skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"(It could also do it by making it a prerequisite for, say, federal law enforcement assistance funding, or access to federal law enforcement databases, etc. -- and it could do both in parallel, so it would be required both for states found to have past violations for which it serves as a remedy, and for states wishing to federal assistance for law enforcement.)"

This is a much more likely to work approach (but not what the petition is asking for).

That said, the political realities of police cameras are going to make this a fight that will not be won on the federal level (especially not in the current environment where getting anything done seems to be seen as treason).

Local laws on the other hand could be easily implemented.
The "article" is a press release from Tesla, and more or less an advertisement.

If we're going to have Tesla ads on the front page, they can at least be realistic. "Infinite mile" implies forever. 8 years, not so much.
Blackboards don't generally crash

But they suffer from “memory exhaustion” rather easily, to the point where even several blackboards on a funky roller system might be insufficient for a one hour lecture developing a complicated proof.

And the garbage collection causes a serious interruption and sometimes misses things.

have parse errors

Your lecturers obviously had much more legible handwriting than some of mine!

have encoding errors

Well, an encoding where P, p, and ρ all occupy the same code point might be considered ill-advised, and one where m, n, r, u, v and w may variously appear distinct or not depending on the display device in use is downright mischievous.

have usability problems

Does blocking half the lecture theatre’s view every time you write up a new formula count as a usability problem?
I think it's pretty obvious that the title is meant to imply that the warranty lasts "forever", which it does not.
It can be whatever you want to call it. Terrible in comparison to a fantasy land of candy and rainbows. OP is saying "as a community we should say no to funding C security software". It's about as insightful as saying anyone who uses a car is dumb.
The drive unit of a Tesla Model S is the motor, gearbox and rear wheel assembly. It can be quickly changed out to facilitate repair.
What you have heard from supposedly impartial and expert sources may in fact be wrong.

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/12/experts-misleading-peopl...

It doesn't matter, I don't have to convince you. Renewable prices are already dropping so much such that they are coming regardless (can't say that about nuclear can you? unless you lie about the budget of course); only Koch-like attempts to oppose it like punitive fees for solar panels can do any damage.
Anki is great, but I'm currently having a bit of trouble in that after reaching a few thousand cards that are all fairly mature, I can't seem to get below 20 cards a day review. When it's that many, I'm experiencing a bit of disincentive in creating new decks to drill myself on new knowledge. I thought they'd continually get slower but the rate at which card appearances slow down seems to slow down over time as well.
Ah, thanks for trying this. It's probably making some Unix assumptions in the pathname creation.
They could also exercise their option to sue you before then.
I'll tell you, you're playing that game wrong. It's not your job to convince them of anything. The next time they sell, and you get the initial dunning letter, you should write back a simple letter with your name and address stating that you refute this debt, and demand that they validate the debt as they are required to do under § 809 of the FDCPA [15 USC 1692g]. The burden of proof is on them.

You only have 30 days to do a so-called "timely" validation, but you can force past CA's to validate as well -- the only hitch is that they can continue to collect on you while they validate, something they cannot do if you demand timely validation.

One more tip: Don't sign your name on letters to CAs, and don't ever give them ANY information they don't already own. Ever. Especially your bank account information. If you do decide to pay them (hopefully strategically as part of a pay-for-deletion-from-credit-report arrangement), don't pay them on a bank draft. And send it certified mail return receipt requested.
Has anyone commenting actually read the article? Giving away seeds isn't actually illegal. This is overzealous law enforcement and hopefully won't stand up in court.

The regulations for selling seeds may be unreasonable, but they are at least understandable.
> should a debtor pay any amount of money to a random person

No. Debt is not a crime in the USA. And it is generally more profitable for collectors to sell your debt on to the next collector than to take any sort of civil legal action against you. Some exceptions include IRS and Student Loans.

As the article indicated, the best reaction (assuming you don't intend to pay) is to hang up.
There are dozens of toxins harmful to humans that can be identified in different types of mold, of which there are many. Some have been known to raise the risk of tumors. One specific example is ocratoxin.

