skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're reading this on Tesla's site, and they obviously wouldn't have posted it if it weren't at least somewhat flattering, so we have that lens to view it through.

In this case, we've seen reports from the driver in 2 of the 3 accidents, so it's hard to make a case for selection bias. Though feel free to argue it further if you know details of the crash in Mexico that I'm not aware of.

Driving a car is one of the least safe things we do regularly, FWIW. With the population large enough, we are virtually guaranteed to see more of these.

Unfortunately, the media does terrible things to our risk perception by giving us incomplete evidence and leaving us to extrapolate. For example, to compare whether the Tesla is unsafe--and for all we know, maybe there is some flaw that helps road debris catch on the plate and puncture it--it would be more informative to see fires/#miles driven for a large cross-section of common cars, as well as fatalities/#miles driven and the like. Of course, even that is somewhat biased, because there might be effects where, hypothetically, risky drivers are drawn certain cars or something like that.
I'm glad the driver is safe. However, I'm not sure what posting this letter is supposed to accomplish other than show that the driver is still a Tesla supporter. The remainder of the letter seems to be (potentially) counterproductive in that it describes that the car being on fire wasn't as dangerous as it sounds. Tesla isn't going to be able to tackle a perception problem by promoting safety features of the car when in flames.
Since capitalism is the national religion of the US and other countries, moral and ethical arguments are going to have to surmount it just like they would in the theocracies of the Middle East.
Basically every place in Poland is cheaper than Warsaw. Comparing any Polish city to Warsaw economically will give the obvious same results on every aspect, but these cities are completely different breeds of horse. Krakow is more visually appealing and is loved for its historical and cultural value, and a kind of bohemian vibe. Business has boomed significantly during the last decade down there and it's getting more attractive. I've heard it faces serious pollution problems, and in some areas crime is more significant than in Warsaw (which in general is a pretty safe place). When it comes to 'big city life', making money and riding on the fast lane in the land of opportunities, Warsaw is considered that place (saying it's the NY of Poland would be a bit of a stretch, but you get my point). As for the general vibe, Warsaw is the kind of big city you love or hate with a passion, there is no middle ground. You need to learn it and it will be for you what you want it to be. So, whether you're more happy here or there depends on what you are really looking for.

For cheaper city alternatives, I've heard a lot of positives about Wroclaw, but I honestly don't know much about it.

Disclaimer: I'm locally patriotic, but that said I sincerely believe Warsaw is the place to be, YMMV.
As someone that works in email disseminations for large public companies across the globe, it's really bad idea to not have one click unsubscribes, due to the actual weight large email services weighting the act of a user marking an email as spam.

It's a crappy process to deal with, and can affect you for a critical day or two. An example being that one of clients collected email in a greasy was, and increased their email blasts from 25,000 to 75,000.

I'm sure they wanted to reach more people, but yahoo and a few others marked ALL of the messages as spam due to massive increase in volume from this client.

Advice: Do things in a non greasy way, and while you may grow slower because of it, your users, and their email providers, will like you more for it.
> named after the royal family (who does that anyway?)

Depends on the scope of "that", but...

Kingdom of Hanover (defunct), Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Liechtenstein, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Carolina (both), Alberta, Prince Edward Island, Victoria.

And of course Pennsylvania was named for founder William Penn.

Should we start in on cities?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_debris

"In 2004, a AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety study revealed that vehicle-related road debris caused 25,000 accidents—and nearly 100 deaths—each year."
If it's policy it can't be slavery. /s
I think it's a great start. Some immediate thoughts that struck (you prolly already know these anyway):

- more suggestions! let me just click to make the list longer or look for suggestions related to other things I've picked

- suggest replacement content too (e.g. themed image rss feeds that you know will generate good replacement content)

- allow me to right click on a word or piece of content or something and add it to my 'replace' list
> Is it ethical to read programming books on the clock?

It's a badly phrased question but getting at what it's really asking, then no, it's not ok.

Being paid to further yourself is not what a job is.

And no, reading is not 'work'.

It's like asking should I be paid for 100% of the time when being forced to travel for work.

Work should give you some travel allowance, and work should provide some training.

But being paid to read is basically slacking off.
The jealous derided, but all in all it was pretty solid handling; they shipped a few bumpers for free, and discovered they could sell them for 29$ a piece at an even higher markup than the hw. Somehow I don't think this will go away with a free bumper, but with this type of strong will, it will be interesting to watch.
Programmers shouldn't be measured by minutes clocked, but by value delivered. There is often little correlation between the two.

