguable), its kinda meaningless. SMART was supposed to predict failures and do all sorts of things, but its kind useless in practice. I think most controllers just stupidly rely on bad blocks appearing than trying to interpret the tea leaves of SMART data.

With OBD systems, all this information is internal and we get a fault code when we pass a certain threshold. I think this makes it a lot easier for mechanics and lay people to work with. Data addicts, of course, will never be satisfied unless they can pull every bit out of the system, but that may not be practical or useful. I could see a hybrid system where a car has the old fashioned OBD2 protocol and something else for nerds to download.
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The Earth is not an intelligent agent. The Earth doesn't "know" anything. Also, plenty of plants have evolved to be poisonous to prevent animals (including humans) from eating them, so you can't just blindly go around eating any mushroom or berry you find in nature. Natural does not always mean "good for you".
Ketchup is a physical product with raw material costs which requires physical storage and delivery, and must be distributed through intermediaries. It also has a shelf life, and ingredients that fluctuate in price seasonally. Your comparison is about as sensical as me complaining I can't type an essay using 100 bottles of ketchup.

However, my points are that a) we routinely pay 10x the 'value' of food products, and b) supermarkets piggy back off our conditioning by brands to offer us 'value' products which still cost 8x what they are worth without any of the advertising/marketing overhead.

The parallel would be if Macbook Airs were being made and delivered to Apple stores for $100, or cars were delivered to dealers at a cost of $2,000 and then sold to you for $20,000.
Is it possible that the sensors were broken or buggy ? A long time back, I had poured all of my money into buying a second hand Porsche .One day I was cruising merrily on I-90 when my car caught fire, even though all the indicators were normal. Turns out the indicator were not functioning -- the last mechanic (not a Porsche dealer )to tune the car had effed up the indicators. ( I have stuck to Hondas and only authorized dealerships for repairs since then).

I may be doing wishful thinking here but Car Journalist are could be biased , snarky , they might embellish a bit but they are rarely outright liars.
As in, "Dog ate my homework"? That should work with feds, no problem.
Lovely

/vehicles/{id}/command/door_unlock
Agree, there is a long way from HTTP API to REST API and this one is definitely missing key REST features.
That seems problematic, how is normal vision defined?

With dioptres, the definition is very clear and based on optical properties of the eye.
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What reason besides stupidity would explain a reviewer intentionally bricking the car? It would be like putting vodka in the gas tank "to find out what happens".
"...In 2001, U.S. Air Force personnel cleared the document cache for public release...But it took 11 years to crack open the boxes in College Park and glimpse the saucer secrets within..."

So for things the government wants to declassify, there's over an eleven-year waiting period. Wow.
Or unless the United States asks for it to be turned on, or unless you have a lawsuit of some sort pending against the company.
as long as the debt costs them less than 6% then free money
As an aside, I grew up very close to a Scottish castle owned by a member of the Heinz family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
> the only elected body in the EU

You mean the only elected body with EU wide reach. There are many more elected bodies within the EU but their reach is limited to smaller chunks of geography.

And even the EU parliament does not actually have reach across the EU because not all countries have ratified the same set of rules. So it's possible for countries to have seats in the EU parliament which passes laws which then do not affect some of those countries in the same way. It's quite messy.
Simvla Sold
It can do both: generate pure CSS Animations and animate items via Javascript, CSS 3d transforms and requestAnimationFrame.
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Congrats on the growth! Keep it up :)
What does the 'I' in IBM stand for?
>> and the first prototype Avrocar came to the National Museum ... in 2007.

The article explains that the project was declassified in 2001 but it has taken 11 years for the 2 billion record backlog to get to it. Which implies that the US Government has found an almost perfect means of classifying anything top secret for ever - produce paperwork faster than it can be sifted :-)
Exactly good sir, that is a great way to go :)
This wording suggests you keep the contents of the email around. I would clarify that:

the server makes a note not to supply that image ever again
If I was designing a "distance remaining" meter for a car like this. I would think long and hard about UX. For instance, does it make sense to have the reported distance available fluctuate? That sort of behavior could be taken quite negatively by users. It could make them distrust the meter. Similarly, there is a safety aspect of always reporting the lowest estimate made by the car, even if conditions have changed more favorably. Better to have someone recharge before strictly necessary than to have someone not realize that conditions have changed after making a decision to skip a charger, and to then run out of energy.