I did not mention aflatoxin because it is bad for you on a whole other level. Fortunately it's not very common.
I'm picturing these robots slowly wandering about in silence looking intensely at artworks all night.
Someone else was interested, too, over at https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph.com/issues/107 (@lazywei).
The drive unit sits between the rear wheels and includes the transmission.
I might have accidentally downvoted your comment, sorry about that :(
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What is a more perfect word for no-limit, especially when dealing with distances, than infinite.

Infinite mile, which is discussing distance, does not imply something time related.
> Then why would anyone pay their bills if they can buy their debt back for 1/10th of what they owe?

If self-purchase looked on a credit report just like settlement-for-less-than-full-amount (and was taxed like forgiveness), there'd still be considerable reason to in order to maintain creditworthiness.
Water is a scarce resource in some places. Rationing water on a market is a reasonable solution. We do it for literally every other scarce resource. Food, oil, iron, etc.
The median credit score is over 700. The people you're talking about are certainly toward the left edge of the bell curve.
How can you polyfill it? Long polling JSON?
>>"Infinite mile" implies forever.

No, it doesn't imply that in this context. Car warranties are sold as, "X years, Y miles". So "infinite miles" simply says Y = Infinite. It doesn't say anything about X.
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Especially when you consider that those thumb drives contain sensitive PII (personally identifiable information) including SSN numbers.
Well, they can afford this, because there are practical limits on the mileage due to the pauses for charging and cycles of aging batteries. You can't use a Tesla as a heavy-duty vehicle such as a taxi/delivery/field car, so it's a smart way to take advantage of this.
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Echoing that this is really bad advice. I spent a rather unpleasant day in small claims court and saw first-hand that credit card companies can and will file lawsuits over relatively small amounts owed.
Aqua Data Studio is the best database IDE I have ever used.
The internet 1.0 was designed so grad students could argue about Star Trek while pretending to publish research
I think your edit is an important thing to note. Sure GM, Toyota, Ford would love to give out this kind of customer service, but it would be impossible and therefore they have to find a happy medium. If Tesla were to produce the number of vehicles that GM, Ford, Toyota do, they wouldn't be able to offer the same level and send every car or error to an engineer.
I, however, explicitly mentioned references in both my posts. I was referring to a general idea, not a specific article. I've also personally interviewed at Fog Creek in Manhattan and was asked reference-based questions that I was allowed to answer in Java rather than C.

Regardless, if you want to reference that specific article, and only that article, I can do that as well. It happens to refute your very own point:

"Now, I freely admit that programming with pointers is not needed in 90% of the code written today, and in fact, it's downright dangerous in production code. OK. That's fine. And functional programming is just not used much in practice. Agreed.

[...]

But beyond the prima-facie importance of pointers and recursion, their real value is that building big systems requires the kind of mental flexibility you get from learning about them, and the mental aptitude you need to avoid being weeded out of the courses in which they are taught. Pointers and recursion require a certain ability to reason, to think in abstractions, and, most importantly, to view a problem at several levels of abstraction simultaneously. And thus, the ability to understand pointers and recursion is directly correlated with the ability to be a great programmer."

Finally, you tacitly assumed you knew which article I had in mind, and you were wrong, not that it matters since I wasn't actually trying to reference a specific article. I was referring to The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing. He offers example questions like "reverse a linked list" or "detect loops in a tree structure" -- concepts and problems which are clearly not relegated only to C.
Both are perfectly legitimate practices if done correctly. People need a lawyer to sue if they've been injured by someone's negligence, and companies need debt collectors if they want to recoup some of their lost costs.

Of course, there are a lot of scumbags in both professions, but I don't see any reason why there can't be decent people there as well.
I can think of a million things. The problem is where to draw the line. For tennis it's obvious since you need both the serve and the backhand. Compare that to European capitals and European architecture. When is it related in a sense that it's effective to learn interleaved?
> Nowadays he says, a lean startup can work specifically on product and design, and leave the infrastructure side of things to someone else.

Probably not true. Anyway, that's not what the plan is:

> He envisions North as a team that has one product person, one design person, and a full-stack engineer
Probably...

What if one of the cops who shows up happens to also be a part-time firefighter/paramedic, and lends a hand with patient care? What if the agency they occasionally work with is the agency that is providing care? Lines start to get blurrier... (This is a real world scenario that is not uncommon for us)

Obviously the mere existence of the recording is still a long way from a violation, but I do find it troublesome at times...
Its name might be a play on "spellcheck". When I first read it quickly, my eyes bounced over the "h" and my brain filled in a "p".

