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Dogs are one species. Their variation is a result of long-term purposeful breeding and a "slippery" genome.

Similar deal (not so much the slippery genome) for horses and housecats. I think you're confusing breeds with species.
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No way is the drive control software is running linux, its almost certainly running on its own embedded system.
How did you make the service reservation? There wasn't a phone number with area code prominently displayed anywhere?
As a hacker...Cool!

As a driver who will have to occupy space around people playing with this while driving...F#&*!
^^this.

With every platform you're going to have some issues with click fraud. Ideally you figure out how to make your campaign work despite these problems. You focus on quality conversions that make a dent in your business. I agree that it sucks to have to pay for this bad traffic. If you spend enough or get an account rep, I'm sure they'd take a look at the report you put together. Its comprehensive enough that other sources I've worked with would probably credit you some traffic.

In the past, I've had some spend returned due to this issue from FB but its been quite awhile since i've even requested it.

For most Saas companies, retargeting and search will work best as they are solving a very specific problem/need. Its difficult to find the users with intent that drives them to convert to a paying customer.
And IBM were saints in the 60's and 70's.

I know a lot of people who went to work for MS after the .com crash in the 2000's. All of them went in with the attitude that MS needed to get religion on standards and open source. Seems to me that some of this is paying dividends now.
I don't doubt that the remote is great. Good on Logitech.
But the old remotes don't go away. They linger around like naval mines waiting for a tech-illiterate person to at best get horribly confused or at worst fuck something up. It ends up being another thing with too many features and buttons that the geek-in-residence has to teach and help everyone with.

Logitech isn't really the company to do this. Apple would be great. Their brand is perfect for this. Apple's brand is, as far as I've gathered, "open your wallet and we'll make your tech easy to use, trouble-free, beautiful and sure to impress your friends". Logitech is "that keyboard/mice company". Would you buy a TV and HiFi from Logitech?
that looks awesome, definitely going to give it a try. Thanks!
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> How fake clicks that don't generate business results would improve Facebook reputation as an effective advertiser ?

In online advertising, there's a pretty big chasm between when people think is going on, and reality. Facebook has every incentive to increase their apparent standing in the online advertising business, and the fact that some of the traffic is bogus may not matter to anyone but a purist (or a client).

Consider that everyone in the business has some bogus traffic. Maybe the players feel they can compare statistics without bothering to find out how much is nonsense masquerading as business.

> Actually every time these posts comes out (once a week lately) Facebook reputation is hurt.

Yes, that's true, but a corporate strategy might be to simply say, "We're working on this problem", and hope no one pays too much attention to the actual level of effort.
I can say from experience that most people don't get very good value out of expensive gym memberships. Me included most of the time.
noting that a $299/year Amazon fresh subscription is required to play, this thing probably amortizes itself and then some pretty quickly. (Increases frequency of orders, increases number of things ordered, likely to increase retention of users ie length of subscription.)
It is a small piece of what they do, and there are a few bad actors in HFT. That said, Lewis literally just gets it wrong on what is happening in his front running accusations. Either he doesn't understand what is actually happening or in an effort to simplify and/or make a compelling narrative he misrepresents the actual market movements that are happening.
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Tesseract is really difficult to tune such that you get decent results from camera images instead of cleanly scanned text.

Ocropus is really slow, but does seem to work better than tesseract out of the box. It's still quite bad with camera-captured images and IIRC doesn't give you any hooks to improve the results.

I couldn't find any other viable options when I was looking about six months ago.

I want an SDK that gives me an easy way to train the OCR engine. That means being able to view the images which performed badly, with text bounding boxes and the OCRed text overlaid that allow me to manually correct the results which it will then learn from. And, perhaps most importantly, good defaults for the common cases of document scans & camera captures.
great.

next up: a well-written & concise guide on writing proper commit messages.
could be based on http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa... and http://robots.thoughtbot.com/5-useful-tips-for-a-better-comm...
Most of the advice about reading the docs is relevant. GitHub didn't invent those conventions, the whole README/CONTRIBUTING/LICENSE thing has been around for a long time. I remember being so impressed with Perl back in the mid 90's because it was so freakin simple to install, get up and running, and get help when you needed it.

After that, you should email the lead dev(s) and ask how you can contribute. Many projects have a mailing list and that's usually the best place to start.
I would argue that things that introduce complexity are just bad forms of integration.