The sooner management understands this, the sooner this question doesn't even get asked.
I used ad budget as a proxy for a firm's discretionary cash flow. If you wanted, you could instead look up other financial figures and choose another proxy. For instance, Samsung had 2012:

Revenue: $268 B (17% of S. Korea's GDP)

Net Income: $26 B

Total Assets: $470 B

My point is that the companies Apple is competing against don't make these moves because they don't have the financial resources, it's because moves like these don't fit into their overall strategic plans.
For the case of normal income, usually income tax is paid to the country where you are working. The U.S. also claims the ability to tax the income of U.S. citizens working in other countries, but for incomes below $97k/year the Foreign Income Exclusion prevents double taxation.

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Forei...
A lot of Nintendo's latest games are fun, have you played Super Mario recently?
I know this is true for mass marketing emails, but is it the same for transactional emails also?
Why the Cornell paper on Bitcoin mining is important
What I don't understand is that many big companies have been forcing you to login to unsubscribe for years, without penalty. Ex: American Airlines. Also FBO.GOV forces you to login, which is mildly amusing because it's the government itself.
Yes, that point definitely should have been qualified better. If the new tool is much better than preexisting ones in important ways, it probably isn't a waste of time, and it could very well be a key asset.

But he does have a point in that the majority of rewrites are not significant improvements; you have to look more closely to evaluate this.
For larger companies, internal tools become absolutely essential.
In the EU you pay income tax in the member state where you have earned your income.

Some countries of the world (notably the United States of America) require its citizens and permanent residents to pay income tax on foreign earned income as well (in some cases). No EU member states have such requirement.
I went to this sketchy restaurant in Spain once, and started having pins and needles all around my skull. Reading what you just write, that might have been because of too much MSG. Pretty scary at that time.
I don't think it is the source code that the jurisdiction has problem with; I think it is the fact that he is offering a hosted service to play this in an emulation/js implementation. In my narrow opinion, anyone could share the source code that they wrote and playing off our own browser does not violating copyright and is entirely altruistic.
That news story of the conventional car catching fire after an encounter with road debris is the perfect comparison. It happens, and the same outcome often happens as well.

This is not surprising. It's a little surprising that we've seen so many stories of Teslas hitting road debris, but my hunch is that the problem is caused not by being electric, but by a low bottom clearance designed for drag efficiency, battery space, and low center of gravity.

A gasoline car with such low clearance would encounter similar problems, as they surely do every single day. This is completely normal. The way it affects an electric battery is kinda crappy, but it's not necessarily worse than debris hitting a tank of flammable fuel, just different. A tesla would have gone right over cardboard, for example, and been unharmed, while it might get stuck in the underbody of an ICE car and catch on fire.

Different technology, different problems, but the sample size is still too low to make real conclusions. One thing we do know is that there have been no deaths in a Tesla vehicle yet; that can hardly be said for traditional cars.
Kuwait has the same system for expats working in government.
Thanks - thats new to me - I'll investigate it. But I fear 1-2 years are not enough to be interesting for most people. Thats why those I know used the marriage trick.
Thanks so much for your insights. This one is my favorite so far! Actual meat in here for me to chew on.

What I want or what I want for my company? I work with a team, not for myself and even though my team works for me, I like to think that I want to do what's best for my team because at the end of the day, without my team, I have no company. If I had it my way, I wouldn't even consider it as for me, it's all about going big or going home. However, some of my best friends are part of this team, those who do not have luxury career hedges that I am fortunate to have, and for some of them, even an acqui-hire would do wonders for their careers.

I do agree with you that I should take that meeting. The meeting, I found out, was referred internally by an insider who knows my team and my qualifications - so she would not advise us to waste time knowing that we're about to embark on a fundraising process; and I don't think she would have referred us to talk to them if she didn't think it was serious (at the minimum a great opportunity to learn and network).

I've worked on enough deals where a lot looked promising and serious but just didn't make it to the finish line. I'm fine with that. I just have no idea what the process is like, what the expected probabilities are on a timeline, what is appropriate for me to push back on, what are these type of companies looking for, etc. On top of that, if there is any way if this gets fairly real, I can maximize the value of this company with respect to fundraising. But even there I have no idea as to how investors perceive these kind of things and what impact it may have (i.e. do I go talk to investors and say hey look X company wants to potentially buy my team out? But I'm just getting started and so I want your money and really make this thing take off? Or does that make me look foolish because they simply don't care?

I wish I had an advisor to ask these specific questions! Hence, why communities like YC would have been great for where I am at this point of my startup.

Thanks again.
>The onus is on the expatriate either to find another exit sponsor, who must be a Qatari national, or to provide a certificate that there are no outstanding legal claims against the person trying to leave 15 days after publishing a notice in two daily newspapers.

This seems to be doable workaround. This could be possibly even automated, perhaps start-up idea?

I do not think this could be changed politically, US and those states are best buddies and any serious political pressure would be vetoed.
There was a more detailed account floating around. Essentially, each battery cell is in its own fire-resistant compartment. The fire crew that responded to the call used procedures that are standard for other electric cars, but are not proper for a Tesla. Essentially, they "punched through" these compartments in an attempt to extinguish the fire, which actually exacerbated the problem by allowing the fire to spread to other battery cells.

