skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had this exact scenario happen on one of my previous cars. The alternator was somehow overcharging the battery. At some point, the battery acid would basically be boiling over (the battery case was physically bulging out), and no longer function at its job of carrying power to the rest of the electronics in the car. The throttle could no longer operate, so the car just stopped moving, spontaneously in the middle of the road I was driving on. No battery sensor would detect this as there was no voltage drop before the battery stopped functioning, and I could still run the radio and headlights for a couple minutes even though the car couldn't be moved. Replacing the battery didn't fix anything (the first shop I took it to didn't realize the battery wasn't the issue since the alternator was putting out power), replacing the alternator did.
Humans aren't unbiased. We have biases, hence why courts give the conflicting parties a chance to choose their juries, and dismiss them if there's conflict of interest.

Same thing applies here. It's valid to bring up his background, and considering his background I don't expect him to be unbiased in his assessment. I wouldn't even be surprised if he's actively working against Tesla.
Sure. They did at Chicago when I was there, lo these twenty four years ago. CS 115-116 was just MIT's SICP 6.005 or whatever. Of course, when I was there there wasn't a CS degree -- you got a math degree with a concentration in CS. So times have undoubtably changed.
'The system you have so little respect for isn't the "current system" where I'm at, it's a generation out of date.'

That's actually part of my belief set; unstoppable change in this direction is coming down, and while there will be much wringing of hands, it is going to be good for students, and that's where my allegiance lies in the end. You sound like you're on the cutting edge; I see no evidence at this time that the school system I'm in works like this, but I am hopeful that will change before my children get very far in. Best of luck to your efforts; please lead the way.

The fact that your results appear to be so far ahead of the non-personalized system is confirming evidence for my beliefs, too. Can you imagine what the "average" student would look like if we can compound that advantage over the ~13 years of education, over multiple disciplines? I feel that within my lifetime we may very well come to see this era that we are just beginning to exit as a dark age of education.
> I assume their salespeople are on commission like any other company.

With one important difference: they're the most arrogant, uninterested and rude sales people i've ever had to deal with. "Because, what are you going to do, use Bing?"

C'mon OSM. Can't get rid of google fast enough.
This is, specifically, a business model for single-panel cartoonists. Strippers may be able to use it, graphic novelists like me definitely won't be able to.

gk, you might get some useful ideas from looking at http://www.cagle.com - it started as Daryl Cagle's personal site but it's morphed into pretty much a political cartoon destination site, complete with a similar licensing thing.

Also worth looking at: Brad Guigar's webcomics.com, or just grab his two books on making a living from comics. He's tried a lot of things over the years doing a strip.

There's also the subscription model. Usually this is the domain of porn, as "being able to buy stuff on the net" currently tends to overlap with "is old enough to look at drawings of sexytimes". Slipshine (http://orgymania.net) is a good example of this; it's got a constant stream of work from a lot of cartoonists.

Hiveworks http://thehiveworks.com/index.php is also interesting; they have an ever-growing network of longform comics. There's a lot of cross-promotion, and a few people whose jobs are solely to deal with maintaining sites, buying external ads, and whatnot. They claim to be able to get a new artist up to making a living off their comic in about a year now.

Personally I'm doing a mixture of Kickstarter and Patreon right now; I'm a graphic novelist, and my work is best read in chunks at least the size of a chapter, if not a whole story. So I use Kickstarter to fund printing a pile of books for existing fans, and to sell to new fans at cons and online, and I'm starting to experiment with using Patreon to get paid by the page.