I'm not saying this is what Tesla does, I am just saying that the considerations for the UI in this case are interesting, and maybe there were decisions and behaviors involved that are different than a simple function.
I just wanted to point out the irony that people are surprised when a company with 'international' in its name is becoming truly international.

On a more serious note, these developments are obvious to anyone who has followed IBM in the past few years. IBM has made a huge push to hire outside the USA, and according to some friends who work there have been content with attrition in the USA. I don't think outsourcing and offshoring have been resounding successes for many companies, but it makes sense that a company of IBM's size can do it right. Ultimately I see globalization as a good thing; IBM is adding value by making their operation more efficient (and of course hiring competent people in poorer countries).
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If you are going to reference "Tragedy of the Commons", do it correctly by pointing out what a horribly simpleminded fantasy the whole fiction is.

EDIT: for those that care, the original paper by Garrett Hardin simply explored the idea. He did not use real data and it was not scientific in any way. It was a thought experiment. And generally proven wrong.

Why it it relevant to mention this? Because the article mentioned here about Webkit references it in some attempt to connect it to the idea that Open Source or Free Software is an example of Garrett's argument.

However, if anything, Webkit is a counter example in an interesting way. One typical example of given to TOC is global fishing. However, if anything, global fishing is an example of large corporations exploiting a resource owned by nobody (vs a resourced owned in common). In a similar fashion, WebKit might be an example of corporations exploiting code owned by nobody.

Incidentally, this is not the case for many Free Software projects (vs Open Source). Because Free Software projects ARE owned by a group of people in common. And typically the governing structure is less exploitative, and more cooperative than corporate controlled projects like Webkit.
Why are you commenting from a throwaway account?
How to meditate: a simple, permissive, breathing meditation. A nearly-identical form of this meditation can be found in most 'meditation-based' systems. Its pretty universal.

What you do:
1) Sit in a comfortable position, without shifting around, in a quiet place, with your eyes closed
2) Primary Focus: to constantly feel yourself breathing
3) Do this for about an hour

Likely Contingencies:
a) You "need" to shift around. Nothing wrong with that. What happens if you don't? Keep feeling your breath!
b) You will start thinking. Nothing wrong with that. But can you think while constantly feeling your breath? Or are you multi-tasking now? Keep feeling your breath!
c) a+b: You think about needing to shift around. Nothing wrong with that. Keep feeling your breath!
d) You might wonder if the hour is over or not. Alternatively, if you set an alarm, you will wonder if its properly set, and if maybe you should check it. Keep feeling your breath!
e) You might need to do a million little things, check the dog's water, the task queue, the pot on the stove, whatever. Keep feeling your breath!
f) You will find yourself thinking about how you are now 'feeling your breath'. Oops, you probably just stopped feeling your breath to think that thought. Keep feeling your breath!

What does it mean to "constantly feel yourself breathing"?
a) It means your attention/focus is completely on the feeling of breathing. Your conscious existence is the sensation of being 'a breathing thing'.
b) Corrolary: you probably aren't 'thinking in language'. In my experience, its not common to multitask thoughts 'in language' with a focus on physical sensation.
c) As you begin meditating (first several times? more? less? depends...) You will context switch back and forth constantly between 'thinking in language' and 'feeling your breath'.

Why is this meditation interesting?
The best reply I can give is, "Isn't it interesting enough that you can't just do such a simple thing as watch your breath without thinking about a bunch of other things?"
This is not about offshoring (although some of the work will go overseas of course). This is about IBM's customers growing tired of the endless expense and headaches of dealing with consultant-provided software. Need an upgrade? Hire a consultant. Need a new feature? Hire a consultant. Need to reconfigure? Hire a consultant.