It's easy to conceive of device boxes just adding channels to the TV, or having a protocol for using the TV remote to navigate their menu (this is a great opportunity to create a bad experience, but it wouldn't have to).
And of course if the dealer themselves took the trade-in, as is often enough the case at a prime-brand dealership where they do a lot of leasing, they get all the markup in that value chain.
Since we're nitpicking - wearing two condoms is a terrible idea. The friction will break them.
So just ban marriage for anyone try that can't reproduce. And auto divorce those that find out they can't have children after getting married.
That would be an interesting experiment. There are many more variables involved though (for example, where your prices are in comparison to your competitors). My guess, strictly off the top of my head, is that it would work - at least until customers see lower prices when visiting from their desktop and get upset.

A better solution may be to mark everything up across the board - say 10% - and then offer Android users a 10% discount, while offering no discount to iOS users who are unlikely to be as price sensitive as Android users.
I use both on a daily basis, and VS + Resharper beats the crap out of IntelliJ, IMO. My opinion might be different if I had to pay for my licenses, but independent of cost, VS wins.
Absolutely, I agree, but the software update mechanism is somehow able to update or interface with that system. If you're able to jailbreak _that_, then its one less barrier in the way of taking over the drive control.
That the buttons are configurable is a bug, not a feature. It doesn't come with your TV, you have to know that you should buy it and you have to set it up. It works for you, but does it work for your SO/parents or whatever? Or did you have to teach them how to use it? If yes then it doesn't really work.

An example of something similar: Ubuntu can become as simple as a stone. It would still be too complicated because it doesn't come pre-installed on officially supported PCs. Not third-party-brand-no-ones-heard-about with tentative OS support. I'm talking about an official Ubuntu PC where everything is made to fit with each other.
Me and you are OK with patchworks of software and hardware, bugs and weird command line wizardy. Normal people want appliances. Windows PCs are something people treat as horrible appliances, which they've sort of learned to tolerate and work with over a decade or more of training. It's like a fridge with a control panel. Normal people need iOS. Options and customizability are bugs, not features to most people.
Sometimes some (but not most) people want more than just an appliance, but they still want the minimal complexity possible given their requirements. Buying extra remotes or installing another OS is really not what they want.

Downvoters: I dragged desktop Linux into this because I'm excited about Linux and because it's hopeless as a consumer product.
A quick google for the source code only revealed http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/archive/index.php/t-10748.htm... - apparently Tesla has never released the source code of the "modified Ubuntu" they're using.

Whoops.

Also, looks like Tesla has got international deals with mobile carriers for data flatrates. I'm looking forward to see the first guy stream youtube or youp*rn on the dashboard :D
I actually haven't, I should look into that.
We already tax the single. It would make sense to move that burden to the childless.
Thanks for the heads up! I'm on it and will be pushing an update to in a few minutes. Mind if I ping you then?

edit: I updated the header but still no update on Facebook. I'm assuming it must be cached. I will try to create a Facebook page to see if that clears it.
This. This is the precise explanation of the difference.

The Samsung Galaxy and Moto X phones may be equivalent to an iPhone, but the iPhone outsells them 2:1. The Android phones that make up the bulk of the 80% market share just aren't equivalent.
You can't go back! As soon as a browser sees Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000", it will refuse to load your site over HTTP for the next year.

This sounds like a powerful way to DOS a site if you can set up a temporary https server on the domain and send this signal.
Don't ever get a dog.
Many in tech are on the autistic spectrum or merely antisocial and happiness is strongly related to social connections.
Just curious, I actually have a car valued at around $20,000 that I want to sell. I posted it on craigslist, and realized that I don't have time to deal with all the crap.

Some dealer called me and left a message saying that they would sell my car for me for $200. Are they lying? Are there other hidden fees? Why should I pay InstaMotor $1000 instead of $200 to this other guy?

One advantage, I see is that I get to keep and drive my car. Except my car is parked in a lot, and I only have 1 keyfob to get it out.
You are correct.

According to the article, the car's network consists of three devices - the centre console, the dashboard, and one unknown device. There's no way that the whole car has only three computers.

My guess is that this ethernet network is only for the user interface. I'd also guess that the unknown device serves as a gateway (and, hopefully, a firewall) between the critical systems of the car and the car's UI.
So you zap your grocery needs with dash and flying robot delivers it within 24 hours....
Oops - one extra hour. A 14-hour-long daily sleep does sound appealing in a way, though.
It seems pretty clear to me that option 1 is by far the better one. Open source projects are great at creating protocols.

However, they are exceedingly terrible at making consumer products. There's a lot of branding, marketing and design that goes into a successful consumer product. This is especially true for a product with network effects. Open source projects are bad at this for several reasons:

* People with these skills are simply not as likely to be involved in open source projects.
* Developers will create features that they want. This is great, but what a particular developer wants is not necessarily what is best for the project.
* Any one attempt at a consumer product will likely fail. The work you could have put into a protocol that would have made hundreds of consumer products easy to build has now been sunk into one, which may or may not succeed.