..I didn't mean for this to be a long post talking about other successful business models I've seen in cartooning, but here we are! Good luck with your gag cartoon syndicate, gk.
OMG, the shield requires personnel to run it. So when you invade a country, you need to take into account there might be casualties among US serviceman. Now this is really risky. Another point, that's pretty simple: with the shield you can nuke Ruskies and they can't nuke you. Quite a difference compared to the current situation which is a direct result of Obama being soft on Putin.
Regarding the Debian OpenSSL disaster, the question was brought up on the OpenSSL mailing list (and read there); regarding the Tarsnap bug, it is not an unbraced if but a non-incremented nonce. If two of the five comments in an article are obviously wrong, how much trust should I possibly put into the remaining 60%?
You're playing semantic games

I am not. Those words have real meaning that doesn't disappear when you accuse me of playing semantic games.

If I didn't think EFF was trustworthy, I wouldn't subscribe.

I asked how do you _know_?

With DNSChain, you actually have a great deal of certainty that is based on math, not public reputation.

widespread deployment of TACK would practically eradicate dragnet surveillance through compromised CAs, because every attempt to forge a certificate would quickly be detected.

With DNSChain there are no compromised CAs to eradicate, and therefore no problem. You also get to keep your money, no more need to pay for SSL certificates.
Notably, for the Play store, it says "FREE" in green letters on grey in the search results, and then you need to click through to see "offers in-app purchases" in dark grey on light grey set well apart from the big, green "Install" button on the details screen, with no information about the in-app purchases.

For my part, I've stopped installing stuff that "offers" this because of the lack of details, but it's extremely annoying to end up clicking through dozens of games to find ones without in-app purchasing because it's not called out in the search results... They've clearly done the bare minimum, in order to avoid losing installs over it. If they cared about their users, they'd have made it far more obvious.
You should be able to put dollies under the wheels individually (jacking or lifting with the tow vehicle), even if the axles on a car are utterly seized, and then drag it onto a flatbed in the normal way. Not quite a crane, but still obnoxious.
It's sarcasm. You've missed the rhetorical point of the article.

(To be more clear, each comment mimics the comments made about the "goto fail" bug, and the crucial point is not pure mockery or a defence of Apple, but rather the final paragraph.)
I agree that being split between Eco systems is crap, but I don't think the world at large notices or cares. Apples sale demonstrate this as iphone sales are massively greater than Mac sales. I know that a Mac will last several years, 6 or 7 for me, while a phone is typically 2-3 for me. Even with this, there must be a huge number of people with iOS devices but no Mac.
No, I hear you that he should've put out the triangle 100m behind the car, but you turned that comment into an attack on his character. No fair.
Oh no, a car has stopped working on the freeway. Oh is this happening every day to other manufacturers ? Why Yes? I'm Shocked!
> It seems like he just ran out of battery.

The 12V battery system is not the lithium battery pack that runs the motor which you can run out by driving too far. It's the big lead acid brick battery all cars have that runs your headlights and dashboard panels. It also typically runs the computer that controls your throttle and transmission; if the battery goes, your car stops moving, whether you have fuel (conventional or electric) or not.
"Protection money" meaning paying for them to run a CA infrastructure, handle audits, and verify identity as per requirements? (Admittedly, "domain control" verification is sorta useless and completely automated.) Are HSMs and all these people supposed to just be paid on goodwill?

Not that some CAs aren't overpriced, but calling it "protection money" is just silly. You're free to go use your own CA. Once you've got it all setup and meet criteria, I'm sure Mozilla and others will let you in.
Because under Bush shield building was already in process. There were US soldiers on the Polish ground literally building the damn thing. Then Obama went weak on Putin, broke US promise towards its Eastern European NATO allies, and stopped the process in its tracks. Great job!!!
I am sorry but I have no idea. You don't need an Apple ID to install Debian;)
What's the conflict of interest? He said that he was a former car salesman and now works for Edmunds. You think he faked it? With Tesla ready to pull data from the car and go on the offensive?

I'm an EV driver (Fiat 500e), I'm generally a Tesla fan (would love to be able to afford one), and I am tired of articles like this (where any failure of the car is somehow newsworthy) but treating it like a conspiracy is nuts. Of course there are going to be individual Teslas with problems or system failures.