Now that corporations have grown more comfortable using Software-as-a-Service solutions, they're telling companies like IBM to stop billing for consultants and instead just take over all hosting and maintenance. Obviously IBM should try and host as efficiently as possible (that is, with as small a staff as possible) so they'll need to shed consulting labor.
Looks like a nice little library, and very relevant to my interests. My personal "dream scenario" is to have true multisource P2P video streaming in the browser with no extensions required - with WebRTC, this seems quite feasible as implementations mature.
hm, to me PS (unlike Illustrator) is in it's basic functions self explaining.
My advice is, don't dance around it, just dive into it and try things.
Make a collage, mix and rip.

Download psd and inspect them works as well.

If question occure google for that specific "quest".
All I had to do was turn all the secure boot crap off in UEFI, delete all the Windows 8 partitions and then install regular Ubuntu.
Not allegedly he did kill her - he shot her in the head.
Basecamp should decide what's their free trial period (45/60 on same page)
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Thanks. Still a long way to go.
I have visions of a rube-goldberg style contraption, starting with the car horn activating, scaring a flock of pigeons, knocking over a set of bowling pins, bumping into a lit candle and tipping it under a rope, burning through and releasing a piano on some poor sap's head. No side effects, indeed :)

Or, on the other hand, it's a zen koan. If a car honks in a parking garage and no-one is there to hear it, has it even made a sound?
gooseGrade! I remembered the name. Here's a link: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/goosegrade.
Thinking like an embedded systems engineer (I am) instead of a mathematician (I'm not), I would have a sensor to know the state of the lock and only whack the unlock solenoid if the lock has been discovered to be closed.

Always treat mechanical devices in a non-deterministic fashion.
It seems that the delay is in the variance in the length of the different jobs. Having slow jobs is generally not a good idea, and I can imagine that they are happening for uncommon tasks.

When you are running a 100+ servers it seems like a simple answer would be to think about these uncommon tasks differently. Options would be for prioritizing them differently, showing different UI indicators, and also wanting them happening on a separate set of machines.

Doing these would mean that an intelligent routing mechanism would not have as much use. Am I wrong here?

I do believe that Heroku should document such problems of theirs more clearly, so that we know what challenges that we are facing as we develop applications, but in this particular case, it seems that they do have the right plumbing, and that they just need to be used differently.
this also serves as an ads for Y-combinator
It still doenst solve the problem: many email clients cache images that are downloaded...
Does Windows 8 not run on UEFI systems without Secure Boot enabled?

Or is this fix just due to pre-installed OEM Windows 8 configurations with Secure Boot enabled?
Absolutely not true. I don't know what the Tesla's speedometer display is like, but my experience with digital displays in cars is the exact opposite. I am much more likely to misread a digital display - in my old car this happened all the time with the digital clock display in the dash. I've never owned a car with a digital-only speedometer, but I've never liked them in rental cars.

Digital displays are obviously better for reading a precise value, but not necessarily an accurate one. To generalize, I would say being off by a a couple percent is more likely when reading an analog display, but off by a factor of two is more likely by misreading a digital one.
I sometimes forget to empty my bottle. I just drink the contents before they can finish their spiel.
Maybe he read a bit too much of Tesla's copy:

In contrast slower city driving speeds are more efficient and electric vehicles have a unique benefit in stop and go, low-speed driving due to regenerative braking

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/model-s-efficiency-and-range
Your erection is showing...
This is such a cool idea. I would email my number to random girls I met on a Friday night haha... "hurry up and save my number orrrrrrrr I will disappear" lol

Nice execution.
Does this mitigate screenshots in any meaningful way? And how does it address browser caching?
What about the M? :)
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> but without the manufacturer telling what thresholds matter (and these are arguable), its kinda meaningless

I know exactly what you mean. Through random forum postings I found which index my SSD uses for "wear level", only nobody knows what the units are or what they mean.
> His other articles about oil drilling claim that they help with job creation... you be the judge.

Since I live in ND, we have lots of oil drilling going on, and the Dec 2012 unemployment rate was 3.2% compared to the national rate of 7.8%; I would find that a factually true statement.
This just goes to show how far an old world media company will go to answer the call of their masters in the auto industry or whatever industry happens to be paying them at the time..I call that a whore.
while what you are saying is true, the upper bounds of all things limit the costs required to deploy infinite amounts of memory and processor cycles at scale.