When the fire department arrived, they observed standard procedure, which was to gain access to the source of the fire by puncturing holes in the top of the battery's protective metal plate and applying water. For the Model S lithium-ion battery, it was correct to apply water (vs. dry chemical extinguisher), but not to puncture the metal firewall, as the newly created holes allowed the flames to then vent upwards into the front trunk section of the Model S. Nonetheless, a combination of water followed by dry chemical extinguisher quickly brought the fire to an end.

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/model-s-fire

I saw a Nissan in fire a month or so ago outside of Philly. Car fires happen regardless of engine technology.
Then slow down and wait until it's safe to pass.

Intentionally slowing down and blocking traffic is an offense. If you are impeding the free flow of traffic, you may need to pull over. Where this is not possible, then its a different situation (ie, no shoulder or other hazard). But as a general rule, these are also places you should avoid ex-ante if you know will you will be obstructing traffic with reasonable foresight.

That might be a devil's advocate stance, but its not without merit. It amazes me how much arrogance and lack of street smarts many cyclists have (at least on the internet). I bike in urban areas and in rural ones. But people who are jerks <cause> accidents at a disproportionate rate. And its not just the drivers.

On the flip side, cars and suvs are driving faster and more dangerous (as they are larger) than years ago. That's a real problem. But a different issue. IMHO.
>You actually hacked the system to take your time and money and not give you a good result.

And what if I earned 100% on the 2 midterms and a 94% on the final? I got a 96% in that physics class. Other students told me that their exam grades improved after starting to use the forum. Not sure how I didn't get a good result. Again, I'd like to say that rushing to judgement of other people's situations isn't beneficial to anyone. I feel as though my initial post was very on topic and was kind of hurt when it was downvoted within a few minutes. We're all here to help and support each other.

By the way, I'm new to posting on HN and am wondering how you made your text italics?
I think people are talking about sensitivity, are you saying that everybody should be able to ingest dishes made with MSG and not feel bad because of the MSG?
It's supposed to show that the Tesla car is structurally sound and prevented the object on the road from ripping further into the car than it otherwise would have. It's also supposed to show that the car got the driver out of a dangerous situation by displaying warnings early. Finally, it is supposed to show that the car is resilient when bad things happen because it is still drivable.

I'm just explaining the viewpoint of the letter since you were unsure. I'm not opining that it is effective/ineffective or productive/counterproductive.
How is Internet now there? It was not good 2 years ago. Just few providers, bad speed...
why isnt there a #20 ISO standard ?
When was the last time you saw a car accident on the news where the car burst into flames ?

Maybe it's just a case that combustion engine based cars have had more time to resolve this issue properly.
Transactional emails are generally exempt.

Explained at http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-complia... and excerpt below:

A. What matters is the “primary purpose” of the message. To determine the primary purpose, remember that an email can contain three different types of information:

1. Commercial content – which advertises or promotes a commercial product or service, including content on a website operated for a commercial purpose;

2. Transactional or relationship content – which facilitates an already agreed-upon transaction or updates a customer about an ongoing transaction; and

3. Other content – which is neither commercial nor transactional or relationship.

If the message contains only commercial content, its primary purpose is commercial and it must comply with the requirements of CAM-SPAM. If it contains only transactional or relationship content, its primary purpose is transactional or relationship. In that case, it may not contain false or misleading routing information, but is otherwise exempt from most provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act.
I certainly agree that Nintendo have not done anything similar to this. But what if Nintendo would make a browser-based Mario game with the same functionality? Would it be fair that they , the original authors, would have to compete with him?

In these situations in general it is best to think about extremes in both ends. At one extreme there is round corners on the phone - requires no effort at all to "research". Not allowing to duplicate such work is absurd to anyone who has common sense. On the other end - drug formulas. Requires many scientists' hours, expensive equipment and years of testing to come to market, but can be very easily taken apart and duplicated once it is done. It is clear that it would be unfair if he who researched this formula needs to compete with all the copycats who may only be investing in drug reverse-engineering and mass production. It's really hard to draw the line imo, more so to make a law that could not be abused somehow.
Companies like LinkedIn are training users (at least me) to report as spam instead of unsubscribing because it's an exercise in futility to try to opt-out of their spam.
Check out Vilnius (I'm obviously biased, but bear with me), Lithuania:

Cheap:

* Cheap rent. 500eu should get you a decent flat in the city centre without much research

* Cheap cabs. Cabs that take you around will rarely cost more than 3-4eu

* Cheap transportation options with Ryanair and Wizzair

* Cheap internet and communications

Not many other places will offer this great quality of life for ~1500eu/month. Obviously, you can get around much much cheaper, but I'd say that 1500 - 2000 eu/month is the sweet spot