These articles are nothing compared to the owner's forums. Go read what the RAV4 EV drivers think of Tesla (who provides the drivetrain for Toyota). There is definitely a suprising number of RAV4 EVs that have had this exact same power failure.
> one should never exit the vehicle

I don't think it's so cut-and-dry, as your edit suggests. Your decision should be based on traffic and visibility conditions.

This tragic incident caused a fair amount of debate about the issue in Seattle last year:

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Should-you-stay-or-leave-a-s...
I write all my XAML by hand. Blend is a bit too cavalier for my liking, especially when building for Windows Phone.
good point. I think this also highlights a possible solution to the privacy debate. Let's all wear these tshirts, maybe they'll be unable to listen to us.
> propel it with the starter motor

Name a car that supports this. Genuinely curious.
s/attrition/attribution/
Your car has the same single point of failure. If your 12V battery goes, you can't drive (it powers the car's ECU and throttle) and your hazard lights won't work. This isn't anything Model S specific.
Not too hard to throw something together. I wrote a script several years ago to do something similar and even does basic sharding: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/281504
I believe the key is to be a bit more loose with the "guns to butter" analogy. The strategy isn't really to "buy up a fully-trained military" but rather to direct a large proportion of the GDP to building one at whatever time-scale is required.

If you were to do this as an up-and-coming nation (i.e., you've got just a little butter), you'll meet strong resistance from your peers: they know they can counter you by putting your butter pile at risk.

But if you first pursue a strategy that gives you a mountain of butter reserves, your peers lose much of the leverage they can exact upon you, and you are free to devote massive resources toward military with minimal "worst-case" economic risk.

EDIT: I made another comment about how interesting it is to relate this stuff to strategy board games, and this is an example that converts pretty well: "don't start bludgeoning your neighbors into submission until you're pretty sure that you no longer depend upon them for basic resources." is the strategy. (The alternative strategy would be to constantly be frienemies: take a little, give a little, injure a little the whole game, rather than to have a phase of friendship followed by a phase of foeship).
perhaps, then again, he's formerly worked at a VC firm. Getting relationship with investors shouldn't a problem.

Product Market Fit > Relationship Investors.

Of course, I don't know how many people he has on his team working on the company. If he is the face (ceo), then going to parties may help.

Still, if you build a great product, with customers who love it, you'll get funding.
SQLite fixed that issue in 2010 with write ahead logging (version 3.7). Writes go to a separate file so there is no impact on readers of the main file. It is a little more complex than that and described at https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
you will likely never view this time as 'the best time' you have ever had, maybe the most motivated. With all the urgency we had the whole time trying to build our company, it wasn't until the bank account was actually hitting 0 that we finally did what was necessary to get to profitability. The lesson we learned was that anything that requires time to build is not really possible as a first time entrepreneur, you need to find something that will require the least effort to get traction. I would strongly focus on getting revenues rather than getting funding.
Just use http://www.dogecoinpaperwallet.org/ -- at least it's been around longer and based on code that's been discussed before.
Autobahn -> Austria or Germany

Probably Austria, according to http://shop.theaa.com/content/driving-in-europe triangle and high-vis jacket are not mandatory in Germany (they are in Austria)
It should be able to see that it was overcharging. Too high a voltage(>14 or 15 volts for a conventional 12V lead acid battery) or too high an amperage would indicate overcharging.
Nearly all flat-bed tow trucks here in the US have a winch. Be it a dead Tesla, broken Ranger Rover, or a wrecked car with it's wheels pointing in different directions, the winch will just drag the car up the ramp.
It's protection money, no way to sugar coat it.

