skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As soon as I read that he was a car salesman in LA, I immediately threw out his entire statement. Car salesman in general are complete liars. They are also extremely at odds with the Tesla way of selling directly and not through dealerships. There is way too much incentive to take his word for it.

In general, there have been a lot of liars asserting ridiculous things about the car that are eventually proven to be false. It seems like he just ran out of battery.
My family and I are on a road trip (to northern Wisconsin) to attend a funeral of my wife's aunt, who died suddenly last week. We're driving an old Rav 4, and I'm acutely aware of the danger you can be in if your car suffers some kind of basic problem.

Ideally speaking, an electric car should be simpler and less prone to failure than a gasoline vehicle (after all, a gasoline vehicle needs a battery and a starter motor), but it seems that the Tesla has many single points of failure. It probably needs to have at least two completely independent battery systems so that if one fails you at least have half power. The idea that the car could go from drivable to being unable to power its hazard lights in half an hour is truly scary.

It seems to me that Tesla needs to incorporate some of the ideas from Space-X (in terms of redundancy) into its cars.
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Except the Tesla should be able to detect a failed inverter instantly. How would the conventional 12v battery failing cause a loss of engine power, and yet continue running the touchscreen and hazard lights for half an hour?
The article said that the error message was 12V battery low; my understanding is that's the same sort of battery as in an ICE car, not the main electric power-pack.

Since the 12v battery is (presumably) powered from an alternator from the drivetrain the only way it could get flat while driving is if there's a fault with the car.
For a moment, it really appeared LISP is acronym:
<L>anguage for <I>nternet <S>cripting and <P>rogramming rather than LISt Processing.
The collection agencies violate laws as a standard practice and most people don't understand their rights or have the tools to advocate for themselves.

The version of BUKIT now is a minimal viable product but with time I plan on adding in more features to help make reporting, disputing and suing easier.
The problem with selling your soul is that you eventually miss it.
I completely disagree with your sentiment and think that academia should focus on novel work rather than incremental improvements. Something novel may not be better than the existing techniques right now, but what's to say they won't be better in the future? When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, it was not better than candles because it was extremely expensive, fragile, lasted only briefly, and the light was very dim. But it was novel and with more improvements, beat the state-of-the-art.
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Speaking of Homebrew – is there a way to get it installed on Mac OS without an Apple ID?

I got this fancy shiny Macbook (with a broken keyboard, but who cares…) from IT and it might actually make sense to use it sometimes, but I don’t really want to go through the hassle of registering with Apple just to get a recent-ish Bash, git etc. The instructions on the website seem to require Xcode to be installed, which seems to only be available via iTunes.
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Pandodaily is really bizarre. Not being exactly renowned for high-quality investigative journalism, they have embarked on a journalistic endeavor (as they explain it) that anyone with half a clue directly identifies as a vendetta and the same sort of bias we can read from hundreds of sources.

They might want to readjust their strategy.
Commercial truck drivers are the only ones that actually do this. Nearly nobody carries flares or triangles.

edit: It wasn't clear, I was talking about California, where this story takes place.
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And won't become unemployable as a regular salaried employee around age 35-40.
Can you give a link to a getting started guide to someone who wants to add trails or routes to an area?
When I read the paragraph that began with this sentence:

> Likewise, Luttwak contends that at the higher levels of Grand Strategy the logic of ‘get big or get stomped‘ reverses paradoxically.

I thought, "so many lessons of geo-politics I have learned by wasting time playing strategy board games". My comment is largely petty, but it does make one wonder about gaming in education: it's one thing to read about political strategy, and another thing to actually feel and remember its effects because of a game you've played. Perhaps carefully designed games would teach certain abstract concepts as well or better than simply describing those concepts.
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This isn't a Tesla-specific point but this article does highlight some of the downsides of cars (both ICE and electric) becoming more high-tech.

In an older car, even if there's an engine failure, it should be possible to get the car into neutral and either let it roll or propel it with the starter motor to the side of the road. Similarly the brakes will still work, although they'll be very heavy once the assisted-braking is depleted.

Once everything is electronic and drive-by-wire you lose this redundancy - I've heard of new Range Rovers, as one example, being very difficult to tow because if the electrics fail then it's impossible to take it out of gear and to remove the parking brake.
Psst. Leave it to the Germans to do things right. /s
> We expect that all components of software be free for us to tinker with and repurpose.