As always, a happy medium is required. That being said, once you boot up another stack, allocate various caches, and have your engineers maintain an additional set of configuration, the costs come down. But for ~10k routes, the costs to route those ips is greater than routing v4.
>You CERTAINLY don't want someone to be able to make your car segfault while you're driving down the highway.

That could make for a great scene in some futuristic hacker movie.

On a more serious note, there are many possible solutions to the problem of losing a wireless car entry key. Off the top of my head:

1) Have the user tap out a simple rhythm with the button to unlock the car. Downsides: kind of involved and the rhythm would have to be long to be secure.

2) Put a fingerprint scanner on the key. The one in my laptop is a tiny self-contained module, so I expect it to be possible to fit one inside a wireless car key. Downsides: the scanner can break; can't use in gloves.

3) Have the cars mesh network to detect the "trawling for the right car with a key" behavior. Downsides: complexity; the thief could exploit this to lock you out of your own car.

4) Make the key a wristwatch or a wristband. I think this is the best cheap solution. Downsides: might disagree with your fashion sense.
CPU Cache Flushing Fallacy
I've found walk-throughs generated using knitr to be incredibly useful - they show you the commands, and the graphs/tables they generate, they often walk through in small steps so you can follow along, and you also get exposed to a bit of the thinking behind - how to approach analysing different data sets.

My friend just posted this analysis of school board data: http://rpubs.com/dirkchen/knaer-tdsb. RPubs is awesome, you can also browse the front page http://rpubs.com, since all documents are public. Lot's to learn here.

Two things that would make this easier: One is some more social features on the site, like tagging and voting up (show me examples with scatterplots, etc). It would also be great if there was an option to upload the Rmd sheet, as well as the data files when publishing. Of course, some people publish their entire projects to GitHub, but if it was a lot more convenient, perhaps more people would share - one-button import into your own RStudio, for your own experimentation, would be awesome.
Realistically, that’s not possible.

The disputes are much more subtle here.
But the second law of thermodynamics means that you can't get as much out of regenerative braking as you put in to the cars potential energy. It's not going to magically allow your car to recharge itself from braking; all it does is recapture a fraction of the energy you've spent accelerating the car or hauling it up a hill.
Ask HN: Any startups available this weekend? 
I am looking to join a startup after graduation and would love to tour a couple startups the next two days while I am in SF. I have seen a couple people do this in the past, so I figure I would give it a try as well. Just shoot me an email and I will be sure to reply! Thanks!
Good idea with downloading the psd files.
RDF datastore that can be queried with SPARQL. A good friend is working on an advanced RDF client that behaves like Excel. Really powerful.
Tesla releases logs on disputed NYT car review
It's just text in a remotely hosted bitmap. No logic, no protection.
Getting at that level of data would be possible if you could access the CAN bus. It's part of the OBD-II standard, but most manufacturers don't forward the CAN bus data to that specific connector hidden under your steering column. However, a few do, and there are other connections in other locations for the other makes.
With confusing half-truths that are highly misleading and confusing? I guess you are right …
Couldn't you just save the hosted image before it disappears? I don't see the value in this?
Apple has banned me from their stores.
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A 0.3AU radius sphere is gigantic.

If the sphere was the size of Earth, Earth would be smaller than the 'The World' artificial archipelago in Dubai.
As a software developer I'd always try to unlock it. The user probably has a reason for pressing the button. Maybe your "is the door locked" sensor is broken? If you're afraid of overheating it wait a bit after the second try before enabling it again.
Why should he?!
This has been happening for a while, ever since IBM remade itself as a consultancy, they've been shifting operations to low-cost countries. Granted, "International" is certainly in their name and the consultancy service is called "Global Services" so you have to admit there's some truth in advertising there.

The funny thing is that their moving offshore seems entirely focused on improving their own profitability. Which is to say, they're not moving off shore to compete on price, they're doing so for their own benefit. So from the customer's perspective, IBM Global Services is all about buying Indian labor at paying on-shore large American consultancy rates for it.
'Merica!
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That's why I asked ;)
Next article: Tesla tracks and publishes consumer's driving data!