It's not necessary, at all.
Yes you'll need an Apple ID to get XCode and other Apple updates. Very annoying but for quite a few software programs, there's not much choice than to go through the dreadful App Store application.
definitely not good times IMO... the one good thing I can say about the times before being self sustaining... you don't forget, so everyday I remember just how bad it was is a huge motivating factor to keep it the way it is now - better.
Pretty neat. In my opinion if you've got several EC2 instances that have similar roles and you're looking to manage them in parallel, you should already be using a configuration management tool like Chef, and most of those tools have this sort of thing built in.
For example, in addition to managing instances with Chef cookbooks, you can run arbitrary commands in parallel on any subset of your instances with:

$ knife ssh SEARCH_QUERY interactive

This has been a lifesaver for me on several occasions.
The point is that because there are always mistakes in everything, that the NSA is never involved? Strange, because I'm sure they've been implicated more than zero times.

NOTE: I have no opinion on their involvement in the goto fail;
It will be a sign of things to come to see how many releases are supported on the first-generation Firefox OS phone that I have (ZTE Open). This doesn't mention it, and a quick Googling doesn't show any positive signs... anyone know?
It could definitely use http://www.espruino.com/About as a starting point.

"Espruino is a small computer that anyone can use to control things around them. Its JavaScript interpreter gives you instant feedback so that you can experiment and develop whatever your level of experience."
Please let us know if it performs better too!
Not in every country according to http://shop.theaa.com/content/driving-in-europe

(and Spain and Switzerland require 2 triangles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2DCExerOsA
It's tricky. You don't necessarily have to exceed the voltage range that would normally be seen to overcharge the battery, just fail to regulate the output correctly. It's correct to provide a certain extra voltage/amps when the battery is not fully charged and you turn on headlights and fans; it's not correct to put out that same power 100% of the time.

It's probably possible to build a sensor that tracks all this, but normal cars with the same 12V system don't have that sensor either. If the alternator goes the way mine did, you won't even see a battery indicator on the dash (even though it has such an indicator), you find out about it when your car stops moving in the middle of the road.
"New Array methods have been implemented: Array.prototype.keys"

Dafuq.

Yes I'm aware how Arrays are just objects in JS but please stop bastardizing the Array data type even further. This is also part of ES6 so I don't blame Mozilla for implementing it.
> The point is that because there are always mistakes in everything, that the NSA is never involved?

I'm pretty sure he's being sarcastic.
> I know I'm being a little cynical here, but you should be working on your startup, not attending parties.

to all readers: this grumpy cat judgemental attitude is not mandatory and i don't think it should be encouraged. please get a grip on reality, this world you live in filled with other people. you're allowed to go to parties and enjoy the company of other people if you are running a startup. a startup is a lot of things, but it's not a prison sentence. if it feels that way, you're doing it wrong. maybe you just suck at business.

i run a successful, profitable 7-figure revenue startup with no external funding and all of my cofounders and critical employees have always gone out to parties, both work-related and not. that doesn't mean i'm rich. that means i have a business that is expanding, which is what entrepreneurs all trying to achieve.

"partying" is not blowing 10k on a weekend in vegas or getting expensive bottle service at nightclubs, although you can certainly do that if you want to, because who am i to judge you? partying is hanging out with your coworkers at the bar, going to a birthday bbq, or celebrating someone's engagement.

i also never had to do stuff like sell my belongings and rack up credit card debt or cut my income to 1/6th of what it was. all this says to me is that you refused to get better at sales. which isn't exactly a shocker if you are on the internet extolling the virtues of shunning social interaction.
Yes, you are within your legal rights, as you say, "to do whatever the hell you wish to do." Unless, as the others who have made comments indicate, you have signed away that right in your contract somehow- via IP assignment rights, etc.

If you don't want to 'go see a lawyer', you may want to check out an item posted to HN last week- from This Week in Startups, "5 Biggest Legal Mistakes That Startups Make" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_vbfiScoA#t=746
Specifically, what you want starts at the 10:20 mark.

Also, if you feel that your employer is the type to create problems for you, it would be a good idea to be strict about not using company resources at all. Even though other employees may be doing it, don't google things on the company computer that can be traced back to your project.
http://searchengineland.com/google-has-stopped-street-view-p...
>That is very sinister, to finance NGOs that promote human rights and democracy.