OSM, along with its cousins-in-spirit projects Wikipedia and Libre Software are not about hacking on software. They are about building a society.

A society where no one has to depend on someone else. A society where everyone can learn and share with its co-citizens.

The number one foundation for building this society is that data be:

* accessible without needing explicit authorization,

* modifiable without needing explicit authorization,

* shareable with anyone without needing explicit authorization

in short, what the Free Software definition [0] does for software, but generalized to knowledge (for Wikipedia) or geographical position (for OSM).

By using and (worse !) contributing to Google Maps, you don't build this society. You trust Google to do it; but that's not the reason why Google exists, so you can't be sure about that. Plus, if you recall not-so-old history, you must remember how easy it is for Google to unplug applications even if they are used.

Google is giving you great, shiny toys to play with. But you can only build the present with them. I'd rather trust the future in a Foundation than in a company whose goal is to make money.

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> He is a tough guy. He just invaded a country by force and effectively told Obama to shutup up and sit down. It's Obama's move now.

Er, no, its the Ukraine's move now.

> If he does nothing now, will he also do nothing when North Korea rolls into the South?

Does the US have a mutual defense treaty with and prepositioned large military forces in the Ukraine? How about South Korea? Seems to me, the two situations aren't comparable.
Five years is not a very long time for a company, but for an individual? Especially in an industry that exhibits ageism and by some accounts is "done with you" when you turn 40? Given that, five years is more than 25% of the time in which you are hot on the market. So, no, I don't really think someone who has been shafted for five years is being "impatient". Just how long do you expect them to wait?
Sounds like this guy is incompetent as a driver, independent of his skill as a car reviewer.

Your car breaks down in the highway in California? Call CHP (911 should go there)?

Leaving your car visible only from 4-way hazards is...questionable. Flares and/or LED flares and/or marker triangle placed behind the vehicle would allow drivers to notice your disabled vehicle before being a threat. Emplacing flares can be dangerous, though, if traffic isn't already stopped. CHP will do this for you, and is the safest/default option. In civilized parts of the country, commercial truckers or good samaritans may stop to help you if you pull over and have your hood open (I'd personally definitely stop for a Tesla driver, even in LA, just to see what the problem was, and my trunk has emergency stuff like flares, hi-viz jacket, etc..)

Getting out of your disabled car stopped in the roadway or on the shoulder is often unsafe, too, although it depends on where exactly this was; if you could walk off the roadway entirely, sure. Otherwise, getting rear-ended while sitting in a car is far better than being run over outside it.
> It seems to me that Tesla needs to incorporate some of the ideas from Space-X (in terms of redundancy) into its cars.

The need to continue on to orbit when an engine fails [http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/spacex-s-non-fatal-failure] > The inconvenience of having to get a tow. Cost/benefit tradeoff.

With that said, I see Tesla replacing the 12V battery with a Lithium pack at some point (vs a lead acid battery), not just for capacity but also for deep discharge durability.
Your employment contract may assign all inventions you make during the period of your employment to your employer, which will cause you a lot of trouble if the startup succeeds. The contract probably has a mechanism for excluding certain projects. At the least, you should get your startup on this list.
> American officials were quick to rebut the idea that foreign data would be more secure outside American borders. “There’s a big call for data localization,” said Richard A. Clarke, the former United States counterterrorism czar. He pointed to the announcement this week between the European Union and Brazil that they would run a new undersea fiber-optic cable between Brazil and Portugal to thwart American spying.

> “First of all, who doesn’t think the U.S. can’t listen in?” Mr. Clarke said. “Could it possibly be that these countries are trying to take business away from U.S. carriers?”

Anyone want to try and parse the double-negatives here? "who doesn’t think the U.S. can’t listen in?"

So he's saying, "It's not worth building your own networks, because we'll just tap those too?" Is that the official US government position now?
Oh good grief. Is this what HN has become? I want Tesla to suceed as much as the next nerd, but I'm not going to act like every negative experience is part of a conspiracy theory.
Don't forget indexes. That 33GB is without any indexes and in a basically random order.
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Don't suppose there's any snapchat engineers on HN? Got an issue which looks like my $dayjob IP range is getting blocked, which is a NAT pool for a few hundred thousand mobiles...