Also, specific implementations will become dated very quickly. Your stack sounds horrifying in this day and age. With server modules in a few different languages, and a minimal clientside library, there would have been hundreds of Wave variants at this point.
Frequently getting a TV + Internet bundle is cheaper than getting just a single Internet service, at least for "limited time" that could run into 2 years.
I doubt plan9 uses cmake, though one could presumably use cmake on plan9. The general point they were making was "use your tooling to build different files, rather than different versions of the same file." Nit-picking at particular tools misses the point. Building it that way means you just need to pick a compatible set of source files and build them. Writing your code with a bunch of #ifdefs set up with autotools is going to be harder to get working on Windows not easier.
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Agree, they should have implemented this functionality on the app itself vs creating yet another new proprietary device.
"I read a story online about how a small business got hit with an unexpected $64,000 bill for back taxes because the state of California determined that an edge case applied to make it an in-state business. I realize this probably doesn't apply to me, but would you please double check?"
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Well who does want to stand in front of a truck? That's the risk every participant takes, "makers" should have to eat it just like everyone else. Not conspire to invent umpteen different order types and fee structures which enable them to shirk the risk and skim off mom & pop's retirement fund any time the market starts to look shaky.

And if mom's broker doesn't understand that the taker rebate leaks more information than its worth, that's just tough on mom. Mom can't just get a better broker, she's locked into her IRA through the workplace. This is a zero-sum game with some people on the take while mom & pop get the shaft.
Ask HN: Depressed Engineer again needs help
Almost a year back, I asked for suggestions because I was depressed (read here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5723330). I tried following advices which I got but that didn't help much. Other than a better role, nothing much has changed (no hikes for 2 years now). Now, I've kinda decided to move on. The only reason which stops me from moving on is I'm attached to the company and few colleagues whom I can call good friends. I'm very emotional guy and I can't let go things easily and it's difficult for me to move on (I had lot of fights with my girlfriend over this issue).

Friends and Family always believed in me and told me that I'm very good at what I do, but I know I'm a procrastinator (I've improved a lot though) and postpone things till the last moment (still I can get things done before the due date). I'm still depressed and can't focus on anything properly. I really need help!!!

P.S. I'm based in Bangalore, India and I'm open for remote job offers in startups. I've worked remotely, before. I'm a full-stack engineer.
If someone has an invite, can you please send me one as well. I don't have the Invite Code needed to participate.
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They do, sort of. It's called "TV Everywhere", and it's as if when cars first came out there were a program called "Buggies Everywhere" that let you buy a car, but only if you also bought and maintained a horse and buggy.
Valid point and one I've thought a lot about, especially before pitching Scala.

IMO, most non-trivial codebases require learning new grammar. I spent a few years working in Capital Markets and those guys were hacking together their own DSLs in Java for foreign exchange trades, etc. Looked nothing like Java. Libraries like that are almost guaranteed to be written/rewritten in Scala as more banks adopt it. Grammar is as much a business domain concept than a programming language concept, so cool that Scala supports different lingos so well. Hopefully in the future we won't see as many poor workarounds for language inflexibility, Ie, all the horrible duck programming done by IBM with WebSphere Commerce.

Grammar aside Walmart is a different beast than most apps. Handling huge spikes in traffic (Ie, Black Friday) was more a factor than new hires learning new grammar. We also had to handle massive amounts of data for catalog processing with Akka which wound up nearly being a DSL in itself. Pairing and a solid dev process is so important. That said if I worked on a different app with different reqs, less spikes in traffic, more developer turnover, etc, I may have used something else. Lots of factors to consider.

Grammar is definitely something to watch with open source Scala projects though. We'll see if a more canonical lingo develops over time.
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There is some related precedent, with Orbitz charging Mac users more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230445860457748...
> 1. Ask your phone to buy {name of item}

Outside theory, I don't see that working very well in the real world currently.

On amazon fresh website, there are currently

229 results for "green apples"

8 results for "granny smith apples"

2 results for "1 granny smith apples"

Same with ham, eggs, or any other products really. Sure, the user could be more specific, but then it gets a lot more work and problematic than simply scan the damn barcode for this "4-in-1 pack of organic spanish strawberry yoghurt march special offer".
Its expansion was limited due to state sales tax laws, and Amazon's historical attempts to avoid customers paying sales taxes. Now that they are largely collecting sales taxes they can expand into more local services like Fresh. Most of these laws changed in the last couple years.
> Housing

Again, not if you're willing to live in a typical 1930 house (with one bathroom for the whole family, a small kitchen, no family room, one bedroom for the parents, one bedroom for ALL the kids, no air conditioning, no garage, no laundry room).