It's indeed sinister, when the government spends money of taxpayers, billions of dollars over years, on democracy in foreign states, especially considering the US has supported brutal dictators when that was advantageous to their their interests or overall foreign policy. More reasonable explanation is that democracy is not their primary goal.

>but I'm sure you'll explain it to me soon.

Western education (payed for by fellowship from the United States State Department) or Reagan staffer wife for 40-50 year olds in ex Soviet Block countries is very very very uncommon thing. Please tell me how it's a historical coincidence and there's no involvement of the US, that exactly these people lead successful revolutions and installed anti-Russian policies.

>a lot of people liked Stalin or Lenin or Hitler too.

They didn't vote for Stalin or Lenin or Mao. A crucial difference.

>but it is false. Russia is not democratic because it is convenient for the ruling clique

It's convenient for ruling clique indeed. But the situation when there's potential foreign involvement in democratic process, meaning that (historically adversarial) foreign interest takes side in internal politics, is not conducive for really open democracy in eyes of sovereignty minded citizens.

>If the US didn't exist at all, Putin were the same dictator,

Similarly baseless statement you accuse me of. Putin's persona was certainly affected/formed by 2004 Orange revolution in Ukraine.

>As for assisting the forces, the assistance has been mainly in words

I'm sure that in 50+ years FOIA request will reveal what the assistance was in detail.

The fact is that US is supporting undemocratic coup, ignores interests of eastern regions that voted for Party of Regions and Yanukovich. That is not exactly pro-Democracy, it's more about supporting "our" guy.

>US is to blame for "meddling"

Even if Putin is not a democratic leader, US is certainly "meddling". One would be dumb not to see that.

>pro-Liberty Russians spend their time

I mentioned before that much of this position is not exactly mine. It's more like knee-jerk sophistry reaction to people who believe that US can do no bad with covert foreign actions, is not involved anywhere where pro-US governments suddenly pop up, and such actions have no negative destabilizing effects. I don't like rabid patriots who condone foreign interventions. While I'm really for these actions, because these actions indirectly are in my interests, I can't deny that these actions undermine sovereignty of independent states, provoke authoritarian states to became even more authoritarian, and it's an example of the US acting as World Police, which many view in a negative light(not me in this particular case).
Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
Leaving a $200K position where you developed a network of people who's business it is to fund companies in two of the biggest tech environments in the country is hardly starting from the bottom.
8+1 reasons Eindhoven is the dream location for a tech company
The commentary on last example from Tarsnap seems wrong. The error was that the nonce stopped being incremented (see the linked Tarsnap blog post), but the author suggests the issue there is the unbraced if. The unbraced if is still not great style, but it wasn't the cause of the security blunder.
Actually, I agree quite a bit with this. If the game is setup well, it can get players to think through the challenges and learn how the pieces come into play. It's not a terribly new concept, either - teachers have been using in-class games for ages.
I interpreted him to mean that he was making $200k a year, then recently gave it up to start his company (at which he is now making $0, thus, "the bottom").

It's certainly not "the bottom" if he has any appreciable amount of savings -- or if he's kept in the good graces of his now-former VC colleagues, whom he can call upon when the time comes to raise a round. But I don't think he meant to suggest that a $200k salary is "the bottom."
Great idea.

You'll automatically get a high-quality image file of this cartoon.

What is the resolution? I also can't find the text of the license.
> Wake up, guys. People have had tech giants invade their life way too much and they've all seen in The Social Network what kind of person a poster boy like Mark Zuckerberg really is.

The Social Network is heavily dramatized, and not really realistic. You shouldn't take a Hollywood movie as reference for real-life. IMHO, the way they depicted MZ in the movie is completely off (spoiled arrogant ass-hole), that's not what he is like in real life.