Personally, I enjoy cleverness like this.
Use bitcoin?
It might depend on what you mean by ethical. Certainly there's a world where treating people well makes them more interested in cooperating with you and that leads to a higher collection rate. I have no idea whether we inhabit that world.
An anonymous hacker announces that they owned thousands of home routers to scan the entire Internet, security expert Rob Graham runs his masscan tool to scan the entire Internet, but when it's disclosed that .govs run nmap it's time to patch your TCP stacks?

Whether or not you think that governments should spy, the amount of hype here seems staggering.
At paypal he enjoyed something of a monopoly, with Tesla he needs to justify charging as much he can for an electric car.
If the model sounds familiar, that’s because it was
kind of the idea behind Milk. But the world has
changed since then, according to Rose. “The biggest
thing that’s changed in the last three years is that
back then we spent a lot of time spent building out
the back end… But the scaling piece is a solved
problem,” Rose told me.

They shipped one app, Oink. Oink didn't fail because of the amount of time required to build out the backend. It failed because it was a me-too product in a sea of me-too products, and didn't do anything to differentiate itself or provide meaningful value to its users.

Edit: On an unrelated note, it looks like Kevin must've been binging on Wes Anderson films recently. The North website looks like one of Anderson's film title cards. Compare
http://wesandersontitlecards.tumblr.com and http://www.n-o-r-t-h.com/

Edit 2: Yep, Futura. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futura_(typeface)#Usage and check out the CSS on the North website.
I'm not sure of what a graviton is, but wikipedia tells me that it is not detectable by any current mean. I'd be tempted to say in light of this that their theory is not testable either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton
Cool vibe to it. I've always enjoyed how Kevin organizes things. Curious to see what they'll be working on.
We are ways off, but my personal goal for http://hood.ie is to be able to allow people to build gmail/gdocs competitors without having to do any heavy lifting. We could use your help, though :)
There are reports that this has already been solved.

http://transportevolved.com/2014/08/11/tesla-model-s-drivetr...

Moreover:

Speaking a few weeks ago at the Q2 earnings call, Tesla Motors [NASDAQ:TSLA] CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla’s approach — replacing the drivetrain of affected cars under warranty at an estimated cost of $15,000 per case — was more about customer satisfaction than anything else.
“Our optimization was customer happiness. And so we knew exactly what to do. We just wanted to give people their car back right away,” he said.
Hourly contract agreements
Hey!

So, I'm switching over to an hourly agreement with my client rather than our initial fixed price (3 month) agreement. However, I don't have any contracts for this type of thing as I've always worked fixed price agreements.

If anyone here has any Hourly agreement contracts that they'd be willing to share that would be super awesome! My email is: pblogsltd@gmail.com.

Thanks in advanced, and of course I will change it to suit my specific clients needs but a template would be a major help.
Sometimes getting rid of the debt means that you can begin to restart. Of course, it won't help you afford a non-free checking account nor pay bills, but it can lead to marginally better jobs and nicer housing for the price. Sometimes that price is worth it because it brings a bit more piece of mind - no more phone calls and letters. A good number of unbanked aren't even as poor as you might expect - things have happened and they can't get to a point to restart.

And some people, no. No they wouldn't care. Like most people, it depends on life situation.
Most car companies advertise something like "3-year, 100,000-mile warranty". I don't see any issue with Tesla saying "8-year, infinite-mile warranty". They're making a parallel to the way other auto manufacturers advertise their warranty, while making it clear that their warranty is different because it's based only on time, not travel.
A metric that really puts things in perspective is the following: take a common consumer CPU, clocked at 3.4Ghz. That means it executes 3,400,000,000 cycles per second. Divide the speed of light by this number, and you obtain approximatively 0,088m.

During the time your standard desktop CPU takes to finish a cycle, light only travels 9 centimeters.
Sure, but on the other hand, let's say you run a small business. At some point you have customers who don't pay. What do you do? Write it off as a total loss? 1/12 is better than nothing.
That's what it really comes down to. At the end of the day, receiving a call from a "debt collector" is no different than receiving a call from "Windows Support" or "Oil Fund of Nigeria" (or even sweepstakes / political campaigns).