The average price of a house is so much more today in large part because people want a lot more square footage.

> Health insurance.

Today's standards for health coverage are much higher than they were in 1930. Life expectancy for American men was 58 years back then. Blue Cross didn't exist. Jimmy Carter was the first US President born in a hospital (in 1924).

If you're willing to lower your standards dramatically, and accept medical treatment that's as sucky as it was in 1930, it's a lot cheaper than what we would today consider to be acceptable.

> Second cars (because women now need to work).

They don't, though. If you're willing to live the low quality of life that was prevalent in 1930, you can do it with a single-earner household.

In fact, why does your household even need one car? In 1930, most American households got by with zero.
it's free (with a $299/yr amazon fresh account). that's very much not the same thing as free.
It can run in AP mode and serves a webpage that asks for the key at which point it switches back to client mode.
The original thread that this came from:

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/28185-Successf...

Interesting in particular is one poster's claim that Tesla gave him a seemingly-dismayed call...

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/28185-Successf...
Why a la carte cable won’t save you as much as you think: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/30/w...
Yeah, great idea. The single most important world problem we face is overpopulation. Why not make it easier to have children than it already is? Why not tax those who made the right choice and give the money to those who made the wrong one?

The Chinese have the right idea -- they encourage one child per family (an idea that works better in cities than in the countryside), against substantial public ignorance and resistance. If we adopted the opposite policy, we would once again show ourselves to be far behind the times.
...which you can hack, as all car systems are connected by the CAN bus, and people already have exploited buffer overflows in car radios, in turn giving access to the CAN bus, and unlocking the vehicle.
Thank you for writing this and sharing it for the common good. I've been wanting to relearn C since I've switched to Python for work. Hopefully this book will be good practice because I've been wanting to implement a Lisp interpreter on a micro controller for quite sometime. I have plenty of PIC18F4550 micro controllers lying around.

Also, I liked the cat pictures and hope you'll add more of those in the next edition, perhaps.
is this not already the case?
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Ten-Facts-about-the-Child-Tax-Credit
in effect, i don't see any real difference, the author is just asking for more of the same.

the author also assumes more children are a good thing. i think in the future people who look at china's one child policy as barbarism will change their mind.
Oh hi, I fixed your pricing page
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Firewall? The CAN bus interfacing with the core vehicle components assumes no access controls or anything. Any device connected to it is inherently trustable, no questions asked.
And the hiku does what, exactly? One of the most useless websites I've ever seen. It barely has any details on what the hiku is or what it does; and if I wanted more info, I'd have to go to their support section on another domain to peruse their "FAQ".

No thanks.
>why does marriage have to be between a man and a women?

You're misunderstanding me. I think gay people should be allowed to marry. I was illustrating the rationale behind proposition 8. Its supporters knew that they didn't have the support that was needed in order to outright ban homosexual unions, and so they wanted to at least prevent them from calling those unions 'marriages'. If they were successful in excluding homosexual relationships from their constitutional definition of marriage, then they would have successfully forced homosexuals to call their marriages something else.
Have you ever tried to scan barcodes with a cellphone? For anything other than some sort of "novelty" "let's trying this cool new QR hipster app" type of situation.
RFID chips are sufficiently disposable if you can find a use case for them, but they don't really add anything to the average grocery shopping experience. having to take every item out of your cart and pass it over a scanner is a desirable pattern for the grocery store, as it's a great way to prevent theft. They don't want to find a way to eliminate this interaction, so there hasn't been a whole lot of reason put RFID tags on everything in the grocery store.
I'm not sure why government taxes should care whether someone has kids or not, it is your choice. If you can't afford to have kids, you probably shouldn't have kids.

It's easy to be in a painful situation and come to a conclusion "Things should work this way because that would benefit me". There are other things the government should do, such as tax breaks for students, and people with student loans - fostering growth and a successful youthful population is very nice. Tax breaks for people with a highschool education and better grades. Tax breaks for people who do community service, etc, etc...
A list of health benefits of cycling, including peer-reviewed publications that the references come from.
http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1015.html
As a parent all I can say is: What a load of shite.
Enjoy your childless freedom, you have made the right choice. A child brings little joy to your life with eternal stress and worry and pain and sleepless nights and oh did I mention worry?
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Why was this posted here? What's the relevancy?
It would be if SSL was expensive. It isn't.