Good:

* Fastest internet in Europe. Seriously

* People speak english. Everyone under 30 will be able to speak english to you. Might be a little harder to communicate to the older folk without knowing lithuanian/russian

* Growing tech community. Regular meetups for ruby / php / js / java / .net usergroups + the biggest developer conference in the Baltics is coming very soon - http://buildstuff.lt/

* Great dinning options. Lunch in my favorite places, some of which have award-winning chef's, will start at 5eu (you can find lunch deals from 3eu). Evening dinning options are great too

* One of the largest old-town's in Northern Europe. Very cozy

* Funs bars. Can't speak about clubs too much, but there are plenty of bars with cheap beer and great crowd

* Lots of interesting stuff to explore within 100km radius - old castles, gorgeous lakes, mighty forests

Winters can get a bit cold and dark, especially if you are used to southern climates. Best weather from April to October.

Some pictures - http://curiouseggs.com/beautiful-lithuania-25-wonderful-phot...
Happened to my friend in Alaska fifteen years ago. Luckily for him my country allows two passports.
maybe this way you'll get some attention; but that too is an oversimplification ;). goodluck!!!
If you decide to ask for a breakup fee, I'd add a zero or two to your ask. You're risking more than just your time. You're risking educating a competitor who sound like they would be a formidable force if they decided to take your information and build it themselves.
And what would happen if the person was rendered unconscious during an accident ?

I think the point is still valid that the safety features are nice but the core issue is that the car burst into flames during a seemingly minor accident.
I read the thread too fast. Transactional emails are excluded under CAN-SPAM. But there are many times that "transactional emails" going out contain marketing/commercial content. There's a test for those emails to see if they pass: http://www.the-dma.org/press/PrimaryPurposeFactSheet.pdf

Many "transactional" emails probably fail the above test. It's shitty UX to make you login to opt-out, even if it's not against the law.
A boss pays you to do a job, if you do the job adequately the boss continues the employment. There is nothing beyond this, no duty, no morality. As we have all seen there is certainly no inclination for such things coming from the corporate side. We work in a capitalist system, playing the game as it's meant to be played releases you to work solely in your self interest. I would ask the Boss if he allowed me to operate in this manner, if he says yes I would consider myself pretty lucky. If not I would decide whether this affronted my dignity as a wage slave too much and if so look for another employer.
The ownership and operation of motor vehicles is a form of psychosis. We are collectively delusional as a culture with regard to automobiles in North America.
There are more black people in the southern US than any other region, your analogy does not match up and is woefully ignorant.
You're right—read the thread too fast. What's more interesting to me, is how many of these so called "transactional" emails actually pass the test?

More on that here: http://www.the-dma.org/press/PrimaryPurposeFactSheet.pdf
I realize it's a trade-off -- but I think having ";" as an alias for "end" (or vice-versa) is a pretty bad idea. I personally prefers python's indentation-for-blocks syntax, but I understand why you want semantics to be decoupled from indentation. But when using explicit end-markers, I'd prefer to match them to the start, maybe even introducing some verboseness, like: end-case, end-if etc -- maybe taking it further and allow/demand naming of blocks:

check:
4 + 5 is 9
1 / 3 is 2 / 6
9 - 3 is 6
5 > 4 is true
end

Then becomes, not wrapped in end-check, but:

check(arithmethic-test):
4 + 5 is 9
1 / 3 is 2 / 6
9 - 3 is 6
5 > 4 is true
end(arithmethic-test)

Or something similiar. This makes mis-matching "end"s (either typos or
artifacts from cut'n'paste coding) explicit errors that are easy to
spot, and identify.

It would add a lot of verbosity, of course. As for ";"/"end", consider
(the presumably valid):

check:
4 + 5 is 9
1 / 3 is 2 / 6
9 - 3 is 6
5 > 4 is true
;

That trailing ";" is going to trip someone up. Also consider
(cut'n'paste-with-quick-edit):

check:
4 + 5 is 9
1 / 3 is 2 / 6;
9 - 3 is 6
5 > 4 is true;
end

Is this valid?
Aluminium corrodes quite nicely in salty environs.
Hear, hear. If you're worried about legit customers getting unsubscribed against their will (because that is TOTALLY a significant occurrence...), you can have a dual approach. Unsubscribing without authentication sends one final message which has an undo link; unsubscribing while authenticated shows a confirmation on the site instead of the inbox.

I know, the "Here's an email to confirm that you hate our emails" message isn't anyone's favorite... but if it helps companies improve their unsubscription mechanisms, I can let it slide.
> It clutters the code.

Modern IDEs/code editors can support code folding as well as projections fairly easily. I don't see a problem.
More of the same sounds fantastic. :)

I'll email you around the 20th, it would be great to have a beer and talk shop.
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