Tried their normal support channels with no reply yet.

Thanks
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There's an oke who I caught trying to change random listings in a small township in South Africa into something related to him. One small edit that was allowed was for him to map an existing road, but he named the street after himself. Map Maker has its flaws, many of them (like bots that go around changing information for whomsoever knows reason, the heavy-handed moderation in itself) but the moderation is sometimes necessary. We (or whoever is contributing and editing) also have to use common sense when making and approving edits. For me "documentation" could have meant going outside and taking a geotagged photo with a time stamp, if the moderator still wants more then to hell be with it.

Most of the edits that I have made have been for areas where I'm interested in walking paths, because I use the Maps API quite a lot, but going out of my way to map a city or something, I'd rather do that on OSM where it's free for all.
How?

I understand how blockchains can be used to trace the history of transactions back to the root but I don't see how that can be used to do secure key distribution.

Assuming everyone trusts the root block, how does that trust get transmitted down to subsequent blocks?
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No, it goes to show he is a liar, attached photo had tesla half way up the ramp with lighs still on.
My point is, no one bats an eye when someone posts something that's only relevant to, say, the Python or Haskell community. Further, I bet there are a lot of people like me who aren't really rustites, but are interested enough to want to keep tabs on Rust's progress. Anyway, I mean no offense, only to encourage people to be bolder in posting. :) I'll go subscribe to /r/rust now.
This doesn't directly correlate, however Apples profit per FTE was over $2 million in 2013. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/10/31/apple-revenue-per-hea...
Similarly misleading advertising: Telling that you can "buy" digital video when it comes encumbered with DRM that turns your "buying" into "renting for an undefined time period".

Maybe European Commission could do something about that too, it would most definitely be welcome.
FreeFlow: A UICollectionView inspired framework for Android
These terrible, terrible regulations we have in Europe... ;)
Mac:
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2. for general stuff I might want to read or find later, or for non-text stuff, I use Pocket.
3. For smaller snippets of useful stuff I'm likely to need repeatedly (code, solutions to common problems, etc), I use NVAlt with multimarkdown tagging and whatnot.
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3. For snippets of text, paragraphs, whatnot, I use PasteBot. Usually copy/pasting this text will give me the link at a later time. I then process everything in there once a month or so.
Labeling something as a conspiracy theory is an easy rhetorical tactic, but the GP post pointed out a valid conflict of interest to be aware of.
Need to not die on freeway > some random stuff in space
The coin traders you know need to get better info. They are based in SF and Jesse can be usually found at the SF Bitcoin Meetup.
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So what would prevent vandalism? There is an enormous amount of effort in Wikipedia to repair the damage that vandals constantly do to it, and I'm sure that OSM/Google have run into the same issue.
Seems like something is wrong with your application form - it wouldn't let me attach a resume.

Anyways, I applied, and hopefully got the resume to you attached in the response.
You can imagine how this can easily be gamed to change how Google routes people right?

If I was a shady business, you can imagine how I can mark all the roads in front of competitor as closed. Or I can mark the streets in such a way that traffic gets routed to go in front of my business.
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Triangles are compulsory in Europe, as are hi-vis vests.
Many languages have a great stdlib already available, all they need is an improved version of the DOM glue for events and elements (find, adjust, add). It is doable, and the vast majority of script-browser interaction is merely to find and adjust the state of some DOM elements and respond to clicks etc. You could start small and build up and still have something useful, though security and sandboxing might be the hardest issues to cover. New native platform APIs on the desktop or mobile are rewritten from the ground up regularly and those are far, far larger projects (e.g. on Mac OS Classic, Appkit, UIKit, etc).

I think the problem has not been so much that this task is incredibly difficult, but that browser vendors have very little incentive to add a new language in addition to js - it's already a money and time sink maintaining a browser, so they're not going to volunteer to make more work for themselves without a payoff for the corporation paying the bills.
Indeed. This could get arbitrarily ugly; I was ... disconcerted to see a still of a network video titled "Russian Tanks in the Ukraine" ... that actually showed self-propelled artillery, which means nothing good.