When enough seemingly-personal details match, gullible people get tricked into sending money. The only thing that solves this problem is for people to stop entertaining unsolicited calls of any form. How much are VOIP rates these days? Last time I looked, it took something like $50 to leave a short message for everyone in a phone prefix (10 kilopeople).

In the case that one possibly does have an unpaid debt and wants to resolve it, then call up the original creditor and follow the debt's legitimate path from the source. And when you finally have someone to pay, insist on written documentation from every party in the chain, absolving you of the debt.
What about a non-profit that purchases this debt and then targets the debtors with the tools and support to get them back on their feet to the point where they CAN pay off the debt?
> This is a much more likely to work approach (but not what the petition is asking for).

Petitions aren't generally detailed legislative proposals, and their relationship to concrete legislation is similar to the relation between the first draft of requirements for complex computing system and the concrete implementation.

> That said, the political realities of police cameras are going to make this a fight that will not be won on the federal level

Probably not; OTOH, issues like this that make any progress are rarely pushed exclusively in one venue, and even if they aren't won at the federal level, attention there can be a key factor in driving media attention to efforts and driving public awareness. (Plus, heck, the white house petition site has plenty of people petitioning for changes in policies of particular private corporations, so something that's a legitimate public policy issue where the federal government could plausibly do something close to what is requested, even if it would be exactly identical and is unlikely in the current political climate, is actually fairly reasonable.)
It seems they have figured out the solution to their drive train problem.

http://transportevolved.com/2014/08/11/tesla-model-s-drivetr...
It is the EU that is directly responsible for the "Dutch double sandwich" and various other tax dodging schemes. Lots of loopholes, we simply can't close, until we leave.
Ah cunt! CLOG: Sci-Fi is out of print! :( I would kill for that. Is there any way I could offer something for a share of that?
this guy sems to be trying: http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/08/the-debt-collection-company-th/
I don't get your point.

They just announced a warranty of 8 years and no range restriction retroactively. You also mention that their service is great and the pool is void.

Even if the drive unit has to be replaced before 8 ( or 4 ) years then that is no problem to the customer. It can't be a problem to Tesla or they wouldn't announce this warranty.
I'm sorry but your links lead to the same continuity example that has nothing to do with real world (and real mathematics, as well).

Can you prove (0^0 = 1) -> (1 = 2), as you claimed above?

And no, we don't need “temporary definitions”. For any combinatorial investigation imaginable leads unambiguously to 0^0 = 1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0%5E0#Zero_to_the_power_of_zer...

The only concept a general expression of the form x^y could possibly represent is the space of mappings y -> x. There's one and only one such mapping when x and y represent empty set. Arguing this to be wrong as in “but it can't be 1 because there are no mappings to empty space from non-empty sets!” ( = “0^x = 0”) is plain ridiculous. This definition simply does not fall apart. 0^0 is not a special case for it in any way.

Enumerating numbers one can represent with 0 digits put in a string of length 0 leads to the same conclusion. It's clear that there is one and only one string of length 0, unless you demand it to contain more than 0 digits, in which case there are none. [However, this combinatorial problem is not an independent one: it's equivalent to enumerating mappings from space of strings to space of chars.]

In other words, not only there are definitions that work well for all cases, including 0^0, there's actually only one such definition.
I did not say the analogy is not representative. I said its wrong. Now if horses were building cars and being worried about their future, I'd say fine. But its not the case. Here horses are not in the same position at all as humans. So its not helping to "compare and contrast", its building up a wrong mindset, wrong premise.
Sure... my point is just that the issue is more complicated than it seems to be on the face of it...

Law enforcement officers end up coming into contact with everyday people in very compromising positions, often through no fault of their own, and in their own homes.

Like I said, I fall on the 'pro-camera' side of the debate, but there are a lot of often overlooked implications that I feel need to be part of the discussion.
I think if I told a Yemeni guy to work hard, not feel sorry for himself and stay out of trouble, lightning would strike me dead on the spot.

What a condescending piece of advice. It's tantamount to "abandon your entire family and live as a fugitive, or are you too chicken?"